Timeline

The following bellow is a timeline from the events of the Michael Vey series.

* **Between October 23rd, 1988 and October 25th, 1989**: Captain David Welch is hired as a security officer.

### 1990s

* **1994**: Jack Vranes is born.
* **1994**: Carl T. Vey is hired at the Pasadena General Hospital as a research manager (according to Hatch)
* **1995**: The MEI is beginning to be developed.
* **October 12, 1995**: Ostin Liss is born.
* **Early 1996**: Briton Hill dies; the Elgen's investors hire Hatch as CEO.
* **Mid 1996**: The MEI is developed and installed in the hospital.
* **April 16, 1996**: Carl Vey and Anna Ferguson start testing the MEI before it is ready.
* **April 16, 1996**: Michael Vey is born.
* **April 17, 1996**: Taylor Ridley and her twin Tara are born.
* **Between April 17 to April 28, 1996**: A series of births and deaths occur in 11 days. The Elgen Corporation hides the MEI machine to avoid lawsuits
* **Around December, 1996**: Wade West and Mitchell Manchester are born.
* **Between 1997 and 2004**: Carl Vey is promoted, and eventually gains the position of head of radiology at the Pasadena hospital.
* **1998**: The Elecage is created, and the first Starxource energy plant opens.

## 21st Century

### 2000s

* **October, 2004**: Carl Vey "dies" from a heart attack.
* **Early November 2004**: Hatch and the Vey family attend Carl's funeral. However, the family starts moving around to avoid the Elgen.
* **Mid-November, 2004**: Vey starts his organization against the Elgen.

### 2010s

* **2011**: Chronologically, the events of Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25, Rise of the Elgen, and Battle of the Ampere take place.
	+ Taylor is kidnapped by the Elgen and imprisoned at Elgen Academy, Michael, Ostin, Jack, and Wade go and save her. They manage to shut down the Academy and force Hatch and his Glows into hiding.
	+ The newly formed Electroclan escapes to Idaho, where they try to hide out in Jack's sister's tanning salon, but an unnamed voice on a phone (actually Coonradt) alerts them to the police coming to arrest them. They hide in a safe-house, but are arrested by Elgen policemen. They manage to free themselves, and hide in Mitchell's mansion. They later break into one of the Elgen's powerplants in Peru, and escape with Michael's mother. As Michael gets captured, the group manages to destroy the plant by overheating the plant's energy source: electric rats
	+ Michael gets captured by a Peruvian tribe, and is introduced to a new Glow, Tessa. Meanwhile, the Electroclan gets apprehended by Peruvian army soldiers (some of them actually Elgen guards in disguise). Hatch takes control of the Elgen company from the Board of Directors, then plans to take over the island of Tuvalu. Michael manages to break the Electroclan out of their military convoy. Wade is killed in a botched rescue attempt. They later hid out in the Peruvian capital of Lima, and blow up the Ampere.
* **2012**: The events of Hunt for Jade Dragon and Storm of Lightning take place.
	+ Michael and the Electroclan travel to Taiwan, but are captured by a team of Elgen soldiers led by new member Nichelle. However, she defects against Hatch, and frees the Electroclan from the Elgen prison. They rescue Jade Dragon from the Elgen Glows. The group receives news that the resistance base had been destroyed.
	+ Hatch angrily accuses his head guard Welch of treachery, and has him sentenced to death in Tuvalu. Meanwhile, Michael and the others discover that the resistance (as well as their parents) escaped the base hours before its destruction. They arrive in Utah at their new base, and break Taylor's mother from jail in Idaho, as she has been arrested in connection with her daughter's disappearance and drug smuggling (planted by police-disguised Elgen). Meanwhile, Tara, Quentin, and Torseyn defect against Hatch and free Welch. They later help Hatch take over Tuvalu.
* **Late Summer, 2013**: The Elgen Kremlin is established in Tuvalu.
* **Fall, 2013**: Fall of Hades takes place. The events of The Final Spark takes place immediately after Fall of Hades.
	+ Michael and the Electroclan are sent out to an overthrown Tuvalu to rescue Tara, Quentin, and Torstyn after they have been captured for treason against Hatch. They manage to take the Elgen's floating treasury, the Joule, but Michael sacrifices himself and blows up when lightning strikes him, creating a nuclear impact, and disintegrating the island of Hades, as well as killing most of the Elgen soldiers.
	+ The Electroclan regroups on the Joule, but are captured by the Philippine Navy and brought to Hatch.
	+ The final glow, Zara makes her first appearance here and Hatch calls her his "secret weapon." Her powers are to duplicate the other glows' powers by touching them and she touches every glow (excluding Michael) while they are chained up. It is here she and Hatch find out Taylor can read minds and Hatch uses this power on Cassy to discover who "The Voice" is, where Christmas Ranch is located, and then he finds out that there's someone higher than the voice. A man once believed to be dead named Carl Vey.
	+ Hatch meets with Carl Vey, and offers the Electroclan redemption by hitting him with a brick. None of the kids do it.
	+ Michael appears on the island, and Hatch orders all his men to kill Michael. Unfortunately for them, Michael is still in Pure Energy form and the bullets disintegrate as they hit him. Hatch then sends Zara, but Michael fries her with a single touch and she passes out, her skin turns black as ash. Michael then chases down Hatch. Once he stops him, Michael contemplates whether he should throw Hatch in prison, where he'll likely be tortured for his crimes for the rest of his life or give him a merciful way out by just killing him. Michael decides he doesn't want to be like Hatch, so he grabs Hatch and pulses, killing him once and for all.

* **September, 2013**: Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and Jack return to school, Carl Vey takes over the Elgen as chairman, renaming the company "Veytric." Not much is known about the other characters' whereabouts and we don't know if Grace survived or what happened to Bryan and Kylee after the final battle. Jack does mention Abi, but that is all that is said about anyone else at the end of the book. Fortunately, it was recently announced that there will be a new Michael Vey book sometime soon, so hopefully we will be getting more information about that and we'll be able to expand this timeline!