Middle Ages

ca. early 970s A.D.

 * In the Kingdom of Norway, a large group of Viking warriors attacked a village where two young witches, Esther and Dahlia, were raised. The Vikings easily slaughtered all of the villagers except for the two witches, whom they decided to capture after they saw Dahlia using magic to neutralize the Viking who attempted to attack her younger sister. Before they were captured, the sisters promised each other that they would stand by one another, "always and forever," no matter what happened. It was this vow that would also later be adopted by Esther's children Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, and Rebekah in the early 11th century.
 * In order to spare Esther from the horrible physical and psychological abuse she herself would eventually endure from the Vikings, Dahlia agreed to perform the dark magic they demanded in exchange for Esther's protection. As a result of this deal, she was forced to work for them all day in a cramped hovel while Esther was able to spend most of her day outside collecting magical herbs for her.
 * At some point during their captivity, Esther began to grow closer to one of her Viking captors, Mikael, and after some time, they fell in love and planned to get married and start a family.
 * When Dahlia informed her of a plan she had created to allow them to escape the Vikings' control using potent sage and serpent's blood, Esther confessed that she had decided to stop practicing witchcraft, as she believed she would no longer need it because Mikael would protect her from any harm. Dahlia felt incredibly betrayed by Esther's decision to leave her in favor of marrying one of their captors, believing that she was breaking their vow to always stick together. In her grief, she began sobbing on the floor after Esther left with Mikael. It is believed that this moment is what led to Dahlia swearing to never be oppressed again.
 * Some time in 971, Mikael and Esther were married and began to try to have children of their own.

972 A.D.

 * In Norway, a barren Esther Mikaelson asked her sister Dahlia to help her conceive a child with magic. Dahlia initially rejected her pleas, as she was still resentful that Esther had abandoned witchcraft and believed if she hadn't, Esther would be able to help herself, but after some convincing, she ultimately agreed. However, Dahlia warned her that it would require heavy sacrifice, which Esther was desperate enough to agree to pay.
 * A short time afterward, Mikael and Esther conceived their first child together, and within the year, their daughter, Freya, became their firstborn child.

973–974 A.D.

 * In Norway, Mikael and Esther had a second child, Finn Mikaelson, who would grow up to be the best friend of his older sister Freya.

977 A.D.

 * When Freya was five years old and just starting to come into her magical abilities, Dahlia sensed her power and came to take her, Esther's first born child, as payment for casting the fertility spell in 972. Esther attempted to resist the price of the spell, which caused Dahlia to remind Esther that she hadn't just agreed to give up her own firstborn child to her--she had also agreed to give up the firstborn witch child of each and every one of Esther's witch descendants for as long as her bloodline existed.
 * Esther was so devastated by this event (despite knowing what she was agreeing to when she requested Dahlia cast the spell) that she vowed to return to the dark arts and grow in experience and magical strength until she was powerful enough to rival Dahlia herself. Shortly after Freya was taken, Esther made good on this threat and began practicing witchcraft again.
 * Mikael, who was away in battle at the time Freya was taken, was told a lie that Freya died from plague upon his return to their home in Norway. This news ultimately had a permanent effect on the future of his family, as the "death" of his beloved daughter caused Mikael to become withdrawn from Esther and his later children.
 * Esther was also pregnant with her third child, Elijah, when Freya was taken away by Dahlia, indicating that Elijah was born later this year or earlier in the following year.
 * Freya, now in Dahlia's possession, was immediately taught to use her powers by her new guardian. After a short period of instructing Freya in witchcraft, Dahlia created her own brand of connective magic and bound herself to young Freya in a way that allowed her to augment Freya's powers while still giving herself the ability to also channel her young niece and increase her own power as well.
 * Armed with Freya and the immense magical power they shared, Dahlia set out to use it to vanquish her enemies. She began this mission right away by slaying an entire village of Viking men, women, and children with a wave of her hand, as the village was led by a chief who wanted to run her out of the encampment for practicing witchcraft.

977–Late 990s A.D.

