Timeline

This is a timeline of all the events that occurred prior to Shinichi's reversion to Conan. The years are listed in reference to the current storyline time in Detective Conan.

Over 50 years ago

>50 years ago

• The Black Organization’s main research project, of which APTX 4869 will eventually become a part, is initiated.

72 years ago

• Births of Jirokichi Suzuki, Misae Yamamura

71 years ago

• Birth of Pisco (Kenzo Masuyama)

60 years ago

• The Suzuki family conglomerate is founded.

56 years ago

• Birth of Toshiro Odagiri

54 years ago

• Birth of Kiyonaga Matsumoto

52 years ago

• Birth of Hiroshi Agasa

41-50 years ago

50 years ago

• Kurisuke Agasa, Hiroshi Agasa's rich accountant uncle died at the age of 38.

49 years ago

• Birth of Shintaro Chaki

42 years ago

• Birth of Shizuka Hattori

41 years ago

• Birth of Ginzo Nakamori

31-40 years ago

40 years ago

• Hiroshi Agasa met Fusae Campbell. Late in November, Agasa found out Fusae had suddenly moved away, and she left him a letter saying that she will meet him in a secret place 10 years from November 24.

38 years ago

• Birth of Eri Kisaki

37-38 years ago

• Births of Kogoro Mouri, Yusaku Kudo

37 years ago

• Birth of Yukiko Kudo

35 years ago

• Births of Kansuke Yamato, Taka'aki Morofushi (Koumei)

33 years ago

• Birth of Reiko Kujo

32 years ago

• Birth of Genji Kojima, Yoshiaki Hara

21-30 years ago

30 years ago

• Teitan Elementary's current school buildings were constructed.
• Atsushi Miyano moved out of his father's house thirty years ago to go somewhere for his research. Atsushi's childhood friend Souhei Degima takes up residence in it.
• Ethan Hondou enters the CIA.
• Shizuka Ikenami is a finalist in the kendo championship in eighth grade.

29 years ago

• Births of Yui Uehara, Tooru Amuro

28-29 years ago

• Birth of Jodie Starling

27 years ago

• Births of Subaru Okiya, Andre Camel

26 years ago

• Births of Miwako Sato, Ninzaburo Shiratori, Sumiko Kobayashi

25 years ago

• Births of Tomoaki Araide, Hidemi Hondou, Chiba

24 years ago

• Birth of Ayako Suzuki

23 years ago

• Birth of Azusa Enomoto

22 years ago

• Birth of Yoko Okino

11-20 years ago

≈20 years ago

• While studying for an acting role, Sharon Vineyard learned disguise techniques from Toichi Kuroba alongside the aspiring young Japanese actress Yukiko Kudo.
• Atsushi Miyano, Elena Miyano, and a 4-5 year old Akemi visited Atsushi Miyano's father's house then occupied by his childhood friend and playmate Souhei Degima.

20 years ago

• Birth of Natsuki Koshimizu.
• Vermouth kills Jodie Starling's father.
• While acting as a decoy to catch a serial hit-and-runner, Midori Megure met then junior police officer Juzo Megure. She and Megure were hit by the serial hit-and-runner and received matching forehead scars.

18 years ago

• Births of Shiho Miyano, Makoto Kyogoku
• Masayoshi Sato is killed in a traffic accident as he was about to deliver a bank robber to the police.
• Toichi Kuroba first appeared as Kaitou Kid in Paris.

17 years ago

• Births of Sonoko Suzuki, Heiji Hattori, Kazuha Toyama, Eisuke Hondou, Saguru Hakuba, Asami Tsuburaya

16-17 years ago

• Births of Shinichi Kudo, Ran Mouri, Kaito Kuroba.

15 years ago

• Kiyonaga Matsumoto got the scar over his left eye when a serial killer he was chasing wounded him with a katana slash.

6-10 years ago

≈10 years ago

• Hidemi Hondou left her home to join the CIA

10 years ago

• Kogoro Mouri and Eri Kisaki begin living separately from one another after an argument. (Movie 2)
• One of Yusaku Kudo's incomplete novels is stolen and later is used to construct a murder 10 years later.

8 years ago

• Toichi Kuroba was killed by Snake, leading to the 8 year disappearance of Kaitou Kid.

