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What? First, watch your language as I will report you to admins right after answering this so you know that Marvel has placed Iron Man in 2009, The Avengers in 2012 and everything else in this timeline is well placed...

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The timeline placements for Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor, and The Incredible Hulk are fraught with contradictions and problems. As detailed in Marvel's official 2012 The Art of The Avengers timeline, Iron Man spans 9 months from Tony's kidnapping to "I am Iron Man", then Iron Man 2 is 6 months later. With Tony's birthday appearing in Iron Man 2, which is May 29th (as shown on a file in a deleted scene from The Avengers and on official display at an event, and lines up with other evidence placing the film in May), Iron Man 2 is set mostly in May, and Iron Man is February-November of the year before, which also lines up with its own evidence. However, the evidence for which years they are set in is contradictory. A 2008 setting for Iron Man is implied by: However, a 2009 setting for Iron Man is implied by: A pre-2010 (2008 or 2009) setting is implied by: The second half of Iron Man 2, the events of Thor, and the second half of The Incredible Hulk are all set in the same week, known as "Fury's Big Week", as detailed in the The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week comic, on Marvel's timeline, and shown in the films. Iron Man 2 also cannot span more than a few weeks, because: A 2010 setting is implied for Fury's Big Week by: However, a 2011 setting for Fury's Big Week is implied by: Fury's Big Week is 6 months after "I am Iron Man". This is shown from: So, Iron Man is set in February-November of 2008 or 2009, Fury's Big Week is set in May-June of 2010 or 2011, and Fury's Big Week is 6 months after "I am Iron Man". The best solution possible, to satisfy the most evidence with the most importance, is reasoned out as Iron Man being set from February-November 2009 and Fury's Big Week being set in May-June 2010. To see a full, detailed description, calculation, and explanation of the reasoning, see here.
 * A date on a TV in Iron Man which says "May 4, 2008".
 * Vision's line from Captain America: Civil War, firmly on June 19, 2016, saying, "In the 8 years since Mr. Stark announced himself as Iron Man."
 * A statement from Kevin Feige (1, 2) implying 4 years between Iron Man and The Avengers, which is firmly set in May 2012.
 * Marvel's official timeline showing that "I am Iron Man" is 67 years after March 1942 (date shown on-screen in Captain America: The First Avenger), when Schmidt took the Tesseract, 67 years after June 22, 1943 (date given by newspaper in Captain America: The First Avenger and confirmed by Marvel), when Steve went through Project Rebirth, 64 years after early February 1945 (date given by auctioned prop from Captain America: The First Avenger and supported by newspaper in Captain America: The Winter Soldier from a while after the disappearance, as well as Reinhardt's arrest date a while after Red Skull's death, shown in The Things We Bury - all explained in 1940s references), when Steve went into the ice, meaning the timeline overall presents late 2009 for "I am Iron Man".
 * Jon Watts saying that "the eight-year-old Peter had seen Stark say, 'I am Iron Man,' on TV," and again that Peter was 8 at that moment, with the fact that Peter was born in early 2001 (from him being 15 in Captain America: Civil War, June 2016, and "15" in Spider-Man: Homecoming, September 2016, as well as a New York sophomore in 2016-17, meaning he was born in 2001).
 * Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Season 2, Episode 17 - Melinda, set firmly in April 2015 in the lead-up to Avengers: Age of Ultron (see 2015 references), flashing back to "7 years ago" when the Avengers Initiative was just starting up, seemingly a while before Iron Man.
 * In Avengers: Age of Ultron, when Ultron scrolls through images, a "FEB/12/2010" photo is shown of the Mark I armour. The photo could have been taken any time after the Mark I was made, but since the Mark I was only completed in May, this means it cannot be later than May 2009.
 * In Avengers: Age of Ultron, when Ultron scrolls through images, an old "news archive" story about Iron Man is shown from "20.07.10", including footage of him in Gulmira. This means that the Battle of Gulmira, in November of its year, can be no later than November 2009, for a news report from July 2010 to feature footage from it.
 * The Expo is said to only be a year long, and there is "362 days left" on the day of Pepper's hiring and "343 days left" on the day of the Battle at Stark Expo.
 * Tony jokes that Pepper has only been CEO for "a week" after the Expo fight. Although the "days left" just mentioned shows it has been 19 days, still, it cannot be any longer.
 * The Monaco incident, which is after Pepper's hiring, is shown on Marvel's timeline to still be 6 months after "I am Iron Man", when the senate meeting before her hiring is also said by Hammer to be "6 months" after the end of Iron Man and the Expo opening before that is shown to be "6 months later" (confirmed by Jon Favreau in DVD commentary to refer to the time since "I am Iron Man"). So, the Monaco incident is definitely within a month of the Expo opening.
