28 events with tag "foundation"
2333 BC
ID: 5510
Traditional founding of Gojoseon (Ancient Joseon) by legendary Dangun Wanggeom, grandson of heaven
ID: 5510
1400 BC
ID: 5903
Oracle site first sacred - Mycenaean worship at Delphi spring, Earth goddess Gaia venerated before Apollo
ID: 5903
660 BC
ID: 5484
February 11, 660 BC
Traditional date of Japan's founding - Emperor Jimmu ascends throne as first Emperor of Japan
ID: 5484
536 BC
ID: 2786
Second Temple foundation laid - old men weep remembering First Temple's glory, young rejoice
ID: 2786
350 BC
ID: 360
Aristotle develops syllogistic logic in the Organon, establishing the first formal system of logic with rules of valid inference
ID: 360
57 BC
ID: 5514
Traditional founding of Silla kingdom in southeastern Korea with capital at Gyeongju
ID: 5514
37 BC
ID: 5512
Traditional founding date of Goguryeo kingdom in northern Korea and Manchuria
ID: 5512
18 BC
ID: 5513
Traditional founding of Baekje kingdom in southwestern Korea
ID: 5513
33
ID: 3833
St. Peter receives keys of the kingdom - 'You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church' - becomes first pope
ID: 3833
421
ID: 5093
Church of San Giacomo di Rialto founded - traditionally first church in Venice, marks beginning of permanent settlement
ID: 5093
421
ID: 5091
March 25, 421
Legendary founding of Venice - refugees fleeing barbarian invasions establish settlement on Rialto islands at noon on Feast of Annunciation
ID: 5091
529
ID: 3795
St. Benedict founds Monte Cassino - establishes monastery that becomes center of Western monasticism
ID: 3795
545
ID: 3798
St. Columba founds Derry monastery - first of many foundations before mission to Scotland
ID: 3798
751
ID: 2885
Merovingian legacy - established Francia, made it Catholic, created basis for France and Holy Roman Empire, legendary long-haired kings
ID: 2885
910
ID: 5443
September 11, 910
Abbey of Cluny founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine, who donates land for a monastery to be placed directly under papal authority, free from local secular and ecclesiastical control
ID: 5443
918
ID: 5523
Wang Geon (Taejo) founds Goryeo Dynasty with capital at Kaesong, source of name 'Korea'
ID: 5523
986
ID: 5867
Aelfthryth founds Wherwell Abbey - queen mother becomes major monastic patron, possibly as penance for Edward's murder
ID: 5867
1104
ID: 5104
Venetian Arsenal founded - state shipyard becomes Europe's first factory complex, can build a ship per day at peak
ID: 5104
1167
ID: 3753
Bishop Absalon founds Copenhagen - builds castle on small island, future capital of Denmark
ID: 3753
1392
ID: 5530
Yi Seong-gye (Taejo) founds Joseon Dynasty, moves capital to Hanyang (Seoul)
ID: 5530
1397
ID: 5126
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici founds Medici Bank - becomes one of Europe's most prosperous financial institutions
ID: 5126
1703
ID: 5989
May 27, 1703
Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg on swampland - 'Window to Europe' built at cost of thousands of lives
ID: 5989
1831
ID: 792
Mazzini founds Young Italy - 'God and the People' - goal of unified republican Italy
ID: 792
1879
ID: 364
Gottlob Frege publishes 'Begriffsschrift', introducing predicate logic with quantifiers and establishing modern symbolic logic
ID: 364
1893
ID: 366
Frege publishes Volume 1 of 'Grundgesetze der Arithmetik', attempting to derive arithmetic from pure logic
ID: 366
1902
ID: 367
Bertrand Russell discovers Russell's Paradox in Frege's system, creating a crisis in the foundations of mathematics
ID: 367
1910
ID: 368
December 1910
Russell and Whitehead publish Volume 1 of Principia Mathematica, attempting to derive all mathematics from logical foundations
ID: 368
1931
ID: 369
Kurt Gödel publishes his Incompleteness Theorems, proving that any consistent formal system containing arithmetic is incomplete
ID: 369