2012

* The Jedi Temple of Luke Skywalker is destroyed by Ben Solo.

* Ben Solo kills Ren, becoming Master of the Knights of Ren, and takes on his new name of Kylo Ren.

### February

#### 29th

* Chad Davis explodes from an Extremis malfunction in Rose Hill, Tennessee. Five other people are killed in the explosion.

### April

#### 1st

* The first "Mandarin bombing" occurs, masquerading as a terrorist attack, and beginning the conflict later known as Aldrich Killian's War.

#### 22nd

* Robbie Reyes steals the car that belongs to his uncle Eli Morrow, when Gabe Reyes catches him. However, Gabe decides to join him.
* **Attack on Robbie and Gabe Reyes**:
	+ However, as the Reyes brothers are cruising along the neighborhood, the Fifth Street Locos, who were hired to murder Eli Morrow, shoot up the car with Robbie Reyes and Gabe Reyes in it.
	+ The car flips and sends Reyes flying through the air, as he prays to anyone to keep his brother safe. Reyes is killed on impacting the ground and Gabe loses control of his legs. However, Hades contacts Robbie's soul and asks if he wants Gabe to live, in which Reyes responds yes. Soon after, Hades pulls Gabe to safety and revives Reyes by transforming him into the Ghost Rider.

#### 30th

* Loki makes a deal with Thanos to recover the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for a Chitauri army to conquer Earth.

### May

#### 1st

* **Destruction of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.**:
	+ Loki activates the Tesseract and is teleported to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility in the Mojave Desert, where S.H.I.E.L.D. is conducting Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S..
	+ Loki steals the Tesseract and uses the Scepter given to him by Thanos to control the minds of several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Erik Selvig and Clint Barton. They escape, and the Tesseract's energy destroys the base, beginning the Chitauri Invasion. In response, Nick Fury reactivates the Avengers Initiative.

#### 2nd

* In Russia, in the local evening, Natasha Romanoff is extracting information from Georgi Luchkov while letting him believe he is interrogating her. Phil Coulson calls one of Luchkov's henchmen and orders him to give Romanoff the phone. Coulson tells Romanoff that she is needed, and mentions Barton has been compromised. Romanoff breaks free, and is sent to recruit Bruce Banner.
* In Kolkata, India, late at night, Natasha Romanoff tracks down Bruce Banner, and tells him his knowledge of Gamma Radiation is essential in helping S.H.I.E.L.D. locate the Tesseract. Banner reluctantly agrees to help S.H.I.E.L.D..
* Nick Fury talks to the World Security Council, including Gideon Malick, about the Avengers Initiative.
* Unable to sleep, Steve Rogers goes to a boxing gym, where Nick Fury approaches him with a mission to retrieve the Tesseract.

* Tony Stark brings his miniaturized Arc Reactor online to power the newly opened Stark Tower in midtown Manhattan, built on the location of the former Metlife Building, and is cloaked to avoid unwanted attention, per Emmett Baxter's suggestion. Phil Coulson and Emmett Baxter visit Stark Tower in the night and ask him to review Erik Selvig's research on the Tesseract, as well as confidential material concerning the potential members of the Avengers Initiative.

#### 3rd

* Coulson and Baxter fly Steve Rogers to the Helicarrier, and tell him about the new uniform they have waiting for him.
* Loki conjures an image of himself to talk with The Other, who warns him not to fail his mission to retrieve the Tesseract, or else feel his master's wrath.
* Steve Rogers, Emmett Baxter, Natasha Romanoff, and Bruce Banner meet on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier.
* Erik Selvig tells the mind-controlled Clint Barton that he needs iridium. Barton and Loki make plans to go to Stuttgart to retrieve some of the element.
* **Skirmish in Germany**:
	+ Banner sets to work tracking the gamma radiation the Tesseract gives off, while S.H.I.E.L.D.'s spy satellites find Loki in Stuttgart, Germany.
	+ Rogers (donning his new Captain America costume), Baxter (using his refurbished suit), and Romanoff travel to Stuttgart in a Quinjet to confront Loki, who is acting as a distraction as Hawkeye steals iridium to stabilize the Tesseract. Captain America fights Loki in the street, but the unexpected arrival of Iron Man prompts Loki to surrender. On the way back to the Helicarrier, the Quinjet is ambushed by Thor, who takes Loki and tries to reason with him. Baxter pursues Loki, Iron Man pursues and fights Thor in a forest, but Captain America breaks up the fight and Thor agrees for Loki to be taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
* On the Helicarrier, Loki is put in a cell designed to contain the Hulk. The Avengers debate about what to do with Loki, allowing him time to plot an escape.

