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==Prehistory==
==751th century BC==
* The [[First Civilization]], the first inhabitants of Earth, created the [[Humans|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.<ref name="Encyclopedia">''[[Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia]]''</ref>
===75010 BC===
* 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.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*[[Adam]] and [[Eve]], two [[Humanity|human]] [[slavery|slaves]], escaped from the [[First Civilization]] city [[Eden]] with an [[Apples of Eden|Apple of Eden]].<ref name="AC2" />
* In 75010 BCE, [[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 [[Human-First Civilization War|war]],<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> with Eve as the leader of humanity.<ref name="AC3L">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''</ref>
*Humanity rose up in rebellion against the First Civilization, starting a ten-year long [[Human-First Civilization War|war]].<ref name="AC2" /> [[Jupiter]], [[Juno]] and [[Minerva]] retreated to the [[Grand Temple]] to find a solution from the impending solar flare, trying six non-succesful options.<ref name="AC3" />
* [[Jupiter]], [[Minerva]] and [[Juno]] withdrew from the war with humanity and retreated into the [[Grand Temple]] to come up with a solution from the incoming solar flare that would devastate the Earth. The trio came up with six solutions, each unsuccessful for differing reasons; while Jupiter and Minerva found the solution to leave their mortal bodies for hologram vessels unethical, Juno agreed with it, causing a rift between her and Jupiter and Minerva and resulting in Juno being locked inside the Grand Temple.<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
* While the First Civilization and humans were waging war against each other, the [[Toba catastrophe|solar flare]] struck Earth in 75000 BCE, nearly extinguishing both races. Less than ten thousand humans survived, and far fewer of the First Civilization.<ref name="ACRV">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref> 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.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
* [[Cain]], the son of Adam and Eve, murdered his brother [[Abel]] to take their parents' Apple of Eden for himself.<ref name="AC2"/>


==5th century BCE==
==750th century BC==
===465 BCE===
===75000 BC===
* [[Darius]], a [[Persian Assassins|Persian Assassin]], assassinated King [[Xerxes I of Persia]],<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref> a Templar ally.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> This assassination was the first recorded use of the Assassins' [[Hidden Blade]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*A [[Toba catastrophe|solar flare]] struck the [[Earth]], exterminating most of the Earth's population;<ref name="AC2" /> less than ten thousand humans, and far fewer members of the First Civilization, survived the catastrophe.<ref name="ACRV" /> Humanity and the First Civilization started working together to rebuild civilization.<ref name="AC2" />


==4th century BCE==
==6th century BC==
===323 BCE===
===522 BC===
* On 10 or 11 June, [[Alexander the Great]], a Templar ally,<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> died after having been poisoned by the [[Babylonian Assassins|Babylonian Assassin]] [[Iltani]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*September: [[Darius I of Persia|Darius I]] claimed the throne of [[Iran|Persia]] from the usurper {{Wiki|Bardiya}} with aid from the Templars.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />


==3rd century BCE==
==5th century BC==
===210 BCE===
===500 BC===
* [[Wei Yu]], a [[Chinese Assassins|Chinese Assassin]], assassinated Emperor [[Qin Shi Huang]],<ref name="AC2"/> the first Emperor of [[China]] and a Templar ally,<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> with a spear.<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Pythagoras]], a [[Greece|Greek]] scholar, established the religious movement of Pythagoreanism, which later influenced [[Hermeticists|Hermeticism]].<ref name="ACI" />
===465 BC===
*August 4: King [[Xerxes I of Persia|Xerxes I]] of Persia, a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin [[Darius]]; this assassination became the first recorded use of the [[Hidden Blade|hidden blade]].<ref name="AC2" />


==1st century BCE==
==4th century BC==
===44 BCE===
===323 BC===
*{{Wiki|Roman general}} [[Gaius Julius Caesar]] was named dictator for life, with the influence of the Templars.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> Forty Senators calling themselves "Liberatores," secretly members of the Assassin Order,<ref name="ACPL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]''</ref> plotted Caesar's assassination under the leadership of Caesar's friend [[Marcus Junius Brutus]].<ref name="ACBH">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref> On 15 March, the Liberatores stabbed Julius Caesar twenty-three times, killing him.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*June 13: [[Alexander the Great]], ruler of the {{Wiki|Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedonian Empire}} and a Templar ally, died after having been fatally poisoned by the Assassin [[Iltani]].<ref name="AC2" />


===42 BCE===
==3rd century BC==
* Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide in late October at the end of the {{Wiki|Battle of Philippi}}. Other members of the Assassin Order tried using the Shroud of Eden to revive Brutus. Brutus was temporarily brought back to life for a very brief moment, only to ultimately die shortly thereafter.<ref name="ACPL"/>
===210 BC===
*September 10: [[Qin Shi Huang]], the first Emperor of [[China]] and a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin [[Wei Yu]] with a spear for his tyranny over China.<ref name="AC2" />


===30 BCE===
==1st century BC==
* [[Amunet]], an [[Egyptian Assassins|Egyptian Assassin]], assassinated [[Cleopatra]],<ref name="AC2"/> Queen of [[Egypt]] and a Templar puppet,<ref name="ACRV"/> with a poisonous asp.<ref name="AC2"/>
===44 BC===
*March 15: [[Gaius Julius Caesar]] was killed by twenty-three Roman Senators, secret members of the Assassin Brotherhood, under leadership of [[Marcus Junius Brutus]],<ref name="ACBH">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref> after he had been named dictator of the [[Roman Republic]] under influence of the Templars.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
===42 BC===
*October 23: Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide when he was nearly defeated by [[Marcus Antonius]] and [[Augustus|Octavian]] at the {{Wiki|Battle of Philippi}}. The Assassins only temporarily managed to revive Brutus with the [[Shroud of Eden]].<ref name="ACPL" />
===30 BC===
*August 12: [[Cleopatra]], Queen of Egypt and a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin [[Amunet]] using a poisonous asp.<ref name="AC2" />


==1st century==
==1st century==
===33===
*April 3: [[Jesus Christ]], the wielder of the [[Shroud of Eden]], was crucified by the Templars, who proceeded to take possession of the artifact.<ref name="AC2" />
===41===
===41===
* [[Leonius]], a [[Roman Assassins|Roman Assassin]], assassinated Roman Emperor [[Caligula]],<ref name="AC2"/> a Templar puppet,<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> with a dagger.<ref name="AC2"/>
*January 24: [[Roman Empire|Roman emperor]] [[Caligula]], a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin [[Leonius]] using a dagger.<ref name="AC2" />
===72===
*Construction began on the Colosseum in [[Rome]] under emperor {{Wiki|Vespasian}}, atop an ancient First Civilization [[Colosseum Vault|vault]].<ref name="ACBH" />


==3rd century==
==3rd century==
===259===
===259===
* The Gallo-Roman Assassin [[Aquilus]] failed to assassinate General [[Gracchus]] of the Roman Empire, and was stabbed in the process, resulting in him losing consciousness.<ref name="AC1D">''[[Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond]]''</ref> Simultaneously, an army of [[Alemanni]] under the command of Aquilus' nephew and fellow Assassin [[Accipiter]] attacked Gracchus' camp, ending in an Alemanni victory and Aquilus' rescue.<ref name="AC2A">''[[Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus]]''</ref>
*The Gallo-Roman Assassin [[Aquilus]] was taken captive by [[Romans]] under command of general [[Gracchus]].<ref name="AC1D">''[[Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond]]''</ref> An army of [[Alemanni]] soldiers, led by the Assassin [[Accipiter]], defeated the Roman legion and saved Aquilus.<ref name="AC2A">''[[Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus]]''</ref>
* Aquilus obtained an ancient artifact known as the [[Ankh]] from Accipiter and transported it to his hometown of [[Lugdunum]].<ref name="AC2A"/>
*Aquilus acquired the [[Ankh]] from Accipiter and transported it to his family's villa in [[Lugdunum]], where his father [[Lucius]] tasked him with the assassination of the local priest [[Faustinus]], who had betrayed the Assassins.<ref name="AC2A" />
* The priest of Lugdunum, [[Faustinus]], a traitor to the local Assassins, was assassinated by Aquilus in his villa.<ref name="AC2A"/>
*The Roman senator and Templar [[Caïus Fulvus Vultur]] killed Lucius and his servant [[Weke]] to obtain the Ankh,<ref name="AC2A" /> and brought it with him to [[Rome]].<ref name="AC3A">''[[Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter]]''</ref>
* [[Lucius]], the father of Aquilus and a high-ranking member of the Assassin Order, and his servant [[Weke]] were killed by Lucius' friend and secret Templar [[Caïus Fulvus Vultur]], who stole the Ankh and took it with him to [[Rome]].<ref name="AC2A"/>
*Aquilus killed Caïus Fulvus Vultur inside his villa in Rome, and took the Ankh back to his home in Lugdunum, where he watched a recording made by his father using the artifact.<ref name="AC3A" />
* Caïus Fulvus Vultur was killed by Aquilus in his Roman villa, and Aquilus returned the Ankh to Lugdunum.<ref name="AC3A">''[[Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter]]''</ref>
*Accipiter brokered a truce with the Prefect of Lugdunum to spare the city from being conquered and sacked by the Alemanni.<ref name="AC3A" />
* Accipiter brokered a truce with the Prefect of Lugdunum, resulting in the Alemanni sparing Lugdunum from plundering and the Prefect paying the Alemanni.<ref name="AC3A"/>
*Aquilus and his wife [[Valeria]] were captured by Roman soldiers and transported to be executed in {{Wiki|Roanne|Rodumna}}. Aquilus was killed by one of the soldiers when the convoy was ambushed by Accipiter.<ref name="AC3A" />
* Aquilus and his wife [[Valeria]] were captured by Roman guards in their villa, and escorted towards {{Wiki|Roanne|Rodumna}} for trial. The Roman guards were ambushed by Accipiter, causing the Romans to panic and kill Aquilus. Accipiter entrusted Valeria with hiding the Ankh while he continued to lead the Alemanni in battle against the Romans.<ref name="AC3A"/>
 
==11th century==
===1003===
*May 12: Pope [[Sylvester II]], a Templar leader, was branded a heretic and burned at the stake for promoting scientific development during the Middle Ages.<ref name="ACRV" />
===1099===
*July 15: An army of [[Crusaders]] captured the city of [[Jerusalem]], marking the end of the {{Wiki|First Crusade}} and the start of a Crusader presence in the Holy Land for over two centuries.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />


==12th century==
==12th century==
===1129===
===1129===
* The Order of the Knights Templar was publicly founded with the help of [[Bernard de Clairvaux]], who established the ''Latin rule'', and [[Hugues de Payens]] became the Order's first publicly recognized [[Grand Master]].<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*January 13: The Order of the Knights Templar was publicly recognized during the {{Wiki|Council of Troyes}}, with [[Hugues de Payens]] serving as the first public [[Grand Master]]. With help from [[Bernard de Clairvaux]], de Payens formed the Latin Rule.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
 
===1176===
===1176===
* Sultan [[Salāḥ ad-Dīn|Saladin]], the leader of the [[Saracens]], besieged the [[Levantine Assassins]]' fortress in [[Masyaf]]. [[Rashid ad-Din Sinan]], leader of the Levantine Assassins, assigned [[Ahmad Sofian]] to spy on the Saracen forces. After Sofian revealed the real location of the Saracen camp, [[Master Assassin]] [[Umar Ibn-La'Ahad]] infiltrated the Sultan's tent and left a note tied to a dagger in his personal quarters, though killing a Saracen nobleman in the process.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*August:
* Ahmad Sofian was captured by the Saracens, and [[Šihāb ad-Dīn|Shihab Al'din]] was sent to Masyaf castle to bring an offer of peace. Though against Rashid ad-Din Sinan's will, Umar Ibn-La'Ahad was forced to be executed to save the life of Ahmad Sofian.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
**Sultan [[Salāḥ ad-Dīn]] laid siege to the Levantine Assassins' fortress in [[Masyaf]]. Acting upon information received from [[Ahmad Sofian]], the Mentor [[Rashid ad-Din Sinan]] tasked [[Umar Ibn-La'Ahad]] with infiltrating the enemy camp, where he left a note tied to a dagger in Salāḥ ad-Dīn's tent.<ref name="TSC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''</ref>
* Ahmad Sofian, feeling guilt over Umar's death, committed suicide in the quarters of Umar's son [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad]] before asking for his forgiveness. Altaïr and Ahmad's son [[Abbas Sofian|Abbas]] began their tutelage under Rashid ad-Din Sinan.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
**Šihāb ad-Dīn, uncle to Salāḥ ad-Dīn, brokered a truce with the Assassins on the condition that Umar Ibn-La'Ahad be executed for taking the life of a Ayyubid nobleman during his infiltration of their camp. Against Sinan's will, Umar voluntarily had his life taken.<ref name="TSC" />
 
**Ahmad Sofian committed suicide inside the quarters of Umar Ibn-La'Ahad's son [[Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad|Altaïr]] because of his remorse over giving Umar's name to the Saracens while in their captivity.<ref name="TSC" />
===1187===
*July 4: The {{Wiki|Battle of Hattin}} occurred between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the [[Saracens|Saracen]] forces of Saladin, resulting in a Saracen victory. King {{Wiki|Guy of Lusignan}}, Templar Grand Master [[Gerard de Ridefort]] and {{Wiki|Raynald of Châtillon}} were taken as prisoners and later released.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
===1189===
===1189===
* [[Haras]], a Levantine Assassin apprentice, betrayed the Assassin Order and joined the Templars, leading a Templar attack on Masyaf castle.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad assassinated [[Haras]], an Assassin-turned Templar, in Masyaf fortress during an attack by the Templars, saving the life of Rashid ad-Din Sinan.<ref name="ACRV" /> Altaïr was elevated to the rank of Master Assassin.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
* 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.<ref name="ACRV"/>
 
===1190===
===1190===
*[[Basilisk]], leader of the Knights Templar, ordered an attack on the Assassin headquarters in [[Alep]]po. The Assassins, reinforced by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad upon his return from a mission, were able to repel the Templar attack.<ref name="ACAC">''[[Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles]]''</ref>
*The Knights Templar besieged the Assassins' fortress in [[Alep]]po, on orders of their de facto leader Lord [[Basilisk]], though the Assassins were able to fend off the attack.<ref name="ACAC">''[[Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles]]''</ref>
*Mentor Rashid ad-Din Sinan tasked Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad with finding the "Chalice", a supposed ancient artifact that held powers similar to the Pieces of Eden.<ref name="ACAC"/>
*Rashid ad-Din Sinan tasked Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad with finding the Chalice, an ancient artifact that held powers similar to a Piece of Eden.<ref name="ACAC" />
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad journeyed to [[Damascus]] to seek out a merchant named [[Tamir (1190)|Tamir]]. Employing the aid of the local Rafiq, Altaïr interrogated Tamir's acquaintance [[Misbah]] and later confronted the merchant himself. Being informed of the existence of the [[Temple of the Sand]] and a dancer named [[Fajera]] having a key, Altaïr ended Tamir's life inside his own house.<ref name="ACAC"/>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad traveled to Damascus and assassinated the Templar merchant [[Tamir]], and the Templar Knight [[Alaat]] on behalf of [[Fajera]], who handed him one of the keys to the [[Temple of the Sand]], where the Chalice was supposedly held.<ref name="ACAC" />
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad met with the dancer Fajera and eliminated her accomplice [[Badr]], and proceeded to chase after Fajera. Upon her capture, Fajera gave Altaïr the key and asked her help in eliminating the Templar [[Alaat]]. Infiltrating a local bathtub, Altaïr assassinated the Templar, and Fajera told him of another key in [[Tyre]].<ref name="ACAC"/>
*[[Roland Napule]] was assassinated by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in [[Tyre]] on orders of the local rafiq [[Hamid (Tyre)|Hamid]]. Altaïr retrieved a second key to the Temple of the Sand from one of Napule's captives.<ref name="ACAC" />
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad met up with [[Hamid]] in Tyre and was told to eliminate the Templar [[Roland Napule]], a doctor who was keeping the key holder captive. Altaïr assassinated Napule and obtained the key from the holder, and heard of the third key being held by Templar leader Basilisk in [[Jerusalem]].<ref name="ACAC"/>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad retrieved the third key to the Temple of the Sand from Templar leader Basilisk at a party in [[Jerusalem]], acting upon information gained from the rafiq [[Kadar]] and the nobleman [[Ayman]].<ref name="ACAC" />
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad met with Rafiq [[Kadar]] in Jerusalem, and discovered that Basilisk frequently attended parties hosted by the King of Jerusalem, and went to interrogate one of the attendants, the nobleman [[Ayman]]. Knowing the party's location, Altaïr joined the party and retrieved Basiliks's key during a confrontation with the Templar leader.<ref name="ACAC"/>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed the [[Master of the Tower|Master]] of the Templars' Jerusalem Tower and his [[Master of the Tower's student|student]] while attempting to retrieve a map of the Temple of the Sand.<ref name="ACAC" />
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad infiltrated the Templars' Jerusalem Tower to secure a map to the Temple of the Sand, and in the process killed the Tower's [[Master of the Tower|Master]], a Templar trained in the ways of the Assassins, and [[Master of the Tower's student|his student]].<ref name="ACAC"/>
*Lord Basilisk attempted to stop the {{Wiki|Siege of Acre (1189–91)|Siege of Acre}} by poisoning [[Acre]]'s water supply, though the plan was thwarted by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Altaïr bested Basilisk in combat, but spared his life in exchange for the location of the Chalice.<ref name="ACAC" />
*The Knights Templar, and later Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, infiltrated the Temple of the Sand to find the Chalice. Altaïr arrived at the Chalice's chamber, only to be met by Basilisk, and being informed that the Chalice was a woman. As the temple started to cave in, the Templars and Altaïr made their escape.<ref name="ACAC"/>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed [[Harash]], the second-in-command of Rashid ad-Din Sinan, after hearing of his betrayal from [[Adha]], who revealed herself to be the Chalice.<ref name="ACAC" />
*Basilisk, with Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in pursuit, returned to Tyre, where Basilisk planned to poison the water supply to end the costly [[Siege of Acre]], though Altaïr proceeded to rescue two Assassins on Hamid's request. Altaïr confronted Basilisk and bested him in combat, though agreed to spare him in exchange for information on the Chalice's location and their plans for Acre. Altaïr left for Acre, where he killed the Templar commander.<ref name="ACAC"/>
*Lord Basilisk was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in the harbor of Tyre, after the Templars captured Adha. Despite Basilisk's death, the Templars shipped Adha away from Tyre.<ref name="ACAC" />
*Upon arrival in Jerusalem, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad found the Knights Templar escorting the Chalice - in fact a woman named [[Adha]] - and saved her and escaped through the sewers. Adha revealed the betrayal of Sinan's second-in-command [[Harash]], and Altaïr left for Aleppo, where he finished the traitor.<ref name="ACAC"/>
*Adha was recaptured by the Knights Templar and taken to Tyre, with Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad pursuing them to the docks to save her. Basilisk challenged Altaïr to a duel, but was eventually killed after a long battle, only for Altaïr to discover that Adha was held on a different ship than Basilisk's, and witnessed the ship leaving Tyre.<ref name="ACAC"/>
 
===1191===
===1191===
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and the brothers [[Malik Al-Sayf|Malik]] and [[Kadar Al-Sayf]] were sent to retrieve the [[Apple of Eden 2|Apple of Eden #2]], known only to them as the "Templar treasure," from a vault in [[Solomon's Temple]] in Jerusalem. Altaïr confronted the Templar Grand Master [[Robert de Sable]] inside the vault, which eventually resulted in the death of Kadar and the severe wounding of Malik's right arm. Despite his wound, Malik was able to retrieve the Apple of Eden and return it to Masyaf.<ref name="AC">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref>
*July:
* The Templars followed Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Malik Al-Sayf back to the Assassins' headquarters in Masyaf, and laid siege to the castle. They were eventually routed by Altaïr, who caused several tree logs to crush the Templar army. Robert de Sable and the remaining group of Templars fled.<ref name="AC"/>
**Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and the brothers [[Malik Al-Sayf|Malik]] and [[Kadar Al-Sayf]] infiltrated the [[Jerusalem Vault]] to retrieve an [[Apple of Eden 2|Apple of Eden]]. After encountering Templars led by Grand Master [[Robert de Sable]], Kadar was killed and Malik lost his left arm, though the latter brought the artifact back to Masyaf.<ref name="AC1">''[[Assassin's Creed]]''</ref>
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad was punished for breaking the three tenets of [[the Creed]], and was demoted to the rank of [[novice]]. Rashid ad-Din Sinan sent Altaïr on a quest to eliminate nine high-ranking Templars fighting on both the sides of the [[Crusaders]] and [[Saracens]] during the [[Third Crusade]] in order to restore his rank and honor.<ref name="AC"/>
**The Assassins fended off an attack by the Knights Templar led by Robert de Sable. Rashid ad-Din Sinan demoted Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad for betraying the three tenets of the Assassin's Creed.<ref name="AC1" />
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad went on a quest through the Levant, killing eight of his Templar targets - [[Tamir]], [[Garnier de Naplouse]], [[Talal]], [[Abu'l Nuqoud]], [[William of Montferrat]], [[Majd Addin]], [[Sibrand]] and [[Jubair al Hakim]] - across the cities of [[Damascus]], [[Acre]] and [[Jerusalem]].<ref name="AC"/>
*July–September: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed eight of his nine Templar assassination targets – [[Tamir]], [[Garnier de Naplouse]], [[Talal]], [[Abu'l Nuqoud]], [[William of Montferrat]], [[Majd Addin]], [[Sibrand]] and [[Jubair al Hakim]] – in the cities of Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem, to restore his rank of Master Assassin.<ref name="AC1" />
* The Templar [[Maria Thorpe]] was assigned to act as a decoy for Robert de Sable, who realized he was Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's next target. Altaïr was fooled into thinking Maria was Robert, but spared her life when he uncovered her identity. At the same time, Robert had managed to unite King [[Richard I of England]] and Sultan Saladin against the Assassins, but was ultimately killed by Altaïr during the [[Battle of Arsuf]] after having been granted a duel with the Grand Master by King Richard.<ref name="AC"/>
*September: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad attempted to assassinate Robert de Sable at the funeral of Majd Addin in Jerusalem, but discovered that Robert had assigned [[Maria Thorpe]] as his decoy. Altaïr spared Maria's life.<ref name="AC1" />
* Rashid ad-Din Sinan betrayed the Assassin Order, and used Apple of Eden #2 to brainwash the Assassins and civilians of Masyaf to follow his command. Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad ordered Malik Al-Sayf to distract the Assassins in the village while Altaïr confronted his Mentor. After a long duel facing much of Sinan's illusions created by the Apple, Altaïr was able to kill his master,<ref name="AC"/> and hid the Apple in Sinan's study.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*September 7: Crusader and Saracen forces clashed at the [[Battle of Arsuf]], where the Crusaders emerged victorious. The Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad fought his way across the battlefield to the Crusader camp, where he challenged Robert de Sable to a duel, in which de Sable was killed.<ref name="AC1" />
* Altaïr burned Rashid ad-Din Sinan's body to prevent him from possibly resurrecting from death, against the Assassins' rule to not burn a man's body. A small civil war broke out targeting Altaïr, fueled by Abbas Sofian, who stole the Apple from Sinan's study and activated it on top a watchtower outside of Masyaf castle. The Apple began draining the life from Abbas' body, but Altaïr managed to save Abbas and as a result stopped the civil war.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*September:
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad persuaded the Levantine Assassins of his capability to lead the Assassins and won their hearts, and Altaïr was eventually accepted as Mentor of the Levantine Assassins.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
**Rashid ad-Din Sinan was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad after betraying the Assassin Brotherhood by brainwashing his subjects using the Apple of Eden to make them worship him.<ref name="AC1" />
* Templar Grand Master [[Armand Bouchart]], successor to Robert de Sable, purchased the island of [[Cyprus]] from King Richard I and started making preparations to relocate the Knights Templar to the island.<ref name="ACBL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines]]''</ref>
**[[Abbas Sofian]] sparked a minor civil war among the Assassins against Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Abbas stole Rashid ad-Din Sinan's Apple of Eden, though it slowly began killing him, until he was saved by Altaïr.<ref name="ACRV" />
* In Fall 1191, Altaïr and the Levantine Assassins led an attack on the Templars in Acre's harbor, where the Templars were setting sail to their newly-bought island of Cyprus. Altaïr captured Maria Thorpe, with whom traveled to Cyprus to eliminate the Templars.<ref name="ACBL"/>
**Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad succeeded Rashid ad-Din Sinan as Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins, after persuading the Assassins of his capabilities.<ref name="TSC" />
 
*Fall:
**Grand Master Armand Bouchart, who succeeded Robert de Sable, relocated the Knights Templar to [[Cyprus]]. During their relocation from Acre, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad led an Assassin attack on Acre's harbor and captured Maria Thorpe.<ref name="ACBL" />
**Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed the Templar captain [[Fredrick|Frederick "the Red"]] in [[Limassol Castle]], after establishing contact with [[Alexander of Limassol|Alexander]] of [[Limassol]], the local leader of the [[Cypriot Resistance|resistance]] against the Knights Templar.<ref name="ACBL" />
**Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued Maria Thorpe from imprisonment by Armand Bouchart, who did not intend to break the [[Latin Rule]] by conspiring with women. The two traveled by boat to [[Kyrenia]].<ref name="ACBL" />
===1192===
===1192===
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad made contact with [[Alexander of Limassol|Alexander]], leader of the [[Cypriot Resistance|resistance]] against the Templar oppressors in [[Limassol]]. With help from the Templar guard [[Osman]], Altaïr killed the Templar captain [[Fredrick|Frederick "the Red"]] in Limassol castle.<ref name="ACBL"/>
*[[Jonas]], a merchant from Kyrenia, was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad on behalf of a [[Armand Bouchart's agent|a Templar agent]] posing as the Kyrenia resistance leader [[Barnabas]], triggering a riot among the populace.<ref name="ACBL" />
* Upon meeting with Maria Thorpe, Armand Bouchart ordered Maria's arrest, claiming that consorting with women was forbidden by the Templar rules. She was rescued by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who later took her with him on a boat to [[Kyrenia]] to take down the Templar presence there.<ref name="ACBL"/>
*[[Moloch]], leader of a local group of fanatics and a Templar ally, was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in [[Kantara Castle]], acting upon information gained from Maria Thorpe and resistance soldier [[Markos]].<ref name="ACBL" />
* [[Barnabas]], the leader of the resistance against the Templars in Kyrenia, was killed by a [[Armand Bouchart's agent|Templar agent]], who pretended to be Barnabas when Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad arrived in the city. The Templar agent tasked Altaïr with killing a man named [[Jonas]], making the Assassin believe that Jonas had betrayed the resistance.<ref name="ACBL"/>
*The [[Dark Oracle]], a former Cypriot noblewoman, provided the Knights Templar with the locations of resistance members. Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued the members from captivity, and killed the Dark Oracle in [[Buffavento Castle]].<ref name="ACBL" />
* With directions from Maria Thorpe and the resistance soldier [[Markos]], Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad infiltrated [[Kantara Castle]] in Kyrenia and killed [[Moloch]], leader of a local group of fanatics and a Templar ally.<ref name="ACBL"/>
*Maria Thorpe and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad infiltrated [[Saint Hilarion Castle]], where Altaïr killed Moloch's sons, the Templars [[Shalim]] and [[Shahar]], eradicating the Templar presence in Kyrenia.<ref name="ACBL" />
* Using a psychotic Cypriot noblewoman only referred to as the "[[Dark Oracle]]," the Templars found the locations of several resistance members and ordered their capture. The men were rescued by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who proceeded to infiltrate [[Buffavento Castle]], where he entered the castle's prisons and killed the Dark Oracle.<ref name="ACBL"/>
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad followed Maria Thorpe into [[Saint Hilarion Castle]] with the objective of killing the Templar lieutenant [[Shalim]]. Discovering Altaïr, Maria left the Assassin to fight Shalim and his twin brother [[Shahar]] alone. Altaïr killed the brothers, eradicating the Templar presence in Kyrenia.<ref name="ACBL"/>
 
===1193===
===1193===
* The Templars started moving artifacts out of the [[Templar Archive]] in Limassol to an unknown location. The Templar agent was killed by Maria Thorpe atop the Archive, and Maria and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad entered the Templar Archive to confront Armand Bouchart. The Templar Grand Master quickly knocked Maria down, but was eventually killed by Altaïr after a long battle. Altaïr and Maria left Cyprus and traveled to Masyaf together.<ref name="ACBL"/>
*The Knights Templar moved all their artifacts out of the Templar Archive in Limassol to an unknown location, on orders of Grand Master Armand Bouchart.<ref name="ACBL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines]]''</ref>
*Grand Master Armand Bouchart was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, during a duel between the two in the Templar Archive.<ref name="ACBL" />


==13th century==
==13th century==
===1204===
===1204===
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad traveled to [[Constantinople]] in the [[Byzantine Empire]] to bring the Assassin ideology to the city. Due to the ongoing [[Fourth Crusade]], Altaïr was forced to return to Masyaf.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*July 12: The Crusaders conquered and sacked the city of [[Constantinople]], ending the [[Fourth Crusade]]. During the siege, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had come to Constantinople to spread the influence of the Assassins, was forced to retreat from the city.<ref name="TSC" />
 
===1215===
*The [[First Barons' War]] started between the forces of King {{Wiki|John, King of England|John}} of England, supported by the Assassin [[William of Cassingham]], and the rebelling English Barons, led by the Assassin [[Robert Fitzwalter]] and aided by [[France]].<ref name="ACM">''[[Assassin's Creed: Memories]]''</ref>
===1217===
===1217===
* The Mentor of the Levantine Assassins, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, his wife Maria and son [[Darim Ibn-La'Ahad|Darim]] left Masyaf to deal with the approaching [[Mongol Empire|Mongol]] threat; Malik Al-Sayf temporarily took over control of the Levantine Assassins.<ref name="ACTSC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''</ref>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, his wife Maria and their son [[Darim Ibn-La'Ahad|Darim]] left Masyaf to oppose the rise of the [[Mongol Empire]] and eliminate [[Genghis Khan]]. Malik Al-Sayf was left to lead the Assassins, with help of Darim's younger brother [[Sef Ibn-La'Ahad|Sef]].<ref name="TSC" />
 
===1226===
===1225===
*[[Sef Ibn-La'Ahad]], son of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, was killed by the apprentice [[Swami]] on orders of Abbas Sofian, in an attempt to claim control of the Levantine Assassins.<ref name="TSC" />
* [[Swami]], an Assassin apprentice, killed [[Sef Ibn-La'Ahad]] on orders of Abbas Sofian, leaving the murder weapon in Malik Al-Sayf's bed.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*Malik Al-Sayf was framed for the murder of Sef Ibn-La'Ahad by Abbas Sofian, who placed a council in charge of the Levantine Assassins, with himself at its head.<ref name="TSC" />
* Malik Al-Sayf was imprisoned in Masyaf's dungeon after having been framed of Sef's murder. Abbas Sofian placed a council in control of the Levantine Assassins, with himself at its head.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
 
===1227===
===1227===
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria and Darim worked together with the [[Mongolian Assassins|Mongolian Assassin]] [[Qulan Gal]] in an attempt to kill the Mongol Emperor [[Genghis Khan]].<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*February: [[Jochi Khan]], first son of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan, was fatally poisoned by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad.<ref name="ACM" />
* 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 was wounded in the process. Genghis Khan was alarmed and tried to escape on horseback.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*August: Genghis Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, was killed by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in China, after he fell off his horse when it was shot by [[Qulan Gal]].<ref name="TSC" />
* 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.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
 
===1228===
===1228===
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria and Darim returned to Masyaf, where Altaïr and Maria were informed of their son's death and the ruling council.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria Thorpe and their son Darim returned to Masyaf, where they were informed of the ruling council. Darim traveled to [[Alamut]] to meet with Sef's wife and children.<ref name="TSC" />
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued Malik Al-Sayf from Masyaf's dungeons, from whom he heard the truth about his son's death. Altaïr and Maria left to confront Abbas Sofian, and Malik was beheaded by Swami in their absence.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*Malik Al-Sayf was rescued by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad from Masyaf's dungeons, from whom Altaïr heard the truth about his son Sef's death. In Altaïr's and Maria's absence, Malik was beheaded by Swami.<ref name="TSC" />
* 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 was forced to flee the scene.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Maria Thorpe confronted Abbas Sofian in Masyaf's fortress. Upon being taunted by Swami, Altaïr used the Apple to force Swami to kill himself. In the ensuing frenzy, Swami fatally stabbed Maria.<ref name="TSC" /> Altaïr escaped Masyaf with help from his son Darim.<ref name="ACRV" />
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad escaped Masyaf with the help of his son Darim,<ref name="ACRV"/> and began self-imposed exile in [[Alamut]].<ref name="ACTSC"/> Abbas usurped the title of Mentor.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*Altaïr exiled himself to the Assassins' fortress at Alamut,<ref name="TSC" /> while Abbas usurped the title of Mentor.<ref name="ACRV" /> At Alamut, Altaïr made several discoveries and inventions using the Apple of Eden, and discovered [[Memory Seals]] in the [[Alamut Temple|Temple]] beneath the fortress.<ref name="TSC" />
 
===1241===
*December 11: [[Ögedei Khan]], the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and the third son of Genghis Khan, was killed by the Assassin [[Nergüi]].<ref name="ACM" />
===1247===
===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.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*The merchant [[Mukhlis]] from the brigands [[Bayhas]] and his henchmen outside Masyaf by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had returned from his self-imposed exile in Alamut.<ref name="TSC" />
* 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|Tazim]].<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad started gaining the support of the Levantine Assassins and Masyaf's villagers in attempting to take back the declining Brotherhood under Abbas Sofian, and befriended Malik Al-Sayf's son [[Tazim Al-Sayf|Tazim]].<ref name="TSC" />
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad gathered his Assassin supporters near Masyaf and ordered his men to engage and disarm Abbas Sofian's supporters. Abbas' supporters eventually put down their arms, and opened the gates of Masyaf's inner keep for Altaïr, welcoming their former Mentor.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*Abbas Sofian was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad using the [[Hidden Gun]], during a non-violent assault on Masyaf fortress by Altaïr and his supporters. Altaïr was welcomed as Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins.<ref name="TSC" />
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad confronted Abbas Sofian, and utilized the [[Hidden Gun|hidden gun]] - one of the inventions created with knowledge gained by the Apple of Eden - for the first time on his nemesis, which killed him and allowed Altaïr to retake control of the Levantine Assassin Brotherhood.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*Construction began on a [[Library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad|hidden library]] beneath the fortress of Masyaf, under orders of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.<ref name="TSC" />
* Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad began the construction of a [[Library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad|library]] underneath Masyaf castle.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
 
===1250===
===1250===
*The Egyptian Brotherhood of Assassins aided the rebelling [[Mamluks]] in opposition of the reigning {{Wiki|Ayyubid dynasty}} by giving them the [[Scepter of Aset]], resulting in the start of the {{Wiki|Bahri dynasty}}.<ref name="AC4H">''[[Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk]]''</ref>
*An [[Egyptian Assassin (1250)|unidentified Egyptian Assassin]] obtained the [[Scepter of Aset]] and brought it to the rebelling [[Mamluks]], who used it to remove the reigning [[Ayyubid dynasty]] from power and found the [[Bahri dynasty]].<ref name="AC4H">''[[Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk]]''</ref>
 
===1255===
*[[Batu Khan]], founder of the {{Wiki|Golden Horde}}, a sub-khanate of the Mongol Empire, was murdered on orders of his subordinate [[Alexander Nevsky]].<ref name="ACM" />
===1256===
===1256===
* [[Hülegü Khan|Hulagu Khan]] led the Mongols towards the Levant, destroying several of the Levantine Assassins' fortresses.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*December 15: [[Hülegü Khan]] destroyed the Assassin fortress of Alamut, during his destruction of the Levantine Assassins' holdings.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
 
===1257===
===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 as a widespread organization.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*January: [[Niccolò Polo|Niccolò]] and [[Maffeo Polo]] arrived in Masyaf on invitation of their friend Darim Ibn-La'Ahad, and became acquainted with the Mentor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.<ref name="TSC" />
* The [[Venice|Venetian]] explorers [[Niccolò Polo|Niccolò]] and [[Maffeo Polo]] traveled to Masyaf at the request of their friend Darim Ibn-La'Ahad,<ref name="ACTSC"/> where they received Assassin training from the Mentor Altaïr.<ref name="ACRV"/> 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]]."<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*July: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and his son Darim began training Niccolò and Maffeo Polo in the ways of the Assassin Brotherhood, in the hopes that they would help spread their ideology to the west. Niccolò started writing his journal, ''[[The Secret Crusade]]'', detailing Altaïr's life.<ref name="TSC" />
* On 12 August,<ref name="ACTSC"/> Hulagu Khan started besieging the Levantine Assassins' headquarters of Masyaf castle.<ref name="ACRV novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' novel]]</ref>
*August 12:
* 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.<ref name="ACRV"/> The Polos lost the Codex to a Mongol attacking party while returning to their hometown of Constantinople.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
**Hülegü Khan began the Mongol siege on the Assassin fortress at Masyaf,<ref name="TSC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''</ref> ultimately rendering the fortress abandoned.<ref name="ACRV" />
* 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 Seals|Memory Seal]] he had found before passing away on a chair.<ref name="ACRV"/>
**Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad guided Niccolò and Maffeo Polo out of the city and granted them his Codex, the Masyaf Keys and several books, and allowed the rest of the Brotherhood to escape.<ref name="ACRV" />
 
**Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad passed away after locking himself inside his library with the Apple of Eden and imprinting his last memory into the sixth Memory Seal.<ref name="ACRV" />
*August 14: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo were attacked by a Mongol raiding party in the Syrian countryside, and lost Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex.<ref name="ACRV novel" />
===1258===
===1258===
* On 1 January, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo began founding an [[Assassins Guilds|Assassins Guild]] in Constantinople.<ref name="ACTSC"/>
*January 1: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo established an Assassins Guild in Constantinople, in the Byzantine Empire.<ref name="TSC" />
* Niccolò and Maffeo Polo scattered Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's books around various landmarks in Constantinople, and hid the Masyaf Keys in underground tombs.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*January: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo scattered Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's books around various landmarks in Constantinople, and hid the five Masyaf Keys in underground tombs located beneath the city.<ref name="TSC" />
 
===1259===
===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]].<ref name="ACRV"/>
*Niccolò and Maffeo Polo left Constantinople to journey to the Mongol Empire to retrieve Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex, without succes.<ref name="ACRV" />
 
===1263===
*November 14: Alexander Nevsky, a Russian leader and Templar ally, was killed by the Assassin Nergüi for his alliance with the {{Wiki|Golden Horde}} and influence over the Mongol Empire.<ref name="ACM" />
===1265===
*February 8: Hülegü Khan was killed by the Mongolian Assassin Nergüi, out of retribution for the destruction of Masyaf and the Levantine Assassins.<ref name="ACM" />
===1269===
===1269===
* Niccolò and Maffeo Polo arrived in Venice, Italy, where they founded another Assassins Guild,<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> also training Niccolò's son [[Marco Polo]] to become an Assassin.<ref name="AC2"/>
*Niccolò and Maffeo Polo returned to their home in [[Venice]], Italy, where they established an Assassins Guild.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
 
===1271===
===1271===
* Niccolò and Maffeo Polo left on another journey through Asia, taking Marco Polo with them.<ref name="ACRV"/> Marco was able to retrieve the Codex from the Mongol Emperor [[Kublai Khan]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*November: [[Marco Polo]] left on a journey to Asia with his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo, intent on retrieving the codex of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.<ref name="ACI" />
 
===1275===
===1296===
*May: [[Marco Polo]] retrieved Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex from [[Kublai Khan]]'s summer palace in {{Wiki|Shangdu}}, bringing it with him when he returned to Venice several years later.<ref name="ACI" />
* The [[Italian Assassins|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.<ref name="AC2"/>


==14th century==
==14th century==
===1307===
===1307===
* The Assassins secretly influenced King [[Philip IV of France]] to turn against the Knights Templar. Philip branded them heretics, and hundreds of Knights Templar were burned at the stake.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*October 13: The Knights Templar were branded heretics on orders of King [[Philip IV of France|Philip IV]] of France, under influence of the Assassins,<ref name="Encyclopedia">''[[Assassin's Creed: Encyclopedia]]''</ref> and their [[Temple]] in [[Paris]] was besieged. A [[French Templar (1307)|Templar Knight]] hid their Sword of Eden and ''[[Codex Pater Intellectus]]'' from the Assassin [[Thomas de Carneillon]].<ref name="ACU">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]''</ref>
 
===1314===
===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 their enemies into thinking the Order was disbanded and thus saving the lives of his remaining Templar brethren.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*March 18: [[Jacques de Molay]], the last publicly recognized Grand Master of the Knights Templar<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> and Sage,<ref name="ACU" /> was burned at the stake alongside Geoffroi de Charney. Before his death, de Molay sent nine of his most trusted men across the known world to continue the Order's objectives underground.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
 
===1321===
===1321===
* On 14 September, Dante Alighieri was killed by the Templars.<ref name="AC2"/>
*September 14: Dante Alighieri was killed by the Templars, revealing their continued existence to the Assassins.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>
* 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]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*Domenico Auditore and his wife and son attempted to bring Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex to Spain, but were attacked in the [[Otranto]] harbor by pirates employed by the Templars; his wife did not survive the encounter.<ref name="AC2" />
* 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.<ref name="AC2"/>
 
===1324===
===1324===
* Marco Polo was killed by the Templars circa January 9.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*January: Marco Polo, and later Domenico Auditore's father, were killed by the Templars.<ref name="AC2" />
* Domenico Auditore's father was killed by the Templars.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*Domenico Auditore bought and renovated the villa in [[Monteriggioni]], renaming it [[Villa Auditore]]. Monteriggioni became the headquarters of the Italian Assassins.<ref name="AC2" />
* 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.<ref name="AC2"/>
 
===1338===
===1338===
* The [[Germany|German]] [[Lukas Zurburg]] was saved by the Assassins from a road thief while traveling from {{Wiki|Essen}} to {{Wiki|Adendorf}}, and joined their Order.<ref name="ACDYL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy|Assassin's Creed: Discover Your Legacy]]''</ref>
*[[Lukas Zurburg]] was saved by the Assassins from a road thief while travelling from {{Wiki|Essen}} to {{Wiki|Adendorf}}. Zurburg joined the Assassin Brotherhood.<ref name="DYL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy]]''</ref>
 
===1340===
===1340===
* The Templars stole the Scepter of Aset from the reigning {{Wiki|Bahri dynasty}}.<ref name="AC4H"/>
*The Templars stole the Scepter of Aset from the reigning [[Bahri dynasty]] of Egypt.<ref name="AC4H" />
* The Assassin [[Numa Al'Khamsin]] was tasked with finding and retrieving the Scepter of Aset. Journeying to [[Cairo]], his investigation led him to [[Bachir Al-Djallil]], a merchant in collusion with the Templars, who revealed the artifact was taken to {{Wiki|Karnak}}. Numa killed the merchant after his interrogation, for previously having raped and killed dozens of girls.<ref name="AC4H"/>
*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.<ref name="AC4H" />
 
===1341===
*June 7: The reigning Bahri Sultan of Egypt, [[Al-Nasir Muhammad]], was killed by his servant [[Leila]], a secret Templar agent.<ref name="AC5EC">''[[Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr]]''</ref>
*Numa Al'Khamsin and his apprentice [[Ali Al-Ghrabe]] recovered the Scepter of Aset, disassembled in an Ankh-shaped box, from the Templars in Karnak.<ref name="AC5EC" />
===1348===
===1348===
* The [[Brothers of the Cross]], a secret Templar organization, traveled through the [[Holy Roman Empire]] offering the people protection from the {{Wiki|Plague (disease)|plague}}. Secretly, their real objective was to find the Ankh.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*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 {{Wiki|Black Death}}.<ref name="DYL" />
 
===1350===
===1350===
* The Brothers of the Cross and Lukas Zurburg mysteriously vanished from public view.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*The Brothers of the Cross and Lukas Zurburg mysteriously vanished from public view.<ref name="DYL" />
===1353===
*The Assassins stole the [[Shroud of Eden]] from [[Geoffroy de Charny]], a French knight and Templar, and replaced it with a forgery. A member of the Auditore family ordered the Shroud to be buried beneath the Villa Auditore.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1398===
*June 2: A Templar expedition led by the Templar Knights {{Wiki|Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney|Henry Sinclair}} and [[James Gunn]] landed on [[North America]]n soil.<ref name="ACRG">''[[Assassin's Creed: Rogue]]''</ref>


==15th century==
==15th century==
===1402===
===1402===
* Zhu Di, aided by the Templars, became the third emperor of the {{Wiki|Ming Dynasty}} of China, taking on the name [[Yongle]].<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*July 17: Zhu Di became the [[Yongle|Yongle Emperor]], with aid from the Templars, founding the {{Wiki|Ming dynasty}} and succeeding the {{Wiki|Jianwen Emperor}}.<ref name="DYL" />
* 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.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*July: The Chinese imperial army arrested and executed thousands of people, on orders of the Yongle Emperor, on suspicions of being Assassins; the Assassin leader [[Fang Xiaoru]] was killed during the [[1402 Chinese Assassin purge|purge]]. [[Li Tong]] managed to escape the Assassin headquarters in [[Beijing]] with an Apple of Eden.<ref name="DYL" />
 
===1417===
*The Chinese admiral [[Zheng He]] started his fifth exploration voyage, discovering lands in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East, ahead of European explorers.<ref name="ACI" />
===1424===
===1424===
* On 12 August, the Yongle Emperor of China was assassinated by the Assassin Li Tong while trying to suppress a rebellion near the {{Wiki|Gobi Desert}}.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*August 12: The Yongle Emperor was assassinated by the Assassin Li Tong while trying to suppress a rebellion in the {{Wiki|Gobi Desert}}.<ref name="DYL" />
 
===1431===
===1431===
* [[Jeanne d'Arc|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.<ref name="AC2"/>
*May 30: [[Jeanne d'Arc]] was burned at the stake by the English, an act that was orchestrated by the Templars to obtain the Sword of Eden she had in her possession.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1440===
*June 29: The [[Battle of Anghiari]] was fought between the Florentine and Milanese armies. A 6-year old [[Mario Auditore]] alerted the Florentine commander {{Wiki|Micheletto Attendolo}} of a surprise attack by the Milanese, resulting in a Florentine victory.<ref name="AC2" />
===1442===
*[[Ilario Auditore]], an old friend of {{Wiki|Cosimo de' Medici}}, was succeeded as Gonfaloniere of [[Florence]] by Luca Albizzi.<ref name="AC2" />
===1453===
===1453===
*Sultan [[Mehmet II]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]], in the possession of [[Ezio's Apple of Eden|an Apple of Eden]], led the Ottomans to attack the city of Constantinople and conquered it from the ruling [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantines]].<ref name="ACRC">''[[Assassin's Creed: Recollection]]''</ref>
*May 29: Sultan [[Mehmet II]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] conquered [[Constantinople]], the capital of the Byzantine Empire, utilizing an Apple of Eden, effectively destroying the Byzantine Empire.<ref name="ACRC">''[[Assassin's Creed: Recollection]]''</ref>'
 
===1454===
===1454===
* [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]], an Assassin and descendant of Domenico Auditore, moved to [[Florence]] to work for the [[House of Medici|Medici]] Bank. His brother [[Mario Auditore]] was left in sole control of Monteriggioni, and began to make renovations to the city.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*September: Monteriggioni was besieged by the Florentine army led by [[Federico da Montefeltro]]. Under Mario Auditore's leadership, Monteriggioni managed to fend off the siege.<ref name="ACPL" />
* Mario Auditore defended Monteriggioni from an attack by the Florentines under the command of [[Federico da Montefeltro]], and after discovering and interrogating a Florentine spy named [[Luciano Pezzati]] found out about the presence of an artifact hidden beneath the town. Together with a group of his mercenaries, Mario discovered the Shroud of Eden hidden in the town's catacombs, but was permanently scarred and blinded in one eye after accidentally triggering a trap.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*October 1: Mario Auditore discovered the Shroud of Eden beneath the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni; while exploring the crypts, Mario lost an eye upon triggering a trap.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1455===
*[[Lorenzo de' Medici]], son of Cosimo de' Medici and the future leader of Florence, was saved by the Assassin [[Giovanni Auditore da Firenze]] from drowning in the [[Arno]] in Florence.<ref name="AC2" />
===1476===
===1476===
* [[Ishak Pasha]], [[Assassin leader|leader]] of the [[Turkish Assassins|Ottoman Assassins]], fought and defeated the Templar ruler of [[Wallachia]], [[Vlad Tepes|Vlad the Impaler]], resulting in the latter's death.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*December: [[Vlad Tepes]], the ruler of [[Wallachia]] and a Templar, was killed during an Assassin attack led by Ottoman Assassin leader [[Ishak Pasha]].<ref name="ACRV" />
* 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]].<ref name="ACL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]''</ref>
*December 26: [[Galeazzo Maria Sforza]], the Duke of [[Milan]], was killed by Templar conspirators [[Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani]], [[Carlo Visconti]] and [[Gerolamo Olgiati]]. Visconti and Olgiati were captured and later hanged, while Lampugnani was killed by a Moorish guard.<ref name="ACL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]''</ref>
* Giovanni Auditore da Firenze and his sons [[Federico Auditore da Firenze|Federico]] and [[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze|Petruccio]] were arrested on the false accusations of treason against the city. Uberto Alberti, secretly conspiring with the Templars and their [[Grand Master]] [[Rodrigo Borgia]], ordered their execution in the [[Palazzo della Signoria]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*December 29: Giovanni Auditore da Firenze and his sons [[Federico Auditore da Firenze|Federico]] and [[Petruccio Auditore da Firenze|Petruccio]] were hanged in front of the [[Palazzo della Signoria]], on false accusations of treason against Florence, by secret Templar [[Uberto Alberti]].<ref name="AC2" />
* Uberto Alberti was assassinated by [[Ezio Auditore da Firenze]], son of Giovanni, taking up his father's mantle of Assassin.<ref name="AC2"/>
*December 31: Gonfaloniere Uberto Alberti was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze for betraying the Auditore family, during an exposition of [[Andrea del Verrocchio]]'s work.<ref name="AC2" />
* Ezio Auditore da Firenze took his mother [[Maria Auditore da Firenze|Maria]] and sister [[Claudia Auditore da Firenze|Claudia]] with him to Monteriggioni and rejoined his uncle Mario, the leader of the Italian Assassins, from where Ezio eventually continued his father's work and hunted the Templars responsible for his family's death.<ref name="AC2"/>
===1477===
* Ezio Auditore began collecting pages of the lost Codex, and had them decoded with the help of his friend, the inventor [[Leonardo da Vinci]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*January: Ezio Auditore and his mother [[Maria Auditore da Firenze|Maria]] and sister [[Claudia Auditore da Firenze|Claudia]] left Florence and moved to Monteriggioni to live with their uncle Mario in the Villa Auditore.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1478===
===1478===
* Mario Auditore and his [[mercenaries]] led an attack on the [[House of Pazzi|Pazzi]] in [[San Gimignano]] in [[Tuscany]], later joined by his nephew Ezio Auditore. While the mercenaries distracted the Pazzi guards, Ezio Auditore assassinated his rival and the secret Templar [[Vieri de' Pazzi]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*April 14: [[Vieri de' Pazzi]], a Templar, was killed by his childhood rival Ezio Auditore da Firenze in [[San Gimignano]] in [[Tuscany]] for conspiring with the Templars.<ref name="AC2" />
* The Pazzi family, under command of the Templars, orchestrated the [[Pazzi conspiracy|Pazzi Conspiracy]], resulting in the death of [[Giuliano de' Medici]]. Lorenzo de' Medici, the ''de facto'' leader and main target of the conspiracy, was saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze.<ref name="AC2"/>
*April 26:
* [[Francesco de' Pazzi]], the main orchestrator of the Pazzi Conspiracy, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore.<ref name="AC2"/>
**[[Lorenzo de' Medici]], ruler of Florence, and his brother [[Giuliano de' Medici|Giuliano]] were attacked by the Templar [[Pazzi Conspiracy|Pazzi conspirators]], resulting in the death of Giuliano. Lorenzo was saved and brought to safety by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who had spied on the conspirators' meeting with aid from [[La Volpe]].<ref name="AC2" />
* After having discussed the Pazzi Conspiracy with Lorenzo de' Medici and later Mario Auditore, Ezio Auditore relocated to [[San Gimignano]] in Tuscany, where the remaining Pazzi Conspirators had taken refuge.<ref name="AC2"/>
**[[Francesco de' Pazzi]] was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Francesco's body was hung from the Palazzo della Signoria, while his uncle [[Jacopo de' Pazzi]] was rallying a mob against the Medici.<ref name="AC2" />
* [[Antonio Maffei]], a Pazzi Conspirator and monk who had taken refuge in the center of San Gimignano, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore atop the city's tallest tower.<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Antonio Maffei]], a Pazzi conspirator, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze atop San Gimignano's tallest tower.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1479===
===1479===
* [[Stefano da Bagnone]], a Pazzi Conspirator and monk who took refuge in the [[Monte Oliveto Maggiore]] outside San Gimignano, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore.<ref name="AC2"/>
*April 12: [[Francesco Salviati]], a Pazzi conspirator, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in his villa near San Gimignano.<ref name="AC2" />
* [[Bernardo Baroncelli]], a Pazzi Conspirator and banker who had taken refuge inside San Gimignano, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore.<ref name="AC2"/>
*May 3: [[Bernardo Baroncelli]], a Pazzi conspirator, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze near the city walls of San Gimignano.<ref name="AC2" />
* [[Francesco Salviati]], a Pazzi Conspirator and the Archbishop of Pisa, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore while hiding in his [[Villa Salviati]] outside San Gimignano.<ref name="AC2"/>
*[[Stefano da Bagnone]], a Pazzi conspirator, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the [[Monte Oliveto Maggiore]] outside San Gimignano.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1480===
===1480===
* [[Jacopo de' Pazzi]] attended a meeting with Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia alone, while being secretly followed by Ezio Auditore. For his failure in the Pazzi Conspiracy, Jacopo de' Pazzi was fatally wounded by Rodrigo Borgia and [[Emilio Barbarigo]], before being ultimately killed by Ezio Auditore.<ref name="AC2"/>
*January 3: Jacopo de' Pazzi was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, after he was mortally wounded by Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia and [[Emilio Barbarigo]] during a Templar meeting in the [[Antico Teatro Romano]] for his failure during the Pazzi Conspiracy.<ref name="AC2" />
* Ezio Auditore and Leonardo da Vinci moved to Venice, where Ezio would continue his fight against the Templars.<ref name="AC2"/>
 
===1481===
===1481===
*Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire died, and he was succeeded by his son [[Bayezid II]]. His other son [[Cem]], a secret Templar, secured his father's Apple of Eden, but quickly discovered that it refused to 'speak' with him. He concluded that it should be passed onto the Templars in the West who had done more research into the artifact, and hid it on Cyprus before sailing to [[Rhodes]].<ref name="ACRC"/>
*March 3: Ezio Auditore da Firenze and [[Leonardo da Vinci]] sailed to Venice, with aid from [[Caterina Sforza]], where Ezio would form an alliance with the local thieves guild.<ref name="AC2" />
 
*May 3: Sultan Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire passed away, leaving his two sons [[Bayezid II|Bayezid]] and [[Cem]], a Templar, competing for the throne. Though Cem managed to secure their father's Apple of Eden, Bayezid secured the Ottoman throne.<ref name="ACRC" />
===1482===
===1482===
*Prince Cem met with the [[Knights Hospitalier]] on Rhodes, but was put under their arrest and placed under house arrest in [[Italy]].<ref name="ACRC"/> Cem became acquainted with Rodrigo Borgia, Grand Master of the Templar Order, and [[Andreas Palaiologos|Andreas]].<ref name="ACRV"/>
*June: Prince Cem hid his Apple of Eden in the Templar Archive on Cyprus after realizing the artifact refused to communicate with him, so that the European Templars could find it.<ref name="ACRC" />
 
*June 29: Prince Cem met the Knights Hospitaller on [[Rhodes]]; however, he was betrayed by the Hospitallers and sent to be imprisoned in Europe,<ref name="ACRC" /> and became acquainted with Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia in Italy.<ref name="ACRV">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref>
===1485===
===1485===
* On 11 September, with help of the Venetian Thieves Guild, Ezio Auditore infiltrated the [[Palazzo della Seta]] and assassinated Emilio Barbarigo.<ref name="AC2"/>
*September 11: [[Emilio Barbarigo]], leader of the Venetian merchant guild and Templar, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze with aid from members of the local thieves guild, namely their leader [[Antonio de Magianis]], [[Rosa]] and [[Ugo]].<ref name="AC2" />
* The Templars plan to poison Doge [[Giovanni Mocenigo]] of Venice, entrusting [[Carlo Grimaldi]] with the task of poisoning his meal.<ref name="AC2"/>
*September 14: [[Carlo Grimaldi]] was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who infiltrated the [[Palazzo Ducale]] with Leonardo da Vinci's [[Flying Machine|flying machine]], for poisoning Doge [[Giovanni Mocenigo]].<ref name="AC2" />
* Ezio Auditore, planning to save Mocenigo, was unsuccessful in preventing the poisoning, but killed Carlo Grimaldi.<ref name="AC2"/>
 
===1486===
===1486===
* [[Marco Barbarigo]], a Templar, became the new Doge of Venice, and refrained from making public appearances in fear of being killed by the Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>
*February 15: [[Marco Barbarigo]], the Templar Doge of Venice, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze after infiltrating the Doge's [[Carnevale]] feast with help from [[Teodora Contanto|Sister Teodora]].<ref name="AC2" />
* While attending a private party for Carnevale, Marco Barbarigo was shot and killed by Ezio Auditore with the hidden gun.<ref name="AC2"/>
*July 11:
* [[Bartolomeo d'Alviano]], a mercenary and secretly an Assassin, was attacked and imprisoned by [[Silvio Barbarigo]], until having been rescued by Ezio Auditore.<ref name="AC2"/>
**[[Silvio Barbarigo]] and [[Dante Moro]], members of the Templar Order, were killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze with aid from [[Bartolomeo d'Alviano]]'s mercenaries.<ref name="AC2" />
* With help of Bartolomeo and his mercenaries, Ezio Auditore assassinated Silvio Barbarigo and [[Dante Moro]].<ref name="AC2"/>
**The Italian Templars left Venice to retrieve the Piece of Eden from Cyprus, after ascertaining its location from Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex pages.<ref name="AC2" />
* The Templars set sail for Cyprus, in order to retrieve a Piece of Eden.<ref name="AC2"/>
 
===1487===
===1487===
* Following the {{Wiki|Battle of Stoke Field}}, King [[Henry VII of England]] imprisoned the Templar puppet [[Lambert Simnel]].<ref name="ACPL"/>
*June 16: The army of [[Lambert Simnel]], a pretender to the English throne and Templar puppet, was defeated by King [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] of England, and Simnel was imprisoned.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1488===
===1488===
* The Templar boats returned from Cyprus with an Apple of Eden.<ref name="AC2"/>
*June 25: Ezio Auditore da Firenze stole the Apple of Eden from the Templars in Venice, who had just returned from Cyprus. After a confrontation with Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia, Ezio was formally inducted into the Assassin Order by his allies from the courtesans, thieves and mercenaries guilds.<ref name="AC2" />
* Ezio Auditore followed and killed the courier carrying the Apple of Eden, and attended a meeting with Rodrigo Borgia dressed as the courier. Ezio attacked Rodrigo, and the two men faced off. Ezio was eventually joined by his allies who had helped him over the years, who were unbeknownst to him Assassins themselves. Eventually, after Rodrigo's henchmen were killed, Rodrigo fled the scene and left the Apple of Eden in the hands of the Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>
*July 7:
* Ezio Auditore was formally inducted into the Order of Assassins in Venice.<ref name="AC2"/>
**The brothers [[Checco Orsi|Checco]] and [[Ludovico Orsi]] attacked the city of [[Forlì]] on orders of Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia, after its ruler Caterina Sforza had hired the Orsi brothers to kill her Templar husband [[Girolamo Riario]].<ref name="AC2" />
* Ezio Auditore and [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], an Italian diplomat and Assassin, traveled to [[Forlì]] to safely hide the Apple of Eden in the hands of [[Caterina Sforza]] in the city's [[Rocca di Ravaldino|citadel]].<ref name="BoF">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' - ''[[Battle of Forlì (DLC)|Battle of Forlì]]''</ref>
**Ludovico and Checco Orsi were killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who had come to Forlì with [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] to give the Apple of Eden to Caterina Sforza for safekeeping; Ezio passed out after being wounded by Checco, and lost the artifact to the monk [[Girolamo Savonarola]].<ref name="AC2" />
* Forlì was attacked by [[Checco Orsi|Checco]] and [[Ludovico Orsi]], employed by Rodrigo Borgia. The city was eventually seized by the Templars, until Ezio Auditore infiltrated the city and helped to reclaim it alongside Niccolò Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza.<ref name="BoF"/>
* Ezio Auditore saved Caterina's children - [[Bianca Riario|Bianca]] and [[Ottaviano Riario]] - and killed Ludovico Orsi atop a watchtower in the [[Romagna]] countryside.<ref name="BoF"/>
* Checco Orsi attacked Forlì and secured the Apple of Eden, before proceeding to flee towards the mountains in the Romagna countryside. He was chased and ultimately assassinated by Ezio Auditore, though Ezio Auditore was fatally stabbed in the chest by Checco.<ref name="BoF"/>
* Due to his wound, Ezio Auditore passed out and the Apple of Eden was taken by a Florentine monk, [[Girolamo Savonarola]].<ref name="BoF"/>
 
===1491===
===1491===
* At the behest of Rodrigo Borgia, the Spanish Templars secretly prolonged the war between the Christians and the Muslim Moors in Spain in order to prevent Queen [[Isabella I of Castile]] from funding the planned voyage of [[Christoffa Corombo]] to the New World, because the Templars wanted to be the first to arrive there.<ref name="AC2D">''[[Assassin's Creed II: Discovery]]''</ref>
*The explorer [[Christoffa Corombo]] was saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze from being killed by Borgia guards during a scheduled meeting with Rodrigo Borgia, to prevent Corombo from discovering the Americas.<ref name="AC2D">''[[Assassin's Creed II: Discovery]]''</ref>
* Rodrigo Borgia lured Christoffa Corombo to Venice by offering to finance his journey to the New World. [[Luis de Santángel]], Queen Isabella I's minister of finances, Christoffa's friend and a secret Assassin, was suspicious of Rodrigo's motives and contacted Antonio de Magianis in Venice for protection of Christoffa. Ezio Auditore was tasked with ensuring the explorer's safety, and rescued him from the inevitable Templar trap.<ref name="AC2D"/>
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze forged an alliance with Christoffa Corombo and his friend [[Luis de Santángel]], secretly an Assassin, and traveled with them to Spain to stop the persecution of Spanish Assassins by the [[Spanish Inquisition]], influenced by the Templars.<ref name="AC2D" />
* On request of Christoffa Corombo and Luis de Santángel, Ezio Auditore recoved Christoffa's atlas from Templar hands in Venice, and was informed of the mass genocide of Assassins in Spain under the guise of the Inquisition, led by [[Tomás de Torquemada]], who was influenced by Rodrigo Borgia to believe the Assassins were heretics. Feeling obliged to save his brethren, Ezio followed Christoffa and Luis to Spain.<ref name="AC2D"/>
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze killed the Inquisitors [[Gaspar Martinez]] in [[Barcelona]] and [[Pedro Llorente]] in [[Zaragoza]] after establishing contact with the Assassin [[Raphael Sánchez]], saving the captured Assassins in the process.<ref name="AC2D" />
 
*King [[Muhammad XII of Granada]] was rescued from the Templars amidst a Spanish siege on [[Granada]]. Ezio convinced Muhammad to make peace with Queen Isabela and end the Templar-driven war.<ref name="AC2D" />
*The Inquisitor [[Juan de Marillo]] was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze after attempting to round up and execute the Spanish Assassins in Granada.<ref name="AC2D" />
*Christoffa Corombo was saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze from a Templar attack while en route to France, after being lured there by the Templars with a false promise of the French King financing his journey.<ref name="AC2D" />
===1492===
===1492===
* Ezio Auditore arrived in Spain, and made contact with the Assassin [[Raphael Sánchez]] in [[Barcelona]], on whose request he killed [[Gaspar Martínez]], the Inquisitor officer ordered to arrest the Spanish Assassins.<ref name="AC2D"/>
*January: King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and Queen [[Isabella I of Castile]] agreed to finance half of Christoffa Corombo's journey to discover an alternate sea route to Asia, with the Spanish Assassins covering the other half of the costs.<ref name="AC2D" />
* Traveling to [[Zaragoza]] where the remaining Spanish Assassins were located, Ezio Auditore killed Inquisition's Calficador, [[Pedro Llorente]], after securing the safety of four captured Assassins.<ref name="AC2D"/>
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze infiltrated the palace of Grand Inquisitor [[Tomás de Torquemada]] with the intent of assassinating Torquemada, but ultimately spared his life after he escaped and Ezio discovered that he was nothing more than a puppet to Rodrigo Borgia.<ref name="AC2D" />
* Ezio Auditore and Raphael Sanchez traveled to [[Granada]], where Ezio rescued King [[Muhammad XII of Granada|Muhammad XII]] from the Templars amidst a Spanish attack on [[Alhambra]] Palace. Ezio advised Muhammad to make peace with Queen Isabella, and the Templar-driven war was ended.<ref name="AC2D"/>
*August 11: Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia was elected as the new head of the Catholic Church, after purchasing votes from the other [[cardinals]], and became known as Pope Alexander VI.<ref name="ACRN">''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]''</ref>
* Tomás de Torquemada sent [[Juan de Marillo]] to round up and execute the Spanish Assassins in Granada, but Juan was quickly assassinated by Ezio Auditore.<ref name="AC2D"/>
*October 12: Christoffa Corombo's fleet discovered the Americas, and landed on the island of {{Wiki|Guanahani}}, inhabited by the [[Taíno]].<ref name="AC2D" />
* Christoffa Corombo was lured away from Spain to [[France]] by false news spread by the Templars that the French king was willing to finance his journey, but Ezio Auditore halted and rescued Christoffa before the Templars could kill him.<ref name="AC2D"/>
* Ezio Auditore infiltrated Tomás de Torquemada to assassinate the Inquisitor General at the request of Raphael Sanchez and Luis de Santángel, but ultimately spared Torquemada when he realized he was nothing more than a puppet doing the bidding of Rodrigo Borgia, unaware of the Templars' existence, and returned to Italy to continue his search for the Apple of Eden.<ref name="AC2D"/>
 
===1494===
===1494===
* Girolamo Savonarola used the Apple of Eden to become the leader of Florence, and exiled [[Piero de' Medici]].<ref name="ACRN">''[[Assassin's Creed: Renaissance]]''</ref>
*November 9: Girolamo Savonarola stirred the Florentines into rebelling against [[Piero de' Medici]] using the Apple of Eden. The Medici were exiled and Savonarola became the city's de facto leader.<ref name="ACRN" />
* Ezio Auditore saved [[Marcello Savonarola]], cousin of Girolamo, from Borgia guards and traveled to Venice to find Girolamo.<ref name="ACRN"/>
*[[Marcello Savonarola]], cousin to Girolamo Savonarola, was saved in Florence by Ezio Auditore da Firenze from Borgia guards.<ref name="ACRN" />
* Piero de' Medici was attacked by Savonarola's followers in Venice, and together with Ezio Auditore took down his attackers and a corrupt herald.<ref name="ACRN"/>
*Piero de' Medici was saved by Girolamo Savonarola's followers in Venice. With Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Piero took down his attackers and a corrupt herald.<ref name="ACRN" />
 
===1495===
===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.<ref name="ACRV novel"/>
*February 25: Prince Cem was killed in [[Capua]] by the Assassins, who believed the Borgia were planning to use Cem to conquer Constantinople.<ref name="ACRV novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Revelations'' novel]]</ref>
 
===1497===
===1497===
* Niccolò Machiavelli and Ezio Auditore began fighting Girolamo Savonarola and his followers in an effort to overthrow his corrupt rule over Florence and reacquire the Apple of Eden.<ref name="BotV">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' - ''[[Bonfire of the Vanities (DLC)|Bonfire of the Vanities]]''</ref>
*June 14: [[Juan Borgia the Younger|Juan Borgia]] was killed by the courtesan [[Fiora Cavazza]] on orders of his brother [[Cesare Borgia]], allowing the latter to become Captain General of the Papal Armies.<ref name="ACA">''[[Assassin's Creed: Ascendance]]''</ref>
* Ezio Auditore assassinated nine of Savonarola's lieutenants spread around Florence, and the Florentines were rallied in revolt against Savonarola by La Volpe and Paola.<ref name="BotV"/>
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze killed Girolamo Savonarola's nine lieutenants, in an effort to remove Savonarola's control over the Florentine population and regain the Apple of Eden.<ref name="AC2" />
* [[Cesare Borgia]], the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI, had his brother [[Juan Borgia the Younger|Juan Borgia]] killed by his employee [[Fiora Cavazza]], allowing Cesare to become Captain General of the Papal armies in his brother's place.<ref name="ACA">''[[Assassin's Creed: Ascendance]]''</ref>
 
===1498===
===1498===
* Savonarola was taken captive by an angry mob and taken away to be executed, allowing the Apple of Eden to be reobtained by the Assassins. Savonarola was publicly burned at the stake, though Ezio Auditore assassinated him whilst the fire had not spread high enough to reach the monk, sparing him from a painful death.<ref name="BotV"/>
*March 3: [[Giovanni Borgia]] was born to [[Lucrezia Borgia]] and either her brother Cesare Borgia or the Assassin [[Perotto Calderon]], but suffered from a life-threatening deformation. Calderon stole the Shroud of Eden from his Brothers in [[Agnadello]] to save his son's life. The Assassins subsequently killed Perotto.<ref name="ACPL" />
* [[Lucrezia Borgia]], daughter of Pope Alexander VI, gave birth to a child named [[Giovanni Borgia]], who was malformed and whose biological father was unknown. [[Perotto Calderon]], an Assassin who was tasked with spying on the Borgia while taking on the guise of a courier, had been in a romantic relationship with Lucrezia, and was thrown into jail after the child's existence was found out by the Borgia. Calderon escaped from the jail and took Giovanni to [[Agnadello]], where the Assassins were holding the Shroud of Eden. Calderon was eventually confronted and killed by members of the Assassin Order for betraying the Creed, amongst which was his own apprentice [[Francesco Vecellio]].<ref name="ACPL"/>
*May 23:
 
**Girolamo Savonarola was captured by an angry Florentine mob in front of the [[Palazzo Pitti]]. Ezio regained the Apple of Eden, after it was stolen by a Borgia soldier.<ref name="AC2" />
**Girolamo Savonarola was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze out of mercy while being burned at the stake in front of the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence.<ref name="AC2" />
*September 17: Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain, was killed by the Assassins for his tyranny over the Spanish people.<ref name="AC2" />
===1499===
===1499===
* On November 23, [[Perkin Warbeck]], a Flemish Templar and a pretender to the English throne, was hanged on orders of King Henry VII of England.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*November 23: [[Perkin Warbeck]], a Templar, was hanged by King Henry VII of England for his attempt to claim the English throne.<ref name="ACPL" />
* Mario Auditore, Niccolò Machiavelli, Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Antonio de Magianis, La Volpe, Paola and Sister Teodora travelled to Rome to distract the Borgia guards in the city, whilst Ezio Auditore infiltrated the [[Basilica di San Pietro]] via the [[Passetto di Borgo]]. Ezio confronted Pope Alexander VI and a fight ensued between the two men after Ezio's failed assassination attempt. Both using their respective Pieces of Eden - an Apple and a Staff - Rodrigo eventually gained the upper hand using the Staff's powers and took the Apple from Ezio. Attempting to gain entrance to the [[Vatican Vault|Vault]] underneath the [[Cappella Sistina|Sistine Chapel]], Ezio again confronted the Pope and overpowered him. Using both Pieces of Eden, Ezio entered the Vault and received a message.<ref name="AC2"/> Together with Mario Auditore, Ezio escaped from Rome and returned to Monteriggioni.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*December 28:
**Pope Alexander VI was defeated by the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze in a fistfight at the entrance of the [[Vatican Vault]]; realizing that killing Rodrigo would not bring his family back, Ezio chose to spare the Pope's life.<ref name="AC2" />
**Ezio Auditore da Firenze received a message from the Precursor Minerva for Ezio's descendant [[Desmond Miles]], after opening the vault doors using his Apple of Eden and the [[Staves of Eden|Papal Staff]].<ref name="AC2" />
===1500===
*January 2: Monteriggioni was besieged and destroyed by the Papal Army under orders of Cesare Borgia, who executed the captured Assassin leader Mario Auditore and took possession of the Assassins' Apple of Eden; Ezio Auditore was severely wounded during the siege, and Caterina Sforza was captured<ref name="ACBH" />
*January: Niccolò Machiavelli became the leader of the Italian Assassins and set up headquarters on [[Tiber Island]] in Rome to fight the Borgia. Ezio Auditore da Firenze joined him and later set up an underground network in the city led by his sister Claudia, La Volpe and Bartolomeo d'Alviano.<ref name="AC2" />
*May: [[Nicolaus Copernicus]] was saved from Borgia attacks by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, after Copernicus betrayed the Templar Order by making his scientific discoveries public.<ref name="CC">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' – ''[[Copernicus Conspiracy]]''</ref>
*December 16/17: The Assassins destroyed several warehouses and factories in [[Calicut]] owned by [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]], a Portuguese explorer tasked with eliminating the local Assassins Guild. The population of Calicut rose in rebellion against Cabral, and he fled the city.<ref name="ACPL" />


==16th century==
==16th century==
===1500===
* On January 2, Cesare Borgia besieged the town of Monteriggioni to strike at the Auditore in retaliation for their actions in Rome. The Borgia destroyed and overwhelmed the city, resulting in the capture of Caterina Sforza, the execution of Mario Auditore and the abandonment of the town.<ref name="ACBH"/>
* Niccolò Machiavelli became the leader of the Italian Assassins and relocated their headquarters to Rome, where he was soon joined by Ezio Auditore. Niccolò and Ezio began strengthening their position in the city, and Ezio helped setting up the local Courtesans, Thieves and Mercenaries Guilds.<ref name="ACBH"/>
* King [[Manuel I of Portugal]], serving the Borgia, assigned [[Pedro Álvares Cabral]] to find and destroy the Assassins Guild in [[Calicut]], [[India]]. With help from the [[Indian Assassins]], a group of Italian Assassins razed Cabral's storehouses and shops in the cities and killed his key commanders, forcing Cabral to retreat.<ref name="ACPL"/><ref name="ACBH"/>
===1501===
===1501===
* Ezio Auditore infiltrated the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]] in Rome with the objective to kill Rodrigo and Cesare Borgia. Finding out that both Rodrigo and Cesare left the castle, Ezio Auditore shifted his focus to rescuing his ally Caterina Sforza, who was held prison inside. Ezio found and captured [[Lucrezia Borgia]] inside the castle, and used the key she had in her possession to free Caterina. Escaping on horseback from the castle, Ezio ensured Caterina's safety by fighting off the chasing guards.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*June 30: Caterina Sforza escaped her imprisonment by [[Lucrezia Borgia]] in the [[Castel Sant'Angelo]] with the help of the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze.<ref name="ACBH" />
* [[Agostino Barbarigo]], Doge of Venice and ally to the Assassin Order, was poisoned by a team of Assassins consisting of [[Francesco Vecellio]], [[Cipriano Enu]] and [[Tessa Varzi]] in retaliation for making dealings with the Borgia.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*September 20: Agostino Barbarigo, the Doge of Venice and an Assassin ally, died after having been poisoned by an Assassin team consisting of [[Francesco Vecellio]], [[Cipriano Enu]] and [[Tessa Varzi]] for making deals with the Borgia.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1502===
===1502===
* Upon the request of Leonardo da Vinci, who was forced into serving the Borgia, Ezio Auditore destroyed all four of Da Vinci's military creations for the Borgia army, severely weakening their position in Italy.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze destroyed the [[War Machines|war machines]] that Leonardo da Vinci designed on orders of Cesare Borgia, on Da Vinci's own request.<ref name="ACBH" />
* A group of Ottoman Assassins led by [[Yusuf Tazim]] and a group of Venetian Assassins met in [[Greece]] to make plans to steer the [[Ottoman-Venetian War]] to a peaceful end.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*[[Yusuf Tazim]] met with a contingent of Venetian Assassins in an joint effort to steer the [[Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)|Ottoman–Venetian War]] to a peaceful end.<ref name="ACRV" />
* [[Vasco da Gama]] bombarded the city of Calicut, India in retaliation against the local Assassins for causing Cabral's failure to eliminate the Assassins Guild in the city. After Da Gama's leave from the city, a group of Italian Assassins killed the explorer's remaining commanders in the city.<ref name="ACPL"/><ref name="ACBH"/>
*October 18: The {{Wiki|University of Wittenberg}} opened its doors. Its founder, [[Friedrich der Weise]], previously received a large anonymous donation from the Assassins, stolen from the Templars.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
*November 1: [[Vasco da Gama]] bombarded the city of Calicut for two days in retaliation for the Assassins routing Pedro Álvares Cabral. After Gama left the city, the Assassins eliminated his remaining commanders.<ref name="ACPL" />
*December 31: [[Vitellozzo Vitelli]] and [[Oliverotto da Fermo]] were killed by [[Micheletto Corella]] for rebelling against Cesare Borgia.<ref name="ACA" />
===1503===
===1503===
* With the intention of taking down Cesare Borgia's finances, Ezio Auditore rescued [[Egidio Troche]], a Roman senator indebted to Cesare. With Egidio's help, Ezio devised a plan to follow Egidio while he was escorted by Borgia guards to make a delivery of money to Cesare's banker. Using a guard's disguise, Ezio brought the money to a party the banker - [[Juan Borgia the Elder]] - was holding, and assassinated the banker while being hidden on a bench.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*August 1: [[Juan Borgia the Elder]] was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze at Juan's Pagan party in Rome.<ref name="ACBH" />
* Bartolomeo d'Alviano and his mercenaries engaged in heavy conflict with French soldiers under the command of [[Octavian de Valois]]. During a skirmish between the two factions, Bartolomeo's wife [[Pantasilea Baglioni]] was kidnapped by the French. Working with Ezio Auditore, Bartolomeo pretended to have surrendered himself to the French and had himself escorted into the French camp - located in and around the [[Castra Praetoria]] - by his own mercenaries and Ezio, who had disguised themselves as French soldiers. The mercenaries attacked the French inside the camp, and Ezio assassinated Octavian de Valois, rescuing Pantasilea in the process.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*August:
* Using intel obtained from the Roman Thieves Guild, Ezio Auditore and a group of Assassin apprentices thwarted a Templar plan to kill [[Pietro Rossi]], an actor who was in a secret relationship with Lucrezia Borgia. At a play at the [[Colosseo|Colosseum]] in which Pietro was playing [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]], Ezio took out the Templar guards around the Colosseum and entered the play alongside his apprentices dressed as Romans. Ezio took out [[Micheletto Corella]], Cesare's personal assassin, but ultimately spared him out of disgust for Micheletto's motives. Ezio brought Pietro to a doctor after finding out he was poisoned as well, and obtained a key to the Castel Sant'Angelo from the actor. Ezio subsequently found the thief [[Paganino]] spying on him, and after chasing him found out that he was a spy from the Borgia and had betrayed the Assassins and Thieves. Paganino committed suicide by plunging Ezio's Hidden Blade into his own neck.<ref name="ACBH"/>
**Baron [[Octavian de Valois]] was killed in the [[Castra Praetoria]] in Rome by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, with aid from Bartolomeo d'Alviano's mercenaries.<ref name="ACBH" />
* Claudia Auditore da Firenze was inducted into the Assassin Order, and Niccolò Machiavelli promoted Ezio Auditore da Firenze to Mentor of the Italian Assassins.<ref name="ACBH"/>
**Micheletto Corella's attempt on [[Pietro Rossi]]'s life was twarted by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, though he ultimately spared Micheletto's life.<ref name="ACBH" />
* Pope Alexander VI tried poisoning his own son Cesare Borgia by tricking him into eating a poisoned apple, but failed when his daughter Lucrezia Borgia warned Cesare of their father's plan. Cesare, who had already taken a bite of a poisoned apple, shoved an apple down his father's throat, resulting in his death. He proceeded to unleash his fury on his sister and demanded the location of the Apple of Eden, who revealed it was located in the courtyard of the Basilica di San Pietro. Ezio Auditore gave the Pope his last rites, and Lucrezia told Ezio of the Apple's location as well. Ezio raced Cesare to the Basilica, and eventually beat him to it and re-obtained the Apple.<ref name="ACBH"/>
**Ezio Auditore da Firenze was promoted to Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and Claudia Auditore da Firenze was inducted into the Brotherhood.<ref name="ACBH" />
* On 23 November, a group of Italian Assassins killed [[Margaret of York]], a Templar working on taking over the English throne under the Templar banner, at the request of King Henry VII of England.<ref name="ACPL"/><ref name="ACBH"/>
*August 18: Pope Alexander VI was killed by his son Cesare Borgia, using the poisoned apple that the Pope intended to kill his son with for his reckless behaviour; Ezio Auditore da Firenze retrieved the Apple of Eden from the courtyard of [[Basilica di San Pietro|Saint Peter's Basilica]] ahead of Cesare.<ref name="ACBH" />
* Using the Apple of Eden, Ezio Auditore exterminated many of Cesare's remaining Templar forces in Rome, and in late 1503 Pope [[Julius II]] had Cesare arrested on grounds of murder, betrayal and incest,<ref name="ACBH"/> and was held prisoner in the Castel Sant'Angelo in December.<ref name="ACBH novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' novel]]</ref>
*November 23: [[Margaret of York]] was fatally poisoned by the Assassins on behalf of King Richard VII of England, for plotting to claim the English throne in a Yorkist Templar plot.<ref name="ACPL" />
* A group of Italian Assassins infiltrated [[Piri Reis]]' shop in [[Constantinople]] and obtained maps detailing the [[United States|New World]], prompting the Assassins to ensure their presence there matched that of the Templars.<ref name="ACPL"/><ref name="ACBH"/>
*December: Cesare Borgia was arrested by [[Fabio Orsini]] on orders of Pope Julius II, after losing a fight with the Assassins in front of the [[Porta Aurelia]] in Rome.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
===1504===
===1504===
* Cesare Borgia escaped imprisonment in the Castel Sant'Angelo and fled Rome hiding in a wooden crate on a Templar boat. Chased by Ezio Auditore on the boat of the former thief [[Claudio]], the Templar crew was killed by Ezio near [[Ostia]] and Cesare was sent back to Rome. Pope Julius II struck a deal with King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] and Queen [[Isabella I of Castile]] to have Cesare imprisoned in the [[Castillo de la Mota]] in [[Valencia]].<ref name="ACBH novel"/>
*Cesare Borgia escaped imprisonment from the Castel Sant'Angelo, but was captured by Ezio Auditore da Firenze near [[Ostia]]. Pope [[Julius II]] struck a deal with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela of Spain to have Cesare imprisoned in the [[Castillo de la Mota]] in [[Valencia]].<ref name="ACBH novel">[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (novel)|''Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood'' novel]]</ref>
* Claudia Auditore da Firenze, madam of the Rosa in Fiora in Rome, was captured by Borgia die-hards. [[Bruno]], a Templar spy pretending to work for Niccolò Machiavelli, lured Machiavelli and Ezio Auditore to the location where Claudia was held, and tried to kill all three Assassins. The Assassins overpowered the Templars and freed Claudia. Claudia retired as the madam of the Rosa in Fiora due to the ferocity of the Templars' attack and retired to Rome, and [[Rosa]], a member of the Venetian Thieves Guild, took over as the madam.<ref name="ACBH novel"/>
*Claudia Auditore da Firenze stepped down as the madam of the Rosa in Fiore in Rome after having been taken captive by Templar spies. The Venetian thief Rosa took over the position.<ref name="ACBH novel" />
* Queen Isabella I of Castille was poisoned by Italian Assassins for working on orders of the Borgia.<ref name="ACPL"/><ref name="ACBH"/>
*November 26: Queen Isabella I of Castille passed away afer having been poisoned by her servant, an acquaintance of Luis de Santángel, at the request of the Assassins for colluding with the Borgia.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1505===
===1505===
* Ezio Auditore led a force of one-hundred Assassins and thieves in attack of Micheletto Corella's two-hundred-and-fifty strong force in [[Zagarolo]] and overpowered Micheletto's army. Micheletto was taken to Florence for imprisonment and torture in the top cell of the Palazzo della Signoria in an attempt to gain information on Cesare's activities.<ref name="ACBH novel"/>
*Micheletto Corella was taken captive in [[Zagarolo]] after Ezio Auditore da Firenze led a force of 100 Assassins and thieves on against Micheletto's army. Micheletto was imprisoned in the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence and interrogated.<ref name="ACBH novel" />
 
===1506===
===1506===
* Ezio Auditore locked his Apple of Eden away in the [[Colosseum Vault]] underneath the [[Santa Maria in Aracoeli|Santa Maria Aracoeli]].<ref name="ACBH"/>
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze locked his Apple of Eden in the First Civilization vault beneath the Colosseum,<ref name="ACBH" /> on the artifact's instructions.<ref name="ACBH novel" />
* Leonardo da Vinci was kidnapped by his former allies, the [[Hermeticists]], during his research on Pythagoras and an ancient temple beneath Rome. Da Vinci left a clue in his working studio directing to the paintings that were previously stored in the Villa Auditore, in which he left clues to the location of the temple.<ref name="TDVD">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' - ''[[The Da Vinci Disappearance]]''</ref>
*June 24: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci started their journey to [[Valencia]] to find Micheletto Corella, based on information from a courtesan named [[Camilla]] in Naples.<ref name="ACBH novel" />
* Ezio Auditore recovered the five paintings from Lucrezia Borgia in [[Ferrara]] and from the Hermeticists in Rome. He uncovered the location of the temple, and saved Leonardo inside by killing the Hermetic leader [[Ercole Massimo]]. They progressed further into the temple and uncovered the [[Pythagorean Vault]], but Ezio ultimately decided to leave its secrets alone.<ref name="TDVD"/>
* Micheletto Corella escaped imprisonment in Florence and fled to [[Naples]], from where he set sail to Valencia, Spain. He joined up with his master Cesare Borgia and the two men rebuild an army in Valencia's port, but their boats and camp were eventually destroyed by Ezio Auditore and Niccolò Machiavelli, using bombs obtained from Leonardo da Vinci. Cesare blamed Micheletto for the attack, and Micheletto was killed by a shot in the head when he tried to attack Cesare. Cesare escaped to Navarre, where he met up with his brother-in-law, King [[John III of Navarre]].<ref name="ACBH novel"/>
 
===1507===
===1507===
* The Navarrese army under the command of Cesare Borgia attacked [[Viana]] in the Earldom of Lerin, escalating in the [[Siege of Viana]]. Amidst the battle, Cesare Borgia was chased and attacked by the Assassin Ezio Auditore, eventually being killed by the Assassin atop the walls of [[Viana Castle]].<ref name="ACBH"/>
*March 12: Cesare Borgia fell to his death from the walls of [[Viana Castle]] after being dropped by the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze during the [[Siege of Viana]].<ref name="ACBH" />
 
===1509===
===1509===
* The [[Battle of Agnadello]] took place between Venice and France, with the Assassin Bartolomeo d'Alviano fighting on the side of the Venetians,<ref name="ACPL"/> hoping to protect the Shroud of Eden located in Agnadello.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*May 14: The Republic of Venice and Kingdom of France fought at the [[Battle of Agnadello]], resulting in a French victory. Bartolomeo d'Alviano was captured by the French, while trying to protect the Shroud of Eden from falling into King Louis XII's hands.<ref name="ACPL" />
* An earthquake struck Constantinople, marking the leave of Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II and the secret resurrection of the Templars, fighting under the Byzantine banner.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*September 10: An earthquake struck Constantinople. Templars fighting under the Byzantine banner re-emerged in the city.<ref name="ACRV" />
 
===1510===
===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.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*January: [[Niccolò di Pitigliano]] was killed by the Assassin Francesco Vecellio in [[Lonigo]], for terrorizing the citizens of Lonigo and abandoning Bartolomeo d'Alviano at the Battle of Agnadello; Francesco took the Shroud of Eden, which Niccolò had stolen, back to the Assassins.<ref name="ACPL" />
* The ''condottiero'' [[Niccolò di Pitigliano]], who had obtained the Shroud of Eden from Agnadello, was assassinated by the Assassin Francesco Vecellio.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*Winter: The Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze left Italy and started his journey to Masyaf, after having found a letter in 1509 written by his father detailing Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's library.<ref name="ACRV novel" />
* 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.<ref name="ACRV novel"/>
 
===1511===
===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.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*March:
* 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]], who were in search of the Masyaf Keys and the Grand Temple. 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 that the Masyaf Keys were in Constantinople, Ezio Auditore journeyed further towards the heart of the Ottoman Empire.<ref name="ACRV"/>
**Ezio Auditore da Firenze was captured and ambushed by Byzantine Templars under the command of [[Leandros]] in Masyaf, but escaped his execution by hanging.<ref name="ACRV" />
* Ezio Auditore da Firenze arrived in Constantinople, where he met Prince [[Suleiman I|Suleiman]], later known as Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and Yusuf Tazim, leader of the [[Turkish Assassins|Ottoman Assassins]]. Ezio Auditore was introduced to the city and the Turkish Assassins' techniques and customs, and started his search for the Masyaf Keys.<ref name="ACRV"/>
**Ezio Auditore da Firenze killed Leandros in [[Atlas Village]], after pursuing him through the Syrian countryside; Ezio retrieved ''[[The Secret Crusade]]'' by Niccolò Polo from Leandros.<ref name="ACRV" />
* With the help of [[Sofia Sartor]], Ezio Auditore started deciphering the locations of the Masyaf Keys throughout Constantinople, and eventually found them in the [[Yerebatan Cistern]], the [[Galata Tower]], the [[Forum of the Ox]] and the [[Maiden's Tower]] over the course of the year.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*May: Ezio Auditore da Firenze arrived in Constantinople and became familiarized with the Ottoman Assassins, led by Yusuf Tazim, and their struggle against the Byzantine Templars.<ref name="ACRV" />
* Ezio Auditore, Yusuf Tazim and several other Ottoman Assassins infiltrated a party of Prince Suleiman dressed as Italian minstrels and found and killed the Templar spies present at the party, preventing the abduction of the Prince by the Byzantine Templars. Prince Suleiman started working with Ezio Auditore against the Byzantines.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*Ezio Auditore da Firenze found four of the five Masyaf Keys over the course of various months with aid from bookkeeper [[Sofia Sartor]] in the [[Yerebatan Cistern]], the [[Galata Tower]], the [[Forum of the Ox]] and the [[Maiden's Tower]].<ref name="ACRV" />
* After an investigation started by Ezio Auditore and Prince Suleiman, the [[Janissaries|Janissary]] captain [[Tarik Barleti]] was concluded to be in league with the Templars. Ezio assassinated Tarik Barleti inside the Janissary camp, but discovered that Tarik had in fact been working with Manuel Palaiologos only to sabotage them.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*Prince Suleiman was rescued from abduction by the Byzantine Templars at a party in [[Topkapı Palace]] by the Ottoman Assassins. Suleiman and Ezio Auditore da Firenze formed an alliance.<ref name="ACRV" />
* The Janissaries raised the [[Great Chain]] across the [[Golden Horn]] in Constantinople and spread their boats and forces throughout the harbor to prevent Ezio Auditore from leaving the city. With help from the Ottoman Assassins, Ezio destroyed the Great Chain and set the Ottoman ships ablaze with [[Greek Fire]], and consequently started making his way to [[Derinkuyu|Cappadocia]] on the boat of fellow Assassin Piri Reis.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*The [[Janissaries|Janissary]] captain [[Tarik Barleti]] was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze on incorrect suspicions of colluding with the Templars.<ref name="ACRV" />
 
===1512===
===1512===
* In March, Piri Reis and Ezio Auditore arrived in Cappadocia, and Ezio entered the hidden city [[Derinkuyu]], where the Byzantine army under command of Manuel Palaiologos was hiding. With the help of the Ottoman spy [[Dilara]], Ezio Auditore killed the Turkmen renegade [[Shahkulu]], and blew up the ammunition stores in the city, causing widespread panic. Amidst the confusion, Ezio found and killed Manuel Palaiologos, and was discovered by Prince [[Ahmet]], who revealed himself to be a Templar and threatened to find Sofia Sartor if Ezio would not give him the Masyaf Keys. Ezio escaped Derinkuyu and made his way to Constantinople.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*The [[Great Chain]] was destroyed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze with explosives. Ezio proceeded to set the docked Ottoman fleet ablaze using [[Greek Fire]], and made his way to the Templars' hideout in [[Cappadocia]] alongside [[Piri Reis]].<ref name="ACRV" />
* Byzantine Templars attacked Sofia Sartor's bookshop in Constantinople, whilst it was under protection of Yusuf Tazim and the Ottoman Assassins. Yusuf was killed during the attack, and Sofia was captured.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*March:
* Ezio Auditore led the Ottoman Assassins in an attack on the [[Harbor of Theodosius]], where Prince Ahmet and the Byzantine Templars were hiding out. Ezio was ultimately forced to spare Ahmet in order to ensure Sofia Sartor's safety, and struck a deal with Ahmet to trade Sofia for the Masyaf Keys.
**[[Shahkulu]], a Turkmen Templar, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in [[Derinkuyu]] with aid from the Ottoman spy [[Dilara]].<ref name="ACRV" />
* At Yusuf's funeral, Ezio Auditore promoted the Master Assassin [[Dogan]] to become the new leader of the Ottoman Assassins.<ref name="ACRV novel"/>
**Ezio Auditore da Firenze destroyed the Byzantine Templars' ammunition storage inside Derinkuyu, causing the city to be filled with smoke, creating widespread panick.<ref name="ACRV" />
* Ezio Auditore and Prince Ahmet and their respective groups of Assassins and Templar met on a wall leading to Galata Tower, where Ezio handed Ahmet the keys and had to travel up to the top of Galata Tower to rescue Sofia. Upon rescuing her,<ref name="ACRV"/> Ezio discovered it was [[Azize]] dressed up as Sofia,<ref name="ACRV novel"/> while Sofia was secretly being hanged in a nearby plaza. Using one of his [[parachutes]], Ezio reached Sofia and rescued her from being killed by cutting the noose around her neck.<ref name="ACRV"/>
**Manuel Palaiologos was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the outskirts of Derinkuyu. Ezio was confronted by Prince Ahmet, who revealed himself to be a Templar, and Ezio escaped Derinkuyu and made his way back to Constantinople.<ref name="ACRV" />
* Prince Ahmet and the Byzantine Templars made their way out of Constantinople on horses and horse carts and hurried off to Masyaf to enter the hidden library underneath its castle. They were chased by Ezio Auditore and Sofia Sartor, who after a long chase took out most of the Templars and their carts, ending with Ezio jumping onto Ahmet on his cart and both men falling from a cliff. After landing safely using one of Ezio's parachutes, they were joined by the army of Ahmet's brother [[Selim I|Selim]], just arriving from a battle with their father. Selim, the newly appointed Sultan, proceeded to strangle his brother Ahmet and threw him off the nearby cliff to avoid Ahmet from further claiming the throne, and warned Ezio to not return to Constantinople, only sparing the Assassin because of Ezio's friendship with his son Suleiman.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*April:
* Ezio Auditore and Sofia Sartor traveled to Masyaf, where Ezio used the Masyaf Keys to open the library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Inside, he discovered Altaïr's remains sitting in a chair in the middle of the library, holding a sixth Memory Seal, and found no books; however, Ezio did discover Altaïr's Apple of Eden at the end of the library, but ultimately decided to leave it there.<ref name="ACRV"/>
**The Ottoman Assassin leader Yusuf Tazim was killed by the Byzantine Templars while trying to prevent Sofia Sartor's abduction in her bookshop.<ref name="ACRV" />
* After a brief return to Constantinople under Prince Suleiman's supervision to finish unfinished business in the city, Ezio Auditore and his new fiancée Sofia Sartor made their way to Italy, where they first arrived in Venice and married in the [[Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari|Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari]], with guests Doge {{Wiki|Leonardo Loredan}} and {{Wiki|Titian|Tizian Vecellio}}, before arriving in Rome.<ref name="ACRV novel"/>
**The Ottoman Assassins, led by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, besieged the Templars' hideout at the [[Harbor of Theodosius]]. Ezio was forced to spare Prince Ahmet to save Sofia Sartor's life.<ref name="ACRV" />
* [[Desiderius Erasmus]], a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] scholar and the leader of the [[Northern European Assassins]], became fearful of the newly appointed Doctor [[Martin Luther]], whose new religious thinking might have caused chaos and instability in [[Europe]].<ref name="ACRV novel"/>
**Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Prince Ahmet met on the wall connected to Galata Tower, where Ezio handed Ahmet the keys. Ahmet tricked Ezio and ordered Sofia's execution, though Ezio saved her from strangulation.<ref name="ACRV" />
* Ezio Auditore retired from the Assassin Order, and appointed [[Lodovico Ariosto]] as the new Mentor of the Italian Assassins.<ref name="ACRV novel"/>
*April 25:
 
**Sultan Bayezid II was forced to abdicate the Ottoman throne by his son [[Selim I]], with support from the [[Janissaries]].<ref name="ACRV" />
**Prince Ahmet was killed by Sultan Selim I outside Constantinople to prevent Ahmet from taking the throne, while Ahmet was being pursued by the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze.<ref name="ACRV" />
*May: Ezio Auditore da Firenze unlocked the library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Masyaf, though he decided to leave the Apple of Eden locked away. Alongside Desmond Miles, in 2012,<ref name="ACRV" /> Ezio witnessed a Precursor message about the Toba catastrophe.<ref name="ACRV novel" />
*June: Sofia Sartor sold her bookshop to the Ottoman Assassins, who hid the Masyaf Keys in the cistern beneath the bookshop. Ezio Auditore da Firenze became engaged to Sofia, and left for Italy.<ref name="ACRV novel" />
===1513===
*February: Ezio Auditore da Firenze retired as Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and announced his favored successor to be [[Lodovico Ariosto]].<ref name="ACRV novel" />
===1519===
===1519===
* Leonardo da Vinci died in the {{Wiki|Clos Lucé}} in [[Amboise]], France on 2 May, with his friends Ezio Auditore and Niccolò Machiavelli at his side. King {{Wiki|Francis I of France}} spread stories about him being at Leonardo's deathbed as propaganda.<ref name="ACRV novel"/>
*February: [[Hernán Cortés]] and an army of Spanish soldiers – including the Assassin Giovanni Borgia, posing as "Botello", on a quest to find a Piece of Eden – landed on the [[Yucatán Peninsula]] to explore [[Mexico]].<ref name="ACPL" />
 
*May 2: Leonardo da Vinci passed away in the {{Wiki|Clos Lucé}} in [[Amboise]], France, with his friend Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Niccolò Machiavelli at his side; King [[Francis I of France]] would spread stories about being at Leonardo's deathbed as propaganda.<ref name="ACRV novel" />
*November 8: The Spanish expedition party led by Hernán Cortés was welcomed into [[Tenochtitlan]] by the [[Aztecs|Aztec]] ruler, [[Moctezuma II]].<ref name="ACPL" />
===1520===
===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 while 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.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*May 20: The Aztecs in Tenochtitlan were massacred by the Spanish during the {{Wiki|Toxcatl}} feast, in response to the gruesomeness of the feast and to plunder Aztec riches. In the chaos, Giovanni Borgia stole a [[Crystal Skulls|Crystal Skull]] from an Aztec priest.<ref name="ACPL" />
* While bringing the Crystal Skull to his contact, the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] professor [[Bombastus]], Giovanni Borgia discovered the formula to make gold after taking a look at one volume titled "Divine Science" of [[Nicolas Flamel]]'s [[Book of Abraham]].<ref name="ACPL"/>
*June 29: Moctezuma II, used as a puppet by the Spanish to calm the Aztec people, was killed after one of his subjects struck his head with a stone.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
*June 30: Hernán Cortés and his Spanish soldiers made a narrow escape from Tenochtitlan during the night, known as the [[Night of Sorrow]], during which many Spanish soldiers were slaughtered by the pursuing Aztecs.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1521===
===1521===
* On 20 April, Emperor [[Zhengde]] of China died without a proper heir to succeed him. During the chaotic political state that followed, the Chinese Assassins broke into the Imperial Palace and rescued several of the Emperor's concubines. With the help of the Templars, Zhu Houcong succeeded him and was from then on known as Emperor [[Jiajing]].<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*April 20: The [[Zhengde|Zhengde Emperor]] of China died without an heir, leaving the country in a state of chaos. The Chinese Assassins took the opportunity to infiltrate the imperial palace and rescued several of the Emperor's concubines, including [[Shao Jun]].<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
* 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.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*May 27: Zhu Houcong became the [[Jiajing|Jiajing Emperor]], with aid from the Templars, succeeding his cousin, the Zhengde Emperor.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
 
*July: The Spanish conquistador [[Juan Ponce de León]] died in [[Havana]], [[Cuba]], after having been shot with a poisoned arrow by the Assassins in [[Florida]] for failing to heed [[Miguel Ramon Carlo de Lugo]]'s warning to give up his search for the [[Fountain of Youth]].<ref name="DYL" />
===1524===
===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.<ref name="ACE">''[[Assassin's Creed: Embers]]''</ref>
*August: The Jiajing Emperor ordered the elimination of Chinese Assassins, resulting in the near eradication of the Chinese Brotherhood. The survivors fled to the west, and Shao Jun and her Mentor sought to seek the aid of Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Italy.<ref name="ACE">''[[Assassin's Creed: Embers]]''</ref>
* Ezio Auditore da Firenze died in a Florentine piazza,<ref name="ACE"/> caused by the numerous battle wounds he had received over the years.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*November: Shao Jun met Ezio Auditore da Firenze in his villa in Tuscany; her Mentor was killed in Venice. Ezio agreed to teach her how to rebuild the Order, and the two of them fought off Chinese imperial guards in Florence and Ezio's villa.<ref name="ACE" />
 
*November 30: Ezio Auditore da Firenze died in Florence, as a result of the battle wounds he received during his career as an Assassin, while visiting the city with his wife Sofia and daughter Flavia.<ref name="ACE" />
===1526===
*Shao Jun returned to China after traveling through Europe, and started rebuilding the Chinese Assassin Brotherhood.<ref name="ACCC">''[[Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China]]''</ref>
===1527===
===1527===
* Giovanni Borgia and Bombastus' assistant [[Maria Amiel]] go on a journey to France to find the other volume of the Book of Abraham, but discovered the name of the second volume, "True Magic," and that both volumes contained the teachings of Abraham of Würzburg. During their journey, a Templar called "the Viper" was killed by Giovanni Borgia in [[Troyes]] and the Pythagorean Vault was visited by Giovanni and Maria.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*Giovanni Borgia discovered the formulae for the [[philosopher's stone]] from the "True Magic" chapter of the [[Book of Abraham]] in the study of the Swiss scientist [[Bombastus]], when Giovanni took his Crystal Skull to Bombastus for study.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1541===
===1541===
* On 26 June, Spanish conquistador [[Francisco Pizarro]] was killed by the Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>
*June 26: The Spanish conquistador [[Francisco Pizarro]], conqueror of the {{Wiki|Inca Empire}}, was killed by the Assassins.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1542===
*The Assassin Giovanni Borgia communicated with the Jiajing Emperor through his Crystal Skull. Upon realizing the Emperor's threats, Borgia warned the Brotherhood of the danger.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1549===
*July 27: [[Francis Xavier]], a Jesuit missionary, arrived in [[Japan]] to spread the influence of Christianity and the Templar Order.<ref name="ACM" />
===1554===
*April 27: The Republic of Florence conquered Monteriggioni, after the Florentine exile [[Giovannino Zeti]] handed the town keys to Florence. The Medici allowed the Auditore to continue their rule of the town.<ref name="AC2" />
===1558===
===1558===
* On 17 November, Queen [[Mary I of England]] was killed by the Assassins. She was succeeded by her half-sister [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]], who ruled with the Apple of Eden #2.<ref name="AC2"/>
*November 17: Queen [[Mary I of England|Mary I]] of England was killed by the Assassins, to free the people of England from her oppression.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1559===
*January 15: Queen [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] of England, successor to her half-sister Mary I, was crowned at Westminster Abbey and began her rule over England, aided by an Apple of Eden.<ref name="AC2" />
===1571===
*July 6: [[Mōri Motonari]], head of the Mōri clan, was assassinated by the Assassin [[Hattori Hanzō]] to allow [[Oda Nobunaga]] to conquer {{Wiki|Chūgoku region|Chūgoku}}, paving the way for [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]].<ref name="ACM" />
===1573===
*May 13: [[Takeda Shingen]], head of the Takeda clan, was killed in his camp during an attack by [[Honda Tadakatsu]] and the Assassin Hattori Hanzō, to obtain Shingen's Sword of Eden.<ref name="ACM" />
===1576===
*June 21: The Battle of Gogunda was fought between the {{Wiki|Army of the Mughal Empire}} and the Rajput chief {{Wiki|Maharana Pratap|Maharana Pratap Singh}}. Despite the Mughal Army's victory, Pratap Singh refused to recognize Mughal rule for several years until his army was defeated.<ref name="ACI" />
===1578===
*April 19: [[Uesugi Kenshin]], head of the Uesugi clan and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō.<ref name="ACM" />
===1581===
===1581===
* On 19 November, Tsarevich [[Ivan Ivanovich of Russia]], heir apparent to {{Wiki|Ivan the Terrible}}, was killed by the Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>
*The Jesuit missionary [[Francisco Cabral]] was forced to resign from his post by fellow missionary [[Alessandro Valignano]], after Cabral confronted Valignano about the latter using his position to scour Japan for Templar recruits.<ref name="ACM" />
 
*November 19: Tsarevich [[Ivan Ivanovich of Russia|Ivan Ivanovich]] of Russia, son of {{Wiki|Ivan the Terrible}}, died; the Assassins were somehow involved in his death.<ref name="AC2" />
===1587===
===1582===
* The alchemists [[Edward Kelley]] and [[John Dee]] fell under the employment of Count Vilem Rožmberk, and moved to {{wiki|Třeboň}}.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*June 21: Oda Nobunaga, head of the Oda clan, was attacked by his vassal {{Wiki|Akechi Mitsuhide}} at {{Wiki|Honnō-ji}}; he was subsequently assassinated the Assassin and monk [[Yamauchi Taka]] to obtain his Sword of Eden, which was then transported to China by [[Liu Yan]].<ref name="ACM" />
 
===1586===
*October 26: English alchemist [[Edward Kelley]] moved with his family to {{Wiki|Třeboň}} from [[Prague]], where he worked with [[John Dee]] for Count [[Vilem Rožmberk]]; using a [[Crystal Balls|Crystal Ball]], Kelley communicated with the First Civilization.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1589===
===1589===
* After disagreements about how to use the Book of Abraham, John Dee abandoned Edward Kelley and moved back to his native England.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*May: John Dee left Třeboň and returned to England after an argument with Edward Kelley over the use of the Book of Abraham; Kelley started working at the court of Holy Roman Emperor [[Rudolf II]].<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1590===
*August 18: The [[Roanoke Colony]] in the New World was found deserted; the disappearance of the colony had some relation to the Assassin–Templar War.<ref name="AC3" />
===1591===
===1591===
* A [[Golem]] started hunting and murdering alchemists in [[Prague]]. The alchemist Edward Kelley was saved from the Golem by his stepdaughter [[Elizabeth Jane Weston]], who stopped the creature by speaking with it.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*The [[Golem]] killed various members of the nobility and alchemists in Prague, the seat of the Holy Roman Empire; by conversing with it, [[Elizabeth Jane Weston]] prevented its attempt to kill her stepfather Edward Kelley.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1596===
*December 23: The Assassin Hattori Hanzō was killed by his longtime rival and fellow ninja, [[Fūma Kotarō]], in {{Wiki|Edo}}.<ref name="ACM" />
===1597===
===1597===
* While under imprisonment by Emperor [[Rudolf II]] for failing to create gold for him, Edward Kelley committed suicide by jumping off the roof of the prison he was held in, as a result of madness caused by his experiments.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*November 1: Edward Kelley committed suicide, by jumping off the roof of {{Wiki|Hněvín Castle}}, where he was imprisoned by Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire, for failing to create gold.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1598===
*September 18: [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]], the unifier of Japan, was killed by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka in Fushimi Castle.<ref name="ACM" />
===1600===
*October 21: The {{Wiki|Battle of Sekigahara}} was fought between the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and [[Ishida Mitsunari]], ending in a Tokugawa victory. Ishida's vassal [[Shima Sakon]] was assassinated by Yamauchi Taka.<ref name="ACM" />


