CANON TIMELINE

Placing the Tier 1 and Tier 2 canon materials in chronological order of when they occur in the setting… with a few marked non-canon items for tracking.

This timeline was created to try to organize the entire *story* from end to end.

Undated items have been placed where they may occur between dated items based on internal references to other dated items.

… Prehistory: The engineer's sacrifice

2023.02.28 CE: TED Conference 2023

… Covenant Prologue: Peter Weyland and David

… Happy Birthday, David

2075.05.10 CE: Weyland Industries Testimonial

2079.04.08 CE: Quiet Eye: Elizabeth Shaw

2089 CE: Isle of Skye discovery

… Project Prometheus: Mission

… Prometheus Transmission

2091.06.22 CE: Peter Weylan records crew address

2092 CE ALIEN: Earth

2093.12 CE: SEV Prometheus arrives LV-223

2094.01.01 CE: SEV Prometheus lost

… The Crossing

… The Juggernaut's arrival and bombing of planet 4

… David's Drawings

… Meet Walter

… Phobos

2103 CE Alien: Covenant Origins

… 5 Crew Messages

… The Last Supper

2104 CE Alien: Covenant

… Advent

… David's Lab: Last Signs of Life

2122 CE Alien

2122 CE Alien: Containment

… @MikeTanaka2095 Tweets

… Alien: Isolation San Diego ComicCon Comic ¹⁾

2137 CE Alien: Isolation (video game)

2137.12 CE Alien: Blackout

2138.5 CE Aliens: Defiance - Extravehicular ²⁾

2138 CE Aliens: Defiance

2139 CE Alien: Prototype

2140 CE Aliens: Resistance

… Aliens: Rescue

2142 Alien: Romulus

2172 CE Alien: Echo

2177 CE Rapture Protocol

2179 CE Hope's Last Hand ³⁾
2179 CE Hope's Last Dance ⁴⁾
2179 CE Hope's Last Stand ⁵⁾
2179 CE Hope's Last Day

2179 CE Aliens

2179.7 CE Alien: The Cold Forge

2179.9.15 CE Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual

2180 CE Aliens: Colonial Marines ⁶⁾

… Alien^3

… Alien^3 Unreleased Screenplay novelization ⁷⁾

2183 CE Map of the Middle Heavens

… USCSS Miranda ⁸⁾

2183 CE Chariots of the Gods (Draconis Strain Part I)

2183 CE Destroyer of Worlds (Draconis Strain Part II)

2184 CE Alien: Into Charybdis

2184 CE Colonial Marines Operations Manual (The Frontier War)
2184 CE Map of the Middle Heavens (Marine Locations)
… Operation: Blaze of Glory
… Perchance to Dream
… Operation: Arcturian Apocalypse
… Assault on the Kremlin
… Operation: Quiet Catch
… The Last Outpost
… Operation: Go Fish
… The Ghost Fleet of 61 Cygni
… Operation: Dreamcatcher
… Berserker Down
… Operation: Deep Shaft
… The Siege of Lamont Prime
… Operation: Octopus Garden

2185 CE Heart of Darkness (Draconis Strain Part III)

2186 CE Alien: Colony War
… Fallout

… Alien: Inferno's Fall
… Evac

2186 Building Better Worlds (The Lost Worlds)
… Home Sweet Home
… To Go My Own Dark Way
… Leave All Else To The Gods
… The Devil Lives In Still Waters
… Against A Sea Of Troubles
… Let Sleeping Gods Lie
… In The Shadow Of Perfection

2187 CE Alien: Enemy Of My Enemy
… Trojan Horse

2198 CE Aliens: Dark Descent

2202 CE Alien: Infiltrator

2202 CE Aliens: Fireteam Elite

2295 CE Aliens: Dead Orbit

~2379+ CE Alien: Resurrection

… Alien: The Blueprints

… Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report

~2423+ CE Alien: Phalanx

… Alien: Alone

… Alien: Harvest

… Alien: Night Shift

… Alien: Ore

… Alien: Specimen

… Aliens: Dust-to-Dust

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non-canon

CANON TIMELINE

PROMETHEUS ERA

ALIEN: COVENANT ERA

ALIEN ERA

ALIEN: ISOLATION ERA

ALIENS ERA

ALIEN^3 ERA

ALIEN RPG ERA

ALIEN FIRETEAM ERA

ALIEN RESURRECTION ERA

UNDATED