Kingdom Hearts (series)/Timeline

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep

 * The plot of this game is not fully known, and so this information is subject to change.


 * Master Xehanort and his apprentice disappear, and another Keyblade master sends his three apprentices, Terra, Ven, and Aqua after them.
 * Master Xehanort and his apprentice defeat the three apprentices.
 * Ven is frozen solid in the process, and Terra's eyes glow orange as he stares up at something that resembles Kingdom Hearts that Master Xehanort summoned.
 * King Mickey of Disney Castle witnesses the events and receives his own Keyblade.
 * The young Xehanort is found in the Radiant Garden. He is taken in by Ansem the Wise, and becomes his favorite apprentice.
 * Ansem begins his research of matters of the heart, but quickly abandons it, the risk being too great.
 * Xehanort decides to continue the research despite Ansems orders.
 * Xehanort quickly overthrows Ansem and sends him to the Dark Realm.
 * Xehanort takes over Ansems name as his own and his research leads to the creation of the Heartless, and his own destruction.
 * He loses his heart to darkness and becomes a heartless
 * At the same time, Xehanorts Nobody, Xemnas, appears in The World that Never Was.
 * Xemnas forms “The Organization” and accepts new members into it one by one.
 * Xehanorts Heartless continues to achieve his goal of finding and entering Kingdom Hearts
 * The powerful witch Maleficent arrives at Hollow Bastion and claims the castle for her own
 * Maleficent learns of the heartless and Kingdom Hearts and joins Xehanorts Heartless in the attempts to open it.
 * Maleficent recruits Hades, Jafar, Ursula, Oogie Boogie, Captain Hook, and Pete to assist her in controlling the heartless and finding the “Seven Princesses of Heart” necessary to open the door to Kingdom Hearts.
 * Worlds begin to fall to the Heartless one by one.

Kingdom Hearts

 * King Mickey learns of the creation of the heartless and begins an investigation of why worlds are falling to them.
 * He begins a search for Ansem the wise to find answers only to find out that Ansem has been trapped in the Realm of Darkness.
 * King Mickey sends a note to his trusted soldiers Donald and Goofy telling them to go and find the chosen Keyblade master.
 * The world door to Destiny Islands is opened and the world is attacked by the heartless.
 * Sora from Destiny Islands is chosen by the Keyblade when his world is attacked.
 * Sora's friend Riku opens his heart to darkness and escapes the doomed world before it is destroyed.
 * Riku appears in Hollow Bastion.
 * Sora's friend Kairi loses her heart, which enters Sora's body, when the world is plunged into darkness.
 * Kairi's Nobody Naminé appears in Castle Oblivion and is found by Marluxia but is not inducted into the Organization due to her disagreeing with the actions of the Organization.
 * Sora escapes Destiny Islands through the portal left by the heartless and he appears in Traverse Town.
 * Donald and Goofy arrive in Traverse town seeking the Keyblade master.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy meet up with each other and set out on their quest to find King Mickey, Riku and Kairi.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy begin to travel to numerous worlds to seal them so that they will be safe from the heartless.
 * Xemnas hears rumor that the Keyblade Master has been chosen and devises a plan that would allow the Organization members to become “True People” again.
 * Maleficent discovers Riku and convinces him to work for her by searching for the Princesses of Heart.
 * Kairi's body is found and protected by Riku, but her heart is still missing and she remains in a catatonic state.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy eventually come to the world of Neverland where he encounters Riku and Kairi.
 * Riku informs Sora that he is now has control of the Heartless and that Kairi has lost her heart.
 * Riku takes Kairi to Hollow Bastion.
 * Xehanort's Heartless and Maleficent now have all seven of the Princesses of Heart and they realize that to successfully open Kingdom Hearts, they need to defeat Sora to release Kairi’s hearts.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy make it to Hollow Bastion.
 * Riku takes control of the Keyblade from Sora because the Darkness is making his heart the stronger.
 * Sora regains control of the Keyblade and fights Riku.
 * Riku allows Xehanorts Heartless to take control of him so that he will become more powerful.
 * Sora defeats Maleficent's dragon form in battle.
 * Xemnas discovers where the Keyblade Master is and travels to Hollow Bastion to challenge Sora to a fight to test his strength.
 * After fighting Sora, Xemnas is moderately impressed but worried that Sora will be incapable of killing enough heartless to allow the Organization to become True People.
 * Sora encounters Riku, now possessed by Xehanort's Heartless, and learns that Kairi's heart is contained within him and that Kairi will never wake up so long as her heart is wihin him.
 * In an attempt to release the hearts, the possessed Riku fights Sora but is defeated and disappears.
 * Sora impales himself to allow Kairi to wake up and, as a result of the Dark Keyblade's destruction, all seven of the Princess’s hearts are released, all of the Princesses wake up and the pathway to Kingdom Hearts is opened.
 * Sora's Nobody, Roxas, appears in Twilight Town and is found by Xemnas who realizes that he is the Keyblade Master’s nobody and takes him into the Organization as the 13th member.
 * Due to Sora and Kairi's strong hearts, Kairi restores Sora back to normal after he became a Heartless, and Sora, Donald, Goofy and Kairi leave Hollow Bastion and head back to Traverse Town.
 * Xehanort's Heartless completely takes over Riku's body and Riku is forced into the Realm of Darkness.
 * In a final effort to defeat Xehanort's Heartless and close the pathway to Kingdom Hearts, Sora, Donald and Goofy go to the Heartless world called The End of the World.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy defeat Xehanorts Heartless in battle but before he dies he opens Kingdom Hearts.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy close Kingdom Hearts with the help of Riku and King Mickey who are inside it.
 * Kingdom Hearts is closed and the pathway to it is sealed.
 * All of the Worlds taken by the Heartless are restored and Kairi is returned to Destiny Islands.

