The War of the Austrian Succession saw Britain and France in conflict with each other, and in 1745 several warships and a small contingent of troops were sent from Boston, first to the Nova Scotian fishing port of Canso, and on to Louisbourg where they laid siege to the fortress until the French surrendered and were evacuated.

Mathematical and logical propositions ( e. g. " that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides ") are examples of the first, while propositions involving some contingent observation of the world ( e. g. " the sun rises in the East ") are examples of the second.

* 1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.

In November 1985, it was announced that the first contingent of " armed people " trained as paratroopers had made a demonstration drop.

Compagnie A is the first of two rifle companies and it forms the Luxembourg contingent of the Eurocorps and will normally be integrated into the Belgian contribution during operations.

And the first Nepalese contingent, Purano Gorakh battalion was deployed in Egypt in 1974.

His insistence during the expedition on Royal Navy formalities had made for uneasy relations with the merchant navy contingent, many of whom departed for home with the first relief ship in March 1903.

* Since November 1997, Slovenia has participated in its first United Nations peacekeeping operation, contributing 27 troops to an Austrian UNFICYP contingent on Cyprus.

* July 16 – WWII: The first contingent of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force arrives in Italy.

* June 2 – Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam.

The British 1939 White paper stipulated that Jewish immigration to Palestine was to be limited to 15, 000 a year for the first five years, and would subsequently be contingent on Arab consent.

The first half of the Soviet contingent was withdrawn from May 15 to August 16, 1988 and the second from November 15 to February 15, 1989.

The forces were led by Australia, which provided the largest contingent and the out of theatre base for operations, supported by New Zealand, who sent the second largest contingent, and took responsibility for the more volatile southern half of the main border, France, whose special forces joined the ANZACs on the first day, as well as contingents from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Fiji, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

After the war, the area became a refuge for the first Afro-Caribbean born contingent.

After the Powhatans killed the colony's Council President, Lord Ratcliffe, and attacked the colony in the first First Anglo-Powhatan War, Lord De La Warr headed the contingent of 150 men who landed in Jamestown, Virginia on June 10, 1610, just in time to persuade the original settlers not to give up and go home to England.

The first contingent of settlers came in mid-1925 and immediately set out to work constructing homes and a large hotel to accommodate future newcomers.

Construction was still in progress when the first contingent of 12 men and four aircraft under the command of 1st Lt Robert Warren arrived from Luke Field on September 1, 1937.

The castle was first mentioned during the Investiture Controversy in a 1080 deed, when Louis's henchmen attacked a military contingent of King Henry IV of Germany.

Western Australia Day ( formerly Foundation Day ) is observed on the first Monday in June, although it was actually on 2 June 1829 that Captain James Stirling on the Parmelia arrived with Surveyor-General Roe and the first contingent of immigrants to set up the Swan River Colony.

The Polish contingent contested for the village of Utiza, effecting its capture with their first attempt but Tuchkov had ejected the French forces by 08: 00.

The Monroe contingent, numbering some thirty-five to forty persons, entered into Major Benjamin F. Stickney ’ s house and drove his two guests, George McKay and N. Goodsell, out of their beds, having first attempted to gouge out McKay ’ s eyes and having throttled Stickney ’ s daughter for sounding the alarm.

On 14 November 1940, the first contingent to graduate from advanced training in Canada embarked for the UK.

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.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

A History of African Americans, by John Hope Franklin, Alfred Moss, McGraw-Hill Education 2001, standard work, first edition in 1947.

Some friendly Native Americans ( including Squanto ) helped the Pilgrims survive through the first winter.

Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

The Soviets were threatened because the Americans might have been able to make a nuclear first strike possible.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

Toni Morrison once described Bill Clinton as the first black president, because of his warm relations with African Americans, his poor upbringing and also because he is a jazz musician.

Unlike the neutral Americans in the first incident, the only witnesses to the second attack were the German and British sailors present.

Mexican Americans were not identified as a racial / ethnic category prior to the 1980 US Census, when the term " Hispanic " was first used in census reports.

The Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first modern World Series in 1903.

He first told the Americans that they would be welcome in talks between the Soviet Union and China, then secretly told the Soviets that the Americans were unimportant and that their opinions would not be considered.

In North America, Native Americans were the first to use cranberries as food.

The first European Americans to arrive in what is known as Eagle Valley were John C. Fremont and his exploration party in January 1843.

Before its coastline was first explored by Europeans in the 16th century, Delaware was inhabited by several groups of Native Americans, including the Lenape in the north and Nanticoke in the south.

He achieved his vision of an all jazz format radio station along with his friend and neighbor John E. Metts, one of the first African Americans in senior radio management.

** The first day of Las Posadas ( Mexico, other Latin Americans )

* 1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.

The College graduated only 19 Native Americans during its first two hundred years.

In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single " Fame " and the hit album Young Americans, which the singer characterised as " plastic soul ".

Young Americans yielded Bowie's first US number one, " Fame ", co-written with John Lennon, who contributed backing vocals, and Carlos Alomar.

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

Living in the area near The Valdivias, they were the first Americans to use pottery.

The first EVA on the lunar surface was performed by Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 21, 1969 ( UTC ), after the Apollo 11 Moon landing.