Original Timeline

A timeline of events in Tomb Raider:

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 * A large meteorite falls into the jungles of Antarctica.

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 * One of the rulers of Atlantis, Natla, is imprisoned for abusing her powers of the Atlantean Scion. She is put in frozen hibernation beneath the desert of Los Alamos, New Mexico

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 * The Egyptian god Set is outwitted by his nephew, Horus, and is imprisoned in a secret tomb at the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It is said that Set will return seeking vengeance at the turn of a distant millennia.

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 * The Polynesians of Antarctica sculpt five artefacts out of meteorite material. Soon, mutations started occuring in their newborn and they fled Antarctica leaving the artefacts there.

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1445
 * The monks of Tibet stand in the way of Chinese Emperor Qin Shihuang's conquests where they do batte at the Great Wall. The Emperor would be deafeated and the Dagger of Xian returned to it's resting place.
 * Pieter Van Eckhardt is imprisoned

1573


 * Brother Herbert of St. Francis' Folly writes his prayer journal which mentions rumours of Tihocan's tomb and his piece of the Atlantean Scion being buried beneath their monastery.

1809


 * Charles Darwin is born.

1812


 * Paul Caulfield is born.

1834


 * Charles Darwin's expedition travel on the HMS Beagle around the world. At Antarctica, the five sailors discover four meteorite artefacts. Paul Caulfield is killed by a wolf and the remaining four travel around the world where the artefacts end up. India, Nevada, South Pacific and England.

1934


 * Winston Smith is born.

1940


 * Werner Von Croy is born.

1945


 * In April, a German U-Boat submarine carrying the Spear of Destiny sinks.


 * A Newspaper featuring an Inuit whale hunter holding what appears to be the Mask of Tornarsuk is published.


 * Natla is freed from her imprisonment when a US bomb test explodes near her prison.
 * Eckhardt escapes from confinement and takes one of the three Periapt Shards with him.

1949


 * Charles Kane is born.

1951


 * Peter Stothard is born.


 * Pierre DuPont is born.

1954


 * Bram Patrick Dunstan is born.

1967


 * Larson Conway is born.

1968


 * Lara Croft is born.

1971

1972
 * Lara Croft begins private tutoring.
 * Kurtis Trent is born on June 26th.

1974


 * Zip is born.

1977


 * Lara Croft survives a plane crash in the Himalayas.

1979


 * Lara Croft enrols at Wimbledon High School. Here, her History teacher was Charles Kane.

1984

Lara Croft stowaways on Father Bram Patrick Dunstan's hired boat and travels to the Black Isle in Ireland.
 * Lara Croft accompanies Professor Werner Von Croy on an expedition to Cambodia. Lara returns alone.

1986

1987 1989
 * Lara Croft enrols at Swiss Finishing School.
 * Kristina Boaz survives a plane crash which leaves her with a permanent scar.
 * Lara Croft searches for the Philosopher's Stone in Rome where she is rivaled by Larson Conway and Pierre DuPont.

1996


 * Lara Croft is hired by Ms. 'Jacqueline' Natla of Natla Technologies to recover the Atlantean Scion.


 * Lara Croft recovers a couple statues of Egyptian goddess Bastet and puts a final end to Natla's mutants.

1997


 * Lara Croft searches for the Dagger of Xian where she is rivaled by the Fiamma Nera led by Marco Bartoli.


 * Lara Croft searches for the Mask of Tornarsuk in Alaska.


 * Lara Croft breaks into Von Croy Industries and steals the Iris.

1998


 * Lara Croft recovers the Infada Stone in India and is soon hired by Doctor Mark Willard of RX Tech to recover similar artefacts found in Nevada, South Pacific and London.


 * Lara Croft learns of a fifth meteorite artefact and goes in search of it across Scotland, England and France.


 * Lara Croft searches for the Spear of Destiny. She's not the only one. A Russian mafia led by Sergei Mikhailov has bribed the navy to use one of it's submarines to go in search of the Spear.

1999


 * Lara Croft is hired by The Times to continue Howard Carter's exhibition as new tunnels have been discovered in Tutankhamun's tomb.


 * Lara Croft recovers the Amulet of Horus and has released the Egyptian god Set. Lara is also rivaled by her former mentor Professor Werner Von Croy. Lara must use all her wit and skill to reimprison Set and save the world from Armageddon.

2000


 * Lara Croft is presumed dead and her closest friends, Winston Smith, Father Bram Patrick Dunstan and Charles Kane hold a memorial service for her where they remember Lara's past adventures. Meanwhile, Professor Werner Von Croy coordinates a dig at the Great Pyramid in Egypt to discover Lara's fate.