AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Director Says SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING's "8 Years Later" Time Jump Was Incorrect

It still seems pretty much unthinkable that something so blatant would pass through every level of Marvel Studios scrutiny.

Biggest time line error imo - 965 A.D.

The year the frostgiants battle Asgard on Earth and Odin finds Loki as an infant and Thor is still just a child.

At that time, the Norse mythology had already existed for hundreds of years, and Thor was already worshipped by norse and germanic tribes as a red bearded thundergod, and Loki did already exist in the mythos.. hundreds of years before they were born...?

I still don't really see why you can't balance the scales by just saying some of the Phase 1 films take place earlier than we thought.

So, for example, Iron Man is set in 2008 (which is when it was released) and Iron Man 2 follows on immediately after, meaning it's also 2008 (Happy says he's been carrying Tony's engagement ring since 2008, which is when he and Pepper first became an item, so that fits). We also know the events of Thor occur around half way through Iron Man 2 as Coulson leaves Stark for New Mexico, meaning that's also 2008.

In Avengers, Nick Fury says the Phase 2 weapons were created "Because of [Thor]. Last year, Earth had a visit from another planet that had a grudge match that leveled a small town." so from that we can infer that The Avengers takes place in 2009. So based on that, the 'eight years later' time jump would place Spider-Man Homecoming in 2017, which is correct.

All you'd say is that the rest of the films take place pretty much when released, unless otherwise stated such as GOTG Vol 2 taking place in 2014 as it directly follows the first one, or Black Panther being set between 2016-2017 due to it directly following Civil War.

The only potential inconsistency this leaves is Iron Man 3, as the Bern prologue is clearly set in 1999/2000 and Killian says he offered Tony a place in AIM "13 years ago", meaning there's potentially a 4 year gap between the events of Avengers and Iron Man 3, which seems like a long time between adventures. Then again, it does give time for Tony to build his 35 new Iron Man armours, the "Mandarin" threat to be established in the media (as is suggested when the film starts), War Machine to be upgraded and then rebranded, etc. You could even potentially argue that the events of The Winter Soldier could fill some of that time gap (unless they specify the date in that movie, I haven't gotten back to it in my pre-Infinity War MCU marathon yet), as the downfall of SHIELD during that time would even explain their lack of involvement in the events of Iron Man 3.

Plus, the Avengers first assembling in 2009 means there's a nice symmetry in that Avengers 4, presumably the last appearance of a number of founding members, takes place exactly a decade after in 2019.

So, if I had to guess, I'd say the new timeline would be something like:
1940s - Captain America
1990s - Captain Marvel
2008 - Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Incredible Hulk, Thor
2009 - Avengers
2010 - Thor 2 (it's stated in the movie that the New York invasion happened "last year")
2013 - Iron Man 3
2014 - GOTG, GOTG Vol 2, Captain America 2 (I'll leave it here for now)
2015 - Avengers 2, Ant-Man
2016 - Civil War, Black Panther, Dr Strange
2017 - Spider-Man Homecoming, Thor Ragnarok, Ant-Man 2 (heard it might be a prequel to Infinity War set closer to Civil War)
2018 - Infinity War
2019 - Avengers 4