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Latveria invades, conquers, and annexes Slokovia. Meanwhile, the United Nations cedes Genosha to the Brotherhood of Mutants. Jurassic Park, receives 98,120 visitors in its first month. The wreckage of a T-800 is recovered by Cyberdyne Systems and they reverse-engineer its technology. Meanwhile, Alpha Flight is formed. Later, Frank Underwood is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Mackenzie Allen is sworn in for a second term as Vice President.  
Latveria invades, conquers, and declares Kasnia a Latverian Protectorate. Meanwhile, the United Nations cedes Genosha to the Brotherhood of Mutants. Jurassic Park, receives 98,120 visitors in its first month. The wreckage of a T-800 is recovered by Cyberdyne Systems and they reverse-engineer its technology. Meanwhile, Alpha Flight is formed. Later, Frank Underwood is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Mackenzie Allen is sworn in for a second term as Vice President.  
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Stone Age


Before this, things get a bit hazy...

4,092,613 BCE
The Ark crashes into the side of Mount St. Hilary.

48,636 BCE
The Mena Ngai meteor confers immortality on two Cro-Magnons, Klarn Arg, Eshu, and Vandar Adg in Wakanda. Today, they are known as the Immortal Man, Master of the World, and Vandal Savage.

43,259 BCE
Vandal Savage is shipwrecked on Atlantis, and begins the Society of the Children of the Light.

40,939 BCE
Vandal Savage battles the Resurrection Man for the first time. This becomes a recurring battle.

22,187 BCE
A group of Homo supremis form a mountaintop settlement in Atlantis. They quickly develop their own culture and technology. Mastering genetics, they instate a genocracy upon Attilan. Today, they are known as the Inhumans.

17,756 BCE
Several small tribes of nomadic Atlanteans sailed to Antarctica, discovering the Savage Land. Word of the new land spread back to Atlantis, and quickly became a recreational area. The new settlers also imported many of the different breeds of animals from Atlantis.

13,268 BCE
Randac, an Inhuman scientist, isolated a chemical catalyst for human mutation, which he named Terrigen. Randac exposed himself to the Terrigen Mists and emerged with powerful mental-manipulative abilities. Elected to leader because of his genetic superiority, Randac began a program by which all Inhumans, if they so desired, would be subjugated to the Mists.

12,467 BCE
Atlantean Sorcerer Varnae uses the Darkhold to become the first Vampire during a war between the First Evil and Atlantis.

10,129 BCE
Agatha Harkness is born. As a young girl, she wanders into a community of witches, and joins them. Today, she is known as Grande Dame of the Witches of New Salem.

9611 BCE
Magma vents are released, sinking most of Atlantis and Lemuria beneath the oceans, and turning Attilan into an island. Today, this is known as the Great Cataclysm.

8816 BCE
Jebediah of Canaan becomes Vlarem, the champion of six long-forgotten gods. He creates the Rock of Eternity. Today, he is known as the Wizard.

7988 BCE
The Watchers Council is formed.

7805 BCE
A group of Homo mermani discover the ruins of Atlantis and form a settlement. They go on to develop a society using as much of the material as they could salvage. Today, they are known as Atlanteans.

7570 BCE
Methuselah came into possession of a stone that grants him immortality.

6534 BCE
Neptune became patron god of Homo mermani, even living among them for a time.

6628 BCE
Eclipso, the Spirit of Vengeance, devastates the ancient world with the Great Flood. A small handful of Atlanteans load a number of animals aboard a large ark and escape the final destruction of Atlantis. Eclipso is later banished, trapped by the crystalline Heart of Darkness, and replaced by the Spectre.

6045 BCE
Osiris became the first ruler, or pharaoh, of ancient Egypt, establishing his seat of power in the city of Heliopolis. The Egyptians begin organised worship him and his brethren.

5833 BCE
A group of Atlanteans discover the ruins of Lemuria, and form a new settlement. Today, they are known as Lemurians.

3992 BCE
Zeus begins seeking worshippers on Earth as his brother Neptune had already done.

3930 BCE
The Ancient One travels through time, from the 20th century, to Babylonia, defeats a gryphon, and obtains the Book of the Vishanti, before returning home with the book.

Bronze Age


3582 BCE
In Sumer, Vandal Savage kills the inventor of the wheel, and claims it as his own.

3425 BCE
Vandal Savage begins an 803-year reign as the King of Sumer, possibly giving rise to ancient legends of immortal rulers reigning for centuries.

3409 BCE
The Lord of Order Nabu is first incarnated on Earth.

2973 BCE
The Vishanti begin organising a tournament between Earth's most powerful magicians, to be held in the Temple of the Three, in Java, once every one hundred years, to see who would gain the title of Earth's Sorcerer Supreme. Genghis wins the inagural tournament.

2963 BCE
Nathaniel Richards travels through time, from the 30th century, to the First Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He overthrows Pharaoh Den, beginning his 18-year reign as Pharaoh Rama-Tut.

2962 BCE
En Sabah Nur is born. Today, he is known as Apocalypse.

2946 BCE
Methos is born.

3867 BCE
Methos begins keeping a journal.

2878 BCE
The Egyptians mistake En Sabah Nur for a mystical being and worship him as Seth, the god of Death and Famine.

2873 BCE
Agatha Harkness becomes Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

2779 BCE
Zeus takes the guise of King Amphitryon of Troozen and seduces the king's wife, Queen Alcmena, fathering a child, Hercules. Zeus' wife Hera vows to destroy Hercules.

2778 BCE
Hercules, still a baby, first displays his enormous strength when he strangles two serpents that Hera had summoned to attack him.

2773 BCE
Jebediah begins a 200-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

2753 BCE
King Eurystheus of Argos commands Hercules to perform twelve great feats of labour. They will take him 12 years to complete.

