The Mafia Series Timeline covers the entire history of the Mafia game world in chronological order. From the founding of Empire Bay in 1547 to the final events of Mafia III, every major event in the history of the Mafia universe is recorded here.
16th Century[]
1547[]
- Porto Romano (to be later renamed Empire Bay) is founded by Italian explorer Giulio Contadino, who named it after his home city of Rome.[1]
17th Century[]
1600s[]
- Porto Romano comes under Dutch rule and the simple trading post at the mouth of the Culver River grows into a major metropolis.[1]
1694[]
- Porto Romano is renamed Empire Bay by its first English governor, Sir John Stanmore, who oversaw the colony for a remarkable 45 years.[1]
18th Century[]
1718[]
- The city of New Bordeaux is founded.[2]
1783[]
- The United States gains independence by winning the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain. British forces used prison ships in Empire Bay to hold thousands of American POWs during the war. The conditions were so terrible that more men died there of disease than in the battles of the war itself.
19th Century[]
1800s[]
- The O'Neill Family settle in Empire Bay.[3]
1819[]
- Humphrey Whiskey is founded.[4]
1835[]
- Old Empirical Beer is founded in Empire Bay.[5]
1846[]
- October 7th: Sinclair Parish is established.[6]
1850[]
- Irish fabric manufacturer John Dipton opens the first Dipton Apparel clothing shop in Kingston.[1]
1861[]
- The American Civil War begins.
1865[]
- The American Civil War ends.
1867[]
- The landscaping of Lincoln Park begins; it is named to commemorate former president Abraham Lincoln.[1]
1877[]
- Frank Colletti is born in Sicily.[7]
1883[]
- Lost Heaven Cartridge Co. is founded in Lost Heaven.[8]
1885[]
- May 2nd: Roberto Ghillotti is born.[9]
- Frank Vinci is born in Sicily.[10]
1887[]
- Leo Galante is born in Sicily.[11]
1890[]
- Bon Temps Beer is founded.[12]
1894[]
- The iconic Grand Upper Bridge is completed.[1]
1897[]
- July 15th: Alberto Clemente is born in Palermo, Sicily.[13]
- Stoltz Beer is founded.[14]
1899[]
1900[]
- April 5th: Tommy Angelo is born in San Celeste, Sicily.[16]
20th Century[]
1901[]
- April 22nd: Silvio Palmieri is born in Villabate, Sicily.[17]
- The Fresh Meat Co. is founded in Lost Heaven.
1903[]
- The Empire Bay Cannons are formed.[1]
- Duffy's Irish Pub opens.[18]
1904[]
- December 25th: Angelo Family arrive in Empire Bay.[16][19]
1905[]
- Carlo Falcone is born in Sicily.[20]
- Pepé Costa is born in Sicily.[21]
- The St. Lukas Pale Ale is founded.
1906[]
- Luca Gurino is born in Sicily.[22]
1908[]
- Eddie Scarpa is born.[23][24]
- Leo Galante and Frank Vinci arrive in Empire Bay.[25][26]
- The New Bordeaux Opera House is set on fire, killing over 100 of New Bordeaux's wealthier citizens inside.
- Don Salieri arrives in the United States.[27]
1910[]
1911[]
- July 17th: Henry Tomasino is born in Sicily.[29]
- Griffin Petroleum is founded in Lost Heaven.
1913[]
- Carlo Falcone arrives in the United States.[30]
- The Moretti crime family begins their criminal operations in Empire Bay.
1914[]
- World War I begins.
- Valerio Marcano starts working for Carillo family.[31]
1916[]
- June 21st: Frankie Potts is born.[32]
- July 14th: Antonio Paladino is born in New York City.[33]
- Derek Pappalardo begins work as a strike breaker in Empire Bay.
