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• 1954 — Masahiko Tanaka (Japanese voice of Cybertron Backstop) is born.
• 1957 — Altuğ Yücel (Turkish voice of Bumblebee) is born.
• 1958 — Marvel Comics editor Don Daley is born.
• 1958 — LG Electronics (Autobot Stronghold publisher) is founded in South Korea.
• 1961 — Japanese animation director Akira Nishimori is born.
• 1963 — Actor Marc Bretonnière (French voice of Major Reynolds in the Dark of the Moon videogame and Optimus Prime & Megatron in the Battlegrounds game) is born.
• 1971 — Márcia Regina (Brazilian voice of Arcee and voice director of Robots In Disguise) is born.
• 1976 — Giuliana Jakobeit (German voice of Dani Burns) is born.
• 1978 — Bayu Oktara (Indonesian voice of Lucas Flannery) is born.
• 1979 — Activision, who would spend a decade producing Transformers video games, is founded.
• 1985 — The Transformers episode "Changing Gears" premieres in the US.
• 1986 — The Transformers episode "Dark Awakening" premieres in the US.
• 1987 — The Headmasters Hit Song Collection soundtrack album is released in Japan by Columbia Music Entertainment.
• 1988 — Transformers #186 - "Space Pirates! Part 5" is released in the United Kingdom by Marvel Comics.
• 1992 — Cartoon Network begins broadcasting in the US.
• 1997 — The Beast Wars episode "Enter the Super Robot Lifeform Transformers!!" premieres in Japan.
• 1999 — Transformers: Beast Wars Metals 64 for the Nintendo 64 is released in Japan.
• 2003 — The Armada episode "Union" premieres in the United Kingdom.
• 2003 — Micron Legend—Volume 6 is released on DVD in Japan by Columbia Music Entertainment, coming with the "Linkage Part 6" mini-comic and exclusive Combusta toy.
• 2005 — Zigzag is added to the Megalo Micron campaign in Japan.
• 2005 — The Galaxy Force episode "Breaking Through the Super Space-Time Tunnel" premieres in Japan.
• 2006 — Final day of BotCon 2006. Panels, "Faction Feud".
• 2007 — The Transformers: The Movie is released on Blu-ray in the UK by Metrodome.
• 2008 — Best of UK: Time Wars #3, More than Meets the Eye Vol 1 TPB and Saga of the Allspark #4 are released by IDW Publishing.
• 2009 — "Day One" of preproduction work on Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
• 2010 — Fun Publications releases "Mega Spice" to Youtube.
• 2011 — Dark of the Moon Human Alliance Roadbuster and Leadfoot, Ultimate Optimus Prime, and Cyberverse Guzzle, Mudflap and Crowbar are released in Japan.
• 2011 — The Prime episode "One Shall Rise, Part 1" premieres in the US.
• 2011 — The Transformers: Prime episode Darkness Rising, Part 5 premieres in Italy.
• 2013 — The Transformers: Prime episode "Scattered" premieres in Germany.
• 2014 — The Transformers: Windblade TPB is released by IDW Publishing.
• 2015 — Go90 launches.
• 2015 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Similarly Different" premieres in Hungary.
• 2016 — The Rescue Bots episode "A Brush with Danger" premieres on Discovery Family.
• 2016 — The Robots in Disguise episode "Mighty Big Trouble" premieres on Teletoon in Canada.
• 2016 — The Rescue Bots episode "Rescue Bots Academy" premieres in Hungary.
• 2020 — Transformers Collaborative Gigawatt is made available for order via Hasbro Pulse and "other select retailers".
• 2022 — The second day of Hasbro Pulse Con 2022, no new Transformers content on this day though.
• 2023 — A special one-day screening of Transformers Beast Wars and Beast Wars II is held at the Maruhan Ikebukuro building in Tokyo, Japan.
• 2023 — Transformers: EarthSpark makes its Japanese dub premiere on TV Tokyo with "Secret Treasure"..
• 2023 —The Transformers: EarthSpark episode "Stowed Away, Stowaways" premieres in France.
• 2023 —The Transformers: EarthSpark episode "The Last Hope, Part 1" premieres in Hungary.