In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.

Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling ( Lushan ) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution and the founding of the Republic of China.

Michael Bentine CBE ( 26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996 ) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons.

Fairport Convention released Liege and Lief in 1969, turning away from American-influenced folk rock toward a sound based on traditional British music and founding the sub-genre of electric folk, to be followed by bands like Steeleye Span and Fotheringay.

James was influential in the founding of the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) in New York City in 1885, three years after the British Society for Psychical Research ( SPR ) was inaugurated in London, leading to systematic, critical investigation of paranormal phenomena.

A 2007 British fifty pence coin commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Scout Movement

In addition to this the University was a founding member of the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society, UVic maintains this field station on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is jointly run by the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Alberta and the University of Calgary.

* August 13 – The Zionist World Congress approaches the British government to discuss the founding of the country of Israel.

* January 22 – British colonists reach New Zealand, officially founding Wellington.

The treaty between the British Crown and Māori made New Zealand colony and is considered the founding point of modern New Zealand.

** Thomas Charles is instrumental in founding the British and Foreign Bible Society.

* August 22 – The British East India Company buys a strip of land from the King of the Vijayanagara Empire, Peda Venkata Raya, so founding modern-day Chennai, capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

* April 5 – The founding charter of the British Museum is enacted.

* Rupert Giles — As Buffy's Watcher, and a father-figure and mentor to the entire group, Giles is a founding figure of the Scooby Gang, although his British upbringing resists the lighthearted nickname at first.

The colony, established in 1620, became the second successful English settlement ( after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 ) and later the oldest continuously inhabited British settlement in what was to become the United States of America.

Plaque in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, commemorating Gilbert's founding of the British overseas Empire

Famous historic slave rebellions have been led by the Roman slave Spartacus ; the thrall Tunni who rebelled against the Swedish monarch Ongentheow, a rebellion that needed Danish assistance to be quelled ; the poet-prophet Ali bin Muhammad, who led imported east African slaves in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century ; Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against the British in Jamaica ; the Haitian Revolution, the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a country ; Denmark Vesey in South Carolina, USA ; and Madison Washington during the Creole case in 19th century America.

Tay reported his observations in 1881 in the first volume of the proceedings of the British Ophthalmological Society, of which he was a founding member.

honoris causa and, in 1904 with the assistance of Professor James Ward, Rivers made a further mark on the world of psychological sciences, founding and subsequently editing the British Journal of Psychology.

BAC went on to become a founding component of the nationalised British Aerospace, now BAE Systems.

However, the NGV was founded some 40 years before the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia, when Victoria was a self-governing British colony ; the name alludes to that period, when Victoria was a discrete political entity.

In the early 17th century the Gospels were owned by Sir Robert Cotton ( 1571 – 1631 ) and in 1753 became part of the founding collections of the British Museum in 1753 ( Chilvers 2004 ).

In 1907, during the Harden-Moltke scandals, Adolf Brand, the founding editor of the homosexual periodical Der Eigene, printed a pamphlet alleging that Bülow had been blackmailed for engaging in homosexual practices and was morally obligated to oppose Paragraph 175 of the German penal code, which outlawed homosexuality.

Conversely, Christian Reconstructionism's founder, Rousas John Rushdoony, wrote in The Institutes of Biblical Law ( the founding document of reconstructionsim ), that Old Testament law should be applied to modern society and advocates the reinstatement of the Mosaic law's penal sanctions.

The epic of Australia's founding, by Robert Hughes, published 1987 by Harvill Press, is a historical account of the United Kingdom's settlement of Australia as a penal colony with convicts.

The anecdotes are literary, and late ; however, in the founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela, founded in the 680s on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani.

Samuel Blommaert secretly tried to secure his interests with the founding of the colony of New Sweden on the Delaware in the south.

The next European encounter occurred in 1607 when Captain John Smith stopped at Nevis for five days before founding the colony of Virginia.

Given by the Georgia Historical Society, in conjunction with the Governor of Georgia, to individuals whose accomplishments and community service reflect the ideals of the founding body of Trustees, which governed the Georgia colony from 1732 to 1752.

* French Huguenot Pierre de Gua is granted royal permission to settle in North America, founding the colony of Acadia.

* In Harry Harrison's The Technicolor Time Machine ( 1967 ), main characters go back in time to shoot a movie about founding a Viking colony in North America, only to discover to their surprise that the colony they founded turned out to be written into the history as the original Viking colony in North America — and some of them are even featured in Norse sagas.

* August 15 – Led by Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, a Spanish missionary colony of 1, 500 men, on 13 ships, arrives from Vera Cruz at Pensacola Bay, founding the oldest European settlement in the mainland U. S. ( St. Augustine is founded in 1565.

When his army surrendered, Charles XII of Sweden and a few soldiers escaped to Ottoman territory, founding a colony in front of Bender, Moldova.

Alpha Centauri being a founding world of the Federation and even having a humanlike native race called Centaurans became a popular fan theory, possibly based on uncertainty as to whether or not Zefram Cochrane ( described in Metamorphosis as " Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri ") was a native of Alpha Centauri or a resident of a human colony in that system ; the latter has since been revealed to be the case, Cochrane having spent most of his life on Earth but eventually retiring to spend his final years on Alpha Centauri, prior to his disappearance and presumed death.

It was named for the Earl of Dorset, a family friend of the Calverts ( the founding family of the Maryland colony ).

Cassidy was a founding member of the Santa Fe art colony in the early 20th century.

In the 60 years after the founding of the farming colony at Esperanza in 1856, the base of Argentine agriculture gradually shifted from livestock to crops.

" The order led to the founding last Mormon colony settled under the direction of Brigham Young.

There have been ethnic Germans in Australia since the founding of the New South Wales colony in 1788, Governor Arthur Phillip ( the first Governor of New South Wales ) had a German father.

The population of the colony, of all races, did not rise above 20, 000 until the gold rush ( starting in 1855 ), the second abolition of slavery in 1848 and the founding of the prisons.

Their corporate constitution explained their purpose in founding a new colony:

Founded in 1824, as San Felipe de Austin, the town served as the capital of Stephen F. Austin's first colony and the founding spot of the Texas Rangers.

Its history has featured the founding of the first colony in Bergen County, contribution to the Revolutionary War, a period as a " sleepy, pastoral little town " with resort hotels in the 19th century ; industrialization in the early 20th century and a transition to a rapidly growing residential community in the late 20th century.