This is a timeline built from dates given in the PSX game and making some educated guesses as to when events took place in relation to each other. This timeline is a spoiler! Assuming that the game took place in the year 1000 (just pulling at random number out of thin air) the dates are in relation to that point. Laguna, Kiros, and Ward's birth years were figured by assuming the age given for them was during their 'prime'.

-3000
  • Centra founded
  • 920
  • Centra destroyed / Lunar Cry
  • 956
  • Laguna (January 3) born
  • 958
  • Ward (February 25) born
  • 960
  • Kiros (July 6) born
  • 965
  • Cid born
  • 982
  • Timber captured
  • Quistis (October 4) & Seifer (December 22) born
  • 983
  • Esthar closes its borders (end of Sorceress War)
  • Rinoa (March 3), Zell (March 17), Selphie (July 16), Squall (August 23) & Irvine (November 24) born
  • 987
  • Quistis orphaned
  • Julia dies in a car crash
  • Edea accepts the Sorceress powers for the second time
  • 988
  • Balamb Garden founded
  • 992
  • Quistis joins Balamb Garden
  • 994
  • Quistis becomes a SeeD cadet
  • 995
  • Ownership of the Dollet Pub changes hands
  • 996
  • Quistis takes over as Card King of Balamb Garden
  • 997
  • Quistis becomes a SeeD
  • 999
  • Quistis becomes an Instructor
  • 1000
  • Final Fantasy 8 starts
  • Squall, Selphie, Zell become SeeDs
  • Deling is murdered by Edea
  • Garden riot happens
  • Squall takes over as the leader of SeeD / Balamb
  • Galbadia Garden attacks Balamb Garden
  • Sorceress power jumps to Rinoa's body
  • Adel is released & Lunar Cry
  • Rinoa & Adel battle
  • Time Compression, Xu takes the Ragnorok into the compressed world
  • Other dates:

  • Edea is 5 when she receives the powers of the Sorceress the first time