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Born in now Dearborn Michigan
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Henry Ford married Clara Bryant.
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He built an engine and completed his first automobile, the Quadricycle
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Ford forms the Detroit Automobile Company
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Created car Models A, B, AC, C, F, K, N, R, and S.
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Ford and Alexander Malcomson start the Ford Motor Company
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Introduction of the popular Model T
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Ford begins the first automobile assembly line in the world
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Ford starts a moving picture department
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The announcement that employees would be payed $5/day instead of $2.34 as was everywhere else.
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Ford buys land along river Rouge to create the Rouge Plant
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Ford calls a conference to discuss his plan to end World War 1, which fails.
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Henry Ford resigns
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Ford’s son Edsel is elected president of the company
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I can’t believe this but Ford bought land in Brazil to make rubber plantations known as “Fordlandia”
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Ford is re-elected president of Ford Motor Company
