1845	Brunswick-Balke-Collender founded - manufacturers of billiard and bowling alley equipment
1916	B-B-C makes disk players and vertical-cut records in Canada
June, 1919	B-B-C enters the US record business, now producing lateral-cut records, introducing them to the public in January, 1920.
April, 1930	B-B-C sold it's record and radio divisions to Warner Brothers Pictures. Read elsewhere about Vocalion's involvement and the operations in Canada
Dec 3, 1931	WBP licensed Brunswick/Vocalion to American Record Corp (which is owned by Consolidated Film Industries) forming Brunswick Record Corp. BRC is now a subsidiary of ARC, but is ultimately owned (royalties and the like) by WBP. BRC had lots of weird stipulations in this agreement, like not selling Brunswick records for less than 75 cents and production quotas. CFI would go on to purchase the Columbia label in 1934
Dec, 1938	Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) buys BRC/ARC from Consolidated Film Industries
Sept, 1939	CBS revives Columbia label. Brunswicks were issued less and less
April, 1940	Brunswick label discontinued by CBS. This put CBS in violation of the WBP/BRC/ARC/CFI license. Rights to the Brunswick name went back to the radio division, which were still owned by WBP.
May 2, 1941	WBP sold Brunswick Radio Corp, the name, Vocalion, and all masters made before November 17, 1931, to Decca.
1944	Decca uses the Brunswick label mainly as a reissue label for the old Brunswick/Vocalion jazz and blues masters it now owned. Within a few years, the label was then used to issue jazz, R&B and rock-and-roll.
1952	Decca buys Universal International
September 30, 1960	Decca agrees to make Brunswick a sovereign record company, owned in partnership by Decca and a production company owned by Brunswick producer/manager Nat Tarnopol and Brunwsick artist Jackie Wilson.
1962	MCA (Music Corporation of America, founded 1924) buys Decca Records and Universal Pictures.
1967	Carl Davis, major producer at Brunswick, forms sister label Dakar Records. Dakar is distributed by Atlantic Records.
May 19, 1970	MCA head Lew Wasserman agreed to resign as president of Brunswick Records and to sell MCA's 50% interest in Brunswick to Tarnopol under the condition that MCA maintain control of Brunswick's pressing and distribution.
Summer, 1972	MCA head Lew Wasserman releases Brunswick from MCA's pressing and distribution hold, making Brunswick and sister label Dakar completely independent. Dakar Records is now distributed by Brunswick Records
1974	Decca label discontinued
1978	Legal bills and fractures with key artist managers combine to end Brunswick Records, according to brunswickrecords.com
1982	Last Brunswick records, according to tracklib.com
December 25, 1987	Brunswick owner Nat Tarnopol passes away.
1995	Brunswick revived by Nat's children, Paul and Mara Tarnopol. The Brunswick catalog is distributed by E1 Entertainment.
TODAY	Brunswick Record Corporation is active and located at 157 E. Franklin St., Suite 5, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
1980	Polygram buys Decca (According to http://www.ketupa.net/vivendi2.htm)
1987	Sony Corp of America buys CBS music division. Eventually taken over by Sony Corp. of Japan.
1990	MCA Music Entertainment Group buys GRP Record and decides to close down MCA's old internal jazz staff and transfer control of all jazz catalog to GRP. What this means is that any Decca jazz titles are GRP - any Decca rock would be MCA Records, and any Decca Country would be MCA Nashville (which, I believe, re-activated the Decca label for new country recordings). Here is the person at Decca to contact concerning all re-issues.
1990	Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Japan) buys MCA/Universal
1995	Seagram buys MCA/Universal from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Japan) and renames it Universal Studios
1998	Seagram buys Polygram from Philips
2000	Vivendi (France) buys Seagram, becoming Vivendi Universal
2003	NBC agress to buy Vivendi Universal.
August 5, 2004	The music divisions of Sony Corporation and German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG (BMG: RCA Victor, Bluebird, etc.) merge. The new company, Sony BMG, will be based in New York City and will be owned 50/50 by the two partners. Excluded from the deal are music publishing as well as disc manufacturing and distribution. Sony's Japanese music business, SMEJ, is excluded.
February 1, 2011	CitiGroup buys EMI Ltd. from investment company Terra Firma
November, 2011 (Approved in September, 2012)	Universal Music Group buys the recording division of EMI for $1.9 billion. Sony/ATV buys the second part, the publishing division in charge of songwriting copyrights, for $2.2 billion.

Sep 28, 2012Citi sells EMI Group's recorded music division, EMI Music, to Vivendi Nov 14, 2018Sony buys the rest (the music publishing arm) of EMI

What has become of the original master recordings? A local discographer informed me that all non-Decca owned Brunswick masters were tossed out a decade ago. Even sadder, at that time, no legers or files for the accoustical recordings could be found.