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| 1960 | Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys |  |
| London Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones
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| 1960 | Rolling Stones, The | |
| Sidcup Keith Richards and Mick Jagger both attended the Dartford Maypole County Primary School, the two become reacquainted while Richards is attending the Sidcup Art School and Jagger is a student at the London School of Economics
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| London Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Dick Taylor form the band Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys, pre-cursor of the Rolling Stones
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| 1962 | Rolling Stones, The | |
| London The Rolling Stones' lineup settles down to Jagger, Richards, Stewart, Jones, Taylor, and drummer Tony Chapman
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| 1965 | Rolling Stones, The | |
| Prompted by Oldham, Jagger and Richards become more prolific songwriters and the US version of 1965's Out of Our Heads contains seven original songs, including the classic "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
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| 1967 | Rolling Stones, The | |
| A new psychedelic album, which Jagger envisions as the group's equivalent of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, eventually be released as Their Satanic Majesties Request, during a threat of imprisonment
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| "We Love You" is releades, a thank you for loyalty shown by their fans during their drug trials trials, seen as a barbed attack on their perceived persecutors: the News of the World, the Metropolitan Police
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| Mar Jones' girlfriend Anita Pallenberg runs off with Richards while Jones is hospitalised, damaging Jones and Richards' friendship
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| 1968 | Rolling Stones, The | |
| May Aided by up-and-coming producer Jimmy Miller, Jagger and Richards produce some of their most memorable work, including "Sympathy for the Devil" and the distorted acoustic guitar-driven "Street Fighting Man"
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| May With personal relations between Jones and Richards increasingly frayed, the release of the single "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and, later the year, the album Beggars Banquet (UK #3; US #5), see a return to the band's blues roots
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| 1969 | Death | |
| July Despite Brian Jones' sudden death, the Hyde Park concert goes ahead in front of an audience of 200,000 fans, with Jagger reading from Shelley's Adonais and releasing hundreds of (mostly dead) butterflies by way of tribute to the l
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| 1969 | Dismissal | |
| 8th June Jones is forced out of the band after a late-night visit to his rural home from Jagger, Richards and Charlie Watts to be replaced by twenty year-old jazz-influenced guitarist Mick Taylor, from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
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| 1969 | Rolling Stones, The | |
| 8th June At the suggestion of pianist and road manager Ian Stewart, the Stones decide to add a new guitarist and Jones is visited by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts and told the group he formed would continue without him
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| 3rd July Honky Tonk Women is released, coinciding with the death of Jones, and remains the band's last number 1 single in the UK
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| 1977 | Trial | |
| 11th Jan London Tried for possession of cocaine
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