Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25075327-20140618023513/@comment-732150-20140618025743

We use the Nine-Tails Attack on Konoha as the defining moment from which events are dated. And the villages began about sixty five years prior to current time, the story we got after Itachi died went further in the past than the foundation of the villages. Sage is much older than 500, as Shima and Fukasaku, who are about 800 years, thought the Sage was a myth.