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1857
February 22, Robert Stephenson Smyth
Baden-Powell born in Paddington, London England.
1889
February 22, Olave St. Clair Soames was born.
She married Baden-Powell in 1912.
1907
Baden-Powell's experimental camp, Brownsea
Island, England, August 1-9.
1908
"Scouting for Boys" published. Boy Scouts office
opened in London.
1916
Cub section started. "Wolf Cub's Handbook"
published.
1919
Gilwell Park acquired. Start of leaders' training
courses.
1920
1st World Jamboree, Olympia, London, England,
8,000 participants.
Baden-Powell acclaimed Chief Scout of the World.
1st International Scout Conference; 33 national
Scout organizations represented.
Boy Scouts International Bureau founded, London,
England.
1921
International magazine "Jamboree" first published
(title changed to "World Scouting" in 1955, and
now is World Scouting News).
1922
1st International Committee elected (at 2nd
International Conference, Paris, France). 30
national Scout organizations represented.
First world census: 1,019,205 members in 31
countries.
Venture Scouts started (Rovers).
1924
2nd World Jamboree, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4,549
participants.
3rd World Scout Conference, Copenhagen
Denmark. 34 national Scout organizations
represented.
1925
International Scout Chalet opened, Kandersteg,
Switzerland. (Now known as the Kandersteg
International Scout Centre)
1926
4th World Scout Conference, Kandersteg,
Switzerland. 29 national Scout organizations
represented.
1929
3rd World Jamboree, Birkenhead, England. 50,000
participants.
5th World Scout Conference, Birkenhead, England.
33 national Scout organizations represented.
Baden-Powell given peerage; takes title Lord
Baden-Powell of Gilwell.
1931
6th World Scout Conference, Vienna-Baden,
Austria. 44 national Scout organizations
represented.
1933
4th World Jamboree, Gödöllö, Hungary. 25,793
participants.
7th World Scout Conference, Gödöllö, Hungary. 31
national Scout organizations represented.
1935
8th World Scout Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
28 national Scout organizations represented.
1937
5th World Jamboree, Vogelenzang-Bloemendaal,
Netherlands. 28,750 participants.
9th World Scout Conference, The Hague,
Netherlands. 34 national Scout organizations
represented.
1939
10th World Scout Conference, Edinburgh,
Scotland. 27 national Scout organizations
represented.
1941
Death of Baden-Powell, January 8.
1946
1st Inter-American Conference, Bogota, Colombia.
1947
6th World Jamboree (Jamboree of Peace),
Moisson, France. 24,152 participants.
11th World Scout Conference, Château de Rosny,
France. 32 national Scout organizations
represented.
1949
1st Agoon (International camp for handicapped
Scouts) Lunteren, Netherlands.
12th World Scout Conference, Elvesaeter,
Norway. 25 national Scout organizations
represented.
1950
World membership reached 5 million in 50
countries.
1951
7th World Jamboree, Bad Ischl, Austria. 12,884
participants.
13th World Scout Conference, Salzburg, Austria.
34 national Scout organizations represented.
1952
1st Caribbean Jamboree, Kingston, Jamaica.
14th World Scout Conference, Vaduz,
Liechtenstein. 35 national Scout organizations
represented.
1954
1st Arab Jamboree, Zabadani, Syria.
1955
8th World Jamboree, Niagara-on-the-Lake,
Canada. 11,139 participants.
15th World Scout Conference, Niagara Falls,
Canada. 44 national Scout organizations
represented.
1957
9th World Jamboree (Jubilee, 50th Anniversary of
Scouting), Birmingham, England. 30,000
participants.
16th World Scout Conference, Cambridge,
England. 52 national Scout organizations
represented.
World Scout Bureau moved to Ottawa, Canada.
1958
1st Far East Regional Conference, Baguio,
Philippines.
1st Jamboree-on-the-Air (JOTA)
1959
10th World Jamboree, Mt. Makiling, Philippines.
12,203 participants.
17th World Scout Conference, New Delhi, India. 35
national Scout organizations represented.
1960
1st European Regional Conference, Altenberg,
Germany.
1961
18th World Scout Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. 50
national Scout organizations represented.
1963
11th World Jamboree, Marathon, Greece. 14,000
participants.
19th World Scout Conference, Rhodes, Greece. 52
national Scout organizations represented.
1965
1st Pan-American Jamboree, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
20th World Scout Conference, Mexico City,
Mexico. 59 national Scout organizations
represented.
1967
12th World Jamboree, Farragut State Park, Idaho,
U.S.A. 12,011 participants.
21st World Scout Conference, Seattle,
Washington, U.S.A. 70 national organizations
represented.
1968
World Scout Bureau headquarters moved to
Geneva, Switzerland.
1969
World membership reached 12 million.
22nd World Scout Conference, Otaniemi, Finland.
60 national Scout organizations represented.
1970
1st Africa Conference, Dakar, Senegal.
1971
13th World Jamboree, Asagiri Heights, Japan.
23,758 participants.
23rd World Scout Conference, Tokyo, Japan. 71
national Scout organizations represented.
World Organization membership passes 100
member countries.
1972
1st International Community Development
Seminar, Cotonou, Dahomey (now Benin).
1973
1st Environment Conservation seminar, Sweden.
24th World Scout Conference, Nairobi, Kenya.
77 national Scout organizations represented.
1975
14th World Jamboree (Nordjamb '75), Lillehammer,
Norway. 17,259 participants.
25th World Scout Conference, Lundtofte,
Denmark. 87 national Scout organizations
represented.
1977
26th World Scout Conference, Montreal, Canada.
