The earliest historical records of Anatolia stem from the south east of the region, and are from the Mesopotamian based Akkadian Empire during the reign of Sargon of Akkad in the 24th century BC.

One of the earliest historical facts is its membership in the League of Calauria ( Calaurian Amphictyony, ca.

Parshva, the earliest Jain Tirthankara, whom modern Western historians consider to be a historical figure, lived in about the 8th century BCE.

Sapir's earliest writings had espoused views of the relation between thought and language stemming from the Humboldtian tradition he acquired through Franz Boas, which regarded language as the historical embodiment of volksgeist, or ethnic world view.

* c. 400 BC: The earliest written reference to go ( weiqi ) in the historical annal Zuo Zhuan.

The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the unique writings of the Latter Day Saint movement, the denominations of which typically regard the text not only as scripture but also as a historical record of God's dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.

The Spring and Autumn Annals, the official chronicle of the State of Lu covering the period from 722 BCE to 481 BCE, is among the earliest surviving Chinese historical texts to be arranged on annalistic principles.

The earliest doctoral degrees ( theology, law, and medicine ) reflected the historical separation of all university study into these three fields.

Dagome iudex is one of the earliest historical documents relating to Poland.

Ōjin is also identified by some as the earliest " historical " emperor.

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 ).

The earliest chronologies date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, though no historical writers in these early civilizations were known by name.

The earliest known systematic historical thought in the Western world emerged in ancient Greece, a development which would be an important influence on the writing of history elsewhere around the Mediterranean region.

The earliest known critical historical works were The Histories, composed by Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( 484 BC – c.

Concerning Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), one of the earliest historians whose work survives, his recount of strange and unusual tales are gripping but not necessarily representative of the historical record.

135 – 50 BC ), whose work is preserved only in fragments by other writers, offers the earliest historical record of the Helvetii.

In historical archaeology, the ancient literature of the Iron Age includes the earliest texts preserved in manuscript tradition.

One of his earliest historical works was his Chronicle ( or Chronicon or Temporum liber ), composed ca.

The earliest use of the term " Judeo-Christian " in the historical sense dates to 1829 in the missionary journal of Joseph Wolff, and before that as " Judeo Christian " in a letter from Alexander M ' Caul dated October 17, 1821.

In particular, Arthur features in a number of well-known vitae (" Lives ") of post-Roman saints, none of which are now generally considered to be reliable historical sources ( the earliest probably dates from the 11th century ).

There is no clear historical connection between the Knights Templar, which were dismantled in the 14th century, and any of the modern organizations, of which the earliest emerged publicly in the 18th century, and are referred to as Neo-Templars by some authors.

The earliest historical reference to kumquats appears in literature of China in the 12th century.

Bloomfield's earliest work was in historical Germanic studies, beginning with his dissertation, and continuing with a number of papers on Indo-European and Germanic phonology and morphology.

The earliest historical record of militia is found in the Old Testament and particularly the Book of Judges.

The Pali Canon contains the earliest written detailed discussion of nirvana and the concept has thus become most associated with the teaching of the historical Buddha.

The earliest proto-birds such as China's Protarchaeopteryx, discovered in the early 1990s, had well-developed feathers but no sign of the top / bottom asymmetry that gives wings lift.

Egyptians and Hittites sign the earliest known peace treaty at the end of the Battle of Kadesh.

* 1269 BC: Ramses II, king of ancient Egypt, and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites, sign the earliest known peace treaty.

* c. 1263 BC — Ramses II, king of ancient Egypt, and Hattusilis III, king of the Hittites, sign the earliest known peace treaty.

The Vineyard was also home to one of the earliest known deaf communities in the United States ; consequently, a special sign language, Martha's Vineyard Sign Language ( MVSL ), developed on the island.

Several participants to the fighting reveal the precarious condition of the army throughout the day, including Marmont in his Memoirs, Captain Coignet: " We were retreating in good order but all ready to start running at the earliest sign of danger ", Captain Gervais: " In this battle, we were many times on the verge of being defeated.

