Timeline of canonical fiction

The following is a timeline of canonical fiction for Halo media and promotional material, including video games, novels, comics, short stories, movies, and audio. Some dates are approximate.
Timeline of Halo media 	Timeline of Halo media 	Timeline of Halo media
Year 	Title 	Author/Studio
107,000 BCE 	Halo 4 Terminal 1 - War 	The Sequence Group
107,000 BCE 	Halo 4 Terminal 2 - Lord of Admirals 	The Sequence Group
106,000 BCE 	Halo 4 Terminal 3 - Charum Hakkor 	The Sequence Group
106,000 BCE 	Halo 4 Terminal 4 - Flood 	The Sequence Group
97,700 BCE 	Soma the Painter 	
97,446 BCE 	Halo: Cryptum 	Greg Bear
97,446 BCE 	Halo: Primordium 	Greg Bear
97,446 BCE 	Halo: Silentium 	Greg Bear
97,446 BCE 	Halo 4 Terminal 5 - Knights 	The Sequence Group
97,446 BCE 	Halo 4 Terminal 6 - Justice 	The Sequence Group
97,446 BCE 	Halo 4 Terminal 7 - Cryptum 	The Sequence Group
97,446 BCE 	The Cradle of Life 	
97,446 BCE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 2 - Halo 	The Sequence Group
97,446 BCE 	Halo: Rebirth 	Greg Bear & Erik Bear
97,446 BCE 	Promises to Keep 	
40,000 BCE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 4 - The Silent Cartographer 	The Sequence Group
40,000 BCE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 5 - Assault on the Control Room 	The Sequence Group
40,000 BCE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 6 - 343 Guilty Spark 	The Sequence Group
40,000 BCE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 7 - The Library 	The Sequence Group
40,000 BCE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 8 - Two Betrayals 	The Sequence Group
860 BCE (Prologue)851-850 BCE (Part 1)2552 CE (Part 2) 	Halo: Broken Circle 	John Shirley
2142 CE 	The Duel 	Production I.G.
2310 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 1 	
2362 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 2 	
2381 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 3 	
2415 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 4 	
2491 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 5 	
2491 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 6 	
2508 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 7 	
2513-2517 CE (issue 1)2517-2525 CE (issue 2)2525 CE (issues 3-4) 	Halo: Fall of Reach - Boot Camp 	Brian Reed
2517 CE (Section 1)2517-2525 CE (Section 2)2552 CE (Sections 3-6) 	Halo: The Fall of Reach 	Eric Nylund
2517-2519 CE (Act 1)2525 CE (Act 2-3) 	Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series 	The Sequence Group & 343 Industries
