Timeline

Pre-1930s
Date unknown: Union of the "Wisemen's Committee". Foundation of a group called "The Philosophers".

1860s:

(Exact Date Unknown): The End is born

1909:

August 12th: Major Zero born.

1914:

July 28th: Beginning of the First World War.

1917:

November 7th: October Revolution occurs in Russia. Bolsheviks seize power as the Russian Provisional Government is overthrown. The Russian Civil War begins.

1918:

November 11th: End of the First World War.

1920s

Date unknown: The Boss is born.

1922:

October 25th: Russian Civil War ends with a Bolshevik victory. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is born.

The 1930s
1930s

Date unknown: The last member of The Philosopher's Wisemen's Committee dies.

Date unknown: Jack is born.

1933:

January 30th: Adolf Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany. Nazi Germany is born.

1936:

May 15th: EVA is born.

June 22nd: Para-Medic is born.

1939:

August: Albert Einstein writes a letter to the 26th American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and requests the construction of the first atomic bomb.

September 1st: Nazi Germany invades Poland. England and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins.

November 11th: SIGINT is born.

November 30th: The Soviet army tries to invade Finland, beginning the Winter War.

The 1940s
1941:

June 22nd: Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union.

July: The Special Air Service of the British army is formed. Their motto, "Who Dares, Wins."

December 7th: The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks Pearl Harbor. The United States declares war on Japan and Germany.

1942:

August: The Manhattan Project begins. Otacon's grandfather is assigned to work on the project.

August 21st: The German besiege the city of Stalingrad.

December 2nd: Physicist Enrico Fermi splits an atom in a nuclear reactor for the very first time.

Date unknown: The Boss sets up the Cobra Unit.

1943:

February 2nd: The Battle of Stalingrad ends with a Soviet victory.

1944:

June 6th (D-Day): The Allied Forces dispatch the Cobra Unit into Normandy. The Boss gives birth to Ocelot, The Sorrow is the father. The baby is eventually taken by The Philosophers.

1945:

April 30th: The Red Army advances on Berlin. Adolf Hitler commits suicide.

May 8th: Berlin falls to the Red Army. Germany surrenders; the Nazi party is abolished.

July 16th: The first nuclear test, code-named "Trinity", is conducted.

August 6th: Hiroshima is bombed. Otacon's father is born.

August 9th: Nagasaki is bombed.

August 15th: Japan surrenders. World War II ends; the Cold War begins.

September 2nd: Vietnam declares independence.

1946:

February 14th: ENIAC, the world's first computer, is unveiled.

1947:

September: The Central Intelligence Agency is created.

October 14th: Pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X1.

Date unknown: The Boss disbands the Cobra Unit.

1949:

April 4th: NATO is formed.

May: Germany is split up in East and West.

August: The USSR tests their first nuclear bomb in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, and becomes the world's second nuclear force.

October 1st: The Chinese Civil War ends in a Communist victory. The People's Republic of China is formed.

The 1950s
1950:

June 25th: Beginning of the Korean War.

Date unknown: Jack becomes a student of The Boss.

1951:

November 1st: The "Operation: Buster-Jangle (Dog)" nuclear test is conducted in Area 7 in Nevada, with army troops cooperating. The Boss is exposed to high level of radiation.

1952:

June: The NSA is formed.

Date unknown: Invention of the hydrogen bomb.

1953:

April 25th: Watson and Crick discover the double helix structure of DNA.

June 27th: End of the Korean War.

September 7th: Nikita Khrushchev becomes the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1954:

January: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces the New Look policy (the so-called "massive retaliation strategy").

January 21st: The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, is launched.

March 1st: The hydrogen bomb is tested in Bikini Atoll. Jack is rendered sterile after involvement in the testing.

March 13th: The KGB (Committee for State Security) is formed.

March 13th until May 7th: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

1955:

April 18th: Albert Einstein dies, begging for the end of nuclear weapons.

1957:

August: The Soviet Union successfully launches the first intercontinental ballistic missile.

October 4th: USSR launches Sputnik I.

1958:

February 1st: America launches its first satellite, the Explorer I.

July 29th: NASA is established. Work doesn't begin until October 1st.

1959:

January 1st: The Cuban Revolution.

October 6th: The Luna 3 takes pictures of the dark side of the moon.

Date unknown: The Boss abandons Jack on a mission without any explanation.

The 1960s
1960:

May: The National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam is established.

May 1st: A Lockheed U-2 aircraft enters Soviet airspace. It is shot down and crashes near Sverdlovsk.

Date unknown: The Boss becomes the first unofficial person in space.

Date unknown: Two NSA cryptanalysts, ADAM and EVA, defect to the Soviet Union.

1961:

January 20th: John Fitzgerald Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the United States.

