Universe 1 Timeline

c. 2,000,000 BCE

• By this point in time, the people of Krypton have conquered disease and perfected cloning, making them effectively immortal.

98,000-97.000 BCE

• The Kryptonian Clone Wars occur.

1881

• Jonathan Kent is born to Hiram and Edith Kent.

1883

• Kal-El is born on Krypton.
• As Krypton enters the final phase of its destruction, the Kryptonian colonization fleet is launched. Only twelve of the 144,000 stasis matrices escape the cataclysm, whereupon they begin their voyage to Earth.

1884

• The Daily Planet is founded in Metropolis.

1888

• Martha Clark is born to Henry and Willa Clark.

1889

• Perry White is born.
• Alexei "Lex" Luthor is born to Leon & Liliya Luthor.

1902

• Lex Luthor takes a large insurance policy out on his parents without their knowledge. Shortly thereafter, he causes a fire in their apartment which claims their lives. He uses the insurance payouts to kickstart his future.

1915

• Bruce Wayne is born to Thomas and Martha Wayne.

1916

• Pete Ross is born.
• Nine Kryptonian stasis matrices arrive on Earth.
• Kal-El's matrix lands in Smallville, Kansas, USA, where it is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent. Retrieving the infant from his pod, the Kents decide to pass him off as their own son, naming him Clark Joseph Kent.
• Mala-Ur's matrix crashes into a Luthor Incorporated munitions factory, where it is found by Luthor's people. Retrieving the infant from her pod, they take her into captivity for further study, codenaming her "Subject One".
• Dru-Zod's matrix lands in rural Pokolistan. It evades discovery, the infant remaining in hibernation.
• Lana Lang is born to Lewis and Sarah Lang.
• Lois Lane is born to Sam and Etta Lane.

1917

• Selina Kyle is born.

1921

• Enrolled in Smallville School, Kal-El befriends classmates Lana Lang, Pete Ross, and Kenny Braverman.

1924

• Kal-El develops invulnerability.
• Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered by Joe Chill. Witness to their killing, their son, Bruce, vows to become a crimefighter in their memory.

1925

• Kal-El develops super strength.

1927

• Kal-El develops super speed.

1928

• Richard "Dick" Grayson is born to John and Mary Grayson.

1930

• Kal-El develops x-ray vision.

1932

• Kal-El develops super leaping.

1933

• Kal-El first encounters Mala-Ur and Lex Luthor.

1933-1937

• Forced to leave Kansas to find work as the Great Depression worsens, Kal-El travels west towards California. Bearing witness to the gross social injustice besieging the nation, exposed to anarchist and Marxist writings, he embraces anarcho-communism.

1937-1938

• Kal-El serves as an ambulance driver with the Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War.

1938

• Jonathan Kent dies.
• Kal-El is seriously wounded when a shell hits the ambulance he is driving. He survives, but with impaired vision and partial paralysis, ending his time in the Spanish Civil War.
• Kal returns to Smallville. After he recovers from his injuries, he decides to move east, settling in Metropolis, Delaware.
• Kal becomes Superman.
• Dru-Zod's stasis matrix is finally discovered by farmers. Retrieving the infant from his pod, they hand him over to Soviet authorities, who name him Avruskin.

1939

• Bruce Wayne becomes Batman.
• Kal-El encounters Lex Luthor for the first time in his Superman identity.
• Harvey Dent is elected district attorney of Gotham.
• Batman first encounters Doctor Death.

1940

• Batman first encounters Hugo Strange.
• Batman builds the first Batmobile.
• Jack "Red Hood" Napier becomes the Joker.
• Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face.
• Batman encounters the Mad Monk.
• John and Mary Grayson are murdered by Tony Zucco. Adopting Dick Grayson as his ward, Bruce Wayne reveals his double identity to him and begins training him as his sidekick.
• Selina Kyle becomes Catwoman.

