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As you see, Wildbow's comment covers only up to Arc 11. The rest are guesses and estimates.

Arcs 12, 13, 14 follow immediately after one another, and 14.x mentions that the Lambs' chase after Sy was during the summer, so assume summer for them. Also, Lillian receives her grades for the following autumn during that chapter — Arc 15 follows it, so it's set in winter.

Arc 16 mentions snow a lot, has the phrase "as winter progressed", so I'm assuming winter as well. Arc 17 follows immediately after it, so winter too. Arcs 18, 19 and 20 follow immediately or nearly-immediately after one another, and Arc 18 has the phrase "spring air", so I'm assuming spring for them.

First epilogue takes place several months later ("for months, Red had traveled"), assume summer or autumn. Second epilogue mentions snow and "getting through the winter", assume winter1. Third epilogue has the phrase "there was supposed to be a boat this spring", assume summer. Fourth epilogue directly states that it was fall ("it was fall")2, and I love it for its directness.

Starts in 1921, I think. It couldn't be much sooner: not-Ferres' letter in 17.x mentions a discussion with Lillian in the summer of 1923. The chapter is set, as per above, four years after the story's start, so it couldn't have started sooner than 1919, and it seems unreasonable to assume that the letter referred to the current or the preceding year; may as well assume what "about" says.

Lambs' ages, according to my past self:

Sylvester – 11 (3.09, Sy’s words); Gordon – 12 (1.01, Sy’s narration); Helen – 13* (11.x); Jamie – 11-12 (estimated); Lillian – 13 (1.01, Sy’s narration); Mary – 12* (1.08, Gordon’s words). Duncan is same age as Lillian, I think, so 13.

Ashton, as he was introduced in arc 7, was 14* years old, I think.

1. Or maybe late autumn, I'm not sure how biopunk 1921 North America's weather works.

2. Stupid unimaginative confusing American and Canadian English by the way, calling a temperate season the same way one calls the action of a sudden descent. Why didn't the Crown purge this... abomination?

https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/04/06/dog-eat-dog-18-2/

https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/lamb-arc-14/

https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2017/04/01/lamb-arc-17/

https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/lamb-arc-11/#comment-13368

[https://animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/animal-domestication2.htm History of domestication]

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==Shared Timeline==
===~20,000 BCE===
*Goats become first animal to be domesticated.
*Wolves [[Wikipedia:Domestication|domesticated]], possible in early China though specifics vary.
===~7,000 BCE===
*Birth of Agriculture
**Wheat domesticated in Levant 
**Corn domesticated in Central America
===216===
*[[Wikipedia:Galen|Galen of Pergamon]] dies
===1215===
*June 15th
**[[Wikipedia:Magna Carta|''Magna Carta Libertatum'']] signed.
===1492===
*Columbus 'discovers' North America, beginning of the [[Wikipedia:Columbian exchange|Columbian exchange]]

*Years of plague in the new world nearly wipes out all indigenous populations, millions die. 
**Causes population explosion in numerous prey species including passenger pigeons and buffalo.<ref>The buffalo wandered in because few Indians survived to hunt them. - [https://mrcaseyhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/the-columbian-exchange.pdf The Columbian Exchange]</ref>
**Temperature drops due to [https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/world/european-colonization-climate-change-trnd/index.htmlmass population die off in the new world], arguably
[[Wikipedia:History of biological warfare| first instance of germ warfare.]]
===1564===
*[[Wikipedia:Andreas Vesalius|Andries van Wesel]] dies
===1686===
*[[Wikipedia:Nicolas Steno|Nicolas Steno]] dies
===1700s===
*[[Wikipedia:Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV of France]] turns down the offer of an Italian chemist to develop to first bacteriological weapon, the chemist is granted a pension for his silence.<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-XIV-king-of-France Louis XIV Britanica entry]</ref>
===1727===
*March 31st
**Isaac Newton dies
Reference [[Wollstone|Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly]] 
===1815===
*Mount Tambora eruption 
===1816===
*[[Wikipedia:Year Without a Summer|Year Without a Summer]]<ref>Hitchcock, Susan Tyler. 2007. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/frankenstein-a-cultural-history/oclc/427507173&referer=brief_results Frankenstein: A Cultural History]. New York: W.W. Norton.</ref>
===1819===
*[[Wikipedia:The Vampyre|The Vampyre]] is published.
==Twig History==
===1821===
:This is believed to be the divergence point but it was likely earlier. Cultural milestones during and after this date is solely based on story notes in Twig.
===1903===
*[[Primordial|Primordial Outbreak]]<ref>“Scientists working for the Academy have been more careful than you’re being and still been surprised,” Lillian said.  “Um, back in…”<br><br>“1903,” Jamie supplied.<br><br>“Thank you.  Yes, back in 1903, there was a bad incident.  The problem is, once it becomes a problem, it becomes a runaway problem.  Not in that it runs away, but that it gets more out of control with every passing moment.” - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2016/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Bleeding Edge 8.11]]</ref>
**Dealt with, unknown amount of damage.
===1906===
*April 18th?
**[[Wikipedia:1906 San Francisco earthquake|Earthquake in Western Crown States]] unknown devastation, if any.
===1908===
*[[Wikipedia:Tunguska event|Tunguska Meteor burst event]]
===1911===
*Roughly the time the Indian Empire tried and failed to create a slave race.<ref>“Okay,” Lillian said.  “The second method is more complimentary, then.  Altering the fundamental pattern of the clones.  Humans mature at an exceptionally slow rate.  We saw people try this a decade ago in the Indian Empire.  Crown scientists tried to make a slave class that grew to maturity, with a specific level of intelligence.  Domesticated humans, strong, playful, good natured, attractive, and obedient.  If I’m not mistaken, they tried a lot of things, including imprinted behaviors.”<br><br>''Like Mary?''  I raised my eyebrows.  “How did it go?”<br><br>“How do you think it went, ''Sy''?” Gordon asked.  “Do you see slaves everywhere?”<br><br>“That’s not saying it didn’t ''work'',” I said.<br><br>“It’s pretty damn indicative,” Gordon said. - [https://twigserial.wordpress.com/2015/03/28 Excerpt] from [[Taking Root 1.8]]</ref>

===1921===
*[[Taking Root|Spring]]: [[Percy]]'s child [[The Bad Seeds|clones]] are rooted out and killed or turned. Percy is recruited to a rebel cell including [[Cynthia]].
**[[Walter Gund]] is abducted and used.<ref>[[Interlude 3.x]]</ref>
*[[Cat out of the Bag|Summer]]: [[Mauer]] attempts to incite the people of [[Radham]] to rebel against the Academy. He fails, and retreats.
*[[Lips Sealed|Fall]]: The Lambs have been interviewing people, interminably. [[Sub Rosa]] stalks the Bowels. Briggs loses control of Radham Academy to the [[The Duke|Duke of Francis]].
*[[Stitch in Time|Winter]]: [[Genevieve Fray]] allows the Lambs to catch up to her in [[Kensford]]. She leashes and sterilises wide swathes of the Crown States, starting [[The War]].
**[[The War]] begins in earnest
===1922===
*[[Esprit de Corpse|Spring]]: [[Westmore]] and then [[Whitney]], having rebelled, are retaken by the Crown; the latter with involvement from the Lambs.
*[[Lamb to the Slaughter|Summer]]: a nest of [[Ghosts]] is discovered in Radham, and the traitor [[Avis]] is captured. Project Caterpillar reboots.
**Over the months, the rebellion breaks into competing factions that focus on opposing the Academy or the Crown specifically.
*Winter: Avis [[Interlude 6.x|escapes]] from her imprisonment and joins up with Fray and her band.
===1923===
*[[Tooth and Nail|Spring]]: The [[Cynthia Imlay|various]] [[Mauer|rebel]] [[Genevieve Fray|factions]] meet in [[Brechwell]] to try to unite against the Crown. The Lambs are sent to try to stop them. 
*Summer
*[[Bleeding Edge|Fall]]: using the texts that Genevieve Fray had produced, Mauer's faction created several primordials in [[Lugh]]. The Duke of Francis [[Counting Sheep|assaults the city]]; the Baron Richmond and his twin sisters enter the fray personally. Meanwhile, the Lambs are looking for the fled daughter of obnoxious aristocrats. Gordon dies. Lugh is destroyed, three of the twins are killed, and the primordials are destroyed—but not before one creates a fitting [[Ravage|reminder]] of its rage and pain.
*[[In Sheep’s Clothing|Winter]]: The [[Baron Richmond]] and his surviving [[The Twins|sister]] are murdered in [[Warrick]] by the clone Mary Cobourn and Sylvester of Lambsbridge, who at last publicly defects, with Jamie.
===1924===
*[[Cut To The Quick|Spring]]: the first major outbreak of the [[Ravage|red plague]] forces the quarantine of [[Tynewear]].<ref>Arc 1 - Spring (Snake Charmer, Bad Seeds)<br>Arc 2 - Summer (Mauer)<br>Arc 3 - Fall (Sub Rosa)<br>Arc 4 - Winter (Fray)<br><br>End of year 1.<br><br>Arc 5 - Spring (Humors)<br>Arc 6 - Summer (Ghosts)<br><br>First lamb down. Seasonal progression distorts, we move backwards through seasons, passing fall and winter. We pass the end of year 2 and move into year 3.<br><br>Arc 7 - Spring (Rebel Coalition)<br>Arc 8 - Skip summer, go to end of Fall (Mauer, Primordials)<br>Arc 9 - start of Winter (Baron, war)<br>Arc 10 - Winter continued. (Baron's Town)<br><br>End of year 3, start of 4.<br><br>Arc 11 - Spring (Red) - [https://redd.it/4odx0x Twig Timeline (incomplete)] ([https://worm.fandom.com/wiki/Wildbow Wildbow], Reddit.com, 2016-06-16)</ref>
*[[Dyed in the Wool|Summer]]: Sy and J found an orphanage in Corinth; the [[Black Sheep|Lambs]] investigate; after breaking up with Lillian, [[Thicker than Water|Sy visits New Amsterdam]], loses his mind, and meets Jessie. 
*Fall
*[[Bitter Pill|Winter]] [[Head over Heels|Beetle Sy]] [[Gut Feeling|Get involved in a Trapped town]]
===1925===
*[[Dog Eat Dog|Spring]]: [[Hackthorn]] takeover and trap
*[[Interlude 19.x|Summer]]: The Lambs casually take over most of what's left of the Crown States with blackmail, manipulation, threats and some very carefully choreographed information management.
*[[Crown of Thorns|Fall Radham Conclusion]]
*[[Epilogue 1|Winter]]: A single Green Clover is found growing in the choking blackwood sprawl.
===1926===
*[[Epilogue 2|Spring]]
*[[Epilogue 3|Summer]]
*[[Epilogue 4|Fall]]: King Adam visits the crown states.
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