The first evidence of decorated trees associated with Christmas Day are trees in guild halls decorated with sweets to be enjoyed by the apprentices and children.

This was the first time in history that the word hanse was used for the trading guild of the Hanseatic League.

Originally a male-only occupation, the first knitting trade guild was started in Paris in 1527.

The Krupp family first appeared in the historical record in 1587, when Arndt Krupp joined the merchants ' guild in Essen.

The political power of the convent slowly waned in the 14th century, beginning with the establishment of the Zunftordnung ( guild laws ) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, who also became the first independent mayor, i. e. not nominated by the abbess.

* 1193: the first known merchant guild.

The first known Norman distillation was carried out by " Lord " de Gouberville in 1554, and the guild for cider distillation was created about 50 years later in 1606.

It was thus not a coincidence that his first important building commission, the Ospedale degli Innocenti, came from the guild to which he belonged.

He served as president of the Mexican actor's guild known as Asociación Nacional de Actores ( ANDA, " National Association of Actors ") and as first secretary general of the independent filmworkers ' union Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Producción Cinematográfica ( STPC ).

Within the guild, the young Mage will have to prove himself and is framed in its infancy by a master who taught him his first spell and ensure its training and its protection.

The first appointed Master of the King's Musick would be the only one to seriously attempt to rule all of the musicians in the kingdom as a guild.

The particle, discovered first by a Ferengi mining guild, is about to be sold to the Cardassians ; the Tal Shiar sends Admiral Sela to secure it before that happens.

It is speculated that Richard Tarleton, who was a member of both William Shakespeare's acting company and of the London Masters of Defence weapons guild, was among the first fight directors in the modern sense.

In the latter case, the bodies had been first " temporarily " buried in Gucheng in light-weight coffins, and when, after three or so years in the grave the flesh had been mostly " consumed away ", the merchant guild sent the bodies to the east by a special caravan.

The term probably derives from the Dutch " meesterstuk " ( German: Meisterstück ), and the form " masterstik " is recorded in English in 1579 ( or in Scots, since this was from some Aberdeen guild regulations ), whereas " masterpiece " is first found in 1605, already outside a guild context, in a Ben Jonson play.

Campin first appears as settled in Tournai from the archives of 1405 – 6, as a free master of the guild of painters, and there has been a lot of speculation about his origin and birthplace which is actually unknown.

In 1963 the guild, in cooperation with local civic organizations, organized the first Arkansas Folk Festival which attracted approximately 15, 000 people.

Their guild hall was first founded in Bassishaw ward in 1522, at The Swan and from 1547 in a purpose built hall.

In 1522 the first guild was founded.

Historically, in England, watchmakers would have to undergo a seven-year apprenticeship and then join a guild, such as the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in London, before selling their first watch.

In 1775 the first lăutărească guild ( breaslă ), was established in Wallachia.

The first deals with Michael Sittow, a painter who has been working at the court of Spain but now wants to join the painters ' guild in Tallinn which is as good as a closed shop ( Four Dialogues on the Subject of Saint George ).

He died at the early age of 32 in Antwerp, where he was first buried in a common grave, but, upon instigation of the members of the guild, was reburied on 1 February 1638 in the church of the Carmelites.

* Base ( baseball ), the first, second, and third base on a baseball diamond

Other rewards were bestowed by foreign states, particularly the Ottoman Emperor Selim III, who made Nelson the first Knight Commander of the newly created Order of the Crescent, presented him with a chelengk, a diamond studded Rose, a sable fur and numerous other valuable presents.

* 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.

The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of the diamond dates back to a Hindu text relating to the first authenticated appearance of the diamond in 1306: " He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes.

Queen Alexandra was the first Queen Consort to use the diamond in her crown, followed by Queen Mary and then Queen Elizabeth.

The DCB6 tooltip motif, initially described by Merkle and Freitas at a Foresight Conference in 2002, was the first complete tooltip ever proposed for diamond mechanosynthesis and remains the only tooltip motif that has been successfully simulated for its intended function on a full 200-atom diamond surface.

In 2010, Freitas was granted a patent for what was at the time ( 2004 ) the first patent application ever filed on diamond mechanosynthesis.

She is the first ( and currently only ) female artist in history to have 3 consecutive albums reach diamond status, certified by the RIAA.

* June 13 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the Soviet Union, is discovered.

The first well-documented use of a diamond ring to signify engagement was by the Archduke Maximilian of Austria in imperial court of Vienna in 1477, upon his betrothal to Mary of Burgundy.

Despite its use in the titles of most of the films of the series, " Pink Panther " is not the Clouseau character, but a large and valuable pink diamond which is first shown in the first film in the series.

The first known diamond mine was in the Golconda region of India, although by 1725 diamonds had been discovered in Brazil.

* Eureka Diamond, the first diamond found in South Africa

The first major development in diamond cutting came with the " Point Cut " during the later half of the 14th century: the Point Cut follows the natural shape of an octahedral raw diamond crystal, eliminating some waste in the cutting process.

The first objective is that of maximum return on investment for the piece of diamond rough.

Cartwright is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field, and the rules of the modern game are based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed by Cartwright and a committee from his club, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club.

Her novel La plaça del diamant (' The diamond square ', translated as ' The Time of the Doves ', 1962 ) has become the most acclaimed Catalan novel of all time and since the year it was published for the first time, it has been translated into over 20 languages.

In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and which contained the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.

In 1895 Lewis Rober, Sr. of Minneapolis organized outdoor games as exercise for firefighters ; this game was known as kitten ball ( after the first team to play it ), lemon ball, or diamond ball.