Pre-2010

This article covers events before 2010.

20th century

1960s

• October 31, 1968 – Mark Katz, the voice actor of MePhone4, is born.

1970s

• September 28, 1972 – Kevin MacLeod, a famous American composer, is born.

1980s

• 24 August 1987 – Boyinaband, the voice actor of Portable Music Player, is born.
• 30 June 1988 – jacksfilms, the voice actor of VR Headset and more popularly known online as jjjacksfilms, is born.

1990s

• 27 June 1990 – Thomas Ridgewell, a British comedian and voice actor of Pineapple is born.
• July 26, 1990 – Zach Kornfeld, the founder of The Try Guys, is born
• October 30, 1996 – Brian Koch, co-director and voice actor of Fan, is born.
• January 22, 1997 – Katherine Sun, the voice actor for Eggy and Naily, is born.
• February 4, 1997 – Justin Chapman, the voice actor of Knife and Paper, is born.
• 18 March 1997 – The Huang twins, Michael and Cary and creators of Battle for Dream Island, are born.
• April 18, 1997 – Adam Katz, the creator of Inanimate Insanity, is born.
• July 7, 1997 – Graham Taylor, the former voice actor of Gelatin, is born.
• August 22, 1997 – Taylor Grodin, a former member of the II Core Four, is born.
• January 2, 1998 – Sam Lee, the voice actor of Pie and Stapy, is born.
• September 17, 1998 – Maroue Reus, a developer for many BFDIA 5b speedrunning tools, is born.
• April 23, 1998 – Satomi Hinatsu, a showrunner for Battle for Dream Island, is born.
• February 10, 1999 – Thomas Chick, the voice actor for Tree, is born.
• April 6, 1999 – Sam Thornbury, the creator of Object Show 87 and Object Universe, is born.

Early to mid 2000s

2000

• January 15 – Rebecca K. Lunetta was born.
• May 27 – Anko6, the creator of Brawl of the Objects, is born.
• July 24 – XanyLeaves, the creator of Object Overload is born.
• October 19 – RickToons, the creator of Modern Objects is born.
• October 23 – Brybee, the creator of Object Madness!!, is born.

2001

• April 11 – PotatoOfAwesome, the creator of The Object Show Movie, is born.
• April 21 – pokeysoda, a voice actor for BFB, is born.
• June 6 – SuperScratchKat, a former animator for BFB, is born.
• July 21 – Amor Boretto, the voice actor of Leek, is born.
• July 23 – Aidsie is born.
• July 28 – Shane C., the voice actor for Scissors, is born.
• October 17 – Some nerd, the voice actor for Income Tax Return Document, is born.
• November 8 – Cornmac Olive, a voice actor, is born.
• November 28 – Max Park, a famous Rubik's Cube strategist, is born.
• December 23 – Wuggolo, the starter of the Battle genre, is born.
• December 24 – The Bird Gang, an animator for BFB, is born.

2002

• February 5 – TTGuy10000, the creator of Code Red, is born.
• February 7 – Florence Chapell, the voice actor of Six, is born.
• April 3 – Ian Woodside, the current voice actor of Gelatin, is born.
• April 12 (or earlier) – Object show artstyle, at least objects with limbs and a face, originates with the Earth Day eCard by Mike Adair (one of the creators of Hoops and Yoyo Flash series) and thankfully is still sold on the Hallmark shop website.
• May 11 – Xananer, the creator of The Solar Eclipsely Object Show, is born.
• June 17 – YellowAngiru, the creator of Paper Puppets, is born.
• July 24 – legotd1, an influential member, is born.
• July 31 – WhoEvenIsStan, the creator of The Minute-ly Object Show, is born.
• August 16 – DanDaMiniFig, a competitor for SeriousHall, is born.
• September 15 – WormBuffet, an animator, is born.
• December 31 – Cepukka, the composer of Acid Plant Medicine, is born.

