Earliest human altars, including evidence of prehistoric bear-cult.
10,000 BC
The domestication of the 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 (including werewolf beliefs)
500 BC
Scythians recorded as beliving the Neuri to be werewolves
400 BC
Damarchus, Arcadian werewolf, said to have won medals at olympia
100 - 75 BC
Virgil's eight ecologue (first witnesed voluntary transformation of a werewolf
55 AD
Petronius, Satyricon
150 AD
Apuleius, Metamorphosis composed
170 AD
Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolves and rites
432 AD
St. Patrick arrives in Ireland
600 AD
Saint Albeus (Irish) said to have been suckled by wolves, and to be a werewolf
617 AD
Wolves said to have attacked heretical monks. (not confirmed)
650 AD
Paulus Aegineta describes "melancholic lycanthropia"
900 AD
Hrafnsmal mentions "wolf coats" among the Norwegian Army (werewolves)
Canon Episcopi condems the belief in realty of witches and werewolves as heretics
1020
Frist use of the word "werewulf" recorded in English
1101
Death of Price Vseslav of Polock, alleged as a Ukrainian werewolf
1182 - 1183
Giraldus claims to have discoved 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
Frist 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 Maleficarm pubished
1494
Swiss woman tried for riding a wolf
1495
Woman tried for riding a wolf at Lucerne
1521
Werewolves of Poligny burnt to death
1541
Paduan werewolf dies after having arms, legs and head cut off
1550
Witekind interviews self-confessed werewolf at Riga.
Werewolf, Johann Weyer, takes up post of doctor at Cleve
1552
Modern French version of Guillaume pubished at Lyon
1555
Olaus Magnus records strange behavior of Baltic werewolves
1560
First publication of Della Porta, Magiae naturalis
1563
First publication of Weye, De praestigus daemonum
1572
St. Barthomew's Day of Massacre, intesification of French civil war
1573
Gilles Garnier burnt as a werewolf
1575
Trials of the benandanti begain in Friuili (said to be werewolves)(trails will continue for six years)
1580
Rebellion at Romans, said to be lead by a werewolf
1584
Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft published
1588
Alleged date of Auvergne female werewolf's death (Boguet)
1589
Peter Stubb executed as a werewolf at Cologne
1598
Roulet tried as a werewolf, his sentance commuted
"Werewolf of Chalons" executed in Paris, public execution
Gandillon family burnt alive as werewolves in the Jura
1602
2nd edition of Bouget, Discours des sorcies
1603
Jean Grenier tried as werewolf and is sentenced to life imprisonment
1610
Two women condemned as werewolves at Liege, and burnt alive.
Jean Grenier dies in prison
1614
Webster's Dutchess of Malfi Published
1652
Cromwellian law forbids export of Irish Wolfhounds
1692
The Livonian werewolf Theiss interrogated
1697
Perrault's Contes published, includes "Little Red Riding Hood."
1764
Bete de Gevaudon starts werewolf scare in Auvergne
1796 - 1799
Widespread fear of wolves reported in France. Govement funded wolf killing starts
1797
Victor of Aveyron first seen
1806
French population falls below 2000
1812
Grimm Brothers published their version of "Little Red Riding Hood." No happy endings here. But the wolf lives.
1824
Antoine Leger tried for werewolf crimes and sentenced to life in a lunatic asylum
1828
Death of Victor of Averyon
1830
Souix warriors repoted hunting in wolfskins
1857
Accusations of being "wolf leader" ends in court in St. Gervais for GWM Reynolds
Johann Weyer's book "The Wehr-Wolf" published
1880
Folklorist collects werewolf tale in Picardy
1885
Johann Weyer's book "The Wehr-Wolf" reprinted in Paris
1886
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide Published
1960
Freud lists Johann Weyer's book as among the most significant ever published
1913
"The Werewolf" Film, using a real wolf in transformation scene
1914
Freud publishes "wolf man" paper
1920
Kamala and Amala, the Orissa wolf children discovered
1932
"Jekyll and Hyde" Film staring Frederic March
1935
"Werewolf of London" Film
1941
"Wolf Man" Flim staring Lauren Chaeny Jr.(I think this is the right actor, if this is wrong, please let me know.[Shadow Wulfs Alpha] <mailto:[email protected]>)
1944
"House of Frakenstein" Film, includes mention of silver bullet for killing of werewolves
1952
Ogburn and Bose, Book 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 and Banta publish first two modern cases of lycanthopy
1979
"An American Werewolf in London" Film includes first four-footed werewolf
1985
The Wolfman arrested and charged as werewolf, sentanced to life in Broadmoor
Death of Shamdeo.
"Teen Wolf" Film
1988
Monsieur X arrested and charged as a werewolf
1990
Werewolf rapist jailed for life
McLean Case 8 full report published
1991
The Wolfman escapes from Broadmoor, remains at large
