1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1985 Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)
1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established
1978 Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established
1977 Department Of Energy established
1977 Huyman Rights Charta '77 established in Prague
1976 Arabic Monetary Fund established in Abu Dhabi
1975 Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam established
1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota established
1970 Afro-American Historical Calendar Series Established
1968 Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands
1967 People's front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1966 Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established
1965 Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel
1964 ESRO established, European Space Research Organization
1963 SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien
1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established, 1st underwater park
1959 U.N. Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
1958 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established
1955 West Europe Union established
1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established
1953 Department of Health, Education and Welfare established
1950 U.N. World Meteorological Organization established
1947 NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
1946 4th French republic established
1946 U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1946 Canadian Library Association established
1946 Italian Republic established
1945 International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1945 Foundation 1940-45 established
1945 ANJV established in Concert building, Amsterdam
1944 Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established
1941 Fair Employment Practices Commission established
1941 Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton
1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
1939 Federal Hall National Monument established
1938 Civil Aeronautics Authority (U.S.) established
1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin
1935 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California)
1935 Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established
1934 Securities and Exchange Commission established
1934 International Telecommunication Union established
1933 CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District
1933 German Secret State Police, Gestapo, established
1933 White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established
1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium
1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established
1929 Acadia National Park, Maine established
1929 Humanist Society established, Hollywood California
1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska
1925 Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region established (now in Tadzhik SSR)
1924 Gila Wilderness Area established by Forest Service
1924 Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established
1923 1st old age pension plans in U.S. established by Montana and Nevada
1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established
1923 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established
1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established
1921 Mountain Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR
1920 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1920 League of Nations established
1919 Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM)
1919 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1919 Belorussian SSR established
1918 Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established
1915 Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado and Utah is established
1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established
1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1912 French protectorate in Morocco established
1911 Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam
1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California)
1909 1st U.S. university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California established
1907 World's 1st air force established in the U.S. Army
1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida
1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established
1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
1900 Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1900 British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established
1899 Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels
1898 City of New York established
1897 Automobile Club of Great Britain established (now: Royal Auto Club)
1895 Los Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
1894 Labor Day established as a federal employees holiday
1888 English Football League established
1888 Dutch Heidemaatschappij established
1887 Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established
1884 Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1879 Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established
1876 U.S. Coast Guard officers' training school established New Bedford, Massachusetts
1876 Direct telegraph link established between Britain and NZ
1875 Universal Postal Union established
1868 Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
1867 1st U.S. dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1865 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established
1865 NV Suriname Bank established
1863 Territory of Idaho established
1862 U.S. Army of Virginia established under Gen John Pope
1861 Anaheim Post Office established
1860 Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement
1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1856 Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1854 Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
1852 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
1852 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st U.S. surgical school
1850 Hawaiian Fire Department established
1850 Hawaiian post office established
1850 San Francisco County Government established
1849 US Department of the Interior established by Congress
1848 2nd republic established in France
1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established
1847 1st U.S. telegraph co established in Maryland
1838 Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden
1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st U.S. music school, established
1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs established
1815 World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1814 Netherlands Bank established
1809 Sweden declares independence, constitutional monarchy established
1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
1802 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1800 Washington D.C. established as capital of US
1799 Metric system established in France
1795 Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1794 U.S. Post Office established
1791 1st U.S. law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1789 U.S. War Department established a regular army
1789 U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress
1789 U.S. Post Office established
1784 Russian trappers established a colony on Kodiak Island, AK
1784 1st U.S. seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1779 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1773 1st U.S. public museum established (Charlestown SC)
1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established
1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1664 New Jersey established
1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established
1635 French colony of Guadeloupe established in Caribbean
1629 1st commercial fishery established
1609 Wisselbank of Amsterdam established
1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown
1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1565 Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Fla, established
1429 Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary and Spain
1404 Brussels Brabants/Limburgse audit-office established
1397 Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden and Norway
1326 Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
930 World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established
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