Before 1st Century

> "Yknow, they may have been terrible people. But the Israelites didn't have AC in the wilderness. Come to think of it, nobody did back then. Yeesh, how was their life expectancy so long?"
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> -Emmett Baxter
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This is a timeline of all recorded events before the 1st Century.

## 4000 BC

* God creates the Earth.
* The Infinity Stones, formed by the power of Creation, are dispersed across the universe. Emmett engineers the creation of Arishem, who proceeds to make more Celestials. Arishem also makes the Deviants and the Eternals.
* Adam formed
* Eve formed
* The Serpent tricks Eve, and both she and Adam eat from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. God banishes them from Eden, curses them all, and block Eden off from them.
* Ego is created, and begins his expansion.

## 3900 BC

* Cain kills Abel out of jealousy and flees.

## 3460 BC

* Odin defeats Surtur in battle. The Fire Demon would then spend nearly 5500 years recovering in Muspelheim, before his encounter with Odin's son, Thor, in 2017.

## 3445 BC

* Ray Palmer gets stuck here from 2016, and steals eggs from a dinosaur to survive, marking him as an enemy.
* Ray is found by the passengers of the Waverider, and escapes to the present.
* An engine on the Waverider gets lost, and Ray, Amaya Jiwe, and Nate Heywood recover it.

## 2700 BC

* The Great Flood occurs, wiping out most of Human life, except for Noah, and his family.
* The flood kills the dinosaurs.
* A meteor made of Vibranium, which falls off and lands in Africa. Later, five tribes in East Africa settle on the land where the Vibranium meteor struck and call it "Wakanda". The tribes war until the first Black Panther unites them all, except the Jabari Tribe.

## 2600 BC

* Ham is cursed by his father.
* Arishem sends the Eternals to Earth to stop the Deviants.
* Neron, possessing Ray, and John Constantine arrive here, with the former hoping to influence the latter to open a portal to the Dark Dimension. The rest of the team arrives to save Constantine, but is stuck in an avalanche. Eventually, they manage to escape.

## 2500 BC

* The Convergence occurs. The gravitational anomalies that it causes allows the construction of several megalithic monuments, particularly Stonehenge.

* **First Battle of Svartalfheim:**
	+ The Dark Elves led by Malekith try to destroy the Nine Realms with the power of the Aether, the Reality Stone. They are stopped by the Asgardian army led by Bor, who successfully seized the Aether.
	+ In an effort to save his race, Malekith kills most of his army and much of Bor's army, then puts his remaining forces into a sleep which lasts for millennia. Bor orders for the Aether to be hidden in the deepest area possible, where no one can access it.

## 2100 BC

* Construction begins on the Tower of Babel.
* God sees the process and, knowing the implications of all people speaking the same language, changes their languages, and spreads them throughout the whole Earth.

## 2091 BC

* God sends Abraham, then Abram, to Egypt.

## 2090 BC

* **Ambush in Mesopotamia:** Inhabitants of ancient Mesopotamia are attacked by Deviants. In the face of the attack, the Eternals appear to save the natives. Leaving the Domo, Sersi turns a fisherman's blade into gold. From there, Eternals influence culture and drive the success of their people.

## 2067 BC

* **Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah:**
	+ God destroys Sodom and Gomorrah, two wicked cities, after giving them chances to repent.
	+ Lot and his family are led to safety by angels, but Lot's wife dies after she looks back and turns into a pillar of salt.

## 2060 BC

* A rogue Kree faction begins creating a nuber of genetically altered Humans. The Kree disperse, leaving behind six Diviners, a hidden city, and at least one of their deceased kin. These genetically altered humans eventually start to call themselves "Inhumans".

* A powerful Inhuman, referred to as Alveus, is created by the Kree to dominate the rest of his race, but eventually overpowers his own creators and banishes them from Earth. The humans and other Inhumans, afraid of his powers, banish him to a distant planet through a Kree Monolith. Followers of the exiled Inhuman found a secret society and start planning its return to Earth in order to let him rule it.

