Entered the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Transferred to the University of Nebraska and graduated at the age of 19.
Continued his education at the Columbia Business School, graduating in 1951.
He attended New York Institute of Finance after that.
Buffett married Susan Thompson at Dundee Presbyterian Church.
They had their first child, Susan Alice.
the Buffetts had their second child, Howard Graham.
He purchased a five-bedroom stucco house in Omaha, where he still lives, for $31,500
In 1958 the Buffetts' third child, Peter Andrew, was born.
Buffett became a millionaire because of his partnerships, which in January 1962 had an excess of $7,178,500, of which over $1,025,000 belonged to Buffett.
He created the Buffett Partnership after meeting Charlie Munger, and his firm eventually acquired a textile manufacturing firm called Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire paid out its first and only dividend of 10 cents.
In 1969, following his most successful year, Buffett liquidated the partnership and transferred their assets to his partners.
the SEC opened a formal investigation into Buffett and Berkshire's acquisition of Wesco Financial, due to possible conflict of interest. No charges were brought.
Susan and Warren Buffett began living separately in 1977.
Berkshire began to acquire stock in ABC.
Berkshire began the year trading at $775 per share, and ended at $1,310. Buffett's net worth reached $620 million.
Berkshire Hathaway purchased a 12% stake in Salomon Inc., making it the largest shareholder and Buffett a director.
Buffett began buying The Coca-Cola Company stock, eventually purchasing up to 7% of the company for $1.02 billion.
Buffett became a billionaire when Berkshire Hathaway began selling class A shares on May 29, 1990, with the market closing at $7,175 a share.
Buffett entered in $11 billion worth of forward contracts to deliver U.S. dollars against other currencies.
Susan Buffett died
His total gain on these contracts was over $2 billion.
His annual salary was about $100,000.
On his 76th birthday, Buffett married his longtime companion, Astrid Menks.
Buffett ran into problems during the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
Buffett became the richest person in the world, with a total net worth estimated at $62 billion.
Buffett had agreed to buy General Electric (GE) preferred stock.
Buffett lost $25 billion over a 12-month period during 2008/2009.
over the course of the previous eight months, Buffett had bought 64 million shares of International Business Machine Corp stock, worth around $11 billion.
Buffett was diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer during a routine test.
the price of Berkshire Hathaway's shares hit $200,000 a share for the first time, capitalizing the company at $328 billion.
Berkshire Hathaway was fined $896,000 for failing to report December 9, 2013, purchase of shares in USG Corporation as required.
He began selling some of the approximately 81 million shares he owned in IBM stock, noting that he did not value the company as highly as he did six years earlier.