Hi friends, I have noticed that the entire timeline of Narutoverse is chaotic, so I have taken it upon myself to create a believable Narutoverse Timeline. Hope you like it and please describe the abnormalities in it to further improve it. Anybody can utilise it.
I used the Founding Year of Konohagakure as YEAR "0" in describing the timeline.
Please note that the abbreviation I used in this are as follows:-
i) BHV: Before Hidden Villages
ii) FYK: Founding Year of Konohagakure
iii) AHV: After Hidden Villages
TIMELINE STARTS
1000 BHV: Arrival of Kaguya Ōtsutsuki on Earth.
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Long before the founding of the hidden villages, during an era of endless war, a millennium ago; Kaguya arrived on Earth with a partner of her clan in search for the fruit of the God Tree, whose chakra she was supposed to provide to the clan's main family in another world. She originally arrived with Isshiki Ōtsutsuki, but later betrayed him and left him for dead. Upon her arrival, she was discovered by the people of the Land of Ancestors, who brought her before their emperor, Tenji. Identifying herself as the God Tree's guardian, Kaguya used a mysterious power to wipe Tenji's memories of the encounter and subsequently settled among his people, becoming recognised as his concubine. Growing closer with the emperor, she eventually fell pregnant.
998 BHV: Infinite Tsukuyomi
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When the Land of That began to threaten the Land of Ancestors over a border dispute, Tenji attempted to prevent the outbreak of war by declaring that anyone who attacked the larger nation's representatives was to be executed, an order which she broke when she was threatened by them, resulting in her and her assistant Aino becoming hunted by their land to be executed.
Losing all faith in humanity but still longing for peace, Kaguya believed that it was necessary for her to attain god-like powers in order to put an end to all of humanity's conflicts. So, despite her clan waiting to harvest that world of its God Tree, she defied the taboo surrounding the fruit and ate it. In doing so, she awakened the Rinne Sharingan and became the sole person on the planet endowed with chakra and used a small version of infinite Tsukuyomi to trap the entire Land of Ancestors' populace, even her lover, Tenji; whose childrens she was carrying in her womb. She had great affection for Tenji but it was not strong enough to stop her from trapping him in the Infinite Tsukuyomi when he betrayed her for his own pursuit of peace.
Using her new-found power, Kaguya single-handedly ended the wars, and took control of the nations. For her deed of stopping the conflict, she received the blessing of the people and was worshipped as the Rabbit Goddess.
During her pursuit to establish peace and all, she somehow changed and used the Infinite Tsukuyomi, again on the entire human population to transform them into an army of White Zetsu in order to protect her chakra from being stolen by other Ōtsutsuki clan members. Later, she also freed some victims of the genjutsu, not wanting mankind to perish, and erased their memories.
997 BHV: Birth of Hagoromo and Hamura
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Sometime after bringing peace to the war-torn world using her god-like powers, she finally gave birth to twins, with their father being Tenji, the emperor of the Land of Ancestors.
She named them Hagoromo and Hamura Ōtsutsuki. Hagoromo alongside his fraternal twin brother, Hamura, were the first to be born with the same powerful chakra as their mother.
997-955 BHV: Rule of Kaguya on Earth
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Ruling by herself and often resorting to cruelty, her dōjutsu and jutsu were regarded with fear, awe and reverence by humans. At some indefinite point, Kaguya had grown despotic and developed both a god-complex and messiah-complex, believing that chakra rightfully belonged to her alone and that only she could protect and unite the world.
She tried to love humans for the sake of peace, but her distrust in them proved far too great as she came to believe all they did was fight and destroy the world.
Despite her initial desire for peace Kaguya ultimately caved into corruption from her powers and lost faith in humanity's ability to do what is right. As a result of her losing faith in humanity, Kaguya opted to use her great and terrible power to submit everyone to her will.
Humanity around this time began to fear her, as a result, the Rabbit Goddess had instead become known throughout the world, as a Demon.