2003

• January 1 – CaptainCoolAG, the creator of BFDI Weekly, is born.
• January 10 – Taft Marz, a competitor for The Race of Children and infamous voice actor, is born.
• May 9 – Diamondcup67, the voice actor for Airy and the creator of Object Filler is born.
• April 12 – TopHatTheHat, an animator for BFDI, is born.
• May 27 – Multi S. V. Puliyze, the voice actor for PDA, is born.
• June 10 – Allenimations, the creator of The Nightly Manor, is born.
• June 14 – Derpadon, the creator of It's Time for The and Race for the Keys, is born.
• September 16 – ChrisShwafer, the creator of Fight in Flight, is born.
• October 20 – WoopDoo, the creator of The Fifteen Minute Object Show, is born.
• November 19 – Highvan, the creator of The Historical and Nice Object Show, is born.

2004

• April 27 – polypawns, the creator of Mysterious Object Super Show, is born.
• May 28 – FusionAnimations, the creator of The Daily Object Show, is born.

2005

• February 7 – ThattsCherry is born.
• February 14 – YouTube is launched.
• April 7 – 111robloxdude, a composer, is born.
• May 28 – ChromaTheAnimator, the creator of Entity Frenzy is born.
• August 11 – Artificial Deluxe, the creator of Planet Hoppers, is born.
• August 17 – G4bo, the creator of The Cinco Conto Object Show, is born.
• November 10 – Sacri, the creator of Obsolete Battle Show and several others and operator of the Sacriverse lore, is born.

2006

• February 18 – SirRyan18, the CGI animator for BFDI, is born.
• June 16 – KaLegend, the creator of Object Legends, is born.
• September 1 – Roblox, after 10 years of development, is launched by leaving the beta stage.
• December 12 – Zakaroni, the creator of the now-cancelled Just Another Object Show, is born.

2007

September

• 17 – The Huang twins' Internet debut takes place on freesound.org under the account fotoshop's registration.

December

• 6 – p0tatomango, an animator, is born.

2008

January

• 3 – The video Move Your Feet! by rtil is uploaded to Newgrounds on this date. This is one of the earliest forms of living objects predating BFDI.

February

• 4 – jacknjellify is registered on YouTube.
• 6 – The BeiBei Squisher is uploaded on YouTube. It is jacknjellify's first upload.

May

• 2 – "FIREY to keep our customers happy" is made as a 5th grade project by Cary Huang. It gave birth to the origins of Battle for Dream Island.

August

• 9 – BlueFlower, the creator of Beyond Bounds, is born.

September

• 1 – HyperCrystal is born.

December

• 31 – X Finds Out His Value is uploaded to YouTube. This is the most viewed pre-BFDI video on the jacknjellify channel.

2009

January

• 15 – Firey's Candy Bar Adventure is developed around this time. This is the earliest piece of BFDI animated history.

February

• 17 – Animator Chris is born.
• 20 – firey.fla is produced.
• 27 – Firey Music Video.fla is produced.

August

• 18 – Battle for Dream Island is concieved. The Huang family trip in Hawaii ends with their return to California. Michael and Cary had the idea to make a Flash animated web series.

September

• Unknown – BFDI goes into production on voicelines being made and the animation made on Macromedia Flash 8.

In-universe events

Undated events

The Daily Object Show

• Undated events.
  • Objects are created by the Super Objects in the TDOS universe.
  • Battle of Cobalt Mountain takes place.

Object Legends

• Undated events before the pilot.
  • The Pirates are dated to appear before.
• "Tale of Sentience" takes place.
  • Invasion of the Mushroom Land takes place. Lord Blackout and Dr. Eyeball take control of the Mushrooms and the Mushroom King is jailed.
  • Rooty, Charmy, Shiny, Hoppy and Zenn meets the Sagey to defeat Lord Blackout and Dr. Eyeball.
  • The main group defeats the duo.

See also

• 2010, the year that succeeded 2009 and all years before that.