Timeline
Events Before the Show
1818- Rebecca Quinn born in Boston, Massachusetts
1822- Charlotte Cooper is born. "A New Beginning"
1829- Marjorie Quinn born in Boston, Massachusetts.
1833- Michaela Anne Quinn born on February 15, in Boston, Massachusetts.
1835- Byron Sully born on December 9, on a boat somewhere between England and the United States.
1839- Abigail Bray born.
1851- Matthew Cooper born in Topeka Kansas.
1854- Colleen Cooper born in October in Topeka Kansas.
1858- The Coopers move to Colorado Springs
1859- Brian Cooper born in April in Colorado Springs. Byron Sully arrives in Colorado Springs
1861- Abigail Bray and Byron Sully marry.
1863- On May 8, Abigail Sully and baby Hannah die in childbirth.
1867- Josef Quinn dies on February 14.
The Six Seasons
1867
Michaela Quinn arrives in Colorado Springs
"Pilot"
Charlotte Cooper dies from a rattlesnake bite and Michaela Quinn takes in the Cooper children.
"Pilot"
Maude Bray dies from heart failure.
"Pilot"
1868
Influenza epidemic hits. Olive and Grace are introduced
"The Epidemic"
Elizabeth Quinn comes to Colorado Springs and buys the boarding house for her daughter?s medical clinic.
"The Visitor"
Matthew and Jon steal one of Olive?s cattle. Kid Cole is temporarily sheriff of Colorado Springs.
"Law of the Land"
After Loren?s hernia operation, Sully gives him blood.
"The Healing"
Ethan Cooper returns to Colorado to claim his children. He instead steals from the church and leaves town.
"Father?s Day"
Mike and Sully head off to get a water sample when the town gets mercury poisoning.
"Bad Water"
Grace opens up Grace's Café.
"Bad Water"
Myra and Horace get engaged.
"The Great American Medicine Show"
Red McCAll abandoned his baby, but later returns for it.
"A Cowboy?s Lullaby"
Sully is attacked by Rankin and the other buffalo hunters.
?Running ghost?
General Custer attacks Black Kettle?s camp.
?The Prisoner?
Olive opens a Hurdy Gurdy
?The Prisoner?
Mike celebrates her 35th birthday and receives the sign for the clinic from the town.
?happy Birthday?
Michaela and Sully share their first real kiss.
?Happy Birthday?
Matthew and Ingrid get engaged. Michaela gives him her old engagement ring.
Colleen develops a crush on Sully and runs away so he can rescue her.
?Heros?
Dr. Mike performs brain surgery when he jumps from a tree.
?The Operation?
Town school is built at Brian?s request.
?The Operation?
It is discovered the Hank has a son .named Zack.
?The Secret?
Daniel Watkins, a civil war photographer arrives in Colorado Springs.
?Portraits?
Horace?s ailing mother comes to town. Before she dies she gives her blessing for Horace and Myra?s marriage.
?Portraits?
Michaela catches wedding bouquet # 1
from Emily
?Portraits?
Dr. Mike enters a horse race dressed as a man and wins first prize.
?The Race?
Brain wins first prize in a pie baking contest with his ?surprise pie?
?The race?
Dorothy Jennings arrives and opens the town newspaper, The Gazette.
?Sanctuary?
Dr. Mike is haunted by Sully?s dead wife Abigail.
?Halloween?
Jake, Loren and Horace are out hunting when Jake, mistaking an Indian for a deer, accidentally shoots and kills him.
?The Incident?
Sister Ruth and Kid Cole find Love.
?Saving Souls?
Robert E and Grace wed.
?Saving Souls?
Michaela catches wedding bouquet # 2
?Saving Souls.
After receiving a telegram from Rebecca that her mother is gravely ill, Michaela and the children go to Boston.
?Where the Heart is?
Dr. Burke develops a liking for Michaela as they work together to cure her mother.
?Where the Heart is?
Sully follows his heart to Boston to brink Dr. Mike back to Colorado.
?Where the Heart is?
When the family returns from Boston, the find Colorado Springs in the middle of a drought.
?Giving Thanks?
Michaela and Sully begin courting but wonder if they have enough in common.
?Giving Thanks?
The Indians share their Thanksgiving with the town and the drought ends.
?Giving Thanks?
Mike and Sully go to the Sweethearts Dance.
?Best Friends?
