User blog:BEJT/Full Analysis of All Evidence for Phase One's Timeline, Plus New Suggestion for Timeline Placements

'''I would like to point out that this is not a check of all the things on the timeline pages. There are some mistakes and issues on there, but if they are unrelated to the Phase One timeline, I am mostly leaving it for now, to return to when I do proper checks of those articles. I have, though, made some changes as I go. The math and values are also prone to being honed and improved a little over time.'''

=Notes=

How This Is Going to Work

 * The difficulties for the Phase One timeline come from the fact that while Iron Man presents itself as being set c. 2008/9, and Fury's Big Week presents itself as being set c. 2010/11, the timespans presented between each is shorter than this. Therefore, the way this will be calculated is:
 * The individual placement of Iron Man, regardless/devoid of the timespan presented from it to Fury's Big Week; the individual placement of Fury's Big Week, regardless/devoid of the timespan presented from Iron Man to it, and from it to The Avengers.
 * The timespan between Iron Man; the timespan between Fury's Big Week and The Avengers.
 * Compromising between the individual placements and the timespans to produce the most reliable general placements as possible.
 * Implementing the internal dates for the placements of the dates of the films, based on which fall within a reasonable margin of the reasoned out best placement, and which don't, to be rooted out as continuity errors.
 * This timeline suggestion does rely on The Avengers being May 2012, Thor: The Dark World being November 2013, and Captain America: Civil War being June 2016. These dates were all established before Spider-Man: Homecoming showed the "8 years later" card and screwed up the timeline. However, for these reasons, this is frankly impossible at the moment, and will mostly be ignored, partially because this is not a writeup of all timeline evidence, only Phase One, and I do not have time to write that all before improving Phase One. This is simply a write-up based around these dates being true, which all other evidence points to.
 * Because of this, Kevin Feige's reported mention of Peter being 5 in Iron Man and 9 in The Avengers is ignored in terms of the exact ages, as it places The Avengers c. 2010, when it should be 2012 in this case study, and it places Iron Man c. 2006, which is simply impossible. It is only used for the fact that it presents 4 years between the dates.
 * There is a hierarchy of importance of references in the MCU, and so references are assigned different values in calculating the best fit. The value of the reference is then divided by how specific it is. For example, if someone were to say on definitively September 30, 2014 that something occurred "last week", that gives only 7 days of leniency it could have occurred on. If it were said on definitively July 2, 2015 that the same thing occurred "last year", then there is 365 days of leniency it could have occurred on. Therefore, the 7-day leniency is a lot more specific and therefore has much stronger value (divided by 7 instead of 365) in the mathematical calculation than the "last year". Here is the breakdown of how the assigned values work:
 * On-screen time reference - 2000. There is no in-universe human error involved here but a defined time reference, in a fully canon live-action piece of media.
 * Spoken in dialogue - 1000. There is the potential for human error in-universe, but this is still scripted and intentional dialogue with far more value than a prop, for example.
 * The MCU timeline - 500. The MCU timeline is the only official timeline document out there, detailing all of Phase One. It is not as valuable as direct dialogue, but it is still a very important document with Marvel confirming timespans.
 * 100% canon comic (red stamp or otherwise absolutely confirmed) - 300. The confirmed canon comics are officially part of the MCU, however, they do occasionally have minor details which are slightly contradictory to the films, usually due to condensing an adaptation. They also are not as thoroughly overseen as the films, and so timeline indications in these are still not as valuable.
 * 50% canon comic (comics considered canon without official confirmation or red stamp) - 150. Quite a few comics in the MCU are considered canon due to not being contradictory, however they are not officially part of the hard canon. These do sometimes have timeline references, which can be helpful, and should be part of the evidence, but should not have too much significance in the solution, only influencing a little but at the end of the day bending to more canon references. Half as valuable as 100% canon comics.
 * Crew statement - 100. Crew statements can be helpful for the timeline as they come from people directly involved. However, sometimes they contradict evidence, and thus definitely are not as important as other direct references in the canon.
 * Prop which is pretty clearly visible, but still small, and not unmissable - 75. Props are often unreliable in the MCU, contradicting not only the other evidence, but even themselves. They are often just reasonably arbitrary. In the case of pretty clearly visible props, they are reasonably important, as they are pretty prominent. However, they should still be overruled by other evidence.
 * Official marketing campaign (other than WHiH World News) - 50. Official marketing campaigns such as Stark Expo 2010 and Rising Tide are made with the in-universe angle to certainly appear like they are canon. Especially with the later introduction of WHiH World News, which due to the inclusion of Christine Everhart is especially canon, it seems that these campaigns are canon to the MCU. However, this is not officially confirmed, and if absolutely necessary, could be discounted. The value should be more like the 200s, but because the campaigns are so specific quite often, the value should be lowered so as not to overpower the other evidence unfairly.
 * On official display - 50. A prop which was officially shown on display at an event, so is more reliable than just a tiny one in a film. However, it is still a prop used in a film which could be unreliable, plus it is not as valuable as information actually presented pretty clearly in the actual live-action media. Overall, more important than a mildly visible prop, but less than a pretty clearly visible, but still small, and not unmissable prop.
 * Strong assumption - 50. Strong assumptions come from reasoning with good basis. However, these are not strictly evidence, and should not be taken with too much weight.
 * Mild assumption - 25. Mild assumptions come from reasoning with decent basis. However, these are not strictly evidence, and definitely should not be taken with too much weight.
 * Mildly visible prop - 25. As previously mentioned, props do not have much value in the MCU. If the prop is mildly visible but definitely not unmissable, it would be helpful if the timeline could fit these, however, if it doesn't work out, these can easily be overruled.
 * Prop which is adequately visible, but certainly doesn't stand out - 10. As previously mentioned, props do not have much value in the MCU. If the prop is adequately visible but certainly doesn't stand out, in an ideal world the timeline could fit these, however, if it doesn't work out, these can very easily be overruled.
 * Real world date - 10. The MCU is a completely separate, albeit fictional, universe to ours, and so dates of events and similar things do not necessarily have to be on the same date in the MCU as in our world. However, ideally, they would be. This would have a stronger value, closer to 50, but the real world dates would tend to give very specific results, as they are simply about matching dates, and therefore should have a lower value so as to not overpower more important evidence unfairly.
 * Real time - 0.5. The MCU follows a general rule where, when appropriate or possible, the content set in the modern day is set around the time of release, in "real time". This is not evidence for the placements except to guide the placement when it can fit anywhere in a floating space, such as Guardians of the Galaxy being August 2014, when all we know for sure is it is 2014. It is guidance, but not evidence, so it has a very low value. It would be a little higher, but the real time rule will always present very specific answers, so should have a lower value so as not to overrule other evidence unfairly.
 * When calculating how many days of leniency there is, to divide the value by, you take the realistic earliest ×2 + the absolute earliest possible ×1, all ÷ 3 as the earliest of your days of leniency, because the realistic earliest should have more weight for the overall days of leniency, then the realistic latest ×2 + the absolute latest possible ×1, all ÷ 3 as the latest of your days of leniency. So if the absolute earliest were January 1st, the realistic earliest were January 4th, the realistic latest were January 28th, and the absolute latest were January 31st, it would overall make the days of leniency for the math January 3rd-January 29th, 26 days.
 * Values should be divided by 4 if it is only from a deleted scene, as while intended for use, it did not make the cut and should not have as much value.
 * There are other values for other pieces of evidence, however, I have only included the applicable values here. For example, no WHiH World News, or blink-and-you'll-miss-it props.
 * Usually, when making a timeline, you would look at the references presented. You can look at what the parameters are of the references, realistically and at-a-push, and find a snug point which fits inside all the parameters. However, when it comes to something like the Phase One timeline, where it is contradictory and cannot all fit within all parameters - where there is continuity errors whichever way you look at it - you have to simply take weighted averages and calculations of all the evidence to reason out everything and find whatever fits best. This is done here, then the internal dates are applied to amend it to fit best overall, and continuity errors are spotted. This method produces the least weight of continuity errors possible.
 * When doing the calculations as I go, I do not consider the internal dates. For example, we know for certain that "I am Iron Man" is on the 25th of its month, however I will not apply this until the end as it could skew the answers prior to the final result. Only then is the closest internal date applied. This is the same as why, for example, you shouldn't round a step in a mathematical answer, rounding should only be done at the end. This is also why I might say something is on "August 31.7, 2010" for example, which is obviously not a real date, but is about not skewing before final results.

"Ideal" Placement and Limits of Interpretations

 * Each piece of evidence has its own "ideal" placement. This is the date that this evidence would place the film in question on, if it were the only piece of evidence out there for this film's placement. There is sometimes the need to apply a little bit of other evidence into the ideal placement just to guide it logically.
 * When all the pieces of evidence are evaluated in the end, they each pull the placement towards their ideal date, with a weight of their value divided by their leniency, to eventually find the best possible placement.
 * How does the maximum and minimum interpretations of the evidence work?
 * Earliest possible - If you are starting from a fixed date and working backwards a certain timespan, the earliest possible interpretation would be either the number + ½ or the earliest date in the year/month it refers to, whichever is earliest.
 * For example, if something were said on March 31, 2016 to have happened "17 years ago", the earliest possible interpretation would come from either it really being a day under 17½, rounded (which would give October 1, 1998) or the earliest date in the year that "2016 - 17" refers to, 1999 (which would give January 1, 1999). The earlier of these two would mean that the earliest possible interpretation is October 1, 1998.
 * For another example, if something were said on September 30, 2016 to have happened "17 years ago", the earliest possible interpretation again comes from either it really being a day under 17½, rounded (which would give April 1, 1999) or the earliest date in the year that "2016 - 17" refers to, 1999 (which would give January 1, 1999). The earlier of these two would mean that the earliest possible interpretation is January 1, 1999.
 * Earliest realistic - If you are starting from a fixed date and working backwards a certain timespan, the earliest realistic interpretation would be the earliest date in the year/month it refers to. This could end up being the same as the earliest possible interpretation, or later.
 * For example, if something were said on March 31, 2016 to have happened "17 years ago", it is unrealistic (just about possible, but unrealistic) that they are referring to it really being up to a day under 17½, because that would mean at the earliest it could have happened on October 1, 1998, and it is unlikely that they would have done the maths to work out that it rounds to 17 if it was in late 1998, nor expect the person they are talking with/the viewer/the reader to do that maths instead of the simple "2016 - 17". "2016 - 17 = 1999" is the realistic interpretation, which would give January 1, 1999 as the realistic earliest it could be referring to.
 * For another example, if something were said on September 30, 2016 to have happened "17 years ago", it is unrealistic that the earliest interpretation would come from it having to be under 17½, rounded, that the earliest it could be is April 1, 1999. It is perfectly realistic that the simple maths of "2016 - 17" is being done, and it refers to early 1999, which would give January 1, 1999 as the realistic earliest it could be referring to.
 * Latest realistic - If you are starting from a fixed date and working backwards a certain timespan, the latest realistic interpretation would be the latest date in the year/month it refers to. This could end up being the same as the latest possible interpretation, or earlier.
 * For example, if something were said on March 31, 2016 to have happened "17 years ago", it is unrealistic that the latest interpretation would come from it having to be 16½ or over, rounded, that the latest it could be is September 30, 1999. It is perfectly realistic that the simple maths of "2016 - 17" is being done, and it refers to late 1999, which would give December 31, 1999 as the realistic latest it could be referring to.
 * For another example, if something were said on September 30, 2016 to have happened "17 years ago", it is unrealistic (just about possible, but unrealistic) that they are referring to it really being a down to a minimum of 16½, because that would mean at the latest it could have happened on April 1, 2000, and it is unlikely that they would have done the maths to work out that it rounds to 17 if it was in early 2000, nor expect the person they are talking with/the viewer/the reader to do that maths instead of the simple "2016 - 17". "2016 - 17 = 1999" is the realistic interpretation, which would give December 31, 1999 as the realistic latest it could be referring to.
 * Latest possible - If you are starting from a fixed date and working backwards a certain timespan, the latest possible interpretation would be either the number + ½ or the earliest date in the year/month it refers to, whichever is earliest.
 * For example, if something were said on March 31, 2016 to have happened "17 years ago", the latest possible interpretation would come from either it really being 16½, rounded (which would give September 30, 1999) or the latest date in the year that "2016 - 17" refers to, 1999 (which would give December 31, 1999). The later of these two would mean that the latest possible interpretation is December 31, 1999.
 * For another example, if something were said on September 30, 2016 to have happened "17 years ago", the latest possible interpretation again comes from either it really being 16½, rounded (which would give March 31, 2000) or the latest date in the year that "2016 - 17" refers to, 1999 (which would give December 31, 1999). The later of these two would mean that the latest possible interpretation is March 31, 2000.
 * When working backwards from a fixed date, the "latest" interpretations are about shortening the given timespan as much as possible. However, when working forwards from a fixed date, the "earliest" interpretations are the ones about shortening the timespan as much as possible, and vice versa for the "earliest" method for backwards becoming the "latest" method for forwards. So, all in all, the way it works out is:
 * When doing the interpretations for 1, 2, or 3 years/months, there is an exception. For example, while "10 years" is definitely fine to interpret as January 1st of a given year to December 31st of the tenth year after that, closer to 11 years, but fine for interpreting as 10 from the "x + or - 10 = y" math, this does not work for say, "1 year". 1 year is much more specific, and cannot be very nearly 2 years. For years/months interpretations, if the normal interpretation as above falls under/exceeds these limits, it is restrained only to these limits:
 * The absolute minimum cannot be less than × ⅔.
 * The realistic minimum cannot be less than × ¾.
 * The realistic maximum cannot be more than ÷ ¾.
 * The absolute maximum cannot be more than ÷ ⅔.
 * From this, for 1, 2, or 3 years/months:
 * 1 year/month is, at an absolute minimum, ⅔. At a realistic minimum, it is ¾. At a realistic maximum, it is 1⅓. At an absolute maximum, it is 1½.
 * 2 years/months is, at an absolute minimum, 1⅓. At a realistic maximum, it is 1½. At a realistic maximum, it is 2⅔. At an absolute maximum, 2 ÷ ⅔ = 3, which exceeds the normal interpretations in in any case, so the absolute maximum is just the normal interpretations.
 * 3 years/months is, at an absolute minimum, 3 × ⅔ = 2, which is less than the normal interpretations in in any case, so the absolute minimum is just the normal interpretations. At a realistic maximum, it is 2¼. At a realistic maximum, it is 3 ÷ ¾ = 4, which exceeds the normal interpretations in in any case, so the absolute maximum is just the normal interpretations. Same for the absolute maximum.
 * By 4 years, it's all in the normal interpretations.
 * For a number of pieces of evidence, there is only limits at one end, as the evidence only gives it, for example, as being "at least a year". In this case, there still has to be limits at the other end to give days of leniency. Logical limits are then applied, using the absolute earliest or latest interpretations from any of the evidence given for that placement or timespan, as we know from all the other evidence that this is the earliest/latest or shortest/longest that the placement/timespan could possibly be, based on any other evidence.

Other Notes

 * The "[exact date × 2 + middle of year/month × 1] ÷ 3" rule I refer to is a rule I use for "year ago"/"month ago" lines, if there is simply the one reference to place it with, such as, for example someone saying on September 30, 2016 that something happened "3 years ago". This implies approximately September 30, 2013. However there is also the common math most people would also do of simply "2016 - 3 = 2013", implying it could really be any point in that year. To take this all into account, the exact date 3 years ago and the middle of the year 3 years ago are both considered, with the former having more weight. [September 30, 2013 × 2 + July 2, 2013 (the middle of 2013) × 1] ÷ 3 = August 31, 2013. It works the same for months.
 * This is only implicated when working with the time reference - if we are starting from a date, and then finding a date given as "3 years ago", "3 years after", or "it's been 3 years", etc. This is not implicated when going against the time reference. For example, starting at a date, then finding something else which references "3 years later" to the date you have - you are going in reverse if you turn that into an "it happened 3 years ago", and it does not work that way. The way which would make sense is to find a date which, by the rule, would then give you the result of the date you have. But there is not always a solution to this. The rule brings the result closer to the center of the year, so if you have a result which is, say, in December, there is no prior date that, when the rule is applied, could have given the result of December. No, when working against the direction of the time reference, exact dates are used for the ideal placement, as in all the averaging, it will not come out as exact anyway.
 * When I use, for example, "½ year", I am referring to 6 months, rather than exactly one half of a year (182.5 or 183 days). This is based on the evidence being about people counting in months rather than days, as, for example, if someone is counting and refers to ½ year, there is no way they are counting the exact dates instead of in months. This is the same, for example, if I refer to "¾ year", 9 months, etc. If, instead, I use "0.5", this is the exact mathematical middle. For example, if we know someone is "39" on a given date, the ideal placement would be the exact middle of the time that they are 39, so the day they are 39.5.
 * "FBW Day x" is referring to Day x of Fury's Big Week. So, for example, "FBW Day 1" means Fury's Big Week Day 1. "MVII Day x" is referring to Day x of the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic log. These letters are just to differentiate between the two sets of "Day x" when talking about evidence.

=Evidence= OK so, as far as I'm aware, this is all the evidence for the placements of the Phase One films. Please tell me if I have missed something.

List of Evidence
VISION: 2016 - 8 YEARS TV: MAY 4, 2008 TIMELINE: 1943 + 67 YEARS TIMELINE: 2005 + 5 YEARS TIMELINE: 1945 + 64 YEARS TIMELINE: 1942 + 67 YEARS HAPPY: 2008 RING WATTS: PETER WAS 8 KEVIN FEIGE: PHASE ONE 4 YEARS APOGEE AWARD: AFTER JAN 2008 AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.: RESCUE IN BAHRAIN 2008 REAL TIME: WHAT FITS BEST?
 * In Captain America: Civil War, Vision says, "In the 8 years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man…" This is very firmly on June 20, 2016, and implies that "I am Iron Man" was 8 years earlier.
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: June 20, 2016 - 8 years (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = June 23.8333, 2008.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very important, as it is dialogue directly from a film (and especially since it is from a character who is highly unlikely to make math errors). Value: 1000.
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Vision is referring to the 8 full calendar years since "I am Iron Man": 2008, '09, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, and '15, and it was in 2007. If this interpretation were to be taken, it still cannot really work if the time between the two dates is 9 years or more. So the very earliest possible interpretation is June 21, 2007.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: Vision is counting in terms of simple "2016 - 2008 = 8", so the earliest is January 1, 2008.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: Vision is counting in terms of simple "2016 - 2008 = 8", so the latest is December 31, 2008.
 * Latest possible interpretation: Vision is counting the years inclusively (including both the beginning and end years): 2009, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, and '16 being the "8 years", so the latest possible date is December 31, 2009.
 * ((June 21, 2007 × 1 + January 1, 2008 × 2) ÷ 3)-((December 31, 2008 × 2 + December 31, 2009 × 1) ÷ 3) = October 28.33333, 2007-May 1.66667, 2009 = 551.33333 days of leniency. June 23.8333, 2008, weight 1000 ÷ 551.33333 = 1.81378.
 * As Pepper watches TV the day after Tony's return, the TV shows the date "May 4, 2008". As Tony escaped captivity 3 days prior, this would put Tony's escape on May 1, 2008.
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: Tony is said to have been held captive for "3 months" and then "a couple of months", which overall suggests around 2⅔ months, putting his capture around February 10.33333, 2008. The MCU timeline shows that "I am Iron Man" is 9 months after Tony's capture, which would put it (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of month × 1] ÷ 3" rule) around February 10.33333, 2008 + 9 months = November 12.05556, 2008.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Important. It is only a digital prop date, which is definitely less important than dialogue, but it is reasonably clear and visible. Value: 75.
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Tony is said to have been held captive for "3 months", which if interpreted as the longest possible time, rounded from just under 3½ months, puts his capture at the very earliest on January 17, 2008. The MCU timeline shows that "I am Iron Man" is 9 months after Tony's capture, which, if interpreted as the shortest possible time, as "January + 9 = October", would put "I am Iron Man" at the very earliest on October 1, 2008.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: Tony is said to have been held captive for "3 months", which if interpreted as the longest realistic time of "May - 3 = February", puts his capture at the earliest on February 1, 2008. The MCU timeline shows that "I am Iron Man" is 9 months after Tony's capture, which if interpreted as the shortest realistic time, as "February + 9 = November", would put "I am Iron Man" at the very earliest on November 1, 2008.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: Tony is said to have been held captive for "3 months", which if interpreted as the shortest realistic time of "May - 3 = February", puts his capture at the very latest on February 29, 2008, though that really is very loose in describing "3 months", really the latest would be minimum - 2¼ months, so February 22, 2008. The MCU timeline shows that "I am Iron Man" is 9 months after Tony's capture, which, if interpreted as the longest possible time, as rounded from just under 9½ months, would put "I am Iron Man" at the latest on December 6, 2008.
 * ((October 1, 2008 × 1 + November 1, 2008 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 6, 2008 = October 21.66667, 2008-December 6, 2008 = 45.33333 days of leniency. November 8.83333, 2008, weight 75 ÷ 45.33333 = 1.65441.
 * The MCU timeline puts "I am Iron Man" "67 years" after June 22, 1943 (date given by prop and confirmed by Marvel), when Steve got his powers.
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: June 22, 1943 + 67 years (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = June 25.33333, 2010.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very important, not as much as dialogue directly from a film, but an officially released timeline. Value: 500
 * Earliest possible interpretation: The 67 years is rounded from 66½, so December 22, 2009.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: The timeline is counting in simple terms of "1943 + 67 = 2010", so the earliest is January 1, 2010.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: The timeline is counting in simple terms of "1943 + 67 = 2010", so the latest is December 31, 2010.
 * ((December 22, 2009 × 1 + January 1, 2010 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 31, 2010 = December 28.66667, 2009-December 31, 2010 = 367.33333 days of leniency. June 25.33333, 2010, weight 500 ÷ 367.33333 = 1.36116.
 * The MCU timeline puts "I am Iron Man" "5 years" after Bruce got his powers on April 16, 2005 (date given in the The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture comic, fits with the evidence in the film).
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: April 16, 2005 + 5 years (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = May 11.66667, 2010.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very important, not as much as dialogue directly from a film, but an officially released timeline. Value: 500
 * Earliest possible interpretation: The 5 years is rounded from 4½, so October 16, 2009.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: The timeline is counting in simple terms of "2005 + 5 years = 2010", so the earliest is January 1, 2010.
 * Latest possible/realistic interpretation: The timeline is counting in simple terms of "2005 + 5 = 2010", so the latest is December 31, 2010.
 * ((October 16, 2009 × 1 + January 1, 2010 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 31, 2010 = December 6.33333, 2009-December 31, 2010 = 389.66667 days of leniency. May 11.66667, 2010, weight 500 ÷ 389.66667 = 1.28315.
 * The MCU timeline puts "I am Iron Man" "64 years" after Cap goes missing on March 4, 1945 (date given by a newspaper in Captain America: The Winter Soldier).
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: March 4, 1945 + 64 years (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = April 13, 2009.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very important, not as much as dialogue directly from a film, but an officially released timeline. Value: 500
 * Earliest possible interpretation: The 64 years is rounded from 63½, so September 4, 2008.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: The timeline is counting in simple terms of "1945 + 64 = 2009", so January 1, 2009.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: The timeline is counting in simple terms of "1945 + 64 = 2009", so December 31, 2009.
 * ((September 4, 2008 × 1 + January 1, 2009 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 31, 2009 = November 22.33333, 2008-December 31, 2009 = 403.66667 days of leniency. April 13, 2009, weight 500 ÷ 403.66667 = 1.23865.
 * The MCU timeline puts "I am Iron Man" "67 years" after Schmidt steals the Tesseract in March 1942 (date given on-screen in Captain America: The First Avenger).
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: March 16 (middle of March), 1942 + 67 years (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = April 21, 2009.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very important, not as much as dialogue directly from a film, but an officially released timeline. Value: 500
 * Earliest possible interpretation: The March 1942 date is March 1st, and the 67 years is rounded from 66½, so September 1, 2008.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: The timeline is counting in simple terms of "1942 + 67 = 2009", so the earliest is January 1, 2009.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: The timeline is counting in simple terms of "1942 + 67 = 2009", so the latest is December 31, 2009.
 * ((September 1, 2008 × 1 + January 1, 2009 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 31, 2009 = November 21.33333, 2008-December 31, 2009 = 404.66667 days of leniency. April 21, 2009, weight 500 ÷ 404.66667 = 1.23558.
 * Spider-Man: Homecoming has a major timeline error with its "8 years". It is not reconcilable. However, even if this is ignored, it is a definite sign at the very least that the MCU has been spanning more than 6 years at this point overall, even if The Avengers is only 4 years before. Happy Hogan also mentions that he has had the ring on him since 2008, which implies that he's had it since Iron Man (when Tony started to show romantic interest in Pepper) or Iron Man 2 (when they started dating).
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: It is unclear when it is referring to, so the best date to apply to this is simply the middle between the date Tony and Pepper dance together (9 days before "I am Iron Man", as explained later) and the date they get together (FBW Day 3). It is later calculated that there is 185 days between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, so + 9 and + 2 would give 196 days between those two dates. The middle of 2008 was July 1.5, 2008, so if this is the date in the 98th day after they dance, the middle of these two dates, the day when they dance together would be March 25.5, 2008. 9 days later would put "I am Iron Man" around April 3.5, 2008.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very reliable, as it is direct dialogue. Value: 1000.
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Happy got the ring a while after they started dating, which would mean no earliest limit. Here, a logical earliest limit is applied. In this case, the earliest limit of any of the evidence for the placement - the earliest date "I am Iron Man" could possibly be according to all other evidence: May 5, 2007.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: It refers to Iron Man 2, and Happy has had the ring since a few days after FBW Day 3. He has had the ring since January 1, 2008, which would put FBW Day 3 around December 29, 2007, and FBW Day 1 around December 27, 2007. 185 days prior would put "I am Iron Man" at June 25, 2007.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: It refers to Iron Man, and Happy has had the ring since the day after Pepper and Tony danced together. With this at the latest possible December 31, 2008, the day of them dancing would be December 30th, and thus 9 days later would put "I am Iron Man" at January 8, 2009.
 * Latest possible interpretation: Happy got the ring when he spotted chemistry between the two before they started dating, or just generally got it for whoever Tony would eventually marry. He may have even got it to try to get Tony to find a long-term partner in a time when he was very casual with relationships. Any of this would mean no latest limit. Here, a logical latest limit is applied. In this case, the earliest limit of any evidence for the placement - the latest date "I am Iron Man" could possibly be according to all other evidence: December 31, 2010.
 * (May 5, 2007 × 1 + June 25, 2007 × 2) ÷ 3)-(January 8, 2009 × 2 + December 31, 2010 × 1) ÷ 3) = June 8, 2007-September 5.66667, 2009 = 820.66667 days of leniency. April 3.5, 2008, weight 1000 ÷ 820.66667 = 1.21852, ÷ 2 because it's only one piece of evidence split between whether it is for Iron Man or Iron Man 2, so 0.609260.
 * On page 66 of Empire Magazine's "Summer 2017" edition, Jon Watts said, "the eight-year-old Peter had seen Stark say, 'I am Iron Man,' on TV." He reaffirmed this 2 days before the U.S. release. Peter was 15 by June 24-27, 2016 in Civil War, so he has to have been born between June 28, 2000 and June 23, 2001. He is still "15" at the Skirmish on the Staten Island Ferry, and there is no hint of him having his birthday before the end of the film on September 26, 2016, so overall, Peter was definitely born in the region of September 27, 2000-June 23, 2001.
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: February 8.5, 2001 (middle of the possible dates for Peter's birth) + 8.5 years (if Peter were in the middle of the time when he was "8") = August 10, 2009.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: It comes from the director himself, but it is not as important as evidence directly from the films. Value: 100.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: Peter was born as early as possible, on September 27, 2000, and "I am Iron Man" was on the day he turned 8, so September 27, 2008.
 * Latest possible/realistic interpretation: Peter was born as late as possible, on June 23, 2001, and "I am Iron Man" was the day before he turned 9, so June 22, 2010.
 * September 27, 2008-June 22, 2010 = 633 days of leniency. August 10, 2009, weight 100 ÷ 633 = 0.15798.
 * Kevin Feige said that Peter Parker was 5 at "I am Iron Man" and 9 during the Battle of New York (1, 2). While this does not fit any dates, putting "I am Iron Man" c. 2006 and The Avengers c. 2010, the actual ages can be seen as just him not quite doing the math correctly on the spot (especially with Watts saying he was 8 during "I am Iron Man" which makes a lot more sense). However, it implies that 4 years span between "I am Iron Man" and the Battle of New York.
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: If Peter was "9".5 (halfway through the time he was "9") on May 4, 2012, he would be "5".5 (halfway through the time he was "5") on May 4, 2008.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Pretty reliable, as it comes from Feige himself, but not as important as evidence directly from the films. Value: 100.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: The Battle of New York is the day before Peter's "10th" birthday, making that birthday May 5, 2012, and "I am Iron Man" is the day of Peter's "5th" birthday, making that May 5, 2007.
 * Latest possible/realistic interpretation: The Battle of New York is the day of Peter's "9th" birthday, making that birthday May 4, 2012, and "I am Iron Man" is the day before Peter's "6th" birthday, making that May 3, 2009.
 * May 5, 2007-May 3, 2009 = 729 days of leniency. May 4, 2008, weight 100 ÷ 729 = 0.13717.
 * At the Apogee award scene in Iron Man, it can clearly be seen that Tony was on the front cover of a "Jan 2008" magazine, making the beginning of the film December 2007 at the earliest.
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: There is no particular ideal placement from this. If this were the only piece of evidence though, and you had to go on the slightest hunch, the ideal placement would be that this is only around a month after the magazine's release – they are showing a recent cover of him. This would place the scene around February 1, 2008, which would mean Tony's kidnapping is February 3, 2008, and "I am Iron Man", which the MCU timeline shows as being 9 months later, would be (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of month × 1] ÷ 3" rule) around November 7.16667, 2008.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Important. It is only a digital prop date, which is less important than dialogue, but it is reasonably clear and visible. Value: 75
 * Earliest possible interpretation: The earliest possible date for the Apogee scene is December 1, 2007 - if the magazine had just brought out their January 2008 issue, it is possible that this issue came out on December 1st, as this is sometimes how magazines are labelled. 2 days later is when Tony gets kidnapped, so December 3, 2007, and the MCU timeline shows that "I am Iron Man" is 9 months later. At the very earliest, this can be interpreted as rounded from 8½ months, so the very earliest "I am Iron Man" can be is August 19, 2008.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: The earliest realistic date for this scene is January 1, 2008. Two days later is when Tony gets kidnapped, so January 3, 2008, and the MCU timeline shows that "I am Iron Man" is 9 months later. At the realistic earliest, this can be interpreted as "January + 9 = October", so the earliest "I am Iron Man" can be is October 1, 2008.
 * Latest possible/realistic interpretation: No latest limit. Here, the logical latest limit is applied, in this case the latest limit of any evidence for the placement - the latest date "I am Iron Man" could possibly be according to all other evidence: December 31, 2010.
 * ((August 19, 2008 × 1 + October 1, 2008 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 31, 2010 = September 16.66667, 2008-December 31, 2010 = 835.33333 days of leniency. November 8.33333, 2009, weight 75 ÷ 835.33333 = 0.08978.
 * In Melinda, it is shown that the Rescue in Bahrain was 7 years before the very firm date in April 2015, reasoned as April 21, 2015, which puts it around 2008. In the flashback, the "Avenger Initiative" is only just starting, looking for superpowered people, and it is clearly before Iron Man appears on the scene - and Fury had Coulson on the job of finding Stark from when he was kidnapped, so this is before Stark's capture. This is corroborated by the fact that the Framework's main changes stemmed from the "Cambridge Incident" not long after the rescue, and with the new timeline changing from before the beginning of Iron Man, this would make sense for why the events of the film seem not to have occurred, at least not in the same way, in that reality.
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: There is no particular ideal placement from this. Here, the middle of the earliest and latest limits is then applied: (August 22, 2008 + December 31, 2010) ÷ 2 = October 26.5, 2009.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Pretty valuable because its source is an on-screen timespan, however, the evidence for Iron Man is only based off of a strong assumption from this. Value: 50.
 * Earliest possible interpretation: The earliest possible date for the rescue is just under 7½ years before April 21, 2015, rounded, so October 22, 2007. Therefore, the earliest possible date for Stark's capture is October 23, 2007. The MCU timeline shows that "I am Iron Man" is 9 months later. At the very earliest, this can be interpreted as "October 2007 + 9 = July 2008", so the very earliest "I am Iron Man" can be is July 1, 2008.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: The earliest realistic date for the rescue is by "2015 - 8 = 2008", so January 1, 2008. Therefore, the earliest possible date for Stark's capture is January 2, 2008. The MCU timeline shows that "I am Iron Man" is 9 months later. At the very earliest, this can be interpreted as rounded up from 8½ months, so the very earliest "I am Iron Man" can be is September 18, 2008.
 * Latest possible/realistic interpretation: No latest limit. Here, the logical latest limit is applied, in this case the latest limit of any evidence for the placement - the latest date "I am Iron Man" could possibly be according to all other evidence: December 31, 2010.
 * ((July 1, 2008 × 1 + September 18, 2008 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 31, 2010 = August 22.66667, 2008-December 31, 2010 = 860.33333 days of leniency. October 26.5, 2009, weight 50 ÷ 860.33333 = 0.05812.
 * The MCU follows a general real-time policy, set, where possible, as close to the release date as possible.
 * Where does this place "I am Iron Man", ideally?: Iron Man came out on May 2, 2008. The middle of the film is the test flight with the icing problem, 10 days (as calculated later) before "I am Iron Man", which would put that around May 12, 2008. The Incredible Hulk came out on June 13, 2008, and the middle of the film is FBW Day 5, putting FBW Day 1 around June 9, 2008. 185 days (the span between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, worked out later) earlier is December 7, 2007. Iron Man 2 came out on May 7, 2010, and the middle of the film is FBW Day 1. 185 days earlier is November 3, 2009. Thor came out on May 6, 2011 and the middle of the film is FBW Day 4, putting FBW Day 1 around May 3, 2011. 185 days earlier is October 30, 2010. Captain America: The First Avenger came out on July 22, 2011, and the middle of the film is between the modern day bookends of Steve being found and Steve waking up, putting it around the day between the two. Therefore, this would put him being found on July 21, 2011, which is said in the Fury's Big Week comic to be a year after FBW Day 7, so FBW Day 7 would be around July 21, 2010, and FBW Day 1 would be July 15, 2010. 185 days earlier is January 11, 2010. (May 12, 2008 + December 7, 2007 + November 3, 2009 + October 30, 2010 + January 11, 2010) ÷ 5 = May 25.6, 2009.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Not evidence per se, just a need for real time adherence where possible. Value: 0.5.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: Iron Man would put "I am Iron Man" around May 12, 2008. The Incredible Hulk would put "I am Iron Man" around December 7, 2007. Iron Man 2 would put FBW Day 1 around November 3, 2009. Thor would put FBW Day 1 around October 30, 2010. Captain America: The First Avenger would put him being found on July 21, 2011, which is said in the Fury's Big Week comic to be a year after FBW Day 7, so FBW Day 7 at the earliest would be "2011 - 1 = 2010", the earliest being January 1, 2010, and so FBW Day 1 would be December 26, 2009. 185 days earlier would be July 24, 2009. (May 12, 2008 + December 7, 2007 + November 3, 2009 + October 30, 2010 + July 24, 2009) ÷ 5 = April 21.2, 2009.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: Iron Man would put "I am Iron Man" around May 12, 2008. The Incredible Hulk would put "I am Iron Man" around December 7, 2007. Iron Man 2 would put FBW Day 1 around November 3, 2009. Thor would put FBW Day 1 around October 30, 2010. Captain America: The First Avenger would put him being found on July 21, 2011, which is said in the Fury's Big Week comic to be a year after FBW Day 7, so FBW Day 7 at the realistic latest would be ¾ year earlier, October 21, 2010, and so FBW Day 1 would be October 15, 2010. 185 days earlier would be April 13, 2010. (May 12, 2008 + December 7, 2007 + November 3, 2009 + October 30, 2010 + April 13, 2010) ÷ 5 = June 13, 2009.
 * Latest possible interpretation: Iron Man would put "I am Iron Man" around May 12, 2008. The Incredible Hulk would put "I am Iron Man" around December 7, 2007. Iron Man 2 would put FBW Day 1 around November 3, 2009. Thor would put FBW Day 1 around October 30, 2010. Captain America: The First Avenger would put him being found on July 21, 2011, which is said in the Fury's Big Week comic to be a year after FBW Day 7, so FBW Day 7 at the absolute latest would be ⅔ year earlier, November 21, 2010, and so FBW Day 1 would be November 15, 2010. 185 days earlier would be April 13, 2010. (May 12, 2008 + December 7, 2007 + November 3, 2009 + October 30, 2010 + May 14, 2010) ÷ 5 = June 19.2, 2009.
 * April 21.2, 2009-((June 13, 2009 × 2 + June 19.2, 2009 × 1) ÷ 3) = April 21.2, 2009-June 15.06667, 2009 = 54.86667 days. May 25.6, 2009, weight 0.5 ÷ 54.86667 = 0.00911.

