Nevertheless, on the Spanish island of Minorca, "Dia d'enganyar" ("Fooling day") is celebrated on 1 April because Menorca was a British possession during part of the 18th century.
Gabriel 'Biel' Medina Piris (born 22 March 1980 in Mahón, Minorca, Balearic Islands) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Lleida Esportiu as a central defender.
The better known town of nearby Cala Ratjada actually developed as the fishing and trading port of Capdepera and to this day operates a ferry service with neighbouring Minorca.
One of them, John Armstrong, uncle of Andrew, was Governor of Minorca and author of a history of the island in 1752.
The British Empire was territorially enlarged: from France, gaining Newfoundland and Acadia, and from Spain, Gibraltar and Minorca.
Francesc de Borja Moll i Casasnovas (Ciutadella, Minorca, 1903 - Palma, Majorca, 1991) was a Catalan language linguist.
Lieutenant-General George Carpenter, 1st Baron Carpenter (10 February 1657 – 10 February 1731) was a British soldier who served as Governor of Minorca and as Commander-in-chief of all the forces in Scotland.
Fox and Newcastle, realising that Minorca was severely vulnerable to a French attack, despatched a naval force to relieve the island.
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The fleet's commander was unable to prevent the Fall of Minorca leading to a major public outburst against both him and the government.
This arose after allegations that one inmate had gone on two weeks' holiday to Minorca, while being released for weekend leave.
In 1756 following France's successful siege of the strategic British base of Minorca he was appointed Governor of Minorca a position he held until 1758 and then again between 1760 and 1762.
As a child her family moved around frequently, with one year being spent in a remote fishing village in Minorca.
Born in Minorca, he settled in Montevideo in 1870 and worked in the newspaper La Paz, established by José Pedro Varela.
In September 1558 they assaulted the coasts of Spain before capturing Minorca and inflicting particular damage on the island's ports.
The agreement to cede the isthmus was part of the Treaty of Utrecht and Spain gave Britain Minorca, Gibraltar and the right to sell slaves to Spanish colonies.
Many of the members of the Saint Augustine Blues were descendants of settlers from Minorca and a smaller group of Italians and Greeks from Italy and Greece collectively referred to in this instance as the Minorcans, that fled Andrew Turnbull's failed colony at New Smyrna and were granted sanctuary in St. Augustine by the governor of then British East Florida Patrick Tonyn.
Sergi Enrich Ametller (born 26 February 1990 in Ciutadella de Menorca, Minorca, Balearic Islands) is a Spanish footballer who plays for CD Numancia as a forward.
Bayly married firstly Caroline Paget, daughter of Brigadier General Thomas Paget (died 1741), Governor of Minorca, and Mary Whitcombe, in 1737.
##Brigadier General Thomas Paget (died 1741), Governor of Minorca, married Mary Whitcombe; their daughter Caroline Paget (died 7 February 1766) married in 1737 Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
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96th Regiment of Foot, raised as the Minorca Regiment in 1798, given the name 97th (Queen's Own Germans) in 1805, and renumbered as the 96th in 1816
There are seven destinations that CelebAir flew to; those being Tenerife South Airport, Faro Airport, Málaga Airport, Ibiza Airport, Mahon Airport (Minorca), Larnaca International Airport and Alicante Airport.
During World War II, Whelpton worked as a BBC news correspondent as a news correspondent in France and, as recounted in his travel book, The Balearics:Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, he was told by a Swiss correspondent that he was on the Gestapo blacklist.
Col. Patrick MacKellar (Argyllshire 1717-1778) was the chief engineer of Minorca and his house today is known as Son Granot.
This appointment prevented his accompanying the expedition to Egypt, where his patron was killed; but his activity and real merit soon won him a powerful friend in the influential General Henry Fox, the brother of the orator, and at this time governor and commander-in-chief in Minorca.
There was an exchange of commands in Port Mahon, Minorca, when Teonge followed Langston onto the 64-gun Royal Oak (1107 tons, built in 1674, wartime complement 390).
Joining the Royal Artillery, Montresor is said to have been present at the 1727 siege of Gibraltar, but more credible accounts place him in Minorca, as a matross.
The war generally went well for Spain and Floridablanca succeeded in restoring much of Spain's prestige during the conflict and in 1782 Britain returned the island of Minorca, in the Baleares, and Florida to Spain.
In 1728, he transferred to the Navy and, by 1756, had become a captain, commanding one of the ships sent to Minorca under the direction of La Galissonière.
The University of the Balearic Islands is in charge of the rules of the different Balearic forms, which have not had a traditional common local name (Majorcan in Majorca, Minorcan in Minorca).
He was at Mombris in Catalonia in October 1709, when he addressed some lines to John Creed of Oundle in Northamptonshire, and during the winter of 1712–13 he was writing to the Campbells from Minorca.