2000s

This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 2000s.

1st

 * New Year's Day comes, and the distraught Aldrich Killian is still waiting for Tony Stark on the roof of a building in Bern, Switzerland, because Stark promised to meet him there. Meanwhile, Stark chose to party and sleep with Maya Hansen. Seeing the New Year's celebrations below inspires Killian to continue his work without Stark. That morning, Maya Hansen wakes up to find Stark has discreetly left her.

3rd

 * Aldrich Killian accepts Maya Hansen into A.I.M., and they continue to develop the Extremis virus.

11th

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13th

 * After the, Thaddeus Ross convinces the US Military to create the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project, based on Project Rebirth in World War II.

28th

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. sends Agent Phil Coulson on a mission in Cusco, Peru.

29th

 * In Peru, Coulson meets Camilla Reyes, developing a romantic relationship with her.

June

 * John Garrett returns to Grant Ward five years after leaving him in the Wyoming wilderness. He tells Ward he has been accepted into S.H.I.E.L.D. and will operate within it as a sleeper agent for HYDRA.

August

 * Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov are taken prisoner to Utkin Prison.

September

 * Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons begin attending the S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy of Science and Technology.

25th

 * Bruce Banner joins the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project at Culver University at the insistence of his girlfriend Betty Ross. Betty's father, General Thaddeus Ross lies to the scientists on the project, claiming their work will help protect soldiers from depleted uranium.

16th

 * Under the threat of funding cuts, Bruce Banner tests the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project on himself, but the combination of Gamma Radiation and the serum Betty Ross developed based on Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum results in the accident that turns him into the Hulk. Gamma pulses stored in Banner's amygdala and released during high stress moments trigger each transformation. Betty is injured and hospitalized.

19th

 * Bruce Banner visits Betty Ross at the hospital and Thaddeus Ross admits to Banner that the project is being developed as weapon, not just defense. Banner goes on the run. The Military closes the lab building for a year and shuts down the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project. General Ross keeps some project data, while Betty also secretly holds onto data and remains at Culver University. After Banner's leak, Ross put the military in his track. Angered by her father's treatment of Banner, Betty stops talking to him.

24th

 * Bruce Banner tries to flee from the United States and into Canada by sneaking into a truck that was heading through the border with Idaho. Banner is caught but with the State Troopers officers trying to arrest him, Banner is forced to transform into the Hulk. Vlcsnap-2014-06-09-19h00m59s246.png
 * Hulk flees after the incident. In his run, the Hulk is sighted by locals along the US/Canada.
 * After the incident, a watch is found with the words "To Bruce, all my love, Betty" inscribed on the back of it.

7th

 * Bruce Banner tries to contact Betty Ross, but the e-mail is intercepted by the Military and she never receives it.

9th

 * A picture that came to the United States Armed Forces of a house and a wrecked car in a place called Mossad is assigned as a possible incident caused by Hulk.

27th

 * Bruce Banner is spotted via satellite recon photo in Canada.

28th

 * After a unspecified incident, the Hulk is sighted by locals, who mistake him for a "".

14th

 * Akela Amador and two other S.H.I.E.L.D. agents conduct a raid to one of Vanchat's gulags. The agents are murdered and Amador is captured, spending four years in a cage.

17th

 * Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. sends a second team to the gulag raided by Akela Amador's team. They find several corpses, but do not locate Amador.

21st

 * The Military loses Bruce Banner, who eventually arrives in Eastern Nunavut near Greenland, in the Arctic Circle to commit suicide in a place where his body would not be found.
 * In the Arctic, Banner tries to shoot himself in the mouth. The attempt fails and he turns into the Hulk, who spits out the bullet, and Banner wakes up afterwards. The incident is detected by satellite, and this is the last sighting of Bruce Banner for at least five months.

22th

 * A picture that came to the United States Armed Forces of a wrecked car in Samara, Russia is assigned as a possible incident caused by Hulk.