2739 BCE
Hercules is killed when his wife Deianeira accidentally poisons him. Zeus intervens in the murder, and transports his son to Olympus, where he is revived and made a full immortal.

2589 BCE
Vandal Savage rules Egypt as Khufu, the first Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, and builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

2573 BCE
Nefer-Pu becomes Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

2543 BCE
The Pharaoh Khafra is mummified with the mystic Blue Scarab gem, later to become the power source of the Blue Beetle, as a result of a confrontation with the Lord of Order, Nabu. An attempt to resurrect him is disrupted by two time travelling Booster Golds. He is thereafter impersonated by Vandal Savage.

2473 BCE
Merlin begins a 300-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

2173 BCE
Agatha Harkness becomes Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

2073 BCE
Jebediah becomes Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

2025 BCE
Nabu becomes more active on Earth, combatting the evil Egyptian priest Khalis, among others.

1973 BCE
Anmautf becomes Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1935 BCE
The Greeks began actively worshipping the Olympians as gods.

1873 BCE
Jebediah begins a 300-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1831 BCE
The Spectre destroys Sodom and Gomorrah.

1573 BCE
Paku-Ru begins a 159-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1414 BCE
Paku-Ru's apprentice, Harakhty, assumes the title of Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1373 BCE
Jebediah begins a 300-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1351 BCE
The time traveller Chronos steals an artefact from Knossos, on Crete, at the behest of Vandal Savage.

1294 BCE
Pharaoh Ramesses II ascends to the throne of Egypt. It is at its peak, as the greatest empire of the age. Jebediah is allied with the Pharaoh as a high priest, as is Nabu.

1273 BCE
The Pharaoh cruelly oppresses the growing population of Israelites living in Egypt's Nile delta region, ordering the drowning of all boys under five, which earns the ire of the Spectre.

1270 BCE
Jebediah creates his first successor, granting Prince Teth-Adam of Kahndaq, son of Pharaoh Ramesses II, access to his own gods given power. Today, he is known as Black Adam.

1269 BCE
On a time-jump from the future, the Flash encounters Prince Khufu Kha-Taar of Egypt, his bodyguard Teth-Adam, and the court magician Nabu. They show him a crashed Thanagarian spacecraft, and for his return trip, give him a Vibranium gauntlet, to aide in a prophesied battle.

1257 BCE
Vandal Savage overruns the Kahndaq region, killing Teth-Adam's family, and attacks the temple city of Karnak, but Khufu, Adam, and Nabu are able to fend him off.

1222 BCE
Thor and Hercules provoke a battle between Asgard and Olympus.

1213 BCE
The Spectre battles and defeats Nabu, ultimately killing Pharaoh Ramesses II. Jebediah leaves Egypt. Teth-Adam is apparently corrupted by his power, however, and tries to usurp the throne, forcing Jebediah to return and remove those powers, imprisoning the supposedly fallen hero at Abu Simbel.

1212 BCE
Moses and his brother Aaron lead the oppressed Israelites on an exodus from Egypt, assisted by the Spectre, who casts a series of plagues upon Egypt, and inundates the Pharaoh's army at the Red Sea. Nabu, his powers waning, places himself in suspended animation not long after this.

1184 BCE
Asgard and Olympus take great interest in the Trojan War, with the Asgardians aiding the Greeks, while the Olympians favour the Trojans.

1183 BCE
Atlantis invades the surface world, but is driven back by the Egyptians and Athenians. The dissenting Idylists leave Atlantis to form a settlement in Crastinus. Today, it is known as Shayeris.

1170 BCE
After 38 years of wandering in the Sinai, the Israelites arrive in Canaan, where they drive out the native dwellers with the aid of the Spectre, who causes the walls to crumble at the battle of Jericho.

1006 BCE
The Romans begin worshipping the Olympians, although they called them by different names than those used by the Greeks. Worship of the Olympians spreads throughout the Roman Empire.

1101 BCE
The Olympian goddesses create the Amazons by reincarnating 2,500 women who died by violence.

1073 BCE
Selene Gallio becomes Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

1019 BCE
Defeated by Heracles, the Amazons are exiled by the gods to the island of Themyscira in penance.

Iron Age


973 BCE
Agatha Harkness becomes Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

969 BCE
Solomon becomes King of Israel. Jebediah, seeking to collect less-corruptible powers for a future champion, begins with Solomon's widely-famed wisdom.

873 BCE
Bai Jing becomes Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

776 BCE
The first Olympic Games are held in Greece. Meanwhile, the wrath of the Spectre is once more unleashed on Earth.

773 BCE
Agatha Harkness begins a 200-year reign as Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

573 BCE
Kharchu becomes Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

495 BCE
En Sabah Nur takes on the guise of Kali Ma. The Indians mistakenly believe him to be their goddess, and worship him.

473 BCE
Jebediah becomes Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

425 BCE
The sorcerer Caius of Lacedaemon gathers together the three Eyes of Agamotto; one of truth, one of prescience, and one of power. Caius uses the Eyes to confine and banish demons. He would be the last mage to wield all three Eyes together.

373 BCE
Caius begins a 300-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

244 BCE
Vandal Savage is sold into slavery in northern Europe.

75 BCE
Vandal Savage faces an incarnation of the Resurrection Man as a gladiator in the Colosseum.

73 BCE
Agatha Harkness begins a 200-year reign as Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

49 BCE
Vandal Savage, in his identity as Julius Caesar, wins a civil war and serves as Dictator, cementing Rome's transformation from a Republic to an Empire.

43 BCE
A group of Roman citizens form a new settlement in the Amazon Rainforest after the apparent death of Julius Caesar. Today, it is known as Nova Roma.

