Timeline

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This timeline chronicles the events from The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare and Heart of Gold by Mistpool101.
== Early Days ==
=== Incursion ===
* 1000 AD: Shortly after the Christian millennium, the demons began their large-scale invasion, termed the Incursion, of the world around this time. Angel Raziel appeared to Jonathan Shadowhunter and gave him the Mortal Instruments to begin the race of Nephilim. 
* 1444 AD: The first vampires were created in a public ceremony. 
The Greater Demon Hecate was summoned in a massive blood-based sacrifice held at the Court of Wallachia (modern-day Romania). In exchange for his impressive sacrifice and act of savagery, Hecate transformed Vlad III and a large majority of his followers into the first vampires.
=== 17th Century (1600s) ===
* Silent Brother Gregory Hans discovered the correct combination of Marks to both enhance a Nephilim's senses and exclude the smell of demons from that enhancement.
* A great Schism passed between Shadowhunters and warlocks (and eventually the rest of Downworld) due to mundane witch hunts.
* 1640: The Clave forbade the hiring of warlocks to assist in Shadowhunter business.
* 1688: Consul Thomas Tefereel's Reforms were recognized.
=== 18th Century (1700s) ===
* 1721: Shadowhunter brothers Harold and Robert Grunwald burned a tavern full of werewolves, horrifying the Clave. The brothers were turned over to mundane authorities and hanged.
* 1752: The Book of the White disappeared from the London Institute.
* 1762: Consul Suleiman Kanuni eliminated the practice of torturing Downworlders by forcing them to drink from the Mortal Cup. 
=== French Revolution ===
* 1787: Marcel Saint Cloud began throwing blood parties, resulting in a period of "vampire craze" in Paris.
* 1791: Events from The Runaway Queen and What Really Happened in Peru.
** June: Magnus Bane, staying in Paris, was approached by Axel von Fersen and asked to participate in the rescue of the French royal family.
** Later: Magnus and Ragnor Fell embarked on the first day of their many adventures, during which they sunk a cargo ship filled with guano owned by Edmund Garcia while tasked with protecting it.
== 19th Century (1800s) ==
=== Early Years ===
* 1804: Law prohibiting intermarriage of Shadowhunters with other species was revoked and the method of Ascension was adopted.
* 1815: European Downworlder Treaty was signed at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and marked the first time an official document promised any protection under the Law for Downworlders. The signing was presided over by Consul Shimizu-Tokugawa Katsugoro.
* 1825: Axel Mortmain lodged a request for Reparations at the York Institute for the death of his parents, which occurred over a decade before. 
* 1828: Events from The Lost Herondale
** The battle at Bavaria against warlocks and a Greater Demon occurred, during which Tobias Herondale notoriously "abandoned" his comrades. As he did not return, the life of his pregnant wife (Eva Blackthorn) was forfeit by the Clave as punishment. 
** Catarina Loss escaped with the newborn son of Tobias and Eva and raised him in the mundane world.
* 1832: A Prussian farmer and Shadowhunter, Johannes von Mainz, called the entire Clave to his farm to see the "angel" he had summoned in his cow barn. The summoned "angel" turned out to be his son, Hans, covered in a pile of hay. This caused Shadowhunters to be very cautious about making or checking subsequent claims of angel appearances.
=== Victorian Era ===
* 1847: The mundane changeling Adele Starkweather died after being Marked with a rune in the York Institute. 
* 1857: Events from Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale.
** A meeting to discuss the Accords was held at the London Institute. 
** Edmund Herondale, after being stripped of his Marks, left the Clave to marry Linette Owens.
* 1868: Josiah Wayland became Consul.
* 1872: The First Accords were signed.
* November 10, 1873: Will Herondale left Wales and his family to become a Shadowhunter. Months after, Jem Carstairs arrived at the London Institute from Shanghai and met his future parabatai, Will. 
==== 1878 ====
* Events from The Infernal Devices
=== April-July 1878 ===
* Events from Clockwork Angel
* April: Will and Jem discover the corpse of Emma Bayliss.
* May: Tessa Gray arrived in London and was abducted by the Dark Sisters. 
* June: Tessa was rescued from the Dark House and brought to the London Institute. The head of the Pandemonium Club, a figure called "the Magister" became notorious in the Shadow World.
* July 5: The powerful vampire Alexei de Quincey and several other vampires in his clan were killed in the belief that he was the Magister. It was revealed afterwards that the Magister was the mundane Axel Mortmain. 
=== July-August ===
* Events from Clockwork Prince
* July 27: A party at the Chiswick residence of the Lightwoods was infiltrated by Will and Tessa.
