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APPENDIX II:
TIMELINE (FICTION)
Part 1: Mid-World

(DT1). Roland, 11, hears Hax conspiring to aid the Good Man.
(DT1). Roland, 14, sees Marten with his mother, takes his test to become a gunslinger, and sleeps with a woman for the first time.
(DT4)+1 day. Roland is sent east by his father to avoid Marten’s treachery.
(DT4)+1 month. Roland meets Susan Delgado in Mejis.
(DT4)+1 day. Roland, Alain and Cuthbert present themselves to Sheriff Avery.
(DT4)+1 day. Dinner at the home of Thorin, the Mayor of Hambry. Showdown with the Big Coffin Hunters at the Travellers’ Rest.
(DT4)+1 week. Roland sends an apology to Susan via Sheemie.
(DT4)+1 day. Susan rejects Roland’s invitation to meet.
(DT4)+2 weeks. Susan and Cordelia fight. Susan meets up with “Will Dearborn.” Roy Depape learns about Stephen Deschain in Ritzy.
(DT4)+3 days. Roland, Alain and Cuthbert explore the thinny.
(DT4)+4 days. Thorin sends a second horse to Susan; Alain passes a message from Will to Susan.
(DT4)+1 day. Susan passes a note to Cuthbert refusing to meet Will.
(DT4)+1 day. Susan sends Will a packet of seeds and a note to meet her at moonrise.
(DT4)+2 weeks. Susan and Roland declare and consummate their love.
(DT4)+5 weeks. Roland and Susan succumb to the drug of true love.
(DT4)+3 days. The Affiliation brats announce their intention to count horses.
(DT4)+7 days. A week of bad weather. Cordelia tells Eldred Jonas of her suspicions about Susan. Eldred finds Cuthbert’s rook skull at Citgo.
(DT4)+1 day. Eldred Jonas visits the Bar K Ranch with a can of paint. Cuthbert hits Roland.
(DT4)+1 day. Roland and his ka-tet visit Rhea as gunslingers.
(DT4)+3 days. Susan meets with the ka-tet.
(DT4)+2 days. Susan and Sheemie send fireworks to the Bar K. Alain and Cuthbert bury gunpowder.
(DT4)+2 days. Susan discovers someone has cut pages from her father’s ledger, fights with Cordelia and leaves the house permanently.
(DT4)+1 day. Roland tells Susan what to do if he dies. They make love for the last time.
(DT4)+1 day. The Big Coffin Hunters murder Mayor Thorin and Rimer, the Chancellor of Mejis. Roland and his ka-tet are arrested. Susan and Sheemie free them.
(DT4)+1 day. Reaping Fair Day. Explosions at Citgo; Roland and Susan part. Jonas captures Susan. Sheemie and Olive Thorin free her. Roland and his ka-tet destroy the Big Coffin Hunters and their local help. Roland travels inside the Wizard’s Glass. Massacre at Eyebolt Canyon. Susan burns.
(DT4)+1 day. The gunslingers ride to Il Bosque, west of Mejis.
(DT4)+1 month (est.). Roland, Alain and Cuthbert return to Gilead.
(DT4)+3 days. Banquet to celebrate their return. Roland goes into the Wizard’s Glass again.
(DT4)+3 days. Roland shoots his mother to death.

(DT4)+2 years. The fall of Gilead. Cuthbert, Alain and Jamie die. Roland’s father dies.

(LS). Roland encounters the Little Sisters of Eluria.

