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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