Overall Result
(June 23.83333, 2008 × 1.81378 + November 8.83333, 2008 × 1.65441 + June 25.33333, 2010 × 1.36116 + May 11.66667, 2010 × 1.28315 + April 13, 2009 × 1.23865 + April 21, 2009 × 1.23558 + April 3.5, 2008 × 0.60926 + August 10, 2009 × 0.15798 + May 4, 2008 × 0.13717 + November 8.33333, 2009 × 0.08978 + October 26.5, 2009 × 0.05812 + May 25.6, 2009 × 0.00911) ÷ (1.81378 + 1.65441 + 1.36116 + 1.28315 + 1.23865 + 1.23558 + 0.60926 + 0.15798 + 0.13717 + 0.08978 + 0.05812 + 0.00911) = April 22.56742, 2009. Ignoring the timespan between this and Fury's Big Week (as well as the internal specifics of the dates), "I am Iron Man" places itself around April 23.08054, 2009 to generally satisfy all the evidence, with a combined weight of evidence of 9.64815.

Other Notes

 * On the 2010 page, the Time Magazine Person of the Year description is actually that of 2009. I don't know where that information comes from (other than just the fact that it is shown that he was Person of the Year between Iron Man and Iron Man 2), but this fits though with "I am Iron Man" before December 2009.
 * There is an article currently on the 2010 page about Tony Stark being Iron Man which is dated as April 30, 2010. I am fairly sure it is fan-made, but either way, it does not make sense where it is currently, contradicting a late 2010 placement for "I am Iron Man".

Fury's Big Week (Devoid of Timespans Since Iron Man and Before The Avengers)
The Fury's Big Week comic details how the main events of Iron Man 2, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk are linked. The MCU timeline details Fury's Big Week in the same way, and this lines up with the films exactly. There is no denying Fury's Big Week is an interconnected week with the second half of Iron Man 2, the events of Thor, and the second half of The Incredible Hulk.

It has to be mentioned beforehand that Iron Man 2 cannot, as would be ideal, span a year, for these reasons:
 * On the day Pepper is hired, it is shown clearly that there is "362 days remaining" of the Stark Expo. On the day of the Battle at Stark Expo, FBW Day 3, that there is "343 days remaining". These days also appear in the comic adaptation. This puts 19 days between these dates, meaning the only possible gap could be put between the senate meeting and Pepper's hiring. And this gap cannot really be more than a few days because:
 * a) It definitely does not seem like it could possibly be more than a few days, as it is the first time Tony has been home since the expo opening and senate hearing.
 * b) The Expo is said to only be a year long, and with "362 days remaining" on the day of Pepper's hiring, this puts it likely only a few days after the opening.
 * c) The Monaco incident, which is after Pepper's hiring, is shown on the MCU timeline to be 6 months after "I am Iron Man". The senate meeting is also said to be 6 months after "I am Iron Man", and the Expo opening is shown to be at least 6 months after "I am Iron Man", so the Monaco incident is definitely within a month of the Expo opening.
 * d) On the day of Monaco, Pepper says that Tony slept with Christine "last year", meaning it is still the year after the beginning of Iron Man.
 * e) The The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic shows that the ice problem test flight is on, or after MVII Day 1. It shows that Monaco is between MVII Day 189 and MVII Day 199, and the Battle at Stark Expo in Fury's Big Week is before MVII Day 199. This means that the end of Iron Man 2 is just over 6 months max. after, still the same month as the beginning. Even if this were considered non-canon, the other evidence still backs it up.
 * f) The rate at which Tony's palladium poisoning is increasing means that the film cannot realistically span more than a few weeks.

List of Evidence
STARK EXPO: MAY 7, 2010 ROSS AND SAMSON: BANNER ON THE RUN FOR 5 YEARS DARCY: GONE FOR 2 YEARS IRON MAN 2: 05.06.10 IRON MAN 2: GRAND PRIX DE MONACO HISTORIQUE BLONSKY: 39 YEARS OLD CAPTAIN AMERICA: ASLEEP FOR 65-70 YEARS HAPPY: 2008 RING STARK CEO: 2010 REAL TIME: WHAT FITS BEST?
 * On the Stark Expo website, it stated that the "Stark Expo 2010" would begin on "May 7, 2010", along with tie-in videos leading up to it with specific dates of April 2010.
 * Where does this place Day 1, ideally?: If the expo began on May 7, 2010, and is said to be a year long, this would imply that there are 365 days remaining, depending on how it is counted, and how exact the "year" is. This would suggest the scene where Tony hires Pepper, when there are "362 days remaining", would be 3 days later, on May 10th. 3 days later makes sense, as it is implied to be not much more than a day after the senate hearing, which is the day after the opening. The video has gone up and just gone viral, indeed putting it about 2 days after the senate, 3 days after the opening. This would then put the "343 days remaining", which is on FBW Day 3, 19 days later, on May 29th. Therefore, FBW Day 1 would be May 27, 2010.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Official marketing campaign which was at the least originally intended to be canon, like the WHiH and Rising Tide videos. However, if necessary, it can be considered not strictly canon, and it would be overruled if contradicted in more important things like the films. Value: 50.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: The expo is running for 365 days including the first day, and so Pepper's hiring is actually 2 days later, the evening of the day after the senate hearing, so May 9th. + 19 and - 2 again = May 26, 2010.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: There is a few days before Tony returns home, maximum realistically of 4, putting it 5 days after the Expo opens. This would mean there is an opening day, 365 days of normal Expo, then the closing day, plus counting inclusively (ie. on closing day it says "1 day remaining"), meaning there is "367 days remaining" on May 7th, and thus 5 days later on the 12th, "362 days remaining". + 19 and - 2 again = May 29, 2010.
 * Latest possible interpretation: Tony takes a fortnight (absolute maximum considering the Monaco incident is still considered 6 months after "I am Iron Man" on the MCU timeline, like the beginning of the film - and even then, it makes the "one year" a weird year-and-a-fortnight) to return home, returning 15 days after the opening, on May 22nd, and + 19 and - 2 again is June 8, 2010.
 * May 26, 2010-(May 29, 2010 × 2 + June 8, 2010 × 1) ÷ 3) = May 26, 2010-June 1.33333, 2010 = 6.33333 days of leniency. May 27, 2010, weight 50 ÷ 6.33333 = 7.89474.
 * On FBW Day 6, Ross says, "He made it 5 years." In a deleted scene, Samson also says, "You don't drop your career and disappear off the face of the Earth for 5 years just because you have an anger management issue." While one alone might seem like it can be interpreted as not exactly referring to since Bruce went on the run, 3 days after his experiment, both together make it clear that it has been 5 years since he left, leaving Betty. The date of his experiment is given in the The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture comic as April 16, 2005, which fits with the evidence from the film, and the day he leaves is 3 days later, April 19, 2005.
 * Where does this place Day 1, ideally?: April 19, 2005 + 5 years (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = May 13.66667, 2010 for FBW Day 5, so May 9.66667, 2010 for FBW Day 1.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Together they amount to a piece of direct dialogue. Value: 1000.
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Rounding up from 4½ years, April 16, 2005 + 4½ years = October 16, 2009 for FBW Day 5, so FBW Day 1 would be October 12, 2009.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: Counting in simple terms of "2005 + 5 = 2010", the earliest realistically would be January 1, 2010 for FBW Day 5, so FBW Day 1 would be December 28, 2009.
 * Latest possible/realistic interpretation: Counting in simple terms of "2005 + 5 = 2010", the latest would be December 31, 2010 for FBW Day 5, so FBW Day 1 would be December 27, 2010.
 * (October 12, 2009 × 1 + December 28, 2009 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 27, 2010 = December 2.33333, 2009-December 27, 2010 = 389.66667 days of leniency. May 7.66667, 2010, weight 1000 ÷ 389.66667 = 2.56630.
 * In Thor: The Dark World, Darcy says, "He's gonna come back. Except, you know, last time he was gone for like, 2 years." The date Thor returns is pretty firmly November 11, 2013.
 * Where does this place Day 1, ideally?: November 11, 2013 - 2 years (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = September 28, 2011. Thor leaves on FBW Day 5, so this would put FBW Day 1 around September 24, 2011.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Direct dialogue from a film. Value: 1000.
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Darcy is referring to "last time he left you, it was 2 years before he returned to Earth", in The Avengers, and the 2 is rounded from just under 2½ years. May 4, 2012 - just under 2½ = November 5, 2009.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: Darcy is referring to it being 2 years since the events of Thor. At a maximum, she is counting as "2013 - 2 = 2011", which would give January 1, 2011 - although this is too long really for "2 years", nearly 3. The realistic maximum for "2 years" is 2⅔ years. November 11, 2013 - 2⅔ years = February 11, 2011 for FBW Day 5. From this, FBW Day 1 would be February 7, 2011.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: Darcy is referring to it being 2 years since the events of Thor. At a realistic minimum, she is counting as "2013 - 2 = 2011", which would give December 31, 2011 for FBW Day 5. From this, FBW Day 1 would be December 27, 2011.
 * Latest possible interpretation: Darcy is referring to "last time he left Earth, it was 2 years before he returned," so no latest limit for Fury's Big Week. Here, the logical latest limit is applied, in this case the latest limit of any evidence for the placement - the latest date FBW Day 1 could possibly be according to all other evidence: December 27, 2011.
 * (November 4, 2009 × 1 + February 7, 2011 × 2) ÷ 3)-December 27, 2011 = September 6.66667, 2010-December 27, 2011 = 476.33333 days of leniency. September 24, 2011, weight 1000 ÷ 476.33333 = 2.09937.
 * In Iron Man 2, a "05.06.10" (May 6, 2010) date is shown on-screen when Rhodey visits Tony the day after Monaco (specifically stated that the grand prix was "yesterday").
 * Where does this place Day 1, ideally?: The implication from the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic is that Tony left for Monaco on MVII Day 189, putting Monaco on MVII Day 190, and then 2 days (the phrasing doesn't suggest it was only yesterday) after FBW Day 3 is MVII Day 199, putting FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 195. With the "05.06.10" date on the day after Monaco, MVII Day 191, this puts FBW Day 1 4 days later on May 10, 2010.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: The digital prop is visible enough, but not blatant, and can be missed. Value: 10.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: The closest to Fury's Big Week that Monaco could be is the day before FBW Day 1, putting the "05.06.10" date, the day after Monaco, on FBW Day 1 - May 6, 2010.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: The very earliest Monaco can be in its limits is the day after MVII Day 189, so MVII Day 190. The earliest that MVII Day 199 can realistically be, to put as big of a gap between Monaco and FBW Day 1 as possible, is the day after FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 4 on MVII Day 199, therefore FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 196, 6 days after this date's appearance, on May 12, 2010.
 * Latest possible interpretation: The very earliest Monaco can be in its limits is the day after MVII Day 189, so MVII Day 190. The very earliest that MVII Day 199 can be. to put as big of a gap between Monaco and FBW Day 1 as possible, is the night of FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 3 on MVII Day 199, therefore FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 197, 7 days after this date's appearance, on May 13, 2010.
 * May 6, 2010-(May 12, 2010 × 2 + May 13, 2010 × 1) ÷ 3) = May 6, 2010-May 12.33333, 2010 = 6.33333 days of leniency. May 10, 2010, weight 10 ÷ 6.33333 = 1.57895.
 * In Iron Man 2, the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique appears. This is a biannual event on even-numbered years, so did not happen in 2009 or 2011, the only other real potential years for Fury's Big Week, but did happen in 2010, on May 1st-2nd.
 * Where does this place Day 1, ideally?: The implication from the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic is that Tony left for Monaco on MVII Day 189, putting Monaco on MVII Day 190, and then 2 days (the phrasing doesn't suggest it was only yesterday) after FBW Day 3 is MVII Day 199, putting FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 195. With the rough May 1.5, 2010 date for Monaco, MVII Day 190, this puts FBW Day 1 5 days later around May 6.5, 2010.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: The Marvel Cinematic Universe is technically a different, albeit fictional, universe to ours. Because of this, dates such as the Monaco Grand Prix de Historique are not necessarily the same in that universe. However, ideally, they still would be. Value: 10.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: The closest that Monaco could be to Fury's Big Week is the day before FBW Day 1. The earliest of the two possible Monaco dates is May 1st, putting FBW Day 1 on May 2, 2010.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: The very earliest Monaco can be in its limits is the day after MVII Day 189, so MVII Day 190, and the latest date it can be is May 2nd. The earliest that MVII Day 199 can realistically be, to put as big of a gap between Monaco and FBW Day 1 as possible, is the day after FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 4 on MVII Day 199, therefore FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 196, 6 days after Monaco, on May 8, 2010.
 * Latest possible interpretation: The very earliest Monaco can be in its constraints is the day after MVII Day 189, so MVII Day 190, and the latest date it can be is May 2nd. The very earliest that MVII Day 199 can be to put as big of a gap between Monaco and FBW Day 1 as possible is the night of FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 3 on MVII Day 199, therefore FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 197, 7 days after Monaco, on ''May 9, 2010'.
 * May 2, 2010-(May 8, 2010 × 2 + May 9, 2010 × 1) ÷ 3) = May 2, 2010-May 8.33333, 2010 = 6.33333 days. May 6.5, 2010, weight 10 ÷ 6.33333 = 1.57895.
 * In The Incredible Hulk, Blonsky says that he is "39", and according to many sources - though I myself have not yet found it - in an extended/deleted scene from the film, it is said that Blonsky was born on March 1, 1971.
 * Where does this place Day 1, ideally?: The middle of Blonsky being 39, when he was 39.5, is August 30.5, 2010. The scene is in between the "1 day without incident" and "17 days without incident" scenes - and the 17 is on FBW Day 3. It is the fourth of four scenes between these two scenes, so it is said on roughly ((17 - 1) ÷ 5) × 4 + 1 = 13.8 days without incident. If this is August 30.5, 2010, then FBW Day 3 is 17 - 13.8 = 3.2 days later, September 2.7, so FBW Day 1 is about August 31.7, 2010.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: The 39 is very reliable, as it is direct dialogue. However, the birthday itself is only dialogue (I believe) from a deleted scene, and thus should have a quarter of the value. Value: 1000 ÷ 4 = 250.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: The earliest date of Blonsky being 39 is March 1, 2010. The scene is in between the "1 day without incident" and "17 days without incident" scenes - and the 17 is on FBW Day 3. The latest it can be is the 17 days without incident, so FBW Day 3 would be March 1, 2010, meaning Day 1 is, at the earliest, February 27, 2010.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: The latest date of Blonsky being 39 is February 28, 2011. The scene is in between the "1 day without incident" and "17 days without incident" scenes - and the 17 is on FBW Day 3. The earliest it can be is 3 days without incident, with Bruce having time to travel to Mexico first, so if that were February 28, 2011, 17 days without incident would be + 14, March 14, 2011. If FBW Day 3 were March 14, 2011, this would make FBW Day 1, at the latest, March 12, 2011.
 * February 27, 2010-March 12, 2011 = 378 days of leniency. August 31.7, 2010, weight 250 ÷ 378 = 0.66138.
 * In Captain America: The First Avenger, it is said that Steve has been asleep for "almost 70 years". In The Avengers, Steve says, "I slept for 70 years." The 70 can easily be simply interpreted as a rounded decade, and this is corroborated by what he says in Spider-Man: Homecoming, "slept for 65 years." This is more specific than the 70, so overall it can be taken that he slept for around 66¾ years, to best fit these statements as a whole.
 * Where does this place FBW Day 1, ideally?: In the Fury's Big Week comic, it is shown that Steve is found one year after FBW Day 7. He wakes 2 days later. If he slept for 66¾ years, that would put him waking around March 4, 1945 + 66¾ years = December 4, 2011, therefore putting him being found around December 2, 2011, and thus FBW Day 7 would be around December 2, 2010. From this, FBW Day 1 would be around November 26, 2010.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Direct dialogue from the films for Steve, though the "one year later" comes from a 100% canon comic, which is very important, but not as much as direct dialogue. Value: 300
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Steve slept for 65¾ years, absolute minimum, so he would wake around March 4, 1945 + 65¾ years = December 4, 2010, which would put him being found around December 2nd. The longest possible interpretation of the "one year" is counting as "2010 - 1 = 2009", which would imply January 1, 2009 as the longest possible. However, for one year, this is unrealistic, with the absolute maximum for 1 year really being 1½ years, then FBW Day 7 around December 2, 2010 - 1½ years = June 2, 2009, and FBW Day 1 would be around May 27, 2009.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: Steve slept for 66¼ years at a realistic minimum, so he would wake around March 4, 1945 + 66¼ years = June 4, 2011, which would put him being found around June 2nd. The longest realistic interpretation of the "one year" is "2011 - 1 = 2010", though really the realistic maximum of 1 year is 1⅓ years, so June 2, 2011 - 1⅓ years = February 2, 2010 at the earliest for FBW Day 7. This would put FBW Day 1 around January 27, 2010.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: Steve slept for 67 years at a realistic maximum, so he would wake around March 4, 1945 + 67 years = March 4, 2012, which would put him being found around March 2nd. The shortest realistic interpretation of the "one year" is then "2012 - 1 = 2011", then FBW Day 7 around January 1, 2011, and so FBW Day 1 around December 26, 2010.
 * Latest possible interpretation: Steve slept for 67¼ years, absolute maximum, so he would wake around March 4, 1945 + 67¼ years = June 4, 2012, which would put him being found around June 2nd. The shortest possible interpretation of the "one year" is ⅔ year, then FBW Day 7 around June 2, 2012 - ⅔ year = October 2, 2011, and FBW Day 1 around September 26, 2011.
 * ((May 27, 2009 × 1 + January 27, 2010 × 2) ÷ 3)-((December 26, 2010 × 2 + September 26, 2011 × 1) ÷ 3) = November 6.33333, 2009-March 27.33333, 2011 = 506 days of leniency. November 26, 2010, weight 300 ÷ 506 = 0.59289.
 * Spider-Man: Homecoming has a major timeline error with its "8 years". It is not reconcilable. However, even if this is ignored, it is a definite sign at the very least that the MCU has been spanning more than 6 years at this point overall, even if The Avengers is only 4 years before. Happy Hogan also mentions that he has had the ring on him since 2008, which implies that he's had it since Iron Man (when Tony started to show romantic interest in Pepper) or Iron Man 2 (when they started dating).
 * Where does this place FBW Day 1, ideally?: It is unclear when it is referring to, so the best date to apply to this is simply the middle between the date Tony and Pepper dance together (9 days before "I am Iron Man", as explained later) and the date they get together (FBW Day 3). It is later calculated that there is approximately 185 days between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, so + 9 and + 2 would give 196 days between those two Pepper dates. The middle of 2008 was July 1.5, 2008, so if this is the date in the 98th day after they dance, the middle of these two dates, the day when they get together would be October 7.5, 2008. 2 days earlier would put FBW Day 1 around October 5.5, 2008.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very reliable, as it is direct dialogue. Value: 1000.
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Happy got the ring a while after they started dating, which would mean no earliest limit. Here, the logical earliest limit is applied, in this case the earliest limit of any evidence for the placement - the latest date FBW Day 1 could possibly be according to all other evidence: December 27, 2007.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: It refers to Iron Man 2, and Happy has had the ring since a few days after FBW Day 3, and that day is January 1, 2008. This would put FBW Day 3 around December 29, 2007, and FBW Day 1 around December 27, 2007.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: It refers to Iron Man, and Happy has had the ring since the day after Pepper and Tony danced together. With this at the latest possible December 31, 2008, the day of them dancing would be December 30th, and thus 9 days later would put "I am Iron Man" at January 8, 2009. 185 days later would put FBW Day 1 at July 12, 2009.
 * Latest possible interpretation: Happy got the ring when he spotted chemistry between the two before they started dating, or just generally got it for whoever Tony would eventually marry - or even got it to try to get Tony to find a long-term partner in a time when he was very casual with relationships. Any of this would mean no latest limit. Here, the logical latest limit is applied, in this case the latest limit of any evidence for the placement - the latest date FBW Day 1 could possibly be according to all other evidence: December 27, 2011.
 * December 27, 2007-((July 12, 2009 × 2 + December 27, 2011 × 1) ÷ 3) = December 27, 2007-May 7.33333, 2010 = 862.33333 days of leniency. October 5.5, 2008, weight 1000 ÷ 862.33333 = 1.15964437, ÷ 2 because it's only one piece of evidence split between whether it is for Iron Man or Iron Man 2, so 0.57982.
 * In a deleted scene from The Avengers, as well as on display at a public event, it is shown that Tony was CEO at Stark Industries from "1992-2010". On the day when Tony transfers power to Pepper (he mentions it's "effective immediately"), there are 362 days remaining of the expo, and on FBW Day 3, the day of the Battle at Stark Expo, there are 343 days remaining, thereby putting 19 days between these two dates, and 17 before FBW Day 1.
 * Where does this place Day 1, ideally?: The middle of 2010 for the day Stark hands over power, July 2, 2010, + 17 days for FBW Day 1 = July 19, 2010.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: The prop is mildly visible, but is from a deleted scene, so ÷ 4 is 6.25. However, being on display adds another 50, as it is officially released, albeit still just being a prop used for the film that could be incorrect. Value: 56.25.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: The beginning of 2010 for the day Stark hands over power, January 1, 2010, + 17 days for FBW Day 1 = January 18, 2010.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: The end of 2010 for the day Stark hands over power, December 31, 2010, + 17 days for FBW Day 1 = January 17, 2011.
 * January 18, 2010-January 17, 2011 = 364 days of leniency. July 19, 2010, weight 56.25 ÷ 364 = 0.15453.
 * The MCU follows a general real-time policy, set, where possible, as close to the release date as possible.
 * Where does this place Day 1, ideally?: Iron Man came out on May 2, 2008. The middle of the film is the test flight with the icing problem, 10 days (see later) before "I am Iron Man", which would put that around May 12, 2008. 185 days (the span between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, see later) later is November 13, 2008 for FBW Day 1. The Incredible Hulk came out on June 13, 2008, and the middle of the film is FBW Day 5, putting FBW Day 1 around June 9, 2008. Iron Man 2 came out on May 7, 2010, and the middle of the film is FBW Day 1. Thor came out on May 6, 2011 and the middle of the film is FBW Day 4, putting Day 1 around May 3, 2011. Captain America: The First Avenger came out on July 22, 2011, and the middle of the film is between the modern day bookends of Steve being found and Steve waking up, putting it around the day between the two. Therefore, this would put him being found on July 21, 2011, which is said in the Fury's Big Week comic to be a year after FBW Day 7, so FBW Day 7 would be around July 21, 2010, and FBW Day 1 would be July 15, 2010. (November 13, 2008 + June 9, 2008 + May 7, 2010 + May 3, 2011 + July 21, 2010) ÷ 5 = November 27.8, 2009.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Not evidence per se, just a need for real time adherence where possible. Value: 0.5.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: Iron Man would put FBW Day 1 around November 13, 2008. The Incredible Hulk would put FBW Day 1 around June 9, 2008. Iron Man 2 would put FBW Day 1 around May 7, 2010. Thor would put FBW Day 1 around May 3, 2011. Captain America: The First Avenger would put him being found on July 21, 2011, which is said in the Fury's Big Week comic to be a year after Day 7, so Day 7 at the earliest possible would be "2011 - 1 = 2010", the earliest being January 1, 2010, and so FBW Day 1 would be December 26, 2009. (November 13, 2008 + June 9, 2008 + May 7, 2010 + May 3, 2011 + December 26, 2009) ÷ 5 = October 11.4, 2009.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: Iron Man would put FBW Day 1 around November 13, 2008. The Incredible Hulk would put FBW Day 1 around June 9, 2008. Iron Man 2 would put FBW Day 1 around May 7, 2010. Thor would put FBW Day 1 around May 3, 2011. Captain America: The First Avenger would put him being found on July 21, 2011, which is said in the Fury's Big Week comic to be a year after Day 7, so Day 7 at the latest would be ¾ year earlier, October 21, 2010, and so FBW Day 1 would be October 15, 2010. (November 13, 2008 + June 9, 2008 + May 7, 2010 + May 3, 2011 + October 15, 2010) ÷ 5 = December 15, 2009.
 * October 11.4, 2009-December 15, 2009 = 64.6 days of leniency. November 27.8, 2009, weight 0.5 ÷ 64.6 = 0.00774.

