Timeline of the Pirates of the Caribbean films

The following is a timeline concerning the events that occur in the universe of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, revealed either during the films or elsewhere.

Dates

Although the movies are set somewhere in the 18th century, neither a historical event that occurred nor an exact date was given in any of the movies, so by now it is impossible to connect this timeline with the real-life chronology. There are however, some hints that allow a rough estimation:

• The fact that Rule Britannia was played in a scene in The Curse of the Black Pearl allows the movie's events to be dated after 1740.
• The Union Flag was first used in 1707.
• In one of the prequel books AbOUT Sparrow's adventures as a teenager, he visits New Orleans which was founded in 1718. Jack also boasts that he helped Benjamin Franklin in his experiments with electricity in 1752.
• Hernan Cortés conquered the Aztecs in the early 16th century.
• The silver badges worn by the soldiers have a GR (Georgius Rex) monogram and the Letter of Marque is signed by King George, but in both cases no number was added, so it is not clear which King George it is. This could imply George I ( 1714-1727 ) since British monarchs are not called the first until there has been a second (e.g., Queen Elizabeth I was just Elizabeth until the current Queen Elizabeth II became queen).
• The Royal Navy and Royal Marines uniforms match late 18th century standards, but the civilian dress is more typical for the later 17th/earlier 18th century.
• The ship's armament and rigging is mostly typical for the 1770s, but some parts are from the 1740s. However, both the Interceptor and the Edinburgh Trader were played by late 18th century ship replicas and the Dauntless is based on HMS Victory, a ship built in the late 18th century (1765).
• A sign on a building in Port Royal shows the date 1704 - obviously the year the inn opened.
• Port Royal was mostly destroyed by an earthquake in 1692. A new city was built and subsequently became a major British naval base.
• The map of the world which can be seen at times in the movie includes Australia, which was not fully mapped until at least 1770.
• The documentaries on the DVD state that the handguns are dated about 1765, which is the same as the classic Disney film Treasure Island.
• According to a documentary on the DVD, the captain killed by Mercer in Dead Man's Chest is the father of Jim Hawkins, the protagonist in Treasure Island. This novel is set in the late 1740s, when Jim is 12 years old.
• Ragetti refers to the Kraken as cephalopod, the term first introduced by Carolus Linnaeus in the first edition of his Systema Naturae published in 1735.

Further, it should be noticed that the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar only in 1752, so all prior dates would be given in the Old Style.

Prior to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Approximately 250 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Davy Jones is born in Scotland

Approximately 220 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Davy Jones falls in love with Calypso.

Approximately 200 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• The Aztecs give 882 golden coins to Hernán Cortéz as blood money. Because Cortéz did not stop the violence, the Aztec gods curse the treasure.
• Cortéz transports the cursed gold to Isla de Muerta.
• Davy Jones carves out his heart and buries it on Isla Cruces
• Davy Jones calls the Brethren Court and tells the pirate lords how to encase Calypso in human form as stated in At World's End.
• First Brethren Court as Mentioned in At World's End.

Approximately 120 to 60 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• The Pirates Morgan and Bartholomew create the Pirate code of the Brethren

• Captain Teague is born in Ireland.

Approximately 50 to 45 years prior The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Hector Barbossa was born.

• Sao Feng is born in China

• William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner Snr. is born in Glasgow.

Approximately 30 to 40 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Jack Sparrow was born during a typhoon on a pirate ship near the Indian coast.
• The HMS Wicked Wench was built on an EITC shipyard in England.

• James Norrington is born in England

• Lord Cutler Beckett is born in England

20 to 25 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Will Turner was born in Glasgow.
• Elizabeth Swann was born in England.

Approximately 18 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Jack Sparrow, 15 or 16 years old, raises a motley crew of teenagers.
• Jack Sparrow searches with his crew for the Sword of Cortés.
• Upon discovering that the spirit of Cortés within the sword merely wants to use Jack for his own means, Jack defeats the spirit and the sword is put into Tia Dalma's possession.

Sometime over 12 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Jack Sparrow was dispatched by Lord Cutler Beckett to deliver cargo from the East India Trading Company. Jack discovered that the cargo was slaves, which he returned to Africa.
• Beckett's men burned Jack's ship, the Wicked Wench, and branded Jack with a "P" as a pirate.
• Jack escaped from the EITC agents and became a pirate.