 * The witch Ayana, Esther's friend and mentor, informed Esther of a far-away place where "everybody is healthy and blessed with the gifts of speed and strength." This place was in the New World, and the people she was describing were werewolves.
 * Esther, Mikael, their two sons, (Elijah and Finn) and Ayana (along with several other Norwegian Vikings) migrated to the place that would eventually become known as Mystic Falls, Virginia in the United States of America. They were quickly welcomed into a village in which many werewolves resided and easily integrated into their new home. During the full moon, the Viking colonists would hide inside the extensive cave system under the village to protect themselves from the werewolves while they were transformed.
 * The Mikaelson family lived in peace with the natives for over twenty years. During this time, Mikael and Esther had four more children together: Niklaus, Kol, Rebekah, and Henrik. However, it would soon be revealed that Klaus was not actually Mikael's biological son, but instead was a product of an affair Esther had with Ansel, the chief of the village and the werewolf Alpha of what eventually became known as the North East Atlantic Pack.
 * Because Klaus inherited the werewolf gene from his true father, Esther spent the rest of Klaus' human life fearing that the Viking warrior culture would cause him to kill and trigger his curse, which would subsequently reveal her infidelity. In order to keep Klaus from activating his werewolf gene for as long as possible, she cast a spell to cause physical weakness on a Starling Necklace in hopes of ensuring Klaus wouldn't have the power to kill anyone. However, it was this magically-induced weakness that caused Mikael, who valued only strength in his offspring, to begin abusing Klaus, and this abuse ultimately played a huge role in making Klaus the paranoid, vengeful, and violent person he became as an adult.
 * During this time, the lord Tristan de Martel and his younger sister, the lady Aurora de Martel were born to the Count de Martel and his wife in Marseilles, France. When Aurora was born, her mother died in childbirth, causing Aurora to blame herself for her death for the rest of her life.

Late 990s—Early 1000s

 * In the Kingdom of Norway, Freya, now an adult woman, continued to learn witchcraft from Dahlia, and as she grew older, it became exceedingly clear that Freya's magic was out of control, as the firstborn witches of Dahlia and Esther's family's bloodline are known to always possess devastating amounts of power, more so than the other witches of the bloodline.
 * After learning that Freya's siblings had been turned into vampires, preventing them from having any children, Dahlia, furious that Esther had essentially weaseled out of their deal by preventing her from taking their firstborn witch children, became determined to figure out a way to get the firstborn Mikaelson witches she desperately craved. Her ultimate goal was to create a coven of powerful witches from whom she could channel and become unstoppable, and it was this goal that led her to realize that she needed to extend her lifespan in order to make her plan work, since she had only Freya to continue the bloodline at this point.
 * Dahlia eventually created a spell that would grant a witch an unconventional form of immortality, which would allow them to retain their magic, unlike vampires and true immortals, who lose their magic upon transformation. Though Freya insisted that she wanted no part of this spell, as she viewed the immortality as a curse, Dahlia (seeing this opportunity as both a stop-gap in her quest to true immortality as well as a chance to extend Freya's life so she can have a larger bloodline of Mikaelson witches for Dahlia to take) forced Freya to partake in the ritual against her will. The spell required them to put themselves in a magically-induced sleep for a century while their magic would continue to grow exponentially over that time. When they awoke from this sleep, they would then have more power than they ever dreamed, but it came at a price— they could only be active for a single year before they had to return their magical slumber for another century and once again build up more of their power. This spell ensured that they would only become more powerful with each century they awakened.

