Timeline

Real-world events used to place and correlate Q's activity. Every entry is sourced.

1. Oct 28, 2017 Q corpus First post by "Q Clearance Patriot" on 4chan /pol/ NBC News, Aug 14, 2018
2. Oct 30, 2017 Failed prediction Predicted arrest of Hillary Clinton (did not happen) NBC News, Aug 3, 2018
3. Nov 3, 2017 Failed prediction Predicted arrest of John Podesta (did not happen) BuzzFeed News, Aug 6, 2018
4. Nov 25, 2017 Q corpus First drop on 8chan, after leaving 4chan Kaggle, QAnon Posts Dataset
5. Mar 14, 2018 Platform Reddit bans r/CBTS_Stream, quarantined since late February Papasavva & Mariconti, arXiv, Feb 2, 2023
6. Jun 15, 2018 Violence Armed man blocks the road at Hoover Dam, demanding a report cited by Q BuzzFeed News, Jun 17, 2018
7. Jul 31, 2018 Politics First widely covered "Q" signs at a Trump rally in Tampa CNN, Aug 1, 2018
8. Aug 23, 2018 Politics Trump hosts QAnon promoter Lionel Lebron in the Oval Office BuzzFeed News, Aug 24, 2018
9. Sep 12, 2018 Platform Reddit bans r/GreatAwakening (71,000 subscribers) and other QAnon forums NBC News, Sep 12, 2018
10. Nov 6, 2018 Politics US midterm elections NPR, Nov 7, 2018
11. Mar 13, 2019 Violence Murder of Frank Cali by a QAnon adherent The Daily Beast, Mar 18, 2019
12. Mar 22, 2019 Justice Mueller report delivered to the Attorney General NPR, Mar 22, 2019
13. Apr 18, 2019 Justice Redacted Mueller report released NPR, Apr 18, 2019
14. May 30, 2019 Justice FBI (Phoenix) bulletin cites QAnon as a domestic terrorism threat Yahoo News, Aug 1, 2019
15. Aug 5, 2019 Platform 8chan taken offline after the El Paso shooting Cloudflare, Aug 4, 2019
16. Nov 2, 2019 Q corpus Q returns on 8kun, 8chan's successor, after three months of silence Vice News, Nov 4, 2019
17. Mar 23, 2020 Q corpus First drop about the pandemic ("China virus") The Conversation, Apr 8, 2020
18. Jul 21, 2020 Platform Twitter suspends thousands of QAnon accounts NBC News, Jul 21, 2020
19. Aug 11, 2020 Politics QAnon sympathiser Marjorie Taylor Greene wins Georgia GOP runoff NPR, Aug 12, 2020
20. Aug 19, 2020 Politics Trump on QAnon: "they like me very much" NPR, Aug 19, 2020
21. Oct 2, 2020 Politics House condemns QAnon (H.Res. 1154, 371–18) Clerk of the House, Oct 2, 2020
22. Oct 6, 2020 Platform Facebook and Instagram ban QAnon Facebook Newsroom, Oct 6, 2020
23. Oct 15, 2020 Politics Trump declines to disavow QAnon at an NBC town hall NBC News, Oct 15, 2020
24. Nov 3, 2020 Politics US presidential election NBC News, Nov 7, 2020
25. Dec 8, 2020 Q corpus Last drop before an 18-month silence Vice News, Jun 30, 2022
26. Jan 6, 2021 Violence Attack on the US Capitol CNN, Jan 7, 2021
27. Jan 8, 2021 Platform Twitter permanently suspends @realDonaldTrump Al Jazeera, Jan 8, 2021
28. Jan 20, 2021 Failed prediction Joe Biden's inauguration (the predicted "trap" did not happen) NPR, Jan 20, 2021
29. Mar 4, 2021 Failed prediction Movement-predicted Trump "inauguration" (did not happen) Newsweek, Mar 5, 2021
30. Feb 19, 2022 Q corpus NYT: two stylometric analyses attribute drops to Paul Furber, then Ron Watkins The New York Times, Feb 19, 2022
31. Jun 24, 2022 Q corpus Q returns on 8kun after 18 months ADL, Jun 29, 2022