This has been his first encounter with mankind, and, although he has now become a legendary figure in the popular European press, it leaves him profoundly dissatisfied.

Many scholars consider modern anthropology as an outgrowth of the Age of Enlightenment, a period when Europeans attempted to study human behavior systematically, the known varieties of which had been increasing since the fifteenth century as a result of the first European colonization wave.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

His son Snorri Thorfinnsson was the first American born ( somewhere between 1010 and 1013 ) to European ( Icelandic ) immigrant parents.

With curtailment of the MCC funding, the European Union may replace the US as Armenia ’ s chief source of foreign aid for the first time since independence.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the European Union remained Armenia's largest trading partner, accounting for 34. 4 percent of its $ 2. 85 billion commercial exchange during the 11-month period.

Cabot is believed the first Western European on the mainland.

* 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

Throughout European history, philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, among others, contemplated the possibility that souls exist in animals, plants, and people ; however, the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in the 19th century by Sir Edward Tylor, who created it as " one of anthropology's earliest concepts, if not the first ".

British explorer David Thompson was the first European to navigate the entire length of the Columbia River in 1811.

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

The first generation of television chefs such as Robert Carrier and Julia Child tended to concentrate on cooking based primarily on European, especially French and Italian, cuisines.

His watercolours mark him as one of the first European landscape artists, while his ambitious woodcuts revolutionized the potential of that medium.

Lucas van Leyden was the only Northern European engraver to successfully continue to produce large engravings in the first third of the century.

Although Dürer made no innovations in these areas, he is notable as the first Northern European to treat matters of visual representation in a scientific way, and with understanding of Euclidean principles.

Other anti-war demonstrations were organized by the antiglobalization movement: see for example the large demonstration, organized against the impending war in Iraq, which closed the first European Social Forum in November, 2002 in Florence, Italy.

The first European Social Forum ( ESF ) was held in November 2002 in Florence.

Steiner was one of the first European philosophers to overcome the subject-object split in Western thought.

It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.

According to the European Music Office's report on Music in Europe, this was the first of many pop acts that helped inspire a backlash and the creation of an underground hip hop scene.

This agreement, the first Afghan pact with a European power, stipulated joint action in case of Franco-Persian aggression against Afghan or British dominions.

He was the first European to visit the region of Benin in Nigeria and named the river located there, the Rio Fermoso.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

We find, in the first place, that the students overwhelmingly approve of higher education, positively evaluate the job their own institution is doing, do not accept most of the criticisms levelled against higher education in the public prints, and, on the whole, approve of the way their university deals with value-problems and value inculcation.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

* 1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan ( modern day Tohoku University ) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

* Weil's Law of university hiring: " First rate people hire other first rate people.

The institution was the first, and thus far only, English university in Moncton.

* Ralph Richardson, first chancellor of the university

In 2001, it achieved high rankings in the annual Maclean's University Rankings, including Best Overall for Primarily Undergraduate University in their opinion survey, and it received the Canadian Information Productivity Award in 1997 as it was praised as the first university in Canada to fully utilize information technology in the undergraduate curriculum.

Alexander was also one of the first scholastics to participate in the Quodlibetal, a university event in which a master had to respond to any question posed by any student or master over a period of three days.

Founded first as the Bursa University then renamed to Uludağ University in 1982, the university has a student body of 47, 000, one of the largest in Turkey.

The first private university of Bursa is Bursa Orhangazi University, which is going to start its first education in 2012 – 2013 academic year.

He was the first Jesuit to teach at the university, where the subject of his course was the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas.

This was a result of the adaptation to the Bologna process that started in 2004 at Chalmers ( as the first technical university in Sweden ).

In 1840 he qualified as university lecturer in theology with a dissertation on the recensions of the New Testament text — the main part of which reappeared the following year in the prolegomena to his first edition of the Greek New Testament.

In the 11th century, professors at the University of Bologna, Western Europe's first university, rediscovered the Corpus Juris Civilis, and its influence began to be felt across Europe.

The Committee Against Investment in South Africa ( CAISA ) and numerous student groups including the Socialist Action Committee, the Black Student Organization and the Gay Students group joined together and succeeded in pressing for the first partial divestment of a U. S. university.

It followed a year long campaign first initiated by students who had worked together to block the appointment of former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to an endowed chair at the university in 1977.

The first German university, the University of Heidelberg was not established until 1386.

It was also for a time the official name of the first college in the public university system of New York City, later named ( and still called ) the City College of New York, and now officially the City College of the City University of New York.

The first Congolese university graduate was only in 1956, and virtually no one in the new nation had any idea of how to manage a country of such size.

* 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Dalhousie University was first established as a non-sectarian college in 1818 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, whom the university was named after.

Munro is thus credited with rescuing it from the brink of closure, and in honour of his contributions, Dalhousie observes a university holiday called George Munro Day each year on the first Friday of February.