The London's Tube Map designed by Harry Beck is published

First use of the Universtal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection during the WWII

Elements of Cartography first edition by Arthur H. Robinson

The first satellite, the Soviet Sputnik is put in orbit

William Bunge completes his PhD Theoretical Geography and starts the spatial-quantitative revolution

SYMAP, the first automated computer mapping system, is created by Howard Fisher in the Harvard Laboratory

Roger Tomlinson’s pioneering work to initiate, plan, and develop the Canada Geographic Information System resulted in the first computerized GIS in the world

OPS 3762 (FTV-2355) first radar imaging satellite is launched

Earthrise is taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders

Esri is founded by Jack and Laura Dangermond

MAXAR Technologies is founded

Design with Nature by Ian McHarg is published

Laser-Scan is founded

Intergraph is founded

David Sinton, from the Harvward Laboratory, releases GRID (based on SYMAP), the beginning of raster computing

First microprocessor by Intel

First Landsat satellite is being launched

First mobile phone is launched by Motorola

The Altair 8800, first PC, is launched by MITS

Arno Peters introduces what he called The Peters Projection, based on a 1855's projection by James Gall

Windows is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen

The first block of GPS satellites are launched using the Atlas-F rocket

In 1978, the U.S. Department of the Interior created the Map Overlay and Statistical System (MOSS)

ERDAS IMAGINE first release

First NACIS conference

The Osborne 1, the first laptop is created

The first version of ARC/INFO, "the first modern GIS", is launched by Esri

The URSS starts deploying GLONASS

AutoDesk releases the first version of AutoCAD

Apple presents the computer mouse for its new Macintosh

First PROJ.4 (PROJ) release, developed by Gerald Evenden

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by E. Tufte is published

WGS 84, the last big revision of the World Geodetic System (WGS)

First civil GPS receivers (Trimble, Magellan, Garmin)

First release of GRASS GIS, the first OS GIS software tool

Karlin & Collins (later renamed as Navigation Technologies Corporation and Navteq) is founded

MapInfo is founded

Graphishoft releases the first commercial BIM software, ArchiCAD

IDRISI (late rebranded as TerrSet) first release by Clark Labs at Clark University

SimCity first release by MAXIS

Desert Storm, GPS is being succesfully used during the Gulf War

Python is created by Guido van Rossum

How to lie with maps by M. Monmonier is published

The World Wide Web is created

TomTom is founded

IBM releases the first smartphone

First version of HTML written by Tim Berners-Lee

Netscape, the first commercial browser is released

MapServer first release

GPS achieves full operational capacity, and starts giving global coverage

ENVI is released by L3Harris Geospatial

First ArcView version is released

First official release of R

Taiwanese YE Systems release a mouse with a scroll between the two buttons

The first version of JavaScript is being released

PostgreSQL first release

MapQuest is founded by Barry Glick and Chris Heivly

SuperMap is founded

First time the Wi-Fi is being introduced

Shapefile format first release by Esri

Google is founded

First ArcGIS/ArcMap version is released

Ikonos, first commercial high-res imaging satellite, is launched

Bill Clinton announces the removal of the SA from the GPS signal

Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) carried out by the Space Shuttle Endeveour to generate DEMs

The first Beidou satellite is launch by China

WMS first release

First web API is introduced by Salesforce

GDAL, an OS library to work with vector and raster data is first released

Stamen is founded by Eric Rodenbeck

Keyhole is founded by John Hacke, they launch Keyhole EarthViewer (Google Earth)

PostGIS, a spatial extension for PostgreSQL database, is launched by Paul Ramsey

ColorBrewer is released by Cynthia Brewer

OpenGeo (Boundless Spatial) is founded by Chris Holmes

QGIS first version is released

Mozilla Firefox first release

Google adquires Keyhole

ArcGIS Server is realised

OSM is founded by Steve Coast

KML format is released

The first version of gvSIG is launched

First FOSS4G event held in Bangkok

Google Maps is launched

The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is founded

Bing Maps is launched

OpenLayers first version is released

First version of Mapnik is being released

OSGeo is founded

Steve Jobs presents the iPhone

ggplot first release

First version of Geoserver is being released

Pitney Bowes adquires MapInfo

Google launches My Maps and Street View

NOKIA adquires Navteq

First OGC standards

Android is released