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==Early history==
(''See also:'' [[Origins of chess]])
* [[6th century]] - [[Chaturanga]], the earliest form of chess, originated in northwest [[India]].
* [[600]] CE - A reference in the Karnamuk-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan is the earliest surviving evidence of Chess.
* ca. [[720]] CE - Chess is brought to the Muslim world.
* ca. [[840]] CE - First chess problems by Caliph [[Billah]] of [[Baghdad]].
* ca. [[900]] CE - Entry on Chess in the [[China|Chinese]] work [[Huan Kwai Lu]].
* [[997]] CE - [[Versus de scachis]] is the earliest known work mentioning chess in Christian Western Europe.
* [[1008]] - Mention of chess in the will of Count Uregel, another early reference.
* [[10th century]] - [[As-Suli]] writes [[Kitab Ash-Shatranj]], the earliest known work to take a scientific approach to chess strategy.
* late [[10th century]] - Dark and light squares are introduced on a chessboard.
* [[1173]] - First recorded use of [[algebraic notation]].
* late [[13th century]] - Pawns can now move two ranks on first move.
* [[1422]] - A manuscript from [[Kraków]] sets the rule that [[stalemate]] is a draw.
* [[1471]] - The Gottingen manuscript is the first book to deal solely with chess.
* [[1474]] - [[William Caxton]] publishes ''The Game and Playe of Chesse'', the first chess book in English.
* [[1490]] - The [[en passant]] rule is introduced.
* [[1497]] - [[Lucena]] publishes the first European work on chess openings.
* [[1561]] - [[Ruy Lopez]] coins the word ''gambit'' to describe opening sacrifices.
* [[1690]] - Openings are now systematically classified by the ''Traite de Lausanne''.
==Modern history==
*[[1744]] - [[François-André Danican Philidor|Philidor]] plays two opponents blindfolded in Paris.
*[[1763]] - [[William Jones]] invents [[Caissa]], the chess muse.
*[[1769]] - Baron [[Wolfgang von Kempelen]] builds the [[Mechanical Turk]].
*[[1783]] - Philidor plays as much as three games simultaneously without seeing the board.
*[[1802]] - First American chess book, ''Chess Made Easy'', by J. Humphreys.
*[[1813]] - The [[Liverpool Mercury]] prints the world earliest chess column.
*[[1824]] - First English correspondence match, London-Edinburgh.
*[[1830]] - First recorded instance of a modern female chess player (an American from [[Philadelphia]]).
*[[1834]] - First international challenge match: McDonnell (England) v de la Bourdonnais (France) at the Westminster Chess Club, London.
*[[1840]] - Postal stamps with chess motifs begin to appear.
*[[1845]] - Telegraph is used to transmit moves in a match between London and Portsmouth.
*[[1846]] - ''Deutsche Schachzeitung'' is the first German chess magazine.
*[[1848]] - Earliest known instance of a game played between blind players.
*[[1849]] - [[Staunton set]] created by [[Nathaniel Cook]].
*[[1852]] - Sandglasses are first used to time a game.
*[[1857]] - First American Chess Congress, won by [[Paul Morphy|Morphy]].
*[[1857]] - The UK Chess Association is formed.
*[[1861]] - Games can now be played via transoceanic cables (Dublin-Liverpool).
*[[1867]] - Mechanical clocks are introduced in tournament play.
*[[1870]] - First tournament in Germany (Baden-Baden).
*[[1871]] - Durand publishes the first book on endgames.
*[[1873]] - The [[Sonneborn-Berger system]] is first used in a tournament.
*[[1877]] - Formation of the [[Deutsche Schachbund]].
*[[1883]] - Invention of the [[Forsyth notation]].
*[[1886]] - First official match for the champion title between [[Wilhelm Steinitz|Steinitz]] and [[Johannes Zukertort|Zukertort]].
*[[1888]] - First international correspondence tournament.
*[[1888]] - USA Championship starts.
*[[1894]] - [[Emmanuel Lasker]] defeats [[Wilhelm Steinitz|Steinitz]] in a world championship match.
*[[1899]] - Chess clocks now have timeout flags.
*[[1902]] - First radio chess match by two American ships.
*[[1905]] - British national championship for women starts.
*[[1910]] - [[José Raúl Capablanca|Capablanca]] is the first to win a major tournament (in New York) with a 100% score.
*[[1911]] - The first simultaneous display with more than 100 participants.
*[[1913]] - Publication of [[Harold Murray]]'s monumental book ''A History of Chess''.
*[[1913]] - The grasshopper is the first [[fairy piece]] invented, having its origin in the Renaissance "leaping queen".
*[[1919]] - Capablanca plays a simultane in the [[House of Commons]] against 39 players.
*[[1921]] - British correspondence championship starts.
*[[1924]] - Establishment of [[FIDE]].
*[[1924]] - [[Staunton set]] officially adopted by [[FIDE]].
*[[1927]] - First official [[Chess Olympiad]] in [[London]].
*[[1935]] - [[Alexander Alekhine|Alekhine]] loses his champion title to [[Max Euwe]].
*[[1937]] - A record for simultaneous blindfold play against 34 opponents.
*[[1949]] - [[Claude Shannon]] speculates on how computers might play chess.
*[[1950]] - Candidates tournaments start.
*[[1951]] - [[Chess World Junior Championship]] starts.
*[[1952]] - [[Soviet Union]] begins their string of Olympiad victories in Helsinki.
*[[1977]] - [[Nona Gaprindashvili]] wins the men's tournament at [[Lone Pine]].
*[[1996]] - [[Deep Blue]] beats [[Garry Kasparov|Kasparov]] in the first game won by a chess-playing computer against a reigning world champion under normal chess tournament conditions.
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