957 BHV: Meeting The Great Toad Sage
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For many years, Hagoromo and his brother Hamura lived in ignorance of their mother's true amoral nature. While their homeland continued to prosper, people would periodically disappear for a sacred Ritual of the God Tree. One day, the brothers were approached by Gamamaru, who revealed to them that beyond the peak of the nearby mountains lied the truth of the ritual. While initially ignoring the toad's words, Hagoromo grew distressed when a local girl he cared for named Haori became part of the ritual. When the brothers confronted their mother about ending the rituals, Kaguya dismissed their concern, simply saying it was necessary for "the others' arrival". Finally deciding to investigate, the two brothers decided to visit the 'Peaks of Demise' where 'The Divine Tree' is located.
{{{Divine/God Tree will look like a normal overgrown tree(Genjutsu) with branches and greenery until it's worshipper/owner wishes it to reveal it's true form, which completely dwarfed the Ten-Tails in size. It's true(real) form possessed a siny tall, straight trunk with no greenary(leaves) or branches and also a single purple bud situated on top, inside of which was the Ten-Tails' eye. This tree form was the real form of the God Tree, but it was later referred to as the Ten-Tails which is a mistake because it is born from Ten-Tails itself which acts as the Tree's seedling.}}}
956 BHV: Learning The Truth of The Divine Tree
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They were horrified upon finding that the missing citizens were sacrificed to the God Tree. This especially hurt Hagoromo, and he awakened the Sharingan in his grief. Wishing to learn more, the brothers sought out Gamamaru.
Gamamaru revealed to them their mother's history of coming to Earth and using the God Tree's fruit to gain great power and enslave much of the land using Infinite Tsukuyomi, including their father. Deciding that they needed more power to confront Kaguya should she turn hostile, Hagoromo began training under Gamamaru in senjutsu.
956-953 BHV: Training to Become a Sage
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While Hagoromo quickly improved in this art, Kaguya soon caught on to her sons' scheme. She captured Hamura and brainwashed him. She also forced him to fight Hagoromo in order to reclaim her chakra. Although, she wanted to claim her chakra back without killing her children as she did claim Hagoromo's love would prevent him from killing Hamura and thus ensuring his defeat without fatal injuries.
952 BHV: Confrontation and Ten-Tails
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After Hagoromo completed his training under the Toad Sage, he returned to confront Kaguya, but not before being presented by Gamamaru with a special seal tag instilled with great sage power refined over the centuries. Once approaching Kaguya, the mother and son made their respective views known. As Hagoromo tried to reason with Kaguya, his words fell on deaf ears, as Kaguya deemed Hagoromo as ungrateful. She then had Hamura, who she brainwashed, attack Hagoromo. Unable to reason with Hamura, Hagoromo was left with no choice but to strike down his beloved brother, which awakened his Mangekyō Sharingan and Rinnegan. Deciding to use Gamamaru's one-use gift, Hagoromo placed the seal tag on Hamura and healed him.
Angered by the fact that her chakra had been used against her, Kaguya wills the God Tree to transform into the Ten-Tails.
The Ten-Tails rampaged throughout the lands attempting to reclaim her chakra for her. But Hagoromo used his Susanoo and equally fought the beast. Kaguya used every jutsu she knew to defeat her sons even the Infinite Tsukuyomi to enslave the world once again but Hagoromo used the Susanoo and saved himself and his brother from the Genjutsu.
Hagoromo and Hamura fought both their mother and the Ten-Tails in a battle that lasts for months, decimating the land in the process.
Growing desperate to defeat them, Kaguya in her last efforts devised a plan to absorb their chakra, she integrated/merged herself with the God Tree, resulting in her mutating into an unstable rabbit-like version of the Ten-Tails. It was a form she couldn't control but it greatly enhanced her power and she again started getting an upper hand in the fight.
Hagoromo and Hamura assuming the Ten-Tails was an incarnation of the God Tree that attacked them to recover the chakra from its stolen fruit, fought and still managed to defeat it, with Hagoromo becoming its jinchūriki, causing him to be revered as a god for the virtue of his victory.
951 BHV: Defeat of the Kaguya and Ten-Tails
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Hagoromo and Hamura after defeating her mother aka rabbit-like version of the Ten-Tails sealed 'only' the beast's chakra within the former's body while using its husk as the core of Six Paths — Chibaku Tensei, creating a celestial body that would become known as the Moon. Hamura later took leadership of the Ōtsutsuki clan and departed to the moon to guard the beast's remains, while Hagoromo remained on Earth in order to spread chakra to humanity and teach them the concept of ninshū. However, just before her sons could completely seal her, Kaguya had manifested her will in the form of an artificial human called Black Zetsu. With the agenda of reviving its "mother", Black Zetsu manipulated Hagoromo's eldest son, Indra Ōtsutsuki, as well as his descendants within the Uchiha clan and his brother's descendants within the Senju clan in an attempt to get one of them to awaken the Rinnegan and break the seal.