=== October-December ===
* Events from Clockwork Princess.
* Mortmain and his army of automatons were defeated.
* Charlotte Branwell became Consul and Will Herondale replaced her as the Head of the London Institute some time after.
* The Enclave threw a Christmas party at the London Institute, and Will proposed to Tessa.
=== End of the Century ===
* 1885: Events from What Really Happened in Peru.
** Magnus, Ragnor, and Catarina helped their client Nayaraq unearth her family's treasure in the ruins of Pachacamac.
* 1887: The Second Accords were signed.
* 1888: Events from A Whitechapel Fiend
** October: The "Whitechapel demon" began its killing spree.
** November: The demon infiltrated the London Institute and was promptly killed.
* 1890: Events from What Really Happened in Peru.
** The three warlocks were staying in Puno, where Magnus met and spent some time with his lover Imasu Morales. After their relationship ended, Magnus, after a night of heavy drinking, ended up throwing up on the Nazca Lines from a carpet he had stolen and enchanted to fly, with Catarina and Ragnor following him in hopes of restraining their friend, which they ultimately failed to do.
* 1899: Events from Nothing But Shadows.
== 20th Century ==
=== Edwardian Era ===
* 1901 - Events from Cast Long Shadows and Every Exquisite Thing.
** January: Charlotte Fairchild suffered a miscarriage due to faerie poison accidentally given to her by her son, Matthew.
** June: Anna Lightwood meets Ariadne Bridgestock for the first time.
* 1902 - The Third Accords were signed.
** A large fountain in the shape of a mermaid was commissioned and sculpted to celebrate the Third Accords, the first of a new century. 
** Exposure, the practice of binding vampires outside to be burned by the sun, was banned.
* 1903 - Events from The Midnight Heir, The Last Hours, Chain of Gold, Chain of Iron, and Chain of Thorns.
** January: James Herondale meets Magnus Bane for the first time. 
** August: Cordelia Carstairs and her family move to London.
* 1904 - Events from The Last Hours.
=== The Roaring Twenties ===
* 1929 - Events from The Rise of the Hotel Dumort
** September: Magnus had been staying in a hotel in Manhattan and owned a speakeasy called Mr. Dry's Bar during the Prohibition Era, the latter of which was closed down later in the month. Around this time, the old warlock Aldous Nix tried to warn Magnus of the arrival of something that will cause everything to break apart. Magnus tried to warn then New York Institute head Edgar Graymark, to no avail.
** October: The Stock Market Crash took place. Aldous surrendered himself to Hell, and Magnus spotted Camille Belcourt in New York. 
=== Later Years ===
* October 29, 1936 - Events from Learn About Loss
* December 29, 1940 - Events from A Deeper Love
* 1953 - Events from Saving Raphael Santiago
** Raphael Santiago was Turned into a vampire.
** Magnus helped him readjust to life and pretend to still be mundane for his family.
* 1962
** The Seveneth Accords were signed.
** Events from What Really Happened in Peru.
** Magnus met Kitty and began a brief life of crime with her in several countries for one whole summer.
** Some time after, the High Council of Peruvian warlocks met in secret and decided to ban Magnus from Peru "for crimes unspeakable."
* 1977 - Events from The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
** Magnus returned to New York after a two-year trip.
** The vampires had become addicted to cocaine and were unable to control their feedings on humans. With the werewolves' and Magnus' help, they were able to lock up and sober up the vampires in the Hotel Dumort.
* 1984 - Events from The Evil We Love
** Valentine Morgenstern's father was killed by a werewolf.
** Stephen Herondale proposed to Amatis Graymark.
* Later years - potential period of events of The Secret Treasons
** Valentine and Jocelyn Fairchild, Robert Lightwood and Maryse Trueblood, and Stephen and Amatis, and Michael Wayland and Eliza Rosewain were wed. Jocelyn and Maryse soon became pregnant.
** Valentine began experimenting with both his and Céline's unborn sons with demon and angel blood, respectively. A year or two later, he unwittingly also subjected his unborn daughter to the same experiment with angel blood. 
* 1989 - Events from The Last Stand of the New York Institute, City of Bones, and City of Glass flashbacks/stories.
** The Circle had begun campaigning for harsher sentences against Downworlders, which they demonstrated by going around Idris and other cities, claiming to help Institutes on mission when they, in fact, set out to kill Downworlders, even those who were not breaking the Accords.
