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Chronology of Back to the Future

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This is a chronology of the events of the Back to the Future universe.

Contents

[edit] 1st century A.D.

  • 36: Marty McFly arrives in ancient Rome under the alias "Marticus" and Bifficus Antanneny challenges Marticus to a chariot race. Bifficus must win the race in order to remain popular with the masses, in order that Caligula succeeds Tiberius Caesar as Emperor in 37 A.D., an event that Doc sees as the turning point in the decline of the Roman Empire. [1]

[edit] 100s

  • 127 Walter Wisdom steals the DeLorean and travels to Egypt, as Doc and his family pursue him. [2]

[edit] 1300s

  • Date unknown: The Brown family arrive here because Doc thinks his family has become to reliable on technology, Clara is kidnapped by Lord Biffingham of Tannenshire. Doc, his sons Jules and Verne, and Harold McFly tried to save them and were to be beheaded, Clara and Jennivere saved Doc, Jules, Verne, and Harold, and Harold and Jennivere decided to immigrate to Ireland to raise "generations of McFlys" while the Brown family went back to Hill Valley. [3]

[edit] 1500s

  • Date unknown Doc and Marty thwart the theft of the treasure from an Incan city of gold [4]

[edit] 1600s

[edit] 1700s

  • 1790 Two bank robbers from 1991 arrive in Australia after stealing the DeLorean with Einstein inside [8]

[edit] 1840s

  • 1845 December 24th: Marty and the Brown family arrive in London on Christmas Eve in order to escape the July heat [9]

[edit] 1850s

[edit] 1860s

  • 1866
    • Date unknown: Eleven-year-old Clara comes down with diphtheria and is quarantined for three months. As a result, her father places a telescope next to her bed for her to use, which sparks her lifelong interest in astronomy and science. [14]

[edit] 1870s

[edit] 1880s

  • 1880s
    • Date unknown: Seamus McFly, his wife Maggie McFly and his brother Martin emigrate from Ireland to the United States. They take a few years to get to California, shortly setting in Virginia City, Nevada along the way. Martin starts a bar fight there after someone calls him "yellow," and is stabbed to death as a result
  • 1883 August 27th The volcano Krakatoa erupts in Indonesia. Walter Wisdom travels to the exact time and location in an attempt to have his pursuers (Doc and family) incinerated in the eruption. [16]
  • 1884
    • Date unknown: Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen shoots twelve men, not including Indians or Chinamen, before the end of this year according to a newspaper article. The article has no follow-ups because Tannen killed its editor. [17]
  • 1885
  • January 1 Emmett Brown, 65, is accidentally stranded in Hill Valley while time travelling. He sets up shop as a blacksmith.
    • April: William Sean McFly born, first son to Seamus and Maggie McFly and the first McFly born in America.
    • Date unknown: Blacksmith Emmett Brown is hired by Buford Tannen to re-shoe Buford's horse, but is not paid. After falling off his horse, Buford blames Doc for the accident.
    • Wednesday, September 2nd: Native American Horseback-archers are chased near Hill Valley by the United States Cavalry. Marty McFly arrives in a time machine to rescue Doc from impending doom and ends up on the McFly farm, where he meets his ancestors Seamus, Maggie, and William McFly. He assumes the name "Clint Eastwood".
    • Thursday, September 3rd: Marty runs into Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, great grandfather of Biff Tannen, and upsets him, causing Tannen to nearly hang Marty. Doc saves Marty in time.
    • Friday, September 4th:
      • The new courthouse clock is delivered to Hill Valley by train.[18]
    • Doc saves schoolteacher Clara Clayton from an accident. It is love at first sight.
    • Saturday, September 5th: As part of Hill Valley’s anniversary festivities, the new courthouse clock is started at exactly eight o’clock PM PST. Photographs with the clock are offered to townspeople wishing to pose with the new timepiece. The clock will remain in faithful service to Hill Valley for the next seven decades. At the Hill Valley Festival. Doc and Marty have a photograph taken, posing next to the new courthouse clock (this photo is given to Marty in 1985 by Doc at the spot where the DeLorean was destroyed by a locomotive near Eastwood Ravine). While Doc and Clara dance, Buford Tannen tries to shoot Doc, but Marty interferes and saves him.
    • Sunday, September 6th: Doc and Marty prepare to go back to the future. Doc says goodbye to Clara and tells her the truth, but she doesn't believe him. Both are broken-hearted; she prepares to leave Hill Valley and he goes to a saloon. Buford and his gang rob the Pine City stage.
    • Monday, September 7th:
      • Marty unsuccessfully tries to avoid a showdown scheduled with Tannen, and survives the confrontation. Tannen and his gang are arrested for the robbery of the Pine City stage. Clara Clayton, on a train bound for San Francisco, overhears a passenger talking about the heartsick Doc Brown; her belief restored, she stops the train and jumps off to find Doc. Doc and Marty hijack the train engine for a science experiment. Clara risks her life to be with Doc, and they end up staying in 1885 while Marty returns to 1985. The locomotive plunges into Shonash Ravine, which is renamed Eastwood Ravine in Marty's honor.
    • Tuesday, December 15th: Doc and Clara are married. [19]
  • 1886
    • Date unknown: Doc and Clara's elder son, Jules Eratosthenes Brown, is born. [20]

[edit] 1890s

  • 1891 Pee Wee McFly, participates in baseball's National League pennant race as a pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters. [22]
  • 1895
    • Date unknown: Doc finishes building his second time machine, out of a steam locomotive, and he, Clara, Jules and Verne make a trek to the future (2015 or later), where he retrofits the time machine with a hover conversion and other necessary modifications. [23]

[edit] 1900s

1901 George McFly's father, Arthur, is born. During American involvement in World War I (1917-1918), he is 16 years old when he volunteers for the Army. [24]

  • 1904 June 29th: Doc and Clara arrive in St. Louis for the World's Fair. Marty, Jules and Verne follow in the time train.

[edit] 1910s

  • 1910s
    • Date unknown: Marty's grandfather and Lorraine's father, Sam Baines, is born.
    • Date unknown: Marty's grandmother and Lorraine's mother, Stella Baines, is born.
    • 1917 The United States declares war on Germany on April 6. Due to hostility against German-Americans during World War I, Doc's father changes his family's name from "Von Braun" to "Brown". [25]
    • Arthur McFly joins the U.S. Army and is shipped over to France, but is not sent into combat. When it is discovered that he is only 16 years old, he is sent home. [26]

[edit] 1920s

[edit] 1930s

[edit] 1940s

[edit] 1950s

  • 1950
    • Date unknown: 12-year-old George McFly tries standing up for his friend Billy Stockhausen, but fails to do so.
  • 1955
    • Date unknown: Old Man Peabody tries to breed pine trees on his farm. He has a twin pine.[32]
    • Saturday, November 5th:
      • Marty McFly arrives from the year 1985 and disrupts the space-time continuum.
      • Doc Brown slips off his toilet whilst hanging a clock and has a vision of the flux capacitor.[33]
      • Biff Tannen and his gang pick on George McFly at Lou's Cafe.
      • Sam Baines accidentally hits Marty with his car. When Marty recovers, he seeks out Doc Brown to help him get back to 1985.
    • Saturday, November 12th:
      • Doc and Marty prepare for his return to 1985, unaware that older versions of themselves have arrived from the future, or that a much older Biff has arrived from the 21st Century, or that there are three DeLoreans in Hill Valley that day.
      • Old Biff gives young Biff an almanac and departs that evening for 2015.
      • George and Lorraine kiss for the first time at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance at Hill Valley High School. It is at that moment that Lorraine realizes that she is going to spend the rest of her life with George McFly.
      • Marty retrieves the almanac from young Biff.
      • Old Doc is accidentally sent back to 1885 by a lightning strike.
      • At 10:04 p.m., lightning strikes the clocktower, damaging and stopping the seven-decade-old timepiece, and sending young Marty McFly to 1985. A slightly older Marty arrives moments later, with a letter for young Doc.
    • Doc sends Marty to 1885.
  • 1956
    • Date unknown: The youngest Baines sibling is born to Sam and Stella Baines (name and sex are never mentioned, but Stella is very pregnant in 1955).
    • Date unknown: Lyon Estates, the future home of George and Lorraine McFly and their kids in 1985, is completed.
    • George McFly and Lorraine Baines graduate from Hill Valley High School.
  • 1957
    • Date unknown: Toyota begins exports to the U.S. market. Earliest possible date for Statler Motors to take on the franchise. [34]

[edit] 1960s

  • 1966
    • Date unknown: Linda McFly is born to George and Lorraine McFly.
    • Date unknown: Studebaker halts all remaining automobile production.[37] The Statler Motors' dealership has switched to selling Toyota cars by then.
  • 1967 30 year old Biff Tannen has an encounter with an alien spaceship

