Master Timeline

9 November 1990 - X-Factor reconvenes to celebrate a massive breakthrough in their investigation. They have uncovered a mountain of incriminating evidence they intend to present to federal authorities in a ready-made RICO case that will form the basis of a petition to the Supreme Court to strike down the MRA.

8 November 1990 - The X-Men arrive in Hassenstadt, Latveria and find an old access to the abandoned undercity through which they infiltrate the lower levels of Castle Doom. They are confronted by the Winter Guard, an elite strike team in the Soviet Union, and whose leader, Mikhail Rasputin, is a high-ranking servant of Nathaniel Essex/Lord Sinister. Against all odds, the X-Men avoid certain death against superior adversaries and escape the castle before an overloaded Mikhail Rasputin loses control of his energy manipulating powers and destroys the castle in a singularity implosion.

6 November 1990 - Hank convinces Professor X to sanction a covert mission to Latveria so the X-Men could infiltrate the secret lab beneath Castle Doom and retrieve the last portion of Prime Sentinel nanotech research he needs in order to create countermeasures. Meanwhile X-Factor initiates an investigation into the Hellfire Club's inner workings in order to find evidence that will incriminate them with the authorities.

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3 November 1990 - When Kennedy does not return home by curfew, Professor X mobilizes the X-Men to rescue her from the Hellfire Gala, as she had attended against his counsel. After sneaking and fighting their way to the Inner Circle, they are confronted by Jace and learn of his treachery as Shinobi Shaw. Kurt distinguishes himself by rescuing first Kennedy and then the rest of the team. Kennedy ends her relationship with Shinobi to his chagrin. Emma played both ends against the middle and left the Hellfire Mansion rather than fight. Later that day, Jace/Shinobi activated Mother Mold, the Prime Sentinel creator who assimilates humans and mutants alike into murderous automatons with Mara as the biological operating system due to her technopathic powers.

2 November 1990 - The Inner Circle throws a lavish Hellfire Gala to which Kennedy was invited. Jace is with Emma the White Queen while Kennedy immediately receives the attention of Wynegarde the Black King. Escorted to the Inner Circle's chamber, Kennedy learns along with the rest of the Inner Circle that Jace's birth name is Shinobi Shaw and that he has reclaimed Sebastian Shaw's entire estate. He asserts his right to rule, declares himself Lord Imperial, and has Kennedy placed under mind control.

1 November 1990 - Professor Xavier invites Meja to the X-Mansion. She meets the team and is welcomed to join.

31 October 1990 - Xavier's school hosted a Halloween festival which was open to the community, featuring a haunted house, bonfire, and movie screenings. Students showed off their hard work, while Professor Xavier introduced Kurt Wagner, a recent arrival from Germany as a new faculty member. Tensions surfaced as Bobby and Kennedy clashed publicly, leading Bobby to abruptly leave. Despite the conflict, students bonded over s’mores and stories around the bonfire.

30 October 1990 - Aurora is visited by a malevolent presence in her dreams, sowing seeds of mistrust against the X-Men. X-Factor follows a lead on Wanda's whereabouts in the form of her ex-boyfriend, Kurt Wagner. The team goes to Winzeldorf in Germany to question him. After sharing his mission to find Wanda and seeing X-Factor's sincere desire to help, Kurt agrees to leave the monastery and come to America in order to work together.

29 October 1990 - Beast performs an experiment on himself, against the secret recommendations of Moira, to enhance his cognitive function and reverse his amnesia. The desperate act almost paid off, allowing him to recall his time in a secret lab in Latveria, although he faced temperamental side effects.

21 October 1990 - An organized freedom march on Washington, D.C. commences with the X-Men participating while Professor X and Jean await at the Washington Monument for a speech and Scott runs covert interference in the crowd. At the halfway point, they are confronted by Freedom Force, a government-sponsored mutant team who obstruct entry into the Capitol by order of the National Security Council. The X-Men are undeterred by Captain America, who seems to be the Freedom Force leader, and a battle ensues. Freedom Force is defeated with the leader revealed as Mystique who impersonated Captain America. Just when Cyclops breaks cover and unveils Mystique, a Prime Sentinel attack commences. Cyclops engages Omega Sentinel to prevent him from harming anyone else while the X-Men get the protesters to safety. The Human Torch and the Thing from the Fantastic Four show up to assist and cover the mutant retreat, ending in a Nova Flame by Human Torch which incinerated the Prime Sentinels and destroyed the bridge. The X-Men limped back to the X-Mansion in the Blackbird.

