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Apocalypse is born as the world's first mutant. Over the next few thousand years, he conquers and destroys many civilizations and is worshipped as a god by many.
Pre-3600 B.C.
Apocalypse (as En Sabah Nur) telekinetically assembles the pyramids in Ancient Egypt.[1]
3600 B.C.
Apocalypse is betrayed by his worshipers, who entomb him alive. His Four Horsemen die preserving him.[2]
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, introducing that genetic evolution allows adaptation over time to produce organisms best suited to the environment.
1861-1865
James Howlett and Victor Creed fight for the Union in the American Civil War.[3]
1866
Gregor Johann Mendel establishes the theory of hereditary traits through his work with pea plants.
1869
Johann Friedrich Miescher extracts what comes to be known as DNA from the nuclei of white blood cells.
James Howlett and Victor Creed participate in the D-Day Invasion, serving in the U.S. 29th Infantry Division.[3]
1945
James Howlett transfers from Europe to the Pacific by this time. Prior to August 9, he is imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp near Nagasaki.[6]
August 9
James Howlett saves Ichirō Yashida's life during the Nagasaki bombing.[6]
1949
Erik Lehnsherr visits America for the first time and sees the Statue of Liberty. Sometime between 1949 and 1962, he returns to Europe, disillusioned with America's image as the land of "tolerance and peace".[4]
1950
Sebastian Shaw opens the Hellfire Club, a gambling and drinking establishment that he uses as a front for his secret mutant supremacy operations. He recruits Azazel and Riptide as henchmen and bodyguards.
Erik Lehnsherr has a short relationship with Ms. Maximoff resulting in the births of his children, Peter and Wanda however, Erik leaves before they born not knowing of their existence.
1957
Emma Frost begins working for mob boss Vinny Lavecchia in Las Vegas, using her telepathic powers to help him win money.[7]
Plans are approved by President John F. Kennedy to build an underground bunker below the White House during its extensive renovation undertaken by his wife Jackie. The bunker, code-named "Cocoon", is designed to help the president's brother, Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy, hone his mutant abilities. All funding for this project will be attributed to "private living quarters".
Unknown Date
U.S. Major General Edwin Partridge retires from the Army. He becomes a far right-wing activist.
1962
A young Bolivar Trask hypothesizes the link between traceable higher-order brain function and certain genetic mutations.
Moira MacTaggert begins investigating Sebastian Shaw, eventually leading her to discover mutants and meet Charles Xavier.
Erik Lehnsherr begins his personal vendetta against Sebastian Shaw.[5]
Charles Xavier earns a PhD in Genetics from Oxford University.[5]
Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire Club coerce Colonel Hendry to put missiles in Turkey. Later on, they coerce the Soviet military to put missiles in Cuba in an attempt to start a nuclear war between humans, so that mutants can become the dominant species on Earth.[5]
Charles Xavier plans to establish a school and sanctuary for mutants.[5]
Charles erases Moira's memories of her helping the X-Men, so the CIA can't track them.
The Brotherhood of Mutants free Emma Frost, who subsequently joins them.[5]
Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy administration authorizes the Central Intelligence Agency to establish Project WideAwake, a covert task force to investigate other X-Gene cases and their prevalence across the United States. While its mission strictly revolves around identification and research of mutants, it exercises paramilitary autonomy from the President's mandates.
Edwin Partridge, a former Major General in the U.S. Army and a far right-wing activist, gains (through his contacts in the military) proof of mutant involvement during the Cuban Missile Crisis, including amateur photos and an 8mm film.
1963
January
Edwin Partridge, addressing a rally of his supporters, makes allusions to the existence of mutants and their potential threat.
February
According to the Warren Commission, Erik Lehnsherr allegedly recruits Lee Harvey Oswald to murder Edwin Partridge around this time.
April 10
An assassin kills Edwin Partridge. Partridge's death incenses his supporters, who become more virulent and active.
Robert Kennedy orders a pair of prototype psychic earshields to isolate and control his psionic powers. The order is approved on August 22.
