This is the timeline page for Pokeau! It serves as a general history of events from the very beginning up to the most recent in-universe year (2027). First mentions of character names will be linked, as well as literature that corresponds to an event.

Events under the same year without a specific date are generally listed chronologically. Antique events (i.e. not an exact year) aren't dated yearly so bare with me that this all didn't happen in like 1 year.
Dates may be subject to change! Blame the fact that I am not very good at math and might have calculated something wrong (i.e. character ages at certain times).

General trigger warnings: Death, violence, war, and criminal activity. Will be blacked out as needed.

CURRENTLY OUTDATED BECAUSE IM A DUMBASS SO SOME TINY DETAILS ARE INACCURATE

SOMETIME OVER 3,000 YEARS AGO:

February 1st: Sapphire is born.

April 4th: Emmy is born.

Civil war breaks out on the Western Continent, Kalosian king AZ being a major figure. The Ultimate Weapon is made and used, and infinity energy is discovered.

SOMETIME 3,000 YEARS AGO BUT LIKE, A LITTLE TO THE LEFT:

Emmy befriends Rayquaza

The Sootopolian king wishes to meet with the leader of the Draconids and the coastal trading kingdom to unify what would later be the Hoenn region. He travels to the mainland, bringing his daughter with him.

Sapphire and Emmy hook up.

Unhappy with not being able to marry the king's daughter for his money, a vengeful trader takes advantage of drought and sets a large set of the Sootopolian and Draconid cities on fire and blames said fire on Emmy.

Rayquaza is killed as collateral - Emmy is set to be executed, but Sapphire interrupts and both die together.

Emmy is revived as the emissary of Rayquaza that spring.

With the help of her sister, Emmy prevents a meteor from destroying Hoenn.

1552:

July 17th: Aurelien is born.

1562:

The Kalosian king becomes obsessed with using the power of a Kalos legendary to revive his deceased daughter and begins creating blood seals to awaken it by destroying villages.

1572:

Aurelien is arrested for criminal activity and is used as a sacrifice in an attempt to summon Yveltal. The ritual results in her promptly becoming the legend's emissary and violently overthrowing the king. She proceeds to become a warlord and attempts conquering areas of nearby regions

1590:

The Kalosian palace is overthrown and Aurelien is 'executed'.

1920:

Silph and Devon discuss the possibility of a device to allow pokemon to travel with their trainers anywhere.

September 24th: Kaguya is born.

1924:

September 5th: Aster is born.

1933:

A dispute between Kanto and Johto turns into war. Johto calls in its buddy Hoenn to help, and Kanto drags Sinnoh into the whole mess.

1935:

A Kanto platoon devises to take Ecruteak.

Aurelien and her group of criminals hide outside of Ecruteak to take advantage of the incoming conflict.

A fire from an unknown source engulfs the Ecruteak palace, and eventually the entire town. Kaguya dies.

Ho-Oh revives three souls who perished in the fire. One of them becomes upset and angry with Ho-Oh and joins up with Aurelien. 

Aya and Aurelien cause general mayhem and eventually kill Ho-Oh - which results in Emmy neutralizing Aurelien. Aya gets away.

1948:

Sapphire is revived as the emissary of Kyogre. She's involuntarily sent into a blind rage and threatens to destroy a military port before being neutralized by Emmy.

Valor city is completely destroyed as a result of the war. Aster dies.

1949:

The war ends, with Kanto and Johto making deals they agree on.

A group born from post-war unrest named Team Rocket is created and is ingrained into Silph Co.

February 29th: Ghetsis is born

April 20th: Joseph Stone is born.

1953:

The Pokeball is patented and released by Silph Co. and manufactured by Silph and Devon. It's an instantaneous hit, but brings into question the idea of a formal league.

Devon subtly gains connections to Rocket.

1959:

March 22nd: Cynthia is born.

November 4th: Orchid is born.

1960:

The official Pokemon League is established. The minimum age requirement to participate is 10 years old; many 10-year-olds leave school and home to pursue this.

1961:

An altercation occurs in Fallarbor between the sons of the Devon CEO and a couple Draconids (Emmy and Orchid's father being among them). The sons came looking for a fight on their father's behalf after the current Lorekeeper's denial to access resources in Fallarbor. It spirals out of control and 5 people die, including Joseph's 3 older brothers and Orchid's father.

Because of worries related to safety, Orchid, her mother (the lorekeeper), and Emmy move to the Draconid outpost of Celestic town in Sinnoh.

1967:

Ghetsis begins drafting and taking action towards his 'master plan'.

1969:

The Devon CEO dies from health complications and the company is inherited by Joeseph Stone.

September 6th: Giovanni is born.

Cynthia is 'enrolled' by her father to receive training in Celestic by the Lorekeeper. She becomes good friends with Orchid.

1975:

Orchid formally takes the title of Lorekeeper.

1977:

March 7th: Steven stone is born. His mother is unknown.

Cynthia and Orchid get married as soon as they can, knowing Orchid will have to sacrifice herself to stop a meteor from colliding with the planet when she would be around 45.

Cynthia's father dies from Partying Too Hard, and she replaces his position in the league.

Through Cynthia and the League, Orchid meets Joseph Stone, and she takes an interest in him due to her family's history.

1978:

Orchid and Cynthia move away from Celestic.

Orchid begins research into the Stone family and Devon and realizes that the Company has a dubious history, and that enemies of Joeseph often end up missing or dead for no reason.

1979:

November 21st: Orchid is discreetly murdered because of her research, her cause of death being passed as complications during childbirth.

November 21st: Zinnia is born. It's decided that due to the whole meteor thing, she should be raised in Hoenn.

1980:

June 30th: Renee is born.

1986:

November 1st: Yuuto is born.

1987:

Giovanni takes control of Rocket and is much harsher than the previous boss. He has lofty goals and doesn't care who he has to take down to achieve them.

1991:

Renee begins her Pokemon League adventure. She soon meets Steven, who she becomes close friends with and adventures alongside.

1992:

March 20th: Diego is born.

Rocket captures the original ancestor, Mew.

1993:

Zinnia is given a full scholarship to a fancy private high school in Rustboro. She spends a lot of her time balancing her studies and Lorekeeper duties.

Aster is revived as the emissary of Cresselia. While testing her powers, she accidentally ends up in Hoenn. She ends up using this power to get herself into the aforementioned fancy private school, where she meets Zinnia.

Aster meets Emmy when Zinnia brought her home from school one day. The two form a mentor-student type relationship as Emmy trains Aster on aspects of being a legend.

Aster and Zinnia develop mutual crushes on eachother and eventually start dating.

1994:

Rocket-funded research to create a living weapon by cloning Mew comes to a point - the new pokemon Mewtwo remains contained for a month before violently escaping. Mewtwo's escape triggers an eruption of Cinnabar island's volcano, destroying the island and the evidence.

Before and after the Mewtwo incident, a gutsy 10-year-old named Red went face to face with Rocket when others wouldn't. He routed Rocket out of Silph, and started the 5-year-long effort to remove Rocket from Kanto. Still, he was incredibly young, and the events took a heavy emotional toll. Critics begin discussing if the minimum age of 10 for the league is appropriate.

Meanwhile, Renee and Steven were dealing with a group that calls themselves 'Team Aqua', who aim to summon Kyogre and restore the oceans to their primal state. They request help from Interpol, but Interpol is too wrapped up with Rocket to help and dismiss Aqua's plan as silly.

1995:

Despite Renee and Steven's best efforts, Aqua gets a hold of the Blue Orb required to awaken Kyogre. However, by awakening her, Sapphire's blind rage was simply put on play again. Instead of listening to Archie's commands, she escapes from her cave and quickly detours to Meteor Falls in an attempt to attack Emmy. She misses, and hits Aster instead. Zinnia is knocked into the water, and Emmy is shaken so hard that she involuntarily launches herself into hibernation. Now even angrier, Sapphire makes her way to the Cave of Origin to attempt to flood the world.
Renee is sent into the Cave to try and stop her, and she succeeds while sustaining mild injuries. 

The role of Hoenn champion is passed to Steven from his father.

