Timeline



This is a timeline of events as depicted and mentioned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

1st

 * The Frost Giants of Jotunheim attempt to conquer Midgard/Earth. Their invasion point in Tønsberg, Norway becomes the site of an epic battle as Asgards ruler, Odin, leads an army to repel the invasion and protect the planet. Odin and his forces push the Frost Giants back to Jotunheim where the AllFather discovers an abandoned Frost Giant infant whom he adopts, names Loki and raises as his own alongside his son, Thor. A truce is negotiated between Odin and the Jotun king, Laufey.

1st

 * Odin hides the Tesseract in Tønsberg, Norway.

31st

 * In Asgard, Odin tells his sons's Loki & Thor of the battle in Tønsberg, and that they were born to be kings.

13th

 * Howard Stark is born.

21st

 * James Morita is born.

9th

 * Joseph Rogers is killed in a Mustard Gas attack while serving with the 107th.

4th

 * Steve Rogers is born in Brooklyn, New York City to Joseph and Sarah Rogers.

10th

 * James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is born.

9th

 * Peggy Carter is born in London, England.

18th

 * In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a young Steve Rogers talks to his ill mother about his deceased father, Joseph. She dies that day from tuberculosis.
 * Steve is sent to an Eighth Avenue orphanage.

23rd

 * Abraham Erskine, working in a German University, begins his research into creating a Super Soldier Serum.

13th

 * A teenage Steve Rogers meets Bucky Barnes, who saves him from a group of bullies, and the pair quickly become best friends.

3rd

 * At the Duetsches Opernhaus in Berlin, Johann Schmidt meets Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaufmann after a Wagner opera. Schmidt reveals his theory that Asgardians could be more than a myth. Hitler is intrigued by Schmidt’s ideas, and Schmidt offers to conduct research in Kaufmann’s unit, but is rejected. Himmler overhears the conversation and takes Schmidt under his wing.

11th

 * In Geneva, Switzerland, Abraham Erskine and Howard Stark meet at an Engineering Conference.

30th

 * At the Schutzstaffels Night of the Long Knives, Johann Schmidt kills Ernst Kaufmann and seizes control of his weapons program.

1st

 * Schmidt and the SS troops attack an SA Weapons Testing Ground at Kummersdorf, and recruit Arnim Zola.

14th

 * Due to rumors that Hitler would announce anti-Semitic laws, Abraham Erskine try's to leave Germany with his family but is stopped at the German/Swiss border by Johann Schmidt, who wants the Super Soldier Serum. To ensure his cooperation, Schmidt sends Erskine's wife and children to the Dachau concentration camp.

15th

 * Arnim Zola continues his work on exo-skeleton battle suits and high-tech weaponry.

10th

 * Erskine's kidnapped wife, daughter, and son die of typhus in the Dachau concentration camp.

26th

 * HYDRA tests a prototype tank and exo-skeleton battle suit. At the time it was believed the Luftwaffe was responsible for the destruction which was actually caused by HYDRA.

1st

 * World War II begins.

31st

 * Howard Stark launches Stark Industries.

18th

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

29th

 * At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Johann Schmidt takes part in a test with Abraham Erskine and his Super Soldier Serum which turns Schmidt into the Red Skull. Erskine is rescued by Peggy Carter, and brought into the SSR to produce America's Super Soldier with Howard Stark in Project Rebirth.

7th

 * America enters World War II. In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, during an art class Rogers and Bucky find out that America has joined World War II. Over the next two weeks Bucky trains Rogers at Goldie’s Boxing Gym.

13th

 * Stark Industries begin producing planes for the war effort following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

15th

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

24th

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

29th

 * The SSR team in Red Hook, Brooklyn, finish the Project Rebirth Chamber. Howard Stark comments that it should be called the Brooklyn Project in response to Oppenheimer's work at Los Alamos.

30th

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

8th

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

14th

 * On Flag Day, at the World Exposition of Tomorrow, Queens, New York, Erskine spots Steve Rogers at a recruitment office. Erskine offers him a chance to join the U.S. Army through Project Rebirth.

15th

 * At camp Lehigh, New York, Rogers, along with several other volunteers, begins his training under the supervision of Peggy Carter, Dr. Erskine and Col. Phillips.

22nd

 * With Erskine's serum and Howard Stark's Vita-Ray technology Rogers is transformed into the worlds first super soldier. Upon his transformation the secret location is destroyed, and Erskine is assassinated by Heinz Kruger, an operative of HYDRA. The only evidence that Project Rebirth took place is in Rogers' genetic code.

23rd

 * Unwilling to be kept for research, 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 and comic books, establishing himself as a symbol of America's participation in the war.

