When European American white settlers first arrived in the Owens Valley in the mid – 19th century, they found a number of large Paiute villages in the Manzanar area.

When first encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they were living in villages that the Spanish called pueblos, meaning " towns ".

When Congolese aircraft bombed the West Nile villages of Paidha and Goli on February 13, 1965, President Obote again increased military recruitment and doubled the army's size to more than 4, 500.

When the farmland around their villages became less productive — crop rotation was not practiced — the native people would abandon the site and move to another location.

When the cattle move upward in the spring, entire families move to temporary villages in the mountains to herd, mow, and plant.

* 1828 When Jean Louis Berlandier visits, he finds settler cabins, a fort-like barricade, agriculture and livestock, as well as nearby villages of Tonkawas and Karankawas.

When Spanish explorers arrived in the 1520s, they found a ring of Tocobaga villages around the northern half of Tampa Bay from modern-day Pinellas County to Tampa and Calusa villages along the southern portion of the bay in modern-day Manatee County.

When Sassacus emerged victorious, Uncas left the tribe and became Sachem of villages around the Niantic River, calling themselves the Mohegan.

When the Willem Sophia mine was opened around 1900, the town grew even more rapidly, absorbing old villages like Chèvremont.

When the railway and metalled roads came to Hoorn in the late nineteenth century, the town rapidly took its rightful place as a conveniently located and readily accessible centre in the network of towns and villages which make up the province of Noord-Holland.

When the staff left, the local population from the surrounding villages started large-scale excavations on the camp site, searching for gold and valuables.

When villages refused, they were burned down, the children of the village murdered and the men had their hands cut off.

When Edward visited depressed mining villages in Wales his comment that " something must be done " led to concerns among elected politicians that he would interfere in political matters, traditionally avoided by constitutional monarchs.

When Einsiedeln Abbey was founded, it was granted many farms, villages and isolated churches helping to spread Christianity into the high valleys.

When, in the 17th century, the splendidly equipped Jesuit drama arose, the Passion Plays ( still largely secularized ) were relegated to out-of-the-way villages and to the monasteries, particularly in Bavaria and Austria.

When the town fell after a long siege in March, 1646 it was counted a great relief to the surrounding towns and villages.

When the mining of coal and the production of steel began, the villages of the Ruhr area became cities.

When the first Spaniards arrived in the 16th century, they found the Filipinos having a civilization of their own and some living in well-organized independent villages called barangays.

When the Roman Empire withdrew from the Alps, the lake side villages looked north to the towns along the lake for support, while the alpine villages in the Urseren valley banded together.

When the main earthquake came, it destroyed nearly all the houses in several villages of the Ventzia County-the houses collapsed to the ground-but fortunately all the inhabitants were outside.

When the Clan system was abolished in Japan in 1871, administrative districts were split and revised over and over again, until the territorial boarders of Suzu were eventually settled as 1 town and 14 villages in 1889.

When the Russian explorers and raiders arrived to the region in the early 1650 ( notably, during Yerofei Khabarov's 1651 raid ), they would often see the Daur farmers burn their smaller villages and taking refuge in larger towns.

When the campaigns in Africa were over, Afonso V found new grounds for battle in the Iberian Peninsula.

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910 out of the main British colonies in the region, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, Basutoland ( now Lesotho ), and Swaziland ( the " High Commission Territories ") were not included, but provision was made for

When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society that in itself is a form of underdevelopment .... During the centuries of pre-colonial trade, some control over social political and economic life was retained in Africa, in spite of the disadvantageous commerce with Europeans.

When the Portuguese first sailed down the Atlantic coast of Africa in the 1430s, they were interested in gold.

When Libya declared its independence on 24 December 1951 it was the first country to achieve independence through the United Nations and the third former European colony in Africa to gain independence after Egypt ( 1922 ) and Abyssinia ( 1941 ).

When South Africa reached 248 / 8, Cronje declared ; both teams then forfeited an innings leaving England a target of 249 to win the Test, which they did with two wickets left and only five balls remaining.

When the Union of South Africa was founded in 1910 the colony was still controlled by the British and moves were made to transfer it to the Union.

When Caesar became dictator for a second time, Antony was made Master of the Horse, and in this capacity he remained in Italy as the peninsula's administrator in 47 BC, while Caesar was fighting the last Pompeians, who had taken refuge in the province of Africa.

When European colonial powers began to send ships along the West coast of Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Senegal River was often postulated to be seaward end of the Niger.

When the priest Apiarius of Sicca had been excommunicated by his bishop on account of his crimes, he appealed directly to the pope, without regard to the regular course of appeal in Africa which was exactly prescribed.

When the Achaean hostages were released in 150 BC, Polybius was granted leave to return home, but the next year he went on campaign with Scipio Aemilianus to Africa, and was present at the capture of Carthage, which he later described.

When South Africa became a republic in 1961, Pretoria remained its administrative capital.

When South Africa followed on, Benaud took 5 / 84, which left Australia needing only one run to win.

When Mbeki finally was able to return home to South Africa and was reunited with his own father, the elder Mbeki told a reporter, " You must remember that Thabo Mbeki is no longer my son.

When Richard Pryor came back from Africa, and decided to stop using the word onstage, he would sometimes start to slip up, because he was so used to speaking that way.

When established in 1936, Italian East Africa covered the former Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland and the recently conquered Ethiopia.

When the Allies announced the invasion of North Africa, Major General Patton suddenly found himself under the command of his former subordinate, now one star his superior.

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the original Cape Colony was renamed the Cape Province.

When Portuguese explorers reached East Africa in 1498, Swahili commercial settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries.

When she was two she was introduced to Bongo, a 19 month old male from Africa, and on February 1, 1968, their first of three offspring was born, a female named Emmy, named by the zoo after the mayor of Columbus, M. E. " Jack " Sensenbrenner.

" When it reached the coasts of other European countries in the 1980s Afrika Bambaataa was the man behind it, and when he came to France he was overwhelmed by the great importance of black culture coming from Africa and the Caribbean.

When Pope Boniface VIII destroyed Palestrina in 1299, he ordered it plowed " following the old example of Carthage in Africa ", and also salted.

When the engagement was broken off, she left South Africa for New York.

When informed that the film was to be made in Africa, Davis refused the part, telling Jack Warner, " If you can't shoot the picture in a boat on the back lot, then I'm not interested.