Timeline

"The World of Metal Gear and How It Ties in with Ours"

―Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection, Metal Gear Solid "The Digital Documents of the METAL GEAR ARCHIVE" Master Book

Metal Gear Website Timeline — Timeline from the Metal Gear website’s history section.

This timeline lists the chronological occurrence of events from the early 13th century to early 21st century. The timeline consists of events relating to weapons technology, military groups and conflicts, important historical figures, and the United States of America, along with its secret rulers, the Philosophers, and later the Patriots.

Time periods[]

General Timeline[]

Timeline of events in Metal Gear
Date	Event	Game
1962	Sokolov Defection Cuban Missile Crisis	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater
1964	Virtuous Mission Operation Snake Eater
1970	San Hieronymo Incident*	Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops*
1972	Les Enfants Terribles Project
1974	Peace Walker Incident	Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
1974	Eliminate the Renegade Threat* Intel Operative Rescue* Classified Intel Acquisition*	Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
19XX	Déjà Vu**
XXXX	Jamais Vu**
1975	Destroy the Anti-Air Emplacements* Ground Zeroes Incident
1975	Wormhole Incident**	Metal Gear Survive**
1976	Attack on Zero	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
1977	Zero visits Snake
1984	Hospital Escape Phantom Pain Incident
1995	Outer Heaven Uprising (AKA "Operation Intrude N313")	Metal Gear
19XX	Outer Heaven Uprising (AKA "Operation Intrude N313")	Metal Gear (NES)**
19XX+3	Operation 747**	Snake's Revenge**
1997	Mercenary War	Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
1999	Zanzibar Land Disturbance (AKA "Operation Intrude F014")	Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
2002	Galuade Incident**	Metal Gear: Ghost Babel**
2003	Assassination of Dr. Clark
2005	Shadow Moses Incident	Metal Gear Solid (The Twin Snakes*)
2005-2007	Snake's VR Simulation*	Metal Gear Solid Mobile*
2007	Tanker Incident	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
2008	Liquidation of Dead Cell
2009	Big Shell Incident
2011	Raid At Area 51
2012-2013	Raiden's Capture
2014	Guns of the Patriots Incident (Liquid Sun · Solid Sun · Third Sun · Twin Suns · Old Sun · Naked Sin)	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
2016	Lobito Island Incident**	Metal Gear Acid**
2018	World Marshal Incident* (AKA "Raiden's Revengeance") Raid at World Marshal · Ambush in Africa · Abkhazian Coup · Investigation in Guadalajara · Raid in Denver · Operation Tecumseh	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance*
2019	SaintLogic Incident**	Metal Gear Acid 2**
* Dubious Canonicity ** Non-Canon