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.

The earliest 10-inch, 78 rpm, shellac records were single sided.

In its earliest years, phonographs and the recordings that were played on them ( first wax phonograph cylinders, and later flat shellac discs ) were mostly toys for the rich, out of the reach of the middle or lower classes.

The history of the petroleum industry in the United States goes back to the early 19th century, although the indigenous peoples, like many ancient societies, have used petroleum seeps since prehistoric times ; where found, these seeps signaled the growth of the industry from the earliest discoveries to the more recent.

The origin of the harp goes back to Mesopotamia, The earliest harps and lyres were found in Sumer c, 3500 BCE Several harps were found in burial pits and royal tombs in Ur.

A modern version of theses medieval chains is seen in the Faroese chain dance, the earliest account of which goes back only to the 17th century.

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 university hospital is actually older than the university, as it goes back to the earliest hospital, founded in Uppsala in 1302, much later merged with the university clinic.

* The earliest English slave-trading expedition ( under John Hawkins ) goes between Guinea and the West Indies.

He wrote, " This is more of a message film than a noir thriller, but has been classified by most cinephiles in the noir category ... J. Roy Hunt, the 70-year-old cinematographer, who goes back to the earliest days of Hollywood, shot the film using the style of low-key lighting, providing dark shots of Monty, contrasted with ghost-like shots of Mary Mitchell ( Jacqueline ) as she angelically goes to help her troubled husband Arthur.

The earliest reference to the name ' Sceveninghe ' goes back to around 1280.

The earliest record of settlers in this area goes back to 1855, and in 1856 the group started a town.

Australia's reputation as a nation of heavy drinkers goes back to the earliest days of colonial Sydney, when rum was used as currency and grain shortages followed the installation of the first stills.

According to Needham, the earliest development of the armillary sphere in China goes back to the astronomers Shi Shen and Gan De in the 4th century BCE, as they were equipped with a primitive single-ring armillary instrument.

The earliest description of tabula is in an epigram of Byzantine Emperor Zeno ( 476 – 481 ), given by Agathias of Myrine ( 527 – 567 ), who describes a game in which Zeno goes from a strong position to a very weak one after an unfortunate dice roll.

The Later Annals of Beleriand expand on detail and reintroduce the encampment of the Host beside the River Sirion that goes back to the earliest fragments of the story.

While the swearing of some sort of oath goes back to the earliest records of organised masonry, the first recorded ritual is not until 1696, in the Edinburgh Register House manuscript.

The origin of the Henry Draper Catalogue goes back to the earliest photographic studies of stellar spectra.

Asia is from the Greek language, but its etymology goes further into its roots in the Afro-Asiatic languages, which includes Akkadian and Phoenician, some of the earliest known languages.

The history of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette goes back to the earliest days of territorial Arkansas.

The Croatian tradition of neologisms and linguistic purism goes back to the earliest documents of literacy ( 11th to 12th century ), but it was in the Renaissance Croatian literature that this characteristic has become dominant.

In one of the earliest cut scenes in the game Metal Gear Solid 4 Hal " Otacon " Emmerich cites " classic Werner syndrome " as the most apparent cause of Solid Snake's premature aging, though goes on to say that testing is inconclusive.

It details the history of computer and video games, beginning with a page about the earliest computer processors to the current days, this book goes into detail about what was happening to companies like Atari back before, during, and after the Video Game Crash of 1983-1984.

The O ' Eakins are stated to descend from the Irish Ui Tuirtre, who were descended from Fiach Tort, son of Colla Uais of the Oirghialla which were the descendants of Eochaid Doimlén, son of Cairbre Lifechair, son of Cormac Ulfhada and his wife Etaine, whose ancestry goes back another forty-nine generations in Ireland to its earliest Gaelic founders, the Milesians.

" The Vedas, the earliest texts on Indian philosophy and Hindu philosophy dating back to the late 2nd millennium BCE, describe ancient Hindu cosmology, in which the universe goes through repeated cycles of creation, destruction and rebirth, with each cycle lasting 4, 320, 000 years.

This is a way of using the word nature which goes back to its earliest forms in Greek.