There are about 15000 Peanuts cartoons published, and I estimate that I've read somewhere around 3000 to 4000 of them. I've tried to establish a timeline of events; the difficulty, however, is that most of the cartoons found in books are published without the date. So there are many events I would have liked to list here but couldn't because I didn't know the exact date (e.g. Linus's “library card” adventure).
| 1950/10/02 | The first Peanuts cartoon. Charlie Brown's name is mentioned. |
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| 1952/03/17 | Lucy appears for the first time. |
| 1952/09/22 | Linus appears for the first time. |
| 1952/11/16 | Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown for the first time. |
| 1953/01/25 | Schroeder's toy piano is introduced. |
| 1953/05/30 | Lucy falls in love with Schroeder. |
| 1954/06/13 | Charlie Brown tries to fly a kite — and fails. |
| 1954/08/18 | Pigpen appears for the first time. |
| 1955/01/04 | Linus's “security blanket” is seen. |
| 1958/06/13 | Charlie Brown drops a baseball. |
| 1958/09/01 | Charlie Brown writes the first letter to his pen-pal. |
| 1958/12/21 | Linus — nearly — forgets his piece for Christmas. |
| 1959/03/27 | Lucy's psychiatric booth opens. |
| 1959/05/26 | Sally (Charlie Brown's sister) is born. |
| 1959/10/27 | The “Great Pumpkin” is mentioned. |
| 1960/02/15 | Miss Othmar. |
| 1960/05/20 | Charlie Brown tries to “steal home” and fails. |
| 1960/06/19 | Snoopy starts sleeping on his doghouse. |
| 1960/08/22 | Sally is seen walking. She falls in love with Linus. |
| 1962/09/05 | Sally's first day of school. |
| 1963/07/28 | Schroeder's admiration for Beethoven is mentioned. |
| 1963/10/20 | The We prayed in school todaycartoon. |
| 1963/11/12 | Charlie Brown falls in love with the little red-haired girl. |
| 1963/12/24 | Linus sings Jingle Bells before the PTA. |
| 1965/06/04 | Charlie Brown leaves for camp. |
| 1965/07/12 | Snoopy gets his typewriter and begins his career as a writer;
writes It was a dark and stormy nightfor the first time. |
| 1966/01/09 | Snoopy goes looking for the Red Baron. |
| 1966/02/09 | Charlie Brown misspells the word “maze”. |
| 1966/03/16 | Sally's eye patch. |
| 1966/03/20 | Linus pets birds on the head. |
| 1966/05/14 | Lucy and Linus leave. |
| 1966/08/22 | “Peppermint” Patty appears for the first time. |
| 1966/09/19 | Snoopy's doghouse burns. |
| 1967/04/18 | Snoopy does his “Cheshire Beagle” trick. |
| 1967/05/22 | Linus pets birds on the head again. |
| 1969/03/14 | Snoopy becomes the first Beagle on the Moon. |
| 1970/06/22 | “Woodstock”'s name appears. |
| 1971/07/20 | “Peppermint” Patty encounters Marcie. |
| 1972/05/10 | Lucy kicks Linus out of the house. |
| 1972/05/23 | “Rerun” (Linus and Lucy's brother) is born. |
| 1972/10/24 | Miss Sweetstory's book is banned from the school library. |
| 1972/11/16 | Woodstock migrates (taking Snoopy with him). |
| 1972/11/24 | Snoopy discovers that the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm has been replaced by a parking lot. |
| 1973/04/09 | Charlie Brown's baseball team wins a game. |
| 1973/06/11 | Charlie Brown cracks up, sees baseballs everywhere. |
| 1973/06/26 | Charlie Brown (wuth a paper sack over his head) is elected Camp President. |
| 1973/12/29 | Snoopy thinks the end of the world has come. |
| 1974/01/21 | Rerun is seen riding on the back of his mother's bicycle. |
| 1974/09/17 | Sally falls in love with her school building. |
| 1975/08/12 | Snoopy's brother, Spikes, pays a visit. |
| 1977/05/19 | Snoopy meats his tennis double's partner: Molly Volley. |
| 1978/04/24 | Sally gets Snoopy to help her with her report on animals. |
| 1979/07/07 | Charlie Brown goes to hospital. |
| 1980/07/24 | Schroeder takes the — ahem — plane. |
| 1983/02/18 | Charlie Brown punches Lucy in the nose. |
| 1983/04/18 | Linus opens a clinic. |
| 1984/06/18 | Peppermint Patty visits Paris. |
| 1988/09/11 | All the Beagles in the world return to the valley. |
| 1989/10/09 | The notes fall away from Schroeder's piano. |
| 1989/10/26 | Charlie Brown decides to devote the rest of his life to making Snoopy happy. |
| 1990/06/10 | The world comes to an end — actually, Peppermint Patty has an ‘A’ on her paper. |
| 1990/08/10 | Peggy Jean tells Charlie Brown she likes him, and kisses him. |
| 1990/10/15 | Marcie seeks refuge in Charlie Brown's house. |
| 1990/12/12 | Charlie Brown buys some gloves for Peggy Jean. |
| 1991/05/29 | Charlie Brown opens a Bible school. |
| 1992/07/08 | Sally changes her life philosophy to What do I care?. |
| 1993/03/30 | Charlie Brown becomes a baseball hero. |
| 1993/06/06 | Special D-Day strip: To Remember. |
| 1994/01/06 | Snoopy reads to Woodstock his grandfather's diary. |
| 1994/02/14 | Snoopy is taken to hospital: his brothers Andy, Spike and Olaf visit him. |
| 1994/06/06 | A week of special D-Day strips. |
| 1995/08/01 | Snoopy pleads in the “Peter Rabbit vs McGregor” case. |
| 1995/10/06 | Woodstock visits the moon. |
| 1996/05/17 | Rerun invites Snoopy's brother Spike to stay at his home. |
| 1996/08/03 | Sally now has three life philosophies. |
| 1996/09/03 | Rerun hides under his bed so as not to go to school. |
| 1997/01/16 | Rerun is suspended from school for harassment. |
| 1997/02/18 | Sally discovers the secret to life. |
| 1999/01/03 | Charlie Brown returns a christmas present. |
| 1999/03/14 | Rerun pets birds on the head. |
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