# Date Historam with first document

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-historam-with-first-document/91423
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 30, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-historam-with-first-document/91423 "2017-06-30T12:28:11Z")
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### Author: ![tushar\_chevulkar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tushar_chevulkar/32/46270_2.png) [@tushar\_chevulkar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tushar_chevulkar)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-historam-with-first-document/91423/1 "2017-06-30T12:28:11Z")

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I am trying to write a query which will return first entry of every month but I am not able to find anything can any one please help me with it .

i tried the below query but it return number of documents in that month not the first document in that month

```
{
						   "query" : {
							  "term" : { "id" : "1" }
						   },"size":0,
						    "aggs" : {
        "sales_over_time" : {
            "date_histogram" : {
                "field" : "date",
                "interval" : "month"
            }
        }
    }
						}
```

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2017, 12:28pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/date-historam-with-first-document/91423/2 "2017-07-28T12:28:13Z")

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