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1989
 
     
At CERN, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build ENQUIRE, a first step towards the future World Wide Web        
1990
 
     
Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, publishes the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web        
1991
 
    
Tim Berners-Lee, using CERN computers, puts online the first website at http://info.cern.ch       
2008
 
    
The Large Hadron Collider, at Cern in Switzerland, begins accelerating protons round a 17-mile circular tunnel       
2008
 
    
The Hadron Collider at Cern has to be halted when a serious fault develops, leading to a predicted six-month delay in the programme       
2010  November 17
 
    
CERN announces its successful production and brief capture of atoms of antihydrogen, the first observed example of antimatter       
2012  July 4
 
     
CERN announces the discovery of a new particle, possibly the much anticipated Higgs boson, in the Large Hadron Collider        
2013  March 14
 
    
Scientists at CERN announce that the recently discovered particle is beyond doubt the Standard Model of the Higg's boson