Timeline

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5th century BCE

465 BCE

• Darius, a Persian Assassin, assassinates King Xerxes I of Persia, a Templar ally. This assassination was the first recorded use of the Assassins' hidden blade.

3rd century BCE

210 BCE

• Wei Yu, a Chinese Assassin, assassinates Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China and a Templar ally, with a spear.

1st century BCE

44 BCE

• Forty Senators, secretly members of the Assassin Order, plot the assassination of the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar while being led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, who was unknowingly aided by the Templars.
• On 15 March, twenty-three of the conspirators stabbed Julius Caesar, killing him.

42 BCE

• Marcus Junius Brutus commits suicide in late October during the Battle of Philippi. Other members of the Assassin Order try using the Shroud of Eden to revive Brutus. Brutus temporarily springs back to life for a very brief moment, only to ultimately die shortly thereafter.

30 BCE

• Iltani, an Egyptian Assassin, assassinates Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt and a Templar ally, with a poisonous asp.

1st century

41

• Leonius, a Roman Assassin, assassinates Roman Emperor Caligula with a dagger.

12th century

1189

• Haras, a Levantine Assassin apprentice, betrays the Assassin Order and joins the Templars, leading a Templar attack on Masyaf castle.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad kills Haras and rescues his Mentor Rashid ad-Din Sinan in the process. Altaïr gets elevated to the rank of Master Assassin.

13th century

1204

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad travels to Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire to bring the Assassin Order to the city. Due to the ongoing Fourth Crusade, Altaïr was forced to return to Masyaf.

1217

• The Mentor of the Levantine Assassins, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, his wife Maria and son Darim leave Masyaf to deal with the approaching Mongol threat; Malik Al-Sayf temporarily takes over control of the Levantine Assassins.

1225

• Swami, an Assassin apprentice, kills Sef Ibn-La'Ahad under the command of Abbas Sofian, leaving the murder weapon in Malik Al-Sayf's bed.
• Malik Al-Sayf is imprisoned in Masyaf's dungeon after having been framed of Sef's murder. Abbas Sofian places a council in control of the Levantine Assassins, with himself at its head.

1227

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria and Darim work together with the Mongolian Assassin Qulan Gal in an attempt to kill the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Qulan Gal infiltrate the Mongol camp in Xingging near Xu Province in China, where Altaïr alarms a Mongol guard and gets hurt in the process. Genghis Khan is alarmed and escapes on horseback.
• Genghis Khan's horse is shot by Qulan Gal, and the Mongol Emperor himself is killed by an arrow shot by Darim Ibn-La'Ahad.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria and Darim return to Masyaf, where Altaïr and Maria are told about their son's death and the ruling council.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescues Malik Al-Sayf from Masyaf's dungeons, from whom he hears the truth about his son's death. Altaïr and Maria leave to confront Abbas Sofian, and Malik is beheaded by Swami in their absence.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and his wife Maria confront Abbas Sofian, and are joined by Swami carrying Malik's head. Altaïr dares Abbas to take the Apple of Eden from him, and Swami is sent to retrieve it. Upon touching it, Swami's body is fueled with Altaïr's rage and Swami starts mutilating himself. In the following frenzy, Swami slits Maria's throat and Altaïr flees the scene.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad escapes Masyaf with the help of his son Darim, and begins self-imposed exile in Alamut. Abbas usurps the title of Mentor.

1247

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad returns to Masyaf after 20 years of exile, and rescues the merchant Mukhlis from Bayhas and two of his henchmen near Masyaf.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad starts gaining support from the Levantine Assassins and the villagers in Masyaf, after meeting the son of his late friend Malik Al-Sayf, Tazim Al-Sayf.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad gathers his Assassin supporters near Masyaf and orders his men to disarm Abbas Sofian's supporters, but not kill them. Abbas' supporters eventually put down their arms, and opened the gates of Masyaf's inner keep for Altaïr, welcoming their former Mentor.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad confronts Abbas Sofian, and utilizes the hidden gun - one of the inventions created with knowledge gained by the Apple of Eden - on his nemesis, killing him and retaking control over the Levantine Assassin Brotherhood.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad begins the construction of a library underneath Masyaf.

