The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC.

2700 – 2200 BC ) are the earliest known recorded testimony of the Berber migration and also the earliest written documentation of Libyan history.

The Ebers papyrus also provides our earliest possible documentation of ancient awareness of tumors, but ancient medical terminology being badly understood, cases Ebers 546 and 547 for instance may refer to simple swellings.

The earliest documentation of its existence is an advertisement for " Gem Paper Clips " published by Cushman & Denison, 172 9th Avenue, New York City, in The Book-Keeper, August 1894, p. 6.

The earliest documentation of fireworks dates back to 7th century China, where they were invented.

A survey of adjoining property in 1767 mentions " Pierson's house " forming accidentally the earliest documentation of a house on the property, which may be much older.

The discipline of documentation science, which marks the earliest theoretical foundations of modern information science, emerged in the late part of the 19th Century in Europe together with several more scientific indexes whose purpose was to organize scholarly literature.

The Science Museum now holds a collection of over 300, 000 items, including such famous items as Stephenson's Rocket, Puffing Billy ( the oldest surviving steam locomotive ), the first jet engine, a reconstruction of Francis Crick and James Watson's model of DNA, some of the earliest remaining steam engines, a working example of Charles Babbage's Difference engine ( and the latter, preserved half brain ), the first prototype of the 10, 000-year Clock of the Long Now, and documentation of the first typewriter.

The earliest documentation of Hungarian music dates from the introduction of Gregorian chant in the 11th century.

However, their historical authenticity cannot be verified ; aside from supposition and some archaeological evidence, the earliest documentation of Native American music came with the arrival of European explorers.

However, the earliest written documentation comes from the arrival of European explorers on the American continent, and the earliest academic research comes from the late 19th century.

Take the historical development of geometry as an example ; the first steps in the abstraction of geometry were made by the ancient Greeks, with Euclid's Elements being the earliest extant documentation of the axioms of plane geometry — though Proclus tells of an earlier axiomatisation by Hippocrates of Chios.

It is during this period, in 1288, that the earliest documentation for the name Lowle appears.

The author was able to gather first-hand documentation from the earliest phases of the theater in Attica, which are inaccessible to us today.

The earliest documentation of him in the U. S. is an 1848 affidavit in which Waltz declared himself to be " about 38 years old ".

The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in “ Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats ” in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's Receipts cookbook.

No contemporary documentation of his life has been traced, and the earliest published account of his life and work is from 1604, in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck.

The earliest documentation of Naila dates at 1. 9. 1343.

The earliest documentation on the Pallavas is the three copper-plate grants, now referred to as the Mayidavolu, Hirahadagalli and the British Museum plates ( Durga Prasad, 1988 ) belonging to Skandavarman I and written in Prakrit.

The documentation regarding Raciborz and Albert's tenure is the earliest surviving of the use of the clan name and cry defining the honorable status of Polish knights.

The earliest subsequent documentation of Jews in Canada are British Army records from the French and Indian War, the North American part of the Seven Years ' War.

The earliest documentation of the name, as, is dated from the 2nd century AD.

In 1398, records note that the earliest incarnation of Chianti was as a white wine.

Yeast, one of the earliest domesticated microorganisms, occurs naturally on the skins of grapes, leading to the innovation of alcoholic drinks such as wine.

The earliest recorded mention of Merlot was in the notes of a local Bordeaux official who in 1784 labeled wine made from the grape in the Libournais region as one of the area's best.

The earliest remains consist of extensive rock cut installations, initially thought to date to the Early Bronze Age by Kenyon, these have recently been re-evaluated, first by Stager and then by Franklin, and are now recognized to be the remains of an extensive early Iron Age oil and wine industry ( designated Building Period 0 ).

The earliest known use of the term " transubstantiation " to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ that was believed to occur in the Eucharist was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ( died 1133 ), in the eleventh century and by the end of the twelfth century the term was in widespread use.

The earliest known use of the term " transubstantiation " to describe the change from bread and wine to body and blood of Christ was by Hildebert de Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ( died 1133 ), in about 1079, long before the Latin West, under the influence especially of Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1227-1274 ), accepted Aristotelianism.

The earliest etymology of " Vinland " is found in Adam of Bremen's 11th century Latin Descriptio insularum Aquilonis (" Description of the Northern Islands "): " Moreover, he has also reported one island discovered by many in that ocean, which is called Winland, for the reason that grapevines grow there by themselves, producing the best wine.

