| 1 | !!Thousands of years ago |
| 2 | * [[EldritchAbomination It]] crashlands on Earth in a cataclysmic event similar to an asteroid impact, landing in Northern America, on the spot that would eventually become Derry, Maine. Every 27-30 years, It would awaken from hibernation to kill and eat, before going back to sleep to repeat the cycle. |
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| 4 | !!1700s-1800s |
| 5 | * 1740-1743: It awakens to start a three-year reign of terror, preying upon over three hundred settlers who had founded the Derry Township shortly before. In the end, all three hundred settlers are simply gone, not even their bodies are left. |
| 6 | * 1851: It awakens when John Markson [[OffingTheOffspring poisons his own family]] and then commits suicide by devouring a white nightshade mushroom, experiencing a CruelAndUnusualDeath. |
| 7 | * 1876-1879: It awakens, then returns to sleep after murdering a group of lumberjacks. |
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| 9 | !!1900s |
| 10 | * 1904-1906: It awakens, when a lumberjack named Claude Heroux massacres several men in the Sleepy Silver Dollar bar, after they murdered his friends and fellow lumberjack unionists. Shortly after, Heroux was lynched by an angry mob. Its rampage ended with the Kitchener Ironworks explosion, where 108 people, 88 being children, died during an easter egg hunt. |
| 11 | * 1929-1930: It awakens, when Derry's residents and police ambush the Bradley Gang and gun them down Bonnie and Clyde style. Pennywise actively participates in the slaughter. The town pretend it never happened, and the gang were killed by the FBI. In 1930, the Maine Legion of White Decency, a northern equivalent to the Ku Klux Klan, burn down the Black Spot, an African-American nightclub. Mike Hanlon's father, and a young [[Literature/TheShining Dick Halloran]], are amongst the survivors. It appears as a giant bird trailing balloons. It returns to hibernation. |
| 12 | * 1957-1958: It awakens, when Dorsey Corcoran, brother to Eddie Corcoran, is beaten to death by his stepfather Richard Macklin. It kills numerous children, starting with Georgie Denbrough. Seven children - Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Eddie Kaspbrak, Richie Tozier, Mike Hanlon, and Stan Uris - form the Losers Club, and decide to kill It to stop the slaughter. It manipulates bully Henry Bowers to try to stop them, but fails. The Losers Club wound It using the Ritual of Chud, but it escapes to return to hibernate. The seven children make a promise to return to Derry should It return in twenty-seven years time. Bowers is institutionalised, blamed for the child murders of 1958. |
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