#### 4th

* In the early hours of morning, Natasha Romanoff interrogates Loki in his cell, but he refuses to give in. However, in a moment of cruelty towards her, Loki accidentally lets slip that he is interested in Banner, and Romanoff realizes he intends to use the Hulk to escape.
* Meanwhile, Rogers finds several HYDRA weapons and uniforms from the 1940s in crates in the weapons room he had just discovered.
* **Attack on the Helicarrier**:
	+ As the sun is coming up, Rogers confronts Nick Fury, who confesses S.H.I.E.L.D. wants the Tesseract to develop weaponry.
	+ Loki's mind-controlled agents led by Hawkeye invade the Helicarrier and damage one of its engines. While Iron Man and Captain America race to repair the engine before the ship crashes, Bruce Banner loses control, turns into the Hulk and goes on a rampage through the ship. Black Widow frees Hawkeye of his mind-control by knocking him out. Thor distracts the Hulk, while Fury and Maria Hill hold off the other mind-controlled agents. The Hulk jumps out of the Helicarrier to attack a hovering F-35 jet, but ends up falling from the sky and crashing into an abandoned warehouse on the ground below. Thor tries to stop Loki from escaping, but gets trapped in Loki's cell and ejected from the ship, landing in a field. Phil Coulson confronts Loki, armed with a weapon made from the Destroyer's parts, but Loki stabs him to death with his scepter.
* Following his escape from the Helicarrier, Loki commandeers Stark Tower. The mind-controlled Erik Selvig uses a machine powered by the Tesseract to open a portal into space, allowing the Chitauri to invade Earth.

