Boardwalk's own timeline was a bit a messy (for example, they have Mabel being born after Gillian!!!) so here's a version that leads up to Clara and Nucky arriving in Chicago. There's also a few spoilers and previously unwritten background information contained here.
1872
Nucky Thompson and Mabel Jeffries born
1877
Eli Thompson born
1882
Arnold Rothstein born.
1884
Gillian Darmody born June 15th
1893
Margaret Rohan born in Ireland.
1894
Mabel Jeffries graduates from college and begins teaching. Nucky is appointed Deputy Sheriff.
1895
Richard and Emma Harrow born December 13th in Wisconsin.
1896
Nucky Thompson and Mabel Jeffries marry.
1897
Gillian Darmody meets Nucky Thompson.
Mabel Thompson suffers first miscarriage.
Jimmy Darmody conceived in May.
Nucky Thompson becomes Sheriff.
Clara Thompson conceived in November.
Salvatore (Charlie/Lucky) Luciano born in November in Sicily.
1898
James Edison Darmody born January 31st.
Clara Susan Thompson born August 13th.
1899
Al Capone born in February.
1902
Meyer Lansky born on July 4th.
1905
Eli and June Thompson marry.
1906
Nucky Thompson becomes treasurer of Atlantic County.
Benny (Bugsy) Siegel is born in February.
Enoch Thompson Junior is born and dies. His mother, Mabel Thompson, dies a month later. Clara finds her mother's body.
Nucky and Clara move into a few rooms at the brand new Ritz-Carlton.
Eli and June Thompson have their first child, Willie.
1909
Margaret Rohan immigrates to the United States.
Clara Thompson and Jimmy Darmody contract malaria. Nucky nurses them both.
Arnold Rothstein marries Carolyn Greene.
1910
Halley's Comet visible; Richard Harrow watches from Wisconsin.
Jimmy convinces the entire seventh grade at Our Lady Star of the Sea that Father O'Connor is having a secret affair with Sister Mary Agnes.
Anna Citron born.
1911
During a Nucky's Nocturne party a drunk guest wanders into Clara's room. Nucky has her private, locked hallway constructed and buys her a gramophone.
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