Bill Gates Timeline
Complete Bill Gates timeline: 32 life events, each with age. Put your own life next to Bill Gates's, aligned age by age — free on LifePath.
- 1960 — Public Elementary Schools
- 1967 — Lakeside School
- 1968 — Learns Basic Language
- 1970 — Automates School's Class Scheduling
- 1972 — Serves as congressional page in U.S. House of Representatives
- 1973 — Havard University
- 1975 — Drops out of Harvard
- 1975 — Founding of Microsoft
- 1976 — Registers "Microsoft" Trademark
- 1981 — Microsoft Incorporated
- 1985 — Launches Windows 1.0
- 1986 — Microsoft IPO
- 1986 — IPO of Microsoft
- 1989 — Introduces Microsoft Office
- 1990 — Releases Windows 3.0
- 1993 — Engaged to Melinda French
- 1995 — Author of 'The Road Ahead'
- 1995 — Ranked world's wealthiest by Forbes
- 1996 — Daughter Jennifer Born
- 1997 — Purchases Hotmail, renames MSN Hotmail
- 1999 — Son Rory born
- 1999 — Becomes first centibillionaire (Net worth >$100b)
- 2000 — Philanthropic Efforts
- 2000 — Resignation from Microsoft
- 2000 — Steps down as CEO
- 2002 — Daughter Phoebe born
- 2005 — Time Magazine's Person of the Year
- 2010 — Investments in Renewable Energy
- 2014 — Steps down as Microsoft Chairman
- 2016 — Reveals he is colr-blind
- 2021 — Announces divorce from Melinda
- 2021 — Divorce from Melinda French Gates