Halloween Horror Nights shared continuity timeline

An in-universe timeline of events for the backstory and ongoing plot of Halloween Horror Nights. This continuity has also sometimes been identified as having shared continuity to classic Universal Studios attractions such as: *Jaws,* *Back to the Future: The Ride,* and seemingly *Dueling Dragons*. It should be noted that not all Halloween Horror Nights attractions exist within the same continuity, especially regarding those in alternate-universes (such as the *Saws N' Steam* attractions), or those regarding apocalyptic events (such as *Seeds of Extinction, Dead Exposure: Patient Zero* or *ZombieGeddon*).

Versions of the stories of certain horror movies also appear to be set within HHN continuity such as: *Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, the Thing*, and the *Texas Chainsaw Massacre*. While sometimes featured, there are other properties of less clear canonicity status to the rest of Halloween Horror Nights such as the *Universal Classic Monsters*, *Resident Evil, Dead Silence, The Rocky Horror Picture Show* or *Jurassic Park*.

## 1400s

### 1450s

* **1451**:
	+ "Christopher Columbus" (Cristoforo Colombo/Cristóbal Colón) is born (*real world history*).
	+ **April 22**: Queen Isabella I of Castile (Spain) is born (*real world history*).
* **1452**:
	+ **April 15**: Leonardo da Vinci is born (*real world history*).

### 1490s

* **1491**:
	+ Francesco Melzi is born.
* **1492**:
	+ "Christopher Columbus" (Cristoforo Colombo/Cristóbal Colón) leads an expedition of four ships to cross the Atlantic Ocean, where he accidentally finds the Americas. Lady Luck disguises herself as Queen Isabella of Spain and arranged a coin-toss between Columbus and his rival Antonio Cabot for who got to command the voyage. When Antonio Cabot planned a mutiny, he was found out and had his ship, the *Philippa Muniz*, attacked by Columbus' fleet and sunk to the depths.

## 1500s

### 1500s

* **1504**:
	+ **November 26**: Queen Isabella I of Castile (Spain) dies (*real world history*).
* **1506**:
	+ **May 20**: "Christopher Columbus" (Cristoforo Colombo/Cristóbal Colón) dies (*real world history*).

### 1510s

* **1518**:
	+ **December 25**: Leonardo Da Vinci makes the designs for what will become the *Legendary Truth Mansion* within the *Codice del Palazo Spirituale* (*Codex Phasma Phasmatis*) - *The Book of a Spiritual Place*. This is Da Vinci's last Christmas alive.
* **1519**:
	+ **May 2**: Leonardo Da Vinci dies (*real world history*). Many of his art pieces, writings and plans come to be possessed by the late Da Vinci's pupil turned literary executor, Francesco Melzi.

### 1530s

* **1534**:
	+ **October**: A mysterious plague breaks out in Carae, France.

### 1570s

* **1570**:
	+ Francesco Melzi dies (*real world history*). His son, Orazio Melzi inherits Da Vinci's manuscripts (including the codex) and disposes of many of them.

### 1590s

* **1592**:
	+ The haunted *Philippa Muniz* raises from the depths and attacks a Spanish port.

## 1600s

### 1630s

* **1632**:
	+ **October 30th**: Christopher Wren is born.

### 1640s

* **1646**:
	+ **April 16**: Jules Hardouin-Mansart is born (*real world history*).

## 1700s

### 1700s

* **1708**:
	+ The Codex Phasma Phasmatis becomes part of a collection in the Église du Dôme (part of the Hôtel des Invalides) in Paris, France. Alterations are made to the codex's design, influenced by the Église. Baroque Jules Hardouin Monsart is rumoured to make secret edits to the codex with his English rival Sir Christopher Wren.
	+ **May 11**: Jules Hardouin-Mansart dies *(real world history)*.

### 1720s

* **1723**:
	+ **March 8**: Sir Christopher Wren dies *(real world history)*.

### 1740s

* **1743**:
	+ **June 4**: Jean-Baptiste Rondelet is born (*real world history*).

### 1760s

* **August 15**: Napoleon Bonaparte is born (*real world history*).

### 1770s

* **1772**:
	+ **April 17**: Archibald Alexander is born (*real world history*).

## 1800s

### 1800s

* **1803**:
	+ Napoleonic Wars begin (*real world history*).
* **1809**:
	+ **January 19**: Edgar Allan Poe is born (*real world history*).

### 1810s

* **1812**:
	+ A Napoleon supporting architectural theorist who came to possess the *Codex Phasma Phasmatis* sells it on the black market for funds to support Napoleon. It comes into the possession of Jean-Baptise Rondelet of Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, and is delivered by Reverend Dr. Archibald Alexander.
* **1815**:
	+ Napoleonic Wars end (*real world history*).

### 1820s

* **1821**:
	+ **May 5**: Napoleon dies (*real world history*).
* **1822**:
	+ Andrew Jackson Borden is born (*real world history*).
	+ **August 15**: Virginia Clemm is born (*real world history*).
* **1829**:
	+ Lady Luck influences Edgar Allan Poe to move to Baltimore.
	+ **September 25**: Jean-Baptiste Rondelet dies (*real world history*).

### 1830s

* **1831**:
	+ Elizabeth Hawthorn dies. She is buried in Hawthorn Cemetery.

* **1934**:
	+ On the third anniversary of Elizabeth's death, Jonathan Hawthorn commits suicide. He is buried in Hawthorn Cemetery where he and Elizabeth become undead.

### 1840s

* **1843**:
	+ Township of Carey, Ohio is established (*HHN continuity, not real world history*).
* **1847**:
	+ **January 30**: Edgar Allan Poe's cousin-wife Virginia Poe dies at 22 (*real world history*). Poe and his work are heavily impacted by the death.
* **1849**:
	+ **October 7**: Edgar Allan Poe dies mysteriously (*real world history*).

