I've been working (well, a while ago I was and I restarted it just now) on a timeline for the RP starting with Konoha's founding/Sarutobi's birth -whichever is earlier - and moving forward. Due to the lack of clear timeline, I've got some questions (and yes, my timeline ignores Kishi-canon after Pein's attack ends and Konan leaves. No hokage!Danzo on my timeline!).
1) Anyone know when Konoha was founded? One timeline I made has it 8 years after Sarutobi's birth (48 years before Kyuubi's attack), and the one for the RP currently has it 10 years before Sarutobi's birth (67 years before Kyuubi's attack).
2) Anyone know the actual time frames of the three great shinobi wars? If not, when do you think we should put them?
3GSW: (~0-2+ years before Kyuubi attack) Given that the 3GSW was going on at the time Kakashi became a jounin (Kakashi Gaiden) at age 13, then it started or ended somewhere in the year or two before the Kyuubi attack (Kakashi would have turned 13 one year before the Kyuubi attack).
Since Leafninja says that Orochimaru was passed over for Yondaime ~2 years before Kyuubi's attack, I would think that the 3GSW would start soon before the next Hokage is named at the earliest (I don't think Sandaime would have a change in military leadership mid-war) and some time a year before Kyuubi's attack at the latest due to Kakashi Gaiden. Then it would end either a year before the attack or earlier in the year of the attack. Thus the approx timeframe listed
2GSW: (~13/16-28 years before Kyuubi attack) I'm going on the idea that this was the one between Sand(?)/Rain and Konoha where Nagato was orphaned and the Sannin got their title. The Sannin would have been born 38 years before the Kyuubi attack, so the earliest the war could start would likely be 27-28 years before Kyuubi's attack. Leafninja says that Nagato was orphaned 28 years before series start, so that would be 16 years before Kyuubi's attack, and it says that Jiraiya trained Nagato, etc for 3 years. So the 3GSW ends ~13-16 years before Kyuubi's attack, and starts some time between 16-28 years before Kyuubi's attack.
Interestingly, Nawaki apparently was killed in this war, as Leaf ninja places his death ~16 years before Kyuubi's attack. Then 1-2 years later, she gives Dan the necklace and he gets killed.
1GSW: (~28-67 years before Kyuubi's attack) ... I've got nothing. Wasn't the Shodai or Nidaime still Hokage for that one? Leafninja places Sarutobi becoming Sandaime ~28 years before Kyuubi's attack, so the 1GSW would likely be 28+ years before Kyuubi's attack.
3) Have we determined when Naruto and Hanabi became hokages?
4) Anyone know when the Sage of the Six Paths gave chakra/ninjutsu/genjutsu/whatever to the Elemental Countries?
5) Any major events/wars/whatever between Pein's attack and RP start other than ones mentions specifically above that should be on the time line? Seems like a long time without any major wars.
0 AF - Konoha Founded
~0-39 AF - Somewhere in here was the 1GSW
~39-51/54 AF - Somewhere in here, probably the mid to later section of the time frame, was 2GSW
~65-67 AF - 3GSW. Definitely occurring 66 AF (Kakashi Gaiden), not sure if it started in 65 AF or ended in 67 AF or whole thing happened in 66AF.
67 AF - Kyuubi attack
79 AF - Sand/Sound Invasion of Konoha (If Suna hadn't surrendered immediately, it probably would've ended up as the 4GSW)
82-83+ AF - Battles with Akatsuki (Gaara loses his biju, Asuma's death, Pein's attack, etc plus unknown possible later battles)
~83-133 AF - ??? That's 50 years of nothing major, and there seems to be major dust ups between the great villages every 15-20 years up to this point. That'd point to something ~93-99 AF, then ~108-119 AF, and finally ~123-139 AF. Maybe Konoha and Suna weren't involved in it, but something should've happened in those 50 years (Perhaps a joint Iwa-Suna-Konoha peacekeeping force in Ame after Akatsuki is defeated to help keep the peace and root out the last of the religious nuts before rebuilding the hidden village? It could be used as a test of Naruto's leadership/diplomacy skills).
133 AF - RP starts
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The timeline is currently a txt file in notepad. Once I get things firmed up more, I'll probably move it onto google docs and make it pretty. I currently have three calendar systems. If I knew when the Sage of the Six Paths gave chakra manipualtion/ninjutsu/genjutsu/whatever to the Elemental Countries, I'd have a calendar system for that as well (that would be universal between villages - ninja and civilian).
1) Konoha's Founding - Zero year is the founding of Konoha. Abbreviation is BF/AF. If Konoha was founded 67 years before Kyuubi's attack, RP is taking place 133 AF.
2) Kyuubi's Attack - Zero year is the Kyuubi's attack and sealing. Not sure what the abbreviation would be, but I'd like to think of it as BK/AK. RP takes place 66 AK. Zero year is 67 AF currently.
3) Pein's Attack - Zero year is the Invasion of Konoha by Pein. Current abbreviation used is BK/AK (for Before/After Konoha), but I'd like to think of it as BP/AP or BR/AR (Before/After Reconstruction or Rebuilding). Zero year is 16 AK and 83 AF currently.
Number 3 is the currently used calendar system in the RP, though I would think that important civilian (and all ninja) records are dated using number 1 (or the unknown Before/After Sage calendar). There's probably Admin-Nin whose job is entirely to do the dating conversions for records.
Man, when I get bored...