Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Kingsmen released Louie Louie in 1963, a song that later became known as punk rock's defining ur-text. This garage band from Portland, Oregon, played with a raw energy that would echo through the decades to come.
Los Saicos formed in 1964 and used fast tempos, aggressive riffing, and screamed vocals about prison escapes and funerals. Their work was later credited with pioneering punk rock.
The Ramones played its first show at CBGB in August 1974. By the end of the year, the Ramones had performed seventy-four shows, each about seventeen minutes long.
They adopted a new name and played their first gig as the Sex Pistols on the 6th of November 1975, at Saint Martin's School of Art. Johnny Rotten auditioned for and won the job as lead singer of a group called the Strand before this event.
In September 1976, the Saints became the first punk rock band outside the U.S. to release a recording, the single (I'm) Stranded. The band self-financed, packaged, and distributed the single.
Among the earliest hardcore bands, regarded as having made the first recordings in the style, were Southern California's Middle Class and Black Flag. Bad Brains launched the D.C. scene with their rapid-paced single Pay to Cum in 1980.