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[edit] 16th century

One of the paintings in the Kawatche Caves.
  • c. 1502: An ancestor of Kal-El's comes to Earth with several radioactive rocks from the planet Krypton. He falls in love with a Native American woman, thereby fathering the Kawatche people. This prophetic Kryptonian forges the prophecies in the Kawatche Caves, hiding several "parasites" from his homeworld within the cave walls and burying the Starblade so that it will take at least 500 years to recover it. Knowing that his destiny did not lay on Earth with the first of the Kawatche, Kal-El's ancestor bids them farewell, promising he (or rather his descendant, "Naman") would return to protect them all again. He then flies off, hides the sacred Stones of Power all around the world while building the reputation of a mighty "god" along the way, before leaving for Krypton once and for all, swearing to the natives of China that he would return for what is his (the Crystal of Air) one day. (Source episodes: Skinwalker, Talisman, Sacred)

[edit] 17th century

[edit] 18th century

[edit] 19th century

  • c. 1840: Ezra Small, Lana Lang's biological ancestor, establishes a trading post in Kansas. From then on, mud-and-thatch huts are built, proclaiming the town "Smallville." At some point, Ezra is trampled, cursing him with the ability of foresight for the rest of his life. He has been known to foresee many ambiguous events that circle around Clark Kent, Lex Luthor, and the meteor showers, among many other things.
  • 1861-1865: Many of the townsfolk of Smallville fight in the American Civil War or help with the Underground Railroad.