### 1850s

* **1851**:
	+ **October 22**: Archibald Alexander dies (*real world history*).
* **1858**:
	+ Alternative year for founding of Carey.

### 1860s

* **1860**:
	+ **July 19**: Lizzie Borden is born (*real world history*).
* **1865**:
	+ **December 14**: Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski (George Chapman/George Kubsch) is born (*real world history*).
* **1867**:
	+ Universal Studios co-founder Carl Laemmle is born (*real world history*).

### 1870s

* **1872**:
	+ **August 13**: A Western Union Telegram is sent out, warning about how the town of Lightning Gulch has been thrown into lawless violence due to greed in the Gold Rush incited by local men Ethan F. Murray and Curtis "Ray" Hobbs. This occurs amidst an intense electrical storm. Sheriff abandons post and recommends erasing town from maps. *The Thunder Canyon Press* releases a newspaper with front-page news being the apparent disappearance of the town.

### 1880s

* Aldridge Kesterson moves from town to town as a coffin-maker.

* **1885**:
	+ A time travelling Doc Brown is stranded in the 19th century. He is visited and saved by Marty McFly before finding love and making a new time machine. (Events of *Back to the Future Part III*)
	+ **October 31**: The Tribute Theater is has its grand opening on Fifth Avenue in New York City. It is the first use of electric lightbulbs in the New York theater district, and was funded by an anonymous benefactor.
* **1886**:
	+ The *Amity Foundry & Boatworks* was founded on Amity Island.
* **1888**:
	+ **April 3:** Emma Elizabeth Smith is the first official murder of "Jack the Ripper"'s Whitechapel Murders (real world history). It is believed that the Body Collectors played a role in the Whitechapel Murders, using the paranoia surrounding the persona of Jack the Ripper as a ploy for harvesting human corpses.
	+ **August 31**: Mary Ann Nichols is killed by Jack the Ripper. The autopsy is conducted by George Chapman (who falsifies a death certificate and becomes a Ripper suspect) while the coffin is made by Andrew Borden, father of Lizzie Borden.
	+ **September 30**: Elizabeth Stride is killed by Jack the Ripper. The autopsy is conducted by George Chapman (who falsifies a death certificate and becomes a Ripper suspect) while the coffin is made by Andrew Borden, father of Lizzie Borden.
	+ George Chapman flees to the USA and changes him name to George Kubsch to avoid being suspected in the Whitechapel Murders.

### 1890s

* **1890**:
	+ **January 28**: Stanley R. Rails is born in Seattle, Washington.
* **1891**:
	+ Aldridge Kesterson has a son, Thornton M. Kesterson, in Bristol, England
* **1892**:
	+ The Kesterson family moves to the midwest when Aldridge is suspected as an accomplice to body collector George Chapman Kubsch and possibly for transporting bodies related to Jack the Ripper's serial-killings. They wind up settling in Carey, Ohio where Aldridge becomes a school handyman.
	+ George Kubsch has a son, Jeremiah Kubsch.
	+ **August 4**: Andrew and Sarah Borden are hacked to death with an axe, presumably by their daughter Lizzie.

## 1900s

### 1900s

* **1903**:
	+ Doc Brown watches the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
	+ George Kubsch returns to London where his true identity as murderer Seweryn Klosowski is discovered.
	+ **April 7**: Seweryn Klosowski is executed via hanging.
* **1904**:
	+ *Meetz Meats* is founded.
* **1905**:
	+ The Tribute Theater's owners have a son (hinted to be the villain "Major Sweets").
* **1908**:
	+ **April 28**: Carl Laemmle Jr. is born (*real world history*).
	+ **August 27**: Carey, Ohio schoolteacher Mary Worthington disappears after a prank conducted by school handyman, Aldridge Kesterson along with students: Louise Hatfield, George Von Stebler, Shawn McPherson, Jim Deedle, Alice Dodgson, and Jeremiah Kubsch. Her body was never recovered though schoolmaster Mr. Renshaw found broken shards of glass.

### 1910s

* **1910**:
	+ **May 5**: Eighteen year-old Jeremiah Kubsch and seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Carol of England have a son, Christian Kubsch, in Wyandot County Hospital.
* **1911**:
	+ The town of *Shadybrook* is established.
* **1912**:
	+ **September 5**: Stanley R. Rails is transferred from McNeil Island to Leavenworth Prison.
* **1913**:
	+ Earliest possible birth-year of Lawrence "Larry" Kurtzberg.
* **1914**:
	+ **July 28**: World War I begins (real world history). At some point causes a Romanian man with the surname Meetz to emigrate to Carey, Ohio. Also during the war, an American man named Edmund Clarke is manipulated by Lady Luck disguised as a propaganda poster to join World War I. While at war, he encounters shapeshifting creatures called the *Nightingales* which disguise themselves as nurses to eat injured soldiers.
* **1918**:
	+ **November 11**: Official end of World War I.
	+ **November 26**: Charlie McPherson is born.

### 1920s

* The Wyandot Estate is built in Carey, Ohio.
* Doctor Rich Oddfellow travels to the *Jungle of Doom*. He locates a crystal skull in an ancient temple, which he turns into the *Cane of Souls* which he uses to have supernatural powers and extend his own life.

