Complete chronology

Every date is in-universe, not a release date. Each line says where it is told (game, file or film) and links the guide’s chapter, character, boss or file when there is one. The CG films (Degeneration, Infinite Darkness, Damnation, Vendetta and Death Island) are part of the games’ story and are marked “CG film, canon”. The live-action ones (Paul W. S. Anderson’s six, Welcome to Raccoon City, the Netflix series and 2026’s Resident Evil) are separate continuities and are not in this chronology; they are in films and series. Who each person is: who’s who.

Where the sources disagree, this page uses one version and notes the other here:

• RE2: the night of 29–30 September 1998 (some sources say only the 30th).
• RE3: starts on 28 September 1998 (others say the 27th) and ends on 1 October. Jill escapes with Barry, as in the original; in the 2020 remake she and Carlos leave together.
• Birkin shot: the night of 22–23 September 1998.
• Spencer and Miranda: “in the 1950s” (Fandom says 1953; Spencer’s letter only says “15 years ago”).
• The Progenitor: isolated in December 1966 and studied in 1967.
• Los Iluminados: in one version, persecuted from the late 15th century; in the other, the sect dates from 1554 and was crushed in 1741 (both come from Fandom).
• Umbrella: convicted in 2003; its last branch closes in March 2004. Requiem gives 2004 as the year of the bankruptcy.
• The Caucasus base: Umbrella buys it after Raccoon City, in 1998 or in 1999 depending on the source.
• The BSAA: founded after Umbrella’s conviction, in 2003–2004.
• RE4: autumn 2004 (one source says August).
• Jill declared dead: November 2006 (the 22nd or the 23rd, depending on the source).
• Kijuju: 5–7 March 2009 (one source says 16 January).
• Miranda and The Connections: they meet in the 1990s or around 2000.
• Ethan reaches Dulvey: on 18 or 19 July 2017.
• Alyssa’s death: 19 October 2018 (one infobox says the 20th).
• Requiem: 28 years after Raccoon City (the marketing says 30); Elpis was finished in the mid-1990s and ARK’s clone programme began in the 1980s. The whole game is in Requiem.
• Chris in RE7: a BSAA captain assigned to Blue Umbrella, as the guide puts it.

Before 1960

• Ancient times — The Ndipaya kingdom rises on the Stairway to the Sun: its king is whoever survives the poison of its flower, and one of them reigns “for hundreds of years”; later the kingdom declines and is abandoned. (RE5: Ndipaya Tribe; the ruins in chapter 4-2)
• 15th century — The Four Houses (Dimitrescu, Beneviento, Moreau and Heisenberg) already rule the region of Village’s village, according to Fandom. (Village)
• 1554 — An inscription by the Prophet Adam Saddler dates the Los Iluminados sect, in the tradition Fandom records. (RE4)
• 1741 — The sect is crushed under the Prophet Hester Saddler; the first castellan, Gregorio Salazar, seals the Plagas in the caverns and builds the castle on top. (Fandom; RE4: Castellan Memo)
• 19th century — Veronica Ashford raises her family to the aristocracy; Henry Travis’s Natural History Conspectus describes the Ndipaya ritual. (Code: Veronica, RE5)
• 1909 — Eva, Miranda’s daughter, is born. (Village)
• 1919, August — The Spanish flu kills Eva, aged 10. Miranda goes into the caves to die, finds the Megamycete and comes back able to “cure” the flu. (Village: Mother Miranda, Miranda’s Diary)
• From 1919 — Miranda takes over the Four Houses and for a century implants the Cadou in villagers, looking for a vessel for Eva; those who bond become her four Lords and the rest, Lycans. (Village: chapter 12)
• Around 1923 — Oswell E. Spencer is born in England. (Fandom)
• 1939 — James Marcus graduates from university. (Fandom)
• 1950s — Spencer, a medical student, gets lost in the snow in Eastern Europe; Miranda rescues him and teaches him about the Mold. He leaves because she wants to bring back one person and he wants to change the world. (Village: Spencer’s Letter)
• Around 1953 — Lisa Trevor is born. (REmake)
• Before 1958 — Alcina Dimitrescu receives the Cadou aged 44, according to Fandom. (Village: Dimitrescu’s Medical Report)

