Because there are no accounts of the custom in Great Britain prior to the 17th century, some historians and folklorists have theorised that it was not an ancient British custom but was in fact imported into Britain from continental Europe in the early modern period, possibly from Flanders in Belgium, where the tradition thrived in this period.

The name refers to the historical custom of the continental universities where students usually formed corporations according to their home nations.

The result was, in accordance with continental custom, admitted to be an important victory, though Waller's main army drew off unharmed.

This body of law, along with early Scandinavian law and continental Germanic law, descended from a family of ancient Germanic custom and legal thought.

There is documented, based on archeological examination of graves, a three-class division of societies: farmers were burned and buried in simple, flat graves ( they were in the Bronze Age buried in ditto ; the cremation was merely a new custom from continental Europe, and not a particular burial process imposed on farmers ), grand farmers and aristocrats were buried together with rich goods, and chieftains were buried in mounds.

It is later revealed in the book that it was actually a document exchange preceded by two kisses on the checks as is custom in several continental countries, such as Hungary.

However, the Permanent Court of International Justice ( a precursor to the ICJ ) declared that the evidence showed merely that “ States had often, in practice, abstained from instituting criminal proceedings, and not that they recognized themselves as being obliged to do so ; for only if such abstention were based on their being conscious of having a duty to abstain would it be possible to speak of an international custom .” This reasoning was cited approvingly in the North Sea Shelf Continental Cases, which similarly declined to find the existence of customary law regarding the proper method to delimit territorial claims to the continental shelf extending from the coastline of states bordering the North Sea.

As commerce expanded in the Balkans, Greek became the area's ' lingua franca ' and continental merchants homogenized through a process of assimilation to the Greek ' high culture ' by the end of the century.

The embargo encouraged British merchants to seek out new markets aggressively and to engage in smuggling with continental Europe.

Two Birmingham merchants represented Warwickshire at the council held in York in 1322 to discuss the standardisation of wool staples, and others attended the Westminster wool merchants assemblies of 1340, 1342 and 1343, a period when at least one Birmingham merchant was trading considerable amounts of wool with continental Europe.

Links with leading American merchants, such as the Codmans of Boston, Willing and Francis of Philadelphia, Robert Gilmour, and Robert Oliver & Brothers of Baltimore were now immensely important to Barings ' business as its axis swung from continental European to transatlantic trade.

The English language evolved in England, from a set of West Germanic dialects spoken by the Angles and Saxons, who arrived from continental Europe in the 5th century.

When they finally arrived, Elizabeth was denied permission to set foot in continental Europe by order of Napoleon.

At the end of his one-year tour, Alexander Haig returned to the continental United States to become Regimental Commander of the Third Regiment of the Corps of Cadets at West Point, under the also newly arrived Commandant, Brigadier General Bernard W. Rogers.

This may be the case but evidence for the large scale if not total submergence of continental crust in the New Zealand and New Caledonian region in the Oligocene, indicates the possibility that weta have arrived in these locations at least, since re-emergence of land.

Nonetheless, this law would have little effect on the cunning folk, as " the attention and focus of the courts shifted away from the activities of cunning-folk and towards the maleficium of supposed witches " – the Witch Hunt that had been raging in Scotland and in many parts of continental Europe had finally arrived in England.

Also, some 30, 000 people arrived from continental Europe and from 20 to 24 June 25, 000 people arrived from the Channel Islands.

After a six-week journey through the Suez Canal and across the Indian Ocean, he arrived to be acclaimed as the " eminent continental conductor.

Changes in carbon dioxide associated with continental drift, and the decrease in volcanism as India arrived at the Asian continent, allowed temperatures to drop & Antarctic ice-sheets to form.

Estevanico ( c. 1500 – 1539 ) was the first known person born in Africa to have arrived in the present-day continental United States.

The first Buddhist clergy to take up residence in the continental U. S. were Shuye Sonoda and Kakuryo Nishimjima, missionaries from Japan who arrived in 1899.

