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Bill Gates was born.
Bill Gates was born in Seatle, Washington on October 28th, 1995. -
Bill Gates attends Lakeside School.
He first attended this school at the age of 13. This was a exclusive preparatory school. This is where he really started getting interested in computers and programming. -
Bill Gates enrolls at Harvard University
He graduated from school and enrolled in Harvard College in the fall of 1973. -
Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a partnership
They form a partnership and co-found Micro Soft which is Microsoft Corp in todays day. -
Microsoft opens first international office.
This international office was founded on November 1st, 1978. This office was founded in Japan. It was titled "ASCII Microsoft". -
Microsoft moves headquarters.
Microsoft moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington -
Bill Gates develops a microsoft disk operating system.
He develops this for IBM and two million copies are sold by 1984. -
Bill Gates becomes president of Microsoft.
Microsoft becomes incorporated and Gates became the Chairman of the board. -
Gates becomes the youngest US billionaire.
He was worth 1.25 billion dollars at the age of 31. That record was later broken by Mark Zuckerberg. -
Bill Gates founds Corbis
Corbis is a digital image company. This company distributes photography and film footage and related rights. -
Gates marries Melinda French.
They get married in Dallas, Texas and end up having three kids -
Microsoft vs United States
The United States department of Justice all file lawsuits accusing microsoft of using illegal practices. Microsoft later reaches a settlement with the Justice Department. -
"Person of the Year"
Gates was named person of the year in Times Magazine. He was named it along with his wife. -
Gates steps down from daily duties.
Gates retires from day-to-day work at Microsoft. -
Gates steps down.
Gates steps down as the chairman of Microsft. He will stay on the board of directors and he will now be a technology advisor.