[edit] 20th century

  • June 15-17, 1961: Jor-El comes to Earth to undergo a Kryptonian rite of passage. Unexpectedly, he falls in love with Louise McCallum. Louise is killed by Lachlan Luthor, and Jor-El becomes the primary suspect in her death. Jor-El meets Hiram Kent, who helps him escape. Soon afterward, he returns to Krypton. (Source episode: Relic)
  • 1961: Jonathan Kent is born. (Source episode: Relic)
  • 1963: Lionel Luthor agrees to an arrangement with a slumlord of the Suicide Slums district to have Morgan Edge kill his parents. Lionel only survives because he moonlights at a print shop during the incident. He gets his cut of the insurance money, and plans to put himself through an Ivy League college, eventually starting up LuthorCorp. (Source episodes: Relic, Shattered)
  • 1966: The Science Council take blood samples from soldiers and put them into the Orb. Jor-El stops the experiment and is trialled for treason, but is saved by Zod.
    • Kandor is destroyed. Zod begs Jor-El to clone his son but refuses. Jor-El sends the Orb and Stones of Power to earth.
  • 1967: Kara is born on Krypton.
  • 1972: Marianne Lewis changes her name to Marianne Taylor after playing a minor role in a radical group's attempts to make a political statement, which involves blowing a bank and killing a guard. (Source episode: Truth)
  • 1978': Virgil Swann is named Time Magazines Man of the Year for 1977. (Source episode: Rosetta)
  • 1979: Tess Mercer is born. (Source episode: Turbulence)
  • 1980: Jonathan Kent graduates from Smallville High School.
  • December 22, 1980: Hiram Kent dies. (Source episode: Legacy)
  • 1980: Lex Luthor is born. (Source episodes: Pilot, Legacy)
  • 1985: Lois Lane is born.
  • 1986: Lara-El visits the Kent Farm on Earth. Her niece Kara arrives and learns that Jor-El and Lara are expecting a child, whom Kara names "Kal-El." Zor-El finds Kara and Lara; after revealing he tried to kill Jor-El and got DNA from Lara and himself to create clones, he erases Kara's memory. (Source episode: Lara)
    • Kal-El is born on Krypton. (Source episode: Pilot)
    • The Kryptonian monster Doomsday is created by General Zod and Faora, who fuse their own DNA with genetic material taken from violent Kryptonian life-forms. (Source episode: Bloodline)
    • Krypton is destroyed by Zor-El. Before the planet explodes, Jor-El and Lara place Kal-El inside a spaceship and send him off to Earth; they are unaware that Zod and Faora's genetically engineered son, Doomsday, is attached to the ship. (Source episodes: Memoria, Apocalypse, Bloodline)
    • Brainiac travels back from the future to the day of Krypton's destruction with Kara in an attempt to kill baby Kal-El before he leaves. Clark Kent follows him and stops Brainiac, but Brainiac places Kara in the Phantom Zone and takes her place. (Source episodes: Apocalypse, Arctic)
    • Zor-El puts Kara inside a red spaceship and sends her off on the same trajectory as Kal-El after she finds out about his plan to destroy Krypton; he again erases her memory. (Source episodes: Kara, Kara and the Chronicles of Krypton)
  • January 20, 1986: Emily Dinsmore is born. (Source episode: Accelerate)
  • Fall 1986: Lana Lang is born. (Source episodes: Craving, Crusade)
  • Early 1987: Chloe Sullivan is born. (Source episodes: Crusade, Hex)
  • May 13, 1987: The birth date on Clark Kent's forged adoption papers. (Source episode: Oracle)
  • October 16, 1987: The birth date on Davis Bloome's adoption papers. (Source episode: Bloodline)
  • 1987: Lionel Luthor, Edward Teague, Robert Queen and Virgil Swann form the Veritas Society, and have numerous meetings regarding the Traveler, who is due to arrive on Earth soon. Swann is aware of a way to control the Traveler, and hides clues around the world to find the control device. (Source episode: Veritas)
  • October 14, 1989: Oliver Queen's parents die in a plane crash, leaving their fourth-grader orphaned.
