Portal:Timeline/BO

A timeline of events in the "Black Ops universe". It features events from June 11th, 1904 until June 19th, 2026 from the games Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Black Ops Mobile, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Call of Duty: Strike Team. It also features events from the short story Rightful King.

June 11th

 * Friedrich Steiner is born in Hamburg, Germany.

January 9th

 * Richard Nixon is born in Yorba Linda, California.

April 20th

 * Viktor Reznov is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

July 28th

 * The begins.

August 10th

 * Nikita Dragovich is born in Tsaritsyn, Russia.

June 9th

 * Robert McNamara is born in San Francisco, California

May 29th

 * John F. Kennedy is born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, USA.

November 11th

 * The First World War ends in an Allied victory.

December 18th

 * K. Pyle is born in the USA.

March 6th

 * M. McCord is born in the USA.

March 20th

 * Lev Kravchenko is born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

August 2nd

 * C. Miller is born in the USA.

July 10th

 * Daniel Clarke is born in Oxford, Britain.

August 3rd

 * Dimitri Petrenko is born in Russia.

June 22nd

 * H. Nelson is born in the USA.

August 13th

 * Fidel Castro is born in Birán, Cuba.

March 20th

 * Frank Woods is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

March 26th

 * Jason Hudson is born in Washington D.C., USA.

June 3rd

 * Alex Mason is born in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.

November 30th

 * Grigori Weaver is born in Russia.

September 1st

 * World War II begins with the German invasion of Poland.

November 10th

 * Joseph Bowman is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Unknown Date

 * Daniel Clarke joins the.

August 17th

 * Pvt. C. Miller is saved by Carlson's Raiders and successfully destroys the Japanese military base on Makin Atoll. Alex Mason's father earns the Purple Heart during the operation.

September 17th

 * Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko escapes the fountain massacre in Stalingrad and meets up with Sgt. Reznov after Major General Nikita Dragovich and Colonel Lev Kravchenko abandoned him. The two escape from a German patrol, and meets with an attacking Soviet force. Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko finds and kills General Heinrich Amsel, and escapes. Sometime after, he was most likely rescued and returned to the Red Army.

Unknown

 * Pvt. Chernov begins writing in his diary.

January 3rd

 * Dr. Friedrich Steiner begins development of codename Nova-6.

September 15th

 * Pvt. C. Miller lands with the rest of his squad on the island of Peleliu. Sgt. Sullivan is killed by a Japanese soldier. Cpl. Roebuck is promoted to sergeant. Pvt. C. Miller then takes the Japanese airfield, as well as eliminates enemy mortar crews attacking American tanks.

September 16th

 * Pvt. C. Miller and his squad attack Japanese positions on The Point, eventually entering the cave network and eliminating the heavy gun crews.

April 3rd

 * PO Locke and his PBY Catalina attacks a convoy of Japanese transport ships off Okinawa, flying back to the fleet when they come under attack by Japanese Zeros, rescuing sailors whose ships had been destroyed by Japanese Kamikazes.

April 18th

 * After being captured in a previous engagement, Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko is rescued by Sgt. Reznov and Chernov. Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko participates in the attack on Seelow Heights. Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko later is given control of a T-34 tank and destroys enemy Panzer tanks, as well as a communications antenna and reaches a train station. Here Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko, Sgt. Reznov and Chernov board a train heading toward the outskirts of Berlin.

April 23rd

 * Sgt. Reznov and Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko attack the Berlin suburb of Pankow, Germany and destroy the defending force, including those in the asylum, and reaches Berlin.

April 24th

 * Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko and his squad continues the attack in Berlin and fight from building to building. Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko and his squad attack the Germans hiding in the Metro under, and drive them out. In a desperate move the Germans flood the Metro.

April 30th

 * After escaping the flooding of the Metro, Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko and his squad fight their way to the Reichstag, where Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko destroys the Flak 88s preventing the tanks from getting closer. Once inside the Reichstag Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko and Sgt. Reznov eliminate the remaining German Waffen SS, and fly the Soviet flag over the roof. Chernov is severely burned by a German flamethrower and is presumably killed. Reznov, Dimitri, and their squad continue to push into the Reichstag and ultimately reach the roof; Dimitri goes to place the flag but is injured by a hiding SS. Reznov rushes in and kills the SS, cuts down the Nazi flag, and helps Dimitri place the Soviet flag. The Allies achieve Victory in Europe.

May 14th

 * Pvt. C. Miller, Sgt. Roebuck, Pvt. Polonsky and a Marine Raiders squad attack the Japanese defenses on Wana Ridge, Okinawa.

May 29th
Outcome 1=Sgt. Roebuck is killed in the process. Outcome 2=Pvt. Polonsky is killed in the process.
 * Resupplied, Pvt. C. Miller and his squad attacks and captures Shuri Castle, the last main Japanese strong-hold on Okinawa.

September 2nd

 * World War II ends in Allied victory.

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 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 by . Alex Mason is suggested to be involved.

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.

1965
Tian Zhao is born.

February 2nd

 * Alex Mason receives a letter from his father.

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.

August

 * Alex Mason and Michael Shaw are imprisoned in Cuba. A rescue team is sent to rescue the two but are led to the wrong place by inaccurate intelligence reports. Shaw eventually escapes on his own and meets up with the rescue team. Mason eventually escapes later.

