21 January
George marries Pattie Boyd.

8 February
George and Pattie fly to Barbados for their honeymoon.

21 February
A single, 'Nowhere Man'/'What Goes On', is released in the US.

1 March
A documentary, The Beatles At Shea Stadium, which was filmed in 1965 and captures Beatlemania at its peak, is shown on British television.

4 March
London's Evening Standard newspaper publishes an interview with John in which he states that The Beatles are 'more popular than Jesus...'

4 March
The EP, Yesterday, is released in the UK.

25 March
The infamous 'butcher' photos of The Beatles are taken by Robert Whittaker.

1 May
The Beatles give their last proper British concert, at Empire Pool, Wembley.

21 May
The Beatles are filmed in the grounds of Chiswick House in London for color promos of 'Paperback Writer'/'Rain'.

30 May
The single, 'Paperback Writer'/'Rain', is released in the US (10 June in the UK.).

16 June
The Beatles' only appearance on the TV program Top Of The Pops, performing 'Paperback Writer' and 'Rain'.

20 June
An LP, Yesterday... and Today is released in the US, the revised version Yesterday And Today, which was recalled because of complaints about the 'butcher' shots on the cover.

24 June
The Beatles embark on a short tour, covering Germany, Japan, and the Philippines.

5 July
The Beatles run into major problems in the Philippines after being accused of snubbing Imelda Marcos.

8 July
The EP Nowhere Man is released in the UK.

29 July
American teen magazine Datebook publishes John's Evening Standard interview, asserting that he said The Beatles are 'greater' than Jesus.

5 August
The single 'Eleanor Rigby''Yellow Submarine' is released in the UK (8 August in the US.)

5 August
The LP Revolver is released in the UK (8 August in the US.)

6 August
Brian Epstein holds a press conference in New York to explain John's 'Jesus' remarks.

11 August
The Beatles fly to Chicago for their final US tour and John, supported by the others, faces the press to explain and say he is sorry.

13 August
Radio station KLUE in Longview, Texas, organizes a public 'Beatles bonfire, but the next morning it is wiped off the air when a lightning bolt hits the transmission tower.

29 August
The Beatles give their very last concert at San Francisco's Candlestick Park.

5 September
John goes to Celle in West Germany to begin filming his part in How I Won The War.

9 November
John meets Yoko Ono for the first time when he attends a private view of her exhibition, Unfinished Paintings and Objects, at London's Indica Gallery.

27 November
John films a sequence for Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's BBC programme, Not Only..But Also, which is shown one month later on 26 December.

9 December
The LP A Collection Of The Beatles Oldies is released in the UK only.