Indiana Jones Expanded Universe Timeline

I made this thread to provide a timeline for those who're wondering where all the expanded material fits. Hope it helps

Color code:

Movies
TV show
Comics
Novels
Video games


1908
-Egypt, May 1908
-Tangiers, 1908
-British East Africa, May 1908
-Paris, September 1908
-Vienna, November 1908

1909
-Florence, September 1909

1910
-Russia, 1910
-Athens, 1910
-Benares, January 1910
-Peking, March 1910

1912
-Young Indiana Jones' Titanic Adventure
-Young Indiana Jones and the Pirates' Loot
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (prologue)
-Young Indiana Jones and the Lost Gold of Durango

1913
-Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure
-Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror
-Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril
-Young Indiana Jones and the Ghostly Riders
-Young Indiana Jones and the Circle of Death

1914
-Young Indiana Jones and the Journey to the Underworld
-Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross
-Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge
-Young Indiana Jones and the Secret City
-Young Indiana Jones and the Mountain of Fire
-Young Indiana Jones and the Face of the Dragon
-Young Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Tiger

1916
-Princeton, February 1916
-Mexico, March 1916
-Ireland, April 1916
-London, May 1916
-Somme, Early August 1916
-Germany, Mid-August 1916
-Verdun, September 1916
-Paris, October 1916
-German East Africa, November 1916 (1)
-German East Africa, November 1916 (2)
-German East Africa, December 1916

1917
-Congo, January 1917
-Ravenelle, Early February 1917
-Alhorn, Late February 1917
-Austria, March 1917
-Petrograd, July 1917
-Barcelona, May 1917
-Prague, August 1917
-Palestine, October 1917 (1)
-Palestine, October 1917 (2)
-Morocco, 1917

1918
-Istanbul, January 1918
-Northern Italy, June 1918
-Transylvania, September 1918

1919
-Paris, May 1919
-London/Egypt, November 1919
-South Pacific, November 1919
-Princeton, 1919

1920
-Chicago, April 1920
-Chicago, May 1920
-New York, June 1920
-New York, July 1920
-Hollywood, August 1920 (1)
-Hollywood, August 1920 (2)

1922
-Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi

1924
-Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy

1925
-Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants

1926
-Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils
-Indiana Jones and the Lost Horizon

1927
-Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge

1928
-Indiana Jones and the Unicorn?s Legacy

1929
-Indiana Jones and the Interior World

1930
-Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates
-Indiana Jones and the White Witch

1932
-Indiana Jones and the Feathered Snake

1933
-Indiana Jones and the Philosopher?s Stone
-Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs

1934
-Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth
-Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx

1935
-Indiana Jones and the Shrine of the Sea Devil
-Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

1936
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Ikons of Ikammanen
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: 22-Karat Doom!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Devil?s Cradle
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Gateway to Infinity
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Harbingers
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Club Nightmare!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Africa Screams!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Africa Screams!: Crystal Death
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Gold Goddess: Xomec?s Raiders
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Gold Goddess: Amazon Death-Ride!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Fourth Nail: Blood and Sand!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Fourth Nail: Swords and Spikes!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Deadly Rock
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Demons
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Sea Butchers: Island of Peril!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Sea Butchers: Death on Dark Waters!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Search for Abner: The Grecian Earn
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Search for Abner: The City of Yesterday?s Forever!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Dragon by the Tail!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Cuban Connection
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Beyond the Lucifer Chamber!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: End Run
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: The Secret of the Deep
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Good as Gold
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Trail of the Golden Sun
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Towers of Tears!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Shot by Both Sides!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Fireworks!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Big Game
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Double Play!

1937
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Magic, Murder and the Weather!
-Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: Something?s Gone Wrong Again!
-Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold

1938
-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
-Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient

1939
-Indiana Jones and the Longship of the Gods
-Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
-Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates


1940
-Indiana Jones: The Dance of Death
-Indiana Jones and the Avalon Inheritance

1941
-Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece
-Indiana Jones and the Labyrinth of Horus
-Indiana Jones and Genghis Khan's Sword
-Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Easter Island

1943
-Indiana Jones and El Dorado's Gold
-Indiana Jones and the Lost People

1945
-Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny

1946
-Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix

1947
-Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine

1950
-Mystery of the Blues (bookends)

1957
-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Thanks for posting this timeline, it really helps a lot!

Not bad, although you're missing the Old Indy bookends and some of the theme park and foreign stuff...I can send you my timeline, if you like.

