5053 results for “War of the First Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte conquers Venice” (482 ms)
The Qing dynasty promulgates the Qinding Xianfa Dagang, the first constitutional document in the history of China, transforming the Qing empire into a constitutional monarchy.
Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well.
Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the samurai class.
Kusumoto Ine, first Japanese female doctor of Western medicine (born 1827)
The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published.
The first experimental mission of ISRO's Scramjet Engine towards the realisation of an Air Breathing Propulsion System is successfully conducted from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR, Sriharikota.
NASA's Galileo probe performs a flyby of the asteroid 243 Ida. Astronomers later discover a moon, the first known asteroid moon, in pictures from the flyby and name it Dactyl.
Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
Lidia Gueiler Tejada, the first female President of Bolivia (died 2011)
The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon (both pictured).
American tennis player Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the U.S. National Championships.
Tom Thumb (replica pictured), the first American-built steam locomotive, took part in an impromptu race against a horse-drawn car in Maryland.
William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.
Meitnerium, a synthetic chemical element with the atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle with an internal combustion engine, the Reitwagen.
The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
The Treaty of Easton establishes the first American Indian reservation, at Indian Mills, New Jersey, for the Lenape.
Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).