Researching his mother's technique, Hagoromo was finally able to free the world from her Infinite Tsukuyomi.
951-823 BHV: Period of Ninshū and Ninja Creed
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Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki became known to Earth's population at large as the Sage of Six Paths (Rikudō Sennin) and a legendary god-like figure for the virtue of his victory over the Ten-Tails.
He will be later also revered as the ancestor of shinobi, for his act of founding ninshū which led to the creation of the ninja world.
Going by the name of 'Sage of Six Paths' after entering priesthood, he travelled across the land giving chakra to every one in the world, spreading his ideals and religion of ninshū in the process. His great deeds and ultimate desire to bring peace to the war-torn world made him widely known as the 'Saviour of this World'.
950-917 BHV: Birth of Indra and Ashura
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After the defeat of the Ten-Tails , Hagoromo eventually returned to his home village to act as the centre for the teachings of ninshū. He also fell in love and married a woman with whom had two children, Indra and Asura. During the second pregnancy, there were complications as Hagoromo's wife passed not long after giving birth to her second child. Hagoromo later began instructing his sons in Ninshū. The older son, Indra, was acknowledged by Hagoromo as a true prodigy, quickly began to revel in his natural prowess and became very solitary, unaware that much of this came from the subtle manipulations of Black Zetsu. The younger son, Asura, proved to be the exact opposite, having shown no special abilities or natural talent, but he pushed on through his limitations, growing stronger and more mature because of his struggles and making friends with others along the way.
928 BHV: Box of Ultimate Bliss and Treasured Tools of the Sage of the Six Paths
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The Box of Ultimate Bliss was accidentally opened by a follower of Ninshū thinking that it might help their leader the Sage of the Six Paths in achieving eternal peace but upon opening the box devoured that follower and made him the host of Satori which started throwing people into the box while causing destruction.
The Sage was notified of this who then came to fought it. Upon finding no means to defeat it, he retreated and devise a plan.
He created some tools to fight them which came to known as the 'Treasured Tools of the Sage of Six Paths' or the 'Six Paths Sacred Treasures'.
He wielded them himself and sealed them away, thus defeating the Satoris and finally managing to seal the Box of Ultimate Bliss, itself.
These tools were considered the most powerful ninja tools ever, with one disadvantage, their usage consumes an enormous amount of chakra, so much so that a normal human could die if they used them.
Like the Box, Satori's history is overall a mystery, but the Sage concluded that the box is nothing more than a means of destruction and dark power.
And that Satori is just a mindless, powerful puppet demon of the said Box which corrupts the mind of his host and take over their body and proceed to throw the victims into the box while causing more and more destruction.
He sealed away the box to be never used again.
919 BHV: Mission to decide the Successor
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Finally deciding the time had come to chose a successor to Ninshū, Hagoromo sent each on his sons on a different mission of restoration for a struggling land that was ravaged by the battle against Kaguya to test their capacities. A year went by since the missions were given, Indra quickly returning after completing his while Asura took much longer. Deciding to wait for his younger son's return before making his decision, he was told the nature of how Indra completed his mission by Gamamaru. Eventually, Asura completed his mission, but also returned with many people from the village, who were inspired by Asura and even learned Ninshū from him, having helped him complete his mission.
917 BHV: Successor of Ninshū
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With Asura and Indra present, Hagoromo decided to choose his successor in Ninshū. Much to everyone's surprise, Hagoromo chose Asura. This greatly angered and confused Indra, who thought he was worthy of becoming the successor, and he stormed out into the wilderness. Later on, Hagoromo explained to Asura why he chose him as his successor and asked Asura to take care of the world with Indra, and Hagoromo gave Asura his power. Subsequently, Indra overcome by bitterness, envy and in a fit of rage, as well as being encouraged and manipulated by Black Zetsu, a manifestation of Kaguya's will; attacked Hagoromo, Asura and the rest of the villagers with his Susanoo and newly acquired Mangekyō Sharingan, with his explanation as to how he obtained the dōjutsu drawing Hagoromo's disgust. Hagoromo and the rest of the villagers transferred their chakra to Asura to help him take on Indra, forcing the elder brother to flee. He fought against his brother and began a war between them that would continue through their descendants.
