| 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.
Peace Cruise in the Eastern Mediterranean
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| 2000 |
11th World Scout Moot, Mexico. 5,000 participants, 71
countries
3nd World Scout Parliamentary Union General Assembly,
Warsaw, Poland.
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| 2002 |
WOSM member countries: 154
8th World Scout Youth Forum, Greece
36th World Scout Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, with
1,225 people from 125 countries.
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