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- This era is depicted or mentioned in: X-Men (opening scene), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (prologue and montage), X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine (flashback), X-Men: Days of Future Past (stinger), X-Men: Apocalypse (prologue)
Ancient Egypt
3600 BCE
- En Sabah Nur reigns the Nile Valley as its god-king. He and his Four Horsemen are betrayed by their followers.
19th Century
1830s CE
- James Howlett is born in the early 1830s as a sickly boy to a rich family in the Northwest Territories.
1845
- In a fit of rage and emotional distress after he witnesses the murder of his father John Howlett, James' mutation manifests as two bone claws sprouting from his wrists, which he then uses to attack his father's murderer and family's groundskeeper, only to find out that Thomas Logan was actually his biological father. James' rapid healing ability is also activated, which cures him of his childhood illness. He runs away with his half-brother Victor Creed.
1860s
- James Howlett fights the confederates in the American Civil War.
20th Century
1910s
- James Howlett fights the Central Powers in the European trenches of the first World War.
1930s
- Human experimentation with atomic energy, weapons, etc. cause more X-genes to activate in people, often upon reaching puberty or a state of emotional stress. The X-gene grants the individual a superpower.
- Up to this point, of the 2 billion people who were alive at the time, humans with the X-gene are a negligible percentage of the population; the percentage of those with an active gene is even smaller. The named ones up to this point include James Howlett, Victor Creed and En Sabah Nur.
- As nuclear research continues, more and more of the X-genes activate, making it more difficult for mutants not to be noticed. Within 20 years, they start finding each other and within 30, the governments of the world begin to notice them.
- Charles Xavier, Erik Lenhsherr, Moira MacTaggert are born in the early 1930s. Raven Darkholme is born in the mid-1930s.
1940s
- Hank McCoy is born in the early 1940s.
- James Howlett helps storm the beaches of Normandy in 1944 France.
- Erik Lehnsherr and his parents are imprisoned at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Sebastian Shaw performs medical experiments on Erik.
- A young Charles Xavier meets a young Raven Darkholme in 1944, where they become foster siblings for 18 years.
- In 1945, James Howlett is in Nagasaki during the dropping of the Atomic Bomb, where he saves an Imperial soldier.
- Alex Summers and Sean Cassidy are born in the mid-1940s.
1950s
- Peter Maximoff is born in the mid-1950s.
1960s
- Charles Xavier graduates with his Doctorate in Genetics in 1962 at the University of Oxford.
- Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr are recruited by Moira MacTaggert from the CIA to help stop Sebastian Shaw from instigating World War III. The lead-up to and the Cuban Missile Crisis itself end up costing a lot of lives, along with Xavier's ability to walk. Magneto leaves, heartbroken, to purse his plans for mutant supremacy.
- Most of Xavier's students and teachers are drafted into the Vietnam War in 1963, breaking what remains of his spirit.
- Magneto tries to save President John F. Kennedy, but gets distracted and is blamed for the assassination. He is put into a metal-less prison under the Pentagon.
1970s
- Trask Industries kidnaps and experiments on mutants in order to contribute to its research on mutant-killing Sentinel robots. The first prototypes are completed in 1973.
Successful Assassination of Bolivar Trask (Original Timeline)
- This era is depicted or mentioned in: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past (old future scenes)
20th Century
1970s
- Mystique assassinates Bolivar Trask in 1973, the proposer of the Sentinal Initiative.
- Wolverine and Sabertooth are locked up for inappropriate conduct in Vietnam. As a plea bargain, the two are scooped up by Colonel Stryker to join his team to gain items for the US government.
- However, disgusted by one of their missions, Logan strikes out on his own, hiding in Canada with a woman planted by Stryker to keep an eye on him. This is Silver Fox.
- However, she is supposedly killed, prompting Logan to turn to Stryker to get his revenge on Sabertooth.
- Logan goes through the Project X Program, getting adamantium bonded to his skeleton. He then goes on a rampage, seeking out Sabretooth, and fighting off Stryker in the process as well.
- Sabretooth is also going around killing members of his old crew, but when they realize Stryker has manipulated both of them, they team up against the creation Stryker made to be the ultimate mutant killer, their old teammate Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool, who had lots of mutant abilities put into one body.
- Also during the battle, Stryker's mutant prisoners (including a young Scott Summers) escape with the help of Charles Xavier to become the new X-Men.
21st Century
2000s
- A mutant named Yuriko who has a rapid healing ability is kidnapped and brainwashed by Stryker. She is given the same adamantium-bonding process as Wolverine.
- Beast becomes the Mutant Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005.
- Wolverine is brought to Japan in 2013 to visit a man he had rescued in the Second World War.
2020s
- In 2023, Sentinels have taken over the planet and wiped out all but the worst of the non-mutant humans.
Failed Assassination of Bolivar Trask (New Timeline)
- This era is depicted or mentioned in: X-Men: Days of Future Past (ending scene), Deadpool (2016), X-Men: Apocalypse
20th Century
1960s
- Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Ororo Munroe and Kurt Wagner are born in the mid-1960s.
1970s
- Due to a complicated series of events from the previous timeline, a time-travelling Wolverine recruits the help of Xavier, Beast, Quicksilver and Magneto to try and stop Mystique from killing Trask. While the future is far from certain due to Magneto almost making things worse, in the end, Charles convinces Mystique to rise above her hate, and she chooses to walk away from killing Trask directly. From this act of mercy and heroism, Trask is eventually exposed for his corrupt practices, mutants are publicly revealed decades earlier than before, and the bad future is averted.
- Charles Xavier reopens his School for Gifted Youngsters in 1973.
- Erik Lehnsherr marries Magda, and their daughter Nina is born.
1980s
- Logan goes through the Project X program.
- The mutant Apocalypse reemerges in 1983 to take over the world, recruiting four "horsemen" to serve as his generals: Archangel, Magneto, Psylocke and Storm.
- In response, Professor X assembles a new team with the help of Mystique: Beast, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Nightcrawler and Quicksilver. Storm is the last to join.
21st Century
2000s
2010s
2020s
