TIMELINE

 The secret chronology of the Planetary: Elseworld universe.
This section is updated whenever the field team discovers new information.

 

 

1000 BC		A meteorite falls in central Africa. Its radiation will slowly grant super-intelligence to the local humans and gorillas.
500		The evolved gorillas make contact with the evolved humans and together they found Wakanda.
1000		The evolved gorillas split over the decision of using genetic engineering to anthropomorphize them. A group secedes from Wakanda and goes west.
1800	January 1st	Kenneth Robb, Lord Whitestack, is born to an English noble family. A few days later, a mutiny aboard the ship they were traveling on maroons the Robb family on the west coast of Africa. Kenneth's parents eventually die and he is raised by the splinter group of the evolved gorillas.
1823		Obed Curry discovers the sea god-worshiping natives of the Tuamotu Archipelago and starts trading with them.
1838		The sea god-worshiping natives of the Tuamotu Archipelago are wiped out by their neighbors.
1840		Lord Whitestack finds Wakanda.
		Obed Curry contacts the Deep Ones of Y’ha-nthlei.
1846		Obed Curry completely controls Happy Harbor. The hybrid program starts.
1880		Alan Walker founds the Daily Sentinel in Gotham City.
1900	January 1st	Elijah Snow is born in the southern United States.
1914		Bruce Wayne is born in Gotham City.
1915		The Watchers try to assassinate Elijah Snow and fail. In the process, they kill his family and alert him to their existence.
1918		An alien ship, carrying the Orphan, crashes in the Hudson farm, in Kansas.
1922	May 8th	Thomas and Martha Wayne, Bruce's parents, are murdered.
	May 11th	Elijah Snow adopts Bruce Wayne and begins training him.
	June 17th	The Hudsons are murdered and the Orphan is taken captive by the Watchers.
1925		Elijah Snow publishes the first Planetary Guide.
1930		Elijah Snow publishes the second Planetary Guide.
1931	April	First appearance of The Whisperer.
1932	January	An alien police officer and his ship crash off the norteastern cost of Japan, creating Night Island and the electromagnetic anomaly.
	February	First monster sighted near Night Island.
	March	Japan initiates Project Yorushima.
1935		Elijah Snow finds Wakanda and meets Lord Whitestack. Snow publishes the third Planetary Guide.
1938	August	Elijah Snow and Bruce Wayne free the Orphan.
1940		Elijah Snow publishes the fourth Planetary Guide.
1941		Arthur Curry, the first true Deep One/human hybrid, is born in Happy Harbor.
	December	The American super-soldier serum test is derailed when the chief scientist and the subject are murdered by the Watchers.
1942	November 13th	Project Yorushima is terminated by influence of the Watchers.
1945	June	The Watchers are finally vanquished by Elijah Snow and Bruce Wayne. Snow publishes the fifth Planetary Guide.
1949	November 29th	Margot Lester dies in the explosion that destroys Lawrence Carter's mansion.
	November 30th	Final confrontation between The Whisperer and Lo Pan.
	December 1st	Last recorded appearance of The Whisperer.
1950		Elijah Snow publishes the sixth Planetary Guide.
1952		Lex Luthor is born in Metropolis.
1959		Wakanda is destroyed by a mysterious group of posthumans that steal its advanced technology.
1967	May	Uri Ben-Drav finds the Samsonian bracelets.
	November	Ben-Drav disappears after thwarting a PLO nuclear attack on Israel.
1971	April	A comet passes by Earth orbit and changes several people into posthumans.
1972		Lex Luthor acquires a copy of the 1940 Planetary Guide.
1978	January	11-year old Paulo Doherty and his cousin, Luciana, start altering reality in their grandmother’s farm.
1983	February	Paulo Doherty opens a hole to the Bleed, releasing the Coisa, an extradimensional being who possesses Luciana, kills everybody at the farm and puts Paulo in a coma.
1985		The Miracle War: The superhuman angle of the Cold War turns red hot as a shiftship is found in Antarctica. The superpowers move to get a piece of the action and their C.A.T.s clash. As the conflict escalates, the US and Britain's posthuman development programs come to light. Drs. Kriegstein and Gargunza unleash their respective posthuman armies and the secret conflict almost spills over into Third World War before a truce is declared.
1986		The countries involved in the Miracle War sign the SPB Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Security Council approves the creation of the UN Special Crisis Intervention Team, StormWatch, with Henry Bendix as the Weatherman.
1993		Skywatch, StormWatch's orbital base, is concluded.
1997		The Changers strike and are defeated. Jackson King becomes the new Weatherman. Mohammed Al-Fayad, aka Neutrino, resigns from StormWatch.
2001	August 8th	Erik Wurfel, John Gaia and Mohammed Al-Fayad become Planetary's field team. Lair of The Whisperer.
	August 19th	Unbound.
	September 12th	Night Island. John Gaia leaves the field team.
2002	January 5th	Nigel W. Farmer joins the field team. The Boy from Red Sparrow Farm.
	January 7th	From Barovia, With Love. Erik Wurfel goes on leave to accompany his sister's recovery. Pedro Magalhães replaces him in the field team.
	April 15th	Gorillas in My Mind.
	June 28th	The Shadow over Happy Harbor. Vassily Kasparov is promoted to the field team to cover Al-Fayad's vacation.
	July 5th	Point of No Return.
	July 12th	Masquerade.
	July 15th	Endgame.

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