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.
• Asuka arrives at Tokyo-3. Kaji arrives as well, who delivers Adam, in an embryonic state, to Gendo Ikari. At some unspecified time after this, Gendo fuses Adam with his right hand, keeping it concealed beneath his glove.