1st

 * At the HYDRA Weapons Facility in the Austrian Alps the Howling Commandos 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.

3rd

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

4th

 * Steve Rogers is appointed dead, but soon arrives with most of the soldiers he saved from the HYDRA facility.
 * Steve brings together some of the men he saved in the HYDRA base and creates the Howling Commandos.

5th

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

27th

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

15th

 * Rogers boards and captures the HYDRA submarine Leviathan.

29th

 * The Howling Commandos board a HYDRA train and James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is presumed dead.

14th

 * At some point after the Allied invasion of Normandy, Captain America infiltrates Castle Zemo and destroyes the Sleeper.

4th

 * Rogers, with the help of the US Military, attacks HYDRA's last base. As Schmidt escapes in the Valkyrie, Rogers gains access and a fight ensues. Schmidt, after handling the Tesseract, is transported into Asgard. Rogers ditch's the Valkyrie off the coast of Greenland so that the Valkyrie and its payload never reach the USA. Shortly after, the allied nations celebrate V. E. Day.

7th

 * Howard Stark discovers the Tesseract in his search for Rogers but fails to locate the crashed Valkyrie. Rogers will remain missing for 66 years.

2nd

 * Japan surrenders to the Allied forces. End of World War II.

5th

 * Obadiah Stane is born.

21st

 * Nick Fury is born.

1st

 * Stark World Exposition begins and runs for the rest of the year.

21st

 * Anton Vanko defects to the US to develop Arc Reactor technology with Howard Stark as 'The Unity Project'.

1st

 * Stark World Exposition is held in conjunction with the World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY.

2nd

 * Phillip Coulson is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

3rd

 * Anton Vanko is accused of espionage and deported as a spy.

17th

 * Obadiah Stane convinces Howard Stark to take Stark Industries back into weapons development.

18th

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

19th

 * Ivan Vanko, son of Anton Vanko, is born.

4th

 * James Rupert Rhodes is born.

18th

 * Bruce Banner is born.

29th

 * Tony Stark is born in Long Island, NY to Howard and Maria Stark.

7th

 * Clint Barton is born.

4th

 * Emil Blonsky is born in Russia.

15th

 * Howard Stark films the intro for the Stark World Exposition '74. He will use this to tell Tony Stark of his belief and love in him as well as a subtle hint to unlocking the 'new element'.

1st

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

10th

 * Tony Stark builds his first Circuit Board.

10th

 * Tony Stark builds his first engine.

1st

 * Elizabeth "Betty" Ross is born to Thaddeus Ross.

23rd

 * Sam Wilson is born.

25th

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

3rd

 * Maria Hill is born.

9th

 * Jane Foster is born.

22nd

 * Natasha Romanoff is born.

13th

 * Darcy Lewis is born.

3rd

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

17th

 * Robert Coulson, father of Phil Coulson, dies.

5th

 * Bruce Banner meets Elizabeth Ross while undergrads at Harvard. They begin dating and volunteer for an experiment involving hallucinogenics.

16th

 * Howard and Maria Stark die in a car accident on Long Island.

27th

 * Tony Stark inherits Stark Industries, becoming the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. In addition to the company’s military contracts, Stark Industries works in medical technology, combating world hunger with their Intelli-Crops program, and he also becomes a media celebrity.

20th

 * Julie Coulson, mother of Phil Coulson, dies.

29th

 * Ivan Vanko is imprisoned for fifteen years for selling Soviet-era weapons grade plutonium to Pakistan.

31st

 * Tony Stark goes to a New Years Eve party with Maya Hansen. They run into Aldrich Killian, a disabled scientist who runs A.I.M. and he tells them about his proposition to help disabled people and change the world with his work. Tony lies to him and tells him that he'll meet him on the roof of the building. Maya tells Tony about a project she has worked on called Extremis. Tony and Maya spend the night together.

1st

 * New Years Day comes and Tony still never comes to the roof with the distraught Aldrich Killian on the roof of the building. Looking out he saw everyone celebrating which inspired him to conitinue his work.
 * Tony breaks up with Maya Hensen leaving her a note about her project, Extremis.

5th

 * Dr. Maya Hansen and Aldrich Killian upgrade the Extremis virus.

14th

 * After the 9/11 attacks, Thaddeus Ross convinces the military to revive the Bio Force Enhancement Project, based on Project Rebirth in World War II. Bruce Banner joins the group at Culver University at the insistence of his girlfriend Betty Ross. Thaddeus Ross lies to the scientists on the project, informing them that their work will help protect soldiers from depleted uranium.

