| 1634 |
Boston Common, America's 1st Public Park |
| 1635 |
Boston Latin, America's 1st Public Secondary School |
| 1639 |
Post Office, America's 1st (at Richard
Fairbanks' House) |
| 1644 |
UFO or USO, America's
First UFO Sighting |
| 1653 |
Boston Public Library, America's 1st Public Library |
| 1690 |
Paper Money, 1st (Issued When Government
Was Insolvent) |
| 1704 |
Boston News-Letter, America's 1st Periodic Newspaper |
| 1716 |
Boston Light, America's 1st Light Station / Light House |
| 1721 |
Inoculation, America's 1st (Smallpox) |
| 1757 |
Human Flight, America's 1st by
John Childs In Bird Suit |
| 1770 |
British Concession, 1st (Withdraw Troops to Castle William) |
| 1785 |
Unitarian Church, America's 1st (King's Chapel) |
| 1790 |
Circumnavigate Globe, America's 1st (Columbia) |
| 1806 |
African Meeting House, 1st Church Built
By Free Blacks |
| 1816 |
Mutual Savings Bank, America's 1st (Provident) |
| 1831 |
The Liberator, 1st Radical Abolitionist Newspaper |
| 1835 |
Abiel Smith School, America's 1st Public School
For Blacks |
| 1845 |
Sewing Machine, Invented by Elias Howe |
| 1846 |
Anesthetic, 1st Demonstration Ether (Mass General Hospital) |
| 1852 |
Electric Fire Alarm System (Telegraphy), 1st City
To Utilize |
| 1860 |
Aerial Photo, America's 1st from balloon by J. W. Black |
| 1861 |
Black U.S. Federal Employee, 1st, William Nell (Post Office) |
| 1862 |
Organized Football Club, America's 1st |
| 1863 |
Mass 54th, 1st Civil War Free Black Regiment |
| 1875 |
Christmas Card, 1st American Printing by Louis Prang |
| 1875 |
Telephone, Invented by Alexander Graham Bell |
| 1897 |
Tremont Street Subway, America's 1st Subway |
| 1897 |
Boston Marathon, America's 1st Annual Marathon |
| 1901 |
Disposable Blade, Invented by K. Gillette & W. Nickerson |
| 1903 |
Baseball World Series,1st, Americans (Red Sox) vs. Pirates |
| 1908 |
Off-Price Store, 1st, Filene's Basement |
| 1924 |
Mutual Fund, 1st (L. Sherman Adams, Mass Investors Trust) |
| 1954 |
Kidney Transplant, 1st Peter Bent Brigham Hospital) |