* Chaos is created by the Kree, becoming the first Nexus Being.

## 2054 BC

* Abraham, being tested by God, is told to sacrifice Issac. He nearly does so, until God stops him, and informs him of the test.

## 2006 BC

* Jacob and Esau are born. It is said that Jacob's hand "grasped Esau's heel, so he was named Jacob (one who grabs by the heel.)"

## 2000 BC

* As the time of human intelligence comes, five tribes in East Africa settle on the land where the Vibranium meteor struck and call it "Wakanda".
* The Dweller-in-Darkness and the Soul Eaters lay waste to the realm of Ta Lo until their imprisonment by the Great Protector.

## 1978 BC

* Esau sells his birthright to Jacob for stew.

## 1929 BC

* Isaac, being old, accidentally gives Jacob Esau's blessing, thanks to Jacob's and Rebekah's scheming.
* Esau vows to kill Jacob. Rebekah hears this and warns Jacob to flee.

## 1928 BC

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* Jacob has a vision of a ladder leading to heaven.
* Jacob goes to work for Laban, his uncle.
* Jacob falls in love with Rachel, and Laban agrees to giver her to him in exchange for seven years of service.

## 1921 BC

* Laban, in spite of his word, gives Jacob Leah, Rachel's older sister.
* After being confronted by Jacob for his deception, Laban agrees to give Jacob Rachel, in exchange for seven more years.

## 1916 BC

* Joseph is born to Jacob and Rachel. Jacob loves him more than any of his other sons, causing a great hatred toward Joseph by his brothers.

## 1906 BC

* Jacob wrestles with God, and is renamed Israel.
* Jacob reunites with Esau, and the two are happy to see each other.

## 1898 BC

* Joseph has two dreams about his family bowing down to him, but this only fuels his brothers' hatred.
* One day, they sell Joseph into slavery, and claim he has been killed.
* Jacob starts working for Potiphar.

## 1889 BC

* Potiphar's wife tries to make a move of Joseph while Potiphar is away, but Joseph resists her and flees.
* Potiphar's wife tells Potiphar Joseph made a move on her, and Potiphar orders Joseph arrested.

## 1886 BC

* Joseph is released after interpreting the Pharaoh's dream, which fortells of a famine in Egypt.
* Joseph is put in charge of preparing for this famine.

## 1875 BC

* Joseph's brothers are sent to Egypt to buy grain. They meet Joseph, although the do not recognize him. He accuses them of being spies.
* Later, Joseph reveals his identity to his brothers.
* Jacob and Joseph are reunited.

## 1859 BC

* Jacob, near death, blesses Joseph's younger son.
* Jacob dies.

## 1788 BC

* Chaos, tired of being alone, creates Gaea, Ouranos, and Tartarus.

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## 1770 BC

* Gaea gives birth to Kronos.
* Gaea gives birth to Titans, Cyclopes, and Hundred-Handed Men, and the latter two are thrown into Tartarus.

## 1768 BC

### October

#### 7th

* At 2:14 PM, Nate Heywood and Gary Green decided to take care of the problem themselves and went to operate on a field mission, but withdrew due to the sudden appearance of a *Smilodon*. Unbeknownst to Nate, Gary picked up an exotic plant, which actually turned out to be the fugitive.

## 1710 BC

* Titans overthrow Ouranos, and dump his body in the sea. This later creates Aphrodite.

## 1703 BC

* Kronos and Rhea give birth to Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. All but Zeus are swallowed by Kronos.

## 1700 BC

* Hath-Set attempts to murder Priestess Chay-Ara and Prince Khufu, in which ends all their lives due to a meteor shower. Said shower grants Chay-Ara and Khufu the power to reincarnate each time they die, and makes Hath-Set immortal, apparently under the condition that he kills the two in each of their reincarnations.
* Sometime later, Hath-Set adopted the name "Vandal Savage".