* **1920**:
	+ Artist Markham Harrell and storyteller Louise Hatfield marry.
	+ Date on a flyer for T*he Tremendous Doctor Oddfellow's Carnival of Thrills*, including reference to Jonathan Schmidt AKA Jack the Clown.
	+ **May 20**: Stanley R. Rails is given life in prison at Alcatraz for the crime of murder.
	+ **October**:
		- Cindy Caine burns down the *Good Harvest Orphanage* (questionable continuity).
		- **October 31**: Original, retconned date of Doctor Oddfellow murdering Jack the Clown.
	+ **December 21**: Diane Dodgson is born to Alice Dodgson.
* **1922**:
	+ Latest possible birth-year of Lawrence "Larry" Kurtzberg.
	+ **February 22**: Stanley R. Rails begins his life-sentence.
	+ **June 16**: Eileen Harrell is born to Markham and Louise Hatfield.
	+ **October 19**: The *Universal Palace Theater* is reopened after being converted from an opera-house into a cinema by new owner, Carl Laemmle Jr. (1908-1979) of Universal Studios.
	+ **December 19**: Stanley R. Rails is transferred from Leavenworth to Alcatraz Island.
* **1925**:
	+ *Phantom of the Opera* (1925) is released.
	+ A Princeton University architect (possibly Ralph Adams Cram) sees the *Codex Phasma Phasmatis* and has failed attempts at building its mansion on the university campus.
	+ **September 6**: A showing of *Phantom of the Opera* (1925) occurs in Universal Palace Theater.
* **1927**:
	+ A stage production of *Dracula* starts being shown in the Tribute Theater.
	+ **June 1**: Lizzie Borden dies (*real world history*).
* **1928**:
	+ Stage productions of *Dracula* in the Tribute Theater are scheduled to end.
	+ The Universal Palace Theater screens the 1928 film *The Terror*.
* **1929**:
	+ **October 29**: "Black Tuesday" Wall Street crash, causes the Great Depression (*real world history*). At some point results in Meetz Meats in Carey, Ohio to start selling human flesh, harvested from murdered criminals and homeless people.
	+ **October 30**: Malcolm Wyandot murders thirteen dinner guests, his wife, and himself.

### 1930s

* Lawrence "Larry" Kurtzberg begins his acting-career at age 17 in the musical comedy *Babes in Arms* at the Shubert Theatre of New York City.
* **1930**:
	+ The Tribute Theater begins to be turned into a cinema.
	+ Photographer Shawn McPherson graduates Ohio University and replaces John R. Neill as head magazine photographer.
* **1931**:
	+ The transformation of the Tribute Theater from a playhouse to a cinema are completed.
	+ **October 31**: Captain Arthur Wilson departs from a New English village (possibly Nantucket) in his boat the *Annabelle Lee* and is lost at sea. Due to fog, no-one is sent out to find him and the abandoned wharf comes to be known as *Dead Man's Wharf*.
* **1932**:
	+ *Wyandot County Farmer's Cooperative Association* is established.
* **1933**:
	+ **June**:
		- Bobby "The Blade" Galletta begins murdering citizens of the town of Carey.
	+ **October**:
		- **October 13**: Bobby Galletta's murder spree ends.
		- **October 25**: Bobby "The Blade" Galletta is executed by electric-chair in Carey State Penitentiary.
* **1935**:
	+ *Camp Crystal Lake* opens.
	+ Jim Deedle opens the, "Butchered Buck" bar.
* **1936**:
	+ **December 11**: Lt. Von Stebler is born to retired naval admiral and harbor master, Admiral George Von Stebler.
* **1939**:
	+ The owners of the Tribute Theater disappear. Their 24 year-old son (hinted to be Major Sweets) takes over the business.
	+ Official end of the Great Depression (*real world history*).
	+ Carla Deedle marries Peter Samish, owner of the *Samish Gun Supply Wholesalers*.
	+ *Dr. Oddfellow's Grand Circus & Exposition* stops in a rural midwestern town during the Dust Bowl. Oddfellow murders townsfolk and mutilates them to mirror the signs of the zodiac as part of a ritual to use the power of the zodiac and use their souls to extend his immortality via the *Cane of Souls* (events of *Dr. Oddfellow's Twisted Origins*). Possible new date of when Doctor Oddfellow murdered Jack the Clown (previously identified as 1920).
	+ **September 24**: Universal Studios president/co-founder Carl Laemmle dies (*real world history*).
	+ **October 31**: Authorities begin closing in on clown/child-murderer Jack Schmidt AKA Jack the Clown. Jack confides in carnival owner Doctor Rich Oddfellow for assistance, and Oddfellow murders Jack then hides his and the childrens' corpses in the carnival as to avoid the authorities investigating the circus and discovering Oddfellow's accidental killings of certain circus patrons. Jack leaves Oddfellow with a scar.

