This is a Timeline of events as depicted or mentioned in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Event Chronology
Before 20th Century
20th Century
21st Century
Live-Action Media Chronology
20th Century
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Agent Carter
- Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
21st Century
- Iron Man
- Iron Man 2
- The Incredible Hulk
- Thor
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- The Avengers
- Iron Man 3
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Thor: The Dark World
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)
Full Chronology
Before 20th Century
- Thor: The Dark World (prologue)
- Thor (prologue)
- Thor, The Mighty Avenger
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season three)
- Purpose in the Machine (flashbacks)
20th Century
- Agent Carter
- Agent Carter (season two)
- Smoke & Mirrors (1920 flashbacks)
- Agent Carter (season two)
- Captain America: First Vengeance (flashbacks)
- Agent Carter
- Agent Carter (season two)
- Smoke & Mirrors (1928 flashbacks)
- Agent Carter (season two)
- Captain America: First Vengeance (flashbacks)
- Agent Carter
- Agent Carter (season two)
- Smoke & Mirrors (1934 flashbacks)
- Agent Carter (season one)
- The Iron Ceiling (1937 flashbacks)
- Agent Carter (season two)
- Smoke & Mirrors (1940 flashbacks)
- Agent Carter (season two)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier (1942 flashback)
- Captain America: The First Avenger
- Captain America: First Vengeance (concurrent events)
- Captain America & Thor: Avengers! (concurrent events)
- Agent Carter
- Agent Carter (season one)
- Snafu (flashbacks)
- A Sin to Err (flashbacks)
- Agent Carter (season one)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)
- The Things We Bury (HYDRA Fortress flashbacks)
- Shadows (flashbacks)
- The Things We Bury (The Rat flashbacks)
- Captain America: Evil Lurks Everywhere
- Agent Carter (season one)
- Agent Carter (season two)
- Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
- Nick Fury: Spies Like Us
- Daredevil (season one)
- Shadows in the Glass (flashbacks)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season three)
- Paradise Lost (flashbacks)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)
- Aftershocks (1983 flashbacks)
- Ant-Man: Larger Than Life
- Ant-Man Prelude
- Ant-Man (1987 flashback)
- Guardians of the Galaxy (1988 prologue)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)
- The Things We Bury (1989 flashbacks)
- Ant-Man (1989 prologue)
- Daredevil (season one)
- Cut Man (mid-1990s flashbacks)
- Into the Ring (mid-1990s flashbacks)
- Cut Man (mid-1990s flashbacks)
- Into the Ring (mid-1990s flashbacks)
- Cut Man (mid-1990s flashbacks)
- Stick (mid-1990s flashbacks)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Ragtag (1999 flashback)
- Iron Man 3 (New Years Eve, 1999 prologue)
21st Century
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Ragtag (2004 flashback)
- Daredevil (season one)
- Nelson v. Murdock (flashbacks)
- Daredevil (season two)
- Kinbaku (flashbacks)
- Daredevil (season one)
- Nelson v. Murdock (flashbacks)
- The Incredible Hulk: The Big Picture
- The Incredible Hulk: The Fury Files (concurrent events)
- Daredevil (season one)
- In the Blood (2007 prologue)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)
- Melinda (2008 flashbacks)
- The Writing on the Wall (flashbacks)
- Iron Man: Fast Friends, Volume 1
- Iron Man
- Iron Man: Security Measures (concurrent events)
- Iron Man: Fast Friends, Volume 2 (concurrent events)
- Iron Man 2: Nick Fury: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Iron Man 2: Phil Coulson: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Iron Man 2: Fist of Iron
- Iron Man 2: Public Identity
- Iron Man 2: Security Breach
- Iron Man: Will Online Evils Prevail?
- Iron Man 2: Black Widow: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- "Big Week" (concurrent events)
- The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week
- Iron Man 2
- The Incredible Hulk
- Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer
- Thor
- Iron Man 3 Prelude (prologue)
- Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant
- Thor: The Dark World Prelude (prologue)
- Captain America: The First Avenger (prologue & epilogue)
- The Avengers: The Avengers Initiative
- The Avengers: Iron Man Mark VII
- Ant-Man - Scott Lang: Small Time
- The Avengers: Black Widow Strikes
- The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week, Volume 8
- The Avengers
- Iron Man 3 Prelude (concurrent events)
- Thor: The Dark World Prelude (concurrent events)
- Marvel One-Shot: Item 47
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- The Magical Place (flashback)
- Iron Man 3 Prelude (epilogue)
- Iron Man: The Coming of the Melter
- Thor: The Dark World Prelude (epilogue)
- Iron Man 3
- Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Thor: The Dark World
- Thor: Crown of Fools (concurrent events)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Prequel Infinite Comic
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier Infinite Comic
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Chase
- Captain America: Homecoming
- Avengers: Age of Ultron Prelude - This Scepter'd Isle
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)
- One Door Closes (flashbacks)
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season one)
- Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude
- Guardians of the Galaxy: Galaxy's Most Wanted
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season two)
- WHiH Newsfront
- July 2, 2015
- July 7, 2015
- WHiH Exclusive: Scott Langs break-in
- WIRED Insider: Darren Cross
- July 16, 2015
- Ant-Man
- Captain America: Road to War