Timeline

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* 5-20th
* 21st Century

## 22nd Century B.C.

* Several decades prior to 2200 B.C., Arcadius, the world's first psychic, was born in the Mediterranean region.
* Around 2200 B.C., Arcadius accidentally used his psychic gift to read the mind of a powerful village leader and learned his impure thoughts for very young girls, a revelation that caused the leader and the rest of the village to turn against him. Upon being bound and burned at the stake, Arcadius, in excruciating physical pain from the flames and emotionally distressed by the villagers betraying him, inadvertently unleashed a blast of psychic energy moments prior to his death that was so powerful, it created a new dimension called Hell.
* After Arcadius created Hell, he began bringing in the spirits of those who had committed heinous sins in their lives, feasting on and tormenting their souls for eternity. This cycle would continue for another thousand years or so, when the Traveler witch Qetsiyah created her own afterlife dimension, which was a purgatory that trapped the souls of supernatural creatures. In most, but not all cases, this prevented anyone who was supernatural from finding peace or going to Hell until the Other Side's destruction in the 21st century.
* Some time after Arcadius' death, his enemies forged a weapon known as the Staff of Arcadius. This weapon has the ability to disrupt a psychic's powers and inflicts them with an extremely painful headache.

## 8th Century B.C.

* Seline, a powerful young psychic, was exiled to an island when villagers discovered her supernatural identity. Shortly afterward, another young psychic, Sybil, met the same fate, ending up on the same island and befriending Seline. The two then became so close that they referred to each other as "sisters" due to being the only family they had.
* Due to their new home being scarce in resources, Seline showed her how to use her psychic abilities to both amplify each other's power level while also attracting ships in order to be rescued. However, when the first ship crashed into the jagged rocks on the coast, everyone on the ship perished, and Sybil vowed never to use her powers in that way again, believing that if they couldn't live on what "God" provided, then they didn't deserve to live at all. Seline, who had secretly become a cannibal in order to survive on the island, raided the ships for needed items and passed off the flesh of the dead sailors as being animal meat, deceiving Sybil while converting her to a cannibalistic diet.

* **750 B.C.**:
	+ When Sybil learned that she had been feeding on the flesh of innocent men all of her life, she became so distraught that she attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff. When Seline found her dying in the forest, she prayed to "God" to save her, only for the spirit of Arcadius, a deceased psychic and ruler of Hell, to approach them instead. Seline, recognizing Cade by the stories they had heard about him, begged him to save Sybil's life at any cost. Cade ultimately agreed to given the sisters eternal life and youth, on the condition that they feed on the flesh of evildoers who were sent to hell upon death while bringing him their souls for eternal punishment.

## 1st Century B.C.

* The oldest known ancestor of the Salvatore Family, Silas, was born. He was born into a very wealthy and noble family of witches, and eventually became one of the more gifted witches in his community, alongside of Qetsiyah, the most powerful witch in all of history. He, his former fiancée Qetsiyah, and his true love Amara shaped the majority of the events that created the present day world. Silas eventually became the progenitor of the Salvatore bloodline, as well as the Salvatore line of doppelgängers.
* The oldest known ancestor of the Bennett Family, Qetsiyah, was born. She was born into a very wealthy and noble family of witches. Qetsiyah is known to be one of the most powerful witches in history, rivaled only by Silas. It's argued that Qetsiyah, along with Silas and Amara, helped to shape the future of all of the characters and events in the series.
* The oldest known ancestor of the Petrova Family, Amara, was born. Unlike Silas and Qetsiyah, Amara was born into a poor and downtrodden human family, and eventually grew up to be Qetsiyah's handmaiden. Amara eventually became the progenitor of the Petrova doppelgängers.
* Silas and Qetsiyah, two of the most powerful witches in their community, worked together to create the first spell of immortality.
* At some point in their early adulthood, Silas became engaged to Qetsiyah, who was described on several occasions as being his best friend. However, unbeknownst to Qetsiyah, Silas was also engaging in an affair with her handmaiden, Amara, a mortal with whom he was truly in love.
* Silas and Amara became the very first immortal beings in the world, created with the use of magic, aside from the pre-existing immortal Sirens, who are a similar but different type of immortal monster, created with the use of magic. Qetsiyah and Silas were originally intended to drink the immortality elixir that Qetsiyah had created at their wedding, but Silas instead ended up stealing it and drinking it with Amara, his true soulmate and love of his life, so that they could spend eternity together.
* An angry, vengeful, and jealous Qetsiyah used her magic to desiccate Amara before using her indestructible and eternal body as the mystical anchor to the Other Side, a new purgatory dimension of her own creation that acted as a sort of afterlife for the spirits of deceased supernatural beings.
* Qetsiyah then magically petrified Silas as well before sealing him in a tomb in a cave on an island off of what is now Nova Scotia, Canada. Qetsiyah also created a cure for immortality, and buried it along with Silas in this tomb.
* Qetsiyah's intention was to force Silas to have to choose between living in agony as a starving immortal for the rest of his life, or taking the cure and dying a mortal death as a witch. Regardless of which choice Silas made, he would spend eternity without Amara in the peaceful human afterlife where he believed she resided; he would either spend the rest of his immortal life as a statue on earth, or would spend it on the Other Side with Qetsiyah, the outcome she wanted most.
* Sometime after Qetsiyah created the immortality spell, a schism formed in the magical community, and caused many witches, including the group of witches who became known as the Gemini Coven, to fear the amount of power witches like Qetsiyah possessed in order to be able to create such spells. This led to the Travelers killing Qetsiyah in anger for the trouble she had wrought to their group by essentially creating the magical basis from which all forms of immortality would be derived in the future.
* The aforementioned witches then cursed Qetsiyah and Silas' community of witches, who from then on became known as the Travelers due to the fact that they were forced to live as nomads as a side effect of the curse, unable to settle as a community for longer than a few days or perform rituals and spells in groups without risking their homes being devastated by natural disasters such as earthquakes and plagues. This curse also cut the Travelers off from Nature, so they were unable to practice traditional magic, their preferred form of witchcraft.
* As a result of this curse, the Travelers improvised by creating their own form of magic later known as Traveler Magic, a cruder form of their beloved traditional magic that had many more limitations. They also developed an affinity for a form of spirit possession known as Passenger spells, which allowed them to bypass the restriction in their curse that prevented them from congregating as a group by possessing the bodies of non-Travelers; this allowed them to gather and perform spells as a group with no adverse side effects.
* The Travelers eventually came into possession of the literally-petrified Amara and spent over two thousand years constantly moving her body around so she wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. All the while, the Travelers sought Silas' location and the cure to finally destroy the immortals Qetsiyah had unknowingly created with her spell.
* The Salvatore doppelgänger bloodline and the Petrova doppelgänger bloodline was created as a result of Silas, a very powerful witch, and Amara, a mortal, ingesting the immortality elixir, since their nigh-invulnerability caused an imbalance in Nature. Nature found a balance to the law that they had broken, which stated that every living thing must die by creating what became known as "shadow-selves," or "doppelgängers." These exact duplicates of Silas and Amara acted as a version of the immortal beings who could actually die in their place, though they could gain lesser forms of immortality by becoming vampires.
* Silas' betrayal of Qetsiyah by sharing the immortality elixir with Amara is what caused Qetsiyah to create the Other Side to act as a purgatory for supernatural creatures. As the anchor to the Other Side, Amara was forced her to spend her immortal life frozen in stone and acting as a tollbooth for the spirits of dead supernatural beings. Whenever a supernatural being died, their spirit would pass through Amara's body on their way to the purgatory dimension, and Amara would feel the pain of each of their deaths as they crossed over. This fate ultimately drove her to psychological instability, as the immense pain caused by the spirits crossing over -- in addition to the confusion of having a foothold in two different planes of existence, which caused her to be unable to distinguish ghosts from the living became too overwhelming for her to bear over the many centuries she was alive. This dimension existed for over two thousand years, during which time it became home to the spirits of countless witches, werewolves, vampires, doppelgängers, and supernatural hunters who had died and were then forced to watch their loved ones and enemies live on without them in near-solitude until it was ultimately destroyed in 2013.

