Chronology of events

This page's purpose is to retrace the history of all events related to Minecraft, Mojang and its employees in a less targeted manner than the different Version history pages.

1973

 * Unknown Date - Birth of Kristoffer Zetterstrand in Sweden.

May

 * 24 - Birth of Jon "Jonkagstrom" Kågström in Sweden.

May

 * 18 - Birth of Jens "Jeb" Bergensten in Sweden.

June

 * 1 - Birth of Markus "Notch" Persson in Ystad, Sweden.

April

 * 6 - Birth of Hayden "Dock" Scott-Baron in Great Britain.

November

 * 9 - Birth of Elin "Ez" Zetterstrand.

1986

 * Unknown Date - Birth of Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld in Germany.

August

 * 23 - Birth of Tobias Möllstam.

July

 * 23 - Birth of Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams in Great Britain.

April

 * 29 - Infiniminer, a game by Zachtronics Industries whose concept mainly inspired Notch for Minecraft, is released. It will be regularly updated and will become open-source less than a month later.

May - Birth of Minecraft

 * 10 - Development on "Cave Game" started (PC Pre 0.0.0)
 * 13 - PC : First video of "Cave Game", Block placement, first Mobs (Humans), physics created (Pre 0.0.9a).
 * 14 - PC : "Cave Game" renamed to "Minecraft : Order of the Stone" (Pre 0.0.9a).
 * 17 - First release of the game (PC 0.0.11a). Game name shortened to simply "Minecraft".
 * 21 - Accounts can now be registered.
 * 24 - An official Minecraft Forum is opened.

June

 * 1 - PC : First Multiplayer test (0.0.15a). Notch starts his new job at Jalbum.
 * 8 - PC : Multiplayer released (0.0.16a).
 * 14 - PC : Custom Skins released (0.0.18a).

August

 * 4 - PC : First elements of Survival (0.24).
 * 18 - PC : Introduction of Health (0.24).

October

 * 9 - Passwords can now be changed.
 * 20 - Beginning of SURVIVAL TEST (PC 0.26).

December

 * 22 - Dock becomes the Minecraft Artist.
 * 23 - Minecraft PC passes to Indev development stage (Indev 0.31) (which requires a 5.00 € Premium Account to be accessed), introduction of Torches and dynamic lighting.

January

 * 13 - PC : Introduction of finite Water (Indev 0.31). Minecraft passes 100,000 registered users.
 * 21 - Minecraft can now be gifted to non-premium players.
 * 29 - PC : Introduction of the Crafting system (Indev 0.31).

February

 * 5 - Dock leaves Minecraft development.
 * 27 - Minecraft PC passes to Infdev development stage, introduction of infinite maps.

June

 * 1 - Notch gets back to work 100% on Minecraft after a pause after having left his job at Jalbum a few weeks before.
 * 17 - Minecraft passes 200,000 sales.
 * 18 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 1 released. Minecart system introduced.
 * 25 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 2 released. Dungeons introduced.
 * 30 - Minecraft PC passes to Alpha development stage (Alpha 1.0.0), price raised from 5.00 € to 10.00 €, it is now possible to play on a client window.

July

 * 3 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 3 (Alpha 1.0.1) released. Redstone introduced.
 * 9 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 4 (Alpha 1.0.4) released. Winter Mode introduced.
 * 16 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 5 (Alpha 1.0.6) released. Boats and Large Trees introduced.
 * 22 - First over-the-internet test of Survival Mode Multiplayer.
 * 23 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 6 (Alpha 1.0.11) released. Bricks and Slimes introduced.
 * 30 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 7 (Alpha 1.0.14) released. Chickens and Music Discs introduced.

August

 * 4 - First release of Survival Multiplayer (PC Alpha 1.0.15).
 * 20 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 8 (Alpha 1.0.17) released. Fences introduced.
 * 30 - Notch, JahKob and Carl Manneh get on an employment trip to Washington D.C. offered by VALVe Corporation.
 * 31 - Minecraftcon, a spontaneous gathering of over 50 fans after a call by Notch, is held in Bellevue, Washington.

September

 * 2 - Notch, JahKob and Carl Manneh return from the trip in the U.S.
 * 10 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 9 (Alpha 1.1.0) released.
 * 18 - PC : Seecret Saturday Update 10 (Alpha 1.1.1) released. Sneaking introduced.
 * 23 - Minecraft Classic is available again on Minecraft.net.