September 7th

 * Sgt. First Class William James Bennett is sent to clear out an area in Vietnam.

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 1400 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 wounds 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.

December 23rd

 * There is an  in Managua, Nicaragua, leaving 5000 dead.

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.

June 19th

 * An American sets a warehouse on fire for $11,000 of insurance money with Raul and Josefina Menendez still inside. They escape, but Josefina is left badly burnt.

Unknown

 * Raul Menendez kills a group of dogs to obtain medical supplies for his sister Josefina.

Before April 29th

 * Frank Woods returns to work for the CIA.

April 29th

 * Frank Woods destroys agency cipher machines called parable machines so the North Vietnamese cannot get support from the Kremlin.

April 30th

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

Winter

 * Frank Woods infiltrates Mt. Yamantau and kills Schlussel, who was trying to revive Project Nova.

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.
 * Mike Harper was born in 1978.

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, Alex Mason and Jason Hudson are shown to alive and working for the CIA 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.

July 19th

 * A CIA false flag operation rescues U.S. National Guards from Managua as Sandista forces enter the country, but a deep cover operative is captured.

Sometime after July 19th

 * Alex Mason rescues the deep cover operative.

December 27th

 * The Soviet War in Afghanistan begins.
 * A high value individual is captured outside of Kabul.

Sometime after Decmber 27th

 * Alex Mason rescues the high value individual.

Between late August to early September 1979

 * David Mason is born.

May 21st

 * Jose Luiz Menendez is assassinated by a CIA Operative, leaving his son Raul Menendez to take over the Menendez Cartel.

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
Optional Outcome=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 is dissolved. A new unit, the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), is created as its 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.

January 8th

 * Ryan Jackson is at the office of the Inspector General, speaking about his career.

January 12th

 * The search for Alex Mason, Frank Woods, and Jason Hudson is closed, ending Operation Charybdis.

August 2nd

 * The begins.

February 28th

 * The ends in a coalition victory.

December 25

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

June 6th

 * Chloe Lynch is born in Chicago.

May 2nd

 * Farid is born

September 27th

 * The Taliban capture the city of Kabul, triggering the Afghanistan civil war

Sometime between July and September 1996

 * David "Section" Mason either enlists into the US Navy or graduates from the US Naval Academy

September 11th

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

March 20th

 * The begins.

December 15th

 * U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq. The ends.

June 19th

 * Thousands of rioters associated with Cordis Die descend on  and  after planning on social media sites.

Unknown

 * Cordis Die cause a cyber-attack on the Chinese stock market. China blames the United States and holds them accountable for the resulting global economic meltdown.

October 22nd

 * Joint J-SOC and Spetsnaz operation, in Alaska, to secure Site Juliet-Two-Niner, a retrofitted Cold War-era ICBM silo, which has been captured by unknown insurgents. The team is unable to disarm the missile and is re-targeted to land on top of the facility.

October 24th

 * The NSA discover that the Insurgents objective at Site Juliet-Two-Niner was not to launch a WMD on US soil, but to steal data concerning a DARPA research project. The data was then transferred to known arms dealer Felix Kaplan to be sold.
 * J-SOC are sent to the Paktika Province in Afghanistan to disrupt the transaction, capture Kaplan alive, and send the data to FOB Oscar Kilo Charlie for processing. Kaplan is captured and taken into custody.

November 2nd

 * Felix Kaplan is interrogated and it is revealed that the DARPA research data has been smuggled into Hong Kong. China's Ministry of State Security confirms a significant increase in internet traffic between anti-Communist revolutionary groups and Cordis Die.
 * J-SOC are sent to a warehouse to destroy the computer servers containing the data. They succeed in destroying the servers, however the data was protected by Cordis Die.

Unknown

 * The use of fossil fuels is rendered obsolete due to an unknown mineral.
 * Bosworth becomes President of the United States and works to repair international relations with China.
 * Cordis Die denounces Bosworth's presidency, calling her actions "continued war-mongering".
 * Cordis Die becomes the largest social networking site in the world and reach a billion hits on their site.
 * A second Cold war erupts between the United States and China.

June 19th

 * Raul Menendez uploads a video to YouTube regarding the United States' involvement in a cyber-attack on the Chinese Stock Market.

June 30th

 * Cordis Die's Twitter account is deleted by the U.S. Government.

July 2nd

 * The FBI Director is burned to death in his apartment by Cordis Die members.

April 19th

 * Mike Harper and David "Section" Mason question Frank Woods at the vault about Raul Menendez.

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".
 * Section 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 14th
Optional Outcome=Chloe is rescued by J-SOC.

June 19th
Outcome 1=Harper is captured and killed by Farid under Menendez' orders. Outcome 2=Harper is spared and Farid attempts to assassinate 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 who dies afterwards Outcome 1=Briggs is shot and killed by Menendez Outcome 2=Briggs is wounded by Menendez but later re-activates the U.S.S. Obama's defense systems Outcome 3=Briggs is knocked unconscious 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.
 * 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 FA38, 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.

Outcome 1=Section visits Woods in the Vault and reunites with his father, Alex Mason. Outcome 2=Menendez escapes from his prison cell. Outcome 1=Section and Woods both visit Alex Mason's grave.

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