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| 1965-10-30 || cryonics || || || Dandridge M. Cole || Dandridge M. Cole suffers a fatal heart attack. Cole had read ''The Prospect of Immortality'' in 1963. In his more recent book, ''Beyond Tomorrow'', he had devoted several pages to the subject. He had expressed a wish to be frozen after death. After some delay, a call was placed to Ettinger, who later would write, "I was consulted by long-distance telephone several hours after he died, but in the end, the family did what was to be expected {{snd}} nothing."<ref name="BedfordSuspension"/>
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| 1983 || cryonics || || || Jerry Leaf || Jerry Leaf is a research associate in the thoracic surgery department of the UCLA Medical Center. A small amount of his work time involves instruction of surgical residents in some aspects of thoracic surgery; however, the bulk of his work is as a researcher-technician in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Buckberg, a leading researcher in the field of myocardial protection myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury.
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| 1985 || cryonics || organization || || Cryovita || Cryovita doesn't renew their contract with Trans Time because it wasn't receiving enough money, and had mostly been paid in stocks so far.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alcor.org/Library/html/Interview-JerryLeaf.html|title=Interview with Jerry Leaf|website=alcor.org|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
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| 1985-01-01 || cryonics || || || Cryonics Institute || Andy Zawacki starts working for the Cryonics Institute. As of January 2019, Zawacki is still working there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.benbest.com/cryonics/history.html|title=A HISTORY OF CRYONICS|website=www.benbest.com|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
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| 1986 || cryonics || organization || || Alcor || Some of Alcor's members form Symbex, a small investment company which funds a building in Riverside, California, for lease by Alcor.
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| 1993 || cryonics || organization || protection from natural catastrophes || Alcor || Alcor purchases a building in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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| 1998-04-30 || cryonics || organization || status || Trans Time || Art Quaife resigns as president of Trans Time.
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| 2002 (near the end of) || cryonics || organization || || Alcor || Alcor embarks on an ambitious expansion project, taking over another unit in its Scottsdale building (where remaining units currently are rented to other tenants).
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| 2003 August || cryonics || Technological development || Intermediate storage temperature || Alcor || Alcor Research Fellow Hugh Hixon begins to study a way to image stress in cryoprotectant glasses.<ref name="ITS">{{Cite web|url=https://alcor.org/Library/html/IntermediateTemperatureStorage.html|title=Systems for Intermediate Temperature Storage for Fracture Reduction and Avoidance|website=alcor.org|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
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| 2003-05-12 || cryonics || organization || || KrioRus || KrioRus founder Igor Artyuhov cryopreserves the first human patient in Russia.
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| 2003 August 2004 March || cryonics || Technological development technological adoption || Intermediate storage temperature || Alcor || Alcor Research Fellow Hugh Hixon begins to study acquires a way to image stress in cryoprotectant glassesneuropod intermediate temperature storage unit for individual neuropatients.<ref name="ITS">{{Cite web|url=https://alcor.org/Library/html/IntermediateTemperatureStorage.html|title=Systems for Intermediate Temperature Storage for Fracture Reduction and Avoidance|website=alcor.org|access-date=2019-02-15}}</ref>
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| 2004 March 2005 November || cryonics || technological adoption || Intermediate storage temperature || Alcor || Alcor acquires places an order with 21st Century Medicine, Inc., for a custom ITS dewar large enough to hold 14 neuropatients at a neuropod stable intermediate temperature storage unit for individual neuropatients.<ref name=("ITSNeurodewar"/>).
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| 2005-02 || cryonics || organization || pre-founding || Sociedad Crionica || The website crionica.org is created.<ref name="CI2017-4">{{Cite journal|last=Tripplett|first=Donald|date=2017|title=Sociedad Crionica|url=https://www.cryonics.org/images/uploads/magazines/CI-NEWS-04-2017.pdf|journal=Cryonics Institute Newsletter|volume=|issue=4|pages=27|via=}}</ref>
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| 2005-08 || cryonics || organization || || KrioRus || KrioRus preserves their first patient.
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| 2006 January || cryonics || Technological development || Intermediate storage temperature || Mike Iarocci, Stephen Valentine, and Brian Wowk || US Patent 6,988,370, Cryogenic storage system with improved temperature control, is awarded to Mike Iarocci, Stephen Valentine, and Brian Wowk.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://patents.google.com/patent/US6988370B2/en|title=Cryogenic storage system with improved temperature control|last=Iarocci|first=Michael|last2=Valentine|first2=Stephen|date=2004|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=|last3=Wowk|first3=Brian}}</ref>
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| 2014 || cryonics || organization || || {{W|Suspended Animation, Inc}} || {{W|Suspended Animation, Inc}} opens an office in California.<ref name="Alcor2018-2">{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/alcorlife/docs/cryonics2018-2|title=Cryonics Magazine March-April 2018|website=Issuu|language=en|access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
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| 2015-11-17 || cryonics || organization || || OregonCryo || OregonCryo cryopreserves their first human patient.
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| 2015-12-12 || cryonics || organization || || CryoCare || CryoCare preserves their first patient.<ref name="CryoCareFirst">{{Cite web|url=http://www.alcor.org/Library/html/casereportC2150.htm|title=Cryopreservation of James Gallagher, CryoCare patient #C-2150|last=Darwin|first=M.|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
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| 2017-10-14 to 15 || cryonics || organization || first annual event || Sociedad Crionica || Sociedad Crionica has its first annual event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cryonics.org/images/uploads/magazines/CI-NEWS-04-2017.pdf|title=Cryonics Institute Newsletter|last=|first=|date=2017|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}</ref>
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| 2018-03-21 || cryonics || organization || risk management || Alcor || $12,707,650.65 is transferred from the Patient Care Trust to the Alcor Care Trust Supporting Organization. As they have been for many years, the funds stay in the custody of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC, but are now managed by the ACT Trustees. The Patient Care Trust retains $700,000 in cash as a cushion for Patient Care expenses in 2018, as well as its ownership position in Cryonics Property, LLC (the company that owns the building that Alcor occupies), and its ownership of Patient dewars and related equipment.
