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 2011, 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 1982. Shown below is a construction of the chronology of Supernatural.

Primeval times

 * The first gods appear. Death and God create the Natural Order.
 * God makes the first creatures, the Leviathans, but realizing His great mistake and recognizing how destructive they are He creates Purgatory and locks the beasts away inside.
 * Around this time Eve appears.
 * God creates Heaven as His holy dwelling place.
 * God creates the four great Archangels.
 * The other angels are formed.
 * The Pagan gods begin their rule of the Universe.

Primordial times

 * Lucifer begins to question the motives of God.
 * 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, and tempts Eve into eating the Forbidden Fruit from the Garden in Heaven. Adam and Eve gain the wisdom of the gods.
 * God asks His angelic children to bow down and worship humans as He believes humanity to be the best of all His creations. Lucifer argues that humans are evil and murderous. God refuses to listen. At some point, Adam leaves Heaven with Eve to live on Earth.
 * Uriel, Anna, and Castiel are born in Heaven and Uriel is fascinated by Lucifer's rebellion.
 * To show the power of angels, Lucifer twists Lilith's soul into the very first demon. Lucifer then asks Michael, his brother, to stand by him in conflict, but God tells Michael to cast Lucifer into Hades.
 * Lucifer's Cage is formed by God and the Archangels.
 * Lucifer is thrown into the Cage by Michael.

Modern times

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

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 and Kali.


 * Osiris is worshipped in Egypt.
 * Kali and Ganesh are worshipped in India and Africa.
 * Odin begins to be worshipped in the North.
 * God makes Himself known on Earth, and sees the evil infecting humanity due to Cain killing his own brother. God released Death to flood Earth and destroy humanity, deciding to only save Noah and his family.

1290 B.C.

 * Skinwalkers are created by human outcasts becoming something less than human.
 * God begins to gain a following amongst the Israelite people. Moses uses his Staff to free the Israelites from Egypt and start the forty-year Exodus. 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 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.

2,000 B.C.

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

1 A.D.

 * Jesus is crucified when he rebels against Roman rule. He descends to Hell to bind Lucifer in his Cage and then rises to Heaven to be with God.
 * At this point, Gabriel possibly appears on Earth.

1880s

 * H. H. Holmes is executed for being America's first mass murderer. His spirit would later resurface.
 * The Merchant family are found slaughtered and the only survivors are Melanie and her father Isiah. Everyone believes Isiah is the murderer, when in fact it is Melanie who committed the atrocity. Melanie gets off scot-free, and her father is imprisoned. 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.

1930s

 * A young girl commits suicide when she discovers she has been used by her studio chief. Her ghost would make a comeback.

1950s

 * 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.

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.

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.
 * 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.

1980s

 * A time lapse occurs here: Angel Anna travels back to this period to stop the Winchester parents from producing Sam who would become the vessel of Lucifer. Castiel and the future Dean and Sam travel back to this time to stop Anna. The Archangel Michael kills Anna here and meets his true vessel, Dean, for the first time.
 * Dean is born.
 * Sam is born five years later.
 * Mary is killed by Azazel.
 * John goes into hunting.

1990s

 * Sam finds out, to his dismay, that John is a hunter, and that the supernatural world exists. Well, apart from Father Christmas. Sam goes to school and is bullied, but he doesn't know the bully 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.
 * Sam and Dean find a werewolf and kill it. Sam uses this hunt as his holiday project to write about at school.
 * Sam tells John he wants college instead of a hunter's life. Sam befriends Amy Pond but then realizes she's a kitsune. As Sam loves Amy, however, he cannot kill her and Dean does so. It may have been this incident - Sam sparing a monster - that drove him and John apart. In any case, John tells Sam if he leaves, he should never come back. Sam goes off to college and ultimately meets Jessica Moore.

2000s

 * 1) 2003: The first murders committed by Constance Welch occur here.
 * 2) 2005: Dean first recruits Sam, after twenty 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. 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.
 * 3) 2006: 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 Llilith.
 * 4) 2007: The angel Castiel is ordered by God 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. 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.
 * 5) 2008: 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. Castiel fights Raphael, who is seeking power in Heaven, and 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.
 * 6) 2010: 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. 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.
 * 7) 2011: 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.