1902- February 20, Ansel Easton Adams is born in San Francisco, CA
1916- He receives his first camera, the Kodak Brownie Box camera.
1925- Ansel decides to become a pianist.
1927- First acknowledged photograph, Monolith, The Face of Halfdome
1928- He marries Virginia Best.
1931- Has an exhibition of 60 photographs at the Smithsonian Institution
1933- Opens his own gallery in San Francisco
1937- His darkroom at Yosemite burns, destroying 20 percent of his negatives.
1941- Develops the Zone System for developing film
1949- Becomes a consultant for the Polaroid Corporation
1963- Ansel receives the John Muir Award.
1965- Appointed to President Johnson's environmental task force
1980- Ansel receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
1984- Ansel Adams dies at the age of 82.
1985- Mount Ansel Adams is dedicated, at Lyell Fork in Yosemite, in his memory.