* 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada ( present-day Toronto, Ontario ).

Lieutenant Zebulon Pike was the first official United States representative to explore the Upper Mississippi River which runs through the newly acquired land and present-day Davenport.

In 1808 two military forts with trading factories were built, Fort Osage along the Missouri River in western present-day Missouri and Fort Madison along the Upper Mississippi River in eastern present-day Iowa.

* " Upper Village / Town ", where present-day REO Town stands at the confluence of the Grand River and the Red Cedar River.

In 1817 the British Wesleyans arrived in the Canadas from the Maritimes but by 1820 had agreed, with the Episcopal Methodists, to confine their work to Lower Canada ( present-day Quebec ) while the later would confine themselves to Upper Canada ( present-day Ontario ).

The former province of Normandy comprised present-day Upper and Lower Normandy, as well as small areas now part of the départements of Eure-et-Loir, Mayenne, and Sarthe.

During the 17th century, Muslim Fula from the Upper Niger and Senegal rivers moved into an area called Futa Jalon in the mountainous region north of present-day Sierra Leone.

Nevertheless, in 911 the Viking leader Rollon forced Charles the Simple to sign the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, under which Charles gave Rouen and the area of present-day Upper Normandy to Rollon, establishing the Duchy of Normandy.

Upper Canada existed from December 26, 1791 to February 10, 1841 and generally comprised present-day Southern Ontario.

When the capital was first moved to Toronto from Newark ( present-day Niagara-on-the-Lake ) in 1796, the Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada were located at the corner of Parliament and Front Streets, in buildings that were burned by U. S. forces in the War of 1812, rebuilt, then burned again by accident.

During the late Roman Empire, several Roman provinces covered the territory that comprises present-day Bulgaria: Scythia ( Scythia Minor ), Moesia ( Upper and Lower ), Thrace, Macedonia ( First and Second ), Dacia ( Coastal and Inner, both south of Danube ), Dardania, Rhodope ( Roman province ) and Haemismontus, and had a mixed population of Byzantine Greeks, Thracians and Dacians, most of whom spoke either Greek or variants of Vulgar Latin.

Agreements with Liberia in 1892 and with Britain in 1893 determined the eastern and western boundaries of the colony, but the northern boundary was not fixed until 1947 because of efforts by the French government to attach parts of Upper Volta ( present-day Burkina Faso ) and French Sudan ( present-day Mali ) to Côte d ' Ivoire for economic and administrative reasons.

The prefix " lower " in its name refers to its geographic position farther downriver from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than its contemporary Upper Canada, present-day southern Ontario.

The Duchy of Upper Lorraine (, ; ) was an historical duchy roughly corresponding with the present-day northeastern Lorraine region of France, including parts of modern Luxembourg and Germany.

They lived in the Rocky Mountains and foothills on the present-day Wyoming-Montana border along the Upper Yellowstone River, in the Big Horn and Absaroka Range ( also Absalaga Mountains ) with the Black Hills comprising the eastern edge of their territory.

So many Loyalists arrived on the shores of the St. John River that a separate colony — New Brunswick — was created in 1784 ; followed in 1791 by the division of Quebec into the largely French-speaking Lower Canada ( French Canada ) along the St. Lawrence River and Gaspé Peninsula and an anglophone Loyalist Upper Canada, with its capital settled by 1796 in York, in present-day Toronto.

During the American Revolution, the Upper Creeks sided with the British, fighting alongside the Chickamauga ( Lower Cherokee ) warriors of Dragging Canoe, in the Chickamauga Wars, against white settlers in present-day Tennessee.

Bowles envisioned the State of Muskogee, with its capital at Miccosuki, encompassing large portions of present-day Florida, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and incorporating the Cherokee, Upper and Lower Creeks, Chickasaw and Choctaw.

This territory was divided into the Nedersticht ( Lower Sticht, roughly corresponding to the present day Dutch province of Utrecht ) and Oversticht ( Upper Sticht, encompassing the present-day provinces of Overijssel, Drenthe, and part of Groningen ).

Despite facing desertions and near-mutinies, he commanded his regiment in Upper Canada ( present-day Ontario ) successfully for many years.

The first European settler in present-day Upper St. Clair was John Fife, who settled near what is now the intersection of Washington and McLaughlin Run roads in 1762.

* " Lower Village / Town ", where present-day Old Town stands, was the oldest of the three villages.

Between 100 and 150 million years ago, during the Lower Cretaceous period, the Bay of Biscay fanned out, pushing present-day Spain against France and putting large layers of sediment in a vise grip.

Since then, this part of eastern Germany has been referred to as Saxony ( German: Sachsen ), a source of some misunderstanding about the original homeland of the Saxons, with a central part in the present-day German state of Lower Saxony ( German: Niedersachsen ).

These included Lower Canada ( present-day Quebec ) and Vancouver Island, where Governor James Douglas encouraged black immigration because of his opposition to slavery and because he hoped a significant black community would form a bulwark against those who wished to unite the island with the United States.

The prefix " upper " in its name reflects its geographic position higher up the river basin or closer to the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than that of Lower Canada or present-day Quebec to the northeast.

The present-day cities of New Kensington and Arnold were once part of Lower Burrell Township.

At that time it included the present-day municipalities of Allegheny, Lower Burrell, Upper Burrell, and most of Bell.

In their efforts to halt the Gothic expansion and replace it with their own on the north of Lower Danube ( present-day Romania ), the Sarmatians armed their captives.

Formerly a British colony called the Province of Lower Canada, based on Lord Durham's report it was merged with the Province of Upper Canada ( present-day southern portion of the Province of Ontario ) to create the United Province of Canada.

He was born in Brunswick, in present-day Lower Saxony, and died in Berlin.

It comprised territories in present-day Hesse and Lower Saxony, ( Germany ).

Following the end of the last ice age, the Narrows had not yet been formed and the Hudson flowed along the Watchung Mountains to present-day Bound Brook, then followed the course of the Raritan eastward into Lower New York Bay.

The Congressional legislation encompassed all land west of the present Indiana – Ohio border and its northward extension to Lake Superior, reducing the Northwest Territory to present-day Ohio and the eastern half of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

Wayne County originally covered all of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, northwestern Ohio, northern Indiana and a small portion of the present Lake Michigan shoreline, including the site of present-day Chicago.

His father's family was of Italian and Slovene origin, their original surname was Kopriva and they originated from Koprivnik ( Nesseltal ) near Kočevje in the Kočevski Rog ( Hornwald ) region of Lower Carniola ( present-day Slovenia ).

The occupied Lesser Germania was divided into two provinces: Germania Inferior ( Lower Germania ) ( approximately corresponding to the southern part of the present-day Low Countries ) and Germania Superior ( Upper Germania ) ( approximately corresponding to present-day Switzerland and Alsace ).

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in present-day Delaware in the Middle region by establishing a trading post at Zwaanendael, near the site of Lewes in 1631.

Newer present-day world religions established themselves throughout Eurasia during the Middle Ages by: Christianization of the Western world ; Buddhist missions to East Asia ; the decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent ; and the spread of Islam throughout the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa and parts of Europe and India.

Slovenian territory was part of the Roman Empire, and it was devastated by Barbarian incursions in late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, since the main route from the Pannonian plain to Italy ran through present-day Slovenia.

Through the early Middle Ages, the northern part of present-day Belgium ( now commonly referred to as Flanders ) had become an overwhelmingly Germanized and Germanic language-speaking area, whereas in the southern part people had continued to be Roman and spoke derivatives of Vulgar Latin.

During the Middle Ages, Turku was the seat of the Bishop of Turku ( a title later upgraded to Archbishop of Turku ), covering the then eastern half of the Kingdom of Sweden ( most of the present-day Finland ) until the 17th century.

Later envoys included Odoric of Pordenone, Giovanni de ' Marignolli, John of Montecorvino, Niccolò de ' Conti, or Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan Muslim traveller, who passed through the present-day Middle East and across the Silk Road from Tabriz, between 1325 – 1354.

The post road can be traced along present-day Middle Turnpike East through central Manchester.

Although no battles were recorded as occurring within the present-day confines of Pushmataha County, the Battle of Perryville occurred just outside modern-day McAlester and the Battle of Middle Boggy Depot took place outside present-day Atoka.

A Middle settlement called Stikayi ( Stiyaki, Sticoa, Stekoa ) was located on Stekoa Creek, probably southeast of the present-day Clayton.

It still stands beside the Lutheran cemetery, across the street from the present-day Franklin Middle School.

His land included upland pastures near present-day Aldridge Road, Greeley Hill, and the marshy fields now the site of the Bell Middle School fields and the shopping area along South Greeley Avenue.

The History of Montenegro begins in the early Middle Ages, into the former Roman province of Dalmatia that forms present-day Montenegro.

From the Middle Ages to 1809, most of the present-day Finland was a part of Kingdom of Sweden.

Albania ( Latin:, Greek:, in Old Armenian: Աղուանք Ałuankʿ ( Aguank ), Parthian: Ardhan, Middle Persian: Arran ; usually referred to as Caucasian Albania for disambiguation with the modern state of Albania ; the native name for the country is unknown ) is a name for the historical region of the eastern Caucasus, that existed on the territory of present-day republic of Azerbaijan ( where both of its capitals were located ) and partially southern Dagestan.

The chief center of a Middle Mississippian settlement is at Cahokia, in present-day Illinois, a city that at its peak had 20, 000-30, 000 people.

He argued that structures that were built up in Europe during the Middle Ages contributed to the successes of present-day European-based cultures.

According to some sources the site of present-day Druskininkai was inhabited by local Yotvingian tribes in the early Middle Ages.

Among them were the 2000-year-old Pharr Mounds of the Middle Woodland period, located near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi.

Coot fossils from the Middle Pleistocene of California have been described as Fulica hesterna but cannot be separated from the present-day American Coot.

A number of communities grew, including Pré de Bourque ( thought by some to be closest to present-day downtown Sackville ), Tintamarre ( present-day Middle or Upper Sackville ), and Beaubassin ( present-day Fort Lawrence, roughly where the Nova Scotia visitor's centre is located ).