## 100 A.D.

* In a Roman Village, townspeople prepared for their annual harvest festival in which they use the effigy of a clown to confess all of their sins and then burn it, believing that it would destroy all their misdeeds along with it. However, prior to the festival, an Egyptian woman, a conscripted then exiled witch, cast a spell and brought the effigy to life to punish the villagers for taking her away from her home.

## Before 5th Century A.D.

* The noble Green Knight wielded Excalibur, though his body and soul was corrupted and decayed as a result of the power. He became unworthy to wield the sword and his thirst for more made him a scourge upon mankind. Wielding the sword, Camelot fell and the Dark Ages began. Eventually, Nimue, Lady of the Lake, became the sword's protector and was bound by duty to find a worthy champion and fell the Green Knight.
	+ At an unknown point in time, both the Green Knight and Nimue encountered Malivore was was consumed.

## 5th Century A.D.

* In Europe, Markos, leader of the Travelers, was born.
* Markos, upon growing up to become a powerful Traveler witch and leader of their clan, cast a spell on the first pair of doppelgängers spawned as a result of Silas and Amara's immortality. This spell caused the two doppelgänger lines to be mystically drawn to one another so that, when the time came, it would be easier for the Travelers to find them and use their combined blood to break the curse that was placed on them by the witches.
* In what would become the United States of America, a Native American man and woman, both powerful witches and members of two warring tribes, were married together to create a unified coven.
	+ The couple then went on to conceive a child together. For nine months, the tribal Elders came to the the mother, using magic to grant the child great power in hopes that the newborn would become a symbol of prosperity.
	+ After the child was born, it became clear that Inadu was even more powerful than they could have imagined. However, this power came with an insatiable hunger for more power, channeling life in all its forms. Eventually she loved the fear she inspired in others and became ruthless, unfeeling, empty, the define trait gave rise to her nickname, "The Hollow."
* Years later, after Inadu, now a young woman, had performed numerous sacrifices in the name of taking their power for herself, the Elders of her coven, along with her own mother, used wolves to ambush Inadu so that they could take her down once and for all. Knowing that they would have to kill her via dismemberment to ensure that she would be truly dead, the witches held her down as they enchanted an axe with the power to end her life. Knowing that her time was limited, Inadu cast one final spell, empowered by her death.
	+ Once she had been killed, the nature of the spell was finally revealed-- she cursed every witch present for her execution to be bound to the Full Moon, at which time they would be forced to shapeshift into wolves, the same animals they used to hunt her, thus causing the creation of the Werewolf species and curse. Inadu's mother, who bore the Crescent mark just like her daughter, then became the progenitor of the Labonair bloodline of Werewolves, who shared her lineage with Inadu.
* The other cursed witches in attendance then became the progenitors of the remaining six original werewolf bloodlines -- Malroux, Deep Water, Barry, BasRoq, Paxon, and Poldark.
	+ At some point, Inadu's spirit was locked away by the New Orleans Ancestral Witches, remaining a prisoner, in an unknown dimension, for centuries until the link between the ancestors and the living world was destroyed in 2014 and she used the massive release of energy to escape.

## Ca. Early 970s A.D.

* In the Kingdom of Norway, a large group of Viking warriors attacked a village where two young witches, Esther and Dahlia, were raised. The Vikings easily slaughtered all of the villagers except for the two witches, whom they decided to capture after they saw Dahlia using magic to neutralize the Viking who attempted to attack her younger sister. Before they were captured, the sisters promised each other that they would stand by one another, "always and forever," no matter what happened. It was this vow that would also later be adopted by Esther's children Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, and Rebekah in the early 11th century.
* In order to spare Esther from the horrible physical and psychological abuse she herself would eventually endure from the Vikings, Dahlia agreed to perform the dark magic they demanded in exchange for Esther's protection. As a result of this deal, she was forced to work for them all day in a cramped hovel while Esther was able to spend most of her day outside collecting magical herbs for her.
* At some point during their captivity, Esther began to grow closer to one of her Viking captors, Mikael, and after some time, they fell in love and planned to get married and start a family.
	+ When Dahlia informed her of a plan she had created to allow them to escape the Vikings' control using potent sage and serpent's blood, Esther confessed that she had decided to stop practicing witchcraft, as she believed she would no longer need it because Mikael would protect her from any harm. Dahlia felt incredibly betrayed by Esther's decision to leave her in favor of marrying one of their captors, believing that she was breaking their vow to always stick together. In her grief, she began sobbing on the floor after Esther left with Mikael. It is believed that this moment is what led to Dahlia swearing to never be oppressed again.
* Some time in 971, Mikael and Esther were married and began to try to have children of their own.

## 972 A.D.

* In Norway, a barren Esther Mikaelson asked her sister Dahlia to help her conceive a child with magic. Dahlia initially rejected her pleas, as she was still resentful that Esther had abandoned witchcraft and believed if she hadn't, Esther would be able to help herself, but after some convincing, she ultimately agreed. However, Dahlia warned her that it would require heavy sacrifice, which Esther was desperate enough to agree to pay.
* A short time afterward, Mikael and Esther conceived their first child together, and within the year, their daughter, Freya, became their firstborn child.

## 973-974

* In Norway, Mikael and Esther had a second child, Finn Mikaelson, who would grow up to be the best friend of his older sister Freya.

## 977 A.D.

* When Freya was five years old and just starting to come into her magical abilities, Dahlia sensed her power and came to take her, Esther's firstborn child, as payment for casting the fertility spell in 972. Esther attempted to resist the price of the spell, which caused Dahlia to remind Esther that she hadn't just agreed to give up her own firstborn child to her-- she had also agreed to give up the firstborn witch child of each and every one of Esther's witch descendants for as long as her bloodline existed.
	+ Esther was so devastated by this event (despite knowing what she was agreeing to when she requested Dahlia cast the spell) that she vowed to return to the dark arts and grow in experience and magical strength until she was powerful enough to rival Dahlia herself. Shortly after Freya was taken, Esther made good on this threat and began practicing witchcraft again.
* Mikael, who was away in battle at the time Freya was taken, was told a lie that Freya died from plague upon his return to their home in Norway. This news ultimately had a permanent effect on the future of his family, as the "death" of his beloved daughter caused Mikael to become withdrawn from Esther and his later children.
* Esther was also pregnant with her third child, Elijah, when Freya was taken away by Dahlia, indicating that Elijah was born later this year or earlier in the following year.
* Freya, now in Dahlia's possession, was immediately taught to use her powers by her new guardian. After a short period of instructing Freya in witchcraft, Dahlia created her own brand of connective magic and bound herself to young Freya in a way that allowed her to augment Freya's powers while still giving herself the ability to also channel her young niece and increase her own power as well.
* Armed with Freya and the immense magical power they shared, Dahlia set out to use it to vanquish her enemies. She began this mission right away by slaying an entire village of Viking men, women, and children with a wave of her hand, as the village was led by a chief who wanted to run her out of the encampment for practicing witchcraft.

## Ca. 977-Late 990's

* The witch Ayana, Esther's friend and mentor, informed Esther of a far-away place where "everybody is healthy and blessed with the gifts of speed and strength." This place was in the New World, and the people she was describing were werewolves.
* Esther, Mikael, their two sons, (Elijah and Finn) and Ayana (along with several other Norwegian Vikings) migrated to the place that would eventually become known as Mystic Falls, Virginia in the United States of America. They were quickly welcomed into a village in which many werewolves resided and easily integrated into their new home. During the full moon, the Viking colonists would hide inside the extensive cave system under the village to protect themselves from the werewolves while they were transformed.
* The Mikaelson family lived in peace with the natives for over twenty years. During this time, Mikael and Esther had four more children together: Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. However, it would soon be revealed that Klaus was not actually Mikael's biological son, but instead was a product of an affair Esther had with Ansel, the chief of the village and the werewolf Alpha of what eventually became known as the North East Atlantic Pack.
	+ Because Klaus inherited the werewolf gene from his true father, Esther spent the rest of Klaus' human life fearing that the Viking warrior culture would cause him to kill and trigger his curse, which would subsequently reveal her infidelity. In order to keep Klaus from activating his werewolf gene for as long as possible, she cast a spell to cause physical weakness on a Starling Necklace in hopes of ensuring Klaus wouldn't have the power to kill anyone. However, it was this magically-induced weakness that caused Mikael, who valued only strength in his offspring, to begin abusing Klaus, and this abuse ultimately played a huge role in making Klaus the paranoid, vengeful, and violent person he became as an adult. ("Ordinary People") ("Every Mother's Son") ("Wheel Inside the Wheel")
* During this time, the lord Tristan de Martel and his younger sister, the lady Aurora de Martel were born to the Count de Martel and his wife in Marseilles, France. When Aurora was born, her mother died in childbirth, causing Aurora to blame herself for her death for the rest of her life.

