Karate Kid & Cobra Kai Timeline Explained

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Before The Karate Kid (1925-1984)

• 1925 - Nariyoshi (Kesuke) Miyagi is born in Tomi Village in Okinawa. As a child, he was trained in Miyagi-Do karate by his father along with his best friend, Sato Toguchi, whom the elder Miyagi also treated like a son.
  
• 1940 - Miyagi falls in love with Yukie, who was promised to Sato in an arranged marriage. Sato feels dishonored and challenges Miyagi in a fight to the death. Instead, Miyagi leaves Okinawa and emigrates to the United States.
  
• 1940-1943 - In Hawaii, Miyagi meets a girl who became his wife, and they moved to Los Angeles together. The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, provoking the United States' entry into World War II. Miyagi enlists in the U.S. Army and serves in the 442nd Infantry Regiment. At one point, Miyagi's life is saved by Lt. Jack Pierce; to pay him back, Miyagi trains his friend Jack in Miyagi-Do karate, which ostensibly made Lt. Pierce Miyagi's first student.
  
• 1943 - While Miyagi was serving in the war, his wife and unborn child die in the Manzanar Japanese internment camp.
  
• December 18, 1966 - Daniel LaRusso is born in New Jersey.
  
• August 20, 1967 - Johnny Lawrence is born in Los Angeles.
  
• 1969 - The All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament is established in the San Fernando Valley.
  
• 1970 - While serving in the Vietnam War, John Kreese becomes the U.S. Karate Champion. He also saves the life of Terry Silver, who becomes his best friend and his karate student.
  
• 1974 - Daniel LaRusso's father dies.
  
• Pre-1979 - Back in Los Angeles, Terry Silver purchases the Cobra Kai dojo for John Kreese to run.
  
• 1979 - Johnny Lawrence rides his bike and discovers the Cobra Kai dojo. Johnny's abusive stepfather Sid Weinberg reluctantly paid for Johnny to join Cobra Kai.
  
• Summer 1982 - Johnny meets Ali Mills during a screening of Rocky III and they begin dating.
  
• December 1982 - Johnny wins his first All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament.
  
• December 1983 - Johnny becomes the first two-time, back-to-back All Valley Under 18 Karate Champion, not losing a single point and beating his friend and fellow Cobra Kai Tommy in the finals.
  
• Summer 1984 - Johnny got so drunk partying with Cobra Kai that he missed Ali's birthday, leading her to end their relationship. In New Jersey, Lucille LaRusso gets a job in Los Angeles and drives across the country with Daniel to start their new life.

The Karate Kid (1984)

• End of summer 1984 - Daniel, who just arrived in LA, goes to a beach party and meets Ali, who he begins dating. A jealous Johnny and the Cobra Kai begin their rivalry with Daniel. Mr. Miyagi, the handyman at South Seas apartment complex where Daniel now lives, sees him practicing karate he learned at the YMCA.
  
• Halloween 1984 - Daniel decides to prank Johnny at the West Valley High Halloween dance and pays dearly when the Cobra Kai leaves him badly beaten. Mr. Miyagi rescues Daniel. Together, they confront John Kreese at the Cobra Kai dojo and strike a deal for Daniel to face the Cobra Kai at the All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament.
  
• Fall 1984 - Mr. Miyagi trains "Daniel-san" in Miyagi-D0 karate and they form what would become a deep and lasting friendship.
  
• December 18, 1984 - Mr. Miyagi gives Daniel a yellow 1947 Ford Super Deluxe for his 18th birthday.
  
• December 19, 1984 - Daniel becomes the All Valley Karate Champion when he beats Johnny in the finals. Immediately after the tournament, Kreese attacks Johnny in the parking lot. Mr. Miyagi saves Johnny and humiliates Kreese in a fight. The Cobra Kai students all abandon Kreese and the Cobra Kai dojo is shut down.