1 CE
The previous incarnation of Asgard is destroyed during a Ragnarok. Light from the burning of Asgard is occasionally mistaken as a new star in the sky.

10 CE
Agatha Harkness, at the behest of Caesar Augustus, casts the "Spell of Humility" over the Gargoyle race, causing their garments to turn to stone during the day.

13 CE
Mephisto manages to take control over the living flame of Zarathos' soul. Over the next few millennia, Mephisto occasionally amuses himself by grafting Zarathos' soul onto that of a human being.

30 CE
The Spectre is freed from limbo, but with the proviso that his wrath must now be tempered by bonding with a human. The first such host is an Indian named Caraka -- who is eventually corrupted by the bond, and becomes the Spectre's nemesis, Azmodus.

127 CE
Servatius of Tongeren begins a 300-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

225 CE
The Teutonic peoples of Scandinavia and Germany begin actively worshipping the Asgardians as gods.

333 CE
The Olympians break off most of their ties with Earth.

308 CE
Vandal Savage rules Rome as Emperor Licinius. He is ultimately defeated in a civil war against his co-regent Constantine, at the battle of Chrysopolis, on 18 September 324.

427 CE
Agatha Harkness becomes Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

496 CE
Britain is united under King Arthur, who defeats the encroaching Saxons at the decisive Battle of Mount Badon, and brings peace after years of fighting. Arthur establishes his court at Camelot, and presides for many years, aided by the sorcerer Merlin. Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table usher in a golden age for Britain and accomplish many great quests, eventually even recovering the Holy Grail.

513 CE
Merlin fashions two weapons, an ebony sword and an ebony dagger, from a mystical meteor. Sir Percy became the Black Knight.

522 CE
Vandal Savage battles an incarnation of the Resurrection Man in Camelot.

527 CE
Merlin begins a 200-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

542 CE
Despite the aid of the Demon Etrigan, enlisted by Merlin, and bound to the human Jason Blood, King Arthur and his knights finally fall to the insidious forces of Arthur's half-sister, Morgaine le Fey, and her son, Mordred. Camelot's brief, shining moment comes to an end, but Arthur is taken away to Avalon, and prophesied to return in Britain's hour of greatest need.

543 CE
The corrupt Kon-sten-tyn -- an ancestor of John Constantine -- is one of several squabbling kings to fill the power vacuum on the island, ruling at Dumnonia. Today, it is known as Cornwall.

606 CE
Sir Raston retrieves the Ebony Blade from Sir Percy's tomb and becomes the second Black Knight.

Middle Age


727 CE
Agatha Harkness begins a 200-year reign as Earth's Sorceress Supreme.

847 CE
Thor begins rewarding and giving favours to his worshippers among the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples. He will visit them many times, stirring them to countless battles and glory.

875 CE
Esteban Corazón de Ablo is born in Spain. Today, he is known as Diablo.

884 CE
The dragon Chiantang invades and destroys K'un-L'un. The survivors rebuild.

927 CE
The Archmage begins a 48-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

975 CE
David Xanatos travels through time, from the 21st century, to the Alpínid dynasty of Ancient Scotland. He saves the life of Princess Elena, is rewarded with a coin, and arranges for it to be delivered to him in 2002, before returning to his own time.

978 CE
The time traveller Antonia unsuccessfully tries to help Jon Haraldson to recover the Holy Grail from Vandal Savage.

984 CE
The Archmage's apprentice, the Magus, assumes the title of Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

994 CE
Goliath's Clan is frozen in stone by a magic spell until Castle Wyvern rises above the clouds.

995 CE
The Magus relinquishes his title as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme. The position will remain vacant for 32 years.

1027 CE
Merlin becomes Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1040 CE
Macbeth is made High King of Scotland.

1044 CE
Thor, in his identity as Siguard, joins an expedition to the New World and discovers an ancient Atlantean outpost Greenland. While there, he reveals himself in order to defeat a monster sent by Loki. His comrades kneel before him, but Thor does not accept their praise, as they were courageous and valiant enough to stand beside him as his equal. Thor then returned to Asgard.

1057 CE
History records that Macbeth is killed at Lunfanan.

1082 CE
An incident between a band of Hercules' Greek warriors and Norse Vikings under the protection of Thor, led to the Third Olympo-Asgardian War. Odin and Zeus put an end to their war by organising the first Pantheon Assembly.

1093 CE
Thor discovers a group of his worshippers slaughtering members of a monastery. Horrified that his followers were committing such atrocities in his name, he withdrew from Earth and let his religion die out.

1187 CE
Sir Eobar of Garrington, a descendant of Sir Percy and ally to Richard the Lionheart, takes possession of the Ebony Blade, and becomes the Black Knight.

1127 CE
Kawamoto Koji becomes Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1188 CE
The Order of St. Dumas is established as a splinter organisation from the Knights Templar. Even more secretive and arcane, they create the Knights of Azrael to be their "Avenging Angels".

1199 CE
On the outskirts of Jerusalem, Etrigan the Demon tortures and murders a cardinal, and rises in the ranks of Hell.

1202 CE
The first Brother Blood rises to power on the Mediterranean isle of Zandia, establishing the Church of Blood.

1206 CE
Vandal Savage, in his identity as Genghis Khan, unites Mongolia.

1215 CE
Vandal Savage, in his identity as Genghis Khan, conquers China.

1216 CE
The physician to a minor sultan in North Africa discovers the mysterious life-restoring and extending powers of the Lazarus Pit, and begins life anew as Ra's al Ghul, the Demon's Head.

1222 CE
Vandal Savage, in his identity as Genghis Khan, devastates the Middle East.

1227 CE
Subutai becomes Earth's Sorcerer Supreme. Meanwhile, Vandal Savage, in his identity as Genghis Khan, terrorises Russia and Eastern Europe, forging the largest land empire in history.

1252 CE
Ra's al Ghul unsuccessfully attempts to seize the Holy Grail as it's being smuggled back to Europe from the court of Batu Khan.

1227 CE
Agatha Harkness begins a 200-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1348 CE
The Black Plague ravages Europe. In Krakow, Ra's al Ghul again nearly acquires the Holy Grail.

1353 CE
En Sabah Nur journeys to the Aztec Empire, taking the form of Huitzilopochtli. The Aztecs mistake him for their god reincarnate, and worship him.

1389 CE
The Order of St. Dumas is condemned by the Church, and goes into hiding.

1450 CE
A youth from the village of Kamar-Taj, Tibet, became apprenticed to Kaluu, the village mystic. Today, the youth is known as the Ancient One. Meanwhile, Varnae decided the time had come for him to end his own existence and to rest in peace. He began searching for his successor as Lord of the Vampires.

1476 CE
Vlad III, Voivode of Wallachia, becomes Dracula.

1483 CE
Varnae confronted Dracula and told him how he had manipulated events to make him Dracula new Lord of the Vampires. Varnae then let the new lord drink his blood, imparting much of his own power. Varnae then committed suicide by exposing himself to direct sunlight.

Modern Age


1507 CE
Leonardo da Vinci paints the timeless Mona Lisa at the behest of Vandal Savage.

1518 CE
Connor MacLeod is born in Glennfinnan, on the shores of Loch Shiel.

1527 CE
The Ancient One began a 491-year reign as Earth's Sorcerer Supreme.

1565 CE
Ra's al Ghul, exploring South America in the wake of the Spanish Conquistadors, encounters a fellow immortal known as Talon.

1566 CE
Suleiman I, the Magnificent, dies while campaigning in Transylvania -- thanks to the actions of Etrigan the Demon -- and the Ottoman Empire begins its long decline.

1588 CE
Vandal Savage, in his identity as Don Alonso Perez de Guzman, leads the Spanish Armada against the vastly-outnumbered British Royal Navy, only to meet with defeat.

1592 CE
Duncan MacLeod is born in Glennfinnan, on the shores of Loch Shiel.

1606 CE
Dracula moved his base of operations to the new Castle Dracula at the Borgo Pass, Transylvania.

1634 CE
Ten years after founding a trading post on Manhattan, Dutch settlers found another outpost on the island that will one day be the core of Metropolis.

1635 CE
Explorer Jon Logerquist founds the village that will grow into Gotham.

1660 CE
On the advice of Lucifer himself, Jason Blood travels to America seeking new fortunes.

1692 CE
Witch trials were held at Salem, Massachusetts. Because of the persecution they had been subjected to over the past few centuries, many witches and warlocks decided to gather together and isolate themselves from the rest of the world. Founding a small town in the Westchester County, these practitioners of the occult named the town New Salem to remind them of the oppression they had undergone from the outside world. Today, New Salem is part of Salem Centre, New York.

1715 CE
The evil Ma'alefa'ak, brother of J'onn J'onzz, unleashes a telepathic flame-plague that destroys the ancient race and civilisation of Mars, including J'onzz's family. Devastated, J'onzz wanders aimlessly, until he is unexpectedly pulled to Earth by a teleportation beam.

1717 CE
Atlantean scientist Kyral developed and perfected a cloning process. The Atlanteans praised these discoveries, and eventually the process was used to create a race of slaves. However the slave population rapidly grew and they eventually demanded equal rights. Prince Thallo ordered the death of all of the clones, and within one day of his orders, the massacre was accomplished. To prevent such further tragedies in the future, the process of cloning was outlawed, punishable by death.

1718 CE
Vandal Savage ends a successful career in his identity as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, sending a crewman to die in his place.

1727 CE
Liam O'Connell is born. Today, he is known as Angel.

1738 CE
Vandal Savage fights an incarnation of Resurrection Man in the waters off Hispaniola.

1744 CE
The Metropolis Academy, a private preparatory college school, is founded in Senreville, Metropolis.

1756 CE
Latverian nobleman Count Sabbat orderes construction begin on his castle, which would overlook the Latverian capital of Haasenstadt. Today, it is known as Castle Doom.

1763 CE
The Hellfire Club, a social organisation for the British elite, was founded. It was a pleasure club that offered indulgences that would have violated the moral standards of society, but it also served as a means for its members to combine their influence over England's political and economical matters.

1764 CE
Thomas Jefferson and certain colleagues attempt to summon a demon, which becomes the spirit of Gotham.

1770 CE
The time traveller Dan Hunter fails to prevent Vandal Savage's scheme to replace George Washington with an impostor, Adam Weisshaupt of the Illuminati. Hunter stays in the era.

1772 CE
A number of Hellfire Club members immigrated to America, where they set up the American headquarters of the Hellfire Club on Manhattan Island, New York.

1775 CE
Nyssa Raatko, daughter of Ras al Ghul, is born to a Russian peasant in St. Petersburg.

1779 CE
Darius Wayne fights a holding action to keep Gotham Town from the British. After the war, Wayne is rewarded for his heroism with the plot of land that will become his hereditary estate.

1783 CE
Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant biology and chemistry student at the University of Ingolstadt, created artificial life. Frankenstein had been working on a method to reanimate dead tissue so that human beings could attain immortality. Piecing together body parts from a number of corpses, Frankenstein succeeded in animating the huge cadaver. Horrified and repulsed at his creation, Frankenstein rejected the monster and it wandered off.

1785 CE
Vandal Savage fights and kills an incarnation of the Resurrection Man at Savage Manor, in England.

1794 CE
Mortally wounded while fighting alongside Ra's al Ghul in the Sudan, Nyssa Raatko is saved by a life-extending Lazarus Pit.

1812 CE
Leading a British army under Wellington, Ra's al Ghul devastates Badajoz, Spain, in fury at having again narrowly missed procuring the Holy Grail.

1813 CE
Vandal Savage battles an incarnation of Resurrection Man in France.

1832 CE
James Howlett is born. Today, he is known as the the Wolverine.

1837 CE
Tha-Korr the Great moves his capital to Sareme and renamed the city Tha-Korr.

1838 CE
In London, a young man named Dickie Swift gains shadow powers, and loses his mortality. He will become known as the Shade.

1845 CE
William Pratt is born. Today, he is known as Spike.

1849 CE
A band of apes attains superhuman intelligence, and founds the secretive Gorilla City deep in the heart of Africa.

1866 CE
Arthur Gordon Pym, his life extended, begins operating undersea as Captain Nemo.

1870 CE
Frankenstein's monster defeats a scheme by Melmoth in the Pacific Northwest.

1871 CE
Vandal Savage advises Prussia's Otto von Bismarck, helping to orchestrate the Franco-Prussian War, and Bismarck's subsequent elevation to the Chancellorship of a newly unified Germany.

1872 CE
The Daily Planet, a Metropolis newspaper, is founded.

1873 CE
The Skarkan Horde invades, conquers, and annexes Thierna Na Oge from the Atlantean Empire.

1876 CE
The Skarkan Horde invades, conquers, and annexes Tlapallan from the Atlantean Empire.

1877 CE
The Empire of Atlantis divides into the Kingdom of Atlantis, Principality of Atlantis, and a number of smaller city-states.

1878 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades, conquers, and annexes Hy-Brasil from Atlantis-Poseidonis.

1879 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades, conquers, and annexes Bazilia from Atlantis-Poseidonis. Meanwhile, the Skarkan Horde invades Aurania of Atlantis-Poseidonis, but is repelled.

1884 CE
Time traveller Jeff Smith fails to prevent Vandal Savage's scheme to elevate Porfirio Diaz to the presidency of Mexico. Meanwhile, Vandal Savage confronts an incarnation of Resurrection Man in London's Whitechapel district. The Skarkan Horde invades Aurania of Atlantis-Poseidonis, but is repelled.

1886 CE
Vandal Savage is once again living in England, on an estate near Little Baddow.

1888 CE
The Kingdom of Wakanda absorbs the neighbouring Kingdom of Kwarrai. Meanwhile, Vandal Savage in his identity as Jack the Ripper terrorises streetwalkers in London's Whitechapel district.

1889 CE
The Skarkan Horde invades, conquers, and annexes Maarzon from Atlantis-Poseidonis.

1890 CE
Dracula moved to Carfax Abbey, England, and menaced the city of London. Vampire hunter Abraham van Helsing thwarted Dracula's plans to establish a stronghold, and the vampire fled back to Transylvania. van Helsing pursued Dracula, and helped bring about his destruction. Dracula's remains were placed in a coffin, and entombed in a cave.

1892 CE
Vandal Savage battles an incarnation of Resurrection Man on the streets of Tucson, Arizona. Meanwhile, Solomon Wayne dies at 104, leaving his fortune to his son Alan, who invests in the railroad business and founds the umbrella company Wayne Enterprises.

1894 CE
Cyrus Gold perishes in Slaughter Swamp. He will become the monstrous Solomon Grundy.

1896 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades, conquers, and annexes Maritanis from Atlantis-Poseidonis. Meanwhile, the Skarkan Horde invades Aurania of Atlantis-Poseidonis, but is repelled.

1897 CE
The Daily Bugle, a New York newspaper, is founded. Meanwhile, Abraham van Helsing's journal entries, and other material related to Dracula's experience in Britain, are collected by Bram Stoker, and published in book form.

1900 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades, conquers, and annexes Thierna Na Oge from the Skarkan Horde.

1901 CE
Nathaniel Richards, in his identity as Victor Timely, travels through time to found the town of Timely, Wisconsin. He establishes Timely Industries in order to slowly release technological innovations. Timely's technology, along with that of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, helps bring about the 20th century's technological revolution.

1906 CE
Vandal Savage causes an incredibly powerful earthquake to destroy almost all of the Coast City, California. The earthquake caused whole sections of the city to sink underground, which were quickly covered over with rubble and debris. Some of the submerged sections of the city were not completely buried, and in some areas whole buildings remained undamaged. After the earthquake, the rubble and debris above the submerged sections stayed intact, and during reconstruction of the city, the artificial ceilings of the caverns were built upon. No one knew that lost sections of the city still remained underground, and they would remain lost for decades.

1911 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Tritonis from the Skarkan Horde.

1912 CE
H.M.S. Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic. It is actually caused by Arthur Gordon Pym's Leviathan. Meanwhile, Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Tlapallan.

1914 CE
John Falsworth becomes Baron Blood. Meanwhile, his father James Montgomery Falsworth, becomes Union Jack. His one-man commando style antics are extremely successful against German aggressors. Steve Trevor crashes his plane near Themyscira. Diana assumes her costumed identity as Wonder Woman. Logan fights for the Canadian Army in the First World War.

1917 CE
After Etrigan's bloody role in the third battle of Ypres, the demon blanks Jason Blood's memory. His true past, from Camelot forward, remains hidden from him for eighty-four years. Meanwhile, yhe Phantom Eagle, Union Jack, Crimson Cavalier, Sir Steel, and Silver Squire band together as the Freedom Five to fight the Germans.

1918 CE
Steven Grant Rogers is born. Today, he is known as Captain America. Meanwhile, the Skarkan Horde invades Tlapallan of Atlantis-Poseidonis, but is repelled.

1919 CE
Captain Leonard McKenzie of the Oracle led an expedition to Antarctica to locate the Endurance, an exploratory ship that had disappeared a dozen years before. During the search, he meets, falls in love with, and marries Princess Fen of Atlantis. English, the language of the surface world, quickly spreads through the city of Tha-Korr.

1920 CE
When Prohibition is enacted, Gotham gangster Guiseppe Bertinelli unites the Beretti and Galante families behind him, wins a gang war with the Cassamentos and Inzerillos, and becomes top capo of Gotham's 'Five Families' of organised crime. Meanwhile, Namor McKenzie is born. Today, he is known as the Sub-Mariner.

1921 CE
In the Narrows, Dr. Amadeus Arkham founds the asylum that will bear his name. He will be imprisoned there himself in 1929. Meanwhile, Nick Fury is born.

1924 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades Thierna Na Oge of Atlantis-Tha-Korr, but is repelled.

1926 CE
The Skarkan Horde invades, conquers, and annexes Tlapallan from Atlantis-Poseidonis.

1927 CE
An elderly Bat Lash, along with Biff Bradley, Hans von Hammer, the enigmatic Miss Fear, and a young Chop-Chop, attempts to recover mystic Chinese artefacts from 'Dragon Island', but they are outmanoeuvred by Vandal Savage.

1928 CE
Vandal Savage, allied with Al Capones mob, fights an incarnation of Resurrection Man in Chicago. Meanwhile, Natalia Romanova is born. Today, she is known as the Black Widow.

1929 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades, conquers, and annexes Maarzon from the Skarkan Horde.

1932 CE
Max Eisenhardt is born. Today, he is known as Magneto.

1933 CE
The top-secret Project M recovers the body of a giant gorilla killed in New York. Meanwhile, 'Dutch' Mallone, a gangster living in Elmhurst, Queens, was arrested and charged with tax evasion. The house in which Mallone lived was later bought and occupied by the newlywed couple of Ben and May Parker. Mallone spent the rest of his life in prison, but it was long rumoured that before he was arrested, he had stashed away millions of dollars somewhere. In actuality, Mallone had the money hidden away in one of the walls of his Elmhurst home.

1934 CE
Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, a young Prussian nobleman, is recruited by the German government's intelligence services. Meanwhile, Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Tlapallan from the Skarkan Horde.

1934 CE
German scientist Baron Zemo offers his services to the German government as a designer of new technology and weaponry for the military and intelligence services.

1935 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades, conquers, and annexes Xebel from the Skarkan Horde.

1936 CE
Archaeologist Indiana Jones goes on a quest for the lost Ark of the Covenant. Meanwhile, Nathaniel Essex seduces radio comedienne Faye Livingston so that he could better study her genetic structure. As he had guessed, she did have the potential to give birth to superhuman mutants. Eventually he released her, but the traumatic experience drove her insane, and she had to be hospitalised for the remainder of her life. Meanwhile, Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades, conquers, and annexes Xamuu from the Skarkan Horde.

1937 CE
Soldier of fortune Eugene Judd fought in the Spanish Civil War. While there, he met and became friends with news correspondent Ernest Hemingway.

1938 CE
Dubbed the Sub-Mariner by air breathers, Namor makes several attacks on the surface world. He attacks New York, destroying a Kord Industries plant.

1939 CE
Soldier of fortune Eugene Judd discovered the mystical Black Blade of Baghdad. The spirit of the ancient Persian sorcerer Razor becomes trapped within Judd's body, reducing his height, but granting him unnaturally long life. Meanwhile, the American government, realising that war against Germany was probably imminent, and wishing to come up with an American counterpart to the Nazi agent the Red Skull, assigned Dr. Abraham Erskine to work on Project: Rebirth, a means to create perfect super-soldiers. Meanwhile, the Skarkan Horde invades Poseidonis, but is repelled.

1940 CE
A British hunting expedition enters the African nation of Wakanda. One of the members noted the existence of a mound of an unusual type of ore, which he named Vibranium. He took samples of it back to Britain. Meanwhile, the Eisenhardt family were discovered by German agents. The terror of the incident prematurely activated Max Eisenhardt's mutant abilities. However, the experience drained him that he fell unconscious. He and his family were sent to Auschwitz for slave labour and experimentation.

1941 CE
During the night, April Stevenson applies a homemade cleaner to a metal shield. The next day, Dr. Myron MacLain discovers that his experiment to fuse Wakandan Vibranium with an iron alloy has been successful. The shield is completely impervious. He calls this new metal, Adamantium. Studying it for years, he is unable to repeat the process. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Sam Sawyer and Nicholas Fury were on a secret mission in the Netherlands to rescue a British scientist. Fury met Timothy 'Dum-Dum' Dugan, an American working as a strongman in a travelling circus, and the two became fast friends.

1942 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Skarka. The Skarkan Horde fades into history. Meanwhile, the American government begins recruiting volunteers for the Super-Soldier project. Horrified at the newsreel footage of the war in Europe, Steve Rogers decided to attempt to enlist in the American army. Ranked 4-F because he was physically weak and puny, Rogers begins pleading to be accepted. Overhearing his requests, Dr. Erskine arranged for Rogers to be accepted into the project.

1943 CE
Learning the location of an undersea city, the Germans become committed to the Tha-Korr's destruction. The attack destroys the Tha-Korrian navy, Tha-Korrian Hall of Science, and leaves the Prince in a coma. Namor, acting as Prince, repels the invasion. Meanwhile, Corporal Logan of the Canadian Army's 1st Canadian parachute Battalion, lands in Normandy, where he is discovered by German soldiers. Using only his knife, he clears a landing site for the rest of his men.

1944 CE
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, impressed with Captain America, Bucky, the first Human Torch, Sub-Mariner, and Toro, urges them to band together as the Invaders for the remainder of the war. Meanwhile, the Germans successfully draw Thor to Earth, where they convince him to fight for them. Upon learning of their misdeeds, Thor abandons them and returns to Asgard.

1945 CE
During the last days of the war in Europe, Captain America attempts to disarm a prototypical intercontinental ballistic missile. Unable to disarm it, he crashes it into the Canadian arctic.

1946 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Lemuria, forcing the Kingdom of Lemuria to move its capital to Venturia. Meanwhile, appalled at the inhumanity they had witnessed during the war years, many of the surviving metahumans begin to live ordinary lives.

1948 CE
After several years of field work, Agent Carter receives an offer from Howard Stark to help create the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, also known as S.H.I.E.L.D.

1949 CE
Armin Zola is released from prison seemingly reformed and joins S.H.I.E.L.D. However, he devises a plan to rebuild Hydra with sleeper agents that would take over S.H.I.E.L.D. from within. As part of his plan, he recovers Bucky Barnes' body and keeps him in cryostasis, aiming to turn him into a super weapon for Hydra known as the Winter Soldier.

1950 CE
While serving in Korea, Victor Creed kills a senior officer, and Logan defends him from retaliating soldiers. The two are arrested and are eventually sent to be executed by a firing squad. However, their regenerative healing abilities prevent them from being killed.

1953 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Venturia. The Kingdom of Lemuria fades into history.

1954 CE
Godzilla, a giant kaiju created by the radioactivity from an H-bomb test, attacks Japan and completely destroys Tokyo. The beast is believed to have been killed by the Oxygen Destroyer.

1956 CE
Max Eisenhardt returns to Europe, disillusioned with America's image as the land of tolerance and peace.

1963 CE
The Winter Soldier is regularly taken out of stasis to perform covert operations for Hydra, including the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy. Max Eisenhardt, using his magnetic powers, makes a failed attempt to save him. Several witnesses place Eisenahrdt on the plaza's Grassy Knoll during the assassination.

1965 CE
Charles Francis Xavier is born. Today, he is known as Professor X.

1966 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Kamuu from Atlantis-Tha-Korr.

1972 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Xebel from Atlantis-Tha-Korr.

1979 CE
Logan joins the Canadian government's Weapon X program.

1981 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades, conquers, and annexes Xebel from Atlantis-Poseidonis.

1986 CE
Chernobyl disaster causes many babies born to develop mutations.

1991 CE
Genosha becomes a safe haven for mutants.

1993 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Xebel from Atlantis-Tha-Korr.

1994 CE
A 'mutant cure' experiment fails when animal testing goes wrong, causing Mad Cow Disease.

1995 CE
Charles Xavier earns a PhD in Genetics from Oxford University.

1996 CE
Max Eisenhardt, now known as Magneto, forms the Brotherhood of Mutants.

1996 CE
Jonathan and Martha Kent discover a crashed U.F.O. on their farm containing a small boy, who they name Clark.

2001 CE
Thomas and Martha Wayne are killed by a mugger leaving their son Bruce orphaned and under the care of Alfred Pennyworth.

2002 CE
David Xanatos receives an anonymous gift of a medieval coin worth $20,000. It is the start of his fortune, and was actually sent to David by his 2017 counterpart, via the Illuminati Society from the year 975.

2003 CE
The Ghostbusters are founded. Later that year, they defeat the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Their exploits will later serve as the basis for a franchise.

2003 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades Xebel of Atlantis-Poseidonis, but is repelled.

2007 CE
Matt Murdock is blinded by a canister that falls from an oncoming vehicle while pushing a man to safety from an oncoming truck. The canister breaks, and the glowing goo subsequently washed down the drain, where it coated Hamato Yoshi and four baby turtles.

2008 CE
The Maltese-registered ship Sea Bird collides with the Greek-registered cargo ship Syros leaking oil off the coast of Argentina. In response, Atlantis-Tha-Korr claims a portion of Argentina, establishing the Tierra Nueva Protectorate.

2009 CE
The Mutant Inhibitor Collar is introduced.

2011 CE
Atlantis-Tha-Korr and the United States construct the underwater Hydropolis base, also known as the Hydrobase, to assist Atleantean-Human relations.

2012 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades, conquers, and annexes Shayeris and Niu Crastinus.

2013 CE
Atlantis-Poseidonis invades Deluvia of Atlantis-Tha-Korr, but is repelled. Meanwhile, Dr. Bruce Banner joins a project to recreate Abraham Erskine's super-soldier formula. When he begins experimenting on himself, a gamma radiation accident turns him into the Hulk. Banner goes on the run looking for a cure. Reed Richards accidentally frees Teth-Adam from Abu Simbel. A few weeks later, Teth-Adam declares Kahndaq's independence from Egypt.

2014 CE
Hank Pym invents a suit that allows him to shrink to an insect's size and an E.M.P. communication device that allows him to command ants. He becomes known as the Ant-Man. The Conductors of the Metaphysical Examination are founded. Later that year, they defeat Rowan North. Their exploits will lead to them joining the Ghostbusters.

2015 CE
Tony Stark is attacked and captured in Mazikhandar. A fellow captive scientist named Yensin creates a device that keeps his heart functioning. Stark escapes during the Atlantis-Tha-Korr invasion, and becomes Iron Man. Mazikhandar is declared an Atlantean protectorate. Construction of Niu Atlantis begins in earnest. Meanwhile, Bruce Wayne becomes the vigilante Batman.

