Timeline

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Prehistory

• The First Civilization, the first inhabitors of the Earth, created the human race out of a pre-existing species, making them nearly identical to their own image, though smaller in size and less intelligent. The First Civilization created the Pieces of Eden, using them as a means to control the humans and turn them into their slaves.
• After several generations of crossbreeding between the First Civilization and humans, some humans received an amount of First Civilization genes in their DNA, giving them special abilities such as "Eagle Vision" and an immunity to the Pieces of Eden and the ability to use them.
• Adam and Eve revolted against their First Civilization oppressors, stealing one of the Apples of Eden in the process, and several more humans soon followed their example. The First Civilization and the humans entered in a war.
• Cain, the son of Adam and Eve, murdered his brother Abel to take their parents' Apple of Eden for himself.
• While the First Civilization and humans were waging war against each other, a catastrophe struck the Earth, nearly existinquishing both races. Less than ten thousand humans survived, and far fewer of the First Civilization. The remaining members of the First Civilization stayed in contact with the humans, who admired their knowledge and mistook them for "gods". The First Civilization influenced the humans' cultures and architecture, such as the ancient pantheons.

5th century BCE

465 BCE

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

4th century BCE

323 BCE

• On 10 or 11 June, Alexander the Great, a Templar ally, died after having been poisoned by the Babylonian Assassin Iltani.

3rd century BCE

210 BCE

• Wei Yu, a Chinese Assassin, assassinated 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, plotted 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 committed suicide in late October during the Battle of Philippi. Other members of the Assassin Order tried 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

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

1st century

41

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

12th century

1189

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

13th century

1204

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad traveled 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 left Masyaf to deal with the approaching Mongol threat; Malik Al-Sayf temporarily took over control of the Levantine Assassins.

1225

• Swami, an Assassin apprentice, killed Sef Ibn-La'Ahad under the command of Abbas Sofian, leaving the murder weapon in Malik Al-Sayf's bed.
• Malik Al-Sayf was 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 worked together with the Mongolian Assassin Qulan Gal in an attempt to kill the Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Qulan Gal infiltrated the Mongol camp in Xingging near Xu Province in China, where Altaïr was spotted by a Mongol guard and got hurt in the process. Genghis Khan was alarmed and tried to escape on horseback.
• Genghis Khan's horse was shot by Qulan Gal, and the Mongol Emperor himself was killed by an arrow shot by Darim Ibn-La'Ahad.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria and Darim returned to Masyaf, where Altaïr and Maria are told about their son's death and the ruling council.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued Malik Al-Sayf from Masyaf's dungeons, from whom he hears the truth about his son's death. Altaïr and Maria left to confront Abbas Sofian, and Malik was beheaded by Swami in their absence.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and his wife Maria confronted Abbas Sofian, and were joined by Swami carrying Malik's head. Altaïr dared Abbas to take the Apple of Eden from him, and Swami was sent to retrieve it. Upon touching it, Swami's body was fueled with Altaïr's rage and Swami started mutilating himself as a result. In the following frenzy, Swami slit Maria's throat and Altaïr fled the scene.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad escaped Masyaf with the help of his son Darim, and began self-imposed exile in Alamut. Abbas usurps the title of Mentor.

1247

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad returned to Masyaf after twenty years of exile, and rescued the merchant Mukhlis from Bayhas and two of his henchmen near Masyaf.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad started 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 gathered his Assassin supporters near Masyaf and ordered 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 confronted Abbas Sofian, and utilized the hidden gun - one of the inventions created with knowledge gained by the Apple of Eden - for the first time on his nemesis, killing him and retaking control over the Levantine Assassin Brotherhood.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad began the construction of a library underneath Masyaf.

1256

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

1257

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad started 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 traveled to Masyaf at the request of their friend Darim Ibn-La'Ahad, where they received Assassin training from the Mentor Altaïr. Niccolò started writing of his stay at Masyaf, including Altaïr's stories and the conversations with his brother in a journal which he later titled "The Secret Crusade".
• On 12 August, Hulagu Khan started besieging the Levantine Assassins' headquarters of Masyaf castle.
• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo were given Altaïr's Codex, several other books, and the Masyaf Keys, and escaped from Masyaf during the Mongol attack with the help of the Mentor Altaïr and his son Darim. The Polos lost the Codex to a Mongol attacking party while returning to their hometown of Constantinople.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad ordered his son Darim and the remaining Assassin to leave Masyaf. Darim said farewell to his father before leaving for Alexandria, rejoining his former sister-in-law and her children. Altaïr locked himself up inside his library, hiding the Apple of Eden there and imprinting a sixth Memory Seal he had found before passing away on his throne.

