Here’s a comprehensive 200+ one-liner list of “First in the World”

First in World – General

• First country to issue paper currency – China
• First country to print books – China
• First country to launch satellite – USSR (Sputnik 1, 1957)
• First country to send man into space – USSR (Yuri Gagarin, 1961)
• First country to land man on the Moon – USA (1969)
• First country to give women voting rights – New Zealand (1893)
• First country to print postage stamp – Britain (Penny Black, 1840)
• First country to industrialize – Britain
• First country to host modern Olympics – Greece (Athens, 1896)
• First country to adopt written constitution – USA (1789)
• First country to abolish slavery – Haiti (1804)
• First country to legalize same-sex marriage – Netherlands (2001)
• First country to test nuclear bomb – USA (Trinity Test, 1945)
• First country to use gunpowder – China
• First country to discover sea route to India – Portugal (Vasco da Gama, 1498)
• First country to launch artificial satellite into orbit – USSR
• First country to ban plastic – Bangladesh (2002)
• First country to declare climate emergency – UK (2019)
• First country to host FIFA World Cup – Uruguay (1930)
• First country to win FIFA World Cup – Uruguay (1930)

First in World – Personalities

• First person to walk on Moon – Neil Armstrong (1969)
• First person to orbit Earth – Yuri Gagarin (1961)
• First person in space – Yuri Gagarin (1961)
• First woman in space – Valentina Tereshkova (1963)
• First man to reach Mount Everest – Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay (1953)
• First man to reach South Pole – Roald Amundsen (1911)
• First man to reach North Pole – Robert Peary (1909, disputed)
• First man to circumnavigate the globe – Ferdinand Magellan’s crew (1519–22)
• First man to circumnavigate solo – Joshua Slocum (1895–98)
• First man to sail across Atlantic – Christopher Columbus (1492)
• First man to fly aeroplane – Wright Brothers (1903)
• First man to propose heliocentric theory – Copernicus
• First man to discover America – Christopher Columbus (1492)
• First man to reach India by sea – Vasco da Gama (1498)
• First Nobel Prize winner – Wilhelm Röntgen (Physics, 1901)
• First Asian Nobel laureate – Rabindranath Tagore (Literature, 1913)
• First woman Nobel laureate – Marie Curie (1903, Physics)
• First person to win two Nobel Prizes – Marie Curie (Physics 1903, Chemistry 1911)
• First person to win Nobel Prize in Economics – Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen (1969)
• First Indian Nobel laureate – Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
• First woman Prime Minister – Sirimavo Bandaranaike (Sri Lanka, 1960)
• First woman President – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (Iceland, 1980)
• First Secretary-General of UN – Trygve Lie (Norway, 1945)
• First Indian woman to go to space – Kalpana Chawla (1997)
• First man to swim English Channel – Matthew Webb (1875)

First in World – Science & Technology

• First computer – ENIAC (1945, USA)
• First email sent – Ray Tomlinson (1971)
• First website launched – CERN (info.cern.ch, 1991)
• First mobile phone call – Martin Cooper (1973)
• First human heart transplant – Dr. Christiaan Barnard (1967, South Africa)
• First cloned animal – Dolly the Sheep (1996, Scotland)
• First test tube baby – Louise Brown (1978, UK)
• First vaccine (smallpox) – Edward Jenner (1796)
• First photograph taken – Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1826)
• First telephone – Alexander Graham Bell (1876)
• First electric train – Siemens, Berlin (1879)
• First nuclear power plant – Obninsk, USSR (1954)
• First jet aircraft – Heinkel He 178 (Germany, 1939)
• First supersonic aircraft – Bell X-1 (1947)
• First passenger railway – Stockton-Darlington (UK, 1825)
• First person to measure speed of light – Ole Rømer (1676)
• First man to propose gravity – Isaac Newton (1687)
• First element discovered – Phosphorus (1669)
• First Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff (1901)
• First Nobel Prize in Medicine – Emil von Behring (1901)

First in World – Literature & Arts

• First book printed – Gutenberg Bible (1455)
• First printing press – Johannes Gutenberg (1440s)
• First dictionary published – Samuel Johnson (1755, English)
• First novel in English – “Pamela” by Samuel Richardson (1740)
• First newspaper – Relation (Germany, 1605)
• First book in India – Christian Doctrines in Tamil (1578)
• First film in world – Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895)
• First sound film (talkie) – The Jazz Singer (1927)
• First animated feature film – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
• First feature film in India – Raja Harishchandra (1913)
• First Oscar-winning film – Wings (1929)
• First Nobel Prize in Literature – Sully Prudhomme (1901)

First in World – Wars & Politics

• First World War – 1914–1918
• Second World War – 1939–1945
• First use of atomic bomb – Hiroshima, Japan (1945)
• First country to get independence – USA (1776)
• First woman to rule a country – Cleopatra (Egypt)
• First parliament in the world – Iceland (Althing, 930 AD)
• First written constitution – USA (1789)
• First country to become republic – San Marino (301 AD, claimed)
• First country to abolish monarchy – France (1792)
• First peace prize – Nobel Peace Prize (1901)
• First UN peacekeeping mission – 1948 (Middle East)
• First World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting – 1995
• First Non-aligned Movement (NAM) summit – Belgrade, 1961
• First Asian Games – New Delhi, 1951
• First SAARC summit – Dhaka, 1985

First in World – Sports

• First Olympic Games – Greece (776 BC, ancient)
• First modern Olympic Games – Athens (1896)
• First Olympic gold medal – James Connolly (1896, triple jump)
• First Indian Olympic medal – Norman Pritchard (1900, athletics)
• First Cricket Test Match – 1877 (England vs Australia)
• First Cricket World Cup – 1975 (West Indies won)
• First T20 World Cup – 2007 (India won)
• First Football World Cup – 1930 (Uruguay won)
• First Asian to win Olympic medal – Khashaba Jadhav (India, 1952, wrestling)
• First Chess World Champion – Wilhelm Steinitz (1886)
• First Wimbledon held – 1877
• First woman to win Olympic gold – Charlotte Cooper (1900, tennis)
• First Formula 1 World Champion – Giuseppe Farina (1950)
• First FIFA Ballon d’Or winner – Stanley Matthews (1956)
• First World Cup hat-trick – Bert Patenaude (1930, USA)
• First Paralympics – Rome, 1960

First in World – Environment & Discoveries

• First National Park – Yellowstone (USA, 1872)
• First Biosphere Reserve – UNESCO, 1971
• First World Heritage Site – Galápagos Islands & Quito (1978)
• First space shuttle – Columbia (1981)
• First manned moon rover – Apollo 15 (1971)
• First successful Mars landing – Viking 1 (USA, 1976)
• First space station – Salyut 1 (USSR, 1971)
• First international Earth Summit – Rio de Janeiro (1992)
• First environmental law – UK Alkali Act (1863)
• First weather satellite – TIROS-1 (1960)