A chronological ordered overview of what happened so far.

• 1998 - Chip Salzenberg starts the Topaz project
• 2000 July 19 - the coffee mug incident
• 2000 July 19 - Larry Wall announced Perl 6 on the stage of TPF 4
• 2001 ?? Dan Sugalski began what later became Parrot
• 2001 April 1 - Simon Cozens launched on Perl.com his hilarious but well crafted April's fool joke, the name "Parrot" was born
• 2001 April 2 - Larry released first Apocalypse 1: The Ugly, the Bad, and the Good (see also: Synopses)
• 2001 May 15 - Damian Conway wrote first Exegesis: Exegesis 2: Bits and Pieces
• 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
• 2003 July 8 - The Perl Foundation announces Ponie, a Perl 5 compiler for Parrot
• 2004 April 13 - Apocalypse 12: Objects, the last one
• 2004 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
• 2006 May 17 - perl6-users mailing list created
• 2006 August 23 - project Ponie officially ended
• 2007 January 4 - Flavio S. Glock leaves first traces of kp6
• 2007 February 3 - First snapshot of proposed standard Perl 6 grammar in standard Perl 6 (STD.pm)
• 2007 June 23 - Initial creation of Parrot Compiler Toolkit (PCT) as a branch of PAST
• 2007 July 27 - Initial commit of NQP
• 2007 October 8 - Daniel Ruoso started SMOP (yap6 back then) 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
• 2008 May 14 - Ian Hague grants $200,000 to TPF for Perl 6 and TPF reorganisation
• 2008 June 9 - Allison Randal files the incorporation papers for the Parrot Foundation
• 2009 March 17 - Parrot 1.0 "Haru Tatsu" released
• 2009 August 05 - Patrick Michaud announces Rakudo star

Planned:

• 2010 April - Rakudo star release