The initial Nevada Territorial Legislature bans the dealing, running, opening, conducting or playing of any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge-et-noir or any banking game played with cards, dice or any other device for anything of value.

Nevada becomes the 36th state on October 31, 1864.

In the first legislative session after Nevada joins the Union in 1864, lawmakers replace the territorial law with a state statute.

Nevada legalizes only the games outlawed in 1861 and mandates operators be licensed.

Lawmakers ban lotteries defined as any scheme for the disposal or distribution of property, by chance, among paying players.

The legislature approves keno, fantan, 21, Diana, and red-white-and-blue.

An amendment allows stud-horse poker, or percentage, with a license and illegalized roulette.

A new act makes it legal to engage in, conduct or carry on any bookmaking on horse races, prize fights or any games conducted outside of the state with a gambling license.

The state repeals the anti-slots law, thereby legalizing them with required licensure.

The anti-gambling act prohibits all gambling mentioned in prior acts and amendments along with tan, fantan, seven-and-a-half, hokey pokey, craps, klondike, whist, bridge whist, 500, solo and frog. It also bans any gambling game in which the operator receives compensation or reward or a share of the money or property played for making the game available. It prohibits offering or playing slot machines along with all kinds of bookmaking. It disallows anyone from keeping, exhibiting or owning any casino equipment, such as games, slot machines, cards, tables, checks, wheels and other devices. The law goes into effect October 1, 1910.

The legislature legalizes poker; stud-horse poker; 500; solo; whist; parimutuel betting on horse races; slot machines for the sales of cigars and drinks; social games only played for drinks and cigars served individually or prizes not exceeding two dollars in value.

The state legally goes dry as of January 1.

The 18th Amendment is enacted.

This version of keno uses horse names instead of numbers to comply with Nevada laws.

Governor Fred B. Balzar signs a liberal gaming law that remains in effect today, which legalizes all forms of gambling except lotteries and which requires licensing of operators. Fees were $25 per month per table game and $10 per month per slot. The law lists the approved games as faro, monte, roulette, keno, fantan, 21, blackjack, seven-and-a-half, big injun, klondike, craps, stud poker, draw poker, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice or any mechanical device or machine; slot machines; and any game in which the operator receives compensation or reward. Also, the law removes the rules surrounding social games. The county and city control licensing and regulation.

The 18th Amendment is repealed, and Prohibition ends for Nevada and the U.S.

Lawmakers created a state casino tax as a vehicle for collecting a gambling tax, initially 1% of gross casino revenues exceeding $3,000.

The state’s tax commission assumes gambling licensing and regulation duties.

The rate on gross revenues is increased to 2%. A table games tax is started.

The tax commission is granted the power to adopt guidelines for screening gambling license applicants, to vet them and, when applicable, to deny permits.

Changes to the Gaming Act allow the tax commission to require casino workers be fingerprinted.

Senator Estes Kefauver (Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce) holds a hearing in Las Vegas on November 15.

Nevada laws change, and keno becomes a game with numbers in the place of horses’ names.

For one, it changes the gross gaming revenue tax to a graduated rate up to 5.5%.

The Nevada Legislature creates the Nevada Gaming Control Board as the investigation arm for the Nevada Tax Commission, the state’s gambling regulating agency at the time. The board is made up of three full-time members appointed by the governor for four-year terms, with one member acting as Chairman.

Gambling law is amended to prohibit cheating at gambling, by using marked cards, loaded dice and other devices, and to forbid use of anything other than U.S.-minted coins in slot machines.

Nevada’s gaming regulators approve chemin de fer, the first version of baccarat in Nevada.

A new regulation passes that bars all state gambling licensees from engaging in casino operations in any other state or nation.

Faro no longer is offered by any Nevada casino.

This baccarat version appears in Las Vegas and eventually phases out chemin de fer.

The Gaming Control Act allows for the creation of the Nevada Gaming Commission, which is comprised of five members appointed by the governor to four-year terms, with one member acting as chairman. It takes over the gambling-related duties handled by the tax commission.

The first electromechanical slot machine, Money Honey by Bally Technologies, comes out.

Slots begin offering multiple paylines and the ability to bet several coins on one line. Side bets via jackpots become available.

Nevada’s gaming regulators compile and distribute a notebook containing unsavory characters who are to be banned from the state’s casinos. (Today, it’s called the List of Excluded Persons.)

A 10% tax rate is imposed.

The Legislature imposes a license fee on slot machines and a different fee on table games.

This allows allowing publicly traded corporations to own casinos without subjecting each of their numerous shareholders to expensive investigations to obtain a gambling license.

The Nevada Gaming Commission allows the state’s casinos to offer pai gow.

The first video slot machines appear on casino floors.

The City of Reno officially eliminates the Red Line, a rectangular region of downtown Reno in which casinos with unlimited gambling could exist.

Foreign gaming regulations allows Nevada gambling licensees to have a stake in casino enterprises in other states and countries, provided the other locale had an effective governmental regulatory system in place.

Revenue from slot machines in Nevada exceeds that of table games for first time ever.

The $250 per machine annual U.S. slot tax is repealed, and Nevada requires that money be paid to the state instead as the slot machine excise tax.

The state increased the gross gaming revenue tax to 5.75% on revenue over $400,000 per quarter and raised slot machine license fees to $20 per machine per quarter.

IGT’s Megabucks debuts, marking the start of popular Progressives.

The gross gaming revenue tax is increased to 6% on revenue over $400,000 per quarter, and the tax on restricted slot licenses was bumped up.

The first card shuffling machine hits the market, drastically speeding up table game play.

By this year, the top rate of gross gaming revenue tax is 6.25%.

IGT’s Wheel of Fortune debuts.

Ticket-in, ticket-out (TITO), replaces coins/cash used in slots with paper tickets that patrons redeem at a kiosk for money.

Game makers start introducing electronic table games, full or partial.

The state raises the restricted slot machine tax to 33%. It increases each level of gross gaming revenue taxes is increased by 0.5%, the top maxing out at 6.75%.

The casino entertainment tax started in 1965 is replaced by a live entertainment tax that applies to gaming and non-gaming facilities.

The Nevada Gaming Commission allows casinos to control individual slots — change their theme, payout percentages or denominations — from a central computer.

Some 3D slot machines debut.

Nevada legalizes online gaming; poker is allowed.

The Nevada Gaming Commission allows the use of bank-issued prepaid cards in casinos.

Governor Brian Sandoval signs a bill permitting slot machines with skill-based, video/arcade game-type elements. Game makers start adding more interactive features.