It was not until the introduction of the then-foreign concept of "nationhood" by Captain James Cook in 1778, which coincided with and facilitated the rise of Kamehameha I, that Hawaii was formally consolidated into a "nation" for recognition by the political, economic and military powers of Europe and North America.

A merger of the institutions was approved in 1975, and on August 1, 1977, the three institutions were formally consolidated as the University of the District of Columbia, with Lisle Carleton Carter, Jr. named its first president.

The Wiggles became formally consolidated in 2005.

As a result of their close cooperation, the two were formally consolidated in 1977 as the Worcester campus and Leicester campus of Becker College.

The group was formally consolidated during a ceremonial Mass in Lima, Peru.

After the district was formally consolidated into the City of Philadelphia in 1856, a beefed-up and centralized police force was deployed to contain mayhem fueled largely by economic competition.

The official records indicate that the regiment was broken up about January 3, 1864, and elements of the regiment were attached to, but not formally consolidated with, Col. Thomas J. Morgan's regiment.

Eritrea was conquered by Italy and formally consolidated into a colony by the Italian government on January 1, 1890.

The line of Counts of Schaumburg was extinguished in 1640 on the death of Count Otto V, and in 1647 the town was absorbed by the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) - a position that was formally consolidated by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648.