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First Lord of the Treasury

The First Lord of the Treasury is the senior Lords Commissioner of the Treasury, an office held by convention by the UK Prime Minister and based at 10 Downing Street.

First Love (2010 Thai film)

First Love (สิ่งเล็กเล็กที่เรียกว่า...รัก; A Little Thing Called Love) is a 2010 Thai teen romantic comedy directed by Puttipong Promsaka Na Sakolnakorn and Wasin Pokpong, starring Mario Maurer and Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, released 12 August 2010, 118 minutes, about schoolgirl Nam's crush on senior Shone.

First Love (2019 film)

First Love (Hatsukoi, 初恋) is a 2019 Japanese-British crime film by Takashi Miike, starring Masataka Kubota and Sakurako Konishi, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2019.

First Love (First Love 初恋)

First Love (First Love 初恋) is a 2022 Netflix Japanese limited romance series, 9 episodes, directed by Yuri Kanchiku, starring Hikari Mitsushima and Takeru Satoh, inspired by Utada Hikaru's songs First Love (1999) and Hatsukoi (2018), set in Hokkaido across three time periods.

First Love (Hikaru Utada album)

First Love is the 1999 debut album by Japanese American singer Hikaru Utada, written at 15 and still the best-selling album by a Japanese artist in Japan.

First Love (첫사랑) (1993 film)

First Love (첫사랑, Cheot sarang) is a 1993 South Korean drama-romance film directed by Lee Myung-se, starring Kim Hye-soo as a 19-year-old art student in love with an older drama lecturer; a box office failure (5,856 Seoul admissions) later reevaluated as a 1990s Korean classic.

First Love is Never Returned

First Love is Never Returned (FLiNR) is a five-piece Japanese pop band from Hokkaido, formed around vocalist Kazuki Ishida, who studied vocals in New York.

First Majestic Silver

First Majestic Silver is a publicly traded Canadian silver and gold mining company, founded by Keith Neumeyer in 2002 and headquartered in Vancouver, that operates underground mines in Mexico.

First Man (film)

First Man (2018) is Damien Chazelle's biographical drama starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, adapted from James R. Hansen's authorized biography; it won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and the Golden Globe for Best Original Score.

First Manchu invasion of Korea

The First Manchu invasion of Korea (정묘호란) was a 1627 war in which Later Jin forces under Amin invaded Joseon Korea, ending in a brotherly peace.

First Maroon War

The First Maroon War was a conflict in Jamaica between British colonial forces and the Maroons, communities of escaped slaves, ending in March 1739 when Cudjoe signed a peace treaty.

First Mass in the Philippines

The First Mass in the Philippines was the Easter Sunday Mass celebrated by Fr. Pedro de Valderrama, chaplain of Magellan's expedition, on Limasawa on 31 March 1521.

First Matabele War

The First Matabele War (October 1893 to January 1894) was a war of conquest in what is now Zimbabwe, in which Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company destroyed King Lobengula's Ndebele Kingdom.

First Men in the Moon (1964 film)

First Men in the Moon (1964) is a British science fiction film directed by Nathan Juran, produced by Charles H. Schneer, with Ray Harryhausen Dynamation effects, starring Edward Judd, Lionel Jeffries, and Martha Hyer, adapted from H. G. Wells's 1901 novel.

First Mexican Empire

First Mexican Empire (Imperio Mexicano), 1821–1823: constitutional monarchy founded on the Plan de Iguala and Treaties of Córdoba, ruled by Agustín I (Agustín de Iturbide), collapsed March 1823, replaced by the 1824 federal republic.

First Mexican Republic

First Mexican Republic (Primera República Federal), 1824-1835: Mexico's first federal republican government under the 1824 Constitution, 19 states, Guadalupe Victoria first president, ended by the centralist Siete Leyes.

First Minister of Scotland

First Minister of Scotland: head of the devolved Scottish Government, created by the Scotland Act 1998, nominated by MSPs and appointed by the Monarch. Current holder John Swinney; official residence Bute House, Edinburgh.

First Mode

First Mode is a hybrid-electric powertrain company making retrofit kits that convert ultra-class mining haul trucks to capture braking energy; Cummins acquired it in 2025.

First Modi ministry

First Modi ministry: the Indian Union Council of Ministers under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, May 2014 to 30 May 2019, BJP-led NDA majority government known for demonetization, GST, Make in India, and the 'maximum governance, minimum government' slogan.

First Mongol invasion of Burma

The First Mongol invasion of Burma (1277–1287) was Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty campaign against the Pagan Empire under Narathihapate, triggered by tribute refusal and envoy executions, ending with Pagan's fall and Tai princes replacing Burmese rule.

First Mongol invasion of Dai Viet

The first Mongol invasion of Dai Viet was a campaign in which Uriyangkhadai's Mongol army entered from Yunnan in late 1257, captured Thang Long, and retreated in January 1258.

First Mongol invasion of Goryeo

The first Mongol invasion of Goryeo (제1차 몽골 침입) was a Mongol campaign against the Korean kingdom of Goryeo from August 1231 to January 1232, led by Sartai.

First Mongol invasion of Poland

The first Mongol invasion of Poland devastated southern Poland in 1241, destroying Duke Henry II the Pious's army at the battle of Legnica, where Henry was killed.

First Mongol invasion of Syria

The first Mongol invasion of Syria was Hulagu's 1259–1260 campaign that conquered Aleppo and Damascus, ending when the Mamluks under Qutuz defeated Kitbuqa at Ain Jalut in September 1260.

First Moscow Trial

The First Moscow Trial (Первый московский процесс) was a show trial held in Moscow in August 1936, where sixteen defendants led by Zinoviev and Kamenev were sentenced to death.

First Nagorno-Karabakh War

First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994), also called the Karabakh war: ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian-majority Nagorno-Karabakh oblast, ending in a 1994 Russian-brokered ceasefire with Armenian forces holding about 20 percent of Azerbaijan.

First National Architectural Movement

The First National Architectural Movement (Birinci Ulusal Mimarlık Akımı) was a Turkish architectural style, prevalent from 1908 to 1930, that applied Ottoman and Seljuk elements to modern buildings.

First National Bank (South Africa)

First National Bank (FNB) is a South African retail and commercial bank operating as a division of FirstRand, tracing its origins to 1838 and ranking among the country's big four banks.

First National Pictures

First National Pictures, also called Associated First National, was an American film production and distribution company founded in 1917 and absorbed by Warner Bros. in 1929.

First Nations in Canada

First Nations are the Indigenous peoples of Canada other than Inuit and Métis: 1,048,405 people in the 2021 Census, over 600 nations, rights affirmed under section 35, with treaties, self-government agreements, land title claims, and language revitalization defining their current position.