About

How It Unfolded shows how events actually happened, in order, with the record behind every step. It covers court cases, rivalries between public figures, company histories and incidents such as accidents and outages, across many countries.

It is a sister site of Claim & Response, which records what was alleged about a person or organisation, how they responded and what authoritative records later established.

Editor

How It Unfolded is edited by Fred Smart, who is responsible for its editorial standards and for corrections. The site has no sponsors or paid placements.

Contact

Corrections and questions: corrections@claimandresponse.com (shared with our sister site).

Read the methodology to see how timelines are built, or the corrections page to report an error.