1941

• Following America's entry into World War II, Kal-El is assigned as war correspondant for the Daily Planet. In the week before he's shipped out, he reveals his double identity to his girlfriend, Lois Lane, and proposes marriage. She accepts, and they are wed the night before his departure.

1941-1945

• Kal-El aids the Allies in Europe and the Pacific.

1942

• Sentenced to death, Jack Napier is executed by electric chair.
• Lex Luthor's correspondence with Nazi and Soviet scientists is disclosed to the US government. Disgraced, facing charges of treason, Luthor is forced into hiding.
• Luthor constructs a mechanical warsuit. Powered by green kryptonite, the warsuit enables him to walk and engage Superman in physical combat.

1944

• Kara-Re is born to Kala-Re and In-Ze on Wegthor.

1945

• Bruce Wayne and Kal-El team up to battle Heinrich Melch, a kryptonite-enhanced Nazi super-soldier.

1946

• Dick Grayson becomes Robin.

1947

• Due to improper shielding, Lex Luthor has contracted radiation poisoning from the green kryptonite which powers his warsuit. His cancer malignant and untreatable, Luthor fully commits himself to defeating his hated enemy, the Man of Steel. Constructing an android simulacrum powered by black kryptonite, Luthor sets it against Kal-El. During the course of the battle, the Lexdroid self-destructs, bathing Kal in black K radiation, permanently splitting him into two separate individuals: an amoral Superman and a spineless Clark Kent.

1947-1961

• Formally renouncing anarchism, Superman ingratiates himself to the US government. He eventually becomes their pawn, participating in the Korean & Vietnam Wars on their behalf.

1948

• Martha Kent dies.

1950

• Clark Kent and Lois Lane divorce.

1953

• Clark Kent and Lana Lang are married.
• Dru-Zod becomes the Red Son.

1954

• Karen Kent is born to Clark and Lana Kent.

1955

• Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle are married. Shortly thereafter, Selina turns herself in to the police and serves time for her crimes as Catwoman.
• Dru-Zod learns of his Kryptonian heritage. Discarding his Terran name, he vows to seize control of the Soviet Union and transform Earth into a new Krypton.

1956

• Bruce Wayne retires as Batman. Dick Grayson takes up the role in his stead.
• Joker II makes his debut.
• Katherine "Kathy" Kane becomes Batwoman.

1957

• Helena Wayne is born to Bruce and Selina Wayne.

1958

• Superman first encounters BrainIAC.
• Superman is transported to Universe 29, an inverted analogue of Universe 1 inhabited by silicon-based humanoids. There he encounters his "bizarre" counterpart and blue kryptonite, which has the effect of augmenting his powers.
• Returning from Universe 29, Superman synthesizes blue kryptonite in the Fortress of Solitude and begins habitually bathing in its radiations. The blue K has a cumulative effect, enhancing his existing abilities and granting him additional ones with each exposure.

1959

• Having had his brain transferred to an android body powered by green kryptonite, Lex Luthor re-emerges as "John Corben", director of the Department of Extranormal Operations (DEO).
• Superman visits the Rao system. On Wegthor, in the city of Argo, he finds Kara-Re, the planet's last survivor. Releasing her from stasis, he brings her back with him to Earth.

1961

• After three years of constant exposure to blue kryptonite radiation, Superman's cells are dangerously close to degenerating. The blue K having bestowed him a vast repertoire of godlike abilities, he decides he needs no more power and removes the crystal from the Fortress of Solitude, tossing it into the sun.
• After a brief, bloodless war with the world's military might, Superman seizes command of the world's governments. Declaring himself High Councilor of Earth, he centralizes control under an authoritarian socialist Regime enforced by his Superman robots and deputized superheroes.

