The earliest account describing a possible plague epidemic is found in I Samuel 5: 6 of the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ).

The earliest known written account of the creation of a golem by a historical figure reported a tradition connected to Rabbi Eliyahu of Chelm ( 1550 – 1583 ).

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

Ibn Abd-el-Hakem was an Egyptian who wrote the History of the Conquest of Egypt and North Africa and Spain, which was the earliest Arab account of the Islamic conquests of those countries.

Though Chrétien ’ s account is the earliest and most influential of all Grail texts, it was in the work of Robert de Boron that the Grail truly became the " Holy Grail " and assumed the form most familiar to modern readers.

Daniel Boyarin notes that Paul's own account of this experience would therefore be the earliest first person account of the mystical vision of a Merkabah adept.

At its core, the Tanakh is an account of the Israelites ' relationship with God from their earliest history until the building of the Second Temple ( c. 535 BCE ).

A less obviously legendary account of Arthur appears in the Legenda Sancti Goeznovii, which is often claimed to date from the early 11th century although the earliest manuscript of this text dates from the 15th century.

The next earliest account of Luke is in the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to the Gospel of Luke, a document once thought to date to the 2nd century, but which has more recently been dated to the later 4th century.

The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre.

The earliest account of a performance of the play is April 1611, when Simon Forman recorded seeing it at the Globe Theatre.

A modern version of theses medieval chains is seen in the Faroese chain dance, the earliest account of which goes back only to the 17th century.

Besides Zarathushtra's Gathas, Plato gives the earliest surviving account of a " natural theology ", around 360 BC, in his dialogue " Timaeus " he states " Now the whole Heaven, or Cosmos, ... we must first investigate concerning it that primary question which has to be investigated at the outset in every case ,— namely, whether it has existed always, having no beginning of generation, or whether it has come into existence, having begun from some beginning ".

The earliest mention of the play is found in a 1604 Revels Office account, which records that on " Hallamas Day, being the first of Nouembar ... the Kings Maiesties plaiers " performed " A Play in the Banketinghouse att Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis.

His account of the tides is the earliest to state that they are caused by the moon.

In the earliest account, Ferdowsi romanticises an international match between Turanian force and the followers of Siyâvash, a legendary Iranian prince from the earliest centuries of the Empire ; the poet is eloquent in his praise of Siyâvash's skills on the polo field.

The earliest known depiction of a Siberian shaman, produced by the Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, who authored an account of his travels among Samoyedic-and Tungusic-speaking peoples in 1692.

" They attempted to destroy these books, the earliest vita already says, and this account underlies the status of the Ragyndrudis Codex, now held as a Bonifacian relic in Fulda, and supposedly one of three books found on the field by the Christians who inspected it afterward.

Mainly because of Clarence Darrow, this strategy changed as the trial progressed, and the earliest argument proposed by the defense once the trial had begun was that there was actually no conflict between evolution and the creation account in the Bible ; later, this viewpoint would be called theistic evolution.

* The earliest extant books – a school textbook and an account book – with bound wooden leaves, are lost at the Dakhla Oasis in western Egypt.

* Notes upon Russia: being a translation of the earliest account of that country, entitled Rerum moscoviticarum commentarii by the Baron Sigismund von Herberstein.

The account of the battle given in the earliest source, the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, is one where the Norman advance surprises the English, who manage to gain the top of Senlac Hill before the Normans.

Toponymists have had difficulty explaining the origin of ' Tintagel ': the probability is that it is Norman French as the Cornish of the 13th century would have lacked the soft ' g ' (' i / j ' in the earliest forms: see also Tintagel Castle ).

The earliest settlers were Cornish lead miners ; they were followed by settlers from New England, Ireland, Switzerland, and Norway.

However many old photographs show that pasties were wrapped in bags made of paper or muslin and were eaten from end-to-end ; according to the earliest Cornish recipe book, published in 1929, this is " the true Cornish way " to eat a pasty.

The earliest written record of the Cornish language, dating from the 9th century, is a gloss in a Latin manuscript of the Consolation of Philosophy, which used the words ud rocashaas.

Marginal notes on Cornish vocabulary are among the earliest known writings in the Cornish language.

Probably born in South Wales, he primarily ministered to the Britons of Devon ( Dewnans ) and Cornwall ( Kernow ), where he is associated with monasteries at Padstow, which is named after him ( Pedroc-stowe, or ' Petrock's Place ') and which appears to have been his earliest major cult centre, and Bodmin, which became the major centre for his veneration when his relics were moved there in the later ninth century, Bodmin monastery becoming one of the wealthiest Cornish foundations by the eleventh century.

One of the earliest forms of Carols by Candlelight began in the 19th century, when Cornish Miners in Moonta, South Australia would gather on Christmas Eve to sing carols lit with candles stuck to the brims of their safety hats.

His earliest interest in the Cornish language is mentioned in an article by Robert Morton Nance entitled " Cornish Beginnings ",

During the period of their earliest attestation, the languages appear to be indistinguishable, but eventually they evolved into the Cornish and Breton languages.

The earliest stage of the languages, Primitive Cornish / Primitive Breton, is unattested.

Historic records of authentic Cornish mythology or history are hard to verify but the earliest Cornish language ( such as the Bodmin manumissions ) marks the separation of Primitive Cornish from Old Welsh often dated to the Battle of Deorham in 577.

The earliest Cornish literature is in the Cornish language and Cornwall produced a substantial number of passion plays during the Middle Ages.

The earliest account of a ball game that involves passing of the ball comes from Richard Carew's 1602 account of Cornish Hurling which states " Then must he cast the ball ( named Dealing ) to some one of his fellowes ".

These notes are among the earliest known writings in the Cornish language.

Pascon agan Arluth (' The Passion of our Lord '), a poem of 259 eight-line verses probably composed around 1375, is one of the earliest surviving works of Cornish literature.

Other notable pieces of Cornish literature include the Creation of the World ( with Noah's Flood ) which is a miracle play similar to Origo Mundi but in a much later manuscript ( 1611 ); the Charter Fragment, a short poem about marriage, believed to be the earliest connected text in the language ; and the recently-discovered Beunans Ke, another saint's play, notable for including some Arthurian material.

The earliest surviving examples of Cornish prose are the Tregear Homilies, a series of 12 Catholic sermons written in English and translated by John Tregear around 1555-1557, to which a thirteenth homily The Sacrament of the Alter was added by another hand.

The earliest known evidence of this flag was recorded by Davies Gilbert in his 1838 work: ' The Parochial History of Cornwall ', where he gives reference to .." a white cross on a black ground was formerly the banner of St Perran and the Standard of Cornwall ; probably with some allusion to the black ore and the white metal of tin "

Antiquarians once claimed that the mines of Polgooth had supplied Phoenician traders with tin 3000 years ago, but in fact the earliest historical record is a list compiled in 1593, in which several well-established Polgooth workings were named.

The earliest method of liberating the metal from the tin ore necessitated two smeltings: the first was done at or near the streamworks and involved no more than a fire used to roast the ore ; the second smelting was done at one of the Stannary towns.

The earliest decorated biscuit tin was commissioned in 1868 by Huntley & Palmers from the London firm of De La Rue to a design by Owen Jones.

The earliest glass jars were called wax sealers, because they used sealing wax, which was poured into a channel around the lip that held on a tin lid.

The next earliest patent is for a milk bottle with a dome type tin cap and was granted September 23, 1884 to Whitemen's brother, Abram V. Whiteman ( US patent number 305, 554, filed on January 31, 1880 ).