12th

 * Under the threat of funding cuts, Bruce Banner test's the process on himself resulting in the accident that turns him into a powerful, mutated humanoid, or a "Hulk". Gamma pulse combined with the serum that Betty Ross was developing triggers the mutation. Gamma pulses stored in Banner’s brain’s Amygdala and released during high stress moments trigger the mutation. Betty Ross is injured and hospitalized. Banner goes on the run. The military closes the lab building for a year and shuts down the Bio Tech Force Enhancement project. Gen. Ross holds onto some material, Betty Ross also secretly holds onto project data, and remains at Culver University. Betty stops speaking with her father, angry at his treatment of Banner.

7th

 * Banner tries to contact Betty, but the email is intercepted by the military. She never receives it.

9th

 * Banner travels through the Dakotas, possibly on his way towards the Arctic.

27th

 * Banner spotted via satellite Recon photo in Canada.

28th

 * A mutated Banner is sighted by locals who mistake him for a "green Sasquatch".

21st

 * Last sighting of Banner for at least five months.

13th

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. is brought in to help Ross. Stark Industries sells him Jeep-mounted sonic cannons. Banner eventually heads to South America. They continue helping Ross until 2012.

26th

 * The military loses Banner, who eventually arrives in the Arctic Circle.

10th

 * Banner spotted in Rome, Italy.

12th

 * Chad Davis explodes from an Extremis malfunction, killing five others in the explosion as well.

6th

 * Tony Stark demonstrates his new Accelerated Wave Explosion (A.W.E.) weaponry to the U.S. Military at the Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. Later that evening Stark and Lt. Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes goes to a club. Stark's arrogant, playboy attitude upsets another patron which results in a brawl.

20th

 * Following the demonstration of the Jericho outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, the military convoy escorting Stark is attacked by the Ten Rings under the leadership of Raza, who is working for Obadiah Stane. Stark is wounded by Stark Industries-manufactured weapons and is captured. Stark is saved by Ho Yinsen, a fellow captive. They are forced to build a Jericho. They instead build an exo-skeleton battle suit powered by a miniature arc-reactor.

19th

 * During their three months of capture, Stark and Yinsen finish the suit they have been working on. Tony turns it on and uses it to escape although Yinsen is killed by the Ten Rings while saving Tony. Following his being found by the US military, Stark is taken to Germany where he is checked out by Army doctors and then subjected to debriefings from the CIA, NSA and others.

21st

 * Upon his return to the US and deeply affected by his experience, Stark pulls Stark Industries out of the weapons business, terminating all military contracts. Hammer Industries manoeuvres itself to pick up new contracts. Stark reveals to Stane the arc reactor technology he developed to power the armor. S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Phil Coulson attempts to order a meeting through Pepper Potts to debrief him.

12th

 * Stark continues to develop a more refined version of the armor he used to escape from the Ten Rings. Stane uses Stark’s change of heart concerning what business he is in as leverage for a takeover attempt. Stane develops his own high tech battle armor using the remains of the Mark I armor recovered by members of the Ten Rings.

18th

 * Nick Fury, in disguise, finds Bruce Banner in a bar and tries to find out what Thaddeus Ross' "Super-Solder Program" did to him. Fury tells agents Johnson and Peterson, to gain his trust and see how he reacts to certain things, so the agents make it look like they where dating and one were cheating on the other with Bruce, and Bruce gets confused when she pulls him toward her. The other started a fight with Bruce. Fury tried to make it look like he was going to help him, but Peterson punched him. This made Bruce turn into the Hulk, and everyone in the bar including Fury, was surprised. Fury tried to calm Hulk down, but he ran through the wall of the bar.

19th

 * After his Hulk incident, Banner heads to Rio de Janeiro to contact 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/Sterns, Banner starts to research Amazonia Tracheophytes for a lead on a cure. Banner also studies calming techniques at a nearby temple, gets a job at a soda bottling plant and teaches himself Portuguese.

20th

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


 * Stark flies the Mark II armor using newly fitted flight stabilizers and discovers an icing problem.

21st

 * Stark analyzes more data and decides to rebuild his suit using gold titanium from an old project to solve the icing problem. Tony also instructs J.A.R.V.I.S. to add some "hot-rod red" paint trimming to the next suit, code-named "Mark III." Tony then 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, Tony meets with Agent Coulson. who wants to learn about Tony's incident, they book an appointment for the 24th. Tony leaves to dance with Pepper Potts, his personal assistant, and they share a moment together in the moonlight. Tony is then confronted by Christine Everhart, who he'd slept with prior to leaving for Afghanistan. She shows him photographs of his weapons being used by a terrorist group the previous day in the Afghan town of Gulmira, Yinsen's home village. Tony confronts Obadiah, who reveals that he filed the injunction against Tony.