1960–1997

• 1960s — Edward Ashford begins researching what will become the Progenitor virus; Michael Warren brings electricity to Raccoon City. (RE5: History of RESIDENT EVIL)
• 1962 — Spencer hires the architect George Trevor for the mansion outside Raccoon City. (RE5, REmake)
• 1966 — Spencer and Marcus read Travis; Marcus and Brandon Bailey find the Sun Garden in Africa and in December isolate the Progenitor virus. (RE5: History of RESIDENT EVIL)
• 1967, February — Marcus returns with cultures; flowers planted outside Africa don’t produce the virus, so the Ndipaya land will have to be taken. (Fandom)
• 1967 — Spencer writes to Miranda: he has found the Progenitor and will found, with friends, a company called Umbrella, after the symbol in the cave. (Village: Spencer’s Letter)
• 1967, November — The Arklay mansion and lab are finished. Around the 10th Jessica and Lisa Trevor are infected; Jessica is killed and Lisa survives, mutated. George Trevor dies trapped in the mansion. (REmake; RE5)
• 1968, March — Spencer, Marcus and Edward Ashford found Umbrella “to mask their biological research”. (RE5: History of RESIDENT EVIL; Requiem)
• 1968 — According to Fandom, the Wesker Project begins: gifted children raised in Spencer’s homes, all given the surname Wesker. (RE5: Lost in Nightmares)
• 1968, July — Edward Ashford dies after contracting the Progenitor (according to Fandom, an accident staged by Spencer); his son Alexander succeeds him. (RE5)
• 1968, August — Umbrella’s executive training school opens in the Arklay Mountains, run by Marcus. (RE0)
• Late 1960s — A corporation, Umbrella, drives the Ndipaya out of the Sun Garden by force; in June 1969 Brandon Bailey finishes the African research centre there. (RE5: Ndipaya Tribe, Brandon’s Journal No. 2)
• After 1968 — The Spencer Foundation sponsors the Rhodes Hill Care Center in Wrenwood. (Requiem)
• 1969 — Alexander Ashford designs (February) and completes (November) the Antarctic base for the CODE: Veronica project. The Raccoon Police Department is founded. (Code: Veronica; RE2 remake)
• 1971 — CODE: Veronica succeeds: the twins Alfred and Alexia Ashford are born. (Code: Veronica)
• 1977 — Albert Wesker and William Birkin join Umbrella’s training school. (RE0)
• 1978, 13 January — Marcus’s telegram: “T-Virus development a success”. (RE5: Telegram from James Marcus)
• 1978, July — The school closes; Wesker and Birkin take the t-Virus research to the Arklay lab. (RE0)
• 1980, 22 April — Spencer’s roadmap for ARK: the Wesker Project and the t-Virus, ARK as command centre, Elpis and, last, memory transfer and forced evolution. (Requiem: Grace’s Report)
• 1980s — ARK raises cloned embryos at the Raccoon City Orphanage: the Series 60 get Spencer’s plasma and the t-Virus to inherit his memories. (Requiem: Charlotte and the Series 60)
• 1981 — Alexia, aged 10, graduates from a prestigious university; Umbrella finds that 10% of people are immune to the t-Virus. (Code: Veronica)
• 1982 — Alexia infects her father with the T-Veronica and turns him into a monster. On 14 November Charlotte, of the Series 60, is born. (Code: Veronica; Requiem)
• 1983, December — Alexia injects herself with the T-Veronica and sleeps fifteen years in cryogenic stasis; she is reported dead. (Code: Veronica)
• 1986 — The F Foundation, a front for The Connections, pays Marcus 30 million dollars. (Requiem: Grace’s Report)
• 1987 — Michael Warren is elected mayor of Raccoon City; Umbrella Japan is founded. (RE2, RE3)
• 1988 — Marcus is assassinated on Spencer’s orders, with Wesker and Birkin present; his protégé Bailey inherits the contact with The Connections. The Tyrant programme and the Nemesis project in Europe begin; the G-Virus appears in Lisa Trevor’s body. (RE0; RE5; Requiem)
• 1990, 14 January — Charlotte, aged 7, is “discarded due to volatile symptoms”. (Requiem: Toe Tag)
• 1990, February — The Children incident: the Series 60 clones kill the orphanage staff and the dead rise from their coffins. Chloe, the first of the Series 70, flees into ARK and is caught. (Requiem: chapter 11, Series 60 Results)
• 1991 — Construction of NEST under Raccoon City begins and Spencer approves Birkin’s G-Virus; Wesker moves to Umbrella’s information department. (RE2; RE5)
• 1992 — Umbrella pays for the refurbishment of Raccoon City’s City Hall and General Hospital. Around this year Jake Muller is born in Edonia. (RE3; RE6)
• 1992 — Deborah Harper is born. (RE6: Deborah Harper)
• 1993, May — An Umbrella drug turns the patients of an Arklay hospital into zombies; the journalist Alyssa Ashcroft is there and her memory of it is suppressed. (Outbreak File #2)
• 1993 — Police Chief Brian Irons begins dealing with Umbrella; Birkin moves into NEST; Alfred runs the Antarctic base. (RE2, Code: Veronica)
• 1994 — John Clemens takes over the Arklay lab; Alfred builds his mansion and prison on Rockfort Island. (RE1, Code: Veronica)
• Mid-1990s — Spencer finishes Elpis and stops visiting the orphanage; late in the decade the orphanage passes to Birkin. A message of his: “Tricell, H.C.F., The Family, and Umbrella. Elpis shall bring it all to an end.” (Requiem)
• 1996, May — S.T.A.R.S. is founded, with Wesker as captain. (RE1)
• 1996, 31 October — Alyssa reports a mutilated body in the Aimes River. (Outbreak)
• Around 1997 — Ada Wong infiltrates the Arklay lab by dating John Clemens. (RE1, RE2)
• 1997, December — Orphans start being sent to NEST for the G experiments. (RE2 remake)

1998

• May — The t-Virus leaks at the Arklay lab (in RE0, through the Queen Leech’s sabotage); the dogs escape and the first victims appear. (RE0, RE1)
• June — A local magazine reports the dog attacks; on 1 June Alyssa publishes a scoop on animal trafficking at the zoo. (RE1, Outbreak)
• 23 July — S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team flies to the Arklays and its helicopter crashes; Rebecca Chambers finds the Ecliptic Express full of zombies and the escaped prisoner Billy Coen. (RE0)
• 23–24 July — The train crashes into the old training school; Rebecca and Billy kill the Queen Leech and Birkin blows up the facility. Rebecca lists Billy as dead. (RE0; Umbrella Chronicles)
• 24–25 July — The mansion incident: Alpha Team searches for Bravo; Wesker is the traitor, the Tyrant impales him and he revives with powers; he kills Lisa Trevor and the lab blows up. The survivors are Chris, Jill, Barry, Brad and Rebecca. (RE1, REmake, Umbrella Chronicles)
• August — S.T.A.R.S. is disbanded; Chris goes to Europe, Barry to Canada and Jill stays in Raccoon City. (RE3, Code: Veronica)
• 28 August — An Umbrella report lists subject 013, “Albert”, as dead: the Wesker Project’s success rate drops to 18%. (RE5: Report on Project W)
• Mid-September — Birkin plans to sell the G-Virus to the US military; on the 16th the first “cannibal disease” cases reach the hospital. (RE2)
• Night of 22–23 September — A U.S.S. team led by HUNK raids Birkin’s lab; wounded, he injects the G-Virus, becomes “G”, kills the team and the t-Virus reaches the sewers. (RE2)
• 23–24 September — The outbreak reaches the Raccoon City bar where Outbreak’s eight civilians are, Alyssa among them; the US Army quarantines the city, citing “radioactive waste”. (Outbreak)
• 26 September — Umbrella sends the U.B.C.S. into the city; it is torn apart on arrival. (RE3)
• 26–30 September — Outbreak’s scenarios: the hotel, the lab, the hospital, the university, the zoo, the subway and the police station. (Outbreak, Outbreak File #2)
• 28 September — Jill’s escape begins; Umbrella unleashes the Nemesis to kill the S.T.A.R.S. and Brad Vickers falls. Jill joins Carlos, Mikhail and Nikolai. (RE3)
• Night of 29 September — Leon S. Kennedy, on his first day, and Claire Redfield reach a dead city. The Nemesis infects Jill. (RE2; RE3; Requiem: Top Secret Operation)
• 29–30 September — In NEST, Annette Birkin tells Claire how to make the vaccine and dies; Ada falls after demanding the sample from Leon and later throws him a rocket launcher. (RE2)
• 30 September, morning — NEST self-destructs; Leon, Claire and Sherry escape by train and G dies. HUNK and Ada leave with G samples. The army captures Leon and Sherry. (RE2)
• Late September — According to Requiem, The Connections secure ARK before anyone else and lobby for a missile strike on the city without the President’s authorisation, so the blame will fall on Spencer. (Requiem: Grace’s Report, Access Log: First Assembly Minutes, Special Directive for Raccoon City)
• 1 October — Carlos brings Jill the vaccine; Nikolai turns out to be a traitor; Jill destroys the Nemesis. Ada escapes on Colonel Vladimir’s helicopter with Umbrella’s data. (RE3; Umbrella Chronicles)
• 1 October, dawn — A US government missile wipes out Raccoon City; more than 100,000 people die. Jill and Carlos escape with Barry. (RE3; RE5: Spencer’s Notebook; Requiem: Report on the Raccoon City Incident)
• October — Adam Benford interrogates Leon and gives him a choice: work for the government in exchange for Sherry’s safety. The US President resigns; Congress takes over Umbrella USA. (Fandom; RE6: Leon and the Raccoon City Incident)
• October — Sherry is placed in government custody, to study her G-Virus and shield her from Wesker, with Derek C. Simmons as her legal guardian. (RE6: A Deal with the United States)
• November — Spencer shuts the African facility and has Bailey and the top-clearance staff killed: “When one buries a treasure, one should not leave behind a map.” (RE5: Spencer’s Notebook)
• 22–25 November — The Sheena Island incident: the detective Ark Thompson, sent by his friend Leon, faces a Tyrant in another Umbrella town. (Survivor)
• December — Claire is captured in Paris; Jill reaches Chris’s apartment and finds it empty. (Code: Veronica; RE5)
• 27–28 December — Wesker’s H.C.F. attacks Rockfort Island; Claire and Steve flee to Antarctica; Alfred wakes Alexia, who infects Steve; Chris kills Alexia and Wesker takes Steve’s body. (Code: Veronica)

1999–2003

• 1998–2003 — The Raccoon trials: Umbrella defends itself with false witnesses and blames the government. Victor Gideon doesn’t show up. (RE5; Requiem: Report on Victor Gideon)
• 1999 — Chris and Jill set up their own anti-Umbrella group. Umbrella, which has bought a chemical plant in the Caucasus after Raccoon City, moves its base there. (Umbrella Chronicles)
• 1990s or around 2000 — The Connections approach Miranda; she gives them Mold and a clone of Eva. (Village; RE7)
• Around 2000 — Osmund Saddler comes to Valdelobos as a healer, persuades Ramón Salazar to release the Plagas and converts Chief Méndez; Luis Sera is hired to research the Plagas on the island. (RE4: Osmund Saddler, Luis Sera)
• 2000, October — The Penamstan civil war: a US unit is exposed to a t-Virus strain tested with Tricell’s help. (Infinite Darkness, CG series, canon)
• Early 2000s — The Connections create E-001, Eveline, in Munich, aged artificially to look ten. (RE7: Orders)
• 2001 — The US creates the Federal Bioterrorism Commission (FBC). Carla Radames begins the C-Virus for The Family. (Revelations; RE6: The C-Virus)
• 2002 — A bioterror attack in India. (Degeneration, CG film, canon)
• 2002, summer — Operation Javier: Leon and Jack Krauser against the drug lord Javier Hidalgo, who uses the T-Veronica. Krauser’s arm is injured. (Darkside Chronicles)
• 2002 — Krauser fakes his death and joins Wesker. (RE5: History of RESIDENT EVIL)
• 2002, September — The former Umbrella executive Morpheus Duvall hijacks the liner Spencer Rain with the t-Virus. (Dead Aim)
• 2003, January — An outbreak at Umbrella’s Caucasus plant. (Umbrella Chronicles)
• 2003, February — Chris and Jill destroy the T-A.L.O.S. Tyrant in the Caucasus; Wesker kills Vladimir and takes all of Umbrella’s archives. (Umbrella Chronicles)
• 2003 — With the evidence Wesker hands over, Umbrella is found guilty on all charges; the US and Russia hunt for Spencer. (RE5: BSAA)
• 2003 — Wesker gives Umbrella’s data to Excella Gionne of Tricell. (RE5: Excella Gionne)
• 2003–2004 — The BSAA is founded with eleven members, Chris and Jill among them, with money from the pharmaceutical consortium. Barry leaves the government’s anti-Umbrella team and doesn’t join. (RE5: BSAA)
• 2003–2004 — Saddler’s cult takes over the village. (RE4)

