Gilmore Girls Pre-Series Events

By meags09

  • Stars Hollow founded

  • First Stars Hollow Winter Carnival

  • Lorelai I (Trix) born

  • Stars Hollow Gazette founded

  • Richard Gilmore born

  • Luke Danes born

  • Richard and Emily get married

  • Liz Danes born

  • Lorelai Victoria Gilmore born

  • William Danes started paying for garage space for boat

    MRS. THOMPSON: Well, his father rented the garage. He was building a boat and he didn't have room at his place. So he paid me to do it here and then when he died Luke continued to pay for the garage and now I'm moving to a nursing home and I need him to move his boat.
    LUKE: I have been paying that woman every month for 15 years.
    LUKE: And my dad was paying her every month 20 years before that!

  • 1st Annual Miss Patty's School Grand Recital

  • Mr and Mrs Kim get married

  • Lorelai's 13th birthday

    Royston Sinclair III broke heart in front of everyone, said she was cheap, loud and weird. Only was her boyfriend because he was mad at Angie Morgan and he wasn't anymore. Rumor going around she wasn't a real Gilmore, that she was the gardeners daughter and bought her because they couldn't have their own -- grease and an unmarried woman (something for her and something for him) age popcorn and red hots

  • Lorelai and Chris first kissed after this date

    CHRIS: We were fourteen. It was after school in the parking lot of the A&P. She just walked right up and kissed me
    CHRIS: Yep. Said she just wanted to know what it would be like.

  • 4th of July Party

    July 4 when Lorelai was 15, big party at their house. Richard was dressed as Paul revere, supposed to be greeting people but she was in the pool house, on couch with Teddy Wiedemier the third. “Emily, our daughter’s losing her virginity five feet away from the president of JP Morgan.” Lost virginity long before that

  • Luke broke the bells for the first time

  • Lorelai loses Policy Synchronicity tshirt

    This is my Police "Synchronicity" t-shirt. I have been missing this for 22 years! I asked you if you had it! I looked you right in the face, and you denie

  • Rory conceived

    between Jan 5-10

  • Lorelai Leigh Gilmore born

  • Chris and Lorelai break open bottle of wine

    MILY: They were derelicts. It's true. Remember when they stole that bottle of wine you'd been saving for 15 years
    Well, 10 years. It was a '75 Margot.
    And they had no idea how to use a corkscrew, so they just cracked the top off with a brick and slurped what they could off the patio

  • New Coke introduced

  • Joshua Twickham first "dying"

    Live and let diorama
    Twikham dying for 20 years (Joshua)

  • Coca Cola Classic reintroduced

  • Hurricane Gloria

    Strong Category 1 - the first hurricane of significant strength to move inland in southern New England since 1960. Tree damage in Conn. worst since 1938 and wind losses in RI and eastern Massachusetts considerable to trees, utilities and roofs.

  • 8th Annual Miss Patty's School Grand Recital

    Here to present a piece of his own creation, entitled "The Journey Of Man", exactly as he performed it 20 years ago is...Kirk

  • First snow

    2pm, turned into ice pellets by 5pm

  • Rory's 3!

    Rory decides to be a journalist
    Could name state capitals
    Can tie her own shoes
    Than "what is a color?" ‘cause that one, like, blew my mind

  • Rory's 4!

    recites the periodic table
    Lorelai tells Rory Hartfordshireville story to make going inside Gilmore house easier
    broke antique teacup of Mia's, English rose pattern

  • Harvard sweater after this date

    I actually bought her a Harvard sweatshirt when she was 4, which of course was way too big for her, so she used it as a blanket for a while and then as a make shift diaper on this really ill-fated shopping trip

  • Rory gets Colonel Clucker

  • Helping crossing guard

    Hey, have you ever met your daughter? She could get anywhere by herself! She could get to the third dimension by herself! She was helping the crossing guard when she was four.

  • Lorelai's 21st birthday

    starts making Atlantic city plans with Rory

  • Rory's 5!

