Unified Story Timeline

This is a list of events in Toaru Majutsu no Index universe, listed in a timeline fashion.

1st Century AD

 * The Son of God is put to trial and is later crucified by the Romans, he later dies by a stab from a spear to his chest. The Son of God however, later resurrects and ascends to heaven three days after his death.

June 29

 * St. Peter is executed, though preparing well ahead of time, Peter chose the grounds of what now would become the Vatican, where the Croce di Pietro (prepared before his death) would later be erected on his tomb and would establish the center of Christianity.

9th Century AD

 * Due to the increasing power gained by Venice, La Regina del Mare Adriatico was created by the Roman Catholic Church to destroy the city, its influences and culture. However, it was not used due to the fear of economic disaster brought about by Venice's destruction.

June 7

 * The Lateran Treaty is ratified by the Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See. Formally establishing the sovereignity of Vatican City.

1947

 * The Cold War between the United States of America and the United Soviet Socialist Republics begin, with both sides pouring money into the research of esper development for military use some time later during the conflict.

December 1

 * Edward Alexander Crowley is officaly recognized as dead. However, it is revealed that he survived and escaped into the remote English countryside and is later found by the Heaven Canceler who nurses him back to health and tells him of the far away country of Japan.

1970s

 * The United States of America's Stargate Project begins.

1995

 * The Stargate Project is cancelled.

Several Years Ago

 * A great distortion of the four elements, allow the Angels to bypass the name God has given to them, as well have their alignments to the four elements switch, and finally allowing the possibility of an angel fall down to earth.
 * Academy City is formally established by Aleister Crowley.
 * At least 20 years before the start of the series, Ellis an esper from Academy City is sent to an Academy City-Anglican Church insitution to create a Magician-Esper hybrid, where he meets Sherry Cromwell and becomes friends with her. He is later killed after being severely injured by trying to perform magic and is later pulverized by the Knights of England who has come to destroy the institution.
 * Kanzaki Kaori leaves the Amakusa-Style Remix of Church for the Anglican Church, making Tatemiya Saiji the proxy pope of the church.
 * Agnese Sanctis' parents are killed and she is later forced to lived on the streets of Milan for a time before being taken in by the Roman Catholic Church, where she meets Lucia and Angelene.
 * A young Kamijou Touma is attacked by a supersitious man who believes him to be the cause of his misfortune. Due to this and several other related events, Touma is later sent to Academy City by his father, believing that a place where superstition does not exist would be able to help his son.
 * Kihara Gensei uses his granddaughter as the First Sample for the Crystallized Esper Essence.
 * The Heaven Canceller criticizes Kihara Gensei in the use of the Crystallized Esper Essence to achieve SYSTEM.
 * Child Errors Edasaki Banri and Haruue Erii are separated from each other as Banri is moved to the Advanced Education Department.
 * Kiyama Harumi teaches a group of Child Errors for an experiment.
 * The experiment results in the children going comatose, leaving Kiyama Harumi within an intense desire to save them.
 * Misaka Mikoto willingly gives her DNA for the purpose of helping disabled children, not knowing it's purpose was to create military clones.
 * Accelerator gets caught up in an unfortunate incident with a group of children getting hurt due to his powers and leads to Academy City forces trying to take him down.

October 9

 * Academy City gains its independence as a sovereign city-state.

10 Years Ago

 * The 1st Lancer Division of the 13 squads of the Knights of England are dispatched to take care of a minor situation (according to the Church) in a Kyoto village in Japan. Here they discover the lone survivor of an attack of a vampire. A vampire, out of fear of the Deep Blood ability Himegami Aisa turns her entire village into vampires. They are, however, all killed by her power thereafter, making Aisa the lone survivor of the village tragedy.
 * Kazakiri Hyouka gains a consciousness and is born within the Imaginary Number District.

Three Years Ago

 * Aureolus Izzard secretly goes to England without the permission of the Roman Catholic Church, in order to share his knowledge in decoding grimoires with the Church of England. Here, he later meets and becomes the partner of Index.

Two Years Ago

 * Konori Mii joins Skill-Out faction, Big Spider.
 * Kurozuma Wataru is injured after a scuffle and is later taken into custody for rehabilitation, however, he is presumed. Konori Mii quits Big Spider while Hebitani Tsuguo takes over his identity and takes over Big Spider.
 * Shirai Kuroko meets Uiharu Kazari in Judgment Training School.

Autumn of last Year or Winter of the year

 * Kazari and Kuroko are dragged into a commotion brought up by robbers in a post office.
 * The robber with the "Equal Speed" ability injures Kuroko; meanwhile, she receives unexpected assistance from Misaka Mikoto and Kuroko successfully apprehends the robbers.

Half a year prior to the Big Spider Arc

 * Kurozuma Wataru is released from custody.

July (one year before the Index Arc)

 * Index awakens in an alleyway in Japan without any personal memories. However, she still remembers things related to Necessarius, the Grimoires and magic.

Third Week

 * The activities of Skill-Out leader Komaba Ritoku attracts the attention of Yomikawa Aiho. Hattori Hanzou falls in love with Yomikawa. (At this time, the hunt for Level 0 Espers have noticeably increased.)

First Week

 * Kanzaki Kaori cooperates with a perverse jeans shop owner to pursue a Valkyrie who likes to tear up jeans.

Fourth Week

 * Kamijou Touya meets Balbina, a seller of magical souvenirs, and later, Lidvia Lorenzetti. Lidvia gives him an addition to his magical relic collection.

March 15

 * The seventh Level 5, Sogiita Gunha, fights against Skill-Out to save Haratani Yabumi.

First Week

 * In Brazil, Misaka Tabikake meets an impoverished girl named Ines and gives her advice about setting up a business of collecting rare metals.

Fourth Week

 * Shirai Kuroko enrolls into Tokiwadai Middle School and meets Misaka Mikoto.
 * Kuroko talks with people inside a hairdressing salon in Sakashima Wayside concerning Gemstones and the Stargate Project.

Second Week

 * Ollerus visits a town in Milan in Italy to destroy an organization that specializes in human trafficking.

May 11 (three months before August 11)

 * Misaka 9982 is produced.
 * A female researcher inside a scientific facility orders Radio Noise clones to dispose the remains of a handful of clones killed in past experiments.

Fourth Week

 * Hamazura Shiage while speaking to Kuruwa jokingly suspects that his friend Hattori Hanzou might be a the surviving descendant of a near future-like Shinobi Soldier. To his surprise, it seems that he was right.

Second Week

 * Kuyama Kihan challenges a system defended by "the Goalkeeper" is defeated.

June 17

 * Kuroko become roommates with Mikoto after forcing her previous roommate to move.
 * Mikoto meets Kamijou Touma for the first time after he tries to save her from delinquents and accidentally enraging her. Mikoto would later meet Touma again several times trying to fight him after this event.

July 1

 * Misaka Mikoto goes to Russia for a demonstration for Academy City's partners, and later gets involved with New Light

First Week

 * In a bar-room in London, Kamijou Touya meets Misaka Tabikake and a certain Mr. Tanaka by chance.
 * A female girl, a Gemstone, flees from her pursuers; in the end, as to escape from her captors she hijacks a Cessna which then explodes, faking her own death.

Second Week

 * Kumokawa Seria contacts one of Academy City's directors Kaizumi Tsugutoshi and they had a conversation regarding treatment of Gemstones.
 * Kamijou Touma meets Seria by chance after seeing her praying alone in the rain coming from a sprinkler.

July 16

 * The Level Upper Arc begins (date based on the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga).
 * Shirai Kuroko responds to the emergency call of a robbery initiated by a group of robbers led by a Level 3 Pyrokinesist.

July 17

 * A Judgment member mistakes Misaka Mikoto for a new recruit, takes the latter into a hands-on tour on being a member of Judgment (date based on the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga).
 * Kamijou Touma meets and is confronted by Misaka Mikoto, challenging him to a duel against her at the riverbank. The fight leaves Touma fleeing from Mikoto through the night (date based on the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga).

July 18

 * Level 3 "Synchrotron" Kushiro Katabira is linked to the incidents of explosions that alarmed District 7.
 * Kamijou Touma and Misaka Mikoto save Uiharu Kazari and a little girl from an explosion caused by the Graviton Bomber in a shopping centre.

July 19

 * Uiharu Kazari becomes ill due to a cold. Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kurko research into the Level Upper.
 * Kamijou Touma accidentally interferes with Misaka Mikoto's attempt to extract information from some thugs at a restaurant (date based on the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga).
 * The Index Arc begins
 * Kamijou Touma is confronted on a bridge by Misaka Mikoto after trying to protect the thugs from her wrath. Their meeting causes a city-wide blackout.
 * With the black out, Index slips into Academy City and its security forces, jumping rooftop-to-rooftop, she eventually falls unto the balcony of Kamijou Touma.

