Chronology of Supernatural

The chronology of Supernatural is very complicated, as no precise dates are given in many episodes - The episodes with clear, precise dates being Pilot and The End. The show is currently set in 2013, and it is presumed to have begun sometime in 2005, as evidenced by the murders committed by Constance Welch from 2003-2005. Clear dates are given in the early chronology of the Winchester family, i.e. Dean was born in the 1970s and Mary died in 1983. Shown below is a construction of the chronology of Supernatural.

Primeval/Primordial times

 * God and Death just exist before the start of anything. Then, at some point, God shaped his Law--the Natural Order.
 * God creates Heaven as His holy dwelling place.
 * God makes the first creatures, the Leviathans, but realizing their potential and recognizing how destructive they are, He creates Purgatory and locks the beasts away inside.
 * Famine came into being as a result of the Leviathans' hunger.
 * Eve appeared around this time.
 * God creates the Four Archangels.
 * All other Angels are created by God.
 * Metatron is named Gods Scribe, he starts dictating as creation is being formed.
 * God creates Earth, the Souls and creatures to live on it.
 * God creates Hell.

Earliest Human History times

 * Lucifer begins to question the motives of God.
 * Uriel, Anna, and Castiel are born in Heaven and Uriel is fascinated by Lucifer's rebellion.
 * A fish develops the ability to walk on land on a desolate beach. An older angel tells Castiel not to step on it, because God has big plans for it.
 * God creates Adam, and gives him Lilith as his first wife. Adam rejects her, however. Lilith flees and begins walking the Earth.
 * God creates Eve as Adam's second wife. Lucifer is disgusted by humans, at this point.
 * Lucifer's disgust turns to hate for humans being God's new most beloved creations. At some point, Adam and Eve are expelled from Eden or some other heavenly location on Earth or in Heaven. This was for their sin of eating the Fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
 * Castiel is stationed in Anna's garrison and is stationed on Earth. Castiel watches the very first fish crawl onto land and knows God has big plans for that fish.
 * God asks His angelic children to bow down and worship or love humans as He believes humanity to be the best of all His creations. Lucifer argues that humans are evil, flawed and murderous. God refuses to listen.
 * To show the power of Angels, Lucifer twists Lilith's soul into the very first demon. Lucifer then asks Michael, his older brother, to stand by him in conflict and the war, but God tells Michael to cast Lucifer into Hell. War comes into being as a result of the fighting going on in Heaven.
 * Lucifer creates Demons by turning evil human souls into monsters. He then sets up Hell's hierarchy, estabilishing himself as King, and lets demons spawn and multiply throughout the centuries. He inducts the first members into an elite order known as the Knights of Hell.
 * Lucifer's Cage is formed by God.
 * Lucifer is defeated and thrown into The Cage by Michael.
 * Gabriel leaves Heaven after seeing his brothers fight each other.
 * The remaining Archangels hunt down and destroy the Knights of Hell, and only Abaddon is able to escape them.
 * Azazel makes himself King of Hell in Lucifer's absence due to his imprisonment in his Cage. Azazel begins seeking means to free his master from the Cage and let him rule the Earth as Azazel believes this is Lucifer's rightful destiny.

Modern times / Human History

 * Humanity begins referring to Lucifer by the name "Satan."
 * Angels begin to visit Earth.
 * Civil war continues in Heaven.

10,000 B.C.

 * 1) Pagan times: The Pagan gods are venerated by the early humans and gain followers. Eve creates an army of monsters to overcome the future human race. Humans are primarily Pagan and the Carrigans gain many followers.
 * 2) Among the most powerful of the gods at this time are Osiris, Ganesh, Odin, Zeus and Kali.


 * Osiris and other Egyptian gods are worshipped in Egypt.
 * Kali, Ganesh and other Hindu gods are worshipped in India.
 * Odin and other Norse gods began to be worshipped in North Europe.
 * Gabriel disguises himself as Loki aka the Trickster.
 * Zeus and other Greek gods are worshipped in Greece.
 * God makes Himself known on Earth, and sees the evil infecting humanity due to Cain killing his own brother. God releases Death to flood Earth and destroy humanity, deciding to only save Noah and his family.

