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Description: Thurn & Taxis Post, family, Phone Book of the World - History
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Thurn & Taxis invented Telecom industry a long long time ago ... 732 years later the story continues ... There are several direct links between the old T&T Postmasters and Phone Book of the World This article covers a very long period. You can click on a year like 1986 to navigate though time also see Phone Book of the World.com/history Alexander Bell.com Aimee de Heeren.com Thurn-Taxis.com 1290 1490 1517 1671 1702 1738 1748 1852 1867 1871 1885 1920 1938 1952 1986 1987 1990 1991 1993 1997 2000 2004 2011 201
Franz von Taxis / Francesco de Tasso ( 1459 - 1517 ) No6 is considered to be the founder of the European Postal system. The official foundation date is 1490 . Born in Italy in a small village, Camerata Cornello near Bergamo 60 km north of Milan he worked with his brother Jeannetto (1450 - 1518) and his nephew Johann Baptista (1470 - 1541) A museum has been created in the still existing village, Museo dei Tasso For the Holy Roman Habsburg Emperor Maximilian I (1459 - 1519) Taxis organised a horse transport s
1671 January 21 two postal entrepreneurs from Tours Leon Pajot (1625est - 1668) and Louis Rouille (1630 - 1694) buy from Nicolas V de Villeroy, once tutor of King Louis XIV, the old Hotel de Villeroy Bourbon / VB mansion in the heart of Paris. Following King Louis XIV the Villeroy family has moved to St Germain en Laye and was planning to live at the future Chateau de Versailles. Pajot & Rouille set up a postal operation which they call "La Poste" It will become the Royal French Postal Services. The father
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