Timeline
The Timeline of Angel's life is long and complex, here I have touched on the
big moments and those of his 'family' that had a direct bearing on events in
his life.
- 1609 - Darla, a prostitute, is sired by the Master on her death bed
in the Virginia Colonies {Darla}
- 1727 - Liam is born in Galway, Ireland to a linen and silk merchant.
{The Prodigal}
- 1753 - Liam meets Darla, a vampire, and is turned. {Becoming Part
1}
- 1753 - Liam rises from the grave, his first kill is the cemetery's
groundskeeper. {The Prodigal}
- 1753 - Liam kills his family, friends and the rest of his village,
he takes the name Angelus, after his sister Kathy mistakes him for an Angel.
{The Prodigal}
- 1753-1760 - Angelus eats his way through Ireland, South Wales and
Northern England. Declares Yorkshire men are tough as leather. {Darla}
- 1760 - Angelus meets Darla's sire, The Master, proceeds to royally
piss him off and convince Darla to continue their bloody holiday throughout
Europe. {Darla}
- 1764 - Angelus and Darla kill a vampire hunter (Daniel Holtz)'s family
in York, England, turning his daughter Sarah. {Quickening, Lullaby}
- 1765 - After visiting Italy, staying at the finest hotels and eating
the staff, Angelus and Darla travel to France, followed by Holtz, who traps
them in a barn where Darla clobbers Angelus with a 2x4 and leaves him, while
she escapes with their horse. {The Trial}
- 1765-1767 - Angelus catches up with Darla in Vienna, and makes her
pay and pay for deserting him. Can you imagine the things they did? Not if
you're in love. They later eat a troubadour in Madrid. {Heartthrob}
- 1767 - Angelus and Darla visit Marseilles, France with young vampires
in love James and Elizabeth. Angelus has a short meeting with Holtz, tells
him where Darla is and ends up with numerous arrows in him, whining about
always being left for dead. {Heartthrob}
- 1767-1771 - Angelus and Darla lose Holtz somewhere in North Africa,
Morrocco is given as a possible destination. {Heartthrob, Offspring}
- 1771 - Holtz catches Angelus in Rome, Darla comes to his rescue,
they don't kill Holtz, because he's like family, it's more fun to let him
suffer. {Offspring}
- 1773 - Holtz stops chasing Darla and Angelus after making a pact
with the demon Sahjan.{Dad}
- 1786 - Angelus sires a Puritan named Penn, teaching him the do's
of Vampirism, like carving a cross into the cheek of your victim and killing
your family as soon as you rise. {Somnabulist}
- 1789 - Angelus gets sidetracked on his way to Vienna, ends up eating
pastry-filled Prussian girls and meeting the Beast. {Soulless}
- 1838 - Angelus spends Christmas playing cards in Dublin, Ireland,
eats those that end up owing him money, including a man named Daniel who was
to be married the same week. {Amends}
- 1845 - Angelus visits a little town outside of Tuscany and meets
a forgettable vampire named Rosaria. {Salvage}
- 1850's-1860's - Angelus meets the French poet Baudelaire, and possibly
the painter Monet. Angel implies Le Vampyr may have been written about him.