1001

 * At some point this year, Tatia, a Petrova doppelgänger who was the object of affection for both Elijah and Klaus, confessed to Elijah that she loved him, effectively choosing him over his brother. The relationship between Elijah and Tatia grew stronger from then on, with Elijah's mother Esther being so happy that she truly believed that she would call Tatia her daughter once she and Elijah married.
 * In the New World, Henrik Mikaelson was killed by werewolves after sneaking out on a full moon with Klaus “to watch the men change into beasts.”
 * Autumn 1001:
 * In their grief after losing their youngest son, Mikael and Esther began thinking of magical ways to protect their family in order to ensure that they would never suffer such a loss again. When Esther came upon the Immortality Spell that Qetsiyah created that turned Silas and Amara into the first Immortals, she got the idea to modify it to defend against the werewolves' powers. However, when she approached her mentor, Ayana, and begged her for her magical assistance, Ayana refused, stating that the balance of Nature would not stand for what she wanted to do, and insisting that if Esther proceeded as planned, she would cause the beginning of a plague.
 * After much convincing and encouragement from Mikael, Esther ultimately turned the Mikaelson Family into the first vampires using her modified immortality spell shortly after the village celebrated the pagan holiday Samhain. Esther had two reasons for transforming her husband and their children into these immortal vampires: it was both a way protect the rest of her family from losing any other members to the werewolves, and also, secretly, to keep them from bringing forth another generation of witches, since Esther knew that vampires, as undead creatures, could not have biological children, and she also knew that Dahlia intended to return to her in order to claim any firstborn children Finn, Elijah, Klaus, Kol, and Rebekah would potentially have.
 * In the spell, she used a small amount of blood that Tatia voluntarily gave her at Esther's request, as Tatia's status as the first Petrova doppelgänger to be born after Amara was made into anImmortal, made her blood a powerful binding agent in witchcraft. She also called on the sun for life and the ancient white oak tree for immortality. As a result, the very first vampires, called the Originals, were created.
 * Shortly afterward, the recently-turned Original vampires unintentionally made their first human kills, revealing that an all-consuming hunger for human blood was an unforeseen side-effect of vampirism, a hunger that the Mikaelson children had yet to learn to control. After Klaus killed his first human, he immediately began shifting into a werewolf, revealing his newly activated hybrid nature and making it known that Klaus was not Mikael's biological son, but was instead a product of the affair Esther had with Ansel, a werewolf and the Alpha of the North East Atlantic Pack, the same pack to which the werewolf who accidentally killed Henrik belonged.
 * During Klaus' first werewolf transformation after making his first human kill, he ran into the woods and accidentally slaughtered six villagers who happened to be there that night.
 * Elijah's lover, Tatia, caught him consoling Klaus the morning after his first full-moon-induced transformation and saw the victims of his bloodlust surrounding him in the woods. When Elijah saw the look of horror and disgust on Tatia's face, he chased after her to explain what had happened, and Tatia, in her fear, accidentally cut her hand open when she tripped and fell on a tree root. The scent of her blood was too overwhelming for the newly-turned Elijah, who was unable to resist his newborn vampire bloodlust and ultimately fed on her until she died.
 * Afterward, Elijah realized he had inadvertently caused the death of the woman he loved and became so desperate that he brought Tatia's body to his mother in order to seek her help. Esther felt guilty for the fact that Elijah had made his first human kill as a result of the fact that she turned him into a vampire and knew that Elijah was devastated by the fact that he murdered the love of his life. So, she magically altered his memories so he would not have to suffer for what he had done. The spell she cast created a door in his mind behind which the memories of Tatia's death were stored, and because Elijah lost his memories of the event, he (and the rest of his siblings) mistakenly believed that Esther had killed Tatia in order to use her blood to bind the Hybrid Curse, an incorrect assumption that Esther encouraged in order to hide the truth.
 * However, an unforeseen consequence of the spell cast on Elijah's memories was that it created the "red door" behind which Elijah would later begin store each and every memory of all of his violent actions over the course of his thousand-year-long life.
 * Mikael was furious at his wife's betrayal, and the Spirits were intent to restore the balance of Nature that had been disturbed when Klaus' hybrid nature made him nearly invulnerable. So, in order to make up for her mistakes, Esther cast a curse on Klaus using the remaining doppelgänger blood left in Tatia's deceased body as a binding agent, which then bound his werewolf heritage and essentially made the majority of his werewolf powers dormant.
 * Upon learning that Klaus’ biological father was the chief of the werewolf pack whose members killed his son Henrik, Mikael went into an intense rage and killed at least half of their village, including Ansel and the majority of his pack. This act would ultimately ignite a war between the two species that still rages on in the present day, though enough members of Ansel's family survived for his bloodline to survive into the 21st century.
 * Klaus, feeling betrayed by his mother for her lies, strangled Esther to death and blamed Mikael for the act, causing his siblings to turn their backs on their father out of anger.
 * After Niklaus, Elijah and Rebekah fled the family home following Esther's death to escape their father, Mikael, Elijah and Rebekah assured Klaus that they were not going to desert him, and the three of them swore an oath to stay together "Always and Forever," a phrase that would bind the three of them together as siblings for eternity. Soon afterward, the three left the village and returned to the Old World, where they reunited with their brothers Kol and Finn.

