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In what year did the world's first incorporation of a business occur?

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The oldest surviving business corporation in the world is Sweden's Stora Kopperberg, which was founded in 1288 and is now known as StoraEnso. The oldest surviving corporation of any sort is the Benedictine Order of the Catholic Church, which was founded around 529 A.D.

The first significant American industrial corporation, the Boston Manufacturing Company, was not established until 1813.

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