{She}
- 1860 - Angelus meets Drusilla in London, England, he later kills
her family, drives her insane and turns her on the same night she takes her
vows as a nun. {Dear Boy}
- 1880 - Drusilla meets William in London, a man scorned by a vengeance
demon named Halfrek, under the guise of a noblewoman, Cecily, William let's
Drusilla sire him. {Fool For Love, Darla}
- 1880 - The Royal London Hotel - A newly turned William meets Angelus
for the first time. Angelus says he is looking forward to a male traveling
comapanion and asks if that makes him some sort of deviant. {Destiny}
- 1880 - William changes his name to Spike, in Yorkshire, after acquiring
a taste for torturing his victims with railroad spikes. He also learns what
a slayer is, after trapping the gang in a mine shaft, and nearly being staked
by Angelus. {Fool For Love}
- 1880-1898 - Angel and Spike visit St. Petersburg and Frankfurt. Exact
dates are not given. {A Hole in the World, The Girl in Question}
- 1883 - Back in London, Angelus eats a maid at a party, possibly going
to her home later and eating her son, who is home alone. {Amends}
- 1894 - Angelus and Spike, AKA William the Bloody, travel to Rome
with Darla and Drusilla. While there they are captured by the Immortal who
indulges his desires on the girls while Angelus and William are chained to
a rafter. {The Girl in Question}
- 1897 - Angelus watches the ballet, Giselle, he cries like a baby,
and he's evil. {Waiting in the Wings}
- 1897-1898 - Angelus and Darla take a trip to Budapest and do considerable
damage to a town already reeling from the effects of an earthquake. {Angel}
- 1898 - In Rumania, Darla presents Angelus with a gypsy girl for his
birthday. Her tribe takes their revenge by cursing Angelus with a soul. {Angel,
Fool For Love, Darla, Five by Five}
- 1898 - Angelus deserts Darla, Spike and Drusilla. {Fool For Love,
Darla}
- 1900 - Angelus returns to the Fearsome Foursome, but still cannot
feed on humans, due to that whole guilty conscious. He does however kill several
evil-doers. {Fool For Love, Darla}
- 1900 - Spike kills a slayer in China, during the Boxer Rebellion,
Angelus declares him 'one of us now'.{Fool For Love, Darla}
- 1900 - After saving a missionary's child from Darla, Angel again
leaves his 'family'. {Darla}
- 1902 - Angelus takes a boat to New York, because there just aren't
enough Irish on Ellis Island. {Orpheus}
- 1920's - Angel saves a puppy in Chicago, for the love of god make
it end. {Orpheus}
- 1920's - Angel fights a demon named Boone over a senorita in Juarez,
the fight lasts three and a half hours, but ends on account of sunrise and
honor. {Blood Money}
- 1930's - Angel visits Missoula, Montana, calls it 'Pretty Country",
although he admits he was depressed there. {City of...}
- 1937 - The master is trapped in a church on the Hellmouth in Sunnydale
during an earthquake. {Welcome to the Hellmouth, The Harvest}
- 1938 - Angel is in Los Angeles when news of the Columns Opera House
in Nevada being swallowed in an earthquake makes the papers. {Destiny}
- 1943 - Spike gets nabbed by the Nazi's in Madrid, he falls for the
old Free Virgin Blood Party line, he and Angel, who is nabbed in New York
by the US Government, end up on a German submarine in hostile territory. While
on the ship Angel sires a sailor named Sam Lawson.
- 1946 - Angel visits Las Vegas, plays tennis with Bugsy Segal. {The
House Always Wins}
- 1952 - Angel, now living in the Hyperion Hotel, room 217, tries to
stop a Thesulac demon and ends up getting hung by an angry mob. {Are You Now
or Have You Ever Been}
- 1960's - Angel meets the Rat Pack, once, twice, maybe three times.
Gives advice to Sammy Davis Jr. {The House Always Wins}
- 1967 - May 1st - Angel crashes Elvis and Priscilla's wedding reception
in Las Vegas, he enjoys fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches while being
drunk and surly. {The House Always Wins}
- 1967 - September - Angel attends the first taping of the Carol Burnett
show in Los Angeles. Tim Conway gets set on fire, Angel declares it special.
{Not Fade Away}
- 1969 - Spike attends the Woodstock festival, he feeds off a flower
person and spends five hours staring at his hand. {School Hard}
- 1975-76 - Angel plays Manilow on the jukebox and drowns his sorrow
in a dead cashier. Repentance is a bitch. {Orpheus}
- 1977 - Spike stalks and kills another Slayer, Nikki Wood, in New
York, stealing her leather duster when he's done. {Fool For Love, Lies My
Parents Told Me}
- 1996 - Angel meets Whistler, a balancing demon, in New York, where
he is doing his impression of the stink guy, living off rats. {Becoming Part
1}
- 1996 - Whistler takes Angel to Los Angeles, California, where he
sees the new Slayer, Buffy Summers, and falls in love, he must love vapid
teenage girls. {Becoming Part 1}
- 1997 - April 14th - Angel stakes Darla, at the Bronze. {Angel}
- 1997 or earlier - Drusilla is beaten by an angry mob in Prague. {School
Hard}
- 1997 - September 29th - Drusilla and Spike move to Sunnydale, California.
