* 1329 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII ; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop.

He was first deacon of church of St Bartholomew in his native Liège and was then appointed ( c. 1100 ) to St. Lambert's Cathedral.

The plebeians accepted the offer, and accordingly two curule aediles were appointed — at first from the patricians alone, then from patricians and plebeians in turn, lastly, from either — at the Tribal Assembly under the presidency of the consul.

As the scene of his activity, Rav first chose Nehardea, where the exilarch appointed him agoranomos, or market-master, and Rabbi Shela made him lecturer ( amora ) of his college ( Jerusalem Talmud Bava Batra v. 15a ; Yoma, 20b ).

He appointed seventy-two abbreviators, of whom twelve were of the upper, or greater, and twenty-two of the lower, or lesser, presidency ( Parco ), and thirty-eight examiners on first appearance of letters.

After recovering in early 1915, he was appointed to be brigade major first of 112th Brigade and then with 104th Brigade under training in Lancashire.

Archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen that oversaw the missionary work in Scandinavia until 1103, had appointed bishops to Sweden at least from 1014 onwards, the first see being in Skara.

Many changes followed: the first full-time in house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, A Friends organization was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973.

The first such British High Commissioner was appointed to Ottawa in 1928.

President Grover Cleveland appointed Thomas M. Cooley, a railroad ally, as its first chairman and a permit system was used to deny access to new entrants and legalize price fixing.

As a likely consequence, it was after that that the first disciples of Confucius were appointed to government positions.

He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).

The first cardinal from the family was appointed in 1206 when Giovanni Colonna di Carbognano was made Cardinal Deacon of SS.

Another Charlton legend, Chris Powell was appointed manager of the club in January, winning his first game in charge 2 – 0 over Plymouth at the Valley, Charlton's first win since November.

Chiang's appointments, the first time that Muslims had been appointed as governors of Gansu, increased the prestige of Muslim officials in northwestern China.

Upon returning to South Africa in 1958, Barnard was appointed cardiothoracic surgeon at the Groote Schuur Hospital, establishing the hospital's first heart unit.

Cyril got in trouble again when he appointed his nephew to bishop of Caesarea ; this was not the first time Cyril had appointed someone close to him to a high position in the Church.

It established Diocese of Samogitia, with seat in Medininkai and subordinated to Lithuanian dioceses, and appointed Matthias of Trakai as the first bishop.

In March 2008, Japan's Foreign Ministry appointed Doraemon as the nation's first " anime ambassador.

In 2008, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Doraemon as the first anime cultural ambassador.

The first woman to have been appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, Bertha Wilson was also a graduate from Dalhousie Law School.

The first ships to bear the formal designation " torpedo boat destroyer " ( TBD ) were the Daring class of two ships and Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral " Jackie " Fisher.

Its first Allied-appointed mayor, Franz Oppenhoff, was murdered by an SS commando unit.

The first regional mayor was Thoms Thors.

* Armand Joseph Dubernad ( 1741 – 1799 ), financial trader, consul general of the Holy Roman Empire, deputy, mayor and cofounder of the first Jacobin Club of Brittany.

In 1920, while mayor, he wrote his first book, The Social Worker, which set out many of the principles that informed his political philosophy and that were to underpin the actions of his government in later years.

Only Austrasia ( green ) supported an Arnulfing mayor, first Theudoald then Charles.

George Mitchell was elected the first mayor.

In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected.

In 1983, Harold Washington became the first black mayor of the city of Chicago.

In 1969, he became the first African American since the Reconstruction era to have been elected as mayor in a Mississippi city, Fayette in Jefferson County.

Parker was a resident of Davenport and one of six trustees elected to govern the city with Rodolphus Bennet being the first mayor.

in France, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.

On 9 November 1908 she was elected mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in England.

Mrs Garrett Anderson: first English woman physician ; mayor of Aldeburgh, November 1908

During the political opening after the military regime, the people elected the city's first woman mayor, Maria Luíza Fontenele, and had the first city hall commanded by a left-wing party.

The first game was played April 20, 1912, with mayor John F. Fitzgerald throwing out the first pitch and Boston defeating the New York Highlanders ( renamed the Yankees the next year ), 7-6 in 11 innings.

LaGuardia was the city's first Italian-American mayor, but was not a typical Italian New Yorker.

His first action as mayor was to order the chief of police to arrest mob boss Lucky Luciano on whatever charges could be found.

The first Kashubian mayor of Gdingen was Jan Radtke.

The world's first GSM call was made by the Finnish prime minister Harri Holkeri to Kaarina Suonio ( mayor in city of Tampere ) on 1 July 1991 on a network built by Telenokia and Siemens and operated by Radiolinja.

In 1964, the first elections were held for a community council, and in 1979 for the first mayor.