A chronological timeline of events in Dark. A wormhole in the Winden Caves intertwines three points in time, causing connections between events set 33 years apart.
Season 1 is set in November of 1953, 1986 and 2019.
1953 
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- Plans to erect the Winden Nuclear Power Plant . ("Secrets")
November Edit
- Thursday 5th: Erik Obendorf appears dead in the Bunker from 1986.
- Monday 9th: Yasin Friese appears dead in the Bunker from 1986.
- Tuesday 10th:
- The bodies of Erik and Yasin are found buried in a pile of sand in the Winden Nuclear Power Plant construction site.
- Agnes Nielsen arrives in Winden with her son Tronte.
- Ulrich arrives from 2019. He meets his grandmother Agnes and his father Tronte on the road, then visits H.G. Tannhaus where he also sees his mother Jana & Ines as young girls picking up Daniel's repaired watch.
- Helge makes Claudia Tiedemann's dog Gretchen run into the cave and she disappears.
- Ulrich tries to kill little Helge by hitting him with a rock so that he could prevent all the kids' murders in the future. He hides him in the Bunker, but he survives.
- Friday 11th:
- Ulrich is heading back to the caves but is arrested by Egon, accused of being responsible for the kids' murders and trying to kill Helge.
- Helge wakes up in the Bunker.
- Claudia Tiedemann visits H.G. Tannhaus and asks him to build the time Apparatus.
- Saturday 12th:
1960 Edit
- Construction of the Winden Nuclear Power Plant is authorized after the Atomic Energy Act is passed. ("Secrets")
1965 Edit
January Edit
- Thursday 21st: Birth of Aleksande Köhler (real)
1973 Edit
December Edit
- Friday 21st: Birth of Mads Nielsen
1986 Edit
Summer Edit
- An explosion or incident occurs in the Winden Nuclear Power Plant, which is the first step to the caves' time-traveling powers.
November Edit
- Tuesday 4th:
- Mads Nielsen disappears.("Secrets")
- Mads travels to 2019 and dies in the process.
- Wednesday 5th
- Mikkel Nielsen arrives from 2019.
- Claudia Tiedemann becomes the director of the Winden Nuclear Power Plantt, discovers the barrels of radioactive waste.
- Erik Obendorf travels to 1953 and dies in the process.
- Friday 7th
- Ulrich is arrested on suspicion of raping Katharina.
- The Stranger visits H.G. Tannhaus from the future to talk to him about time.
- Saturday 8th: Young Jonas arrives from 2019.
- Sunday 9th
- Helge agrees to an interview with Egon Tiedemann in two days to assist the investigation into Mads' disappearance.
- Jonas looks for Mikkel at the Hospital. He encounters The Stranger who tells him not to interfere.
- Jonas goes back to 2019.
- Yasin travels to 1953, dying in the process.
- Monday 10th: The Stranger comes back to visit Tannhaus and asks him to repair the time Apparatus.
- Tuesday 11th
- Boris Niewald arrives in Winden, running away from something, with a gunshot wound on his chest and carrying a bag with a gun and a fake passport. He adopts the identity of Aleksander Köhler. He hides the bag, but it's found by Hannah.
- Hannah tells Katharina that Regina was the one who told the police about Ulrich raping her, in an attempt to protect herself.
- Ulrich is released from the police station.
- Claudia Tiedemann finds her dog Gretchen whom she lost in 1953 at the place where the radioactive barrels are hidden. She finds out about the incident.
- Old Helge spies on his past self at the Shack.
- Helge is not coming to see Egon for the interrogation, so he goes to his Shack in the woods. He hides and pretends there's nobody home.
- Aleksander tries to get a job at the Winden Nuclear Power Plant
- Wednesday 12th
- Older Jonas comes back to see Tannhaus and brings the radioactive substance to activate the Apparatus.
- Old Helge tries to warn his past self about Noah's lies, but he doesn't listen.
- Jonas goes to the Hospital to bring Mikkel back to 2019, but is stopped by Noah and Helge.
- Jonas wakes up in the Bunker and is visited by The Stranger, who reveals his true identity.
- In a last attempt to stop himself, old Helge crashes a car into his past self. He dies but younger Helge is just injured.
- The Stranger activates the Apparatus inside the portal, trying to put an end to the 1953-1986-2019 cycle and close the portal forever. This opens a wormhole in the Bunker and makes Winden shake.
- Jonas watches the wormhole open and sees Helge from 1953 on the other side. They touch and both time travel 33 years into the future from their original time-line. Perhaps an alternate realities?
