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1974 December 19 The articles of incorporation of The Charles Koch Foundation, Inc. are approved in Kansas.[1][2]
1976 July 28 The amendment to the articles of incorporation, to change the name of the organization from "The Charles Koch Foundation, Inc." to "Cato Institute", is approved in Kansas.[1][2]
1977 Inquiry Magazine is founded at the Cato Institute.
1978 The Cato Institute launches its Summer Seminar in Political Economy.[3]
1978–1982 The Cato Institute first publishes Literature of Liberty, a magazine where each issue discusses the literature of a particular field. The publication would b transferred to Institute for Humane Studies.[4][5]:526
1978 February Cato launches Byline, a radio program.[6]
1979 The Cato Institute launches the newsletter Policy Report.[3]:12
Early 1980s The Cato Institute relocates to Washington D.C.[5]:446
1981 The Cato Journal launches.
1981 March Murray Rothbard is fired from Cato Journal.[5]:417
1981 December Ludwig von Mises's widow Margit gives her approval to found the Mises Institute.[7]
1982 October Physical location The Mises Institute is founded by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (founding president), with Murray Rothbard as the founding vice president.[8][9][10]
1985 William Niskanen joins the Cato Institute board as chairman.[5]:452
1989 The Cato Institute acquires Regulation, the magazine-turned-periodical started by the American Enterprise Institute.[11]
1989 The Cato Institute establishes its Center for Constitutional Studies.[3][12]
1991 Cato Institute is "solidly against" the Gulf War. Cato loses "nearly $1 million in funding over its stance against the Gulf War" due to some of its funders being for the war.[5]:454
1995 February 22 The cato.org domain name is registered.[13]
1996 November 11 The libertarianism.org domain name is registered.[14]
1998 May 26 The elcato.org domain name is registered.[15]
1998 May 29 The Cato Institute announces the launch of its Spanish-language website, El Cato en Español.[16]
2005 October 7 The cato-unbound.org domain name is registered.[17]
2005 December The first issue of Cato Unbound, a web-only debate platform of the Cato Institute, is published.[18]
2005 December 16 Cato Institute senior scholar Doug Bandow resigns after it is revealed that he accepted payments from lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing columns favorable to Abramoff's clients including "the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians".[19][5]:588[20]
2007 December 27 The downsizinggovernment.org domain name is registered.[21]
2008 July 15 The Cato Institute Twitter account, CatoInstitute, is created.[22]
2009 September 8 The policemisconduct.net domain name is registered.[23]
2010 August 23 Brink Lindsey leaves the Cato Institute for a position at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.[24]
2010 September 15 Will Wilkinson leaves the Cato Institute.[25][26][27]
2011 April 3 The humanprogress.org domain name is registered.[28]
2012 June 25 Charles and David Koch announce that they are close to settling the lawsuits over ownership of the Cato Institute.[29]
2012 October Ed Crane steps down as President and CEO of Cato Institute.[30]
2012 October John A. Allison IV becomes the President and CEO of Cato Institute.[31]
2013 April 26 Walter Olson announces that Overlawyered is now affiliated with the Cato Institute.[32]
2014 October 6 The alt-m.org domain name is registered.[33]
2015 April 1 Peter Goettler becomes the new President and CEO of Cato Institute.[34][35]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Articles of incorporation: Cato Institute and Charles Koch Foundation". Archived from the original on March 15, 2012. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Restated articles of incorporation: Cato Institute" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 28, 2014. Retrieved August 24, 2017. The name of the corporation is CATO INSTITUTE and the name under which the corporation was originally incorporated is The Charles Koch Foundation, Inc. Its original Articles of Incorporation were filed with the Secretary of State of Kansas on December 19, 1974. Under date of December 10, 1975 a change of registered agent was filed. On July 28, 1976 an amendment was filed in the office of the Secretary of State whereby the name of the corporation was changed to Cato Institute. Thereafter, on March 14, 1977 an amendment was filed with the Secretary of State whereby Articles FOURTH and SEVENTH were changed, and on September 9, 1991 the registered agent of the corporation was changed to H. Allan Caldwell. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "25 years at the Cato Institute: The 2001 Annual Report" (PDF). Cato Institute. 2001. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  4. Aaron Ross Powell (February 1, 2012). "Literature of Liberty". Libertarianism.org. Retrieved August 26, 2017. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Brian Doherty (2007). Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement. PublicAffairs. 
  6. "Cato: 40 Years of Advancing Liberty". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 26, 2017. 
  7. "About the Mises Institute". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  8. "About Mises". Mises Institute. June 18, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  9. "What Is the Mises Institute?". Mises Institute. June 18, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  10. "Mises.org: Frequently Asked Questions". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  11. William A. Niskanen (2002). "A Retrospective" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 7, 2006. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  12. "Center for Constitutional Studies". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  13. "Showing results for: CATO.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 1995-02-22T05:00:00Z 
  14. "Showing results for: LIBERTARIANISM.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 1996-11-11T05:00:00Z 
  15. "Showing results for: ELCATO.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 1998-05-26T04:00:00Z 
  16. "What's New at Cato". Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  17. "Showing results for: CATO-UNBOUND.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2005-10-07T20:46:24Z 
  18. "December 2005: The Living Constitution: Amendments for the 21st Century". Cato Unbound. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  19. Kornblut, Anne E.; Shenon, Philip (December 17, 2005). "Columnist Resigns His Post, Admitting Lobbyist Paid Him". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2017. 
  20. "Abramoff reported to pay columnists". The Washington Times. Retrieved August 26, 2017. One columnist, Doug Bandow, was a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a Washington-based libertarian research group. Cato accepted Mr. Bandow's resignation yesterday after learning that he took money from Mr. Abramoff. Business Week Online reported that Mr. Bandow received as much as $2,000 per column. 
  21. "Showing results for: DOWNSIZINGGOVERNMENT.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2007-12-27T16:18:50Z 
  22. "Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute)". Twitter. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  23. "Showing results for: policemisconduct.net". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2009-09-08T18:56:13Z 
  24. Will Wilkinson (August 23, 2010). "The Liberaltarian Diaspora". Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  25. David Weigel (August 23, 2010). "A Purge at the Cato Institute?". Slate Magazine. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  26. Ilya Somin (August 24, 2010). "The Cato Institute's Supposed "Purge" of the Liberaltarians". The Volokh Conspiracy. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  27. Arnold Kling. "Brink Lindsey, Will Wilkinson". EconLog. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  28. "Showing results for: HUMANPROGRESS.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2011-04-03T15:35:13Z 
  29. John Hanna (June 25, 2012). "Kochs, Cato Institute ready to end lawsuits". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  30. "Edward H. Crane". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  31. "John A. Allison". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2017. Allison was president and CEO of the Cato Institute from October 2012 to April 2015. 
  32. Walter Olson (April 26, 2013). "Overlawyered: now a Cato Institute blog". Overlawyered. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  33. "Showing results for: ALT-M.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2014-10-06T22:42:42Z 
  34. "Cato Institute Announces New CEO". Cato Institute. March 30, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  35. "Peter Goettler". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2017. Peter Goettler joined the Cato Institute as President and CEO in April, 2015.