Timeline

This is the unofficial timeline of The Hunger Games trilogy detailing major events as they occur or are described throughout The Hunger Games series.

This timeline uses an "unofficially recognized", "non-canonical" calendar system in order to provide a relative reference to events in the trilogy. The origin year will be based on Dark Days, as they mark the year immediately preceding the establishment of the Hunger Games by the Capitol. The designations used to label years will be B.D.D. (Before the Dark Days) and A.D.D. (After the Dark Days).

As this has yet to be completed and many events of the past, present and future have yet to be revealed, many events will have approximate dates or will be listed as unknown.

The Panem Era (? BDD - 1 BDD)

? BDD

Following the end of the global disaster that devastated the world, the nation of Panem is founded and segmented into a regent Capitol and thirteen outlying districts over what was formerly the continent of North America.

5 BDD

Mags is born.

1 BDD

President Coriolanus Snow is born.

The Hunger Games Era (1 ADD - 73 ADD)

1 ADD

The Hunger Games are established by the Capitol in order to solidify their rule over the districts. During the same year, the 1st Annual Hunger Games took place.
Woof is born.

2 ADD

Greasy Sae is born.
The 2nd Hunger Games are held.

10-13 ADD

The 10th - 13th Hunger Games are held.
Mags from District 4 becomes a Hunger Games victor, winning the 11th Hunger Games.

13-17 ADD

Seeder is born.
The two Morphlings from District 6 are born.
The 13-17th Hunger Games are held.

15-18 ADD

Sometime during this time period, Woof from District 8 becomes a Hunger Games victor.
The 15th-18th Hunger Games are held.

20 ADD

Sometime during this time period, Beetee is born.
The 20th Hunger games are held.

25 ADD

The 25th Hunger Games take place, operating under the unique rules of the first Quarter Quell: during the reaping, instead of being selected by the reaping, the tributes were voted by their respective districts.

26 ADD

President Coin is born.

27-30 ADD

Sometime during this time period, Chaff is born.
Sometime during this time period, Brutus is born.

30-33 ADD

Sometime during this time period, Seeder from District 11 becomes a Hunger Games victor.
Sometime during this time period, the two Morphlings from District 6 emerged as victors.
The 30th - 33rd Hunger Games are held.

33-35 ADD

Haymitch Abernathy is born.
Sometime during this time period, Wiress is born.
Sometime during this time period, Lyme is born.
The 33rd - 35th Hunger Games are held.

35-38 ADD

The 35th-38th Hunger Games are held.
Sometime during this time period, Beetee from District 3 becomes a Hunger Games victor.
Porter Millicent Tripp becomes the victor of the 38th Hunger Games.

43-47 ADD

The 45th Hunger Games take place. Chaff from District 11 is victorious. He loses his hand during the event.
Sometime during this time period, Brutus from District 2 becomes a Hunger Games victor.
Cecelia is born.
Enobaria is born.
Gloss is born.
The 43rd - 47th Hunger Games are held.

47 ADD

Cashmere is born.
The 47th Hunger Games are held.

48-52 ADD

Sometime during this time period, Wiress from District 3 becomes a Hunger Games victor.
Sometime during this time period, Lyme from District 2 becomes a Hunger Games victor.
The 48th - 52nd Hunger Games are held.

50 ADD

The 50th Hunger Games take place, operating under the unique rules of the second Quarter Quell: twice the regular number of tributes are selected during the reaping, resulting in a total of 48 tributes. Sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy from District 12 is victorious.

51 ADD

Finnick Odair is born.
The 51st Hunger Games are held.

54 ADD

Johanna Mason is born.
The 54th Hunger Games are held.

55-58 ADD

Sometime during this time period, Annie Cresta is born.

56 ADD

Gale Hawthorne is born.
Thresh is born.
Cato is born.

57 ADD

Glimmer is born.
Marvel is born.

58 ADD

On the 8th of May, Katniss Everdeen is born.
Peeta Mellark is born.
Madge Undersee is born.
Delly Cartwright is born.

59 ADD

Foxface is born.
Clove is born.

60-62 ADD

During this time period, Rory Hawthorne is born.
The 60th, 61st, and 62nd Hunger Games are held.
During either the 60th or 61st Hunger Games, Cecelia from District 8 emerges victorious.
During the 62nd Hunger Games, Enobaria from District 2 emerges victorious and gets teeth altered into vangs

62 ADD

In late May, Primrose Everdeen is born
Rue is born

63 ADD

The 63rd Hunger Games are held. Gloss is the victor.

64 ADD

The 64th Hunger Games are held. Cashmere is the victor, following her brother, Gloss.

65 ADD

The 65th Hunger Games take place. Mags mentors fourteen-year-old Finnick Odair from District 4, who emerges victorious.
Vick Hawthorne is born.

67 ADD

Augustus Braun wins the 67th Hunger Games.

68 ADD

Gale Hawthorne, at the age of 12 is entered into the reaping balls for the first time for the 68th Hunger Games.

70 ADD

A mining explosion in District 12 during the month of January, kills the fathers of Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne. Days later, Posy Hawthorne is born.
Three months later in April, Peeta Mellark secretly gives a starving Katniss two loaves of bread.
The 70th Hunger Games take place. Annie Cresta from District 4 is victorious, though witnessing the decapitation of her district partner makes her mentally unstable.
Peeta and Katniss, both at the age of 12, are entered into the reaping bowl for the first time.

71-73 ADD

The 71st, 72nd, and 73rd Hunger Games take place. Johanna Mason from District 7 emerges victorious in the 71st Hunger Games.

The Second Rebellion

The events of The Hunger Games occur.

The 74th Hunger Games take place. During the reaping, 12-year-old Primrose Everdeen is chosen to be the female tribute from District 12, though her older sister, 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, volunteers in her place. 16-year-old Peeta Mellark is chosen to be the male tribute.
Many tributes are slain, including Katniss' little ally, 12-year-old Rue from District 11, to whom Katniss sings a lullaby in her dying minutes. After Rue dies, Katniss covers her in flowers to show that Rue was more than just a piece in the games.
Claudius Templesmith announces that if both of the tributes from the same district can make it to the end, then they can both win.
By the end of the game, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark of District 12 are both pronounced victorious by Head Gamemaker, Seneca Crane, in the first ever dual victory in the 74-year history of the Hunger Games. They achieve victory by threatening to commit double suicide when it is announced that the rule change is illegal. Only one person may be the victor. They threaten to eat Nightlock, a poisonous berry. Both Katniss and Peeta are announced victors, so as to not be without a victor at all. Their defiance incites the beginnings of the second rebellion. Seneca Crane is executed for causing this outcome.

The events of Catching Fire occur.

The second rebellion, led by Plutarch Heavensbee, covertly begins to gain momentum as unrest spreads throughout the districts of Panem.
Katniss Everdeen meets Bonnie and Twill in the woods, and Katniss begins to get curious about District 13, because they gave hints about it still existing.
Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, and Haymitch Abernathy embark on the 74th Hunger Games Victory Tour.
During Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark's speech in District 11, Peeta promises that 1 month of their winnings from the hunger games will go to the families of Rue and Thresh. The District acknowledges their kindness with a salute. The Capitol then guns down some of their citizens in fear of a rebellion.
An uprising occurs in District 8 as citizens revolt against the Peacekeepers on the night of Peeta and Katniss' interview. The Capitol eventually subdues the rebellion through the use of bombs and secures the District.
The 75th Hunger Games takes place, conducted by Head Gamemaker, Plutarch Heavensbee, and affected by special rules in honor of the third Quarter Quell: the 24 tributes selected will be chosen from the current pool of Hunger Games victors. Katniss and Haymitch are chosen for District 12, though Peeta volunteers to take Haymitch's place.
The 75th Hunger Games are abruptly ended when Katniss destroys the outer force field surrounding the arena. Six competitors remain by this time; three of them (Peeta Mellark, Johanna Mason, and Enobaria) are captured by the Capitol, while the other three (Katniss Everdeen, Finnick Odair, and Beetee) are rescued by Plutarch Heavensbee to be transported to the remains of District 13, the headquarters of the second rebellion.
The Districts all begin to rebel. At some point communications go out in Districts 7,10, and 12. District 11 gains control of transportation bringing hope of food to the other rebelling districts.
Within fifteen minutes of the ending of the 75th Hunger Games, District 12 is obliterated with fire bombs by the Capitol. Gale Hawthorne helps survivors, including Primrose Everdeen, Ms. Everdeen, and his own family to safety.

The events of Mockingjay occur.

It is revealed that District 13 was not obliterated at the end of the Dark Days. District 13, instead, secured its existence with the Capitol in exchange for not causing a nuclear war. It becomes the center of the rebellion.
Katniss Everdeen agrees to become the Mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion.
The rebellion begins to secure some of the districts from the Capitol, including District 8.
The Capitol begins to bomb District 13 in the hope to destroy it and resolve the war, but are unsuccessful due to a warning from Peeta Mellark. Prim and Gale were almost killed while trying to save Buttercup but made it to the deep underground bunkers on time.
District 13 attempts a rescue mission to the Capitol to secure the four remaining victors (Peeta Mellark, Johanna Mason, Annie Cresta, and Enobaria). The mission is a success, but Peeta is found to have undergone psychological torture from the capitol using tracker jacker venom and is extremely hostile towards Katniss. All memory of Katniss has been warped and changed and Peeta tries to kill her.
The rebels begin a campaign to take the last remaining district, District 2, in which Katniss Everdeen and Gale Hawthorne are a part of. District 2 is successfully secured.
Katniss Everdeen is shot on live TV but survives.
Peeta begins to show signs of recovery.
Annie Cresta and Finnick Odair are married, and their ceremony is aired as a propo.
Katniss trains to take part in the assault of the Capitol with her fellow victor, Johanna Mason. Both make it to the soldier qualifying exam, however Johanna has a nervous breakdown from her aquaphobia.
Katniss Everdeen, Gale Hawthorne, Boggs, Finnick Odair, Leegs 1 and 2, Cressida, Messina, and Jackson are chosen to be part of Squad 451, otherwise known as the Star Squad. They are chosen to be filmed and televised while they help in the effort to take the Capitol.
Leeg 2 dies in combat from a bullet, and Peeta Mellark is handpicked as her replacement. He still has not shown full recovery.
Peeta shoves Mitchell into a pod, made out of the fence of District 12. Mitchell dies.
Boggs is killed by a landmine and Katniss Everdeen is deemed the leader of the Star Squad. Katniss leads the Squad in a mission to assassinate President Snow.
The Star Squad makes it into the inner city of the Capitol, where they are pursued by lizard mutts. Finnick Odair, Leeg 1, Jackson, Messina, and Castor die.
Gale Hawthorne is captured by Peacekeepers and gets away. He gets shot twice in the process but survives.
Katniss and the remaining members of the Star Squad attempt to reach the President's mansion. The City Circle is revealed to be full of Capitol children, and shortly after a hovercraft bearing the Capitol seal drops explosive packages onto the children. Primrose Everdeen, one of the rebel medics sent to help the children after the first wave of explosions, is killed in the subsequent explosion. The bomb that killed Prim, was supposedly made by Gale. Katniss also suffers severe burn wounds from the bombing.
The rebels take control of the Capitol, thus ending the War.

The Republic Era (>75 ADD)

76 ADD

Once physically recovered, Katniss is chosen to carry out President Snow's public execution. The remaining victors meet and vote to continue a Hunger Games with Capitol children. A conversation with Snow reveals that it was President Coin, leader of District 13, who ordered the bombing of the children that caused Prim's death. Katniss proceeds to assassinate President Coin instead of Snow. However, Snow dies in the moments after, his cause of death is never affirmed.
In an emergency election, rebel Commander Paylor is voted in as president.
Katniss is deemed mentally unstable and is sent to live her remaining days in District 12
Haymitch Abernathy, Peeta Mellark, and Greasy Sae return to District 12 and Katniss makes a slow recovery from her emotional trauma.
President Paylor is instated. She abolishes the Hunger Games, builds memorials to all the fallen tributes, and establishes a republic government for Panem. It is assumed that Panem exists in a relative state of peace.
District 12 begins to rebuild. Coal is no longer mined, but they begin to grow food, and the Capitol starts construction of a factory for medicines in District 12.
Katniss and Peeta make a book.
Gale goes to work in District 2.
Mrs. Everdeen goes to start a hospital in District 4.
Annie Cresta gives birth to her and Finnick's son.

Around 91 ADD

Katniss and Peeta's daughter is born, who is described as having Katniss' hair color and Peeta's eye color.

Over 96 ADD

Katniss and Peeta have a son who is also described as having Peeta's hair and Katniss' eyes.
The epilogue of Mockingjay takes place.