In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but, two years later, after he had contracted typhoid fever, his aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at an art school.

* First day of school at schools in Malaysia and Singapore

* 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes an historic official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

First tutored at home by his mother Elizabeth, between the ages of 11 and 16, the young Monroe studied at Campbelltown Academy, a school run by the Reverend Archibald Campbell of Washington Parish.

Justin uses material from the Synoptic Gospels ( Matthew, Mark, and Luke ) in the composition of the First Apology and the Dialogue, either directly, as in the case of Matthew, or indirectly through the use of a gospel harmony, which may have been composed by Justin or his school.

Several months later, it amalgamated with the prestigious First Normal School of Changsha, widely seen as the best school in Hunan province ; Mao biographer Stuart Schram would later note that the environment of the school provided " an ideal training ground for his apprenticeship as a political worker.

He soon impressed and went on to play for four years in the school First XI.

The school opened mid year so the Kindergarten class of 1952 also attended the first half of First Grade in the Masonic Temple.

The history textbook controversy centers upon the secondary school history textbook Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho (" New History Textbook ") said to minimise the nature of Japanese militarism in the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 95 ), in annexing Korea in 1910, in the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 45 ), and in the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ).

* First day of school in many countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas.

The only school choice program available to non-rich parents who wish to send their children to an independent school is a privately funded program called Children First, a program of The Fraser Institute.

In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U. S. 639 ( 2002 ), the Supreme Court of the United States held that school vouchers could be used to pay for education in sectarian schools without violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

In Bethel School District v. Fraser,, the Court ruled that a student could be punished for his sexual-innuendo-laced speech before a school assembly and, in Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier,, the Court found that school newspapers enjoyed fewer First Amendment protections and are subject to school censorship.

More recently, in Morse v. Frederick, the Court ruled that schools could, consistent with the First Amendment, restrict student speech at school-sponsored events, even events away from school grounds, if students promote " illegal drug use.

Breslau became the centre of German Baroque literature and was home to the First and Second Silesian school of poets.

The painter L. S. Lowry attended the art school in the years after the First World War where he was taught by the noted impressionist Adolphe Valette.

While still on active duty, the Admiral had suggested that there are three things that a school must do: First, it must transmit to the pupil a substantial body of knowledge ; second, it must develop in him the necessary intellectual skill to apply this knowledge to the problems he will encounter in adult life ; and third, it must inculcate in him the habit of judging issues on the basis of verified fact and logical reasoning.

First primary school was opened in 1820, and first Roman Catholic church of St. Alexander was built in the 1870s.

First earn a bachelor's degree before entering rabbinical school.

Also during high school, he had the lead roles in Godspell and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at First Presbyterian Church in Kirkwood.

The FreeFly Clowns are also credited with opening the first school to teach freeflying, The First School of Modern SkyFlying.

* 1937 – Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, First Minister of Scotland ( d. 2000 )

Henry McLeish, Labour First Minister of Scotland, failed to refund the House of Commons for income he had received from the sub-let of his constituency office in Glenrothes while still a Westminster MP.

TCL was a partnership comprising First Group, Bombardier Transportation ( the builders of the system's trams ), Sir Robert McAlpine and Amey Construction Ltd ( who built the system ), and Royal Bank of Scotland and 3i ( who arranged the finances ).

He led the Scottish Labour Party into the first ever Scottish parliamentary election in 1999, and was elected both as an MSP and as First Minister of Scotland at the head of a Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

In 2000, Dewar died of a brain hemorrhage and was succeeded as First Minister of Scotland and Scottish Labour leader by Henry McLeish.

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand are notable examples of countries within the UK, or with previous links to it, that use non-FPTP electoral systems ( Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales use First Past the Post in United Kingdom general elections, however ).

Scotland played a major role in the British effort in the First World War.

While emigration began to tail off in England and Wales after the First World War, it continued apace in Scotland, with 400, 000 Scots, ten per cent of the population, estimated to have left the country between 1921 and 1931.

* Handsel Monday in Scotland and northern England – First Monday

* 1883 – First meeting of the Boys ' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.

In the 2007 Scottish Parliamentary election, the SNP became the largest political party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time, governing as a minority administration, with party leader Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland.

The First Minister, the Ministers ( but not junior ministers ), the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General are the Members of the ' Scottish Executive ', as set out in the Scotland Act 1998.

Alex Salmond ( leader of SNP ) has since made history by becoming the first First Minister of Scotland from a party other than Labour.

* Robert the Bruce ( 1274 – 1329 ) King of Scotland, victor in the First War of Scottish Independence against invasion by the Kingdom of England.

** Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland ( d. 2000 )

* November 30 – First international football match to be recognised ( retrospectively ) by FIFA as " official " takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland ; the result is Scotland 0, England 0.

* March 5 – First ever international Association Football match between England and Scotland at the Oval, London.

* December – First Barons ' War: Alexander II of Scotland invades northern England.

* August 21 – First Jacobite rising: Battle of Dunkeld: Covenanters defeat the Jacobites in Scotland.

* 1286 – March 19 – King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with Queen Yolande de Dreux's unborn child and the 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs ; this sets the stage for the First war of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.

" First Scottish Colony for New Zealand " — 1839 poster advertising emigration from Scotland to New Zealand.