Resident Evil Timeline

1953-Birth of Kenneth J. Sullivan S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team Scout. Deceased July 23, 1998 inside Spencer Mansion. Devoured by Zombie.

1957-Birth of Enrico Marini. Captain of the S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team. Wounded during Spencer Mansion penetration. Killed July 23, 1998 by a single gunshot wound. Murderer unknown; possibly Barry Burton under the command of Albert Wesker.

1960-Birth of Barry Burton. Ex S.W.A.T. team member; currently part of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team. Working under threats to his family by Albert Wesker. Competent helicopter pilot.

1961-Michael Warren, an engineer, moves to Raccoon city and begins work the city’s cable car system. He eventually becomes mayor.

1963-Birth of Brad Vickers. Part of S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team. Known as “chickenheart” he pilots the helicopter (and abandons the team) during a botched team disembark at the Spencer Mansion.

November 10, 1967-Progenitor Virus administered to Jessica and Lisa Trevor, wife and daughter of famed architect, George Trevor. Kidnapped and held in the Spencer Mansion, Jessica eventually dies, Lisa lives.
Trevor’s Diary: George Trevor’s aunt becomes ill and is sent to a nearby hospital.   Jessica and Lisa Trevor intend to visit her.

November 13, 1967-Trevor’s Private Papers: Architect George Trevor arrives at the Spencer Mansion, which he designed over a five-year period for Lord Ozwell E. Spencer. Spencer tells Trevor that Trevor’s family has recently departed to visit a sick aunt.   Both gentlemen feast in the dinning room before viewing the mansion’s art collection. Trevor mentions the house’s “numerous secrets.”
Lisa Trevor’s Letters: Part torture subject, part bio-experiment, Jessica Trevor writes a final, emotional note to her daughter, pleading for an escape plan and fearing the worst is upon them.

November 14, 1967-Trevor’s Private Papers: Trevor views Lord Spencer’s collection of European paintings and parchments. Spencer tells Trevor he is contemplating turning the residence into a seaside resort. He also wishes to start an “international industrial medicine company.” The company’s name would be “Umbrella.”
Lisa Trevor’s Letters” Lisa Trevor feels dizzy from the shot she was given four days ago. She wants to escape the mansion, but her mother hasn’t returned.

November 15, 1967-Lisa Trevor’s Letters: Lisa finds her mother and they eat together. Lisa is happy until she realizes her mother is a “fake” and “different inside.” She locates her mother’s face, peels it off her skull, and attaches it to herself.

November 18, 1967-Lisa Trevor’s Letters: Lisa mentions a coffin under the house where her mother rests. Little else of the letter is comprehensible.
Trevor’s Private Papers: Trevor notes in his diary that his wife and children have not returned from their Aunt Emma’s. There are no telephones, so he can’t check their whereabouts. Trevor heads to a second floor terrace. Large crows perch here; Trevor feels strange, as if he is being watched. He spies a lower courtyard with a ladder leading down into a hole this wasn’t in his design.

November 20, 1967-Trevor’s Private Papers: Trevor notices that the shotgun gave Lord Spencer has been swapped for a broken one. Trevor is alarmed at his family’s disappearance, and his employer wants him back at work.

November 21, 1967-Trevor’s Private Papers: Trevor is ushered into an enclosed reception chamber, where a man in a white lab coat tells Trevor that his family is dead. Trevor feels pain in the back of his neck; he falls to the floor.

November 24, 1967-Trevor’s Private Papers: Trevor is imprisoned in the room’ the man in the white coat brings him “revolting” food. Only he and Spencer know the mansion’s terrible secrets. He mentions preternatural entities roaming the manor grounds. Trevor wonders if Spencer is testing the mansion’s “secret mechanisms” on him. A strange ant-like creature lands on Trevor tramples a number of them. Trevor’s Diary also notes these occurrences.

November 26, 1967-Trevor’s Diary: George Trevor loses his favorite lighter the one Jessica gave him.

November 27, 1967-Trevor’s Private Papers: George Trevor escapes from his room, but the mansion is securely locked. He mentions Crests, an eye needed for a statue, and a Golden Emblem. He hasn’t time for these games.

