Born in White Plains, New York, the only son of a destist and psychiatrist (he has three sisters)
Grauduaste from Phillips Exeter Academy, a private school in New Hampsehire; joins Hampshire; joins Harvard University in autumm on a psychology and computer scince course.
Starts The facebook.com in February.
Drops out of Harvard at the end of his sophomere year; moves to Palo Alto that summer where he rents a house with a now-famous swimming pool (and zip wire).
Opens Facebook beynd universities so anyone wiht an email address can join; turns down a $15 billon offer from Micrisoft, which would have bagged him personally $4 billion
Reaches a sattleament with Winklevoss lawsuit worth $65 million, though still denise any intellectual property theft.
Named TIme magazine's person of the year.
Hollywood movie The Social Network is released documenting Zuckerberg's time at Harvard and the early days of Facebook
Facebook records half a billion users on Facebook in a single day, and is expected to report $4 billion dollars revenue, double that of the previous year.
At 22 years of age, Zuckerberg turns down an estimated $1 billon dollar offere for Facebook from Yahoo.