53 events with tag "founding"
1600 BC
ID: 3608
Tang of Shang defeats tyrant Jie, founding Shang Dynasty - first historically confirmed Chinese dynasty
ID: 3608
1400 BC
ID: 4168
Cadmus slays the dragon of Ares - sows its teeth which spring up as warriors, founds Thebes (Greek chronicles)
ID: 4168
1350 BC
ID: 3609
Ashur-uballit I establishes Assyrian independence from Mitanni - beginning of Middle Assyrian Empire
ID: 3609
880 BC
ID: 2754
Omri founds Samaria - builds new capital for Northern Kingdom, establishes powerful dynasty
ID: 2754
814 BC
ID: 5799
Phoenicians found Carthage - Tyre establishes greatest colony in North Africa, future rival to Rome
ID: 5799
760 BC
ID: 3683
Kashta unifies Upper Nubia - founds Kushite kingdom at Napata, beginning of 25th Dynasty power
ID: 3683
753 BC
ID: 2641
April 21, 753 BC
Traditional founding of Rome - Romulus kills Remus, founds city on Palatine Hill, establishes Senate and basic institutions
ID: 2641
626 BC
ID: 3669
Nabopolassar founds Neo-Babylonian Empire - rebels against Assyria, establishes Chaldean dynasty
ID: 3669
600 BC
ID: 5364
Greeks found Massalia (Marseille) - establishes wine trade with Celts, transforms Celtic culture through introduction of Mediterranean luxury goods
ID: 5364
588 BC
ID: 4649
Zoroaster receives revelation from Ahura Mazda at age 30 - founds monotheistic religion with dualist cosmology
ID: 4649
550 BC
ID: 3624
Cyrus defeats Astyages - overthrows Median Empire, founds Achaemenid Persian Empire
ID: 3624
322 BC
ID: 3673
Chandragupta Maurya overthrows Nanda dynasty - with help of Chanakya, founds Mauryan Empire from Magadha
ID: 3673
247 BC
ID: 4659
Arsaces I founds Parthian Empire - nomadic Parni tribe conquers Parthia, breaks from Seleucids
ID: 4659
206 BC
ID: 4704
Liu Bang founds Han Dynasty - establishes 400-year dynasty, makes Confucianism state ideology
ID: 4704
219
ID: 4853
Rav establishes Sura academy in Babylon - Returns from Palestine, creates major center of Jewish learning
ID: 4853
259
ID: 4855
Nehardea destroyed, Pumbedita founded - After Palmyrene attack, academy relocates to Pumbedita
ID: 4855
330
ID: 4756
Constantine founds Constantinople - 'New Rome' becomes Eastern capital, Christian city from beginning
ID: 4756
448
ID: 2811
Merovech fights alongside Romans against Attila - legendary founder of Merovingian dynasty, possibly mythical, said to be born of sea monster
ID: 2811
1540
ID: 3542
September 27, 1540
Pope Paul III approves Society of Jesus with Bull 'Regimini Militantis' - Unique fourth vow of special obedience to Pope - Ignatius elected first Superior General - 'Go and set the world on fire'
ID: 3542
1732
ID: 4954
St. Alphonsus Liguori founds Redemptorists - congregation for evangelizing the poor and abandoned
ID: 4954
1787
ID: 624
September 17, 1787
U.S. Constitution signed - 9 Freemasons among 55 delegates, Masonic principles influence document
ID: 624
1873
ID: 4246
Remington Arms Company begins manufacturing typewriters designed by Christopher Sholes - first commercial typewriter
ID: 4246
1896
ID: 4220
Herman Hollerith founds the Tabulating Machine Company to manufacture and market his punch card equipment
ID: 4220
1898
ID: 4247
James H. Rand founds Rand Ledger Company (later Rand Kardex) - innovative visible filing systems
ID: 4247
1941
ID: 1504
Institute of Internal Auditors officially founded to professionalize internal auditing practices
ID: 1504
1945
ID: 1560
UKUSA Agreement signed - Foundation for Five Eyes intelligence cooperation
ID: 1560
1946
ID: 4296
Engineering Research Associates founded by Navy cryptographers and William Norris - builds computers for military
ID: 4296
1946
ID: 4253
December 1946
Eckert and Mauchly leave University of Pennsylvania to found Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC) to build UNIVAC
ID: 4253
1949
ID: 1620
NATO founded with German strategic input through Gehlen networks
ID: 1620
1950
ID: 1646
Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity - 'We do it for Jesus'
ID: 1646
1957
ID: 4308
William Norris founds Control Data Corporation with Seymour Cray as chief designer - focus on supercomputers
ID: 4308
1957
ID: 4307
August 1957
Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson found Digital Equipment Corporation with $70,000 - future minicomputer leader
ID: 4307
1957
ID: 4374
October 1957
Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and six others leave Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild - birth of Silicon Valley culture
ID: 4374
1959
ID: 4376
National Semiconductor founded in Connecticut - later moves to Silicon Valley, becomes major chip producer
ID: 4376
1961
ID: 4377
Max Palevsky founds Scientific Data Systems - later sold to Xerox for $920 million, funds Intel
ID: 4377
1965
ID: 1818
CEDADE (Spanish Nazi organization) officially founded in Barcelona
ID: 1818
1968
ID: 4323
Data General founded by DEC engineers - Nova minicomputer uses single board design
ID: 4323
1968
ID: 4378
July 18, 1968
Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore found Intel with Andy Grove as #3 - 'Integrated Electronics' with $2.5 million from Arthur Rock
ID: 4378
1969
ID: 4380
May 1969
Jerry Sanders and seven other Fairchild employees found AMD - 'People first, products and profits will follow'
ID: 4380
1970
ID: 1879
1970s: Harry Hay founds Radical Faeries - left-wing cultural-spiritual-ecological pagan group
ID: 1879
1970
ID: 4327
July 1970
Xerox establishes Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) under Robert Taylor - computer research lab that invents future
ID: 4327
1974
ID: 4383
Federico Faggin leaves Intel to found Zilog - creates Z80 processor that dominates 8-bit market
ID: 4383
1975
ID: 4335
April 1975
Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft to develop BASIC interpreter for Altair 8800
ID: 4335
1976
ID: 4337
April 1976
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer, sell Apple I board for $666.66
ID: 4337
1982
ID: 4349
February 1982
Sun Microsystems founded by Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, and others - 'Stanford University Network' workstations
ID: 4349
1982
ID: 4350
November 1982
Jim Clark founds Silicon Graphics Inc. - specialized 3D graphics workstations for CAD and entertainment
ID: 4350
1984
ID: 4391
MIPS Computer Systems founded to commercialize Stanford RISC research - challenges Intel with simpler design
ID: 4391
1986
ID: 4399
NexGen founded to develop Nx586 processor - RISC core with x86 translation, acquired by AMD in 1996
ID: 4399
1988
ID: 4398
Cyrix Corporation founded - produces x86 processors for low-cost market, later acquired by National Semi
ID: 4398
1990
ID: 4402
November 1990
ARM Ltd spun out from Acorn - designs low-power RISC processors, licenses to others, dominates mobile
ID: 4402
1998
ID: 3032
Google founded using mathematical PageRank algorithm - Linear algebra and graph theory enable internet search
ID: 3032
2004
ID: 3106
Facebook founded using mathematical graph theory for social networks
ID: 3106
2006
ID: 3135
Twitter founded using mathematical algorithms for information propagation
ID: 3135