November 29, 1967-Trevor’s Private Papers: Trevor begins to lose his mind. He stumbles upon a room with a giant plant growing through it. He describes it as “absurdly gigantic.” Trevor escapes the mansion and moves through a laboratory, in to a cave system. He mentions high-heeled shoes. He hopes his wife escaped by this route. Trevor’s diary entries become increasingly disjointed. He hasn’t had food or water for days. He feels trapped.
Trevor’s Diary: Trevor continues to ramble on about being trapped, writing about large glass tubes and wet, eerie caves.

November 31, 1967-Trevor’s Private Papers: Trevor is in the dark. He scrambles through a secret tunnel that ends in a damp chamber. Something monstrous looms in the shadows. With his final match, he illuminates the room. Near him is a headstone carved with his name carved into it. Trevor scrawls a final goodbye to his wife.

Sometime in 1967-It is assumed that Lord Ozwell Spencer and Alexander Ashford completed the experiment known as the T-virus.

Sometime in 1967-The Special Tactics and Recovery Squad (or S.T.A.R.S.) is formed in New York City as a special branch of the police force. Its specially trained troops deal with cult-affiliated terrorism.

1969-Birth of Forest Speyer, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team sniper and vehicle specialist. Deceased July 23, 1998 on a balcony inside Spencer Mansion. Devoured by an unknown entity.

1970-Estimated “birth” of Alfred Ashford and Alexia Ashford, twins in a long line of Ashfords. Their father Alexander (along with Lord Spencer) created the T-virus. The twins then experimented on Alexander, turning him into a “Nosferatu”. After the invention of the T-Veronica Virus, Alexia enters a cryogenic state chamber to mutate and strengthen her powers.

1971-Birth of Joseph Frost, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team vehicles specialist, who joined Alpha Team under orders from Albert Wesker. Deceased July 23, 1998 on Spencer Mansion grounds. Devoured by zombified hounds.

1972-The Raccoon City chapter of S.T.A.R.S. is established.

1973-Birth of Chris Redfield S.T.A.R.S. Alpha Team member. Dishonorably discharged from the Air Force, Chris is recruited from S.T.A.R.S. by Barry Burton.

1975-Birth of Richard Aiken, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo Team communications specialist. Bitten to death July 23, 1998 on Spencer Mansion grounds.

1978-Wesker’s Report II: Albert Wesker arrives at the Arklay Laboratories ignoring the Umbrella president and remaining aloof to the other staff. He commences research on the Ebola Virus, and attempts to create a Bio Organic Weapon (B.O.W. Entities). Wesker first encounters the “woman,” a creature who has been constantly experimented on with multiple viral strains since her first injection on November 10, 1967.

1980-Birth of Rebecca Chambers, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team medic and part-time pianist. One day before Alpha Team’s arrival in Raccoon Forest, she investigates a mysterious train. Albert Wesker shoots her in the chest, but she survives and escapes the mansion. Her status is currently active.

1981-Birth of Steve Burnside. An immature but good-hearted child, he is held on the remote Rockfort Island with his father as a prisoner of Umbrella, Inc.

July 27, 1981-Wesker’s Report II: Ten-year old Alexia Ashford is given permission to head up Umbrellas’ remote Antarctic research station. Her family’s reputation is legendary (her father, Alexander Ashford first discovered the T-virus), although Alexander’s son, Alfred, is useless. Wesker vows to commence research on the laboratory’s older workers, but Dr. William Birkin ins envious of Alexia and isn’t mentally capable of helping Wesker. An imprecise killing machine, name the Zombie, is created. However its infection ration isn’t perfect. The “woman” still lives ,l and Wesker is surprised at how resilient she has become.

January 30, 1983-Alfred’s Diary: Alfred Ashford, inside the secret Umbrella Antarctic base keeps a diary where he mentions a hidden passageway, accessible only by using three family brooches. He cannot retrieve his father’s brooch.

February 17, 1983-Alfred’s Diary: Alfred manages to secure the brooches and enter the sealed room. He makes a shocking discovery—his DNA was spliced from a family ancestor and surrogate mother; both Alfred and Alexia are experiments. Angry and jealous that his father chose Alexia (she exhibits genius intelligence, but Alfred does not), Alfred is determined to avenge his blundered birth.

