season 3 episode 02
c. 743
the titans appear suddenly and drive humanity to near extinction. the last remnants of humanity find refuge behind three gigantic walls : maria, rose and sina.
c. 780 - 785
a young homeless orphan is taken into a cult and given the name "ymir".
the cult, including ymir, are arrested and turned into mindless titans as punishment.
november 3rd, 834
Armin arlelt is born.
eren jaeger is born.
mikasa ackermann is born.
february 10th, 835
march 30th, 835
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armin shows a book about the outside world to eren.
events of the "no regrets part 1" and "no regrets part 2" ovas : levi joins the scout regiment.
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Mikasa’s parents are murdered and she gets abducted by human traffickers. She is saved by Eren and taken into the jaeger family.
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within one or a few days before the fall of wall maria
as a mindless titan roaming outside wall maria, ymir eats marcel, who was a comrade of reiner, bertholdt and annie. she later wakes up back as human.
grisha jaeger finds his son eren and gives him the key to the basement of their house. he also gives him an injection that apparently gives him the power to turn into a titan and causes memory loss.
day of the fall of wall maria
The scout regiment comes back from an exterior scouting mission.
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The outer gate of Shiganshina District is breached by the colossal titan, allowing the other titans to enter. eren's mother gets eaten. the gate of wall maria is breached by the armored titan. eren swears to exterminate every titans. the refugees of shiganshina are evacuated to trost district.
1 day after the fall of wall maria
eren wakes up with mikasa and Armin, feeling as though he met his father the last night, but brushes it off as a dream.
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sasha braus has an argument with her father about their way of life.
eren, mikasa and armin join the 104th cadet corps in order to become soldiers.
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To avoid a food shortage, the monarchy sends 20% of the human population on an expedition to retake Wall Maria. Only a hundred people come back alive. Armin’s grandfather dies in this expedition.
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Events of the "distress" ova : During a wilderness training exercise, Christa Lenz is nearly captured by bandits. The cadets team up to take down her captors.
Events of the "a sudden visitor : the torturous curse of adolescence" ova : In order to settle an argument among cadets Jean Kirschtein and Sasha Braus, Garrison Commander Dot Pyxis hosts a cook-off.
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during their training in snowy mountains, christa lenz and ymir make a promise : when ymir reveals her secret to everyone, christa will have to live with her real name again.
events of the "ilse's notebook"
ova : during the 34th expedition beyond the walls, a soldier named ilse langnar records her encounter with a strange abnormal titan in a notebook.
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events of the "ilse's notebook"
ova : the scout regiment finds ilse's notebook during the 49th expedition beyond the walls.
1 day before the battle for trost
Graduation ceremony of the 104th cadet Corps.
the scout regiment halt their expedition as they notice titans heading to trost district together. suspecting the gate may have been breached, they head back to trost.
day of the battle for trost
the scout regiment goes on the 56th expedition beyond the walls.
The Colossal Titan breaches the gate of Trost District and the Titans invade, sparking the beginning of the Battle for Trost. amidst the battle, eren discovers he has the power to turn into a titan.
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Eren uses his newfound power to plug the broken gate of Trost District with a large boulder.
1 day after the battle for trost
All Titans trapped inside of the Trost District are killed. 2 Titans are captured and taken into the Scout Regiment’s custody for studies.
2 days after the battle for trost
The bodies of the fallen soldiers in Trost District are retrieved by the Garrison Corps and the Training Corps. Jean Kirschtein finds Marco Bott’s corpse.
as the retrieved bodies are incinerated, jean thinks back to marco's words. he decides he'll take his responsibilities by joining the scout regiment.
within 5 days after the battle for trost
eren wakes up chained in a dungeon and is greeted by erwin smith and levi.
eren is put on trial to decide which faction of the military will take custody of him. his custody is eventually given to the scout regiment but will be given to the military police if the scout regiment doesn't bring substantial results in its next expedition.
6 days after the battle for trost
eren joins the scout regiment under the supervision of the special operation squad (squad levi) and is relocated into the old scout regiment headquarters within wall rose where experiments with his titan powers will be conducted within the next month.
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Hange discusses her experiments on the captured titans with eren until the next morning.
7 days after the battle for trost
the two captured titans in custody of the Scouts Regiment are found dead. An equipment inspection for all the new recruits is held. Armin notices that annie presented marco's gear.
enlistment ceremony : 21 trainees from the 104th cadet Corps join the Scout Regiment. Annie Leonhardt joins the Military Police Brigade.
within 1 month after the enlistment ceremony
eren experiments with his titan form under hange zoe's supervision. they discover he needs to have a proper goal in mind while he's injured to transform.
1 month after the enlistment ceremony and 1 day before the 57th scouting mission
Events of the OVAs “Lost Girls : Goodbye, Wall Sina Part 1” and “Lost Girls : Goodbye, Wall Sina Part 2” : Annie distracts herself from her anxiety by searching for Carly Stratmann, the missing daughter of a Stohess merchant.
day of the 57th scouting mission
the scout regiment departs for the 57th exterior scouting mission from calaneth district in direction of shiganshina district.
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a female titan appears from the right flank in order to capture eren and is led into a forest of giant trees where erwin smith was waiting to capture her but she manages to escape.
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the female titan kills all of the special operation squad excepted levi and fights eren in his titan form. she manages to capture him but eren is retrieved by levi teaming up with mikasa. levi injures his leg amidst the fight.
