| 1945 |
• |
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded. |
| 1946 |
• |
First meeting of the UNESCO General
Conference. |
| 1965 |
• |
World Conference of Ministers
of Education on the Eradication of Illiteracy, and proclamation
of September 8 as the day International Literacy Day will
be celebrated. |
| 1966 |
• |
International Literacy Day celebrations. |
| 1967 |
• |
First UNESCO International Literacy
Day celebration where an award is presented. That award
was entitled: the Mohammed Reza Pahlafi Prize. |
| 1970 |
• |
The first awarding of the Nadezhda
K. Krupskaya Prize. |
| 1975 |
• |
International Reading Association
begins association with UNESCO. |
| 1978 |
• |
The last awarding of the Mohammed
Reza Pahlafi Prize. |
| 1979 |
• |
First International Reading Association
Literacy Award presented. |
| 1980 |
• |
Creation of the Noma Prize, by
the late Shoichi Noma, a Japanese Publisher. |
| 1985 |
• |
Fourth International Conference
on Adult Education. |
| 1989 |
• |
Establishment of the King Sejong
Award by the Repulic of Korea. |
| 1990 |
• |
"International Literacy Year" proclaimed
by the United Nations. |
| 1991 |
• |
The Nadezhda K. Krupskaya was
terminated by the political transformation in the former
USSR. |
| |
• |
The Iraq Literacy Prize was
terminated by the Gulf War. |
| 1993 |
• |
International Reading Association
Literacy Award presented to the Sebenta National Institute
of Swaziland. |
| |
• |
National teleconference on the
importance of professional development opportunities for
Chapter 1 teachers. |
| 1994 |
• |
International Reading Association
Award presented to National Centre for Literacy and Adult
Education of Malawi. |
| |
• |
International video teleconference
on Lifelong and Family Literacy, Literacy in the Classroom,
and Literacy in the 21st Century. |
| 1995 |
• |
International Reading Association
Award presented to Community Academic Services Program (CASP)
of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. |
| 1996 |
• |
The International Reading Association
Literacy Award presented to the Mini-Schools Project in
La Saline District of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. |
| 1997 |
• |
5th International Conference
on Adult Education, Hamburg Germany. |
| 1998 |
• |
Fourth Iberoamerican Congress
on Informatics for Education. |
| |
• |
Malcolm Adiseshiah International
Literacy Prize was established in commemoration of the late
Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah, former Deputy Director General of
UNESCO and President of the International Literacy Prize
Jury. |
