How long has passed in the walking dead

Bob is eaten. Rick's group slaughters Gareth's group. Day - Group arrives at Alexandria, which will end up being their home for the foreseeable future. Day - Rick brings a walker into Alexandria to teach the residents about the realities of the new world. Drunken Pete kills Reg with Michonne's sword.

Rick executes Pete. Morgan arrives at Alexandria. Day - The Wolves attack Alexandria. Nicholas kills himself. Maggie reveals she is pregnant. Daryl is captured by Dwight and a few others we will later learn are Saviors.

Morgan imprisons a Wolf. Day - Walls collapse around Alexandria, causing walkers to breach the town. Deanna, Jessie and Sam are killed by walkers. Ron blames Rick for this, and attempts to kill him. He misses, and shoots out Carl's eye. Michonne kills Ron. Day approx - Rick and Daryl meet Jesus.

Michonne and Rick begin a relationship. Day - Jesus brings Rick's group to the Hilltop, where they meet Gregory and are told about the Saviors. Day - Maggie is rushed to Hilltop when she experiences problems with her pregnancy.

Carol is injured; strangers take her and Morgan to the Kingdom. Day - Rick's group meets Negan for the first time. Negan kills Abraham and Glenn. Daryl is taken back to the Savior's compound. Day - Carl makes his first attempt to kill Negan. He doesn't succeed, but Negan takes a shine to the kid. Daryl escapes the Saviors compound. Spencer tries to get Negan to kill Rick, but instead, Negan kills Spencer. Rosita attempts to kill Negan, but fails. Olivia is killed by one of Negan's followers. Eugene is brought to the Sanctuary, given a room, and put in charge of creating ammunition.

Day - Rick asks Ezekiel to join the fight against Negan. Ezekiel refuses, but does give Daryl sanctuary. Eugene makes suicide pills for Negan's "wives," but refuses to turn them over when he finds out they plan to use them to kill Negan. Rick meets Gabriel's kidnappers, the Scavengers. They agree to let Gabriel go in exchange for guns. Day - Tara leads a small group to Oceanside and tries to get them to fight against the Saviors. Oceanside refuses, but they do turn over their guns for the battle.

Day - Rick's group approach the Savior's compound, intent on starting war with them. Jadis and the Scavengers turn on Rick's group, saying they made a better deal with the Saviors. Negan reveals his "secret weapon," Sasha, taking delight in having turned her to his side. Instead, she took Eugene's suicide pills, so when the coffin she has been napping in opens, she is a walker and attacks.

At the last minute, the Kingdom and the Hilltop arrive and join the battle. Shiva attacks, and Negan is genuinely surprised to see they have a tiger on their side. After a bloody battle, the Saviors and the Scavengers retreat. At Jesus' insistence, the Hilltop takes some Saviors as prisoners of war.

Day - Carl encounters Siddiq in the forest again. Rick advocated for Carl to kill Siddiq, or leave him to die. Instead, the two fight walkers together. This is when Carl is bitten. Maggie locks Gregory in the POW pen. The Saviors attack Alexandria. While asking Oceanside to help fight the Saviors, Enid kills their leader.

Henry kills a Savior in retaliation for his brother Benjamin's murder. Day - Carl opts to kill himself before he can turn.

Simon kills all the Scavengers except for Jadis, who hides. Rick and Negan fight; neither wins, but Jadis takes Negan captive. Maggie meets Georgie's group, who gives her the instructions for changing the world. The Saviors attack Hilltop with weapons soaked in walker blood. Jadis releases Negan. Day - Rick has the chance to kill Negan, but attempting to honor Carl's wishes, Rick takes him prisoner instead. This infuriates Maggie. Day approx - Fear Madison sacrifices herself to save the rest of her family.

Day - Fear Morgan is found by John, and the two are saved from a hostile group by Althea. Day - Fear A hurricane hits. Morgan decides to leave Texas and return to Alexandria.

Day - Fear This is when the decision is made that Morgan and Alicia's group will make it a point to help people. Day - Fear John and June find Dwight, still looking for his wife. Day - Fear Virginia's group shows up.

They kill Logan and invite the Caravan to join them. The Caravan declines. Day - Jadis - now going by Anne - takes Gabriel hostage and plans to turn him over to the helicopter team.

User 'Evorush' posted the above graphic onto the site earlier this week, captioning it: "I made this to bring more clarity to the timeline of the walking dead , for me, and you. So as you can see, it took less than days from the start for Rick's ragtag group of survivors to discover season three's prison, which means Jon Bernthal's Shane Walsh was killed off incredibly early in real-time. Merely days later than the prison revelation, Negan's skull-crushing introduction played out which spelled the end of the line for characters Glenn Rhee and Abraham Ford.

The most surprising thing to take from this timeline is the amount of time it took for Rick to jump from the season 1 coma and into season 9's helicopter : roughly three-and-a-half-years.

Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? Type keyword s to search. Related Story. The Walking Dead - Season At this point, zombies were already everywhere. Then, the show went back six weeks to him trying to help Lucille Hillarie Burton Morgan with her cancer treatments while also trying to keep their home safe from the walkers outside.

This confirms that the characters in the show have been fighting for their lives against the zombies between 12 and 13 years now. Up until now, it was a bit more open to interpretation. The biggest clues were found by looking at the aging of characters like Carl, and adding up all the specified time skips that have transpired thus far. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Montevallo, and is the author of the psychological thriller and time travel novel, "A Man Against the World.