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3 days ago · In 1901, Mozzafar al-Din Shah Qajar granted a 60-year petroleum search concession to William Knox D'Arcy.: 33 D'Arcy paid £20,000 (equivalent to £2.1 million in 2019), according to journalist-turned-historian Stephen Kinzer, and promised equal ownership shares, with 16% of any future net profit, as calculated by the company.
- 15-19 August 1953
- Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
5 days ago · It was on May 28th, 1901 that Mozafar'od - Din Shah (of Qajar) granted the British subject William K. D'Arcy a 60-year oil concession on all areas of the country except the five northern provinces bordering Russia.
2 days ago · Brigadier-General Christopher D'Arcy Bloomfield Saltern Baker-Carr (1878-1949), 1st Brigade, Tank Corps; Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres (1752—1825), Governor of Jamaica; Brigadier Stanley Thomas Baldry (1925—2021), Commanding Officer, 29th Engineer Brigade; Brigadier-General Anthony Hugh Baldwin (1863—1915), Manchester Regiment
5 days ago · He chose his daughter from his first marriage to Lady Aemma Arryn, Princess Rhaenyra (D’Arcy) to succeed him, over Daemon (Matt Smith) – his younger brother and rightful heir to the throne.
6 days ago · Rhaenyra (Emma D’Arcy) was supposed to be the heir to the Iron Throne until she was replaced by the son of her closest friend Alicent (Olivia Cooke).
4 days ago · As King of Scotland, he is known as William II. He ruled Britain and Ireland alongside his wife, Queen Mary II, and their joint reign is known as that of William and Mary. William was the only child of William II, Prince of Orange, and Mary, Princess Royal, the daughter of King Charles I of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1 day ago · Henry Knox was born on 25 July 1750 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the seventh of ten children born to William Knox and Mary Campbell, both of whom were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had emigrated to Boston in 1729. William Knox was a shipbuilder who, in 1759, was spurred on by financial troubles to abandon his family and move to Sint ...