** The Circle eventually came to New York and began by killing vampires at the Spanish Harlem. Afterwards, they intended to kill a family of werewolves that had separated from a pack and faced Magnus Bane and the Conclave members who were defending them. They ended up killing a couple of the werewolves and the Whitelaw family of the Shadowhunters.
** Lucien Graymark was Turned into a werewolf and became pack leader of the Brocelind werewolf pack. Stephen then became Valentine's new second-in-command, replacing the now-believed-to-be-deceased Luke.
** August - Events from The Wicked Ones; Céline Montclaire, Robert Lightwood, Stephen Herondale, and Valentine Morgenstern went on a mission to Paris , ending with Valentine framing and having Céline's parents killed.
** Stephen left his wife, Amatis, and married Céline.
* 1990
** Events from City of Bones and City of Glass stories/flashbacks.
** Jocelyn discovered Valentine's plans shortly after giving birth to their son, Jonathan Christopher. Ragnor Fell helped her locate Luke and gave her a spell and a means to contact and warn the Downworlders. Together, the three helped make plans to thwart the Uprising.
** October 17, 1990: Simon Lewis as born. 
* 1991
** Events from City of Bones and City of Glass stories/flashbacks.
** Valentine moved the Circle's plans into action.
** Stephen was killed and his wife Céline committed suicide. Valentine, with Hodge Starkweather's help, took the child he had been experimenting on from her corpse and hid the baby in his house's (the Fairchild manor) basement before letting Hodge hide with the infant in his childhood home.
** The first attempt to sign the Ninth Accords took place, done more than a year early to make way for a lengthy faerie ritual done every 500 years that would have conflicted with the planned 1992 signing (15 years after the last).
** The Uprising occurred, disrupting the very signing of the Accords, causing the deaths of Shadowhunters and Downworlders.
** Valentine murdered Michael Wayland and his son in order to fake his and his own son's deaths.
** Jocelyn left Idris and went to Paris with Luke. She later ran away to New York where she took the name Jocelyn Fray. She gave birth to her daughter. 
** Robert, Maryse, and Alec Lightwood were exiled from Idris to run the Institute in New York. With them was Hodge Starkweather, who was cursed for his part in the Uprising.
** May 15, 1991: Isabelle Lightwood was born. 
** Imogen Herondale became the Inquisitor.
* 1993 - Events from The Last Stand of the New York Institute
** Tessa Gray and Brother Zachariah performed the protection ritual on Clary Fray, and Magnus Bane performed the first of many rituals that made Clary temporarily ignorant of the Shadow World.
* 1995/1996/later 1990s - Lucien Graymark moved to New York to be close to Jocelyn and her daughter; he took up the name Luke Garroway. 
* 
== 21st Century ==
=== 2000 ===
* Events from Son of the Dawn
=== 2007 ===
* Events from The Mortal Instruments series
* August
** Events from City of Bones and The Course of True Love (And First Dates)
** Clary meets her first group of Shadowhunters and learns about her heritage.
** Jocelyn is taken by Valentine and his men. 
** Clary and Jace Wayland, along with Luke and a few others, face Valentine. Jace is led to believe that he is the son of Valentine and Jocelyn, thus the brother of Clary. Jace chooses to fight against Valentine; Jocelyn, though still unconscious, is retrieved.
* September
** Events from City of Ashes, What to Buy A Shadowhunter Who Has Everything, and City of Glass
** Simon Lewis is Turned into a vampire and then into a rare Daylighter. 
** The Mortal War occurs, wherein demons enter Alicante, and Shadowhunters and Downworlders work together to defend the city. Clary finds out that her real brother, Jonathan, now going by Sebastian, is alive. They all learn that Jace isn't Valentine's son and that he is a Herondale by blood. Valentine summons Raziel and is struck down soon after. 
* October
** Events from The Red Scrolls of Magic, City of Fallen Angels, and the prologue of City of Lost Souls.
** Clary begins her formal Shadowhunter training with Jace as her tutor.
** Magnus and Alec go on a vacation and end up taking down the Crimson Hand.
** Jace falls under the demonic influence of Lilith, who has kept Sebastian's body after the war. She blackmails Simon to exchange blood in order to revive him.
** Sebastian is brought back to life with Jace under his influence.
* November
** Events from City of Lost Souls
** Clary joins Jace and Sebastian, pretending to agree with their views long enough to spy on them, relay their plans to her friends in New York, and give them time to figure out a way to sever the pair's demonic bond.
** "Team Good" in New York summon the Angel Raziel, who gives Simon the sword Glorious to use against either of the pair, in exchange of Simon's Mark of Cain.