22nd

 * Stark tests his Mark III armor by driving Raza’s Ten Rings out of Gulmira.

24th

 * Under Stark’s direction, Potts uncovers proof of Stane’s collaboration with the Ten Rings.
 * Battle of Los Angeles: Stane and Stark eventually come to blows in their respective armors. Stane is killed. The conflict is seen by the public and the press name the mysterious hero “Iron Man.” After the fight against Iron Monger, Agent Coulson shows Stark and Rhodes around the S.H.I.E.L.D. complex situated in the local area. Coulson stresses to Stark how they can teach him how to fight.

25th

 * At a press conference the day following his showdown with Stane, Stark rejects S.H.I.E.L.D.’s constructed alibi for the events of the previous evening and admits to the world that he is Iron Man. That evening, Nick Fury approaches Stark about the “Avengers Initiative". Stark declines, and Fury calls in Natasha Romanoff. Anton Vanko dies in poverty in Moscow. His son Ivan vows revenge on Stark, and builds his own portable Arc Reactor to power an energized whip/body harness.

16th

 * Iron Man is named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, beating out Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.

11th

 * As Tony Stark continues to operate as Iron Man, he brings about a period of relative peace. His main target is the Ten Rings, who are based in Pavlodar, Kabul and the Gulf of Aden. Tony Stark saves an airman in the Congo who was test piloting a vehicle designed by Justin Hammer under the orders of General Ross, and is credited as having stabilized East-West relations. Stark realizes that the palladium core of his Arc Reactor is slowly poisoning him. He begins searching for a cure but keeps his condition a secret.

25th

 * 158 days since his last “incident”, Banner has an accident that leaves a drop of his blood in a soda bottle. He sends a sample of his blood to Sterns, who conducts further experiments with it outside of the analysis that Banner needs.

22nd

 * Stark World Exposition 2010 begins.

23rd

 * Stark appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Weaponized Suit Defense Program Hearings. These are chaired by Pennsylvania Senator Stern. Stern pushes Stark to turn the Iron Man suit over to the military, but Stark refuses. Stern calls Justin Hammer, CEO of Hammer Industries and Lt. Rhodes to testify against Stark. Stark testifies 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 that Hammer Industries had their share of lack-of-success, leading to the cancellation of Hammer Industries’ contacts with the Department of Defense.

24th

 * Stark appoints Pepper Potts Chairman and CEO of Stark Industries. An agent of the Ten Rings supplies Vanko assistance in infiltrating the Grand Prix of Monaco.

25th

 * General Ross’ task force, having traced Banner to the bottling plant, raids Rocinha under the field command of Emil Blonsky. Banner transforms, defeats the raiding party and escapes.

26th

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

27th

 * Banner wakes up in Guatemala and returns on his journey to Culver University. Over the next seventeen days, he goes to Willowdale, VA and Culver University to see if any data remains from his original experiment.

30th

 * Banner makes his way through Chiapas, Mexico, and continues traveling.

14th

 * Banner finishes his journey, making it to Culver University. He sees Betty Ross, but tries not to talk to her, to not cause her distress.

22nd

 * Stark signs paperwork to transfer power to Potts and meets “Natalie Rushman”. Stark is unaware that she is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent. Stark hires her as his new personal assistant.

24th

 * Battle of Monaco: Stark arrives at the Circuit De Monaco and quips “What’s the point of having a car if you don’t drive it”. He replaces Team Stark’s regular driver DiFilipo in Race G. Ivan Vanko attacks Stark between turns 16 and 17 by the harbour. 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 US with Potts.

25th

 * Senator Stern appears on news channels to support military control of the Iron Man armor.

26th

 * Justin Hammer orchestrates Ivan Vanko’s escape from prison to have him work on Hammer Industries own weapon-suit program.

27th

 * Justin Hammer and Ivan Vanko arrive at the Hammer Industries facility in Queens, NY. Vanko begins revamping Hammer’s own battle suit prototypes into unmanned, remote-controlled drones.

28th

 * Media speculation continues about Tony Stark’s fitness to continue as Iron Man. Rhodes tries to convince Stark to hand over the Iron Man suits to the US military, but Stark continues to refuse.

29th

 * On Tony Stark’s birthday he is depressed over his inability to solve his palladium poisoning dilemma and gets drunk which leads to a confrontation with Rhodes, who dons the Mark II Iron Man armor. The fight wrecks a portion of Stark’s Malibu home. Rhodes leaves with the Mark II suit.

