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Captain America: The First Avenger || Timeline and Interesting Tidbits (Now a general MCU timeline)
☆ July 4th, 1918 - Steven Grant Rogers is born, two months after the 107th Infantry shipped out from New York City to Europe.[1]
☆ July 25th, 1918 - The 27th division (of which the 107th Infantry Regiment was part) was slowly rotated into the front line in relief of the British 6th Division.
☆ August 31st, 1918 - Operations of the Ypres-Lys Offensive began in an attempt to remove the Germans from the Dickebusch/Scherpenberg area. On September 3rd 1918 the Germans withdrew from the area, marking the successful completion of the Ypres-Lys Offensive.
☆ September 24th to October 21st, 1918 - The 107th participated with the rest of the 27th Division in the successful Somme Offensive, which was an attempt to pierce the German’s Hindenburg defensive line. The 107th encountered fierce resistance and was involved in the heaviest fighting for the line. On October 21st 1918 the entire division was relieved.
☆ March 19th, 1919 - By this time the division had returned in full to the states where it was quickly mustered out. During its service in World War I, the 107th sustained 1,918 casualties including 1,383 wounded, 437 killed, and 98 who later died of their wounds. My personal canon is that Steve's father was one of the 98, who suffered from complications due to mustard gas and succumbed to later illness.
☆ June, 1924 - Steve's mother is bedridden from illness. Presumably the cause was TB or related sickness.[2]
☆ September, 1930 - Steve and Bucky meet for the first time in Hell's Kitchen, and Steve reveals he's been living in the orphanage 'on 8th' since his mother's death. Presumably he means the building that is now the Amsterdam Court Hotel, located between 8th and 7th on 50th, and built originally as a Roman-Catholic orphanage in 1890.[2]
☆ February, 1934 - Johann Schmidt joins the Nazi party to further his research into Teutonic myth and its foundations in scientific reality.[2]
☆ June, 1934 - Schmidt kills the head of the Nazi's special weapons research division and takes over, creating HYDRA.[2]
☆ July, 1934 - Arnim Zola begins working for Johann Schmidt after brief but forceful persuasion.[2]
☆ September, 1935 - Abraham Erskine and his family are apprehended attempting to cross the border between Germany and Switzerland. Schmidt uses the threat of parricide to force Erskine to work for him.[2]
☆ February, 1940 - Colonel Phillips first approaches Howard Stark about working for the SSR. Peggy is already in deep cover working for Schmidt as a maid in his personal mansion.[2]
☆ November, 1940 - Agent Margaret "Peggy" Carter, aka Agent 13, rescues Dr. Erskine from Schmidt's mansion two days after the experimental serum destroys Schmidt's facial tissue while giving him superhuman strength and endurance.[2]
☆ May 25th, 1941 - Steve, and presumably Bucky, go to the Dodgers - Phillies game at Ebbets Field. "Pistol Pete" Reiser hits a Grand Slam in the 6th inning that wins the Dodgers the game.
☆ December 7th, 1941 - Steve and Bucky are attending an art class when the news comes in that Pearl Harbor has been attacked. Both decide to enlist, and Bucky promises to help Steve prepare, since he can't talk his friend out of it.[2]
☆ December 24th, 1941 - Steve's first failed attempt to enlist in the armed forces; Bucky's apparent enlistment date.[2]
☆ March, 1942 - Red Skull seizes the Tesseract from its hiding place in Tønsberg, Norway.
☆ June 14th, 1943 - Steve attempts for the fifth time to enlist in the armed forces and is rejected. He later attends the Stark Expo with Bucky and is accepted as a candidate for Project: Rebirth the same night. Bucky ships out for the front the next morning.
☆ August, 1943 - Steve is selected as Dr. Erskine's top candidate to receive the super-solder serum. After the procedure, Erskine is murdered. Steve accepts Senator Brandt's offer of an opportunity to serve his country 'on the most important battlefield of the war'.[3] Some time around this point, Red Skull breaks from the Nazis and moves forward with his own plans.
