1990s

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Before	1980s
Current	1990s
After	2000s

"Accidents will happen."

―Arnim Zola^[src]

This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 1990s.

1990

March

17th

• In Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent John Garrett steps on an IED bomb. The blast leaves him mortally wounded, but the Cybertek corporation saves his life by fitting him with biomechanical prosthetic body parts, and he becomes the first test subject for HYDRA's Project Deathlok.

23rd

• Francisco Rodriguez is born.

April

25th

• The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into Earth orbit.

May

20th

The Nine Realms

• The Hubble Space Telescope enters service, capturing images of the Nine Realms.

June

17th

• Devil in a Blue Dress is published.

August

2nd

• The Gulf War begins.

1991

February

28th

• The Gulf War comes to an end.

March

8th

• New Jack City is released in the United States of America.

April

1st

• Danny Rand is born.

28th

• Peter Quill is given an M-ship at age 10, and nicknames it the Milano. He quickly learns how to pilot it.

June

3rd

• Tony Stark makes Dum-E in his father's workshop.

September

• Pat Riley becomes head coach of the New York Knicks.

December

16th

• Assassination of Howard and Maria Stark: Howard and Maria Stark are assassinated in Long Island, New York on the road to the Pentagon, by the Winter Soldier, who acts under orders of HYDRA. The assassination is orchestrated to look like a car accident.

Newspaper showing of the Starks' Deaths and Passing

• Obadiah Stane is appointed as interim CEO of Stark Industries.

17th

• The newspapers report on the death of the Starks and how the nation will mourn them.

25th

• Cold War ends with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

1992

January

21st

• The Black Echo is published.

April

6th

• The Bosnian War begins.

July

4th

• Thurgood Marshall receives the Live Bell Award in Philadelphia, giving a famous acceptance speech about how hate and fear were obstacles for true democracy.

September

18th

• Alexander Pierce is present at a Joint Chiefs of Staff meeting.

22nd

• Julie Coulson, mother of Phil Coulson, dies.

1993

• A red fourth generation Chevrolet Corvette is manufactured, later to be stolen by half-brothers Carl Lucas and Willis Stryker.

January

20th

• Bill Clinton becomes President of the United States, succeeding George H. W. Bush. His presidency was influenced by elements of HYDRA.

February

26th

• The World Trade Center bombing occurs in New York City. The New York Bulletin writes an exemplary article covering the event.

May

5th

• Ivan Vanko is imprisoned for fifteen years for selling Soviet-era weapons grade plutonium to Pakistan.

September

• Jack Murdock returns home after a boxing match. He asks his son Matt to help stitch his injuries. Jack allows Matt to have a drink of scotch, to keep a steady hand.

October

Matt Murdock is blinded at age 9.

• Matt Murdock saves an elderly man from being hit by a truck, causing an accident. Hazardous chemicals from a flipped truck splash on his face and as his eyes absorb the chemicals, Murdock is blinded. The last sight he sees is of his father trying to comfort him as he screams that he cannot see.
• Matt Murdock wakes up in a hospital after the accident he was involved in. He discovers that he can hear every sound in the near-by area, causing him pain. His father tries desperately to comfort him. He lets his son touch his face so he can recognize that it is him, which calms him down.

November

9th

• Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan is released, containing the song Bring da Ruckus.

12th

• Carlito's Way is released in the United States of America.

1994

• SLAM Magazine publishes its first issue.

January

• Jack Murdock returns home after a boxing match and finds his son Matt asleep. He wakes him up and allows him to feel his face for his injuries. He then tells Matt to finish his homework.

February

Poster for the "Fight of the Year".

• One day while training at Fogwell's Gym, Jack Murdock is approached by his employer, Roscoe Sweeney. Sweeney tells him that he booked Murdock a match against Carl "Crusher" Creel. However, Sweeney tells Murdock that he has to lose the fight in the fifth round as they were placing bets against him. Slightly disappointed, Murdock agrees to throw the fight.
• Matt Murdock reminds his father that "Murdocks always get back up"; Jack Murdock has a change of heart and decides to fight Creel and win, ensuring that his son would get to witness his father being a winner.
• A few hours before his fight against Carl Creel, Jack Murdock calls Ed and tells him to put all his bets on him and then transfer the money to an account at M&R Credit Union in Matt's name. He also calls his ex-wife and asks her to look after Matt.
• Assassination of Jack Murdock: Jack Murdock wins the match against Carl Creel. After his victory, Murdock takes the time to listen to the crowd chanting his name. Murdock then makes his way back home but is found by his employers, who are unhappy at his betrayal. Murdock is shot and killed. His body is later found by Matt.

March

• With his mother failing to take care of him after his father's death, Matt Murdock is moved to Saint Agnes Orphanage.

April

22nd

• Richard Nixon dies.

May

Stick arrives at Saint Agnes Orphanage

• Still at Saint Agnes Orphanage, Matt Murdock is visited by Stick, an old blind man. Stick is aware of Murdock's heightened other senses and takes him outside for ice-cream. While they sit together, Stick asks Murdock what he can understand about near-by people just by listening to them. Stick then promises to train Murdock to control and master his "gift".

June

24th

• The film The Lion King is released in theatres across the United States of America.

November

15th

• Tical is released by Method Man, containing the song P.L.O. Style.

1995

February

16th

• Stakar Ogord reluctantly banishes Yondu Udonta for child trafficking, which is against the Ravager code.

