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In 1921, he created the school's coat-of-arms: the image of an eagle and a condor surrounding a map of Latin America, from Mexico's northern border to Tierra del Fuego, and the motto, "The Spirit shall speak for my people". Efforts to gain autonomy for the university continued in the early 1920s.
Originally founded as Villanueva de La Serena, the city was destroyed completely in a native uprising in 1549 and re-founded the same year as San Bartolomé de La Serena; its founding date is for this reason sometimes listed as 1549. Second oldest European city in Chile. 1545: Potosí: Potosí: Bolivia: 1545 San Juan de los Remedios: Villa ...
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
Tennessee is home to the first nuclear power reactor in the U.S. to begin operation in the 21st century, which is at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Rhea County. [327] Tennessee was also an early leader in hydroelectric power, [328] and today is the third-largest hydroelectric power-producing state east of the Rocky Mountains. [329]
The University of Namibia (UNAM) is a multi-campus public research university in Namibia, and the largest university in the country. [3] It was established by an act of Parliament on 31 August 1992. Background
Athens is the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee, United States [8] and the principal city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 53,569. The city is located almost equidistantly between the major cities of Knoxville and Chattanooga. [9] The population was 14,084 at the 2020 census.
Each of Tennessee's 95 counties has at least one listing. The Tennessee Historical Commission, which manages the state's participation in the National Register program, reports that 80 percent of the state's area has been surveyed for historic buildings. Surveys for archaeological sites have been less extensive; coverage is estimated less than ...
1843 – Nashville becomes capital of Tennessee. [7] 1844 – Tennessee School for the Blind [14] and Mechanics Institute and Library Association established. [12] 1845 – Protestant Orphan Asylum established. [5] 1847 – St. Mary's Cathedral built. [5] 1849 – Merchants' Library and Reading Room [8] and Tennessee Historical Society founded ...