1944 8 Aug, John Curtis Estes born on the kitchen table, Ashville, Pickaway County OH.
1946, Mother marries Edward Holmes.
1948, Attends Milport Chapel Church Sunday School for twelve years.
1956, Deflowered by a 36 year old woman.
1960, Joins the U.S. Army at age 16, stations at Nuremberg: "The Army was good for me. I can't honestly say that it taught me any morals or sense of responsibility. I had been raised with those qualities. What it taught me was that there was a whole world of sex I had yet to discover."
1963, Discharged from Army.
1965 Aug, Marries nurse Sharon Gebenini.
1966, Appears uncredited in gay porno reels, sometime in the mid-1960's.
1968, Measures his penis, according to legend and interviews. But by this time he had already appeared in pornos.
1969, Appears in first credited porno, Body Lust.
1972 May, Chuck Holmes (later founder of Falcon Entertainment) distributes their first mail order flyer for a selection of gay 8mm films, one of which stars John Holmes.
1972, Arrested for pimping and pandering. Becomes a stoolie to escape the charges.
1973, Private Investigator Johnny Wadd makes his film debut.
1975 Jun, "My favorite recipe is Stuffed Veal a la Oscar. Oscar is asparagus with cream sauce on top of a very thick cut of veal that's sliced like a vagina. And you stuff it with stuffing, and you sew it together and bake it. And then when it's ready, you pour this Hollandaise asparagus on top. And it's magnificent." Screw, #329.
1976, Befriends (in a most nonwholesome manner) 16 year old runaway Dawn Schilling, lets her move in with John and his wife.
1981, Arrested for theft (stealing a computer.)
1981 29 Jun, Wonderland robbery.
1981 4 Dec, Arrested over Wonderland robbery.
1982 20 May, Charged with murder, with regards to Wonderland house.
1982, Wife Sharon divorces John while he's in jail.
1982 16 Jun, Acquitted of Wonderland charges.
1982 22 Nov, Released from jail after contempt charges (over his silence at trial.)
1983 Jun, John Holmes to Al Goldstein at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: "You're gaining weight, Goldstein. You should be on the same diet I'm on, the cocaine diet."
1983, Makes gay porno with Joey Yale, who definitely has AIDS at this time, The Private Pleasures of John C. Holmes.
1986 18 Apr, Joey Yale dies of AIDS.
1986, Tests HIV positive. Continues to fuck like a bunny.
1987, Marries former porn actress and hooker Laurie Rose aka Misty Dawn, at the Little Chapel of the Flower in Las Vegas. John's reaction to a friend: "I think I'm married. I'm all fucked up. I'm not sure, but I've got a ring, Laurie's with me and I think we're married." Laurie's specialty: Anal.
1988 13 Mar, John Holmes dead from AIDS.
1997 12 Oct, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights premieres, roughly based on the life of John Holmes.
1998, Film Wadd: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes.