The Legend of Zelda chronology, lore, and timeline.

Some feel when The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia came out in Dec. 2011, Nintendo "lazily" or "sloppily" put together a timeline, and they felt there was never a "real timeline", as if Nintendo only made Hyrule Historia to appease the fans who wanted an official timeline. Some also believe each new game was just the same "legend" retold in different ways, and that most of the games never really had real connections to one another, believing it's all "just a legend". With this post I aim to disprove these claims by showing with concrete evidence how Nintendo has almost always paid attention to the timeline, and how there is a fairly clear timeline of chronologically ordered events if you actually take the time to look at the history of the series. I will first go through the series as the games released and show how, even before Hyrule Historia, you could define rather clearly where most games took place, and how it already lined