==17th century==
==17th century==
===1651===
===1651===
* After the {{wiki|Battle of Worcester}} between the {{Wiki|Cavalier|Royalists}} and {{Wiki|Roundhead|Parliamentarians}}, Prince [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] fled England in disguise and lived in exile in mainland Europe, and [[Oliver Cromwell]] was appointed {{Wiki|Lord Protector}} of England.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*September 3: The {{Wiki|Battle of Worcester}} was fought between the English {{Wiki|Cavalier|Royalists}} and {{Wiki|Roundheads|Parliamentarians}}, resulting in a victory for Parliament and the end of the [[English Civil War]]. Prince [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] fled England and lived in exile in mainland Europe.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1660===
===1660===
* On 29 May, Charles II returned to [[London]] after years of exile in [[France]], the {{Wiki|Dutch Republic|United Provinces}} and the {{Wiki|Spanish Netherlands}}, and was crowned King of England, Scotland and Ireland.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*May 29: Prince Charles II returned to London after years of exile in [[France]], the [[Netherlands|United Provinces]] and Spanish Netherlands.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
===1661===
*May 29: King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland was crowned at {{Wiki|Westminster Abbey}}; a man wielding a Piece of Eden was present at the coronation.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1666===
*September 2: The {{Wiki|Great Fire of London}} started, destroying thousands of buildings in the medieval City of London, ending on September 5.<ref name="ACI" />
===1673===
*April: [[Thom Kavanagh]], a [[Sages|Sage]] from [[Boston]], was captured by the Mentor of the Caribbean Assassins, [[Bahlam]], to prevent him from falling under [[Laureano de Torres y Ayala]]'s Templar influence.<ref name="AC4" />
===1699===
===1699===
*Scottish privateer-turned-pirate Captain [[William Kidd]] became a wanted man by the Kingdom of England, and was also being pursued by the Templar Order for the [[Shards of Eden|Shard of Eden]] that Kidd possessed. Kidd started hiding his treasures around various locations, including his [[Captain Kidd's Sawtooth Cutlass|sawtooth cutlass]] in the Mayan ruins in [[Cerros]] and his [[Shards of Eden|Shard of Eden]] on [[Oak Island]], before being arrested on 6 July.<ref name="AC3"/>
*British pirate [[William Kidd]] hid his treasures in the New World – including his [[Captain Kidd's Sawtooth Cutlass|sawtooth cutlass]] on [[Cerros]] and his [[Shards of Eden|Shard of Eden]] on [[Oak Island]] – after realizing he was pursued by the British authorities and the Templars.<ref name="AC3" />


==18th century==
==18th century==
===1701===
===1701===
*Captain William Kidd was tried in England for piracy and ordered to death by hanging in London.<ref name="AC3"/>
*May 23: The British privateer William Kidd was hanged in London on accussations of piracy, after having been captured in New York.<ref name="AC3" />
 
*July 9: The [[War of the Spanish Succession]] started between the powers of Europe to determine the successor to King {{Wiki|Charles II of Spain|Charles II}} of Spain.<ref name="AC4" />
===1713===
*April 11: The {{Wiki|Treaty of Utrecht}} was signed between the belligerents of the War of the Spanish Succession, effectively ending all armed conflict between the powers of Europe. Privateers in the West Indies were no longer needed, causing many privateers to turn to piracy.<ref name="AC4" />
===1715===
*June: The Assassin [[Duncan Walpole]] was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway, after Walpole had killed Edward's captain [[Abel Bramah]] and both ships had been destroyed near [[Cape Bonavista]]. Stealing Walpole's identity, Edward saved [[Stede Bonnet]] from British soldiers and left with him for Havana.<ref name="AC4" />
*July:
**[[Woodes Rogers]], [[Julien du Casse]] and Edward Kenway, posing as the Assassin Duncan Walpole, were inducted into the Templar Order by Grand Master Laureano de Torres y Ayala.<ref name="AC4" />
**The Templars killed several Assassins in Havana while protecting the Sage [[Bartholomew Roberts]] from falling into their hands. That evening, Edward Kenway was caught on suspicions of freeing the Sage, and was to be sent to the British Templars with the [[Spanish Treasure Fleet]].<ref name="AC4" />
*July 30: The Treasure Fleet lost eleven of its twelve vessels in a hurricane off the coast of Florida. The remaining ship, later rechristened ''[[Jackdaw]]'', was stolen by pirate captives led by Edward Kenway and [[Adéwalé]], and managed to escape the storm.<ref name="AC4" />
*September: Julien du Casse was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway in du Casse's stronghold in [[Great Inagua]], out of fear that du Casse had recognized the ''Jackdaw'' while sailing.<ref name="AC4" />
===1716===
*March:
**Mary Read invited Edward Kenway to the Assassins' headquarters in [[Tulum]], on the Yucatán Peninsula; there, they explored the Mayan ruins and Kenway identified a statue of the Sage.<ref name="AC4" />
**The Mentor [[Ah Tabai]], Mary Read and Edward Kenway defended Tulum from an attack by the slaver [[Laurens Prins]].<ref name="AC4" />
*June: The French pirate [[Olivier Levasseur|Olivier "La Buse" Levasseur]] destroyed a vessel captained by [[Barnes]] off [[Devil's Rock]], and rescued its captives [[Alonzo Batilla]] and [[Jumao]], whom he rewarded with their own ship. Alonzo subsequently obtained the schooner ''Wanderer''.<ref name="ACP">''[[Assassin's Creed: Pirates]]''</ref>
*July: [[Samuel Bellamy]] replaced [[Benjamin Hornigold]] as captain of Hornigold's pirate fleet by majority vote and Hornigold's rule to not attack British ships was neglected. Hornigold was escorted away from the pirates to another island by Alonzo Batilla.<ref name="ACP" />
*November: Samuel Bellamy, La Buse and Alonzo Batilla attacked a galleon of the Spanish Treasure Fleet, but were lured into a trap by Captain [[Francis Hume]] of the British Navy, a Templar.<ref name="ACP" />
===1717===
*January:
**Alonzo Batilla recovered [[Laurens Prins]]' slaver route and destroyed Francis Hume's ship, who had attacked Samuel Bellamy on orders of Laureano de Torres y Ayala.<ref name="ACP" />
**Edward Kenway attacked the fort at [[Punta Guarico]] to steal Laureano de Torres y Ayala's gold, but instead devised a plan to use Torres and his gold to acquire Bartholomew Roberts from Laurens Prins, who had the Sage in his employ.<ref name="AC4">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]''</ref>
*February: Samuel Bellamy, La Buse and Alonzo Batilla set a trap for the ''[[Whydah]]'', Laurens Prins' slave ship transporting a Piece of Eden. The ''Whydah'' and its treasure were secured, and the pirates were able to sink the attacking ''King George'' captained by Francis Hume.<ref name="ACP" />
*April 27: Laurens Prins was assassinated in [[Kingston]] by Edward Kenway, aiding his friend Mary Read in finishing her assassination contract after Prins refused to sell Bartholomew Roberts. Roberts managed to escape Kingston.<ref name="AC4" />
*May: Alonzo Batilla aided [[Christopher Condent]] in finding supplies and rum for the Pirate Republic of [[Nassau]]; La Buse fled Nassau with the Piece of Eden after discovering the Templars had infiltrated the republic.<ref name="ACP" />
*September: La Buse escaped from a Templar attack on an enemy ship, leaving the wreckage of his vessel ''Le Postillon'' behind; Alonzo retrieved La Buse's codebook from the Templar merchant Barnes, detailing his location to be {{Wiki|Mayaguana}}.<ref name="ACP" />
*December: Barnes was fatally shot by fellow Templar Christopher Condent, after being unable to discern the location of Olivier Levasseur to Condent and Benjamin Hornigold.<ref name="AC4" />
===1718===
*January: The pirates Edward Kenway and [[Edward Thatch]], commonly known as Blackbeard, traveled to a shipwreck of the Spanish Treasure Fleet to find medicine for the people of Nassau, without success.<ref name="AC4" />
*April: Edward Thatch was overrun by a British [[Man O' War]]. After being saved by Edward Kenway, Thatch's men discovered a shipment of medicine from [[Charleston|Charles-Towne]] aboard the Man O' War.<ref name="AC4" />
*May: Edward Thatch laid siege to Charles-Towne, [[South Carolina]] for a week, holding men hostage in exchange for medicine. Edward Kenway infiltrated the town, stealing the town's medicine instead.<ref name="AC4" />
*July 22:
**Governor Woodes Rogers of the Bahamas arrived in Nassau with Commodore [[Peter Chamberlaine]], extending a pardon from King [[George I of Great Britain|George I]] of the Great Britain to all pirates.<ref name="AC4" />
**Commodore Peter Chamberlaine was assassinated by the pirate Edward Kenway for threatening the Pirate Republic. Kenway and [[Charles Vane]] destroyed the British's blockade of the city with a fireship.<ref name="AC4" />
*November 22: Edward Thatch was killed off the coast of [[Ocracoke]], during a British Navy assault led by [[Robert Maynard]]. Edward Kenway and the ''Jackdaw'' managed to escape.<ref name="AC4" />
*November 23: Charles Vane and Edward Kenway were marooned on [[Isla Providencia]], after [[Jack Rackham]] deposed Vane as captain and captured the ''Jackdaw''.<ref name="AC4" />
===1719===
*February: Edward Kenway was saved from Isla Providencia by an arriving ship, after having fought Charles Vane, who had lost his sanity on the island.<ref name="AC4" />
*May: The pirate Benjamin Hornigold joined the Templar Order in Kingston after accepting Governor Woodes Rogers' pardon. Edward Kenway sailed to [[Príncipe]] to save the Sage from the Templars.<ref name="AC4" />
*June 19: The pirate hunters [[John Cockram]] and [[Josiah Burgess]] were killed by Edward Kenway, after Kenway had saved Bartholomew Roberts from the Templars' attack. Roberts was elected as the replacement of pirate captain [[Howell Davis]].<ref name="AC4" />
*September:
**Edward Kenway and Bartholomew Roberts captured the Portuguese ship ''Nosso Senhor da Compreensão'' and secured the Templars' [[blood vials]] on board. Roberts renamed the ship ''[[Royal Fortune]]'' and made it his flagship.<ref name="AC4" />
**Benjamin Hornigold was killed by his former friend Edward Kenway on [[Santanillas]] for betraying the Pirate Republic.<ref name="AC4" />
**Edward Kenway was betrayed by Bartholomew Roberts and turned in to the British authorities in Kingston, after Kenway and Roberts visited the [[Observatory]]; there, Roberts took possession of the complex' Crystal Skull.<ref name="AC4" />
===1720===
*November 28: Mary Read and [[Anne Bonny]] were led to trial in [[Port Royal]] in Kingston, but managed to evade death by hanging by revealing their pregnancies.<ref name="AC4" />
===1721===
*April: Edward Kenway and Anne Bonny escaped imprisonment in [[Port Royal]], Jamaica, with the aid of the Mentor Ah Tabai; Mary Read died in prison, due to complications from childbirth. Kenway decided to join the Assassins, out of respect for Read.<ref name="AC4" />
*May: Governor Woodes Rogers of the Bahamas was severely wounded by the pirate Edward Kenway during a party in Kingston. Rogers survived his wounds, and later returned to England.<ref name="AC4" />
*November 28: The French bandit [[Louis-Dominique Cartouche|Cartouche]] was saved from death by his lover [[Mireille]], the leader of the French Assassins, who managed to fake his execution. Cartouche joined the Assassin Brotherhood.<ref name="ACU" />
===1722===
*February 10: Bartholomew Roberts was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway near Príncipe on orders of Ah Tabai, taking possession of the Crystal Skull and the blood vials. Upon Roberts' request, Edward destroyed his body to prevent it from falling into Templar hands.<ref name="AC4" />
*[[El Tiburón]], Laureano de Torres y Ayala's right hand man, was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway in [[Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta]] in Havana.<ref name="AC4" />
*September 1: Laureano de Torres y Ayala, Grand Master of the Caribbean Templars, was killed inside the Observatory in Jamaica by the pirate Edward Kenway on orders of Ah Tabai.<ref name="AC4" />
*October: Edward Kenway returned to England with his daughter [[Jennifer Scott]], who had just arrived in Great Inagua, after Kenway heard news that his wife Caroline Scott had died two years earlier.<ref name="AC4" />
===1723===
*Edward Kenway killed the Templars [[Emmett Scott]], father of Caroline Scott, and [[Wilson]] in a warehouse in [[Bristol]] for the pain they caused his wife and parents.<ref name="AC4 novel">''[[Assassin's Creed: Black Flag (novel)|Assassin's Creed: Black Flag]]''</ref>
*[[Robert Walpole]], the future Prime Minister of Great Britain, pardoned Edward Kenway and his pirate crew. Walpole purchased a house in London for Kenway, introduced him to the Stephensen-Oakley family and employed his new assistant, [[Reginald Birch]].<ref name="AC4 novel" />
===1735===
*The ''[[Victoire]]'', captained by Adéwalé, ambushed a convoy of French Templar ships near [[Saint-Domingue]], and intercepted a parcel adressed to [[Bastienne Josèphe]] in [[Port-au-Prince]]. While fleeing from the Templars, the ''Victoire'' was destroyed in a storm, and Adéwalé washed up in Port-au-Prince.<ref name="AC4FC">''[[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]]'' – ''[[Freedom Cry]]''</ref>
*Adéwalé formed an alliance with Bastienne Josèphe and [[Augustin Dieufort]], leader of the [[Maroon rebellion]] against the Governor [[Pierre, Marquis de Fayet]]. Adéwalé stole the ''[[Experto Crede]]'' and made it his flagship, and helped free the colony's slaves.<ref name="AC4FC" />
*The ''Experto Crede'' protected the ''[[Vautour]]'', a French merchant ship transporting French scientists for the [[French Geodesic Mission]] and slave spying for the Assassins and Maroons, from pirate ships.<ref name="AC4FC" />
*December 3: The Assassin Edward Kenway was killed in his family's house in London by masked men employed by Reginald Birch, Kenway's property manager and a Templar. The masked men proceeded to steal [[Edward Kenway's journal|Kenway's journal]], and kidnapped his daughter Jennifer.<ref name="ACF">''[[Assassin's Creed: Forsaken]]''</ref>
*December 12: [[Haytham Kenway]], son of Edward Kenway, started his tutelage under Reginald Birch on his mother [[Tessa Kenway|Tessa]]'s request, and left with Birch for Europe to find Jennifer.<ref name="ACF" />
===1737===
*On orders of Governor Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, a French vessel took down a slave ship while the ''Experto Crede'' was trying to free its slaves from the French.<ref name="AC4FC" />
*July 8: Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, Governor-General of Saint-Domingue was killed by the Assassin Adéwalé in Port-au-Prince for his harsh treatment of slaves in the colony.<ref name="AC4FC" />
===1738===
*February 20: The [[Swedish Levant Company]] was founded in [[Stockholm]], as a front for the Swedish Brotherhood of Assassins.<ref name="ACRG" />
===1744===
*April 19: Haytham Kenway was formally inducted into the Templar Order. His first mission was to kill a greedy merchant in [[Liverpool]].<ref name="ACF" />
===1745===
*May 11: The [[Siege of Louisbourg (1745)|Siege of Louisbourg]] started. The Assassin [[John de la Tour]] sacrificed himself fighting off the invading British forces, while [[Achilles Davenport]] and [[Abigail Davenport|Abigail]] sought the safehouse of the Hermeticist [[Nicolas Court]].<ref name="ACRG" />
===1746===
*[[Achilles Davenport]], a former student of the Mentor Ah Tabai in the Caribbean,<ref name="ACRG" /> established the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins in the [[Thirteen Colonies]] and assumed the title of Mentor.<ref name="AC3" />
===1747===
*June 11: [[Juan Vedomir]], a Templar assigned to decode Edward Kenway's journal, was killed by Haytham Kenway for working with the Assassins. Haytham took the journal with him, and later brought it to Reginald Birch in the Templar headquarters in [[Prague]].<ref name="ACF" />
*June 19: [[Nāder Shāh]], the ruler of [[Iran]] and owner of the [[Koh-i-Noor]], was killed by a group of assassins led by [[Salah Bey]], an ally of the Colonial Assassins. The Koh-i-Noor <ref name="ACBM" />
===1749===
===1749===
*The ''[[Aquila]]'' was built in France and became the flagship of the Assassin navy, captained by [[Robert Faulkner]].<ref name="AC3"/>
*The brig ''[[Aquila]]'' was constructed in {{Wiki|Brest}}, France<ref name="AC3"/>''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' on orders of the Assassin Council in Paris.<ref name="ACRG"/> The ship would become the flagship of the Assassin Navy within several years.<ref name="AC3">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]''</ref>
 
===1751===
*November 21: The Assassin [[Vendredi]] discovered and disturbed the [[Seismic Temple artifacts|Piece of Eden]] in the [[Port-au-Prince Temple|First Civilization Temple]] near Port-au-Prince, on orders of [[François Mackandal]], triggering an earthquake that destroyed the city. Vendredi was killed by the Templar [[Lawrence Washington]] during his escape.<ref name="ACRG" />
*November: Master Templar Lawrence Washington stole the [[Precursor box]] and [[Voynich manuscript|manuscript]] from the camp of François Mackandal in Haiti.<ref name="ACRG" />
===1752===
*July: Master Templar Lawrence Washington was killed by the Assassin Shay Cormac outside Washington's estate in [[Mount Vernon]].<ref name="ACRG" />
===1753===
*June 25: Haytham Kenway abducted [[Lucio Albertine]] to help his mother, the captive [[Monica Albertine]], a codebreaker and Assassin associate, decode Edward Kenway's journal for the Templars. Haytham stole the Hidden Blades of [[Miko]], Lucio's Assassin bodyguard, while engaged in combat with him.<ref name="ACF" />
===1754===
===1754===
* On 18 April, the Templar [[Haytham Kenway]] killed [[Miko]], a member of the Assassin Order, inside the [[Theatre Royal]] in London and retrieved the [[Grand Temple Key]] from his body. With help from [[John Harrison]], Grand Master [[Reginald Birch]] concluded that the key opened a First Civilization storehouse somewhere in the British colonies of America - in truth the Grand Temple. On Birch's orders, Haytham traveled to America to discover the storehouse and arrived there on 8 July after seventy-two days of travel.<ref name="AC3"/>
*April 18: Haytham Kenway assassinated Miko during a performance of ''{{Wiki|The Beggar's Opera}}'' at the [[Theatre Royal]] in London, and retrieved the [[Grand Temple Key|Grand Temple's key]].<ref name="AC3" />
*During Haytham Kenway's journey to the British colonies aboard the ''[[Providence]]'', the ''Aquila'' pursued its trail with the help of the Assassin [[Louis Mills]], a crewman of the ''Providence''. After killing Mills, Haytham forced captain [[Samuel Smythe]] to sail the ship into the storm in hopes of losing its pursuer. The ''Aquila'' was damaged and presumed lost at sea, though it continued harassing Templar ships in secret and became known as the "Ghost of the North Seas".<ref name="AC3"/>
*April 20: Haytham Kenway boarded the ''[[Providence]]'' to start his 72-day long journey to the New World to find the Grand Temple. During the journey, Haytham killed the Assassin sailor [[Louis Mills]] and managed to evade capture by the ''Aquila'', luring it to destruction in the storm.<ref name="AC3" />
* Haytham Kenway met with [[Charles Lee]], a [[British Army]] soldier and Templar associate, upon his arrival in [[Boston]] and with his help began to gather a band of Templars consisting of [[William Johnson]], [[Thomas Hickey]], [[Benjamin Church]] and [[John Pitcairn]] to discover the First Civilization storehouse and establish a permanent base in the British colonies.<ref name="AC3"/>
*July 8: Haytham Kenway arrived in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] and formally took up the position of Grand Master of the Colonial Templars, recruiting [[Charles Lee]], [[William Johnson]] and [[Thomas Hickey]].<ref name="AC3" />
*The Colonial Rite of Templars stormed [[Southgate Fort]] in Boston to free the natives captured by the slaver [[Silas Thatcher]], a British Army officer, and subdued him only to let him be killed by Benjamin Church.<ref name="AC3"/>
*July 10: Haytham Kenway and Charles Lee rescued the surgeon [[Benjamin Church]] from capture by the slaver [[Silas Thatcher]], and recruited him into the Colonial Templars.<ref name="AC3" />
 
*July 13: Haytham Kenway recruited the soldier [[John Pitcairn]] into the Colonial Templars, after attacking and threatening his former comrade Edward Braddock.<ref name="AC3" />
*July 14: The Colonial Templars besieged the fortress of Southgate in Boston, killing the slaver Silas Thatcher in the process.<ref name="AC3" />
*November 15: Haytham Kenway formed an alliance with [[Kaniehtí:io]], a [[Kanien'kehá:ka]] woman who could lead him to the Grand Temple, by planning a joint attack on Edward Braddock.<ref name="AC3" />
===1755===
===1755===
*Haytham Kenway forged an alliance with the [[Kanien'kehá:ka]] woman [[Kaniehtí:io]] to stop [[Edward Braddock]], a British Army general and former Templar, in turn for gaining the location of the First Civilization storehouse.<ref name="AC3"/>
*July 9: General Edward Braddock was fatally wounded by Haytham Kenway during the [[Braddock Expedition]], with aid from Kenway's fellow Templars, Kaniehtí:io, the [[Abenaki]], [[Shawnee]] and [[Lenape]], for his betrayal of the Templar Order's principles.<ref name="AC3" /> Braddock died four days later.<ref name="ACF" />
*The Colonial Rite of Templars, Kaniehtí:io, the Abenakee, Shawnee and Lenape ambushed the British Army during the Braddock Expedition on 13 July. Despite interference from officer [[George Washington]], Haytham was able to assassinate Edward Braddock and took the Templar ring from his body. In return, Kaniehtí:io showed him the location of the First Civilization storehouse, but Haytham discovered the Grand Temple Key was unable to open its outer doors.<ref name="AC3"/>
*November 1: The Assassin Shay Cormac disturbed the Piece of Eden in the [[Lisbon Temple|Temple]] beneath the [[Carmo Convent]] in [[Lisbon]], causing an earthquake that destroyed the city and killed thousands of citizens.<ref name="ACRG" />
*Charles Lee was formally inducted into the Templar Order and quickly rose to became the second-in-command of Grand Master Haytham Kenway.<ref name="AC3"/>
===1757===
 
*May 1: Jeanne fled from New Orleans to a working colony in [[Chichen Itza]], Mexico with the aid of her former husband [[Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]]'s new wife [[Madeleine de L'Isle]], leaving her daughter [[Aveline de Grandpré]] in the care of Madeleine.<ref name="AC3L" />
*August: The Assassin Kesegowaase was killed by Shay Cormac and the Templar George Monro was killed in a house fire by the Assassin Liam O'Brien during the Siege of Fort William Henry.<ref name="ACRG" />
*September 17: Jennifer Scott was rescued by Haytham Kenway and [[Jim Holden]] from servitude at the palace of Governor [[As'ad Pasha al-Azm]] of Damascus, after having spent years as a concubine at Topkapı Palace.<ref name="ACF" />
*October 9: Grand Master Reginald Birch was killed in his chateau near Troyes, France by Jennifer Scott, with the help of her brother Haytham Kenway, for having been responsible for their father's death and selling her into slavery.<ref name="ACF" />
===1758===
===1758===
*[[François Mackandal]], [[Mentor]] of the Assassin Brotherhood on [[Haiti|Saint-Domingue]], made a failed poisoning attempt on white colonists alongside his pupils [[Agaté]] and [[Baptiste]]. Mackandal was captured and executed, while Agaté and Baptiste each escaped to [[New Orleans]] in the French colony of [[Louisiana]].<ref name="AC3L"/>
*January 20: [[François Mackandal]], Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue, was publicly executed after attempting to poison the white inhabitants of the colony. His pupils [[Agaté]] and [[Baptiste]] fled to [[Louisiana]].<ref name="AC3L">''[[Assassin's Creed III: Liberation]]''</ref>
 
===1759===
===1759===
*Louisianan Templar leader [[Madeleine de L'Isle]] arranged the deportion of her husband [[Philippe Olivier de Grandpré]]'s former placée [[Jeanne]] to a working colony in [[Chichen Itza]]. Philippe and Jeanne's daughter [[Aveline de Grandpré]] was captured by slavers while in search of her mother, and was saved and recruited into the Assassin Order by Agaté.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*November 12: Aveline de Grandpré was recruited into the Assassin Brotherhood by the Mentor Agaté. After several months of training, she was formally inducted into the Order.<ref name="AC3L" />
 
===1760===
===1760===
*The Kanien'kehá:ka village of [[Kanatahséton]] was set aflame by George Washington and other British Army soldiers. While Kaniehtí:io, among others, was killed, her and Haytham's son [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] managed to escape alongside a large group of villagers.<ref name="AC3"/>
*March: A [[Arctic Temple|First Civilization temple]] in the North Atlantic created an earthquake after its Piece of Eden was disturbed during a confrontation between Achilles Davenport, Liam O'Brien, Haytham Kenway and Shay Cormac. Liam was killed by Shay, and Achilles was shot in the leg by Haytham.<ref name="ACRG" />
 
*November 2: The Kanien'kehá:ka village of [[Kanatahséton]] was set aflame by [[George Washington]] of the British Army, killing many villagers including Kaniehtí:io, after her son [[Ratonhnhaké:ton]] was attacked by the Colonial Templars led by Charles Lee.<ref name="AC3" />
===1763===
===1763===
*The Colonial Templars led an attack on the [[Davenport Homestead]], the headquarters of the [[Colonial Assassins|Colonial Assassin Brotherhood]], nearly wiping out all the Assassins and causing the destruction of the Davenport manor. Their Mentor [[Achilles Davenport]] was spared on the condition that he gave up the Assassins' cause.<ref name="AC3"/>
*The Colonial Templars effectively destroyed the Colonial Brotherhood by wiping out nearly all of its remaining members. Achilles Davenport entered a life of exile in the Davenport Homestead.<ref name="AC3" />
 
===1765===
===1765===
*On 4 February, because of his affiliation with the Templar Order through [[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]], the Assassin [[Aveline de Grandpré]] killed [[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]], the French governor of Louisiana.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*February 4: [[Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie]], the Governor of Louisiana, was assassinated by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré for colluding with the Templar Order to hand over the colony to Templars in the Spanish government.<ref name="AC3L" />
 
===1766===
===1766===
*Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer started an alliance with former Assassin Baptiste, who started impersonating his former mentor François Mackandal, and under this guise made plans to take over smuggling operations in the [[Louisiana Bayou]] and force Agaté out of hiding. On Agaté's orders, Aveline de Grandpré enlisted the aid of local smugglers [[Roussillon]] and [[Élise Lafleur]] to stop Baptiste, and killed him during a sacred ceremony on the Eve of Saint John.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*June 23: Baptiste, the leader of a Maroon smuggling operation impersonating his former Mentor François Mackandal, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré for colluding with the Templar Order, on orders of Baptiste's former Brother, Agaté.<ref name="AC3L" />
 
===1768===
===1768===
*The Templars found out about the continued existence of the Assassin ship the ''Aquila'', and attacked it with three British ships. The ''Aquila'' was severely damaged, ran aground, and abandoned. Robert Faulkner had the vessel towed to the Davenport Homestead.<ref name="AC3"/>
*October 27: Antonio de Ulloa, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana, was attacked by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré while trying to escape New Orleans during the [[Louisiana Rebellion]]. Aveline spared the Governor's life and retrieved a map leading to a Templar work camp in Chichen Itza.<ref name="AC3L" />
*The many restrictions on trade set by the new Spanish governor of Louisiana, the Templar [[Antonio de Ulloa]], caused {{Wiki|Louisiana Creole people|Creole}} settlers to [[Louisiana Rebellion|rebel]] against the Spanish government. On Agaté's orders, Aveline de Grandpré confronted Ulloa in New Orleans, but spared Ulloa and his wife's life in exchange for a lens used to decipher Templar documents and a map leading to Chichen Itza.<ref name="AC3L"/>
 
===1769===
===1769===
*Aveline de Grandpré traveled to the Mayan city of Chichen Itza, where she found a working colony under the command of Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer, and evidence that her mother Jeanne was there. Using pages from her mother's diary, Aveline found First Civilization ruins with a fragment of the [[Prophecy Disks|Prophecy Disk]] inside; though she was confronted by de Ferrer, who met his demise at Aveline's hands. On her way out, Aveline was reunited with her mother, who fled upon seeing her daughter's hidden blade.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*Aveline de Grandpré killed the Templar [[Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer]] in First Civilization ruins underneath Chichen Itza, where the Templars had set up a working colony. Aveline also obtained half of a [[Prophecy Disk]], and was reunited with her mother Jeanne.<ref name="AC3L" />
*The [[Oiá:ner|Clan Mother]] of Kanatahséton informed Ratonhnhaké:ton of the true purpose of their village and introduced him to their [[Crystal Balls|Crystal Ball]], which caused Ratonhnhaké:ton to enter the [[Nexus]], where he met [[Juno]]. She informed him that in order to save his village from imminent destruction, he had to join the Assassin Order - while in truth she merely wished to use him as a pawn to hide the Grand Temple Key for future discovery.<ref name="AC3"/>
*October 4: Ratonhnhaké:ton, son of Haytham Kenway and Kaniehtí:io, came into contact with Juno through the [[Oiá:ner|Clan Mother]]'s Crystal Ball, who informed him that he needed to join the Assassin Order in order to protect his village from destruction.<ref name="AC3" />
*At the Davenport Homestead, Ratonhnhaké:ton met Achilles Davenport, the former Mentor of the Colonial Assassins, who despite his initial reluctance agreed to train him after seeing him fend off an attack by poachers.<ref name="AC3"/>
*October 29: [[Achilles Davenport]], former Mentor of the Colonial Assassins, took Ratonhnhaké:ton under his tutelage after seeing him defend himself against a group of attackers.<ref name="AC3" />
 
===1770===
===1770===
*The citizens of Boston revolted against the British soldiers posted in the city over dissatisfaction of the colonial cities not being represented in British Parliament. Achilles Davenport and Ratonhnhaké:ton witnessed Haytham Kenway scheming with another individual and Ratonhnhaké:ton was sent to follow him, and killed the man when it became evident that he planned to trigger a shooting at the riot - though Charles Lee succeeded their ploy by firing his gun, causing the British Army to fire at the rioters; triggering the [[Boston Massacre]], which killed five men and injured six.<ref name="AC3"/>
*March 5: The [[Boston Massacre]] occurred, causing British colonists to attack British Army soldiers, after Charles Lee ignited the crowd by firing a shot on orders of Haytham Kenway. Ratonhnhaké:ton, who was blamed for the event, was able to escape with help of [[Samuel Adams]].<ref name="AC3" />
*Ratonhnhaké:ton, who was believed by the British to be the instigator of the Boston Massacre, was able to evade capture with help of Samuel Adams, who taught him ways on how to decrease his notoriety and how to travel unseen through cities via the [[Freemasons]]' tunnel systems.<ref name="AC3"/>
*March 18: Ratonhnhaké:ton received his pair of hidden blades from Achilles Davenport, and started reconstruction on the ''Aquila'', anchored in the harbor of the Davenport Homestead.<ref name="AC3" />
*Ratonhnhaké:ton returned to the Davenport Homestead, where he was given a pair of Hidden Blades and started his formal training.<ref name="AC3"/>
*The ''Aquila'' was rebuilt after it had laid destroyed in the bay of the Davenport Homestead for several years. With [[Robert Faulkner]]'s tutoring, Ratonhnhaké:ton became the new captain of the ship.<ref name="AC3"/>
 
===1771===
===1771===
*Aveline de Grandpré returned to New Orleans and was informed by her fellow Assassin [[Gérald Blanc]] that someone was bribing Spanish soldiers. Aveline investigated the accusation, uncovering the individual's identity as a Templar named [[Vázquez]], and disrupted his plans to take over smuggling operations in the Louisiana Bayou.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*The Spanish Templar [[Diego Vázquez]]'s attempts to take over smuggling operations in the Louisiana Bayou were disrupted by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré, with the aid of Agaté, Gérald Blanc, Élise Lafleur and [[Roussillon]].<ref name="AC3L" />
 
===1772===
===1772===
*Aveline de Grandpré returned to Chichen Itza after finding a map leading to another First Civilization ruin, but was met by her mother after her arrival. She made peace with Jeanne, and obtained the second half of the Prophecy Disk, though returned home by herself as Jeanne wanted to take care of the slaves in the work site.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*Aveline de Grandpré returned to Chichen Itza, where she made peace with her mother Jeanne and received another half of a Prophecy Disk using a map leading to another First Civilization ruin.<ref name="AC3L" />
 
===1773===
===1773===
*Philippe Olivier de Grandpré uncovered evidence of Templar influence in his business. His wife, the local Templar leader Madeleine de L'Isle, started poisoning her husband to prevent him from disrupting Templar operations, and he died some time later.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*November 6: Ratonhnhaké:ton aided the [[Sons of Liberty]] in defying William Johnson's smuggling operation by destroying his shipments of tea in Boston's harbor, to disrupt William Johnson's purchase of indigenous American land.<ref name="AC3" />
*Aveline de Grandpré aided in the escape of a slave named [[George Davidson]] on the request of her stepmother Madeleine de L'Isle. Aveline and Davidson aided Roussillon and Élisa Lafleur during a deal with American Patriots, and Davidson went with them to the British American colonies.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*December 3: [[Stephane Chapheau]] killed one of William Johnson's tax collectors, with aid from Ratonhnhaké:ton, and started his tutelage under the Assassin.<ref name="AC3" />
*While attending a soirée in New Orleans, Aveline de Grandpré located Vázquez and lured him to a secluded area and assassinated him.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*December 16: The [[Boston Tea Party]] occured, in which members of the [[Sons of Liberty]] movement and Ratonhnhaké:ton dumped British shipments of tea into Boston's harbor in defiance of British authority.<ref name="AC3" />
*Because of William Johnson intending to buy the land on which Kanatahséton stands, Ratonhnhaké:ton made Johnson his first Templar target and, on Samuel Adams' advice, aided the [[Sons of Liberty]] in disrupting Johnson's financing by destroying his shipments of tea.<ref name="AC3"/>
*British colonists rose up against the British and the [[Tea Act]], which stood in opposition of their rights of having no taxation while not being represented in British Parliament. [[Paul Revere]], [[William Molineux]], Ratonhnhaké:ton and [[Stephane Chapheau]] instigated the [[Boston Tea Party]], where tea belonging to the British and William Johnson was thrown into the Boston harbor - thus instigating the [[American Revolutionary War|American Revolution]] against the British.<ref name="AC3"/>
 
===1774===
===1774===
*William Johnson reacquired the financing needed to buy the Kanien'kehá:ka lands, and despite his previous relation with the tribe, chose to resort to violence to get the Kanien'kehá:ka elders to consent to the purchase. Ratonhnhaké:ton assassinated Johnson in front of [[Johnson Hall]] while he was meeting with the elders.<ref name="AC3"/>
*July 11: William Johnson was killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton in front of [[Johnson Hall]], amidst a violent business deal to purchase the lands of clans of the [[Iroquois|Iroquois Confederacy]].<ref name="AC3" />
 
===1775===
===1775===
*On 18 April, [[Paul Revere]] and Ratonhnhaké:ton rode to [[Lexington]] and [[Concord]] during the night to warn the [[Patriots]] of incoming attacks by [[Loyalists]] and British forces under John Pitcairn.<ref name="AC3"/>
*April 18: Members of the Sons of Liberty rode out to warn British colonists of an imminent attack by the British Army; with aid from Ratonhnhaké:ton, [[Paul Revere]] warned their allies in [[Lexington]] and then proceeded to [[Concord]] with [[William Dawes]], though the two men were detained by British soldiers.<ref name="AC3" />
*The British forces of John Pitcairn and the Patriots under command of [[John Parker]] met at Concord on 19 April and a skirmish ensued, followed by a battle between British soldier and Patriots under [[James Barrett]] at Lexington. With help from Ratonhnhaké:ton, the Patriots were able to rout the British forces.<ref name="AC3"/>
*April 19: The British Army and colonial militia engaged at the [[Battles of Lexington and Concord]], where the militia under leadership of [[John Parker]], [[James Barrett]] and Ratonhnhaké:ton managed to emerge victorious.<ref name="AC3" />
*The [[Continental Congress]] formed the [[Continental Army]] on 16 June after the Battles of Lexington and Concord started the [[American Revolutionary War]], and appointed George Washington as its Commander-in-Chief.<ref name="AC3"/>
*June 16: The [[Continental Army]] was formed by the [[Patriots|Patriot]] colonists. The [[Continental Congress]] appointed George Washington to be its Commander-in-Chief.<ref name="AC3" />
*The newly formed Continental Army clashed with the British Army at [[Charlestown]], [[Massachusetts]] on 17 June, known as the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]]. Ratonhnhaké:ton assassinated the British command and Templar John Pitcairn amidst the battle, though the British managed to claim victory and captured Charlestown.<ref name="AC3"/>
*June 17: The Continental Army and British Army fought at the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]] at [[Charlestown]], Massachusetts. British Army commander John Pitcairn was assassinated during the battle, though the British managed to claim victory and captured Charlestown.<ref name="AC3" />
 
