Contents 1 1962 2 1965/9 2.1 August 3 1968 3.1 March 4 1971 4.1 March 4.2 April 5 1972 5.1 March 6 c. 1974 7 1976 8 c. 1978 9 1979 10 1980 11 1981 12 1983 13 1991 13.1 April 14 1993 14.1 January 15 1994 16 1996 17 1997 18 1998 18.1 September 19 2001 19.1 September - December 20 2002 20.1 January 20.2 February 20.3 June 21 2003 21.1 February 21.2 September 22 2004 22.1 March 22.2 May 23 2005 23.1 February 24 2006 24.1 January 24.2 February 25 2007 26 2008 26.1 November 27 2009 27.1 July 28 2010 28.1 May 28.2 September 28.3 December

1962Edit

• Nathan Ingram is born on June 16. ("The High Road")

1965/9Edit

AugustEdit

• Carl Elias is born on August 15. ("Flesh and Blood")

1968Edit

MarchEdit

• Lionel Fusco is born on March 17. (Season 2 title sequence)

1971Edit

MarchEdit

• Alicia Corwin is born on March 11. ("Super")

AprilEdit

• Peter Arndt is born on April 2. ("Many Happy Returns")

1972Edit

MarchEdit

• Joss Carter is born on March 7. (Season 2 title sequence)

c. 1974Edit

• Andrew Benton is born.

1976Edit

• Earliest record of Finch, under the alias of Harold Wren.

c. 1978Edit

• Gabrielle Tillman is born.

1979Edit

• Sam Groves is born. ("Bad Code")

1980Edit

• Nathan Ingram starts his BS Computer Science degree at MIT. ("The High Road")

1981Edit

• Elias is mocked at school when he could not finish his family tree. ("Flesh and Blood")

1983Edit

• Nathan Ingram leaves MIT with an incomplete degree and starts IFT. ("The High Road")

1991Edit

• Elias visits his biological father, Gianni Moretti, and asks to join his crew. Moretti agrees, but arranges his murder. Elias kills the two assassins and adopts the alias of Charlie Burton. ("Flesh and Blood")  ("Witness")

AprilEdit

• On April 15, the night her friend Hanna Frey disappears, Sam Groves first uses her alias Root in the computer game The Oregon Trail. ("Bad Code")

1993Edit

JanuaryEdit

• John Reese joins the military on January 15, 1993. Over the next nine years, he serves four short and one long tour of duty. (Title Sequence)

1994Edit

• In Ghosts Reese finds out that Finch has been working at IFT for 17 years, so either he has also been a regular employee of IFT as a cover since this year (1994) or this is a contingency error, as during The High Road, the Machine states that Nathan Ingram started IFT in 1983. ("The High Road")

1996Edit

• Andrew Benton rapes Gabrielle Tillman.

1997Edit

• Gabielle Tillman commits suicide by overdose.

1998Edit

SeptemberEdit

• Reese possibly attained the rank of Sergeant on September 15, 1998. (Title Sequence)

2001Edit

• Samuel Gates, Jr. is born. ("Judgment")

September - DecemberEdit

• While on vacation with Jessica in Mexico on September 11, Reese witnesses the attack on the World Trade Centre on television. ("Pilot")
• The United States government hires Nathan Ingram to build a machine that would predict future mass attacks. ("Pilot")  ("Ghosts")
• Reese has achieved the rank of Sergeant First Class and has been in the Army between 9-12 years by the time of the photo with Jessica found by Detective Carter. ("Many Happy Returns")

2002Edit

JanuaryEdit

• January 1 marks the first day of The Machine. ("The Contingency")

FebruaryEdit

• On February 2, Joss Carter starts her service in Afghanistan as a Lieutenant at Bagram Air Base. (Title Sequence)  ("Get Carter")
• On February 16, Finch is testing the capability of the Machine to find him by playing hide and seek. ("The Contingency")

JuneEdit

• By June 10, Finch builds an early version of the Machine, while Ingram fires half of IFT's employees. ("Ghosts")

2003Edit

FebruaryEdit

• On February 2, Joss Carter finishes her service in Afghanistan, and is relocated to Baghdad, Iraq, where she serves as an investigator at Camp Liberty. (Title Sequence)  ("Get Carter")

SeptemberEdit

• On September 6, Finch take the Machine for a 'test run' by going to a casino in Atlantic City and playing blackjack. Early the next morning, as Finch leaves the casino, the Machine saves him from a hit and run accident. ("The Contingency")

2004Edit

MarchEdit

• On March 20, Joss Carter finishes her service in Iraq, and is awarded Purple Heart. (Title Sequence)  ("Get Carter")

MayEdit

• On May 8, Harold Finch shows Nathan Ingram that The Machine is not only identifying outliers in society but also learning human behaviour. Grace Hendricks is picked out by the Machine as an anomaly, but Finch dismisses this as a bug. ("The High Road")

2005Edit

• Harold Finch tests The Machine's ability to connect individuals when said individuals do not even know they are connected. Grace Hendricks is flagged by the Machine for a second time, for unknown reasons. ("The High Road")

FebruaryEdit

• On February 8, Nathan Ingram gives the first number produced by the Machine to Alicia Corwin while Finch watches the meeting. ("Super")  ("The Contingency")
• Around two weeks later, Ingram meets with Denton Weeks who confirmed the number was related to a traitor. The Machine recognises Weeks as a threat. ("Super")
• On February 24, the Machine officially goes online. Finch shows Ingram how the Machine identifies threats to national security. The Machine then identifies Ingram as a possible threat. This date was used in the season two finale as the combination to the wall safe in the library.("Super")  ("Wolf and Cub")  ("God Mode")
• On February 25, Nathan Ingram signs the contract for building the Machine with the government for $1. ("Wolf and Cub")

2006Edit

JanuaryEdit

• Harold Finch gets an ice cream, which is apparently a regular occurrence at this time of year. The Machine sends him a text letting him know that Grace Hendricks is in the area; Finch goes over to her and both say hello. ("The High Road")  ("Many Happy Returns")

FebruaryEdit

• On February 12, Reese runs into Jessica at an airport and learns of her engagement to Peter Arndt. ("Mission Creep")

2007Edit

• Ingram learns of the Machine's ability of predicting danger to individuals and confronts Finch. Finch responds that they are protecting everyone, not someone. ("Ghosts")
• Jessica's number starts appearing, due to Peter Arndt's physical abuse. ("Ghosts")  ("Many Happy Returns")

2008Edit

NovemberEdit

• Reese and Stanton are operating illegally in New York City, holding a government man captive who was responsible for selling software to the Chinese. ("Blue Code")
• Reese meets Peter Arndt at a bar and makes conversation with him in order to see Jessica. Stanton however, convinces Reese to leave just as Jessica arrives. ("Blue Code")

2009Edit

JulyEdit

• On July 10, Nathan Ingram meets with Alicia Corwin to confirm transport arrangement for The Machine and slips up on the number of people who know about the Machine, saying eight rather than seven, which he quickly clears up.("No Good Deed")  ("")
• On July 11, Nathan Ingram encourages Harold Finch to pursue his own relationships, but Harold implies that he already has. Later that evening, Ingram tries to impress upon Finch the need for a contingency option, but his request is denied. (1x22)  (2x02)
• On July 12, at 1:16am, Nathan Ingram secretly inputs a contingency function into the Machine in case the government abuses it. (1x22) Later that day, The Machine is shipped from IFT to its new home. (1x22)  (2x02)

2010Edit

MayEdit

• Reese, Stanton, Snow and Corwin are stationed in Tétouan, Morocco. Reese receives a voicemail from a distraught Jessica. He calls back, and promises to be with her in 24 hours. (1x20)
• Reese and Stanton are sent to Ordos, China, where they must retrieve a software sold to the Chinese. Reese is instructed to kill Stanton, who supposedly turned on the CIA. In Ordos, they come across a a massacre of scientists. (1x20)
• With the software secured, Reese hesitates before killing Stanton, who shoots him instead. She was given the same orders as him. Reese escapes the compound while the CIA bombs it, presumably killing Stanton. (1x20)
• Stanton escapes China with the help of a local dissident group, and returns to the United States. (1x20)

SeptemberEdit

• Nathan Ingram dies 9/26/2010 (Day 3191). (1x02)  (2x22)
• Finch is involved in an accident that supposedly claimed his life, and caused his back injury. (1x04)  (1x22)  (2x22)

DecemberEdit

• Peter Arndt's abuse of Jessica results in her death. He stages a car crash to hide the true nature of her injuries. The autopsy report is dated December 7th. (1x21)

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