| 1834 | Gottlieb Daimler is born |
| 1844 | Karl Benz is born |
| 1846 | Wilhelm Maybach is born |
| 1848 | Daimler starts an apprenticeship as gunsmith. |
| 1854 | Daimler works as scholar in a factory. |
| 1859 | Daimler studies at the Polytechnical school in Stuttgart. |
| 1863 | Benz visits the same school. |
| 1865 | Daimler becomes engineer of a factory of the Gustav-Werner-foundation and gets acquainted with Wilhelm Maybach. |
| 1871 | Benz starts his own company after several employments as technical drawer and designer. |
| 1872 | Daimler collects a lot of experience in factories abroad and joins Wilhelm Maybach in the gas engine factory Deutz together with Nikolaus August Otto. |
| 1875 | Ferdinand Porsche is born. |
| 1876 | Otto manages - after 10 years - to build a stable four-stroke engine. |
| 1879 | Benz tests successfully a two-stroke engine. |
| 1882 | Daimler leaves the gas engine factory, because his idea of a location-independent engine is not pursued. He moves with Maybach to Stuttgart. |
| 1883 | Daimler invents - together with Maybach - a vehicle engine, running on Ligrion (forerunner of the gasoline), and ignited by a glowing pipe. He receives a patent, while Otto loses his. Benz founds for the second time a company with other partners. |
| 1885 | The Daimler-engine is used in a vehicle, but testers disapprove it. |
| 1886 | Daimler develops the first V-engine in the world. Benz receives a patent for a vehicle with engine. |
| 1887 | Daimler puts the V-Motor into a carriage. Without permission it is tested. |
| 1888 | Daimler employs himself in secret tests for the development of a boat with combustion engine. |
| 1889 | Maybach persuades Daimler to build a steel wheel vehicle. Mercedes Jellinek is born; her name embellishes nearly all Daimler vehicles produced after 1900. |
| 1890 | Four cylinder four-stroke engine, Maybach designs closed cooling circuit. |
| 1893 | The Viktoria is the first four-wheeled vehicle of Benz. |
| 1895 | The young August Horch is employed by Benz. |
| 1897 | Horch designs the first two-cylinder in-line engine at Benz.(Contramotor) |
| 1895 | August Horch leaves the company Benz. |
| 1900 | Death of Gottlieb Daimler |
| 1906 | Porsche becomes Chief designer of Daimler-Austria. |
| 1922 | Porsche becomes Chief designer Daimler in Stuttgart. |
| 1926 | Fusion of Daimler and Benz |
| 1928 | Porsche resign because of quarrel with the Chairman of the Board at Daimler in Stuttgart. |
| 1951 | Mercedes 300, first new-designed vehicle after the Second World War |
| 1953 | Mercedes 180 with Pontoon-type body |
| 1954 | Mercedes 220, 190 SL and 300 SL |
| 1955 | Daimler-Benz starts with the development of airplane-power units. |
| 1956 | 190 (D), 220 S Coupe and Cabrio |
| 1959 | Mercedes with 'Shark fin'-tail (W 111) |
| 1961 | 300 SE |
| 1963 | Mercedes 230 SL Roadster (W 113) |
| 1964 | Mercedes 600 (W 100) |
| 1974 | Kuwaitian Sheiks buy 14% of shares. |
| 1977 | Ponto (supervisory board) and Schleier (HR- and administrative board) are killed by the RAF. |
| 1982 | Mercedes 190 (W 201) |
| 1986 | All petrol-engines are equipped with Lambda control and a three-way catalyst. |
| 1989 | The spokesman of the managing board Herhausen is killed by the RAF. |
| 1991 | S-Klasse (W 140) |
| 1996 | SLR (R 170) |
| 1997 | A-Klasse fails the 'elk-test' (high-speed swerve) and has to be redesigned (Smart, too). |
| 1998 | W 220, Fusion of Daimler and Chrysler, Formela-1-Worldmaster |
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