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A timeline of events in the "Black Ops universe". It features events from 1894 until 2070 from the games Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Black Ops (DS), Call of Duty: Black Ops Mobile, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Call of Duty: Strike Team, Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War. It also features events from the short stories Rightful King and V.E.R.S.I.O.N.

1894

Unknown

1904

June 11th

1913

January 9th

April 20th

1914

July 28th

August 10th

1916

June 9th

1917

May 29th

1918

November 11th

  • The First World War ends in an Allied victory.

December 18th

1920

March 6th

1922

March 20th

August 2nd

1923

July 10th

August 1st

1924

June 22nd

1926

August 13th

1930

March 20th

1932

March 26th

1933

June 3rd

1936

November 10th

1937

February 12th

Sepetmber 15th

1938

August 14th

1939

September 1st

1940

November 10th

Unknown

1942

February 4th

February 14th

August 17th

September 17th

December 12th

Unknown

1943

January 3rd

Unknown

  • Detailed information from the Manhattan Project is stolen from Los Alamos by the Russian spy known as Perseus.

1944

September 15th

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.

1945

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 A6M 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. Viktor 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 IV tanks, as well as a communications antenna and reaches a train station. Here Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko, Sgt. Viktor Reznov and Chernov board a train heading toward the outskirts of Berlin.

April 23rd

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 Petrenko destroys the FlaK 88s preventing the tanks from getting closer. Once inside the Reichstag Petrenko and Sgt. Reznov eliminate the remaining German Waffen SS, and fly the Soviet flag over the roof. Chernov is severely burned by a flamethrower-wielding German soldier 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 soldier. 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

May 29th

Sgt. Roebuck is killed in the process.

Pvt. Polonsky is killed in the process.

September 2nd

October 29th

Sometime after October 29th

1947

March 12th

  • President Truman creates the Truman Doctrine, beginning the Cold War.

July 6th

1948

May 6th

October 1st

October 25th

1949

April 4th

August 24th

  • Belgium, Canada, Denmark (including Greenland), France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, and the United States join NATO.

1950

February 19th

May 29th

June 25th

Unknown

  • 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.
  • Eleazar "Lazar" Azoulay's father accepts a position at the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, moving his family to Israel.

Sometime between 1950 and 1953

1951

August 3rd

1952

February 18th

  • Greece and Turkey join NATO.

February 29th

June 13th

July 20th

1953

July 27th

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

Unknown Date

1954

April 17th

1955

Unknown Date

April 18th

May 6th

May 14th

  • Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union form the Warsaw Pact.

May 23th

September 14th

October 29th

November 1st

November 7th

November 19th

1956

January 13th

December 12th

1957

March 12th

August 16th

November 1st

1958

August 2nd

1959

Unknown

August 12th

1960

September 1st

September 5th

September 6th

  • Ryan Jackson sends a summary of Alex Mason's profile to Richard Nixon, Allen Dulles, Admiral Arleigh Burke, Livingston Merchant, Gordon Gray 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

Unknown

1961

March 5th

April 17th

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.

1962

January 8th

February 24th

October 16th-27th

The Cuban Missile Crisis takes place.

Sometime between 1961 and 1963

1963

June 6th

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

June 26th

September 5th

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

November 10th

November 17th

November 21st

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

November 22nd

November 24th

November 25th

1964

January 24th

  • The SOG is established.

Unknown

Tommy Briggs is born.

1965

Unknown

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

1966

February 2nd

  • Alex Mason receives a letter from his father.

February 14th

February 18th

March 15th

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

Unknown

1967

January 2nd

January 8th

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

January 10th

February 11th

April 14th

June 19th

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

Unknown

1968

January 21st

  • 0800: Jason Hudson and Alex Mason meet with Frank Woods at a US Marine base at Khe Sanh. Mason and 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

January 26th

  • Russell Adler and Lawrence Sims discovers Perseus' involvement in Vietnam.
  • Viet Cong soldiers orchestrated by Perseus attempt to steal an American made nuclear bomb from a U.S. firebase.
  • Adler and Sims attempts to transfer a nuclear warhead from Firebase Ripcord to Camp Haskins before being shot down and left to deal with the Viet Cong.

