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| 1884 | The Financial News established by Harry Marks |
| 1888 | The Financial Times launched as "the friend of the Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker" |
| 1893 | The FT is first printed on pink paper |
| 1919 | Berry Bros, owners of The Sunday Times and later The Daily Telegraph, take control of the FT |
| 1928 | Brendan Bracken becomes chairman of Financial News |
| 1935 | 30-share index introduced in Financial Times |
| 1945 | Bracken buys FT, merges with Financial News but keeps pink paper and Financial Times name. Hargreaves Parkinson becomes editor. Lex column introduced |
| 1949 | Gordon Newton becomes editor |
| 1953 | 20,000th issue celebrated. "Industry" "Commerce" and "Public Affairs" introduced to masthead, reflecting increased scope of the newspaper. Arts page introduced |
| 1957 | FT taken over by Pearson |
| 1959 | Paper moved to Bracken House in Cannon Street |
| 1960 | Technical (now Technology) page; Executive"s World (now Features) pages; Saturday paper"s "How To Spend It" (now Fashion & beauty) page all introduced |
| 1961 | Average circulation exceeds 132,000 |
| 1972 | Editor Gordon Newton retires, replaced by Fredy Fisher |
| 1979 | European edition starts printing in Frankfurt |
| 1980 | Geoffrey Owen becomes editor |
| 1985 | FT starts printing in New York |
| 1986 | Circulation passes 250,000 mark on back of "No FT, No Comment" campaign. FT printing processes move from hot metal to cold set printing |
| 1987 | First world share index published |
| 1988 | FT starts printing in Roubaix, France FT acquires Les Echos and Expansion |
| 1989 | Relocation of FT Group Head Office from Bracken House to Number One Southwark Bridge |
| 1990 | FT starts printing in Tokyo |
| 1991 | Richard Lambert becomes editor |
| 1994 | First edition of "How To Spend It" magazine published |
| 1995 | FT starts printing in Madrid, Stockholm and Los Angeles and re-launches the international edition. FT.com, the Financial Times" website, is launched. Mastering Management, the first of the Mastering Series is launched |
| 1996 | FT starts printing in Hong Kong |
| 1997 | Re-design of the Weekend FT Launch of the US edition |
| 1998 | FT starts printing in Milan and Chicago. International circulation sales overtake UK circulation sales |
| 1999 | Launch of "the business" weekly magazine with the UK edition of the Weekend FT. FT starts printing in Boston and San Francisco |
| 2000 | Launch of Creative Business magazine FT starts printing in Dallas, Miami, Kuala Lumpur and Seoul Relaunch of European edition |
| 2001 | FT Launches Global Investing pages in US edition Richard Lambert named Business Journalist of the decade FT hits 500,000 cpd (March) Andrew Gowers becomes editor |
| 2002 | FT launches FTfm Fund management supplement. FT starts printing digitally in South Africa FT.com is relaunched - subscription services introduced. Unique monthly users reach 3.2 million and page views exceed 50million (Dec 2002) |
| 2003 | FT starts printing in Dubai and Atlanta. UK edition of FT newspaper is revamped and new weekly magazine, Financial Times Magazine, is introduced with the UK edition of the Saturday FT. Asian edition launched in print and online |
| 2004 | FT takes investment stake in Indian financial daily newspaper, Business Standard. FT is first foreign media company to make a major investment in an Indian newspaper, taking a 13.85% equity stake. FT celebrates twenty fifth anniversary of its European edition. FT starts printing in Sydney. How To Spend It magazine celebrates its tenth anniversary |
| 2005 | Lionel Barber is appointed editor. FT.com celebrates its tenth anniversary |
| 2006 | John Ridding appointed Chief Executive Officer of Financial Times and FT.com Rona Fairhead appointed Chief Executive Officer of FT Group FT Group acquires Mergermarket |
| 2007 | Global ‘refresh’ of the newspaper. Launch of global advertising campaign. |