## Late 990s-Early 1000's

* In the Kingdom of Norway, Freya, now an adult woman, continued to learn witchcraft from Dahlia, and as she grew older, it became exceedingly clear that Freya's magic was out of control, as the firstborn witches of Dahlia and Esther's family's bloodline are known to always possess devastating amounts of power, moreso than the other witches of the bloodline.
	+ After learning that Freya's siblings had been turned into vampires, preventing them from having any children, Dahlia, furious that Esther had essentially weaseled out of their deal by preventing her from taking their firstborn witch children, became determined to figure out a way to get the firstborn Mikaelson witches she desperately craved. Her ultimate goal was to create a coven of powerful witches from whom she could channel and become unstoppable, and it was this goal that led her to realize that she needed to extend her lifespan in order to make her plan work, since she had only Freya to continue the bloodline at this point.
		- Dahlia eventually created a spell that would grant a witch an unconventional form of immortality, which would allow them to retain their magic, unlike vampires and true immortals, who lose their magic upon transformation. Though Freya insisted that she wanted no part of this spell, as she viewed the immortality as a curse, Dahlia (seeing this opportunity as both a stop-gap in her quest to true immortality as well as a chance to extend Freya's life so she can have a larger bloodline of Mikaelson witches for Dahlia to take) forced Freya to partake in the ritual against her will. The spell required them to put themselves in a magically-induced sleep for a century while their magic would continue to grow exponentially over that time. When they awoke from this sleep, they would then have more power than they ever dreamed, but it came at a price-- they could only be active for a single year before they had to return their magical slumber for another century and once again build up more of their power. This spell ensured that they would only become more powerful with each century they awakened.

## 1001

* At some point in this year, Tatia, a Petrova doppelgänger who was the object of affection for both Elijah and Klaus, confessed to Elijah that she loved him, effectively choosing him over his brother. The relationship between Elijah and Tatia grew stronger from then on, with Elijah's mother Esther being so happy that she truly believed that she would call Tatia her daughter once she and Elijah married.
* In the New World, Henrik Mikaelson was killed by werewolves after sneaking out on a full moon with Klaus "to watch the men change into beasts."

* **Autumn 1001**

* + In their grief after losing their youngest son, Mikael and Esther began thinking of magical ways to protect their family in order to ensure that they would never suffer such a loss again. When Esther came upon the Immortality Spell that Qetsiyah created that turned Silas and Amara into the first Immortals, she got the idea to modify it to defend against the werewolves' powers. However, when she approached her mentor, Ayana, and begged her for her magical assistance, Ayana refused, stating that the balance of Nature would not stand for what she wanted to do, and insisting that if Esther proceeded as planned, she would cause the beginning of a plague.
	+ After much convincing and encouragement from Mikael, Esther ultimately turned the Mikaelson Family into the first vampires using her modified immortality spell shortly after the village celebrated the pagan holiday Samhain. Esther had two reasons for transforming her husband and their children into these immortal vampires: it was both a way protect the rest of her family from losing any other members to the werewolves, and also, secretly, to keep them from bringing forth another generation of witches, since Esther knew that vampires, as undead creatures, could not have biological children, and she also knew that Dahlia intended to return to her in order to claim any firstborn children Finn, Elijah, Klaus, Kol, and Rebekah would potentially have.
		- In the spell, she used a small amount of blood that Tatia voluntarily gave her at Esther's request, as Tatia's status as the first Petrova doppelgänger to be born after Amara was made into an Immortal, made her blood a powerful binding agent in witchcraft. She also called on the sun for life and the ancient white oak tree for immortality. As a result, the very first vampires, called the Originals, were created.
	+ Shortly afterward, the recently-turned Original vampires unintentionally made their first human kills, revealing that an all-consuming hunger for human blood was an unforeseen side-effect of vampirism, a hunger that the Mikaelson children had yet to learn to control. After Klaus killed his first human, he immediately began shifting into a werewolf, revealing his newly activated hybrid nature and making it known that Klaus was not Mikael's biological son, but was instead a product of the affair Esther had with Ansel, a werewolf and the Alpha of the North East Atlantic Pack, the same pack to which the werewolf who accidentally killed Henrik belonged.
	+ During Klaus' first werewolf transformation after making his first human kill, he ran into the woods and accidentally slaughtered six villagers who happened to be there that night.
	+ Elijah's lover, Tatia, caught him consoling Klaus the morning after his first full-moon-induced transformation and saw the victims of his bloodlust surrounding him in the woods. When Elijah saw the look of horror and disgust on Tatia's face, he chased after her to explain what had happened, and Tatia, in her fear, accidentally cut her hand open when she tripped and fell on a tree root. The scent of her blood was too overwhelming for the newly-turned Elijah, who was unable to resist his newborn vampire bloodlust and ultimately fed on her until she died.
		- Afterward, Elijah realized he had inadvertently caused the death of the woman he loved and became so desperate that he brought Tatia's body to his mother in order to seek her help. Esther felt guilty for the fact that Elijah had made his first human kill as a result of the fact that she turned him into a vampire and knew that Elijah was devastated by the fact that he murdered the love of his life. So, she magically altered his memories so he would not have to suffer for what he had done. The spell she cast created a door in his mind behind which the memories of Tatia's death were stored, and because Elijah lost his memories of the event, he (and the rest of his siblings) mistakenly believed that Esther had killed Tatia in order to use her blood to bind the Hybrid Curse, an incorrect assumption that Esther encouraged in order to hide the truth.
		- However, an unforeseen consequence of the spell cast on Elijah's memories was that it created the "red door" behind which Elijah would later begin store each and every memory of all of his violent actions over the course of his thousand-year-long life. *("Red Door")*
	+ Mikael was furious at his wife's betrayal, and the Spirits were intent to restore the balance of Nature that had been disturbed when Klaus' hybrid nature made him nearly invulnerable. So, in order to make up for her mistakes, Esther cast a curse on Klaus using the remaining doppelgänger blood left in Tatia's deceased body as a binding agent, which then bound his werewolf heritage and essentially made the majority of his werewolf powers dormant.
	+ Upon learning that Klaus' biological father was the chief of the werewolf pack whose member killed his son Henrik, Mikael went into an intense rage and killed at least half of their village, including Ansel and the majority of his pack. This act would ultimately ignite a war between the two species that still rages on in the present day, though enough members of Ansel's family survived for his bloodline to survive into the 21st century.
	+ Klaus, feeling betrayed by his mother for her lies, strangled Esther to death and blamed Mikael for the act, causing his siblings to turn their backs on their father out of anger.
	+ After Niklaus, Elijah and Rebekah fled the family home following Esther's death to escape their father, Mikael, Elijah and Rebekah assured Klaus that they were not going to desert him, and the three of them swore an oath to stay together "Always and Forever," a phrase that would bind the three of them together as siblings for eternity. Soon afterward, the three left the village and returned to the Old World, where they reunited with their brothers Kol and Finn.

