1966
January: Salt Lake City is chosen as the U.S. candidate city for the 1972 Winter Games
April: International Olympic Committee meets in Rome and chooses Sapporo, Japan, as the host for the 1972 Winter Games.
1967
December: Salt Lake City competes against Denver, Seattle and Lake Placid, N.Y., to become the U.S. candidate city for the 1976 Winter Games. Denver is chosen.
1973
January: The U.S. Olympic Committee names Salt Lake City to replace Denver as the U.S. candidate for the 1976 Winter Games after Denver voters reject the Olympics.
February: The IOC chooses Innsbruck, Austria, to host the 1976 Winter Games.
1985
June: Salt Lake City competes against Anchorage, Alaska; Reno, Nev.; and Lake Placid, N.Y., to become the U.S. candidate city for the 1992 Winter Games, which were awarded to Albertville, France.
1989
June: Salt Lake City competes against Anchorage, Reno and Denver to become the U.S. candidate city for the 1998 Winter Games. Salt Lake City is chosen based on its contract with USOC to build winter sports facilities, including a bobsled and luge run.
1991
June: The IOC meets in Birmingham, England, to choose a host city for the 1998 Winter Games. The candidates are Salt Lake City; Nagano, Japan; Jaca, Spain; Ostersund, Sweden; and Aosta, Italy. (Sochi, Russia, dropped out of the competition before the vote.) Salt Lake City loses to Nagano in the final round of voting, 42-46.
November: The USOC ratifies Salt Lake City as the U.S. candidate to host the 2002 Winter Games.
1994
March: A record number of cities submit bids to the IOC to host the 2002 Winter Games: Salt Lake City; Alma Ata, Kazakhstan; Graz, Austria; Jaca, Spain; Ostersund, Sweden; Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia; Quebec, Canada; Sion, Switzerland; Sochi, Russia; and Tarvisio, Italy. Alma Ata later drops out of the competition.
December: Salt Lake City receives highest rating among bid cities in IOC Evaluation Commission report
1995
January: The IOC electoral college meets in Lausanne, Switzerland, to choose four finalists: Salt Lake City, Ostersund, Quebec and Sion.
June: IOC meets in Budapest, Hungary, to choose host of 2002 Winter Games. Salt Lake City is selected in the first round of voting.
1998
Nov. 24: KTVX-Channel 4 reports that a 1996 letter from Salt Lake Organizing Committee Vice President Dave Johnson indicates the Salt Lake Organizing Committee made a scholarship payment of more than $10,000 to the daughter of an International Olympic Committee member.
Dec. 11: After meeting with SLOC officials in Lausanne, the IOC announces creation of a panel to investigate the allegations of bribery.
Dec. 18: The SLOC Board of Trustees meets and says it will give its own Board of Ethics free rein to probe the bribery allegations.
Dec. 22: The U.S. Olympic Committee announces the appointment of a special commission to look into allegations that Salt Lake Olympic leaders gave some $1 million in gifts and cash to IOC members to win votes.
Dec. 23: The U.S. Justice Department launches a formal investigation into allegations of improprieties in connection with the Salt Lake bid for the Winter Games.
1999
Jan. 8: At a news conference, SLOC chief Frank Joklik announces his and Johnson's resignations.
Jan. 24: IOC leaders announce the Executive Board voted unanimously to expel six members, issue a warning to one and continue investigating three others. By this point, three other members had resigned.
Feb. 9: The SLOC Board of Ethics releases its 300-page report showing cash, gifts, trips and scholarships to IOC members from Salt Lake Olympic officials totaled more than $1 million. It holds bid leaders Tom Welch and Johnson almost entirely responsible for the bribery scandal.
1999
Feb. 11: Boston businessman Mitt Romney is appointed president of SLOC.
Aug. 3: David E. Simmons agrees to plead guilty to a misdemeanor tax violation stemming from his company's employment of John Kim, the son of an IOC member.
Sept. 1: John Kim, son of IOC member Un Yong Kim, is indicted on charges that he lied to the FBI and fraudulently obtained a green card.
Dec. 11-12: The IOC approves reforms stemming from the Salt Lake bribery scandal, including prohibiting members from visiting bid cities.
2000
March 14: Former USOC official Alfredo LaMont pleads guilty to two tax felonies, including a conspiracy charge that allegedly involved two unnamed officials of the Salt Lake bid committee in an attempt to defraud the IRS of taxes owned on money LaMont earned from consulting for the bid.
July 20: Welch and Johnson charged with 15 felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and racketeering in U.S. District Court.
2001
July 16: Belgian surgeon Jacques Rogge is elected in Moscow to succeed longtime IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch.
July 16: U.S. District Judge David Sam dismisses four of the 15 felony charges filed against Welch and Johnson.
Sept. 11: Terrorist attacks against the United States raise question of whether Salt Lake's Games will go on.
Sept. 12: IOC officials say the Games won't be canceled.
Nov. 15: Remaining charges against Welch and Johnson are dropped.
2002
Feb. 8: Opening ceremonies of the 17-day 2002 Winter Games.