8000 B.C.

 * Eve last visits Earth before going back to Purgatory.

4000 - 3000 B.C.

 * Zachariah starts working for Michael.

1085 B.C.

 * Eve creates the Alphas and the Alphas create monsters from them.
 * God begins to gain a following amongst the Israelite people.
 * Castiel is witness to the fall of the Tower of Bable, and the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah.
 * Moses uses his Staff to free the Israelites from Egypt and start the forty-year Exodus. The angels are ordered to slay every Egyptian firstborn infant, only for the lower angels (including Castiel) to have their minds wiped afterwards by Naomi. God leads Moses out of slavery and God estabilishes His Covenant with the Israelites.
 * Moses dies just before entering Canaan, the Promised Land. After his death, Michael fights with Lucifer over the soul of Moses. Michael is again victorious.
 * God outshines all the other Pagan gods in terms of power and worship.
 * The Israelites spread the word of God and warn people against following Lucifer.
 * Sometime in this era, Azazel abandons his position as King of Hell and appears on Earth in a human vessel, seeking the Gate of Lucifer's Cage. Israelites encounter Azazel and fear him. Eventually this leads to them sending goats into the Desert for him to kill and to appease him.

1 A.D.

 * Jesus Christ is born and warns people about the coming of the Antichrist (Jesse in modern times)

33 A.D.

 * Jesus is crucified when he rebels against Roman rule and teaches people about God. He is resurrected and ascends to Heaven to be with God.
 * God leaves Heaven. In despair at seeing their father go, the Archangels decide to rule the universe in his stead, but will need the Words of God to achieve this. Naomi is ordered to debrief Metatron, but he escapes to Earth before they can get him in their hands.
 * The angels are recalled to Heaven on Michael's orders, not returning to Earth until the coming of The Apocalypse two thousand years later.

77 A.D.

 * Reapers gather in Pompeii for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

1000s

 * The Mayan Inyo, who would later use the alias Brick Holmes, is born around this time.

1100s

 * The witch named Patrick is born around this time.
 * The Purgatory resident who would later go by the alias Dr. Visyak is born around this time.

1200s

 * The later witch couple Don Stark and Maggie Stark are born around this time.

1300s

 * Ruby is a human during the Black Plague epidemic in Europe (1348-1350). She sells her soul to the demon Astaroth and becomes a witch. After her time is up she is dragged off to Hell, tortured, and eventually becomes a demon.

1400s

 * The vampire Boris is born around this time.

1492

 * Maggie Stark has a one-night-stand with Christopher Columbus. She suspects Don Stark of having a fling with a female member of the Florentine Medici family.

1500s

 * The Protestant fathers leave England, and sail to America, becoming the first white men in America. White colonization begins in the United States of America but as soon as the settlers arrive, their governor realizes that they lack efficient supplies for a long winter. He returns to England which takes him two years, and then another year returning with supplies. When he returns to the colony's camp in 1590, he finds it derelict and empty. The only clue to what happened to the Lost Colony is the word Croatoan carved onto a tree. This has become one of the biggest mysteries of American history, and to this day nobody knows what happened to the colony, as no DNA has turned up matching that of the settlers. Common theories suggest that the survivors were infected with the Croatoan Virus and killed each other.

1600s

 * Crowley is born in Scotland as Fergus McLeod in 1661, and taught witchcraft by his mother . Crowley seeks out a Crossroads Demon to whom he sells his soul for a chance to cash in. Crowley lives a decade of success, and is eventually dragged to Hell by a Hellhound. In Hell, Crowley is tortured brutally until he becomes a Demon, and emerges more powerful than other Demons, becoming the right hand man and possible lover to Lilith, the first demon. Unlike other Demons, Crowley does not want Lucifer freed, since he knows Lucifer views Demons as abominations.

1700s

 * In 1723 Crowley's son Gavin MacLeod, after the death of his parents, emigrates to the American Colonies from Scotland, but drowns when his ship goes under off the coast of Massachusetts.

1830s

 * In 1835 Samuel Colt builds the Colt, a weapon that can kill anything in Creation with the exception of five beings, including the Archangel Lucifer.

