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The Buffyverse
Angel’s life since 1727, every season of Buffy and Angel, the other series and the comics – in one timeline. Use the buttons to filter.
Chapter 1Before the seriesFrom Liam in Galway to the movie- 1727Angel’s life
Liam is born in Galway, Ireland.
- 1732Angel’s life
At the age of 5 he falls into a pond.
- 1734Angel’s life
Liam starts school. The stories about the biblical city of Sodom make a deep impression on him.
- 1742Angel’s life
Liam begins to take an interest in girls.
- 1743Angel’s life
He loses his innocence at the age of only 11. In a barn. With Bonnie O’Flaherty.
- 1744-1753Angel’s life
During these years, much to his father’s dismay, he leads a dissolute life. Hardly an evening passes without him staggering drunk out of the tavern or having an affair with a girl of easy virtue.
- 1753Angel’s life
One evening he catches the eye of a pretty young woman who decides to make him her companion for all eternity – Darla.
- 1755-1760Angel’s life
Over the following years he kills all his friends and his family, including his little sister, who takes him for an ANGEL when he suddenly stands before her again, although he died years ago.
- 1760Angel’s life
After a journey through South Wales and the north of England, Darla introduces Angelus to the Master in London.
- 1764Angel’s life
Angelus and Darla stay in York and kill the family of the vampire hunter Holtz.
- 1764Angel’s life
Darla and Angelus stay in Italy.
- 1765Angel’s life
Darla and Angelus are chased by an angry mob in Arles (France). Darla flees on horseback and leaves Angelus to an uncertain fate.
- 1767Angel’s life
Angelus, Darla, James and Elisabeth (another vampire couple) stay in Marseille, where Holtz confronts them. The group splits up.
- 1771Angel’s life
Angelus is captured and tortured in Rome by Holtz and his accomplices. With Darla’s help, however, Angelus manages to escape.
- 1773Angel’s life
Holtz is visited by the time-travelling demon Sahjhan, who offers him a way to take revenge on Angelus after all. He seals Holtz in a block of stone, in which he sleeps for the next two centuries.
- 1780Angel’s life
In view of the chaos and horror he spreads everywhere, Angelus is given the epithet “the Scourge of Europe”.
- 1786-1789Angel’s life
In 1786 Angelus turns Penn into a vampire and finds in him a very eager pupil who tries to imitate, or even surpass, him in everything. Angelus marks his victims by carving a Christian cross into their left cheek.
- 1789Angel’s life
On his way to Vienna, Angelus passes through Prussia, where he encounters the Beast. Apparently he is travelling alone.
- 1838Angel’s life
Darla and Angelus stay in Dublin.
- 1840Angel’s life
Drusilla is born in England.
- 1845Angel’s life
According to a vampire named Rosaria, Angelus is staying in Tuscany. It is not certain, however, whether this is true.
- 1860Angel’s life
Angelus meets Byron.
- 1860Angel’s life
When he meets the extremely virtuous Drusilla, Angelus decides to drive her mad first by killing all her friends and her family, and finally to turn her into a vampire.
- 1881Angel’s life
Drusilla turns the unsuccessful, lovesick writer William “the Bloody” into a vampire.
- 1881-1894Angel’s life
William, now called Spike because he likes to torture his victims with railroad spikes, becomes ever harder to control and ever more rebellious, until he finally gets completely out of hand.
- 1890Angel’s life
Angelus watches the ballet “Giselle”.
- 1894Angel’s life
Angelus, Spike, Dru and Darla stay in Rome, where the male vampires clash with the “Immortal”, while the two women get to know another side of the charismatic man.
- 1897Angel’s life
Angelus, Spike, Dru and Darla stay in Rome, where the male vampires clash with the “Immortal”, while the two women get to know another side of the charismatic man.
- 1898Angel’s life
Darla gives Angelus a special birthday present – a young Romani girl. As punishment for her death, the Kalderash clan curses Angelus and gives him back his soul. He is to suffer for all eternity from the guilt he will feel for his countless crimes from now on. The curse will only be broken if he experiences a moment of perfect happiness. When Darla notices that Angelus has a soul again, she casts him out.
