* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the United States ' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.

Klein served as rabbi at Kadimoh Congregation in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1934 – 1953 ; Temple Emanu-El, Buffalo, New York, 1953 – 1968 ; Temple Shaarey Zedek, Buffalo, ( which was created from the merger of Emanu-El with Temple Beth David in 1968 ), 1968-1972.

The Winnington site, built in 1873 by the entrepreneurs John Tomlinson Brunner and Ludwig Mond, was also the base for the former the company Brunner, Mond & Co. Ltd. and, after the merger which created ICI, the powerful and influential Alkali Division.

* 1967 – The European Community is formally created out of a merger with the Common Market, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Commission.

For example, in the 1999 merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, both firms ceased to exist when they merged, and a new company, GlaxoSmithKline, was created.

The slow merger of Baltica and Laurentia, and the northward movement of bits and pieces of Gondwana created numerous new regions of relatively warm, shallow sea floor.

From its beginning, this famous hospital accepted patients up to the age of fifteen years, and it continues to this day as the pediatric division of the Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, created in 1920 by merger with the physically contiguous Necker Hospital, founded in 1778.

In 1925, a merger between Morkrum and Kleinschmidt Electric Company created the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company.

* Saitama in Japan, a city of 1. 2 million people, created in 2001 by the merger of the cities of Urawa, Omiya, Yono, and later Iwatsuki.

* Kitakyushu in Japan, a city of 900 thousand people, created in 1963 by the merger of Yahata, Kokura, Moji, Wakamatsu, and Tobata.

Holland College was later created to fill the void left by the merger of Prince of Wales College into the university.

In March 2007, the press claimed that the merger had created a debt of £ 30 million, about 5 % of the University's annual turnover, and that the University was aiming to tackle this debt by implementing 400 voluntary redundancies.

On November 22, 1954, the state of West-Pakistan was established created by the merger of the provinces, states and tribal areas of the West Pakistan.

* April 11 – Luton Town Football Club are created by the merger of ( Luton ) Wanderers F. C.

" Rightist-nationalist deviation " ( Polish: odchylenie prawicowo-nacjonalistyczne ) was a political propaganda term used by the Polish Stalinists against prominent activists, such as Władysław Gomułka and Marian Spychalski who opposed Soviet involvement in the Polish interior affairs, as well as internationalism displayed by the creation of the Cominform and the subsequent merger that created the PZPR.

Concordia was created following the 1974 merger of Loyola College ( 1896 ) and Sir George Williams University ( 1926 ).

The terms of the merger allowed Daimler-Benz's non-automotive businesses such as Daimler-Benz InterServices AG ( Debis ) ( created in 1989 to handle data processing, financial and insurance services, and real estate management for the Daimler group ) to continue to pursue their respective strategies of expansion.

Established on February 1, 1958, as a first step towards a pan-Arab state, the UAR was created when a group of political and military leaders in Syria proposed a merger of the two states to Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser.

The company ( as SNIAS ) was created in 1970 by the merger of the state-owned companies Sud Aviation, Nord Aviation and Société d ' études et de réalisation d ' engins balistiques ( SÉREB ).

The merger created a vertically integrated company which The Scotsman described as " combination of British Aerospace's contracting and platform-building skills with Marconi's coveted electronics systems capability ".

Examples include Wittenberg, the old capital of the Saxon Elector State during the Holy Roman Empire, and seat of the National University made famous by Martin Luther and Melanchthon ( which was already done away with in 1817 by means of a merger with the Prussian University of Halle ), and Torgau, birthplace and place of residence of the Elector Frederick the Wise, which was incorporated into one of the new hybrids created by Prussia under the name Province of Saxony.

This last attempt lasted from 1955 until final United States Supreme Court approval and merger in March, 1970, which created the Burlington Northern Railroad.

Tradition maintains that Braunschweig was created through the merger of two settlements, one founded by Brun, a Saxon count who died in 880, on one side of the river Oker – the legend gives the year 861 for the foundation – and the other the settlement of a legendary Count Dankward, after whom Dankwarderode Castle ( Dankward's clearing ), which was reconstructed in the 19th century, is named.

Kenneth Lay seized control in 1985 of HNG / Internorth created by the merger of Houston Natural Gas and the much larger and more diversified InterNorth, which combined four natural gas pipeline companies, Northern Natural Gas, Transwestern Pipeline, Florida Gas Transmission, and Houston Pipeline company.

If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.

At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.

The company was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry.

The world's largest derivatives exchanges ( by number of transactions ) are the Korea Exchange ( which lists KOSPI Index Futures & Options ), Eurex ( which lists a wide range of European products such as interest rate & index products ), and CME Group ( made up of the 2007 merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade and the 2008 acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange ).

* Four pillars policy, a legislative policy of the Government of Australia to maintain the separation of four of the largest banks in Australia by disallowing their merger or acquisition by any of the other three banks

In turn, that company was partially acquired in 2005 by Pernod Ricard, now the largest spirits distributor in the world since its merger with the Swedish Vin & Sprit in March 2008.

* 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $ 40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.

* 1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $ 37 billion merger ( the largest merger in US history at the time ).

** Telecom companies WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom ( the largest merger in U. S. history ).

** The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form Penn Central, the largest ever corporate merger up to this date.

** Agreement for merger between the General Electric Company and English Electric, the largest industrial merger in the UK up to this date.

* July 15 – Chemical Bank and Manufacturers Hanover Corporation announce that they are merging, the largest bank merger in history.

The 1997 merger of American corporations Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, which followed the forming of Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defence contractor in 1995, increased the pressure on European defence companies to consolidate.

On August 11, 1998, Amoco announced it would merge with British Petroleum ( BP ) in the world's largest industrial merger.

On November 4, 1997, WorldCom and MCI Communications announced their US $ 37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom, making it the largest merger in US history.

Had the deal been completed, it would have been the largest corporate merger in history, ultimately putting MCI WorldCom ahead of AT & T as the largest communications company in the United States.

In October 1997, EY announced plans to merge its global practices with KPMG to create the largest professional services organization in the world, coming on the heels of another merger plan announced in September 1997 by Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand.

The deal cemented Pfizer's position as the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, with the merged company generating over US $ 20 billion in cash each year, and was the largest corporate merger since AT & T and BellSouth's US $ 70 billion deal in March 2006.

Formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting, BSkyB is the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom and Ireland with over 11 million subscribers.