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Early days | 19th Century | 20th Century | 21st Century |
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Incursion | Early years | Edwardian era | 2007 |
18th Century | Victorian era | Roaring Twenties | 2008 |
French Revolution | End of the century | Later years | 2012 |
Early days[]
Incursion[]
- AD 1000: Shortly after the first Christian Millennium, the demons began their large-scale invasion, termed the Incursion, of the world around this time.
- Angel Raziel appeared to Jonathan Shadowhunter and gave him the Mortal Instruments to begin the race of Nephilim.
- AD 1444: The first vampires were created in a public ceremony.
- The Greater Demon Hecate was summoned in a massive blood-based sacrifice held at the Court of Wallachia (modern-day Romania). In exchange for his impressive sacrifice and act of savagery, Hecate transformed Vlad III and a large majority of his court into the first vampires.
17th Century[]
- Silent Brother Gregory Hans discovered the correct combination of Marks to both enhance a Nephilim's senses and exclude the smell of demons from that enhancement.[1]
- Because of the witch hunts of mundanes, a great Schism also passed between Shadowhunters and warlocks, and eventually the rest of the Downworld.[1]
- 1640: the Clave forbade the hiring of warlocks to assist in Shadowhunter business.[1]
- 1688: Consul Thomas Tefereel's Reforms were recognized.[1]
18th Century[]
- 1721: Shadowhunter brothers Harold and Robert Grunwald burned a tavern filled with a pack of werewolves, horrifying the Clave; the brothers were turned over to mundane authorities and were hanged.[1]
- 1752: The Book of the White disappeared from the London Institute.
- 1762: Consul Suleiman Kanuni eliminated the practice of torturing Downworlders by feeding them from the Mortal Cup as an official punishment.[1]
French Revolution[]
- 1787: Marcel Saint Cloud began throwing blood parties, resulting in a period of "vampire craze" in Paris.
- 1791 - Events from The Runaway Queen and What Really Happened in Peru
- June: Magnus Bane, staying in Paris, was approached by Axel von Fersen and asked to participate in the rescue of the French Royal Family.
- Later: Magnus and Ragnor Fell embarked on the first of their many adventures in Peru, during which they sunk a cargo ship filled with guano owned by Edmund Garcia while tasked with protecting it.
19th Century[]
Early years[]
- 1804: Law prohibiting intermarriage of Shadowhunters with other species was revoked and the method of Ascension was adopted.
- 1815: European Downworlder Treaty was signed at the end of the Napoleonic Wars and marked the first time an official document promised any protection under the Law for Downworlders. The signing was presided by Consul Shimizu-Tokugawa Katsugoro.
- 1825: Axel Mortmain lodged a request for Reparations at the York Institute for the death of his parents, over a decade before.
- 1828 - Events told from The Lost Herondale
- The battle at Bavaria against warlocks and a Greater Demon occurred, during which Tobias Herondale notoriously "abandoned" his comrades. As he did not return, the life of his pregnant wife was forfeit by the Clave as punishment.
- Catarina Loss escaped with the newborn son of Tobias and Eva Herondale and raised him in the mundane world.
- 1832: A Prussian farmer and Shadowhunter, Johannes von Mainz, called the entire Clave to his farm to see the "angel" he had apparently summoned in his cow barn. The summoned "angel" turned out to be Johannes's son, Hans, causing Shadowhunters to be very cautious about making or checking subsequent claims of angel appearances.
Victorian era[]
- 1847: The mundane changeling Adele Starkweather died after being Marked with a rune in the York Institute.
- 1857 - Events from Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale
- A meeting to discuss the Accords was held at the London Institute.
- Edmund Herondale, after being stripped of his Marks, left the Clave to marry Linette Owens.
- 1868: Josiah Wayland became Consul.
- 1872: The First Accords was signed.
