Timeline
July 4, 1776
Declaration of Independence is signed.
1774
Rebels begin to communicate through Correspondence Committees. First Conteinental Congress meets in Philadelphia.
Autumn 1772
Lionel Brown comes to the Ridge for medical attention for his new bride. He realizes Claire is "Dr. Rawlings" from the newspaper and takes her hostage. Some of Lionel's men rape her and when Jamie, Fergus, Young Ian, Roger and the other Ridge men come to her rescue all are killed except Lionel who dies later at the hands of Marsali.
Autumn 1772
Brianna and Roger attempt to travel to the future but remain in the past.
Summer 1772
Jamie, Roger and Young Ian set a trap fro Stephen Bonnet but he has other plans.
Brianna is kidnapped by Stephen Bonnet and taken to Ocracoke. When she is unable to convince him of her desire to be with him (she doesn't); he decides to sell her. Jamie, Roger and Young Ian appear just in time to save her.
Bonnet is brought to justice and sentences to die. When no one is looking Brianna finishes him off.
May 1772
Felicite Fraser is born to Fergus and Marsali.
May 1772
While hunting in the nearby woods, Jamie is bitten by a poisonous snake. He manages to survive the venom but nearly succumbs to the infection of the wound.
August 1771
Young Ian appears on the Ridge. He has returned from the Mohawk and seems much changed.
August 12, 1771
Josiah Martin takes office as governor of North Carolina.
May 16, 1771
Battle of Alamance. Roger is hanged as a rebel one the testimony of Roger's ancestor Buck MacKenzie who is Dougal and Geillis son.
March 1771
Jocasta Cameron and Duncan Innes are wed.
October 1770
Brianna and Roger get married.
May 1770
Jeremiah Alexander Ian Fraser MacKenzie is born.
February 1770
Young Ian is adopted by the Mohawk to free Roger.
September 1769
Brianna and Roger meet up in Wilmington where they are handfast. Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet.
1769
Brianna and Roger both go through the stones at Craigh na Dun (at different times). They both travel to the Colonies.
August 1767
Claire tries to save an enslaved man named Rufus but is thwarted by the community and the law.
August 1767
Jamie, Claire and Young Ian make their way up the river to River Run. They are robbed by Stephen Bonnet.
April 1767
Jamie and Claire arrive in Jamaica where they finally locate Young Ian and run into Geillis Duncan. While fleeing the authorities the Fraser clan are swept ashore in Georgia after a violent storm.
March 1767
Fergus and Marsali wed.
1767
John Grey becomes governor of Jamaica and sets sail.
December 1766
Young Ian is abducted from the Silkie Island by the Bruja. Jamie and Claire sail to Jamacia after the Bruja.
November 1766
Jamie and Claire are reunited after 20 years in Edinburgh.
November 1, 1766
Claire comes back in time to find Jamie.
July 10, 1765
William Tryon becomes governor of North Carolina.
January 1765
Jamie marries Laoghaire, but a short time later moves to Edinburgh and opens a print shop.
1764
Jamie receives his parole. He leaves Helwater and goes home to Lallybroch leaving Willie in Lord John and Isobel Dunsany's hands.
1760
With the help of Jamie Fraser, who still lives at Helwater, Lord John prevents another Jacobite rising.
January 9, 1758
William "Willie" Clarence Henry George Ransom, the nineth Earl of Ellesmere, is born. The eighth Earl of Ellesmere dies. Geneva Dunsany dies after giving birth.
April 1757
Jamie is blackmailed into having sex with Geneva Dunsany. Geneva weds the Eighth Earl of Ellesmere shortly thereafter.
1756
The Seven Years' War Begins. Ardsmuir Prison closes; the prisoners are deported to the Colonies. Lord John pulls strings to have Jamie serve his sentence as a paroled prisoner on the Helwater estate in the Lake District.
1755
John Grey becomes Governor of Ardsmuir.
1753
Jamie is imprisoned at Ardsmuir.
1746-1753
Jamie lives in a cave on his own land.
November 15, 1752
Ian Fraser Murray (Young Ian) is born.
August 1, 1746
The Dress Act 1746 came into force which made the wearing of "the Highland Dress" including tartan or a kilt illegal in Scotland as well as reiterating the Disarming Act of 1716.
April 17, 1746
Jamie is sent home by Harold Grey who is the brother to John William Grey. Hal believes the Grey family owes Jamie a debt of honor and sends him home to Lallybroch rather than killing him with the other Jacobites.
April 16, 1746
In the wee hours of the morning, Jamie and Claire discuss stopping Charles Stuart and are overheard by Dougal. Dougal attempts to kill Claire and in the resulting struggle, Jamie kills Dougal.
Jamie takes Claire to Craig na Duhn and sends her back to the 20th century pregnant.
Jamie joins the battle on Culloden Moor and is badly wounded.
William of Cumberland commands the King's troops and wins the Battle effectively ending the uprising.
March 1746
Mary Hawkins weds Jack Randall.
January 17, 1746
Jacobite's last victory at Falkirk.
December 1745
Jacobite's take Derby, and seem set to take London, but instead retreat North.
September 21, 1745
Jacobite's win battle of Prestonpans.
September 20, 1745
Jamie encounters young John William Grey and extracts information from him.
September 17, 1745
The Jacobites take Edinburgh.
August 1745
Charles Stuart arrives in Eriskay before going to Glenfinnan.
Summer 1745
Jamie receives a letter from Charles Stuart, who official staked his claim to the throne and has signed Jamie's name as one of his supporters.
Fall 1744
Jamie and Claire return to Scotland.
May 12, 1744
Faith Fraser is stillborn.
1744
While in Paris, Jamie and Claire conspire against Charles Stuart in an attempt to prevent the Jacobite Rising of 1745/46.
Winter 1743
Jamie is betrayed and delivered to Jack Randall. Claire saves him from Wentworth Prison and they flee to France with Murtagh.
October 1743
Claire is accused of being a witch but is saved by Jamie. The two go to Lallybroch.
Summer 1743
Jamie and Claire wed.
May 2, 1743
Claire wakes in the past after traveling through time.
1743
Jamie returns to Scotland in hopes of clearing his name.
1741
James Fraser Murray is born.
March 1741
Jamie meets Captain Jack Randall. Brian Fraser suffers a stroke at Fort William and dies after watching Jamie being flogged. Jamie flees to France and spends time as a mercenary. Jamie's sister marries Ian Murray.
1739
Jamie lives in Paris.
1735
Jamie fosters with Dougal MacKenzie's family at the age of 14 for a few months.
1729
Lord John Grey is Born and Ellen Fraser dies giving birth to her fourth child.
May 1, 1721
Jamies Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser is born.
November 1, 1716
The Disarming Act was enacted to curtail Jacobitism among the Scottish Clans in the Highlands after the 1715 Rising. The new law outlawed the custody, use, or bear of broad sword, poignard, whinger, durk, side pistol, gun, or other warklike weapons.
1715
The Jacobite rising of 1715 was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland.
1702
Lallybroch is built.
1695
Ellen Caitriona MacKenzie Fraser (Jamie's mother) is born.
1692
Brian Fraser (Jamie's father) is born.
Summer Solstice 1971
Roger discovers Brianna traveled back in time and follows. He ends up in 1769 also.
May 1, 1971
Brianna travels back in time to warn Jamie and Claire about a newspaper article she found which reports their deaths in a fire. She arrives in 1769.
July 20, 1969
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
November 1, 1968
A group called the Montauk Five travels to the past rhough the stones circle on Ocracoke, meaning to prevent the genocide of the Native Americans. Donner ends up in 1766; his companion Jojo dies in the passage and a third man Robert Springer (Otter Tooth) travels too far by decades.
November 1, 1968
Claire steps through the stones again in an attempt to return to Jamie at Brianna's urging. She appears in 1766.
May 1, 1968
Gillian Edgars (Geillis Duncan) murders her husband as a sacrifice to travel through the stones at Craigh na Dun. She lands in 1733. Kenneth, her co-conspirer, followers her later the same night and appears in 1743 only hours before Claire.
1968
Claire and Brinna travel to Inverness and pay their respects to Roger Wakefield over the death of his father Reverend Wakefield. Claire asks Roger to look into some survivors of Culloden.
January 1966
Frank dies in a car crash.
1957
Claire starts medical school in Boston.
November 23, 1948
Brianna Ellen Randall is born.
Mid-1948
Frank and Claire move to Boston, Massachuettes.
Mid-April 1948
Claire returns to the 20th century two months pregnant.
May 2, 1946
The day after the Beltane, Claire goes up to the standing stones to find a flower and travels back in time 200 years.
May 1, 1946
Frank and Claire go up to the standing stones Craigh na Dun and watch local woman dance around the stones in what seems to be some sort of ritual.
September 2, 1945
Japanese capitulate after the nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WWII is over.
May 8, 1945
WWII ends in Europe.
March 3, 1943
The crush at London's Bethnal Green tube station results in the death of Roger's mother. Rev. Wakefield, his great uncle, adopts him in Inverness.
1941
Roger MacKenzie is born. His father Jeremiah goes MIA.
1939
Claire becomes a field nurse. Frank works for the British secret service.
September 1, 1939
WWII begins with the German attack on Poland.
1937
Claire marries Frank Randall.
1923-1937
Claire spends her childhood and adolesecence traveling with her Uncle Lamb, a archaelogist.
1923
Claire's parents die in a car crash.
November 11, 1918
WWI ends.
October 20, 1918
Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp is born.
1906
Frank Randall is born.
July 4, 1776
Declaration of Independence is signed.
1774
Rebels begin to communicate through Correspondence Committees. First Conteinental Congress meets in Philadelphia.
Autumn 1772
Lionel Brown comes to the Ridge for medical attention for his new bride. He realizes Claire is "Dr. Rawlings" from the newspaper and takes her hostage. Some of Lionel's men rape her and when Jamie, Fergus, Young Ian, Roger and the other Ridge men come to her rescue all are killed except Lionel who dies later at the hands of Marsali.
Autumn 1772
Brianna and Roger attempt to travel to the future but remain in the past.
Summer 1772
Jamie, Roger and Young Ian set a trap fro Stephen Bonnet but he has other plans.
Brianna is kidnapped by Stephen Bonnet and taken to Ocracoke. When she is unable to convince him of her desire to be with him (she doesn't); he decides to sell her. Jamie, Roger and Young Ian appear just in time to save her.
Bonnet is brought to justice and sentences to die. When no one is looking Brianna finishes him off.
May 1772
Felicite Fraser is born to Fergus and Marsali.
May 1772
While hunting in the nearby woods, Jamie is bitten by a poisonous snake. He manages to survive the venom but nearly succumbs to the infection of the wound.
August 1771
Young Ian appears on the Ridge. He has returned from the Mohawk and seems much changed.
August 12, 1771
Josiah Martin takes office as governor of North Carolina.
May 16, 1771
Battle of Alamance. Roger is hanged as a rebel one the testimony of Roger's ancestor Buck MacKenzie who is Dougal and Geillis son.
March 1771
Jocasta Cameron and Duncan Innes are wed.
October 1770
Brianna and Roger get married.
May 1770
Jeremiah Alexander Ian Fraser MacKenzie is born.
February 1770
Young Ian is adopted by the Mohawk to free Roger.
September 1769
Brianna and Roger meet up in Wilmington where they are handfast. Brianna is raped by Stephen Bonnet.
