This is an official timeline for the Silent Hill series. Please make sure that all dates are referenced and are official and that the dates appear chronologically.

The dates for Silent Hill: Origins, Silent Hill, Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill 3 are obtained in Alex Shepherd's diary, and the ages of the characters are provided in the Book of Lost Memories. [5][6] The ages for Silent Hill: Homecoming's characters are provided in the manual. [7] Everything else is taken from the games.

For a timeline of film events, please see Timeline (film).

Contents 1 Timeline 1.1 Pre-16th century 1.2 1600s 1.2.1 1692 1.3 1700s 1.3.1 1730 1.3.2 1743 1.4 1800s 1.4.1 1810 1.4.2 1816 1.4.3 1819 1.4.4 1820 1.4.5 1840 1.4.6 1848 1.4.7 1850 1.4.8 1853 1.4.9 1855 1.4.10 1857 1.4.11 1860 1.4.12 1861 1.4.13 1862 1.4.14 1863 1.4.15 1864 1.4.16 1865 1.4.17 1866 1.4.18 1867 1.4.19 1868 1.4.20 1870 1.4.21 1872 1.4.22 1874 1.4.23 1875 1.4.24 1876 1.4.25 1877 1.4.26 1882 1.4.27 1885 1.4.28 1887 1.4.29 1889 1.4.30 1890 1.4.31 1892 1.4.32 1893 1.4.33 1894 1.4.34 1896 1.4.35 1897 1.4.36 1899 1.5 1900s 1.5.1 1900 1.5.2 1901 1.5.3 1903 1.5.4 1905 1.5.5 1910 1.5.6 1911 1.5.7 1917 1.5.8 1918 1.5.9 1920 1.5.10 1923 1.5.11 1926 1.5.12 1933 1.5.13 1934 1.5.14 1937 1.5.15 1939 1.5.16 1945 1.5.17 1951 1.5.18 1952 1.5.19 1953 1.5.20 1954 1.5.21 1955 1.5.22 1957 1.5.23 1958 1.5.24 1959 1.5.25 1960 1.5.26 1961 1.5.27 1963 1.5.28 1964 1.5.29 1966 1.5.30 1967 1.5.31 1968 1.5.32 1969 1.5.33 1970 1.5.34 1971 1.5.35 1972 1.5.36 1973 1.5.37 1974 1.5.38 1975 1.5.39 1976 1.5.40 1978 1.5.41 1979 1.5.42 1983 1.5.43 1984 1.5.44 1985 1.5.45 1986 1.5.46 1988 1.5.47 1990 1.5.48 1991 1.5.49 1992 1.5.50 1993 1.5.51 1994 1.5.52 1996 1.5.53 1997 1.5.54 1998 1.5.55 1999 1.6 2000s 1.6.1 2000 1.6.2 2001 1.6.3 2003 1.6.4 2007 1.6.5 2008 2 Notes 3 References

Timeline Edit

Pre-16th century Edit

• Native Americans conduct mysterious and religious rituals here. The land is valued as a sacred place to the Natives. They revered the town as "The Place of the Silent Spirits". The land is known as a holy place and seems to possess a mysterious power. ^[1]

1600s Edit

• In the late 1600s, settlers begin to come to Silent Hill from Europe. The Native Americans are forced to leave the land. ^[1]

1692Edit

• Jennifer Carroll is executed for witchcraft.

1700s Edit

• In the early 1700s, a mysterious epidemic breaks out and the town is abandoned. ^[1]

1730 Edit

• Daniel R. Bryant and a group of thirty four pioneers cross Toluca Lake to arrive in Silent Hill.

1743 Edit

• In 1743, Daniel R. Bryant dies from influenza and is buried in town. An overlook is named in his memory.

1800s Edit

1810 Edit

• Around this time, the town is resettled as a penal colony. Silent Hill Prison and Brookhaven Hospital are constructed. Brookhaven Hospital was built in response to a great plague that followed a wave of immigration to this area. It was originally little more than a shack, but it gradually grew. It was at this time that the town was given the name "Silent Hill". ^[1]

1816 Edit

• The Gillespie Coal & Iron Company establishes the Devil's Pit Mine.