Mike goes to Soda Springs leaving Sully to play Mr. Mom. He gets shot and Colleen has to remove the bullet.
?Sully?s Choice?
While caring for a pregnant woman, Dr. Mike is visited by the ghost of Charlotte Cooper who shows her Christmas past, present, and future.
?A Christmas Tale?
1969
Matthew gets ought in a cave-in and Mike and Sully must rescue him.?Crossing the Line?
Typhus epidemic hits the town, but mainly the Cheyenne and Immigrant camps.
?The Offering?
Circus comes to town and town participate.
?The Circus?
Brian catches Sully kissing a woman who was taken in by the Indians, thus creating turmoil in his relationship with Michaela.
?Another Woman?
Michaela and the Reverend take in 8 orphans and the Reverend proposes marriage.
?Orphan Train?
Mike is accused of treason and jailed. She?s eventually let out due to the help of Sergeant Zachary Carver.
?Buffalo Soldiers?
Matthew get addicted to gambling after trying a game to earn money to finish his homestead..
?Luck of the Draw?
Dorothy?s morphine adducted son comes to town and causes trouble.
?Life and Death?
The KKK visits Colorado Springs.
?The First Circle?
Michaela is abducted by Dog Soldiers and Sully has to rescue her.
?The Abduction?
Brian gets Taffy from Hank for his birthday.
?The Abduction?
Jake Slicker is elected mayor.Michaela ran against him and lost.
?The Campaign?
Myra tears up her contract and leaves the saloon.
?The Campaign?
Sully puts Hank in a coma with a log after he tries to crash Horace and Myra?s engagement party.
?The Man in the Moon?
Michaela and Sully get engaged and then re-engaged after Mike?s old fiancée turns up alive.
?Return Engagement.
Mike drives the first spike for the railroad at the christening ceremony. While Sully begins their homestead.
?The Train?
Loren has a mid-life crisis and wants to go to Bolivia.
?Fathers and Sons?
Olive Bray Davis dies and is buried on the cattle trail.
?Cattle Drive?
First library opened Colorado Springs.
?The Library?
Brain finds John, a disfigured train engineer the woods. Dr. Mike performs plastic surgery to fix his face.
?Halloween 2?
Sully, Michaela, and the kids go to Washington D.C.
?A Washington Affair?
Sully is imprisoned for desertion and he finally tells Michaela of his past with the Army.
?A Washington Affair?
Wild West Show comes to town.
?Money Trouble?
Myra finds out she?s pregnant.
?Money Trouble?
Dorothy is diagnosed with breast cancer and Mike has to do a mastectomy.
?Ladies Night?
Jake and Loren dress as women to get free drinks at Hank?s saloon.
?Ladies Night?
A Jewish family come to town.
?First Christmas?
1870
Sully becomes Indian Agent.
?Indian Agent?
Panic erupts when the town thinks the world is ending.
?End of the World?
Sam Lindsay saves Sully and becomes friends with Michaela. The Sam climbs Pike's Peak to die.
?Pike?s Peak?
Samantha Bing is born. Dr. Mike isn?t there so Colleen must deliver.
?Pike?s Peak?
Ethan Cooper returns to sign the papers so Michaela and Sully could adopt the children. He ends up trying to take the children away, but is unsuccessful.
?Cooper vs, Quinn?
The town puts on Romeo and Juliet. Sully gives Michaela an engagement ring.
?What is Love?
A train breaks down and Robert E. must fix it.
?things my Father Never Gave Me?
Colleen overcomes her fear of horses.
?Baby Outlaws?
Mike's knowledge of Darwin serves a young girl, Mary Ann Daggett, in good stead when Mike discovers that she's being abused by her guardian.
"Permanence of Change"
Black Kettle and his people are massacred at the Washita River.
?Washita?
Brian unsuccessfully tries to build a flying machine.
?Sully?s recovery?
Mike and Sully go to the Reverend for some pre-marriage counseling.
?Ready or Not?
May 20
Michaela Quinn and Byron Sully wed.
?For Better or Worse?
Michaela and Sully return from their honeymoon.
?A New Life?
Preston A. Lodge III arrives in town and opens the first bank.
?A New Life?
The Colorado Springers baseball team beat the All-Stars.
?Traveling All-Stars?
Sully and Mike both confess how much they appreciate each other's "enthusiasm.?
?Mothers and Daughters?
Ingrid dies after getting bitten by Brian's dog Pup, who developed rabies.