1256

• Hulagu Khan leads the Mongols towards the Levant, destroying several of the Levantine Assassins' fortresses.

1257

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad starts sending Assassins away from Masyaf to various location around the world, realizing that Masyaf had become a beacon for their enemies and preferring to see the Assassin Order to be a widespread organization.
• The Venetian explorers Niccolò and Maffeo Polo travel to Masyaf at the request of their friend Darim Ibn-La'Ahad, where they receive Assassin training from the Mentor Altaïr.
• On 12 August, Hulagu Khan starts besieging the Levantine Assassins' headquarters of Masyaf castle.
• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo are given Altaïr's Codex and the Masyaf Keys, and escape from Masyaf with the help of the Mentor Altaïr and his son Darim. The Polos lose the Codex to a Mongol attacking party while returning to their hometown of Constantinople.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad orders his son Darim and the remaining Assassin to leave Masyaf. Darim says farewell to his father before leaving for Alexandria, rejoining his former sister-in-law and her children. Altaïr locks himself up inside his library, hiding the Apple of Eden there and imprinting a sixth Memory Seal he had found before passing away, seated in a chair.

1258

• On 1 January, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo begin founding an Assassin Guild in Constantinople.

1259

• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo leave on a 10-year journey through Asia, hoping to retrieve Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's lost Codex from the Mongols. They are not successful in their objective, and return to their home in Venice, Italy.

1269

• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo arrive in Venice, Italy, where they found another Assassins Guild, also training Niccolò's son Marco Polo into the Assassin Order.

1271

• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo leave on another journey through Asia, taking Marco Polo with them. Marco Polo was able to retrieve the Codex from the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan.

1296

• The Italian Assassin and poet Dante Alighieri takes on a boy who would later be known as Domenico Auditore as an apprentice, whose father was a friend and colleague of Dante.

14th century

1321

• On 14 September, Dante Alighieri is killed by the Templars.
• The Italian Assassins find out about the continuing existence of the Templars, and Domenico Auditore is given the Codex to take with him to Spain.
• While laying anchor in the Otranto harbor, Domenico Auditore's ship is ambushed by pirates hired by the Templars to retrieve the Codex. Domenico scattered the Codex pages into chests, though Domenico and his family were attacked by the pirates. Domenico's wife was raped and murdered, but Domenico and his son survived, making their way to the beach.

1324

• Marco Polo is killed by the Templars circa January 9.
• Domenico Auditore's father is killed by the Templars.
• Domenico Auditore buys and renovates a villa in Monteriggioni, which from that moment on was known as the Villa Auditore. Monteriggioni became the headquarters of the Italian Assassins.

1338

• The German Lukas Zurburg is saved by the Assassins from a road thief while traveling to Adendorf, and joins their Order.

1348

• The Brothers of the Cross, a secret Templar organization, travel through Germany offering the people protection from the plague. Their real objective was to find the Ankh.

1350

• The Brothers of the Cross and Lukas Zurburg misteriously vanish from public view.

15th century

1402

• Zhu Di, aided by the Templars, becomes the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, taking on the name Yongle Emperor.
• The Yongle Emperor orders the capture and execution of thousands of Assassins in China. Thousands of Chinese Assassins were killed, including their leader Fang Xiaoru. Li Tong and an Assassin apprentice escaped with an Apple of Eden.

1424

• On 12 August, the Yongle Emperor of China is assassinated by the Assassin Li Tong while trying to suppress a rebellion near the Gobi Desert.

1431

• Joan of Arc is burned at the stake on 31 May by the Templars, who were after the Sword of Eden that Joan had in her possession.

16th century

1509

• An earthquake strikes Constantinople, marking the leave of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II and the secret return of the Templars, now fighting under the Byzantine banner.

1519

• Leonardo da Vinci dies in the Clos Lucé in Amboise on 2 May, with his friends Ezio Auditore and Niccolò Machiavelli at his side.

19th century

1832

• Ludger Duvernay, a Canadian journalist and Assassin, posts a number of articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique, the leaders of the Templar Order.
• Ludger Duvernay is arrested on orders of the Château Clique, who even rallied the public against Duvernay. The Assassins eventually freed Duvernay, and he founded the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society after his release, hoping to gain indepence for Canada.