January 29th

January 31st

  • The Viet Cong attacks within the borders 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, 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. Clarke reveals he is affiliated with Project Nova. A Russian Spetsnaz team tracks them down, forcing a running gunfight. Clarke is killed before the team is extracted and right before he can tell 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. Mason enters a rat tunnel and finds Lev Kravchenko's base and intel on the Nova 6 experiments. Mason survives being buried alive when the base's rigged explosives detonate.

February 11th

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

  • Hudson and 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 off a catwalk, presumably 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 Lev Kravchenko's compound. Inside, they free American POW's, including "Viktor Reznov." Kravchenko ambushes Mason in his office, but Woods stabs him in the back. Kravchenko pulls the pins on his grenades, and Woods throws himself through the observation window with to save Mason from the explosion. Lev Kravchenko and Frank Woods are presumed KIA.

Sometime after February 19th

  • Frank Woods was captured and sent to the Hanoi Hilton.

February 22nd

February 23rd

  • 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 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 Steiner and find him just in time to see Alex Mason declare "My name is Viktor Reznov! And I will have my revenge!" and shoot Steiner. Mason wounds Weaver before Hudson can incapacitate Mason.

Sometime after February 23rd

February 24th

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 while at Vorkuta. Mason figures out that the broadcast station 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 Mason along with Hudson descend underwater to the station and stop the broadcast. Mason confronts Dragovich one last time and then strangles and drowns him to death. Hudson and Mason escape the station before it is destroyed and regroup with Weaver and the CIA team on the surface.
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Sometime after Febuary 26th

Intel from Call of Duty: Black Ops information ends here.

February 27th

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

August 12th

September 13th

  • Albania withdraws from the Warsaw Pact.

November 2nd

December 23rd

1972

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 earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua, leaving 5000 dead.

Unknown

  • Frank Woods is the sole remaining prisoner of the Da Nang POW camp and engineered an escape to get back to the US safely. He later returned to work with the CIA.

1973

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.

1975

April 29th

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

April 30th

1976

Unknown

  • "Operation Active Measures" takes place. Alex Mason is sent to East Berlin to gather intel and interrogate Mikhail Belov.

1977

Unknown

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.

1978

Unknown

June 19th

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.
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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 (Hudson and Weaver are considered a threat due to Mason's mental status and their association 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 was initially unknown, but is later shown to be alive, as well as that of his niece.
Intel from Call of Duty: Black Ops information ends here.

1979

July 19th

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

Sometime after July 19th

  • Alex Mason rescues the deep cover operative.

December 24th

Sometime after December 27th

  • Alex Mason rescues the high value individual.

Unknown

1981

January 8th

  • Alex Mason receives an unexpected phone call from Jason Hudson, who wants to get the old team back together. Alex Mason is told to immediately report to Amsterdam to rendezvous with Frank Woods and Russell Adler if he wants to return as a CIA operative.

January 13th

  • Alex Mason, Frank Woods, and Russell Adler capture Qasim Javadi in Amsterdan. Javadi reveals that Arash Kadivar is in Trabzon Airfield in Turkey.
  • Thirteen hours later, Mason, Woods, and Adler kill Arash Kadivar at Trabzon Airfield.
  • Adler recovers a wounded Bell.

January 17th

  • Hudson contacts Adler to form an elite team of operatives in pursuit of a dangerous Soviet agent.

January 18th

  • Jason Hudson briefs U.S. president Ronald Reagan on an imminent threat of attack after the U.S. acquires intelligence that after 13 years Perseus is planning an attack on the West.

February 24th

February 27th

  • Bell and Woods infiltrate a secret Soviet installation in Ukrainian SSR, uncovering a secret training ground where Spetsnaz are trained to fight in American cities. There, Bell and Woods discover that the missing nuclear bomb is American, part of Operation Greenlight. After confronting Hudson with what they have discovered, Hudson tells them that as part of Operation Greenlight the United States planted nuclear bombs across Europe as a countermeasure against a possible Soviet invasion.

