Atomic Era

The time following the first nuclear detonation

February 5 - Attack on HYDRA Headquarters. Captain America fights Red Skull, resulting in the former being frozen in Greenland for 66 years, and the latter being teleported to the planet Vormir. HYDRA is thought eliminated to all but the Templars, as the two organisations continue their efforts in secret.

May 8 - Surrender of Nazi Germany

June 26 - Formation of the United Nations

July 16 - Trinity test. Humanity conducts its first successful nuclear detonation.

August 6 - Bombing of Hiroshima

August 7 - Bombing of Nagasaki

August 15 - Emperor Shōwa/Hirohito of Japan surrenders to the Allies

September 2 - Official surrender papers are signed, marking the end of World War II.

Formation of S.H.I.E.L.D.

**1946**

August - Founding of Monarch

October - Howard Stark and Anton Vanko begin working on Arc Reactor technology.

**1947**

The Cold War begins.

### 1950s

**1950**

July 4 - Birth of Nicholas Joseph Fury

**1953**

February - Discovery of DNA's structure

**1954**

March 1 - Atomic “tests” in the Bikini Atoll are secretly conducted to attempt to kill two creatures, one later dubbed “Godzilla”, which survived, while successfully destroying “Shinomura”. Project Monarch later established to secretly study Godzilla and other similar creatures, which would come to be dubbed “MUTOS” or “Kaiju”.

**1957**

October 1 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite

**1959**

September 28 - Birth of Alexander "Lex" Luthor

### 1960s

**1960**

February 29 - Birth of Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman

**1961**

April 12 - Humans achieve spaceflight, with Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin being the first human in space, aboard Vostok I

**1962**

July 23 - Birth of Bruce Wayne/Batman.

**1963**

November 22 - John F. Kennedy is assassinated by the Winter Soldier

**1964**

August 24 - Virtuous Mission. The mission ends disastrously, with

August 30 - Operation Snake Eater begins. Rogue Soviet Colonel Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin, a metahuman, creates Shagohod, a mobile nuclear ballistic missile system. Naked Snake is deployed to eliminate him, the Shagohod, the Cobra Unit, and retrieve the Philosopher’s Legacy.

September 2 - Snake succeeds, and earns the title of “Big Boss”.

**1965**

January 30 - USA officially enters the Vietnam War

**1967**

Birth of Alexander “Lex” Luthor

**1968**

 October 6 - Birth of James Rupert “Rhodey” Rhodes/War Machine

**1969**

April 6 - Birth of Scott Edward Harris Lang/Ant-Man

July 20 - Apollo 11 successfully lands on the Moon.

December 18 - Birth of Bruce Banner/The Hulk

### 1970s

**1970**

Formation of the secret organization known as The Patriots/Cipher. A reorganized version of the Philosophers, formed utilizing half of the Philosophers' Legacy, they intend on fulfilling The Boss' Will.

May 29 - Birth of Tony Stark/Iron Man

**1971**

January 7 - Birth of Clinton Barton/Hawkeye

**1972**

A schism within the Patriots

Les Enfants Terribles Project. Following the example set by Captain America, more options for super-soldiers are explored, this time with clones of Big Boss.

June 12 - Births of David/Solid Snake, Eli/Liquid Snake, and George Sears/Solidus Snake

July 11 - Birth of Wally West/The Flash

**1973**

Exploration of Skull Island by Monarch.

**1974**

January 12 - Birth of Pepper Potts

Peace Walker Incident. Big Boss successfully prevents World War 3.

**1975**

March 16 - Ground Zeroes Incident

**1976**

Howard Stark unveils his building attempts in Arc Reactor technology. Although technologically successful, no attempt is made to explore its profitability.

July 19 - Birth of Dr. Stephen Strange

October 4 - Birth of Dick Grayson/Robin/Nightwing

October 23 - Birth of Wade Wilson/Deadpool

**1977**

November 29 - Birth of King T’Challa of Wakanda

**1978**

September 23 - Birth of Samuel Thomas “Sam” Wilson/Falcon

**1979**

Weapon X Project.

### 1980s

**1980**

June 21 - Birth of Peter Quill/Starlord

June 4 - Birth of Yugi Mutou

June 18 - Birth of Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich

October 25 - Birth of Seto Kaiba

Aria T'loak becomes ruler of Omega.

