| For the 1930s timeline altered by the Chronicoms, see 1930s |
- "It's the Great Depression. A decade before Pearl Harbor. Almost four decades before Apollo 11."
- ―Phil Coulson[src]
This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 1930s.
1930
January
10th
- Abraham Erskine, working in a German University, begins his research into creating a Super Soldier Serum.[5]
March
15th
- Zhores Alferov is born.[1][6]
April
6th
August
25th
- Sean Connery is born.[1][8]
September
9th
- Frank Lucas is born.[1][9]
15th
- In Hell's Kitchen, New York City, a young Steve Rogers meets Bucky Barnes, who ends up becoming his best friend.[10]
23rd
- Raymond Charles Robinson, later known as Ray Charles, is born.[1][11][12]
November
15th
- J. G. Ballard is born.[1][13]
1931
January
1st
- Bridgestone is founded.[3][17]
22nd
February
11th
- Larry Kaufman, later known as Larry Merchant, is born.[1][19]
12th
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- New York City is foggy, and the incomplete Empire State Building is the only building breaking through the clouds.[20][21]
13th
- In the early hours, Police Captain William Dole waits with two other policemen for Jimmy Bottles at Cut Rate Drugs in New York City.[20][22]
- Morning arrives, and the streets of New York City are bustling.[20][22]
- Freddy Malick and Tillman work at Ernest "Hazard" Koenig's speakeasy.[20][22]
- Koenig prepares to supply a party later with Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.[20][22]
- The Roosevelt party is set up.[20][22]
- Roosevelt arrives and pretends to not struggle with walking despite his polio.[20][22]
- Freddy Malick works at the party for Koenig. Viola from HYDRA approaches Malick, revealing she is the contact he has been arranged to meet.[20][22]
- Viola leads Malick to a quiet place to talk, and tells him she worked with his father before he died. She gives him a vial, telling him to deliver it to the docks to restore his family's glory. She simply tells him the vial is "the future".[20][22]
- Koenig remains at the speakeasy through the night.[20][22]
- Malick slips the vial into a bottle, noting the HYDRA logo on its stopper, and feeling the future will be his.[20][23]
- Malick waits to get on a train to his meetup.[20][23]
14th
- Malick rides the train to Hell's Harbor, the vial he is delivering being a key ingredient to a developing Super Soldier Serum.[20][23]
- The train jolts to a halt as Malick arrives.[20][23]
- Malick heads to his meet, getting in a car with his contact.[20][23]
April
11th
- The Empire State Building is completed.[3][24]
October
17th
November
- The Xinhua News Agency is founded.[3][26]
5th
- Izear Turner, Jr., later known as Ike Turner, is born.[1][27]
December
30th
- Richard Liboff is born.[1][28]
1932
Magistrate living on Earth as a preacher
- The Magistrate preaches in a tent. A woman tells him she has brought her son a long way for being healed from Jonah, so the Magistrate goes to her son to help. He lights up his hands and uses his powers to heal the boy, allowing him to walk, which impresses his followers.[29]
March
18th
- John Updike is born.[1][30]
May
25th
- K. C. Jones is born.[1][31]
1933
- Johann Schmidt begins searching for the Tesseract.[5]
- Miracle Whip is founded.[1][32]
January
- The Lone Ranger appears for the first time, in a radio show from WXYZ.[3][33]
February
21st
- Eunice Kathleen Waymon, later known as Nina Simone, is born.[1][34][27]
March
27th
- Anthony Stevens is born.[1][35]
April
7th
- King Kong is released in the United States of America.[1][36][32]
May
3rd
- James Brown is born.[1][14]
23rd
- Seabiscuit is born.[1][37]
June
29th
- John Bradshaw is born.[1][37]
November
19th
- Larry King is born.[1][17]
October
15th
- Nicky Barnes is born.[1][38]
1934
- Ritz Crackers is founded.[3][39]
January
7th
- The Flash Gordon comic strip is first published.[3][40]
22th
- Bill Bixby is born.[1][41]
February
12th
- Bill Russell is born.[1][31]
15th
- At the Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin, Johann Schmidt meets Adolf Hitler and Ernst Kaufmann head of the Special Weapon Division after the performance of a Wagner opera. Schmidt reveals his theory that the Asgardians and their magic could be more than a myth. Hitler is intrigued by his ideas, and Schmidt offers to conduct research in Kaufmann's unit, but is rejected. Heinrich Himmler overhears the conversation and takes Schmidt under his wing.[10]
April
3rd
- Jane Goodall is born.[1][42]
May
5th
- In Geneva, Switzerland, Abraham Erskine and Howard Stark meet at an Engineering Conference.[10]
June
30th
- Night of the Long Knives: During the Schutzstaffel's Night of the Long Knives, Johann Schmidt kills Ernst Kaufmann and seizes control of his weapons program.[10]
July
1st
- Night of the Long Knives: Johann Schmidt and the SS troops attack an SA Weapons Testing Ground at Kummersdorf, and recruit advanced exo-skeleton battle armor researcher Arnim Zola.[10]
