Instance of a class which predates all other known instances.
1 The earliest known was that in Jamaica, established in the year 1662.
2 The writer says they are accepted as the earliest known eastern-slope people.
3 The earliest known specimens of Anglo-Saxon prose writing have been already mentioned.
4 The evidence comes from new research into the earliest known flying bird, archaeopteryx.
5 We know nothing about how those earliest known surface glazes themselves were developed.
6 This is the earliest known heliocentric theory of the solar system.
7 The date of the earliest known manuscript of the Nibelungenlied is comparatively late.
8 The earliest known dinosaur fossils are around 230 million years old.
9 First in importance come the earliest known possessors of the land, the Berbers.
10 The earliest known MS. is in the Ashmole Collection, and was written in 1296.
11 The earliest known reptile is found in the Carboniferous strata.
12 In its earliest known incarnation the red carpet was not intended for ordinary folk.
13 In fact, this is the world's earliest known infant cemetery.
14 Keats' earliest known verses are an "Imitation of Spenser" in four stanzas.
15 These are humanity's earliest known monumental stone ruins, and date from about the same time.
16 Among his many achievements was the earliest known calculation of the circumference of the Earth.
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