BLEACH Timeline

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TIME PERIOD	EVENTS	SOURCE	NOTES
Over a hundred million years ago	The World of the Living, Soul Society, and Hueco Mundo were not separate realms of existence	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. III - Part 11 (pages 209-217)
After a hundred million years ago	The being who would become the Soul King, naturally appears in order to exterminate hollows	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. III - Part 11 (pages 209-217)
	The ancestors of the 5 Great Noble Families desecrate and enslave the Soul King	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. III - Part 11 (pages 209-217)
	Soul Society and Hueco Mundo were separated from the World of the Living	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. III - Part 11 (pages 209-217)
	Hell was likely created	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. III - Part 11 (pages 209-217)	Educated guess
Millions of years ago	Ichibē names most of the important phenomena in Soul Society	Chapter 564
	Ōetsu invents asauchi/zanpakutō	Chapter 521
108 BC	The Spiritual Arts Academy is founded by Genryūsai, originally as the Shinigami Academy	Volume 9/Chapter -17	2066 years before Renji, Izuru, and Hinamori graduate
	Chōjirō achieved bankai	Chapter 486, Chapter 504	Around 2000 years before Thousand Year Blood War arc, before Shunsui & Jūshirō were even born.
700-995 CE	Yhwach is born	Chapter 633	Around 200 years before Jugram's birth
	Yhwach conquered Lichtreich and formed an army	Chapter 633
900-995 CE	Jugram is born		Around 200 years after Yhwach's birth
	Yhwach founds The Sternritter and declares that they will invade Soul Society	Chapter 633
	Lille was the first Sternritter Yhwach shared his power with	Chapter 656
995 CE	Genryūsai founds the 13 Court Guard Squads	Chapter 511	Around 1000 years before Thousand Year Blood War arc
	UNOHANA is promoted to 11th Squad Captain and becomes the 1st Kenpachi
	Quincy Blood War	Chapter 546
	Yhwach is sealed for 999 years		999 years before Thousand Year Blood War arc
	The Wandenreich is founded and hidden in the shadows of Soul Society	Chapter 547
994-1753 CE	Shunsui, Jūshirō, and Tokinada graduate from the academy	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol II - Part 8 (Chapter 9 - 3 of 3)
	Kakyō graduates from the academy	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. III - Part 1 (pages 12-24)
	Tokinada finds an ancient Tsunayashiro tablet outlining Soul Society's "Original Sin"	Can't Fear Your Own World
994-1753 CE	Nanao's mother died
	Shunsui is promoted to 8th Squad Captain		Over 200 years ago
	Jūshirō is promoted to 13th Squad Captain		Over 200 years ago
After 1601 CE	Tokinada kills Kakyō
	Kaname inherits Kakyō's zanpakutō
	Kaname joins AIZEN		Several hundred years ago
1750-1753 CE	8th Kenpachi/Soya AZASHIRO defeats 7th Kenpachi KURUYASHIKI	Spirits Are Forever With You Vol. II - Chapter 16	Around 250 years before Arrancar arc
	AZASHIRO is imprisoned in Muken for 19500 years		249 years before Arrancar arc
	The 11th squad Lieutenant is promoted to the 9th Kenpachi
1801 CE	The Shinigami exterminate the Quincy	Chapter 45	Around 200 years before the Soul Society arc
1885-1890 CE	Kaien joins the academy
	Kaien graduates from the academy after after only 2 years	Chapter 83
1889 CE	Rose is promoted to 3rd Squad Captain
	AIZEN steals "The Nail of the Soul King" from Rangiku's soul, to fuse with his own hōgyoku	Chapter 415
1890 CE	Gin joins the academy	Chapter -105, Chapter 416
1891 CE	Gin graduates from the academy after only 1 year, joins the 5th Squad as a seated officer	Chapter -105	110 years before the Arrancar arc
	Kirio is promoted to the Royal Guard	Chapter -108	110 years before the Arrancar arc
	Turn Back the Pendulum flashback	Chapter -108	110 years before the Arrancar arc