### 1940s

* Doctor Oddfellow sends various crates of monsters to Shipyard 32 in San Francisco via *Oddfellow's Trademark Trading & Imports*. Some of the monsters escape and murder workers of the shipyard (events of *Shipyard 32: Horrors Unhinged*).
* **1940**:
	+ During a re-release of *The Phantom of the Opera* (1925) in the Universal Palace Theater, usher Julian Browning gets into a skirmish with a rude theater patron. Amidst the struggle, the usher is strangled by ropes, inadvertently recreating the death of Phantom of the Opera character Joseph Buquet. Browning goes on to become a ghost known as, "The Usher" who haunts the theater.
	+ **July 29**: Johnny Deedle is born to Jim Deedle.
	+ **August 15**: A party is thrown in the Butchered Buck to celebrate the birth of Johnny Deedle.
* **1942**:
	+ Mysterious disappearances in New York City are linked to poisoned concessions at the Tribute Theater. The owner and his girlfriend are wanted for questioning but go on the run.
	+ A paranoid Thornton M. Kesterson receives a wide variety of vaccinations from Dr. Christian Kubsch.
* **1943**:
	+ The Tribute Theater closes down.
	+ A paranoid Thornton M. Kesterson receives a wide variety of vaccinations from Dr. Christian Kubsch.
* **1946**:
	+ In summer, Christian Kubsch goes on a fishing-trip with navy pilot Lt. Von Stebler and his father Admiral George Von Stebler. Lt. Von Stebler first sees the symbols connected to Bloody Mary, causing him to develop uncontrollable night terrors.
	+ Jason Voorhees is born (HHN continuity).
* **1948**:
	+ Metropolis Tribune Newspaper in New York City hires Charlie McPherson.
	+ Christian Kubsch becomes a doctor of psychiatry.
	+ **October 25**: The mysterious totem of the *Baccanoids is* left at the doorstep of New York City cop-turned-P.I., Boris Shuster. He also encounters a ghoul which murdered a woman in his building. This begins Shuster's years-long quest to assemble the totems of the many Legions of Fear.
* **1949**:
	+ "Horror in Wax" wax-museum owner Gunter Karl Dietze writes a journal to figure out how to perfect the process of submerging people in boiling-hot wax to act as sculptures of Universal Classic Monsters.
	+ **September 27**: Gunter Dietze writes about needing to strengthen his equipment. That day he contacts his friend Tom who works at a soup kitchen to arrange for those needing the soup kitchen to become Gunter's next supply of victims.
	+ **October**:
		- **October 3**: Gunter invents a new wax dipping mechanism.
		- **October 5**: Gunter notes needing to further adjust the time in which a victim is submerged in wax. Tom is scheduled to arrive with a new shipment of victims.
		- **October 11**: Gunter Dietze writes that if the wax is too hot, the flesh will melt.
		- **October 12**: Gunter Dietze's final journal entry. He mentions giving his victims a sedative to make less thrashing and more lifelike appearances while they are submerged in wax.

### 1950s

* **1950**:
	+ *Mr. Carver's Pumpkins* is established in Carey, Ohio.
* **1951**:
	+ A photograph of Samuel Meetz is taken (seen in *Resident Evil: Escape from Raccoon City*; possibly disputable continuity; also seen in *Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland*).
	+ **March 25**: Diane Dodgson marries Frank Bennett and becomes Diane Bennett.
	+ **August 13**: Through lawyer Michael J. Hobot III, Gunter Karl Dietze's son, Jeffrey Dietze, inherits his father's wax museum "Horror in Wax" after the death of his father. Jeffrey was unaware of his father's crimes and his father's existence.
	+ **October 13**: William "Bud" Klein visits the *Midway of the Bizarre* near a cornfield in Oceanside, New York and he disappears.
* **1952**:
	+ World's technology fair where *Bzzzcon Industries* unveils their *Extermin-Air* pesticide. The demonstration goes wrong, creating several giant bugs which run loose at the demonstration, kill several people and lay eggs in their bodies (Events of *Bugs: Eaten Alive*).
* **1953**:
	+ The mayor begins working with a candy-maker (presumably Major Sweets) to reopen the Tribute Theater as a family-friendly Halloween attraction, though the benefactor had an ulterior motive to use it for murders.
	+ **March 16**: A time-travelling Doc Brown meets Albert Einstein alongside New York attorney general Nathaniel Goldstein for the presentation of the *Albert Einstein College of Medicine*.
* **1954**:
	+ **October**: At a Halloween parade, the candy-maker benefactor of the Tribute Theater uses the Halloween parade to lace candy with a mutagen causing children to murder their parents, including the mayor's daughter murdering the mayor. (Implied events of *Sweet Revenge* and *2022 Halloween Tribute Store*).
* **1955**:
	+ Doc Brown invents a brainwave analyzer.
	+ Charlie McPherson exposes otherwise reputable diamond seller Thornton Kesterson for diamond smuggling.
	+ The Metropolis Tribune fires Charlie McPherson for, "Disorderly conduct".
	+ Various vampires terrorize Hollywood High School's 1955 homecoming parade and turn several of its humans into vampires (*events of Vamp '55*).
	+ **April**:
		- Eileen begins working for, " Children's Classics". A First Edition of *Harrell House Publishing Children's Classics* is released.
	+ **October**:
		- **October 13**: 65-year-old Stanley R. Rails is transferred to Hellgate prison.
	+ **November**:
		- **November 5**: Marty McFly uses a DeLorean to travel to 1955 from 1985.
		- **November 12**: Marty McFly goes back to the future.
* **1956**:
	+ **October**:
		- The *Midway of the Bizarre* visits Plains, Pennsylvania. Thomas Mann Johns disappears while visiting the midway.
		- **October 1**: 99 inmates of Hellgate prison overpower the guards and take control of the prison. A group of civilians, hosted by Robert L. Strickland, were touring the prison during this time.
		- **October 31**: Final day the inmates of Hellgate Prison had control.
* **1957**:
	+ Boris Shuster finds that the various the various Legions of Fear totems have been assembled in police station no. 5 and have formed a portal. Shuster retrieved the totems and dismantled the portal before hiding the totems in the attic of a New Jersey building. He writes several books on the adventures which he had assembling the totems.
	+ *Carey Hunting Club* is founded.
	+ Peter Samish begins dealing shotguns to the Butchered Buck bar.
	+ Jason Voorhees drowns in Camp Crystal Lake as a child.
	+ **October 13**: The bureau of prisons releases a document requesting that Hellgate Prison warden Robert L. Strickland be removed
* **1958**:
	+ **June**:
		- **June 20**: The late Mary Worthington's daughter Marie W. Agana dies. Family attorney Alexander Pohl provides Marie's daughter Dr. Mary Agana with silver heirlooms which belonged to her mother and grandmother. This included a silver jewelry and music box.
		- **June 25**: The *National Association of Mental Health* (NAMH) denies funding for Doctor Agana's proposal for extreme exposure therapy to cure fears.
	+ Dr. Mary Agana opens the controversial, "Living Fearlessly: Specialized Treatments for Fear Based Ailments" to cure people of their phobias via extreme exposure therapy (events of *Reflections of Fear*). Mary is possibly slowly corrupted/possessed by the spirit of her grandmother. Her first two victims die due to her treatment.
	+ Boris Shuster is hired by Diane Bennett to see if her husband, Frank Bennett, is cheating on her. Boris hires Charlie McPherson to get photographic evidence of the affair, which he does. The Bennetts have a divorce and Diane develops a fear of fairy-tale endings, while Charlie begins to see zombies within his photographs that only he can see.
	+ **July**:
		- **July 9**:  New York illustrator Eileen Harrell visits Dr. Mary Agana to cure her fear of the headless horseman. Agana shows her a severed human head, causing Harrell to break down and be institutionalized (events of *The Hallow*).
		- **July 15**: George Von Stebler goes to Doctor Agana against the wishes of his past psychiatrist Dr. Christian Kubsch. He tries curing his phobia of Bloody Mary and visions of symbols, only to by exposed to the therapies by Agana causing him to carve the symbols into his flesh before carving out an eye to escape the trance (events of *Interstellar Terror*).
		- **July 23**: Charlie McPherson visits Doctor Agana to cure the visions he sees in photographs.
		- **July 24**: Mary accidentally McPherson when she puts him in a glass coffin with strobe lights where he suffocates. His spirit is then absorbed into the Realm of Nightmares, attacked by the zombies from his visions (causes events of *Dead Exposure*). Boris Shuster begins to investigate the disappearances surrounding Doctor Agana.
		- **July 30**: Barkeep Johnny Deedle goes to Agana to cure his fear of tentacled monsters which he saw attacking a character with his name in the horror comic "Creatures!" (drawn by Agana's past patient Eileen Harrell). She intentionally hypnotizes and hangs him, causing him to live out being attacked by the monsters in the comic in the mirror dimension (causes events of *Creatures!*).
	+ **August**:
		- **August 8**: Diane Bennett goes to Doctor Agana to cure her fairy-tale related fears. Agana has hypnotized patients murder her, causing her to live out horrific fairy tale delusions (events of *Scary Tales: Once Upon a Nightmare*).
		- **August 18**: Thornton Kesterson goes to Doctor Agana to cure his fear of fire. She incinerates him (events of *Doomsday*).
		- The *National Association of Mental Health* (NAMH) rejects Doctor Agana's request for funding. Doctor Mary Agana then kidnaps Dr. Christian Kubsch and brutally murders him to trigger his fear of botched surgeries (events of *Body Collectors: Collections of the Past*).
		- **August 27**: As part of his investigation, Boris Shuster arranges a session with Dr. Mary Agana. That night, Agana is brutally murdered with the killer unknown. Boris Shuster is initially arrested, though her former-criminal patient and/or orderly David Gronoll is convicted for the crime. Doctor Agatha's body disappeared after this and her spirit became the murderous ghost, "Bloody Mary".

