* 1590 – John White, the governor of the Roanoke Colony, returns from a supply trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

* the " Lost Colony " of Roanoke Island: In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh recruited over 100 men, women and children to journey from England to Roanoke Island on North Carolina's coast and establish the first English settlement in America under the direction of John White as governor.

The fact of her birth is known because the governor of the settlement, Virginia Dare's grandfather, John White, returned to England in 1587 to seek fresh supplies.

The Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca established the fortified settlement of Akra Leuka ( Greek:, meaning " White Mountain " or " White Point "), where Alicante stands today.

* August 18 – John White, governor of the Colony of Roanoke, returns from a supply-trip to England and finds his settlement deserted.

Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas, was abandoned in 1699 when Williamsburg became the new capital of the colony ; the Zwaanendael Colony became a ghost town in 1632, when every one of the colonists were massacred by Indians ; and in 1590, mapmaker John White arrived at the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina to find it deserted, its inhabitants having vanished without a trace.

The settlement that used Highdown as a burial ground, in the 5th century, has never been identified, but White speculates that there may have been some link between Patching and Highdown and Welch has suggested that a Romano-British community was based there and that they controlled a group of Saxon mercenaries.

From settlement until the 19th century, the largest demographic group remained White Anglo-Saxons.

Later, in 1587, White became governor of Sir Walter Raleigh's failed attempt at a permanent settlement on Roanoke island, known to history as the " Lost Colony ".

Before leaving the colony three years earlier, White had left instructions that, if the colonists left the settlement, they were to carve the name of their destination, with a Maltese cross if they left due to danger.

White was later appointed Governor and Raleigh named 12 assistants to aid in Roanoke's settlement.

White landed on August 18, 1590, on his granddaughter's third birthday, but found the settlement deserted.

He trained the members of Raleigh's first Roanoke expedition in navigational skills and eventually sailed to Roanoke with the second group of settlers, where his skills as a naturalist became particularly important along with those of painter and settlement leader John White.

The latter was the first permanent White settlement in the Missouri area.

The original settlement was called " Cabins of White Folks ," or simply, " The Cabins ," and was located six miles ( 10 km ) west of present-day Kirksville along the Chariton River.

The Carey Mission, as he named it, was 100 miles from the nearest White settlement.

The settlement of the county began along the White River that afforded farmers a convenient means to transport their crops for sale.

However, White settlement in the area increased steadily, coming to a head with the gold rush in the nearby mountains of Northwest Georgia.

While gold supplies began to dwindle, soon eclipsed by the California Gold Rush, the settlement by White farmers continued and played prominently in the expulsion of Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw nations from the area.

The White Sticks, mostly from the Lower Towns, sided with the United States government, as they had a closer relationship with the US Indian Agent, Benjamin Hawkins, and were more affected by American settlement in their lands.

White settlers first inhabited the area around 1837 and named their settlement Osage.

The first known settlement of the Batesville area was in 1810 near the mouth of Polk Bayou, and by 1819 the town had a ferry across the White River and about a dozen houses.

Fort White ( the actual military fort ) was constructed during the Second Seminole War in 1836 to protect the Cow Creek settlement.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline " Found on the Great White Way " in the February 3, 1902 edition of the New York Evening Telegram.

This battle marked the effective end of resistance to the expeditionary force, but the gunboats were called into service to transport troops to Fashoda, south along the White Nile, where a small force of French troops had made a difficult land crossing and staked a claim to the area.

This area would be the location of many new hominin fossils particularly those uncovered by the teams of Tim White in the 1990s, such as Ardipithecus ramidus.

White corn is planted heavily in the area both for use in fattening the ducks and geese for foie gras and for the production of millas, a cornmeal porridge.

In recent years, the agency began undertaking a large-scale effort to consolidate its operations in the Washington Metropolitan Area from its main headquarters in Rockville and several fragmented office buildings in the vicinity to the former site of the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in the White Oak area of Silver Spring, Maryland.

White troops in the Viipuri area tried to capture the trains ; 50-60 Finns, Red and White, died in the " Battle of the Rahja Trains " in the Karelian Isthmus on 27 January 1918.

The White Army controlled the area to the north, which was predominantly agrarian with small or medium-sized farms and tenant farmers, and where crofters were few, or held a better social position than in the south.

Enclaves of the opposing forces existed on both sides of the front line: within the White area lay the industrial towns of Varkaus, Kuopio, Oulu, Raahe, Kemi and Tornio ; within the Red area lay Porvoo, Kirkkonummi and Uusikaupunki.

This report led to more intensive searches in the area and in the White River National Wildlife Refuge, undertaken in secrecy for fear of a stampede of bird-watchers, by experienced observers over the next fourteen months.

It is possible that especially the Przemyśl area, inhibated by the Lendians and the White Croats, belonged at that time to Bohemia, which supposedly extended up to the Bug River and Styr River.

New Hampshire's major regions are the Great North Woods, the White Mountains, the Lakes Region, the Seacoast, the Merrimack Valley, the Monadnock Region, and the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee area.

White ones tend to come from the Broome area of Australia while golden ones are from the Philippines.

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

OMA Rotterdam: the head office is working on a master plan for the White City area of London ; a harbour redevelopment and contemporary art Museum in Riga, the Cordoba Congress Centre in Spain ; the redevelopment of the Mercati Generali in Rome, an architectural centre, offices and housing in Copenhagen, the new head office of Rothschild Bank in London and multi-use towers in Rotterdam and The Hague.

Alworth, Mix, Hadl, Joiner, Coryell, Gillman, Garrison, Fouts, White, Winslow, Faison, Benirschke, Lincoln, Washington, Humphries, Ladd and Wilkerson are also members of the San Diego Hall of Champions, which is open to athletes from the San Diego area as well as those who played for San Diego-based professional and collegiate teams.

His influence has extended over a wide area of musicians, including Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Alan Wilson ( of Canned Heat ), Bonnie Raitt, The White Stripes, and John Mooney.

Prior to its inclusion within the fenced compound that now includes the Old Executive Office Building to the west and the Treasury Building to the east, this sidewalk served as a queuing area for the daily public tours of the White House.

If restarted, mining at White Cliffs would occur in the same area it originally proliferated on Great Barrier.

The federal government quickly acquired the land under its eminent domain authority and relocated some 1, 500 residents of Hanford, White Bluffs, and nearby settlements, as well as the Wanapum and other tribes using the area.

The application of the idea to the area of second language acquisition ( SLA ) is represented mainly by the McGill linguist Lydia White.

On April 6, 1812 a band of Winnebago Indians murdered Liberty White, an American, and John B. Cardin, a French Canadian, at a farm called Hardscrabble that was located on the South Branch of the Chicago River in the area now called Bridgeport.