Timeline

This is a timeline of all the events that occurred during the series as well as events prior to Shinichi's reversion into 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, which involves the eventual development of APTX 4869, 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

• Births of Eri Kisaki, Kogoro Mouri

37-38 years ago

• Birth of 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

• Birth of Wataru Date

29 years ago

• Births of Yui Uehara, Tooru Amuro

≈28 years ago

• Birth of Miwako Sato

28 years ago

• Birth of Jodie Starling

27 years ago

• Births of Andre Camel, Hidemi Hondou

≈26 years ago

• Births of Wataru Takagi

26 years ago

• Births of Ninzaburo Shiratori, Sumiko Kobayashi

25 years ago

• Birth of Tomoaki Araide

24-25 years ago

• Birth of Detective Chiba

24 years ago

• Births of Ayako Suzuki, Naeko Miike

23 years ago

• Births of Azusa Enomoto, Sakurako Yonehara

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 meets his wife to be, Chikage, at a Phantom Lady heist at the Eiffel Tower, thus making his first appearence as Kaitou Kid.

17 years ago

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

16-17 years ago

• Birth of Shinichi Kudo, Kaito Kuroba

16 years ago

• Birth of Ran Mouri

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 — it will be used to construct a murder 10 years later.
• Eri Kisaki's first trial.

8 years ago

• Toichi Kuroba is 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 on a plane to New York City.
• In New York City, Vermouth tries to lure out and kill Shuichi Akai while disguised as a serial killer. Her plot fails when Akai shoots her in the stomach. Ran encounters Akai while he was looking for the serial killer. Vermouth later runs into Shinichi and then Ran on a fire escape stairway. While preparing to shoot them, Vermouth slips off and is saved from falling to her death by the two teens.
• 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 until school friend Taka'aki "Koumei" Morofushi, also a police inspector, went against orders to track down the criminal and find Yamato.
• Suguru Itakura is given a forced one year deadline to finish the program Tequila was interested in one year ago.
• Wataru Date is hit by a sleepy driver and dies when working with Wataru Takagi on a case. Date's girlfriend commits suicide soon afterward. A close friend of Date's girlfriend, mistakenly thinking she killed herself because a police officer named Wataru had dumped her, plots revenge against the wrong Wataru: Takagi.

<1 year ago

• Sharon Vineyard "died" and Chris Vineyard came out in public (not counting movies and private interviews given to reporters) 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.
• To avoid suspicion, Conan enrolls in Teitan Elementary.
• 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.
• 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 Yusaku'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", is 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)

• Ki'ichiro 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 shows his face 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 Saintemillion.
• Conan and the Detective boys get caught in a bus hijacking with Jodie, Shuichi Akai, 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 hears the keypad tones of 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.

Cell Phone Arc (Manga: 435-498, Anime: 346-424)

• The FBI offer Shiho a place in the Witness Protection Program, but she declines.
• Conan and Heiji catch a bomber at the baseball koshien between Kohnan High School and Ohgane High School.
• Jirokichi Suzuki first challenges Kaitou Kid.
• The real Araide Tomoaki returns as the Teitan High School doctor.
• A text to Shinichi picked up by Conan's phone makes Ran highly suspicious of Conan's identity. Conan sets up a trick to give Shinichi a live alibi, and decides to give Ran the number of the cell phone he uses as Shinichi.

Kir Arc (Manga: 499-621, Anime: 425-508)

• After solving a minor case for Yoko Okino's co-worker Rena Mizunashi, Conan accidentally discovers that Rena is actually Black Organization agent Kir. With the help of the FBI, Conan foils an assassination attempt and they accidentally capture Kir, unconscious, rather than Vermouth, whom they were trying for.
• Eisuke Hondou transfers to Teitan High School. He declares a keen interest in Kogoro, but watches Conan suspiciously during several cases.
• Eisuke Hondou strongly reminds Conan of Rena Mizunashi, and Eisuke attempts to charm and manipulate information about her from Kogoro.
• The Black Organization and later Eisuke learn about Kir's fate from Touji Funemoto.
• Conan meets Saguru Hakuba for the second time over a detective competition.
• Conan learns that Eisuke's father, Hondou, worked for "The Company".
• "The Company" is CIA. Kir is NOC (Undercover agent).
• Gin demands from Kir to kill Akai to regain the Organisation's trust.
• Kir kills Akai in front of Gin and Vodka. Kir burns the corpse.
• Fingerprint on Conan's mobile matches the corpse.
• Eisuke tells Conan that he will go to America to join the CIA and Conan confesses to him he's actually Shinichi which Eisuke claims to have guessed for a long time.

Bourbon Arc (Manga: 622-897, Anime: 509-???)

Pre-Mystery Train half-arc (Manga: 622-824, Anime: 509-704)

• First mention of Bourbon. Introduction of Okiya Subaru, from whom Haibara senses the Black Organization aura. Okiya moves into Kudo's house.
• Ran meets Okiya for the first time.
• Introduction of Scar Akai, who approaches Jodie to confirm about Shuichi Akai's death. Scar Akai saves Conan's life.
• Jodie tries to find Scar Akai, who approaches Camel later. Okiya notices Scar Akai. The Black Organization prepares to assassinate Scar Akai, whom they think is the real Akai, but retreat after Vermouth informs Gin about some plan that they has got the Boss's approval. Conan and the Mouris meet up with Okiya later.
• Introduction of Sera Masumi. Sera transfers to Teitan High School.
• Sera shows interest in Okiya. She also informs the Detective Boys about Ai Haibara's appearance in a video of Agasa that she found on the Internet.
• Sera meets Heiji and Camel for the first time.
• Introduction of Tooru Amuro.
• Amuro takes a part-time job at Cafe Poirot and becomes Kogoro's apprentice.
• Conan is kidnapped by a case suspect, Amuro helps the Mouris rescuing him, while Sera follows them from behind. Haibara and Agasa try to locate Conan inside Okiya's car. During the chase, Okiya and Amuro notice each others. Amuro recognizes Sera. Vermouth arrives at the scene and gives Bourbon a call.
• Scar Akai approaches Sera.
• Sera meets Okiya for the first time. Okiya finds out that Conan is Shinichi.
• Haibara takes the antidote of APTX4869 to rescue the Detective Boys from a fire. Mitsuhiko films a video of Shiho Miyano and send it to Kogoro's office. Amuro log into Kogoro's computer and sees the video of Shiho wearing the ring used to board the "Mystery Train". The computer is later hacked by another person, likely Okiya.
• Vermouth informs Gin that Sherry is going to be aboard the Bell Tree express Mystery train. Gin plans to blow the entire train up at the station with large amounts of C4. Meanwhile, Vermouth disguises as Scar Akai and Amuro, who is Bourbon, will also be aboard the train and will attempt to capture Shiho alive. Lastly, Kaitou Kid disguises as a passenger aboard the train to investigate it for an upcoming heist. Okiya, Yukiko, and Conan worry that Shiho may be targeted by the Black Organization because of the video, and they come up with a counterplan to trick Vermouth and Bourbon into targeting Kaitou Kid by mistake.
• While on the train, it is revealed that Elena Miyano was trying to work on a drug which she called "Silver Bullet". Sera meets Scar Akai and questions him but is knocked out. She is revealed to be Akai's sister. Okiya tricks Haibara into hiding in an empty room, and Conan forces Kaitou Kid to disguise as Shiho. Tooru Amuro confronts Kaitou Kid and reveals himself to be Bourbon. Amuro had been disguising as Scar Akai earlier to test the reaction of people that are close to Akai in order to confirm his death. Yukiko tries to stop Vermouth and forces out of her that she has some reason for not wanting the shrinking of Conan and Haibara known. Vermouth then executes her real plan which is to kill Shiho rather than capture her alive like Bourbon wanted, and she blows up the train caboose with the disguised Kaitou Kid in it. Kaito Kid successfully escapes and the train stops before it reaches the final station where Gin was waiting. Vermouth reports Shiho to be dead, but finds out she was tricked when she sees Agasa carrying Haibara. Amuro wonders if a mysterious figure he saw was Akai and decides to re-investigate Akai's death.