1258

• On 1 January, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo began founding an Assassin Guild in Constantinople.
• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo scattered Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's books around various landmarks in Constantinople, and hid the Masyaf Keys in underground tombs.

1259

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

1269

• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo arrived 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 left 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 took 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

1307

• The Assassins secretly influenced King Philip le Bel of France to turn against the Knights Templar. Philip branded the them heretics, and hundreds of Knights Templar were burned at the stake.

1314

• The last recognized Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, realized that the Templars could not continue as a public organization, and arranged for the Order to continue underground. De Molay sent nine of his most trusted men out into the world, armed with the burden of continuing the Order's objectives. Jacques de Molay let himself be burned at the stake, fooling Philip le Bel into thinking the Order was disbanded and thus saving the lives of his remaining Templar brethren.

1321

• On 14 September, Dante Alighieri was killed by the Templars.
• The Italian Assassins found out about the continuing existence of the Templars, and Domenico Auditore was given the Codex to take with him to Spain.
• While laying anchor in the Otranto harbor, Domenico Auditore's ship was 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 was killed by the Templars circa January 9.
• Domenico Auditore's father was killed by the Templars.
• Domenico Auditore bought and renovated 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 was 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, traveled 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 mysteriously vanished from public view.

15th century

1402

• Zhu Di, aided by the Templars, became the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, taking on the name Yongle Emperor.
• The Yongle Emperor ordered 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 was assassinated by the Assassin Li Tong while trying to suppress a rebellion near the Gobi Desert.

1431

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

1454

• Giovanni Auditore da Firenze, a descendant of Domenico Auditore and Assassin, moved to Florence to work for the Medici Bank. His brother Mario Auditore was left in sole control of Monteriggioni, and began to make renovations to the city.

1476

• Giovanni Auditore da Firenze worked with Lorenzo de' Medici, de facto leader of Florence, and Uberto Alberti, Gonfaloniere of Florence, to unravel a Templar conspiracy to take over Milan. Their attempt to stop the conspiracy failed, and Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, was killed by Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, Gerolamo Olgiati and Carlo Visconti.
• Giovanni Auditore da Firenze and his sons Federico and Petruccio were arrested on the false accusations of treason against the city. Uberto Alberti, secretly conspiring with the Templars, ordered their execution in the Palazzo della Signoria.
• Uberto Alberti was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, son of Giovanni, taking up his father's mantle of Assassin.
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze took his mother Maria and sister Claudia with him to Monteriggioni and rejoined his uncle Mario, from where Ezio eventually continued his father's work and hunted the Templars responsible for his family's death.

1495

• Prince Cem, the exiled brother of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II and a strong ally and friend of Rodrigo Borgia, was assassinated by the Assassins in Capua, Italy.

16th century

1509

• The Battle of Agnadello took place between Venice and France, with the Assassin Bartolomeo d'Alviano fighting on the side of the Venetians, hoping to protect the Shroud of Eden located in Agnadello.
• An earthquake striked Constantinople, marking the leave of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II and the secret resurrection of the Templars, now fighting under the Byzantine banner.

1510

• Juan Ponce de León, the first Governor of Puerto Rico, accused a freed slave and translator for the Colonial army, Alonso Carlo, of plotting an assassination attempt against him. Carlo fled with his adopted son Miguel Ramón Carlo de Lugo to Florida, where Miguel came in contact with and joined the Assassin Order.
• The condottiero Niccolò di Pitigliano, who had obtained the Shroud of Eden from Agnadello, was assassinated by the Assassin Francesco Vecellio.
• In the winter of 1510, Ezio Auditore da Firenze left Italy for Masyaf to find the library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, after finding out about its existence from a lost letter of his late father found a year earlier.

