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TIMELINE
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| 1887 | Karl Stubbs was born in Maine. Possible Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1889 | George C. Spahn was born in Pennsylvania. |
| 1903 | Nancy Warren was born in Missouri. Possible Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1910 | Colonel Scott was born in Kentucky. Manson's biological father. |
| 1910 (estimated) | William Manson was born. Listed on Charles Manson's birth certificate as being the father. |
| 1913 | Frank Retz was born. |
| 1918 | Kathleen Maddox, Manson's mother, was born in Kentucky. |
| 1920 | Paul Caruso (attorney) was born. |
| 1922 | "Ballarat Bob" Dunlap was born. |
| 1923 (est) | Paul Tate (Sharon Tate's father) was born. |
| 1923 | Earl A. Deemer was born. |
| 1924 | Doris Tate (Sharon Tate's mother) was born in Texas. |
| 1924 (est) | Paul Crockett was born |
| 1925, August 6 | Leno LaBianca was born in Los Angeles. |
| 1927 | Nuel Emmons was born. Author of "Manson: In His Own Words." |
| 1930, December 15 | Rosemary LaBianca was born, probably in Mexico. |
| 1933 | Roman Polanski was born. |
| 1933 (est) | Willam Rex Cole (Bill Vance) was born. |
| 1933 (est) | Donald "Shorty" Jerome Shea was born. |
| 1933, October 10 | Thomas John Kummer ("Jay Sebring") was born in Detroit, Michigan. At least one record says Alabama. |
| 1934 | Vincent Bugliosi was born in Minnesota. |
| 1934, November 12 | Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Some sources incorrectly state November 11. |
| 1934, December 24 | Gary Allan Hinman was born in Grand Junction, Mesa, Colorado. |
| 1936 | Manson's mother filed a bastardy suit against Colonel Scott of Ashland, Kentucky |
| 1936, December 22 | Wojciech "Wojtek" Frykowski born. |
| 1937 | Rosalie Willis was born in West Virginia. |
| 1937 | Paul Fitzgerald (attorney) was born. |
| 1939 | Kathleen Maddox and her brother, Luther, robbed a service station in Charleston, West Virginia |
| 1939 | Manson moved in with aunt and uncle in McMechen, WV |
| 1939 | Ed Sanders (author of "The Family") was born in Missouri. |
| 1939 | James Teurrill Craig was born in California. Murdered with Edward Albert Barabas in 1978. |
| 1939 | Kenneth Como was born. |
| 1940 (est) | Joel Dean Pugh was born (alleged husband of Sandy Good). |
| 1940 | Harold Irving True was born in California. |
| 1940 | Pat Krenwinkel's half-sister, Charlene, was born in California. |
| 1941 | Ellen Naomi Cohen (Mama Cass Elliot) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 1942 | Terry Melcher was born (possibly in New York City). |
| 1942 | Kathleen Maddox was paroled and took back her son, Charles Manson |
| 1942 | Bernard Crowe was born in Washington. |
| 1942 | John Harold Swartz, Jr. was born. |
| 1942, October | Bruce Davis was born in Louisiana. |
| 1942 | Catherine Share was born in Paris, France. |
| 1942 | Thomas "TJ the Terrible" James Walleman was born in Michigan. |
| 1943 | Harris Pickens "Pic" Dawson III was born in Alabama. |
| 1943, January 24 | Sharon Marie Tate was born in Dallas, Texas. |
| 1943 (est) | Rosemary was adopted by the Harmon family. |
| 1943 (est) | Cami Sebring (wife of Jay Sebring) was born. |
| 1943 | Alan LeRoy Springer born in Michigan. |
| 1943, August 11 | Abigail Anne "Gibby" Folger was born in California. |
| 1943 | Mary Theresa Brunner was born in Wisconsin. |
| 1944 | Manson's mother married her second husband. |
| 1944 | Sandra Collins Good was born in California. |
| 1944 | Dennis Carl Wilson was born in Hawthorne, CA. |
| 1945, December | Charles Denton "Tex" Watson was born. |
| 1945, November 4 | Fillipo Tennerelli was born. Possible Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1946 | James Willett was born in Kentucky. Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1947 | Kathleen Maddox sent Manson to Gibault School for Boys in Terre Haute, Indiana |
| 1947 | John Philip "Zero" Haught was born. |
| 1947 | Robert Kenneth "Bobby" Beausoleil was born in California. |
| 1947, December | Patricia Diane Krenwinkel was born in California. |
| 1948 | Manson ran away from Gibault School for Boys. Manson sent to a juvenile center in Indianapolis. Escaped next day. Sent to Father Flanagan's Boys Town. Escaped four days later. Sent to Indiana School for Boys at Plainfield, Indiana |
| 1948, May | Susan Denise Atkins was born in California. |
| 1948 | Michael Lee Monfort was born in California. |
| 1948 | Lynette Alice Fromme was born in California. |
| 1948 | William Mentzer was born in California. |
| 1949 | David Brian Hannum was born in California. |