March 3, 1983-Alfred’s Diary: Alfred and Alexia begin to experiment using the T-Veronica Virus on a “human body” they find- most likely their father. Alfred worries that the family butler will find out about this macabre experiment.

April 22, 1983-Alfred’s Diary: Alexander Ashford is turned into a freakishly mutated being that comes to be known as “Nosferatu,” and he’s locked away in a secret basement room. Alexia, meanwhile, continues to experiment on herself, and she informs Alfred that she needs to be frozen for 15 years before the T-Veronica Virus can completely consume her Alfred, now alone, mentally degenerates completely.

December 31, 1983-Wesker’s Report II: Wesker hears that Alexia died after injecting herself with the T-Veronica Virus. He can’t rely on Alfred to help with research. Wesker begins to wonder why Ozwell Spencer locate the laboratory here, especially as Wesker believes other species (both animal and vegetable) could be affected by the virus. He realizes that placing a base in the Antarctic wasn’t so crazy after all. The “failure” at the laboratory (the woman infected back in 1967) has been forgotten. Wesker’s true intentions- that he’s been planted in the Umbrella organization by another company are still secret.

1986-Birth of Sherry Birkin, daughter of Umbrella scientists, Doctor William Birkin and Annette Birkin. Sherry wears a small neck pendant that carries the G-virus. Albert Wesker’s forces may be holding her against her will.

1987-Residents of Raccoon City elect Michael Warren (the engineer who pioneered the town’s cable car system) mayor of Raccoon City. Warren holds this position until the town is destroyed; he dies in the nuclear explosion.

1988-Wesker’s Report II: Wesker can’t believe Birkin is bringing life into the world when he works in such a place, especially as work has begun on the Tyrant, a genetically superior soldier. However, very few “test subjects” could survive with the T-Virus inside them; most turn into Zombies. Only 10 people in the United States have the correct DNA. Hear the Umbrella France has recently started the Nemesis Project, Wesker requests appropriate samples, realizing that a tremendous soldier can now be created.   The Nemesis parasite has a short life expectancy outside of the host body, so Wesker resolves to plant the Nemesis parasite into the “woman.” The results are surprising she devours the parasite and lives. Wesker switches his research completely and begins to work on the “failure”.

1992-After five years as mayor of Raccoon City, Michael Warren begins to rely heavily on Umbrella’s “charitable” donations. The money helps to build a hospital, a public utility works, a municipal building, and helps “keep the public peace.”

1993-The newly appointed Raccoon City chief of police, Brian Irons, begins to take bribes from Umbrella, Inc. to ignore the disappearance of locals, Umbrella’s “experimental” areas of the city, and other atrocities. Chief Irons becomes more erratic.

July 31, 1995-Wesker’s Report II: Wesker returns to the Arklay Laboratories after a four-year absence. Birkin heads the G-Virus experiment that Wesker began. The G-Virus continuously mutates its host, creating a creature that resurrects itself from the dead. Spencer spends less and less time at the Raccoon facility. A new lead researcher named John arrives, and the experiment on the “woman” begin to turn violent she rips the faces off careless researchers and wears them on her hunched back. She is destroyed, but Wesker wonders what Spencer has in store for Umbrella.

1996-While Mayor Warren and Police Chief Irons stonewall any protests, Umbrella, Inc. is permitted to construct the Arklay Laboratories near the old Spencer Mansion, away from the main business district, but still within Raccoon City Limits.

1997-Barry Burton leaves his job as S.W.A.T. team sergeant to become a full-time member of S.T.A.R.S. Burton recruits Chris Redfield, and both move to Raccoon City to revamp the S.T.A.R.S. team there.
Ada Wong, a spy infiltrating the Umbrella organization to gain more information on their viral experiments, manages to become intimate with an Umbrella researcher named John. The Raccoon City Police Department moves into the disused Raccoon City Art Gallery. Artwork remains in the building during the move, but many more expensive paintings and statues arrive shortly afterward. They belong to Chief Irons.

April 25, 1998-Manager’s Diary: A technician is hired to manage Arklay Laboratories and “disposal” facility. The lab is near the mansion, disguised as a factory.

