User:Master Sima Yi/Sandbox/Timeline

13th century

1250

• The Egyptian Assassins tasked an unidentified Assassin with bringing the Scepter of Aset to the revolting Mamluks, who used it to remove the reigning Ayyubid dynasty from power and found the Bahri dynasty.

14th century

1307

• October 13: The Knights Templar were arrested and branded heretics on orders of King Philip IV of France, under influence of the Assassins. In the following years, hundreds of Templars were burned at the stake.

1314

• March 18: Jacques de Molay, the last publicly recognized Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake. Before his death, de Molay sent nine of his most trusted men across the known world to continue the Order's objectives underground.

1321

• September 14: Dante Alighieri was killed by the Templars, revealing their continued existence to the Assassins.

1324

• January: Marco Polo, and later Domenico Auditore's father, were killed by the Templars.
• Domenico Auditore bought and renovated the villa in Monteriggioni, renaming it Villa Auditore. Monteriggioni became the headquarters of the Italian Assassins.

1338

• Lukas Zurburg was saved by the Assassins from a road thief while travelling from Essen to Adendorf. Zurburg joined the Assassin Brotherhood.

1340

• The Templars stole the Scepter of Aset from the reigning Bahri dynasty of Egypt.
• The Egyptian Assassin Numa Al'Khamsin traveled to Cairo and interrogated Bachir Al-Djallil, a merchant in collusion with the Templars, who revealed the artifact was taken to Karnak, before he was killed by Numa.

1341

• June 7: The reigning Bahri Sultan of Egypt, Al-Nasir Muhammad, was killed by his servant Leila, a secret Templar agent.
• Numa Al'Khamsin and his apprentice Ali Al-Ghrabe recovered the Ankh from the Templars in Karnak.

1348

• The Brothers of the Cross, a secret Templar organization, traveled through the Holy Roman Empire looking for the Ankh, pretending to offer people protection from the plague.

1350

• The Brothers of the Cross and Lukas Zurburg mysteriously vanished from public view.

18th century

1757

• October 9: Grand Master Reginald Birch was killed at his manor near Troyes, France by Jennifer Scott, with the help of her brother Haytham Kenway and Jim Holden.

1758

• François Mackandal, Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood on Saint-Domingue and Maroon leader, attempted to poison the white inhabitants of the colony, but was captured and executed. His pupils Agaté and Baptiste fled to Louisiana.

1776

• Eseosa, grandson of Adéwalé, began to rebuild the Assassin Brotherhood on Saint-Domingue, recruiting Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Brédá, Georges Biassou, Jean-François Papillon and Jeannot Bullet into his ranks.

1789

• July 14: The Bastille in the center of Paris was stormed by the Parisian militia, signalling the start of the French Revolution.

1791

• August 14: Dutty Boukman held a religious ceremony at Boïs Caïman, prophesizing that Jean-François Papillon, Georges Biassou and Jeannot Bullet would become leaders of a revolution to free the slaves of Saint-Domingue.
• August 21: The Haitian Revolution ignited; led by members of the Assassin Brotherhood, the slaves of Saint-Domingue rose up in revolt against their French masters.
• November: Dutty Boukman was killed in battle with the French Army near Acul. Jeannot Bullet began to massacre white colonists as well as his own black subordinaries, and was ordered to death by Eseosa for breaking the Creed.

1793

• August 29: The French civil commissioner of Saint-Domingue, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, declared all slaves in the colony to be freed men.

1794

• July: After the abolition of slavery in France by Maximilien de Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, formerly known as Brédá, broke his alliance with Spain and formed a new one with France.
• July 28: Maximilien de Robespierre was guillotined without trial in the Place de la Révolution in Paris for his tyrannical role in the Reign of Terror.

1797

• August 24: Toussaint Louverture expelled Léger-Félicité Sonthonax from Saint-Domingue and became de facto ruler of the colony.

19th century

1801

• July: Toussaint Louverture captured the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, with aid from Eseosa, becoming the leader of Hispaniola and freeing all slaves across the island.

1802

• May: Toussaint Louverture surrendered to General Charles Leclerc, sent by his brother-in-law Napoleon Bonaparte, who falsely claimed that France had no intention of restoring racial hierarchy in Saint-Domingue.
• November 1: Charles Leclerc died of poisoning by Eseosa, though his cause of death was believed to be yellow fever.

1803

• November 18: Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of Toussaint Louverture's lieutenants, defeated General Rochambeau at Vertieres. Rochambeau pulled out of Vertieres at night, knowing the colony was finally lost to France.