1918[]
- May 27th: Sarah Burke is born.[34]
- Eric Reilly is born in Empire Bay.[35]
- The famous Bay Decker Sandwich is invented in Empire Bay.[1]
1919[]
- February 10th: Sammy Robinson is born.[36]
1920[]
- Alberto Clemente kills a Palermo police captain for his uncle and flees to Empire Bay.[37]
- Antonio Scaletta and Maria Scaletta get married in San Martino, Sicily.[38]
- Nationwide prohibition is put into force in the United States.
1921[]
- Francesca Scaletta is born in San Martino, Sicily.[38]
- Salieri and Morello create their own families in Lost Heaven.
- One of two possible death years of Don Peppone. (See timeline errors below.)
1922[]
- August 9th: Perla Robinson is born.[36]
- One of two possible death years of Don Peppone. (See timeline errors below.)
1923[]
- Best Oil is founded.
1925[]
- May
- Vito Scaletta is born in San Martino, Sicily.[38][39]
1926[]
- Sal, Lou and Tommy Marcano move to New Bordeaux.[31]
- Tommy moves back to Lost Heaven and using the money he saved to purchase his first taxi.[40]
1927[]
- El Greco is transferred to the office of the U.S. Ambassador in Empire Bay.[41]
- Pepé Costa is arrested for armed robbery and manslaughter, and sentences to twenty years in jail.[21]
- Shubert is founded.[42]
- White Dove is founded.[43]
1928[]
- Jack Olivero is arrested for smuggling.[44]
1929[]
- October
- The Wall Street stock market collapses, subsequently signaling the beginning of the Great Depression throughout the 1930s.
1930[]
- The events of Mafia begin.
- September
- Tommy Angelo encounters future colleagues Paulie Lombardo and Sam Trapani for the first time, saving their lives as they are chased by Morello goons.
- Tommy Angelo joins the Salieri Crime Family.
- Unknown
1931[]
- Henry Tomasino arrives in Empire Bay.[45]
- The Vinci-Moretti War begins.
1932[]
- June 17th
- Harry Smith is found dead after missing for two months.[46]
- September
- Tommy Angelo rigs the Lost Heaven Grand Prix by sabotaging one of the cars on September 3rd, then participates in and wins the race the following day.
- November
- Tommy meets Sarah, Luigi's daughter, and their relationship begins.
- Tommy and Paulie exact revenge on the thugs and kill their leader Billy Ghillotti, the city councilor's son.
- The Corleone Hotel is blown up and the manager, Howard Davis is killed by Tommy Angelo.
- Johnny is killed by Sam Trapani.
- The Lost Heaven Police Department starts clamping down on the Salieri crime family.
- Unknown
- The Scaletta Family arrive in Empire Bay.
- The first Briar Patch restaurant is established in New Bordeaux.
1933[]
- January
- Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany.
- February
- Sam is injured during a failed whiskey deal in the Lost Heaven countryside.
- April
- Frank Colletti becomes a state's witness, providing evidence against the Salieri family.
- June
- Tomaso Moretti is killed.[47]
- July
- In Empire Bay, the Vinci-Moretti War finally ends with the assassination of Tomaso Moretti.[30][47]
- August
- The Priest dies.[48]
- Tommy and Salvatore break into the Prosecutor's villa in Beech Hill and steal incriminating evidence from his safe.
- September
- William "Bill" Gates steals a shipment of whiskey from the Morello family and tries to sell it to the Salieri family.
- December
- Prohibition ends in the US.
- Unknown
- Marty Santorelli is born in Empire Bay.[49]
- The fantastic Culver Dam is completed.[1]
1934[]
- June - November
- Tommy and Sarah get married in June. They later have a daughter.[50]
- Sal Marcano orchestrates the death of his father, Valerio Marcano.[31][51]
- Enzo Conti joins the Marcano Crime Family.[52]
- Giuseppe Carillo is killed in a French Ward restaurant by the Marcano brothers on November 1st.[31][53]
- Sal Marcano takes control of New Bordeaux and the Marcano Crime Family is formed.[31]
1935[]
- May
- A failed assassination attempt on Don Salieri leads to the murder of his body guard Carlo.
- Roberto Ghillotti is assassinated on his 50th birthday.
- After a number of failed assassination attempts, Sergio Morello is killed by Tommy.
- Don Morello is assassinated trying to flee Lost Heaven.
- The Salieri Crime Family takes control of the criminal underworld in Lost Heaven.
1936[]
- Eric Reilly and Sara Collins get married.[35]
1938[]
- July
- Hank Turnbull is assassinated while giving a speech in Robinson Park.
- November
- Michelle is found and murdered.
- Frank Colletti is found and murdered in Europe, 5 years after he was supposedly killed by Tommy.
- Tommy and Paulie rob the Grand Imperial Bank.
- Paulie is murdered in his apartment.
- Sam is killed by Tommy Angelo at the Lost Heaven Art Gallery.
- Don Salieri orders the killing of Tommy, who flees Lost Heaven with his family.
- Unknown
- Tommy later returns to testify against the Salieri crime family.
- Tommy is sentenced to eight years in solitary confinement.
- Ralph and Vincenzo Ricci get arrested.
- Don Salieri is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- The events of Mafia II Mobile take place.
- Eric Reilly and Sara Collins get divorced.[35]
1939[]
- Sidney Pen opens a distillery in Sand Island.[54]
- World War II begins.
- Josef Vangel flees his home country and opens his clothing store in Empire Bay.[1]
- Frank Pagani's first wife and their child die.[55]
1942[]
- The Empire Arms Hotel burns down.[1]
- The Jefferson Provincial is manufactured.[56]
1943[]
- The events of Mafia II begin.
- Antonio Scaletta is murdered by Steve Coyne.[57]
- Vito Scaletta is arrested after robbing a jewelry store with Joe Barbaro, which leads to his joining of the US Army.
- Vito fights with the 504th Parachute Infantry during the Allied liberation of Sicily. It is here that he witnesses first-hand the power of The Mafia.
- Leo Galante is arrested for fixing fights and sentences to five years in jail.[25]
1944[]
- June 6th: D-Day takes place in Europe. Harry participates in the landing, as a soldier of the U.S. Army.
- June 22nd: Silvio Palmieri is naturalized into the U.S.[17]
- Vito is wounded and spends a few months in the hospital, being awarded the Purple Heart.
1945[]
- January
- Lincoln Clay is born in New Bordeaux.[58]
- February
- Vito returns home on leave for his injuries and reunites with Joe Barbaro, who gets him forged discharged papers through Giuseppe; ending his service in the US Army.
- Through the insistence of his mother, Vito sees Derek Pappalardo about work and does his first job for the Vinci Crime Family.
- Vito breaks into the Office of Price Administration to steal some gas stamps, which he then sells at area gas stations.
- While robbing a jewelry store, Vito and Joe run into Brian O'Neill and his gang and start a standoff, alerting the police and causing a shootout.
- Vito, Joe, and Henry ambush and kill Sidney Pen.
- Vito is arrested for stealing and distributing the gas stamps.
- Stan escapes to Birkland by train.
- Richie Mazzeo is killed by Joe.
- May
- May 8th: Nazi Germany surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II in Europe.
- Vito is sentenced to 10 years in prison for the theft and illegal distribution of federal ration stamps and sent to Hartmann Federal Penitentiary.
- While in prison, Vito befriends Leo Galante, consigliere of the Vinci crime family.
- June
- Francesca Scaletta marries Eric Reilly.
- Maria Scaletta dies of an unknown illness.
- Vito murders Brian O'Neill in the prison gym.
- August
- August 25th: Danny Burke is born.[34]
- September
- September 2nd: Japan surrenders to the Allies, bringing an end to World War II.
- September 19th: Giuseppe Buffa is born.[59]
1946[]
- January 17th: Ellis Robinson is born in Delray Hollow, New Bordeaux.[36]
- Tommy Angelo is released from prison and moves to Empire Bay with his family under new identities.
1947[]
- Pepé Costa is released from prison.[21]
1948[]
- December 17th: Anna McGee is born.[60]
- Leo Galante is released from prison.[25]
1949[]
- Lucio Marcano and Olivia Grady get married.[61]
1950[]
- The Korean War breaks out. News on the war can sometimes be heard on Empire Bay's radio stations.
- The events of Joe's Adventures take place.
1951[]
- April
- Frankie Potts is killed by Eddie Scarpa.
- Vito Scaletta is released from prison.
- Billy Barnes is killed by Joe Barbaro.
- Vito, Joe, Marty and Steve kill a large number of Greasers at the Empire Bay Forge.
- May
- Luca Gurino is killed by Tony Balls at the Clemente Slaughterhouse.
- Vito and Joe become Made Men in the Falcone Crime Family.
- June
- The 18th floor of the Empire Arms Hotel is blown up by Vito and Joe.
- Marty Santorelli is gunned down in the Empire Arms parking garage.
- Alberto Clemente is killed by Joe Barbaro.
- Leon is killed by Joe Barbaro.
- July
- A hit contract on Leo Galante is put out by Eddie Scarpa, but Leo escapes to Lost Heaven with the help of Vito.
- Henry Tomasino joins the Falcone crime family.
- Villa Scaletta is destroyed by O'Neill Gang.
- September
- Henry, Vito, and Joe borrow $35,000 from Bruno Levine to purchase drugs from the Empire Bay Triads.
- Henry Tomasino is discovered to be a federal informant and subsequently killed in Lincoln Park by the Empire Bay Triads.
- Vito and Joe kill a significant number of Triads at the The Red Dragon restaurant in revenge over Henry's death.
- Triad enforcer Zhe Yun Wong is killed by Joe Barbaro in the Red Dragon restaurant.
- Tommy Angelo is killed by Joe Barbaro and Vito Scaletta.
- Derek Pappalardo and Steve Coyne are killed by Vito Scaletta after finding out they were responsible for his father's death.
- Leo Galante returns to Empire Bay to broker a peace deal with Mr. Chu, ending the war between the Vinci family and the Triads.
- Don Carlo Falcone is killed by Vito Scaletta.
- Joe Barbaro is taken to see Mr. Chu to answer for his actions against the Triads.
- Unknown
- The Potomac Indian is manufactured.[62]
- As a part of the peace deal Leo made, Vito Scaletta is exiled to New Bordeaux.
1952[]
- Gianni Derazio has a stroke.[63]
1953[]
- Nikita Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Soviet Union.
1954[]
- Don Calò dies, aged 77.
1955[]
- The Vietnam War begins.
- Gianni Derazio dies.[63]
1957[]
- Papa Doc Duvalier becomes president of Haiti.
- Virginia Marcano dies.[31]
1958[]
- March 9th: Sarah Burke dies.[34]
- 13-year-old Lincoln Clay is taken in by the Robinson family when Saint Michelle's Orphanage closes down.
- After the orphanage closes, Father James is appointed to the Saint Jerome's Catholic Church.
1959[]
- Fidel Castro overthrows President Fulgencio Batista, taking control of Cuba and seizing all American owned assets.
1961[]
- December 29th: Perla Robinson dies.[36]
1962[]
- First Baptist Church is firebombed.[64]
- Lucio Marcano is found dead with his throat slit.[61]
- A Cuban military cargo plane en route to Mexico City carrying a nuclear warhead experiences severe weather and crashes on an island about 500 miles south of New Bordeaux. The plane and its cargo were considered lost at sea.
1963[]
- November 22nd: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
- John Donovan learns that fellow C.I.A. agent Connor Aldridge has been feeding intelligence to the NVA.
