Timeline

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This is a timeline circling the events of Tom Clancy's The Division and Tom Clancy's The Division 2. Many of the events are sourced from the games, novels and comics from the franchise.
==November 27, 20151==
* Gordon Amherst releases the Dollar Flu (Variola chimera) in Abel's Department Store on Black Friday in New York City.
==November 301,2,3==
* Due to increasing concern about the pandemic, schools do not reopen after Thanksgiving break.
==December 1-51==
* Symptoms of the Dollar Flu begin to emerge.
* Medical facilities quickly overwhelmed by the number of cases.
* The Disease Control Department (DCD)A and other federal authorities declare a state of emergency.
* Citizens are ordered to shelter in place and all businesses are closed.
==December 32==
*April Kelleher witnesses her husband Bill’s death in front of Sequent Biotech Group (SBGx).
* April begins chronicling her experiences in Manhattan in a copy of New York Collapse: A Survival Guide to Urban Catastrophe, a book given to her by Bill.
*The Catastrophic Emergency Response Agency (CERA)B sets up a mobile command post at the Javits Convention Center.
==December 42==
* A policeman tells April that nine hundred people in Manhattan died of the Green Poison the day before.
* Quarantine on Manhattan tightened as the National Guard barricades all bridges and tunnels.
==December 52==
* People seeking the vaccine riot at the main CERA distribution point near Hudson Yards.
*ATMs crash.C
==December 62==
* Power outages across Manhattan.
*Television stations go off the air, internet service providers go down, and cell service is unavailable.
==December 72==
* Fatality rate estimated at 90%.
==December 82==
*The DCD sequences the virus and confirms that it is a variant of smallpox.
==December 92==
*Coroners are unable to keep up with deaths as bodies stack up in the streets.
==December 9-101==
*President Lawrence Waller orders a lockdown of New York City.
*CERA begins mass vaccination of first responders and health workers before moving onto the public.
*The city begins to reopen with a curfew in effect.
*CERA sets up field clinics throughout the city and distributes supplies and medication.
*CERA also sets up a mass treatment facility for advanced smallpox cases in a sealed-off section of Manhattan and begins bussing severe cases to the location.
*Smallpox vaccine found to have no effect as the first wave of deaths sweep across the city.
==December 112==
*Construction of a reinforced perimeter wall begins in an area of N.Y.C. that will later be called the Dark Zone.
==December 122==
* April stays overnight in a shelter in Hell’s Kitchen.
==December 132==
*The president delivers a short address and confirms the virus is engineered and that it is a terrorist attack.
*The DCD confirms the virus was spread on dollar bills.
==December 11-141==
*The World Health Organization declares the outbreak a pandemic.
*Nationwide state of martial law ordered by President Waller.
*Black markets and smuggling begin to thrive as supplies grow scarce.
*City streets descend into chaos as law enforcement begins to withdraw from neighborhoods where they are outnumbered and threatened by mob violence.
*The remaining members of the police and fire departments, National Guard, and military reserves, consolidate to form the Joint Task Force (JTF)
*The pandemic reaches Washington, D.C. Public services break down within seventy-two hours.
==December 172==
*April returns to the SBGx lab building hoping to find clues to Bill’s death.
==December 15-171==
* Federal authorities designate containment zones in Manhattan to control crowd migration with military engineers constructing barriers at 14th Street and 58th Street.
*The sealed-off central Manhattan “sick zone” where CERA has been busy bussing and detaining smallpox victims is becoming increasingly dangerous.
*JTF units begin to leave entire blocks unpatrolled.
*In Washington, D.C., the U.S. Capitol Police and Metro Police lock down the entire District of Columbia.
*National Guard troops are called in to provide extra protection for federal workers and government officials.
*More than 100,000 dead in Manhattan from the virus.2
==December 182==
*Rumors of stockpiled vaccines and food causes a riot in front of the James Farley Post Office. Gunfire is exchanged between the JTF and rioters, leading to the deaths of numerous civilians.
