Timeline of Significant Events in the DIO

## Timeline

(This Article is a work-in-progress, more will be added as the DIO continues its activities)

861 B.C.E.: The Divided Islands Of… is founded by Comrades [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]

855 B.C.E.: After a brief period of experimentation, the DIO settles on its current form of government

780 B.C.E.: The DIO invents moveable type

768 B.C.E: Invention of handgun, poison gas

420 B.C.E: Invention of semiautomatic weapons

330 B.C.E: Invention of fully automatic weapons

328 B.C.E: Development of electric motors

326 B.C.E: Invention of the motorized car

323 B.C.E: The DIO begins researching the use of nuclear energy in weapons

310 B.C.E: Invention of the airplane

305 B.C.E: Heavy machine guns attached to planes

250 B.C.E: First nuclear weapons test on the former island kingdom of Phamor. (All changes to world maps were paid in full by the DIO, and many rare endangered species, such as The Western Winged Dragon, were pushed to extinction.)

6 B.C.E.: A DIO Agent, codenamed J████ C█████ goes undercover for roughly 33 years in order to manipulate the world into creating a major religion.

79: Alliance formed with [REDACTED] in exchange for large-scale human sacrifice

1020: War against the Kingdom of Angeria

1137: Invention of cheddar cheese

1202: In the pursuit of diplomacy, the DIO shares some of its strategic knowledge with people living in Southeast Asia

1262: Elimination of the Greek City-state of Atlantis during a bombing run

1347: Successful test of a biological weapon in Europe

1456: War against the Khmer Empire

1500: Electricity becomes commonly used to power things

1577: Invention of the fragmentation grenade, the 119nd element is named Stalinium

1590: Successful test of hallucinogenic chemical weapons in the British colony of Roanoke

1605: A strike team, lead by ███ ██████, fails to sabotage the British parliament

1666: Successful test of incendiary weapons in England

1653: Chemical weapons test on Easter Island

1721: DIO citizen C██████ G████, under the alias “Paul Revere”, is given a false background and planted in the American Colonies to ensure their independence from Great Britain

1765: Nuclear weapons test results in State #21 becoming separated from the mainland

1776: DIO citizen J███ H██████ proofreads the American Declaration of ~~Treason~~ Independence

1789: The DIO wins the Space Race by being the first country to launch a satellite (the Sputnik 0) into orbit

1801: Tsar Paul I assassinated by Agent ███████

1865: U.S. president assassinated by Agent J███ B████

1871: Successful incendiary test in Chicago

1888: J███ R██████ wins the first and only DIO organ harvesting competition in Whitechapel, London (future organ harvesting competitions canceled due to nobody knowing what to do with all the organs)

1891: Discovery of cancer, H██████ M██████ builds a DIO-funded “House of Fun” in Chicago, Illinois

1895: Bullet Tag is made the official sport of the DIO

1907: Rigs the entrance exams to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in order to get citizens from the DIO into the Academy (as a result, an Austrian by the name of  Adolf H. was rejected from the Academy, this was deemed acceptable. As compensation, he was given free DIO-sponsored public speaking and politics classes. The DIO holds no responsibility for any events that may or may not have occurred as a result.)

1914: Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated by Agent U██████

1915: Dr. J███ B█████ assassinated by Agent U██████ on through the controlled sinking of the ocean liner he was on

1917: The DIO backs the Bolshevik revolution in Russia

1918: Successful biological weapons test in Brevig Mission, Alaska

1924: The DIO develops a cure for cancer

1926: The DIO begins a new method for nuclear tests, now bombing the planet Mercury once every 4 months with a newly developed missile

1932: The DIO supports the emus in the Great Emu War of 1932

1939: Lockheed airplane spotted and shot down over Pacific

1941: Successful practice run for bombing planes in Hawaii, blamed on Japanese

1944: The DIO adopts its current National Anthem, the former anthem is adopted by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

1945: Takai Tsutomu assassinated by Agent U██████ in Nagasaki in what would become the default method of assassination due to its efficiency

1955: The DIO Develops the first Lunar colony, winning the Space Race for the second time

1959: The DIO develops a universal Panacea

1961: Invention of weapon TB-██-████, codename “The Nuclear Grenade”

1967: DIO Senior Officer J████ D███ sent to California, United States to eliminate potential threats to the DIO

1968: Successful test of psychological warfare tactics on American troops stationed in Mai Lai, Vietnam; Successful test of procedure lambda-12-ks, designed to increase a subject’s vulnerability to suggestion

1973: The DIO defeats the United States in Vietnam

1980: Bullet Tag made an official Olympic sport in the 1980 Summer Olympics in the Soviet Union

1991: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, one of the closest allies of the DIO, tragically collapses

2001: In the pursuit of diplomacy, the DIO attempts to arrange a meeting between George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden in New York (Quote from a member of the diplomacy division of the DIO: “go crash their place and talk it out”)

2005: Nuclear weapon test in the Atlantic Ocean [REDACTED] km from the coast of the United States

2006: The first close-up visual of a Black Hole captured, DIO scientists begin to understand the nature of the universe and Dark Matter

2010: Mercury is “accidentally” knocked off its orbit, sent plunging into the Sun due to a miscalculation in a weapons test

2011: Osama bin Laden terminated by the Diplomacy Division of the External Affairs branch

2012: The DIO did not test detonate the Planet F\*\*\*er, the world did not end, and an ancient Mayan prophecy regarding the apocalypse did not come true. If anybody suggests otherwise, do not listen to them and report them to the nearest Retirement Office member. Disappearance of the Planet UnF\*\*ker is due to natural circumstances.

2014: The first data from inside a black hole is captured, revealing them to be wormholes leading to far-away galaxies [In an unrelated event, Captain K███████, the head of the research team, has since been lost during a space mission]

2015: A new replacement for Mercury is placed in the planet’s previous orbit. An exact replica made from a mix of Styrofoam and glue with a coating of Stalinium

2019: Successful biological weapons test in China

2020: Accidental release of [REDACTED], resulting in [DATA EXPUNGED]

2022: Clone CL-145-27 instructed to begin reformation of Soviet Union, beginning with the annexation of Ukraine

2022: Successful test of time-traveling bomb believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.