The first meteor shower that hits Smallville.
  • October 16, 1989: Smallville is struck by the first of two meteor showers in 16 years. Kal-El's ship arrives on Earth with Doomsday attached. Lewis and Laura Lang are killed in the shower. Jonathan and Martha Kent find and adopt Kal-El, re-naming him "Clark." (Source episodes: Pilot, Lineage, Eternal)
    • Doomsday morphs into the form of a human boy who later be named Davis Bloome; the boy is taken by Lionel Luthor's men and brought to the Luthor Mansion because Lionel thinks he has found the Traveler. Lex and Davis become playmates until Lionel determines that Davis is not the Traveler and leaves the boy on the streets of Metropolis. (Source episode: Eternal)
    • Kara's ship arrives on Earth, but she gets stuck in suspended animation for 18 years. (Source episode: Kara)
    • Jordan Cross is born. His mother is killed by a direct hit from a meteor. (Source episode: Hereafter)
  • November 1989: Clark displays super-strength for the first time by lifting an old oak bed that weighs roughly 500 pounds over Jonathan's head. (Source episodes: Vortex, Leech)
  • 1990: Lex attends Excelsior Academy. (Source episode: Reunion)
  • 1992: Julian Luthor is born. On the day of his baptism, Julian is killed by his mother, Lillian. Lex takes the fall to protect his mother from the ruthless Lionel, eventually repressing his memory of this day, which leads him to believe, for years, that he actually did kill Julian. This event scars Lex for the rest of his life, as he not only witnessed his mother kill his infant brother, but his relationship with his father would never have any hope of the love that his 12th birthday showed hope for. (Source episodes: Stray, Memoria)
  • 1993: Lillian Luthor dies. Lex is away at boarding school. (Source episodes: Crush, Perry, Sneeze)
    • Clark has one of his first experiences with super-speed while playing tag with his father when suddenly he starts running faster than he ever had in his life, getting lost in Palmer Woods for nearly a full day. (Source episode: Transference)
    • Rachel Dunleavy is released from the psychiatric ward. (Source episode: Lineage)
  • 1995: Moira Sullivan voluntarily leaves her family and commits herself to a mental institution. (Source episode: Progeny)
    • Jordan Cross, age 6, experiences his first precognitive vision at an amusement park, when he touches a woman and sees her death. The woman is killed that same day in a roller coaster accident. (Source episode: Hereafter)
  • 1996: Lex and Oliver Queen attend boarding school together. Oliver's bullying eventually leads to Lex's first true glimpse of darkness as he nearly pummels his best friend Duncan Allenmeyer to death to win Oliver's friendship. (Source episode: Reunion)
    • A 10-year-old Lana Lang meets a 16-year-old Lex while on a trip to Metropolis with her aunt. Lana walks in on Lex skinny-dipping with a girl. (Source episode: Metamorphosis)
    • Emily Dinsmore drowns while trying to save Lana after she fell off a bridge. (Source episode: Accelerate)
    • Sarah Conroy and her parents are involved in an automobile accident in which their car goes off Loeb Bridge and falls into the Elbow River. Sarah's parents are killed, but Sarah survives due to being asleep when the accident occurs. Her uncle Nicholas becomes her guardian. (Source episode: Slumber)
  • 1998: Lex and Oliver graduate from high school. Oliver is stranded on an island for months after his crew steals his yacht. (Source: The Oliver Queen Chronicles, Toxic)
  • 1999: Lex accidentally causes chaos at Club Zero when he tries to take advantage of a situation with his first true love, Amanda Rothman. After getting her fiancĂ©, Jude Royce, royally angry, Lex gets stabbed in the shoulder and witnesses Amanda kill Jude. Lex takes the fall so that Lionel would orchestrate a police cover-up with Detective Sam Phelan, sparing Amanda a life in prison. (Source episode: Zero)

