In December 1890, the Farmers ' Alliance and Industrial Union, a forerunner of the Populist Party, held its national convention in Ocala.

Woodbridge Nathan Ferris, who in 1884 founded Big Rapids Industrial School, forerunner of Ferris State University

The Big Rapids Industrial School, forerunner of Ferris State University, opened on September 1, 1884.

It is one of two schisms from the Providence Industrial Mission ( forerunner of the African Baptist Assembly of Malawi, Inc .) of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc ..

The forerunner of today's City University of New York was governed by the Board of Education of New York City.

* 1909: The Municipal Day Training College, forerunner of the School of Education, opens in Richmond Terrace, Brighton.

* The Division of Girls and Women's Sports ( DGWS ), a division of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education and Recreation ( AAHPER ), was the first nationally recognized collegiate organization for women ’ s athletics and the forerunner of the AIAW.

The Marine Corps Schools, a forerunner of the Marine Corps Development and Education Command, was created there in 1921.

He was appointed a Member of the Universities Commission in 1859 and of the Historical Manuscripts Commission from 1872 to 1878, as well as of the Scottish Education Board ( a forerunner to the Scottish Office ).

After receiving a medical and scientific review and a scheduling recommendation from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, forerunner to the Department of Health and Human Services, nalbuphine was removed from schedule II of the CSA in 1976.

The forerunner to the Vaal University of Technology was named the Vaal Triangle College for Advanced Technical Education.

His article on Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, published in the PLO's Research Centre Magazine, Shu ' un Filistiniyya ( Palestinian Affairs ) was influential in diffusing the image of the former as a forerunner of the Palestinian armed struggle.

At the Dixie Classic, the forerunner of the Cotton Bowl Classic, Texas A & M ( then known as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas ) played defending national champion Centre College.

On January 2, 1922, Centre College made the postseason trip to Texas again, this time taking on Texas A & M in the Dixie Classic, the forerunner of the Cotton Bowl.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Lublin generally was the forerunner of what would happen elsewhere.

Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.

The reports of his philosophical views suggest that he was a forerunner of the Greek skeptics.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

It is regarded as the forerunner of the modern bicycle and was introduced by Drais to the public in Mannheim in summer 1817 and in Paris in 1818.

Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual forerunner to Conservative Judaism, was developed as a school of thought in the 1840s and 1850s in Germany.

Although the Rutgers-Princeton game was undoubtedly different from what we today know as American football, it was the forerunner of what evolved into American football.

When he suspected that the American Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) was showing an interest in seizing control of Chiang's regime, Chiang ordered the plotters arrested and executed.

The Concordat of London in 1107 was a forerunner of the compromise that was taken up in the Concordat of Worms.

However, his style of painting, which was a forerunner of what was later called “ Impressionism ,” did not do well.

Until recently, Hume was seen as a forerunner of the logical positivist movement ; a form of anti-metaphysical empiricism.

It was the first platform specifically designed for building Information Centers ( a forerunner of contemporary Enterprise Data Warehousing platforms )

According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.

" Even today, though these errors have been recognized for more than a century, the general notion that Lao Tzu was Christ's forerunner has lost none of its romantic appeal.

This model was the direct forerunner of the first post-war Audi, the F103.

The Japanese torpedo boatKotaka ( Falcon ) of 1885 was " the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later ".

In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

In 1878 the London Livery companies established the City and Guilds of London Institute the forerunner of the engineering school ( still called City and Guilds college ) at Imperial College London.

* May 13 – In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps ( forerunner of the Royal Air Force ) is established.

** The Bureau of Internal Revenue, the forerunner of the Internal Revenue Service, is established in the United States.

In 1842, the missionaries established the Oregon Institute ( the forerunner of Willamette University ) in the area that was to become the site of Salem.

Pope Nicholas V set aside part of the Vatican grounds in 1447 for a garden of medicinal plants that were used to promote the teaching of botany, and this was a forerunner to the University gardens at Padua and Pisa established in the 1540s.

In 1978, the forerunner to the present-day Broads Authority was established by the Countryside Commission ( now also Natural England ).

By mid-century, Robert Wallace acquired the formula for nickel silver and established with Samuel Simpson, R. Wallace & Company the forerunner of Wallace Silversmiths.

After his death, the Society was renamed the Smeatonian Society, and was a forerunner of the Institution of Civil Engineers, established in 1818.

The name chosen for the new airline was similar to that of its forerunner, Air Malta Co Ltd, and was established on 31 March 1973.

In July 1945, the forerunner of Sandia Laboratory, known as " Z " Division, was established at Oxnard Field to handle future weapons development, testing, and bomb assembly for the Manhattan Engineer District.

During the war it had become clear that private patronage was no longer a practical means of sustaining Britain's musical life ; a state body, the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts – the forerunner of the Arts Council – was established, and given a modest budget for public subsidy.

He established the BC Power Commission, a forerunner of BC Hydro, to provide power to smaller communities that were not serviced by private utilities.

The forerunner of the New York Public Library in Manhattan was a library established by the Earl of Ballamont around 1700.

From the 1950s, with the creation of the Rio-São Paulo Tournament, the forerunner of what eventually would become the national championship, Fluminense established itself regionally, with the tournament title in the years of 1957 and 1960.

* The Canadian Rugby Football Union, forerunner of the Canadian Football League, is established.

In 1907,, a forerunner of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc., was established by Ichizō Kobayashi.

The forerunner of the DSN was established in January 1958, when JPL, then under contract to the U. S. Army, deployed portable radio tracking stations in Nigeria, Singapore, and California to receive telemetry and plot the orbit of the Army-launched Explorer 1, the first successful U. S. satellite.

The concept of the King's Quest series was derived from ideas first established in Wizard and the Princess ( Adventure in Serenia ) which was an early forerunner of the series.

* Commonwealth Builders, Inc., forerunner established in 1934 of the Washington Commonwealth Federation

This was the forerunner of Dartmouth College, which was later established in New Hampshire.

The forerunner of Pierce-Arrow was established in 1865 as Heinz, Pierce and Munschauer.

Within the year the conference had been held and the Labour Representation Committee established ( the forerunner of the Labour Party ).

The Kaiser Wilhelm Society – forerunner of the present-day Max Planck Society – was founded in 1911 and established several institutes in Dahlem.

He established the BC Power Commission, a forerunner of BC Hydro, to provide power to smaller communities that were not serviced by private utilities.