Timeline

An official timeline of Haikyū!! was released in the 6-7th issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump’s 2020 series. This timeline provides a general outline of the events that took place from Volume 1 Chapter 1 to Volume 43 Chapter 379. It confirms that majority of the series took place during 2012 - 2013 and Hinata being born in 1996.

Additional details of the exact dates of certain events that took place are gathered from the manga.

Timeline

2008

• January: Hinata (11 years old) sees the Little Giant play in the Spring Tournament on TV

2011

• May ~ : Hinata (14 years old) plays Kageyama for the first time during his last official volleyball match in middle school

2012

• April: Hinata enrolls in Karasuno and finds Kageyama there
  • Practice match with Aoba Johsai High
• May: Practice match with Nekoma High
• June: Karasuno loses to Aoba Johsai in the third round of the Interhigh Preliminaries
  • Hinata turns 16 years old
• July: Tokyo training camp
• August: Spring National Tournament Miyagi Prefecture Qualifying Rounds
  • Karasuno vs. Ohgiminami High and Kakugawa High.
• October 25-27: Miyagi Prefecture Spring Tournament Qualifiers
  • Karasuno vs. Johzenji High, Wakutani Minami High, Aoba Johsai High, and Shiratorizawa Academy
• December: All-Japan Youth Training Camp and Miyagi Prefecture First Years Training Camp
  • Practice match with Date Tech High School
  • Kageyama turns 16 years old

2013

• January:
  • 4th: Karasuno leaves for Tokyo ^[1]
  • 5th: Karasuno vs. Tsubakihara Academy
  • 6th: Karasuno vs. Inarizaki High
  • 7th: Karasuno vs. Nekoma High and loses to Kamomedai High in the Spring Tournament quarterfinals
  • 8th: Fukurōdani Academy vs. Inubushi Higashi High School and Ichibayashi High vs Kamomedai in the Spring Tournament semi-finals
  • 9th: Ichibayashi beats Fukurōdani in the Final of Spring Tournament
• June: Karasuno loses to Date Tech High in the final rounds of the Miyagi Prefecture Interhigh Qualifier
  • Hinata turns 17 years old
• October: Karasuno earns a ticket to the Spring Tournament

2014

• January: Karasuno loses to Inarizaki High in the third round of the Spring Tournament
• October: Karasuno qualifies for the next Spring Tournament

2015

• January: Karasuno loses to Itachiyama Institute in the semifinals and places third nationally
• March: Hinata and the others in the same year graduate
• April: Kageyama enters the V.League
• October: Kageyama's first V.League season

2016

• April: Hinata goes to Brazil
• June: Hinata encounters Oikawa in Brazil
  • Hinata turns 20 years old
• July: Kageyama makes his debut at the Olympics

2017

• October ~: Hinata teams up with Heitor as a beach volleyball duo
• December ~: Hinata and Heitor play their last match together.

2018

• March: Hinata returns to Japan
• November 17th^[2]: Hinata faces off against Kageyama in the V.League
  • MSBY Black Jackals vs Schweiden Adlers

2019

• Spring ~: Hinata, Kageyama, Kunimi, and Kindaichi meet up in Sendai to play beach volleyball^[3]

2021

• July: 2020 Tokyo Olympics Women's Volleyball Day 4
  • Japan vs Serbia

• August: 2020 Tokyo Olympics Men's Volleyball Day 12
  • Japan vs Argentina

2022

• August 14: All Star Special Match
• Autumn ~: FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championships: Finals
  • Ali Roma vs Asas São Paulo

Notes

• In the Japanese version, the date on Hirugami's phone indicates that the Black Jackals and Schweiden Adlers game took place on Saturday, November 17^th, 2018. The English version mistakenly changes the date to November 11^th. This is presumably an error since November 11^th, 2018 was a Sunday.
• The Spring 2019 beach volleyball game was revealed in a special chapter created for the Haikyū!! Exhibition, entitled Promises 2.

References