* Charles Richard Stith, former U. S. Ambassador to Tanzania

Speakers have included Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Ted Sorensen, literature critic James Wood, author Claire Messud, Michael Kelly of the Atlantic Monthly, Harvard Law Professors Charles Fried and Lani Guinier, author Samantha Power, Harvard stem cell biologist Doug Melton, philosopher & bio-ethicist Frances Kamm, poet Louise Glück, former ambassadors Peter W. Galbraith and Charles Stith, Mary Beth Cahill, free software pioneer Richard Stallman, and various musical groups.

* 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.

Alcott and Charles Lane founded " Fruitlands " in 1843.

In some sense also " Ambrosians " are the members of a diocesan religious society founded by St Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan.

In the course of the 19th century similar groups were founded in a number of countries, including the " Oblates of St Charles ", established in London by Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman.

* 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics ( d. 1958 )

King Charles II, who founded the Royal Observatory Greenwich in 1675 instructed the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, ".

* 1348 – Charles University is founded in Prague.

After achieving fame, he founded a short-lived music company, the Charles Chaplin Music Corporation, through which he published some of his own compositions, such as " Oh, That Cello!

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.

The Charles S. Peirce Society was founded in 1946.

Interest in a standard began to grow, and Charles Bachman, author of one such product, the Integrated Data Store ( IDS ), founded the " Database Task Group " within CODASYL, the group responsible for the creation and standardization of COBOL.

The Commonwealth ( 1649 – 53 ) was founded on the execution of Charles I in 1649, and was followed by the two Protectorates of Oliver Cromwell ( 1653 – 58 ), and his son Richard Cromwell the first ( 1658 – 59 ).

During the Restoration, Bacon was commonly invoked as a guiding spirit of the Royal Society founded under Charles II in 1660.

Stregheria, founded by Raven Grimassi and based on the works of Charles Godfrey Leland, the Horned God goes by several names, including Dianus, Faunus, Cern, and Actaeon.

* 1915 – Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman, banker and philanthropist, founded the First Hawaiian Bank ( b. 1822 )

* 1832 – The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.

She financed a scholarship for twenty Lithuanians to study at Charles University in Prague to help strengthen Christianity in their country, to which purpose she also founded a bishopric in Vilnius.

* the Order of Saint George, founded by Charles I of Hungary in 1325 / 6

With financial backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman of the New York Motion Picture Company, in 1912 Sennett founded Keystone Studios in Edendale, California, ( which is now a part of Echo Park ).

This emphasis is, in part, a reflection of the Methodist movement's earliest roots in The Oxford Holy Club, founded by John Wesley, his brother Charles, George Whitefield and others as a response to what they saw as the pervasive permissiveness and debauchery of Oxford University, and specifically Lincoln College when they attended.

* 1548 – The city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz ( Our Lady of Peace ) is founded by Alonso de Mendoza by appointment of the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V.

* 1926 – Charles Dolan, American businessman, founded Cablevision

Charles Franks also founded Distributed Proofreaders ( DP ) in 2000, which allowed the proofreading of scanned texts to be distributed among many volunteers over the Internet.

The award was founded by Thomas Disch with assistance from David G. Hartwell, Paul S. Williams, and Charles N. Brown.

In 1992, Joseph Nicolosi, Charles Socarides, and Benjamin Kaufman founded the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality ( NARTH ), a mental health organization that opposes the mainstream medical view of homosexuality and aims to " make effective psychological therapy available to all homosexual men and women who seek change.

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

On Halgaver Moor ( Goats ' Moor ) near Bodmin there was once an annual carnival in July which was on one occasion attended by King Charles II.

Charles promised to restore the annual census or feudal tribute due the Pope as overlord, some 10, 000 ounces of gold being agreed upon, while the Pope would work to block Conradin from election as King of the Germans.

* December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Charles agreed to give up feudal dues that had been revived by his father ; in return, the English Parliament granted him an annual income to run the government of £ 1. 2 million, generated largely from customs and excise duties.

In 1700, Charles XII had a standing army of 77, 000 men ( based on annual training ).

He was offered for sale at the Windfields Farm's annual yearling auction where he was bought for $ 84, 000 by the American minerals magnate and industrialist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr., acting on the advice of the Irish trainer Vincent O ' Brien.

In 1982, Charles Honorton presented a paper at the annual convention of the Parapsychological Association that summarized the results of the ganzfeld experiments up to that date, and concluded that they represented sufficient evidence to demonstrate the existence of psi.

In 1854 events at the annual balls in the grounds of the Barn included the aeronaut Charles Green's balloon ascent.

The date of Charles ' death was also chosen by a student association in Lund for annual torch marches starting in 1853.

Morgantown's municipal park, Charles Black City Park, is home to the annual Green River Catfish Festival held the week of July 4.

The United Way of St. Charles s hosts an annual 5K / 10K race over the Hale Boggs Mississippi River Bridge each Spring.

As the site of the county fairgrounds, Wentzville hosts the annual St. Charles County Fair, St. Louis Pirate Festival and the Greater St. Louis Renaissance Faire.

Port Jefferson is home to an annual Charles Dickens Festival, since the early 1990s, early in December.

FOHR hosts a special tour of Happy Retreat along with other Washington Family Homes during the annual Charles Town Heritage Festival which occurs the third Saturday of September.

Charles I did the same at first and later just ignored its annual evaluations.

According to Charles Kaiser ’ s The Gay Metropolis, there were already semi-public gay-themed gatherings by the mid-1930s in the United States ( such as the annual drag balls held during the Harlem Renaissance ).

Charles Groves took over as Musical Director in 1951, but a rising annual deficit and termination of players ' contracts caused a crisis, averted only by support from the Winter Gardens Society.

On December 23, 1661, Baltzar entered Charles II's service as a member of the king's private music ensemble with an annual salary of £ 110, a high figure for the time.

Evers and his brother Charles also attended the RCNL's annual conferences in Mound Bayou between 1952 and 1954, which drew crowds of ten thousand or more.

To encourage musical activity, the college hosts the annual Alkan Piano Competition, named after the nineteenth-century virtuoso Charles Valentin Alkan and sponsored by the Alkan Society.

The POPSearch 2007 grand champion Maria Perry won $ 5, 000 and performed with the Boston Pops on July 3 and 4 in the annual July 4 Extravaganza seen by a live audience of almost a half-million people on the Charles River Esplanade and several million more on WBZ-TV.

Arnn's academic interest in Sir Winston Churchill led to the establishment of the annual Churchill Dinner in Washington, D. C. Past speakers at the dinner include Charles Krauthammer, Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, and Clarence Thomas.

The prior Convention of 1660 had promised King Charles II a generous annual revenue of £ 1. 2 million, secured on customs duties and excise taxes.