2004

• 15 March — The Japanese press reports the closure of Umbrella Japan: the end of Umbrella. Requiem dates the bankruptcy to this year. (Requiem)
• Summer — The Terragrigia Panic: the group Il Veltro attacks the floating city and the FBC destroys it with a satellite. The world sees bioweapons for the first time. (Revelations)
• Before autumn — Luis’s email asking for help reaches Ada; Wesker sends Krauser and then Ada after the Dominant Plaga. (RE4: Sera and the 3rd Party)
• Autumn — Krauser kidnaps Ashley Graham, the President’s daughter, on her way home from college. (RE4: Info on Ashley)
• Autumn, day 1 — Leon reaches the village with two Spanish police officers, who are killed; the bell Ada rings saves him; he finds Luis in a wardrobe and Méndez knocks them both out. (RE4: chapter 1-1)
• Day 1 — Leon and Luis escape. Méndez grabs Leon, notices his Plaga and lets him go. (RE4: chapter 1-2, Chief’s Note)
• Day 1 — In an optional scene, Méndez attacks Leon again and Ada shoots him through the window. Leon beats Del Lago on the lake and lies unconscious for six hours. (RE4: chapter 1-3)
• Day 1, night — Ada’s letter wakes him; he finds Ashley in the church and Saddler reveals that they both carry his Plaga. (RE4: chapter 2-1, Anonymous Letter)
• Night — The cabin siege beside Luis, who leaves to fetch “something he left behind”. (RE4: chapter 2-2)
• Night — Leon kills Méndez; his False Eye opens the way to the castle. (RE4: chapter 2-3, Méndez boss)
• Night — Ramón Salazar introduces himself; Ashley falls through a trapdoor. (RE4: chapter 3-1, Capture Luis Sera)
• Night — Salazar takes over Leon’s radio; Ada shows herself and Leon names Wesker. (RE4: chapter 3-2)
• Night — Saddler impales Luis and takes the sample; dying, Luis gives Leon the pills that hold back the Plaga. (RE4: chapter 3-3, Female Intruder)
• Night — Ashley alone in the castle; then a Novistador carries her off and the Verdugo hunts Leon. (RE4: chapter 3-4, chapter 4-1, Sample Retrieved)
• Night — Salazar sends Ashley to the island, merges with the Queen Plaga and dies; Ada waits in a speedboat. (RE4: chapter 4-4, Salazar boss)
• On the island — Ashley freed and lost again: Saddler takes control of Leon’s Plaga and carries her off. Ada meets Krauser at the radio tower. (RE4: chapter 5-1, chapter 5-2, Paper Airplane)
• On the island — The knife duel: Krauser admits he kidnapped Ashley “for Umbrella’s sake”; Leon beats him in the ruins. Ada sinks Saddler’s warship. (RE4: chapter 5-3, Krauser boss, Krauser’s Note; Separate Ways)
• On the island — Mike is shot down; Ada finishes Krauser; Luis’s machine removes Leon’s and Ashley’s Plagas. (RE4: chapter 5-4)
• Dawn — Leon kills Saddler with Ada’s rocket launcher; she takes the sample, blows up the island and leaves him the jet-ski key. (RE4: finale, Saddler boss, Our Mission)
• Late 2004 — Ada keeps the Dominant Plaga for her employers and gives Wesker another; Wesker takes a Dominant one from Krauser’s body. Tricell breeds Type 2 and Type 3 Plagas. (RE5: Type 2 Plagas, Irving’s Note on Las Plagas)
• Around 2004 — Spencer adopts an orphan baby, Grace; the exact date is never given. (Requiem: Grace Ashcroft)
• 30 November and 8 December — Victor Gideon: “My master’s research has come to fruition. And that child. She must be the final piece.” The Connections get him the child’s medical records. (Requiem: Victor’s Journal Entry)
• After 2004 — The Spanish government quarantines Valdelobos. (Fandom)

2005–2009

• 2004–2006 — Alyssa Ashcroft interviews Spencer: he shows her the baby Grace and says his research “opened Pandora’s box”. (Requiem: Alyssa’s Interview Notes)
• 2005 — Jill and Parker board the ghost liner Queen Zenobia; it comes out that the FBC’s chief armed Il Veltro, and the FBC is dissolved. (Revelations)
• 2005, 14 November — A t-Virus attack at Harvardville Airport: Leon and Claire meet again. A WilPharma researcher was selling the t-Virus and the G; Tricell buys WilPharma and its G samples. (Degeneration, CG film, canon)
• Late 2005 — The BSAA comes under the UN, with regional branches. (RE5: BSAA)
• 2006 — An outbreak at the White House and the Penamstan conspiracy: Leon and Claire find out what happened to the unit exposed in 2000. (Infinite Darkness, CG series, canon)
• Around 2006 — Excella runs Tricell Africa; Ricardo Irving trades in bioweapons to fund the research. (RE5: Excella Gionne, Ricardo Irving)
• 2006, August — Spencer, dying, reveals the Wesker Project to Wesker, who kills him. Chris and Jill reach the estate; Jill throws herself and Wesker off the cliff. (RE5: Lost in Nightmares, Spencer’s Memoirs 1, Patrick’s Memoirs 1, Wesker boss)
• 2006 — Patrick, Spencer’s butler, writes to Alyssa: the will names her Grace’s guardian. (Requiem: Letter from Patrick)
• 2006, November — Jill is declared dead. (RE5: Jill Valentine)
• 2006–2009 — Wesker uses Jill’s antibodies to tame Uroboros and controls her with the P30. (RE5: Uroboros Plan)
• 2007 — Umbrella USA’s assets are reorganised as Blue Umbrella, devoted to fighting bioweapons. (RE7: Letter Regarding Umbrella’s Goals)
• 2008, May — Uroboros is more or less finished. (RE5)
• Early 2009 — Excella has the Uroboros researchers killed. (RE5: Report on Preventing Information Leaks)
• 2009, 5 March — Chris and Sheva arrive in Kijuju; their contact Reynard Fisher is executed. (RE5: chapter 1-1)
• 5 March — An Uroboros test subject kills Alpha Team; DeChant: “it was a set-up”. (RE5: chapter 1-2)
• 5 March — Josh Stone’s Delta Team rescues them; the data includes a photo of Jill. (RE5: chapter 2-1)
• 5 March — Irving escapes with the hooded woman; the Ndesu wipes out Delta. (RE5: chapter 2-2, chapter 2-3)
• 6 March — The marshes and the oil field; Irving injects a Dominant Plaga and dies pointing to the caves and to Excella. (RE5: chapter 3-1, chapter 3-3, Irving boss)
• 6 March — The Ndipaya ruins and the Progenitor flower; underground, Tricell’s lab and the U-8. (RE5: chapter 4-1, chapter 4-2, chapter 5-1)
• 6 March — Uroboros Mkono; in the Monarch Room the masked woman turns out to be Jill and the P30 device is torn off her. (RE5: chapter 5-2, chapter 5-3, Wesker boss)
• 6–7 March — Jill and Josh get out of the lab; Jill radios that the serum weakens Wesker; the pilot Doug dies. (RE5: Desperate Escape)
• 7 March — On the ship, Excella drops the PG67A/W case; Wesker infects her and she becomes Uroboros Aheri. (RE5: chapter 6-1, chapter 6-2, Spencer’s Notebook)
• 7 March — Wesker dies in the Kijuju volcano. (RE5: chapter 6-3, Uroboros Wesker boss)
• 2009, 30 April — Project Ada succeeds: the C-Virus turns Carla Radames into a copy of Ada Wong. (RE6: Two Ada Wongs)
• 2009 — With Wesker dead, Sherry leaves custody and becomes a government agent; Jake works as a mercenary in South America. (RE6: Life without Freedom)

