Sophia Gardens in Cardiff held the First Test in the 2009 Ashes series, the first time England had played a home Test in Wales.

* Midwest Alphorn Retreat First event held July 2009, Lagro, Indiana

At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.

As he stated in his First Letters to Serapion, he held on to " the tradition, teaching, and faith proclaimed by the apostles and guarded by the fathers.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

It commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 ; the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.

Without their best general and his veterans, the French suffered a series of defeats and it was not until Bonaparte returned to become First Consul that France once again held a position of strength on mainland Europe.

Sinn Féin won 73 out of 105 seats in Ireland at the general election held in December 1918, and in January 1919 organised themselves as the First Dáil, which then declared an independent Irish Republic.

In reality, the First Consul, Bonaparte, dominated his two colleagues and held supreme power, soon making himself Consul for life and eventually, in 1804, Emperor.

* Dennis W. Hess, CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF DIELECTRIC AND METAL FILMSfree-download from Electronic Materials and Processing: Proceedings of the First Electronic Materials and Processing Congress held in conjunction with the 1988 World Materials Congress Chicago, Illinois, USA, 24-30 September 1988, Edited by Prabjit Singh ( Sponsored by the Electronic Materials and Processing Division of ASM INTERNATIONAL )

Marcionism, an early Christian sect, held that the Old and New Testaments were the work of two opposing gods: both were First Principles, but of different religions.

The artists published a series of short-lived political magazines, and held the First International Dada Fair, ' the greatest project yet conceived by the Berlin Dadaists ', in the summer of 1920.

In his prologue to Judith, without using the word canon, he mentioned that Judith was held to be scriptural by the First Council of Nicaea.

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.

The Roman Catholic Church recognizes as ecumenical various councils held later than the First Council of Ephesus ( after which churches out of communion with the Holy See because of the Nestorian Schism did not participate ), later than the Council of Chalcedon ( after which there was no participation by churches that rejected Dyophysitism ), later than the Second Council of Nicaea ( after which there was no participation by the Eastern Orthodox Church ), and later than the Fifth Council of the Lateran ( after which groups that adhered to Protestantism did not participate ).

From 8 April to 11 April 1942, the First Consultative Meeting of Activists of the Communist Party of Albania was held in Tirana.

From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier.

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years prior.

The First Session of the FAO Conference was held in the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec, Canada, from 16 October to 1 November 1945

First elections held in Gibraltar.

First vacancies are filled through casual election and subsequent vacancies through co-option, meaning that no by-elections are held between one general election and the other.

* 1999 – First elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly held.

He became involved with the Kuomintang, attending their First Congress, held in Canton in January and February 1924.

* 325 – The First Council of Nicea – the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held.

In 2007, following the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Myanmar, human rights organizations, gem dealers, and US First Lady Laura Bush called for a boycott of a Myanmar gem auction held twice yearly, arguing that the sale of the stones profits the dictatorial regime in that country.

First North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Co tram on opening day

* First Melbourne Ministry ( 1834 )

* Family Law and the Family Court of Australia: The First 25 Years-by former Chief Justice Nicholson and M Harrision ( Melbourne University Law Review )

He was First Lord of the Admiralty under Grey and then Lord Melbourne in 1834 and again under Melbourne in 1835.

His father, who, as heir to the 4th Earl of Rosebery, was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny, was MP for Stirling from 1832 to 1847 and served as First Lord of the Admiralty under Lord Melbourne.

The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power by Helen Garner is a controversial non-fiction book about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, one of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne.

Due to the First World War and the adverse post-war economic conditions which prevailed in its immediate wake, the federal government did not move to Canberra from Melbourne until 1927.

* Donal O ' Kelly's one man play The Catalpa was an international success, winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 1996 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Critic's Prize at the Melbourne International Festival in 1997.

* Corner Franklin and Bowen streets: First public executions took place in Melbourne on 20 January 1842, of two Tasmanian aborigines: Tunnerminnerwait and Maulboyheenner, who had conducted a successful guerilla style resistance campaign around Western Port.

In 1835 he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty under Lord Melbourne, a post he held until 1841, and later served as Lord Privy Seal under Lord John Russell from 1846 to 1852.

He was First Commissioner of Works under Lord Melbourne ( 1831 – 1834 ), briefly Home Secretary ( 1834 ), and Lord Privy Seal ( 1835 – 1839 ).

After making 54 and 50 in the rain-drawn First Test in Brisbane, Ponting scored double-centuries in back-to-back Tests against India, in the Second Test at Adelaide ( 242 ) and at Melbourne ( 257, his career high ).

In June 2007, a consortium comprising the Myer family, Colonial First State and GIC Real Estate ( Singapore ) announced it would be purchasing Myer's Melbourne CBD store.

Carlisle served under Lord Melbourne as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1835 and 1841, under Lord John Russell as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests from 1846 to 1850 and as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1850 to 1852 and under Lord Palmerston as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1855 to 1858 and again from 1859 to 1864.

* 1854 – First steam railway journey in Australia from Melbourne Terminus ( on the current site of Flinders Street Station ) to Sandridge ( later Port Melbourne )

* 1859 – First Melbourne Trades Hall building opened.

* 1861 – First Melbourne Cup

* 1885 – First cable tram line opens in the Melbourne cable tramway system

First conference of the staff of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser's new British Pacific Fleet, held in Melbourne.

He graduated from Melbourne University with a Bachelor of Laws ( First Class Honours ) and Yale University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and obtained a Master of Arts in International Relations.

* 1911 – 1917 The Revd George Ellis Aickin, First Principal of Ridley College, Melbourne and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne