From Full Metal Alchemist d20

>This is a rough timeline of the known history of Amestris and the world of Full Metal Alchemist.

Since the manga provides many more details, this is the manga timeline, though points where the anime differs are noted.

Actual years obtained from educated inferences and dates given in the manga.

Years in italics are uncertain, need citation/reference, or are not given, on purpose, by the author (he likes to do that).

Year	Manga Event	Anime Difference
Before Recorded History	"Sage of the West" visits Xing. "Sage of the East" visits Amestris. The People of Xerxes Vanish. Trade routes between Amestris and Xing are disrupted. The humonculi are created by Father in the order of Pride, Lust, Greed, Envy, Sloth, Gluttony.	No mention of the Sages. The City of Xerxes is destroyed. Homonculi are created by Dante. Pride and Sloth are not created yet.
~1800	Greed disassociates himself from Father.	Greed disassociates himself from Dante.
~1850	Wrath is created.	Pride is created.
~1895	Bradly is appointed to the office of Fuhrer. Amestris begins waring with bordering countries; gaining territory while doing so.	No difference.
1897	Winry's Parents Marry. Izumi Fails at Human Transmutation.	Izumi is also the former student of Dante.
1899	Ed is born. (January~ February) Winry is born. Ling is born.	Ling does not exist.
1900	Alphonse is born. (Month Unknown)	No changes.
1901	The "Ishbal Rebellion" begins.	No changes.
~190X	Van Hohenheim leaves his family in Resembool.	About the same.
~190X	Ed and Al begin Studying Alchemy.	About the same.
~1904	Trisha Elric dies.	About the same.
1908	State Alchemists are brought to the front lines, beginning the "Ishbal Massacre". Winry's parents are killed. Ed and Al train under Izumi Curtis.	Exactly the same.
1909	Ed and Al attempt human transmutation to resurrect their mother. Roy Mustang invites the boys to apply for the State Alchemist Program. Ed is equipped with an automail right arm and left leg.	Exactly the same.
1910	October 3rd - Ed and Al burn down their home and leave Resembool. Ed takes the State Alchemist exam and the brothers begin searching for the Philosopher's Stone.	Ed meets Shou Tucker and studies for the State Alchemist exam at his residence. Scar shows up and kills Nina after she is transmuted into a chimera.
1913	The Elric brothers depose Father Cornello in Lior. Envy assumes his role in disguise. The brothers give the Youswell coal mine back to the miners. First Lieutenant Yoki is discharged from the military. Scar Begins killing State Alchemists, his first victims are Shou Tucker, the Sewing-Life Alchemist, and the chimera made from Nina Tucker.	Scar and Tucker happened before everything else, and Tucker is still alive.
1914	Rebellion breaks out in Lior and is crushed by the military in the "Lior Massacre."

See the discussion page for other events which are particularly important to place in the timeline.

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