12 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Jack made a pact with Davy Jones. Jones then raised the wrecked ship, which he renamed the Black Pearl. In exchange, Jack would captain his ship for 13 years, and then relinquish his soul to Davy Jones or find a way to otherwise pay his debt.
• Jack encountered Jolly Roger, infamous Caribbean pirate who swore vengeance against him, after he become undead, blaming Jack for that.

10 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Jack receives his magic compass from Tia Dalma.
• Jack Sparrow's First Mate Barbossa leads a mutiny and maroons Jack on an uninhabited island with nothing but a pistol with a single shot, a cutlass and his beloved hat. Jack spends three days on this island until he is rescued by smugglers, or as Jack puts it, "made a raft from sea turtles."
• Barbossa and his crew became cursed upon taking the ancient Aztec treasure on Isla de Muerta.
• William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, the only crew member who defended Jack during the mutiny, sent a piece of the treasure to England to his wife and child, as a punishment to the rest of the crew for the mutiny. He was summarily strapped to a cannon and thrown overboard. Pinned under the cannon and lying at the bottom of the sea, cursed and so unable to die, Turner called upon Davy Jones to save him, and swears to serve a hundred years on Davy's crew.

8 years prior to The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Weatherby Swann is appointed governor of Port Royal.
• Will Turner's mother dies.
• Barbossa discovers that the child of "Bootstrap Bill" Turner has sailed away from England.
• Will Turner arrives in the Caribbean on a merchant ship. He wants to search for his father, but the ship is attacked and sunk by the Black Pearl.
• Elizabeth Swann and her father sail on HMS Dauntless from England to Port Royal. During this voyage, they rescue Will, who is found floating atop wreckage, the sole survivor of the Black Pearl's attack.

(unknown amount of time)

• Jack Sparrow sacks Nassau Port without firing a shot.
• Joshamee Gibbs leaves the Royal Navy to become a pirate.
• Jack Sparrow becomes Pirate Lord of the Caribbean
• Barbossa becomes Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea
• Jack Sparrow sails with a man named Larry who has lost both his arms and half an eye
• Will Turner becomes a blacksmith's apprentice and learns how to use the sword practicing three hours every day.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

• Jack arrives in Port Royal and is charged for piracy.
• The Black Pearl attacks Port Royal, Elizabeth is taken captive by Barbossa and his crew.
• Will sets Jack free from jail. The two commandeer the Interceptor to search for Elizabeth and the Black Pearl.
• Commodore Norrington sets sail from Port Royal on the Royal Navy ship HMS Dauntless for the same purpose.
• Jack and Will visit Tortuga, find Gibbs, and hire a crew.
• The Interceptor arrives at Isle de Muerta,rescues Elizabeth and escapes, leaving Jack behind. They are pursued by the Black Pearl.
• The Interceptor is destroyed and Will is held prisoner. Jack and Elizabeth are marooned on the same island Jack was marooned on 10 years ago.
• They are rescued by Norrington. Norrington is persuaded to return to Isle de Muerta in order to save Will.
• Both ships meet at Isla de Muerta, and Barbossa is killed. Jack, Will, and Elizabeth return to Port Royal on HMS Dauntless.
• Jack is sentenced to death by hanging but he is rescued by Will and Elizabeth.
• Picked up by the crew sail of the Pearl, Norrington promises to pursue him.
• Jack the monkey sneaks an Aztec coin back out of the chest of Cortez, cursing himself once more.

After Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Events Following The Curse of the Black Pearl and Prior to Dead Man's Chest

• The surviving ex-cursed crew members of the Black Pearl are locked in Port Royal's prison, most are hanged, Ragetti & Pintel escape.
• Jack takes Will on a journey which leads to the events in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Jack Sparrow.
• The Black Pearl returns to Isla de Muerta in order to get Barbossa's treasure, only to find that the island has sunk. Jack the monkey, again cursed, creeps on board.
• Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann are engaged to be married.
• Will teaches Elizabeth how to use a sword.
• Captain Jack Sparrow searches for a cloth which has the image of the Dead Man's Chest's key imprinted on it.
• The Dauntless is lost in a hurricane while chasing the Black Pearl. Commodore James Norrington is found responsible for this disaster and resigns from the Royal Navy.
• Jack Sparrow enters a Turkish prison in search of piece of cloth which is rumored to be in the possession of the grandson of the man who made the Dead Man's Chest, who is locked up there.
• Tia Dalma begins to resurrect Hector Barbossa.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (1 year after The Curse of the Black Pearl)

• Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are charged by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping Jack escape the gallows.
• Will is released and instructed to bring back Jack Sparrow's compass to Beckett in return for Elizabeth's life, but tricked onto the crew of the Flying Dutchman by Jack in an attempt to settle his debt with Davy Jones, where Will meets his father
• Jack is asked to pay Jones 100 souls in return for his own. He begins his search in Tortuga.
• Elizabeth escapes and joins Jack's crew in Tortuga along with a ruined James Norrington.
• They track down the Chest in Isla Cruces. Will escapes with the key to the chest and meets Jack on the island, pursued by Jones.
• Norrington escapes with the heart of Jones, while the rest of the Pearl's crew flees on the Black Pearl.
• Davy Jones sends the Kraken after the Black Pearl, and despite a valiant effort by the crew, the Kraken takes the ship down along with Captain Sparrow.
• The surviving crew of the Black Pearl with Tia Dalma and Captain Barbossa now fully resurrected, vow to rescue Jack from Davy Jones' Locker.

After Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Events Following Dead Man's Chest and Prior to At World's End

• Norrington brings Jones' heart to Lord Cutler Beckett in return for a place as Admiral. Beckett now controls Davy Jones and the sea.
• Hector Barbossa joins the survivors of Jack's crew and captains them during the search for Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
• The crew prepare to search for Jack Sparrow and the Black Pearl within Davy Jones' Locker.
• Will travels to Singapore and is eventually captured by Sao Feng.
• Barbossa, Elizabeth, Tia Dalma and the crew of the Black Pearl travel to Singapore and meet Sao Feng.
• Cutler Beckett orders Davy Jones to kill the Kraken.
• Edward Teague rescues the Jailhouse Dog from Pelegosto with the help of "sea turtles."
• Cutler Beckett begins his prosecution of any persons associated with pirates in an attempt aimed at urging the Brethren Court to meet.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (few weeks after Dead Man's Chest'')

• Any person associated with pirates have been sentenced to death by the orders of Cutler Beckett.
• The Brethren Court has been summoned by the associators with pirates, the song has been sung.
• Barbossa, Elizabeth and the crew meet Sao Feng in Singapore and steal the map that will lead to World's End.
• Jack is saved from Davy Jones' locker by Barbossa and his crew.
• Beckett murders Gov. Swann.
• Jack vows to kill Davy Jones and become immortal.
• Jack bargains his freedom with Beckett.
• James Norrington is killed by "Bootstrap" Bill Turner on board the Flying Dutchman.
• Will gives Cutler Beckett Jack's compass in exchange for his and Elizabeth's freedom.
• Elizabeth is traded as Sao Feng's concubine, but Sao Feng's later impaled as the "Empress" is attacked by the "Flying Dutchman"
• Sao Feng makes Elizabeth captain of the "Empress" and gives her his Piece of Eight.
• Elizabeth Swann is chosen as pirate king by the Brethren Court.
• Tia Dalma is returned to her true form as the sea goddess Calypso and creates a maelstrom in the battle between the East India Trading Company and the pirates lords.
• Barbossa marries Will and Elizabeth in the midst of battle.
• Davy Jones kills Beckett's assistant Mercer and gets the key to his heart once again.
• Davy Jones catches Jack Sparrow with his heart and the two duel on the mast of the Flying Dutchman.
• Davy Jones stabs Will Turner when Jack hesitates to stab Davy Jones heart.
• Davy Jones is killed when Jack helps the dying Will's hand stab the heart.
• Will Turner dies, and becomes the new captain of the Flying Dutchman. The ship rises again under his command.
• The crew of the Flying Dutchman is freed.
• The Dutchman and Black Pearl defeat Cutler Beckett's forces by destroying his flagship the Endeavour, [...] Beckett who is on board.
• Will and Elizabeth have one day together before he's destined to leave for ten years.
• Barbossa once again takes the Black Pearl and its crew, leaving Jack behind.
• Jack uses Sao Feng's Chart to begin his journey to the Fountain Of Youth (Agua de Vida) for immortality.

After Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

• Jack Sparrow meets Black Bart.
• Nine months after, Elizabeth gives birth to Will's son.
• Ten years later, Will returns with the Flying Dutchman to his wife and their son.
• A flash of green can be seen after the sunset.

External links

• Pirates Timeline on the PotC wiki

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