The Battle surname

In the chronology 28 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Battle, C. C. 1 entry, 1834
  • July 4, 1834: Chapel Hill celebrates the Fourth of July with a student oration and a dinner
• Battle, Christopher C. 1 entry, 1833
  • November 1833: Students win the use of Steward's Hall for the commencement ball
• Battle, Elisha 2 entries, 1788
  • July 24, 1788: The convention resolves itself into a committee of the whole with Elisha Battle in the chair
  • July 21, 1788: The convention names a select committee to draft its rules of debate
• Battle, F. Gordon 2 entries, 1976–1986
  • early November 1976: Chapel Hill Telephone Company employees ask the FCC to delay the sale to Southern Bell
  • November 4, 1986: Orange County re-elects Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass and its unopposed county officers
• Battle, Fred 30 entries, 1970–2022
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• Battle, George 2 entries, 1994
  • 1994–1995: Hardin’s retirement and the search for a chancellor, 1994–1995
  • February 18, 1994: Trustees chairman Johnny Harris names the committee to find Paul Hardin's successor
• Battle, George E., III 1 entry, 1994
  • February 1994: George E. Battle III wins the UNC student body presidency
• Battle, Gordon 15 entries, 1972–1994
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  • 1972–1994: Cable television in Orange County, 1972–1994
  • by November 29, 1977: Governor Hunt appoints Gordon Battle a Superior Court judge for Orange and Chatham counties
  • by November 15, 1977: The Orange County Bar Association endorses Gordon Battle for a Superior Court judgeship
  • August 6, 1982: Judge Gordon Battle orders Chapel Hill to approve a developer's subdivision off Parker Road
  • September 24, 1984: Superior Court dismisses a Carrboro subscriber's class action against Alert Cable
  • 1986–1994: UNC’s Cameron Avenue power plant and its neighbors, 1986–1994
  • 1987–1994: Discrimination grievances in the UNC police, 1987–1994
  • by January 22, 1990: Kirk Osborn resigns as public defender for Orange and Chatham counties
  • February 18, 1991: Judge Gordon Battle refuses to dismiss Officer Keith Edwards's lawsuit against UNC officials
  • June 22, 1992: Officer Keith Edwards's discrimination suit against UNC officials goes to trial
  • early August 1992: Three former UNC officials appeal the Keith Edwards discrimination verdict
  • July 8, 1994: Superior Court judge orders UNC to promote Officer Keith Edwards with back pay to 1987
  • June 8, 1994: Keith Edwards argues before Judge Gordon Battle that the state grievance process violated her rights
  • June 9, 1994: UNC settles the Merritt Mill Road neighbors' power plant suit for $47,000
  • by October 11, 1994: UNC withdraws its appeal of the ruling for police officer Keith Edwards
• Battle, H. B. 4 entries, 1887–1915
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  • early September 1887: A chalybeate mineral spring is found on Capt. Jones's plantation near Hillsborough
  • July 6, 1891: The state experiment station director certifies an analysis of the Occoneechee mineral spring water
  • by September 3, 1896: Hillsborough has its town pump water analyzed and the well cleaned
  • by November 4, 1915: Nell Battle opens a kindergarten in Chapel Hill
• Battle, Hinton 1 entry, 1982
  • November 12, 1982: Memorial Hall shows Sophisticated Ladies live by satellite from Broadway
• Battle, Junius C. 1 entry, 1866
  • April 16, 1866: Bodies of Junius and Wesley Lewis Battle brought home for burial
• Battle, Kemp D. 2 entries, 1934–1941
  • June 11, 1934: Former students give the University a portrait of Horace Williams
  • November 20, 1941: The University dedicates its new zoology building as the Wilson Zoology Laboratory
• Battle, Kemp P. 3 entries, 1893–1932
  • October 16, 1893: Jennie, once enslaved by Kemp P. Battle's father, dies at 91
  • by November 4, 1915: Nell Battle opens a kindergarten in Chapel Hill
  • October 12, 1932: University Day exercises honor Presidents Winston and Alderman and dedicate memorial tablets
• Battle, Kemp P., Jr. 1 entry, 1879
  • November 8, 1879: The University Gun Club holds its first ball shoot
• Battle, Kemp Plummer 110 entries, 1843–2020
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• Battle, Kemp Plummer 1 entry, 1920
  • 1920s: Dr. John Booker remodels Senlac on Battle Lane
• Battle, Lewis 1 entry, 1863
  • July 1 to 3, 1863: Chapel Hill counts its dead and wounded from Gettysburg
• Battle, Lucy Martin 1 entry, 1851
  • 1851: Isaac J. Collier finishes a house for Elizabeth Nunn
• Battle, Lucy Martin Plummer 2 entries, 1843–1845
  • 1843: William Horn Battle moves his family to Chapel Hill and buys a house beside the campus
  • March 1845: Enslaved workers build and tend the Battle household in Chapel Hill
• Battle, Nell 1 entry, 1915
  • by November 4, 1915: Nell Battle opens a kindergarten in Chapel Hill
• Battle, Richard H. 8 entries, 1854–1912
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• Battle, T. H. 1 entry, 1879
  • November 8, 1879: The University Gun Club holds its first ball shoot
• Battle, Thomas H. 1 entry, 1880
  • about March 10, 1880: Seniors begin the class tree and Class Day custom
• Battle, Wesley Lewis 1 entry, 1866
  • April 16, 1866: Bodies of Junius and Wesley Lewis Battle brought home for burial
• Battle, William H. 2 entries, 1867–1875
  • August 22, 1867: Swain and the faculty resign as trustees plan a new university
  • by April 7, 1875: Chapel Hill women circulate a plan for a home for poor and infirm women
• Battle, William Horn 32 entries, 1818–1879
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• Battle, William Horne 1 entry, 1927
  • February 8, 1927: A portrait of Judge William Horne Battle is dedicated in Manning Hall
• Battle, William James 1 entry, 1890
  • 1890: William James Battle publishes a register of the Dialectic Society

In the historical records 24 records

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