Kingdom Hearts V CAST

 * Sora, Donald, and Goofy fall asleep.
 * Sora dreams that the Gummi ship crashes into a new world.
 * Sora must escape Agrabah, Wonderland, and a Swashbuckling island, all while under attack from Heartless sent by Maleficent.
 * Sora gets to Maleficent's fortress.
 * Sora defeats Maleficent and wakes up.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

 * The 11th member of the organization, Marluxia, and the 6th member, Zexion, propose a plan to Xemnas to use Naminé to Rearrange Sora and Riku's memories so that they can be better used for Organization XIII’s purposes.
 * Xemnas approves the plan and sends the 4th member Vexen, the 5th member Lexaeus, the 6th member Zexion, The 8th member Axel, the 11th member Marluxia and the 12th member Larxene to Castle Oblivion where Naminé is ordered to begin to rearrange Soras Memories.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy continue along a path until they come across Castle Oblivion.
 * The Rearranging of Sora, Donald and Goofy's memories commences and they begin to forget things they have known before and Sora begins to remember false events about Naminé in place of Kairi.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy are informed by Marluxia that they must make their way to the top of the castle to reclaim all of their memories.
 * Marluxia and Larxene inform Axel of their attempt to take over Organization XIII using Sora as their puppet.
 * Riku is brought out of the realm of darkness and to Castle Oblivion by Diz disguising himself as Xehanort's Heartless
 * Riku encounters Vexen who samples Riku's memories and tells him that he must work his way up from the castles basement in order to escape.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy make their way up the castle fighting and defeating Vexen along the way.
 * Zexion, Lexeau's and Vexen create a duplicate Riku to help them find out why Marluxia and Larxene are attempting to overthrow Organization XIII.
 * Axel rejects Marluxia and Larxene's proposal to take over Organization XIII and he releases Naminé to go to Sora.
 * Sora fights the duplicate Riku and is defeated but rescued by Naminé who kills the Duplicate Riku.
 * Sora fights and Defeats Larxene.
 * Naminé tells Sora all about what she was force to do to his memories and informs Sora that she can restore the original memories if they defeat Marluxia and make it to the top floor.
 * Riku continues up from the basement and defeats Lexaeus along the way.
 * King Mickey is brought out of the realm of darkness by Diz (Ansem) and taken to Castle Oblivion to help Riku.
 * Axel leaves Castle Oblivion and returns to The World that Never Was.
 * Sora Defeats Marluxia in battle and Naminé takes Sora Donald and Goofy to Twilight town where she puts them to sleep so that their memories can be repaired.
 * Riku and the King continue up through Castle Oblivion until they reach Zexion, the only remaining member of Organization XIII in the castle.
 * Riku Defeats Zexion by using the dark powers still in him from Xehanort's Heartless.
 * Diz reveals himself to Riku and explains how he and Naminé are trying to help him.
 * Riku chooses to fight Xehanort's Heartless and finally defeat him so that Riku can rid himself of the darkness in his heart.
 * Riku defeats Xehanort's Heartless in battle.
 * Naminé and Diz take Riku and the King to see Sora sleeping in the pod in which his memories are being repaired.
 * Diz disguises Riku and the King in Organization XIII coats and sends them out to ensure no one interferes with the reconstruction of Sora's memories.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

