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1 August 2017 Bitcoin Cash fork occured

23 August 2017 Segwit activated

6 December 2017 Lightning Network preview release - more important than steam announcement.

Also I suppose you could add when important bips where created, like 20 march 2017 of bip173 for native segwit
or 10 september 2013 for bip39 (mnemonic words) and so on.

This is an interesting read, thanks!

But tbh, am i the only one who first looked up their birthday, and was disappointed w/ the event that happened on that day?

He chose 5 April because of Executive Order 6012

From Wikipedia:

Executive Order 6102 is a United States presidential executive order signed on April 5, 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States". The limitation on gold ownership in the U.S. was repealed after President Gerald Ford signed a bill legalizing private ownership of gold coins, bars and certificates by an act of Congress codified in Pub.L. 93–373[1] which went into effect December 31, 1974. The order was made under the authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, as amended by the Emergency Banking Act the previous month.

And 1975 was the year that Americans could legally own gold again.

Some Notable events/happenings, Probably you can just slot in.

Courtesy of Cryptoniam;

31-Oct-2008 : Bitcoin white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” was published by Satoshi Nakamoto. It describes the whole premise of blockchain and proposed a solution to the double-spending problem using a peer-to-peer network and proof-of-work.

3-Jan-2009 : Genesis Block(First Block) of Transactions was published on the Bitcoin Blockchain. This transaction was between Satoshi Nakamoto and Hal Finney.

22-May-2010 : First retail purchase using Bitcoin to buy any type of product. It was actually 2 pizzas bought by a man called Laszlo, for 10,000 bitcoin ( approx. $25 USD). This day is also called a pizza day.

6-Nov-2010 : Bitcoin Market Cap exceeds $1 million USD.

12-Jun-2011 : Bitcoin experienced what is called “Great bubble of 2011”. One of the largest percentage price decrease to-date of Bitcoin. The MtGox Bitcon exchange rate plummeted to nearly US$10, just four days after its peak at US$31.91. The incident became known as the Great Bubble of 2011.

27-Sep-2012 : Bitcoin foundation was launched with the aim to implementing core development team for the protocols and the body to oversee the digital currency.

28-Nov-2012 : Halving Day. On this Day, Block 210,000 is the first with a block reward subsidy of 25 BTC.

12-Mar-2013 : A hard fork occurs on the blockchain .A protocol rule that was previously undiscovered results in a hard fork of the 0.8.0 reference client.

28-Mar-2013 : The total Bitcoin market cap passes $1 billion USD.

2-May-2013 : The first Bitcoin ATM in the world is debuted in San Diego, California.

2-Oct-2013 : FBI shuts down infamous online drug marketplace Silk Road, seizing 3.6 million dollars worth of bitcoins.

19-Nov-2013 : Bitcoin passed the $1000 USD mark.
 
2-Mar-2017 : The day one bitcoin overtook the price of an ounce of gold.

May 17, 2013: The first major Bitcoin Conference was held at the San Jose Convention Center.
August 17, 2012: Bitcoin Savings & Trust, the biggest Bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme, collapsed with victims losing millions of dollars.
November 19, 2009 - I (typo) Satoshi created the Bitcointalk.org site.

A very important one:

February 11th- On February 11th 2009, Satoshi made the first Bitcoin announcement thread at p2pfoundation forum (http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source).

plan to update in 2018-2019 or Q1 2020?

Add - BTC balances held by exchanges have been declining throughout 2020, especially since the Black Thursday of cryptocurrency on March 12. And according to the new report, the BTC balance held by the exchange has decreased in line with the off-site BTC balance held by whales and the total number of whales.