1790: Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies is founded. 1830: Madame Delphine LaLaurie returns to New Orleans and begins torturing her slaves. 1833: Delphine holds her three daughters in torture chambers for the year as punishment for planning to murder her. 1834: Delphine turns her slave Bastien into a minotaur after her daughter Pauline was caught with him. As revenge, Marie Laveau tricks Delphine into drinking an immortality potion and buries her alive. 1868: Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies is turned into a school for witches. 19th century: Edward Mordrake escapes the Bedlam Asylum and joins a freak show. On Halloween, his second face drives him to kill the entire troupe and himself.
1904: The Countess is born. 1919: The girls of Miss Robichaux's kill the Axeman. 1922: Charles Montgomery builds the Murder House. 1925: Mr. March begins construction on the Hotel Cortez. Charles and Nora begin performing illegal abortions in their basement. Ms. Evers' son Albert is kidnapped by Gordon Northcott and presumed dead. 1926: The Countess goes to Charles Montgomery for an abortion, but her son, Bartholomew, survives the procedure. A patient's boyfriend kidnaps and dismembers Charles and Nora's son Thaddeus. Charles sews him back together and resurrects him as the Infantata. Nora kills Charles and commits suicide. Late 1920s/early 1930s: Mr. March continues his murder spree until his wife turns him in. When the police arrive at the Cortez, March kills Ms. Evers and then kills himself. Ethel and Dell marry. Ethel gives birth to Jimmy during a live freak show performance. 1932: Dr. Arden and a group of Nazis amputate Elsa's leg while shooting a BDSM snuff film. Massimo Dolcefino makes Elsa a prosthesis. Massimo tracks down Dr. Arden, who was then known as Hans Gruber, but Arden captures Massimo and tortures him. 1936: Elsa leaves Germany and begins traveling to America with gypsies. Shortly afterward, Elsa adopts Pepper and begins collecting her "monsters." 1939: Dr. Arden enlists in the war, eventually becoming an SS doctor at Auschwitz. 1941: Stanley takes in Maggie, who had been pick-pocketing on the streets. 1943: Twisty the Clown goes to Jupiter, Fla., and terribly disfigures himself while attempting suicide. 1946: Jimmy makes his debut in Elsa's show. 1947: Dr. Curran rapes Elizabeth Short, who dies from being sedated. Charles Montgomery's ghost dismembers Elizabeth. Massimo Dolcefino moves to America. 1948: Chester kills his wife, Lucy, and her girlfriend, Alice, for mocking his relationship with his ventriloquist dummy, Marjorie. 1949: Sister Jude hits Missy Stone in a drunk-driving accident and flees the scene, believing the child had died. The incident leads Judy to become a nun. 1952: Dell, Desiree, Bette and Dot Tattler join Fraulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities. Twisty goes on a murder spree, inspiring Dandy to become his protégé. Twisty is killed by Edward Mordrake. Stanley and Maggie go to Florida to obtain specimens for the American Morbidity Museum. Gloria sends Dandy to unseen psychoanalyst, Dr. Feinbloom. Jimmy is arrested for Dandy's murders. Stanley amputates both of Jimmy's hands without permission. Dell kills Ma Petite. Elsa kills Ethel and Dell. The freaks mutilate Stanley. Pepper's husband Salty dies of a stroke and Pepper goes to live with her sister. Chester buys the freak show and saws Maggie in half before turning himself in. Dandy becomes the new owner and kills most of the freaks before Desiree, Jimmy, Bette and Dot drown him. Elsa moves to Los Angeles to pursue a career in show business. 1957: Loraine Baxter kills her husband William after discovering his affair with her best friend Celia. Loraine than dies after putting her head in the oven. 1958: Elsa lands the cover of LIFE Magazine.
1960: Elsa performs on Halloween and Edward Mordrake kills her. Desiree is now married with kids. Jimmy is expecting a baby with Bet and Dotte. 1961: The son of a stylist at Marie Laveau's salon is murdered by three white men. Marie raises an army of corpses to murder the men in retaliation. 1962: Briarcliff Manor is purchased by the Catholic Church and converted into a mental asylum. Dr. Arden gets permission from Monsignor Timothy Howard to perform his experiments, including the creation of the Raspers. Leigh Emerson kills a bell-ringing Santa. Then, dressed in the Santa costume, Leigh kills 18 other people. Pepper is framed for the murder of her sister's baby and is institutionalized at Briarcliff. 1963: Leigh Emerson becomes a patient at Briarcliff and is placed in solitary confinement. 1964: Kit and Alma Walker are abducted by aliens. Kit is committed to Briarcliff for the Bloody Face murders. Lana Winters is committed and her girlfriend Wendy is murdered by Bloody Face. Sister Mary Eunice becomes possessed. Anne Frank is committed to Briarcliff, but Arden lobotomizes her. Oliver Thredson helps Lana escape Briarcliff, only to hold her hostage as his new "mommy." Sister Jude hires Nazi hunter Sam Goodman to investigate Arden, but Mary Eunice kills him. Mary Eunice, Dr. Arden and Leigh Emerson frame Sister Jude for the murder of security guard Frank McCann. Sister Jude is stripped of her position in the church and committed to Briarcliff. Monsignor Howard kills Sister Mary Eunice, whom Dr. Arden cremates along with himself. 1965: Grace gives birth to a son, Thomas, and becomes engaged to Kit. Lana is released from Briarcliff and writes an expose about the asylum. Lana kills Thredson. Monsignor Howard forges a death certificate for Sister Jude. Kit and Grace are released from Briarcliff. They return to Kit's old house where they find Alma holding a second baby. 1966: Pepper dies. 1967: Alma kills Grace with an ax. 1968: Nursing students Gladys and Maria let R. Franklin into the Murder House, where they were living with several other girls. R. Franklin drowns Gladys and stabs Maria to death. Alma is committed to Briarcliff and later dies there. 1969: Lana releases her hit book, Maniac: One Woman's Story of Survival.