30th

 * Fury is informed that Stark has 72 hours left to live due to his palladium poisoning. Handed lithium to slow the effects of the condition, Fury leaves to meet Stark. Fury is told that Banner has passed through US Customs and orders S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Sitwell to track him. Agent Coulson informs Fury of 'atmospheric disturbances' in the 'south west' region.


 * Foster contacts Erik Selvig, who flies out to New Mexico to help her monitor the atmospheric disturbances. Foster's message is intercepted by S.H.I.E.L.D.


 * Rhodes delivers's the Mark II suit to the military at Edwards Air Force Base. Stark goes for donuts and has a conversation with Fury. Fury mentions a situation in the southwest, but confines Stark to house arrest. At Hammer Industries, Vanko revamps the battle suits in to unmanned, remote-controlled drones.


 * Mark II suit is turned over to Justin Hammer for weapons upgrading on the order of General Meade, though not before Rhodes secretly removes the suit’s Arc Reactor.


 * Tony visits Potts at Stark Industries where she mentions Hammers presentation at the Expo is tomorrow, makes 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 Stark Expo.

1st

 * In Asgard Thor's coronation is suddenly cut short when Odin senses a break-in in his treasure room. The culprits are discovered to be Frost Giants whom the Destroyer, as guardian, has killed. Thor is enraged at what he sees as, an act of war.


 * Nick Fury reassigns Agent Coulson from Tony Stark to investigate atmospheric activity in New Mexico. Coulson leaves that afternoon.


 * Stark builds a small cyclotron to create the element using equipment owned by Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.


 * Battle at Stark Expo: Hammer’s Stark Expo presentation is hijacked by Vanko, who uses the drones to attack the crowd and Stark. After receiving a call from Vanko, Stark skips over tests on new a Arc Reactor element in order to stop Vanko. Stark defeats Vanko’s drones with help from Rhodes in the modified Mk II armor, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Romanoff and Happy Hogan. Vanko is killed in the explosion that destroys the Oracle Pavilion. Hammer is arrested for engineering Vanko’s escape.


 * Coulson arrives at a S.H.I.E.L.D. outpost in Roswell, NM to assemble his team of agents.


 * Before leaving Hammer Industries, Agent Romanoff downloads all the information stored on Hammer's mainframe and destroys the facility.


 * On his way to Puente Antiguo (on his way from Roswell, NM) Coulson prevents an armed robbery taking place at a gas station, and also purchases some donuts.


 * Thor, Sif, Loki and the Warriors Three travel to Jotunheim to seek justice for the Frost Giants actions. A fight breaks out.


 * Banner goes to his old friend and pizzeria owner Stanley to hide out. He offers him the Pizza Shop’s upstairs spare bedroom.


 * Foster, Selvig, and Darcy detect a possible Einstein-Rosen Bridge in the nearby desert and discover Thor, stripped of his powers and cast out of Asgard by Odin for provoking a war with the Frost Giants of Jotunheim. Thor, after provoking Darcy with his behavior, is tasered and taken to a local hospital.

2nd

 * Under orders from Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Clint Barton is sent to Puente Antiguo, NM to assist Coulson.


 * A Puente Antiguo, New Mexico local discovers Thor’s hammer, Mjølnir, in a crater about 50 miles east of the town. Unable to lift it, he calls several other people to give it a try. Jane 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. Barton is one of the agents assigned to the operation and arrives later that day.


 * Loki discovers his true heritage, that Laufey the Frost Giant King is his real father. After confessing the truth to Loki, Odin collapses and enters Odinsleep. Sif and the Warriors Three begin to suspect Loki's treachery.


 * That evening Thor and Foster head towards the site of the S.H.I.E.L.D. installation erected around Mjølnir. Thor is captured trying to sneak in having failed to lift Mjølnir.


 * Loki appears before Thor who is being held at the S.H.I.E.L.D. installation and lies to him that Odin is dead. In the evening, Dr. Selvig goes to the installation and manages to get 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. He decides to leave that evening but as he prepares to leave Stanley’s he is accidentally seen by Betty. She has him stay the night at the home she shares with Leonard Samson. Samson informs the military of Banner’s whereabouts. Blonsky receives an unauthorized “low dose” injection of Bio Tech Enhancement Serum from General Ross.


 * Fury sends Romanoff to tail Banner aware that an imminent move by General Ross is to be made. She goes to Culver University.


 * After an evening of drinking with Selvig, Thor explains the concept of the Nine Worlds to Jane.

3rd

 * The Warriors Three and Sif head to Midgard to find Thor. Loki sends the Destroyer after them.