* **1959**:
	+ **October 13**: Shadybrook administrator Sybil Estep sends Michael J. Hobot III a letter about Dietz' state in Shadybrook.

### 1960s

* Boris Shuster founds the organization *Legendary Truth: The Collective* (possibly in 1963).
* **1961**:
	+ Shadowcreek Enterprise is founded in Carey.
	+ Doctor Oddfellow disguises himself as vampire Earlow Wolfe to join the Vampire Council and council member, Olatto.
	+ A boy (who goes on to be the 2021 HHN Tribute Store Shadybrook Inmate) is born. He is implied to be born into wealth and lives in the Wyandot Estate of Carey, Ohio.
* **1964**:
	+ A time travelling Doc Brown witnesses the Beatles arriving in America.
	+ *Universal City Studios* park opens with Harold Kappowitz/Koodles the Clown as unofficial mascot.
* **1965**:
	+ Establishing year of, "Shadybrook Psychiatric Hospital" (though it existed as an asylum earlier).
	+ Someone disappears at the *Midway of the Bizarre* when it visits Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
* **1968**:
	+ The young boy of the Wyandot Estate in Carey, Ohio becomes obsessed with bringing about one night connected to Halloween which over the years involves amassing a following of killers to make offerings, occult haunted houses, "Scare Zones", worshiping "Icons" and the ideology that we should "Be excellent to each other and party on".
* **1969**:
	+ Summer:
		- "Music Fest" occurs in a small upper New York. A group of vampires plan on killing guests, unaware that member Earlow Wolfe is actually Doctor Oddfellow in disguise. Oddfellow goes against vampire clan leader Orlotto's wishes and prematurely releases the vampires, causing mass carnage and several vampires to fall dead, all of whom Doctor Oddfellow absorbs the souls of (*events of Vamp '69: Summer of Blood*). Vampires from the 1955 homecoming parade of Hollywood High School are present.

