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First Families of Virginia

First Families of Virginia (FFV): old Tidewater planter gentry of colonial Virginia, dominating Council, Burgesses, and vestries; associated with the 1912 Order of First Families of Virginia 1607-1624/5, a by-invitation lineage society for descendants of pre-1625 settlers.

First Fitna

The First Fitna (al-fitna al-kubrā, 656–661 CE) was Islam's first civil war, triggered by Caliph ʿUthmān's assassination, fought through the Camel and Ṣiffīn, and ending with Muʿāwiya's Umayyad caliphate and the Sunni–Shiʿi split.

First Five-Year Plan

The First Five-Year Plan (第一个五年计划) was the People's Republic of China's national economic development plan covering 1953 to 1957, which prioritized heavy industry and was substantially overfulfilled by 1957.

First Fleet

The First Fleet was a convoy of 11 British ships that sailed in 1787 under Captain Arthur Phillip to found a penal colony at Sydney Cove, Australia.

First flight across the English Channel

The first flight across the English Channel was made by French aviator Louis Blériot on 25 July 1909, flying from Calais to Dover in about 37 minutes.

First Folio

The First Folio (Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, 1623) is the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, 36 plays edited by Heminge and Condell, preserving 18 plays otherwise lost.

First French Empire

First French Empire (Premier Empire), the Napoleonic regime in France from 18 May 1804 to 1814 and again in 1815, ruled by Napoleon I, dominating continental Europe, marked by the Code civil, prefects, and the 1814 Treaty of Paris.

First Fruits

First fruits (Hebrew reshit, bikkurim; Greek aparchai): earliest harvest portions offered to a deity. Israelite barley sheaf waved Nisan 16, wheat loaves at Pentecost; rabbinic one-sixtieth rule; Temple ritual ended 70 CE.

First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope

The First G-APD Cherenkov Telescope (FACT) is a Cherenkov telescope on La Palma, Spain, the first with a camera of silicon Geiger-mode photodiodes instead of photomultiplier tubes.

First GARP Global Experiment (FGGE)

The First GARP Global Experiment, also called the Global Weather Experiment, was a year-long international program of global atmospheric observation in 1978–1979 involving more than 140 countries.

First generation of video game consoles

First generation of video game consoles (1972–1977): Magnavox Odyssey, Home Pong, Coleco Telstar and other dedicated, non-programmable TV game units built without microprocessors, ending with the cartridge-based Fairchild Channel F.

First Geneva Convention

First Geneva Convention (1864), the Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field, signed 22 August 1864 in Geneva by 12 states; obliged care for all wounded, neutralized medical services, created the red cross emblem, and was revised in 1906, 1929, and 1949.

FIRST Global

FIRST Global is a US nonprofit founded by Dean Kamen that has run an annual Olympics-style international robotics competition for high-school students since 2017, with one national team per country.

First Goryeo–Khitan War

The First Goryeo–Khitan War was a 993 Khitan (Liao) invasion of Goryeo, the first of the Goryeo–Khitan wars, ended by Seo Hui's diplomacy, which won Goryeo the Gangdong Six Garrisons.

First Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening: Protestant evangelical revival in the American colonies, 1730s–1770s, led by Whitefield, Edwards, and the Tennents, splitting churches into New Lights and Old Lights and fueling denominational growth.

First Growth

First Growth (Premier Cru Classé) refers to the five top-ranked red wine estates of Bordeaux's 1855 classification: Lafite Rothschild, Latour, Margaux, Mouton Rothschild, and Haut-Brion, ranked by brokers on price and reputation, changed only by Cantemerle's 1855 addition and Mouton's 1973 promotion.

First Hellenic Republic

The First Hellenic Republic, or Provisional Administration of Greece, was the Greek state during the War of Independence, from the 1822 constitution until the monarchy of 1832.

First Hen Egg

The First Hen Egg, also called the Hen Egg, is a jeweled Easter egg made by Fabergé in Saint Petersburg in 1885 as the first of the Imperial Fabergé eggs.

First Horizon Coliseum

First Horizon Coliseum, formerly Greensboro Coliseum, is a 22,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Greensboro, North Carolina, opened in 1959 and renamed in 2024. It anchors the nine-building Greensboro Complex.

First impeachment of Donald Trump

First impeachment of Donald Trump: House impeached him December 18, 2019 (H. Res. 755) for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress over Ukraine dealings; Senate acquitted him February 5, 2020, votes 48–52 and 47–53.

First impeachment of Sara Duterte

First impeachment of Sara Duterte: House impeachment of the Philippine vice president on February 5, 2025 for fund misuse, unexplained wealth, and threats, voided by the Supreme Court in July 2025 under the one-year bar rule.

First Impressionist Exhibition

First Impressionist Exhibition (Première exposition impressionniste), held April 15–May 15, 1874 at Nadar's studio, 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris; organized by the Société Anonyme, showed about 200 works, drew 3,500 visitors, and gave rise to the name impressionism.

First Impressions of Earth

First Impressions of Earth is The Strokes' third studio album, released January 3, 2006 on RCA. Produced mainly by David Kahne, 14 tracks, 52 minutes; reached number 1 in the UK, Metascore 69.

First inauguration of Barack Obama

First inauguration of Barack Obama, January 20, 2009: the 44th US president and first African-American president sworn in on the Capitol West Front, theme "A New Birth of Freedom," 1.8 million attendees, oath retaken January 21.

First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt

First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, March 4, 1933, East Portico of the U.S. Capitol; last March 4 inauguration. Chief Justice Hughes administered the oath on the Dutch family Bible; 'only thing we have to fear is fear itself' address amid the 1933 banking crisis.

First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson

First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, the November 22, 1963 swearing-in aboard Air Force One at Dallas Love Field after JFK's assassination, administered by Judge Sarah T. Hughes, the first woman and only airplane presidential oath.

First Indochina War

First Indochina War (1946–1954), the French War to the Vietnamese: France and the French Union against Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh. Ended with the Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu (7 May 1954) and the Geneva Accords dividing Vietnam at the 17th parallel.

First information report

First information report (FIR), the police document recording first information of a cognizable offence in India (CrPC 154, now BNSS 173); mandatory registration per Lalita Kumari (2014), with zero FIR and e-FIR provisions.

First Intermediate Period of Egypt

The First Intermediate Period of Egypt was an era of political fragmentation between the Old and Middle Kingdoms, when Memphis, Herakleopolis, and Thebes competed for power.

First International

The First International (International Working Men's Association, IWMA), founded in London on 28 September 1864 and dissolved in 1876, was the first international working-class organization, uniting unions and socialist groups; it split over the Marx–Bakunin conflict between centralism and federalism.