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| 1916 || || || In {{w|Washington, D.C.}} a group of leading educators, businessmen, attorneys, and financiers, including businessman and philanthropist {{w|Robert S. Brookings}}, found the Institute for Government Research (IGR), with the mission of becoming "the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level."<ref>{{cite web |title=Brookings Institution |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref> IGR becomes the first private organization devoted to bettering the practices and performance of government with recommendations generated by outside experts. Its first research project, directed by economist William Willoughby, focuses on helping the Bureau of Internal Revenue revise the reporting of tax statistics for greater accuracy.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS">{{cite web |title=A CENTURY OF IDEAS |url=https://www.brookings.edu/a-century-of-ideas/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 1917 || || Leadership || Robert Brookings is appointed by {{w|United States President}} {{w|Woodrow Wilson}} to the {{w|War Industries Board}}, a government agency which coordinates the purchase of military supplies. Later, Brookings is made chairman of the board’s Price Fixing Committee, to discourage profiteering.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1919 || || Publication || IGR publishes ''A National Budget System: the Most Important of all Governmental Reconstruction Measures''.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1921 || || Influence || Landmark legislation [[w:Budget and Accounting Act|Budget and Accounting Act of 1921]] is crafted and passed with the lead of IGR recommendations. The legislation expands executive power in the federal budget process. President Warren Harding calls it “the beginning of the greatest reform in governmental practices since the beginning of the republic.”<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 1922 || || || IGR establishes the Institute of Economics, for the “sole purpose of ascertaining the facts about current economic problems and of interpreting these facts for the people of the United States.” {{w|Chicago University}} economist {{w|Harold G. Moulton}} is named its director.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
| 1923 || || Research || {{w|Harold G. Moulton}} and staff economist Constantine McGuire write of [[w:Aftermath of World War I|post-Great War Europe]] that “the reparation situation has gone from very bad to worse.” The report examines the ability of {{w|Germany}} and its allies on the losing side of {{w|World War I}} to pay the debts mandated by the {{w|Versailles Treaty}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1923 || || Partnership || IGR partners with {{w|Washington University in St. Louis}} to provide training in public service and establish the Robert S. Brookings Institute of Economics and Government for Teaching and Research (later the Robert S. Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government). Between 1924 and 1930, 74 PhDs would be awarded by the school.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1927 || || Merger || IGR merges with its recenlty created sister organizations, the Institute of Economics and the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government, to form the {{w|Brookings Institution}}, named after {{w|Robert Brookings}} in recognition of his services to all three organizations. Its mission: “to promote, carry on, conduct and foster scientific research, education, training and publication in the broad fields of economics, government administration and the political and social sciences generally.”<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 1927 || || Leadership || The Brookings Trustees choose their first president: American economist {{w|Harold G. Moulton}}, who was previously director of the Institute of Economics and a member of the boards of the Graduate School and the Institute for Government Research.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref name="brookings.edu">{{cite web |title=BROOKINGS INSTITUTION HISTORY |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/brookings-institution-history/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 1928 || || Research || {{w|United States Secretary of the Interior}} {{w|Hubert Work}} commissions IGR’s Lewis Meriam to undertake a comprehensive survey of the condition of {{w|Native American}}s. The resulting report, titled ''The Problem of Indian Administration'' (known as {{w|Meriam Report}}) becomes influential in shaping American Indian affairs policies in the {{w|Herbert Hoover}} and {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} administrations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lawson |first1=Russell M. |title=Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today [2 volumes] |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=-5nYmCjtMcQC&pg=PA172&dq=The+Problem+of+Indian+Administration+1928&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWu5OYvtHlAhUMIbkGHX_mAm8Q6AEIRDAE#v=onepage&q=The%20Problem%20of%20Indian%20Administration%201928&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition |edition=Bruce Elliott Johansen |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=-hKB7AmyP5cC&pg=PA190&dq=Meriam+Report+1928&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjepraFvtHlAhXMH7kGHcFfAZIQ6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=Meriam%20Report%201928&f=false}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Szasz |first1=Margaret |title=Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-determination Since 1928 |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=9KofsMyJrK4C&pg=PA194&dq=Meriam+Report+1928&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjepraFvtHlAhXMH7kGHcFfAZIQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Meriam%20Report%201928&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1928 || || Institutional || Brookings begins its own in-house publishing division, which precedes the Brookings Institution Press.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1935 || || Literature || The {{w|Brookings Institution}} publishes the two last volumes of the four works titled ''The Distribution of Wealth and Income in Relation to Economic Progress'': ''The Formation of Capital'' and 'Income and Economic Progress''. These two volumes are authored by {{w|Harold G. Moulton}} alone.<ref name="ession of the 1"/>
