Local opposition to selling the land for farming was intense, and quickly gathered support around Victoria.

Its use spread quickly and gained royal approval in 1853 when John Snow gave it to Queen Victoria during the birth of Prince Leopold.

In 1971 he participated in an attempt at constitutional reform, the Victoria Charter, which quickly unravelled when Bourassa backed away from the proposed deal after it was strongly criticized by Quebec opinion leaders for not giving Quebec more powers.

However, both of his unmarried older brothers quickly married, and King George's fourth son, Edward, Duke of Kent, fathered the eventual British heir, Princess Victoria of Kent ( later Queen Victoria ).

Victoria was informed about the progress of the insurrection and reappeared on 30 December of that year in the town of Soledad, where a small garrison quickly joined him.

From the 1850s, mechanics ' institutes quickly spread throughout Victoria wherever a hall, library or school was needed.

The scenery and monuments of Egypt and Holy Land were fashionable but had hitherto been hardly touched by British artists, and so Roberts quickly accumulated 400 subscription commitments, with Queen Victoria being subscriber # 1.

d ’ Esterre sought to bring tourists to the area by advertising in Vancouver and Victoria newspapers, extolling the local abundance of " Tyee "— chinook salmon weighing more than — and Comox quickly attracted affluent anglers and tourists.

Anticipating complete demolition, the National Trust of Victoria moved quickly to nominate the members ' stand for heritage listing on the basis that the stadium was the first major stadium purpose built for Australian rules football, that it hosted the 1991 AFL Grand Final and that the members ' ( or K. G.

The Victoria Institute had reached a high point of 1, 246 in 1897, but quickly plummeted to less than one third of that figure in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

In 1897 he went from Victoria to Western Australia he and joined the civil service there, quickly rising through the ranks.

Maggie was initially acerbic, greeting newcomer Victoria Winters ( Alexandra Moltke ) with, " You're a jerk ," ( Maggie was irritated that Vicki was working for the Collins family ), but quickly showed herself to be a good, decent person.

Victoria Winters quickly became indispensable to Elizabeth Collins Stoddard ( played by Joan Bennett ), both as governess to Elizabeth's young nephew David Collins and companion to Elizabeth herself, ( although her initial quest to learn her true identity dismayed the family matriarch ).

He quickly proved to be a very unpopular man in the mansion and in town, especially among young women, Victoria Winters and Maggie Evans included.

Di Angelo quickly finds Lady Victoria but also finds that she is deeply involved with another Oxford rower Colin Gilchrist Fisher ( Sands ).

In 1902 a third Victoria High School was opened which quickly outstripped by Victoria's burgeoning population.

The Doctor tells all the monks to flee quickly so that he can defeat the Intelligence, and he keeps Jamie, Victoria and Thonmi at his side while the others flee.

Mertz and Ninnis were assigned to Mawson's own party, which would use the dogs to push quickly to the east of the expedition's base in Commonwealth Bay, towards Victoria Land.

With these technologies the British Empire quickly conquers the Earth, and he is regarded as a god by everyone on Earth, even to the point where when he speaks out against Queen Victoria she is overthrown and he is chosen to lead.

In 1885, he played two matches as a professional for Victoria, and then, when Billy Barnes was ruled out of a number of matches in Alfred Shaw's tour of Australia in 1886 / 7 after Barnes hit a wall rather than Australian captain Percy McDonnell, whom he was aiming for, the Englishmen had to find a replacement quickly.

The club quickly moved up the state divisions and by the mid 1960s had become one of the strongest clubs in Victoria.

Victoria is reunited with her father and gets married to Thorndyke who go off on Honeymoon.

Victoria enacted legislation for secret ballots on March 19, 1856, and South Australian Electoral Commissioner William Boothby generally gets credit for creating the system finally enacted into law in South Australia on April 2 of that same year ( a fortnight later ).

At the same time the London Bridge to Victoria service via Denmark Hill service will end as London Bridge will not have space for this service when it gets rebuilt due to the Thameslink Programme.

In 1985 she starred in a hugely successful telenovela produced in Venezuela by Radio Caracas Television named " Cristal " where she impersonates Victoria Ascanio, a very humble girl who after a brief forced encounter with a priest-to-be young man gets pregnant and is forced to leave her baby girl away after delivering her.

Her insensitivity gets her thrown out of The Queen Victoria public house.

" The overall impression one gets the test manual ," said a psychologist testifying before a public inquiry into Scientology in Victoria, Australia in the mid-1960s, " is that it has been prepared by somebody with a smattering of psychometrics rather than by someone who is really competent in the field.