- Connor Aldridge evades capture by John Donovan in a Saigon alleyway.
1965[]
- New Bordeaux is devastated by Hurricane Barbara.
- The Berkley Stallion is manufactured.[65]
1966[]
- The Lassiter Leopard is manufactured.[66]
1967[]
- Lassiter starts making the Armored Lassiter Majesty.[67]
1968[]
- Note: Due to the open world format of Mafia III, the exact dates of most events are unknown. We have listed events in a logical order of progression, but this is dependent on players' individual choices. We ask that you do not add to or change the events listed under 1968. If you feel something is out of place or needs to be added, feel free to post in the Mafia III Timeline Entries thread.
- February - May
- Lincoln Clay arrives home from the Vietnam war on February 20.
- Baka is killed by Lincoln Clay on February 21.
- Thomas Burke is diagnosed with liver cancer and given 6-8 months to live. (Exact date unknown)
- February 27, 1968
- New Bordeaux celebrates Mardi Gras.
- The New Bordeaux Federal Reserve is robbed by Lincoln Clay, Giorgi Marcano, Danny Burke and Ellis Robinson.
- Lincoln Clay is shot in the head by Giorgi Marcano and left for dead.
- Sammy Robinson is killed by Sal Marcano.
- Ellis Robinson is killed by Ritchie Doucet.
- Danny Burke is killed by Giorgi Marcano.
- Giorgi Marcano sets fire to Sammy's Bar and destroyed it.
- Father James pulls Lincoln Clay out of the fire at Sammy's Bar and takes him to Saint Jerome's Catholic Church.
- Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed by Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968.
- June - October
- Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, California on June 5.
- Lincoln Clay recovers from his injuries and devises a plan to get revenge on Sal Marcano.
- Hollis Dupree is arrested for the murder of Lamont Harris and Trey McCall.
- Lincoln Clay recruits Cassandra to be an underboss in his criminal organization.
- Merle Jackson is killed inside Doucet's in Delray Hollow.
- Ritchie Doucet is hung from the Ferris wheel at Baron Saturday's Fun Park.
- Lincoln Clay recruits Vito Scaletta to be an underboss in his criminal organization.
- Michael Grecco disappears in River Row and is presumed dead.
- Lincoln Clay recruits Thomas Burke to be an underboss in his criminal organization.
- Roman Barbieri disappears after a gun battle in Pointe Verdun. Years later, his remains were found by the Army Corps of Engineers in the trunk of a car they pulled from the Mississippi River.
- Lincoln Clay assembles his underbosses at Eaglehurst Plantation to lay out his plan to take over the Marcano Crime Family.
- Vito Scaletta enlists the help of Lincoln Clay to kill the men he believes responsible for the death of his friend Joe Barbaro.
- Enzo Conti leaves New Bordeaux with his long-time girlfriend Henrietta.
- Tony Derazio is killed when he is thrown from the penthouse window of his suite atop The Royal Hotel.
- Frank Pagani dies from injuries sustained after a lengthy car chase and accident.
- Chester Moreau is killed in Frisco Fields after it is discovered he was running a human trafficking ring for the Marcano Crime Family.
- Remy Duvall is tied to a wooden cross and burned alive in Cleavon Duvall State Park.
- Olivia Marcano is found dead in her hospital room with her throat slit.
- Sal Marcano calls head of The Commission, Leo Galante, looking for help with his money problems.
- Judge Cornelius Holden is assassinated in the French Ward.
- A mistrial is declared in the Hollis Dupree murder trial.
- Senator Walter Jacobs is killed at a fundraiser when the riverboat he was aboard collides with a Coal Dumper in Bayou Fantom.
- Lou Marcano's gutted body is discovered hanging from a statue in Jackson Memorial Park.
- Cuban drug lord Nino Santangelo is killed by Lincoln Clay in the French Ward when his plan to assassinate Clay goes wrong.
