1. Jackie Robinson Alex Schab

2. 1919 This timeline starts on January 31, 1919 when Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia

3. 1920 His mother decided to leave Georgia and moved to Pasadena, California where Jackie was raised

4. 1937 He enrolled in Pasadena Junior College

5. 1939 Robinson entered the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), lettering in four sports

6. 1940 Jackie Robinson won the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA, broad jump title

7. 1941 Played professional football for the Honolulu Bears, a semi-professional football team

8. 1942 Jackie Robinson was drafted into the Army

9. 1943 Private Robinson was commissioned as a second lieutenant

10. 1944 He was honorably discharged in November 1944 following an ankle injury

11. 1945 Robinson begins baseball career with Kansas City Monarchs, a Negro team and was then recruited by Branch Rickey to play for minor league Montreal Royals

12. 1946 Robinson married Rachel Isum, a nursing student he had met at UCLA

13. 1947 Jackie Robinson brought to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first black on major league team. He suffered considerable racial abuse. The same year he was named 'Rookie of the Year' and featured on the cover of Time magazine

14. 1949 Named the National League's Most Valuable Player

15. 1956 Jackie Robinson he was traded to the New York Giants, but decides to retire from major league baseball

16. 1960’s He became a vocal supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

17. 1962 Robinson inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame

18. 1972 October 24, 1972: Jackie Robinson died of a heart attack (aged 53) in Stamford, Connecticut