Sentence examples for mission was established from inspiring English sources

In 1714 a mission was established in China.

A French Roman Catholic mission was established in 1840, and the island was annexed by France in 1853.

Europeans first encountered the Penobscot early in the 16th century; a French mission was established among them in 1688.

The mission was established by the OPCW on 29 April to establish the facts surrounding allegations of the use of chlorine "for hostile purposes" in Syria.

In the 1870s a trading station was opened at Port Hunter (now Balanawang Harbour), and the area's first Methodist mission was established in 1880.

A renewed attempt by the Methodist mission in 1826 was successful, and a Roman Catholic mission was established by the Marists in 1842.

A trading post and Methodist mission were established in 1838, and Fort Lee and Fort Dalles were built during the 1840s and '50s to protect settlers during a period of Indian uprisings and to gain control of the Columbia River and its abundant salmon.

In 1731 settlers from the Canary Islands laid out the town of San Fernando de Béxar near the presidio, where a civilian community had been planned when the presidio and mission were established.

A Portuguese trading factory and an Augustinian mission were established on the site of the modern city of Zanzibar, and a few Portuguese appear also to have settled as farmers in different parts of the island.

"What you don't need is a new U.N. mission being established right in the middle of the crisis," Stocking said at a press conference on Tuesday.

A string of missions was established in California to assert Spanish control.