(DT1). The man in black raises Nort from the dead.
(DT1). Roland buys a mule in Pricetown.
(DT1). Roland arrives in Tull.
(DT1)+7 days. Roland kills everyone in Tull.
(DT1)+1 day. Roland leaves Tull.
(DT1)+20 days. Roland meets Brown and Zoltan.
(DT1)+1 day. Roland leaves Brown.
(DT1)+15 days.
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
(DT1)+1 day. Roland discovers Jake at the way station.
(DT1)+1 day. Roland and Jake leave the way station. Father Callahan enters Mid-World (DT5).
(DT1)+3 days. Roland thinks he sees the light of another fire.
(DT1)+1 day. Roland recalls the story of Hax.
(DT1)+2 days. Roland and Jake see the man in black for the first time.
(DT1)+1 day. They continue into the foothills.
(DT1)+1 day. Jake and Roland rest.
(DT1)+1 day. They encounter the oracle. Roland learns of the three.
(DT1)+1 day. Another day of travel for Jake and Roland.
(DT1)+1 day. Roland tells Jake of New Canaan and Gilead.
(DT1)+1 day. They climb the foothills.
(DT1)+1 day. Roland finds a footprint.
(DT1)+7 days. Roland and Jake speak with the man in black.
(DT1)+1 day. They go beneath the mountain.
(DT1)+3 days. They find the railway tracks.
(DT1)+4 days. Jake runs into a handcar in the darkness.
(DT1)+? Roland tells of his coming of age.
(DT1)+1 day. Roland and Jake encounter the Slow Mutants.
(DT1)+1 day. They travel without incident.
(DT1)+1 day. They enter the switching station.
(DT1)+3 days. Roland lets Jake fall from the trestle.
(DT1)+1 day. The long night palaver with the man in black.
(DT1)+10 years? Roland arrives at the Western Sea.

(DT2) Seven hours later; Roland versus the lobstrosities.
(DT2)+1 day. Roland cleans his guns.
(DT2)+1 day. The first door—the Prisoner. Welcome Eddie Dean.
(DT2)+1 week. Roland battles the fever with Keflex.
(DT2)+1 day. Eddie drags Roland north on a travois.
(DT2)+3 days. More travel north along the beach. Eddie talks about Henry.
(DT2)+1 day. The second door—the Lady of Shadows. Odetta Holmes comes through the doorway.
(DT2)+1 day. Detta Walker on the other side.
(DT2)+1 day. The threesome travels north.
(DT2)+1 day. Detta wakes them with screams. They cover three miles.
(DT2)+1 day. The threesome manages only two miles.
(DT2)+1 day. Odetta reappears. Eddie and Odetta look for the third door, make love.
(DT2)+1 day. The third door—the Pusher.
(DT2)+1 day. Eddie returns for Roland.
(DT2)+1 day. Eddie pushes Roland up the beach. Roland meets Jack Mort. Susannah Dean is born.
(DT2)+6 days. Everyone recovers.

(DT3)+2 months or more. Roland and Susannah destroy Shardik/Mir.
(DT3)+1 day. Eddie’s dream. The gunslingers follow Shardik’s back trail.
(DT3)+1 day. Shardik’s lair. The Path of the Beam.
(DT3)+1 day. Eddie dreams again. Roland has a nightmare and gives up his guns.
(DT3)+8 days. Jake telegraphs a message to Eddie about the key.
(DT3)+1 day. Jake crosses back to Mid-World. Susannah and the demon.
(DT3)+4 days. Oy joins the ka-tet.
(DT3)+1 day. The ka-tet visits Aunt Talitha at River Crossing.
(DT3)+3 days. The downed airplane.
(DT3)+3 days. Mutant honeybees and poisoned honey.
(DT3)+1 day. The ka-tet hears fighting from Lud.
(DT3)+1 day. Crossing the Send River, Gasher, Tick-Tock Man, Blaine the Mono.

