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1944 - AJ is born (Reasonable guesstimate based on info from 'Soul Searching.'He could have been born a year or two earlier than that though.)

1962 - AJ graduates high school where he was a star pitcher. He is drafted in the second round by the Cleveland Indians, but passes on a career in baseball to attend the Naval Academy.
(Info about high school from "The Mission"; date is guesstimate based on year of birth and entering Academy at age 18.)

1963 - October 25, Harm is born (The Prisoner).
- Sturgis was probably born this year as well, assuming he's the same age as Harm.

1966 - AJ graduates from the Academy as an ensign and joins the SEALs, where he is sent to Vietnam. (Date is guesstimate based on earlier assumptions.)

1967 - Mac is born. (Based on calculations from Second Sight.)
1968 - AJ was a young lieutenant in the SEALs in Vietnam. (Soul Searching) (This is where I got my 'guesstimate' of his birth year. AJ says he was a young lieutenant. That could mean either a lieutenant junior grade or a full lieutenant, as both are referred to the same way. Because of the 'age issue' addressed earlier, I chose to assume he meant he was a lieutenant junior grade. That is an automatic rank he would have gotten after two years.)
- AJ marries Marcella, the daughter of the mayor of Naples. (Again - a guesstimate. AJ tells Mac in "Adrift, Part 1" that he was "24 and sober" when he married Marcella, so in keeping with our assumption that he had just made lieutenant j.g. in 1968 at age 24, then this would also have been the year he married Marcella.)

1969 - December 24, Harm recently turned 6; his dad is shot down over Vietnam and is POW/MIA (Ghosts of Christmas Past).
- Bud is born. (Harm tells Bud to add six years to his age to arrive at the number 38 in his "code" over the phone in Nov. 2001 which would make Bud 32 when the episode aired.) (Dog Robber, part 1)

1970 - Most likely when AJ made full lieutenant (again assuming he was a lieutenant j.g. in 1968 - Krennick tells Rabb in "Smoked" that AJ rose rapidly through the ranks. He would have had to spend a minimum of two years as a lieutenant j.g. before making full lieutenant, so I assume from her comments that he was promoted at the earliest opportunity based on his stellar service record in Vietnam - Navy Cross, Bronze Star, Purple Heart.)

1972 - AJ's daughter Francesca is born. (In "Going After Francesca," aired in September 1998, Marcella tells AJ that she has kept Francesca safe for 26 years.)

1972
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1978 - Sometime in this time frame, Marcella divorces AJ. She marries Vittorio Paretti in 1978.
(In "Going After Francesca," aired in September 1998, Marcella refers to Vittorio as her husband of 20 years.)

1973
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1974 - AJ leaves the SEALs and transfers to Surface Warfare, serving aboard the Farragut.
(In "With Intent to Die," AJ tells Rabb he left the SEALs after Vietnam, which ended in 1973, so we assume he left within a year of the ending of that conflict.)

1975 - AJ is promoted to Lt. Commander. (Another guesstimate - he would have to have spent about 5 years as a full lieutenant before being eligible for promotion to Lt. Commander, so I assume he was promoted as soon as he became eligible because of Krennick's comments on his career.)
- Sturgis is twelve, takes a bicycle without permission and has to clean the Chapel floor with a toothbrush as punishment. (Answered Prayers)

1975
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1981 - It was somewhere in this time frame that AJ most likely commanded the destroyer. Destroyer captains are generally Lt. Commanders.

1979 - Harm is 16 and runs away to Vietnam (Déjà vu). (However, this could be in 1978 because Harm said that he went to look for his father, "the summer I turned 16." His birthday is in October, so if he meant the summer before, it would be 1978; if he meant the summer after, it would be 1979.)

1980 - Harm Sr. is transferred to a Russian Siberian Gulag from which he later escaped. (Gypsy Eyes)

1981 - February, Sergei Shukov is born (Harm Sr. was killed while they were picnicking, so let's say that was June or 1980 (and, for plotting purposes, forgetting that Sergei's mom told Harm that his father stayed with them for two years--maybe Mac's translation was a little off. Sergei himself, in Legacy I, said that Harm Sr. was imprisoned in Russia "for 11 years, until his death.") Now if she was a couple of months pregnant at the time, Sergei would have been born, say, in February of 1981. (Gypsy Eyes)
- AJ is promoted to Commander. (Another guesstimate that assumes that AJ was promoted as soon as he became eligible.)

