Arthur Wiki:Timeline

An unofficial timeline of the story of. Specific years, such as 2024, are not used. Instead, all events are dated by their distance from Arthur Read's 3rd grade year, and only that year is divided into months.

200 Years Ago

 * Mrs. Lapp's great-great-great grandfather came to America.

150 Years Ago

 * Gustav comes to own the family farm.

123 Years Ago

 * Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull pass through Elwood City.

100 Years Ago

 * President Theodore Roosevelt declares the lumber town founded by Jacob Katzenellenbogan an official city.

87 Years Ago

 * Horace P. Crane, owner of the Elwood City Grebes, takes a home run baseball from a boy, supposedly putting a curse on the team.

75 Years Ago

 * Edzel E. Crosswire, Muffy's great-grandfather, "came to these shores".

51 Years Ago

 * Ernest J. Cherney was stranded on an Antarctic expedition, but is soon rescued. (March 16th)

40 Years Ago

 * Millicent Crosswire was born.

37 Years Ago

 * Bailey was born.

Over 30 Years Ago

 * The Virtues of Science was made.

30 Years Ago

 * Mrs. Robertson started teaching kindergarten.

20 Years Ago

 * Trevor was born.

16 Years Ago

 * Sally McGill was born.
 * Catherine Frensky was born.

13 Years Ago

 * Seth was born.
 * Alberto was born.

10 Years Ago

 * The Crosswire family first hires Bailey.
 * David and Jane Read are married.

9 Years Ago

 * Binky Barnes was born.
 * Prunella Deegan was born.
 * Rattles was born.
 * Molly MacDonald was born.
 * Slink was born.
 * Michelle Kwan graduated from Lakewood Elementary School.

8 Years Ago

 * Arthur was born. (May 25th)
 * Muffy was born. (May 25th)
 * Buster was born.
 * Francine was born.
 * Brain was born.
 * Sue Ellen was born.
 * George was born.
 * Jenna was born. (January)
 * Fern was born.

7 Years Ago

 * Art Radley loses his pocketwatch.

5 Years Ago

 * Arthur gets his teddy bear.
 * Muffy first imagines Waldo.

4 Years Ago (Arthur's Preschool)

 * D.W. Read was born. (March 1st)
 * Emily was born.
 * Binky started being a bully.
 * The Tibbles were born.
 * Brain's family opened the ice cream shop.

3 Years Ago (Arthur's Kindergarten)

 * The Tree House is built.
 * Cousin Mo' spins Arthur on a sprinkler at the family reunion. (July)
 * Buster finds a roll, which he mistakes for a hole-less doughnut, in a diner in, and adds it to his food collection.
 * Francine plays Static Airwaves' first single for Show and Tell.
 * George gives Muffy a box of juice.

2 Years Ago (Arthur's 1st Grade)

 * Buster begins keeping a School Lunch Almanac.
 * At the Read Family reunion, Cousin Mo' practices karate on Arthur. (July)
 * Sue Ellen begins keeping a diary.
 * Buster took Binky's juice box.

1 Year Ago (Arthur's 2nd Grade)

 * D.W. first imagines Nadine.
 * Kate Read was born.
 * Muffy Crosswire transfers to Lakewood Elementary School.
 * Arthur goes into the scariest house in town, the Tibbles' Mansion. (October 31st)
 * Arthur Read gets his glasses. (November)
 * Arthur gets a valentine from a secret admirer, and hopes it is from Sue Ellen. (February 13-14)
 * Binky visits the Exploratorium for the first time and finds it boring.
 * Cousin Mo' dresses up Arthur as a baby at the family reunion. (July)
 * Arthur and Muffy plan their 8th birthday parties on the same day.

August

 * Unknown date
 * Buster tries to save his Dark Bunny toy from the teacher's lounge.

September

 * Unknown dates
 * Arthur and D.W. find Starry Moony in Grandma Thora's attic.
 * The Tibble Twins try to be well-behaved for their grandmother, since they forgot about Grandparents Day last Sunday.
 * Buster receives a mysterious box of chocolates from a secret admirer, and tries to identify the person so he can thank them.
 * Arthur, Francine, Brain, Muffy, and Buster compete in a bowling tournament.
 * Francine's cousin Seth celebrates his Bar Mitzvah.
 * D.W. learns to write her name and gets a library card.
 * (circa) 1st
 * Buster and Arthur compete over who is a better magician.
 * D.W. gives all of her toys to the Tibbles, who wreck most of them.
 * 19th
 * International Talk Like A Pirate Day
 * 21st
 * The Stoddard Wilkins Elementary Aptitude Test is taken.

October

 * Unknown date
 * The Tough Customers attempt to eliminate all music in the world.
 * 31st
 * D.W. has a bad case of hiccups that she can't get rid of.

November

 * 13th
 * A leaky roof forces Arthur to study in Buster's room.
 * Francine plagiarizes a paper about the Pilgrims.
 * Arthur has to be the turkey in the school play.
 * Arthur has to be the turkey in the school play.

December

 * 25th
 * Arthur's family celebrates Christmas in a different way than he had planned. Other families celebrate the holidays in their own ways.
 * 31st/January 1st
 * Arthur tries to stay up until midnight to see the new year.

January

 * Jenna's birthday.
 * Day after Jenna's birthday
 * Ladonna experiences her first blizzard.

February

 * Unknown date, (before Valentine's Day)
 * Arthur and his friends try to invent a new holiday to cure their boredom.
 * 2nd
 * Buster reads his horoscope, which says "you will find a hidden talent".
 * 15th
 * Arthur's father makes a cake for Galileo's birthday party.

March

 * 1st
 * D.W.'s birthday.
 * 7th
 * Buster steals a CyberToy from the drug store and unsuccessfully tries to return it unnoticed.
 * 10th
 * The class goes on a trip to the Exploratorium, but Binky finds most of it boring, since he had already gone on the trip last year.
 * 16th-17th
 * Bitzi Baxter breaks up with Harry Mills, but they remain good friends.

April

 * Unknown date
 * Arthur punches D.W., eventually leading to the "de-founding" of the Tough Customers.
 * Unknown date
 * D.W. buys a shark tooth and pretends it is her own, "tricking" the tooth fairy.
 * 1st
 * Binky takes Arthur's favorite pen, so he gets him back with an April Fools prank.
 * 9th
 * A fire burns the teacher's lounge at Lakewood Elementary.
 * 10th
 * The students go to Mighty Mountain after the fire.
 * 16th
 * A false fire alert happens at Mighty Mountain.
 * Sue Ellen gets a new journal from Muffy.
 * Arthur's father has a catering job at the aquarium.
 * 18th
 * Sue Ellen gets an idea to paint a mural on the side of Lakewood about the events of the fire.
 * 22nd
 * Prunella learns how giving away extra clutter can help others too.
 * Within the time of this story, Arthur, Buster, Francine, and Brain try to create their own country.

May

 * Unknown dates
 * Francine and The Brain get into a huge argument during a soccer game.
 * George accidentally breaks a class woodworking project.
 * D.W. eats a green potato chip and thinks she will die from it.
 * Unknown date, (right after Mothers Day)
 * Muffy and Fern team up to sell greeting cards.
 * 1st
 * Mrs. MacGrady is diagnosed with cancer.
 * 5th
 * Sue Ellen decides to become a vegetarian.
 * During the same time frame: D.W. fakes losing her voice.
 * 16th
 * Doria Walters's birthday.
 * 17th
 * Binky practices bike riding at World's End Park.
 * 23rd
 * Brain and Buster compete in the practice round of the Math-a-thon.
 * 25th
 * Arthur Read's 9th birthday.
 * Muffy Crosswire's 9th birthday.
 * Muffy and Sue Ellen go to Crown City and meet with Sue Ellen's old babysitter, Carla.
 * 26th
 * Arthur goes against Grandma Thora in a marbles championship.

June

 * Unknown date
 * Fern feels sad, but no one knows why.
 * 2nd
 * Mrs. MacGrady finally returns to work after recovering from cancer.
 * 14th - 16th
 * Buster and the Read family go to the beach, where Buster finds a note in a bottle that he thinks to be from Atlantis.
 * 15th
 * Buster convinces everyone that he will still feel OK on the Father's Day picnic even though his parents are divorced.
 * 22nd
 * The last day of the school year.

July

 * Unknown date
 * The Read Family reunion takes place, and Arthur is afraid of what Cousin Mo' has in store for him this year.
 * 25th
 * Buster goes to Camp Meadowcroak without his friends, but makes new ones instead.
 * 26th
 * George walks from Crown City to Elwood City.
 * Alberto's birthday.


 * Unknown date
 * In the last week of summer break, Arthur tries to find his list of things to do over the summer.
 * Buster attempts to launch a model rocket with his friends.
 * 8th
 * Buster returns from Camp Meadowcroak.

5 Years Later (Arthur's 8th Grade)

 * The Andy and Company contest winners are announced.

7 Years Later (Arthur's 10th Grade)

 * A space probe will reach Saturn and send pictures of it back to Earth.

100 Years Later

 * R4 and 3W watch a Datagram of the episode "Background Blues".