The first European-American settler, Tenney Peabody, arrived in 1833 along with his brother-in-law Charles Blanchard, and a young man named Clark Dowling.

The 1780s saw the arrival of the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who is believed to be of Haitian and French descent.

Shoudy was not the first settler in the Kittitas Valley, nor was he the first businessperson, but he was responsible for platting the city of Ellensburgh in the 1870s, and he was the person who named the streets in the downtown district.

* Rangitata River-The location of the Erewhon sheep station, named by Butler who was the first white settler in the area and lived at the Mesopotamia Sheep Station.

The townsite was named for Gilbert Ross, a Métis man who was living in the region when the first European settler, Glenlyon Campbell, arrived.

The first permanent settler was Jonathan Lambert, from Salem, Massachusetts, United States, who arrived at the islands in December 1810.

* Grímur Kamban, a Norwegian or Norwegian / Irish Viking who around 825 was, according to the Færeyinga Saga, the first Nordic settler in the Faeroes.

In 1850, Colonel Isaac N. Ebey became the first permanent white settler on Whidbey Island, claiming a square mile ( 2. 6 km² ) of prairie with a southern shoreline on Admiralty Inlet.

* Jessé de Forest, Walloon settler, first colonizer of New Netherland and what would become New York City.

The first settler of the town was Colonel O. J.

Captain William Witty, an early settler from North Carolina, was for years a leading Winona merchant and established the first bank in the county.

* Ingólfur Arnarson arrives as the first permanent Viking settler in Iceland, settling in Reykjavík ( probable date ).

* August 18 – Virginia Dare, Virginia colony settler, the first person of English parentage born in America ( d. 1588 )

Pemulwuy was accused of the first killing of a white settler in 1790, and Windradyne resisted early British expansion beyond the Blue Mountains.

The name of the town means Thor's Harbour, and it may be named after the god of thunder and lightning in Norse mythology ; thus the town's coat of arms shows Thor's hammer Mjolnir, but more likely it was named after the first settler whose name then was Thor.

The first known European settler of Houghton was named Ransom Shelden, who set up a store named Ransom's near Portage Lake, though it is unclear whether this was in the same building as the 1852 Shelden and Shafer drugs, sometimes described as " the first commercial building constructed in Houghton ," which Shelden owned with his son Ransom B.

The first permanent European settler in the Montgomery area was James McQueen, a Scots trader who settled there in 1716 .< ref name =" Owen 1037 ">< cite id = refOwen ></ cite ></ ref > He married a high-status woman in the Coushatta or Alabama tribe.

During the late 1700s, the first European-American settler, John Covington Moore, settled here in what was then part of Macon County.

The first white settler in the area that would become Montgomery County was William Offield, earlier of Tennessee, who arrived in 1821 with his wife Jennie ( née Laughlin ) and one child and settled near the confluence of Offield Creek and Sugar Creek, about five miles ( 8 km ) southwest of Crawfordsville.

The first permanent settler in Iceland is usually considered to have been a Norwegian chieftain named Ingólfur Arnarson.

In 1816, a United States officer at Fort Osage, on the Missouri, wrote, " We have been honored by a visit from Colonel Boon, the first settler of Kentucky ; he lately spent two weeks with us.

Home place of early settler William Barbee of Middlesex County, Virginia, whose 1753 grant of 585 acres from the Earl of Granville was the first of two land grants in what is now the Chapel Hill-Durham area.

In the aftermath of this, Colonel Isaac Ebey, a US military officer and the first settler on Whidbey Island, was shot and beheaded on 11 August 1857 by a small Haida fleet, in retaliation for the killing of a respected Haida citizen during similar raids the year before.

Carbon black was probably one of the first pigments to be used for tattooing, and Ötzi the Iceman was found to have carbon tattoos that survived during his life and for 5200 years after his death.

* Meander ( album ), the first album of the band Carbon Leaf

* March 24 – Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that had been advertised in Scientific American.

In 1957, the launch of Sputnik I, Earth's first artificial satellite, was observed by a Vulcan vessel that subsequently crashed on the planet, marooning several crew members for a number of months in Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania ; this constituted the first true contact between Humans and Vulcans, but it was never recorded as such as the Humans were unaware of the alien nature of their guests.

In 1868, the Union Pacific Railroad opened the first coal mine in Carbon County, and the county was named for its extensive coal deposits.

The first settlement in Carbon County was the Moravian mission Gnadenhutten, established in 1745.

Shortly after graduating from Fordham, Washington made his professional acting debut in the 1977 made-for-television film Wilma with his first Hollywood appearance in the 1981 film Carbon Copy.

Carbon Creek was the location of the first mining camp of the county.

In the summer of 1870, the first coal mines were opened by the Osage Carbon, Coal & Mining Company.

Port Carbon was the site of the first lock on the Schuylkill Canal, on its route for transport of coal ( mined in the region ) to Philadelphia.

On March 24, 1898 Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania became the first person to buy a Winton automobile after seeing the first automobile advertisement in Scientific American.

In 1992 Trek unveiled its first home-grown, full-carbon framed bicycles, the 5500 and 5200, featuring OCLV Carbon frames.

In 1993 Trek introduced its first OCLV Carbon mountain bike frame, the 9900, which at was the world ’ s lightest production mountain bike frame.

In a review published for CNET, Dan Ackerman wrote, " At first glance, the ThinkPad X1 Carbon looks a lot like other ThinkPads, but in the hand it stands out as very light and portable.

Carbon dating from charcoal found in old fire pits can estimate when region's were first populated or when civilizations died out.

* September 14-18 – American Joseph Kittinger makes the first solo transatlantic balloon flight, from Carbon, Maine, in the United States to Savona, Italy.

In the episode Carbon Creek, set in the 1950s on Earth, T ' Mir ( T ' Pol's great grandmother ) was involved in an unplanned first contact mission in 1957 when her spacecraft crash landed on Earth.

CC, for " CopyCat " or " Carbon Copy " ( born December 22, 2001 ), is a brown tabby and white domestic shorthair and the first cloned pet.

In 2008 the company announced that it will become Ireland ’ s first fully certified Carbon neutral coffee company by year-end, resulting from the implementation of a major environmental sustainability initiative.

Several Meths play a major role in the first novel, Altered Carbon.

In 2007 a group of Biggar residents launched the Carbon Neutral Biggar project, with the stated aim of becoming the first carbon neutral town in Scotland.

Carbon aerogels were first developed in the late 1980s.