Timeline

The following is a timeline of the events occurring in the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Circa 100,000 B.C.

• Kars is born.

Circa 90,000 B.C.

• Esidisi is born.

Circa 50,000 B.C.

• A meteorite lands in Greenland.

Circa 12,000 B.C.

• Santana is born.

Circa 10,000 B.C.

• Wamuu is born.

Circa 8,000 B.C.

• Kars creates the stone masks, then kills almost every member of his vampire clan.

Circa 1480 A.D

•  Caravan Serai dies, freeing Anubis.

1565

• Tarkus and Bruford plot the assassination of Elizabeth I, while in Mary Stuart's service.

1827

• Dario Brando is born.

1838

• Will Anthonio Zeppeli is born.

1863

• Robert Edward O. Speedwagon is born.
• Tonpetty takes in Zeppeli as his apprentice. After some training, Tonpetty tells Zeppeli that he will die a horrible death if he continues the ripple training. Zeppeli accepts this.

1867

• Dio Brando is born.

1868

• Jonathan Joestar is born.
• Erina Pendolton is born.
• Death of Mary Joestar and Dario saves George I.

1874

• George Joestar buys a dog, named Danny, for Jonathan but they don't get along at first. Danny saves Jonathan from drowning in a river and they become friends.

1880

• The first 5 chapters of Phantom Blood take place.
• Death of Dario Brando

1881

• Erina moves to India as a result of her father's work.

1888

• Dio rejects his humanity and becomes a vampire using the Stone Mask.
• Death of Will Anthonio Zeppeli.
• Dio Brando's original body is destroyed.
• Lisa Lisa is born.

1889

• Jonathan and Erina marry.
• Death of Jonathan Joestar
• George Joestar II is born.

1918

• Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli is born.

1920

• Joseph Joestar is born.

1921

• Death of George Joestar II

1935

• Death of Mario Zeppeli

1938

• Joseph and Erina move to New York.
• Kars, Esidisi and Wamuu wake from their 2,000 year slumber.
• Battle Tendency starts.

1939

• Death of Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli.
• Kars is launched into space.
• Joseph and Suzie Q marry.

1942

• Holy Joestar is born.

1943

• Death of Rudol von Stroheim.

1948

• Lisa Lisa remarries.

1950

• Death of Erina Joestar (age 81)

1952

• Death of Robert E.O. Speedwagon (age 89)

1964

• Anjuro Katagiri is born.
• Ryohei Higashikata becomes a policeman.

1965

• Jean Pierre Polnareff is born.

1966

• Yoshikage Kira is born.

1967

• Diavolo is born.
• Holly Joestar marries Sadao Kujo.

1970

• Jotaro Kujo is born.
• Noriaki Kakyoin is born.

1972

• Enrico Pucci is born.
• Weather Report is born.

1979

• Rohan Kishibe is born.

1981

• Bruno Buccellati is born.
• Leone Abbachio is born.
• Keicho Nijimura is born

1983

• Dio wakes from his 100-year sleep.
• Murder of Reimi Sugimoto and her dog, Arnold.
• Josuke Higashikata is born.
• Koichi Hirose is born.
• Okuyasu Nijimura is born.
• Guido Mista is born.

1984

• Narancia Ghirga is born.
• Joseph meets Mohammed Avdol for the first time.
• Rape and murder of Sherry Polnareff.

1985

• Pannacotta Fugo is born.

1985-1989

• Dio meets Enrico Pucci.

1986

• Donatello Versus is born.
• Giorno Giovanna is born.
• Trish Una is born.
• Diavolo finds 6 arrows and the bow.
• Joseph's stand power manifests.
• Polnareff encounters Dio.

1987

• Ungaro is born
• Rykiel is born
• Abdul encounters Dio in Egypt.
• Kakyoin encounters Dio in Egypt.
• Jotaro's stand power manifests.
• Holly's stand power manifests.

1988

• The majority of Stardust Crusaders takes place.
• Narciso Anasui is born.
• Death of Noriaki Kakyoin
• Death of Mohammed Avdol
• Death of Iggy
• Temporary death of Joseph Joestar
• Death of Dio Brando

1989

• Okuyasu's father is infected with Dio's cells.

1991

• Ermes Costello is born.

1993

• Jolyne Cujoh is born.

1998

• Anjuro Katagiri gains a stand ability due to the Bow and Arrow.

1999

• Diamond is Unbreakable takes place.
• Tamami Kobayashi, Yukako Yamagishi and Koichi Hirose gain stand abilities due to the Bow and Arrow.
• Death of Shigechi
• Death of Yoshikage Kira
• Polnareff discovers the Arrow's ability.

2001

• Vento Aureo takes place.
• Death of Leone Abbachio
• Death of Narancia Ghirga
• Death of Bruno Buccellati
• Jean Pierre Polnareff's original body is destroyed.
• Death of Diavolo
• Giorno leads Passione.

