The earliest recorded use of this term in English is in Thomas Hacket's 1568 translation of André Thévet's book on France Antarctique ; Thévet himself had referred to the natives as Ameriques.

The earliest recorded use of this term in English dates to 1648, in Thomas Gage's The English-American: A New Survet of the West Indies.

The first authoritative knowledge of the earliest ballroom dances was recorded toward the end of the 16th century, when Jehan Tabourot, under the pen name " Thoinot-Arbeau ", published in 1588 his Orchésographie, a study of late 16th-century French renaissance social dance.

It was during this cruise with Hornigold that the earliest known report of Teach was made, in which he is recorded as a pirate in his own right, in command of a large crew.

It is also the earliest recorded and earliest written language of the Mon – Khmer family, predating Mon and by a significant margin Vietnamese.

The archaeological site of Xihoudu in Shanxi Province is the earliest recorded use of fire by Homo erectus, which is dated 1. 27 million years ago.

However, the earliest known civilizations had codes of law, containing both civil and penal rules mixed together, though not always in recorded form.

The earliest recorded introductions were to Barbados and Martinique.

The earliest recorded use of the terms Christianity ( Greek ) and Catholic ( Greek ), dates to this period, the 2nd century, attributed to Ignatius of Antioch c. 107.

The earliest event recorded in the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba in Constantine's reign is an attack by Vikings and the plundering of Dunkeld " and all Albania " in his third year.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

One of the most attractive old streets is Smith Street and is the earliest street in Dartmouth to be recorded by name ( in the 13th century ).

Evidence for the fire hypothesis is the sudden increase in widespread ash deposits at the time that people arrived in Australia, as well as land-management and hunting practices of modern Aboriginal people as recorded by the earliest European settlers before Aboriginal society was devastated by European contact and disease.

Its earliest recorded use in the prevalent modern sense, as a female dominant in S & M, dates to 1967.

Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts ; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424-25.

The earliest recorded visual example is from the cemetery of the Church of the Holy Innocents in Paris ( 1424 – 25 ).

In his First Epistle to the Corinthians ( c 54-55 ), Paul the Apostle gives the earliest recorded description of Jesus ' Last Supper: " The Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ' This is my body which is for you.

The earliest emperor recorded in Kojiki and Nihon Shoki is Emperor Jimmu.

In 1879 Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white.

" One year later, the earliest recorded use in reference to a theological distinction was by Sir Thomas More, who spoke of " Tyndale his evangelical brother Barns ".

The earliest written evidence is found in the Linear B clay tablets in the " Room of the Chariot Tablets ", an LMIII A-context ( c. 1400 BC ) region of Knossos, in Crete, making Greek the world's oldest recorded living languages.

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.

Although usually thought of as a spiritual, the earliest recorded use of the song was as a rallying anthem for the Contrabands at Fort Monroe sometime before July 1862.

The adjective derived from this noun, * þiudiskaz, " popular ", was later used with reference to the language of the people in contrast to the Latin language ( earliest recorded example 786 ).

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 ".

In the 10th century, the Persian astronomer, Azophi, made the earliest recorded observation of the Andromeda Galaxy, describing it as a " small cloud ".

The earliest surviving record of sunspot observation dates from 364 BC, based on comments by Chinese astronomer Gan De in a star catalogue.

Other old writings such as the Vedas ( 1500-800 BC ) demonstrate the careful observation of avian life histories and includes the earliest reference to the habit of brood parasitism by the Asian Koel ( Eudynamys scolopacea ).

In the 13th – 15th centuries, Tusi and Ali Kuşçu provided the earliest empirical evidence for the Earth's rotation, using the phenomena of comets to refute Ptolemy's claim that a stationary Earth can be determined through observation.

The first recorded observation of the strait occurred nearly two hundred years later than the earliest European explorations of the coast ; in 1769 Sgt.

The earliest scientific observation and study dates to the 1880s ; the determination and observation of plant hormones and their identification was spread-out over the next 70 years.

The earliest references to negative weight are due to the observation that metals gain weight when oxidizing in the study of phlogiston theory in the early 1700s.

The earliest scientific thinking based on observation of ant life was that of Auguste Forel ( 1848 – 1931 ), a Swiss psychologist who initially was interested in ideas of instinct, learning, and society.

His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming ; the first observation of Brownian motion ; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms ; and some of the earliest studies in palynology.

In the 13th to 15th centuries, Tusi and Ali Qushji provided the earliest empirical evidence for the Earth's rotation, using the phenomena of comets to refute Ptolemy's claim that a stationary Earth can be determined through observation.

The earliest recorded Air Corps use of the airport was when the 105th Observation Squadron began flying Douglas O-38 and North American O-47 light observation aircraft beginning on 24 September.

The earliest use of military aircraft was for observation and directing of artillery but strafing was frequently practiced in World War I. Trenches and supply columns were routinely attacked from the air in the second half of the war.

Included in the section on Jupiter is an apparent record of a very early ( if not the earliest ) observation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, made by Leander Bandtius, Abbot of Dunisburgh and owner of a particularly fine telescope, in late 1632.

The earliest form of Luftstreitkräfte military flying unit in World War I, first formed in 1914 with six two-seater observation aircraft per unit.

His 1444 panel, The Miraculous Draft of Fishes ( a portion of a lot altarpiece ) is credited with being the earliest extant faithful portrayal of a landscape in European art history, being based on observation of real topographical features.

The article is also considered one of the earliest examples of New Games Journalism where review of computer games are meshed with social observation and consideration of surrounding issues.

The 1967 outburst was again detected by Cyrus Fernald ( FE ), however, Fernald was not given credit for the earliest observation of maximum.