☆ October, 1943 - The survivors from the battle at Azzano, along with Schmidt's other prisoners, kill the brutal overseer at one of Schmidt's munitions factories. Bucky is taken by Zola for experimentation.[2]
☆ August to Early November, 1943 - Steve performs in locations across the US and prepares for a European tour as "Captain America," selling war bonds and making films promoting the US efforts abroad. According to in-film dialogue, he performed over 200 shows and made several films during this period.
☆ November 3rd, 1943 - Steve disappears behind enemy lines - with assistance from Peggy and Howard - to rescue nearly 400 prisoners from Schmidt's munitions factory. Bucky is among those brought back.[4]
☆ November 1943 to Early 1945 - Steve and the Howling Commandos, along with other military forces, demolish HYDRA factories and join the battle against the Axis on the Western Front.
☆ Early 1945 - Bucky falls from a HYDRA high-speed rail during a mission to capture Arnim Zola. Zola reveals Skull's plan to decimate the US and take over the world using technology powered by the Tesseract. Steve crashes HYDRA's secret weapon, the Valkyrie, into the arctic somewhere between Svalbard and Greenland.
☆ May 8th, 1945 - VE-Day. The Commandos share a drink for the Captain. Around this time the SSR is shown packing up its facilities in the London military citadels, presumably re-tasked after HYDRA's defeat and Germany's surrender.
☆ Some time in late 2008/early 2009 - The events of IM1, culminating in Tony Stark's announcement that he is, in fact, the armored hero. Based on the official Marvel Timeline and its statement that Steve crashed 64 years prior to the revelation.[5]
☆ Some time in late 2009/early 2010 - "Fury's Big Week." These seven days supposedly encompass the events of IM2, The Incredible Hulk, and Thor. Additionally, the discovery of Steve Rogers in the arctic, in spite of the fact that the Marvel timeline shows Steve being discovered in the ice after FBW. It may have been after this week that Steve was completely extracted and they discovered he was alive.
☆ Some time in late 2010/early-mid 2011 - The Avengers/Avengers Assemble. In the interim, Bruce Banner has ended up in Calcutta, being without incident for "over a year".[6] Tony has completed construction on Stark Tower in NYC while developing additional arc reactor-based technology. SHIELD has created high tech weaponry based on Hydra's WWII research with the Tesseract. Steve has been kept in SHIELD custody, at first in one of their facilities and later in a cabin in a remote area under surveillance.[7] By the time the events of Avengers kick off, he's moved into a flat in NYC. Presumably still under surveillance. It's debatable whether or not he's publicly recognized at this point.
☆ October 2013 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier.[8]
☆ December(???), 2009 - Natasha Romanoff makes contact with Bruce Banner in Calcutta regarding the theft of the Tesseract, saying he hasn't had an incident "in over a year." This puts the events of The Avengers either at the end of the MCU's 2009, or early in 2010. ALL OF THIS IS WRONG AND I WILL FIX IT LATER. SOMEHOW. SOMEHOWWW.
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[1] Information on the 107th is drawn verbatim from this website. Only the format has been changed.
[2] Captain America: First Vengeance tie-in comic.
[3] According to this, the procedure and Erskine's death came within a week of Steve's initial selection by Dr. Erskine. In May of 1943, the army extended the basic training period for new recruits from 4 weeks to 8 weeks; for the sake of logic and my own sanity, I'm going with history instead of the dates provided on the prop.
[4] The movie itself states that Steve's appearance in front of the remaining soldiers from the 107th and his subsequent foray behind the lines is in November of 1943. When writing the letter to Senator Brandt regarding Steve's disappearance, Colonel Phillips states that Steve went missing on the 3rd.
[5] Marvel's Officially Vague Timeline
[6] Dialogue in The Avengers/Avengers Assemble.
[7] Agents of SHIELD, Love in the Time of Hydra.
[8] Screencap from WS; the date is visible in the upper lefthand corner of the interrogation broadcast.
