This is a list of the first man/woman/object etc., to do something or the first occurrence of an event.

Contents

Government

Laws and Constitution

Leaders

from Antiquity to the 17th Century

18th Century onwards

in Canada

Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada

in the United States of America
See main article List of firsts in the United States

Crime and Punishment

Society and economy

War

Travel and Exploration

See also List of circumnavigations.

Rail transport

Aviation

Also see: list of early flying machines.

Geographic North Pole

See List of firsts in the Geographic North Pole.

Magnetic North Pole

  • First woman to reach the magnetic North Pole solo: Helen Thayer (1988)
  • First mother and son to reach any Pole by foot: Janice Meek and Daniel Byles, (2007)
  • First expedition to reach the Magnetic North Pole by automobile: Jeremy Clarkson and James May, (2007) as shown on a special episode of BBC's Top Gear where the two presenters reached the Pole in a Toyota Hilux pickup truck, specially modified by Arctic Trucks in Iceland. The two were accompanied by seven others, including the camera and sound crew, two Icelandic mechanics (Hjalti Hjaltason and Haraldur Pétursson), and a soldier of unstated nationality in two other specially modified vehicles.

Mount Everest

Beyond the Earth

See also: Spaceflight records

Science, Discoveries, Inventions, and Innovations

Natural History

  • First homo sapiens: the Omo Remains include Omo I, the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens (idaltu), dated to around 190,000 years ago.[2] This is considerably older than the 160,000-year-old Herto remains, which had been thought to be the earliest humans, and suggests that, if humans did originate in Africa as is currently thought, they did not expand from there for much longer than previously thought.
  • First European child born in the New World: Snorri Þorfinnsson
  • First observed transit of a planet across the sun, Mercury, by Pierre Gassendi in 1631.
  • First international scientific collaboration: Observation of the transit of Venus 1761 and 1769
  • First confirmation of extrasolar planets: Three bodies orbiting PSR B1257+12 by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail in 1992.
  • First confirmation of an active volcanic eruption occurring on a seamount: by scientists at the University of Hawai‘i on Lo‘ihi in 1996

Life Sciences

Heart

Commodities

Traffic Lights

Nuclear weapons

Information and Communications Technology

Computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web

Sports

Football

  • First football player to be knighted: Sir Stanley Matthews, (1965)
  • First football player to take a penalty shootout: George Best, in the semi-finals of the Watney Cup, England (1970)
  • First football player to miss a penalty shootout: Dennis Law, in the semi-finals of the Watney Cup, England (1970)
  • First major football tournament to be settled by a penalty shootout - UEFA European Football Championship 1976, Czechoslovakia vs. West Germany (a penalty score of 5-3 respectively)
  • First football World Cup match to be decided by a penalty shootout: the 1982 semi-finals between West Germany and France (a penalty score of 5-4 respectively)
  • First football World Cup final match to be decided by a penalty shootout: 1994 final between Brazil and Italy, at Pasadena, California (a penalty score of 3-2 respectively).

Culture

Film

Literature

Music

By country

See also

References



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