2517-2528 CE 	Pariah 	B. K. Evenson
2524-2525 CE 	Halo: Contact Harvest 	Joseph Staten
2525 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 8 	
2525 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 9 	
2525 CE (issue 1)2525-2552 CE (issue 2)2552 CE (issue 3-4) 	Halo: Fall of Reach - Covenant 	Brian Reed
2525-2531 CE 	Halo Wars: Genesis 	Eric Nylund
2525 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 10 	
2525 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 11 	
2525 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 12 	
March-April 2526 CE 	Halo: Silent Storm - A Master Chief Story 	Troy Denning
March-April 2526 CE 	Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn 	
June 2526 CE 	Halo: Oblivion - A Master Chief Story 	Troy Denning
2528 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 13 	
2530 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 14 	
2530 CE 	I kissed a boy once. 	
2530 CE 	Spirit of Bloody Fire. Cutter. Bloody hell. 	
2531 CE 	I have a bridge to look after here. 	
2531 CE 	Privilege 	
2531 CE 	The Day Before 	
2531 CE 	Sit down and strap in. 	
2531 CE 	Homecoming 	Production I.G., Bee Train
2531 CE 	Attacks 	
2531 CE 	Halo Wars 	Ensemble Studios
2531 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 15 	
2531 CE (Section 1)2531-2551 CE (Section 2)2552 CE (Section 3-Epilogue)	Halo: Ghosts of Onyx 	Eric Nylund
2532 CE 	Prototype 	Bones
2532 CE 	Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian 	Frank O'Connor
2533 CE 	Birth of a Spartan 	
2535 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 16 	
2535 CE 	Halo: The Cole Protocol 	Tobias Buckell
January 2537 CE 	Something Has Happened 	
2542 CE 	The Babysitter 	Studio 4˚C
2544 CE 	The Package 	Casio Entertainment
2547 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 17 	
2548 CE 	Halo: Battle Born 	Cassandra Rose Clarke
2549 CE 	Halo: Meridian Divide 	Cassandra Rose Clarke
2550 CE 	Cortana and Solipsil 	
2551 CE 	Headhunters 	Jonathan Goff
2551 CE2558 CE 	Halo: Escalation - The Glass Horizon 	Duffy Boudreau
2551-2552 CE 	Halo 2: Anniversary Terminal 14 - Beholden 	The Sequence Group
2552 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 18 	
2552 CE 	Halo Reach Data Pad 19 	
January 2552 CE 	Halo: Helljumper 	Peter David
April 2552 CE 	Deliver Hope 	
July 2552 CE 	Blunt Instruments 	Fred Van Lente
July 2552 CE 	Halo: Blood Line 	Fred Van Lente
July-August 2552 CE 	Halo: Reach 	Bungie
August 2552 CE 	Unggoy Conversation 	
August 2552 CE 	Transmissions 	
2552 (August) CE (Section 0 & 2)2552 (September) CE (Section 1 & 3-7) 	Halo: First Strike 	
September 2552 CE 	Dirt 	Tobias Buckell
September 2552 CE 	Black Box from Sacred Promise 	
September 2552 CE 	343 Guilty Spark's Log 	
September 2552 CE 	The Flood 	William Dietz
September 2552 CE 	Halo: Combat Evolved 	Bungie
September 2552 CE 	Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary 	Bungie, Saber Interactive
September 2552 CE 	Halo: Fireteam Raven 	343 Industries, Play Mechanix, Raw Thrills
September 2552 CE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 1 - The Pillar of Autumn 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 3 - The Truth and Reconciliation 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Breaking Quarantine 	Tsutomu Nihei
September 2552 CE 	The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor 	Lee Hammock
September 2552 CE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 9 - Keyes 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 10 - The Maw 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: CEA Terminal 11 - Threshold 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 4 - Monitor Report: Heresy Indeed 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 5 - Monitor Report: Containment 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 7 - Monitor Report: Unequal Union 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 9 - Monitor Report: Divine Inspiration 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 11 - Monitor Report: Age of Doubt 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 13 - Monitor Report: False Journey 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 1 - ONI File: Target Profile 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 2 - ONI File: Honor Bound 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 3 - ONI File: Particular Justice 	The Sequence Group
