Events: I
23 events of 717, A to Z.
I
- IBM–Microsoft operating-system deal Nov 1980 – Aug 1981IBM's 1980 contract with Microsoft for the IBM PC's operating system, which Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer Products.
- ICC Appeals Chamber decision, 24 April 2025 24 Apr 2025The Appeals Chamber reversed the Pre-Trial Chamber's decision on Israel's jurisdiction challenge and sent it back.
- ICC arrest warrants, 21 November 2024 21 Nov 2024Pre-Trial Chamber I issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.
- IG Farben Trial 1947 – 30 Jul 1948The second U.S. industrialist trial at Nuremberg (Case 6); 13 of 23 defendants were convicted in July 1948.
- Impeachment of Warren Hastings 1787–1795The House of Commons impeached Hastings in 1787; the House of Lords tried him and acquitted him in 1795.
- Imperial election of 1519 1519In 1519 the electors chose Charles of Habsburg, king of Castile, as Holy Roman Emperor; Fugger money was used to pay bribes to them.
- In re African-American Slave Descendants Litigation 25 Oct 2002 – 7 Apr 2011Federal class action seeking reparations from corporations including Aetna and Lloyd’s; dismissed in 2004 and 2005, largely upheld on appeal in 2006; closed in 2011.
- In re Eyewear Antitrust Litigation: motion to dismiss granted (2025) 26 Sep 2025On 26 September 2025 a U.S. federal judge granted EssilorLuxottica’s motion to dismiss two proposed class actions by buyers, with leave to replead by 17 October 2025. The accusations were not tried.
- Inca civil warWar between Huascar at Cuzco and his brother Atahualpa at Quito, ended in Atahualpa's favour as the Spaniards landed.
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 1857Rising in 1857 of the Company's sepoys and, in Oudh, of landholders, put down by 1858-60; British writers call it the Mutiny, Sayyid Ahmad Khan wrote of the Revolt.
- India’s request to extradite Warren Anderson, 2001 to 2004 Aug 2001 – Jun 2004India’s Attorney General advised in August 2001 that extradition was unlikely to succeed; India asked the U.S. in May 2003 and the U.S. rejected the request in June 2004.
- Ingham v. Johnson & Johnson Jul 2018 – Jun 2021St. Louis jury trial of 22 women with ovarian cancer against J&J and its consumer unit (2018), cut on appeal in 2020.
- Inquests into the death of Roberto Calvi 1982 – 27 Jun 1983City of London inquests, 1982 and 1983.
- Inquiry into trading before 11 SeptemberSEC and FBI investigators examined unusual trading in airline stocks before the attacks and found no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge profited.
- Interim compensation orders, 1987 to 1988 17 Dec 1987 – 4 Apr 1988The Bhopal District Judge ordered Union Carbide Corporation to deposit Rs 350 crore as interim compensation in December 1987; the Madhya Pradesh High Court cut it to Rs 250 crore in April 1988; both sides appealed to the Supreme Court, which led to the settlement.
- Interior confirms the Mashpee reservation, 2021 2021Decision of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in 2021 confirming the Mashpee Wampanoag reservation.
- Invasion of Iraq (2003) 19 Mar 2003U.S. and coalition forces began military operations in Iraq on 19 March 2003.
- Invention of the alphabet c. 1800 BCE – c. 1500 BCESemitic-speaking people create a script whose letters stand for consonants; most, and probably all, later alphabets descend from it.
- Invention of writing c. 3300 BCE – c. 3000 BCEThe earliest known writing: signs drawn on clay tablets in southern Mesopotamia in the late 4th millennium BCE, the forerunner of cuneiform.
- Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip 2005Withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from Gaza, completed in 2005.
- Israeli measures on Gaza from September 2007 19 Sep 2007Cabinet decision of 19 September 2007 declaring Gaza an "enemy entity" and tightening restrictions on goods; OHCHR later calls the closure a 17-year blockade.
- Italian review of Luxottica’s purchase of Barberini (2018) 25 Sep 2018 – 19 Nov 2018Italy’s competition authority opened an investigation on 25 September 2018 and authorised the purchase on conditions on 19 November 2018.
- Italian warrants for IOR officials, 1987 Feb 1987 – 17 Jul 1987Milan warrants of February 1987, invalidated by the Court of Cassation on 17 July 1987.