384 - 322 BC: Aristotle: "Deaf people can not be educated..."
1500s: Geronimo Cardano: Deaf people are capable of using their minds (IT)
1520 - 1584: Pedro Ponce de León, the first teacher of the deaf (ES)
1579 - 1652: Manuel Ramírez de Carrión
1606 - 1656: John Bulwer (UK)
1620: Juan Pablo Bonet, the first book on the subject of manual alphabetic signs (ES)
1669 – 1724: Amman, Johann Konrad (NL)
1670 – 1750: Étienne de Fay: First deaf teacher of the deaf in France (FR)
1712 - 1789: Abbé Charles Michel de l'Epée (FR)
1715 - 1780: Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (FR)
1715 – 1806: Thomas Braidwood (UK)
1727 - 1790: Samuel Heinicke (DE)
1742 - 1822: Abbé Sicard, Teacher of the Deaf (FR)
1747 - 1799 : Pierre Desloges (FR)
1753 - 1829: Ottavio Assarotti (IT)
1755: First School for the Deaf in France, Abbé Charles Michel de l'Epée
1760: First School for the Deaf in the UK, Edinburgh
1772 - 1836: Roberto Francisco Prádez, first Deaf teacher of the Deaf in Spain
1772 - 1846: Jean Massieu, First Deaf Teacher of the Deaf in France
1775 - 1848: Jakub Falkowski (PL)
1776 - 1839: Pär Aron Borg (SE)
1778: First School for the Deaf in Germany, Leipzig (DE)
1779: First School for the Deaf in Austria, Vienna
1779 - 1823: Peter Atke Castberg (DK)
1785 - 1869: Laurent Clerc, Deaf Teacher of the Deaf
1786: First School for the Deaf in the Czech Republic, Prague
1790: First School for the Deaf in the Netherlands, Groningen
1792: First Public School for the Deaf in the UK, London
1796 - 1874: Andreas Christian Møller, Deaf Founder of the first school for the deaf in Norway
1767 - 1828: Jean-Baptiste Pouplin (BE)
1776 - 1839: Pär Aron Borg (SE)
1787 - 1851: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (USA)
1798-1879: Matthew Robert Burns, first Deaf headmaster (UK)
1800 - 1883: Tommaso Pendola (IT)
1803 - 1886:Ferdinand Berthier (FR)
1805: First School for the Deaf in Spain, Madrid (ES)
1806: First School for the Deaf in Russia, Pavlovsk, St. Petersburg
1807: First School for the Deaf in Denmark, Copenhagen
1809: First School for the Deaf in Sweden, Stockholm
1810 - 1891: Claudius Forrestier, Deaf Teacher (FR)
1814 - 1863: Pierre Pélissier (FR)
1814 - 1865: Václav Frost (CZ)
1816 - 1903: Jeanette (Johanna) Apollonia Berglind (SE)
1817: First School for the Deaf in Poland
1817: First school for the Deaf in the USA, Hartford
1819: First School for the Deaf in Belgium - Walloon
1820: First school for the deaf in Belgium - Flanders
1822 - 1882: Ernest Huet (FR, BR)
1825: First school for the Deaf in Norway, Trondheim
1826 - 1863: Carl Oscar Malm (FI)
1832 - 1899: Ernst Sokolovski (Estonia)
1834 – 1910: Fritz Hirn, Deaf Teacher of the Deaf (FI)
1847 - 1922: Alexander Graham Bell (USA)
1850: Donaldson's School for the Deaf, Scotland
1856: Publication of Iconography des Signes, by Pélissier
1858: First School for the Deaf in Finland, Porvoo
1866: First School for the Deaf in Vändra, Estonia
1867: First School for the Deaf in Iceland, Páll Pálsson
1880: the Milan Conference
1885: First School for the Deaf in Croatia, Zagreb
1898: First School for the Deaf in Bulgaria, Sofia
1861 - 1918: Francis Maginn (UK)
1963: First School for the Deaf in Albania
1978 - 2013: Centre for Deaf Studies, Bristol (UK)
1988: Deaf President Now (USA)
1978 - 2013: Centre for Deaf Studies, Bristol (UK)
2010: ICED, Apologies for Milan Conference
