Timeline (novel canon)

This timeline shows the sequence of events according to Michael Crichton's novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World.

1958/59

 * Martin "Marty" Guitierrez is born.

1978

 * Dr. Alan Grant starts the at a digsite near Snakewater (Montana).
 * Tim Murphy, John Hammond's first grandchild, is born.

1979

 * The Hammond Foundation leases Isla Nublar from government of Costa Rica.
 * Dr. Grant discovers a couple of s.

1981

 * Lex Murphy, second - and last - grandchild of John Hammond is born

1982

 * Donald Gennaro starts to work for the Cowain, Swain & Ross firm. One of his first assignments is to help John Hammond to found the InGen corporation.

1983

 * Dr. Grant publishes his findings concerning the communal nesting habits and the of dinosaurs.
 * September - Hammond and Gennaro begin to gain funds to found InGen.

1984

 * Norman Atherton, the scientist Hammond wanted to supervise his project, dies of heart cancer.
 * Hammond asks Henry Wu to supervise his project.
 * March InGen pays Dr. Grand $12,000 for information about the eating habits of dinosaurs.

1985

 * Dr. Grand gives InGen the requested information.
 * Last time Lex says "aminals".
 * November - Hammond and Genarro have raised $870 million.

1986

 * Biosyn release a bio-engineered on a farm in Chile.
 * Howard King starts to work for Biosyn and meets Lewis Dodgson.

1987
January
 * InGen starts the construction of Jurassic Park. John Arnold is appointed as Chief Engineer.
 * First viable juvenile dinosaurs are created. Needed equipment is developed.
 * InGen buys Millipore Plastic Products, a firm that had recently patented a plastic suitable for use as synthetic eggshells.
 * Martin "Marty" Guitierrez starts to work as a field biologist at the Carare National Park (Costa Rica).
 * Lewis Dodson convinces a genetist to quit Cetus for biosyn

August
Thursday, 17 Friday, 18 Saturday, 19 Sunday, 20-??
 * John Hammond's daughter's divorce begins.
 * Morris, an EPA lawyer investigating the Hammond Foundation, questions Grant and Sattler about their involvment with John Hammond and the InGen Corporation
 * John Hammond contacts Grant via phone and agrees to pay him twenty-thousand dollars a day for three days to visit his park. The same payment would go for Sattler.
 * Grant, Sattler, Malcolm, and Gennaro go to Isla Nublar to inspect Hammond's Park
 * Approx. 7:00 PM: Nedry sabotages computer systems; within minutes the Land Cruisers are attacked
 * 9.30 PM: Power back on
 * Grant and Tim see the full moon
 * 5.00 AM: Grant arises
 * 8.00 AM: All systems back online
 * 10.00 AM: Grant and kids at the waterfall
 * Costa Rica Napalm Bombing
 * Grant, Sattler, and the other survivors are put in a nice hotel and questioned thouroughly
 * Martin Guiterrez, an American doctor working in Costa Rica tells Grant about unknown animals in the Ismaloya Mountains and jungle

1990

 * Ellie Sattler marries in Chicago.
 * Scheduled consturction of Jurassic Park: Europe and Jurassic Park: Japan should of begins
 * February - Ian Malcolm gets out of intensive care

1994

 * august - Ian Malcolm gives "Life at the Edge of Chaos" talk at the Santa Fe Institute

1995

 * February 10 - Levine is arrested for driving 120 in a 15 zone. He loses his driving licence and is given community service; and starts teaching at Woodside Junior High.
 * Isla Sorna Incident