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The first printed Christmas card, commissioned by Sir Henry Cole (1808-1882) and drawn by John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903) in 1843. One thousand copies of the card were printed. Victoria and Albert Museum, London...

Glooscap monument, Millbrook First Nation, Nova Scotia. Photograph by Madereugeneandrew, 2019.

Title page of Sir Henry Billingsley's first English version of Euclid's Elements, 1570.

Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) as First Consul of France, oil on canvas by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1804, Curtius Museum, Liège.

A view of the first-class dining saloon on RMS Empress of Ireland which sank after a collision in 1914. Photograph taken in 1906. (Royal Museums Greenwich Collection)

Broken relief showing the First Sermon of the Buddha, 2nd–3rd century CE. The Buddha is depicted turning the Wheel of Law, with attendants and deer also visible. Peshawar Museum, Pakistan.

Sketch of the Alamo by Mary Ann Maverick, 1838. Published in Rena Maverick Green's Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, 1921. This is one of the earliest drawings depicting the Alamo, a Spanish mission that became...

Sam Houston, painting by unknown artist, 1836. Sam Houston (1793-1863), propelled by his victory at the Battle of San Jacinto and defeat of the Mexican army in the Texas Revolution, became the first...

The first glimpse of Petra's Treasury (Al-Khazneh) upon exiting the Siq. The famous façade, known today as the Treasury, was originally a rock-cut tomb with a two-story façade, 24.9 m wide and almost 40...

"Slave Auction, 1655: First Slave Auction in New Amsterdam" by Howard Pyle, 1895 CE.