** The Infernal Cup is created, and Sebastian is able to turn several of his followers into Endarkened at the Seventh Sacred Site at the Burren in Ireland. the Shadowhunters, and certain Downworlders, of New York arrive and manage to defeat several of them in battle, forcing the remaining ones to flee. Clary, while she fails to reach Sebastian to use the sword on him, stabs Jace with the sword, and the heavenly fire burns away the evil, particularly his bond with Sebastian, in him.
* December
** Events from City of Heavenly Fire and The Voicemail of Magnus Bane
** The Dark War takes place between Sebastian's Endarkened and faerie army against the Clave as well as the rest of the Downworlders.
** Jace Herondale, Clary Fairchild, Simon Lewis, Isabelle and Alec Lightwood travel to Edom, where they defeat Sebastian.
** Malcolm Fade steals the Black Volume of the Dead from the Los Angeles Institute.
=== 2008 ===
* Events from Clockwork Princess (epilogue) and City of Heavenly Fire (epilogue)
* January
** Tessa and Jem meet up on Blackfriars Bridge for their annual meeting. Jem reveals that he has become mortal again from being a Silent Brother after he touched the heavenly-fire-filled Jace Herondale. The pair reunite.
* May
** Jocelyn and Luke are wed at Luke's farmhouse in upstate New York. Simon, after losing his memories during a deal made with Asmodeus, is approached by Magnus and Isabelle and given some of his memories back, enough to know that he was friends with them.
* Events from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy: Welcome to the Shadowhunter Academy, The Lost Herondale, The Whitechapel Fiend, and Nothing But Shadows,
* September
** The Shadowhunter Academy is officially reopened.
* November
** Tessa comes to the Academy to tell the students a story about how Shadowhunter affect mundane history.
=== 2009 ===
* Events from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy: The Evil We Love, Pale Kings and Princes, Bitter of Tongue, and The Fiery Trial
* May
** The Inquisitor Robert Lightwood goes to the Academy with his daughter, Isabelle, to lecture them about the Circle and the dangers of bad influence disguised in charm. Afterwards, the end of the first year of the Academy was commemorated with a party before their summer vacation.
* September
** The second year of the Academy starts. Helen Blackthorn is brought in to speak at the Academy and tell the believed tale about what transpired between her parents.
* October
** Simon ends up a captive in Faerieland, where he meets Mark Blackthorn, who later helps him and Isabelle escape. Helen and Aline are wed. 
* December
** Beatriz Mendoza and Julie Beauvale's decision to become parabatai is announced; on the same day, Simon and Clary's potential to become "true parabatai" is tested. The next day, they witness Julian and Emma's parabatai ceremony. 
=== 2010 ===
* Events from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy: Born to Endless Night, Angels Twice Descending, and The Lost Book of the White.
* Early Spring
** Max Lightwood-Bane is found abandoned on the steps of the Academy and is later adopted by Magnus and Alec.
* May
** Simon Lewis and some of his other mundane classmates at the Academy successfully Ascend and become Shadowhunters.
* September
** Sometime prior, Shinyun Jung and Ragnor Fell are stabbed with the Svefnthorn - giving them mass amounts of power and enslaving them to Sammael's will. Ragnor finds a realm for Sammael to finish regenerating.
** Shinyun and Ragnor attack Magnus with the Svefnthorn and steal the Book of the White to try to help break Sammael through the wards of the Earth.
** Magnus, Alec, Jace, Clary, Simon, and Izzy track them to Shanghai. Magnus is stabbed for the second time with the Svefnthorn. 
** The group and Ke Yi Tian go to Diyu and save Ragnor from the Svefnthorn and Sammael's control. They manage to delay Sammael's attack on Earth but, while curing Magnus of Svefnthorn's power, Shinyun becomes a Greater Demon. 
* Sammael calls a meeting with all the Princes of Hell to discuss teaming up and Lucifer.
* The wedding of Tessa Gray and Jem Carstairs takes place in a dream using oneiromancy, presided over by Magnus Bane, and witnessed by the souls of their friends and families, and the ghosts of Will and Jessamine. 
=== 2012 ===
* Events from The Dark Artifices and The Land I Lost
* April
** Alec Lightwood discovers the corruption of the Buenos Aires Institute. Working with the local Downworlder society and some of the Shadowhunters, they are able to thwart it, leading to the capture of the corrupt leader. 