1860s

 * Samuel Colt completes the construction of the Devil's Gate in Wyoming some time prior to 1861.
 * From the year 2011 Sam and Dean teleport to 1861, way before their time, on the hunt of a Phoenix whose ashes can be used to kill Eve, the Mother of All. The Winchesters find a Phoenix, named Elias Finch, and Dean lures him out into combat and kills him with the Colt he borrows from Samuel Colt, before he is sent back to 2011. Colt collects the ashes and sends them to the future by storing them at a post office which will deliver them to Bobby Singer's house 150 years later.

1880s

 * H. H. Holmes is executed for being America's first mass murderer. His spirit would later resurface.
 * The Merchant family are found slaughtered. Everyone believes the father Isiah is the murderer, when in fact it is the adopted daughter Melanie who committed the atrocity. Melanie's spirit would return later when the painting of her family was sold on.
 * Dr. Benton abandons his professional work to gain immortality.
 * Jacob Karns kills seventeen prostitutes. His ghost would make a comeback later in the following years.

1910s

 * The RMS Titanic sails from Bristol, England, to embark on its maiden voyage. The angel Balthazar arrives in 1912 from the future, 2010, and takes up a job on the ship as an officer. He manages to alert the officers to the dangers of the iceberg and thus saves millions of people from drowning and saves the entire ship, altering history dramatically and enabling the Titanic to sail from Bristol to New York unimpeded. However, this, coupled with Dean averting the Apocalypse, puts Atropos out of her job. Desperate to put things right, Atropos begins killing off the descendants of those onboard Titanic who survived. Things are only reverted when Balthazar is persuaded by Castiel to go back to 1912 and change history back to normal by sinking the Titanic.
 * Azazel takes Meg to see Lucifer's Crypts some time before 1913.
 * The Great War begins in 1914. War influences the desire for militarism and conquest in Germany.

1920s

 * A young girl commits suicide when she discovers she has been abused by her studio chief in Hollywood. Her ghost would later return and haunt the studio.

1930s

 * On March 10, 1937, H.P. Lovecraft opens a portal to Purgatory. Several creatures escape, one of which possesses his maid Eleanor and thereafter called herself Dr. Elle Visyak. Another of the creatures kills Lovecraft five days later.
 * World War II begins in 1939. War influences a resurgance in militarism and conquest in Germany.

1940s

 * The demon Alastair is present in German-occupied Poland in 1943.
 * During World War II, The Judah Initiative battles with the Thule necromancers sponsored by the Nazis. A Golem raised by the Rabbis from the Vitsyebsk Ghetto lays waste to a Thule base in occupied Belarus in 1944. Commander Eckhart completes a ritual and escapes before the Golem can catch him.
 * Dean faces the God of Time who sends him forty years back in the past from 2012. In 1944, Dean meets Eliot Ness, who briefly hires him as his colleague. Dean is briefly trapped in 1944 when Sam tries to find a way to pull him out and get revenge on Cronos.

1950s

 * John Winchester is born in Illinois in 1954 to Henry Winchester and his wife, who intends to raise him as a member of the Men of Letters when he comes of age to carry on their legacy.
 * Mary Winchester is born in 1954 to Samuel and Deanna Campbell, who raise her to be a hunter in the way of the Campbell Family.
 * Father Thompson of the Men of Letters attempts to cure a demon.
 * Henry Winchester is about to be inducted into the Men of Letters in 1958. When the demon Abaddon appears to steal the key to The Men-of-Letters Bunker she kills every member of the order except Henry, who travels to 2013 to reach his by then adult son John Winchester, but appears in Sam and Dean's motel room instead. Abaddon pursues Henry into the future.

1960s

 * Peter Sweeney was bullied by the school bully who accidentally dunked him underwater for too long. Peter drowned and returned to haunt the lake years later.
 * The Roosevelt Asylum riots took place and the chief doctor was killed.
 * The vampire Benny Lafitte falls in love with Andrea, and is killed by The Old Man. He spends the next fifty years in Purgatory.
 * On April 24, 1967, the Impala rolls off the assembly line in Janesville, Wisconsin.

