Portal:Timeline/BO

A timeline of events in the Call of Duty series from September 2nd 1945 until June 19th 2026. This timeline runs in parallel with Timeline 3 however they are not related.

October 29th

 * Cpt. Reznov and Dimitri Petrenko are ordered by General Nikita Dragovich to find a Nazi scientist Dr. Friedrich Steiner at a German V2 Rocket base in the Arctic Circle. The Russian squad eliminates the Germans and finds Dr. Friedrich Steiner. Dr. Friedrich Steiner then leads General Nikita Dragovich to the ship containing the Nova 6 prototype. Wanting to see the weapon's effects, General Nikita Dragovich has Dimitri Petrenko and his team killed in the "experiment." Cpt. Reznov, Tvelin, and Nevski escape when a British Commando unit raids the ship. Tvelin is killed at some point during the combat. Cpt. Reznov and Nevski escape, but Cpt. Reznov is injured and recaptured.

Sometime after October 29th

 * Viktor Reznov returns to Russia, where he is then imprisoned at Vorkuta.

Unknown Dates

 * The U.S. now officially recognizes the APU (Armed Propaganda Unit) as the NVA ( also known as the People's Army of Vietnam or PAVN)
 * Former OSS field operative Marshall Bryant becomes a recipient of the Intelligence Star.

June 25th

 * The Korean War begins.

Sometime between 1950 and 1953

 * Frank Woods takes part in the Korean War.

July 27th

 * The Korean War ends with the signing of an armistice.

Unknown Date

 * Alex Mason comes first in the WC competition.

Unknown Date

 * Jason Hudson is honourably discharged from the U.S. Army 101st Airborne.

November 1st

 * The Vietnam War begins.

November 19th

 * Weaver's sister, Olga, dies of childbirth to Kristina.

Unknown Date

 * Nikita Dragovich persuades key members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to resort to another means of destruction instead of nuclear warfare in order to defeat the U.S.A. in the event of a global conflict.

August 12th

 * Ryan Jackson issues a program of covert action against the Castro regime to Colonel J.C. King.

September 1st

 * Ryan Jackson sends Richard Nixon, Allen Dulles, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston Merchant, Gordon Grey and Colonel J.C. King a summary of Joseph Bowman's profile.

September 5th

 * Ryan Jackson sends a summary of Frank Woods' profile to Richard Nixon, Allen Dulles, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston Merchant, Gordon Grey and Colonel J.C. King.

September 6th

 * Ryan Jackson sends a summary of Alex Mason's profile to Richard Nixon, Allen Dulles, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston Merchant, Gordon Grey and Colonel J.C. King.

October 5th

 * Ryan Jackson sends a report under the subject name, "Excessive and Suspicious Eastern Bloc Commercial Freighter Traffic in Cuban Ports of Call" to Richard Kain.

November 9th

 * John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in the presidential election.

Unknown Date

 * The Soviet Union becomes the primary supplier for the NVA military.

March 5th

 * Ryan Jackson sends a summary of Grigori Weaver's profile to Richard Kain.

April 17th

 * 0500: Alex Mason, Frank Woods, and Joseph Bowman meet with Carlos to discuss their part in the Bay of Pigs invasion. When the invasion begins later in the day, the three infiltrate Fidel Castro's mansion and assassinate him. During the escape, Alex Mason leaves the escape plane to eliminate a roadblock, and is captured by Lev Kravchenko and brought before Fidel Castro (the man killed was a double) and General Nikita Dragovich.

November 24th

 * Ryan Jackson, in conjunction with OSA/DI, sends Allen Dulles a report regarding Operation Zapata and the recent detonation of the 57 Mt Soviet AN602 Hydrogen Bomb.

January 8th

 * Ryan Jackson sends General Charles P. Cabell a report of ex-Vorkuta inmate Anthony Rizzo of the USAF, also regarding the Vorkuta gulag.

February 24th

 * Ryan Jackson sends Richard Kain a summary of Jason Hudson's profile.

September 5th

 * Raul Menendez is born in Nicaragua.

Unknown Date between 1961 and 1963

 * Alex Mason is brainwashed by Friedrich Steiner and General Nikita Dragovich. However, Alex Mason is unusually resistant to their attempts and General Nikita Dragovich labels the experiment a failure, sending Alex Mason back to the gulag. At sometime during Alex Mason's brainwashing,Viktor Reznov overwrites General Nikita Dragovich's instructions with his own; kill General Nikita Dragovich, Lev Kravchenko, and Friedrich Steiner.

June 6th

 * Ryan Jackson sends a summary of Nikita Dragovich's profile to ADDO/SAD.

June 26th

 * Evelyn Cross sends President JFK a threatening letter on the Central Intelligence Agency Data System.

October 6th

 * 0600: Viktor Reznov and Alex Mason begin their escape from the Vorkuta gulag, sacrificing most of their fellow inmates. Mason escapes, but Reznov is presumably killed.

November 1st

 * Ryan Jackson sends a summary of Dimitri Petrenko's profile to Richard Kain.

November 10th

 * 1700: Jason Hudson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara escort Alex Mason to the Pentagon. Inside, President Kennedy briefs Alex Mason on eliminating General Nikita Dragovich.


 * Jason Hudson sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

November 17th

 * 0700: Operation Flashpoint: Alex Mason, Frank Woods, Grigori Weaver, Brooks and Joseph Bowman infiltrate and sabotage a Soviet Soyuz launch facility in Baikonur, USSR. They also eliminate Nazi scientists aiding the Soviets. General Nikita Dragovich's limo is ambushed and the Russian is believed to have been killed.


 * Jake Reach sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

November 21st

 * John Trent sends JFK a final letter as a "last warning".

November 22nd

 * John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.

November 24th

 * Grigori Weaver sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

November 25th

 * John Trent sends Hudson a letter.

January 24th

 * The SOG is established.

September 1st

 * Ryan Jackson issues a proposal to William Colby for further added Agency presence within Combat Base in South Vietnam, and an expansion of Air America efforts into Laos.

September 17th

 * Jason Hudson sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

February 2nd

 * Alex Mason's father sends Alex Mason a letter.

February 14th

 * Greg Weaver sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

February 18th

 * Sarah Leary sends Grigori Weaver a message about Alex Mason.
 * Alex Mason sends Grigori Weaver a message.

March 15th

 * Alex Mason's father sends a second letter to Alex Mason.

March 20th

 * Alex Mason's father sends a third letter to Alex Mason.

June 6th

 * Ryan Jackson sends a report to Richard Kain regarding Viktor Reznov.

August 1st

 * Daniel Clarke plans his escape from Dragovich and Steiner and decides to travel to his brother's place in Johannesburg.

January 2nd

 * Frank Woods sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

January 8th

 * Ryan Jackson writes and sends a letter regarding the Soviet Military Industrial Complex to Joseph Taub.

January 10th

 * Jason Hudson sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

February 11th

 * Richard Kain sends Grigori Weaver a message on the Central Intelligence Agency Data System.

April 14th

 * Ryan Jackson sends Richard Kain a summary of Daniel Clarke's profile
 * The "Steiner Profile" is dated.

June 19th

 * Jason Hudson sends Grigori Weaver a message.

January 21st

 * 0800: Jason Hudson and Alex Mason meet with Frank Woods at a US Army base at Khe Sanh. Alex Mason and Frank Woods are to be deployed into Hue City, but they stay behind to assist in the defense of the base as the Siege of Khe Sanh begins.

January 23rd

 * Ryan Jackson sends William Colby a report regarding the People's Army of Vietnam.

January 29th

 * Ryan Jackson sends Richard Kain a report regarding Soviet special forces in North Vietnam.

January 31st

 * The Viet Cong attacks within the boarders of South Vietnam, despite the North and South Vietnamese truce during a 2-day cease fire in the honour of the Tet Nguyen Dan Holiday. The NVA joins the assault within 24 hours in full force and fighting spreads on a country-wide scale.

February 2nd

 * 1900: SOG XRAY arrives at the besieged MACV compound in Hue City to extract a Russian defector and his intel. Alex Mason believes that the defector is Viktor Reznov; he does not know that "Reznov" is only a hallucination produced by his brainwashing. Alex Mason, Frank Woods and Joseph Bowman escape Hue City.

February 4th

 * Lev Kravchenko tests the Nova-6 gas on the local population of Vietnam and Laos . After this test, Lev Kravchenko reports its effects and orders Soviet agents to report success to Friedrich Steiner.

February 9th

 * 1700: Jason Hudson and Grigori Weaver track down Dr. Daniel Clarke in Kowloon, Hong Kong and torture him for information. Dr. Daniel Clarke reveals he is affiliated with Project Nova. A Russian Spetsnaz team tracks them down, forcing a running gunfight. Dr. Daniel Clarke is killed before the team is extracted and right before he can tell Jason Hudson the significance of the numbers.


 * Alex Mason and Frank Woods are shot down near the DMZ and flee their downed helicopter. They swim upriver and meet up with Bowman. The three eliminate a Viet Cong outpost. Alex Mason enters a rat tunnel and finds Lev Kravchenko's base and intel on the Nova-6 experiments. Alex Mason survives being buried alive when the base's rigged explosives detonate.

February 11th

 * A Russian plane carrying Nova 6 is downed in Laos, and Alex Mason and his team are sent to find it and get intel. Riding upriver in a PBR, the team supports local American forces. The team lands on shore and fights both NVA and Spetsnaz forces. Finding the plane the team holds out until Russian helicopters incapacitate the team and General Nikita Dragovich captures them.
 * Jason Hudson sends Weaver, Brooks and Harris a message on the Central Intelligence Agency Data System about Mount Yamantau.

February 16th

 * Hudson, Weaver, Brooks and Harris are briefed by Richard Kain at 2p.m. and are sent into the Soviet Union to locate Mount Yamantau.

February 18th

 * Jason Hudson and Grigori Weaver lead a team made up of themselves, Terrance Brooks, and Bruce Harris to infiltrate Mount Yamantau and to gain intel on Project Nova. However, Harris falls to his death. They successfully infiltrate the Russian base with help from a SR-71. Finding their intel, the remaining team quickly leave before the base is destroyed by an avalanche.

February 19th

 * 1100: Alex Mason and Frank Woods escape captivity from the Viet Cong, but Joseph Bowman is killed before they can escape. Stealing a Russian Mi-24 "Hind", the pair wreaks havoc on the Ho Chi Minh Trail on their way to Col. Lev Kravchenko's compound. Inside, they free American POW's, including "Viktor Reznov." Col. Lev Kravchenko ambushes Alex Mason in his office, but Frank Woods stabs him in the back. Col. Lev Kravchenko pulls the pins on his grenades, and Frank Woods throws himself through the observation window with Col. Lev Kravchenko. Col. Lev Kravchenko is presumed KIA, while reason of doubt has been cast on Frank Woods' death.

Sometime after February 19th

 * Frank Woods is supposedly captured and sent to the Hanoi Hilton.

February 22nd

 * Jason Hudson sends Weaver a message about Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data System.
 * Ryan Jackson sends Richard Kain a report providing the background on the origins of Nova 6.

February 23th

 * The USMC and South Vietnamese Black Panther Company secure the Hue Citadel.
 * Alex Mason goes rogue and infiltrates Rebirth Island in order to kill Friedrich Steiner. He believes he is accompanied by "Viktor Reznov", and stands aside when "Viktor Reznov" executes Friedrich Steiner.
 * Hudson and Weaver lead a team to the Nova 6 facility on Rebirth Island in the Aral Sea. Upon infiltrating, they receive a panicked distress call from Friedrich Steiner and find him just in time to watch Alex Mason declare "My name is Viktor Reznov! And I will have my revenge!" and shoot Friedrich Steiner. Alex Mason founds Grigori Weaver before Jason Hudson incapacitates Alex Mason.

February 25th

 * After hours of fierce interrogation, Alex Mason finally breaks down. Jason Hudson realizes Mason had been brainwashed into being a Soviet sleeper agent by General Nikita Dragovich, and his programming had been sabotaged by Viktor Reznov in Vorkuta. Alex Mason reveals that the broadcast station General Nikita Dragovich is using to contact the other sleeper agents in the USA is a ship called "Rusalka," last seen docked in Cuba.

February 26th

 * Alex Mason, Jason Hudson, and Grigori Weaver launch an all out assault on the "Rusalka," crippling the vessel. Assault teams find that the actual station is below the ship, on the sea floor. Wanting closure Alex Mason along with Jason Hudson, descend underwater to the station and stop the broadcast. Alex Mason confronts General Nikita Dragovich one more time and strangles him to death. Jason Hudson and Alex Mason escape the station before it is destroyed and regroup with Grigori Weaver and the CIA team on the surface.

Sometime after Febuary 26th

 * Alex Mason, Jason Hudson, and Grigori Weaver flee to South Africa. They supposedly live undisturbed until 1978.

February 27th

 * John Trent sends Hudson a message informing him to tell Mason "This time it's freedom for both of us".

August 12th

 * Ryan Jackson sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.
 * Ryan Jackson sends a message to Grigori Weaver on the Central Intelligence Agency Data System.
 * Ryan Jackson sends a message to J. Turner on the Central Intelligence Agency Data System.

November 2nd

 * Ryan Jackson sends a report to William Colby regarding the confirmation of mass slaughter during the NVA occupation of Hue City (Jan 31 - Feb 24, 1968) during the Tet Offensive.

December 23rd

 * Dr. Adrienne Smith sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

May 1st

 * SOG is disbanded, effectively ending its operations in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. A similar but smaller operations group called the Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team 158 (STDAT-158) is established to take its place but does not last.

Unknown Date

 * Frank Woods is the sole remaining prisoner of the Da Nang POW camp and engineered an escape to get back to the US safely.

April 30th

 * The Vietnam War ends with a North Vietnamese takeover in South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Unknown Date

 * Frank Woods returns to work with the C.I.A.

November 19th

 * X sends a letter to Weaver telling him that his sister, Olga, survived Stalin's Purge but died in childbirth and that Weaver now has a niece named Kristina in Moscow.

November 27th

 * Ryan Jackson sends Weaver a letter regarding his niece Kristina Raskova, but apologises that he cannot help him locate her whereabouts. He, however, says that he can forward on this information to his direct report, which may then decide an appropriate means of action.

June 19th

 * X sends a letter to Jason Hudson warning him about Richard Kain and D. King.

June 30th

 * X sends a letter to Alex Mason informing him of Clarke's whereabouts.

July 4th

 * X sends a letter to Alex Mason telling him that Woods is still alive and is a prisoner at the Hanoi Hilton.
 * Jason Hudson sends a message to Alex Mason on the Central Intelligence Agency Data system.

October 30th

 * The CIA and MI-6 supposedly execute Operation Charybdis, which has the objective of neutralizing Alex Mason, Jason Hudson, and Grigori Weaver after all three fled to South Africa. They are seen as potential threats to national security (Jason Hudson and Grigori Weaver are considered a threat due to Alex Mason's mental status and the fact that Jason Hudson and Grigori Weaver fled with him). CIA analyst Ryan Jackson is adviser. MI-6 provides a SAS operator named Jonathan (last name redacted). Grigori Weaver's niece, Kristina is supposed to play a major role in the operation: seducing Alex Mason. The specifics of the operation itself, including its success or failure, are currently unknown (and likely classified). However, the events of Black Ops 2 clearly show Alex Mason and Jason Hudson are alive, for certain missions, in the 1980's, leading to the result that Operation Charybdis was not successful. The fate of Weaver is unknown, though, as well as his niece.

December 27th

 * The Soviet war in Afghanistan begins.

Unknown Date

 * David Mason is born.

Sometime before July 2nd

 * Frank Woods operates in Angola on behalf of the CIA. He is captured by Raul Menendez, tortured and interrogated.

July 2nd

 * Alex Mason assists Jonas Savimbi and UNITA in a counter-attack against an MPLA charge.
 * Alex Mason and Jason Hudson are sent to rescue Frank Woods from Angola. They eventually rescue him and extract him.
 * Alex Mason attempts to kill Raul Menendez, but instead wounds him severly, causing him to lose his right eye. Menendez swears revenge on Mason.

September 5th
Outcome 1=Woods and Mason capture Kravchenko and interrogate him, but Mason shoots Kravchenko before they can get any information out of him. Outcome 2=Woods and Mason capture Kravchenko and interrogate him. Kravchenko reveals that there is a potential mole in the CIA working for Menendez. Woods executes Kravchenko.
 * Woods, Mason and Hudson are sent to Afghanistan to assist the Mujahideen against the Soviets in return for information on Raul Menendez.
 * Woods and Mason meet Tian Zhao.
 * The Mujahideen betray Woods, Mason, Hudson and Zhao, leaving them for dead in the desert. They are rescued by an unknown person, who Mason believes to be Reznov.

September 25th
Outcome 1=Mason recovers CIA documents from Menendez' compound, implying that there may be a mole in the CIA working for Raul Menendez.
 * Manuel Noriega and the PDF assist Mason, Hudson and Woods in a mission to find and capture Raul Menendez in his home in Nicaragua.
 * Menendez is briefly captured by the PDF, but then released by Noriega.
 * Josefina Menendez is killed by a grenade thrown by Woods. Raul is also severely injured.
 * Hudson tells Woods and Mason that Menendez is dead. The mission is aborted.

1987

 * SEAL Team Six dissolved. A new unit, the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), is created as it’s successor.

February 15th

 * The Soviet War in Afghanistan ends with the withdrawal of Soviet troops.

December 20th
Outcome 1=Woods shoots and kills the target. It turns out to be Alex Mason. Outcome 2=Woods shoots and wounds the target. It turns out to be Alex Mason.
 * Operation Just Cause commences.
 * Woods and Mason find and capture Noriega in Panama.
 * Hudson orders Woods to assassinate "Nexus Target". Hudson claims that Nexus Target is Raul Menendez.
 * Noriega escapes unharmed.
 * Menendez cripples Woods' legs with a SPAS-12 and then executes Hudson.