 * Battle at Culver University: At Culver University, Betty walks Banner to the bus station in the early morning. As they are crossing the campus, they are attacked by the military and Blonsky, who seems to adapt well to the Bio Tech Enhancement upgrade, but is still beaten by transformed Banner, getting nearly every bone in his body pulverized. Banners transformation and Blonsky's enhanced performance are witnessed by Romanoff. Banner/Hulk escapes the military with an unconscious Betty to a cave deep in the Smokey Mountains. News of the battle quickly spreads across cable news channels and the internet. Culver University journalism newspaper reporter Jack McGee, who witnessed and captured the fight on cell phone video, names the transformed Banner “the Hulk” in an interview with WHIH news. His remarks are played repeatedly over the next several days.


 * S.H.I.E.L.D. continues to monitor the Hulk incident, 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. Stark is offered an advisory position with the Avengers Initiative. He accepts the offer on condition that Senator Stern honors them for their services.


 * Romanoff informs Fury about Blonsky's enhanced attributes having witnessed his performance at the Culver University incident.


 * The Destroyer attacks S.H.I.E.L.D. agents stationed at Puente Antiguo.


 * Thor and his fellow Asgardians fight the Destroyer. 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 Coulson, they transport the body to Roswell, NM.


 * Banner and Betty hide out in a small town motel, as news of the previous day’s battle continues to spread. Within 36 to 40 hours of his injuries, Blonsky has recovered.


 * Thor, Sif and the Warriors Three head back to Asgard where Thor reveals Loki’s plan to seize the throne of Asgard. Unfortunately, in the ensuing battle between the two, Thor is forced to destroy the Bifrost to prevent Loki from destroying Jotunheim and committing genocide against the Frost Giants. This action strands him in Asgard, unable to return to Midgard/Earth. Loki falls into space disappearing into the ether.

4th

 * General Ross has a meeting with the task-force staff.

6th

 * Banner and Betty arrive in NYC, bypassing roadblocks at the Holland Tunnel by bribing a boat owner to take them across the Hudson River, leaving them in lower Manhattan. They head uptown to meet with Sterns. Sterns and Banner try an experimental process to cure him, though it only succeeds in reversing the transformation, not ridding Banner of it completely.


 * Battle of Harlem: The military captures Banner, but Blonsky forces Sterns to inject him with the blood products that Sterns developed from Banner’s blood sample. Blonsky is driven insane and mutates into the Abomination. Sterns is infected with Banner’s blood through an open wound, possibly gaining his own mutation. Banner convinces Ross to let him try and stop Blonsky. The two fight in Harlem, with the Hulk finally defeating Blonsky/Abomination, before being allowed by Ross to flee.


 * Among the rubble that makes up the remains of Sterns' apartment Romanoff discovers the mutated Sterns, she subdues him and takes him into custody.

7th

 * Nick Fury is granted new funds for S.H.I.E.L.D. from the World Security Council. This new funding will provide the resources he needs to examine the Tesseract fully as well as to put into action the 'Avengers Initiative'.

11th

 * Fury approaches Erik Selvig to join S.H.I.E.L.D. in an advisory capacity to study a powerful cube-like object in their possession. Fury is unaware that Selvig is under the control of Loki.

12th

 * In a diner Agent Coulson and Jasper Sitwell discuss how to prevent 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 agrees to send Tony Stark to meet with Ross within twenty four hours to ruin any chance of this recruitment going through.

13th

 * Following the NYC Hulk incident, Tony Stark arrives in NYC and approaches Ross about “putting a team together.” Stark is apparently on a mission to recruit Blonsky. However, Ross is enraged by Stark's behavior and refuses to release him into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.

16th

 * Banner has settled in a cabin deep in the woods of Bella Coola, British Columbia, and is gaining control over the Hulk.

21st

 * Banner crosses the border from Pakistan into India. An incident with local bandits provokes Banner into transforming into the Hulk.

16th

 * Steve Rogers' crash site is found by a Russian oil team. Eighteen hours later S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are dispatched to the area where they find the frozen Rogers Cryogenically preserved.

17th

 * S.H.I.E.L.D. continues their work. Analysis continues on Vanko's Whiplash/Hammer Technology, on Foster's Nine Realms Theory, on Sterns mutation and, finally, on transforming The Destroyer into a handheld weapon. Hawkeye is sent to join Selvig deep in the Mojave desert to assist with the work carried out on the Tesseract.

18th

 * Steve Rogers' body is freed from the ice, and he is taken to New York City.

19th

 * Steve Rogers wakes up and tries to run away from a S.H.I.E.L.D. building but is stopped by Nick Fury. Fury tells him what he missed while he was frozen.