### 1970s

* Nicodemus Felling purchases the house at 17 Hemingway Lane.
* Lady Luck poses as Moyra at *Audit Management Associates* and hires Larry Kurtzberg to be H.R. Bloodengutz on the *WKNB Midnight Horror Show* in Carey, Ohio.
* **1970**:
	+ **June 5**: Chicago Tribune releases news story "HUNDREDS UNEMPLOYED Circus Attendance at All Time Low" on topic of many clowns being fired, and being unpopular due to negative media depictions.
* **1973**:
	+ Universal Studios' mascot Harold Kappowitz AKA Koodles the Clown is fired from Universal due to clowns being portrayed in a negative-light in the media. He is reduced to the role of an unpaid street-performer.
	+ Someone disappears at the *Midway of the Bizarre* when it visits Fullerton, California.
	+ **September 13**: Newspaper with headline "Koodles Cancelled" released in Hollywood, LA.
* **1974**:
	+ **July**: A monstrous shark kills five people around Amity Island, which the mayor attempts to cover up due to the island's 4th of July tourism industry. It is tracked down by Chief Brody, Dr. Matt Hooper and seaman Quint aboard Quint's ship the ORCA then killed the creature, though the details are unreliable. Taxidermist Chester W. Pattongill reassembled the animal's body and hung it up.
* **1975**:
	+ Steven Spielberg directs the film, "Jaws" based on the events of the 1974 shark attacks of Amity Island. He was supposedly threatened by Chief Brody into romanticizing the character of Brody in the film. Film's success results in increased shark-themed tourism to Amity Island.
	+ *Wyandot Wildlife Management Area* is established.
* **1976**:
	+ A male from Carey, Ohio who lived in the Wyandot Estate gets institutionalized within *Shadybrook* at age 15. Said patient's closest known relative is Larry Kurtzberg/H.R. Bloodengutz.
* **1979**:
	+ Newly elected mayor of New York City announces to reopen Tribute Theater.
	+ The mysterious patient from Carey, Ohio is again committed to Shadybrook at age 18.
	+ **June 13**: The events of *Friday the 13th*
	+ **June 14**: *Blairstown Gazette* newspaper story on Pamela Voorhees' murders and subsequent death at the newly renovated Camp Crystal Lake (the events of *Friday the 13th*).
	+ **September 24**: Carl Laemmle Jr. dies (*real world history)*.

### 1980s

* **1980**:
	+ In Louisiana, a BBC television crew focusing on American dark rides happen upon the corpse of Jack Schmidt and his thirteen young victims.
* **1981**:
	+ Ralph Adams Cram collaborates with, "R.S. Harrison" to build the mansion from the Codex Phasma Phasmatis on a private tract of the Sourland Mountains nearby Princeton. Groundbreaking takes place in Princeton and the building became occupied by *Legendary Truth: The Collective*.
	+ A month after completing the Mansion, R.S. Harrison dies.
	+ C. events of *An American Werewolf in London.*
* **1982**:
	+ Events of *The Thing* (2011). Lady Luck assumed the form of an air traffic control worker who offered Juliette the option of going to the Antarctic base or turning back. An alien shapeshifter gets loose in the Antarctic research base and kills many of the scientists.
	+ **October 31**: Tribute Theater receives funds to reopen.
* **1983**:
	+ C. events of Dr. Pamela Darnell being attacked by a great white shark in the waters of Amity Island. She is saved by friends.
	+ **March**: Kirstin Ivers McLure submits her paper, "Unexplained Powers of Inanimate Objects" at Yale University.
	+ **July 12**: Interview with Bettini Belanti gives an interview related to mysterious artifacts which her employer received.
	+ **September 23**: Kirstin Ivers McLure submits her paper "Unexplained Powers of Inanimate Objects", again.
* **1984**:
	+ Someone disappears at the *Midway of the Bizarre* when it visits Beavercreek, Ohio.
	+ **December 24**: Several vampires hunt humans attending the New Year's Eve ball drop (*events of Vamp '85: New Year's Eve*). Some vampires who attended had attended the 1969 Music Fest.

* **1985**:
	+ The film *Back to the Future* is released.
	+ Doc Brown unveils his DeLorean time machine to the rest of the world.
* **1986**:
	+ At age 25, the mysterious patient from Carey, Ohio is once-again committed to Shadybrook.
* **1987**:
	+ **September 6**: Scheduled meat pick-up from Meetz' meats (referenced in *The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin*).

### 1990s

* Leading up to one of Amity's *Old Shark Days Festival*, tourist carrying boats of *Captain Jake's Amity Boat Tours* in Amity's waters are attacked by a shark similar to that from the 1974 shark attacks. The shark kills several people before being electrocuted to death (events of the ride *Jaws*).
* **1991**:
	+ The Wyandot Estate is transformed into, "Lydia's Garden Bed & Breakfast".
	+ From his organization the *Institute of Future Technology* in Orlando, Florida, Doc Brown runs tours/volunteer-work to the next day within his new eight person Deloreans. Biff Tannen sneaks into the institute from 1955 and hijacks a Delorean, causing Doc Brown to send out his volunteers to stop him (events of *Back to the Future: The Ride*).
	+ Year found on *Tribute Store Comics* membership stickers in 2023 Tribute Store.
	+ The "Dungeon of Terror" haunted house/tourist-trap in Rabun County, Georgia shuts down.
	+ **October**:
		- While trapped in his lantern at Universal, Fear has his first "Cycle" of *Halloween Horror Nights*. In each of the following years he influences events to cause the events of the subsequent Halloween Horror Nights "Cycle" (at least up until 2010).
		- **October 31**: Conspiracy theorist Tim Foyle tracks down the New Jersey attic where Shuster hid the totems of the *Legions of Horror*, and appears to inadvertently activate the supernatural portal (events of *Case Files Unearthed: Legendary Truth*). On the same date, the mysterious thirty-year-old inmate of the Shadybrook Sanatorium has an attack of extreme fear which lasts for the next thirty-years.
* **1992**:
	+ C. events of a pair of teenagers happening upon Dr. Albert Caine's grave robbing and experiments leading to townsfolk burning the house down with the only corpse recovered belonging to Albert's daughter Cindy Caine. The Shady Oaks Cemetery is subsequently shut off to the public (ten years prior to Islands of Fear/Screamhouse).
* **1993**:
	+ C. events of three corpses being discovered on the premises of Shady Oaks Cemetery. Research teams are sent in but are not heard from again, presumably being killed by Dr. Albert Caine/The Caretaker and/or his followers (a year after Shady Oaks fire).
* **1998**:
	+ A document on the now 38 year-old *Shadybrook* patient from Carey is written detailing his ongoing severe fear and obsession with the halloween celebrations, haunted houses, scarezones and worshipping icons.