 * The inspired canon The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic shows that the ice problem test flight in Iron Man is on or after "Day 1", that the fight in Monaco is between "Day 189" and "Day 199", and that the Battle at Stark Expo in Fury's Big Week is before "Day 199", meaning that the end of Iron Man 2 is still just over 6 months maximum after.
 * The rate at which Tony's palladium poisoning is increasing means that the film cannot realistically span more than a few weeks anyway.
 * The Stark Expo 2010 website saying that the Expo - the first Expo since 1974, the same one shown in the film - begins on "May 7th 2010".
 * A letter on the Stark Expo 2010 website also saying that the Expo begins on "May 7th . 2010".
 * A computer in Iron Man 2 saying "05.06.10".
 * The Grand Prix de Monaco Historique appearing in Iron Man 2, which is a biannual event which was held in May 2010.
 * Blonsky being known to have been born on "March 1, 1971", as said in a deleted scene, and saying in The Incredible Hulk that he is "39".
 * Fury saying Steve slept for "almost 70 years" in Captain America: The First Avenger, Steve saying he slept for "70 years" in The Avengers, and then more specific with "65 years" in Spider-Man: Homecoming - overall implying he slept for about 66½-66¾ years. And, having gone into the ice in February 1945, this therefore implying he woke around late 2011, and The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week shows that this is "one year later" after the end of Fury's Big Week.
 * Tony Stark's file, on display at an event and shown in a deleted scene from The Avengers, saying he was CEO of Stark Industries until 2010.
 * Natasha saying to Bruce on May 2, 2012, "You've been more than a year without an incident. I don't think you wanna break that streak," when we know he had incidents in Harlem, then a month later in British Columbia (both in The Incredible Hulk), and those incidents were in June and July respectively, meaning they cannot be 2011.
 * The Iron Man 3 Prelude showing that 10 months before The Avengers, in July 2011, enough time had passed since Iron Man 2 that all of the damage at the Expo had been cleaned up, Stark Tower had been fully planned, the foundations had been laid, and the first few levels had already been constructed.
 * Fury saying on May 4, 2012 in The Avengers, "Last year, Earth had a visitor from another planet who had a grudge match that levelled a small town," implying the Battle of Puente Antiguo was last year.
 * The Thor: The Dark World Prelude comic showing Darcy, on May 4, 2012, saying to Jane that "it's been a year", implying it has been a year since Thor left.
 * Darcy saying in Thor: The Dark World, "He's gonna come back. Except, you know, last time he was gone for like, 2 years," seemingly referring to it being 2 years from him leaving Jane before he returned on November 11, 2013 (but potentially just meaning, "Last time he left you, it was 2 years before he returned to Earth," referring to The Avengers).
 * The 2011 song Walk by Foo Fighters playing in a bar which Thor and Selvig visit during Thor.
 * Justin Hammer saying in Iron Man 2, "We all know why we're here. In the last 6 months, Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities."
 * Marvel's timeline showing that both the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro (which is shown in The Incredible Hulk to be "17 days" before Banner arrived at Culver University on Day 3 of Fury's Big Week) and the Duel of Monaco (which is days before Fury's Big Week) were 6 months after "I am Iron Man".
 * Iron Man 2 beginning with "I am Iron Man" and showing a montage of Vanko working, then showing "6 months later", the Stark Expo opening. Jon Favreau confirmed on the DVD commentary that the Vanko montage covers the 6 months, with "6 months later" referring to the time since "I am Iron Man".
 * Pepper joking in Monaco that Christine Everhart slept with Tony "last year" (which was 9 months before "I am Iron Man").
 * The inspired canon The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII comic showing about 197 days between the test flight with the icing problem and the Battle at Stark Expo.

In Iron Man, when Pepper Potts watches the television the day after Tony Stark's return conference, the screen shows the date "May 4, 2008". While this full date is impossible (see other references) following evidence putting it in 2009, the May 4th part of the date works, if simply applied to 2009 (the best-fitting year for the events of Iron Man) instead of 2008 - like in Iron Man 3, where the prop date is right, but the year is one off. Tony's return from Afghanistan in May 2009 revolves around this May 4th date.

Marvel's timeline presents Tony's kidnapping as being 9 months before "I am Iron Man," which is dated to November 25, 2009. In Iron Man, Tony says, "I was in captivity for 3 months," then later, "I was out of town for a couple of months." Iron Man: Security Measures also shows Tony's return as being "3 months later" following the day after his kidnapping. His escape is dated to May 1, 2009. Overall, to best fit these pieces of evidence, his kidnapping is dated to February 13, 2009. From this, the Apogee scene, 36 hours earlier, is on February 11, 2009.