Timeline of the novel

Here is a timeline of the Forrest Gump novel with attempts made to append dates where possible. Sometimes a date is explicitly given in the novel, other times we must infer it from the dates of real-life events.

This timeline is a work in progress.

Date (given)	Date (inferred)	Event
1944		Forrest Gump is born.
1950-1956		Forrest attends a school for variously disabled children for five or six years.
1960		Coach Fellers facilitates Forrest's transfer to the local high school so he can play football.
1961		Forrest is awarded the All State Football award in Flomaton, Alabama; first instance of "I got to pee".
1965		Bear Bryant seeks to bring Forrest to the University of Alabama to play with the Crimson Tide; his low test scores initially discourage this.
1968		Forrest is compelled to report to the local draft board for possible conscription into the Vietnam War. He starts a commotion and is "Temporarily Deferred".
		Miss French seduces Forrest in her bedroom.
		Mrs. Gump arranges a date between Forrest and Jenny Curran to see Bonnie and Clyde. During the movie, Forrest accidentally rips Jenny's dress and is put in jail. During his trial, he says "I got to pee" for the second time. He is let free on the condition that he leaves to play football for the University of Alabama.