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Meanings of earliest recorded instance in English

Russian
самый ранний
Catalan
primer cas conegut
Spanish
ejemplo más antiguo registrado

Instance of a class which predates all other known instances.

самый ранний
Usage of earliest recorded instance in English
1
There is the earliest recorded instance of a debate on a question of foreign policy.
William the Conqueror
2
It is said that the earliest recorded instance, in our era, of ordeal by fire was in the fourth century.
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