Rapture Timeline

This is a timeline based on the chronological events of There's Something in the Sea, based on information revealed rather than when events and updates happen in real time (our 2009 timeline). Relevant and possibly relevant information from Bioshock will be included.

1906
September 3- Orrin Oscar Lutwidge is (supposedly) born

1946
James Millard Oakes disappears

February 13 (presumed)- Lutwidge Property Management declares fictitious business name

March 8- Liddell &amp; Lewis Publishers declares fictitious business name

April 5- Scarlet Sovereign declares fictitious business name

May 20- Scarlet Sovereign sends invoice to Warden Yarn for large amounts of steel

November 5: Rapture is finished December:&#160;Dr. Suchong noted missing

1947
A Child's Garden of Cyphers is published by Liddell &amp; Lewis

February:&#160;A&#160;number of Australians, including Kyburz, disappear from&#160;Turtle&#160;Bay

1952
December 19- Lutwidge Property Mgmt produces Statement of Holdings (filed 21st)

1957
Celeste Roget travels to the Himalayas to find her father

January 22- Frank Fontaine installs first Power to the&#160;People machine in Rapture, likely as a response to conflict

1958
May 23- Lutwidge writes "Thingumbob" letter to Celeste  September; Lutwidge records "For the Seeker" tape, as well as puzzle box tape; disappears

September 12-&#160;Frank Fontaine fakes own death

December- Lutwidge's workshop burns down

December 31- Masquerade party is thrown, Kashmir restaurant attacked, Rapture civil war begins

1960
events of Bioshock occur

1961
August 25: Cindy, Mark's daughter, is born

1967
Feb 17- Lynch finds footprints on Lehinch Beach

Feb 20- Irish girl disappears

March 15- girl disappears from Felixstowe, Germany, vessel detects red light underwater

March 18- J. Lynch writes letter to Meltzer regarding footprints and kidnapping.

March 22- girl disappears from St. Cloud, France; Interpol issues press release

April- 4 year old Chantal Dumas is kidnapped from her orphanage in West Flanders

April 11- A newspaper reports that Camillie Dumas, aged 6 is kidnapped in La Rocchelle, France. Red lights appear in the harbor.

4/23 Red Glow alarms Spanish fisherman

4/27: La Boca, Spain missing girl

5/5 - Boatman dodged "ghost sub" on Douro river

5/23:&#160;Ghost lights near Cadiz

6/14 "mysterious red light" circles the Golden Queen, a cruise ship. The US Coast guard sights a "fast-moving red light" under the surface near the Virgin Islands. Jennifer Walker aged 5 is taken from her holiday bungalow in Puerto Rico.

6/17&#160; Meltzer receives a letter from the Philadelphia Observer

7/14 A police report of a further break-in and kidnapping of Melinda Jelenski

7/25 A letter addressed to Mark Meltzer from the House of Representatives thanks him for information relating to the mystery submarines

8/14 A letter from a father whose child has gone missing is also enclosed, asking the commentator for help finding his daughter.

9/28 A single letter addressed to Roscoe Inman of ONI from our commentator Mark Meltzer.

Oct 1:&#160;Meltzer takes photos of Big Sister in New Brunswick

Oct 21:&#160;Meltzer takes final photo of his daughter, near "grandma's"

(Big Sister kidnaps Cindy)

Oct. 27: Meltzer questioned in kidnapping of his daughter

1968
March 6: Meltzer is discharged from Tollevue

(Meltzer encounters Big Sister on the docks on the&#160;Hudson)

April 25:&#160;Meltzer's legs are x-rayed

May 19:&#160;Meltzer is prescribed painkillers

May 20:&#160;Meltzer receives divorce papers from Amanda

June: monthly undergrounder publishes article on Lutwidge and The Vanishing