During the earlier part of the 18th century, Tarangnan was the first settlement of Jesuit missionaries on the island of Samar.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

The settlement was called Shawomet.

Founded in the Ninth Century B.C. it was called Byzantium 200 years later when Byzas, ruler of the Megarians, expanded the settlement and named it after himself.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

It was the low yield of the Selkirk plots and the ravages of grasshoppers in 1818 that led to the dispersal of the settlement southward.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

For its part the Hudson's Bay Company was troubled by the approach of American settlement.

* Around 1010, Thorfinnr Karlsefni led an attempted Viking settlement in North America with 160 settlers, but was later driven off by the natives.

Achill has a long history of human settlement and there is evidence that Achill was inhabited as many as 5, 000 years ago.

Prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation ( pronounced " Garner " or " Gowna ").

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

The dispute was referred to Emperor Charles V and other princes, but as no settlement was reached Albert continued his efforts to obtain help in view of a renewal of the war.

As administrator of the Diocese of Hereford, he was involved in fighting against the Welsh, suffering two defeats at the hands of raiders before securing a settlement with Gruffydd ap Llywelyn, a Welsh ruler.

After the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, the Ark remained in the Tabernacle at Gilgal for a season before being removed to Shiloh until the time of Eli, between 300 and 400 years ( Jeremiah 7: 12 ), when it was carried into the field of battle, so as to secure, as they had hoped, victory to the Hebrews.

The name " Queen's College " was denied to the Baptist school, so it was renamed " Acadia College " in 1841, in reference to the history of the area as an Acadian settlement.

LDS Apostle Orson Pratt declared that " Ahman ", part of the name of the settlement " Adam-ondi-Ahman " in Daviess County, Missouri, was the name of God in the Adamic language.

In 1835, the Albion Company, a land development company formed by Jesse Crowell, platted a village and Peabody's wife was asked to name the settlement.

A settlement to the class-action lawsuit was announced for about $ 8. 25 million.

However the first mention of a city sized settlement was in 1256.

The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.

During 1823 – 1931 the grown settlement was known as Ust-Abakanskoye, 1914 – 1925: Abakan, 1925 – 1931: Khakassk.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

Roman coins and pottery have been found circulating at native settlement sites in the Scottish Lowlands in the years before 100, indicating growing Romanisation.

However, its ruined buildings provided building materials to build the new monastic and market settlement of St Albans which was growing on the hill above, close to the site of Saint Alban's execution.

The Sub-Carpathians and the tableland areas provide good conditions for human settlement and are important areas for fruit growing, viticulture, and other agricultural activity.

There commenced a period of minor skirmishes with Saladin's forces while Richard and Saladin negotiated a settlement to the conflict, as both realised that their respective positions were growing untenable.

After the Norman conquest the population of the Maltese islands kept growing mainly through immigration from the north ( Sicily and Italy ), with the exile to Malta of the entire male population of the town of Celano ( Italy ) in 1223, the stationing of a Norman and Sicilian garrison on Malta in 1240 and the settlement in Malta of noble families from Sicily between 1372 and 1450.

In 1996, in a symbolic response to growing dissatisfaction among Scots at the prevailing constitutional settlement, the British Conservative Government decided that the Stone should be kept in Scotland when not in use at coronations.

In December 1680, a prominent member of the county and professed Anglican, William Stevens of Rehoboth settlement, sent a request to the Presbytery of Laggan in northern Ireland to consider sending a Presbyterian minister to Somerset county ; and the first Presbyterian minister, Reverend Francis Makemie, arrived in early 1683, quickly followed by a growing list of additional Irish Presbyterian ministers and missionaries.

As it was growing quickly this settlement was granted city status in 1868.

Towards the end of the 19th century, it became apparent that problems associated with settlement, such as larrikinism and drunkenness, were growing in society.

The settlement flourished, growing to 5000 inhabitants spread over a considerable area along Eriksfjord and neighboring fjords.

A social gathering place as well as source of water, the tower seemed to symbolize the young settlement ’ s growing sense of civic pride.

Early attempts at settlement included an English trading post in 1763, and in 1822 a plantation growing sugar cane and oranges was established by Jewish immigrant Moses Elias Levy.

The city is flourished as a growing urban settlement after the Proton car manufacturing plant was set up, which marked the beginning of the city as an industrial city.

Originally a First Nations settlement, growing European exploration in the 17th century made it an important trading post.

The growing of Sugar Cane was a very important crop in the early days of the settlement.

In 1896, the Holy Rosary Catholic Church was established in the growing European-American settlement.

The settlement became a village in 1927, and in 1932 residents voted to become a city to avoid being incorporated into growing Birmingham.

First called " the chestnut country ," it may have been the first of the settlement grants by Massachusetts selected for expansion of growing populations in the seacoast.

The settlement ultimately failed as disease and competition from growing Savannah proved too much for the local settlers to overcome.

In 1881, Brooks had donated of land " for sale and settlement as a town ", and by 1884 the growing community changed its name to Evant in Brooks ' honor.

Some hundred years later, when the settlement became too small for the growing population, Neuruppin on the western shore of the lake was established by the Dukes of Lindow-Ruppin.

Despite attempts at mining minerals, growing silk, and exporting the native Virginia tobacco, no profitable exports had been identified, and it was unclear whether the settlement would survive financially.

London continued to stall, American commercial and financial groups pressed Washington for a quick settlement of the dispute on a cash basis, growing Canadian nationalist sentiment in British Columbia called for staying inside the British Empire, Congress became preoccupied with Reconstruction, and most Americans showed little interest in territorial expansion.

Close to the fort they began to erect the huts of the main settlement, New Edinburgh, and to clear land for growing yams and maize.

In 1670 this settlement gradually growing around the Salas tavern became known as Jēkabpils ( Jakobstadt in German ) in honor of the Duke of Courland, Jacob Kettler, who granted it its city charter.