1962

• Kara-Re becomes Supergirl.
• The "Superman Revenge Squad", led by Lex Luthor and Bruce Wayne, orchestrate a plan to assassinate Superman. The plan fails spectacularly. Wayne and most of the co-conspirators die in the scuffle, leaving only Luthor against the Man of Steel. He opens his chest plate, exposing Superman to his kryptonite heart. Superman plucks the kryptonite out and eats it, demonstrating his immunity to green K. Before Luthor can perish, Superman teleports him to STAR Labs, where he is equipped with a new power source before being taken into police custody.

1964

• Joker II is captured and "rehabilitated" by the Regime.
• Kathy Kane retires as Batwoman.

1965

• Bruce Grayson is born to Dick Grayson and Kathy Kane.

1966

• Helena Wayne learns of her father's past as the first Batman.
• Pamela Isley becomes Poison Ivy.

1971

• Having grown bored and listless in his role as High Councilor, Superman decides to leave Earth, seeking to find new and greater challenges amongst the stars. After transferring all power to Kara-Re, he departs.
• Jason Todd is born to Joe and Trina Todd.
• Dick Grayson first encounters Ra's al Ghul.

1971-1985

• Kara-Re dissolves the Regime, granting the municipalities of Earth their autonomy. Some embrace libertarian socialism, others revert to capitalism.

1973

• Carrie Kelley is born.

1976

• Selina Wayne dies.
• Karen Kent becomes Power Girl.

1977

• Bruce Grayson becomes Robin.
• Helena Wayne becomes the Huntress.
• The Huntress joins the JLA.

1979

• Kara-Re frees the Kandorians from their pocket universe, resettling them on an unihabited terrestrial planet orbiting a red giant. They name their new home "Rokyn".

1983

• Jason Todd is adopted by Dick Grayson.
• Kara-Re becomes Superwoman.

1984

• Bruce Grayson becomes Nightwing.

1985

• Clark Kent and Superman are merged back together. The reconstituted Kal-El is significantly depowered, though not to his pre-blue K levels.
• Kara-Re dies in the Crisis.

1986

• Lex Luthor founds LexCoop, an aerospace engineering worker cooperative.
• Carrie Kelley becomes Batgirl.
• Lana Kent dies.
• In his final battle with Ra's al Ghul, Dick Grayson is rejuvenated by a Lazarus pit.
• Dick Grayson and Talia al Ghul are married.
• Joker III makes his debut.

1987

• Holly Robinson becomes Catwoman.
• Jason Todd becomes Robin.
• Damien Grayson is born to Dick and Talia Grayson.

1988

• Joker III cripples Carrie Kelley.
• Joker III kills Jason Todd.

1989

• Carrie Kelley becomes Oracle.

1992

• Jean-Paul Valley becomes Dick Grayson's protege.

1993

• Lois Lane dies.
• Kal-El and BrainIAC "die" when they are combined into Kal-IAC.
• John Henry Irons becomes Steel.
• Kon-El is born, becomes Superboy.
• Karen Kent becomes Superwoman.
• Lex Luthor becomes Superman.
• Bane cripples Dick Grayson.
• Jean-Paul Valley becomes Batman.

1994

• Jean-Paul Valley is defeated by Dick Grayson.
• Dick Grayson retires as Batman.

1996

• Magog kills Joker III.

Forms of Kryptonite

Kryptonite is a crystalline compound formed from the radioactive elements which constituted the core of Kal-El's native planet, Krypton. Existing in many forms with many colours, kryptonite has varied effects on Kryptonian and Terran lifeforms alike.

GREEN KRYPTONITE

EFFECTS ON KRYPTONIANS

Causes debilitating pain, weakness, reduction of powers, and eventually death.

EFFECTS ON HUMANS

Prolonged exposure causes cellular damage.

EFFECTS ON BIZARRO-KRYPTONIANS

Permanently amplifies/augments powers and temporarily immunizes them to most other forms of kryptonite.

ABUNDANCE

The only known form of naturally occurring kryptonite, the molten remains of Krypton and the debris field surrounding it are believed to be wholly composed of green K. Only one (formerly three) fragments of appreciable size are present on Earth — formerly in the possession of Luthor Incorporated, now in the hands of parties unknown.