81 national Scout organizations represented.
Death of Lady Olave Baden-Powell, June 25.
1979
World Jamboree Year: Join-in-Jamboree around
the world.
27th World Scout Conference, Birmingham,
England. 81 national Scout organizations
represented.
1981
UNESCO Prize for Peace Education resented to
WOSM.
28th World Scout Conference, Dakar, Senegal. 74
national Scout organizations represented.
1982
Rotary International honours Scout Movement.
1982-3
Year of the Scout - 75th Anniversary of Scouting.
1983
15th World Jamboree, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
14,752 participants.
29th World Scout Conference, Dearborn, Michigan,
U.S.A. 90 national organizations represented.
1984
Rotary Award for World Understanding.
The International Association of Lions Clubs
honours Scouting.
1985
UN International Youth Year (1st worldwide
programme to be implemented with the World
Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts).
30th World Scout Conference, Munich Germany.
90 national Scout organizations represented.
1986-7
A child health programme entitled "help children
grow" introduced with the World Association of Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts and UNICEF.
Membership in World Organization reaches 120
countries.
1988
16th World Jamboree, New South Wales, Australia.
13,434 participants.
Scouting is honoured by United Nations
Environment Programme in recognition of the
Movement's outstanding environment
achievements.
31st World Scout Conference, Melbourne,
Australia. 77 national Scout organizations
represented. Implementation of the resolution on
"Towards a Strategy for Scouting".
Emphasis on Scouting with the handicapped.
Several seminars took place all over the world for
the promotion of health and handicapped.
1989
Special Peace Week: Scout activities related to
education for peace.
7th Africa Scout Conference in Lomé, Togo.
Scouting makes celebrations to mark the adoption
of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
and encourage its ratification by national
governments.
1990
32nd World Scout Conference, Paris, France.
1,000 participants representing 100 member
countries and guests from seven other countries.
Opening of an Information Centre in Moscow.
Formal agreement, the Kigali Charter, between 23
Scout and Girl Guide associations for the
promotion of programmes of cooperation in the
form of twining projects.
Memberhsip in World Organization reaches 131
countries
"Operation of Solidarity" to enable 1,235 children
irradiated by the Chernobyl disaster to be the
guests of Scouts and Girl Guides in 15 European
countries, in collaboration with UNESCO, the
Soviet Children's Fund and the World Association
of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
1990-1
World Scout Environment Year.
8th World Moot, near Melbourne, Australia. 1,000
young adult Scouts from 36 countries. A feature
of the Moot was the World Youth Forum.
1991
Creation of the World Scout Parliamentary Union,
Korea at its constituent assembly gathering 60
parliamentarians and Scouting officials from 22
countries on 5 continents.
17th World Scout Jamboree, Mount Sorak National
Park, Republic of Korea. 20,000 participants
representing 135 countries and territories.
Introduction of the Global Development Village.
1992
9th World Moot, Kandersteg International Scout
Centre, Switzerland. 1,400 participants from 52
countries.
35th JOTA: at the invitation of the World
Federation of Great Towers, Scouts and Guides
had the opportunity to communicate from the tops
of 13 towers around the world using the newest
communication systems including videophone and
television as well as amateur radio.
For the first time all five Regional Scout
Conferences met in the same year and all will now
meet on a triennial basis in the year preceding
World Scout Conferences.
Creation of Scout Resources International
(SCORE), the official Scout Shop of the World
Organization.
1993
33rd World Scout Conference, Bangkok, Thailand,
with more than 1,000 participants from 99 member
countries.
Opening of a World Scout organization office in
Yalta-Gurzuf in Crimea covering the CIS and
related countries.
1994
International symposium on "Scouting: Youth
without Borders, Partnership and Solidarity",
Marrakech, Morocco. 440 participants representing
118 Scout associations from 94 countries.
Adoption of the Marrakech Charter to enhance
partnership.
Signature of an agreement with UNICEF on Oral
Rehydration Therapy, Geneva, Switzerland.
The International Public Relations Association
bestowed its annual President's Award on to
WOSM for "outstanding contribution to better
world understanding".
1995
18th World Scout Jamboree, Netherlands. 28,960
Scouts, leaders and staff attended from 166
countries and territories. Operation Flevoland
pemitted Scouts from 50 countries to participate.
Signing of an agreement of co-operation between
the World Scout Organization and United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees.
Celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the UN.
Youth Forum held by the UN in Geneva,
Switzerland; approximately 2/3rd of delegates
were or had been Scouts or Girl Guides.
1996
6th World Youth Forum, Moss, Norway.
34th World Scout Conference, Oslo, Norway, with
more than 1'000 participants from 108 member
countries.
10th World Scout Moot, Sweden.
1st Mongolian Jamboree. 1,200 participants.
Membership in World Organization reaches 140
countries.
1997
90th Anniversary of Scouting.
Creation of the Eurasia World Scout Region,
serving the 12 countries of the C.I.S.
1st official Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI).
Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding
between the World Health Organization, AHM
(Leprosy Relief Organization) and WOSM to
eliminate leprosy.
Opening of an Operations Centre in Dakar, Senegal
to serve French Speaking associations in West
Africa.
2nd World Scout Parliamentary Union General
Assembly, Manila, Philippines.
WOSM and four other youth Organizations launch
programme to promote the value of non-formal
education.
1998
New "World Scout Pin" launched.
19th World Scout Jamboree held in Picarquin,
Chile.
1999
WOSM member countries reach 152.
7th World Scout Youth Forum, South Africa
35th World Scout Conference, Durban South
Africa, with nearly 1,000 people from 116
countries.