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| 1935 || || Publication || The brookings institution Brookings Institution publishes a detailed analysis of the {{w|National Recovery Administration}} NRA, which was established by president {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}} in 1933. The authors conclude that the NRA impeded economy recovery after the Depression.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hurtgen |first1=James R. |title=The Divided Mind of American Liberalism |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=a5O21s0Z8T4C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=%22in+1935+the+brookings+institution%22&source=bl&ots=PpdIPxlqJF&sig=ACfU3U1rwJTrJrzzS2YFKCTBYGkjPmtOfg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHtJOPmdPlAhUVHbkGHfYfBR0Q6AEwBXoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201935%20the%20brookings%20institution%22&f=false}}</ref><ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1939 || || Publication || The {{w|Brookings Institution}} publishes ''Reorganization of the National Government—What Does it Involve?'', in which scholars and Lewis Meriam and Laurence F. Schmeckebier shed light on President {{w|Franklin D. Roosevelt}}'s {{w|Reorganization Act of 1939}}, which permitted the president to reorganize certain aspects of the executive branch and created the Executive Office of the President.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reorganization of the National Government—What Does it Involve? By Lewis Meriam and Laurence F. Schmeckebier. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. 1939. Pp. 272. $2.00.) |doi=10.2307/1948805 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/reorganization-of-the-national-governmentwhat-does-it-involve-by-lewis-meriam-and-laurence-f-schmeckebier-washington-dc-the-brookings-institution-1939-pp-272-200/BB6E846182E174EC3426ED29D758BE96 |accessdate=4 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1939 || || Assistance || {{w|World War II}} begins. Brookings experts recommend policies on a variety of issues, including wartime price controls, military mobilization, German and U.S. manpower requirements, and later, postwar demobilization and preventing {{w|Germany}} and {{w|Japan}} from re-arming.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1941 || || Research || A study by scholar Laurence Schmeckebier at Brookings Institution develops the system of apportioning congressional representation among the states that would become embodied in the Congressional {{w|Apportionment Act of 1911}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1941 || || Assistance || The United States enter into {{w|World War II}}. Brookings researchers turn their attention to aiding the administration with a series of studies on mobilization.<ref name="hff">{{cite web| url= http://www.brookings.edu/lib/war.htm|title=Brookings History: War and Readjustment| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20070712105725/http://www.brookings.edu/lib/war.htm|archivedate=July 12, 2007 }}</ref>
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| 1944 || || Publication || The Brookings Institution publishes a study by Joseph Mayer on Post-War National Income, Its Probably Magnitude.<ref>{{cite book |title=Railroad Retirement: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session on H.R. 1362, a Bill to Amend the Railroad Retirement Acts, the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, and Subchapter B of Chapter 9 of the Internal Revenue Code, and for Other Purposes |edition=United States. Congress |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=yc9EAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA999&lpg=PA999&dq=%22in+1940..1945+the+brookings+institution%22&source=bl&ots=XQE-swNPfg&sig=ACfU3U1PYM9_33iSovXtynwBrvwMePU8Ig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6_sCem9PlAhUQILkGHaoJCJQQ6AEwAHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201940..1945%20the%20brookings%20institution%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1946 || || Leadership || Economist {{w|Leo Pasvolsky}} becomes first director of the International Studies Group at Brookings, which conducts research and education in international relations and is the precursor to what would become the Foreign Policy program at Brookings.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1947 || || Research || Brookings scholars conduct a study of compulsory {{w|health insurance}}, which concludes that a national health insurance program would be too political, too expensive, and too detrimental to the nation’s economic health. Two proposals emerge: grants-in-aid to states that will ensure quality medical attention for those who need it; and the formation of a compulsory health insurance program by the national government.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1948 || || Assignment || The Brookings Institution is asked by the {{w|United States Government}} to draft a proposal on how to manage the European Recovery Program {{w|Marshall Plan}}. The resulting organization scheme assures that the {{w|Marshall Plan}} is run carefully and on a businesslike basis.<ref name="hff"/> Brookings experts play a pivotal role in the development of the program, providing valuable recommendations on the administrative organization.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1948 || || Recognition || United States Senator {{w|Arthur Vandenberg}} praises Brookings for a report on post-war Europe assistance that would become “the Congressional ‘work-sheet’ in respect to this complex and critical problem.”<ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 1949 || || Research || Experts at Brookings conduct research that forms the basis of a task force report on public welfare, prepared for the [[w:Hoover Commission:Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government]] (also known as the Hoover Commission).<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1963 || || Conference || The Brookings Institution in {{w|Washington}} holds a conference on "quantitative planning of economic policy". Speakers (which in clude Dutch and French representatives) present their models.