{School Hard}
- 1997 - September 29th - Spike finds the annoying one, ruins his plans
for the night of St. Vigious, gets hit in the head with an axe by Joyce Summers,
then puts the anointed one into a cage and hoists him into the sun. {School
Hard}
- 1997 - November 7th - Spike sires Billy Fordham, Buffy's 5th grade
crush, Buffy kills him the second he rises. {Lie to Me}
- 1997 - November 17th - Spike kidnaps Angel and lets Drusilla give
him a holy water bath. {What's My Line Part 2}
- 1997 - November 24th - Spike ties a topless Angel to Drusilla during
a ritual to restore Drusilla's strength. When it's done Buffy drops a pipe
organ on them both. Drusilla and Spike, now in a wheelchair, spend the Christmas
holiday collecting pieces of the Judge. Nothing says I love you like a leg
in a box. {What's My Line Part 2, Surprise, Innocence}
- 1998 - January 19th - Angel and Buffy do the horizontal mambo, Angel
loses his soul, reverting to Angelus. {Surprise, Innocence}
- 1998 - January 20th - Angelus joins Spike, Drusilla and the judge
in trying to destroy the world, or at least the Sunnydale shopping Mall. Buffy
kicks him in the nay-nays for his trouble. {Innocence}
- 1998 - January 27th - Angelus sires Theresa, Buffy's friend from
school. Xander later stakes her. {Phases}
- 1998 - February 14th - Spike gives Drusilla a necklace for Valentine's
Day, Angelus gives her a still-warm heart he found in a quaint little shopgirl.
{Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered}
- 1998 - February 24th - Angelus snaps Jenny Calendar's neck after
she tries to find a spell to restore his soul. He then props her up in Giles's
bed as a present. {Passion}
- 1998 - February 25th - Angelus, Spike and Drusilla move into the
Crawford Street mansion. {I Only Have Eyes For You}
- 1998 - April 28th - Angelus and Buffy are possessed by the spirits
of dead lovers. Buffy shoots him, drops him off a balcony and then makes-out
with him until the spell is broken. Angelus goes home and exfoliates till
he bleeds, then goes toddler hunting with Drusilla. {I Only Have Eyes for
You}
- 1998 - May 12th - Angelus tries to bring forth the demon Acathla,
when he fails he sends Drusilla to kidnap Giles, she kills Kendra the Slayer
in the process. {Becoming Parts 1 &2}
- 1998 - May 19th - Angelus tortures Giles, Spike allies himself with
Buffy to stop Angelus from revoking his free happy meal card. Buffy invites
Spike into her house, he then goes to the mansion to watch Drusilla drool
on Giles. {Becoming Part 2}
- 1998 - May 20th - Angelus and Buffy fight, Spike miraculously suffocates
Drusilla, who has no need for air, and drives off in the DeSoto with her,
Willow restores Angel's soul shortly after he releases Acathla. Buffy then
gives him a goodbye kiss and a sword through the gut, sending him to Hell.
Sweet girl. {Becoming Part 2}
- 1998 - Drusilla and Spike go to Brazil, where she leaves him for
a chaos demon, all slime and antlers. {Lover's Walk, Fool for Love}
- 1998 - October 13th - Angel comes back to Sunnydale, naked, after
a thousand years in hell, darn inter dimensional time fluxes. {Faith, Hope,
and Trick}
- 1998 - October 20th - Buffy sees Angel for the first time, chains
him up like old times, then lets him break a murderer's neck. {Beauty and
the Beasts}
- 1998 - December 15th - Angel is visited by an evil known as the First,
he sees the ghosts of his past kills, visits Giles and decides that he must
try to make amends for his past evils. {Amends}
- 1999 - February 16th - Angel fools Faith the Slayer into thinking
he has lost his soul by wearing her as a necktie. {Enemies}
- 1999 - May 11th - Angel breaks up with Buffy, then shows up at her
prom in a dashing tux just to twist the knife. {The Prom}
- 1999 - May 18th - Faith shoots Angel with a poisonous arrow. {Graduation
Day Part 1}
- 1999 - July 13th - Angel drinks Buffy to rid his body of the poison.
{Graduation Day Part 2}
- 1999 - Angel moves to Los Angeles to become a private detective and
brood. {City of...}
- 1999 - October 5th - Angel meets Doyle, a Bracken demon who gets
visions, he decides to fight for the Powers that Be what?( they be what?).
He also hires a starving actress, that's Queen C to those who aren't paying
attention, to scream when she sees cockroaches. {City of...}
- 1999 - October 5th - Angel meets Lindsey McDonald, look ma two hands.
