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 timeline). Relevant and possibly relevant information from Bioshock will be included.

Sept 3, 1906- Orrin Oscar Lutwidge is (supposedly) born

1946: James Millard Oakes disappears

Febuary 13, 1946 (presumed)- Lutwidge Property Management declares fictitious business name

March 8, 1946- Liddell & Lewis Publishers declares fictitious business name

April 5, 1946- Scarlet Sovereign declares fictitious business name

May 20, 1946- Scarlet Sovereign sends invoice to Warden Yard for large amounts of steel

November 1946- Rapture is finished

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

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

1957- Celest Roget travels to the Himalayas to find her father

May 23, 1958- Lutwidge writes "Thingumbob" letter to Celeste

September 1958- Lutwidge records "For the Seeker" tape, as well as puzzle box tape, disappears

December 1958- Lutwidge's workshop burns down

December 31, 1958- Masquerade party is thrown, Rapture civil war

1960- events of Bioshock

Feb 17, 1967- Lynch finds footprints on Lehinch Beach

Feb 20, 1967- Irish girl disappears

March 15, 1967- girl disappears from Felixstowe, Germany, vessel detects red light underwater

March 18, 1967- J. Lynch writes letter to Meltzer regarding footprints and kidnapping.

March 22, 1967- girl disappears from St. Cloud, France; Interpol issues press release

Oct. 27, 1967- Meltzer questioned in kidnapping of his daughter

June 1968(?)- monthly undergrounder publishes article on Lutwidge, The Vanishing