Formed - Notable Historical Events
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Formed - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
43 |
The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed. |
BC AD | |
1256-04-13 |
The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. |
1348-04-07 |
Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV |
1440-02-21 |
The Prussian Confederation is formed. |
1537-08-25 |
The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed. |
1750-11-11 |
The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It was the first college fraternity. |
1773-10-14 |
The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland. |
1789-05-12 |
Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses |
1792-09-22 |
French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping French King of his powers |
1805-02-15 |
Harmony Society is officially formed. |
1833-12-04 |
American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Phila |
1849-12-21 |
1st US skating club formed (Phila) |
1857-10-10 |
American Chess Association formed (NYC) |
1864-05-26 |
Territory of Montana formed |
1865-02-04 |
Hawaiian Board of Education formed |
1866-01-12 |
The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London. |
1867-07-01 |
The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister |
1868-04-18 |
San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed |
1874-07-04 |
Social Democratic Workmen's Party of North America formed |
1881-03-28 |
"Greatest Show On Earth" was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey |
1885-05-02 |
Congo Free State formed by King Leopold II of Belgium |
1886-12-08 |
American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president |
1886-12-22 |
1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC) |
1889-01-22 |
Columbia Phonograph was formed in Washington, D.C. |
1895-05-25 |
The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as the president. |
1895-12-17 |
Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC |
1898-03-25 |
Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC |
1900-02-27 |
In London, the Trade Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet, resulting in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern Labour Party in 1906 |
1900-12-16 |
A National Civic Federation is formed in the US to arbitrate labor disputes |
1903-10-10 |
The Women's Social and Political Union was formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights in Britain. |
1905-02-23 |
Rotary Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago |
1905-10-26 |
First Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia |
1908-03-12 |
The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia. |
1909-08-02 |
Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers |
1909-11-07 |
Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922 |
1910-09-06 |
Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed |
1911-03-13 |
The Colonial-Born and Settlers Indian Association is formed at a meeting in Durban, South Africa, and has at its aim to fight the infamous 3 poll tax |
1911-12-29 |
SF Symphony formed |
1914-09-26 |
Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce |
1916-07-07 |
The New Zealand Labour party is formed |
1916-07-15 |
Boeing Company (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash |
1917-09-02 |
Deutsche Vaterlands Partei formed by admiral Tirpitz |
1917-12-20 |
Cheka formed - Soviet state security force and forerunner to the KGB, under Felix Dzerzhinsky after decree by Lenin |
1920-08-14 |
Little Entente formed by Czechoslovakia & Yugoslavia |
1921-11-04 |
The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally formed by Adolf Hitler |
1922-04-27 |
Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR |
1923-03-30 |
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates |
1923-04-06 |
The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia. |
1923-08-09 |
NY State Golf Association formed |
1924-04-01 |
The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. |
1924-05-03 |
Aleph Zadik Aleph is formed in Omaha, Nebraska by Sam Beber. |
1924-05-11 |
Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies. |
1925-08-05 |
Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language, which is in danger of dying out. |
1926-03-03 |
International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla) |
1926-09-09 |
The U.S. National Broadcasting Company formed. |
1930-09-20 |
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed by Archbishop Mar Ivanios. |
1934-12-10 |
Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite |
1935-02-26 |
German Luftwaffe is re-formed under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering |
1936-06-28 |
The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China. |
1936-10-31 |
The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed. |
1939-04-13 |
In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British. |
1939-05-03 |
The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. |
1939-08-20 |
1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc) |
1939-10-14 |
BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed |
1942-03-19 |
Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago |
1942-05-22 |
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed. |
1942-06-13 |
US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed |
1945-04-20 |
Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride |
1946-06-06 |
The Basketball Association of America is formed in New York City. |
1946-07-03 |
The Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town, attended by 1,500 people |
1946-11-04 |
UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed |
1948-08-23 |
World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries |
1949-09-13 |
Ladies Pro Golf Association of America formed in NYC |
1949-10-07 |
German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier |
1950-08-15 |
Srikakulam district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. |
1954-06-15 |
UEFA (Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is formed in Basle, Switzerland. |
1958-01-03 |
The West Indies Federation is formed. |
1959-08-01 |
New Continental baseball league formed |
1960-07-01 |
The independent Somali Democratic Republic, commonly known as Somalia, is formed out of former British and Italian territories |
1960-12-20 |
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed. |
1963-05-25 |
Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia |
1963-09-16 |
Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo & Sarawak |
1964-06-28 |
Organization for Afo-American Unity formed in NY by Malcolm X |
1965-11-08 |
British Indian Ocean Territory formed |
1968-10-09 |
About 2,000 students from Queen's University Belfast tried to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against 'police brutality' on 5 October in Derry; the march was blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley and after the demonstration, a student civil rights group—People's Democracy—was formed |
1968-10-16 |
The People's Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen's University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland |
1968-10-19 |
Derry Citizen's Action Committee, formed on Oct 9, stage an illegal sit-down at Guildhall Square as part of large civil disobedience campaign |
1969-02-06 |
The New Ulster Movement is formed to promote moderate and non-sectarian policies and to assist those candidates who supported Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
1970-04-21 |
The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI) is formed; it attempts to appeal to Catholics and Protestant to unite in support of moderate policies |
1970-11-12 |
The Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is formed; the NIHE gradually took over control of the building and allocation of public sector housing in Northern Ireland |
1971-07-06 |
White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks |
1971-12-11 |
The Libertarian Party of the United States is formed. |
1972-07-12 |
Twelve years after the banning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress, a new political movement, the Black People Convention is formed after a three day long conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa |
1973-01-01 |
West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta) |
1974-11-15 |
International Energy Agency formed in Paris within OECD framework in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis |
1977-06-29 |
South Africa opposition party, the New Republic Party (NRP), is formed after the integration of the United Party (UP) and Democratic Party (DP) |
1977-07-26 |
The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto, South Africa |
1979-06-01 |
Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. |
1979-11-08 |
The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed. |
1987-06-27 |
In South Africa, the Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed |
1988-08-11 |
Al-Qaeda formed |
1994-09-24 |
National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar. |
1995-01-30 |
Norway's Statoil announces a newly formed consortium that will supply Norwegian natural gas to the European continent |
1996-03-07 |
The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed. |
1997-07-09 |
Baseball's triple A American Association (formed in 1902) votes to disband |
1998-09-18 |
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed. |
2000-07-10 |
EADS, the world's second largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. |
2001-05-03 |
The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947. |
2002-10-27 |
The ITV Network aired a constant regional service for the last time in England and Wales, but LWT lost its identity completely. All companies (except UTV, Channel, Scottish TV & Grampian TV) formed the national ITV1 with regional references only before regional programmes. |
2003-06-27 |
The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day. |
2003-07-07 |
The United Communist Party of Armenia is formed. |
2004-03-03 |
Belgian brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion deal that formed InBev, the world's largest brewer. |
2007-05-08 |
A new Northern Ireland Executive is formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin as Deputy First Minister. |
2012-11-01 |
Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe's first stars, predicted to have formed 500 million years after the big bang |
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Formed - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1494-02-20 |
Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism) |
1937-10-26 |
Dave Gavitt, formed Basketball's Big East Conference (1979) |
Formed - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1969-06-11 |
John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89 |
1995-09-22 |
Arthur Benfield, formed head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82 |
