hi do you have a post about the timeline in 911 like with the year and the seasons and so including season 5
Hi anon!
I don't *technically* have a post w/ the timeline, so I'm using your ask as an opportunity to make one!
I'm going to put this under a cut, bc currently I have actually no idea what's going on with the timeline for s5, and as things air, I'll update this continually, and it can be used as the most updated resource whenever you open it!
I could not resist adding commentary sometimes, sorry 😅
*disclaimer - I understand the crossover is supposed to line up w LS’s timeline or whatever but it absolutely does not work for our timeline. So this is purely OG’s timeline, bc I don’t watch LS, and also our timeline is a lot more logical.*
911 OG timeline under the cut!
Just a note - anything that’s currently speculation is gonna be in blue. As we get confirmation of things, I’ll add in confirmed info and put things in black, and anything that’s wrong will be removed/edited.
Also, episodes tend to happen over several days’ time, so if you’re looking for an EXACT date for a little scene in an ep, I mostly don’t have it for you, but you should put it within the week I’ve given, relative to where it went in the ep. (Eg a call later in the ep would be more likely to have happened on Thursday or Friday.)
Also re: s4. COVID does not work as a good timeline indicator for this show, AT ALL. Its sort of like the whole “do they have regular shifts” debate - the writers wrote the stories they wanted to tell, and then fit COVID in around that. Also it got really screwed by them being done filming before it hit, but not having aired any of s3B yet. And then both bc COVID can’t be used to figure out time, and also bc it wasn’t aired normally, it is a lot more nebulous timeline-wise, I did my best though 😂
-Pre Series-
1966-1967: Athena is born.
1967: Bobby is born.
Mid Mar 1977: Chim is born (this has the potential to change in the future, details on why found here)
Sometime July - Dec 1979: Hen is born.
1983: Maddie is born.
1985: Daniel is born.
1987 - 1992: Eddie is born SOMETIME in this time window. Personally I like him in 1989/90, bc it makes him 21 when Christopher is born, but I think 1987 is also very plausible since that’s when RG is born.
Fall 1989: “Athena Begins” starts, continues through 1991 (Emmett dies on Feb 17th, 1991).
Somewhere between Feb 15 and mid September 1991: Buck is born.
Sometime Aug - Dec 1992: Daniel dies.
2000: Albert is born.
Aug 2000 - Feb 2001: Michael and Athena get married.
2002: May is born. (Discussion on May’s birth year here)
2005: Chim joins the firehouse, events of Chimney Begins stretch out over ~2007?? Unclear exact time frame but before Hen joins and over at least a year, if not more.
2006: Josh joins dispatch.
Sometime?? In 2008: Hen joins LAFD to be a paramedic. I really don’t have a good measure for this one bc it apparently takes years to become a paramedic but this is one area where the writers don’t give a SHIT about reality bc she has to join in 2008 for a comment in Future Tense to make sense. So just - early 2008 probably for this one.
Jan 2009: Hen joins the 118.
2009: Harry is born.
2010 or early 2011: Eddie enlists in the army for the first time - coincides with Shannon getting pregnant. (As of now, no idea if they were married before or after she got pregnant. Timeline of him enlisting in response to the pregnancy though indicates to me maybe they were already married.)
2011: Denny is born.
2011: Christopher is born. (Anyone curious, personally, I’d put his birthday somewhere in Jan-early March, late May-early Sept, purely bc I refuse to think at this point that Christopher’s birthday has happened while the show has been airing and Eddie hasn’t mentioned it. So it must be during usual hiatus times 😂)
Dec of 2014: “Bobby Begins Again” starts.
2015: Eddie is deployed a second time, his helicopter crashes/he’s discharged from Army/Shannon leaves him and Christopher
Sometime Aug-Dec 2016: Bobby becomes captain of the 118.
Aug 2017: Buck joins the 118.
