1940s

When we aren't sure of a date, use this broad term, and hope to pin it down better later.

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Births and Deaths:

Rob Hansen

Convention series started or ended:

Onetime conventions:

Loncon

Bids:

Southwestern Fantasy Conference

Publications started or ended:

Cataclysm - Cthulhu the Mighty - DYKTAWO - Different - Erebus - FFF FANEWSCARD - Fan News Weekly - Foo - IFA Review - Moloch - Nuz from Home - The Ghoul - The Magazine That Nearly Was

Publishers founded or closed:

Utopian Publications

Awards made, started or ended:

Laureates

Stores opened or closed:

Clubs founded or disbanded:

Buffalo Fantasy League - Detroit Hyperborean Society - Intellectual Brotherhood of Pro-Scientists - Manchester Interplanetary Society - Midwest Fan Society - Minn-Dak FS - Newark SFL - Philadelphia Futurians - Primordial WSFA by Chick Derry - Stranger Club - The Inklings - Weird Tales Club

Fanhistory:

Fascism - I Have a Cosmic Mind — Now What Do I Do? - Primordial WSFA by Chick Derry - Stfnash

New fanspeak coined:

Boptalk - Combozine - fmz - Fans are Slans! - Fout - I Have a Cosmic Mind — Now What Do I Do? - Just Like a Daugherty Project Except That It Will Actually Happen - Sensitive Fannish Face - Servifan - Twonk's Disease - Zine

Miscellaneous:

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Asia:

Australia:

Britain:

BRE - Manchester Interplanetary Society - Oblique House - Rob Hansen - The Flat - The Inklings - The Magazine That Nearly Was - Utopian Publications

Canada:

Loncon

Europe:

Ireland:

Oblique House

New Zealand:

US:

Alcoholytes - Buffalo Fantasy League - Cataclysm - Cthulhu the Mighty - DYKTAWO - Detroit Hyperborean Society - Different - Erebus - FFF FANEWSCARD - Fan News Weekly - Foo - IFA Review - Index of Science Fiction Magazines 1926 - 1948 - Intellectual Brotherhood of Pro-Scientists - Laureates - Midwest Fan Society - Minn-Dak FS - Moloch - Newark SFL - Nuz from Home - Philadelphia Futurians - Southwestern Fantasy Conference - Stfnash - Stranger Club - The Ghoul - Weird Tales Club

Rest of the World: