Timeline: Pre-Game

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Current timeline is based on Konoha founding date.

BGS: Before Game Start, AGS: After Game Start

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Pre-Village Histories

BGS 203:

January 19th: Rumplestiltskin is born.

YEAR 01: BGS 67: Founding Year

Konoha is founded.

YEAR 02: BGS 66:

Other ninja villages begin to be established.

YEAR 03: BGS 65:

Madara leaves Konoha.

YEAR 04: BGS 64:

YEAR 05: BGS 63:

YEAR 06: BGS 62:

YEAR 07: BGS 61:

YEAR 08: BGS 60:

Valley of the End: Uchiha Madara battles Senju Hashirama and Kurama is sealed within Uzumaki Mito.

First Shinobi War begins.

YEAR 09: BGS 59:

YEAR 10: BGS 58:

YEAR 11: BGS 57:

YEAR 12: BGS 56:

First Shinobi War Ends.

YEAR 13: BGS 55:

YEAR 14: BGS 54:

August 2nd: Senju Tsunade is born.

October 27th: Orochimaru is born.

November 11th: Jiraiya is born.

YEAR 15: BGS 53:

YEAR 16: BGS 52:

YEAR 17: BGS 51:

YEAR 18: BGS 50:

YEAR 19: BGS 49:

YEAR 20: BGS 48:

August 16: Uchiha Fugaku is born.

YEAR 21: BGS 47:

YEAR 22: BGS 46:

YEAR 23: BGS 45:

January 8th: Hyuuga Hiashi is born to the Main Household of the Hyuuga Clan.

January 8th: Hyuuga Hizashi, Hiashi's twin, is born just seconds later and made a member of the Branch House.

YEAR 24: BGS 44:

YEAR 25: BGS 43:

June 1st: Uchiha Mikoto is born.

YEAR 26: BGS 42:

YEAR 27: BGS 41:

YEAR 28: BGS 40:

January 25th: Namikaze Minato is born.

July 10th: Uzumaki Kushina is born.

YEAR 29: BGS 39:

First Kiri Civil War begins.

January: Fugaku becomes a genin.

June 7th: Ringo Ameyuri is born.

August 15th: Himura Shinobu is born.

YEAR 30: BGS 38:

YEAR 31: BGS 37:

June: Fugaku becomes a Chunin.

YEAR 32: BGS 36:

Second Ninja War begins.

YEAR 33: BGS 35:

February 20th: Konan is born.

February 20th: Yahiko is Born.

September 19th: Nagato is born.

YEAR 34: BGS 34:

October: Ameyuri graduates from the Kiri Academy during a freak lightning storm.

August: Shinobu goes into Kiri's Academy.

YEAR 35: BGS 33:

First Kiri Civil War ends.

July 4th: Baki is born.

July 17th: Shiranui Genma is born.

YEAR 36: BGS 32:

March 8th: Ebisu is born.

March 18th: Kisame is born.

YEAR 37: BGS 31:

April: Fugaku becomes a Jounin.

YEAR 38: BGS 30:

January 1st: Maito Gai is born.

February 10th: Uchiha Obito is born.

August: Jiraiya takes on Minato as a student.

September 15th: Hatake Kakashi is born.

November 15th: Nohara Rin is born.

December: Nagato's parents are killed by a Konoha shinobi. He kills the shinobi.

YEAR 39: BGS 29:

Uzushio is destroyed.

April 5th: Maria Torres is born.

June: Nagato meets Konan and Yahiko.

July: Shinobu makes genin.

August 15th: Momochi Zabuza is born.

November 25th: Kamizuki Izumo is born.

YEAR 40: BGS 28:

February 14th: Shishito Nanako is born.

June: Shinobu makes Chunin.

October 19th: Uchiha Shisui is born.

November: Orochimaru, Tsunade, and Jiraiya are declared Sannin by Hanzo during the Second Ninja War.

YEAR 41: BGS 27:

January: Second Ninja War Ends.

February: Orochimaru offers to kill Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan as a mercy kill.

February: Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan become Jiraiya's students.

August 10th: Yamato/Tenzou/Kinoe is born.

YEAR 42: BGS 26:

May 26th: Umino Iruka is born.

September: Kakashi enrolls in the Konoha Academy.

September: Obito enrolls in the Konoha Academy.

September: Gai enrolls in the Konoha Academy after initially failing the entrance exam.