* Steve, Natasha, Emmett, Clint, and Tony arrive in New York. Bruce and Thor arrive soon after.
	+ The Avengers begin fighting to stop the invasion.
	+ The Chitauri on the sides of New York buildings scream. The Avengers come together in a circle, prepared to fight, as more Leviathans rain down from the sky.
	+ Captain America starts to give instructions to the Avengers for directing their battle strategy against the alien threat. He tells Hawkeye to take a nearby roof and assigns Iron Man the perimeter, then Stark flies Barton to the roof. He sends Thor to try to strike lightning at the portal, tells Black Widow and White Knight to stay with him on the ground, and finally instructs Hulk to "smash".
	+ Hulk leaps onto a nearby building, smashes a Chitauri against a wall, and leaps from building to building, pummeling Chitauri.
	+ Thor flies up to the Chrysler Building to use it as a conductor. He channels electricity through the Chrysler Building and fires it at the portal, taking out some Chitauri and an oncoming Leviathan.
	+ Meanwhile, Hulk passes an alley, on a smashing rage as he attacks Chitauri. He kills one using the wreckage of a car, before continuing on.
	+ On the Helicarrier, Nick Fury surveys monitors showing what is happening. Maria Hill tells him that the World Security Council are calling.
	+ Hawkeye advises Stark to lead the Chitauri around tight corners to have them crash. He does so, taking out the aliens tailing him, then goes to help Thor.  File:Chitauri Leviathan.png
	+ A Leviathan whale heads toward a building, but Hulk runs through the building and leaps at it, attacking it in the mouth and redirecting it.
	+ Black Widow uses a Chitauri weapon against one of the aliens. Captain America arrives and she says they need to do something about the portal. To get up to it, she decides to board an oncoming Chitauri vehicle, and Rogers boosts her on his shield to get her up.
	+ Black Widow rides the vehicle, and Iron Man flies past. He joins Captain America, firing a repulsor blast off his shield to help take out alien combatants, before continuing on. Hawkeye continues to fire at aliens, as Hulk continues to fight Chitauri on a Leviathan, joined by Thor, who helps him hammer a piece of the vehicle into the Leviathan's back, killing it. It falls into Grand Central Terminal, where Hulk also punches Thor as retaliation for earlier.
	+ Erik Selvig wakes, his mind control broken, and sees what is happening around him.
	+ The military enter the streets to do what they can.
	+ Hawkeye directs Captain America to a nearby bank, where he goes and stops a Chitauri attack from killing civilians, before being blasted out of the building.  File:TheAvengers-4672.jpg
	+ The World Security Council tell Fury that they have made the decision to make a nuclear strike on Manhattan so as to contain the threat only to the island, but Fury refuses.
	+ Black Widow finds herself fired at by Loki, on his own Chitauri vehicle. Hawkeye fires an arrow at him to help her. Loki catches it, but the arrow explodes in his face, blowing him onto Stark Tower, where his vehicle knocks the "S" and "T" off the logo.
	+ Hulk leaps onto Stark Tower and attacks Loki. Loki tries to intimidate him, but Hulk merely grabs hold of him and bashes him into the floor repeatedly, leaving him unable to move.
	+ Romanoff finds Selvig on the tower, who tells her that he believes Loki's Scepter, fallen on the floor below them, may be able to close the portal.
	+ Kate Bishop's penthouse is damaged by a blast, where she sees the ongoing battle.
	+ Iron Man finds himself unable to break through the shell of a Leviathan whale, so instead tries flying directly into its mouth, managing to explode it from the inside. He falls to the ground and finds himself again battling Chitauri.
	+ A Chitauri flies at Kate Bishop, but Hawkeye shoots it with an arrow as he continues fighting the army.  File:HTABONY5.png
	+ Hawkeye runs out of arrows and has to kick an attacking alien off his perch. As his building is attacked, he leaps off, firing a grappling hook arrow to swing himself around, through a window below.
	+ Barton falls to an office floor, safe, but in pain.
	+ Meanwhile, the Ancient One helps fight the invading forces from the New York Sanctum.
	+ At the same time, Hulk is swarmed by Chitauri but keeps fighting them off.
	+ Hulk is blasted at from all sides.
	+ The World Security Council order a nuclear strike to Manhattan, and one pilot goes to take off. Fury arrives with a rocket launcher and manages to take out the jet, but another jet flies off to deliver the missile.
	+ The jet gets away with the missile. Fury calls Stark and lets him know that there is a missile heading for New York in the next 3 minutes.
	+ The jet pilot fires the nuke at New York on World Security Council orders.
	+ Knight saves a girl from a Chitauri, and catches her with the force, revealing his powers.  File:004tho ons inl 05.jpg
	+ Thor and Captain America continue to fight Chitauri together.
	+ Having retrieved the Scepter, Black Widow and Selvig start to push through the Tesseract's defenses to shut down the portal. Stark orders Romanoff on comms to wait, telling them about the nuke, and having the idea to send it through the portal as he grabs the missile to redirect it. J.A.R.V.I.S. tries to call Pepper Potts for Stark in case he dies taking the missile through the portal. However, Potts, on a flight, is too concerned watching the news to see her phone ringing. Emmett takes a Chitauri Chariot after him, to protect him.
	+ S.H.I.E.L.D. watch the news intently on the Helicarrier. Stark starts to turn the missile as Baxter flies up beside him. Hulk gets up from under the rubble left by the Chitauri's attack on him. Stark diverts the missile up into the air at Stark Tower, and through the portal as Chitauri fly after the two of them. S.H.I.E.L.D. cheer in relief for New York, though Fury is concerned for Stark.
	+ Iron Man finds himself in deep space, and his suit begins to fail. He lets go of the missile and it continues flying, hitting the Chitauri mother ship and causing an enormous explosion. As Chitauri fly at them, Baxter jumps off his chariot as they crash into it, knocking him unconscious.
	+ On Earth, the remaining Chitauri and Leviathan fleet fail and fall down dead without the power of the mother ship.
	+ Iron Man and Knight fall back toward the portal, but the explosion threatens to get through to Earth as well, so Rogers orders Black Widow to close it. Stark and Baxter fall back into the New York sky just before its closure, but continue to fall, unconscious. Hulk leaps and catches the two to slow their fall.
	+ Captain America, Thor, and Hulk crowd around the unconscious Iron Man, and Hulk manages to wake him. Rogers notes that they just won, and Stark jokes about wanting to try shawarma, though Thor points out they are not quite finished.
	+ In Stark Tower, Loki crawls to get up following his injuries. Loki stops crawling, realizing he is not alone. File:The Avengers Assembled.jpg
	+ Loki turns, only to find the Avengers all standing over him, Hawkeye with his bow drawn. Loki forlornly tells the Avengers he would like his previously offered drink now.
* Stark instructs the other Avengers to get Loki on his feet. The group wait for S.H.I.E.L.D.'s arrival.
* The STRIKE team arrive at the Avengers' floor in Stark Tower to retrieve the Scepter. Jasper Sitwell takes the Scepter from Romanoff and he and Brock Rumlow pack it away, secretly taking the Scepter with the hope of getting it into HYDRA research hands, as HYDRA sleeper agents themselves.

