Timeline (movie canon)

The timeline of the events as shown in the five movies, Jurassic Park: The Game and accessory material.

1525

 * Isla Nublar is discovered by Spanish Navigator Diego Fernandez. It is named ‘Cloud Island’ by Nicolas de Huelva.
 * Last measured activity of Mount Sibo in the form of black smoke rising from a peak in the North of Isla Nublar, rumored to have been the catalyst for Nicolas de Huelva's choice of name.

1526 (disputed)

 * The Muertes Archipelago is discovered.

1928

 * John Hammond is born in Edinburgh, Scottland.

1930

 * Sanjay Masrani is born in Bombay, British India.

1945

 * Benjamin Lockwood is born.

1961

 * Latest date John Hammond's daughter can be born

1967

 * Simon Masrani is born in Bombay, India.

1969

 * John Hammond opens "Animal Kingdom" in Nairobi, Kenya.

In or before 1973

 * Before May 23 - Sarah Harding is born.

1973

 * February 16 - Sanjay Masrani establishes the corporation Masrani with the development of Mascom, an ambitious telecommunications network located in Bombay, India.

1974

 * Benjamin Lockwood and John Hammond began their partnership.

1975

 * InGen is established in San Diego, Californa.

1978

 * Summer; before June - Jessica Harding is born.

1979

 * Mascom utilizes fiber-optic communications into telecommunications network.

1980

 * Lex Murphy is born.

1981 - 1982

 * While running the Animal Kingdom with Robert Muldoon, John Hammond begins laying the groundwork for Jurassic Park.
 * Hammond hires Dr. Laura Sorkin for a proof of concept and shows InGen that extinct DNA can be extracted from mosquitoes trapped in amber.

1982

 * Isla Sorna is leased from the Costa Rican Government to InGen. The lease is for 99 years . InGen builds several facilities on the island to create and raise dinosaurs.

1982-1984

 * Dr. Henry Wu makes a proposal to make the dinosaurs planned for Jurassic Park at a faster rate by filling in the sequence gaps with frog DNA as opposed to Dr. Sorkin's idea of creating the whole genome from just solely the DNA of a dinosaur. Dr. Wu is ultimately chosen by InGen to be the chief geneticist instead of Sorkin as his method would be easier, faster, and less costly. From this point on, Laura began to be resentful of Hammond, Wu, and InGen due to this decision.

1983

 * Mascom launches in India.
 * Construction of Jurassic Park: San Diego begins.
 * Tim Murphy is born.

1984

 * First prehistoric animal was brought back to life, using an artificial ovum.
 * Tatsuo Technology is founded in Tokyo, Japan.

Pre 1985

 * Karen Dearing is born

1985

 * Jess sneaks into a Tiger exhibit when her father works at the San Diego Zoo. According to Gerry it "scared the daylights out of [me]".
 * Jurassic Park: San Diego is canceled. Hammond instead decides to build Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, a neighboring island to Isla Sorna. He leases the island from the Costa Rican government the same year. The lease is, like the one for Sorna, for 99 years and includes all the islands in the Archipelago.

1986

 * InGen successfully clones their first dinosaurs on Site B, including Velociraptor and Triceratops.

1985-1987

 * Nima and the Bribri Tribe are removed from Isla Nublar by the Costa Rican government and moved to the mainland in the ghettos; in a capacity that is unknown, Oscar was involved. In 1987, the last descendant of the tribe was resettled off the island.
 * 1985/1986- Claire Dearing is born

1988

 * Eric Kirby is born.
 * Construction of Jurassic Park begins.
 * Jurassic Park's Tyrannosaurus is born on Isla Sorna.

1989

 * The Tyrannosaurus that would later be housed in both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World is transported to Isla Nublar at the age of one.

1990

 * The first mature animals are moved from Site B to Isla Nublar.
 * Spring - Teaser trailer: first fossilised mosquito discovered in a piece of Amber from a mine in South America.

1991

 * September 20 - After Subjects 4x, 6x, and 7x fail after 6 days due to believed to be caused by having genetic structures incompatible with the  used in their creation, Dr. Henry Wu decides to use  instead for creating Velociraptors. He would also use this in the creation of other dinosaur genera. Unknown to him and the other InGen scientists was that the reed frog as well other amphibians used in creating dinosaurs allowed them to change sex, thus allowing them to reproduce.

1992

 * Febuary 13 - Dr. Henry Wu discovers high in Velociraptor clones.
 * Before June 12th - Gerry and Sarah Harding speak.
 * Sanjay Masrani, the founder of Masrani Global Corporation, dies. His company is inherited by his son, Simon.

Between 1990 and June 1993

 * Laura Sorkin is given the Isla Nublar Field Lab. At some point, she obtains a field assistant in David Banks. She eventually breeds Troodon in her field lab. Hammond later orders the Troodons to be destroyed, but Sorkin refuses and studies them in private.

Before June 1993

 * Oscar and Billy (possibly with D-Caf) go on a mission to Nicaragua where most of their fellow mercenaries die and those that may have survived but have not been found are left behind, with Oscar forcing Billy to leave.

1993

 * May 24 - Incident happened at the Geothermal Power Plant of Isla Nublar.


 * First week of June - Building continues on Isla Nublar until Jophery, a gatekeeper, is significantly injured (or killed) by a Velociraptor during a transfer to the holding pen. Major construction comes to a halt on Isla Nublar leaving many structures unfinished until Hammond receives endorsements from outside opinions, which his investors demand; at this time, Hammond has spent three hundred and fifty seven million dollars on the Visitor Centre alone


 * Gennaro visits Mano de Dios Amber Mine and meets with Juanito Rostagno; Hammond, supposed to meet him there, does not arrive as he is with his daughter, who's divorce proceedings have begun. Around this time, Gennaro invites Ian Malcolm to visit Isla Nublar.

Monday, June 7

 * John Hammond meets with Drs Grant and Sattler and invites them to Jurassic Park.

Tuesday, June 8

 * Dennis Nedry meets with Dodgson to discuss stealing the embryos.

Friday, June 11

 * Morning: Endorsement team arrives at Isla Nublar.
 * Noon: Endorsement team has lunch in V.I.P. Dining Room. Tim Murphy and his sister, Lex Murphy, arrive on the Island.
 * 19:00h: Storm evacuation. All non-essential staff leaves the island with the boat.
 * ~19:00h - Power down. Donald Gennaro and Dennis Nedry killed. Endorsement team attacked.
 * Between 19:00h and Morning of June 12th - Nima Cruz and Miles Chadwick arrive on Isla Nublar after Dennis Nedry fails to arrive at the Biosyn hand over. At the same time, authorities search for Dennis Nedry in San Diego . Ray Arnold attempts to restore power and is killed by Velociraptors. Ian, Hammond, Muldoon, and Ellie retreat to an underground bunker.

Saturday, June 12

 * Dawn - Ellie restores power. Robert Muldoon is killed by Velociraptors.
 * Morning - Tim Murphy is electrocuted by the fences. Ellie, Grant, Tim and Lex reunite. Velociraptors attack Tim and Lex in the kitchens; one is locked in a freezer. Rexy kills The Big One. The Endorsement team leaves Isla Nublar; as they fly away, Gerry Harding calls for help from the Visitor Center and InGen sends a rescue team while Nima kidnaps the Hardings.
 * Afternoon - The mercenaries arrive and Bravo Team is gunned down by Vargas who is infected by Troodons. Vargas is killed by Oscar Morales. Alpha Team finds Nima and the Hardings. Daniel "D-Caf" Cafaro goes missing, leaving the helicopter unmanned.
 * Between Afternoon and Evening - David Banks walks too close to the Troodons in the Quarantine Pens and is, to Laura's sadness, killed.
 * Evening - Laura Sorkin adds Lysine supplement to the water supply to reverse the Lysine contingency.
 * Evening - Isla Nublar Field Lab is attacked by Rexy and Velociraptors. Survivors escape into the tunnels.
 * Night - Survivors reach the Marine Facility. Laura Sorkin is killed by the Tylosaurus that she unleashed.

Sunday, June 13

 * Morning: Billy Yoder attempts to kill Gerry, Nima and Jess and flees the Marine Facility, leaving them to die. The Hardings and Nima swim out of the Marine Facility, and reach the North Dock, which is attacked by Rexy. Billy Yoder is killed rescuing the Barbasol can and the Hardings and Nima leave Isla Nublar . Some time after this, the US army planned to bomb the island, yet the bombing never occurred.

November

 * Deconstruction of Jurassic Park from Isla Nublar begins.

1993 - 1994

 * After June of 1993 - The Incident at Isla Nublar starts the downward tailspin of InGen. During Ian Malcolm's recovery, Sarah Harding ventures to see him in Costa Rica to see if the rumors of resurrected dinosaurs were true. . After his recovery, Ian Malcolm violates his non-disclosure agreement by speaking publicly about what happened on Isla Nublar and eventually loses his tenure at the University he works at for “allegedly” receiving money although he denied ever accepting any. The Washington Post and the Skeptical Inquirer refute his claims, under pressure from Peter Ludlow.