1804

• January 1: Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared himself leader of the free republic of Saint-Domingue, and subsequently exterminated thousands of white people living in the country.

1832

• The Château Clique – leaders of the Templar Order in Lower Canada – arrested several journalists, including Ludger Duvernay, for publishing articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique. After being freed by the Assassins, Duvernay founded the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society to gain Canadian independence.

1839

• June: On orders of the Mentor Hamid, the Assassin Arbaaz Mir and Raza Soora retrieved the Koh-i-Noor from the First Civilization ruins underneath the summer palace of Ranjit Singh.
• June 27: Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire was poisoned by William Hay Macnaghten and Templar General Francis Cotton to help the British Empire conquer India, secretly under the Templar banner.

1865

• April 15: President Abraham Lincoln of the United States was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

20th century

1908

• June 30: Nikola Tesla released a burst of electricity on a Templar research facility in Tunguska from his Wardenclyffe Tower during an Assassin raid on the facility, destroying the Staff of Eden that was held in the facility and creating a large eruption known as the Tunguska explosion. Nikolai Orelov was the only survivor.

1910

• November: Frank A. Vanderlip, Paul Warburg, Charles Norton, Benjamin Strong, Jr., Henry Pomeroy Davison and Nelson W. Aldrich, members of the Templar Order, met on Jekyll Island and designed the "Plan" to take control of the capitalist market.

1919

• November 7: In twelve cities in the United States, agents of the Bureau of Investigation launched the Palmer Raids, directed by Alexander Mitchell Palmer, to arrest and deport radical leftists, though many innocents including the wife and daughter of Nikolai Orelov were also rounded up.

1926

• October 31: The illusionist Harry Houdini was killed by the Templars to retrieve the Piece of Eden he possessed, which he used to obtain fame during his career.

1937

• Abstergo Industries was founded by the Templar Order as a public font, which would primarily be used as a shadow company to control the world's capitalist market.

1939

• September 1: World War II started, orchestrated by the Templar Order, employing their puppets Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring chaos and turmoil to the world population.

1940

• The Third Reich obtained a Piece of Eden previously hidden in the Cologne Cathedral, which Edelweiss Pirates leader Barthel Schink ordered to be brought to the Assassins in Paris by Miriam Kurtz.

1943

• October 28: The USS Elridge briefly manifested in a future state using the powers of a Piece of Eden, as part of the Philadelphia Project.

1944

• July 1–22: The Bretton Woods conference was held by European powers to determine the monetary systems after the conclusion of World War II; secretly, it was a meeting between economic agents of the Templar Order to execute the "Plan".

1945

• April 30: Adolf Hitler was killed by the Assassins outside his Führerbunker, after having killed his body double inside the hideout. The Assassins also took possession of his Apple of Eden.
• July 16: The Manhattan Project tests its first atomic bomb, designed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, at the Los Alamogordo air base in New Mexico. The tests were authorized by Abstergo Industries.
• August 6–9: The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 by the United States, and a second hit the city of Nagasaki on August 8.
• August 12: Emperor Hirohito of Japan surrendered to the Allies, marking the end of World War II.

1948

• January 30: Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by the Templars to retrieve his Apple of Eden, after he had used it to lead a non-violent rebellion against British rule in India.

1952

• June 17: Jack Parsons' laboratory was destroyed in an explosion orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, as Parsons intended to reveal the secrets behind Aleister Crowley's formula; he died several hours later.

1953

• March 5: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, was killed by the Assassins with the use of poison, making it look like he died of a stroke.
• August 19: Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran was overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to stop his plans to nationalize the Iranian oil industry.

1954

• June 7: Alan Turing was poisoned by the Templars after failing to cooperate with their orders not to build a robot, as they feared it would lead to mass unemployment and a drop in human birth rate.
• June 27: President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to protect their capitalist interest.

1963

• November 22: President John F. Kennedy of the United States was assassinated by the Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald to disrupt his plan for a joint Moon landing with Russia. While his driver, the Templar plant William Greer, retrieved the President's Apple of Eden, another Apple was used to create a phantom on a nearby hill to cause confusion.

1969

• July 21: NASA's Apollo 11 spaceflight to the Moon, funded by Abstergo Industries, resulted in the recovery of an Apple of Eden from the Moon's surface.

1973

• September 11: President Salvador Allende of Chile was overthrown and killed in a military coup orchestrated by Abstergo Industries and engineered by Henry Kissinger to stop the nationalization of industries in Chile.