Fictional Timelines

The following is a fictional chronological order of events that occur in films, novels, or other horror media.

1400s[]

1480s[]

1481 – Armand was born.

1700s[]

1710s[]

1710 – Jerusalem's Lot, Maine is founded by a preacher named James Boon.
1719 – A Yautja lands in the American Great Plains searching for respectable prey and is confronted by Naru, a Comanche hunter-in-training.

1760s[]

November 7, 1760 – Lestat de Lioncourt was born.
October 4, 1766 – Louis de Pointe du Lac was born.

1780s[]

1780 – African Prince Mamuwalde goes to Transylvania to seek the help of Count Dracula in suppressing the slave trade. Dracula refuses, however, and insults Mamuwalde by making a pass at his wife, Luva. After a scuffle with Dracula's minions, Mamuwalde is bitten by Dracula and transformed into a vampire.

1790s[]

1791 – Louis de Pointe de Lac is attacked by Lestat de Lioncourt and converted into a vampire.
1796 – Phillip Lemarchand designs a music box for aristocrat Duc de Richleau. It is named The Lament Configuration.

1800s[]

1870s[]

September 1870 – Vampires Louis de Pointe du Lac and Claudia settle in Paris where they encounter Santiago and Armand.

1880s[]

June 1882 – a meteorite crashed on Nahum Gardner's land that emits an indescribably color that corrupts the people an vegetation.

1900s[]

1910s[]

February 2, 1913 – Wilbur Whateley is born at 5 a.m. to Lavinia Whateley and Yog-Sothoth.
December 2, 1916 – Titas Crow is born.

1920s[]

1921 – Sir Joseph Whemple finds the mummy of ancient Egyptian high priest named Imhotep.
March 1925 – A bas-relief sculpture depicting Cthulhu was created by Henry Wilcox while he was half-asleep.
August 3, 1928 – Wilbur Whately is mauled to death by a Miskatonic library guard dog.

1930s[]

April 12, 1933 – Father Damien Karras was born.
1939 – André Toulon commits suicide after hiding his animated puppets from two Nazi spies who arrive at Bodega Bay Inn.

1950s[]

July 30, 1957 – Father Damien Karras became a Jesuit priest.
1957 – Jason Voorhees drowns at Camp Crystal Lake.
1957 – Mary Lou Maloney is accidentally set on fire and killed onstage during her crowning as Prom Queen.
1957 – A red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury rolls off the assembly line, but not before injuring one worker and killing another.
1958 – Barry Jackson and Claudette Hayes are murdered at Camp Crystal Lake.

1960s[]

October 31, 1963 – Michael Myers kills his older sister Judith Myers by stabbing her multiple times with a chef's knife.
1968 – Freddy Krueger is burned alive by the parents of Springwood for being released on a technicality after murdering 20 children.

1970s[]

May 16, 1972 – Cheryl Hughes is attacked in Las Vegas by the vampire Janos Skorzeny.
May 20, 1972 – Bonnie Reynolds is found dead in the Las Vegas desert after being attacked by vampire Janos Skorzeny.
1972 – Bobby McCoy and Billy Schaffer, purchase the coffin and ship it to Los Angeles. Bobby and Billy open the coffin, only to become Prince Mamuwalde's first victims.
1974 – 11-year-olds Wendy Richards, Jude Cunningham, Kelly Lynch, and Nick McBride play hide-and-seek in an abandoned convent. When 10-year-old Robin Hammond tries to join them, the group starts teasing her, repeating "Kill! Kill! Kill!", and leading to a scared Robin accidentally falling to her death through a second-story window. The children make a pact not to tell anyone what happened and keep the incident a secret and they leave.
December 18, 1975 – George, Kathy and the rest of the Lutz family move into 112 Ocean Avenue.
January 14, 1976 – The Lutz family fled from 112 Ocean Avenue.
September 12, 1978 – Arnie Cunningham purchases a 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine.
October 30, 1978 – Michael Myers escapes from Smith's Grove Sanitarium.
October 31, 1978 – Michael Myers arrives in Haddonfield, Illinois and kills multiple people.
1979 – Pamela Voorhees murders multiple camp counselors who are trying to revive Camp Crystal Lake until the lone survivor Alice Hardy kills her in self defense.

1980s[]

1980 – Kelly Lynch, Nick McBride, Jude Cunningham, and Wendy Richards receive anonymous obscene phone calls on the sixth anniversary they witnessed the death of Robin Hammond but kept it secret. They are killed one-by-one the leading up to and during prom night.
March 24, 1981 – 31 British infants are murdered by an order from Damien Thorn to his followers in order to prevent the Christ's return to power.
July 3, 1984 – A zombie breakout occurs at the Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky.
July 4, 1984 – Louisville, Kentucky is destroyed by a nuclear bomb as a result of the previous day's zombie outbreak.
1987 – A Yautja, eventually dubbed the Jungle Hunter lands in a Central American Jungle and is confronted by a mercenary team lead by Alan "Dutch" Schaefer.
October 30, 1988 – Michael Myers, who has been comatose for ten years since the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital explosion ten years prior, awakens and escapes from the ambulance transferring him to Smith's Grove Sanitarium, leading to the deaths of several paramedics.
October 31, 1988 – Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, Illinois and stalks his niece Jamie Lloyd. He kills multiple people until he is confronted by vigilantes and police. He is shot multiple times, falls down a mine shaft and nearly blown up with dynamite.
October 30, 1989 – Michael Myers awakens from a coma after the events from the previous Halloween. He kills a hermit and begins talking Jamie Lloyd again.

1990s[]

1990 – A Yautja, eventually dubbed the City Hunter lands near Los Angeles and is confronted by LAPD Lieutenant Mike Harrigan.
1996 – In New York City, Angelique and Pinhead work together to stop John Merchant from designing The Elysium Configuration an anti Lament Configuration that would create perpetual light and destroy Hell. Merchant attempts to use the prototype which fails and Pinhead kills him. But Bobbi, John's wife, solves the Lament Configuration, sending Pinhead and Angelique back to Hell.
July 23, 1998 – A train owned by Umbrella Corporation is attacked by a swarm of mutated leeches.
July 24, 1998 – A series of bizarre murders in Raccoon City elicits the response of Raccoon City Police Department's S.T.A.R.S. team.
September 28, 1998 – Jill Valentine attempts to escape from the zombified population of Raccoon City due to the T-Virus.
September 29, 1998 – Leon Kennedy shows up for his first day of duty to Raccoon City Police Department and discovers most of Raccoon city has been transformed into zombies due to the T-Virus.
October 31, 1998 – Michael Myers finds Laurie Strode, who changed her name to Keri Tate, in Summer Glen, California. He turns his attention to her son, John and stalks the grounds of Hillcrest Academy.
December 1998 – Claire Redfield raided an Umbrella Corporation facility in Paris in search of her brother Chris.

2000s[]

2004 – Leon Kennedy reports to Spain to rescue Ashley Graham, the daughter of the U.S. President.
2008 – Jason Voorhees is put into a cryogenic stasis in the Crystal Lake Research Facility. He remains frozen for 455 years.
2009 – Chris Redfield, agent of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance reports to Kijuju in West Africa to apprehend Ricardo Irving before he can sell a bio-organic weapon on the black market.

2010s[]

December 24, 2012 – Jacke Muller, son of late bio-terrorist Albert Wesker, flees local authorities during a bio-terrorist attack in Edonia. He partners with Division of Security Operations (DSO) agent and Raccoon City survivor Sherry Birkin and learns that she is to extract him from the country to create a vaccine for the new C-Virus. However, they are hunted by Ustanak, a hulking bio-weapon.
2017 – Ethan Winters, a civilian with an unknown background, is drawn to a derelict plantation in Dulvey, Louisiana, by a message from his wife Mia, who has been missing for the past three years.
October 29, 2018 – Aaron Korey and Dana Haines provoke Michael Myers in Smith's Grove Sanitarium for the sake of a true crime podcast.
October 30, 2018 – The bus transferring Smith's Grove Sanitarium inmates to a maximum security prison crashes, Michael Myers and Lance Tivoli escape.
October 31, 2018 – Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, Illinois once again to return to his home, murdering multiple people and causing vigilante panic during his trek. He is nearly killed when Laurie Strode attempts to burn him alive in her home, but he escapes. Laurie's daughter, Karen Nelson is killed by Myers.
October 31, 2019 – Corey Cunningham is babysitting Jeremy Allen. When Jeremy's parents return home, Jeremy accidentally falls to his death from the upstairs landing. Corey is blamed though not convicted.

2020s[]

October 31, 2022 – Haddonfield, Illinois is suffering another rash of murders; however, Corey Cunningham has attempted to take up the mantle of The Shape. He eventually kills himself and Michael Myers is once and for all killed by Laurie Strode.

2090s[]

2093 – The ship Prometheus embarks on a mission to discover human origins.

2100s[]

2104 – The ship Covenant, a colonization ship, is damaged, forcing it to land where Prometheus and its android David 8 were stranded.

2120s[]

2122 – The cargo ship USCSS Nostromo receives a distress signal from a nearby moon where an alien embryo impregnates Executive Office Gilbert Kane. Within 24 hours the entire crew is dead save for Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley who managed to jettison the alien from the escape shuttle's airlock.
2127 – Dr. Paul Merchant sets a trap for Pinhead and his cenobites aboard The Minos, a space station he designed.

2170s[]

2179 – Ellen Ripley is convinced to join the Colonial Marines to LV-426, the alien planet where the USCSS Nostromo originally found the Xenomorph eggs. Only Ripley, Corporal Dwayne Hicks, and Rebecca "Newt" Jorden survive.
2179 – Immediately after Ripley, Hicks, and Newt escaped LV-426, an alien egg hatched the ship carrying them, causing a fire which led to the deaths of Hicks and Newt. Ripley survived, only to be impregnated with an alien embryo just before crashing on Fiorina 161, a foundry and prison planet. After enacting a plan to kill the other alien that burst from Spike, the prison's dog, Ripley sacrifices herself by diving into the furnace, killing the alien queen that bursts from her chest.

2300s[]

2380s[]

2381 – The military scientists aboard the USM Auriga are successful cloning Ellen Ripley, developing Ripley 8, a human/xenomorph hybrid. When the aliens held in captivity escape, a group of mercenaries and Ripley 8 attempt to escape.

2400s[]

2450s[]

2455 – Jason Voorhees is thawed aboard the spaceship named The Grendel after being cryogenically frozen for 455.