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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 January The Cato Institute is established in San Francisco by Edward H. Crane and Charles G. Koch.[3]:2,11
1977 November Inquiry Magazine, a biweekly political affairs magazine, is founded at the Cato Institute.[3]:2,11
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 daily radio program.[3]:10[6]
1978 March Cato Institute publishes The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science by Ludwig von Mises.[3]:11
1978 June The Cato Institute launches its Summer Seminar in Political Economy.[3]:12
1979 January The Cato Institute launches the newsletter Policy Report.[3]:12–13
1979 May Cato Institute publishes two manuscripts by F. A. Hayek.[3]:16
1980 January The first issue of Policy Analysis is published.[3]:17
1980 November Cato Institute publishes The Regulation of Medical Care: Is the Price Too High? by John C. Goodman.[3]:18
1980 December Cato Institute publishes Social Security: The Inherent Contradiction by Peter Ferrara.[3]:19
Early 1980s The Cato Institute relocates to Washington D.C.[5]:446
1981 March The first issue of the Cato Journal is published.[3]:22
1981 March Murray Rothbard is fired from Cato Institute.[5]:417
1981 December Cato Institute holds a symposium on pollution.[3]:23
1981 December Ludwig von Mises's widow Margit gives her approval to found the Mises Institute.[7]
1982 February Cato Institute publishes Freedom, Feminism, and the State.[3]:24
1982 May Cato Institute publishes the Polish Solidarnosc z Wolnoscia (Solidarity with Liberty), a book containing essays by F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Michael Polanyi, and others. Cato then smuggles copies of the book into Poland.[3]:25[8]
1982 October Physical location The Mises Institute is founded by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. (founding president), with Murray Rothbard as the founding vice president.[9][10][11]
1983 January The Cato Institute hosts its first annual monetary conference. The topic for the first year is "The Search for Stable Money".[3]:28
1983 November Cato Institute publishes Telecommunications in Crisis: Technology, Deregulation, and the First Amendment, arguing for a free market in the frequency spectrum.[3]:30
1984 August Cato Institute publishes Beyond Liberal and Conservative: Reassessing the Political Spectrum.[3]:31
1985 May William Niskanen joins the Cato Institute board of directors as chairman.[5]:452[3]:35
1985 July The Cato Institute publishes National Economic Planning: What is Left? by Don Lavoie.[3]:36
1985 September The Cato Institute publishes Friedman and Hayek on Freedom, a collection of Russian-language essays by F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman. Cato then smuggles copies of the book into the Soviet Union.[3]:40
1989 The Cato Institute acquires Regulation, the magazine-turned-periodical started by the American Enterprise Institute.[12]
1989 The Cato Institute establishes its Center for Constitutional Studies.[3][13]
1989 December The Cato Institute publishes The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment.[3]:55[14]
1990 September The Cato Institute holds its first conference in Moscow, titled Transition to Freedom: the New Soviet Challenge.[15][3]:59
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[16]
1991 March The Cato Institute publishes Liberating Schools: Education in the Inner City, a collection of articles edited by David Boaz.[3]:64
1991 April 20–21 The Cato Institute conference "All the President's Men: Perestroika Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", the second in Moscow, takes place.[3]:64[17]:4
1991 May 1 America Entangled: The Persian Gulf Crisis and Its Consequences, edited by Ted Galen Carpenter, is published.[18][3]:61
1992 May Patient Power by John C. Goodman is published by Cato Institute.[3]:67
1992 May The Cato Institute conference Liberty in the Americas: Free Trade and Beyond takes place in Mexico City.[3]:70
1993 January Cato publishes Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thoughts by Jonathan Rauch.[3]:71
1995 February 22 The cato.org domain name is registered.[19]
1996 August 19 The socialsecurity.org domain name is registered.[20]
1996 November 11 The libertarianism.org domain name is registered.[21] The website would not launch in its current form until the end of 2011.
1997 June 27 The freetrade.org domain name is registered.[22]
1997 October 21 The cato-university.org domain name is registered.[23]
1997 December 2 Cato joins Free-Market.net as a partner for hosting various mailing lists.[24]
1998 May 26 The elcato.org domain name is registered.[25]
1998 May 29 The Cato Institute announces the launch of its Spanish-language website, El Cato en Español.[26]
2001 March 15 The catostore.org domain name is registered.[27] Cato originally owned the domain,[28] buy as of August 30, 2017 it no longer does.
