The major concern is to explicate, as clearly as possible, the themes that have shaped research on temporal language, and following the publication timeline is not the best way to do this.
although the collection opens in 1967 (with Vendler), the second paper fast-forwards the reader to 1991 (James Pustejovsky on event structure), the third takes us to 1986 (Emmon Bach on the algebra of events), and the fourth catapults us all the way back to 1947 (Reichenbach), after which we wend our way forward (with the occasional temporal bounce) toward more recent work.