Timeline

Timeline of the MonsterVerse as we know it.

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**4,5 bya**

* The pantheon form the planet Earth.
* Planet X is formed.

* Cambrian explosion.

* End of the Cambrian period.
* Start of the Ordovician period.

**476 mya**

* Scylla is born.

* End of the Ordovician period.
* Start of the Silurian period.

* End of the Silurian period.
* Start of the Devonian period.

* End of the Devonian period.
* Start of the Carboniferous period.

**343 mya**

* Megaguirus is born.

**325 mya**

* Aqrabuamelu is born.

**310 mya**

* Typhon is born.

* End of the Carboniferous period.
* Start of the Permian period.

**290 mya**

* Leviathan is born.

**286 mya**

* Drukr is born.

**270 mya**

* Godzilla is born.
* The pantheon creates SpaceGodzilla and sends him to space, scheduled to return to destroy Earth in 2099 AD.
* parasitic MUTOs appear on Earth.

**252 mya: END OF THE PALEOZOIC ERA**

* **The Permian-Triassic extinction event**: Earth's largest extinction event that killed nearly 98% of all life.

### Mesozoic Era

#### Triassic period

**252 mya: START OF THE MESOZOIC ERA**

* Start of the Triassic period.

**203 mya**

* Tiamat is born.

#### Jurassic period

**201 mya**

* End of the Triassic period.
* Start of the Jurassic period.

**190 mya**

* The first incarnation of Mothra is born.
* The first incarnation of Battra is born.

#### Cretaceous period

**145 mya**

* End of the Jurassic period.
* Start of the Cretaceous period.

**120 mya**

* The mysterious mechanical device found in amber discovered by Monarch is dated to this era.

**81 mya**

* Rodan is born.

**77 mya**

* Shahmaran is born.

**66 mya: END OF THE MESOZOIC ERA**

* **The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event**: The extinction event that fell upon the dinosaurs and kills 72% of life on Earth.

### Cenozoic Era

#### Paleogene period

**66 mya: START OF THE CENOZOIC ERA**

* Start of the Paleogene period.

**54 mya**

* Quetzalcoatl is born.

**48 mya**

* Wukong is born.

#### Neogene period

**23 mya**

* End of the Paleogene period.
* Start of the Neogene period.

**17 mya**

* Baphomet is born.

**8 mya**

* Grootslang is born.

#### Quaternary period

**2,6 mya**

* End of the Neogene period.
* Start of the Quaternary period, also the beginning of what we know as the ice age.

**1,9 mya**

* A group of *Homo habilis* encounters Wukong after they occupy Olduvai Gorge.

**740,138 BC**

* Dagon, one of Godzilla's species, fights a parasitic MUTO.
* The parasite beats Dagon to death and plants her eggs inside Dagon.

**740,123 BC**

* A parasitic MUTO's offspring breaks out of Dagon's corpse with one remaining dormant.

**686,180 BC**

* Behemoth is born.

**c. 400,000 BC**

* *Homo erectus* first arrive to Infant Island.

**c. 300,000 BC**

* *Homo sapiens* start to evolve.

**c. 100.000 BC**

* Start of the last ice age.

**57,045 BC**

* A Neanderthal tribe witnesses Mothra and Battra hatching from their cocoon, later they would creating a cave painting of the event.

**c. 30,000 BC**

* *Homo sapiens* first arrive to Infant Island.
* A human carves a Godzilla figurine from a tree.

**27,193 BC**

* Godzilla finds a female, later named as Megaera, and fights other males for breeding rights.

**27,190 BC**

* Godzilla's children are born.

**c. 19,000**

* Humans in the Amazon rainforest create cave paintings of Rodan.

**c. 18,000**

* End of the last ice age.

**c. 12,000**

* Humans in present-day Australia create cave paintings of Ghidorah.

**11,944 BC**

* **The Younger Dryas impact event**: Fragments of an asteroid carrying the cocoon of Ghidorah breaks apart and falls to Earth, with Ghidorah landing somewhere in Asia.
	+ A juvenile Ghidorah probes the Earth, causing lightning storms across the planet.

**11,797 BC**

* A group of BHP3 aliens arrive on Earth and construct Mechagodzilla to capture Ghidorah.
* Mechagodzilla fights Ghidorah with the help of the aliens, lost, and had its conscience overwritten by Ghidorah's mind powers. Now independent, Mechagodzilla kills its makers by the command of Ghidorah.

**c. 9,300 BC**

* Kong is born on Skull Island.

**9,260 BC**

* **Skull Island Massacre**: Ghidorah flies over Skull Island, the environment around the island causes a permanent lightning storm left by him. Due to Ghidorah's arrival and "alpha call", skullcrawlers appear on Skull Island, causing chaos and battle with Kong's species, killing most of them. Kong's parents fought in the massacre and were killed, Kong was then left alone and became the sole surviving member of his species on the island.

**7,400 BC**

* The Anunnaki first arrive on Earth.

**7,300 BC**

* **Founding of Agartha**: Humans of the Hollow Earth establish the city of Agartha with he help of the Anunnaki.
* The Temple of Godzilla is constructed.

**c. 7,200 BC**:

* **Founding of Atlantis**: Humans and the Anunnaki establish the first kingdom on the surface world, Atlantis.

**6,552 BC**

* **Sinking of Atlantis**: Rogue Anunnakis conspire to destroy Atlantis, despite attempted salvation by other Anunnakis, Atlantis eventually fell to the ocean floor.
* The surviving Anunnakis then relocate to Mesopotamia, where they accelerate the advancement of human society.

**c. 5,100 BC**

* **The Great MUTO War**: A large conflict erupted between the gojiras and the kong giants of the Hollow Earth that left the city of Agartha to be destroyed and many casualties of both species.
* Agarthans emigrate to another part of the Hollow Earth.
	+ Many kong giants emigrate to the surface world, settling on Skull Island.

**5,050 BC**

* The New Agarthan Empire is established.

**c. 4,200 BC**

* The Temple of the Moth is constructed by humans on Infant Island in present-day Indonesia.

**3,659 BC**

* Rodan nests in Mount Tambora as it erupts.

**c. 2,500 BC**

* The Great Guardians begin construction.

**2,320 BC**

* Aqrabuamelu attacks the Akkadian Empire.

**1,605 BC**

* Leviathan reawakens and begin to hunt for humans, eventually making contact with Babylon.

**1,300 - 1,250 BC**

* **The late Bronze Age collapse**: A war between Godzilla, the Jinshin-Mushi, and Ghidorah causes societal collapse across the world.
	+ Ghidorah attacks Godzilla's family and kills what's left of Godzilla's species (his mate and offsprings) as humans witness the battle between them in present day America.
	+ Godzilla defeats Ghidorah, leading him to fly to the Arctic where he would lay dormant until 2018 AD.

**745 BC**

* Ghidorah inspires the tale of the Lernaean Hydra in Ancient Greece.

**1230**

* **Moth War**: Mothra is reborn on Infant Island.

**1431**

* Quetzalcoatl is worshipped as a deity in the Aztec Empire.

**1432**

* Quetzalcoatl battles Ītzpāpālōtl.
* Quetzalcoatl travels to what would be Machu Picchu and slumbers within a deep cave.

**1568**

* The Iwis' first migration to Skull Island.

**1643**

* The Aboriginal Australian people meets Tiamat, birthing the legend of the Rainbow Serpent.

**1688**

* Tiamat tours present-day Cuba while people witnessed her, birthing the legend of Madre de Aguas.

**1815**

* **Eruption of Mount Tambora**: The most powerful volcanic eruption on modern human history releases Rodan. Rodan flies to present-day Volcán de Agua in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. Then Guatemalan locals witnesses as Rodan nests in the volcano, birthing the legend of the Fire Demon.

#### 20th century

**1907**

* William Randa is born.

**1910**

* Eiji Serizawa is born.

**1915**

* Splitting of the atom.

**1917**

* Henry Marlow is born.

**1933**

* A filming crew is reportedly missing after journeying into an unknown island.

**1943**

* **USS Lawton Incident**: The USS Lawton naval ship is attacked by an unknown MUTO with Bill Randa being the sole survivor.

**1944**

* Hank Marlow and Gunpei Ikari crash lands on Skull Island where they meet Kong.

**1945**

* Ishiro Serizawa is born
* Godzilla is awakened by the bombing of Nagasaki.
* An unidentified winged monster is sighted all over the Pacific.

**1946**

* Secret cryptozoological organization Monarch is formed to hunt and study MUTOs (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism).

**1947**

* Eiji Serizawa files reports of Pacific Islanders witnessing a "giant lizard that walks like a man".
* Houston Brooks is born.

**1950**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 54 in Castle Bravo, Bermuda as their headquarters.

**1952**

* Gunpei Ikari is killed by a skullcrawler.

**1952**

* **The Great Smog of London**: Baffling meteorologists and defying atmospheric physicists, this unexplained phenomenon saw London's streets overwhelmed by huge clouds of air-polluting smoke. Monarch theorizes that the beating wings of a giant creature could have created an anticyclone that unleashed airborne pollutants across the city.

**1954**

* **Operation Castle Bravo**: The US Military attempts to terminate Godzilla and the winged MUTO using nuclear bombs in Bikini Atoll.
* The blast kills the winged MUTO while Godzilla seemingly disappears.

**1955**

* Monarch discovers the cave paintings depicting two gigantic moth-like creatures in Northeastern China dating back around 57,000 BC.

**1956**

* Joe Brody is born.
* A cave painting depicting a pterosaur is discovered in an Amazonian cave, estimated to have been created around 19,000 BC, long after the pterosaurs were extinct.

**1959**

* **Siberian Mystery**: At the height of the Cold War, aerial photography taken from a Russian spy plane reveals a huge containment facility established around an ice cap in Siberia. The Monarch symbol can be seen emblazoned across the canopy of the structure.

**1961**

* **Monarch's first discovery of Ghidorah**: A mysterious cave painting depicting a three-headed dragon-like creature dating back around 12,000 BC is discovered in Australia.

**1964**

* Maeda Enterprises is established.

**1966**

* Reiko and Kaede Hirano is born.

**1968**

* Monarch discovers cave paintings and a Godzilla figurine in Argentina, the former depicting a fight between Godzilla and Ghidorah dating back around 12,000 BC.

**1971**

* Soldiers of the US and Vietnamese army were attacked by Kamacuras in the jungles of Vietnam.

**1972**

* Skull Island is discovered via satellite imagery.

**1973**

* **Skull Island Expedition**: William Randa and his associate Houston Brooks plans to travel to Skull Island.
	+ Monarch recruits the Colonel Packard's US Army unit to travel to the mysterious Skull Island along with tracker James Conrad and photographer Mason Weaver.
	+ The crew successfully arrives to Skull Island.
	+ After dropping seismic explosives, Kong attacks the Monarch crew, scattering them and killing a number of them, much to Packard's dismay.
	+ The crew encounter the Iwi tribe and Hank Marlow.
	+ Marlow informs the group of the Island's history and how Kong protects the island from predatory threats.
	+ After the crew reunited, Packard reveals his plan to kill Kong.
	+ Kong is weakened by a napalm explosion caused by Packard.
	+ Ramarak emerges from the lake.
	+ Kong kills Packard.
	+ Kong battles Ramarak before killing him.
	+ What's left of the crew is finally picked up by the rescue team.
	+ Conrad and Weaver is detained by Monarch, and Brooks shows them cave paintings they found depicting Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah.

**1976**

* Vivienne Graham is born.

**1979**

* Kong enters a cave from which the skullcrawlers come from and discovers an entrance to the Hollow Earth.
* Tiamat goes to hibernate deep within the Daintree Rainforest in Australia.

**1981**

* Eiji Serizawa dies.
* Ishiro Serizawa joins Monarch.

**1987**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 67 at the ruins of Nippur, Iraq.

**1990**

* Ford Brody is born.
* Alina Marquez is born.
* Anderson Group is established.