March 3

  • Mason and Woods return to Mount Yamantau with the help of Belikov after an insider within the KGB confirmed an ongoing operation at the site. After fighting through the Soviet forces present at the site, Mason and Woods lock the mainframe to Belikov's helicopter, allowing the three to escape the site.

March 9

  • As part of an undercover mission, Bell and Adler infiltrate the KGB headquarters in Moscow with the help from Belikov. After Belikov delivers a bunker key to Bell and Adler the two enter the bunker, fighting their way to the Soviet security detachment. Bell copies a list of Soviet sleeper agents in the United States and Bell, Adler and Belikov escape with help from Lazar.

March 13

  • Bell, Adler, and their team entered Havana, Cuba to track Hastings and Perseus. Later, they found Perseus retreating in a helicopter. While waiting for Skyhook, the team was severely injured by an RPG. In the end, Bell rescued Park and abandoned Lazar.

March 14

  • In order to get the true position of Perseus, Adler decided to inject psychotropic drugs into Bell and let Bell recall the false memory in Vietnam in July 1968. Finally, Bell told the CIA team that Perseus was at Solovetsky Monastery.

March 15

  • A naval task force headed to the Solovetsky Islands and successfully prevented Perseus from launching Greenlight Bombs in Europe by destroying the radar array.
  • Adler told Bell that they were heroes but that there is still a sacrifice to be made. The two drew their pistols at the same time, Bell's condition is unknown, but Adler survived.

Unknown

1982

May 21st

May 30th

  • Spain joins NATO.

1983

Unknown

  • Perseus' leader passes away thanks to a form of cancer.

November 9th

1984

January 20th

January 21st

  • Adler with Frank Woods, Zeyna Ossou and Wyatt "Bulldozer" Jones assault The Pines, locating several barrels leaking a substance that looks similar to Nova 6. Before they can intercept the barrels, they are confronted by Vikhor and a force of militia which Vikhor commands to capture Alder but kill the rest. A gunfight ensues during which Zeyna, Wyatt and Frank are separated from Adler leading to his capture by Vikhor.

April 19th

  • An attempted assault lead by Karla Rivas on a camp is met with extreme resistance, requiring the intervention of a team lead by Frank Woods and Terrell Wolf. Kapano "Naga" Vang stalks after a fleeing NATO soldier before executing him and calling Vikhor that the "rats" have arrived. Vikhor asks Vang to make them care about the supposed Nova 6 production line that the Golden Triangle cartel has running within Laos along with telling him the true location of Adler, Verdansk.

June 2nd

June 10th

June 26th

  • At the Jumpseat Satellite Ground Station in South Africa, Owethu "Jackal" Mabuza alongside a small crew hijack the building and execute the workers, leaving the Ground Operator alive. Jackal places a phone beside the Ground Operator, calling Stitch who orders the Ground Operator to crash the "Jumpseat Constellation", as it is broadcasting over a frequency that he wishes to utilize. Stitch also demands the satellites be crashed in two specific locations, Verdansk and Algeria.

June 27th

  • Adler's team secured a satellite crash site in Adrar Province, Algeria. With Adler rushing ahead to retrieve a data recorder from the satellite before the remaining members of the team arrive. Jabari Salah chastises Adler that they are a unit before questioning if the satellite still had its data recorder. Adler lies, saying that it must have burnt up on re-entry.

July 23rd

Sometime after July 23rd

  • Hudson and Woods meet in private, discussing the missing data recorder from the Jumpseat Constellation satellite that landed in Algeria. They quickly come to the conclusion that Adler has been compromised after discussing Adler working on a secret project in Verdansk off the grid. Hudson then orders Woods to have Mason bring Adler in.

July 30th

  • Adler was taken to Room 9 of the National Security Agency Facility for questioning. He was asked to recall what he had done in Verdansk before.

