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Date | Event |
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1267-09-01 |
Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem |
1498-07-07 |
Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel |
1531-12-17 |
Pope Clement VII establishes a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal. |
1555-11-12 |
The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism. |
1627-06-02 |
English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company |
1635-08-03 |
The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635). |
1644-03-07 |
Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies |
1648-10-04 |
Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen |
1677-05-29 |
Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians. |
1682-11-12 |
Swedish king Karel XI establishes absolute monarchy |
1689-02-13 |
British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights - establishes limits on the crown and rights of parliament |
1743-02-03 |
Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants |
1748-06-03 |
Amsterdam establishes municipal postal service |
1755-01-12 |
Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University |
1767-12-28 |
King Taksin crowned King of Thailand and establishes Thonburi as his capital. |
1769-07-14 |
The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of Monterey (now Monterey, California). |
1775-11-28 |
2nd Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy |
1776-12-31 |
Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors |
1777-08-04 |
Retired British cavalry officer Philip Astley establishes 1st circus |
1780-01-15 |
Continental Congress establishes court of appeals |
1785-05-01 |
Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi |
1786-08-11 |
Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia |
1787-07-13 |
Congress establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery) |
1789-07-27 |
US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs (State dept) |
1789-09-24 |
US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution |
1790-07-16 |
US Congress establishes District of Columbia |
1791-03-03 |
Congress establishes US Mint |
1792-05-08 |
US establishes military draft |
1793-01-09 |
Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery |
1793-12-09 |
Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva |
1794-03-27 |
The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates. |
1796-08-08 |
Boston African Society establishes with 44 members |
1800-04-24 |
Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation |
1800-06-29 |
Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar |
1800-07-10 |
The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent. |
1819-08-17 |
The Church Missionary Society establishes New Zealand's second mission station at Kerikeri |
1819-12-17 |
Congress of Angostura establishes Colombia's independence from Spain |
1821-10-08 |
The government of General José de San Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy. |
1829-09-29 |
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel establishes London's Metropolitan Police - hence the nicknames "bobbies" and "peelers". |
1837-10-09 |
Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute. |
1849-10-16 |
Avery College establishes in Allegheny, Pennsylvania |
1850-09-24 |
Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England |
1855-03-15 |
Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine |
1856-11-17 |
On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase. |
1860-06-23 |
Congress establishes Government Printing Office |
1861-03-06 |
Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army |
1861-07-14 |
Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC - USS Daylight establishes blockade |
1862-04-21 |
Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co |
1863-05-22 |
War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops |
1864-10-20 |
US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday |
1866-01-09 |
Fisk University establishes |
1869-08-15 |
The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto. |
1870-02-09 |
US Army establishes US National Weather Service |
1871-03-03 |
US Congress establishes the civil service system |
1875-08-14 |
Society of Regte Afrikaanders establishes in Paarl |
1881-07-04 |
Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) |
1884-03-12 |
Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women |
1885-02-05 |
King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal colonial possession |
1885-03-03 |
1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission |
1886-09-06 |
Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) |
1890-09-25 |
Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California) |
1893-05-11 |
Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km) |
1895-11-27 |
Alfred Nobel's will establishes Nobel Prizes |
1902-06-17 |
US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act, which establishes a fund from sale of public lands to build irrigation dams for arid Western lands |
1904-01-07 |
Marconi Co establishes "CQD" as 1st intl radio distress signal |
1904-03-12 |
Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund |
1912-05-18 |
Maurits Binger establishes 2 Dutch movie companies |
1913-03-15 |
Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court |
1914-05-07 |
US Congress establishes mother's day |
1914-09-02 |
The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews |
1916-06-03 |
US National Defense Act establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps |
1916-07-29 |
Postal check & Girodienst establishes |
1916-11-03 |
Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar |
1917-07-23 |
Cleveland Metropolitan Park District establishes |
1919-05-22 |
Andrew E. Douglass establishes the relative dates of two archaeological sites using ancient wood samples, marking a major step forward in the dating of archaeological sites |
1919-07-21 |
Anthony Fokker's establishes airplane factory at Hamburg & Amsterdam |
1920-12-13 |
League of nations establishes Intl Court of Justice in The Hague |
1921-12-01 |
US Post Office establishes philatelic agency |
1925-01-05 |
Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office |
1926-04-03 |
Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions |
1929-01-06 |
Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia |
1929-02-26 |
US Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park |
1930-06-16 |
Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR. |
1932-07-12 |
Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm |
1933-11-16 |
Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR |
1935-03-12 |
England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages |
1936-10-01 |
Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain |
1939-06-23 |
US Congress establishes US Coast Guard Reserve (renamed US Coast Guard Auxiliary 1941) as uniformed volunteer units supporting the Coast Guard |
1940-09-11 |
Anton Mussert establishes Dutch SS |
1941-04-09 |
PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame |
1941-12-22 |
Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia |
1942-03-01 |
Tito establishes 2nd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
1942-03-05 |
Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia |
1942-11-07 |
Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km) |
1942-11-24 |
French collaborator Marquis de Brinon establishes "African Falanx" |
1943-10-08 |
Great Britain establishes bases on Azores |
1943-10-16 |
US 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol |
1944-11-20 |
Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda |
1945-08-08 |
USSR establishes a communist government in North Korea |
1945-12-19 |
Austrian Republic re-establishes |
1946-01-10 |
US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ |
1946-08-01 |
US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) |
1947-07-26 |
National Security Act establishes CIA |
1950-08-01 |
Guam Organic Act by establishes Guam as US territory |
1950-12-14 |
UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954) |
1953-08-13 |
US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee |
1957-03-25 |
Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Mkt) |
1961-03-01 |
President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corp |
1961-05-26 |
Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta |
1961-08-17 |
Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress |
1966-12-26 |
Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday |
1969-04-18 |
Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund |
1970-12-09 |
OPEC meeting in Caracas establishes 55 percent as minimum tax rate and demands that posted prices be changed to reflect changes in foreign exchange rates |
1974-06-13 |
IMF establishes its "oil facility", a special fund for loans to nations whose balance of payments have been severely affected by high oil prices |
1976-05-19 |
Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
1976-09-09 |
New Zealand government establishes the country's first centralised electronic database through the Wanganui Computer Act, raising questions about the state's ability to gather information on its citizens |
1976-11-18 |
Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship |
1977-07-14 |
US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence |
1977-08-04 |
US President Carter establishes Department of Energy |
1978-12-05 |
EG decides establishes EMS, European Monetary System |
1983-10-19 |
Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday |
1984-01-10 |
US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years |
1986-07-08 |
NASA establishes Safety, Reliability Maintain & Quality Assurance |
2001-03-06 |
US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve, a 2-million-barrels government-owned reserve to be used in emergency circumstances |
2002-01-16 |
The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban. |
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Date | Event |
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1730-09-01 |
US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read |
Date | Event |
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1829-06-27 |
James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute |