The Ultimate Jurassic Park – Novel Universe Timeline
Compiled by Andrew Beard, AKA “beeurd”
Italic text indicates scheduled events that never happened, from Jurassic Park.
1978 | Alan Grant begins his dig near Snakewater, Montana. |
1979 | The Hammond Foundation leases Isla Nublarfrom the Costa Rican government for a biological preserve.Grant discovers the first clutch of dinosaur eggs in Montana. |
1982 | Donald Gennaro begins employment at the Cowan, Swain and Ross law firm. One of his first assignments is to help John Hammond found the InGen Corporation. |
1983 | Grant earns his fame by publishing his findings of communal nesting and the maternal instincts of dinosaurs. |
September | Hammond and Genarro begin raising capital to found the InGen Corporation, including touring with Norman Atherton’s genetically engineered cat-sized elephant. |
1984 | Norman Atherton, the brains behind Hammond’s dream, dies.Henry Wu begins a five-year contract with InGen, Hammond initially tells him that the “general area involves cloning reptiles”, and grants him a $10-million per year budget.
The Hammond Foundation begins supporting Grant’s dig in Montana, with $30,000 per year. InGen ships 24 Hood automated gene sequencers (at a cost of $12m) and 3 Cray XMP supercomputers to Costa Rica. |
March | InGen Inc. pays Grant a $12,000 consultant’s fee for a paper on the eating habits of dinosaurs. |
1985 | Grant calls off the consultation with InGen, and settles for $12,000. |
November | By this time Hammond and Genarro have raised $870 million for InGen. |
1986 | The Genetic BiosynCorporation releases an untested bioengineered rabies vaccine on a farm in Chile.Howard King joins Biosyn and meets Lewis Dodgson. |
1987 January |
InGen begins construction of the Isla Nublar resort, and employ John Arnoldas Chief Engineer.InGen begins developing adult-sized containment devices and weapons to handle their currently juvenile dinosaurs.
InGen buys Millipore Plastic Products, which had recently patented a plastic suitable for use as synthetic eggshells Marty Guitierrez moves to live in Costa Rica. |
1988 | Robert Muldoonbegins employment as Game Warden of Jurassic Park.In 1988 to 1989, herbivores are fed macerated plant matter and carnivores are fed ground-up sheep extract, three times a day. |
October 10 | Site B starts taking action to halt the spread of infection on the production lines. |
December 18 | Site B begins releasing animals into the wild in an attempt to counter the spread of “DX” within the laboratory. |
1989 | Sarah Hardingreceives her doctorate.From the 1989 InGen Annual Report: “In addition to its headquarters in Palo Alto, where InGen maintains an ultra-modern 200,000 square foot research laboratory, the company runs three field laboratories around the world. A geological lab in South Africa, where amber and other biological specimens are acquired; a research farm in the mountains of Costa Rica, where exotic varieties of plants are grown; and a facility on the island of Isla Nublar, 120 miles west of Costa Rica.” |
January | Dr Bobbie Carterarrives in Bahía Anasco, Costa Rica.An 18 year old InGen worker dies in Bahía Anasco after being involved in a “construction accident” on Isla Nublar. In truth, he was attacked by an escaped Velociraptor. After this incident the Safari Lodge security is upgraded |
Spring | Groups of unknown animals move up into the Costa Rican jungles of the Ismaloya Mountains from the coast, eating only lysine-rich foods. |
June | Grant’s dig outside Snakewater, Montana, have 100 cases of beer.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) begin an investigation into InGen |
July | Mike and Ellen Bowman visit a deserted beach at Cabo Blanco, Cost Rica, where their daughter, Christina (Tina), is attacked by a lizard. |
July 16 | Guitierrez discovers a dead lizard being eaten by a howler monkey at Cabo Blanco, similar to the one drawn by Tina Bowman. |
Late July (?) | The EPA interview Grant regarding his dealings with InGen.Grant identifies Guitierrez’s lizard as a Procompsognathus.
Hammond invites Grant and Ellie Sattler to visit Isla Nublar. |
August | Biosyn pays Dennis Nedry $750,000 (of a promised $1.5-million) to steal embryos from InGen. The Isla Nublar incident The Isla Nublar facility is destroyed.The survivors of Nublar are held and questioned in San José. |
October 5 | InGen files for Chapter 11 protection in San Francisco Superior Court. |
November | Scheduled construction of Les Gigantes three-star dining room.Site B is abandoned. |
1990 | Construction scheduled to start of Jurassic Park Europe, in the Azores, and Jurassic Park Japan, near Guam. Sattler marries in Chicago. |
February | Malcolm is released from intensive care in Costa Rica. Sarah Harding helps nurse him back to health. |
September | Scheduled opening date of Jurassic Park. |
1992 March—September |
Scheduled introduction of the Jungle River Ride and the Aviary Lodge Ride.Richard Levine meets Grant at a conference in Peking, and asks him about InGen; Grant dismisses it as ‘absurd’ |
1993 | Hammond had previously predicted InGen to have annual revenues of seven billion dollars by 1993. And with JP Europe & Japan due to open this year also, they should exceed $10-billion. |
August | Malcolm presents his analysis of chaos theory in evolution at the Santa Fe Institute, in a lecture called “Life at the Edge of Chaos.” He also lectures that debating K-T extinction theory is pointless, and that humans are stubborn, self-destructive conformists.Levine meets Malcolm and Sarah Harding.
Sarah Harding returns to Africa. |
1994 Winter |
Members of Biosyn pose as Swiss geologists while they search Costa Rican islands for ‘large animals’. |
1995 February |
Since August 1993: Sarah Harding receives calls from Levine and Doc Thorne regarding equipment, anaesthetic, and protocols that would be useful for Levine’s ‘dinosaur hunt’. |
February 10 | Levine is arrested for driving 120 in a 15 zone. He loses his driving licence and is given community service; and starts teaching at Woodside Junior High. |
February | InGen’s assets begin to be sold off.Levine visits an ‘aberrant form’ in Costa Rica, along with Guitierrez. The specimen is burned, however.
The Isla Sorna Incident |