Henry Ford Timeline

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Timeline of henry ford

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1914

1863

1891

January: Ford raises the daily wage of workers to $5.

1901

July 30: Henry Ford is born in Springwells Township, Michigan.

July: Henry entered the Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit.

1920

January: Detroit Automobile Company is dissolved.October 10: Ford enters a race. Novermber 30: The start and end of the Henry Ford Company.

May: Ford publishes multiple anti-Semitic articles.

1882-1884

1908

1915

Henry finishes his apprenticeship and returns to Michigan.

October: Ford announces the famous Model T.

1876

Spring: Henry secretly buys acres of farmland.

1896

Henry, at 13, is very interested in machinery.

June 4: Henry builds the first "horseless carriage."

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1899

1919

August 5: Detroit Automobile Company is formed.

1893

1913

March 5: Henry announces to establish a new company. July: Ford Motors is owned solely by the Ford Family. August: Ford sued the Chicago Tribune for libel.

1979

November 6: Edsel Ford is born.December 1: Henry is promoted to chief engineer.

Ford introduces the moving assembly line.

December: Henry pursues a job in machinery at Detroit.

1903

June 16: Ford Motor Company is founded.July 15: The first car built by the company is sold.

1888

April 11: Clara Bryant and Henry Ford get married.

1918

December: Henry steps down as President.

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1945

1924

Henry suffers from a stroke.November 5: Henry II takes on presidency of the Ford Moror Company. December: Henry II sells Fordlandia back.

"The Roaring 20s."Ford faced competition.

1941

Ford Motors lands a deal with the government.April: 50,000 workers go on strike.June 20: Ford complies with UAW demands.

1929

October 29: The stock market crashes.December 1: Ford makes the daily wage $7.

1926

January 20: Henry recieves a memo from the Ford VP.

1947

1937

1927

April 7: Henry Ford dies.

May 26: "The Battle of the Overpass."

1943

May: The last Model T to ever be produced leaves the assembly line.June-October: More than 60,000 workers are laid off. September 30: Ford buys "Fordlandia." December: Ford releases Model A.

May 26: Edsel Ford dies.June 1: Henry is reappointed as company president.

1932

March 7: Ford resists unionization efforts.