## 1684 BC

* Zeus frees his siblings. The Titanomachy begins.

## 1674 BC

* The Olymians overthrow the Titans.
* Zeus and Hera marry, and have many children.
* Ares is born, and initially despises humans.
* Zeus and Themis give birth to the Fates.
* Meanwhile, Nyx gives birth to similar beings, known as the Three Fates.
* Clotho abandons the others upon disagreeing with the Loom of Fate.
* Hephaestus is born, and thrown off Olympus.
* Athena is born.

## 1654 BC

* Epimetheus is given Pandora to be his wife. Pandora is given a jar as a wedding present by Aphrodite.

## 1640 BC

* **First Giant War:** The battle of the Olympians and Giants errupts and the giants are defeated.

## 1586 BC

* Heracles is born to Zeus, and kills snakes sent by Hera to kill him.

## 1570 BC

* Athens begins sending tributes to Minos in Crete. They are sent in the Labyrinth, and are killed by the Minotaur.

## 1558 BC

* After killing his family in rage, Heracles is forced to do Twelve Tasks to redeem himself.

## 1557 BC

* The First Giant War ends, and they are all defeated with the combined efforts of the Olympians and Half-Bloods

## 1552 BC

* Theseus kills the Minotaur in the Labyrinth.

## 1545 BC

* Orpheus attempts to rescue his dead wife from Hades, but looks back and loses her.

## 1539 BC

* The new Pharaoh orders all firstborn boys to be drowned. However, many are saved by Ultimate Vision, who sends them to different timelines, and leaves them at adoption centers.

## 1525 BC

* Moses is born.
* Moses' mother sends Moses down the river in a basket and tells Miriam to watch over him.
* Pharaoh's daughter finds and adopts him, and sends him back to his mother for the early years of his life.

## 1486 BC

* Moses flees Egypt after killing an Egyptian slave master who is hurting his biological family.

## 1446 BC

* God tells Moses to go back to Egypt and convince Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go. Despite his excuses, he goes.
* **The Ten Plagues:**
	+ God turns the Nile River into blood after Pharaoh refuses.
	+ Pharaoh still remains stubborn, so God releases three more plagues, frogs, lice, and flies, respectively, giving Pharaoh a chance after each to change his mind, but he does not.
	+ God causes the cattle of the Egyptians to get sick and die, but Pharaoh remains stubborn.
	+ God causes boils to break out on the Egyptians, but pharaoh remains stubborn.
	+ God sends hail, but Pharaoh refuses to let the people of Israel go.
	+ God sends locusts that eat the crops, but Pharaoh remains stubborn.
	+ God causes darkness to cover the Egyptians, but Pharaoh remains stubborn.
	+ God has all the Israelites kill and lamb, and paint the doorways in the blood.
	+ That night, the death angel, comes, and kills all the firstborn children who didn't have blood on heir door. This includes Pharaoh's son.
	+ Pharaoh, anguished, lets the people go.
* Pharaoh however changes his ind, and goes after the Israelites. God protects them by splitting the Red Sea, and the Israelites cross. When the Egyptians try to cross, they drown.
* Moses goes up on Mount Sinai to talk to God and get the Ten Commandments.
* In his absence, the people pressure Aaron, Moses' brother, into making a golden calf.
* Moses finds out, and breaks the tablets of the Ten Commandments in anger. He melts the calf and has everyone drink it.
* Ultimate Vision steals the broken tablets.
* Moses gets a new copy of the Ten Commandments.

## 1445 BC

* The Tabernacle is built.
* Nadab and Abihu offer strange fire to God, and are killed.
* Spies are sent into Canaan to see what the plant life, as well as the inhabitants, are like.
* The spies return. 10 of them are terrified, and claim they are like grasshoppers in comparison. Joshua and Caleb say that, with God's help, Israel can win.
* For their doubt, the people, save for Joshua, Caleb, and the Children, will never enter Canaan, and will die in the desert.

