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| 1942 | Birth |  |
| 27th Nov Seattle Birth of Jimi Hendrix |
| 1961 | Arrest | |
| Arrested for stealing a car & given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the army, Hendrix chooses the latter and enlists |
| 1962 | Chitlin Circuit | |
| Hendrix makes a precarious living on the Chitlin Circuit, performing in black-oriented venues throughout the South with both the King Kasuals and in backing bands for various soul, R&B, and blues musicians |
| 1965 | Chitlin Circuit | |
| Hendrix earns a spot as the new guitarist for the The Isley Brothers' band and joined their national tour, which included the southern Chitlin Circuit |
| 1965 | Composition | |
| Hendrix plays his first successful studio session on the two-part Isley Brothers hit "Testify". |
| 1965 | Curtis Knight and the Squires | |
| New York Hendrix joins a New York-based band, Curtis Knight and the Squires |
| New York Hendrix signs a three-year recording contract with entrepreneur Ed Chalpin, receiving $1 and 1% royalty on records with Curtis Knight |
| 1966 | Composition | |
| 20th May Hendrix's first single is a cover of "Hey Joe", crafted after folk-singer Tim Rose's slower revision of the song and adapted to Hendrix's style |
| 1966 | Jimi Hendrix Experience | |
| Chas Chandler helps Hendrix form a new band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with guitarist-turned-bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, both British musicians |
| 1966 | Jimmy James and The Blue Flames | |
| Hendrix forms his own band, Jimmy James and The Blue Flames |
| 1967 | Composition | |
| 20th May Releases Album, "Are You Experienced" |
| 20th May Releases Album, "Axis, Bold as Love" |
| 1968 | Composition | |
| 20th May Releases Album, "Electric Ladyland" |
| 1969 | Band of Gypsys | |
| Founds the Band of Gypsys |
| 1969 | Concert of Jimi Hendrix Experience | |
| 29th June The last Experience concert takes place at Barry Fey's Denver Pop Festival, a three-day event held at Denver's Mile High Stadium marked by rioting and tear gas |
| 1969 | Concert of Jimi Hendrix | |
| 18th Aug Woodstock Hendrix headlines the Woods tock music festival, gives a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, a solo improvisation which became a defining moment of the 1960s |
| 1970 | Burial | |
| 18th Sep Seattle Although Hendrix had verbally requested to be buried in England, his body is returned to Seattle and he is interred in Greenwood Memorial Park, Renton, Washington |
| 1970 | Concert of Jimi Hendrix | |
| 28th Jan The second and final Band of Gypsys at a twelve-act show in Madison Square Garden dubbed the Winter Festival for Peace. |
| 6th Sep Fehmarn Hendrix's final concert, he is greeted with some booing and jeering by fans at the Isle of Fehmarn Festival in Germany in a riot-like atmosphere reminiscent of the failed Altamont Festival |
| 1970 | Death | |
| 18th Sep London Jimi Hendrix is found dead in the basement flat of the Samarkand Hotel at 22 Lansdowne Crescent |
| 18th Sep London Spent the night with his German girlfriend, Monika Dannemann, and likely died in bed after drinking wine and taking nine Vesperax sleeping pills, then asphyxiating on his own vomit |
| 1970 | Electric Lady Studios | |
| Aug New York The Electric Lady Studios are opened |
| 1992 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | |
| Hendrix is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame |
| 2003 | Rolling Stone | |
| Rolling Stone names Hendrix number 1 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time |
| 2005 | UK Music Hall of Fame | |
| Hendrix is inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame |
