Timeline

The following is a **timeline** for the *Langdomverse*, explaining what happened each day, week, month, and year.

## 1800s

* The Reid Family comes into ownership of Searchlight Ranch.

## 1950s

* Flint McCarren is born
* Glenn Reid is born

## 1995

* **Fall:** Joseph Levitt and Tracy McDaniel are married after graduating from University of Missouri in Kansas City.

## 1997

* **Fall:** On their second wedding anniversary, Joseph and Tracy Levitt conceive their first child. Joseph begins his career with the Kansas City Chiefs.

## 1998

* **Summer:** Joseph Levitt's knee is badly injured during a football match, bringing his playing days to an end. While he is still recovering in hospital, Tracy Levitt gives birth to their daughter Sara.

## 2000

* Adam Levitt is born. His birth causes his parents to decide to move from Kansas City to his father's hometown of Langdom, Missouri, to improve Joseph's new career as a sports journalist.

## 2005

* Cassie Levitt is born.
* Charlie Everett is born. Within a few years he demonstrates symptoms of high-functioning autism.

## 2013

* A large portion of northwestern Oregon west of Portland is designated the Northwest Oregon Containment and Exclusion Zone (NOCEZ), with the government using a nuclear accident to hide its true purpose: a mass testing ground for biological agents. When the residents discover the truth, the government pays them for their silence and participation.

## 2014

* CDC scientist Robert Schrader is approached by the U.S government to head the new Project Babylon, telling him that he is needed to decode a template sequence of a suspected enemy-state bioweapon. Schrader accepts and forms his team, unaware that he is actually developing a viral bioweapon for the United States.

## 2015

* Charlie Everett says his last spoken word before becoming mute.
* Unbeknownst to the scientists of Project Babylon, the U.S government begins testing the new bioweapon on human test subjects. Although official reports are not available, it is highly likely that these test subjects demonstrated animal-like insanity and tumour growth. Schrader also notes that the added influenza genomic DNA allows the new virus to travel using cotton as a vector, but does not raise the issue.

## 2016

* The U.S government begins construction of the containment wall to be used around Langdom in the upcoming experiment, again without the knowledge of the scientists. A larger version is also designed to close off a secondary test site in the northwest near the Canadian border.

