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

'''THIS IS NOT FINISHED. It is finished enough to post, but there are a few things I need to double check, and the actual changes/additions to the articles has a lot of brief bullet points I need to actually write out. I haven't changed a lot of the references yet, or checked and improved a lot of the dates between films, for example - the less important ones like the comics between Iron Man and Iron Man 2 - they are just moved generally, but not with specific detail. I have not checked the exact placement of every bit of the films either, yet. The math and values are also prone to being honed and improved a little over time. I do not suggest using this to change any articles yet, if indeed this does end up being used anyway, because it needs a bit more time. But it is able to be read now. I hope it's satisfactory.'''

'''I would like to also 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 leaving it for now, to return to when I do proper checks of those articles. '''

=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 reasons I will go into at a later date, 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 writeup 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.
 * 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) - 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, 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.
 * Divide 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, or blink-and-you'll-miss-it props.
 * 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.
 * 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 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 ideal placement.
 * How does the maximum and minimum interpretations of the evidence work? ?????
 * Earliest possible
 * Earliest realistic
 * Latest realistic
 * Latest possible
 * So the way it works out is:
 * Second half of year + or first half of year -, y
 * First half of year + or second half of year -, x
 * 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 eight 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).
 * 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) ÷ 2)-(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." 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.

Unconfirmed Ones I Need to Check

 * Supposedly the Time Magazine Person of the Year cover at the beginning of Iron Man 2 might say December 2009, but it is hard to know whether this is straight from the film, or from the fan recreations of it. I will have to watch on a bigger screen at some point soon when I get my DVDs back. On the 2010 page, the Person of the Year description is actually that of 2009, as well. This would put "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. It seems fan-made, but otherwise, it would put "I am Iron Man" before April 30, 2010. Whatever the case, though, the image shouldn't be where it is currently.

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.
 * 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 Fury's Big Week is before MVII Day 199. This means that the end of Iron Man 2 is 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.
 * 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, 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.

Unconfirmed Ones I Need to Check

 * Supposedly the Time Magazine Person of the Year cover at the beginning of Iron Man 2 might say December 2009, but it is hard to know whether this is straight from the film, or from the fan recreations of it. I will have to watch on a bigger screen at some point soon when I get my DVDs back. On the 2010 page, the Person of the Year description is actually that of 2009, as well. This would put Fury's Big Week after 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: MONACO 6 MONTHS IRON MAN 2: 6 MONTHS LATER PEPPER: CHRISTINE LAST YEAR THE AVENGERS: IRON MAN MARK VII
 * 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 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 show that 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.

Overall Result
(201.5 days × 15.30612 + 187.5 days × 7.77202 + 217.70833 days × 3.53982 + 94.25 days × 1.55986 + 166 days × 0.75251) ÷ (15.30612 + 7.77202 + 3.53982 + 1.55986 + 0.75251) = 193.01607 days, with a combined weight of evidence of 28.93033.

Unconfirmed Things I Need to Check

 * Supposedly, Jon Favreau says in the commentary for Iron Man 2 picks up 6 months after the first. I will have to find this if it is on my DVD when I get it back.

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
 * 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

Overall Result
(633.25 days × 4.49944 + 311 days × 2.74725 + 352.33333 days × 1.22783 + 515 days × 1.11697) ÷ (4.49944 + 2.74725 + 1.22783 + 1.11697) = 491.21775 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 491.21775 days, with a combined weight of evidence of 9.59149.

