1696—The folk and fairy tale, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (La belle au bois dormant) is published by Charles Perrault in the journal Mercure Gallant.
1812—Little Briar Rose, a version of the Sleeping Beauty story, is published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in a collection of their fairy tales.
1818—Choreographer Marius Petipa is born.
1825-33—Three ballets by three different choreographers are created based on the Sleeping Beauty story, two at the Paris Opera, and one in London.
1840—Composer Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky is born.
1888—Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg comes up with the idea of a Petipa and Tchaikovsky collaboration on a new Sleeping Beauty ballet. He wrote the scenario, designed the costumes, and commissioned the score.
1890—The Sleeping Beauty by Petipa and Tchaikovsky is premiered on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
1896—The first full production with Tchaikovsky's music is staged outside of Russia, at La Scala in Milan.
1916—The ballet is seen for the first time in the U.S. at the Hippodrome Theatre in New York, a shortened version produced by Anna Pavlova.
1921—Sergei Diaghilev presents the first full-length ballet in England at the Alhambra Theatre, with adaptations to the score by Igor Stravinsky.
1937—Philadelphia Ballet presents at the Academy of Music the ballet in its entirety in the U.S.
1946—The Royal Ballet selects The Sleeping Beauty as its first performance when opening the new Royal Opera House in London to commemorate the end of WWII.
1959—Walt Disney's animated movie, Sleeping Beauty, premieres.
1986—Interlochen Center for the Arts presents its first performance of The Sleeping Beauty.
Growcott, Amy, founder. "The Sleeping Beauty (Photo Gallery)." The Marius Petipa Society, petipasociety.com/the-sleeping-beauty-photo-gallery/.