1511

• Murat Bin Husn, a leader in the Janissary corps, was awarded with the Armor of Ishak Pasha for his unbreakable will, and he hid it in Ishak Pasha's tomb underneath the Hagia Sophia. Murat then renovated the Great Chain to protect the city and the armor.
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze arrived in Masyaf, where he was ambushed and captured by a small army of Byzantine Templars under the command of their captain Leandros. After a long chase across Masyaf and Atlas Village, Ezio Auditore killed Leandros and retrieved Niccolò Polo's journal "The Secret Crusade" from him. Finding out about the location of the Masyaf Keys, Ezio Auditore journeyed further towards Constantinople.
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze arrived in Constantinople, where he met Prince Suleiman, later known as Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and Yusuf Tazim, leader of the Turkish Assassins. Ezio Auditore was introduced to the city and the Turkish Assassins' techniques and customs, and started his search for the Masyaf Keys.

1519

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

1520

• In June, an army of Spanish conquistadors under the command of Hernán Cortés, got in contact with the Aztecs in Tenochtitlan. On June 30, the Spaniards slaughtered the Aztecs and Giovanni Borgia, an Assassin who infiltrated Cortés' army, stole one of the Crystal Skulls from an Aztec priest. The Aztec leader Moctezuma II was accidentally killed by his own people after trying to reason with them, and the Spaniards fled back to Spain soon afterwards.

1521

• On 20 April, Emperor Zhengde of China died without a proper heir to succeed him. With the help of the Templars, Zhu Houcong succeeded him and was from then on known as Emperor Jiajing.
• In July, Juan Ponce de León led an expedition to find the Fountain of Youth. During his quest, he was greeted by Miguel Ramón Carlo de Lugo, who tried to convince him to turn back. After refusing to do so, De León was struck by a poisoned arrow shot by the Assassins, which eventually resulted in his death.

1524

• The Chinese Assassins were nearly eradicated by Emperor Jiajing of China, and the remaining Assassins fled to seek support from other Assassin branches around the world. Shao Jun met with Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Italy, from whom she sought guidance. Though initially hostile towards Jun, Ezio Auditore eventually relented and thought Jun about the Assassin Order, and faced off against several of Jiajing's men. Armed with knowledge, Jun returned to China to rebuild her Order.
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze died in a Florentine piazza, caused by the numerous battle wounds he had received over the years.

19th century

1832

• Ludger Duvernay, a Canadian journalist and Assassin, posted a number of articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique, the leaders of the Templar Order.
• Ludger Duvernay was 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 Independence for Canada.

1881

• On 13 March, Tsar Alexander II of Russia, an ally of the Templars, was assassinated by members of the Narodnaya Volya, a Russian Assassin organization.

1887

• Several members of the Narodnaya Volya were captured and executed after a failed assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III, including Aleksandr Ulyanov.
• Mina Bergson, an Assassin, was tasked with getting close to Samuel Liddell Mathers, a rising star in a group of occultists who were planning to build one of the most influential secret societies in the British Empire. Mathers, whom the Assassins knew was secretly funded by the Templars, eventually married Bergson.

1888

• Nikolai Orelov, a Russian Assassin, was ordered by the Mentor to assassinate Tsar Alexander III while he was traveling by train from the Crimea to Saint Petersburg. Orelov infiltrated the Imperial train, and a fight ensued between him and the Tsar. The fight caused the train to derail, known as the Borki train disaster. Tsar Alexander III used the Staff of Eden to fight Orelov, but ultimately spared the Assassin's life.

20th century

1908

• Grigori Rasputin, a Templar agent installed in the Russian Royal Palace, secretly stole the Staff of Eden from Tsar Nicholas II and took it to a Templar research facility in Tunguska.
• Nikolai Orelov was ordered by the Mentor to lead an attack on the Templar research facility in Tunguska and took a group of Assassins with him. Nikolai killed the Templars present, and the Assassins' ally Nikola Tesla sent a ray of electricity to the facility from his Wardenclyffe Tower, resulting in the Tunguska explosion and the Staff's destruction. Only Nikolai Orelov survived.