## 1002

* **Late Winter/Early Spring 1002**:
	+ Finn, Elijah, Klaus, Kol, and Rebekah, having made it back to Europe following their transformations into vampires and the death of their mother, eventually ended up in southern France after spending the the last half-year (autumn and winter of 1001 AD) running from Mikael. Elijah insisted that they do everything in their power to not draw attention to themselves out of fear their father would find them, and enacted several rules by which the five of them would abide to ensure their success, which included feeding discretely, covering their tracks, and killing anyone who learned the truth about what they were so they could not spread rumor of the existence of vampires.
	+ The five Mikaelson siblings had numerous arguments about their new lifestyle and what they should do next. Kol thought it would be best if they split up, since Mikael couldn't go after all of them at once, and though Finn wasn't keen on separating, he and Rebekah yearned for ordinary lives that they couldn't live on the run, but Elijah and Klaus eventually ruled to stay together, as they had made a vow to be a family, always and forever.
	+ After the siblings had fed on and killed four noblemen and one noblewoman who appeared to be heading toward the castle not far from where they were, Rebekah had the idea to take their clothes and carriage and go to the castle in their victims' place. The five of them were divided on the subject, especially considering they were in a strange new country whose customs and culture they did not understand.
		- While they were debating, Elijah found the servant of their deceased victims, a man named Lucien Castle who was so terrified after witnessing them slaughtering the guests he was meant to deliver that he begged them to allow him to help them blend into the French court by teaching them their customs in exchange for sparing his life. Though Elijah reminded them that they had a rule to kill anyone who found out they were vampires, he was eventually overruled, and the Mikaelsons decided to do as Lucien requested and allow him to live so he could tell them everything they needed to know to pass for the children of the French Count de Guise at the castle.
	+ The Mikaelsons and Lucien soon arrived at the castle wearing their victims' clothes, where Lucien instructed them on how to introduce themselves to Count de Martel and how to appear to be wealthy nobles rather than the scared immigrants that they were. Lucien then introduced them to the Count. Though they were nearly exposed as frauds when Count de Martel claimed the Count de Guise had never mentioned children, Elijah, Klaus and Rebekah managed to talk their way out of it and were invited to stay in their home.
	+ While at the celebration, Lucien and Klaus talked privately, during which time Lucien admitted that his master, Count de Martel, treated him cruelly, and that even knowing that Klaus and his siblings were vampires, Lucien believed the Count and the nobles were even greater monsters than they are. Lucien then stated that he'd be happy to see them all dead, which seemed to endear him to Klaus. When Tristan and Aurora de Martel arrived and joined the party, Klaus seemed immediately smitten with Aurora and asked Lucien about them. Lucien explained that they were the Count's children and warned him it would likely be best to stay away from them, describing Tristan as being "wicked" and alluding to the fact that he had romantic feelings for Aurora as well.
	+ Some time later, the Mikaelsons had thoroughly assimilated into their new lives at the Court of Marseilles. During a celebration in the castle yard, Lucien approached Klaus with a letter for Aurora and begged him to give it to her, as the two had shared romantic feelings for each other since childhood but Lucien was unable to declare his intentions due to his low station. Klaus, who, unbeknowst to anyone, was engaging in an affair with Aurora himself, was torn between helping his friend and maintaining his new life, so he ultimately agreed to give Aurora the letter, but then later lied and claimed that Aurora refused to accept it.
	+ Lucien, still a determined romantic, went to Aurora's room to speak with her and found Klaus and Aurora together, leaving him devastated. Tristan's guards, having seen Lucien enter Aurora's chambers, approached the room, and though Klaus was able to get away at Aurora's urging, Lucien didn't move quickly enough and was caught by Tristan.
		- Tristan, furious at Lucien, ordered his guards to take him to the cellar, where he later whipped the servant until his back was raw and bloody. Klaus and Elijah confronted Tristan and attempted to stop him, but Tristan revealed that he knew what they were, as he had spoken to a woman who had escaped with her life after Kol had attacked and fed on her village. Klaus was about to torture Tristan, but when he revealed that he had arranged for his fastest riders to spread news of the Mikaelsons being frauds and demons, Elijah forced him to stand down. Afterward, Tristan insisted that they were all the same and were simply trying to protect their families before he sliced Lucien's mouth open from ear to ear.
		- Once Tristan left, Klaus tried to feed Lucien water to help soothe his wounds, but it only hurt him more. When Klaus hugged him and apologized for what happened, Lucien angrily stabbed him in the stomach with Tristan's knife, not knowing that it would do him no harm. Upon contact with Klaus' blood, Lucien's wounds began to heal, surprising both men, as the Original vampires were not aware of this aspect of their powers. Lucien, believing that he had become the same creature as Klaus, fled to attack Tristan, only to be killed before he could even harm him. Believing him to be truly dead, Klaus and Elijah prepared a traditional Viking funeral for Lucien and sadly discussed how confusing it was that their blood could heal the living but not the dead. Just before Klaus could set fire to Lucien's funeral pyre, Lucien awoke in transition, once again shocking them both. Shortly afterward, Lucien fed on the blood of one of the members of the court, completing his transition and becoming the first vampire to ever be sired by one of the Originals. He then begged Klaus to teach him to be what they are, and Klaus eventually agreed. Elijah would later say that Lucien brought out Klaus' bad side, but Klaus would insist that they brought out the worst in each other. ("I'll See You in Hell or New Orleans")
	+ After Lucien's transformation, he continued to feed alongside the rest of the Mikaelsons during their stay at the Court de Martel.
	+ Klaus and Aurora continued to carry on their relationship in secret, during which time Aurora asked him on numerous occasions to turn her into a vampire like him so no one could keep them apart. Klaus, not wanting to damn her to his fate, refused.
		- On her birthday, Klaus found her crying in her room, and after some coaxing, Aurora admitted that her birthday wasn't a time of celebration because she had killed her mother in childbirth, and as a result, she was broken and cursed. Klaus, feeling badly for her, tried to make her feel better by confessing that he had killed his mother and blamed it on his father after she turned him and his siblings into vampires, and assured her that she was not as cursed as he was. Aurora believed this was proof that they were the same and begged him to turn her, but he refused once again. Finally, Aurora became so desperate that she slit her own wrists in her bed in an attempt to take her own life. Rebekah ultimately found her and fed her her own vampire blood to heal her, and after Rebekah echoed Klaus' earlier sentiments regarding not wanting to curse anyone to their life, Aurora sadly asked her to leave so she could sleep. Once she was gone, Aurora jumped out of her window, killing herself and turning herself into Rebekah's first vampire progeny.
		- After Aurora finished her transition, she met with Klaus, who was horrified at first, but then eventually made love to her, and both of them with thrilled to be in a relationship where they were both as powerful, strong, and cursed as the other.
		- Shortly afterward, news began to spread through the nearby village of demons who feed on blood, and Finn became furious that Klaus and Kol's antics, along with those of Lucien and now Aurora, have caused word to spread of them. Realizing that their father Mikael was coming for them, Elijah decided that they needed to flee.
			* Aurora ran into Elijah as he was packing to leave, and when he told her they had to flee, Aurora stated that she would come with them. Elijah immediately rejected her, stating that Mikael's curse was theirs and theirs alone, and that Aurora wasn't their blood. Aurora, so angry about being left behind, stated that blood didn't matter since she knew things about Klaus that none of his family did. Elijah became furious at this remark and unconsiously compelled her to tell him what she knew, forcing her to confess that Klaus had killed their mother, blamed in on their father, and lied about it to his siblings to prevent them from abandoning him. Elijah was so upset about this confession that he then once again used compulsion to make Aurora find Klaus wretched and cruel in punishment for what he had done.
			* When Klaus came to Aurora to ask her to run away with him, Aurora was unable to accept, and instead told him that while she thought she loved him, she has suddenly seen him clearly and realized that he was pathetic, cruel, and not deserving of her. Klaus began to cry and told her she was breaking his heart, but Aurora was unable to take back what she had said.
	+ Before the Mikaelsons fled the Court of Marseilles, Elijah personally sired his own first vampire, Tristan de Martel. Then, having begun to understand how vampire compulsion works, Elijah compelled Lucien, Aurora, and Tristan to believe that they were Klaus, Rebekah, and himself before then compelling them to flee France, effectively making them bait for Mikael, who was on their way to hunt them down. This compulsion would hold for over a hundred years until the real Mikaelsons were daggered in the 12th century, effectively breaking the mind control Elijah had used on them. Despite Mikael's best efforts, Lucien, Aurora and Tristan were able to evade him for the entirety of their lives as they traveled across Europe.
		- Once the Mikaelsons' progeny had fled the court, the five Mikaelsons traveled south to Tuscany, Italy, staying in the country for an unknown period of time.
* The Nogitsune, a Void Kitsune, was born.

