Flashpoint

## Pre-Flashpoint

* **Vanishing Point (outside time)**
	+ At an unknown point in time, the Time Masters organization was created to control and oversee the "correct" timeline from the Vanishing Point. Using the Oculus device to manipulate certain events in time, as well as a Time Fleet and bounty hunters to combat the occasional time pirate, the Time Masters kept their hold over the main timeline.
	+ At the Vanishing Point, Rip brought Vandal Savage before the Time Masters, however the Time Masters told Savage they would return him to 2166 and arrested Rip. Savage confronted Rip in custody and taunted him about the deaths of his family which he was now leaving to fulfill. Given access to a time ship Savage took Kendra and Scythian with him wanting them to see his reign come to pass before killing them.
	+ Outside of time, Rip Hunter's team destroys the Oculus device, ending the ability of Time Masters to manipulate the events throughout time or to see "the true timeline", also resulting in the death of Leonard Snart. Without an insurance that the Thanagarians will actually invade Earth, the Time Masters stop supporting Vandal Savage, though not before giving him a timeship of his own at the behest of Zaman Druce.

* **Early times**
	+ The Big Bang occurs and marks the creation of this universe along with every other parallel universe in the original multiverse.
	+ Eve's sisters Lilith, Durgia, Naamah and Lamashtu turn down Adam's proposal and choose an eternity as goddesses of Hell over a lifetime of obedience on Earth.

* **1700 BC**
	+ Hath-Set attempts to murder Priestess Chay-Ara and Prince Khufu, in which ends all their lives due to a meteor shower. Said shower grants Chay-Ara and Khufu the power to reincarnate each time they die, and makes Hath-Set immortal, apparently under the condition that he kills the two in each of their reincarnations .
	+ Sometime later, Hath-Set adopted the name "Vandal Savage".

* **33**
	+ Jesus Christ is crucified, Longinus pierces his side with a spear, which is enhanced by Christ's blood, creating the Spear of Destiny.

* **507**
	+ Courtney/Stargirl had been taken to 507 A.D. where she settled in Britannia but found the land to be a savage one. To better protect her fragment of the spear, she took on the persona of the legendary wizard Merlin and then fashioned the land into the legendary Court of Camelot with King Arthur and Guinevere using the spear fragment's reality-altering power. Over time, she had fallen in love with Arthur.

* **1013**
	+ The League of Assassins is founded.

* **1609**
	+ A man calling himself Ra's al Ghul (whose alias translate to “the Demon’s Head”) takes command of the League of Assassins and unleashes cholera on Alexandria, Egypt. It is possible there was another man called Ra's al Ghul before him. This man uses the life-restoring Lazarus Pit to survive longer than a normal human lifespan.

* **1759**
	+ Damien Darhk is born.

* **1852**
	+ Transcontinental railroad laid their tracks through Central City.
	+ Bobby McFeely rises as Central City's greatest hero after a flood hits the city.

* **1854**
	+ Ra's al Ghul happens upon an illusionist in Vienna, becoming mystified with his tricks. Nearly half a century later, he came across the man again, but the man was withered and old.

* **1889**
	+ Joe Boardman is born with an unknown name.

* **1890**
	+ Edith Boardman is born with an unknown name.

* **1892**
	+ The Legends visit Siberia on an unknown mission.

* **1898**
	+ Sometime during or prior to 1898, Prescott became mayor of Starling City. In that same year, he was removed from office by the city's council, becoming the first of the city's mayors to both face impeachment and be impeached.

* **1910**
	+ Starling City is founded.

* **1915**
	+ Aldus Boardman is born.
	+ Charles Devereaux is born.

* **1920**
	+ **October**, after realizing that Vandal Savage was on her and her husband's tail, they had their names changed to "Edith Boardman" and "Joe Boardman" and moved once again. However, Aldus admitted to having heard them talk at night and so they decided to explain the nature of their eternal cycle of reincarnation to him.

* **Some time in the 1930s**
	+ Marcus Mooney allowed Willie Cole to record on an acetate. He left him to do so, but in the process the man was killed by Satan, who had come for his promised soul. When Mooney came back, he discovered blood everywhere and hid the acetate within one of the walls of the studio.

* **1939**
	+ World War II begins.
	+ Henry Heywood joins the army, and is given dog tags with the numbers 070233.

* **1942**
	+ By this point, the JSA roster includes: Dr. Mid-Nite, Stargirl, Todd Rice/Obsidian, Rex Tyler/Hourman, Henry Heywood/Commander Steel, and Amaya Jiwe/Vixen.

* **1945**
	+ World War II ends. The Justice Society continues to act for the American government, now as a secret force against U.S.S.R. operations during the Cold War.

* **1947**
	+ Ra's al Ghul is challenged to a trial by combat which ends with Ra's killing the man.

* **1950**
	+ **March 16**, Martin Stein is born.

* **1951**
	+ The Dominators land on Earth, launching an invasion to determine if meta-humans are a threat to their existence.

* **1953**
	+ David Maclean is born.