Also, the Young Indiana Jones TV show poses a major timeline problem in that the dates of some episodes have been changed, and previously unrelated episodes joined together with new footage. Frequently, the bridges actually take Indy directly from one episode into another. So, for example, this sequence of events:

-Morocco, 1917
1918
-Istanbul, January 1918
-Northern Italy, June 1918
-Transylvania, September 1918

is now incorrect. Unfortunately, even though the sequence of these events in Indy's life has been radically changed by the new movies, none of the official timelines have been changed to reflect this. So we're left to do it ourselves, and hope that somebody official fixes the timeline eventually. We have to ignore, then, several of the episode titles. You might list the Indy episodes together with the new movie versions like this:

-Tales of Innocence
--Northern Italy, June 1918
--Morocco, 1917
1918
-Masks of Evil
--Istanbul, January 1918
--Transylvania, September 1918

I realize the new versions of Young Indy are quite controversial. (OMG, Corey Carrier is a teenager--no, wait, he's nine--no, he's a teenager again...) But I think it's best to accept the movies over the original episodes for these reasons:

#1: The new footage, whatever its quality, is probably the closest we'll ever come to new Young Indy episodes.

#2: With the DVDs now fully released, this is probably the version most people will be seeing from now on.

#3: Many of the episodes were presented as movies to begin with, without distinct episode titles or individual bookend sequences.

#4: A few of the "episodes" were never fully realized outside of the DVD release.

#5: Even if one prefers the original presentation of the material, any contradictions between the two versions can be explained as ninety-three year old Indy's memory starting to go. You can still watch the originals while taking into account the new versions for timelining purposes--we can have our cake and eat it too.

TC

The DK Guide has a pretty good timeline up to 1957.

Where does Ancient City in the Lego game fit?

Also 'Lost Horizons' hasn't technically happened. I'm confused as to whether you were going by licenced and released stuff or everything including deleted, unreleased and unlicenced stuff, which then becomes a pain in the a$$. I try to think too much about the timeline. Too many headaches.

Good timeline I love it!

TalonCard said:

Not bad, although you're missing the Old Indy bookends.

I realize the new versions of Young Indy are quite controversial. (OMG, Corey Carrier is a teenager--no, wait, he's nine--no, he's a teenager again...) But I think it's best to accept the movies over the original episodes

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I am using the movies over the episodes so thats why I included only the MotB bookends because it was the only bookend not cut in the DVD sets. I didn't want to include the theme parks because they don't really add anything into the story but I'll see if I add them. About the foreign books, I promised myself I'd add them if somebody inquired them so I guess I'll be adding them soon.

Also, thank you for clarifying the chronology of those episodes.

No problem!

As far as the theme park stuff goes, Temple of the Forbidden Eye has a pretty detailed storyline and was mentioned in the new Ultimate Guide. The new Secret of the Stone Tiger show is kinda lame, but it does serve as a lead-in to the events of the Forbidden Eye ride. Forbidden Eye is set in 1936, after Temple of Doom but before Raiders.

I don't think any of the other Indy attractions have been dated...

TC

I can't even edit it :/

TalonCard said:

No problem!

As far as the theme park stuff goes, Temple of the Forbidden Eye has a pretty detailed storyline and was mentioned in the new Ultimate Guide. The new Secret of the Stone Tiger show is kinda lame, but it does serve as a lead-in to the events of the Forbidden Eye ride. Forbidden Eye is set in 1936, after Temple of Doom but before Raiders.

I don't think any of the other Indy attractions have been dated...

TC

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The Ultimate Guide missed a couple of things. Forbidden Eye is set before and after Temple Of Doom.

I tried explaining its place in the timeline here:

http://raven.theraider.net/showthread.php?t=14568

Stone Tiger falls immediately before Forbidden Eye... It somewhat sets up Indy finding part of the map to the Temple.

The other 2 attractions cannot be dated accurately as their storylines were not as detailed by show elements as Imagineering did with Temple of the Forbidden Eye

Good point! If I understand it correctly, though, the part where the ride actually takes place--the events that guests actually experience, not the backstory--takes place after Temple? But Stone Tiger takes place before even the backstory?

TC

What events and/or dates are covered in the newsreels from the Forbidden Eye ride? I've seen links to the telegrams and letters in this thread but nothing about the reels.

So, Temple of Peril and the Crystal Skull rids don't have any details about dates?

Any more in on the Stone Tiger?

TalonCard said:

I can send you my timeline, if you like.

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Could I get a copy of that, please?

DrHapgood said:

The Ultimate Guide missed a couple of things. Forbidden Eye is set before and after Temple Of Doom.

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Are they actually missing or did the Guide retcon it to take place after?

Lao_Che said:

Could I get a copy of that, please?

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I wouldn't mind taking a look at that either if you don't mind TalonCard.

Thats great thanx for posting