Michael Jackson Timeline

By Yuliana Jin

  • BORN

    BORN
    He was born at 12:13 AM as Michael Joseph Jackson in Gary, Indiana, to Katherine Esther Scruse and Joseph Walter Jackson. His older siblings are Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, LaToya and Marlon. Later, brother Randy and sister Janet joined the family. Katherine Jackson raised her children as Jehovah's Witnesses.
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  • #1 HIT

    #1 HIT
    Jackson recorded "Off The Wall", his fifth album as a solo artist. The singles “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” and “Rock With You” both became number-one hits.
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  • FIRST GRAMMY AWARD

    FIRST GRAMMY AWARD
    Jackson won his first Grammy Award for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance. And one year later, he won two American Music Awards – Favorite Soul/R&B Album and Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist.
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  • BROOKE SHIELD

    BROOKE SHIELD
    He met Brooke Shields at the Academy Awards and the two began a relationship. Brooke Shields is Michael Jackson's first wife. They didn't have children and their marriage lasted almost two years. But after they divorced, even Michael Jackson had baby and married with another woman, they dated for three to four years.
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  • MOONWALK

    MOONWALK
    Released "Thriller" which sold over 50 million copies worldwide and solidified him as the 'King of Pop'. It remained today the best selling album of all time. The al­bum is No. 1 in the U.S. for 37 con­sec­ut­ive weeks, with hits in­clud­ing “Bil­lie Jean,” “Beat It” and “Thrill­er.” Jack­son’s moon­walk dance move and the mini-movie video for “Thrill­er” be­came part of the sen­sa­tion.
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  • BILLY JEAN

    BILLY JEAN
    Performed “Billy Jean” at the Motown 25 Yesterday, Today, Forever Special and did the moonwalk for the first time. This became his signature move.
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  • NEVERLAND / PLASTIC SURGERY

    NEVERLAND / PLASTIC SURGERY
    Intense public scrutiny began over Jackson’s changing appearance, which many suspect as multiple plastic surgery procedures. During this time Jackson builds Neverland, a home on 2,700 acres in Central California, completed with its own amusement park rides.
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  • "WE ARE THE WORLD"

    "WE ARE THE WORLD"
    Jackson and Lionel Richie joined forces to write “We Are The World.” Proceeded from sales of the single benefit hunger relief in Africa. Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Cyndi Lauper and other prominent artists lent their voices to the song which sold a record seven million copies.
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  • TELL VITILIGO

    TELL VITILIGO
    Michael Jackson told Oprah Winfrey he has vitiligo, a skin disorder that destroyed melanin and, in severe cases, can leave a victim devoid of skin color. He also revealed that his father emotionally abused him as a child.
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  • MARRIAGE/DIVORCE LISA MARIE PRESLEY

    MARRIAGE/DIVORCE LISA MARIE PRESLEY
    Married Lisa Marie Presley at a private ceremony in the Dominican Republic. He and Lisa Marie separated on Jan 1996 and divorced Aug 20, 1996 which is after Michael Jackson impregnated Debbie Rowe. However, the couple continued to date on and off for four years after their divorce.
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  • MICHAEL JACKSON'S CHILDREN

    MICHAEL JACKSON'S CHILDREN
    Feb 13, 1997
    Rowe had a baby boy, Prince Michael Joseph, Junior. His godparents are Elizabeth Taylor and Macaulay Culkin.
    April 3, 1998
    Rowe gave birth to Paris Michael Katherine. Macaulay Culkin is the godfather.
    Oct. 8, 1999
    He and Debbie Rowe divorced. She gave him full custody of their two children.
    2002
    Prince Michael II is born. The identity of the mother is never released.
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  • ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

    ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
    He is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Which is the most pop stars want to be induct.
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  • DANGLES HIS NEWBORN SON

    DANGLES HIS NEWBORN SON
    Jackson lifted his newborn son, Prince Michael, over a hotel room terrace so fans can glimpse — and is roundly criticized for endangering his child. The identity of the child's mother is never revealed. Jackson said the child is the result of artificial insemination from a surrogate mother and his own sperm cells.
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  • DEATH

    DEATH
    He dies of cardiac arrest due to acute propofol and benzodiazepine intoxication. The Los Angeles County Coroner rules his death a homicide. His personal physician Conrad Murray is convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
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  • WHAT IS AN AMERICAN ICON?

    An icon is someone you look up to; someone that represents the best at what he/she does and is a good role model. He’s one of the most beloved yet controversial figures of all time. He won the world’s heart with his big smile and moonwalk but his strange behavior and allegations against him made people wonder what he was really all about. Whatever you think of him, you can’t deny that he has played a huge part in the popular culture of the last several decades.

  • WHAT DID MICHAEL JACKSON FOUGHT FOR?

    “I don’t understand racism. We are all the same and I have the perfect hypothesis to prove it. I play to all those countries and they cry in all the same places in my show. They laugh in the same places. They become hysterical in the same places. They faint in the same places and that’s the perfect hypothesis. There is a commonality that we are all the same.”
    -Michael Jackson
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