915 BHV: Birth of the Tailed-Beast
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Inspired by his younger son, Hagoromo separated the Ten-Tails' chakra within his body and used his Creation of All Things Technique to divide it into nine separated bodies, creating the tailed beasts and giving each a name. The tailed beasts nurtured within the sage's body until the time of their extraction. Some time after their creation, the young tailed beasts were told that they were all still linked to one another despite being separate entities. Hagoromo also told them that they would eventually become one again, yet not as they originally were, and that one shall appear at that time to show them what true power is.
909 BHV: Extraction of The Tailed-Beast
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As a result of extracting them all at once, Hagoromo was left weakened and incapacitated for several months, until his brother Hamura connected him to the powerful life force of the Ten-Tails' husk thus keeping him alive.
Afterwards, before his death, the Sage and his followers built temples in nine different regions of the world where the tailed beasts could live and be protected. Hagoromo eventually sealed the husk of the Ten-Tails within the moon, again, after his life force stabilized again.
891 BHV: Death of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki
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As Hagoromo was nearing death and laying on his deathbed, Indra appeared to his father after years of disappearance and explained his ambition to take down ninshū. Hagoromo later relays this information to Asura and his family, entrusting his younger son with his final wish before dying.
871 BHV: Death of Hamura Ōtsutsuki
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Hamura entrusted his clan to watch over humanity and the Gedō Mazō on the moon. He also asked them to make sure that humanity follows the ideals of his brother Hagoromo which some of them, over the time, interrupted as 'Destruction of Humanity itself, should the human population failed to follow the Sage's teachings'.
823 BHV: Beginning of the Warring States Period
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Indra and his descendants succeeded in destroying the Ninshū and creation of Ninjutsu. This event led the world towards the beginning era of the Warring States Period.
823-1 BHV: Warring States Period
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The Warring States Period (Sengoku Jidai) was a long, violent era before the formation of the hidden villages. In this era, the descendants of Indra founded the Uchiha clan and the descendants of Ashura founded the Senju and Uzumaki clan.
The descendants of Hamura founded the Hyuga and Kaguya clan.
During the Warring States Period, the countries of the world were uniformly small, constantly battling each other for land, power, and opportunity. To fight these battles, countries hired one or more clans of mercenary shinobi to represent their interests, the shinobi's loyalties ultimately going to the highest bidder. The constant warfare in turn led to constant death, creating an average lifespan of only thirty years. Children were the greatest victims of the era, forced to fight for their clan no differently than an adult would and, more often than not, being killed by older and more skilled opponents. In an attempt to avoid conflict caused by the ever-changing alliances and resulting vendettas, shinobi were in the habit and also instructed to never divulging their family names to strangers.
Amidst all the vying for supremacy, two clans emerged as the strongest: the Senju clan, famed for their balanced skill in all the shinobi arts, and the Uchiha clan, famed for their Sharingan. Whenever one side in a conflict hired one of the clans, the opposing side would hire the other clan. This constant competition created a deep-seated animosity between its members, with all Senju having lost loved ones to an Uchiha and vice-versa. Despite the clans' enmity, it would be the Senju and Uchiha that will brought an end to the Warring States Period.
The tailed beasts also frequently rampaged throughout the nations, during this period, due to Shinobi trying to capture them and utilise their power for their own gains.
Slowly and slowly, the tailed beasts started hating humans to the point that they stopped interacting with humans completely and viewing them as nothing more than power-hungry creatures who wanted their power for themselves and also for forgetting the teachings of their father 'The Sage of the Six Paths'.
They frequently and suddenly started attacking large corrupted human settlements and wiping them out to make sure that Humanity fears them and doesn't try anything against them like trying to steal their powers or to capture them, etc.
In return humanity started fearing the tailed beasts and viewing them as nothing more than a mass of chakra and powerful mindless beasts.
