#and their next canon meeting is the 1862 holy water fight…….

[glassiskies]

if i learned one thing from my polls of everyone’s favorite minisodes it’s that the Resurrectionists is GREATLY underappreciated 😤 but maybe I just like watching Aziraphale go thru his moral dilemmas, it brings me great joy

[runawaymarbles]

The Nice and Accurate Good Omens Timeline

Years marked with a "~" are approximate, and are based off the premise that in the book, the Apocalypse happens in 1990, and in the show, the Apocalypse happens in 2019. They could go a year or two in either direction.

"n.c." means "non-contradictory"-- they are things that are only mentioned in one canon but could be inferred to be canon to the other as well (for example, in the book we just know Agnes died sometime after 1655. The show puts the date at 1658.)

Things not marked as either TV show or Book are canonical to both.

(read on ao3) 

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Sunday, October 21 st , 4004 BC, 9 a.m: The earth is created.

Rather more than seven days later: Eve eats the apple, and she and Adam leave Eden. Aziraphale gives them the flaming sword. (Book) Crawly is thinking about changing his name. 

3004 BC: (TV show) Crawly and Aziraphale see each other for the first time since the garden at Noah’s ark.  

Sometime before 2067 BC: (Book) Crowley gets date-palm cocktails with nutmeg and crushed lemongrass in Gomorrah

Sometime before 33 AD: (TV show) Crawly changes his name to Crowley from Crawly. (It’s not specified when this happened in the book, but since he’s considering it in the Garden of Eden, probably much earlier.) 

33 AD: (TV show) Crowley and Aziraphale witness Jesus’s crucifixion. 

41 AD: (TV show) Crowley and Aziraphale meet in Rome, Crowley to tempt Caligula and Aziraphale to inspire Nero towards music. They presumably eat oysters

~95 AD: Aziraphale meets John of Patmos and gets an original scroll of Revelation

537 AD:  (TV show) Aziraphale is a knight in King Arthur’s court. Crowley spreads ferment as the Black Knight, and comes up with the basic premise of the Arrangement.

1020: (book) the Arrangement is formed. Aziraphale tells Crowley that the point of humanity is that they can choose whether to be good or bad.

1023: (book) Crowley argues that that only works if you start them off equally

1300: Crowley is really bored for the next 100 years

Early 1500s: Crowley meets Leonardo da Vinci, buys an early sketch of the Mona Lisa, and inspires the helicopter

1600: (TV, n.c.) Agnes Nutter is born

1600s: (Book, n.c.) Witchfinder General Hopkins is charging nine pence for every witch he discovered

1601: (TV) Crowley and Aziraphale meet at the Globe. Aziraphale goes to Scotland to do a blessing and also tempt a clan leader to steal some cattle.

1651: (Book) Bilton and Scaggs publishes the Buggre Alle This Bible. Aziraphale, who owns a boookstore two doors down, and adds three chapters to Genesis.

1653: (Book) Bilton pays six guineas for a quarto of The Comedie of Robin Hood by Shakespeare, and then loses it.

1654: Archbishop James Usher publishes Annales Veteris et Novi Testaments, suggesting the world was created in 4004 BC.

1655: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies is published.

1656: (TV, n.c.) Agnes Nutter dies, and sends the Further Prophecies to a small legal firm.

1757: (Book) Mr. George Cranby opens the box containing the Further Prophecies to find a letter to him from Agnes telling him she knows that he swindled the Widow Plashkin

1793: (TV show) Crowley rescues Aziraphale from being beheaded. (Both book and TV show) Aziraphale buys Crowley lunch.

