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First Bektenov Government (Бектенов үкіметі)

Kazakh cabinet under Olzhas Bektenov (Бектенов үкіметі), prime minister from 6 February 2024 to 28 August 2026; 1 PM, 6 deputies, 18 ministers; succeeded by largely identical second Bektenov cabinet.

First Blood (1982 film)

First Blood, also known as Rambo outside the United States, is a 1982 American action thriller directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo.

First Blood (novel)

First Blood is David Morrell's 1972 debut novel introducing John Rambo, a Vietnam veteran fighting Kentucky police chief Wilfred Teasle; Rambo dies at the end, unlike the 1982 Stallone film it inspired.

First Boer War

First Boer War, also called the First Anglo-Boer War or Transvaal War: 1880–1881 war between Britain and Transvaal Boers after the 1877 annexation; Boer victory at Majuba Hill led to the Pretoria Convention of 1881.

First branchial cleft anomaly

A first branchial cleft anomaly is a rare congenital malformation in which incomplete closure of the first branchial cleft leaves a cyst, sinus, or fistula near the ear.

First Brands Group

First Brands Group, LLC was an American automotive aftermarket parts company based in Cleveland, Ohio, whose brands included FRAM, Raybestos, and TRICO before its 2025 bankruptcy.

First Brazilian Republic

First Brazilian Republic (Primeira República, República Velha), 1889–1930: oligarchic federal republic under the 1891 Constitution, ruled by café com leite politics of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, ended by Vargas's Revolution of 1930.

First Buddhist Council

The First Buddhist Council (प्रथम बौद्ध संगीति) was an assembly of 500 monks at Rajagriha after the Buddha's death, where the Dhamma and Vinaya were recited.

First Bulgarian Empire

First Bulgarian Empire (681–1018), medieval Balkan state founded by Khan Asparuh with capital at Pliska; Christianized in 864 under Boris I, center of Cyrillic and Old Bulgarian letters under Symeon, ended by Basil II after Kleidion 1014.

First Burmese siege of Ayutthaya

The first Burmese siege of Ayutthaya was King Tabinshwehti of Pegu's failed 1548 invasion of Siam, launched via the Three Pagodas Pass, in which Queen Suriyothai joined the defense.

First Canadian Place

First Canadian Place is a 72-storey office tower in Toronto's Financial District, built for the Bank of Montreal and the tallest building in Canada since 1975 at 298 meters.

First Carnatic War

First Carnatic War (1746–1748), Indian theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession: French under Dupleix and La Bourdonnais captured Madras, won the Battle of Adyar, survived Boscawen's siege of Pondicherry, and returned Madras at Aix-la-Chapelle.

First Central American Civil War

The First Central American Civil War (1826–1829) was the Federal Republic of Central America's first large-scale armed conflict, ended by Francisco Morazán's capture of the capital.

First Chechen War (Первая чеченская война)

First Chechen War (Первая чеченская война), 1994–1996 war between Russia and secessionist Chechnya under Dudayev; failed New Year assault on Grozny, partisan war, and the August 1996 Khasavyurt Accords granting de facto independence.

First Chief Directorate (Первое главное управление)

First Chief Directorate (Первое главное управление, PGU), the KGB's foreign intelligence arm from 1954 to 1991, ran espionage, Service A active measures, and illegals; succeeded by Russia's SVR.

First Chimurenga

The First Chimurenga, also known as the Second Matabele War, was the Ndebele and Shona uprising of 1896–1897 against the British South Africa Company in what became Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.

First Citizens Bank (NC)

First Citizens Bank, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, opened in 1898 and grew through acquisitions into a top-20 U.S. bank, buying Silicon Valley Bank in 2023.

First class (aviation)

First class is the highest service class on commercial airliners, above business and economy, typically offering private suites, exclusive lounges, and fares reaching five figures on long-haul routes.

First Communion

First Communion, or First Holy Communion, is a child's first reception of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, normally around age seven or eight after first confession.

First Congo War

The First Congo War, also called Africa's First World War, was a seven-month conflict from 1996 to 1997 in which Laurent-Désiré Kabila's AFDL, backed by Rwanda and others, overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko.

First Constitutional Era

The First Constitutional Era (مشروطه اول) was the Ottoman Empire's period of constitutional rule under the Kanun-i Esasi, from 1876 until Sultan Abdulhamid II prorogued parliament in 1878.

First Contentful Paint

First Contentful Paint (FCP) is a web performance metric measuring the time until a browser first renders text, an image, canvas, or SVG on a page.

First Continental Congress

The First Continental Congress (September 5–October 26, 1774) met in Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, with delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia absent) to respond to the Coercive Acts, adopting the Continental Association boycott and petitioning King George III.

First Council of Constantinople

The First Council of Constantinople, also called the Second Ecumenical Council, was a synod of about 150 Eastern bishops summoned by Emperor Theodosius I in 381.

First Council of Lima

The First Council of Lima (Primer Concilio Limense), convened by Archbishop Jerónimo de Loayza, was a Catholic provincial council held in Lima from 1551 to 1552.

First Council of Nicaea

The First Council of Nicaea, or First Ecumenical Council, was a council of bishops convened by Constantine at Nicaea in 325 to settle the Arian controversy.

First Cow

First Cow is Kelly Reichardt's 2020 A24 frontier drama, adapted from Jonathan Raymond's novel The Half-Life, about a cook and a Chinese immigrant in 1820s Oregon secretly milking the territory's first cow to bake and sell oily cakes.

First Crusade

The First Crusade (1096-1099), also called the crusade of Pope Urban II, was the armed pilgrimage called at Clermont in 1095 that captured Nicaea, Antioch, and Jerusalem in 1099 and founded the crusader states of Edessa, Antioch, Tripoli, and Jerusalem.

First Czechoslovak Republic

The First Czechoslovak Republic (První československá republika) was a parliamentary democracy lasting from 1918 to 1938, formed when the Czech and Slovak territories of Austria-Hungary became independent.

First Data

First Data Corporation was an American payments technology company that processed card transactions for merchants, banks, and card issuers; Fiserv acquired it in 2019 for $22 billion.