| 1940 |
February |
First
World Service Office for AA |
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| 1944 |
June |
The
AA Grapevine is first published |
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1941-1945
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World
War II
AAs in Armed Services abroad |
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1946
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The
12 Traditions of AA formulated and published |
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| 1948 |
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All
AA groups are lonergroups in Germany and registered
with GSO New York |
| 1948 |
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Meetings
in Bremen and in Frankfurt at Central Chapel Headquarters |
| 1950 |
|
Bill
W. and Lois visit Europe |
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| 1950 |
July |
First
International Convention of AA at Cleveland. The
12 Traditions are adopted |
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| 1950 |
November
16th |
Dr.
Bob (co-founder of AA) dies |
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| 1952 |
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First
AA Roundup in Wiesbaden American High School |
| 1953 |
June |
The
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 x 12) is published |
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| 1953 |
November
2nd |
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Hotel
Leopold Munich
First invitation to Germans to an open AA meeting.
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| 1954 |
October |
The
"Alcoholic Foundation" becomes the "General
Service Board of Alcoholics Anonymous" |
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| 1955 |
July
20th |
Anniversary
Convention in Saint Louis, MO |
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| 1957 |
|
Creation
of First Overseas General Service Board of Alcoholics
Anonymous in Great Britain and Ireland; "AA Comes
of Age" published |
AA
membership soars to over two-hundred thousand people,
with more than 7000 groups in seventy countries and
US posessions. |
| 1959 |
|
AA
Publishing, Incorporated becomes AA World Services,
Incorporated |
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| 1960 |
July
25th |
Anniversary
Convention in Long Beach, CA. |
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| 1962 |
|
Publication
of the "12 Concepts for World Service" written
by Bill W. |
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Invitation
extended to Bill W. and Lois to attend the 10th Annual
Roundup in Wiesbaden |
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AA
meetings started in Hamburg (with the help of Mr. Abel
from England) and in Düsseldorf (with the assistance
of Robert from Chicago). [information extracted
from the German Archives] |
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First
AA meeting at the South Side Chapel at Ramstein Air
Base. |
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Twenty
active meetings are listed in the AA World Directory
with about 170 members. |
| 1963 |
|
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First
AA meeting in Berlin (information provided by Ed from
Zehlendorf) |
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Meetings
in Bad Kreuznach and Aschaffenburg |
| 1964 |
October
11th |
|
First
meeting of the Greater Frankfurt Area Intergroup, which
consisted one German and seven American groups |
| 1965 |
July |
Change
of the ratio of trustees of the General Serivce Board
(now two-thirds majority of Alcoholic members). The
AA Fellowship accepts top responsibilities for all its
future affairs |
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| 1967 |
|
Publication
of the book "The AA Way of Life", now called
"As Bill Sees It" |
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| 1969 |
|
First
World Serivce Meeting held in New York with delegates
from fourteen countries |
Munich
HELD in US Army hospital Perlacher Forst housing area
(what was held?) |
| 1970 |
|
Thirty-fifth
Anniversary Convention held in Miami Beach, FL |
|
| 1971 |
January
24th |
William
Griffith Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous,
dies in Miami Beach, FL. |
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| 1971 |
November
26th |
|
First
Intergroup meeting held at Sembach Air Base; the
existing groups were divided into six areas, each area
having its own Chairperson who is to be present at the
Intergroup meetings |
| 1972 |
|
Second
World Service meeting is held in New York. |
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Doctor
Jack Norris, the non-alcoholic trustee, is sent from
GSO New York to Germany to contact the military and
meet with Intergroup members in Wiesbaden and Semback |
| 1973 |
|
Publication
of "Came to Believe" |
Intergroup
Continental Europe grows to nine areas |
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Meetings
in Mannheim and Bamberg |
| 1973 |
April |
Distribution
of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" reaches
the one million mark |
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| 1973 |
June
30th to July 1st |
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First
Intergroup Roundup in Wiesbaden |
| 1974 |
|
|
Intergroup
Roundup in Lahr |
| 1975 |
|
Publication
of "Living Sober" |
German-American
Roundup in Kassel, Germany |
| 1975 |
June
1st |
|
English-speaking
Convention in Brussels |
| 1975 |
September
25th |
|
First
AA meeting in Rome at the US Embassy |
| 1975 |
|
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First
AA meeting in Den Haag, Holland |
| 1976 |
|
Publication
of the Third Edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" |
First
AA meeting in Naples, Italy |
| 1977 |
|
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Holland
joins Intergroup Continental Europe |
| 1979 |
|
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Frankfurt
International group celebrates its 25th Anniversary |
| 1980 |
|
Regionalization
of GSO in Great Britain occurs |
Intergroup
is invited by GSO Great Britain to send 2 delegates
to conference at Manchester |
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A
letter is sent to New York GSO to clarify where Intergroup
belongs |
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|
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GSO
Great Britain extends an invitation to Continental Intergroup
to become a Region in GSO Great Britain |
| 1980
to 1981 |
|
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Sweden,
Iceland, Finland, Switzerland and Paris become Areas
in Intergroup Continental Europe |
| 1981 |
|
|
Intergroup
Continental Europe cooperates with GSO Great Britain
in planning the First European Service Meeting and since
then held every two years in the Fall. Intergroup Continental
Europe is represented by two delegates from each Area |
| |
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Intergroup
Continental Europe now has twelve Areas |
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Bad
Tölz and Munich are combined to become Area XIII |
| 1985 |
|
|
Jack
G. of GSO Great Britain visits meeting in Nürnberg |
| |
|
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Intergroup
Continental Europe now has fifteen Areas |
| 1985 |
August
3-4 |
|
Jack
G. from London attends the restructure of Intergroup
Continental Europe as a Region in Service Structure
of Great Britain |
| 1988 |
|
At
the GS Conference in York, England, Intergroup Continental
Europe is accepted as the fifteenth Region in the Service
Structure of Great Britain |
The
three new Intergroups (Intergroup I, Intergroup II,
and Intergroup III) become Region fifteen in the the
Service Structure of Great Britain |
| 1988 |
October
5th |
Lois
Burnam Wilson dies |
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| 1990 |
|
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District
I joins Region as Intergroup IV |
| 1991 |
|
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Intergroups
form Areas for better communication and distances |
| 1994 |
|
|
Intergroups
I-IV dissolve, and form new Intergroups:
Rheinland-Pfalz
Scanelux
Triborders
Hessen
Rhein-Neckar
Bavaria
Berlin
Franconia |
| 1995 |
|
General
Service Conference approves new Region title now Continental
European Region |
Now
Continental European Region |
| 2001 |
April |
General
Service Conference question the feasibility of Contintental
European Region in Service Structure of Great Britain |
Continental
European Region receives full approval as a Region in
the Service Structure of GSO Great Britain |
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