3746 results for “War of the First Coalition: Napoleon Bonaparte conquers Venice” — type: events (587 ms)
The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.
Virgin Galactic launches its founder, Richard Branson, into space, the first company ever to do so.
In Johannesburg, Spain defeat the Netherlands 1–0 after extra time to win their first FIFA World Cup title.
Oka Crisis: First Nations land dispute in Quebec begins.
America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
The Northern Rhodesian Labour Party holds its first congress in Nkana.
The US Navy launches the USS Nevada (BB-36) as its first standard-type battleship.
The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
Ming admiral Zheng He sets sail to explore the world for the first time.
France win their first World Cup title, defeating defending champions Brazil 3–0.
The Australian Aboriginal flag is flown for the first time.
Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
The Dartmouth workshop is the first conference on artificial intelligence.
The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet. The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.