===1776===
===1776===
*Ratonhnhaké:ton attacked the Templar Thomas Hickey, a soldier in the Continental Army and money counterfeiter, for conspiring to kill George Washington, but both men were arrested for counterfeiting in the process. While Hickey's Templar connections got him out of imprisonment in [[Bridewell Prison]] in New York, Ratonhnhaké:ton was led to hang on 28 June for conspiring Washington's assassination. The Assassins freed Ratonhnhaké:ton, who then assassinated Hickey.<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[Eseosa]], grandson of Adéwalé, began to rebuild the Assassin Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue, recruiting [[Dutty Boukman]], [[Toussaint Louverture|Toussaint Brédá]], [[Georges Biassou]], [[Jean-François Papillon]] and [[Jeannot Bullet]] into his ranks.<ref name="ACI">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref>
*After the Continental Army granted the secret Templar [[Nicholas Biddle]] command of the ''[[USS Randolph|Randolph]]'', Biddle started raiding posts around [[Nantucket]], claiming it was a Loyalist post, in an effort to convince Continental Congress to appoint Biddle as Admiral of the Continental Navy. Informed by [[Amanda Bailey]] of the news, Ratonhnhaké:ton and Robert Faulkner brought the ''Aquila'' to sea and stopped Biddle's ransacking.<ref name="AC3"/>
*[[George Davidson]], an African slave, joined up with a group of American revolutionaries and escaped to the Thirteen Colonies with the help of Aveline de Grandpré, on request of Madeleine de L'Isle.<ref name="AC3L" />
*Nicholas Biddle abandoned his orders to escort the French ship the ''[[Belladonna]]'' to the colonies, instead bringing in Templar ships sailing under the British flag to take the ''Belladonna'' down. The ''Aquila'' escorted the vessel to safety and fended off its attackers.<ref name="AC3"/>
*June 28: Ratonhnhaké:ton was led in [[New York City|New York]] to hang after having been imprisoned alongside the Templar Thomas Hickey while trying to prevent the latter's assassination of George Washington. With aid from Achilles Davenport<ref name="AC3" /> and Haytham Kenway,<ref name="ACF" /> Ratonhnhaké:ton escaped and killed Hickey.<ref name="AC3" />
*Surgeon Benjamin Church betrayed the Templar Order and the Continental Army to serve the British Army, stealing supplies from the Continental Army in the process.<ref name="AC3"/>
*July 4: The [[Declaration of Independence]] was signed by the Founding Fathers, proclaiming independence of the Thirteen Colonies as the [[United States]] from Great Britain.<ref name="AC3" />
 
*September 21: The [[Great Fire of New York]] started, destroying the area west of [[Broadway]] in the city.<ref name="AC3" />
*October 13:
**Diego Vázquez, a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré at a soirée in New Orleans.<ref name="AC3L" />
**Philippe de Grandpré died after having been poisoned by his wife Madeleine de L'Isle, the leader of the Templars in Louisiana, after he found evidence of Templar influence in his business.<ref name="AC3L" />
*December 25: Continental Army forces led by George Washington and accompanied by Ratonhnhaké:ton crossed the icy {{Wiki|Delaware River}} to launch a surprise attack on Hessian forces at {{Wiki|Trenton, New Jersey}}.<ref name="GWN">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – [[George Washington's notebook]]</ref>
*December 27: The Assassin [[Charles Dorian]] was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac in the Palace of Versailles, after Charles was entrusted with the Precursor box at an Assassin meeting.<ref name="ACRG" />
===1777===
===1777===
*Aveline de Grandpré traveled to New York to eliminate a Templar named Officer Davidson, who was working for the "Company Man", the secret identity of Madeleine de L'Isle. With the aid of Ratonhnhaké:ton, Aveline pursued her former ally George Davidson, now working for the British Loyalists. Before Davidson died from his wounds, he gave her an explanation of the Company Man's identity that helped Aveline discover that it was her own stepmother.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*George Davidson, who had become a Templar fighting in [[John Murray|Lord Dunmore]]'s Ethiopian Regiment, was killed by Aveline de Grandpré with aid from Ratonhnhaké:ton. From Davidson, Aveline was able to discern that the Company Man was Madeleine de L'Isle.<ref name="AC3L" />
*Aveline de Grandpré confronted Madeleine de L'Isle, who revealed that she knew all along that Aveline was an Assassin and tried to make her believe that Madeleine used her to cleanse the Templar Order of corruption. Aveline refused to believe her and made her way to Agaté. Upon hearing the Company Man's identity, Agaté turned on Aveline and attacked her; Aveline bested him and spared his life, at which point Agaté committed suicide.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*Agaté committed suicide after having been bested by Aveline de Grandpré when he attacked her upon hearing news of the Company Man's identity.<ref name="AC3L" />
*Aveline de Grandpré met with Madeleine de L'Isle under the pretense of joining the Templars, and gave her the Prophecy Disk. Madeleine was not able to make the artifact work, and thus turned on Aveline. Aveline killed Madeleine and her Templar guards and activated the Prophecy Disk using a medallion her mother gave her during her youth, and witnessed a recording from around 75010 BCE, of Eve's election as leader of the human rebellion against the First Civilization.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*Madeleine de L'Isle was killed by Aveline de Grandpré in [[Saint Louis Cathedral]] during her feigned induction into the Templar Order. After her stepmother's death, she activated the Prophecy Disk and witnessed a recording of Eve's election to leader of the human rebellion from around 75010 BC.<ref name="AC3L" />
 
===1778===
===1778===
*After having been chased through New York and the [[Caribbean Sea]], Benjamin Church was killed near [[Martinique]] by Haytham Kenway and his son Ratonhnhaké:ton, who started a temporary alliance over mutual interests.<ref name="AC3"/>
*January 7: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton formed an alliance to pursue Benjamin Church, who had betrayed both the Templar Order and the Continental Army, stealing several of the Army's supply crates.<ref name="AC3" />
*Commander George Washington ordered the destruction of the Kanien'kehá:ka village Kanatahséton after receiving reports of their alliance with the British. Ratonhnhaké:ton neutralized both the Continental Army soldies and Kanien'kehá:ka to avoid further conflict, but was forced to kill his childhood friend [[Kanen'tó:kon]].<ref name="AC3"/>
*January 26: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton besieged the old [[Smith and Company Brewery]] in pursuit of Benjamin Church, though instead found a decoy of Church and were attacked by his henchmen, resulting in the brewery being set aflame.<ref name="AC3" />
*On 17 March, the ''Aquila'' attacked Nicholas Biddle's hideout in the [[Caribbean]] and boarded the ''Randolph'', where Ratonhnhaké:ton defeated Biddle, though granted him the final wish of going down with his ship and blew up the ''Randolph''.<ref name="AC3"/>
*March 7: Benjamin Church was killed by Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton aboard his ship off the coast of [[Martinique]], where the pair recovered the stolen supplies of the Continental Army.<ref name="AC3" />
*The [[Battle of Monmouth]] between the Continental Army and British Army ensued. Due to Charles Lee's retreat, the Continental Army was outnumbered, but managed to retreat under the [[Marquis de Lafayette]] and with the help of Ratonhnhaké:ton. Ratonhnhaké:ton cut off his relation with the Continental Army over differences with George Washington.<ref name="AC3"/>
*March 17: Admiral [[Nicholas Biddle]] of the Continental Navy, a Templar, was killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton on the [[Caribbean Sea]], by destroying Biddle's ship the ''[[Randolph]]''.<ref name="AC3" />
 
*June 16: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton attacked and captured several British soldiers in New York to discern the British Army's plans, learning that they planned to march from [[Philadelphia]] to New York.<ref name="AC3" />
*June 17: George Washington ordered an attack on the village of Kanatahséton after receiving reports of indigenous tribes allying with the British; Ratonhnhaké:ton managed to hold off the attack, but was forced to kill his friend [[Kanen'tó:kon]].<ref name="AC3" />
*June 28: The Continental Army, led by the [[Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette|Marquis de Lafayette]] and aided by Ratonhnhaké:ton, fought the British Army at the [[Battle of Monmouth]] in an attempt to stop their march on New York.<ref name="AC3" />
===1780===
===1780===
*General Benedict Arnold of the Continental Army conspired his defection to the British Army and handover of [[West Point]] alongside British officer [[John André]]. After receiving reports from the [[Culper Ring]], George Washington sollicited the aid of Ratonhnhaké:ton to help investigate the treason.<ref name="AC3"/>
*September 24: Major General [[Benedict Arnold]] betrayed the Continental Army with help from [[John André]], and attempted to surrender the garrison at [[West Point]] to the British, resulting in the [[Battle of West Point]]. Ratonhnhaké:ton ensured the Patriots' victory, but Arnold escaped by boat.<ref name="AC3" />
*After the capture of John André by Continental on 23 September, the British Army stormed West Point and Benedict Arnold fled the colonies. Ratonhnhaké:ton helped the Continental Army hold West Point.<ref name="AC3"/>
 
===1781===
===1781===
*After the Freemasons transported it to the American colonies, George Washington obtained [[Apple of Eden 3|Apple of Eden #3]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*September 5: The [[French Navy]], aided by the ''Aquila'', defeated the British Navy at the [[Battle of the Chesapeake]]; in exchange for Ratonhnhaké:ton's aid, the French Navy shelled New York with ships for the Assassin's attack on [[Fort George]].<ref name="AC3" />
*The Marquis de Lafayette employed the aid of [[François Joseph Paul de Grasse]] and the French navy to aid his friend Ratonhnhaké:ton by conquering the New York harbor and surrounding it. On 5 September the French and British navies waged war at the [[Battle of the Chesapeake]], and the French managed to shield New York's harbor.<ref name="AC3"/>
*September 16: Haytham Kenway was killed by his son Ratonhnhaké:ton, who planned to eliminate Charles Lee instead, during his infiltration of Fort George, which was besieged by the French Navy.<ref name="AC3" />
*Ratonhnhaké:ton infiltrated [[Fort George]], the Templars' headquarters on 16 September, to assassinate Charles Lee.<ref name="AC3"/> Grand Master Haytham Kenway sent Charles Lee away with the Grand Temple Key to assure Charles' safety.<ref name="AC3"/> On Ratonhnhaké:ton's signal, the French navy fired upon Fort George, giving him the opportunity to strike but wounding him in the process. Haytham confronted Ratonhnhaké:ton, but left with no other option, he killed Haytham and left the fort.<ref name="AC3"/>
*October 19: The Continental Army claimed victory at the {{Wiki|Siege of Yorktown}}, effectively winning the [[American Revolutionary War]]; George Washington retrieved an Apple of Eden at Yorktown.<ref name="TToKW">''[[Assassin's Creed III]]'' – ''[[The Tyranny of King Washington]]''</ref>
 
===1782===
===1782===
*Grand Master Charles Lee held a Templar meeting to remember Haytham Kenway in New York, though the meeting was swiftly disrupted by Ratonhnhaké:ton. The Templars captured Ratonhnhaké:ton, though he escaped and chased Charles to Boston. After a chase through an unfinished ship, Ratonhnhaké:ton was gravely wounded by a plank, though he managed to shoot Lee in the chest. Charles escaped to a tavern in Monmouth, where Ratonhnhaké:ton sat down with him and ultimately killed him on 2 October, taking the Grand Temple Key from his corpse.<ref name="AC3"/>
*October 2: Charles Lee was killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton in the [[Last Drink]] tavern in [[Monmouth]], after the Assassin had pursued Lee through New York and Boston, taking the Grand Temple's key.<ref name="AC3" />
 
===1783===
===1783===
*In April, Ratonhnhaké:ton returned to an abandoned Kanatahséton where he found his tribe's Crystal Ball and communicated with Juno in the Nexus once again, where he was given the final task of hiding the Grand Temple Key where none could find it.<ref name="AC3"/>
*April: Ratonhnhaké:ton came into contact with Juno through his village's Crystal Ball, who told him to hide the Grand Temple's key somewhere safe; the village's inhabitants had been forced to migrate as their land had been sold by the new government.<ref name="AC3" />
*After the {{Wiki|Peace of Paris}}, the independence of the British colonies was recognized, resulting in the foundation of the [[United States]] and the evacuation of British forces from the colonies.<ref name="AC3"/>
*September 3: The {{Wiki|Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris}} was signed between delegates of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, formally ending the American Revolutionary War and establishing the United States.<ref name="ACI" />
*November 25: The last remaining troops of the British Army departed from the new free and independent State of New York in the United States on Evacuation Day.<ref name="AC3" />
===1784===
*Doctor [[Edmund Judge]], a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré in [[Newport]], [[Rhode Island]], while trying to obtain [[Patience Gibbs]]' [[Patience Gibbs' charm|charm]], the teenage leader of a group of escaped slaves, into the Assassin Brotherhood for Ratonhnhaké:ton.<ref name="AC4" />
===1789===
*April 30: George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York, after a short retirement at Mount Vernon.<ref name="ACI" />
*May 5:
**The [[Estates-General of 1789|Estates-General]] gathered in Versailles, where King [[Louis XVI of France]] discussed France's economic crisis.<ref name="ACU" />
**[[François de la Serre]], Grand Master of the French Templars, was killed by [[Charles Gabriel Sivert]] and [[Le Roi des Thunes]] in a Templar coup d'état orchestrated by [[François-Thomas Germain]]. De la Serre's adoptive son [[Arno Dorian]] was arrested for the murder.<ref name="ACU" />
*July 14: The [[Bastille]] in Paris was stormed and captured by the Parisian militia, signalling the start of the French Revolution. The Assassin [[Pierre Bellec]] and Arno Dorian escaped captivity in the Bastille.<ref name="ACU" />
*October 5–6: The [[Women's March on Versailles]] occurred in protest against the monarchy of France. A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, ensured the march remained peaceful.<ref name="ACU" />
===1791===
*January 5: Charles Gabriel Sivert, baron de l'Espérance, a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian in the [[Notre-Dame]] in Paris.<ref name="ACU" />
*January 19: [[Roi des Thunes|Le Roi des Thunes]], the leader of the [[Cour des Miracles]] and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian. The [[Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade|Marquis de Sade]] became the new leader of the Cour.<ref name="ACU"/>
*March 31:
**Arno Dorian rescued François-Thomas Germain, secretly the new Templar Grand Master, after he feigned capture by the Templars inside his silversmith workshop. Germain falsely accused [[Chrétien Lafrenière]] of having commissioned the pin that killed François de la Serre.<ref name="ACU"/>
**The Templar Chrétien Lafrenière was killed by Arno Dorian during a meeting between his faction of conservative French Templars and members from other European branches.<ref name="ACU"/>
*April 2: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Mentor of the French Assassins, was poisoned by fellow Assassin Pierre Bellec because of his willingness to work with the Templars. Bellec attempted to frame the Templar Élise de la Serre for the murder.<ref name="ACU" />
*August 14: Dutty Boukman held a religious ceremony at {{Wiki|Bois Caïman}}, prophesizing that Jean-François Papillon, Georges Biassou and Jeannot Bullet would become leaders of a revolution to free the slaves of Saint-Domingue.<ref name="ACI" />
*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.<ref name="ACI" />
*November: Dutty Boukman was killed in battle with the French Army near Acul. Jeannot Bullet was ordered to death by Eseosa for breaking the tenets of the Creed.<ref name="ACI" />
===1792===
*August 10: [[Tuileries Palace]], the residence of King Louis XVI, was stormed by an armed mob. The Assassin Arno Dorian retrieved the King's correspondence with his late Mentor Mirabeau and Napoleon retrieved an Apple of Eden from the King's secret hiding place.<ref name="ACU" />
*September 2: A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, aided [[Georges Danton]]'s attempt to stop an Austrian spy ring by killing the [[Comte de Gambais|Comte]] and [[Vicomte de Gambais]].<ref name="ACU"/>
===1793===
*January 21: King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, as decreed by the National Assembly with the Templars' influence. Arno Dorian and Élise de la Serre made a failed assassination attempt on Grand Master François-Thomas Germain.<ref name="ACU" />
*August 29: The French civil commissioner of Saint-Domingue, [[Léger-Félicité Sonthonax]], declared all slaves in the colony to be freed men.<ref name="ACI" />
===1794===
*July 28:
**Maximilien de Robespierre, a French politician and Templar, was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution.<ref name="ACU" />
**François-Thomas Germain, Grand Master of the French Templars, was killed by Arno Dorian in the Templar crypt beneath the Temple in Paris. Before his death, Germain killed Élise de la Serre using the Sword of Eden.<ref name="ACU" />
*August 9:
**Arno Dorian entered the Saint-Denis Temple, where he killed Philippe Rose and retrieved the [[Head of Saint-Denis]]. After using the Head to escape, Arno retrieved a [[spherical Piece of Eden]] from the artifact and sent it to [[Al Mualim (1794)|Al Mualim]] in Cairo, Egypt.<ref name="ACUDK"/>
**Napoleon Bonaparte was arrested and placed under house arrest for supporting Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution and stealing a small army to search for an artifact in Franciade.<ref name="ACUDK"/>
*August 20: Napoleon Bonaparte was released from house arrest due to his powerful influence.<ref name="ACUDK"/>
===1795===
*October 5: The royalist uprising of [[13 Vendémiaire]] was suppressed by the French Republic under leadership of Paul Barras and Napoleon Bonaparte. Bonaparte earned infamy for attacking the royalists in Paris with cannons.<ref name="ACU" />
===1797===
*August 24: Toussaint Louverture expelled Léger-Félicité Sonthonax from Saint-Domingue and became de facto ruler of the colony.<ref name="ACI" />
===1798===
*May 19: Napoleon Bonaparte embarked from [[Toulon]] on an expedition to Egypt and Syria, secretly with intention of acquiring the artifact from the Saint-Denis Temple.<ref name="ACUDK">''[[Assassin's Creed: Unity]]'' – ''[[Dead Kings]]''</ref>
===1799===
*July 15: A soldier of the French expedition in Egypt discovered the [[Rosetta Stone]], a stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis. The stele was missing part of the first script pertaining to the Assassins.<ref name="ACU" />
===1800===
*December 24: An attempt on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte using the [[Machine Infernale]], known as the [[plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise]], was thwarted by a team of Assassins including Arno Dorian.<ref name="ACU" />


==19th century==
==19th century==
===1812===
===1801===
* Using [[Apple of Eden 1|Apple of Eden #1]], [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] heavily expanded the reach and influence of his empire and invaded countries in eastern Europe.<ref name="AC2"/>
*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.<ref name="ACI" />
 
===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.<ref name="ACI" />
*November 1: Charles Leclerc died of poisoning by Eseosa, though his cause of death was believed to be yellow fever.<ref name="ACI" />
===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.<ref name="ACI" />
===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.<ref name="ACI" />
*March 1: Eseosa started training under Ratonhnhaké:ton at the Davenport Manor in Massachusetts in preparation for his assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines for his tyranny over Saint-Domingue.<ref name="ACI" />
===1808===
*August: Napoleon Bonaparte and Arno Dorian entered the crypt beneath the Temple in Paris, and buried the remains of François-Thomas Germain in the Parisian catacombs.<ref name="ACU" />
===1832===
===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.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*The [[Château Clique]] – leaders of the Templar Order in Lower Canada – arrested several journalists, including the Assassin [[Ludger Duvernay]], for publishing articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique. Duvernay was freed by the Assassins.<ref name="DYL" />
* 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 {{Wiki|Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society}} after his release, hoping to gain independence for Canada.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
===1834===
 
*March 8: The Assassin Ludger Duvernay founded the {{Wiki|Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society}} in opposition of the Château Clique.<ref name="DYL" />
*June 24: The first {{Wiki|Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day}} was celebrated in the gardens of [[John McDonnell]]'s house in [[Montreal]], where a Templar agent killed one of McDonnell's servants.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1839===
*June 27:
**The Assassin [[Arbaaz Mir]] and [[Raza Soora]] retrieved the [[Koh-i-Noor]] from the [[Amritsar Temple]] underneath the [[Ranjit Singh's summer palace|summer palace]] of [[Ranjit Singh]], after being tasked by the Mentor [[Hamid (Amritsar)|Hamid]] to protect it from the Templars.<ref name="ACBM" />
**Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the [[Sikh Empire]] was fatally poisoned by [[William Hay Macnaghten]] and Templar General [[Francis Cotton]] to help the British Empire conquer India,<ref name="ACBM">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brahman]]''</ref> though secretly under the Templar banner.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
**Princess [[Pyara Kaur]] activated the Koh-i-Noor, taking the shape of a member of the First Civilization. Telling humanity to stand united, the Precursor was shot at by Francis Cotton, instead destroying the diamond. Enraged, the Precursor released a burst of energy, killing Cotton.<ref name="ACBM" />
===1849===
*March 29: The Sikh Empire fell at the end of the {{Wiki|Second Anglo-Sikh War}}. Control of the region fell to the British Templars, in the name of the British Empire.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
===1863===
*November 19: President [[Abraham Lincoln]] of the United States delivered the {{Wiki|Gettysburg Address}} in commemoration of the fallen soldiers at the {{Wiki|Battle of Gettysburg}}.<ref name="TLA">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – ''[[The Lost Archive]]''</ref>
===1865===
===1865===
* On 26 April, [[John Wilkes Booth]], the murderer of American President [[Abraham Lincoln]], was killed by the Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>
*April 26: [[John Wilkes Booth]] was killed by the Assassins for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln of the United States.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1874===
*September 2: [[Nikola Tesla]] fled to {{Wiki|Tomingaj}} in {{Wiki|Croatia}} to avoid being drafted into the army. While exploring the wilderness and mountains, Tesla found an Apple of Eden, which inspired him to pursue a life of study and innovation.<ref name="ACI" />
===1881===
===1881===
* On 13 March, Tsar [[Alexander II of Russia]], an ally of the Templars, was assassinated by members of the [[Narodnaya Volya]], a [[Russian Assassins|Russian Assassin]] organization.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*March 13: Tsar [[Alexander II of Russia]], a Templar puppet, was killed in a bomb attack by the [[Narodnaya Volya]], the public front for the Russian Assassins.<ref name="ACTF">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>
 
===1884===
*June 6: Nikola Tesla arrived in New York City. He started working for [[Thomas Edison]], a Templar, but left Edison Machine Works in 1885.<ref name="ACI" />
===1887===
===1887===
* Several members of the Narodnaya Volya were captured and executed after a failed assassination attempt on Tsar [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]], including [[Aleksandr Ulyanov]].<ref name="ACTF">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Fall]]''</ref>
*May 20: Several Assassin members of the Narodnaya Volya, including [[Aleksandr Ulyanov]], were publicly hanged after a failed assassination attempt on Tsar [[Alexander III of Russia]].<ref name="ACTF" />
* [[Moina Mathers|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.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*[[Moina Mathers|Mina Bergson]], a member of the Assassin Order, was tasked to infiltrate the [[Hermeticists#Modern times|Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], and eventually married [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]], one of its co-founders and a Templar puppet.<ref name="DYL" />
 
===1888===
===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 a Staff of Eden to fight Orelov, but ultimately spared the Assassin's life.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*October 29: The Assassin [[Nikolai Orelov]] attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia, a Templar ally, aboard his train bound for [[St. Petersburg]], resulting in the [[Borki train disaster]]. The Tsar ultimately spared the Assassin's life.<ref name="ACTF" />
 
===1891===
===1891===
* [[William Robert Woodman]], one of the co-founders of the [[Hermeticists#Modern times|Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]], was assassinated on the orders of his fellow co-founders Samuel Liddell Mathers and [[William Wynn Westcott]], after they found out about Woodman being different from normal humans. Woodman's spirit, the First Civilization member Consus, continued to live on as a supernatural existence.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*December 20: [[William Robert Woodman]] was killed by an assassin employed by his co-founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, [[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]] and [[William Wynn Westcott]], after a meeting with [[Gustav Meyrink]].<ref name="ACPL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]''</ref>
 
===1894===
*November 1: Tsar Alexander III of Russia died of kidney failure,<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> caused by injuries sustained by Nikolai Orelov in 1888.<ref name="ACTF" /> His son, [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]], succeeded him.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
===1896===
===1896===
* After a conflict between Samuel Liddell Mathers and William Wynn Westcott, Westcott was forced to leave the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Mathers obtained full control over the Order.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers assumed full leadership of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, after an argument between Mathers and William Wynn Westcott forced the latter to leave the Order.<ref name="ACPL" />


==20th century==
==20th century==
===1901===
*January 22: Queen [[Victoria]] of the United Kingdom passed away at the age of 81, marking the end of the {{Wiki|Victorian era}}.<ref name="ACI" />
*December: Financier [[John Pierpont Morgan]] withdrew his funding of Nikola Tesla's experiments after Tesla intended to make electricity a free product, which stood in opposition of the Templars' plans.<ref name="AC2" />
===1908===
===1908===
* [[Grigori Rasputin]], a Templar agent installed in the Russian Royal Palace, secretly stole the Staff of Eden from Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nicholas II]] and took it to a Templar research facility in [[Tunguska]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*June 30: [[Nikola Tesla]] released a burst of electricity to a Templar research facility in [[Tunguska]] from his {{Wiki|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.<ref name="ACTF" />
* 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.<ref name="ACTF"/>
 
===1910===
===1910===
* The Templar "Founders," consisting of amongst others [[Henry Ford]], [[Ransom Eli Olds]], [[Frank A. Vanderlip]], [[Paul Warburg]], [[Charles Norton]], [[Benjamin Strong, Jr.]], [[Henry Pomeroy Davison]] and [[Nelson W. Aldrich]],<ref name="ACRV"/> designed the "Plan." The aforementioned, except Ford and Olds, secretly met on {{Wiki|Jekyll Island}}.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*November: [[Frank A. Vanderlip]], [[Paul Warburg]], [[Charles Norton]], [[Benjamin Strong, Jr.]], [[Henry Pomeroy Davison]] and [[Nelson W. Aldrich]],<ref name="ACRV">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]''</ref> members of the Templar Order, met on {{Wiki|Jekyll Island}} and designed the "Plan" to take control of the [[Capitalism|capitalist]] market.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
===1913===
===1913===
* Skulls of members of the First Civilization were found around {{Wiki|Boskop}}, {{Wiki|South Africa}}.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*Skulls of the First Civilization were found in the village of [[Boskop]] in {{Wiki|South Africa}} in autumn.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
* The {{Wiki|Federal Reserve System}} was created on 23 December under supervision of the Templars.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*December 23: The [[Federal Reserve System]] was created as part of the "Plan" designed by the Templars, and as the first step to controlling the capitalist market.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
 
===1914===
===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.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*June 28: Archduke [[Franz Ferdinand]] of Austria was assassinated in {{Wiki|Sarajevo}} by a member of the {{Wiki|Black Hand (Serbia)|Black Hand}}, sparking [[World War I]].<ref name="ACI" />
* 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]].<ref name="ACPL"/>
*June 29: [[Khioniya Guseva]], disciple of Grigori Rasputin, attempted to kill her master in Pokrovskoye. Even though his intestines fell out, Rasputin managed to use the powers of the splinter of the Staff of Eden to survive and force Guseva to mutilate herself.<ref name="ACPL" />
 
*December 24: On Christmas Eve, British and German soldiers called a [[Christmas Truce|truce]] amidst the fighting of World War I. During the truce, an Assassin operating as a medic for the British killed General [[Erich Albert]], a Templar.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1916===
===1916===
* On 29 December, Grigori Rasputin was killed by a group of conspirators led by Felix Yusupov.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*December 29: The Templar agent Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conspirators led by Felix Yusupov,<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> with influence of the Assassins.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1917===
===1917===
* The [[Russian Revolution]] began, with [[Vladimir Lenin]] leading the [[Bolsheviks]] against the House of Romanov. The Assassins, eager to depose the autocratic Tsardom with a populist government, joined the Bolsheviks in opposing Tsar Nicholas II.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*March 15: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the Russian throne after the start of the [[Russian Revolution]], under pressure of the Assassins.<ref name="Encyclopedia" />
* With pressure from the Assassins, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia formally abdicated the throne.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
*November 7: Nikolai Orelov infiltrated the {{Wiki|Winter Palace}} in Petrograd, tasked by [[Vladimir Lenin]] to kill Tsarevich Nicholas II of Russia. After finding out that the Imperial Sceptre in the Palace was a mere replica of the Staff of Eden, Orelov decided to spare the Tsarevich's life.<ref name="ACTF" />
* 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.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*November 15: Nikolai Orelov infiltrated the asylum in [[Krasnoyarsk]] to meet Khioniya Guseva. After hearing her account of the splinter's power, he granted her wish to die by killing her with his hidden blade.<ref name="ACPL" />
* 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.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*November 22: Nikolai Orelov and two henchmen unearthed the corpse of Grigori Rasputin to recover the splinter of the Staff of Eden, based on information of Tsarevich Nicholas II.<ref name="ACTF" />
* Nikolai Orelov, [[Anna Orelov|Anna]] and [[Nadya Orelov]] migrated to the United States, cutting off all contact with the Assassin Order.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*December: Several scientists and members of the Russian Assassin Brotherhood, including [[Sergei]] and his [[Galina Voronina's grandmother|wife]], left to form a community in an Assassin science city at a facility in [[Protvino]], provided by the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="ACI" />
 
===1918===
===1918===
* Samuel Liddell Mathers died, after which his wife Moina Mathers took control over the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, abandoning her original duties to the Assassins.<ref name="ACDYL"/>
*Nikolai Orelov, his wife [[Anna Orelov|Anna]] and daughter [[Nadya Orelov|Nadya]], fled Russia using the splinter of the Staff of Eden and settled in the United States.<ref name="ACTF" />
 
*November: Moina Mathers, formerly Mina Bergson, took leadership of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and abandoned the Assassin Order after the death of her husband Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.<ref name="DYL" />
===1919===
===1919===
* Under the direction of [[Alexander Mitchell Palmer]], the [[Palmer Raids]] - as part of the [[Red Scare]] - caused the arrests and deportations of numerous radical leftists in the United States. On 7 November, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] and local police officers launched raids against Russian workers in twelve cities. While the former Assassin Nikolai Orelov and his son [[Innokenti Orelov|Innokenti]] managed to evade capture, Anna and Nadya Orelov were arrested and deported back to Russia, under the supervision of the Assassins.<ref name="ACTC"/>
*November 7: In twelve cities in the United States, agents of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|Bureau of Investigation]] launched the [[Palmer Raids]], directed by [[Alexander Mitchell Palmer]], to arrest and deport radical leftists, though many innocents including Anna and Nadya Orelov were also rounded up.<ref name="ACTC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]''</ref>
 
===1926===
===1926===
* On 31 October, [[Harry Houdini]] was killed by the Templars in order to obtain Apple of Eden #1 from him.<ref name="AC2"/>
*January: Nikolai and Innokenti Orelov were attacked by the Assassin Sergei, who was tasked to bring Nikolai back to the Russian Assassins, at their cabin in the woods of [[Connecticut]], though Sergei was killed in the process.<ref name="ACTC" />
 
*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.<ref name="AC2" />
===1928===
===1928===
*On orders of the Mentor, and using their connections in the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]], the Assassins were sent to track down Nikolai Orelov in America to obtain the shard of the Imperial Sceptre and the information from Nikolai's vision at Tunguska. Together with his son Innokenti, Nikolai managed to take out nearly an entire team of Assassins sent after him. When the team's leader captured a worn out Nikolai, Innokenti was signalled by his father to kill the both him and the team leader by shooting one bullet through their chests.<ref name="ACTC"/>
*Nikolai and Innokenti Orelov were tracked down by a team of Assassins working for the Bureau of Investigation. They managed to take down all Assassins except the team's leader, who managed to catch Nikolai. His son complied to Nikolai's request to shoot the man, killing both the team leader and Nikolai.<ref name="ACTC" />
 
===1930===
*March 12: [[Mahatma Gandhi]] started the Salt March in disobedience against the British's salt laws in India until April 5, and managed to gather a large following with aid from his Apple of Eden.<ref name="AC2" />
===1937===
===1937===
* [[Abstergo Industries]] was founded by the Templars, and is from that point on used as a front of the Templar Order.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*[[Abstergo Industries]] was founded by the Templar Order as a public front, which would primarily be used as a shadow company to control the world's capitalist market.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
===1939===
===1939===
* On 1 September, by having manipulated the main leaders of both the {{Wiki|Allies of World War II|Allies}} and the {{Wiki|Axis powers|Axis}}, the Templars initiated [[World War II]], a scheme orchestrated to maintain the peace that would ensue after the war would end.<ref name="AC2"/>
*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.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1943===
===1943===
* The {{Wiki|USS Eldridge (DE-173)|USS Eldridge}} briefly manifested in a future state due to the usage of a Piece of Eden.<ref name="AC"/>
*January 7: Nikola Tesla died in a hotel room in New York City. The Templars pressured the FBI to order the {{Wiki|Alien Property Custodian}} to seize Tesla's belongings.<ref name="AC2" />
 
*October 28: The {{Wiki|USS Eldridge (DE-173)|USS ''Elridge''}} briefly manifested in a future state using the powers of a Piece of Eden, as part of the [[Philadelphia Project]].<ref name="AC1" />
===1944===
*July 1–22: The [[Bretton Woods conference]] was held by European powers – secretly economic agents of the Templars – to form the {{Wiki|World Bank}}, as part of the "Plan".<ref name="ACBH">''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]''</ref>
*December 25: An agent of Abstergo Industries purchased the Shroud of Eden from a member of the Baguttiani in Milan, Italy.<ref name="ACPL" />
===1945===
===1945===
* On 30 April, the Axis leader [[Adolf Hitler]] shot his own double inside his {{Wiki|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.<ref name="AC2"/>
*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.<ref name="AC2" />
 
*July 16: The {{Wiki|Manhattan Project}} tested its first atomic bomb, designed by [[J. Robert Oppenheimer]], at the {{Wiki|Los Alamogordo}} air base in {{Wiki|New Mexico}}. The tests were authorized by Abstergo Industries.<ref name="AC2" />
*August 6–9: The first atomic bomb was dropped on {{Wiki|Hiroshima}} on August 6 by the United States, and a second hit the city of {{Wiki|Nagasaki}} on August 9.<ref name="ACI" />
*August 12: Emperor {{Wiki|Hirohito}} of Japan surrendered to the Allies, marking the end of World War II.<ref name="ACI" />
===1948===
===1948===
* On 30 January, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by the Templars in order to obtain Apple of Eden #2 from him.<ref name="AC2"/>
*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.<ref name="AC2" />
 
*August 16: British economist [[Harry Dexter White]] was killed by the Templars after betraying the Order by warning the Soviet Union of their capitalist plans.<ref name="ACBH" />
===1952===
===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 {{Wiki|Aerojet}} co-founder [[Theodore von Kármán]] to spy on Parsons' activities.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*June 17: Rocket engineer [[Jack Parsons]] died due to injuries received in an explosion in his laboratory orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, after Parsons made plans to reveal the secrets behind Aleister Crowley's formula.<ref name="ACPL">''[[Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy]]''</ref>
 