## 12th Century

* Noshiko Yukimura, a Celestial Kitsune, was born, presumably in Japan.

## 13th Century

* Noshiko Yukimura reached a century or so of age and presumably gained the ability to take on a human form.

## 16th Century

* Rebekah Mikaelson met Noshiko Yukimura.

### 1598

* A serial killer known as the Demon Tailor caught by authorities, and his crimes were considered so horrendous that they punished him with the Roman practice of *damnatio memoriae*, or "condemnation of memory," which led to every document that even so much as mentioned him by name was destroyed. As a result, his real name was lost to history.
	+ The Demon Tailor was said to lure children to his tailor shop in Paris, France, where he would kill them and boil the flesh off of their bones to eat; the book in which Scott McCall would later read about him detailed even more horrendous abuse he inflicted on the children prior to being killed and eaten.

## 17th Century

* A wealthy and prominent French family (which was implied to be the early members of the Argent bloodline, though this has yet to be confirmed) received a French flint-lock turnover pistol, crafted in 1645, as a gift from King Louis the XIV. Legend had it that it had only been shot once during a duel between brothers on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles. However, this was later revealed to be a cover story by a Werewolf named Kincaid—in reality, one of the brothers had an encounter with a Werewolf in the woods, where he was bitten and turned into a lycanthrope as well. Due to their family's Code, the man's brother shot him and killed him with that very gun.
	+ The gun eventually found itself in the possession of Chris Argent in the 21st century, further supporting the theory that it was given to a member of the early generations of the Argent Family.

## 18th Century

### 1760

* A French man named Sebastien Valet, along with his comrade, Marcel, were deployed to what is now modern-day Canada to fight for the French and Indian side against Great Britain in the Seven Years' War.
* An injured Sebastien tripped and fell face-first in the forest, accidentally drinking rainwater from the paw print of a wolf and causing him to transform into the demonic Werewolf known as the Beast of Gévaudan.
* Sebastien, now empowered as a Werewolf, killed dozens of innocent North American citizens and British soldiers while Marcel, out of loyalty to his best friend, helped him cover up the deaths.

### 1764

* Legends of the Beast of Gévaudan began to travel throughout the French village of the same name as men, women, and children were all slaughtered by the dozens, though there were many conflicting reports among the villagers as to what the Beast looked like. This led Sebastien's sister, Marie-Jeanne Valet, to be skeptical of the claims that the Beast was supernatural.
* Marcel and Sebastien returned home in Gévaudan from the war and returned to the French Tavern just before the body of a young child, Emil, was found in the woods by Henri Argent, who informed the people in the tavern that the child's last words were *"La Bête,"* which is French for "The Beast."
* Marie-Jeanne, as the best hunter of mundane animals and Rebekah a warrior in Gévaudan, were chosen to lead a hunting party for the Beast.
	+ While in the woods, the majority of the hunting party was killed by the Beast, who badly injured Marie-Jeanne's leg in the process. Her life was saved by Henri, who put up a barrier of mountain ash to protect them.
* Henri brought Rebekah and Marie-Jeanne back to his cabin, where he revealed he had spent most of his life collecting the skills and implements necessary to survive a Werewolf attack. Marie-Jeanne decided to combine her knowledge of hunting with his knowledge of Werewolves and the supernatural in order to finally kill the Beast once and for all.
* Henri and Marie-Jeanne as well as Rebekah set up a plan to expose the Beast by forcing everyone in the tavern to drink wine laced with mistletoe berries under the guise of toasting to the dead. Marcel, noticing the berries in his cup and figuring out what they were doing, crushed his glass in his hand to cause a distraction so no one would see that the mistletoe in the wine Sebastien had just drank caused him to partially transform.
* Rebekah and Marie-Jeanne found the bodies of dozens of men, women, and children killed by the Beast in Marcel's cellar while looking for bandages for his hand, leading her to initially believe that he was the Beast. However, when Rebekah saw that his hand had not healed from the broken glass, she realized he was actually covering for his best friend Sebastien.
* Rebekah and Marie-Jeanne confronted Sebastien in the tavern about the hundreds of people he had killed as the Beast, and he explained the process by which he became a Werewolf before boasting that his immense strength, power, and blood-thirst would cause him to forever be remembered as the feared Beast of Gévaudan. He then threatened to kill everyone in the tavern if Rebekah and Marie-Jeanne tried to expose him, forcing them to allow him to leave in exchange for Sebastien abstaining from violence against their fellow townpeople.
* Rebekah, Henri, and Marie-Jeanne worked together to come up with a way to finally kill the Beast, eventually settling on a pike and Rebekah's katana, as it would use the Beast's immense size and weight against it. They created a steel pike tip in the form of a *fleur-de-lis,* which later became the Argent Family symbol, mixing the steel with mountain ash and wolfsbane before forging it in Marie-Jeanne's blood under the light of a full moon.
	+ The three then worked together to finally track Sebastien down.

### 1764-1767

* According to reports, the Beast of Gevaudan killed over a hundred people in the province of Lozere in 1766.
* According to a book found in the Beacon Hills High School library, the Beast prowled the Auverne and south Dordogne areas of France, to the point where King Louis XV sent one of his best Hunters to hunt and kill it, as the Church eventually declared the Beast to be a monster and messenger of Satan.

### 1767

* After three years of searching, Rebekah and Marie-Jeanne finally tracked Sebastien to a snow-covered forest somewhere in France. Marie-Jeanne used the pike and Rebekah using her katana, which they hid under a pile of snow, to impale Sebastien in the chest, forcing him to transform back into human form.
	+ He began spitting up black blood, causing him to realize that his sister and lover had, in fact, found a way to kill him, though he took solace in the fact that he would forever be remembered for his brutality and boasted about being the infamous Beast of Gévaudan. However, Marie-Jeanne and Rebekah revealed that they would be further punishing him with *damnatio memoriae*, striking his name from recorded history to ensure that he would not be remembered by name, but only as a beast.
* After Sebastien was killed, Marie-Jeanne and the rest of the townspeople gathered together to burn every document he had ever signed and to repossess all of his personal belongings to make it appear that he had never existed as far as recorded history was concerned. However, this did not stop the legend of the world's most vicious and feared Werewolf from spreading throughout the world through word of mouth, though very few (such as the members of the Argent Family, who had learned through stories of the event that passed down through the generations) knew the Beast's human identity.

### Mid-Late 18th Century

* Henri and Marie-Jeanne's partnership eventually grew into a romantic relationship, ending with the two ultimately getting married. Marie-Jeanne went on to take Henri's last name, Argent, to further ensure that Sebastien Valet was forgotten by history by erasing the Valet name completely. They then eventually had children of their own, training them in Marie-Jeanne's expert hunter skills and Henri's expert supernatural knowledge to create the first generation of Argent Hunters of supernatural creatures.
* Marcel, who greatly mourned the loss of both his best friend Sebastien and the world's best killer, the Beast of Gevaudan, dedicated his life to becoming a physician. He then became obsessed with the supernatural to the point of worshiping it, and his in-depth research of metaphysics and the paranormal led him to learn how to harness electromagnetic fields and utilize it, giving him the supernatural power of electromagnetokinesis. He then learned a way to use this power to give him extended longevity beyond the normal human lifespan and to manipulate the memories of others, eventually becoming known as The Surgeon.
	+ At some point afterward, he was joined by two other fellow physicians—a man who became known as The Pathologist, and a woman who became known as The Geneticist—with whom he shared his knowledge and powers. From then on, the trio became known as the Dread Doctors, and they began experimenting on humans in a variety of different ways with the ultimate goal of resurrecting Sebastien, the Beast of Gevaudan.