Overall Result
(May 27, 2010 × 7.89474 + May 7.66667, 2010 × 2.56630 + September 24, 2011 × 2.09937 + May 10, 2010 × 1.57895 + May 6.5, 2010 × 1.57895 + August 31.7, 2010 × 0.66138 + November 26, 2010 × 0.59289 + October 5.5, 2008 × 0.57982 + July 19, 2010 × 0.15453 + November 27.8, 2009 × 0.00774) ÷ (7.89474 + 2.56630 + 2.09937 + 1.57895 + 1.57895 + 0.66138 + 0.59289 + 0.57982 +0.15453 + 0.00774) = July 7.86339, 2010. Ignoring the timespan between "I am Iron Man" and this, and this and The Avengers (as well as the internal specifics of the dates), FBW Day 1 places itself around July 7.86339, 2010, with a combined weight of evidence of 17.71467.

Other Notes

 * On the 2010 page, the Time Magazine Person of the Year description is actually that of 2009. I don't know where that information comes from (other than just the fact that it is shown that he was Person of the Year between Iron Man and Iron Man 2. This fits though with "I am Iron Man" before December 2009.
 * I hope to one day find the Blonsky March 1, 1971 date of birth. I have included it because I've seen it in multiple places, but I'd like to see it for myself. I have scoured YouTube deleted scenes and not found it yet.

List of Evidence
HAMMER: 6 MONTHS MCU TIMELINE: RIO 6 MONTHS MCU TIMELINE: MONACO 6 MONTHS IRON MAN 2: 6 MONTHS LATER PEPPER: CHRISTINE LAST YEAR THE AVENGERS: IRON MAN MARK VII JON FAVREAU: 6 MONTHS
 * In Iron Man 2, Justin Hammer says, "We all know why we're here. In the last 6 months, Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities." This clearly presents 6 months as the timespan between "I am Iron Man" and the hearing, which is a few weeks before FBW Day 1.
 * How many days does this imply between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, ideally?: 6 months (approximately 182.5 days) + 19 days (the expo is said to be a year long, this would imply that there are 365 days remaining, depending on how it is counted, and how exact the year is. This would suggest the scene where Tony hires Pepper, when there are "362 days remaining", would be 3 days later. 3 days later makes sense, as it is implied to be not much more than a day after the senate hearing, which is the day after the opening. The video has gone up and just gone viral, indeed putting it about 2 days after the senate, 3 days after the opening. This would then put the "343 days remaining", on FBW Day 3, 19 days later, 21 days after the senate. This would then mean that FBW Day 1 is 19 days after the senate meeting) = 201.5 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Direct piece of dialogue. Value: 1000.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: Hammer is counting from the end of one month to the beginning of the sixth month after that (like November + 6 months = May, allowing a shortest interpretation of November 30th to May 1st), approximately 152 days, + 18 days (the expo is running for 365 days including the first day, and so Pepper's hiring is actually 2 days later, the evening on the day after the senate hearing. + 19 days to FBW Day 3, so 20 days from the senate to FBW Day 3, therefore 18 days to FBW Day 1) = 170 days.
 * Longest realistic interpretation: Hammer is counting from the beginning of one month to the end of the sixth month after that (like November + 6 months = May, allowing a longest interpretation of November 1st to May 31st), approximately 211 days, + 21 days (there is a few days before Tony returns home, maximum realistically of 4, putting it 5 days after the Expo opens. This would mean there is an opening day, 365 days of normal Expo, then the closing day, plus counting inclusively (ie. on closing day it says "1 day remaining"), meaning there is "367 days remaining" on the opening day, and thus 5 days later, 4 days after the senate, "362 days remaining". + 19 days to FBW Day 3 is 23 days after the senate, - 2 days to then get to FBW Day 1 again = 21 days) = 232 days.
 * Longest possible interpretation: Hammer is counting from the beginning of one month to the end of the sixth month after that (like November + 6 months = May, allowing a longest interpretation of November 1st to May 31st), approximately 211 days, + 31 days (Tony takes a fortnight (absolute maximum considering the Monaco incident is still considered 6 months after "I am Iron Man" on the MCU timeline, like the beginning of the film - and even then, it makes the "one year" a weird year-and-a-fortnight) to return home, returning 14 days after the senate, and + 19 - 2 again is 31 days) = 242 days.
 * 170 days-(232 days × 2 + 242 days × 1) ÷ 3) = 170 days-235.33333 days = 65.33333 days of leniency. 201.5 days, weight 1000 ÷ 65.33333 = 15.30612.
 * On the MCU timeline, it shows 6 months as the timespan between "I am Iron Man" and the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro, which is 17 days before FBW Day 3, when Bruce arrives at Culver University, and it is shown to be "17 days without incident".
 * How many days does this imply between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, ideally?: 6 months (approximately 182.5 days) + 17 days to FBW Day 3, - 2 days to FBW Day 1 = 197.5 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very important, not as much as dialogue directly from a film, but an officially released timeline. Value: 500.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: The 6 months is counting from the end of one month to the beginning of the sixth month after that (like November + 6 months = May, allowing a shortest interpretation of November 30th to May 1st), approximately 152 days, + 17 - 2 = 167 days.
 * Longest realistic/possible interpretation: The 6 months is counting from the beginning of one month to the end of the sixth month after that (like November + 6 months = May, allowing a longest interpretation of November 1st to May 31st), approximately 211 days, + 17 - 2 = 226 days.
 * 167 days-226 days = 59 days of leniency. 197.5 days, weight 500 ÷ 59 = 8.47458.
 * On the MCU timeline, it shows 6 months as the timespan between "I am Iron Man" and the Duel of Monaco, which is 1-7 days before FBW Day 1.
 * How many days does this imply between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, ideally?: 6 months (approximately 182.5 days) + 5 days (the implication from the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic is that Tony left for Monaco on MVII Day 189, putting Monaco on MVII Day 190, and then 2 days (the phrasing doesn't suggest only yesterday) after FBW Day 3 is MVII Day 199, putting FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 195. This puts FBW Day 1 about 5 days after Monaco) = 187.5 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Very important, not as much as dialogue directly from a film, but an officially released timeline. Value: 500.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: The 6 months is counting from the end of one month to the beginning of the sixth month after that (like November + 6 months = May, allowing a shortest interpretation of November 30th to May 1st), approximately 152 days, + 1 day (the earliest that Monaco could realistically be is the day before FBW Day 1, putting FBW Day 1 1 day later) = 153 days.
 * Longest realistic interpretation: The 6 months is counting from the beginning of one month to the end of the sixth month after that (like November + 6 months = May, allowing a longest interpretation of November 1st to May 31st), approximately 211 days, + 6 days (the very earliest Monaco can be in its limits is the day after MVII Day 189, so MVII Day 190. The earliest that MVII Day 199 can realistically be, to put as big of a gap between Monaco and FBW Day 1, is the day after FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 4 on MVII Day 199, therefore FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 196, 6 days after Monaco) = 217 days.
 * Longest possible interpretation: The 6 months is counting from the beginning of one month to the end of the sixth month after that (like November + 6 months = May, allowing a longest interpretation of November 1st to May 31st), approximately 211 days, + 7 days (the very earliest Monaco can be in its limits is the day after MVII Day 189, so MVII Day 190. The very earliest that MVII Day 199 can be to put as big of a gap between Monaco and FBW Day 1 is the night of FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 3 on MVII Day 199, therefore FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 197, 7 days after Monaco) = 218 days.
 * 153 days-(217 days × 2 + 218 days × 1) ÷ 3) = 153 days-217.33333 days = 64.33333 days of leniency. 187.5 days, weight 500 ÷ 64.33333 = 7.77202.
 * The beginning of Iron Man 2 shows "I am Iron Man" taking place. It then shows a montage of Ivan Vanko working on his whiplash technology, and then cuts to the opening of the Stark Expo, with the on-screen text saying "6 months later".
 * How many days does this imply between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, ideally?: It is unclear what the time reference is from, looking at this alone: whether it is supposed to imply 6 months since "I am Iron Man", or 6 months from the last we see of Vanko's work. There is therefore no ideal number of days. A very rough best suggestion would be that Vanko's work took around a month, so if it were 6 months after that, it would be 7 months after "I am Iron Man". If it is referring to since "I am Iron Man", then it is only 6. Therefore, 6½ months is the rough ideal length from "I am Iron Man" to the opening of Stark Expo. 6½ months (approximately 197.70833 days) + 20 days (the expo is said to be a year long, this would imply that there are 365 days remaining, depending on how it is counted, and how exact the year is. This would suggest the scene where Tony hires Pepper, when there are "362 days remaining", would be 3 days later. 3 days later makes sense, as it is implied to be not much more than a day after the senate hearing, which is the day after the opening. The video has gone up and just gone viral, indeed putting it about 2 days after the senate, 3 days after the opening. This would then put the "343 days remaining", on FBW Day 3, 19 days later, 22 days after the opening. This would then mean that FBW Day 1 is 20 days after the opening) = 217.70833 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: On-screen time reference, so very reliable, not even any potential in-universe human error. Value: 2000.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: The "6 months" is from "I am Iron Man" (or Vanko's work only took a couple of days), and is from the end of a month to the beginning of the sixth month following that (like November 30th to May 1st), approximately 152 days, + 19 days (the expo is running for 365 days including the first day, and so Pepper's hiring is actually 2 days later, the evening on the day after the senate hearing. + 19 days to FBW Day 3, so 21 days from the opening to FBW Day 3, therefore 19 days to FBW Day 1) = 171 days.
 * Longest realistic/possible interpretation: It refers to being 6 months after Vanko's work, which could last any length of time. Here, the longest possible interpretation from all evidence is given, so 736 days.
 * 171 days-736 days = 565 days of leniency. 217.70833 days, weight 2000 ÷ 565 = 3.53982.
 * At the Duel of Monaco, which is 1-7 days before Day 1 of Fury's Big Week, Pepper jokes that Christine Everhart "did quite a spread on Tony last year," referring to her sleeping with Tony at the beginning of Iron Man, 2 days before Tony's kidnapping.
 * How many days does this imply between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, ideally?: Around 365 days from the night with Everhart to the Duel of Monaco, + 5 days (the implication from the Mark VII comic is that Tony left for Monaco on MVII Day 189, putting Monaco on MVII Day 190, and then 2 days (the phrasing doesn't suggest only yesterday) after FBW Day 3 is MVII Day 199, putting FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 195. This puts FBW Day 1 5 days after Monaco) = 370 days between the night with Everhart and FBW Day 1. The night with Everhart is 2 days before Tony is kidnapped, which according to the MCU timeline is 9 months (approximately 273.75 days) before "I am Iron Man". So 370 - (273.75 + 2) = 94.25 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Direct dialogue from the film. Value: 1000.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: No shortest limit. Here, the shortest possible interpretation from any of the evidence is used, so 94.25 days.
 * Longest realistic interpretation: If Tony were to sleep with Everhart on January 1st of a given year, and Pepper says this on December 31st of the following year, this would put approximately 729 days between the two dates, + 6 days (the very earliest Monaco can be in its limits is the day after MVII Day 189, so MVII Day 190. The earliest that MVII Day 199 can realistically be, to put as big of a gap between Monaco and FBW Day 1 as possible, is the day after FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 4 on MVII Day 199, therefore FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 196, 6 days after Monaco) before FBW Day 1, so 735 days.
 * Longest possible interpretation: If Tony were to sleep with Everhart on January 1st of a given year, and Pepper says this on December 31st of the following year, this would put approximately 729 days between the two dates, + 7 days (the very earliest Monaco can be in its limits is the day after MVII Day 189, so MVII Day 190. The very earliest that MVII Day 199 can be, to put as big of a gap between Monaco and FBW Day 1 as possible, is the night of FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 3 on MVII Day 199, therefore FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 197, 7 days after Monaco) before FBW Day 1, so 736 days.
 * 94.25 days-(735 days × 2 + 736 days × 1) ÷ 3) = 94.25 days-735.33333 days = 641.08333 days. 94.25 days, weight 1000 ÷ 641.08333 = 1.55986.
 * The The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic follows Tony's updates in a design log for the Iron Man armor. The comic shows that MVII Day 1 is before the icing problem test flight, MVII Day 23 is soon after the Battle of Gulmira, MVII Day 30 is soon after the Duel of Los Angeles, and definitely a while before the Stark Expo opens, and MVII Day 199 is soon after the Battle at Stark Expo.
 * How many days does this imply between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, ideally?: The The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic implies that MVII Day 30 is about 2 days after the Duel of Los Angeles/the day after "I am Iron Man". It also implies that MVII Day 199 is about 2 days after FBW Day 3, so FBW Day 5. This would put FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 195, and "I am Iron Man" on MVII Day 29. This therefore puts approximately 166 days between the dates.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: This is a 50% canon comic, as explained at the beginning. Value: 150.
 * Shortest possible interpretation: MVII Day 30 is the night of the duel, so "I am Iron Man" is MVII Day 31, and MVII Day 189 is the day before Monaco, which is, at a minimum, the day before FBW Day 1, so FBW Day 1 is at the very earliest MVII Day 191, putting 160 days between.
 * Shortest realistic interpretation: MVII Day 30 is the day after the duel, the day of "I am Iron Man", so "I am Iron Man" is MVII Day 30, and MVII Day 189 is the day before Monaco, which is, at a minimum, the day before FBW Day 1, so FBW Day 1 is at the earliest MVII Day 191, putting 161 days between.
 * Longest realistic interpretation: Tony updates about Gulmira after Gulmira, but before the duel, so at the latest, MVII Day 23 is on the day of the duel, putting "I am Iron Man" on MVII Day 24. MVII Day 199 is the day following the Stark Expo battle on FBW Day 3, putting that on FBW Day 4, and thus FBW Day 1 on MVII Day 196. This puts 172 days between the dates.
 * Longest possible interpretation: Tony randomly updated a log at points during the gap between films, for some reason waiting week(s) between entries, before the dates then happened lined up with Iron Man 2, so no longest possible interpretation. Here, the longest possible interpretation from all evidence is given, so 736 days.
 * ((160 days × 1 + 161 days × 2) ÷ 3)-((172 days × 2 + 736 days × 1) ÷ 3) = 160.66667 days-360 days = 199.33333 days. 166 days, weight 150 ÷ 199.33333 = 0.75251.
 * In the commentary for Iron Man 2, Jon Favreau says, "Instead of having [Vanko] watch the Expo on the screen before he died, which is what we had had here, we figured that we would set us in the context of the first film, and actually begin this 6 months ago," presenting that the intention for that scene was to be set 6 months before the Expo opening. He then says, "Here we go. We see that Iron Man has become the Person of the Year. We learn clues about what's happened over the last 6 months." This explains that the montage is supposed to be set over the 6 months between "I am Iron Man" and the Expo opening.
 * How many days does this imply between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1, ideally?: 6 months from "I am Iron Man" to the opening of Stark Expo (approximately 182.5 days) + 20 days (the expo is said to be a year long, this would imply that there are 365 days remaining, depending on how it is counted, and how exact the year is. This would suggest the scene where Tony hires Pepper, when there are "362 days remaining", would be 3 days later. 3 days later makes sense, as it is implied to be not much more than a day after the senate hearing, which is the day after the opening. The video has gone up and just gone viral, indeed putting it about 2 days after the senate, 3 days after the opening. This would then put the "343 days remaining", on FBW Day 3, 19 days later, 22 days after the opening. This would then mean that FBW Day 1 is 20 days after the opening) = 200.5 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: A statement from the director. Value: 100.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: The "6 months" is from the end of a month to the beginning of the sixth month following that (like November 30th to May 1st), approximately 152 days, + 19 days (the expo is running for 365 days including the first day, and so Pepper's hiring is actually 2 days later, the evening on the day after the senate hearing. + 19 days to FBW Day 3, so 21 days from the opening to FBW Day 3, therefore 19 days to FBW Day 1) = 171 days.
 * Longest realistic/possible interpretation: The "6 months" is from the beginning of a month to the end of the sixth month following that (like November 1st to May 31st), approximately 211 days, + 22 days (the expo is running for 365 days, plus the opening, and plus the closing, with the counter counting inclusively (ie. on the final day there is "1 day remaining", meaning on the opening day there is "367 days remaining", putting Pepper's hiring 5 days later, 4 days after the senate hearing. + 19 days to FBW Day 3, so 24 days from the opening to FBW Day 3, therefore 22 days to FBW Day 1) = 233 days.
 * 171 days-233 days = 62 days of leniency. 200.5 days, weight 100 ÷ 233 = 0.42918.

Overall Result
(201.5 days × 15.30612 + 197.5 days × 8.47458 + 187.5 days × 7.77202 + 217.70833 days × 3.53982 + 94.25 days × 1.55986 + 166 days × 0.75251 + 200.5 days × 0.42918) ÷ (15.30612 + 8.47458 + 7.77202 + 3.53982 + 1.55986 + 0.75251 + 0.42918) = 194.10534 days, with a combined weight of evidence of 37.83409.

List of Evidence
NATASHA: MORE THAN A YEAR FURY: LAST YEAR THOR: THE DARK WORLD PRELUDE: A YEAR IRON MAN 3 PRELUDE: OVER 10 MONTHS THOR: THE DARK WORLD PRELUDE: OVER "ONE YEAR"
 * In The Avengers, Natasha says to Bruce, on May 2, 2012, "You've been more than a year without an incident. I don't think you wanna break that streak."
 * How many days does this imply between FBW Day 1 and the Battle of New York, ideally?: There is no ideal placement here as it is only a lower limit. A very rough ideal has to be made. 31 days after FBW Day 7, we see Bruce control another incident, so 37 days after FBW Day 1. It would have taken Bruce several months to travel through the countries he went through before Kolkata, assuming he spent some time in each. Assuming this took about 6 months (roughly 182.5 days), this takes us to about 219.5 days after FBW Day 1. Natasha's statement, "more than a year", would imply potentially around 13½ months (roughly 411.75 days), taking us to ideally, roughly 631.25 days. Finally, there is 2 days between this scene and the Battle of New York, so approximately 633.25 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Direct dialogue from the films. While the incident on the border is only from a 50% canon comic, the lower limit there is only an extra 5 days and so this should not really affect the value. Value: 1000.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: 31 days after FBW Day 7, we see Bruce control another incident, so 37 days after FBW Day 1. We then know Bruce travelled through countries on his way to Kolkata. When he crossed the Pakistan-India border, he Hulked out, as shown in the Avengers Initiative comic. The travelling could have taken anywhere from absolute minimum 5 days, + at least 367 days to be more than a year. There is then 2 days from this scene to the Battle of New York. 37 + 5 + 367 + 2 = 411 days.
 * Longest realistic/possible interpretation: No longest limit. He could have travelled for any length of time really. Here, the longest interpretation for any piece of evidence for the timespan is used: 633.25 days.
 * 411 days-633.25 days = 222.25 days of leniency. 633.25 days, weight 1000 ÷ 222.25 = 4.49944.
 * In The Avengers, Fury says, "Last year, Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town." This is on May 4, 2012, implying the Battle of Puente Antiguo was in 2011.
 * How many days does this imply between FBW Day 1 and the Battle of New York, ideally?: Middle of 2011, July 2, 2011, for the Battle of Puente Antiguo on FBW Day 5, puts FBW Day 1 on June 28, 2011. From then to May 4, 2012 = 311 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Direct dialogue from the film. Value: 1000.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: If the Battle of Puente Antiguo were on December 31, 2011, that would make FBW Day 1 December 27, 2011. From there to May 4, 2012 would be 129 days.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: If the Battle of Puente Antiguo were on January 1, 2011, that would make FBW Day 1 December 28, 2010. From there to May 4, 2012 would be 493 days.
 * 129 days-493 days = 364 days of leniency. 311 days, weight 1000 ÷ 364 = 2.74725.
 * In the Thor: The Dark World Prelude, the comic shows what Jane and Darcy were doing during the events of The Avengers. Darcy mentions that Jane has searched for Thor for "a year".
 * How many days does this imply between FBW Day 1 and the Battle of New York, ideally?: May 4, 2012 - 1 year (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year/month × 1] ÷ 3" rule) gives approximately May 23.66667, 2011, 346.33333 days. The day they start looking for Thor is on FBW Day 7, putting FBW Day 1 around 352.33333 days prior to the Battle of New York.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: This comes from a fully canon comic. Value: 300.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: The absolute minimum 1 year can be interpreted as is ⅔ year, putting FBW Day 7 at the latest on September 4, 2011, which would make FBW Day 1 August 29, 2011. From there to May 4, 2012 would be 249 days.
 * Shortest possible/realistic interpretation: The realistic minimum 1 year can be interpreted as is ¾ year, putting FBW Day 7 at the latest on August 4, 2011, which would make FBW Day 1 July 29, 2011. From there to May 4, 2012 would be 280 days.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: The maximum the 1 year can be interpreted as realistically is "2012 - 1 = 2011", so if FBW Day 7 were on January 1, 2011, that would make FBW Day 1 December 26, 2010. From there to May 4, 2012 would be 495 days.
 * Latest possible interpretation: The absolute maximum the 1 year can be interpreted as is rounded from just under 1½ years, so if FBW Day 7 were on May 4, 2012 – just under 1½ years = November 5, 2010, that would make FBW Day 1 October 30, 2010. From there to May 4, 2012 would be 552 days.
 * ((249 days × 1 + 280 days × 2) ÷ 3)-((495 days × 2 + 552 days × 1) ÷ 3) = 269.66667 days-514 days = 244.33333 days of leniency. 352.33333 days, weight 300 ÷ 244.33333 = 1.22783.
 * The Iron Man 3 Prelude comic begins a while after the end of Iron Man 2. The foundations and first few levels of Stark Tower have already been built, and the damage at the expo has been completely cleared. It then jumps "two months later" to Mumbai, then "three months later" to Ghanzi Province, then "two months later" to Northern Sudan, which continues to Bagram Airfield, and Stark Tower is coming along well. Finally, it jumps "three months later" to Hong Kong, and this is shown to be the same day as the Battle of New York, on May 4, 2012.
 * How many days does this imply between FBW Day 1 and the Battle of New York, ideally?: We can see it took 2 + 3 + 2 = 7 months to get Stark Tower from about ¼ built to ¾ built. If you consider the first quarter, plus the foundations which likely would have taken at least an extra 25%, you are looking at around 7 months before the start of the comic, since Iron Man 2. Add another 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 10 months, and you have around 17 months before the Battle of New York. May 4, 2012 –-17 months (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of month × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = December 8, 2010 for the Battle at Stark Expo, FBW Day 3, putting FBW Day 1 around December 6, 2010. From then to May 4, 2012 = 515 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: This comes from a fully canon comic. Value: 300.
 * Shortest possible interpretation: Counting back from May 4, 2012, firstly the 3 months back to Bagram Airfield. At the shortest, this could be interpreted as "May - 3 = February", so February 29, 2012. From there back to Ghanzi Province, the 2 months at an absolute minimum could be interpreted as rounded from 1½, so January 13, 2012. From there back to Mumbai, the 3 months at an absolute minimum could be interpreted as "January 2012 - 3 = October 2011", and thus October 31, 2011. From there, finally back to the beginning, the 2 months at an absolute minimum could be interpreted as rounded from 1½, so September 15, 2011. At an absolute, incredibly fast minimum, it would have taken 2 months to get the building to that point. Overall, this puts FBW Day 3 at the absolute latest from this evidence at July 15, 2011. From there to May 4, 2012 would be 294 days.
 * Shortest realistic interpretation: Counting back from May 4, 2012, firstly the 3 months back to Bagram Airfield. At the shortest, this could be interpreted as "May - 3 = February", though this is realistically too short for 3 months, at a minimum it is 2¼, so February 25, 2012. From there back to Ghanzi Province, the 2 months at a realistic minimum could be interpreted as "February - 2 = December", so December 31, 2011. From there back to Mumbai, the 3 months at a realistic minimum could be interpreted as "December - 3 = September", and thus September 30, 2011. From there, finally back to the beginning, the 2 months at a realistic minimum could be interpreted as "September - 2 = July", so July 31, 2011. At a fast minimum, it would have taken 4 months to get the building to that point. Overall, this puts FBW Day 3 at the realistic latest from this evidence at March 31, 2011. From there to May 4, 2012 would be 400 days.
 * Longest realistic/possible interpretation: No latest limit for how long it would take to get to the beginning of the comic. Here, the longest interpretation for any piece of evidence for the timespan is used: 633.25 days.
 * ((294 days × 1 + 400 days × 2) ÷ 3)-633.25 days = 364.66667 days-633.25 days = 268.58333 days. 515 days, weight 300 ÷ 268.58333 = 1.11697
 * The Thor: The Dark World Prelude comic begins a while after the end of Thor. There are discussions about the shifts in the balance of the universe since the Duel at the Bifrost Bridge, and then it goes to "one year later" to the beginning of The Avengers on April 30, 2012, 4 days before the Battle of New York, on May 4, 2012.
 * How many days does this imply between FBW Day 1 and the Battle of New York, ideally?: It seems very approximately to have been only about 3 months, about 91.25 days, since the battle (on FBW Day 5, so 4 days after FBW Day 1) + one year, 366 days to April 30, 2012, + 4 days to the Battle of New York = 465.25 days.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: This comes from a fully canon comic. Value: 300.
 * Shortest possible interpretation: At the shortest possible, it has been 3 days since the Duel at the Bifrost Bridge, which is 4 days since FBW Day 1. The shortest possible interpretation of a year is ⅔ year, 8 months, roughly 244 days. This adds to 251 days.
 * Shortest realistic interpretation: At the shortest, realistically, it has been 2 weeks since the Duel at the Bifrost Bridge, which is 4 days since FBW Day 1. The shortest realistic interpretation of a year is ¾ year, 9 months, roughly 274.5 days. This adds to 292.5 days.
 * Longest realistic/possible interpretation: No latest limit for how long it would take to get to the beginning of the comic. Here, the longest interpretation for any piece of evidence for the timespan is used: 633.25 days.
 * ((251 days × 1 + 292.5 days × 2) ÷ 3)-633.25 days = 278.66667 days-633.25 days = 354.58333 days. 465.25 days, weight 300 ÷ 354.58333 = 0.84606

Overall Result
(633.25 days × 4.49944 + 311 days × 2.74725 + 352.33333 days × 1.22783 + 515 days × 1.11697 + 465.25 days × 0.84606) ÷ (4.49944 + 2.74725 + 1.22783 + 1.11697 + 0.84606) = 489.11282 days. Ignoring the individual placements of both Fury's Big Week and The Avengers (as well as the internal specifics of the dates), the gap between Fury's Big Week and The Avengers puts itself at around 489.11282 days, with a combined weight of evidence of 10.43755.

Other Notes

 * There seems to be a common misconception that the MCU timeline places a year between Fury's Big Week and The Avengers. However, this is not the case. We have established that overall, the MCU timeline places "I am Iron Man" around late 2009, and then it says that the Monaco incident is 6 months later, Fury's Big Week is after that, and then it simply lists events between Fury's Big Week and The Avengers with no timespan given.

Compromising the Placements and Timespans
So, here we have it: We should label "I am Iron Man" as x, and FBW Day 1 as y.
 * The Battle of New York in The Avengers is May 4, 2012.
 * The gap between FBW Day 1 and the Battle of New York puts itself at 489.11282 days, with a combined weight of evidence of 10.43755. This would place FBW Day 1 around December 31.88718 (side note: this actually shows the math is working very nicely, with the timespan between the films putting itself so that, devoid of the internal evidence, Fury's Big Week is around New Year of 2010 into 2011, which is exactly what it should be suggesting - regardless of internal evidence, it's exactly what is suggested from the timespan for Iron Man 2 to be 2010 but Thor 2011).
 * Fury's Big Week places itself around FBW Day 1 being on July 7.86339, 2010, with a combined weight of evidence of 17.71467.
 * The gap between "I am Iron Man" and FBW Day 1 puts itself at 194.10534 days, with a combined weight of evidence of 37.83409.
 * "I am Iron Man" places itself around April 23.08054, 2009, with a combined weight of evidence of 9.64815.
 * y is being pulled:
 * Towards July 7.86339, 2010, with a strength of 17.71467.
 * Towards December 28.78225, 2010, with a strength of 10.43755.
 * Towards x + 194.10534, with a strength of 37.83409.
 * This means y = (July 7.86339, 2010 × 17.71467 + December 31.88718, 2010 × 10.43755 + (x + 194.10534) × 37.83409) ÷ (17.71467 + 10.43755 + 37.83409). If January 1, 2009 were "1", January 2, 2009 were "2", February 1, 2009 were "32", etc.:
 * y = (553.86339 × 17.71467 + 730.88718 × 10.43755 + 37.83409x + 194.10534 × 37.83409) ÷ 65.98631
 * y = (24783.97757 + 37.83409x) ÷ 65.98631
 * y = 375.59272 + 0.57336x
 * x is being pulled:
 * Towards April 23.08054, 2009, with a strength of 9.64815.
 * Towards y - 194.10534, with a strength of 37.83409.
 * This means x = (April 23.08054, 2009 × 9.64815 + (y - 194.10534) × 37.83409) ÷ (9.64815 + 37.83409)
 * x = (113.08054 × 9.64815 + 37.83409y - 194.10534 × 37.83409) ÷ 47.48224
 * x = (37.83409y - 6252.78089) ÷ 47.48224
 * x = 0.79681y - 131.68673
 * Therefore y = 375.59272 + 0.57336 × (0.79681y - 131.68673)
 * y = 375.59272 + 0.45686y - 75.50390
 * y = 300.08882 + 0.45686y
 * 0.54314y = 300.08882
 * y = 552.50731 or July 6.50731, 2010.
 * Therefore x = 0.79681 × 552.50731 - 131.68673
 * x = 308.55662 or November 4.55662, 2009.

