First Person or Nation in the World in various fields | First in India

Today we are posting a list of things happened for the first time in the World. People who achieved something special in any field for first time in the World. The list includes first nation, man, woman, etc. to do something different for first time in particular field. Along side we are also giving detailed list of Indian achievers in various fields.

First in the World

• The first coins were minted (made) around 2500 years ago.
• Paper money was first used in China over 1000 years ago.
• Credit cards were first used in the United States in the 1920’s.
• The first persons to reach Mount Everest – Sherpa Tenzing & Edmund Hillary
• The first person to reach North Pole – Robert Peary
• The first person to reach South Pole – Amundsen
• The first religion of the world – Hinduism
• The first country to print book – China The first country to issue paper currency – China
• The first country to commence competitive examination in civil services – China
• The first President of the U.S.A – George Washington
• The first Prime Minister of Britain – Robert Walpole 
• The first Governor General of the United Nations – Trigveli (Norway)
• The first country to prepare a constitution – U.S.A
• The first Governor General of Pakistan – Mohd. Ali Jinnah
• The first country to host NAM summit –Yugoslavia 
• The first European to attack India – Alexander, The Great
• The first European to reach China – Marco Polo
• The first person to fly aero plane – Wright Brothers
• The first person to sail round the world – Magellan 
• The first country to send man to the moon – U.S.A
• The first country to launch Artificial satellite in the space – Russia
• The first country to host the modern Olympics – Greece
• First human in space - Yuri Gagarin (Russia) 
• The first city on which the atom bomb was dropped – Hiroshima (Japan)
• The first person to land on the moon – Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
• The first shuttle to go in space – Columbia
• The first spacecraft to reach on Mars – Viking-I 
• The first woman Prime Minister of England – Margaret Thatcher 
• The first Muslim Prime Minister of a country – Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan) 
• The first woman to climb Mount Everest – Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan) 
• The first woman cosmonaut of the world – Valentina Tereshkova (Russia)
• The first woman President of the U.N. General Assembly – Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 
• The first batsman to score 3 test century in 3 successive tests on debut – Mohd. Azharuddin
• The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice – Nawang Gombu
• The first U.S. President to resign Presidency – Richard Nixon
• First Chinese Traveller to India – Fahein 
• First Foreign Invader to India – Alexander the Great
• First cricketer to complete 10000 runs in test Cricket - Sunil Gavaskar
• Yang Liwei is 'China's first man in space.
• Cricket Team of 'Australia 'is the first country which won 15 matches in a row.
• First women prime minister of South Korea is Ms.Chang Sang.
• The first US president to resign presidency is Richard Nixon.
• The first women prime minister of a country is Mrs Bhandaranaike of Srilanka.
• The first European to visit China is Marco Polo.
• Wilson Jones of India won the world's first Billiards Trophy.
• The first blind man to reach mount everest was Eric Baumgartner.
• Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the first governor general of Pakistan.
• World's First University Taxila (700 B.C.).
• First nation to win Cricket World Cup - West Indies
• First nation to win T-20 World Cup - India
• First Country to Ban Islam - Angola
• First country to ban smoking in workplaces is - Ireland on 29 March 2004.
• Brazil became the world's first country to ban all flavored tobacco in March 2012.
• France was the first European country to ban the full-face Islamic veil [Burqa] in public places.
• Waycobah is first Nation bans energy drinks.
• First country to enter Mars' orbit on their first attempt - India
• Thomas Trace Beatie, first trans man to give birth to a child.
• First person to travel to all 201 countries in the world without flying - Graham David Hughes [British adventurer] in Nov 2012.
• Yuri Gagarin, first human to journey into outer space when his spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth.
• First person to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope - Jean François Blondin Gravelet on June 30, 1859
• Sir Edmund Percival Hillary was the first person to reach both poles and summit Everest.
• Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 - 1522.
• In 1908 Thomas Selfridge became the first person to die in plane crash [Airplane fatality].
