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Timeline
Here is the official timeline of TWD after dissecting it. It did take me awhile to do all the required research. It is 95% matter of fact and 5% debatable. Example: It is a fact that 8 months passed between Season 3. However, it is debatable about how far into the 8th month that Season 3 starts at. Another example, it is a fact that Rick was in a coma for 59 days from August to October. However, it is debatable regarding when in August he fell in the coma and when in October he woke up. LETS ROCK AND ROLL!

DISCLAIMER, MY TIMELINE DIFFERS FROM THE WIKIA. I KNOW, EINSTEIN! IT DOES NOT MEAN IT IS WRONG. This is because the wikia timeline is not accurate, despite it actually being pretty close (Season 7 is fucked up beyond repair for example because it is missing days and people have edit wars over what goes where). Also it is vague when it comes to time skips so it can skip to even number days, despite doing so being contradictory. Example of this: Wikia starts Season 4 at day 500. I start Season 4 at a more accurate number, 549 because I am not afraid of my number being uneven or my number being not psychologically satisfying as long as it is as close to accurate as possible. Time skip between Season 3 and 4 is stated to be 6.5 months, I will calculate it based on 6.5 Months. I will not only do 5 months to get a psychologically satisfying number to make life easier.

When did the apocalypse begin?

To find this out, we got to go over to Fear The Walking Dead and compare those findings to the main show:

1) A sign seen in the background of a scene from Season 1 Episode 2 of Fear the Walking Dead bares the date August 2010. This would strongly suggest that the outbreak began sometime in August 2010.

2) To back this up, In Season 2 Episode 13 of Fear the Walking Dead titled “Date Of Death” there are some gravestones on the farm where Travis, Chris, and the American tourists are staying that. These gravestones show the death year as 2010 and it is obvious that these people died shortly after the outbreak if you watch the episode. The Date of Death was later confirmed by Dave Erickson in 2016 and he confirmed that those people died in August 2010 at some point after the outbreak began.

3) In the Pilot of Fear The Walking Dead, I can tell you as a teacher that everyone’s conversations sounded like stuff you would hear in the first few weeks of the school year. School Years tend to start in America in mid to late August. I know some of you start September. You do not have to tell me. I fucking know, Einstein. But that doesn’t change the fact that over 50% of schools start Mid to Late August. This tells us that the infection (called Wildfire) broke out near the middle to end of August 2010.

4) Now for an example from the main Walking Dead show. As we all known, Deanna Monroe was a congress woman. While talking to Rick, she told him that a part of her felt lucky that the world ended before election day as she was not sure she would win again. Her concern that she would lose reelection. Scott Gimple confirmed that this was a reference to the 2010 Midterm Elections in the United States. In real life this was a Red Wave Election that saw many congressional districts flipped. This also fits because Deanna mentioned that she was a blue candidate. Fun fact, Gimple has a blue voting history. Anyway, moving on. Election days are held in November 2010. This means the outbreak happened before November 2010 rolled around. The Fear evidence above seem to support this completely and make August 2010 a confirmed Month of outbreak. But wait, there is more for you non-believers.

5) If the outbreak happened in August 2010, this means that Rick woke up from his coma in October 2010 (the same month The Walking Dead premiered and the same month the show comes back every year) since he was in a coma for 59 days total. Yes, the 59-day number will be discussed later. Yes, that number was confirmed by Dr. Edwin Jenner. On what day exactly in October Rick wakes up is COMPLETELY up for debate as long as your conclusion for the day he went into a coma is in August 2010 somewhere towards the Middle to late part of the month.

NOW FOR THE SEASON BY SEASON BREAKDOWN. Note for the totals: Season totals will be in (Parentheses). Series totals from the day Rick was shot will be in [Brackets].

Season 1:

In Season 1 Episode 5 "Wildfire" at the CDC, Dr. Jenner makes a morning transmission and states Wildfire (the code name of the zombie virus) started 194 days ago (Six and a half months ago), and global outbreak was 63 days ago (just over two months ago). This confirmed that the virus laid dormant for about 4 and a half months before it caused the outbreak. This also confirmed that Rick was in a coma for a total of 59 days because 4 days pass by between Rick waking up and Dr. Edwin Jenner's transmission on day 63. Long story short, 63 days between Rick being shot and the group arriving at the CDC. The CDC explodes on day 64 because they only stay their one day.