	Kisuke is promoted to 12th Squad Captain	Chapter -108	110 years before the Arrancar arc
1891-1896 CE	Kaien promoted to Lieutenant of the 13th Squad	Chapter 83	5 years after graduating
	Gin is promoted to 3rd Seat of the 5th Squad	Chapter -105
1895-1917 CE	The Jazz music genre was invented		4-16 years after Shinji said he was listening to Jazz music
1894 CE	Yhwach regains his ‘pulse’ after 900 years	Chapter 546	99 years before Thousand Year Blood War arc
	Kisuke founds the Scientific and Development Research and Institute, and becomes its president	Chapter -105
	Project Spearhead and the invention of Modified Souls was developed within the S.D.R.I. led by Ōko	Chapter 15
	Project Spearhead cancelled and all Modified Soul Pills were destroyed. Kon was the sole survivor	Chapter 15
1900 CE	Rose, Shinji, Lisa, Kensei, Mashiro, Hiyori, and Hachi are transformed into imperfect-vizards by AIZEN	Chapter -98
	Kisuke stabilises the hollowfication of the vizards using a concoction of quincy arrow spiritual-matter, as well as his own hōgyoku	Chapter -97, Chapter 535
	Kisuke, Yoruichi, and Tessai are banished from Soul Society and hide in Karakura Town	Chapter -97
After 1900 CE	Kisuke hides his own hōgyoku within Rukia, but AIZEN secretly knows.	Chapter -97, Chapter 397, Chapter 401
1900-1983 CE	11th Kenpachi ZARAKI defeats 10th Kenpachi/Gosuke KIGANŌ
1942 CE	Rukia and Renji meet as orphaned kids on the streets of Rukongai	Chapter 98
1946 CE	Byakuya marries Hisana	Chapter 179	5 years before Hisana's death
	Shūhei joins the academy	Chapter -17
1951 CE	Hisana dies		50 years before the Soul Society arc
Before 1952 CE	AIZEN recruits Aaroniero as an Espada	Chapter 297	Educated guess
1952 CE	Renji & Rukia join the academy	Chapter 98	10 years after they met
	Izuru & Momo join the academy the same year as Renji & Rukia	Chapter -17
	Renji, Momo, and Izuru go on a training mission to the World of the Living led by Shūhei	Chapter -17	2 months later
	Gin is promoted to 3rd Squad Captain, and Byakuya is promoted to 6th Squad Captain	Chapter 145
	The Kuchiki family adopts Rukia	Chapter 98, Chapter 179	1 year after Hisana's death
	Rukia graduates from the academy immediately, and joins the 13th Squad		Rukia & Renji lose contact for over 40 years
	Shūhei graduates from the academy after 6 years, and is promoted to a seated officer in the 9th Squad immediately	Chapter -17, Chapter 385
After 1952 CE	Rukia goes on a mission with to the World of the Living with Kiyone, but Rukia mysteriously cannot remember this later.	Chapter 0 SIDE-B	This is possibly Kisuke hides his own hōgyoku within Rukia, but AIZEN secretly knows.
1952-2001 CE	AIZEN, Gin, and Kaname usurp Barragan, and takeover Las Noches	Chapter 371
	AIZEN recruits Barragan & Szayel-Aporro as Espadas	Spirits Are Forever With You Vol. II - Chapter 16
	AIZEN recruits Szayel-Aporro as #0 Espada	Spirits Are Forever With You Vol. II - Chapter 16
After 1952 CE	Szayel-Aporro regress to an adjuchas, and separates Yylfordt from his body.	Spirits Are Forever With You Vol. II - Chapter 16
	Szayel-Aporro was demoted to Privaron Espada #100, from Espada #0	Spirits Are Forever With You Vol. II - Chapter 16
	Nelliel & Nnoitra are on a mission to find more vastolorde-menos	Chapter 294	Educated guess
	Nnoitra schemes with Szayel-Aporro to defeat Nelliel	Chapter 295	Educated guess
1957 CE	Tōshirō joins the academy	Chapter -16	5 years after Momo, at Rangiku's insistence
1958 CE	Renji, Izuru, Momo, graduate from the academy after 6 years, and all join the 5th Squad		It's the academy's 2066th year
	Tōshirō possibly graduates from the academy after only 1 year, and joins the 10th Squad		Educated guess
Before 1983 CE	Metastacia possesses Kaien, Rukia kills Kaien, and Aaroniero consumes Metastacia in Hueco Mundo.
	Jūshirō stores Kaien's Captain cloak in his office for decades, until Rukia inherits it in 2013	We Do Knot Always Love You - The Ceremony 4
1981-1983 CE	Isshin battles the artificial Hollow, called White	Chapter 531
	Masaki kills White, but is infected	Chapter 533
	Isshin loses his powers in order to suppress White's influence over Masaki	Chapter 188	20 years before the Arrancar arc
	The Shiba family are stripped of their Noble status	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. I - Part 7 (Chapter 5 & Epilogue)
1983-2001 CE	Tōshirō is promoted to 10th Squad Captain
1985 CE	Yhwach regains his ‘wits’ after 90 years	Chapter 546
	Ichigo Kurosaki is born	Chapter 1	15 years before Agent of the Shinigami arc
Before 2001 CE	GINJŌ becomes an agent of the Shinigami, working with the 13 Squad		Educated guess
	Tokinada sends assassins to kill GINJŌ's fullbringer comrades. GINJŌ kills the assassins. Tokinada frames GINJŌ as a criminal.	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. III - Part 15 (pages 256-276)
	Tokinada recruits Aura in the World of the Living.	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. II - Part 13 (Chapter 12 - 1 of 3)	After her father is killed by the assassins Tokinada sent
1994 CE	Yhwach started to regain his ‘power’ after 9 years. Yhwach uses Auswählen. Masaki and Kanae lose their quincy powers.	Chapter 546, Chapter 537	9 years before Thousand Year Blood War arc
	Kanae dies	Chapter 537	3 months later
	Grand Fisher kills Masaki	Chapter 21
2001 CE	Renji promoted to 6th Squad Lieutenant	Chapter 0 SIDE-B
	AIZEN orchestrates sending Rukia to meet Ichigo, in order to test Kisuke's hōgyoku already within her	Chapter 397
	Agent of the Shinigami arc
	Rukia inadvertently activates the hōgyoku within her, due to her desire to save Kaien, and accidentally gives Ichigo all of her powers
	Rukia hides Rukia in an artificial body which deteriorates her spiritual-powers.	Chapter 401
	Ichigo's spiritual influence on Chad & Orihime inadvertently activates the hōgyoku with Rukia, due to their desires to have power, ultimately awakening their fullbring powers.	Chapter 401, Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. II - Part 3 (Chapter 7 - 3 of 3)
	Grand Fisher becomes an arrancar	Chapter 25
	AIZEN orchestrates sending Byakuya and Renji to arrest Rukia and take her back to Soul Society	Chapter 51, Chapter 397
	Soul Society arc	Chapter 71
	AIZEN retrieves Kiisuke's hōgyoku from Rukia, to combine it with his own	Chapter 176
	AIZEN recruits STARRK as #1 Espada	Chapter 375
	AIZEN recruits HARRIBEL as #3 Espada	Episode 284
	Dordoni was demoted to Privaron Espada #103, from Espada #3	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. III - Part 8 (pages 136-151)
	Cirucci possibly was demoted to Privaron Espada #105, from Espada #5		Educated guess
	AIZEN possibly promotes Grimmjow to #6 Espada, from the #12 Números		Educated guess
	Luppi possibly was demoted to Privaron Espada #106, from Espada #6	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. II - Part 8 (Chapter 9 - 3 of 3)	Educated guess
	Gantenbainne possibly was demoted to Privaron Espada #107, from Espada #7		Educated guess
	Pikkaro was demoted to Privaron Espada #102, from Espada #2	Spirits Are Forever With You Vol. I - Chapter 11
	Arrancar arc	Chapter 182	1 month after the Soul Society arc
	AIZEN re-instates Luppi as #6 Espada	Chapter 229
	Grimmjow kills Luppi	Chapter 240
	AIZEN permanently fuses the hōgyoku with his own body, and becomes immortal		Possibly before Chapter 240
	Spirits are Forever With You novels		4 months after the Arrancar arc