?Brother?s Keeper?
Brian overcomes his fear of Dead Red.
?Halloween 3?
Mike and Sully dress as Cinderella and Prince Charming for Halloween.
?Halloween 3?
Dorothy?s book causes and uproar amongst the town.
?Dorothy?s Book?
Loren suffers a stroke after asking Dorothy to marry him.
?Promises, Promises?
Dr. Mike and the other women set off to climb Pike?s Peak.
?The Expedition?
The town share their Thanksgiving with the Indians at the reservation.
?One Touch of Nature?
Michaela and Sully find out they are going to have a baby.
?One Touch of Nature.
Matthew runs off to work on the railroad and ends up coming to terms with Ingrid?s death.
?Hell on Wheels?
Brian get s toy poodle from Mrs.. Quinn that he alter gives to Sarah Sheehan.
?Fifi?s First Christmas?
1871
Anthony is taken in by Grace and Robert E.
?Change of Heart?
Matthew Cooper becomes sheriff.
?Tin Star?
Myra takes a job at Preston?s bank.
?When You Love Someone?
The Reverend?s mentor, Reverend Thomas, comes for a visit.
?Deal With the Devil?
Rosemary Hart is raped and Johnney Reed is hung.
?Eye For an Eye?
The Reverend starts a school at the reservation.
?Hearts and Minds?
Dorothy moves the Gazette to the old telegraph office.
?Hearts and Minds?
Miriam Tilson, a friend of Mike's from medical school, comes to visit.
?Reunion?
Mike is nominated for Colorado Woman of the Year (1871)
?Woman of the Year?
Hank's Nana (grandmother) visits, and Hank tries to keep up a false pretense of the life he told his Nana he was living, just so she wouldn't be ashamed of him. The problem is it's Horace's "life." ?Woman of the Year?
When a young female painter, Isabelle Maynard, arrives in Colorado Springs, she is welcomed by everyone until the find out she has leprosy.
?Fear Itself?
Cloud Dancing is put on trial for murdering a soldier after he confess to save the true murderer.
?One Nation?
Dr. Andrew Cook arrives in Colorado Springs.
?When a Child is Born?
Katherine Elizabeth Sully is born under a tree and is delivered by her father, Sully.
?When a Child is Born?
Preston?s groundbreaking for his chateau.
?When a Child is Born?
Dr. Mike returns to work after Katie?s birth.
?Runaway Train?
Colleen leaves for college.
?Having it all?
Dr. Mike is sued for malpractice.
?Malpractice?
Gilda St. Clair visits and puts on a show.
?All That Glitters?
Teresa Morales arrives and becomes the town's schoolteacher.
?Los Americanos?
Katie is christened. Grace and Robert E are her godparents.
?Los Amricanos?
When Sully is offered a job helping to survey the new National Park at Yellowstone, Wyo.
?Last Dance?
Jake?s father, Lucius Slicker, comes to Colorado Springs.
?Remember Me?
Tornado destroys Preston's new hotel, The Springs Chateau, but town helps him rebuild.
Gold Nugget opens.
?the Tempest?
Freedman?s school is opened but Anthony ends up attending school with the other children.
?Separate but Equal?
An unknown disease takes over the clinic and Dr. Mike must burn all her precious belongings there.
?A Place to Die?
The Reverend goes blind and Brian suffers a faith crisis.
?Season of Miracles?
1872
Sully tries to prevent the building of a dam and winds up in jail.
?The Dam?
Dr. Mike?s Uncle Theodore(Teddy) comes for a visit.
?Farewell Appearance?
Sully's closest friend, Daniel Simon, falls in love with Dr. Mike when he comes to Colorado Springs for a visit.
?Between Friends/
A House Divided?
Dr. Mike, Brian and Katie are taken hostage at the homestead by bank robbers, one of whom is wounded.
?Hostage?
The famous Walt Whitman visits and is welcomed warmly, until rumors about his chosen way of life start.
?the Body Electric?
Horace attempts suicide. Myra and Sam return to try and help him out of his misery.
?Before the Dawn?
Marjorie Quinn comes to Colorado Springs while in the middle of a divorce.
?Starting Over?
Feeling neglected, Brian acts out in adolescent fashion and skips school to hop a train to purchase a present for his Ma.
?His Father?s Son?
