Dawson's Creek Chronology

Full Chronology

All dates in dd/mm/yy format.

1955: Mr and Mrs Ryan get married. (The Kiss)
1962: Tamara Jacobs is born. (Look Who's Talking)
1963: 1st Miss Windjammer Pagent. (Pretty Women)
1969: Mr Peterson starts teaching. (Revelations: And That is The Question)
1973: Doug Witter is born. (Blown Away)
1974: Mitch and Gail start dating. (Carnal Knowledge)
28/9/78: Mitch and Gail are married. (Carnel Knowledge)
4/12/82: Pacey Witter is born. (Crossroads)
27/2/83: Dawson Lerry is born. (Be Careful What You Wish For)
????: Joey's mother dies of cancer. Her father cheated on her "for as long as I can remember" before. (Both Dirty Dancing).
1990: Joey starts sleeping over at Dawson's (Emotions in Motion, Dawson says "You've been sleeping over since you were seven." She's 15 and the year is 1998.)
1991: Pacey's team loses a vital baseball game and his father holds him responsible. (Breaking Away)
1994: Dawson and Joey are already best friends. (Breakfast Club)
1995: Jen loses her virginity. (Blown Away)
Pacey starts driving. (Crossroads) Personally, I find this one *really* hard to believe and would mark it down as a boast if it hadn't of been hinted at several times.
2nd half 96: Joey's mother dies of breast cancer. (see assumptions)
1996: Joey last see's her father before "Breaking Away". (Breaking Away)
Start of 1997: Mr Ryan goes into a coma. (The Kiss)
1997: Andie starts taking drugs to help her cope. (Question)
25/11/97: Bessie visits her father in prison. (Breaking Away)
Dec 97: Tim McPhee dies in a car crash. (Full Moon Rising)
1/8/98: Gail starts her affair with Bob. (Blown Away)
5/9/98: Joey expresses her discomfort at sleeping over at Dawson's in his bed, due to the age. Dawson convinces her to stay but they are both uncomfortable. (Emotions in Motion)
6/9/98: Jen arrives in Capeside.
Pacey and Dawson meet Tamara for the first time while working at ScreenPlay Video. She rents 'The Graduate' and Pacey thinks she was flirting with him.
Dawson tells Jen about his movie-making and shows her his room.
Dawson tells Joey of his suspicion that Gail is sleeping with Bob. (All Emotions in Motion)
7/9/98: Jen tells Grams she doesn't believe in God.
First day of Sophomeore year at Capeside High School.
Dawson discovers Jen used to smoke.
Pacey discovers Tamara is his English teacher.
Dawson is denied admittance to Film Class.
Dawson, Joey, Jen and Pacey go to The Rialto. Dawson and Jen are on a quasi-date. Joey makes a scene with Jen and Dawson argues with her because he like Jen.
Pacey goes because Tamara told him she would be there tonight but he gets punched by someone in the cinema as Tamara brushes him off. Pacey sees Tamara outside the cinema and end up kissing.
Joey refuses to stay the night because they can't talk about some things now, "How often do you walk your dog, huh?". He tells her in the end but she still leaves and while doing so she see's Mrs Leery kissing Bob in his car outside her house.
(All Emotions in Motion)
10/9/98: The start of all things leather and Crisco. (Dirty Dancing)
11/9/98: Dawson gets study hall in Film Class. Dawson learns that he may have competition from Cliff for Jen.
(All Dirty Dancing)
12/9/98: Joey watches Dawson kiss the model of her head.
Joey tells Gail she knows of her affair.
Joey and Dawson share a moment at the dance but it's interrupted by Jen.
Dawson says, "I mean, it's like the way I feel about you.She challenges me the way you do, she could be you. Except...she'd Jen."
Dawson and Jen dance after the dance.
(All Dirty Dancing)
18/9/98: Joey notices Anderson at the Icehouse. They go on a date. He gives her his number but she throws it away after she lied to him.
Dawson has his part in 'Helmets ofGlory'.
(All Prelude to a Kiss)
19/9/98: Dawson captures Pacey and Tamara sleeping together at the ruins on tape. (Prelude to a Kiss)
27/9/98: Dawson sees his mom kiss Bob at the station.