- 1873, November 10: Will Herondale left Wales and his family to become a Shadowhunter. Months after, Jem Carstairs arrived at the London Institute and met his future parabatai Will.
1878[]
- Events from The Infernal Devices
- April – July
- Events from Clockwork Angel
- April: Will and Jem discover the corpse of Emma Bayliss.
- May: Tessa Gray arrived at London and was abducted by the Dark Sisters.
- June: Tessa was rescued from the Dark House and brought to the London Institute. The head of the Pandemonium Club, a figure called "the Magister", became notorious in the Shadow World.
- July 5: The powerful vampire Alexei de Quincey and several other vampires in his clan were killed in the belief that he was the Magister. It was revealed afterwards that the Magister was the mundane Axel Mortmain.
- July – August
- Events from Clockwork Prince
- July 27: A party at the Chiswick residence of the Lightwoods was infiltrated by Will and Tessa.
- October – December
- Events from Clockwork Princess
- Mortmain and his army of automatons were defeated.
- Charlotte Branwell became Consul, and Will Herondale replaced her as the Head of the London Institute some time after.
- The Enclave threw a Christmas party at the London Institute, and Will proposed to Tessa.
End of the century[]
- 1885 - Events from What Really Happened in Peru
- Magnus, Ragnor, and Catarina helped their client Nayaraq unearth her family's treasure in the ruins of Pachacamac.
- 1887: The Second Accords was signed.
- 1888 - Events from The Whitechapel Fiend
- October: The "Whitechapel demon" began its killing spree.
- November: The demon infiltrated the London Institute and was promptly killed.
- 1890 - Events from What Really Happened in Peru
- The three warlocks were staying in Puno, where Magnus met and spent some time with his lover Imasu Morales. After their relationship ended, Magnus, after a night of heavy drinking, ended up throwing up on the Nazca Lines from a carpet he had stolen and enchanted to fly, with Catarina and Ragnor following him in hopes of restraining their friend, which they ultimately failed to do.
- 1899 - Events from Nothing but Shadows
20th Century[]
Edwardian era[]
- 1901 - Events from Cast Long Shadows and Every Exquisite Thing
- January[2]: Charlotte suffered a miscarriage due to faerie poison accidentally given by her son Matthew.
- June[2]: Anna Lightwood met Ariadne Bridgestock.
- 1902: The Third Accords was signed.
- A large fountain in the shape of a mermaid was commissioned and sculpted to celebrate the Third Accords, the first of the new century.
- Exposure, the practice of binding vampires outside to be burned by the sun, was banned.
- 1903 - Events from The Midnight Heir, The Last Hours, Chain of Gold, Chain of Iron, and Chain of Thorns
- January[3]: James Herondale met Magnus Bane.
- August: Cordelia Carstairs and her family move to London.
- 1904 - Events from The Last Hours
Roaring Twenties[]
- 1929 - Events from The Rise of the Hotel Dumort
- September: Magnus had been staying in a hotel in Manhattan and owned a speakeasy called Mr. Dry's Bar during the prohibition era, the latter of which was closed down later in the month. Around this time, the old warlock Aldous Nix tried to warn Magnus of the arrival of something that will cause everything to break apart. Magnus tried to warn then New York Institute head Edgar Graymark, to no avail.
- October: The Stock Market Crash took place. Aldous surrendered himself to Hell, and Magnus spotted Camille Belcourt in New York.
Later years[]
- 1936 - October 29 - Events from Learn About Loss
- 1940: December 29 - Events from A Deeper Love
- 1953 - Events from Saving Raphael Santiago
- Raphael Santiago was Turned into a vampire.
- Magnus helped him readjust to life and pretend to still be mundane for his family.
- 1962
- The Seventh Accords was signed.
- Events from What Really Happened in Peru
- Magnus met Kitty and began a brief life of crime with her in several countries for one whole summer.
- Some time after, the High Council of Peruvian warlocks met in secret and decided to ban Magnus from Peru "for crimes unspeakable."
