Here is the Timeline of events throughout Daria.
1950s[]
- Jake Morgendorffer is born.
- Anthony DeMartino’s father abandoned him and his mother.
- Helen Barksdale is born.
- Rita Barksdale is born.
1960s[]
- Amy Barksdale is born.
- "Mad Dog" Morgendorffer sends his son Jake, to a camping trip where he gets drunk, and neglects him. ("Monster")
- Jake stop’s wetting the bed at age fifteen. ("Monster")
- Anthony DeMartino is sent to Military School, by his mother who did not explain the existence of her son to her dates. Before that, she made him stay with his neighbors “strange, twisted people.” ("The Daria Hunter")
- Jake Morgendorffer is sent to Buxton Ridge Military Academy, by his father "Mad Dog” due to Jake stepping on his contact lens. ("The Daria Hunter")
- Jake has a friend named Randy who is sent to Buxton, due to putting his fist through a wall. He goes AOWL after four years. Jake wanted to go with him, but didn’t want to deny his father “the satisfaction” of him flunking out. ("The Daria Diaries")
- Jake is put into the Color Guard and put in the Leadership Platoon Reaction Course. He ranked up “98 demerits” but still wasn’t kicked out. (“The Daria Diaries”)
- Anthony goes through a “beatnik period,” where he co-habituated. (“The Daria Diaries”)
- Jake Morgendorffer graduates from Buxton Ridge Military Academy. “Mad Dog” threatens to enlist Jake in the Vietnam War. Jake threatens his father, that he will be a hippie as soon, he can’t “legally stop him.” (“The Daria Diaries”)
- Jake Morgendorffer attends Middleton University. He joins the hippie counterculture, where he becomes friends with Willow and Coyote, and meets his future wife, Helen. Jake protests outside the Pentagon, where he got enraged and kicked the building. (“That Was Then, This Is Dumb”)
- Jake attends an Altamont Free Concert in 1968. He somehow got his money back. (“Road Worrier”)
- Jake and Helen are arrested for protesting. (“That Was Then, This Is Dumb”)
1970s[]
- Jake and Helen graduate from Middletown University. (“The Daria Database”)
- Jake and Helen Morgendorffer get married. “Mad Dog” does not attend his son’s wedding. (“Of Human Bonding”)
- "Mad Dog" Morgendorffer dies at the age of 40. (“Jake of Hearts”)
1980s[]
- Daria and Quinn Morgendorffer are born.
- Jake begins working in the advertisement industry. He works for a rather controlling boss (who Jake referred as the “mini-Mussolini.” (“Boxing Daria”)
- Jake and Helen Morgendorffer move to Highland, Texas, in 1987.
- Anthony DeMartino starts teaching at Lawndale High School.