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| 1935 | Birth |  |
| 21st Mar Middlesbrough Birth of Brian Clough, born at number 11 Valley Road, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, the son of a local sweet factory worker, and the fifth of eight children
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| 1959 | International Caps | |
| Clough plays twice for England, against Wales on 17 October 1959 and Sweden on 28 October 1959
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| 1965 | Manager | |
| Hartlepool Clough is appointed Manager of Hartlepool United with Peter Taylor as his assistant
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| 1967 | Manager | |
| Derby Clough is appointed Manager of Derby County with Peter Taylor as his assistant
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| 1968 | League Champions | |
| After signing Dave Mackay and Willie Carlin, Clough and Taylor's management led Derby to become Champions of the Football League First Division (then the highest echelon of English football)
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| 1970 | Derby County | |
| Derby Takes Derby to fourth place in Division one but due to financial irregularities, the club are banned from Europe that season and fined œ10,000
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| 1972 | League Champions | |
| Derby win the League Campionship for the 1st time in their history
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| 1973 | Manager | |
| Brighton A brief spell managing Brighton & Hove Albion, less successful on the South Coast than with his previous club, winning only 12 of his 32 games in charge of the Third Division side
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| 1973 | Resignation | |
| 15th Oct Clough and Taylor both resign from Derby County
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| 1974 | Dismissal | |
| Leeds Has the unenviable record of being Leeds United's least successful permanent manager winning only 1 match, his pay-off was estimated at œ98,000
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| Leeds Lasts only 44 days as Manager of Leeds United before he is sacked after upsetting many of Leeds's star players, notably Johnny Giles, Norman Hunter and Billy Bremner
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| 1974 | Manager | |
| Leeds Appointed Manager of Leeds United following Don Revie's departure to become manager of England, though this time Taylor didn't join him
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| Leeds Lasts only 44 days as Manager of Leeds United before he is sacked after upsetting many of Leeds's star players, notably Johnny Giles, Norman Hunter and Billy Bremner
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| 1975 | Manager | |
| 6th Jan Nottingham Clough makes a quick return to management with Nottingham Forest, who at the time are a Second Division side, joined by Peter Taylor
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| 1977 | Promotion | |
| Nottingham Nottingham Forest win promotion to the First Division, finishing third
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| 1978 | League Champions | |
| Clough becomes the first manager since Herbert Chapman to win the English Championship with two different clubs
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| Crowned champions of the First Division, finishing seven points clear of nearest challengers Liverpool
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| 1978 | League Cup | |
| In their first season after promotion Nottingham Forest win the League Cup, beating Liverpool F.C. 1-0 in a replay at Old Trafford
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| 1979 | 1st Million Pound Footballer | |
| 9th Feb Clough signs the 24-year-old Birmingham City FC striker Trevor Francis - Britain's first œ1 million footballer
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| 1979 | League Cup | |
| Forest retain the League Cup, but finish runners-up to Liverpool in the league
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| 1980 | European Cup | |
| Clough guides Forest to a second successive European Cup after victory over Kevin Keegan's Hamburg
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| 1989 | League Cup | |
| Clough and Forest defeat Luton Town FC to win the League Cup for a 3rd time
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| 1990 | League Cup | |
| Clough guides Forest to another League Cup victory with a 1-0 over Oldham Athletic, his 4th League Cup
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| 1993 | Retirement | |
| May Clough is succeeded as Manager of Nottingham Forest by then Leyton Orient manager, and European Cup-winning Forest player under Clough, Frank Clark
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| May The 1992-93 season is Clough's 18th with Forest - and his last, they are one of the 22 clubs in the new Premier League, but the sale of key players like Teddy Sheringham and Des Walker, combined with the manager's alcholism lead to a decline
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| 2002 | English Football Hall of Fame | |
| Clough is made an Inaugural Inductee of the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of his impact as manager
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| 2004 | Death | |
| 20th Sep Death of Brian Clough
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| 2007 | Brian Clough Trophy | |
| 31st July Derby Derby County and Nottingham Forest compete for the inaugural Brian Clough Trophy at Pride Park Stadium
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