- 1977 - Events from The Fall of the Hotel Dumort
- Magnus returned to New York from a two-year trip.
- The vampires had become addicted to cocaine and were unable to control their feedings on humans. With the werewolves' and Magnus' help, they were able to lock and sober up the vampires inside the Hotel Dumort.
- 1984 - Events from The Evil We Love
- Valentine Morgenstern's father was killed by a werewolf.
- Stephen Herondale proposed to Amatis Graymark.
- Later years — potential period of events of The Secret Treasons
- Valentine and Jocelyn Fray, Robert Lightwood and Maryse Trueblood, and Stephen and Amatis, and Michael Wayland and Eliza Rosewain were wed. Jocelyn and Maryse soon became pregnant.
- Valentine began experimenting with both his and Céline's unborn sons with demon and angel blood, respectively. A year or two later, he unwittingly also subjected his unborn daughter to the similar experiment with angel blood.
- 1989 - Events from The Last Stand of the New York Institute, andCity of Bones and City of Glass flashbacks/stories
- The Circle had begun campaigning for harsher sentences against Downworlders, which they demonstrated by going around Idris and other cities, claiming to help Institutes on missions where they, in fact, set to out to kill Downworlders, even those who were not breaking the Accords.
- The Circle eventually came to New York and began by killing vampires at the Spanish Harlem. Afterwards, they intended to kill a family of werewolves that had separated from a pack and faced Magnus Bane and the Conclave members who were defending them. They ended up killing a couple of the werewolves and the Whitelaw family of Shadowhunters.
- Lucian Graymark was Turned into a werewolf and became the leader of the Brocelind werewolf pack. Stephen then became Valentine's new second-in-command, replacing the now believed to be deceased Luke.
- August - Events from The Wicked Ones; Céline Montclaire, Robert, Stephen, and Valentine went to Paris on a mission, ending with Valentine framing and having Céline's parents killed.
- Stephen left his wife Amatis and married Céline.
- 1990
- Events from City of Bones and City of Glass flashbacks/stories
- Jocelyn discovered his plans shortly after giving birth to their son, Jonathan Christopher. Ragnor Fell helped her locate Luke and gave her a spell and a means to contact and warn the Downworlders. Together, the three helped make plans to thwart the Uprising.
- 1991
- Events from City of Bones and City of Glass flashbacks/stories
- Valentine moved the Circle's plans into action.
- Stephen was killed and his wife Céline committed suicide. Valentine, with Hodge Starkweather's help, took the child he had been experimenting on from her corpse and hid the baby in his house's (the Fairchild manor) basement before letting Hodge hide with the infant in his childhood home.
- The first attempt to sign the Ninth Accords took place, done more than a year early to make way for a lengthy faerie ritual done every 500 years that would have conflicted with the planned 1992 signing (15 years after the last).[4]
- The Uprising occurred, disrupting the very signing of the Accords, causing the death of Shadowhunters and Downworlders.
- Valentine murdered Michael Wayland and his son in order to fake his and his own son's deaths.
- Jocelyn left Idris and went to Paris with Luke. She later ran away again to New York, where she took the name Jocelyn Fray.
- Robert, Maryse, and Alec Lightwood were exiled from Idris to run the Institute in New York. With them was Hodge Starkweather, who was cursed for his part in the Uprising.
- Imogen Herondale became the Inquisitor.
- 1993 - Events from The Last Stand of the New York Institute
- Tessa Gray and Brother Zachariah performed the protection ceremony on Clary Fray, and Magnus Bane performed the first of many rituals that made Clary temporarily ignorant of the Shadow World.
- 1995/1996/later 1990s: Lucian Graymark moved to New York to be close to Jocelyn and her daughter and took up the name Luke Garroway.
21st Century[]
2000[]
- Events from Son of the Dawn
2007[]
- Events from The Mortal Instruments
- August
- Events from City of Bones and The Course of True Love (And First Dates)
- Clary met her first group of Shadowhunters and learned about her heritage.