Early 1970s: Constance moves to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. Sister Jude is checked out of the asylum by Kit and dies. The Countess begins her reign as the "disco queen," partying it up at clubs with a bevy of virus-infected friends. 1971: Fiona kills Anna Leigh Leighton and becomes the new Supreme. Spalding cuts out his tongue to protect Fiona. 1972: Constance quits acting and gives birth to Adelaide. 1977: Tate is born. Ramona Royale begins her relationship with The Countess. 1978: Troy and Bryan are killed by the Infantata. 1983: Hugo rapes Moira. Constance catches them in the act and kills both of them. 1984: Constance, Tate and Addy move out of the Murder House. Sam and Nikki move in, but are murdered during BDSM roleplay. Liz Taylor meets The Countess and decides to stay at the Cortez. Liz begins sending money to her kids in Topeka until they turn 18. 1991: Hank begins hunting witches. Ramona and The Countess split. Ramona begins dating Prophet Moses, but The Countess kills him. 1993: Larry Harvey's family moves into the Murder House. Constance begins an affair with Larry in order to move back into the house. When Lorraine finds out about the affair, she kills herself and their two daughters by setting fire to the children's bedroom. Shortly after, Constance, Tate, Beau and Addie move back into the Murder House. 1994: Larry kills Beau on behalf of Constance. Angry about this, Tate goes to Larry's work and sets him on fire. Tate then goes on a shooting rampage at his high school. Shortly afterward, Tate is killed by a SWAT team inside the Murder House. Sally and Donovan check into the Cortez. After Donovan overdoses, Iris kills Sally and The Countess turns Donovan. 2007: Marie hires Hank to work for her. 2008: The Countess loses all her money in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
2010: The Countess abducts Holden Lowe. Chad and Patrick buy the Murder House and the Rubber Man suit. The couple is killed on Halloween by Tate. Vivien miscarries and Ben gets caught cheating with Hayden. 2011: Marcy sells Ben, Vivien and Violet the Murder House. Tate and Ben each impregnate Vivien. Fiona, Bianca and Dall try to recreate the R. Franklin murders with Vivien and Violet, but Tate, Gladys and Maria kill the intruders. Larry kills Hayden, who is pregnant with Ben's child. Addy dies in a hit-and-run. Violet commits suicide. Hayden kills Travis. Billie Dean prophesizes that Viven's baby is the Anti-Christ. Larry confesses to Travis' murder and is sent to Illinois for detention. Vivien gives birth to one stillborn baby (Ben's) and one healthy baby (Tate's) in the living room, but she dies during labor. Hayden, Fiona and Dallas kill Ben and frame it as a suicide. Alex Lowe attempts suicide. 2012: Thredson and Lana's son, Johnny Morgan, becomes the new Bloody Face and goes on a killing spree. He plans to kill her mother, but Lana kills him instead. Constance adopts Vivien's baby and names him Michael. Cordelia finds Queenie and brings her to Miss Robichaux's. 2013: Zoe kills her boyfriend while losing her virginity and is sent to Miss Robichaux's. Madison Montgomery is gang-raped at a frat party. As retaliation, she crashes the frat's party bus and kills Kyle. Zoe and Madison resurrect Kyle with the help of Misty Day. Fiona unearths Delphine and makes her Queenie's personal slave. Luke Ramsey and his mother Joan move in next door to Miss Robichaux's. Kyle bludgeons his mother to death after she tries to rape him. The witches send Bastien's decapitated head to Marie, starting a war. Cordelia is blinded by an acid attack. Fiona kills Madison and Myrtle, but they're both resurrected by Misty. Zoe murders Spalding. Zoe frees the Axeman, who begins an affair with Fiona. Queenie betrays the coven and gives Delphine to Marie. Hank attacks Cornrow City, but Queenie kills him before he can kill Marie. 2014: Marie and Fiona unite against the Delphi Trust and kill Nan. Queenie conspires with Papa Legba to kill Marie and then kills Delphine. The Coven kills the Axeman. Madison, Misty, Queenie and Zoe start the Seven Wonders. Misty and Zoe die. Kyle kills Madison. Cordelia revives Zoe. Cordelia becomes the new Supreme. Cordelia goes public about witches. Myrtle is burned at the stake. Fiona dies in Cordelia's arms. Michael Langdon kills Constance's housekeeper. 2015: Will Drake buys the Cortez in a deal brokered by Marcy. The Countess turns Tristan Duffy and Alex. John Lowe moves into the Cortez to investigate the Ten Commandments Killer. The Countess dumps Donovan. Iris tries to kill herself, but Donovan turns her. Iris, Donovan and Ramona team up to get revenge on The Countess. John loses his job and Alex convinces him he's going insane. Alex turns a young dying boy, Max, who then turns his elementary school classmates. The kids go on a murder spree. Liz and Tristan fall in love, but The Countess kills Tristan as revenge.