Its first apparition was a long, gloomy column of refugees riding in farm wagons, or pushing prams.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services.

The 1921 first published photo of The Ashes Urn: Its Origin and History | the Urn in the Illustrated London News.

Its first recording is an a cappella version from 1922 by the Sacred Harp Choir.

Its first Allied-appointed mayor, Franz Oppenhoff, was murdered by an SS commando unit.

Its first Arbor Day was celebrated on 2004-10-08.

Its happenings are set between the first and the second part of A. D. Police Files.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

Its first editor, William O. Eaton, just 22 years old, said " The Herald will be independent in politics and religion ; liberal, industrious, enterprising, critically concerned with literacy and dramatic matters, and diligent in its mission to report and analyze the news, local and global.

Its subject is the Return to Zion following the close of the Babylonian captivity, and it is divided into two parts, the first telling the story of the first return of exiles in the first year of Cyrus the Great ( 538 BC ) and the completion and dedication of the new Temple in Jerusalem in the sixth year of Darius ( 515 BC ), the second telling of the subsequent mission of Ezra to Jerusalem and his struggle to purify the Jews from the sin of marriage with non-Jews.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.

Its first publication was the Abridged Bliss Classification ( ABC ), intended for school libraries.

Its Cornish name, Goen Bren, is first recorded in the 12th century.

Its liturgy, from the first, combined the free use of Cranmer's language with an adherence to the principles of congregational participation and the centrality of the Eucharist, much in line with the Liturgical Movement.

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

Its combination of modern innovation ( such as mixed gender seating ) and traditional practice particularly appealed to first and second-generation Eastern European Jewish immigrants, who found Orthodoxy too restrictive, but Reform Judaism foreign.

Its functions were replaced by a fans forum which met for the first time in December 2008.

Its official definition, edited by Woodward, Wetherall and Gorman, was first published in 1970.

Its first chairman was Nikita Khrushchev, and he was succeeded in 1964 by Leonid Brezhnev.

Its first stock offering in 1613-1616 raised £ 418, 000, and its first offering in 1617-1622 raised £ 1. 6 million.

Its position as the Asia-Pacific gateway resulted in the settlement of the province by people of Asian descent, making it one of the most diverse and multicultural areas of Western North America, as well as helping start trade, cultural and diplomatic relations between Canada and the Asia-Pacific region.

Its administrative center was supposedly located outside of the settlement itself, on the nearby island of Adelsö.

Its main accomplishments were settlement of the Trinitarian issue of the nature of The Son and his relationship to God the Father, the construction of the first part of the Creed of Nicaea, settling the calculation of the date of Easter, and promulgation of early canon law.

Its original ancestors are thought to have arrived with one of the waves of human settlement thousands of years ago, when dogs were still relatively undomesticated and closer to their wild Asian grey wolf parent species, Canis lupus.

Its post office was opened in 1821, and the settlement was incorporated as Blountsville on December 13, 1827.

Its county seat was designated as Independence, which was at the time only a minuscule settlement near a spring.

Its county seat is home to the Hindman Settlement School, founded as America's first settlement school.

Its situation having attracted fishermen from the Cinque Ports, a permanent settlement was made, and the town numbered 70 burgesses before the Norman Conquest.

Its settlement by Americans began when James Moore, Larken Rutherford, and James Garretson, settlers from Maryland and Virginia travelled to Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1781 and after wintering there, settled at or near Bellefontaine ( French for Beautiful Spring ) the next spring, in 1782.

Its population slowly grew, and it existed as a Proprietary settlement until it was officially incorporated in July 1683.

Its function as a trading and shipping centre attracted settlement of well-to-do merchants from Holland.

Its contact with and settlement by Europeans dates back to the days of the French Illinois Territory.

Its first European settlers were members of a Puritan colony established in 1720, which was the first permanent settlement of its type.

Its location directly opposite a Native American settlement, Ephraim served as Sanpete County's most important fort through the end of the Black Hawk War in 1868, which is also the year that the city incorporated.

Its first main settlement is the village of Luckington, two miles ( 3 km ) inside the Wiltshire border, and then on to Sherston.

Its Anglo-Saxon name was Dystiglegh meaning " windy settlement " or possibly Wood or clearing by a mound.

Its name was recorded as Hwitebi and Witebi, meaning the white settlement in Old Norse, in the 12th century, Whitebi in the 13th century and Qwiteby in the 14th century.

Its name derives from the ford (' Áth ') crossing the river Clarin just east of the settlement.

Its numbers seem to be slowly declining in the west of its range since the late 19th century, coincident with the expansion of human settlement and habitat conversion in the birds ' wintering areas ; the eastern Whistling Swan populations on the other hand seem to be increasing somewhat, and altogether its numbers seem to have slightly risen in the late 20th century ( the population was estimated at about 146, 000 in 1972 ).

Its history of European-Canadian settlement began in 1878 when the first pioneers arrived.

Its origins as a settlement go back to the time when Thomas Miller owned a collection of ramshackle buildings serving the traffic of the gold rush as a resting point for travellers moving between Kamloops and Fort Alexandria, which was north of 100 Mile House farther along the HBC Brigade Trail.

Its population of 8, 253 makes it the 100th largest settlement in Scotland.

In 1819 Wentworth published the first book written by an Australian: A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and Its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land, With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America, in which he advocated an elected assembly for New South Wales, trial by jury and settlement of Australia by free emigrants rather than convicts.

Its population grew from 1, 366 in 1756 to 2, 544 in 1774, and by 1810 Litchfield was the fourth largest settlement in the state with a population of 4, 639.