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Walter Elias Disney is born to Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney in Chicago, Illinois.
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Disney's little sister, Ruth, is born
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Walt Disney moves to Marceline, Missouri at the age of four.
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The Disney family moves to Kansas City, Missouri, when Walt is 9.
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After forging his own birth certificate, Walt Disney is taken to France to work as a WW1 ambulance driver.
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Walt comes home and is addicted to cigarettes, a pastime he keeps up his entire life.
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Walt creates the Disney Brothers Studio with his brother, Roy. Walt later renames it the Walt Disney Company. Roy approves, saying, "If that's the way you want it."
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Walt Disney marries Lillian Bounds, an ink artist at his company.
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Disney and Ub Iwerks co-create "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" but Charlie Mintz steals the rights. Luckily, Oswald is a flop, but inspired Disney's most famous character...
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Walt sketches a mouse on a train. He wants to call it Mortimer but his wife thought that was too "pompous" and convinces him to use the name Mickey.
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After Ub approves, Mickey debuts in a cartoon called "Steamboat Willie".
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Walt wins his first out of 23 Oscars (The most in history) for his animated short film "Flowers and Trees".
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Disney's first full length and probably most famous feature film, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater in Hollywood. It is a huge hit and gives him his 11th Oscar.
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Disney releases some of their most famous films, including "Fantasia" and "Pinnochio".
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Walt's dream comes true when Disneyland opens on July 17, 1955.
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Walt Disney begins to buy land for EPCOT, a model city, in the Orlando area.
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Walt sadly dies of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, in Burbank, California. He gives the plans for EPCOT to Roy.
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Walt Disney World opens on October 1, 1971. EPCOT later becomes a theme park at Walt Disney World.
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Walt's beloved brother, Roy, dies on December 20, 1971