{City of...}
- 1999 - October 20th - Spike comes to LA in search of the Gem of Amara,
and has his vampire friend Marcus torture Angel for a day. {In the Dark}
- 1999 - November 23rd - Angel and Spike visit Giles, not together
though, Angel ends up hiding in the shadows, Spike ends up tied to a chair
doing his best impression of a pin cushion. {Pangs}
- 1999 - November 23rd - Buffy follows Angel back to LA, where he is
cut by a Mohra demon, making him mortal for a day, which he spends in the
sun with Buffy, and in the bedroom making love to the contents of his refrigerator,
he decides to give up his mortality to fight evil. {I Will Remember You}
- 2000 - Jan. 18th - Penn is killed by Kate Lockley, who stakes Angel
at the same time, but misses his heart, on purpose of course. {Somnambulist}
- 2000 - May 9th - Angel comes to Sunnydale to beat up Buffy's boyfriend
Riley. {The Yoko Factor}
- 2000 - May 23rd - Darla is brought back to life, as a human, by Wolfram
& Hart. She is, however, dying of Syphilis, the only contraception in
her day being a beaver skin and a bungee cord. {To Shanshu in LA}
- 2000 - October 24th - Angel sees Darla alive for the first time.
{First Impressions}
- 2000 - November 21st - Angel drinks from Kate Lockley, under the
spell of the Shroud of Rahmon. {The Shroud of Rahmon}
- 2000 - November 28th - Lindsey McDonald invites Angel into his apartment.
He and Angel look at medical records, Angel later lets himself be stabbed,
burned by crosses and Holy water, then staked to cure Darla's syphilis. He
lives but it doesn't work. {The Trial}
- 2000 - November 28th - Drusilla sires Darla. {The Trial}
- 2000 - December 19th - Darla rises, cuts a bloody swath through LA
and kills 13 lawyers at Holland Manners's home, with help from Drusilla. {Reunion}
- 2000 - December 19th - Angel fires Wesley, Cordelia & Gunn, after
locking the lawyers in a wine cellar with Darla and Dru. {Reunion}
- 2001 - January 16th - Angel sets Darla & Drusilla on fire. {Redefinition}
- 2001 - February 20th - Angel throws Darla through a glass door then
has sex with her three times. Third time being a charm, she leaves pregnant.
{Reprise}
- 2001 - May 21st - Buffy jumps into an interdimensionional rift to
save the world, drama queen. {The Gift}
- 2001 - May-September 24th - Angel goes to a monastery in Sri Lanka
to work out his Buffy issues, the monastery turns out to be run by soul sucking
demons, he fights his way out, makes note to self, white robes look better
in the catalog. {Heartthrob}
- 2001 - September 25th - Darla goes to Puerto Cabazas, Nicaragua looking
for a shaman, life being full of surprises, she's got a bun in the oven. The
shaman tells her no man can know what is in her, it is not meant to be known.
{Heartthrob, That Vision Thing}
- 2001 - November 5th - Darla shows up in LA at Angel's hotel, very
pregnant and very mad. {Offspring}
- 2001 - November 5th - Holtz awakens from a deep sleep that lasted
about 240 years. Then watches a lot of television. {Offspring}
- 2001 - November 19th - Connor, Angel & Darla's son, is born,
when Darla stakes herself in an alley outside Caritas. {Lullaby}
- 2002 - March 6th - Holtz kidnaps Connor and jumps into a dimensional
tear to QuorToth. {Sleep Tight}
- 2002 - April 29th - Connor returns from the Quor-Toth dimension,
bent on killing Angel. {The Price}
- 2002 - May 20th - Angel and Cordelia realize they are in love just
in time for Cordy to go become a 'higher being' and Connor to trap Angel in
a box and drop him to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. {Tomorrow}
- 2002 - May 21st - Spike goes to Africa and has his soul restored
by a demon shaman. {Seeing Red, Two to Go, Grave}
- 2002 - Oct. 6th - Wesley rescues Angel from his box with an ocean
view and even gives him some fine UK import blood, fresh from the tap. {Deep
Down}
- 2002 - Oct. 20th - Angel returns to Las Vegas, laments that it was
a much nicer place when it was run by the mob. {The House Always Wins}
- 2002 - Nov. 17th - Angel fights a beast that rose from the earth
exactly where Connor was born, he then watches through a window as Connor
mates with Mrs. Robinson, I mean, uh, Cordelia. {Apocalypse, Nowinsh, AKA
Rain of Fire}
- 2002 - Nov. 26th - The First kidnaps Spike, makes him hang around
with his shirt off and uses his blood to bring forth a prehistoric vampire.
{Never Leave Me}
- 2003 - Jan. 29th - Angelus is awakened by the well meaning crew of
Angel Investigations. Oops, the best laid plans... {Awakenings}
- 2003 - Feb. 5th - Angelus escapes from his cage, can you say Duh?
{Calvary}
- 2003 - March 19th - Angelus gets stuffed back in the bottle after
feeding on Faith the Vampire Slayer and having a highly amusing trip to his
own personal hell. {Orpheus}
- 2003 - April 2nd - Angel becomes a grandpa and a meat puppet on the
same day, no really, you had to be there. {Inside Out}
- 2003 - April 16th - Angel takes a bullet and loses the thrall of
the new grand-baby latina-woman evil-thingy. {The Magic Bullet}
- 2003 - April 30th - Angel watches said grandchild die by Connor's
hand, it's okay, stop crying. {Peace Out}
- 2003 - May 7th - Connor goes off to live with a nuclear family, ahem,
vomit, I mean good on 'im. {Home}
- 2003 - May 7th - Angel finally gets that corner office with eastern
exposure he's always wanted. {Home, Convictions}
- 2003 - May 13th - Angel steps into some of Sunnydale's fabulous lighting
and the Slayer is attracted to his lips like a 5,000 volt magnet. Too bad
Spike is watching in the shadows when this happens. {End of Days, Chosen}
- 2003 - May 20th - Spike sacrifices himself to close the Hellmouth.
Notice the absence of fat ladies singing. {Chosen}
- 2003 - October 1st - Angel takes up residence as CEO of Wolfram &
Hart, address 1127 Spring Street, Suite #666, Los Angeles, CA 90008. {Convictions}
- 2003 - October 1st - After being mailed to Angel, Spike mysteriously
emerges from the Amulet he wore in Chosen, as a ghost of sorts. Angel also
says he has no problem spanking men and doesn't argue when he is called a
fairy. {Convictions}
- 2003 - October 8th - Spike calls Angel Beefcake, calls himself Angel's
date, and says he's glad they're back together again. Let the slash begin.
{Just Rewards}
- 2003 - October 22nd - Angel admits he liked Spike's Poetry after
Spike compares the two of them to Stills and Nash, Chico and the Man, and
Hope and Crosby. Spike also learns how to manipulate objects around him, even
in his ghost-like state. {Hellbound}
- 2003 - October 31st - Angel has sex with Eve, yes it was frightening,
but guess what, soul entact. This bodes quite well for our hero. {Life of
the Party}
- 2003 - November 19th - Spike gets his Corporeal back on thanks to
a flash in the box he receives from Lindsey McDonald. The first think he does
is screw Harmony. The second thing he does is beat Angel in a fight for the
very first time. {Destiny}
- 2004 - January 27th - Dana the Vampire Slayer cuts Spike's hands
off, Spike later tells Angel that he is only not flipping him off because
of the drugs. {Damage}
- 2004 - February 4th - After an out of body experience Angel's long
time friend, Cordelia, becomes the second casualty in his battle for redemption.
{You're Welcome}
- 2004 - February 11th - Lawson comes to LA looking for Angel and a
reason to exist, Angel kills him. {Why We Fight}
- 2004 - February 18th - Angel is turned into a puppet, complete with
Vamp Face, I used to be a bad ass vampire and now I'm just a big fluffy puppet...I'll
stop now. In related news Spike and Puppet!Angel wrestle and wind up in an
elevator. Spike loses but Angel gives him a car as a condolence gift. *sigh*
{Smile Time}
- 2004 - February 25th - Spike and Angel return to England to seek
out the Deeper Well, Angel meets Drogan, an old friend and tells Spike that
has never seen Les Mis. Angel also tells Spike he thought he would have forgotten
their time in St. Petersburg, a date is not given. {A Hole in the World}
- 2004 - May 5th - Angel and Spike take another trip to Rome, this
time seeking out Buffy, but once again finding the Immortal has been fornicating
with their woman. {The Girl in Question}
- 2004 - May 12th - Angel becomes a member of the Circle of the Black
Thorn, Spike tells Illyria that he and Angel were 'Intimate" once. Yes
kids, that's a declartion of Spangel as canon. I have my closing argument.
{Power Play}
- 2004 - May 19th - Angel and co. take out the members of the CotBT,
in the process Wesley is killed and Gunn mortally wounded. Gathering in the
alley just north of the Hyperion Hotel, Angel, Spike, Illyria, and Gunn face
off against an army sent by the Senior Partners. Their fate is currently unknown.
{Not Fade Away}