1970s

 * Cyrus Dorian drives up to the local school in a black truck, and ignites the school, killing a hundred children who were singing carols. Cyrus then is killed and his spirit thereafter travels the roads on the truck he was buried in.
 * Mary and John Winchester meet in Lawrence, Kansas, and a Cupid causes them to fall in love on Heaven's orders.
 * In 1972, Azazel, Lucifer's loyal general, finds the gate to Lucifer's Cage in the convent in Maryland. Azazel kills several nuns to communicate with Lucifer and Lucifer tells him he needs Sam Winchester, not yet born, in order to carry out this mission.
 * John Winchester fights in the Vietnam War before he returns to Lawrence in 1973.
 * On April 30th 1973, Dean arrives after being sent back through time by Castiel from 2008. He advises John Winchester to buy the Impala. Azazel, still looking for Special Children to turn with his blood, appears in the town. Dean tries to prevent Mary from making a deal with him by retrieving The Colt to kill him, but Azazel kills Mary's parents and succeeds in sealing the deal. Dean is transported back to the future before he can comfort Mary, leaving her to think he just left her.
 * The angel Anna travels back to 1978 from the year 2010 during The Apocalypse to kill Mary (by then pregnant with Dean) and John, so Sam will never be born and Lucifer cannot use him as his vessel. Sam, Dean, and Castiel go back to stop her, while Anna calls Uriel down from Heaven to aid her, fooling him into thinking she is still his superior in the future. Michael goes back in time to smite Anna and send Uriel back to Heaven. He talks to Dean before sending him and Sam back to 2010, and wipes Mary and John's memories of the events.
 * Dean Winchester is born on January 24, 1979.

1980s

 * Sam Winchester is born on May 2, 1983.
 * On November 2, 1983, Sam is fed demon blood by Azazel. Mary Winchester tries to stop him, but is killed by the Yellow-Eyed Demon. John, Dean, and Sam escape from their burning home in Lawrence.
 * John Winchester goes into hunting.
 * In March 1985 Anna Milton rebels against Heaven, and removes her Grace so she can be reborn as a human.
 * Constance Welch goes insane after finding out that her husband cheated on her, and drowns her children. Gaining sanity destroys her mind and she kills herself by jumping into a freezing river. Constance reappears as a Woman in White.

1990s

 * Sam finds out, to his dismay, that John is a hunter, and that the supernatural world exists. Well, apart from Father Christmas.
 * Sam and Dean find a werewolf and kill it. Sam uses this hunt as his holiday project to write about at school later on.
 * In 1997, Sam and Dean are dropped off at Truman High by John for several weeks while John goes on an extended hunt. Sam goes to school and is bullied, but he doesn't know the bully (Dirk MacGregor, Jr.) is only mean because of life at home. When Sam calls the bully "Dirk the Jerk" this is the last straw and when the whole school chants that name, Dirk, the bully, kills himself soon after. Dirk returns to haunt the school, killing off people he thinks are like Sam.
 * In 1998, Sam befriends Amy Pond but then realizes she's a kitsune.
 * Sam tells John he wants college instead of a hunter's life. John tells Sam if he leaves, he should never come back. Sam goes off to college and ultimately meets Jessica Moore.

2003

 * The first murders committed by Constance Welch occur here. In the same year, War influences the War in Darfur to occur.

2005

 * Dean first recruits Sam, after two years or so of not speaking. Together they defeat Constance Welch, the Wendigo, and the spirits of the Roosevelt Asylum, the ghosts of Sweeney and Dorian, and the insane Bender family.

2006

 * The brothers are reunited with their father when the demon Meg uses a trap with the Daeva she controls. However, the Daeva turn on her and throw her off the roof. Finally reunited with their father, Sam and Dean realize that he is in fact possessed by Azazel, the demon who killed their mother and killed Jessica Moore and tore apart their family. Despite himself, Sam cannot bring himself to kill Azazel, as it would mean killing John. He shoots him in the leg and rushes to hospital, but they are struck by a truck driven by a demon. After John makes a deal with Azazel to heal Dean, who meets a Reaper named Tessa, Dean recovers but Azazel takes John to Hell. The brothers continue to defeat many demons and spirits and ultimately Azazel takes Sam to an abandoned town where he meets the Special Children. Together they gradually kill each other and the Devil's Gate is opened in Wyoming.

