Jerry Garcia Biography
| 1942 | 8/01 | Jerome John Garcia is born in San Francisco |
| 1948 | Jerry loses a fingertip in a wood-chopping accident at age 5 | |
| 1948 | Jerry's father drowns while on a camping trip | |
| 1949 | ~ | Jerry takes piano lessons |
| 1957 | 8/?? | Jerry starts playing guitar at age 15 |
| 1959 | ~ | Jerry joins the Army at age 17 |
| 1960 | 4/~ | Hunter meets Jerry at Commedia Theater in Palo Alto |
| 1960 | ~ | Jerry is thrown from a rolling car in an accident, breaking his collarbone |
| 1961 | Bob & Jerry formed | |
| 1961 | Garcia, Hunter & Albin formed | |
| 1961 | ~ | Jerry Garcia and Friends formed |
| 1961 | 7/~ | Garcia, Leicester & Hunter formed |
| 1961 | 11/~ | Jerry Garcia formed |
| 1962 | Asphalt Jungle Boys formed | |
| 1962 | Pigpen meets Jerry on the San Mateo Peninsula coffeehouse circuit | |
| 1962 | ~ | Bill hears Jerry, Pigpen, & Hunter play at the Tangent in Palo Alto |
| 1962 | Bill meets Jerry at Dana Morgan's music store in Palo Alto | |
| 1962 | Jerry starts playing banjo, purchased from Bill | |
| 1962 | Phil hears Jerry play at a party at the Chateau | |
| 1962 | 6/~ | Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers formed |
| 1962 | 10/?? | Bobby meets Jerry backstage at the Tangent in Palo Alto |
| 1962 | 11/~ | Jerry Garcia & David Nelson formed |
| 1962 | 11/~ | Hart Valley Drifters formed |
| 1962 | 12/~ | Thunder Mountain Tub Thumpers formed |
| 1962 | 12/31 | Bobby jams with Jerry at Dana Morgan's music store |
| 1963 | 2/~ | The Wildwood Boys formed |
| 1963 | 5/~ | Jerry & Sarah formed |
| 1963 | Zodiacs formed | |
| 1964 | 3/~ | Black Mountain Boys formed |
| 1964 | Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions formed | |
| 1964 | ~ | David Grisman meets Jerry on a bluegrass quest in West Grove, PA |
| 1965 | 4/?? | Warlocks formed |
| 1965 | 5/05 | Magoo's Pizza Parlor first paid Warlocks gig |
| 1965 | 11/06 | Warlocks meet Bill Graham at a Family Dog benefit for the Mime Troupe |
| 1965 | 12/01 | Acid Tests organizer Ken Kesey enlists Warlocks as house band |
| 1965 | 12/0? | Grateful Dead founded in San Francisco |
| 1968 | 10/08 | Mickey and the Hartbeats formed |
| 1969 | Bobby Ace and the Cards from the Bottom of the Deck formed | |
| 1969 | 6/~ | New Riders of the Purple Sage formed |
| 1969 | Merl Saunders meets Jerry | |
| 1970 | 5/18 | Jerry Garcia and Howard Wales formed |
| 1970 | 9/~ | Jerry Garcia & Friends formed |
| 1970 | ~ | Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra formed |
| 1971 | 2/~ | Garcia/Saunders formed |
| 1972 | John Kahn meets Jerry at a Monday night session at the Matrix | |
| 1973 | 3/02 | Old & In The Way formed |
| 1973 | 8/~ | Jerry gets a year's probation in NJ for LSD, marijuana, and cocaine |
| 1974 | 4/20 | Great American String Band formed |
| 1974 | 7/~ | Legion of Mary formed |
| 1975 | 8/05 | Jerry Garcia Band formed |
| 1975 | 8/20 | Keith and Donna Band formed |
| 1978 | 11/2? | Jerry loses his voice and cancels a tour |
| 1979 | 1/30 | Reconstruction formed |
| 1982 | 4/21 | Garcia/Kahn formed |
| 1985 | 1/?? | Jerry is busted for heroin and cocaine possession in Golden Gate Park |
| 1985 | Jerry enters drug treatment program | |
| 1985 | Jerry is confronted by the rest of the band regarding his drug abuse | |
| 1986 | 7/10 | Jerry lapses into a near-fatal diabetic coma for 5 days |
| 1986 | 12/15 | Grateful Dead return to performing 5 months after Jerry emerges from coma |
| 1987 | Cherry Garcia ice cream introduced by Ben & Jerry's | |
| 1987 | 8/29 | Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band formed |
| 1987 | 10/15 | Lunt-Fontanne Theater sell-out shows by Garcia bands |
| 1988 | Jerry becomes a certified SCUBA diver, partially replacing drug use | |
| 1990 | 12/17 | Garcia/Grisman formed |
| 1992 | 7/?? | J. Garcia ties marketed |
| 1992 | 8/?? | Jerry collapses from exhaustion and cancels a tour |
| 1994 | ~ | Second Sight formed |
| 1994 | 1/19 | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts the Grateful Dead |
| 1994 | 9/~ | Phil Lesh & Friends formed |
| 1995 | Jerry receives a death threat | |
| 1995 | 8/09 | Jerry dies in Forest Knolls, CA at age 53 |
| 1995 | 8/13 | Jerry is celebrated by family and 25,000 friends in Golden Gate Park |
| 1995 | 11/07 | Garcia asteroid named |
| 1998 | ~ | Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead stamps issued |
| 2000 | Madame Tussaud's New York wax museum displays a likeness of Jerry |
