This is a timeline of events concerning the long-running D. C. Thomson & Co. comic The Beano.
| Year | Date | Event | References | | 1938 | 30 July | The first ever issue of The Beano goes into print with Big Eggo as the cover star. |
| 1939 | September 1 | The Beano Annual is first published. |
| 1951 | 17 March | Issue 452, Dennis the Menace makes his first appearance. |
| 1953 | 18 April | Issue 561, Roger the Dodger makes his first appearance. |
| 1953 | 8 August | Issue 577, Dennis the Menace's arch-enemy Walter the Softy is introduced when he moved in. |
| 1953 | 19 December | Issue 596, Minnie the Minx makes her first appearance. |
| 1954 | 13 February | Issue 604, The Bash Street Kids are introduced under the title When the Bell Rings. |
| 1959 | George Moonie is succeeded as Beano editor by Harold Cramond |
| 1961 | September | Beano strikes 1000.The front cover contains a range of Beano characters. |
| 1962 | August | David Sutherland begins drawing The Bash Street Kids, something he still does to this very day. |
| 1964 | 16 May | Billy Whizz is introduced. |
| 1968 | 31 August | Issue 1363, Gnasher makes his first appearance. |
| 1974 | 14 September | Dennis the Menace becomes the incumbent cover star of the Beano taking over from Biffo the Bear. |
| 1975 | 18 October | Issue 1735, Ball Boy is introduced. |
| 1976 | 5 June | Issue 1768, The Dennis the Menace fan club( is introduced. For 30p, which went to the Beano office, you could get cool badges, secured in the Fan Club Wallet. |
| 1980 | November 15 | Beano strikes 2000.On the back cover you would see the first ever beano cover. |
| 1984 | October | Harold Cramond retires as Beano editor and is succeeded by Euan Kerr. |
| 1986 | April | Gnasher goes missing, which leaves Dennis distraught, prompting a nationwide search for the beloved cartoon canine. |
| 1986 | May | Gnasher returns home with a litter of puppies. |
| 1990 | The Beano's Dennis the Menace and Gnasher Show is first aired on CITV and then TCC. |
| 1993 | The Beano Video (aka Beano All-Stars) is launched on VHS, which animates the Beano characters for the first time. |
| 1994 | The Beano Videostars is released as a follow up to the Beano Video. |
| 1998 | 17 October | Issue 2931, Dennis the Menace's sister Bea is born. |
| 1998 | The Dennis the Menace fan club finishes, and The Beano Club begins. However, it would return 20 years later. |
| 2000 | 1 January | Issue 2998, The Beanos New Millennium special is released. | |
| 2000 | 15 January | The Beano celebrates its 3000th issue. |
| 2001 | 13 January | Issue 3052, Minnie the Minx's artist Jim Petrie retires after almost 40 years, with his 2000th and last Minnie strip featured in the issue. | [1] |
| 2001 | 19 July | Bronze statues of Minnie the Minx and Desperate Dan, measured at approximately 8ft, are unveiled in Dundee city centre. | [2] |
| 2002 | 5 January | Issue 3105, Freddie Fear: Son of a Witch is introduced. |
| 2003 | A Beano-Dandy crossover strip, Dandy Days in Beanotown is published in The Dandy due to the rivalry between the two comics. |
| 2003 | 2 August | The Beano turns 65 , and a special birthday issue is released, where Dennis puts on some shorts belonging to Jimmy from the comic strip Jimmy and his magic patch. |
| 2007 | 14 March | Wayne's in Pain is announced as the newest Bash Street Kid. However, he only lasts a year. |
| 2007 | 27 October | Issue 3404, Laura Howell becomes The Beano's very first female artist after her strip Johnny Bean from Happy Bunny Green makes its debut. |
| 2007 | In the comic's biggest revamp the paper style finally changed from newsprint to a glossy paper, much in the style of the inside pages of the then companion papers Dandy Xtreme and BeanoMAX. |
| 2008 | 2 August | The Beano turns 70 and celebrates with A event called Gnashional Menace day, where every body has to be naughty like Dennis. |
| 2009 | 29 August | Dennis the Menace and Gnasher are revamped to coincide with the new animated series. |
| 2012 | 4 December | The Beano becomes the last weekly humour anthology comic after The Dandy prints its final edition having recently celebrated 75 years. |
| 2013 | 8 July | The Dennis and Gnasher animated series is relaunched, with the new name of Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, effectively reversing the "softy" changes made to the Menace in the last series, but retains some of the characters. CBBC Presenter, Chris Johnson has taken over the voice role of Dennis the Menace. |
| 2013 | 24 July | Issue 3695, The Beanos 75th anniversary issues is released, featuring a handful of celebrities including Sir Alex Ferguson, David Beckham, will.i.am, Bruce Forsyth, and the Dandy's very own Harry Hill. | |
| 2013 | 4 December | Long-serving artist Charles Grigg dies aged 97. |
| 2014 | 26 February | A real-life Bash Street is unveiled in Dundee to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Bash Street Kids. | [3] |
| 2014 | 26 August | Artist Jim Petrie dies aged 82. |
| 2014 | 1 December | The Dennis the Menace Minecraft mod is launched. |
| 2015 | 1 April | The Blast in Beanotown app for the iPad is launched. |
| 2016 | 28 September | The Beano gets a brand new logo, the biggest change to the masthead since 1971. |
| 2016 | 28 September | Dennis is made "politically correct" as the comic strip is rebranded Dennis and Gnasher. |
| 2017 | 23 April | Artist Leo Baxendale dies age 87. |
| 2017 | 16 September | Issue 3902, Since Curly moved, JJ and Rubi are introduced since they both moved in. Pie-Face has been redesigned. |
| 2018 | 7 March | Big Eggo returns to the Beano after 69 years away. |
| 2018 | 25 July | The Beano Comic reaches 80 and had a birthday issue guest edited by David Walliams, and the Dennis Fan Club returned. |
| 2018 | 29 August & 5 September | Gnasher goes missing (again!)but is found round the back of the Beanotown Battersea dogs and cats home a week later. |
| 2018 | December 19 | Minnie the minx celebrates her 65th anniversary, having first appeared in 1953. |
1. ^http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/1106186.stm
2. ^http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1446045.stm
3. ^https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-26359708