1819 Edit

• Mason Bartlett is born.

1820 Edit

• On March 15th, Maine secedes from Massachusetts and becomes a state.
• According to the style, Allen Smith paints Waterfront Landscape around this time, a scene of this area from long ago. There were fewer people then, and only a handful of buildings.
• Isaac Shepherd is born.

1840 Edit

• Around this time, Silent Hill Prison closes. ^[1]

1848Edit

• Daniel Shepherd is born.

1850 Edit

• Around this time, a coal field is discovered and Wiltse Coal Mine opens, which leads to the revitalization of the town. ^[1]

1853 Edit

• Shepherd's Glen is founded by Isaac Shepherd, Edith Holloway, Cornelius Fitch and Mason Bartlett. ^[2]
• Daniel Shepherd, Ann Holloway, Theodore Fitch and Helen Bartlett are sacrificed by their respective families on September 23rd to appease God.

1855 Edit

• Andrew Fitch is born.

1857 Edit

• Elizabeth Fitch (née unknown) is born.

1860 Edit

• The Gillespie Coal & Iron Company begin extracting ore from the Devil's Pit.

1861 Edit

• The American Civil War begins.
• Patrick Chester and his son both participate in the American Civil War. ^[1]

1862 Edit

• Toluca Prison Camp is constructed for POWs. ^[1]

1863 Edit

• Diyu's Tusk Cavern is discovered by Chinese immigrant miners.

1864 Edit

• William Shepherd is born.

1865 Edit

• The American Civil War ends in a Union victory.
• Catherine Shepherd (née unknown) is born.
• Frederick Holloway is born on November 24th.

1866 Edit

• Toluca Prison Camp is converted into Toluca Prison. ^[1]

1867 Edit

• The events of Past Life occur.

1868 Edit

• John Holloway is born on June 12th.

1870 Edit

• Nancy Holloway (née unknown) is born on June 22nd.

1872 Edit

• Lydia Bartlett is born.

1874 Edit

• Mason Bartlett dies on March 10th.

1875 Edit

• Stephanie Shepherd (née unknown) is born.

1876 Edit

• David Shepherd is born.

1877 Edit

• Lois Bartlett (née unknown) is born.
• Regina Fitch is born to Andrew and Elizabeth Fitch.

1882 Edit

• Isaac Shepherd dies on March 9th.

1885 Edit

• Henry Holloway is born on December 12th.

1887 Edit

• Andrew Fitch dies on April 15th.
• Robert Holloway is born on August 17th.

1889 Edit

• Catherine Shepherd dies on January 1st.
• William Shepherd dies on March 1st.
• Sophie Holloway (née unknown) is born on July 29th.

1890 Edit

• Around this time, people start to mysteriously disappear all over town. ^[1]

1892 Edit

• Henry Holloway dies on February 4th.

1893 Edit

• Mary Bartlett (née unknown) is born.

1894 Edit

• Lydia Bartlett dies on April 5th.

1896 Edit

• Lois Bartlett dies on May 6th.

1897 Edit

• Elizabeth Fitch dies on June 29th.
• Bartlett Vineyards is established.

1899 Edit

• Nancy Holloway dies on December 16th.
• Stephanie Shepherd dies on December 31st.

1900s Edit

• In the early 1900s, Toluca Prison closes and Silent Hill becomes a tourist area. ^[1]
• By this time, the religious group known as the Order has been formed in the town. At first, the citizens oppose them, but they gradually gain more influence as more members join, until they begin to infiltrate Silent Hill's public institutions and gain more influence and strength. [8]

1900 Edit

• Frederick Holloway dies on January 16th.

1901 Edit

• John Holloway dies on October 29th.

1903 Edit

• Thomas Shepherd, Earnest Holloway, Rose Fitch and Charles Bartlett are sacrificed by their respective families to appease God.

1905 Edit

• Horace H. Bartlett is born.

1910 Edit

• Robert Holloway dies on January 23rd.
• David Shepherd dies on March 1st.

