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• 1949 — Nicholas Kendall (director of the Beast Wars episode "Power Surge") is born.
• 1955 — Tony Fuochi (Italian voice of Beast Wars Megatron and Prime Megatron) is born in Milano, Italy.
• 1957 — Esther Scott (Glen's grandmama in Transformers) is born.
• 1961 — Marcella Silvestri (Italian voice of Animated Blackarachnia) is born.
• 1967 — Riccardo Lombardo (Italian voice of Optimus Primal and Denny Clay) is born.
• 1969 — Gina Torres (voice of Airachnid) is born just in the nick of time, making her a big damn hero.
• 1977 — Part One Co., Ltd., owner of the e-HOBBY online store, is founded.
• 1980 — Rika Morinaga (Japanese voice of Lori in Cybertron) is born.
• 1982 — Josh Kelly (Stone in Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon) is born.
• 1986 — The Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers episode "Finding Alpha Trin" premieres in Japan.
• 1986 — Helena Coppejans (French voice of Strongarm in Robots in Disguise) is born.
• 1989 — The Victory episode "Infiltration... The Uranium Mine" premieres in Japan.
• 1993 — Jessica Ángeles (Latin-American Spanish voice of Tina Lark in the Bumblebee film and Airazor in the War for Cybertron Trilogy) is born.

• 1998 — The Beast Wars episode "Code of Hero" gets its regular syndication debut in the US.
• 2000 — Beast Wars: Metals—Yeah, I'm Back!, Love Typhoon and The Movie are released on VHS in Japan by Pioneer LDC.
• 2003 — The Legends of the Microns episode "慢心 (おごり) - credulous" premieres in Japan.
• 2006 — The 15 Go! Go! chapter "Steeljaw Volume" is published in the June 2006 issue of Dengeki Hobby.
• 2007 — "Spotlight: Kup" and Transformers: Cybertron: Balancing Act are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2007 — The 15 Go! Go! chapter "Sparkbots Volume 5" is published in the June 2007 issue of Dengeki Hobby.
• 2008 — First full day of BotCon 2008. Dealer room opens, panels, "Faction Feud", special preview showing of the Transformers Animated episode "Garbage In, Garbage Out", Hasbro team live commentary on the Transformers live-action movie.
• 2008 — Transformers Adventures Volume 1 is released in the UK by Titan Books.
• 2009 — The Transformers Animated episode "Human Error, Part II" premieres in the US.
• 2012 — The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #4 is released in the US, and The Transformers: Autocracy #8 is published online by IDW Publishing.
• 2013 — Transformers Legends is (finally) released for iOS devices.
• 2014 — Pre-purchase tickets for the Transformers Expo exclusive ""Slug G1 Color" toy are made available at Lawson stores in Japan.
• 2015 — The Robots in Disguise episode "As the Kospego Commands!" premieres on Cartoon Network in the USA.
• 2015 — The Rescue Bots episode "The New Recruits" premieres on Discovery Family.
• 2015 — TakaraTomy releases Adventure TAV13 Nemesis Prime, TAV14 Ultra Magnus and TED 06 Big Optimus Prime, as well as Q-Transformers QT-18 Nemesis Prime, QT-19 Convoy and QT-20 Megatron.
• 2020 — TakaraTomy releases Studio Series SS-48 Offroad Bumblebee and SS-49 Sentinel Prime and Earthrise ER-01 Hoist and ER-02 Optimus Prime with trailer, plus ER EX-01 Soundbarrier and ER EX-02 Grapple are released as TakaraTomy Mall exclusives.
• 2020 — The Rescue Bots Academy episodes "Trouble Cubed" and "My Favorite Rescue" premiere on Discovery Family.
• 2022 — Chinese mobile company Redmagic announces new collaboration with Transformers including an Optimus Prime-themed version of their 7 Pro mobile gamer phone and a Decepticon-themed variant as well. .