The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

Notably, Barcelonnette is the only subprefecture of France not be served by rail transport ; the Ubaye line which would have linked Chorges to Barcelonnette was never completed as a result of the First World War and the construction of the Serre-Ponçon Dam between 1955 and 1961.

Cutter completed and published an introduction and schedules for the first six classifications of his new system ( Expansive Classification: Part I: The First Six Classifications ), but his work on the seventh was interrupted by his death in 1903.

* 1866: First commercially successful transatlantic telegraph cable was successfully completed.

* 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah ( not Promontory Point, Utah ) with the golden spike.

* 1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.

First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107.

First, he completed a 17-yard pass to wide receiver Dwight Clark at the Cincinnati 49-yard line.

First quarterback Phil Simms completed a 17-yard pass to receiver Lionel Manuel.

First, Timmy Smith broke loose for a 43-yard run, then Williams completed a pair of passes to Sanders to reach the Denver 7-yard line.

Although it was not completed until some years after the presidency of George Washington, it is also speculated that the name of the traditional residence of the President of the United States may have derived from Martha Custis Washington's home, White House Plantation in Virginia, where the nation's first President had courted the First Lady in the mid-18th century.

First published in 1964, the book includes surreal, Zen-like instructions that are to be completed in the mind of the reader, for example: " Hide and seek Piece: Hide until everybody goes home.

* The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA was completed.

The surrealist painters Salvador Dalí and René Magritte completed several works, including The First Days of Spring and The Treachery of Images.

* May 10 – The First Transcontinental Railroad in North America is completed at Promontory, Utah, by driving of the " golden spike ".

After the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 all the telegraph lines usually followed the railroad tracks as the required relay stations and telegraph lines were much easier to maintain alongside the tracks.

The First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 at Promontory Summit on the north side of the Great Salt Lake.

David wanted to construct a sanctuary there, but this was left to his son Solomon, who completed the task in c. 950 BCE with the construction of the First Temple.

Once completed, it was to be purchased for 263 million zloty by the British company First Property Group.

" First of all, the young Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was born after the monument was completed.

File: Eglise-Presbyterienne-Eufaula-Alabama. JPG | First Presbyterian Church, completed in 1869.

Image: First United Methodist Church, Bastrop, LA IMG 2819. JPG | Historic First United Methodist Church dates to 1826 in Bastrop ; the current downtown sanctuary was completed in 1924.

The multi steepled First Congregational Church was completed on June 6, 1880.

In 1894, an edifice for The First Church of Christ, Scientist edifice was completed in Boston ( The Mother Church ).

Beethoven wrote the two piano trios while spending the summer of 1808 in Heiligenstadt, Vienna, where he had completed his Symphony No. 5 the previous summer.

The last, completed in 1863, was then Bruckner's Study Symphony in F minor.

In 1951, Hindemith completed his Symphony in B-flat.

In 1858 he completed the symphonic poem Richard III, his first major orchestral composition since the Triumphal Symphony.

As a composer, Balakirev finished major works many years after he had started them ; he began his First Symphony in 1864 but completed it in 1897.

He also started a Symphony in C major, of which he completed much of the first movement, scherzo and finale by 1866.

Balakirev began his First Symphony after completing the Second Overture but cut work short to concentrate on the Overture on Czech Themes, recommencing on the symphony only 30 years later and not finishing it until 1897. Letters from Balakirev to Stasov and Cui indicate that the first movement was two-thirds completed and the final movement sketched out, though he would supply a new theme for the finale many years later.

Bax's works from this time reflect deep psychological conflicts that point forward to the passionate yet deeply troubled First Symphony in E flat, completed in 1922.

He recognized the continuing shortcomings of Davies Symphony Hall's acoustics, helping push for a major renovation, completed in 1992, even contributing a substantial amount of money to the cause himself.

Orchestra Hall, now a component of the Symphony Center complex, was designed by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham and completed in 1904.

In addition there is a missing ( and perhaps not completed ) Symphony for High School Orchestra ( 1937 ) and the following unfinished or fragmentary works:

1926 ) completed movement of Symphony ' Our Heritage '

* Nikolai Myaskovsky-Sinfonietta in A and Symphony No. 2 completed, Cello Sonata No. 1 ( later revised in 1945 ) written.

The Symphony No. 44 in E minor, Hoboken 1 / 44, was completed in 1772 by Joseph Haydn.

As he devoted more and more time to the Reid Orchestra, to writing essays and commentaries and to editing his editions of Bach and Beethoven, Tovey composed and performed less often later in life but the few major pieces that he completed during this later period are on a large scale, such as his Symphony of 1913 and the Cello Concerto that he completed in 1935 for his longtime friend Pablo Casals.

The Symphony No. 9 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1909 and 1910, and was the last symphony that he completed.

then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1884, just a year after completing his Symphony No. 3, and completed it in 1885.

Conductor Martin Yates has recently realised and completed the Symphony No. 2 from sketches and the recording of the work with Yates conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was released on the Dutton Epoch label ( together with the early Overture based on the G major Symphony, and also with Martin Yates ' own orchestration of Sarnia by John Ireland in October 2011.

* Symphony No. 2 in E flat major-unfinished ; recently completed by conductor Martin Yates 2011

Henze dedicated his Tenth Symphony in memory of Sacher, who had commissioned it but died before it was completed.

* Christus, a Festival Symphony in ten parts for solo voices chorus and orchestra ( only two parts completed: " Christ in the Wilderness "-Gloucester Festival 1907 ; and " Gethsemane ")

In 1976 Wuorinen completed his Percussion Symphony a five movement work for 24 players including two pianos for the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble and his longtime colleague Raymond DesRoches, as well as his opera subtitled " a baroque burlesque ", The W. of Babylon with an original libretto by Renaud Charles Bruce.