Timeline



A timeline of events as depicted and mentioned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.

965
1st Jan
 * The Frost Giants of Jotunheim attempt to conquer Midgard/Earth. Their invasion point in Tønsberg, Norway becomes the site of an epic battle as Asgard’s 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.

1410
1st January
 * Odin hides the Tesseract in Tønsberg, Norway.

1918
4th July
 * Steve Rogers is born in Brooklyn, NY to Joseph and Sarah Rogers.

1924
1st June
 * In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a young Steve Rogers talks to his mother about his deceased father and military man, Joe. His father died, from a Mustard Gas attack, with the 107th during WWI. Soon after, his mother dies from T.B. and Rogers is sent to an orphanage.

1930
1st January
 * Dr. Abraham Erskine, working in a German University, begins his research into creating a Super Soldier Serum.

1st September
 * In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, Steve meets James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes during a back ally scuffle with some bullies.

1934
1st February
 * At the Duetsches Operhaus in Berlin German Physicist, Johann Schmidt, meets Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaufmann (head of the Sturmabteilung (SA)'s Special Weapons Division) after a Wagner opera. Schmidt reveals his theory that Norse gods and their magic could be more than myth. Hitler is intrigued by Schmidt’s ideas, but Kaufmann is less impressed. Schmidt offers to conduct research in Kaufmann’s unit, but is violently rejected. Himmler, head of the SS overhears the conversation, and takes Schmidt under his wing.

1st May
 * In Geneva, Switzerland, Dr. Erskine and young, budding industrialist, Howard Stark meet at an Engineering Conference.

30th June
 * At the Hanselbauer Hotel, Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, as part of the Schutzstaffel (SS)'s Night of the Long Knives, Johann Schmidt assassinates Ernst Kaufmann and seizes control of his weapons program.

5th July
 * Schmidt and the SS troops attack a SA Weapons Testing Ground at Kummersdorf (46km south of Berlin) where he finds and recruits advanced exo-skeleton battle armour researcher Arnim Zola.

1935
14th September 
 * Spurred by rumors that Hitler was to announce draconian anti-Semetic laws, including the revocation of German citizenship for Jews, at the Nazi Party’s annual rally in Nuremberg the next day, biochemist Abraham Erskine attempts to flee Germany with his family. They are stopped at the German/Swiss border by HYDRA leader Johann Schmidt who wants Erskine's work on ways to increase molecular density of cellular fibers through synthetic proteins. In order to ensure Erskine's cooperation, Schmidt has Erskine's wife Greta and his children Klaus and Marlene sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Zola is allowed to resume his work on exo-skeleton battle suits and various high-tech weaponry.

1937
1st January
 * Erskine's kidnapped wife, son, and daughter die of typhus in a concentration camp near Dachau.

26th April
 * The bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. While the Nazis were assisting the forces of Generalissimo Franco, HYDRA uses the battle to test a prototype tank and exo-skeleton battle suit. At the time it was believed the Luftwaffe was responsible for the destruction of the city.

1939
1st September
 * World War II begins. Howard Stark launches Stark Industries. They begin producing planes for war effort following attack on Pearl Harbor. His innovations later earn him a spot working on the Manhattan Project.

1940
1st February
 * In Los Angeles, California, Howard Stark begins a demonstration which would showcase Vibranium, a metal discovered by Stark Industries researchers in Africa. Stark then meets with Colonel Chester Phillips after being attacked by HYDRA assassins. Stark agrees to join Philip's newly created Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR), a top secret government agency.

1st November
 * At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Schmidt takes part in a test involving Erskine and his Super Soldier Serum which turns Schmidt into what will become known as the Red Skull. Erskine is rescued by British Officer, Peggy Carter, and brought into the SSR as part of the Project Rebirth program along with Howard Stark to produce America's own Super Soldier.

1941
7th December
 * America enters World War II. In Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, during an art class Rogers and Bucky find out that America has joined the Second World War. Over the next two weeks Bucky trains Rogers at Goldie’s Boxing Gym.

24th December
 * Rogers and Bucky visit US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York where Steve is classified as 4F and rejected from service. Rogers goes on to be rejected a further four times in four different cities.

1942
1st January
 * The SSR team, based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, finish the Project Rebirth Chamber. Howard Stark comments that it should have been called the Brooklyn Project in response to Oppenheimer's work at Los Alamos. At Camp Lehigh, New York Erskine rejects all the candidates selected by Col. Chester Phillips for Project Rebirth.

1st March
 * Tønsberg, Norway. Schmidt discovers and takes the Tesseract, a source of unspeakable power, hidden within the monastery. Schmidt refers to it as "the jewel of Odin's Treasure Room".

1943
14th June
 * 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 US Army through Project Rebirth.

15th June
 * 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 June
 * With Erskine's serum and Howard Stark's Vita-Rays technology Rogers is transformed from a sickly weakling into the worlds first, and only, super soldier. Upon his transformation the secret location is destroyed and Erskine is assassinated by Heinz Kruger, an operative of HYDRA. The only evidence left that Project Rebirth ever took place is locked in Rogers' genetic code.

23rd June
 * Unwilling to be kept purely for research, Rogers joins the USO and goes on a five month, morale-boosting tour of the US, the UK, and finally troops stationed in Italy. Given the persona 'Captain America' he becomes a national celebrity appearing in both films and comicbooks, establishing himself as a symbol of America's participation in the war.

1st October
 * At the HYDRA Weapons Facility in the Austrian Alps the members of the future 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 November
 * Italy. Frustrated by his lack of real action, and upon hearing of Bucky trapped behind enemy lines, Rogers attacks a HYDRA facility and releases the imprisoned Howling Commandos and Bucky. Schmidt, who has been using the Tesseract on site as a power source sets the facility to self destruct. Rogers slows the relic from exploding to allow time for the Commandos to escape. During his escape Rogers memorises a map showing the locations of all HYDRA's hidden facilities as well as obtaining a small sample of the power source HYDRA have been using.

5th November
 * Howard Stark begins to examine the sample of HYDRA's power which will lead him to discover the theory of a new element.

1944
1st April
 * Rogers invades a castle in the Nazi occupied Danish Straits. The castle is controlled by Nazi special weapons unit HYDRA. Here Cap fights a Nazi wearing an arc reactor powered battle suit, as well as an arc powered tank. He and the Howling Commandos survive an attempt by Schmidt to destroy them using a mystical Viking runestone.

Unknown date
 * Rogers boards and captures the HYDRA submarine Leviathan.

1945
6th May
 * Rogers, with the help of the US Military, attacks and destroys HYDRA's last fortification. As Schmidt makes his escape aboard the Valkyrie Rogers gains access and a fight ensues. Schmidt, after handling the Tesseract, is transported into the cosmos. Rogers has to ditch the Valkyrie off the coast of Greenland ensuring that the aircraft and its payload never reaches the USA. Shortly after, the allied nations celebrate V. E. Day.

9th May
 * Howard Stark discovers the Tesseract in his search for Rogers but fails to locate the crashed Valkyrie. Rogers will remain missing for almost seventy years.

1954
1st Jan
 * Stark World Exposition.

1963
1st January
 * Anton Vanko defects to the US and begins work with Howard Stark in developing Arc Reactor technology under the title of 'The Unity Project'.

1964
1st January
 * Stark Expo held in conjunction with the World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows, Queens, NY.

1967
1st January
 * Stark has Anton Vanko deported as a spy. Vanko returns to Soviet Union but is sent to exile in Siberia for two decades. (Presumably he is able to return to Moscow following Premier Gorbachev’s call for democratization in January 1987). Obadiah Stane convinces Howard Stark to take Stark Industries back into weapons development.

1969
1st January
 * Ivan Vanko, son of Anton, is born.

18th December
 * Bruce Banner is born.

1971
1st March
 * Emil Blonsky is born.

10th May
 * Tony Stark born in Long Island, NY to Howard and Maria Stark.

1973
15th September
 * Howard Stark films the intro for the Expo '74. He will use this film to tell Tony Stark of his belief and love in him as well as a subtle hint to unlocking the 'new element'.

1974
1st January
 * Stark World Exposition. Last Stark Expo until 2010. Howard Stark hides the secret to perfecting Arc Reactor technology in the layout of the Expo for Tony to find.

1975
10th May
 * Tony Stark builds his first Circuit Board.