July 20

 * Summer break officially starts in Academy City.
 * Kamijou Touma meets Index on his balcony. After feeding her and learning of the existence of magicians, Index leaves.
 * Kaitabi Hatsuya falls into a coma.
 * Saten Ruiko finds the Level Upper.
 * Misaka Mikoto, Shirai Kuroko, Uiharu Kazari and Saten Ruiko meet with Kiyama Harumi to discuss the existence and properties of the Level Upper.
 * Misaka Mikoto meets Kamijou Touma and once again challanges him, but Touma dismisses her attempts. Misaka Mikoto loses confidence in her own abilities.
 * Shirai Kuroko tracks down the thugs from the day before and enquiries about the Level Upper.
 * Kamijou Touma returns home where he is attacked by Stiyl Magnus. After winning the fight, he takes an injured Index away.
 * Index is taken to Tsukuyomi Komoe's house. Using magic, the wounds she has received are healed.

July 21

 * Kamijou Touma and Index are given refuge at Tsukuyomi Komoe's house for the next three days.
 * Saten Ruiko defends Koujun Kikuhiko from a group charging money for use of Level Upper.
 * Shirai Kuroko destroys a building in order to defeat Trick and save Saten Ruiko. Feeling powerless and scared, Saten Ruiko shares the Level Upper with her school friends.

July 24

 * Misaka Mikoto recovers her determination to defeat Kamijou Touma.
 * Saten Ruiko falls into a coma due to her Level Upper use.
 * With Heaven Canceler's help, the creator of the Level Upper is found.
 * Kiyama Harumi takes Uiharu Kazari hostage to stall for time while she attempts to make calculations using the Level Upper network.
 * Misaka Mikoto faces off against Kiyama Harumi.
 * Misaka Mikoto defeats the AIM Burst.
 * Kiyama Harumi is taken into custody.
 * Saten Ruiko and the other victims of the Level Upper wake from their comas.
 * The Level Upper Arc ends (date based on the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga).
 * Kamijou Touma and Index attempt to visit a bathhouse.
 * Kamijou Touma is attacked by Kanzaki Kaori. After learning of Index's memory erasing and the relationship between Stiyl Magnus, Kanzaki Kaori and herself, he attempts to force Kanzaki to abandon her pursuit. He is defeated and remains unconscious for three days.

July 25

 * Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko are forced to spend the day cleaning the pool after breaking curfew the previous night. (date based on the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga)

July 27

 * Kamijou Touma awakens after three days and affirms his desire to protect Index.
 * Stiyl Magnus and Kanzaki Kaori arrive at Tsukuyomi Komoe's house to perform the memory erasing ritual at midnight.
 * Kamijou Touma accidentally awakens Index in John's Pen mode, causing her to go on a rampage.

July 28

 * Kamijou Touma persuades Stiyl Magnus and Kanzaki Kaori that they have been deceived by the Church. They work together to try and restrain Index.
 * Tree Diagram is destroyed when Kamijou Touma deflects a powerful attack from Index.
 * Kamijou Touma loses his memories after protecting Index from the fallout of one of her own attacks.
 * As Kamijou Touma recovers in hospital, he lies to Index about his memory loss to alleviate her pain.
 * The Index Arc ends

August

 * A month before August 31st, Etzali infiltrates Academy City under the orders of his faction, the Return of the Winged One to judge if the growing Kamijou Faction is dangerous, and if so, dismantle it.

First Week

 * The Big Spider Arc begins
 * The Big Spider Arc ends
 * Big Spider disbands after the capture of Kurozuma Wataru and Hebitani Tsuguo.
 * The Poltergeist Arc begins
 * The Poltergeist Arc ends
 * Kiyama Harumi's students are awake from their comas.
 * Therestina Kihara Lifeline is taken into custody.

August 8

 * The Deep Blood Arc begins
 * The Roman Catholic Church's Thirteen Knights and long range bombardement spell, the Gregorian Chant are defeated after engaging Aureolus Izzard.

August 9

 * The Deep Blood Arc ends
 * Aureolus Izzard is declared as dead after the events of the arc, however the truth is that he had his memories and appearance changed after his ability to use magic was sealed as consequence of his defeat.

August 10

 * The Sisters Arc (Railgun) begins

August 20

 * The Sisters Arc (Index) begins

August 22

 * The Sisters Arc ends
 * The Level 6 Shift experiment ends.

August 24

 * Etzali abducts and takes Unabara Mitsuki's form and begins stalking Misaka Mikoto, with the objective of taking her form and sowing distrust into Kamijou and his peers.