8th
Cully talks to Ned Silver
- Arriving at the Olympic Movie House, Agnes Cully gets a free entry thanks to the man in charge of the tickets only because he thinks she is pretty. As she enters the cinema, Ned Silver approaches her, telling her that she is perfect to be a movie star. She says thanks to him as he is a Hollywood Talent Agent proposing her a job for actress. Silver recommends her to change her name and offers her "Whitney Frost". Cully agrees.[43]
September
21st
- Leonard Cohen is born.[1][44]
December
5th
- Joan Didion is born.[1][45]
9th
- Judi Dench is born.[1][46]
1935
January
9th
- Earl G. Graves Sr. is born.[1][33]
July
17th
- Donald Sutherland is born.[1][49]
28th
August
29th
September
14th
- Kidnapping of Abraham Erskine: Hearing rumors that Adolf Hitler will announce anti-Semitic laws, Abraham Erskine tries to leave Germany with his family. They are 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.[10]
15th
- Arnim Zola continues his work on exo-skeleton battle suits and high-tech weaponry.[10]
- Adolf Hitler introduces anti-Semitic legislation at the rally in Nuremberg.[10]
December
12th
- Murder in Harlem is released in the United States of America.[3][9]
1936
- The Walkie-Talkie Wristwatch is invented in Poland.[52]
March
6th
- Marion Barry Jr., later known as Marion Barry, is born.[1][12]
April
22nd
- Glen Campbell is born.[18][1]
May
28th
- Volkswagen is founded.[3][53]
July
17th
- The Spanish Civil War begins with a declaration of opposition by a group of Spanish Generals.[10]
August
18th
- Alexander Pierce is born.[54]
29th
- John McCain is born.[1][17]
October
15th
- Sarah Rogers dies of tuberculosis.[55] The news is soon heard by her son Steve Rogers.[54]
18th
- Sarah Rogers's funeral takes place, and she is buried next to her husband, Joseph.[54]
Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes walk home
- Steve Rogers, who now lost both his parents 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 "'til the end of the line".[54]
December
15th
- Donald Goines is born.[1][56]
17th
- Pope Francis is born.[1][57]
1937
April
22nd
- Jack Nicholson is born.[1][62]
26th
- HYDRA tests a prototype tank and exo-skeleton battle suit in Guernica, Spain during the Spanish Civil War. At the time it was believed the Luftwaffe was responsible for the destruction which was actually caused by HYDRA.[10]
May
28th
- Volkswagen is founded.[3][63]
June
18th
- Gail Godwin is born.[1][30]
August
28th
September
6th
- Edwin Fuller Torrey is born.[1][28]
21st
- The Hobbit is published.[3][66]
December
Underwood trains at the Red Room
- "Dottie Underwood" and other girls are trained in the Red Room program in the Soviet Union to become master assassins.[67]
12th
- Abraham Erskine's kidnapped wife, daughter, and son die of typhus in the Dachau concentration camp.[10]
1938
February
24th
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premieres in Europe.[67]
March
- As a part of the training in the Red Room, the girls watch American movies, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and fight each other. Underwood fights a girl she befriended and beats her. Unfortunately, Underwood is forced to kill the girl.[67]
1st
April
29th
- Bernie Madoff is born.[1][53]
May
24th
- David Viscott is born.[1][69]
July
28th
- Robert Hughes is born.[1][60]
August
21st
- Kenny Rogers is born.[1][70]
September
30th
1939
- The building that Leslie Hansen would later reside in is constructed.[72]
- The Lenox Lounge is founded.[3][9]
January
1st
- Hewlett-Packard is founded.[3][64]
March
23rd
- SS Gruppenführer Schneider participates in the German takeover of the Lithuanian town of Memel, for which he is awarded the Memel Medal.[5]
April
2nd
- Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., later known as Marvin Gaye is born.[1][54]
May
29th
- Howard Bingham is born.[1][34][53]
August
25th
- The Wizard of Oz is released in the United States of America, featuring the Flying Monkeys and the Wicked Witch of the West.[3][73][7][33][68][74]
September
1st
- World War II begins.[10]
30th
- Howard Stark founds Stark Industries.[10]
October
5th
- The Wehrmacht holds a victory parade in the Polish capital of Warsaw, following their capture of the city.[73]
December
2nd
- The LaGuardia Airport is opened.[3][24]
20th
- The Panzer Badge is established.[3][5]
- The Wound Badge is established.[3][5]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 Sometimes the Marvel Cinematic Universe alludes to people who existed in our world, and it is assumed they were born on the same day in the universe, for timeline purposes.
- ↑ Marvel Television Live Auction Lot #602: Mariah Dillard's Scrapbook
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 Sometimes the Marvel Cinematic Universe alludes to events which happened in our world, and it is assumed they happened on the same dates in the universe, for timeline purposes.
- ↑ Cloak & Dagger: 2.07: Vikingtown Sound
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Captain America: The First Avenger
- ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.04: Eye-Spy
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: 5.13: Principia
- ↑ Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Luke Cage: 2.06: The Basement
- ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 Captain America: First Vengeance
- ↑ Luke Cage: 1.01: Moment of Truth
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Luke Cage: 2.07: On and On
- ↑ Avengers: Endgame
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Luke Cage: 2.13: They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)
- ↑ Marvel Television Live Auction Lot #364: Victor Torres' Casket
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 6.02: Window of Opportunity
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Iron Man 2
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- ↑ Luke Cage: 2.10: The Main Ingredient
- ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 20.12 20.13 20.14 The New Deal shows the year the agents are in to be "1931", with Enoch referring to it as "1-9-3-1" in Know Your Onions, and many other references. In New Life, the Empire State Building's construction progress could reasonably be said to match November 1930-early 1931. So, given it is 1931, it should be January, February at a push. In The New Deal, a poster for Dracula, released February 12, 1931, and a poster for The Phantom of The West, released January 1, 1931, and a poster left over from a football game, with the closest season ending in December 1930, all also suggest January/February.
In Know Your Onions, Viola's passport includes an arrival in Berlin, dated "FEB 12 1931", meaning the earliest she could be back in New York is February 13, 1931. Given that she is in New York the day after the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrive, they would have to arrive on February 12, 1931 at the earliest.
Overall, the episodes should be considered as early as possible, particularly for the Empire State Building's construction. Using the earliest allowable date based on Viola returning to New York from Berlin immediately, it can be taken that the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrived on February 12, 1931, and the events of The New Deal and Know Your Onions are on February 13-14, 1931. - ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 6.13: New Life
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 22.7 22.8 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.01: The New Deal
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.02: Know Your Onions
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Spider-Man: Far From Home
- ↑ Jessica Jones: 3.06: AKA Sorry Face
- ↑ Jessica Jones: 2.12: AKA Pray for My Patsy
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Luke Cage: 2.12: Can't Front on Me
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5.05: Rewind
- ↑ Runaways: 2.08: Past Life
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 Cloak & Dagger: 2.04: Rabbit Hold
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Luke Cage: 1.03: Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Luke Cage: 1.11: Now You're Mine
- ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Luke Cage: 2.05: All Souled Out
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 Luke Cage: 2.01: Soul Brother #1
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 Jessica Jones: 3.04: AKA Customer Service is Standing By
- ↑ Agent Carter: 1.06: A Sin to Err
- ↑ 37.0 37.1 Jessica Jones: 3.11: AKA Hellcat
- ↑ Luke Cage: 2.02: Straighten It Out
- ↑ Luke Cage: 2.03: Wig Out
- ↑ Avengers: Infinity War
- ↑ The Incredible Hulk
- ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 6.06: Inescapable
- ↑ Agent Carter: 2.04: Smoke & Mirrors
- ↑ Captain Marvel
- ↑ Runaways: 3.10: Cheat The Gallows
- ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5.16: Inside Voices
- ↑ Iron Fist: 2.07: Morning of the Mindstorm
- ↑ Cloak & Dagger: 2.05: Alignment Chart
- ↑ Ant-Man and the Wasp
- ↑ The Defenders: 1.02: Mean Right Hook
- ↑ 51.0 51.1 Jessica Jones: 3.02: AKA You're Welcome
- ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.02: 0-8-4
- ↑ 53.0 53.1 53.2 Luke Cage: 2.04: I Get Physical
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 54.3 54.4 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- ↑ S.H.I.E.L.D. Files
- ↑ Luke Cage: 1.02: Code of the Streets
- ↑ Avengers: Age of Ultron
- ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5.14: The Devil Complex
- ↑ The Punisher: 2.07: One Bad Day
- ↑ 60.0 60.1 The Punisher: 2.08: My Brother's Keeper
- ↑ The Punisher: 2.09: Flustercluck
- ↑ Iron Fist: 2.02: The City's Not for Burning
- ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D: 5.11: All the Comforts of Home
- ↑ 64.0 64.1 Jessica Jones: 3.07: AKA The Double Half-Wappinger
- ↑ Marvel Television Live Auction Lot# 129: Small New York Bulletin Laminated Press Vehicle Pass
- ↑ The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: 1.02: The Star-Spangled Man
- ↑ 67.0 67.1 67.2 Agent Carter: 1.05: The Iron Ceiling
- ↑ 68.0 68.1 The Punisher: 2.06: Nakazat
- ↑ Jessica Jones: 3.12: AKA A Lotta Worms
- ↑ The Punisher: 1.03: Kandahar
- ↑ Runaways: 2.02: Radio On
- ↑ Jessica Jones: 2.03: AKA Sole Survivor
- ↑ 73.0 73.1 The Avengers
- ↑ Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.04: Out of the Past
