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"The precipice of the space race. It's a golden age of innovation."
Phil Coulson to Daisy Johnson[src]

This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 1950s.

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  • Isaiah Bradley's military team is taken and held in a POW camp. Bradley overhears his superiors suggest blowing the camp up in order to hide the evidence of the experience which Bradley and his men were exposed to.[15][30]

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  • Upset about his superiors' plans to attack the POW camp where his fellow soldiers are being held, Isaiah Bradley breaks out of the facility he is in and rescues the soldiers, bringing them back to friendly territory.[15][30]

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Isodyne Manufacturing2

October 13th, 1952

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  • T'Chaka is born to Azzuri of Wakanda. As Azzuri's first child, he becomes the next in line to be King of Wakanda after his father.[53]

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Peggy 1953-2

Peggy Carter's interview

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  • Katherine and Nick Fury take a ride on a segregated train to Detroit in the car for people of color, which Nick finds uncomfortable. They bring food and enjoy eating it quickly together. Katherine starts a game of "Tell Me Somethin' I Don't Know" and asks Nick to tell her about his friendship with a girl named Suzie. Nick, not wanting Katherine to know that he and Suzie had been examining each other's genitals behind Jackson's barn, lies and claims that he and Suzie had seen a bullfrog with polka dots. Katherine smiles at the lie, which tells her what she wants to know about Suzie.[82][83]

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  • Daniel Sousa boards the train to Los Angeles.[100]
  • Wilfred Malick spends time at his office.[100]
  • Sousa gets on his motorbike and drives off to make his drop.[100]
  • A storm rages over the Hotel Roosevelt. Daniel Sousa rolls up on his motorbike and enters.[100]
  • As Sousa waits for his drop, a HYDRA agent sent by Malick watches from across the room. Sousa gets his signal from the concierge for the drop.[100]
  • It starts to rain in the Hotel Roosevelt pool.[100]

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  • Assassination of Daniel Sousa: Some minutes after his arrival, as the clock strikes 22nd July 9PM Los Angeles time, Daniel Sousa goes and walks through the hotel, and then makes the drop, passing over the case to the concierge, Howard Stark's man. Sousa is then killed by HYDRA.[100]
  • A History of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    The book where Daniel Sousa's story can be found

    Sousa's story begins to be told: Sousa was a noble agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., who risked his life delivering a vital piece of technology to Howard Stark, and died a hero at the hands of what seemed to be the Russians - the first fallen agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., whose story is considered inspiring to other agents. Files are written on the event.[100]
  • Wilfred Malick stays in his office, glad to have Sousa confirmed deceased.[100]