August 27

 * Due to the increased hostilities by delinquents looking for prestige and glory to defeat the one who defeated Accelerator. Touma is forced to leave Academy City (along with Index) temporarily at the urging of Tsukuyomi Komoe, while Academy City quells the situation.
 * Due to the distortion of the elements, Kamijou Touya accidentally triggers Angel Fall through sheer coincidence, and starting the Angel Fall Arc. As a result Archangel Gabriel appears on earth and takes the name of Misha Kreuzhev.
 * Based on the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga: Kongou Mitsuko successfully transfers to Tokiwadai Middle School, and is lost trying to find her dormitory. Misaka Mikoto later uses her to get away from Unabara Mitsuki (Etzali) who is following her, and later hangs out with her. Completely unaware of Mikoto's status as a Level 5, and confused of her apparent popularity.

August 30

 * The Angel Fall Arc ends

August 31

 * The Three Stories Arc occurs
 * Accelerator becomes brain damaged after being shot in the head.
 * Etzali betrays Return of the Winged One by deliberately accepting the failure of his mission.

September 1

 * The new school term officially starts in Academy City.
 * The Kazakiri Hyouka Arc occurs
 * Kazakiri Hyouka manifests herself whilst Sherry Cromwell attacks Academy City to try and stir up a war between the magic and science side.

September 3

 * Misaka Mikoto, Kuroko Shirai, Uiharu Kazari and Saten Ruiko becomes one of the randomly selected students to take part in Academy City's 7-day exchange program. Here, they are taken to an affiliate of Academy City—Arts and Sciences City—and are later involved with a conspiracy involving Aztec magicians.

September 8

 * The Orsola Aquinas Rescue Arc begins

September 9

 * The Orsola Aquinas Rescue Arc ends
 * The Agnese Forces are used as scapegoats by the Roman Catholic Church; considered as sinners, they are later transferred to the Queen's Fleet for use as a labor force.
 * The Amakusa-Style Remix of Church joins the Anglican Church.
 * Orsola Aquinas joins the Anglican Church.

September 14

 * The Tree Diagram Remnant Arc begins

September 15

 * The Tree Diagram Remnant Arc ends

September 19

 * The Daihasei Festival begins
 * The Daihasei Festival Arc begins

September 20

 * The Daihasei Festival Arc ends
 * Lidvia Lorenzetti and Oriana Thomson are captured by the Anglican Church.
 * The Croce di Pietro is lost.

September 25

 * Touma wins a 7 day 5 night trip to Northern Italy
 * Daihasei Festival concludes
 * The La Regina del Mare Adriatico Arc begins

September 26

 * The La Regina del Mare Adriatico Arc ends
 * La Regina del Mare Adriatico is destroyed.
 * Biagio Busoni is captured by the Anglican Church.
 * Agnese Forces join the Anglican Church.
 * The Pope approves the document of investigating Kamijou Touma as an enemy of God.

September 30

 * The invasion of Academy City by Vento of the Front occurs.
 * Academy City reveals its use of an angel.
 * The Roman Catholic Church's magic is revealed but is covered up as a esper development program done by the church.
 * Accelerator is recruited into working for Academy City.
 * Hostilities between Academy City and the Roman Catholic Church become apparent.

October 3

 * A Skill-Out leader, Komaba Ritoku dies in the assault by GROUP, destroying their plans in to cause the downfall of Academy City's communication network, allowing them to attack target espers.
 * Hamazura Shiage becomes the leader of Komaba Ritoku's Skill-Out gang and fails in his mission to kill Misaka Misuzu, due to intervention of Kamijou Touma and "Unabara Mitsuki". Komaba Ritoku's gang will be left leaderless, but later Hanzou Hattori decides to assume leadership of the gang.
 * The Russian Orthodox Church represented by Vasilisa visit London to have a conference with the Anglican Church regarding the upcoming war between Academy City and the Roman Catholic Church.

October 4

 * The Document of Constantine Arc begins

October 8

 * The Document of Constantine Arc ends

October 9

 * The Battle Royale Arc occurs

October 10

 * The Acqua of the Back Arc begins

October 16

 * The Acqua of the Back Arc ends

October 17

 * The Knights of England in alliance with the second Princess Carissa performs a coup in order to ursurp Queen Elizard from the throne and establish Carissa as the ruler of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, starting the 4th English Civil War in the nation' history.
 * The Dragon(≠Angel) Arc occurs

October 18

 * World War III officially begins with the Proclamation of War by the Russian Federation against Academy City and its allied forces.

October 30

 * World War III ends with the Proclamation of Armistice by Russia and its allied forces.

November

 * The group Freshmen starts an operation that has the objective of having the Academy City Board of Directors label Hamazura Shiage and the Accelerator as "too dangerous to be left alone". The operation succeeds, however it causes the downwnfall of Freshmen as the people involved is defeated by the counter attack of their targets.
 * Kamijou Touma returns to Academy City with the help of Leivinia Bardway and her magic cabal.