Timeline of Minecraft

Date	Event
May 10 2009	Development of ‘Cave Game’ (the working title)
May 17 2009	Birth of Minecraft
Jun 14 2009	Custom Skins are released
Oct 20 2009	Survival test begins (Notch introduces survival to Minecraft)
December 23 2009	Minecraft PC passes to Indev stage (in development)
January 13 2010	Minecraft passes 100,000 registered users
February 27 2010	Minecraft passes to Infdev (shifts from in development to infinite stage)
Jun 17 2010	Minecraft passes 20,000 sales
June 30 2010	Minecraft PC passes to Alpha Development stage
August 4 2010	Official release of Survival Multiplayer
October 16 2010	Mojang AB is founded
October 31 2010	First MinecraftCon
December 20 2010	Minecraft PC goes to Beta stage
January 12 2011	Minecraft surpasses 1 million sales
June 6 2011	Minecraft Xbox 360 edition is revealed at the E3 conference
July 1 2011	Minecraft passes 10  million registered users
May 9 2012	Minecraft Xbox 360 edition 1.0 is officially released
April 5 2013	Minecraft for PC surpasses 10 million sales
September 2 2013	Minecraft PC surpasses 12 million sales
December 13 2013	Minecraft for PC surpasses 13 million sales
December 17 2013	Minecraft PlayStation 3 Edition 1.0 is officially released
December 17 2013
September 15 2015	Mojang and Minecraft are bought by Microsoft for $2.5 billion
December 18 2014	Collaboration with Telltale Games
March 12 2015	Minecraft: console edition wins a BAFTA in the family category
March 28 2015	Minecraft wins a Kids’ Choice Award for “most addictive game”
June 30 2015	Minecraft for PC surpasses 20 million sales
July 1 2015	Minecraft wins the first ever BAFTA young game designers hero award
October 13 2015	Minecraft: story mode is released