Neon Genesis Evangelion Timeline

The following is a timeline for the events in the continuity of Neon Genesis Evangelion and The End of Evangelion.

1955

April

• 9 - Kozo Fuyutsuki born

1967

April

• 29 - Gendo Rokubungi born

1977

March

• 30 - Yui Ikari born?

1985

June

• 17 - Ryoji Kaji born

November

• 21 - Ritsuko Akagi born.

1986

December

• 8 - Misato Katsuragi born.

1991

July

• 11 - Maya Ibuki born.

1999

• Gendo Rokubungi and Kozo Fuyutsuki first meet.
• Gendo Rokubungi and Yui Ikari marry.
• Gendo Rokubungi becomes Gendo Ikari.

2000

• 13 - Second Impact occurs.
  • 13 - Dr. Katsuragi dies.
  • 13 - Alleged date of birth of Kaworu Nagisa (according to his files).
• 15 - A refugee incident leads to war between India and Pakistan.
• 20 - Old Tokyo is destroyed by a nuclear bomb

February

• 14 - The Valentine Treaty is signed, ending the wars that followed Second Impact.

June

• 6 - Shinji Ikari born.

September

• 12 - Kensuke Aida born.

December

• 4 - Asuka Langley Soryu born.
• 26 - Toji Suzuhara born.

2002

• Official United Nations investigation mission is sent to Antarctica, including Gendo Ikari and Kozo Fuyutusuki.

February

• Hikari Horaki born

2003

• Construction of the Evangelions begins.
• Fuyutsuki confronts Gendo Ikari and threatens to expose the Second Impact coverup. Gendo gives him a tour of then under-construction Tokyo-3, where he meets Dr. Naoko Akagi and Ritsuko Akagi. Gendo "convinces" Fuyutsuki to join GEHIRN.
• Development of the MAGI supercomputer system by Naoko Akagi is underway.
• The Japanese Strategic Self Defense Forces is formed, in response to the outbreak of war between China and Vietnam over the Spratly Islands.

2004

• Yui Ikari disappears inside of Evangelion Unit-01 during a "contact experiment" with the Eva. Shinji Ikari is sent away to live with his teacher. Gendo Ikari moves foward with work on the Human Instrumentality Project.

2005

• Asuka is selected as an Eva pilot. Asuka's mother Kyoko commits suicide.
• Asuka's father remarries.
• Misato Katsuragi and Ritsuko Akagi first meet at univeristy, in Tokyo-2. By this time Ritsuko has begun bleaching her hair blonde. Some time later while at the university Misato begins her relationship with Ryoji Kaji, and then introduces him to Ritsuko.
• The Japanese Diet approves the building of a new capital in Fuji-Hakone.
• Construction of Tokyo-3 begins.

2008

• Misato breaks up with Kaji, secretly because he reminds her of her father.
• Planning and design for the MAGI supercomputers is completed.
• Construction of the MAGI supercomputer begins.
• Ritsuko Akagi graduates university at Tokyo-2 and joins GEHIRN to work under her mother. Ritsuko learns of her mother and Gendo's affair.

2010

• "Rei Ayanami" (Rei I) is first publicly encountered in when Gendo introduces her to Naoko and Ritsuko at GEHIRN HQ.
• Misato Katsuragi and Ryoji Kaji join GEHIRN, soon before it is reorganized into NERV.
• The MAGI supercomputer system in Tokyo-3 is completed.
  • The night of the MAGI's completion, Naoko Akagi strangles Rei I to death when Rei reveals to her that Gendo does not truly love her and is only using her. Naoko then commits suicide by throwing herself onto the MAGI.
• SEELE disbands GEHIRN and reorganizes all of its personnel and assets into the successor organization, NERV.

2012

• Shinji Ikari sees his father Gendo for the last time, when they are visiting his mother's grave marker. Shinji runs away.

2014

• Rei Ayanami (Rei II) transfers into Tokyo-3 First Municipal High School, joining the class of students in 7th grade who will be in the 8th grade Class 2-A when Shinji transfers into it the following year.

2015

• Rei Ayanami (Rei II) begins attempting to synchronize with Evangelion Unit-00, but is unsuccessful for seven months.
• Rei is injured during a test of Eva 00, when Eva 00 goes berserk. This apparently happens soon before Episode 1, as medics have not yet changed Rei out of her plugsuit.
• The Angel Sachiel attacks Tokyo-3. Shinji Ikari is brought to Tokyo-3 by Misato Katsuragi. Shinji is made to pilot Evangelion Unit-01 in its first battle to stop Sachiel. This begins the pattern of Angel attacks for the rest of the series.
• The 4th Angel Shamshel attacks three weeks after Sachiel is defeated.
• 22 days after Eva 00 went berserk, Episode 5 takes place.