:* Chicago has hosted a variety of Bastille Day celebrations in a number of locations in the city, including Navy Pier and Oz Park.

* Bockfest-The city of Cincinnati, Ohio, has hosted a celebration called Bockfest since 1992 that promotes its German-style brewing history and the German culture of its Over-the-Rhine neighbourhood.

Barcelona hosted the Olympic Games in 1992, which helped revitalize the city.

, the city hosted 45. 6 million domestic and overseas visitors.

Two years later, the city hosted the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, which featured physical confrontations both inside and outside the convention hall, including full-scale riots, or in some cases police riots, in city streets.

Two of the city's largest parks are also located on this side of the city: Jackson Park, bordering the waterfront, hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and is home of the aforementioned museum ; and slightly west sits Washington Park.

Delphi would have been a renowned city whether or not it hosted these games ; it had other attractions that led to it being labeled the " omphalos " ( navel ) of the earth, in other words, the center of the world.

The city hosted such leading lights as the mathematician Euclid and anatomist Herophilus ; constructed the great Library of Alexandria ; and translated the Hebrew Bible into Greek ( called the Septuagint for it was the work of 70 translators ).

The city has hosted several promotional functions and some international sports events: in 1950 it hosted the VI Central American and Caribbean Games, and in 2000 the FIFA Futsal World Championship.

At the 17th Central American Summit in 1995, hosted by Honduras in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, the region's six countries ( excluding Belize ) signed treaties creating confidence-and security-building measures and combating the smuggling of stolen automobiles in the isthmus.

Since inaugural event in 1950, Indianapolis is the only city in the United States to have hosted the event.

Since 1933, Jacksonville has been the site of the annual Florida vs. Georgia Football Classic, a major college football rivalry game between the University of Florida Gators and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, and since 1946, the city has hosted the Gator Bowl, one of the oldest annual college football bowl games.

The city hosted the American Football League All Star Game in 1967 and 1968, but after the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, Jacksonville was shut out.

The city has also hosted seven editions of the National Games of Pakistan, most recently in 2007.

In 2005, the city hosted the SAFF Championship at this ground, as well as the Geo Super Football League 2007, which attracted capacity crowds during the games.

The city has not had a Republican mayor in office for more than a decade, and the last two mayoral elections have hosted all Democratic candidates.

In 1964 the city hosted the ' Swiss National Exhibition ', displaying its newly found confidence to host major international events.

In the pilot episode, Grossberg is the chairman of Network 23, a major city television station with the highest rated investigative news show in town, hosted by Edison Carter.

This was first time Tampa hosted the game, making it the first Super Bowl to be played in Florida in a city other than Miami.

This was the second time that Tampa hosted the game ; the city previously hosted Super Bowl XVIII on January 22, 1984.

The Patriots did not appear in a Super Bowl hosted by another city until the team played in Super Bowl XXXVIII two years later in Houston, Texas.

With the help of the Mayor, Vicki Buck, the city of Christchurch hosted a Wizard's Conclave in 1995 when visiting colleagues gathered to help build a wizard's nest on top of the university library tower, to witness the New Zealand Wizard hatching from a giant egg in the city art gallery, sky diving whilst chanting a spell for a major rugby match and performing various rituals round the city.

* 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna ( The " shores of Tripoli " part of the Marines ' hymn ).

When the Greek army entered Thessaloniki in the First Balkan War ahead of the Bulgarian 7th division by only a day, they were asked to allow a Bulgarian battalion to enter the city.

As it descended the First Hill of the city and climbed the Second Hill, it passed on the left the Praetorium or law-court.

First, the Shu family led an army towards their city Hou and tore down its walls in 498 BCE.

The title was also used in other city states and also revived in modern states, notably in the First French Republic.

First in line to lose a city is player C, but because his city is a metropolis we need to look at the person next in line.

The city became part of the First French Empire in 1806 as Principality of Erfurt, and was returned to Prussia in 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars.

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia.

The city of Antioch had been annexed by Bohemond of Hauteville in the First Crusade, and it was now ruled by Eleanor's flamboyant uncle, Raymond of Antioch, who had gained the principality by marrying its reigning Princess, Constance of Antioch.

( First place: Nuuk, Greenland ; the Icelandic capital Rekyjavik takes second place globally and ranks as the northernmost capital city in all of Europe )

* 1216 – First Barons ' War: Prince Louis of France captured the city of Winchester and soon conquered over half of the Kingdom of England.

* 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city.

* 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: a crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

* 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians.

* Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien – First city in the mainland of the American continent, in the Darién region between Colombia and Panama.

First mentioned by Ptolemy, the Roman city Vindinium was the capital of the Aulerci, a sub tribe of the Aedui.

The French took the city one last time in 1794, when the condominium was dissolved and Maastricht was annexed to the First French Empire.

Maastricht retained a distinctly non-Dutch appearance during much of the 19th century and it was not until the First World War that the city was forced to look northwards.

In 1803 the city was captured by the First Saudi State, which held Mecca until 1813.

* 1894 – Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.

* 1912 – First Balkan War: The Ottoman occupied city of Thessaloniki, is liberated and unified with Greece on the feast day of its patron Saint Demetrius.

* 1912 – First Balkan War: The Greek Army liberates the city of Kozani.

The region became a part of the Kingdom of Poland province of Royal Prussia with the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ), prospered with the grain trade from southern Poland to the royal city of Gdańsk and then sustained ravages and plagues brought by several Swedish and Prussian invasions during the 17th and early 18th centuries, and was forcefully removed from Kingdom of Poland and annexed into the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the First Partition of Poland in 1772.

During the First Boer War, the city was besieged by Republican forces in December 1880 and March 1881.