13 October 1990 - After weeks of emotional distance, Bliss and Connor formally break up.

12 October 1990 - Xavier's students went to the Beat Street Club for a charity project and extra credit. They met Ty and Tandy, the leaders of the Fallen Angels, and meet Meilin who was a Fallen Angel years ago. The charity work is interrupted by a Sentinel attack that destroyed several city blocks. Most of the people were evacuated to safety, but a vigilante hero calling himself Spider-Man was killed when surrounded by Sentinels. Meanwhile X-Factor plus Mara infiltrated the Alchemax Tower in Manhattan in following up a lead. They were attacked by Omega Sentinel, a new model who turned out to be none other than Warren Worthington III, assimilated by Prime Sentinel technology to become the vanguard of the new model. Bobby was critically wounded in the battle but Omega Sentinel absconded with Mara at the remote order of someone named Shaw.

11 October 1990 - Jace and Emma attend court as Hogarth secures a victory in restoring the family fortune against the final assets held by Roxxon, who was represented by Hodge first year attorney Meilin Jiang.

10 October 1990 - Changes occur at the X-Mansion as Jace leaves to reclaim his stolen family fortune, Connor accepts the role of new team leader, Mara is introduced as a new faculty member, and Jean invites the students to help in a charity project for the Fallen Angels, a group of disadvantaged orphan mutants in Harlem who were formerly watched over by Telford Porter. Professor X consults with Aurora, Scott, and Jean to reveal family connections they all have with Nathaniel Essex going back generations, including a potential distant relation between Aurora and Jean.

6 October 1990 - On behalf of X-Factor, Scott and Jean host a summit regarding the pending Mutant Registration Act in response to the Brotherhood's recent actions as well as the assassination of Robert Kelly. attendance are Charles Xavier and Henry McCoy, Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four/Future Foundation, Maestro and Quicksilver of the Brotherhood/Asteroid M, Callisto of the Morlocks, Jessica Jones of Alias Investigations, and Matt Murdock from Nelson & Murdock, Attorneys At Law. Maestro is belligerent and leaves, but Quicksilver not only stays but defects from the Brotherhood to join X-Factor.

1 October 1990 - Jace's attorney Hogarth takes him to Manhattan and introduces him to his benefactor, Emma Frost. She discloses the plan to have him reacquire his late father's lost estate. X-Factor is formally created by Scott and Jean, headquartered in the Baxter Building.

EPISODE 5: "DAYS OF FORTUNE PAST" begins

23 September 1990 - Professor X asks Connor to consider replacing Cameron as team leader. Connor refuses but pledges to consider it. Magneto and Quicksilver have a falling out on Asteroid M.

20 September 1990 - Scott serves annulment papers to Aurora after a reunion of the First Class (minus Angel, Polaris, and Havok). Plans for X-Factor begin.

19 September 1990 - Belasco infiltrated the Citadel and opened Limbo portals along the way where demons were allowed to invade the Savage Land. The X-Men fought their way inside the Citadel and found Zaladane and Belasco having a confrontation. Lorna was strapped to an ancient device which used her power to manipulate the primary portal. Bobby arrived first and challenged Belasco, though he only managed to slow him down. Zaladane destroyed the machine which sent Belasco back to Limbo but dragged Lorna with him. The geomagnetic disturbances ceased, which restored Magneto to full power who summarily executed Zaladane. He raised the Citadel into orbit and annexed it to Asteroid M. The X-Men were brought to Asteroid M along with it but quickly kicked off due to disagreeable personalities. Scott's marriage to Aurora is annulled and they take up residence at the Baxter Building.

8 September 1990 - The United Tribes launch an assault against the Temple of the Sun in order to undermine Zaladane's claim as empress. After destroying the statue of Garokk at the Temple of the Sun, the essence of Belasco, Ruler of Limbo, was released.

6 September 1990 - Ka-Zar leads one team of X-Men to rescue Bliss who has secured an alliance with the Aerian tribe while in captivity. Connor learns he is immune to Zaladane's energy blasts. Shanna and Zabu led the other team of X-Men to Skull Mountain where they witnessed Magneto use his last reserves of strength to annihilate a besieging army. The remaining United Tribes rally at Skull Mountain.

1 September 1990 - The X-Men split up in the Savage Land, with one group being led by Ka-Zar to rescue Bliss from the Swamp Men while Shanna and Zabu lead the other group to Skull Mountain where Magneto awaits any survivors of the battle. Bliss is interrogated by Zaladane's forces and given over to the Swamp Men.