 * Between June 13th 1993 and May 23rd 1994 - InGen braces for Hurricane Clarissa, and proceeds to evacuate and close down operations on Site B later in 1993; the dinosaurs are released to mature on their own in the wild. Ideas for re-establishing a theme park are lost by what Hammond considers “an act of God” shortly after. During the same time period, though after the evacuation and release of the dinosaurs, Hurricane Clarissa arrives and wipes out Site B.

1994

 * November - Henry Wu returns to Isla Nublar to assist the clean-up teams in cataloging the animals and to determine how they were breeding.

1995

 * Dr. Henry Wu writes The Next Step: An Evolution of God’s Concepts which details his ambition for creating brand new species.

1996

 * Masrani Oil Industries is founded in Abu Dhabi.
 * Data Analysys is founded in Johannesburg.

Between June 13th, 1993 and May 23rd 1997

 * The deaths of Gennaro, Muldoon and John Arnold are "covered up" by InGen . Despite this, the families of Gennaro, Robert Muldoon and John Arnold sued Ingen for $36.5 Million Dollars, $23 Million Dollars and $12.6 Million Dollars respectively.

December 1996 - January 1 1997
Sometime after December 17, 1996, and before January 1st, 1997, a British family on a yacht cruise stumbles upon InGen’s Site B. Cathy Bowman is injured severely by a pack of Compsognathus. Within forty-eight hours of her attack, Cathy is taken to the hospital and InGen is able to obtain pictures of the injured child.

May 1997
Events of  begin.
 * May 21 - Henry Wu creates the hybrid plant Karacosis wutansis (Wu Flower). This accomplishment gains international media attention and sparks Masrani’s interest in acquiring InGen.

May 23 (Day 1)

 * John Hammond phones Malcolm to come and see him.
 * InGen has a board meeting to appoint Ludlow as CEO of InGen.
 * John talks to Malcolm about the expedition.
 * Malcolm tells the Gatherers team that they leave 3 hours later.
 * 3 hours later - Gatherers leave.
 * Gatherers arrive at Isla Sorna.
 * InGen Hunters arrive at Isla Sorna.
 * Night - Gatherers sabotage the Hunter camp.
 * Night - Gatherer's camp attacked by the T. rex.
 * Night - Survivors walk inland.

May 23-May 24

 * Ajay Sidhu, Dieter Stark, Eddie Carr, Carter, Robert Burke and six hunters killed.

May 24 (Day 2)

 * Survivors walk to the cliff.
 * Night - Survivors attacked by T. rex.
 * Night - Gatherers reach the Worker Village and call for help.

May 25 (Day 3)

 * Morning - San Diego Incident. Peter Ludlow killed.  According to Eddie Carr and John Hammond, this is the day that the Gatherers were originally supposed to travel to Isla Sorna.

Late/End of May - December 1997

 * The Ethical Negligence within Paleo-Genetic Resurrection (ENPGR) Bill, better known as the Gene Guard Act, is passed as a reaction to the San Diego Incident. Formed by the US House Committee of Science (UHCS), it extends the resurrected dinosaurs the same rights as any other endangered animal species, as well as restricting further access to the islands owned by InGen. InGen is prohibited from cloning any other prehistoric flora or fauna.
 * John Hammond dies.
 * Simon Masrani, the son of Sanjay Masrani, who was an old friend of Hammond before the deaths of both the former and latter, approaches InGen and proposes a corporate buy-out. According to Masrani, speaking in 2015, it was "Hammond's dying wish" for him to take InGen and build Jurassic World.
 * 100 days after Masrani Global bought InGen, secret and illegal experiments begin on Isla Sorna with several newly bred species, lasting nine months. This is in direct violation of the Gene Guard Act. The new species included: Ankylosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Corythosaurus, and Spinosaurus.

1998

 * Charlie Degler is born.
 * InGen is fully integrated under Masrani Global banner.
 * Masrani Oil begins experimental wind energy trials.
 * Conceptual planning for Jurassic World begins with Masrani "drawing experts from all over the company.

1999

 * Mascom launches "Glinda", a satellite whose purpose is to study the behavior and physiology of dangerous low-pressure weather systems.
 * Zach Mitchell is born.
 * Masrani Global gains limited access to the islands Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna.
 * At least one Parasaurolophus is created and held by Simon Masrani.
 * Spinosaurus is bred illegally on Isla Sorna.