## 2017

* **March:** Jonathan Lee is arrested for the murder of six criminals: three rapists, one mugger, one murderer and one paedophile.
* **May:**
* **July 4th:** Events of *Season 1* begin
	+ "Deadly Hypothesis"
		- 7:30 a.m: Joseph Levitt returns from cutting wood to his RV, where he radios his son Adam. Adam turns his walkie off as he begins planning to leave Langdom with Abby.
		- 9:00 a.m: An armada of black helicopters carrying metal slabs descends on Langdom. While soldiers on the ground keep the population inside their homes, the helicopters drop the pieces around the town, forming a 30-foot tall containment wall around the town's perimeter. The walls connect to form an impenetrable barrier as the soldiers leave the town.
		- 9.03 a.m: As most of the town's residents gather in crowds at different points of the wall, a voice speaks over a series of loudspeakers: "*Citizens of Langdom, Missouri. You have been selected for an experiment. Participation is mandatory. May God have mercy on your souls*".
		- 9.04 a.m: A network of vents, fans and turbines inside the barricade start up. The wall opens up to reveal large cannisters.
		- 9.05 a.m: The cannisters burst open, unleashing clouds containing RDVA-2017 above the crowds, completely enveloping them. The fans and turbines keep the clouds within the containment zone and prevent it from leaving the perimeter.
		- 9.08 a.m: As the remaining residents of Langdom look on, the mist clears to reveal the crowds of people that have succumbed to the virus. The crowd begin rampaging through the town, killing anyone they come across. Adam and Abby rush back into the St. John house while the Children of the Plains barricade themselves in their RV. Joseph watches from the hills above Langdom as the chaos unfolds.
	+ "The Turned"
		- 9:15 a.m:
* **July 5th**
	+ "Containment Breach"
		- 5:20 a.m: Adam, Cassie and Abby jump into the Levitt RV and drive through the destroyed part of the containment wall.
		- 5:36 a.m: Joseph Levitt limps outside of the containment zone as several flashlights turn on in the mist. Realizing that they are soldiers, Joseph looks out to the horizon and smiles as he watches Adam, Cassie and Abby escape in the RV. He looks back at the soldiers and roars as the soldiers open fire, filling his body with holes. Joseph's screams and the gunfire draw the entire horde of Turned to the soldiers, massacring them.
* **August 2nd:** The first case of the bioweapon in the general population is confirmed in Kansas City, Missouri. The first case is quickly followed by more than 1000 within the next 24 hours, with most of these being dismissed by the government as "fake news".
* **August 3rd:** Several countries, including Germany, South Korea and Australia, report cases of the bioweapon. It is quickly deduced that the new virus spreads using the cotton in banknotes as a vector, infecting humans due to general poor hygiene. This leads to the nickname "dollar rabies".
* **August 4th:** As cases in the United States top 100,000 in just two days, several smaller cities in the midwest go silent, overrun by Turned.
* **August 5th:** FEMA is merged with a new branch of the U.S military by an executive order, creating the Federal Rescue Force to enforce martial law in infected hotspots.
* **August 7th:** As cases top 500,000 in just four days, Robert Schrader releases a video to the public in which he proclaims the formation of the Civilian Rescue Militia (CRM), an organized paramilitary group with the mission of overthrowing the government and reinforcing democracy to get the virus under control. Numerous armed civilians join the CRM, as do deserting military units. Another group, the Patriots, is formed in support of the government, consisting of conspiracy theorists and right-wing militia groups.
* **August 8th:** The CRM states that cases in the United States have exceeded one million and several major cities have fallen, claims dismissed by the government, who begin releasing false data. On the same day, the Texas National Guard is overwhelmed in the city of Houston, Texas and abandons the city, leaving civilians to fend for themselves.
	+ Events of *Spiral: Season 1* begin
		- U.S Army reserve Michael Carver meets up with his old unit, which now consists only of FRF Officer Thomas West and bomb specialist Kyle Angelo.
* **August 25th:** The WHO declares the outbreak of dollar rabies a pandemic; despite this, most of the world's media continues claiming that cases are low and symptoms are mild, which is believed by most of the human population.
* **September 1st:** Global cases of dollar rabies exceed about 5% of the human population, or about 390,000,000 people.
* **September 14th:** Adam, Cassie and Abby emerge from Flint McCarren's bunker only to discover that the bioweapon that they survived has spread across the world.
* **September 24th:** "Officially" confirmed cases of dollar rabies in the United States exceed 1 million; the number of actual cases is potentially 100 times higher, with the government suppressing information related to infections and cities becoming overrun overnight.
* **September 25th:** Three more major U.S cities - Portland, Oregon, Seattle, Washington and Chicago, Illinois - become completely overwhelmed by the Turned. Information surrounding the events in the cities is suppressed by the government. It is also around this time that the containment wall surrounding Oregon's 1st Congressional District is completed, shutting off the district from the outside world and forming the Northwest Oregon Containment and Exclusion Zone; unbeknownst to the people in Oregon, the NOCEZ actually extends much further north into Washington. The NOCEZ is quickly overwhelmed by the native black mold.
* **September 27th:** Events of "*World Gone Mad*" begin.
	+ 13:15 p.m: Jonathan Lee is sentenced to life imprisonment for six counts of murder despite widespread public support for his release due to his crimes only targetting criminals who escaped justice.
		- "A New Day"
			* 14:29 p.m
* **October 13th:** The U.S states of Wisconsin and Minnesota secede from the United States of America and unite to form the Sylvania Republic. Due to the actions of the FRF, the Republic collapses within a few weeks, alongside the rest of the U.S. Some, however, believe that the SR perseveres and reforms.
* **November:** The last global broadcasts go down, leaving humanity isolated in what remains of their countries. The lights go out and the world becomes completely silent.

## 2018

* **Summer:** Adam, Cassie and Abby pull up to a wrecked van. Adam heads inside for supplies and find a man and a woman eating the bodies of their children. In horror, Adam kills them both, telling the girls that the couple were Turned.

## 2019

* **February:** Based on the CRM's data, global cases of dollar rabies exceed about 40% of the human population, if not more.