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History of Chiropractic
- 1895
- D.D.Palmer starts chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, US
- 1897
- the first school, Palmer School of Chiropractic opens
- 1905
- Minnesota, the first state to recognize chiropractic
- 1907
- Shegetaro Morikubo, the first Japanese chiropractor
- 1916
- Saburo Kawaguchi introduces chiropractic at first in Japan
- 1939
- Zurich, Switzerland, the first jurisdiction outside N. America
- 1944
- FCER is established
- 1963
- NBCE is established for state examining boards
- 1969
- the first DC after WW II comes back to Japan
- 1974
- CCE recognized by the government as the accrediting body
- 1987
- chiropractors win at the Wilk vs AMA case
- 1988
- WFC formed at World Chiropractic Congress in Sydney
- 1995
- the first international standard chiropractic school opens in Japan
- 1997
- WFC has affiliation with WHO as NGO
- 2005
- WHO chiropractic guidelines document was released
- 2006
- WHO chiropractic guidelines document in Japanese was released
- 2008
- WHO Congress on Traditional Medicine in Beijing
- 2009
- Tokyo College of Chiropractic opens by transition from RMIT Japan
- 2011
- JCR administers the first chiropractic standardization exam with IBCE