But the terms of the grant clearly indicate that Charles II and William Penn assumed the 40th parallel would intersect the Twelve-Mile Circle around New Castle, Delaware when in fact it falls north of the original boundaries of the City of Philadelphia, the site of which Penn had already selected for his colony's capital city.

Like his predecessor Lt. Robert Stockton, who in 1821 established the site for Monrovia by " persuading " a local chief referred to as " King Peter " to sell Cape Montserado ( or Mesurado ) by pointing a pistol at his head, Ashmun was prepared to use force to extend the colony's territory.

He is famous for choosing the site of the colony's capital, Adelaide, and designing the layout of its streets and parks in the Adelaide city centre and Adelaide Park Lands.

Orwell served in a number of locations in Burma ; having spent a year of police training in Mandalay and Maymyo, his postings included Myaungmya, Twante, Syriam, Insein-( north of Rangoon, site of the colony's most secure prison, and now present-day Burma's most notorious jail ),-Moulmein and Kathar.

The site was subsequently incorporated by the British in British Honduras, passing with that colony's independence to Belize.

Although there was no established church in colonial Victoria, most of the colony's establishment were Anglicans and the Church of England ( as it was then ) was given the best site in Melbourne for its cathedral.

In 1851, even before the colony of Victoria acquired full parliamentary self-government, Governor Charles La Trobe instructed the colonial surveyor, Robert Hoddle, to select a site for the colony's new parliament to meet.

Jurisdiction over the site was transferred in 1924 to the city's Homes for Dependents agency, which lifted the requirement that all residents of the colony had to work — with most of the work involving the cultivation of many varieties of fruits and vegetables, and at various times even grains such as wheat and corn ; these crops fed not only the colony's residents but met the needs of other city institutions as well.

Before 1837 the area was briefly considered for the site of the colony's capital ; a ' special survey ' was undertaken in 1839 – 40 with a sizeable township laid out at Currency Creek and land for a port with substantial warehousing on the river where Goolwa now stands ; however, the treacherous waters of the Murray Mouth for shipping made it unsuitable as a major port.

A public meeting on 17 February 1837 passed a resolution urging the colony's government to construct the road at the site, and Roe showed the public suggested plans for the proposed causeway.

The Ann Arbor Land Company, a group of speculators, set aside of undeveloped land and offered it to the state of Michigan as the site of the state capital, but lost the bid to Lansing.

They destroyed Camulodunum ( modern Colchester ), earlier the capital of the Trinovantes, but then a colonia ( a settlement for discharged Roman soldiers ) and the site of a temple to the former Emperor Claudius, which was built and maintained at local expense.

A vigilante group of influential settlers, headed by Abraham Curry, sought a site for a capital city for the envisioned territory.

Constructed by Gaulish sailors probably in 14 CE, it was discovered in 1710 within the foundations of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, site of ancient Lutetia, the civitas capital of the Celtic Parisii.

The Inca civilization expansion northward from modern-day Peru during the late 15th century met with fierce resistance by several Ecuadorian tribes, particularly the Cañari, in the region around modern-day Cuenca ; the Cara in the Sierra north of Quito along with the Quitu, occupants of the site of the modern capital, with whom they had formed the Kingdom of Quito.

Unless Jarma is a nickname for Axum ( hypothetically from Ge ' ez girma, " remarkable, revered "), the capital had moved from Axum to a new site, yet undiscovered.

The capital Rarotonga, is believed from local oral tradition, to have been the launching site of waka ship voyagers who originally settled in New Zealand.

Once the 14-year-old king had regained control of the capital and then the whole country, Grindcobbe was tried in the Moot Hall ( on the site of the present-day W H Smith stationery shop, where a plaque commemorates the event ) and adjudged a ' traitor ' alongside John Ball (' the mad priest of Kent ', one of the rebel leaders who had escaped from Smithfield, London to Coventry ) and more than a dozen others.

Perhaps the best-known example is Toronto Bay, chosen as the site of the Upper Canada ( Ontario ) capital for its strategic harbour.

