Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5821891-20131031221624/@comment-1894786-20150714030235

I've been re-watching Wonderland, keeping in mind that Cora has the White Rabbit in her posession during Mother, while Will has him in To Catch A Thief as well as Anastasia becoming Red Queen at least 8 years before Jefferson becomes the Mad Hatter, which can't be more than 5 years before the Curse.

I would say the timeline is this:

We Are Both - Cora gets sent to Wonderland.

Forget Me Not - Will joins the Merry Men, meaning this episode is AFTER Heart Of Gold.

Heart Of Stone - Anastasia becomes engaged to the Red King.

Out Of The Past - Ana is the Red Queen for about 2 years. This is probably when Alice first comes to Wonderland in "Down The Rabbit Hole", as Ana remarks in "Heart Of Stone" that she met "a little girl, in a blue dress, wishing for her father's love" and Alice never knew her as Anastasia. Priscilla dies, and Jefferson vows to hang up his hat. This is after "Kansas", as in "The Doctor" he's still working and the slippers have already gone with Dorothy.

Down The Rabbit Hole - Alice hears her father arguing with Dr. Lydgate and vows to go back to Wonderland to find proof. Which she does as a grown-up in "To Catch A Thief". "Who's Alice" also establishes Alice has been gone for years and Edwin believes her dead. This means Alice (who in official materials is described as being 18) spent quite a few years in Wonderland, returning a year prior to the Dark Curse. Most likely, she spent her entire teen years living in Wonderland.

From here onward to Queen of Hearts, everything is how it's on the official Wonderland timeline (with "Mother" being immediately before "To Catch A Thief" if not concurrent with it), with both Cyrus' arrival and the position of "Hat Trick" up in the air (though Hat Trick is pretty much thought to be after "Mother" as well, while Cyrus' arrival should be in recent years since Jafar doesn't seem that much older than in "The Serpent".)

Then it's the present-day timeline of Wonderland which is pretty straightforward.