* 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land ( later renamed Tasmania ).

1663 map of Van Diemen's Land, showing the parts discovered by Tasman, including Storm Bay, Maria Island and Schouten Island.

In 1803, the island was colonised by the British as a penal colony with the name Van Diemen's Land, and became part of the British colony of New South Wales.

The demonym for Van Diemen's Land was ' Van Diemonian ', though contemporaries used Vandemonian, possibly as a play on words relating to the colony's penal origins.

From the 1800s to the 1853 abolition of penal transportation ( known simply as " transportation "), Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia.

Following the suspension of transportation to New South Wales, all transported convicts were sent to Van Diemen's Land.

In total, some 75, 000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land, or about 40 % of all convicts sent to Australia.

There were five female factories in Van Diemen's Land.

Convicts completing their sentences or earning their ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land.

Tensions sometimes ran high between the settlers and the " Vandemonians " as they were termed, particularly during the Victorian gold rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields.

Complaints from Victorians about recently released convicts from Van Diemen's Land re-offending in Victoria was one of the contributing reasons for the eventual abolition of transportation to Van Diemen's Land in 1853.

Eventually, in order to remove the unsavoury connotations with crime associated with its name ( and its homophonic connection to " demon "), in 1856 Van Diemen's Land was renamed Tasmania in honour of Abel Tasman.

* The feature film Van Diemen's Land focuses on the true story of convict Alexander Pearce and his infamous escape from Macquarie Harbour in 1822.

* " Van Diemen's Land ", also known as " The Gallant Poachers ", is a traditional Irish folk song

* " Van Diemen's Land " is the title of the second track from the rock band U2's album Rattle and Hum.

* Van Diemen's Land is referenced in the song " The Helm of Ned Kelly " by the group Blackbird Raum on their third album titled " Under the Starling Host "

* Van Diemen's Land is mentioned in the Irish and Australian folk song " The Wild Colonial Boy ".

* Van Diemen's Land is often mentioned in the works of Flogging Molly, such as in the song " Every Dog Has Its Day.

* Among the Irish folk songs that mention Van Diemen's Land are " The Black Velvet Band ", " Back Home in Derry ", and " Van Diemen's Land ".

; the duo Lange Frans & Baas B with their patriotic but introspective " Het Land Van "; and Yes-R. Other notable groups are " Opgezwolle " ( consisting of rapper Sticky Steez, rapper Phreaco Rico and DJ Delic ) and Brainpower.

* Jonathan auf der Heide, director of the 2009 film Van Dieman's Land

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

A member of the IRSAC staff ( E. Van De Walle ) was recently delegated to cooperate with AIMO in the development of demographic statistics in this territory.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

Van Brocklin, the quarterback who led the Eagles to the title, was signed by the Vikings last Wednesday.

Moseley, after discussions with Bohr who was at the same lab ( and who had used Van den Broek's hypothesis in his Bohr model of the atom ), decided to test Van den Broek and Bohr's hypothesis directly, by seeing if spectral lines emitted from excited atoms fit the Bohr theory's demand that the frequency of the spectral lines be proportional to a measure of the square of Z.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.

Van Vogt was born on a farm in Edenburg, a Russian Mennonite community east of Gretna, Manitoba, Canada.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

Van Vogt was also profoundly affected by revelations of totalitarian police states that emerged after World War II.

Van Vogt systematized his writing method, using scenes of 800 words or so where a new complication was added or something resolved.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

Despite Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.

The name Van Mahotsava ( the festival of trees ) originated in July 1947 after a successful tree-planting drive was undertaken in Delhi, in which national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Dr Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Azad participated.

Although the press reported that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rose Rolanda in 1924, Hopwood's close friend Carl Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was all a publicity stunt.

Henry Moseley's work showed experimentally in 1913 ( see Moseley's law ) that the effective nuclear charge was very close to the atomic number ( Moseley found only one unit difference ), and Moseley referenced only the papers of Van den Broek and Rutherford.

Gus Van Sant's 2000 Finding Forrester was quickly billed " Good Will Hunting in the Hood.

Mike Judge has stated Van Driessen was his favorite character, after Beavis, to voice.

" Later, a Lady Gaga video convinced Van Toffler of the tenability of a Beavis and Butt-Head revival: " I felt like there was a whole crop of new artists — and what the world sorely missed was the point-of-view that only Beavis and Butt-Head could bring.

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala invented a solid-ink fountain pen in 1907, a German inventor named Baum took out a ballpoint patent in 1910, and yet another ballpoint pen device was patented by Van Vechten Riesburg in 1916.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

It is not clear, however, if Van der Heul exercised this degree of responsibility because Kidd was nominally a privateer.