Founded in 1804 as a penal colony,

Founded on September 17, 1804 by Father Estévan Tapís of the Franciscan order, the mission site was chosen as a midway point between Mission Santa Barbara and Mission La Purísima Concepción, and was designed to relieve overcrowding at those two missions and to serve the Indians living east of the Coast Range.

Founded in 1804, it is the oldest university in Ohio, oldest in the Northwest Territory, and ninth oldest public university in the United States.

Founded in 1628, L ' Eglise du Saint-Esprit in New York is older, but it left the French Reformed movement in 1804 to become part of the Episcopal Church.

Founded in 1804 at Amiens, France, by St. Julie Billiart and Marie-Louise-Françoise Blin de Bourdon, Countess of Gézaincourt, whose name as a Sister was Mother St. Joseph.

Founded in 1804, it was the first university established in the Northwest Territory and is the ninth oldest public university in the United States.

Founded in 1804 by Abraham Stouffer, the hamlet was originally named Stoufferville.

Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ( 1760 – 1820 ), Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.

Founded by New York based artist Mercedes Matter and her students the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture is an art school formed in the mid 1960s.

Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney.

Founded in 1963 by New Zealander Bruce McLaren, the team won its first Grand Prix at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix but their greatest initial success was in Can-Am, where they dominated from 1967 to 1971.

Work began on the dictionary in 1857 but it was not until 1884 that it started to be published in unbound fascicles as work continued on the project under the name A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles ; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society.

The full title was A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles ; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society ; the 352-page volume, words from A to Ant, cost 12s. 6d ( equivalent to £ 265 for 2010 ) or ( US $ 3. 25 ) at the time.

Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896 .< ref >

Founded by Bartholomew Columbus in 1496, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, and was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World.

Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Miramax was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1993.

Founded by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein in Buffalo, New York in 1979, the company was named by combining the first names of their parents Max and Miriam, and was originally created to distribute independent films deemed commercially unfeasible by the major studios.

Founded in 1937, New Haven County has a county-wide fire-protection agency called " New Haven County Fire Emergency Plan " based in Hamden to " Coordinate Mutual Aid-Radio Problems, assist members of county at major incidents if requested, provide training ".

Founded by Sir John Robertson, Acting Premier of New South Wales, and formally proclaimed on 26 April 1879, it is the world's second oldest purposed national park ( after Yellowstone in the United States ), and the first to use the term " national park ".

Founded in 1918, the name was changed to South New London County in 1923.

Founded by Jess Odom with federal assistance from the Urban Growth and New Community Development Act, it is a master-planned community.

Founded in 1881, the New Canaan Fire Department is a combination professional / volunteer fire department that operates out of a fire station located near the center of town, with a fire apparatus fleet of engines and other vehicles.

Founded in 1801 as a New England Academy, Woodstock Academy briefly closed twice in the 19th century, and the second time was revived by local philanthropist and Academy graduate Henry C. Bowen.

Founded in 1843 and initially called Elizabeth, it was renamed after Robert Dale Owen of New Harmony, the town's congressman at the time.

Founded in 1888, railroad engineer Eugene Cornwall named the city for his hometown of Irvington, New York.

Founded in 1712, even before New Orleans, Montgomery is situated on U. S. Highway 71 in the northwesternmost section of Grant Parish close to the boundary of Natchitoches and Winn parishes.

Founded in 1977 in Lodi, New Jersey by singer and songwriter Glenn Danzig, the group had a fluctuating lineup during its first six years with Danzig and bassist Jerry Only as the only consistent members.

Founded by: Odessa is at the junction of Routes County Roads 7 and 15 and New York State Route 224 and New York State Route 228.

Founded in 1890 and located in Keuka Park, on the shores of Keuka Lake in the U. S. state of New York's Finger Lakes region, The student-faculty ratio is 14: 1.

Founded in 1985, the orchestra has since performed in many worldwide venues, including New York's Carnegie Hall ( 2009, 2012 ), the Sydney Opera House ( 2012 ), London's Royal Albert Hall ( 2008, 2012 ) and Glastonbury Festival.

Founded in New York's Silicon Alley in May 1995 by SCP Communications, Inc. under the direction of Peter Frishauf, Medscape, Inc. had an IPO in September, 1999, trading on NASDAQ under the symbol MSCP ( a tip-of-the-hat to its founding company, SCP, and to Netscape, whose symbol was NSCP ).

Founded first as the Bursa University then renamed to Uludağ University in 1982, the university has a student body of 47, 000, one of the largest in Turkey.

Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods.

Founded in 1986, DPP is the first meaningful opposition party in Taiwan.

Founded in 1805 by Father Edward Fenwick, afterwards first Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1821 – 1832 ), this province has developed slowly, but now ranks among the most flourishing and active provinces of the order.

Founded as an explicitly Christian democratic group, it declined at first but reversed its fortunes in the 1980s and 1990s when, as a result of the gradual enlargement of the EPP ( party ), it started to pick up members from other centre-right but non-Christian democratic parties.

Founded in 1975 by Scott B. Bizar, the company's first publications were the wargames Gladiators and Royal Armies of the Hyborean Age.

Founded by Danny Boy in early 2006, La Coka Nostra reunited him, Everlast and DJ Lethal for the first time since House of Pain's split.

Founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the first decade of the 20th century, it was one of two major American motorcycle manufacturers to survive the Great Depression.

Founded in 1897 as Sport Club Juventus by a group of young Torinese students, among them, who was their first president, Eugenio Canfari, and his brother Enrico, author of the company's historical memory ; they are managed by the industrial Agnelli family since 1923, which constitutes the oldest sporting partnership in Italy, thus making Juventus the first professional club in the country.

Founded by Joseph Smith, Jr., the faith drew its first converts while Smith was dictating the text of the Book of Mormon.

Founded in 1923 as the first Catholic university in the Netherlands, it used to be called ( Catholic ) University of Nijmegen until 2004, when it took its current name.

* Society for Psychical Research Founded in 1882, the SPR was the first society to conduct organised scholarly research into parapsychology and other human experiences that challenge contemporary scientific models.

Founded under the title Collegium Cultorum Martyrum, in 1879, the Pontifical Academy of Martyrs promotes devotion to them, enhances and deepens the exact history of the witnesses of the faith, and monuments related to them, from the first centuries of Christianity.

Founded on May 10, 1866, during the Eleventh National Woman ’ s Rights Convention, the AERA met its first test in 1867.

* January 21 – The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1348, it was the first university in Central Europe.

Founded after World War II, the first scientific instruments built at LASP were launched into space using captured German V-2 rockets.

Founded by Amos Sutton Hayden of the Disciples of Christ Church in 1850, the institution has, since its first days, been nonsectarian and coeducational, and throughout its existence Hiram College has sustained this egalitarian tradition of educating men and women from diverse backgrounds.

Founded in 1855 by the abolitionist John Gregg Fee ( 1816 – 1901 ), Berea College admitted both black and white students in a fully integrated curriculum, making it the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South and one of a handful of institutions of higher learning to admit both male and female students in the mid-19th century.

The first graduate school of business in the United States was the Tuck School of Business, part of Dartmouth College Founded in 1900, it was the first institution conferring advanced degrees ( masters ) in the commercial sciences, specifically, a Master of Science in Commerce degree, the forebearer of the modern MBA degree.

Founded in 1919 by French industrialist André-Gustave Citroën ( 1878 – 1935 ), Citroën was the first mass-production car company outside the USA and pioneered the modern concept of creating a sales and services network that complements the motor car.