Sometime around 1800: (Book) Crowley starts taking a nap

1832: (Book) Crowley wakes up from his nap to go to the bathroom and then goes back to sleep for the rest of the cenutry

1862: (TV show) Crowley asks Aziraphale for Holy Water

1870s: (Book, n.c.) Aziraphale attends a magic class run by John Maskelyne

Late 1800s: (Book) Cecil Rhodes meets Witchfinder Company Seargent Marjor Narker

Late 1880s: Aziraphale learns the Gavotte at a discrete gentlemen’s club in Portland Place

June 7th, 1916: (Book, n.c.) Mr. Bychance does something that Agnes later threatens to reveal

1926: Crowley buys the Bentley

1928: (Book, n.c.) Mr. Bychance opens the box with the Further Prophecies, found a letter to himself saying she knows what he did on June 7th, 1916. He then declares that anyone who opens the box will be sacked without references.

October 22, 1929: (Book) Anathema’s great-grandfather realizes the stock market crash is coming and makes a lot of money

1933: (Book) the last Witchfinder Lieutenant dies falling out of a very tall tree in Carterham

1936: Pestilence retires, and Pollution takes over

1941: (TV show) Crowley rescues Aziraphale from Nazis during the London Blitz

1948: (Book) Anathema’s grandfather invests in the transistor

1952: (Book) A fight breaks out in the city square of Kumbolaland, Africa, between a drunk ox driver and a drunk ox thief. It’s the biggest fight there until War arrives.

1967: Crowley buys petrol for the first and only time in order to get the James Bond bullethole stickers

1967 : (TV) Crowley meets Shadwell. Aziraphale gives him the Holy Water.

~1967: (Book) Newt Pulsifer is born.

~1970: (Book, Neil Gaiman's tumblr) Sarah Young is born. (Book) Anathema Device is born.

Early 1970s: Crowley hears about talking to plants on BBC Radio Four. Planning and construction is begun on the M25.

1972: Do not buy Betamacks!!!!!

Sometime before 1974: (Book) Madame Tracy buys her scooter

Sometime between 1977 and ~1990: Elvis fakes his death and becomes a cook at Burger Lord in Des Moines

~1979: (Book) Adam, Warlock and Greasy Johnson are born. 12-year-old Newton Pulsifer tries to fix a radio, and fails. 9-year-old Anathema Device hides under her blankets, reading Agnes’s book by flashlight.

~ 1979: (Book) War, using the name Scarlett, is working as an arms dealer. She starts a war in Kumbolaland. Famine, under the name Sable, starts the Newtrition corporation. Pollution, under the name Seaman White, causes an oil spill and then goes to Indonesia with toxic weed killer.

1980: (TV show) Anathema’s grandfather makes millions of dollars investing in Apple stock

~1979/90: (Book) Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Francis begin working for the Dowlings

1983: (Book) The National World Weekly does an interview with the General Secretary of the UN, and asked about Elvis. Seargent Thomas A. Disenberger falls in the shower in Vietnam.

~1983: (Book) the Them meet. Pepper bites Adam’s shoe.

~1985: (Book) Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Francis quit, and are replaced by tutors Mr. Harrison and Mr. Cortese

1986: the M25 is completed

Sometime between 1979 and 1990:  (Book) Sister Mary Loquacious/Mary Hodges learns computer skills and opens up the Tadfield Manor Conference and Management Training Center, and War becomes war correspondent Carmine Zuigiber with the National World Weekly

Early summer ~1990: (Book) Newt joins the Witchfinder army

August, ~1990: (Book) Warlock and Adam’s 11th birthdays

Early-mid 1990s: (TV show) Anathema Device and Newton Pulsifer are born

August 20-21, ~1990: United Holdings Combat Training Course

~2008: (TV show) Adam, Warlock and Baby B are born. Newt fails to fix a computer, and Anathema (who is older than 9) colors on the first page of the Book

~2013: (TV show) Crowley and Aziraphale begin working for the Dowlings, disguised as Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Francis

Sometime between 2008 and 2019:  (TV show) Sister Mary Loquacious opens the Tadfield Manor Conference and Management Training Center, and War becomes war correspondent Carmine Zuigiber with the National World Weekly  .

Summer ~2019: (Book) Warlock and Adam’s 11th  birthdays