1911 Edit

• Caleb Bartlett is born.
• According to local legend, miners discover mysterious symbols carved into the walls of a limestone grotto in the Superstition Caverns, leading to wild speculation about witchcraft and the occult. Soon after, a series of unfortunate accidents and reports of mysterious creatures force the Gillespie Coal & Iron Company to suspend mining operations along this seam.

1917 Edit

• Caleb Bartlett dies on August 3rd.
• Mary Bartlett dies on August 4th.

1918 Edit

• In November, a tourist ship called the Little Baroness goes missing on Toluca Lake.

1920 Edit

• Sophie Holloway dies on September 13th.

1923 Edit

• Regina Fitch dies on May 14th.

1926 Edit

• Helen Grady is born. ^[3]

1933 Edit

• Michael Kaufmann is born.

1934 Edit

• Horace H. Bartlett dies on March 10th in a powder mill explosion.

1937 Edit

• Dahlia Gillespie is born.

1939 Edit

• Strange events at Toluca Lake occur. After Wiltse Coal Mine closes and Silent Hill becomes a sightseeing area, a succession of boating accidents occur. This leaves Silent Hill with a poor reputation for sightseeing. ^[1]

1945 Edit

• Devil's Pit Historical Park is founded.

1951 Edit

• Harry Mason is born.

1952 Edit

• Martin Fitch is born.

1953 Edit

• Rebecca Shepherd, Lawrence Holloway, Rusty Fitch and Patricia Bartlett are sacrificed by their respective families to appease God.

1954 Edit

• Adam Shepherd is born.
• Margaret Holloway is born.

1955 Edit

• Cybil Bennett is born.

1957 Edit

• James Wheeler is born.

1958 Edit

• Sam Bartlett is born.

1959 Edit

• Lillian Shepherd is born.

1960 Edit

• Lisa Garland is born.

1961 Edit

• On June 12th, Richard Grady hangs himself in Room 500 of the Riverside Motel.

• South Ashfield Heights is built.

1963 Edit

• The mayor of Silent Hill dies suddenly and, one after the other, the staff at a development group for the town die accidental deaths. ^[4]

1964 Edit

• James Sunderland is born.

1966 Edit

• Curtis Ackers is born.

1967 Edit

• Walter Sullivan is born in Room 302 and his parents flee South Ashfield Heights. Frank Sunderland discovers baby Walter and sends him to St. Jerome's Hospital. Walter becomes a ward of the state, is adopted by the Wish House Orphanage and becomes involved with the Order.

1968 Edit

• Mary Shepherd-Sunderland is born.

1969 Edit

• Alessa Gillespie is born.

1970 Edit

• Harry and Jodie Mason are married. ^[5]
• Eddie Dombrowski is born.

1971 Edit

• Claudia Wolf is born.

1972 Edit

• Eric Lake is born.
• Tina is born.
• Cynthia Velasquez is born. ^[6]

1973 Edit

• Dahlia Gillespie tells 6 year old Walter that Room 302 is his mother. Walter begins to travel to Ashfield by bus/train and visits South Ashfield Heights regularly. Walter encounters Richard Braintree in the apartment building and is frightened by him.

1974 Edit

• Angela Orosco is born.

1975 Edit

• 8 year old Walter learns of Cynthia's name, who was about 3, somewhere in Ashfield.
• In Ashfield, Walter injures a kitten in Steve Garland’s pet store.

1976 Edit

• The events of Silent Hill: Origins occur, according to Alex Shepherd's diary. [9]
• Cheryl Mason is "born" and is adopted by Harry and Jodie Mason, who find her on the side of the road.
• Amy Baldwin is born.

1978 Edit

• Eileen Galvin is born.

1979 Edit

• Jodie Mason dies either from her illness or in a car accident. ^[7]

1983 Edit

• The events of Silent Hill occur, 7 years after Silent Hill: Origins. [10]
• Dahlia Gillespie dies, killed by the Incubator/Incubus.
• Heather Mason is born.
  • Cheryl Heather Mason is born on July 17th in the Silent Hill: Shattered Memories timeline.