• Edward Smith was the first person indicted in 1831 by an American state for bank robbery.
• Colin Powell in 2000 became1st African American secretary of state.
• Drew Gilpin Faust in 2007 became 1st woman president in Harvard University's 371-year history.
• Fahmida Mirza became 1st female National Assembly speaker in Pakistan’s in 200.
• Barack Hussein Obama Jr. in 2009 became 1st African-American US President.
• Russia became the first country in the world to allow abortion in all circumstances.
• First country in South Asia to introduce the pneumococcal vaccine - Pakistan.
• Pakistan has become the first foreign country to use China's Beidou navigation system.
• Israel Becomes First Country to Ban Horse-Drawn Carts.
• India First Nation Ever To Acknowledge Dolphins Non-Human Persons.
• First Asian city to host Olympics is Tokyo.
• First country to make education compulsory is Russia.
• First National Anthem by Japan
• First to abolish slavery is Spain.
• First to abolish death panalty is Venezuela.
• First to permit homosexual marriages is Holland.
• First to produce hydro-electricity is Norway.
• First to permit voting by women is New Zealand in 1884.
• First to introduce VAT is France in 1954.
• First to impose carbon tax is Finland in 1990.
• First democratic nation is Athens[now Greece].
• First Industrial revolution is in Britain.
• First to use 3G technology is Japan.
• First to introduce family planning policy is India.
• First nation to have flag in Denmark.
• First to legalise marijuana is Uruguay.
• First 3D model of human fingerprint is by Michigan State Univ.
• First public Univ. to accept Bitcoin [virtual currency ] as tution fees.
• First woman chief of CERN is Fabiola Gianotti from Italy.
• Denesh Ramdin is first centurian wicket-keeper of West Indies in ODIs.
• Kathy Cross from NZ is first woman umpire in ICC elite panel.
• India is first Asian country to ban testing of cosmetics etc. on animals.
• Brunei is first Asian country to apply hard Islamic criminal laws.
• N. Srinivasan is first Chairman of ICC.
• Michelle Howard is first female 4-star Admiral in US navy.
• India is first nation to ratify the Marrakesh treaty to facilitate blind people to read.
• Bolivia is first country to legalise child labour at the age of 10.
• Recap Tayyip Erdogan is first elected PM of Turkey.
• Equador is first country to launch digital currency scheme.
• Lithuania is first nation to ban sale of energy drinks to minors.
• First PM of Pakistan was Liaqat Ali Khan.
• India is first country to have finger print forensic lab.
• Australia is first country to issue plastic currency notes.
• First Super computer of the world was CDC 6600.
• First woman President was Maria Estela Peron of Argentina.
• First woman judge of ICJ was Rosalyn Higgins.
• First Robo teacher of the world was Saya [Japan].

 

First in India

• The first “rupee” was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri. It was based on a ratio of 40 copper pieces (paisa) per rupee.
• The first paper banknote was published by Bank of Hindustan in 1770.
• The Government of India took over the issue of banknotes in 1861 from the Private and Presidency Banks.
• Hindi was displayed prominently on the new notes for first time in 1953.
• First Mahatma Gandhi series of banknotes stared from 1996 with new series of 10Rs notes.
• The first 20Rs. and 5Rs. note was introduced in 2001.
• The first 1000Rs. Note was introduced in 2000.
• The first series of coins with the Indian rupee symbol was launched on 8 July, 2011. 
• Leander Paes is first Indian to complete career grand slam in tennis.
• LPU Phagwara is first paperless University of North India.
• India's first export promote industrial park [EPIC] park is at Jaipur.
• First Indian to clear IAS is Satyandra Nath Tagore.
• Tamil Nadu is first state to launch mid-day meal scheme in schools in 1982.
• First Mosque in India is Cheraman Jama Masjid
• First Indian Super computer is Param.
• First Magsaysay Award Winner was Acharya Vinoba Bhave.
• First Indian to climb Everest twice is Nawang Gombu.