Evidence for the Internal Dates of Fury's Big Week

 * Fury's Big Week revolves around Tony's birthday, for which there is mixed evidence.
 * Tony's parents died on December 16, 1991. Obadiah then took over Stark Industries for a brief period of time, before Tony took over, aged 21. This means that Tony could not be any older than 21 at the time of his parents' deaths, plus Obadiah would have had to have been in charge for at least a week. This would mean that on December 23, 1991, Tony is no older than 21, so at the very earliest, he would have turned 22 on December 24, 1991, making his date of birth December 24, 1969 at the very earliest.
 * A deleted scene from The Avengers, and the same file, displayed at an event, shows Tony took over the company in 1992. So even if this were as early as possible on January 1, 1991, the earliest Tony could have been born is January 1, 1970. This also puts a latest limit on Tony's birthday, because if he took over on December 31, 1992, and it was the very day he turned 21, this would make his date of birth December 31, 1971. So far, we have established he was born between January 1, 1970, and December 31, 1971.
 * In Iron Man 2, it is shown that Howard filmed a video for Stark Expo 1974 on September 15, 1973. Tony is shown to be young here.
 * A deleted scene from The Avengers, and the same file, displayed at an event, shows Tony's birthday as being May 29, 1970, which lines up with this evidence so far, and the evidence that puts Iron Man 2 as taking place in May.
 * In Iron Man 3, Tony says "1983. I'm 14 years old." This, along with only the evidence of Howard and Maria's death and him being 21, would put Tony's birthday around very late December 1969 to fit both of these, with him taking over the company days before he turns 22, only days after his parents' deaths. While this dialogue would usually overrule the props, the evidence in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 hints heavily at Iron Man 2 being set in May, not December (other than a tiny newspaper saying Vanko escaped prison on Monday December 24, which doesn't line up with any feasible year, date, or Christmas setting anyway), so this, along with all the other evidence listed already for Tony's birthday, should overrule this as a continuity error. Tony would have been 12-13 in 1983.
 * If the May 7, 2010 date for the opening of Stark Expo from the Stark Expo 2010 site were taken as true, this, as explained earlier, would put Tony's birthday between May 26th and May 29th. This lines up perfectly with Tony's May 29th birthday.
 * On FBW Day 4, Betty says that it is "Friday night." This would put FBW Day 1, the day of Tony's birthday, on a Tuesday. On FBW Day 3, Tony's computer says it is Monday, which would put FBW Day 1, the day of Tony's birthday, on a Saturday. While the dialogue should overrule the prop, there is no Tuesday between May 26-29, 2010 which fits. However, there is a Saturday - May 29, 2010, the day of Tony's 40th birthday, as given by the prop.
 * It is generally accepted (and apparently says in one of the comics, though I haven't actually checked this yet) that the party is on the day of his birthday.
 * All of this, in the end, points to Tony's birthday being May 29th, as is generally accepted. So, it revolves around this date. FBW Day 1 is the May 29th closest to July 6.50731, 2010 (the reasoned date for FBW Day 1), which is close enough (only a month-and-a-half out) to still work, and not be a continuity error. So, FBW Day 1 is May 29, 2010.
 * Does this work with the May 7, 2010 Stark Expo date?
 * On the day Stark promotes Pepper, it is shown clearly in the background that there is "362 days remaining" of Stark Expo. On the date of the Expo battle, there is clearly "343 days remaining", so there is 19 days between these dates. It can then be seen that it takes Tony 4 days to return home after the senate, 5 days after the Expo opens. This would mean there is an opening day, 365 days of normal Expo, then the closing day, plus counting inclusively (ie. on closing day it says "1 day remaining"), meaning there is "367 days remaining" on May 7th, and thus 5 days later on the 12th, "362 days remaining". + 19 days to FBW Day 3, - 2 days to FBW Day 1 = May 29, 2010. It just fits. May 29, 2010 was considered the latest realistic interpretation if the expo opened on May 7, 2010, and so it works. The expo cannot open any earlier realistically, and definitely no more than a few days later. So these two gel very nicely.
 * So, we have the opening on May 7, 2010, Pepper's hiring on May 12, 2010, and Tony's birthday on May 29, 2010. Somewhere between the May 12th and May 29th dates is Monaco.
 * Monaco cannot be on May 1st/2nd like in real life, as it does not fit within these limits. But that is fine, as the MCU is a different universe, so it can be different. It is still in the same ballpark as the real world.
 * In an adaptation comic of Iron Man 2, in the same scene where Rhodey confronts Tony about Vanko having attacked him "yesterday", "Natalie" then comes downstairs to say Tony's guests are arriving, and they have the discussion about Tony asking what she would do if she knew it were her last birthday. This would put Monaco the day before his birthday. However, this scene actually contradicts the film, which depicts the Rhodey conversation and the "Natalie" conversation as separate scenes in separate rooms. It can be put down to the adaptation condensing the film (like the Iron Man one putting Coulson asking for a meeting on "the 24th" at Tony's returning press conference rather than the party months later), and ignore this.
 * The The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic implies that MVII Day 189 is the day before Monaco, putting Monaco on MVII Day 190. It implies as well that MVII Day 199 is around 2 days after FBW Day 3, putting that on FBW Day 5. This would put FBW Day 1 around MVII Day 195, 5 days after Monaco. This would therefore put Monaco around May 24, 2010. However, it would work better on the 23rd. There is 3 reasons for this:
 * a) The Grand Prix de Monaco Historique was held on a Saturday-Sunday in the real world, so it would make sense for it to be a Saturday-Sunday in the MCU as well. May 23, 2010 was a Sunday.
 * b) The second day of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, in the real world, is supposed to be 2 weeks before the main Monaco Grand Prix (in this case, 2 weeks before May 16, 2010 - May 2, 2010). There is still some logic if the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique second day were 1 week after the main Grand Prix as a sort of after-party, rather than a build-up, which works as May 23rd.
 * c) If Monaco is the 23rd, this puts MVII Day 189 on May 22, 2010. This then puts MVII Day 199 on June 1, 2010, the day after the Battle at Stark Expo, which still works. And it then puts MVII Day 1 on November 15, 2009, which works perfectly with the timeline of Iron Man, as explained below.
 * So, Monaco is May 23, 2010, which works as a week after the main grand prix, MVII Day 199 being the day after the Battle at Stark Expo, and MVII Day 1 being November 15, 2009.
 * On the day of the Battle at Stark Expo, on Tony's computer says "Mon 06 01". While the Monday part lines up with it being May 31, 2010, the "06 01" does not, if it implies June 1st. It is unclear if there is a ".", a ":", or a space between the 06 and the 01. Whatever the case, all the other evidence for May 31st overrules this, but there is also some more evidence to overrule it anyway:
 * a) If a computer, especially a mac, is not presenting the date and time, but rather the day and then a pair of numbers, it is much more likely that it is shown the day and time, rather than the day and date. If the date were September 30, 2016, 11:37 AM, why would your computer, with its limited space, tell you that it is "Friday September 30" rather than telling you it is "Friday 11:37"? It is much more likely to be the latter.
 * b) There is no year on the date either. If it is going to be the date, rather than the time, why would it not say "06.01.10" rather than "06.01"?
 * c) At the beginning of the film, when Tony returns home, which has now been worked out to be May 12, 2010, the computer says "Mon 02 09." OK, so the Monday does not fit, but that brief, small digital prop should not overrule the other evidence. But there is certainly no way this is February 9th, so either you can take this as further proof that this shows the time (albeit likely on a 12-hour clock) rather than the date, or as proof that this top-right corner date of Tony's computer, if it is a date, is unreliable. Overall, this, on top of the evidence for it being May 31, 2010, means it should not have influence over the date.

Evidence for the Internal Dates of Iron Man

 * So, we have May 2010 for Iron Man 2, and we have the several references to 6 months. As discussed above, on the day of the senate, May 8, 2010, it is said to have been 6 months, so around November 8, 2009 for "I am Iron Man". On the day of Monaco, May 23, 2010, it is supposedly 6 months since "I am Iron Man", so around November 23, 2009. On the day of the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro, May 14, 2010, it is supposedly 6 months since "I am Iron Man", so around November 14, 2009. Together, these three would put "I am Iron Man" around November 15, 2009.
 * At the party where Tony dances with Pepper and Tony discovers Obadiah has gone behind his back, Coulson arranges a meeting for "the 24th." He then shows up for the meeting as Pepper escapes with the USB with Obadiah's information, the day of the Duel of Los Angeles. "I am Iron Man" is the day after, putting it on the 25th of its month. The closest 25th to November 15, 2009 is November 25, 2009. This works as 6 months before May 8, 2010, "November 2009 + 6 = May 2010", as well as 6 months before May 23, 2010. The "6 months later" shown on-screen can be assumed to be either referring to since "I am Iron Man", or just that Vanko's work only took a few days, and it is still referring to after this. This is within reasonable margin of the reasoned November 4.55662, 2009, and also works well with the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic…
 * It has been established that MVII Day 189 is May 22, 2010, and MVII Day 199 is June 1, 2010, putting MVII Day 1 on November 15, 2009. This is shown to be the day that Tony takes his first test flight, which ends in an icing problem.
 * The party scene is the day after the test flight scene. We know the party scene has to be within October 25-November 22, 2009, as these are the only dates on which Coulson simply saying "the 24th" fits as November 24th. On the night of the party, Tony checks his watch before he leaves. While it does not give a month, it shows the date as Thursday 16th. While the Thursday might not line up, the 16th lines up perfectly, being November 16th, the day after the test flight which was established as being on the 15th, and several days before the Duel of Los Angeles on the 24th.
 * The MCU timeline establishes that Tony was kidnapped "9 months" before "I am Iron Man". By the "[exact date × 2 + middle of month × 1] ÷ 3" rule, this would put his kidnapping around February 21.5, 2009. It is then said that he was gone for "3 months," and later, "a couple of months," which implies about 2⅔ months of capture. The Iron Man: Security Measures comic shows the day after Tony's capture, then cuts to "three months later" when Stark is returning from Afghanistan (2 days after his escape), overall implying about 2¾ months of capture. This would overall put Tony's escape around May 16, 2009.
 * While the "May 4, 2008" digital prop has been established as currently a continuity error, the May 4th date, despite the year being wrong, is actually within a good reasonable margin of the rough date for this, similar to how in Iron Man 3, the "December 23, 2013" newspaper date has got the year wrong (as the film very firmly sets itself in December 2012) but the month and date right. Therefore, it can be moved a little so that Tony escapes on May 1, 2009, his conference is May 3rd, and this video is on May 4th, just 2008, not 2009.
 * Therefore, we just need a placement for the beginning of the film (other scenes can slot in between dates). Here's a quick rundown using the same method as before:
 * November 25, 2009 - 9 months implies around February 21.5, 2009. Absolute/realistic earliest, February 1, 2009. Realistic latest, February 28, 2009. Absolute latest, March 6, 2009. Value 500 from it being off the MCU Timeline, so February 21.5, 2009, with weight 500 ÷ (February 1, 2009-((February 28, 2009 × 2 + March 6, 2009 × 1) ÷ 3)) = 500 ÷ (February 1, 2009-March 2, 2009) = 500 ÷ 29 days of leniency = 17.24138.
 * May 1, 2009 - 2¾ months = February 8, 2009. Absolute earliest, January 17, 2009. Realistic earliest, February 1, 2009. Realistic latest, February 22, 2009. Absolute latest, February 28, 2009. Value 1000 from it being direct dialogue, so February 8, 2009, with weight 1000 ÷ (((January 17, 2009 × 1 + February 1, 2009 × 2) ÷ 3)- ((February 22, 2009 × 2 + February 28, 2009 × 1) ÷ 3)) = 1000 ÷ (January 27, 2009-February 24, 2009) = 1000 ÷ 28 days of leniency = 35.71429.
 * (February 21.5, 2009 × 17.24138 + February 8, 2009 × 35.71429) ÷ (17.24138 + 31.71429) = February 13.40813, 2009. Therefore, February 13, 2009 for when Tony is kidnapped. Thus, February 12th for Pepper's birthday, and February 11th for the Apogee award and sleeping with Christine (which also works with February 11, 2009 being "last year" on May 23, 2010).
 * Unlike with Monaco, where the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic shows the event as definitely happening between MVII Day 189 and MVII Day 199, the Battle of Gulmira and the Duel of Los Angeles are only shown in recount, and not in between logs. Because of this, the MVII Day 23 Gulmira log and the MVII Day 30 Los Angeles log do not have to line up exactly with the dates, like how Monaco does ideally have to work (and does). Especially with MVII Day 1, Day 189, and Day 199 lining up perfectly with all the evidence so far, MVII Day 23 and Day 30 should definitely not contradict the evidence against it, for November, for 6 months, and for Gulmira being only a couple of days after the test flight, etc. (especially since if it were used it would put "I am Iron Man" on December 25th, Christmas Day). It can simply be seen that MVII Day 23 and Day 30 were both updated in December, a while after the actual events. Besides, Tony was likely very busy after "I am Iron Man" and it would have taken him a while to update. With this accepted, the dates line up very nicely with this comic as well.

Side note: With the broken timeline now, following Spider-Man: Homecoming, the way I weight up timeline evidence will be similar to this now, with the weighted math to get the ballpark correct answer, then applying internal dates. This way, continuity errors can be pulled out, but if, for example, the films continued to back up the 8 years to the point where it was stronger, the ballpark would move into that region instead, making them no longer continuity errors, but making the other things continuity errors. This method is all about making sure there is as small of a weight of continuity errors in the timeline as possible, therefore the most reliable timeline possible.

Captain America: The First Avenger
CAPTAIN AMERICA: ASLEEP FOR 65-70 YEARS FURY'S BIG WEEK: 1 YEAR AFTER FBW DAY 7 REAL TIME: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER ASSUMPTION: HOW LONG HAS STEVE BEEN AWAKE BY THE AVENGERS? Overall, (December 4, 2011 × 2.84360 + June 16.33333, 2011 × 1.23119 + July 23.5, 2011 × 0.5 + February 16.5, 2012 × 0.13158) ÷ (2.84360 + 1.23119 + 0.5 + 0.13158) = October 8.25342, 2011. October 8, 2011 to generally satisfy all the evidence. This also happens to fit very nicely with the weather.
 * In Captain America: The First Avenger, it is said that Steve has been asleep for "almost 70 years". In The Avengers, Steve says, "I slept for 70 years." The 70 can easily be simply interpreted as a rounded decade, and this is corroborated by what he says in Spider-Man: Homecoming, "slept for 65 years." This is more specific than the 70, so overall it can be taken that he slept for around 66¾ years, to best fit these statements as a whole.
 * Where does this place Steve waking, ideally?: If he slept for 66¾ years, that would put him waking around March 4, 1945 + 66¾ years = December 4, 2011.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Direct dialogue from the films. Value: 1000
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Steve slept for 65¾ years, absolute minimum, so he would wake around March 4, 1945 + 65¾ years = December 4, 2010.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: Steve slept for 66¼ years at a realistic minimum, so he would wake around March 4, 1945 + 66¼ years = June 4, 2011.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: Steve slept for 67 years at a realistic maximum, so he would wake around March 4, 1945 + 67 years = March 4, 2012.
 * Latest possible interpretation: Steve slept for 67¼ years, absolute maximum, so he would wake around March 4, 1945 + 67¼ years = June 4, 2012. However, it has to be at least a week at the very minimum before the beginning of The Avengers (we know he spent some time at the Retreat), so at the very latest, April 24, 2012.
 * ((December 4, 2010 × 1 + June 4, 2011 × 2) ÷ 3)-((March 4, 2012 × 2 + April 24, 2012 × 1) ÷ 3) = April 4.33333, 2011-March 21, 2012 = 351.66667 days of leniency. December 4, 2011, weight 1000 ÷ 351.66667 = 2.84360.
 * In the Fury's Big Week comic, it is shown that Steve was found "one year later" after FBW Day 7. It is generally accepted that he was thawed two days later, and woke the day after.
 * Where does this place Steve waking, ideally?: If he was found one year after June 4, 2010, FBW Day 7, June 4, 2010 + 1 year (by the "[exact date × 2 + middle of year × 1] ÷ 3" rule) = June 13.33333, 2011. 3 days later would put him being found on June 16.33333, 2011.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Fully canon comic. Value: 300
 * Earliest possible interpretation: One year, at an absolute minimum, would be rounded from ½ year usually, which would imply December 4, 2010 as the absolute earliest. However, the absolute shortest 1 year can be interpreted as is ⅔ year, June 4, 2010 + ⅔ year = February 4, 2011 at the very earliest. This would put him waking on February 7, 2011.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: One year, at a realistic minimum, would be "2010 +1 = 2011" usually, which would imply January 1, 2010 as the earliest. However, the realistic shortest 1 year can be interpreted as is ¾ year, June 4, 2010 + ¾ year = March 4, 2011 at the realistic earliest. This would put him waking on March 7, 2011.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: One year, at a realistic maximum, would be "2010 +1 = 2011" usually, which would imply December 31, 2010 as the latest. However, the realistic longest 1 year can be interpreted as is 1⅓ years, June 4, 2010 + 1⅓ years = October 4, 2011 at the realistic latest. This would put him waking on October 7, 2011.
 * Latest possible interpretation: One year, at a realistic maximum, would be "2010 +1 = 2011" usually, which would imply December 31, 2010 as the absolute latest. However, the absolute longest 1 year can be interpreted as is 1½ years, June 4, 2010 + 1½ years = December 4, 2011 at the very latest. This would put him waking on December 7, 2011.
 * ((February 7, 2011 × 1 + March 7, 2011 × 2) ÷ 3)-((October 7, 2011 × 2 + December 7, 2011 × 1) ÷ 3) = February 25.66667, 2011-October 27.33333, 2011 = 243.66667 days of leniency. June 16.33333, 2011, weight 300 ÷ 243.66667 = 1.23119.
 * Captain America: The First Avenger came out on July 22, 2011.
 * Where does this place Steve waking, ideally?: The middle of the film is between the bookends of him being found, and him waking. This would put him being found around July 20.5, 2011, and him waking on July 23.5, 2011.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Only real time. Value: 0.5.
 * Earliest possible/realistic interpretation: The individual real time dates don't have earliest interpretations.
 * Latest realistic/possible interpretation: The individual real time dates don't have latest interpretations.
 * July 23.5, 2011, weight 0.5.
 * In The Avengers, when we meet Steve again on May 2, 2012, it seems he has not been awake for very long.
 * Where does this place Steve waking, ideally?: It seems like he has been awake for only approximately 2½ months, which would put him waking on May 2, 2012 - 2½ months = February 16.5, 2012.
 * How important/reliable is this piece of evidence?: Based only on mild assumption. Value: 25.
 * Earliest possible interpretation: Steve seems to have been awake for at the absolute most about 9 months, having accustomed reasonably with the modern day, but it still being reasonably pretty fresh. This would put him waking at the absolute earliest on August 2, 2011.
 * Earliest realistic interpretation: Steve seems to have been awake for at the most about 6 months, having accustomed reasonably with the modern day, but it still being reasonably pretty fresh. This would put him waking at the realistic earliest on November 2, 2011.
 * Latest realistic interpretation: Steve seems to have been awake for at least a month when we see him, having accustomed reasonably with the modern day. This would put him waking at the latest on April 2, 2012.
 * Latest possible interpretation: At the very shortest, he has been awake for a week by the opening of The Avengers, 8 days before we see him again, as we know he also had to have spent some time at the Retreat, meaning the absolute very latest he could have woken is April 24, 2012.
 * ((August 2, 2011 × 1 + November 2, 2011 × 2) ÷ 3)-((April 2, 2012 × 2 + April 24, 2012 × 1) ÷ 3) = October 2.33333, 2011-April 9.33333, 2012 = 190 days of leniency. February 16.5, 2012, weight 25 ÷ 190 = 0.13158.

Chase of Bruce Banner
These are the notes from The Incredible Hulk and The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture (plus the The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files event) for the timeline of the Chase of Bruce Banner. And then the other things without placement: Now to assign each of these to a date: So overall:
 * April 18, 2004 ("SUN 04/18/04") - Bruce is pictured on CCTV.
 * April 16, 2005 ("April 2005 - 16th") - The date of Bruce's incident, as given in The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture on a calendar. The Incredible Hulk seems to suggest it is c. 2004 with the CCTV image from April 2004, and simultaneously suggests it is 2006 from the newspaper of the incident showing "-06". This date, given in the comic, fits nicely in the middle of these, as well as being a rounded "5 years" before November 25, 2009, "I am Iron Man", as shown on the MCU timeline, and "5 years" before May-June 2010, the events of The Incredible Hulk, as stated in the film and a deleted scene from the film. The 2004 is of Banner, not the Hulk, and so could be surveillance of him as he works on the project, and the 06 does not show the full "2006" and could be interpreted as an issue number, price, or something other (even if this was almost certainly not the intention). The 2005 date fits nicely and should be used.
 * April 19, 2005 ("3 days") - 3 days later, Ross sends him away.
 * May 19, 2005 ("05/19/05") - The next incident following this was on this date on the Canadian border, near Quebec, again given in The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture.
 * This was followed by "months of nothing" where the "trail went cold."
 * c. October 18, 2005 ("months" after "05/19/05") - "Months" after Bruce's incident on the Canadian border, having had no incident since, there is a new incident in "the heart of South America" (which usually means Paraguay) when Blonsky went there looking for Espinoza.
 * GAP A, c. October 18, 2005-May 27, 2006 - In which Bruce attempted contact on February 7, 2006 ("02/07/06").
 * May 27-28, 2006 ("05/27/06" and "05/28/06") - Bruce is sighted in Canada (I guess he returned there, this cannot be before the South America incident as the trail was cold until then, plus post-May 2006 cannot realistically be "months" after April 2005).
 * GAP B, May 28, 2006-September 4, 2006.
 * September 4, 2006 ("09/04/06", "2006") - Incident at a house, leading to the house being destroyed, seems to be placed on the map around Asia, roughly the Kyrgyzstan area, it doesn't actually show its exact position.
 * GAP C, September 4, 2006-January 22, 2007 - In which "October 21, 2006" there was an unknown sighting, which involved an incident where he fled somewhere.
 * January 22, 2007 ("01/22/07", "2007") - Incident ending in a crumpled car in Samara, Russia. I guess that doesn't count as a sighting, maybe he wasn't actually seen, just left traces.
 * GAP D, January 22, 2007-April 12, 2010 - In which a letter was written in March 2007 saying there had been no sightings for "5 months" since "October 21, 2006", and the last time Bruce turned into the Hulk was on November 5, 2009 (the day after the ambush in Rio, it can briefly be seen that before his counter reset, he had gone "190 days without incident". "17 days without incident" (17 days after that), on FBW Day 3, he arrives at Culver University, which is May 31, 2010. This means Rio was 17 days prior, May 14, 2010, "158 days without incident" was 190 - 158 = 32 days before that on April 12, 2010. 158 days prior to that would mean his last incident was on November 5, 2009).
 * April 12, 2010, "158 days without incident" - Rocinha, the film begins.
 * "March 07" flight. It is unclear if this means March 7th or March 2007.
 * Sighted in Dakota at some point.
 * "2006" - Incident with a truck (not the same one as the Canada border, it is not the same date and the truck looks different).
 * There is a raid, which seems to follow on from the sighting in Canada image.
 * There is a part where the military helicopters seem to be flying southwest from a roughly African location (by latitude and longitude) toward South America.
 * There is a part where there is a military search highlighted on a map for which the latitude and longitude seems to suggest around Libya.
 * There is a letter written by Fury from S.H.I.E.L.D. at some point.
 * At some point, there is a sighting which is reported as a "Green sasquatch".
 * At some point, there is a line suggesting Banner travelled from Northwest Canada/Arctic to Southeast Asia.
 * There are two dots suggesting at some point Bruce was in Japan.
 * We know from a deleted scene, corroborated by a piece of dialogue from The Avengers, that Banner attempted suicide at some point in the Arctic.
 * We know that at some point, Banner was in "the States" and encountered Nick Fury in The Fury Files.
 * A site I found had the flight dated to March 2, 2007. That's the best I can do for that.
 * It would make sense for the sighting in Dakota to be in GAP A, when Bruce is travelling up from South America to Canada.
 * The 2006 incident can be assigned to the October 21, 2006 date, which also appears to be nearer to Europe from the company name who is helping the truck, which fits as he is heading in the direction of Europe at that point.
 * The raid can be assigned to Canada.
 * The travel from Africa to South America can be in GAP D, as we know Bruce travelled to South America at this point, and the previous sighting was in Russia, so it is the right direction.
 * Libya can be in GAP D, between Russia and South America, before the travel from Africa to South America.
 * The letter from Fury can be assigned just after The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files.
 * According to the current timeline, the "Green sasquatch" was in Canada on the May 28, 2006. I am giving that the benefit of the doubt, as there's no reason to believe it is not.
 * Travelling from Northwest Canada/Arctic to Southeast Asia can be in Gap B, following the incident in Canada.
 * Japan can follow after this in Gap B.
 * The Arctic can be in Gap B, just before the travel to Southeast Asia.
 * It would make sense for The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files to be following the beginning of the Avenger Initiative in 2008, as given in Melinda, therefore Gap D.
 * April 18, 2004 - Bruce is pictured on CCTV.
 * April 16, 2005 - Bruce's incident.
 * April 19, 2005 - Ross sends him away.
 * May 19, 2005 - The next incident following this was on this date on the Canadian border.
 * This was followed by "months of nothing" where the "trail went cold."
 * October 18, 2005 - Incident in South America when Blonsky went there looking for Espinoza. Espinoza had been operating for nearly a year, so since around November 3, 2004.
 * February 7, 2006 - Bruce attempted contact.
 * Dakota.
 * The middle of Paraguay is roughly Pozo Colorado. The middle of the Dakotas is roughly Lemmon. The middle of Canada is roughly Patuanak. The distances (as the crow flies, because we don't know Bruce's methods of transport) are 5519.638 miles from Pozo Colorado to Lemmon, and 729.172 miles from Lemmon to Patuanak. Therefore, 5519.638 ÷ (5519.638 + 729.172) = 0.88331 of the distance. Applying this to the gap, 0.88331 from February 7, 2006 to May 27, 2006 would place the Dakota incident roughly at May 14, 2006.
 * May 27-28, 2006 - Bruce is sighted in Canada. Green sasquatch. Raid.
 * Arctic, then travel from Arctic area to Southeast Asia. Osaka then Sapporo.
 * 1166.018 miles from Patuanak to Nunavut, then 6044.052 to Osaka, 659.460 to Sapporo, 3325.171 to Kyrgyzstan. This makes it 0.10416 to Nunavut, 0.64406 to Osaka, 0.70297 to Sapporo, and overall 99 days, so June 7, 2006 for Nunavut, August 2, 2006 for Osaka, and August 6, 2006 to Sapporo.
 * September 4, 2006 - Incident at a house, leading to the house being destroyed, roughly Kyrgyzstan.
 * October 21, 2006 - Truck incident.
 * January 22, 2007 - Incident ending in a crumpled car in Samara, Russia, not sighted.
 * March 2, 2007 - Plane involved.
 * March 19, 2007 - Letter saying there had been no sightings for "5 months".
 * 5878.207 miles Samara to U.S.A. 6269.448 miles U.S.A. to Libya. 4228.626 miles Libya to Recife (stand-in for general east South America). 962 days. This gives February 27, 2008 for The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files, though it seems to be a Saturday, because he is watching football/soccer, so round to approximately March 1, 2008, which fits with the initiative just starting up. This also gives roughly March 2, 2009 for Libya.
 * November 5, 2009 - Incident in east South America.
 * Military follow, travelling from Africa to South America. They lose him.
 * April 12, 2010 - "158 days without incident". The film begins.

Iron Man to Iron Man 2
There are several comics set in this time period: Now to place those. What do we know? So what we have left is: Surveying each of these, this is the result:
 * Iron Man 2: Security Breach - unofficial canon, released April 1, 2010.
 * Iron Man: Will Online Evils Prevail? - unofficial canon, released April 10, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. - official canon, released April 23, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Phil Coulson: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - official canon, released April 28, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Public Identity - official canon, released April 7, May 5, and May 12, 2010 - mean of April 28, 2010, median of May 5, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Black Widow: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - official canon, released May 5, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron - unofficial canon, released February 1, 2011.
 * I have been unable to find Iron Man 2: Security Breach but it is considered canon, so I will trust that. As far as I am aware, there is no evidence placing it exactly though.
 * Iron Man: Will Online Evils Prevail? seems very much non-canon. It is not part of official canon anyway, and is therefore expendable. There is a scene where there are carnival toys of Hulk, Wolverine, and Spider-Man. Hulk was not well-known before the events of The Incredible Hulk and it makes very little sense for there to be toys of him, but if this were the only reason, it is not impossible. Wolverine is a character Marvel do not own the rights to and he is not permitted to appear in the MCU, but it could still just be considered an Easter Egg for a pop culture figure in the MCU who resembles Wolverine. However, the fact that Spider-Man is there is pretty definitive. Spider-Man would not surface for another 6 years in the MCU, as well as having a different costume. Altogether, I definitely feel it should be written off. But it is on the timeline now, so I will keep it (moved to a rough correct placement) on the timeline now until any future change.
 * Iron Man 2: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is official canon. However, there is no evidence placing it exactly.
 * Iron Man 2: Phil Coulson: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. is official canon, and picks up immediately after "I am Iron Man," so is set on November 25, 2009.
 * Iron Man 2: Public Identity is official canon, and appears to span about 6 days, but the main events on the penultimate day are actually referenced on the MCU timeline as being "3 months" after "I am Iron Man". By the usual rule, November 25, 2009 + 3 months = February 22, 2010, so Iron Man 2: Public Identity spans from February 18, 2010 to February 23, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Black Widow: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. is official canon, and is set in the weeks preceding her first meeting Stark in late May 2010, so is set during May 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron is unofficial canon, but fits fine. However, there is no evidence placing it exactly.
 * End of Iron Man - November 25, 2009.
 * Iron Man 2: Phil Coulson: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - set November 25, 2009.
 * The ones between November 26, 2009 and May 6, 2010:
 * Iron Man 2: Security Breach, released April 1, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., released April 23, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Public Identity, released on average around late April-early May 2010 - set February 18-23, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron, released February 1, 2011.
 * Iron Man 2: Black Widow: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. - set May 2010.
 * It would make sense for the four in the space between the films to be set in the order they came out. With Iron Man 2: Security Breach and Iron Man 2: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. having come out before most of Iron Man 2: Public Identity, and Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron coming out after, it would make sense for these to be set either side respectively as well.
 * Iron Man 2: Security Breach is thus set on a day after November 25, 2009 and before February 18, 2010. A third of the way through these dates is December 23.33333, 2009. The current timeline claims it begins on one day, and then the rest happens 9 days later, so I will stick with that. Around this date, the two days would therefore be December 19 and 28, 2009.
 * Iron Man 2: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is thus set on a day after November 25, 2009 and before February 18, 2010. Two thirds of the way through these dates is January 20.6667, 2010, placing it on roughly January 21, 2010.
 * Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron is thus set on a day after February 23, 2010 and before May 7, 2010. Halfway through these dates is March 31.5, 2010, placing it on roughly April 1, 2010.
 * Returning to Iron Man: Will Online Evils Prevail?, released April 10, 2010, also before Iron Man 2: Public Identity, I do not feel its inclusion should affect the placements of Iron Man 2: Security Breach or Iron Man 2: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (ie. splitting November 25, 2009-February 18, 2010 into 4 instead of 3) as it probably should not be included altogether and may get taken off. However, because it is being moved for now, it came out between Iron Man 2: Security Breach and Iron Man 2: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., so should probably go halfway between December 28, 2009 and January 21, 2010, around January 9, 2010. The comic begins, then goes to "two days later", then "one day later", and then the following allow/deny comics reference the fact that Pepper will be arriving "tomorrow morning" for the rest of the events, and that Tony took down the criminals "yesterday". Therefore it ends 4 days after the beginning, placing it from roughly January 7-11, 2010.