1981
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1987 - In this time frame, AJ gave up his destroyer command, transferred out of Surface Warfare, and went to law school.

1982 - Mac is 15 and her mother leaves home. (Second Sight)

1984 - Mac is 17 and leaves home. (Second Sight)

1985 - Mac is 18 and marries Chris. (Adrift 2)
- Mac graduates from High School. Her friend Eddie dies and her Uncle Matt takes her to Red Rock Mesa to dry out. (Full Engagement)
- June, Harmon Rabb, Jack Keeter, Sturgis Turner, and Luke Pendry(?) graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Harm, Keeter, and Pendry subsequently report to Pensacola, Florida to begin flight school, while Sturgis joins the "silent service" of the submariners.

1986 - Mac is 19!!! Gets her Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Minnesota.
(Certificate on her office wall; obviously this does not fit but has not been mentioned on a JAG episode so is not official canon.)

1987 - July, AJ defended Corporal Farmer on murder charges. Farmer was found guilty and sentenced to death. Mac would later handle his appeal.
- September, According to the certificate on the wall in his office at the set, AJ made Admiral then. This is not canon and is not possible according to canon, since AJ was stated on the show as being a Commander at the time he defended Corporal Farmer. He still needed to be made a Captain first.

1987
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1996 - AJ is promoted three times - from Commander to Captain to Rear Admiral Lower Half to Rear Admiral Upper Half. During this time frame, he served as head of JAG in the Pacific. AJ would have been promoted to a two-star Admiral when he was reassigned from JAG in the Pacific to become the JAG, which happened in "Smoked".

1989 - April 16, Harm encountered three Libyan MIGs and shot down one. (King of the Greenie Board)

1991 - Harm is 28; has a ramp strike in which his RIO dies. (3 years in law school + 4 years at JAG. That would put him starting law school in 1992 based on the calculations from Yeah, Baby and Full Engagement.)

1991
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1992 - Mac serves in Okinawa, Japan (Chris followed her there after he got out of prison and he had been in prison for 5 years.) (People V. Mac)

1992
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1995 - Mac gets her law degree from Duke University at some point during these years (after she transferred out of Okinawa and before she served in Bosnia.)
(The Good of the Service and Act of Terror)

1995 - Harm is a Lt. in JAGHQ; and Bud is an Ensign, serving as PA officer on the Seahawk. (JAG Pilot)

1996 - Mac is 29 and in Bosnia, then assigned to Quantico where she worked on a double homicide case. (We the People)
- Harm is 33 and at JAG - promoted to Lieutenant Commander. (Defensive Action)
- Rear Admiral (upper half) AJ Chegwidden becomes the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, after serving as the head of JAG-Pacific (presumably in Pearl Harbor). (Smoked)
- June, Diane is murdered. (Skeleton Crew)

1997 - Harm is 34. Mac is 30. (We the People)
- January, Bud transfers to JAGHQ and he's now a Lt. J.G. His replacement on the Seahawk as PA officer was Ens. Harriet Sims. (We the People and Crossing the Line)
- February, Harriet is transferred to the Inspector General's office, though she is assigned to JAGHQ. (Washington Holiday)
- November, Mac leaves JAG to work at Lowell, Hanson & Lowne law firm as a civilian but returns a few weeks later (Impact)

1998 - January, AJ is put on the short list for DCNO when his mentor, Admiral Clancy, is killed. The job goes to another man. (With Intent to Die)
- March, Bud and Harriet get engaged. (Tiger, Tiger)
- May, Bud and Harriet are married. (Wedding Bell Blues)
- Mac is 31: Her husband of twelve years shows up (Mr. Rabb Goes to Washington/People vs Mac)

