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1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa

1931 Oswald Mosley founds his New Party

1923 Sun Yat Sen founds military academy

1914 Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia

1889 Chaplain Ariens founds 1st roman catholic workers group

1885 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society

1883 Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger

1882 Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco and Hawaii)

1865 William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation)

1858 Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester

1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore

1776 Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati

1769 Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in California

1690 Job Charnock founds Calcutta India

1682 William Penn founds Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1639 William Coddington founds Newport, Rhode Island

1617 Spanish viceroy Hernando Arias de Saavedra founds provinces Rio de la Plata (Argentina)/Guaira (Paraguay)

1565 Spanish occupier Estacio de Sa founds Rio de Janeiro

1535 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru


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