The Karate Kid Part II (Summer 1985)

• June 1985 - Mr. Miyagi builds a guest room in his house for Daniel, expecting him to live there for the summer when Lucille's work relocates her to Fresno. Ali breaks up with Daniel at the senior prom and tells him she fell in love with a college football player. Mr. Miyagi receives a letter from Yukie in Okinawa that his father is deathly ill.
  
• Summer 1985 - Daniel uses his college fund to accompany Mr. Miyagi to Okinawa. Daniel learns that Sato still wants to fight Miyagi to the death who Sato's nephew Chozen starts his own rivalry with Daniel. Miyagi and Yukie romantically reconnect while Daniel sparks his own romance with Yukie's niece, Kumiko. With Miyagi's guidance, Daniel breaks six bars of ice in a bar, winning a bet with Chozen and Sato that becomes his new college fund. Sato presses his grudge match challenge with Miyagi and threatens to destroy Tomi Village if he doesn't agree. Miyagi finally agrees but a hurricane strikes Okinawa the night before the fight. Daniel and Miyagi save Sato's life and but Chozen is dishonored when he refuses to help Daniel save a young girl. Sato drops his grudge with Miyagi, becomes Tomi Village's benefactor. Chozen attacks Daniel and Kumiko at the O-bon dance and challenges LaRusso in a fight to the death but Daniel defeats him with Miyagi-Do's drum technique.

The Karate Kid Part III (Fall 1985)

• Fall 1985 - Daniel and Mr. Miyagi return from Okinawa to find Daniel's South Seas apartment building being converted to condominiums and Miyagi out of a job. Daniel decides to use his college fund to open a bonsai store with Mr. Miyagi. Meanwhile, a destitute John Kreese turns to Terry Silver for help; Silver sends Kreese to Tahiti and implements his plan to humiliate Daniel by hiring Mike Barnes as Cobra Kai's new prized student. LaRusso meets Jessica Andrews, who provides pots for Mr. Miyagi's bonsai trees. While Barnes harasses LaRusso, Silver befriends Daniel and slowly poisons him against Miyagi. Daniel soon breaks from his sensei and joins the Cobra Kai, only to learn that he's a pawn in Silver and Kreese's scheme to force him to defend his title. Mr. Miyagi comes to Daniel's rescue and trains him once again to defend his title in the All Valley Tournament.
  
• December 1985 - Daniel, who only has to fight in the final match as the defending champion, defeats Mike Barnes to become a two-time, back-to-back All Valley Under 18 Karate Champion. Due to the underhanded tactics Barnes used, which Silver and Kreese encourage, the All Valley tournament committee issues a lifetime ban on Cobra Kai.

The Next Karate Kid (1994)

• May 1994 - Mr. Miyagi travels to Boston to accept a Presidental accolade for his U.S. Army unit's World War II valor and he meets Julie Pierce, the granddaughter of Lt. Jack Pierce. Miyagi accepts responsibility for Julie, who was previously trained in Miyagi-Do karate. Miyagi continues Julie's training as she faces the Alpha Elite, the ROTC regiment that terrorized her and her high school.

Before Cobra Kai (1985-2018)

• 1990s - Daniel enters the car dealership business, first as a used car salesman who outsells his boss. At some point in that decade, he meets Amanda, the woman he would marry. They became known as "Danny and Mandy, the best sales team in the Valley".
  
• Early 2000s - Johnny enters into a relationship with Shannon Keene while Daniel and Amanda get married.
  
• January 2002 - Johnny's mother Laura passes away, leaving him emotionally distraught.
  
• February 4, 2002 - Johnny and Shannon's son Robby Keene is born. Johnny isn't present at the birth because he's at a bar getting drunk across the street from the hospital.
  
• June 2002 - Miguel Diaz is born and he's raised by his mother Carmen and his grandmother Rosa.
  
• Summer 2002 - Samantha LaRusso is born to Amanda and Daniel.
  
• 2002 - Daniel and Amanda open the LaRusso Auto Group together.
  
