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Jane the Virgin
TIMELINE
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Welcome to the JTV timeline, where the wiki will attempt to register the sequence of events of this epic telenovela saga.
NOTE that specific dates are scarce on the show so be certain before you add something and remember to source it!

1946[]

February[]

2ND
Mateo Villanueva is born[1]


1950[]

April[]

6TH
Alba is born, according to her green card[2], although this is disputed by later episodes


1952[]

Mia Alver is born.[3]


1972[]

Alba has sex for the first time, with Pablo Alonso Segura.[4]

1974[]

May[]

Xiomara Gloriana Villanueva is born[5][6][7]


1982[]

Elena Di Nola allegedly arrives in the U.S.


1983[]

Emilio Solano and Elena Di Nola marry.[8]

July[]

15TH
Mia Alver leaves her daughter and fakes her death to escape Emilio Solano.[2][8]


1984[]

Petra and Anežka are born.[9]

March[]

22ND
Rafael Solano is born[10]


1988[]

March[]

23RD
Elena Di Nola leaves her family.[11]


1989[]

June[]

12TH
Mateo Villanueva dies, aged 43.

November[]

Petra's father dies.[12]


1991[]

April[]

Despite the contradictory information on Jane's birthday, the most common nods to her age point to April 1991 being when her birthday takes place.


1994[]

October[]

31ST
7-year-old Michael is sick and can't go Trick-or-Treat-ing[13]


2000[]

August[]

27TH
Jane catches a firefly and makes a wish to grow boobs and that someone will want to touch them.[14]

October[]

Jane watches her first telenovela[15]


2006[]

February[]

22ND
Rogelio makes his own 'scientology audits' where he confesses that Xiomara is his greatest love and that he thinks about her almost every day[16]


2007[]

Rogelio's first wife, Luciana Leon, cheats on him very publicly and breaks his heart[17]
Petra comes to Miami[18]


2008[]

Mia Alver dies, aged 55.[19]


2009[]

August[]

Jane Villanueva works at Golden Harbour Yacht Club, which Rafael frequents. It's the end of summer and he comes by after closing and she lets him in. She makes him a grilled cheese sandwich, they talk and they share a kiss.[20]
3 days later, Rafael hasn't called, though he said he would.[21]


2010[]

Jane and Lina graduate from St. Cullen high school[22]

2012[]

April[]

Jane's 21st birthday party. Michael and Jane meet.[23]

June[]

Michael and Jane have been dating two months and go camping. Jane tells Michael that Alba is undocumented.[17]


2014[]

October[]

After longterm illness, Rafael returns to his work as co-owner and the new head of newly renovated hotel The Marbella
Jane sees her old crush at work 5 years after they kissed.
Luisa Alver, Rafael's sister, advises him that it's okay if he wants to end his marriage. She finds her wife in bed with her assistant when she comes home that night.
Roman Zazo begins his first day as Staff Manager.
The following day, Jane Villanueva has a pap smear but is accidentally artificially inseminated — by Luisa Alver.
2 weeks after the insemination, Jane faints on the bus and learns she is pregnant.
It is the 2-year anniversary of when Jane and Michael started dating. He is about to propose, but learns about the pregnancy.
Jane decides to keep the baby and accepts Michael's proposal.[20]

December[]

Michael learns that Lina and his younger brother are dating[24]
Jane breaks off her engagement to Michael as she falls in love with Rafael

2015[]

January[]

12TH
The Serbian war criminal vanishes from the hotel room where he just checked in as Michael and Nadine come in to arrest him.[25][26]

April[]

5TH
Easter. Alba asks out Edward.[27]
Rafael sees his mother for the first time since he was 4 years old.
Rafael breaks up with Jane
Xo kisses her ex after being insulted by Liliana De La Vega
Rogelio tells Xo that he loves her for the first time (as adults)

May[]

9TH
Jane and Lina's 5-year high school reunion[22]
Michael gets a medal at a commendation ceremony for getting the names in the Sin Rostro case[22]
12TH
Mateo Solano Villanueva is born[28]

June[]

Mateo is baptized.[29]
Lina turns 25[30]
Jane chooses Michael.
Michael gets angry over being put on desk duty after his superior learns he let Nadine go. He overreacts, saying he's being fired (which he's not) and flips out on Rafael, trying to beat him up and causing Mateo to get injured. Despite this behaviour, Jane is still head over heels for Michael and sees nothing wrong with his behaviour, but ends things with him for Mateo's sake because Michael can't control himself around Rafael[6]

July[]

Jane and Rafael learn that Mateo has a flat head from laying on his back too much, and needs to wear a corrective helmet[31]
Petra asks Jane if she will help get Magda released from prison as Petra needs emotional support
Rogelio pitches his next project: a telenovela based on Mad Men. The executives plan to let him quickly run it into the ground and put him on whatever show they see fit
Jane gets her first ever school grade below B+

August[]

Jane goes on a writers retreat as part of grad school and makes friends[31]
Mateo gets his helmet put on
Rafael realises he needs to move on from Jane
Hombres Locos is cancelled

September[]

A mom from Mateo's mommy group asks Jane if she would be okay with her dating Rafael. Jane says yes, even though she's not okay with it and jealous, but she won't admit that to herself or others. The mom asks Rafael out and when he brings it up to Jane she says it's fine even though she's not fine and Rafael is kind of sad about it too.[31]
Jane is put on academic probation
Rogelio is mocked on Fernando e Isabel with a goofy character parodying Santos.