During the autumn of 2008, a large influx of this species arrived on the south coast of England, indicating natural immigration from continental Europe.

Some of the ethnic influences could be found in the nation from after the American Civil War and into the History of United States continental expansion during most of the 19th century.

Shortly after Gildas's time the Anglo-Saxon advance was resumed, and by the late 6th century nearly all of southern England was under the control of the continental invaders.

In August 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the US to overthrow the Cuban regime ( Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose ), the Cuban and Soviet governments secretly began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles ( MRBMs and IRBMs ) with the ability to strike most of the continental United States.

The weight of the continental glaciers depressed the land over which they moved, and even now, a hundred centuries after their recession, Finland is rising up from this great load through the process of isostatic rebound.

Belgium was the second country, after England, in which the industrial revolution took place and the first on continental Europe:

Despite this, after Richard died in 1199, John was proclaimed king of England, and came to an agreement with Philip II of France to recognise John's possession of the continental Angevin lands at the peace treaty of Le Goulet in 1200.

Up to c. 1210, continental Arthurian romance was expressed primarily through poetry ; after this date the tales began to be told in prose.

At that time, it was the only working computer in continental Europe, and the second computer in the world to be sold, only beaten by the BINAC, which never worked properly after it was delivered.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

A remarkable boost in the recent development of the country's transportation infrastructure was noticed after winning the right to host a major continental sport event the UEFA Euro 2012.

By William's death, after weathering a series of rebellions, most of the native Anglo-Saxon aristocracy had been replaced by Norman and other continental magnates.

Even after the initial production of Trial by Jury, however, Carte continued to produce continental operetta, touring in the summer of 1876 with a repertoire consisting of English adaptations of French opera bouffe ( Offenbach ’ s La Périchole, and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot and Léon Vasseur's La Timbale d ' argent ), paired with two one-act English after-pieces ( Happy Hampstead and Trial by Jury ).

But the fleet of the Ionians was defeated off the island of Lade, and the destruction of Miletus after a protracted siege was followed by the reconquest of all the Asiatic Greeks, insular as well as continental.

Gradually, the wealthy and the government anglicised again, although Norman ( and subsequently French ) remained the dominant language of literature and law for a few centuries, even after the loss of the majority of the continental possessions of the English monarchy.

The sea is a flooded section of continental shelf that formed after the last ice age ( some 10, 000 years ago ) as sea levels rose 120 meters to their current levels.

Born to a well-connected family of gentry, Walsingham travelled in continental Europe after leaving university before embarking at the age of twenty on a career in the law.

The continental blockade following shortly after ( 1806 – 1814 ) increased the research into developing chestnuts as a source of sugar, but Napoleon chose beets instead.

Following the loss of Britain's ports in thirteen of its former continental colonies after the American War of 1812, Bermuda assumed a new strategic prominence for the Royal Navy.

Land bridges can be created by marine regression, in which sea levels fall, exposing shallow, previously submerged sections of continental shelf ; or when new land is created by plate tectonics ; or occasionally when the sea floor rises due to post-glacial rebound after an ice age.

This agreement stated that Edward would voluntarily relinquish his continental lands to Philip as a sign of submission in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine and in return Philip would forgive him and restore his land after a grace period.

Most coral reefs were formed after the last glacial period when melting ice caused the sea level to rise and flood the continental shelves.

Early matches between the two sides were fairly even, but after the Second World War repeated American dominance led to a decision, initiated by Jack Nicklaus, to extend the representation to continental Europe from 1979.

Despite the presence of the Great Lakes which make for a somewhat milder climate in the region, Seneca County has a rather continental climate, namely after removal of the forests which once covered most of it upset the microclimate.

The persistence of this rainforest is believed to be a product of a fortuitous continental drift ; after the breakup of its parent supercontinent a portion drifted toward the pole to become Antarctica, disturbing ocean currents and becoming quite chilly, while other portions were moved to hotter and drier locations.