'Beauty & the Beast' - Timeline
- 1594-95 - Lavinia Fontana's Portrait of a Girl Covered in Hair or Portrait of Antonietta Gonsalvus - possible origin of the legend?
- 1740 - La Belle et la Bête fairy tale by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve published under the pseudonym "Madame de V***"
- 1756 - Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's abridged version of La Belle et la Bête - this time for children
- 1771 - Belgian composer André Grétry has popular success in France with the story which he turned into the opera Zémire et Azor
- 1874 - In England, Walter Crane illustrations for Beauty & the Beast
- 1889 - Andrew Lang retells the story in Blue Fairy Book
- 1890 - The Legend of Briar Rose paintings by Edward Burne-Jones
- 1910 - Edmund Dulac illustrations for Beauty & the Beast
- 1936-1943 - T.S. Eliot publishes The Four Quartets
- 1945 - Jean Cocteau makes his La Belle et la bête
- 1946 - The Walt Disney Company releases Song of the South
- 1948 - Agatha Christie's Mary Westmacott novel The Rose and the Yew Tree
- 1983-1985 - Anne Rice releases The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty under a pseudonym
- 1981 - AIDS pandemic officially recognized
- 1984 - The case of Ryan White, a teenage hemophiliac barred from school
- 1987 - Beauty & the Beast TV series
- 1988 - World Health Organization established World AIDS Day
- 1991 - Disney releases Beauty & the Beast animated version; nominated for a Best Picture Oscar
- 1994 - Disney releases stage show musical version
- 2017 - Disney releases Beauty & the Beast live action version
- 2025 - artist Julien "Jul" Berjeaut illustrates a modernized version comic book of Beauty & the Beast intended for 10- and 11-year-olds, but the French Education Ministry cancels it precisely because it had been modernized.