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 2012, 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 exist alongside one another before beginning of time, God creates 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.
 * God creates the Five Archangels. Metatron is Gods Scribe, dictating as creation is being formed.
 * Deities and pagan Gods around this time Eve also appears.
 * God creates Earth the Souls and creatures to live on it.
 * All other Angels are formed.
 * God creates Humans
 * God creates Hell
 * The Pagan gods begin their rule of the Universe or at least on Earth.

Earliest Human History 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.
 * Uriel, Anna, and Castiel are born in Heaven and Uriel is fascinated by Lucifer's rebellion.
 * 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 eatting 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.
 * 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.
 * 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
 * Lucifer's Cage is formed by God.
 * Lucifer is defeated and thrown into the Cage by Michael
 * 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

 * 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 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 releases Death to flood Earth and destroy humanity, deciding to only save Noah and his family.

1085 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 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.

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 descends to Heaven to be with God.
 * Around this time, Gabriel appears and starts living on Earth.

1600s

 * 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, 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.

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 Bentham abandons his professional work to gain immortality.
 * Jacob Karns kills seventeen prostitutes. His ghost would make a comeback later in the following years.
 * Sam and Dean teleport to the 1880s, 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, obtaining the ashes.

1912

 * H.M.S.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 a 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.

1914

 * The Great War? begins.

1930s

 * 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.

1940s

 * Dean faces the God of Time who sends him forty years back in the past. In 1944, Dean meets Elliot 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.


 * 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

 * Dean Winchester is Born
 * Sam Winchester is born and fed demon blood by Azazel.
 * Mary Winchester is killed by Azazel.
 * John Winchester goes into hunting.
 * 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 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 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. 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) 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 Llilith.
 * 4) 2008: 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) 2009: 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) 2011: 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.
 * 8) 2012: Dean kills the Leviathan Chief who possessed Dick Roman and he alongside Castiel are transported to Purgatory.
 * 9) 2012 - Dean 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.

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 ]