• 16-year-old Walter receives the Shabby Doll from 5-year-old Eileen Galvin on a trip to Ashfield.

1984 Edit

• In November, Amy Baldwin dies after falling out of the Baldwin Mansion attic window after trying to retrieve a birthday card for her father. ^[8]

1985 Edit

• Laura is born.
• Alex Shepherd is born.
• Elle Holloway is born.
• 13-year-old Cynthia confronts and ridicules 18-year-old Walter in South Ashfield Station.
• A middle aged man dressed in black (perhaps Walter's biological father) leaves William Gregory a broken watch.

1986 Edit

• Walter moves to Pleasant River and studies at the university.

1988 Edit

• In Portland, Harry murders a member of the Order in self defense, who was searching for the reincarnation of Alessa. After this event, Harry was acquitted in court and moved to another town to protect their safety. Harry changed Cheryl's name to Heather, and began dying her hair blonde. ^[4]

1990 Edit

• Douglas Cartland retires from being a police officer and his wife divorces him. ^[9]

• Harry Mason dies in a car accident in the Silent Hill: Shattered Memories timeline.

• James and Mary visit Silent Hill on vacation.

1991 Edit

• At 24, Walter Sullivan murders 10 people in 10 days and removes each of their hearts. The 10 Hearts are Jimmy Stone, Bobby Randolph, Sein Martin, Steve Garland, Rick Albert, George Rosten, Billy Locane, Miriam Locane, William Gregory and Eric Walsh. This becomes known as the Walter Sullivan Case.

• Police arrest Walter Sullivan, who commits suicide in prison with a soup spoon, by severing his neck's carotid artery. Joseph Schreiber suspected this Walter Sullivan was not the real Walter.

• South Ashfield Heights tenants (including Frank Sunderland and Richard Braintree) notice Walter Sullivan in the apartment building with a heavy tool, white oil, a bowl and a bag with blood.

• Walter Sullivan performs the Ritual of the Holy Assumption by crucifying himself in the back of Room 302, and in doing so, he creates his "own Otherworld" (called discerned, blasphemous and a "sub-Otherworld" by the Order) and becomes Victim 11: "Assumption".

1992 Edit

• Nora Holloway is born.

• Laura and Mary meet each other for the first time at the same hospital.^[10]

1993 Edit

• Ten years after Dahlia's death, the Order remained rather inactive. Around this time, Vincent Smith manages to revive and expand the Order using their finances. ^[4]

• The events of Silent Hill 2 occur. ^[11]

• The events of Silent Hill: The Arcade occur. ^[12]

• Martin Fitch saves an 8-year-old Alex Shepherd from dying of hypothermia in a school bus accident. ^[13]

1994 Edit

• Joshua Shepherd is born.

• Joey Bartlett is born.

• 3 years after the Walter Sullivan Case (10 Hearts), police discover Victim 12 "Void" (Peter Walls) and suspect the murderer to be a Sullivan copycat.

1996 Edit

• Ariadne Johnson is born on January 6th.

1997 Edit

• Frank Sunderland remarks in his diary that Walter Sullivan was born 30 years ago.

1998 Edit

• Joseph Schreiber begins researching Walter Sullivan. Throughout the year, he writes in his Red Diary until he disappears.
• The corpse of Toby Archbolt is found.

1999 Edit

• 6 months after Joseph disappears, Henry Townshend moves into Room 302. ^[14]

2000s Edit

2000 Edit

• The events of Silent Hill 3 occur seven years after Silent Hill 2, seventeen years after Silent Hill, and twenty-four years after Silent Hill: Origins.

2001 Edit

• The events of Silent Hill 4: The Room occur. ^[15]

2003 Edit

• Shepherd's Glen celebrates its 150th anniversary on Saturday and Sunday, September 20th and 21st respectively.

• Scarlet Fitch, Nora Holloway and Joey Bartlett are sacrificed by their respective parents to appease God.

