Linux Kernel Version History Nov 27, 1998, 10 :17 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (11005 reads)
Riley Williams has an excellent time line of the Linux kernel releases. From his page:
"The following table gives the known parameters of all releases of the Linux operating system kernel that survive, stating the
size of the tarball when compressed using bzip2 and the latest timestamp found within the tarball. Green entries relate to
releases considered stable, other entries are development releases."