## 2000s

### 2000s

* **2000**:
	+ Universal Studios buys authentic props from the House of Horrors which Jack the Clown's corpse was found in. They inadvertently release Jack's undead spirit onto the park.
* **2001**:
	+ Jack the Clown and his brother Eddie create the murderous game-show, "RUN".
	+ **December**: "RUN" is shut down by authorities.
* **2002**:
	+ Events of *Islands of Fear* and *Screamhouse*. Implied that the Caretaker's minions locate the corpse of his daughter, Cindy Caine.
	+ A girl is invited to join sorority *Tau Nu Alpha*.
	+ **October 2**: The aforementioned girl takes a Tau Nu Alpha sorority pledge at midnight in *Castle Vampyr*. This is a trap and the vampires the Tau sisters within attack her for a ritual which they perform every thirteen years (events of *Castle Vampyr*). Either the surviving girl or the friend she was sending messages to are institutionalized in an insane asylum.
	+ **December 13**: Date of judgement related to the belongings of Eddie Schmidt and, "RUN" are passed, twelve months afterr RUN is shut down.
* **2003**:
	+ **June 10**: Bill and Ted sign their lease contract with their landlord to live at 69 Montoya Road in Orlando, Florida.
	+ **September 13**: (Intended) date of a sheriff's auction set to auction off belongings of Eddie Schmidt.
	+ **October**:
		- Paulo Ravinski makes his snuff film projects in Universal Studios. Events of *Halloween Horror Nights 13*.
		- **October 31**: Deadline for the completed manuscript of "Midway of the Bizarre: Profiles in Seduction" written by Kelly Bernard on the subject of disappearances at the *Midway of the Bizarre* for *Scriber Harbrace Publishing*. *Scriber Harbrace Publishing* regretfully terminates their contract when Kelly does not finish or answer any messages after visiting the midway herself (likely disappearing).
	+ **November 2**: The Caretaker moves from Carey to the town of Nobel, Georgia and has building permits filed/approved.
* **2004**:
	+ **August 11**: Bill & Ted are sent a notice of eviction.
	+ **October**:
		- The *Midway of the Bizarre* visits Orlando, Florida.
		- **October 1**: The deadline for Bill & Ted to deliver the money needed to keep their apartment. The two are evicted by their landlord.
* **2005**:
	+ Vampire Johann Englehart is tasked by the vampire Ancient is tasked with tracking down vampires known as the "Reckless Ones".
	+ **August 16**: Eddie Schmidt makes weekly rentals of torture equipment for his snuff gameshow "RUN" (events of *Run: Hostile Territory*).

* **2006**:
	+ **C. September 6**: Jack the Clown throws a riot in Shadybrook Asylum.
	+ **September 13**: Shadybrook Asylum president Michelle Estep-Spencer quits due to Jack the Clown's riots and growing influence.
	+ Events of *PsychoScareapy: Maximum Madness*.
	+ **October**:
		- Presumably the events of *Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16* where to celebrate the 16th cycle of HHN, the Lord of Darkness summons Jack the Clown, the Caretaker, the Director and the Storyteller.
		- **October 20**: A story is released by Universal, detailing how the Director is banned from the Universal Studios backlot due to the extremes of his films. He is sighted on the backlot and Universal Studios Hollywood's Senior Vice President and General Manager states  "We've devoted extensive resources to finding this character and we hope to have him in custody before this weekend's Halloween Horror Nights event". Leads to events of *Terror Tram: The Director’s Cut*.
		- **October 30**: Paulo Ravinski shoots some of All Nite Die-In Take 2.
		- **October 31**: Paulo Ravinski shoots some of All Nite Die-In Take 2.
* **2007**:
	+ Jack the Clown murders Doctor Oddfellow and takes the *Cane of Souls* then creates his "Carnival of Carnage" (events of *Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage*). Oddfellow is actually stuck in the *Dark Dimension* of the *Zodiac*.
	+ Vampire "The Reckless Ones" use a *New York City* nightclub called *Club Vampyr* to murder several human mortals (Events of *Vampyr: Blood Bath)*.
	+ **March 30**: Doc Brown loses control of the *Institute of Future Technology*. While the continuity is questionable, it has been repeated multiple times that he lost control to capitalist children's entertainer, Krusty the Clown.
	+ **January** **17**: Email sent to Dr. Richard West, confirming that the alien "The Thing" will be transferred from *U.S. Outpost 31* in Antarctica to the more humid *Military Research Facility 3113*.
	+ **April 17**: All information regarding *Military Research Facility 3113* is set to be immediately rerouted to the *U.S. Department of Defence*.
	+ **May**:
		- **May 1**: Major Paul Anders of the *U.S. Department of Defence* the sends an email to Dr. Richard West, confirming that he is assigned to run security in *Military Research Facility 3113*.
		- **May 23**: Dr. Richard West sends Major Paul Anders an email, complaining about the project's schedule as designated by the US government.
	+ **June 2**: Major Paul Anders sends an email to Dr. Richard West telling him that human trials of experiments to harness the Thing's shapeshifting abilities must commence.
	+ **August 12**: Invitations for Club Vampyr are texted out.
	+ Vampire Council member Casilla travels to New York City to deal with the Reckless Ones in Club Vampyr. She learns that Jack the Clown has returned, so leaves the city to find him and learns about Doctor Oddfellow from him.
	+ The Thing breaks loose, and kills much of the staff of *Military Research Facility 3113* (Events of The Thing: Assimilation). Later may have been captured for Jack the Clown's circus sideshow.

