Timeline S1 – SPOILER ALERT
Second spinoff of the main series, The Walking Dead – World Beyond winks at younger viewers being set ten years after the outbreak of the epidemic and having as protagonists the first teenagers of the post-apocalyptic generation, who know little or nothing about the reality of the world as it is today, having always lived within the fortified walls of the city, safe from the walking dead.
A short series that will only live for two seasons, its main purpose is to reveal unknown aspects of CRM, the mysterious military organization that kidnapped Rick Grimes.
Below is a timeline with the main events of the First Season of TWDWB.
PS: the dates are approximate but more or less it all happened in those days.
Complete summary table at the bottom of the page.
August 18th, 2020
Colonel Elizabeth Kublek, a high-ranking officer representing the mysterious CRM, arrives on an official visit to Campus Colony in Omaha to consolidate the Alliance of the Three. Iris and Felix greet her with formal respect, but her presence and display of military might immediately fuel a deep climate of suspicion and unease within the student and academic community.
August 20th, 2020
On Monument Day, which marks the tenth anniversary of the annihilation of the metropolises, Iris and Hope decide to evade surveillance to search for their scientist father Leo, convinced that he is in grave danger in the CRM laboratories. Fellow students Elton and Silas join them on their adventure, while Felix and Huck immediately set out to intercept them and bring them back to safety.
August 21st, 2020
Immediately after the boys’ departure, CRM assault forces launch a covert operation to massacre the civilian population. Campus Colony and the large allied city of Omaha are completely razed to the ground through the use of lethal poison gas and the diversion of immense hordes of walkers, wiping out over one hundred thousand human lives and every trace of the settlement in a single day.
September 26th, 2020
During their march through the nation’s wild and unfamiliar territories, the six young travelers cross paths with two cunning itinerant survivors, Tony and Percy, a pair of illusionists who, after initial suspicion, offer a logistical truce and provide a freight truck to facilitate the boys’ journey to New York State.
October 3rd, 2020
Hope is manipulated and deceived by Huck, who reveals her true identity as an infiltrator and military spy working for the CRM; The girl is eventually taken out of the protected territory and handed over directly into the hands of Colonel Kublek.
Why is TWD World Beyond – Season One Set in August 2020?
The confirmation of the timeline’s precision comes from a specific visual clue hidden in the very first episode of the spin-off.
The Key Clue: Elton’s Notebook
During a school lesson in the pilot episode, the character Elton takes notes in his notebook, clearly writing down the date: August 19 (…).
The Connection to the Main Series:
- The story takes place on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Monument Day, the official commemoration of the day “the sky fell” (the moment major cities were bombed in an attempt to contain the infection).
- Since exactly 10 years have passed since that tragic event, counting backward fixes the date of the bombings to August 20, 2010.
This clue mathematically confirms that the first season of World Beyond takes place in August 2020, validating the entire chronological structure of the website.
| Episodes | 10 |
| Days in the Apocalypse | 3667-3713 |
| Key Events in the Saga | Campus Colony and Omaha are destroyed by CRM on August 21st, 2020 (day 3670) |
| Events Occurring Simultaneously | The destruction of Campus Colony and Omaha and Rick becoming a CRM leader (TOWL) occur on August 21st, 2020 (day 3670) |