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This is going to be a timeline of the entire buffyverse. If anyone knows how to connect it to the Buffy and Angel pages, please do so.The parts marked with an asterisk (*) are non-canonical or doubtful.

Ancient Times

    primordial era 

The Primordium Age, was a time untold eons ago, when the Old Ones, pure-breed demons of unimaginable power, ruled the Earth.

  • The Seed of Wonder spills the Old Ones from other dimensions, imprisoning them to the recently created Earth.
  • Old Ones rule Earth and other dimensions before the rise of mortal creatures.
  • The Seed of Wonder spills the Old Ones from other dimensions, imprisoning them to the recently created Earth.
  • Old Ones rule Earth and other dimensions before the rise of mortal creatures.(*)
  • Illyria suppresses a rebellion by the demon Darque Wurms, leaving the single survivor Baticus buried alive.
  • As Eldre Koh struggles to become a Yataro warrior, Illyria wipes out his village; blamed for the slaughter, Koh is imprisoned and his race enslaved.
  • Angel and Fred arrive in Illyria's world as an invading Old One consumes her followers, prompting the Illyria of this time to consider a dramatic solution.
  • The spirits of the Old Ones are imprisoned within sarcophagi and entombed in the Deeper Well.
  • Before his imprisonment as one of the last Old Ones entombed in the Deeper Well, Maloker sires the first vampire.

    prehistory 
  • Whistler is born to an agent of The Powers That Be and a demon, but both are killed for their blasphemous union.
  • The Guardians forges in secrecy the Mʔ, for the First Slayer to kill the last of the Old Ones that walked the Earth.
  • The First Slayer is rejected by her village and instructed to fight alone.

written history

    old history 
2717
  • Sumer; juk is orphaned at birth and raised by her Watcher, the royal scribe Sarkassa. (*)
2700 BCE:
  • The Watcher Sarkassan is slain by time-traveling assassins intent on destroying the Slayer line. (*)
1000 BCE
  • the Mok'tagar demon who will later be known as Kathy Newman is born.
996 BCE:
  • The Slayer, unable to destroy the river goddess Kandida, imprisons her inside a sarcophagus. (*)
970 BCE:
  • The Order of Taraka, a mystical guild of assassins, operates in the time of King Solomon.
519 BCE
  • Thessily Thessilonikki is born to a slave single mother, who dies before the Potential Slayer learns to talk.
507 BCE
  • Thessily, raised by the fabric merchant Meltinias, is sold to the local hierophant and Watcher Thoas, who informs her she's the Slayer. (*)
507 BCE
  • Thessily goes up against the Horde and is bitten, but survives the death the Oracle had foreseen. (*)
500 BCE
  • Whistler serves as an advisor in ancient Greece.
490 BCE
  • 490 BCE: In order to protect an important messenger, the Slayer Thessily runs 300 miles in three days while fending off vampires. (*)
unknown year
  • The Slayer Artemia is tortured and killed by Kakistos, but her daughter Malice returns as a vengeance demon to grant her wish for revenge.
149–145 BCE
  • War rages between Cato's Rome and the demon Vraka, culminating in the summoning of the Old One Ky-Laag by the Roman general Scipio. (*)
  • 40: The Slayer Diana foils the plans of a nefarious vampire duo to raise the demon Meter by stealing the ashes of the Emperor Caligula. (*)
52
  • Incinii is called as the Slayer at 16 years old; with Eyra as her Watcher, she defends her homeland from vampires and Roman invaders. (*)
  • 52: The Night Terrors forcibly eject the spirit of the Slayer, a Celtic warrior, allowing vampires to feast on her corporeal body. (*)
late fifth century:
  • Whistler guides the future King Arthur to the Sword in the Stone.
61
  • The Slayer Incinii is killed victim of time-traveling assassins intent on destroying the Slayer line.(*)

current era

    17th century 
800
  • The Watchers Council establishes the Tento di Cruciamentum as a trial of the Slayer on her 18th birthday.
880Aud transforms Olaf into a demon, and is herself dubbed the vengeance demon Anyanka by D'Hoffryn.980
  • Kishi Minomoto is summoned as a Slayer in Japan and sent to locate demons, only to discover that her Watcher is not who he claims to be.
11th century
  • The Slayer Adja sets off in pursuit of the time-traveling demon assassin Karfarnaum.
  • A powerful vampire is enslaved by the Seed of Wonder in order to protect it.

