* 1855 – The first ascent of Monte Rosa, the second highest summit in the Alps.

In May 2006, climber Dean Potter made the first recorded free solo ( no ropes or protection ) ascent of this formation.

The first navy of the Caliph of Córdoba or Emir was built after the humiliating Viking ascent of the Guadalquivir in 844 when they sacked Seville.

* 1956 – Fritz Moravec and two other Austrian mountaineers make the first ascent of Gasherbrum II ( 8, 035 m ).

* 2012 – Polish mountaineers Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb make the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum I.

Sir Edmund Hillary made his first ascent in January 1948.

In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge to the Low Peak In order to celebrate the life of Hillary the South Ridge was renamed as Hillary Ridge in August 2011.

* 1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.

* On-Sight Climbing, the ascent of a rock climbing route on the first attempt, with no falls, without prior knowledge of its specifics beyond its difficulty rating and number of protection points, if a bolted climbing route.

* 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers ' hot air balloon marks the first human ascent, by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, ( tethered balloon ).

An image plate from the first palace of Phaistos, seems to be very close to the mythical image of the Anodos ( ascent ) of Persephone.

* 1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian ( 5, 199 m – 17, 058 ft ), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

At about this time, the people of the lagoon elected their own leader for the first time, although the relationship of this ascent to the uprisings is not clear.

The first ascent of LZ1 over Lake Constance ( the Bodensee ) in 1900

The first ascent of LZ1 over Lake Constance ( the Bodensee ) in 1900.

* July 14 – First ascent of the Matterhorn: The summit of the Matterhorn in the Alps is reached for the first time, by a party of seven led by the Englishman Edward Whymper ; four die in a fall during the descent.

* May 13 – A joint Swiss & Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountain, Dhaulagiri, the world's 7th highest mountain.

** Reinhold Messner ( Italy ) and Peter Habeler ( Austria ) made the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.

* August 27 – English lawyer Alfred Wills and party set out for the first ascent of the Wetterhorn in Switzerland, regarded as the start of the " golden age of alpinism ".

* The first ascent is made of Castle Mountain by geologist Arthur Philemon Coleman.

* Pedro Teixeira makes the first ascent of the Amazon River, from its mouth to Quito, Ecuador.

She continues her ascent first in post-war Paris and then in London where she is patronised by the great Marquis of Steyne, who covertly subsidises her and introduces her to London society.

Hamish Brown did the first continuous self-propelled round of the Munros ( except for the Skye and Mull ferries ) between 4 April and 24 July 1974 walking, of which were on a bicycle, with of ascent.

However, white explorers may not have been the first to climb many of the peaks and the earliest first ascent of even the formidable Grand Teton itself might have been achieved long before written history documented it.

Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.

In his spare time, Grand polishes up his Latin, and he is also writing a book, but he is such a perfectionist that he continually rewrites the first sentence and can get no further.

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

He first joined the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in 1840 then had in the interim joined a Masonic Lodge and become extremely active in the affairs of the organization, being elected Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite's Southern Jurisdiction in 1859.

* Albert of Prussia, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and the first duke of Prussia.

He was suspected and denounced, but nothing ensued until the establishment of the Inquisition in Rome in June 1542, at the instigation of Cardinal Giovanni Pietro Carafa, the first Grand Inquisitor, and later Pope Paul IV.

While on his first cross-country tour, he appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and defied that conservative show's ban on using drums of any sort.

Jack Brabham took the team's first win at the non-championship Solitude Grand Prix in 1963.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

The club won its first AFL Premiership by defeating Essendon 15. 18 ( 108 ) to 12. 10 ( 82 ) in the 2001 AFL Grand Final.

The first recorded permanent inhabitant of the Cayman Islands, Isaac Bodden, was born on Grand Cayman around 1700.

To break out of the limitations caused by river valleys, the first summit level canals were developed with the Grand Canal of China in 581 – 617 AD whilst in Europe the first, also using single locks, was the Stecknitz Canal in Germany in 1398.

The Xia Dynasty of China ( from c. 2100 to c. 1600 BC ) is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals.

The first systematic Chinese historical text, Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian, was written by Sima Qian.

Records of the Grand Historian is the first among Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of history from 3000 BCE to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th century.

She had ceased to attend the meetings when she was nominated to be the first woman Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, but the nomination was withdrawn at the request of her husband, Thomas Reggie, who said that due to the Alzheimer's progress the award and ceremony would be at best confusing and likely upsetting to her.

The Dutch Grand Prix was a round of the World Drivers Championship for the first time not a Formula One race, as the World Championship was for Formula Two cars that year and in 1953.

Circuit Park Zandvoort played host to the first race in the 2006 / 07 season of A1 Grand Prix from 29 September-1 October 2006.

He wrote his first published novel, Eclipse ( 1935 ), about a town and its people, in the social realist style, drawing on his years in Grand Junction.

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

* 1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.

* 1775 – The becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag ( the precursor to the Stars and Stripes ); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.

* 1927 – The phrase " Grand Ole Opry " is used for the first time on-air.