• First woman President of Vidhan Sabha is Shanno Devi
• First educational Satellite is EduSat.
• First sapce torist iis Santosh George.
• First Oscar winner is Bhanu Athaiya.
• First IIM is in Kolkata in 1961.
• First PM to give speech in Hindi in UN was Atal Bihari Bajpayee.
• First woman CM of any state was Uma Bharti.
• First disabled University is in Chitrakoot.
• First Dronacharya Award winner was OM Nambiyar in 1985.
• First Padam Shree winner was Milkha Singh in 1959.
• First Indian Woman umpire was Anjali Rajgopal.
• First actress of Indian Cinema was Kamlini Gokhle.
• First Booker Prize winner was Arudhati Roy.
• First solar city of India is Anandpur Sahib.
• First woman foreign secretary of India was Chokila Iyer.
• First woman cadet of Indian Army was Priya Rajan.
• First woam pilot of fighter plane was Suman Sharma.
• First to get Arjuna award, Dron award, khel Ratan was Pulele Gopichand.
• First state to pass food security bill was Chhatisgarh.
• First state to install e-cops [online police network] was Andhra Pradesh.
• First newspaper on internet is The Hindu.
• First magazine on internet is India Today.
• First woman winner of WTA tennis tournament is Sania Mirza.
• First woman advocate was Regina Guha.
• First woman barrister was Cornotia Sorabji.
• First woman surgeon was Dr. Prema Mukherjee.
• First woman chairman of bank was Tarzan Wakil.
• First woman Arjun awardee was N. Lumsden in 1961.
• First woman Chairperson of UPSC was Roze Millian Bethew.
• First state formed on language basis was Andhra Pradesh.
• First Diesel Engine factory was Sataran [Maharashtra].
• First compnay to NASDAQ listings was Infosys.
• First defence university is proposed at Gurgaon.
• First tidal power project is at Vijhinjam [Kerala].
• First neutron reactor of India was Kamini in 1988.
• First indigenous PC was Siddharth.
• First atomic plant is at Tarapore.
• First Presidential rule was imposed on Punjab.
• First Woman IPS Officer - Kiran Bedi
• First Prime Minister to resign from Office - Morarji Desai
• First woman Chief Minister of a state - Sucheta Kripalani
• First woman Central Minister of India - Rajkumari Amrit Kaul
• First Woman Governor of a state - Sarojini Naidu
• The first woman Ambassador — Miss C.B. Muthamma
• First Chief Justice of India - Harilal. J.Kania 
• First woman judge of Supreme Court - Justice. Fatima Beevi
• First Field Marshal of India - S.H.F.J. Maneskhaw
• First Commander in Chief of free India - Gen.K.M.Kariappa
• First woman Airline Pilot - Durba Banerjee
• Governor-General of Independent India — Lord Lewis Mountbatten
• Indian Governor-General of Independent India — Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
• Indian Commander-in-Chief of Free India — General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa, 1949
• Field Marshall — General S. H. F. J. Manekshaw
• Speaker of loksabha — Shri G.V. Mavalankar (15 May 1952- 27 February 1956).
• President — Dr. Rajendra Prasad
• Vice-President — Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
• Prime-Minister — Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru
• Home Minister — Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel [Deputy PM too]
• Finance Minister of India — R. K. Shanmukham Chetty
• Auditor General of India [CAG]— V. Narahari Rao
• Director of CBI — DP Kohli
• National Security Adviser — Brijesh Mishra 
• Governor of RBI — Sir Osborne Smith
• Non-Congress Prime-Minister — Morarji Desai from Janata Party in 1977-79.