February: America conducts the first tests with the Minutemen ICBMs.

April 12th: The Vostok 1 is launched into space, making Yuri Gagarin the first human to officially travel into space.

April 15th until April 19th: The Bay of Pigs Invasion.

May 5th: Alan Shepard becomes the first American astronaut.

August 13th: The construction of the Berlin Wall is started.

September 21st: The American 5th Special Forces Group, the "Green Berets", is activated.

Date unknown: President Kennedy falls into disfavor with The Philosophers.

1962:

January: SEAL team 1 is commissioned in the Pacific fleet and SEAL team 2 is commissioned in the Atlantic fleet.

February 20th: The Mercury Atlas 6 (Friendship 7) is launched, sending John Glenn into space. This is the first time an American travels in space.

October 14th until November 20th: The Cuban Missile Crisis.

December 14th: The Mariner 2 approaches Venus and starts scanning the planet, revealing it has cool clouds and an extremely hot surface.

Date unknown: The Boss has a mission at Tselinoyarsk, being ordered to kill The Sorrow, her former lover.

Date unknown: The United States begins production of the Davy Crockett nuclear missiles.

Date unknown: The SS-1C "Scud B" missiles, designed by Aleksandr Leonovitch Granin, are deployed.

1963:

February: The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Hotline Agreement; a direct telephone connection is set up between the American and Soviet leaders.

August 5th: The United Status, Great Britain and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT) in the Kremlin.

November 22nd: President Kennedy’s assassination. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President of the United States.

1964:

July 2nd: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.

August 2nd: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

August 24th: Virtuous Mission. Jack is assigned the codename Naked Snake and infiltrates Tselinoyarsk to rescue Nikolai Stephanovich Sokolov. Snake and Ocelot meet for the first time. Sokolov divulges the existence of the Shagohod, a nuclear-equipped super-tank, to Snake. The Boss defects to the Soviet Union, kidnapping Sokolov and severely injuring Snake. Colonel Volgin fires a Davy Crockett into the OKB-754 research facility. Snake is extracted and placed in an Intensive Care Unit. The Virtuous Mission is a failure.

August 30th: Operation Snake Eater. Naked Snake infiltrates Tselinoyarsk once again to rescue Sokolov, destroy the Shagohod, eliminate the Cobra Unit, Colonel Volgin and The Boss, and retrieve the Philosophers' Legacy. He meets up with EVA who has infiltrated Volgin's ranks, and she offers to help him out.

September 2nd: Operation Snake Eater is a success. The Shagohod has been destroyed; the members of the Cobra Unit are dead. Colonel Volgin is fried by a bolt of lightning, and Naked Snake assassinates The Boss. EVA then betrays Snake by stealing the Philosophers' Legacy, and taking it back to China who she had secretly been working for all along.

September: Naked Snake earns the title "Big Boss", but would leave FOX shortly thereafter and become a mercenary for hire.

Date unknown: The Philosophers' Legacy that EVA had stolen turns out to be a fake. The real legacy was safely returned to the CIA in the hands of Ocelot, who was ADAM, the real agent who had infiltrated Volgin's ranks all along.

September 21st: The first test flight of the XB-70, a heavy bombing airplane which can fly at Mach 3 speeds.

October 12th: Three cosmonauts are sent into space aboard the Voshod 1.

October 15th: Premier Khrushchev leaves his position. Leonid Brezhnev becomes Party First Secretary.

October 16th: China successfully concludes its first tests of nuclear weaponry.

1965:

Date unknown: SIGINT joins ARPA. He takes part in the development of ARPAnet, which would go online in 1969.

1966:

Date unknown: The US government conducts a study on emergency medical treatment. The Department of Transportation lays the groundwork for the creation of the EMT system.

Date unknown: Big Boss encounters Frank Jaeger in Mozambique.

1968:

Date unknown: EVA disappears in Hanoi without a trace.

1969:

January 20th: Richard Nixon begins his term of office as the 37th American President.

The 1970s
1970:

Date unknown: Para-medic establishes the nation's first paramedic system in Seattle, Washington.

Date unknown: Major Zero disbands the FOX unit with Big Boss.

Date unknown: Members of the FOX unit, headed by Gene, start a revolt and taken over a base in South America known as La Peninsula de los Muertos where a new type of weapon based on the Shagohod is being developed. Big Boss has been charged with leading the revolt, despite the fact he had defected from the unit several years before hand.

Date unknown: Big Boss is captured by members of FOX and meets Roy Campbell for the first time. Together, the pair set out to take out the FOX unit. Beginning of the San Hieronymo Incident which continues on to the end of the year.

