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