#ml timeline

November 20th, 2000

Compiling it because i thought it was interesting. Tagging under spoilers because there is mentions from S5.

15 years ago (to even longer)

Gabriel starts his search to seek magical treasures that can grant him power. Has done some bad deeds in his search such as referenced in Shanghai. Eventually on this quest he partners up with Nathalie and Emílie, two friends that were already on a similar quest but not exactly for power. The three work well together.

In Between (unknown years)

Emílie and Gabriel become significantly closer. They eventually marry. Nathalie decides to work for both of them.

Tibet 1 (unknown years)

Gabriel and Emílie take a solo (anniversary?) trip to Tibet. It is unknown if it was to search for a specific treasure or just for pleasure. In this trip Gabriel finds the miraculous, something he may have already been searching for as soon as he learned about it as implied by Emílie (ref: S5 and Secrets). In his possession he now has the book, the peacock and the butterfly miraculous. The two return from their tripped as of now well.

Backyard Date (unknown years)

Emílie and Gabriel have a picnic in their home in which Gabriel gifts her with the peacock miraculous. Emílie happily accepts. Things seem well

The start of the End (unknown years)

Emílie and Gabriel have (or are going to have) a son and things seem to be going well, however Gabriel has become obsessed with finding out more about these miraculous he now has. Whether they knew if it was broken or not already, they both agreed Emílie was to use the peacock miraculous to achieve something (ref: Miraculous Secrets: Gabriel). Here is where I’m personally speculating based on what was revealed so far: It is possible that Gabriel loved what the miraculous did that his obsession heightened to find the rest and see what they could do for him and his search for power. Emílie did not like this sudden obsession her husband had. Whether she continued to use the peacock miraculous to help him search (or create a Senti kid) or stop his obsession is unknown as of mid S5. It is confirmed in the Secrets web series she was actively using it and in S5 that Gabriel was already obsessed before S1 began.

Extra Lore: It is also known that Emílie was a stubborn and rebellious person (Adrien gets this from her). It could also be a possibility she used the miraculous without Gabriel knowing, but whether this is true is also still unknown.

1 year before S1 start: Tibet 2

Emílie has fallen severely ill as a result of her use of the miraculous. Adrien has started to notice his mother hasn’t been doing well but does not know why. The Agreste family starts to slowly crumble as we know it. Emílie has begged Gabriel to stop his search for the rest of the jewels but he is not budging, instead he had become occupied with searching for a cure for her. Both Gabriel and Emílie return to Tibet to seek how to heal her but come out empty handed (as the temple is gone). Knowing she’s at the end of her illness, Emilie leaves Nathalie requests through a hotel in Tibet to get him to stop his obsessive search and worry about what they have left, Adrien. Emílie and Gabriel return from Tibet and Emilie shortly falls into a coma.

Gabriel requests that her videos she left behind be deleted and during her coma, takes the opportunity to chamber her body in a stasis pod in his basement until he can find a way to permanently cure her. A funeral is held and she is pronounced dead publicly. Colt Fathom also mysteriously dies around this time due to events unknown to the viewers as of now, but the Agrestes do not attend his funeral.

S1 Start: Origins

It’s been about a year since Emílie has been absent from their lives, but Gabriel still has this drive to undo his mistakes that led her in the basement. He’s now a cold distant man and it is implied he and his son have grown apart. In his new cold state, he uses the butterfly miraculous to seek answers. (It is unknown if he did anything else during the year Emílie has first been absent). This is when Nooroo reveals that uniting the Cat and Ladybug miraculous will grant a wish. Gabriel now has a new obsession with the miraculous, and rather than finding them, it is now to get these two miraculous to grant a wish where his wife is well (or so it seems). Nathalie missing Emílie as much as Gabriel, decides to help him on this new quest and to do whatever it takes to achieve this. The show as we know it begins.

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Like, my theory (based on setting) is that all of what's happened so far has been over the course of 2 years, with Origins taking place on the first day of 4ème (Year 9/8th grade). Félix, Befana, and the Chat Blanc fight would take place in late 4ème/the summer between 4ème and 3ème. Miracle Queen would also be set during that summer, as well as the first few episodes of S4.

4ème for them would start in 2014, with Adrien turning 13 then because he's supposedly born sometime in September/October, and Marinette turns 14 in summer of 2015, which fits with her being a Snake (born in 2001).

The thing that could potentially mess this up is the mention of a 3ème History book in Pharaoh, which is obviously one of the first episodes. Easy solution: Françoise Dupont is literally the only school in Paris who uses that book. Who's to say that it wasn't ordered specially to get a headstart on the 3ème History content?

Following my logic, Ladybug has to be set at the end of the 4ème school year, as it has to be set before S4, and in my mind, that's 3ème. And yet, mock brevets are mentioned, so shouldn't it be set in 3ème, pushing everything back a bit? Not necessarily! Mock brevet aren't official at all, if I remember correctly (I personally haven't taken the brevet so I'm definitely not an expert), I think they're just exams that have a similar organisation, so... Who's to say FD doesn't organise one in late 4ème, to give the kids an idea of what it's like?

These explanations are (in my mind at least) plausible, in regard of the French system and it being an AU (Pharaohs aren't studied in 4ème, which is more 18th-19th cent. or 3ème, which focused on the 20th cent.)

The English dub makes things complicated for literally no reason:

A. they mention 10th grade, which is 2nde in France, so makes no sense (even if the collège Françoise Dupont could also be a lycée, names are weird here, it's not because a school is named one way that it doesn't have other levels, see the lycée Carnot)

B. They put a real date in Feast, setting it in 2016, as the Guardian Temple reappeared "172 years" after having "disappeared in 1844". You have to listen closely to the French dub to figure out what Clara Contard is saying, but although the 172 years part is kept, the second part is actually "mid-19th century", which realistically englobes any year between 1840-1860.

So I’m working on a few Miraculous Ladybug fan fictions and wanted to create a timeline of the show so I know what order to write episodes in/reference akumas in the right order and OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SHOW. 

At this point I’ve gone through like four different timelines sources and wrote down information and that but none of it matches up, a lot of it is guess work and I’m honestly sure the creators don’t even know what order the episodes are suppose to go in.

This is what I have so far. I started with season 3 and worked my way back. I got fed up with season 1 and just ended up shoving things together since it was 2:45am .

The thing is, I know none of them are really right since different sources said different things so now I’m going to have to re-watch/skim the episodes in the order I put them and see if it works or not and see what I have to move. The thing is, in some cases it makes more sense that the seasons are over two school years but one source says it’s all during one school year so I’m going to have to make two timelines

I’ll share with the timelines with you when I finish them if any of you want to use it as a reference and don't want to slowly go insane like I am right now.