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Bucky on Ice

A file on the Winter Soldier, written by the KGB

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References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  2. 2.0 2.1 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.01: The New Deal
  3. 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 3.41 3.42 3.43 3.44 3.45 3.46 3.47 3.48 3.49 3.50 3.51 3.52 3.53 3.54 3.55 3.56 3.57 3.58 3.59 3.60 3.61 3.62 3.63 3.64 3.65 3.66 3.67 3.68 3.69 3.70 3.71 3.72 3.73 3.74 3.75 3.76 3.77 3.78 3.79 3.80 3.81 3.82 3.83 3.84 3.85 3.86 3.87 3.88 3.89 Sometimes the Marvel Cinematic Universe alludes to events which happened in our world, and it is assumed they happened on the same dates in the universe, for timeline purposes.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Luke Cage: 2.04: I Get Physical
  5. 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 5.28 5.29 5.30 5.31 5.32 5.33 5.34 5.35 5.36 5.37 5.38 5.39 5.40 5.41 5.42 5.43 5.44 5.45 5.46 5.47 5.48 5.49 5.50 Sometimes the Marvel Cinematic Universe alludes to people who existed in our world, and it is assumed they were born on the same day in the universe, for timeline purposes.
  6. Jessica Jones: 3.12: AKA A Lotta Worms
  7. 7.0 7.1 Hawkeye: 1.01: Never Meet Your Heroes
  8. 8.0 8.1 Spider-Man: No Way Home
  9. 9.0 9.1 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  10. In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Mrs. Chen says that Katy Chen's grandfather moved to the United States. Katy says that her mother is American, implying that her grandfather moved before her mother's birth. Mrs. Chen's birth is approximated to June 1955 (see other references). The average age to have a child in 1955 was 28.7 years old, suggesting that Chen's father was born in approximately October 1926. Chen's father would have moved between his eighteenth birthday and his daughter's birth, so the moved can be approximated to February 1950.
  11. Cloak & Dagger: 1.05: Princeton Offense
  12. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  13. Luke Cage: 2.12: Can't Front on Me
  14. 14.0 14.1 14.2 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: 1.02: The Star-Spangled Man
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: 1.05: Truth
  16. In Marvel Studios' The Marvel Cinematic Universe: An Official Timeline, it is stated that the revived Super Soldier Program conducted on Isaiah Bradley occurred in the "late 1940s/early 1950s". It is implied in Star Spangled Man and Truth that the program only really returned in earnest during the Korean War, implying it began c. 1950. Because of this, the earliest restarting of the program has been placed to 1949, but there should ideally be roughly minimal time since it got started again in 1949 if it only properly resumed once the Korean War began (minimal time in apparent slow early redevelopment). So, it can be taken that the program kicked in properly as soon as Truman gave the order to help in Korea on June 27, 1950, so June 28, 1950.
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 Captain Marvel
  18. Nick Fury's S.H.I.E.L.D. ID Badge
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 Hawkeye: 1.04: Partners, Am I Right?
  20. Runaways: 1.06: Metamorphosis
  21. Helstrom: 1.03: The One Who Got Away
  22. Runaways: 1.01: Reunion
  23. 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Hawkeye: 1.02: Hide and Seek
  24. 24.0 24.1 Sharon and Todd Davis' New Jersey Driver's Licences
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 WandaVision: 1.04: We Interrupt This Program
  26. Avengers: Infinity War - Deleted Scene
  27. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 1.02: Superhuman Law
  28. Erik Selvig's release paper - "13/06/1951"
  29. Thor: The Dark World
  30. 30.0 30.1 30.2 30.3 30.4 30.5 In The Star-Spangled Man, Bucky Barnes says that his and Isaiah Bradley's altercation was in 1951. Bradley later says that he was held in prison for "thirty years." In Truth, Bradley explains that during the Korean War, he was given the Super Soldier Serum, that he was the only survivor, and that he rescued his fellow soldiers before being sent imprisoned. Distributing these events evenly does not place the fight between Barnes and Bradley in 1951, so it must be placed independently of the other two, in approximately the middle of the year, July 2, 1951. Bradley and the other soldiers receiving the serum can then be approximated to between that fight and the beginning of the Korean War on June 25, 1950, since it is implied to have happened during the war, so approximately December 28, 1950. Bradley rescuing his fellow soldiers can then be taken to have occurred between the fight between him and Barnes and the end of the Korean War on July 27, 1953, so approximately July 14, 1952.
