* 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town's location at the junction of seven cross-roads.

The town's location on the sheltered Avacha Bay and at the mouth of the Avacha River saw it develop to become the most important settlement in Kamchatka.

An important part of the town ’ s economy is based on tourism, because of the town's many historic attractions and its location.

It was opened by Radio 1 DJ Tony Blackburn and occupied an unusual location over the River Holme beside the town's small bus station.

It is the location of Feltham Young Offenders ' Institution, situated near the town's border with Ashford and the neighbouring village of East Bedfont.

This site was previously the location of the town's central Post Office and a shopping arcade, originally built in the 1960s.

The location of the station shifted the focus of the town's subsequent growth away from the original village centre.

The location of the station shifted the focus of the town's subsequent growth away from the original village centre.

The town's central location and many hotels ( for a population of just over 11, 000 it has no less than 4 ) has meant that it is a natural location for conferences and meetings involving delegates from across Northern Ireland.

Its location in an old herring smokery harks back to the town's status as a major fishing port.

The name Florala refers to the town's location, adjacent to the Florida border: it is a portmanteau that combines the beginning letters in the words " Florida " and " Alabama ".

Biggs is named for Maj. Marion Biggs, who first shipped grain by rail from the town's location.

In 1999 it was moved to its present location in the town's center, at the northeast corner of Clovis Avenue and Fourth Street, and was restored by the Clovis Big Dry Creek Historical Society in with financing, labor, and materials donated by local businesses and contractors.

The town's original location is slightly east of Wofford Heights.

Despite its small size, the town's scenic location on a headland surrounded by the Pacific Ocean has made it extremely popular as an artist colony and with vacationers.

The town's name comes from its location near the junction of the North, Middle, and South Forks of the Kaweah River.

At their urging, during the winter of 1883-84, the buildings of the town were loaded on skids and pulled by teams of draft animals to the town's present-day location on the bluff one mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of the river.

This area of town is the location of the unique Sleeping Giant hill formation that is the source of the town's nickname.

Historically, however, Dublin's economy was based on the local cotton, corn, and soybean trades, which blossomed as the town's central location enabled it to thrive with the growth of the railroad.

The main trade was in grain, as the area consisted of excellent prairie farmland ; the town's position on the Pittsburgh, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad made it a good location for such trade.

The town's strategic location, reasonable housing costs, and high level of municipal services have contributed to its growth in recent years.

" Although Rapp expressed concern that the town's location lacked a waterworks, the area provided an opportunity for expansion and access to markets through the nearby rivers, causing him to remark, " In short, the place has all the advantages which one could wish, if a steam engine meanwhile supplies what is lacking.

Prior to the advent of the railroad in the second half of the nineteenth century, the town's location on the river made for a thriving community ; it is reputed to have been the largest town between Chicago and Terre Haute at the height of its success.

Any adjustments which are made, Mr. Grenier said earlier this month, will appear on the balance of the tax bill since most of the town's taxpayers take the option of paying quarterly with the balance due next year.

The consul administering the oath is forced to go on his knees, symbolising Alphonse's lordship and the town's loyalty.

He is depicted in the town's most prominent statue by sculptor Goscombe John, unveiled on Victoria Square in 1920.

There is also a coin-operated bunyip at Murray Bridge, South Australia, at Sturt Reserve on the town's riverfront.

They increased the town's, and hence the bishop's, reputation, influence, and income from the taxes and duties on goods in Basel's expanding market.

The town's name was changed to Columbus on March 20, 1821.

* 1968 – American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.

This was important since towns very often depended on a good reputation for export of a narrow range of products, on which not only the guild's, but the town's, reputation depended.

Controls on the association of physical locations to well-known exported products, e. g. wine from the Champagne and Bordeaux regions of France, tin-glazed earthenwares from certain cities in Holland, lace from Chantilly, etc., helped to establish a town's place in global commerce — this led to modern trademarks.

In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first postmaster.

Stow-on-the-Wold, originally called Stow St. Edward or Edwardstow after the town's patron saint Edward, probably Edward the Martyr, is said to have originated as an Iron Age fort on this defensive position on a hill.

A flood in 1875 covered the city of Marysville and when it subsided the town's streets were filled with debris and rocks washed down from the " hydraulicking " going on upstream.

The third and largest takes place on the last day of Carnival, and involves hundreds of people walking in costume along the town's longest avenue.

The Wyre was the town's first local commercial radio station and began broadcasting on 12 September 2005 from studios in Kidderminster.

His birthplace was demolished in 1689 and the town's Melanchthonhaus built on its site in 1897.

Its tower hosts the world's first porcelain carillon, manufactured in 1929 on the occasion of the town's 1000-years-jubilee.

Diane Cilento was lured out of semi-retirement after Shaffer saw her on the stage to play the town's schoolmistress, and Ingrid Pitt ( another British horror film veteran ) was cast as the town librarian and registrar.

Humphrey spent most of his youth in Doland, South Dakota, on the Dakota prairie ; the town's population was about 700 people when he lived there.

The attack on Aqaba ( one of the more stirring and memorable scenes in the film with a spectacular pan shot of dust rising up from behind the charging Arabs while Turkish cannons are aimed harmlessly out to sea ) was reconstructed in a dried river bed in southern Spain ; it consisted of over 300 buildings and was meticulously based on the town's appearance in 1917.

* Several watchtowers, such as the Torre Calderina ( 15th century ) on the seaside, and the Torrione Passari, inglobated in the town's walls.

The town's small traditional theatre and cinema, the Savoy Theatre, on Church Street, is believed to be the oldest working theatre in Wales.

Apart from one small watch tower on the Singel nothing is left of the town's city walls.