Between Fury's Big Week and The Avengers
There are a few comics set in this time period: Now to place those. What do we know?
 * The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII (ending) - unofficial canon, released April 10, 2012.
 * The Avengers: The Avengers Initiative (present parts) - unofficial canon, released May 2, 2012.
 * The Avengers Prelude: Black Widow Strikes - official canon, released May 2, May 16, and June 6, 2012 - mean of May 18, 2012, median of May 16, 2012.
 * Iron Man 3 Prelude (beginning) - official canon, released January 2 and February 6, 2013 - mean and median of January 20, 2013.
 * Thor: The Dark World Prelude (beginning) - official canon, released June 5 and July 10, 2013 - mean and median of June 23, 2013.
 * The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII is unofficial canon, but fits, as explained further up. The ending is set a while after the end of Iron Man 2, a little while before The Avengers, as it is just as Stark begins work on the new idea for his Mark VII suit. It can be assumed that it is about two thirds of the way between the last we see of Stark on June 2, 2010 and the first we see of him in The Avengers on May 2, 2012, so around September 11 and 12, 2011.
 * The Avengers: The Avengers Initiative is unofficial canon, but also fits. Fury's language implies that Steve has already woken, the World Security Council is just unsure if he'll be accustomed enough to join the Avengers. It is therefore set anywhere between October 9, 2011 and April 30, 2012 inclusive. Halfway between these dates would be January 19, 2012.
 * The Thor Imir event is very hard to place. He mentions Loki, which would imply that Loki is still around, so before the events of Thor. It is currently placed on August 9, 2010, with Thor in May-June 2011, so with Thor now in May-June 2010, August 9, 2009 is as good as anything for now.
 * The Iron Man Dubai incident is said to be "recent", placing it around 10 days prior, roughly January 9, 2011.
 * The Avengers Prelude: Black Widow Strikes is official canon and fits. It is yet another reason that the "8 years later" cannot work - it is explicitly said on the comic that it is set between the events of Iron Man 2 and The Avengers, and Natasha says, "They're connecting the capital to Sochi on the coast, where the Winter Olympics will be held in two years." This is referring to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, which happened from February 7-23, 2014. 2 years prior would put this scene around February 15, 2012.
 * The beginning of Iron Man 3 Prelude is official canon, and picks up a year after Iron Man 2, with the Expo having been fully cleaned up and Stark Tower several months into its construction, and in the 10 months leading up to the Battle of New York. That all lines up fine, from July 2011-May 2012.
 * The beginning of Thor: The Dark World Prelude is official canon, and picks up a while after the end of Thor, with the universe still shifting as the inhabitants of numerous realms realise that the Bifrost is gone. It then goes to "one year later", to the beginning of The Avengers. The weak assumption, value 25, is it has been about 4 months since Loki supposedly died on June 2, 2010, so October 6.66667, 2010, but value 300, it has been a year, so April 30, 2011. April 14, 2011.

Aldrich Killian Dates
Something I noticed throughout the Phase One parts of the timeline is that the dates to do with Aldrich Killian seem random and unclear. I rewatched Iron Man 3 and this is what I have found: On the current timeline, Killian injecting himself is 106 days before he finds candidates, which is 5 days before the first injections. This fits well enough, and is what I will use: The "Thursday, October 3, 2013" date for Chad Davis does not fit at all, but the "02.31.2013" has a slight correct part to it. If it is assumed that the year is wrong, like the newspaper later in the film, then it can be considered "02.31.2012". And then, of course, there is no February 31st, so it can be taken as February 29, 2012. This fits as Tony scanning for "the last 12 months", finding something 9 months prior. The 8 other Mandarin bombings can then be distributed evenly between February 29, 2012 and December 17, 2012:
 * At some point between January 2000 and June 2009, Killian injected himself with Extremis.
 * At some point soon before June 25, 2009, Killian found the candidates.
 * On June 25, 2009 ("06/26/09" on the computer in the van), Killian initiated Phase 0, injecting the candidates. One exploded.
 * On June 27, 2009 ("06/26/09" on the computer in the van), Killian initiated Phase 1.
 * On July 2, 2009 ("07/02/09" on the computer in the van), Killian initiated Phase 2.
 * On July 5, 2009 ("07/05/09" on the computer in the van), Killian initiated Phase 3.
 * At some point within 12 months before December 21, 2012 (it comes up on a scan that Tony does of "the last 12 months"), Chad Davis exploded. This "predates any known Mandarin attack." When he calls up the information, it says "02.31.2013" which is obviously not even a real date, let alone the 2013 not fitting. The article from The Rose Hill Weekly appears to say "Thursday, October 3, 2013," which also does not fit, not only being 2013, but the implication is that it had to be several months before December for there to have been nine bombings since this date.
 * Eight Mandarin attacks then followed, two of which were public.
 * On December 17, 2012, there is a ninth (third publicly revealed) Mandarin bombing.
 * March 6, 2009 - Killian injects himself.
 * June 21, 2009 - Killian finds candidates.
 * February 29, 2012 - Chad Davis.
 * April 1, 2012 - First bombing.
 * May 3, 2012 - Second bombing, moved from May 4, 2012 to avoid clash with Battle of New York and Rhodey in Hong Kong.
 * June 5, 2012 - Third bombing.
 * July 8, 2012 - Fourth bombing.
 * August 9, 2012 - Fifth bombing.
 * September 10, 2012 - Sixth bombing, moved from September 11, 2012 to avoid the tragic implications of a terrorist attack occurring on September 11th.
 * October 13, 2012 - Seventh bombing.
 * November 15, 2012 - Eighth bombing.
 * December 17, 2012 - Ninth bombing.

So, How Does This All Work Out?
VISION: 2016 - 8 YEARS TV: MAY 4, 2008 TIMELINE: 1943 + 67 YEARS TIMELINE: 2005 + 5 YEARS TIMELINE: 1945 + 64 YEARS TIMELINE: 1942 + 67 YEARS HAPPY: 2008 RING WATTS: PETER WAS 8 KEVIN FEIGE: PHASE ONE 4 YEARS APOGEE AWARD: AFTER JAN 2008 AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D.: RESCUE IN BAHRAIN 2008 REAL TIME: WHAT FITS BEST? HAMMER: 6 MONTHS MCU TIMELINE: RIO 6 MONTHS MCU TIMELINE: MONACO 6 MONTHS IRON MAN 2: 6 MONTHS LATER PEPPER: CHRISTINE LAST YEAR THE AVENGERS: IRON MAN MARK VII STARK EXPO: MAY 7, 2010 ROSS AND SAMSON: BANNER ON THE RUN FOR 5 YEARS DARCY: GONE FOR 2 YEARS IRON MAN 2: 05.06.10 IRON MAN 2: GRAND PRIX DE MONACO HISTORIQUE BLONSKY: 39 YEARS OLD CAPTAIN AMERICA: ASLEEP FOR 65-70 YEARS STARK CEO: 2010 NATASHA: MORE THAN A YEAR FURY: LAST YEAR THOR: THE DARK WORLD PRELUDE: A YEAR IRON MAN 3 PRELUDE: OVER 10 MONTHS
 * In Captain America: Civil War, Vision says, "In the 8 years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man…" This is very firmly on June 20, 2016.
 * Currently, this does not fit, with it being 5 years and 8 months.
 * With these changes, it fits better. Although it is only 6 years and 7 months, that is closer to 8, and can just about fit if interpreted as Vision talking about the 8 calendar years that have happened since the moment Tony announced himself: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and now 2016.
 * As Pepper watches TV the day after Tony's return, the TV shows the date "May 4, 2008".
 * Currently, this does not fit, with it being April 2010.
 * With these changes, it still does not fit, but it fits better. It is now May 4th, just of 2009, not 2008, and 2009 is closer to this date than 2010 as well.
 * The MCU timeline puts "I am Iron Man" "67 years" after June 22, 1943 (date given by prop and confirmed by Marvel), when Steve got his powers.
 * Currently, this does fit, with it being October 2010, 67 years and 4 months later.
 * With these changes, it does not fit as well, admittedly, now 66 years and 5 months later - however, when the timeline document as a whole is considered, it still fits better, because the document has some information that does not line up, but when averaged out, places it around late 2009.
 * The MCU timeline puts "I am Iron Man" "5 years" after Bruce got his powers on April 16, 2005 (date given in the The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture comic, fits with the evidence in the film).
 * Currently, this fits reasonably well, it is 5 years and a little over 6 months, which would round to 6, but by the simpler maths of "2010 - 2005 = 5", it still makes sense.
 * With these changes, it fits about as well. It is now 4 years and 7 months, which does now round to 5, but does not fit by the simpler maths of "2009 - 2005 = 4".
 * The MCU timeline puts "I am Iron Man" "64 years" after Cap goes missing on March 4, 1945 (date given by a newspaper in Captain America: The Winter Soldier).
 * Currently, this does not work, it is 65 years and 7 months.
 * With these changes, it fits a lot better as 64 years and 8 months. Not only is this significantly closer to 64, but now also fits by the simple maths of "1945 + 64 = 2009".
 * The MCU timeline puts "I am Iron Man" "67 years" after Schmidt steals the Tesseract in March 1942 (date given on-screen in Captain America: The First Avenger).
 * Currently, this does not work, it is 68 years and 7 months.
 * With these changes, it fits a lot better as 67 years and 8 months. Not only is this significantly closer to 67, but now also fits by the simple maths of "1942 + 67 = 2009".
 * Spider-Man: Homecoming has a major timeline error with its "8 years". It is not reconcilable. However, even if this is ignored, it is a definite sign at the very least that the MCU has been spanning more than 6 years at this point overall, even if The Avengers is only 4 years before. Happy Hogan also mentions that he has had the ring on him since 2008, which implies that he's had it since Iron Man (when Tony started to show romantic interest in Pepper) or Iron Man 2 (when they started dating).
 * Currently, the MCU would only have spanned 6 years and 8 months from the beginning of Iron Man to Spider-Man: Homecoming. With the ring, currently there is a minimum of 1 year and 10 months from Happy getting the ring to the pair first dancing together and a minimum of 2 years and 5 months from Happy getting the ring to the pair actually getting together.
 * With these changes, the MCU would have spanned 7 years and 7 months from the beginning of Iron Man to Spider-Man: Homecoming, which is at least a bit of an improvement in that direction. With the ring, there would now be a minimum of 11 months from Happy getting the ring to the pair first dancing together and a minimum of 1 year and 5 months from Happy getting the ring to the pair actually getting together. While this still isn't ideal, again, it's slightly better, with the ring being closer to the actual thing.
 * On page 66 of Empire Magazine's "Summer 2017" edition, Jon Watts said, "the eight-year-old Peter had seen Stark say, 'I am Iron Man,' on TV." Peter was 15 by June 24-27, 2016 in Civil War, so he has to have been born between June 28, 2000 and June 23, 2001. He is still "15" at the Skirmish on the Staten Island Ferry, and there is no hint of him having his birthday before the end of the film on September 26, 2016, so overall, Peter was definitely born in the region of September 27, 2000-June 23, 2001.
 * Currently, this does not work. Even if Peter were born at the latest possible date of June 23, 2001, he would be 9 on the current timeline.
 * With these changes, it does work. If Peter were born in the region of November 26, 2000-June 23, 2001, which is perfectly possible, then Peter would indeed be 8 on November 25, 2009.
 * Kevin Feige said that Peter Parker was 5 at "I am Iron Man" and 9 during the Battle of New York (1, 2). While this does not fit any dates, putting "I am Iron Man" c. 2006 and The Avengers c. 2010, the actual ages can be seen as just him not quite doing the math correctly on the spot (especially with Watts saying he was 8 during "I am Iron Man" which makes a lot more sense). However, it implies that 4 years span between "I am Iron Man" and the Battle of New York.
 * Currently, this does not work, with it being only 1 year and 6½ months.
 * With these changes, it works better, now as 2 years and 5½ months. Feige's statement at a minimum means there is 3 years and 1 day between them, as explained further above, and this is coming a lot closer to fitting.
 * At the Apogee award scene in Iron Man, it can clearly be seen that Tony was on the front cover of a "Jan 2008" magazine, making the beginning of the film December 2007 at the earliest.
 * Currently, this works.
 * With these changes, this still works - if anything it works better as it is used as an example of a recent magazine cover, and it is more recent now.
 * In Melinda, it is shown that the Rescue in Bahrain was 7 years before the very firm date in April 2015, reasoned as April 21, 2015, which puts it around 2008. In the flashback, the "Avenger Initiative" is only just starting, looking for superpowered people, and it is clearly before Iron Man appears on the scene - and Fury had Coulson on the job of finding Stark from when he was kidnapped, so this is before Stark's capture. This is corroborated by the fact that the Framework's main changes stemmed from the "Cambridge Incident" not long after the rescue, and with the new timeline changing from before the beginning of Iron Man, this would make sense for why the events of the film seem not to have occurred, at least not in the same way, in that reality.
 * Currently, this works.
 * With these changes, this still works - if anything it works better as the events of Iron Man are now only a year after the initiative began, and they do seem to be in the early stages.
 * The MCU follows a general real-time policy, set, where possible, as close to the release date as possible. Ideally, as explained above, this would put "I am Iron Man" around May 25.6, 2009 and FBW Day 1 around November 27.8, 2009.
 * Currently, "I am Iron Man" is 1 year and 5 months out from the ideal real time setting and FBW Day 1 is 1 year and 6 months out.
 * With these changes, these are both now only 6 months out from the ideal real time setting, significantly closer.
 * In Iron Man 2, Justin Hammer says, "We all know why we're here. In the last 6 months, Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities." This clearly presents 6 months as the timespan between "I am Iron Man" and the hearing, which is a few weeks before FBW Day 1.
 * Currently, this works, with it being 6 months.
 * With these changes, it also works. It is closer to 5½ months, but also fits by the simpler maths of "May 2010 - November 2009 = 6".
 * On the MCU timeline, it shows 6 months as the timespan between "I am Iron Man" and the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro, which is 17 days before FBW Day 3, when Bruce arrives at Culver University, and it is shown to be "17 days without incident".
 * Currently, this does not work particularly well, as it is 6½ months and does not fit by the simpler maths of "May 2011 - October 2010 = 7".
 * With these changes, it works better. It is a little over 5½ months, but also fits by the simpler maths of "May 2010 - November 2009 = 6".
 * On the MCU timeline, it shows 6 months as the timespan between "I am Iron Man" and the Duel of Monaco, which is 1-7 days before FBW Day 1.
 * Currently, this does not work particularly well, as it is over 6½ months and does not fit by the simpler maths of "May 2011 - October 2010 = 7".
 * With these changes, it works better. It is very close to 6 months, and also fits by the simpler maths of "May 2010 - November 2009 = 6".
 * The beginning of Iron Man 2 shows "I am Iron Man" taking place. It then shows a montage of Ivan Vanko working on his whiplash technology, and then cuts to the opening of the Stark Expo, with the on-screen text saying "6 months later".
 * Currently, this fits fine, as it is 6 months since "I am Iron Man" and presumably either Vanko's work took only a few days, or it just refers to "I am Iron Man".
 * With these changes, it also works. It is closer to 5½ months, but also fits by the simpler maths of "May 2010 - November 2009 = 6" since "I am Iron Man" and presumably either Vanko's work took only a few days, or it just refers to "I am Iron Man".
 * At the Duel of Monaco, which is 1-7 days before Day 1 of Fury's Big Week, Pepper jokes that Christine Everhart "did quite a spread on Tony last year," referring to her sleeping with Tony at the beginning of Iron Man, 2 days before Tony's kidnapping.
 * Currently, this fits as being May 2011 referring to January 2010.
 * With these changes, it also works, being May 2010 referring to February 2009.
 * The The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic follows Tony's updates in a design log for the Iron Man armor. The comic shows that MVII Day 1 is before the icing problem test flight, MVII Day 23 is soon after the Battle of Gulmira, MVII Day 30 is soon after the Duel of Los Angeles, and definitely a while before the Stark Expo opens, and MVII Day 199 is soon after the Battle at Stark Expo.
 * Currently, this does not fit, as it means that ideally there is about 196 days, at a maximum there is 198 days between the icing test flight and the Battle at Stark Expo, but there is currently 249 days.
 * With these changes, it works pretty much perfectly as 197 days, as fully explained above.
 * On the Stark Expo website, it stated that the "Stark Expo 2010" would begin on "May 7, 2010", along with tie-in videos leading up to it with specific dates of April 2010.
 * Currently, this does not fit, as it is in April 2011. Not only does it not fit with the fact that this material calls it Stark Expo 2010, but neither is it even in May, nor does the "362 days remaining" and "343 days remaining" match.
 * With these changes, it fits perfectly. Not only can it fit as Stark Expo 2010, but the May 7, 2010 date lines up pretty much perfectly with the May 31, 2010 date of the Battle at Stark Expo and the "362 days remaining" and "343 days remaining" dates, as explained above.
 * On FBW Day 6, Ross says, "He made it 5 years." In a deleted scene, Samson also says, "You don't drop your career and disappear off the face of the Earth for 5 years just because you have an anger management issue." While one alone might seem like it can be interpreted as not exactly referring to since Bruce went on the run, 3 days after his experiment, both together make it clear that it has been 5 years since he left, leaving Betty. The date of his experiment is given in the The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture comic as April 16, 2005, which fits with the evidence from the film, and the day he leaves is 3 days later, April 19, 2005.
 * Currently, this does not fit, as it is 6 years and 1½ months.
 * With these changes, it fits perfectly, as it is 5 years and 1½ months.
 * In Thor: The Dark World, Darcy says, "He's gonna come back. Except, you know, last time he was gone for like, 2 years." The date Thor returns is pretty firmly November 11, 2013.
 * Currently, this fits reasonably well. While it is 2 years and 5 months, that still rounds to 2 years, and it fits by the simpler maths of "2013 - 2011 = 2".
 * With these changes, it admittedly does not fit as well, as there is 3 years and 5 months between Thor leaving and returning. However, if it is interpreted to mean, "Last time he left you, it was 2 years before he returned to Earth," then this fits fine, as 1 year and 11 months (a better "2 years" than 2 years and 5 months as well) between him leaving and returning.
 * In Iron Man 2, a "05.06.10" (May 6, 2010) date is shown on-screen when Rhodey visits Tony the day after Monaco (specifically stated that the grand prix was "yesterday").
 * Currently, this does not fit, being May 2011. It should also be noted that the current timeline has this dated as a few days after Monaco, when it is stated to be "yesterday".
 * With these changes, it still cannot fit perfectly, but it is a lot closer, being May 2010, just not May 6th. It also works as being the day after Monaco.
 * In Iron Man 2, the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique appears. This is a biannual event on even-numbered years, so did not happen in 2009 or 2011, the only other real potential years for Fury's Big Week, but did happen in 2010, on May 1st-2nd.
 * Currently, this does not fit particularly, being in late May 2011, though it can be accepted as being completely different in the MCU if absolutely necessary.
 * With these changes, it still cannot fit perfectly, but it is a lot closer, being May 2010. It is the right year and month, just exactly 3 weeks later, exactly a week after the normal Grand Prix as an extra event after rather than a warm-up event 2 weeks before, which is a lot more plausibly close to the normal dates.
 * In The Incredible Hulk, Blonsky says that he is "39", and according to many sources - though I myself have not yet found it - in an extended/deleted scene from the film, it is said that Blonsky was born on March 1, 1971.
 * Currently, this does not fit, as Blonsky would be 40 in May 2011.
 * With these changes, it does fit, with Blonsky being 39 in May 2010.
 * In Captain America: The First Avenger, it is said that Steve has been asleep for "almost 70 years". In The Avengers, Steve says, "I slept for 70 years." The 70 can easily be simply interpreted as a rounded decade, and this is corroborated by what he says in Spider-Man: Homecoming, "slept for 65 years." This is more specific than the 70, so overall it can be taken that he slept for around 66¾ years, to best fit these statements as a whole.
 * Currently, this does not particularly fit well, being 67 years and 2 months after he went into the ice, which cannot really work as "65 years".
 * With these changes, this fits a lot better, being 66 years and 7 months, very close to the ideal 66¾ years, satisfying these three references much better.
 * In a deleted scene from The Avengers, as well as on display at a public event, it is shown that Tony was CEO at Stark Industries from "1992-2010". On the day when Tony transfers power to Pepper (he mentions it's "effective immediately"), there are 362 days remaining of the expo, and on FBW Day 3, the day of the Battle at Stark Expo, there are 343 days remaining, thereby putting 19 days between these two dates, and 17 before FBW Day 1.
 * Currently, this does not fit, with Stark stepping down in April 2011.
 * With these changes, this does fit, with Stark stepping down in May 2010.
 * In The Avengers, Natasha says to Bruce, on May 2, 2012, "You've been more than a year without an incident. I don't think you wanna break that streak."
 * Currently, this does not fit, with it only being 11 months since the Duel of Harlem, 10 months since the British Columbia incident, and only 2½ months since the incident on the Pakistan-India border.
 * With these changes, this fits, being 13½ months since the incident on the Pakistan-India border.
 * In The Avengers, Fury says, "Last year, Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town." This is on May 4, 2012, implying the Battle of Puente Antiguo was in 2011.
 * Currently, this does fit, with the Battle of Puente Antiguo being in 2011 and this being said in 2012.
 * With these changes, this sadly does not fit. This is the main sacrifice that has to be made with this Phase One solution, because this cannot work, but overall everything else works out better. It has to be assumed that Fury just misremembered the exact date of the battle, or due to the slightly vague nature of the dialogue he is actually referring to another incident that we do not know about (although that is really just finding an excuse).
 * In the Thor: The Dark World Prelude, the comic shows what Jane and Darcy were doing during the events of The Avengers. Darcy mentions that Jane has searched for Thor for "a year".
 * Currently, this does fit, with their work beginning after Thor left in June 2011, and Darcy saying this in May 2012.
 * With these changes, this sadly does not fit. This is the other sacrifice that has to be made with this Phase One solution, because this cannot work, but overall everything else works out better. It has to be assumed that either Darcy is misremembering exactly how long they have been working, or she is referring to it having been a year since she last took a proper break rather than Thor leaving, as she does not use those exact words (although that is really just finding an excuse).
 * The Iron Man 3 Prelude comic begins a while after the end of Iron Man 2. The foundations and first few levels of Stark Tower have already been built, and the damage at the expo has been completely cleared. It then jumps "two months later" to Mumbai, then "three months later" to Ghanzi Province, then "two months later" to Northern Sudan, which continues to Bagram Airfield, and Stark Tower is coming along well. Finally, it jumps "three months later" to Hong Kong, and this is shown to be the same day as the Battle of New York, on May 4, 2012.
 * Currently, this does not particularly fit. While the 10 months does work, from July 2011 to May 2012, this would mean that it took only 1½ months to clean up all of the damage at the Expo, plan Stark Tower, lay all the foundations, and build the first few floors of the building.
 * With these changes, this fits much better, with plenty of time to clean up all the damage at the Expo as well as plan Stark Tower, lay all the foundations, and build the first few floors of the building - 1 year and 2 months.

=Timeline Suggestion= This is, therefore, the changes I would make to each relevant timeline page: =Before 20th Century=

7th

 * Odin hides the Tesseract in Tønsberg, Norway.

=1940s=

9th

 * In Tønsberg, Norway, Johann Schmidt discovers and takes the Tesseract, hidden within a monastery. He refers to it as "the jewel of Odin's Treasure Room".

September

 * Thaddeus Ross is born.

=1960s=

1st

 * Anton Vanko defects to the United States of America.

October

 * Anton Vanko works on Arc Reactor technology with Howard Stark in what was known as "The Unity Project".

26th

 * Anton Vanko is accused of espionage and deported as a spy. Howard Stark takes full credit for the Arc Reactor technology and Obadiah Stane convinces him to take Stark Industries back into weapons development.

27th

 * Anton Vanko returns to the Soviet Union but is sent to exile in Siberia for two decades.

=1970s=

29th

 * The last remaining American troops withdraw from Vietnam, including Thaddeus Ross, who is 27 years old.

19th

 * A promotional video for Stark Expo 74 is released, advertising it as a "dream of tomorrow, realized today," and featuring Howard Stark. The video invites viewers to join them for the opening in April 1974.

26th

 * The last Stark World Exposition until 2010 opens. Howard Stark hides the secret to perfecting Arc Reactor technology in the layout of the Expo for Tony Stark to find when he gets older.

28th

 * Tony Stark builds his first circuit board.

7th

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

28th

 * Tony Stark builds his first engine.

23rd

 * Stark Industries makes its last breakthrough in Arc Reactor technology until 2009.

=1980s=

June

 * Tony Stark makes Dum-E in his father's workshop.

5th

 * Tony Stark graduates MIT at the top of his class.

=2000s=

"I am Iron Man."

- Tony Stark

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

1st

 * Bern 2000: 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.

June

 * Pop sees his son for the last time.

November

 * Peter Parker is born.

7th

 * A new president is elected to replace, whose presidency was influenced by elements of HYDRA.

March

 * The Momentum Labs Headquarters in Houston are shut down.

8th

 * Harold Meachum is diagnosed with cancer.

13th

 *  by is released, later downloaded by Danny Rand.

18th

 * The Rands and Meachums film a commercial for Rand Enterprises.

30th

 * The Rand Enterprises commercial is released.

3rd

 * Jimmy is caught screaming at people in Times Square, and taken to Birch Psychiatric Hospital, where he would remain until at least 2016.

28th

 * Under the influence of HYDRA, NASA sends astronauts Will Daniels, Taylor, Brubaker, and Austin through the Monolith to survey the planet on the other side of the portal until an extraction team could come to retrieve them.

1st

 * Ward and Joy Meachum play with Danny Rand. Ward, older by a few years, is rude to Rand.

10th

 *  by is released, featuring the song Heat of the Moment, which Danny Rand later downloads onto his iPod.

15th

 * Danny Rand breaks his arm in a skateboarding accident.

11th

 * The occur.

12th

 * Frank Castle enlists in the and is placed under the command of Ray Schoonover.

13th

 * Two days after the, Thaddeus Ross convinces the U.S. Armed Forces to start the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project in an attempt to recreate the results of Project Rebirth.

23rd

 * The 1st Generation is released, and bought by the Rand family for Danny Rand.

29th

 * Air Crash in the Himalayas: The Rand family's airplane crashes in the Himalayas on the way to Anzhou, China. Unbeknownst to them, the pilots had been poisoned by The Hand, on Harold Meachum's orders. The only survivor is 10-year-old Danny Rand, who crawls in the frozen landscape and finds the body of his father, Wendell Rand. He is found by the Order of the Crane Mother, who take Rand back to the city of K'un-Lun.In Iron Fist: Season 1, throughout February 2016, there are many references to the air crash being 15 years ago: In Snow Gives Way, Joy says, "It's been like 15 years since Danny and his parents died." In Shadow Hawk Takes Flight, Ward says, "[Danny] waited 15 years to come back," Harold says, "Ask him where he's been the last 15 years," Dr. Edmonds says, "Where have you been in the last 15 years?", and Danny says that K'un-Lun "only appears on this earthly plane every 15 years, give or take, depending on the celestial tilt." In Eight Diagram Dragon Palm, Danny says, "After living in a monastery for 15 years." In Immortal Emerges from Cave, Danny says, "I've been doing this for 15 years." In The Blessing of Many Fractures, Danny says, "I've spent the last 15 years learning..." In The Mistress of All Agonies, Gao refers to the crash as "events that happened 15 years ago", and in Dragon Plays with Fire, Hogarth talks about "wherever the hell it is that you were for 15 years" and Claire refers to the crash as "something that happened 15 years ago." 15 years prior would put this around early 2001, however, we know from Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch that the Rands were still around in July 2001. In The Mistress of All Agonies, Ward Meachum's birthday is given as September 19, 1986 (see other references), and in Snow Gives Way, Ward says, "I was 15 when [the Rands] died." This definitively places the air crash between September 19, 2001 and September 18, 2002. On top of this, the 1st Generation, which Rand owns at the time of the crash, was released on October 23, 2001, and in the New York Bulletin | Joy and Ward Meachum Special Report video, it is said that Harold's death, which is known to be 2004, albeit reasoned as early January, was "2 years" after the crash. From all of this, the accident is reasoned as October 29, 2001, six days after the iPod's release, a little over 2 years before January 4, 2004, and still reasonable enough to be considered "15 years" before February 2016, by the simple math of "2016 - 2001 = 15". This also allows time for Danny's arm to have healed since the break in July.

30th

 * New York Bulletin writer Keira Morrisette publishes the article "Rand Family Presumed Dead Following Tragic Plane Crash" on the Air Crash in the Himalayas.

January

 * Ward Meachum starts work at Domani Architecture.



19th

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

20th

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

10th

 * Arkon is released in the United States of America.James Gunn detailed how Nathan Fillion originally had a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 as actor Simon Williams, appearing on posters for films he has appeared in, on display at a film festival. The films are Arkon, Toxic Janitor 2, Oh, Rebecca, Haxan 2, Dead Before Arrival, and Tony Stark. They are takes on Conan the Barbarian, The Toxic Avenger Part II, a late 2000s romantic comedy, Horns, Inception, and Steve Jobs respectively. With the fact that Williams seems to be roughly the same age in all the pictures (as they were all taken together), that he could not have looked to be in his 40s in 1982 (when Conan the Barbarian was released) and also films released in present day, that Steve Jobs was released in 2015, after the film's 2014 setting, and Horns was released 4 years after Inception, when the Dead Before Arrival posters says it is "from the director of Haxan 2", these films cannot simply replace their respective films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Oh, Rebecca resembles a lot of romantic comedy films that were released around 2008, so it would make sense for it to have been released around Valentine's Day, February 14, 2008. Dead Before Arrival can still fit on the release date for Inception, July 16, 2010. The fact that it is "from the director of Haxan 2" means it is worth looking at the career of the director of Inception, Christopher Nolan, whose previous film was The Dark Knight, released in 2008, which would imply that Haxan 2 was released around 2008. It says it was released on "October 31", so October 31, 2008. The rights to make Steve Jobs were acquired 3 days after his death, and then it took 1476 days before it was released. Assuming the rights to make Tony Stark were acquired 3 days after "I am Iron Man", so November 28, 2009, the film would have come out around December 13, 2013. The remaining two films can presumably have been released in the order of the films they reference, so Arkon, then Toxic Janitor 2. Based on approximately how old Fillion was when he took the photos (using April 14, 2016, the middle of filming for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, then working back from the approximate dates when Simon Williams would have filmed the movies (about November 6, 2006 for Haxan 2 (based on the time between the middle of filming and release for Horns), July 17, 2007 for Oh, Rebecca (based on the time between the middle of filming and release for 2008's Sex and the City)), September 7, 2009 for Dead Before Arrival (based on the filming schedule for Inception), and April 19, 2013 for Tony Stark (based on the time between the middle of filming and release for Steve Jobs) and taking an average, Simon Williams would have been born approximately in April 1964. Nathan Fillion was about 32 years and 9 months old when the first film that he was the main actor in, Water's Edge, was released on January 27, 2004. If Simon Williams were roughly the same age at the time of the first film in which he was the main actor, this first film would have come out around February 16, 1997. Therefore, his career as being the headline actor would have spanned from then to October 19, 2014 (when the film festival scene would have been set in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), and so distributing the two films at a third and two thirds of the way between these dates would put Arkon around January 8 (rounded to 10th, the nearest Friday), 2003, and Toxic Janitor 2 around November 28, 2008.

