1970s

## 1970

* Queen is formed.
* *Father and Son* by Cat Stevens is released. This song was later featured on Peter Quill's Zune 30.
* The Beatles break up.

### February

#### 19th

* Gideon and Nathaniel make a promise to be better men than their father. Gideon, however, keeps the Malick's notched stone and throws a copy of the stone in the pond. Gideon copies his father's trick, selfishly betraying his brother as the bag comes to just the two of them, and Gideon chooses to leave the notched white stone for Nathaniel and picking himself to live. Nathaniel draws the white stone and is sent to Maveth through the Monolith. Hive finds and kills him, using Nathaniel as his new host.

### May

#### 29th

* Tony Stark is born on Long Island, New York to Howard and Maria Stark.

### November

#### 23rd

* *My Sweet Lord* by George Harrison is released in the United States of America. This song was later featured on Meredith and Peter Quill's mixtape, "Awesome Mix Vol. 2."

## 1971

* *Lake Shore Drive* by Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah is released, containing the titular song, *Lake Shore Drive*. This song was later featured on Meredith and Peter Quill's mixtape, "Awesome Mix Vol. 2."
* The card game Uno is created.

### June

#### 30th

* *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* is released in the United States of America.

### September

#### 17th

* *The Partridge Family* begins using the song *C'mon, Get Happy* as its opening theme.

## 1972

* Arnim Zola dies and his consciousness survives in an advanced supercomputer, which is kept in a S.H.I.E.L.D. bunker in Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, as well as a HYDRA Base in Siberia.

### May

#### 18th

* *Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)* by Looking Glass is released. This song was listened to by Meredith Quill and Ego in 1980, and later featured on Meredith and Peter Quill's mixtape, "Awesome Mix Vol. 2."

### March

#### 29th

* The last remaining American troops are withdraw from Vietnam, including Thaddeus Ross.

### September

#### 15th

* Howard Stark films the intro for the 1974 Stark World Exposition. He uses the video to tell his son Tony of his love and that he believes in him, leaving a subtle hint to unlocking the 'new element'.

### January

* *Come and Get Your Love* by Redbone is released.

### February

* The covered song *Hooked a Feeling* by Blue Swede is released. This song is later featured in Meredith and Peter Quill's mixtape *Awesome Mix Vol. 1*.

### August

#### 9th

* Richard Nixon resigns from the office of the President of the United States, following an investigation revealing his alleged involvement in the Watergate Scandal.

### November

#### 28th

* Tony Stark builds his first circuit board.

## 1975

* The 1975 Savage is later killed by White Canary and Firestorm.

### April

#### 2nd

* Yondu Udonta is freed from Kree slavery by Stakar Ogord after 20 years, to become a Ravager. Ego soon hires his Ravager clan to collect his numerous children from across the universe and bring them to his planet, and, still young and greedy for money, Yondu obliges.

## 1976

### June

* *Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang* by Silver is released. This song was later featured on Peter Quill's mixtape, "Awesome Mix Vol. 1."

### December

#### 3rd

* Rocky is released in the United States of America.

### January

#### 17th

* *Southern Nights* by Glen Campbell is released.

### February

#### 4th

* *The Chain* by Fleetwood Mac is released.

### May

#### 25th

* Star Wars is released in the United States of America. Gunner travels back in time to watch it.

## 1978

### June

* *Mr. Blue Sky* by Electric Light Orchestra is released in the United States of America.
* *Surrender* by Cheap Trick is released.

### November

#### 7th

* After Ego comes to Earth, looking to plant a seedling and have another child, he meets Meredith Quill. They soon fall in love.

## 1979

### June

#### 15th

* *Rocky II* is released in the United States of America.

### September

#### 28th

* *Time After Time* is released in the United States of America.