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Founding Junta of the Second Republic
The Founding Junta of the Second Republic (Junta Fundadora de la Segunda República) was the provisional government of Costa Rica from 1948 to 1949, headed by José Figueres Ferrer.
Founding members of the National Academy of Sciences
The founding members of the National Academy of Sciences were the fifty men of science named in the 1863 Act of Incorporation, a Civil War measure.
Founding of Abeokuta
The founding of Abeokuta was the settlement, in August 1830, of the Egba people on a rocky refuge site in southwestern Nigeria under the leader Sodeke.
Founding of Ahmadnagar
The founding of Ahmadnagar (निज़ामशाही राज्य की स्थापना) was Malik Ahmad's creation in the 1490s of the city of Ahmadnagar and the Nizam Shahi kingdom.
Founding of Ahmedabad
The founding of Ahmedabad (અમદાવાદની સ્થાપના) was the establishment of the city in 1411 by Sultan Ahmad Shah of Gujarat, on the eastern bank of the Sabarmati river.
Founding of Alexandria in Arachosia and the Indus colonies
The founding of Alexandria in Arachosia and the Indus colonies (سکندریہ کی بستیاں) was Alexander the Great's chain of cities and garrisons built from 329 to 325 BC.
Founding of Argishtikhinili
The founding of Argishtikhinili was the establishment of an Urartian city-fortress by king Argishti I on the Ararat plain in modern Armenia around 776 BC, later identified with ancient Armavir.
Founding of Asunción
The founding of Asunción took place on 15 August 1537, when the Spanish captain Juan de Salazar established a fort on the Paraguay River that became Paraguay's capital.
Founding of Baekje
The founding of Baekje is the traditional establishment of the Korean kingdom of Baekje in 18 BC, when Onjo, son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, set his capital at Wiryeseong.
Founding of Balhae
The founding of Balhae (발해 건국) was the 698 establishment of the state of Jin, later called Balhae, by the former Goguryeo general Dae Joyeong.
Founding of Buenos Aires
The founding of Buenos Aires comprises a first Spanish settlement in 1536 under Pedro de Mendoza, abandoned in 1541, and the definitive foundation by Juan de Garay in 1580.
Founding of Cairo
The founding of Cairo (تأسيس القاهرة) was the creation of a new Fatimid palace city north of Fustat, begun in 969 by commander Jawhar al-Siqilli and completed as the caliphate's seat in 973.
Founding of Carthage
The founding of Carthage was the establishment of the city by colonists from Tyre, traditionally dated to 814 BC and led by the princess Elissa, or Dido.
Founding of Chengzhou (Luoyi) as eastern capital
The founding of Chengzhou (Luoyi) as eastern capital (营建洛邑) was the Western Zhou project, led by the Duke of Zhou under King Cheng, that built a second capital at Luoyi in 1039 BC.
Founding of Concepción
The founding of Concepción was the establishment by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia of Concepción del Nuevo Extremo at Penco, on the bay of Concepción in present-day Chile, on 5 October 1550.
Founding of Córdoba
The founding of Córdoba took place in 1573, when the Spanish conquistador Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera established the city of Córdoba de la Nueva Andalucía in what is now Argentina.
Founding of Dahomey at Abomey
The founding of Dahomey at Abomey (Dànxɔmɛ) was the seventeenth-century establishment of the Dahomey kingdom by Aja-Fon rulers from Allada on the Abomey plateau, later a regional power.
Founding of Debre Damo monastery
The founding of Debre Damo monastery (ድብረ ዳሞ) is the traditional sixth-century establishment of a monastery on a flat-topped mountain in Tigray, attributed to Abuna Aregawi of the Nine Saints.
Founding of Debre Libanos
The founding of Debre Libanos was the establishment, traditionally in 1284, of a monastery in Shewa by the Ethiopian monk Takla Haymanot, which grew into one of Ethiopia's most influential Christian centers.
Founding of Devagiri by Bhillama V
The founding of Devagiri (देवगिरी) was the establishment in 1187 of a capital at modern Daulatabad, Maharashtra, by Bhillama V, ruler of the Yadava dynasty.
Founding of Fes by Idris II
The founding of Fes by Idris II (تأسيس فاس) was his establishment of a new walled city, al-Aliyya, opposite Madinat Fas in AH 192 (808–809), which became the Idrisid capital.
Founding of Former Liang
The founding of Former Liang (前凉建立) was the emergence of hereditary Zhang family rule over Liangzhou in the Hexi corridor, beginning in 301 when Zhang Gui became regional inspector.
Founding of Freetown
The founding of Freetown was the 1792 establishment of a settlement in Sierra Leone by about 1,200 Black Loyalists from Nova Scotia, organized by John Clarkson.
Founding of Gadir
The founding of Gadir, also called the founding of Gades, was the Phoenician settlement of Cádiz, Spain, by colonists from Tyre, traditionally dated around 1100 BC.
Founding of Goguryeo
The founding of Goguryeo (고구려 건국) was the establishment of the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo by Jumong, who fixed his capital at Jolbon in 37 BC.
Founding of Gojoseon
The founding of Gojoseon (고조선) is the traditional establishment of the first state in Korean history, which mythology dates to 2333 BCE under founder Dangun Wanggeom.
Founding of Gondar
The founding of Gondar was Emperor Fasilides's establishment of a permanent Ethiopian capital around 1636, ending the moving royal court and beginning the Gondarine period, with Gondar serving as the imperial seat until the mid-18th century.
Founding of Goryeo
The founding of Goryeo (고려 건국) took place in 918, when Wang Geon took the throne as the first king of Goryeo, a dynasty that lasted until 1392.
Founding of Hyderabad
The founding of Hyderabad (حیدرآباد) was the creation of a new capital on the Musi River near Golconda by Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah in 1591.
Founding of Ibadan
The founding of Ibadan was the establishment around 1829 of the Yoruba city of Ibadan, Nigeria, as a war camp during the collapse of the Old Oyo Empire.