# World expositions The history of World Expositions fascinates me. Leaving this here because UNDOUBTEDLY there will be more. ## What is a World Exposition? - Only those that are sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), or classified as one after BIE came into existence. - These are different than World Fairs (which *also* fascinate me!) ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.link AS "Title", year AS "Year(s)", location AS "Location", description AS "Theme", designation AS "Official designation" FROM "40 Atomic" WHERE contains(type, "World exposition") SORT title asc ``` - [[Expo 1851 London]] - [[Expo 1855 Paris]] - [[Expo 1862 London]] - [[Expo 1867 Paris]] - [[Expo 1873 Vienna]] - Expo 1876 Philadelphia - Expo 1878 Paris - Expo 1880 Melbourne - Expo 1888 Barcelona - [[Expo 1889 Paris]] - [[Expo 1893 Chicago]] - Expo 1897 Brussels - [[Expo 1900 Paris]] - [[Expo 1904 St. Louis]] - Expo 1905 Liege - Expo 1906 Milan - Expo 1910 Brussels - Expo 1913 Ghent - [[Expo 1915 San Francisco]] - [[Expo 1929 Barcelona]] - [[Expo 1933 Chicago]] - [[Expo 1935 Brussels]] - [[Expo 1937 Paris]] - [[Expo 1939 New York]] - [[Expo 1949 Port-au-Prince]] - [[Expo 1958 Brussels]] - [[Expo 1962 Seattle]] - [[Expo 1967 Montreal]] - Expo 1970 Osaka