October
Lee Harvey Oswald becomes employed at the Texas School Book Depository.
November 22
President John F. Kennedy arrives in Dallas, Texas on a fundraising campaign for the upcoming 1964 presidential election. While in Dallas, he plans to make a speech at the Trade Mart addressing the mutant rumors. Prior to his arrival, the radical right-wing group Friends of Humanity distribute pamphlets decrying Kennedy's "crimes", including lacking a hardline policy for dealing with potential mutant threats.[8]
As his motorcade reaches Dealey Plaza, John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Erik Lehnsherr, using his magnetic powers, makes a failed attempt to save him. Several witnesses, including Marie Ellen Dodge and Gavin Lindhardt, place Lehnsherr on the plaza's Grassy Knoll during the assassination.[8]
November 23
The 'Bent Bullet' is taken as evidence.
November 24
Lee Harvey Oswald, who has been accused of killing President John F. Kennedy, is murdered by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while in the process of being transferred to a more secure location. Ruby is soon arrested.
December 11
Warren Commission members Earl Warren and Gerald Ford arrive in Dallas to interview Jack Ruby. Ruby, who claims not to remember much about his whereabouts and actions just before or after killing Oswald, states to both Warren and Ford that he had recently been injected with some sort of unusual vaccine. Ruby's testimony is ultimately omitted from the Commission's final report.
Following the Kennedy Assassination, members of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Secret Service, and other government officials establish the Federal Council on Mutant Activities (FCMA).
After initially refusing to cooperate with the Warren Commission, the Central Intelligence Agency finally offers "full cooperation" sometime during the month. This is mainly for identifying Erik Lehnsherr as the person in Marie Ellen Dodge's photograph of the Grassy Knoll.
January 20
Jack Ruby is sentenced to death for murder with malice of Lee Harvey Oswald.
January 22
Jack Ruby becomes violently ill, and is admitted to Parkland Memorial Hospital after prison medical staff state that he is suffering from what appears to be pneumonia. While being operated on, rampant cancer growth is seen on his vital organs.
Project WideAwake agents are quietly dispatched to locate and apprehend Erik Lehnsherr.
January 24
Jack Ruby dies from a pulmonary embolism associated with lung cancer.
February 4
Erik Lehnsherr, while in rural New York, turns himself in to police.
February 5
The Warren Commission publishes its 688-page report.
President Lyndon Johnson notes in a closed-door meeting with the Warren Commission that their prime suspect - Erik Lehnsherr - was in custody.
Erik Lehnsherr is found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiring to assassinate John F. Kennedy. He is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in a federal correctional facility without the possibility of parole.
June 19
U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy was involved in a plane crash in which one of his aides and the pilot were killed. He was pulled from the wreckage by fellow senator Birch E. Bayh II and spent weeks in a hospital recovering from a broken back, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and internal bleeding.[9]
1965
Charles Xavier opens the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters at his family's Westchester mansion.[8]
Robert Kennedy, while campaigning for President, is interviewed by his biographer regarding his mutant abilities.
1970
Most of the male students and teachers at Xavier's School have been drafted in the Vietnam War by this date. Charles, falling into depression, becomes addicted to a drug designed by Hank to allow him to walk, but it suppresses his powers. The school and mansion fall into ruin.
1971
Trask Industries B3-VXC Archival Footage is filmed.
After breaking out of several prisons during the 1960s, Magneto is finally subdued by a specialized prison developed by Trask Industries. It is located in the Pentagon, 1,320 ft below the Earth's surface, and is composed of industrial-grade polymers and concrete to negate Magneto's powers.
Trask Industries unveils the Sentinels Program.[8]
Sentinel: Mark I are created. Between 1973 and 1996, Trask Industries produces 8,732 Mark I Sentinels for the governments of the United States, China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, France, India and the United Kingdom.
April 12
While serving in Vietnam, Victor Creed kills a senior officer, and Logan defends him from retaliating soldiers. The two are arrested and are eventually sent to be executed by a firing squad. However, their regenerative healing abilities prevent them from being killed.[3]
Logan and Victor Creed meet William Stryker and join Team X.
