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On July 30, 2015, the Ethereum network goes live with the Frontier release, marking the birth of the blockchain that would become Ethereum Classic.
On July 20, 2016, Ethereum forked at block 1,920,000 to reverse The DAO exploit. Those who rejected the rollback continued the original chain as Ethereum Classic.
At block 200,000 on September 7, 2015, the Frontier Thawing upgrade unlocked the gas limit, enabling practical smart contract deployment for the first time.
At block 1,150,000 on March 14, 2016, Homestead moved the network from beta to production with DELEGATECALL, tightened transaction rules, and P2P forward compatibility.
Arvicco publishes the Crypto-Decentralist Manifesto, articulating the philosophical principles that define the Ethereum Classic community.
The principle that smart contracts should execute exactly as written — without external intervention — becomes the defining ethos of Ethereum Classic.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly states that Ethereum Classic has a right to exist and is a legitimate project.
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