Date unknown: Big Boss recruits old Vietnam comrade Python from FOX. Big Boss encounters Frank Jaeger, now a member of FOX, again in battle and recruits him. Big Boss and Roy Campbell meet Elisa for the first time, and they discover the plans for a new weapon: Metal Gear

Date unknown: The San Hieronymo Incident ends. Big Boss successfully destroys Metal Gear, with the help of Sokolov who came out of hiding. The FOX unit has been wiped out. Gene, leader of FOX, kills Elisa. Elisa sees that Big Boss' sons will "bring the world to ruin", and "save the world". Big Boss proceeds to kill Gene, who gives him the funds he had amassed for "Army's Heaven"

Date unknown: The United States receives the missing half of The Philosopher's Legacy thanks to Ocelot. The American branch of The Philosophers changes their name to The Patriots.

1971:

Date unknown: Big Boss officially establishes the FOXHOUND unit.

1972:

June 17th: Beginning of the Watergate Scandal.

Date unknown: The Les Enfants Terribles project. Solid Snake, Liquid Snake, and Solidus Snake are born.

1974:

August 9: President Richard Nixon resigns.

1975:

Date unknown: Big Boss breaks Frank Jaeger out of a Vietnamese Prison Camp, and officially adopts him.

1979:

December 27th: New Cold War begins with Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.

The 1980s
1980s:

Mid '80s: Frank Jaeger adopts a young girl after murdering her parents (Naomi). Big Boss escorts them both to the US with the last name "Hunter."

Date unknown: Big Boss battles in various African civil wars and becomes a hero.

Date unknown: (Late '80s): Solidus Snake kills Raiden's parents and recruits him for the Liberian Civil War. He becomes an outstanding child soldier, earning nick-names like “White Devil” and “Jack the Ripper”.

1986:

April: The Chernobyl accident showers the Romanenko family with radiation. Nastasha Romanenko vows the world to be free from nuclear weapons.

1987:

Date unknown: Meryl Silverburgh is born.

1988:

Date unknown: During the Winter Olympics, Frank Jaeger (under the alias "Frank Hunter") failed in an attempt to elope with Czech figure skater Gustava Heffner.

The 1990s
1990:

Date unknown: After losing her parents, Nastasha Romanenko moves to the USA.

Date unknown: Liquid Snake, working for the SAS at the time, is sent into the Gulf War to destroy mobile SCUD missile launchers. During the mission he becomes a prison of war and is declared missing in action.

Date unknown: Big Boss’ adopted son, Frank Jaeger, joins FOXHOUND, under the command of his adoptive father. Jaeger is awarded with the title of "Fox," the highest ranking in FOXHOUND.

1991:

January 17th until February 27th: The Gulf War. The American army injects their troops with a "Fight Gene", obtained when studying Big Boss. The side effects of these injections are disguised as "Gulf War Syndrome".

1992:

Date unknown: Nastasha Romanenko joins the DIA, where she meets Richard Ames, her future husband.

1994:

Date unknown: After years in captivity, Liquid Snake is freed by the US government, and returns to the United States.

1995:

Date unknown: Solid Snake joins FOXHOUND, unaware that he is a clone of the squadron's commander, Big Boss.

Date unknown: Operation: Intrude N312. The United States brokers FOXHOUND to infiltrate Outer Heaven. Big Boss, the commander of FOXHOUND and, secretly, Outer Heaven as well, sends in his most trusted soldier and adopted son, Gray Fox, to Outer Heaven as a military gesture. Gray Fox is supposedly captured by Outer Heaven forces, and FOXHOUND is forced to send in Solid Snake, a rookie agent. Snake rescues Gray Fox, defeats Big Boss, and destroys Metal Gear TX-55.

Date unknown: FOXHOUND second in command Roy Campbell is appointed commander-in-chief. Code name system is discarded.

Date unknown: Nastasha Romanenko leaves the DIA to become a freelance analyst, and starts writing for assorted information and US Naval magazines.

1996:

July 5th: Scientists in Scotland successfully manage to clone the somatic cell of a sheep.

Date unknown: Nastasha Romanenko attends the Canberra, the world's first nationally hosted nuclear weapon abolition proposal committee.

Date unknown: Nastasha Romanenko joins NEST (Nuclear Emergency Search Team) as a military and nuclear analysist.

1997:

Date unknown: An uprising takes place in Central Asia and the Commonwealth of Independant States' army is sent in, but is defeated repeatedly by a band of mercenaries gathered from around the world. As a result, a democratic military regime, named Zanzibar Land, declares its independence.

1999:

Date unknown: Genius Czech bio-technologist Doctor Kio Marv creates "OILIX", a micro-bio-chemical that could refine high purity crude oil and petroleum.

December 24th: Zanzibar Land crisis: Solid Snake defeats Gray Fox, kills Big Boss and destroys Metal Gear D. He vanishes and decides to live in the solitude of Alaska. Gray Fox’s body is taken by FOXHOUND medical chief Dr. Clark for gene therapy experiments. The immolated remains of Big Boss are retrieved by the United States government.