* **1955**
	+ Henry Allen is born.
	+ Hank Heywood is born.

* **1956**
	+ Justice Society of America were sent to a mission in Leipzig. Todd Rice/Obsidian, however, wasn't trusted due to the charged times and his homosexuality, and so was left behind. 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**
	+ Robert Queen is born.
	+ 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**
	+ **March 26**, Vanessa Ambres is born.
	+ Nora Allen is born.
* **1960**
	+ **June 15**, Quentin Lance is born.
	+ The *Waverider* returns for Kendra, Ray, and Sara.
* **1961**
	+ **September 20**, Patty McCabe is born.
* **1964**
	+ Moira Dearden is born.
	+ Tom Weston is born.
* **1965**
	+ **March 11**, William Tockman is born.
	+ **March 24**, Tom Weston is born.
	+ Henry Heywood/Commander Steel had been sent to 1965 Manhattan where Rip told him that he had to assume a new identity to protect the spear. He gave Rip his dogtags and asked him to make sure they found their way to his son. He went and worked his way to NASA where he hid his fragment of the spear in the flag Neil Armstrong planted on the moon in order to insure that it remained safe.
* **1966**
	+ **October 13**, Arthur King is born.
* **1967**
	+ Ryan Doucette is born.
* **1968**
	+ Slade Wilson is born.
* **1972**
	+ **February 28**, Shintaro Shimosawa is born.
	+ **June 2**, Leonard Snart is born.
* **1975**
	+ **May 8,** Clifford DeVoe is born.
	+ **August 4,** Aldus Boardman recorded himself on a video tape talking about Vandal Savage and the latter's immortality, as well as ways Savage could potentially be killed.
	+ **October 17,** Aldus Boardman is found dead in his office.
	+ Martin Stein meets Clarissa.
	+ 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 1975 Savage is later killed by White Canary and Firestorm.
* **1976**
	+ Paul Copani is born.
	+ Clarke Devereaux is born.
* **1977**
	+ John Diggle is born.
	+ Sebastian Blood is born.
* **1981**
	+ **April 1**, Mikhail Petrov is born.
	+ **June 15**, Luciano Costa is born.
	+ **October 31**, Cecil Adams is born.
	+ Ray Palmer is born.
	+ Michael Staton is born.
* **1982**
	+ **May 10**, John Constantine is born.
	+ John's mother dies giving birth to him.
* **1983**
	+ Sam Hackett is born.
* **1985**
	+ **February**, Tommy Merlyn is born.
	+ **May 10**, Nyssa al Ghul is born.
	+ **May 16**, Oliver Queen is born.
	+ **November 15**, Laurel Lance is born.
* **1986**
	+ **April 21**, Simon Morrison is born.
* **1987**
	+ **June 20**, Shawna Baez is born.
	+ **November 21**, Carrie Cutter is born.
	+ **December 25**, Sara Lance is born.
* **1988**
	+ Martin Stein and Clarissa marry.
	+ Kuasa is born.
* **1989**
	+ **February 28**, Caitlin Snow is born.
	+ **March 14**, Barry Allen is born.
	+ **June 24**, Iris West is born.
	+ **July 24**, Felicity Smoak is born.
	+ **October 15**, Bill Carlisle is born.
	+ Emiko Adachi is born.
	+ Tony Woodward is born.
* **1990**
	+ Axel Walker is born.
* **1991**
	+ **July 5**, Chester P. Runk is born.
	+ **July 13**, Roy Harper is born.
* **1992**
	+ Mari is born.
	+ **mid-October:** Warlords, including Benatu Eshu, attack Zambesi Village and burn it to the ground. Esi's husband, and her mother, Amaya Jiwe are killed trying to defend the village. Esi flees with her infant daughter Mari, as well as the Anansi totem. Mari is left in foster care sometime afterwards and is given the totem by her foster mother at the age of ten.
	+ Oliver Queen meets Laurel and Sara Lance for the first time.
* **1993**
	+ Becky Sharpe is born.
	+ Rebecca Merlyn is murdered by Danny Brickwell.
	+ Malcolm Merlyn travels to Nanda Parbat and is inducted into the League of Assassins.
	+ **September 12**, Jefferson Jackson is born.
	+ **September 26**, Jefferson's father James Jackson is killed in an IED explosion while serving in Somalia.
* **1995**
	+ **January 21**, Thea Queen is born.
	+ **March**, Ray Terrill is born.
	+ Barry had begged his parents to take him to a science expo out of town, but on the way, they hit a flat tire, and their car had to be towed to the garage in a small town with a single street, and were stuck there all day, but they passed the time at the local diner where they had ice cream and french fries with gravy, and spent the night watching the local fireworks.
	+ Francine West leaves her family. Her husband Joe West tells their daughter Iris that she died. Joe is unaware that Francine is pregnant.
* **1995 or 1996**
	+ Wally West is born.
* **1996**
	+ Xavier Reed was put in to foster care.
* **1997**
	+ Griffin Grey is born.
	+ Cindy Simone is born.
* **1998**
	+ Joanie is born.
* **1999**
	+ Evelyn Sharp is born.
	+ Barry and his mother Nora watch *Singin' in the Rain* together.
* **2000**
	+ **Time Rupture: March 18,** Leaving the Crisis of 2024, Reverse-Flash and the Flash traveled back into the year 2000 where Reverse-Flash attempted to kill an 11 year old Barry Allen. The Flash of 2024 stopped him, escaping with 11 year old Barry, so the Reverse-Flash killed Barry's mother Nora Allen and tried to return to his time. This changes the Flash's potential history, draining Eobard's connection to the Speed Force as a side-effect, and leaving him stranded in 2000. Refusing to accept the loss of his powers, Eobard decides to completely alter history and make Barry Allen into the Flash as soon as possible.