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the scout regiment is forced to abandon the operation and retreat to calaneth district.
1 day after the 57th scouting mission
new scout regiment recruits from the 104th cadet corps suspected to hide potential allies of annie leonhardt are kept in a building in the south of wall rose under supervision of miche zacharias.
Annie Leonhardt is identified as the most likely true identity of the Female Titan by the Scout Regiment and plans are made to capture her in Stohess District.
2 days after the 57th scouting mission
titans are sighted inside wall rose led by a mysterious "beast" titan. the new scout regiment recruits who were under suspicion of hiding potential allies of annie are dispatched to warn nearby villages of the danger.
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in stohess, the scouts manage to capture annie but she locks herself inside a crystal. after the fight, a part of the wall that was damaged falls off, revealing that the walls are made of titans. pastor nick from the wall cult knew about it and points them towards historia reiss, aka christa lenz, who apparently comes from an important family who knows the secrets of the walls and is currently on the frontlines in wall rose.
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the scouts find her the next day at utgard castle, where ymir revealed her identity as titan in order to protect her comrades who had found refuge there from a horde of titans during the night. shortly after, reiner and bertholdt are also revealed to be the armored and colossal titans. they manage to kidnap eren and ymir but in a chaotic battle between them and the scouts, eren discovers that he can control the titans and manages to escape their grasp. ymir makes the choice to follow reiner and bertholdt back to their hometown while the scouts retreat with eren.
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within 1 week after eren's rescue
The government declares the safety of Wall Rose and the refugees who had been sent to the Underground City beneath the Capital are sent back to their homes after anarchy nearly breaks out due to a lack of provisions.
erwin wakes up in a hospital room and is given news that the titans who invaded wall rose are suspected of being the residents of ragako who have been turned through unknown means. the beast titan is suspected of being behind this incident.
Levi forms his new squad in charge of protecting Eren and Historia and they relocate into a new hideout within Wall Rose.
1 week after Eren's rescue
levi pays a visit to erwin and they talk about investigating the reiss family to learn more about the walls and maybe the titan hardening ability.
day 1
hange leads experiments to see if eren can harden his titan body to plug the hole in wall maria. after transforming 3 times in a row, eren is unable to summon a complete titan form and his human body starts fusing with his titan body, making his extraction difficult. eren is unable to harden.
day 2
nifa informs erwin of nick's death and he gives her a letter adressed to levi. the military police comes for erwin and he is summoned to the royal capital, mitras.
pastor nick is tortured and killed in the early morning by sannes and ralph in the military barracks hange assigned him to.
hange learns about nick's death and confronts sannes. she finds out they are soldiers from the interior military police's first squad, the capital's military police, who were deployed all the way down to trost to find out what nick revealed to the scout regiment and eliminate him.
squad levi and squad hange watch from afar as the military police raids their hideout. levi tells everyone that there's been a freeze on the scout regiment's activities outside the walls and the government wants them to hand over eren and historia. eren gives his paper to hange. Hange decides to go after erwin and lends 3 members of her squad (nifa, abel and keiji) to levi. squad levi heads to trost district in order to identify the enemy.
eren wakes up after having slept for a whole day, has a chat with historia and remembers a conversation between ymir and bertholdt that he writes on a piece of paper. squad hange reunites with squad levi and tells them about nick's death. nifa delivers erwin's letter to levi and he orders everyone to leave the cabin immediately.
jean and armin, disguised as eren and historia, are kidnapped by men of the reeves company. the actual eren and historia are in a carriage driven by keiji and are headed to pyxis' .
mikasa, sasha, connie, jean and armin succesfully apprehend the captors and tie them up.
as they watch over the carriage transporting eren and historia, levi, nifa and abel are ambushed by "kenny the ripper" and his squad, using "anti-personnel" odm gear. abel, nifa and keiji are killed. Eren and historia are shot with tranquilizer darts and kidnapped.
day 3
the assembly talks about giving away 60% of the royal family's food reserves to the people of trost. Rod reiss says that it's necessary to reinforce the people's approval of the royal family and that their plan is already in motion. soon they'll have the "power" and the "vessel".
erwin is brought back to trost after his summons to the capital to be interrogated by the assembly. he has a chat with nile dawk about the future of their walled society.
squad levi strikes a deal with dimo reeves. as they head to another hideout within wall rose, dimo reeves and his son flegel get in touch with sannes and ralph from the interior military police's first squad.
dimo and flegel bring sannes and ralph to where squad levi is hiding and they capture both of them to interrogate them about eren and historia's location. dimo and flegel head back to trost.
the members of the assembly lament the fact they weren't able to get anything out of erwin's interrogation. They receive a message from rod reiss telling them that eren and historia's capture was successful.
after seemingly bumping into squad levi on her way back to trost, hange goes to erwin's place to warn him that eren and historia were kidnapped and from the paper eren gave her, she deduces that he might get eaten if they don't rescue him quickly.
day 4
kenny kills dimo reeves for his betrayal and alliance with the scout regiment. dimo's son, flegel, witnesses the scene.
hange and moblit reunite with squad levi and start torturing sannes. he reveals that the reiss family is actually the true royal family, making historia a potential heir to the throne, and that eren and historia are probably detained by rod reiss.
eren and historia are delivered to rod reiss at some unknown place. rod tells historia that he's sorry for everything.