UPDATED: 02/22/24
The following timeline combines information from 'Elm Street' Wikipedia pages, dialogue and various dates from the films themselves. This timeline is not definitive, and certain situations are debatable and always will be due to the simplicity of human error.
For 'Freddy vs Jason', please refer to the 'Friday the 13th' Timeline page.
The following timeline combines information from 'Elm Street' Wikipedia pages, dialogue and various dates from the films themselves. This timeline is not definitive, and certain situations are debatable and always will be due to the simplicity of human error.
- Legacy Character / Final Girl
- Secondary but Important Character
For 'Freddy vs Jason', please refer to the 'Friday the 13th' Timeline page.
PRE-'ELM STREET' HISTORY
1907:
- Birthday: Amanda Krueger
- Amanda Krueger becomes a nun under the name of Sister Mary Helena and takes a job as a nurse at the Hathaway House for the Criminally Insane
- Amanda Krueger, as Sister Mary Helena, is accidentally locked inside the Hathaway House when it closes for Christmas Break. Approximately one hundred male mental patients rape her over this time, and she is left barely alive and with child.
- Birthday: Freddy Krueger
- Throughout his school years, Freddy Krueger is teased and criticized for his dark history. He is often called the "Son of a Hundred Maniacs" by the other children
- Signs of psychological disorder appear in Freddy Krueger when he starts to kill small animals, including his class hamster
- Freddy Krueger murders his adopted father and gets away with it.
- Freddy Krueger marries a woman named Loretta
- Birthday: Unknown date - Kathryn Krueger
- Birthday: Nancy Thompson
- Katheryn Krueger witnesses her father murder her mother, Loretta
- Freddy Krueger is arrested for the murder of several children, and Katheryn Krueger is taken away
- Kathryn Krueger is adopted into the Burroughs family, and renamed Maggie.
- During Freddy Krueger's trial, it is revealed that the arrest warrant was left unsigned, and he is released through the technicality
- The parents of Springwood track Freddy Krueger down to his hideout and burn him alive, taking the law into their own hands.
- Freddy Krueger makes a deal with three Dream Demons who offer him a chance at revenge, by giving him the ability to continue killing through people's dreams.
- Amanda Krueger hears of Freddy's release and commits suicide by hanging in the chapel tower.
- Children of Springwood create the eerie "1, 2, Freddy's Coming for You" song to jump rope to, based on the real-life actions of Freddy Krueger, who has since become a local boogieman.
- Birthday: Unknown date - Jesse Walsh
- Birthday: Unknown date - Kristen Parker
- Birthday: Unknown date - Alice Johnson
EVENTS OF 'A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET ('84)' TAKE PLACE
Film Timeline:
For deaths, see 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' Morgue, 1984 |
1981-1986
- Nancy Thompson is admitted to a psychiatric hospital for trauma after the events of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. Over the years, she learns psychology and becomes an expert on dreams and dream activity.
- 1428 Elm Street goes up for sale.
EVENTS OF 'FREDDY'S REVENGE' TAKE PLACE
Film Timeline:
For deaths, see 'Freddy's Revenge' Morgue, 1985 |
EVENTS OF 'DREAM WARRIORS' TAKE PLACE
Film Timeline:
For deaths, see 'Dream Warriors' Morgue, 1987 |
EVENTS OF 'THE DREAM MASTER' TAKE PLACE
Film Timeline:
For deaths, see 'Dream Master' Morgue, 1988 |
EVENTS OF 'THE DREAM CHILD' TAKE PLACE
Film Timeline:
For deaths, see 'Dream Child' Morgue, 1989 |
EVENTS OF 'FREDDY'S DEAD' TAKE PLACE
Film Timeline:
For deaths, see 'Freddy's Dead' Morgue, 1991 |
EVENTS OF 'FREDDY VS. JASON' TAKE PLACE
Note: Readers can find the further, non-canonical misadventures of Freddy Krueger with the following list of 'Elm Street' comics
FREDDY VS. JASON VS. ASH
December 23, 2008 - Unknown Date, Summer, 2009
About: Serving as a sequel to 'Freddy vs Jason' and the 'Evil Dead' trilogy, we learn that Freddy has become trapped inside Jason's head where he has no power. Here, Freddy learns of the Necronomicon (seen as an Easter Egg in 'Jason Goes to Hell') which would have the power to resurrect him, and much like in 'Freddy vs Jason', Freddy uses Jason as a sort of "puppet" to retrieve the Necronomicon. Meanwhile, Ash is sent to the Crystal Lake S-Mart to train some new employees, and before he knows it, he finds himself caught in the middle of Freddy and Jason after he mistakes a Jason attack as a Deadite attack. The story picks up with a sequel, 'The Nightmare Warriors' in which Ash Williams teams up with canonical characters from each film series to fight the monsters one last time. |