===1953===
===1953===
* On 5 March, Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee and a Templar puppet who helped initiate World War II, was killed by the Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>
*March 5: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, was killed by the Assassins<ref name="AC2" /> with the use of poison, making it look like he died of a stroke.<ref name="ACI" />
* On 19 August, the [[Iran]]ian prime minister [[Mohammad Mosaddegh]] was overthrown in a plot orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, and [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] began an authoritarian rule over Iran.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*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.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
===1954===
===1954===
* On 7 June, English mathematician and computer scientist [[Alan Turing]] was killed on orders of his former contractors Abstergo Industries, after having made a computers despite orders given to him to only make a fake robot for the press.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*June 7: [[Alan Turing]] was poisoned by the Templars after failing to cooperate with their orders to not build a robot, as they feared it would lead to mass unemployment and a drop in human birth rate.<ref name="ACBH" />
* On 27 June, the [[Guatemala|Guetamalan]] president {{Wiki|Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán}} was overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, and replaced by a military junta led by Colonel {{Wiki|Carlos Castillo Armas}}.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*June 27: President {{Wiki|Jacobo Árbenz}} of [[Guatemala]] was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to protect their capitalist interest.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
===1958===
*July 29: The [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)]], a government agency of the United States, was founded, with influence of Abstergo Industries.<ref name="AC4" />
===1963===
===1963===
* On 22 November, American President [[John F. Kennedy]] was shot by [[Lee Harvey Oswald]],<ref name="AC2"/> a presumable Templar sleeper agent,<ref name="Encyclopedia"/> while driving in {{Wiki|Dallas}}, {{Wiki|Texas}}. [[William Greer]], a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] agent "trained" by Abstergo Industries using Apple of Eden #2, and Kennedy's driver, stole Kennedy's Apple of Eden during the chaos and Vice President and secret Templar [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] took over the Presidency.<ref name="AC2"/>
*November 22: President [[John F. Kennedy]] of the United States was assassinated by the Templar sleeper agent [[Lee Harvey Oswald]]<ref name="ACRV" /> 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.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1969===
===1969===
* An Abstergo-controlled [[NASA]] flight to the Moon results in the recovery of the [[Apple of Eden 5|Apple of Eden #5]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*July 21: [[NASA]]'s [[Apollo 11 Moon landing|Apollo 11]] spaceflight to the [[Moon]], funded by Abstergo Industries, resulted in the recovery of an Apple of Eden from the Moon's surface.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1971===
===1971===
* On 21 April, the Haitian President [[François Duvalier]] was assassinated by the Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>
*April 21: [[François Duvalier]], the fortieth President of Haiti, was killed by the Assassins, for his oppression over the Haitian people.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1973===
===1973===
* The [[Chile]]an president [[Salvador Allende]] was overthrown in an Abstergo-orchestrated coup d'état masterminded by [[Henry Kissinger]]. Allende's communistic regime was replaced by a military junta and later by [[Augusto Pinochet]].<ref name="ACBH"/>
*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.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
===1977===
*The Assassin [[William Miles]] stole the blueprints for Abstergo Industries' [[Animus]], and gave them to a [[Galina Voronina's mother|fellow member]] of his Order in [[Moscow]] after she rescued him from Templar agents, and told her to build it.<ref name="ACI" />
===1980===
*Abstergo Industries started the [[Animus Project]], directed by Dr. [[Warren Vidic]], with the intention of exploring the [[Genetic memory|genetic memories]] of subjects to discover the secrets of the Assassins and the Pieces of Eden.<ref name="ACI" />
*July 29: Abstergo Industries' [[Surrogate Initiative]] passed its twenty-third test session to relive the genetic memory of another individual, when its director [[Aileen Bock]] relived the memories of [[Miriam Kurtz]] through her son [[Seamus]]' DNA.<ref name="AC4" />
===1981===
*August 9: Aileen Bock was severely injured in an accident involing the Animus during the thirty-seventh test session of the Surrogate Initiative, after which the project was put on halt.<ref name="AC4" />
===1983===
*February 9: A 10-year old boy, later named [[Daniel Cross]], was kidnapped by Abstergo Industries and used as Subject 4 of the Animus Project. During his time at Abstergo's [[Philadelphia]] facility, his memories were implanted with a hidden impulse to kill the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood, before being released from captivity.<ref name="ACTF" />
===1985===
===1985===
* Abstergo Industries had kidnapped a young boy of Assassin descent, naming him [[Daniel Cross]] and labeling him ''Subject 4'', and was implanted with an impulse into his brain by doctor [[Warren Vidic]] that would force him to unknowingly climb the ranks of the Assassin Order, and kill the Mentor when he was given the opportunity.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*September: Warren Vidic experimented on Daniel Cross with a device capable of mimicking Piece of Eden capabilities across a network, between Subject 4's Animus sessions.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
===1991===
===1991===
* Backed by Abstergo Industries, [[Boris Yeltsin]] unseated [[Mikhail Gorbachev]], the head of the Soviet Union, and disbanded the Soviet Union, becoming the first President of the Russian Federation.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*August 19–21: President [[Boris Yeltsin]] of Russia took political power from President [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in a staged coup d'état by standing up to communism, with aid from Abstergo Industries.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
*December 8: The {{Wiki|Belavezha Accords|Belavezhskaya Accords}} were signed in the {{Wiki|Białowieża Forest|Belavezhskaya Forest}} by the Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, declaring the dissolution of the Soviet Union.<ref name="ACBH" />
*December 25: Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union, making Boris Yeltsin the leader of Russia.<ref name="ACBH" />
===1997===
===1997===
* Abstergo Industries buried several constructed skeletons near the site of [[Tim D. White|Tim White]]'s expedition in {{Wiki|Ethiopia}} to prevent the knowledge of the First Civilization having created the human race from becoming public knowledge.<ref name="AC2"/>
*January: Abstergo agents buried several constructed skeletons near the site of [[Tim D. White]]'s expedition in {{Wiki|Ethiopia}}, to prevent knowledge of the First Civilization creating the human race becoming public.<ref name="AC2" />
 
===1998===
===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|bleeding effect]] for several years, believed he had found his purpose - to find the [[Mentor (2000)|Mentor]] - and started his training to become an Assassin, and visited nearly all Assassin camps around the world looking for guidance and support.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*April 23: Daniel Cross was brought to an Assassin compound outside Philadelphia by the Assassin [[Hannah Mueller]] to meet [[Paul Bellamy]], after noticing Daniel's Assassin tattoo and witnessing him attack a man he called a Templar as a result of the Animus' [[Bleeding Effect]].<ref name="ACTF" />
*April 24: Daniel Cross had a vision and discovered his purpose to find the Mentor, while reliving his ancestor Nikolai Orelov's memories of the Tunguska explosion. Daniel and Hannah visited Assassin hideouts around the globe for two years to find the Mentor.<ref name="ACTF" />
===1999===
*September 4–16: Apartment buildings in the cities Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in Russia were bombed by Chechen terrorists, orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to boost the popularity of presidential candidate [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref name="ACBH" />
===2000===
*May 7: Vladimir Putin became the second President of Russia, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.<ref name="ACBH" />
*November 6: The [[Mentor (2000)|Mentor]] was killed by the unwitting Templar sleeper agent Daniel Cross, sending the Assassin Order into chaos and removing their influence over the 2000 American presidential election.<ref name="ACTF" />
*November 21: Daniel Cross returned to the Abstergo Industries facility in Philadelphia. After entering the Animus, Daniel revealed the location of Assassin compounds and Abstergo initiated the [[Great Purge]]: a worldwide operation in which Abstergo strike teams attacked Assassin hideouts.<ref name="ACTF" />


==21st century==
==21st century==
===2000===
===2001===
* 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.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*January 20: [[George W. Bush]] became the forty-third President of the United States, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.<ref name="ACBH" />
* 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.<ref name="ACTF"/>
*October 7: The [[War on Terror]] started. At some point, William Miles tasked [[Emmanuel Barraza]] with finding a Templar presence in the war, but ended up killing innocent children armed with bombs on a bus aimed for peace talks. Emmanuel vowed to never take a life again.<ref name="ACI" />
* 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.<ref name="ACTF"/>
* Daniel Cross returned to Abstergo Industries' Philadelphia facility and was drugged into revealing the locations of all Assassin hideouts he had visited, after which the Templars initiated "[[Great Purge|The Great Purge]]", an operation to eliminate all these hideouts. Only a few Assassins managed to escape the Templar attack teams<ref name="ACTF"/> and a few off-the-grid hideouts remained unscathed.<ref name="ACRV"/> The Templars found a secret hidden beneath an Assassin safehouse in Philadelphia.<ref name="ACTF"/> The few remaining Assassins were forced to operate from underground cells.<ref name="ACBH"/>
 
===2002===
===2002===
* Daniel Cross woke after spending fourteen months of continued sessions inside an Animus at Abstergo Industries, reliving the memories of his ancestor Innokenti Orelov. Hallucinations caused by the bleeding effect caused Daniel to sneak back into the Animus to withdraw back to his ancestor's memories, against the advice of his doctor [[Sung]].<ref name="ACTC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Chain]]''</ref>
*October 19: Daniel Cross infiltrated the Assassins' hidden [[Library of Ivan the Terrible]] beneath the [[Bolshoi Theatre]] in Moscow, where he killed the Assassin sentry and acquired the [[Prophet's Codex]], written by Ezio Auditore da Firenze.<ref name="ACTC" />
* Learning to live with the bleeding effect, Daniel Cross made his way back into society and joined the Templar Order, training new recruits to fight against the Assassins. After meeting with Warren Vidic, he was assigned to infiltrate the [[Library of Ivan the Terrible]] beneath the [[Bolshoi Theatre]] in [[Moscow]]. Pretending to be the replacement of the Assassin guarding the library, Daniel was shown the location of the [[Prophet's Codex]] - written by Ezio Auditore da Firenze - and read Minerva's speech to Warren Vidic via earpiece, finding out about "Desmond." He took the codex with him and called in Abstergo's cleanup team to clear out the library.<ref name="ACTC"/>
 
===2003===
===2003===
* [[Desmond Miles]], son of the ''de facto'' Assassin leader [[William Miles]], ran away from the remote Assassin compound he grew up in called "[[the Farm]]," located in the {{Wiki|Black Hills}} of [[South Dakota]], believing his parents to be nothing more than conspiracy freaks and wanting to live his own life, eventually finding a job as a bartender in [[New York City]].<ref name="ACRV"/>
*March 13: [[Desmond Miles]] ran away from "[[the Farm]]", the Assassin community in the [[Black Hills]] in [[South Dakota]] he grew up in, on his sixteenth birthday, to escape the life his parents had chosen for him.<ref name="ACRV" />
* On 25 December, a woman named [[Vanessa]] traded information on the [[Beagle 2]] with a man named [[Robert Getas]], who later kidnapped her.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*March 20: The [[Iraq War]] started under influence of George W. Bush as part of the War on Terror, planned by Abstergo Industries to privatize the oil market in Iraq.<ref name="ACBH" />
 
*December 25: [[Vanessa]], a scientist working at the Landing Operations Control Center of the {{Wiki|National Space Center}}, sold the control codes of the ''[[Beagle 2]]'' to [[Robert Getas]], an employee of Abstergo Industries.<ref name="ACPL" />
===2005===
===2005===
* After having been trained by William Miles,<ref name="ACRV"/> the Assassin [[Lucy Stillman]] was sent to infiltrate Abstergo Industries and cut off primary contact with the Assassin Order.<ref name="TLA">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' - ''[[The Lost Archive]]''</ref> She attended university, where she studied cognitive neuroscience, but was eventually forced to leave when her mentors considered her topic of study a pseudo-science. After failing to attend several other universities, she was contacted by Warren Vidic, who offered her a job to become his assistant.<ref name="AC"/> Over time, Lucy began to grow to despise William, believing him to not regard the Assassins as human beings and thinking his tasks for the Assassins to be inhumane. Lucy secretly betrayed the Assassins and joined the Templar Order.<ref name="TLA"/>
*The Assassin [[Lucy Stillman]] infiltrated Abstergo Industries after being contacted by Dr. Warren Vidic, who took an interest in her study of cognitive neuroscience.<ref name="AC1" /> Over time, she grew to resent her old mentor William Miles, believing the tasks for the Assassins to be inhumane, and joined the Templar Order.<ref name="TLA" />
 
===2007===
===2007===
*Abstergo Industries employee [[Leila Marino]] allegedly committed suicide, according to Abstergo representatives, with the involvement of an individual named [[Neumann]].<ref name="AC"/>
*[[Leila Marino]], an employee of Abstergo Industries, allegedly committed suicide. An individual named [[Neumann]] was involved in her death, and Marino's file became classified.<ref name="AC1" />
 
*August: [[Clay Kaczmarek]] started his training to become an Assassin under William Miles.<ref name="TLA" />
===2008===
*January: Clay Kaczmarek infiltrated the Abstergo Campus on orders of William Miles, and retrieved data related to the Animus Project.<ref name="TLA" />
===2010===
===2010===
* William Miles inducted [[Clay Kaczmarek]] into the Assassin Order, and tasked him with infiltrating Abstergo Industries and obtaining intel on the Animus Project from Abstergo CEO [[Alan Rikkin]]'s computer. Clay got the information and returned it to William.<ref name="TLA"/>
*April 20: A large amount of oil was [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill|spilled]] into the Gulf of Mexico until 15 July, under contract of Abstergo-controlled [[British Petroleum]]. BP cleaned up the oil, which was worth billions of dollars.<ref name="ACBH" />
* In 2010, Abstergo Industries experimented on [[Subject 15]] for the Animus Project. Due to Subject 15 being pregnant, the memories of both her and the fetus' father were conflicting, resulting in overlapping memories in the Animus<ref name="ACBH"/> and psychological damage to Subject 15.<ref name="Abstergo mails">[http://www.abstergoindustries.com/login AbstergoIndustries.com]</ref>
*December 10: [[Shaun Hastings]] was saved from Abstergo agents by [[Rebecca Crane]], after Hastings leaked classified Abstergo Industries documents to Wikileaks. She managed to hack the computer system of the van she was held in, and saved Hastings during a gas stop.<ref name="AIn">''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – [http://abstergoindustries.com/portal/index.php?stop=true AbstergoIndustries.com]</ref>
* In late December 2010, junior professor [[Shaun Hastings]] released secret information about Abstergo Industries to {{Wiki|Wikileaks}}. Abstergo CEO [[Alan Rikkin]] arranged an appointment with Shaun, and Shaun was captured by Abstergo guards and taken into a van. The van's onboard computer was hacked to show that the fuel tank was nearly empty, and during a stop at a gas station<ref name="Abstergo mails"/> Shaun was rescued by the Assassin [[Rebecca Crane]].<ref name="ACBH"/>
*December 14: [[Subject 15]] of the Animus Project, a pregnant woman, was eliminated after Lucy Stillman discovered there were dangerous complications due to the genetic memories of Subject 15's child overlapping with her own.<ref name="AIn" />
* After an email from Lucy Stillman to Warren Vidic about Subject 15's psychological problems on December 14, Vidic ordered [[Steve Gibbs]] to have the disposal team kill Subject 15, and had [[James Morse]] write an accident report on her death.<ref name="Abstergo mails"/>
* Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman started preparations for a secret project titled [[Project Siren]].<ref name="Abstergo mails"/>
 
===2011===
===2011===
* William Miles placed Clay Kaczmarek into a team of four members, including Lucy Stillman.<ref name="TLA"/> William arranged for Clay to be abducted by Abstergo's [[Lineage Discovery and Acquisition]], in order for him to be used in the Animus Project to obtain more information on the project's goals. Clay was named ''Subject 16'', and Lucy was given the objective of ensuring Clay's safe escape from Abstergo once enough information was obtained.<ref name="TLA"/>
*February 1: Clay Kaczmarek was captured by the [[Lineage Discovery and Acquisition]] department of Abstergo Industries and became Subject 16 of the Animus Project, as planned by William Miles.<ref name="TLA" />
 
===2012===
===2012===
* Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman continued Project Siren, making preparations for the desired new subject, Desmond Miles, to be extracted from Abstergo and brought to a safe environment should he not be willing to cooperate. Lucy was tasked with having Desmond relive the memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze and consequently obtain his Apple of Eden, and then bring it to Abstergo. Simultaneously Clay Kaczmarek overheard one of their conversations and subsequently discovered about Lucy Stillman's betrayal of the Assassin Order and continued to be held by Abstergo to be experimented upon, though Lucy did not inform Warren Vidic of Clay's knowledge of her betrayal to ensure his safety.<ref name="TLA"/>
*Abstergo Industries' synthetic drug [[New Fluoride]] was introduced to the water supplies of various settlements in China and the small United States town of Prince George. Despite [[Susan Drayton]]'s failed attempt at leaking a sample of the drugs,<ref name="ACI" /> news of the operation still reached the press.<ref name="AC1" />
* Long exposure to the Animus eventually resulted in Clay Kaczmarek suffering from the "[[Bleeding Effect|bleeding effect]]", endangering his mental state.<ref name="AC2"/> Clay uploaded an AI copy of his subconscious into the Animus for his successor to find<ref name="AC2"/> and painted [[Cryptic Messages|cryptic messages]] on the wall of his cell using his own blood before committing suicide due to the mental incapability of controlling the overlapping personalities the bleeding effect caused.<ref name="AC2"/>
*August 8: Clay Kaczmarek committed suicide in the Animus laboratory in the Abstergo Campus. Using his blood, he painted several [[Cryptic Messages|cryptic messages]] in the laboratory,<ref name="AC1" /> and preserved his consciousness in an artificial intelligence inside the Animus.<ref name="ACRV" />
* With the aid of Daniel Cross,<ref name="ACI">''[[Assassin's Creed: Initiates]]''</ref> Desmond Miles was tracked down and abducted by Abstergo Industries following the discovery a fingerprint Desmond had made for a motorcycle license to take part in the Animus Project, which dubbed him as ''Subject 17''. Forced to relive the memories of his ancestor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to acquire a map detailing all the Pieces of Eden,<ref name="AC"/> Desmond eventually escaped Abstergo with the help of [[Lucy Stillman]], an undercover Assassin operative, and took up shelter in a [[hideout]] in Rome with Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane to make Desmond relive the memories of his ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze.<ref name="AC2"/>
*September 1: Desmond Miles was kidnapped near {{Wiki|Washington Square Park}} in New York City by agents of Abstergo Industries, and was brought to the Abstergo Campus in Rome, Italy.<ref name="ACI" />
* The Templars eliminated an Assassin hideout in [[Brisbane]], [[Australia]] on September 10, and a hideout in [[Whistler]], [[Canada]] on September 12 under the command of Daniel Cross. One Assassin made it out of Whistler and joined [[Adriano Maestranzi]] in Rome.<ref name="ACI"/>
*September 2: Desmond Miles was placed inside the Animus by Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman in the laboratory of the Abstergo Campus and became Subject 17 of the Animus Project, to relive the memories of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.<ref name="AC1" />
* A team of Abstergo guards under the command of Warren Vidic led an attack on the Assassin hideout in Rome, causing Lucy Stillman, Desmond Miles, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane to find shelter elsewhere.<ref name="AC2"/> After evading an Abstergo-organized roadblock,<ref name="ACI"/> the team took up shelter in Monteriggioni.<ref name="ACBH"/> Warren Vidic recovered tapes of Desmond's Animus sessions from the hideout.<ref name="ACI"/>
*September 7: A team of Assassins attempted to rescue Desmond Miles from Abstergo's Rome facility on Lucy Stillman's request, but ended up being exterminated.<ref name="AC1" />
* Warren Vidic started the Animi Training Program to train Abstergo operatives in combat, aiming to use them to combat the Assassin remnants.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*September 8: Desmond Miles and Lucy Stillman escaped the Abstergo Campus in Rome,<nowiki><ref name="AC1" /></nowiki> which was staged by Warren Vidic,<nowiki><ref name="TLA"></nowiki>''[[Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' – ''[[The Lost Archive]]''</ref> after Desmond was done reliving Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's memories.<ref name="AC1" />
* Lucy Stillman, Desmond Miles, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane located the Apple of Eden formerly owned by Ezio Auditore underneath the Colosseum after Desmond relived Ezio's memories in the Animus. The cell retrieved the Apple, though [[Juno]], a member of the First Civilization, took possession of Desmond's body and forced him to kill Lucy. The long exposure to the Animus and the shock of killing his friend resulted him going into shock,<ref name="ACBH"/> and later a coma. Having been retrieved alongside his cell, Desmond was put in the Animus by his father William in hopes of restabilizing his mind.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*September 9: Lucy Stillman and Desmond Miles arrived at an [[Rome hideout|Assassin hideout]] in Rome, where they met with Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane; Desmond started reliving the memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Animus 2.0.<ref name="AC2" />
* William Miles, Desmond Miles, Rebecca Crane and later Shaun Hastings relocated to New York, where they planned to find the Grand Temple left behind by the First Civilization.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*September 12: A team of Assassins in [[Whistler]], Canada was exterminated by Abstergo agents led by Daniel Cross.<ref name="ACI" />
* William Miles, Desmond Miles, Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings entered the Grand Temple using their Apple of Eden, and upon reaching the temple's center, Juno contaced Desmond telling him to find the temple's key. After experiencing the Bleeding Effect through Haytham Kenway's memories, Desmond fainted and was placed in the Animus, where he started reliving Haytham Kenway's memories.<ref name="AC3"/>
*September 15: Warren Vidic led an Abstergo attack on the Assassin hideout in Rome. The Assassins managed to escape,<ref name="AC2" /> but Abstergo retrieved the Animus recordings left behind by Lucy Stillman.<ref name="ACBH" />
*September 16: Lucy Stillman's Assassin team arrived at Monteriggioni and set up a headquarters in the Sanctuary beneath the Villa Auditore,<ref name="ACBH" /> after a roadblack in [[Grosseto]] prevented them from reaching the Assassin cabin in the {{Wiki|Swiss Alps}}.<ref name="ACI" />
*October 10: Desmond Miles recovered Ezio Auditore da Firenze's Apple of Eden from the Colosseum Vault, where Juno forced him to kill Lucy Stillman,<ref name="ACBH" /> realizing that she would bring the artifact back to the Templars;<ref name="AC3" /> Desmond entered a coma from shock, and was placed in the Animus after his father William Miles recovered him.<ref name="ACRV" />
*October 30: Desmond Miles awoke from his coma, with aid from an AI construct of Clay Kaczmarek inside the Animus,<ref name="ACRV" /> and used the Apple of Eden to enter the Grand Temple with William Miles, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane an hour later; there, Juno forced him to relive the memories of Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton.<ref name="AC3" />
*November 16: Desmond Miles retrieved a power source for the Grand Temple from an office building in {{Wiki|Manhattan}}, where he met and knocked out Daniel Cross.<ref name="AC3" />
*November 28: An Assassin team led by [[Harlan Cunningham]] infiltrated the Abstergo Campus in Rome, killing four hackers trying to track down William Miles' team, and destroyed the facility's servers.<ref name="ACI" />
*November 30: Abstergo's Sigma team, led by [[Juhani Otso Berg]], attacked the Assassin hideout in Florence, which was blown up by the Assassin cell's leader [[Adriano Maestranzi]]. Berg and Harlan Cunningham were the only survivors.<ref name="ACI" />
*December 2: Desmond Miles retrieved the second power source for the Grand Temple at a mixed martial arts event in [[São Paulo]], Brazil, where he took it from Daniel Cross.<ref name="AC3" />
*December 12: William Miles was captured by Abstergo's Sigma team led by Juhani Otso Berg in Cairo, Egypt while recovering the third power source for the Grand Temple from the {{Wiki|Egyptian Museum}}.<ref name="ACI" />
*December 14: Desmond Miles killed Warren Vidic and Daniel Cross at the Abstergo Campus in Rome while rescuing William Miles. Vidic's death forced the launch of Eye-Abstergo to be put on hold.<ref name="AC3" />
*December 20: Desmond Miles, William Miles, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane retrieved the Grand Temple's key from the grave of [[Connor Davenport]] in the [[Davenport Homestead]].<ref name="AC3" />
*December 21: Desmond Miles sacrificed himself by touching [[the Eye]], against the wishes of Minerva, saving the world from destruction by the incoming [[2012 coronal mass ejection|solar flare]], though also releasing Juno from imprisonment in the Grand Temple;<ref name="AC3" /> fifteen hours later, his body was recovered by Abstergo agents.<ref name="ACI" />
===2013===
*May 21: [[Gavin Banks]] of the ship ''[[Altair II]]'' received [[William Miles' codex]], wherein William had written all his knowledge and named Gavin the new leader of the Assassin Brotherhood.<ref name="ACI" />
*October:
**[[MysoreTech]] employee [[Jot Soora]] was assigned to test the [[Brahman V.R.]], an adaption of the Animus glass developed by Abstergo Industries for release on the Indian market by MysoreTech; secretly, it extracted the genetic memories of its users.<ref name="ACBM" />
**Jot Soora was abducted by the Assassins [[Siobhan Dhami|Siobhan]] and [[Jasdip Dhami]] in [[Mumbai]], after lying to Siobhan that he was the descendant of Arbaaz Mir; Abstergo raided the compound they were hiding in, resulting in Siobhan's death.<ref name="ACBM" />
**[[Monima Das]], descendant of Arbaaz Mir and Pyara Kaur and fiancée of Jot Soora, and two Assassins drowned in the river after crashing from the {{Wiki|Mumbai Pune Expressway}} amidst an Abstergo attack.<ref name="ACBM" />
**Abstergo agents led by Juhani Otso Berg raided the Assassin hideout in the [[Chor Bazaar]] in Mumbai, resulting in the death of [[Dinesh]] and several Abstergo agents; their captive Jot Soora managed to escape.<ref name="ACBM" />
*October 29: An [[Abstergo Entertainment research analyst|unidentified research analyst]] was assigned by [[Abstergo Entertainment]] to explore the memories of Edward Kenway as part of the [[Sample 17 Project]] in their [[Montreal]] facility.<ref name="AC4" />
*November 5: The Abstergo Entertainment research analyst hacked the computer of [[Olivier Garneau]], CCO of Abstergo Entertainment, at the request of [[John]] and delivered an email conversation about a shareholders meeting in [[Chicago]] to Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane.<ref name="AC4" />
*November 18: Abstergo Entertainment detained three employees in the [[Bunker]] on suspicions of hacking into company computers. With aid from John, the unidentified research analyst hacked into the facility's server; there, they met Juno, who intended to occupy the analyst's body but explained it was too early.<ref name="AC4" />
*November 26: John, secretly a Sage, was killed by Abstergo Entertainment guards inside the Bunker of their Montreal facility, after having poisoned the unidentified research analyst.<ref name="AC4" />
*December 17: The Assassin crew of the ''Altair II'' joined up with the Assassin cell in [[Osaka]], who had taken up the guise of the Yakuza gang [[Onmoraki-Gumi]], under the new leadership of [[Saeko Mochizuki]], following the death of her husband [[Kenichi Mochizuki]] after an Abstergo attack.<ref name="ACI" />
===2014===
*February: The Assassins Harlan Cunningham and [[Arend Schut]] stole the Precursor box from an Abstergo Industries facility in Rotterdam. Abstergo's Sigma Team managed to recover the artifact, but the Assassins managed to escape.<ref name="ACRG" />
*March 16: The Assassin crew of the ''Altair II'' met with [[Galina Voronina]], a member of the Assassin cell in the science city of [[Protvino]], south of Moscow, who revealed that her cell had gone crazy from the Bleeding Effect in the Animus.<ref name="ACI" />
*March 20: Galina Voronina, supported by the crew of the ''Altair II'', exterminated the last members of her cell, including her own sister and [[Galina Voronina's mother|mother]], who was hooked up to the Animus and connected to Juno.<ref name="ACI" />
*May 7–13: Crewmembers of the ''Altair II'' were interrogated in William Miles' bunker in Tromsø, [[Norway]] to flush out a spy who had been sending coded messages to the [[Initiates]], a hacker group.<ref name="ACI" />
*May 23: [[Eric Cooper]] and [[Stephanie Chiu]] were discovered to be Initiate spies by the Assassins, and the Assassins tried to form an alliance with the Initiates.<ref name="ACI" />
*June 16: Shaun Hastings sent a message to members of the Initiates, imploring them to work with the Assassins.<ref name="ACI" />
*October: A team of Assassins led by Gavin Banks destroyed an Abstergo Industries laboratory in Paris. Sigma Team followed the Assassins to La Rochelle, where the Assassins escaped on the ''Altair II''.<ref name="ACRG" />


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751th century BC

75010 BC

750th century BC

75000 BC

  • A solar flare struck the Earth, exterminating most of the Earth's population;[1] less than ten thousand humans, and far fewer members of the First Civilization, survived the catastrophe.[3] Humanity and the First Civilization started working together to rebuild civilization.[1]

6th century BC

522 BC

5th century BC

500 BC

465 BC

  • August 4: King Xerxes I of Persia, a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin Darius; this assassination became the first recorded use of the hidden blade.[1]

4th century BC

323 BC

3rd century BC

210 BC

  • September 10: Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China and a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin Wei Yu with a spear for his tyranny over China.[1]

1st century BC

44 BC

42 BC

30 BC

  • August 12: Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt and a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin Amunet using a poisonous asp.[1]

1st century

33

41

72

  • Construction began on the Colosseum in Rome under emperor Vespasian, atop an ancient First Civilization vault.[6]

3rd century

259

  • The Gallo-Roman Assassin Aquilus was taken captive by Romans under command of general Gracchus.[8] An army of Alemanni soldiers, led by the Assassin Accipiter, defeated the Roman legion and saved Aquilus.[9]
  • Aquilus acquired the Ankh from Accipiter and transported it to his family's villa in Lugdunum, where his father Lucius tasked him with the assassination of the local priest Faustinus, who had betrayed the Assassins.[9]
  • The Roman senator and Templar Caïus Fulvus Vultur killed Lucius and his servant Weke to obtain the Ankh,[9] and brought it with him to Rome.[10]
  • Aquilus killed Caïus Fulvus Vultur inside his villa in Rome, and took the Ankh back to his home in Lugdunum, where he watched a recording made by his father using the artifact.[10]
  • Accipiter brokered a truce with the Prefect of Lugdunum to spare the city from being conquered and sacked by the Alemanni.[10]
  • Aquilus and his wife Valeria were captured by Roman soldiers and transported to be executed in Rodumna. Aquilus was killed by one of the soldiers when the convoy was ambushed by Accipiter.[10]

11th century

1003

  • May 12: Pope Sylvester II, a Templar leader, was branded a heretic and burned at the stake for promoting scientific development during the Middle Ages.[3]

1099

  • July 15: An army of Crusaders captured the city of Jerusalem, marking the end of the First Crusade and the start of a Crusader presence in the Holy Land for over two centuries.[4]

12th century

1129

1176

  • August:
    • Sultan Salāḥ ad-Dīn laid siege to the Levantine Assassins' fortress in Masyaf. Acting upon information received from Ahmad Sofian, the Mentor Rashid ad-Din Sinan tasked Umar Ibn-La'Ahad with infiltrating the enemy camp, where he left a note tied to a dagger in Salāḥ ad-Dīn's tent.[11]
    • Šihāb ad-Dīn, uncle to Salāḥ ad-Dīn, brokered a truce with the Assassins on the condition that Umar Ibn-La'Ahad be executed for taking the life of a Ayyubid nobleman during his infiltration of their camp. Against Sinan's will, Umar voluntarily had his life taken.[11]
    • Ahmad Sofian committed suicide inside the quarters of Umar Ibn-La'Ahad's son Altaïr because of his remorse over giving Umar's name to the Saracens while in their captivity.[11]

1187

1189

  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad assassinated Haras, an Assassin-turned Templar, in Masyaf fortress during an attack by the Templars, saving the life of Rashid ad-Din Sinan.[3] Altaïr was elevated to the rank of Master Assassin.[4]

1190

  • The Knights Templar besieged the Assassins' fortress in Aleppo, on orders of their de facto leader Lord Basilisk, though the Assassins were able to fend off the attack.[12]
  • Rashid ad-Din Sinan tasked Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad with finding the Chalice, an ancient artifact that held powers similar to a Piece of Eden.[12]
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad traveled to Damascus and assassinated the Templar merchant Tamir, and the Templar Knight Alaat on behalf of Fajera, who handed him one of the keys to the Temple of the Sand, where the Chalice was supposedly held.[12]
  • Roland Napule was assassinated by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Tyre on orders of the local rafiq Hamid. Altaïr retrieved a second key to the Temple of the Sand from one of Napule's captives.[12]
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad retrieved the third key to the Temple of the Sand from Templar leader Basilisk at a party in Jerusalem, acting upon information gained from the rafiq Kadar and the nobleman Ayman.[12]
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed the Master of the Templars' Jerusalem Tower and his student while attempting to retrieve a map of the Temple of the Sand.[12]
  • Lord Basilisk attempted to stop the Siege of Acre by poisoning Acre's water supply, though the plan was thwarted by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Altaïr bested Basilisk in combat, but spared his life in exchange for the location of the Chalice.[12]
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed Harash, the second-in-command of Rashid ad-Din Sinan, after hearing of his betrayal from Adha, who revealed herself to be the Chalice.[12]
  • Lord Basilisk was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in the harbor of Tyre, after the Templars captured Adha. Despite Basilisk's death, the Templars shipped Adha away from Tyre.[12]

1191

  • July:
    • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and the brothers Malik and Kadar Al-Sayf infiltrated the Jerusalem Vault to retrieve an Apple of Eden. After encountering Templars led by Grand Master Robert de Sable, Kadar was killed and Malik lost his left arm, though the latter brought the artifact back to Masyaf.[13]
    • The Assassins fended off an attack by the Knights Templar led by Robert de Sable. Rashid ad-Din Sinan demoted Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad for betraying the three tenets of the Assassin's Creed.[13]
  • July–September: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed eight of his nine Templar assassination targets – Tamir, Garnier de Naplouse, Talal, Abu'l Nuqoud, William of Montferrat, Majd Addin, Sibrand and Jubair al Hakim – in the cities of Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem, to restore his rank of Master Assassin.[13]
  • September: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad attempted to assassinate Robert de Sable at the funeral of Majd Addin in Jerusalem, but discovered that Robert had assigned Maria Thorpe as his decoy. Altaïr spared Maria's life.[13]
  • September 7: Crusader and Saracen forces clashed at the Battle of Arsuf, where the Crusaders emerged victorious. The Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad fought his way across the battlefield to the Crusader camp, where he challenged Robert de Sable to a duel, in which de Sable was killed.[13]
  • September:
    • Rashid ad-Din Sinan was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad after betraying the Assassin Brotherhood by brainwashing his subjects using the Apple of Eden to make them worship him.[13]
    • Abbas Sofian sparked a minor civil war among the Assassins against Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Abbas stole Rashid ad-Din Sinan's Apple of Eden, though it slowly began killing him, until he was saved by Altaïr.[3]
    • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad succeeded Rashid ad-Din Sinan as Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins, after persuading the Assassins of his capabilities.[11]
  • Fall:
    • Grand Master Armand Bouchart, who succeeded Robert de Sable, relocated the Knights Templar to Cyprus. During their relocation from Acre, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad led an Assassin attack on Acre's harbor and captured Maria Thorpe.[14]
    • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed the Templar captain Frederick "the Red" in Limassol Castle, after establishing contact with Alexander of Limassol, the local leader of the resistance against the Knights Templar.[14]
    • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued Maria Thorpe from imprisonment by Armand Bouchart, who did not intend to break the Latin Rule by conspiring with women. The two traveled by boat to Kyrenia.[14]

1192

  • Jonas, a merchant from Kyrenia, was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad on behalf of a a Templar agent posing as the Kyrenia resistance leader Barnabas, triggering a riot among the populace.[14]
  • Moloch, leader of a local group of fanatics and a Templar ally, was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Kantara Castle, acting upon information gained from Maria Thorpe and resistance soldier Markos.[14]
  • The Dark Oracle, a former Cypriot noblewoman, provided the Knights Templar with the locations of resistance members. Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued the members from captivity, and killed the Dark Oracle in Buffavento Castle.[14]
  • Maria Thorpe and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad infiltrated Saint Hilarion Castle, where Altaïr killed Moloch's sons, the Templars Shalim and Shahar, eradicating the Templar presence in Kyrenia.[14]

1193

  • The Knights Templar moved all their artifacts out of the Templar Archive in Limassol to an unknown location, on orders of Grand Master Armand Bouchart.[14]
  • Grand Master Armand Bouchart was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, during a duel between the two in the Templar Archive.[14]

13th century

1204

  • July 12: The Crusaders conquered and sacked the city of Constantinople, ending the Fourth Crusade. During the siege, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had come to Constantinople to spread the influence of the Assassins, was forced to retreat from the city.[11]

1215

1217

  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, his wife Maria and their son Darim left Masyaf to oppose the rise of the Mongol Empire and eliminate Genghis Khan. Malik Al-Sayf was left to lead the Assassins, with help of Darim's younger brother Sef.[11]

1226

  • Sef Ibn-La'Ahad, son of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, was killed by the apprentice Swami on orders of Abbas Sofian, in an attempt to claim control of the Levantine Assassins.[11]
  • Malik Al-Sayf was framed for the murder of Sef Ibn-La'Ahad by Abbas Sofian, who placed a council in charge of the Levantine Assassins, with himself at its head.[11]

1227

  • February: Jochi Khan, first son of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan, was fatally poisoned by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad.[15]
  • August: Genghis Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, was killed by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in China, after he fell off his horse when it was shot by Qulan Gal.[11]

1228

  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria Thorpe and their son Darim returned to Masyaf, where they were informed of the ruling council. Darim traveled to Alamut to meet with Sef's wife and children.[11]
  • Malik Al-Sayf was rescued by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad from Masyaf's dungeons, from whom Altaïr heard the truth about his son Sef's death. In Altaïr's and Maria's absence, Malik was beheaded by Swami.[11]
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Maria Thorpe confronted Abbas Sofian in Masyaf's fortress. Upon being taunted by Swami, Altaïr used the Apple to force Swami to kill himself. In the ensuing frenzy, Swami fatally stabbed Maria.[11] Altaïr escaped Masyaf with help from his son Darim.[3]
  • Altaïr exiled himself to the Assassins' fortress at Alamut,[11] while Abbas usurped the title of Mentor.[3] At Alamut, Altaïr made several discoveries and inventions using the Apple of Eden, and discovered Memory Seals in the Temple beneath the fortress.[11]

1241

  • December 11: Ögedei Khan, the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and the third son of Genghis Khan, was killed by the Assassin Nergüi.[15]

1247

  • The merchant Mukhlis from the brigands Bayhas and his henchmen outside Masyaf by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had returned from his self-imposed exile in Alamut.[11]
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad started gaining the support of the Levantine Assassins and Masyaf's villagers in attempting to take back the declining Brotherhood under Abbas Sofian, and befriended Malik Al-Sayf's son Tazim.[11]
  • Abbas Sofian was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad using the Hidden Gun, during a non-violent assault on Masyaf fortress by Altaïr and his supporters. Altaïr was welcomed as Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins.[11]
  • Construction began on a hidden library beneath the fortress of Masyaf, under orders of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[11]