- Jocelyn was taken by Valentine and his men.
- Clary and Jace Wayland, along with Luke and a few others, faced Valentine. Jace was then led to believe that he was the son of Valentine and Jocelyn, hence the brother of Clary. Jace chose to fight against Valentine and Jocelyn, though still unconscious, was retrieved.
- September
- Events from City of Ashes, What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything, and City of Glass
- Simon Lewis is Turned into a vampire and later a rare Daylighter.
- The Mortal War occurred, wherein demons entered Alicante, and Shadowhunters and Downworlders worked together to defend the city. Clary found out that her real brother Jonathan, now going by Sebastian, was alive. They all learned that Jace wasn't Valentine's son and that he was a Herondale by blood. Valentine summoned Raziel and was struck down soon after.
- October
- Events from The Red Scrolls of Magic, City of Fallen Angels and the prologue of City of Lost Souls
- Clary begins her formal Shadowhunter training under Jace's tutelage.
- Magnus and Alec go on a vacation and end up taking down the Crimson Hand.
- Jace falls under the demonic influence of Lilith, who had kept Sebastian's body after the war. She blackmails Simon to exchange blood with Sebastian to revive him.
- Sebastian is brought back to life with Jace under his influence.
- November
- Events from City of Lost Souls
- Clary joined Jace and Sebastian, pretending to agree with their views long enough to be able to spy on them, relay their plans to her friends in New York, and give them time to figure out a way to sever the pair's demonic bond.
- 'Team Good' in New York summoned the Angel Raziel, who then gave Simon the sword Glorious to use against either of the pair, in exchange for Simon's Mark of Cain.
- The Infernal Cup was created, and Sebastian was able to Turn several of his followers into Endarkened Shadowhunters at the Seventh Sacred Site at the Burren in Ireland. The Shadowhunters, and certain Downworlders, of New York arrived and managed to defeat several of them in battle, forcing the remaining ones to flee, while Clary, though she failed to reach Sebastian to use the sword on him, stabbed Jace with the sword, and the heavenly fire burned away the evil, particularly his bond with Sebastian, in him.
- December
- Events from The Voicemail of Magnus Bane and City of Heavenly Fire
- The Dark War took place between Sebastian's Endarkened and faerie army against the Clave as well as the rest of the Downworlders.
- Jace Herondale, Clary Fray, Simon Lewis, Isabelle and Alec Lightwood traveled to Edom, where they defeated Sebastian.
- Malcolm Fade stole the Black Volume of the Dead from the Los Angeles Institute.[5]
2008[]
- Events from the Clockwork Princess and City of Heavenly Fire epilogues
- January: Tessa and Jem meets on the Blackfriars Bridge for their annual meeting. Jem reveals that he has become mortal again, from being a Silent Brother, after he had touched the heavenly fire-filled Jace Herondale. The pair reunites.
- May: Jocelyn and Luke is wed on Luke's farmhouse in upstate New York. Simon, after having lost his memories during a deal made with Asmodeus, is approached by Magnus and Isabelle and given some of his memories back, enough to know that he was friends with them.
- Events from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy: Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy, The Lost Herondale, The Whitechapel Fiend, and Nothing but Shadows
- September[2] (Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy): The Shadowhunter Academy is officially reopened.
- October (The Lost Herondale)
- November[2] (The Whitechapel Fiend): Tessa comes to the Academy to tell the students a story about how Shadowhunters affect mundane history.
2009[]
- Events from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy: The Evil We Love, Pale Kings and Princes, Bitter of Tongue, and The Fiery Trial
- May[2] (The Evil We Love): The Inquisitor Robert Lightwood went to the Academy with his daughter, Isabelle, to lecture them about the Circle and the dangers of bad influence disguised in charm. After, the end of the first year of the Academy was commemorated with a party before their summer vacation.
