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Steven Jobs was born in San Francisco to two collage students who put him up for adoption. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
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Steve spends the fall semester at Reed College, Oregon, then drops out. He will stay on campus and attend the classes that interest him for a while.
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Steve gets his first job as a video game maker at atari and later makes a trip to Inda with his college friend Dan Kottke.
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Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne.
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Steve's ex girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan, gives birth to there daughter Lisa. Steve refuses to acknowledge that he is the father.
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The sales of the Apple 2 skyrocket, betting the sales of the unsuccessful Apple 1
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The Apple 3 is launched but is considered a failure, even after a relaunch and a updated verson.
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The Lisa computer is launched. The Lisa team later merges with the Mac team under Steve Jobs's leadership.
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PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple's CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months.
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Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple. Apple announces it will sue NeXT
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Jobs buys the computer division of George Lucas' ILM for $10 million and incorporates it as Pixar
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Pixar unveils John Lasseter’s short film Luxo Jr. at SIGGRAPH. It is praised by the expert audience as one of the first computer-animated work of art
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Ross Perot invests $20 million in NeXT, based on a $125 million valuation. The startup has still to release a product
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NeXT and IBM form a partnership to have NeXT’s system run on IBM machines
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At SIGGRAPH, Pixar releases its new short Tin Toy. It will win 1988's Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
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Steve Jobs fires almost half of Pixar’s staff and takes back all of the employees' stock in an effort to cut costs, as the company is still in the red 5 years after its launch
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Steve Jobs marries Laurene Powell in Yosemite under the blessing of Steve's old zen guru Kobin Chino. Laurene is already pregnant
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Pixar signs a deal with Disney to amke a computer animated film.
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Laurene gives birth to Steve’s first son, Reed Paul Jobs
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Steve starts focusing less on NeXT and more on Pixar before Toy Story is released. He becomes President & CEO of Pixar Animation Studios
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Laurene gives birth to Erin Siena Jobs, her second child with Steve
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One week after Toy Story is out, Pixar goes public. Steve Jobs's worth rises to $1.5 billion, more than it ever was during his first tenure at Apple
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Steve Jobs negotiaties a breakthrough deal between Pixar and Disney with its CEO Michael Eisner. The deal includes landmark rights for a studio, such as equal billing
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Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named "informal adviser" to Apple CEO Gil Amelio
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Eve Jobs, Laurene and Steve's youngest daughter, is born
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Steve Jobs introduces the new Power Mac G3 and the color iMacs at Macworld San Francisco
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After an 8-month crash development program, Steve Jobs unveils iPod at a small media event on the company's campus. He has no idea how it will tranform Apple
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Opening day of Finding Nemo, Pixar’s first Best Animated Feature Academy Award winner
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Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but stubbornly refuses any modern medical treatment for months. He tries alternative diets instead
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"The day hell froze over": Steve Jobs introduces iTunes for Windows and further demonstrates Apple's growing lead over its competitors in the digital music business
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Steve Jobs finally has his pancreatic tumor removed by surgery
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Steve Jobs unveils the first two Intel Macs at Macworld, the iMac and the new MacBook Pro
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In his most memorable keynote presentation ever, at Macworld 2007, Steve Jobs introduces iPhone and its revolutionary touch-screen interface. He also introduces Apple TV and announces the company's name change from Apple Computer Inc. to Apple Inc. to better reflect its new nature
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iPhone is released in the US, the same day as Pixar’s 8th feature film, Ratatouille
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At Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs introduces MacBook Air, with the tagline 'the world's thinnest notebook'. Three years later, it will come to redefine all of Apple's notebook product line
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Steve receives a liver transplant at the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. He was weeks away from dying when he got the surgery
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After months of wild rumors, Steve Jobs unveils iPad, 'the biggest thing Apple's ever done'. The tablet runs the same operating system as iPhone
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Jobs surprises the world by announcing his new medical leave of absence, without any end date
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At his last keynote at WWDC 2011, a freil Steve Jobs unveils Apple's cloud offering, iCloud, the foundation for the next decade of Apple products
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Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, with the words 'I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.' Tim Cook becomes Apple CEO
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Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family
