See also: Timeline of Esoterica

3000 B.C - Mesopotamian use of the pentagram (to mean “corner, angle, nook; a small room, cavity, hole; pitfall”)
6th Centuary BC - Confucious, Tao Te Ching, Buddha, Pythagoras
5th Centuary AD - Christianity becomes official religion of the Roman Empire, definitive declaration of biblical canon
12?? - The Sworn Book of Honorius
1307 - Knights Templar arrested
14?? - Key of Solomon
14?? - (mid 14th centuary) oldest surviving tarot deck (Italy)
14?? - Voynich manuscript written
1455 - Gutenburg Bible
1531 - Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa published in Paris
1589 - John Dee and Edward Kelley begin the Enochian workings
1600 - Giordano Bruno executed
1614 - “first” Rosicrucian tract
16?? - Earliest confirmed knowledge of Voynich manuscript (in the collection of Georg Baresch in Prague)
1781 - Tarot as book of Thoth, Monde Primitif by Antoine Court de G?belin
1785 - How to Entertain Yourself With the Deck of Cards Called Tarot by Etteilla
1797 - The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage
1855 - Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi (pentagram, tarot)
1875 - Theosophical Society founded
1888 - Dr. William Wynn Westcott and Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers found the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
1898 - Aleister Crowley joins the Golden Dawn (at age 23)
1904 - Book of the Law dictated to Crowley (published?)
1904 - Austin Osman Spare exhibited at the annual Royal Academy exhibition in London
1910 - Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot deck published
1912 - Book 4 published
1913 - The Book of Pleasure by Austin Osman Spare
1923 - HP Lovecraft first mentions the Necronomicon in “the Hound”
1937 - The Golden Dawn by Israel Regardie
1947 - Jack Pasons and L. Ron Hubbord do the Babalon Working
1954 - Gerald Gardner publishs early works on Wicca
1956 - Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon
1969 - Minutes to Go by Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs, Sinclair Beiles, Gregory Corso
1969 - the Satanic Bible
1972 - Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer: Theory and Experiments by John C. Lilly
1975 - Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea
1977 - Exo-Pyschology by Timothy Leary, Cosmic Trigger and Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
1978 - Liber Null by Peter Carroll
1983 - Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren
1988 - Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig
1988 - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
1988 - Foucoult’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
1989 - Voudon Gnostic Workbook by Michael Bertiaux
2003 - Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown