Raiders of the Lost Timeline:
The Indiana Jones Chronology
by Win Scott Eckert
Legend:
T = Young Indiana Jones television episode
YIJ = Dark Horse Comics' Young Indiana Jones
N = Novel or young adult novel
M = Indiana Jones movie
mini = Marvel Comics' Indiana Jones mini-series
Mar = Marvel Comics' Indiana Jones
DH mini = Dark Horse Comics' Indiana Jones mini-series
DHC = Indiana Jones feature strip in Dark Horse Comics
Television and movies in bold, underlined, all caps - all others underlined
May 1908
T1, YIJ 1-2, N
YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKAL, PART I: The Mummy's Curse (Indy and family begin a round-the-world tour - Dr. and Mrs. Henry Jones, Miss Helen Seymour, Lawrence of Arabia, Howard Carter - Indy is almost nine years old (born July 1, 1899))
Sept. 1908
T20
SEPTEMBER 1908 Indy and his family are in Paris (Pablo Picasso, Norman Rockwell, Miss Seymour)
Nov. 1908
T11, YIJ 9
NOVEMBER 1908 Indy and his family are in Vienna (Sigmund Freud, Archduke Ferdinand, Princess Sophie)
1909
T28
YOUNG INDIANA JONES: TRAVELS WITH FATHER (Dr. Jones, Anna Jones, Miss Seymour, Tolstoy - Indy and his family visit Russia and Greece)
Sept. 1909
T3, YIJ 3-4, N
SEPTEMBER 1909: The Search for the Oryx (aka Safari Sleuth) (Indy's family goes on safari in British East Africa - Teddy Roosevelt, Miss Helen Seymour, Dr. and Mrs. Jones)
Jan. 1910
T22
JANUARY 1910 Indy and his family visit Benares, India (Miss Seymour)
March 1910
T21, YIJ 11-12
MARCH 1910 Indy and his family visit Peking, China (Miss Seymour)
April 1912
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Titanic Adventure (Miss Seymour, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
June 1912
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Pirates' Loot (Miss Seymour)
July 1912
Indy's adventure in Utah (Prologue to INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE - Indy is living in Utah with his father, Dr. Henry Jones - Indy meets Herman Mueller)
August 1912
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Lost Gold of Durango (Dr. Jones)
Spring 1913
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure (Dr. Henry Jones, Lizzie Ravenall)
Summer 1913
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Tomb of Terror (Indy is in Egypt with his father's friend, Dr. Marcus Brody - Just after The Plantation Treasure - Indy meets Sallah for the first time)
Summer 1913
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Princess of Peril (Dr. Henry Jones)
Late Oct. 1913
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Ghostly Riders (Indy and his American friend, Herman Mueller, are attending private school in England)
Dec. 1913
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Circle of Death (After finishing the fall term at Charenton Academy in England, Indy and Herman return to America with their fathers, Dr. Henry Jones and Herman Mueller, Sr.)
Jan. 1914
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Journey to the Underworld (Indy and his father travel to Athens)
Spring 1914
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Ruby Cross (Indy and his father are visiting Indy's Aunt Mary in New York City - Lizzie Ravenall)
May 1914
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Gypsy Revenge (Indy is in southern France)
June 1914
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Secret City (Indy is in Turkey with his father and his friend Herman)
Oct. 1914
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Mountain of Fire (Dr. Jones, Lizzie Ravenall, Aunt Mary)
Nov. 1914
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Face of the Dragon (Indy and his father travel to China)
Dec. 1914
N
Young Indiana Jones and the Eye of the Tiger (Dr. Jones.)
