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

 * Unknown Date - Infiniminer, a game by Zachtronics Industries whose concept mainly inspired Notch for Minecraft, is released during development. It will be regularly updated and finally abandoned less than a month later.

May - Birth of Minecraft

 * 10 - Development on "Cave Game" started (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", then to "Minecraft" (Pre 0.0.9a).
 * 17 - First release of the game (PC 0.0.11a).

June

 * 1 - PC : First Multiplayer test (0.0.15a).
 * 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

 * 20 - Beginning of SURVIVAL TEST (PC 0.26).

December

 * 23 - Minecraft PC passes to Indev development stage (which requires a 5.00 € Premium Account to be accessed), introduction of dynamic lighting.

January

 * 13 - PC : Introduction of finite Water (Indev 0.31).
 * 29 - PC : Introduction of the Crafting system (Indev 0.31).

February

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

June

 * 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.
 * 16 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 5 (Alpha 1.0.6) released.
 * 23 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 6 (Alpha 1.0.11) released.
 * 30 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 7 (Alpha 1.0.14) released.

August

 * 4 - First release of Survival Multiplayer (PC Alpha 1.0.15).
 * 20 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 8 (Alpha 1.0.17) released.
 * 31 - Minecraftcon, a spontaneous gathering of over 50 fans after a call by Notch, is held in Bellevue, Washington.

September

 * Early September - During an employment trip offered by VALVe Corporation, Mojäng AB is founded by Notch, JahKob and Carl Manneh.
 * 10 - PC : Seecret Friday Update 9 (Alpha 1.1.0) released.
 * 18 - PC : Seecret Saturday Update 10 (Alpha 1.1.1) released.

October

 * 30 - PC : Alpha 1.2.0 "Halloween Update" released. Nether introduced.

December

 * 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

 * 13 - PC : Beta 1.2 released.

February

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

March

 * 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.

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 (version 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.

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.

February

 * 11 - PE : Alpha 0.2.0 released for Android.
 * 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.

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

 * 15 - XB : 1.1 released.