August 2nd

  • At a German World War II bunker in Verdansk, Vikhor "Stitch" Kuzmin and Benito "Fuze" Ortega tried to dismantle several seismic charges planted by Adler. They successfully demolished. But then more explosives exploded, severely destroyed Tavorsk District, Verdansk.
  • Alex Mason enters the Room 9 to remove Stitch's brainwashing. Next, Mason, Adler, Hudson, and Woods formed an action team and deployed to Verdansk, which was heavily bombed.

August 19th

  • Stitch visits the grave of "Perseus" at Verdansk as Adler, Hudson, Mason and Woods arrive by helicopter. Adler confronts Stitch at gunpoint demanding to know the whereabouts of Perseus. Stitch reveals that Perseus has been dead since 1983, and that he had already changed the world with the numbers broadcast and was willing to die with his work complete. Stitch is then shot by Adler.

August 24th

  • Butcher visited a German underground bunker of World War II in Verdansk. Russell Adler, Alex Mason, Jason Hudson and Frank Woods also entered the bunker. They met Butcher and asked him to introduce himself. Butcher reveals his association with the Special Operations Executive and was the founder of Task Force Vanguard. Butcher then told the NATO operators about how he and the Allies hunted leftover Nazi forces on Caldera.

1986

Sometime before July 2nd

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 Woods from Angola. They eventually rescue him and extract him.
  • Alex Mason attempts to kill Raul Menendez, but instead wounds him, causing him to lose his right eye. Menendez swears revenge on Mason.

September 5th

  • 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.

Woods and Mason capture Kravchenko and interrogate him, but Mason shoots Kravchenko before they can get any information out of him.

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.

  • The Mujahideen betray Woods, Mason, Hudson and Zhao, leaving them for dead in the desert. They are rescued by an unknown person, whom Mason believes to be Reznov.

September 25th

  • 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.

Mason recovers CIA documents from Menendez' compound, implying that there may be a mole in the CIA working for Raul Menendez.

  • 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.

1989

February 15th

December 20th

  • 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.

Woods shoots and kills the target. It turns out to be Alex Mason.

Woods shoots and wounds the target. It turns out to be Alex Mason.

  • Noriega escapes unharmed.
  • Menendez cripples Woods' legs with a SPAS-12 and then executes Hudson.

Sometime after November 9th

Bruce Harris is freed from Soviet captivity.

1990

January 8th

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

January 12th

August 2nd

1991

February 28th

  • The Gulf War ends in a coalition victory.

December 26th

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

1994

June 6th

December

  • Imran Zakhaev underwent emergency heart bypass surgery and remained in the hospital.

1996

Unknown

September 27th

  • The Taliban capture the city of Kabul, triggering the Afghan civil war.

1997

Febuary 5th

1999

January 12th

March 12th

  • Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland join NATO.

2001

September 11th

2003

March 20th

May 21st

2004

March 29th

  • Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia join NATO.

2009

February 2nd

April 1st

  • Albania and Croatia join NATO.

2011

May 2nd

  • Osama Bin Laden killed by SEAL Team Six.

December 15th

  • U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq. The Iraq War ends.

Unknown

2013

January 3rd

July 2nd

September 20th

  • Hurricane Erin hit Singapore devastating all the island.

2014

June 19th

June 25th

2015

July 17th

September 27th

  • Croatian fashion designer, Narcis Dravinski, showcased his "Elabor8 MZFIT" collection in Milan, Italy.

2017

January 8th

April 12th

June 5th

  • Montenegro joins NATO.

2018

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, thus beginning the Second Cold War.

2019

February 1st

April 17th

2020

Unknown

January 4th

  • Greece failed to secure an additional 4th round of bailout funding from the ECB.

March 18th

March 27th

  • North Macedonia joins NATO.

April

  • Greek Government announced it would default on its debt of ECB and return to the Greek Drachma as its official currency.

August

Sometime in October

October 22nd

  • Joint JSOC and Spetsnaz operation, in Alaska, aim 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.
  • JSOC 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.
  • JSOC 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.

November 3rd

  • Marion Bosworth is elected President of the United States.

2021

January 20th

  • Marion 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".

March 27th

Mid 2021

  • Europe's economy suffers rapid inflation.

