- 2003: Hosted "Richard Pryor: I Ain't Dead Yet", featured clips of his concert appearances, recordings and diary excerpts as well as his comic pals
- 1995: Appeared with daughter Rain in episode of CBS medical drama "Chicago Hope" as a patient with multiple sclerosis in November
- 1995: Wrote autobiography "Pryor Convictions"
- 1993: Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 1991: Underwent triple-bypass heart surgury
- 1990: Suffered a heart attack on an Australian golf course
- 1988: Made an abortive attempt to put together a standup routine
- 1986: First diagnosed with multiple sclerosis; went public in 1991
- 1983: First film as director, "Richard Pryor Here and Now"
- 1981: First film as co-producer, "Bustin' Loose"
- 1980: "Accidentally" set himself on fire while freebasing cocaine; suffered third-degree burns over half his body; later revealed that he began freebasing again three weeks after leaving the hospital; admitted to Barbara Walters in a 1986 interview that the incident was a suicide attempt
- 1980: Started his own production company, Indigo, at Columbia Pictures; put Jim Brown, his best friend at the time, in charge (date approximate)
- 1978: Shot up the car of Deboragh McGuire, then his wife, with a gun when she attempted to leave him
- 1977: Suffered his first heart attack while dallying with a prostitute
- 1974: First film as screenwriter (with Mel Brooks), "Blazing Saddles"; lost promised lead role to Cleavon Little
- 1970: Moved to Berkeley, CA; began socializing with writers Ishmael Reed and Cecil Brown (date approximate)
- 1969: Reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown of sorts while performing his popular Bill Cosby-like standup routine onstage at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas; fled the building
- 1968: Gained critical notice as Stanley X in the classic youth exploitation film, "Wild in the Streets"
- 1967: Film acting debut, "The Busy Body", a comedy directed by William Castle
- 1966: Appeared as standup comic on the Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan shows (date approximate)
- 1964: First TV appearance, "On Broadway Tonight", a variety show hosted by Rudy Vallee featuring new talent
- 1963: Moved to New York, began performing at "Cafe Wha?" in Greenwich Village
- 1958: In West Germany with airborne division of US Army; discharged for slashing another soldier with a switchblade
- 1956: As a teen, impregnated his girlfriend (who gave birth to his first daughter); subsequently learned that his father had also been having sex with her (date approximate)
- Named after a series of "uncles" (actually pimps); raised in a brothel owned by his grandmother; watched his mother perform "tricks" with white men
- Began performing for classmates at age 11
- Performed as professional nightclub drummer from age 7
- Began performing as nightclub comedian in Peoria's Harold's Club, owned by the most powerful black man in town
- Worked in a meat packinghouse
- Wrote TV scripts for "Sanford and Son," "The Flip Wilson Show" and Lily Tomlin specials and Flip Wilson
- Molested in an alley at age six
- Stage acting debut in little theater production of "Rumpelstiltskin" at age 12
- Began performing a more honest, confessional and profane brand of standup comedy
- Set to produce an upcoming biopic based on his life (lensed 2005)
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