    In Truth, Bradley mentions that the people who had taken the serum began dying off before he rescued his men, so this can be approximated to the halfway point between receiving the serum and the rescue, so approximately October 6, 1951. Bradley also says in Truth that his superiors were planning to kill his team before he rescued them, and that "one night" after he overheard the plan, Bradley broke out. Bradley overhearing the plan can be approximated to three days prior, so that both Bradley's wording works and so that Bradley isn't waiting long enough that his superiors had already enacted their plan. After describing the rescue, Bradley says, "It wasn't long before it was only me left." Since it is implied that Bradley was imprisoned shortly after he rescued the soldiers, Bradley can be taken to have been sent to prison a week later, with the rest of the serum users dying during that week. His imprisonment can then be taken to have happened on July 21, 1952, and the deaths in the middle of the time between the rescue and his imprisonment, so approximately July 17, 1952.
  31. 31.0 31.1 Luke Cage: 2.05: All Souled Out
  32. Runaways: 2.13: Split Up
  33. Jessica Jones: 2.06: AKA Facetime
  34. 34.0 34.1 Avengers: Endgame
  35. Jessica Jones: 3.03: AKA I Have No Spleen
  36. 36.0 36.1 36.2 Luke Cage: 1.02: Code of the Streets
  37. 37.0 37.1 Luke Cage: 2.01: Soul Brother #1
  38. Luke Cage: 1.06: Suckas Need Bodyguards
  39. 39.0 39.1 Captain America: Civil War
  40. 40.0 40.1 Jessica Jones: 2.02: AKA Freak Accident
  41. WandaVision: 1.09: The Series Finale
  42. 42.0 42.1 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5.01: Orientation Part One
  43. Daredevil: 3.03: No Good Deed
  44. Luke Cage: 1.12: Soliloquy of Chaos
  45. 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  46. 46.0 46.1 46.2 46.3 Jessica Jones: 3.04: AKA Customer Service is Standing By
  47. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  48. Luke Cage: 1.01: Moment of Truth
  49. 49.0 49.1 Black Widow
  50. Isodyne Manufacturing Document
  51. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 1.19: The Only Light in the Darkness
  52. The Punisher: 1.02: Two Dead Men
  53. 53.0 53.1 Based on a weighted calculation from John Kani's age at the time of filming Captain America: Civil War and Black Panther and working back from his scenes, and from Atandwa Kani's age at the time of filming Black Panther and working back from his scenes - reasoned against Sterling K. Brown's age at the time of filming Black Panther and working back from his scenes, considering that T'Chaka is older than N'Jobu. The calculations for these dates and the dates that flashbacks are set are all relative to each other, and can be found in detail here.
  54. 54.0 54.1 Iron Man 2
  55. Runaways: 3.03: Lord of Lies
  56. Runaways: 3.04: Rite of Thunder
  57. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 2.08: The Things We Bury
  58. Luke Cage: 2.11: The Creator
  59. The Wakanda Files: A Technological Exploration of the Avengers and Beyond
  60. 60.0 60.1 60.2 60.3 60.4 Captain Marvel: Higher, Further, Faster.
  61. Daredevil: 2.07: Semper Fidelis
  62. During Carter's interview in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the interview says that the two of them "spoke a great deal yesterday about the SSR, early days of S.H.I.E.L.D.". With this line being said on June 21, 1953, the interviewer would be alluding to something that happened on June 20, 1953.
  63. 63.0 63.1 Hawkeye: 1.03: Echoes
  64. Jessica Jones: 3.11: AKA Hellcat
  65. Luke Cage: 1.03: Who's Gonna Take the Weight?
  66. Avengers: Age of Ultron
  67. Daniel Sousa's S.H.I.E.L.D. ID card
  68. Jessica Jones: 1.01: AKA Ladies Night
  69. Helstrom: 1.04: Containment
  70. 70.0 70.1 Ms. Marvel: 1.02: Crushed
  71. 71.0 71.1 71.2 71.3 Iron Man
  72. In AKA Start at the Beginning, AKA Freak Accident, and AKA Sole Survivor, it is shown that Brian Jones was born in "1954" and died aged "46" in "2000". His date of death is April 13, 2000 (see 2000s references), meaning he was born between January 1, 1954 and April 13, 1954, making his date of birth approximately February 1954.
  73. Jessica Jones: 2.01: AKA Start at the Beginning
  74. 74.0 74.1 Jessica Jones: 2.03: AKA Sole Survivor
  75. Luke Cage: 2.13: They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)
  76. Iron Man 2: Black Widow: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
  77. Thor
  78. 78.0 78.1 Ant-Man and the Wasp
  79. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Is This Not Real Magic
  80. Jessica Jones: 3.02: AKA You're Welcome
  81. WandaVision: 1.05: On a Very Special Episode...
  82. Secret Invasion: 1.02: Promises
  83. In Promises, Nick Fury says that when he and his mother went to Detroit, "we always had to ride in the colored car." Trains in the United States were all integrated by January 10, 1956, suggesting that Fury lying about his friendship with Suzie happened before then. Fury also notes that, at the time of the conversation, "Me and Suzie had a standing game of doctor we'd been playin' behind Old Man Jackson's barn." Playing doctor, children examining each other's genitals, is typical of children ages 3-6. Fury was born on July 4, 1950 (see other references), suggesting that he would have been playing doctor between July 4, 1953 and July 1957. Fury lying to his mother can therefore be approximated to between Fury's third birthday on July 4, 1953 and the integration of trains on January 10, 1956, placing it on October 6, 1954.
  84. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
  85. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 1.06: Just Jen
