His earliest work reflected heavy influences from English and continental writers.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

It was confirmed in 2010 that these remains belong to her — one of the earliest members of the English royal family.

The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

He argued that the term bretwalda " falls into line with the other evidence which points to the Germanic origin of the earliest English institutions ".

All the earliest English criminal trials involved wholly extraordinary and arbitrary courts without any settled law to apply, whereas the civil ( delictual ) law operated in a highly developed and consistent manner ( except where a King wanted to raise money by selling a new form of writ ).

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

The earliest form cited in the Oxford English Dictionary ( from 1842 ) is " chipmonk ," but " chipmunk " appears in several books from the 1820s and 1830s.

The Oxford English Dictionary says its earliest quotation for " clipper " is from 1830.

Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel, as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and, along with others such as Richardson, is among the founders of the English novel.

The earliest known usage in print of the English term deist is 1621,

In the late mid-sixteenth century, among groups of English Protestant exiles fleeing from Queen Mary I, some of the earliest anti-monarchist publications emerged.

The earliest English record of the kingdom dates to Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, which noted the arrival of Bishop ( later Saint ) Mellitus in London in 604.

The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.

The Oxford English Dictionary refers to " Messrs. the Great Unwashed " in Lytton's Paul Clifford ( 1830 ), as the earliest instance.

This led to the publication of his earliest surviving tract, which criticised the English church's suppression of the Puritan clergy.

The earliest use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary dates from 1853.

Thomas Cannon wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd ( 1749 ).

The earliest cited English usage in connection with marital status is from a manuscript of c. 1200, when Mary ( mother of Jesus ) is described as “ handfast ( to ) a good man called Joseph ”.

The earliest term for this in English was hony moone, which was recorded as early as 1546.

The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.

The earliest examples of life-sized statues of Apollo, may be two figures from the Ionic sanctuary on the island of Delos.

One of the earliest examples of almost modern factory layout, designed for easy material handling, was the Bridgewater Foundry.

This was one of the earliest examples of a postmortem autopsy, through which he discovered that Galen was incorrect regarding the formation of the bones of the lower jaw and sacrum.

A pair of beads made from Nassarius sea snail shells, approximately 100, 000 years old, are thought to be the earliest known examples of jewellery.

Returning boomerangs actually do fly and are examples of the earliest heavier-than-air man-made flight.

Some of the earliest examples of this technology implemented input / output processing such as direct memory access as a separate thread from the computation thread.

One of the earliest examples of a visual error appears in Charlie Chaplin's " The Property Man " of 1914.

The earliest examples of color codes in use are for long distance communication by use of flags, as in semaphore communication.

The number of these compartments ranges from 4 in the earliest examples to over 24 in an extreme example on Orkney.

It contains examples of the earliest Chinese prose.

A Macedonian mosaic of the 4th century BC is one of the earliest examples of the Centauress in art.

The code is also one of the earliest examples of the idea of presumption of innocence, and it also suggests that both the accused and accuser have the opportunity to provide evidence.

It is one of the earliest practical examples of key exchange implemented within the field of cryptography.

One of the earliest examples of detective fiction is Voltaire's Zadig ( 1748 ), which features a main character who performs feats of analysis.

Of the 11th and 12th centuries there are numerous examples of bronze doors, the earliest being one at Hildesheim, Germany ( 1015 ).

The earliest surviving European examples are the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes and Virgil's Aeneid, which follow both the style and subject matter of Homer.

The earliest known examples frescoes done in the Buon Fresco method date at around 1500 BC and are to be found on the island of Crete in Greece.

One of the earliest examples of the technique can be found in the 16th century chivalric romance, Amadis of Gaul ( 1508 ), written by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

20th century Pentecostalism was not the earliest instance of " speaking in tongues " in church history, but earlier examples are few ; in church history and writing after the New Testament, it had never been regarded as orthodox until the rise of Pentecostalism.

One of the earliest examples of guerrilla warfare, is Shivaji, the Maratha king.

Though a physician and a pioneer of epidemiology, the map is probably one of the earliest examples of Health geography.

There has been discussion by academics whether the " word square " is actually a Christian artefact, but if it is, it is one of the earliest examples of early Christianity in Britain.

The earliest ( surviving ) examples of Chinese painted artwork date to the Warring States Period ( 481-221 BC ), with paintings on silk or tomb murals on rock, brick, or stone.

The code is also one of the earliest examples of the idea of presumption of innocence, and it also suggests that the accused and accuser have the opportunity to provide evidence.