RED KRYPTONITE

EFFECTS ON KRYPTONIANS

Suppresses powers for 48-72 hours.

EFFECTS ON HUMANS

Prolonged/intense exposure in combination with various external catalysts causes mutations resulting in superhuman abilities.

EFFECTS ON BIZARRO-KRYPTONIANS

Fatally overloads them with power.

ABUNDANCE

The end product of Lex Luthor's failed attempt at synthesizing green K, almost a hundred bricks of red K were produced during the 1930s & '40s, making it the most common form of the compound on Earth.

BLUE KRYPTONITE

EFFECTS ON BIZARRO-KRYPTONIANS

Causes debilitating pain, weakness, reduction of powers, and eventually death.

EFFECTS ON KRYPTONIANS

Permanently amplifies/augments powers and temporarily immunizes them to most other forms of kryptonite.

EFFECTS ON HUMANS

Prolonged exposure heals cellular damage.

ABUNDANCE

Naturally occurring in Universe 29, the only example of blue K found in Universe 1 was a large synthetic crystal Superman had kept in his Fortress of Solitude before having it destroyed.

BLACK KRYPTONITE

EFFECTS ON KRYPTONIANS

Splits them into two separate beings, one "good" and one "evil".

EFFECTS ON HUMANS

None known.

EFFECTS ON BIZARRO-KRYPTONIANS

None known.

ABUNDANCE

The only fragment of black K was created by Lex Luthor and used to fuel the Lexdroid, an android simulacrum Luthor built to physically combat Superman. The chunk was destroyed after Luthor remotely triggered the Lexdroid's self-destruct, bathing the Man of Tomorrow in concentrated black K radiation.

Kryptonians

Due to convergent evolution, Kryptonians were near-exact genetic duplicates of Terran humans. Owing to the greater age of their race, Kryptonians were further along the evolutionary path; they lacked the body hair and toenails of their Terran cousins, and their physiques were more robust, with a powerful immune system and healing factor enabling an average lifespan exceeding 200 years. They also possessed charcoal skin tones, an adaptation enabling them to withstand the ultraviolet radiation of their red dwarf sun.

Kryptonian society was completely egalitarian. With rare exception, sons were born into the houses of their fathers, daughters into the houses of their mothers. Though a sexual race, Kryptonians relied on artificial "birthing matrices" to reproduce; natural gestation/birth was considered an inefficient primitive practice and was almost unheard of by the time of their demise.

Genetically bound to their planet, the population of Krypton could not relocate en masse to Earth in the face of their world's destruction. Instead, they created 144,000 genetically modified embryoes, tailored to enhance their resemblance to Terrans and grant them abilities which would make them living gods on Earth. Of these 144,000 "new" Kryptonians, only a handful survived to make it to their new colony and grow to maturity. Among them was Kal-El, biological son of Jor-El, scientist, and Lara-Van, librarian.

Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk

1980

Jenn following her mutation into the Sensational She-Hulk.

1982

Jenn during her tenure on the Avengers.

1984

Jenn during her tenure on the Fantastic Four.

1987

Jenn following her tenure on the Fantastic Four.

1991

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1998

Jenn during her tenure on the Heroes for Hire.

2003

...

2007

Jenn during her brief tenure on SHIELD, shortly before she was permanently depowered by Tony Stark.

Star Wars Reconstructed Timeline

25,783 BBY

• The Jedi Order is established.

18,053 BBY

• The Galactic Republic is established.

7000-6900 BBY

• The Hundred-Year Darkness occurs.

5000-4990 BBY

• The Great Hyperspace War occurs.

4990-4989 BBY

• The Sith Holocaust occurs.

3997-3992 BBY

• The Krath Holy Crusade occurs.

3992-3990 BBY

• The Great Sith War occurs.

3900 BBY

• Alderaan is colonized by the Naboo, Human settlers from Grizmallt.

