The earliest known literary use of the word assassination is in Macbeth by William Shakespeare ( 1605 ).

First paragraph of the Carmen Campidoctoris, the earliest literary treatment of El Cid's life, written by a Catalan partisan to celebrate El Cid's defeat of Berenguer Ramón.

Chrétien refers to his object not as " The Grail " but as " a grail " ( un graal ), showing the word was used, in its earliest literary context, as a common noun.

In ancient China, the earliest literary reference to magnetism lies in a 4th century BC book named after its author, The Master of Demon Valley ( 鬼谷子 ): " The lodestone makes iron come or it attracts it.

She also says that " the Persian affiliation of the Mysteries is acknowledged in the earliest literary references to them.

In the seventh century BC, Hesiod, both in his Theogony ( briefly, without naming Pandora outright, line 570 ) and in Works and Days, gives the earliest literary version of the Pandora story ; however, there is an older mention of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon mankind in Homer's Iliad:

From the earliest times, at least since the plays of Aristophanes, the primary topics of literary satire are politics, religion and sex.

His earliest twelve short stories, written between 1838 and 1840, purport to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell.

One of the earliest literary references to trams occurs on the second page of Henry James's novel The Europeans: </ br >

His earliest literary efforts were in the direction of fiction-' thrilling romances ,' composed for the delectation of his school-fellows.

* The first half of Miguel de Cervantes's landmark novel Don Quixote (" El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha " or " The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha ") — one of the earliest novels in the western literary tradition, is published and becomes Cervantes's first literary success.

The earliest literary evidence portrays Zanni as a servant of Pantalone.

Europa's earliest literary reference is in the Iliad, which is commonly dated to the 8th century BCE.

In literary records, the earliest evidence of the fishing reel comes from a 4th century AD work entitled Lives of Famous Immortals.

The first literary connection of Joseph of Arimathea with Britain had to wait for the ninth-century Life of Mary Magdalene attributed to Rabanus Maurus ( AD 766 – 856 ), Archbishop of Mainz ; however, the earliest authentic copy of the Maurus text is one housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.

He also wrote on military theory and public affairs, and edited some of the earliest books to consider SF from a literary theory and criticism perspective.

He published his earliest literary work in local newspapers.

However, one of the earliest " Canadian " writers virtually always included in Canadian literary anthologies is Thomas Chandler Haliburton ( 1796 – 1865 ), who died just two years before Canada's official birth.

Artwork based on Sheridan le Fanu's Carmilla, one of the earliest influential works of vampire literature. Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires.

The earliest Akkadian versions are dated to the early second millennium, most probably in the eighteenth or seventeenth century BC, when one or more authors drew upon used existing literary material to create a single epic.

The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, Euripides ' Iphigenia in Tauris, would place him two generations before the Trojan War, making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Homer's brief description in the Iliad is the earliest surviving literary reference: " a thing of immortal make, not human, lion-fronted and snake behind, a goat in the middle, and snorting out the breath of the terrible flame of bright fire ".

Kolmogorov was educated in his aunt's village school, and his earliest literary efforts and mathematical papers were printed in the school newspaper.

Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis.

* c. 600 The earliest references to chaturanga written in Subandhu's Vasavadatta and Banabhatta's Harsha Charitha early Indian books.

One of the earliest references to couscous in France is in Brittany, in a letter dated January 12, 1699.

One of the earliest references to the clavichord in England occurs in the privy-purse expenses of Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII, in an entry dated August 1502:

The earliest references to the Euphrates come from cuneiform texts found in Shuruppak and pre-Sargonic Nippur in southern Iraq and date to the mid-3rd millennium BCE.

The earliest written references that have survived relating to the islands were made by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History, where he states that there are 30 " Hebudes ", and makes a separate reference to " Dumna ", which Watson ( 1926 ) concludes is unequivocally the Outer Hebrides.

The earliest references to ‘ broomstick ’ marriages in England did not refer to a practice of jumping over a stick, but rather to any kind of sham or dubious ceremony.

This is one of the earliest references linking an area legend with dinosaurs, and has been argued to describe a Mokèlé-mbèmbé-like creature.

It is generally agreed that " Unlike the Vedas, which have to be preserved letter-perfect, the epic was a popular work whose reciters would inevitably conform to changes in language and style ," so the earliest surviving components of this dynamic text are believed to be no older than the earliest external references we have to the epic, which may include an allusion in Panini's fourth century BCE grammar ( Ashtādhyāyī 4: 2: 56 ).

The earliest known references to the Mahabharata and its core Bharata date back to the Ashtadhyayi ( sutra 6. 2. 38 ) of Pāṇini ( fl.

One of the earliest references is in Robert of Brunne's early 14th century Handlyng Synne ( Handling Sin ) where it occurs as a verb.

The game is said to have originated in China ( it closely resembles the Chinese game of " Jianshizi ", or " picking stones "), but the origin is uncertain ; the earliest European references to Nim are from the beginning of the 16th century.

Michael Neill, editor of the Oxford Shakespeare edition, notes that the earliest critical references to Othello's colour, ( Thomas Rymer's 1693 critique of the play, and the 1709 engraving in Nicholas Rowe's edition of Shakespeare ), assume him to be Sub-Saharan, while the earliest known North African interpretation was not until Edmund Kean's production of 1814.

One of the earliest known references to what served the major role of a passport is found in the Hebrew Bible.

The earliest surviving references to the city are found in the chronicles of Thietmar of Merseburg, written between 1012 and 1018: episcopus Posnaniensis (" bishop of Poznań ", in an entry for 970 ) and ab urbe Posnani (" from the city of Poznań ", for 1005 ).

One of the earliest references to preterism comes from Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. AD 263 – 339 ).

Even since the earliest recorded references to rowing, the sporting element has been present.

The earliest references to Nubia's successor kingdoms are contained in accounts by Greek and Egyptian Coptic authors of the conversion of Nubian kings to Christianity in the 6th century AD.

One of the earliest historical references to sugarcane is in Chinese manuscripts dating back to 8th century BC which mention the fact that the use of sugarcane originated in India.

Some of the earliest references include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible ( Ezekiel 47: 5, Acts 27: 42, Isaiah 25: 11 ), Beowulf, and other sagas.

Assuming all references are to the same person, as some ( but by no means all ) of the Church fathers did, the earliest reference to him is the canonical Acts of the Apostles, this is his only appearance in the New Testament.