1st

 * Bruce Banner is spotted in Rome, Italy, with information provided by Interpol.

3rd

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. is brought in to help Thaddeus Ross, and continues helping him until 2011. Stark Industries sells him HMMWV-mounted sonic cannons.

17th

 * Nick Fury, in disguise, finds Bruce Banner in a bar and tries to find out what Thaddeus Ross' "Super-Solder Program" did to him. He tells Agents Johnson and Peterson to gain Banner's trust and see how he reacts to certain things, so the agents pretend they were dating and Johnson cheated on Peterson with him. Banner gets confused when Johnson pulls him toward her, and Peterson threatens him. The stress of the situation causes Banner to turn into the Hulk and go on a rampage.

19th

 * Nick Fury calls a meeting of S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives and tells them the Hulk is only a secondary matter.

31st

 * Aldrich Killian injects himself with Extremis, which heals his disabilities and enables him to walk without a cane.

December

 * Escape from Utkin Prison: Using the bones of their dead cellmate Alexei as weapons, Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov escape from Utkin Prison. Their original plan was to return to Moscow where they once lived as princes, but they instead travel to New York City to forge a new life.

2008

 * Eva Belyakov, a member of the Inhuman community in Afterlife, goes rogue after Jiaying refuses to allow Belyakov's unstable daughter, Katya, to go through Terrigenesis. She takes with her an assortment of stolen Terrigen Crystals, which she uses to transform Katya without the proper mental conditioning. Katya develops sensory manipulating powers and a hunger for pain. The mother-daughter duo travel to Bahrain, where they create chaos by using Katya's powers to sap the emotional energies from local civilians.
 * Rescue in Bahrain: S.H.I.E.L.D. takes notice of the Belyakovs' activities and tracks Eva down to Manama, Bahrain. A team led by Phil Coulson and Melinda May is dispatched to analyze Belyakov for the Index; they are unaware of Katya's involvement or powers. Eva and Katya assume control of a group of gangsters and hold the entire S.H.I.E.L.D., minus Coulson and May, hostage within a warehouse. May ventures into the warehouse alone and crosses off the controlled gangsters and Eva. Katya reveals herself to May and nearly uses her powers to kill the subjugated S.H.I.E.L.D. team, forcing May to shoot her dead. For her role in saving them, the S.H.I.E.L.D. team gives May the nickname "The Cavalry", a moniker she grows to despise.
 * Jiaying and Gordon travel to Manama with the intention of dealing with Eva and Katya themselves, but find that S.H.I.E.L.D. has already killed them.
 * May returns to the United States, traumatized by the ordeal in Manama. She shuts herself off from everyone, including her husband Andrew Garner. Their marriage over time falls apart. With approval from Maria Hill, May switches from field duty to a simple desk job.

14th

 * Aldrich Killian finds candidates for his Extremis program, including Ellen Brandt, Chad Davis, Eric Savin, and Jack Taggart, all of whom were in the United States Army and suffered serious injuries.

19th

 * The candidates are given Extremis. Some of them do not survive, and their bodies explode. The successful subjects heal from their injuries and regrow lost limbs.

25th

 * Lance Hunter participates in an operation in Basra, Iraq.

20th

 * Cassie Lang is born to Scott and Maggie Lang.

8th

 * Grant Ward starts serving in the, making several contacts in the area.

2009

 * Natasha Romanoff is given the task of escorting a nuclear scientist out of Iran. The Winter Soldier attacks them in Odessa, Ukraine, firing a bullet which goes through Romanoff's abdomen and hits the scientist, successfully killing him.
 * Nick Fury puts Phil Coulson in charge of Project T.A.H.I.T.I., an experiment in which the preserved corpse of the Kree that was recovered in 1945 is harvested of its bodily fluids for medicinal purposes. The goal of the project is to create a medicine that could potentially save a mortally wounded Avenger.

12th

 * Chad Davis explodes from an Extremis malfunction in Rose Hill, Tennessee. Five other people are killed in the explosion.