Season 1: Days 1-64 (2 months and 4 Days) [2 Months and 4 Days since Rick was shot]

Season 2:

There is a 2 day time skip between season 1 and season 2. These two days were shown in about 13 minutes of deleted scenes in the Season 2 primer. Long story short, the vatos gang is exterminated and they have to rethink where they are going to go next. Days 66-71 is Carl getting shot and recovering, the boring stuff on the farm and Sophia search in the first half of season 2. Day 66 is Sophia going missing. Day 71 is when she leaves the barn. The whole bar situation and the shootout at night is all day 71 stuff too. Days 72 to 82 is more boring farm stuff and questioning what to do about Randall. Day 72 is the day after the bar stuff. Day 82 is the night Shane kills Randall and tries to kill Rick and the farm is overrun causing everyone to have to escape. On day 83 Everyone who survives the farm being overran (except for Andrea) eventually reunites at the high way and make camp. This is the day where Rick declares Rictatorship. End of season.

Season 2: Days 65-83 (2 weeks and 4 Days) [2 Months 3 Weeks and 1 Day since Rick was shot]

Season 3:

We get a 8 month time skip over the winter time. Usually months go 30, 31, 30, 31. Lets ignore the exceptions. Pretty much on a normal calendar 8 months is 244 days because 8*30 is 240 and then add four days because four of those months have an extra day. Hope that makes sense. So yeah, we are adding on 244 days onto our Season 1 and 2 total which brings us to 326 days. So Season 3 Episode 1 "Seed" begins on day 326. Only 39 more days until one year. Counting all the times we see night time in season 3 and through all the dialogue, I can conclude that season 3 takes place over the course of 21 days. Yes, 21 days from the day Rick finds the prison all the way until the morning that Rick takes in the Woodbury survivors. This means "Seed" starts on day 326 and "Welcome to the Tombs" ends on day 347.

Season 3: Days 326-347 (3 Weeks) [11 Months 2 Weeks and 1 Day since Rick was shot]

Season 4:

We got a 6-and-a-half-month time skip between Seasons 3 and 4. Six and a half months is 198 days. Here is why: 6*30=180. That turns into 183 because three of those months have 31 days and not 30. Then we add 15 to 183 for that half month. We get a 198 day time skip. Season 3 finale left off on day 347. 347+198 is 545. The season 4 primer starts off on day 545. Fun fact is that we only are at the prison for 4 days in Season 4. The governor attacks on the fourth day we are back in the Season, which is day 549. Yes, it is a mindfuck that the entire illness lasted only four days. Actually, less than that because Day 1 everyone was healthy besides Patrick who turned in the showers late at night and Day 4 everyone was recovering and was fine. Days 2 and 3 were the only bad days full of death, scarcity, and chaos. You mean to tell me that some Ebola type of shit went away in 2 days? I am sick for upwards of a week with much more mild shit, like the common cold. That virus should have at least lasted a few weeks realistically. Anyway, moving on. So yeah, first half ran from day 545 to day 549. The second half picks up on day 549 and runs until day 556. Day 549 is Carl eating pudding. Day 556 is Terminus trapping Rick, Michonne, Daryl, and Carl by forcing them in the train car.

Season 4: Days 549-556 (1 Week and 1 Day) [1 Year 5 Months 1 Week and 2 Days since Rick was shot]

Season 5:

The first half of season 5 takes place over the course of four days. On day 556 is when Season 5 picks right up. Day 556 is the day Rick’s group escapes Terminus with Carol’s help. Pretty much all the events of “No Sanctuary”. On day 557, this is when the group runs into Father Gabriel and go to the church. This is also the day Bob gets bit during the run to the food bank and gets captured by the hunters. Later this night, the group kills Gareth and the remaining Termites. This is also the night Daryl and Carol go after the car with a white cross. On day 558, Bob dies and is put down. This is the day when Abe’s group leaves with Glenn, Maggie, and Tara to Washington. This is also the day when Daryl and Carol go back to Atlanta and Carol gets taken by Grady memorial and Daryl returns to the church late at night with Noah. On day 559, Eugene reveals that he has no cure and the entire group returns to the group in a fire truck. This day also covers all of the events of Episode 7 “Crossed” and Episode 8 “Coda”. Hence, the first half runs from Day 556-559 (4 days). There is 17 Days between Episode 8 and Episode 9 while Rick’s group traveled to Virginia from Georgia. Episode 9 picks up on day 577 (not day 576 because you can’t add 17 to 559 since it is 17 days BETWEEN). Literally Day 577 is just the death of Tyrese and Rick’s group arriving at Shirewilt Estates. It is just the events of episode 9, nothing else. There are three days between episode 9 and 10. Episode 10 picks up on Day 581. Episode 10 ends on Day 583 when Aaron walks out. It is just a bunch of boring traveling to Washington DC. Episode 11 picks up on Day 583 and runs to Day 584. Day 583 is Aaron and the group traveling to Alexandria and Day 584 is the group walking up to the gates of Alexandria with Aaron. Episode 12 resumes on Day 584. As of Episode 12, the group stays in Alexandria. In Season 5 the group is in Alexandria for 10 Days. Episode 16 takes place on Day 593. Rick shoots Pete on the night of Day 593.