1002

 * Late Winter/Early Spring 1002:
 * Finn, Elijah, Klaus, Kol, and Rebekah, having made it back to Europe following their transformations into vampires and the death of their mother, eventually ended up in southern France after spending the last half-year (autumn and winter of 1001 AD) running from Mikael. Elijah insisted that they do everything in their power to not draw attention to themselves out of fear their father would find them, and enacted several rules by which the five of them would abide to ensure their success, which included feeding discreetly, covering their tracks, and killing anyone who learned the truth about what they were so they could not spread rumors of the existence of vampires.
 * The five Mikaelson siblings had numerous arguments about their new lifestyle and what they should do next. Kol thought it would be best if they split up, since Mikael couldn't go after all of them at once, and though Finn wasn't keen on separating, he and Rebekah yearned for ordinary lives that they couldn't live on the run, but Elijah and Klaus eventually ruled to stay together, as they had made a vow to be a family, always and forever.
 * After the siblings had fed on and killed four noblemen and one noblewoman who appeared to be heading toward the castle not far from where they were, Rebekah had the idea to take their clothes and carriage and go to the castle in their victims' place. The five of them were divided on the subject, especially considering they were in a strange new country whose customs and culture they did not understand.
 * While they were debating, Elijah found the servant of their deceased victims, a man named Lucien Castle who was so terrified after witnessing them slaughtering the guests he was meant to deliver that he begged them to allow him to help them blend into the French court by teaching them their customs in exchange for sparing his life. Though Elijah reminded them that they had a rule to kill anyone who found out they were vampires, he was eventually overruled, and the Mikaelsons decided to do as Lucien requested and allow him to live so he could tell them everything they needed to know to pass for the children of the French Count de Guise at the castle.
 * The Mikaelsons and Lucien soon arrived at the castle wearing their victims' clothes, where Lucien instructed them on how to introduce themselves to Count de Martel and how to appear to be wealthy nobles rather than the scared immigrants that they were. Lucien then introduced them to the Count. Though they were nearly exposed as frauds when Count de Martel claimed the Count de Guise had never mentioned children, Elijah, Klaus and Rebekah managed to talk their way out of it and were invited to stay in their home.
 * While at the celebration, Lucien and Klaus talked privately, during which time Lucien admitted that his master, Count de Martel, treated him cruelly, and that even knowing that Klaus and his siblings were vampires, Lucien believed the Count and the nobles were even greater monsters than they are. Lucien then stated that he'd be happy to see them all dead, which seemed to endear him to Klaus. When Tristan and Aurora de Martel arrived and joined the party, Klaus seemed immediately smitten with Aurora and asked Lucien about them. Lucien explained that they were the Count's children and warned him it would likely be best to stay away from them, describing Tristan as being "wicked" and alluding to the fact that he had romantic feelings for Aurora as well. ("For the Next Millennium")
 * Some time later, the Mikaelsons had thoroughly assimilated into their new lives at the Court of Marseilles. During a celebration in the castle yard, Lucien approached Klaus with a letter for Aurora and begged him to give it to her, as the two had shared romantic feelings for each other since childhood but Lucien was unable to declare his intentions due to his low station. Klaus, who, unbeknowst to anyone, was engaging in an affair with Aurora himself, was torn between helping his friend and maintaining his new life, so he ultimately agreed to give Aurora the letter, but then later lied and claimed that Aurora refused to accept it.
 * Lucien, still a determined romantic, went to Aurora's room to speak with her and found Klaus and Aurora together, leaving him devastated. Tristan's guards, having seen Lucien enter Aurora's chambers, approached the room, and though Klaus was able to get away at Aurora's urging, Lucien didn't move quickly enough and was caught by Tristan.
 * Tristan, furious at Lucien, ordered his guards to take him to the cellar, where he later whipped the servant until his back was raw and bloody. Klaus and Elijah confronted Tristan and attempted to stop him, but Tristan revealed that he knew what they were, as he had spoken to a woman who had escaped with her life after Kol had attacked and fed on her village. Klaus was about to torture Tristan, but when he revealed that he had arranged for his fastest riders to spread news of the Mikaelsons being frauds and demons, Elijah forced him to stand down. Afterward, Tristan insisted that they were all the same and were simply trying to protect their families before he sliced Lucien's mouth open from ear to ear.