October

 * 16 - Mojang AB is founded.
 * 30 - PC : Alpha 1.2.0 "Halloween Update" released. Nether introduced.

December

 * 1 - Jens "Jeb" Bergensten and Markus "Junkboy" Toivonen join the Mojang team.
 * 16 - Gift system revised : the process now uses Gift Codes.
 * 20 - Minecraft PC passes to Beta development stage (Beta 1.0), price raised from 10.00 € to 15.00 €.
 * 22 - PC : Beta 1.1 released.

January

 * 3 - Tobias Möllstam and Carl Manneh join the Mojang team.
 * 12 - Minecraft passes 1 million sales.
 * 13 - PC : Beta 1.2 released.

February

 * 21 - PC : Client/Launcher Update. Updates are now manually triggered.
 * 22 - PC : Beta 1.3 released.

March

 * 2 - Scrolls, Mojang's second game, is announced on The Word of Notch.
 * 4 - "Minecraft - Volume Alpha", the soundtrack of the game by C418, is released.
 * 31 - PC : Beta 1.4 released.

April

 * 19 - PC : Beta 1.5 released.

May

 * 25 : Kappische reveals Minecraft Pocket Edition on Mojang's site.
 * 26 - PC : Beta 1.6 released.

June

 * 1 - Minecraft Pocket Edition is first shown on a Youtube video
 * 6 - Notch and Microsoft reveal Minecraft Xbox Edition at the E3 conference.
 * 30 - PC : Beta 1.7 "Piston Update" released.

July

 * 1 - Minecraft passes 10 million registered users.
 * 30 - Minecraft T-Shirts are made available on Battlefield : Heroes for the 30-31 of July week-end only as a form of "neighborly friendly cross-promotion" between DICE and Mojang.

August

 * 5 - Notch receives a 15-pages letter from Bethesda Softworks, threatening him with a lawsuit if he doesn't change the name "Scrolls" (which is too close to "The Elder Scrolls", according to Bethesda) for his next game. A little while before this, Notch had already been warned by Bethesda's lawyers about this problem, and had suggested a compromise in which he would never put any word before "Scrolls".
 * 14 - Marriage of Ez & Notch, an extra copy is offered to all people who purchase Minecraft on the 13th and 14th of August.
 * 16 - Minecraft Pocket Edition Alpha 0.1.0 officially released (Android only).

September

 * 14 - PC : Beta 1.8 "Adventure Update" released.

November

 * 13 - PC : "Sound Update" released.
 * 17 - PE : First iOS release (Alpha 0.1.2).
 * 18 - MineCon 2011 is held at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 4,500 people from 24 countries attend to it. On the same day, Minecraft PC 1.0.0 is officially released, price is now 20.00 €.
 * 24 - First Snapshot released (11w47a). This marks the beginning of weekly development versions.

December

 * 1 - Jeb becomes the lead developer on Minecraft.
 * 6 - Notch first evokes the possibility of Minecraft-themed LEGO sets as part of the LEGO CUUSOO project.

January

 * 12 - PC : 1.1 released.
 * 18 - As part of the worldwide protest against SOPA, Mojang establish a blackout on all their sites for the entire day.
 * 24 - LEGO announces that the LEGO Minecraft project has passed the 10,000 required votes.

February

 * 11 - PE : Alpha 0.2.0 released for Android.
 * 15 - LEGO reveals the final design of the first LEGO Minecraft set.
 * 17 - PE : Alpha 0.2.0 released for iOS.
 * 18 - "Catacomb Snatch", a game developed by Mojang in the span of a weekend as part of a charity project, is released.
 * 28 - The Bukkit team (composed of Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams, Warren "EvilSeph" Loo, Erik "Grum" Broes & Nathan "Tahg" Gilbert) officially joins Mojang in order to further develop the Minecraft server software and to aid with the creation of modding APIs.

March

 * 1 - PC : 1.2 released.
 * 12 - The "Elder Scrolls VS Scrolls" lawsuit has an outcome : Mojang can call their game "Scrolls", but no sequel using this name will be allowed.

April

 * 23 - PE : Alpha 0.3.0 released for iOS.
 * 24 - PE : Alpha 0.3.0 released for Android.

May

 * 9 - Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition 1.0 officially released.

June

 * 1 - "Micro World", the first LEGO Minecraft set, is released and available on the LEGO online shop.
 * 15 - XB : 1.1 released.