  • William Danes dies

    buried with his re-enactor musket

  • Manny the linen guy starts working with Independence

  • Diner opens around this time

    (They run in the back, throw up, pass out and then smack their head on the floor.)

  • Rory tells weeping willow tree to cheer up

  • Lane starts hiding things

    LANE: I started it when I was six, the day you told me the Cookie Monster was one of the seven deadly sins. MRS. KIM: Gluttony.

  • Rory takes ballet

    took ballet lessons and was terrible even though she worked at it very hard - “pranced around 24 hours a day”
    LOGAN: Oh. When you were younger, were you in the dance of the daffodils?
    RORY: I didn't bloom. My headpiece malfunctioned
    RORY: Oh yeah she should have never demonstrated the Jetés for the little daffodils.
    LORELAI: She had one of those back-support things that you put on top of chairs. I bet she'd loan that to you.

  • Rory starts kindergarten

    I had a school thing once, and I wasn't sure if Mom would want to go so I didn't invite her. It was my kindergarten "Salute to Vegetables" pageant and I was broccoli and I did a tap dance with a guy that was playing beets and the entire number I was just thinking, "Mom's not here" and it was my fault that she wasn't there and, well, it was kind of a life lesson for me. Meets Lane first day of Kinder
    Wore Chico and the Man tshirt

  • After Rory and Lane met

    Threw brownie bites at Marla Tipton’s mother for calling Rory illegitimate

  • Rory's 6!

    LORELAI: Right. We made space suits out of garbage bags. We had tang and freeze-dried ice cream (age 6)
    Took cheerleading class and only cheered for Harvard

  • Rory sees Joe Vs The Volcano

    Okay. Well, you know, mom, I've been around for a while, too. I remember tom hanks from his "Joe Versus The Volcano" days (she was 5)

  • Luke meets Jake the postman

  • Misery released on home video

    (Rory couldn’t sleep alone for a week after watching)

  • Hurricane Bob

    Category 2. Winds gusted to Category 3 strength in southeastern Massachusetts.
    BABETTE: Oh, yeah look at these ankles. They haven't been this swollen since hurricane bob. So then I checked the weather channel, and sure enough, Nick Walker confirmed it. There's a storm front moving in over Connecticut.

  • Rory starts 1st grade

  • Car accident in Stars Hollow

    right around Luke's diner (red light)
    also mentioned in The Long Morrow

  • Rory's 7!

    LORELAI: Mm-hmm. Piñatas and tacos and freeze-dried ice cream. (Fiesta party Age 7)
    Screamed on a roller coaster

  • Rory learns to ride a bike

    takes 4 months

  • Rory starts 2nd grade

    hobbies: making necklaces out of gum wrappers
    mudpie fiasco with Sookie

  • Rory's 8!

    clown arrested
    police shut it down
    teddy bear tea party

  • Rory starts 3rd grade

  • Fay Wellington and Art Brush fiasco

    People, do I have to remind you about Fay Wellington and Art Brush
    Fay owned a flower shop, and Art owned a candy store, and they fell madly in love about 10 years ago -- big romance.
    Until Art met Margie.
    The fudge queen.
    Eventually, the hostility forced Art to move.
    Valentine's Day was a nightmare.
    Fay never married. She stopped making candy. It was very sad.
    And those storefronts were empty for a year. No one wanted to be there.

  • Halloween

    RORY: This is like the bird-versus-turtle Halloween costume all over again.
    LORELAI: Well I didn't crack then, and I'm not gonna crack now. I just think you need to figure it out. And remember -- that flying turtle bird was the most original costume in the third grade

  • Fairy ring tree outside Babette and Morey's

    Rory saw fairy ring tree (Babette and Morey’s tree stump, waited outside with peanut butter sandwich)

  • Town started saving money for the bridge

  • Skunk infestation in Stars Hollow

  • Rory starts 4th grade

    trip to Mark Twain's house - Lindsay buys her magnet, wouldn't let her pay her back

  • Rory's 10!

