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Yoko Ono Biography and Timeline

Follow Yoko Ono through 16 dated historical records for Japan.

Yoko Ono, historical timeline

A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.

16Distinct records
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1933–1982Years on this page

1933

Birth of Yoko Ono

Arts / Popular Music

Birth of Yoko Ono

1966

Beatles, The

London · Arts / Popular Music

Yoko Ono and John Lennon meet at a preview of her art show, Exhibition #2, at Indica Gallery in London

1967

Beatles, The

London · Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon anonymously sponsors Yoko Onos Half a Wind Show (subtitled Yoko Plus Me) at London's Lisson Gallery

1968

Beatles, The

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon and Yoko Ono exhibit their first official joint venture at the Arts Lab in London. Soon after, they plant acorns outside Coventry Cathedral as a conceptual "living arts sculpture"

Beatles, The

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon moves out of his house in Weybridge, he and Yoko Ono move into Ringo Starrs apartment in Montague Square

Beatles, The

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon moves out of his house in Weybridge, he and Yoko Ono move into Ringo Starrs apartment in Montague Square. John Lennon and Yoko Ono exhibit their first official joint venture at the Arts Lab in London.

Beatles, The

Arts / Popular Music

Lennon releases "Unfinished Music No 2 - Life With The Lions", one side consists of John Lennon and Yoko Ono calling out to each other during her stay in a London hospital while pregnant

Beatles, The

Arts / Popular Music

Soon after, they plant acorns outside Coventry Cathedral as a conceptual "living arts sculpture". Lennons solo career begins with Unfinished Music No 1 - Two Virgins, the sleeve depicts him and Ono standing naked.

Plastic Ono Band

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon begins his personal and artistic relationship with Yoko Ono by collaborating on the experimental album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins

1969

Demonstrations

Amsterdam · Arts / Popular Music

Lennon & Yoko Ono stage their "Beds in Peace" at the Amsterdam Hilton on honeymoon

Plastic Ono Band

Arts / Popular Music

A second volume, Unfinished Music No.2: Life With The Lions appears in the spring of 1969

1970

Marriage

Amsterdam · Arts / Popular Music

Yoko Ono and John Lennon celebrate their honeymoon by staging a "bed-in" for peace in Amsterdam

1973

Marriage

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin an 18-month separation, during which Lennon embarks on his infamous "lost weekend" in Los Angeles

1975

Birth of Yoko Ono

New York · Arts / Popular Music

Sean Taro Ono Lennon is born at New York Hospital on father John Lennons 35th birthday

1980

Double Fantasy

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" with Yoko Ono

1982

Grammy Award

Arts / Popular Music

Yoko Ono recieves the "Album of the Year Award" for "Double Fantasy" at the 24th annual Grammys

Records, sources and methodology

These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.