**1991**

* After learning about an old tale of a bird-like monster nesting in a volcano and discovering a sign of life inside said volcano, Monarch establishes Outpost 91 atop of Volcán de Agua volcano in Guatemala under the guise of "environmental research".

**1992**

* Jane Whitehall is born.

**1993**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 58 at Tingua Biological Reserve, Brazil.

**1995**

* Houston Brooks' son Aaron travels to Skull Island to see what has become of Kong.

**1999**

* Vivienne Graham joins Monarch.
* A MUTO larvae burrows from Philippines to a nuclear power plant in Janjira.
* Dagon's skeleton was discovered following a mine collapse in the Philippines, as would the remains of the eggs laid in him.
* An unusual seismic activity causes the Janjira nuclear power plant to collapse.

**2000**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 24 in Janjira, Japan.

#### 21st century

**2001**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 46 in a Richtersveld desert cave in South Africa.
* Monarch establishes Outpost 66 in the Manpupuner Rock Formations in Russia.

**2002**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 63 at the Olduvai Gorge site in Tanzania.

**2003**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 68 at Volubilis, Morocco.

**2004**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 92 at the Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia.
* Monarch establishes Outpost 29 in the middle of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.

**2005**

* The ORCA device is created.
* Monarch establishes Outpost 74 at the Daintree Rainforest, Australia.

**2006**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 55 in Monterotondo Marittimo in Italy.

**2007**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 28 at the Göbekli Tepe site in Turkey.

**2009**

* Dr. Emma Russell discovers a giant egg in a previously undiscovered megalithic temple in the elusive infant Island in Indonesia.
* Monarch establishes Outpost 61 at Infant Island, Indonesia.

**2011**

* A Monarch researcher dies after being exposed to poisonous gas at a cave entrance.
* Monarch establishes Outpost 57 at Machu Picchu, Peru.

**2012**

* Monarch establishes Outpost 37 at Sedona, United States.
* The Xilien Civil War begins around this year.

**2014**

* **MUTO Revelation**: The truth of the existence of giant monsters unravel before humanity as Godzilla and the parasitic MUTOs challenges the balance of nature.
	+ The winged MUTO hatches from his cocoon in Outpost 24.
	+ The six-legged MUTO hatches in the Yucca mountains.
	+ The MUTOs mate.
	+ The Winged MUTO steals a nuclear warhead from a Russian submarine and goes to Oahu.
	+ Godzilla clashes with winged MUTO at the Honolulu Airport.
	+ Godzilla clashes with the US Military and destroys the Golden Gate Bridge.
	+ Six-legged MUTO lays her eggs.
	+ Ford destroys the MUTOs eggs while they were fighting Godzilla.
	+ Godzilla kills the Winged MUTO by impaling him with his tail to a building.
	+ Godzilla kills the six-legged MUTO by incinerating her insides with his atomic breath.
* Maeda Enterprises merges with Anderson Group, creating Anderson-Maeda Enterprises.

**2016**

* Mothra hatches from her egg at the Temple of the Moth and escaped containment.
* A gigantic three-headed dragon alien MUTO is discovered beneath the Baffin Island ice sheet in Canada.
* Monarch establishes Outpost 64 on Baffin Island in Canada.

**2017**

* Monarch officially establishes second base at Skull Island.