| 1949 | Catherine Irene Gillies was born in California. |
| 1949, August | Leslie Louise Van Houten was born in California. |
| 1949 | William Garretson was born in Ohio. |
| 1949 | Linda Drouin (Linda Kasabian) was born. |
| Late 1940s | Rosemary LaBianca was married (not to Leno) |
| 1950 | Paul Alan Watkins was born in California. |
| 1950 | Doreen Gaul was born. Possible Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1950 | Claudia Leigh Smith was born in Los Angeles. |
| 1951 (est) | Brooks Poston was born. |
| 1951 (est) | Ruth Ann Moorehouse was born. |
| 1951 (est) | William Cywin was born. Leslie Van Houten's husband. |
| 1951 | Nancy Laura Pitman ("Brenda McCann") was born in California. |
| 1951, February | Manson escaped from Indiana School for Boys (his 18th escape from there) |
| 1951, February 16 | Manson violated Dyer Act in Utah and remanded into Federal custody. |
| 1951 | Marina Habe was born. Possible Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1951, February 12 | Steven Earl Parent was born in California. |
| 1951, March 9 | Manson sent to National Training School for Boys in Washington, DC |
| 1951 | Edward Albert Barabas was born in Ohio. Murdered with James Craig in 1978. |
| 1951 | Susan Phyllis "Country Sue"Bartell was born in California. |
| 1951 | Steven Dennis "Clem" Grogan was born in California. |
| 1951 | Priscilla Kay Cooper was born in California. |
| 1951, October 24 | Manson transferred to Natural Bridge Camp in Virginia |
| 1951 | Stephanie Jean Schram was born in California. |
| 1951 | Barbara Hoyt was born. Probably in Washington, DC. |
| 1951 | Charles Allen Beard was born in California. |
| 1952 | Charles Allen Lovett was born in California. |
| 1952, January 18 | Manson was transferred to the Federal Reformatory at Petersburg, Virginia after sodomizing a boy. |
| 1952 (est) | Kitty Lutesinger was born. |
| 1952, September 22 | Manson was transferred to Federal Reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio. |
| 1953 (est) | Dianne Lake was born |
| 1953 | Mark Walts was born in California. Possible Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1953 | James Forsher
was born in Los Angeles County. Possibly the person who was last seen with Ronald Hughes. |
| 1953 | Lauren Willett was born in Connecticut. Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1954, January 1 | Manson was given Meritorious Service Award |
| 1954 | Frank Struthers (Rosemary LaBianca's son) was born in California. |
| 1954, May 8 | Manson was granted parole. Moved in with aunt and uncle, again, in McMechen, WV. |
| 1954 (est) | Manson moved to Wheeling, WV with his mother |
| 1954 | Shorty Shea began working at Spahn Ranch |
| 1954 | James Sharp was born in Missouri. Possible Manson Family murder victim. |
| 1954 | Colonel Scott, Sr. died in Kentucky. |
| 1955, January | Manson married Rosalie Willis in West Virginia. |
| 1955 | Manson drove stolen car to Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| 1955, July | Manson drove stolen car from Bridgeport, Ohio to Los Angeles, California |
| 1955, October (est) | Manson was arrested for stolen car |
| 1955, November 7 | Manson given five years probation |
| 1956, March 14 | Manson arrested in Indianapolis and was returned to Los Angeles |
| 1956 | Charles M. Manson, Jr. was born in Los Angeles. |
| 1956 | Manson had his probation revoked and was sentenced to three years at Terminal Island, San Pedro, California |
| 1956 (est) | Debra Tate (Sharon Tate's sister) was born |
| 1957, March | Manson's wife, Rosalie, quit visiting him. Soon found out she was living with another man |
| 1957, April | Manson was transferred to the Coast Guard unit |
| 1957, April 10 | Manson attempted an escape |
| 1957, April 22 | Manson was denied parole. Wife soon filed for divorce. |
| 1957 | Patricia "Patti" Tate (Sharon's sister) was born in Washington state. |
| 1958 | Manson's divorce was final. Wife granted custody of their son, Charles, Jr. |
| 1958 | Rosemary LaBianca was divorced |
| 1958, September 30 | Manson was released on five years parole |
| 1958, November | Manson was pimping |
| 1958 | Rosalie Willis (Manson's ex-wife) remarried. |
| 1958, December 10 | Krishna Venta died in an explosion at The Fountain of the World. |
| 1959, May 1 | Manson was arrested for attempting to cash a forged U.S. Treasury check for $37.50 in Los Angeles |
| 1959, September 28 | Manson was sentenced to ten years but the sentence was suspended. Placed on probation. |
| 1959 | Manson married Leona (Candy Stevens?) in California. Possibly in December. |
| 1959, December | Manson was arrested. Charges were dismissed. |
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