2010–2015

• 2010 — Chris recruits Piers Nivans and meets Leon. Mia starts working for The Connections. (RE6: Chris and Leon; RE7)
• 2010 — According to Fandom, unconfirmed, Carla founds Neo-Umbrella. (RE6: Neo-Umbrella)
• 2010, November – 2011, February — The Eastern Slav Republic’s civil war: the rebels use Plagas and Ada steals a sample. (Damnation, CG film, canon)
• 2011, early — President Adam Benford founds the DSO; Leon is a founding member. (RE6: Leon and Adam)
• 2011, January–February — Claire and Moira Burton are kidnapped to Sein Island. (Revelations 2)
• 2011, 29 May — Ethan Winters marries Mia. (RE7)
• 2011, July–August — Barry rescues Moira and adopts Natalia; with Claire he finishes Alex Wesker. (Revelations 2)
• 2012 — Sherry joins the DSO. The Edonian civil war breaks out, and Carla uses it to test the C-Virus. (RE6: Sherry Birkin)
• 2012, 24 December — Edonia: Carla, posing as Ada, turns Chris’s squad into monsters; Finn dies and Chris loses his memory. Sherry finds Jake Muller and the Ustanak hunts them. (RE6: Chris chapter 2, Jake chapter 1, Chris’ Amnesia)
• 2012, 25 December — Jake and Sherry are captured; Carla tells Jake who his father was. (RE6: Jake chapter 2, Jake Muller’s Infamous Father)
• 2013, January–June — Six months of blood extraction at a Neo-Umbrella facility in China; Chris spends those months drinking in Eastern Europe. (RE6: Detention Center)
• 2013 — Revelations 2’s epilogue: Alex’s consciousness begins to take over Natalia. (Revelations 2)
• 2013, 27 June — Someone posing as Simmons sends Ada to a submarine, where she finds her own prints and orders for the Edonia job she never did. (RE6: Ada chapter 1)
• 2013, 29 June — Tall Oaks: Benford, infected, dies at Leon’s hands; Helena confesses that Simmons was blackmailing her. (RE6: Leon chapter 1, Helena’s Crime)
• 29 June — Under the cathedral, Deborah mutates and dies; Ada finds the recording of her clone. Simmons bombs Tall Oaks. (RE6: Leon chapter 2, Leon chapter 3, Ada chapter 2)
• 29 June — Piers finds Chris in a bar. (RE6: Chris chapter 1)
• 30 June — Lanshiang: Jake and Sherry escape; the Iluzija decimates Alpha Team and Carla turns Marco into a Gnezdo; Chris and Leon cross paths. Carla infects Simmons. (RE6: Jake chapter 3, Jake chapter 4, Chris chapter 3, Leon chapter 4, Ada chapter 3)
• 30 June — On the aircraft carrier, a Family gunman shoots Carla; she injects the Enhanced C-Virus and Ada kills her. A C-Virus missile hits Tatchi. (RE6: Chris chapter 4, Ada chapter 4, Carla boss)
• 30 June – 1 July — Simmons dies at the Quad Tower after his mutations. (RE6: Leon chapter 5, Ada chapter 5, Prelude, The End of Derek Simmons)
• 1 July — In the undersea lab Piers injects the C-Virus, kills Haos and dies; Jake kills the Ustanak. (RE6: Chris chapter 5, Jake chapter 5)
• July — Leon and Helena are cleared at Deborah’s grave; Jake’s blood gives the vaccine and he cuts his fee to 50 dollars. (RE6: C-Virus Vaccine)
• 2014 — A Family bomb, set up with the help of a Los Iluminados informant, kills Leon’s team; Glenn Arias tries to release the A-virus over New York and kidnaps Rebecca. (Vendetta, CG film, canon)
• 2014, early October — The BSAA tries to seize Eveline in Munich and fails, according to Fandom. (RE7)
• 2014, 5 October — On the ship Annabelle, Eveline breaks loose during a hurricane; Alan Droney dies and the ship drifts to Dulvey. (RE7: chapter 6)
• 2014, 9–10 October — Jack and Lucas find the ship and take in Mia and Eveline; within days the Baker family is hers. (RE7: Banned Footage Vol. 2)
• 2015, January — The Connections set up a lab in the salt mine and make Lucas their agent. (RE7: chapter 7)
• 2015 — The Alcatraz outbreak: Leon, Chris, Jill, Claire and Rebecca together. Jill returns to the field. (Death Island, CG film, canon)
• Mid-2010s — Company mercenaries go into sealed outbreak zones to collect Umbrella samples. (Umbrella Corps)