- September (Pale Kings and Princes): The second year of the Academy started. Helen Blackthorn was brought in to speak at the Academy and tell the believed tale of what transpired between her parents.
- October 1 (Bitter of Tongue): Simon ended up a captive in Faerieland, where he met Mark Blackthorn, who later helped him and Isabelle escape. Helen and Aline were wed.
- December (The Fiery Trial): Beatriz Mendoza and Julie Beauvale's decision to become parabatai was announced; on the same day, Simon and Clary's potential to become "true parabatai" was tested. The next day, they witnessed Julian and Emma's parabatai ceremony.
2010[]
- Events from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy: Born to Endless Night and Angels Twice Descending; and The Lost Book of the White
- Early spring[2] (Born to Endless Night): Max Lightwood-Bane was found abandoned on the steps of the Academy and later adopted by Magnus and Alec.
- May[2] (Angels Twice Descending): Simon Lewis and some of his other mundane classmates at the Academy successfully Ascended and became Shadowhunters.
- September:[6] Events from The Lost Book of the White
- Sometime prior, Shinyun Jung and Ragnor Fell are stabbed with the Svefnthorn—giving them mass amounts of power and enslaving them to Sammael's will. Ragnor finds a realm for Sammael to finish regenerating.
- Shinyun and Ragnor attack Magnus with the Svefnthorn and steal the Book of the White to try to help break Sammael through the wards of Earth.
- Magnus, Alec, Jace, Clary, Simon, and Izzy track them to Shanghai. Magnus is stabbed for the second time with the Svefnthorn.
- The group and Ke Yi Tian go to Diyu and save Ragnor for the Svefnthorn and Sammael's control. They manage to delay Sammael's attack on Earth but, while curing Magnus of Svefnthorn's power, Shinyun becomes a Greater Demon.
- Sammael calls a meeting with all the Princes of Hell to discuss teaming up and Lucifer.
- Events from The Lost Book of the White extra In Dreams Begin
- The wedding of Tessa Gray and Jem Carstairs took place in a dream using oneiromancy, presided over by Magnus Bane, and witnessed by the souls of their friends and families, and the ghosts of Will and Jessamine.
2012[]
- Events from The Dark Artifices and others (listed below)
- April[2]
- Events from The Land I Lost
- Alec Lightwood discovers the corruption of the Buenos Aires Institute. Working with the local Downworlder society and some of the Shadowhunters, they are able to thwart it, leading to the capture of the corrupt leader.
- Alec meets Rafael Lightwood-Bane and takes him home with him to New York City, and he and Magnus Bane decide to adopt him.
- Events from The Land I Lost
- August
- Events from Lady Midnight, A Long Conversation, and Through Blood, Through Fire
- Mark Blackthorn is returned to his family at the Los Angeles Institute.[5]
- Malcolm Fade is exposed as the Guardian and is believed to have been killed by Emma Carstairs at the convergence.
- Events from Lady Midnight, A Long Conversation, and Through Blood, Through Fire
- September
- Events from Lord of Shadows and Queen of Air and Darkness
- Some time prior, the Unseelie King was able to harness the power of the Black Volume of the Dead to render Nephilim tools (runes, adamas weapons, witchlight) powerless.
- Malcolm comes back to life and raises Annabel Blackthorn from the dead with Arthur Blackthorn's blood. Annabel kills Malcolm and takes the Black Volume from him.
- A Council meeting is held at the Gard for Annabel and Kieran. During Annabel's trial, she goes mad and massacres two Shadowhunters.
- The Cohort briefly comes into power when Horace Dearborn gets voted in as Inquisitor before they are overthrown by the resistance called Livia's Watch, culminating in a big battle.
- Kieran rises as the new, rightful King of the Unseelie Court.
- Events from Lord of Shadows and Queen of Air and Darkness
- October
- Events from the final chapter of Queen of Air and Darkness
- The Clave-in-Exile begins setting up its government in New York City.