1076-1060 BBY

• The Mandalorian Wars occur.

1059-1056 BBY

• The Jedi-Sith War occurs.

1058 BBY

• Dessel Bane is born to Hurst Bane and his wife on Apatros.

1056-1050 BBY

• The Sith Civil War occurs.

1050-1042 BBY

• A task force led by the Jedi master Skere Kaan is dispatched to vanquish the remnants of the New Sith Empire. In the process, Kaan and his Jedi fall to the dark side, creating the Brotherhood of Darkness.

1042-1032 BBY

• The Light and Darkness War occurs.

1035 BBY

• Dessel Bane joins the Brotherhood of Darkness.

1032-1000 BBY

• Seeking to preserve the Sith legacy following the Battle of Ruusan, Dessel Bane searches the galaxy for Sith artifacts and lore. His hunt takes him to Prakith, final resting place of the unorthodox Sith Lord Andeddu, where he acquires the Holocron of Heresies. Consulting the holocron, influenced by Andeddu's philosophy, Bane creates the Rule of Two, limiting the Sith to two members at a time, one master and one apprentice, to spare his order from the infighting which destroyed the New Sith.

1010 BBY

• Zannah is born on Somov Rit.

1000 BBY

• The Ruusan Reformation occurs.
• Zannah begins her Sith training under Dessel Bane.

990 BBY

• Zannah becomes disillusioned with the Rule of Two, finding it too restrictive. Now at odds with Dessel Bane, she leaves him, fleeing to Serreno.
• Hetton, an aged Serrenian nobleman and Sith aficionado, begins his Sith training under Zannah.
• The Iktotchi bounty hunter, the Huntress, begins her Sith training under Bane.

990-980 BBY

• Believing himself too old and weakened from the ravages of the dark side to complete the Huntress' training in the time he has left, Bane dissects the Holocron of Heresies for methods to stave off death. From it he extracts the knowledge of transferring his essence into another being.

980 BBY

• Dessel Bane and the Huntress confront Zannah and Hetton. In the ensuing fight, Hetton is slain and Bane's body disintegrates as he attempts transferring his essence into Zannah's body. The transfer initially appears a failure, with Zannah retaining full awareness and control of her body. In the months to come, his personality gradually emerges, displacing hers.

980-850 BBY

• The Huntress becomes Dessel Bane's host.
• Grown disdainful of Sith tradition, motivated by pure egoism, Bane deems himself to have surpassed the Sith and abandons the Rule of Two for the Rule of One, committing apostacy.

896 BBY

• Yoda is born.

700 BBY

• Gardulla Besadii the Elder is born on Nal Hutta.

600 BBY

• Jabba Desilijic Tiure is born to Zorba Desilijic Tiure on Nal Hutta.

200 BBY

• Chewbacca is born to Attichitcuk and his mate on Kashyyyk.

189 BBY

• Hego Damask is born to Caar Damask and one of his wives on Mygeeto.

150-121 BBY

• The Gungan-Naboo War occurs.

140 BBY

• Sheev Palpatine is born to Cosinga Palpatine and his wife.

131 BBY

• Jorus C'baoth is born on Bortas.

123 BBY

• Sheev Palpatine begins his dark side training under Bane/Damask.

109 BBY

• C-3PO is activated on Affa.

109-107 BBY

• Jorus C'baoth attends the Jedi training centre on Kamparas.

105 BBY

• Jorus C'baoth completes his Jedi training.

93 BBY

• Jorus C'baoth assumes the title of Jedi master.

92 BBY

• Qui-Gon Jinn is born on Serreno.

91 BBY

• Aika Lars is born.

90 BBY

• Sheev Palpatine becomes Dessel Bane's host.

87 BBY

• Cliegg Whitesun is born to Lef and Gredda Whitesun on Ator.

85 BBY

• Aika Lars and her parents are captured by pirates and sold into slavery.
• Jorus C'baoth conceives the Outbound Flight Project, a massive expedition of 50,000 colonists into the Unknown Regions and eventually beyond the Galactic Rim to the Rishi Maze.

