1925: First appearance of Pegleg Pete cartoons, Alice Solves the Puzzle
1928: First Mickey Mouse cartoons, Plane Crazy
1928: First appearance of Minnie Mouse cartoons, Plane Crazy
1928: First Mickey Mouse episode, Plane Crazy
1929: Start of the Silly Symphonies: The Skeleton Dance
1929: First Silly Symphony episode, The Skeleton Dance;;
1930: First appearance of Pluto cartoon, The Chain Gang
1932: First appearance of Goofy cartoon, Mickey's Revue (Columbia Pictures Studios)
1932: First full-colour cartoon, Flowers and Trees
1933: First appearance of Fifi the Peke cartoons, Puppy Love
1933: First Donald Duck Theme Music #1, The Steeplechase
1933: First Pluto's Devil cartoons, Mickey's Pal Pluto
1933: First Pluto's Angel cartoons, Mickey's Pal Pluto
1934: First Walt Disney segment, The Hot Choco-Late Soldiers
1934: First Donald Duck cartoon, The Wise Little Hen
1937: First Daisy Duck cartoons, Don Donald
1937: First Donald Duck episode, Don Donald
1937: First Pluto, Jr. cartoons. Pluto's Quin-Puplets
1937: First full-length animated movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1938: First Huey, Dewey and Louie cartoons, Donald's Nephews
1939: First Goofy episode, Goofy and Wilbur
1939: First Mickey Mouse Theme #1, The Standard Parade
1940: First appearance of Figaro cartoons, Pinocchio
1940: First Pluto episode, Bone Trouble
1940: First Donald Duck Theme #2, Window Cleaners
1940: First Goofy Theme #1, Goofy's Glider
1940: First Pluto #1, Private Parate
1940: Studio moves to Burbank, California
1941: First Winnie the Pooh character Gopher, Canine Caddy
1942: First P.J. cartoons, Bellboy Donald
1943: First Scrooge McDuck cartoons, The Spirit of '43
1943: First Chip 'n' Dale cartoons, Private Pluto
1944: First Pluto Theme #2, Springtime for Pluto
1945: First Dutch cartoons, Canine Casanova
1946: Much argued-over Song of the South's debut
1947: First Pluto Theme #3, Pluto's Housewarming
1947: First Donald Duck Theme #3, Donald's Dilemma
1947: First Mickey Mouse #2, Mickey's Delayed Date
1950: First Goofy Theme #2, Motor Mania
1954: Walt Disney anthology series starts
1955: Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California
1955: First widescreen cartoon, Lady and the Tramp
1966: Walt Disney dies; his brother Roy takes over
1967: Last animated movie from producer Walt Disney, The Jungle Book
1971: Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida
1979: Don Bluth and friends leave the studio
1979: The Black Hole, Disney's first PG movie, is a failure with critics
1980: First home video: Dumbo
1981: Disney's last traditionally animated movie: The Fox and the Hound
1983: Disney Channel is launched
1984: Touchstone Pictures starts with Splash
1985: Disney's first animated movie to use computer animation: The Black Cauldron
1989: The Little Mermaid brings new life in the animation division as well as the genre; studio gets its first Oscar in eighteen years for this movie
1990: Hollywood Pictures starts with Arachnophobia
1991: Beauty and the Beast becomes the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture
1995: First Pixar movie, Toy Story
2003: Pirates of the Caribbean becomes studio's first family movie with a rating of PG-13
2004: Home on the Range is Disney's last traditionally animated movie to use CAPS
2005: Disneyland celebrates fiftieth birthday
2005: First self-made CGI movie, Chicken Little
2009: Disney buys comic book publisher Marvel Comics for 4 billion US dollars.
2012: Disney buys movie studio Lucasfilm for 4 billion US dollars.