Dresden Files: Series Timeline

[Simon Hogwood]

She said the last time they'd spoken was at Hastings.  We are assuming it's the battle of....

If the quote from Cold Days is accurate, her exact words (very important with the Fae) were "before" Hastings, which indicates that Titania is thinking of it as an event, not a location. Strictly speaking it doesn't require that either of them be at the battle or that the conversation had anything to do with Norman-English politics, only that it happened before the battle.

[Quantus]

Don't know what I like better, the eyebrows or the 'stache.

Pretty sure they came from the same ferret... 

[wardenferry419]

Not classy enough for ferret, maybe possum?

[Rasins]

If the quote from Cold Days is accurate, her exact words (very important with the Fae) were "before" Hastings, which indicates that Titania is thinking of it as an event, not a location. Strictly speaking it doesn't require that either of them be at the battle or that the conversation had anything to do with Norman-English politics, only that it happened before the battle.

Then again, we don't know how long before Hastings either, right?

[Arjan]

Then again, we don't know how long before Hastings either, right?

Well she remembered something vaguely about no Normans yet and a saxon king so that is between around 900AD and 1066AD

[joelhammonds]

It doesn’t look like Dog Men has been added to the Timeline. Besides after Wild Card, do we know where it falls?

[wardenferry419]

I am guessing between BK11 and BK12.

[Katarn]

Another (obscure) argument for Storm Front taking place in 2000:

In Bigfoot on Campus, Harry mentions Native American reservations are called "Tribal Statistical Areas" now.  Said term was developed for the 2010 census.  Bigfoot on Campus is set in October 10 ASF, which places Storm Front in the year 2000, or later.

[BigFire]

Now that we have Zoo Day with Brief Cases, it took place at the same time as Day One.

[Katarn]

How did we get Jury Duty in mid-May?  Dresden explicitly mentions it's a) less than a month after being back in the world (I would assume referring to leaving the island and coming back to Chicago on a more permanent basis), and he explicitly mentions that it's late March (in the hardcover of Brief Cases, pg. 340 about halfway down.)

[Katarn]

Additionally, Day One/Zoo Day are late April at the earliest, as Butters mentions two months of of training with Charity (Brief Cases, top of pg. 359 of the hard cover.)

[Bad Alias]

CON: Butters assures Harry that he's vaccinated against smallpox, but routine vaccination of the American public stopped in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the United States.

Butters is six years older than Harry. I wouldn't be surprised if Butters just assumes Harry is the same age as him. Butters could just be assuming that anyone who is an adult going around doing adult things like gruesome murder investigations can't be younger than him.

My point is that I don't think this is a very persuasive "con" because it doesn't take mental gymnastics to explain away.