1876
The battle of Little Big Horn
1886
The Statue of Liberty is dedicated
1892
The Branch Manager system is established at New York Life
1894
New York Life is the first insurer to charge woman the same rate as men
1895
Agency head George Perkins creates the Nylic Agent benefits system
1896
The first modern Olympic games played in Athens
1898
New York Life establishes operations in 63 countries
1900
Work on the New York subway begins
1901
Agent E. C. Dorr, one of a handful of women New York Life agents, writes the Company's 2nd policy of 20th century
1906
The San Francisco earthquake
1908
Ford's Model T is introduced
1909
New York Life is the first commercial user of punchcard equipment - a precursor to the computer
1912
The Titanic Sinks
1917
America enters World War I
1923
New York Life's assets surpass $1 billion mark
1927
Charles Lindbergh crosses the Atlantic
1928
New York Life's Home Office 51 Madison Ave. opens
1929
The stock market crashes
1935
The Social Security Act provides retirement insurance
1941
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
1942
Ben Feldman becomes a New York Life Agent
1945
The Company celebrates its centennial
1947
Mildred McAfee Horton becomes the first woman Director of New York Life
1948
Bell Labs invents the transistor
1952
New York Life sells its first Group Annuity, marking its entry into the pension market
1954
Father Knows Best premiered on NBC.
1963
John F. Kennedy is assinated
1964
New York Life introduces current blue logo
1965
The Civil Rights movement
1968
New York Life's assets surpass the $10 billion mark
1969
Moon landing
1973
A gallon of gas costs $.40
1975
The Employee Retirement Security Act (ERISA)
1975
Personal computers enter the mainstream
1979
The New York Life Foundation is established with a $10 million endowment
1980
Mount St. Helens erupts
1986
New York Life launches MainStay
1987
The Company joins the battle against AIDS
1989
New York Life launches new advertising campaign with tagline: The Company You Keep
1989
The Berlin Wall comes down
1990
New York Life's assets surpass the $50 billion mark
1993
South Africa ends apartheid
1994
AARP chooses New York life as exclusive underwriter
1995
New York life celebrates 150 years
1995
Mutual life insurance companies are included on the Fortune 500 list for the first time
1996
www.newyorklife.com is launched
1997
NASA lands spacecraft on Mars
1997
Sy Stienberg becomes Chairman, President, and CEO
1999
New York Life's Board of Directors votes to remain mutual comapny
2000
New York Life Investment Management is founded
2001
9/11 terror attacks
2002
New York Life becomes the largest mutual life insurance company in America
2003
The Iraq War begins
2006
New York Life creates the role of Chief Diversity Officer
2007
Business Week names New York Life one of the best places to launch a career
2008
Ted Mathas becomes CEO of New York Life
2008
The financial crisis hits
2009
Ted Mathas suceeds Sy Stienberg as Chairman of the Board
2010
New York Life is among the top 50 companies named by the NAFE
2010
Social media usage facilitates worldwide political change
2012
Seguros Monterry New York Life opens in the New York Life Tower in Mexico City
2013
New York Life donates $% million to the National 9/11 Memorial Museum's Education Center
2014
Candariam Investors Group, formerly known as Dexia Asset Management, and Aisbil join New York Life Investments adding $100 billion in assets
2014
New York Life surpass $540 billion
2015
New York Life foundation donates $1 million to Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
2015
New York Life celebrates its 170th anniversary