<ref>{{cite web |title=Monographs of official statistics |url=https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/3217494/5640373/KS-CR-03-001-EN.PDF/a6c13deb-f617-45ea-82f7-2f14bd8aaa3a?version=1.0 |website=ec.europa.eu |accessdate=5 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1963 || || Proposal || The Brookings Institution advocates a shared federal library storage facility in its report ''Federal Departmental Libraries: A Summary Report of a Survey and a Conference''. The authors suggest that such a facility could be a “cheap storage building, perhaps in a mountainside near Washington”. Major federal libraries would contribute to the management and administration on a cooperative basis, and requested materials would be delivered within a day. The imagined facility would maintain brief catalog entries that would be provided to cooperating libraries.<ref>{{cite web |title=SHARING A FEDERAL PRINT REPOSITORY: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES |url=https://www.loc.gov/flicc/publications/FRD/FLICCREPORT2011.pdf |website=loc.gov |accessdate=5 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1965 || April 7 || Leadership || Isabel Vallé Brookings, wife of Robert S. Brookings, dies aged 89, and leaves the Institution an US$8 million bequest.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1965 || || Research || The Brookings Institution creates a task force to study {{w|bankruptcy}} administration.<ref>{{cite book |title=An Evaluation of the U.S. Trustee Pilot Program for Bankruptcy Administration: Findings and Recommendations |publisher=Executive Office for U.S. Trustees |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=ZiTLJMn4YcoC&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23&dq=%22in+1965+the+brookings+institution%22&source=bl&ots=gSOkNhGcBS&sig=ACfU3U3FVc0sRixTrUJ0uxlN_3Ol6NtG_g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjynMqNuNPlAhXHFbkGHYkdDKYQ6AEwA3oECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201965%20the%20brookings%20institution%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1965 || || Conference || The Brookings Institution holds a conference to address the major problems of intergovernmental finance and to propose solutions to those problems.<ref>{{cite book |title=Monthly Labor Review, Volume 104, Issues 7-12 |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=m1smcNzbufgC&pg=RA6-PA63&lpg=RA6-PA63&dq=%22in+1965+the+brookings+institution%22&source=bl&ots=PS5FmyMfOr&sig=ACfU3U28aCT_Evimw2pSxhAmfNFe1mCGBw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjynMqNuNPlAhXHFbkGHYkdDKYQ6AEwBHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201965%20the%20brookings%20institution%22&f=false}}</ref>
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| 1966 || || Research center || The Brookings Institution enters the compuer age by establishing the Social Science Computation Center for Research, which offers computational research support for scholars, including use of a mainframe computer.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1966 || || || The Brookings Institution publishes a book by Charles Frankel entitled ''The Neglected Aspect of Foreign Affairs''. Frankel argues that “in comparison with the sophisticated analysis devoted to U.S. military, economic, and diplomatic policy, little intellectual attention has been given to international cultural exchange”.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Power of Cultural Diplomacy – Why does the United States Neglect It? |url=https://www.publicdiplomacycouncil.org/2017/05/13/the-power-of-cultural-diplomacy-why-does-the-united-states-neglect-it/ |website=publicdiplomacycouncil.org |accessdate=5 November 2019}}</ref>
| 2001 || || || Brookings scholar {{w|Isabel Sawhill}} writes a roposal that would help forge bi-partisan support in Congress to extend the benefits of the child tax credit in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 to lower- and middle-income families.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2002 || January 9 || Research center || {{w|Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center}} is founded. A [[w:Nonpartisanism|nonpartisan]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2012/08/obama-romney-asking-you-to-pay-more-so-that-people-like-him-can-get-a-tax-cut-130747|title=Obama: Romney 'asking you to pay more so that people like him can get a tax cut'|last=Epstein|first=Jennifer|date=2012-08-01|website=|publisher=Politico|access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref> {{w|think tank}} based in {{w|Washington D.C.}}<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/25/business/tax-policy-center-in-spotlight-for-its-white-paper.html "Tax Policy Center in Spotlight for Its Romney Study" by Annie Lowrey, ''New York Times'', October 24, 2012]</ref>, it is a joint venture of the {{w|Urban Institute}} and the Brookings Institution, aiming to provide independent analyses of current and longer-term tax issues, and to communicate its analyses to the public and to policymakers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Whois Record for TaxPolicyCenter.org |url=http://whois.domaintools.com/taxpolicycenter.org |website=whois.domaintools.com/ |accessdate=21 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 2002 || ||Leadership || American foreign policy analyst {{w|Strobe Talbott}} becomes the sixth president of Brookings.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{cite web |url= https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/october/strobe-talbott-first-distinguished-visitor-buffett-institute/| title= Strobe Talbott to be first distinguished visitor at Buffett Institute |last= |first= |date=2017-10-13 |publisher= {{w|Northwestern University}} |access-date=2 October 2019}}</ref><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 2002 || || Research center || Brookings establishes the {{w|Center for Middle East Policy}} "to promote a better understanding of the policy choices facing American decision makers in the {{w|Middle East}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=ABOUT THE CENTER FOR MIDDLE EAST POLICY |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-the-center-for-middle-east-policy/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2003 || || || Led by former {{w|Paul Volcker}}, the second National Commission on the Public Service (a project of a Brookings policy center) releases a set of recommendations for government reform, entitled ''Urgent Business for America''. The Commission offers rationales and ideas for reorganizing the federal government that stem from the work of the center.