1999 - February, Harriet is promoted to Lt. J.G. (Rivers' Run)
- April, Bud is promoted to full Lt. (The Adversaries)
- April, Mac is 32: Her father dies. (17 years since Mom left a 15-year-old Mac. 15 + 17 = 32; Second Sight).
- Harm has laser oblation surgery to correct his night vision.
- May 18, Birth of Bud and Harriet's first child, A.J. Roberts (Yeah Baby)
- May 25, Harm transfers out of JAGHQ to return to an active flight squadron (Goodbyes)
- Summer, Harriet went off active duty to reserve duty (King of the Greenie Board)
- Summer/early Fall, Mac is 32 and is made Lt. Colonel (King of the Greenie Board)
- October, Harm returns to JAGHQ after resigning as an active pilot. (The Return)
- November, Harm is 36 and is promoted to Commander (Contemptuous Words)

2000 - May, AJ is appointed special counsel to represent the United States of America in federal court in a lawsuit against a salvage operator who wants to raise the USS Dolphin, a submarine sunk during World War II. (Overdue and Presumed Lost) Also in May 2000, AJ is approached by a Senator and offered an appointment as a judge in the United States District Court. He turns it down when it becomes clear there are strings attached. (Real Deal Seal) Also in May 2000, AJ is honored at the Surface Warfare Ball. (Surface Warfare)
- November, Bud and Harriet's second child, Sarah Roberts, dies at birth. (The Princess & The Petty Officer)

2001 - January, Harriet returns to active duty (Touch and Go)
- May, Harriet is promoted to full Lt. (Lifeline)
- May, Harm is 38: His fighter jet goes down. Mac is 34: is to marry Mic Brumby the next day. (Adrift 2)
- October, Commander Sturgis Turner is transferred to JAGHQ.
- November, Bud is 29 (Harm tells Bud to add six years to his age to arrive at the number 35 in his "code" over the phone) (Dog Robber, part 1)

2002 - March, Bud begins a six-month deployment aboard the USS Seahawk. (First Casualty)
- May 21, Bud loses part of his right leg when he steps on a landmine while on duty in Afghanistan. (The Enemy Below)

2004 - May, AJ retires as Judge Advocate General.
- May, Harriet announces that she is pregnant with twins and will be leaving JAG Ops.

2005 - May, Harm and Mac get reassigned to different locations and get engaged!

1944	- AJ is born (Reasonable guesstimate based on info from 'Soul Searching.'He could have been born a year or two earlier than that though.)
1962	- AJ graduates high school where he was a star pitcher. He is drafted in the second round by the Cleveland Indians, but passes on a career in baseball to attend the Naval Academy. (Info about high school from "The Mission"; date is guesstimate based on year of birth and entering Academy at age 18.)
1963	- October 25, Harm is born (The Prisoner). - Sturgis was probably born this year as well, assuming he's the same age as Harm.
1966	- AJ graduates from the Academy as an ensign and joins the SEALs, where he is sent to Vietnam. (Date is guesstimate based on earlier assumptions.)
1967	- Mac is born. (Based on calculations from Second Sight.)
1968	- AJ was a young lieutenant in the SEALs in Vietnam. (Soul Searching) (This is where I got my 'guesstimate' of his birth year. AJ says he was a young lieutenant. That could mean either a lieutenant junior grade or a full lieutenant, as both are referred to the same way. Because of the 'age issue' addressed earlier, I chose to assume he meant he was a lieutenant junior grade. That is an automatic rank he would have gotten after two years.) - AJ marries Marcella, the daughter of the mayor of Naples. (Again - a guesstimate. AJ tells Mac in "Adrift, Part 1" that he was "24 and sober" when he married Marcella, so in keeping with our assumption that he had just made lieutenant j.g. in 1968 at age 24, then this would also have been the year he married Marcella.)
1969	- December 24, Harm recently turned 6; his dad is shot down over Vietnam and is POW/MIA (Ghosts of Christmas Past). - Bud is born. (Harm tells Bud to add six years to his age to arrive at the number 38 in his "code" over the phone in Nov. 2001 which would make Bud 32 when the episode aired.) (Dog Robber, part 1)
1970	- Most likely when AJ made full lieutenant (again assuming he was a lieutenant j.g. in 1968 - Krennick tells Rabb in "Smoked" that AJ rose rapidly through the ranks. He would have had to spend a minimum of two years as a lieutenant j.g. before making full lieutenant, so I assume from her comments that he was promoted at the earliest opportunity based on his stellar service record in Vietnam - Navy Cross, Bronze Star, Purple Heart.)
1972	- AJ's daughter Francesca is born. (In "Going After Francesca," aired in September 1998, Marcella tells AJ that she has kept Francesca safe for 26 years.)
1972 - 1978	- Sometime in this time frame, Marcella divorces AJ. She marries Vittorio Paretti in 1978. (In "Going After Francesca," aired in September 1998, Marcella refers to Vittorio as her husband of 20 years.)
1973 - 1974	- AJ leaves the SEALs and transfers to Surface Warfare, serving aboard the Farragut. (In "With Intent to Die," AJ tells Rabb he left the SEALs after Vietnam, which ended in 1973, so we assume he left within a year of the ending of that conflict.)
1975	- AJ is promoted to Lt. Commander. (Another guesstimate - he would have to have spent about 5 years as a full lieutenant before being eligible for promotion to Lt. Commander, so I assume he was promoted as soon as he became eligible because of Krennick's comments on his career.) - Sturgis is twelve, takes a bicycle without permission and has to clean the Chapel floor with a toothbrush as punishment. (Answered Prayers)
1975 - 1981	- It was somewhere in this time frame that AJ most likely commanded the destroyer. Destroyer captains are generally Lt. Commanders.
1979	- Harm is 16 and runs away to Vietnam (Déjà vu). (However, this could be in 1978 because Harm said that he went to look for his father, "the summer I turned 16." His birthday is in October, so if he meant the summer before, it would be 1978; if he meant the summer after, it would be 1979.)
1980	- Harm Sr. is transferred to a Russian Siberian Gulag from which he later escaped. (Gypsy Eyes)
1981	- February, Sergei Shukov is born (Harm Sr. was killed while they were picnicking, so let's say that was June or 1980 (and, for plotting purposes, forgetting that Sergei's mom told Harm that his father stayed with them for two years--maybe Mac's translation was a little off. Sergei himself, in Legacy I, said that Harm Sr. was imprisoned in Russia "for 11 years, until his death.") Now if she was a couple of months pregnant at the time, Sergei would have been born, say, in February of 1981. (Gypsy Eyes) - AJ is promoted to Commander. (Another guesstimate that assumes that AJ was promoted as soon as he became eligible.)
1981 - 1987	- In this time frame, AJ gave up his destroyer command, transferred out of Surface Warfare, and went to law school.
1982	- Mac is 15 and her mother leaves home. (Second Sight)
1984	- Mac is 17 and leaves home. (Second Sight)
1985	- Mac is 18 and marries Chris. (Adrift 2) - Mac graduates from High School. Her friend Eddie dies and her Uncle Matt takes her to Red Rock Mesa to dry out. (Full Engagement) - June, Harmon Rabb, Jack Keeter, Sturgis Turner, and Luke Pendry(?) graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Harm, Keeter, and Pendry subsequently report to Pensacola, Florida to begin flight school, while Sturgis joins the "silent service" of the submariners.