[edit] 1970s

  • 1976
    • Date unknown: 8-year-old Marty accidentally sets fire to the living room rug. His parents don't go easy on him. [39]

[edit] 1980s

  • 1982
    • Date unknown: Pepsi Free, the drink Marty tries to order in 1955, is introduced.[40]
  • 1983
    • Sunday, May 22nd: Ronald Reagan announces he will run for a second term in office. Although a newspaper headline, seen in Timeline 2, mentions that Doc Brown is commended and wins an award, it is unknown whether this happened in the original timeline; in 1985, Dr. Brown is described (by Mr. Strickland) as "a real nutcase".
    • Date unknown: Marty and Doc meet and become friends. According to the original Part I script, Doc shows up at Marty's house and hires Marty to sweep his garage in the year 1983. Doc gave Marty total access to his record collection, and they became friends.
    • Date unknown: Marty sneaks out of his house at night to meet his friends, and his mother hears the sound of a skateboard and catches him. Marty recalls the incident when he sneaks out again two years later. [41]
  • 1984
    • June: Linda McFly graduates in the Class of '84.
  • 1985
    • Saturday, October 12th: Libyan terrorists steal plutonium from the local power plant so Doc can build them a nuclear weapon.[33] It is dismissed by the FBI as a "simple clerical error".[42]
    • Friday, October 25th:
      • Doc asks Marty to meet him at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 a.m. next morning.
      • Marty fails his audition with his band, The Pinheads.
      • Marty admires a black Toyota 4x4 on the bed of a truck at the Texaco gas station.
      • A woman asks Marty for a donation to preserve the non-functioning clock tower, handing him a flyer containing specific date and time details about the lightning strike to the clock. Marty puts the flyer in his pocket.
      • Lorraine's brother Joey fails to make parole again.
    • Saturday, October 26:
      • The DeLorean's time circuits as they appeared one minute after the first demonstration.
        The DeLorean's time circuits as they appeared one minute after the first demonstration.
        From about 1:18 a.m. to 1:35 a.m., in the parking lot of the Twin Pines Mall, Doc demonstrates his new time machine. His dog Einstein becomes the world's first time traveler at 1:20 a.m.
      • At 1:35 a.m., Marty flees from the Libyans in the DeLorean and accidentally departs 1985 for 1955 by accelerating to 88 mph. His arrival there brings Timeline 2 into existence, and Timeline 1 fades away.
    • Saturday, October 26:
      • Marty, 8 days older, arrives from 1955 and crashes into the front of the Assembly of Christ He then runs from the town square over to the 'Lone Pine Mall to witness the departure of his one-week-younger self, and sees the Libyans crash into a photo kiosk. Doc escapes injury and departs later that morning to go to the future.
      • Marty wakes up at 10:28. Later that morning, Doc arrives and takes Marty and Jennifer to the future.
    • Sunday, October 27th: After arriving from 2015 to an altered timeline, Marty and Doc travel back to 1955 to right things.
    • Marty, another week older, returns later that morning from 1885 and escapes injury when the time machine is destroyed.
    • Marty picks up Jennifer. While they're stopped at a light, Needles tries to get Marty to race him. Marty declines.
    • Doc and Clara arrive in 1985 and introduce their sons to Marty and Jennifer.
    • October/November: George McFly's first novel, A Match Made in Space, is published.

[edit] 1990s

  • 1990s
  • 1991
  • Doc Brown and his wife Clara settle down in Hill Valley, and enroll their children, Jules (10) and Verne (8), at the local elementary school.
    • Date unknown: Marty and Jennifer are married.
    • Date unknown: Marlene McFly is born to Marty and Jennifer McFly.
  • 1992 The Browns (Doc, Clara, Jules and Verne) see more of the Tannens (Biff and Biff, Jr.)
  • 1994
    • Date unknown: Amy Needles, younger daughter of Douglas, is born.
  • 1996
  • 1997
  • 1998
    • Date unknown: Marty McFly Jr. is born to Marty and Jennifer McFly.
    • Date unknown: Bottoms Up!, a plastic surgery place, opens in Courthouse Square.

