1955- william henry gates was born. he was born to william h. and mary maxwell gates. he was born...

1955- William Henry Gates was born. He was born to William H. and Mary Maxwell Gates. He was born mid morning on October 28, 1955.

1960- Bill Gates enrolls in a prestigious private school, Lakeside School, there he would meet Paul Allen.

1973- Bill Gates receives an SAT score of 1590/1600

1973- Bill Gates enrolls at Harvard to study computer science.

1974-Micro-Soft is formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

1975- Drops out of Harvard after his third to start Microsoft, but would eventually get a degree from their.

1977- Bill Gates was arrested in Mexico for racing his Porsche he spent a short time in jail.

1979- The company’s name Micro-Soft changes to Microsoft.

1981- Microsoft became a corporation with Bill Gate as the CEO.

1986- At the age of 31 Bill Gates becomes a Billionaire.

1990- Microsoft sales finally make it to 1 billion dollars.

1992- President Bush awards Bill Gates ‘National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement.’

1993- Gates goes to Omaha to buy his wife an engagement ring, at Warren Buffet’s jewelry store.

1994- Bill Gates gets married at Hawaii on New Years Day to Melinda French.

1997- 340,000 shares of stock were sold by Bill Gates and he collected 39,142,500 dollars from this sale.

7 June 2000- A judge rules Microsoft be split into to company’s, stating Microsoft as an “abusive monopoly.”

2000- Bill and Melinda Gates make the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They donate billions of dollars to this foundation.

2001- Microsoft goes into the Gaming market with the production of the Xbox.

27 June 2008- Bill Gates retires from his full-time duties to focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. He plans to still be the chairman of Microsoft for life.

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