31 August 1990 - The Brotherhood transport ferrying the X-Men crashes in the Savage Land, interrupting a battle between Zaladane's army of Sun People and Swamp Men who had besieged a village of the Fall People and one of the last bastions of the United Tribes. The X-Men join the battle with Ka-Zar, Zabu, and Shanna the She-Devil after a weakened Magneto flees to his former stronghold of Skull Mountain. Although ultimately successful in routing the superior numbers, Bliss is captured in battle.

30 August 1990 - Magneto comes to the X-Mansion in a semi-depowered state asking for assistance. The source of the geomagnetic disturbances is the Savage Land within Antarctica. Someone has reactivated his former Citadel there and is using a weapon he had devised to bring the world to its knees. His gradual loss of power is a side effect. He has requested the X-Men's aid in bringing it down because he does not wish to appear weak before the Brotherhood or the denizens of Asteroid M. Professor Xavier agrees to send the X-Men with him in exchange for handing Rev. William Stryker over to human authorities. Scott Summers tracks down the Telford "The Vanisher" Porter through the aid of Jessica Jones of Alias Investigations and secures his help in getting to the island of Krakoa. When the X-Men arrive at McMurdo Station on the edge of Antarctica, they encounter a Savage Land Mutate who had slain most of the researchers there. They activate the satellite array to push through the radiation in the area, allowing the Brotherhood transport ship to enter the heart of the Savage Land, but not before a powered-up Zaladane appears and warns them to turn back.

29 August 1990 - Senator Robert Kelly is assassinated on live television. Geomagnetic storms cause a global satellite failure, leading everyone to believe the Brotherhood was responsible for the assassination as well.

26 August 1990 - The junior students return from Muir Island while Sean Cassidy offers Cameron a classified opportunity to join an operation to bring down his former commanding officer. Cameron accepts and leaves the X-Men.

25 August 1990 - Attorney Jeryn Hogarth arrives at the X-Mansion and gives Jace private news of a secret inheritance for his biological father he never knew. Maeve MacKenna arrives at the X-Mansion seeking Sanctuary from a Sentinel attack.

EPISODE 4: "THE SAVAGE CONNEXION" begins

24 August 1990 - After a day of planning, training, and recentering, the X-Men launch their attack on Stryker's new location only to discover that the Purifiers had taken Niagara Falls under siege. Stryker's plan is to connect a device to the massive draw of the power station in order to connect Professor Xavier's mind to it and broadcast a death pulse to all mutants within range of the nascent mobile network and potentially beyond. The Phoenix Academy mutates, Ethan/Gryphon's former team, are on hand to halt the X-Men's progress, but they are defeated. Stryker attempts to flee and prepares to turn himself in to law enforcement when Maestro and Quicksilver of the Brotherhood abduct him in order to prosecute him in the Court of Avalon on Asteroid M in the name of mutant justice. The X-Men nearly overcome the Brotherhood, but Magneto's intervention halts them and Stryker is taken.

22 August 1990 - The covert mission at the Purifier compound goes awry when Stryker forces Xavier to surrender himself with a mutant control collar on threat of an already collared Hank McCoy being forced to unalive himself. The rest of the infiltrators scatter back to the Mansion. Meanwhile, the Mansion is under attack by an all-out Purifier assault with the mercenary Juggernaut at the front of the attack. The X-Men are victorious after a pitched battle, then regroup in a plan to take the fight to Stryker and rescue Xavier, McCoy, and any others. Cyclops goes to Xavier's attorney and discovers that he has an inheritance from the X-Corporation. He has a vision of Jean Grey trapped on an island, then uses his newfound financial resources to discover if there is any truth to the revelation or whether he is having a psychotic breakdown.

21 August 1990 - Scott and Aurora elope in the middle of the night after the battle. They return to the Mansion and confess all to Xavier. With no other recourse, Professor Xavier is forced to send Scott away. Feelings are mixed and raw at his leaving. Kennedy Kelly, daughter of Senator Robert Kelly, arrives at the Mansion due to the political need for her parents to keep her mutant status a secret. The Professor plans a covert mission to acquire incriminating evidence against Stryker and his Purifiers.

20 August 1990 - The public debate between Professor Xavier and Reverend Stryker at the JFK Library in Boston is interrupted by an attack by a mutant. The X-Men foil it only for Purifiers disguised as event security personnel to begin an assault. Professor Xavier is evacuated while the X-Men subdue the attackers.