[edit] 21st century (new millennium)

[edit] 2000-2005

Clark saves Lex.
Clark decides to tell Pete his secret c. 2002.
    • Clark tells Pete about his true origins. (Source episode: Duplicity)
    • Lana Lang moves in with Chloe and her father after her aunt leaves Smallville. (Source episode: Ryan)
    • Lex meets Helen Bryce for the first time in years. (Source episode: Dichotic)
    • Clark finds the Kawatche Caves and discovers more clues to his origins. Lana learns that Henry Small is her biological father. (Source episode: Skinwalker)
  • Winter 2002/Early 2003: Jonathan Kent is framed for Lionel Luthor's attempted murder by Sheriff Ethan Miller. (Source episode: Suspect )
    • Lex discovers his half-brother, Lucas. (Source episode: Prodigal)
    • Clark and Martha become deathly ill; Martha's pregnancy is discovered. (Source episode: Fever)
    • Clark learns to read Kryptonian when he puts the Key in the Kawatche Caves, and meets Dr. Virgil Swann. (Source episode: Rosetta)
  • Spring 2003: Lex and Helen get engaged. (Source episode: Precipice)
    • Clark and Lana get together. Lionel offers Chloe a deal to investigate Clark. Clark blows up his spaceship. Martha miscarries, and Clark runs away. Lex and Helen marry, but he ends up stranded on an island. Chloe accepts Lionel's offer. (Source episodes: Witness, Exodus, Exile)
  • Summer 2003: Clark lives in Metropolis as "Kal." Chloe interns at the Daily Planet. (Source episode: Exile)
  • Fall 2003: Clark returns to Smallville. Lex is rescued and also returns. (Source episode: Phoenix)
Lex is institutionalized c. 2003
  • Winter 2003/Early 2004: Lex is poisoned by Lionel, kills Morgan Edge, and is placed in Belle Reve for a month. Lana is trampled by a horse and meets Adam Knight in physical therapy. (Source episodes: Shattered, Asylum)
  • Early Spring 2004: FBI agent Frank Loder kidnaps and tortures Pete to try and force him to reveal Clark's secret. Pete moves to Wichita with his mother. (Source episode: Forsaken)
  • Late Spring 2004: Lionel is arrested for the murder of his parents; he is denied bail and sent to jail. Clark and Chloe testify against him, and Lionel is convicted. Chloe's safe house gets blown up. Lana leaves for Paris. Jor-El puts Clark in a pocket dimension and re-programs him as Kal-El; he also puts Jonathan into a coma. (Source episode: Covenant)
Lionel spends several months in prison c. 2004.
  • Summer 2004: Clark is presumed missing. Chloe and her father are presumed dead. Jonathan lies in a coma. Lana meets Jason Teague in Paris. Lionel is convicted of murder and remains in jail. Lois Lane comes to Smallville to investigate Chloe's death. Kal-El returns and is restored as Clark, and Jonathan wakes up. Clark meets Lois Lane for the first time. Lois moves in with the Kents. Lana returns to Smallville and moves into the Talon. (Source episodes: Crusade, Gone)
  • Winter 2004/Early 2005: Lionel's conviction is overturned, and he is released. (Source episode: Scare)
Clark explains his origins to Chloe c. 2005.
  • Late Spring 2005: Clark, Lana and Chloe graduate from Smallville High School. The second meteor shower hits Smallville. Jason becomes unhinged and dies in the meteor shower. Lana, possessed by Margaret Isobel Thoreaux, kills Genevieve Teague. Lionel is put into a catatonic state after being exposed to the Crystal of Water. Clark is transported to the North Pole after he unites the Stones of Power and creates the Fortress of Solitude. He tells Chloe about his true origins. Nam-Ek and Aethyr arrive in the Black Ship and wreak havoc on Smallville; Clark sends them into the Phantom Zone. Jor-El strips Clark of his powers; Clark and Lana begin a relationship. (Source episodes: Commencement, Arrival)
  • Summer 2005: Clark and Lana's relationship continues, and they lose their virginity together. Lionel remains catatonic; Lex has him monitored at Belle Reve. (Source episode: Mortal)
  • Fall 2005: Clark's powers are restored after he is shot, and Lionel emerges from catatonia. (Source episode: Hidden)
    • Clark begins his freshman year at Central Kansas A&M and meets Professor Milton Fine. (Source episode: Aqua)
    • Chloe and Lana move to Metropolis to attend Metropolis University. Lois moves into the Talon. (Source episode: Thirst)
    • Fine strikes Martha with a mysterious disease, and is revealed to be Brainiac. Clark defeats him in the Fortress of Solitude. (Source episode: Solitude)

