Selected Events for Age of Aquarius |
| Year | Month | Day | Event | Related Resource |
| 1956 | February | 22 | Heartbreak Hotel enters the charts. The song becomes Elvis Presley's first number 1 Billboard single. | Link |
| 1960 | August | | Psychologist Timothy Leary, Harvard University, tries hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms in Cuernavaca, Mexico. On returning to Harvard, Leary orders psilocybin from the Sandoz Laboratories in Switzerland and begins a series of experiments known as the Psilocybin Project. | Link |
| 1964 | February | 07 | The Beatles arrive in New York to begin their first tour of the United States. | |
June | | With Neal Cassady at the wheel, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters leave La Honda, California and begin their psychedelic cross-country trip in "Furthur", the legendary day-glo painted 1939 International Harvester school bus. | Link | | 1968 | April | 29 | Hair opens on Broadway and immediately becomes a smash hit. It closes on July 1, 1972 after 1,742 performances. | Link |
| 1969 | August | 15 | 400,000 people attend the 3 day Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, New York to hear Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Band, Joan Baez and other great musicians. | |
