Sullivan’s Anne Timeline
Warning: This timeline contains SPOILERS.
Timeline based on Anne 1 and Anne 2.
This timeline is consistent with information from Anne 2, and also from Road to Avonlea.
1880 - Anne is born (based on Anne 2 taking place in 1902, when Anne is 18).
1897 - [Anne 1 begins] Anne is 13. Anne comes to Green Gables.
1900 - [Anne 1 ends] Anne is 16. Has obtained a teacher’s license from Queen’s Academy, and will teach in Avonlea.
1902 - [Anne 2 begins] Anne is 18 (poster and newspaper article for Mary, Queen of Scots is dated 1902)
1903 - [Anne 2 ends], Anne is 19. Anne leaves Kingsport and publishes her book. Gilbert recovers from typhoid. Anne and Gilbert are engaged.
Timeline based on Anne 3 and Anne 4
(NOTE: There is a major timeline discrepancy between Anne 3 and the previous films. Sullivan claims that Anne 3 takes place “five years after Anne 2″, setting back the ending of Anne 2 from 1903 to 1910. This does not correspond to information given in Anne 2, or in the Road to Avonlea TV series.)
1890 - Gilbert is born (image on epitaph, Anne 4).
1910 - [Anne 2 ends.] Anne and Gilbert are engaged.
1915 - [Anne 3 begins] Anne is in her twenties, has been teaching in the Hopetown orphanage for the past five years, since Marilla died. Anne and Gilbert have been engaged for a number of years. (Titles on screen, 1915)
1919 - [Anne 3 ends] (Titles on screen, 1919).
1945 - [Anne 4 begins] Gilbert is killed in action as a WW2 medic. Anne is in her fifties, and a playwright. Her adopted son Dominique is away at war. She also has two (biological) daughters, Frannie and Rilla .
