1897 - The first Nesseldorf car the Präsident is built.
1899 - First series of Nesseldorf cars is manufactured. First victories in motor racing.
1921 - Ledwinka designs the revolutionary T11.
1931 - The first rear-engined Tatra prototype is built.
1933 - The first aerodynamic rear-engined prototype is built. Hitler and Ledwinka discuss air-cooled rear-engined cars.
1934 - On the 4th of March the world's first serially produced aerodynamic car is introduced, the Tatra T77.
1936 - The T77 is updated to the T77a. The air-cooled rear-engined V8 Tatra T87 and flat-four T97 cars go into production.
1938 - Sudetenland including the Tatra factory is occupied by Germany.
1939 - The rest of Bohemia and Moravia is occupied by Germany, and W.W.II starts. The T97 is ordered out of production by Hitler as it is judged to be too similar to the KdF-Wagen, the later VW Beetle.
1947 - Zikmund & Hanzelka start their journey round the world in a Tatra T87. The Tatraplan goes into production.
1951 - Ledwinka is released and leaves Czechoslovakia to live in Vienna and later in Munich. Although he is offered back his old job at Tatra he refuses. Production of the Tatraplan is moved to Skoda.
1952 - Production of the Tatraplan is halted, and Tatra no longer produces passenger cars.
1955 - Tatra is allowed to built a new luxury passenger car, and work is started on the new T603 - First T603 prototypes built.
1963 - The T603 is updated to the T603-2.
1968 - The first Tatra T613 prototypes are built at Carrozzeria Vignale in Italy.
1973 - The new luxury passenger car T613 goes into production.
1975 - The T603 is taken out of production
1980 - The T613 is updated to the T613-2.
1986 - The T613-2 is updated to the T613-3.
1990 - The T613-3 is updated to the T613-4.
1995 - The T613-4 is updated to the T613-5. First Tatra - T700 prototype is built.
1996 - Tatra introduces the new luxury passenger car the T700. Production of the T700 starts at the Pribor factory for an order of 100 cars for the Czech government.
1998 - The Tatra factory at Pribor is closed and production of the T700 is moved to Koprivnice.
The American company SDC International buys 43.5 % of the shares in Tatra.
Production of the T700 is halted entirely.