2016–2021

• 2016, 19 January — Alyssa Ashcroft publishes an article in The Dulvey Daily about more than twenty missing people. (RE7: Newspaper Article - Over 20 Missing, chapter 2)
• 2016, 26 August – 9 September — Without her drugs, Eveline ages into the old woman in the wheelchair. (RE7: Eveline Observation Log, Researcher’s Journal)
• 2017, 1 June — The Sewer Gators crew films in the guest house and disappears; the cameraman, Clancy Jarvis, ends up the Bakers’ prisoner, and their tape is left behind. (RE7: Clancy Jarvis, chapter 1)
• 2017, 11 June — Lucas kills the researchers of the mine lab. (RE7)
• 2017, 18–19 July — Ethan reaches Dulvey after an email from Mia; she turns on him and Jack beats him to death: the Mold revives him. (RE7: chapter 1, Email from Mia)
• 19 July — The Baker dinner; Deputy David Anderson dies; Zoe guides Ethan by phone. (RE7: chapter 2)
• 19 July — Marguerite in the old house; Lucas’s games in the barn. (RE7: chapter 3, chapter 4)
• 19–20 July — Mutated Jack falls; Ethan chooses to save Mia (the canon ending). (RE7: chapter 5, Serum Documentation)
• 20 July — Mia on the ship; Ethan crosses the salt mine, kills Eveline with the E-Necrotoxin and Chris arrives in a helicopter with the Umbrella logo. (RE7: chapter 6, chapter 7, chapter 8, E-Necrotoxin Document)
• 2017, July — Chris, a BSAA captain assigned to Blue Umbrella, chases Lucas through the mine; Lucas sends his data to The Connections and dies. (RE7: Not a Hero, Lucas boss)
• 2017, August — Joe Baker cures Zoe and kills the Swamp Man, a regenerated Jack. (RE7: End of Zoe, Swamp Man boss)
• 2017 — The BSAA walls off the bayou and calls it a gas leak; it keeps Mia’s secret. The Winters move to Eastern Europe under witness protection. (RE7; Village)
• 2018 — Sick of the cover-up, Chris takes the Hound Wolf Squad on his own authority to hunt Miranda and The Connections. (Village)
• 2018, 19 October — At the Wrenwood Hotel, Victor’s hooded assassin kills the manager and Alyssa in front of Grace; he dies from Alyssa’s shots and the fire begins. (Requiem: chapter 1, The Hooded Man, Alyssa’s Journal)
• 2018, 20 October — Victor’s disposal team removes the evidence. (Requiem: Disposal Team Report)
• 2020, 2 August — Rose Winters is born. The Connections tell Miranda. (Village: Medical Checkup Report)
• 2021, early February — Miranda kidnaps Mia and takes her place. (Village)
• 2021, 9 February — The Hound Wolf Squad raids the Winters’ home and Chris shoots “Mia”; Miranda takes Rose. (Village: chapter 1)
• 9 February — The Lycans ravage the village; at the Lords’ tribunal, Heisenberg throws Ethan into the mines. (Village: chapter 2, chapter 3)
• 9–10 February — Lady Dimitrescu and her daughters, Donna Beneviento and Moreau fall; the Duke explains the flasks to Ethan. (Village: chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6, chapter 8)
• 10 February — Chris tells Ethan the truth; Ethan beats Heisenberg and Miranda tears out his heart. (Village: chapter 11)
• 10 February — Chris storms the village and finds Miranda’s files and the real Mia in her lab; the BSAA shows up with bioweapons dressed as soldiers. The ritual revives Rose; Ethan kills Miranda and dies blowing up the Megamycete. (Village: chapter 12, Spencer’s Letter, Miranda’s Diary)