Post-Mystery Train half-arc (Manga: 825-897, Anime: 705-???)

• Amuro takes a break from Poirot pretending to be sick, but then returns to work later. Vermouth asks Amuro why he isn't leaving the Detective Agency, and he replies that the Sleeping Kogoro has caught his interest. Amuro has seems to have realized that Conan the one creating "Sleeping Kogoro".
• Conan calls Jodie out to inform her that Scar Akai was actually Bourbon, a man with the alias of "Tooru Amuro", in disguise. He also asks the FBI to investigate why Amuro still hasn't left Poirot, since the Black Organization was supposed to have been convinced of Sherry's 'death'. Meanwhile, Amuro and Vermouth disguise, and Amuro bugs Jodie and overhears information about Akai and Conan's meeting with the FBI the night before Akai was killed. Conan later deduces that Bourbon and Vermouth disguised as the couple in the park.
• Sonoko meets up with Makoto at a bowling alley. Sera reveals to Conan she has a second brother who knows Conan.
• Tomoko Suzuki made a deal with Makoto that if he can protect The Green Emperor from Kaitou Kid, she will allow him to be with her daughter. He succeeds.
• Takagi accidentally reveals at a crime scene in front of the Detective Boys that he has been in Sato's bed, implying their relationship has progressed significantly.
• Conan learns Masumi is sheltering an unknown child who she claims is related to her family.
• [891] Natsuko, Jodie's teacher friend, is bludgeoned and sent to the hospital. Amuro was her P.I. to find her stalker, and he secretly wanted to see what she kew of Jodie.
• [892-893] Natsuko has recovered and Jodie goes to how she is, while Camel stays with Amuro who antagonizes him for intel on Rikumichi Kasuda. After the case, Vermouth and Bourbon use the opportunity to sneak information out of Camel.
• [894-896] Bourbon believes Akai faked is death using the body of Rikumichi Kasuda, to match the bullets to the head injuries, and is hiding out as Okiya Subaru. Believing Subaru to be using Agasa's patented voice-changing technology, as Akai would need to alter his voice to play his part, only tho see it isn't there. Meanwhile, Jodie and Camel are being hunted by the Organization's men, when Akai himself appears in their backseat and tells Camel to having a plan... by "the boy".
• [896-897] Amuro is shocked to receive a call from the men in pursuit telling him Akai is kilometers from his location and present with the FBI agents. Akai disables the pursuers and reveals he knows Amuro's real name- Rei Furuya- and that he and his men are actually undercover officers for the Japanese Secret Police. Akai also tells him that he is sorry for the death of a man connected to Furuya in the past. Amuro apologizes for intruding upon Subaru, who turned out after Amuro leaves to be Yusaku Kudo in disguise to allow Akai to come to Jodie and Camel's rescue. Akai's cover as Okiya Subaru is maintained, and Amuro's motives are further revealed to Conan.

Rum arc (Manga: 898-???)

• [898] Akai explains to Jodie and Camel how he became Okiya Subaru with the help of Yukiko Kudo. It is revealed James knew just before Akai's "death" what he was planning. The Detective Boys come over and ask for Conan's help in solving Agasa's latest puzzle: How he correctly found the cup of lemon juice, while missing 3 vinegar cups at random. Okiya and Conan figure out the trick, but Okiya wants to see if the FBI can figure it out. While the kids solve the trick in another room, Akai/Subaru talks with Jodie and Camel of a text he received from KIR of a new player from the syndicate: RUM. Akai says that RUM is so major a player that he outranks GIN, due to his closeness to the Boss. Conan listens in on their talk on RUM. Meanwhile, Bourbon tells Vermouth that Akai is 'dead' and that if she keeps helping him, he won't release her secret to the members of the Organization that hate her.