This list is for anyone who wants to know the order of each piece of media of the Alien Universe Timeline.
The different Predator and Alien Versus Predator (AVP) media are not canon within the Alien/Aliens timeline as they are part of their own canon each
Please note the statements of 20th Century Studios consultant Andrew E.C. Gaska on his website.
This list is the best so far for continuity.
Alien Universe Media Timeline[]
| Cover/Poster | Media Title | Media Type | Release Year | Alien Universe Year |
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The Peter Weyland Files: TED Conference, 2023 | Short film | 2012 | 2023 |
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The Peter Weyland Files: Happy Birthday, David | Short film | 2012 | 2079 |
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The Peter Weyland Files: Quiet Eye, Elizabeth Shaw | Short film | 2012 | 2089 |
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The Peter Weyland Files: 'Prometheus' Transmission | Short film | 2012 | 2091 |
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Prometheus | Movie | 2012 | 2093 |
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Alien: Covenant - Prologue: The Crossing | Short film | 2017 | 2094 |
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Alien: Covenant - Origins | Novel | 2017 | 2103 |
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Alien: Covenant - Meet Walter | Short film | 2017 | Unknown date |
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Alien: Covenant - Phobos | Short film | 2017 | 2103 |
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Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper | Short film | 2017 | 2104 |
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Alien: Covenant | Movie | 2017 | 2104 |
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Alien: Covenant - Advent | Short film | 2017 | 2104 |
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David's Lab - Last Signs of Life | Short film | 2019 | Unknown date |
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Alien | Movie | 1979 | 2122 |
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Alien: Alone | Short film | 2019 | Unknown date |
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Alien: Containment | Short film | 2019 | Unknown date |
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Alien: Harvest | Short film | 2019 | Unknown date |
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Alien: Ore | Short film | 2019 | Unknown date |
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Alien: Specimen | Short film | 2019 | Unknown date |
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Alien: Isolation | Comic | 2014 | 2137 |
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Alien: Isolation | Video game, Web Series, Novel |
2014 | 2137 |
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Alien: Blackout | Video game | 2019 | 2137 |
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Aliens: Defiance | Comic | 2017 | 2138 |
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Alien: Prototype | Novel | 2019 | Unknown date |
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Aliens: Resistance | Comic | 2019 | 2140 |
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Alien: Romulus | Comic | 2024 | 2142? |
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Alien: Romulus | Movie | 2024 | 2142 |
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Aliens: Rescue | Comic | 2019 | Unknown date |
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Aliens: Vasquez | Novel | 2022 | 2171 |
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Aliens | Movie | 1986 | 2179 |
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Alien: Night Shift | Short film | 2019 | [This takes place in 2179. The extended version, showing follow-up events, is dated in the interview as "2/15/2179".] |
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Alien: The Cold Forge | Novel | 2018 | 2179 |
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Alien³ | Movie | 1992 | 2179 |
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Aliens: Bishop | Book | 2023 | 2180 |
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Alien: Into Charybdis | Book | 2021 | 2184 |
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Alien: Colony War | Book | 2022 | 2186 |
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Alien: Inferno's Fall | Book | 2022 | 2187 |
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Alien: Enemy of My Enemy | Book | 2023 | 2187 |
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Alien: Black, White & Blood | Comic | 2024 | |
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Alien: Thaw | Comic | 2023 | 2195 |
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Aliens: Dark Descent | Video game | 2023 | 2198 |
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Alien Vol. 1: Bloodlines | Comic | 2021 | 2200 |
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Aliens: Fireteam Elite | Video Game | 2021 | 2202 |
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Alien: Revival | Comic | 2022 | 2202 |
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Alien: Descendant | Comic | 2023 | 2208 |
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Aliens: Aftermath | Comic | 2021 | 2214 |
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Alien: Icarus | Comic | 2022 | 2217 |
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Aliens: Dead Orbit | Comic | 2017 | 2295 |
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Alien Resurrection | Movie | 1997 | 2381 |
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Alien: Uncivil War | Book | 2024 | 2381 |
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Aliens: Phalanx | Book | 2020 | 2514 |
Alien Universe Events Timeline[]
Billions of years ago - one Engineer sacrifices himself to seed Earth with the building blocks of life.
34 BCE -The Engineers make Jesus (implied) and return him to earth.
1st century AD - Engineers prepare a death ship to destroy their wayward children, humanity.
1990 AD - Sir Peter Weyland is born.
2008 AD - European Space Marine Corps established.
2012 AD - Weyland Corp is founded by Peter Weyland.
2023 AD - Peter Weyland gives a TED TALK.
2024 AD - Yutani Corp sues Weyland over patent of the android model “David.”
2026 AD - Weyland acquires Genentech and privatizes NASA’s Kepler mission, within the year discovering 4,326 bio-compatible planets.
2029 AD - Weyland wins David patent lawsuit against Yutani Corp.
2034 AD - The advent of Faster Than Light Travel.
2064 AD - Elizabeth Shaw’s memory of her father.
2065 AD - Sir Peter Weyland Memorial Library is built in Washington, DC.
2066 AD - Sieg and Son has manufacturing plants in London, Nagasaki, Buenos Aires, and the lunar Schickard-Wargentin Frontier.
2071 AD - The Sieg family sells all its shares back into the company.
2079 AD - Events of Happy Birthday, David.
2089 AD - Doctors Elizabeth Shaw and Charles Holloway discover a star map in a Scottish cave, dating back to 35,000 years.
2089 AD - Peter Weyland dictates a letter reminiscing about his mentor Eldon Tyrell and their competition in the field of artificial intelligence. He is later reported to have died in a station above Mars.
2089 AD - Events of Quiet Eye.
2091 AD - Events of Prometheus Transmission.
2092 AD - Ellen Ripley is born on January 7.
2093 AD - Major occurrences in the Prometheus Expedition.
2094 AD - Catastrophic events that result in the destruction of the USCSS Prometheus' crew, except Shaw and David. Peter Weyland, a secret passenger, is among those killed.
2094 AD - Events of Alien: Covenant - The Crossing.
2103 AD - Events of Alien: Covenant - Origins and Alien: Covenant - Phobos.
2104 AD - Events of Alien: Covenant - The Last Supper.
2104 AD - Happenings from Alien: Covenant.
2104 AD - Events of Alien: Covenant - Advent.
2120 AD - The USCSS Nostromo leaves Earth.
2122 AD - Happenings from Alien.
2124 AD - Sevastopol Station is completed.
2127 AD - Michael Weyland is born.
2137 AD - Happenings from Alien: Isolation aboard the Sevastopol Space Station.
2138 AD - Happenings of Aliens: Defiance.
2140 AD - Happenings of Aliens: Resistance.
2142 AD - Happenings from Alien: Romulus.
2179 AD - Ripley is rescued from the Outer Rim.
2179 AD - Ripley is taken to Gateway Station.
2179 AD - Major events from Aliens, in Hadley's Hope.
2179 AD - Alien: The Cold Forge.
2179 AD - Happenings from Alien³.
2194 AD - Michael Weyland dies.
2295 AD - Events of Aliens: Dead Orbit.
2379 AD - Ripley is resurrected through a cloning process as one of many Alien-Human hybrids known as the Ripley Clone.
2381 AD - Major happenings from Alien Resurrection.
*For comparison, most events in the Starship Troopers franchise are set in the 2300s AD.