	+ Henry Allen is charged with Nora's murder and sentenced to life in prison. Joe West takes legal guardianship of Barry Allen.
	+ **April 16**, Knowing "future" events, Eobard Thawne follows Harrison Wells and his wife Tess Morgan and causes a car crash to occur, which kills Tess. Eobard uses a futuristic device to drain the DNA from Wells into himself, giving him Wells' appearance whilst killing Wells. Eobard then takes Wells' place and buries Wells' body to ensure the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator happens sooner.
* **At some point after 2000**
	+ Eobard Thawne masqueraded as Harrison Wells officially opens the S.T.A.R. Labs in Central City and begin to plan and build the particle accelerator to be released as soon possible.
* **2001**
	+ An unnamed boy is born.
* **2002**
	+ Henry Goodwin and Robert Queen get in into an argument which resulted in Goodwin falling into a vat of concrete.
* **2003**
	+ Gabi Kane dies.
	+ **December 2**, Nora Darhk is born.
	+ Henry Goodwin is officially declared as deceased.
* **2004**
	+ Simon Morrison and Oliver Queen allegedly met when Oliver successfully tried to pick up Simon's girlfriend.
* **2005**
	+ John Diggle and his brother Andy fight in Afghanistan.
	+ Amanda Waller sends Edward Fyers and his men on an island called Lian Yu to secretly sabotage the economy of China and presumably other Asian countries.
* **2007**
	+ **November**, Laurel broaches the topic of she and Oliver getting a place of their own, as citing that they have been together even longer than their friends Ray and Jean who are already moving in together. Oliver initially agrees, but later panicked and tried to run away from the responsibility. First, he sleeps with another woman, Samantha Clayton, and accidentally got her pregnant, which he is unprepared for.
	+ **November 6**, Moira steps in and gives Samantha two million dollars to start a new life in Central City to raise the child, the only catch being that she has to tell Oliver that it was a miscarriage leaving Oliver unaware of his fatherhood.
	+ Robert Queen, Oliver Queen and Sara Lance board the Queen's Gambit on a trip which is sabotaged by the Undertaking. Sara is washed overboard whilst Robert and Oliver survive. Robert commits suicide to save Oliver who washes up Lian Yu.
	+ While burying his father, Oliver finds a blank notebook in Robert's pocket.
	+ Oliver meets Yao Fei Gulong and later Edward Fyers who Oliver and Yao Fei go up against in a bid to retrieve Yao Fei's daughter Shado. Oliver also meets Slade Wilson who is stranded on the island as well.
* **2008**
	+ Yao Fei is killed by Edward Fryers. Fryers himself was immediately killed by Oliver Queen.
	+ Anthony Ivo and his crew find their way to Lian Yu in search for the Mirakuru. Slade Wilson is gravely injured during the search.
	+ Grace Gibbons is born.
	+ Oliver Queen is captured by Anthony Ivo's men and is taken aboard their ship where he becomes acquainted to Anatoly Knyazev. He is then reunited with Sara Lance immediately after.
	+ Slade Wilson is injected with Mirakuru.
	+ Shado is killed by Anthony Ivo.
	+ John Diggle saves Gholem Qadir while in Afghanistan, and meets Lyla Michaels.
* **2009**
	+ Garfield Lynns is presumed deceased.
	+ Andy Diggle's death is being faked by H.I.V.E., using Floyd Lawton to "assassinate" him.
	+ Slade Wilson has a fallout with Oliver Queen and Sara Lance during their sacking of Anthony Ivo's ship and ends up taking over said ship for himself.
	+ Oliver Queen is sent to Hong Kong by Amanda Waller.
	+ Sara Lance is rescued by Nyssa al Ghul and is then taken by the League of Assassins.
	+ Felicity Smoak graduates from MIT with flying colors.
	+ General Wade Eilling and Eobard Thawne posing as "Harrison Wells" end their partnership over conflicting methods, with the mistreatment of an experimental gorilla named Grodd being the final straw.
	+ In secret, Oliver Queen briefly returns to Starling City on a mission by Amanda Waller.
	+ Alpha-Omega virus was spread on Hong Kong by general Matthew Shrieve. Many are killed, including Akio Yamashiro. Oliver then proceeds to torture Matthew in retaliation.
	+ Oliver Queen leaves Hong Kong for Coast City.
	+ Maseo Yamashiro joins the League of Assassins.
* **2010**
	+ Oliver spends some time as a hooded vigilante, targeting corrupted businessmen at random. At one night, while pursuing an armed man who is responsible for the death of 5 people, 4 of them children, Oliver ran into Amanda Waller. She says Oliver needed to embrace the killer instinct he used to torture Shrieve. then drugs Oliver and forces him back on Lian Yu to infiltrate a drug lord's cartel. Shortly after landing, Oliver is found by one of the men but easily kills him. He then dirties his clothes and throws the man's body over a landmine to make it look like he had been stranded the entire four years he was missing and that the man accidentally stepped on a landmine. He easily infiltrates their ranks due to the dead man leaving a vacant position for Oliver to take. He is later forced to torture a slave to psychologically torture the other prisoners who had stolen the drug. After a woman called Taiana Venediktov takes the blame of the stealing, Oliver is