* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.

This island would later be called Aegina.

U. S. Marines of the First Marine Division and later soldiers of the U. S. Army's 81st Infantry Division, fought to capture an airstrip on the small coral island.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

Teach may have recruited some of their slaves, but the remainder were left on the island and were later recaptured by the returning crew of Mauvaise Rencontre.

The family later separated into two branches: Buonaparte-Sarzana, Nobili di Sarzana had been compelled to leave Florence due to the defeat of the Ghibellines and later when Francesco Buonaparte came to Corsica in 16th century and the island was in Genoese possession.

Columbus's strained relationship with the Spanish crown and its appointed colonial administrators in America led to his arrest and dismissal as governor of the settlements on the island of Hispaniola in 1500, and later to protracted litigation over the benefits which Columbus and his heirs claimed were owed to them by the crown.

Another instrumental, " Cebu " ( named after an island in the Philippines ), later became a staple in the Quiet storm format.

Initially, it was suspected that the killings were committed by a Satanic cult ; later more killings were reported around the island, and many farms reported loss of animal life.

The island is first referred to as Kaptara in texts from the Syrian city of Mari dating from the 18th century BC, repeated later in Neo-Assyrian records and the Bible ( Caphtor ) It was also known in ancient Egyptian as Keftiu, strongly suggesting some form similar to both was the Minoan name for the island.

Patriots aiding Cuba during the Spanish-American War — and, later, expatriates avoiding Prohibition — regularly mixed rum and cola as a highball and a toast to this Caribbean island.

Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.

The Portuguese navigator Pedro de Mascarenhas may have discovered the island during his voyage of 1512 – 1513, but there is little corroborative evidence for this ; cartographic analysis points to 1532 or later.

Players may not expand into the outlying islands, but by building ships so that they border the outlying islands, players may be awarded with victory points, development cards, or harbors that players may place on the coast of the main island at a later time.

Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine.

Titus was later left on the island of Crete to help organize the Church, although he soon went to Dalmatia, Croatia.

She introduced those conventions in her own lands, on the island of Oleron in 1160 (" Rolls of Oléron ") and later in England as well.

From this body of water the island group later took its collective name.

In late August, 1552, the Santa Cruz reached the Chinese island of Shangchuan, 14 km away from the southern coast of mainland China, near Taishan, Guangdong, 200 km south-west of what later became Hong Kong.

During the Tokugawa period ( 1600 – 1868 ) the Ainu became increasingly involved in trade with Japanese who controlled the southern portion of the island that is now called Hokkaido.

The island was larger than Ancient Libya and Asia Minor combined, but it afterwards was sunk by an earthquake and became an impassable mud shoal, inhibiting travel to any part of the ocean.

He agreed to surrender the island to Venice if his family became extinct.

The island gained separate colony status in 1960 and became autonomous in 1967.

Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail soon became the main road through the island from Nieuw Amsterdam at the southern tip.

A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.

Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the process of Spanish colonization, which foreshadowed the general European colonization of what became known as the " New World ".

Apart from a visit by the French Parmentier brothers in 1529, for much of the 16th century the only Europeans to visit the islands were Portuguese ; British and Dutch ships began arriving at the turn of the century and the island of Ndzwani became a major supply point on the route to the East.

On 25 March 1841, France purchased the island of Maore ( the name of the island was corrupted in French to " Mayotte ") ( ratified 13 June 1843 ), which became a colony.

Low periods of the Nile during the 11th century continued to add to the landscape of Cairo ; a new island, known as Geziret al-Fil, first appeared in 1174, but eventually became connected to the mainland.

In 563 he was granted land on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts.

The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš ( < ( της ) Κρήτης ), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-ḫandaq ( modern Iraklion ), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ ( Khandhax ) or Χάνδακας ( Khandhakas ), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia.

Kidd became captain, either the result of an election of the ship's crew or because of appointment by Christopher Codrington, governor of the island of Nevis.

Between 1642 and 1650 a French missionary Raymond Breton became the first regular European visitor to the island.

As part of the 1763 Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years ' War, the island became a British possession.

Except for the city of Santo Domingo, which managed to maintain some legal exports, Dominican ports were forced to rely on contraband trade, which, along with livestock, became the sole source of livelihood for the island dwellers.

The island became infamous for its activity of smuggling illegal Chinese immigrants for local labor.

A place near this spot, on a small rocky island named ' Tech nDuinn ' (' the House of Donn '), became Donn's dwelling place as god of the dead.

Nguema introduced a campaign of ' authenticity ', replacing colonial names with native ones: the capital Santa Isabel became Malabo, the main island of Fernando Po was renamed Masie Nguema Biyogo after himself, and Annobón became Pagalu.

Relations between Fiji and Papua New Guinea became strained in November 2005, in the wake of revelations that a number of Fijian citizens, possibly mercenaries, had entered Papua New Guinea illegally and were involved in arming and training a separatist militia on the island of Bougainville.