World Timeline

The following is a list of events as they take place in the world of One Piece, starting from the past heading towards the present storyline.

Note, however, that aside from the date of "1122 AOS", all the other dates on this page are either estimates or non precise time units and therefore are subject to change as the storyline progresses on.

Timeline
{| class="wikitable" ! style="width:50%;"|One Piece World Year!! When did it happen? (Years Ago)
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 * ??? ||5000 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Tree of Knowledge was planted by the ancient Oharans.
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 * ??? ||4000 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Palace of Alubarna was built.
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 * 239 Age of Heaven||1283 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Kahira falls to Arabasta (Arabasta's history. Information supplied by Nico Robin)
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 * 260 AOH||1262 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Bitein Dynasty of Taymar begins its rule (Arabasta's history. Information supplied by Nico Robin)
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 * 306 AOH||1216 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Great Taph Temple completed in Erumalu (Arabasta's history. Information supplied by Nico Robin)
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 * 325 AOH||1197 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Hero of Oltea, Mamudin... (Arabasta's history. Information supplied by Nico Robin, however she is not allowed to finish the sentence.)
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 * 522 AOS||1000 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The city of gold, Shandora prospers
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 * 600 AOS||922 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Void Century begins.
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 * 622-722 AOS||''900-800 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A great civilisation dominates the planet from one corner to the next, great weapons of mass destruction are built. In the same century, they also disappear under mysterious circumstances. The only traces left behind of their civilization are the Poneglyphs.
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 * 325 AOH||1197 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Hero of Oltea, Mamudin... (Arabasta's history. Information supplied by Nico Robin, however she is not allowed to finish the sentence.)
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 * 522 AOS||1000 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The city of gold, Shandora prospers
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 * 600 AOS||922 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Void Century begins.
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 * 622-722 AOS||''900-800 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A great civilisation dominates the planet from one corner to the next, great weapons of mass destruction are built. In the same century, they also disappear under mysterious circumstances. The only traces left behind of their civilization are the Poneglyphs.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Void Century begins.
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 * 622-722 AOS||''900-800 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A great civilisation dominates the planet from one corner to the next, great weapons of mass destruction are built. In the same century, they also disappear under mysterious circumstances. The only traces left behind of their civilization are the Poneglyphs.
 * 622-722 AOS||''900-800 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A great civilisation dominates the planet from one corner to the next, great weapons of mass destruction are built. In the same century, they also disappear under mysterious circumstances. The only traces left behind of their civilization are the Poneglyphs.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A great civilisation dominates the planet from one corner to the next, great weapons of mass destruction are built. In the same century, they also disappear under mysterious circumstances. The only traces left behind of their civilization are the Poneglyphs.

During this time, Shandora is toppled in a great war.

At the end of this century, an organization of twenty kings come together to create an alliance known as the World Government. As they come to power, they control and censor everything that has happened in the last 100 years, while at the same time outlawed the ability to read the Poneglyphs. Around this time, the Void Century has ended. The Alliances became known as the World Government, they passed a worldwide law that banned the research on Poneglyphs.
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 * 822 AOS||''700 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A bridge begins construction somewhere in East Blue on the island of Tequila Wolf, with the purpose to link islands together.
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 * 1022 AOS||500 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Oars a ruler over a nation of brigands from around the world, dies of frostbite traveling through the Northern Lands and is frozen.
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 * 1052 AOS||470 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A horrible disease plagues the land of Lvneel, almost wiping out the majority of the inhabitants. However a cure is found.
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 * 1122 Age of Sea||400 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Norland (dated in his log book as June 21) departs from a town called 'Vira'. Following the Log Pose they happen upon a merchant selling an unusual artifact from Skypiea called a 'waver'.
 * 1052 AOS||470 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A horrible disease plagues the land of Lvneel, almost wiping out the majority of the inhabitants. However a cure is found.
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 * 1122 Age of Sea||400 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Norland (dated in his log book as June 21) departs from a town called 'Vira'. Following the Log Pose they happen upon a merchant selling an unusual artifact from Skypiea called a 'waver'.
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 * 1122 Age of Sea||400 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Norland (dated in his log book as June 21) departs from a town called 'Vira'. Following the Log Pose they happen upon a merchant selling an unusual artifact from Skypiea called a 'waver'.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Norland (dated in his log book as June 21) departs from a town called 'Vira'. Following the Log Pose they happen upon a merchant selling an unusual artifact from Skypiea called a 'waver'.

