The First Opera, The First Movie, The First Talkie

1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period

1683 - German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

2007 -  Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.