history of start dates of programming languages

1951 – Regional Assembly Language
1952 – Autocode
1954 – IPL (forerunner to LISP)
1955 – FLOW-MATIC (led to COBOL)
1957 – FORTRAN (first compiler)
1957 – COMTRAN (precursor to COBOL)
1958 – LISP
1958 – ALGOL 58
1959 – FACT (forerunner to COBOL)
1959 – COBOL
1959 – RPG
1959 - JOVIAL
1962 – APL
1962 – Simula
1962 – SNOBOL
1963 – CPL (forerunner to C)
1964 – Speakeasy
1964 – BASIC
1964 – PL/I
1966 – JOSS
1966 – MUMPS
1967 – BCPL (forerunner to C)
1967 – BCPL (forerunner to B)
1968 – Logo
1969 – B (forerunner to C)
1970 – Pascal
1970 – Forth
1972 – C
1972 – Smalltalk
1972 – Prolog
1973 – ML
1975 – Scheme
1978 – SQL (a query language, later extended)
1980 – C++ (as C with classes, renamed in 1983)
1983 – Ada
1984 – Common Lisp
1984 – MATLAB
1984 – dBase III, dBase III Plus
1985 – Eiffel
1986 – Objective-C
1986 – LabVIEW 
1986 – Erlang
1987 – Perl
1988 – Tcl
1988 – Wolfram Language (as part of Mathematica)
1989 – FL (Backus)
1990 – Haskell
1990 – Python
1991 – Visual Basic
1993 – Lua
1993 – R
1994 – CLOS (part of ANSI Common Lisp)
1995 – Ruby
1995 – Ada 95
1995 – Java
1995 – Delphi (Object Pascal)
1995 – JavaScript
1995 – PHP
1997 – Rebol
2000 – ActionScript
2001 – C#
2001 – D
2002 – Scratch
2003 – Groovy
2003 – Scala
2005 – F#
2006 – PowerShell
2007 – Clojure
2009 - GO
2010 - JULIA
2011 - DART
2014 - SWIFT
2015 - RUST
2019 - BALLERINA