The earliest known pictorial representation of this tradition is the Ramsund carving, Sweden, which was created c. 1000 AD.

1400 – 30 ( Getty Center ). The earliest pictorial evidence for the use of eyeglasses is Tommaso da Modena's 1352 portrait of the cardinal Hugh de Provence reading in a scriptorium.

If this is Æthelbald, it would make it the earliest large-scale pictorial representation of an English monarch.

* Sketch of Sidney Sherman from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

* Sketch of Sterling Robertson from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

Very few early images of the Virgin Mary survive, though the depiction of the Madonna has roots in ancient pictorial and sculptural traditions that informed the earliest Christian communities throughout Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East.

* Map of the Battle Ground of San Jacinto from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

Hillenbrand suggests that the medieval Islamic texts called Maqamat, copied and illustrated by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti were some of the earliest " coffee table books .< nowiki >"</ nowiki > They were among the first texts to hold up a mirror to daily life in Islamic art, portraying humorous stories and showing little to no inheritance of pictorial tradition.

* La Salle's Map of Texas from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

* Sketch of Edward Burleson from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

* Sketch of Lubbock from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

* Sketch of the Canadian River from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, Portal to Texas History, University of Texas.

Fromentin was one of the earliest pictorial interpreters of Algeria, having been able, while quite young, to visit the land and people that suggested the subjects of most of his works, and to store his memory as well as his portfolio with the picturesque and characteristic details of North African life.

It has sometimes been supposed that, besides the Luigi who was the latest of this pictorial family, there had also been another Luigi who was the earliest ( i. e. Antonio's father ), this supposition being founded on the fact that one picture is signed with the name, with the date 1414.

* Sketch of Richard Coke from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

* Sketch of the Comal River Ferry from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

* Sketch of Richard B. Hubbard from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History.

* Sketch of O. M. Roberts from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A. D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

The earliest pictorial representation of Tyers ' Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, is the " Vauxhall fan " ( 1736 ), an etching printed in blue designed to be pasted to a fan ; it shows the earliest groups of pavilions, in a sober classical taste, but the interiors of the supper boxes were painted by members of Hogarth's St. Martin's Lane Academy, prominent among them Francis Hayman.

The earliest known record of argot was in a 1628 document.

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 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 earliest known record of " Chicano " was thought to be in the late 19th or turn of the 20th century in Northwest Indiana.

The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

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

The earliest record of somnambulistic clairvoyance is credited to the Marquis de Puységur, a follower of Mesmer, who in 1784 was treating a local dull-witted peasant named Victor Race.

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.

Charters were documents drawn up to record grants of land by kings to their followers or to the church, and they provide some of the earliest documentary sources in England.

The earliest record of hominids living in Europe has been found in the Spanish cave of Atapuerca ; fossils found there date to roughly 1. 2 million years ago.

Democritus seems to be the earliest philosopher on record to have categorically embraced a hedonistic philosophy ; he called the supreme goal of life " contentment " or " cheerfulness ", claiming that " joy and sorrow are the distinguishing mark of things beneficial and harmful " ( DK 68 B 188 ).

The earliest clear written record of iron horseshoes is a reference to " crescent figured irons and their nails " in AD 910.

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.

The Merneptah Stele ( JE 31408 ), the earliest record of the name " Israel " ( Cairo Museum )

The earliest record of the name " Afghan " (" Abgân ") being mentioned is by Shapur I of the Sassanid Empire during the 3rd century CE which is later recorded in the form of " Avagānā " by the Indian astronomer Varāha Mihira in his 6th century CE Brihat-samhita.

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

These specimens are the earliest known relatives of modern salamanders, and together with the numerous other basal groups of salamanders found in the Asian fossil record, they form a concrete base of evidence for the fact that “ the early diversification of salamanders was well underway ” in Asia during the Jurassic period.

The earliest written record of inoculation is thought to be found in 8th century India, when Madhav wrote the Nidāna, a 79-chapter book which lists diseases along with their causes, symptoms, and complications.

* 1836 Philadelphia surgeon Joseph Parrish ( Dr. Phillip Syng Physic's mentee ) publishes earliest record of interstitial cystitis, in 1836 textbook by Physic's mentee

The earliest record of Digambara beliefs is contained in the Prakrit Suttapahuda of the Digambara mendicant Kundakunda ( c. 2nd century AD ).

This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.

* Abendana, Jacob in The Jewish encyclopedia: a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day, New York ; London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901 – 06, volume 1, p 53.

In the earliest preserved Christian record, a letter of Florentine senate to the King Tvrtko I of Bosnia, dated 20 October 1389, Murad I's killing was described.

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

The earliest record of Native American and African contact occurred in April 1502, when Spanish colonists transported the first Africans to Hispaniola to serve as slaves.