12th century

  • The vampire Aurelius prophesies the eventual rise of the Anointed One as the Master's greatest warrior.
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  • The Order of Dagon is founded by Tarnis to protect the Key.
12th century
  • A meteor containing an extraterrestrial Queller demon impacts in Iceland.
  • Vraka and the Blood of Carthage move the trapped demon Ky-Laag to what would later become Sunnydale.
1200
  • A sorcerer in a village in the Koskov Valley becomes the embodiment of the demon Lohesh. Only three people escape alive.
1229 and 1250
  • The Slayer Dark of the Moon is trained but becomes frustrated when she fails to fulfill her duty through no fault of her own.
Mid-13th century
  • While attempting to save a French knight, the Arabic Slayer is killed by a primal evil known as the Gatherer in Jerusalem.

1310

  • A dying vampire hunter, Perfect Zheng, allows himself to become a vampire in order to escape death.

1320

  • Eliane de Shaunde marries her Watcher and is eventually called as the Slayer. She resists her duty until vampires attack her family.

14th century

  • The Slayer, a barmaid at the height of the bubonic plague epidemic, is killed by the vampire Lothos outside the
  • The noble-born Slayer attempts to resist being the Chosen One.
  • The Soul Glutton swears revenge on humankind after an unidentified Aztec Slayer kills his family.

1418

  • Moloch's soul is trapped in a tome by an order of monks in Cortona, Italy, .

15th century

  • The Pergamum Codex, an important book of Slayer prophecies, is misplaced.
  • A magical book kills an entire roomful of Watchers.
1481
  • The Marrano Slayer Esperanza de la Vega, living secretly as a Jew under the Spanish Inquisition, is arrested and charged as a witch.

late 15th century

  • A young princess is chosen as a sacrifice by her people in Peru.
16th century
  • The creature who will later be known as Santa Claus begins disemboweling children.
  • The Frecnh sorcerer Cloutier creates a spell called Tirer la Couverture, which allows the caster to see the signature of spells cast nearby.
  • The current Slayer fights to save a English walled medieval town from vampires, but faces suspicion from the town's established clergy.
  • The hardworking cobbler Roche is sired by the ancient (and elegantly shod) vampire Die Einsame in france.
1527
  • The greek Slayer Cassia Marsilka is turned by the ancient vampire Cyrus the Gladiator.
1586 The Slayer Virginia Dare grows among the Croatoans in the roanoke colony and is transformed into a white doe when she refuses the advances of a wizard.1590
  • An unidentified Slayer wears a Spanish mourning robe while battling a vampire in Spain
Late 16th century
  • Anyanka encounters Dracula after cursing a man by making him incredibly fat.

recent times

    1601– 1900 
Early 17th century
  • The Slayer Erin Randall kills the Tatzelwurm, but is killed by the demon Samhain after facing him on two separate Halloweens.
17th century
  • Jealous alchemist Nathaniel Filmer accuses two friends of witchcraft, and is cursed by them as they are burned at the stake. (*)
1609
  • November: The Slayer Ildikó Géllert infiltrates the castle of Countess Elizabeth Bathory in an attempt to stop a series of mysterious deaths. (*)
  • A dying prostitute is visited by the Master, who sires her to become the vampire Darla.
1625
  • The Slayer Abigail Cole stops a series of mysterious deaths that had been attributed to unknown animals. (*)
1661
  • A ship's crew mutinies against its captain, Robin Whitby, upon discovering she is a woman, only to be attacked by a sea monster. (*)
1670–1673
  • Carissa Avenhaus, called at the age of 12, serves three years as the Slayer before perishing at 15.(*)
1680s
  • Fearing that the current Slayer will bring about Twilight, thirty fearful Watchers commit suicide by poisoning their drinks in a dining hall.
1692
  • The Slayer Samantha Kane is summoned to investigate an accused witch but, uncovering a plot to raise the Master, dies to defeat him. (*)
1723
  • Sharpesville, May 26; An Ascension occurs and completely destroys a town, leaving no survivors.
1727Galway, Ireland; Liam is born to a linen and silk merchant.1730sGalway, Ireland; Liam's father expresses pride in Liam's reading progress, and optimism about his future prospects. (*)late 1740s
  • Galway, Irelan; Liam coaxes a young woman into joining him in the family's barn. (*)
18th century ,
  • Hong Kong; An unidentified Slayer working as a prostitute runs away from her first customer, a British sailor, and is killed by the vampire Lothos.
1753Galway, Ireland; A time-traveling Angel works to avert his original siring by Darla, at the risk of introducing a catastrophic paradox.Galway, Ireland; Liam leaves home after fighting with his father.Galway, Ireland; A drunken Liam is killed and sired by Darla, becoming Angelus.
  • Galway, Ireland; Liam rises from his grave and makes his first kill, later returning home to murder his family.
Ireland; At Darla's prompting, Angelus toys with and kills his friend Liam McHugh. (*)1760
  • London;Darla brings Angelus before the Master, but Angelus' lack of respect forces her to choose between them: she leaves with Angelus.
1763
  • Raushorn, November: Rebecca's Watcher writes about accompanying her to the remotest parts of the countryside.
1764
  • York, England; Evading a trap set by vampire hunter Daniel Holtz, Darla and Angelus kill his wife Caroline and children Sarah and Daniel.
  • York, England Holtz returns home to discover that his daughter has become a vampire, forcing him to kill her.
1765
  • Fleeing Holtz, Darla and Angelus take refuge in a barn, but Darla abandons him when pursuers set the building ablaze.
1767
  • Darla and Angelus, evading Holtz, spend time with vampire couple James and Lisbeth.
late 1700sThe current Slayer is killed by the vampire L'Hero.1771Holtz captures and tortures Angelus, before Darla rescues him, killing all present but Holtz.1773Holtz allows the demon Sahjhan to bring him into the future to exact revenge.1786
  • Angel sires a young Puritan named Penn, who goes on to kill his sister as his first victim, followed by the rest of his family.
1789
  • September: The Slayer Countess Marie-Christine Du Lac battles against L'Hero, a vampire who is leading a rebellion among the poor.
  • The Beast attempts to convince Angelus to kill the Svear priestesses, but Angelus refuses.
1790Claudine, the Slayer during the French Revolution, is tricked by her Watcher Jean into killing a human aristocrat.Episode1791
  • Wolfram & Hart uses the blood of the killer Matthias Pavayne to de-consecrate the ground of a former church for its local headquarters.
1792
  • Claudine is overpowered and killed by a vampire.
  • August 10, Angelus joins in the storming of the Tuileries palace during the French Revolution.
1799
  • Paris, France: The Slayer Marguerite is pursued by two time-traveling vampires intent on disrupting the Slayer line, but is saved by Buffy Summers.