**1981**

January 1 - Adoption of TCP/IP, the beginning of the Internet

**1983**

October 10 - Birth of Jack/Raiden

Establishment of InGen

**1984**

March 11 - Phantom Pain Incident begins. The clash between the mercenary factions Diamond Dogs and XOF involved the creation of Metal Gear Sahelanthropus, massively advancing robotics technology. Several metahumans, such as the Parasite Unit participated, including the powerful psychic that would come to be known as Psycho Mantis.

September 1 - Venom Snake kills Skull Face, ending the Phantom Pain incident.

September 17 - After the Great Exodus, reawakened Cybertronians find refuge on Earth, in secret. The Cybertronian Wars slowly begin again.

November 22 - Birth Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

October 26 - A T-800 arrives from an alternate future to kill Sarah Connor, but fails

InGen successfully clones their first prehistoric animal utilizing an artificial ovum.

**1986**

April 26 - Chernobyl disaster

Bruce Wayne becomes Batman

InGen successfully genetically engineers a *Velociraptor*, their first dinosaur

**1987**

March 9 - Birth of Marc Spector/Moon Knight

June 18 - Val Verde Incident

December 12 - Birth of Tim Drake/Robin/Red Robin

**1988**

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**1989**

February 16 - Births of Pietro Maximoff/Quicksilver and Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch

November 9 - Fall of the Berlin Wall

Establishment of Outer Heaven, a “nation for all soldiers”, by Big Boss.

### 1990s

**1990**

October 1 - Birth of Sir Peter Weyland

**1991**

April 24 - Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

December 16 - The Winter Soldier assassinates Howard and Maria Stark

December 26 - Dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War

Discovery of Rodan, in hibernation on Isla de Mara

July 3 - (T2) T-1000

**1992**

Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.

**1993**

June 11-12 - Isla Nublar Incident. The planned theme park Jurassic Park is prevented from opening due to a storm causing a dinosaur outbreak on the island.

**1995**

June 11 - Ambush on Torfa

June 13 - Carol Danvers prevents Kree bombardment of Earth

June 16 - Nick Fury begins formulating the Avengers Initiative

August 27 - Massacre of the Zehoberei

Outer Heaven Uprising. Outer Heaven manufactures TX-55 Metal Gear. US Special Forces unit FOXHOUND launches Operation Intrude N313, in response, deploying Solid Snake. Snake kills Venom Snake and destroys the Metal Gear.

Second Skull Island expedition

A T-1000 arrives from an alternate future to kill John Connor, but fails

**1996**

July 5 - Birth of Dolly, a sheep notable for being the first (publicly known) mammalian clone

**1997**

May 21 - Dr. Henry Wu creates the hybrid plant *Karacosis wutansis* (Wu Flower), the first completely new genetically engineered lifeform.

May 25 - Isla Sorna Incident. An InGen operation to capture dinosaurs from Site B goes wrong and culminates with a *Tyrannosaurus rex* rampaging through San Francisco.

Mercenary War - Zanzibar Land declares independence from Tajikistan

Masrani Global obtains ownership of InGen via corporate buyout.

**1998**

InGen becomes fully integrated under Masrani Global banner while conceptual planning for Jurassic World begins with Masrani drawing experts from all over the company.

**1999**

In the Philippines, Monarch finds the remains of Dagon, and the parasitic MUTO larvae within. The male reaches Janjira, Japan, and feeds upon the nuclear reactor and enters a cocoon, causing the city to be evacuated and declared a quarantine zone.

December 24 - Zanzibar Land Disturbance. Solid Snake defeats Big Boss and destroys Metal Gear D.

### 2000s

**2000**

September 13 - The Second Impact almost occurs, but is averted by Godzilla

**2001**

August 10 - Birth of Peter Parker/Spider-Man

September 11 - 9/11 terrorist attacks, beginning of War on Terror

(Adventures of the original Justice League.

Construction of the Watchtower.) (tentative)

**2004**

Humanity encounters Xenomorphs for the first time in thousands of years, in a Yautja temple in Antarctica.

**2005**

February 28 - Shadow Moses Incident. Renegade members of FOXHOUND, led by Liquid Snake, threaten the USA with the threat of nuclear strike from Metal Gear REX. Solid Snake successfully defeats them. The truth is eventually exposed, turning Solid Snake into a hero.

May 30 - Opening of Jurassic World. After the Masrani Global Corporation bought InGen’s assets, they managed to succeed where InGen did not, opening a dinosaur park and keeping it open for ten years. Within the first month, they received 98,120 visitors.

August 8 - Unicron assaults Cybertron

**2006**

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**2007**

August 8 - Tanker Incident