Bill Gates Events

1955 Oct 28 Bill Gates is born
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is r...
1967
to 1973
Bill Gates attends Lakeside School
At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school.[12] When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage...
1973 Bill Gates enrolls at Harvard University
Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT[18] and subsequently enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of 1973.[19] Prior to the mid-1990s, an SA...
1975 Apr 4 Bill Gates and Paul Allen form partnership called Micro-Soft
While at Harvard, he met his future business partner, Steve Ballmer, whom he later appointed as CEO of Microsoft. He also met computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou at Harvard, with wh...
1976 Feb Bill Gates writes "Open Letter to Hobbyists"
The Open Letter to Hobbyists was an open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant co...
1978 Nov 1 Microsoft opens first international office in Japan
The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, titled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"). Microsoft Japan, officially Microsoft Compa...
1979 Jan 1 Microsoft moves headquarters to Bellevue, Washington
Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.[27] The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home i...
1980 Microsoft partners with IBM to wrtie the BASIC for the IBM PC
In 1980, IBM approached Microsoft to write the BASIC interpreter for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC. When IBM's representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system,...
1981 Jun 25 Microsoft becomes incorporated and Bill Gates becomes President
Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington and made Gates President of Microsoft and the Chairman of the Board.[26] ...
1989 Bill Gates founds Corbis
Corbis Corporation is an American company, based in Seattle, Washington, that sells and otherwise distributes photography and film footage and related rights. It has a collection of more ...
1994 Jan 1 Bill Gates marries Melinda French
Gates married Melinda French from Dallas, Texas on January 1, 1994. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine (1996), Rory John (1999) and Phoebe Adele (2002). The Gateses' home is an ...
1998 May 18 United States v. Microsoft Trial
United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act on May 18, 1998 by the United States Departmen...
2005 Jul 2 Live 8 concerts
Live 8 was a string of benefit concerts that took place on 2 July 2005, in the G8 states and in South Africa. They were timed to precede the G8 Conference and summit held at the Gleneagle...
2008 Jun 27 Bill Gates Steps Down from Daily Duties
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is r...
2009 Feb 4
to 2009 Feb 7
 TED 2009 held in Long Beach, CA
Normally the TED Conference is held in Monterey, CA, but in 2009 (the 25th Anniversary of the conference) it moved to Long Beach to accommodate a larger number of visitors. Perhaps the m...