Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

This traditional attribution of the Creed to Athanasius was first called into question in 1642 by Dutch Protestant theologian G. J.

The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur David de Vries gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642 (" the Wickquasgeck Road over which the Indians passed daily ").

The first to use pound locks was the Briare Canal connecting the Loire and Seine ( 1642 ), followed by the more ambitious Canal du Midi ( 1683 ) connecting the Atlantic to the Mediterranean.

Between 1642 and 1650 a French missionary Raymond Breton became the first regular European visitor to the island.

* 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.

The Church considers the first seven Ecumenical Councils ( held between the 4th and the 8th century ) to be the most important ; however, there have been more, specifically the Synods of Constantinople, 879 – 880, 1341, 1347, 1351, 1583, 1819, and 1872, the Synod of Iaşi ( Jassy ), 1642, and the Pan-Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem, 1672, all of which helped to define the Orthodox position.

" The term " anarchist " first entered the English language in 1642, during the English Civil War, as a term of abuse, used by Royalists against their Roundhead opponents.

* 1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts ( now known as York, Maine ), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.

* 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land ( later renamed Tasmania ).

The first use of the word police (" Polles ") in English comes from the book " The Second Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England " published in 1642

During his first imprisonment in 1642, he wrote his most famous poem ' To Althea, From Prison.

By 1642, the first official skating club, The Skating Club Of Edinburgh, was born, and, in 1763, the world saw its first official speed skating race, on the Fens in England organized by the National Ice Skating Association.

The word supersessionism comes from English supersede, first known to have been used with the meaning replace in 1642.

English Renaissance theatre, also known as early modern English theatre, refers to the theatre of England, largely based in London, which occurred between 1567, when the first English theatre ' The Red Lion ' was opened ; and the closure of the theatres in 1642.

The first European explorer to discover New Zealand was Abel Janszoon Tasman on 13 December 1642.

In 1642, French missionary Isaac Jogues was the first white man to traverse the portage at Ticonderoga while escaping a battle between the Iroquois and members of the Huron tribe.

New Zealand, first seen by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642, was regarded by some as a part of the continent.

In 1615, Jacob le Maire and Willem Schouten's rounding of Cape Horn proved that Tierra del Fuego was a relatively small island, while in 1642 Abel Tasman's first pacific voyage proved that Australia was not part of the mythical southern continent.

His first diplomatic mission on behalf of the city, in September 1642, was to the court of the Elector of Saxony at Dresden to seek some mitigation of the harshness with which the Saxon military commander treated Magdeburg.

The deer trade attracted the first Han traders to aboriginal villages, but as early as 1642 the demand for deer greatly diminished the deer stocks.

The territory was probably already " Indian-free " when the first coureurs des bois from Trois-Rivières came there in the years preceding the establishment of the settlement in 1642.

His son, also Thomas Mayhew, began the first English settlement in 1642 at Great Harbor ( later Edgartown, Massachusetts ).

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

* Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), the first computer programmer

* ADA collider, the first electron – positron collider

The period 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system.

The first Western literature, including the Hurrian – Hittite literature, the first Greek polis and the two main schools of Ancient Greek philosophy seem to originate in this region.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

He was the fourth child of Ondrej Varchola ( Americanized as Andrew Warhola, Sr., 1889 – 1942 ) and Júlia ( née Zavacká, 1892 – 1972 ), whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their move to the U. S. Andy had two older brothers, Paul, born about 1923, and John, born about 1925.

The first substantial amounts of metallic americium weighing 40 – 200 micrograms were not prepared until 1951 by reduction of americium ( III ) fluoride with barium metal in high vacuum at 1100 ° C.

The use of the term was first attributed to Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ).

* Opening Day – first Sunday in April

* 1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.

* 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1923 – The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.

* 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight ( Varney is the root company of United Airlines ).

* 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.

* 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

* 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

* 1961 – The Russian ( Soviet ) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 ( Vostok 1 ).