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 491.21775 days, with a combined weight of evidence of 9.59149. This would place FBW Day 1 around December 28.78225 (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 spans 2010 into 2011, which is exactly what it should be suggesting - regardless of internal evidence, it's exactly what is suggested from the timespan).
 * 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 193.01607 days, with a combined weight of evidence of 28.93033.
 * "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 9.59149.
 * Towards x + 223, with a strength of 28.93033.
 * This means y = (July 7.86339, 2010 × 17.71467 + December 28.78225, 2010 × 9.59149 + (x + 223) × 28.93033) ÷ (17.71467 + 9.59149 + 28.93033). If January 1, 2009 were "1", January 2, 2009 were "2", February 1, 2009 were "32", etc.:
 * y = (553.86339 × 17.71467 + 727.78225 × 9.59149 + 28.93033x + 223 × 28.93033) ÷ 56.23649
 * y = (23243.48694 + 28.93033x) ÷ 56.23649
 * y = 413.31682 + 0.51444x
 * x is being pulled:
 * Towards April 23.08054, 2009, with a strength of 9.64815.
 * Towards y - 223, with a strength of 28.93033.
 * This means x = (April 23.08054, 2009 × 9.64815 + (y - 223) × 28.93033) ÷ (9.64815 + 28.93033)
 * x = (113.08054 × 9.64815 + 28.93033y - 223 × 28.93033) ÷ 38.57848
 * x = (28.93033y - 5360.44558) ÷ 38.57848
 * x = 0.74991y - 138.94911
 * Therefore y = 413.31682 + 0.51444 × (0.74991y - 138.94911)
 * y = 413.31682 + 0.38578y - 71.38098
 * y = 341.93584 + 0.38578y
 * 0.61422y = 341.93584
 * y = 556.69929 or July 10.69929, 2010.
 * Therefore x = 0.74991 × 556.69929 - 138.94911
 * x = 278.52525 or October 5.52525, 2009.

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.
 * 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, 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 10.69929, 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. Together, these two would put "I am Iron Man" around November 15.5, 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 15.5, 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 October 5.52525, 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." Overall, this implies about 2⅔ months of capture. This would put Tony's escape around May 11.5, 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 (May 11.5, 2009 + 2 days until Tony's conference, + 1 day until the video is shown = May 14.5, 2009), 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 - 2⅔ months = February 10.33333, 2009. Absolute earliest, January 17, 2009. Realistic earliest, February 1, 2009. Realistic/absolute latest, February 28, 2009. Value 1000 from it being direct dialogue, so February 10.33333, 2009, with weight 1000 ÷ (((January 17, 2009 × 1 + February 1, 2009 × 2) ÷ 3)-February 28, 2009) = 1000 ÷ (January 27, 2009-February 28, 2009) = 1000 ÷ 32 days of leniency = 31.25.
 * (February 21.5, 2009 × 17.24138 + February 10.33333, 2009 × 31.25) ÷ (17.24138 + 31.25) = February 14.30370, 2009. Therefore, February 14, 2009 for when Tony is kidnapped. Thus, February 13th for Pepper's birthday, and February 12th for the Apogee award and sleeping with Christine (which also works with February 12, 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: 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.

How Does This All Work Out?
''Quick breakdown summarizing what evidence now fits and which are currently continuity errors. I don't feel like this is urgent as it can all be seen above, it's just an extra bit I will do.''

=Timeline Suggestion= =Before 20th Century=

7th

 * Odin hides the Tesseract in Tønsberg, Norway.

=1940s=

18th

 * 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=

19th

 * Anton Vanko defects to the United States.

October

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

19th

 * 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.

=1970s=

29th

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

1st

 * The last Stark World Exposition until 2010. 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=

5th

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

7th

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

March

 * The Momentum Alternative Energy Labs Headquarters in Houston are shut down.

13th

 *  by is released, later downloaded by Danny Rand.

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.

10th

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Alternative Energy Labs Headquarters in New York City are shut down.

August

 * Anatoly and Vladimir Ranskahov are incarcerated at Utkin Prison.

September

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

25th

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

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 six 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 US/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.

7th

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

9th

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

18th

 * Hope Mackenzie is born.

22nd

 * Hope Mackenzie dies.

27th

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

28th

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

13th

 * moves from the to the  in New York City.

23rd

 * 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.

8th

 * 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.

29th

 * 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.

4th

 * 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.

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.

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.

21st

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

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.

1st

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

3rd

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. is brought in to help Thaddeus Ross, and continues helping him until 2010. Stark Industries sells him HMMWV-mounted sonic cannons.

17th

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

19th

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

31st

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

November

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

December

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

14th

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

19th

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

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.

20th

 * Cassie Lang is born to Scott and Maggie Lang.