The earliest known text related to Judaism which mentions a sign called the " Shield of David " is Eshkol Ha-Kofer by the Karaite Judah Hadassi, in the mid-12th century CE:

The earliest of his extant pieces is dated 1605 and bears no sign of immaturity ; in 1624 he had written three hundred plays, and in 1634 he stated that he had composed four hundred within the previous twenty years ; of this immense production not more than eighty plays, are in existence.

The earliest sign of human habitation is a high prehistoric tumulus in the grounds of Marlborough College.

The earliest sign of a new carious lesion is the appearance of a chalky white spot on the surface of the tooth, indicating an area of demineralization of enamel.

The earliest sign of settlement in the area of Bistriţa is in Neolithic remains.

One of the earliest bands to sign on was the Australian trio Dirty Three, who continue to release under Bella Union to this day.

The earliest sign of habitation in Inkpen dates to the Mesolithic period between 10, 000 to 5500 BC.

Although it is clear that the cross was associated with Christians from a very early period, and the sign of the cross was made by Christians, it is rarely seen in the earliest Christian art, such as that in the Catacombs of Rome, where there are only about 20 crosses, though the anchor, which appears more commonly, was a disguised cross symbol.

One of the earliest religious TV stations to sign on, it was run cheaply, on the air only in evenings and featuring a modest selection of local and syndicated religious programs.

The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.

The earliest record of a settlement at Ajaccio having a name ancestral to its name is the exhortation in Epistle 77 written in 601 CE of Gregory the great to the Defensor Boniface, one of two known rectors of the early Corsican church, not to leave Aleria and Adjacium without bishops.

The earliest known settlement at this location was the Ancient Greek city of Cius, which Philip V of Macedon granted to Prusias, the King of Bithynia, in 202 BC.

From the earliest settlement of the Cayman Islands, economic activity was hindered by isolation and a limited natural resource base.

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.

Although the area of Dublin Bay has been inhabited by humans since prehistoric times, the writings of Ptolemy ( the Egyptian astronomer and cartographer ) in about 140 AD provide possibly the earliest reference to a settlement there.

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.

Dating of remains to the biblical history is made difficult by the Bible's lack of datable events and its unreliable internal chronology ; the interpretation of remains has been influenced by religious and nationalistic arguments, as evidenced by arguments over burials from the highland settlement phase ; and no material remains have been found which can reliably separate Israelite from non-Israelite ( Canaanite ) sites in the earliest period.

Irish settlers-both voluntary and forced-were crucial to the Australian colonies from the earliest days of European settlement.

Large numbers of Irish priests, nuns and brothers followed other Irish immigrants to Australia from the earliest years of European settlement in order to provide education to the children of those immigrants.

The Ubaid period marks the Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic phase in Mesopotamia, which represents the earliest settlement on the alluvial plain in the south.

While the term Lower Mainland has been recorded from the earliest period of non-native settlement in British Columbia, it has never been officially defined in legal terms.

The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh — in the northeast corner of the site — was a small farming village dated between 7000 BCE to 5500 BCE and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements.

The earliest traces of human settlement in the Nuoro area ( called " the Nuorese ") are the so-called Domus de janas, rock-cut tombs dated at the third millennium BC.

Archeologists place the earliest human settlement of the Samoan archipelago at around 1500 B. C.

The earliest signs of human settlement in present-day Slovenia were found in the Pekel cave in the Loza Woods near Orehek in Inner Carniola, where two stone tools approximately 250, 000 years old were recovered.

The Saxons were originally Ingvaeonic tribes, whose earliest known area of settlement is Northern Albingia, an area approximately that of modern Holstein.

The earliest human settlement occurred circa 8, 000 B. C.

The earliest evidence of settlement in the region dates from the 8th century BC: the inhabitants were apparently linked with the Lusatian and East Pomeranian cultures.

This is the site of the earliest permanent settlement in Maine of which we have a conclusive record.

However, the earliest certain evidence of human settlement in the region of Sparta consists of pottery dating from the Middle Neolithic period, found in the vicinity of Kouphovouno some two kilometres south-southwest of Sparta.

The earliest permanent European settlement occurred in 1647 on the island.

* The earliest known settlement in Plymouth, England dates back to this era.

The earliest traces of human settlement in Estonia are connected with the Kunda culture.