History
| 27 November 1940 | Born at the Jackson Street Hospital, San Francisco |
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| February 1941 | Back to Hong Kong with his parent |
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| 31 May 1950 | The premiere of Kid Cheung | |||||||||||
| 12 April 1951 | The premiere of The Beginning of A Boy |
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| 30 April 1953 | The premiere of The Guiding Light |
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| 28 June 1953 | The premiere of A Mother's Remember |
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| 27 September 1953 | The premiere of It's Father Fault |
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| 8 October 1953 | The premiere of A Myriad Homes |
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| 27 November 1953 | The premiere of In The Face of Demolition |
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| 8 January 1955 | The premiere of Love, part II |
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| 11 February 1955 | The premiere of An Orphan's Tragedy |
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| 24 June 1955 | The premiere of The Faithful Wife |
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| 8 September 1955 | The premiere of Orphan's Song |
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| 21 October 1955 | The premiere of We Owe To Our Children |
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| 25 February 1956 | The premiere of The Wise Guys Who Fool Around |
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| 1956 | Learning the Southern Style of Chinese Martial Arts, Wing Chun from Sifu Yip Man | |||||||||||
| 22 December 1956 | The premiere of Too Late For Divorce | |||||||||||
| 14 March 1957 | The premiere of Thunderstorm | |||||||||||
| 6 December 1957 | The premiere of Darling Girl | |||||||||||
| 29 March 1958 | Soundly defeats the three-year defending champion, Gary Elm in the interschool boxing competition that took place at the King George V School | |||||||||||
| 1958 | Stars in The Orphan | |||||||||||
| 1958 | Learning the Northern Style of Chinese Martial Arts, Gung Lik Qun and Jit Qun from Sifu Jiu Hong Shang | |||||||||||
| 29 April 1959 | Back to San Francisco by The President Wilson steamship | |||||||||||
| 17 May 1959 | Arrives in San Francisco | |||||||||||
| 3 September 1959 | Enrolls in the Edison Technical School | |||||||||||
| 3 March 1960 | The premiere of The Orphan | |||||||||||
| December 1960 | Graduates from the Edison Technical School | |||||||||||
| 27 March 1961 | Enrolls in the University of Washington | |||||||||||
| April 1962 | Starts Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute at Seattle Chinatown | |||||||||||
| 1963 | Writes and self-publishes a book on the art of Gung Fu entitled Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense | |||||||||||
| 26 March 1963 | Takes his student Doug Palmer back to Hong Kong for homecoming visit | |||||||||||
| August 1963 | Return to Seattle | |||||||||||
| 5 October 1963 | Moves Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute to No. 4750, a garage on University Way from the China Town | |||||||||||
| 25 October 1963 | First dating with Linda Emery at the revolving restaurant, Seattle Space Needle | |||||||||||
| 2 August 1964 | Performs a demonstration at the Ed Parker's Long Beach International Karate Tournament, which caused a fascinating effect | |||||||||||
| 17 August 1964 | Marries Linda Emery at the King Country Courthouse | |||||||||||
| November 1964 | Takes up the challenge from Wong Cak-Meng, the representative of the martial arts body from the Chinatown. The fight last for 3 minutes | |||||||||||
| 1 February 1965 | Lee's eldest son Brandon is born in Oakland | |||||||||||
| 4 February 1965 | Lee is given a screen test by the 20th Century-Fox for a new TV series Number One Son | |||||||||||
| 8 February 1965 | Lee's father passes away in Hong Kong | |||||||||||
| July 1965 | Takes Brandon with him to Hong Kong to visit his family | |||||||||||
| 21 September 1965 | Signs a contract with the 20th Century-Fox as an actor | |||||||||||
| 30 April 1966 | Signs a contract with the 20th Century-Fox for the production of 30 episodes in The Green Hornet TV series | |||||||||||
| 6 June 1966 | Begins filming The Green Hornet | |||||||||||
| 9 September 1966 | The 26 episodes of The Green Hornet begin to air on ABC-TV on every Friday in USA until 14 July 1967 | |||||||||||
| 27 January 1967 | Appears as Kato in the ABC-TV series Batman | |||||||||||
| 5 February 1967 | Starts the forth Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute at No. 628, a garage located at the College Street, Chinatown | |||||||||||
| 6 May 1967 | Performs at the National Karate Championship at Washington as a special guest | |||||||||||
| 24 June 1967 | Appears at the All-America Open Karate Championship at the Madison Square Garden, New York | |||||||||||
| July 1967 | Labels his art as Jeet Kune Do | |||||||||||
| 14 July 1967 | Shoots an episode of the TV series Ironside | |||||||||||
| 30 July 1967 | Attends the Long Beach International Karate Tournament | |||||||||||
