It became the capital of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia in 1780.

Until 1 December 1955, the Executive Council was entirely unelected.

To that end, the Colombian writer William Ospina revisits scenes from the first years of the newly colonized region, drawing compelling comparisons with contemporary reality.

HKU buildings are some of the few remaining examples of British Colonial architecture in Hong Kong.

The success of the patroonship of Rensselaerswyck (1630), which surrounded Albany and lasted until the mid 19th century, was also a key factor in the early success of the colony.

We won the election, but I lost my own race for a parliamentary seat and was sent off to Hong Kong as the colony s last British governor.

The capital of the colony was moved to Santo Domingo in 1496, on the south west coast of the island also in the territory of the present day Dominican Republic.

In 1934, Italy adopted the name Libya (used by the Ancient Greeks for all of North Africa, except Egypt) as the official name of the colony (made up of the three provinces of Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan).

Reconstruction efforts after the war in 1936 were partially focused on benefiting the Muslim peoples in the colony at the expense of the Amhara to strengthen support by Muslims for the Italian colony.

In species that forage in groups, a forager that finds food marks a trail on the way back to the colony this trail is followed by other ants, these ants then reinforce the trail when they head back with food to the colony.