2014
* SEPTEMBER 12 – Dressed in a Spiderman outfit, three-year-old William Tyrrell goes missing from the front yard of his foster grandmother’s home in Kendall, 40km south of Port Macquarie in NSW.
* SEPTEMBER 21 – Police stop searching for the missing boy after scouring surrounding bushland and neighbouring houses.
2015
* FEBRUARY 19 – Homicide detectives take over the case and say it’s likely William was abducted.
* MARCH 2 – Police search bushland near Bonny Hills for three days after a tip-off.
* APRIL 17 – William’s foster parents speak publicly for the first time in an emotional video released through police which does not identify them.
* APRIL17 – Police say the boy may have been a victim of a pedophile ring.
* SEPTEMBER 12 – ‘Where’s William’ week is launched one year after he disappeared.
2016
* SEPTEMBER 12 – A $1 million reward is offered for information leading to William’s return.
2017
* AUGUST 24 – William’s foster child status is revealed after a court ruling.
2018
* JUNE 12 – NSW Police announce the start of a four-week forensic search of bushland in Kendall conducted by Strike Force Rosann.
* JUNE 14 – William’s grandmother scolds police who have failed to find the young boy after four years, and claims their latest search is ‘just for show’.
* JUNE 26 – the forensic search continues on what would have been William’s seventh birthday.
* JUNE 27 – Strike Force Rosann announces it will move the search to an 800sqm block of bushland just 4km from where William was last seen alive.
* JULY 5 – The latest search ends with Detective Chief Inspector Gary Jubelin saying the case could soon go to a coroner.
Source: AAP