2023–2026

• 2023, 5 February — The BSAA’s North American branch finds ARK and tries to take it; it is wiped out. From then on it watches the area from the Raccoon City police station and acts on its own. (Requiem)
• 2025 — Grace Ashcroft joins the FBI as an intelligence analyst. (Requiem: Grace Ashcroft)
• 2026, September — 1998 survivors die of Raccoon City Syndrome; the city’s lockdown is extended to 2040; Marie is injected with infected blood. (Requiem: Note Regarding Research Results, Subject 170 Record, Report on Raccoon City Syndrome)
• 2026, 9–16 September — A private detective watches Grace. (Requiem: Background Check)
• 2026, 14 September — “Z”, Zeno, visits Victor for a project review. (Requiem: Visitor Record)
• 2026, 28 September — An FBI agent finds a body in a Wrenwood Hotel restroom. (Requiem: Investigation Report)
• 2026, 6–7 October — Leon is sent to the sixth body, in Wrenwood; Grace is assigned the case. (Requiem)
• 2026, 8 October — Victor Gideon catches Grace at the Wrenwood Hotel and starts an outbreak in town; Leon contains it but loses him. (Requiem: chapter 1)
• Night of 8 October — At the Rhodes Hill Care Center, Victor infects staff and patients; The Girl hunts Grace, who finds Emily; Victor finds out Leon has the syndrome. (Requiem: chapter 2 to chapter 7, Victor’s Journal Entry)
• 9 October, dawn — Sunlight kills The Girl; Emily mutates and Leon shoots her down; Grace leaves with Zeno to learn what Elpis is. (Requiem: chapter 8)
• 9 October — Leon enters the Raccoon City zone, reaches the BSAA camp and leaves Victor in a chasm after the bike chase. (Requiem: chapter 9, Victor and the Garmrs boss)
• 9 October — Leon returns to the police station 28 years later; Zeno tells Grace his version and shows her the 1990 recording. (Requiem: chapter 10, chapter 11, the 1998 veterans)
• 9 October — Leon kills the Super Tyrant, goes down through the orphanage and kills Plant 43 at ARK’s door. (Requiem: chapter 12)
• 9 October — In ARK Leon beats The Commander; in PANDORA, Zeno overpowers him, and Leon and Grace fall into the waste disposal system. (Requiem: chapter 13, N0-AH Status Report)
• 9 October — Leon, at stage 3, makes Grace promise to destroy Elpis; she opens ARK’s archives. (Requiem: chapter 14, Access Log: 51st Assembly Minutes)
• 9 October — Alyssa’s interview reveals that Grace is an ordinary child. Grace types “Hope”: Elpis is an antiviral. Victor beheads Zeno; Grace cures Leon, who kills Victor; Umber Eyes pulls them out on behalf of Chris. (Requiem: chapter 15, Alyssa’s Interview Notes, Letter from Patrick)
• After 9 October — Leon brings a vial to Sherry, who is cured; Emily, alive, is cured and Grace adopts her. In ARK’s ruins, soldiers, most likely The Connections, head for “the objective” before “the wolves” arrive. (Requiem)

After 2026

• 2027 — The date by which, according to Fandom, the Dulvey exclusion zone is expected to be lifted. (RE7)
• 2037 — Rose, aged 16, enters the Megamycete’s memory: the Masked Duke in the castle, Eveline’s echo in House Beneviento and Michael, the memory of her father. (Village: Shadows of Rose 1, Shadows of Rose 2)
• 2037 — Rose destroys Miranda’s echo, decides to keep her powers and says goodbye to Ethan; she wakes holding her father’s wedding ring. (Village: Shadows of Rose 3)
• 2037 — Rose visits Ethan’s grave and an agent picks her up. (Village, post-credits scene)
• 2040 — The date to which the lockdown of Raccoon City’s ruins has been extended. (Requiem: Note Regarding Research Results)