| 1905: |
First Rotary Club Organized in Chicago, Illionois,USA |
| 1908: |
Second Club formed in Sanfrancisco, California, USA |
| 1910: |
First Rotary Convention held in Chicago |
| 1912: |
The Rotary Club of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, become the first club outside the United States to be officially chartered. (The Club was formed in 1910.) |
| 1917: |
Endowment fund, forerunner of The Rotary Foundation, established |
| 1932: |
4-Way Test formulated by Chicago Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor |
| 1945: |
Forty-nine Rotarians help draft United Nations Charter in San Francisco |
| 1947: |
Rotary Founder Paul Harris dies, first 18 Rotary Foundation scholarship granted |
| 1962: |
First Interact club formed in Melbourne, Florida, USA |
| 1965: |
Rotary Foundation launches Matching Grants and Group Study Exchange programs |
| 1978: |
RI's largest convention, with 39,834 registrants, held in Tokyo |
| 1985: |
Rotary announces PolioPlus program to immunize all the children of the world against polio |
| 1989: |
Council on Legislation opens Rotary membership to women worlwide; Rotary clubs chartered in Budapest, Hungary, and Warsaw, Poland, for first time in almost 50 years |
| 1990: |
Rotary club of Moscow chartered first club in Soviet Union |
1990-91: |
Preserve Planet Earth program inspire some 2,000 Rotary-sponsored environmental projects |
| 1994: |
Western hemisphere declared polio-free |
| 1999: |
Rotary Centers for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution established |
| 2000: |
Western Pacific declared polio-free |
| 2001: |
30,000th Rotary club chartered |
| 2002: |
Europe declared polio-free, first class of 70 Rotary Peace Scholars begin study |
| 2003: |
Rorarians raise more than US$ 118 million to support the final stages of polio eradication |
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