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Founding of Portuguese Angola and the war against the Ndongo

The founding of Portuguese Angola was the establishment of a Portuguese colony at Luanda in 1575 by Paulo Dias de Novais, followed by decades of war against the kingdom of Ndongo.

Founding of Riga

The founding of Riga took place in 1201, when Bishop Albert of Livonia moved his episcopal see from Ikšķile to the Daugava's mouth and built a fortified town.

Founding of Rio de Janeiro

The founding of Rio de Janeiro was the establishment of the city by the Portuguese captain Estácio de Sá on 1 March 1565, after expelling a French colony.

Sep 17, 2026

Founding of Rome: the legendary foundation by Romulus on 21 April 753 BC, the date fixed by Varro, and the separate Aeneas legend, combined before 300 BC, set against archaeology showing gradual growth from hilltop villages after c. 1000 BC into an organized city-state.

Founding of Saigon

The Founding of Saigon was the 1698 establishment of Vietnamese administration at Gia Định prefecture in the Mekong Delta, sent by lord Nguyễn Phúc Chu through commander Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh.

Founding of Saint Petersburg

The founding of Saint Petersburg (Основание Санкт-Петербурга) was the laying of a fortress by Tsar Peter I on Zayachy Island in the Neva on 16 May 1703.

Founding of Salvador

The founding of Salvador was the establishment of the city of São Salvador da Bahia in Brazil on 29 March 1549 as the first capital of Brazil.

Sep 19, 2026

Founding of Samaria

The founding of Samaria, around 880 BCE, was King Omri's purchase of a hill from Shemer for two talents of silver to build Israel's capital.

Founding of Samarra

The founding of Samarra (تأسيس سامراء) was the establishment in 836 of a new Abbasid capital on the Tigris north of Baghdad by Caliph al-Mu'tasim, who fled his Turkish guard's violence there.

Founding of Santiago de Chile

The founding of Santiago de Chile was the establishment of the city by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia in the Mapocho valley on 12 February 1541.

Founding of São Paulo

The founding of São Paulo (Fundação de São Paulo) marks the Jesuit mission established on the Piratininga plateau in Brazil, first mass celebrated on 25 January 1554.

Founding of São Vicente

The founding of São Vicente in 1532 established the first formally organized town in Brazil, on the coast of São Paulo, under Martim Afonso de Sousa.

Founding of Silla

The founding of Silla (신라 건국) is the traditional 57 BC establishment of the Silla kingdom in southeastern Korea under its first ruler, Bak Hyeokgeose.

Founding of Singapore (1819)

The founding of Singapore (Penubuhan Singapura 1819) was the establishment of a British East India Company trading post on Singapore island in February 1819, secured by treaty with Sultan Hussein of Johor.

Founding of Sokoto and the death of Usman dan Fodio

The founding of Sokoto in 1809 and the death of Usman dan Fodio in 1817 marked the consolidation of the Sokoto Caliphate in northern Nigeria.

Founding of Southern Liang, Northern Liang and Western Liang

The founding of Southern Liang, Northern Liang and Western Liang (河西诸凉分立) saw three regimes, founded 397 to 400, break from Later Liang in the Hexi corridor during the Eastern Jin period.

Founding of Sui, end of Northern Zhou

The founding of Sui, ending Northern Zhou (隋代周), was the 581 transfer of the Zhou throne to Yang Jian, who founded the Sui dynasty and reunified China by 589.

Founding of Tenochtitlan

The founding of Tenochtitlan (fundación de Tenochtitlan) was the Mexica establishment of an island city in Lake Texcoco, traditionally in 1325, later the Aztec capital.

Founding of the Ahom kingdom

The founding of the Ahom kingdom was the establishment of a Tai-led state in Upper Assam by the prince Sukaphaa, who entered the Brahmaputra valley in 1228.

Founding of the Asante Union

The Founding of the Asante Union was the late 1600s unification of Akan states around Kumasi under Osei Tutu and Okomfo Anokye, consolidated by victory over Denkyira in 1701.

Founding of the Ayutthaya Kingdom

The founding of the Ayutthaya Kingdom was the establishment of Ayutthaya as capital of a new Siamese kingdom by King Ramathibodi I (U Thong), formally dated to 1351.

Founding of the Baghdad Nizamiyya madrasa

The founding of the Baghdad Nizamiyya madrasa (المدرسة النظامية ببغداد) was the building of a Sunni college in Baghdad by the Seljuk vizier Nizam al-Mulk, opened in 1067.

Founding of the Bahmani Sultanate

The founding of the Bahmani Sultanate (बहमनी सल्तनत की स्थापना) established the first independent Muslim kingdom in South India in 1347, after a revolt against Tughluq rule from Delhi.

Founding of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences

The founding of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences was the 1928 conversion of the Institute of Belarusian Culture into an academy, formally opened in Minsk on January 1, 1929.

Founding of the Belgorod and Simbirsk defensive lines

The founding of the Belgorod and Simbirsk defensive lines (Строительство Белгородской и Симбирской засечных черт) was Russia's construction of fortified frontier lines from 1635 to the mid-1650s against Tatar raids.

Founding of the Benin dynasty

The founding of the Benin dynasty was the replacement of the Ogiso line by the Oba dynasty in the Benin Kingdom of southern Nigeria, traditionally dated about 1250.

Founding of the Bishopric of Prague

The founding of the Bishopric of Prague was the establishment, formally agreed in 973, of a Latin diocese for Bohemia seated at Prague, ending its subordination to Regensburg.

Founding of the Cathedral of St Sophia in Kiev

The founding of the Cathedral of St Sophia in Kiev was the building of Kievan Rus' great metropolitan cathedral by Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise, recorded in 1037.

Founding of the Characene kingdom by Hyspaosines

The founding of the Characene kingdom was the transformation of a Seleucid governorship at the head of the Persian Gulf into an independent kingdom under Hyspaosines in the second century BC.