==December 202==
*Rick Valassi, in his “Wouldn’t You Know It” pirate radio broadcast, states that over 5,000,000 in the United States have died and more than ten times that worldwide.D
==December 18-201==
* President Waller invokes Directive 51 to ensure continuity of the federal government as the crisis worsens.
*The president activates the first wave of Strategic Homeland Division (SHD) agents embedded in New York City.
*Two days later a rolling blackout strikes the sealed-off Manhattan “sick zone,” which acquires a new name, the Dark Zone.
*Within twenty-four hours, the JTF and all medical personnel abandon the Dark Zone’s mass treatment facilities. They regroup at the James Farley Post Office in Manhattan, which serves as the base of operations for CERA and the JTF.
==December 212==
*Two bridges are blown up over the Harlem River.E
==December 242,4==
*Doug Sutton dies rescuing April from a group of Rikers. April takes his weapons and Division agent backpack.
==December 252==
* Rick Valassi reports a big Christmas celebration at Grand Central Station.
==December 262,F==
* April tracks down “the Doctor” (Liu) at the James Farley Post Office. He tells her they are closer to finding out who released the Dollar Bug than they are to finding a treatment.
==December 272==
* April starts experiencing symptoms of the Dollar Flu.
==December 302==
* April starts to recover.
==Late December1==
* The first wave of Division agents deploys to the Dark Zone to set up an outpost, seeking to quell the violence and restore order.
* JTF base dispatchers gradually lose contact with the entire Division team. None return.
* Rioters threaten to overrun the James Farley Post Office.
* As the New Year approaches, preliminary counts suggest more than 200,000 citizens in Manhattan have succumbed to the contagion or violence while more have been displaced, lingering in shelters or clinics.
* All basic civic services have shut down.
* Thousands of inmates escape from Rikers Island. Many of them band together to form a gang, the Rikers.
* Rick Valassi says there is a cannibal cult in the sewers.2
==Early January5==
*Ike Ronson’s ex-wife and two children are murdered by the Cleaners.
==January 2, 20162==
*Pitched battle up and down 8th Avenue between the JTF and Rikers.
==January 42==
*April travels south of Houston Street looking for a place to live away from the war zone in Manhattan.
*April enters the NYU library looking for a book that may contain a clue to the location of Warren Merchant, author of New York Collapse.
*A “library” cult lives in the NYU library. Bodies of people who have defaced books hang from the upper railings.
==January 52==
*April decides to settle in a fourth-floor apartment on the Lower East Side.
*A conflict between the JTF, Last Man Battalion, and Rikers, begins shaping up north of 14th Street.
==January 1-51==
*The president activates Division agents in the District of Columbia.
*Following the New York City model, all military and law enforcement agencies in Washington, D.C., are combined under a single command called the Joint Task Force.
*Quarantine zone established on Theodore Roosevelt Island for infected patients.
*CERA establishes a refugee camp at the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall.
==January 61==
*The president activates the second wave of Division agents in New York City.
*Second wave agents help end the siege of the James Farley Post Office.
*With the help of The Division, the JTF begins to expand across Manhattan.
==January 71==
* President Waller dies from cardiac arrest (although it is rumored his actual cause of death was the virus).
*Vice President Thomas Mendez is sworn in as President of the United States.
*April leaves the Lower East Side, going north in search of Warren Merchant.2
==January 101==
*Colonel Antwon Ridgeway, head of the Maryland National Guard, is promoted to the rank of general and appointed Joint Task Force field commander of the Southeast Region.
* Ridgeway begins a merciless crackdown on mob violence in the capital.
==Late January1==
*Most civilian communications in Washington, D.C., go offline.
*Gas shortages trigger riots north of Pennsylvania Avenue as fierce gang-fighting spreads across northern neighborhoods.
==Early February1==
*Suffering from a broken chain of command, mass desertions, and death due to the virus and attrition through fighting to maintain order, the United States Military is thrown into crisis.
*International trade shuts down, exacerbating food and security crises as the pandemic spreads around the globe.
*Divison agent Aurelio Diaz travels from Washington, D.C. to New York City.5,I
==February 141==
*Several major criminal gangs in D.C. who have been fighting for territory north of Pennsylvania Avenue unite into a loose confederation known as the Hyenas.
==Late February1==
*General Ridgeway is arrested, court-martialed, and place under incarceration.
*Loyal members of Ridgeway’s JTF unit break him out.
*Ridgeway forms the True Sons.
*Military operatives are recalled from their deployments worldwide and quietly installed into quarantine areas within the United States.
==Early March1==
* The collapse and withdrawal of JTF forces lead to gang control in much of Washington, D.C.
* Survivors of the forced quarantine on Roosevelt Island form the Outcasts. Emeline Shaw, an asymptomatic carrier of the virus becomes their leader.
*The True Sons seize control of the U.S Capitol Building.
*Refugee settlement, The Campus, founded at George Washington University.
==Late March==
*“The Theater” settlement is founded at Fords Theater.1
*Mantis contacts Ike Ronson to recruit him for Black Tusk.5,H
*Division agent Mathias Kaminsky is killed by Mantis in a botched raid on the LMB in Chinatown.6,J
*Caleb Dunne, Kaminsky’s partner, heads for Philadelphia in pursuit of Mantis.6
==Early April==
*The Potomac River overflows in banks, flooding the Mandarin Oriental settlement.5
* Many people from the Mandarin, including Amelia and Ivan Diaz, and Mike Snow, move to The Castle.5
*Caleb arrives in Camden, New Jersey, where he meets Division agent Heather Ward.6
*Hoping to catch up with Mantis, Caleb and Heather stage a raid on the Founders’ compound in Philadelphia.6
==April 91==
*President Mendez dies from an apparent suicide.
*Secret Service compromised.
*Speaker of the House Andrew Ellis is sworn in as president.
==Mid-April6==
*The two Division agents, Dunne and Ward, travel to Fort Meade in the hopes of getting a satcom transceiver captured from the Founders decrypted. There they meet another agent, Brian Johnson.K
==Late April6==
*Techs at Fort Meade decrypt the Founders’ transceiver.
==Early May1,5,G==
*President Ellis is captured by the Hyenas after Air Force One is shot down.
* The SHD Network goes down, automatically enacting a recall of Division operatives.
*April locates Roger Koopman in the Dark Zone.
*April leaves Manhattan and begins her journey to Ann Arbor, Michigan in search of answers for Bill’s murder.
*Ike Ronson leaves a group of civilians who are under attack by the Duane Park Family to fend for themselves after receiving a call from Mantis ordering him to pursue April Kelleher. He calls for assistance for the civilians after he leaves.
*Aurelio leaves Manhattan in pursuit of Ike after discovering the dead civilians he walked out on.
*Lt. Hendricks at the Base of Operations changes Ronson’s status to rogue agent at Aurelio’s urging.
*Brian, Caleb, and Heather capture Mantis at a farm outside of Frederick, Maryland. Mantis is assassinated by a Black Tusk sniper before she can reveal any information.6
==Mid-May5,G==
* Sebastian from the True Sons delivers an ultimatum to Mike Snow and Junie at The Castle.
* Aurelio Diaz, Ike Ronson, and April Kelleher reach Ann Arbor and University of Michigan North Campus where the lab that developed the BSAV is located.
* Black Tusk assaults the lab after being signaled by Ronson.
* Aurelio departs Ann Arbor headed for New London, Connecticut. April gets a ride with the JTF to Pittsburgh en route to Washington, D.C.
*Dunne, Johnson, and Ward arrive just outside of Washington, D.C.6
==Late May5,G==
* The True Sons attack The Castle for the first time but are fought off by the Castle’s inhabitants, along with some help from the JTF.
* April Kelleher arrives in Washington, D.C.
==Early June1==
*The True Sons launch a chemical attack on the settlement in the Smithsonian Castle that kills most residents immediately.
==Late June1==
*Division agents rescue President Ellis from a Hyena hideout and return him to The White House.
*The Black Tusk organization advances on D.C.
==July1==
*Division agents recover a briefcase that is required to access the location of a potential broad-spectrum antiviral.
*President Ellis disappears and Black Tusk invades D.C.
*Black Tusk seizes the anti-virals from an underground facility.
*Division agents fight through key locations and strongholds taken over by Black Tusk and pushes them off D.C
*Division agents fight through Black Tusk forces at Tidal Basin, recovering the anti-virals and preventing a missile launch from BTSU Operative Milla "Wyvern" Radek, and finally eliminating Wyvern.
*A team of eight Division agents were sent to Washington National Airport to push off Black Tusk forces posted there. Despite the advantage Black Tusk had with their prototype technologies, the Division managed to defeat them at the airport.
*Division agents hunt Emeline Shaw and her Outcasts at the Manning National Zoo, promptly putting her out of her misery.
*Division agents attempts to capture President Ellis at Camp White Oak, but he escapes via Marine One helicopter. Nonetheless, they managed to eliminate BTSU Operative Ellis Galveston
*Division agents go to Kenly College to answer a distress call from JTF Squad Proteus, only to find all but one are dead. They stop the Outcasts' plans, recover the Mobile SHD Server, and rescued Jack Arnold.
== August ==
* August 20-23: In the aftermath of Warlords of New York, the Rogue Network is activated and Jupiter's Rogue Cell is revealed. Division agents killed Jupiter and her lieutenants, stopping their plans in using modified EMP Jammers to compromise the Division's tech.
* August 23-27: Back from the dead, Hornet and his cell arrive to D.C to use the Eclipse Virus and continuing Keener's legacy. Division agents eliminated Hornet and his cell, preventing the capitol from being devastated by the virus.
* August 27-30: Bardon Schaeffer recruits a group of Rogue Agents to undermine the Division. Meanwhile, a Hunter codenamed Deceit follows the Rogue Agents to eliminate them, if need be. After the Rogue Agents were eliminated by Division agents, they locate Schaeffer at Coney Island Amusement Park. During the op, agents eliminated Deceit and captured Schaeffer after he suffered critical injuries.
* August 30-September 30: Agent Faye Lau and her cell come on the Division's radar. After eliminating her team, they hunt Lau at Camp White Oak. However, Faye kills President Ellis. Regardless, the agents killed Faye, ending the life of a formerly-devoted agent. After Lau's death, Agent Kelso was convinced by Roy Benitez and Paul Rhodes to have Lau sent for burial. Meanwhile, Kelso discovers an insurance policy left behind by Agent Lau.
== September ==
* September 30-October 1: A resurgent True Sons led by General Anderson arrive to D.C, with Captain Frederick Lewis leading the charge for a secret mission. Division agents intercept Lewis' lieutenants and eliminate them, eventually undergoing a clash against Black Tusk at Jefferson Trade Center with the help of Captain Lewis, eliminating BTSU Operative Jack Bonney.
** The Division become aware about The Recruiter and discovers Bonney wore a SHD Smartwatch with a classified status, leading to more questions.
** Agent Lau's insurance policy gets decrypted, revealing new things. The hidden alliance between Natalya Sokolova and Calvin McManus, the secretary of Homeland Security, and the revelation the Hunters work for Homeland.
** Lau's insurance policy reveals that Bardon Schaeffer and Faye Lau worked together to aid the Division, with Schaeffer letting himself be captured by the Division so he could warn them about McManus and the Hunters. However, due to Schaeffer's unconscious state, it didn't happen.
== October ==
* October 1-October 15: Captain Lewis aids the Division in stopping the alliance between True Sons and Black Tusk by eliminating General Anderson and his lieutenants. After the lieutenants were eliminated, however, Captain Lewis got captured and was sent to Pentco Fairview. Division agents went there to rescue Lewis and extract him, but lost the opportunity to eliminate Anderson, officially re-establishing True Sons' alliance with Black Tusk. 
** Despite the setback, the Division gained new allies with Fred Lewis and Candice "Wally" Wallace
* October 15: In the wake of a dirty bombs attack on St. Louis, Division agents focus their efforts on Stovepipe and his operative to prevent an attack on New York. However, it'd turn out to be a distraction by Natalya Sokolova as she had Stovepipe killed for his lack of obedience, and sent the agents to Coney Island for an ambush. 
** Using this distraction, Black Tusk attacked the White House and used a countermeasure to disrupt the SHD Network. Thanks to the Mobile SHD Server, Division agents counter-attacked, preventing Black Tusk from capturing the base and eliminating Bardon Schaeffer.
** However, Black Tusk managed to airlift the perfusion bioreactor during the attack.
** Black Tusk kidnapped several civilians (Mari Singh, Vikram Malik, Cindy McAllister, and more which includes Vitaly Tchernenko and Harlan Lloyd).
** In the wake of this, Natalya Sokolova leaves a taunting message for Manny Ortega and the agents, demanding to hand over the White House.
* October 16-October 18: Division agents rescue John Yazzie, Eva Garcia, Lauren Fong, Mitchell Billings, and Mari Singh from their captivity by Black Tusk. 
** Throughout the rescues, Manny Ortega and the Division learned that Natalya Sokolova had Black Tusk treat the civilians humanely, indicating a long-term plan.
** It would turn out this is a front to cast doubts and present Black Tusk as a benevolent just so they could take over the White House
** Manny, Wally, and Mari discussed how to stop Black Tusk, with Mari suggesting getting Vikram Malik back. Meanwhile, a Black Tusk Recon Drone was observing the conversation, informing Natalya that the "asset is in place and awaiting orders".
* October 18-October 20: With the aid of Agent Brian Johnson, Division agents rescue Cindy McAllister, Mel Arnold, Jack Arnold, and Vikram Malik from Black Tusk in their move against the Recruiter
** Division agents are sent to Camp White Oak to rescue Birdie Malik (Vik's sister), but soon find out Agent Brian Johnson is The Recruiter. With the aid of Birdie, the agents defeated the Recruiter and recovered the Mobile SHD Server that he took with him.
** With the revelation that Hunters are embedded in the Division, questions are raised whether the Division can be trusted and whether Agent Kelso can be trusted.
** Vitaly Tchernenko and Harlan Lloyd are still under Black Tusk's captivity and unaccounted for.
* October 20-23: Agent Kelso is reported missing and agents are sent to New York to investigate her trail. During the investigation, they learn more about Aaron Keener's operations, "Cassandra", and "The Key" that Kelso was trying to look for. Moreover, they learn from the intercepted comms that Theo Parnell managed to fake his death, hinting at something bigger
** Division agents find Kelso's location at the Stranded Tanker, fighting off Black Tusk and True Sons forces in the area. Agents find a SHD crate inside the tanker. They attempt to open it, only to be given a shock treatment.
** Aaron Keener, supposedly back from the dead, clones ANNA to his watch from an unconscious agent, opens the crate revealing "The Key" is a Mobile SHD Server. He leaves New York via a van with the server in his hands alongside Theo Parnell and Kelso, who got marked Rogue.
** After this shocking revelation, Keener sends an audio recording to Haven for Division agents. There, he explains his survival, his lost faith in the Division, and his vendetta against Natalya Sokolova and Calvin McManus. More importantly, he wants to build up a rapport with the agents, hoping they'll see the light.
*October 23: Aaron Keener and his team go to Washington, D.C. to parley with the Division. Before the agents get to meet him, he sets them up with a series of four trials (Echo, Hercules, Leto, Nyx) as a test, wanting to see what they're truly capable of. Keener hopes by the time the agents get to meet him personally, they'll understand the real threat to the Division. An alliance with the rogue agent against Black Tusk could be a huge asset, but there's still unknowns whether he's truly an ally or just furthering his own agenda. 
**Agents complete the four trials throughout eliminating high-value targets and capturing enemy-occupied control points throughout four areas (Judiciary Square, Downtown East, Downtown West, and West End).
**Throughout the trials, they learn more of Keener's association with Bridgette "Viper" Douglas, Agent Melanie Hoskins. Additionally, they learned that Manny Ortega was aware of the trials. The comms agents have intercepted from Nyx trial reveals that Keener has a Hunter roster thanks to Hoskins and he set up a Base of Operations in Brooklyn.
**After the agents finished Nyx trial, they were set up to meet Keener at Federal Emergency Bunker. However, Black Tusk intercepted comms from earlier, giving them a head start. In a race against time, agents fought through Black Tusk personnel and an experimental Warhound codenamed Chimera with Keener. After that, Keener took a case filled with ANNA Gear inside and left the bunker to visit Manny in-person.
**Agents go to the White House, where they're prompted by Manny to visit a special guest. The special guest being Keener at a cell in the panic room. Keener was allowed into the White House under a few conditions: No weapons or tech, only his comms and watch, be put into a cell for interrogation, and stay in the cell until he brings Agent Kelso to vet him. Keener accepted those conditions without hesitation.
**With Keener incarcerated, his work with fellow Division agents will continue under a few conditions for the time being.
*After October 23: As part of their first mission with Aaron Keener, the agents are tasked to find and secure members of his team, starting with Theo Parnell. Due to the fact that Keener/Parnell/Kelso had to split up when they arrived to D.C. thanks to a Black Tusk's "Welcoming Party", and in addition to Keener being on house arrest, it's up to the agents to locate Theo Parnell. This will not be an easy task as Parnell doesn't trust Division agents and they must follow through a series of riddles across Washington, D.C. to find him.
**Over the course of fulfilling the Manhunt Scouts, SHD Agents recover comms involving Theo Parnell that delves into his personal life, his talks with Mathias "Trig" Schneider, and his activities with Aaron Keener prior to the events of Warlords of New York.
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==Notes==
A DCD - Analog of the real word Centers For Disease Control (CDC)
B CERA - Analog of the real world Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
C Conjectural - based on an entry made by April Kelleher in her copy of New York Collapse 
D This is the first mention of “Wouldn’t You Know It” with a calendar date, that I know of. It’s not clear when the first episode of WYKI was broadcast. Also, I consider Rick Valassi’s information to be accurate.
E Possible rumor? April is given this information by someone selling merchandise in the streets. I’m not sure if it should be considered accurate, although I suspect that it is.  
F Although the entry in New York Collapse with this information seems to be a continuation of the December 25 entry, the way it is written seems to indicate that it is the day after.
G The events of Broken Dawn most likely take place in the month of May, with some references made to events that happened before the story begins. From the book, “What month was it? May.” (p. 228) I might go into a longer explanation in the comments, but I feel that my assumption is correct.
H This is conjectural. The following quote from Chapter 25, “This was what had first made him open to Mantis’s approach when she’d contacted him through an intermediary six weeks or so before.” Late March is approximately six weeks before early-mid April.
I Aurelio makes reference to participating in an operation at Madison Square Garden that results in the rescue of Jessica Kandel and her staff from the rioters holding them hostage. If the game begins with the player arriving in January in Manhattan, the date the second wave was activated, I find it unlikely that the JTF would ignore the situation at Madison Square Garden for an entire month.
JThe text places this mission in Chinatown, although a panel on the same page shows an aerial view of the Lexington Events Center (69th Regiment Armory) which is far to the north.
KCaleb Dunne and Heather Ward are told about Mendez’s apparent suicide when they arrived at Fort Meade, placing there arrival there after April 9. I have plotted the times for the other events in Extremis Malis based on this event and on Ike Ronson’s meeting with Mantis in part one which I have placed in late March based on a quote from Broken Dawn. They stayed at Fort Meade a least week waiting for the transceiver to be decrypted and then it takes a bit of travel time for them to get to Mantis outside of Frederick. It then takes them two weeks to get to Washington, D.C., comfortably (I think) placing that event in May and making it very plausible they left the Frederick area in late April.
==References==
#The World of Tom Clancy’s The Division
#New York Collapse: A Survival-Guide to Urban Catastrophe, by Alex Irvine
#New York City Schools 2015-2016 Calendar
#Tom Clancy’s The Division
#Tom Clancy's The Division Broken Dawn, by Alex Irvine
#Tom Clancy’s The Division, Extremis Malis, Emgard, Baldo, Atiyeh
#Tom Clancy's The Division, Hearts on Fire
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