tasked to execute her. Instead, he takes her elsewhere to hide her somewhere safe but was accompanied by one other man. This forces Oliver to trick him into stepping onto a mine and Taiana gradually giving him her trust. After showing to Conklin he killed Taiana, Conklin finds Oliver's communication device and starts accusing him as a spy. When they return to Baron Reiter, he is interrogating a man called John Constantine about the maps he had. Before anyone could do anything, John makes a spell to escape from handcuffs and took Oliver to show him the spot on the maps. After he takes John there, John seeks and performs a spell to uncover the hidden passageway, much to Oliver's shock. Once inside, they explore the cave where John explains that there are areas of the world as old as it including Lian Yu, possessing things corrupt men aren't supposed to have such as Reiter. John eventually finds what he seeks and retrieves it but set off a trap which Oliver saves him from being killed by, insisting he's not one of Reiter's men. After exiting the cave John thanks Oliver for saving his life and breaks off the crystal off the rod to give to Reiter, as the rod itself is what contains the magic. John also warns Oliver about Reiter, insisting his narcotics aren't his only interest for being on the island. As insurance John also uses the rod to transfer a spell on his arm onto Oliver's torso, insisted he will know what to do when the time comes and on Oliver's request, John punches him out cold as part of his "escape" and leaves on his boat, but the two will keep in contact. After Oliver takes Reiter and Conklin to the cave, where he and John found the Orb of Horus, Reiter tasks Oliver to find out the spot the runes tells him about with some workers. Conklin goes with him and tasks Taiana's brother Vlad to drown Oliver. Oliver manages to kill him before that and he went back to Reiter with Conklin. Baron Reiter manages to find out the truth from Conklin and after they go away, Oliver steals a map from him. He then punishes Conklin by whipping him and goes to Taiana with the maps and news about her brother. He encourages Taiana to help him stop Reiter, by first going to the Amazo, to find maps that covered the whole Lian Yu. He fights with a shark after diving to get the maps, but after coming back to land, Conklin appears, promising to enjoy taking pieces out of him. Conklin then takes Oliver and Taiana to Reiter, who allows Conklin whip Oliver as a payback. Before Conklin can kill Oliver, the tattoos John gave him start to glow near the Orb of Horus and Reiter makes Conklin stop. Oliver makes a deal with Reiter, as long as Taiana would stay alive, he would cooperate. Conklin took them to an old Chinese cell where they keep the prisoners and there Taiana starts to heal Oliver from his fever and wounds. Reiter will then torture Oliver to find out why he needed the maps from Amazo. Oliver passes out from the torture and the fever and hallucinates that Shado will kill Reiter, his men and save him. Shado encourages Oliver to let go of his inner darkness and tell the truth about Vlad to Taiana. After waking up from the fever, Oliver told the truth about Vlad to Taiana and noticed he had the artifact in his hand from the hallucination. Taiana takes the artifact from him and tried to use it as leverage to get out from the sell. Reiter takes the artifact from her and forces her to take care of Oliver. She does that and they start talking about the losses in their life. Taiana tells him that he can be the man his father wishes, by saving the workers from Reiter, but can't do that as lost, shattered man. Oliver promises her that he would save the workers. Baron Reiter later informs Oliver and Taiana that the stone was the last piece to his puzzle and they will dig at daybreak as the Heaven he seeks is below them.
	+ Curtis and Paul Holt get married.
* **2011**
	+ Oliver sets with the Slam cultivators to kill Conklin in order to prove that he was there to save them and take out Reiter. After Conklin was left alone watching over Oliver when Reiter departed from his office, he noticed Oliver attempting to stab him through his reflection in the mirror and engaged in a fight, vowing to kill Taiana after he is done with Oliver. During the fight, Oliver stabbed Conklin in the chest as he warned Oliver that Reiter was going to kill everyone on the island before dying. The following day a passage is discovered that leads to Reiter's desired "ultimate power" but a primordial energy takes the form of the deceased Conklin, standing in front of the cave entrance and spoke in tongues that everyone was going to die. After Reiter left Taiana and Oliver alone in the room the force, noticing the spell on Oliver's torso, deemed him worthy to pass before disappearing.In the depths of the cave, Oliver, Taiana, Reiter and two of his mercenaries, finally succeed in finding the Khushu Idol, a mystical object that allows the user to tap into the power of dark magic harnessing him enhanced physical attributes and psychic abilities by killing others. Oliver steals it and runs off into the tunnels with Taiana followed by Reiter's mercenaries, which they managed to incapacitate acquiring their guns. However, the path they took lead nowhere so they had