September 7
Logan quits Team X during a mission in Nigeria.[3]
November 22
Erik Lehnsherr is publicly revealed as having participated in the John F. Kennedy assassination 10 years previously.
Revised Timeline
January 24
Wolverine from the alternate future awakens in his younger body.
Logan, Charles, Hank and Quicksilver break Erik out of his Pentagon prison
January 27
The X-Men prevent Mystique from killing Bolivar Trask in Paris. However, Erik turns against them. [1]
Trask Industries unveils the Sentinels Program.[1]
Wolverine and Hank fight Erik and a Sentinel while Charles tries to convince Mystique to spare Bolivar Trask at the White House.[1]
The Sentinels Program is cancelled. Bolivar Trask is arrested for selling military secrets.[1]
Mystique, under the guise of William Stryker, raises Logan from the Potomac River.[1]
1974
Original Timeline
May 18
United States Congress passes the HCA (Homeland Containment Act), deploying Sentinels to the top 5 most densely populated cities in the U.S.
Sometime during this year, the Federal Council of Mutant Activities (FCMA) publishes an important report regarding mutants.
Revised Timeline
September
Charles Xavier and Hank McCoy reopen the school for mutants. A new generation of teachers and students are welcomed.
1975
Original Timeline
April 30
The Vietnam War ends.
Unknown Time
Charles Xavier appears in Washington, D.C. in a private closed session to plea for mutant freedoms.[8]
Revised Timeline
Wade Wilson is born in Regina, Saskatchewan.
At 8 years old Jean Grey accidentally loses control of her abilities and causes a car accident that kills her parents. Professor X finds Jean and takes her to his school, promising her a safe home and a new family. However he also blocks her memories and puts psychic blocks to limit her powers. In reality, Jeans father survived and purposely abandoned Jean out of fear and hate, giving her over to Charles.
April 30
The Vietnam War ends.
1976
Original Timeline
Based upon the FCMA's findings from two years ago, the Homeland Mutant Response Division is formed.
Peter Maximoff causes World Record scandal, causing athletic officials to ban mutants from competing in professional sports.[8]
Revised Timeline
Wolverine is captured by William Stryker and taken to Alkali Lake, for Weapon X.
1978
Original Timeline
William Stryker sends his son Jason to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in the hope he could be cured of his mutation, but Jason is instead encouraged to embrace his mutation by Xavier.
Stryker becomes furious and withdrew Jason from the school.
Over the next year, Jason grew increasingly angry with his parents and blamed them for his mutation, to which he began to use his powers to torment them, planting horrific illusions and images in their minds.
Stryker's wife eventually committed suicide by applying a power drill to her left temple, in an attempt to bore the images out and end the torment.
William Stryker puts his son in a cryogenic prison in his Three Mile Island facility.
Revised Timeline
1979
Original Timeline
Victor Creed hunts down and kills former members of Team X.[3]
William Stryker has Victor kidnap mutant children for their abilities, including Scott Summers who is taken while in high school detention.
Adamantium is injected into Logan's skeletal system.
Wolverine goes on the warpath to hunt down Victor after he kills his fiancé, Kayla Silverfox.
Wolverine's search leads him to Gambit, who tells him about a secret mutant experimenting facility, that Victor is apart of.
March 28
Wolverine fights his brother and eventually the two join forces to fight Deadpool. Logan loses his memory after being shot by William Stryker.[3]
Cyclops, Emma Silverfox and a group of other mutant children are rescued from Weapon X, by Wolverine. They are greeted by Charles Xavier and are taken to his school.
Revised Timeline
Adamantium is injected into Logan's skeletal system by this time.
March 28
Wade uses Cable's time travel device to travel back in time to the to kill Weapon XI, before his fight with Wolverine.[11]
Scott Summers begins to attend Xavier's school after his powers accidentally manifest during a confrontation with a high school bully. [2]
Magneto is living a normal life in Poland with a wife and daughter hiding his identity. He is forced into using his powers and is exposed. His wife and daughter are accidentally killed by the Polish police.
