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First Nations Summit

First Nations Summit (FNS), BC First Nations political organization and one of three Principals of the British Columbia treaty negotiations process; named for the 1990 meeting that appointed First Nations members to the BC Claims Task Force; forum of about 150 First Nations, not a negotiating party.

First Navy Jack

The First Navy Jack is the U.S. Navy's 13-striped rattlesnake flag with the motto "Don't Tread on Me." Its attribution to the 1775 Continental Navy is historically unsupported; official use began with the 1975-76 bicentennial, then the oldest-ship tradition (1980) and the 2002 Global War on Terrorism directive.

First Nehru ministry

First Nehru ministry: the inaugural Cabinet of independent India, sworn in 15 August 1947 under Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, with Patel as deputy, Ambedkar as Law Minister, and Shanmukham Chetty as first Finance Minister.

First Nephi

First Nephi, usually cited as 1 Nephi, is the first book of the Book of Mormon, a first-person account by Nephi of his family's journey from Jerusalem to a promised land.

First Nigerian Republic

The First Nigerian Republic was Nigeria's parliamentary federal state from independence in 1960, a republic from 1963, led by Balewa and Azikiwe until the January 1966 military coup ended civilian rule.

First normal form

First normal form (1NF) is the most basic level of database normalization: a relation qualifies when every column holds one atomic value, with no repeating groups.

First observation of gravitational waves

The first observation of gravitational waves, also called the first detection of gravitational waves, was LIGO's detection of signal GW150914 on September 14, 2015, from two merging black holes 1.3 billion light-years away.

First of His Name

"First of His Name" (Game of Thrones season 4, episode 5, aired May 4, 2014), directed by Michelle MacLaren, written by Benioff and Weiss; 35th episode overall. Tommen is crowned king, Lysa Arryn's poisoning of Jon Arryn on Littlefinger's orders is revealed, and Jon Snow raids Craster's Keep; 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.

First Opium War (第一次鸦片战争)

First Opium War (第一次鸦片战争), or First Anglo-Chinese War: 1839–1842 conflict between Britain and Qing China triggered by Lin Zexu's destruction of over 20,000 chests of opium at Humen; ended by the Treaty of Nanjing, which ceded Hong Kong Island and opened five treaty ports.

First Order (Star Wars)

First Order: Star Wars sequel-trilogy fascist junta founded by Imperial remnants under Rae Sloane and Brendol Hux in the Unknown Regions (21-35 ABY), ruled by Snoke then Kylo Ren, armed with Starkiller Base, destroyed by the Resistance.

First Pacific

First Pacific (第一太平) is a Hong Kong-listed investment holding company controlled by Indonesia's Salim family, holding stakes in Indofood, PLDT, and Metro Pacific Investments, with 2024 turnover of US$10.1 billion.

First Partition of Poland

First Partition of Poland (1772): Russia, Prussia, and Austria annexed about a third of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the August 5, 1772 treaty, engineered chiefly by Frederick II of Prussia amid the Russo-Turkish War and Bar Confederation.

First Party System

First Party System: first era of US national party competition, roughly 1796–1824, pitting the Federalists (Hamilton, Adams) against the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson, Madison), ending with Federalist collapse and the Era of Good Feelings.

First pass effect

The first pass effect, or first-pass metabolism, is the metabolism of an oral drug in the liver and intestinal wall before it reaches systemic circulation, reducing bioavailability.

First passage and overshoots of Lévy processes

First passage and overshoots of Lévy processes study when a Lévy process first exceeds a fixed level; the overshoot is its excess at that moment, analyzed via the quintuple law and Wiener–Hopf factorisation.

First Paz Estenssoro government

The first Paz Estenssoro government, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's administration of Bolivia from 1952 to 1956, nationalized the tin mines, established universal suffrage, and decreed agrarian reform.

First Peak

First Peak is the name of a wave-reflection surf break at Sebastian Inlet, Florida, 20-100 m from the north jetty, and of summits on Mount Seymour (Pump Peak), the Adirondack Tongue Range, and in Grayson County, Virginia.

First Peloponnesian War

First Peloponnesian War (460–446 BC), also called Sparta's First Attic War: Athenian conflicts with the Peloponnesian powers ending in the Thirty Years' Peace; turning points Aegina, Tanagra, Oenophyta, Coronea.

First Persian invasion of Greece

First Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC): Darius I's punitive campaign after the Ionian Revolt, led by Mardonius, then Datis and Artaphernes, ending in Persian defeat by Athens and Plataea at Marathon in 490 BC.

First Perso-Turkic War

The First Perso-Turkic War, fought in 588–589, saw Hephthalites backed by Turkic forces invade Sasanian Khorasan before Bahrām Čōbīn routed them and restored the Oxus frontier.

First pharyngeal arch

First pharyngeal arch (mandibular arch): the first embryonic pharyngeal arch, appearing in week 4, dividing into maxillary and mandibular processes; forms the jaw, malleus, incus, mastication muscles, supplied by CN V.

First Philippine Republic

First Philippine Republic (República Filipina, Malolos Republic): Asia's first democratic republic, inaugurated January 23, 1899 at Barasoain Church under President Emilio Aguinaldo with the Malolos Constitution; it ended in 1901 during the Philippine-American War.

First Polish Army (1944–1945)

The First Polish Army, known as Berling's Army, was a Polish force formed under Soviet auspices in 1944 that fought alongside the Red Army to Berlin.

First principle

A first principle is a foundational proposition that cannot be deduced from any other in a system of knowledge, a concept originating with Aristotle's account of scientific knowledge.

First Professional Football League (Първа професионална футболна лига) (Bulgaria)

First Professional Football League (Първа професионална футболна лига, efbet Liga), Bulgaria's top football division, run by the BPFL: 14-16 clubs, 30-round regular season plus Championship, European and Relegation groups; Ludogorets won 14 straight titles before Levski Sofia in 2025/26.

First Punic War

First Punic War (264–241 BCE), first of the Punic Wars: Rome versus Carthage over Sicily and western Mediterranean naval supremacy, sparked by the Mamertine crisis at Messana, ending in Roman victory at the Aegates Islands and the Treaty of Lutatius.

First Quantum Minerals

First Quantum Minerals is a Canadian mining company producing copper, gold, and nickel from mines in Zambia, including Kansanshi and Sentinel, and the halted Cobre Panamá mine in Panama.

First Quarter Storm

The First Quarter Storm (Sigwa ng Unang Sangkapat) was a wave of student, labor, and peasant protests against President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines from January to March 1970.

First Rail London

First Rail London is a subsidiary of FirstGroup plc that has operated the London Overground, a six-route suburban network, under contract to Transport for London since 2026.

First Red Scare

The First Red Scare (1919–1920) was a U.S. antiradical panic after WWI and the Russian Revolution, producing the Palmer Raids, mass arrests, deportations of Emma Goldman and others, and the founding of the ACLU.