G8 SUMMIT

The Group of Eight (G8) is a forum for the governments of eight of the world's eleven largest national economies; not included are Brazil at 7th (IMF), India at 9th and China at 2nd. The forum originated with a 1975 summit hosted by France that brought together representatives of six governments: France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, thus leading to the name Group of Six or G6. The summit became known as the Group of Seven or G7 the following year with the addition of Canada. The G7 is composed of 7 of 8 of the wealthiest countries on Earth (as national net wealth) and by 7 of 11 of the wealthiest countries on Earth by GDP,[1] and it remains active despite the creation of the G8. In 1997, Russia was added to the group which then became known as the G8. The European Union is represented within the G8 but cannot host or chair summits.

	Date	Host country	Host leader	Location held
1st	November 15–17, 1975	France	Valéry Giscard d'Estaing	Rambouillet (Castle of Rambouillet)
2nd	June 27–28, 1976	United States	Gerald R. Ford	Dorado, Puerto Rico[3]
3rd	May 7–8, 1977	United Kingdom	James Callaghan	London
4th	July 16–17, 1978	West Germany	Helmut Schmidt	Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
5th	June 28–29, 1979	Japan	Masayoshi Ōhira	Tokyo
6th	June 22–23, 1980	Italy	Francesco Cossiga	Venice
7th	July 20–21, 1981	Canada	Pierre E. Trudeau	Montebello, Quebec
8th	June 4–6, 1982	France	François Mitterrand	Versailles
9th	May 28–30, 1983	United States	Ronald Reagan	Williamsburg, Virginia
10th	June 7–9, 1984	United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher	London
11th	May 2–4, 1985	West Germany	Helmut Kohl	Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
12th	May 4–6, 1986	Japan	Yasuhiro Nakasone	Tokyo
13th	June 8–10, 1987	Italy	Amintore Fanfani	Venice
14th	June 19–21, 1988	Canada	Brian Mulroney	Toronto
15th	July 14–16, 1989	France	François Mitterrand	Paris
16th	July 9–11, 1990	United States	George H. W. Bush	Houston, Texas
17th	July 15–17, 1991	United Kingdom	John Major	London
18th	July 6–8, 1992	Germany	Helmut Kohl	Munich, Bavaria
19th	July 7–9, 1993	Japan	Kiichi Miyazawa	Tokyo
20th	July 8–10, 1994	Italy	Silvio Berlusconi	Naples
21st	June 15–17, 1995	Canada	Jean Chrétien	Halifax, Nova Scotia
22nd	June 27–29, 1996	France	Jacques Chirac	Lyon
23rd	June 20–22, 1997	United States	Bill Clinton	Denver, Colorado
24th	May 15–17, 1998	United Kingdom	Tony Blair	Birmingham, England
25th	June 18–20, 1999	Germany	Gerhard Schröder	Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
26th	July 21–23, 2000	Japan	Yoshiro Mori	Nago, Okinawa
27th	July 20–22, 2001	Italy	Silvio Berlusconi	Genoa
28th	June 26–27, 2002	Canada	Jean Chrétien	Kananaskis, Alberta
29th	June 2–3, 2003	France	Jacques Chirac	Évian-les-Bains
30th	June 8–10, 2004	United States	George W. Bush	Sea Island, Georgia
31st	July 6–8, 2005	United Kingdom	Tony Blair	Gleneagles, Scotland
32nd	July 15–17, 2006	Russia	Vladimir Putin	Strelna, St. Petersburg
33rd	June 6–8, 2007	Germany	Angela Merkel	Heiligendamm,Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
34th	July 7–9, 2008	Japan	Yasuo Fukuda	Toyako (Lake Toya),Hokkaido
35th	July 8–10, 2009	Italy	Silvio Berlusconi	L'Aquila, Abruzzo
36th	June 25–26, 2010[15]	Canada	Stephen Harper	Huntsville, Ontario[16]
37th	May 26–27, 2011	France	Nicolas Sarkozy	Deauville,[18][19] Basse-Normandie
38th	May 18–19, 2012	United States	Barack Obama	Camp David[21]
39th	June 17-18, 2013	United Kingdom	David Cameron     -- expected	Enniskillen
40th	2014	Russia	Vladimir Putin     -- expected	Moscow[22]