Mystique saves Nightcrawler from a mutant fighting ring in Germany, she takes him to see Charles Xavier.
Apocalypse recruits Magneto, Storm, Archangel and Psylocke to be his horsemen of Apocalypse. They arrive at the X-Mansion which results in Charles getting captured, the death of Havok and Quicksilver having to save all the students as the school explodes. [2]
Jean Grey, Cyclops, Beast, Moria MacTaggart, Mystique, Quicksilver and Nightcrawler are captured by William Stryker. As they escape Jean frees Wolverine from a box where he was being experimented on and cuts down everyone in his path to escape, before he leaves, Jean restores a piece of his memory. [2]
After escaping, the group battles and defeats Apocalypse and his four horsemen in Egypt. [2]
The X-Men are officially formed with Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Quicksilver, Nightcrawler, Beast and Mystique as their field leader. [2]
1984
Original Timeline
Popular televangelist Minister Bob Bell calls mutants "God's Curse".[8]
Revised Timeline
1986
Original Timeline
Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr visit Jean Grey and her parents at their home to discuss Jean attending Xavier's School. While there, they discover she's much more powerful than expected.[12]
April 26
Chernobyl disaster causes many babies born to develop mutations.[8]
Chernobyl disaster causes many babies born to develop mutations.[8]
Piotr Rasputin, later known as Colossus, is born.[8]
1988
Original Timeline
Mutants protest at the Berlin Wall in West Germany, and East Germany is made a mutant zone.[8]
Revised Timeline
1989
Original Timeline
Trask Industries and the Federal Bureau of Investigation unveil a way to identify mutants using DNA from crime scenes. Trask Industries, off the record, uses the DNA to build Mutant Registry, with plans to sell the information to wealthy world governments.[8]
The last generation of natural Mutants are born due to Transigen and Alkali putting mutant-suppressing chemicals in the products used in mass food production. [13]
A Mutant with Telekinetic abilities stops a Hypersonic Missile (ICBM) from destroying the United States. The Mutant is recognized as a National Hero. This unfortunately puts North Korea in massive debt.
2008
Original Timeline
United States erects a security wall at the Mexico border to prevent mutant rebels from entering.[8]
The Weapon X Program is reopened by a secret government agency, it begin creating mutants through brutal and sadistic methods, to sell off to the highest bidder. Angel Dust and Ajax are among the first created, with the latter becoming a doctor for the company.[15]
2011
Original Timeline
Angel is killed by Sentinels during an Occupy Wall Street march on the X-Mansion.[8]
Revised Timeline
August 23
A magnitude 5.8 earthquake shakes Washington, D.C. It is the largest east of the Rocky Mountains since 1897.[16]
2012
Original Timeline
Blink breaks 30 mutants out of Trask prison camps.[8]
Revised Timeline
2013
Original Timeline
Wolverine having been hiding in the Yukon wilderness encounters a group of hunters. Yukio tracks him down telling him that Ichirō Yashida (now the head of a billion dollar company) would like to say goodbye.[6]
Yukio and Logan travel to Japan, Ichirō tells Logan he wants to transfer his healing power out of his body and into his so Logan can die peacefully. Viper places a parasite in Logan's body, stopping his healing factor from working.[6]
Ichirō dies, his funeral is attacked by Yakuza and Logan is forced to save Mariko Yashida, the two go on the run, eventually becoming intimate.[6]
Mariko is captured by the Yakuza, Logan removes the parasite effecting his powers and he and Yukio fight Shingen Yashida. He was responsible for hiring the Yakuza, due to Ichirō giving his company to Mariko instead of Shingen.[6]
Wolverine and Yukio attack the compound holding Mariko, fighting off Black Hand Ninjas.[6]
Ichirō is revealed to be alive, using an armoured exoskeleton, he fights Wolverine and nearly kills him by absorbing his healing but he is saved by Mariko. Yukio kills Viper and Wolverine kills Ichirō but loses his Adamantium claws. [6]
Wolverine and Yukio take a plane to go back to America. [6]
Trask Industries unveils a groundbreaking ability to create a hybrid gene with mutant DNA.[8]
Wade Wilson and Vanessa Carlysle get engaged and Wade finds out he has terminal cancer. Desperate he, agrees to an experimental procedure from and is given enhanced abilities such as a healing factor. But he also get his body disfigured. Wade starts searching for Ajax, who gave him the ability, to return his previous appearance.[15]
2016
Original Timeline
Revised Timeline
Wade Wilson catches up to Ajax's convoy on the highway and attacks them. Wade captures Ajax but Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead arrive and Ajax manages to escape. Colossus tries to lead Deadpool to X-Mansion but he escapes.