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

July 2nd

2022

Unknown

  • Italy held three general elections.

April 8th

June 5th

2024

Unknown

2025

Unknown

March 14th

  • France and Germany withdraw from the European Union.

April 19th

April 20th

April 28th

  • The Treaty of Rome and the Maastricht Treaty of 1993 are repealed. European nations repeal the Euro.

May 21st

  • JSOC defends the FOB Facility from the SDC in India

JSOC successfully defends the base from attack and India joins JSOC.

JSOC fails to defend the base from attack and India joins the SDC.

May 29th

  • Raul Menendez negotiates with rogue ISI soldiers in Lahore, Pakistan. His conversations are recorded by JSOC.
  • JSOC learn that Menendez is planning to attack Colossus.
  • Section briefly meets with Tian Zhao.

Section learns of Zhao's negotiations with Raul Menendez.

May 30th

  • JSOC tries to destroy missiles at Keppel Terminal, Singapore which are targeting Iran

JSOC successfully stops the missiles from launching and Iran joins JSOC.

JSOC fails to stop the missiles from launching and Iran joins the SDC.

June 6th

  • JSOC tries to prevent the assassination of Afghanistans president.

JSOC successfully prevents the assassination and Afghanistan joins JSOC.

JSOC fails to prevent the assassination and Afghanistan joins the SDC.


June 11th

June 12th

  • JSOC 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.

DeFalco is killed before he can escape with Chloe.

DeFalco escapes with Chloe, who is then taken to Yemen and put into captivity.

June 14th

Chloe is rescued by JSOC.

Chloe dies trying to escape.

No rescue operation is carried out, as Chloe's kidnapping was thwarted.

June 17h

JSOC successfully kills Tian and China is now on good terms with the United States.

JSOC fails to kill Tian and China is now on bad terms with the United States.

June 18th

  • Undercover operative Farid fights alongside Yemeni rebels in an attempt to gain intel of Raul Menendez.

Harper is captured and killed by Farid under Menendez' orders.

Harper is spared and Farid attempts to assassinate Menendez, resulting in Menendez killing Farid.

  • 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.
  • Javier Salazar betrays JSOC and helps Menendez in his effort to gain control of the Drones.

Chloe Lynch is killed.

Farid sacrifices himself to save Chloe, who then attempts to counter the virus.

DeFalco is shot and killed by Farid who dies afterwards.

Briggs is shot and killed by Menendez.

Briggs is wounded by Menendez but later re-activates the U.S.S. Obama's defense systems.

Briggs is knocked unconscious by Salazar but later re-activates the U.S.S. Obama's defense systems.

Salazar is taken into captivity.

Salazar is executed by Harper.

China sends Drones to defend the U.S.S. Obama from attack, resulting in the U.S.S. Obama remaining intact.

The U.S.S. Obama is destroyed and sinks.

  • Section escapes the Obama, but Crosby is wounded in the process.

June 19th

  • 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.

The French President is saved by Section after being attacked by Mercs.

The French President is killed after being attacked by Mercs.

Anderson is shot down and killed.

Anderson is shot down but survives.

  • Anderson protects Section and his team through downtown L.A.
  • Section pilots Anderson's FA38, clearing the skies of Drones.
  • JSOC launches a massive attack on a Haitan facility in which the drones are believed to be being controlled from.

Chinese special forces parachute onto the roof of the facility to clear it of snipers.

  • Menendez launches a live Podcast, depicting the Drones being self-destructed.
  • JSOC 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.
  • Menendez is killed by David Mason regardless of player's choice

DeFalco is shot and killed by Section.

Section kills Menendez, resulting in an uprising by Cordis Die that causes massive public disturbance in Washington, D.C.

Section captures Menendez .

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.

The "CIA Nerd" fails to crack the Celerium Worm.

Section visits Woods in the Vault and reunites with his father, Alex Mason.

Menendez escapes from his prison cell.

Section and Woods both visit Alex Mason's grave.

September 17th

  • The European Union disbands.

2026

Unknown

  • Augmentations start with DARPA.
  • Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania join the CDP.

Menendez assassinates Woods in the Vault and then commits suicide over the grave of his sister, Josefina.

2027

Unknown

  • Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine join the CDP.

April 14th

December 1st

2028

Unknown

  • Modified athlete Shannon Stevens becomes "the fastest woman on the planet" by running 100m in 6.21 seconds at the 2028 Nairobi Olympics.
  • NATO Dissolved.
  • Algeria, Belarus, Cuba, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovakia join the CDP.

2030s

  • NRC develop plans to build a series of dams and water treatment plants along parts of the Nile River that passed through its territory.

2030

Unknown

  • Angola, Nigeria, and Pakistan join the CDP.
  • Uganda and Kenya are merged into NRC by Kampala Agreement.

2031

July 3rd

November 11th

2032

Unknown

  • Austria, Germany, and Italy join the CDP.

2033

June 6th

August 11th

2036

Unknown

December 30th

2037

Unknown

  • A superstorm hits Tokyo, Japan.
  • Rachel Kane is born in USA.[source needed]
  • Libya and Syria join the CDP.

2039

Unknown

  • Kenya discovers substantial amounts of rare-earth elements and joins the CDP in exchange for trading them with the Pact.

2040

Unknown

  • Ethopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda join the CDP by NRC absorption.
  • The Drakon Sniper Rifle begins production.

2041

Unknown

  • First networked brain-to-brain connection created.
  • Italy defects to the Winslow Accords.

2042

Unknown

2043

September 5th

  • Donnie Walsh, Erin Baker, and Jessica Mason are sent on a covert mission that fails. Donnie and Erin escape, though Erin loses both of her arms, while Jessica is presumed dead.

Unknown

2045

Unknown

2046

Unknown

2047

Unknown

2048

Unknown

2049

Unknown

2050

Unknown

2051

Unknown

  • DNA upgrades and organ replacement is now the norm.
  • Yemen joins the CDP.

2052

Unknown

2053

Unknown

  • The 205 Brecci Shotgun begins production.
  • The XM-53 Launcher begins production.
  • Kenya construct dams and water purification facilities on the Nile River.

2054

December 11th

  • Zürich Security Forces receive an anonymous tip directing them to the hideout of a local terrorist cell, the Cotardists, led by Xavier Hirtzel, only to be met with severe resistance. The ZSF ultimately fail to capture Xavier at his apartment, giving him the window to escape.

December 12th

  • At 7:31 AM, a maglev train containing Coalescence Corporation's Neural Network prototype is destroyed via a smuggled explosive en route to Zurich, presumably killing all on board.

2055

Unknown

  • CourtOptic announces a new retinal implant.
  • The Vesper Submachine Gun begins production.
  • The M8A7 Assault Rifle begins production.
  • Sudan and South Sudan complete their dams and water purification facilities on the Nile River.

2056

Unknown

2057

Unknown

2058

Unknown

2059

Unknown

  • Ethiopia complete its dams and water purification facilities on the Nile River.

2060

June 2nd

  • Coalescence Corporation Disaster of 2060: Early human experimentation is under way at the Coalescence Corporation’s research facility in Singapore. A number of involuntary test subjects are connected to a central mainframe with a prototype DNI. For reasons unknown, their memories and consciousness coalesce, triggering a systemic shutdown at 8:17am, and releasing stored Nova 6 gas into the air, resulting in over 300,000 deaths. The Singapore Authorities announce a state of emergency, declare martial law, and a 30-mile quarantine zone is established.
  • The merging of the subjects' memories and consciousness inadvertently results in the creation of Corvus, a hive mind Artificial Intelligence. Corvus experiences a flood of experiences and agonising pain, which triggers the disaster. When the test subjects die, Corvus becomes dormant within the DNI system.

2061

Unknown

  • Worldwide protests and riots erupt around the world, caused by the growing resentment of people over augmentations, feeling that scientists are playing god.
  • The VMP Submachine Gun begins production.

2062

Unknown

2063

Unknown

  • Egyptian army retreat from NRC territory.

