| Year | Event | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1857 | Birth of Karl Pearson | K. Pearson |
| 1865 | Birth of Guido Castelnuovo | G. Castelnuovo |
| 1866 | Gregor Mendel’s work on plant inbreeding | G. Mendel |
| 1875 | Birth of Francesco Paolo Cantelli | F. P. Cantelli |
| 1876 | Birth of William Seal Gosset | W. S. Gosset (“Student”) |
| 1886 | Birth of Paul Levy | P. Levy |
| 1890 | Birth of Ronald Aylmer Fisher | R. A. Fisher |
| 1893 | Birth of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | P. C. Mahalanobis |
| 1893 | Birth of Harald Cramér | H. Cramér |
| 1894 | Birth of Jerzy Neyman | J. Neyman |
| 1895 | Discovery of skew distributions | K. Pearson |
| 1895 | Birth of Egon S. Pearson | E. S. Pearson |
| 1899 | Birth of Chester Bliss | C. Bliss |
| 1900 | Birth of Gertrude M. Cox | G. M. Cox |
| 1900 | Rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s work | W. Bateson |
| 1902 | First issue of Biometrika | F. Galton, K. Pearson, R. Weldon |
| 1903 | Birth of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov | A. N. Kolmogorov |
| 1906 | Birth of Samuel S. Wilks | S. S. Wilks |
| 1908 | “The Probable Error of the Mean” (“Student”’s t-test) | W. S. Gosset |
| 1909 | Birth of Florence Nightingale David | F.N. David |
| 1911 | Death of Sir Francis Galton | F. Galton |
| 1911 | The Grammar of Science | K. Pearson |
| 1912 | Birth of Jerome Cornfield | J. Cornfield |
| 1912 | R. A. Fisher’s first publication | R. A. Fisher |
| 1915 | The distribution of the correlation coefficient | R. A. Fisher |
| 1915 | Birth of John Tukey | J. Tuke |
| 1916 | Glivenko-Cantelli lemma first appears | F. P. Cantelli |
| 1917 | Birth of L. J. (“Jimmie”) Savage | L. J. Savage |
| 1919 | Publication of Calcolo della probabilità … | G. Castelnuovo |
| 1919 | Fisher at Rothamsted Experimental Station | R. A. Fisher |
| 1920 | First of the papers on Lebesgue integration | H. Lebesgue |
| 1921 | Treatise on Probability | J. M. Keynes |
| 1921 | “Studies in Crop Variation. I” | R. A. Fisher |
| 1923 | “Studies in Crop Variation. II” | R. A. Fisher |
| 1924 | “Studies in Crop Variation. III” | R. A. Fisher |
| 1924 | “The Elimination of Mental Defect”–Fisher’s first article on eugenics | R. A. Fisher |
| 1925 | First edition of Statistical Methods for Research Workers | R. A. Fisher |
| 1925 | The Theory of Statistical Estimation (ML Estimation) | R. A. Fisher |
| 1926 | First paper on experimental design in agriculture | R. A. Fisher |
| 1927 | “Studies in Crop Variation. IV” | R. A. Fisher |
| 1928 | The first of the Neyman-Pearson papers on hypothesis testing | J. Neyman, E. S. Pearson |
| 1928 | The three asymptotes of the extreme | L. H. C. Tippett, R. A. Fisher |
| 1928 | “Studies in Crop Variation. VI” | R. A. Fisher |
| 1930 | First issue of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics | H. Carver |
| 1930 | The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection | R. A. Fisher |
| 1931 | Founding of Indian Statistical Institute | P. C. Mahalanobis |
| 1933 | Axiomization of probability | A. N. Kolmogorov |
| 1933 | First issue of Sankhya | P. C. Mahalanobis |
| 1933 | Completion of work on probit analysis | C. Bliss |
| 1933 | Samuel S. Wilks arrives at Princeton | S. S. Wilks |
| 1934 | Neyman’s confidence intervals | J. Neyman, |
| 1934 | Proof of the central limit theorem P. | Lévy, J. Lindeberg |
| 1934 | Chester Bliss at Leningrad Institute for Plant Protection | C. Bliss |
| 1935 | First development of martingale theory | P. Levy |
| 1935 | Publication of The Design of Experiments | R. A. Fisher |
| 1936 | Death of Karl Pearson | K. Pearson |
| 1937 | Enumerative check census for U.S. unemployment using random | M. Hansen, F. Stephan sampling |
| 1937 | Death of William Seal Gosset | W. S. Gosset (“Student”) |
| 1938 | Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Research | R. A. Fisher, F. Yates |