Montblanc Norland arrives on Jaya island and brings about the end of a horrible disease that made the Shandians sick.
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 * 1126 AOS||396 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |A large portion of Jaya is shot into the air by the Knock Up Stream. The war between the Skypieans and the Shandians begins.
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 * 1127 AOS||395 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Norland brings the King of Lvneel to Jaya to show him the treasures of the people there. He sets sail with 3 ships, however due to a storm two are sacrificed to protect the King. When they arrive on Jaya, there is no one living there and the city of Gold is gone.
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 * 1128 AOS||394 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Norland is executed for his "lies" about the city of Gold. He dies claiming the city fell into the ocean.
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 * 1322 AOS||200 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The St. Bliss leaves from the Bliss Kingdom carrying a crew towards the Grand Line. The crew makes it to Skypiea but then vanishes without a trace.
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 * 1128 AOS||394 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Norland is executed for his "lies" about the city of Gold. He dies claiming the city fell into the ocean.
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 * 1322 AOS||200 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The St. Bliss leaves from the Bliss Kingdom carrying a crew towards the Grand Line. The crew makes it to Skypiea but then vanishes without a trace.
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 * 1322 AOS||200 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The St. Bliss leaves from the Bliss Kingdom carrying a crew towards the Grand Line. The crew makes it to Skypiea but then vanishes without a trace.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The St. Bliss leaves from the Bliss Kingdom carrying a crew towards the Grand Line. The crew makes it to Skypiea but then vanishes without a trace.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The St. Bliss leaves from the Bliss Kingdom carrying a crew towards the Grand Line. The crew makes it to Skypiea but then vanishes without a trace.

Also during this period, in a certain region of the South Blue, including Bliss Kingdom, it was a custom to cover teeth with tar to help preserve them.

The World Government makes an alliance with Fishman Island after centuries of discrimination. Brogy is born.
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 * 1364 AOS||158 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Dorry is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Dorry is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Dorry is born.
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 * 1383 AOS||139 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Dr. Kureha is born.
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 * 1422 AOS||100 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Dorry and Brogy begin their Duel on Little Garden.
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 * 1422 AOS||100 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Dorry and Brogy begin their Duel on Little Garden.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Dorry and Brogy begin their Duel on Little Garden.

The disease-carrying Kestia is believed to be extinct.
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 * 1434 AOS||88 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Brook is born.
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 * 1450 AOS||72 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Edward Newgate is born.
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 * 1451 AOS||71 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Crocus is born.
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 * 1472 AOS||50 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Laboon arrives at Reverse Mountain with the Rumbar Pirates. He is left behind with Crocus at the Twin Capes to wait for them.
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 * 1451 AOS||71 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Crocus is born.
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 * 1472 AOS||50 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Laboon arrives at Reverse Mountain with the Rumbar Pirates. He is left behind with Crocus at the Twin Capes to wait for them.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Crocus is born.
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 * 1472 AOS||50 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Laboon arrives at Reverse Mountain with the Rumbar Pirates. He is left behind with Crocus at the Twin Capes to wait for them.
 * 1472 AOS||50 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Laboon arrives at Reverse Mountain with the Rumbar Pirates. He is left behind with Crocus at the Twin Capes to wait for them.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Laboon arrives at Reverse Mountain with the Rumbar Pirates. He is left behind with Crocus at the Twin Capes to wait for them.

Oimo and Kāshī are tricked into working for the World Government.
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 * 1474 AOS||48 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Gecko Moria is born.
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 * 1475 AOS||47 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Rumbar Pirates are forced to split in two after half the crew, including Captain Yorki, contract an incurable disease. Brook takes control over the healthy half of the crew.
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 * 1475 AOS||47 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Rumbar Pirates are forced to split in two after half the crew, including Captain Yorki, contract an incurable disease. Brook takes control over the healthy half of the crew.
 * 1475 AOS||47 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Rumbar Pirates are forced to split in two after half the crew, including Captain Yorki, contract an incurable disease. Brook takes control over the healthy half of the crew.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The Rumbar Pirates are forced to split in two after half the crew, including Captain Yorki, contract an incurable disease. Brook takes control over the healthy half of the crew.

