Advancement Era

The **Advancement Era** was the time period in which civilization slowly encompasses Earth. It begins immediately following year 1 in the Common Era.

## Timeline

### 1st Century

**1**

The Rachni Wars are sparked when Citadel expeditions encounter the rachni, a hive-minded insectoid race.

**29**

Crucifixion of Jesus

**70**

Earliest possible compilation of the New Testament

**79**

August 24 - Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

**80**

The salarians uplift the krogans to fight the rachni. Their absurd resiliency made them perfect soldiers to fight on the near-inhospitable rachni worlds.

### 2nd Century

**121**

Birth of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

### 3rd Century

**C. 272**

Birth of Constantine the Great

### 4th Century

**300**

With the end of the Rachni Wars, the Council gifts the krogan numerous worlds to inhabit. However, their population starts growing exponentially, which will cause massive future issues.

### 5th Century

**C. 406**

Birth of Attila the Hun

**476**

Beginning of the Middle Ages

### 6th Century

**570**

Birth of Muhammad

### 7th Century

**632**

Completion of the Quran

**693**

Beelo Gurji, a Salarian, becomes the first Spectre.

### 8th Century

**700**

To sustain their ever-growing numbers, krogans begin to annex territory of other races. The conflict that sprouted from this became known as the Krogan Rebellions. The Citadel has first contact with, and is forced to ask for aid from the Turian Hierarchy in the war, which they receive.

**710**

The salarians develop the genophage, a bio-weapon designed to cripple krogan birth rates. The war turns decisively in the Citadel’s favor.

**748**

April 2 - Birth of Charlemagne

### 9th Century

C. **800**

The Krogan Rebellions draw to a close. The turians fill the niche in the Citadel as their primary military and peacekeeping force. The Citadel Conventions are signed.

Humans invent gunpowder

### 10th Century

**900**

In recognition of their part in ending the Krogan Rebellions, the Turians gain a spot on the Citadel Council.

**C. 904**

First use of gunpowder in weaponry

**964**

Birth of Thor

**965**

Birth of Loki

**973**

The Covenant encounter the Kig-Yar, and bring them into the fold.

**995**

Beginning of the Kree-Skrull War

### 11th Century

**1014**

Beginning of the Kree-Nova War

**C. 1015**

Birth of Thanos

**1096**

The First Crusade

### 12th Century

**1112**

Yanme’e are incorporated into the Covenant as a slave race after a bloody first contact. After effective communication between the San’Shyuum and the Hive Queens was established, integration went swiftly.

**C. 1137**

Birth of An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub/Saladin

**C. 1150**

Completion of Angkor Wat

**1162**

Birth of Temüjin/Genghis Khan

### 13th Century

**1209**

The Citadel and the Covenant come into contact with one another. Tensions and hostilities ends with both powers going into an all-out war, which would come to be known as the War of Two Councils.

**1277**

War of Two Councils comes to an end with the death of an Arbiter known as the Red Blade. Their armistice entailed both powers keeping to their newly agreed-upon borders. While no conflict would resurge, tensions would remain.

**C. 1280**

Birth of Mansa Musa

### 14th Century

**1347**

The Black Death arises in Europe.

### 15th Century

**1428**

Establishment of the Aztec Empire

**1432**

March 30 - Birth of Mehmed the Conqueror

**1438**

Establishment of the Inca Empire

**1451**

Birth of Cristoffa Corombo/Christopher Colombus

**1452**

April 15 - Birth of Leonardo da Vinci

**1453**

May 29 - Fall of Constantinople. End of the Medieval period.

**C. 1466**

Birth of Moctezuma II

**1469**

Birth of Guru Nanak

**1473**

February 19 - Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus

**C. 1480**

Birth of Fernão de Magalhães/Ferdinand Magellan

**1485**

Birth of Hernán Cortés

**1490**

Drawing of the Vitruvian Man

**1492**

October 12 - Christopher Columbus reaches the New World, making the existence of the Americas known to the rest of the world

**1494**

November 6 - Birth of Suleiman the Magnificent

### 16th Century

**C.1500**

Birth of Rāʾs al-Ghūl

**C. 1502**

Birth of Atahualpa

**1506**

Painting of the Mona Lisa

**1564**

February 15 - Birth of Galileo Galilei

April 26 - Birth of William Shakespeare

C**. 1585**

March 30 - Birth of Justicar Samara

### 17th Century

C. **1600**

Collectors are sighted for the first time, in the Terminus Systems. Few outside the territory believe them to be anything more than fiction.

**1643**

January 4 - Birth of Isaac Newton

**1653**

Completion of the Taj Mahal

**1662**

Extinction of the Dodo (*Raphus cucullatus*).

**C.1680**

Birth of Edward Teach/Blackbeard

**1687**

July 5 - Publication of *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica*, introducing Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation (gravity).

### 18th Century

**1706**

January 17 - Birth of Benjamin Franklin

**1732**

February 22 - Birth of George Washington

**1756**

May 17 - Beginning of Seven Years War

**C. 1758**

Birth of Kamehameha I

**1760**

Beginning of Industrial Revolution

**1769**

August 15 - Birth of Napoléon Bonaparte

**1776**

July 4 - Issuing of the Declaration of Independence

**1783**

Birth of Simón Bolívar

**C. 1787**

Birth of Shaka kaSenzangakhona/ Shaka Zulu

**C. 1789**

May 5 - Beginning of the French Revolution

### 19th Century

**1809**

February 12 - Births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln

**1818**

May 5 - Birth of Karl Marx

(Frankenstein)

**1832**

October 12 - Birth of James “Logan” Howlett/Wolverine.

**1838**

November 1 - Birth of Jonah Woodson Hex

**1847**

February 11 - Birth of Thomas Alva Edison

**1848**

February - Publication of *The Communist Manifesto*

**1856**

July 10 - Birth of Nikola Tesla

**1859**

November 24 - Publication of *On the Origin of Species*

**1867**

November 7 - Birth of Marie Skłodowska Curie

**1869**

October 2 - Birth of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi/Mahātmā Gandhi

**1870**

April 22 - Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov/Lenin

**1873**

July 20 - Birth of Alberto Santos-Dumont

**1874**

November 30 - Birth of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

**1878**

December 18 - Birth of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

**1879**

March 14 - Birth of Albert Einstein

**1890**

May 19 - Birth of Hồ Chí Minh/Nguyễn Sinh Cung

(Dracula)

**1892**

Birth of Haile Selassie I

**1893**

December 26 - Birth of Mao Zedong

**1895**

The geth, mechanical constructs created by the quarians, achieve self-awareness. With the quarians fearing an uprising, they begin to dismantle the geth, which ends in the Morning War. The geth force the quarians off Rannoch and their colonies, causing them to form the Migrant Fleet.

**1899**

July 1 - Birth of Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Junior/Indiana Jones

### 20th Century

**1905**

September 26 - Einstein publishes the theory of relativity

November 21 - Einstein shows the equivalence of energy and matter (E = mc2 )

**1908**

Birth of Kent Nelson/Doctor Fate

**1909**

August 12 - Birth of David Oh/Zero/Cipher

**1914**

June 28 - Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

July 28 - Beginning of World War I. Wonder Woman, Wolverine, and a number of other metahumans take part in the conflict.

**1916**

Publication of the Theory of Relativity

**1917**

March 10 - Birth of James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes/The Winter Soldier

August 15 - Birth of Howard Stark

**1918**

July 4 - Birth of Steve Rogers/Captain America.

July 18 - Birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

November 11 - End of World War I.

**1922**

Founding of The Philosophers, a secret organization consisting of the wealthiest and brightest minds of the United States, Soviet Union, and China.

Birth of “The Boss”

**1928**

March 14 - Birth of John Hammond

**1930**

Birth of Erik Magnus Lehnsherr/Magneto

**1932**

Birth of Charles Xavier

Birth of “Venom Snake”/”The Phantom”

**1935**

Birth of John/Naked Snake/Big Boss

August - Indiana Jones battles the Thuggee cult for the Sankara stones

**1936**

September 7 - Extinction of the Thylacine (*Thylacinus cynocephalus*)

Indiana Jones finds the Ark of the Covenant

**1937**

July 7 - Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War, and in turn World War II.

**1938**

Indiana Jones finds the Holy Grail

**1939**

September 1 - (Official) Beginning of World War II, with Nazi Germany invading Poland.

Howard Stark founds Stark Industries

The Philosophers create the "Philosophers' Legacy", a slush fund containing one hundred billion dollars and the names of the members of the group. This, in turn, leads to numerous instance of espionage and assassinations by numerous organizations to claim the Legacy.

**1940**

Johann Schmidt is injected with the Super Soldier Serum, but the unperfected serum horrifically transforms Schmidt, turning him into the Red Skull. He becomes the first metahuman created by human science, also referred to as an "Enhanced".

Steve Rogers is transformed into the world's first true super soldier. Captain America becomes the first metahuman to be public knowledge.

**1941**

December 7 - Attack on Pearl Harbor

**1942**

June 4 - Beginning of the Battle of Midway

June 7 - End of the Battle of Midway

August 23rd - Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad

Formation of the Cobra Unit, the first Allied superhuman unit, during the Battle of Stalingrad.

**1943**

February 2 - End of the Battle of Stalingrad

**1944**

June 6 - Operation Overlord: The Allied forces launch the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, landing in Normandy, France.

June 6 - Birth of Revolver Ocelot

September 25 - Birth of Hank Pym/Ant-Man