	HARRIBEL becomes queen of Hueco Mundo after Orihime heals her	Nestle to Night short story
	The vizards are pardoned by Soul Society	Spirits are Forever With You
	Rose is re-instated as 3rd Squad Captain	Spirits are Forever With You
	Shinji is re-instated as 5th Squad Captain	Spirits are Forever With You
	Kensei is re-instated as 9th Squad Captain	Spirits are Forever With You
	Mashiro is unofficially (re)instated as 9th Squad ‘Super’ Lieutenant	Spirits are Forever With You
2002 CE	Rukia is promoted to 13th Squad Lieutenant	The Death Saves The Strawberry	5 months after the Arrancar arc
	The Death Save the Strawberry novel
	Kisuke, Yoruichi, and Tessai are pardoned by Soul Society
2003 CE	Kisuke creates a spirit power transfer sword, using the spiritual-energy of all high ranked shinigami who are allies of Ichigo		After 12 months
	Lost Agent of the Shinigami arc		17 months after the Arrancar arc
	Ichigo retrieves Kūjo GINJŌ's corpse from Soul Society, to bury it in the World of the Living
	Yhwach defeats HARRIBEL, the Wandenreich invade Hueco Mundo, and conquer Las Noches	Chapter 485, Chapter 487
	Thousand Year Blood War arc
	Tokinada steals the Ikomikidomoe from the Royal Palace after Ōetsu reforges Zangetsu	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. I - Part 1 (Prologue 1 & 2)
	Ichibē seals Yhwach's corpse as the new Soul King	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. I - Part 1 (Prologue 1 & 2)
	Ichibē restores the other 4 Royal Guards to life	Can't Fear Your Own World Vol. I - Part 1 (Prologue 1 & 2)
	Isane is promoted to 4th Squad Captain, and Kiyone is promoted to 4th Squad Lieutenant	We Do Knot Always Love You - Marriage Registration 3
	Tetsuzaemon is promoted to 7th Squad Captain, and Yasochika is promoted to 7th Squad Lieutenant	We Do Knot Always Love You - The Report 2	Educated guess
	Hanatarō is officially promoted as the sole 4th Squad 3rd Seated Officer, but was at least the co-3rd Seated Officer during the Thousand Year Blood War arc		Educated guess
	Hikone is constructed by Aura and Tokinada, using Gremmy's brain
	Can’t Fear Your Own World novels		6 months after Thousand Year Blood War Ar
After 2003 CE	The Spiritual Arts Academy changed the 6 year curriculum, to 4 years with a 2 year apprenticeship scheme	We Do Knot Always Love You - The Report 1
	Akon is promoted to 12th Squad Lieutenant	Chapter 685
2004 CE	The 9th Squad's magazine, 'Seireitei Communication Monthly', resumes publication after 1 year
2005 CE	Lisa is promoted to 8th Squad Captain	We Do Knot Always Love You - The Report 2	2.5 years after Thousand Year Blood War arc
Before 2006 CE	Nemuri Hachigō is created by Mayuri	We Do Knot Always Love You	She is a baby in 2006
2006 CE	We Do Knot Always Love You novel	We Do Knot Always Love You - Marriage Registration 1
	Shouma & Urui, two wolf-men kids from Komamaura's family, become 7th squad shinigami apprentices	We Do Knot Always Love You - Marriage Registration 5
	Renji & Rukia get married. Rukia takes on the ABARAI surname officially.		3 years after Thousand Year Blood War arc
2006-2007 CE	Ichika is born	BLEACH Jet - Kubo's Color Illustration Talk Vol.4	Ichika is conceived immediately after the wedding
2008-2009 CE	Kazui is born	BLEACH Jet - Kubo's Color Illustration Talk Vol.4	2 years after Ichika
2015 CE	BURN ☩HE WITCH one-shot	BLEACH Jet - Kubo's Color Illustration Talk	12 years after Thousand Year Bloodwar Arc
2021-2022 CE	Ichika is 15 years old, and Kazui is 13 years old	BLEACH Jet	Educated guess

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