* RailStaff ( September 12, 2005 ), " Victoria gets £ 500m upgrade ".

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

Once again, the anti-tank defences were overwhelmed and about 380 New Zealanders were taken prisoner including Captain Charles Upham who gained a second Victoria Cross for his actions including destroying a German tank and several guns and vehicles with grenades despite being shot through the elbow by a machine gun bullet and having his arm broken.

The transition to formal imperialism, characterised by Queen Victoria being crowned " Empress of India " in the 1870s was a gradual process.

Media is studied as a broad subject in most states in Australia, with the state of Victoria being a world leader in curriculum development.

West of the 141 ° E line of longitude, the river continues as the Victoria – South Australia border for, this being the only stretch where a state border runs down the middle of the river.

* In the 6 June 2007, second season, eleventh episode of The Chaser's War on Everything, the possibility of Tinky Winky being homosexual was parodied when the Chaser's tested the Peel Hotel ( in Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia )' s gaydar ( the hotel's Peel dancebar was given the right to ban heterosexual patrons ) with a Tinky Winky costumed figure that acted in a stereotypical homosexual fashion.

Horrified to learn that he was adopted after being discovered as a baby in a handbag at Victoria Station, she refuses him and forbids further contact with her daughter.

The University of Victoria Libraries system is the second largest in British Columbia being composed of three ' on-campus ' libraries, the William C. Mearns Center for Learning / McPherson Library, the Diana M. Priestly Law Library, and the MacLaurin Curriculum Library.

UMIST and the Victoria University of Manchester retained close ties for the second half of the 20th century, with UMIST students being awarded, or having the choice of, a University of Manchester degree until full autonomy in 1993.

Victoria College is somewhat separated from the rest of the University of Toronto geographically, bordering Queen's Park, and being located on the eastern portion of the campus along with St. Michael's College.

The emergence of photography, showcased at the Great Exhibition, resulted in significant changes in Victorian art with Queen Victoria being the first British monarch to be photographed.

Royal brides before Victoria did not typically wear white, instead choosing " heavy brocaded gowns embroidered with white and silver thread ," with red being a particularly popular color in Western Europe more generally.

* June 16 – Victoria Hall disaster: A rush for treats results in 183 children being asphyxiated in a concert hall in Sunderland, England.

Primarily because of latent high moisture content of brown coal, carbon dioxide emissions from traditional brown-coal-fired plants are generally much higher than for comparable black-coal plants, with the world's highest-emitting being Hazelwood Power Station, Victoria.

He is the first of only five monarchs to reign in the Kingdom of England or its successor states for 50 years or more, the others being Edward III ( 1327 – 1377 ), George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Victoria ( 1837 – 1901 ) and Elizabeth II ( 1952 – present ).

It remained in Westminster until the days of Queen Victoria, being preserved from 1696 onwards in the Chapter House, and only removed in special circumstances, such as when it was sent to Southampton for photozincographic reproduction.

This led to restrictions being placed on Chinese immigration and residency taxes levied from Chinese residents in Victoria from 1855 with New South Wales following suit in 1861.

On the Canadian side, Queen Victoria Park features manicured gardens, platforms offering spectacular views of both the American and Horseshoe Falls, and underground walkways leading into observation rooms which yield the illusion of being within the falling waters.

He trained as a fighter pilot at Somers, Victoria and Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, before being sent to the UK.

John was educated at Mount Cook School and Wellington College before being enrolled at Victoria University College, Wellington of the University of New Zealand, which later became an independent university, and where he subsequently spent most of his academic career.

Blocks of older crust consisting of Neoproterozoic-Cambrian rocks, such as the Selwyn Block in central Victoria, were deformed during the late Cambrian Tyennan Orogeny prior to being incorporated into the Lachlan Fold Belt.

( The Victoria line comes closest to this, with the only non-underground section being that to the depot.

Fox hunting with hounds results in around 650 foxes being killed annually in Victoria, compared with over 90, 000 shot over a similar period in response to a State government bounty.

Public houses lost in the town since 1952 were The Marquis of Lorne, The Brickmakers Arms, The Queen Victoria ( now a restaurant but once notable for being the only non-Adnams pub in the town ), The Royal and The Southwold Arms.

The more extensive stations do have the benefit of being able to accommodate the crowds that sometimes build up and do mean that the line is expected to be fit for purpose for many years to come, whereas other lines ( notably the Victoria line at Victoria ) now require extensive remedial schemes to rectify this.