Dawson finds out Joey knew about G+B.
Jen tells Dawson the real reason she left New York.
(Carnal Knowledge)
28/9/98: Mr Gold is gay (Tamara tells Pacey)
Gail and Mitch's wedding anniversary.
(Carnal Knowledge)
2/10/98: Gail finds out Dawson knows about her affair and they have a confrontation.
Gail tells Mitch about her affair
Doug is 24, soon 25
(All Blown Away)
8/10/98: Dawson adds Jen to movie night and it doesn't work out at all.
9/10/98: Bodie has an interview for a French restaurant in Hyannis.
Keny Leaverton overhears Dawson and Pacey talking about him and Tamara in the school toilets.
Bessie gives birth to a baby boy, Alexander, in Dawsons front room with Mrs. Ryan attending as nurse due to no ambulence being available.
Tamara is summounded to a hearing over the rumour of her and Pacey. He comes in and tells the hearing it was something he made up.
(All Look Who's Talking)
10/10/98: Tamara leaves Capeside for her sisters house in Rochester. (Look Who's Talking)
16/10/98: Joey, Jen, Pacey, Dawson and Abby all get Saturday detention. (Breakfast Club)
17/10/98: In detention: Joey and Dawson kiss each other as a dare but sparks fly. (Breakfast Club)
23/10/98: Mitch and Gail are seeing a marriage counceller
Joey's bedroom is now the living room
Billy, Jen's ex-girlfriend, comes from New York to see her and staysover at Dawsons.
(Both Escape from New York)
24/10/98: Pacey tells Joey for the 1st time he knows she loves Dawson
At the party Joey gets drunk and Pacey saves her from a blond guy but she thinks it was Dawson. When he takes her home she kisses him.
Billy leaves Dawson house.
Jen breaks up with Dawson.
(All Escape from New York)
Kristy starts her relationship with her all-state boyfriend. (The Kiss)
27/10/98: Dawson and Pacey cut school to go to a club in Providence with Billy. Dawson meets someone but doesn't "pull the trigger".
Warren tells the school Joey slept with him but she gets revenge by saying she's pregnant.
(Both In The Company of Men)
28/10/98: "Yeah, I can wait." (In The Company of Men)
6/11/98: Boston Film Festival deadline. (Emotions in Motion)
Joey and Pacey are put on a Biology project togther. (Modern Romance)
7/11/98: Dawson and Mary-Beth go on a double date with Jen and Cliff to the carnival.
Jen thinks her and Dawson can't be friends anymore
Dawson, shakily, gave permission for Pacey to kiss Joey but she rejects Pacey.
(All Modern Romance)
8/11/98: Dawson tells Pacey he doesn't want him to kiss Joey. (Modern Romance)
12/11/98: 5th lady kiler victim found. (The Scare)
13/11/98: Joey sees that the Lady Killer is the person that she was talking to outside the convinence store. (The Scare)
21/11/98: Pacey and Joey enter the Miss Windjammer pageant.
Joey sings "On My Own" and she wins 1st runner-up. Joey and Dawson get very close to getting together but Joey stops it because she fears that Dawson doesn't want the real Joey.
(Both Pretty Women)
25/11/98: Jens grandfather wakes up.
Joey is offered next semester in Paris, she has 2 days to decide(a year).
Mr Potter's birthday.
Joey and Dawson go to visit her dad but they miss visiting and stay in a motel for the night. First time in a foreign bed.
(All Breaking Away)
26/11/98: Dawson tells Joeys dad "She's everything."
Jen's grandfather has another stroke
Jen sleeps over at Dawsons.
Pacey takes Joey to the prision and bribes the guard so she can talk to him. He tells her that Dawson loves her and she admits she loves him.
(All Breaking Away)
27/11/98: Jen's grandfather dies.
Joey sees Jen kiss Dawson and runs away from him. He spends the rest of the day looking for her.
Dawson finds Joey in his closet. They talk about their relationship and Joey goes to leave but Dawson pulls her back and kisses her.
(All Breaking Away)
After the kiss they are unsure of what to do but they end up kissing again. (The Kiss)
28/11/98: The McPhee family first appear in Capeside. They moved from Rhode Island to Capeside.
Joey turns down the exchange to Paris.