  86. 86.0 86.1 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 6.02: Window of Opportunity
  87. 87.0 87.1 87.2 87.3 Eternals
  88. 88.0 88.1 Guardians of the Galaxy
  89. 89.0 89.1 In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Yondu says that he was sold into slavery as an infant and then spent 20 years in slavery, before Stakar Ogord freed him. Based on Michael Rooker's age when filming both movies, then working back from when both movies are set and taking an average, Yondu would have been born around January 1955, and so would have been sold around February 15th. 20 years later, he would have been freed around April 2, 1975. This fits with him then spending many years collecting Ego's children from 1975 up to any point between 1979 and 1988, then the final one, Quill, in 1988.
  90. Luke Cage: 2.10: The Main Ingredient
  91. Cloak & Dagger: 1.06: Funhouse Mirrors
  92. Based on Jodi Long's age at the time of filming her scene in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and working back from the scene's setting, Mrs. Chen would be born in approximately June 1955.
  93. Werewolf by Night
  94. Director by Night
  95. Werewolf by Night: The Art of the Special
  96. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 5.12: The Real Deal
  97. 97.0 97.1 97.2 97.3 97.4 97.5 97.6 97.7 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.03: Alien Commies from the Future!
  98. In Alien Commies from the Future!, Biff insists that he had seen a flying saucer the previous night. With this being said in the early hours of July 21, 1955, Biff would have seen the flying saucer in the night of July 19, 1955.
  99. 99.0 99.1 99.2 99.3 99.4 99.5 99.6 In Out of the Past, it is explicitly said to be "July 22nd, 1955", making the events of Alien Commies from the Future! July 21, 1955.
  100. 100.0 100.1 100.2 100.3 100.4 100.5 100.6 100.7 100.8 100.9 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 7.04: Out of the Past
  101. 101.0 101.1 101.2 101.3 101.4 101.5 Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 3.07: Chaos Theory
  102. In Wig Out, it is said that Jackson Dillard was "8 years older" than Mariah. With Mariah's date of birth approximated to December 9, 1963 (see 1960s references), it can be approximated that Jackson was born around December 9, 1955, if not more generally meaning "1963 - 1955 = 8" then any point in 1955, approximating as mid-1985. Putting more weight in the specific December 9, 1955 but considering the possibility of generally 1955, a weighted average gives roughly October 17, 1955 - or, less specifically, October 1955 for Jackson's date of birth.
  103. Luke Cage: 2.03: Wig Out
  104. WandaVision: 1.08: Previously On
  105. 105.0 105.1 WandaVision: 1.01: Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience
  106. The Incredible Hulk
  107. Avengers: Age of Ultron
  108. WandaVision: 1.07: Breaking the Fourth Wall
  109. 109.0 109.1 The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
  110. In AKA Sole Survivor, it is shown that Alisa Jones was born in "1956" and seemingly died aged "44" in "2000". Her apparent date of death is April 13, 2000 (see 2000s references), meaning she was born between January 1, 1956 and April 13, 1956, making her date of birth approximately February 1956.
  111. Based on Dikran Tulaine's age at the time of filming Nakazat, working back from the setting of the episode, Nikolai Poloznev would have been born around June 1956.
  112. Marvel Television Live Auction Lot #503: New York Nine Newspaper Clipping
  113. Luke Cage: 1.13: You Know My Steez
  114. Ant-Man
  115. Cloak & Dagger: 1.02: Suicide Sprints
  116. Daredevil: 3.05: The Perfect Game
  117. Runaways: 2.08: Past Life
  118. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: 1:04: The Whole World Is Watching
  119. In Scar Tissue, on May 2, 2018 (see 2018 references), Frank Castle says Arthur Walsh is "about 60 years old", implying he was born around November 1957. Given that actor Thomas G. Waites was 63 at the time of filming, it can be taken that he is a little older, born around September 1957.
  120. Cloak & Dagger: 2.01: Restless Energy
  121. 121.0 121.1 121.2 The Avengers
  122. 122.0 122.1 Avengers: Infinity War
  123. Runaways: 3.09: The Broken Circle
  124. Helstrom: 1.09: Vessels
  125. The Punisher: 2.02: Fight or Flight
  126. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier: 1.06: One World, One People
  127. Hawkeye: 1.06: So This Is Christmas?
  128. 128.0 128.1 Luke Cage: 1.11: Now You're Mine
  129. Iron Fist: 2.02: The City's Not for Burning
  130. Runaways: 3.05: Enter The Dreamland
  131. Jessica Jones: 3.01: AKA The Perfect Burger
  132. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  133. Cloak & Dagger: 2.08: Two Player
  134. The Punisher: 2.04: Scar Tissue
  135. Cloak & Dagger: 2.02: White Lines
  136. Cloak & Dagger: 2.06: B Sides
  137. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  138. Runaways: 3.06: Merry Meet Again
  139. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: 1.03: The People vs. Emil Blonsky
  140. Luke Cage: 1.07: Manifest
  141. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: 6.06: Inescapable
  142. Runaways: 1.02: Rewind
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