1976
1st January
 * Howard Stark unveils to the world his first attempt at building an Arc Reactor. Although technologically successful no attempt is made to explore its profitability.

1977
10th May
 * Tony Stark builds his first engine.

1988
1st January
 * Tony Stark graduates MIT at age 17 at top of class.
 * Bruce Banner meets Elizabeth Ross while undergrads at Harvard. They begin dating and at one point volunteer for an experiment involving hallucinogenics.

1991
16th December
 * Howard and Maria Stark die in car accident on Long Island.

1992
1st January
 * Tony Stark inherits Stark Industries becoming, at age 21, the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. In addition to the company’s numerous military contracts, Stark Industries also does pioneering work in medical technology and in combating world hunger with their Intelli-Crops program. In the process he becomes somewhat of a media celebrity.

1994
1st January
 * Ivan Vanko is imprisoned for fifteen years for selling Soviet era weapons grade plutonium to Pakistan.

2002
1st January
 * General Thaddeus Ross convinces the military to revive the Bio Force Enhancement Project, a program based on the work carried out in Project Rebirth during World War II. Dr. Bruce Banner joins the group at Culver University in Willowdale, VA in south western Virginia working on a way to strengthen cellular resistance to radiation, possibly at insistence of girlfriend Dr. Betty Ross, daughter of Gen. Ross. Gen. Ross lies to the scientists on the project, informing them that their work will help protect soldiers from depleted uranium.

2006
12th January
 * Under the threat of funding cuts, Banner volunteers to test process on himself resulting in the accident that turns him into a powerful, mutated humanoid. (2006”; see also below February 7). Gamma pulse combined with serum that Betty Ross was developing triggers mutation. Later, gamma pulses somehow stored in Banner’s brain’s amigdala and released during high stress moments will trigger mutation. Betty Ross is injured and hospitalized. Gen. Ross admits to Banner that project is being developed as weapon, not just defense. Banner goes on the run. In the wake of the accident, the military closes the entire lab building for a year and shuts down the entire Bio Tech Force Enhancement project. General Ross secretly holds onto some material, Dr. Betty Ross also secretly holds onto project data, remaining at Culver University as a professor of cellular biology. Betty also ceases speaking with her father, angry at his treatment of Banner.

7th February
 * Banner tries to contact Betty one last time, but the email is intercepted by the military. She never receives it. At some point during his run from the military, Banner travels through the Dakotas, possibly on his way towards the Arctic.

27th May
 * Banner spotted via satellite recon photo in Canada and a mutated Banner sighted by locals who mistake him for a “green Sasquatch".

21st October
 * Last sighting of Banner for at least five months.

2007
1st January
 * 2007 – 2010 At some point, the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistic Division (S.H.I.E.L.D.) is brought in to help Ross and his task force recover Banner. Ross requisitions some high tech weaponry he knows will be required to bring Banner down. Stark Industries sells them Jeep-mounted sonic cannons. Banner wanders the world avoiding population centers, eventually heading to South America.

27th March
 * The military loses Banner, who eventually arrives in the Arctic Circle.

1st April
 * Banner Spotted in Rome, Italy.

2009
6th May
 * Tony Stark demonstrates his new Accelerated Wave Explosion (A.W.E.) weaponary to the U.S. Military at the Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. Later that evening Stark and Lt. Col. James 'Rhodey' Rhodes go to a club. Stark's arrogant, playboy attitude upsets another patron which results in a brawl.

20th May
 * Following the successful demonstration of the new Jericho Missile Weapons System outside of Kabul, Afghanistan, the military convoy escorting Stark is attacked by the Ten Rings terrorist group under the leadership of Raza, who is working at least in part for Obadiah Stane. Stark is wounded by Stark Industries-manufactured weapons and is captured. During his three months of capture, Stark is forced to build version of Jericho with fellow captive Ho Yinsen, the scientist who saved his life, for the Ten Rings terrorist group. He instead builds an armoured, exo-skeleton battle suit powered by a minature arc-reactor and uses it to escape although Yinsen dies in the attempt. 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 August
 * Upon his return to the US and deeply affected by his experience, Stark buys cheeseburgers and then pulls Stark International out of the weapons business, terminating all contracts with the military. Stark Industries stock prices tumble nearly 60 percent. Hammer Industries manoeuvres itself to pick up many new contracts. Stark reveals to Stane the arc reactor technology he developed to power the armour. An Agent Phil Coulson attempts to order a meeting through Pepper Potts in order to debrief him.