## 1438 BC

* Zeus and Europa have an affair, giving birth to Minos.

## 1420 BC

* Dionysus is born.
* Hades abducts Persephone. Helios, Queen Metaneira, and Triptolemus help her find her, but Zeus refuses to help, leading Demeter to make crops to die rapidly. Zeus sends Hermes to bring Persephone back, but Persephone had eaten one-third of a pomegranate. Eventually, the Olympians agreed to let Persephone stay two-thirds of each year with her mother, and one-third with Hades, who she had grown to like.

## 1406 BC

* Two new spies enter Jericho, where they meet Rahab. Rahab helps the escape, and is promised she will be spared when the people of Israel take the city.
* Jericho is conquered by Israel.

## 1300 BC

* **Invasion of Earth**: Darkseid attempts to conquer Earth, but he is defeated by the united army of Earth's species.

* Mankind, the Atlanteans and the Amazons take one Mother Box each for safe-keeping.
* Ultimate Vision takes the Human's Box.

* Ares, seeing the aid of the humans, as well as their prowess in battle, develops an acceptance toward humans.
* Ultimate Vision takes all the Mother Boxes.

## 1253 BC

* Zari Tomaz drops off Helen of Troy on a beach of Themyscira so that she doesn't have to return to Troy.

## 1183 BC

* The Trojan War ends.
* Odysseus heads home, but Poseidon holds him up. The Odyssey begins.

## 1140 BC

* Naomi and Ruth leave Moab.
* Ruth meets Boaz.
* Ruth and Boaz are married.

## 1075

* Samson falls in love with Delilah, who is told to spy on him to find out the source of his strength.
* After many failed attempts, Delilah learns Samson's hair is how he is so strong.
* Delilah betrays him, and the Philistines capture him, poke out his eyes, and imprison him.
* Samson destroys the temple he's in, killing himself and many Philistines.

## 1070 BC

* The Philistines steal the Ark of the Covenant.
* The Philistines give back the Ark after it causes them grief.

## 1028 BC

* Saul disobeys God, and is told his kingship will be taken from him.

## 1024 BC

* Samuel anoints David.
* David kills Goliath.

## 1015 BC

* David and Jonathan become best friends.

## 1014 BC

* Saul tries to kill David out of jealousy. David escapes.

## 1011 BC

* David spares Saul's life.
* Samuel dies.
* David spares Saul again.

## 1010 BC

* Saul, Jonathan, and Saul's other sons die.
* David becomes king.

## 1000 BC

* The Ark of the Covenant is returned to Jerusalem.
* David plans a temple, but God tells him he will not build it.

## 995 BC

* David meets Mephibosheth, the last of Jonathan's line.

## 993 BC

* David sins with Bathsheba.
* David tries to cover up his sin by sending Uriah, her husband, home. He refuses to be with his wife.
* David secretly has Uriah killed.

## 991 BC

* Nathan confronts David, who repents.
* David's baby dies.

## 976 BC

* Absalom takes over the kingdom, and David flees.

## 967 BC

* Solomon asks for wisdom, and is given wisdom, riches, and fame.

## 931 BC

* Solomon dies.
* Kingdom divided into Israel and Judah.

## 863 BC

* Elijah flees Ahab and his drought.
* Elijah is fed by ravens and a widow.
* **Challenge at Mount Carmel:**
	+ Elijah challenges the king, as well as Baal, his god.
	+ Elijah says that only the true God will answer them.
	+ The prophets of Baal try to get a response, but fail. Elijah mocks them the whole time.
	+ Elijah douses an alter, but fire catches anyway, proving God's superiority.
	+ Elijah orders the prophets of Baal executed.

## 851 BC

* Elijah never dies, but is taken up to Heaven.
* Elisha succeeds Elijah.