• British Governor-General of Bengal — Warren-Hastings
• Space traveller — S. Leader-Rakesh Sharma
• Civil Servant — Satendra Nath Tagore
• Woman IAS — Anna Ranjan George, 1950
• Sportsperson to received Bharat Ratna — Sachin Tendulkar
• Swimmer who crossed over the English channel by swimming — Mihir Sen
• Woman to swim across the English Channel — Arati Saha, 1959
• Raman-Magsaysay awardee — Acharya Vinoba Bhave
• Novel prize winner — Rabindra Nath Tagore
• Nobel Prize in Physics — C. V. Raman in 1930
• President of National Congress — Vyomesh Chand Banerjee
• Chairman of Lok Sabha — G. V. Mavlankar
• First Woman Chief Minister — Sucheta Kriplani
• Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha — Smt. Meira Kumar, 2009
• Chief Election Commissioner — Sukumar Sen
• Indian Chairman in International Court — Justice Dr. Nagendra Singh
• Foreigner awardee of Bharat Ratna — Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan 
• Leader of the Indian Antarctica Mission — Dr. Syed Zahuv Quasim
• Chief Justice of Supreme Court — Justice Hiralal J. Kaniya
• Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’— Dr. S.Radhakrishnan, C.Rajgopalachari, Sir C. V. Raman
• Woman Awarded with ‘Bharat Ratnas’ — Indira Gandhi
• Edusat is India's first educational satellite.
• First Indian Grand master in Chess is Vishwanathan Anand.
• Arya Bhatta is the India's first satellite.
• The first scientist president of India is APJ Abdul Kalam.
• Bachendri Pal was the first Indian women to climb mount Everest.
• The first Post Office opened in India - Kolkata in 1727.
• First Space Tourist of India - Santosh George
• The first Aircraft Carrier Indian Ship - I.N.S. Vikrant
• First Indian who reached south pole - Col. I K Bajaj
• First Indian Prime Minister who resigned from Office - Moraji Desai
• First Indian recipient of Oscar Award - Bhanu Athaiya
• First Indian woman in Space - Kalpana Chawla
• First Nuclear Reactor In India - Tarapur
• First Woman Secretary General Of Rajya Sabha - V. S. Rama Devi
• First Indian Woman To Win Magsasay Award - Kiran Bedi 
• First Indian Woman Cricketer To Get 100 Wickets - Diana Eduljee
• First Indian Paratrooper Of Indian Air Force - Nita Ghose
• First Booker Prize winner In India - Arundhati Roy
• First Indian state woman Governor - Sarojini Naidu
• First Indian won Nobel Prize - Rabindranath Tagore 
• First Indian University - Nalanda University
• First formula I Race Driver - Narain Karthikeyan
• Name of the first india president to die in office - Dr. Zakir Hussain
• Name of the first india Author to get the Anderson Award - Ruskin Bond
• Name of First Indian Missile - Prithvi
• Name of first indian pilot - J.R.D Tata in 1929
• Name of the first Cheif of Naval Staff of India - Vice- Admiral R.D Katari
• Name of the first Atomic Submarine of India - I.N.S Chakra
• The name of first British to visit India - William Hawkins during Mughal Jahangir
• Indian Managing Director of World Bank — Gautam Kazi
• First Player awarded ‘Padam Bhusan’— C. K. Naidu
• Actress to win Padma Shri Award — Nargis Dutt, 1958
• Indian Davis Cup players - M Salim, SM Jacob (Singles), AA Faiyaz, LS Dare (Doubles) [1921]
• Tennis Grand slam title winner — Mahesh Bhupati
• Indian player who played the test cricket—K. S. Ranjeet Singh (from England)
• Scientist elected for Lok Sabha — Dr. Meghnad Saha
• Scientist awarded Ghanshyam Das Birla award — Prof. Ashish Datta (1991)
• Literature who was awarded Murti Devi Purskar — C. K. Nagraj Rao (1993)
• Person, who became High Commission in Great Britain — V. K. Krishna-Menon
• First Indian awardee of Lenin Peace Prize — Dr. Safuddin Kichlu (1952)
• First Indian who contested the election forBritish Parliament — Lal Mohan Ghose
• Woman Graduates — Kadambini Ganguly and Chandramukhi Basu, 1883
• First Indian Woman To Complete Her MBBS - Kadambini Ganguli Bose In 1888
• First Woman Cheif Engineer - P. K. Tresia Nanguli