 * Once Tristan left, Klaus tried to feed Lucien water to help soothe his wounds, but it only hurt him more. When Klaus hugged him and apologized for what happened, Lucien angrily stabbed him in the stomach with Tristan's knife, not knowing that it would do him no harm. Upon contact with Klaus' blood, Lucien's wounds began to heal, surprising both men, as the Original vampires were not aware of this aspect of their powers. Lucien, believing that he had become the same creature as Klaus, fled to attack Tristan, only to be killed before he could even harm him. Believing him to be truly dead, Klaus and Elijah prepared a traditional Viking funeral for Lucien and sadly discussed how confusing it was that their blood could heal the living but not the dead. Just before Klaus could set fire to Lucien's funeral pyre, Lucien awoke in transition, once again shocking them both. Shortly afterward, Lucien fed on the blood of one of the members of the court, completing his transition and becoming the first vampire to ever be sired by one of the Originals. He then begged Klaus to teach him to be what they are, and Klaus eventually agreed. Elijah would later say that Lucien brought out Klaus' bad side, but Klaus would insist that they brought out the worst in each other.
 * After Lucien's transformation, he continued to feed alongside the rest of the Mikaelsons during their stay at the Court de Martel.
 * Klaus and Aurora continued to carry on their relationship in secret, during which time Aurora asked him on numerous occasions to turn her into a vampire like him so no one could keep them apart. Klaus, not wanting to damn her to his fate, refused.
 * On her birthday, Klaus found her crying in her room, and after some coaxing, Aurora admitted that her birthday wasn't a time of celebration because she had killed her mother in childbirth, and as a result, she was broken and cursed. Klaus, feeling badly for her, tried to make her feel better by confessing that he had killed his mother and blamed it on his father after she turned him and his siblings into vampires, and assured her that she was not as cursed as he was. Aurora believed this was proof that they were the same and begged him to turn her, but he refused once again. Finally, Aurora became so desperate that she slit her own wrists in her bed in an attempt to take her own life. Rebekah ultimately found her and fed her her own vampire blood to heal her, and after Rebekah echoed Klaus' earlier sentiments regarding not wanting to curse anyone to their life, Aurora sadly asked her to leave so she could sleep. Once she was gone, Aurora jumped out of her window, killing herself and turning herself into Rebekah's first vampire progeny.
 * After Aurora finished her transition, she met with Klaus, who was horrified at first, but then eventually made love to her, and both of them with thrilled to be in a relationship where they were both as powerful, strong, and cursed as the other.
 * Shortly afterward, news began to spread through the nearby village of demons who feed on blood, and Finn became furious that Klaus and Kol's antics, along with those of Lucien and now Aurora, have caused word to spread of them. Realizing that their father Mikael was coming for them, Elijah decided that they needed to flee.
 * Aurora ran into Elijah as he was packing to leave, and when he told her they had to flee, Aurora stated that she would come with them. Elijah immediately rejected her, stating that Mikael's curse was theirs and theirs alone, and that Aurora wasn't their blood. Aurora, so angry about being left behind, stated that blood didn't matter since she knew things about Klaus that none of his family did. Elijah became furious at this remark and unconsciously compelled her to tell him what she knew, forcing her to confess that Klaus had killed their mother, blamed in on their father, and lied about it to his siblings to prevent them from abandoning him. Elijah was so upset about this confession that he then once again used compulsion to make Aurora find Klaus wretched and cruel in punishment for what he had done.
 * When Klaus came to Aurora to ask her to run away with him, Aurora was unable to accept, and instead told him that while she thought she loved him, she has suddenly seen him clearly and realized that he was pathetic, cruel, and not deserving of her. Klaus began to cry and told her she was breaking his heart, but Aurora was unable to take back what she had said.
 * Before the Mikaelsons fled the Court of Marseilles, Elijah personally sired his own first vampire, Tristan de Martel. Then, having begun to understand how vampire compulsion works, Elijah compelled Lucien, Aurora, and Tristan to believe that they were Klaus, Rebekah, and himself before then compelling them to flee France, effectively making them bait for Mikael, who was on their way to hunt them down. This compulsion would hold for over a hundred years until the real Mikaelsons were daggered in the 12th century, effectively breaking the mind control Elijah had used on them. Despite Mikael's best efforts, Lucien, Aurora and Tristan were able to evade him for the entirety of their lives as they traveled across Europe.
 * Once the Mikaelsons' progeny had fled the court, the five Mikaelsons traveled south to Tuscany, Italy, staying in the country for an unknown period of time.