* Iron Man, Thor, Loki, and several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents board the elevator. Hulk tries to get in himself, but Thor and Stark point out the elevator is full. Hulk angrily goes to take the stairs.
* Alexander Pierce stops Thor and Stark. Thor says they are going to get lunch, then intend on taking Loki and the Tesseract to Asgard, but Pierce insists they turn Loki and the Tesseract over to him. An argument begins between them, which the Avengers eventually manage to win, keeping control over Loki and the Tesseract.
* Hulk comes bursting through the lobby door, furious at having had to take the stairs.
* Tired from the battle, the Avengers gather at a local shawarma restaurant recommended by Stark.
* Ultimate Vision sends a state-wide signal through New York to convince everyone the battle was actually a failed construction project, ruined by a storm. The alien wreckage is said to be storm gear, all of which was destroyed. However, he spares "key players" of this deception.

#### 5th

* Thor returns to Asgard with Loki and the Tesseract, while the other Avengers go their separate ways.
* Emmett goes into Fury's office, and explains his full history. When Fury asks if he'll ever go home, Emmett says he hopes so. Fury says he'll promote Baxter to the STRIKE Team, as long as he keeps his "other" problems away from their world, which Baxter agrees to.
* Tony Stark and Pepper Potts look at plans for reconstructing the damaged Stark Tower, which has lost the "S", "T", "R", and "K" on the inside from the battle. They choose to repurpose the remaining "A" to stand for the newly formed group, rebranding as "Avengers Tower".

* Meanwhile, the Toomes Salvage Company recovers Chitauri technology from the wreckage. Officials arrive and tell them that from now on, their Department of Damage Control will be overseeing the cleanup of major events such as this.
* Odin sentences Loki to an eternity of imprisonment in the Asgardian Dungeons.
* Toomes and his crew lament the loss of their company. When they realize they have a lot of equipment left, Toomes convinces them to turn to the black market and make weapons from the technology to sell, noting that the world is changing, and they need to change to match it.
* Tony Stark begins making the Iron Legion to keep himself occupied during periods of anxiety following his near-death experience in space.

#### 7th

* Days after the death of Phil Coulson, Nick Fury orders S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best scientists to revive him at the Guest House. The process takes several days, but Coulson is eventually revived by a serum derived from an alien corpse.

#### 8th

* After finding transceivers in the wreckage of a Chitauri cruiser from the Battle of New York, HYDRA use them to reach out to aliens. They get a reply from an alliance of six alien races, known as the Confederacy, who make a deal with the organization to help protect Earth in return for gravitonium and Inhumans.

#### 9th

* **Resurrection of Phil Coulson**:
	+ The final procedure to resurrect Phil Coulson takes place. To restore his former personality, the scientists remove part of his skull to change his memories of the painful process. The scientists give Coulson false memories of a grass shack in Tahiti.

### June

#### 1st

* To cover up the explosive nature of the Extremis virus, Aldrich Killian hires actor Trevor Slattery to pose as a terrorist leader called the Mandarin, so whenever Extremis causes a patient to explode, the media and government will assume they are suicide bombings.

### July

#### 14th

* **Robbery of Vistacorp**: Scott Lang infiltrates the Vistacorp Headquarters to return about four million dollars to the customers who had been defrauded by the company. Lang then breaks into the mansion of his former boss, Geoff Zorick. He steals many of Zorick's belongings and drives Zorick's car into the mansion's pool.

#### 15th

* *Gangnam Style* by Psy is released.
* Scott Lang is arrested for stealing from both Vistacorp and Geoff Zorick. He is then given a five-year sentence at San Quentin State Prison.

### September

#### 30th

* **Rescue of Oliver Queen:**
	+ Oliver Queen is rescued from Lian Yu by Chinese fishermen. He calls his mother saying he is an alive and that he is coming home to Starling City.

### October

#### 10th

* Oliver Queen begins his quest as "The Hood"

### December

#### 12th

* **Kidnapping of Walter Steele:** Walter Steele is kidnapped by the Dark Archer, because of his investigation into the Undertaking.

#### 22nd

* The Iron Legion creates friction between Stark and his girlfriend Pepper Potts. Pepper feels Stark is not paying enough attention to her, but Stark's encounters during the Battle of New York has left him traumatized and he built the Iron Legion with her protection in mind.
* **Destruction of the Chinese Theatre**: At the TCL Chinese Theatre, Jack Taggart succumbs to the effects of Extremis and explodes. Stark Industries security chief Happy Hogan is caught in the explosion and severely injured.

