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.

When the fur trade decreased, Michigan had already began to exploit the lumber-rich areas of the Upper Peninsula.

When the capital was first moved to Toronto from Newark ( present-day Niagara-on-the-Lake ) in 1796, the Parliament Buildings of Upper Canada were located at the corner of Parliament and Front Streets, in buildings that were burned by U. S. forces in the War of 1812, rebuilt, then burned again by accident.

" When Horace Greeley said, " Go West, young man " he was referring to the copper rush in " Michigan's western Upper Peninsula.

When the northern Netherlands revolted against King Philip II of Spain in the Dutch Revolt, the three northern quarters of Gelderland joined the Union of Utrecht and became part of the United Provinces upon the 1581 Act of Abjuration, while only the Upper Quarter remained a part of the Spanish Netherlands.

When Upper Silesia was divided between Poland and Germany in 1921, the Hindenburg commune remained in Germany.

When the pairing of deities occurred in later Egyptian myths, since she was linked to the land, after the unification of Lower and Upper

When in June 1812, the U. S. declared war on Britain, the Upper Creek lost the assistance of the British ; but they persisted with war against American settlers in the area.

When Michigan became the 26th state in 1837, the western two-thirds of the Upper Peninsula was included as a compromise ( Ohio received the " Toledo Strip ").

When New Hampshire separated from Massachusetts in 1741 Upper Ashuelot became part of New Hampshire.

When Jourdan heard of French successes against the Army of the Upper Rhine, he went over to the offensive.

* March: When the bills were reported out of committee, it was generally acknowledged that to enter the Union Michigan would have to cede the Toledo Strip in exchange for the western two-thirds ( 2 / 3 ) of the Upper Peninsula.

When, in the 19th century, several Ore Mountain passes were upgraded into chaussees and the Upper Ore Mountains were opened up by the railway, tourism began to develop.

When news of the arrest of the Patriote leaders reached Upper Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie launched an armed rebellion in December 1837.

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.

When Quebec was divided in December 1791 between Lower Canada ( today's Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( today's Ontario ), a segment of the colonial boundary was drawn at the west edge of the westernmost contiguous seigneuries along the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, accounting for the small triangle of land at Vaudreuil-Soulanges that belongs to Quebec rather than Ontario.

When most of Hungary was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1541 ( see Ottoman Hungary ), Upper Hungary ( now the territory of present day Slovakia ) became the new center of the " reduced " kingdom that remained under Hungarian, and later Habsburg rule, officially called Royal Hungary.

When Charlemagne invaded the Upper Mark in 778, Husayn refused allegiance and he had to retire.

When Muhammad Ali went to Arabia to prosecute the war against the Al-Sauds in 1813, Ibrahim was left in command of Upper Egypt.

When the French Upper Volta was first abolished in 1933 ( it was reestablished in 1947 ), French Sudan gained some of its provinces.

When even moderate reformers were being persecuted following the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, Hincks considered moving to the United States.

When the Prussian territories were reorganized upon the Congress of Vienna, the Province of Silesia was created out of the territories acquired by Prussia in the Silesian Wars, as well as those Upper Lusatian territories, which King Frederick Augustus I of Saxony had to relinquish due to his undecisive attitude in the Napoleonic Wars.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.