1999-04-04 Jack Ma founds Chinese internet company Alibaba
2017-04-04 Alibaba becomes the world's largest retailer according to US Securities and Exchange Commission
2017-11-11 Largest Singles Day sales ever - Alibaba says its sales alone were $25.3 billion
2018-03-26 E-commence group Alibaba Group and US car maker Ford unveil a car vending machine without sales people 5 stories high in Guangzhou, China
2018-11-11 Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba sets new record for their Singles Day sale, $1 billion in 85 seconds, $30.8bn in 24 hours
2019-09-10 Alibaba chairman Jack Ma steps down, succeeded by Daniel Zhang
2021-04-10 China orders Alibaba pay a record fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.8 billion) after anti-trust regulations say it has been acting as a monopoly