* Buddha games list, the earliest known list of games

In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave the earliest preserved list of exactly the books that would become the New Testament canon.

The earliest comprehensive written list of Hebridean island names was undertaken by Donald Monro in 1549, which in some cases also provides the earliest written form of the island name.

Perhaps best known among these is one of the first computerized video games, Spacewar !, but among the list are the first text editor, word processor, interactive debugger, the first credible computer chess program, and some of the earliest computerized music.

The earliest organized fandom online was the SF Lovers community, originally a mailing list in the late 1970s with a text archive file that was updated regularly.

Payroll registers that survive testify to the breadth of Suleiman's patronage of the arts, the earliest of documents dating from 1526 list 40 societies with over 600 members.

* 2nd millennium BC – earliest possible date for the composition of the Babylonian Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, a 7th century BC copy of a list of observations of the motions of the planet Venus, and the oldest planetary table currently known.

The earliest versions of archie, written by Alan Emtage, simply contacted a list of FTP archives on a regular basis ( contacting each roughly once a month, so as not to waste too much resources of the remote servers ) and requested a listing.

The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek ka-da-mi-ja, written in Linear B syllabic script in the list of flavourings on the " Spice " tablets found among palace archives in the House of the Sphinxes in Mycenae.

The later Babylonian and Assyrian king lists, preserved the earliest portions of the list well into the 3rd century BC, when Berossus ' Babyloniaca popularized fragments of the list in the Hellenic world.

It is also one of the earliest films to appear on Roger Ebert's list of Great Movies.

The earliest Dynastic name on the list known from other legendary sources is Etana, whom it calls " the shepherd, who ascended to heaven and consolidated all the foreign countries ".

The earliest monarch on the list whose historical existence has been independently attested through archaeological inscription is En-me-barage-si of Kish ( ca.

The following list contains the earliest references to chess or chess-like games.

The earliest English law list, published in 1775, lists 165 members of the Bar, of whom 14 were Queen's Counsel, a proportion of about 8. 5 %.

Three versions of the donation list drawn up by Leofric survive, which is one of the earliest surviving cathedral library catalogues.

In Chrétien's earliest known work, Erec and Enide, the name Lancelot appears as third on a list of knights at King Arthur's court.

The earliest known reference to a style of port with this name in a merchant's list is to be found in The Wine Society's catalogue from the spring of 1964 ; which includes Fonseca's Quinta Milieu 1958, bottled in the UK, also in 1964.

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 ".

One of the earliest recorded lists by McGregor reads ( list taken from a history of unchanged ) Manjiri, Mandoti, Chiera, Masai, Mathathi, Ndemi, Iregi, Maina, Mwangi, Muirungu.

In the following list, the dates in parentheses are the earliest approved use of the drug.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

The earliest Mesopotamian objects to enter the collection were purchased by the British Museum in 1772 from Sir William Hamilton.

" The earliest British clipper ships were built for trade amongst the British Isles.

The earliest account of Cornish tin mining was written by Pytheas of Massilia late in the 4th century BC after his circumnavigation of the British Isles.

While some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times.

Although the earliest British films were of everyday events, the early 20th century saw the appearance of narrative shorts, mainly comedies and melodramas.

Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

Much of the post-Roman development of St Albans was in memorial to Saint Alban, the earliest known British Christian martyr, executed in AD 250 ( the exact date is unknown, with scholars suggesting dates of 209, 254 and 304 ).

Ribbentrop told Hitler that his sources showed that Britain would only be militarily prepared to take on Germany at the earliest in 1940 or more probably 1941, so this could only mean that the British were bluffing.

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.

One of the earliest expeditions to set out with the explicit intention of reaching the North Pole was that of British naval officer William Edward Parry, who in 1827 reached latitude 82 ° 45 ′ North.

David Diringer noted that " the first mention of Egyptian documents written on leather goes back to the Fourth Dynasty ( c. 2550-2450 BCE ), but the earliest of such documents extant are: a fragmentary roll of leather of the Sixth Dynasty ( c. twenty-fourth century BCE ), unrolled by Dr. H. Ibscher, and preserved in the Cairo Museum ; a roll of the Twelfth Dynasty ( c. 1990-1777 BCE ) now in Berlin ; the mathematical text now in the British Museum ( MS. 10250 ); and a document of the reign of Ramses II ( early thirtheenth century BCE ).".

The earliest legislative development of privacy rights began under British common law, which protected " only the physical interference of life and property.

Calvinists were also some of the earliest settlers of the British and Dutch colonies of North America.

Stonehenge is therefore interpreted as functioning as an enclosed cremation cemetery at this time, the earliest known cremation cemetery in the British Isles.

One of its earliest massive implementations was brought about by Egyptians against the British occupation in 1919 Revolution.

In 1758, British General James Wolfe made the earliest recorded use of the word Yankee to refer to people from what was to become the US, referring to the New England soldiers under his command as Yankees: " I can afford you two companies of Yankees, and the more because they are better for ranging and scouting than either work or vigilance.

From a very early date, British coins have been inscribed with the name of the ruler of the kingdom in which they were produced, and a longer or shorter title, always in Latin ; among the earliest distinctive English coins are the silver pennies of Offa of Mercia, which were inscribed with the legend " King Offa ".

* 1814 – Calcutta I, the earliest existing Arabic printed version, is published by the British East India Company.

One of the earliest were the Indian Famine Codes devised by the British in the 1880s.

It satisfied European expectations that the earliest humans would be found in Eurasia, and the British, it has been claimed, also wanted a first Briton to set against fossil hominids found elsewhere in Europe, including France and Germany.