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| - The date of the Purge is December 19, 1992. This is based on December 19 being Ben's birthday (from the reasoning for the Lostpedia timeline) and the purge happened on his birthday. It was in 1992 because Horace said, in a vision, that he had been dead for 12 years (Cabin Fever). The date of the Purge is December 19, 1988. The dream encounter between Horace and Locke could have also taken place in 2000. The vision is pretty inconclusive, especially given the fact that we see Horace working on his cabin which took place before 1992, and Mikhail's statements can't be taken at face value.
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| - The date of the Purge is December 19, 1992. This is based on December 19 being Ben's birthday (from the reasoning for the Lostpedia timeline) and the purge happened on his birthday. It was in 1992 because Horace said, in a vision, that he had been dead for 12 years (Cabin Fever).
* Mikhail claims:
* He had been at the Flame for eleven years.
* He was stationed there after the Purge. (Enter 77) We know many of his statements are untrue but this supports a 1992 Purge.
* A problem with a 1992 Purge is the fact that Danielle's changed the radio tower message in 1988, with no one in DHARMA noticing for four years. (Pilot, Part 2)
* Not necessarily. It was stated elsewhere that the radio tower had been abandoned by DHARMA for some time before the purge. If they abandoned it, they likely weren't monitoring it either.
* Where is "elsewhere"?
* The date of the Purge must be considered uncertain following the revelations in "Dead Is Dead." If Horace's apparition is the only evidence suggesting 1992 then there is more to learn.
* Mikhail's statements are not inconsistent with the Purge being earlier than 1992.
* Mikhail is an Other. There is nothing to lead us to believe that what he says is true. We have seen him lie in the past. Therefore we must believe the vision of Horace in Cabin Fever that the purge took place in 1992.
* However, the DHARMA recruitment of Kelvin after the Gulf War suggests the purge was in the 90's. The date of the Purge is December 19, 1988. The dream encounter between Horace and Locke could have also taken place in 2000. The vision is pretty inconclusive, especially given the fact that we see Horace working on his cabin which took place before 1992, and Mikhail's statements can't be taken at face value.
* However Kelvin was recruited by the Dharma Initiative sometime after the first Gulf War, that would put it in the 90's.
* According to the Truce between Richard Alpert and Horace Goodspeed the DHARMA Initiative was supposed to leave the island by August 15, 1988. Yet, even with an allowance of 5 extra months, DHARMA hadn't left but had actually dug in to prepare a strike against the Others. The plan backfired when the Others seized control and used the Tempest instead as a preemptive strike.
* Danielle Rousseau and her team arrived after the Purge. While they thought they arrived in November, it had actually been in December (considering the time differences between the Island and the real world).
* According to Lost Encyclopedia, the date was approximately 15 years after The Truce was signed, meaning late 1988.
* According to the LOST Experience the Hanso Foundation stopped funding the DHARMA Initiative in 1987, possibly suggesting that the Hanso Foundation was aware of the deadline of the Truce. Unless somebody else provided funding for the next 5 years until 1992.
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* The Lost Experience's canonicity is suspect.
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* The Purge would have to be before Ben adopted Alex Rousseau, or else she would have died, suggesting it was before 1988.
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