 * Ansem the Wise is able to escape the realm of darkness when Kingdom Hearts is sealed.
 * Ansem disguises himself and uses the name Diz to protect himself from Xemnas discovering him.
 * Organization XIII continues their efforts to become True People by collecting the hearts of defeated Heartless.
 * Ansem begins to work on a way to stop Xemnas from carrying out his plan.
 * Roxas becomes friends with Axel, the 8th member of the Organization.
 * Realizing that Sora may not be strong enough to defeat enough heartless, Xemnas creates Xion, a replica made from Sora's memories that was intended to fight and kill heartless if Sora died.
 * The Xion experiment was a failure and the replica instead partially resembled Kairi since Sora's memories towards her were strongest.
 * Xemnas inducts Xion into Organization XIII.
 * Xion becomes good friends with Roxas and Axel.
 * Roxas, Axel and Xion go on various missions for Organization XIII.
 * Xion begins turning into Sora.
 * Xemnas' plan is for Roxas and Xion to fuse together to make an exact Sora replica.
 * Xion turns insane.
 * Roxas defeats Xion and Xion fuses with Roxas.
 * Roxas betrays the Organization.
 * Riku attacks Roxas in the Dark City.
 * Roxas wins but Riku then turns into the darkness in the form of Xeahnort's heartless and knocks him out.
 * Diz and Riku put Roxas in the virtual world.
 * While Roxas and Xion are on a mission for Organization XIII, Roxas falls into a coma due to Sora being put to sleep by Naminé.
 * Axel takes care of Roxas while he is in a coma and Xion begins to go on missions by herself.
 * While on a mission by herself, Xion encounters Naminé who explains to Xion about who she is and why she was created.
 * Riku and Xion encounter each other in Beasts Castle and they fight.
 * Riku is the victor but he is surprised to find out that Xion can wield the Keyblade and Riku leaves her alive as he is uncertain about what to do with her.
 * As more of Sora's memories are reconstructed Xion begins to have strange dreams that involve Sora's past experiences.
 * Roxas wakes up from his coma, he Axel and Xion reunite and continue missions for Organization XIII.
 * Xion begins to go insane through having obsessive thoughts about wanting to be “Something” instead of just an imperfect replica.
 * Xion runs away from Organization XIII and Roxas and Axel are ordered to find her and bring her back.
 * Xion begins to take on the appearance of Sora due to his memories nearing completion.
 * Roxas finds Xion who now looks completely like Sora.
 * Xion decides that the only way she can be a real person is by merging with Roxas allowing her memories of Sora to combine with Roxas’ body.
 * Xion fights Roxas and is defeated but dies in Roxas’ arms which makes her merge with Roxas anyway.
 * As a result of Xion and Roxas merging, Sora's memory reconstruction is stopped and cannot be completed.
 * Diz and Naminé send Riku out to capture Roxas so that the memories Xion left in Roxas can be transferred to Sora to complete the process.
 * Roxas defeats Riku in battle but Riku decides that he must complete his mission at any cost so he completely lets himself go and allows the Darkness still slightly in his heart to take over
 * As a result, Riku ends up resembling Xehanort's Heartless and possesses all of his powers.
 * Riku then quickly defeats Roxas and brings him to twilight town to Diz.
 * Naminé masks Roxas’ true memories from him.
 * Diz creates a data*based recreation of Twilight Town and places Roxas inside it.