The earliest attested terms referring to wine are the Mycenaean Greek me-tu-wo ne-wo (), meaning " the month of new wine " or " festival of the new wine ", and wo-no-wa-ti-si, meaning " wine garden ", written in Linear B inscriptions.

The earliest records of the distillation of alcohol are in Italy in the 13th century, where alcohol was distilled from wine.

The village of Champagne, Switzerland, has traditionally made a still wine labelled as " champagne ", the earliest records of viticulture dated to 1657.

The desire to have the bread and wine consecrated in the Eucharist available for the sick and dying led to the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, a practice which has endured from the earliest days of the Christian Church.

In the thirteenth century, Gonzalo de Berceo, clergyman of the Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla ( La Rioja ) and Spain's earliest known poet, mentions the wine in some of his works.

Among the earliest examples of plantations were the latifundia of the Roman Empire, which produced large quantities of wine and olive oil for export.

Recently the United Kingdom, which produced some of the earliest examples of sparkling wine, has started producing sparkling wines again.

The earliest evidence of wine production dates from between 6000 and 5000 BC.

The earliest surviving recipe, from 1300 – 1325, is simply a list of ingredients: wine, wheat starch, raisins, and sugar to " abate the strength of the wine ".

For example, there was passum, a strong and sweet raisin wine, for which the earliest known recipe is of Carthaginian origin ; mulsum, a freshly made mixture of wine and honey ; and conditum, a mixture of wine, honey and spices made in advance and matured.

The earliest recorded mention of using resin with wine amphorae is by the first-century Roman writer Columella, who detailed in his work De Re Rustica ( 12, 20, 3 and 12, 22, 2 ) the different type of resin that could be used to seal a container or be mixed into the wine.

The earliest archaeological evidence for the use of the Greek abacus dates to the 5th century BC.

The earliest known texts in a Turkic language are the Orkhon inscriptions, of which the earliest dates from around 720 AD and the latest from 735 AD ( Miller 1971: 3 ).

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.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

" The earliest known use of the Greek word symphonia, dates back to Pythagoras, born in the 6th century BCE, who has used the term.

Determining the composition of the Memorial depends on the dates of Nehemiah's mission: It is commonly accepted that " Artaxerxes " was Artaxerxes I ( there were two later kings of the same name ), and that Nehemiah's first period in Jerusalem was therefore 445-433 BC ; allowing for his return to Susa and second journey to Jerusalem, the end of the 5th century BC is therefore the earliest possible date for the Memorial.

The earliest mention of the term balalaika dates back to an AD 1688 Russian document.

The Breviary rightly so called, however, only dates from the 11th century ; the earliest MS. containing the whole canonical office is of the year 1099 and is in the Mazarin library.

The earliest evidence for acupuncture in this sense dates to the second or first century BCE.

The earliest inhabitants of the islands were probably Arabs and Africans, the latter probably Bantu-speaking ; the earliest evidence of settlement of the islands dates from the eighth century.

His formal education was limited: he suffered from psychological disorders including a fear of crowds, and although admitted to high school after attending eight years of grammar school ( Long Valley School, whence dates the earliest known photo of him ), he never went to high school.

Other regions of the world, including India and China, also have early evidence of water clocks, but the earliest dates are less certain.

The earliest recorded use of the terms Christianity ( Greek ) and Catholic ( Greek ), dates to this period, the 2nd century, attributed to Ignatius of Antioch c. 107.

The earliest textual evidence of the handheld crossbow used in battle dates to the 4th century BC.

The earliest record of using chocolate dates back before the Olmec.

The earliest wave dates back to hundreds of years as early marriage and high birthrates propelled Hindu settlement eastward across Nepal, then into Sikkim and Bhutan.

Its earliest recorded use in the prevalent modern sense, as a female dominant in S & M, dates to 1967.

One of the earliest objects made of smelted iron dates is a dagger dating to before 2000 BC, found in a context that suggests it was treated as an ornamental object of great value.

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.

Bede, the earliest source to give dates, is thought to have drawn his information from correspondence with Albinus.

The earliest reasonably complete version available to scholars today, named P < sup > 46 </ sup >, dates to approximately the year 200 AD, approximately 150 years after the original was presumably drafted.