The German courteously indicated that Robinson should mount first.

He had presented the first German performances of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and De Falla's La Vida Breve.

A professor at the University of Constantinople, where his first course of lectures was on Nietzsche and the `` philosophy of action '', Vincent Berger becomes head of the propaganda department of the German Embassy in Turkey.

As an Alsatian before the first World War he was of course of German nationality ; ;

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Compositae were first described in 1792 by the German botanist Paul Dietrich Giseke.

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

* 1962 – East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin becoming one of the first victims of the wall.

* 1903 – German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

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.

Aachen was the first German city to be captured by the Allies.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

* 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

The first German tank destroyers were the Panzerjäger (" tank hunters ") which took an existing anti-tank gun and mounted it on a convenient chassis to give mobility, usually with just a three-sided gun shield for protection.

Friedrich Sertürner, the German chemist who first isolated morphine from opium.

The first complete synthesis of an alkaloid was achieved in 1886 by the German chemist Albert Ladenburg.

" The Four Books on Measurement " were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler.

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

Some saw the 1891 team — the first sanctioned by the Rugby Football Union — as the English national team, though others referred to it as " the British Isles ".

It came two years before an inter-club rugby game under the auspices of the Rugby Football Union would be played in England ; though it must be remembered that rugby had been codified 24 years before this in 1845 and played by many schools, universities and clubs even before the laws were first put on paper.

After retiring from the army he had established a business training horses first in Cheshire and then at ' The Mount ', near Rugby.

* 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.

* 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30, 000 spectators.

Oxfordians say the first of these phrases could refer to one of Edward de Vere's manors, Bilton, near the Forest of Arden, in Rugby, on the River Avon.

In 1883, he visited England for the first time, and studied the program of physical education instituted by Thomas Arnold at the Rugby School.

In 1845, the first football laws were written by Rugby School pupils ; other significant events in the early development of rugby include the Blackheath Club's decision to leave the Football Association in 1863 and the split between rugby union and rugby league in 1895.

Historically an amateur sport, in 1995 the International Rugby Board ( IRB ) removed restrictions on payments to players, making the game openly professional at the highest level for the first time.

The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup.

Significant events in the early development of rugby football were the production of the first set of written football laws at Rugby School in 1845, which was followed by the ' Cambridge Rules ' drawn up in 1848.

In 1973 the first officially sanctioned international sevens tournament took place at Murrayfield, one of Scotland's biggest stadiums, as part of the Scottish Rugby Union centenary celebrations.

In 1987 the first Rugby World Cup was held in New Zealand and Australia, and the inaugural winners were New Zealand.

* 1895 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895 – 96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

* January 4 – England celebrates its first ever win over the All Blacks in Rugby Union, in particular the 2 famous tries by " The Prince " HH Alexander Obolensky.

* September 7 – The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895 – 96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.

* March 27 – The first Rugby Union International results in a 4 – 1 win by Scotland over England.

The capacity of the proposed Stadium was later adjusted to first 35, 000 and then 38, 000 and the organising bodies of all three sports-Irish FA, Ulster Rugby and Ulster GAA-agreed in principle to support the integrated scheme.

In 1979, Benetton first sponsored their ( then amateur ) local rugby team, A. S. Rugby Treviso.

* Dave Gallaher – first All Blacks Rugby captain.

The first record of football being played on Tyneside dates from 3 March 1877 at Elswick Rugby Club.

The Rattler Rugby team is the first full contact sport on the campus since the football program back in the 1940s.

The county government was first organized on April 6, 1889 ; Rugby has always been the county seat.