Which came first? · Counterintuitive
Which came first: Silent Night or Sodium?
Sodium came first, in 1807 (discovered). Silent Night followed 11 years later, in 1818 (first performed).
- Second1818
Silent Night
song · first performedSilent Night was first sung on Christmas Eve 1818 in an Austrian village church, with a guitar.
- First1807
Sodium
element · discoveredHumphry Davy first isolated sodium in 1807 by passing electricity through caustic soda.
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Years from Wikidata, each checked against the item’s English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-18. A year stands for what its label says: a founding, a first patent, a premiere.