| Carl Menger publishes Principles of Economics, founding Austrian School | 1871 |
| Friedrich Hayek publishes The Road to Serfdom | 1944 |
| Publication of How To Make A Mint white paper by NSA | October 31, 1996 |
| Registration of bitcoin.org domain | August 18, 2008 |
| Satoshi Nakamoto publishes Bitcoin white paper | October 31, 2008 |
| Bitcoin network launches with genesis block | January 3, 2009 |
| First open-source Bitcoin client released | January 9, 2009 |
| First Bitcoin transaction: Hal Finney receives 10 BTC | January 12, 2009 |
| First notable retail transaction: 10,000 BTC for two pizzas | May 22, 2010 |
| Major vulnerability in Bitcoin protocol fixed | August 6, 2010 |
| Satoshi Nakamoto sends final email, goes dark | April 26, 2011 |
| BitPay founded for Bitcoin payment processing | May 2011 |
| WikiLeaks begins accepting bitcoins for donations | June 2011 |
| Bitcoin featured on CBS drama The Good Wife | January 2012 |
| Bitcoin Foundation launched to promote Bitcoin | September 2012 |
| BitPay reports over 1,000 merchants accepting Bitcoin | October 2012 |
| First Bitcoin halving: block reward 50 BTC to 25 BTC | November 28, 2012 |
| Coinbase reports selling $1M worth of bitcoins in a month | February 2013 |
| Bitcoin blockchain temporarily splits into two chains | March 2013 |
| CFTC classifies Bitcoin as a commodity | September 17, 2015 |
| US authorities seize accounts associated with Mt. Gox | May 15, 2013 |
| DEA lists bitcoins as a seized asset | June 23, 2013 |
| Project in Kenya links Bitcoin with M-Pesa | July 2013 |
| Federal Judge rules bitcoins are a currency or form of money | August 6, 2013 |
| Chinese government bans financial institutions from trading Bitcoin | September 2013 |
| Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road founder, arrested | October 1, 2013 |
| FBI seizes 26,000 BTC from Silk Road | October 2013 |
| First Bitcoin ATM launched in Vancouver, Canada | October 29, 2013 |
| People's Bank of China prohibits financial institutions from using bitcoins | December 5, 2013 |
| Zynga tests Bitcoin for in-game purchases | January 4, 2014 |
| Las Vegas casinos begin accepting bitcoins | January 21, 2014 |
| Mt. Gox suspends withdrawals and files for bankruptcy | February 2014 |
| BitPay sponsors St. Petersburg Bowl with Bitcoin | June 18, 2014 |
| TeraExchange approved to list Bitcoin swap product | September 15, 2014 |
| Microsoft begins accepting Bitcoin for Xbox and Windows | December 11, 2014 |
| Bitstamp hacked, losing 19,000 BTC | January 2015 |
| Number of merchants accepting Bitcoin exceeds 100,000 | February 2015 |
| Lightning Network white paper published by Poon and Dryja | February 2015 |
| Academic journal Ledger established for crypto studies | 2015 |
| Proposal for Bitcoin symbol in Unicode | October 2015 |
| Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison for Silk Road | May 29, 2015 |
| Japan recognizes virtual currencies like Bitcoin | March 4, 2016 |
| CheckSequenceVerify soft fork activated | July 2016 |
| Second Bitcoin halving: block reward 25 BTC to 12.5 BTC | July 9, 2016 |
| Bitfinex hacked, losing nearly 120,000 BTC | August 2016 |
| Japan recognizes Bitcoin as legal property under Payment Services Act | March 2017 |
| Bitcoin symbol encoded in Unicode 10.0 | June 20, 2017 |
| Bitcoin splits into Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) | August 1, 2017 |
| First interoperability tests for Lightning Network | December 6, 2017 |
| Steam stops accepting Bitcoin due to fees and volatility | December 6, 2017 |
| Fink calls Bitcoin an index of money laundering | October 2017 |
| South Korea requires Bitcoin traders to reveal identity | January 22, 2018 |
| Stripe phases out Bitcoin payment support | January 24, 2018 |
| "The Bitcoin Standard" by Saifedean Ammous released | April 24, 2018 |
| Lightning Network becomes operational on Bitcoin mainnet | 2018 |
| US DOJ investigates Bitcoin price manipulation | May 2018 |
| Paul Tudor Jones buys Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Inflation | May 8, 2020 |
| MicroStrategy’s first BTC purchase: 21,454 BTC for $250M | August 11, 2020 |
| Third Bitcoin halving: block reward 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC | May 11, 2020 |
| 21Shares quotes Bitcoin ETPs on Xetra | July 2, 2020 |
| Wiener Börse lists first Bitcoin titles | September 1, 2020 |
| Frankfurt Stock Exchange admits first Bitcoin ETN | September 3, 2020 |
| PayPal allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin | October 2020 |
| Elon Musk adds #Bitcoin to his X profile, causing price spike | January 19, 2021 |
| MicroStrategy holds 70,784 BTC | January 25, 2021 |
| Tesla buys $1.5B in Bitcoin and plans to accept it | February 8, 2021 |
| Swiss canton of Zug allows tax payments in Bitcoin | February 2021 |
| Charlie Munger calls Bitcoin disgusting and contrary to civilization | May 1, 2021 |
| Stanley Druckenmiller regrets not buying Bitcoin earlier | May 30, 2021 |
| China announces crackdown on Bitcoin mining | May 21, 2021 |
| Tesla suspends Bitcoin payments due to environmental concerns | May 12, 2021 |
| El Salvador announces plans to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender | June 1, 2021 |
| US DOJ recovers $2.3M in Bitcoin from Colonial Pipeline ransom | June 7, 2021 |
| El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as legal tender | June 9, 2021 |
| Bitcoin price falls below $40,000 | April 22, 2022 |
| Central African Republic adopts Bitcoin as legal tender | April 27, 2022 |
| FTX files for bankruptcy after liquidity crisis | November 11, 2022 |
| EU approves Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) | May 16, 2023 |
| Silicon Valley Bank collapses, impacting tech startups | March 10, 2023 |
| SEC charges Coinbase with unregistered securities exchange | June 6, 2023 |
| Damus faces Apple App Store deplatforming threat | June 27, 2023 |
| Launch of Ordinals, enabling NFTs on Bitcoin blockchain | 2023 |
| Operation Chokepoint 2.0 targets crypto industry | 2023 |
| Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months in prison | April 30, 2024 |
| Stripe deplatforms Bitcoin hardware sellers | January 16, 2024 |
| SEC approves first spot Bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. | January 10, 2024 |
| Larry Fink acknowledges Bitcoin’s potential as an international asset | January 10, 2024 |
| Trump says Never sell your bitcoin at Bitcoin 2024 Conference | July 27, 2024 |
| Russia begins using Bitcoin for international trade | August 2024 |
| Fourth Bitcoin halving: block reward 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC | April 19, 2024 |
| Putin says No one can ban Bitcoin at Russia Calling Forum | December 4, 2024 |
| Powell calls Bitcoin digital gold at DealBook Summit | December 4, 2024 |
| FASB issues new crypto accounting standards | December 13, 2023 |
| Bhutan explores Bitcoin for strategic reserves | 2024 |
| SAB121 is rescinded, allowing banks to custody Bitcoin | January 24, 2025 |
| Trump signs order to establish Strategic Bitcoin Reserve | March 7, 2025 |
| Federal Reserve Board announces the withdrawal of guidance for banks related to their crypto-asset and dollar token activities and related changes to its expectations for these activities | April 24, 2025 |