## 20th Century

### 1912

* Eichen House was opened as a medical facility.
* Halwyn, a Hellhound who aided in the creation of Eichen House, chose to enter a frozen state to ensure that he would be ready if the Anuk-ite he and the Wild Hunt had imprisoned ever got loose. After several decades spent in a freezer-room, he developed a pyroclastic rock shell over his whole body that helped preserve him in a suspended state until 2013, when the Anuk-ite was finally, albeit unintentionally, freed from its prison.

### 1939-1945

* The global war known as World War II, which involved more than 100 million personnel from over 30 countries, was fought, broken down into two opposing military alliances known as the Allies and the Axis Powers.
	+ Elias Stilinski served in the United States Army as an engineer, where he was said to have "ended the war, one bridge at a time," according to his son, Noah Stilinski.

### 1943

#### United States

* The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese military led to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt to enact an internment of all Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans to various camps across the United States, particularly in the Pacific Northwest.
* Among these camps was Camp Oak Creek, located in Beacon Hills, California, where the ancient Celestial Kitsune Noshiko Yukimura and the recently turned Beta werewolf Satomi Ito were, for all intents and purposes, imprisoned with hundreds of other fellow Japanese immigrants and Japanese-American citizens. The camp was run by the US Army, including Military Police officers Merrick and Hayes, Army physician Dr. Liston, and a medic, Corporal Rhys.
* Noshiko fell in love with Corporal Rhys and secretly began having an affair with him while periodically stealing from the supplies to ensure that her fellow internees had enough food and medicine to survive somewhat comfortably.
* Noshiko and Rhys discovered that Dr. Liston, Merrick, and Hayes were stealing most of the medications intended for the internees and selling it on the black market for their own profit, including multiple crates of a powerful antibiotic that was necessary to treat the pneumonia epidemic sweeping through the camp.
* Noshiko informed her fellow internees of what she had learned, not realizing that by doing so, she would be inciting so much panic and anger that tensions in the camp would eventually spiral out of control.
* One of the internees, a young child named Michio, died from pneumonia due to not having the medication he needed, leading his father to create a Molotov cocktail out of a bottle of whiskey Noshiko had stolen weeks earlier before the internees began to riot outside.
* During the riot, Merrick pistol-whipped Satomi across the face with his gun, causing her to lose control over her lycanthropy and expose herself as a Werewolf in front of everyone when she immediately healed and partially shifted with glowing golden eyes, fangs, and claws. She then grabbed the Molotov cocktail in Michio's father's hands and threw it at the car that Dr. Liston was attempting to use to escape, which directly hit Rhys and caused him to burst into flames.
* The Army soldiers all opened fire on the camp, killing the majority of the internees involved in the riot, and seriously injuring both Noshiko and Satomi, the former of whom was assumed to be dead due to her heartbeat slowing considerably as her body fought to heal her numerous gunshot wounds.
* Corporal Rhys died from his burns due to the fact that Dr. Liston had sold the morphine needed to ease his pain along with the antibiotics.
* All of the dead rioters' bodies were loaded up, along with Rhys' body and the still-weak and healing Noshiko, so that Merrick and Hayes could burn them and the evidence of the fight.
* Unwilling to allow the Army and the US government to cover up what had happened, Noshiko prayed to her Kitsune ancestors for *kitsune-tsuki*, or possession by a Fox spirit, in hopes that they would send a powerful Nogitsune who fed on chaos, strife, and pain, to possess her body and imbue her with the power she needed to heal and get revenge. However, since Fox spirits can have a dark sense of humor, the Nogitsune that was sent decided to possess Rhys' dead body instead.
* The Nogitsune killed Merrick and Hayes before they could burn the bodies and left to return to the camp to create more chaos, forcing the still-healing Noshiko to follow him back.
* Upon Noshiko's return, she learned that the Nogitsune had slaughtered nearly all of the internees who survived the riot, along with the soldiers running the camp and the medical personnel at the camp hospital, Eichen House. She then grabbed her magical katana from under her bed and tracked the Nogitsune down into the tunnels, where they fought viciously until Satomi, in full werewolf form, helped to restrain the Nogitsune so that Noshiko could stab him with her katana, which shattered into a dozen pieces as the Nogitsune was exorcised from Rhys' body. Rhys' last words to Noshiko before he died again were *"coup de foudre"*, the French words for "love at first sight."
* The Nogitsune was forced into its fly form, which Noshiko caught and put in a jar before burying it in the roots of the Nemeton, which was still whole and at its full power, allowing her to use it as a prison to contain him.

#### Germany

* Garrett Douglas, a captain in the Nazi German military division known as *Anenherbe*, the unit dedicated to finding a way to use the occult to win the war, proposed that they find a way to use the Ghost Riders of the Wild Hunt as their own personal army, arguing that since they are an unstoppable army of the dead, they would not be limited by the weaknesses of mortal men. When one of his superiors, Berend, laughed at his suggestion, Garrett revealed his true nature as an Alpha Löwenmensch (a supernatural shapeshifter who is part-wolf, part-lion) and killed him by slicing his throat open with his claws.
* Some days later, Garrett's *Kampfgruppe* set out for the Röhr Valley to seek out the rift to the Wild Hunt's pocket dimension, where he forced one of his men, Grenadier Abel, to walk through the rift at gunpoint to see what would happen. When Abel was subsequently burned alive upon making direct contact with the rift, it summoned the Ghost Riders to them.
	+ The Riders, upon their arrival to the "real world," wasted no time battling and erasing Garrett's men from existence one by one, and when Garrett partially transformed into a Löwenmensch to fight them, one of the Ghost Riders lashed at him with their magical whip. The whip left a gash on his back that was shallow enough that it didn't erase him from existence, but deep enough for the Ghost Rider venom to penetrate his body and prevent him from healing, forcing him to run away from them to save himself.
* Still injured from the whip, Garrett sought out the Dread Doctors, physicians who specialized in the supernatural, to see if they could help him. However, as the Dread Doctors were in constant pursuit of a better understanding of the supernatural, they instead decided to keep him as a test subject, injecting him with their green serum mixed with a sedative before putting an oxygen mask on his face and immersing him in a tank. The serum in the tank mixed with the Ghost Rider venom and the blood from his perpetually bleeding wound, making the fluid more potent as it was reabsorbed by his body through the wound. Between this and the fact that Garrett was kept in the tank as their prisoner for the next seventy years, all the while absorbing the mystical properties of the serum, he awoke possessing the powers of an Alpha, a Löwenmensch, and a Ghost Rider, giving him an unprecedented boost in power.

### 1950

* Alexander Argent was born to unnamed Argent parents in Boston, Massachusetts.

### 1960

* **May 24**: William Barrow, who would ultimately become known as the Shrapnel Bomber, was born.

### 1968

* Ken Yukimura was born to unnamed parents in South Korea.

### 1970

* Chris Argent was born to Gerard Argent and an unnamed mother, presumably somewhere in the United States.

### 1976

* Lenore, a Banshee living in Canaan, California, gave birth to a son, Caleb.

### 1977

* **May 3**: Alexander Argent was bitten by an Alpha Werewolf (who, according to Alexander's older brother Gerard Argent, was Deucalion, though this remains unconfirmed) during a hunt. Surviving the Bite and knowing he would soon turn into a Werewolf for the first time, Alexander then rented a room at the Glen Capri Motel in north-central California, which was infamous for its high incidence of clients committing suicide during their stay. He then waited until just before the full moon hit its apex before murmuring *"Nous chassons ceux qui nous chassent"*, French for "We hunt those who hunt us," under his breath; as soon as his eyes began glowing bright gold, Alexander shot himself in the head with his shotgun, demonstrating his devotion to the Hunter Code.

### 1979

* **June 6**: Hayley Marshall-Kenner was born to unnamed parents in New Orleans, Louisiana

### 1983

* Kate Argent was born to Gerard Argent and an unnamed mother.

### 1985

* Lenore's son Caleb died mysteriously at nine years of age after drowning in Canaan, devastating Lenore to the point of mental instability.

