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Prince of Hearts wrote: I'm sorry, but something doesn't make sense to me. I don't understand how Alice could have visited for the first time after Regina rescues her father. Here is why. Alice is a small child when she visits Wonderland for the first time. As is Grace when her father goes to Wonderland with Regina. But here is the difference. Alice has time to grow up before the Curse is cast and time is frozen. Grace does not. Her counterpart Paige is the same age in Storybrooke that Grace is when her father is trapped in Wonderland. So the Hatter was trapped in Wonderland within a year of the casting of the curse, in my opinion. Which means there is no way that Alice could have visited afterwards. I think you're right about Alice not visiting wonderland for the first time after Regina's rescue quest, I also consider Grace's age to compare how much the mad hatter stayed in Wonderland.

This is the Timeline I've been thinking.

- CORA ARRIVES TO WONDERLAND

She gets there while Snow is a child, and have enough time to become a Queen and with her powers she made quite a reputation of her.

-ALICE VISITS WONDERLAND AS A CHILD

Alice came from a Victorian Land that runs by the same time as The Land without magic, The Enchanted Forest and Wonderland. By the time Alice gets there Cora might have been the queen for  more less Ten years (Considering that Cora met a Ten years old Snow, Snow is now in her 30's and Alice is now in her 20's)

- CORA SENT THE WHITE RABBIT TO CAPTURE HENRY (this is my guess)

Given Cora cannot leave Wonderland and Jefferson is in the Enchanted Forest, the only creature that can travel through realms at will is the White Rabbit. Cora threatens the Rabbit to make him Capture Henry as a vengance because she knows Regina love him more. At this point Cora already have a Knave of Hearts.

- ALICE MEETS THE MAD HATTER

Alice must've met the mad hatter after his arrive, because when she return to Wonderland the White Rabbit mentions the Mad Hatter as if Alice already know him or heard about him, otherwise the Rabbit would've mentioned the Mad Hatter as someone she never knew.

- WILL SCARLET AND ANASTASIA ARRIVE TO WONDERLAND

Given they were strange to this land, Will would've to work as a thief for the Caterpillar to Provide a good life to Anastasia, making himself a reputation as a great thief. At some point Will might have try it to steal something from THE QUEEN OF HEARTS and ended up losing his heart, and then Cora begin to use his thief talent as an asset, maybe training him to become her new Knave of Hearts.

- ALICE MEETS CYRUS

Alice has already known The Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the new Knave of Hearts. She knows most of wonderland and while searching for proofs for her father she found Cyrus and fell in love with him and then travels to all Wonderland with him. In some of their travels they probably meet Will.

- ANASTASIA GAINS POWERS

Somehow She gets powers, with Will being kept by the Queen of Hearts (my guess) Anastasia finds herself alone in a land she doesn't know and unprotected, so she look for magic to become self suficient. Maybe she got it from Jafar because he need it a Queen he could control.

- CORA LEAVE WONDERLAND WITH HOOK

Leaving Wonderland without a Ruler all the courtiers left the castle, including the previous Knave of Hearts. Now with new Powers Anastasia rise as a Queen and forget her humble begginings, freed Will and makes him her new Knave of Hearts. Seeing how Anastasia is like as a Queen, Will decide to leave her and Wonderland but not without his heart.

- AFTER ALICE LOST CYRUS (My guess)

After she loses Cyrus she decide to leave Wonderland for ever, but before she met again or for the first time Will. Both of them are Heartbroken and want to leave wonderland, he ask for Alice and the White rabbit's help to retrieve his heart from Cora's Vault, they have a last adventure in wonderland and the White rabbit takes Alice back to Victorian Land and Sent Will to the Enchanted forest. The Red Queen finds out Will disappearance and start a Hunt for him.

- ALL FROM THE MAD HATTER ARRIVE TO ALICE DEPATURE FROM WONDERLAND HAPPENS IN ONE YEAR GAP.

- REGINA CASTS THE DARK CURSE

With Will in the Enchanted forest he is sent to Storybrooke and stays there for 28 years (I want to believe he owns The Rabbit hole Pub). the dark curse frozen the rest of the Realms including Wonderland and Victorian Land.

Well this is how I think is wonderland timeline, maybe in following episodes we will see in detail what kind of Timeline the writers created for the show.