2016 CE
Mjolnir lands on Earth, along with Thor, who has been banished from Asgard by Odin. Meanwhile, David Xanatos purchases Castle Wyvern and begins moving it to the top of the Eyrie Building in New York as his headquarters.

2017 CE
The Fantastic Four are formed; Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider, becoming Spider-Man; Professor Charles Xavier rounds up a bunch of precocious teenagers, and forms the X-Men. Meanwhile, Hawkeye is sent to terminate Natasha Romanova, the Black Widow, under orders from S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury. He spares her life with an offer to join S.H.I.E.L.D. instead, which she accepts.

2018 CE
The Ancient One's apprentice, Dr. Stephen Strange, assumes the title of Earth's Sorcerer Supreme. Meanwhile, Atlantis-Tha-Korr invades Kahndaq, but is repelled. Mutants are enslaved in Genosha.

2019 CE
Arnim Zola engineers the sinking of a section of San Diego. 13,712 people lose their lives. The sunken area is now known as Sub Diego. The remaining portion has since been rebuilt into National City. Meanwhile, Professor X assembles a new X-Men team, including Colossus, Storm, and Wolverine, among others.

2020 CE
Spider-Man dons the Symbiote suit. Meanwhile, the Morlocks, a group of homeless mutants who live in the sewers of Brooklyn, are systematically eradicated by Sabretooth and the villainous Mr. Sinister. Later, Governor Susan Brayden of Washington is elected the 46th President of the United States, and Governor Matthew Ellis of New York is elected the 49th Vice President of the United States.

2021 CE
Captain America is discovered frozen in the ice, with Erskine's serum keeping him alive and preserved. He is awakened by S.H.I.E.L.D. and discovers that he has been asleep for 76 years. A few weeks later, Loki attacks New York in an attempt to conquer Earth. In response, Nick Fury calls forth the Avengers.

2022 CE
Matthew Ellis resigns the office of Vice President of the United States. Congressman Frank Underwood of South Carolina is sworn in as the 50th Vice President of the United States. Meanwhile, Clinton continues to rebuild after Loki's attack, Foggy Nelson and Matt Murdock decide to open up a private law office. Later, General Zod arrives on Earth and attempts to terraform Earth into New Krypton, but is stopped by Superman.

2023 CE
Susan Brayden resigns the office of President of the United States. Frank Underwood is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States. Congresswoman Mackenzie Allen of Connecticut is sworn in as the 51st Vice President of the United States. Meanwhile, Buffy Summers transfers to Sunny Hill High in Blüdhaven. She is called as a Slayer by her new watcher, Rupert Giles.

2024 CE
Latveria invades, conquers, and declares Kasnia a Latverian Protectorate. Meanwhile, the United Nations cedes Genosha to the Brotherhood of Mutants. Jurassic Park, receives 98,120 visitors in its first month. The wreckage of a T-800 is recovered by Cyberdyne Systems and they reverse-engineer its technology. Meanwhile, Alpha Flight is formed. Later, Frank Underwood is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Mackenzie Allen is sworn in for a second term as Vice President.

2025 CE
The Imperium Invasion is thwarted by a group of heroes who later form the Justice League. An officially unrelated, but similar group, form the Titans. Queen Consolidated and Rand Corporation unveil the world's first Zetaport, connecting New York to Starling. Frank Underwood is assassinated by a Claire Underwood impopster. Mackenzie Allen is sworn in as the 48th President of the United States.

2026 CE
Donald Blythe Congressman Donald Blythe of New Hampshire's Second Congressional District is sworn in as the 52nd Vice President of the United States.

The World of Tomorrow


2027 CE
French Presidential Election (April). Serbian presidential election (April). United Kingdom General Election (May). Argentine General Election (October). 45th Canadian Federal Election (October). Kenyan Presidential Election (October). The Vishanti Tournament for Earth's Sorcerer Supreme LI.

2028 CE
United States Presidential Election, 2028.

2029 CE
Madripoorian Presidential Election, 2029

2030 CE
Russian Presidential Election, 2030.

2031 CE
Bulgarian Presidential Election, 2031. 46th Canadian Federal Election.

2036 CE
The Hydrobase will be purchased by the Church of Thor and renamed Valhalla.

2040 CE
Realising that Batman is aging, Amanda Waller begins plans for Project Batman Beyond. She takes a sample of his D.N.A.

2042 CE
Wayne Enterprises and Powers Technology will merge into Wayne-Powers Enterprises.

2047 CE
Batman, suffering problems from an old leg injury and heart problems, will create a suit so that he can continue to fight crime. Not long after, Bruce will suffer a heart attack during battle. While being beaten, he will threaten his attacker with a fallen gun. Shocked at how far he will go, he will retire from crime-fighting.

2048 CE
The Pollution War will begin.

2049 CE
Vandal Savage will end the Pollution War by detonating a nuclear device in Buenos Aires, Terra Nueva, killing Prince Namor, and a future version of himself, in the process.

2057 CE
Paul-Philip Ravage, a hero of the Pollution Wars, will become the vigilante Ravage.

2058 CE
May Parker begins her costumed superheroics as Spider-Girl.

2059 CE
Terry McGinnis will become the vigilante Batman. Miguel O'Hara will rewirte his D.N.A. to become Spider-Man.

2319 CE
An armistice is signed ending the Unification War

2433 CE
Eobard Thawne will be born. Today, he is known as Professor Zoom.

2442 CE
Michael Jonathan Carter will be born. Today, he is known as Booster Gold.

2912 CE
Nathaniel Richards will be born. Today, he is known as Kang.

2990 CE
The Legion of Superheroes will form.

85,271 CE
Vandal Savage travels through time, arriving in Tierra Nueva, moments before the nuclear blast he caused, finally bringing his life to an end.