Mitch goes to see a divorce lawyer.
Dawson and Joey go on a 1st date to the last night of the Rialto. It's interupted by Jen but the 2nd kiss happens in the end.
(The Kiss)
4/12/98: Pacey's birthday today - 16, which Dawson totally forgets.
Mitch and Gail give Dawson and Joey 'the talk'
Abby and Jen become friends.
Dawson reads a page of Joey's jounal.
(All Crossroads)
5/12/98: Pacey hosts a birthday party on the dock.
Dawson and Joey sort out their probs
(Both Crossroads)
8/12/98: Ladder comes down. (Alternating Lifestyles)
10/12/98: Jen tries to seduce Dawson but it fails totally. (Alternating Lifestyles)
11/12/98: Tamara is back in Capeside. (Alternating Lifestyles)
15/12/98: Dawson knows Tamara is back
dawson not into joey's art thing; she starts taking classes
(Both Tamara's Return)
16/12/98: Pacey meets Tamara again and they have more closure. (Alternating Lifestyles)
19/12/98: Pacey and Andie go on a date.
Jack kisses Joey.
(Both Full Moon Rising)
26/12/98: Dawson finds out Jack kissed Joey and punches him.
Joey leaves Dawson.
Mitch moves out and says at his new apartment. (All Homecoming Dance)
31/12/98: Andie finds out about P+T. (The All-Nighter)
7/1/99: Jen shows up at Dawson's, drunk. Third time this week. (The Reluctant Hero)
8/1/99: Dawson and Joey's film wins best short film in Boston Film Festival, Junior division($2500 prize). He gives half the prize money to Joey.
Jack and Joey "dat"
j+d almost electrocuted themselves as kids, so did jack
Andie's mom goes nuts.
(All The Reluctant Hero)
11/1/99: Andie and Joey run in the Capeside High Election. (The Election)
12/1/99: Abby makes Andie's Mum's condition and Tim public knowledge.
Dawson and Jen skinnydip.
(Both The Election)
13/1/98: Kenny prob wins the election.
Andie starts her medication again.
Mitch serves Gail with the divorce papers.
(All The Election)
18/1/99: Auditions for Dawsons movie today
Pacey takes a HIV test for Andie: negative.
Jack totals Joeys nude painting which is due Thursday
(High Risk Behaviour)
19/1/99: Jack poses for Joey and they make out; so do Jen and Dawson and Pacey and Andie. Pacey and Andie have sex. (High Risk Behaviour)
20/1/99: Pacey gets an 'A' in a history test. (High Risk Behaviour)
30/1/99: Pacey talks to his father; unfortunately he is asleep from drink at the time. (Uncharted Waters)
31/1/99: Pacey's boat wins the fishing trophy. (Uncharted Waters)
6/2/99: Dawson casts Devon as Sammy. (His leading Lady)
7/2/99: Ty takes Jen to a bible party. (His Leading Lady)
10/2/99: Pacey gt 3 'b's and 2 'a's on his midterms.
Jack reads his poem out to the class.
(Revelations: To Be or Not To Be?)
11/2/99: Pacey spits in Peterson's face. (Revelations: To Be or Not To Be?)
12/2/99: Pacey takes a weeks suspension. (Revelations: To Be or Not To Be?)
23/2/99: Mr McPhee returns.
Ty states his beliefs on gay's.
(Revelations: And That is The Question)
24/2/99: Pacey tries to get Peterson reprimanded for his behaviour. He retires early instead.
Jack admits he's gay.
(Both Revelations: And That is The Question)
27/2/99: Dawson's 16th birthday.
Dawson and Andie get totally drunk, sing the blues and Dawson manages to insult everyone at his birthday party. He loses his new Explorer.
Jack is caught kissing Abby.
(All Be Careful What You Wish For)
3/3/99: New film teacher Miss Kennedy
Mitch is subbing as english teacher
Joey mets Colin but he is more interested in Jack
Miss Kennedy savages Dawsons film
Mitch and Miss Kennedy may be going out
Mr Potter appears at home, having been paroled.
(All Psychic Friends)
6/3/99: Pam and Alan get married.
Joey and Dawson kiss at the wedding.
Abby falls off the pier drunk and dies.
(All The Perfect Wedding)

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