1940s

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This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 1940s.

2nd

 * In Los Angeles, California, Howard Stark demonstrates the properties of Vibranium, a metal found by Stark Industries in Africa. After being attacked by HYDRA assassins, Stark joins the Strategic Scientific Reserve with Colonel Chester Phillips.

11th

 * At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Abraham Erskine injects Johann Schmidt with his Super Soldier Serum, but the serum horrifically transforms Schmidt, turning him into the Red Skull.

13th

 * Two days after administering the Super Soldier Serum to Johann Schmidt, Abraham Erskine is rescued by Peggy Carter. She infiltrates the compound disguised as a maid, and takes Erskine to the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) to produce America's Super Soldier with the aid of Howard Stark.

25th

 * Steve Rogers attends a baseball game at in New York City.

5th

 * Sarah Rogers dies of . The news is soon heard by her son Steve Rogers.

7th

 * Sarah Rogers's funeral takes place, and she is buried next to her husband, Joseph.
 * After Sarah's funeral, Steve Rogers heads home and is found by Bucky Barnes, who offers to let Steve live with him, but Steve refuses and says he can get by on his own. Barnes tells Rogers that he does not have to get by on his own, and that he will be with him "till the end of the line".

7th

 * America enters World War II. In Times Square, New York City, during an art class Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes learn of America joining the war, and over the next two weeks Bucky trains Rogers at Goldie’s Boxing Gym.

9th

 * Stark Industries begin producing planes for the war effort following the.

11th

 * Howard Stark's innovations earn him a spot working on the Manhattan Project.

24th

 * Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes visit US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York City, but Rogers is classified as 4F and rejected from service. He goes on to be rejected a further four times in four different cities.

25th

 * The Strategic Scientific Reserve team in New York City, finish the Project Rebirth Chamber. Howard Stark comments that it should be called the Brooklyn Project in response to 's work at Los Alamos.

26th

 * At Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, Abraham Erskine rejects the candidates selected by Chester Phillips for Project Rebirth.

5th

 * Peggy Carter spends a full week in the sewers of New York City, managing to learn about their layout and operation.

3rd

 * 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".

After the discovery of the Tesseract

 * HYDRA General Werner Reinhardt is sent to search for other mysterious artifacts. Reinhardt's team is able to discover the corpse of a blue-skinned extraterrestrial in the deserts of North Africa.

14th

 * On , at the World Exposition of Tomorrow in New York City, Abraham Erskine spots Steve Rogers at a recruitment office and offers him a chance to join the United States Army through Project Rebirth.

15th

 * At Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, Rogers and several other volunteers begin their training under the supervision of Erskine, Peggy Carter, and Colonel Chester Phillips.

22nd

 * Assassination of Abraham Erskine: With Erskine's serum and Howard Stark's Vita Radiation technology, Steve Rogers is transformed into the world's first super soldier. Erskine is assassinated by Heinz Kruger, an operative of HYDRA. The only evidence that Project Rebirth took place is in Rogers' genetic code. Kruger runs away but is caught by Rogers and commits suicide with a cyanide pill.  Kruger shoots.jpg

23rd

 * Unwilling to be kept for research, Steve Rogers joins the USO and goes on a morale-boosting tour of the US, the UK, and troops stationed in Italy. Given the name 'Captain America' he becomes a national celebrity, appearing in films, comic books and card collections and establishing himself as a symbol of America's participation in the war.

October

 * During the Battle of Azzano, the 107th Infantry Regiment suffers heavy casualties fighting against the Germany Army and HYDRA. HYDRA openly fires at German troops, breaking ties with Nazi Germany.
 * At the HYDRA Weapons Facility in the Austrian Alps, a group of soldiers meet for the first time. As prisoners they are used to make weapons for HYDRA. They team up, at first, to get revenge on one of their captors after he viciously beats Bucky Barnes.

3rd

 * Liberation of Allied Prisoners of War: Frustrated by his lack of real action, and learning that Bucky Barnes is trapped behind enemy lines, Steve Rogers attacks a HYDRA facility in Austria and releases Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Montgomery Falsworth, Jacques Dernier, Bucky, and the rest of the 107th. Johann Schmidt sets the facility to self destruct and escapes with the Tesseract. During his escape Rogers memorizes a map of HYDRA facility locations and obtained a sample of the power source HYDRA was using.

4th

 * Steve Rogers is presumed dead, but soon arrives with most of the soldiers he saved from the HYDRA facility.
 * Rogers brings together some of the men he saved in the HYDRA base and creates a team that will eventually be known as the Howling Commandos.

5th

 * Howard Stark examines a sample of HYDRA's power, which will help him with the theory of a new element.

December

 * Captain America and his Howling Commandos invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in France.

January

 * Captain America and his Howling Commandos invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in Belgium.

February

 * Captain America and his Howling Commandos invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in Czechoslovakia.

29th

 * Captain America tries to get a file from HYDRA agents in London, who run away and attempt to hide in an air raid shelter. The Captain encourages the citizens inside the shelter to attack the agents by giving them a speech of heroism and strength in numbers.

27th

 * Captain America invades a castle in the Nazi occupied Danish Straits controlled by HYDRA. He fights a Nazi wearing an arc reactor powered battle suit, and an arc powered tank. Johann Schmidt attempts to destroy him by using a Viking Runestone, but the Captain slows the relic from exploding, allowing the Howling Commandos to escape.

11th

 * Captain America boards and captures the HYDRA submarine Leviathan.

Capture of Arnim Zola

 * The Howling Commandos board a HYDRA train and capture Arnim Zola. In the ensuing battle with HYDRA agents, Bucky Barnes falls from the train and is presumed dead.

HYDRA's Discovery of the Obelisk

 * Werner Reinhardt captures a group of villagers from China who have found the mysterious Obelisk. Based on stories and fables from the villagers, Reinhardt comes to learn of the Kree's visit to Earth millennia ago, but misinterprets their visit as an attempt to conquer the planet. When he shows the Obelisk to Schmidt, he says that the Obelisk may hold the answer to death itself.

19th

 * The United States Armed Forces begin the invasion of Iwo Jima.

4th

 * Attack on HYDRA Headquarters: Captain America attacks HYDRA Headquarters alone on his motorcycle which he uses to blow up the doors to the base. After a quick fight, he is surrounded and captured by HYDRA forces. He is taken before Red Skull but before he is killed the Howling Commandos zip-line through the window and Colonel Chester Phillips attacks the main gate. Red Skull retreats to the hanger and Rogers follows.
 * Battle in the Valkyrie: As the Red Skull escapes in the Valkyrie, the Captain America gains access to the plane and a fight ensues. Red Skull handles the Tesseract, which activates and sends him through a portal. The Captain crashes the Valkyrie off the coast of Greenland so its bombs never reach the USA.

5th

 * The disappearance of Steve Rogers is publicly revealed.

6th

 * In a HYDRA Fortress in Austria, Werner Reinhardt tests the Obelisk's power on several of the Chinese villagers, one of which is a young woman named Jiaying who carries the genetic material of the Inhumans and thus displays an unnatural immunity to its potent effects. Reinhardt learns about Schmidt's demise and the approach of the Allies. He decides to move the Obelisk to a more secure location.

12th

 * Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. Harry S. Truman becomes the next President of the United States.

30th

 * In his bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler appoints, the Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, as his successor. Hitler committs a suicide in order to evade capture after Nazi Germany's defeat. The Nazi propaganda attempts to present his death as a heroic fall in the struggle against Bolshevism.

7th

 * Werner Reinhardt attempts to evacuate the HYDRA Research Facility in Austria and escape with numerous mysterious artifacts that HYDRA collected over the years. His base is attacked by the SSR troops led by Peggy Carter, Dum Dum Dugan, and Jim Morita. Reinhardt and his men are arrested and all the artifacts are confiscated by the SSR.

8th

 * The Allied nations celebrate the . The Howling Commandos reunite to commemorate the sacrifice of Captain America. Howard Stark discovers the Tesseract at the bottom of the ocean in his search for Steve Rogers, but fails to locate the crashed Valkyrie. Rogers will remain missing for almost 70 years.

9th

 * German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signs the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at Soviet headquarters in Berlin.

19th

 * The United States begin Operation Overcast, later renamed Operation Paperclip, an effort to recruit former Nazi scientists to work for the United States.

21st

 * Werner Reinhardt is taken to a secret Strategic Scientific Reserve facility and interrogated by Peggy Carter. He attempts to offer his services to the SSR, even relaying information regarding the Obelisk and the Kree, but is instead sentenced to life imprisonment.

23rd

 * Heinrich Himmler commits suicide.

25th

 * Gary Hendricks buys a newly printed comic about the war hero Captain America, avidly reading it.

2nd

 * Japan surrenders to the Allied forces, and World War II ends.

December

 * Howard Stark attempts to impress his date Ida Emke by showing her his self-piloting airplane. He invites her to see other inventions in his mansion.

16th

 * Howard Stark tries to acquire the Roxxon Refinery from Hugh Jones, who refuses to sell it due to Stark's affair with his wife.

14th

 * Tired of being under appreciated by her misogynistic superior John Flynn, who gives her nothing more than paperwork to do because she is a woman, Peggy Carter of the Strategic Scientific Reserve single-handedly retrieves a vial of formula marked with the Zodiac emblem.

15th

 * John Flynn reprimands Carter for not going through proper procedures in the Zodiac mission. Howard Stark contacts Flynn, telling him Peggy Carter is going to co-manage the newly created S.H.I.E.L.D. with him.

8th

 * On the first anniversary of V-E Day, Howard Stark is kidnapped by Dottie Underwood and Johann Fennhoff, who take Stark to his own hangar where Fennhoff hypnotises Howard and orders him to fly a plane armed with Midnight Oil into New York City. Stark's butler Edwin Jarvis pursues Howard by plane while Agents Peggy Carter confronts Underwood and Agents Daniel Sousa and Jack Thompson confront Fennhoff. Carter manages to break Stark's hypnosis while Sousa and Thompson arrest Fennhoff, but Underwood escapes from the hangar before Jarvis and Stark return.

9th

 * Senator Walt Cooper visits the SSR office to commend Thompson for stopping the attack on New Times Square. Jarvis shows Angie and Peggy to a residence which Howard has provided for them, and Jarvis turns over the phial of Steve's blood to Carter, who later visits the Brooklyn Bridge and empties the blood into the East River.

After the Foundation of S.H.I.E.L.D.

 * Arnim Zola is recruited to S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Operation Paperclip. Some time later, Zola and some former HYDRA agents track down Bucky Barnes and find him alive, missing an arm, where he fell from the train. Zola and the agents take him into their custody.
 * Now a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist, Zola begins rebuilding HYDRA from within S.H.I.E.L.D.. Bucky Barnes's memory is wiped and he is given a metal prosthetic arm. He is kept cryogenically frozen and becomes a HYDRA weapon known as the Winter Soldier.

1947

 * Cold War begins.

4th

 * Obadiah Stane is born.