1100s

 * Finn began a relationship with Sage. His family did not approve of this relationship, so they met in secret. Finn later turned Sage so that both could be together forever.

1110s

 * At some point in this century, Elijah Mikaelson met Aya, a highly intelligent outcast. The two eventually began a romantic relationship, and Elijah sired her and turned her into a vampire. They then began to create an organization to help usher in an era of greater intellectual enlightenment that eventually became known as The Strix.

1114s

 * Elijah, Klaus, and Rebekah, Finn, and Kol, after over a century of living as nobles in Europe, continued to live in Italy, where they followed the Normans farther south into the country during their conquests.
 * Elijah warned Klaus that he and Kol were causing the story of the Original vampires to spread across the lands due to their indiscriminate feeding, killing, and turning of humans into vampires after learning the full extent of their vampire abilities over the decades. He feared that this behavior would attract Mikael's attention and draw him to them.
 * The Brotherhood of the Five hunter Alexander met Rebekah, Elijah, and Niklaus when he and his brothers arrived in Italy. The Mikaelsons pretended to be mortals and learned from Alexander the mission of his order, believing that their status as daywalkers, thanks to their daylight rings, would keep the hunters from realizing that they were Original vampires.
 * While Alexander and Rebekah were being intimate, he revealed he possessed silver daggers that could be used to neutralize a "special kind of vampire." Before Rebekah could react to this revelation, Alexander grabbed one of the daggers and drove it into Rebekah's heart, confirming that he had figured out Rebekah was not human as she had claimed.
 * The rest of Alexander's brothers, who were having a sleepover with Finn, Elijah, Klaus, and Kol, used their own silver daggers to incapacitate the rest of the Mikaelson siblings.
 * Unbeknownst at the time, the temporary "death" experienced by the Mikaelsons while they were daggered caused the compulsion that Elijah had used to convince Lucien, Aurora, and Tristan that they were Klaus, Rebekah, and himself (with the intention of tricking Mikael into hunting them instead) to break. For the first time in over a century, Lucien, Aurora and Tristan remembered their true identities and realized they had been living a lie for decades and had lost everything in their old lives as a result of it. This revelation caused the three of them to begin to formulate plans to find a way to kill Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah in retribution for what they had done to them.
 * Klaus--who, unbeknownst to the Brotherhood, was immune to the dagger's effects due to his werewolf heritage--killed Alexander and the rest of his brothers in retribution for their attack. It was then revealed that at some point prior to the five of them being daggered, Alexander told Rebekah of a cure to immortality, a secret that no one else had known until this point.
 * The Five were incorrectly believed by the Mikaelsons to have become extinct following the deaths of the order's original members. However, the Five's legacy was eventually passed down to other potential hunters, although the methods for which these "potentials" are chosen remains unknown. The subsequent generations of these supernaturally-enhanced hunters also differed from their predecessors in that their Hunter's Marks did not appear on their bodies right away; instead, it began with a modified version of the vegevesr rune on their right hand that would then grow piecemeal with each vampire the hunter killed, causing the tattoo to make its way up their right arm, across the hunter's shoulders and chest, and down the other arm. These marks also could not be seen by anyone other than other members of the Five and their unactivated "potentials" until it was fully completed by one of the hunters, after which point it would magically complete itself on the four other hunters, regardless of whether or not they had killed enough vampires to reveal the full tattoo by this point.
 * After his death, Alexander's body was buried along with his sword by his former lover, Rebekah, in the church where they planned to be married.
 * Shortly after killing the entire first generation of the Brotherhood of the Five, Klaus became the first vampire to learn the consequences of killing one of the order's hunters--if a hunter dies at a vampire's hands, they become infected with the Hunter's Curse, a way for the hunter to fulfill their duty one last time, even in death, by driving the vampire to kill themselves. In Klaus' case, he was plagued by relentless upsetting hallucinations that drove him to the brink of suicide. However, because he was immortal, he was unable to kill himself even if he had truly wanted to, due to the relative unavailability of white oak wood in this location. These hallucinations persisted for the next 52 years until finally, at least one (and possibly as many as five) of the potential hunters of the Five finally activated their legacy by killing a vampire, thereby replacing the original hunter(s) Klaus had killed. The effects of this curse were so powerful that even Klaus described the 52 years he suffered from it as the only point in his millennium-long immortal life that he had ever truly felt aware of the passage of time.
 * After Klaus removed the silver daggers from the bodies of Elijah, Kol, and Rebekah, he decided to leave Finn daggered as a result his older half-brother's attitude toward him. From then on, Finn remained dormant in a coffin over nine centuries until he was finally undaggered by Elijah and Damon Salvatore in 2010.

Late 1166/Early1167

 * At least one (and possibly as many as five) of the potential members of The Brotherhood of the Five activated their legacies by killing a vampire, causing them to become the official second generation of the order's vampire hunters. By activating their supernaturally-enhanced hunter status, they broke the Hunter's Curse that had plagued Klaus since he killed the Five's original members 52 years earlier.

1200s

 * Shen Min was sired by an unknown vampire from Elijah Mikaelson's sireline in the early 1200's, during or after his time spent working as Genghis Khan's torture consultant.
 * Elijah and Klaus forged several documents based on the writings of several different cultures about the "Curse of the Sun and the Moon," a fake curse of their own creation. They then planted the forgeries across the continents in an effort to motivate vampires and werewolves across the world to search for the ingredients Klaus needed to break his Hybrid Curse (namely, the moonstone and a human Petrova doppelgänger) under the mistaken impression that finding the ingredients would allow them to allow them to walk in the sun or control their wolf transformations. Elijah believed that the Aztec drawings were Klaus' best work out of all of the various forgeries he created for this purpose.

1359

 * Elijah wrote in his journal that he had begun to notice that Rebekah and Klaus were slowly losing their humanity. He vowed that it was his duty as their eldest brother to ensure they stayed on the right path.

1400s

 * In the early 1400s, Freya and Dahlia awoke from their century-long sleep, a requirement of their unconventional immortality. Shortly afterward, Freya met and fell in love with a man named Matthias, whom she cared for so deeply that she broke the rule she had vowed to keep since she had learned of her fate as a firstborn witch of Esther's bloodline-- that she would never have children of her own out of fear that they would grow up as slaves to Dahlia just as she did. Matthias, who wanted his firstborn child to be free as well, attempted to help the then-pregnant Freya escape from her tyrannical aunt's home, but when Dahlia realized what they had done, she cast a death hex on Matthias that instantly killed him while Freya was forced to watch in horror.
 * Deeply in grief, Freya attempted to kill herself and her child by drinking a bottle of Dahlia's strongest poison, hoping to free them both from the agony of Dahlia's tyranny. However, much to her horror, she discovered upon waking that part of the immortality ritual Dahlia cast centuries earlier involved a powerful protection spell that prevented her and Dahlia from being killed by any conventional means. Unfortunately, as the spell did not extend to the child in Freya's womb, her unborn son was killed by the poison, devastating Freya so much that she believed herself to be a monster.
 * Dahlia was furious with Freya for killing her first child, as she believed he was owed to her own due as per her deal with Esther. However, she passive-aggressively comforted Freya and stated that she would forgive her...eventually.

1450

 * Rose-Marie was born in St. Austell, England.

1473

 * June 5: Katerina Petrova (later known as Katherine Pierce) was born in Bulgaria to a land-owning Traveler father and a human mother.

1490

 * Katerina Petrova gave birth to a baby girl, whom she conceived with an unnamed man. Katerina's father gave the child away to a fellow Traveler family as soon as she was born, and the child's existence was kept secret. Afterward, Katerina was then disowned and exiled from Bulgaria by her parents for the shame she caused her family by having a child out of wedlock.