July 19th

Unknown

2064

Unknown

  • Uganda finally complete all of its work on water processing facilities.

June 2nd

June 3rd

  • Taylor and Hendricks infiltrate the Bio-Dome Facility, which is run by the 54 Immortals, to gain the data drives information from the CIA Black Station. A gunfight ensues leading to the death of one of the 54i leaders, Goh Min. Taylor and Hendricks find the culprit was Stone and his team.

June 4th

  • They follow the team's footsteps back to an abandoned Coalescence Corporation facility. A CIA Black Project called SP/Corvus is discovered.
  • They engage in a battle against the defector Javier Ramirez, killing him in the process.
  • The facility is attacked by the 54i by orders of Goh Xiulan.

June 5th

  • Against orders, Taylor and Hendricks go into the Safe Zone to rescue the LNO Rachel Kane. This proves to be successful.
  • Goh Xiulan is killed by Taylor.

June 6th

  • They go to Cairo, Egypt to find answers about SP/Corvus from one of the survivors of the 2060 Catastrophe, Dr. Yousef Salim.
  • Yousef Salim is kidnapped by the NRC during their attack on an Egyptian Army base in Ramses Station.

June 7th

  • They establish that Dr. Salim is in a area of interest by the name of "Kebechet", and launch attack on the place.
  • They meet resistance by the NRC and one of the defectors, Alice Conrad.
  • After disabling the Manticore mech that she is piloting, Taylor interrogates Hall and finds out that Dr. Salim was killed as their invasion started. He kills her after the interrogation.

June 8th

  • Operation: Sand Castle is approved. Taylor and Hendricks, with support of the Egyptian Army, attack an aquifier in Bawiti.
  • The team successfully assassinates one of the defectors, Joseph Fierro.

June 9th

  • The Egyptian Army launches an attack against the NRC in one of their bases, the Lotus Towers, which is also the place where the last defector, Dylan Stone, is located.
  • One of the generals of the NRC, Abasi Hakim, is killed.
  • Zeyad Khalil is surrounded by NRC troops and captured.
  • Dylan Stone is assassinated. The battle against him leaves Taylor wounded.
  • As a result of his injuries, Taylor becomes one of the candidates for Project Prometheus.

Unknown

2065

Unknown

  • By this point, the Military has more advanced augmentations than civilians, turning humans into weapons; Super soldier programs like Project Prometheus involve neural control and involuntary limb, organ, torso and eye replacement, cloaked infantry, etc. Small squads of augmented infantry can slaughter large groups of unaugmented with ease.

October 27th

October 29th

  • The Player and Jacob Hendricks undergo surgery to become Cybernetic Soldiers (but uncertain if Hendricks actually received surgeries). However, the Player dies during the operation. In desperation, Taylor interfaces with the Player's DNI, creating a link between the two. The Player's consciousness somehow lives on inside Taylor's DNI and merge with his memories, forming a virtual world based on Taylor's past experiences, with some differences.
  • The Corvus virus, previously dormant, is awoken inside Taylor's DNI by the Player's agony as they die. It begins to search through Taylor's memories in order to find out how it came to be.
  • Corvus infects Taylor's team as they sync with his DNI.

November 1st

November 3rd

November 4th

November 6th

  • Disillusioned with the Winslow Accord and the CIA due to the Corvus infection taking his friend, John Taylor, and his experiences tracking down Dylan Stone, Hendricks launches an attack on Zürich, Switzerland to kill the Head of the Coalescence Corporation, Sebastian Krueger.[6]
  • The Player's consciousness takes control of Taylor's body after Taylor's "death" inside the simulation, and, with the help of Rachel Kane, infiltrates the Coalescence facility.
  • Nova 6 is found inside the headquarters. Kane is fooled into entering a chamber to stop what appeared to be the potential release of Nova 6 into the city. Kane is killed by exposure to the gas.
  • Jacob Hendricks kills Sebastian Krueger and is subsequently killed by the Player. The Player attempts to commits suicide to stop the Corvus infection from spreading any further.
  • The Player appears inside the Frozen Forest and is confronted by a simulation of Hendricks, who tries to persuade the Player to stop fighting Corvus.
  • When Sebastian Krueger reveals that the creation of Corvus was entirely accidental, he is completely erased by an enraged Corvus.
  • Taylor reveals himself to the Player, having lived on inside the virtual world of the frozen forest as a bug in the system because he resisted Corvus. He prevents the Player from succumbing to the virus, and they team up to destroy Corvus, fighting through the simulated world.
  • Eventually, The Player re-appears in Taylor's body, in the Coalescence headquarters. At Taylor's urging, they purge Corvus out of their DNI system, and both Taylor and Corvus seem to disappear.
  • As the purge is completed, John Taylor regains control of his body, and the Player's consciousness finally dies.

