The Asiatic cholera was the first of several cholera pandemics to sweep through Asia and Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.

After the devastating 1354 earthquake, the Greek city of Gallipoli was almost abandoned, but swiftly reoccupied by Turks from Anatolia, the Asiatic side of the straits, making Gallipoli the first Ottoman position in Europe, and the staging area for their expansion across the Balkans.

The Germanic Goths and Asiatic Huns were the first to arrive, invading in mid-century ; the Avars attacked in AD 570 ; and the Croatian tribes invaded in the early 7th century.

* The " Asiatic Flu ", 1889 – 1890, was first reported in May 1889 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

In 1811, and again in 1818, projects of Asiatic exploration were proposed to Humboldt, first by the Russian government, and afterwards by the Prussian government ; but on each occasion, untoward circumstances interposed, and it was not until he had begun his sixtieth year that he resumed his early role of traveller in the interests of science.

However, this analysis, often identified with Karl Wittfogel's theories on the Asiatic mode of production, is hotly contested, and few archaeologists or historians today accept it as a sufficient explanation for the first cities.

The side shown here depicts the pharaoh striking down an Asiatic tribesman along with the inscription " The first occasion of smiting the East

In the first passage preserved, Encolpius is in a Greek town in Campania, perhaps Puteoli, where he is standing outside a school, railing against the Asiatic style and false taste in literature, which he blames on the prevailing system of declamatory education ( 1-2 ).

The first battle in the Philippine theater was in Manila Bay, where, on May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey, commanding the United States Asiatic Squadron aboard the USS Olympia, in a matter of hours, defeated the Spanish squadron, under Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasarón.

In his first political speech in 1879 he had declared New Zealand did not wish her shores to be " deluged with Asiatic Tartars.

In addition there are okapi, which Bristol was one of the first zoos in the world to breed, Asiatic lion, pygmy hippo, and red panda, among the 300 mammals in its collection, representing 50 species ( from a total of over 4, 300 mammal species on earth )

James Atkinson of the East India Company's medical service was the first to undertake a translation into English in his 1832 publication for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, now part of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Soon after the appearance of Burnouf's Commentaire sur le Yacna ( 1833 ), Lassen also directed his attention to the Zend language, and to Iranian studies generally ; and in Die altpersischen Keilinschriften von Persepolis ( 1836 ) he first made known the true character of the Old Persian cuneiform inscriptions, thereby anticipating, by one month, Burnouf's Mémoire on the same subject, while Sir Henry Rawlinson's famous memoir on the Behistun Inscription, though drawn up in Persia, independently of contemporaneous European research, at about the same time, did not reach the Royal Asiatic Society until three years later.

It is always difficult for Englishmen to admit that Nelson ever had an equal in his profession, but if any man is entitled to be so regarded, it should be this great naval commander of Asiatic race who never knew defeat and died in the presence of the enemy ; of whose movements a track-chart might be compiled from the wrecks of hundreds of Japanese ships lying with their valiant crews at the bottom of the sea, off the coasts of the Korean peninsula ... and it seems, in truth, no exaggeration to assert that from first to last he never made a mistake, for his work was so complete under each variety of circumstances as to defy criticism ... His whole career might be summarized by saying that, although he had no lessons from past history to serve as a guide, he waged war on the sea as it should be waged if it is to produce definite results, and ended by making the supreme sacrifice of a defender of his country.

Acacius himself seems to have hesitated at first about adding his name to the list of the Asiatic bishops who had already signed the encyclical ; but, warned by a letter from Pope Simplicius, who had learned of his questionable attitude from the ever-vigilant monastic party, he reconsidered his position and threw himself violently into the debate.

In these years he completed his magnum opus as an arabist: the translation, for the Royal Asiatic Society, of the first part of Al Makkari's biography of Ibn al-Khatib.

Muhammad Ali had already begun to introduce European discipline into his army, and Ibrahim had probably received some training, but his first campaign was conducted more in the old Asiatic style than his later operations.

Bose ’ s first scientific paper, “ On polarisation of electric rays by double-refracting crystals ” was communicated to the Asiatic Society of Bengal in May 1895, within a year of Lodge ’ s paper.

The Germanic Goths and Asiatic Huns were the first to arrive, invading in mid-century ; the Avars attacked in AD.

A second wave of the culture, which used painted pottery with Asiatic influences, superseded the first phase starting around 4500 BC.

He was a Sanskrit scholar and the first President of Bengal's The Asiatic Society.

(" Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world, the chronicle of Asiatic and Egyptian matters together produced from the beginning of historical time up to the beginnings of Maccabes ")

Although disposed at first to divide the various documents into three classes, he finally adopted a classification into two: the African or older family of documents, and the Asiatic, or more recent class, to which he attached only a subordinate value.

It seems to me that the first human being to reach one of these planets may well learn what it is to be a truly great and noble species ''.

He concluded that in the southern species, which are rapidly growing types, females mate at the age of two and a half and bear the first young when they are three.

On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.

For a chemical process the first of these might involve the concentrations of the different chemical species, and the temperature or pressure of the stream.

Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.

Bosschaert became one of the first artists to specialise in still life, and in doing so he started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically consisted of tulips, roses and an exotic species.

According to Ferdinand Bohlmann, the first naturally occurring acetylenic compound, dehydromatricaria ester, was isolated from an Artemisia species in 1826.

Although those of many marine species function first as males and then as females, their colonies always contain a combination of zooids that are in their male and female stages.

He used a two-part naming scheme where the first name represented the genus and the second the species.

This weedy species in the mustard family ( Brassicaceae ) was one of the first plants to have its genome sequenced.

Strutt ( Sports and Pastimes ) suggests that the first player's bowl may have been regarded by the second player as a species of jack ; but in that case it is not clear what was the first player's target.

Other common names for the blue whale have included Sibbald's rorqual ( after Sibbald, who first described the species ), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.

The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.

Carnivorans have either four or five digits on each foot, with the first digit on the forepaws, also known as the dew claw, being vestigial in most species and absent in some.

Hesperocyonine canids first appeared in North America, and the earliest species is currently dated at 39. 74 mya, but they were not represented in Europe until well into the Miocene, and not into Asia and Africa until the Pliocene.

After five to six weeks these are weaned and become fully mature near the end of their first year or sometime in their second year, depending on the species.

The rapid diversification of lifeforms in the Cambrian, known as the Cambrian explosion, produced the first representatives of many modern phyla, representing the evolutionary stems of modern groups of species, such as the arthropods.

This was in contradiction to Ernst Haeckel's theory that the complete phylogeny of a species would be repeated during embryonic development, including generation of the first nucleated cell from a " Monerula ", a structureless mass of primordial mucus (" Urschleim ").

However, molecules that are larger than the average pore size of the packing are excluded and thus suffer essentially no retention ; such species are the first to be eluted.

*** Canis edwardii () †, first species of wolf in North America )

*** Canis ( Eucyon ) cipio ( 8. 2 Ma †, probably first species of Canis genus )

One of the first proposed estimates of the total number of beetle species on the planet is based on field data rather than on catalog numbers.

All cultures have creation myths ; they are our primary myths, the first stage in what might be called the psychic life of the species.

In the second volume of the first edition of Principles Lyell explicitly rejected the mechanism of Lamark on the transmutation of species, and was doubtful whether species were mutable.