1st September
 * Stark continues to develop a more refined version of the armour 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. Besides boardroom maneuvering, Stane develops his own high tech battle armour using the remains of the MK I armour recovered by his Ten Rings confederates.

17th October
 * After an unspecified Hulk incident, Banner heads into the Rio de Janeiro favela known as Rocinha. Banner travels there in order to find a way to clandestinely contact Dr. Samuel Sterns, professor in Cellular Biology Department at N.Y.C.’s Grayburn College on the Upper East Side, for help in developing a cure. They communicate using codenames of “Mr. Blue” and “Mr. Green.” Sterns is noted for his work with trimethadiones, used in the treatment of epileptic conditions. Acting on a suggestion from Mr. Blue/Sterns, Banner starts to research Amazonia Tracheophytes (plants that have lignified tissues for conducting water, minerals, and photosynthetic products through the plant) for a lead on a cure. Banner also studies calming techniques at a nearby temple, gets a job at a soda bottling plant as a handyman and begins teaching himself Portuguese.

20th October
 * Stark flies Mk II armour using newly fitted flight stabilizers. During the altitude test Stark discovers an icing problem.

21st October
 * 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 Jarvis to add some "hot-rod red" paint trimming to the next suit, codenamed "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 (which takes approx. 5 hours to complete). At the charity event, Tony meets with Agent Coulson, who still wants to learn about Tony's incident (They book an appointment for the 24th). Tony then 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, a reporter 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 remote Afghan town of Gulmira, Yinsen's home village. Tony confronts Obadiah on the matter, and Obadiah reveals that he is the one who filed the injunction against Tony.

22nd October
 * Stark tests his Mk III armour by driving Raza’s Ten Rings group out of the Afghan village of Gulmira.

24th October
 * Under Stark’s direction, Potts uncovers proof of Stane’s collaboration with the Ten Rings. Stane and Stark eventually come to blows in their respective armours. Stane is killed. The conflict is seen by the public and the press name the mysterious hero “Iron Man.” Post the Ironmonger fight Agent Coulson show 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 October
 * 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, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury approaches Stark about a project called the “Avengers Initiative". Stark declines, Fury calls in Natasha Romanoff (A.K.A. Black Widow). Anton Vanko dies in poverty in Moscow. His son Ivan vows revenge on Stark. He begins building his own portable Arc Reactor to power an energized whip/body harness.

16th December
 * Iron Man named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, narrowly beating out Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve.

2010
1st January
 * As Tony Stark continues to operate as Iron Man, he manages to bring about a period of relative peace. His main targets are members of the organisation The Ten Rings, which are based in various areas including Pavlodar, Kabul and the Gulf of Aden. During this time Tony Stark saves an airman in the Congo who was test piloting a vehicle designed by Justin Hammer under the orders of General Ross. He is credited by some press as having stabilized East-West relations. Stark realizes that the palladium core of Stark’s Arc Reactor is slowly poisoning him. He begins searching for a cure but keeps his condition a secret.

25th March
 * 158 days since last “incident”, Banner has accident that leaves drop of blood in soda. Also, he sends sample of blood to Sterns who will conduct further experiments with it outside of the analysis that Banner needs. Banner has been working in the factory, at this stage, for five months.

22nd April
 * Stark Expo 2010 opens with plans to run for one year.

23rd April
 * Stark appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Weaponized Suit Defence Program Hearings. These are chaired by Pennsylvania Senator Stern. Stern pushes Stark to turn the Iron Man suit and technology 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 other countries, including 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 have also had their share of lack-of-success, leading to the cancellation of Hammer Industries’ contacts with the Department of Defence.

24th April
 * Stark appoints Potts Chairman and CEO of Stark Industries. An agent of the Ten Rings supplies Vanko assistance in infiltrating the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco.

25th April
 * General Ross’ task force, having traced Banner to the bottling plant, raids Rocinha favela under the field command of Emil Blonsky. Banner transforms, defeats the raiding party and escapes.