1986	- Mac is 19!!! Gets her Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. (Certificate on her office wall; obviously this does not fit but has not been mentioned on a JAG episode so is not official canon.)
1987	- July, AJ defended Corporal Farmer on murder charges. Farmer was found guilty and sentenced to death. Mac would later handle his appeal. - September, According to the certificate on the wall in his office at the set, AJ made Admiral then. This is not canon and is not possible according to canon, since AJ was stated on the show as being a Commander at the time he defended Corporal Farmer. He still needed to be made a Captain first.
1987 - 1996	- AJ is promoted three times - from Commander to Captain to Rear Admiral Lower Half to Rear Admiral Upper Half. During this time frame, he served as head of JAG in the Pacific. AJ would have been promoted to a two-star Admiral when he was reassigned from JAG in the Pacific to become the JAG, which happened in "Smoked".
1989	- April 16, Harm encountered three Libyan MIGs and shot down one. (King of the Greenie Board)
1991	- Harm is 28; has a ramp strike in which his RIO dies. (3 years in law school + 4 years at JAG. That would put him starting law school in 1992 based on the calculations from Yeah, Baby and Full Engagement.)
1991 or 1992	- Mac serves in Okinawa, Japan (Chris followed her there after he got out of prison and he had been in prison for 5 years.) (People V. Mac)
1992 - 1995	- Mac gets her law degree from Duke University at some point during these years (after she transferred out of Okinawa and before she served in Bosnia.) (The Good of the Service and Act of Terror)
1995	- Harm is a Lt. in JAGHQ; and Bud is an Ensign, serving as PA officer on the Seahawk. (JAG Pilot)
1996	- Mac is 29 and in Bosnia, then assigned to Quantico where she worked on a double homicide case. (We the People) - Harm is 33 and at JAG - promoted to Lieutenant Commander. (Defensive Action) - Rear Admiral (upper half) AJ Chegwidden becomes the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, after serving as the head of JAG-Pacific (presumably in Pearl Harbor). (Smoked) - June, Diane is murdered. (Skeleton Crew)
1997	- Harm is 34. Mac is 30. (We the People) - January, Bud transfers to JAGHQ and he's now a Lt. J.G. His replacement on the Seahawk as PA officer was Ens. Harriet Sims. (We the People and Crossing the Line) - February, Harriet is transferred to the Inspector General's office, though she is assigned to JAGHQ. (Washington Holiday) - November, Mac leaves JAG to work at Lowell, Hanson & Lowne law firm as a civilian but returns a few weeks later (Impact)
1998	- January, AJ is put on the short list for DCNO when his mentor, Admiral Clancy, is killed. The job goes to another man. (With Intent to Die) - March, Bud and Harriet get engaged. (Tiger, Tiger) - May, Bud and Harriet are married. (Wedding Bell Blues) - Mac is 31: Her husband of twelve years shows up (Mr. Rabb Goes to Washington/People vs Mac)
1999	- February, Harriet is promoted to Lt. J.G. (Rivers' Run) - April, Bud is promoted to full Lt. (The Adversaries) - April, Mac is 32: Her father dies. (17 years since Mom left a 15-year-old Mac. 15 + 17 = 32; Second Sight). - Harm has laser oblation surgery to correct his night vision. - May 18, Birth of Bud and Harriet's first child, A.J. Roberts (Yeah Baby) - May 25, Harm transfers out of JAGHQ to return to an active flight squadron (Goodbyes) - Summer, Harriet went off active duty to reserve duty (King of the Greenie Board) - Summer/early Fall, Mac is 32 and is made Lt. Colonel (King of the Greenie Board) - October, Harm returns to JAGHQ after resigning as an active pilot. (The Return) - November, Harm is 36 and is promoted to Commander (Contemptuous Words)
2000	- May, AJ is appointed special counsel to represent the United States of America in federal court in a lawsuit against a salvage operator who wants to raise the USS Dolphin, a submarine sunk during World War II. (Overdue and Presumed Lost) Also in May 2000, AJ is approached by a Senator and offered an appointment as a judge in the United States District Court. He turns it down when it becomes clear there are strings attached. (Real Deal Seal) Also in May 2000, AJ is honored at the Surface Warfare Ball. (Surface Warfare) - November, Bud and Harriet's second child, Sarah Roberts, dies at birth. (The Princess & The Petty Officer)
2001	- January, Harriet returns to active duty (Touch and Go) - May, Harriet is promoted to full Lt. (Lifeline) - May, Harm is 38: His fighter jet goes down. Mac is 34: is to marry Mic Brumby the next day. (Adrift 2) - October, Commander Sturgis Turner is transferred to JAGHQ. - November, Bud is 29 (Harm tells Bud to add six years to his age to arrive at the number 35 in his "code" over the phone) (Dog Robber, part 1)
2002	- March, Bud begins a six-month deployment aboard the USS Seahawk. (First Casualty) - May 21, Bud loses part of his right leg when he steps on a landmine while on duty in Afghanistan. (The Enemy Below)
2004	- May, AJ retires as Judge Advocate General. - May, Harriet announces that she is pregnant with twins and will be leaving JAG Ops.
2005	- May, Harm and Mac get reassigned to different locations and get engaged!