Disney Timeline

By dagmarm

  • Disney Company First Began

  • First Animated Film: Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs

  • The Disney Studio begins its move to Burbank, California, from the Hyperion Studio in Los Angeles.

  • Walt Disney Productions issues its first stock.

  • Walt Disney Music Company is formed.

  • Peter Pan, based on characters created by Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie, is released.

  • Disneyland, the first Disney park, opened in Anaheim, California, to an invited audience on this day.

  • Mary Poppins, the practically perfect tale directed by Robert Stevenson, about a magical English nanny, is released.

  • Walt Disney World Resort opens with the Magic Kingdom and two hotels near Orlando, Florida.

  • Tokyo Disneyland groundbreaking and site dedication takes place in Urayasu, just outside of Tokyo.

  • EPCOT Center, a major undertaking for Disney, costing in the neighborhood of $1 billion, opens at Walt Disney World Resort.

  • The Disney Channel begins broadcasting with 18 hours of programming a day.

  • Michael Eisner and Frank Wells become chairman/CEO and president of Walt Disney Productions.

  • The first Disney Store opens, in Glendale, California.

  • Disney-MGM Studios, later renamed Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Pleasure Island open at Walt Disney World Resort.

  • Hyperion Books, a Disney publishing company, releases its first book, Amazing Grace

  • Euro Disneyland, the first Disney theme park in Europe, which was later renamed Disneyland Paris, opens.

  • The Lion King opens to a limited audience in Los Angeles and New York and nationwide on June 24, 1994.

  • Disney agrees to purchase 25 percent of the California Angels baseball team from Gene Autry.

  • The Disney Channel begins operation in the UK.

  • Disney California Adventure park opens at the Disneyland Resort, in Anaheim, California.

  • 100th anniversary of Walt Disney’s birth.

  • Disney sells the Anaheim Angels.

  • Disney acquires the Muppets properties and Bear in the Big Blue House