Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on April 1 across the 4 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC) founded in 1602 was the world's first multinational corporation and the first to issue public stock, with substantial Amsterdam-based operations; the Amsterdam Stock Exchange (founded 1602 as a VOC trading…
Hino Motors, Ltd. was founded April 1, 1942 as Hino Heavy Industry Company through the wider Tokyo Gas and Electric Industry spin-off.
is one of the main Chinese state-owned mining-and-metallurgical enterprises and the largest Chinese copper producer.
POSCO (Pohang Iron and Steel Company, renamed POSCO in 2002) is one of the main post-WWII industrial-development success stories — a state-led South Korean steel company that became, within a generation, one of the world's three or four largest steelmakers and a defining…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →