* 1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York ( present day Toronto, Canada ).

Four schools have been named for Heschel, in the Upper West Side of New York City, Northridge, California, Agoura Hills, California, and Toronto, Canada.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

* Upper Becker Creek Cone, a volcanic cone in the Upper Becker Creek area of Carbon Hill, Yukon Territory, Canada

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.

The languages of Aboriginal peoples in Canada started to influence European languages used in Canada even before widespread settlement took place, and the French of Lower Canada provided vocabulary to the English of Upper Canada.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

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

During the War of 1812, the Detroit River served as a major barrier between the American Michigan Territory and British Upper Canada, especially during the Battle of Fort Detroit in August 1812, when Detroit briefly fell to the British.

* 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.

North of Columbus Circle, Broadway retains planted center islands as a vestige of the central mall of " The Boulevard " that became the spine of the Upper West Side.

* Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958.

He later became legate of a legion in Upper Pannonia and eventually governor of said province.

) In 1240, Munich was transferred to Otto II Wittelsbach and in 1255, when the Duchy of Bavaria was split in two, Munich became the ducal residence of Upper Bavaria.

At the time the region was part of British North America and became part of Upper Canada after the Constitutional Act of 1791.

Although fishing only became common during the Upper Paleolithic, fish have been part of human diets long before the dawn of the Upper Paleolithic and have certainly been consumed by humans since at least the Middle Paleolithic.

Pisa began in this way its rise to the role of main port of the Upper Tyrrhenian Sea and became the main trading centre between Tuscany and Corsica, Sardinia and the southern coasts of France and Spain.

Around 750 BC, a Kushite king called Kashta conquered Upper Egypt and became ruler of Thebes until approximately 740 BC.

Between 1289 and 1292, Bohemian king Wenceslaus II became suzerain of some Upper Silesian duchies.

Lower Silesia and most of Upper Silesia became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1742 during the First Silesian War.

In the 19th century, Upper Silesia became an industrial area taking advantage of its plentiful coal and iron ore.

In 2005, Upper Iowa University was accepted into full membership of the NCAA Division II athletics and became a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference ( NSIC ).

Prussia first set foot on the Rhine in 1609 by the occupation of the Duchy of Cleves and about a century later Upper Guelders and Moers also became Prussian.

Louis IV was Duke of Upper Bavaria from 1294 / 1301 together with his elder brother Rudolf I, served as Margrave of Brandenburg until 1323 and as Count Palatine of the Rhine until 1329, became also Duke of Lower Bavaria in 1340 and Count of Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland and Friesland in 1345.

Though Louis was partly educated in Vienna and became co-regent of his brother Rudolf I in Upper Bavaria in 1301 with the support of his Habsburg mother Matilda and her brother King Albert I, he quarrelled with the Habsburgs from 1307 over possessions in Lower Bavaria.

As this region was politically connected to the Rhenish Palatinate, the name Upper Palatinate () became common from the early 16th century in contrast to the Lower Palatinate along the Rhine.

On Duke Otto II's death in 1253, the Wittelsbach possessions were divided between his sons: Henry became Duke of Lower Bavaria, and Louis II Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine.

After World War II, the Mossi actively pressured the French for separate territorial status and on September 4, 1947, Upper Volta became a French West African territory again in its own right.

Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French community on December 11, 1958.

The name " Guinea " was also applied to south coast of West Africa, north of the Gulf of Guinea, which became known as " Upper Guinea ", and the west coast of Southern Africa, to the east, which became known as " Lower Guinea.

In May 2012, Lehigh became the recipient of a gift of 755 acres of property in nearby Upper Saucon Township from the Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation.

Afterwards it was again invaded by the Avars in the 560s, the Slavs, who first settled c. 480s but became independent only since the 7th century, the Franks, who named a frontier march the March of Pannonia in the end of the 8th century, while terms Lower and Upper Pannonia were also used in the 9th century as a designations for a Slavic principality and a Frankish province.

The Province of Upper Canada ( French: province du Haut-Canada ) was a political division in British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution.

Upper Canada ceased to be a political entity with the Act of Union ( 1840 ), when, by an act of the British Parliament, it was merged with Lower Canada to form the united Province of Canada.

Canada West was a political entity and a geographic way of referring to the western and more English speaking part of the former Province of Upper Canada, following its merger into the United Province of Canada.

Like Upper Canada, there was political unrest and a rebellion challenged the British rule of the predominantly French population.

* Edward Jessup, a political figure in Upper Canada, a former British province in what is now Canada

Lower Canada, Upper Canada and their legislatures were abolished by the British Act of Union 1840 of July 23, 1840 ( which came into force in early 1841 ) and united as one political entity, the Province of Canada.

Tychy is also one of the founding cities of the Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia, a pan-Silesian economic and political union formed with the eventual aim of bringing the most populous Silesian areas under a single administrative body.

* Jesse Ketchum ( 1782 – 1867 ), tanner and political figure in Upper Canada

It was the companion city to Nekhen, the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of the Predynastic period ( c. 3200 – 3100 BC ) and probably, also during the Early Dynastic Period ( c. 3100 – 2686 BC ).

* William Hamilton ( lumber baron ) ( died 1822 ), lumber merchant and political figure in Upper Canada

The old boy network of Upper Canada College has been so influential in the political and business realms of Canada that the book Old Boys: The Powerful Legacy of Upper Canada College ( ISBN 978-1551990057 ), by James Fitzgerand, was published in 1994.

There was strong business and political agitation in Upper Canada for annexing the territory ; in London the Company's trading license was due for review ; in St. Paul there was a growing interest in the area as a field for U. S. expansion.

* François Baby ( politician ) ( 1733 – 1820 ), political figure in Upper Canada

The regional Upper Rhine Conference is a framework for future political and administrative cooperation in the area.

During the Twenty-second Dynasty Tanis remained as Egypt's political capital ( though there were sometimes rival dynasties located elsewhere in Upper Egypt ).

* Alexander Campbell ( Upper Canada politician ) ( 1770 – 1834 ), farmer and political figure in Upper Canada

When Thomas unexpectedly inherited the estate, he used his money and political connections to purchase land and settle poor Scottish farmers in Belfast, Prince Edward Island in 1803 and Upper Canada in 1804.

1832 was a time of great political turmoil in Upper Canada.

On November 8, 1832, Lord Goderich sent a dispatch to Lieutenant Governor Colborne, which arrived in January 1833, instructing him to make certain financial and political improvements in Upper Canada, and instructing him to rein in the Assembly's vendetta against Mackenzie.

Mackenzie spent summer 1837 organizing vigilance and political unions throughout Upper Canada and holding large Reform meetings in the Home District.

The so-called " Aaker faction " within the Upper County Republican party found in Nelson a capable politician, with connections to the immigrant community, experience in land-office issues, and political background in Wisconsin.

* Jeremiah French, soldier, judge and political figure in Upper Canada