Buffyverse Slayer timeline (canon)

This article is based on the vampire Slayers in the fictional Buffyverse, created by Joss Whedon.

It features characters from canon sources only, including:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (television shows)
Tales of the Slayers, Tales of the Vampires, and The Origin (comics)
And those stories from the prose collection Tales of the Slayer written by Buffy writers.
For a more complete listing of Slayers, both canon and non-canon, see here.

BC

The First Slayer

Name: "The Primitive", Sineya.
Played by: Sharon Ferguson.
Location: Africa.
Watcher: None (According to Giles in "Restless")
Slayer Time: Unknown.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fray (Chapter 3: Ready, Steady... p.7), Tales of the Slayers ("Prologue" by Joss Whedon).

Dark Ages

European Slayer

Location: Europe.
Death: Unspecified time, killed by Lothos.
Slayer Time: Unknown.
Source: The Origin (p.1).

Middle Ages

Righteous Slayer

Location: England.
Watcher: An unnamed monk.
Slayer Time: Unknown. Medieval times.
Source: Tales of the Slayers ("Righteous" by Joss Whedon).
This young Slayer saved a walled medieval town from the vampire St. Just; easily slaying him and his horde. The entire town bore witness to the fight including young girls who admired her and were inspired to stand up for themselves. The men did not like this, so as the righteous Slayer slept, men broke into her house and grabbed her from bed. They dubbed her a witch, because only a witch could have defeated the vampires so easily and burned her at the stake. Her Watcher avenged her death by opening the town gates, allowing legions of vampires to feast on the whole town.

18th century AD

Hong Kong Slayer

Location: Hong Kong.
Slayer Time: 18th century.
Source: The Origin (p. 7).

Claudine

Location: Paris, France
Watcher: Jean, a member of the Bourgeoisie.
Slayer Time: ACTIVE in 1790s, during the French Revolution.
Source: Tales of the Slayers ("The Innocent" by Amber Benson).
Claudine was manipulated by her lover/watcher into [...] an innocent aristocrat.

19th century AD

Elizabeth Weston

Location: Somerset, England
Watcher: Unnamed man.
Slayer Time: Active in 1813.
Source: Tales of the Slayers ("Presumption" by Jane Espenson).
Elizabeth lived as a nobleman named Edward Weston to lure vampires into a false sense of security.

"Naayee Neizghani"

Location: California, North America.
Watcher: Unnamed male, killed by a vampire.
Death: Unspecified time, stabbed in the chest.
Slayer Time: Unknown.
Source: Tales of the Slayers ("This Glittering World" by David Fury).
This Slayer was a Native American, who hunted down the vampiress who killed her Watcher, also destroyed a nest of great evil after slaying a number of vampires. She dies on her horse due to a stab to the chest. The town where she died was later bought by Richard Wilkins. He christened it Sunnydale.
The story of this Slayer's death is told in parallel with a narration AbOUT the monster slayer Naayee Neizghani and the demon To, characters taken from Navajo legend.

Chinese Slayer

Played by: Ming Liu.
Location: Beijing, China.
Death: 1900, drained by the vampire Spike during the Boxer Rebellion.
Slayer Time: Unknown - 1900
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Fool for Love")
The Chinese Slayer fought with the vampire Spike who drained her and left her in a burning temple. Her last words were "Tell my mother, I'm sorry".

20th century AD

Ardita O'Reilly

Location: New York
Watcher: Mr. Whiskers
Slayer Time: Active in 1922.
Source: Tales of the Slayer ("The War Between the States" by Rebecca Rand Kirshner)

Korean Slayer

Location: Korea.
Slayer Time: Active in 1930s.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("The Puppet Show")
The demon hunter Sid claimed to have known this Slayer in the 30s.

Rachel O'Connor

Location: New York City.
Slayer Time: Active in 1937.
Source: Tales of the Slayers ("Broken Bottle Of Djinn" by Doug Petrie).
Rachel was a member of an undercover anti-[...] organization (OSS). She was recruited by the OSS to stop a [...] agent from delivering an evil Djinn to his superiors in Germany. This New Yorker had rather unorthodox methods of vampire slaying, slumming through the bleak streets pretending to be blind and then slaying with pencils.

Anni Sonnenblume

Location: Nuremberg, Germany.
Born: November 9, 1923
Watcher: Unnamed wheelchair-bound male.
Slayer Time: Active in late 1938.
Source: Tales of the Slayers ("Sonnenblume" by Rebecca Rand Kirshner).
Lived with her mother, and brother, Karl. As part of [...]'s Youth, she needed to learn what real evil was - vampires or racism. She decides to fight the Nazis as well as vampires and demons.

Nikki Wood

Played by: April Weeden-Washington and K.D. Aubert.
Location: New York City.
Watcher: Bernard Crowley.
Death: 1977 in Harlem New York, neck broken by the vampire Spike.
Slayer Time: Unknown - 1977.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tales of the Slayers ("Nikki Goes Down!" by Doug Petrie).

Peri Bohr

Location: Keller, Nebraska.
Watcher: Mr. McClellan.
Birth: 1965.
Slayer Time: Active 1983
Source: Tales of the Slayer, Volume 4 ("Two Teenage Girls At The Mall" by Jane Espenson).
Peri had her Cruciamentum in a local Mall against a friend of hers called Julie, who had only just been turned into a vampire and was feeling very confused about the whole thing.

Buffy Anne Summers

Played by: Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Location: Los Angeles, California, later Sunnydale, California, later Italy.
Watcher: Merrick Jamison-Smythe (killed), Rupert Giles (fired/rehired), Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (fired).
Birth: January 18th, 1981.
Death: 1997, drained by the Master and left to drown (clinical death), resuscitated by Xander Harris. 2001, dove into an energy field, resurrected by Willow Rosenberg.
Slayer Time: 1996 - Present (clinical death in 1997 caused next slayer to be called; brief death in 2001).
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Origin, Tales of the Slayers ("Broken Bottle of Djinn" by Jane Espenson), Tales of the Vampires ("Antique" by Drew Goddard).

Kendra Young

Played by: Bianca Lawson.
Location: Jamaica.
Watcher: Sam Zabuto.
Birth: 1981.
Death: May 12th, 1998, throat slit by Drusilla.
Slayer Time: May 1997 - May 12th, 1998.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Faith Lehane

Played by: Eliza Dushku.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, later Sunnydale, California.
Watchers: Unnamed female Watcher (killed), Rupert Giles (fired/rehired), Gwendolyn Post (killed), Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (fired).
Birth: December 14th, 1980.
Slayer Time: May 1998 - Present.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel.

21st century AD

The following slayers were activated by Willow Rosenberg with the power of the scythe.

Amanda

Played by: Sarah Hagan.
Location: Sunnydale, California
Birth: 1987
Death: 2003, killed by a Turok-Han at the Hellmouth battle, Sunnydale
Slayer Time: 2003.
Trivia: Skilled Dungeons & Dragons player; tends to beat up boys who bully her around, often resulting with Amanda being sent to Buffy for counseling.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Caridad

Played by: Dania Ramirez.
Location: The Philippines, later Sunnydale
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Buffy Magazine states she survived the Hellmouth Battle.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Chao-Ahn

Played by: Kristy Wu.
Location: China, later Sunnydale.
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Buffy Magazine states she survived the Hellmouth Battle.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Dana

Played by: Navi Rawat.
Location: L.A., California
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Did not fight in the battle at the Hellmouth
Source: Angel ("Damage")

Kennedy

Played by: Iyari Limon.
Location: New York, later Sunnydale, later Brazil
Watcher: Unnamed, killed by Bringers
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Survived battle at the Hellmouth.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Rona

Played by: Indigo.
Location: Somewhere in the USA, later Sunnydale
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Survived battle at the Hellmouth.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Shannon

