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| 1918 | Birth |  |
| 18th Oct Birth of Everette Howard Hunt |
| 1950 | Chief of Station |  |
| Mexico City Appointed Chief of Station in Mexico City |
| 1954 | Coup d'Etat |  |
| Hunt helps devise Operation PBSUCCESS, the covert plan to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz, the elected president of Guatemala |
| Hunt helps plot the overthrow of the Guatemalan President Arbenz Guzman |
| 1961 | Bay of Pigs |  |
| Hunt helps plan the abortive, semi- farcical invasion of Cuba by a group of Florida exiles during the Bay of Pigs fiasco |
| 1961 | Invasion of Cuba |  |
| Hunt helps plan the abortive, semi- farcical invasion of Cuba by a group of Florida exiles during the Bay of Pigs fiasco |
| 1971 | Watergate |  |
| 4th Sep Watergate Howard Hunt burgals the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the secret "Pentagon Papers" about the Vietnam War |
| 4th Sep Watergate Maintaines that the reason for the break-in was the belief they would find records proving the Democrats had received illegal campaign contributions from the Castro regime |
| 4th Sep Watergate Organizes the bugging of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate office building and was also found to be responsible for a break-in at the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist |
| 1972 | Watergate |  |
| 18th June Watergate Howard Hunt recieves a call from the reporter Bob Woodward informing him that his name had been found in the address book of one of the burglars arrested the previous day at the Democratic party headquarters, in the Wate |
| 1981 | Libel Hunt |  |
| Hunt is awarded $650,000 in a libel lawsuit against Liberty Lobby, after it published an article by Victor Marchetti in its newspaper The Spotlight accusing Hunt of involvement in the conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy |
| 1985 | Libel Hunt |  |
| Mark Lane, author of the best-selling "Rush to Judgment," successfully defends Liberty Lobby in a second trial in 1985, overturning the original libel award of 1981 |
| 1991 | Publication |  |
| Mark Lane outlines his theory about Hunt's and the CIA's role in Kennedy's murder in a 1991 book, "Plausible Denial." |
| 2007 | Death |  |
| 18th Oct Miami Death of Everette Howard Hunt |