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Bill Gates was born.
Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington to William H. Gates Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. -
Bill Gates is enrolled into Lakeside School.
When he is enrolled to Lakeside School, a privates school, he befriends his future partner in business, Paul Allen and they made a computerized schedule together. Gates has shown an interest for computers since he was only 13 years old and enjoys programming. -
Bill enters Harvard as a pre-law major.
but attends courses for math and graduate level computer science. -
Paul and Bill calls MITS.
Paul Allen and Bill Gates calls MITS and offers them to make a program for them. They are awarded $300 plus royalties. Bill takes his first leave from Harvard to develop what they called Micro-Soft. -
Changes Micro-Soft to Microsoft (name).
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Sets up Microsoft Headquarters at Albuquerque.
The first Microsoft Headquarters were set up at Albuquerque, New Mexico. -
Microsoft Headquarters moves to Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle.
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Bill and Paul announce their new invention, Windows.
Windows is announced and Paul Allen leaves Microsoft due to development of Hodgkin's disease. -
Microsoft HQ moves to Redmond.
After Microsoft goes public, Microsoft Headquarters moves to Redmond, Washington. -
Bill Gates becomes youngest billionaire at 31 years old and meets future wife Melinda French.
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Bill Gates founds Corbis.
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Bill Gates marries Melinda French on January 1st, 1994.
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At 39, Bill Gates becomes the richest man in the world.
Bill Gates is named richest man in the world and introduces Internet Explorer. -
Jennifer Katharine Gates, Bill and Melinda's first child is born.
Now, she is 17 years old. -
Rory John Gates is born.
Now, he is 14 years old. -
Bill Gates steps down.
Bill Gates steps down as CEO of Microsoft and becomes chief software architect while Harvard dorm-mate Steve Ballmer takes over. -
Phoebe Adele Gates is born.
Now, she is 11 years old. -
Queen Elizabeth bestows honorary knighthood upon Bill Gates.
...for his contributions to UK. He became "Person of the Year" along with Melinda Gates and Bono. -
Bill Gates 'graduates' from Harvard.
He gives the commencement speech and recieves his honorary degree. -
Gates loses his title as the richest man on earth.
He lost his title to his friend Carlos Slim Helu after being #1 for 13 years. He quits his daily routines at Microsoft but stays as chairman and advisor on important development projects. He is also famous for asking billionaires to donate half of their fortunes, Bill and Melinda are also dedicated to donating 95% of their fortune but still manage to get into Forbes 400 list each year.