20th

 * The begins, and is orchestrated by HYDRA.

22nd

 * In an act orchestrated by HYDRA, eight thousand members of Iraq's 51st Infantry Division surrender to American and British forces.

18th

 * releases "", which Joy Meachum sung repeatedly during her father's final days.

30th

 * The Meachums spend the summer in the Hamptons together, their last before Harold Meachum would pass away from cancer months later.

29th

 * Having been accepted into Columbia University Law School, Matt Murdock enters his room and introduces himself to his new roommate Foggy Nelson, who is signing on to a Punjabi course at the last minute. Nelson admits that he heard about what had happened to Murdock as a child and is excited for their upcoming three years together.

22nd

 * Melinda May has her first date with Andrew Garner.In Melinda, it is shown that May and Garner were already married on the reasoned date of May 15, 2008. They appear to have only been married for a short time - back from their honeymoon and back to work, but only recently starting their new routine. Assuming they have been married for around 5 months, they would have got married around December 15, 2007. The average time between engagement and marriage is 14.5 months, putting the engagement around September 30, 2006, and the average time between meeting and marriage is 2 years, 11 months, 8 days, putting May and Garner's first date around October 23, 2003. In the flashbacks in The Man Behind the Shield, it is shown that they have just met recently. It is said that this is the "weekend" and her time could have been spent as time with Garner soon after that first date - the second Saturday following October 23, 2003 was November 1st. This also fits with Coulson's security level progression over time. Coulson progressed to Level 6 around the time of Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant, which is dated to July 2010, and he implies in All the Madame's Men that he was recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. academy straight after he left high school, which Clark Gregg confirmed, around July 1982. He therefore would have progressed to become a Level 1 agent around May 1985. In the following 25 years at S.H.I.E.L.D., he progressed 5 levels, therefore progressing around one level every 5 years. This would mean he progressed to Level 4 around mid-2000, before progressing to Level 5 around mid-2005, and so him being Level 4 in the flashbacks in 2003 fits.

1st

 * Working for the SVR, Anton Ivanov and his unit are sent to collect the Russian 0-8-4 from an old military compound called the Burkov Mining Facility.
 * Phil Coulson, a Level 4 agent, is sent to this facility on a S.H.I.E.L.D. mission with Melinda May, Level 3. *Coulson and May's orders are to retrieve the 0-8-4 in Russia. They are discovered by Ivanov's SVR soldiers while cracking a safe. Coulson tries to negotiate with the Russian soldiers, claiming that he has been sent to investigate a biohazard leak, although Ivanov's commander remains highly skeptical of him. May escapes with the 0-8-4, abandoning Coulson, causing him to be captured by the SVR Soldiers.  TMBTS May.jpg, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Level 3]] *May soon returns, attacking Ivanov and his unit and freeing Coulson. They escape with the 0-8-4.  *As a result of this, Ivanov's unit are tortured and executed for their failure, although Ivanov manages to escape the same punishment. Ivanov goes on to directly blame Coulson and all of S.H.I.E.L.D. for the incident which killed his unit.

8th

 * Harold Meachum's illness, having reached a serious level, is revealed to the public.

9th

 * The New York Bulletin article "Harold Meachum Gravely Ill" is published on the front page.

26th

 * Harold Meachum is approached by The Hand organization, days before he is expected to die. They offer him the opportunity to be resurrected after his passing, and he accepts.

27th

 * Harold Meachum buys an art deco building to live in secretly after his resurrection.

4th

 * Harold Meachum passes away after nearly 3 years battling cancer.

5th

 * Keira Morrisette's article "Harold Meachum Dead at 41" is published in the New York Bulletin.

7th

 * The Hand resurrects Harold Meachum as promised, 3 days after his death. He ceases to age biologically, his body remaining 41 years old.

18th
In the film, it is shown that on "SUN 04/18/04" (April 18, 2004), Bruce is pictured on CCTV. The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture shows on a calendar that Bruce got his powers on April 16, 2005. The film seems to suggest it is c. 2004 with the CCTV image from April 2004, and simultaneously suggests it is 2006 from the newspaper of the incident showing "-06". This April 2005 date fits nicely in the middle of these, as well as being a rounded "5 years" before November 25, 2009, "I am Iron Man", as shown on Marvel's timeline, and "5 years" before May-June 2010, the events of The Incredible Hulk, as stated in the film and a deleted scene. The 2004 image is of Banner, not the Hulk, and so could be surveillance of him as he works on the project, and the 06 does not show the full "2006" and could be interpreted as an issue number, price, or something other. The 2005 date fits nicely and should be used. The comic shows that Bruce running away was "3 days" later, putting it on April 19, 2005, then shows that his next incident was on the Canadian border, on "05/19/05", May 19, 2005. It goes on to detail how this was followed by "months of nothing" where the "trail went cold," until the incident in "the heart of South America". Approximately 5 months would put this around October 18, 2005. There is then a gap from October 18, 2005-May 27, 2006 before the next location, which we know from the film included Bruce attempting contact on "02/07/06", February 7, 2006. The film shows that on "05/27/06" and "05/28/06", May 27-28, 2006, Bruce was sighted in Canada. There is then another gap from May 28, 2006-September 4, 2006. The film shows that on "09/04/06" (also accompanied by "2006"), September 4, 2006, there is an incident at a house, which seems to be placed on the map around Asia, roughly the Kyrgyzstan area, it does not actually show its exact position. There is another gap from September 4, 2006-January 22, 2007, in which on October 21, 2006 (shown on a letter) there was an unknown incident where Hulk fled the scene, the last sighting for at least 5 months. The film shows that on "01/22/07" (also accompanied by "2007"), so January 22, 2007, there was an incident ending in a crumpled car in Samara, Russia, which must not have actually been a sighting, just evidence left behind. There is then the final gap from January 22, 2007-April 12, 2010, in which a letter was written in March 2007 saying there had been no sightings for "5 months" since "October 21, 2006". The last time Bruce turned into the Hulk was on November 5, 2009, because the day after the ambush in Rio, which is on May 14, 2010, it can briefly be seen that before his counter reset that he had gone "190 days without incident". The film then begins on April 12, 2010, "158 days without incident," in Rocinha. There is a sighting in Dakota, which would make sense to fit when Bruce is travelling up from South America to Canada, in the October 18, 2005-May 27, 2006 gap. Based on the distances, Hulk being in Dakota in between these dates would fall around May 14, 2006. There is a sighting which is reported as a "Green sasquatch". Sites seem to believe this is the Canada sighting on May 28, 2006. There is a raid, which seems to follow on from the sighting in Canada image, so can also be assigned to Canada. In a deleted scene, corroborated by a piece of dialogue from The Avengers, it is shown that Banner attempted suicide at some point in the Arctic. This fits in the May 28, 2006-September 4, 2006 gap, just before the travel to Southeast Asia. There is a line on a map suggesting Banner travelled from Northwest Canada/the Arctic to Southeast Asia. This fits in the May 28, 2006-September 4, 2006 gap, following the incident in Canada. There are two dots suggesting at some point Bruce was in Japan, which also fits in that gap, following the travel to Southeast Asia. The distances between each approximate location from Canada, to Nunavut, to Southeast Asia, to Sapporo, and then to roughly Kyrgyzstan between these dates would put Nunavut around June 7, 2006, Southeast Asia around August 2, 2006, and Sapporo around August 6, 2006. There is a "2006" incident with a truck, which can be assigned to the October 21, 2006 date, especially since it appears to be nearer to Europe from the company name helping the truck, which fits as Bruce is heading in the direction of Europe at that point. There is a "March 07" flight, which some sites have dated as March 2, 2007. This is presumably Bruce crossing the Atlantic to the U.S.A. At some point, Banner was in "the States" and encountered Nick Fury in The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files. It would make sense for this to be following the beginning of the Avenger Initiative in 2008, as given in Melinda. In the film, there is a letter written by Fury from S.H.I.E.L.D., which can be assigned to just after this. A part where a military search highlighted on a map for which the latitude and longitude seems to suggest around Libya, fitting in this gap, before his final travel from Africa to South America. This travel is shown when military helicopters seem to be flying southwest from an African location (by latitude and longitude) toward South America, which we know was Bruce's final destination. It can be assumed that his last incident on November 5, 2009 was in South America, and is what led the military to follow across the Atlantic. The distances between each approximate location from Samara, to the U.S.A., to Libya, and then to east South America between these dates would put the U.S.A. around February 27, 2008 (although it seems to be a Saturday, because he is watching soccer, so March 1, 2008), which fits with the Avenger Initiative just starting up, and Libya around March 2, 2009.
 * 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.The Incredible Hulk, The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture, and The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files provide evidence for the timeline of the Chase of Bruce Banner.
 * Surveillance begins on Banner as he begins a year of work towards the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project, and Ross saves a CCTV photo of him.

23rd

 * Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov are incarcerated at Utkin Prison.

June

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

5th

 * dies.

July

 * The Momentum Labs Headquarters in New York City are shut down.

September

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

19th

 * Turning 18, Ward Meachum steps down from Domani Architecture to prepare to take over the company of Rand Enterprises.

16th

 * Espinoza begins operations in South America.

1st

 * Ward Meachum officially assumes the role of CEO of Rand Enterprises.

5th

 * ' is released by, containing the song '.

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 Hulk. Gamma pulses stored in Banner's amygdala which are released during high stress moments, will trigger a 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 a 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. This is the start of the Chase of Bruce Banner, which spans for five years.

25th

 *  is released as a single by.

19th

 * 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 when the State Troopers officers try to arrest him, Banner is forced to transform into Hulk.
 * Hulk flees after the incident. In his run, the Hulk is sighted by locals along the U.S./Canada border.
 * After the incident, a watch is found with the words "To Bruce, all my love, Betty" inscribed on the back of it.

12th

 * Misty Knight is first bumped off patrol.

8th

 * Murdock and Nelson gatecrash an expensive party together, and there Murdock meets fellow student Elektra Natchios. As the two of them talk, Natchios deduces things about him, however, Murdock uses his wit to keep the conversation going, and the two leave the party together, getting into another person's sports car and driving off. From then on, the two continue to commit reckless acts together and get closer.

18th

 * In South America, Banner is attacked by the criminal leader Espinoza and his men and transforms into the Hulk, destroying the terrorist hideout.
 * Emil Blonsky and his team later arrives at the village discovering a path of destruction left by Hulk. This is reported to Thaddeus Ross, his first lead on Banner in months, since the incident on the U.S./Canada border.

29th

 * Late at night, Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios break into Fogwell's Gym. The two of them discuss their pasts and learn more about each other, with both also mentioning that they have enjoyed the last few weeks together. They begin to playfully fight in the boxing ring, but the intimacy leads the two of them passionately making love in that gym for the first time.

10th

 * Attack on Roscoe Sweeney: In the night, Natchios takes Murdock to an expensive penthouse. They break in and go to the kitchen, taking food from the fridge and discussing the passionate and luxurious future that the two of them want to have together. When they hear noises, Natchios goes ahead of Murdock, and when he walks into the room, she gleefully tells him that she has Roscoe Sweeney, the killer of Murdock's father, bound to a chair for him to enact revenge on. This was his house all along, and she expected him to appreciate the gesture. Murdock is at first reluctant, but Natchios manipulates him to start punching Sweeney. Because of her, he begins to savor the feeling of revenge. However, when she then tries to get him to kill Sweeney, Murdock realizes what a dangerous relationship he has got himself into. He steps away, breaking off his relationship with Natchios, and calls the police; however, when he looks around, Natchios is gone.

7th

 * Bruce Banner tries to contact Betty Ross, but the email is intercepted by the military and she never receives it.

18th

 * Hope Mackenzie is born.

22nd

 * Hope Mackenzie dies.

25th

 * With their finals fast approaching after nearly 3 years of law school, having now developed a strong friendship, Nelson often jokes about Murdock's blindness, while Murdock would tease Nelson about many of his poor life choices, such as his decision to join a course studying Punjabi simply to get close to a girl. On a night out together when they really should be studying, Nelson asks Murdock what happened to "the Greek girl" who Murdock was dating, to which Murdock simply replies that things did not work out. The two joke about their future as partners at law, and they swear to work together for many years.

14th

 * On his way back to Canada from South America, Bruce Banner is sighted in Dakota when he transforms into the Hulk.

27th

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

28th

 * Hulk is sighted by locals in Canada, who mistake him for a "".

7th

 * 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 Hulk, who spits out the bullet, and Banner wakes up afterwards.

13th

 * moves from the to the  in New York City.

2nd

 * Banner is sighted near Osaka, Japan.

6th

 * Banner is sighted in Sapporo, Japan.

1st

 * 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.

4th

 * The Mossad sends a photograph of a destructive event, possibly linked to Hulk, to the Strategic Operations Command Center.

14th

 * 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.

30th

 * Melinda May and Andrew Garner are engaged after a few years together.

21st

 * This is the last sighting of Bruce Banner for at least five months, as he is involved in an incident which destroys another truck.

14th

 * The device is released. One is later owned by Peter Quill, after being obtained by the Yondu Ravager Clan.

22nd

 * 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, however there is no sighting.

2nd

 * A flight on this date is pinned as significant by the U.S. military.

19th

 * 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.
 * A letter is written to S.H.I.E.L.D. about Banner having not been sighted in 5 months, and they are brought in to help Thaddeus Ross, continuing to help him until 2010. Stark Industries sells him HMMWV-mounted sonic cannons.

November

 * The Momentum Labs Headquarters in Pasadena, California are shut down.

15th

 * Melinda May and Andrew Garner get married.

14th

 * Simon Williams' latest movie, Oh, Rebecca, is released.

1st

 * Nick Fury, in disguise, finds Bruce Banner in a bar and tries to find out what Thaddeus Ross' "Super-Soldier 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 Hulk and go on a rampage.

3rd

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

6th

 * 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.

15th

 * Rescue in Bahrain: S.H.I.E.L.D. takes notice of Eva Belyakov's activities and tracks her 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.

16th

 * May returns to the United States, traumatized by the ordeal in Manama. She shuts herself off from everyone, including her husband Andrew Garner. Over time, their marriage falls apart. With approval from Maria Hill, May switches from field duty to a simple desk job.

22nd

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

8th

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

20th

 * Adrian Toomes' Crew is formed as they start salvaging items to sell from wreckages. As more and more superheroes would begin to arise in the following 8 years, none interfered with their business, even as they turned to the illegal black market in 2012, until Spider-Man finally intervened in 2016.

22nd

 * Edison Po disappears off the grid.

31st

 * Haxan 2 is released in the United States of America.

4th
Presidential elections in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are not the same as in the real world. While it is never outright stated that Obama was president in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it is implied from Tony's poster, designed to resemble Obama's, in Iron Man 2, the Obama biography in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the repeated references to him in Luke Cage, that Obama was likely president at some point. In December 2012, Aldrich Killian refers to President Ellis and says, "After years dodging the President's ban," implying Ellis has been president for years. Killian is also angry at Ellis' lack of involvement in the Norco incident, "2 years ago." It can also be assumed that Ellis was president when Steve woke in October 2011, as it is shown in Captain America: The Winter Soldier that he is quoted as welcoming Steve back to the world. In April 2015, Grant Ward says in A Fractured House that if his brother Christian were allowed to take him, his trial should then "wrap up right before the midterms". A newspaper in Captain America: Civil War shows that it is an election year in 2016. From all of this, it can be assumed that, at least as of 2008, elections in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are biannual instead of every 4 years. Therefore, Obama would have been elected in November 2008. In May 2010, during Obama's presidency, Tony has a poster resembling Obama's. Ellis would have been elected in November 2010, and dealt with the December 2010 Norco incident and its aftermath as he came into his presidency. He would then have been president when Steve woke in October 2011, and in late December 2012, during Iron Man 3, he would have been president for 2 years (just about fitting as "years"). Ellis would have been reelected in November 2014, and then the midterms would have been in November 2015, 7 months after Ward's statement. 2016 would then be the next election year, as shown in Captain America: Civil War.
 * Barack Obama is elected President of the United States.

28th

 * Toxic Janitor 2 is released in the United States of America.

19th

 * Happy Hogan acquires an engagement ring for Tony Stark to propose with in the future, to whomever he should marry, and holds onto it for the next 8 years.

30th

 * Tony Stark demonstrates his new Accelerated Wave Explosion (A.W.E.) weaponry to the United States Armed Forces at the Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. Later that evening, Stark and James Rhodes go to a club. Stark's arrogant, playboy attitude upsets another patron, resulting in a brawl.

11th

 * Tony Stark wins the Apogee award, but is not present to accept it. Instead, he is gambling.
 * Stark is approached by Vanity Fair reporter Christine Everhart, and gives witty responses to her questions. He convinces her to spend the night with him, and takes her back to his mansion.
 * Stark and Everhart sleep together.

12th

 * Pepper Potts gets rid of Christine Everhart from Tony Stark's Mansion after Everhart's one-night stand. Potts informs Tony Stark that today is her birthday.

13th

 * Kidnapping of Tony Stark:
 * Following the demonstration of the Jericho missile system outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, the military convoy escorting Tony Stark is attacked by the Ten Rings, under the leadership of Raza, who is secretly working for Obadiah Stane. Stark is wounded by Stark Industries-manufactured weapons and captured.
 * Fellow captive Ho Yinsen saves his life by attaching an electromagnet to his chest. Raza orders them to build a Jericho missile, but they instead build a battle suit powered by a miniature Arc Reactor.

14th

 * Nick Fury sends Phil Coulson to Stark's business partner Obadiah Stane to investigate the possibility of Tony Stark selling his country to save his own skin. Coulson returns with the negative reply, and offers to go searching for Stark himself, but Fury refuses the offer.

1st

 * R. Giyera enlists as a security specialist in the Maryland branch of Endotex Labs.

2nd

 * The U.S. military scans northeast Africa for Bruce Banner.

6th

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

9th

 * 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.

1st
A date on a TV in Iron Man which says "May 4, 2008"; Vision's line from Captain America: Civil War firmly on June 20, 2016, saying, "In the 8 years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man…"; and a statement from Kevin Feige (1, 2) implying 4 years between Iron Man and The Avengers, which is set in May 2012, all would suggest that Iron Man is set in 2008. Marvel's timeline showing that "I am Iron Man" is approximately 67 years after March 1942 (date shown on-screen in Captain America: The First Avenger), when Schmidt took the Tesseract, 67 years after June 22, 1943 (date given by newspaper and confirmed by Marvel), when Steve got his powers, 64 years after March 4, 1945 (date given by newspaper in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and matches other evidence), when Steve went into the ice, and 5 years after April 16, 2005 (date given in The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture and matches other evidence), when Bruce became the Hulk, meaning the timeline overall presents late 2009 for "I am Iron Man"; Jon Watts saying that "the eight-year-old Peter had seen Stark say, 'I am Iron Man,' on TV," and again that Peter was 8 at that moment, with the fact that Peter was born around late 2000-early 2001 (from evidence in Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming); and Melinda, set firmly in April 2015, flashing back to "7 years ago" when the Avengers Initiative was just starting up, before Iron Man, all suggest that Iron Man is set in 2009. The second half of Iron Man 2, the events of Thor, and the second half of The Incredible Hulk are all set in the same week, known as Fury's Big Week, as detailed in the The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week comic, on Marvel's timeline, and shown in the films. Iron Man 2 also cannot span more than a few weeks, because the Expo is said to only be a year long, and there is "362 days remaining" on the day of Pepper's hiring and "343 days remaining on the day of the Battle at Stark Expo; the Monaco incident, which is after Pepper's hiring, is shown on Marvel's timeline to still be 6 months after "I am Iron Man", when the senate meeting is also said to be 6 months after "I am Iron Man" and the Expo opening is shown to be at least 6 months after "I am Iron Man", so the Monaco incident is definitely within a month of the Expo opening; the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic shows that the ice problem test flight in Iron Man is on, or after "Day 1", that Monaco is between "Day 189" and "Day 199", and the Battle at Stark Expo in Fury's Big Week is before "Day 199", meaning that the end of Iron Man 2 is just over 6 months max. after; plus, the rate at which Tony's palladium poisoning is increasing means that the film cannot realistically span more than a few weeks anyway. The Stark Expo 2010 website saying that the Expo began on May 7, 2010; Ross saying in The Incredible Hulk that Bruce "made it 5 years" and Samson saying in a deleted scene, "You don't drop your career and disappear off the face of the Earth for 5 years just because you have an anger management issue," when we know Bruce went on the run on April 19, 2005; a computer in Iron Man 2 saying "05.06.10"; the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique appearing in Iron Man 2, which is a biannual event which was held in May 2010; Blonsky being known to have been born on "March 1, 1971," as said in a deleted scene, and saying he is "39"; Fury saying Steve slept for "almost 70 years" in Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve saying he slept for "70 years" in The Avengers, and then more specific with "65 years" in Spider-Man: Homecoming, overall implying he slept for about 66½-66¾ years, and having gone into the ice on March 4, 1945 (date given in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and matches other evidence), implying he woke around late 2011, and The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week saying that this is "one year later" after the end of Fury's Big Week; Tony Stark's file, on display at an event and shown in a deleted scene from The Avengers, saying he was CEO of Stark Industries until 2010; Natasha saying to Bruce on May 2, 2012, "You've been more than a year without an incident. I don't think you wanna break that streak," when we know he had incidents in Harlem, then a month later in British Columbia, both in The Incredible Hulk, then travelled through several countries until having another incident on the Pakistan-India border, shown in The Avengers: The Avengers Initative, before settling in Kolkata for over a year before May 2, 2012; and the Iron Man 3 Prelude showing that 10 months before The Avengers, enough time had passed since Iron Man 2 that all of the damage at the Expo had been cleaned up, Stark Tower had been fully planned, the foundations had been laid, and the first few levels had already been constructed, all suggest that Fury's Big Week is set in 2010. However, Fury saying on May 4, 2012 in The Avengers, "Last year, Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town," implying the Battle of Puente Antiguo was last year; the Thor: The Dark World Prelude comic showing Darcy, on May 4, 2012, saying to Jane that "it's been a year," implying it has been a year since Thor left; and Darcy saying in Thor: The Dark World, "He's gonna come back. Except, you know, last time he was gone for like, 2 years," seemingly referring to it being 2 years from him leaving Jane before he returned on November 11, 2013 (but potentially just meaning, "Last time he left you, it was 2 years before he returned to Earth," referring to The Avengers), all suggest that Fury's Big Week is in 2011. Justin Hammer saying in Iron Man 2, "We all know why we're here. In the last 6 months, Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities"; Marvel's timeline showing that both the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro (which is shown to be 17 days before Banner arrived at Culver University on Day 3 of Fury's Big Week) and the Duel of Monaco (which is within days of Fury's Big Week) were 6 months after "I am Iron Man"; Iron Man 2 beginning with "I am Iron Man", showing Vanko working, then cutting to "6 months later" to the Stark Expo opening; Pepper joking at Monaco that Christine Everhart slept with Tony "last year" (which was 9 months before "I am Iron Man"); and the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic showing about 197 days between the test flight with the icing problem and the Battle at Stark Expo, all show that there is only 6 months between "I am Iron Man" and Iron Man 2/Fury's Big Week. If Fury's Big Week were in 2011, this would place Iron Man in 2010, not satisfying any of its own evidence, only the spans between films. If Fury's Big Week were in 2010, this would also place Iron Man in 2009. The best solution possible, to satisfy the most evidence with the most importance possible, is reasoned out as Iron Man being set from February-November 2009 and Fury's Big Week being set in May-June 2010. To see a full, detailed description, calculation, and explanation of the reasoning, see here.
 * During their 3 months of capture, Tony Stark and Ho Yinsen finish the armored suit they have been creating. Stark uses it to escape, but Yinsen is killed by the Ten Rings while saving him.The timeline placements for Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk is fraught with contradictions and problems. As detailed on Marvel's timeline, Iron Man spans 9 months from Tony's kidnapping to "I am Iron Man", then Iron Man 2 is 6 months later. With Tony's birthday appearing in Iron Man 2, which is May 29th (as shown on a file in a deleted scene from The Avengers and on display at an event, and lining up with other evidence placing the film in May), Iron Man 2 is set mostly in May, and Iron Man is February-November of the year before, which also lines up with its own evidence. However, the evidence for which years they are set in is contradictory.
 * The flight of Iron Man ends up on the radar of S.H.I.E.L.D., Jasper Sitwell notifies Nick Fury about the signal which gets lost when Iron Man crashes in the desert. Being it the first lead to find Stark, they notify the United States Department of Defense.
 * Stark is later found by the United States Armed Forces and taken to Germany, where he is checked out by army doctors and subjected to debriefings from the CIA, NSA, and others.

3rd

 * Returning to the U.S. and deeply affected by his experience, Tony Stark pulls Stark Industries out of the weapons business, terminating all military contracts. Hammer Industries maneuvers itself to pick up new contracts. Stark reveals to Obadiah Stane the Arc Reactor technology he developed to power the armor. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Phil Coulson attempts to schedule a meeting through Stark's personal assistant Pepper Potts to discuss the circumstances of Stark's escape.

4th

 * Potts grimaces as she watches online videos mocking Stark's change in business plan, when she gets a call to go downstairs and help Stark. He asks her help in replacing his electromagnet with a newer arc reactor, and she squeamishly helps him with the operation, nearly causing him a cardiac arrest from a mistake she makes, but ultimately succeeding in the procedure. Stark then tells her to simply dispose of the old reactor, but she decides otherwise.

18th

 * A fortnight after his return, and with his injuries healed, Tony Stark visits James Rhodes as he talks to air force recruits in a hangar. He explains to Rhodes that he is considering starting a whole new project for enforcing peace.

20th

 * Colleen Wing comes to the United States of America, leaving her grandfather's home in Japan. She goes on to meet Bakuto at the Hand Compound and be recruited into The Hand.

26th

 * Stark opens a file for his new design project, the "Mark II".

20th

 * 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.

24th

 * Several weeks after Stark's escape, the Ten Rings find the armor he used to escape, left in pieces in the desert.

25th

 * Aldrich Killian starts the Phase 0 of Extremis Injections. 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.

20th

 * Cassie Lang is born to Scott and Maggie Lang.

23rd

 * Stark continues to work on his new armor, putting together the legs of the suit.

6th

 * Tony Stark begins his log of tests for the new suit of armor, beginning "Day 1", first testing the flight capabilities. However, he underestimates the power of the thrusters, and flies up and backwards into the wall behind him.

9th

 * Imir kidnaps several Dwarves and threatens to take over Asgard. He battles Thor, who defeats him by electrocuting him into submission.
 * Stark continues to work on improving his suit.

13th

 * While he works on the arms of the new armor, Stark is interrupted when Pepper Potts visits with a gift for him. He does not notice that it is his old arc reactor, put in a case, and marked with the text, "Proof that Tony Stark has a heart."
 * Stark goes upstairs to see Obadiah Stane, and they discuss the dramatic drop in Stark Industries stock following Stark's change of heart in the business' motivations.

16th

 * On "Day 11" of tests, Stark tries again with the flight capabilities. He manages to control the flight better, and is excited by his progress. Stark then spends the following months working on all the other parts of the armor.

14th

 * Damon Boone begins to speak out against Mariah Dillard's campaigns in Harlem.

5th

 * After eventually heading to South America, Bruce Banner starts to look for vascular plants that could inhibit radiation and therefore, find the key to cure his condition. He has another incident turning into the Hulk, his final incident for 6 months.

6th

 * As the U.S. military follows the new lead on Banner, tracing from Africa to South America, Banner travels to Rio de Janeiro.

8th

 * Banner contacts Samuel Sterns for help in developing a cure. They communicate using code-names of "Mr. Blue" and "Mr. Green". Acting on a suggestion from Mr. Blue, Banner researches Amazonia Tracheophytes for a lead on the cure.

11th

 * General Thaddeus Ross looks through the evidence from the Chase of Bruce Banner.
 * Banner studies calming techniques at a nearby temple, gets a job at a soda bottling factory, and begins to teach himself Portuguese.

15th

 * Stark starts a new log about his armors, beginning a new "Day 1". He recounts his escape from Afghanistan, before beginning his first test of the newly-completed Mark II armor. In Iron Man, the second half of the film is set over several days in November 2009. This comes from the fact that on the day of the senate meeting in Iron Man 2, May 8, 2010, it is said to have been 6 months since Iron Man surfaced, and Marvel's timeline shows that the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro, May 14, 2009, and the Duel of Monaco, May 23, 2010, are 6 months since "I am Iron Man". Together, these three would put "I am Iron Man" around November 15, 2009. At the party where Tony dances with Pepper and Tony discovers Obadiah has gone behind his back, Coulson arranges a meeting for "the 24th." He then shows up for the meeting as Pepper escapes with the USB with Obadiah's information, the day of the Duel of Los Angeles. "I am Iron Man" is the day after, putting it on the 25th of its month. The closest 25th to November 15, 2009 is November 25, 2009, which also works as 6 months before May 2010 by the general math of "November 2009 + 6 months = May 2010". The party scene has to be within October 25-November 22, 2009, as these are the only dates on which Coulson simply saying "the 24th" fits as November 24th. On the night of the party, Tony checks his watch before he leaves. While it does not give a month, it shows the date as Thursday 16th. The Thursday might not line up, but the 16th lines up perfectly, being November 16th. This lines up perfectly with the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic. It has been established that its "Day 189" was May 22, 2010, as Tony left for Monaco, and its "Day 199" was June 1, 2010, the day after the Battle at Stark Expo. This would put its "Day 1", which is shown to be the day of the test flight, on November 15, 2009, lining up as the day before the party on the 16th, as it presented in the film.
 * Tony Stark flies the Mark II armor using newly fitted flight stabilizers, but discovers an icing problem.

16th

 * Stark analyzes more data and decides to rebuild his suit using gold titanium from an old project to solve the icing problem. He also instructs J.A.R.V.I.S. to add "hot-rod red" paint trimming to the next suit, code-named "Mark III." He leaves to attend the third annual benefit dinner for the Fire-Fighters Family Fund while the new suit is being assembled and painted. At the charity event, Phil Coulson approaches Stark and books an appointment for the 24th to discuss his escape from the Ten Rings. Stark dances with Pepper Potts, and they share a moment together in the moonlight.
 * Christine Everhart, the reporter Stark slept with prior to leaving for Afghanistan, shows him photographs of his weapons being used by a terrorist group the previous day in the Afghan town of Gulmira, Ho Yinsen's home village.
 * Stark confronts Obadiah Stane, who reveals that he has filed an injunction against him.