#### 23rd

* Stark visits Hogan in the Los Angeles Mercy Hospital.
* The press try to interview him about the Mandarin, and Stark issues a televised threat to him.
* **Destruction of Tony Stark's Mansion**: The Mandarin responds to Tony's threat by destroying his Mansion with helicopter gunships. Pepper and Maya Hansen (who had come to warn Stark) survive the attack, and Stark dons the unstable Mark XLII armor to fly himself to safety.
* J.A.R.V.I.S. follows a flight plan from Stark's investigation into the Mandarin bombings, and the Mark XLII lands in Rose Hill, Tennessee. The armor runs out of power, and the world believes Tony Stark to be dead.
* **Battle of Rose Hill**:
	+ Mandarin agents Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin arrive in Tennessee and attack Stark. He kills Brandt, but Savin escapes.

#### 24th

* **Kidnapping of James Rhodes**: While investigating a clue on the Mandarin's whereabouts in Pakistan, James Rhodes is ambushed and captured by one of the Extremis Soldiers.
* **Infiltration into Aldrich Killian's Mansion**:
	+ With Harley Keener's help, Stark traces the Mandarin to Miami and infiltrates his headquarters using makeshift weapons. Inside, he discovers the Mandarin who appears on television is actually an actor, Trevor Slattery, who is oblivious to the actions carried out in his name. The Mandarin is a creation of Aldrich Killian, who appropriated Maya Hansen's Extremis virus as a cure for his own disabilities and expanded the program to include injured war veterans.
* Killian captures Stark and reveals he has also kidnapped Pepper Potts. To gain Stark's aid in fixing Extremis' flaws, Killian injects Pepper with the virus. Hansen has a change of heart about Killian's plans, but he murders her.
* **Kidnapping of President Obama**:
	+ Aldrich Killian has also manipulated American intelligence agencies regarding the Mandarin's location, luring the Iron Patriot into a trap to steal the armor.
	+ Stark escapes and reunites with Rhodes, discovering Killian's plan to attack U.S. President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One.
	+ Disguised in the Iron Patriot armor, Eric Savin infiltrates Air Force One and detonates an explosive.
	+ Remotely controlling the Mark XLII armor, Stark saves some surviving passengers and crew, but cannot stop Killian from abducting Obama. They trace them to an impounded oil tanker, the *Norco*, where Killian intends to kill Obama on live television.

#### 25th

* **Battle on the Norco**:
	+ On the platform of the *Norco*, Tony Stark goes to save Pepper Potts, while James Rhodes rescues the President.
	+ Stark summons the Iron Legion, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support, and discovers Pepper has survived the Extremis procedure. However, before he can save her, a rig collapses around them and she falls to her apparent death.
	+ Stark confronts Aldrich Killian, traps him in the Mark XLII and sets it to self-destruct, but it fails to kill him. Pepper, whose Extremis powers allowed her to survive her fall, intervenes and kills Killian.
	+ After the battle, Stark promises to devote more time to Pepper, and orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to remotely destroy every armor in the Iron Legion. Trevor Slattery is arrested, ending Aldrich Killian's War.

#### 28th

* With Stark's help, Pepper's Extremis effects are stabilized.
* Stark undergoes surgery to remove the shrapnel embedded near his heart. He throws his obsolete chest Arc Reactor into the sea, musing he will always be Iron Man.

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 *The Avengers*
2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 *The Avengers Adaptation*
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 *Avengers: Infinity War Prelude*
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 4.21 4.22 4.23 4.24 4.25 In *The Avengers*, during the Stuttgart scene, the museum's exhibition is shown on banners to begin on "4 MAI". The gala behind held would be an opening ceremony, and thus this scene would be the night before, on May 3, 2012. This lines up with the release date of *The Avengers* (May 4, 2012) being the date of the Battle of New York, and the fact that it is months (roughly 6, works out as 7) before *Iron Man 3*, which picks up in December 2012. *Avengers: Endgame* also shows the month to be "05/2012".
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 In *Avengers: Endgame* and *Glorious Purpose*, 2012 events are shown simultaneous to the events of *The Avengers*. With the Battle of New York playing out nonetheless the same in the new universe of *Avengers: Endgame*, and the 2021 Avengers making no impacts of significance until after Loki is apprehended by the Avengers, the events of the Battle of New York can be taken to play out essentially identically in that universe, as well as other events shown in the timeline that are not affected by the 2021 Avengers. Similarly, events such as Hulk smashing a Chitauri with a car or the Ancient One participating in the battle, shown only in *Avengers: Endgame*, are unaffected by the 2021 Avengers' actions, so can be taken to have also happened in the main universe.