The Rumbar Pirates are annihilated by an unknown assailant in the Florian Triangle, leaving no survivors.
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 * 1476 AOS||46 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Brook's soul (thanks to the Yomi Yomi no Mi) finds his body, only to realize that it has rotted away, leaving only his skeleton and his afro intact.
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 * 1477 AOS||45 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Bartholomew Kuma is born.
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 * 1478 AOS||44 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Crocodile is born.
 * 1477 AOS||45 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Bartholomew Kuma is born.
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 * 1478 AOS||44 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Crocodile is born.
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 * 1478 AOS||44 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Crocodile is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Crocodile is born.

Jinbei is born.
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 * 1481 AOS||41 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Juracule Mihawk is born.
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 * 1482 AOS||40 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boodle and his followers flee to Organ Island from pirate attacks and set up Orange Town.
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 * 1482 AOS||40 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boodle and his followers flee to Organ Island from pirate attacks and set up Orange Town.
 * 1482 AOS||40 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boodle and his followers flee to Organ Island from pirate attacks and set up Orange Town.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boodle and his followers flee to Organ Island from pirate attacks and set up Orange Town.

Shakuyaku gives up pirating to open a bar on the Sabaody Archipelago.
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 * 1483 AOS||39 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Spandam is born.
 * 1483 AOS||39 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Spandam is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Spandam is born.

Donquixote Doflamingo is born.
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 * 1484 AOS||38 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Iceburg is born.
 * 1484 AOS||38 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Iceburg is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Iceburg is born.

Bellemere is born.

Marshall D. Teach is born.
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 * 1485 AOS||37 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Red-Haired Shanks is born.
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 * 1486 AOS||36 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Doctor Hiruluk returns to Drum Island and begins his research into finding a cure for the sickness that plagues his homeland.
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 * 1487 AOS||35 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Jyabura is born.
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 * 1488 AOS||34 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Cutty Flam is born.
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 * 1487 AOS||35 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Jyabura is born.
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 * 1488 AOS||34 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Cutty Flam is born.
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 * 1488 AOS||34 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Cutty Flam is born.
 * 1488 AOS||34 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Cutty Flam is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Cutty Flam is born.

Smoker is born.

Kumadori is born.
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 * 1490 AOS||32 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Captain Hina is born.
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 * 1492 AOS||30 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Blueno is born.
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 * 1493 AOS||29 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boa Hancock is born.
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 * 1494 AOS||28 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nico Robin is born.
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 * 1493 AOS||29 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boa Hancock is born.
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 * 1494 AOS||28 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nico Robin is born.
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 * 1494 AOS||28 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nico Robin is born.
 * 1494 AOS||28 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nico Robin is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nico Robin is born.

Rob Lucci is born.
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 * 1496 AOS||26 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Gol D. Roger discovers he has a fatal disease. Preparing for what would be his greatest journey, he recruits Crocus as ship doctor.
 * 1496 AOS||26 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Gol D. Roger discovers he has a fatal disease. Preparing for what would be his greatest journey, he recruits Crocus as ship doctor.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Gol D. Roger discovers he has a fatal disease. Preparing for what would be his greatest journey, he recruits Crocus as ship doctor.

Nico Olvia leaves Ohara and her daughter Robin to join on a Poneglyph expedition.
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 * 1497 AOS||25 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |In the midst of a journey that has already taken them to Skypiea, Water 7 and all the way to the New World, the Roger Pirates faced off against pirate Shiki. Roger escapes, while Shiki suffers massive losses and gets a steering wheel implanted into his head.
 * 1497 AOS||25 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |In the midst of a journey that has already taken them to Skypiea, Water 7 and all the way to the New World, the Roger Pirates faced off against pirate Shiki. Roger escapes, while Shiki suffers massive losses and gets a steering wheel implanted into his head.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |In the midst of a journey that has already taken them to Skypiea, Water 7 and all the way to the New World, the Roger Pirates faced off against pirate Shiki. Roger escapes, while Shiki suffers massive losses and gets a steering wheel implanted into his head.