2007

 * The brothers meet Bela Talbot, who specializes in stealing supernatural objects. Sam also meets Ruby, a demon who escaped when the Devil's Gate was opened. Ruby tells Sam that he has powers, and he should use them. Bela is revealed to have made a deal with a demon in exchange for ten years of prosperity, and she is soon dragged to Hell. Dean has made exactly the same deal to save Sam from Azazel, however: And Dean is dragged to Hell by the new archenemy, the demon Lilith.

2008

 * The angel Castiel is ordered by Heaven to drag Dean out of Hell when Dean breaks the first Seal binding Lucifer captive. Soon, the other 66 Seals rapidly break. Castiel meets and befriends Sam and Dean, and tells Dean that he saved him from the Pit. The brothers also learn about Lucifer, and that he will soon arise.

2009

 * Lucifer rises when all the Seals are broken and finally walks the Earth. Ruby reveals herself as a traitor and is killed by the Winchesters. The Apocalypse has begun. Lucifer is free and seeks a vessel. During his time on Earth, he kills gods, angels, demons, humans and binds Death and the other Four Horsemen to his side with a supernatural spell.

2010

 * Michael challenges Lucifer to a final apocalyptic battle. Fortunately, before all Hell can break loose, Dean averts the Apocalypse by reminding Sam that he is his brother. Sam takes control of Lucifer and forces himself and Lucifer back into the Cage where Lucifer had been imprisoned before. However, Castiel pulls Sam out of the Cage, albeit soulless. Dean is astonished when he learns that Sam is alive and out of Hell, but is confused when he learns he has been back for a year and hasn't told him. However, Dean suspects there is something wrong with Sam, but then he learns he is soulless. Together, they set about retrieving Sam's soul. Death returns the soul to Sam, and he is fully human again. However, not all is well: Raphael is winning the war in Heaven against Castiel.

2011

 * Castiel betrays the Winchester brothers by allying with the demon Crowley and seizing all the souls in Purgatory, accidentally absorbing the Leviathan monsters too. With the souls, Castiel kills the Archangel Raphael. The Leviathans, after centuries of imprisonment, are finally free and taking vengeance on humanity and God. It is up to the Winchesters to stop them.

2012

 * Dean kills the Leviathan Chief who possessed Dick Roman and he alongside Castiel are transported to Purgatory with Dick's soul. Crowley and his demon army destroy the remaining Leviathans and he seizes the prophet Kevin Tran. Dean later escapes from Purgatory with the assistance of a vampire named Benny. Benny asks Dean to save his soul and resurrect him, to which Dean eventually agrees. Castiel is presumed to have died in Purgatory but then an angel named Naomi summons Castiel to Heaven and announces that she and numerous other high-ranking angels saved him. Castiel is doubtful about whether to trust Naomi but agrees to keep in contact with her and his superiors from time to time. Kevin Tran has escaped from Crowley and translated the Demon Tablet, giving the Winchester the ability to close the Gates of Hell forever. if they complete the Trials of God.

2013

 * With Meg's assistance the Winchesters retrieve the Angel Tablet from Lucifer's Crypts, but Castiel goes AWOL with the Tablet after defying Naomi's orders. Crowley recaptures Kevin, and Naomi eventually gets her hands on Castiel again. Metatron is discovered hiding out on Earth, and he rescues Kevin. He manipulates the Winchesters and Castiel, kills Naomi, and banishes every angel from Heaven, with the now human angels falling to Earth.

Split Timeline: 2014 (The Apocalypse)

 * It is now three years into the Apocalypse which had inadverdantly been started by Sam when he accidentally released Lucifer. By now Earth is a wreck, humanity is almost extinct, and many millions of humans are infected with the Croatoan Virus. Those uninfected, including a human Castiel, remain isolated and in hiding. Dean is flung into this future by the angel Zachariah so Dean can witness what happens when he refuses to allow the Archangel Michael to use him to defeat Lucifer. As a result, Dean is tormented when he witnesses his future self being murdered - By none other than Lucifer, who has possessed Dean's own brother Sam.

[Note: Fortunately this Apocalypse was averted when Dean destroyed the Croatoan Virus and Sam fought back against Lucifer and trapped him once again in the Cage ]