Firsts in the World 2025

First men to climb Mt Everest

Sherpa Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary (29th May, 1953)

First man to reach North Pole

Robert Edwin Peary

First man to reach South Pole

Ronald Amundsen

First religion of the world

Sanatan Dharma

First country to print books

China

Fist country to issue paper currency

China

First country to start a civil services competition

China

First President of United States of America

George Washington

First Prime Minister of Great Britain

Robert Walpole

First Secretary-General of United Nations

Trygve Lie (Norway)

First country to make education compulsory

Prussia/Germany

First country to win the World Cup Football

Uruguay (1930)

First country to make a constitution

United States of America

Pakistan’s first Governor-General

Mohammad Ali Jinnah

The first summit of NAM was organised in

Belgrade (former Yugoslavia)

First European to visit China

Marco Polo

First man to fly an aeroplane

Wright Brothers (Wilbur and Orville Wright)

First person to sail around the world

Ferdinand Magellan

First country to send human to Moon

United States of America

First country to launch satellite into space

Russia (former USSR)

First country to host the modern Olympic games

Greece

First Provisional President of the Republic of China

Dr Sun Yat-sen

First city to be attacked with an atom bomb

Hiroshima (Japan)

First Radio Telescope The satellite was launched into space

KRT-10 by Japan

First Russian (Soviet) Prime Minister to visit India

V.I. Bulganin

First university in the world

Takshashila/Taxila University 800 BC

First man to set foot on the Moon

Neil Armstrong (U.S.A)

First man to go into space

Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (USSR)

First Space Shuttle launched

Columbia (April 12, 1981)

The first spaceship landed on Mars

Viking-I (July 20, 1976)

First Woman Prime Minister of England

Margaret Thatcher

First Woman Prime Minister of any muslim country

Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan)

First Woman Prime Minister of country

Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka)

First Woman cosmonaut in space

Valentina Tereshkova (USSR)

First Woman to climb Mt Everest

Junko Tabei (Japan)

First female amputee in the world to climb Mt Everest

Arunima Sinha

First deaf and dumb to cross the Strait of Gibraltar

Taranath Shenoy (India)

First Woman President of UN General Assembly

Smt Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1953)

First European Invader of Indian soil

Alexander the Great

First Woman to reach the North Pole, First Woman to Ski across Antarctica, First Woman to reach South Pole, First Woman to cross Arctic ice to the North pole

Ann Bancroft

First Woman to reach Antarctica

Caroline Mikkelsen’s

First Woman to be working member of an Antarctic expedition

Jackie Ronne

First man to draw the map of earth

Anaximander (610-542 BC)

First man to compile an encyclopedia

Aspheosis (Athens)

The oldest man to climb Mt Everest

Yuichiro Miura (Japan), 2013

First Asian to win Wimbledon Trophy

Arthur Ashe (U.S.A.)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Literature

Sully Prudhomme (France)

First man to win Nobel prize for Peace

Jean H. Dunant (Switzerland) & Frederic Passy (France)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Physics

W.C. Rontgen (Germany)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Chemistry

J.H. Van’t Hoff (Howlland)

First man to win Nobel prize for Medicine

Emil Adolf Von Behring (Germany)

First man to win Nobel Prize for Economics

Ragnar Frisch (Norway) & Jan Tinbergen (Holland)

First Woman President of a country

Marma Estela I.N. Cortas de Peron (Argentina)

First Space Tourist (Male)

Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)

First Space Tourist (Female)

Mrs Anousheh Ansari (Iranian-American)

First Person to conduct a Spacewalk

Alexei Leonov

First Queen of Britain

Lady Jane Grey

First President (Woman)

Marma Estela ‘Isabel’ Martinez Cartas de Peron (Argentina)

Oldest person to climb Mt Everest

Yuichiro Miura (Japan)

First Woman to swim across English Channel

Gertrude Ederle (US)

First country to issue a banknote

Sweden (1661)

First country to provide citizenship to a Robot (Sophia)

Saudi Arabia

Space Tourists

1st: Dennis Tito (2001); 2nd: Mark Shuttleworth (2002); 3rd: Gregory Olsen (2003); 4th: Mrs Anousheh Ansari (2004); 5th: Charles Simonyi (2006); 6th: Richards Gariatte (2008); 7th: Guy Laliberte (2009)