MCU Timeline: Captain America First Vengance

MCU Timeline: Captain America First Vengance

The events of the MCU canon comic book placed in chronological order.

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By Paulley - Jul 15, 2011 12:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics

Delve further into the back story for for several of the main characters from the upcoming Captain America: First Avenger movie, as i list the events of canon comic book Captain America: First Vengeance.

The comic takes place over the space of 19 years and is listed in chronological order, with interesting information highlighted or linked for further reading.

TIMELINE
1924, June - Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
A young Steve Rogers talks to his mum about his deceased father and military man Joe Rogers.


1930, September - Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Steve meets James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes during a back ally scuffle with some bullies.

1934, February - Duetsches Operhaus, Berlin
Johann Schmidt meets Adolf Hitler, Himler and Erst Kaufmann (head of the Sturmabteilung (SA)'s Special Weapon Division) meet after a Wagner opera, where Schmidt reveals his theory that Norse gods and their magic could be more than myth.

1934, Geneva
Dr. Abraham Erskine and Howard Stark meet at an Engineering Conference.

1934, June 30 - Hanselbauer Hotel, Bad Wiessee, Bavaria
As part of the Schutzstaffel (SS)'s Night of the Long Knives, Johann Schmidt assassinates Erst Kaufmann and seizes control of his weapons program.


1934, July - Kummersdorf, 46km south of Berlin
Schmidt and SS troops attack a SA Weapons Testing Ground where he finds and recruits advanced exo-skeleton Battle armor researcher Arnim Zola.




1935, September 14th - German/Swiss border
Schmidt intercepts fleeing Jewish doctor Dr. Abraham Erskine and forcefully recruits him after years of following his Super-Soldier research.

1937 - Concentration Camp, near Dachau
Erskine's kidnapped wife, son, and daughter die of typhus.

1937, April 26 - Guernica, Spain
HYDRA (Schmidt's weapons program) destroys the town with advanced weaponry, at the time it was believed the Luftwaffe was to blame.

1940, February - Los Angeles, California
Howard Stark begins a demonstration which would showcase vibranium, a metal discovered by Stark Industries researchers in Africa, and then meets with Colonel Philips. After being attacked by HYDRA assassins Stark agrees to join Col Philip's newly created Strategic Science Reserve (SSR).

1940, November - Castle Kaufmann, Beverian Alps
Schmidt takes part in an test involving Erskine and his Super-Soldier serum which disfigures Schmitd. Erskine is rescued by Agent Thirteen (Peggy Carter) and brought into the SSR

1941, December 7 - Times Square, Manhattan
During an art class Steve and Bucky find out that America has joined the second World War.

1941, December 11 - Goldies Boxing Gym
Bucky trains Steve.

1941, December 16 - Goldies Boxing Gym
Bucky trains Steve.

1941, December 20 - unnamed location
Bucky trains Steve.

1941, December 24 - Governors Island, New York Harbor
Steve and Bucky visit US Recruiting and Induction Center where Steve is classified as 4F and rejected from service.

1942 - Red Hook, Brooklyn
The SSR team finish the Project Rebirth chamber (Stark comments that the it should have been called the Brooklyn Project in response to the Oppenheimer's work at Los Alamos)

1942 - Camp Lehigh, New York
Erskine rejects all the candidates selected by Col Philips.

1942 - World Exposition of Tomorrow, Queens, New York
Erskine spots Steve Rogers at a recruitment office.

1943, October - HYDRA Weapons Facility, Austrian Alps
The members of the future Howling Commandos meet for the first time as prisoners used to make weapons for HYDRA. The team up at first to get revenge on one of their captures after he viciously beats Bucky.

1944, April - Island in the Danish Straits
Captain America attacks a HYDRA facility and is soon joined by the Howling Commandos. Red skull, who had used a Norse relic on site as a power source sets the facility to self destruct but Captain America slows the relic from exploding to allow time for the Commandos to escape.

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ROBBEATZZZ
ROBBEATZZZ - 7/15/2011, 7:38 AM
WOW!
ROMACK
ROMACK - 7/15/2011, 8:19 AM
Wow. That was really cool.
MSPaint
MSPaint - 7/15/2011, 8:40 AM
hope we get some of this backstory in the movie...a montage or something would be cool
Hellsing
Hellsing - 7/15/2011, 12:04 PM
@MSPaint well theres a track on Cap score called Schmidts story so we definitely get his back story
superotherside
superotherside - 7/15/2011, 12:20 PM
interesting stuff!
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