First in The World

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First in The World

There are many things in the world take place for the first time. These things are related to science, history, polity, and human achievements, etc. There are a lot of questions asked in exams based on these incidents/inventions etc. So we have published a list of some interesting and important events i.e. first in the world.

Here, we are giving a complete list of First in the World which is composed of all those human explorations and adventures, expeditions, discoveries and inventions which were made the first time in the history of mankind.

The following table enlists First in the world (in male category);

The First (Man) in the World	Name	Tenure/Time	Images
The first person who reached North Pole.(However, there is a contradiction that probably it was Robert Edwin Peary reached first)	Frederick Cook	1908
The first person who reached South Pole	Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen	1911
The first person who climbed Mount Everest	Sir Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay	1953
Who was the first President of U.S.A.	George Washington	1789 to 1797
Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain	Robert Walpole	1721 to 1742
Who was the first Secretary General of the United Nations	Trygve Lie	1946 to 1952
The first man who did drew the map of the earth	Anaximander	N/A
The first male (tourist) who traveled space	Dennis Anthony Tito	2001
Who was the first human to journey into outer space	Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian)	1961
The First Chinese Pilgrim who traveled India	Faxian	Between A.D. 399 & 412
The First European who visited China	Marco Polo
The person who first circumnavigated the Earth (Journey around the world through sea)	Ferdinand Magellan	1519 to 1522
The First US President who visited India	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1959
The First person who landed on Moon	Neil Alden Armstrong	1969

First (Woman) in World

The following table enlists First in the world (in female category) −

The First (Woman) in the World	Name	Tenure/Time	Picture
Who was the first woman Prime Minister of England	Margaret Hilda Thatcher	1979 to 1990
Who was the first woman Prime Minister of a country	Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike (of Sri Lanka)	1960–65, 1970–77, and 1994–2000 (3 times)
The first woman who climb Mt. Everest	Junko Tabei (from Japan)	1975
The first woman who reached Antarctica	Caroline Mikkelsen (Denmark)	1935
Who was the first female space tourist	Anousheh Ansari (Iranian-American)	2006
The First woman who swam across sea channels off five continents	Bula Choudhury (India)	2005
The first (Indian) woman who is appointed as a Civilian Police Advisor of the U.N.	Kiran Bedi	2003
The first woman who received a Nobel Prize (She received Nobel Prize two times and her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935)	Marie Curie (Poland)	1903 (in Physics) & 1911 (in Chemistry)

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