| 75,000
BC |
Earliest human altars, including evidence of prehistoric
bear-cult. |
|
10,000 BC |
Domestication
of dog |
|
6,000 BC |
Catal
Huyuk cave-drawings depict leopard men hunting |
| 2,000
BC |
Epic of Gilamesh written down (first literary evidence
of werewolves) |
| 850
BC |
Odyssey written down (includes many traces of werewolf
beliefs) |
|
500 BC |
Scythians
recorded as believing the Neuri to be werewolves |
|
400 BC |
Damarchus, Arcadian werewolf, said to have won boxing
medal at Olympics |
| 100
- 75 BC |
Virgil's eighth ecologue (first voluntary transformation
of werewolf) |
|
55 AD |
Petronius,
Satyricon |
| 150
AD |
Apuleius,
Metamorphosis composed |
| 170
AD |
Pausanias
visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolf rites |
| 432
AD |
St.
Patrick arrives in Ireland |
| 600
AD |
Saint
Albeus (Irish) said to have been suckled by wolves |
| 617
AD |
Wolves
said to have attacked heretical monks |
| 650
AD |
Paulus
Aegineta describes "melancholic lycanthropia" |
| 900
AD |
Hrafnsmal mentions "wolf coats" among the Norwegian
Army, Canon Episcopi condems the belief in reality
of witches as heretical |
|
1020 |
First
use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English |
| 1101 |
Death of Prince Vseslav of Polock, alleged Ukrainian
werewolf |
| 1182
- 1183 |
Giraldus
claims to have discovered Irish werewolf couple |
| 1194
- 1197 |
Guillaume
de Palerne composed |
| 1198 |
Marie
de France composes Bisclavret |
| 1250 |
Lai
de Melion composed |
| 1275
- 1300 |
Volsungasaga, Germanic werewolf saga, written down |
| 1344 |
Wolf
child of Hesse discovered |
| 1347
- 1351 |
First
major outbreak of the Black Death |
| 1407 |
Werewolves mentioned during witchcraft trial at Basel
|
| 1450 |
Else of Meerburg accused of riding a wolf |
| 1486 |
Malleus Maleficarum published |
| 1494 |
Swiss
woman tried for riding a wolf |
| 1495 |
Woman
tried for riding a wolf at Lucerne |
| 1521 |
Werewolves
of Poligny burnt |
|
1541 |
Paduan
werewolf dies after having arms and legs cut off |
|
1550 |
Witekind
interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga, Johann
Weyer takes up post of doctor at Cleve |
| 1552 |
Modern
French version of Guillaume published at Lyon |
|
1555 |
Olaus
Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves |
| 1560 |
First publication of Della Porta, Magiae naturalis |
| 1563 |
First publication of Weyer, De praestigus daemonum
|
| 1572 |
St. Bartholomew's Day of Massacre, intensification
of French civil war |
| 1573 |
Gilles
Garnier burnt as werewolf |
| 1575 |
Trials
of the benandanti begin in the Friuili (and will continue
for a century) |
| 1580 |
Rebellion
at Romans with cannibalistic overtones |
| 1584 |
Reginald
Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft published |
| 1588 |
Alleged
date of Auvergne female werewolf (Bouget) |
| 1589 |
Peter Stubb executed as werewolf at Cologne |
|
1598 |
Roulet
tried as werewolf, his sentence commuted "Werewolf
of Chalons" executed at Paris, Gandillon
family burnt as werewolves in the Jura |
| 1602 |
2nd edition of Bouget, Discours des sorciers |
| 1603 |
Jean Grenier tried
as werewolf and is sentenced to life imprisonment |
| 1610 |
Two
women condemned as werewolves at Liege, Jean Grenier
dies |
|
1614 |
Webster's Duchess of Malfi published |
| 1637 |
Famine
in Franche-Comte: cannibalism reported |
| 1652 |
Cromwellian
law forbids export of Irish wolfhounds |
| 1692 |
The
Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated |
| 1697 |
Perrault's
Contes includes "Little Red Riding Hood" |
| 1701 |
De
Tournefort sees vampire exhumation |
| 1764 |
Bete
de Gevaudon starts werewolf scare in Auvergne |
| 1796
- 1799 |
Widespread
fear of wolves reported in France |
| 1797 |
Victor
of Aveyron first seen |
| 1812 |
Grimm
Brothers publish their version of "Little Red
Riding Hood" |
| 1824 |
Antoine
Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to lunatic
asylum |
| 1828 |
Death
of Victor of Averyon |
| 1830 |
Souix
warriors reported hunting in wolfskins |
| 1857 |
Accusation
of being "wolf leader" ends in court in St. Gervais,
G. W. M. Reynolds, Wagner the Wehr-Wolf published
|
| 1880 |
Folklorist
collects werewolf tale
in Picardy |
| 1885 |
Johann
Weyer's book reprinted at Paris |
| 1886 |
Robert
Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde published |
| 1906 |
Freud
lists Weyer's book as among ten most significant ever
published |
| 1913 |
The Werewolf (film) using
real wolf in transformation scene |
|
1914 |
Freud
publishes "wolf man" paper |
| 1920 |
Kamala and Amala - the Orissa wolf children - discovered,
Right-wing terror group "Operation Werewolf" established
in Germany |
| 1932 |
Jekyll
& Hyde (film) starring
Frederic March |
| 1935 |
Werewolf
of London (film) |
| 1941 |
Wolf
Man (film) starring Lon
Chaney Jr. |
| 1943
- 1944 |
Childhood
autism first described, LSD discovered |
| 1944 |
House of Frankenstein (film)
includes mention of silver bullet |
| 1951 |
Outbreak
of ergotism at Pont-Saint-Esprit |
| 1952 |
Ogburn
& Bose, On the trail of the Wolf-Children published |
| 1957 |
I
Was a Teenage Werewolf (film) |
|
1972 |
Shamdeo
discovered living among wolves in India |
| 1975 |
Surawicz
& Banta publish first two modern cases of lycanthopy |
| 1979 |
"An American Werewolf in London" (film)
includes first four-footed werewolf |
| 1985 |
"Death
of Shamdeo" "Teen Wolf" (film)
|
|
1988 |
Monsieur X arrested, "McLean Hospital" survey published
|
| 1990 |
"Werewolf rapist" jailed, McLean Case 8 full report
published |
| 1991 |
"The Wolfman" escapes from Broadmoor |