### 1987

* Jordan Parrish was born to unnamed parents in the United States.
* **April 8, 1987**: The town of Canaan, California was attacked by the Ghost Riders, who erased nearly all of its residents from reality and took them captive. The only survivor was a Banshee named Lenore, as the Wild Hunt is seemingly afraid of or otherwise uninterested in Banshees. The trauma of watching her townspeople snatched from existence combined with the devastating grief of losing her son two years earlier caused Lenore to have a mental breakdown, unleashing the full force of her Banshee powers on the town. As a result, a Banshee aura permeated the entirety of Canaan, giving her an unprecedented level of control over everything within the aura's confines and even giving her the power to conjure a seemingly flesh-and-blood phantom version of her son, who could also channel her power.

### 1988

* Chris Argent gained all the skills necessary to become a Hunter and "graduated" at age eighteen by forging a silver bullet as a testament to the Hunter Code.
* After Chris' graduation, his father Gerard sent Chris on his first gun deal in Japan, purposely leaving out the fact that the buyers were from the Yakuza, or Japanese mafia, in an effort to test his survival instincts and ability to improvise. When Chris got there, he was stunned to learn that he would be dealing with mobsters, but things quickly got even more out control when five Oni appeared out of the shadows in search for a Nogitsune. Everyone in attendance began shooting at the Oni, which only made them start killing anyone who stood in their way with their *ninjato* swords.
	+ Upon finding that the Nogitsune in question was possessing the Yakuza's leader, the Kumicho, the Oni all impaled the man at once, causing him to bleed out over a fountain in the Japanese garden.
	+ A man named Katashi became so scared that he attempted to run for his life, but he was perceived by the others as preparing to fight the Oni on his own, which led to Chris standing to his feet and taking a shot at one of the Oni's heads with one of his newly forged silver bullets. Because the bullet went straight through, it didn't kill the Oni, but it did shatter its mask and give the others enough time to run to safety. Template:Ep
* Camden Lahey was born to Mr. Lahey and his wife in Beacon Hills, California.
* **November 7**: Derek Hale was born to Talia Hale and her unnamed lover in Beacon Hills, California.

### 1991

* Chris Argent and Victoria Argent were married.

### 1994

* **January 31**: Allison Argent was born to Chris and Victoria Argent in the United States.
* **June 14**: Gordon Miller and his pregnant wife, Margaret Miller, were involved in a car accident that killed them both upon impact. Margaret was rushed to Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, where she was given an emergency cesarean section that successfully allowed their son, Jackson, to survive.

### 1995

* + Jackson would later be adopted by David Whittemore and his unnamed wife.
* **Mid-March**: Lydia Martin was born to Natalie Martin and Mr. Martin in Beacon Hills, California.
* **November 28**: Malia Tate was born to the Werewolf Peter Hale and the Werecoyote Corinne, an assassin known as the Desert Wolf, in Beacon Hills, California.
	+ Malia's birth inadvertently caused the newborn to take a portion of Corinne's powers, making the assassin weaker than most shapeshifters, though still stronger than a human. This event forced her to learn how to use human weapons to defend herself and continue her work as an assassin.
	+ Talia Hale would then take all of Peter's memories of Malia's existence using the Alpha memory-manipulation ritual before taking Malia from Corinne and putting her up for adoption.
	+ Malia was then adopted by Evelyn and Henry Tate, who lived on a ranch in Beacon Hills, though they did not know about her supernatural nature.
* Scott McCall was born to Melissa and Rafael McCall in Beacon Hills, California.
* Stiles Stilinski was born to Claudia and Sheriff Stilinski in Beacon Hills, California.
* Theo Raeken was born to Jonathan Raeken and his unnamed wife.
* Kira Yukimura was born to Noshiko and Ken Yukimura in New York City, New York.
* Isaac Lahey was born to Mr. Lahey and his unnamed wife.

### 1996

* Erica Reyes was born to unnamed parents in Beacon Hills, California.
* **May 2**: Hope Mikaelson was born to Niklaus Mikaelson and Hayley Marshall-Kenner in New Orleans, Louisiana

### 1997

* Hayden Romero was born to unnamed parents in Beacon Hills, California.
* Liam Dunbar was born to unnamed parents in Beacon Hills, California.
* Mason Hewitt was born to unnamed parents in Beacon Hills, California.
* Corey Bryant was born to unnamed parents in Beacon Hills, California.
* **March 15**: Lizzie Mikaelson and Josie Mikaelson was born to Alaric Saltzman and Josette Laughlin in McKinley, Virginia.
	+ The twins were saved by Rebekah Mikaelson and adopted them with Marcel Gerard
* **June 22**: Selena Parker was born to an unnamed mother and Malachai Parker in New York

## 2003

* Claudia Stilinski was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
* Alpha Werewolves Deucalion, Kali, and Ennis, along with their respective packs, traveled to Beacon Hills to have a summit and seek the guidance of Talia Hale, the powerful and respected Alpha of the Hale Pack.
* One of the Beta Werewolves in Ennis' original pack killed an Argent Hunter, though whether this was intentional or accidental remains disputed.
	+ In retaliation, Chris and Gerard Argent captured the Beta, tortured him for information by ripping out his claws, and then cut his body in half.
* Noah Stilinski, who was still a Sheriff's deputy at this time, had his first known run-in with the supernatural when he was confronted by an angry and grieving Ennis at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital after the Beta's death. Ennis demanded that his Beta's body be returned to him, but Noah insisted that they could not release his body until his killer was caught.
* Fifteen-year-old Derek Hale began a romantic relationship with Faith Labonair, a human classmate of his at Beacon Hills High School.
* A younger Peter Hale convinced Derek to arrange to have Ennis (who needed a new Beta to replace the power loss caused by the death of his other Beta at the hands of the Argents) to give Faith the Bite so that she and Derek could stay together forever and so Faith could protect herself from any threat (without knowing she was a born wolf who hadn't triggered her curse).
	+ However, Derek lost his nerve at the last moment and tried to intervene, only to find that Ennis had already attacked Faith, who ultimately began to reject the Bite. Derek mercy-killed Faith at her own request in the root cellar of the Nemeton, not realizing that by spilling her blood on the tree's roots, he was essentially performing a human sacrifice of a virgin, giving the mystical tree power that it hadn't had since it was cut down.
* Deucalion attempted to make peace with the Argents by arranging a meeting to form a truce at an abandoned distillery, only for Gerard Argent to orchestrate an ambush, killing the Betas who accompanied Deucalion as well as Gerard's own hunters, both out of anger that they, too, wanted peace between the two communities as well as to make it appear as though Deucalion's pack had orchestrated the attack against them. Gerard then blinded Deucalion by shoving flash-bang arrows into his eyeballs.
* The next day, Alan Deaton determined that Deucalion's blindness was permanent, and this news caused his Beta, Marco, to try to take his Alpha status by killing him. However, Deucalion, who partially transformed out of rage, learned that he could see in werewolf form before he fought back and ultimately killed Marco. This killing also led him to another realization, which was that an Alpha can absorb the power of their Beta by killing them. With his lycanthropic powers enhanced to an even higher degree, Deucalion set out to kill the rest of his Betas and take their power for his own so he would never be taken advantage of again.
* Some weeks later, then-Deputy Stilinski was elected Sheriff of Beacon County.