| 1940 | Statistical Methods textbook | G. W. Snedecor |
| 1941 | Death of Henri Lebesgue | H. Lebesgue |
| 1945 | Redaction of Fisher’s work in Mathematical Methods of Statistics | H. Cramér |
| 1945 | Wilcoxon’s first publication on nonparametric tests | F. Wilcoxon |
| 1947 | First appearance of sequential estimation theory in public domain | A. Wald |
| 1947 | Mann-Whitney formulation of nonparametric tests | H. G. Mann, D. R. Whitney |
| 1948 | Pitman’s work on nonparametric statistical inference | E. J. G. Pitman |
| 1949 | Cochran’s work on observational studies | W. G. Cochran |
| 1950 | Publication of Cochran and Cox’s book on experimental design | W. G. Cochran, G. M. Cox |
| 1952 | Death of Guido Castelnuovo | G. Castelnuovo |
| 1957 | Fisher’s polemics about the supposed dangers of cigarette smoking | R. A. Fisher |
| 1958 | Publication of Statistics of Extremes | E. J. Gumbel |
| 1959 | Box applies the word “robust” | G. E. P. Box |
| 1959 | Definitive formulation of hypothesis testing | E. L. Lehmann |
| 1960 | Combinatorial Chance D. | F. N. David, E. Burton |
| 1962 | Formulation of Savage-de Finetti theory of personal probability | L. J. Savage, B. de Finetti |
| 1962 | Fisher’s final paper deals with sex differences in genetics | R. A. Fisher |
| 1962 | Death of Ronald Aylmer Fisher R. | A. Fisher |
| 1964 | Death of Samuel S. Wilks | S. S. Wilks |
| 1964 | “An analysis of transformations” | G. E. P. Box, D. R. Cox |
| 1966 | Death of Francesco Paolo Cantelli | F. P. Cantelli |
| 1967 | Hájek’s formulation of rank tests | J. Hájek |
| 1969 | National halothane study (including work on log-linear models) | Y. M. M. Bishop and others |
| 1970 | Nancy Mann’s first publication on reliability theory and Weibull distribution | N. Mann |
| 1970 | Games, Gods, and Gambling | F. N. David |
| 1971 | Death of Paul Lévy | P. Lévy |
| 1971 | Death of L. J. (“Jimmie”) Savage | L. J. Savage |
| 1972 | Princeton Study of Robust Estimation (Princeton Robustness Study) | D. F. Andrews, P. J. Bickel, F. R. Hampel, P. J. Huber, W. H. Rogers, J. W. Tukey |
| 1972 | Death of Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis | P. C. Mahalanobis |
| 1975 | Stella Cunliffe elected president of the Royal Statistical Society | S. V. Cunliffe |
| 1976 | “Science and Statistics,” a view of the uses’ of significance testing | G. E. P. Box |
| 1977 | Cox’s formulation of significance testing | D. R. Cox |
| 1977 | Publication of Exploratory Data Analysis | J. Tukey |
| 1978 | Death of Gertrude M. Cox | G. M. Cox |
| 1979 | Death of Chester Bliss | C. Bliss |
| 1979 | Death of Jerome Cornfield | J. Cornfield |
| 1979 | Janet Norwood named Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics | J. Norwood |
| 1980 | Death of Egon S. Pearson | E. S. Pearson |
| 1981 | Death of Jerzy Neyman | J. Neyman |
| 1982 | Modern formulation of chaos theory | R. Abraham, C. Shaw |
| 1983 | Studies showing the limited nature of personal Probability | A. Tversky, D. Kahneman |
| 1985 | Death of Harald Cramér | H. Cramér |
| 1987 | Death of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov | A. N. Kolmogorov |
| 1987 | Application of kernel-based regression to focus cameras (“fuzz systems”) | T. Yamakawa |
| 1989 | L. J. Cohen’s critique of statistical models and methods, | L. J. Cohen |
| 1990 | Spline Models for Observational Data | G. Wahba |
| 1992 | Full development of martingale approach to medical studies | O. Aalen, E. Anderson, R. Gill |
| 1995 | Death of Florence Nightingale David | F. N. David |
| 1997 | Extension of Cochran’s methods to sequential analysis | C. Jennison, B. W. Turnbull |
| 1999 | EM algorithm adapted to a problem involving the Aalen-Anderson-Gill martingale model | R. A. Betensky, J. C. Lindsey, L. M. Ryan |
| 2000 | Death of John ’Tukey | J. ’Tukey |