* **2008**:
	+ Hollywood Harry causes a Universal Studios Hollywood tour-guide to disappear.
	+ **April 21**: Los Angeles Times releases newspaper with article by Tara Watan revealing the search-party for the missing Universal Studios Hollywood tour-guide has been called-off due to a lack of evidence.
	+ **August 27**: Legendary Truth: The Collective investigates Bloody Mary on the 50 year anniversary of her death. At 11:03 pm, Bloody Mary appears and causes agents to vanish. Mary then opens a portal from the Mirror dimension into Universal Studios along with her allies The Evil Queen, Samhain and the Wicked Witch of the West to terrorize more guests disguised as the event, "Halloween Horror Nights". Legendary Truth CEO Calvin Thorncastle starts leading an investigation to try and stop Bloody Mary. Also the date found on the top secret documents of *Legendary Truth the Collective Case Investigation: Boris Shuster*.
	+ **November 1**: Legendary Truth take a CFO with CRO group gathering photo outside of the Carey Elementary School.
* **2009**:
	+ C. events of Universal Studios using archives from the California based *Universal Archives and Collections* to recreate the *Universal Palace Theater* (events of *Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen*).

### 2010s

* **2010**:
	+ Legendary Truth: The Collective investigates the shut-down *Shadybrook Rest Home and Sanitarium*.
	+ In early 2010, members of Legendary Truth: The Collective encounter mysterious symbols in photographs as part of a puzzle.
	+ **September 16**: The god-like entity *Fear* is released from imprisonment as a result of Legendary Truth members Ignatia Himmel and Gabriel Fell solving the puzzle. Fear possesses Universal art team director Heather Summers and as part of his, "Twentieth Cycle" summons five heralds: Jack the Clown (representing Chaos), the Caretaker (representing Death), the Director (representing Sacrifice) the Storyteller (representing Legend), and the Usher (representing Vengeance). Gabriel Fell goes missing.
	+ **September 24**: Fear puts his plan into action but is forced back into imprisonment within his lantern (events of *Halloween Horror Nights: Twenty Years of Fear*).
	+ Boris Shuster's bio is removed from the Legendary Truth website.
	+ Legendary Truth member Ignatia Himmel is fired due to allegations of intentionally releasing *Fear*.
	+ COO Dr. Richard W. Steerington replaces Calvin Thorncastle as CEO of Legendary Truth: The Collective.
	+ Legendary Truth CEO Dr. Richard W. Steerington visits Amity Island for a fishing-trip with Captain Lawrence B. "Lazy Bastard" Manely. Steerington disappears, and is believed to have been murdered as part of a conspiracy from within the Collective.
* **2013**:
	+ Dr. Richard W. Steerington's daughter Paige Steerington goes by the alias, "P.S." and releases several videos on horror artifacts which she had discovered, and of her theories regarding her father's murder.
* **2015**:
	+ Ignatia Himmel is reinstated into Legendary Truth: The Collective by the new CEO, Dr. Calvin Thorncastle.
	+ Original, "Future" setting of Back to the Future Part 2. Doc Brown makes a speech to onlookers which includes apologizing for how their predictions of 2015 were different. (*Back to the Future Day*).
* **2016**:
	+ Writer/conspiracy-theorist Thaddeu Hampton releases the book, "Dogs of War: An Epic Cover Up" on the subject of the US Government covering up *Shadowcreek Labs*' Dogs of War soldiers going on a rampage in Carey (referring to the events of *Havoc: Derailed*). During a talk on the book at *Carey Book Emporium*, Hampton alleges that the US government burned evidence which he stored in the *Carey Storage Palace*.
	+ After the events of *The Carnage Returns*, Jack the Clown's sidekick, Chance, is institutionalized in *Shadybrook Asylum*.
	+ **June**:
		- Universal Hollywood opens their tram tour of the backlot. "Hollywood Harry" sighted on the grounds.
		- **June 15**: Associated Press news article "Creepy clown continues to frighten guests at Universal Studios Hollywood" released on topic of Hollywood Harry sightings.
		- **June 23**: "Weird News" article "Why is this creepy clown haunting Universal Studios Hollywood?" released on topic of Hollywood Harry sightings.
		- **June 27**: *Carey News* releases newspaper article on Chance being institutionalized in Shadybrook Asylum, the allegations of the government covering up the Dogs of War, and *Ultra Violent Comics* being banned in Carey due to them supposedly increasing violence and causing one child to have a seizure.

* + **August**:
		- **August 15**: Nathan Fletcher's online news article "PHANTOM CLOWN UNMASKED!" identifies the identity of Hollywood Harry as Harold Kappowitz.
		- **August 27**: "MEDIA ITE" article "Universal City Police say There's Nothing they can do about this Scary Clown" released on topic of Hollywood Harry sightings.
	+ **September**:
		- **September 1**: Archer Christensen makes online article "UPDATE: Latest Hollywood Harry Photos - What do they mean?" with recent photos of Hollywood Harry sightings.
		- **September 10**: Archer Christensen updates the aforementioned article. The Twitter account "Hollywood Harry Hunters" posts an image with a Hollywood Harry sighting.

### 2020s

* **2021**:
	+ C. events of Terra Queen returning to find new sacrifices, sixteen years after Tales of Terror, and killing her interpreter, Eelmouth.
* **2023**:
	+ Doctor Oddfellow escapes from the *Dark Dimension* and reclaims the *Cane of Souls* (events of *Dr. Oddfellow's Collection of Horror*). He is assisted by the vampire Casilla.
	+ **August 28**: Universal employee makes "Field Journal Entry no. 665 - Oddities Collection" on the topic of the Cane of Souls and hearing Doctor Oddfellow is arriving at Universal Studios.

## References

1. ↑ "Est. 1904" on door of butcher shop
2. ↑ https://touringplans.com/blog/afternoon-abominations-halloween-horror-nights-23-unmasking-horror/