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The following 1list shows the first club in each of Rotary's geographic regions and countries based on current boundaries.  The date following club name is the admission (charter) date into Rotary.  Another club might have been first in a particular region, but due to boundary changes it is no longer in that geographic region.   Also, when some of  these clubs were admitted, they were not the first club in a geographic region, but became so when their portion gained independence. [  ] indicates the original name of the geographic region and/or city on the charter.  Club names are the names of the current clubs as some have changed over time.  

If your club's history is missing, please send your history today from our "Comment" page. www.historycomment.org Please include the link to your website history page and a contact for confirmation. Also see the RI Archives Terminated Clubs file.

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Rotary Year/RIP
 Region & Club Charter Inactive

Readmitted

 Notes
1905 USA Chicago   23 Feb 05     ROTARY/One
1906          
1907          
1908          
1909          
1910-11 Paul P. Harris          
1911-12 Paul P. Harris Canada, Winnipeg 13 Apr 12      
1912-13 Glenn C. Mead England, London 1 Aug 12      
Scotland, Glasgow 1 Apr 13      
Ireland, Dublin 1 May 13      
N. Ireland, Belfast 1 May 13      
1913-14 Russell F. Greiner          
         
1915-16 Allen D. Albert Cuba, Havana 1 Jun 16 31 Jan 79    
Hawaii – Honolulu 1 Jun 16     USA Statehood 21 Aug 59
1916-17 Arch C. Klumph          
1917-18 E. Leslie Pidgeon Wales – Cardiff 1 Nov 17      
Puerto Rico – San Juan 1 Jun 18      
1918-19 John Poole France – Allied Rotary Club of France       forerunner of Paris Club
Uruguay – Montevideo  ESP & EN (New) 1 Feb 19     2Tree
Philippines – Manila 1 Jun 19      
1919-20 Albert S. Adams China – Shanghai  1 Oct 19 31 Dec 43