Season 5: Days 556-593 (1 Month 1 Week and 2 Days) [1 Year 6 Months 2 Weeks and 4 Days since Rick was shot]

Note: Season 5 grand total since Rick was shot is NOT 1 Year 6 Months 2 Weeks and 5 Days because day 1 of Season 5 is Day 556 which was shared with Season 4.

Season 6:

There is a slight time skip between Season 5 and 6, but that time is filled in by using black and white flashbacks so technically there was no time skip since we saw it all in the season premiere anyway. Hopefully that makes sense. By the way, the timeline is a messy cluster fuck in the start of season 6 with all of the out of chronological order scenes. Also Episode 2 taking place after episode 3 when it comes to timeline has something to do with that too. When it is all said and done, here is how much time passes from episode 1 to 9: Morgan coming to Alexandria, the construction of the walker path with walls along the road, Rick taking a group to the quarry to lead the walkers away, the wolf attack, and No Way Out take place over the course of 8 days. Season 6 Episodes 1-9 run from Day 593 to Day 600. Now let's move on to episodes 10-16. Between episodes 9 and 10, their is a time skip of 2 months. This tacks on 61 days (one 30 day month and one 31 day month) to our 600 Day total for the time skip. That gives us 661 days as of the end of the time skip. Episode 10 picks up on Day 662. Episode 10 takes place over the course of 1 day that starts when Daryl and Rick go on a run and ends when Rick has sex with Michonne. Day 663 barely starts in episode 10 when Jesus walks into Rick’s room to see him and Michonne laying nude the next morning. Episode 11 picks up on day 663 and this day runs until early to mid Episode 12. This day is Rick’s group going to Hilltop for the first time and preparing to fight after they get back to Alexandria. Day 664 takes place during episode 12. This is the day when they spend the whole day preparing to attack the Satellite Outpost and then attack the Satellite Outpost in the middle of the night. Day 665 begins at the end of Episode 12 when the group leaves the outpost only to find out that Carol and Maggie got kidnapped and ends at the end of episode 13 when Rick shoots Primo. There is then a small time jump between episodes 13 and 14. To be specific, there are about 7 days between. So episode 13 ends at Day 665 and episode 14 starts at Day 673. Episode 14 takes up day 673 and 674 and ends during Day 674. Episode 15 starts on the morning of Day 675 and this day runs all the way until near the end of the Episode when night comes, and Eugene drives off in the RV. Episode 16 ends in the early morning hours of Day 676 at about 2-3am with the group in a line up.

Season 6: Days 593-676 (2 Months 2 Weeks 2 Days) [1 Year 7 Months 3 Weeks and 3 Days since Rick was shot]

Note: Season 6 grand total since Rick was shot is NOT 1 Year 7 Months 3 Weeks and 4 Days because day 1 of Season 6 is Day 593 which was shared with Season 5.

Season 7:

Episode 1 picks up on Day 676 and the entire episode takes up that day. Episodes 2 to 16 of Season 7 are an out of chronological order cluster fuck because the bottle episodes make sense to be shown in the order they were shown, but it wreaked the timeline. Episode 11 was going down in the episode 8 timeline before episode 9 for example. And episode 14 happened at the same time as episodes 12 and 13. Yeah, that’s right. Season 7 timeline was extremely easy to follow but explaining it is a huge cluster fuck that gives the first half of Season 6 a run for it’s money and I do not feel like doing it so I will just give you the totals for my sanity. It is one of those things where I can do Calculus work, but trying to explain Calculus makes my head want to explode. All Said and Done, Episodes 2 through 16 ran a total of 18 days. We are talking from Day 677 to Day 694. Day 677 is the middle of episode 2 and some of episode 3. Day 694 is the day of exclusively episode 16.

Season 7: Days 676-694 (2 Weeks 5 Days) [1 Year 8 Months and 2 Weeks since Rick was shot]

Note: Season 7 grand total since Rick was shot is NOT 1 Year 8 Months 2 Weeks and 1 Day because day 1 of Season 7 is Day 676 which was shared with Season 6.