## 2004

* Nine-year-old Malia Tate got into a fight with her adoptive mother Evelyn Tate, though Malia, to this day, cannot remember what it was about. What Malia can remember is that she told Evelyn that she wished her family was dead.
	+ That night, Evelyn, Malia, and Malia's younger adoptive sister Kylie were driving on the back roads along the Beacon Hills Preserve on the night of a full moon. Suddenly, they came upon Corinne, who had finally tracked down her biological daughter Malia, and shot at the Tate family car in an attempt to kill Malia and take her power back.
	+ Evelyn, terrified, accidentally jerked the steering wheel too hard and swerved off the road and into the Beacon Hills Preserve, where the stress of the subsequent car crash caused Malia to transform into a werecoyote for the first time. Since her powers had just activated, she had no control over her transformation, causing her to full-shift into a coyote. Overwhelmed by fear, confusion, and the scent of blood from the crash, Malia lost control completely and mauled Evelyn and Kylie to death. The guilt of this act caused Malia to remain in her coyote form for the next eight years, where she lived as a forest animal.
	+ The Sheriff's Department, after studying the case, came to the somewhat-mistaken conclusion that that a wild mundane coyote had killed Evelyn and Kylie, and that the same coyote had killed Malia and dragged her body somewhere in the immense forest where they could not find it. The crash was declared an animal attack, and since Malia was assumed dead, Corinne seemingly assumed that the fact that her daughter had died and assumed that the same coyote had killed Malia and dragged her body into the woods where it was never found. This apparently led Corinne to believe that she had lost out on gaining her power back because Malia had died as a result of the crash and not because Corinne killed her by hand.
* Tara Raeken, Theo Raeken's sister, died of hypothermia after falling off the bridge and into the creek, breaking her leg in the process, which prevented her from being able to get out of the icy-cold water before she froze to death. Theo was present during her death, but whether he outright killed her by throwing her off the bridge or whether Theo simply refused to give her aid remains to be confirmed.
	+ Afterward, Tara's heart was harvested by the Dread Doctors and transplanted into Theo's chest, giving him genetic chimerism and allowing him to be subsequently transformed into a Werewolf-Werecoyote Chimera at nine years of age.
* Deucalion, after having killed all of his Betas and absorbed their powers, became an Augmented Alpha, and encouraged Ennis and Kali to do the same so that the three of them could form their own immensely-powerful werewolf pack that would be completely composed of Augmented Alphas.
	+ Shortly afterward, Ennis killed his Betas and his Emissary and joined the Alpha Pack without hesitation.
	+ Once Ennis joined the Alpha Pack, Kali, who was presumably in a romantic relationship with Ennis, decided to join the Alpha Pack to be with him and killed all of her Betas as well. However, she was conflicted about killing her beloved Emissary, Julia Baccari, and though she did ultimately maul Jennifer to near-death, she was unable to go through with making the killing blow. After a moment of hesitation, Kali ultimately decided to leave her for dead in the woods instead of finishing her off herself, believing it to be a more "peaceful" way to die.
	+ However, unbeknownst to Kali, Ennis, or Deucalion, Julia was able to crawl across the woods to the Nemeton, which had gained a spark of power from Faith Labonair's virgin sacrifice. Jennifer then channeled this spark of power in order to hold onto lifelong enough to be found by Sheriff Stilinski and his deputies.
* While in surgery at Beacon Hills Memorial Hospital, Julia used her Druid powers to cause hundreds of crows to commit a mass suicide in order to gain even more power to survive her injuries. Afterward, she vowed to get her revenge on the Alpha Pack.
* **Late 2004**: Sheriff Stilinski was nearly at the end of his shift one night when he was called to the scene of a car accident in town, where a car had been overturned as a result of the force by which it was hit. The girl inside had been gravely injured and knew she was going to die, so Sheriff decided to stay with her until she passed away.
	+ After a few moments, she squeezed his hand so hard that Sheriff believed she would break his bones, before stating, "If you want to be with her, you have to leave now." Sheriff had no idea how she could know about his wife Claudia, who was in the hospital suffering from frontotemporal dementia, and assumed that she was just delirious, so he ignored her warning and stayed with the girl until she died.
	+ Afterward, Sheriff went to the hospital to visit his wife, and found his eight or nine-year-old son Stiles sitting out in the hallway with his head in his hands, causing him to realize that Claudia had, in fact, died while he was with the dying girl at the scene of the accident. Sheriff would later realize that the girl was a Banshee who had received a premonition of Claudia's death, but his skepticism regarding the supernatural caused him not to believe her.

## 2005

* **January**: Kate Argent, along with nearly a dozen co-conspirators, caused the Hale House Fire, which killed Talia Hale and between eight and eleven werewolf and human members of the family who were gathered there.
	+ Peter Hale sustained 3rd-degree burns to over 75% of his body and went into a coma while his werewolf healing recovered from the burns.
	+ Derek Hale and Laura Hale were at school at the time of the fire and were thus the only two known survivors who sustained no injuries. Laura then presumably inherited Talia's Alpha power due to her being the second-in-command and heir to the Hale Pack leadership at the time of Talia's death. The two siblings then fled to New York, where they would live for the next six years.
	+ Unbeknownst to anyone, there was one other survivor of the Hale House Fire—Talia's youngest daughter Cora Hale, who was eleven years old at the time and who managed to escape while the fire was still blazing. Believing that her entire family, including Peter, Derek, and Laura, had died, Cora did as she was trained to do in such a situation and fled in order to "hide and heal," eventually ending up in South America, where she joined a pack there and lived until she heard word that Derek had become an Alpha in 2011.

## 2006

* The Beacon Hills Cyclones swim team, coached by Mr. Lahey, won the state championships, a title the school's swim team has not yet achieved since.
* To celebrate the win, Mr. Lahey threw a pool party at the Lahey House, which included team members Camden Lahey, Kara Simmons, Tucker Cornish, Jessica Bartlett, Sean Long, and Bennett.
	+ During the party, Matt Daehler came to the Lahey House to visit his friend, Isaac Lahey, and they traded comic books before becoming curious about what was going on at the party and going to the pool to see for themselves.
	+ It was then revealed that Mr. Lahey had allowed the team members to drink alcohol, which resulted in them all getting very drunk and fooling around with each other in the swimming pool.
	+ Camden decided to throw Matt into the water despite his protests that he couldn't swim, and because so many of the other team members were distracted by hooking up with each other, nobody noticed that Matt had sunk under the water right away.
	+ Matt was eventually rescued by Mr. Lahey and given CPR to save his life, but he became so furious that he nearly got them all in legal trouble that he viciously berated Matt for not being able to swim at his age before demanding that Matt not tell anyone what happened to him.
	+ In the aftermath of this near-death experience, Matt began experiencing night terrors, flashbacks, and panic attacks that neither his parents nor his doctor could explain, since Matt kept his promise to not reveal that he had nearly drowned in the Laheys' swimming pool. They assumed that he had asthma and prescribed him an inhaler, but it did nothing to help Matt.
	+ The grudge that Matt held against everyone at the party who had nearly let him die is what led him to go on his killing spree five years later.

## 2009

* Lorraine Martin, a Banshee who had predicted her wife Maddy's death decades earlier, was desperate to figure out how she did it, and found a fellow Banshee, Meredith Walker, then sixteen years old, in Eichen House.
	+ Meredith was brought to the Martin family's lake house, where they had her listen to a blank record with headphones to see what information she could divine from the vibrations. However, the volume seriously injured Meredith both physically and mentally, and she was sent to the same hospital where Peter Hale was still receiving treatment after going into a coma as a result of the burns he sustained in the fire.
	+ Peter's thoughts somehow found the same metaphysical wavelength as Meredith's Banshee telepathy, causing her to hear every thought in his head for the duration that they were kept in the same room. It was then that Peter got the idea for the Deadpool and gave Meredith the information she needed to orchestrate it, such as using the bearer bonds in the Hale Vaults to finance it.
* Danny Mahealani, then fourteen years old, had surgery due to misshapen cartilage in his rib cage, a condition with which he was born. Doctors surgically implanted a metal bar to support his sternum so his heart and lungs would not be crushed by his ribs, leaving him with a scar on either side of his rib cage.

## Late 2010/Early 2011

* **October/November 2010**:
	+ Alan Deaton heard word of a dead deer found in the Beacon Hills Preserve that had a spiral burned into its fur, a symbol of revenge in Werewolf culture. He passed the news on to Laura Hale, who returned to her hometown of Beacon Hills from New York to investigate the message.
* **Late December/Early January 2011**:
	+ Peter Hale, who had just started coming out of his six-year-long coma, went out into the woods, where he stumbled upon Laura looking for clues. Since she was caught off guard and Peter was struggling with controlling himself, he was able to kill her and take her Alpha powers for his own.
	+ Chris Argent, Victoria Argent, and Allison Argent move back to Beacon Hills, California, likely as a result of hearing news that Laura Hale had returned for the first time in nearly six years.
	+ The Argent Family of Hunters found Laura's body in the woods and cut it in half, both to ensure that she wouldn't come back to life and also to lure her brother Derek Hale back to Beacon Hills as well.