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 ).

: Bopp's researches, carried with wonderful penetration into the most minute and almost microscopical details of linguistic phenomena, have led to the opening up of a wide and distant view into the original seats, the closer or more distant affinity, and the tenets, practices and domestic usages of the ancient Indo-European nations, and the science of comparative grammar may truly be said to date from his earliest publication.

His investigations into the usages and customs of his native Attica were embodied in an Atthis, in seventeen books, a history of Athens from the earliest times to 262 BC.

Nat., 13, 246 ), though not actually Milanese, is to be counted as a guide to early Ambrosian usages, and makes use of it in the reconstruction of the primitive Rite before, according to his theory, it was so extensively Romanized as it appears in the earliest undeniably Ambrosian documents.

" The earliest recorded usages for these spelling variants are: 1613 Tayn, 1710 Tien, 1747 Tyen, and 1878 T ' ien.

One of the earliest published usages of this phrase was in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son where he says " As the last straw breaks the laden camel's back ", meaning that there is a limit to everyone's endurance, or everyone has his breaking point.

One of the earliest usages of the term " complexity ", in the social and behavioral sciences, to refer specifically to a complex system is found in the study of modern organizations and management studies.

The earliest known usages of Pinoy / Pinay in magazines and newspapers date to the 1920s include taking on social issues facing Pinoy, casual mentions of Pinoys at events, while some are advertisements from Hawaii from Filipinos themselves.

The following are the more notable earliest usages:

" Carr ( 1993: 74 ) notes, " It is significant that the earliest usages for English lose face, save face, save-face and face-saver refer to China, while later ones are more international in application.

The Mercers ' Petition to Parliament of 1386 is the oldest piece of parliamentary English ; the earliest English wills at the London Court of Probate date from 1387 ; the earliest English returns of the ordinances, usages, holdings of the gilds are from 1389 and come from London, Norwich and King's Lynn.

Some of the earliest recordings, made in the 1940's demonstrated that psychiatrists reacted immediately to anger and anxiety in the sound track, whereas written records of the same interview offered far fewer cues to therapy which -- if they were at all discernible in print -- were picked up only by the most skilled and sensitive experts.

My own earliest memories are of exiles: my three brothers and I were taken often to the United States `` to visit relatives '' while my father stayed on to fight the dictator Machado.

The earliest amphibians evolved in the Devonian Period from sarcopterygian fish with lungs and bony-limbed fins, features that were helpful in adapting to dry land.

Scholars generally believe the earliest indigenous populations of Anatolia were the Hattians and Hurrians.

Some of the earliest attempts to apply scientific methods to the study of phenomena relating to an afterlife were conducted by this organization.

The earliest articles of faith were said to have been composed in the first century by the apostles themselves and sung publicly while on mission ( see Old Roman Symbol ).

In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.

The earliest anchors were probably rocks, and many rock anchors have been found dating from at least the Bronze Age.

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

His earliest writings were likely written in the 1150s, and probably in Paris.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

In the earliest days, the Diamondbacks operated basically as a subsidiary of the Suns ; several executives and managers with the Suns and America West Arena were brought over to the Diamondbacks in similar roles.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

Some of the earliest settlements were made on the slopes of Mount Benacantil.

Accounting is thousands of years old ; the earliest accounting records, which date back more than 7, 000 years, were found in Mesopotamia ( Assyrians ).

The earliest accounting records were found amongst the ruins of ancient Babylon, Assyria and Sumeria, which date back more than 7, 000 years.

Rise of the Triad and Marathon, both released on December 21, 1994, were the earliest first-person shooters to integrate dual wield pistols.

Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.

The earlier date, 293, is sometimes assigned and apparently supported by the authority of a " Coptic Fragment " ( published by Dr. O. von Lemm among the Mémoires de l ' académie impériale des sciences de S. Péterbourg, 1888 ) and corroborated by the maturity revealed in his two earliest treatises Contra Gentes ( Against the Heathens ) and De Incarnatione ( On the Incarnation ), which were admittedly written about the year 318 before Arianism had begun to make itself felt, as those writings do not show an awareness of Arianism.

The earliest original writings in Coptic language were the letters by Saint Anthony.

The Herculoids, made up of Herc, Coke La Rock, and DJ Clark Kent, were the earliest to gain major fame.

The earliest beam bridges were simple logs that sat across streams and similar simple structures.

The earliest known arch bridges were built by the Greeks, and include the Arkadiko Bridge.

The earliest suspension bridges were made of ropes or vines covered with pieces of bamboo.