1980s

### August

* T'Challa is born to Prince T'Chaka of Wakanda and his wife Ramonda. As T'Chaka's firstborn, he becomes next in line to be King of Wakanda after his father.

### October

* *Another One Bites the Dust* by Queen is released.

#### 26th

* *Pac-Man* is released in the United States of America. Peter Quill became a fan of the game later in his life.

#### 27th

* Peter Quill, son of Meredith Quill and Ego, is born.

## 1981

### January

#### 20th

* Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States.

## 1982

### June

#### 4th

* *Poltergeist* is released in the United States of America.

### September

#### 30th

* *Cheers* airs its first episode in the United States of America.

### November

#### 20th

* After he was experimented on and held in prison for thirty years, a nurse takes pity on Isaiah Bradley. She falsifies documents which say that he is dead and gives him a box of the letters that Bradley's wife tried to send him until she was told that he was dead. Bradley breaks out of the facility where he was being held.

### December

#### 8th

* Onika Tanya Maraj, later known as Nicki Minaj, is born.

## 1983

### January

#### 13th

* Gordon undergoes Terrigenesis. The transformation deprives him of his eyes, but grants him teleportation and force field projecting abilities.

#### 25th

* The film *Return of the Jedi* is released in the United States of America.

## 1984

* Natasha Romanoff is born to Ivan Romanoff.
* Kanan is killed.
* Lothal is freed.
* The Death Star plans are stolen, and the Death Star is destroyed by Luke Skywalker. Gunner saves Jude from dying.

#### 8th

* *Ghostbusters* is released in the United States of America.

#### 27th

* *Rainbow Brite* airs its first episode.

### October

#### 26th

* *The Terminator* is released in the United States of America.

### July

#### 3rd

* *Back to the Future* is released in the United States of America.

### November

#### 27th

* *Rocky IV* is released, including the character of Ivan Drago.

## 1986

### May

#### 14th

* S.H.I.E.L.D. investigates the Bermuda Triangle and the mysteries that lurked in the region. Unbeknownst to them, the triangle is actually part of the Sea of Monsters.

#### 16th

* *Top Gun* is released in the United States of America.

### June

#### 11th

* The film *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* is released in the United States of America.

### March

#### 6th

* *Lethal Weapon* is released in the United States of America.

### July

* Hank Pym, using his Ant-Man Suit and Janet van Dyne in her Wasp Suit, try to stop a Soviet ICBM from hitting the United States. After finding no way to disarm the missile, Janet turns her suit's regulator off to make herself small enough to enter the missile. Janet managed to turn the missile off, at the cost of shrinking indefinitely into the Quantum Realm, supposedly leading to her death. Due to the loss of Janet, Pym stored his suit in his basement vault in the Pym Residence, and sends his daughter Hope off to boarding school. This causes a strain in their relationship.

## 1988

* On Tatooine, Han Solo is rescued from Jabba the Hutt, who is killed by Leia Organa. Boba Fett is consumed by the sarlacc of the Great Pit of Carkoon.
* Lando Calrissian defeats a pirate fleet at the Battle of Taanab, earning himself the rank of general in the Rebel Alliance.
* Yoda dies on Dagobah; Luke Skywalker discovers that he is not only truly the son of Darth Vader, but also the brother of Leia Organa.
* A strike team led by Alliance General Han Solo lands on the Forest Moon of Endor with the shuttle *Tydirium*. They gather Ewok allies from Bright Tree Village.
* Luke Skywalker tells Leia Organa that they are siblings and that Darth Vader is their father. Luke Skywalker then leaves to confront Vader himself, attempting to join forces with him to fight against the Emperor as Jedi.
* **Battle of Endor:**
	+ The Alliance Fleet flies into the trap set for them by the Emperor in the Endor system. Led by Admiral Ackbar from aboard the *Home One*, the rebels destroy the *Executor*.
	+ Han Solo's strike team and Ewok allies destroy the Death Star's shield generator, allowing rebel starfighters to infiltrate the Death Star's reactor core.
	+ After nearly being turned to the dark side by Darth Sidious, Luke and Vader duel, with Vader learning of Leia's relation to him. Sidious tries to kill Luke, but Anakin Skywalker kills Sidious, fulfilling the prophecy of the Chosen One and bringing balance to the Force by destroying the Sith. The second Death Star is destroyed by the *Millennium Falcon*.

### July

#### 2nd

* Daisy Johnson is born to Calvin Johnson and Jiaying in a small Chinese village in the Hunan Province.

#### 20th

* *Die Hard* is released in the United States of America.

### November

* **Kidnapping of Peter Quill**: Meredith Quill dies from terminal illness. Her son, Peter Quill, flees from the hospital in sadness only to be abducted by the Ravagers.

## 1989

### January

* Twins Pietro and Wanda Maximoff are born in Sokovia.

#### 20th

* Ronald Reagan leaves the office of President of the United States as George H W. Bush is sworn in.

### March

* After serving 44 years of his life sentence in the Rat, Werner Reinhardt is set free by Alexander Pierce and is brought to his old base in Austria by a group of HYDRA Operatives. After noticing Jiaying had not aged in all these years, he experiments on her body, trying to discover what made her special. Reinhardt changes his name to Daniel Whitehall and loses his German accent. Calvin Johnson finds Jaiying in a forest. Johnson refuses to allow his beloved wife to die and puts her body back together by using his medical skills.

### April

#### 24th

* **Attack on Wakanda**: Using information provided by N'Jobu, who has become radicalized during his time on a War Dogs assignment in Oakland, California, black market arms dealer Ulysses Klaue enters the hidden kingdom of Wakanda in East Africa and steals a large amount of vibranium. He causes damage to their protective dome and becomes the first person in the country's history to escape.

### June

#### 13th

* Hank Pym resigns from S.H.I.E.L.D., after discovering that the organization attempted to replicate his technology.

#### 19th

* Nick Fury takes a desk job as the Cold War draws to a close, after fighting in Belfast, Bucharest, Belgrade, and Budapest. He starts working to try to figure out where future enemies might come from.

#### 22nd

* Yon-Rogg crashes Wendy Lawson and Carol Danvers' jets. Wendy reveals her secret to Danvers before dying, who destroys the jet engine housing energy from the Tesseract, initially meant for the Skrulls.

#### 23rd

* Yon-Rogg gives Carol Danvers a blood transfusion using his Kree blood. Knowing Danvers does not remember her past, the Kree put a Photon Inhibitor in her neck and decide to claim the device in her neck is a gift they have given her that in fact provides her with the powers, unique among Kree. They choose to train her for Starforce as "Vers", and utilize her powers in their war against the Skrulls.

### November

#### 22nd

* *Back to the Future Part II* is released