The 2000s
2000:

Date unknown: Liquid Snake joins FOXHOUND as the leader of the field combat team.

Date unknown: Ocelot joins FOXHOUND to serve under Liquid Snake, having had respect for his father, Big Boss, at a younger age.

Date unknown: Naomi Hunter joins the FOXHOUND medical staff, and begins DNA therapy research and experiments on soldiers.

January 1st: Millennium Bug: The Patriots spread a "data filter" worldwide, disguised as a software fix to impede the impact of the flaw in various computer systems.

2001:

January 20th: George Sears (a.k.a. Solidus Snake) is appointed as the 43rd American President.

2003:

Date unknown: Dr. Clark dies in a lab explosion caused by a revived Gray Fox, who manages to escape. Naomi Hunter covers the incident and takes over Dr. Clark's job.

2005:

Late February: Shadow Moses incident. FOXHOUND is "disbanded"; the remaining renegade members are all killed by Solid Snake, with the exception of Decoy Octopus who is killed by the FOXDIE Virus created by Naomi Hunter, and Revolver Ocelot, who escapes. The DARPA Chief Donald Anderson died by torture from Revolver Ocelot and the President of ARMSTech Kenneth Baker was also killed by the FOXDIE Virus, aswell as the majority of the GENOME Army. Solid Snake and Hal Emmerich (Otacon) meet for the first time. Gray Fox, with his new exo-skeleton, battles Snake and is defeated. He is eventually killed by Liquid Snake. Solid Snake destroys Metal Gear REX. Liquid Snake is eventually killed by FOXDIE.

March: George Sears (Solidus Snake) "resigns" as President. He is replaced by James Johnson.

Date unknown: Ocelot and Sergei Gurlukovich spread the data for Metal Gear REX on the black market. Soon, every nation and military outfit owns a pirated version of the weapon.

Late 2005/Early 2006:

Date unknown: In Lyon, Ocelot has Liquid Snake's arm grafted in place of the one Gray Fox cut off at Shadow Moses. Unknown to Ocelot, Liquid Snake pre-arranged his arm being grafted to Ocelot, a spirit medium, in order for him to gain control of his body posthumously.

2006:

Date unknown: Nastasha Romanenko and Otacon found Philanthropy, in order to put a stop to the construction of Metal Gear derivatives. They recruit Solid Snake to their cause.

2006/2007:

Date unknown: Solid Snake is kidnapped by an unknown group, possibly The Patriots, and forced to participate in a VR Simulation unknowingly. Snake, with the help of Otacon, manages to defeat the terrorists. Afterwards, Snake has his memory erased.

Date unknown: Jack (Raiden) is kidnapped and forced through the same VR Simulation that Snake was forced through. Any information on this is currently unavailable.

2007:

April 30th: Jack (Raiden) and Rose meet each other for the first time.

August 8th: U.S.S. Discovery incident. Solid Snake infiltrates the tanker in order to take photographs of Metal Gear RAY, to leak onto the internet. Snake meets Olga Gurlukovich for the first time. Ocelot then hi-jacks RAY, and murders Scott Dolph and Sergei Gurlukovich, and sinks the tanker. Philanthropy, blamed for the incident, go underground and fake Snake's death.

2008:

Date unknown: Olga Gurlukovich gives birth to Sunny Gurlukovich, who is kidnapped by the Patriots.

October: Dead Cell is caught in a surprise attack, losing two of its key members (Chinaman and Old Boy). Only Fatman, Fortune and Vamp survived.

2009:

April 29th: Big Shell incident. Sons of Liberty uprising. Raiden and Solid Snake infiltrate the Big Shell. The deaths of Fatman, Fortune, Emma Emmerich, Olga Gurlukovich, Richard Ames and the 44th President of the USA, James Johnson.

April 30th: Arsenal Gear crashes into Manhattan, stopping at Federal Hall. Solidus Snakes's death. Otacon finds out that the original Wisemen’s Committee has been dead for almost 100 years.

Late 2009/Early 2010:

Date unknown: Rosemary has Raiden’s baby.

2014:

Date unknown: The world is at war for business purposes, using Private Military Companies to fight. Liquid Ocelot, Liquid Snake in Revolver Ocelot's body, is at the head of the great war, with five of the largest PMCs answering to his company, Outer Heaven. Armed with a military that rivals the power of the US military, Ocelot prepares to launch a fully armed insurrection.

Date unknown: Solid Snake, now codenamed Old Snake, worn and tired due to his cloned body's accelerated aging, is unofficially deployed by Roy Campbell to assassinate Liquid Ocelot and end the conflict.