2000

 * Axis Boulder is founded in Dubai by Masrani to assist in the design processes of many Masrani's civil and mechanical interests.
 * August 25 - InGen's prototype iron analyzer discovers trace fragments of DNA in a recently discovered mosasaur skeleton.
 * December - Simon Masrani promoted Dr. Wu within the ranks of the InGen company and brought onto the Jurassic World project.

2001

 * 23rd May  - Ben Hildebrand and Eric Kirby make a trip to Isla Sorna with Dino-Soar. The crew is killed and they crash land on the island. Only Eric survives with Ben receiving internal injuries on landing.
 * July 18th - Major events of took place. Udesky, M.B. Nash and Cooper are killed. [[After their rescue, the survivors mentioned the illegally bred species of dinosaurs, such as Spinosaurus, but the information was buried by "bribed officials"
 * Three escaped Pteranodons are "cleaned up" by Vic Hoskins, who had been personally hired by Simon Masrani to re-develop the InGen Security Division, in a location somewhere over Canada.

2002

 * Approx April 5 - The InGen security team seems to arrive on Isla Nublar.
 * April 19 - Vic Hoskins and the InGen Security team come across the Isla Nublar Tyrannosaur and stare her down, something which impresses Hoskins.
 * Timack Construction is founded in San Jose, Costa Rica by Masrani with the purpose of constructing the company's latest project: Jurassic World and construction of the park begins. Axis Boulder Engineering and Timack Construction are contracted for preparation and planning prior to construction. InGen security is present on the island as well, with construction materials costing 1.2 billion dollars. At the same time, Simon attempting to quell media fears, as well as rebuff concerns from conservation groups.
 * October 10 - Timack Constuction scouts what once was the Gallimimus Enclosure.

2002-2004

 * Masrani alternative energies division acquires the Schwarz Dam in Germany.

Pre Feb 20, 2003

 * Something described as being an "accident" by Henry Wu is left on Isla Sorna.

2003

 * Febuary 23 - While trying to create feathered dinosaurs, Dr. Henry Wu and his colleagues discover that the cause of featherless dinosaurs is due to a, which is the result of the constant manipulating and mutating of the dinosaurs' genes as well as the addition of other animal DNA (frogs, reptiles, birds) that gives feathered dinosaurs scales.
 * Medixal Health is founded in New York.
 * The UHCS revises the Gene Guard Act and states its confidence in Masrani Global and the Jurassic World project. This watered-down version of the Bill allows Masrani to clone more dinosaurs. The relaxation is requested by an unkown Masrani official "for reasons of medical advancement".

2004

 * Masrani Oil begins to construct hydroelectric dams across Europe providing cities in the region cleaner energy.
 * Construction of Jurassic World is finished.
 * Gray Mitchell is born.
 * Dinosaurs from Isla Sorna are transported to Isla Nublar.

2005

 * May 30th - Jurassic World opens, receiving 98,120 visitors in its first month. Masrani/InGen sign an agreement with the Costa Rican Environmental Protection society to formally protect the indigenous wildlife of Isla Nublar.

2007

 * Aerospace Dynamix is founded in Toulouse, France.
 * InGen Security developed drone technology with Aerospace Dynamix and the Mascom Network.
 * Mascom launched GPS navigation system ‘Centaurus’, utilizing five satellites.

2008

 * Last time Claire sees Zach and Gray before 2015.

2009

 * April 5 - A hybrid is created by InGen.
 * Maisie Lockwood is created through cloning by Benjamin Lockwood

2011

 * Masrani acquires Tatsuo Technology.

2012

 * April 4 - Simon Masrani gives Dr. Wu full authorization to create a new species after the board of his company requests a new Jurassic World attarction to satisfy investors. Dr. Wu decides to create another hybrid named Indominus rex.
 * The Tanius 6J, a Mascom made cellular phone, is released.
 * InGen Siberia Facility starts construction.
 * The Integrated Behavioral Raptor Intelligence Study Project begins development.

2013

 * May 17 - Owen Grady suggests to Vic Hoskins to hire his friend Barry to help with the IBRIS Project.
 * The Cerberus Array, a set of 120 turbines from Masrani Oil, is commissioned and is placed off the coast of the United Kingdom, which powers 450MW of electricity from 120 turbines.