• First Indian Woman At Antarctica - Meher Moos In 1976
• First Woman Foriegn Minister - Lakshmi N. Menon
• First Woman Commercial Pilot - Prem Mathur Of Deccan Airways
• First Woman Sahitya Award Winner - Amrita Pritam
• First Woman President Of Indian Science Congress - Dr. Ashima Chatterjee
• First Woman To Win WTA Tennis Tournament - Sania Mirza
• First Chief Justice Of Mumbai High Court - Justice Sujaata B Manohar
• First Indian Woman Advocate - Regina Guha
• First Indian Woman Barrister - Cornotia Sorabji
• First Woman Surgeon - Dr. Prema Mukherjee
• First Woman To Get Arjun Award - N. Lumsden (1961)
• First Woman Chairman Of Bank - Tarzani Vakil
• First Woman Chairperson Of National Woman Commission - Mrs. Jayanti Patnayak
• First Indian Woman To Receive Asiad Gold Medal - Kamalji Sandhu
• First Woman Speaker Of State Assembly - Mrs. Shano Devi
• Woman Chief Justice of High Court — Leila Seth, Himachal Pradesh, 1991
• An Indian, appointed the judge of High Court, during the British period — Ram Prasad Ram
• Indian member of Viceroy Executive Council — Sir. S. P. Sinha
• Leanin Peace Prize — Saifuddin Kitchlew
• Chairman of Finance Commission — K. C. Niogi
• Woman Doctorate of Science — Asima Chatterjee (1944)
• Woman IPS — Kiran Bedi
• The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice — Santosh Yadav
• The first woman President of the Indian National Congress — Mrs. Annie Besant
• The first woman chief justice of a High Court — Mrs. Leela Seth
• Woman Supreme Court judge — Kumari Fathima Beevi
• Indian member of American Congress — Deleep Singh
• Editor of Time Magazine — Bobby Ghosh
• Director of CBI becoming Governor — Ashwani Kumar
• Person to reach the North Pole — SquadronLeader Sanjay Thapar
• Commandeur of the Order of Arts and Letters — Mrinal Sen 
• Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letter — Sivaji Ganeshan
• Posthumally Bharat Ratna Awardee — Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Person awarded Bhartiya-Gyan-Peeth Purskar — G. Shankar Kurup (Malayalam–1965)
• Woman awarded with Bhartiya-Gyan-PeethPurskar — Ashapurna Devi, 1976
• Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner — Amrita Pritam, 1956
• Woman Honours Graduate — Kamini Roy 
• The first woman chairman of Union Public Service Commission — Roze Millian Bethew
• Woman Director General of Police — Kanchan C Bhattacharya
• Successful Surgeon who transplanted heart — Dr. P. Venugopal
• Woman to received Nobal Prize — Mother Teresa
• Woman Air Pilot — Durba Banerjee
• Woman Teacher — Savitribai Phule
• Successful heart transplanted person — Devi Ram (1994)
• President of National Human Rights Commission — Justice Rangnath Mishra
• Hindi Literature person-awarded Bhartiya Gyan Peeth Purskar — Sumitra Nandan Pant (1968)
• Indian who won the World Billiard award —Wilson Jans
• Indian who won the Grammy award — Pt. Ravi Shankar
• Person delivered the Lecture in Hindi in U.N.O.— Atal Bihari Bajpai (1977) 
• Indian member in British House of Commons — Dada Bhai Naoroji (1892)
• First President of Indian Science Congress — Sir Asutosh Mukherjee
• Mountaineer who scaled Mount Everest 8 times — Sherpa-Augarita
• Writer who was awarded ‘Vyas Samman’ — Ramvilas Sharma
• First Solar Energy Centre Gwalpahar, Gurgaon, Haryana
• First song-less film JBH Wadia's - Naujawan
• First south Indian film to be released in Korea Tamil Film - Muthu Maharaja
• First Talkie Film - Alam Ara
• First Telefilm Satyajit Ray's - Sadgat
• First Telegraph Line was laid between - Calcutta and Agra in 1854
• First Telephone system was started in - 1881 from Calcutta
• First Television Reception Centre Arvi, located in - Maharashtra
• First veterinary college Opened in Parel in - Bombay in 1885
• First Wind farm - Mandvi, Kutch in Gujarat
•  India’s first Antartica expedition - January 11, 1982
• India’s first Satellite - Aryabhatta, April 19, 1975.
