55,183 BBY

The following events took place in **55,183 BBY**.

## Events on Earth

* **January 27-31:** Imperial and Shogunate forces clash near the Kyoto ward of Fushimi during the Battle of Toba–Fushimi. It ended in a decisive Imperial victory. This battle marks the beginning of the Boshin War between the Imperial Court and the Tokugawa shogunate. Unbeknownst to the soldiers of both sides, a 16-year old girl named Shiba Atsuko had disguised herself as a man to watch over her nervous and cowardly brother Shiba Ibuka.
* **February 10:**
	+ Rupert Ferris, owner of Ferris Ironworks and Templar, was killed by the Assassin Jacob Frye in Croydon, England. Jacob's escape from the Templars resulted in a train crash outside Croydon.
	+ Sir David Brewster, a Templar scientist, was killed by the Assassin Evie Frye in Croydon, England, during an experiment on an Apple of Eden that destroyed his laboratory and the artifact.
* **February:** Jacob and Evie Frye left for London to retake the city from Grand Master Crawford Starrick, and met with Henry Green. They became acquainted with their allies Charles Dickens, Frederick Abberline, Clara O'Dea and Alexander Graham Bell.
* **March 4:** Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as the 18th President of the United States. His inner circle was subsequently infiltrated by the Templars, who entrusted him with a Precursor box and pages of the Voynich manuscript while simultaneously corrupting his administration.
* The Assassins Evie Frye and Henry Green recovered a disc key and document detailing a Shroud of Eden from a secret vault in the former mansion of Edward Kenway.
* Jacob Frye assassinated Dr. John Elliotson, a Templar manufacturing *Starrick's Soothing Syrup*, in Lambeth Asylum.
* Evie Frye recovered an Isu key hidden by Edward Kenway at the top of St. Paul's Cathedral, but lost it during a fight with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne.
* Jacob Frye forged an alliance with Crawford Starrick's cousin Pearl Attaway, and assassinated her business rival, the Templar Malcolm Millner. After discovering Attaway was a Templar herself, Jacob assassinated her in a train carriage in Waterloo station.
* Evie Frye assassinated the Templar Lucy Thorne after infiltrating the Tower of London and recovered the Isu key.
* Philip Twopenny, the Governor of the Bank of England and a Templar, was assassinated by the Assassin Jacob Frye while the former was trying to rob his bank to transfer the money to the Templars.
* The Templars attempted to assassinate British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and his wife Mary Anne Disraeli, but the plot was foiled by the Assassin Jacob Frye.
* General James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, a Templar, was assassinated by the Assassin Jacob Frye in the Palace of Westminster for the attempt on Prime Minister Disraeli's life and to diminish Crawford Starrick's influence in British politics.
* The Assassin Jacob Frye assassinated the former Templar Maxwell Roth in a burning Alhambra Music Hall, after a short-lived alliance resulted in the near deaths of child laborers.
* The Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye infiltrated Queen Victoria's ball at Buckingham Palace and successfully stopped Crawford Starrick's attempts to murder the Queen and the other guests.
* Grand Master Crawford Starrick was assassinated by Jacob and Evie Frye in the Buckingham Palace vault after retrieving the Shroud of Eden. The Assassins left the artifact in its casing to keep it hidden from the world.
* The Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye, with the aid of Queen Victoria, stopped an upstart Templar faction from executing several terrorism attacks and eliminated their leader.
* **October 6-November 6:** Imperial forces lead an invasion of Aizu, a pro-Tokugawa feudal domain that sent thousands of troops for the shogunate war effort. This would become known as the Battle of Aizu. During the battle, Shiba Atsuko (now a fully-trained *shinobi*) was tasked with infiltrating the camp of the Imperial army besieging the Tokugawa forces at Aizu. Although Atsuko was successful in obtaining the attack plans of the enemy, her Assassin mentor Nakano Takeko was fatally shot and she was forced to decapitate her to avoid her head falling into Imperial hands. She also faced off against Lloyd and survived the fight because of her brother Ibuka, who later carried her away from the battlefield before succumbing to his wounds. Eventually she was taken away and her wounds were treated by Japanese Assassin spy Matsuo, who convinced her to join the Brotherhood after he told her about his brother's deeds, saving her and the Musashi Masamune.

*See also: other events on Earth this year.*

## Appearances

* *Assassin's Creed: Syndicate*
* *Assassin's Creed: Fragments – The Blade of Aizu*

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 *Assassin's Creed Wiki: Timeline*