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| 1941 | Birth |  |
| 24th May Duluth Birth of Bob Dylan at Duluth, Minnesota |
| 1959 | Education | |
| 5th June Minnesota Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minnesota |
| 1961 | Gerde's Folk City | |
| New York Plays at Gerde's Folk City |
| 1962 | Composition | |
| Releases, "Bob Dylan", consists of familiar folk, blues and gospel material combined with two of his own songs |
| 1963 | Composition | |
| Dylan's second album is released, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" |
| Releases, "The Times They Are a-Changin", reflects a more sophisticated, politicized and cynical Dylan |
| 1963 | March on Washington | |
| Dylan and Baez are both prominent in the civil rights movement, singing together at rallies including the March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I have a dream" speech |
| 1964 | Composition | |
| Releases Album, "Times They Are A-Changin" |
| Releases the album, "Another Side of Bob Dylan" |
| 1965 | Composition | |
| Releases the album "Bringing It All Back Home", features his first recordings made with electric instruments |
| Releases the single "Like a Rolling Stone", which peaks at #2 in the U.S. and at #4 in the UK charts |
| The single, "Subterranean Homesick Blues ", owes much to Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business " and is provided with an early music video courtesy of Pennebaker's cin‚ma v‚rit‚ presentation of Dylan's 1965 tour of England, Dont Look Back |
| 1966 | Composition | |
| Releases Album, "Blonde on Blonde" |
| The Nashville sessions produce the album "Blonde on Blonde", featuring what Dylan later calls "that thin wild mercury sound" |
| 1967 | Composition | |
| Releases the album, "John Wesley Harding" |
| 1967 | Death | |
| 3rd Oct Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, and Dylan makes his first live appearance in twenty months at a Guthrie memorial concert held at Carnegie Hall on January 20, 1968. |
| 1968 | Guthrie Memorial Concert | |
| 3rd Oct Woody Guthrie died on October 3, 1967, and Dylan makes his first live appearance in twenty months at a Guthrie memorial concert held at Carnegie Hall on January 20, 1968 |
| 1969 | Broadcast | |
| 7th June Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special |
| 1969 | Guthrie Memorial Concert | |
| Releases, "Nashville Skyline", a mainstream country record featuring instrumental backing by Nashville musicians |
| 1974 | Composition | |
| Releases Album, "Blood on the Tracks" |
| 1990 | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres | |
| Dylan is made a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by French Minister of Culture Jack Lang |
| 1999 | TIME Magazine's Top 100 | |
| Included in TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century |
| 2004 | Composition | |
| Rolling Stone magazine lists the single "Like a Rolling Stone" at number one on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time |
| 2004 | Rolling Stone | |
| Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of "Greatest Artists of All Time", second only to The Beatles |
| 2006 | Composition | |
| 29th Aug Releases the album, "Modern Times", enters the USAalbum charts at #1, making him, at age 65, the oldest living person to top those charts |
