| 1879 | Carl Von Linde founded Linde AG | |
| 1886 | Foundation of Brin's Oxygen Company Ltd | |
| 1906 | Brin's changes name to The British Oxygen Company Ltd | |
| 1911 | Formation of New Zealand Industrial Gases | |
| 1935 | Commonwealth Industrial Gases formed in Australia | |
| 1990 | CIG & NZIG become wholly-owned subsidiaries of The BOC Group | |
| 2006 | Linde and BOC join forces to become part of The Linde Group | |
| 2019 | Linde AG and Praxair complete a merger of equals to form Linde plc |