When does One Piece take place?


When does the story of One Piece take place? Since the story is pirate-themed,
I thought it may be at the time of the [Golden Age of
Piracy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Piracy). The Golden Age of
Piracy spans from 1650s to the 1730s. So I thought it happened around that
time. Am I right or do they have their own timeline?




You had a pretty close guess there.

> Using Noland's Log book as a guide, it is possible to work out that the
> current storyline of One Piece takes place in the sixteenth century with the
> Kaienreki reference.

A pretty accurate world time line has also been made on [the One piece
wiki](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/World_Timeline) although only updated
till November last year ('13). For more info and their sources of the years
mentioned you can check out their chat/change logs
[here](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Talk%3aWorld_Timeline)




Well, actually! One Piece doesn't even take place on earth. It's pretty
obvious when you take a glance at the planet's geography:

![Map of the One Piece setting.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GVLBh.jpg)

Not even during earth's theorized pangaea phase did it ever look like this. So
One Piece is either very, very, very far into the future, or more likely
simply not on earth at all.

A lot of ideas in OP are gathered from the eras you've mentioned, certainly,
as a thematic thing, but they don't actually take place in those points of
human history.