| 5 July 1968 | Works as the martial arts director for the film The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin | |||||||||||
| 1 August 1968 | Acts as a villain in the movie Marlowe, starring James Carner | |||||||||||
| 12 November 1968 | Films an episode of the TV series Blondie | |||||||||||
| 15-22 November 1968 | Films an episode of the TV series Here Come the Brides | |||||||||||
| January 1969 | Notes on "My Definite Chief Aim" | |||||||||||
| 16-24 April 1969 | Works as the martial art director for the film A Walk in the Spring Rain | |||||||||||
| 19 April 1969 | Shannon Lee is born in Santa Monica | |||||||||||
| 20-27 February 1970 | Teaching martial arts in Switzerland with the invitation by the famous director Roman Polanski | |||||||||||
| March 1970 | Brings Brandon back to Hong Kong | |||||||||||
| 9 April 1970 | Sits for interview by Michael Hui in TVB, co-demonstrates with Lee Kam Kuan, a second dan Black Belt Karate-ka and his students | |||||||||||
| 10 April 1970 | Sits for interview in ATV | |||||||||||
| 1-11 February 1971 | James Coburn, Stirling Silliphant and Lee on their India sojourn for trying to find a right place for The Silent Flute | |||||||||||
| May 1971 | Golden Harvest assigns Lau Leung Wah to USA for lobbing Lee to join in and produce two films | |||||||||||
| 24 June-1 July 1971 | Plays a supporting role in the first episode of TV series Longstreet, with the theme of "The Way of the Intercepting Fist" | |||||||||||
| 28 June 1971 | Joins Golden Harvest for shooting two movies | |||||||||||
| 12 July 1971 | Departs for Thailand to film The Big Boss | |||||||||||
| 3 September 1971 | The shooting of The Big Boss has completed, from Thailand back to Hong Kong | |||||||||||
| 3 September 1971 | Sits for interview by Tam Peng Man in TVB | |||||||||||
| 4 September 1971 | Sits for interview by Gou Leung and David Lo in ATV | |||||||||||
| 7 September 1971 | Back to USA, films three additional episodes of Longstreet | |||||||||||
| 11 October 1971 | Departs for Hong Kong | |||||||||||
| 22 October 1971 | Sits for interview by Lau Ka Kit in TVB, co-demonstrates martial arts with his student Robert Baker | |||||||||||
| 30 October 1971 | The premiere of The Big Boss. It grosses a record $ 3.2 million in its first run for 23 days, an unprecedented box office record in Hong Kong | |||||||||||
| 19 November 1971 | Appears in a special programme in TVB | |||||||||||
| 7 December 1971 | Receives a telegram from Warner Brothers that the proposal of making Kung Fu TV series has been rejected | |||||||||||
| 8 December 1971 | Records his historic Lost Interview with Canadian journalist Pierre Berton. The interview shows in TVB Pearl on 21 January 1972 | |||||||||||
| 29 December 1971 | Forms his own movie production company, Concord Productions | |||||||||||
| 11 March 1972 | The midnights premiere of Fist of Fury | |||||||||||
| 22 March 1972 | The premiere of Fist of Fury, breaks all records set by The Big Boss in Hong Kong with $4.3 million | |||||||||||
| 4 May 1972 | Departs for Rome for the shooting of The Way of the Dragon | |||||||||||
| 24 June 1972 | Participates a special telethon for "18 June Flood", co-demonstrates martial arts with Brandon Lee | |||||||||||
| 29 July 1972 | Moves in No. 41, Cumberland Road, Kowloon Tong district | |||||||||||
| From September To November 1972 | Begins filming the fight sequences of The “Game of Death” | |||||||||||
| November 1972 | The Black Belt Magazine grants the “1972 Martial Artist of the Year Award” to Lee. He then re-granted the same award in 1974 | |||||||||||
| 23 November 1972 | Signs a contract with Warner Brothers to film “Enter the Dragon” | |||||||||||
| 20 December 1972 | Being elected as "The Top 10 Movie Stars" by the Overseas Chinese Daily | |||||||||||
| 22 December 1972 | The midnight premiere of “The Way of the Dragon”, again it breaks the box office record in Hong Kong with $ 5.3 million | |||||||||||
| February 1973 | Begins production of “Enter the Dragon” | |||||||||||
| 10 May 1973 | Collapses during a dubbing session for Enter the Dragon in Golden Harvest studio, he is immediately rushed by ambulance to the emergency ward of Baptist Hospital, then transferred to St. Theresa's Hospital for further checked-up | |||||||||||
| 25 May 1973 | Lee flies to California to conducted a complete physical and brain scan by a medical team at UCLA | |||||||||||
| 5 July 1973 | Clashes with director Lo Wei at Golden Harvest studio | |||||||||||
| 5 July 1973 | Sits for interview by Ho Sau Shun in TVB regarding the conflict with Lo Wei | |||||||||||
| 20 July 1973 | Loses consciousness at Betty Ting Pei's apartment, rushed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital but unfortunately dies at 11:30pm | |||||||||||
| 25 July 1973 | A huge funeral ceremony is held for Lee's friends and fans in Hong Kong. Over 25000 people jam Kowloon during his funeral service | |||||||||||
| 31 July 1973 | The second funeral ceremony is more private which is held in Seattle. Lee laid to rest in Lake View Cemetery | |||||||||||
| 24 September 1973 | After six days of investigation, the cause of death is cited as "misadventure" in the post-mortem report issued by the coroner |
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