BunAlt Timeline

This is the canonical timeline of Bungō Stray Dogs: ALTERNATIVE to make sure none of the events contradict.

=Pre-Series=

920 Years Ago

 * Fukuchi Ōchi's sword, the Hanazange, was forged by an Ability user, giving it power to cut through time itself.

400 Years Ago

 * In the late 1600s, a continent wide hunt for witches and warlocks results in the near-death situation which Bram Stoker is left in. After being struck by a Holy Sword, he was quickly taken in by the Order of the Clock Tower in his critical condition where later he would stay as an advisor.

200 Years Ago

 * Orikuchi Shinobu dies but was able to activate their ability at the last moment to allow her to control their own corpse.

40 Years Ago

 * Fukuzawa Yukichi first meets Fukuchi Ōchi at Kyokutei Bakin's dojo.

30 Years Ago

 * The Guild was founded in the United States of America as a secret organization working to protect Ability Users within the country. The organization, founded by Harriet Beecher Stowe was pivotal in the protection of Ability Users within the American continent.

25 Years Ago

 * France goes through another revolution, leading to the creation of Mimic. After the revolution is successful, Mimic becomes a branch of France's intelligence wing as an extension used to take out dangerous targets.

22 Years Ago

 * In 1998, the Y2K problem became a major talking point amongst the public with rumors stating that digital devices everywhere would crash.
 * Arthur Conan Doyle replaced William Wordsworth as Lord of the Clock Tower at age 20, the youngest to hold the position. With this, Doyle prepared against the Y2K Crisis by converting all of the Clock Tower's digital data into Punch Cards.
 * Countries all over the world began to struggle to search for solution, but as the time grows nearer many countries instead prepared for war.

20 Years Ago

 * January 1, 2000. All digital devices crashed plunging the world into chaos. Large countries take the opportunity to invade other countries in order to enrich their resources during this period.
 * The Great War kicked off turning various locations into warzones.
 * Pearl Island, a contested region claimed by Japan but is located in international waters becomes the setting of a massive battle. Fukuchi Ōchi and Fukuzawa Yukichi were both stationed here with a special regiment in order to defend it.
 * Mori Ōgai, Yosano Tekkan, Yosano Akiko, Hagiwara Sakutarō, Isamu Yoshii and Takamura Kōtarō were sent to fight in the western front.
 * Major Hagiwara loses his right arm and eye in a mortar explosion, his comrades Murō Saisei and Kitahara Hakushū were both killed in the same mortar explosion.

19 Years Ago

 * André Gide saves Oscar Wilde in the middle of No Man's Land. This becomes the start of their friendship.
 * Charles Baudelaire orders Mimic to assassinate Arthur Conan Doyle in order to cripple England's defenses. However, Doyle and Bram managed to defend themselves and kill Charles Du Bos and Gaston Leroux.
 * Gide goes into hiding for the rest of the war with the help of Oscar Wilde.
 * At the end of the war, The Seven Traitors forced countries and technology companies to stop the fighting and rebuild the world. With this the war ends.

18 Years Ago

 * Meursalt was established in order to be a secure jail for dangerous Ability users while also helping take care of Ability users with highly unstable Abilities.
 * Yanagita Kunio meets Orikuchi Shinobu in Meursalt and starts learning about Abilities in a deeper sense.

17 Years Ago

 * The Hunting Dogs program was approved by Fukuchi. Toda Kindō becomes the first person who was successfully given an Ability through artificial means.

15 Years Ago

 * Kindaichi Kyōsuke runs away from home and saves Ishikawa Takuboku from an attack by Mori Corporation's Takahama Kyoshi who earlier that day beat Nomura Kodō for money to the point where he nearly died.
 * Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine joins the Deuxième Bureau.

10 Years Ago

 * Dazai Osamu, Dan Kazuo, Nakahara Chūya and Kusano Shinpei are put into a group in Mori Corporation named Blue Flower.
 * Dazai Osamu escapes Mori Corporation with the help of Yosano Akiko and welcomes him to the Armed Detective Agency.
 * Kindaichi and Ishikawa joins Mori Corporation.
 * Chūya meets Kobayashi Hideo and invites him to join Mori Corporation.
 * Chūya becomes the youngest executive in Mori Corporation history at age 15.

7 Years Ago

 * Mark Twain joins The Guild under the suggestion from Harriet.

5 Years Ago

 * Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald purchases the Guild and makes it a subsidiary of his company.

2 Years Ago

 * Edogawa Ranpo and Nomura Kodō met when Nomura was still working as a reporter.

=Series=

Beginning

 * Nakajima Atsushi was discovered by the banks of the Tsurumi River by Dazai Osamu, Oda Sakunosuke and Sakaguchi Ango.

The Guild War

 * Ambrose Bierce dies while fighting against Hagiwara Sakutarō.
 * Hagiwara Sakutarō dies while fighting against Ernest Hemingway.
 * Akutagawa Ryūnosuke dies while fighting against Nathaniel Hawthorne.

The White Birch Society Incident

 * Arishima Ikuma dies while fighting Oda Sakunosuke and Dazai Osamu.
 * Oda Sakunosuke dies while fighting against Shiga Naoya.