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1857 |
February 22, Robert
Stephenson Smyth
Baden-Powell born in
Paddington, London
England. |
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1889 |
February 22, Olave
St. Clair Soames was
born. She married
Baden-Powell in
1912. |
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1907 |
Baden-Powell's
experimental camp,
Brownsea Island,
England, August 1-9.
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1908 |
"Scouting for Boys"
published. Boy
Scouts office opened
in London. |
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1916 |
Cub
section started.
"Wolf Cub's
Handbook" published.
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1919 |
Gilwell Park
acquired. Start of
leaders' training
courses. |
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1920 |
1st
World Jamboree,
Olympia, London,
England, 8,000
participants.
Baden-Powell
acclaimed Chief
Scout of the World.
1st International
Scout Conference; 33
national Scout
organizations
represented.
Boy Scouts
International Bureau
founded, London,
England.
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1921 |
International
magazine "Jamboree"
first published
(title changed to
"World Scouting" in
1955, and now is
World Scouting
News). |
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1922 |
1st
International
Committee elected
(at 2nd
International
Conference, Paris,
France). 30 national
Scout organizations
represented.
First world census:
1,019,205 members in
31 countries.
Venture Scouts
started (Rovers).
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1924 |
2nd
World Jamboree,
Copenhagen, Denmark,
4,549 participants.
3rd World Scout
Conference,
Copenhagen Denmark.
34 national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1925 |
International Scout
Chalet opened,
Kandersteg,
Switzerland. (Now
known as the
Kandersteg
International Scout
Centre) |
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1926 |
4th
World Scout
Conference,
Kandersteg,
Switzerland. 29
national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1929 |
3rd
World Jamboree,
Birkenhead, England.
50,000 participants.
5th World Scout
Conference,
Birkenhead, England.
33 national Scout
organizations
represented.
Baden-Powell given
peerage; takes title
Lord Baden-Powell of
Gilwell. |
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1931 |
6th
World Scout
Conference,
Vienna-Baden,
Austria. 44 national
Scout organizations
represented. |
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1933 |
4th
World Jamboree,
Gödöllö, Hungary.
25,793 participants.
7th World Scout
Conference, Gödöllö,
Hungary. 31 national
Scout organizations
represented. |
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1935 |
8th
World Scout
Conference,
Stockholm, Sweden.
28 national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1937 |
5th
World Jamboree,
Vogelenzang-Bloemendaal,
Netherlands. 28,750
participants.
9th World Scout
Conference, The
Hague, Netherlands.
34 national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1939 |
10th World Scout
Conference,
Edinburgh, Scotland.
27 national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1941 |
Death of
Baden-Powell,
January 8. |
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1946 |
1st
Inter-American
Conference, Bogota,
Colombia. |
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1947 |
6th
World Jamboree
(Jamboree of Peace),
Moisson, France.
24,152 participants.
11th World Scout
Conference, Château
de Rosny, France. 32
national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1949 |
1st
Agoon (International
camp for handicapped
Scouts) Lunteren,
Netherlands.
12th World Scout
Conference,
Elvesaeter, Norway.
25 national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1950 |
World membership
reached 5 million in
50 countries. |
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1951 |
7th
World Jamboree, Bad
Ischl, Austria.
12,884 participants.
13th World Scout
Conference,
Salzburg, Austria.
34 national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1952 |
1st
Caribbean Jamboree,
Kingston, Jamaica.
14th World Scout
Conference, Vaduz,
Liechtenstein. 35
national Scout
organizations
represented.
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1954 |
1st
Arab Jamboree,
Zabadani, Syria.
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1955 |
8th
World Jamboree,
Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Canada. 11,139
participants.
15th World Scout
Conference, Niagara
Falls, Canada. 44
national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1957 |
9th
World Jamboree
(Jubilee, 50th
Anniversary of
Scouting),
Birmingham, England.
30,000 participants.
16th World Scout
Conference,
Cambridge, England.
52 national Scout
organizations
represented.
World Scout Bureau
moved to Ottawa,
Canada. |
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1958 |
1st
Far East Regional
Conference, Baguio,
Philippines.
1st
Jamboree-on-the-Air
(JOTA) |
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1959 |
10th World Jamboree,
Mt. Makiling,
Philippines. 12,203
participants.
17th World Scout
Conference, New
Delhi, India. 35
national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1960 |
1st
European Regional
Conference,
Altenberg, Germany.
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1961 |
18th World Scout
Conference, Lisbon,
Portugal. 50
national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1963 |
11th World Jamboree,
Marathon, Greece.
14,000 participants.
