Pre-Series Timeline

A list of events that occurred before the start of the series.

#### **1899**

* Lake Wawayonda is discovered by a member of the Van de Camp family, who builds a cabin there.

### **1900s**

#### **1901**

* **March 14** - William "Big Bill" Murphy is born.

### **1910s**

#### **1913**

* William Murphy attends St Mary of The Vapors Catholic School.

#### **1918**

* **September 23** - Henrietta van Horne is born.

### **1920s**

#### **1920**

* **June** - William Murphy graduates from Rusland City Central High School

#### **1922**

* **March 21** - Jefferson Davis is born.

#### **1926**

* Chauncey "Rosie" Roosevelt is born.

* **July 7**- Fifteen members of the Vande de Camp family are murdered in Lake Wawayonda by a drifter, and the cabin where the killing took place is dubbed the "Murder Cabin", causing the camp to become abandoned.

#### **1927**

* William Murphy works for his first job as the regional salesman for Dilson-Johnson's Paint of Ryetown.

#### **1928**

* Jim Jeffords is born.
* **January 25** - Vivian Saunders is born.

#### **1929**

* Chet Stevenson is born.
* Stan dates a woman named Sophie who his father does not approve of. Being part of the police force, Mr. Chilson planted stolen property in Sophie's purse. When her father discovered this, he struck his daughter and caused her to fall down a flight of stairs and die.

### **1930s**

#### **1932-1936**

* Henrietta is impregnated by her high school choir teacher. She keeps it but eventually sells it off.

#### **1933**

* Evelyn is born.
* **May** - William marries Nora Murphy. He gives her an astray as a honeymoon present from which he stole from the Hotel Coral Springs and Sara Soto.

#### **1935**

* April 12- Bob Pogrohovich is born.
* **January 7** - Francis "Frank" Xavier Murphy is born to William and Nora Murphy. According to William, he had shoved Nora into a cab to the hospital while he drank at a bar. Six days later, Nora picked him up and William "took her word for it" that she brought home the right kid.

#### **1938**

* **April 10** - Sue Chilson is born to Stan and Marilyn Chilson.

#### **1939**

* Eileen Murphy is born to William and Nora Murphy.

### **1940s**

#### **1941**

* **December 7** - Pearl Harbor occurs, where after Frank cries over the tragedy, William forces him to wear a coconut bra and grass skirt.

#### **1941-1945**

* WWII brings the Holocaust. Otto is turned in to the Gestapo by his own father, forcing him to be incarcerated in a concentration camp until he is liberated.

#### **1943**

* Nguyen-Nguyen Stevenson is born.
* At age 17, Chauncey Roosevelt goes to a Puerto Rican Day Parade, and has sex with an unnamed woman conceiving his first child, Rosie Jr.

#### **1944**

* **September 4** - Vic Reynolds is born
* William shoves ice cream in Frank's face after he spills a little bit of grape juice and calls him a "goddamn dope".
* **December** - William and Nora attend Frank's school play. Frank is excited until William's hurtful jokes and the audience laughing at him cause Frank to mess up his lines and William to humiliate his son in front of everyone. After the play, William forces Frank to walk home to further humiliate him by driving slowly behind while honking the horn and yelling, "Anybody wants a daughter? I thought I had a son!"

#### **1944-1945**

* William proceeds to refer to Frank as "Francine".

#### **1945**

* **Feburary** Karen "Cutie Pie" Richard is born.

#### **1948**

* The Black Liberation Alliance for Black Liberation is created by known terrorist Jefferson Davis, as revenge for being falsely incarcerated.

### **1950s**

#### **1952**

* **December** - William invests in iron lungs and crutches just as polio gets a vaccine, causing the hardware store to go bankrupt. William hits Frank with a crutch during an argument. Nora, taking a stand, yanks the crutch away from William and causes him to fall. Nora loses all respect for William and the two subsequently divorced.

#### **1953**

* Frank graduates high school but is soon drafted into the Korean War, as part of the United States Reserves unit. He returns later that year.

#### **1955**

* Chuck Sawitzki is born to Dick Sawitzki and his unnamed mother.

#### **1956**

* William leaves his family, disappearing from Frank's life for 18 years. Nora and Eileen move to California and Frank goes to flight school.

#### **1958**

* **October 7** - Corey Mars is born.
* Frank and Bob Pogo attend flight school. Frank eventually meets Sue, who goes to college and wants to be a physicist. They soon begin to date happily and upon having sex after Frank gives her a golden locket, Sue becomes pregnant.
* Sue drops out of college and Frank drops out of flight school. They get married and Frank gets a job at Mohican Airways Airport alongside Bob.

#### **1959**

* Alice Goldman is born.
* Claire is born.
* Craig "Bolo" Chirumbolo is born.
* Lawrence "Lex" is born.
* **June 22** - Kevin Murphy is born to Frank and Sue Murphy.

### **1960s**

#### **1961**

* Jimmy Fitzsimmons is born to Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons.
* **June 22** - While celebrating Kevin's birthday at Wawayonda Hotel, Frank drunkenly leaves Kevin strapped in a stroller as it rolls into a pool. Kevin is left at the bottom of the pool for two minutes without oxygen until Frank noticed and rescued him, possibly giving him brain damage.

* **December 11** - Ben is born to his unnamed parents.

#### **1961-1962**

* Bridget Fitzsimmons is born to Mr. and Mrs. Fitzsimmons.

#### **1962**

* Phillip Bonfiglio is born to Babe and Marie Bonfiglio.
* **August** - Bill Murphy is born to Frank and Sue Murphy.
* Scoop is kicked in the head by a horse which crushes his skull, and he retires from The Minor Leagues due to his injury.
* Vivian becomes a lunch lady at Vic's high school. He soon becomes her "after-school helper", where they have sex regularly.

#### **1963**

* Beret Guy commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.
* Frank and Sue adopt a puppy named Major for Kevin.
* Frank tells Kevin that William lives on a comet, further avoiding seeing his father.

#### **1964**

* Amy Jenkins is born.
* Up until this point, Kevin thought his name was "The Accident", due to being referred to this by Frank and Sue, but Frank claims it was just a "playful joke" between the two of them.
* **June 22** - Kevin celebrates his fifth birthday, but Frank and Sue accidentally wrote "The Accident" on his birthday cake.
* **September 1** - Kenny is born to his unnamed parents.
* **November 3** - Maureen Murphy is born.

#### **1965**

* Jeffrey Dahmer is born.
* Scott Ichikawa is born.
* **March 8** - Chet Stevenson is drafted into The Vietnam War, as a Colonel. He and his men enter Vietnam and kill most of the villagers. Chet encounters a Vietnamese couple, he kills the wife causing her to scream. After killing his wife, her husband confronts Chet, only for Chet to kill him and burn his house down. He saves the man's daughter Nguyen-Nguyen.

#### **1968**

* **June 22** - Kevin celebrates his ninth birthday by being taken to the beach by Frank. While his father left him to grab a beer, Kevin gets stung by a jellyfish.

#### **1969**

* Anthony Bonfiglio is born to Babe and Marie Bonfiglio. During his infancy, Phillip pressed into the soft spot of his baby brother's head, stunting his intelligence and reading abilities.

### **1970s**

#### **1971**

* Kevin and Alice meet for the first time in seventh grade gym class. They would reunite until 1974.

#### **1972**

* Danielle Kerry, a student at the University of California Berkley is kidnapped by the Black Liberation Alliance for Black Liberation, held for ransom and later radicalized by the group.