Played by: Mary Wilcher.
Location: Sunnydale.
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Buffy magazine states she survived the Hellmouth Battle.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Vi

Played by: Felicia Day
Location: Somewhere in the USA, later Sunnydale.
Watcher: Unnamed, killed by Bringers
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Survived battle at the Hellmouth.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Baseball player

Born: 1991 (12 years old according to "Chosen" script)
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Scythe-activated. Did not fight in the battle at the Hellmouth
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Chosen")

Japanese Slayer

Location: Japan.
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Scythe-activated. Did not fight in the battle at the Hellmouth
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Chosen")

Indian Slayer

Location: India.
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Scythe-activated. Did not fight in the battle at the Hellmouth
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Chosen")

Highschool student

Location: North America
Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Scythe-activated. Did not fight in the battle at the Hellmouth
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Chosen")

Trailer-Girl

Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Scythe-activated. Did not fight in the battle at the Hellmouth
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Chosen")

Kira

Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Trivia: Transylvania, 2004: Buffy, Kira, and another Scythe-activated Slayer break into the stronghold of the legendary vampire, Vlad Dracula, in an effort to rescue Buffy's comrade Xander who had been placed in a trance to serve as Dracula's manservant. After a brief battle, Dracula finally agrees to release Xander from the trance and return him to Buffy.
Source: Tales of the Vampires ("Antique" by Drew Goddard)

Dracula Slayer

Slayer Time: 2003 - Present
Notes: Transylvania, 2004: Buffy, Kira, and another Scythe-activated Slayer break into the stronghold of the legendary vampire, Vlad Dracula, in an effort to rescue Buffy's comrade Xander who had been placed in a trance to serve as Dracula's manservant. After a brief battle, Dracula finally agrees to release Xander from the trance and return him to Buffy.
Source: Tales of the Vampires ("Antique" by Drew Goddard)

23rd century AD

Melaka Fray

Location: Haddyn
Watcher: Unnamed bald man, who set himself on fire. A demon named Urkonn of the D'avvrus also filled a Watcher-like role.
Birth: Unknown, 19 years old
Slayer Time: "Two hundred years" after the last Slayer to be called.
Trivia: Melaka and her brother, Harth, are twins, and thus the Slayer powers are somehow split between them, Harth having the prophetic dreams while Fray having the strength and agility of Slayers; carries the scythe used to activate all of the potential Slayers and close the Sunnydale Hellmouth back in 2003.
Source: Fray, Tales of the Slayers ("Tales" by Joss Whedon)

Unspecified Times

Red-Haired Slayer

Source: Fray (Chapter 3: Ready, Steady... p.12 - depicted fighting in a tavern).

Indian Princess

Watcher: Monocled man.
Source: Fray (Chapter 3: Ready, Steady... p.12), The Origin (p.16 - mentioned by Merrick).

Magyar Peasant

Source: The Origin (p.16 - mentioned by Merrick).

Chinese Prostitute

Source: The Origin (p.16 - mentioned by Merrick).

Priestess

Source: Fray (Chapter 5: The Worst Of It p.7 - mentioned by Harth).

Alternate reality and stand-ins

Wishverse Buffy

Name: Buffy Anne Summers.
Played by: Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, later Sunnydale.
Watcher: Merrick Jamison-Smythe (killed), Unnamed Watcher
Birth: January 18th, 1981
Death: 1999; Neck snapped by the Master
Slayer Time: 1996 - 1999
Trivia: Alternate Reality Buffy Summers; has a dark and pessimistic outlook on life; has an estranged relationship with her current Watcher.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffybot

Played by: Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Location: Sunnydale, California
Watcher: Rupert Giles
Birth: Created on April 24th, 2001
Death: October 2nd, 2001 by Bikers pulling it apart
Slayer Time: Stood in for Buffy Summers May 22nd, 2001 - October 2nd, 2001
Trivia: Built by Warren Mears at the commission of Spike.
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

See also

• Buffyverse Slayer timeline (includes noncanon Slayers)
• History of the Slayer WB advertisements