Kurt Cobain Timeline

Courtney Love is born

Jul 9, 1964

Courtney was born in San Francisco, California. Her parents divorced when she was eight and her mother was awarded full custody. Courtney's mother claimed her father had givin her LSD at the age of three. Her mother remarried and she was sent to over 20 facilities during her childhood, until she finally got out and headed to England to start her career.

Kurt Cobain Is Born

Feb 20, 1967

Kurt was born in Aberdeen, Washington. A small, broken down city full of drug users and unemployment. His parents divorced when he was eight and he was sent back and forth between there homes for years.

Kurt moves in with jesse read

Dec 1, 1985

Kurt moves in with a christian family after being kicked out of his home by his mother, he becomes very religious and chooses the band name nirvana because of the buddist meaning "freedom from pain, suffering and the external world" as kurt described it.

Getting his own place

Dec 1, 1986

moves into his own appartment after being kicked from the home of his friend, paying his rent with a dead end job. he constantly travelled to Olympia during this time for the rock music scene.

Kurt moves to Olympia

Oct 10, 1987

Kurt decided to move out of Aberdeen to live with his first girlfriend Tracy. Olympia was a new start for Kurt, the music scene was fresh and exciting. Kurt had started Nirvana just before leaving Aberdeen and Olympia was where they got there start.

"Bleach" is released

Dec 1, 1989

SubPop agrees to record Nirvana's first album, Kurt runs into the street screaming "im gonna be a rockstar! Nirvana rules!." the album "Bleach" was released soon after, and there careers began.

Kurt and Courtney get together

Jan 12, 1990

Kurt had met Courntey before, but kurt hadn't been very interested in Courtney even though she had made advances. When they met again about a year later at a Portland nightclub, they bonded over family issues and drug use. They were inseperable from then on.

"Nevermind" is released

Sep 24, 1991

People were critical of there first album, but Nirvana began to build a fan base. There second album "Nevermind" was released, and they were at the hight of there fame.

Frances Bean is born

Aug 18, 1992

They were madly inlove and got engaged quickly, soon after, news was out that Love was pregnany with Cobains child. Frances Bean was born in August of 1992. Kurt was extatic, he spent all the time he could with her.

Near death experience

Mar 3, 1994

Kurt flew to Rome after a failed rehab attempt to meet back up with Courntey and daughter Frances. When Kurt arrives he checks into a hotel room where he awaits Courtney's arrival. Courtney finds Kurt on the floor when she awoke the next morning. He was prosumed to be dead at the scene but he later came back in the hospital, telling Courtney in a note to fuck off, and then asking the nurse for a strawberry milkshake. He had overdosed on Courtneys prescription pills.

Intervention

Mar 25, 1994

Concerned, Kurts friends and family set up an intervention and confronted kurt as he woke up that day. Kurt was very upset, stating that multiple people in the room besides himself were also addicts and that they shouldn't be saying anything. Courntey threatened to take Frances away if he didn't go.

Rehab

Mar 30, 1994

Kurt arrived at the rehab facility in LA on the 30th, agreeing to go only for fear of losing his daughter. He immediately began a detox treatment. He was there for only a short time before he escaped by sneaking over a wall in the yard. He headed to Seattle.

Kurt is found

Apr 8, 1994

Kurt is found dead in the greenhouse of his Washington home, seven days after leaving rehab. Courtney had hired someone to install lights outside the greenhouse, a man spotted Kurts body from outside.

Kristen Pfaff dies

Jun 16, 1994

Kristen Pfaff, a close friend and member of Courtney's band "Hole" overdosed on Heroin in her Seattle appartment. Her and Kurt had spent alot of time together, and got along well. This always made Courtney jealous. Kristen had stopped doing heroin the day Kurt died.

Eldon Hoke dies

Apr 19, 1997

Eldon Hoke, singer of a small time band called "the Mentors" was hit by a moving train after accidentally slipping the name of Kurts killer in an interview, he had refered to the man as "Allen Wrench", who they found out to be the lead singer of the band "Kill Allen Wrench", in an interview, Wrench acts as if he has commited the murder, even admitting it in a phone conversation. Hoke also claimed that Courtney had asked him to kill Kurt, shooting him in the head and staging it to look suicide.