Kalifa is born.
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 * 1499 AOS||23 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |After completing a journey that takes them all the way to Raftel at the end of the Grand Line, Gol D. Roger breaks up his pirate crew, allowing them to return to peaceful lives of their choosing.
 * 1499 AOS||23 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |After completing a journey that takes them all the way to Raftel at the end of the Grand Line, Gol D. Roger breaks up his pirate crew, allowing them to return to peaceful lives of their choosing.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |After completing a journey that takes them all the way to Raftel at the end of the Grand Line, Gol D. Roger breaks up his pirate crew, allowing them to return to peaceful lives of their choosing.

Kaku is born.
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 * 1500 The Great Age of Pirates||22 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The great pirate Gol D. Roger is sentenced to death. Roger's speech before his death leads pirates to the Grand Line to seek out his hidden treasure dubbed 'One Piece'. This event marks the beginning of an era called "The Great Age of Pirates".
 * 1500 The Great Age of Pirates||22 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The great pirate Gol D. Roger is sentenced to death. Roger's speech before his death leads pirates to the Grand Line to seek out his hidden treasure dubbed 'One Piece'. This event marks the beginning of an era called "The Great Age of Pirates".
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |The great pirate Gol D. Roger is sentenced to death. Roger's speech before his death leads pirates to the Grand Line to seek out his hidden treasure dubbed 'One Piece'. This event marks the beginning of an era called "The Great Age of Pirates".

Shanks begins his journey as a pirate captain by asking Buggy to join his crew. This is the last time the pair see each other before parting ways.

Duval is born.

The Legendary Shipwright Tom is put on trial for building Gold Roger's ship. He was given ten years to complete his idea of a Sea Train to be exonerated of this crime.

Upon hearing of the capture of Roger, Shiki goes on a rampage throughout Marineford before being brought down by Sengoku and Monkey D. Garp. He is sent to Level 6 of Impel Down for his actions.
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 * 1501 AOP||21 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Tashigi is born.
 * 1501 AOP||21 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Tashigi is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Tashigi is born.

Kuina is born.
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 * 1502 AOP||20 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Portgas D. Ace is born as "Gol D. Ace". His mother, Portgas D. Rouge, dies at childbirth.
 * 1502 AOP||20 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Portgas D. Ace is born as "Gol D. Ace". His mother, Portgas D. Rouge, dies at childbirth.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Portgas D. Ace is born as "Gol D. Ace". His mother, Portgas D. Rouge, dies at childbirth.

Nico Olvia is captured by the Marines, her assistants are killed. Jaguar D. Saul frees her and deserts the Marines. Nico Olvia returns to Ohara. Her daughter Nico Robin meets Saul.

Ohara Incident: Ohara Island is burned to the ground by a Buster Call summoned by the CP9. Professor Clover, Olvia and all Oharan citizens are killed. Nico Robin, the sole survivor, begins her life on the run from the World Government with a 79,000,000 bounty. Jagaur D. Saul presumably dies when he is frozen by Aokiji.

Gaimon arrives at the Island of Rare Animals and through a mishap, is trapped inside a treasure chest. He is left behind by his crew.

Hatchan saves Silvers Rayleigh out at sea and subsequently befriends him.

The flying pirate Shiki the Gold Lion escapes from Impel Down.

Shanks first meets Yasopp while sailing near Gecko Island.

Nojiko is born.

Sabo is born.


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 * 1503 AOP||19 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Roronoa Zoro is born.
 * 1503 AOP||19 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Roronoa Zoro is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Roronoa Zoro is born.

Sanji is born.
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 * 1504 AOP||18 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nami is born.
 * 1504 AOP||18 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nami is born.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nami is born.

Bellemere, a Marine, is caught in a battle between Marines and pirates. She survives, and takes two orphans she finds, Nami and Nojiko, back to Cocoyashi Village; she later adopts both girls as her daughters.

Stelly is born.
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 * 1505 AOP||17 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boa Hancock and her sisters are kidnapped and become slaves of the Tenryubito.
 * 1505 AOP||17 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boa Hancock and her sisters are kidnapped and become slaves of the Tenryubito.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Boa Hancock and her sisters are kidnapped and become slaves of the Tenryubito.

Monkey D. Luffy is born.

Usopp is born.
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 * 1506 AOP||16 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Nefertari Vivi is born.
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 * 1507 AOP||15 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Tony Tony Chopper is born on Drum island. He becomes an outcast of his herd because of his blue nose.
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 * 1507 AOP||15 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Tony Tony Chopper is born on Drum island. He becomes an outcast of his herd because of his blue nose.
 * 1507 AOP||15 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Tony Tony Chopper is born on Drum island. He becomes an outcast of his herd because of his blue nose.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Tony Tony Chopper is born on Drum island. He becomes an outcast of his herd because of his blue nose.

An incident on an island leaves five hundred soldiers being held as hostages by pirates. The pirates demand their captain be made king of the island for release of the five hundred captives. The World Government sends in one lone thirteen year old boy to end the hostage situation; he kills the five hundred soldiers, and then the pirates when they open fire on him. The boy later goes onto become the top killing machine of the secret CP9: Rob Lucci.

An unnamed King of an unnamed kingdom visited Kamabakka Kingdom on Momoiro Island. After he returned, he was an Okama. This incident tore the kingdom and the family apart, they were later exiled. A former prince became a pirate and would later blame Ivankov for this incident.

Portgas D. Ace and Sabo start saving up money in order to buy a pirate ship to leave Dawn Island and become pirates.
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 * 1509 AOS||13 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Fisher Tiger climbs the Red Line to Mariejois and frees all of the slaves of the Tenryubito, including Boa Hancock and her sisters.
 * 1509 AOS||13 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Fisher Tiger climbs the Red Line to Mariejois and frees all of the slaves of the Tenryubito, including Boa Hancock and her sisters.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;" |Fisher Tiger climbs the Red Line to Mariejois and frees all of the slaves of the Tenryubito, including Boa Hancock and her sisters.

Fisher Tiger rebrands the mark of the Tenryubito on the freed Fishmen slaves into a mark of the sun, and forms the Sunny Pirates.

The Boa sisters are found by Gloriosa, Silvers Rayleigh and Shakuyaku, who transport them back to Amazon Lily.
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 * 1511 AOP||11 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Vivi becomes the Sub-leader of the Suna Suna clan.
 * 1511 AOP||11 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Vivi becomes the Sub-leader of the Suna Suna clan.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Vivi becomes the Sub-leader of the Suna Suna clan.

Toto and his son Kohza set off from Alubarna to set up a village in the Oasis of Yuba.

Boa Hancock becomes the new empress of the Kuja and the captain of the Kuja Pirates. She is also given a position in the Shichibukai.
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 * 1512 AOP||10 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Red-Haired Shanks, then twenty seven years old, arrives at Luffy's hometown and decides to stay there. Luffy accidentally eats the Gomu Gomu no Mi, giving him rubber powers and an inability to swim. Higuma is eaten by a Sea King in an incident involving Luffy and Shanks. Shanks leaves Luffy's hometown after staying there for almost a year.
 * 1512 AOP||10 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Red-Haired Shanks, then twenty seven years old, arrives at Luffy's hometown and decides to stay there. Luffy accidentally eats the Gomu Gomu no Mi, giving him rubber powers and an inability to swim. Higuma is eaten by a Sea King in an incident involving Luffy and Shanks. Shanks leaves Luffy's hometown after staying there for almost a year.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Red-Haired Shanks, then twenty seven years old, arrives at Luffy's hometown and decides to stay there. Luffy accidentally eats the Gomu Gomu no Mi, giving him rubber powers and an inability to swim. Higuma is eaten by a Sea King in an incident involving Luffy and Shanks. Shanks leaves Luffy's hometown after staying there for almost a year.