September 2552 CE 	Letter from Supposition 	
September 2552 CE 	Sangheili Conversation 	
October 2552 CE 	Letter from Truth 	
October 2552 CE 	Armor Testing 	Ed Lee, Jay Faerber, and Andrew Robinson
October 2552 CE 	Letter to the Master Chief 	
October 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 15 - Unyielding 	The Sequence Group
October-November 2552 CE 	Halo 2 	Bungie
October-November 2552 CE 	Halo 2: Anniversary 	Bungie, Saber Interactive
October 2552 CE 	Another Day at the Beach 	Bungie
October 2552 CE 	Palace Hotel 	Robert McLees
October 2552 CE 	Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa 	Brett Lewis
October 2552 CE 	Sadie's Story 	
October 2552 CE 	Halo 3: ODST 	Bungie
October 2552 CE 	The Mona Lisa 	Tessa Kum and Jeff VanderMeer
November 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 6 - Covenant Record: Will of the Prophets 	The Sequence Group
November 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 8 - Covenant Record: Taming the Hunters 	The Sequence Group
November 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 10 - Covenant Record: Unggoy Rebellion 	The Sequence Group
November 2552 CE 	Halo: 2A Terminal 12 - Covenant Record: The Great Schism 	The Sequence Group
November 2552 CE 	Wages of Sin 	
November 2552 CE 	Halo: Uprising 	Brian Michael Bendis
November 2552 CE 	Human Weakness 	Karen Traviss
November 2552 CE 	Halo: Landfall 	
November-December 2552 CE 	Halo 3 	Bungie
December 2552 CE 	Living Monument 	
December 2552 CE 	The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole	Eric Nylund
2553 CE 	Halo: Glasslands 	Karen Traviss
2553 CE 	Halo: Initiation 	Brian Reed
2553 CE 	From the Office of Dr. William Arthur Iqbal 	
2553 CE 	Halo: Shadow of Intent 	Joseph Staten
2553 CE 	Breaking Strain 	
2553 CE 	Halo: The Thursday War 	Karen Traviss
2553 CE 	Halo: Mortal Dictata 	Karen Traviss
2553 CE 	Halo: Last Light 	Troy Denning
2553 CE 	A Necessary Truth 	
2553 CE 	Halo: Retribution 	Troy Denning
2553 CE 	Petra 	
2554 CE2557 CE 	Halo 4 Prologue - Location Unknown 	The Sequence Group
March 2554 CE 	Lessons Learned 	
2555 CE 	Halo: Hunters in the Dark 	Peter David
2555 CE 	Halo: New Blood 	Matt Forback
2556 CE 	Halo: Nightfall 	
2556 CE 	Origins 	Studio 4˚C
March 2556 CE 	Anarosa 	
January 2557 CE 	Halo: Smoke and Shadow (Into the Fire) 	Kelly Gay
July 2557 CE 	Halo 4 	343 Industries
July 2557 CE 	Halo: Escalation -The Next 72 Hours 	Brian Reed
2557 CE 	Halo: Spartan Assault 	Vanguard Games
2557 CE 	Halo: Spartan Strike 	Vanguard Games
May-December 2557 CE 	Halo: Renegades 	Kelly Gay
January 2558 CE 	Halo: Saint's Testimony 	Frank O'Connor
January 2558 CE 	Knight Takes Bishop 	
February-March 2558 CE 	Spartan Ops 	343 Industries
2558 CE 	Halo: Escalation (Issue 1-Issue 6) 	Christopher Schlerf
2558 CE 	Halo: Escalation Issue 7 	Brian Reed
2558 CE 	Hunt the Truth Season 1 	
2558 CE 	Halo: Escalation - Exposure 	Duffy Boudreau
2558 CE 	Halo: Escalation - The Janus Key 	Duffy Boudreau
2558 CE 	Halo: Escalation - The Absolute Record 	Duffy Boudreau
July 2558 CE 	Oasis 	
September 2558 CE 	Halo: Envoy 	Tobias Buckell
September-October 2558 CE 	Halo: Legacy of Onyx 	Matt Forbeck
October 2558 CE 	Hunt the Truth Season 2 	
October 2558 CE 	Halo 5: Guardians 	343 Industries
October 2558 CE 	What Remains 	
2558 CE 	Undefeated 	
2558 CE 	Rossbach's World 	
2558 CE 	Halo: Bad Blood 	Matt Forbeck
2559 CE 	Halo Wars 2 	Creative Assembly
2559 CE 	Operation: Spearbreaker 	Creative Assembly
2559 CE 	Halo Wars 2: Awakening the Nightmare 	Creative Assembly
2559 CE 	The Return 	Kevin Grace
October 2559 CE 	Halo: Shadows of Reach 	Troy Denning
2610 CE 	Believe 	
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