    1901– 1970 
1901
  • Anarchist Leon Czolgosz, acting under the influence of vengeance demon Anyanka, assassinates president William McKinley.
1902
  • Angel arrives at Ellis Island in New York.
1903
  • Spike steals the Spells of Hammurabi from the demon Vraka to gain his help in freeing a captive Drusilla from the Astrides in Vienna.
1905
  • Anyanka observes the start of the Russian Revolution with Halfrek.
1906
  • Angel, looking for a cure, seeks out a Chinese healer in San Francisco and finds himself battling a dragon in the midst of a major historical event.
1910
  • After a leviathan demon gave octopus sentience, a Watcher of the Merryweather family prevents them from uprising against humans.
mid-to-late 1910s
  • Spike first hears word of the flesh-manipulating demon the Sculptor.
1911
  • In minnesota, The Slayer Millicent "Millie" Rose Gresham, traveling with a carnival side show, is approaching her Cruciamentum when plans go wrong.
1912
  • The Slayer Arabella Gish visits Brooklin Boarding House as a student nurse. Her arrival stops a series of murders that had already claimed 23 victims.
some unknown moment during the first world war
  • Angel, injured during World War I, must fend off Geoffrey Wyndam-Pryce and the vampire Kakistos.
1916
  • Frederich Lichtermann sees his first vampire in France and is invited to begin his studies as a Watcher.
1919
  • Slayer Dorothy "Dot" Singers is approaching her Cruciamentum test, but her Watcher is suffering from severe mental illness.
early 1920s
  • Angel saves a puppy from an oncoming car.
1920
  • Angel finds Frankenstein's monster alive and hungering for revenge.
  • Angel fights a demon named Boone over a woman in Juarez, Mexico, but the fight is stopped at sunrise without a definitive resolution.
  • After the vampire Perfect Zheng defeats a drunken Angel in combat, the Kalderash attempt (and fail) to restore his soul.
1922
  • A young woman is awed by the flapper Ardita O'Reilly until she learns that she is the Slayer.
  • Tom Mitchell is turned into a vampire, but his predatory nature is tempered on seeing his young son.
1923
  • November 8; At a screening of a horror film, the german Watcher Frederich Lichtermann abandons his untested Slayer Britta Kessler to the film's vampiric creators.
1927
  • Over a period of two weeks, 41 bodies were found near Union Station, in Chicago. The murders stop shortly after the arrival of the current Slayer.
1930s
  • Demon hunter Sid meets a Korean Slayer in his pre-dummy days.
  • Angel passes through Missoula, finding it "pretty country."
1930
  • The vampire Tom Mitchell takes his young son to the Santa Monica pier.
1932
  • Followers of Proserpexa attempt to destroy the world, but are stopped and killed by an earthquake that also swallows her Temple.
1933
  • Spike and Drusilla attend the 1933 World's Fair and foil an attempt to summon an ancient evil.
  • In Kansas, Joe Cooper, a farmer trying to work a barren field, is "turned" into a vampire and must face this experience alone.
1934
  • October: Spike and Drusilla attend a stage performance by Bela Lugosi, then do battle with the real Dracula (and a young Ed Wood).
1935
  • april, 14: Susan Finney summons a demon to impregnate her, leading to the birth of the half-demon twins Pearl and Nash.
1937
  • The Slayer Rachel O'Connor is recruited by government operatives in an operation against a Nazi agent and a powerful spirit.
  • The Master is trapped in a church when an earthquake interrupts his ritual to open the Hellmouth.
1938late 1930s
  • Up-and-coming actor Fair Quinn dies under mysterious circumstances while working on a horror film.
1940s1940
  • December, 12: The Slayer Eleanor Boudreau and her Watcher Marie-Christine Fontaine try to find a missing Council member.
  • Spike and Drusilla hunt down Slayers-in-Waiting around the world in a quest to gain the magical Freyja's Strand necklace.
  • Pearl and Nash are set upon their future path by their mother, magically killing a police officer serving an eviction notice.
1941
  • Cynthia Daniels becomes a vampire.
  • After a man she loves is killed during the Blitz, Sophronia Fairweather attempts to resurrect him, only to have to end his resulting suffering.
1943
  • November: in Germany, Spike and Dracula raid a secret Nazi research facility in an attempt to rescue one of Dracula's brides and an imprisoned Darla.
  • Angel is conscripted into the Demon Research Initiative and sent to recover a German prototype submarine on which Spike is traveling.
  • Betty, the Slayer as well as a private detective in Chicago, accepts payment from a mob boss for killing a vampire gang member.
1945
  • August: Whistler witnesses the destruction caused by the detonation of Little Boy in nagashaki.
  • The vampire Tom Mitchell attends the evening wedding in Los Angeles of his son, Cyrus.
1946
  • Dennis Pearson is entombed in an apartment wall in Los Angeles by his mother, Maude before she dies from a heart attack.
  • Angel plays tennis with Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.
  • Spike works as an enforcer for a sleazy Hollywood producer before running afoul of the demon-fighting luchadores Hermanos Número.
1949
  • Angel concludes five years of trying to convince Raymond Chandler to leave Hollywood and return to writing Philip Marlowe novels.
1950s
  • Spike and Drusilla visit Italy.
1950
  • Cyrus Mitchell and his wife Marcie have a child, but Marcie's mother is suspicious of Cyrus's (vampire) father Tom.
1952
  • The Watcher Ian Sykes conspires to ensure that his beatnik Slayer Zoë Kuryakin does not survive her Cruciamentum.
  • Angel, staying at the Hyperion Hotel, becomes involved with a thief and is attacked by a mob under the influence of a Thesulac demon.
1953
  • The luchadores Hermanos Número fight gangsters and demons, finally defeating the Tezcatcatl, during which four of the five are slain.
mid 1950s
  • After his wife leaves him, frustrated inventor Ted Buchanan creates a robotic duplicate of himself.
1955
  • Sunnydale High student James Stanley kills his teacher, Grace Newman, after she tries to break off their affair.
1956
  • The Slayer Asha Sayre and her Watcher race to save a church from a vampire's racially-motivated bomb attack.
  • A carnival magician attempts to invoke the wrath of the Old Ones in Los Angeles, but he inadvertently conjures up a rat demon, which goes into hiding.
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