26th April
 * Physicist Jane Foster, working in the small town of Puente Antiguo for Culver University, discovers the first occurance of the subtle aurora in New Mexico. The atmospheric disturbances will continue to take place for the next sixteen days to the exact minute.

27th April
 * Banner wakes up in Guatemala. Over the next seventeen days, he will make his way through Chiapas, Mexico to Willowdale, VA and Culver University to see if any data still remains from his original experiment. S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Sitwell follows Banner on his journey.

29th April
 * Stark signs paperwork to transfer power to Potts and meets “Natalie Rushman”. Stark is unaware that she is S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Romanoff. Stark hires her as his new personal assistant.

2nd May
 * Stark arrives at the Historic Grand Prix of Monaco and, in a moment of spontaneity, 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 along the section of the Circuit de Monaco between turns 16 and 17 by the harbour. Switching into a portable, lightweight Iron Man armour (Mark V) Stark defeats Vanko. Later that evening, Stark visits Vanko in prison before flying back to US with Potts.

3rd May
 * Senator Stern appears on several news channels to spin support for the military seizing the Iron Man armour technology.

5th May
 * Hammer orchestrates Vanko’s escape from prison to have him work on Hammer Industries own weapon-suit program.

6th May
 * Media speculation continues about Stark’s fitness to continue as Iron Man. Rhodes tries to convince Stark to hand over the Iron Man technology to the US military, but Stark continues to refuse.

7th May
 * Hammer and Vanko arrive at the Hammer Industries facility in Queens, NY. Vanko begins revamping Hammer’s own battle suit prototypes into unmanned, remote-controlled drones.

10th May
 * Tony Stark’s Birthday. Depressed over his inability to solve his palladium poisoning dilemma, he gets drunk which leads to a confrontation with Rhodes, who dons the Mark II Iron Man armour. The ensuing fight wrecks a portion of Stark’s Malibu home. Rhodes leaves with the Mk II suit.

11th May
 * Fury is informed that Stark has only 72 hours left to live due to his palladium poisoning. Handed lithium to slow the effects of the condition Fury leaves to meet Stark. Also at this time Fury is told that Banner has passed through US Customs and orders Agent Sitwell to track him. Agent Coulson informs Fury of 'atmospheric disturbances' they are picking up in the 'south west' region.


 * Rhodes delivers the Mk 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 continues revamping the battle suits in to unmanned, remote-controlled drones.


 * Mk 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.


 * Foster contacts her mentor, Dr. Erik Selvig, who flies out to New Mexico to help her monitor the atmospheric disturbances. Foster's message is intercepted by SHIELD.


 * Tony visits Potts at Stark Industries where she mentions Hammer's presentation at the Expo is tomorrow, makes intuitive breakthrough on how to fix his palladium/Arc Reactor problem; through the creation of a new element theorized by his father and hidden in the layout of Stark Expo.

12th May
 * On 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 his detail with Tony Stark to investigate atmospheric activity in New Mexico. Coulson leaves that afternoon.


 * Banner arrives at Culver University and spies Betty.


 * Stark builds a small cyclotron to create the element using equipment owned by PEGASUS.


 * Hammer’s Stark Expo presentation is hijacked by Vanko, who uses drones to attack crowd and Stark. After receiving a call from Vanko, Stark skips over tests on new Arc Reactor element in order to race across country and stop Vanko. Stark/Iron Man defeat Vanko’s drones with help from Rhodes in modified Mk II armor, SHIELD Agent Romanoff and Stark’s driver Happy Hogan. Vanko is apparently killed in explosion that destroys the Oracle Pavilion. Hammer is arrested for his part in engineering Vanko’s escape.


 * Before leaving Hammer Industries Romanoff downloads all the information stored on Hammer's mainframe. She then destroys the facility.


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


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


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


 * Foster, whilst investigating the atmospheric disturbances, detects a possible Einstein-Rosen Bridge (wormhole) in the nearby desert. Racing to the site with Selvig and her assistant Darcy, they discover Thor, having been stripped of his powers and cast out of Asgard by his father Odin for nearly provoking a war with the Frost Giants of Jotunheim. Thor, after provoking Darcy with his eratic behaviour, is tasered and taken to a local hospital.

