okay i think were goin a LITTLE off topic so...
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is a prequel to The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the first two games released in the series. The back of its packaging states it takes place before The Legend of Zelda. Ocarina of Time is also a prequel, going even further back and implicitly retelling the backstory of A Link to the Past. The Wind Waker takes place hundreds of years after the events of Ocarina of Time. The game explicitly references the "Hero of Time" from that game, and states that, due to the hero's absence, it was necessary to flood Hyrule to stop Ganon. The Minish Cap, Four Swords and Four Swords Adventures include references to other titles and are known to be a part of the timeline, but their exact relationships with other games have not officially been made clear.
In an interview conducted by Nintendo Dream with Eiji Aonuma in December 2006, it was revealed that there are two parallel universes in the Zelda chronology. The timeline is split at the end of Ocarina of Time, when Link is sent back in time by Princess Zelda to live through his childhood, while the original events of Ocarina of Time continue on a different path. Once returned to his original time, Link leaves the Master Sword in its place, preventing Ganondorf's plan from coming to fruition, and goes to see Zelda again, resulting in the "Child Timeline" in which the villain Ganondorf is arrested and tried by the ancient sages. They attempt to execute him, but he overpowers them, and the sages are instead forced to banish him to the Twilight Realm. Twilight Princess then occurs over one hundred years later, after Link's role as a child in the events of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. Meanwhile, The Wind Waker occurs in the "Adult Timeline", one hundred years after the Hero of Time saved Hyrule in Ocarina of Time, and it is directly followed by Phantom Hourglass.
i copied this off of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(series)
the cronology sectionin short...
Ocarina of time
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majora's mask ------ Wind Waker
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Twilight princess ------ Phantom hourglass
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A Link to the Past
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Legend of Zelda
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Adventure of Link
feel free to comment, dont worry about the whole knowitall thing back there im over it and i COMPLETELY understand zemen now TY
by the way...
:facepalm:The sun is SOOOOO blue Y dont U know dat
one big problem i see with this is that it says MC, FS, and FSA make references to other zelda games. thats not ture, MC DOES NOT make ANY reference WHAT-SO-EVER to any other zelda title. another reason why many people put it first on a timeline.
many would argue that OoT does not make any references to another zelda title and thats why it could be first, but it was made way before MC.
infact i kinda just realized something. the back story of OoT talked about a war over the triforce. the back story of MC talks about a war over the light force. i wonder if it could be the same war. if it is, then this means that they HAVE to be relatively close on the timeline, and it would only make sense for MC to be before OoT because MC has no ganondorf or mention of him