Deadpool, with a help of Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, defeats Ajax and his bodyguards on the scrapyard. Wade kills Ajax and reunites with Vanessa.[15]
2017
Original Timeline
Revised Timeline
Wade begins traveling around the world doing mercenary work, killing gangsters, murderers and other bad guys.
2018
Original Timeline
Dr. Gregory D. Burnett revolutionizes a method of growing synthetic stem cells.
Bishop, a former Camp X-Ray inmate, forms the Free Mutants resistance organization.[8]
Revised Timeline
Laura Kinney is born based on DNA from Wolverine at the Transigen lab in Mexico. She is part of the "X-23" project with other mutant children.[13]
Vanessa Carlysle is killed by gangsters, Wade Wilson ultimately tries to kill himself but fails. Colossus brings the heartbroken Wade to the X-Mansion.[11]
In the hunt of Collins, Cable attacks The Ice Box, Deadpool saves him but ultimately realizes he will need help to stop Cable. Russell ends up feeling betrayed by Wade and makes friends with the Juggernaut who was also in the Ice Box.[11]
Cable attacks a prison transfer truck holding Collins but is intercepted by Wade and Domino, Russell ends up releasing Juggernaut.[11]
To stop Juggernaut Cable joins forces with Wade and Domino, even agreeing to let Wade try and convince Russell he can be a better person.[11]
Cable, Deadpool, Domino fight the staff of the Essex House, while Colossus fights Juggernaut eventually defeating him with the help of Yukio and Negasonic. Deadpool fails to convince Russell he can be good so Cable tries to shoot him, but Wade takes the bullet for the boy instead.[11]
As Wade dies, Russell is completely moved by Wade's sacrifice, promising that he'll be better. Cable realizes that time has been altered and that his family are safe in the future. Cable uses his time travel device, to go back and save Wade's life.[11]
Wade uses the time travel device to go back and save both Vanessa and Peter.[11]
2023
Original Timeline
In a last ditch effort to avert the War of the Sentinels, Kitty Pryde sends Wolverine's consciousness back in time to his younger self in 1973 to stop Mystique from killing Bolivar Trask.[1]
The remnants of the X-Men and Free Mutants are massacred in China.[1]
Logan successfully manages to prevent Trask's assassination in 1973 and indirectly changes history itself, erasing the original timeline from existence.
