General Assemblies
Since 1922, the IAU General Assembly meets every three years, with the exception of the period between 1938 to 1948, due to World War II. After a Polish request in 1967, and by a controversial decision of the then President of the IAU, an Extraordinary IAU General Assembly was held in February 1973 in Warsaw, Poland, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus, soon after the regular 1973 GA had been held in Australia.
| Meeting | Year | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Ist IAU General Assembly (1st) | 1922 | Rome, Italy |
| IInd IAU General Assembly (2nd) | 1925 | Cambridge, England, United Kingdom |
| IIIrd IAU General Assembly (3rd) | 1928 | Leiden, Netherlands |
| IVth IAU General Assembly (4th) | 1932 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Vth IAU General Assembly (5th) | 1935 | Paris, France |
| VIth IAU General Assembly (6th) | 1938 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| VIIth IAU General Assembly (7th) | 1948 | Zürich, Switzerland |
| VIIIth IAU General Assembly (8th) | 1952 | Rome, Italy |
| IXth IAU General Assembly (9th) | 1955 | Dublin, Ireland |
| Xth IAU General Assembly (10th) | 1958 | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| XIth IAU General Assembly (11th) | 1961 | Berkeley, California, United States |
| XIIth IAU General Assembly (12th) | 1964 | Hamburg, West Germany |
| XIIIth IAU General Assembly (13th) | 1967 | Prague, Czechoslovakia |
| XIVth IAU General Assembly (14th) | 1970 | Brighton, England, United Kingdom |
| XVth IAU General Assembly (15th) | 1973 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| XVIth IAU General Assembly (16th) | 1976 | Grenoble, France |
| XVIIth IAU General Assembly (17th) | 1979 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| XVIIIth IAU General Assembly (18th) | 1982 | Patras, Greece |
| XIXth IAU General Assembly (19th) | 1985 | New Delhi, India |
| XXth IAU General Assembly (20th) | 1988 | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| XXIst IAU General Assembly (21st) | 1991 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| XXIInd IAU General Assembly (22nd) | 1994 | The Hague, Netherlands |
| XXIIIrd IAU General Assembly (23rd) | 1997 | Kyoto, Kansai, Japan |
| XXIVth IAU General Assembly (24th) | 2000 | Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
| XXVth IAU General Assembly (25th) | 2003 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| XXVIth IAU General Assembly (26th) | 2006 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| XXVIIth IAU General Assembly (27th) | 2009 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| XXVIIIth IAU General Assembly (28th) | 2012 | Beijing, China |
| XXIXth IAU General Assembly (29th) | 2015 | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
| XXXth IAU General Assembly (30th) | 2018 | Vienna, Austria |
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