Sword Art Online: Reversal Rewind/Timeline

 This page lists all of the events that occur in Yasuda Izumi's Annulment fanfic and its sequels.

April 12

 * Tiffany Gilbert Mills is born.

April 8

 * Eiji Nochizawa is born.

July 29

 * Yūna Shigemura is born.

November 13

 * is born.

May 18

 * Asahiko Shinozaki is born.

September 30

 * Kirei Yūki is born.

August 31

 * Nijika Karatachi is born.

October 7

 * Shioko Kirigaya is born.

November 6

 * Kotone Takemiya is born.

December 22

 * Shioko is adopted by her aunt after the death of her parents.

April 19

 * Suguha Kirigaya is born.

August 21

 * Shino Asada is born.

May 23

 * Yūki Konno is born.

July 10

 * Yūki is infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus through a bad blood transfusion.

October 4

 * Keiku Ayano is born.

June 4

 * Yūki is hospitalized because of her Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.

December 21

 * Hanako Hasegawa is born.

June

 * Shioko stops practicing kendo for a while (exact date unknown).

April 1

 * Shioko discovers the truth behind her parents' death and ultimately stops her kendo training partly out of depression partly out of her unrivaled mastery in her family's art of kendo.

October 31

 * Shino Asada is caught in the crossfire of a deadly bank robbery that traumatized her and gave her an irrational fear of guns.

Second Week

 * announces his invention,.

First Week

 * The NerveGear is released into the market for sale.

June 3

 * Professor Kayaba announces the Closed Beta for Sword Art Online.

August 1-31

 * The duration of the Sword Art Online Closed Beta.

October 31

 * Copies of SAO begin selling online.

November 2

 * Due to SAO's popularity, people gather up outside of stores three days before the hard copies begin sales.

November 5

 * Hard copy sales begin.

November 6

 * 1300 JST
 * Sword Art Online's Official Service begins with a total of 10,000 players logged in.


 * Shioko shows Ayumi the basics of playing a VRMMORPG.
 * 1730 JST
 * Upon discovering the inability to log out, all players were warped back to the plaza in the Town of Beginnings where they were told the true purpose of SAO. Out of the 10,000 players, one-tenth are beta testers. At around the same time in the real world, 213 players were accidentally killed when family and/or friends removed the NerveGear from them.

''First Timeskip

December 4

 * A total of 2000 players had already perished and the first floor has yet to be cleared.
 * 0940 JST
 * The boss room is discovered and calls to form a raid party.


 * 0943 JST
 * Shiota and Yuurei team up. Shiota goes off to take a nap while Yuurei goes out in the field to train.


 * 1320 JST
 * Shiota awakens from her nap and marches headlong with her fellow players into the boss room.


 * 1332 JST
 * Shiota claims the first attack on.


 * 1338 JST
 * Shiota retreats from her first wave of attacks as she had run out of Spirit Points using her Skill Connect skill.


 * 1343 JST
 * The Kobold Sentinels begin using a pincer movement to try and outsmart the players. With all of Shiota's attention on Illfang, she ordered Yuurei to drive the sentinels off.


 * 1356 JST
 * Shiota manages to reduce Illfang's health to the yellow of the last HP bar with several sword skill chains.
 * Seconds later, Diavel is killed by the boss.


 * 1401 JST
 * Shiota and Yuurei kill the boss together, with Shiota claiming the Last Attack Bonus. She announces her title as Beater and heads to the second floor.