Season 8:

Their is a brief time skip of 3 Days between Season 7 and Season 8. Season 7 Episode 16 ends on Day 694. Season 8 Episode 1 starts on Day 698. Day 698 is a huge day. This is the day of all the fighting and Rick kicking Negan’s ass. Rick’s group is able to trap the saviors in the sanctuary and take out all the outposts with ease. This one day covers Episodes 1-5 without skipping a beat and then it goes into episode 6 until night comes. When it becomes day again in Episode 6, Day 699 begins. This day goes all the way until the very end of Episode 8. After Carl reveals his bite, it turns Day 700. To be clear, Carl was bitten in Day 699 and he revealed his bit mark at midnight on Day 700 and ended up dying early morning hours of Day 700.

Carl Trivia, Skip if you want: Carl Grimes was 12yo in August 2010 (during outbreak) and he was born on an unspecified day in February 1998. We know his birth Month because Carl was named after Robert Kirkman’s father who was born in February and Robert Kirman confirmed this. We know his birth year due to simple subtraction: 2010-12=1998. Here is when he died and his age at death: Mid to Late August 2010 + 1 Year & 8.5 Months = Late April to Early May 2012. 2012-1998=14. This means Carl died at the age of 14 years old either in Late April 2012 or Early May 2012.

Day 700 starts on and continues from Episode 9 all the way to the end of Episode 12 and the very start (like 10 minutes) of Episode 13. In Episode 13 it turns into Day 701 near the beginning and Episode 13 ends in Day 702. Episode 14 picks up at Day 702 and runs all the way until the end of Day 702. Episode 15 is Day 703. Episode 16 is Day 704 and 705.

Season 8: Days 698-705 (1 Week and 1 Day) [1 Year 8 Months 3 Weeks and 4 Days since Rick was shot]

Season 9:

We get a 1 Year 6 Month time jump to kick off the season (Which is 547 Days). Episode 1 “A New Beginning” picks up at Day 705+547=1252. So yeah, Day 1252 is when the Season 9 Premiere picks up. The Season 9 Premiere ends on Day 1253 with the execution of Gregory. Between Episode 1 and 2 we get a time skip 29 days. Episode 2 picks up on “Day 30”, meaning exactly one month since Gregory’s execution. This means episode 2 takes place on Day 1283 of the apocalypse. Episode 3 takes place on day 1284 and the ending takes place at the start of Day 1285. Episode 4 was confusing, but I figured it out easily after watching it. There was a 6 day montage of Michonne having sleep troubles, but it is very clear that those were flashbacks to the 29 day time skip and not in present timeline after watching episode 4 all the way through again. Episode 4 continues on Day 1285. Day 1285 is the Day where Rick goes missing via Anne’s Helicopter because this day covers episodes 4 and 5. After Day 1285, we get a 6 year time skip.

How long Rick was in the Series before he got taken away:

Season 8 total [1 Year 8 Months 3 Weeks and 4 Days] + Time after Season 8 ended up to Rick’s exit (1 year 7 months and 4 days) = [3 years 4 months and 1 day] exactly from the day Rick was shot to the day Rick got taken by the helicopter.

By the way, Mid to late August 2010 + 3 years 4 months and 1 day = some time in December 2013. The date in December 2013 is depending on where in August 2010 the apocalypse began.

Insert 6 Year Time Jump here:

Day 1285 is where we left off. Six Years is Five 365 Day Years and One 366 Day Year. This means six years is 2191 Days. 1285+2191=3476 Days. The tail end of Episode 5 the very start of Episode 6 takes place on Day 3476. Day 3477 takes place in Episode 6 from the council voting scene all the way until it turns night in the episode near the end. Day 3478 takes place from the end of Episode 6 when Michonne decides to take Magna’s group to Hilltop until night Falls in episode 7. Day 3479 takes place from the time the sun comes up in episode 7 until Jesus is killed in the Graveyard. Time from Judith saving Magna’s group to Jesus being killed in the graveyard is only 4 Days. Fun fact, right now we are in late December 2019. This explains the fact that it is going to snow in another couple episodes (Somewhere in episode 14 or 15 all the way till the finale).

Season 9A: Days 1252-3479 (6 Years 1 Month 1 Week 1 Day: 1 Month 4 Days from ep.1-5 & 6 Years 4 Days from ep.5-8) [9 years 4 months and 5 days since Rick was shot]

This will be updated after Season 9 Episode 16. 