to return to the cave where they came from. Reiter waited them there and due to the Idol, he was empowered by the deaths of his mercenaries and managed to defeat Oliver when he tried to fight him.His powers soon vanished and Oliver took the opportunity to knock him out and rushed to Taiana who was unconscious. While Oliver checked on Taiana, Reiter managed to disappear meanwhile with the idol. Taiana started to have second thoughts to kill Reiter's men while looking and old picture of her and Vlad. Oliver encouraged her again, telling that he used to watch picture of Laurel to remember who he once was, but stopped since he wouldn't survive on Lian Yu and neither would Taiana by being the person they once were. Coming back to the prison side, Taiana tricked Reiter's men to the caves where Oliver shot them and distracted the remaining ones while Taiana free the prisoners. They armed themselves to kill all Reiter's mercenaries and trapped Reiter in the caves. While having a brief break, Oliver showed Laurel's picture to Taiana, and they both promised to each other that if one of them wouldn't survive, the other would go to his/her loved ones and tell what happened on the island. While coming back to the surface, the island had changed to a war zone between the armed prisoners and Reiter's men. Oliver took his communication gear that Conklin had taken and more weapons to fight Reiter. He told the others to go to the plane while leaving himself to fight Reiter.A few hours later, Reiter came to the surface empowered by the idol even more and while Oliver tried helplessly to fight him, Reiter's powers made him too powerful while Oliver's efforts being too "mortal". With the help of Taiana, Oliver managed to keep Reiter down by shooting constantly with an assault rifle, while Taiana took the idol with her. They ran to the forest but after wandering in the forest for few hours, the idol started to affect Taiana, giving her powers while also corrupting her.Continuing their journey, two of Reiter's men found them and shot Oliver and Taiana. While Oliver was pushed back, Taiana was unfazed and mercenaries death made her even more powerful and corrupt. Oliver tried to talk her out of using the Idol too much, but Taiana didn't listen to him. They found some prisoners fighting mercenaries and after taking them out, Taiana wanted to kill a harmed prisoner, since it would make her more powerful. Oliver tried again to talk some sense to her, but she didn't listen and threw Oliver away. He then took the idol from her, claiming that she would have to kill him if she wanted it back. However Reiter appeared, claiming to kill them both.While they started to fight, Reiter destroyed the plane that the prisoners had used to escape the island, empowering him and Taiana even more. However, Taiana managed to suck Reiter's life-force and make him vulnerable. Oliver then threw a knife to his back, killing Reiter. Taiana managed to take control of herself and pledged Oliver to kill her before she kills everyone on the island and becomes worse than Reiter; Oliver fulfils her wish and the prisoners saw him, claiming he is a killer. Oliver however, manages to talk them down and calls on Amanda Waller and A.R.G.U.S. to save them. After they had come, Amanda says how the mission was never to make Oliver reject his inner darkness but to put him through it and show how sometimes killing can be the only option there is. She tries to recruit Oliver for different missions across the globe but he rejects, saying he has to keep his promise to Taiana.
	+ Oliver Queen goes to Russia to try and find Konstantin Kovar.
	+ Oliver fights in an underground fight club where he ends up killing the local Bratva champion.
* **2012**
	+ **September**, Oliver Queen is rescued by Chinese fishermen. He calls his mother saying he is an alive and that he is coming home to Starling City.
	+ After spending 5 years away from Starling City, Oliver Queen takes up a hood and bow, going into the streets to kill people on a specific list, if they didn't fulfill something to pay back the city they "failed".
	+ **October**, Oliver found a nightclub which he then names Verdant as a cover for his base of operations.
	+ Oliver Queen recruits his own bodyguard John Diggle to join his cause after saving the latter from Deadshot's poisonous bullets. Around this time, he occasionally seeks help from other resources such as his former flame and Public Attorney Laurel Lance, her father and SCPD Detective Quentin, and Queen Consolidated IT Expert Felicity Smoak.
	+ **November**, He recruits Mafia Princess Helena Bertinelli but they ultimately had a falling out due to different approaches and ideologies.
	+ Walter Steele starts suspecting the same list that Oliver has and does his own investigations.
	+ **December 9**, Adam Hunt is killed by the Dark Archer.
	+ **December 11**, Nelson Ravich is killed by the Dark Archer.
	+ **December 12**, Walter Steele is kidnapped.
* **2013**
	+ **January**, Garfield Lynns targets members of his old team to kill.
	+ **March**, Oliver reluctantly confronts his mother as The Hood at Diggle's behest but is seriously injured. He seeks longtime consultant Felicity Smoak for help. The incident leads to Felicity Smoak officially joining his cause.