415 BHV: Creation of Izanagi
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With a normal genjutsu, a user will apply an illusion to a target's senses, causing the target to experience things that are not real. With Izanagi, the user applies an illusion to reality itself, giving the user control over what is and is not real for as long as Izanagi is active. Users typically do this in order to protect themselves, negating any injuries they receive or even their deaths. When this happens, their injured self fades away as an illusion and their non-injured self immediately materialises in the previous self's place. In the anime, users are shown extending Izanagi's influence beyond their personal reality, affecting their surroundings and those within it.
Izanagi is a technique based on the Creation of All Things Technique, used by the Sage of Six Paths to turn imagination into reality. The process is explained to use spiritual energy – which forms the basis of Yin Release – to create shape from nothingness. Then, through the application of physical energy – which forms the basis of Yang Release – the shape has life breathed into iiaMembers of the Uchiha clan, as descendants of the Sage, perform Izanagi with their Sharingan. In exchange for the brief control over reality that Izanagi grants them, the Sharingan that they perform it with becomes blind; only awakening the Rinnegan restores the eye's vision. Because the Uchiha prized their Sharingan, to lose it in this way prompted them to label it kinjutsu.
Because Uchiha only possess half of the Sage's chakra, they can only keep Izanagi active for a few seconds. To maximize Izanagi's duration, it is necessary to recreate the Sage's chakra by also having genetic material of the Sage's other descendants, the Senju.
416 BHV: Creation of Izanami
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Izanami is a genjutsu which affects the target through physical sensations shared between them and the user to perform the illusion. Like its counterpart Izanagi, in exchange for the temporary ability that it grants the user, the Sharingan with which Izanami is cast is rendered blind and loses its light forever.
This technique and Izanagi form a pair, but unlike the latter, which is a technique capable of altering destiny, Izanami instead is the one that "decides" it.
It was created as a way of punishment for those members of the Uchiha clan who previously abused the abilities granted by Izanagi, instead simply casting the technique as a means of escaping the undesirable results of their actions.
Whilst this resulted in little issue if only one person were using Izanagi, if there were two or more casters, they would begin to fight amongst each other over personally favourable outcomes. Thus, as dōjutsu users were unlikely to succumb to ocular genjutsu, Izanami was created as a method to reprimand such clansmen, as well as save them from their own arrogance. By imprisoning them within an unalterable loop of events, the victim was forced to accept the reality they had created if they ever wished to escape the illusion. However, because of the dangers involved in using a technique with a built-in escape route in a real battle, Izanami became classed as a kinjutsu. As such, Izanami is ironically not a genjutsu to be used on an enemy, but on a friend who has lost their way as a means of helping them find themselves again.
Whilst under the effects of the technique, the target stands motionlessly as the loop of events continually replays inside their mind. Each time a loop is repeated, any physical damage incurred is reset as it were before the start of the loop, although the remains of severed appendages do not disappear. The illusion of the user and anyone they were fighting alongside also have any damage reset as well such as the blindness that comes with Izanami. Despite being able to become consciously aware of their situation and act differently, the victim is unable to significantly alter or escape from the inevitable progression of these events as the illusions they're fighting will also quickly adapt to their changes in order to force the victim to experience the memorised sensations. However, because this technique was created to reprimand and save the users of Izanagi, the victim is able to escape the infinite loop if they can acknowledge the real results of their actions and in doing so, accept their fate.
Like Izanagi, Izanami also blinds the Sharigan eye of the user, it is performed with.
25-2 BHV: Birth of Hashirama Senju and Madara Uchiha
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Hashirama was born during the Warring States Period, as the eldest of Butsuma Senju's four sons. Hashirama and his brothers grew up on the battlefield waging constant war with the Senju's rivals: the Uchiha. Two of his brothers, Kawarama and later Itama, died fighting, leaving Hashirama with his remaining brother, Tobirama. This event made him decide that a new shinobi system would need to be implemented to end the cycle of child deaths, a system that would require an alliance between the Senju and Uchiha.
Hashirama did not approve of the practice of sending children to fight and die in the battlefield, believing it would only increase the bitterness between the Senju and Uchiha, thus causing more deaths.
Madara was also born during the Warring States Period, and was the eldest of Tajima Uchiha's five sons. Madara and his brothers grew up on the battlefield waging constant war with the Uchiha's rivals: the Senju. Three of his brothers died young, leaving Madara with only his younger brother, Izuna. Madara and Izuna became very close through their shared loss and constantly competed with each other to get stronger. This, combined with his naturally strong chakra, enabled the young Madara to defeat adult Senju in battle and develop a reputation as a genius.
During their infrequent downtime, Hashirama and Madara met each other as children, unaware of each other's identity, at the future 'Hokage Rock'(Mountain).
Madara and Hashirama, both were shinobi who had lost their brothers on the battlefield. They quickly bonded with each other over their shared losses, their desires to protect their remaining siblings and developed a friendly rivalry between themselves, be it skipping stones or urinating in rivers, with Hashirama typically winning their contests.
Together they imagined a world where children like themselves wouldn't need to fight and where their brothers would be safe from harm.
As a precaution, Hashirama and Madara did not divulge their family names, but nevertheless discovered each other's identities: Hashirama was a Senju, Madara was an Uchiha; thus it was their duty to kill each other.
Hashirama set this duty aside, unwilling to take his friend's life. Madara, however, needing to choose between his family and his dreams of peace, chose to end his friendship with Hashirama so he would have no reservations over killing him in the future, a resolve strong enough to awaken his Sharingan, declaring that their dreams of a peaceful world were impossible.
Over the following years Hashirama and Madara continued to meet in combat. Hashirama could never bring himself to kill someone he still considered a friend, and Madara could never defeat Hashirama's superior abilities, resulting in a constant stalemate between the two that lasted decades. In time, both Madara and Hashirama became leaders of their respective clans, a position Hashirama tried to use to broker peace between the Uchiha and Senju clan.
2-1 BHV: End of the Warring States Period.
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Under Hashirama's leadership and extraordinary ninja prowess, the Senju began to best the Uchiha Clan until at one point Hashirama had both Madara and Izuna at his mercy.
However, unable to find the resolve to kill his childhood friend, Hashirama tried to convince Madara to unite their two clans to make their childhood dreams a reality.
A mortally wounded Izuna convinced Madara otherwise and they retreated, prompting Hashirama to send a cease-fire request. Although some Uchiha found the offer increasingly tempting, Madara was unwilling to accept after Tobirama killed his last remaining brother, Izuna. This did not stop some Uchiha from defecting to the Senju out of self-preservation.
Wracked with grief, Madara then used Izuna's eyes in order to gain "eternal" Mangekyō Sharingan and restore his deteriorating vision and with his new-found powers, he made one final stand against Hashirama and the Senju and was summarily defeated.
Tobirama attempted to kill Madara to finally end the fighting, but Hashirama stopped him, knowing that would only renew hostilities between the Senju and Uchiha. At Madara's suggestion, Hashirama offered to kill himself in order to achieve a peaceful resolution. As he was about to end his own life, Madara stopped him, moved by the gesture, and assented to peace; and formed an alliance between their respective clans.
The Senju, the Uchiha, and all their affiliated clans came together to found a village of peace, where children would never need to die in battle. Hashirama and Madara, rekindling their childhood friendship formed a hidden village/Organization/Institution. The other clans in other countries, fearful of the combined might of the Senju and Uchiha, created their own villages. Thus was the Warring States Period brought to an end, replaced by the Shinobi Organisational System of the Five Great Shinobi Countries.
1BHV - 0FYK: Founding Year of Konohagakure.
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Hashirama Conferred with the Daimyō of his land and convinced him to let the allied Shinobi clans to form a Hidden Shinobi Village, which will act as the Nation's military power under his command.
He also chose the name of his land as 'The Land of Fire', upon which their Daimyō began to known as 'Fire Daimyō' and the leader of their village as 'The Hokage'.
He created much of the village's infrastructure with his Wood Release abilities.
Madara named the Village 'Konohagakure', after seeing it through leaves, upon asked by Hashirama.
Despite Hashirama's claim that the name of the village was too simple, not imaginative at all and that Madara called it exactly as he saw it through the leaf, Hashirama still accepted the name for the Village and wished that Madara becomes the Hokage, the village's leader thus also it's protector.
But at Tobirama's insistence, the Hokage position was opened up to a vote by Konoha's villagers, and ultimately, it will be Hashirama that they will elect into the office.