The "X-23" children, including Laura Kinney, are subjected to experiments by Dr. Zander Rice.[13]
2028
Original Timeline
Revised Timeline
Charles Xavier suffers a massive psychic seizure that injures over 600 people in Westchester along with killing several members of the X-Men. Wolverine takes him to Mexico, hiding him away so Charles's deteriorating mind can't hurt anybody else.[13]
2029
Original Timeline
Revised Timeline
Some of the Project X-23 children escape from Transigen with the help of their nurses, after a kill order is put on them. The escapees plan to meet at place called "Eden".[13]
Logan is working as a limo driver, his healing factor has almost stopped working and the Adamantium in his body is poisoning him. He and Caliban take care of Charles Xavier who needs to be medicated so his mind can't hurt anybody like at Westchester.[13]
Logan encounters Donald Pierce the head of Transigen's mercenary unit called The Reavers, he tells Logan he's looking for a girl, one of the escaped X-23 children.[13]
Logan eventually comes into contact with this girl named Laura, she is revealed to be Logan's daughter. After a fight with the Reavers, Logan, Charles and Laura go on the run, going to "The Eden".[13]
In Oklahoma, The Reavers track down the trio, due to a kidnapped Caliban. Charles has a seizure, but is tranquilized and the trio escape. Logan finds out that "The Eden" is based on a comic book and becomes angry and sceptical.[13]
The trio run into the Munson family and end up helping them on the road. In return the family invites them to dinner. The Munson family ranch is attacked by "X-24" a younger stronger clone of Wolverine, made by Transigen. In the fight, the Munson family, Caliban and Charles Xavier are all killed, but Laura and Logan manage to escape, but Logan is heavily injured.[13]
Logan buries Charles Xavier, but passes out due his injuries and Laura takes him to a doctor. Laura manages to convince Logan to take her to "The Eden", which they find is a real place run by the mutant Rictor that houses the X-23 children.[13]
Laura, Rictor and the other X-23 children plan to leave "The Eden" and head into Canada where a sanctuary is waiting for them. The Reavers arrive to capture them and a chase ensues in the forest.[13]
A weakened Logan, is forced to take a mutant serum to regain his powers, he rushes to save the children and his daughter. He and Laura kill most of the Reavers, until X-24 arrives.[13]
X-24 manages to overpower Logan and impale him on a tree, but Laura kills him using an Adamantium bullet. Logan dies in Laura's arms and she and the other children he saved bury him, before continuing on to Canada.[13]
Laura turns the cross on Logan's grave into an X to honor him as the last of the X-Men.[13]
2068
Original Timeline
Revised Timeline
Cable’s wife and daughter are killed by mutant criminal Firefist. Cable decides to travel back in time and prevent their deaths and many others by killing Firefist before he makes his first kill in 2018.[11]
Eventually this event is erased and Cable’s family are saved when Deadpool convinces the teenage Firefist he can be a better person, meaning he never becomes a villain.[11]
Continuity Errors
In X-Men, Charles tells Logan that he met Erik when he was 17 years old. In X-Men: First Class, Charles meets Erik when both are in their late 20's.
In X-Men, Charles acts confused as to why he can't find Erik with Cerebro, whilst in X-Men: First Class he witnesses the effects of the helmet.
The X-Mansion in X-Men: First Class is not the same as the original building in the original trilogy. However, it can be assumed that it was renovated and expanded to serve as a school.
In X-Men, Charles tells Logan that Erik helped build Cerebro, but neither of the versions of Cerebro we see in the original timeline are built with the help of Erik. In X-Men: First Class, Cerebro is built by the CIA, and in X-Men: Days of Future Past, Hank tells Logan that he and Charles built the school, labs and all the other facilities (Cerebro is implied to be included in this) after Erik had abandoned Charles in X-Men: First Class. It is nevertheless possible that Charles and Erik built some or all of Cerebro before their final confrontation with Sebastian Shaw in X-Men: First Class.
In X-Men: The Last Stand, Moira MacTaggert is a Scottish doctor, apparently in her 30s, working at Muir Island's genetic facility, while in X-Men: First Class, some forty years earlier, she is an American agent working for the CIA, also apparently in her 30s. However, it is possible that these are simply two different people, sharing the same name.
In X-Men: The Last Stand, Jean Grey appears as a small child (presumably around the age of eleven or so) in a flashback set in 1986 but in X-Men: Apocalypse set in 1983 she appears as to be much older as a girl in her late teens.
In X-Men: The Last Stand, Charles was shown to be able to walk in a flashback set in 1986, even though he was paralyzed in 1962 as shown in X-Men: First Class. This same error appears in 1979, when Charles saves the mutant children in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. One could argue that he used the serum developed by Beast, but this wouldn't be logical as he was able to use his psychic powers.
In X-Men: The Last Stand, Angel appears as a 12 year old boy in a flashback set in 1996 but in X-Men: Apocalypse set in 1983 he appears as a young adult.