Template:2009 Significant Timeline

 September 7, 2009

 * Claire sees Damon Salvatore for the first time, although no introductions are made.
 * She starts having nightmares of people attacked in the dark.

 September 12, 2009

 * Claire attends the first game of Mystic Falls High School football team, where the attack on William Tanner brings her nightmares and fragments of old memories to the forefront of her mind.
 * Searching her mother's boxed history notes in the attic, she finds newspaper clippings concerning old animal attacks in Mystic Falls, and remembers that her grandparents had found one of the victims in 1953.
 * She also finds a mention that Thomas and Honoria Fell were killed by a wild animal in 1864.
 * The first doubts concerning the true nature of the attacks enter her mind.

 October 2, 2009

 * After the news of dead bodies found in the town's old cemetery, burned to presumably cover up a drug deal gone wrong, and thinking back on all the attacks, Claire recalls a long-forgotten memory that reinforces her doubts.

 October 31, 2009

 * Chaperoning at the Mystic Falls High School Halloween party, Claire bumps into Damon and is taken aback by his aura.