🏭 Industrial & Manufacturing Giants Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (22 Entries)

1. [1565] Rio de Janeiro — Founded in 1565, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire.
2. [1694] Mitsui Takatoshi — Mitsui Takatoshi (三井 高利; 1622 – May 29, 1694) was a Japanese businessman who founded the Mitsui family of merchants and industrialists that later emerged as the Mitsui Group, a powerful zaibatsu (business conglomerate).
3. [1847] Paul Reuter — After some work as a bank clerk, in 1847 he founded Reuter and Stargardt, a Berlin book-publishing firm, with Joseph Abraham Stargardt.
4. [1904] Jamsetji Tata — Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and patriarch of the Tata family who founded the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate.
5. [1916] William E. Boeing — He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916, which was renamed to Boeing a year later.
6. [1921] Donald Wills Douglas Sr. — He founded the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1921 (the company later merged with McDonnell Aircraft to form McDonnell Douglas Corporation, which merged with Boeing in 1997).
7. [1930] Sakichi Toyoda — Sakichi Toyoda (豊田 佐吉, Toyoda Sakichi; March 19, 1867 – October 30, 1930) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (later Toyota Industries).
8. [1940] Auschwitz concentration camp — In May 1940, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries established the camp's reputation for sadism.
9. [1945] Masaru Ibuka — In September 1945, he left the company and navy, and founded a radio repair shop in the bombed out Shirokiya Department Store in Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
10. [1960] Michio Morishima — In 1960 he established with Nobel-laureate Lawrence R.
11. [1977] Aliko Dangote — In 1977, Dangote founded the Dangote Group, a small company that traded commodities; importing sugar, salt, and food products.
12. [1977] Anna Vissi — Vissi established herself in the recording industry by winning the Thessaloniki Song Festival in 1977 with the song "As Kanoume Apopse Mian Arhi" and releasing the eponymous debut album.
13. [1977] Larry Ellison — He co-founded the software company Oracle Corporation, and was its CEO from 1977 to 2014.
14. [1987] Hiroki Totoki — He established his foundational career by joining the Sony Group in 1987, beginning a long and formative association with the corporation.
15. [1987] Lee Byung-chul — Lee Byung-chul (Korean: 이병철; 12 February 1910 – 19 November 1987) was a South Korean businessman who founded the Samsung Group, the country's largest chaebol (conglomerate).
16. [1987] Thaksin Shinawatra — Thaksin founded the mobile phone operator Advanced Info Service (AIS) and the telecommunications conglomerate Shin Corporation in 1987, making him one of the wealthiest individuals in Thailand.
17. [1991] Mikhail Fridman — Fridman co-founded Alfa-Bank in 1991, establishing it as one of Russia's largest private banking institutions.
18. [1999] Jack Ma — In 1999, he co-founded Alibaba Group, initially as a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace and later expanded into a multinational conglomerate.
19. [2001] Agnez Mo — After recording four children's albums and hosting several variety shows, Mo established herself as a teen idol with her leading role in the TV series Pernikahan Dini (2001).
20. [2012] Joo Woo-jae — Established in 2012, its growth led him to become the designer of his clothing brand, SSRL (에스에스알엘) (formerly Siesta).
21. [2013] Horacio Cartes — horacio cartes paraguayan politician and businessman, former president of paraguay (2013-2018) Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara was born on July 5, 1956, and established himself as a prominent figure in Paraguayan business and politics.
22. [2025] Jin Ki-joo — In April 2025, Jin signed a new management contract with Basecamp Company, the agency founded by veteran actors Cha Tae-hyun and Zo In-sung a month ago.