19th World Scout
Conference, Rhodes,
Greece. 52 national
Scout organizations
represented. |
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1965 |
1st
Pan-American
Jamboree, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
20th World Scout
Conference, Mexico
City, Mexico. 59
national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1967 |
12th World Jamboree,
Farragut State Park,
Idaho, U.S.A. 12,011
participants.
21st World Scout
Conference, Seattle,
Washington, U.S.A.
70 national
organizations
represented. |
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1968 |
World Scout Bureau
headquarters moved
to Geneva,
Switzerland.
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1969 |
World membership
reached 12 million.
22nd World Scout
Conference, Otaniemi,
Finland. 60 national
Scout organizations
represented.
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1970 |
1st
Africa Conference,
Dakar, Senegal.
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1971 |
13th World Jamboree,
Asagiri Heights,
Japan. 23,758
participants.
23rd World Scout
Conference, Tokyo,
Japan. 71 national
Scout organizations
represented.
World Organization
membership passes
100 member
countries. |
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1972 |
1st
International
Community
Development Seminar,
Cotonou, Dahomey
(now Benin). |
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1973 |
1st
Environment
Conservation
seminar, Sweden.
24th World Scout
Conference, Nairobi,
Kenya.
77 national Scout
organizations
represented.
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1975 |
14th World Jamboree
(Nordjamb '75),
Lillehammer, Norway.
17,259 participants.
25th World Scout
Conference,
Lundtofte, Denmark.
87 national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1977 |
26th World Scout
Conference,
Montreal, Canada. 81
national Scout
organizations
represented.
Death of Lady Olave
Baden-Powell, June
25.
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1979 |
World Jamboree Year:
Join-in-Jamboree
around the world.
27th World Scout
Conference,
Birmingham, England.
81 national Scout
organizations
represented. |
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1981 |
UNESCO Prize for
Peace Education
presented to WOSM.
28th World Scout
Conference, Dakar,
Senegal. 74 national
Scout organizations
represented.
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1982 |
Rotary International
honours Scout
Movement. |
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1982-3 |
Year of the Scout -
75th Anniversary of
Scouting. |
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1983 |
15th World Jamboree,
Calgary, Alberta,
Canada. 14,752
participants.
29th World Scout
Conference,
Dearborn, Michigan,
U.S.A. 90 national
organizations
represented. |
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1984 |
Rotary Award for
World Understanding.
The International
Association of Lions
Clubs honours
Scouting. |
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1985 |
UN
International Youth
Year (1st worldwide
programme to be
implemented with the
World Association of
Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts).
30th World Scout
Conference, Munich
Germany. 90 national
Scout organizations
represented. |
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1986-7 |
A
child health
programme entitled
"help children grow"
introduced with the
World Association of
Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts and UNICEF.
Membership in World
Organization reaches
120 countries. |
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1988 |
16th World Jamboree,
New South Wales,
Australia. 13,434
participants.
Scouting is honoured
by United Nations
Environment
Programme in
recognition of the
Movement's
outstanding
environment
achievements.
31st World Scout
Conference,
Melbourne,
Australia. 77
national Scout
organizations
represented.
Implementation of
the resolution on
"Towards a Strategy
for Scouting".
Emphasis on Scouting
with the
handicapped. Several
seminars took place
all over the world
for the promotion of
health and
handicapped.Dr.
Jacques Moreillon,
Switzerland, becomes
Secretary General of
the World
Organization of the
Scout Movement. (1
November) |
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1989 |
Special Peace Week:
Scout activities
related to education
for peace.
7th Africa Scout
Conference in Lomé,
Togo.
Scouting makes
celebrations to mark
the adoption of the
UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child
and encourage its
ratification by
national
governments. |
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1990 |
32nd World Scout
Conference, Paris,
France. 1,000
participants
representing 100
member countries and
guests from seven
other countries.
Opening of an
Information Centre
in Moscow.
Formal agreement,
the Kigali Charter,
between 23 Scout and
Girl Guide
associations for the
promotion of
programmes of
cooperation in the
form of twining
projects.
Memberhsip in World
Organization reaches
131 countries
"Operation of
Solidarity" to
enable 1,235
children irradiated
by the Chernobyl
disaster to be the
guests of Scouts and
Girl Guides in 15
European countries,
in collaboration
with UNESCO, the
Soviet Children's
Fund and the World
Association of Girl
Guides and Girl
Scouts. |
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1990-1 |
World Scout
Environment Year.
8th World Moot, near
Melbourne,
Australia. 1,000
young adult Scouts
from 36 countries. A
feature of the Moot
was the World Youth
Forum. |
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1991 |
Creation of the
World Scout
Parliamentary Union,
Korea at its
constituent assembly
gathering 60
parliamentarians and
Scouting officials
from 22 countries on
5 continents.
