which year was the first olympics held!?
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in 1896 at athens olympics
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From 776 BC, the Games were held in Olympia every four years for almost 12 centuries.\n... The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. ...
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The Greeks inventors of the ancient olympiads used it as a distinct measurement of time, similiar to the way the romans would use their ruler as a measurement of time "in the third year this emperor etc."  The Greeks did not have winter olympics they are a modern day invention and they were held in the same year as the summer games until 1994 when the summer games would stay in years divisable by four (2000, 2004 etc) and winter would go to even non-divisable by four (2006, 2010).
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Luge became an Olympic sport in 1964 (if that was your question).
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INNSBRUCK  1976\n\nXII Olympic Winter Games\n\nDenver was supposed to host them, but the people of Denver didn't want to use public funds, so Innsbruck stepped in and the 1976 Olympics were held in Innsbruck.
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Cross-country skiing was a major event at the first Winter Olympics, held at Chamonix, France, in 1924. Only men were eligible to participate, however, and the only events were 18km and 50km races. In 1936, a 4x10km mixed relay (2 classical and 2 freestyle legs) was added. Women finally appeared on the scene at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo, in a 10km classical race.
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gymnastics wasnt in the first olympics if i remember right it first appeared in 1932
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The 2004 Olympics in Athens.
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The Olympic Games were held in four year intervals, and later the Greek method of counting the years even referred to these Games, using the term Olympiad for the period between two Games. The Greeks in historical times used the Olympiads to count years, much as we today use AD and BC. "Diodorus states that there was a solar eclipse in the third year of the 117th Olympiad, which must be the eclipse of 310 BC. This gives us a date of (mid-summer) 776 for the first year of the first Olympiad". Nevertheless, there is disagreement among scholars whether the games truly began at this time or not.
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There are a lot of firsts but 1st gold medal winner ever is James Connolly, other examples are as such\nWyomia Tyus was the first person to win the Olympic gold medal twice in the 100m 1964 Games in Tokyo\n\nEagan, "Eddie" (Edward P. F.)\nBobsledding, Boxing,was also the only athlete ever to win gold medals at both the Summer and the Winter Olympics.in 1920 as a light heavyweight,In 1932 four-man bobsled team \n\nand it goes on. I'm full of useless trivia when it comes to the Olympics, especially track & field.
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In Greece...I think...when the first Olympics occured
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The Summer Olympics (Games of the Olympiad) have been held every fourth year starting in 1896, with the exception of the years during the World Wars.\n\nA special edition for winter sports, the Olympic Winter Games, was first held in 1924. The first winter Olympics competitions were originally held as a non-Olympic sports festival, but were declared to be official Games by the International Olympic Committee in 1925. Originally these were held in the same year as the Summer Olympics, but from 1994 the Winter Games and the Summer Games are held two years apart.\n\nThere are many legends surrounding the origin of the ancient Olympic Games. One of these associates the first Games with the ancient Greek concept of εκεχειρία (ekecheiria) or Olympic Truce. The date of the Games' inception based on the count of years in Olympiads is reconstructed as 776 BC, although scholars' opinions diverge between dates as early as 884 BC and as late as 704 BC.\n\nIn the 17th century, the Olympic Games sports festival was held in England, followed by the National Olympic Games, which were established in the 19th century and continue to this day. Later, similar events were organised in France and Greece, but these were all small-scale and certainly not international.\n\nThe interest in reviving the Olympics grew when the ruins of ancient Olympia were uncovered by German archaeologists in the mid-19th century. At the same time, Baron Pierre de Coubertin was searching for a reason for the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871). He thought the reason was that the French had not received proper physical education, and sought to improve this. In 1890 he attended the Wenlock Olympian Society. Coubertin also thought of a way to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. In his eyes, the recovery of the Olympic Games would achieve both of these goals.\n\nIn a congress at the Sorbonne University, in Paris, held from June 16 to June 23, 1894 he presented his ideas to an international audience. On the last day of the congress, it was decided that the first modern Olympic Games would take place in 1896 in Athens, in the country of their birth. To organise the Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established, with the Greek Demetrius Vikelas as its first president.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Games#Ancient_Olympics
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The Modern Olympic Games started in 1896 in Athens.  The Centennial Olympic Games would have taken place in 1996 (Atlanta).  If I remember the story correctly, Athens originally won the bid for the '96 games but couldn't get their act together so they lost them to Atlanta.  Then they went back and got the '04 games
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It was an official sport in 1924. Was demoted to a demonstration sport until 1998, when it made it's official debut.
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Due to World War I the 1916 Games were cancelled, and because of World War II the games of 1940 and 1944 were also skipped.\n\nThere was also a gap between 393 (the last of the ancient games) and 1896 (the first year of the Modern Olympics)
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1924 , Chamonix\nhe first Winter Olympic Games were actually called “The International Winter Sports Week” and went on for 11 days in the French Alps, 60 miles northeast of Grenoble.\n\nAs expected, the Scandinavians dominated the 16–nation field. Norway and Finland won 27 of the 43 medals available, including all four Nordic events and four of the five speed skating races. Speed skater Clas Thunberg of Finland and Norwegian Nordic skier and jumper Thorleif Haug each won three gold medals.\n\nAmerican speed skater Charles Jewtraw won the first event of the Games with an upset in the 500 meters. But the most remarkable U.S. medal was the bronze won by Anders Haugen in the ski jump. Due to a scoring error at the time he didn't receive it until 1974 – when he was 83 years old.\n\nIn its first four hockey games, Canada beat Switzerland 33–0, Czechoslovakia 30–0, Sweden 22–0 and Great Britain 19–2, before winning the tournament with a 6–1 victory over the U.S. in the final.
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Try olympics.com or another olympics site