September 14th: Sephiroth is born. His mother dies during childbirth.

November 25th: Genjo Sanzo is born.

YEAR 43: BGS 25:

Second Kiri Civil War begins.

January 14th: Abel Nightroad is born.

June: Obito's parents die during a mission that was supposed to be a simple infiltration. He begins living alone.

October: Kakashi graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

November: Jiraiya leaves his Ame students (Nagato, Yahiko, and Konan).

November: Kakashi asks Rin for help, and ends up arranging to have her as his training partner.

YEAR 44: BGS 24:

September 23rd: Gale is born as Fuuta in Suna.

YEAR 45: BGS 23:

Second Kiri Civil War ends.

Ameyuri 'dies' and is frozen by the Yuki clan.

January: Kakashi is promoted to Chunin but remains in the Academy to train.

August 17th: Yamaru Arashi (Kirigi Yamata) is born.

September: Gai graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

September: Genma graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

YEAR 46: BGS 22:

January: Kisame enrolls in the Kiri Academy, already with the skills to graduate.

March: Ebisu graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

March: A team with Gai, Genma, and Ebisu is formed.

May: Fugaku becomes Clan Head for the Uchiha.

June: Shinobu reaches Jounin.

June: Himura clan slaughtered for suspected treason.

June: Shinobu abandons Kiri.

July: Kisame undergoes Kiri's graduation battle test, fighting (and killing) a close friend.

July: Kisame graduates from Kiri Academy as a Genin and is immediately claimed as Suikazan Fuguki's apprentice.

September 18th: Kuzuryu Ashiko is born.

YEAR 47: BGS 21:

January: Kisame is promoted to Chuunin and inducted into the Cypher Division.

February: Akatsuki is founded with Yahiko as a leader.

February 29th: Yakushi Kabuto is born.

March: Kakashi's father, Hatake Sakumo, kills himself.

March 31st: Alphinaud Leveilleur is born.

April: Kakashi and Gai's Eternal Rivalry begins.

April 13: Inuzuka Hana is born.

June 9th: Uchiha Itachi is born.

July 3rd: Argilla is born.

August: Third Ninja War begins.

November: Obito graduates from Konoha Academy as a Genin.

November: Team Minato is formed (Kakashi, Obito, and Rin, led by Minato).

November: Kushina ambushes Obito without telling him her name.

YEAR 48: BGS 20:

January: Sandaime Kazekage goes missing.

January: Treaty negotiation goes horribly wrong, and Yahiko commits suicide on his blade. Nagato starts his grudge killing spree.

February: Kisame is promoted to Jounin.

February: Nagato completely decimates any family and supporters of Hanzo, then takes control of the country as a God.

March: Rasa, the Yondaime Kazekage, steps in as a temporary-turned-permanent measure.

April 2nd: Xing-Shu (Hotohori) is born.

April 26th: Yamada Mika is born.

September 23rd: Orile is born.

October: Sephiroth graduates from the Kiri Academy as a Genin. It is the last exam before the Zabuza massacre.

October: Nanako murders a teacher because he jokingly tells her it's a way to graduate early. She graduates early from the Kiri Academy as a Genin, the same day as Sephiroth.

October: Zabuza kills off a class of Academy students, ending the practice of killing in order to graduate Kiri Academy.

October: Sephiroth moves into the Milani Clan Compound.

YEAR 49: BGS 19:

January: Gai is promoted to Chunin.

January: Genma is promoted to Chunin.

May 15: Kirigi Kouran is born.

August 23rd: Temari is born.

October 1st: Juugo is born.

November: Sephiroth is promoted to Chunin in a field-promotion.

November: Nanako is promoted to Chuunin the same time as Sephiroth (field-promotion).

YEAR 50: BGS 18:

January: A coup in the Land of Ice: largely retainers and the Daimyo's family killed.

May 15th: Peter Pettigrew is born.

August: Orochimaru takes notice of Anko.

YEAR 51: BGS 17: Canonical year Obito 'died'

During a mission, Kisame kills both his own and the enemy's squad. Only he and Ibiki walk away from it alive.

January: Nanako is inducted into Kiri's T&I Department.

March 9th: Tenten is born.

July 3rd: Hyuuga Neji is born.

November: Kakashi is promoted to Jounin. His first mission as jounin fails and teammate Obito is squished.

November 20th: Kisaragi Yuffie is born.

November 27th: Rock Lee is born.

December: Kabuto is found by Konoha Orphanage.

December 31st: Kashima Naoki is born.

YEAR 52: BGS 16: Canonical year of Kyuubi Attack

January 3rd : Third Ninja War Ends

January 3rd : Minato is declared Yondaime Hokage.

January 3rd : Kakashi is promoted to ANBU and assigned a mission to monitor a pregnant Kushina until October.

January 12th: Kushina visits a drugged and recovering Obito in the hospital.

January 19th: Gaara is born. His mother, Karura, dies during childbirth.

January 23rd: Aburame Shino is born.

January 23rd: Gai and Obito have their first serious talk.

March: Orochimaru defects from Konoha.

March: Kakashi is sent to track Orochimaru and meets Kinoe/Tenzou/Yamato and Yukimi for the first time, but agrees to strike both her and Tenzou out of his mission report.

March 28th: Haruno Sakura is born.

May 1st: Akimichi Chouji is born.

June 20th: Uzumaki Karin is born.

July: Sephiroth is promoted to Jounin and given his first command over 'undesirables.'

July: Nanako is promoted to Jounin. The details are classified.

July 7th: Inuzuka Kiba is born.

July 23rd: Uchiha Sasuke is born.

August 17th: Obito gets fed up and demands Gai stop faking nice.

September 22nd: Nara Shikamaru is born.

September 23rd: Yamanaka Ino is born.

October: Gale, while en-route from Sunagakure to another village in Wind Country, goes missing and no trace is found. Presumed dead.

October 10th: Uzumaki Naruto is born.

October 10th: Obito spends the first week after Naruto's birth being insistently helpful.

October 10th: Kakashi visits Kushina and baby Naruto.

October 25th: Uzumaki Kazue is born.

December 27th: Hyuuga Hinata is born.

December 27th: Okumura Rin is born.

YEAR 53: BGS 15:

Iruka becomes a Genin apprentice to Ibiki.

April 16th: Adela Milani is born.

June: Ebisu is promoted to Chunin.

August: Gai is promoted to Jounin.

August: Obito gets a donated eye from a cousin that died in the field.

December: Obito is promoted to Jounin.

YEAR 54: BGS 14:

March: Kakashi is promoted to ANBU Captain.

April: Juugo's mother goes into a rage-state and kills half the village he lives in before the villagers kill her. Triggers Juugo's first rage-state and he kills the rest

June: Itachi graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

June:A team with Iruka, Itachi, and another Genin is formed.

November: Nono becomes involved with the disassembly of ROOT's information network.

YEAR 55: BGS 13:

January: Danzo disassembles ROOT.

January: Iruka and Itachi lose their other teammate on a mission.

January: Kabuto begins participating in post-ROOT closedown missions with Nono.

January: Kakashi is assigned a new team-mate (who turns out to be Kinoe/Tenzou/Yamato) and a mission to investigate Orochimaru's lab.

April: Kisame confronts Fuguki about selling Kiri's secrets and codes, kills him, and inherits Samehada. He is publicly declared a traitor by the Mizukage.

June: Abel and Sephiroth meet for the first time.

July: Naruto meets Tenzou for the first time. Kushina was teaching the teenager how to cook.

August: Kisame returns to Kiri and is cleared of all charges and promoted to ANBU. For the next several years, Kisame is tasked with putting down internal and external "threats" as the Mizukage's Blade. He also institues new policies, including standing orders to commit suicide if there is even a medium risk of capture.

October 17th: Oyama Ami is born.

November: Akatsuki starts hiring missing-nin for mercenary work.

December 27th: Neji is branded with the curse seal as a Branch House member of the Hyuuga Clan.

December 27th: Hinata is named Hyuuga Clan Heiress.

YEAR 56: BGS 12:

March: Kumo has trade treaty re-negotiations with Konoha. A kidnapping plan is thwarted before it can begin.

March: Neji enrolls in the Konoha Academy. Sometime during the next year, he activates his Byakugan.

July 24th: Shizuoka Masanori is born.

September: Obito and Tenzou/Yamato meet for the first time.

September: Karin saves Peter from bullies.

December: Obito is officially put in charge of foreign negotiations.

YEAR 57: BGS 11:

Itachi is promoted to Chunin.

Iruka is promoted to Chunin. He begins assistant-teaching at the Konoha Academy.

March: Naruto's class starts being enrolled int he Academy.

June: Kushina demands entrance to Ame for trade negotiations.

September 19th: Masanori, Ami, and Itsuki are babysitted by Obito whilst their families have trade agreement meetings.

September 20th: Obito gets in over his head flirting with Gai using spandex.

YEAR 58: BGS 10:

Iruka begins teaching at the Konoha Academy.

Naoki enrolls in the Kiri Academy.

January: Yashamaru makes an attempt to assassinate Gaara. Gaara becomes possessed entirely by Shukaku as a result.

March: Tenten enrolls in the Konoha Academy.

March: Rock Lee enrolls in the Konoha Academy.

March: Adela enrolls in the Kiri Academy.

May 8th: Yuffie and Peter meet while running from their individual troubles.

May 16th: Abel runs to Ame. And runs into Pein.

July 13th: Sephiroth and Adela meet for the first time.

September: Nono dies after finishing all her reparation missions.

October: Kabuto leaves Konoha.

November: Orochimaru tracks down Juugo and offers him a cure in return for allowing himself to become an experimental test subject.

YEAR 59: BGS 9:

January: Kiri Chunin Exams.

February: Nanako is appointed Head of Kiri's T&I.

June: Konoha Chunin Exams.

September: Kushina is finally allowed into Ame for trade negotiations. Like so.

October: Gaara meets Obito for the first time.

December: Sephiroth and Adela discuss how to handle bullies.

YEAR 60: BGS 8:

January: Kumo Chunin Exams.

February: Peter meets Rin (from Kiri) and they become friends.

May: Orochimaru recruits Kabuto.

May: Kabuto is promoted to Jounin.

June: Suna Chunin Exams.

June: Peter leaves his home in Grass.

July 24: Masanori begins training by the clan; Masanori receives a young Miourugumo as a partner upon assuming his ancestor's summoning contract; Masanori and Sasuke are assigned as 'buddies' to foster relations between the Shizuoka and Uchiha clans

August: Orochimaru creates Otogakure.

August 4th: Obito Babysits Masanori.

September: Sasuke enrolls in the Konoha Academy.

September: Hinata enrolls in the Konoha Academy witht he remainder of Naruto's class.

November: Hinata and Sasuke in class.

December: Shino and Sasuke studying.

YEAR 61: BGS 7:

January: Konoha Chunin Exams.

January: Naoki graduates from the Kiri Academy as a Genin.

January: Peter meets Orochimaru and is promoted to Genin in Oto.

March: Karin's parents die and her village burns to the ground. She is the sole survivor and becomes a ward of Kusagakure.

June: Temari graduates from the Suna Academy as a Genin.

June: Temari begins diplomacy training under her father.

June: Sasuke spends a day with Itachi.

June: Iwa Chunin Exams.

July: Ame opens their borders for trade for the first time since the Second Ninja War.

July: Masanori and Sasuke reach a certain point in their togetherness.

July Itachi visits Natsumi in the hospital.

April: Kushina and Adela meet just after Adela comes to Konoha. She is presumed dead in Kiri.

September: Adela enrolls in the Konoha Academy.

September: Masanori is enrolled at the Konoha Academy at age five during the fall term.

October: Orochimaru moves Juugo from one base to another. Juugo goes berserk and escapes confinement and doesn't go back.

YEAR 62: BGS 6:

January: Suna Chunin Exams.

May 11th: Kushina finds Karin.

June: Kiri Chunin Exams.

July: Treaty formed between Big Five Nations.

July: Obito turns his attention to Hokage training.

July: Karin moves to Konoha to stay with her aunt, uncle and cousin.

July: Karin briefly enrolls in the Konoha Academy.

August: Kabuto is officially given the position of second-in-command of Oto under Orochimaru.

August 17th: Karin meets Obito for the first time.

October: Gale, after years of experimentation, has his memories and his personality wiped. He's inserted into the Tribal Warfare experiment in the Ruins of Summoning Island under the call-sign "Gale".

October: Adela and Sasuke meet for the mentor program.

YEAR 63: BGS 5:

January: Iwa Chunin Exams.

February 19th: Itachi is assigned Izumo as his mentor in ANBU.

March: Neji graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

March: Naoki and Kisame meet.

March: Tenten graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

March: Rock Lee graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

March: Team Gai is formed (Rock Lee, Neji, and Tenten, led by Gai).