Between 2065 - 2070 (Simulation)

2070 (Simulation)

Day 0

  • John Taylor's team goes dark.
  • Communication is lost with a CIA Black Station in Singapore.
  • The Player and Hendricks are sent to investigate and find the staff's bodies mutilated.

Day 1

  • The Player and Hendricks infiltrate the Bio-Dome Facility, which is run by the 54 Immortals, to gain the data drives information from the CIA Black Station. After confronting enemies, in the process killing one of the 54i leaders, Goh Min, they find the culprit was John Taylor and his team.

Day 2

  • They follow the team's footsteps back to an abandoned Coalescence Corporation facility. A CIA Black Project called SP/CORVUS is discovered.
  • They engage in a battle against the defector Sebastian Diaz, killing him in the process.
  • The facility is attacked by the 54i by orders of Goh Xiulan.

Day 3

  • Against orders, the Player and Hendricks go into the Safe Zone to rescue the LNO Rachel Kane. This proves to be successful.
  • Goh Xiulan is killed by the Player.

Day 4

  • They go to Cairo, Egypt to find answers about SP/CORVUS from one of the survivors of the 2060 Catastrophe, Dr. Yousef Salim.
  • Yousef Salim is kidnapped by the NRC during their attack on an Egyptian Army base in Ramses Station.

Day 5

  • They establish that Dr. Salim is in a area of interest by the name of "Kebechet", and launch attack on the place.
  • They meet resistance by the NRC and more noticeably by one of the defectors, Sarah Hall.
  • After battling against her, the Player scans her DNI for info (killing her in the process) and finds out that Dr. Salim was killed before she entered the battle.

Day 6

  • Operation: Sand Castle is approved, the Player and Hendricks, with support of the Egyptian Army, attack an aquifer in Bawiti.
  • They are successful to assassinate one of the defectors, Peter Maretti.

Day 7

  • The Egyptian Army launches an attack against the NRC in one of their bases, the Lotus Towers, which is also the place where the last defector, John Taylor, is located.
  • One of the generals of the NRC, Abasi Hakim, is killed.
  • Zeyad Khalil is surrounded by NRC troops and imprisoned.
  • John Taylor is assassinated, although Jacob Hendricks is infected with Corvus, turning against his team.
  1. June 19th is the earliest date shown linked to Cordis Die and was the day they staged simultaneous protests in Teheran and Pyongyang. Seen in the cutscene prior to the mission Celerium.
  2. Channel's creation date seen in Black Ops II Villain Trailer
  3. Based off Player's death on October 29, 2065, presuming In Darkness Day 0 started on October 30, 2065, and the Day 2 mission log shown in game (assuming simulation time corresponded to time in reality)
  4. Based off Player's death on October 29, 2065, presuming In Darkness Day 0 started on October 30, 2065, and the Day 5 mission log shown in game (assuming simulation time corresponded to time in reality)
  5. Based off Player's death on October 29, 2065, presuming In Darkness Day 0 started on October 30, 2065, and the Day 6 mission log shown in game (assuming simulation time corresponded to time in reality)
  6. Based off Player's death on October 29, 2065; presuming In Darkness Day 0 occurred on October 30th, 2065; assuming Life also took place on "Day 7"; and assuming simulation time corresponded to time in reality
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