2001–2003 A series of commentaries from the Cato Institute argue against a war in Iraq.[29][30][31][32]
2005 October 7 The cato-unbound.org domain name is registered.[33]
2005 December The first issue of Cato Unbound, a web-only debate platform of the Cato Institute, is published.[34]
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".[35][5]:588[36]
2007 December 27 The downsizinggovernment.org domain name is registered.[37]
2008 July 15 The Cato Institute Twitter account, CatoInstitute, is created.[38]
2009 September 8 The policemisconduct.net domain name is registered.[39]
2010 August 23 Brink Lindsey leaves the Cato Institute for a position at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.[40]
2010 September 15 Will Wilkinson leaves the Cato Institute.[41][42][43]
2011 April 3 The humanprogress.org domain name is registered.[44] The website would not launch until the beginning of 2014.
2011 November 4 Libertarianism.org, a website supported by the Cato Institute, launches.[45]
2012 Cato Institute completes a building expansion and renovation of its Washington, D.C. headquarters.[46]
2012 Cato Institute co-publishes the Index of Freedom in the World.[47]
2012 June 25 Charles and David Koch announce that they are close to settling the lawsuits over ownership of the Cato Institute.[48]
2012 October Ed Crane steps down as President and CEO of Cato Institute.[49]
2012 October John A. Allison IV becomes the President and CEO of Cato Institute.[50]
2013 April 26 Walter Olson announces that Overlawyered is now affiliated with the Cato Institute.[51]
2014 January 1 Cato Institute launches HumanProgress.org. The website "provides data about the many ways in which the world has become a better place".[6]
2014 October 6 The alt-m.org domain name is registered.[52] Cato's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives is also established during this year.[53][6]
2014 December 12 The inaugural Cato Institute Surveillance Conference takes place.[54][55][56][6]
2015 February 1 The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom by Cato Institute's executive vice president David Boaz is published.[6]
2015 April 1 Peter Goettler becomes the new President and CEO of Cato Institute.[57][58]
2015 August 1 The first Human Freedom Index is published. The report is co-published by Cato Institute.[6][59]

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  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. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 "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. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 "Cato: 40 Years of Advancing Liberty". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 26, 2017. 
  7. ↑ "About the Mises Institute". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  8. ↑ "Remembering Milton Friedman" (PDF). Cato Policy Report. Cato. January 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2017. Our first collaboration with Milton Friedman was to smuggle his ideas behind the Iron Curtain, in our 1982 Polish book Solidarity with Liberty and then in a 1985 Russian book Friedman and Hayek on Freedom. 
  9. ↑ "About Mises". Mises Institute. June 18, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  10. ↑ "What Is the Mises Institute?". Mises Institute. June 18, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2017. 
  11. ↑ "Mises.org: Frequently Asked Questions". Retrieved August 23, 2017. 
  12. ↑ William A. Niskanen (2002). "A Retrospective" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 7, 2006. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  13. ↑ "Center for Constitutional Studies". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  14. ↑ James A. Woehlke (October 1, 1992). "The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment". Retrieved August 30, 2017. 
  15. ↑ Ross Parish (1991). "Transition to Freedom? The Cato Institute's Moscow Conference" (PDF). Retrieved August 30, 2017. 
  16. ↑ David Henderson (September 29, 2012). "Ed Crane: An Appreciation". EconLog. Retrieved August 27, 2017. One of the things I most admire about Ed is how he stayed principled when George Bush I got the U.S. into the first Gulf war. At the time, one major contributor to Cato withdrew his funding and, possibly, persuaded others to do so also, but Ed stayed strong and just worked that much harder to raise funds to fill the gap. 
  17. ↑ "Second Moscow Conference Draws Worldwide Attention" (PDF). July 1991. Retrieved August 30, 2017. 
  18. ↑ "America Entangled". Cato Store. April 15, 2015. Retrieved August 30, 2017. 
  19. ↑ "Showing results for: CATO.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 1995-02-22T05:00:00Z 
  20. ↑ "Showing results for: SOCIALSECURITY.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 31, 2017. Creation Date: 1996-08-19T04:00:00Z 
  21. ↑ "Showing results for: LIBERTARIANISM.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 1996-11-11T05:00:00Z 
  22. ↑ "Showing results for: FREETRADE.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 31, 2017. Creation Date: 1997-06-27T04:00:00Z 
  23. ↑ "Showing results for: CATO-UNIVERSITY.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 31, 2017. Creation Date: 1997-10-21T04:00:00Z 
  24. ↑ "Free-Market.Net Partner Cato Institute". Retrieved August 31, 2017. Free-Market.Net Partner Since: December 2, 1997 
  25. ↑ "Showing results for: ELCATO.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 1998-05-26T04:00:00Z 
  26. ↑ "What's New at Cato". Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  27. ↑ "Showing results for: CATOSTORE.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 31, 2017. Creation Date: 2001-03-15T20:19:39Z 
  28. ↑ "The Cato Institute: Public Policy Analysis, Limited Government, Free Markets". Retrieved August 31, 2017. 
  29. ↑ William A. Niskanen (December 7, 2001). "U.S. Should Refrain from Attacking Iraq". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 27, 2017. 
  30. ↑ Doug Bandow (August 12, 2002). "Don't Start the Second Gulf War". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 27, 2017. 
  31. ↑ Ivan Eland (August 19, 2002). "Top 10 Reasons Not to "Do" Iraq". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 27, 2017. 
  32. ↑ William A. Niskanen (March 3, 2003). "One Last Time: The Case Against a War with Iraq". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 27, 2017. 
  33. ↑ "Showing results for: CATO-UNBOUND.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2005-10-07T20:46:24Z 
  34. ↑ "December 2005: The Living Constitution: Amendments for the 21st Century". Cato Unbound. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  35. ↑ Kornblut, Anne E.; Shenon, Philip (December 17, 2005). "Columnist Resigns His Post, Admitting Lobbyist Paid Him". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2017. 
  36. ↑ "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. 
  37. ↑ "Showing results for: DOWNSIZINGGOVERNMENT.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2007-12-27T16:18:50Z 
  38. ↑ "Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute)". Twitter. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  39. ↑ "Showing results for: policemisconduct.net". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2009-09-08T18:56:13Z 
  40. ↑ Will Wilkinson (August 23, 2010). "The Liberaltarian Diaspora". Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  41. ↑ David Weigel (August 23, 2010). "A Purge at the Cato Institute?". Slate Magazine. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  42. ↑ Ilya Somin (August 24, 2010). "The Cato Institute's Supposed "Purge" of the Liberaltarians". The Volokh Conspiracy. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  43. ↑ Arnold Kling. "Brink Lindsey, Will Wilkinson". EconLog. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  44. ↑ "Showing results for: HUMANPROGRESS.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2011-04-03T15:35:13Z 
  45. ↑ Aaron Ross Powell (November 4, 2011). "Welcome to Libertarianism.org". Libertarianism.org. Retrieved August 27, 2017. 
  46. ↑ "Cato Institute Expansion and Renovation". Clark Construction. Retrieved August 26, 2017. 
  47. ↑ Vásquez, Ian; Štumberger, Tanja (2012). "An Index of Freedom in the World" (PDF). Fraser Institute. Retrieved August 31, 2017. 
  48. ↑ John Hanna (June 25, 2012). "Kochs, Cato Institute ready to end lawsuits". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  49. ↑ "Edward H. Crane". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  50. ↑ "John A. Allison". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2017. Allison was president and CEO of the Cato Institute from October 2012 to April 2015. 
  51. ↑ Walter Olson (April 26, 2013). "Overlawyered: now a Cato Institute blog". Overlawyered. Retrieved August 24, 2017. 
  52. ↑ "Showing results for: ALT-M.ORG". ICANN WHOIS. Retrieved August 24, 2017. Creation Date: 2014-10-06T22:42:42Z 
  53. ↑ "Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 31, 2017. 
  54. ↑ "The 2014 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference". Cato Institute. November 11, 2014. Retrieved August 31, 2017. 
  55. ↑ Cody M. Poplin (December 16, 2014). "The 2014 Cato Institute Surveillance Conference". Lawfare. Retrieved August 31, 2017. 
  56. ↑ Julian Sanchez (December 17, 2014). "The Cato Institute Surveillance Conference". Just Security. Retrieved August 31, 2017. 
  57. ↑ "Cato Institute Announces New CEO". Cato Institute. March 30, 2015. Retrieved August 25, 2017. 
  58. ↑ "Peter Goettler". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 25, 2017. Peter Goettler joined the Cato Institute as President and CEO in April, 2015. 
  59. ↑ "Human Freedom Index". Cato Institute. Retrieved August 31, 2017. The report is co-published by the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. 
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