Need a crash course in country music history? Here's 100 years of trivia

Were you the person at the trivia table who forgot when Johnny Cash died? Can't remember what year Patsy Cline released "Crazy"? Drawing a blank on just how long the Grand Ole Opry's been around?

We've got you covered.

From the birth of Kitty Wells in 1919 to Kacey Musgraves' domination at the Grammy Awards in 2019, here's 100 years of country music knowledge. Dig in.

1919: Kitty Wells is born in Nashville.

1920: Little Jimmy Dickens is born in Bolt, West Virginia.

1921: Honky-tonk great Webb Pierce is born in West Monroe, Louisiana.

1922: Commercial recordings of country music begin with fiddler Eck Robertson.

1923: Hank Williams is born in Mount Olive, Alabama.

1924: Radio announcer George D. Hay joins the "National Barn Dance" program at Chicago's WLS-AM, and the concept would follow him to his next gig at Nashville's WSM-AM.

1925: WSM debuts its own one-hour "barn dance" program, which would evolve into the historic Grand Ole Opry.

1926: Country great Ray Price is born in Wood County, Texas.

1927: A recording session referred to by genre historians as the country music "big bang" takes place at a studio in Bristol, Tennessee. The sessions yielded debut albums from The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.

1928: Rodgers releases his first "Blue Yodel (T for Texas)." A dozen sequels will follow over the next five years, until his death in 1933.

1929: June Carter Cash and Buck Owens are born.

1930: Songwriting great Curly Putman is born. In 34 years, he'll write "Green, Green Grass of Home."

1931: George Jones is born in Saratoga, Texas.

1932: A staggering year for country music births. Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn and Mel Tillis all are born within seven months.

1933: Early country star Jimmie Rodgers dies at age 35.

1934: Old-time fiddler Gid Tanner releases one of the year's biggest hits, "Down Yonder."

1935: The Carter Family releases "Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)."

1936: Kris Kristofferson is born in Brownsville, Texas.

1937: Kitty Wells and Johnny Wright are married, kicking off a long line of Music City power couples. They'll stay together for 74 years.

1938: Future country music trailblazer Charley Pride is born in Mississippi.

1939: Gene Autry releases his signature tune, "Back in the Saddle Again."

1940: Jimmie Davis' recording of "You Are My Sunshine" is one of the year's top hits.

1941: Ernest Tubb releases honky-tonk country song "Walking the Floor Over You."

1942: Tammy Wynette, the "first lady" of country music, is born in Itawamba County, Mississippi.

1943: The Grand Ole Opry moves into the Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville.

1944: Brenda Lee is born in Atlanta.

1945: Written by Jenny Lou Carson and performed by Tex Ritter, "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often" becomes the first No. 1 country hit penned by a woman.

1946: Dolly Parton is born in Pittman Center, Tennessee.

1947: Hank Williams has his first big hit with "Move It On Over."

1948: Eddy Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy, dominates the Billboard charts with six songs scoring the top slot in the year.

1949: Opry favorite Little Jimmy Dickens enjoys a string of hits, including "Country Boy" and "A-Sleeping at the Foot of the Bed."

1950: WSM, radio host of the Grand Ole Opry, expands to television, launching WSM-TV.

1951: Loretta Lynn gets yet another little sister, Brenda, who'll grow up to be Opry member Crystal Gayle.

1952: With "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," Kitty Wells is the first female solo artist to top Billboard's country chart.

1953: Celebrated country artist Hank Williams dies on New Year's Day at age 29.

1954: Elvis Presley makes his only appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.

1955: Major success reaches a handful of prominent young names in country music — including Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner and George Jones.

1956: Johnny Cash writes and records "I Walk the Line."

1957: It's a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n' roll — "Jailhouse Rock" tops the Country & Western and R&B charts at the same time.

1958: Johnny Cash performs at San Quentin Prison, a show attended by Merle Haggard, who was serving a two-year sentence at the time.

1959: The first Grammys includes one country award, for Best Country and Western Performance. It goes to the Kingston Trio's "Tom Dooley."

1960: Nashville's most famous honky-tonk, Tootsies Orchid Lounge, opens on Lower Broadway.

1961: Patsy Cline releases a hit version of the Willie Nelson song "Crazy."

1962: Soul legend Ray Charles releases "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music."

1963: Patsy Cline dies at age 30 in an airplane crash.

1964: Jim Reeves is killed in a plane crash.

1965: Future country/pop superstar Shania Twain is born.

1966: "Just Between You and Me," the first major country hit for Charley Pride, is released in December.

1967: The Country Music Association hosts its first awards ceremony in Nashville.

1968: Johnny Cash releases his historic live album, "At Folsom Prison."

1969: Country music programs "Hee Haw" and "The Johnny Cash Show" debut in Nashville.

1970: Loretta Lynn releases her career-defining hit, "Coal Miner's Daughter."

1971: Alison Krauss is born in Decatur, Illinois.

1972: The inaugural CMA "Fan Fair" launches in Nashville, an event that would evolve into the annual CMA Music Festival.

1973: The year's top hits include "Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine," "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" and, just in time for Christmas, "If We Make It Through December."

1974: The Grand Ole Opry moves from the Ryman Auditorium to the newly built Opry House at Opryland.

1975: George Jones and Tammy Wynette get divorced, but that doesn't stop them from continuing to release hit duets, including "Golden Ring."

1976: Future country music giants Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan are born.

1977: Elvis Presley dies at his Graceland estate at age 42.

1978: As "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" rules the radio, Chris Stapleton is born in Lexington, Kentucky.

1979: Bluegrass pioneer Lester Flatt dies.

1980: Country music takes over Hollywood, with motion pictures "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Urban Cowboy," "Honeysuckle Rose" and "9 to 5" all debuting on the silver screen.

1981: After a 21-year run, TV's "The Porter Wagoner Show" airs its final episode.

1982: In the same year he's inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Marty Robbins dies at age 57.

1983: Cable TV goes country with the launches of CMTV (now CMT) and The Nashville Network (TNN).

1984: Ernest Tubb dies at age 70.

1985: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson form the Highwaymen, an outlaw country supergroup.

1986: After 28 years, Columbia Records drops Johnny Cash from its roster.

1987: Randy Travis' "Forever and Ever, Amen" is essentially country's song of the summer, topping the chart for three weeks.

1988: Kacey Musgraves is born in Golden, Texas.

1989: A string of artists defined as the country music Class of 1989 — Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Alan Jackson and Travis Tritt — begin a run of mainstream success. Also, Taylor Swift is born.

1990: Garth Brooks releases his landmark album "No Fences," and its first single, "Friends in Low Places."

1991: After sustaining injuries in a car accident while en route to the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West dies at age 58.

1992: Crossover hit "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus begins its ascent into the pop culture history books.

1993: Conway Twitty dies at 59.

1994: Twenty years after it lost the Grand Ole Opry, the Ryman Auditorium is reopened and quickly becomes Nashville's most cherished venue.

1995: Canadian country singer Shania Twain rises to fame with her sophomore album, "The Woman in Me."

1996: Hit-makers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill get married.

1997: LeAnn Rimes and Trisha Yearwood each record "How Do I Live," and both versions are huge hits.

1998: Faith Hill's "This Kiss" continues an era of huge country/pop crossovers.

1999: Keith Urban makes his solo American country music debut.

2000: The soundtrack to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" sparks renewed interest in traditional country, folk and bluegrass.

2001: Garth Brooks enters his first full year of retirement, having walked away from the stage in October 2000.

2002: Alan Jackson's 9/11 response, "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," is named CMA's Song of the Year.

2003: Johnny Cash dies at age 71.

2004: Miranda Lambert begins work on her debut album, "Kerosene," launching her prolific career.

2005: Carrie Underwood wins the fourth season of "American Idol," launching her country music career.

2006: Bakersfield Sound pioneer Buck Owens dies at age 76.

2007: Both Bon Jovi and the Eagles make a play for Music Row with country-tinged albums.

2008: The legendary Eddy Arnold dies at 89.

2009: Garth Brooks returns to the stage for a five-year Las Vegas residency.

2010: Taylor Swift dominates January's Grammy Awards, including an Album of the Year win for "Fearless."

2011: Country superstars Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert get married. They'll divorce four years later.

2012: TV's "Nashville" brings the drama of Music Row to prime time.

2013: Bobby Bare, "Cowboy" Jack Clement and Kenny Rogers lead an all-star induction class at the Country Music Hall of Fame.

2014: Taylor Swift makes a clean break from country music with the pure pop album "1989."

2015: A country radio consultant sparks outrage after calling female artists "the tomatoes in our salad," which spawns the hashtag #TomatoGate.

2016: Merle Haggard dies in his home state of California.

2017: Route 91 Harvest, a country music festival in Las Vegas, becomes the site of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

2018: With “Best Shot," Jimmie Allen becomes the first black male artist to launch his career with a No. 1 song at country radio.

2019: Kacey Musgraves wins the coveted Album of the Year honor at the Grammy Awards for her third studio release, "Golden Hour."

This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: 100 years of country music trivia, from Johnny Cash to Carrie Underwood