Elm Street Timeline

1907: Amanda Krueger is born

1925: 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
1930: Pamela Voorhees is born
December, 1940: 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. The wing is closed after the incident, and Hathaway House changes its name to Westin Hills
September, 1941: Fredrick Krueger is born after a breach birth, and given up for adoption
1943: Donald Thompson and Marge (MNU) are born, eventually meet and marry
1940s-1961: Throughout his school years, Freddy is teased and criticized for his dark history. He is often called the "Son of a Hundred Maniacs" by the other children, and he shows signs of psychological disorder when he starts to kill small animals, including his class hamster. He would eventually also murder his adoptive father, Mr. Underwood, and marry a woman named Loretta (MNU)
June 13, 1946: Jason Voorhees is born
Summer, 1957: Jason drowns at Camp Crystal Lake
June 13, 1958: Pamela Voorhees murders two camp counsellors, but is never found out. Camp Crystal Lake then closes, and is deemed "cursed" by the locals
1961: Kathryn Krueger is born
July 6, 1965: Nancy Thompson is born
1966: Katheryn witnesses her father, Freddy, murder her mother, Loretta. Shortly thereafter, police arrest Freddy, suspecting him of murdering several children, and Katheryn is taken in by adoption services
1967: Kathryn is adopted into the Burroughs family, and renamed Maggie
1968: During Freddy's trial, it is revealed that the arrest warrant was left unsigned, and he is released through a technicality. When Amanda hears of this, she commits suicide by hanging herself in the chapel tower. Unsatisfied, the parents of Springwood track Freddy down to his hideout and burn him alive. However, he makes a deal with three Dream Demons, who offer him the ability to continue killing through people's dreams. This is also around the time the children of the town create the "Freddy's Coming for You" nursery rhyme
1969: Jesse Walsh is born
1970s: Donald and Marge get divorced, and Nancy stays with Marge at 1428 Elm Street
1971: Kristen Parker and Alice Johnson are born
June 13, 1979: Camp Crystal Lake prepares to open again, but Pamela Voorhees returns to the grounds for a killing spree. By the end of the night, sole surviving camp counsellor, Alice Hardy, would kill Pamela in self-defence, secretly witnessed by a watching Jason
March 9-16, 1981: The events of 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' take place
1981-1986: Nancy 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, eventually purchased by the Walsh family
1982: John Doe is born
1984-2003: Jason Voorhees goes on to murder many more victims through the years, all in revenge for someone killing his Mother. Eventually, he is stopped by 2003
September, 1986: The events of 'Freddy's Revenge' take place
1986-1987: 1428 Elm Street is abandoned after Jesse and his family survive the ordeal and move away. The remaining children of Springwood are committed to Westin Hills Psychiatric Hospital for violent nightmares and what appears to be self-harm
1987: The events of 'Dream Warriors' take place
1988: The events of 'The Dream Master' take place
1989: The events of 'The Dream Child' take place
1990-1999: Despite the many attempts to stop Freddy from wreaking havoc on the town of Springwood, he keeps finding a way to come back. Over the next decade, some families would move away, and some would stay. Those who stayed, however, suffered, and Freddy eventually brings Springwood's population of youths to just one, John Doe
1994 (non-canonically): The events of 'New Nightmare' presumably take place
June 14-17, 1999: The events of 'Freddy's Dead' take place
June 13, 2003: Jason Voorhees is sent to Hell, only to meet Freddy using the likeness of Pamela Voorhees to manipulate him into killing
September, 2003: The events of 'Freddy vs Jason' take place