Kingdom Hearts II

 * Roxas begins to live in the fake twilight town as a simple school boy on summer vacation but he experiences constant flashbacks and dreams about the experiences from Sora's past.
 * Working for Diz, Riku steals some pictures of Roxas and his friends.
 * Naminé continues to reconstruct Sora's memories taking them out of Roxas bit by bit.
 * Axel attempts to remind Roxas of who he is and about his past in Organization XIII but Diz convinces Roxas to ignore him.
 * Roxas goes to the mansion where Naminé and Diz are now complete with their reconstruction of Sora's memories
 * Axel makes a final attempt to return Roxas to Organization XIII but Roxas defeats Axel and continues through the mansion
 * Roxas makes it to the room where Sora is sleeping and Diz reveals how Roxas will now have to be absorbed into Sora to allow Sora to waken.
 * Sora Donald and Goofy wake up but have no memories of anything after the defeat of Xehanort's Heartless.
 * King Mickey meets up with Sora Donald and Goofy while leaving Twilight Town and directs them to Master Yen Sid's tower.
 * Master Yen Sid informs Sora Donald and Goofy about Nobodies and Organization XIII and then gives them back the Gummi ship and sends them off with instructions to go around and seal all of the worlds again.
 * Maleficent is revived by the heartless.
 * Axel travels to Destiny Islands and attempts to Kidnap Kairi but she instead travels through a portal opened by King Mickey which brings Kairi to Twilight Town
 * Kairi spends time with Hayner, Pence and Olette until Axel finds her again and takes her against her will to the World that never Was.
 * Sora Donald and Goofy travel to Twilight Town to get Kairi only to find out that Axel has already taken her away. They also meet Saix, who informs them that Axel isn't following orders from the Organization anymore.
 * After sealing several worlds, Sora, Donald, and Goofy return to Hollow Bastion where they finally meet King Mickey who explains all about Ansem the Wise, Xehanort, Xehanort's Heartless, and Xemnas.
 * Maleficent sends thousands of Heartless to invade Hollow Bastion and Organization XIII sends Nobodies to counter them.
 * Sora Donald and Goofy encounter and defeat Demyx, the 9th member of Organization XIII.
 * The heartless realize that Maleficent is no longer the strongest side in the fight and they join forces with Organization XIII and the other Nobodies.
 * Axel decides that Organization XIII has become corrupt and he decides to help Sora and go against the Organization's will.
 * Riku, disguised as a member of Organization XIII, gives Sora Donald and Goofy a picture showing Roxas in it and Sora recognizes him.
 * Sora Donald and Goofy return to Beasts Castle and defeat Xaldin, the 3rd member of Organization XIII.
 * Sora Donald and Goofy return to Hollow Bastion where they encounter Sephiroth.
 * Sora fights an intense battle with Sephiroth and defeats him leading Sephiroth to confront Cloud and the two leave to fight each other.
 * Sora, Donald, and Goofy return to Twilight Town in an attempt to find out about who Roxas is and why he appeared with Hayner, Pence, and Olette in a picture.
 * Sora, Donald, Goofy and King Mickey use the computer in Diz and Naminé's mansion to gain access to the fake Twilight Town.
 * Axel sacrifices his life to help Sora Donald Goofy and King Mickey to gain access to The World that Never Was
 * Xemnas nears the completion of his goal as Kingdom Hearts almost has enough hearts collected from dead heartless to allow the remaining Organization XIII members to use its power.
 * Ansem the Wise arrives in The World that Never Was and begins to make his way up through the Organization XIII Castle
 * Sora reaches the Memory’s Skyscraper in the World that Never Was and he has a vision involving Roxas, who battles Sora and leaves satisfied.
 * Sora, Donald, Goofy and King Mickey enter the Organization XIII Castle.
 * Naminé breaks Kairi out of her cell in the Organization XIII Castle but they are stopped by Saix, the 7th member of Organization XIII
 * Riku, still with the appearance of Xehanort's Heartless, rescues Naminé and Kairi from Saix. Kairi and Riku then go to find Sora.
 * King Mickey goes off in a different direction in the castle and meets Ansem the Wise who begins to use a device to remove the hearts Xemnas gave to Kingdom Hearts.
 * Sora, Donald and Goofy are stopped by the 2nd Member of Organization XIII, Xigbar, but they fight and defeat him.
 * Sora, Donald, and Goofy meet up with Riku and Kairi and the 5 of them continue up through the castle.
 * Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, and Kairi encounter Luxord, the 10th member of Organization XIII, and Sora defeats him in battle.
 * Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, and Kairi are stopped by Saix, the last member other than Xemnas, and they defeat him.
 * Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, and Kairi meet up with Ansem the wise and King Mickey who are still removing the collected hearts from Kingdom Hearts.
 * The collecting machine explodes killing Ansem, severely damaging Kingdom Hearts and releasing all of the collected hearts into the castle where they reform into millions of heartless.
 * The release of hearts returns Riku to his original appearance and Xehanort's Heartless is destroyed forever.
 * Maleficent and Pete arrive at the castle and holds off the Heartless while Sora, Donald, Goofy, Riku, Kairi, and King Mickey continue up to Xemnas.
 * Xemnas’ plans are ruined and he fights Sora but is defeated and disappears.
 * The door to Kingdom Hearts appears and Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Riku enter and fight Xemnas and he seems to have been defeated.
 * Naminé opens a portal to Destiny Islands for everyone to leave through and Sora and Kairi meet and merge with their Nobody equivalents, Roxas and Naminé.
 * The portal closes before Sora and Riku leave and they are forced to fight Xemnas again.
 * Sora and Riku defeat Xemnas for good and they are stranded in the Realm of Darkness after the battle.
 * The Door to Light opens for Sora and Riku and they enter it and arrive at Destiny Islands.
 * King Mickey Returns to Disney Castle and sends Sora information about another mission.

Kingdom Hearts coded
The plot of this game is not fully known, and so this information is subject to change.