Feb. 1916
T14, N
FEBRUARY 1916: Race to Danger (Indy is living in Princeton, New Jersey with his father and attending high school - Thomas Edison)
March 1916
T1, YIJ 1-2
YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE CURSE OF THE JACKAL, PART II (Indy joins the Mexican Revolution, and then decides to go to Europe to fight in WW I - Pancho Villa, General Pershing, Lt. George Patton, Indy's friend Remy Baudouin)
April 1916
T19
APRIL 1916 (Indy and Remy are in Ireland, on their way to London to join the Belgian Army)
May 1916
T2
MAY 1916 (Indy travels to London to join the Belgian Army as a Corporal, using the name Henri Defense - Miss Helen Seymour, Winston Churchill, Remy)
Early-Mid Aug. 1916
T8-T9, N
AUGUST 1916: Prisoner of War (Indy is a soldier fighting in the trenches at the Somme, when he is captured by the Germans - Indy then escapes from a prison camp in Germany - Remy, Charles de Gaulle)
Sept.-Oct. 1916
N
The Mata Hari Affair:
T4, YIJ 5-6, N
SEPTEMBER 1916: The Peril of the Fort (aka Field of Death) (Indy is a Belgian Army courier in Verdun, France - Remy Baudouin)
Oct. 1916
T12, N
OCTOBER 1916: The Mata Hari Affair (Indy meets Mata Hari while on leave in Paris - Remy)
Nov. 1916
T18
YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE PHANTOM TRAIN OF DOOM (Indy & Remy are transferred to Africa and promoted to Lieutenant)
Dec. 1916-Jan. 1917
T5-6, YIJ 7-8, N
DECEMBER 1916 - JANUARY 1917: Trek of Doom (Indy, now a captain in the Belgian Army, leads an expedition from German East Africa to West Africa to pick up a weapons shipment - The expedition attempts a return through the Congo, but Indy and Remy are eventually ordered to take the weapons to France - Remy, Dr. Albert Schweitzer)
Feb. 1917
T27
YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE ATTACK OF THE HAWKMEN (Indy and Remy join French Intelligence Corps - Von Richtoven, Fokker)
March 1917
T7, YIJ 9-10, N
MARCH 1917: The Secret Peace (Indy is in Vienna, Austria on an espionage mission)
May 1917
T10
MAY 1917 Indy is a spy in Barcelona, Spain (Pablo Picasso)
July 1917
T15, N
JULY 1917: Revolution! (Indy is living in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and working for French Intelligence - Indy is still going by the alias of Captain Henri Defense - Indy celebrates his 18th birthday - Lenin)
January 1918
T ?
JANUARY 1918 (Indy, in Romania, encounters Vlad the Impaler, aka Count Dracula)
June 1918
T17
JUNE 1918 (Indy is working as a spy in Northern Italy - Ernest Hemingway)
Oct. 1918
T23
OCTOBER 1918 (Indy is working as a spy in Istanbul - Death of Indy's fiancee, Molly)
November 1918
T26
YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE TREASURE OF THE PEACOCK'S EYE (Death of Miss Seymour - Remy, Howard Carter, E.M. Forster)
May 1919
T24
MAY 1919 (Indy is a translator with the American delegation at the peace talks in Paris - Indy then departs Europe for America to study archaeology - President Woodrow Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, Ho Chi Min)
June 1919
Indy arrives back in America and visits his father in New Jersey (see YOUNG INDIANA JONES: TRAVELS WITH FATHER)
Spring 1920
T13
YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUES (Indy is in Chicago attending college - Ernest Hemingway, Eliot Ness, Al Capone, Louis Armstrong)
May 1920
Indy graduates from the University of Chicago (Prologue to Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi - Jack Shannon, Dr. Marcus Brody)
June-July 1920
T16
YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE SCANDAL OF 1920 (Indy has a summer job working as a stage manager on Broadway in New York - George Gershwin - Indy celebrates his 21st birthday)