**2018**

* **King Ghidorah Uprising**: The awakening of an old enemy of Godzilla escalates to a global crisis.
	+ After reported missing for a few months, Mothra's cocoon is found at the ruins of another ancient temple, revealed to be a extension of the Temple of the Moth.
	+ Mothra hatches from her cocoon.
	+ After Alan Jonah breaks Ghidorah out of the ice, Godzilla comes to fight him.
	+ Rodan is released from the volcano.
	+ Monarch lures Rodan to fight Ghidorah.
	+ King Ghidorah defeates Rodan.
	+ Atop of Volcán de Agua, King Ghidorah emits a high frequency roar to awaken the MUTOs on Earth.
	+ Megaguirus awakens.
	+ Crimson MUTO awakens.
	+ Kong ignores King Ghidorah's call.
	+ A massive horde of skullcrawlers swarms Skull Island responding to King Ghidorah's call while Kong desperately tries to control them.
	+ Quetzalcoatl awakens.
	+ Behemoth awakens.
	+ Baphomet awakens.
	+ Scylla awakens.
	+ Grootslang awakens.
	+ Wukong awakens.
	+ Tiamat awakens.
	+ Shahmaran awakens.
	+ Aqrabuamelu awakens.
	+ Shahmaran is terminated by Monarch.
	+ Aqrabuamelu is successfully killed by the Iraqi military.
	+ Under King Ghidorah's command, Rodan, Quetzal, Behemoth, Crimson MUTO, Abaddon and Wukong wreak havoc upon Guatemala, destroying buildings and attacking humans.
	+ Mothra dies.
	+ Godzilla kills King Ghidorah.
	+ Rodan, Quetzalcoatl, Behemoth, Crimson MUTO, Wukong, and Scylla bows to Godzilla declaring him their rightful king
	+ The Xiliens stealthy retrieves King Ghidorah's corpse.
	+ Mothra's egg is rediscovered at Infant Island.

**2019**

* Monarch discovers an ancient Mechanized Godzilla in the Great Victoria Desert in Australia.
	+ Mothra's egg hatches.

**2020**

* The Monarch Museum is established.

**2021**

* Mothra cocoons.
* **Great Locust Plague**:
	+ The Crimson MUTO dies after an attack from Megaguirus and her spawns.
	+ Rodan fights Megaguirus.
	+ Rodan and Quetzalcoatl kills Megaguirus.

**2022**

* **Godzilla/Kong Crisis**: Godzilla faces Kong up close and personal for the first time.
	+ Godzilla rampages through the world searching for an entrance to the Hollow Earth, leading him to Skull Island, where clashes with Kong.
	+ Monarch enacts their plan of exploring the Hollow Earth with the help of Anderson-Maeda Enterprises to search for new resources and follows Godzilla and Kong's conflict to the Hollow Earth.
	+ Upon entrance, Monarch and Anderson-Maeda investigates the aether, the new undiscovered resource and Anderson-Maeda's main goal, as Godzilla and Kong fights on.
	+ Mothra is reborn.
	+ After sometime they eventually resurface to the world where Godzilla and Kong fights for the third and final time, with Godzilla winning before Mothra returns to stop him from killing Kong.
	+ Kong relocates to the Hollow Earth.

**2023**

* **King Kong's Campaign**:
	+ Kong encounters Wukong and defeats him before taking him in as a partner.
	+ Kong meets with the alpha of the Hollow Earth.
	+ Kong defeats the Alpha.
	+ Monarch discovers Mechagodzilla.

**2024**

**2025**

**2026**

* In Argentina, Monarch uncovers skeletons of juvenile gojiras, later confirmed they are related to Godzilla. Near the baby skeletons are also found a female gojira, thought to be Godzilla's mate.

**2027**

* **Mechagodzilla's Hunt**:
	+ Mechagodzilla reactivates.
	+ Mechagodzilla kills Baphomet.
	+ Mechagodzilla kills Scylla.
	+ Mechagodzilla injures Wukong.
	+ Mechagodzilla kills Behemoth.
	+ Mechagodzilla kills Tiamat.
	+ Mechagodzilla creates a sinkhole in Sydney.
	+ Wukong dies in Kong's arms.
	+ Just before killing Godzilla, Kong attacks Mechagodzilla before mutilating it with his axe.
* Kiko is born.

**2028**

**2029**

**2030**

**2031**

* **Great MUTO War II**:
	+ Ghidorah returns as Mecha-King Ghidorah .

**2033**

* **Conflict in the New Agarthan Empire**:

**2034**

* **Great Blooming**:

**2036**

* The New Agarthan Empire reveals themselves to the surface world.

**2040**

* The sinkhole created by Mechagodzilla is developed into a portal connecting the surface world and the Hollow Earth.

**2070**

* The Destroyer is born.

**2099**

* The Apocalypse occurs.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Monarch Museum exhibits