Official Zelda Timeline

For a long time, many video game fans of the popular Zelda franchise have seriously pondered how (and if?) all the Zelda games fit together in the Zelda universe. Many hardcore fans have even attempted to interpret the games themselves in order to create their own timelines. Nintendo has finally released an official timeline with the Legend of Zelda art book Hyrule Historia. For the moment it has only been released in Japan but online user Glitterberri was kind enough to translate it for everyone to see:

Of course you can never make everyone happy. And while the release of the official Zelda timeline makes a lot of people very happy, some who are extremely versed in all things Zelda, find problems with the new timeline. The timeline was released a few weeks ago, and some people have found ways to tweak it to suit their ideas of the Zeldaverse. More tweaked timelines are sure to be seen in the next few weeks.

Here is the original Japanese version:

 

Source: Zeldawiki.org