Sully becomes a wanted man when he defies a government order banning him from the Cheyenne reservation and organizes an escape for Cloud Dancing, which turns deadly.
?Moment of Truth?
Sully and Sargent McKay battle and both fall off a clif. Evidence leaves Dr. Mike wondering if her husband is alive.
?Moment of Truth?
Dr. Mike searches desperately for Sully, who lies dying in the wilderness from severe injuries he suffered while fleeing from the Cavalry.
?Reason to Believe?
The citizens of Colorado Springs think Sully is dead, and Dr. Mike keeps him hidden for weeks while trying to nurse him back to health in order to protect him from the Army.
?All That Matters?
Dr. Mike miscarries while Sully is away in hiding from the army.
?Comfort of Friends?
Founder's Day - town buries a time capsule.
?Comfort of Friends?
Princess Nizamoff, visits Preston's Springs Chateau Hotel for a vacation and soon has the townsfolk convinced that she is a seer with ties to the spirit world.
?Wave Goodbye?
Anthony dies of what is today known as "sickle-cell anemia.?
?A Place Called Home?
Michaela finally tells Sully about her miscarriage.
?A Place Called Home?
Dr. Mike's sister Marjorie returns to Colorado Springs as a member of the Women's Temperance League to outlaw alcohol
?Lead Me Not?
Diphtheria epidemic - Becky and Marjorie Quinn die.
?A Time To Heal?
Lawsuit fever hits. Dr. Mike is appointed tempory judge in the civil cases.
?Civil Wars?
The Indians are given safe passage to the north and Sully is pardoned when Black Moon turns himself over to the Army.
?Safe Passage?
After accompanying Black Crow's braves safely to the reservation, Dr. Mike and Sully begin the trip home for Christmas.
?Homecoming?
1873
Dr. Mike's life takes a startling turn when she is shot point blank, by a man with a grudge against doctors.
?Point Blank?
Dr. Mike tries to prevent Loren from leaving Colorado Springs when she learns he secretly plans to sell his store and move away out of grief over the death of Marjorie.
?7 Kinds of Lonely?
Jake Slicker and Teresa Morales wed.
?Happily Ever After?
Dr. Mike grapples with her fear for Brian's safety when the youngster befriends a seemingly harmless but eccentric fellow who thinks he's a bird and covers himself with feathers in an attempt to fly.
?Birdman?
Matthew defends Elias Burch who is accused of murder.
?Vengence?
Michaela suffers a concussion and Sully must help her stay awake through the night. Later, amongst some ?enthusiasm? they decide to try for another baby.
?To Have and to Hold?
Robert E releases anger over his separation from Grace and the loss of his son through his furious fists in the boxing ring, where he takes on an ailing champ who's on tour, surprising everyone by beating Barnes twice.
?The Fight?
Colleen and Andrew are wed.
?A New Beginning?
The end of Dr. Quinn
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March 1874
April 1874.
May 1875
July 1875
1879
January-May 1887
2004
Dr. Mike and Sully inherit the chateau from Senator Dinston. ?Jailbirds?
Preston sets fire to the chateau and is sent to prison for six months. ?Jailbirds?
Matthew leaves for Denver to study law with Jason Clark. ?Jailbirds?
Dr. Tim Mason arrives in Colorado Springs. "Phantom Faces"
The town is visited by many ghosts, causing a great uproar "Phantom Faces"
Sully's long lost brother comes to town with news that Sully is actually a Lord of England "Phantom Faces"
Michaela has her second miscarriage and runs away to San Francisco. ?Tears of Doubt?
Benjamin, Grace and Robert E?s son, Benjamin, is born. "The Pain Will Fade"
Micahela and Sully agree to adopt a baby "The Pain Will Fade"
Preston returns to Colorado Springs.
Michaela and Sully take a trip to St. Louis.
Colleen graduates from the Woman?s Medical College of Pennsylvania. "Home is Where th Hert is"
Colleen and Andrew move back to Colorado Springs."Home is Where th Hert is"
Malaria epidemic in Colorado Springs. "Life's Many Directions"
Michaela and Sully lose two children "The Greatest Loss"
Matthew and Julie are married "The Greatest Loss"
Katherine Sully runs away to be an actress and gets pregnant "Broken Reins"
Melissa Sullivan gets amnesia but slowly comes to remember her life and ends up discovering that she is a decendant of Michaela and Sully. "Discovering the Past"
Melissa and Michael are wed.