In a rigged trial, Zinnia is falsely accused and indicted for Aster's murder. The emerald talisman she possesses is 'misplaced'.

1997:

Renee finishes school early and goes to travel around the Eastern Continent and train alongside Steven.

Zinnia's grandmother dies and two of Zinnia's friends care for the house.

1999:

Renee becomes champion alongside Steven and begins so most of the work as the League's manager.

November 2nd: Angie is born.

December 23rd: Colress is... born?

2000:

Team Rocket is eradicated from Kanto - and relocated to Johto. Various anti-rocket youth gangs begin popping up in an attempt to hold their own.

2 strange holes filled with light appear in Alola. The bodies of two unidentifiable creatures are found, sending the scientific world and Interpol into a frenzy.
Diego witnesses one of them himself, but doesn't tell anybody.

July 15th: Kibi is born.

September 14th: Ridley is born.

December 31st: N is born somewhere wild, but is quickly taken in by Ghetsis.

2001:

May 15th: Lune is born under the name Rea in the forests of the Unova League.

2004:

Zinnia's trial is re-evaluated and she is released. Upon coming home, she finds a whismur and becomes attached to it.

Yuuto joins an anti-Rocket street youth gang after getting kicked out and disowned for not following his parent's wishes.

Team Rocket in Johto is in a heated feud with various anti-Rocket street gangs. They retaliate aggressively, and in one so attack, every member of the gang Yuuto is in is killed, save for Yuuto and Kenjiro. Yuuto is in critical condition and expected to die, but the doctor treating him miraculously saved his life. Afterward, Yuuto began looking towards the medical field and settled on studying pathology.

2005:

Renee's father becomes ill and she takes time to go home to help out. She's given a ticket to a meteor shower viewing that her father won't be able to attend.

Devon and the Mossdeep space center identify a very large meteor heading directly for Hoenn. They hide the information from the public, but Renee and Steven are notified and sent to discuss it with the space center later on.

Zinnia is hospitalized for a week and a half, and has been having dreams reminding her of the meteor. Her housemates are worried about her, but she convinces one of them to assist her with a 'plan' in secret.

For the 7 days leading up to April 4th, Zinnia actively worked against Devon's plan to stop the meteor and led Renee and Steven on a wild goose chase. Eventually, Renee follows her up Sky Pillar, where Zinnia successfully re-awakens Emmy. Renee faints from a mix of high altitude and surprise, surprising the other two. Emmy is adamantly reluctant to let Zinnia be the one who mega-evolves her as Rayquaza and go with her to the meteor, as doing so would result in Zinnia's death. While arguing, Renee comes to and Emmy quickly shifts back to Rayquaza as to not have to explain the whole legend thing at the moment. Renee reveals that she's been carrying what's essentially a spacesuit, and in the end is the one to mega-evolve and ride Rayquaza and destroy the meteor.

While in space, Renee successfully captures a strange creature found inside the meteor in a pokeball.
Zinnia leaves while Renee is gone, with the intent to never come back.
That night, during the leonid shower, Renee encounters Emmy on the ground and Emmy requests to meet with her later.

A sequence of events results in Renee and Emmy falling in love and dating.

Aster regenerates her human form as a result of panic from having to save Zinnia's life. A month and a half after the Delta Episode, Renee receives a surprise text which lets her know Aster and Zinnia are in fact, both alive. The four (Emmy, Renee, Zinnia, Aster) reunite.

2006:

A wildfire during the dry summer completely engulfs the forest surrounding the Unova pokemon league. Lune is separated from her mother and siblings and seeks safety in a mysterious building where she meets a curious boy -  a zorua being raised as a human. She ends up living there with him and his sisters and begins living as a human child herself.

Due to the summer droughts after the fire, the landscape of the league becomes dry and dusty and many species have to be relocated.

2008:

Renee and Emmy get married.

Aster opens her store.

2010:

Diego meets Jess at a party. Afterwards, the two meet up again more frequently and enter a vaguely romantic relationship.

A spaceman universe recreation cult calling themselves Team Galactic start as a business in Sinnoh - Interpol is preoccupied with more strange holes appearing in the sky over Alola, so Ridley slips through the cracks and attempts to deal with it despite being a child.

Cyrus 'successfully' summons Palkia and Dialga on Mt. Coronet - except Dialga was actually the kid tracking him the entire time. Ridley's legend powers are awakened and unstable, and Emmy, along with the help of Giratina, are forced to neutralize the entire area of Spear Pillar. Ridley's pokemon form is taken out, and Palkia and the other humans on Spear Pillar are killed in the action to prevent universal collapse.

Zinnia, having been watching the scenario unfold, grabs Cynthia and runs to a safe place before the blast. It's there that she realizes Cynthia is her surviving parent.

Ridley's mother dies, and they are offered a room with Aster and Zinnia - but due to trauma from the incident, they freeze up in a state of time dissociation.

After reuniting with her living mother, Zinnia contacts the spirit of Orchid and begins making a plan to #Callout Joseph Stone.

Emmy half makes a deal with god and half is granted her wish of being able to have a family of her own - she's just gotta wait a bit.

The Joseph Stone trial occurs and it's found that he's overwhelmingly guilty. He pulls a gun which the intent to shoot Cynthia/Orchid but is blocked by Zinnia. Zinnia barely survives but makes an astounding recovery.

June 9th: Pearl is born.

September 12th: Basil is born.

After his finals, Diego is recruited to Interpol.

Rea is chased out of N's castle and is adopted by a human parent, and is continually raised as a human.

2011:

Diego and Jess have a low-key wedding.

Mohn goes missing.

October 31st: Haru is born.

2014:

Angie is kicked out and begins living with Colress and his family.

2015:

Ridley's time dissociative state ends and they move out on their own. They pick up digital art and become skilled and notable quickly from time-stopping to get things done 'faster'.

2016:

Angie joins Team Plasma by accident but is unable to leave.

Kibi is caught in a car accident and loses movement in their legs.

3 friends - Cheren, Bianca, and Rea leave their hometown to go on a league journey. The 3 soon encounter Team Plasma, but more importantly, they encounter N. Rea and N quickly recognize eachother and are rarely seen apart.

Angie loses her eye.

N confesses that he is the 'king' of Team Plasma, causing Rea to cut him out of the group and run off out of anger.

Rea is accidentally told the true nature of Plasma's goal, and regrets brashly abandoning N and now worries for his safety. However, she's put under an embargo to not say a word, lest the shadow triad hurt someone she cares about.

2017:

Rea learns of her role as the hero of truth, and begins taking her training and league journey much more seriously in order to try and save N from his fate.

N's castle is raised, and Rea battles N. Rea wins, and before she can do anything, N is presumably killed by Ghetsis. Not wanting to die to Ghetsis as well, Rea jumps off on the castle through the hole made in the wall by the battle, and is presumed dead due to the height of the fall.

Every Plasma member in the castle is arrested, except for Zinzolin, Ghetsis, the shadow triad, and Angie. Angie manages to escape with Ghetsis.

Both Rea and N survive, but have no knowledge of the other's survival. N is forced to move to Kalos for safety and Rea changes her identity to Lune, and begins to live in the Castelia sewers.

The remaining Plasma members retreat to the P2 Lab and attempt to figure out how to move forward. Angie calls up Colress to be a scientist for the group and Angie is promoted due to this and also because she's like the only one left.

Colress builds the Plasma Frigate.

2019:

A near-death experience moves Lune out of the sewers, and she's taken in by a Pokemon Center nurse. Lune goes back to living as a human and, on her 18th birthday, promises her new friend Hugh that she'll go on a league challenge with him.

Lune gets her first contract with Pokestar Studios, and it goes extremely well, leaving her with more pocket money than the average trainer on a league adventure.

In Castelia City, Plasma is busted on a mission and Angie is arrested, while Colress is left waiting in the middle of the city. Lune runs into him, and because of Fenrir, he agrees to let her get him a hotel room. He's eventually called by Angie telling him to meet in Driftviel.

Colress, Hugh, and Lune all adventure through to Driftviel. During that time, Colress and Lune seem to get along well and the two promise to communicate after Colress goes to meet Angie.

Lune continues to pursue Pokestar, and eventually begins dating Colress.

December: The attack on Opelucid occurs, and in an altercation, Angie is killed and Lune is critically injured, but manages to survive. Unova is put on high alert and Colress doesn't seem to respond to Lune's calls much.

2020:

January: Lune completes her gym challenge and comes face to face with Team Plasma once again. Upon seeing Colress as the scientist for Plasma, she becomes enraged but doesn't hurt him. She then faces Ghetsis, who has Kyurem under his control. N appears with Reshiram to save lune from death, and the two fight Ghetsis - they recognize eachother, but in the moment they don't have time to wrap their head around it. After Kyurem is defeated, Ghetsis staggers off, as does Lune - running off to process the events.

In the end, Lune and N get back together, and through some communication between N and Colress, as well as Lune's forgiveness given the circumstances, the 3 begin dating.

A rich tech CEO named Lysandre attmpts to set off the Ultimate Weapon in Geosenge town, but fails as awakening Aurelien simply caused her to kill everyone in the building over being upset from being sealed. The only survivor was Wisteria, who attempted to tackle Aure and ended up absorbing the life energy gathered and becoming immortal. To protect herself from the cave-in of the Flare hideout, Aurelien seals herself and Wisteria is taken with her.

The cocoon of death is dug up and stored deep in a secret facility.

Aya breaks into the facility and rescues Aure, and the two ditch Wisteria in the desert.

Lune begins her idol career and quickly becomes a sensation.

Lune hires Ridley for art.

2021:

Lune moves to Lostlorn.

Lune holds her first live performance, 'SAFARI'. Her fame seems to only grow.

Kibi is hired by Lune after their fan news source becomes notable.

Kibi and Ridley communicate and through persistence, become friends.

Haru runs away from her abusive household.

2024:

Pearl meets Hau online and the two become friends. She thinks about Alola and going on her own adventure.

Haru is kidnapped into Rocket.

2025:

Through change of assignment, Diego is moved to Johto. On the trip there, a freak accident occurs, and Jess and Basil are killed.

Diego meets Yuuto during the relief effort and the two become close and eventually form a romantic relationship.

Haru kills Giovanni in self-defense and is rescued. She meets Diego during the investigation and it was because of him that it went smoothly. She leaves off on her own afterward.

Pearl travels to Alola to go on her own adventure through the island trials.

Pearl meets Lillie, and she becomes a part of the traveling friendgroup. Pearl develops feelings for her and the two begin dating soon after.

Diego and Yuuto have a low-key wedding.

Basil is revived as the emissary of Lugia.

2026:

Kaguya is revived as the emissary of Ho-Oh and taken in by the Kimono Sisters.

Basil begins their career as a DJ.

Haru helps defend the Ecruteak Dance Theatre from a rocket grunt, and meets Kaguya. Kaguya quickly becomes clingy towards Haru, and Haru ends up visiting often.

On her adventures, Haru meets Basil, who she later finds is related to Diego. From this, the two quickly hit it off despite Haru's previous shyness.

At the end of Pearl's adventures, she ends up fighting Lillie's mother, Lusamine. Lillie and her go to the Ultra Deep Sea with Nebby's help and fight a Nihilusiamine. Pearl is hit with a tendril, breaking 2 of her ribs and putting her in a coma. The three retreat and Pearl is hospitalized. Emmy and Renee fly to Alola to see her, and Pearl wakes up after 3 days - the two have a happy reunion.

Haru introduces Basil to Kaguya, and while bitter and catty at first, Kaguya quickly warms up to Basil.

The pokemon league in Alola opens and through battle, Pearl is crowned champion.

Ridley moves in with Kibi and the two officially start dating after being in a grey area for years.

2027:

Lune goes on an idol hiatus.

Pearl moves into an apartment in Malie city with Lillie.

Basil, Haru, and Kaguya get together.

Angie is revived as the emissary of Reshiram. Lost and confused, she decides to try and find herself in Galar.

FROM THIS POINT FORWARDS...

The timeline splits in two. I couldn't decide which series of events to pursue, so both are technically canon, and they end at the same point. 

With that in mind...

To be continued...