## 809 BC

* The Force created.
* Wellspring of Life formed

## 760 BC

* Jonah is sent to Ninevah. He tries to disobey, and gets on a ship headed the opposite direction. God causes storms, and Jonah is tossed into the water to stop it, where he is eaten by a big fish.
* The fish spits Jonah out, and he goes to Ninevah, and tells the to repent. Much to his chagrin, they do. He is angry, and God talks him down.

## 730 BC

* Isaiah prophecies the birth of Christ.
* Isaiah prophecies Israel's judgement.
* Isaiah prophecies Assyria's judgement.
* Isaiah makes many other warnings.

## 679 B.C.

* Hela Odinsdottir is born to Odin Borson, becoming the rightful heir to the throne of Asgard as his firstborn. As Hela reaches adulthood, she begins to fight alongside her father, Odin. Over the years, together, they build Asgard's empire across the realms and build its glory.

## 639 B.C.

* By the time Odin decides to stop his conquest after realizing peace is the true way to unite the Nine Realms, Hela's ambition has grown too large, and coupled with her tremendous powers, she ultimately tries to take the throne and Odin is forced to battle and imprison his daughter in the realm of Hel after defeating her, for the safety of the Asgardians. There she was kept for nearly 2700 years, until her escape in 2017. Odin would spend the next several centuries burying her history and pretending she never existed. When his next child, Thor, was born over 1600 years later, he claimed him to be his *actual* firstborn.

## 597 BC

* Siege of Jerusalem occurs, beginning the Babylonian Captivity.

## 585 BC

* Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego are tossed into the fiery furnace, but God saves them.

## 575 BC

* **Battle of Babylon**: Eternals defend the Ishtar Gate against a wave of Deviants. After winning the battle, Ajak, with the sphere, contacts his creator, Arishem. She reports to him that more refugees arrive in Babylon, the largest city on Earth. Ajak is scolded after showing empathy to humans.

## 570 BC

* Agamotto forms the Masters of the Mystic Arts as a league of magic practitioners, dedicated to learning Magic so to safeguard the Earth from dimensional evils.

## 539 BC

* Daniel interprets writing on the wall for Belteshazzar.
* The king is killed, and his kingdom taken over.

## 538 BC

* Almost all the Jewish exiles return home.

## 473 BC

* Haman plots to kill all the Jews, but is discovered and hanged.

## 444 BC

* Nehemiah leads an expedition to rebuild the Wall of Jerusalem.

## 69 BC

* In Ancient Egypt, Clotho visits the Enchantress and asks her to keep a piece of the Loom of Fate. This drastically diminishes her sisters' powers, giving way for Clotho's escape.

## 49 BC

* Julius Caesar and his army set up camp in Cisalpine Gaul to prepare for the march. On the night before their departure, Julius Caesar wears his full armor and rides on his steed, when he suddenly finds himself on a beach in 2017.
* Caesar is returned, but has a history book, intending on using it to conquer the world.
* Prior to his march on the Rubicon, Caesar anticipates interference and, thus, sets a trap by emptying his camp, leaving *Rise of Rome* on a table in his tent.
* When two Time Bureau agents led by Ava Sharpe arrived to retrieve the book, Caesar ambushes the trio outside the tent, managing to capture Sharpe while her compatriots flee through a portal back to the *Waverider*.
* Deciding to spare Sharpe, Caesar holds her captive as he begins his march towards Rome, only to be attacked by the Legends. At the end of the battle, Caesar is knocked out by Rory as payback for breaking his nose.
* Afterwards, the Time Bureau erases the memories of Julius and his army.

## 6 BC

* John the Baptist born to Zachariah and Elizabeth

## 5 BC

* Jesus born to Mary and Joseph

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2. ↑ *Avengers: Infinity War*
3. ↑ *Eternals*
4. ↑ *Black Panther*