• India's first colour film - Sairandhri.
• India's first fully indigenous silent feature film - Raja Harishchandra.
• India's first indigenously built missile destroyer - INS 'Delhi'.
• India's first indigenously built submarine - INS 'Shakti' 
• India's first indigenously made colour film - Kisan Kanya.
• India's first manufacturer of light bulbs and electrical equipment - Bengal Lamps, Calcutta. 
• India's First Oil well - Digboi. 
• India's first radio programme - ClubRadio in 1924.
• India's First largest inland lake - Lake Chilika, Orissa.
• First Largest circulated multi-edition daily in India - Roudramukhi Swar .
• First Largest circulated periodical in India - Malayala Manorama
• First Largest circulated single edition newspaper in India - Hindustan Times from Delhi
• First Largest Nandi in India Nandi of the - Leepakshi Temple at Andhra Pradesh.
• First Largest Stupa in India - Mahachaitya Stupa, Amravati, Andhra Pradesh.
• India's First Woman Railway Driver - Surekha Shankar Yadav 
• India's First Woman Tabla Maestro - Dr. Aban Mistry 
• India's First Recognized Billionth Citizen - Astha
• The first woman president of India — Smt.Pratibha Patil
• The first lady to become "Miss World" — Rita Faria
• The first woman judge in Supreme Court — Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi
• The first iron steel factory in India was in  Kulti [W.B.] in 1874
• The first opposition leader in Indian parliament was Ram Subhag Singh.
• First CAG of India was Narahari Rao.
• First Sikh PM pf India was Manmohan Singh Kohli.
• First actress to Rajya Sabha was Nargis Dutt.
• First atate to make voting compulsory in Municipal Corp. elections is Gujarat.
• Assam is first state to observe child protection day.
• Indira Paryavaran Bhawan is first net zero energy building of India.
• MP is first state to formulate defence production investment policy.
• Kerala is first state to have abnk accounts in every household.
• Gunjan Sharma is first child to get state bravery award in Assam.
• Axis Bank is first Indian private sector bank to have branch in China.
• India's first AquaATM is at Mumbai installed by an NGO.
• Sikkim is first Indian state to achieve 100% sanitation.
• West Bengal is first Indian state to use EQMS in elections.
• Parveen Talha is first muslim woman IAS from J&K.
• Ganatra Divyanshu is first Indian blind solo paraglidder.
• Bibipur [Jind, Haryana] is first panchayat to get PAN card.
• Gaurvi is India's first one stop crisis centre for women in Bhopal.
• Kodela Sivaparsad Rao is first speaker of new Andhra Pradesh Assembly.
• Tecnhopark is first IT park in India.
• INS Kamorta is India's first indigenous anti-submarine warship.
• INDICASH is first white label ATM unveiled by TATA.
• TCS is first Indian company to cross market capitalisation value of Rs. 5 lac cr.
• Airtel is first Indian telecom company to reach combined subscriber base of 300 mn.
• Punjab is first state to install solar energy plants for net metering.
• Surat is first Indian city under CCTV coverage.
• Rajasthan is first state to ratify National Judicial Appointment Commiission bill 2014.
• Karnataka is first state to start health court.
• Bikaner is first open defecation free distt. of Rajasthan.
• First emergency in India is applied on 26 october 1962.
• Nilgiri is India's first biosphere reserve.

 

To Be Continued ...