December 25

 * The Soviet Union collapses, Russia is now the Russian Federation.

September 11th

 * The World Trade Center is blown up by terrorists. Briggs flew one of the jets when Secretary Rumsfeld ordered DEFCON 3

2025

 * The use of fossil fuels is rendered obsolete due to an unknown mineral.
 * Cold war erupts between the USA and China.

April 20th

 * Raul Menendez arms a private army made up of ex-Cuban militia and Cordis Die members.
 * J-SOC retrieve a Celerium chip from a hidden base in Myanmar and learn of a potential cyber-threat named "Karma".

May 29th
Optional Outcome=Section learns of Zhao's negotiations with Raul Menendez.
 * Raul Menendez negotiates with rouge ISI soldiers in Lahore, Pakistan. His conversations are recorded by J-SOC.
 * J-SOC learn that Menendez is planning to attack Colossus.
 * Section briefly meets with Tian Zhao.

June 12th
Outcome 1=DeFalco is killed before he can escape with Chloe. Outcome 2=DeFalco escapes with Chloe, who is then taken to Yemen and put into captivity.
 * J-SOC go undercover in Colossus to find the cyber weapon, "Karma".
 * Secion learns that Karma is in fact a woman named Chloe Lynch, a former employee of the Tacitus Corporation.
 * DeFalco launches an attack on Colossus in an attempt to find and kidnap Chloe.

June 19th
Outcome 1=Harper is captured and killed by Farid under Menendez' orders. Outcome 2=Harper is spared and Farid attempts to assasinate Menendez, resulting in Menendez killing Farid. Outcome 1=Chloe Lynch is killed Outcome 2=Farid sacrifices himself to save Chloe, who then attempts to counter the virus. Outcome 3=DeFalco is shot and killed by Farid Outcome 1=Briggs is shot and killed by Menendez Outcome 2=Briggs is fatally wounded by Menendez but later re-activates the U.S.S. Obama's defense systems Outcome 3=Briggs is knocked unconious by Salazar but later re-activates the U.S.S. Obama's defense systems Outcome 1=Salazar is taken into captivity. Outcome 2=Salazar is executed by Harper. Outcome 1=China sends Drones to defend the U.S.S Obama from attack, resulting in the U.S.S. Obama remaining intact Outcome 2=The U.S.S. Obama is destroyed and sinks. Outcome 1=The French President is saved by Section after being attacked by Mercs. Outcome 2=The French President is killed after being attacked by Mercs. Outcome 1=Anderson is shot down and killed. Outcome 2=Anderson is shot down but survives. Optional Outcome=Chinese special forces parachute onto the roof of the facility to clear it of snipers. Optional Outcome=DeFalco is shot and killed by Section. Outcome 1=Section kills Menendez, resulting in an uprising by Cordis Die that causes massive public disturbance in Washington, D.C. Outcome 2=Section captures Menendez Outcome 1=Chloe Lynch cracks the Celerium Worm and is invited onto Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about her success at cracking the Celerium Worm, much to the displeasure of Raul Menendez. Outcome 2=The "CIA Nerd" fails to crack the Celerium Worm Outcome 1=Section visits Woods in the Vault and reunites with his father, Alex Mason. Outcome 2=Section and Woods both visit Alex Mason's grave
 * Undercover operative Farid fights alongside Yemeni rebels in an attempt to gain intel of Raul Menendez.
 * Menendez allows himself to be captured by U.S. Navy SEALs and taken to the U.S.S. Barack Obama for interrogation.
 * Menendez escapes from captivity on the Obama and uploads a virus to the U.S. Command Network, taking control of the U.S. Drone Fleet.
 * Salazar betrays J-SOC and helps Menendez in his effort to gain control of the Drones.
 * Section escapes the Obama, but Crosby is wounded in the process.
 * A G20 summit is held in LA.
 * Menendez unleashes an attack on Los Angeles using the Drones.
 * The LAPD begins to evacuate the area.
 * Section is assigned to protect the US President.
 * Anderson protects Section and his team through downtown L.A.
 * Section pilots Anderson's VTOL, clearing the skies of Drones.
 * J-SOC launches a massive attack on a Haitan facility in which the drones are believed to be being controlled from.
 * Menendez launches a live Podcast, depicting the Drones being self-destructed.
 * J-SOC is unable to regain control of the Drones.
 * Menendez attempts to escape the facility, disguised as a U.S. Soldier, but is tracked down by Section and fatally wounded.

June 19th
Outcome 1=Menendez escapes from jail and assasinates Woods in the Vault and then commits suicide over the grave of his sister, Josefina.