17th

 * Battle of Gulmira: Stark tests his Mark III armor by flying to Afghanistan and forcing the Ten Rings out of Gulmira.
 * As Iron Man escapes, he attracts the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Fury wants to try to call the Raptors off via Edwards Air Force Base but after the Raptors got no response via radio contact they already fired on Iron Man.
 * Stark manages to escape from the Raptors by destroying one of them. He reveals to James Rhodes he is Iron Man.

24th

 * Under Stark's direction, Pepper uncovers proof of Obadiah Stane's collaboration with the Ten Rings. Phil Coulson keeps his appointment to meet with Stark, but instead assists Pepper in finding the Iron Monger Armor.
 * Duel of Los Angeles: Stark and Stane eventually come to blows in their respective armors. Stane is killed by the detonation of Howard Stark's giant, industrial Arc Reactor. The conflict is seen by the public, and the press name the mysterious hero "Iron Man".
 * Shortly after the battle, Phil Coulson sends a fake ambulance to pick up Stark and James Rhodes, taking them to a S.H.I.E.L.D. complex in the local area. Coulson stresses to Stark how S.H.I.E.L.D. can teach him combat skills.

25th

 * At a press conference the day following his fight with Stane, Stark rejects S.H.I.E.L.D.’s constructed alibi and admits to the world that he is Iron Man.
 * Nick Fury contacts Phil Coulson and comments on the press conference hours ago, and tells him that he will visit Stark that night. Fury then gives him the mission to supervise the new agent Hendricks during his first mission.
 * Anton Vanko dies in poverty in Moscow. His son Ivan vows revenge on Tony Stark and builds his own portable Arc Reactor to power a body harness armed with energized electric whips.
 * Nick Fury approaches Stark about joining the "Avengers Initiative", but he declines.
 * Coulson comments to Hendricks about a new lead on the Ten Rings' illegal activities in close proximity to them. They go, but are ambushed by the Ten Rings' operatives.IMG 1007.jpg Coulson is shot and nearly killed, forcing Hendricks to stand and save him. After he manages to defeat the Ten Rings' operatives, Coulson approaches and reveals to him that the whole mission was a test for him to see how he would act under pressure. Coulson congratulates and welcomes him into S.H.I.E.L.D..
 * As Fury leaves Tony Stark's Mansion, he calls Coulson and tells him that they will need Natasha Romanoff.

7th

 * Stark finally has the time to update his log again, making the entry for "Day 23", in which he recounts the Iron Man suit's performance in the Battle of Gulmira.

14th

 * Stark updates his log again, making the entry for "Day 30", recounting the Iron Man suit's performance in the Duel of Los Angeles. He decides he will have to work on the suit's delivery system.

16th

 * Iron Man is named 's Person of the Year 2009, beating out,.

18th

 * 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.

19th

 * Trying to have a serious relationship after the revelation that he is Iron Man, Stark starts a relationship with Lina.

28th

 * Knowing that she is dating Stark, the Ten Rings kidnaps Lina's son so as to blackmail her to obtain the blueprints from the Iron Man Armor.
 * Lina tries to obtain the blueprints but J.A.R.V.I.S. stops her, as she manages to escape Stark locates and asks for an explanation. She explains the situation to him and Stark goes to rescue her son successfully.

7th

 * Iron Man tracks a shipment down of first generation Tellor Propellant Rifles, made by Stark Industries. The weapons were set to be destroyed after Tony Stark made the decision to no longer provide any weapons. Instead, the shipment got diverted by a hacker to a different location. While the shipments gets unloaded, Iron Man stops the guards and destroys the weapons.
 * Meanwhile Pepper Potts and Jesse try to track down the hacker but he left no trace.
 * On her break, Jesse gets an email and thinks it is from her aunt but appeared empty when opening it.

9th

 * Jesse discovers that the email was sent by hackers who mined her computer, scanned her passwords and got access to the main frame of Stark Industries. The hackers exploited Stark by pretending to be him by stealing his online identity, buying expensive art, philanthropic funding and spending money on extravagant parties. Stark is able to track down the coding from the mail downloaded by Jesse to Genoa in Italy.

10th

 * Iron Man arrives at a local carnival in Genoa which is sponsored by Stark's own money via the hackers. While he circles the carnival he is spotted by Ten Rings insurgents lead by the hacker Cordo Gaines. Having the rest of the stolen weapon shipment,Cordo Gaines.png they start shooting at Iron Man and when they use a rocket launcher, Iron Man is taken down to the ground. But the weapons are supplied with Stark Industries chips and Iron Man is able to remotely turn the weapons down. Cordo Gaines and his men get arrested while Iron Man extends the carnival with another week and calls Pepper to come over.

21st

 * Nick Fury sends in a team of United States Navy SEALs to board a ship controlled by the Ten Rings in the port of Aden. However, Iron Man suddenly appears and attacks the terrorists killing them and saving the SEALs.
 * Iron Man returns to his mansion and informs Pepper Potts about the recent events.

18th

 * As Tony Stark continues to operate as Iron Man, he brings about a period of relative peace and is credited with stabilizing East-West relations, while maintaining a partying lifestyle.

22nd

 * Tony Stark's main target in his operations as Iron Man are the Ten Rings, who are based in Pavlodar, Kabul, and the Gulf of Aden. He saves an airman in the Congo who was test-piloting a vehicle designed by Justin Hammer under the orders of Thaddeus Ross. However, Stark realizes the palladium core of his Arc Reactor is slowly poisoning him, and while he searches for a cure he keeps his condition a secret.

4th
A date on a TV in Iron Man which says "May 4, 2008"; Vision's line from Captain America: Civil War firmly on June 20, 2016, saying, "In the 8 years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man…"; and a statement from Kevin Feige (1, 2) implying 4 years between Iron Man and The Avengers, which is set in May 2012, all would suggest that Iron Man is set in 2008. Marvel's timeline showing that "I am Iron Man" is approximately 67 years after March 1942 (date shown on-screen in Captain America: The First Avenger), when Schmidt took the Tesseract, 67 years after June 22, 1943 (date given by newspaper and confirmed by Marvel), when Steve got his powers, 64 years after March 4, 1945 (date given by newspaper in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and matches other evidence), when Steve went into the ice, and 5 years after April 15, 2010 (date given in The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture and matches other evidence), when Bruce became the Hulk, meaning the timeline overall presents late 2009 for "I am Iron Man"; Jon Watts saying that "the eight-year-old Peter had seen Stark say, 'I am Iron Man,' on TV," and again that Peter was 8 at that moment, with the fact that Peter was born around late 2000-early 2001 (from evidence in Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming); and Melinda, set firmly in April 2015, flashing back to "7 years ago" when the Avengers Initiative was just starting up, before Iron Man, all suggest that Iron Man is set in 2009. The second half of Iron Man 2, the events of Thor, and the second half of The Incredible Hulk are all set in the same week, known as Fury's Big Week, as detailed in the The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week comic, on Marvel's timeline, and shown in the films. Iron Man 2 also cannot span more than a few weeks, because the Expo is said to only be a year long, and there is "362 days remaining" on the day of Pepper's hiring and "343 days remaining on the day of the Battle at Stark Expo; the Monaco incident, which is after Pepper's hiring, is shown on Marvel's timeline to still be 6 months after "I am Iron Man", when the senate meeting is also said to be 6 months after "I am Iron Man" and the Expo opening is shown to be at least 6 months after "I am Iron Man", so the Monaco incident is definitely within a month of the Expo opening; the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic shows that the ice problem test flight in Iron Man is on, or after "Day 1", that Monaco is between "Day 189" and "Day 199", and the Battle at Stark Expo in Fury's Big Week is before "Day 199", meaning that the end of Iron Man 2 is just over 6 months max. after; plus, the rate at which Tony's palladium poisoning is increasing means that the film cannot realistically span more than a few weeks anyway. The Stark Expo 2010 website saying that the Expo began on May 7, 2010; Ross saying in The Incredible Hulk that Bruce "made it 5 years" and Samson saying in a deleted scene, "You don't drop your career and disappear off the face of the Earth for 5 years just because you have an anger management issue," when we know Bruce went on the run on April 19, 2005; a computer in Iron Man 2 saying "05.06.10"; the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique appearing in Iron Man 2, which is a biannual event which was held in May 2010; Blonsky being known to have been born on "March 1, 1971," as said in a deleted scene, and saying he is "39"; Fury saying Steve slept for "almost 70 years" in Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve saying he slept for "70 years" in The Avengers, and then more specific with "65 years" in Spider-Man: Homecoming, overall implying he slept for about 66½-66¾ years, and having gone into the ice on March 4, 1945 (date given in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and matches other evidence), implying he woke around late 2011, and The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week saying that this is "one year later" after the end of Fury's Big Week; Tony Stark's file, on display at an event and shown in a deleted scene from The Avengers, saying he was CEO of Stark Industries until 2010; Natasha saying to Bruce on May 2, 2012, "You've been more than a year without an incident. I don't think you wanna break that streak," when we know he had incidents in Harlem, then a month later in British Columbia, both in The Incredible Hulk, then travelled through several countries until having another incident on the Pakistan-India border, shown in The Avengers: The Avengers Initative, before settling in Kolkata for over a year before May 2, 2012; and the Iron Man 3 Prelude showing that 10 months before The Avengers, enough time had passed since Iron Man 2 that all of the damage at the Expo had been cleaned up, Stark Tower had been fully planned, the foundations had been laid, and the first few levels had already been constructed, all suggest that Fury's Big Week is set in 2010. However, Fury saying on May 4, 2012 in The Avengers, "Last year, Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that leveled a small town," implying the Battle of Puente Antiguo was last year; the Thor: The Dark World Prelude comic showing Darcy, on May 4, 2012, saying to Jane that "it's been a year," implying it has been a year since Thor left; and Darcy saying in Thor: The Dark World, "He's gonna come back. Except, you know, last time he was gone for like, 2 years," seemingly referring to it being 2 years from him leaving Jane before he returned on November 11, 2013 (but potentially just meaning, "Last time he left you, it was 2 years before he returned to Earth," referring to The Avengers), all suggest that Fury's Big Week is in 2011. Justin Hammer saying in Iron Man 2, "We all know why we're here. In the last 6 months, Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities"; Marvel's timeline showing that both the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro (which is shown to be 17 days before Banner arrived at Culver University on Day 3 of Fury's Big Week) and the Duel of Monaco (which is within days of Fury's Big Week) were 6 months after "I am Iron Man"; Iron Man 2 beginning with "I am Iron Man", showing Vanko working, then cutting to "6 months later" to the Stark Expo opening; Pepper joking at Monaco that Christine Everhart slept with Tony "last year" (which was 9 months before "I am Iron Man"); and the The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic showing about 197 days between the test flight with the icing problem and the Battle at Stark Expo, all show that there is only 6 months between "I am Iron Man" and Iron Man 2/Fury's Big Week. If Fury's Big Week were in 2011, this would place Iron Man in 2010, not satisfying any of its own evidence, only the spans between films. If Fury's Big Week were in 2010, this would also place Iron Man in 2009. The best solution possible, to satisfy the most evidence with the most importance possible, is reasoned out as Iron Man being set from February-November 2009 and Fury's Big Week being set in May-June 2010. To see a full, detailed description, calculation, and explanation of the reasoning, see here.
 * Tony Stark trials a new system for the Iron Man suit's delivery, but it fails. The timeline placements for Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk is fraught with contradictions and problems. As detailed on Marvel's timeline, Iron Man spans 9 months from Tony's kidnapping to "I am Iron Man", then Iron Man 2 is 6 months later. With Tony's birthday appearing in Iron Man 2, which is May 29th (as shown on a file in a deleted scene from The Avengers and on display at an event, and lining up with other evidence placing the film in May), Iron Man 2 is set mostly in May, and Iron Man is February-November of the year before, which also lines up with its own evidence. However, the evidence for which years they are set in is contradictory.

19th

 * Test subjects are chosen for Project T.A.H.I.T.I., and they undergo the trials. Their results are monitored over the following weeks.

30th

 * The first promotional video is released for the upcoming "Stark Expo 2010" in Flushing Meadows, New York City, due to start on May 7, 2010. A website is launched to accompany the announcement to promote the exposition - the first Stark Expo since 1974.
 * Along with the site and first video, Stark Expo 2010 releases an old promotional video for Stark Expo 74, the last Expo until now, advertising it as a "dream of tomorrow, realized today," and featuring Howard Stark. The old video invites viewers to join them for the opening in April 1974.

1st

 * In Germany, Tony Stark is on a business trip to make a partnership between Stark Industries and Gorani Insurance. He is stopped on the road by a policeman, who tells him that 15 million dollars’ worth of paintings have been stolen from a museum and describes the car of the thieves; he then lets Stark pass. Later, Stark fixes the flat tire of a young woman. Further along the road he discovers a car matching the description of the car the policemen described earlier.
 * He opens the trunk and finds all the paintings inside. The criminals return and open fire on Stark, but he fends them off with the glove of the Mark IV Iron Man armor. He manages to return the paintings to the museum and get to the meeting, where he meets the same woman whose tire he repaired. The woman is Evetta Gorani, the heir to Gorani Insurance. Her father and Gorani Insurance's current president Michael Gorani explains to him that the the paintings he recovered were insured by Gorani, meaning Stark saved the company over one hundred million dollars. He successfully starts a business partnership with Gorani.

5th

 * In Melbourne, Australia, Cordco films its annual product presentation. Managing director Karl Oakley demonstrates a sonic fire extinguisher, adapted from Iron Man Mark IV technology for the upcoming Stark Expo 2010.

7th

 * AccuTech release their video for Stark Expo 2010, in which CEO Charles Healey introduces the HazTech Exoskeleton, which is further discussed by Klaus Haas, head of Research and Development, explaining its uses for rehabilitative purposes.

12th

 * 158 days since his last "incident", having now settled in Rocinha, Brazil, Bruce Banner has an accident that causes a drop of his blood to fall into a soda bottle. He sends a sample of his blood to Samuel Sterns, who conducts further experiments with it outside of the analysis that Banner needs.

17th

 * Cordco release the video of their Melbourne presentation 12 days prior, the fourth video released for Stark Expo 2010.

21st

 * The test subjects for Project T.A.H.I.T.I. begin to go insane. The decision is made to alter their memories so they do not have to live with their trauma, but in the process they have to be given false memories and new identities. Agent Rebecca Stevens is declared deceased from cancer, and given a new life as "Janice Robbins".

23rd

 * Stark-Fujikawa releases the final video in the leadup to the opening of Stark Expo 2010 in a fortnight, demonstrating the virtual reality Heads Up Display glasses "Stark HUD 2020" on the streets of Tokyo, and filming the reactions of impressed users.

7th
The Stark Expo 2010 website had Stark Expo supposedly starting on May 7, 2010. This just about lines up with the May 29th date. On the day Stark promotes Pepper, it is shown clearly in the background that there is "362 days remaining" of the Expo. On the date of the Expo battle, there is clearly "343 days remaining", so there is 19 days between these dates. It can then be seen that it takes Tony 4 days to return home after the senate, 5 days after the Expo opens. This would mean there is an opening day, 365 days of normal Expo, then the closing day, plus counting inclusively (ie. on closing day it says "1 day remaining"), meaning there is "367 days remaining" on May 7th, and thus 5 days later on the 12th, "362 days remaining". This way, these two dates gel very nicely. So, with the opening on May 7, 2010, Pepper's hiring on May 12, 2010, and Tony's birthday on May 29, 2010, somewhere between the May 12th and May 29th dates is Monaco. Monaco cannot be on May 1st/2nd like in real life, as it does not fit within these limits. But that is fine, as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a different universe, so it can be different. It is still in the same ballpark as the real world. In an adaptation comic of Iron Man 2, in the same scene where Rhodey confronts Tony about Vanko having attacked him "yesterday", "Natalie" then comes downstairs to say Tony's guests are arriving, and they have the discussion about Tony asking what she would do if she knew it were her last birthday. This would put Monaco the day before his birthday. However, this scene actually contradicts the film, which depicts the Rhodey conversation and the "Natalie" conversation as separate scenes in separate rooms. It can be put down to the adaptation condensing the film (like the Iron Man one putting Coulson asking for a meeting on "the 24th" at Tony's returning press conference rather than the party months later), and ignore this. The The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic implies that "Day 189" is the day before Monaco, putting Monaco on Day 190. It implies as well that "Day 199" is around 2 days after Day 3 of Fury's Big Week, putting that on Day 5. This would put Day 1 around the Mark VII Day 195, 5 days after Monaco, therefore putting Monaco around May 24, 2010. However, it would work better on the 23rd, because the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique was held on a Saturday-Sunday in the real world, so it would make sense for it to be a Saturday-Sunday in the MCU as well. May 23, 2010 was a Sunday. The second day of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, in the real world, is supposed to be 2 weeks before the main Monaco Grand Prix (in this case, 2 weeks before May 16, 2010 - May 2, 2010). There is still some logic if the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique second day were 1 week after the main Grand Prix as a sort of after-party, rather than a build-up, which works as May 23rd. Plus, if Monaco is the 23rd, this puts "Day 189" on May 22, 2010, which then puts "Day 199" on June 1, 2010, the day after the Battle at Stark Expo, still working, and puts "Day 1" on November 15, 2009, which works perfectly with the timeline of Iron Man (see other references).
 * The 2010 Stark Expo has its opening ceremony, and is due to then run for a year, followed by a closing ceremony. In Iron Man 2, the scenes before Tony's birthday are set before Fury's Big Week begins. This scene is Day 1, May 29, 2010, with May 29th being Tony's birthday, as given on a file in a deleted scene from The Avengers, and the same file displayed at an event, and lining up with the other evidence.
 * Stark is summoned to a senate hearing the next day.

8th

 * Tony Stark appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee's Weaponized Suit Defense Program Hearings. These are chaired by Pennsylvania Senator Stern, who urges him to give the Iron Man suit, built six months ago, to the military, and calls Lt. Col. James Rhodes and Hammer Industries CEO Justin Hammer to testify against him. Stark refuses to surrender the suit, pointing out that although North Korea and Iran are working to replicate the technology, they are years away from being able to do so. He also reveals Hammer Industries has had its share of failures, leading to the cancellation of Hammer Industries' contacts with the Department of Defense.



12th

 * With 362 days remaining (inclusively) of the Expo, Stark appoints Pepper Potts as the new chairman and CEO of Stark Industries.
 * In Russia, an agent of the Ten Rings supplies Ivan Vanko assistance in infiltrating the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique.
 * Natasha Romanoff is ordered by Nick Fury to go undercover at Stark Industries.



14th

 * Ambush in Rio de Janeiro: Thaddeus Ross' unit, having traced Bruce Banner to the bottling factory, raids Rocinha under the field command of Emil Blonsky. Bruce transforms into the Hulk, breaking his 190-day streak without "incident", then defeats the task force and escapes.

15th

 * Bruce Banner wakes up in Guatemala and decides to travel back to Culver University to see if any data on his original project remains. Over the next sixteen days, he travels through Central America and the U.S., towards Willowdale, Virginia.

19th

 * James Rhodes tries to negotiate a compromise between Tony Stark and the Pentagon. While Rhodes and Stark are arguing, Stark challenges Rhodes to try one of his Iron Man suits. Rhodes accepts and takes the Mark II, arguing with Iron Man during the flight. When they arrive back at Stark's Mansion and Rhodes gets his armor off, he makes it clear that he does not let Stark put him in the position to choose between their friendship and his duty. Saying at his departure, that they both know where that would end up.

20th

 * Banner makes his way through Chiapas, Mexico.

21st

 * Tony Stark signs paperwork to transfer power to Pepper, and meets his new personal assistant, "Natalie Rushman".

22nd

 * Tony Stark updates his design log again, on "Day 189", recounting the opening of the Expo and saying that he believes he has sorted the delivery problem.
 * Stark then finishes the assembling of his Mark V armor, and leaves to board a plane to Monaco for the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique.

23rd

 * Duel of Monaco: At the Circuit de Monaco, Stark replaces Team Stark's regular driver DiFilipo in Race G.1403247_766665763349998_1167314312_o.jpg Ivan Vanko attacks him between turns 16 and 17 by the harbor. Switching into a portable, lightweight Iron Man armor (Mark V) Stark defeats Vanko.
 * Later that evening, Stark visits Vanko in prison before flying back to the United States of America with Pepper.

24th

 * Senator Stern appears on news channels to support military control of the Iron Man armor.
 * Justin Hammer orchestrates Ivan Vanko's escape from prison to have him work on Hammer Industries' own weapon-suit program. Ironman2 2895.jpg and Justin Hammer]]
 * Justin Hammer and Ivan Vanko arrive at the Hammer Industries Headquarters in New York City. Vanko begins revamping Hammer's own battle suit prototypes into unmanned, remote-controlled drones.
 * Media speculation continues about Tony Stark's fitness to continue as Iron Man. James Rhodes tries to convince him to hand over the Iron Man suits to the United States Armed Forces, but he continues to refuse.

29th

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors Bruce Banner, Jane Foster, and Tony Stark.
 * Duel at Tony Stark's Mansion: Nick Fury is informed that Tony Stark has 72 hours left to live due to his palladium poisoning. On Tony Stark's birthday, he is inconsolable over his inability to solve his palladium poisoning dilemma and gets drunk, which leads to a confrontation with James Rhodes, who dons the Mark II Iron Man armor. The fight wrecks a portion of Stark's Malibu mansion, and Rhodes leaves with the Mark II suit.
 * Bruce Banner has passed through U.S. customs, and there are reports of "atmospheric disturbances" in the Southwest region. Handed lithium to slow the effects of the condition, Fury leaves to meet Stark, carrying lithium to slow the palladium's effects, and orders Agent Jasper Sitwell to track Banner.

30th

 * Jane Foster contacts Erik Selvig, who flies out to New Mexico to help her monitor the atmospheric disturbances. Her message is intercepted by S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * In Asgard, Thor's coronation is suddenly interrupted when Odin senses a break-in in his treasure room. The culprits are discovered to be Frost Giants, and the Destroyer kills them. Thor is enraged at what he sees as an act of war.
 * James Rhodes flies to the Edwards Air Force Base and delivers the Mark II suit to the military. Nick Fury finds Tony Stark at Randy's Donuts, injects him with lithium and confines him to house arrest. Natalie Rushman reveals herself to be Natasha Romanoff, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * General Meade orders Justin Hammer to upgrade the Mark II armor with new weaponry, but Rhodey secretly removes the suit's Arc Reactor.
 * Stark visits Potts at Stark Industries, where she mentions Hammer is hosting a presentation at the Stark Expo the next day. Returning home, Stark makes an intuitive breakthrough on how to fix his palladium problem through the creation of a new element theorized by his father and hidden in the layout of the Stark Expo.
 * Attack on Jotunheim: Thor, Sif, Loki, and the Warriors Three travel to Jotunheim to seek justice for the actions of the Frost Giants. A fight breaks out between the Asgardians and Frost Giants, but Odin arrives riding Sleipnir to break up the fight.

31st

 * Returning to Asgard, Odin berates Thor for his reckless actions, stripping him of his godly power and casting him out of Asgard.
 * Nick Fury reassigns Agent Phil Coulson from monitoring Tony Stark to investigate atmospheric activity in New Mexico. Coulson leaves that afternoon.
 * Stark builds a small Particle Accelerator to create the element using equipment owned by Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.
 * 17 days after the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro, Bruce Banner arrives at Culver University. He sees Betty Ross, but does not approach her.
 * Battle at Stark Expo: Justin Hammer's Stark Expo presentation is hijacked by Ivan Vanko, who uses the drones to attack the crowd, including a 9-year-old Peter Parker. Tony Stark flies to the Expo to stop Vanko, defeating the Hammer Drones with the help of Rhodey (wearing the upgraded "War Machine" armor), the Black Widow and Happy Hogan. Vanko is killed in an explosion that destroys the Oracle Pavilion, while Hammer is arrested for breaking Vanko out of prison. Stark flies Pepper Potts to safety, they kiss and start a romantic relationship. Rhodey decides to keep the War Machine armor for himself.
 * Infiltration into Hammer Industries Headquarters: Before leaving Hammer Industries, Black Widow downloads all of the information stored on Hammer's mainframe and destroys the facility.
 * Phil Coulson arrives at a S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost in Roswell, New Mexico to assemble his team of agents.
 * Jane Foster, Erik Selvig, and Darcy Lewis detect a possible Einstein-Rosen Bridge in the nearby desert and discover the powerless Thor at its epicenter. He provokes Lewis with his aggressive behavior, but they subdue him with a tazer and take him to a local hospital.
 * Banner goes to his old friend and pizzeria owner Stanley Lieber to hide out. Lieber offers him the pizza shop's upstairs spare bedroom.
 * On his way from Roswell to Puente Antiguo, Coulson prevents an armed robbery at a gas station.

1st

 * Nick Fury sends Clint Barton to Puente Antiguo, New Mexico to assist Phil Coulson.
 * In Puente Antiguo, a local man discovers Thor's hammer, Mjølnir, in a crater about 50 miles west of the town. Unable to lift it, he calls several other people to give it a try. Jane Foster helps Thor escape from the hospital where he is being held and takes him back to her workplace.
 * Coulson arrives in New Mexico and discovers the site of Mjølnir. S.H.I.E.L.D. quickly quarantines the area and erects a portable laboratory over the site to study the hammer. Clint Barton arrives later that day.
 * Loki discovers his true heritage: Laufey, the King of the Frost Giants, is his real father. After confessing the truth Odin collapses and enters Odinsleep. Sif and the Warriors Three suspect Loki's treachery.
 * Bruce Banner poses as a pizza delivery man to get access to Culver University's computer labs and research database. On the way, he is accidentally seen by Betty Ross, and she has him stay the night at her home. Ross' boyfriend Leonard Samson secretly informs the military of Banner's whereabouts.
 * Following the Battle at Stark Expo the night before, Tony Stark updates his design log one final time for "Day 199", recounting the duel with Rhodes on his birthday, and the fight with Vanko.
 * Infiltration into the S.H.I.E.L.D. Crater Investigation Site: Thor and Foster head towards the site of the S.H.I.E.L.D. installation erected around Mjølnir. Thor sneaks in and tries to lift Mjolnir, but fails and is captured.
 * Loki appears before Thor, who is being held at the S.H.I.E.L.D. installation, and claims Odin is dead. Later, Erik Selvig goes to the installation and manages to get Phil Coulson to release Thor into his custody.
 * Emil Blonsky receives an unauthorized "low dose" injection of Bio Tech Enhancement Serum from Thaddeus Ross.
 * Predicting an imminent move from General Ross, Nick Fury sends Natasha Romanoff to spy on Banner.
 * After a night of drinking with Erik Selvig, Thor explains the concept of the Nine Realms to Foster.

2nd

 * Sif and the Warriors Three arrive on Earth to find Thor. Loki sends the Destroyer after them.
 * Battle at Culver University: At Culver University, Betty Ross walks Bruce Banner to the bus station in the early morning.Hulk and Emil Blonsky meet at the Battle in Culver University.png As they are crossing the campus, they are attacked by the Military and Emil Blonsky, who seems to adapt well to the Bio Tech Enhancement upgrade, but is still beaten by the Hulk, getting nearly every bone in his body pulverized. Natasha Romanoff witnesses Banner's transformation and Blonsky's enhanced performance from afar. The Hulk escapes the Military with an unconscious Betty, hiding in a cave deep in the Smoky Mountain National Forest. News of the battle quickly spreads across cable news channels and the internet. Jack McGee, a student who witnessed and captured the fight on cell phone video, names the creature "an Incredible Hulk” in an interview with WHiH World News. His remarks are played repeatedly over the next several days.
 * Battle of Puente Antiguo: The Destroyer attacks S.H.I.E.L.D. agents stationed at Puente Antiguo. Thor and his fellow Asgardians fight it, and during the battle, Thor proves himself worthy of his godly heritage and his powers are restored, allowing him to defeat the Destroyer.
 * Natasha Romanoff informs Fury about Emil Blonsky's enhanced attributes, having witnessed his performance during the Culver University incident.
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. continues to monitor the Hulk incident and the crater site in New Mexico, as well as Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean.
 * Tony Stark has a debrief with S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury. He is offered an advisory position as a consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers Initiative, which he accepts on condition that Stern honors him with a medal for his services. Three hours later, Stern begrudgingly gives Stark his medal.
 * Clint Barton discovers the Destroyer's inanimate body in Puente Antiguo. Later that day, with the help of Phil Coulson, they transport the body to Roswell, New Mexico.
 * The Frost Giants invade Asgard. Laufey finds Odin, but Loki turns on him and kills him before Laufey is able to kill Odin.
 * Duel at the Bifrost Bridge: Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three return to Asgard, where Thor reveals Loki's plan to seize the throne. Unfortunately, in the ensuing battle between them, Thor is forced to destroy the Bifrost Bridge to prevent Loki from destroying Jotunheim and committing genocide against the Frost Giants. This action strands him in Asgard, unable to return to Earth. Loki falls into space and ends appearing in the Sanctuary.

3rd

 * Nick Fury holds a meeting in Roswell, telling S.H.I.E.L.D. about the new refocusing of the agency towards extraterrestrial defense.
 * Bruce Banner and Betty Ross hide out in a small town motel, as news of the previous day's battle continues to spread. Within 36 to 40 hours of sustaining his injuries, Emil Blonsky has fully recovered.

4th

 * Banner and Betty Ross arrive in New York City, bypassing roadblocks at the Holland Tunnel by bribing a boat owner to take them across the Hudson River to lower Manhattan. They head uptown to meet with Mr. Blue, whose real name is Samuel Sterns.El increible Hulk-466130879-large.jpg Sterns tries an experimental process to cure Banner, though it only succeeds in reversing the transformation, not ridding him of it completely.
 * Duel of Harlem: The military captures Banner, but Emil Blonsky forces Sterns to inject him with the blood products he developed from Banner's blood sample. The process mutates Blonsky into the Abomination, while Sterns is infected with Banner's blood through an open wound on his head, gaining his own mutation. Banner convinces Thaddeus Ross to let him try and stop the Abomination. The two creatures fight in Harlem, with Hulk defeating the Abomination and fleeing the scene immediately afterwards.
 * Natasha Romanoff discovers the mutated Sterns in his laboratory, subdues him and takes him into custody.

5th

 * The World Security Council grants Nick Fury new funds for S.H.I.E.L.D.. This will provide the resources he needs to examine the Tesseract fully, as well as to put into action the "Avengers Initiative".
 * The New York Bulletin writes a front page article called "Harlem Terror", describing the battle between Abomination and Hulk.