May 10, 1998-Keeper’s Diary: The keeper looks after a new specimen, which may be a Chimera. The beast dismembers and disembowels its meat (a wild pig) before eating.
Secretary’s Diary: Chief Irons acquires another disgusting painting; a naked human, being hanged.

May 11, 1998-Keeper’s Diary: A T-Virus leak shuts down the Arklay Laboratories basement area. The keep dons a haz-mat (hazardous materials) suit.

May 12, 1998-Keeper’s Diary: the Keeper feels “musty” and “itchy” after 24 hours in the haz-mat suit.

May 13, 1998-Keeper’s Diary: The Keeper goes to the laboratory clinic when his itchy back becomes swollen. He removes his haz-mat suit, and they bandage his back.
Prisoner’s Diary: On Rockfort Island, a prisoner complains that his cell “stinks of death.” He shares a bunk bed with an “interesting” fellow named Bob.

May 14, 1998-Keeper’s Diary: A blister appears on the Keeper’s foot; he hobbles to the dog pen. Some of the hounds have escaped.
Manager’s Diary: Arklay Laboratories tests a special, but unstable, gas that decomposes living cells.

May 15, 1998-Keeper’s Diary: An armed guard prevents the Keeper from leaving or making phone calls.

May 16, 1998-Keeper’s Diary: A scientist is shot trying to escape from the secured Laboratory. That night, a piece of rotting flesh falls off the Keeper’s arm. Prisoner’s Diary: Bob says that he was the assistant to Alfred Ashford, but was imprisoned over “a tiny little mistake.”

May 17, 1998-The T-Virus accidentally saturates a laboratory plant in Arklay Laboratories, creating Plant 42. An angry researcher floods the mansion’s lower rooms, freeing sharks infected with the T-Virus.

May 19, 1998-Keeper’s Diary: The T-Virus metamorphosis is almost complete. The Keeper attacks and eats the guard.

May 20, 1998-A female hiker is found on the bank of the Marble River. The body shows signs of animal lacerations.
Manager’s Diary” Despite possessing a keycard, the Manager is accidentally locked inside a “treatment room” in the Arklay Laboratories. Prisoner’s Diary: Military personnel move Bob to a building from people never return.

May 21, 1998-Plant 42 Report: Umbrella researcher Henry Sarton writes about a mutating plant that attacks by crushing its victims in its vines or by bloodletting with its tendrils. This monster has preyed on several scientists.

May 27, 1998-The Raccoon Times writes a report on the discovery of the dead hiker. The police think a grizzly bear attacked her.

June 7, 1998-Manager’s Diary: Staff members are becoming unruly and will not correctly dispose of experimentations.

June 8, 1998-Researcher’s Note: John, a researcher, tells his sweetheart how to correctly exit the Arklay Laboratories. Pass codes are mentioned.

June 16, 1998-The Raccoon Weekly runs a story about strange “dog-like” creatures roaming the Arklay Mountains near the Spencer Mansion. The paper urges people to try to photograph or capture a specimen.

July 9, 1998-The Raccoon Times: “Mystery in the Arklay Mountains” reports that local authorities closed the roads into the wilderness area; they summoned S.T.A.R.S. to help investigate. Grotesque monsters are still in the area, and more families have vanished.

July 16, 1998-Manager’s Diary: Bodies in the facility are still being dumped into exterior containers and not burned per instructions. The plant disposal system cannot cope with “demand.” The workers feel a little strange, they’re taking medicine, but it isn’t working.

July 22, 1998-White Umbrella: A clandestine organization give strict orders about an “X-Day.” S.T.A.R.S. members are to be lured into a laboratory to battle the mutating experiments.
Suicide Note: A researcher, writing to his wife, details a viral outbreak in the Arklay Laboratories. He destroys his colleague with an ornate pistol and then hangs himself.

July 23, 1998-Raccoon City television runs a story about 10 families missing in the Arklay Mountains. Human remains have been found in the area.
A military police vehicle is discovered inside the Arklay Mountains. Rebecca Chambers reports that corpses of Military Police, plus an unidentified body, are uncovered near the vehicle.
Alpha and Bravo S.T.A.R.S. teams are ordered to look for any survivors. The teams assemble on the evening of July 23rd. Bravo Team makes an initial sweep of the lower-lying forested areas.

July 24, 1998-The evil is upon us!