A chronological ordered overview of what happened so far. If you prefer longer explanations, try the Perl 6 History Tablet.

• 1998 - Chip Salzenberg starts the Topaz project
• 2000
• July 19 - the coffee mug incident
• July 19 - Larry Wall announced Perl 6 on the stage of TPF 4
• 2001
• April 1 - Simon Cozens launched on Perl.com his hilarious but well crafted April's fool joke, the name "Parrot" was born
• April 2 - Larry released first Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good (see also: Synopses)
• May 15 - Damian Conway wrote first Exegesis: Exegesis 2: Bits and Pieces
• August 29 - Simon Cozens and Dan Sugalski began with the Parrot-VM, even Dan, the chief, did some scribblings before
• 2002 July 22 - Dan made the initial revision of Perl 6 compiler for Parrot
• 2003
• July - Larry was out for a year due to medical problems
• July 8 - The Perl Foundation announces Ponie, a Perl 5 compiler for Parrot
• 2004
• April 13 - Apocalypse 12: Objects, the last one
• August 6 - Patrick Michaud got accepted as the perl 6 compiler pumpking, after TPF was looking for since July
• November 18 - first public release of PGE (p6ge at this time) by Patrick Michaud, an important step to bootstrap
• 2005
• February, very first days of - Audrey Tang came public with Pugs
• October - Dan leaves Parrot
• 2006
• April 27 - MiniPerl 6 (Perlito now) is growing out of pugs
• May 17 - perl6-users mailing list created
• August 23 - project Ponie officially ended
• 2007
• January - Parrot switches to a monthly release cycle
• January 4 - Flavio S. Glock leaves first traces of kp6, that stands of MiniPerl 6's shoulders
• February 3 - First snapshot of proposed standard Perl 6 grammar in standard Perl 6 (STD.pm)
• June 23 - Initial creation of Parrot Compiler Toolkit (PCT) as a branch of PAST
• June 29 - after hosting the official Perl 6 wiki on his own server for nearly 2 years, Andy Lester moved it on a Perl Foundation URL
• July 27 - Patrick Michaud did initial commit of NQP
• October 8 - SMOP (yap6 back then) started by Daniel Ruoso as "another prospective Perl 6 implementation, but now, a simple C runtime, hopefully a target for kp6
• 2008
• January 16 - Parrot's Perl 6 compiler renamed to Rakudo and massively rewritten, now using PCT
• May 14 - Ian Hague grants $200,000 to TPF for Perl 6 and TPF reorganisation
• June 9 - Allison Randal files the incorporation papers for the Parrot Foundation
• October 3 - Pawel Murias and Daniel Ruoso began with Mildew a new generation of Perl 6 compiler for SMOP.
• 2009
• March 17 - Parrot 1.0 'Haru Tatsu' released
• August 05 - Patrick Michaud announces Rakudo star
• December 1 - the Perl 6 advent calendar draws a lot of attention
• 2010
• January 20 - Parrot 2.0.0, major versions will be now released every year
• January 21 - MiniPerl6 3.0 released, now with Go lang and JVM backends
• July 29 - Rakudo star, all inc early adopter release of the Parrot Perl 6 compiler