(DT4) Later that same day. Blaine the Mono and Topeka.
(DT4)+1 day. The ka-tet takes the Interstate.
(DT4)+1 day. Eddie’s dream. They see the crystal palace in the distance.
(DT4)+1 day. Roland tells his story.
(DT4)+1 day? Inside the Emerald Palace.
(DT4)+? After the journey inside the pink Wizard’s ball. Time has slipped again, but no one knows how much.
(DT5)+7 weeks. The end of Full or Wide Earth (summer) in Calla Bryn Sturgis. Andy brings news of the Wolves. Jake finds muffin balls and notices they are being watched. The ka-tet goes todash to Jake’s New York. Mia forages for food.
(DT5)+1 day. Palaver about the trip todash. Father Callahan and the other representatives of the Calla approach.
(DT5)+1 day. Another trip todash trip to New York.
(DT5)+1 day. Riding to Calla Bryn Sturgis. Singing and dancing at the pavilion.
(DT5)+1 day. Father Callahan tells the first part of his story. Shows Roland Black Thirteen. The Tale of Gray Dick. The Orizas. Gran-Pere Jaffords tells of killing a Wolf.
(DT5)+1 day. Mia hunts again, followed by Jake. Father Callahan tells the end of his story. Susannah tells the others she might be pregnant.
(DT5)+1 day. The end of ritual and preparation. The beginning of the business. Roland says his confession to Callahan.
(DT5)+5 days. Roland and the others schmooze the Calla-folken.
(DT5)+2 days. Susannah displays her skills with the Orizas.
(DT5)+2 days. The Sisters of Oriza have a contest.
(DT5)+1 day. Eddie goes to New York and convinces Tower to leave town. Jake crosses the Whye and sees Andy and Ben Slightman the elder at the Dogan.
(DT5)+1 day. Jake tells about Slightman and Andy. Father Callahan goes to New York to get the zip code and date.
(DT5)+4 days. The town hall meeting.
(DT5)+1 day. Father Callahan goes to Maine. Eddie almost jumps to his death.
(DT5)+1 day. Susannah has contractions and a three-hour fugue.
(DT5)+1 day. Eddie and Tian Jaffords mislead Andy with news of heavy artillery.
(DT5)+2 days. Wolf’s Eve. Andy is decommissioned. The people of the Calla bring their children to town. The Big Feast.
(DT5)+1 day. The Day of the East Road Battle. Mia/Susannah escapes through the U
NFOUND
door. The ka-tet discovers
’Salem’s Lot.

(DT6) The same day. Roland consults Henchick about reopening the door. The Calla experiences a Beamquake.
(DT6)+1 day. Henchick and his Manni open the doorway. Callahan, Jake and Oy follow Susannah; Roland and Eddie go to Maine to deal with Tower and meet Stephen King.

(DT7) The same day. The Dixie Pig. Bridgton. Mordred’s birth and Mia’s death. Eddie and Roland send Cullum to New York, then cross over to 1999 and into Fedic. Reunion.
(DT7)+1 day. Onward to Thunderclap. Walter o’Dim dies. The ka-tet meets Ted, Dinky and Sheemie. Plans for battle. Ka-shume. Ted’s tapes.
(DT7)+1 day. The attack on Algul Siento. Eddie is killed. Say sorry.
(DT7)+2 days. Roland returns to Fedic and rejoins Susannah. They spend the night in Fedic.
(DT7)+1 day. Beneath Fedic. Past Castle Discordia into the badlands.
(DT7)+weeks. Walking across the badlands. Roland, Susannah and Oy reach the outpost of the Crimson King’s castle.
(DT7)+3 days. They walk at night again.
(DT7)+1 day. They reach the village near the Crimson King’s castle.
(DT7)+1 day. The castle. Feemalo, Fimalo and Fumalo.
(DT7)+1 day. The first trees since Calla Bryn Sturgis.
(DT7)+3 days. The deer hunt. Preparing hides.
(DT7)+1 day. Dehairing the hides.
(DT7)+1 day. Tanning the hides.
(DT7)+1 day. Roland and Susannah make garments.
(DT7)+3 weeks. Roland, Susannah and Oy emerge from the forest. Joe Collins.
(DT7)+3 days. Roland, Susannah, Oy and Patrick Danville camp in the barn outside Dandelo’s cabin.
(DT7)+2 days. Stutterin’ Bill drops them off at Federal Outpost 19.
(DT7)+1 day. A herd of buffalo.
(DT7)+1 day. Susannah looks for an
NFOUND
door.
(DT7)+1 day. Patrick draws the
NFOUND
door. Susannah passes through. The first rose.
(DT7)+1 day. Mordred’s attack. Oy’s death. Mordred’s death. The Dark Tower.
(DT7)+1 day. Patrick walks back toward the Federal Outpost.

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