1492

 * In the first two years after Katerina's banishment from Bulgaria, she eventually ended up in England and quickly assimilated into the culture there.
 * March/April 1492: Elijah and Niklaus, who were then nobleman in England, met Katerina Petrova through their associate Trevor in March/April of that year. Both brothers were taken by her startling resemblance to Tatia and realized that she was a doppelganger. She became romantically involved with Klaus-- though Elijah, too, seemed to be harboring secret romantic feelings for her-- while she stayed with the two brothers and their sister Rebekah at their castle.
 * April 6, 1492: Katerina learned that Klaus was planning to sacrifice her to break his hybrid curse, and fled from him with help from Trevor, who led the Mikaelson brothers astray before instructing Katerina to run east to a cottage. When she finally arrived there, she was greeted by an old woman who lived there with Trevor's friend and fellow vampire Rose-Marie.
 * When Rose heard Katerina mention Trevor, she reluctantly allowed her to come in. Katerina explained that she had just fled from Klaus, and added that she stole the moonstone from him as proof that she was who she claimed to be. However, this news only caused Rose to become more frightened, and she refused to help, fearing Klaus' retribution against her if he learned that she had aided in Katerina's escape. She then told Katerina that she would be taken back to Klaus once the sun had set.
 * While they waited for Trevor to return, Katerina tricked Rose into feeding her vampire blood by stabbing herself with a knife, and then later hanged herself while Rose and Trevor argued about what they were going to do with her. As a vampire, Katerina's blood was not viable in the ritual to break the curse, and with her new vampire powers, she was able to run from everyone who was chasing her, leaving Rose and Trevor behind.
 * Since Rose and Trevor had aided in Katerina's transformation into a vampire despite Rose's best intentions to return her to Klaus, Rose and Trevor were forced to go on the run from him as well shortly afterward. Rose, Trevor and Katerina would successfully elude capture by the Originals for the next 500 years.
 * Months later, Katerina returned to her home in Bulgaria, only to find that her entire family and everyone who worked on their land had been viciously slaughtered by Klaus in punishment for her betrayal.

1498

 * Katerina once again returned to Bulgaria after being on the run for six years and searched through every village and cottage in the country for her daughter, who had been adopted immediately after her birth. It was later revealed that her daughter was Nadia Petrova, who spent her entire adult life searching for her mother.

ca. 1500s

 * Sometime during this century, the Mikaelson siblings all lived together in Copenhagen, Denmark, according to Freya Mikaelson.
 * Sofya Voronova attended her sister's wedding in the village of Kalach, Russia. She had left to go inside her family's home to get more wine when she returned to the gathering to find Niklaus Mikaelson feeding on her sister after having killed the rest of the guests. She managed to survive by hiding. Since then, she has held an immense hatred for Klaus and wants revenge. It is assumed that she became a vampire at some point after this event.