May

5th

• Bruce Banner meets Betty Ross as undergrad students at Harvard University. They begin dating and volunteer for an experiment involving hallucinogenics.

June

16th

• Fredo Diaz abandons his son, Chico.

July

19th

• Grant Ward's older brother Christian throws their youngest brother Thomas into a well. Grant tries to save his little brother by throwing him a rope. Christian warns him that if he gives him the rope he will be thrown in as well, and walks away. Grant manages to throw him the rope anyway, without Christian noticing.

23rd

• Cassandra, Misty Knight's cousin, is beaten, raped and left to die under a train, by Mike Jones and his friend.

24th

• Natasha Romanoff joins Russia's covert espionage facility. She works there for three years, enduring both an education and indoctrination into the world of spycraft. Romanoff excels in this strict training environment and soon becomes regarded as a master spy and one of the world's greatest assassins. Her ruthless effectiveness earns her the codename, "Black Widow".

August

6th

• Cassandra's body is found after two weeks.

September

• Pat Riley steps down as head coach of the New York Knicks.

October

Murdock is trained by Stick

• Having been trained under Stick for a while, Matt Murdock has become a powerful fighter with almost complete control of his abilities. During one of their training sessions, Murdock gives Stick the wrapper from his ice-cream that he got the day they first met, having made it into a bracelet. Stick crushs it in his hand and tells Murdock that he can no longer train him. Stick then leaves.

November

• Adria, the wife of Kaecilius, dies due to a brain aneurysm.

December

14th

• The Bosnian War comes to an end.

1996

June

6th

Elektra during combat sessions.

• Unknown to Matt Murdock, Stick’s mysterious martial-arts order The Chaste has another child pupil: a young girl with sociopathic tendencies named Elektra. Stick trains her in martial arts and weapons training. Upon learning that Elektra is the latest incarnation of The Black Sky, he is ordered to kill her, but Stick has grown attached to her and they fight their way out of a Chaste base. Stick is forced to abandon the child to keep her safe. He places her with a wealthy adoptive family in Greece.

July

28th

• Misty Knight puts her initials "MK" on the St. Nick basketball court.

October

• Pop is freed from prison.

November

10th

Lucas is trained by Stryker

• After he was beaten in a fight, Carl Lucas is trained by Willis Stryker. He teaches him how to fight reminding him to keep focused on his breathing while he threw his punches.

15th

• The regional fight night is held in Carl Lucas and Willis Stryker's neighborhood.

1997

January

6th

• A boxing championship is held in Carl Lucas and Willis Stryker's neighborhood.

March

• Barron Clairborne takes an iconic photograph of The Notorious B.I.G., later owned by Cornell Stokes.

9th

• The Notorious B.I.G. is murdered.

April

• While trying to cope with the lost of his wife, Kaecilius meets with Karl Mordo, who brings him to Kamar-Taj.
• Mordo introduces Kaecillius to the Ancient One, who promises to help him find answers. Kaecilius joins the Masters of the Mystic Arts and trains under Ancient One's leadership.

May

11th

Lucas and Stryker go on trial

• Carl Lucas and Willis Stryker are arrested for robbing a 1993 Corvette.

July

8th

• The Lion King musical, based on the highly successful 1994 film, makes its debut in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

October

15th

• The Lion King musical premieres on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theater.

November

13th

• The Lion King musical officially opens at Broadway in New York City.

December

19th

• The movie Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is released in the United States of America.

1998

• The 48 Laws of Power is published.

January

27th

• Natasha Romanoff is indirectly found and discovered as a threat to global security. Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D. sends Agent Clint Barton to Russia to eliminate her.

31st

• Clint Barton arrives in Russia and confronts Natasha Romanoff. Rather than kill her as instructed, he instead lets her live and gives her a chance to join S.H.I.E.L.D. Romanoff accepts, and devotes the rest of her life to working for S.H.I.E.L.D.

1999

March

John Garrett meets a young Grant Ward

13th

• John Garrett meets a young Grant Ward, who is being held in a juvenile detention facility in Massachusetts for burning down his family's home, seeing his potential, Garrett recruits him into HYDRA. He trains Ward by leaving him to fend for himself in the Wyoming wilderness for five years.

July

• Jessica Jones, her parents, Brian Jones and Alisa Jones, and her brother, Phillip Jones go on vacation. Unfortunately, her father gets distracted, due to a fight between Jessica and Phillip over a video game, causing their car to crash with a truck that is carrying a container of chemicals. The Jones' family die in the crash, leaving Jessica as the only survivor.

September

Jessica Jones speaks to her adoptive sister, Trish Walker

• After awakening from her coma, Jones is adopted by a talent agent, Dorothy Walker, as a publicity stunt to promote her daughter Patsy's television show.

October

• Jones finds out that Dorothy Walker hits her daughter, Trish Walker. Jones reveals her powers to Trish and promises her that she will protect her from her mother.

December

31st

Maya Hansen and Tony Stark

• Bern 2000: Tony Stark goes to a New Year's Eve party in Bern, Switzerland, where he first meets Maya Hansen and Ho Yinsen. Disabled scientist Aldrich Killian approaches Stark to request investment in his think tank, Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.). Stark tells Killian they will meet on the building's roof to discuss the matter further, but he never keeps this promise, choosing to spend the night with Hansen instead. In her hotel room, Hansen introduces Stark to her own project: the Extremis virus.