Shortly after Shanks' departure, Luffy is taken by his grandfather Monkey D. Garp to train with Curly Dadan and meets his adopted brother Portgas D. Ace. Luffy soon forms a brotherhood with Ace and Sabo in desire to becoming pirates.

The Tenryuubito come to visit the Goa Kingdom on Dawn Island. The Bluejam Pirates set fire to Trash Mountain in preparation for their arrival, but most who reside there are saved from being burnt to death by Monkey D. Dragon and the Revolutionaries. When the Tenryuubito arrive, they appeared to have murder Sabo as he leaves his home island in hopes to be free from being a noble by becoming a pirate.

The pirate captain, Montblanc Cricket, arrives at Jaya. He stays to search for proof on whether his ancestor was or wasn't a liar, so he can be free of his family curse. His crew abandoned him shortly afterwards.

Chou-Chou's owner sets up his pet shop in Orange Town.

The famous actress Victoria Cindry dies in a tragic accident. Dr. Hogback meets the Shichibukai Gecko Moria, along with Absalom and Perona.

Last time Hatchan visits Shakuyaku and Silvers Rayleigh prior to joining the Sunny Pirates.

The revolutionaries start to look for Nico Robin.
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 * 1513 AOP||9 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Zeff returns from the Grand Line. A storm sinks the Orbit and Zeff's pirate ship. Zeff and Sanji end up stranded on an island with very little food for 85 days and are eventually saved. Baratie is opened.
 * 1513 AOP||9 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Zeff returns from the Grand Line. A storm sinks the Orbit and Zeff's pirate ship. Zeff and Sanji end up stranded on an island with very little food for 85 days and are eventually saved. Baratie is opened.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Zeff returns from the Grand Line. A storm sinks the Orbit and Zeff's pirate ship. Zeff and Sanji end up stranded on an island with very little food for 85 days and are eventually saved. Baratie is opened.

Ninjin is born.

Piiman is born.

Tamanegi is born.
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 * 1514 AOP||8 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Jinbei agrees to the world Government and becomes one of the Shichibukai. He leaves the Sunny Pirates.
 * 1514 AOP||8 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Jinbei agrees to the world Government and becomes one of the Shichibukai. He leaves the Sunny Pirates.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Jinbei agrees to the world Government and becomes one of the Shichibukai. He leaves the Sunny Pirates.

Arlong invades Cocoyashi Village and begins to build his empire. Bellemere is shot dead, and Nami is conscripted into Arlong's crew.

Tom completes the Sea Train, Puffing Tom. He has taken an extra four years to add extra tracks to other islands.

CP5, led by Spandam, frames Tom, and he is carted away to Enies Lobby. Cutty Flam is presumed dead after attempting to stop the train that carries Tom.
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 * 1515 AOP||7 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|A violent war occurs on Kuraigana Island, coating the island in blood and dead bodies and ingraining a violent personality into the baboons of the island.
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 * 1516 AOP||6 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Dr. Hiluluk finds Tony Tony Chopper and saves his life. He later takes Chopper in as his assistant and surrogate son.
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 * 1516 AOP||6 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Dr. Hiluluk finds Tony Tony Chopper and saves his life. He later takes Chopper in as his assistant and surrogate son.
 * 1516 AOP||6 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Dr. Hiluluk finds Tony Tony Chopper and saves his life. He later takes Chopper in as his assistant and surrogate son.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Dr. Hiluluk finds Tony Tony Chopper and saves his life. He later takes Chopper in as his assistant and surrogate son.

Gan Fall is replaced as the God of Skypiea by Enel in a coup d'état.

A meeting is held at Mariejois with the World Counsel to discuss Dragon and his revoloutionary movement.

Some point between 5 or 6 years ago two fans of the book on Montblanc Norland, Masira and his brother Shōjō, show up at Jaya to aid with Montblanc Cricket's efforts to settle things with his ancestor.

Hiruluk dies, upon his death Tony Tony Chopper goes to live with Doctor Kureha, she begins to teach him how to be a real doctor.
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 * 1517 AOP||5 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Usopp's Pirates are formed.
 * 1517 AOP||5 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Usopp's Pirates are formed.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Usopp's Pirates are formed.