1250

1255

1256

  • December 15: Hülegü Khan destroyed the Assassin fortress of Alamut, during his destruction of the Levantine Assassins' holdings.[4]

1257

  • January: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo arrived in Masyaf on invitation of their friend Darim Ibn-La'Ahad, and became acquainted with the Mentor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[11]
  • July: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and his son Darim began training Niccolò and Maffeo Polo in the ways of the Assassin Brotherhood, in the hopes that they would help spread their ideology to the west. Niccolò started writing his journal, The Secret Crusade, detailing Altaïr's life.[11]
  • August 12:
    • Hülegü Khan began the Mongol siege on the Assassin fortress at Masyaf,[11] ultimately rendering the fortress abandoned.[3]
    • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad guided Niccolò and Maffeo Polo out of the city and granted them his Codex, the Masyaf Keys and several books, and allowed the rest of the Brotherhood to escape.[3]
    • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad passed away after locking himself inside his library with the Apple of Eden and imprinting his last memory into the sixth Memory Seal.[3]
  • August 14: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo were attacked by a Mongol raiding party in the Syrian countryside, and lost Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex.[17]

1258

  • January 1: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo established an Assassins Guild in Constantinople, in the Byzantine Empire.[11]
  • January: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo scattered Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's books around various landmarks in Constantinople, and hid the five Masyaf Keys in underground tombs located beneath the city.[11]

1259

  • Niccolò and Maffeo Polo left Constantinople to journey to the Mongol Empire to retrieve Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex, without succes.[3]

1263

  • November 14: Alexander Nevsky, a Russian leader and Templar ally, was killed by the Assassin Nergüi for his alliance with the Golden Horde and influence over the Mongol Empire.[15]

1265

  • February 8: Hülegü Khan was killed by the Mongolian Assassin Nergüi, out of retribution for the destruction of Masyaf and the Levantine Assassins.[15]

1269

  • Niccolò and Maffeo Polo returned to their home in Venice, Italy, where they established an Assassins Guild.[4]

1271

  • November: Marco Polo left on a journey to Asia with his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo, intent on retrieving the codex of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[5]

1275

  • May: Marco Polo retrieved Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex from Kublai Khan's summer palace in Shangdu, bringing it with him when he returned to Venice several years later.[5]

14th century

1307

1314

  • March 18: Jacques de Molay, the last publicly recognized Grand Master of the Knights Templar[4] and Sage,[18] was burned at the stake alongside Geoffroi de Charney. Before his death, de Molay sent nine of his most trusted men across the known world to continue the Order's objectives underground.[4]

1321

  • September 14: Dante Alighieri was killed by the Templars, revealing their continued existence to the Assassins.[1]
  • Domenico Auditore and his wife and son attempted to bring Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex to Spain, but were attacked in the Otranto harbor by pirates employed by the Templars; his wife did not survive the encounter.[1]

1324

  • January: Marco Polo, and later Domenico Auditore's father, were killed by the Templars.[1]
  • Domenico Auditore bought and renovated the villa in Monteriggioni, renaming it Villa Auditore. Monteriggioni became the headquarters of the Italian Assassins.[1]

1338

1340

1341

  • June 7: The reigning Bahri Sultan of Egypt, Al-Nasir Muhammad, was killed by his servant Leila, a secret Templar agent.[20]
  • Numa Al'Khamsin and his apprentice Ali Al-Ghrabe recovered the Scepter of Aset, disassembled in an Ankh-shaped box, from the Templars in Karnak.[20]

1348

1350

  • The Brothers of the Cross and Lukas Zurburg mysteriously vanished from public view.[19]

1353

  • The Assassins stole the Shroud of Eden from Geoffroy de Charny, a French knight and Templar, and replaced it with a forgery. A member of the Auditore family ordered the Shroud to be buried beneath the Villa Auditore.[7]

1398

15th century

1402

  • July 17: Zhu Di became the Yongle Emperor, with aid from the Templars, founding the Ming dynasty and succeeding the Jianwen Emperor.[19]
  • July: The Chinese imperial army arrested and executed thousands of people, on orders of the Yongle Emperor, on suspicions of being Assassins; the Assassin leader Fang Xiaoru was killed during the purge. Li Tong managed to escape the Assassin headquarters in Beijing with an Apple of Eden.[19]

1417

  • The Chinese admiral Zheng He started his fifth exploration voyage, discovering lands in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East, ahead of European explorers.[5]

1424

  • August 12: The Yongle Emperor was assassinated by the Assassin Li Tong while trying to suppress a rebellion in the Gobi Desert.[19]

1431

  • May 30: Jeanne d'Arc was burned at the stake by the English, an act that was orchestrated by the Templars to obtain the Sword of Eden she had in her possession.[1]

1440

1442

1453

1454

  • September: Monteriggioni was besieged by the Florentine army led by Federico da Montefeltro. Under Mario Auditore's leadership, Monteriggioni managed to fend off the siege.[7]
  • October 1: Mario Auditore discovered the Shroud of Eden beneath the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni; while exploring the crypts, Mario lost an eye upon triggering a trap.[7]

1455

1476

1477

  • January: Ezio Auditore and his mother Maria and sister Claudia left Florence and moved to Monteriggioni to live with their uncle Mario in the Villa Auditore.[1]

1478

  • April 14: Vieri de' Pazzi, a Templar, was killed by his childhood rival Ezio Auditore da Firenze in San Gimignano in Tuscany for conspiring with the Templars.[1]
  • April 26:
    • Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence, and his brother Giuliano were attacked by the Templar Pazzi conspirators, resulting in the death of Giuliano. Lorenzo was saved and brought to safety by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who had spied on the conspirators' meeting with aid from La Volpe.[1]
    • Francesco de' Pazzi was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Francesco's body was hung from the Palazzo della Signoria, while his uncle Jacopo de' Pazzi was rallying a mob against the Medici.[1]
  • Antonio Maffei, a Pazzi conspirator, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze atop San Gimignano's tallest tower.[1]

1479

1480

  • January 3: Jacopo de' Pazzi was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, after he was mortally wounded by Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia and Emilio Barbarigo during a Templar meeting in the Antico Teatro Romano for his failure during the Pazzi Conspiracy.[1]

1481

  • March 3: Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Leonardo da Vinci sailed to Venice, with aid from Caterina Sforza, where Ezio would form an alliance with the local thieves guild.[1]
  • May 3: Sultan Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire passed away, leaving his two sons Bayezid and Cem, a Templar, competing for the throne. Though Cem managed to secure their father's Apple of Eden, Bayezid secured the Ottoman throne.[22]

1482

  • June: Prince Cem hid his Apple of Eden in the Templar Archive on Cyprus after realizing the artifact refused to communicate with him, so that the European Templars could find it.[22]
  • June 29: Prince Cem met the Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes; however, he was betrayed by the Hospitallers and sent to be imprisoned in Europe,[22] and became acquainted with Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia in Italy.[3]

1485

1486

  • February 15: Marco Barbarigo, the Templar Doge of Venice, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze after infiltrating the Doge's Carnevale feast with help from Sister Teodora.[1]
  • July 11:
    • Silvio Barbarigo and Dante Moro, members of the Templar Order, were killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze with aid from Bartolomeo d'Alviano's mercenaries.[1]
    • The Italian Templars left Venice to retrieve the Piece of Eden from Cyprus, after ascertaining its location from Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex pages.[1]

1487

  • June 16: The army of Lambert Simnel, a pretender to the English throne and Templar puppet, was defeated by King Henry VII of England, and Simnel was imprisoned.[7]

1488

  • June 25: Ezio Auditore da Firenze stole the Apple of Eden from the Templars in Venice, who had just returned from Cyprus. After a confrontation with Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia, Ezio was formally inducted into the Assassin Order by his allies from the courtesans, thieves and mercenaries guilds.[1]
  • July 7:
    • The brothers Checco and Ludovico Orsi attacked the city of Forlì on orders of Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia, after its ruler Caterina Sforza had hired the Orsi brothers to kill her Templar husband Girolamo Riario.[1]
    • Ludovico and Checco Orsi were killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who had come to Forlì with Niccolò Machiavelli to give the Apple of Eden to Caterina Sforza for safekeeping; Ezio passed out after being wounded by Checco, and lost the artifact to the monk Girolamo Savonarola.[1]

1491

  • The explorer Christoffa Corombo was saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze from being killed by Borgia guards during a scheduled meeting with Rodrigo Borgia, to prevent Corombo from discovering the Americas.[24]
  • Ezio Auditore da Firenze forged an alliance with Christoffa Corombo and his friend Luis de Santángel, secretly an Assassin, and traveled with them to Spain to stop the persecution of Spanish Assassins by the Spanish Inquisition, influenced by the Templars.[24]
  • Ezio Auditore da Firenze killed the Inquisitors Gaspar Martinez in Barcelona and Pedro Llorente in Zaragoza after establishing contact with the Assassin Raphael Sánchez, saving the captured Assassins in the process.[24]
  • King Muhammad XII of Granada was rescued from the Templars amidst a Spanish siege on Granada. Ezio convinced Muhammad to make peace with Queen Isabela and end the Templar-driven war.[24]
  • The Inquisitor Juan de Marillo was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze after attempting to round up and execute the Spanish Assassins in Granada.[24]
  • Christoffa Corombo was saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze from a Templar attack while en route to France, after being lured there by the Templars with a false promise of the French King financing his journey.[24]

1492

  • January: King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile agreed to finance half of Christoffa Corombo's journey to discover an alternate sea route to Asia, with the Spanish Assassins covering the other half of the costs.[24]
  • Ezio Auditore da Firenze infiltrated the palace of Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada with the intent of assassinating Torquemada, but ultimately spared his life after he escaped and Ezio discovered that he was nothing more than a puppet to Rodrigo Borgia.[24]
  • August 11: Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia was elected as the new head of the Catholic Church, after purchasing votes from the other cardinals, and became known as Pope Alexander VI.[25]
  • October 12: Christoffa Corombo's fleet discovered the Americas, and landed on the island of Guanahani, inhabited by the Taíno.[24]

1494

  • November 9: Girolamo Savonarola stirred the Florentines into rebelling against Piero de' Medici using the Apple of Eden. The Medici were exiled and Savonarola became the city's de facto leader.[25]
  • Marcello Savonarola, cousin to Girolamo Savonarola, was saved in Florence by Ezio Auditore da Firenze from Borgia guards.[25]
  • Piero de' Medici was saved by Girolamo Savonarola's followers in Venice. With Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Piero took down his attackers and a corrupt herald.[25]

1495

  • February 25: Prince Cem was killed in Capua by the Assassins, who believed the Borgia were planning to use Cem to conquer Constantinople.[17]

1497

  • June 14: Juan Borgia was killed by the courtesan Fiora Cavazza on orders of his brother Cesare Borgia, allowing the latter to become Captain General of the Papal Armies.[26]
  • Ezio Auditore da Firenze killed Girolamo Savonarola's nine lieutenants, in an effort to remove Savonarola's control over the Florentine population and regain the Apple of Eden.[1]

1498

  • March 3: Giovanni Borgia was born to Lucrezia Borgia and either her brother Cesare Borgia or the Assassin Perotto Calderon, but suffered from a life-threatening deformation. Calderon stole the Shroud of Eden from his Brothers in Agnadello to save his son's life. The Assassins subsequently killed Perotto.[7]
  • May 23:
    • Girolamo Savonarola was captured by an angry Florentine mob in front of the Palazzo Pitti. Ezio regained the Apple of Eden, after it was stolen by a Borgia soldier.[1]
    • Girolamo Savonarola was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze out of mercy while being burned at the stake in front of the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence.[1]
  • September 17: Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain, was killed by the Assassins for his tyranny over the Spanish people.[1]

1499

  • November 23: Perkin Warbeck, a Templar, was hanged by King Henry VII of England for his attempt to claim the English throne.[7]
  • December 28:
    • Pope Alexander VI was defeated by the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze in a fistfight at the entrance of the Vatican Vault; realizing that killing Rodrigo would not bring his family back, Ezio chose to spare the Pope's life.[1]
    • Ezio Auditore da Firenze received a message from the Precursor Minerva for Ezio's descendant Desmond Miles, after opening the vault doors using his Apple of Eden and the Papal Staff.[1]

1500

  • January 2: Monteriggioni was besieged and destroyed by the Papal Army under orders of Cesare Borgia, who executed the captured Assassin leader Mario Auditore and took possession of the Assassins' Apple of Eden; Ezio Auditore was severely wounded during the siege, and Caterina Sforza was captured[6]
  • January: Niccolò Machiavelli became the leader of the Italian Assassins and set up headquarters on Tiber Island in Rome to fight the Borgia. Ezio Auditore da Firenze joined him and later set up an underground network in the city led by his sister Claudia, La Volpe and Bartolomeo d'Alviano.[1]
  • May: Nicolaus Copernicus was saved from Borgia attacks by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, after Copernicus betrayed the Templar Order by making his scientific discoveries public.[27]
  • December 16/17: The Assassins destroyed several warehouses and factories in Calicut owned by Pedro Álvares Cabral, a Portuguese explorer tasked with eliminating the local Assassins Guild. The population of Calicut rose in rebellion against Cabral, and he fled the city.[7]

16th century

1501

1502

1503

  • August 1: Juan Borgia the Elder was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze at Juan's Pagan party in Rome.[6]
  • August:
    • Baron Octavian de Valois was killed in the Castra Praetoria in Rome by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, with aid from Bartolomeo d'Alviano's mercenaries.[6]
    • Micheletto Corella's attempt on Pietro Rossi's life was twarted by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, though he ultimately spared Micheletto's life.[6]
    • Ezio Auditore da Firenze was promoted to Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and Claudia Auditore da Firenze was inducted into the Brotherhood.[6]
  • August 18: Pope Alexander VI was killed by his son Cesare Borgia, using the poisoned apple that the Pope intended to kill his son with for his reckless behaviour; Ezio Auditore da Firenze retrieved the Apple of Eden from the courtyard of Saint Peter's Basilica ahead of Cesare.[6]
  • November 23: Margaret of York was fatally poisoned by the Assassins on behalf of King Richard VII of England, for plotting to claim the English throne in a Yorkist Templar plot.[7]
  • December: Cesare Borgia was arrested by Fabio Orsini on orders of Pope Julius II, after losing a fight with the Assassins in front of the Porta Aurelia in Rome.[6]

1504

  • Cesare Borgia escaped imprisonment from the Castel Sant'Angelo, but was captured by Ezio Auditore da Firenze near Ostia. Pope Julius II struck a deal with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela of Spain to have Cesare imprisoned in the Castillo de la Mota in Valencia.[28]
  • Claudia Auditore da Firenze stepped down as the madam of the Rosa in Fiore in Rome after having been taken captive by Templar spies. The Venetian thief Rosa took over the position.[28]
  • November 26: Queen Isabella I of Castille passed away afer having been poisoned by her servant, an acquaintance of Luis de Santángel, at the request of the Assassins for colluding with the Borgia.[7]

1505

  • Micheletto Corella was taken captive in Zagarolo after Ezio Auditore da Firenze led a force of 100 Assassins and thieves on against Micheletto's army. Micheletto was imprisoned in the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence and interrogated.[28]

1506

  • Ezio Auditore da Firenze locked his Apple of Eden in the First Civilization vault beneath the Colosseum,[6] on the artifact's instructions.[28]
  • June 24: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci started their journey to Valencia to find Micheletto Corella, based on information from a courtesan named Camilla in Naples.[28]

1507

  • March 12: Cesare Borgia fell to his death from the walls of Viana Castle after being dropped by the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze during the Siege of Viana.[6]

1509

  • May 14: The Republic of Venice and Kingdom of France fought at the Battle of Agnadello, resulting in a French victory. Bartolomeo d'Alviano was captured by the French, while trying to protect the Shroud of Eden from falling into King Louis XII's hands.[7]
  • September 10: An earthquake struck Constantinople. Templars fighting under the Byzantine banner re-emerged in the city.[3]

1510

  • January: Niccolò di Pitigliano was killed by the Assassin Francesco Vecellio in Lonigo, for terrorizing the citizens of Lonigo and abandoning Bartolomeo d'Alviano at the Battle of Agnadello; Francesco took the Shroud of Eden, which Niccolò had stolen, back to the Assassins.[7]
  • Winter: The Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze left Italy and started his journey to Masyaf, after having found a letter in 1509 written by his father detailing Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's library.[17]

1511

  • March:
    • Ezio Auditore da Firenze was captured and ambushed by Byzantine Templars under the command of Leandros in Masyaf, but escaped his execution by hanging.[3]
    • Ezio Auditore da Firenze killed Leandros in Atlas Village, after pursuing him through the Syrian countryside; Ezio retrieved The Secret Crusade by Niccolò Polo from Leandros.[3]
  • May: Ezio Auditore da Firenze arrived in Constantinople and became familiarized with the Ottoman Assassins, led by Yusuf Tazim, and their struggle against the Byzantine Templars.[3]
  • Ezio Auditore da Firenze found four of the five Masyaf Keys over the course of various months with aid from bookkeeper Sofia Sartor in the Yerebatan Cistern, the Galata Tower, the Forum of the Ox and the Maiden's Tower.[3]
  • Prince Suleiman was rescued from abduction by the Byzantine Templars at a party in Topkapı Palace by the Ottoman Assassins. Suleiman and Ezio Auditore da Firenze formed an alliance.[3]
  • The Janissary captain Tarik Barleti was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze on incorrect suspicions of colluding with the Templars.[3]

1512

  • The Great Chain was destroyed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze with explosives. Ezio proceeded to set the docked Ottoman fleet ablaze using Greek Fire, and made his way to the Templars' hideout in Cappadocia alongside Piri Reis.[3]
  • March:
    • Shahkulu, a Turkmen Templar, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Derinkuyu with aid from the Ottoman spy Dilara.[3]
    • Ezio Auditore da Firenze destroyed the Byzantine Templars' ammunition storage inside Derinkuyu, causing the city to be filled with smoke, creating widespread panick.[3]
    • Manuel Palaiologos was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the outskirts of Derinkuyu. Ezio was confronted by Prince Ahmet, who revealed himself to be a Templar, and Ezio escaped Derinkuyu and made his way back to Constantinople.[3]
  • April:
    • The Ottoman Assassin leader Yusuf Tazim was killed by the Byzantine Templars while trying to prevent Sofia Sartor's abduction in her bookshop.[3]
    • The Ottoman Assassins, led by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, besieged the Templars' hideout at the Harbor of Theodosius. Ezio was forced to spare Prince Ahmet to save Sofia Sartor's life.[3]
    • Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Prince Ahmet met on the wall connected to Galata Tower, where Ezio handed Ahmet the keys. Ahmet tricked Ezio and ordered Sofia's execution, though Ezio saved her from strangulation.[3]
  • April 25:
    • Sultan Bayezid II was forced to abdicate the Ottoman throne by his son Selim I, with support from the Janissaries.[3]
    • Prince Ahmet was killed by Sultan Selim I outside Constantinople to prevent Ahmet from taking the throne, while Ahmet was being pursued by the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze.[3]
  • May: Ezio Auditore da Firenze unlocked the library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Masyaf, though he decided to leave the Apple of Eden locked away. Alongside Desmond Miles, in 2012,[3] Ezio witnessed a Precursor message about the Toba catastrophe.[17]
  • June: Sofia Sartor sold her bookshop to the Ottoman Assassins, who hid the Masyaf Keys in the cistern beneath the bookshop. Ezio Auditore da Firenze became engaged to Sofia, and left for Italy.[17]

1513

  • February: Ezio Auditore da Firenze retired as Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and announced his favored successor to be Lodovico Ariosto.[17]

1519

  • February: Hernán Cortés and an army of Spanish soldiers – including the Assassin Giovanni Borgia, posing as "Botello", on a quest to find a Piece of Eden – landed on the Yucatán Peninsula to explore Mexico.[7]
  • May 2: Leonardo da Vinci passed away in the Clos Lucé in Amboise, France, with his friend Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Niccolò Machiavelli at his side; King Francis I of France would spread stories about being at Leonardo's deathbed as propaganda.[17]
  • November 8: The Spanish expedition party led by Hernán Cortés was welcomed into Tenochtitlan by the Aztec ruler, Moctezuma II.[7]

1520

  • May 20: The Aztecs in Tenochtitlan were massacred by the Spanish during the Toxcatl feast, in response to the gruesomeness of the feast and to plunder Aztec riches. In the chaos, Giovanni Borgia stole a Crystal Skull from an Aztec priest.[7]
  • June 29: Moctezuma II, used as a puppet by the Spanish to calm the Aztec people, was killed after one of his subjects struck his head with a stone.[7]
  • June 30: Hernán Cortés and his Spanish soldiers made a narrow escape from Tenochtitlan during the night, known as the Night of Sorrow, during which many Spanish soldiers were slaughtered by the pursuing Aztecs.[7]

1521

1524

  • August: The Jiajing Emperor ordered the elimination of Chinese Assassins, resulting in the near eradication of the Chinese Brotherhood. The survivors fled to the west, and Shao Jun and her Mentor sought to seek the aid of Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Italy.[29]
  • November: Shao Jun met Ezio Auditore da Firenze in his villa in Tuscany; her Mentor was killed in Venice. Ezio agreed to teach her how to rebuild the Order, and the two of them fought off Chinese imperial guards in Florence and Ezio's villa.[29]
  • November 30: Ezio Auditore da Firenze died in Florence, as a result of the battle wounds he received during his career as an Assassin, while visiting the city with his wife Sofia and daughter Flavia.[29]

1526

  • Shao Jun returned to China after traveling through Europe, and started rebuilding the Chinese Assassin Brotherhood.[30]

1527

  • Giovanni Borgia discovered the formulae for the philosopher's stone from the "True Magic" chapter of the Book of Abraham in the study of the Swiss scientist Bombastus, when Giovanni took his Crystal Skull to Bombastus for study.[7]

1541

1542

  • The Assassin Giovanni Borgia communicated with the Jiajing Emperor through his Crystal Skull. Upon realizing the Emperor's threats, Borgia warned the Brotherhood of the danger.[7]

1549

  • July 27: Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary, arrived in Japan to spread the influence of Christianity and the Templar Order.[15]

1554

  • April 27: The Republic of Florence conquered Monteriggioni, after the Florentine exile Giovannino Zeti handed the town keys to Florence. The Medici allowed the Auditore to continue their rule of the town.[1]

1558

  • November 17: Queen Mary I of England was killed by the Assassins, to free the people of England from her oppression.[1]

1559

  • January 15: Queen Elizabeth I of England, successor to her half-sister Mary I, was crowned at Westminster Abbey and began her rule over England, aided by an Apple of Eden.[1]

1571

1573

  • May 13: Takeda Shingen, head of the Takeda clan, was killed in his camp during an attack by Honda Tadakatsu and the Assassin Hattori Hanzō, to obtain Shingen's Sword of Eden.[15]

1576

  • June 21: The Battle of Gogunda was fought between the Army of the Mughal Empire and the Rajput chief Maharana Pratap Singh. Despite the Mughal Army's victory, Pratap Singh refused to recognize Mughal rule for several years until his army was defeated.[5]

1578

  • April 19: Uesugi Kenshin, head of the Uesugi clan and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō.[15]

1581

1582

  • June 21: Oda Nobunaga, head of the Oda clan, was attacked by his vassal Akechi Mitsuhide at Honnō-ji; he was subsequently assassinated the Assassin and monk Yamauchi Taka to obtain his Sword of Eden, which was then transported to China by Liu Yan.[15]

1586

1589

  • May: John Dee left Třeboň and returned to England after an argument with Edward Kelley over the use of the Book of Abraham; Kelley started working at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.[7]

1590

  • August 18: The Roanoke Colony in the New World was found deserted; the disappearance of the colony had some relation to the Assassin–Templar War.[2]

1591

  • The Golem killed various members of the nobility and alchemists in Prague, the seat of the Holy Roman Empire; by conversing with it, Elizabeth Jane Weston prevented its attempt to kill her stepfather Edward Kelley.[7]

1596

  • December 23: The Assassin Hattori Hanzō was killed by his longtime rival and fellow ninja, Fūma Kotarō, in Edo.[15]

1597

  • November 1: Edward Kelley committed suicide, by jumping off the roof of Hněvín Castle, where he was imprisoned by Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire, for failing to create gold.[7]

1598

  • September 18: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the unifier of Japan, was killed by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka in Fushimi Castle.[15]

1600

17th century

1651

1660

  • May 29: Prince Charles II returned to London after years of exile in France, the United Provinces and Spanish Netherlands.[7]

1661

  • May 29: King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland was crowned at Westminster Abbey; a man wielding a Piece of Eden was present at the coronation.[7]

1666

  • September 2: The Great Fire of London started, destroying thousands of buildings in the medieval City of London, ending on September 5.[5]

1673

1699

18th century

1701

  • May 23: The British privateer William Kidd was hanged in London on accussations of piracy, after having been captured in New York.[2]
  • July 9: The War of the Spanish Succession started between the powers of Europe to determine the successor to King Charles II of Spain.[31]

1713

  • April 11: The Treaty of Utrecht was signed between the belligerents of the War of the Spanish Succession, effectively ending all armed conflict between the powers of Europe. Privateers in the West Indies were no longer needed, causing many privateers to turn to piracy.[31]

1715

  • June: The Assassin Duncan Walpole was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway, after Walpole had killed Edward's captain Abel Bramah and both ships had been destroyed near Cape Bonavista. Stealing Walpole's identity, Edward saved Stede Bonnet from British soldiers and left with him for Havana.[31]
  • July:
    • Woodes Rogers, Julien du Casse and Edward Kenway, posing as the Assassin Duncan Walpole, were inducted into the Templar Order by Grand Master Laureano de Torres y Ayala.[31]
    • The Templars killed several Assassins in Havana while protecting the Sage Bartholomew Roberts from falling into their hands. That evening, Edward Kenway was caught on suspicions of freeing the Sage, and was to be sent to the British Templars with the Spanish Treasure Fleet.[31]
  • July 30: The Treasure Fleet lost eleven of its twelve vessels in a hurricane off the coast of Florida. The remaining ship, later rechristened Jackdaw, was stolen by pirate captives led by Edward Kenway and Adéwalé, and managed to escape the storm.[31]
  • September: Julien du Casse was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway in du Casse's stronghold in Great Inagua, out of fear that du Casse had recognized the Jackdaw while sailing.[31]

1716

  • March:
    • Mary Read invited Edward Kenway to the Assassins' headquarters in Tulum, on the Yucatán Peninsula; there, they explored the Mayan ruins and Kenway identified a statue of the Sage.[31]
    • The Mentor Ah Tabai, Mary Read and Edward Kenway defended Tulum from an attack by the slaver Laurens Prins.[31]
  • June: The French pirate Olivier "La Buse" Levasseur destroyed a vessel captained by Barnes off Devil's Rock, and rescued its captives Alonzo Batilla and Jumao, whom he rewarded with their own ship. Alonzo subsequently obtained the schooner Wanderer.[32]
  • July: Samuel Bellamy replaced Benjamin Hornigold as captain of Hornigold's pirate fleet by majority vote and Hornigold's rule to not attack British ships was neglected. Hornigold was escorted away from the pirates to another island by Alonzo Batilla.[32]
  • November: Samuel Bellamy, La Buse and Alonzo Batilla attacked a galleon of the Spanish Treasure Fleet, but were lured into a trap by Captain Francis Hume of the British Navy, a Templar.[32]

1717

  • January:
    • Alonzo Batilla recovered Laurens Prins' slaver route and destroyed Francis Hume's ship, who had attacked Samuel Bellamy on orders of Laureano de Torres y Ayala.[32]
    • Edward Kenway attacked the fort at Punta Guarico to steal Laureano de Torres y Ayala's gold, but instead devised a plan to use Torres and his gold to acquire Bartholomew Roberts from Laurens Prins, who had the Sage in his employ.[31]
  • February: Samuel Bellamy, La Buse and Alonzo Batilla set a trap for the Whydah, Laurens Prins' slave ship transporting a Piece of Eden. The Whydah and its treasure were secured, and the pirates were able to sink the attacking King George captained by Francis Hume.[32]
  • April 27: Laurens Prins was assassinated in Kingston by Edward Kenway, aiding his friend Mary Read in finishing her assassination contract after Prins refused to sell Bartholomew Roberts. Roberts managed to escape Kingston.[31]
  • May: Alonzo Batilla aided Christopher Condent in finding supplies and rum for the Pirate Republic of Nassau; La Buse fled Nassau with the Piece of Eden after discovering the Templars had infiltrated the republic.[32]
  • September: La Buse escaped from a Templar attack on an enemy ship, leaving the wreckage of his vessel Le Postillon behind; Alonzo retrieved La Buse's codebook from the Templar merchant Barnes, detailing his location to be Mayaguana.[32]
  • December: Barnes was fatally shot by fellow Templar Christopher Condent, after being unable to discern the location of Olivier Levasseur to Condent and Benjamin Hornigold.[31]

1718

  • January: The pirates Edward Kenway and Edward Thatch, commonly known as Blackbeard, traveled to a shipwreck of the Spanish Treasure Fleet to find medicine for the people of Nassau, without success.[31]
  • April: Edward Thatch was overrun by a British Man O' War. After being saved by Edward Kenway, Thatch's men discovered a shipment of medicine from Charles-Towne aboard the Man O' War.[31]
  • May: Edward Thatch laid siege to Charles-Towne, South Carolina for a week, holding men hostage in exchange for medicine. Edward Kenway infiltrated the town, stealing the town's medicine instead.[31]
  • July 22:
    • Governor Woodes Rogers of the Bahamas arrived in Nassau with Commodore Peter Chamberlaine, extending a pardon from King George I of the Great Britain to all pirates.[31]
    • Commodore Peter Chamberlaine was assassinated by the pirate Edward Kenway for threatening the Pirate Republic. Kenway and Charles Vane destroyed the British's blockade of the city with a fireship.[31]
  • November 22: Edward Thatch was killed off the coast of Ocracoke, during a British Navy assault led by Robert Maynard. Edward Kenway and the Jackdaw managed to escape.[31]
  • November 23: Charles Vane and Edward Kenway were marooned on Isla Providencia, after Jack Rackham deposed Vane as captain and captured the Jackdaw.[31]

1719

  • February: Edward Kenway was saved from Isla Providencia by an arriving ship, after having fought Charles Vane, who had lost his sanity on the island.[31]
  • May: The pirate Benjamin Hornigold joined the Templar Order in Kingston after accepting Governor Woodes Rogers' pardon. Edward Kenway sailed to Príncipe to save the Sage from the Templars.[31]
  • June 19: The pirate hunters John Cockram and Josiah Burgess were killed by Edward Kenway, after Kenway had saved Bartholomew Roberts from the Templars' attack. Roberts was elected as the replacement of pirate captain Howell Davis.[31]
  • September:
    • Edward Kenway and Bartholomew Roberts captured the Portuguese ship Nosso Senhor da Compreensão and secured the Templars' blood vials on board. Roberts renamed the ship Royal Fortune and made it his flagship.[31]
    • Benjamin Hornigold was killed by his former friend Edward Kenway on Santanillas for betraying the Pirate Republic.[31]
    • Edward Kenway was betrayed by Bartholomew Roberts and turned in to the British authorities in Kingston, after Kenway and Roberts visited the Observatory; there, Roberts took possession of the complex' Crystal Skull.[31]

1720

  • November 28: Mary Read and Anne Bonny were led to trial in Port Royal in Kingston, but managed to evade death by hanging by revealing their pregnancies.[31]

1721

  • April: Edward Kenway and Anne Bonny escaped imprisonment in Port Royal, Jamaica, with the aid of the Mentor Ah Tabai; Mary Read died in prison, due to complications from childbirth. Kenway decided to join the Assassins, out of respect for Read.[31]
  • May: Governor Woodes Rogers of the Bahamas was severely wounded by the pirate Edward Kenway during a party in Kingston. Rogers survived his wounds, and later returned to England.[31]
  • November 28: The French bandit Cartouche was saved from death by his lover Mireille, the leader of the French Assassins, who managed to fake his execution. Cartouche joined the Assassin Brotherhood.[18]

1722

  • February 10: Bartholomew Roberts was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway near Príncipe on orders of Ah Tabai, taking possession of the Crystal Skull and the blood vials. Upon Roberts' request, Edward destroyed his body to prevent it from falling into Templar hands.[31]
  • El Tiburón, Laureano de Torres y Ayala's right hand man, was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway in Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta in Havana.[31]
  • September 1: Laureano de Torres y Ayala, Grand Master of the Caribbean Templars, was killed inside the Observatory in Jamaica by the pirate Edward Kenway on orders of Ah Tabai.[31]
  • October: Edward Kenway returned to England with his daughter Jennifer Scott, who had just arrived in Great Inagua, after Kenway heard news that his wife Caroline Scott had died two years earlier.[31]

1723

  • Edward Kenway killed the Templars Emmett Scott, father of Caroline Scott, and Wilson in a warehouse in Bristol for the pain they caused his wife and parents.[33]
  • Robert Walpole, the future Prime Minister of Great Britain, pardoned Edward Kenway and his pirate crew. Walpole purchased a house in London for Kenway, introduced him to the Stephensen-Oakley family and employed his new assistant, Reginald Birch.[33]

1735

  • The Victoire, captained by Adéwalé, ambushed a convoy of French Templar ships near Saint-Domingue, and intercepted a parcel adressed to Bastienne Josèphe in Port-au-Prince. While fleeing from the Templars, the Victoire was destroyed in a storm, and Adéwalé washed up in Port-au-Prince.[34]
  • Adéwalé formed an alliance with Bastienne Josèphe and Augustin Dieufort, leader of the Maroon rebellion against the Governor Pierre, Marquis de Fayet. Adéwalé stole the Experto Crede and made it his flagship, and helped free the colony's slaves.[34]
  • The Experto Crede protected the Vautour, a French merchant ship transporting French scientists for the French Geodesic Mission and slave spying for the Assassins and Maroons, from pirate ships.[34]
  • December 3: The Assassin Edward Kenway was killed in his family's house in London by masked men employed by Reginald Birch, Kenway's property manager and a Templar. The masked men proceeded to steal Kenway's journal, and kidnapped his daughter Jennifer.[35]
  • December 12: Haytham Kenway, son of Edward Kenway, started his tutelage under Reginald Birch on his mother Tessa's request, and left with Birch for Europe to find Jennifer.[35]

1737

  • On orders of Governor Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, a French vessel took down a slave ship while the Experto Crede was trying to free its slaves from the French.[34]
  • July 8: Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, Governor-General of Saint-Domingue was killed by the Assassin Adéwalé in Port-au-Prince for his harsh treatment of slaves in the colony.[34]

1738

1744

  • April 19: Haytham Kenway was formally inducted into the Templar Order. His first mission was to kill a greedy merchant in Liverpool.[35]

1745

1746

1747

  • June 11: Juan Vedomir, a Templar assigned to decode Edward Kenway's journal, was killed by Haytham Kenway for working with the Assassins. Haytham took the journal with him, and later brought it to Reginald Birch in the Templar headquarters in Prague.[35]
  • June 19: Nāder Shāh, the ruler of Iran and owner of the Koh-i-Noor, was killed by a group of assassins led by Salah Bey, an ally of the Colonial Assassins. The Koh-i-Noor [36]

1749

1751

1752

  • July: Master Templar Lawrence Washington was killed by the Assassin Shay Cormac outside Washington's estate in Mount Vernon.[21]

1753

  • June 25: Haytham Kenway abducted Lucio Albertine to help his mother, the captive Monica Albertine, a codebreaker and Assassin associate, decode Edward Kenway's journal for the Templars. Haytham stole the Hidden Blades of Miko, Lucio's Assassin bodyguard, while engaged in combat with him.[35]

1754

  • April 18: Haytham Kenway assassinated Miko during a performance of The Beggar's Opera at the Theatre Royal in London, and retrieved the Grand Temple's key.[2]
  • April 20: Haytham Kenway boarded the Providence to start his 72-day long journey to the New World to find the Grand Temple. During the journey, Haytham killed the Assassin sailor Louis Mills and managed to evade capture by the Aquila, luring it to destruction in the storm.[2]
  • July 8: Haytham Kenway arrived in Boston, Massachusetts and formally took up the position of Grand Master of the Colonial Templars, recruiting Charles Lee, William Johnson and Thomas Hickey.[2]
  • July 10: Haytham Kenway and Charles Lee rescued the surgeon Benjamin Church from capture by the slaver Silas Thatcher, and recruited him into the Colonial Templars.[2]
  • July 13: Haytham Kenway recruited the soldier John Pitcairn into the Colonial Templars, after attacking and threatening his former comrade Edward Braddock.[2]
  • July 14: The Colonial Templars besieged the fortress of Southgate in Boston, killing the slaver Silas Thatcher in the process.[2]
  • November 15: Haytham Kenway formed an alliance with Kaniehtí:io, a Kanien'kehá:ka woman who could lead him to the Grand Temple, by planning a joint attack on Edward Braddock.[2]