- 1900Angel’s life
During the Boxer Rebellion in China, Angelus attempts a comeback. Darla almost believes him, but when he is unable to kill a baby, she rejects him again.
- 1900Angel’s life
Spike kills the Slayer of the time, a Chinese woman.
- 1902Angel’s life
Angelus decides to emigrate to America and calls himself Angel from then on. He feeds on rats.
- 1904Angel’s life
Darla, who has also emigrated to America, rampages through San Francisco.
- 1908Angel’s life
Penn may be staying in Boston.
- 1929Angel’s life
Penn is staying in L.A.
- 1937Angel’s life
The Master comes to Sunnydale and is buried while trying to open the Hellmouth.
- 1943Angel’s life
Spike is captured by the Nazis in Madrid under the pretext of a “free virgin blood party”; they (want to) carry out scientific experiments on vampires. Angel lives in New York and is forced by American intelligence to free a hijacked Nazi submarine on which terrible incidents have occurred. Spike and two other vampires (Nostroyev and the Prince of Lies) are responsible for these “incidents” – that is, the decimation of the crew.
- 1950Angel’s life
Spike stays in Rome with Dru.
- 1952Angel’s life
Angel lives in L.A. and makes his first attempts to help people in need, but fails.
- 1963Angel’s life
Penn is staying in L.A. again (still?).
- 1969Angel’s life
Spike attends the Woodstock festival in New York State.
- around 1974-75Angel’s life
Angel is still living in New York. He witnesses a robbery in which the cashier of a café is killed, and drinks from a human for the first time again (even if a dead one).
- 1977Angel’s life
Spike kills his second Slayer in New York.
- 1992MovieBuffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)
The movie with Kristy Swanson, written by Joss Whedon. The series later tells the story anew.
- 1995Angel’s life
Angel still lives in New York. Since drinking from the dead cashier (around 1974) he has fed only on animal blood.
- 1996Angel’s life
When Buffy moves to Sunnydale, he follows her. They fall in love. When Darla tries to kill Buffy, Angel destroys his long-time companion.
Chapter 2The series years 1997–2004Sunnydale and Los Angeles on TV- Early 1997Angel’s life
Angel meets the demon Whistler, who shows him the current Slayer, Buffy Summers. He falls in love with her at once and decides to make something of his life again. Angel follows Buffy to Sunnydale. Darla is in Sunnydale with the Master. Angel kills Darla.
- 1997Buffy starts on TVThe series begins with “Welcome to the Hellmouth” on March 10, 1997.
- Mid 1997Angel’s life
The Master is destroyed by Buffy shortly after he has freed himself.
- Late 1997Angel’s life
Drusilla and Spike move to Sunnydale.
- Early 1998Angel’s life
Angel spends a night with Buffy, which leads to a moment of perfect happiness. He becomes Angelus again and joins Spike and Drusilla.
- Mid 1998Angel’s life
Angelus terrorises Buffy and her friends and finally wants to destroy mankind with the help of the demon Acathla. Buffy sends him to hell just as her friend Willow manages to restore Angel’s soul. Spike and Drusilla leave Sunnydale and go to South America.
- Late 1998Angel’s life
Angel spends at least 100 years in a hell dimension where time passes differently than on Earth. In Earth time he is only gone for a few months. He finally returns from the hell dimension naked and completely confused. Buffy finds him and nurses him until he is his old self again. The attempt to revive their relationship fails. Spike returns briefly to Sunnydale but leaves again at once.
- Mid 1999Angel’s life
After helping to save Sunnydale from certain destruction, Angel leaves Buffy and the town and moves to L.A., where he helps the helpless on his own. He meets the half-demon Doyle and works with him from then on. Doyle’s visions, sent to him by the Powers That Be, make his work enormously easier. At a party he meets Cordelia, who is trying without success to make it as an actress. Cordelia joins the team – “Angel Investigations” is born. This year Angel first encounters the law firm Wolfram & Hart. On a mission Doyle dies a hero’s death, just as a relationship with Cordelia is beginning.
- 1999Angel gets his own seriesThe spin-off starts in Los Angeles in October 1999.
- 1999–2000Angel seriesAngel Season 1: The detective agency in L.A.
Big Bad: Wolfram & Hart
- Late 1999Angel’s life
Spike reappears in Sunnydale and pays a short visit to L.A. The Initiative implants a chip in Spike’s brain that makes it impossible for him to harm humans. Angel pays a short visit to Sunnydale.
- Early 2000Angel’s life
Penn is eliminated in L.A. Through contact with a demon’s blood, Angel becomes an ordinary human. He spends an unforgettable day with Buffy before asking the Powers That Be to turn back time by one day and undo everything. Afterwards only he can remember this one special day. Wesley and Gunn join the team. Through Wesley, Angel meets the demon Lorne, who runs a karaoke bar and can read people’s minds when they sing.
- Mid 2000Angel’s life
Wolfram & Hart bring Darla back to life. Drusilla turns Darla back into a vampire. Together with Drusilla she leaves a trail of destruction through L.A. To keep his friends out of the line of fire while he hunts the two vampire ladies, Angel fires them.
- Early 2001Angel’s life
Drusilla pays a visit to Sunnydale. After Darla and Drusilla are defeated, Angel returns remorsefully to Wesley, Gunn and Cordelia and works for them from then on. A night together leads to Darla leaving the city pregnant. The friends rescue Fred from Lorne’s home world Pylea, where Cordelia briefly gets to be queen. Fred becomes a full member of the team. Cordelia’s visions threaten to kill her. To save her life, the Powers That Be make her a half-demon.
- Mid 2001Angel’s life
Angel kills Elisabeth and James in L.A. Spike begins an affair with Buffy. A heavily pregnant Darla visits a shaman in Honduras and tries to abort her unborn child. When this fails, she returns to L.A. and seeks out the child’s father: Angel. Darla kills herself so that her child can live. Angel takes Connor in.
- Early 2002Angel’s life
The vampire hunter Holtz, Angelus’ enemy from the old days, suddenly turns up in L.A. He kidnaps Angel and Darla’s son Connor and flees with him into a hell dimension.
- Mid 2002Angel’s life
Connor returns as a teenager and sinks Angel in an iron box to the bottom of the sea. Wesley frees him a few months later.
- Early 2003Angel’s life
To defeat the Beast (see 1789), Angel agrees to have his soul removed. Angelus returns. Two months later Angel gets his soul back thanks to Willow’s help.
- Mid 2003Angel’s life
Angel and his team make a deal with Wolfram & Hart and take over the firm’s Los Angeles branch. Spike supports Buffy in her fight against the First Evil. With a mysterious amulet that Angel brought to Sunnydale, he manages to destroy the Turok-Han and close the Hellmouth there. In doing so, however, he loses his unlife.
- 2003Buffy ends with “Chosen”The series finale on May 20, 2003.
- Late 2003Angel’s life
Angel receives a package in the mail containing the amulet. It activates – and out comes Spike. As a kind of ghost.
- Early 2004Angel’s life
Harmony becomes Angel’s new secretary.
- Mid 2004Angel’s life
Fred is infected with an incurable virus that turns her into the demon Illyria.
- Late 2004Angel’s life
Angel risks the lives of his whole crew to weaken the Senior Partners. To do so, they wipe out all members of the Circle of the Black Thorn. Wesley loses his life. Lorne shoots Lindsey, and all those left face the onslaught from the hell dimension. The gate to hell has been opened… The story continues in comic form from IDW.
- 2004Angel ends with “Not Fade Away”The series finale on May 19, 2004.
Chapter 3After the seriesComic continuations and new series- 2007The comic continuations startBuffy Season 8 and Angel Season 6 continue the series as comics.
- 2007–2009Buffy comicBuffy Season 8
The official continuation after “Chosen” at Dark Horse: Buffy leads an army of Slayers.
- 2007SeriesBlood Ties
Vicki Nelson and the vampire Henry Fitzroy in Toronto. Not part of the Whedonverse, but a kind of Buffy remake.
- 2007–2008Angel comicAngel Season 6: After the Fall
Los Angeles has fallen into hell – the continuation of the Angel series, written with Joss Whedon.
- 2011–2013Angel comicAngel & Faith Season 9
Angel and Faith in London: Angel wants to bring Giles back.