October[]

Jane and Rafael talk and decide that Jane should stop pumping[31]
Petra and her mother get Miloš arrested and get rid of the granades, but one explodes close to Magda
Rafael and Charlie's mom have been dating for a month

November[]

Magda lost a hand and an eye, and now has a hook and an eye patch[31]
26TH
Thanksgiving.
Mateo gets the helmet off
Jane invites Petra to Thanksgiving at the Villanueva Home
Michael returns to Miami
Ivan returns telling Magda that Miloš knows they set him up. Magda kills Ivan
27TH
Rafael joins the Villanuevas' annual Christmas shopping for the first time.[3]
Jane and Rafael run into Michael briefly

December[]

Alba gets her green card.[2]
1ST
Jane and Rafael go on a date. Jane finds out that Rafael paid Nadine's friend to tell the police that Michael let her go (which he did)

2016[]

February[]

21ST
Xiomara breaks off her and Rogelio's engagement as they want different things[16]

March[]

MID-LATE
Anna and Elsa Solano are born.[32]
Michael and Jane get engaged on the same day as the twins are born.[4]

May[]

LATE[33]
Jane and Michael get married.
Michael is shot on their wedding night.

December[]

Michael Cordero "dies"[13]
Scott Archuletta is murdered[34] by Eileen.[35]
20TH
(a Tuesday) Jane has a job interview with Chloe Leland, a publisher.[13]

2021[]

May[]

5TH
Alba becomes a US citizen.[36]


Birthday confusion[]

Alba Villanueva[]

She is either born in January[37] or, as her Green Card states, 6 April 1950[2]

Jane Villanueva[]

The majority of the references to Jane's age/birth date put the date in April 1991. There are some discrepancies:
Chapter Thirty-Four/Chapter Thirty-Five - The date is shown to be February 21 2016 due to Rogelio's Scientology tapes and the Narrator says Jane's exact age is twenty-four years eight months and seventeen days. This would mean Jane was born on June 4 1991.
Pilot/Chapter Seven — It's mentioned that Rafael and Jane first kissed 5 years prior, at the end of summer, when Jane was almost 19. This would make her birthday in September/October

Luisa Alver[]

Luisa was 6 years old when her mother left her, so she was born in 1976/1977[8]

Notes and references[]

  1. Chapter Eighty-Two
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Chapter Thirty
  3. 3.0 3.1 Chapter Twenty-Nine
  4. 4.0 4.1 Chapter Thirty-Six
  5. Chapter Twenty-Five — Xiomara's baptism took place when her father was 28 and Alba was 25. Ergo, it was in 1974, as Xo was born in May per the Narrator's statements. Mateo Villanueva was born in February 1946 and would already have turned 28 that year.
  6. 6.0 6.1 Chapter Twenty-Seven
  7. Chapter Eleven — Rafael mentions that Xo's a Taurus
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Chapter Thirty-One
  9. Chapter Nine
  10. Chapter Fifty-One
  11. Chapter Seven — Rafael recounts waking up the morning after his fourth birthday (March 22, 1988) and finding his mother gone.
  12. Chapter Nine - Petra's father died one week before the Berlin wall fell which was on 9 November 1989
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 Chapter Fifty-Four
  14. Chapter Three
  15. Chapter Twenty — date and month specifically mentioned
  16. 16.0 16.1 Chapter Thirty-Four — The Narrator mentions that the night Rogelio and Xiomara broke off their engagement is 21 February 2016, as the following day is 10 years after Rogelio recorded the 'audit'
  17. 17.0 17.1 Chapter Twenty-Five
  18. Chapter Seventy-Four
  19. Chapter Thirty-One
  20. 20.0 20.1 Pilot
  21. Chapter Seven
  22. 22.0 22.1 22.2 Chapter Twenty-One — Jane mentions the name of her school and that she and Lina are class of 2010 as they look through their yearbook. In a flashback to the previous year, Jane tells Michael the date of the reunion
  23. Chapter Six
  24. Chapter Five — Lina tells Jane that she and Billy have been dating 6 weeks, to which Jane says 'since my engagement party?'.
  25. Chapter Eight
  26. Chapter Ten
  27. Chapter Eighteen
  28. Chapter Ninety-Seven
  29. Chapter Twenty-Five — Mateo is stated to be three weeks old
  30. Chapter Twenty-Six
  31. 31.0 31.1 31.2 31.3 31.4 Chapter Twenty-Eight
  32. The twins were 'conceived' around the same time Mateo was born, making them 9 months younger than him
  33. Chapter Forty-Four - Mateo celebrates his 1st Birthday roughly one and a half week prior to the wedding
  34. Chapter Fifty-Five
  35. Chapter Sixty-Four
  36. Chapter Seventy-Nine
  37. Chapter Eighty-One — The Narrator mentions that Alba is 23,5 years old on 4 July
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