st_jb posted the following on Devoted to Hugh. I think it is brilliant. Magdala.
In working on my own site, I've been trying to piece together a timeline and get everyone's ages and backstories together as much as possible. This is a large (and fluid) document, so here's a link.
http://www.housefans.net/concordance/timeline.asp#1The one gaping hole right now is Cameron's background, but I'm working on it.
Most of these dates aren't set in stone, but it's a start.
Timeline
This timeline was put together using both aired and unaired versions of episodes. The numbers in parenthesis represent footnotes, which give details to support the dates.
Ca. 1959: Gregory House is born. (1)
Ca. 1963: Lisa Cuddy is born. (2)
Ca. 1973: Eric Foreman is born. (3)
Ca. 1977: House starts his education at Michigan. (1) (4)
Ca. 1980: Robert Chase is born. (5)
Ca. 1981: Cuddy begins her undergraduate education at Michigan. House is already a legend. House has probably just started the graduate program. (4) (1)
Ca. 1984: House starts to practice medicine. (6)
1988: Cuddy graduates from medical school. (2)
1990: Rowan Chase leaves his family. Robert Chase is 15. (5)
Ca. 1991: Eric Foreman starts college. (3)
1995: Cuddy becomes Chief of Medicine. (4) Robert Chase’s mother dies. (5)
1995: House and Stacy probably get together at this time. (9)
1996: Wilson sees his homeless brother for the last time. Would he and House know each other at this point? (7)
1997: House is hired at PPTH. (8) Cuddy later mentions that he was on Vicodin at this time. (18)
Sometime in this period: The infarction. (16)
2000: House and Stacy probably break up about this time. (9) (10)
July, 2002: Stacy and Mark get married. (11)
November, 2003: Chase starts at PPTH (12)
May, 2004: Cameron starts at PPTH (12)
November, 2004: The Rebecca Adler case. Foreman started three days prior. (12)
March, 2005: House mentions he’s been through three regime changes prior to Vogler. This is assuming that means the top dog on the board, and not someone at Cuddy’s level. (13) House mentions to Wilson that Chase is 26. (14)
September, 2005: Chase says he’s thirty. (15)
December 21, 2005: House’s birthday. (17)
Footnotes:
(1) In a snippet cut from Maternity,House told Jill (the woman who was pregnant) that after 45 years, his mother only complains about her parasite now and then. This episode aired 12/7/2004.
(2) Extrapolated from data in Humpty Dumpty. She graduated from med school at the age of 25. She became Chief of Medicine at 32, and House mentioned that she hadn’t practiced medicine in ten years. That would make her about 42.
(3) In Detox, Foreman mentioned having been through four years of college, four at med school, two years of residency, and another four of sub-specialty training before that point. That would put in starting college ca. 1991 and born ca. 1973.
(4) Cameron mentioned in Humpty Dumpty that Cuddy and House both went to Michigan. Extrapolate dates of birth as in (1)
(5) House told Wilson in Cursed that Chase was 26. In the same episode, we find out that Chase’s dad left 15 years ago, and his mom died 10 years ago.
(6) House tells the MP3 Guy that he’s been practicing medicine for 20 years. (Maternity) That would make him 25, about the same age as Cuddy when she graduated from med school. (2)
(7) In Histories, Wilson told House he hadn’t seen his homeless brother in nine years. Would he have mentioned the brother to House if they had known each other then? He knew House and Stacy when they were a couple (Honeymoon).
(8) Vogler mentioned that House has been with PPTH for eight years in Mob Rules.
(9) In Autopsy, Stacy told Cameron that she and House had been together for five years. In “Honeymoon, it’s mentioned that they were together for five years. In Love Hurts, Cuddy refers to House’s last relationship and five years of self-pity since.
(10) In Honeymoon, House told Stacy that he hadn't been on the roof of the hospital in five years. Presumably he hasn’t had to run up there and hide in that time.
(11) In Honeymoon, Mark told House they married three years ago in July.
(12) In a scene from the unaired version of the pilot episode, it was revealed Chase has been at PPTH with house for one year. Cameron for six months, and Foreman for three days.
(13) House mentioned this in Control.
(14) Mentioned in Cursed.
(15) Chase told Andie the cancer patient that he was thirty. Is he exaggerating his age, just to make it clear to Andie why he shouldn’t kiss her?
(16) No specific date is given for the infarction, but it would be sometime during the House/Stacy relationship (Three Stories). The problem is, it appears that Cuddy was practicing medicine at the time, but the way she apologized for the incident made it seem that she was an administrator. If House was a doctor at PPTH at the time, perhaps she decided to take charge of the case? Does it seem odd that House and Stacy stayed together for two or three years after the infarction? Alternate theory: Cuddy could have been Chief of Medicine, but Dean is a higher position? Or she was Chief elsewhere and took the position at PPTH because the promotion prospects were better. Or a thousand other reasons, some of which may have been more altruistic, PPTH being a teaching hospital. The promotion to her current position came later. That might make more sense. Or not.
(17) In The Socratic Method, Cameron learns House’s birth date when she’s going through his mail. (But this airs AFTER the Christmas episode. Hmmm…)
(18) In Detox, Cuddy said that House was doing double the amount of Vicodin that he was when she hired him.
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