1755

  • July 9: General Edward Braddock was fatally wounded by Haytham Kenway during the Braddock Expedition, with aid from Kenway's fellow Templars, Kaniehtí:io, the Abenaki, Shawnee and Lenape, for his betrayal of the Templar Order's principles.[2] Braddock died four days later.[35]
  • November 1: The Assassin Shay Cormac disturbed the Piece of Eden in the Temple beneath the Carmo Convent in Lisbon, causing an earthquake that destroyed the city and killed thousands of citizens.[21]

1757

  • May 1: Jeanne fled from New Orleans to a working colony in Chichen Itza, Mexico with the aid of her former husband Philippe Olivier de Grandpré's new wife Madeleine de L'Isle, leaving her daughter Aveline de Grandpré in the care of Madeleine.[37]
  • August: The Assassin Kesegowaase was killed by Shay Cormac and the Templar George Monro was killed in a house fire by the Assassin Liam O'Brien during the Siege of Fort William Henry.[21]
  • September 17: Jennifer Scott was rescued by Haytham Kenway and Jim Holden from servitude at the palace of Governor As'ad Pasha al-Azm of Damascus, after having spent years as a concubine at Topkapı Palace.[35]
  • October 9: Grand Master Reginald Birch was killed in his chateau near Troyes, France by Jennifer Scott, with the help of her brother Haytham Kenway, for having been responsible for their father's death and selling her into slavery.[35]

1758

1759

  • November 12: Aveline de Grandpré was recruited into the Assassin Brotherhood by the Mentor Agaté. After several months of training, she was formally inducted into the Order.[37]

1760

  • March: A First Civilization temple in the North Atlantic created an earthquake after its Piece of Eden was disturbed during a confrontation between Achilles Davenport, Liam O'Brien, Haytham Kenway and Shay Cormac. Liam was killed by Shay, and Achilles was shot in the leg by Haytham.[21]
  • November 2: The Kanien'kehá:ka village of Kanatahséton was set aflame by George Washington of the British Army, killing many villagers including Kaniehtí:io, after her son Ratonhnhaké:ton was attacked by the Colonial Templars led by Charles Lee.[2]

1763

  • The Colonial Templars effectively destroyed the Colonial Brotherhood by wiping out nearly all of its remaining members. Achilles Davenport entered a life of exile in the Davenport Homestead.[2]

1765

  • February 4: Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, the Governor of Louisiana, was assassinated by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré for colluding with the Templar Order to hand over the colony to Templars in the Spanish government.[37]

1766

  • June 23: Baptiste, the leader of a Maroon smuggling operation impersonating his former Mentor François Mackandal, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré for colluding with the Templar Order, on orders of Baptiste's former Brother, Agaté.[37]

1768

  • October 27: Antonio de Ulloa, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana, was attacked by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré while trying to escape New Orleans during the Louisiana Rebellion. Aveline spared the Governor's life and retrieved a map leading to a Templar work camp in Chichen Itza.[37]

1769

  • Aveline de Grandpré killed the Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer in First Civilization ruins underneath Chichen Itza, where the Templars had set up a working colony. Aveline also obtained half of a Prophecy Disk, and was reunited with her mother Jeanne.[37]
  • October 4: Ratonhnhaké:ton, son of Haytham Kenway and Kaniehtí:io, came into contact with Juno through the Clan Mother's Crystal Ball, who informed him that he needed to join the Assassin Order in order to protect his village from destruction.[2]
  • October 29: Achilles Davenport, former Mentor of the Colonial Assassins, took Ratonhnhaké:ton under his tutelage after seeing him defend himself against a group of attackers.[2]

1770

  • March 5: The Boston Massacre occurred, causing British colonists to attack British Army soldiers, after Charles Lee ignited the crowd by firing a shot on orders of Haytham Kenway. Ratonhnhaké:ton, who was blamed for the event, was able to escape with help of Samuel Adams.[2]
  • March 18: Ratonhnhaké:ton received his pair of hidden blades from Achilles Davenport, and started reconstruction on the Aquila, anchored in the harbor of the Davenport Homestead.[2]

1771

  • The Spanish Templar Diego Vázquez's attempts to take over smuggling operations in the Louisiana Bayou were disrupted by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré, with the aid of Agaté, Gérald Blanc, Élise Lafleur and Roussillon.[37]

1772

  • Aveline de Grandpré returned to Chichen Itza, where she made peace with her mother Jeanne and received another half of a Prophecy Disk using a map leading to another First Civilization ruin.[37]

1773

  • November 6: Ratonhnhaké:ton aided the Sons of Liberty in defying William Johnson's smuggling operation by destroying his shipments of tea in Boston's harbor, to disrupt William Johnson's purchase of indigenous American land.[2]
  • December 3: Stephane Chapheau killed one of William Johnson's tax collectors, with aid from Ratonhnhaké:ton, and started his tutelage under the Assassin.[2]
  • December 16: The Boston Tea Party occured, in which members of the Sons of Liberty movement and Ratonhnhaké:ton dumped British shipments of tea into Boston's harbor in defiance of British authority.[2]

1774

  • July 11: William Johnson was killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton in front of Johnson Hall, amidst a violent business deal to purchase the lands of clans of the Iroquois Confederacy.[2]

1775

  • April 18: Members of the Sons of Liberty rode out to warn British colonists of an imminent attack by the British Army; with aid from Ratonhnhaké:ton, Paul Revere warned their allies in Lexington and then proceeded to Concord with William Dawes, though the two men were detained by British soldiers.[2]
  • April 19: The British Army and colonial militia engaged at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where the militia under leadership of John Parker, James Barrett and Ratonhnhaké:ton managed to emerge victorious.[2]
  • June 16: The Continental Army was formed by the Patriot colonists. The Continental Congress appointed George Washington to be its Commander-in-Chief.[2]
  • June 17: The Continental Army and British Army fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill at Charlestown, Massachusetts. British Army commander John Pitcairn was assassinated during the battle, though the British managed to claim victory and captured Charlestown.[2]

1776

  • Eseosa, grandson of Adéwalé, began to rebuild the Assassin Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue, recruiting Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Brédá, Georges Biassou, Jean-François Papillon and Jeannot Bullet into his ranks.[5]
  • George Davidson, an African slave, joined up with a group of American revolutionaries and escaped to the Thirteen Colonies with the help of Aveline de Grandpré, on request of Madeleine de L'Isle.[37]
  • June 28: Ratonhnhaké:ton was led in New York to hang after having been imprisoned alongside the Templar Thomas Hickey while trying to prevent the latter's assassination of George Washington. With aid from Achilles Davenport[2] and Haytham Kenway,[35] Ratonhnhaké:ton escaped and killed Hickey.[2]
  • July 4: The Declaration of Independence was signed by the Founding Fathers, proclaiming independence of the Thirteen Colonies as the United States from Great Britain.[2]
  • September 21: The Great Fire of New York started, destroying the area west of Broadway in the city.[2]
  • October 13:
    • Diego Vázquez, a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré at a soirée in New Orleans.[37]
    • Philippe de Grandpré died after having been poisoned by his wife Madeleine de L'Isle, the leader of the Templars in Louisiana, after he found evidence of Templar influence in his business.[37]
  • December 25: Continental Army forces led by George Washington and accompanied by Ratonhnhaké:ton crossed the icy Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey.[38]
  • December 27: The Assassin Charles Dorian was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac in the Palace of Versailles, after Charles was entrusted with the Precursor box at an Assassin meeting.[21]

1777

  • George Davidson, who had become a Templar fighting in Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, was killed by Aveline de Grandpré with aid from Ratonhnhaké:ton. From Davidson, Aveline was able to discern that the Company Man was Madeleine de L'Isle.[37]
  • Agaté committed suicide after having been bested by Aveline de Grandpré when he attacked her upon hearing news of the Company Man's identity.[37]
  • Madeleine de L'Isle was killed by Aveline de Grandpré in Saint Louis Cathedral during her feigned induction into the Templar Order. After her stepmother's death, she activated the Prophecy Disk and witnessed a recording of Eve's election to leader of the human rebellion from around 75010 BC.[37]

1778

  • January 7: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton formed an alliance to pursue Benjamin Church, who had betrayed both the Templar Order and the Continental Army, stealing several of the Army's supply crates.[2]
  • January 26: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton besieged the old Smith and Company Brewery in pursuit of Benjamin Church, though instead found a decoy of Church and were attacked by his henchmen, resulting in the brewery being set aflame.[2]
  • March 7: Benjamin Church was killed by Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton aboard his ship off the coast of Martinique, where the pair recovered the stolen supplies of the Continental Army.[2]
  • March 17: Admiral Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy, a Templar, was killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton on the Caribbean Sea, by destroying Biddle's ship the Randolph.[2]
  • June 16: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton attacked and captured several British soldiers in New York to discern the British Army's plans, learning that they planned to march from Philadelphia to New York.[2]
  • June 17: George Washington ordered an attack on the village of Kanatahséton after receiving reports of indigenous tribes allying with the British; Ratonhnhaké:ton managed to hold off the attack, but was forced to kill his friend Kanen'tó:kon.[2]
  • June 28: The Continental Army, led by the Marquis de Lafayette and aided by Ratonhnhaké:ton, fought the British Army at the Battle of Monmouth in an attempt to stop their march on New York.[2]

1780

1781

  • September 5: The French Navy, aided by the Aquila, defeated the British Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake; in exchange for Ratonhnhaké:ton's aid, the French Navy shelled New York with ships for the Assassin's attack on Fort George.[2]
  • September 16: Haytham Kenway was killed by his son Ratonhnhaké:ton, who planned to eliminate Charles Lee instead, during his infiltration of Fort George, which was besieged by the French Navy.[2]
  • October 19: The Continental Army claimed victory at the Siege of Yorktown, effectively winning the American Revolutionary War; George Washington retrieved an Apple of Eden at Yorktown.[39]

1782

  • October 2: Charles Lee was killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton in the Last Drink tavern in Monmouth, after the Assassin had pursued Lee through New York and Boston, taking the Grand Temple's key.[2]

1783

  • April: Ratonhnhaké:ton came into contact with Juno through his village's Crystal Ball, who told him to hide the Grand Temple's key somewhere safe; the village's inhabitants had been forced to migrate as their land had been sold by the new government.[2]
  • September 3: The Treaty of Paris was signed between delegates of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, formally ending the American Revolutionary War and establishing the United States.[5]
  • November 25: The last remaining troops of the British Army departed from the new free and independent State of New York in the United States on Evacuation Day.[2]

1784

1789

1791

  • January 5: Charles Gabriel Sivert, baron de l'Espérance, a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian in the Notre-Dame in Paris.[18]
  • January 19: Le Roi des Thunes, the leader of the Cour des Miracles and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian. The Marquis de Sade became the new leader of the Cour.[18]
  • March 31:
    • Arno Dorian rescued François-Thomas Germain, secretly the new Templar Grand Master, after he feigned capture by the Templars inside his silversmith workshop. Germain falsely accused Chrétien Lafrenière of having commissioned the pin that killed François de la Serre.[18]
    • The Templar Chrétien Lafrenière was killed by Arno Dorian during a meeting between his faction of conservative French Templars and members from other European branches.[18]
  • April 2: Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Mentor of the French Assassins, was poisoned by fellow Assassin Pierre Bellec because of his willingness to work with the Templars. Bellec attempted to frame the Templar Élise de la Serre for the murder.[18]
  • August 14: Dutty Boukman held a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman, prophesizing that Jean-François Papillon, Georges Biassou and Jeannot Bullet would become leaders of a revolution to free the slaves of Saint-Domingue.[5]
  • 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.[5]
  • November: Dutty Boukman was killed in battle with the French Army near Acul. Jeannot Bullet was ordered to death by Eseosa for breaking the tenets of the Creed.[5]

1792

  • August 10: Tuileries Palace, the residence of King Louis XVI, was stormed by an armed mob. The Assassin Arno Dorian retrieved the King's correspondence with his late Mentor Mirabeau and Napoleon retrieved an Apple of Eden from the King's secret hiding place.[18]
  • September 2: A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, aided Georges Danton's attempt to stop an Austrian spy ring by killing the Comte and Vicomte de Gambais.[18]

1793

  • January 21: King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, as decreed by the National Assembly with the Templars' influence. Arno Dorian and Élise de la Serre made a failed assassination attempt on Grand Master François-Thomas Germain.[18]
  • August 29: The French civil commissioner of Saint-Domingue, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, declared all slaves in the colony to be freed men.[5]

1794

  • July 28:
    • Maximilien de Robespierre, a French politician and Templar, was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution.[18]
    • François-Thomas Germain, Grand Master of the French Templars, was killed by Arno Dorian in the Templar crypt beneath the Temple in Paris. Before his death, Germain killed Élise de la Serre using the Sword of Eden.[18]
  • August 9:
    • Arno Dorian entered the Saint-Denis Temple, where he killed Philippe Rose and retrieved the Head of Saint-Denis. After using the Head to escape, Arno retrieved a spherical Piece of Eden from the artifact and sent it to Al Mualim in Cairo, Egypt.[40]
    • Napoleon Bonaparte was arrested and placed under house arrest for supporting Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution and stealing a small army to search for an artifact in Franciade.[40]
  • August 20: Napoleon Bonaparte was released from house arrest due to his powerful influence.[40]

1795

  • October 5: The royalist uprising of 13 Vendémiaire was suppressed by the French Republic under leadership of Paul Barras and Napoleon Bonaparte. Bonaparte earned infamy for attacking the royalists in Paris with cannons.[18]

1797

  • August 24: Toussaint Louverture expelled Léger-Félicité Sonthonax from Saint-Domingue and became de facto ruler of the colony.[5]

1798

  • May 19: Napoleon Bonaparte embarked from Toulon on an expedition to Egypt and Syria, secretly with intention of acquiring the artifact from the Saint-Denis Temple.[40]

1799

  • July 15: A soldier of the French expedition in Egypt discovered the Rosetta Stone, a stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis. The stele was missing part of the first script pertaining to the Assassins.[18]

1800

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.[5]

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.[5]
  • November 1: Charles Leclerc died of poisoning by Eseosa, though his cause of death was believed to be yellow fever.[5]

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.[5]

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.[5]
  • March 1: Eseosa started training under Ratonhnhaké:ton at the Davenport Manor in Massachusetts in preparation for his assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines for his tyranny over Saint-Domingue.[5]

1808

  • August: Napoleon Bonaparte and Arno Dorian entered the crypt beneath the Temple in Paris, and buried the remains of François-Thomas Germain in the Parisian catacombs.[18]

1832

  • The Château Clique – leaders of the Templar Order in Lower Canada – arrested several journalists, including the Assassin Ludger Duvernay, for publishing articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique. Duvernay was freed by the Assassins.[19]

1834

1839

1849

  • March 29: The Sikh Empire fell at the end of the Second Anglo-Sikh War. Control of the region fell to the British Templars, in the name of the British Empire.[4]

1863

1865

  • April 26: John Wilkes Booth was killed by the Assassins for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln of the United States.[1]

1874

  • September 2: Nikola Tesla fled to Tomingaj in Croatia to avoid being drafted into the army. While exploring the wilderness and mountains, Tesla found an Apple of Eden, which inspired him to pursue a life of study and innovation.[5]

1881

1884

  • June 6: Nikola Tesla arrived in New York City. He started working for Thomas Edison, a Templar, but left Edison Machine Works in 1885.[5]

1887

1888

1891

1894

  • November 1: Tsar Alexander III of Russia died of kidney failure,[4] caused by injuries sustained by Nikolai Orelov in 1888.[42] His son, Nicholas II, succeeded him.[4]

1896

  • Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers assumed full leadership of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, after an argument between Mathers and William Wynn Westcott forced the latter to leave the Order.[7]

20th century

1901

  • January 22: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom passed away at the age of 81, marking the end of the Victorian era.[5]
  • December: Financier John Pierpont Morgan withdrew his funding of Nikola Tesla's experiments after Tesla intended to make electricity a free product, which stood in opposition of the Templars' plans.[1]

1908

  • June 30: Nikola Tesla released a burst of electricity to 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.[42]

1910

1913

  • Skulls of the First Civilization were found in the village of Boskop in South Africa in autumn.[4]
  • December 23: The Federal Reserve System was created as part of the "Plan" designed by the Templars, and as the first step to controlling the capitalist market.[4]

1914

  • June 28: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo by a member of the Black Hand, sparking World War I.[5]
  • June 29: Khioniya Guseva, disciple of Grigori Rasputin, attempted to kill her master in Pokrovskoye. Even though his intestines fell out, Rasputin managed to use the powers of the splinter of the Staff of Eden to survive and force Guseva to mutilate herself.[7]
  • December 24: On Christmas Eve, British and German soldiers called a truce amidst the fighting of World War I. During the truce, an Assassin operating as a medic for the British killed General Erich Albert, a Templar.[7]

1916

  • December 29: The Templar agent Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conspirators led by Felix Yusupov,[4] with influence of the Assassins.[1]

1917

  • March 15: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the Russian throne after the start of the Russian Revolution, under pressure of the Assassins.[4]
  • November 7: Nikolai Orelov infiltrated the Winter Palace in Petrograd, tasked by Vladimir Lenin to kill Tsarevich Nicholas II of Russia. After finding out that the Imperial Sceptre in the Palace was a mere replica of the Staff of Eden, Orelov decided to spare the Tsarevich's life.[42]
  • November 15: Nikolai Orelov infiltrated the asylum in Krasnoyarsk to meet Khioniya Guseva. After hearing her account of the splinter's power, he granted her wish to die by killing her with his hidden blade.[7]
  • November 22: Nikolai Orelov and two henchmen unearthed the corpse of Grigori Rasputin to recover the splinter of the Staff of Eden, based on information of Tsarevich Nicholas II.[42]
  • December: Several scientists and members of the Russian Assassin Brotherhood, including Sergei and his wife, left to form a community in an Assassin science city at a facility in Protvino, provided by the Russian Academy of Sciences.[5]

1918

  • Nikolai Orelov, his wife Anna and daughter Nadya, fled Russia using the splinter of the Staff of Eden and settled in the United States.[42]
  • November: Moina Mathers, formerly Mina Bergson, took leadership of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and abandoned the Assassin Order after the death of her husband Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.[19]

1919

1926

  • January: Nikolai and Innokenti Orelov were attacked by the Assassin Sergei, who was tasked to bring Nikolai back to the Russian Assassins, at their cabin in the woods of Connecticut, though Sergei was killed in the process.[43]
  • 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.[1]

1928

  • Nikolai and Innokenti Orelov were tracked down by a team of Assassins working for the Bureau of Investigation. They managed to take down all Assassins except the team's leader, who managed to catch Nikolai. His son complied to Nikolai's request to shoot the man, killing both the team leader and Nikolai.[43]

1930

  • March 12: Mahatma Gandhi started the Salt March in disobedience against the British's salt laws in India until April 5, and managed to gather a large following with aid from his Apple of Eden.[1]

1937

  • Abstergo Industries was founded by the Templar Order as a public front, which would primarily be used as a shadow company to control the world's capitalist market.[6]

1939

1943

1944

  • July 1–22: The Bretton Woods conference was held by European powers – secretly economic agents of the Templars – to form the World Bank, as part of the "Plan".[6]
  • December 25: An agent of Abstergo Industries purchased the Shroud of Eden from a member of the Baguttiani in Milan, Italy.[7]

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.[1]
  • July 16: The Manhattan Project tested 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.[1]
  • 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 9.[5]
  • August 12: Emperor Hirohito of Japan surrendered to the Allies, marking the end of World War II.[5]

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.[1]
  • August 16: British economist Harry Dexter White was killed by the Templars after betraying the Order by warning the Soviet Union of their capitalist plans.[6]

1952

  • June 17: Rocket engineer Jack Parsons died due to injuries received in an explosion in his laboratory orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, after Parsons made plans to reveal the secrets behind Aleister Crowley's formula.[7]

1953

  • March 5: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, was killed by the Assassins[1] with the use of poison, making it look like he died of a stroke.[5]
  • 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.[6]

1954

  • June 7: Alan Turing was poisoned by the Templars after failing to cooperate with their orders to not build a robot, as they feared it would lead to mass unemployment and a drop in human birth rate.[6]
  • June 27: President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to protect their capitalist interest.[6]

1958

1963

  • November 22: President John F. Kennedy of the United States was assassinated by the Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald[3] 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.[1]

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.[1]

1971

  • April 21: François Duvalier, the fortieth President of Haiti, was killed by the Assassins, for his oppression over the Haitian people.[1]

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.[6]

1977

  • The Assassin William Miles stole the blueprints for Abstergo Industries' Animus, and gave them to a fellow member of his Order in Moscow after she rescued him from Templar agents, and told her to build it.[5]

1980

1981

  • August 9: Aileen Bock was severely injured in an accident involing the Animus during the thirty-seventh test session of the Surrogate Initiative, after which the project was put on halt.[31]

1983

  • February 9: A 10-year old boy, later named Daniel Cross, was kidnapped by Abstergo Industries and used as Subject 4 of the Animus Project. During his time at Abstergo's Philadelphia facility, his memories were implanted with a hidden impulse to kill the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood, before being released from captivity.[42]

1985

  • September: Warren Vidic experimented on Daniel Cross with a device capable of mimicking Piece of Eden capabilities across a network, between Subject 4's Animus sessions.[6]

1991

  • August 19–21: President Boris Yeltsin of Russia took political power from President Mikhail Gorbachev in a staged coup d'état by standing up to communism, with aid from Abstergo Industries.[6]
  • December 8: The Belavezhskaya Accords were signed in the Belavezhskaya Forest by the Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, declaring the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[6]
  • December 25: Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union, making Boris Yeltsin the leader of Russia.[6]

1997

  • January: Abstergo agents buried several constructed skeletons near the site of Tim D. White's expedition in Ethiopia, to prevent knowledge of the First Civilization creating the human race becoming public.[1]

1998

  • April 23: Daniel Cross was brought to an Assassin compound outside Philadelphia by the Assassin Hannah Mueller to meet Paul Bellamy, after noticing Daniel's Assassin tattoo and witnessing him attack a man he called a Templar as a result of the Animus' Bleeding Effect.[42]
  • April 24: Daniel Cross had a vision and discovered his purpose to find the Mentor, while reliving his ancestor Nikolai Orelov's memories of the Tunguska explosion. Daniel and Hannah visited Assassin hideouts around the globe for two years to find the Mentor.[42]

1999

  • September 4–16: Apartment buildings in the cities Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in Russia were bombed by Chechen terrorists, orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to boost the popularity of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.[6]

2000

  • May 7: Vladimir Putin became the second President of Russia, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.[6]
  • November 6: The Mentor was killed by the unwitting Templar sleeper agent Daniel Cross, sending the Assassin Order into chaos and removing their influence over the 2000 American presidential election.[42]
  • November 21: Daniel Cross returned to the Abstergo Industries facility in Philadelphia. After entering the Animus, Daniel revealed the location of Assassin compounds and Abstergo initiated the Great Purge: a worldwide operation in which Abstergo strike teams attacked Assassin hideouts.[42]

21st century

2001

  • January 20: George W. Bush became the forty-third President of the United States, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.[6]
  • October 7: The War on Terror started. At some point, William Miles tasked Emmanuel Barraza with finding a Templar presence in the war, but ended up killing innocent children armed with bombs on a bus aimed for peace talks. Emmanuel vowed to never take a life again.[5]

2002

2003

  • March 13: Desmond Miles ran away from "the Farm", the Assassin community in the Black Hills in South Dakota he grew up in, on his sixteenth birthday, to escape the life his parents had chosen for him.[3]
  • March 20: The Iraq War started under influence of George W. Bush as part of the War on Terror, planned by Abstergo Industries to privatize the oil market in Iraq.[6]
  • December 25: Vanessa, a scientist working at the Landing Operations Control Center of the National Space Center, sold the control codes of the Beagle 2 to Robert Getas, an employee of Abstergo Industries.[7]

2005

  • The Assassin Lucy Stillman infiltrated Abstergo Industries after being contacted by Dr. Warren Vidic, who took an interest in her study of cognitive neuroscience.[13] Over time, she grew to resent her old mentor William Miles, believing the tasks for the Assassins to be inhumane, and joined the Templar Order.[41]

2007

  • Leila Marino, an employee of Abstergo Industries, allegedly committed suicide. An individual named Neumann was involved in her death, and Marino's file became classified.[13]
  • August: Clay Kaczmarek started his training to become an Assassin under William Miles.[41]

2008

  • January: Clay Kaczmarek infiltrated the Abstergo Campus on orders of William Miles, and retrieved data related to the Animus Project.[41]

2010

  • April 20: A large amount of oil was spilled into the Gulf of Mexico until 15 July, under contract of Abstergo-controlled British Petroleum. BP cleaned up the oil, which was worth billions of dollars.[6]
  • December 10: Shaun Hastings was saved from Abstergo agents by Rebecca Crane, after Hastings leaked classified Abstergo Industries documents to Wikileaks. She managed to hack the computer system of the van she was held in, and saved Hastings during a gas stop.[44]
  • December 14: Subject 15 of the Animus Project, a pregnant woman, was eliminated after Lucy Stillman discovered there were dangerous complications due to the genetic memories of Subject 15's child overlapping with her own.[44]

2011

  • February 1: Clay Kaczmarek was captured by the Lineage Discovery and Acquisition department of Abstergo Industries and became Subject 16 of the Animus Project, as planned by William Miles.[41]

2012

  • Abstergo Industries' synthetic drug New Fluoride was introduced to the water supplies of various settlements in China and the small United States town of Prince George. Despite Susan Drayton's failed attempt at leaking a sample of the drugs,[5] news of the operation still reached the press.[13]
  • August 8: Clay Kaczmarek committed suicide in the Animus laboratory in the Abstergo Campus. Using his blood, he painted several cryptic messages in the laboratory,[13] and preserved his consciousness in an artificial intelligence inside the Animus.[3]
  • September 1: Desmond Miles was kidnapped near Washington Square Park in New York City by agents of Abstergo Industries, and was brought to the Abstergo Campus in Rome, Italy.[5]
  • September 2: Desmond Miles was placed inside the Animus by Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman in the laboratory of the Abstergo Campus and became Subject 17 of the Animus Project, to relive the memories of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[13]
  • September 7: A team of Assassins attempted to rescue Desmond Miles from Abstergo's Rome facility on Lucy Stillman's request, but ended up being exterminated.[13]
  • September 8: Desmond Miles and Lucy Stillman escaped the Abstergo Campus in Rome,<ref name="AC1" /> which was staged by Warren Vidic,<ref name="TLA">Assassin's Creed: Revelations – The Lost Archive</ref> after Desmond was done reliving Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's memories.[13]
  • September 9: Lucy Stillman and Desmond Miles arrived at an Assassin hideout in Rome, where they met with Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane; Desmond started reliving the memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze in the Animus 2.0.[1]
  • September 12: A team of Assassins in Whistler, Canada was exterminated by Abstergo agents led by Daniel Cross.[5]
  • September 15: Warren Vidic led an Abstergo attack on the Assassin hideout in Rome. The Assassins managed to escape,[1] but Abstergo retrieved the Animus recordings left behind by Lucy Stillman.[6]
  • September 16: Lucy Stillman's Assassin team arrived at Monteriggioni and set up a headquarters in the Sanctuary beneath the Villa Auditore,[6] after a roadblack in Grosseto prevented them from reaching the Assassin cabin in the Swiss Alps.[5]
  • October 10: Desmond Miles recovered Ezio Auditore da Firenze's Apple of Eden from the Colosseum Vault, where Juno forced him to kill Lucy Stillman,[6] realizing that she would bring the artifact back to the Templars;[2] Desmond entered a coma from shock, and was placed in the Animus after his father William Miles recovered him.[3]
  • October 30: Desmond Miles awoke from his coma, with aid from an AI construct of Clay Kaczmarek inside the Animus,[3] and used the Apple of Eden to enter the Grand Temple with William Miles, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane an hour later; there, Juno forced him to relive the memories of Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton.[2]
  • November 16: Desmond Miles retrieved a power source for the Grand Temple from an office building in Manhattan, where he met and knocked out Daniel Cross.[2]
  • November 28: An Assassin team led by Harlan Cunningham infiltrated the Abstergo Campus in Rome, killing four hackers trying to track down William Miles' team, and destroyed the facility's servers.[5]
  • November 30: Abstergo's Sigma team, led by Juhani Otso Berg, attacked the Assassin hideout in Florence, which was blown up by the Assassin cell's leader Adriano Maestranzi. Berg and Harlan Cunningham were the only survivors.[5]
  • December 2: Desmond Miles retrieved the second power source for the Grand Temple at a mixed martial arts event in São Paulo, Brazil, where he took it from Daniel Cross.[2]
  • December 12: William Miles was captured by Abstergo's Sigma team led by Juhani Otso Berg in Cairo, Egypt while recovering the third power source for the Grand Temple from the Egyptian Museum.[5]
  • December 14: Desmond Miles killed Warren Vidic and Daniel Cross at the Abstergo Campus in Rome while rescuing William Miles. Vidic's death forced the launch of Eye-Abstergo to be put on hold.[2]
  • December 20: Desmond Miles, William Miles, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane retrieved the Grand Temple's key from the grave of Connor Davenport in the Davenport Homestead.[2]
  • December 21: Desmond Miles sacrificed himself by touching the Eye, against the wishes of Minerva, saving the world from destruction by the incoming solar flare, though also releasing Juno from imprisonment in the Grand Temple;[2] fifteen hours later, his body was recovered by Abstergo agents.[5]

2013

  • May 21: Gavin Banks of the ship Altair II received William Miles' codex, wherein William had written all his knowledge and named Gavin the new leader of the Assassin Brotherhood.[5]
  • October:
    • MysoreTech employee Jot Soora was assigned to test the Brahman V.R., an adaption of the Animus glass developed by Abstergo Industries for release on the Indian market by MysoreTech; secretly, it extracted the genetic memories of its users.[36]
    • Jot Soora was abducted by the Assassins Siobhan and Jasdip Dhami in Mumbai, after lying to Siobhan that he was the descendant of Arbaaz Mir; Abstergo raided the compound they were hiding in, resulting in Siobhan's death.[36]
    • Monima Das, descendant of Arbaaz Mir and Pyara Kaur and fiancée of Jot Soora, and two Assassins drowned in the river after crashing from the Mumbai Pune Expressway amidst an Abstergo attack.[36]
    • Abstergo agents led by Juhani Otso Berg raided the Assassin hideout in the Chor Bazaar in Mumbai, resulting in the death of Dinesh and several Abstergo agents; their captive Jot Soora managed to escape.[36]
  • October 29: An unidentified research analyst was assigned by Abstergo Entertainment to explore the memories of Edward Kenway as part of the Sample 17 Project in their Montreal facility.[31]
  • November 5: The Abstergo Entertainment research analyst hacked the computer of Olivier Garneau, CCO of Abstergo Entertainment, at the request of John and delivered an email conversation about a shareholders meeting in Chicago to Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane.[31]
  • November 18: Abstergo Entertainment detained three employees in the Bunker on suspicions of hacking into company computers. With aid from John, the unidentified research analyst hacked into the facility's server; there, they met Juno, who intended to occupy the analyst's body but explained it was too early.[31]
  • November 26: John, secretly a Sage, was killed by Abstergo Entertainment guards inside the Bunker of their Montreal facility, after having poisoned the unidentified research analyst.[31]
  • December 17: The Assassin crew of the Altair II joined up with the Assassin cell in Osaka, who had taken up the guise of the Yakuza gang Onmoraki-Gumi, under the new leadership of Saeko Mochizuki, following the death of her husband Kenichi Mochizuki after an Abstergo attack.[5]

2014

  • February: The Assassins Harlan Cunningham and Arend Schut stole the Precursor box from an Abstergo Industries facility in Rotterdam. Abstergo's Sigma Team managed to recover the artifact, but the Assassins managed to escape.[21]
  • March 16: The Assassin crew of the Altair II met with Galina Voronina, a member of the Assassin cell in the science city of Protvino, south of Moscow, who revealed that her cell had gone crazy from the Bleeding Effect in the Animus.[5]
  • March 20: Galina Voronina, supported by the crew of the Altair II, exterminated the last members of her cell, including her own sister and mother, who was hooked up to the Animus and connected to Juno.[5]
  • May 7–13: Crewmembers of the Altair II were interrogated in William Miles' bunker in Tromsø, Norway to flush out a spy who had been sending coded messages to the Initiates, a hacker group.[5]
  • May 23: Eric Cooper and Stephanie Chiu were discovered to be Initiate spies by the Assassins, and the Assassins tried to form an alliance with the Initiates.[5]
  • June 16: Shaun Hastings sent a message to members of the Initiates, imploring them to work with the Assassins.[5]
  • October: A team of Assassins led by Gavin Banks destroyed an Abstergo Industries laboratory in Paris. Sigma Team followed the Assassins to La Rochelle, where the Assassins escaped on the Altair II.[21]

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60 1.61 1.62 1.63 1.64 1.65 1.66 Assassin's Creed II
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 2.38 2.39 2.40 2.41 2.42 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.48 2.49 2.50 2.51 2.52 Assassin's Creed III
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 Assassin's Creed: Revelations
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 4.20 Assassin's Creed: Encyclopedia
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 5.28 5.29 5.30 5.31 5.32 5.33 5.34 5.35 5.36 5.37 5.38 5.39 5.40 5.41 5.42 5.43 5.44 5.45 Assassin's Creed: Initiates
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 6.12 6.13 6.14 6.15 6.16 6.17 6.18 6.19 6.20 6.21 6.22 6.23 6.24 6.25 6.26 6.27 6.28 6.29 6.30 6.31 6.32 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
  7. ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 7.17 7.18 7.19 7.20 7.21 7.22 7.23 7.24 7.25 7.26 7.27 7.28 7.29 7.30 7.31 7.32 7.33 7.34 7.35 7.36 7.37 Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy
  8. ↑ Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Assassin's Creed 2: Aquilus
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Assassin's Creed 3: Accipiter
  11. ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 11.14 11.15 11.16 11.17 11.18 11.19 11.20 11.21 11.22 Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
  13. ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 13.13 Assassin's Creed
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
  15. ↑ 15.00 15.01 15.02 15.03 15.04 15.05 15.06 15.07 15.08 15.09 15.10 15.11 15.12 15.13 15.14 Assassin's Creed: Memories
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Assassin's Creed 4: Hawk
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 Assassin's Creed: Revelations novel
  18. ↑ 18.00 18.01 18.02 18.03 18.04 18.05 18.06 18.07 18.08 18.09 18.10 18.11 18.12 18.13 18.14 18.15 18.16 18.17 18.18 18.19 18.20 Assassin's Creed: Unity
  19. ↑ 19.00 19.01 19.02 19.03 19.04 19.05 19.06 19.07 19.08 19.09 19.10 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – Discover Your Legacy
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Assassin's Creed 5: El Cakr
  21. ↑ 21.00 21.01 21.02 21.03 21.04 21.05 21.06 21.07 21.08 21.09 21.10 21.11 21.12 21.13 Assassin's Creed: Rogue
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 Assassin's Creed: Recollection
  23. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Lineage
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 24.6 24.7 24.8 Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Assassin's Creed: Renaissance
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 Assassin's Creed: Ascendance
  27. ↑ Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Copernicus Conspiracy
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 28.2 28.3 28.4 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood novel
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Assassin's Creed: Embers
  30. ↑ Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
  31. ↑ 31.00 31.01 31.02 31.03 31.04 31.05 31.06 31.07 31.08 31.09 31.10 31.11 31.12 31.13 31.14 31.15 31.16 31.17 31.18 31.19 31.20 31.21 31.22 31.23 31.24 31.25 31.26 31.27 31.28 31.29 31.30 31.31 31.32 31.33 31.34 31.35 31.36 31.37 31.38 31.39 31.40 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 32.5 32.6 Assassin's Creed: Pirates
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 Assassin's Creed: Black Flag
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 34.4 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – Freedom Cry
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 35.3 35.4 35.5 35.6 35.7 35.8 Assassin's Creed: Forsaken
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 36.5 36.6 36.7 Assassin's Creed: Brahman
  37. ↑ 37.00 37.01 37.02 37.03 37.04 37.05 37.06 37.07 37.08 37.09 37.10 37.11 37.12 37.13 37.14 Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
  38. ↑ Assassin's Creed III – George Washington's notebook
  39. ↑ Assassin's Creed III – The Tyranny of King Washington
  40. ↑ 40.0 40.1 40.2 40.3 Assassin's Creed: Unity – Dead Kings
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 41.2 41.3 41.4 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – The Lost Archive
  42. ↑ 42.00 42.01 42.02 42.03 42.04 42.05 42.06 42.07 42.08 42.09 42.10 42.11 42.12 Assassin's Creed: The Fall
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 Assassin's Creed: The Chain
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 Assassin's Creed: Revelations – AbstergoIndustries.com
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