    Discuss Schopenhauer's influence on Nietzsche when she was ten.
    Thought she discovered U2

  • Rory's Caterpillar funeral

    LORELAI: That's because to Luke you're still ten years old wearing feathered angel's wings going door-to-door inviting people to a caterpillar's funeral

  • Rory's in 5th grade

    RORY: And this right here -- this is the very curb where I fell off my bicycle the second time
    : Yeah you joke, but it was very traumatic, okay? I scraped up my whole face. There was a big old scab on my nose the first two weeks of fifth grade. Oh, they called me bozo
    RORY: And Rudolph and scab nose (fell one more time after that)

  • Hurricane Edouard

    Category 1 Considerable losses on the Massachusetts islands. Oak Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard MA particularly hard-hit.

  • Rory's 12!

    we should skip strait ahead to the classic 12th birthday -- ice-skating in Central Park
    Remember when I made you have my 12th birthday at the mark twain museum in Hartford?

  • First Festival of Living Pictures

    Lorelai flinches as Renoir girl

  • Lorelai broke her leg in yoga class

  • Rory's closet light burned out and didn't change it

  • Lorelai promised Kirk

    a souvenir pen and ink set from your trip to Colonial Williamsburg

  • Tobin starts as night manager

  • Octopus ice cream disaster

  • Luke's 5 hours of free handyman starts

  • Rory's 14th birthday

    LORELAI: All good. I'm just saying that Rory's birthday scavenger hunt of 1998 is still talked about in hushed, reverent ton
    LUKE: Is that the one where all the kids ended up at Taylor's at 11:00 at night stealing stuff out of his fridge?

  • First Dance Marathon

  • last went inside garage

    Only opened the door and a bat scared Lorelai, Rory talked to it "like Dr Doolittle"

  • Bad year for Lorelai

    Bad hair year for me, skirts were the wrong length, cut me right at the calf. I can't bring myself to develop the film she stuck in the fridge

  • Got Jeep

    LORELAI:It’s hard to explain like with the wrangler, I just got in and I had a feeling. I didn't get th
    LORELAI: No. I mean kind of, but they all have this new-car smell, which apparently people like, but I don't like it. I like the way my old car smelled and the way the zipper got stuck on the window and the little place where Rory signed her name in permanent marker
    LORELAI: It was the first new car I bought and the car I taught Rory to drive in, and I know I have to move on.

  • Mia leaves for Santa Barbara

  • Lorelai promised Kirk

    a good word for me at Al's Pancake World when Al had that batter boy opening

  • Met Michel?

    Met Michel. Got promoted. Had stain on Thompson twins tshirt, shouldn't wear it to work.

  • Hurricane Floyd

    Hurricane Floyd – Danbury, Connecticut received up to 15 inches (380 mm) of rain from the storm, resulting in extensive flooding in the city and surrounding areas.

  • Taylor's nephew leaves for Arizona biosphere

  • Lorelai promised Kirk

    you promised to teach me to swim

  • Rory accepted to Chilton

  • Lorelai went to Luke's storage unit

    saw ugly furniture

  • Rory spent three days boxing up stuff in the attic

  • Lorelai promised Kirk

    you promised to come to my birthday party, and I waited and waited and…

  • Gunderson's son stayed with Richard and Emily for a month

  • Luke puts in fax line

  • Last Twickham death scare

  • Salute to the Quaker's Festival

    should know the dangers of the Founder's Day punch. Did you learn nothing from Mommy's Coyote Ugly bar dance at last year's Salute to the Quakers festival

  • Jarhead opens

    No, this is mine. But I wore it with Luke when we went to see "jarhead." I was trying to look kind of army, and something about the combination of the movie and the hot dogs at the Waterbury Cineplex made me sick in the parking lot, and Luke held my hair, and it was nice, and now I got to get rid of it

  • Anna saw Luke in lumberyard