27 Mar 46-

15 Oct 51

 2Tree Provisional Jun 01 
Panama – Panama City 1 Nov 19     2Tree
India – Calcutta 1 Jan 20     2Tree
Argentina – Buenos Aires (SP) 1 Apr 20     2Tree
1920-21 Estes Snedecor Spain – Madrid (ESP & EN) 1 Jan 21 19 Jan 40 6 Jun 77 2Tree
Australia – Melbourne 1 Apr 21     2Tree
France – Paris 1 Apr 21      
Japan – Tokyo 1 Apr 21     2Tree
Mexico – Ciudad de Mexico 1 Apr 21     2Tree
New Zealand – Wellington 1 May 21     2Tree
1921-22 Crawford McCullough S Africa – Johannesburg 1 Jul 21      
Newfoundland – St. John's 1 Jan 22     Province of Canada 31 March 1949
Norway – Oslo 1 Jun 22      
Peru – Lima 1 Jun 22     2Tree
Denmark – Copenhagen (DA) 3 Aug 22      
Netherlands, The – Amsterdam 29 Jan 23      
Brazil – Rio de Janeiro (history needed) 28 Feb 23     2Tree
Channel Islands – Guernsey 3 Mar 23     [England]
1923-24 Guy Gundaker 3 Belgium – Ostende (FR) 29 Aug 23      
Italy – Milano (IT) (EN) 20 Dec 23      
Isle of Man – Douglas 2 Jan 24     [England]
Bermuda – Hamilton  (New) 15 Mar 24      
Chile – Valparaiso (history needed) 15 May 24     2Tree
Switzerland – Zurich 23 May 24      
1924-25 Everett W. Hill Alaska – Ketchikan 22 Apr 25     Statehood 3 January 1959
Guatemala – Ciudad de Guatemala 11 May 25      
1925-26 Donald A. Adams Austria – Vienna 19 Oct 25      
4 Czech Republic – Praha 1 Nov 25 24 Jan 49 8 Jun 90 [Prague, Czechoslovakia]
Portugal – Lisbon (history needed) 23 Jan 26      
4 Hungary – Budapest 20 Feb 26 30 Jun 42 1 Jun 89  
Sweden – Stockholm 20 Feb 26     2Tree
1926-27 Harry H. Rogers Colombia – Bogotá (history needed) 13 Jan 27     2Tree
Finland – Helsinki-Helsingfors 26 Jan 27     2Tree  Also see the history of Rotary in Finland 1926-1949
Costa Rica – San Jose  (history needed) 8 Mar 27      
El Salvador – San Salvador  (history needed) 15 Apr 27      
1927-28 Arthur H. Sapp Ecuador – Guayaquil 13 Jul 27      
Bolivia – La Paz (history needed) 12 Aug 27      
Germany – Hamburg 8 Oct 27      
Korea - Seoul 10 Nov 27 31 Dec 40 15 Mar 49 [Keijo, Chosen, Japan]
Pakistan – Lahore 7 Dec 27     [India]
Paraguay – Asuncion (history needed) 16 Jan 28      
Indonesia – Jakarta (history needed) 12 Apr 28 31 Dec 43 Jogjakarta, Indonesia 31 July 1957- 27 April 1961 readmitted 7 December 1970; Djokjakarta, Java, -  [Netherlands East Indies]
1928-29 I. B. Tom Sutton Greece – Athinai 30 Jan 29     [Athens]
Israel – Jerusalem 11 Mar 29     [Palestine]
Egypt – Cairo 11 Mar 29     [United Arab Republic]
4 Beograd - Belgrade 8 Apr 29 31 Dec 41 1 May 92 Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of
Nicaragua – Managua (history needed) 16 May 29      
4 Romania – Bucuresti 20 May 29 31 Dec 41 1 May 92 [Bucharest]
Honduras – Tegucigalpa (history needed) 4 Jun 29      
1929-30 M. Eugene Newsom Sri Lanka – Colombo 24 Aug 29      
Belize – Belize  (New) 12 Sep 29 4 Jun 30 31 Jul 57 [British Honduras]
Luxembourg – Luxembourg 24 Sep 29      
Burma – Thayetmo 30 Sep 29 31 Dec 43    
Burma – Rangoon 27 Nov 29 31 Jan 79    
Malaysia – Seremban 4 Dec 29     [Federated Malay States]
Algeria – Algiers  (history needed) 19 May 30 1 Jan 80 2 May 92  
Morocco – Casablanca (history needed) 19 May 30      
Zimbabwe – Harare 27 Jun 30     [Southern Rhodesia – Salisbury]
1930-31 Almon E. Roth 4 Estonia – Tallinn 2 Aug 30 10 Oct 40 1 Mar 91 2Tree
Singapore – Singapore 11 Aug 30     [Singapore, Strait Settlements, Malaysia]
Kenya – Nairobi 11 Sep 30      
Thailand – Bangkok 28 Nov 30     [Siam]
Hong Kong – Hong Kong 20 Feb 31      
Poland – Warsaw   (EN)  (POL)   (New) 19 Mar 31 10 Oct 40 1 Jun 89  
Taiwan – Taipei 28 Apr 31 31 Dec 43 11 Jun 48 [Taihoku, Formosa, Japan]
1931-32 Sydney W. Pascall Lebanon – Beyrouth (history needed) 2 Feb 32     [Beirut]
4 Danzig, Free City of  (history needed) 1931-32     inactive during WWII; now Gdansk, Poland
4 Latvia – Riga 7 Apr 33 10 Oct 40 1 Feb 92  
4 Bulgaria – Sofia 25 May 33 7 Apr 41 1 Oct 91 Also see an article on early history in Bulgaria
1933-34 John Nelson

4 Lithuania – Vilnius

 14 Nov 34 6 Nov 92   [Kaunas, Lituania was first club in country from 14 November, 1934-10 October 1940, but was not the first club to be granted re-admittance in the 1990s]
Iceland – Reykjavik  (history needed) 31 May 35      
1934-35 Robert E. Lee Hill Tunisia – Tunis Doyen  (history needed) 14 Feb 36 30 Jan 60 11 Sep 69  
1935-36 Ed. R. Johnson Fiji – Suva 26 Mar 36      
Sarawak - Kuching  (New) 10 Jun 36     State of Malaysia since 1965
1936-37 Will R. Manier, Jr. Netherlands Antilles – Curacao  (New) 2 Apr 37      
Monaco – Monaco (history needed) 3 Jun 37      
1937-38 Maurice Duperrey Venezuela – Caracas (history needed) 8 Oct 37      
Syria – Damascus (history needed) 26 Jan 38 24 Jan 69