July-Aug. 1920
T25
YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE HOLLYWOOD FOLLIES (Indy works as a Hollywood extra to earn tuition for college, then returns to the University of Chicago for post-graduate work - Irving Thalberg, John Ford, Wyatt Earp)
Oct. 1922
N
Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi (Jack Shannon)
1924
Indy is in Montignac, France (Chap. 2-3 of Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy)
Summer 1925
N
Indiana Jones and the Dance of the Giants (Dr. Marcus Brody, Jack Shannon, Dierdre Campbell)
March-May 1926
N
Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils (Brody - Death of Indy's wife, Dierdre)
May-July 1927
N
Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge (Jack Shannon, Brody)
May-Sept. 1928
N
Indiana Jones and the Unicorn's Legacy (Brody, Shannon)
May-Sept. 1929
N
Indiana Jones and the Interior World (Brody)
1930
N
Indiana Jones and the Sky Pirates (Jack Shannon, Dr. Gale Parker, Dr. Pencroft)
N
Indiana Jones and the White Witch (Dr. Gale Parker, Dr. Pencroft)
1931
Indy foils a museum heist in Kafiristan (see Indiana Jones and the Shrine of the Sea Devil)
March 1933
N
Indiana Jones and the Philosopher's Stone (Brody, Sallah, Alecia Dunstin)
October 1933-December 31, 1933
N
Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs (Alecia Dunstin, Rene Belloq, Lao Che, Wu Han, Brody)
Early 1934
N
Indiana Jones and the Hollow Earth (Alecia Dunstin, Belloq, Brody)
1934
N
Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx (Sallah, Brody, Albert Einstein)
Jan. 1935
DHC 3-6
Indiana Jones and the Shrine of the Sea Devil (It is early 1935 - Indy meets Amelia Earhart)
1935
M, N, mini 1-3
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (Short Round, Lao Che, Wu Han)
1936
M, N, mini 1-3
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (Rene Belloq, Jock Lindsey, Brody, Sallah, Marion Ravenwood, Ernst Toht, Captain Simon Katanga)
Mar 1-2
22-Karat Doom (Brody)
Mar 3
The Devil's Cradle
Mar 4-5
Gateway to Infinity
Mar 6
Club Nightmare (Marion Ravenwood)
Mar 7-8
Africa Screams (Brody, Marion Ravenwood, Ian McIver)
Mar 9-10
The Gold Goddess (Sallah, Marion Ravenwood, Brody, Ilsa Toht)
Mar 11-12
The Fourth Nail (Marion Ravenwood, Brody, Ben Ali Ayoob)
Mar 13
Deadly Rock (Brody)
Mar 14
Demons (Brody, Marion Ravenwood)
Mar 15-16
The Sea Butchers (Jock Lindsey, Brody, Captain Simon Katanga)
Mar 17-18
The Search for Abner Ravenwood (Marion Ravenwood, Brody, Ian McIver)
1937
Mar 20-22
The Arnhem Ring (Brody, Marion Ravenwood, Ben Ali Ayoob)
Mar 19
Dragon by the Tail
Mar 23
The Secret of the Deep (Marion Ravenwood, Brody)
Mar 24
Revenge of the Ancients
Mar 25
Good as Gold (Brody, Jessie Hale)
Mar 26-27
Trail of the Golden Guns (Short Round)
Mar 28
Tower of Tears (Brody, Alec Sutherland)
Mar 29-30
Fireworks (Jessie Hale)
Mar 31
Big Game
Mar 32
Double Play (Brody, Alec Sutherland)
Fall 1937
DH mini 1-4
Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold (Brody)
1938
DH mini 1-6
Thunder in the Orient (Brody, Dr. Sophie Hapgood)
M, N, mini 1-4
INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (Dr. Henry Jones, Brody, Sallah)
May 1939
DH mini 1-4
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (Brody, Dr. Sophie Hapgood)
1939
DH mini 1-4
Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates
April-May 1941
DH mini 1-2
Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece
March 1945
DH mini 1-4
Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny
1948
DH mini 1-4
Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix (Brody)
1950
Indy is in Wyoming, helping to save an Indian relic (see YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUES)