8th

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

22nd

 * Edison Po disappears off the grid.

4th

 * Barack Obama is elected President of the United States.

27th

 * 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.

12th

 * Tony Stark sleeps with Christine Everhart.

13th

 * 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.

14th

 * 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.

15th

 * Nick Fury sends Phil Coulson to Stark's business partner Obadiah Stane to investigate the possibility of 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.

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

 * During their three 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. 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.
 * 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.

3rd

 * Returning to the US 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

 * Watching the news.
 * Heart surgery.

18th

 * Rhodey at the hangar

26th

 * Open Mark II

12th

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

24th

 * Men find the suit

25th

 * Aldrich Killian starts the Phase 0 of Extremis Injections.

23rd

 * Working on legs

August

 * (Day 1) Flies into the wall

9th

 * Imir kidnaps several Dwarves and threatens to take over Asgard. He battles Thor, who defeats him by electrocuting him into submission.
 * Continuing to work on it

13th

 * Working on arm when Pepper visits with the "Proof that Tony Stark has a heart" gift.
 * Tony visits Obadiah upstairs

16th

 * Day 11 test 37.1% thrust capacity

14th

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

15th

 * Day 1
 * Stark starts a log about his armors before he tests the Mark II for the first time.
 * 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, a 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

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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. Stark reveals James Rhodes he is Iron Man.

18th

 * Banner travels to Rio de Janeiro and 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. He also studies calming techniques at a nearby temple, gets a job at a soda bottling factory and teaches himself Portuguese.

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 him about the recent press conference of Stark hours ago and tells him that he will visit Stark that night. Then Fury 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 Hendricks about a new lead of 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 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.

28th

 * 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.

7th

 * Day 23

14th

 * Day 30

16th

 * Iron Man is named ’s Person of the Year, 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.

22nd

 * 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. His main target is 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.

25th

 * 158 days since his last "incident", 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.

27th

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

8th

 * 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.

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.

21st

 * 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 policemen, 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.

25th

 * Iron Man tracks a shipment down of first generation Tellor Propellant Rifles, made by Stark Industries. The weapons where 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.

27th

 * 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.
 * 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.

30th

 * First two Stark Expo 2010 videos

5th

 * CordCo presentation

7th

 * AccuTech video

17th

 * CordCo video

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

 * Fukijawa video

26th

 * Jane Foster, working in Puente Antiguo for Culver University, discovers a subtle aurora in New Mexico. The atmospheric disturbances will continue to take place for the next sixteen days to the exact minute.

30th

 * Time Magazine writes another article on Tony Stark.

7th

 * The 2010 Stark World Exposition begins.

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 (which was 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.



10th

 * 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, defeats the task force and escapes.

12th

 * Stark appoints Pepper Potts Chairman and CEO of Stark Industries. In Russia, an agent of the Ten Rings supplies Ivan Vanko assistance in infiltrating the Grand Prix of Monaco.

14th

 * 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 seventeen days he travels through Central America and the US towards Willowdale, Virginia.

18th

 * Natasha Romanoff is ordered by Nick Fury to go undercover at Stark Industries.

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 finishes the assembling of his Mark V.
 * Day 189

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.
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. monitors Bruce Banner, Jane Foster and Tony Stark.
 * 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

 * 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 US customs, and there are reports of "atmospheric disturbances" in the South West 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.
 * 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.
 * Stark visits Pepper at Stark Industries, where she mentions Hammer is hosting a presentation at the Stark Expo tomorrow. 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.