7 years ago

• Kenji Hagiwara is killed in an apartment bombing on Novemeber 7th when one of a duo of bombers gets revenge for his partner whom the police accidentally killed while he was running away. Hagiwara was the friend of Jinpei Matsuda who successfully disarmed the other bomb. The bomber's remaining partner plans for revenge 4 years later.

6-7 years ago

• Births of Ayumi Yoshida, Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, Genta Kojima

5 years ago

• Shuichi Akai begins infiltrating the Black Organization and begins dating Akemi Miyano.
• Shiho Miyano is known to be working for the Black Organization as a scientist at the age of thirteen. She may have started to work even earlier.

4 years ago

• Ethan Hondou sacrifices his life to protect his daughter Hidemi Hondou's cover when she makes a mistake.
• The Night Baron computer virus ruins Kaneshiro Genichirou's girl dating game.

3 years ago

• Jinpei Matsuda joins Metropolitan Police Division One under Miwako Sato's tutelage. On November 7th, Jinpei Matsuda is killed by a bomb in the 72nd seat of a Ferris Wheel in Haido Shopping Mall which was set by the same man who killed Matsuda's partner Kenji Hagiwara four years ago. Matsuda sacrificed himself in order to transmit a vital clue to Sato where a larger bomb had been set.
• Masumi Sera and her parents move from Japan to the US
• Shinichi Kudo and Heiji Hattori meet and separately solve a case at a ski resort..

2 years ago

• Shuichi Akai receives the codename Rye, and is called to work under Gin, but is rejected from the Black Organization after Andre Camel ruins the FBI's trap for Gin.
• Tequila shows up at the office of computer graphics designer/games system engineer Itakura Suguru to say he was interested in the particular “system program” Itakura stopped developing one year ago.

1 year ago

• Shinichi Kudo solves his first solo case with the police's help on a plane to the New York City
• Teiko, the sister of Hiroshi Agasa's uncle, Kurisuke Agasa, passed away at 76.
• Kansuke Yamato chased a parole jumper he believed to be involved with town hero Kuroto Kai's mysterious death into a mountain, where he got caught in the avalanche that took his left eye and leg.He was missing and believed dead for several days until school friend Taka'aki "Koumei" Morofushi, also a police inspector, went against orders to track down the criminal and find Yamato.
• Itakura Suguru is given a forced one year deadline to finish the program Tequila was interested in one year ago.

<1 year ago

• Sharon Vineyard "died" and Chris Vineyard came out in public for the first time at her funeral.
• Kaito Kuroba takes up the mantle of Kaitou Kid. He and Shinichi have a showdown at a clock tower in Tokyo.

Current Timeline

Conan Arc (Manga: 1-175, Anime: 1-128)

• Shinichi goes to Tropical Land with Ran to celebrate her recent karate victory. He encounters two members of a secret organization named Gin and Vodka who give him a mysterious poison that causes Shinichi to de-age to approximately 6-7 years old.
• Shinichi creates the alias Conan Edogawa and moves into the Mouri Detective Agency hoping to make the failure Kogoro Mouri into a great detective in order to find cases related to the secret organization who poisoned him.
• Akemi Miyano is murdered by then unnamed Black Organization agent Gin after she succeeded at robbing a bank for 1 billion yen to free herself and her sister from the Black Organization. Her death precipitates her sister's boycott of the APTX 4869 development program and eventual betrayal. Akemi's death also triggers FBI agent and former boyfriend Shuichi Akai to seek revenge against the Organization for killing her.
• To avoid suspicion, Conan enrolls in Teitan Elementary.
• The Detective Boys are formed.
• Ran suspects Conan may be Shinichi, forcing him to adjust his behavior to be more childlike and ultimately needing Hiroshi Agasa to impersonate Shinichi over the phone to give Conan an alibi.
• Conan runs into Gin and Vodka on a bullet train, learns their codenames, and foils their plan to eliminate a useless transaction partner by blowing up the train.
• Conan learns that Agasa has told his parents, and he adamantly refuses their offer to run and hide until Yuusaku's contacts can find the Organization and some APTX4869.
• Shinichi is challenged to a deduction battle by a high school detective from Osaka, Heiji Hattori. Conan drinks some of the baijiu Heiji brought as a gift for Kogoro Mouri and turns back into a teenager in the middle of the case. He solves the case, beating Hattori, while also managing to keep his secret identity hidden.
• Conan runs into Tequila, a member of the Black Organization, at a game convention. Tequila dies in an explosion intended for someone else, and the meeting point his contact revealed, the bar "Le Cocktail", was destroyed by a bomb before Conan could arrive. However, Conan learns that the Organization is interested in the world's top programmers for an unknown reason.
• At a convention for Holmes Lovers, Conan is forced to solve a murder using Heiji as a 'sleeping detective'. Heiji wakes up partway through, but while he doesn't out Conan at the time, he figures out that Conan is Shinichi and Conan tells him the whole story to keep him from telling Ran the truth about Conan's identity.
• Ran once again decides that Conan must be Shinichi, but allows Shinichi's mother to convince her otherwise.
• Conan faces off against Kaitou Kid for the first time since he was de-aged.

Haibara Arc (Manga: 176-237, Anime: 129-175)

• Kiichiro Numabuchi flees the Black Organization.
• Former Black Organization member codename "Sherry", real name Shiho Miyano, decides to take APTX 4869 to commit suicide because of her sister's death. Instead, she shrinks into a seven or eight year old girl. She escapes from the Black Organization and runs to Shinichi's house where she is found and adopted by Professor Agasa. She takes the alias Ai Haibara and enrolls in Teitan Elementary in Conan's class. The Black Organization begins looking for her.

Vermouth Arc (Manga: 238-434, Anime: 176-345)

• Conan and Ai face off against Gin, Vodka, and additional members politician Kenzo Masuyama and American actress Chris Vineyard, attempting to stop an assassination at Haido City Hotel. Ai obtains some data on APTX4869. After nearly killing temporarily-regrown Sherry, Gin believes she'll no longer hide in Beika. Vermouth decides to stay in Japan.
• Conan is shot on a camping trip with the Detective Boys and Ran reveals renewed certainty in Conan's identity. Given a temporary antidote to make an alibi with Ran, instead to solve a murder Shinichi reveals himself to the whole school, including Vermouth.
• Shinichi asks Ran out to dinner, intending to at least confess his feelings for her, but is interrupted by another murder case and then re-shrinking into Conan.
• Conan meets Jodie Santemillion.
• Conan and the Detective boys get caught in a busjacking with Jodie, Akai Shuichi, and Tomoaki Araide. Ai resigns herself to dying rather than be a danger, but Conan protects her and orders her not to run away. The same day, all of the files on Kogoro's Tokyo-based cases are stolen from the Metropolitan Police Department.
• The Sunset Mansion detective's gathering turns to murder, with Kaitou Kid and Saguru Hakuba making guest appearances.
• The Detective Boys prevent the kidnapping of James Black, newly arrived in Japan to assist Akai.
• Ran catches a glimpse of Akai, but can't remember where she saw him.
• The stolen files on Kogoro's cases are mailed back to the MPD; Akai keeps surveillance on the agency.
• Heiji and Conan investigate Jodie, but find nothing definitive about her identity.
• Ran has a fever and remembers the events in New York, including Akai's identity.
• The Detective Boys encounter ex-Organization member Kiichiro Numabuchi.
• Conan gets a lead on the Org via murdered game designer Itakura Suguru and nearly tricks Vodka into providing more tangible information, only to be prevented and nearly caught by Gin.
• Akai recognizes Shiho in Ai's face, and begins having her watched or watching her himself.
• Vermouth listens to Conan and Agasa via a bug in Agasa's house.
• Conan and Ai recover cassette tapes recorded by Ai's mother, Elena Miyano, before her death, and hidden by Akemi the week before she died.
• Vermouth invites Shinichi to the Halloween cruise, implying that she knows Shinichi is Conan. Heiji takes Shinichi's place at the event to confuse the rest of the Organization about Shinichi's status, which allows Conan to impersonate Ai and bait Vermouth using Jodie's help. Ai interferes with the standoff to sacrifice her life to protect everyone she's connected to, but Akai and Ran save her and Jodie, though Vermouth escapes with Conan. Conan learns the Boss's phone number and Vermouth promises him she'll give up on killing Shiho, but she escapes him as well rather than kill him.