2014

 * Masrani Oil gains a $48 million investment in blade architecture..
 * August - Masrani Oil Platform L-12 suffers severe damage from a hurricane originating from the East Pacific. This incident halts production of Masrani oil by a year.
 * October - Repairs to Oil Platform L-12 begin.
 * November - InGen's Siberian facility, Martel, opens. It consists of a rotating crew of nine scientists and 45 excavation crew. The project was intended to last 18 months, for the specific purpose of finding organic remains, dated 40,000-20,000 years, from glacial ice remains in the permafrost. IventiCon 2014 is held. At the expo, Masrani Global unveils Aerospace Dynamix's prototype XL5 wind turbines with the media attention allowing the porject to go into Phase 2.
 * December - "Glinda" descends to the Earth after 15 years of service with its relay equipment being decommissioned and a new satellite named "Ervic".

2015

 * January- Simon Masrani announces a boost in InGen's funding equalling to $225 million over the course of the next three years. The funds will be used to support InGen's Security Operations division. He also announces the Indominus rex on his blog.
 * March - Masrani Oil and InGen have a meeting regarding the possibility of Masrani Oil help InGen expand their genomic library after a peat deposit in the United Arab Emirates showed carbon and iron-rich organic structures from the Late Cretaceous to Mid-Miocene periods. Dr. Herny Wu writes in a scientific journal the possibility of using InGen's genomic library to assist Medixal Health in disease research. IventiCon 2015 is held with Simon Masrani attending to showcase virtual reality technology.
 * April - Masrani Oil is rebranded Masrani Energy.
 * Karen Mitchell and her husband, Scott, begin divorce proceedings after many years of difficult marriage; unbeknownst to either of them, their son Gray discovers that the people mailing them are divorce lawyers.
 * May - Intended time for completion of the Indominus Paddock.
 * July - Intended time for the arrival of the Indominus rex.
 * Before December - Zia Rodriguez trains to be a pre-veterinary medicine at Berkeley before the park incident puts her dream of accepting an internship at Jurassic World on hold and Franklin Webb joins the park as an IT Technician
 * December - The events of  occur. Simon Masrani, Vic Hoskins most of the ACU and several other park workers and visitors are killed when the Indominus rex breaks out of its enclosure.
 * After Incident - Richard Wiesner, COO of Masrani Global, sends an urgent memo to the investors of his company stating that there will be an emergency board meeting.

2016

 * March - Inquiries are started, looking into charges of bio-ethical misconduct against Henry Wu and into a possible violation of the Gene Guard Act by Masrani Global and InGen. Several employees of the two companies came forward with incriminating evidence against their employers after the 2015 incident at Jurassic World.

2017

 * February - The Costa Rican Institute for Volcanology (CRIV) states in a report that Mount Sibo is not in fact dormant, but burning slowly from within, marking the first volcanic activity it has displayed in almost 500 years, ever since its discovery in 1525. “A shift in the tectonic plates resulted in minor aftershocks throughout the rockbed, creating a relatively small fissure that caused a rise in heat beneath Mt. Sibo. The visible plumes of smoke are the result of plant life and other biological matter catching fire from the temperature change. There is no immediate threat to the island at this time.”
 * March - The Dinosaur Protection Group is founded by Claire Dearing.
 * September - Mount Sibo is reclassified as an active volcano.
 * October 5 - Mount Sibo's Volcanic Status Level (VSL) is set to MAG 3 ("Significant Activity").

Pre 2018

 * The Jurassic World Mosasaurus manages to escape from the Lagoon and into the open ocean.
 * Metriacanthosaurus and Edmontosaurus fell back into extinction on Isla Nublar by unknown causes.
 * Styracosaurus, Mamenchisaurus, Euoplocephalus, Coelurus, Spinosaurus, Corythosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Herrerasaurus, Deinonychus, Segisaurus, and Lesothosaurus were subject to cruelty on Isla Nublar by unknown causes.

2018

 * January - February 8 - The Dinosaur Protection Group moves into their new San Francisco office.
 * Around March 5 - Henry Wu is found guilty of bio-ethical misconduct and stripped of all credentials.
 * September 10 - The Dinosaur Protection Group, also called Defend Isla Nublar Organization on the pamphlet, marches on Capitol Hill in protest of the US Government's failure to act regarding the threat posed to the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar by Mount Sibo.
 * Unknown - Eruption of Mount Sibo; events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom occur.
 * One day after the eruption: the rescued dinosaurs arrive at the Lockwood Manor.
 * Maisie Lockwood freed all the dinosaurs and now loose in the mainland.
 * The mercenaries travel on a cargo plane with all the dinosaur embryos along with Baryonyx.
 * The Mosasaurus is at the coast attacking surfers.
 * Extinction Now! is founded.