1769
Brianna and Roger both go through the stones at Craigh na Dun (at different times). They both travel to the Colonies.
August 1767
Claire tries to save an enslaved man named Rufus but is thwarted by the community and the law.
August 1767
Jamie, Claire and Young Ian make their way up the river to River Run. They are robbed by Stephen Bonnet.
April 1767
Jamie and Claire arrive in Jamaica where they finally locate Young Ian and run into Geillis Duncan. While fleeing the authorities the Fraser clan are swept ashore in Georgia after a violent storm.
March 1767
Fergus and Marsali wed.
1767
John Grey becomes governor of Jamaica and sets sail.
December 1766
Young Ian is abducted from the Silkie Island by the Bruja. Jamie and Claire sail to Jamacia after the Bruja.
November 1766
Jamie and Claire are reunited after 20 years in Edinburgh.
November 1, 1766
Claire comes back in time to find Jamie.
July 10, 1765
William Tryon becomes governor of North Carolina.
January 1765
Jamie marries Laoghaire, but a short time later moves to Edinburgh and opens a print shop.
1764
Jamie receives his parole. He leaves Helwater and goes home to Lallybroch leaving Willie in Lord John and Isobel Dunsany's hands.
1760
With the help of Jamie Fraser, who still lives at Helwater, Lord John prevents another Jacobite rising.
January 9, 1758
William "Willie" Clarence Henry George Ransom, the nineth Earl of Ellesmere, is born. The eighth Earl of Ellesmere dies. Geneva Dunsany dies after giving birth.
April 1757
Jamie is blackmailed into having sex with Geneva Dunsany. Geneva weds the Eighth Earl of Ellesmere shortly thereafter.
1756
The Seven Years' War Begins. Ardsmuir Prison closes; the prisoners are deported to the Colonies. Lord John pulls strings to have Jamie serve his sentence as a paroled prisoner on the Helwater estate in the Lake District.
1755
John Grey becomes Governor of Ardsmuir.
1753
Jamie is imprisoned at Ardsmuir.
1746-1753
Jamie lives in a cave on his own land.
November 15, 1752
Ian Fraser Murray (Young Ian) is born.
August 1, 1746
The Dress Act 1746 came into force which made the wearing of "the Highland Dress" including tartan or a kilt illegal in Scotland as well as reiterating the Disarming Act of 1716.
April 17, 1746
Jamie is sent home by Harold Grey who is the brother to John William Grey. Hal believes the Grey family owes Jamie a debt of honor and sends him home to Lallybroch rather than killing him with the other Jacobites.
April 16, 1746
In the wee hours of the morning, Jamie and Claire discuss stopping Charles Stuart and are overheard by Dougal. Dougal attempts to kill Claire and in the resulting struggle, Jamie kills Dougal.
Jamie takes Claire to Craig na Duhn and sends her back to the 20th century pregnant.
Jamie joins the battle on Culloden Moor and is badly wounded.
William of Cumberland commands the King's troops and wins the Battle effectively ending the uprising.
March 1746
Mary Hawkins weds Jack Randall.
January 17, 1746
Jacobite's last victory at Falkirk.
December 1745
Jacobite's take Derby, and seem set to take London, but instead retreat North.
September 21, 1745
Jacobite's win battle of Prestonpans.
September 20, 1745
Jamie encounters young John William Grey and extracts information from him.
September 17, 1745
The Jacobites take Edinburgh.
August 1745
Charles Stuart arrives in Eriskay before going to Glenfinnan.
Summer 1745
Jamie receives a letter from Charles Stuart, who official staked his claim to the throne and has signed Jamie's name as one of his supporters.
Fall 1744
Jamie and Claire return to Scotland.
May 12, 1744
Faith Fraser is stillborn.
1744
While in Paris, Jamie and Claire conspire against Charles Stuart in an attempt to prevent the Jacobite Rising of 1745/46.
