Freddy and Jason universe timeline

The following is the timeline of the fictional universe in which the events of the Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street movies take place.

The two originally-separate film series were joined in the long-awaited crossover film Freddy vs. Jason, in which Freddy Krueger, the main killer of the Nightmare films, faced off with Jason Voorhees, the main killer of the Friday films.

1900s
*1907
** Amanda Krueger is born.

1930s
*1930
** Pamela Voorhees is born.

*1935
** Camp Crystal Lake established.

1940s
*Circa 1940-1942
**Amanda Krueger, who became a nun (her name in Christ: “Sister Mary Helena”), works at Our Lady of Sorrows (Westin Hills), an institution for the mentally disturbed. The worst of the criminally insane patients are kept in a wing called “The Tower”. During a Christmas holiday, Amanda Krueger is accidentally locked in with the one hundred patients confined there. For days she is raped numerous times. Afterward, she is found alive, badly beaten and “with child”.
**Months later, after a breech birth, Fredrick Charles Krueger is born and given up for adoption.

*1945
**The then-around-15-years-of-age Pamela is impregnated by Elias Voorhees.

*1946
**June 13 - Jason Voorhees is born to Pamela and Elias.

*Circa 1948-1950
**Freddy Krueger begins to exhibit sociopathic behavior, including killing small animals.

1950s
* Circa 1954
**Diana Voorhees is born to Elias and an unknown woman (who is not Pamela).

*Circa 1955-1960
**After proclaiming to have learned the “secret of pain”, Fred Krueger (now a teenager) kills his alcoholic and abusive adoptive father: Mr. Underwood.
**Some years later, Fred marries a woman named Loretta.

*1957
**Summertime - Jason Voorhees purportedly drowns in Crystal Lake when the counselors are having sex. No body is found.

*1958
**June 13 - Two Camp Crystal Lake counselors are mysteriously murdered.

*Circa 1959-1961
**Attempts to reopen Camp Crystal Lake after the murders are halted by arson and "bad water" (possibly poisoning).

1960s
*1961
**Kathryn Krueger is born.

*Circa 1961-1966
**Freddy kidnaps and murders 20 neighborhood children of Springwood. The newspapers dub the mysterious killer "The Springwood Slasher". Freddy worked at the local power plant and used its boiler room as a lair to take his victims. A second lair was also kept in the basement of the Krueger residence. When Loretta finds this basement lair, Freddy strangles her to death in front of young Kathryn.

*1966
** Freddy is arrested for committing the murders of the neighborhood children. Kathryn Krueger is put into foster care, then later adoption.

*1968
**Freddy is released on a legal technicality. As the judge's and the investigator's pockets grew fat from the ongoing trial, it came to light that someone forgot to sign a search warrant in the right place, and all of the evidence against Fred Krueger was inadmissible as evidence. The parents of Springwood take justice into their own hands by burning Freddy alive in his boiler room with Molotov cocktails. Amanda Krueger, driven insane after the trial, hangs herself, but her body is not found.

1970s
*Circa 1972
**Diana Voorhees gives birth to Jessica Kimble.

*1979
**June 13 - The events of the original film take place.
**August - Alice is killed by Jason in her home when he stabs her in the temple with an ice pick.

1980s
*1981
**The events of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street take place.

*1982
**Summer - The events seen in Chris's flashback from Friday the 13th Part 3 take place.

*1984
**July 7-8 - The events of Friday the 13th Part 2 take place.
**July 9-11 - The events of Friday the 13th Part 3 take place.
**July 11-13 - The events of Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter take place.

*Circa 1985
**Attempting to disassociate itself from the Voorhees family, Crystal Lake changes its name to Forest Green.

*1986
**The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge take place.

*1987
**Summer - The events of Friday the 13th: A New Beginning take place.
**The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors take place.

*1988
**May 12-13 - The events of Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives take place.
**The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master take place.
**October 13 - The prologe of Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood takes place.

*1989
**Summer - The events of A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child take place.

*Circa 1989-1999
**Over the course of ten years, the adults of Springwood were kept in mass psychosis after nearly every child was murdered in that town.

1990s
*1990
**Alice Johnson and her son, Jacob, move away from Springwood, Ohio a year after the events of The Dream Child took place. Her whereabouts are now unknown.

*1993
**August 12-13 - The rest of Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood takes place.

*1994
**May 12-13 - The events of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan takes place.

*1995
**January 13 - Stephanie Kimble, daughter of Jessica Kimble and Steven Freeman, is born.

*1995
**May 14 - The events of Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare take place.
**After Freddy's death, the town of Springwood destroys all evidence of the Krueger family ever having existed, including blacking out news articles and obituaries of Freddy's victims. Any children claiming to have seen Freddy in their dreams are quietly sent to Westin Hills and put on Hypnocil, an experimental dream suppressant drug.

*October 13, 1995 - Jason Voorhees's body is blown apart by the FBI in an ambush. During the autopsy, the coroner eats Jason's heart and becomes possessed by his spirit.

*October 20-21, 1995 - The other events of Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday take place.

2000s
*2002
**The events of Freddy Vs. Jason take place.

*2008
** Jason Voorhees is captured for the 2nd time and sentenced to death. Though the government is unsure how to execute him, the electric chair, the gas chamber, a firing squad, and hanging are all tried.

*2010
** The government decides to put Jason into a cryonic freeze at The Crystal Lake Research Facility (which was specifically built to house and study Jason). Jason nearly escapes after killing several guards, but is frozen by Rowan, the project's leader, who is also trapped in the freezing chamber.

2450s
*2455
**August 13 - The events of Jason X take place.

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