| BC | |
| c. 1400 - 600 | Uffington horse (Oxfordshire) cut |
| AD | |
| 1580 | Earliest reference suggesting the existence of a possible Pitstone Hill horse (Buckinghamshire) |
| c. 1690 - 1710 | Original Westbury horse probably cut |
| 1742 | First reference to the Westbury horse |
| 1778 | Westbury horse recut to a new design |
| 1780 | Cherhill horse cut |
| 1785 | Old Pewsey horse cut |
| c. 1800 | Mormond horse (Aberdeenshire) cut |
| 1804 | Marlborough horse cut |
| 1808 | Osmington horse (Dorset) probably cut (possibly a little earlier) |
| 1812 | Alton Barnes horse cut |
| c. 1838 | Old Litlington horse (Sussex) cut |
| 1838? | Hackpen horse cut |
| 1845 | Old Devizes horse cut |
| 1857 | Kilburn horse (Yorkshire) cut |
| 1859 | First reference to the Woolbury horse (Hampshire) |
| 1860 - 1870? | Ham Hill horse cut |
| 1864? | Broad Town horse probably cut (possibly fifty years or so earlier) |
| 1877 | Map showing the Ham Hill horse published |
| 1887 | First reference to the Cleadon Hills horse (Tyne and Wear) |
| c. 1900 | Bloemfontein horse (South Africa) cut |
| 1913 | First reference to the Hindhead horse (Surrey) |
| c. 1924 - 1925 | New Litlington horse (Sussex) cut |
| 1937 | New Pewsey horse cut |
| 1948 | Rockley horse discovered |
| c. 1968 | Waimate horse (New Zealand) created |
| 1999 | New Devizes horse cut |
| 2000 | Heeley horse (Sheffield) created |
| 2003 | Folkestone horse completed |
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