- Lincoln Clay arranges to smuggle Alvarez out of New Bordeaux through Father James.
- Tommy Marcano is killed in a fire at The Acadia gym.
- Giorgi and Sal Marcano make their last stand against Lincoln Clay at the Paradiso Hotel & Casino. Both die along with their men.
- Lincoln Clay takes control of New Bordeaux and runs the criminal empire he built, or leaves New Bordeaux and the city is taken over by one of his underbosses.
1968 - Exact Dates Unknown[]
- Roxy Laveau returns to New Bordeaux to assist her father with his movement.
- Ezekiel Dandridge is killed by sheriff Walter Beaumont.
- Charles Laveau enlists Lincoln Clay to help with the racial situation in Sinclair Parish.
- Sheriff Walter "Slim" Beaumont is captured and turned over to federal authorities to face trial.
- Roxy Laveau leaves New Bordeaux.
- Lincoln Clay and Mitch Decosta establish a lucrative marijuana growing operation in Bayou Fantom.
- Walter Beaumont is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
- Robert Marshall learns that Connor Aldridge is in New Bordeaux, and passes the information onto John Donovan.
- C.I.A. asset Horatio Balmana is killed at Villa del Mar after being interrogated by Connor Aldridge.
- A massive gunfight occurs at Boicherot's department store, spilling out onto the streets of Frisco Fields.
- Lincoln Clay and John Donovan travel from Anderson Bay to an Unknown Island in search of a lost nuclear warhead.
- Connor Aldridge is killed by John Donovan.
- The lost nuclear warhead is recovered and turned over to officials at the Pentagon.
- The Ensanglante cult reemerge in New Bordeaux after years in hiding.
- Bonnie Harless recruits Anna McGee into the Ensanglante cult, believing she is destined to give birth to The Blessed.
- The Ensanglante High Priest is killed in the New Bordeaux Opera House by Lincoln Clay.
- Anna McGee takes her own life on June 6, 1968. (See timeline errors below.)
- Bonnie Harless is killed when she falls on her own knife during a struggle with Lincoln Clay.
- Lily Robinson and her nephew Lincoln Clay rebuild Sammy's Bar.
- The Lassiter Nightcrawler is manufactured.[68]
1969[]
- John Donovan leaves the Central Intelligence Agency.
1971[]
- August
- The U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence holds hearings into Lincoln Clay's activities in New Bordeaux in 1968. At the end of the hearings, Senator Blake is murdered by John Donovan.
1980[]
- Former Sheriff Walter Beaumont is released from prison after serving 12 of his 15 year sentence.
1986[]
- Jonathan Maguire gets promoted to Assistant Director of the Criminal Enterprise Branch.
1989[]
- Walter Beaumont is killed in the driveway of his home.
1999[]
- Jonathan Maguire retires from the FBI.
21st Century[]
2002[]
- Cavar Construction closes down.
- Father James retires and Saint Jerome's Catholic Church closes down in New Bordeaux.
2016[]
- A documentary film is released covering the events that took place in 1968 between Lincoln Clay and the Marcano Crime Family. Participants in the film include Father James, Jonathan Maguire and Nicki Burke.
Timeline Errors[]
- The date of death mentioned on Don Peppone's cigarette card is 1921 when he died in a deal gone wrong. While in Intermezzo Four, Detective Norman mentions that Don Peppone drowned up at the lake in 1922.
- The date of death listed on Anna McGee's grave marker is 6 June 1968. This is an obvious oversight on the part of the Hangar 13 developers, as it conflicts with the following known dates in the game.
- While Lincoln is recovering from his injuries, the television at Father James' home clearly shows news footage of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination on June 5, 1968.
- An NPC conversation scripted to take place at the beginning of The Way of Flesh discusses James Earl Ray being flown back to the U.S. after his capture at a London airport on June 8, 1968. Both of these known dates make her death occurring on the 6th impossible.