Rob Lucci, Kaku and Kalifa from CP9 go undercover and join the Galley-La Company to learn more about the blueprints to Pluton. Blueno goes to Water 7 with them, but gets work as a bartender instead.

Brook is captured on Thriller Bark, where his shadow is taken by Gecko Moria and used to give life to Samurai Ryuma. Brook however managed to escape, creating a horrible mess on Thriller Bark, thus making all beings on Thriller Bark remember his title as "The Humming Swordsman".
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 * 1518 AOP||4 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Cutty Flam shows up alive at Water 7. He is given the blueprints to Pluton by Iceburg. Cutty Flam assumes the name 'Franky'.
 * 1518 AOP||4 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Cutty Flam shows up alive at Water 7. He is given the blueprints to Pluton by Iceburg. Cutty Flam assumes the name 'Franky'.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Cutty Flam shows up alive at Water 7. He is given the blueprints to Pluton by Iceburg. Cutty Flam assumes the name 'Franky'.

Nico Robin is hired by Crocodile into Baroque Works as his partner.
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 * 1519 AOP||3 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Captain Kuro fakes his own death and takes on the name Kurahadol. He becomes the butler for Miss Kaya's family.
 * 1519 AOP||3 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Captain Kuro fakes his own death and takes on the name Kurahadol. He becomes the butler for Miss Kaya's family.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Captain Kuro fakes his own death and takes on the name Kurahadol. He becomes the butler for Miss Kaya's family.

Axe-Hand Morgan is honored for bringing in 'Captain Kuro' and begins his raise to rank in the Marines.

The Franky Family begin to collect 200,000,000.

Portgas D. Ace leaves Luffy's hometown.
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 * 1520 AOP||2 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Vivi and Igaram join Baroque Works to find out information on who runs it.
 * 1520 AOP||2 Yrs Ago
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Vivi and Igaram join Baroque Works to find out information on who runs it.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Vivi and Igaram join Baroque Works to find out information on who runs it.

The Spade Pirates are founded by Portgas D. Ace.

Miss Kaya's parents died. Soon afterwards Kaya falls ill.

Coby accidentally ends up as the chore boy for the pirate Alvida.
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 * 1521-22 AOP||Less than one year before current storyline.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Blackbeard and his crew raid Drum Island. Wapol flees in fear.
 * 1521-22 AOP||Less than one year before current storyline.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Blackbeard and his crew raid Drum Island. Wapol flees in fear.
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|Blackbeard and his crew raid Drum Island. Wapol flees in fear.

6 months before the storyline beings, Silvers Rayleigh "disappears", in actuality turning himself in to slave traders to pay off his latest gambling debt.

3 months before the storyline begins, Chouchou's owner goes to hospital, he never returns.

Don Krieg leaves the East Blue to conquer the Grand Line, he is defeated by Mihawk but manages to escape with his main ship.

Zoro saves Rika from Soro, Helmeppo's dog. For his defiance and killing Soro, Helmeppo has Zoro imprisoned for 30 days without food or water. The Straw Hat Pirates first appear. They defeat Arlong in Cocoyashi Village which leads to their Captain receiving a bounty for also defeating Buggy and Don Krieg. The Captain's bounty is increased and the swordsman Zoro is given a bounty after the fall of Crocodile, but no public information is released as to why they receive their bounties. The Straw Hats raid Enies Lobby and all 8 members receive bounties. Later at the Sabaody Archipelago they attack three of the World Nobles's. After admiral Kizaru entered the island the Straw Hats were reported as being completely wiped out.
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 * 1522 AOP||Current Storyline
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|
 * 1522 AOP||Current Storyline
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|
 * colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 3px solid;"|

A Coupe leads to Vira being taken over.

Wapol attempts a return to Drum Island but is suddenly banished again. Dalton is appointed as ruler of the renamed Sakura Kingdom.

After his involvement with Baroque Works, Crocodile is arrested by Tashigi and Smoker in Arabasta, both are promoted for their efforts. A civil war in Arabasta is resolved and peace returns to the country. The princess Vivi also returns after disappearing a few year prior.