19 August 1990 - Professor Xavier leaves for Boston on the same evening that Bobby and Jade return from Muir Island; Scott gets drunk in the wine cellar after seeing Bobby which triggered feelings of guilt over Jean and Aurora; Jade confronts Scott; Aurora consoles Scott; Bobby throws himself a welcome back party; Bobby and Ethan find adventure in Albany, NY before Bobby's PTSD is triggered and prematurely ends the evening

17 August 1990 - Professor Xavier commends the Alternate Class for their teamwork and issues them all personalized uniforms; the newly minted X-Men are informed that Professor Xavier has accepted a debate challenge from a notorious anti-mutant televangelist named William Stryker; Scott and Bliss have a private dispute where each outs the other for romantic entanglements with Aurora and Connor respectively

14-16 August 1990 - The Alternate Class comes together closer in many ways; Cyclops and Enigma begin an affair; Professor Xavier receives a challenge to a public debate

13 August 1990 - After a successful team drill, the party at the Mansion is interrupted by a breaking news report about an anti-mutant protest in Baltimore, MD regarding a mutant being detained for his own safety in a police precinct; despite Xavier's absence, the Alternate Class decides to mobilize a rescue operation; Magneto interrupted the anti-mutant protest by dropping the battleship USS MISSOURI onto the streets of Baltimore after levitating it in from the Atlantic Ocean; the Alternate Class retreated while securing the safe escape of detained mutant, Armando Muñoz; Xavier returns from his brief stay at Muir Island with Escapade in tow who had recovered from her fugue state

EPISODE 3: X-TRA ECCLESIAM begins

12 August 1990 - Cyclops and the Alternate Class plan team drills and a party to boost morale after the bittersweet events of the past week

11 August 1990 - Xavier decides to bring Escapade, Iceman, and Myfanwy to Muir Island for rest and rehabilitation; Bloodhound and Dustdevil remain on Muir Island to assist Moira

6 August 1990 - The Alternate Class attempts a rescue mission to retrieve the captive mutants from the Department H black site facility; they are confronted by Alpha Flight until Magneto interrupts and initiates total warfare in order to rescue Maestro and recruit mutant captives to the Brotherhood; X-Men affiliated mutants retreat to the Blackbird and fight off Deadpool and Weapon X from Alpha Flight before making good their escape; Aurora Windsor, Jace Adams, and Bobby Drake are among the rescued mutants

5 August 1990 - Fable stumbles across Hoodwink who had fallen into another dimension through unknown means; Hoodwink is brought back to the X-Mansion

4 August 1990 - Cyclops and Myfanwy get abducted; Escapade pulverizes Maggia and goes into a fugue state; Leadfoot abandons team for parts unknown; Dustdevil gets arrested by Secret Service for kidnapping Margo Stone, a senator's daughter; Dustdevil gets released, meets Ethan Hale, and brings him to the Mansion on the Professor's invitation; Ethan receives the codename Gryphon

2 August 1990 - X-Men mobilize to expose mutant trafficking after Special Agent Fred Duncan provides classified evidence of mutant abductions, namely a video of the prior abduction of Jace Adams; around this time, Maestro and Jace Adams are taken to a black site and get put in a death arena with a Wendigo after a failed breakout attempt

EPISODE 2: NORTHERN X-POSURE begins

21 July 1990 - Levi Rousseau arrives at X-Mansion

21 July 1990 - Iris Walker declared M-I-A.

7 July 1990 - Bliss Hawkins arrives at X-Mansion

6 July 1990 - Tammy Thompson arrives at X-Mansion

2 July 1990 - Alternate Class battles Brotherhood at X-Mansion due to broken parley; Cyclops is suspended as Team Leader

22 June 1990 - Connor Bruin arrives at X-Mansion

21 June 1990 - First Class team disappears without a trace

EPISODE 1: X-ODUS begins

2 June 1990 - Iris Walker arrives at X-Mansion

15 March 1990 - Cameron Hood arrives at X-Mansion

1990 January - First Class responds to distress call for Morlocks and clash with mysterious Marauders; Morlocks are decimated in massacre

1989 October - David Haller, illegitimate son of Charles Xavier, detains First Class on Muir Island with his vast powers and schizophrenia before disappearing into parts unknown

1989 August - The First Class apprehend Sunfire, son of the Japanese UN ambassador, in his attack against Washington, D.C., which adds support to a renewal of the Mutant Registration Act

1989 July - Cameron Hood joins Operation Yellowbird

1989 June - X-Mansion’s Quist technology is upgraded with Siris technology

1988 April-June - Factor Three abducts Xavier; First Class rescues him and exposes the Mutant Master as a Siris, an alien from the planet Yoplat

