PET SEMATARY
Literature 1983. Written by Stephen King.
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1912 - 112 years ago
1July 4, 191220th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 4, 1912
Jud's friend Stanny B. Found dead in the road by two little kids.

1943 - 81 years ago
2July 15, 194320th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 15, 1943
Timmy Baterman shot down charging machine gun nest on the road to Rome, posthumously awarded a Silver Star for his bravery.

3July 17, 194320th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 17, 1943
Timmy Baterman's body shipped home to Maine two days after being killed in the war.

4July 19, 194320th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 19, 1943
Timmy Baterman's body passes through Limestone, Maine on its way home to Ludlow. While attempting to justify why Gage's trip to the Micmac burying ground wouldn't turn out the same as Timmy Baterman, this is the date that Louis remembers from Jud's story as the day that Timmy was shot - though Timmy was actually shot on the 15th.

5July 20, 194320th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 20, 1943
Timmy Baterman's body put on Jud's friend Huey's mystery train.

6July 22, 194320th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 22, 1943
Timmy Baterman's body buried at Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor.

7July 25, 194320th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 25, 1943
While attempting to justify why Gage's trip to the Micmac burying ground wouldn't turn out the same as Timmy Baterman, this is the date that Louis estimates that Timmy returned from the dead.

8July 30, 194320th Century: 1st HalfEvents

July 30, 1943
Jud and his friends confront Bill Baterman about his son Timmy, back from the dead and walking around town..

9August 1, 194320th Century: 1st HalfEvents

August 1, 1943
Fire at the Baterman house. Bill and his son Timmy both found dead, Timmy shot twice in the chest, Bill dead from a self-inflicted gun shot wound.

1965 - 59 years ago
10March 1, 196520th Century: 60sEvents

March 1, 1965
Somebody's pet rabbit named Marta died, and was buried in the Pet Sematary in Ludlow Maine.

11April 14, 196520th Century: 60sEvents

April 14, 1965
Rachel's sister Zelda chokes to death on her bed.

1982 - 42 years ago
12December 24, 198220th Century: 80sEvents

December 24, 1982
Christmas Eve/Christmas Day the year before the Creed family moved to Maine - Seemingly everything that Louis and Rachel had gotten for the kids had to assembled, and they were up until 4am putting everything together.

13December 25, 198220th Century: 80sEvents

December 25, 1982
Christmas Eve/Christmas Day the year before the Creed family moved to Maine - Seemingly everything that Louis and Rachel had gotten for the kids had to assembled, and they were up until 4am putting everything together.

1983 - 41 years ago
14June 29, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

June 29, 1983
Louis Creed receives keys to his family's new house in Ludlow, Maine.

15August 1, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

August 1, 1983
The Creed family moves into their new home in Ludlow, Maine. Neighbor Jud Crandall warns Louis about the dangers of road Route 15 and the Orinco trucks that travel it.

16October 31, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

October 31, 1983
Halloween night. Ellie Creed dresses up as a witch. Norma Crandall suffers a heart attack.

17November 22, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

November 22, 1983
Two days before Thanksgiving. Ludlow, Maine gets 4 inches of snow.

18November 23, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

November 23, 1983
The day before Thanksgiving. The sky is clear and blue and cold. Louis Creed drives his family to Bangor International Airport for their flight to Chicago, where they will spend the holiday, back home with Rachel's parents.

19November 24, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

November 24, 1983
Thanksgiving Day. Jud Crandall finds Louis Creed's daughter Ellie's cat Church dead in his yard. Jud takes Louis out to the Micmac burying ground, where Louis buries Church.

20November 25, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

November 25, 1983
The day after Thanksgiving. Louis Creed lies to his daughter Ellie about not having seen her cat Church, after burying him in the Micmac burying ground the night before. Later that day, the previously dead cat returns to the Creed house.

21December 24, 1983 20th Century: 80sEvents

December 24, 1983
Christmas Eve. Louis and Rachel put out gifts for the kids - a set of matchbox racers for Gage, Barbie & Ken dolls for Ellie, a Turn 'n' Go, an oversized trike, doll clothes, a play oven with a light bulb inside, other stuff. After assembling Ellie's Bat-cycle, they curl up on the couch and watch the fire.

22December 25, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

December 25, 1983
Christmas Day. Ellie Creed's faith in Santa clause restored Christmas morning by the footprints Louis leaves in the hearth. By mid afternoon, the Creed children decide that the boxes are more fun than the toys that came in them.

23December 31, 198320th Century: 80sEvents

December 31, 1983
New Year's Eve. Jud and Norma Crandall visit the Creed family, drinking Rachel's egg nog. Louis realizes that Norma is beginning to fail. It will be the last time that she was in their house.

1984 - 40 years ago
24January 23, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

January 23, 1984
Louis returns to the university for the beginning of the spring semester.

25January 29, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

January 29, 1984
The warm spell breaks with a roar with the arrival of a blizzard, and a week of numbing subzero weather.

26March 24, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

March 24, 1984
Louis Creed and his son Gage fly a vulture kite in their neighbor Mrs. Vinton's field. The last really happy day of Louis Creed's life, the things that were to come poised above him like a killing sash weight still over seven weeks in the future. Unbeknownst to him, his son Gage has less than two months to live.

27May 14, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

May 14, 1984
Louis Creed's son Gage is killed crossing Route 15 by an Orinco truck while running away from his father. Narrator explicitly states the date of the funeral as May 17, adding that Gage's death was Saturday, three days before. Though May 14 was a Monday.

28May 17, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

May 17, 1984
Louis son Gage's funeral. Louis gets into a fist fight with his father-in-law.

29May 18, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

May 18, 1984
Gage buried in Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor, followed by a funeral party at the Gage residence in Ludlow.

30May 19, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

May 19, 1984
Louis Creed pulls his son Gage's body out of his grave in Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor around 2am. By 4am, he has re-buried Gage in the Micmac burying ground and arrived back home. A few hours later, Gage returns from the dead, killing Jud Crandall and Rachel Creed.

31May 20, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

May 20, 1984
After driving Rachel and Ellie to the Bangor airport so that they can fly back to Chicago with Rachel's parents, Louis Creed purchases a flashlight, pick, shovel, spade, rope, work gloves and a canvas tarpaulin at Watson's Hardware in Brewer before checking into a Howard Johnson's motel. At 11pm, he heads for Pleasantview Cemetery to dig up his son's body.

32May 21, 198420th Century: 80sEvents

May 21, 1984
Louis Creed is reunited with his son Gage, back from the dead. After discovering that Gage killed his neighbor Jud Crandall and wife Rachel, Louis kills Gage, burns down the Crandall house and buries Rachel's body in the Micmac burying ground.



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