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.
 * Battle at Stark Expo: Justin Hammer's Stark Expo presentation is hijacked by Ivan Vanko, who uses the drones to attack the crowd. 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.
 * 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 epicentre. He provokes Lewis with his aggressive behavior, but they subdue him with a tazer and take him to a local hospital.
 * Before leaving Hammer Industries, the Black Widow downloads all of the information stored on Hammer's mainframe and destroys the facility.
 * Bruce Banner arrives at Culver University. He sees Betty Ross, but does not approach her.
 * 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.
 * 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. In the evening, Erik Selvig goes to the installation and manages to get Phil Coulson to release Thor into his custody.
 * 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 informs the military of Banner's whereabouts.
 * 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 an evening of drinking with Erik Selvig, Thor explains the concept of the Nine Realms to Foster.
 * Day 199

2nd

 * Sif and the Warriors Three arrive on Earth to find Thor. Loki sends the Destroyer after them.
 * Tony Stark ends the 2010 Stark Expo.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Natasha Romanoff informs Fury about Emil Blonsky's enhanced attributes, having witnessed his performance during the Culver University incident.
 * 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.
 * 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

 * Thaddeus Ross has a meeting with the task-force staff.
 * 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.
 * Tony Stark and Pepper Potts have a romantic dinner on Tony Stark's Mansion where she gives him a set of magnets that can keep magnetic power permanently and were made in Japan.

4th

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

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.

8th

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

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.

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

 * Matthew Ellis is elected President of the United States.

17th

 * The Roxxon Norco spills a million gallons of crude off Pensacola. President-Elect 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 favourite shows.

15th

 * Good Man is released as a single by.

19th

 * 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.

7th

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

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.

6th

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

9th

 * 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.

12th

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

13th

 * The second Mandarin bombing occurs.



16th

 * Black Widow is sent to a mission in Moscow, Russia, where she searchs 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.

17th

 * 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 breakes all her contacts with S.H.I.E.L.D..

21st

 * 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.

23rd

 * 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.

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.

11th

 * 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.

13th

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

15th

 * The third Mandarin bombing occurs.

20th

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

16th

 * 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.

March

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

13th

 * In Dubai, Iron Man (in the Mark VI armor) agrees to race two men 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.

15th

 * Time later, 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

 * 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

 * 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 a year 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.

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.

7th

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

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

 * 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.

19th

 * The fourth Mandarin bombing occurs.

26th

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

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."

18th

 * The fifth Mandarin bombing occurs.
 * 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.
 * 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 ".
 * 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.

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.

=Implications=
 * 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.
 * The absolute earliest limits, with the weighted averages, puts the non-fanon absolute earliest limit for Steve's thawing to still just fit the evidence as (December 4, 2010 × 2.84360 + February 7, 2011 × 1.23119 + July 23.5, 2011 × 0.5 + August 2, 2011 × 0.13158) ÷ (2.84360 + 1.23119 + 0.5 + 0.13158) = January 21.33622, 2011. So if he woke at the very earliest possible on January 21, 2011, his biological age would be as if he were born on May 22, 1984.
 * The absolute latest limits, with the weighted averages, puts the non-fanon absolute latest limit for Steve's thawing to still just fit the evidence as (April 24, 2012 × 2.84360 + December 7, 2011 × 1.23119 + July 23.5, 2011 × 0.5 + April 24, 2012 × 0.13158) ÷ (2.84360 + 1.23119 + 0.5 + 0.13158) = February 18.36865, 2011. So if he woke at the very latest possible on February 18, 2011, his biological age would be as if he were born on June 19, 1985.
 * So his non-fanon biological age is May 22, 1984-June 19, 1985, so his biological age should be 32-33. On May 22, 2018 (if he's still alive), it becomes 32-34, then on June 19, 2018 (if he's still alive), 33-34.
 * 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. The best way to do this would be using the "What Links Here" tool, assuming 95% of the mentions of 2010, 2011, 2012 are linked. We will have to keep an eye out for any other ones that need changing, like the Chase of Bruce Banner saying it lasted 6 years, needing to change to 5, Captain America's page saying he slept for 67 years when it should be over 66, any articles referring to The Avengers being only one year after Fury's Big Week, etc.
 * 2010 dates would have to be changed FIRST, before 2011 and 2012. If the 2011 dates were changed first for example, you'd end up with a bunch of 2010 links under "What Links Here" which then need to be sorted through for which do and do not need to change. The best order is to change the 2010 to 2009 ones first, then the 2011 to 2010s, and after that the 2012 to 2011s, with no overlap.
 * Pepper's birthday will also have to be updated. While February 13th would be the new fanon date, February is the non-fanon part. Her birthday can be listed as "February".