Older Than deck
Which came first? Every item has one date and says what the date means: opened, first published, discovered. Practice rounds never change your daily streak.
Ten duels across the whole deck, easy to hard.
Practise one group
Inventions and everyday things
- Accordionpatented
- Air-filled bicycle tyre (Dunlop)patented
- Ballpoint pen (first patent)patented
- Barometerinvented
- Christmas cardfirst made
- Computer mouseinvented
- Crossword puzzlefirst published
- Dynamiteinvented
- Electric battery (Volta’s pile)invented
- Esperantofirst published
- Fax machine (first patent)patented
- Ferris wheelfirst built
- Jigsaw puzzlefirst made
- Kaleidoscopeinvented
- Laserfirst built
- Lightning rodinvented
- Microchip (integrated circuit)invented
- Microwave cookingdiscovered
- Parachute jumpfirst made
- Pasteurisationinvented
- Phonographinvented
- Pianoinvented
- Postage stamp (Penny Black)first issued
- Postcardfirst issued
- Spinning jennyinvented
- Sudokufirst published
- Telephone (Bell’s patent)patented
- Traffic lightfirst installed
- Transistorinvented
- World Wide Webproposed
Buildings and landmarks
- Atomiumopened
- Brandenburg Gatecompleted
- Brooklyn Bridgeopened
- Burj Khalifaopened
- Channel Tunnelopened
- CN Towercompleted
- Colosseumopened
- Dome of the Rockcompleted
- Eiffel Toweropened
- Golden Gate Bridgeopened
- Hadrian’s Wallconstruction began
- Hagia Sophia (today’s building)completed
- Hoover Damcompleted
- Leaning Tower of Pisaconstruction began
- Neuschwanstein Castleconstruction began
- Notre-Dame de Parisconstruction began
- Panama Canalopened
- Parthenonconstruction began
- Ponte Vecchio (today’s bridge)completed
- Sagrada Famíliaconstruction began
- Spanish Stepscompleted
- St. Peter’s Basilicaconstruction began
- Statue of Libertydedicated
- Stonehenge (first stage)first built
- Suez Canalopened
- Sydney Harbour Bridgeopened
- Sydney Opera Houseopened
- Tower Bridgecompleted
- Trevi Fountaincompleted
- White Housefirst lived in
Places, institutions and traditions
- Académie françaisefounded
- Bank of Englandfounded
- Basketballinvented
- Bostonfounded
- Brasíliainaugurated
- British Museumfounded
- Canberraconstruction began
- Chicago (as a city)incorporated
- FA Cup (first season)first held
- Harvard Universityfounded
- Jamestown, Virginiafounded
- Library of Congressfounded
- Louvre (as a museum)opened
- Metropolitan Museum of Artfounded
- NASAfounded
- Nobel Prize (first awarded)first awarded
- Quebec Cityfounded
- Red Cross (international committee)founded
- Royal Societyfounded
- Saint Petersburgfounded
- Scoutingfounded
- Smithsonian Institutionfounded
- Sydneyfounded
- Tour de France (first race)first held
- United Nationsfounded
- University of Cambridgefounded
- Volleyballinvented
- Washington, D.C.site chosen
- Yale Universityfounded
- Yellowstone National Parkfounded
Books, art, music and films
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderlandfirst published
- Boléro (Ravel)premiered
- Casablanca (film)released
- Don Quixote (part one)first published
- Frankensteinfirst published
- Grimms’ Fairy Tales (first volume)first published
- Guernica (Picasso)painted
- Gulliver’s Travelsfirst published
- Jane Eyrefirst published
- Les Misérablesfirst published
- Metropolis (film)released
- Micrographia (Hooke)first published
- Moby-Dickfirst published
- Mona Lisabegun
- Nineteen Eighty-Fourfirst published
- On the Origin of Speciesfirst published
- Pride and Prejudicefirst published
- Rhapsody in Bluepremiered
- Robinson Crusoefirst published
- Romeo and Julietfirst published
- Swan Lake (ballet)premiered
- The Adventures of Pinocchiofirst published as a book
- The Hobbitfirst published
- The Jungle Bookfirst published
- The Little Princefirst published
- The Night Watch (Rembrandt)painted
- The Nutcracker (ballet)premiered
- The Scream (Munch)painted
- The Three Musketeersfirst published
- The Wizard of Oz (film)released
Events and discoveries
- Battle of Hastingshappened
- DNA double helix describeddescribed
- Electron discovereddiscovered
- Eruption of Vesuvius that buried Pompeiihappened
- First ascent of Kilimanjarohappened
- First ascent of Mont Blanchappened
- First ascent of Mount Everesthappened
- First ascent of the Matterhornhappened
- First flight across the English Channelhappened
- First human heart transplanthappened
- First human in space (Gagarin)happened
- First long-distance telegram (Morse)happened
- First Moon landing (Apollo 11)happened
- First smallpox vaccination (Jenner)happened
- First solo flight across the Atlantichappened
- Magna Cartasealed
- Neptune discovereddiscovered
- Okapi described by sciencedescribed
- Penicillin discovereddiscovered
- Pluto discovereddiscovered
- Radium discovered (Curies)discovered
- Rosetta Stone foundfound
- South Pole first reachedhappened
- Terracotta Army foundfound
- Titanic sinkshappened
- Tutankhamun’s tomb foundfound
- Uranus discovereddiscovered
- US Declaration of Independencesigned
- Wright brothers’ first powered flighthappened
- X-rays discovereddiscovered