The Germanics were in Germany and Scandinavia during earliest mention of them in Roman literature, long before the Romans had even conquered Italy.

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

The earliest mention of the island of Abadan, if not the port itself is found in works of the geographer Marcian, who renders the name " Apphadana ".

The earliest known mention of baseball in the United States was a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance banning the playing of the game within of the town meeting house.

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

The earliest mention of the root " ceram -" is the Mycenaean Greek ke-ra-me-we, " workers of ceramics ", written in Linear b syllabic script.

The earliest mention of dominoes is from Yuan Dynasty China, found in the text Former Events in Wulin.

There is no mention of Euclid in the earliest remaining copies of the Elements, and most of the copies say they are " from the edition of Theon " or the " lectures of Theon ", while the text considered to be primary, held by the Vatican, mentions no author.

This is the earliest surviving source to mention any Anglo-Saxon kingdom.

The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 24th century BC.

The earliest written mention of immunity can be traced back to the plague of Athens in 430 BCE.

The earliest mention of Justin is found in the Oratio ad Graecos by Tatian, who calls him " the most admirable Justin ," quotes a saying of his, and says that the Cynic Crescens laid snares for him.

Although there are earlier descriptions of an island in the Sunda Strait with a " pointed mountain ," the earliest mention of Krakatoa by name in the western world was on a 1611 map by Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer, who labelled the island " Pulo Carcata " ( pulo is the Sundanese word for " island ").

Although lutes were in widespread use in Europe at least since the 13th century, and documents mention numerous early performers and composers, the earliest surviving music for the instrument dates from the late 15th century.

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 mention of the attraction of a needle appears in a work composed between AD 20 and 100 ( Louen-heng ): " A lodestone attracts a needle.

The earliest mention of this episode is the notice of the chronicler Sigebert of Gembloux ( died 1112 ), who asserts that the relics were removed to Vézelay through fear of the Saracens.

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.

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 mention of the female pope appears in the Dominican Jean de Mailly's chronicle of Metz, Chronica Universalis Mettensis, written in the early 13th century.

Some manuscripts of it contain a brief mention of a female Pope named Joanna ( the earliest source to attach to her the female form of the name ), but all these manuscripts are later than Martin's work.

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:

In ancient Greece, the earliest mention of oratorical skill occurs in Homer's Iliad, where heroes like Achilles, Hektor, and Odysseus were honored for their ability to advise and exhort their peers and followers ( the Laos or army ) in wise and appropriate action.

Subsequently, one of the earliest texts to mention the use of rockets was the Huolongjing, written by the Chinese artillery officer Jiao Yu in the mid-14th century.

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.

At 4 ft 9 inches tall, she received the nickname Little Miss Dynamite in 1957 after recording the song " Dynamite "; and was one of the earliest pop stars to have a major contemporary international following.

This was one of the earliest Radio One gospel stations marked with the " Praise " nickname which spread to its other stations over the course of the decade.

The discrepancy between Brân's nickname (" the Stingy ") and the special property of the enchanted horn appears to be explained by the Welsh poet Guto ' r Glyn, who lived in the mid-15th century and was therefore contemporary with the earliest attestations of the Tri Thlws ar Ddleg.

The earliest recorded information on the club, from March 1888, focuses on an early match between Dunipace and Denny Football Club, with " The Pace " ( the nickname that has stuck with the club throughout its history ) sweeping aside their opponents by 6 goals to nil.

The term originated in New York City, probably in the 1930s ( the Oxford English Dictionary provides an earliest citation of 1941 ), but the institutions date back at least fifty years before the nickname was applied to them.

And so deadheads on the payroll can be eased out at the earliest possible age.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

The earliest evidence for fist fighting with any kind of gloves can be found on Minoan Crete ( c. 1500 – 900 BC ), and on Sardinia, if we consider the boxing statues of Prama mountains ( c. 2000 – 1000 BC ).

Mesopotamia can claim the earliest cities, particularly Eridu, Uruk, and Ur.

CVD oxide invariably has lower quality than thermal oxide, but thermal oxidation can only be used in the earliest stages of IC manufacturing.

All but the very earliest 1541s can use either the Alps or Newtronics mechanism.

In the Protestant traditions some of the earliest writings opposing unorthodox groups like Swedenborg's teachings, can be traced back to John Wesley, Alexander Campbell and Princeton theologians like Charles Hodge and Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield.

Early conceptions of ecology, such as a balance and regulation in nature can be traced to Herodotus ( died c. 425 BC ), who described one of the earliest accounts of mutualism in his observation of " natural dentistry ".

Due to schisms, only the two earliest councils can be considered to have included bishops of the entire Christian Church, as it existed before those schisms.

Further, the earliest use of feuum ( as a replacement for beneficium ) can be dated to 899, the same year a Muslim base at Fraxinetum ( La Garde-Freinet ) in Provence was established.

One of the earliest examples of the technique can be found in the 16th century chivalric romance, Amadis of Gaul ( 1508 ), written by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo.

The earliest recorded beginnings of geometry can be traced to early peoples, who discovered obtuse triangles in the ancient Indus Valley ( see Harappan Mathematics ), and ancient Babylonia ( see Babylonian mathematics ) from around 3000 BC.

Alice Miller claims that " many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents ' expectations .... no argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest period, and from that they derive their intensity.

TeamGym ( also known as " Gymnastics for All ") has it origins in earliest times. These days, although teams can compete the sport itself was developed to enhance fitness and health in the participants and is accessible to anyone of any age.

" Explicit connections of the earliest Stoics to Heraclitus showing how they arrived at their interpretation are missing but they can be inferred from the Stoic fragments.

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.

Israel Finkelstein proposed that the oval or circular layout that distinguishes some of the earliest highland sites, and the notable absence of pig bones from hill sites, could be taken as a marker of ethnicity, but others have cautioned that these can be a " common-sense " adaptation to highland life and not necessarily revelatory of origins.

Purcell is said to have been composing at nine years old, but the earliest work that can be certainly identified as his is an ode for the King's birthday, written in 1670.

Henry Purcell's earliest anthem Lord, who can tell was composed in 1678.

In fact the earliest surviving texts that can definitely be called Italian ( or more accurately, vernacular, as distinct from its predecessor Vulgar Latin ) are legal formulae from the Province of Benevento that date from 960 – 963.

" Incunable " is the anglicised singular form of " incunabula ", Latin for " swaddling clothes " or " cradle " which can refer to " the earliest stages or first traces in the development of anything.

The earliest of the prose can be dated on linguistic grounds to the 9th century, and some of the verse may be as old as the 6th century.

Parshvanatha, the twenty-third Tirthankar, is the earliest Jain leader who can be reliably dated.