Gan Fall returns as God of Skypiea. The war between the Skypieans and Shandians ends.

A Buster Call is activated accidentally on Enies Lobby by CP9 leader Spandam, annihilating the island of justice. The destruction is blamed on the Straw Hats.

Shanks makes contact with Whitebeard. Despite Marine efforts, the two meet with each other. Two days prior to their meeting, "Fire fist" Ace was defeated by Blackbeard. He is handed into the Marines who set a date for his execution. The World Government summons the Shichibukai to rally together with the Marines for a war against Whitebeard. Blackbeard is now appointed the position of Shichibukai for his role in bringing in Ace.

Revolutionaries conquer Centaurea.

Over a thousand shadows abducted by Shichibukai member Gecko Moria are returned to their original owners. Most suspect Moria was defeated however Moria retained Shichibukai status and no reports are released on any such defeat.

Monkey D. Luffy, captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, breaks into Impel Down while Buggy, captain of the Buggy Pirates, is captured and also sent to the prison in a seperate incident. It is then discovered that the pair had masterminded a orperation between them to free many prisoners. Later 241 prisoners successfully escape Impel Down, the masterminds Luffy and Buggy included, marking the first mass breakout in its history, including the entirety of the rumored Level 6.

Battle of Marineford: the war between Whitebeard and the Marines starts on the day of the execution of Portgas D. Ace. Both Luffy's and Ace's parentage is revealed to the public during the latter's execution. Portgas D. Ace dies when Admiral Akainu's magma fist goes through his chest. Blackbeard reveals that he invaded Impel Down to recruit several convicts from the fabled level six: Vasco Shot, Catarina Devon, Sanjuan Wolf, Avalo Pizarro, and the former chief jailer of Impel Down, Shiliew. The strongest man in the world, Edward Newgate dies at Marineford "standing on his feet". Marshall D. Teach somehow manages to steal Whitebeard's Devil Fruit power, making him the only human in exisistance with the power of two Devil Fruits. The battle is brought to an end with the arrival of Shanks and the Red-Haired Pirates bringing the battles to a halt after the deaths of Whitebeard and Ace.

Jinbei, Trafalgar Law and the Heart Pirates are the first males who were first ever permitted to set foot on Amazon Lily, which is a rule on the female-only island (Luffy wasn't officialy permitted to stay on the island).

Monkey D. Luffy, Jinbei and Silvers Rayleigh return to Marineford, where they sailed around the island once before Luffy rang the Ox Bell 16 times, then gave a silent prayer before leaving once again on the Kuja Pirates' ship.

The original childhood lab of Dr. Vegapunk on Karakuri Island explodes, due to Franky pressing a self-destruct button in the lab. This event becomes known to the world as the "Nightmare of Barujimoa". The people of Karakuri remain afraid not much later, as Franky causes another incident, which would become known as The Legend of the Sacred Burning Beast of Barujimoa, in which Franky was clothed in tigerskin and accidently was set on fire.

Monkey D. Luffy decides to disband the Straw Hat Pirates for two years in order for the crew to train and become stronger.


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 * 1524 AOP||2 Years Later
 * The Straw Hat Pirates regroup at Sabaody Archipelago.
 * 1524 AOP||2 Years Later
 * The Straw Hat Pirates regroup at Sabaody Archipelago.
 * The Straw Hat Pirates regroup at Sabaody Archipelago.

Trivia

 * From using Norland's Log book as a guide, it is possible to work out the current storyline of One Piece takes place in the year 1522.
 * Despite not being an official fact, it could be possible to roughly calculate the amount of time spent by Luffy during his travel. Having left his hometown at age 17, he must have left after his birthday, which falls in May. Now, assuming that Zoro and Sanji were born in the same year, being both 19 when they joined the crew, the East Blue Saga must take place after November 11th (Zoro's birthday). Since (apparently) Luffy has yet to turn 18, his adventure has to have started after November 11th but has yet to reach May 5th (Luffy's birthday). However, this remains unconfirmed and it is possible the author did not choose their birthdays meticulously.