In `` The King's Ride '', Charles breaks out of a long period of petulance and inertia, regains his old self, escapes from Turkey, and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

At the turn of the 19th century, the city of Alameda took a large chunk of Charles Froling's land away to build a street.

The same Charles who had secured the support of the ecclesia by donating land, seized some of it back between 724 and 732.

* 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

Led by Rollo, some Vikings had settled in Normandy and were granted the land, first as counts and then as dukes, by King Charles the Simple, in order to protect the land from other raiders.

He resigned from the General Assembly, sold his land in Charles County, and moved to Frederick County in western Maryland.

In 837, Louis crowned Charles king over all of Alemannia and Burgundy and gave him a portion of his brother Louis ' land.

* 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

By 1858 attention had swung back to local issues with a land dispute in New Plymouth prompting Governor Thomas Gore Brown to call out its Militia under Captain Charles Brown.

In 1664, Charles II of England ceded to his brother, James II of England, a large tract of land that included New Netherland.

Having consolidated his conquests on land, Suleiman was greeted with the news that the fortress of Koroni in Morea ( the modern Peloponnese ) had been lost to Charles V's admiral, Andrea Doria.

Charles Guthrie was an industrious businessman, owning at one time up to of land in Okfuskee County.

The Irish Nationalists, led by Charles Parnell, voted against the Tories on a land Bill.

** Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms "), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

* 1281 – An offensive by the Byzantine Empire significantly reduces the size of the Kingdom of Albania, as it recaptures land seized from the Despotate of Epirus by Charles I of Sicily ten years earlier.

* March 14 – Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.

Charles Trollope Swan gave the rectorate, including the rectory living, residence ( the Old Hall, see below ) and of glebe land, to T. Pelham Dale in 1882.

Charles had spent his life striving to assemble a Mediterranean empire out of whatever land he could get through law or force of arms.

Charles Hammond in his Cincinnati Gazette asked: “ Ought a convicted adulteress and her paramour husband be placed in the highest offices of this free and Christian land ?”

* Emperor Charles the Great in 804 gave Saxon land to Obodrites, dispersed Saxons

* An offensive by the Byzantine Empire significantly reduces the size of the Kingdom of Albania, as it recaptures land seized from the Despotate of Epirus by Charles I of Sicily 10 years earlier.

In return, King Charles granted Rollo land between the Epte and the sea as well as Brittany and according to Dudo of St. Quentin, the hand of the King's daughter, Gisela, although this marriage and Gisela herself are unknown to Frankish sources.

The Scots Holding Their Young King's Nose To the Grindstone, from a satirical English pamphlet When negotiations stalled, Charles authorised General Montrose to land in the Orkney Islands with a small army to threaten the Scots with invasion, in the hope of forcing an agreement more to his liking.

* 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633. 468 mph ( 1, 019 km / h ), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

** Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK.

Conflict between the Ponca and the Sioux / Lakota, who now claimed the land as their own by US law, forced the US to remove the Ponca from their own ancestral lands to Indian Territory in 1877, parts of the current Kay and Noble counties in Oklahoma.

Charles S. Noble, a Florida Central and Peninsula Railroad engineer, was asked to plat approximately forty acres of land north of present day State Road 60, South of Lake Meade, east of Kings Avenue, and west to Parsons Avenue.

The land in Noble and the surrounding land was originally deeded by President Fillmore to Lemuel Truitt in 1853.

The church met for many years in the old frame building on Route 250 but in 1951 the beautiful new church was erected in the western part of the village. Noble Christian Church The Noble Methodist Church, built in 1865 on land deeded by Lemuel Truitt, was a frame building.

Early on, it was nicknamed Poverty Plains because the land was thought to be infertile and its first residential home was built by Samuel Fowler and his wife Naomi Noble on College Highway ( US Rts.

The first land purchase in the township was recorded on June 20, 1833 by Eli Ruggles of Brookfield, Connecticut, while accompanied by his brother-in-law, Amos Williams, and Nathaniel Noble, an acquaintance who lived nearby in Dexter.

On 15 October 1997, in a vehicle designed and built by a team led by Richard Noble, Scottish driver ( and Royal Air Force pilot ) Andy Green became the first person to break the sound barrier in a land vehicle in compliance with Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile rules.

: The World Motor Sport Council homologated the new world land speed records set by the team ThrustSSC of Richard Noble, driver Andy Green, on 15 October 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada ( USA ).

In 1983 Richard Noble had broken the world land speed record with his earlier car Thrust2, which reached a speed of 1, 018 km / h ( 633 mph ).

According to BBC News technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, Intel and Orange responded that their production team had researched different styles of " superfast vehicles " and developed their own Orange-branded land speed car, and that the advertisement and phone were not connected to Noble or Bloodhound SSC.

In 1910, the City of Buffalo, New York, beset by the public scourge of tuberculosis, Buffalo's Mayor, James Noble Adam, purchased almost of land adjacent to the village using proceeds from his own personal fortune, for the purpose of establishing the Buffalo Municipal Hospital for Incipient Tuberculosis.

In the following years Noble purchased large tracts of land southeast of Claresholm.

By 1922 Noble had accumulated about of land but a series of poor crops, falling prices and too much debt meant he was unable to keep up the payments on the land.

Noble realized if he could apply a similar implement to the dry land back in Alberta thus leaving the crop stubble as " trash " on top to hold the soil and protect it from blowing the problem of soil erosion may be solved.

Sales of the Noble blade occurred throughout the dry land farming areas of the world.

The land speed record set by Blue Flame was broken on 4 October, 1983 by Richard Noble driving his turbojet-powered Thrust2.

On September 16, 1893, the Cherokee Outlet was opened to settlement, and the counties of Kay, Grant, Woods, Woodward, Garfield, Noble, and Pawnee were created from its of land.

Richard Noble, OBE ( born 6 March 1946 ) is a Scottish entrepreneur who was holder of the land speed record between 1983 and 1997.

Noble is planning another land speed record attempt to take place in 2013 or 2014: Bloodhound SSC aims to pass the 1, 000 mph mark.