| 1867 | Sakichi Toyoda First-born of a carpenter in Yamaguchi |
| 1871 | Compulsory education |
| 1878 | Apprenticeship in his father's profession |
| 1890 | Sakichi visited industrial exhibition in Tokyo |
| 1890 | Improved version of the usual looms |
| 1891 | Initial trials of start-ups fail in Tokyo |
| 1894 | Sakichi operates with his uncle new company |
| 1894 | Kiichiro Toyoda born, son of Asako and Sakichi Toyoda |
| 1895 | Patent of machine for yarn |
| 1895 | Successful opening of a store in Nagoya (close, major city) |
| 1896 | Debt by criminal partner |
| 1897 | Mechanical wooden loom |
| 1898 | Joint ventures with strong partner Mitsui |
| 1900 | Renewed attempts to loom in competition with the West |
| 1902 | First division of Mitsui |
| 1904 | Kiichiro finished secondary school with moderate success |
| 1905 | Semi-automatic loom from steel |
| 1906 | Sales of looms can be seen in well |
| 1906 | Continued cooperation with Mitsui, Toyoda Loom Works founded |
| 1907 | Recession in Japan |
| 1910 | Second division of Mitsui |
| 1910 | First travel to US, awakened interest in car production |
| 1913 | Weaving mill supplemented by spinning company |
| 1914 | First World War boosts Japan's economy |
| 1920 | Second company in Shanghai |
| 1924 | Invention of the fully automatic loom (Sakichi and Kiichiro) |
| 1929 | Sale of patent rights to GB |
| 1930 | First attempts by Kiichiro Toyoda with copies an internal combustion engine |
| 1933 | Automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works |
| 1934 | Six cylinder is running on the test bench |
| 1935 | Prototype passenger car A1, prototype truck G1 |
| 1936 | Own car manufacturing plant, law concerning the manufacture of motor vehicles, prototypes, AA, AB, and GA |
| 1937 | First brand, foundation as 'Toyota Motor Company' stock company |
| 1938 | New, much larger factory in Koromo |
| 1950 | Company got into financial difficulties |
| 1951 | Toyota Motor Sales Co. |
| 1955 | Toyopet Crown |
| 1957 | Toyopet Master, Crown Deluxe |
| 1957 | Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. |
| 1959 | Motomachi Plant began with the first passenger car production in Japan (Asia) |
| 1967 | Partnership with Daihatsu Motor Co. |
| 1982 | Toyota Motor Corporation |
| 1984 | Joint venture with General Motors |
| 1988 | Toyota Motor Manufacturing, USA, Inc. began production |
| 1989 | Foundation of Lexus |
