Venus

second planet from the Solar System, tellurian and very similar to Earth

27 dated entries naming Venus, drawn from 21 separate years between 363 CE and 2020 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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4th century

363April 20 – The planet Venus occults the planet Jupiter.source

5th century

428October 26 – The planet Venus occults the planet Jupiter.source

12th century

1192January 7 – Venus occults Jupiter.source

13th century

1210September 24 – Venus occults Jupiter (the last such occurrence until 1570).source

16th century

1570February 5 – Venus occults Jupiter; this will next happen in 1818.source
1590October 13 – German astronomer Michael Maestlin becomes the first person to record an observation of the occultation of the planet Mars by the planet Venus.source

18th century

1737May 28 – The planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours, by the amateur astronomer John Bevis, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.source

19th century

1818January 3 (21:52 UTC) – Venus occults Jupiter. It is the last occultation of one planet by another before November 22, 2065.source
1899December 2 – During the new moon, a near-grand conjunction of the classical planets and several binocular Solar System bodies occur. The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Saturn are all within 15° of each other, with Venus 5° ahead of this conjunction and Jupiter 15° behind.source

20th century

1959July 7 – At 14:28 UT Venus occults the star Regulus. The rare event (which will next occur on October 1, 2044) is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of Venus' atmosphere.source
1961February 12 – The USSR launches Venera 1 towards Venus.source
1961May 19 – Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however, the probe lost contact with Earth a month earlier, and does not send back any data).source
1962December 14 – U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 passes by Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet.source
1965November 16 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe from Baikonur, Kazakhstan toward Venus (on March 1, 1966, it becomes the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet).source
1966March 1 – Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.source
1967June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.source
1967October 18 – The Venera 4 probe descends through the Venusian atmosphere.source
1967October 19 – The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.source
1969May 16 – Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 5 lands on Venus.source
1969May 17 – Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 6 begins to descend into Venus's atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.source
1970August 17 – Venera program: Venera 7 is launched from the Soviet Union toward Venus. It later becomes the first spacecraft to transmit data from the surface of another planet successfully.source
1981November 4 – Venera program: Venera 14 is launched to Venus.source
1981October 30 – Venera program: Venera 13 is launched to Venus.source

21st century

2006April 11 – The European Space Agency's Venus Express space probe enters Venus' orbit.source
2007June 5 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus on route to Mercury.source
2020April 10 – The ESA/JAXA space probe BepiColombo makes its final gravity assist around Earth and begins to depart for Venus, where it will make several gravity assist maneuvers before finally arriving at Mercury in 2025.source
2020September 14 – The Royal Astronomical Society announces the detection of phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, which is known to be a strong predictor for the presence of microbial life.source