* March 24 – In England, Roger Williams is granted an official charter for his Rhode Island Colony, allowing the establishment of a general assembly.

At the time of the establishment of the Plymouth Colony in 1620, the area what would one day become Troy City was inhabited by the Pokanoket Wampanoag tribe, headquartered at Mount Hope in what is now Bristol, Rhode Island.

The early establishment of the textile industry in Fall River grew out of the developments made in nearby Rhode Island beginning with Samuel Slater at Pawtucket in 1793.

In 1764, Stiles played an influential role in the establishment of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( the original name for Brown University ) by contributing substantially to the drafting of its charter and by serving with thirty-five others-including Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Samuel Ward, the Reverend John Gano, the Reverend Isaac Backus, the Reverend Samuel Stillman, and the Reverend James Manning-as a founding fellow or trustee.

Their plans, made with recommendations from Howe, called for the abandonment of Boston and the establishment of bases in New York and Newport, Rhode Island in an attempt to isolate the rebellion to New England.

There, he was the first to urge the establishment of a public school and in the same year he was chosen as a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly, to which he was re-elected in 1771, 1772 and 1775.

In every state the opposition to the Constitution was strong, and in two states — North Carolina and Rhode Island — it prevented ratification until the definite establishment of the new government practically forced their adherence.

Their son Charles Frederick Herreshoff ( 1809 – 1888 ) and their grandsons, James Brown Herreshoff ( 1834 – 1930 ), John Brown Herreshoff ( 1841 – 1914 ) and Nathanael Greene Herreshoff ( 1848 – 1938 ) founded the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, a boat-building establishment in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Each one of these Old Men is the father or grandfather of many nymphs and / or monsters, who often bear names that are either metaphorical ( Thetis, " establishment "; Telesto, " success ") or geographical ( Rhode from " Rhodes "; Nilos, " Nile ").

The colonies of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Delaware, and New Jersey, went further than the Act of Toleration by outlawing the establishment of any church and allowing a greater religious diversity.

He took an active part in the establishment of " Rhode island College ," later Brown University, and when the school was incorporated in 1765, he was one of the trustees, and one of its most generous supporters.

DeMeo also began dealing in pornography, including bestiality, which he sold to his New Jersey establishment as well as connections he had in Rhode Island.

In 1901 the State Board of Education in Rhode Island approved the establishment of the Wickford Academy ( now known as the North Kingstown Senior High School ).

The national Republican establishment was somewhat cool toward Laffey, believing he was too conservative for heavily Democratic Rhode Island.

Wihwa Island on the river is historically famous for the decision of General Yi Songgye in 1392 to there turn back his army southward to Kaesong in the first of a series of revolts that eventually led to the establishment of the Yi Dynasty.

Raleigh had never set foot in the North Carolina, but he had sponsored the establishment of the first English colony in North America on North Carolina's Roanoke Island in 1585.

The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland colonies, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) as the successor to Acadia.

Ransom E. Olds, the founder and head of the Olds Motor Vehicle Company that was the foundation for the later establishment of Oldsmobile by General Motors Corporation, built a grand summer estate on Elba Island in 1916, which caught fire due to electrical mishaps in 2005, however was restored by the current owner and still stands today.

World War II brought establishment or reactivatation of military bases around Narragansett Bay, including Forts Getty and Wetherill on Conanicut Island, Fort Greble on Dutch Island, a torpedo factory on Goat Island and a torpedo station on Gould Island.

The Treaty of Utrecht resulted in the relinquishing of French claims to mainland Acadia, the Hudson Bay and Newfoundland, and the establishment of the colony of Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) as the successor to Acadia.

Don Julio Vizcarrondo, referring to the newly built resort, said in 1863: "... this source of mineral water was used for the establishment of a bathhouse such wonderful effects that go there constantly sick inside and outside Island to get healthy.

The New York Metropolitan Area would not have a second NHL team again until the establishment of the New York Islanders in nearby Uniondale, New York, on Long Island, in the 1972 – 73 season.

After two centuries of incessant and unrelenting raids and counter-raids, the fortunes of the Spanish Empire in the Sulu Archipelago took a dramatic turn for the better in 1848, primarily due to three watershed events: the advent of Spain's steam-powered naval superiority over Sulu's outrigger-and-sail paraws ; the fall of Sulu's Balangingi allies on Tungkil ; and, the establishment of Fuerte Isabella Segunda or Fort Isabella Segunda on Basilan Island.

In 1828, the main British military establishment on the Upper Lakes moved from Drummond Island to Penetanguishene.

After a short period when both settlers and prisoners occupied the island, the Colonial Secretary announced in June 1839 that the island would become a penal establishment for Aboriginal people and, between 1838 and 1931, Rottnest Island was used as a prison to transfer Aboriginal prisoners " overseas ".

His lobbying was for the establishment of a " free " ( unlike the now well established penal settlements at New South Wales, Port Arthur and Norfolk Island ) colony in the Swan River area with himself as its governor.

Despite not being from Prince Edward Island, Ralston continued his support to that province as political minister by authorizing the establishment of RCAF Station Mount Pleasant, RCAF Station Summerside ( both in his riding ) and RCAF Station Charlottetown, as well as a radar station in Tignish ( also in his riding ).

Laysan Island gained federal protection in 1909, with the establishment of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge.

The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.

The establishment, by the Holy Father, of a permanent Secretariat for Christian Unity in 1960 was the most dramatic mark of this concern.

These never ceased to suggest that if, in the eyes of Marx and Lenin `` full communism '' was still a very distant ideal, the establishment of a Communist society had now, under Khrushchev, become an `` immediate and tangible reality ''.

He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.

A hypothetical issue of this sort might deal with the establishment of a free public junior college in a community where there already was a good private college which served the middle-class youth adequately but was too expensive for working-class youth.

The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).

The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''.

However, following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Anatolia was defined by the Turkish government as being effectively co-terminous with Asian Turkey.

Each separate community had its own oeconomus or steward, who was subject to a chief steward stationed at the head establishment.

The establishment of the bishopric of Konstanz cannot be dated exactly and was possibly undertaken by Columbanus himself ( before 612 ).

In 1884, he was created by Pope Leo XIII Archbishop of Caesarea in partibus and sent to India as an Apostolic Delegate to report on the establishment of the hierarchy there.

great ) was subordinate to the priestly ensi, and was appointed at times of troubles, but by later dynastic times, it was the lugal who had emerged as the preeminent role, having his own " é " (= house ) or " palace ", independent from the temple establishment.

Alexios attempted to organize a resistance to the new regime from Adrianople and then Mosynopolis, where he was joined by the later usurper Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos in April 1204, after the definitive fall of Constantinople to the crusaders and the establishment of the Latin Empire.

He was the last Byzantine Emperor to reign in Constantinople before the establishment of the Latin Empire, which controlled the city for the next 57 years, until it was recovered by the Nicaean Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

In his first biennial speech, he urged simplification of the state judicial system, abolishment of the Bank of Tennessee and establishment of an agency to provide uniformity in weights and measures, the latter of which was passed.

Each element of the system was meant to remedy defects in the West Saxon military establishment exposed by the Viking invasions.

Among his many philanthropic efforts, the establishment of public libraries throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and other English-speaking countries was especially prominent.

The Kebra Nagast, composed to legitimise the new dynasty ruling Ethiopia following its establishment in 1270, narrates how the real Ark of the Covenant was brought to Ethiopia by Menelik I with divine assistance, while a forgery was left in the Temple in Jerusalem.

It was already founded at the time of the establishment of the city shortly after 1200 ; the exact date is not known.