	+ Moira Queen begins her move against Malcolm Merlyn but repeatedly fails.
	+ Thea Queen and Laurel Lance meet Roy Harper.
	+ Roy Harper is kidnapped by a murderous vigilante who calls himself the Savior but is saved by Oliver. This incident leads to Roy being obsessed with the Hood.
	+ Oliver and his team successfully rescue Walter from Malcolm's clutches.
	+ Walter Steele divorces Moira Queen after finding out the truth about her allegiance to Malcolm's group.
	+ **May 15**, Moira Queen outs the Undertaking and Malcolm Merlyn to the public at the cost of her reputation.
	+ Malcolm Merlyn (partially) successfully executes the Undertaking and decimates the Glades, killing 503 people including his own son Tommy.
	+ Depressed after failing his mission and the death of his best friend, Oliver Queen returns to Lian Yu.
	+ **October 7**, Oliver returns to Starling City after six months on Lian Yu.
	+ **October 9**, Thea sees Moira in prison
	+ Sara Lance returns to Starling City and is gradually reunited to her friends and family.
	+ With the machinations of Malcolm Merlyn, Moira Queen is acquitted of 503 counts of murder.
	+ **December 8**, Barry Allen travels to Starling City and meets Oliver Queen and his team for the first time.
	+ **December 11**, the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator purposely "malfunctioned", creating numerous meta-humans in the process but at the expense of countless lives.
		- Collegiate American Football prospect Jefferson Jackson suffers a career-ending injury thanks to the explosion.
		- Renowned scientist Martin Stein disappears without a trace for the next year and a half after unwillingly being fused with S.T.A.R. Labs engineer Ronnie Raymond, becoming an unstable Firestorm in the particle accelerator explosion.
		- Barry Allen is struck by lightning, and put into a coma for 9 months.
		- Ralph Dibny is killed as a result of the explosion.
* **2014**
	+ **January**, Sebastian Blood runs for Mayor of Starling City.
	+ **January 17,** of the following year, Deacon was honored at the 21st Annual Quasar Award Banquet in Keystone City. However, Deacon's three partners decided to make it something bigger, stealing the idea and selling it for billions, leaving him with nothing.
	+ Laurel Lance begins trailing Sebastian Blood. Sebastian uses his connections, as well as Laurel's own concurrent medical and alcohol abuse, to discredit her.
	+ Moira Queen runs for Mayor of Starling City.
	+ Roy Harper officially becomes a member of Team Arrow.
	+ **March**, Amanda Waller begins forming "Task Force X" also known as the "Suicide Squad".
	+ **April**, Helena Bertinelli returns to Starling City in time for her estranged father's trial to exact her revenge. Frank Bertinelli is killed, though not by his daughter's hand. Helena is incarcerated soon after.
	+ As part of his mind games, Slade Wilson kidnaps Thea Queen and tells her about her true parentage. During this crisis, Slade's accomplice Isabel Rochev successfully dupes Oliver Queen in giving her total control of his family's company.
	+ Laurel Lance regains her job.
	+ Moira Queen backs out of the Mayoral Race, effectively giving Sebastian Blood the victory.
	+ Sara Lance leaves Starling City to go to The League of Assassins for help against Slade Wilson, in exchange of rejoining them.
	+ Felicity Smoak asks her friends at S.T.A.R. Labs to develop a Mirakuru cure.
	+ **April 24**, Slade Wilson kills Moira Queen.
	+ **May**, Slade Wilson and his men begin their siege of Starling City. The siege took several lives, including District Attorney Kate Spencer, Anna Loring and many others.
	+ S.T.A.R. Labs successfully develops a Mirakuru cure just in time to combat Slade Wilson's siege.
	+ Starling City Mayor Sebastian Blood had a last minute change of heart and helps Team Arrow. He was killed by Isabel Rochev as a result.
	+ Sara Lance returns to Starling City to aid Team Arrow, bringing along the League of Assassins.
	+ Oliver and his team successfully defeat Slade Wilson and his men. Isabel Rochev is killed in the battle by Nyssa.
	+ Thea Queen leaves Starling City with Malcolm Merlyn.
	+ Slade Wilson is imprisoned on Lian Yu.
	+ Quentin Lance is promoted to SCPD Captain.
	+ Ray Palmer successfully buys Queen Consolidated.
	+ **October 7,**  Barry Allen wakes up from his coma, Malcolm Merlyn drugs Thea Queen, and they fly from Corto Maltese to Starling City, where Thea kills Sara Lance on Malcolm Merlyn's behest.
	+ John Diggle and Lyla Michaels' daughter is born and is named "Sara" in Sara Lance's memory.
	+ **October 9,** Barry becomes "The Red Streak" or "The Streak".
	+ **October 12,** "Harrison Wells" kills renowned businessman Simon Stagg.
	+ **October 18,** Farooq Gibran fights The Flash, and seemingly steals his powers. Later that night Farooq causes a city-wide blackout and breaks into S.T.A.R. Labs, as William Tockman takes siege of the CCPD.
	+ **December 24,** Oliver engages Ra's al Ghul, the Leader of the League of Assassins, in a trial by combat and loses.
* **2015**
	+ **January 27, original timeline:** Hartley Rathaway is captured and eventually escapes from the S.T.A.R. Labs pipeline.
	+ **January 27, current timeline:** Barry Allen from 2016 travels back to 2015 to talk with Eobard Thawne/Harrison Wells, reasoning that his old mentor/enemy would know the secret of increasing speed if anyone did. Although his plan to simply pose as his past self failed due to the intervention of a Time Wraith, Barry was able to trick Eobard into providing him with the information he needed by claiming that Eobard would return home in his time and he had left information about Eobard's real identity where his past self would find it unless he was allowed to return to his own time. Due to actions of Barry's future self, Hartley Rathaway/Pied Piper became an ally of Team Flash instead of a villain.
	+ **March 24, original timeline:** Cisco works out that Reverse-Flash and Harrison Wells are the same person. Harrison reveals to Cisco that he is actually Eobard Thawne before killing him.
	+ Barry reveals to Iris that he is the Flash and reveals how he feels about her. He then runs back and forth along the shore in order to stop Mark's tidal wave; causing a time rupture that sends him backwards in time to the previous day.
	+ **March 24, current timeline:** The Flash travels back in time by one day and the splitting of the two timelines, sharing a common past, is shown briefly. Using his future knowledge of the day, he prevents a number of events happening and captures Mark Mardon before he can cause a tidal wave on the city changing the entire events of that day.
	+ **May 19**, Barry travels back in time to 2000 prevent his mom's murder but his future self warns him to not do so. Barry returns and fights against Eobard Thawne one more time. Eddie Thawne shoots himself to prevent Eobard from killing Team Flash and erases him from existence. This causes a huge time paradox that manifests as a singularity which threatens to obliterate the planet and inadvertently opens a portal to Earth-2.
	+ Bruce Wayne left Gotham, hence the vigilante Batman has left crime in the city unattended.
	+ **November 4** **(Flash Day):** A celebration of the Flash's achievements. Barry begins to reflect on that day, remembering that it was in fact Firestorm who saved Central City. Atom-Smasher begins to attack Barry, badly injuring him. Atom-Smasher nearly killed mayor Anthony Bellows in the process.
	+ **November 5**, Central City Picture News publish an article titled "Flash Falters" about the chaotic events at the Central City Flash Day celebrations.
	+ **November 6**, Henry Allen is released from prison after Wells (Eobard) leaves Barry a prerecorded message confessing to the murder.
	+ **November 23**, Barry comes up with a dangerous plan to capture Zoom using Linda Park and disguising her as Dr. Light. Zoom doesn't fall for the plan and he takes Linda as she is leaving work. Iris witnesses this and calls Barry while the S.T.A.R. Labs meta-human detector senses a meta-human on the roof. That meta-human turns out to be Zoom. Zoom and Barry fight and Zoom breaks Barry's back, paralyzing him. Zoom carries Barry around Central City showing that there hero, has failed to protect them. Cisco then shoots Zoom with the speed dampener and Zoom leaves.
	+ **Original timeline:** Vandal Savage destroys Central City, however, the Flash escaped and returned in time to stop him.
	+ **Current timeline:** The Flash travels back in time in a superseding form of time travel to stop Vandal Savage from destroying Central City. Due to Barry's actions, Team Flash and Team Arrow kill Vandal Savage. However, sometime after, due to his end not being at the hands of any of Chay-Ara's incarnations, Vandal eventually regenerated from the ashes left in his wake.
* **2016**
	+ **January 16**, Rip Hunter travels back in time from the year 2166 in order to recruit a team to stop Vandal Savage before he conquers the world.
	+ After learning the time that the Flash was active, Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash's younger self arrives in **January 26**, having his first encounter with Barry Allen/The Flash of an alternate timeline. After he is released from his prison in S.T.A.R. Labs, he is aided by the Flash to return to his time.
	+ **March 22**, Iris West's article on Trajectory and the Flash, titled "FLASH Stops Evil Female Speedster" is published on the front page of Central City Picture News.
	+ **March 29**, Brie Larvan is released from Iron Heights Prison.
	+ **Time Rupture: March 29**, Barry Allen travels back in time to 2015 in order to find a way to be faster, altering events with Hartley Rathaway.
	+ **May 17**, Barry chases Zoom throughout Central City and leads their conflict to the old Allen house in which Barry watches Zoom kill Henry.
	+ **Time Rupture: May 24**, Barry Allen travels back in time to 2000 and stops Eobard Thawne from killing Nora Allen.
* **2021**
	+ A time-traveling Savage finally arrives to the last sighting of the Thanagarian meteor to complete the ritual "simultaneously" with his past selves.
	+ The final version of Vandal Savage is slain by Hawkman, Hawkgirl and Rip Hunter.
	+ Rip Hunter and Gideon prevent the world's destruction by throwing the meteor into Sun before going back in time to meet the rest of the crew 20 minutes previously.
* **2024**
	+ **April 25**, a merger between Wayne Tech and Queen Inc. happens.
