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 3,000 B.C.

• Pillarmen appear in human history, searching for a super Aja.

Circa 50 B.C.

• Pillarmen begins their 2,000 year slumber, after having destroyed the Ripple clan.

39

• Hell Climb Pillar is build to recreate the Ripple technic.

12th century

• Rise of the Aztec tribe which uses the Stone Mask.

Circa 1500

•  Caravan Serai dies, freeing Anubis.

14th century

• Gessler builds a fortress in Swiss.

1327

• Winzaleo, the Lion King, is the first knight to pass the 77 rings.

1389

• Eijkman, the thunder kinght, passes the 77 rings.

1408

• Caineghis passes the 77 rings.

16th century

• The Aztec tribes disappear.

1563

• Tarukus and Bruford pass the 77 rings.

Circa 1565

• Deaths of Tarkus and Bruford.

Circa 1700

• Nizaemon Yamamura discovers a unknown pigment by taking down a 1000 year-old tree.

18th century

• One ancestor of the Pucci family becomes a pope.

1827

• Dario Brando is born.

1838

• 19 January, Will Anthonio Zeppeli is born.

1858

• Zeppeli's father discovers the Stone Mask inside Aztec ruins.

1860

• Zeppeli meets an oriental doctor and Tonpetty takes him in as an apprentice.

1863

• 16 October, Robert Edward O. Speedwagon is born.
• Tonpetty tells Zeppeli, age 25, that he will die a horrible death if he continues the ripple training. Zeppeli accepts this.

1867

• Dio Brando is born.

1868

• 04 April, Jonathan Joestar is born.
• Erina Pendolton is born.
• Death of Mary Joestar and Dario saves George I after they bought the Stone Mask.

1873

• 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

• Phantom Blood begins.
• Death of Dario Brando

1881

• Dio is adopted by Lord Joestar.
• Erina moves to India as a result of her father's work.

1888

• A prison is build at Windknight's Lot.
• Jack the Ripper is a famous murderer.
• Dio rejects his humanity and becomes a vampire using the Stone Mask.
• 01 December's night, 73 persons from Wind Knight's Lot disappears, death of Will Anthonio Zeppeli, and Dio Brando's original body is destroyed.
• 04 December, London Press reports Wind Knight's Lot disappearances.
• 15 December, London Press reports Jeff Buck and Dan Hammer's witnesses.
• Circa December, Lisa Lisa is born.

1889

• 02 February, Jonathan and Erina marry.
• 03 February, Jonathan and Erina go to America to cellebrate their honeymoon.
• 07 February, death of Jonathan Joestar.
• 09 February, Erina and Lisa Lisa are saved near Canarie islands.
• 22 May, apicture of Speedwagon, Straizo, Erina and Lisa Lisa is taken.
• George Joestar II is born.

20th century beginning

• Gessler's ancient fortress is changed into a hotel.

1910

• Speedwagon creates his Foundation.

1918

• 13 May, Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli is born.

1920

• 27 September, Joseph Joestar is born in London.

1921

• Death of George Joestar II.
• Lisa Lisa avenges George.

1930

• The hostel build within Gessler's fortress is closed after the death of his owner.

1933

• Nazis found the Pillarmen.

1935

• Death of Mario Zeppeli.

1938

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

1939

• 30 January, Joseph receives Wamuu and Esidisi's Wedding Rings which will dissolve 33 days later.
• 31 days before the rings' dissolution, Joseph meets Lisa Lisa and gets a mask.
• 30 days before the rings' dissolution, Caesar and Joseph begin the Hell Climb Pillar test.
• 26 days before the rings' dissolution, Caesar and then Joseph finish the Hell Climb Pillar and begin their training with Loggins and Messina.
• 7 days before the rings' dissolution, Caesar and Joseph learn that Lisa Lisa has the Super Aja.
• 6 days before the rings' dissolution, deaths of Loggins and Esidisi.
• 27 February, 5 days before the ring's dissolution, death of Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli, age 20.
• 28 February, 4 days before the ring's dissolution, death of Wamuu, Joseph loses his hand and Kars is launched into space.
• Joseph and Suzie Q marry.

1942

• Holy Joestar is born.

1943

• Death of Rudol von Stroheim on Stalingrad Front.

1948

• Lisa Lisa remarries with a Hollywood scenarist.

1950

• Peaceful death of Erina Joestar, age 81.

1952

• Death of Robert E.O. Speedwagon from a heart attack, age 89.

1964

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

1965

• Jean Pierre Polnareff is born.

1966

• 30 January, Yoshikage Kira is born.

1967

• in Summer, Diavolo is born.
• Holly Joestar marries Sadao Kujo.

1969

• in Autumn, Kenzo kills 34 persons.

1970

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

1972

• 05 June, Enrico Pucci and Weather Report are born, birth and death of Wes Bluemarine.

1974

• Risotto Nero is born in Sicilia.
• 25 July, Kira is in a vacation summer camp.

1976

• Anjuro, age 12, is sent to a youth detention center after being arrested by Ryohei.

Circa 1977

• Polnareff begins to train his stand.

1979

• Rohan Kishibe is born.

1980

• 25 March, Leone Abbachio is born.
• 27 September, Bruno Buccellati is born.

1981

• Keicho Nijimura is born.

1982

• In Lorraine, Survivor's original user causes the death of 6 mountaineers.
• 03 December, Guido Mista is born.

