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)
150 AD
Apuleius, Metamorphosis composed
170 AD
Pausanias visits Arcadia and hears of Lykanian werewolf rites
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 (Boguet)
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
1806
French population falls below 2000
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
2006
New breed of werewolf discoverd in Malaysia. A cross breed between Krypton's superpowers and the lycans called SuperWolf.
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