	+ **April 25**, after several encounters, Barry Allen/The Flash teams up with Oliver Queen/Green Arrow, Ray Palmer/The Atom and Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl to fight Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash in the streets of Central City, causing the most destruction the city has ever seen. The fight also somehow causes the sky to turn a deep crimson color, several trucks to start leaking their contents onto the streets and power outages spread over 20 blocks throughout the city. The speedsters start battling over two overturned tanker trucks, and the lightning emitted from them causes the oil from one of them to ignite. While surrounded by smoke, the speedsters have a very heated conversation on an unknown matter, then speed off leaving Green Arrow, Atom and Hawkgirl behind. The two then continue their fight up and down an unknown avenue before Flash vanishes without a trace. However, unbeknownst to everyone, they both travel back to the year 2000.
* **At some point in the 22nd century**
	+ Michael is born.
	+ The woman who would later be known as Miranda Coburn is born.
	+ Jonas is born.
* **2147**
	+ Vandal resided in the Kasnia Conglomerate where he served as an advisor to the late Tor Degaton, and tutored his son Per Degaton. Vandal's true aim however was the use the advanced technology of Kasnia to establish the foothold of his future empire. He also sought to use their secret weapon the "Armagedon virus" to downsize the world's population, and prime it for his own personal conquest with far less threats to contend with. To achieve this Vandal manipulated and corrupted Per's mind, raising him to be ruthless and cold and to one day succeed his father by murdering him and would dictate his own desires through Per. However Vandal always sought to take power from Per when the time was right but Per truly believed Vandal considered him a son. At some point during his stay in Kasnia he had a child named Cassandra with an unnamed woman.
	+ **Current timeline:** After a meeting with Tor where Vandal failed yet again to persuade him to use the virus, Per was abducted by Rip and his team. Savage met with Tor to discuss this and offered his assistance as he'd faced the abductors before. Savage lead a squad of soldiers and A.T.O.M. robots on Tor's orders to disable the *Waverider* but they were soon faced with the Atom, Hawkgirl, White Canary, Firestorm and Captain Cold. During the fight Savage apprehended White Canary and threatened to kill her but offered to trade her in exchange for Rip, but Rip appeared and offered the same deal but in exchange for Per's life. Per begged his father not to give in and to eliminate them now to which Vandal agreed on but Tor consented to Rip's terms, and after Per was released so was White Canary and the team were able to escape unharmed. Shortly afterwards Vandal was visited by Per whom Savage told a story from Greek mythology of a prince who was exiled by his father in fear of a prophecy foretelling the prince murdering him coming true, only for the son to survive and return years later to fulfill the prophecy. Vandal then handed Per a knife and persuaded him that his father will make the same mistake and convinces him to murder his father. As a result of Tor's death Per was elected the new chairman but due to being underage he elected Vandal to be his proxy. For his first action as stand-in leader, Vandal ordered the release of the Armageddon virus and killed billions, including Savage's wife. This led the planet ripe for conquest.
* **2151**
	+ This was originally the year that Eobard Thawne was to be born. However, because of Eddie Thawne's suicide in 2015, he erased the entire Thawne family from existence, including Eobard.
* **2152**
	+ **Original timeline:** In 2152, when Per was 19, he finally succeeded his father as leader of Kasnia and, on Vandal's insistence, unleashed the Armagedon virus which killed billions of people, including Savage's wife, and leaving the world prime for conquest. When this occurred Vandal betrayed Per and murdered him to take his seat of power and become Kasnia's leader himself. Vandal would make Kasnia the foothold of his future empire, however, since Rip's actions changed these events and unleashed the Armagedon virus 5 years earlier, most of these events happened in 2147 instead.
	+ **Current timeline:** While Per Degaton was at the height of his power Vandal killed him to seize it for himself. This also made Savage appear as a hero to those who believed that unleashing the virus was Per Degaton's idea alone, including Cassandra.
* **2166**
	+ Vandal Savage conquers the world.
	+ With a timeship at his service, Savage travels to 2166 to kill Rip Hunter's family on orders from Druce. After learning that the Time Masters will no longer support him, Savage decides not to resume his goal of world conquest, but to use the Thanagarian technology that mutated him in a way that would destroy the timeline altogether and revert the world to the times of Ancient Egypt.
* **2175**
	+ The Thanagarians invaded Earth, only to be defeated by Vandal Savage.
* **3000**
	+ Charles/Dr. Mid-Nite was sent to Chicago in 3000 A.D. where he worked as a researcher for cybernetic implants. He was even able to use the advanced healing technology of the time to restore his vision.

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