Timeline

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This article displays a timeline for all (mentioned) events and happenings of Orange is the New Black. The series is set in 2012 (Season One), 2013 (Season Two to Season Five) and 2014 (Season Six).

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1961-1962[]

• Mei Chang is born.^[1]

1965[]

• Yvonne Parker is born.

1968[]

• White Cindy is born.^[2]

1975[]

• Norma Romano meets Guru Mack. ("Tongue-Tied")

1981[]

• June 7 - Piper Chapman is born. ("Thirsty Bird")

1981-1982[]

• Suzanne Warren is born.
• Joel Luschek is born ("Piece of Shit")

1982[]

• Rosa Cisneros' first bank robbery.
• Barb and Carol Denning plot to get rid of their younger sister, Debbie.^[3]

1983-1984[]

February 1984[]

• Sara Rice is born.

Others[]

• Lorna Morello is born.
• Nicky Nichols is born.
• Judy King starts her controversial puppet show.

1985-1986[]

• Brook Soso is born.
• Grace Warren is born.
• Cindy Hayes is born.^[4]

1990[]

• Claire is born.
• Paolo is born.
• Dayanara Diaz is born.^[5]
• Poussey Washington is born.^[6]
• Sam Healy starts working at Litchfield. ("I Wasn't Ready")

1992[]

• Tasha Jefferson is born.
• Marisol Gonzales is born ("WAC Pack")

1993[]

• Lolly Whitehill loses her job as a journalist at Free Weekly.

1995[]

• Sam Healy goes on a date with one of his clients, and afterwards runs into Ellen Murphy, a homeless woman whom he initially thinks is his mother, Margaret.

2000[]

• Suzanne Warren's graduation

2001[]

• Monica Hayes is born.

2002[]

• A ten-year old Tasha Jefferson meets Yvonne Parker.
• A 21 year old Piper Chapman meets Alex Vause at a bar. The two start a relationship. The same years Piper carries drug money to Belgium. (Alex is talking about the Bush reelection presidential campaign in that bar, but Bush hadn't been elected yet, so they met before the 2004 election. Vause also complains about the new TSA rule of having to remove shoes during security.)

2004[]

• Leanne Taylor's Rumspringa

2005[]

• CO Alvarez and Rick Hopper begin working at Litchfield.^[7]
• Alex's mother, Diane Vause, dies from an aneurysm. The same day, Piper breaks up with Alex.

September[]

• Hurricane Katrina^[8]; Brook Soso meets Joshua Nicholson, a man who is listed as a sexual offender, and suspected to be a pedophile (although this is untrue).

2008[]

• Lorna Morello meets Christopher MacLaren.^[9][9]

September[]

• Suzanne Warren is Employee of the Month. Grace and Brad go to Chesapeake Bay and, as a result, Suzanne unwittingly kidnaps and causes the death of Dylan.

November[]

• Poussey Washington and her friends Ali and Mikey are in New York to see the band The Roots. Poussey eventually gets lost and travels around New York until finally returning home.

2009[]

• Lolly Whitehill is arrested for assaulting an officer.
• Nicky Nichols undergoes heart surgery, crashes a New York taxi UI and is arrested for trespassing and possession of heroin.

2010[]

• Sophia Burset incarcerated. ("Fucksgiving")

2011[]

• Alex gives away Piper's name to the Feds. Shortly after, she talks about this with a French man at a bar (S05E12, Tattoo You), during a conversation about her tattoo "love is pain". She says she's still heartbroken "after six years", which coincides with their 2005 breakup.
• Ignoring Alex has given up her name, Piper gives Alex a drunken call. Alex doesn't dare to pick up and sends the call to voice message, wondering if Piper knows that Alex gave her away. Instead, Piper rambles about her earlier experience of her boyfriend getting a "kool aid tattoo", as she says "believe me, Al, it's no love is pain tattoo" in a nostalgic tone and ends the call saying that she misses her. Alex listens to the message and looks pained.
• Sunday, August 28: Piper Chapman's indictment is filed after Alex Vause gives out her name.
• Poussey gets incarcerated at Litchfield for Trespassing and Dealing Marijuana.

2011-2012[]

• Poussey's mother passes away. Due to a failed furlough application, Poussey isn't able to say goodbye in person.^[10]
• Blanca Flores is incarcerated. ("Power Suit")

2012[]

• Morello incarcerated.^[11][12]
• June 7 - Piper's 31st birthday.
• Larry proposes to Piper.
• Maria Ruiz incarcerated during pregnancy.

Events of Season One[]

September[]

• Tuesday (September 4, 11, 18 or 25) - Piper, Larry, Polly and Pete enjoy Piper's last day as a free woman.
• Wednesday (September 5, 12, 19 or 26) - Piper Chapman, Janae Watson and Dayanara Diaz are incarcerated. On her first day, Piper insults Red's food.
• Thursday (September 6, 13, 20 or 27) - Red serves Piper sandwich with bloody tampon. Piper is reunited with Alex. ^[13]
• Friday (September 7, 14, 21 or 28) - Larry visits Piper in prison.
• Saturday (September 8, 15, 22 or 29) - Red serves Piper a tray of food

October[]

• Chapman, Maria Ruiz, Jefferson and Chang are nominated WACs.^[14]

November[]

• Larry publishes his article in the New York Times.^[15]
• Finn Harper is born.^[16]
• Pepa Ruiz is born.^[17]
• November 22 - Chapman is sent to the SHU. Taystee Jefferson is released on parole. Thanksgiving celebrations at Litchfield.^[18]

December[]

• Tricia Miller dies.^[19]
• Red loses the kitchen^[20] (113)
• December 24 - Christmas pageant at Litchfield. Chapman and Tiffany Doggett are sent to SHU.^[21]

2013[]

Events of Season Two[]

January[]

• Piper gets out of SHU and is transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center to testify in the trial of Kubra Balik. Alex Vause is released on parole. ^[22]
• Yvonne Parker and Brook Soso are incarcerated at Litchfield. Piper is transferred back to Litchfield.^[23] 203

February[]

• February 13 - Maritza's daughter's birthday
• February 14 - Valentine's Day. Christopher MacLaren and Angela Kuznick get married.

March[]

• Piper's grandmother dies and she is granted a two-day furlough.^[24]
• CO George Mendez is fired.^[25]

April[]

• Natalie Figueroa resigns
• Alex Vause breaches parole
• Vee Parker is killed by Rosa Cisneros, who then commits suicide by driving into a quarry

Events of Season Three[]

May[]

• May 11 - Alex arrives back at Litchfield after a probation violation. A new counselor, Berdie Rogers, is hired at Litchfield ("Mother's Day").
• May 12 - Litchfield hosts a visiting day for the inmates' families for Mother's Day.
• CO John Bennett absconds from his job and disappears.
• Nicholls is sent to Max, where she spends 94 days.^[26]

June[]

• New inmates, Lolly Whitehill and Stella Carlin are incarcerated at Litchfield.
• June 7 - Piper's 32nd birthday ("Ching Chong Chang").

August[]

• Armaria Diaz is born.
• Cesar Velazquez is incarcerated for drug-related crimes.
• Judy King self-surrenders and is incarcerated at Litchfield.
• Lorna marries Vince Muccio.^[27]

Events of Season Four[]

August[]

• Ouija Aziza, Alana Dwight, Stephanie Hapakuka, Alison Abdullah, Ramona Contreras, Zirconia, Kasey Sankey, Helen Van Maele, Jennifer Digori and Brandy Epps are transferred to Litchfield, among others.
• COs Wanda Bell, Scott O'Neill, Elique Maxwell, Charles Ford and Wade Donaldson simultaneously resign. To replace them, Desi Piscatella is brought up the hill from Max, becoming Captain of the Guards, and MCC hires veterans Thomas Humphrey, B. Stratman, Artesian McCullough, Lee Dixon and Blake.
• Nicholls returns from Max.^[28]

September[]

• Poussey Washington is killed.^[29]

Events of Season Five[]

September[]

• Dayanara Diaz holds COs Thomas Humphrey and Artesian McCullough at gunpoint. She shoots CO Thomas Humphrey in the leg.
• A riot begins in Litchfield after the shot fired by Dayanara. The event lasts three days, with the COs of the prison taken hostage, while the inmates negotiate their demands with, at first, the governor's assistant, and then Natalie Figueroa.
• Thomas Humphrey suffers a stroke, caused by Maureen Kukudio while they were being treated at the infirmary. He is at first in a vegetative state, but is then found dead by the SWAT team.
• Judy King is taken back into civilian life.
• Tiffany Doggett escapes during the riot and meets Coates at the cabin
• Mei Chang escapes through a hole made by Ruiz but is later found by the authorities sleeping in a hollowed-out deer carcass
• Gloria Mendoza leads almost all of the hostages to the poo (the porta potties) with intent to let them escape for a chance to get furlough and see her son, she tells all this to Maria Ruiz. However, Maria Ruiz steals Gloria's plan and releases all the hostages on the third day of the riot in exchange for seeing her daughter. All Litchfield inmates are captured by SWAT during the prison invasion. Ten inmates remain hidden in the prison pool, until SWAT discovers them. The Season ends on a smoke grenade, and their fate is unknown.
• For a more detailed version, check the Season Five page.

Events of Season Six[]

2014[]

January[]

• Rick Hopper unwittingly smuggles drugs into Litchfield each day through his canisters of herbal shake powder.^[30]

February []

• Lorna goes into labour during her 7th month of pregnancy.^[31]
• Piper is released early from Litchfield, among others, like Sophia Burset. Blanca Flores was supposed to be free for early release, but she and other inmates were arrested again for illegal immigration.^[32]
• Carol Denning and Barb Denning kill each other.
• Taystee is found guilty of Desi Piscatella's murder.^[33]

References[]