* Evonium, Scotland-purported coronation site and capital of 40 kings

King Andrianjaka founded Antananarivo as the capital of his Imerina Kingdom around 1610 or 1625 upon the site of a captured Vazimba capital on the hilltop of Analamanga.

As the country gained independence on November 28, 1960, the capital city Nouakchott was founded at the site of a small colonial village, the Ksar, while 90 % of the population was still nomadic.

By 1519, the Aztec capital, Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the site of modern-day Mexico City, was one of the largest cities in the world, with a population of 30, 000 ( estimates range as high as 60, 000 ).

Šeiminyškėliai Hillfort, possibly the site of Voruta Castle, alleged capital of Mindaugas

García's group discovered Iguazú Falls, crossed the Río Paraná and arrived at the site of Asunción, future capital of the country, thirteen years before it was founded.

From this same 10th century on, Compostela became a politically relevant site and several kings of Galicia and of León were acclaimed by the Galician noblemen, and crowned and anointed by the local bishop at the cathedral, among them Ordoño IV in 958, Bermudo II in 982, and Alfonso VII in 1111, so Compostela becoming capital of the Kingdom of Galicia.

Prior to the Omride period the site appears to have been the center of an extensive wine and oil production area, which may have accounted for its choice as the new capital.

Ann Arbor had set aside that it hoped would become the site for a new state capitol, but it offered this land to the university when Lansing was chosen as the state capital.

The British established a military outpost at King George Sound, near present-day Albany, in 1826, was followed by the establishment of the Swan River Colony in 1829, including the site of the present-day capital, Perth.

Gaining sole reign of the empire, he is also noted for re-establishing a single imperial capital, choosing the site of ancient Byzantium in 330 ( over of the current capitals, which had effectively been changed by Diocletian's reforms to Milan in the West, and Nicomedia in the East ) to build the city soon called Nova Roma ( New Rome ); it was later renamed Constantinople in his honor.

* June 20 – Compromise of 1790: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton come to an agreement: Madison agrees to not be " strenuous " in opposition for the assumption of state debts by the federal government ; Hamilton agrees to support the capital site being above the Potomac.

* July 16 – The signing of the Residence Bill establishes a site along the Potomac River as the District of Columbia, the capital district of the United States

* Attila, king of the Huns, consolidates his power in the Hungarian capital, probably on the site of Buda ( modern Budapest ).

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

A major consideration in the choice of the Warwick site, four miles from Cranston, was the fact that it permits retention of our present trained and highly skilled work force.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

In the United States Department of Agriculture's Yearbook Of Agriculture, 1952, which is devoted entirely to insects, George E. Bohart mentions a site in Utah which was estimated to contain 200,000 nesting females.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

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.

The site of the oblong piazza is Domitian's ancient stadium, which was probably used for horse and chariot races.

On the occasion of a pestilence in the 430s BCE, Apollo's first temple at Rome was established in the Flaminian fields, replacing an older cult site there known as the " Apollinare ".

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

The Aegean was the site of the original democracies, and its seaways were the means of contact among several diverse civilizations of the Eastern Mediterranean.

For example, the analysis of the debris at the testing site of the first U. S. hydrogen bomb, Ivy Mike, ( 1 November 1952, Enewetak Atoll ), revealed high concentrations of various actinides including americium ; due to military secrecy, this result was published only in 1956.

Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.

At the cemetery in what is now the district of Pullach stood a memorial stone which was mentioned as recently as 1967, but which is no longer at the site.

The live music from Gambler was only distributed at the performance site in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

The park was originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site, the idea of Count Eusebi Güell, whom the park was named after.

The site was a rocky hill with little vegetation and few trees, called Muntanya Pelada ( Bare Mountain ).

The intention was to exploit the fresh air ( well away from smoky factories ) and beautiful views from the site, with sixty triangular lots being provided for luxury houses.

Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (), was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.

A site was chosen in Houston, Texas on land donated by Rice University, and Administrator Webb announced the conversion on September 19, 1961.

A quarry on the Lousberg, which was first used in Neolithic times, attests to the long occupation of the site of Aachen.

Aachen was chosen as the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen ( often referred to as Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in English ) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution.

In another study, ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago.