1975 The first IKEA store in Australia.
1976 The first IKEA store in Canada.
1977 The first IKEA store in Austria.
1978 The first IKEA store in Singapore.
1979 The first IKEA store in the Netherlands.
1980 The first IKEA store in the Canary Islands.
1981 The first IKEA store in France and Iceland.
1983 The first IKEA store in Saudi Arabia.
1984 The first IKEA store in Belgium and Kuwait.
1985 The first IKEA store in United States.
1987 The first IKEA store in United Kingdom and Hong Kong.
1989 The first IKEA store in Italy
1990 The first IKEA stores in Hungary and Poland.
1991 The first IKEA stores in the Czech Republic and the United Arab Emirates.
1992 The first IKEA stores in Mallorca and Slovakia.
1994 The first IKEA store in Taiwan.
1996 The first IKEA stores in Finland, Malaysia and mainland Spain.
1997 IKEA appears on the Internet with the World Wide Living Room website.
1998 The first IKEA store in mainland China.
2000 First IKEA store opens in Russia (Moscow).
2001 First stores in Israel (Netanya) and Greece (Thessaloniki).
2004 First stores in Portugal (Lisbon).
2005 First stores in Turkey (Istanbul).
2006 First stores in Ireland (Dublin).
2007 First stores in Romania (Bucharest).