2000 BC The creation of Gilgamesh, an epic poem which includes the first mention of a man transforming into a werewolf-like beast.
850 BC Homer writes Odyssey, which includes a phrase indicating belief in the existence werewolves.
500 BC The Scythians believed that the tribe of Neurs were werewolves. This belief was described by Herodotus in his work The Histories (4, 105).
400 BC Damarchus, 'the werewolf of Arcadia', wins a medal in boxing during the Olympics.
42-39 (45-35) BC Virgil's eighth eclogue describes for the first time a conscious transformation into a werewolf.
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2-8 AD Under the patronage of Octavian Augustus, Publius Ovidius Naso writes Metamorphoses - a collection of myths meant to explain the creation of some creatures, plants and occurrences, including the myth about Zeus and Lycaon.
Late 1st Century AD Petronius writes his novel, Satyricon, in which a story about a werewolf is told during a scene at the dinner table in chapter 62.
170 AD Pausanias visits Arcadia and learns of lycan werewolf rituals.
432 AD St. Patrick turns the king of Wales, Veretic, into a wolf.
600 AD An infant, later known as St. Albert, is supposedly raised by wolves.
617 AD According to rumours, wolves attack heretic monks.
650 AD Paul Aegineta describes 'melancholic lycanthropy'.
900 AD Hrafnsmal mentions 'wolf coats' worn by Norse warriors - royal guard berserkers. Their battle frenzy, berserkergang, which some of them went into was compared to a wolf's fury.
1020 The word 'werwulf' appears for the first time in English literature.
1101 The death of Vreslav, a Ukrainian prince considered a werewolf.
1182-1183 Giraldus maintains that he met a pair of werewolves in Ireland.
1275-1300 The creation of the northern werewolf saga, The Volsunga Saga, which tells of two people, Sigmund and Sinfjotli, who became werewolves by putting on wolf skins.
1344 The discovery of the wolf-child of Hesse.
1407 A mention of werewolves is made during a witch trial in Basel.
1450 Elsa of Meerburg is convicted of wolf-riding.
1487 The publication of Heinrich Kramer's and Jacob Springer's Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Witches) which is the culmination of all up-to-then published treaties on witches, witchcraft, werewolves, etc. It becomes a reference book for the judges of the Holy Inquisition.
1521 The Werewolf of Poligny is burned on a stake.
1541 The Werewolf of Padua is burned on a stake.
1550 Witeking supposedly conducts the first ever interview with a werewolf in Riga.
1555 Olaus Magnus describes the 'weird behaviour' of Baltic werewolves. According to his Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, big groups of werewolves gather in the Baltic countries and in Normandy around Christmas.
1560 The publication of Giambattiste della Porta's Magiae Naturalis (Natural Magic).
1563 The publication of Johann Weyer's De Prestigiis Daemonum et Incantationibus ac Venificiis (On the Illusions of the Demons and on Spells and Poisons) which was one of the first works protesting against witch trials.
1573 Gilles Grenier burns on stake for being accused of werewolfism.
1580 The publication of Jean Bodin's (Of the Demon-mania of the Sorcerers), which includes a rubric about werewolves, De la Lycanthropie & si les esprits peuuent changer les hommes en bestes.
1588 Rumours circulated around Auvergne of a roaming she-werewolf.
1590 The execution of Peter Stubbe in Cologne on March 31st.
1596 The publication of Claude Prieur's Dialogue de la Lycanthropie.
1598 The execution of the Werewolf of Chalons in Paris on December 14th.
The Gandillon family is burnt under the accusation of werewolism.
The trial against Jacques Roulet, the Werewolf of Angers, and his subsequent conviction by secular court to death. Roulet appeals to the Parliament in Paris, which changes his verdict to two years of confinement at an asylum in St. Germain des Pres.
1603 The trial of Jean Grenier who gets convicted to lifelong isolation at a monastery.
1610 In Liege two women burn on a stake under the accusation of werewolfism.
Jean Grenier dies in isolation.
1615 Dr. Jean de Nynauld publishes his De la Lycanthropie, transformation, et extase des sorciers.
1682 In Fahrenholz in Germany a number of people is accused of the power to shapeshift into wolves and taken to trial.
1692 The interrogation of werewolf Theiss.
1697 Charles Perrault writes the story about the Little Red Riding Hood.
1764-67 The Beast of Gévaudan spreads terror in Auvergne in France.
1796-99 A paranoid fear of wolves spread throughout France.
1812 The brothers Grimm write their version of the story about Little Red Riding Hood.
1824 Antonie Leger is accused and judged for werewolf crimes and subsequently put in a mental asylum.
1853 In the Spanish province of Ourense, Manuel Blanco Romasanta is convicted for murdering thirteen people. He maintains that he murdered them in the form of a wolf.
1862 Dr. Wilhelm Hertz publishes his study, Der Werwolf.
1865 The publication of Sabine Baring Gould's The Book of Were-Wolves.
1880 Folklore researchers write down werewolf legends of Picardy.
1912 The publication of Elliot O'Donell's Werewolves.
1913 The filming of the first werewolf movie takes place (The Werewolf), with a real wolf in the scenes of transformation.
1914 Sigmund Freud publishes his article about the "human-wolf".
1920 The discovery of two wolf-children of the Orissa tribe.
1933 The first publication of Montague Summer's The Werewolf.
1936 The execution of Albert H. Fish, dubbed the "Werewolf of Wisteria" on January 16th in the Sing Sing prison in the USA.
Sergei Prokofiev composes Peter and the Wolf.
1952 The publication of Ogburne Bose's On the Trail of Wolf-Children.
1972 The discovery of Shamdeo who lived among wolves in India.
1975 Surawicz and Banta publish a description of two modern cases of lycanthropy.
1981 The filming of An American Werewolf in London, which features the first ever quadruped werewolf, takes place.
~1988 Rumours of the alleged Monster of Morbach begin to circulate in Germany.
1990 A police officer on a routine night patrol comes across a huge wolf-like creature on the banks of the river Thames in Maidenhead, London, UK. The legend of the Beast of Boulter's Lock is born.
2000 Police officers at Windsor, London, UK, spot a "an enormous wolf-like hound" near the Windsor Canoe Club.
2007 An article titled "Police find 'werewolf' ties to violence" appears on the Internet news portal Yahoo.co.uk.
The Egyptian city of Lycopolis, now Asyut, was the worship center of Wepwawet/Ophios, who is a god of war and lycanthropey. It is attested that all of the residents of the city were wolf-people. They were ran out of Egypt when the Islamic period started, which lead to the Hindi tales of the dog-men living right outside of their country, before vanishing without a trace.
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