- The new Shadowhunter Academy nears completion at Three Arrows Farm.
- The Cold Peace is officially dissolved.
- Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood were wed.
- Events from the final chapter of Queen of Air and Darkness
2013[]
- Events from The Lost World and Forever Fallen
2014[]
- Events from Secrets of Blackthorn Hall
2015/2016[]
- Events from The Wicked Powers (set to take place three or four years after The Dark Artifices)
Books chronology[]
This section is for those who simply want the chronological order of each book and installment. For more information, see above or the wiki's readers' guide.
- The Shadowhunter's Codex (historical content)
- What Really Happened in Peru, 1791 (TBC)
- The Runaway Queen, 1791 (TBC)
- The Lost Herondale, 1828 (TftSA told story)
- Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale, 1857 (TBC)
- Clockwork Angel, 1878 in April–July (TID)
- Clockwork Prince, 1878 July–August (TID)
- Clockwork Princess, 1878 October–December (TID)
- What Really Happened in Peru (TBC)
- The Whitechapel Fiend (TftSA flashback)
- What Really Happened in Peru (TBC)
- Nothing but Shadows (TftSA flashback)
- Cast Long Shadows (GotSM)
- Every Exquisite Thing (GotSM)
- The Midnight Heir (TBC)
- Chain of Gold (TLH)
- Chain of Iron (TLH)
- Chain of Thorns (TLH)
- The Rise of the Hotel Dumort (TBC)
- Learn About Loss (GotSM)
- A Deeper Love (GotSM)
- Saving Raphael Santiago (TBC)
- What Really Happened in Peru (TBC)
- The Fall of the Hotel Dumort (TBC)
- The Evil We Love (TftSA flashback)
- Pale Kings and Princes, ca. 1988 (TftSA story)
- The Last Stand of the New York Institute, 1989 (TBC)
- The Wicked Ones, 1989 in August (GotSM)
- The Last Stand of the New York Institute, 1993 (TBC ending)
- Son of the Dawn (GotSM)
- The Shadowhunter's Codex (content revised edition)
- City of Bones (TMI)
- The Course of True Love (And First Dates) (TBC)
- City of Ashes (TMI)
- What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (TBC)
- City of Glass (TMI)
- The Red Scrolls of Magic (TEC)
- City of Fallen Angels (TMI)
- The Shadowhunter's Codex (notes)
- City of Lost Souls (TMI)
- The Voicemail of Magnus Bane (TBC)
- City of Heavenly Fire (TMI)
- Clockwork Princess epilogue
- Welcome to Shadowhunter Academy (TftSA)
- The Lost Herondale (TftSA main story)
- The Whitechapel Fiend (TftSA)
- Nothing but Shadows (TftSA)
- The Evil We Love (TftSA)
- Pale Kings and Princes (TftSA)
- Bitter of Tongue (TftSA)
- The Fiery Trial (TftSA)
- Born to Endless Night (TftSA)
- Angels Twice Descending (TftSA)
- The Lost Book of the White (TEC)
- The Land I Lost (GotSM)
- Through Blood, Through Fire (GotSM)
- Lady Midnight (TDA)
- A Long Conversation
- Lord of Shadows (TDA)
- Queen of Air and Darkness (TDA)
- The Lost World (GotSM)
- Forever Fallen (GotSM)
- Secrets of Blackthorn Hall
- The Black Volume of the Dead (TEC) — pending
- The Wicked Powers
References[]
- Timelines provided by Cassandra Clare: [1] [2] [3]
- Shadowhunters Novels Official Timeline
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 The Shadowhunter's Codex
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Shadowhunters Novels Official Timeline
- ↑ Chain of Gold
- ↑ Repackaged edition of City of Bones (chapter 21); see The Accords page for more details.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lady Midnight
- ↑ The Lost Book of the White