17th World Scout
Jamboree, Mount
Sorak National Park,
Republic of Korea.
20,000 participants
representing 135
countries and
territories.
Introduction of the
Global Development
Village. |
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1992 |
9th
World Moot,
Kandersteg
International Scout
Centre, Switzerland.
1,400 participants
from 52 countries.
35th JOTA: at the
invitation of the
World Federation of
Great Towers, Scouts
and Guides had the
opportunity to
communicate from the
tops of 13 towers
around the world
using the newest
communication
systems including
videophone and
television as well
as amateur radio.
For the first time
all five Regional
Scout Conferences
met in the same year
and all will now
meet on a triennial
basis in the year
preceding World
Scout Conferences.
Creation of Scout
Resources
International
(SCORE), the
official Scout Shop
of the World
Organization. |
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1993 |
33rd World Scout
Conference, Bangkok,
Thailand, with more
than 1,000
participants from 99
member countries.
Opening of a World
Scout organization
office in Yalta-Gurzuf
in Crimea covering
the CIS and related
countries. |
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1994 |
International
symposium on
"Scouting: Youth
without Borders,
Partnership and
Solidarity",
Marrakech, Morocco.
440 participants
representing 118
Scout associations
from 94 countries.
Adoption of the
Marrakech Charter to
enhance partnership.
Signature of an
agreement with
UNICEF on Oral
Rehydration Therapy,
Geneva, Switzerland.
The International
Public Relations
Association bestowed
its annual
President's Award on
to WOSM for
"outstanding
contribution to
better world
understanding".
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1995 |
18th World Scout
Jamboree,
Netherlands. 28,960
Scouts, leaders and
staff attended from
166 countries and
territories.
Operation Flevoland
pemitted Scouts from
50 countries to
participate.
Signing of an
agreement of
co-operation between
the World Scout
Organization and
United Nations High
Commissioner for
Refugees.
Celebrations of the
50th Anniversary of
the UN. Youth Forum
held by the UN in
Geneva, Switzerland;
approximately 2/3rd
of delegates were or
had been Scouts or
Girl Guides. |
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1996 |
6th
World Youth Forum,
Moss, Norway.
34th World Scout
Conference, Oslo,
Norway, with more
than 1,000
participants from
108 member
countries.
10th World Scout
Moot, Sweden.
1st Mongolian
Jamboree. 1,200
participants.
Membership in World
Organization reaches
140 countries.
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1997 |
90th Anniversary of
Scouting.
Creation of the
Eurasia World Scout
Region, serving the
12 countries of the
C.I.S.
1st official
Jamboree on the
Internet (JOTI).
Signing of a
Memorandum of
Understanding
between the World
Health Organization,
AHM (Leprosy Relief
Organization) and
WOSM to eliminate
leprosy.
Opening of an
Operations Centre in
Dakar, Senegal to
serve French
Speaking
associations in West
Africa.
2nd World Scout
Parliamentary Union
General Assembly,
Manila, Philippines.
WOSM and four other
youth Organizations
launch programme to
promote the value of
non-formal
education.
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1998 |
New
"World Scout Pin"
launched.
19th World Scout
Jamboree held in
Picarquin, Chile.
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1999 |
WOSM member
countries reach 152.
7th World Scout
Youth Forum, South
Africa
35th World Scout
Conference, Durban
South Africa, with
nearly 1,000 people
from 116 countries.
Peace Cruise in the
Eastern
Mediterranean |
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2000 |
11th World Scout
Moot, Mexico. 5,000
participants, 71
countries 3rd
World Scout
Parliamentary Union
General Assembly,
Warsaw, Poland. |
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2002 |
WOSM member
countries: 154 8th
World Scout Youth
Forum, Greece
36th World Scout
Conference,
Thessaloniki,
Greece, with 1,225
people from 125
countries.
20th World Scout
Jamboree, Sattahip,
Thailand. 24,000
participants from
147 countries and
territories. |
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2003 |
4th
World Scout
Parliamentary Union
General Assembly,
Cairo, Egypt.
(December) The
first World Scout
Interreligious
Symposium held in
Valencia, Spain with
representatives of
12 religions and 33
national Scout
organizations.
(December) |
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2004 |
Panafrican Youth
Forum on AIDS: a
matter of education.
Organized by WOSM on
behalf of the
Alliance of Youth
CEO's. Dakar,
Senegal. Attended by
300 from 42
countries. (March)
Dr. Eduardo Missoni
(Italy) becomes
Secretary General of
the World
Organization of the
Scout Movement. (1
April) |