21 events with tag "first"
605 BC
ID: 2768
First deportation to Babylon - Nebuchadnezzar takes Daniel and Judean nobles after Jehoiakim submits
ID: 2768
384
ID: 3872
St. Siricius becomes thirty-eighth pope - issues first papal decretal, enforces clerical celibacy
ID: 3872
697
ID: 5095
First Doge elected - Paoluccio Anafesto becomes first Dux (Doge) of Venice, beginning unique republican system
ID: 5095
789
ID: 2623
First Viking raid on England - three ships land at Portland, reeve killed trying to collect taxes
ID: 2623
1011
ID: 5525
Goryeo begins carving first Tripitaka Koreana - complete Buddhist canon on woodblocks
ID: 5525
1302
ID: 5227
First Estates General convened - Philip IV summons three estates to Notre-Dame to support him against Pope
ID: 5227
1627
ID: 5535
First Manchu invasion of Korea - Joseon becomes tributary of Later Jin
ID: 5535
1792
ID: 3767
Denmark first to ban slave trade - becomes first European nation to abolish transatlantic slave trade
ID: 3767
1878
ID: 1014
First telephone exchange opens in New Haven, Connecticut
ID: 1014
1881
ID: 1032
First electric street lighting in cities begins
ID: 1032
1901
ID: 1150
December 12, 1901
Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic radio transmission using Maxwell's electromagnetic mathematics
ID: 1150
1949
ID: 4409
Short Code developed for UNIVAC I - first high-level language, interpreted, very slow but easier than machine code
ID: 4409
1957
ID: 1724
Germany holds its first EU Council Presidency
ID: 1724
1962
ID: 4417
Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard begin Simula at Norwegian Computing Center - first object-oriented language for simulations
ID: 4417
1965
ID: 1819
First commercial communications satellite
ID: 1819
1971
ID: 4328
November 1971
Intel releases 4004 microprocessor designed by Ted Hoff and Federico Faggin - first commercial microprocessor, 2,300 transistors
ID: 4328
1978
ID: 1953
Louise Brown - first test-tube baby born
ID: 1953
1979
ID: 1969
First commercial cellular network launched in Japan
ID: 1969
1980
ID: 1985
The first bioengineered human insulin is approved by the FDA
ID: 1985
1981
ID: 4347
April 1981
Adam Osborne introduces Osborne 1 - first commercial portable computer, weighs 24 pounds, $1,795
ID: 4347
1986
ID: 4366
September 1986
Compaq beats IBM to market with first 80386 PC - establishes Compaq as technology leader
ID: 4366