1910

• The Templar "Founders", consisting of amongst others Henry Ford, Ransom Eli Olds, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frank A. Vanderlip, Paul Warburg, Charles Norton and Nelson W. Aldrich, designed the "Plan".

1913

• Skulls of members of the First Civilization were found around Boskop, South Africa.

1914

• Grigori Rasputin and his disciple Khioniya Guseva traveled to Pokrovskoye, where Guseva attacked Rasputin with a knife. Rasputin's stomach was cut open in the process, and his intestines fell out. Rasputin miraculously survived, and using a shard of the Staff of Eden he forced Guseva to mutilate her own face.
• During the Christmas Truce of World War I, an Assassin operating as a British medic killed the feared German general and secret Templar Erich Albert.

1916

• On 29 December, Grigori Rasputin was killed by the Assassins, led by Felix Yusupov.

1917

• The Russian Revolution began, with Vladimir Lenin, supported by the Assassins, leading the Bolsheviks against the House of Romanov.
• Nikolai Orelov infiltrated Tsarevich Nicholas II's Winter Palace after having seen a picture of the Tsarevich carrying supposedly the Staff of Eden. Killing the Tsarevich's guards, Nikolai forced him to direct him to the Imperial Sceptre, and confirmed that it was merely a replica. Nikolai spared the Tsarevich's life, no longer expressing interest in Assassin affairs, and Nicholas informed him of Grigori Rasputin having worn a shard around his neck of similar material as the Staff of Eden according to Nikolai's description.
• Nikolai Orelov found and dug up Grigori Rasputin's corpse with the help of two other men, and took the Staff's shard from his neck. The two men then burned Rasputin's corpse.
• Nikolai Orelov, Anna Orelov and their daughter migrate to the United States, cutting off all contact with the Assassin Order.

1937

• Abstergo Industries was founded by the Templars, and is from that point on used as a front of the Templar Order.

1939

• On 1 September, the Templars started World War II, a scheme orchestrated to maintain the peace that would ensue after the war would end. The main leaders of both the Allies and the Axis were Templars.

1945

• On 30 April, Axis leader Adolf Hitler shot his own double inside his Führerbunker, and fled to meet with Winston Churchill. However, upon leaving the bunker, Hitler was assassinated by an Assassin, who had been biding his time.

1948

• On 30 January, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by the Templars in order to obtain the Second Apple of Eden from him.

1952

• On 17 June, Abstergo Industries blew up the lab of the American rocket propulsion researcher Jack Parsons, and kidnapped Thomas Sean Morgan, a private investigator hired by Parsons' former Aerojet co-founder Theodore von Kármán to spy on Parsons' activities.

1971

• On 21 April, the Haitian President François Duvalier was assassinated by the Assassins.

1985

• Abstergo Industries kidnapped a young boy of Assassin descent, naming him Daniel Cross, and implanted an impulse into his brain that would force him to unknowingly climb the ranks of the Assassin Order, and kill the Mentor when he was given the opportunity.

1998

• The Assassin Hannah Mueller found ex-convict and drug addict Daniel Cross during a night out in Philadelphia, and brought him to her Assassin camp near the city, believing him to be an Assassin. The following day, Daniel, having suffered from the bleeding effect for several years, believed he had found his purpose - to find the Mentor - and started his training to become an Assassin, and visited nearly all Assassin camps around the world looking for guidance and support.

21st century

2000

• On 5 November, while with Hannah visiting Assassin camps in the Middle East, Daniel Cross was abducted by men employed by the Mentor, and taken to the Mentor's Dubai headquarters.
• On 6 November, Daniel Cross awoke to meet the Mentor, and eventually heard the Mentor's wish for Daniel to be his successor. Upon being given the Mentor's ceremonial hidden blade, Daniel's impulse in his brain was activated, and he assassinated the Mentor.
• On 7 November, George W. Bush, a puppet used by the Templars, won the American Presidential election against Al Gore, who was backed by the Assassins, and became President of the United States.
• Daniel Cross returned to Abstergo Industries' Philadelphia facility and gave the Templars the location of the Assassin camps he had visited, after which the Templars initiated "The Great Purge", eradicating nearly all Assassin camps and killing most Assassins. Only a few Assassin camps were left unscathed, and the remaining Assassins were forced to operate from underground cells.