1st

 * Loki activates the Tesseract having been aided by an entity known as 'The Other'. The Tesseract teleports Loki into the Mojave Desert S.H.I.E.L.D. installation. He steals the Tesseract and, using a scepter-like device, gains control over S.H.I.E.L.D. agents including Barton and Selvig. As they escape the base is destroyed. Fury reactivates the Avengers Initiative.
 * 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 tells him to give Natasha the phone or S.H.I.E.L.D. would destroy the entire city block. Coulson tells her she is needed but is reluctant to leave her current job, but agrees when she is informed that Clint Barton has been compromised.

2nd

 * Kolkata, India. Natasha Romanoff meets Bruce Banner under the orders of Fury. She convinces Banner that his knowledge on Gamma Radiation is essential in helping S.H.I.E.L.D. locate the Tesseract. Banner accepts.


 * In Manhattan, NY Fury meets with Rogers giving him first orders since his awakening. He tells him to report to the Helicarrier in the morning.


 * That evening, Stark brings his miniaturized Arc Reactor online to power the newly opened Stark Tower in midtown Manhattan, built on the location of the former Pan Am building. Agent Coulson calls on Stark to review Selvig's research on the Tesseract. Stark is also sent highly confidential material concerning the potential members of 'The Avengers Initiative'.

3rd

 * Romanoff, Banner, Rogers and Coulson all rendezvous on the Helicarrier. Banner sets to work in relocating the Tesseract. After intelligence reveals Loki's location, in Germany, Rogers and Romanoff make there way there to confront him. Stark arrives to help capture him. On their return Thor attempts to capture and return Loki back to Asgard. After a fight he is persuaded not to so that they can find the Tesseract together.

4th

 * Once aboard the Helicarrier the Avengers begin to clash verbally over how to handle Loki and the Tesseract, allowing Loki time to plot an escape. Clint Barton and other brainwashed Agents invade the Helicarrier and begin to destroy the engines while Bruce Banner transforms into the Hulk and begins to rampage across the ship. Tony Stark and Steve Rogers attempt to repair the engines, Thor battles the Hulk, Natasha Romanoff frees Agent Barton of his mind-control while Nick Fury and Maria Hill hold off the other mind-controlled agents. The Hulk jumps out of the ship to attack a hovering F-35 Lightning II and ends up crashing into the ground below. Thor arrives to stop Loki but gets trapped in a cage designed to contain the Hulk and is jettisoned out of the ship, Agent Coulson arrives with a gun made out of The Destroyer to help but gets killed by Loki.


 * Battle of New York: Following Loki's escape from the Helicarrier he commanders Stark Tower to be used as the location of the Chitauri invasion. Tony Stark arrives to "Threaten" Loki while a mind-controlled Selvig uses the Tesseract to open a portal allowing the Chitauri to invade Earth. The Avengers come together to stop the invasion, however the World Security Council are not convinced it will work and launch missiles at the city despite Nick Fury's persistence. While the Avengers battle the invading forces Iron Man grabs one of the missiles and throws it through the portal destroying the Chitauri fleet just as Black Widow closes the portal. They apprehend Loki and reclaim the Tesseract.
 * The Avengers, tired from their recent battle, gather at a local shawarma restaurant that was recommended by Tony Stark, to eat.  War Machine arrives to speak with Tony while they eat.
 * Thor returns to Asgard with Loki and the Tesseract while the other Avengers go their separate ways.
 * The Other confers with his master over Loki's defeat, the loss of the Tesseract, and Earths new protectors then states that to confront them "would be to court death". His master, Thanos, simply turns and smiles, thinking of things to come.

9th

 * Benjamin Pollack and his girlfriend Claire Wise find a broken Chitauri weapon. Benny fixes the weapon and plans to rob banks with it.

10th

 * Benny and Claire prepare to rob a bank, but Bennie becomes worried that the plan will fail. Claire convinces him, and they successfully rob the bank.

11th

 * Benny and Claire rob another bank.
 * Another person robs a bank in Richmond, Virginia.

13th

 * Another person tries to rob a bank in Greensboro, North Carolina.
 * In the afternoon, another person robbed a bank in Charleston, South Carolina.

14th

 * Another person tries to rob a bank in Savannah, Georgia.