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2003 || || Publication || A joint effort between Brookings and the {{w|American Enterprise Institute}} issues ''The Continuity of Congress'', the first of a set of reports on how to carry on the functions of government in the event of a massive and catastrophic attack on the main institutions of the {{w|United States Government}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2004 || || Influence || Brookings scholars William Gale, Mark Iwry, and Peter Orszag attempt to influence legislation by making the case that helping Americans save for retirement requires financial incentives for low- and middle-income workers coupled with new corporate practices to make saving easier.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2004 (July 6) || || Renaming || The Brookings Institution announces that the former Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy (founded in 1966) will would become the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brookings Institution Launches Metropolitan Policy Program |url=https://www.brookings.edu/news-releases/brookings-institution-launches-metropolitan-policy-program/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 November 2019}}</ref><ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2006 || || International expansion || Brookings establishes in {{w|Beijing}} the Brookings-Tsinghua Center (BTC) for Public Policy as a partnership between the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and {{w|Tsinghua University}}'s {{w|School of Public Policy and Management}} in [[Beijing]]. The Center seeks to produce research in areas of fundamental importance for China's development and for US-China relations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy|url=http://www.brookings.edu/about/centers/brookings-tsinghua/about|publisher=Brookings Institution| website= Brookings.edu|accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref> The BTC is directed by Qi Ye.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brookings-Tsinghua Center|url=http://www.brookings.edu/about/centers/brookings-tsinghua|publisher=Brookings Institution| website= Brookings.edu|accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref>
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| 2006 || || Program launch || Brookings' Global Economy and Development program is founded. The program aims "to shape the policy debate on how to improve global economic cooperation and fight global poverty and sources of social stress."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref>{{cite web |title=ABOUT GLOBAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-global-economy-and-development/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 2006–2007 || || Assistance || Brookings scholars provide analysis and recommendations throughout the {{w|Iraq War}}. Michael O’Hanlon, William Quant, and Shibley Telhami at Brookings, participated in the Iraq Study Group in 2006, which recommends an increase in U.S. combat troops in Iraq that occurs in 2007.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2008 || || International expansion || The Brookings Doha Center is established in {{w|Doha}} as an overseas center of the Brookings Institution.<ref>{{cite web |title=ABOUT THE BROOKINGS DOHA CENTER |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-the-brookings-doha-center/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=5 November 2019}}</ref>
| 2009 || December || || United States President {{w|Barack Obama}} chooses Brookings as the venue for announcing his plan for creating jobs and spurring economic growth.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2009 || || Publication || The Brookings' Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform report ''Bending the Curve: Effective steps to address long-term healthcare spending growth'' is published. It would become widely credited as being the most constructive contribution to the conversation on addressing long-term growth in health care spending.n<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2009 || || Proposal || Scholars Warwick McKibbin, Adele Morris, and Peter Wilcoxen at Brookings recommend how carbon price agreements can strengthen international emissions targets.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2009 || || Publication || A joint effort between Brookings and the {{w|American Enterprise Institute}} issues ''The Continuity of the Presidency'', the second of a set of reports on how to carry on the functions of government in the event of a massive and catastrophic attack on the main institutions of the {{w|United States Government}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2009 || || || Brookings experts contribute with ideas on how best to recover from the {{w|Great Recession}} with a steady stream of analysis and recommendations on fiscal and monetary stimulus plans, as well as the automotive and banking bailouts.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 2010 || || || Brookings expert and former {{w|United States Ambassador to the United Nations}} {{w|Susan Rice}}, serves as an editor for the book ''Confronting Poverty: Weak States and U.S. National Security'', which highlights how the effects of poverty in fragile states can spill over borders and threaten U.S. national security.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2011 || || Publication || {{w|E.J. Dionne}} and {{w|William Galston}} at Brookings play an influential role with their report ''A Half-Empty Government Can't Govern'', which informs the {{w|United States Senate}} the passage of the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011, which becomes law in the same year.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 2011 || || || A joint effort between Brookings and the {{w|American Enterprise Institute}} issues ''The Continuity of the Supreme Court'', the third of a set of reports on how to carry on the functions of government in the event of a massive and catastrophic attack on the main institutions of the {{w|United States Government}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
