Timeline

The following is a timeline of the events occurring in the Japanese manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Part I to VI Timeline
= Circa 100,000 B.C. =
 * Kars is born.

= Circa 90,000 B.C. =
 * Esidisi is born.

= Circa 50,000 B.C. =
 * A meteorite lands in Greenland.

= Circa 12,000 B.C. =
 * Santana is born.

= Circa 10,000 B.C. =
 * Wamuu is born.

= Circa 8,000 B.C. =
 * Kars creates the stone masks, then kills almost every member of his vampire clan.

= Circa 1480 A.D = 1565
 * Caravan Serai dies, freeing Anubis.
 * Tarkus and Bruford plot the assassination of Elizabeth I, while in Mary Stuart's service.

= 1827 =
 * Dario Brando is born.

= 1838 =
 * Will Anthonio Zeppeli is born.

= 1863 =
 * Robert Edward O. Speedwagon is born.
 * Tonpetty takes in Zeppeli as his apprentice. After some training, Tonpetty tells Zeppeli that he will die a horrible death if he continues the ripple training. Zeppeli accepts this.

= 1867 =
 * Dio Brando is born.

= 1868 =
 * Jonathan Joestar is born.
 * Erina Pendolton is born.
 * Death of Mary Joestar and Dario saves George I.

= 1874 =
 * George Joestar buys a dog, named Danny, for Jonathan but they don't get along at first. Danny saves Jonathan from drowning in a river and they become friends.

= 1880 =
 * The first 5 chapters of Phantom Blood take place.
 * Death of Dario Brando

= 1881 =
 * Erina moves to India as a result of her father's work.

= 1888 =
 * Dio rejects his humanity and becomes a vampire using the Stone Mask.
 * Death of Will Anthonio Zeppeli.
 * Dio Brando's original body is destroyed.
 * Lisa Lisa is born.

= 1889 =
 * Jonathan and Erina marry.
 * Death of Jonathan Joestar
 * George Joestar II is born.

= 1918 =
 * Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli is born.

= 1920 =
 * Joseph Joestar is born.

= 1921 =
 * Death of George Joestar II

= 1935 =
 * Death of Mario Zeppeli

= 1938 =
 * Joseph and Erina move to New York.
 * Kars, Esidisi and Wamuu wake from their 2,000 year slumber.
 * Battle Tendency starts.

= 1939 =
 * Death of Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli.
 * Kars is launched into space.
 * Joseph and Suzie Q marry.

= 1942 =
 * Holy Joestar is born.

= 1943 =
 * Death of Rudol von Stroheim.

= 1948 =
 * Lisa Lisa remarries.

= 1950 =
 * Death of Erina Joestar (age 81)

= 1952 =
 * Death of Robert E.O. Speedwagon (age 89)

= 1964 =
 * Anjuro Katagiri is born.
 * Ryohei Higashikata becomes a policeman.

= 1965 =
 * Jean Pierre Polnareff is born.

= 1966 =
 * Yoshikage Kira is born.

= 1967 =
 * Diavolo is born.
 * Holly Joestar marries Sadao Kujo.

= 1970 =
 * Jotaro Kujo is born.
 * Noriaki Kakyoin is born.

= 1972 =
 * Enrico Pucci is born.
 * Weather Report is born.

= 1979 =
 * Rohan Kishibe is born.

= 1981 =
 * Bruno Buccellati is born.
 * Leone Abbachio is born.
 * Keicho Nijimura is born

= 1983 =
 * Dio wakes from his 100-year sleep.
 * Murder of Reimi Sugimoto and her dog, Arnold.
 * Josuke Higashikata is born.
 * Koichi Hirose is born.
 * Okuyasu Nijimura is born.
 * Guido Mista is born.

= 1984 =
 * Narancia Ghirga is born.
 * Joseph meets Mohammed Avdol for the first time.
 * Rape and murder of Sherry Polnareff.

= 1985 =
 * Pannacotta Fugo is born.

= 1985-1989 =
 * Dio meets Enrico Pucci.

= 1986 =
 * Donatello Versus is born.
 * Giorno Giovanna is born.
 * Trish Una is born.
 * Diavolo finds 6 arrows and the bow.
 * Joseph's stand power manifests.
 * Polnareff encounters Dio.

= 1987 =
 * Ungaro is born
 * Rykiel is born
 * Abdul encounters Dio in Egypt.
 * Kakyoin encounters Dio in Egypt.
 * Jotaro's stand power manifests.
 * Holly's stand power manifests.

= 1988 =
 * The majority of Stardust Crusaders takes place.
 * Narciso Anasui is born.
 * Death of Noriaki Kakyoin
 * Death of Mohammed Avdol
 * Death of Iggy
 * Temporary death of Joseph Joestar
 * Death of Dio Brando

= 1989 =
 * Okuyasu's father is infected with Dio's cells.

= 1991 =
 * Ermes Costello is born.

= 1993 =
 * Jolyne Cujoh is born.

= 1998 =
 * Anjuro Katagiri gains a stand ability due to the Bow and Arrow.

= 1999 =
 * Diamond is Unbreakable takes place.
 * Tamami Kobayashi, Yukako Yamagishi and Koichi Hirose gain stand abilities due to the Bow and Arrow.
 * Death of Shigechi
 * Death of Yoshikage Kira
 * Polnareff discovers the Arrow's ability.

= 2001 =
 * Vento Aureo takes place.
 * Death of Leone Abbachio
 * Death of Narancia Ghirga
 * Death of Bruno Buccellati
 * Jean Pierre Polnareff's original body is destroyed.
 * Death of Diavolo
 * Giorno leads Passione.

= 2011-2012 =
 * Stone Ocean takes place.
 * Death of Jotaro Kujo
 * Death of Jolyne Cujoh
 * Death of Ermes Costello
 * Death of Weather Report
 * Death of Narciso Anasui
 * Death of Foo Fighters
 * Death of Enrico Pucci
 * Jump to an alternate timeline

Part VII and VIII Timeline
= circa year 1 =
 * The saint is born.

= 1191 =
 * Joseph of Arimathia's map is found under Glastonbury's monastery, which he founded.

= 16th century =
 * Joseph of Arimathia's map is stolen.

= circa 1500 =
 * Zeppeli family is ordered to become the king's executioner.

= circa 1740 =
 * Joseph of Arimathia's map arrives in the USA.

= 1840 =
 * East & West Tribune is founded.
 * Stephen Steel is born.

= 1846 =
 * Norisuke Higashikata I is born.

= 1847 =
 * 20 September, Funny Valentine is born.

= 1856 =
 * Stephen Steel is placed on a deserted hospital island due to typhoid fever from cavalry rations.

= 1858 =
 * Stephen Steel is let out of hospital, quits cavalry and joins a circus as a part-time worker.

= 1859 =
 * Stephen Steel becomes the star of the circus.

= 1860 =
 * Stephen Steel goes on a tour across the USA with the circus.

= 1861 =
 * Stephen introduces new popular attractions in the circus: "Midget women wrestling", "Bug-eyed man" and "Pigs on a tight rope".

= 1863 =
 * Stephen is fired from the circus because of a fight and his demeanor.
 * Axl RO betrays his soldier comrades, their enemies killed a nearby town.

= 1865 =
 * Stephen becomes a heavyweight boxer.
 * Gyro Zeppeli is born.

= 1866 =
 * Stephen becomes a debt collector.

= 1867 =
 * Stephen beats an opponent he shouldn't have in a pre-rigged game, the gangsters retaliate by seeking him and shooting him in his right knee.

= 1868 =
 * Stephen disappear, maybe he escaped as a sailor.

= 1870 =
 * Diego Brando is born.

= 1871 =
 * Johnny Joestar is born.

= 1872 =
 * Norisuke Higashikata II is born, his birthname being Johei.

= 1874 =
 * Rina Higashikata is born.

= 1875 =
 * The cavalry's 26th squad dies of deshydratation inside the Devil's Palm in Arizona's desert, Mountain Tim, age 16, being the only survivor and developing a stand.

= 1876 =
 * Lucy Pendleton is born.

= 1877 =
 * Gyro Zeppeli, age 13, discovers the executionner duty of his family.

= 1881 =
 * Stephen reappears in San Francisco and declare to East & West newspaper that he is going in Costa Rica to search dinosaurs, and publishes popular articles.

= 1883 =
 * Stephen becomes a promoter.
 * Stephen publishes popular articles in E&W: "Capturing the Yeti in Rocky Mountains", "Looking for the 3-legged catfish", "in search of the 20-meter long Penguin" and "The newlyweds in a haunted mansion: documentary".

= 1886 =
 * Stephen buys a mansion in San Jose with 8 servants, he also colletcs art pieces like Monet's ones.
 * Stephen is denied from university.

= 1887-1888 =
 * Stephen is dubbed as a fraud for a scandal he had nothing to do with.
 * Stephen goes bankrup.
 * Lucy meets Stephen Steel when he was drunk on the streets. Lucy who was listening to his mumbling, came out with the idea of race across the entire American continent.
 * Stephen founds over 20 sponsors for SBR starting by East&West Tribune.

= 1889 =
 * Funny Valentine becomes the 23rd president of the USA, he also encourages the Steel Ball Run race secretly after meeting Steel.
 * Stephen rescue Lucy from a gang liying about her virginity.
 * Stephen and Lucy gor married.

= 1890 =
 * The Steel Ball Run takes place.
 * 25 September at 10am, the Steel Ball Run race begins.

= 1891 =
 * Death of Funny Valentine
 * Death of Gyro Zeppeli
 * Death of Diego Brando
 * 19 January, the Steel Ball Run race finishes.
 * SBR hat brand is founded.

= 1892 =
 * Johnny maries Rina.

= 1898 =
 * George Joestar II is born.

= 1901 =
 * 11 November evening, death of Johnny Joestar.
 * 12 November morning, Johnny's corpse is found by the authorities.
 * 13 November, Johnny's death and the discovery of a child are announced in Yashirokita News.
 * 07 December, Yashirokita News reports that Johnny is considered dead out of an accident.

= 1902 =
 * 23 May, Yashirokita News report that Joestar Jizo is build.

= 1908 =
 * Norisuke Higashikata III is born, his birthname being Joshou.

= 1924 =
 * Joseph Joestar is born.

= 1931 =
 * Death of Norisuke Higashikata I.

= 1941 =
 * Yoshiteru Kira is born.

= 1952 =
 * Norisuke Higashikata IV is born, his birthname being Josuke.

= 1959 =
 * Holly Joestar is born.

= 1979 =
 * Jobin Higashikata is born.

= 1980 =
 * Mitsuba is born.

= 1982 =
 * Yoshikage Kira is born.

= 1987 =
 * Hato Higashikata is born.

= 1991 =
 * Yoshiteru Kira is dead.

= 1992 =
 * Joshuu Higashikata is born.

= 1993 =
 * Holly begins to work for the hospital.

= 1995 =
 * Daiya Higashikata is born.

= 2002 =
 * Tsurugi Higashikata is born.

= 2008 =
 * Holly becomes a professor at TG Dai.

= 2011 =
 * JoJolion takes place.