1950s

## 1950

* Arnim Zola and some former HYDRA agents track down Bucky Barnes, who survived the drop and was taken into custody by Soviet Union soldiers. Since that moment, they had kept Barnes frozen and alive, but missing an arm. Once he was found by Zola and his agents, they take him into their custody.
* While S.H.I.E.L.D. is founded, Zola begins rebuilding HYDRA from within the agency.

### July

#### 4th

* Nick Fury is born in Huntsville, Alabama.

### October

#### 16th

* *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe* by C. S. Lewis is published.

## 1951

* The Dominators land on Earth, launching an invasion to determine if meta-humans are a threat to their existence.

### November

#### 22nd

* The U.S. military sends super soldier Isaiah Bradley to Goyang, South Korea during the Korean War to eliminate Winter Soldier. While Bradley manages to destroy half of Winter Soldier's metal arm, both super soldiers fail to kill one another

## 1952

* As planned by Darth Sidious, the Trade Federation blockades Naboo in protest of the Senate's decision to tax their much-used Free Trade Zones, escalating the trade disputes; Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum secretly dispatches Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi to serve as the ambassadors for scheduled negotiations with the Federation in hopes of resolving the Naboo Crisis.
* Invasion of Naboo; Darth Sidious further manipulates the Trade Federation leadership into instigating a peace crisis for the Republic with the deployment of military forces for the occupation of the harmonious world of Naboo.
* Anakin Skywalker wins the Boonta Eve Classic; with Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn's interference, the slave is freed from the Toydarian junk dealer Watto and follows the Jedi. As the Jedi group leave Tatooine, a duel ensued as Darth Maul attempts to fell them; Jedi encounters Sith for the first time since the Sith were thought extinct nearly a millennium ago.
* Battle of Naboo: Queen Padmé Amidala returns to Naboo and forms an alliance between the Naboo and Gungans. Qui-Gon Jinn is killed by Darth Maul, who, in turn, is dealt a mortal wound by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Padawan's rage. Anakin Skywalker deactivates the droid army by destroying the Droid Control Ship.
* The Jedi High Council promotes Obi-Wan Kenobi to the rank of Jedi Knight and permits him to train Anakin Skywalker as a Jedi per the late Qui-Gon Jinn's wishes. The Council, the Chancellor, the Naboo leadership, Kenobi, and Skywalker later attend the funeral of Qui-Gon Jinn and a victory parade at Theed.
* Sifo-Dyas forsees the Clone SWars, and has the Kaminoans create a clone army, which they do using Jango Fett as a template. Sidious and Dooku later find out, kill Dyas, and take over the project discreetly. Under the control of the Sith, the clones from the template of Fett had behavioral modification biochips inserted which would activate Protocol 66 under the command of the Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.
* Boba Fett is born a clone of Jango Fett on Kamino. Per Jango's request, Boba is the only clone unaltered by the Kaminoans, and as the son of Jango, the clone Fett is trained by his father as a bounty hunter.
* Han is born on Corellia.

### April

#### 11th

* *Singin' in the Rain* is released in the United States of America.

### December

* T'Chaka is born to Azzuri of Wakanda. As Azzuri's first child, he becomes the next in line to be King of Wakanda after his father.

## 1953

* Erik Selvig is born.
* Qi'ra is born

### January

#### 20th

* Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States, replacing the incumbent Harry S. Truman.

### April

#### 13th

* *Casino Royale* by Ian Fleming is published, featuring the character of James Bond.

## 1954

### March

* N'Jobu is born to Azzuri of Wakanda, his second child after T'Chaka.

### February

#### 15th

* Yondu Udonta is sold into Kree slavery as an infant.

#### 21st

* In the early hours, teenagers Biff and Barb lie in the back of a truck in Nevada, spending the night looking at the sky. Biff insists he saw a flying saucer there before, though Barb says she assumed he had just said that to get her to come out with him. They kiss.
* Daniel Sousa pulls up at Area 51 and gets out of his car. Sousa enters the base, having flown in from Los Angeles, where he is head of the former SSR base.
* Early S.H.I.E.L.D. power players arrive to attend the Project Helius trial. However, nothing on Earth is powerful enough to get Helius up to velocity.
* Daniel Sousa meets his contact at Area 51, Niles Lindmore, who gives him a package to deliver to Howard Stark.

#### 22nd

* Sousa boards the train to Los Angeles.
* Wilfred Malick spends time at his office.
* Sousa gets on his motorbike and drives off to make his drop.
* A storm rages over the Hotel Roosevelt. Daniel Sousa rolls up on his motorbike and enters.
* As Sousa waits for his drop, a HYDRA agent sent by Malick watches from across the room. Sousa gets his signal from the concierge for the drop.
* It starts to rain in the Hotel Roosevelt pool.

#### 23rd

* **Assassination of Daniel Sousa**: Sousa goes and walks through a hotel, and then passes over the case to the concierge, Howard Stark's man. Sousa is then killed by HYDRA.

## 1956

* Justice Society of America was sent to a mission in Leipzig. In Leipzig, the JSA was joined by Rip Hunter's younger-self and found the Spear of Destiny, after which they broke it into four fragments. Rip split them among the four, keeping one and sending the other three to different time periods for safekeeping. As a result, the JSA was disbanded and Todd was left the sole remaining member who retired.

## 1958

### June

#### 14th

* Kendra Saunders, Ray Palmer, and Sara Lance are stranded in this year due to a surprise attack by Chronos on the *Waverider* forcing the crew to leave without them. Ray becomes a college professor, while Sara joins the League of Assassins.
* A time-traveling Savage from 2166 instructs his past self on how to perform the ritual that would allow him to revert time back to Ancient Egypt.
* The 1958 Savage is later killed by Heat Wave and the Atom

## 1959

### October

#### 23rd

* Alfred Matthew Yankovic, later known as ""Weird Al" Yankovic", is born