1987 March-May - Asteroid M revealed to the world when Savage Land Mutates conduct campaign of terror against known Brotherhood members; X-Men go to the Savage Land and rescue the human researchers from their Mutate captors

1986 November - Mutant Registration Act vetoed by US President

1986 September - Public debate between Sentinel creator Bolivar Trask and Charles Xavier leads to them being kidnapped and taken to Sentinel hidden fortress. First Class rescues Xavier while Trask destroys Alpha Sentinel/Master Mold

1986 October - Jean Grey and Scott Summers are rescued by fellow First Class when abducted by Morlocks in the NYC sewers

1986 August - Lorna Dane arrives at X-Mansion

1986 July - Mesmero hatches plot to abduct mutant teenagers; First Class and Brotherhood fight Mesmero; Wideawake exposed as financier; Mutant Response Division formed as a result

1986 January - Sentinels overrun San Marco with heavy collateral damage; Magneto activates nuclear device and flees; First Class disarms bomb

November 1985 - South American nation San Marco overthrown by Magneto. Wideawake resumes Sentinel production.

1985 October - First Class apprehends the Vanisher

1985 June - First Class battles the New York Maggia and loses their first Stratojet; Count Nefaria brought to justice

1985 June - Patrick Manco joins the Brotherhood of Mutants

1985 May - First Class apprehends Unus the Untouchable

1985 March - Magneto attacks Shaw Industries to sabotage Sentinel production. Sebastian Shaw defends his facility. Brotherhood suffers casualties. Magneto kills Shaw and claims his helmet. Brotherhood and Hellfire Club becomes adversarial.

1985 March - Blob goes berserk at a circus with Scott and Alex Summers; Alex arrives at the X-Mansion

1985 February - Clash between First Class and Brotherhood interrupted by Sentinel intervention

1984 - Juggernaut arrives in NY and clashes with First Class at X-Mansion

1984 - First Class thwarts Magneto’s attempted takeover of Cape Citadel missile base in Florida

1982 - Warren Worthington III arrives at X-Mansion

1981 - Bobby Drake arrives at X-Mansion

1981 - Hank McCoy arrives at X-Mansion

1981 - Jean Grey arrives at X-Mansion

1981 - Scott Summers rescued from mob on a train by Xavier and brought to X-Mansion

1981 - Jean Grey’s telepathy awakens; she shares her friend’s death experience

1980 - Shaw Industries is awarded Wideawake contract to begin production of first generation Sentinels

1980 - Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters is founded

1980 - The Brotherhood of Mutants is founded

1979 - Erik Lensherr is expelled from Savage Land and leaves researchers for dead

1978 - Charles Xavier prevents the Quist alien invasion but is crippled by Quist Agent One, Lucifer; Quist technology recovered

1976 - Erik Lensherr travels to Savage Land with research team and creates Mutates

1975 - Connor Bruin is sent to Muir Island for education and development

1974 - Scott and Alex Summers are separated after plane crash

1973 - Maeve MacKenna is born

1973 - Kennedy Kelly is born

1972 - Canada’s Department H initiates classified Weapon X program

1972 - Elias Buckley is born

1972 - Tammy Thompson is born

1972 - Lorna Dane is born

1971 - Juggernaut breaks free from jungle ruins, begins crime spree across Eurasia

1971 - Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr (as “Magnus”) meet at a Holocaust survivor’s clinic in Haifa, Israel, where both are recovering from their adventures and become friends before their debate leads to irreconcilable differences of opinion

1971 - Connor Bruin is born

1971 - Bobby Drake is born

1971 - Alex Summers is born

1971 - Charles Xavier defeats Amahl Farouk who was revealed as Shadow King in Astral Plane

1970 - Patrick Manco is born

1970 - National Security Council initiates illegal covert commission codenamed Project: Wideawake

1969 - Scott Summers is born

1969 - Jean Grey is born

1968 - Hank McCoy is born

1968 - Warren Worthington III is born

1964 - Mutant Research Center founded on Muir Island

1963 - Charles Xavier and Moira MacTaggert begin researching mutants

1962 - Charles Xavier returns to USA

1959 - Cain Mark obtains Crimson Gem of Cyttorak and becomes the Juggernaut

1958 - Charles Xavier & Cain Marko shipped out to Vietnam

1945 - Moira MacTaggert is born

1944 - Erik Lensherr is sent to Auschwitz

1940 - Charles Xavier is born

1935 - Erik Lensherr is born

EPISODE 0: X LANG SYNE begins