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TIME LINE of the Babylon 5/Crusade Universe
(Revision 051803)

Compiled by I. Marc Carlson ( marc-carlson@utulsa.edu )
With additional information by: Victor Yanagida (victory@aloha.com), A. Bergman (abergman@minerva.cis.yale.edu), David Strauss (dss2k@poe.acc.virginia.edu), Bret Feinblatt (by626@freenet.Buffalo.edu; bafein@yahoo.com), Josh Glazenburg-Diamond (jmd@bear.com), and Larry King (larry@chronology.org). Originally converted to HTML format by Larry King.

Spoiler warning!

No attempt is made to alter the following information to remove or hide any "spoilers" for any episodes aired, books, comic books, and so forth.  This document covers the five seasons of Babylon 5, plus the four TNT movies and the first (and perhaps only) season of  Crusade. Moreover, it also covers all published novels, short stories (by JMS) and comics.   Published gaming materials are only referred to when they do not completely contradict other published materials.

 

Since most of this information is compiled from other sources, I don't feel as though I can copyright it.  Feel free to use it as you wish, within the bounds of other copyrights on this material. If you like the occasional hypothesis and supposition that I have left strewn about within, please recall where you found it since those are legally mine.

Babylon 5 and related concepts are the property of Warner Brothers Domestic Television Distribution and J. Michael Straczynski. (Straczynski is referred to as "JMS" throughout this document.)

Notes on sources:

The sources used for this were the episodes and information revealed by JMS on Genie and Usenet. The codes in parentheses indicate the source.

Following Larry Nemecek's precedent for coding his Star Trek Concordances, items marked with a /v contain information based on visual clues such as computer screen displays; items marked with an /s contains information based on a script or other version of an episode. Following my own precedent, UT: indicates a Universe Today headline, and B: indicates comments overheard in background dialogue ("background walla"). Other abbreviations:

The above materials will be superseded should different information be broadcast. The use of information in novels and comics is based on JMS's statements that these are "canon". Even so, they will be superseded as appropriate by material actually broadcast.  Please note that Dates given in The Babylon Project Game , and The Babylon 5 Security Manual are either given elsewhere, or contradict those given by JMS.

Finally, all items marked with an * are conjecture based on the information on hand, and may be further explained by a description in brackets.

Notes on Minbari Cycles:

Based on information in Babylon Squared, A Late Delivery from Avalon, Atonement, and the novel To Dream in the City of Sorrows (as well as the novel Clark's Law), it may be assumed that a Minbari Cycle is approximately 1.35 years. (The interval from July 2245 to Nov 2258 / Feb 2259 was ten cycles long).

Information on the B5 Screen saver suggests (in describing Delenn's and Lennier's ages) that a Cycle is 0.7 years. But in this case, it is more likely (based on statements regarding Delenn's age in JMSU) that the age comparison is effective age, not a literal chronological comparison.


-- The Chronology --

c15 Billion

c10 Billion

c?? Billion

c1 Million BCE

c500,000 BCE

c8000 BCE

????

c.5000 BCE

c3750 BCE

c250

515

[Unknown dates]

c1050

c1100

about 1200

c1250

1250-1350

c1260

[Unknown Dates]

c1350

c1450

c1750

1888

????

1940

c1950

1961

1963

1965

1971

1976

1997

1999

2011

2013

2018

2025

2035

2047

c2050

2055

2057

2059-2062

2061

????

2072

2075-2124

2080-2084

2085

c2087

c2095

2101

2110

2112

2113

2115

2116

2117

2132

2133

2148

c2150

2152

2153

2155

c2155

2156

c2158

2161

2167

2169

2172

2173

2175

2176

2177

2181

2189

c2190

2195

2196

2198

2200

[I am clueless as to the actual dates of these events,]

2201

2205

2206

2206

2208

2209

2209

2210

2212

2216

2218

2219

2220

2221

2221

2223

2224

2225

2228

2229

2230

2231

2232

c2232-2244

c2233

c2234

2235

2236

2237

2238

2239

223?

[I am clueless as to the actual dates of these events,]

2240

2241

2242

2243

2244

2245

????

c2246

2247

2248

2249

2250

2251

2252

2253

2254

2255

2256

2257

2258 "Signs and Portents"

2259 "The Coming of Shadows"

2260 "Point of No Return" (Was: "I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds")

2261 "No Surrender, No Retreat"

2262 "The Wheel of Fire"

2263