So with Days of Future past coming soon, and everyone trying to make sense of the X-men timeline, I figured I should give it a shot, and here we go...
The dates of these events may change with X-Men: Days of Future Past.
1832
-James Howlett is born.
1845
-James's father is killed.
-James Howlett's mutation starts to manifest.
-James kills Thomas Logan, his biological father.
-James and his half-brother Victor run away.
1859
-Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species", introducing that genetic evolution allows adaptation over time to produce organisms best suited to the environment.
1861-1865
-James and Victor fight for the Union in the American Civil War.
1866
-Gregor Johann Mendel establishes the theory of hereditary traits through his work with pea plants.
1869
-Johann Friedrich Miescher extracts what comes to be known as DNA from the nuclei of white blood cells.
1900
-Hugo de Vries, Erich von Tschermak, and Carl Correns independently rediscover and verify Mendel's theories, marking the beginning of modern genetics.
1909
-Wilhelm Johannssen, a Danish botanist, invents the term "gene" to describe the biological unit of heredity.
1915
-The basic principles of Mendelian genetics are applied to the fruit fly.
1917-1918
-James and Victor fight for the US Army in WWI.
1927
-Hermann J. Muller demonstrates that radiation can induce artificial mutations.
1932
-Charles Xavier is born.
1941
-The term "genetic engineering" is first used by Danish microbiologist A. Jost.
1944
-Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty show that DNA can transform the properties of cells - thus clarifying the chemical nature of genes.
-While imprisoned at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Erik Lehnsherr's mutant powers start to manifest.
-Charles Xavier and Raven Darkholme meet each other as children in Xavier's mansion. Raven is soon adopted as Charles' foster sister.
(I'm aware this isn't from the D-day scene, I was unable to find one for that war period.)
-June 6: Logan and Victor participate in the D-Day Invasion, serving in the 29th Infantry Division.
1945
-August 9: Logan saves Yashida's life during the Nagasaki explosion.
1949
-Erik Lehnsherr visits America for the first time and sees the Statue of Liberty. Sometime between 1949 and 1962, Erik returns to Europe, disillusioned with America's image as the land of "tolerance and peace".
1953
-March: James D. Watson and Francis Crick discover the double helix structure of DNA.
1959
-William Stryker begins his work on mutants.
1962
-A young Bolivar Trask hypothesizes the link between traceable higher-order brain function and certain genetic mutations.
-Erik Lehnsherr begins his personal vendetta against Sebastian Shaw.
-Charles Xavier earns Ph.Ds in Genetics, Biophysics, and Psychology at Oxford University.
-Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire Club coerce the U.S. military to put missiles in Turkey. Later on, they coerce the Soviet military to put missiles in Cuba.
-The X-Men are formed at the CIA's Division X facility.
-Emma Frost is captured by Xavier and Lehnsherr
-October:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Sebastian Shaw is killed by Erik Lehnsherr
Lehnsherr, now known as Magneto, forms his first Brotherhood of Mutants.
-Charles Xavier establishes Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, a school and sanctuary for mutants.
1967
-Bolivar Trask founds Trask Industries
1969-1971
-While serving in Vietnam, Victor kills a senior officer while Logan defends him from retaliating soldiers. The two are arrested and eventually sent to be executed by a firing squad. However, their regenerative healing abilities prevent them from being killed.
-Logan and Victor join Team X.
1971
-Trask Industries B3-VXC Archival Footage is filmed
1973
-Logan quits Team X.
-X-Men: Days of Future Past
-The first genetically modified organism is created - a simple bacterium.
-Mark I Sentinels are created. Between 1973 and 1996, Trask produces 8,732 Mark I Sentinels for the governments of the United States, China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, France, India and the United Kingdom.
1974
-May 18: Congress passes the HCA (Homeland Containment Act), deploying Sentinels to the top 5 most densely populated cities in the U.S.
1975
-Jean Grey befriends Annie Malcolm.
1976
-Bolivar Trask revolutionizes the world of prosthetics through DNA-generated artificial limbs.
1977
-Sanger, Gilbert and Maxam sequence DNA for the first time.
1979
-Victor hunts down and kills former members of Team X.
-Weapon X and Weapon XI programs
-Logan loses his memory.
1985
-Charles and Erik visit Jean Grey.
1994
-Genetically engineered food products enter the US market.
1995
-Warren Worthington III's mutation begins to manifest.
2000
-June 26: The HGP (Human Genome Project) and Celera Genomics announce that they have finished the "first draft" (over 90%) of the Human Genome Sequence. The project endeavors to map the human genome down to the nucleotide level and to identify all present genes.
2003
-Scientists with the HGP publish the first complete map of the human genome.
2004
-X-Men
-X2: X-Men United
2005
-X-Men: The Last Stand
2007
-The Wolverine
2009
-Professor X and Magneto meet Wolverine at an airport.
2013
-Trask Laboratories unveils groundbreaking ability to create a hybrid gene with mutant DNA.
2018
-Dr. Gregory D. Burnett revolutionizes a method of growing synthetic stem cells.
2020
-Mark X Sentinel Program announced.
2023
-X-Men: Days of Future Past
Now that that's over let me be clear this timeline was made with the hopes that the following errors will be fixed, overlooked, or forgotten....
-In X-Men, Charles tells Logan that he met Erik when he was 17 years old.
-In X-Men: First Class, they met when they were in their 20's.
-In X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Charles is seen walking. While in X-Men: First Class, he is seen being paralyzed in 1962.
-In X-Men, Charles doesn't know why he can't find Erik with Cerebro while in X-Men: First Class he witnesses the effects of the helmet.
-In X2: X-Men United, Hank McCoy is seen debating a man named Dr. Shaw which is is seen in human form. While in X-Men: First Class, he is seen transformed to his blue form.
-Scott Summers and Ororo Munroe are seen in the 60's as cameos through Cerebro as teenagers though they would be older in the future films.
Ororo Munroe is seen as a teenager in the 60's and as a little girl in the 70's. Though she wasn't included in the final cut of the film of X-Men Origins: Wolverine and only seen in trailers, it could be presumed it is not Ororo.
-There are two Emma Frost's, one seen in the 70's as a teenager and one in the 60' as an adult. Though confirmed by Lauren Shuler Donner, the Emma Frost in X-Men: Origins: Wolverine is not the real Emma Frost and is just named Emma, which is a loosely based version of the character.
-The X-Mansion in X-Men: First Class is not the same as the original building in the original trilogy. However, it can be assumed that it was renovated and expanded to serve as a school.
-In X-Men: The Last Stand, Moira MacTaggert is seen as a British doctor while in X-Men: First Class, she is seen as an American CIA agent.
- Also while this isn't a continuity error, I would like to also point out one huge error in "The Wolverine"....that error being, THAT THIS WASN'T IN THE THEATRICAL CUTS ENDING!!!!!!!!!!
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Anyways, if you actually read all this, first of all thank you, and secondly, I hope you agree, though if not make your case below, I am always welcome to it, Peace!!!!