13th May
 * On his way to Puente Antiguo (on his way from Roswell, NM) Coulson prevents an armed robbery taking place at a gas station. He also, after much indecision, purchases some donuts.


 * Under orders from Fury, SHIELD agent Clint Barton (A.K.A. Hawkeye) is sent to Puente Antiguo, NM to assist Coulson.


 * A Puente Antiguo, New Mexico local discovers Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, in a crater about 50 miles east of 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 Mjolnir. SHIELD quickly quarantines the area and erects a portable laboratory over the site to study the hammer. Agent 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 into the Odinsleep. Sif and the Warriors Three begin to suspect Loki's treachery.


 * That evening Thor and Foster head towards the site of the SHIELD installation erected around Mjolnir. Thor is captured trying to sneak in having failed to successfully lift the hammer.


 * Loki appears before Thor who is being held at the SHIELD 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.


 * 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 new lover Dr. Leonard Sampson. Sampson informs the military of Banner’s whereabouts. Meanwhile, 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 heads directly to Culver University.


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

14th May
 * The Warriors Three and Sif head to Midgard to find Thor. Loki sends the Destroyer after them.


 * At Culver University, Betty walks Banner to bus station in the early morning. As they are crossing the campus, they are attacked by the military and Betty becomes aware of the true extent of Banner’s condition. Blonsky seems to adapt well to Bio Tech Enhancement upgrade, but still gets beaten by transformed Banner, getting nearly every bone in his body pulverized. Banner's transformation and Blonsky's enhanced performance are wittnessed by Romanoff. Banner/Hulk escapes the military with an unconscious Betty to a cave deep in the Smokey Mountains. News of the battle can not be contained and quickly spreads across cable news channels and the internet. Culver U. journalism student and campus 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 will be 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 several other hot spots in Europe, Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean.


 * Stark has a debrief with SHIELD Director Fury. Stark is offered an advisory position with the Avengers Initiative. He accepts the offer on condition that Senator Stern honours them for their services.


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


 * Destroyer attacks SHIELD 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.


 * Barton discovers the Destroyers 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.

15th May
 * General Ross has meeting with taskforce staff.

16th May
 * 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.


 * The military captures Banner, but Blonsky forces Sterns to inject him with blood products Sterns had 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.


 * Amongst the rubble that makes up the remains of Sterns' apartment Romanoff discovers the muated Sterns. Romanoff subdues him and takes him into custody.

17th May
 * 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 Intiative'.

21st May
 * Impressed with his work on Einstein-Rosen bridges and other cutting edge theoretical physics, Nick Fury approaches Dr. Selvig to join SHIELD 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.

22nd May
 * 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 SHIELD 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 fours hours in order to ruin any chance of this recruitment going through.

23rd May
 * 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 so enraged by Starks behaviour that he refuses to release him into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.

16th June
 * Banner has settled in a cabin deep in the woods of Bella Coola, British Columbia. He apparently is gaining control over the Hulk.

2011
1st February
 * Banner crosses the border from Pakistan into India. An incident involving some local bandits provokes Banner into transforming into the Hulk.

16th May
 * Steve Rogers' crash site is found by a Russian oil team. Eighteen hours later SHIELD agents are dispatched to the area where they find the frozen Rogers Cryogenically preserved.

17th May
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. continue their work. Analysis continues on Vanko's Whiplash/Hammer Technology, on Foster's Nine Realms Theory, on Sterns mutation and, finally, on tranforming 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. Selvig still remains under the control of Loki.

2012
1st May
 * Loki remotely activates the Tesseract having been aided by an entity known only as 'The Other'. The Tesseract teleports Loki into the Mojave Desert SHIELD installation. He steals the Tesseract and, using a scepter-like device, gains control over a number of SHIELD agents, including Barton and Selvig. As they escape the base is destroyed. Fury reactivates the Avengers intiative.

2nd May
 * Kolkata, India. Romanoff meets Banner under the orders of Fury. She convinces Banner that his knowledge on Gamma radiation is essential in helping SHIELD locate the Tesseract. Banner accepts.


 * 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 May
 * 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 pursuaded not in order that they can find the Tesseract together.


 * Loki escapes Hellicarrier. The Chitauri invasion of Earth. Various individuals join as the Avengers and save the planet.