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This is not an official timeline. I only matched it up based on dates gathered playing the game.

This timeline contains spoilers for Hotel Dusk AND Last Window!

According to the Japanese main site, Iris is 30. Her story in the game puts her age at 28. For this timeline I went with 28.
There's also a lot missing, but the game isn't always good about giving specific dates
1933 Robert Evans inherits Gallery May from his grandfather at the age of 23.
1955 Chris Hyde is found murdered.
1959 Hotel Dusk is built and opened. Helen is reunited with her son, Allen, when she is hired to perform at the opening
1960 A plan crash in Las Vegas kills Mrs. Dunning, Mary Evans, and Iris and Grace's mother. Dunning and Evans are reunited after having split up after college. They develop a plan to sell Dunning's art
1963 Robert Evans writes a book about the life of the fictional painter, Osterzone. His and Dunning's success gets them noticed by crime syndicate Nile
1966 Iris runs away from her adoptive parents.
1967 Cathy McBain is found murdered at Cape West. 

Some time later, George Patrice is found murdered, and his wife Margaret is put on trial.  She is found innocent.  Margaret uses the money left by her husband to buy Cape West and transform it into an apartment building.

Mike Potter is killed in a traffic accident.

Jack Green goes missing.

Sydney and his wife begin having marital problems.
1969
The "Seven Stars" bar is opened to celebrate the hotel's 10 year anniversary.

Helen again meets Allen at Hotel Dusk, before it is closed

Jenny Smith is kidnapped by Nile to blackmail Dunning into painting more. Evan's daughter Mila falls into a coma

Summer steals Allen's manuscript, "The Secret Word" and has it published under his name
1971 Iris gets a job at a diner in Santa Monica, and is briefly reunited with her sister Grace. Grace was engaged to Kevin at the time.
1972 Gallery May in Santa Monica is closed. Evans sends Dunning a letter telling him to be patient, but then disappears
1973 Grace finds work at an art museum.
1974
Dunning reopens Hotel Dusk and combats rumors about it by spreading stories about room 215 granting wishes
1975 Steve Wolf assaults a fan at a gig, his career starts to decline.
1976 Bradley goes undercover within Nile, and though he discovers the truth about Osterzone, Evans, and Dunning, he's found out and his sister Mila is taken hostage. Nile blackmails him into betraying the cops and killing one of their own, Danny.

Kyle, thinking that Bradley betrayed the force to work for Nile, shoots him on the docks. Bradley disappears.  Kyle is fired, leaves New York, and moves into the Cape West apartment building in Los Angeles.

Louis DeNono skips town after witnessing Danny's murder

Steve Wolf assaults his manager.
1977 Kevin Woodward loses a big malpractice case. Him and his wife start having problems
1979 (June) Bradley kills Evans, then visits Dunning at Hotel Dusk on June 30th.

Grace sends a cassette tape incriminating Dunning and Evans in the Osterzone scandal to her sister, Iris. She then leaves her husband and daughter, vanishing.
1979 (December) Hotel Dusk: Room 215 takes place
1980 (June) Peter Rivet is killed in a car accident
1980 (December) Last Window: Midnight Promise takes place