2011-2012

• Stone Ocean takes place.
• Death of Jotaro Kujo
• Death of Jolyne Cujoh
• Death of Ermes Costello
• Death of Weather Report
• Death of Narciso Anasui
• Death of Foo Fighters
• Death of Enrico Pucci
• Jump to an alternate timeline

circa year 1

• The saint is born.

1191

• Joseph of Arimathia's map is found under Glastonbury's monastery, which he founded.

16th century

• Joseph of Arimathia's map is stolen.

circa 1500

• Zeppeli family is ordered to become the king's executioner.

circa 1740

• Joseph of Arimathia's map arrives in the USA.

1840

• East & West Tribune is founded.
• Stephen Steel is born.

1846

• Norisuke Higashikata I is born.

1847

• 20 September, Funny Valentine is born.

1856

• Stephen Steel is placed on a deserted hospital island due to typhoid fever from cavalry rations.

1858

• Stephen Steel is let out of hospital, quits cavalry and joins a circus as a part-time worker.

1859

• Stephen Steel becomes the star of the circus.

1860

• Stephen Steel goes on a tour across the USA with the circus.

1861

• Stephen introduces new popular attractions in the circus: "Midget women wrestling", "Bug-eyed man" and "Pigs on a tight rope".

1863

• Stephen is fired from the circus because of a fight and his demeanor.
• Axl RO betrays his soldier comrades, their enemies killed a nearby town.

1865

• Stephen becomes a heavyweight boxer.
• Gyro Zeppeli is born.

1866

• Stephen becomes a debt collector.

1867

• Stephen beats an opponent he shouldn't have in a pre-rigged game, the gangsters retaliate by seeking him and shooting him in his right knee.

1868

• Stephen disappear, maybe he escaped as a sailor.

1870

• Diego Brando is born.

1871

• Johnny Joestar is born.

1872

• Norisuke Higashikata II is born, his birthname being Johei.

1874

• Rina Higashikata is born.

1875

• The cavalry's 26th squad dies of deshydratation inside the Devil's Palm in Arizona's desert, Mountain Tim, age 16, being the only survivor and developing a stand.

1876

• Lucy Pendleton is born.

1877

• Gyro Zeppeli, age 13, discovers the executionner duty of his family.

1881

• Stephen reappears in San Francisco and declare to East & West newspaper that he is going in Costa Rica to search dinosaurs, and publishes popular articles.

1883

• Stephen becomes a promoter.
• Stephen publishes popular articles in E&W: "Capturing the Yeti in Rocky Mountains", "Looking for the 3-legged catfish", "in search of the 20-meter long Penguin" and "The newlyweds in a haunted mansion: documentary".

1886

• Stephen buys a mansion in San Jose with 8 servants, he also colletcs art pieces like Monet's ones.
• Stephen is denied from university.

1887-1888

• Stephen is dubbed as a fraud for a scandal he had nothing to do with.
• Stephen goes bankrup.
• Lucy meets Stephen Steel when he was drunk on the streets. Lucy who was listening to his mumbling, came out with the idea of race across the entire American continent. 
• Stephen founds over 20 sponsors for SBR starting by East&West Tribune.

1889

• Funny Valentine becomes the 23rd president of the USA, he also encourages the Steel Ball Run race secretly after meeting Steel.
• Stephen rescue Lucy from a gang liying about her virginity.
• Stephen and Lucy gor married.

1890

• The Steel Ball Run takes place.
• 25 September at 10am, the Steel Ball Run race begins.

1891

• Death of Funny Valentine
• Death of Gyro Zeppeli
• Death of Diego Brando
• 19 January, the Steel Ball Run race finishes.
• SBR hat brand is founded.

1892

• Johnny maries Rina.

1898

• George Joestar II is born.

1901

• 11 November evening, death of Johnny Joestar.
• 12 November morning, Johnny's corpse is found by the authorities.
• 13 November, Johnny's death and the discovery of a child are announced in Yashirokita News.
• 07 December, Yashirokita News reports that Johnny is considered dead out of an accident.

1902

• 23 May, Yashirokita News report that Joestar Jizo is build.

1908

• Norisuke Higashikata III is born, his birthname being Joshou.

1924

• Joseph Joestar is born.

1931

• Death of Norisuke Higashikata I.

1941

• Yoshiteru Kira is born.

1952

• Norisuke Higashikata IV is born, his birthname being Josuke.

1959

• Holly Joestar is born.

1979

• Jobin Higashikata is born.

1980

• Mitsuba is born.

1982

• Yoshikage Kira is born.

1987

• Hato Higashikata is born.

1991

• Yoshiteru Kira is dead.

1992

• Joshuu Higashikata is born.

1993

• Holly begins to work for the hospital.

1995

• Daiya Higashikata is born.

2002

• Tsurugi Higashikata is born.

2008

• Holly becomes a professor at TG Dai.

2011

• JoJolion takes place.