1960 - Soviet government opens a small number of official children's English classes weekly in Tbilisi. High demand causes overcrowding.
1989 – International House Tbilisi founded as the first International House language school in the Soviet Union.
April 1991 – Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
2000 – Georgia Today, the current leading English-language newspaper, begins publishing. Georgia becomes the fifty-first member country of the English Speaking Union.
November 2003 – President Saakashvili takes power, ousting the ex-Soviet former president.
January 2006 – Russian-language education in public schools no longer compulsory. Public schools may now freely choose their own language curricula.
May 2007 – Georgian Journal, another English-language newspaper founded.
August 2008 – Russo-Georgian War severs diplomatic ties between the two countries. President Saakashvili begins implementing more pro-Western policy.
January 2009 – English Language Learning Strengthening Project begun, with provisions for English summer schools in Georgia and Great Britain and a United States high school exchange program.
April 2010 – TV media begin showing English media without dubbing.
March 2010 - Teach and Learn with Georgia is organized as a joint effort between the Peace Corps and the Georgian Ministry of Education. Since 2014, the program has scaled back, but continues to actively recruit for each school year.
September 2010 – English replaces Russian as second official language after Georgian. English made compulsory in schools from the first grade onward. Georgian-US exchange program sends 100 students to the United States for the 2010-2011 academic year. Although these educational initiatives are ongoing, the government has not yet released statistics on the numbers of English-proficient students by school year.
September 2011 – Second group of Teach and Learn teachers arrive, bringing a native English speaker to every Georgian public school.
January 2012 – Native Georgian teachers of English travel to Great Britain for an intensive course on English and teacher training to complement the reworked English curriculum.
February 2012 – Government census shows that 96.3 percent of people living in Tbilisi can speak at least some Russian, while only 66 percent know some English.
June 2012 – 77 percent of graduating high school students take exams in English.
June 2015 – 600 students participate in three-week intensive English summer school, the best of whom go on to Great Britain for an additional two weeks of classes.
July 2015 – In a television interview, ex-President Saakashvili revealed that his youngest son, Nikoloz, speaks English with his father and speaks almost no Russian.