Timeline (manga)

This is an in-universe timeline of events from the Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's and Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL mangas.

1580 - 1314 B.C.

 * Treasures were placed in a tomb in Egypt, which are discovered centuries later by Professor Yoshimori.

1000 B.C.

 * Akhenamkhanen became pharaoh.


 * Atem was born.


 * Akhenamkhanen's kingdom was attacked by invaders from the North.


 * Akhenadin deciphered the spell in the Millennium Spellbook explaining how to create the Millennium Items.


 * Akhenadin led the massacre at Kul Elna and used the victims corpses to forge the Millennium Items.


 * Using the Millennium Items, Akhenamkhanen and his people defeated the invaders.


 * Akhenamkhanen became depressed after learning how the Millennium Items were created and died shortly afterwards.


 * Atem became pharaoh.


 * 15 years after the Kul Elna massacre, a survivor Thief Bakura began to exact revenge and resurrected Zorc Necrophades.


 * Atem defeated Zorc using a spell which included his name. He then sealed Zorc in the Millennium Ring and himself in the Millennium Puzzle, erasing his memory in the process to keep the spell from ever being used to resurrect Zorc. The Millennium Puzzle was shattered and sealed within his tomb.

1960s

 * Sugoroku Mutou visited the Valley of the Kings and recovered the Millennium Puzzle from the Tomb of the Nameless Pharaoh.

1980-1989

 * Yugi Mutou found the Millennium Puzzle in his family's shop, Kame Game and began trying to solve it.

1996/1997

 * Jonouchi and Honda bullied Yugi. Ushio then beat-up Jonouchi and Tristan and demanded bodyguard fees from Yugi.


 * Yugi solved the Millennium Puzzle. Unbeknownst to him this caused the spirit of Atem, Yami Yugi (Dark Yugi), to reside in his body and sometimes take control.


 * Dark Yugi and Ushio's Shadow Game took place.


 * Jonouchi became friends with Yugi.


 * Dark Yugi and the ZTV director's Shadow Game took place.


 * Dark Yugi and Sozoji's Shadow Game took place.


 * Dark Yugi rescued Anzu Mazaki in a Shadow Game with a convict. Anzu didn't know who her rescuer was, but fell in love with him.


 * Dark Yugi and Kokurano's Shadow Game took place.


 * Dark Yugi and Goro Inogashira played Griddle Ice Hockey.


 * Yugi and Jonouchi helped Honda pick out a love jigsaw puzzle to give as a gift to his crush Miho Nosaka. Ms. Chono attempted to expel and embarrass the boys, but Dark Yugi got her to play a Shadow Game, causing her to flee as the room after exposing her ugly face. Honda then became friends with Yugi.


 * Dark Yugi and the Junky Scorpion owner's Shadow Game took place.


 * Yugi and Sugoroku introduced Jonouchi, Anzu and Honda to Duel Monsters.


 * Seto Kaiba learned that Sugoroku possessed a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon". After failing to purchase it, he tried robbing it from Yugi at school. Yugi later confronted Kaiba over this and changed to Dark Yugi, who defeated Kaiba in a Shadow Game of Duel Monsters. As a Penalty Game, Kaiba believed he was sent to the Duel Monsters Spirit World, where he suffered the "Experience of Death".


 * Dark Yugi and Hirutani's gang's Shadow Game took place.


 * Treasures from a tomb from the New Kingdom Era were put on display in Domino Museum. Yugi lent the Millennium Puzzle to Professor Kanekura to put in the exhibition. Kanekura tried selling the Puzzle, but was killed in a Weighing of the Heart Shadow Game by Shadi. Shadi discovered Yugi solved the Millennium Puzzle afterwards and entered his soul room where he lost a Shadow Game to Dark Yugi, but was spared.


 * Shadi faced Dark Yugi in a Shadow Game to test Dark Yugi's power. Dark Yugi emerged victorious.


 * Digital Pets became popular. Kujirada fed other people's pets to his own, until it was defeated by Yugi's pet, U2.


 * Tomoya Hanasaki showed Yugi and his friends his Zombire collection. He later put on a Zombire costume and tried to become a vigilante. However this put him in danger and he was saved by Dark Yugi.


 * Mokuba Kaiba forces Dark Yugi into a rigged game of Capsule Monster Chess to get revenge for what he did to Seto. Dark Yugi won and placed a Penalty Game on Mokuba, causing him to believe he was trapped inside a giant capsule.


 * Anzu got a job at Kaiba Land as a guide for the Stardust Shootout game, after being fired from Burger World.


 * Yugi defeated the Bruce Lee fan multiple times in Virtual VS at an arcade. The Bruce Lee fan then beat-up Yugi and stole the Millennium Puzzle. However Jonouchi went after him, beat him in a real life fighting game and took back the puzzle.


 * Yugi and Jonouchi were invited to Kaiba's mansion. Mokuba poisoned Jonouchi in a rigged game of Russian Roulette Dinner. Dark Yugi then defeated Mokuba winning the antidote to cure Jonouchi.


 * Kaiba brought Yugi and Jonouchi to the Kaiba Land grand opening as guests. He defeated Yugi's Grandpa in a game of Duel Monsters using Solid Vision, he tore-up Grandpa's "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" and forced Yugi to take part in Death-T.


 * Yugi, aided by Jonouchi, Honda, Anzu and Johji, took part in Death-T. After Honda's near-death, Yugi admitted what he knew about Dark Yugi to his friends. Death-T ended with Yugi defeating Kaiba and inflicting the Mind Crush Penalty Game on him.