[edit] 2006-present

Jonathan Kent dies in early 2006.
Lex and Lana marry in early 2007.
  • February 24, 2007: Lana finds out about Clark's powers, and is threatened by Lionel to marry Lex or he will kill Clark. Lana and Lex get married. (Source episode: Promise)
    • Early March 2007: Lana "miscarries" her baby. Clark kills Titan. (Source episode: Combat)
  • Spring 2007: Moira Sullivan emerges from her catatonic state for 24 hours for a short-lived reunion with her daughter, Chloe. (Source episode: Progeny)
    • Chloe's meteor power manifests. Lana decides to leave Lex but apparently dies. Clark fights Bizarro. Lionel disappears. Clark defeats Bizarro, and Martian Manhunter takes Bizarro away. Kara is released from Reeves Dam and saves Lex. Lana is revealed to be alive in Shanghai, China. (Source episodes: Phantom, Bizarro)
    • Lex and Lana divorce. Lois gets a job at the Daily Planet. (Source episode: Kara)
Zor-El plans to destroy the human race.
  • Fall 2007: Chloe and Jimmy break up. (Source episode: Cure)
    • Lex finds Lionel, who reveals his captor to be Lana. (Source episode: Action)
    • Clark meets replicants of his birth mother and uncle. Kara disappears, and Clark is frozen in the Fortress. (Blue)
  • Winter 2007/Early 2008: Bizarro returns to Earth and poses as Clark for over a month. Lex purchases the Daily Planet. (Source episode: Gemini)
    • Clark returns and defeats Bizarro again. Brainiac, Green Arrow and an amnesiac Kara all return, and the Black Canary joins Oliver's team. (Source episodes: Persona, Siren, Fracture)
  • Spring 2008: Pete Ross comes back to Smallville and gains temporary superpowers. (Source episode: Hero)
    • Lionel has Clark kidnapped. Kara's powers are restored. (Source episode: Traveler)
    • Brainiac puts Lana in a coma, and travels to Krypton 1986 in an attempt to kill Kal-El as a baby. Clark is shown an alternate reality where he never arrived on Earth and returns to Krypton 1986. (Source episodes: Veritas, Apocalypse)
    • Lionel is murdered by Lex. Chloe is fired from the Daily Planet. (Source episode: Descent)
    • Lex discovers the Veritas Cryptograph and uses it to track down Edward Teague and the Orb. (Source episodes:Sleeper. Quest)
    • Edward Teague attempts to kill Clark. (Source episode: Quest)
  • Late Spring 2008: Edward Teague, the last member of Veritas, is murdered by Brainiac disguised as Kara. Clark defeats Brainiac; Lana awakens and is forced to leave Smallville by Tess Mercer. Jimmy proposes to Chloe just before she is arrested. Lex learns Clark's secret. Clark and Lex are trapped in the Fortress of Solitude as it collapses around them. (Source episodes: Arctic, Power)
  • June 2008: Chloe is being held prisoner by a suspicious group who has discovered she has a new power. Lex is missing. Clark in Russia, powerless and working in a slave labor camp. Tess Mercer comes to Smallville to take over Lex's estate. Oliver finds Clark. Lois sees that Clark is working with her at the Daily Planet. Lana begins training. (Source episodes: Odyssey, Power)
  • Early Fall 2008: Chloe meets Davis Bloome and re-opens the Isis Foundation‎. (Source episode: Plastique)
    • Oliver is poisoned. Tess kills Marcos. (Source episode: Toxic)
    • Chloe and Jimmy are kidnapped at their engagement party. Lois shows her feelings for Clark. (Source episode: Committed)
  • Late Fall 2008: Davis' blackouts become more frequent; he kills Mary Pierson and many others at the Ace of Clubs. A powerless Martian Manhunter takes a position as a detective in the Metropolis Police Department's homicide division. Jimmy and Davis are attacked by Randy Klein. (Source episode: Prey)
    • Jimmy snaps a picture of Clark super-speeding to save Lois and discovers Clarks' identity. Oliver Queen poses as the Red-Blue Blur. Clark thinks about an identity to protect his secret. (Source episode: Identity)
  • October 2008: Lana returns to Smallville to see Chloe and get information on Project Prometheus. (Source episode: Power)
Chloe on her wedding day.
The Legion.
  • November 2008: Clark and Lois are trapped in the Phantom Zone, and find Kara. Faora is released and possesses Lois. Davis discovers his true Kryptonian origins. (Source episode: Bloodline)
    • The Fortress of Solitude is restored, but Brainiac returns and corrupts it. (Source episode: Abyss)
    • Jimmy and Chloe get married. Lana returns to Smallville. Doomsday kidnaps Chloe and takes her to the corrupted Fortress of Solitude. Brainiac takes over Chloe. Jimmy is hospitalized in Star City after being injured by Doomsday. (Source episode: Bride)
    • The Legion arrives from the 31st century. Chloe is freed from Brainiac; Davis escapes from the Fortress. (Source episode: Legion)
  • Winter 2008/Early 2009: Lana meets Tess, and reveals Lex's betrayal to Tess, resulting in her turning her back on him. John Jones is shot. Lana steals the Prometheus suit, which forces Lex out of hiding. Lex employs Winslow Schott to help him get revenge, but Oliver kills Lex in an explosion. (Source episodes: Bulletproof, Power, Requiem)
  • January 2009: Linda Lake, Lois and Jimmy return to Metropolis. Jimmy and Chloe separate shortly afterward. Meanwhile, Davis starts murdering sinners (starting with Linda Lake) to tame the beast within him. (Source episodes: Infamous, Turbulence)
  • Early 2009: Chloe celebrates her birthday, and becomes Lois for a day. Zatanna arrives in Metropolis. Davis grows closer to Chloe, eventually asking her to stay near him to prevent his transformations. Tess reveals that she knows Clark's secret. (Source episodes: Hex, Eternal)
  • Spring 2009: Lois pretends to be a superhero to lure the Red-Blue Blur out for an interview. Davis goes on the run with Chloe. Tess brings together her team of metahumans to find them, but they turn on her when they discover she has put explosive chips in their heads. (Source episodes: Stiletto, Beast, Injustice.)
  • Early September, 2009: Doomsday attacks Metropolis and Henry James "Jimmy" Olsen and Davis are both killed. Kal-El tells Chloe, "Clark Kent is dead." Zod is reborn at the Luthor Mansion via the Orb. (Source episode: Doomsday)
  • September 25th, 2009: Lois Lane returns to Metropolis after being missing for three weeks. A Kryptonian army nearly mutinies against Major Zod.  John Corben starts working at the Daily Planet. Kal-El returns to save people in Metropolis and after buring his self in training at the Fortress, he fights a Kandorian woman from the future.(Source episode: Savior.)
  • October, 2009: John Corben is hit by a truck and becomes Metallo.  Coats creates an aiborne virus creating a number of zombies.  Virus is cured by Clark Kent and Emil Hamilton, Coats is beheaded by Zod.  Toyman attempts to kill Oliver Queen.  Chloe and Victoria Sinclair work together to save Oliver from himself.  Green Arrow returns.  Lois and Clark audition for Good Morning Metropolis.  Oliver meets Mia Dearden. (Source episodes: Metallo, Rabid, Echo, Roulette, Crossfire.)
  • November, 2009:Jor-El arrives at the Kent Farm and meets Chloe.  Chloe fills Jor-El in on the end of Krypton.  Zod kills Jor-El, and Jor-El asks Clark to save Zod. (Source Episodes: Kandor (episode))

[edit] 31st century (the future)

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