** Alec meets Rafael Lightwood-Bane and takes him to New York City, and he and Magnus Bane decide to adopt him.
* August
** Mark Blackthorn is returned to his family at the Los Angeles Institute.
** Malcolm Fade is exposed as the Guardian and is believed to have been killed by Emma Carstairs at the convergence. 
* September
** Some time prior, the Unseelie King was able to harness the power of the Black Volume of the Dead to render Nephilim tools (runes, adamas weapons, witchlight) powerless.
** Malcolm comes back to life and raises Annabel Blackthorn from the dead with Arthur Blackthorn's blood. Annabel kills Malcolm and takes the Black Volume from him.
** A Council meeting is held at the Gard for Annabel and Kieran. During Annabel's trial, she goes mad and kills Robert Lightwood and Livvy Blackthorn. 
** The Cohort briefly comes into power when Horace Dearborn gets voted in as Inquisitor before they are overthrown by the resistance known as Livia's Watch, culminating in a big battle.
** Livvy is raised from the dead by her twin brother, Ty. However, the ritual goes wrong and Livvy is only brought back as a ghost. 
** Kieran rises as the new, rightful King of the Unseelie Court.
* October
** The Clave-in-Exile begins setting up its government in New York City.
** Kit decides to go live in Cirenworth with Jem and Tessa. 
** The new Shadowhunter Academy nears completion at Three Arrows Farm.
** The Cold Peace is officially dissolved.
** Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are wed.
*December
**December 17, 2012: Emma finds a baby warlock (Lynn Blackthorn-Penhallow) in the Los Angeles Shadow Market. Helen and Aline decide to adopt her.
=== 2013 ===
* Events from The Lost World and Forever Fallen.
* March
** Livvy, in ghost form, experiments with how much distance she can put between herself and Ty. 
** March 18, 2013: Mina Carstairs is born to Jem Carstairs and Tessa Gray in Cirenworth.
* Mid-2013
** Clary and Janus interact for the first time.
**Emma finds out that she is pregnant. 
* August
** August 22, 2013: Eli Lightwood is born to Simon and Isabelle Lightwood. 
* September
** September 8, 2013: Emmy and Stevie Herondale are born to Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale.
=== 2014 ===
* March
** March 26, 2014: John Carstairs-Blackthorn is born to Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn.
* June
** June 15, 2014: Cece Lightwood Blackthorn-Penhallow is born to Helen and Aline. Alec is her biological father. 
=== 2015 ===
* February
** February 7, 2015: Rebecca "Bex" Lightwood is born to Isabelle and Simon Lightwood. 
* July
** July 7, 2015: Clarke and Lyssa Carstairs-Blackthorn are born to Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn in London.
=== 2016 ===
* May
** May 5, 2016: Marcus Carstairs-Blackthorn is born to Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn. 
=== 2017 ===
* May
** May 11, 2017: Ella Herondale is born to Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale. 
=== 2018 ===
* June
** June 5, 2018: Eleanor "Ellie" Blackthorn-Penhallow is born to unknown Shadowhunters. As an infant, she comes to live with Helen Blackthorn and Aline Penhallow. 
* November
** November 8, 2018: Cordelia Carstairs-Blackthorn is born to Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn.
=== 2019 ===
* July
** July 20, 2019: Gina Lightwood is born to Simon and Isabelle Lightwood. 
* August
** August 17, 2019: Liam and Toby Herondale are born to Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale. 
=== 2022 ===
* September
** September 25, 2022: The estimated birthdate of Sebastian Blackthorn-Penhallow, the adopted warlock son of Helen Blackthorn and Aline Penhallow. 
* October
** October 5, 2022: Ava Herondale is born to Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale. 
=== 2023 ===
* September
** Clary and Jace Herondale send their children, Stevie and Emmy, to their Shadowhunter Academy in New York. Isabelle and Simon also send their son, Eli, to the Academy. At the Academy, the three meet Mina Carstairs. 
=== 2024 ===
* February
** February 16, 2024: Celina Herondale is born to Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale. 
=== 2025 ===
* November
** When Brody Coldridge insults her family and Mina, Emmy accidentally sets Brody on fire and disintegrates him into ash. After Magnus erases the memories of those involved (except Mina, Eli, Stevie, & Emmy), Emmy leaves the Academy. Shortly afterwards, the other three leave the Academy, as well. 
** After Emmy decides not to become parabatai with Mina, the Carstairs family almost moves back to Cirenworth. However, Emmy eventually asks Mina to become her parabatai again. 
=== 2026 ===
* June
** June 7, 2026: Adele Herondale is born to Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale. 
=== 2027 ===
* January
** Emmy Herondale and Mina Carstairs become parabatai. 
* March
** Stevie Herondale and Eli Lightwood become parabatai.