- 1717: Premier Grand Lodge
- Four London lodges meet at the Goose and Gridiron alehouse and form what becomes the Grand Lodge of England. The published date that opens the era of organized speculative Masonry; the Anniversary of Freemasonry is reckoned from it.
- 1723: Anderson's Constitutions
- The published first edition of The Constitutions of the Free-Masons. Rev. James Anderson, on commission of the Grand Lodge, codifies the Old Charges and the Charges of a Free-Mason. The book becomes the legal foundation of every regular Grand Lodge after it.
- 1751: Antients
- A second London Grand Lodge is formed by Masons (largely Irish) who hold that the Moderns have departed from the old ways. The Antients call themselves Antient because they keep what they regard as the original usages. Sixty-two years of rivalry follow.
- 1813: Union
- The Antients and Moderns merge as the United Grand Lodge of England. The reconciled ritual that emerges from the Lodge of Reconciliation becomes the source from which most American workings descend. The published date is foundational for almost every Grand Lodge in the English-speaking world.
- 1843: Baltimore Convention
- American Grand Lodges meet in Baltimore to harmonize the lectures, signs, and modes of working. The Convention does not impose uniformity, but it standardizes much, and it is the published forerunner of MSANA and of the present pattern of inter-jurisdictional cooperation.
- 1877: your Grand Lodge
- The your Grand Lodge is constituted at the jurisdiction seat by published authority from three constituent Lodges: Montezuma No. 1 (Santa Fe), Chapman No. 2 (Las Vegas), and Aztec No. 3 (Las Cruces). The state of your jurisdiction's Masonic life dates from this constitution.
- 1918: MSANA
- The Masonic Service Association of North America is founded as a published service body of the American Grand Lodges, in response to the First World War. Since 1952 it has run the Hospital Visitation Program in VA hospitals.
- 2017: Tercentenary
- The three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Grand Lodge of England, observed in published proceedings, scholarly publications, and ceremonies across the regular Masonic world.