Winter 1743
Jamie is betrayed and delivered to Jack Randall. Claire saves him from Wentworth Prison and they flee to France with Murtagh.
October 1743
Claire is accused of being a witch but is saved by Jamie. The two go to Lallybroch.
Summer 1743
Jamie and Claire wed.
May 2, 1743
Claire wakes in the past after traveling through time.
1743
Jamie returns to Scotland in hopes of clearing his name.
1741
James Fraser Murray is born.
March 1741
Jamie meets Captain Jack Randall. Brian Fraser suffers a stroke at Fort William and dies after watching Jamie being flogged. Jamie flees to France and spends time as a mercenary. Jamie's sister marries Ian Murray.
1739
Jamie lives in Paris.
1735
Jamie fosters with Dougal MacKenzie's family at the age of 14 for a few months.
1729
Lord John Grey is Born and Ellen Fraser dies giving birth to her fourth child.
May 1, 1721
Jamies Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser is born.
November 1, 1716
The Disarming Act was enacted to curtail Jacobitism among the Scottish Clans in the Highlands after the 1715 Rising. The new law outlawed the custody, use, or bear of broad sword, poignard, whinger, durk, side pistol, gun, or other warklike weapons.
1715
The Jacobite rising of 1715 was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland.
1702
Lallybroch is built.
1695
Ellen Caitriona MacKenzie Fraser (Jamie's mother) is born.
1692
Brian Fraser (Jamie's father) is born.
Summer Solstice 1971
Roger discovers Brianna traveled back in time and follows. He ends up in 1769 also.
May 1, 1971
Brianna travels back in time to warn Jamie and Claire about a newspaper article she found which reports their deaths in a fire. She arrives in 1769.
July 20, 1969
Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.
November 1, 1968
A group called the Montauk Five travels to the past rhough the stones circle on Ocracoke, meaning to prevent the genocide of the Native Americans. Donner ends up in 1766; his companion Jojo dies in the passage and a third man Robert Springer (Otter Tooth) travels too far by decades.
November 1, 1968
Claire steps through the stones again in an attempt to return to Jamie at Brianna's urging. She appears in 1766.
May 1, 1968
Gillian Edgars (Geillis Duncan) murders her husband as a sacrifice to travel through the stones at Craigh na Dun. She lands in 1733. Kenneth, her co-conspirer, followers her later the same night and appears in 1743 only hours before Claire.
1968
Claire and Brinna travel to Inverness and pay their respects to Roger Wakefield over the death of his father Reverend Wakefield. Claire asks Roger to look into some survivors of Culloden.
January 1966
Frank dies in a car crash.
1957
Claire starts medical school in Boston.
November 23, 1948
Brianna Ellen Randall is born.
Mid-1948
Frank and Claire move to Boston, Massachuettes.
Mid-April 1948
Claire returns to the 20th century two months pregnant.
May 2, 1946
The day after the Beltane, Claire goes up to the standing stones to find a flower and travels back in time 200 years.
May 1, 1946
Frank and Claire go up to the standing stones Craigh na Dun and watch local woman dance around the stones in what seems to be some sort of ritual.
September 2, 1945
Japanese capitulate after the nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. WWII is over.
May 8, 1945
WWII ends in Europe.
March 3, 1943
The crush at London's Bethnal Green tube station results in the death of Roger's mother. Rev. Wakefield, his great uncle, adopts him in Inverness.
1941
Roger MacKenzie is born. His father Jeremiah goes MIA.
1939
Claire becomes a field nurse. Frank works for the British secret service.
September 1, 1939
WWII begins with the German attack on Poland.
1937
Claire marries Frank Randall.
1923-1937
Claire spends her childhood and adolesecence traveling with her Uncle Lamb, a archaelogist.
1923
Claire's parents die in a car crash.
November 11, 1918
WWI ends.
October 20, 1918
Claire Elizabeth Beauchamp is born.
1906
Frank Randall is born.