• 2008 - Anthony LaRusso is born to Amanda and Daniel.
  
• 2010 - Daniel converts a room in his home into a dojo and trains 8-year-old Samantha in Miyagi-Do karate.
  
• November 15, 2011 - Mr. Miyagi dies. He leaves his house and garden in Los Angeles to Daniel.

Cobra Kai Season 1 (Fall 2018-Summer 2019)

• August 2017 - After getting fired from his job as a maintenance man, Johnny Lawrence decides to reopen the Cobra Kai dojo. He also encounters Daniel LaRusso again for the first time since high school. Johnny meets his next-door neighbor Miguel, who becomes his first student.
  
• Halloween 2017 - Despite his Cobra Kai training, Miguel is beaten up by Samantha LaRusso's boyfriend Kyler and his friends at the Halloween dance.
  
• January/February 2018 - Miguel's karate skills have rapidly improved and he defends Sam's honor by beating up Kyler and his friends. The video of their fight goes viral, sparking an influx of new Cobra Kai students, including Aisha Robinson and Eli Moskowitz, who reinvents himself as Hawk. Robby Keene gets a job at LaRusso Auto Group to get back at his father and Daniel starts training him in karate.
  
• Spring 2018 - Johnny learns of Cobra Kai's lifetime ban from the All Valley Tournament and he successfully gets the ban rescinded, despite Daniel's efforts to thwart him.
  
• May 2018 - Johnny finds out Robby has been training with Daniel, who in turn learns Robby is Johnny's son. Daniel drops Robby as his student. Sam, who has been dating Miguel, breaks up with him over his jealousy over Robby living at the LaRussos.
  
• May 19, 2018 - Miguel beats Robby to win the 50th Anniversary All Valley Under 18 Karate Championship for Cobra Kai. Daniel decides to re-open the Miyagi-Do dojo and accept new students to take on Cobra Kai. Having heard about Johnny resurrecting Cobra Kai, John Kreese returns.
  
• June 2018 - Johnny allows Kreese to join his Cobra Kai as a trainer while Daniel's new Miyagi-Do opens with Robby and Samantha as his first students.
  
• July 4, 2018 - Daniel's attempt to introduce Miyagi-Do with an exhibition at Valley Fest is foiled by Johnny and Cobra Kai, whose own performance goes viral and creates interest in Lawrence's dojo over LaRusso's.
  
• July 2018 - Tory Nichols joins Cobra Kai and immediately becomes enemies with Samantha after an altercation at a beach club. Some of the new Cobra Kai recruits, including Demetri, find Johnny and Kreese's methods too extreme for them and they join Miyagi-Do. Hawk and the Cobra Kai attack Demetri at the mall but Sam and Robby together defeat them in a brawl at the food court. Tory and Miguel start dating.
  
• August 2018 - Johnny learns that Tommy is dying and he reunites with his high school Cobra Kai friends to give Tommy one last night. Tommy passes away the next morning but while Johnny is away, Kreese steals the ownership of the Cobra Kai dojo behind Lawrence's back.
  
• Late August/Early September 2018 - Moon throws a party the night before the first day of school. Sam defeats Tory in a drinking contest but Tory catches Sam kissing Miguel. When the police raid the party, Robby brings a drunk Sam to Johnny's apartment.
  
• First Day of School 2o18 - Daniel finds Sam at Johnny's apartment and the two come to blows. At West Valley High, Tory commandeers the school intercom and calls out Sam. Tory and Sam begin fighting and the melee draws in both Cobra Kai and Miyagi-Do factions in an all-out brawl. Tory cuts Sam's arm with a spiked bracelet but Robby kicks Miguel over a balcony when Diaz shows him mercy. Miguel is critically injured and both he and Sam are hospitalized. Daniel closes down the Miyagi-Do dojo in his grief while Johnny, distraught over Miguel, learns that Kreese has stolen Cobra Kai from him. Johnny throws his phone away and doesn't see a Facebook friend request from Ali Mills Schwarber.