[edit] 2000s

[edit] 2010s

  • 2015
    • Date unknown: Jaws 19 debuts at the theater: this time, it's really really personal.
    • Wednesday, October 21st:
    • Friday, October 23rd: Queen Diana visits Washington according to the 2015 newspaper.
    • Dates unknown: Doc spends an unknown amount of time in 2015 and later. While he's there, he outfits the time machine with a Mr. Fusion and a hover conversion, undergoes personal rejuvenation surgery, and learns as much as he can about Marty Jr.'s meeting with Griff on the 21st

[edit] 2070s

[edit] 2090s

  • 2091
    • Date unknown: Ziff Tannen tries to sabotage Marta McFly's solar sail ship MSC Jennifer, the sabotage was repaired by Doc and his wife Clara and afterwards Ziff was sent to jail where he shared his cell with his grandfather Griff Tannen.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ↑ From the animated episode Roman Holiday
  2. ↑ from the animated episode, Put on Your Thinking Caps, Kids! It's Time for Mr. Wisdom!
  3. ↑ from the animated episode, A Family Vacation
  4. ↑ from the animated episode, Time Waits for No Frog
  5. ↑ from the animated episode,Witchcraft
  6. ↑ from the animated episode Mac the Black
  7. ↑ from the animated episode, Go Fly a Kite
  8. ↑ from the animated episode, Einstein's Adventure
  9. ↑ from the animated episode, Dickens of a Christmas
  10. ↑ from the animated episode, Clara's Folks
  11. ↑ from the animated episode, Brothers
  12. ↑ based on an 1885 issue of the Hill Valley Telegraph that commemorates the 20th anniversary of the event
  13. ↑ Historical fact. See From the Earth to the Moon for details. The book is mentioned in Back to the Future Part III.
  14. ↑ Clara mentions this in conversation with Doc in Back to the Future Part III
  15. ↑ Historical fact. See Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea for details. The book is mentioned in Back to the Future Part III.
  16. ↑ from the animated episode, Put on Your Thinking Caps, Kids! It's Time for Mr. Wisdom!
  17. ↑ Back to the Future Part II: Doc and Marty read the newspaper in 1955.
  18. ↑ Back to the Future Part III: The clock was seen in the background at the train station in 1885.
  19. ↑ from the animated episode, Solar Sailors; Doc and Clara are celebrating their anniversary on December 15, 1991, and Doc jokes that they've been married almost 106 years.
  20. ↑ conjecture from Jules being two years older than Verne, and apparently being about 9 years old when the family first leaves 1895, and conceived after his parents' marriage
  21. ↑ from the animated episode, A Verne by Any Other Name
  22. ↑ from the animated episode, Batter Up
  23. ↑ conjecture based on the boys' apparent ages (9 and 7) in Back to the Future Part III, as well as Doc's mention in St. Louis Blues of being at the patent office in 1895.
  24. ↑ Marty mentions this family story to George in 1955 (BTTF novelization, p91, although this is not seen in the film.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 Back to the Future Part III: Doc tells Marty about it in 1955.
  26. ↑ BTTF novelization, p91
  27. ↑ based on a mention in the BTTF novel that in 1985, Doc is 65 years old. However, the animated episode Gone Fishin' says that Doc was born in 1922. Neither date can be inferred from the film trilogy.
  28. ↑ as established in Back to the Future Part II, which recounts Biff's life story and "how a trip to the races on his 21st birthday made him a millionaire overnight," and shows a newspaper dated March 27, 1958
  29. ↑ as seen on George's tombstone in 1985A in Back to the Future Part II; names of parents are from the BTTF novel at page 91
  30. ↑ from DVD commentary by Bob Gale in Back to the Future
  31. ↑ Back to the Future Part III: Part of Doc's letter.
  32. ↑ Back to the Future. Doc tells Marty about this in the parking lot of Twin Pine Mall in 1985, and the farm is seen when Marty gets in 1955.
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Back to the Future Part I. Doc tells Marty about this in the parking lot of Twin Pine Mall in 1985.
  34. ↑ Historical fact. See history of Toyota for details.
  35. ↑ Historical fact. See Johnny B. Goode for details.
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Back to the Future Part I. According to newspaper clippings framed on the wall of Doc's house.
  37. ↑ Historical fact. See Studebaker's exit from the auto business for details.
  38. ↑ Bob Gale referred to the date in a draft screenplay for Part II, although this did not end up in the film trilogy, the novelizations, or the animated series
  39. ↑ from Back to the Future; this could also have happened in 1977
  40. ↑ Historical fact. See Caffeine-Free Pepsi for details.
  41. ↑ Novelization, p44
  42. ↑ Back to the Future. According to a TV news program heard in the background.
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