Timeline Of The History of Animation

1906:
Humourous Phases of Funny Phases

1908:
Fantasmagorie (First short of solely animated images)

1908:
Humpty Dumpty Circus (first stop motion)

1914:
Earl Hurd invents Cel Animation

1914:
Gertie the Dinosaur

1917:
El Apostol (first full length feature film)

1919:
Felix the cat

1920:
The Debut of Thomas Cat (first colour cartoon)

1922:
Walt Disney's first animated short Little Red Riding Hood

1928:
Mickey Mouse's debut in Plane Crazy

1929:
Silly Symphonies starts with The Skeleton Dance

1930
Betty Boop debuts in Dizzy Dishes

1930:
Looney Tunes debuts with Sinkin' in the Bathtub

1931:
Peludopolis (first sound used within a feture length film.

1932:
The first full colour, three strip Technicolour animated short Flowers and Trees

1933:

King Kong (several stop motion characters)

1933:

Popeye debuts in Popeye the sailor

1933:

Multiplane camera invented allowing sanimators to ctreat a 3D effect within 2D cartoons

1935:

Russian Film The New Gulliver is first full length feature film too employ a stop morion animator for the bulk of its running time.