24 Feb 1955 - Born as Steven Paul Jobs in San Francisco to Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Syrian) and Joanne Carole Schieble (American of Swiss and German descent)- Adopted by Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs due to Schieble's father opposed their relationship
Dec 1955 - Schieble and Jandali married
14 Jun 1957 - Mona Simpson, Jobs' biological sister born
1962 - Schieble and Jandali divorced
- Skipped 5th grade. Went straight to Crittenden Middle School
- Attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California
1969 - Meet Stephen Wozniak introduced by Bill Fernandez
- Wozniak and Bill build “the Cream Soda Computer”, a little computer board
1972 - Enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon after high school graduation
- Dropped out after one semester
1974 - Work as technician at Atari, Inc
1 Apr 1976 – Founded Apple Computer With Steven Wozniak and Ronald Wayne
- Apple I debuts at “the Homebrew Computer Club” in Palo Alto, California.
July 1976 - Apple I went on sale @ $666.66
3 Jan 1977 - Incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc.
- Wayne sold his share for $800.00
16 Apr 1977 – Apple II unveiled at the first West Coast Computer Faire, 1st personal computer in a plastic case with color graphics.
17 May 1978 - Daughther, Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs born to girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan
Dec 1979 - With several Apple employees including Jef Raskin visited Xerox PARC to see the Xerox Alto.
May 1980 - Introduced ill-fated Apple III
Dec 1980 – Apple shares begin trading on NASDAQ, raising $110 million of the biggest IPO to date
Jan 1983 – Start selling “Lisa,” a desktop computer with a graphical user interface
Jan 1984 – Debuts Macintosh personal computer
Sep 1985 – Deposed as Apple’s chairman. Leaves after boardroom coup. John Sculley as CEO of former PepsiCo executive .
Feb 1986 – Founded computer company NeXT Inc
Jun 1986 – Purchased computer graphics division from Lucasfilm Ltd. for $10 million. Co-found Pixar Animation Studios with Lucasfilm’s Ed Catmull.
18 Mar 1991 - Married Laurene Powell
Feb 1993 – NeXT gets out of the hardware business and focuses on its software.
Dec 1996 – Apple announces buyING NeXT for $400 million. Jobs act as part-time product strategy advisor to Apple CEO Gilbert Amelio
Jul 1997 – Amelio resigns after total losses of $1.5 billion over six quarters. Jobs act on de facto basis.
Aug 1997 – Microsoft Corp. invests $150 million. Boo by audience when announces at the MacWorld Expo trade show in Boston.
Sep 1997 – Officially appointed as interim CEO
Nov 1997 – Introduces Macintosh G3 computer and website for order directly from Apple.
6 Jan 1998 - Deliver keynote speech at the MacWorld Expo at San Francisco's Marriott Hotel
Aug 1998 – Launched colourful iMac all-in-one desktop personal computer
Oct 1998 – Report 1st profit since 1995 after gobbling up market share with iMac.
Jan 2000 – Become permanent chief executive of Apple.
- Provided with Gulfstream V airplane and options to purchase 10 million shares in recognition of his service as interim CEO during which company’s market cap went from less than $2 billion to more than $16 billion. Salary remains $1 a year.
Sep 2000 – Unveils next-generation operating system Mac OS X
Oct 2000 – Random House publishes The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, an unauthorized biography by Alan Deutschman that paints Jobs as alternately manipulative and arrogant and charming and inspirational.
Oct 2001 – The iPod debuts on the market.
2003 – iTunes Store opens, allowing users to buy and download music, audiobooks, movies and TV shows online.
– Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
Aug 2004 – Announces underwent successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas.
4 Aug 2005 - Speaks during a special event in Tokyo
Jun 2005 – Delivers a commencement speech at Stanford University, telling the audience, “Remembering that that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
May 2006 – Walt Disney Co. buys Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth US$7.4-billion. Jobs appointed to Disney’s board of directors.
Jan 2007 – Announces the original iPhone and releases it in June.
2008 – Opens App Store as an update to iTunes.
Jul 2008 – Releases the second generation iPhone 3G.
Aug 2008 – Bloomberg business news wire accidentally publishes an obituary of the still-alive Jobs before quickly delete it.
Jan 2009 – Takes leave for health reasons. COO Tim Cook leads the company in the interim.
Jun 2009 – Returns to the company after undergoing a liver transplant.
Jun 2009 – Releases iPhone 3GS.
Aug 2009 – In an interview with the National Post, Wozniak said the biggest misconception about his former business partner was that he’s an “arrogant asshole and the media doesn’t take into acocunt that usually when he’s that way, he usually has some logical reasons for it.”
Nov 2009 – Names “CEO of the Decade” by Fortune Magazine
27 Jan 2010 - "iPad" tablet computing device release in San Francisco, California,
7 Mar 2010 - Arrives with the team from the best picture nominate film "Up" at the 82nd Academy Awards in Hollywood
Apr 2010 – Begins selling iPad, a 10-inch touchscreen tablet, and has an 84 percent share of the tablet market by year’s end and outsells Mac personal computers within a year of its release.
Jun 2010 – Release 1st iPhone 4 model.
17 Jan 2011 – Take another medical leave.
17 Feb 2011 – Wears his signature black mock turtleneck and jeans to a dinner for technology leaders with U.S. President Barack Obama in Silicon Valley.
2 Mar 2011 – Launched iPad 2.
9 Aug 2011 – Apple briefly moves past Exxon Mobil Corp. to become the most valuable publicly traded corporation in US. Its market cap moves to $341.5 billion to top Exxon’s $341.4 billion but Exxon is back on top by the day’s end.
24 Aug 2011 – Steps down as Apple CEO and Tim Cook takes the helm.
4 Oct 2011 – Apple announces the iPhone 4S, 5th generation iPhone, scheduled for release on Oct. 14 in the US.
5 Oct 2011 – RIP due to Respiratory arrest/pancreatic cancer