April: Sasuke and Tenten, clash over blades on sale.

May: Uzushio rebuilding begins.

May: Rin and Karin move to Uzushio with Kushina.

May 24th: Obito meets Ashiko.

June: Konoha Chunin Exams.

September: Obito's first time assigning an ANBU mission results in the deaths of most of Kakashi's ANBU team and Kakashi resigns from ANBU.

November: Travel Seals are established.

December: When Kakashi leaves ANBU, Obito deals with the fallout from Tenzou.

YEAR 64: BGS 4: Naruto Manga starts.

January: Gaara graduates from the Suna Academy as a Genin.

January: Team Sand Siblings is formed (Gaara, Kankuro and Temari, led by Baki).

January: Kiri Chunin Exams.

February: The Leader of Gale's tribe is killed. Gale is absorbed into the Embryon Tribe with Argilla, as per the "law" of the Ruins.

March: Sasuke graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

March: Hinata graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

March: Naruto graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

March: Team Obito is formed (Sasuke, Naruto, and Hinata, led by Obito).

March: Adela graduates from the Konoha Academy as a Genin.

May: Peter is promoted to Chunin.

June: Karin is promoted to Genin in Uzushio.

June: Suna Chunin Exams: Naoki heads to the Chunin exams with Kisame leading his team. Meets Hinata and Neji there.

June: Suna Chunin Exams: Team Sand Siblings, Team Gai, Team Obito compete.

June: Suna Chunin Exams: Rock Lee is injured in a fight during the elimination phase (Gaara vs. Lee).

June: Suna Chunin Exams: Team Gai withdraws in the tournament round (Neji vs. Tenten).

June: Suna Chunin Exams: Shukaku is accidentally released during the tournament round (Gaara vs. Sasuke).

June: Suna Chunin Exams: Team Sand Siblings is disqualified.

June: Suna Chunin Exams: Gaara bonds with Hinata.

June: Sasuke is promoted to Chunin.

June: Naoki is promoted to Chunin.

June: Temari is promoted to Chunin. It was locked in before Gaara lost control of Shukaku.

July: Sasuke spends the month in Kiri as a new chunin, Nanako is taken with him.

October: Itachi meets Ashiko near Rice.

November: Obito is declared Godaime Hokage.

YEAR 65: BGS 3:

January: Communication network is established.

January: Kumo Chunin Exams.

April: Gaara gatecrashes one of Temari's missions.

April: Neji masters Kaiten.

June: Iwa Chunin Exams: Team Gai competes.

June: Rock Lee is promoted to Chunin.

June: Tenten is promoted to Chunin.

June: Neji is promoted to Chunin.

July: Itachi meets Ashiko a second time near Rice.

September: Nagato meets Juugo for the first time and takes him in.

October: Kakashi and Tenten bond over dead dads.

December 12th: Obito talks Tsunade into a visit.

YEAR 66: BGS 2:

January: Konoha Chunin Exams:

January: Hinata is promoted to Chunin.

February 9th: Obito tests how well Sasuke and Hinata handle alcohol under pretext of celebrating Hinata's promotion.

April: Obito ammends a treaty in order to lower hostilities in regards to appointed guards at Travel Seals.

April 11th: Masanori and Mika share lunch.

June: Kiri Chunin Exams. Team Sand Siblings (minus Temari) compete.

June: Gaara is promoted to Chunin.

September: Kankuro discusses with his siblings the team he "picked" for a mission.

YEAR 67: BGS 1:

January: Suna Chunin Exams: Kankuro and Adela compete.

January: Gaara is placed on patrol of the outer Wind for most of the exam.

January: Kankuro is promoted to Chunin.

February 6th: Sasuke meets Tsunade

June: Kumo Chunin Exams: Adela competes.

June: Kiri discovers Adela is alive.

August: Neji is promoted to Jounin.

November: During a conflict with the Vanguards, the Atma Seals are unleashed into the Ruins, along with new "laws." Memory/access to ninjutsu/genjutsu is also granted for Gale.

December 16th: Tsunade and Adela.

December 16th: Obito gives Itachi a pep talk.

December 17th: Adela and Itachi.

December 18th: Obito assigns Adela a paperwork shift in his office.

December 23th - December 30th: Ashiko needing rescue in Earth Country: Features Sanzo, Orile, and Tsunade.