International Electrical Congress

Year	Congress or Exhibition	Location	Date
1881	International Electrical Congress	Held in connection with the International Exposition of Electricity (first International Exposition of Electricity)	Paris, France	15 Sept. – 5 Oct.
1893	International Electrical Congress	Held in connection with the World's Columbian Exposition	Chicago, IL	21-25 Aug.
1900	International Electrical Congress	Held in connection with the Paris Exposition Universelle	Paris, France	18-25 Aug.
1904	International Electrical Congress	Held in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition	St. Louis, MO	12-17 Sept.

Concurrent Related International Electrical Congresses

Year	Congress or Exhibition	Location	Date
1882	Conférence international pour la détermination des unités électriques (International Conference for Determination of Electrical Units)	Paris, France	16-26 Oct.
1884	International Conference for Determination of Electrical Units	Paris, France		1889	International Congress of Electricians. Held in connection with Exposition Universelle de 1889.	Paris, France	24-31 Aug.
1891	Held in connection with the International Electrotechnical Exhibition	Frankfurt, German	7-12 Sept
1892	Held in connection with the British Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting	Edinburgh, Scotland		1896	In connection with the Swiss National Exposition	Geneva, Switzerland	4-9 Aug.

International Electrotechnical Congress

Year	Congress or Exhibition	Location	Date
1908	International Conference on Electric Units and Standards.	London, England	Oct.
1911	Organized by Associazione elettrotecnica italiana and the Italian Electrotechnical Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission	Turin, Italy	10-17 Sept.
1915	Organized by the American Institute of Electrical Engineers	San Francisco, CA	Scheduled to be held 13-18 Sept., but cancelled because of the outbreak of WWI

Related International Electrotechnical Conferences

Year	Congress or Exhibition	Location	Date
1905	International Conference on Electrical Units, (15 persons invited, 13 participated)	Berlin, Germany	23-25 Oct.
1908	Held in connection with the L'exposition internationale des applications de l'électricité.	Marseille, France	14-19 Sept.

International Electricity Exhibitions

Year	Congress or Exhibition	Location	Date
1881	first International Exposition of Electricity Exposition internationale d'Électricité (International Congress of Electricians held in conjunction with it.), International Paris Electrical Exposition	Paris, France	15 Aug. – 15 Nov., Displayed the advances in electrical technology since the small electrical display at the 1878 Universal Exposition
1882	Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1882	London, England
1883	Berlin Exposition of 1883	Berlin, Germany
1884	International Electrical Exhibition (Franklin Institute), Franklin Institute International Electrical Exhibition	Philadelphia, PA	First great electrical exhibition in the USA
1888	Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States	Cincinnati, OH	4 July – 27 Oct.
1889	Summer Carnival and Electric Exhibition	St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
1889	Universal Exposition of 1889	Paris, France
1892	Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1892	London, England
1904	Louisiana Purchase Exposition	St. Louis, MO	30 Apr. – 1 Dec.
1915	Panama Pacific Exposition celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal and the four hundredth anniversary of the European discovery of the Pacific Ocean.	San Francisco, CA	20 Feb. – 4 Dec.