• Joshua Shepherd dies in a boating accident and Alex is sent away to a mental hospital. ^[16]

2007 Edit

• Alex escapes from an insane asylum and returns to Shepherd's Glen.

• In autumn, the events of Silent Hill: Homecoming occur. ^[17]

2008 Edit

• The events of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories occur in a different timeline. ^[18]

Notes Edit

• Alessa's History states that Harry's wife died 11 years before Silent Hill. However, this makes no sense as Cheryl, who is 7 years old in Silent Hill, wouldn't have existed then and Harry's wife is seen adopting Cheryl in the opening. As well, Harry states his wife died 4 years ago in Silent Hill. This was likely a goof.[11]

• There have been some multiple contradictory dates for Silent Hill: Downpour. Bobby Ricks's calendar lists no month or years, but states the first begins on a Saturday. [12] A calendar in a garage near the beginning of the game shows August in which the 1st begins on a Tuesday, which could mean 2006 or 2017. The missing poster of Ariadne Johnson says she is 8 years old and was born in 1996, suggesting 2004.

References Edit

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11} The Book of Lost Memories - Timeline
2. ↑ The town celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2003.
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} The Book of Lost Memories - Alessa's History
5. ↑ http://www.silenthillcommunity.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=432279
6. ↑ Another Crimson Tome reveals Cynthia is 29 years old during Silent Hill 4.
7. ↑ Harry Mason states that his wife died 4 years ago when meeting Michael Kaufmann for the first time. The game's manual said Jodie died of her illness. The official novel said Jodie was killed in a car accident.
8. ↑ Maria states the calendar in Amy's room is "10 years old", placing her death in 1984. We can assume that she was being approximate when she said "10 years" since according to Alex Shepherd's diary, it would have been 9 years, thus Silent Hill 2 would still placed in 1993 and not 1994.
9. ↑ http://www.translatedmemories.com/bookpgs/Pg66-67SH3Character.jpg
10. ↑ Laura says to James in Brookhaven Hospital that they met a year ago.
11. ↑ Silent Hill 2 occurs "10 years later" after Silent Hill according to Alex Shepherd's diary. In addition, if the marking is uncovered, 1993 is explicitly shown.
12. ↑ The Little Baroness went missing in 1918, and The Arcade takes place "75 years later." In addition, the spiral staircase area is labeled "19181993", making the year clearer.
13. ↑ [2]
14. ↑ Eileen tells Henry that Joseph disappeared 6 months before he moved in. In the introduction of the game, it's said that Henry has been living in Room 302 for at least 2 years. 2001 - 2 = 1999.
15. ↑ There are two things that support this. Apparently, the timeline that came with the Silent Hill 4 guide says that SH4 is set 18 years after SH1. The second is the placement of days of Walter's Diary.
16. ↑ After the summer, our town had this big anniversary party... And then, that whole week, Alex didn't come by and he didn't call me. It was weird, so I went over to his house. No one answered the door. I could hear Alex's mom crying... His dad came out and told me that Alex had left. That was a few years ago and I still haven't forgiven Alex for just leaving like that without even calling me. —Elle Holloway
17. ↑ Adam's age and his birth date mean Homecoming must take place between April 2007 and April 2008. [3] In October, Alex states in his diary that he plans on escaping from the hospital and hitching a ride to Shepherd's Glen, meaning that it would be impossible for Homecoming to take place in 2008 or else Adam would have been 54 years old. [4]
18. ↑ Cheryl Heather Mason was born in 1983. She was seven years old in 1990 when Harry died in a car crash. Dr. K states Cheryl has been denying her father's death for eighteen years. 1983 + 7 + 18 = 2008. As well, there can be boxes found in Orion Hunting Lodge with "2008" written on them.

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  silent hill downpour

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    SilentFlashlight
    Sure, that sounds good. Anne's age might be revealed in the upcoming comic, however. Well, we'll just have to find out. 2013-05-15T13:05:22Z
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    Jo The Marten
    Just because Downpour came out after Homecoming doesn't necessarily mean chronologically it comes after. Just look at Origins. 2013-05-15T17:24:39Z

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