1987 Edit
- Peter Doppler arrives in Winden.
2004 Edit
- Birth of Erik Obendorf
2008 Edit
- Birth of Mikkel Nielsen
2019Edit
June Edit
- Friday 21st: Michael Kahnwald hangs himself and leaves behind a suicide note that is not to be opened before November 4 at 10:13 PM. ("Secrets")
October Edit
- Tuesday 22nd: Erik Obendorf goes missing.
November Edit
Monday 4th
- First day of school. Jonas Kahnwald returns after being in therapy for two months, finds out that Martha Nielsen and Bartosz Tiedemann are a couple. ("Secrets")
- Helge Doppler escapes from the nursing home and interrupts a meeting at high school to tell them "It's going to happen again." ("Secrets")
- Ines Kahnwald opens and reads Michael's suicide note. ("Secrets")
- Jonas, Martha, Bartosz, Magnus, Mikkel and Franziska go to the caves to take Erik's drug stash. They hear strange noises and the lights begin to flicker, so they run away. Mikkel goes missing. ("Secrets")
- Mads Nielsen's body appears from 1986 in the Bunker, this being witnessed by Peter Doppler, who tells Tronte Nielsen. Eventually Claudia Tiedemann shows up and tells them to dispose of the body somewhere it can be found. She gives them her Triquetra Book.
Tuesday 5th
- An unknown corpse is found dead with charred eyes in the forest. ("Secrets")
- Ulrich finds a locked door in the caves, property of the Winden Nuclear Power Plant.
- The Stranger comes out of the caves with a suitcase and settles in Regina's Waldhotel Winden
- Jonas finds a map of caves in his father's studio.
- Aleksander Tiedemann secretly orders the digging up of the radioactive waste barrels and the loading of them into a truck.
Wednesday 6th
- Charlotte Doppler suspects Peter has been cheating on her during the last year and also suspects he's involved in the case.
- Ulrich illegally enters the Winden Nuclear Power Plant to investigate.
- Elisabeth Doppler meets Noah on her way home, and he gives her a pocket watch for her mother Charlotte.
Thursday 7th
- Yasin Friese disappears in the woods, kidnapped by Noah's henchman.
- Noah contacts Bartosz through Erik's phone and meets him in a limousine. He tells him what will happen in the following days.
- Ulrich breaks the affair he's been having with Hannah Kahnwald.
- Jonas receives a package from The Stranger containing a lantern, Geiger counter, and a very aged version of his father's suicide note, where he reveals his past and his true identity, Mikkel Nielsen.
Friday 8th
- Regina is diagnosed with breast cancer.
- Katharina finds out about Ulrich and Hannah's affair.
- Jonas finds the portal in the cave and time-travels to 1986.
- Ulrich finds out the dead boy found in the forest could be in fact his brother Mads.
Saturday 9th
- Charlotte executes a search warrant at the Winden Nuclear Power Plant.
- Charlotte finds the area where the nuclear waste barrels used to be buried, now empty, but with traces of paint.
- Ulrich visits Helge at the nursing home and tries to extract some information from him. He makes Helge very upset as Helge remembers what happened to him as a boy and Ulrich is thrown out.
- Charlotte goes to the Bunker and finds a piece of the old wallpaper used in 1986 during the kidnappings.
- Helge runs away from the nursing home to try and stop his past self. He travels to 1986.
- Ulrich comes back to see Helge and finds the book A journey through time. He follows Helge into the caves and travels to 1953.
- Jonas gets home and decides not to tell Hannah about his Michael's true identity or the time-traveling and burns the suicide note
- Claudia Tiedemann visits her grandson Bartosz and tells him to give his mother Regina a certain photo.
- Hannah Kahnwald blackmails Aleksander Tiedemann into destroying Ulrich, since she has proof that Aleksander is an impostor.
- Bartosz meets again with Noah, who had presented him an offer the last time.
- Older Jonas extracts a sample of a substance from the radioactive waste barrels in the truck.
Tuesday 12th
- Jonas travels to 1986 to bring back Mikkel.
- Charlotte finds a newspaper from 1953 with a picture of Ulrich locked in a cell.
- Bartosz joins Noah's side after being manipulated by him and learning about time travel. Noah gives Bartosz his Triquetra Book.
2020 Edit
- Due to Germany's government staggered plan to phase out nuclear energy sites, the Winden Nuclear Power Plant is decommissioned and taken off the grid. This facility has the longest record of failure free operations in Germany.