83 BBY

• Outbound Flight departs Yaga Minor.

82 BBY

• Acquiring cloning technology from Spaarti Creations, Bane/Palpatine discontinues the difficult and risky procedure of transferring his essence into hapless protégés, choosing now to use mindless clone bodies as hosts for his spirit.

79 BBY

• Qui-Gon Jinn begins training under Yoda.

77 BBY

• Shmi Warka is born.

64 BBY

• Asajj Ventress is born on Rattatak.

61 BBY

• The Axis of Spaarti, commanding an army of clone soldiers, secedes from the Republic.

60 BBY

• Ben Lars (Obi-Wan Kenobi) is born to Aika Lars on C-Faroon.

58 BBY

• Siri Tachi is born.

57 BBY

• Gardulla transfers ownership of Aika and Ben Lars to Cliegg Whitesun.
• Owen Lars is born to Aika Lars and Cliegg Whitesun on Taris.

55 BBY

• Anakin and Beru Skywalker are born on Tatooine.

54 BBY

• Bail Prestor Organa is born on Alderaan.

53 BBY

• Nellith Arkady is born to Tan and Zara Arkady on Townowi.
• Ahsoka Tano is born to Nak-Il and Pav-Ti Tano on Shili.

52 BBY

• Gial Ackbar is born on Dac.
• Anakin and Beru Skywalker are orphaned.

51 BBY

• Yoda frees the Larses from slavery, relocating Aika and Owen Lars to Tatooine while Ben Lars accompanies him to Coruscant to begin his Jedi training.

50 BBY

• Ahsoka Tano begins her Jedi training under Plo Koon.

48 BBY

• Mon Mothma is born on Chandrila.

47 BBY

• Darth Vader is born to Chlorian Vader and Shmi Warka on Jakku.
• Asajj Ventress begins her Jedi training under Ky Narec.

47-37 BBY

• Ky Narec is slain in battle. Consumed by rage and loss, Asajj Ventress leaves Rattatak. She eventually meets Qui-Gon Jinn, who becomes her new master.

45 BBY

• The Mandalorian Death Watch stages a coup on Mandalore, overthrowing the pacifist New Mandalorian government.

43 BBY

• Yoda is expelled from the Jedi Order.
• Qui-Gon Jinn replaces Yoda as Ben Lars' Jedi master.

40 BBY

• Several hundred systems sign the Treaty of Concordance with the Axis of Spaarti.
• The events of Star Wars: Episode I occur.

37 BBY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode II occur.

35 BBY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode III occur.
• Anakin Skywalker and Nellith Arkady are married.

32 BBY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode IV occur.

29 BBY

• Han Solo is born on Corellia.

24-22 BBY

• The Rise of the New Order occurs.

22-1 BBY

• The Great Jedi Purge occurs.

19 BBY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode V – The Rise of Darth Vader occur.

18 BBY

• Leia and Luke Skywalker are born to Nellith Skywalker.

17 BBY

• Mara Jade is born.

16 BBY

• Nellith Skywalker dies on Alderaan.

3 BBY

• Ahsoka Tano is slain in a duel with Darth Vader on Malachor.

2 BBY

• The Galactic Civil War begins.

0 BBY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode VI – A New Hope occur.

3 ABY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode VII – The Empire Strikes Back occur.

4 ABY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode VIII – Return of the Jedi occur.

9 ABY

• Jacen and Jaina Solo are born to Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo on Coruscant.

11 ABY

• Anakin Solo is born to Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo on Coruscant.

19 ABY

• The Galactic Civil War ends.

25-29 ABY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode IX occur.
• The events of Star Wars: Episode X occur.
• The events of Star Wars: Episode XI occur.

27 ABY

• Ben Skywalker is born to Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade Skywalker.

35 ABY

• The events of Star Wars: Episode XII occur.