-S1-
Jan 3 - Jan 9th, 2018: “Pilot”
Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2018: “Let Go”
Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2018: “Next of Kin”
Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2018 - “Worst Day Ever”
Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2018 - “Point of Origin”
Feb 7 - Feb 27, 2018 - “Heartbreaker”
Feb 28 - Mar 6, 2018 - “Full Moon (Creepy AF)”
Mar 7 - Mar 13, 2018 - “Karma’s A Bitch”
Mar 14 - Mar 20, 2018: “Trapped”
Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2018: “A Whole New You”
-S2-
Sept 1 - Sept 23, 2018: “Under Pressure”
Sept 24, 2018: the earthquake
Oct 8 - Oct 14, 2018: “Stuck”
Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2018: “Awful People”
Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2018: “Dosed”
Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2018: “Haunted”
Nov 5 - Nov 12, 2018: “Buck, Actually”
December 2018: “Merry Ex-Mas”
Mar 11 - Mar 15, 2019: “New Beginnings”
Mar 15 - 16, 2019: “Fight or Flight”
Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019: “Broken”
Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019: “Ocean’s 9-1-1″
May 6 - May 12, 2019: “Careful What You Wish For”
May 13 - May 19, 2019: “This Life We Choose” (in case you’re curious, cuz I was, average probationary period for a firefighter is 6-18 months, Eddie’s is 9mo w the 118 (plus 3mo at the academy = Bobby’s “year of hard work” in his speech) so he more or less has an average probationary period length! The timeline just doesn’t fit otherwise w Buck’s leg.)
-S3-
Sept 1 - Sept 22, 2019: “Kids Today”
Sept 22, 2019: the tsunami (ending scene events of “The Searchers” carry over into Sept 23, 2019)
Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019: “Triggers”
Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2019: “Rage”
Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2019: “Monsters”
Nov 4 - Nov 10, 2019: present day “Athena Begins” events
Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2019: “Malfunction”
Nov 25 - Nov 30, 2019: “Fallout”
Dec 1 - Dec 25, 2019: “Christmas Spirit”
Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2020: “Seize the Day”
Mar 23 - Mar 30, 2020: “Fools”
Mar 30 - Apr 12, 2020: “Pinned” (end scene is Apr 13, 2019)
Apr 13, 2020: “The Taking of Dispatch 9-1-1” (end scene events take place sometime Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2020)
Apr 20, 2020: Events of present day “Eddie Begins” (Christopher’s show-and-tell is Apr 24, 2020)
Apr 27 - May 3, 2020: “The One That Got Away”
May 4 - May 10, 2020: “Powerless”
May 11 - May 17, 2020: “What’s Next?”
-S4-
Mid Sept 2020 (pretty damn sure actually it’s Sept 21, 2020, but since it wasn’t aired on a regular schedule I can’t be completely, 100% sure): The mudslide
End of Sept 2020: “Future Tense”
Oct 2020: “9-1-1, What’s Your Grievance?”
Oct 2020: Present day events of “Buck Begins”
End of Oct - beginning of Nov, 2020: “Jinx” (Jinx happens in ~25hrs, start to finish, I just can’t tell you exactly what day)
Mid Nov 2020: “There Goes The Neighborhood”
End of Nov 2020: “Breaking Point”
Somewhere around the last two weeks of Jan 2021 - first two weeks of Feb 2021: “Blindsided”
Somewhere around the last two weeks of March 2021 - first two weeks of April 2021: “Parenthood”
May 3 - May 9, 2021: “First Responders” (I *think* this is where the show catches up where the regular airing schedule matches up w the show’s timeline. I have no reason to think otherwise)
May 10 - May 16, 2021: “Treasure Hunt”
May 17 - May 24, 2021: “Suspicion”
May 24 - May 30, 2021: “Survivors”
-S5-
Sept 2021: Albert joins the LAFD in the montage at the end of Survivors
Sept 14, 2021 - initial spyware attack
Sept 20 - Sept 27, 2021 - actual blackout
Oct 11 - Oct 17, 2021: ‘Home and Away’
Oct 18 - Oct 24, 2021: ‘Peer Pressure’
Nov 1 - Nov 7, 2021: 'Brawl in Cell Block 9-1-1′
Nov 8 - Nov 14, 2021: ‘Ghost Stories’
Nov 15 - Nov 21, 2021: 'Defend in Place’
Nov 22 - Nov 30, 2021: 'Past is Prologue’
Dec 1 - Dec 25, 2021: ‘Wrapped in Red’
Mar 21 - Mar 27, 2022: ‘Outside Looking In’
Mar 15 - Mar 28, 2022: ‘Boston’ (flashbacks date back to Sept 27 and occur through the fall of 2021)
Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2022: ‘Fear-o-Phobia’
Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2022: ‘Dumb Luck’
Apr 25 - May 1, 2022: ‘FOMO’