1983

• Josuke Higashikata is born.
• Dio wakes from his 100-year sleep, his coffin is found at Canarie Islands.
• Okuyasu Nijimura is born.
• 20 May, Narancia Ghirga is born.
• Kira begins to collect his hand nails, which grew over 30 cm that year.
• 13 August, murders of Reimi Sugimoto, age 16, after her dog Arnold by Kira.

1984

• 28 March, Koichi Hirose is born.
• Joseph meets Mohammed Avdol for the first time.
• J Geil rapes and murders Sherry Polnareff.
• 22 September at 23h15, D'arby wins against Stephen Moor in California.

1985

• Pannacotta Fugo is born at Naples' hospital.
• 16 April, Giorno Giovanna is born.
• 08 June, Trish Una is born.

1986

• Donatello Versus is born.
• June, Diavolo, age 19, meets Donatella Una and takes a picture of her as Solido Nazo.
• Diavolo is reported missing among the 7 dead persons of a big fire.
• Diavolo, age 19, finds 6 arrows and the bow which where buried in Egypt and sells 5 to Enya the hag.
• Dio's stand power manifests itself after being pierced by the bow and arrow
• Joseph's stand power manifests.
• Polnareff encounters Dio.
• Gray Fly kills 300 persons in an air crash.

1987

• Dio meets Enrico Pucci, age 15, in America and gives him an arrow head.
• Circa July, Abdul encounters Dio in the souk Khan Khalil in Egypt during a full moon.
• Dio discovers that his stand can stop time.
• Circa August, Kakyoin encounters Dio in Egypt during a trip on the Nile with his family.
• Stardust Crusaders begins.
• Jotaro's stand power manifests.
• 28 November, Holly and Josuke's stand powers manifest themselves.
• Joestar group begins their journey.
• 15 days after their departure, Avdol is beaten and death of J. Geil.
• 28 December, Joestar group arrives in Egypt 30 days after their departure.

1988

• Pucci hears the confession surrounding his brother.
• Pucci befriends Dio.
• Narciso Anasui is born.
• 16 January, deaths of the Cairo informant, Chibi and Buchi, Pet Shop, Mohammed Avdol, Iggy, Vanilla Ice, Nukesaku, Wilson Phillips and Noriaki Kakyoin at midnight in Japanese time (5:15am with the Egyptian one).
• Temporary death of Joseph Joestar
• Death of Dio Brando.
• Kira gets a literature diploma and is employed by Kameyu shops at City S., his nails grew over 30cm.
• Ungalo is born.
• Rikiel is born.

1989

• Nijimura's father is infected by Dio's flesh bud.
• Dio's notebook is burned by Jotaro.
• Kira's nails grew over 30cm.
• The house number 11 of the Millionaire Village is bought.
• The Louvres acquires Under The Moon.

1991

• Ermes Costello is born.

1993

• Jolyne Cujoh is born.
• Kira moves to Morioh due to his job, his nails grew over 30cm.

1994

• Mars, Anjuro commits murders and is sentenced to death.
• Kira's nails grew over 30cm.

1995

• Kira's nails grew over 30cm.

1998

• September, Anjuro Katagiri gains a stand ability due to the Bow and Arrow, two weeks before his death sentence.
• October, Anjuro survives his death sentence and escapes a week after.

1999

• Circa January, Tamami Kobayashi gains a stand due to Keicho's Bow and Arrow.
• Circa February, Yukako Yamagishi gains a stand due to Keicho's Bow and Arrow.
• Diamond is Unbreakable takes place.
• April, Jotaro, age 28, meets Josuke and Koichi.
• Ryohei is killed by Angelo.
• Koichi Hirose gains a stand due to Keicho's Bow and Arrow.
• May, Josuke meets Joseph.
• Death of Shigechi
• June, Kira's nails already grew over 20cm.
• Death of Yoshikage Kira.
• Polnareff discovers Requiem abilities.

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.

2005

• 21 July 9:33, flight 2682 crashes leaving only 2 survivors.

2011

• Stone Ocean begins.
• 28 October 5:32pm, Jolyne and Romeo kills someone in a car accident.
• 02 November 8:43pm, Jolyne is arrested.
• 06 November 2:32pm, Jolyne arrives at Green Dolphin Street prison.
• 08 November, Jolyne is condemned to 15 years at Green Dolphin Street prison.
• November, Jotaro visits Jolyne in the prison.

2012

• Millionaire Village takes place.
• Death of Foo Fighters.
• 6 days before the new moon on 22 March, Jolyne escapes after 4 months of imprisonment.
• 4 days before the new moon on 22 March, Ungaro and Rykiel are sent after Jolyne's group.
• 3 days after Jolyne's escape (3 days before the new moon on 22 March), death of Weather Report.
• 21 March (2 days before the new moon on 22 March), time starts to speed up.
• Deaths of Narciso Anasui, Ermes Costello, Jotaro Kujo and Jolyne Cujoh.
• Jump to an alternate timeline.
• Death of Enrico Pucci

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 rescues Lucy from a gang by lying about her virginity.
• Stephen and Lucy get married.

1890

• Early May, Gyro leaves Italy.
• 22 May, Gyro arrives in the USA.
• The Steel Ball Run takes place.
• 25 September at 10am, the Steel Ball Run race begins.

1891

• 19 January, deaths of Wekapipo, Diego Brando, Hot Pants, Gyro Zeppeli and Funny Valentine. The Steel Ball Run race ends.
• 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

• Mars, Morioh is heavily damaged by a tsunami.
• JoJolion takes place.