7th

 * Fury approaches Erik Selvig to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in an advisory capacity to study the Tesseract.

4th

 * In a diner, Phil Coulson and Jasper Sitwell discuss how to prevent Emil Blonsky being assigned to the Avengers Initiative. The World Security Council have ordered S.H.I.E.L.D. to make Blonsky part of the team as they consider him a war hero. Coulson and Sitwell send Tony Stark to meet with Thaddeus Ross within 24 hours to ruin any chance of this recruitment going through.

5th

 * Bruce Banner settles in a cabin deep in the woods of Bella Coola, British Columbia, where he works on gaining control of the Hulk.
 * Following Hulk's incident in Harlem, Tony Stark arrives in New York and approaches Ross about "putting a team together". He is apparently on a mission to recruit Blonsky, but his behavior enrages Ross so much that he refuses to release Blonsky into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
 * Coulson and Sitwell reunite and discuss the success in having Stark dissuade Ross from including Blonsky in the Avengers Initiative.

16th

 * Actor Simon Williams' latest film, Dead Before Arrival, is released.

12th

 * A HYDRA team rescues Akela Amador from her cell at the bottom of a copper mine. They perform surgery in her blind eye and implant her with a Backscatter X-Ray Eye Implant, used to control her and make her carry out missions as their operative.

20th

 * Camilla Reyes is promoted to the rank of Comandante in the Policia Militar de Perú.

2nd
From all of this, it can be assumed that, at least as of 2008, elections in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are biannual instead of every 4 years. Therefore, Obama would have been elected in November 2008. In May 2010, during Obama's presidency, Tony has a poster resembling Obama's. Ellis would have been elected in November 2010, and dealt with the December 2010 Norco incident and its aftermath as he came into his presidency. He would then have been president when Steve woke in October 2011, and in late December 2012, during Iron Man 3, he would have been president for 2 years (just about fitting as "years"). Ellis would have been reelected in November 2014, and then the midterms would have been in November 2015, 7 months after Ward's statement. 2016 would then be the next election year, as shown in Captain America: Civil War.
 * Matthew Ellis is elected President of the United States.Presidential elections in the Marvel Cinematic Universe are not the same as in the real world. While it is never outright stated that Obama was president in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it is implied from Tony's poster, designed to resemble Obama's, in Iron Man 2, the Obama biography in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and the repeated references to him in Luke Cage, that Obama was likely president at some point. In December 2012, Aldrich Killian refers to President Ellis and says, "After years dodging the President's ban," implying Ellis has been president for years. Killian is also angry at Ellis' lack of involvement in the Norco incident, "2 years ago." It can also be assumed that Ellis was president when Steve woke in October 2011, as it is shown in Captain America: The Winter Soldier that he is quoted as welcoming Steve back to the world. In April 2015, Grant Ward says in A Fractured House that if his brother Christian were allowed to take him, his trial should then "wrap up right before the midterms". A newspaper in Captain America: Civil War shows that it is an election year in 2016.

15th

 * Work begins on Stark Tower.

27th

 * The Roxxon Norco spills a million gallons of crude off Pensacola. Ellis does very little to get involved as he takes over presidency, and no one involved ends up in court.

9th

 * British television series  begins to air in the United States of America, becoming one of Happy Hogan's favorite shows.

15th

 * Good Man is released as a single by.

18th

 * After managing to refrain from having an incident during his 8½ months of travel from British Columbia, Bruce Banner crosses the Pakistani border into India. He is attacked by local bandits and turns into the Hulk.

25th

 *  is released by, containing the song Good Man.

11th

 * Learning that the defeat of Loki could potentially put the Nine Realms in peril, Thor warns Hogun that his people in Vanaheim are in danger of attack from Marauders.
 * In New Mexico, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents help with Jane Foster's research to find Thor. They discover a possible chance at accessing the same wormhole Thor used to travel to Earth, but, when Foster informs Erik Selvig of this breakthrough, he warns her that it might be a bad idea.
 * Around midnight, Foster, Darcy Lewis, and a few S.H.I.E.L.D. agents try to open the wormhole. At first the portal stabilizes, but it eventually fails. Foster is undeterred by this failure, and vows not to give up looking for Thor.

11th

 * Lance Hunter participates in an operation in Sierra Leone.

24th

 * Thaddeus Ross suffers a heart attack and undergoes 13 hours of surgery and a triple bypass to save his life.

30th

 * WHiH World News posts late at night on Google+ saying "Catch our exclusive interview with Tony Stark and his thoughts after revealing his "true" identity to the public, tonight at 10."

1st

 * An interview with Tony Stark on revealing himself as Iron Man is broadcasted on WHiH World News.

14th

 * Pepper Potts gives an interview on Stark Tower.
 * Tony Stark gives James Rhodes a new version of the War Machine armor.

6th

 * A peaceful march of protest against the police in Tottenham turns into a that spread across London and many other cities in England.

11th

 * Tony Stark and Pepper Potts have a romantic dinner in Tony Stark's Mansion where she gives him a set of magnets that can keep magnetic power permanently and were made in Japan.

12th

 * Stark investigates the magnets that Potts gave him last night in order to improve it in his new armor.

13th

 * War Machine fights the Ten Rings' allies in Mumbai, India.

5th

 * In the Arctic, a Russian oil team discovers the crashed Valkyrie. Eighteen hours later, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are dispatched to the area, and exploring the wreckage they find the body of Steve Rogers, who is still alive and cryogenically preserved in the ice.

6th

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. continues their analysis of Ivan Vanko's "Whiplash" technology, Samuel Sterns' mutation, and Jane Foster's Nine Realms theory. Scavenged parts from the Destroyer are used to craft a hand-held weapon.
 * Hawkeye is sent to join Erik Selvig at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility to assist with his research of the Tesseract.

7th

 * Steve Rogers' body is thawed out of the ice, and he is taken to New York City.

8th

 * Rogers wakes up and tries to run away from S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters building but is stopped by Nick Fury in Times Square.

9th

 * Steve Rogers is sent to stay at the Retreat for some time.

11th

 * War Machine fights the Ten Rings' allies in Ghazni province, Afghanistan.

18th

 * The HYDRA-instigated draws to a close.

2nd

 * Lucy Bauer and her husband, Joseph Bauer find the Darkhold in the basement of the home's former owner and open it. When Lucy touches it, she discovers that she cand read the text in English while Joseph can read it in German.

9th

 * Phil Coulson tries to convince Nick Fury that Project T.A.H.I.T.I. must be shut down because of horrific side effects the drugs have on test subjects, which can only be mitigated by erasing the victim's memory. Despite his concerns, Project T.A.H.I.T.I. was not shut down.
 * In Dubai, Iron Man (in the Mark VI armor) agrees to race women in similar suits. Eventually, the suits of the Dubai men malfunction and are destroyed.

19th

 * As part of a training exercise, Hawkeye disguises himself as a spy and breaks into the Helicarrier to trick the Black Widow into thinking he is stealing information about the Avengers Initiative. After the exercise, Nick Fury tells them the Initiative will only be put into action when the world needs the team most.

20th

 * During a fundraising event in New York City, sings, who performed earlier at the same event.

8th

 * War Machine fights the Ten Rings' allies in Northern Sudan. Afterwards, he travels to the in Afghanistan to discover more about the Ten Rings and contacts Tony Stark for advice.



10th

 * Black Widow is sent to a mission in Moscow, Russia, where she searches for missing Stark Industries technology. Disguised as Tatiana Sokolova, she works at a night club. While she tries to interrogate Mikhail Fjodorov, one of the world's most successful illegal arms dealers, Fjodorov is killed by an unknown woman. Romanoff is forced to leave the club, fighting several security men in the process. After she returns to a hotel, she is attacked by a team of masked mercenaries, but she defeats them and receives a SIM card to reach the mysterious woman she saw in the night club.

11th

 * Later, in the very early hours of the morning, Black Widow talks to the woman named Sofia, and learns that she is a "fan" and wants to take over the name "Black Widow". Romanoff agrees to meet with Sofia and breaks all her contacts with S.H.I.E.L.D.

15th

 * A few days later, Romanoff confronts Sofia in a sport hall in Sochi, where she is defeated and almost drowned but she is saved at the last moment by Phil Coulson, who is following a pair of goons working for the arms dealer General Starodoub. Coulson gives Romanoff the necessary equipment to infiltrate the yacht belonging to Yuri Klementiev, one of General Starodoub's business partners, where she meets Sofia again, an encounter which costs them the life of agent Gennady Markov.

19th

 * Phil Coulson discovers that Sofia's employer is the billionaire Richard Frampton, Romanoff infiltrates his headquarters in Vladivostok. She discovers that Frampton works for the Ten Rings terrorist organization and that he has made a Jericho missile that will explode near the border between Russia and North Korea, greatly destabilizing the world peace. Romanoff infiltrates the launching area and destroys the missile. Both Frampton and Sofia are killed in the explosion.

29th

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

1st

 * The first "Mandarin bombing" occurs, masquerading as a terrorist attack, and beginning the conflict later known as Aldrich Killian's War.

15th

 * Using the Darkhold, Lucy and Joseph Bauer at Momentum Labs build a Quantum Particle Generator that can creates matter out of nothing.

17th

 * Eli Morrow is contacted by Bauer who shows him, Hugo, Vincent and Frederick her invention.
 * Tempted by the power and knowledge of the book, Eli Morrow asks Joseph to give him the book claiming that the book will kill them all.

21st

 * A few days later, tired of him, Joseph hires and orders the Fifth Street Locos to kill Morrow.

22nd

 * Robbie Reyes steals the car that belongs to his uncle Eli Morrow, when Gabe Reyes catches him. However, Gabe decides to join him.
 * Attack on Robbie and Gabe Reyes: However, as the Reyes' brothers are cruising along the neighborhood, the Fifth Street Locos, who were hired to murder Eli Morrow, shoot up the car with Robbie Reyes and Gabe Reyes in it. The car flips and sends Reyes flying through the air, as he prays to anyone to keep his brother safe. Reyes is killed on impacting the ground and Gabe loses control of his legs. However, Johnny Blaze, AKA the Ghost Rider, contacts Robbie's soul and asks if he wants Gabe to live, in which Reyes responds yes. Soon after, Blaze pulls Gabe to safety and revives Reyes by transforming him into the next Ghost Rider.

23rd

 * The next day, Eli Morrow beats Joseph into a coma but also he questions him on where the Darkhold is. When Hugo, Frederick and Vincent show up Morrow uses the Quantum Particle Generator to transform them into spiritual entities and contains every of them on differents boxes.
 * Lucy Bauer arrives at Momentum Labs only to discover what Morrow had done. He transforms Lucy into a spiritual entity too.
 * The police from Los Angeles police department arrives at the scene and takes Morrow into custody for attempt of murder.
 * At night, Robbie Reyes turns into the Ghost Rider and kills all the Fifth Street Locos members that attacked him and his brother except for Santino Noguera who got arrested before Reyes found him.

30th

 * Loki makes a deal with Thanos to recover the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for a Chitauri army to conquer Earth. Realizing Loki is alive, Frigga tries to mentally communicate with him while he is in the Sanctuary. He refuses to respond to her, but she tells Thor and Odin he is still alive. <

1st

 * Destruction of Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.: Aided by Thanos and his servant, 'The Other', Loki activates the Tesseract from within the Sanctuary. It teleports him to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility in the Mojave Desert, where S.H.I.E.L.D. is conducting Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.. He steals the Tesseract and uses the Scepter given to him by Thanos to control the minds of several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Erik Selvig and Clint Barton. They escape, and the Tesseract's energy destroys the base, beginning the Chitauri Invasion. In response, Nick Fury reactivates the Avengers Initiative.
 * In Asgard, Heimdall sees Loki on Earth with the Tesseract, and informs Thor and Odin.
 * In Russia, Natasha Romanoff is extracting information from Georgi Luchkov while letting him believe he is interrogating her. Phil Coulson calls one of Luchkov's henchmen and orders him to give Romanoff the phone or S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fighter jets will destroy the entire city block. He tells her that she is needed, and while she is reluctant to leave her current mission, she agrees when Coulson mentions Barton has been compromised.

2nd

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. transfers Jane Foster to Tromsø, Norway to continue her research.
 * In Kolkata, India, Natasha Romanoff tracks down Bruce Banner, and tells him his knowledge of Gamma Radiation is essential in helping S.H.I.E.L.D. locate the Tesseract. Banner reluctantly agrees to help S.H.I.E.L.D..
 * In New York City, Steve Rogers sits in his new apartment looking through S.H.I.E.L.D. files. One of the files lists Peggy Carter's current phone number, and Rogers prepares to call her, but eventually decides not to. He goes to a boxing gym, where Nick Fury approaches him with a mission to retrieve the Tesseract.
 * Tony Stark brings his miniaturized Arc Reactor online to power the newly opened Stark Tower in midtown Manhattan, built on the location of the former . Phil Coulson visits Stark Tower and asks him to review Erik Selvig's research on the Tesseract, as well as confidential material concerning the potential members of the Avengers Initiative.

3rd

 * The second Mandarin bombing occurs.
 * Odin uses dark energy to transport Thor back to Earth.
 * Skirmish in Germany: Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Bruce Banner and Coulson rendezvous on the Helicarrier. Banner sets to work tracking the Gamma radiation the Tesseract gives off, while S.H.I.E.L.D.'s spy satellites find Loki in Stuttgart, Germany. Rogers (donning his new Captain America costume) and Romanoff travel to Stuttgart in a Quinjet to confront Loki, who is acting as a distraction as Hawkeye steals iridium to stabilize the Tesseract. Captain America fights him in the street, but the unexpected arrival of Iron Man prompts Loki to surrender. On the way back to the Helicarrier, the Quinjet is ambushed by Thor, who takes Loki and tries to reason with him. Iron Man pursues and fights Thor in a forest, but Captain America breaks up the fight and Thor agrees for Loki to be taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
 * Parts of Vanaheim are attacked by Marauders. The Vanir in these areas retaliate, but are still defeated.

4th
"Now, I was here in 2012 when the sky tore open and the Chitauri rained down on us..."

- Glenn Talbot to the United Nations in 2015


 * Attack on the Helicarrier: On the Helicarrier, Loki is put in a cell designed to contain the Hulk. The Avengers debate about what to do with Loki, allowing him time to plot an escape. Steve Rogers explores the lower levels of the ship and discovers several HYDRA weapons and uniforms from the 1940's. He confronts Nick Fury, who confesses S.H.I.E.L.D. wants the Tesseract to develop weaponry. Loki's mind-controlled agents led by Hawkeye invade the Helicarrier and damage one of its engines. While Iron Man and Captain America race to repair the engine before the ship crashes, Bruce Banner loses control, turns into the Hulk and goes on a rampage through the ship. The Black Widow frees Hawkeye of his mind-control by knocking him out. Thor distracts the Hulk, while Fury and Maria Hill hold off the other mind-controlled agents. The Hulk jumps out of the Helicarrier to attack a hovering F-35 jet, but ends up falling from the sky and crashing into an abandoned warehouse on the ground below. Thor tries to stop Loki from escaping, but gets trapped in Loki's cell and ejected from the ship, landing in a field. Phil Coulson confronts Loki, armed with a weapon made from the Destroyer's parts, but Loki stabs him to death with his scepter.
 * Battle of New York: Following his escape from the Helicarrier, Loki commandeers Stark Tower. The mind-controlled Erik Selvig uses a machine powered by the Tesseract to open a portal into space, allowing the Chitauri to invade Earth. The Avengers come together to stop the invasion, with the Hulk finding Loki and beating him into submission. Despite Nick Fury's persistence, the World Security Council are not convinced the six heroes will be enough to stop the invasion, and launches a missile at New York City. While the Avengers battle the invading forces, Iron Man grabs the missile and throws it through the portal, destroying the remaining Chitauri fleet just as the missile closes the portal. Loki is apprehended and the Tesseract is reclaimed, ending the Chitauri Invasion.
 * Battle of Hong Kong: War Machine battles more allies of the Ten Rings. Iron Man contacts him to request help in the Battle of New York, but Rhodes is attacked by a tank using Hammer Industries technology. Unable to call for back-up because most of the United States Armed Forces is fighting the Chitauri invasion, War Machine manages to defeat the attackers and immediately flies to New York to help Stark.
 * Darcy Lewis shows Jane Foster live footage of Thor fighting Chitauri in New York.
 * In Asgard, Sif asks Heimdall if Thor survived his travel to Earth. While he confirms Thor is safe, Heimdall worries Loki's forces may be too much for Thor to handle.
 * The Scepter is given to S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists Nicholas Cooper and Mark Smith for study.
 * Tired from the battle, the Avengers gather at a local shawarma restaurant recommended by Stark. While they have their lunch, War Machine arrives to help in the battle, only to discover they have already won.
 * A Ten Rings agent reports to the Mandarin about their recent conflict with War Machine. Although their operatives did not manage to capture James Rhodes, they scanned his armor with every possible device, thus obtaining invaluable information about the technology.
 * During the Battle of New York, the mother of Audrey Eastman and the mother of Ellen Nadeer and Vijay Nadeer die.
 * Dave Griffith, an Harlem boy, records the Battle of New York.

5th

 * The morning after the battle, the Toomes Salvage Company recovers Chitauri technology from the wreckage. They are interrupted when a woman leading a group of officials arrives and tells them that from now on, their Department of Damage Control will be overseeing the cleanup of major events such as this, as sanctioned by Tony Stark and the government. Toomes is angered for having lost his business with no compensation, and punches one, before being forced to leave the site.
 * Thor returns to Asgard with Loki and the Tesseract, while the other Avengers go their separate ways.
 * Odin sentences Loki to an eternity of imprisonment in the Asgardian Dungeons.
 * The Other confers with his master about Loki's defeat, the loss of the Tesseract, and Earth's new protectors. He claims attacking Earth again would be an act of suicide. His master, Thanos simply turns and smiles, thinking of things to come.
 * Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis arrive in New York in search of Thor, but Erik Selvig, freed from Loki's mind control but still in shock from the battle, reveals Thor has already left.
 * Tony Stark begins making the Iron Legion.
 * Heimdall tells Thor that Vanaheim has been attacked. He gives Heimdall the Tesseract so he can repair the Bifrost Bridge. They then spend the next two years assembling an army.
 * Foster is frustrated about spending two years of her life searching for Thor, and gives up her research of the Nine Realms.
 * The New York Bulletin has a front page article titled "Battle of NY" which pictures a Leviathan causing multiple deaths when it fell on a building.
 * Toomes and his crew lament the loss of their company. When they realize they have a lot of equipment left, Toomes convinces them to turn to the black market and make weapons from the technology to sell, noting that the world is changing, and they need to change to match it.

6th

 * Adam Cross, Tony Diaz, and Frank Whalen from the Wrigley Fire Department, help in the clean up of the Battle of New York. They find a Chitauri's discarded helmet and decide to put it in their fire station as a decoration.

7th

 * Stark shows James Rhodes the first suits of the Iron Legion.
 * Benjamin Pollack and his girlfriend Claire Wise find a broken Chitauri weapon. Pollack fixes the weapon and they plan to rob banks with it.
 * Days after the death of Phil Coulson, Nick Fury orders S.H.I.E.L.D.'s best scientists to revive him at the Guest House. The process takes several days, but Coulson is eventually revived by a serum derived from an alien corpse.

9th

 * Pollack and Wise prepare to rob a bank in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but Pollack is worried their plan will fail. Wise reassures him, and they successfully rob the bank.
 * Resurrection of Phil Coulson: The final procedure to resurrect Phil Coulson takes place. To restore his former personality, the scientists remove part of his skull to change his memories of the painful process, as Coulson begs them to let him die during the operation. One of the scientists, Dr. Streiten, realizes how brutal these surgeries are and tells the others they should let Coulson die, but they ignore him. The scientists give Coulson false memories of a grass shack in Tahiti.

11th

 * Pollack and Wise rob another bank in Richmond, Virginia.

13th

 * Pollack and Wise rob another bank in Greensboro, North Carolina.

14th

 * Pollack and Wise rob another bank in Charleston, South Carolina.

15th

 * Pollack and Wise rob another bank in Savannah, Georgia.

16th

 * Jasper Sitwell is dispatched to stop Pollack and Wise's bank robberies and retrieve the Chitauri weapon. He locates and confronts them at a hotel, but Wise attacks him with the weapon. She accidentally drops it, causing it to activate and destroy all of the stolen money. Sitwell interrogates them, and Wise admits Pollack successfully got the weapon to work. Despite being sent to kill them, Sitwell gives them the chance to join S.H.I.E.L.D. and help restore the other Chitauri technology collected from New York.

17th

 * Jasper Sitwell brings Benjamin Pollack and Claire Wise to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, where Pollack is assigned to the R&D think tank, and Wise is made Felix Blake's assistant.

1st

 * To cover up the explosive nature of the Extremis virus, Aldrich Killian hires actor Trevor Slattery to pose as a terrorist leader called the Mandarin, so whenever Extremis causes a patient to explode, the media and government will assume they are suicide bombings.

3rd

 * Slattery gets plastic surgery so he is not recognized when he appears on television as the Mandarin.

4th

 * Following his return to the modern world as a renowned hero, Steve Rogers is snatched up to be the face of many campaigns. One of these, not long after the Battle of New York, includes a set of videos for students in schools. He records many videos, including a fitness challenge, a video for students in detention, and one on the importance of patience.

5th

 * The third Mandarin bombing occurs.

7th

 * Edison Po is arrested for stabbing a man in the eye with a steak knife in Boston, Massachusetts.

8th

 * The fourth Mandarin bombing occurs.

12th

 * Scott Lang is fired from Vistacorp due to inadvertedly fixing what he believed was a code mistake that was illegally overcharging customers.

14th

 * Scott Lang infiltrates the Vistacorp Headquarters to return about four million dollars to the customers who had been defrauded by the company. Lang then breaks into the mansion of his former boss, Geoff Zorick. He steals many of Zorick's belongings and drives Zorick's car into the mansion's pool.

15th

 * Scott Lang is arrested for stealing from both Vistacorp and Geoff Zorick. He is then given a five year sentence at San Quentin State Prison.

17th

 * Scott Lang meets with 'Peachy' in San Quentin State Prison to talk about the Vista job. This conversation starts a prison fight.

9th

 * The fifth Mandarin bombing occurs.
 * Bruno Horgan, also known as the Melter, attacks Iron Man during a press conference at Stark Tower. After a quick victory, the Melter announces he will be selling his Melter technology to the highest bidder in a few days.

11th

 * The Melter attacks and defeats War Machine. Tony Stark and James Rhodes research Horgan's background and make a deal; whoever fails to find Horgan first must polish the victor's armor.

12th

 * War Machine tries several attempts to find Melter, but they all turn out to be dead ends.
 * Tony Stark spots the Melter near Stark Tower.
 * Stark and Rhodes deduce the most likely place for Horgan to be is the junkyard. Stark modifies the Iron Man and War Machine armors so they resist the Melter's attacks.
 * Iron Man and War Machine investigate the junkyard and find the Melter. They fight, and the Melter is taken into custody of the United States Army.

16th

 * Shades is sent to Seagate Prison for a three-year stint.

10th

 * The sixth Mandarin bombing occurs.

13th

 * The seventh Mandarin bombing occurs.

11th

 * WHiH World News holds a 10 kilometer race to support reconstructing buildings lost during the Battle of New York. The company raised millions of dollars.
 * WHiH World News posts on Google+ saying "WHiH's 10K race was a massive success. Millions were raised for reconstruction on buildings lost in the NYC invasion."

15th

 * The eighth Mandarin bombing occurs.

17th

 * The Mandarin bombs the . The bombings leave intelligence agencies bewildered by lack of forensic evidence. Under the request of the U.S. Government, James Rhodes' War Machine armor is painted in the colors of the American flag and re-named the "Iron Patriot ".

18th

 * Tony Stark tests his newest prototype armor, the Mark XLII.

19th

 * The Iron Legion creates friction between Stark and his girlfriend Pepper Potts. Pepper feels Stark is not paying enough attention to her, but Stark's encounters during the Battle of New York has left him traumatized and he built the Iron Legion with her protection in mind.
 * Destruction of the Chinese Theatre: At the, Jack Taggart succumbs to the effects of Extremis and explodes. Stark Industries security chief Happy Hogan is caught in the explosion and severely injured.

20th

 * Stark visits Hogan in hospital. The press try to interview him about the Mandarin, and Stark issues a televised threat to him.

22nd

 * Destruction of Tony Stark's Mansion: The Mandarin responds to Tony's threat by destroying his Mansion with helicopter gunships. Pepper and Maya Hansen (who had come to warn Stark) survive the attack, and Stark dons the unstable Mark XLII armor to fly himself to safety.

23rd

 * J.A.R.V.I.S. follows a flight plan from Stark's investigation into the Mandarin bombings, and the Mark XLII lands in Rose Hill, Tennessee. The armor runs out of power, and the world believes Tony Stark to be dead.
 * Battle of Rose Hill: Teaming with Harley Keener, Stark investigates the remains of a local explosion bearing the hallmarks of a Mandarin attack. He discovers the "bombings" were triggered by soldiers subjected to Extremis, which at this stage of development causes certain subjects to explosively reject it. After veterans started exploding, their deaths were used to cover up Extremis' flaws by manufacturing a terrorist plot. Mandarin agents Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin arrive in Tennessee and attack Stark. He kills Brandt, but Savin escapes.

24th

 * Infiltration into Aldrich Killian's Mansion: With Harley Keener's help, Stark traces the Mandarin to Miami and infiltrates his headquarters using makeshift weapons. Inside, he discovers the Mandarin who appears on television is actually an actor, Trevor Slattery, who is oblivious to the actions carried out in his name. The Mandarin is a creation of Aldrich Killian, who appropriated Maya Hansen's Extremis virus as a cure for his own disabilities and expanded the program to include injured war veterans. Killian captures Stark and reveals he has also kidnapped Pepper Potts. To gain Stark's aid in fixing Extremis' flaws, Killian injects Pepper with the virus. Hansen has a change of heart about Killian's plans, but he murders her.
 * Kidnapping of President Ellis: Aldrich Killian has also manipulated American intelligence agencies regarding the Mandarin's location, luring the Iron Patriot into a trap to steal the armor. Stark escapes and reunites with Rhodes, discovering Killian's plan to attack U.S. President Matthew Ellis aboard Air Force One. Disguised in the Iron Patriot armor, Eric Savin infiltrates Air Force One and detonates an explosive. Remotely controlling the Mark XLII armor, Stark saves some surviving passengers and crew, but cannot stop Killian from abducting Ellis. They trace them to an impounded oil tanker, the Norco, where Killian intends to kill Ellis on live television. The Vice President Rodriguez (who is secretly working for Killian) will become a puppet leader, following Killian's orders in exchange for Extremis to cure his daughter's disability.

25th

 * Battle on the Norco: On the platform of the Norco, Tony Stark goes to save Pepper Potts, while James Rhodes rescues the President. Stark summons the Iron Legion, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support, and discovers Pepper has survived the Extremis procedure. However, before he can save her, a rig collapses around them and she falls to her apparent death. Stark confronts Aldrich Killian, traps him in the Mark XLII and sets it to self-destruct, but it fails to kill him. Pepper, whose Extremis powers allowed her to survive her fall, intervenes and kills Killian. After the battle, Stark promises to devote more time to Pepper, and orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to remotely destroy every armor in the Iron Legion. Vice President Rodriguez and Trevor Slattery are arrested, ending Aldrich Killian's War.

27th

 * With Stark's help, Pepper's Extremis effects are stabilized.
 * Stark undergoes surgery to remove the shrapnel embedded near his heart. He throws his obsolete chest Arc Reactor into the sea, musing he will always be Iron Man.

9th

 * The Convergence begins, causing the formation of portals connecting the Nine Realms. Erik Selvig, now mentally unstable after being subjected to Loki's mind control, detects signs of the event and travels to Stonehenge to research it. He also contacts Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis to assist him in his studies.
 * Selvig ends up streaking around the area naked and is then arrested and taken to a mental ward in London.

11th

 * Battle of Vanaheim: Thor's army arrives in Vanaheim, the birthplace of Hogun and the final realm they must save. They defeat the Marauders who have been terrorizing the area, and Hogun decides to stay among his people while the rest of the army goes back to Asgard.

13th

 * Tony Stark is released in the United States of America.<

=Implications=
 * Presidential elections in the MCU. We know 2016 is an election year from a newspaper from Captain America: Civil War. We know in April 2015 the midterms were coming up in several months, from A Fractured House, where Ward says his brother will get to show off ahead of the midterms just when his trial would be wrapping up if he were delivered to his brother then. We know that in December 2012, Ellis has been president for "years", and he dealt with the Norco incident which occurred "2 years ago". However, we know Obama is still a prominent figure in the MCU, mentioned many times, especially in Luke Cage, having a book written about him on Fury's shelf in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and with Tony having a poster mirroring Obama's election campaign poster at the beginning of Iron Man 2. We also know from Captain America: The Winter Soldier that Bill Clinton's presidency ended the same as in the real world. It can also be assumed that Ellis was president when Steve woke, as he is quoted as welcoming Steve back at the time, shown in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. From all this, my theory for the MCU is that elections are, at least as of 2008, every 2 years, not 4. This is how that would work:
 * Clinton's presidency works out the same, regardless of whether it is every 4 before 2008, or every 2.
 * Election: November 2008 - Obama wins.
 * May 2010 - Tony has a poster resembling Obama's.
 * Election: November 2010 - Ellis wins.
 * December 2010 - Norco incident, 2 years before Iron Man 3. Perhaps the elections are still November, but the inauguration is earlier than January, or perhaps it was just an incident that Ellis was looked to for how he would deal with it in the few months following the incident as he came into his presidency.
 * October 2011 - Steve wakes. President Ellis is quoted (seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier) as welcoming him back.
 * Election: November 2012 - Ellis wins.
 * December 2012 - The events of Iron Man 3. Ellis has been president for "years" (2 years).
 * Election: November 2014 - Ellis wins.
 * April 2015 - Ward implies the midterms are coming up in several months.
 * Midterms: November 2015.
 * March 2016 - A paper says it is election year.
 * Election: November 2016 - Who knows who won. Ellis could, however, potentially have been reelected for a final 2 years, having only done 6.
 * If these changes were to be implemented, there would have to be a lot of dates changed on articles for these films. List of changes to be made here to prevent any messy editing.
 * This includes Pepper's birthday being updated. While February 12th would be the new fanon date, February is the non-fanon part. Her birthday can be listed as "February".
 * This includes Steve's biological age. Steve went into the ice aged 9740 days. He thawed on October 7, 2011. 9740 days prior puts his biological age as if he were born on February 5, 1985, making him biologically 32 currently.