15th

 * Benny and Claire decide to stay at a hotel to count the money they've stolen.
 * Jasper Sitwell is informed by Agent Blake of Benny and Claire's robberies and leaves to stop them.
 * Claire finishes counting the money but in the room next-door they hear what sounds like a party, but is actually Agent Sitwell trying to get their attention. Benny goes to investigate and is attacked by Sitwell. Claire tries to intervene by attacking Sitwell with the Chitauri weapon, but she, is attacked by Sitwell, and she drops the weapon accidentally switching it on and making it shoot the bed destroying all their stolen money. Sitwell ties them to the bed and interrogates them. Claire tells Sitwell that Benny got the weapon to work so Sitwell says that he won't arrest them if Benny can make more for S.H.I.E.L.D. and Benny agrees.
 * Sitwell brings Benny and Claire to a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility and Benny gets his own workplace for making the weapons, and Claire is made Agent Blake's assistant.

18th

 * Tony Stark starts making the Iron Legion.

7th

 * The first Mandarin bombing occurs.

2nd

 * The second Mandarin bombing occurs.

15th

 * Bruno Horgan, also known as the Melter, attacked Iron Man during a press conference in front of the Stark Tower. After a quick victory Melter announced that he would be selling the designs in a few days.

17th

 * Melter attacks and with some effort, secured a victory over War Machine. This led both Stark and Rhodes to confront Horgan, who promptly was defeated and placed into US military custody.

29th

 * The third Mandarin bombing occurs.

17th

 * The fourth Mandarin bombing occurs.

18th

 * The fifth Mandarin bombing occurs.
 * Tony practices using his new Mark XLII and sees how well it works.

19th

 * Tony's Iron Legion starts creating friction with his girlfriend Pepper Potts. A string of bombings by terrorist the Mandarin has left intelligence agencies bewildered by lack of forensic evidence.
 * When Stark Industries security chief Happy Hogan is badly injured in an attack on the Chinese Theatre, which was triggered by an Extremis subject, Jack Taggert.

20th

 * Tony Stark visits Happy in a hospital. While walking out a group of reporters try to interview him about the Mandarin. Tony overcomes his stupor and issues a televised threat to the Mandarin.
 * Destruction of Tony Stark's mansion: The Mandarin responds to Tony's threat by destroying Stark's home with helicopter gunships. Maya Hansen, who had come to warn Stark, and Potts survive the attack, while trying to still stay undercover.

22nd

 * Stark then finds himself in rural Tennessee after his artificial intelligence J.A.R.V.I.S. followed a flight plan from Stark's investigation into the Mandarin. Stark's experimental armor lacks sufficient power to return to California, and the world believes him dead.
 * Teaming with young 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 can cause certain subjects to explosively reject it. After veterans started exploding, their deaths were used to cover up Extremis' flaws by manufacturing a terrorist plot. Stark witnesses Extremis firsthand when Mandarin agents Ellen Brandt and Eric Savin attack him.

23rd

 * With Harley's help, Stark traces the Mandarin to Miami and infiltrates his headquarters using improvised weapons. Inside he discovers the Mandarin is actually a British actor, Trevor Slattery, who says that he is oblivious to the actions carried out in his name. The Mandarin is a creation of Killian, who appropriated Hansen's Extremis research as a cure for his own disability and expanded the program to include injured war veterans. After capturing Stark, Killian reveals he is the true Mandarin; he has kidnapped Pepper and subjected her to Extremis to gain Stark's aid in fixing Extremis' flaws and thereby saving Pepper. Killian kills Hansen when she has a change of heart about the plan.

24th

 * Kidnapping of President Ellis: Killian has also manipulated American intelligence agencies regarding the Mandarin's location, luring Iron Patriot into a trap to steal the armor. Stark escapes and reunites with Rhodes, discovering that Killian intends to attack President Ellis aboard Air Force One. Remotely controlling his Iron Man armor, Stark saves some surviving passengers and crew but cannot stop Killian from abducting Ellis. They trace Killian to an impounded damaged oil tanker where Killian intends to kill Ellis on live television. The vice president will become a puppet leader, following Killian's orders in exchange for Extremis to cure his daughter's disability.

25th

 * Battle at Roxxon Oil Drill: On the platform, Stark goes to save Potts, and Rhodes saves the president. Stark summons each of his Iron Man suits, controlled remotely by J.A.R.V.I.S., to provide air support. Rhodes secures the president and leads him to safety, while Stark discovers Potts 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 Killian and traps him in an Iron Man suit that self-destructs, but fails to kill him. Potts, whose Extremis powers allowed her to survive her fall, intervenes and kills Killian.
 * After the battle, Stark orders J.A.R.V.I.S. to remotely destroy each Iron Man suit as a sign of his intention to devote more time to Potts. The vice president and Slattery are arrested.

27th

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

3rd

 * In a therapy session Tony tells Bruce Banner the story of his battle with Killian, to which Banner falls asleep. Tony wakes him up after finishing the story.