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3 January

• 1480: Ezio Auditore da Firenze tailed Jacopo de' Pazzi to a meeting with Rodrigo Borgia and Emilio Barbarigo at the Antico Teatro Romano outside San Gimignano. Borgia killed Pazzi for his failure and had his guards ambush the Assassin, allowing himself and Barbarigo to escape.
• 1735: Reginald Birch visited the Kenways and tricked Haytham into revealing where Edward's journal was hidden.

11 January

• 1165: Maud gave birth to her son Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Masyaf. She died of complications: her widowed husband Umar Ibn-La'Ahad raised their child alone.

19 January

• 1425: The Yongle Emperor was assassinated by Li Tong.

24 January

• 41 CE: Caligula was assassinated by Leonius in Rome.

15 February

• 1486: Ezio Auditore da Firenze won the games at Carnevale in Venice, but Silvio Barbarigo bribed the judges into giving the Golden Mask to Dante Moro. Ezio stole back the Mask and used it to gain access to Marco Barbarigo's party, where he assassinated Barbarigo with the Hidden Gun.

3 March

• 1481: In Romagna, Ezio Auditore da Firenze befriended Caterina Sforza, who secured him passage aboard a ship to Venice with Leonardo da Vinci.

10 March

• 1693: Edward Kenway was born to Linette Hopkins and Bernard Kenway in Swansea, Wales.

15 March

• 44 BCE: Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of conspirators including Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus in Rome.

4 April

• 1756: Ratonhnhaké:ton was born to Kaniehtí:io in Kanatahséton.

11 April

• 1713: The Treaty of Utrecht was signed, ending the War of the Spanish Succession but leaving privateers like Edward Kenway unemployed.

12 April

• 1479: Francesco Salviati was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in Tuscany.

19 April

• 1478: Mario Auditore explained to his nephew Ezio the mysteries of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex and showed him the Sanctuary beneath the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni.
• 1744: Haytham Kenway undertook his first assassination, dispatching a greedy merchant threatening the Templars' interests in Liverpool.

25 April

• 1478: Ezio Auditore da Firenze ventured beneath Santa Maria Novella where he eavesdropped on the Templars who conspired to destroy the House of Medici. He also discovered the tomb of Darius.

26 April

• 1478: Guilani de' Medici was assassinated by Francesco de' Pazzi, but Ezio Auditore da Firenze prevented him from similarly killing Lorenzo de' Medici. Florence descended into war between the Medici and Pazzi, and the former emerged victorious after Ezio assassinated Francesco.

3 May

• 1436: Giovanni Auditore da Firenze was born in Monteriggioni.
• 1479: Bernardo Baroncelli was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in San Gimignano.

23 May

• 1498: Girolamo Savonarola was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze to spare him the pain of being burned at the stake.

29 May

• 1453: Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople with an Apple of Eden.

30 May

• 1431: Jeanne d'Arc was burned at the stake by Templars seeking to possess her Sword of Eden.

10 June

• 323 BCE: Alexander the Great died after being poisoned by Iltani.
• 1747: Juan Vedomir was killed by Haytham Kenway after he betrayed the Templars. Haytham recovered Edward Kenway's journal, which Vedomir had been assigned to decipher, for Reginald Birch.

17 June

• 1952: Jack Parsons was killed in an explosion in his laboratory caused by Abstergo Industries.

21 June

• 1604: Elizabeth Jane Weston and her husband Johannes Leo attended a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Prague.

24 June

• 1459: Ezio Auditore da Firenze was born to Maria and Giovanni Auditore da Firenze in Florence.
• 1834: Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan uncovered a murderous dispute between a Templar violinist and an Assassin doctor.

25 June

• 1488: Ezio Auditore da Firenze and several other Assassins fought off Rodrigo Borgia and his minions, gaining possession of the Apple of Eden from Cyprus.

9 July

• Checco Orsi was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze on the outskirts of Forlì, but Orsi managed to severely wound him. As he fell unconscious, Ezio dropped the Apple of Eden, which was picked up and taken by Girolamo Savonarola.

11 July

• 1486: Silvio Barbarigo and Dante Moro were assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, while Bartolomeo d'Alviano's mercenaries captured the Arsenale di Venezia.

20 July

• 1969: The Apollo 11 Moon landing took place, allowing NASA to recover an Apple of Eden.

10 August

• 210 BCE: Qin Shi Huang was assassinated by Wei Yu.

12 August

• 30 BCE: Cleopatra was assassinated by Amunet with an asp in Alexandria.
• 1257: The Fall of Masyaf: Hulagu Khan laid siege to the fortress, which Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad ordered to be abandoned. After escorting Niccolò and Maffeo Polo out, he sealed himself with the Apple of Eden in his library and died at the age of 92.

7 September

• 1191: Robert de Sable was assassinated by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad at the Battle of Arsuf.

11 September

• 1485: Emilio Barbarigo was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in his Palazzo della Seta, allowing Antonio de Magianis to seize it as the new base of operations for Venice's thieves guild.

14 September

• 1321: Dante Alighieri was murdered by the Templars.

16 September

• 1781: Haytham Kenway was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton during the attack on Fort George in New York City.

2 October

• 1782: Charles Lee was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton at the Last Drink tavern in Monmouth, New Jersey.

12 October

• 1773: Ratonhnhaké:ton encountered the injured hunter Myriam. Achilles Davenport tended to her, while Connor used his new rope darts to dispatch the poachers who wounded her.

13 October

• 1307: King Philip IV of France suppressed the Templar Order, and burned several leaders including Grand Master Jacques de Molay at the stake.

30 November

• 1524: Ezio Auditore da Firenze died on a bench in Florence, aged 65: his wife Sofia Sartor and daughter Flavia Auditore were present.

3 December

• 1735: Tom Barrett, Edith, Edward Kenway and two British soldiers were murdered by mercenaries hired by Reginald Birch, who stole Kenway's journal and kidnapped his daughter Jennifer Scott.

4 December

• 1725: Haytham Kenway was born to Tessa and Edward Kenway in London.
• 1733: Haytham celebrated his eighth birthday at White's Chocolate House, where his father Edward introduced him to their property manager Reginald Birch. On the way home, Birch defended Tessa Kenway from a mugger, but Edward stopped him just short of killing him.

10 December

• 1735: Edward Kenway was buried in London. Afterwards, Reginald Birch revealed to Haytham he was a Templar, and that he would be accompanying Haytham to find his half-sister Jenny in Europe.

11 December

• 1735: Reginald Birch introduced Haytham Kenway to Edward Braddock, who would be in-charge of finding Jack Digweed, whom Haytham suspected of betraying Edward Kenway.

16 December

• 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession begins, forcing Reginald Birch and Haytham Kenway to put off their search for Jennifer Scott and to settle in a chateau near Troyes.

25 December

• 1661: King Charles II of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• 1776: George Washington and several Colonial Assassins including Ratonhnhaké:ton crossed the Delaware River and conquer Trenton, New Jersey.
• 1914: Erich Albert was assassinated during the Christmas Truce of [World War I]].
• 2003: Vanessa made the Beagle 2 landing appear to be a failure so only Abstergo Industries could obtain the information it uncovered.

26 December

• 1476: Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, was assassinated by Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, Gerolamo Olgiati and Carlo Visconti. Giovanni Auditore da Firenze attempted to question Lampugani, but the assassin was killed by Sforza's Moorish bodyguard before he had a chance.

27 December

• 1476: Ezio Auditore da Firenze slept with Cristina Vespucci: a few hours later, he was discovered by her father and narrowly escaped his guards.

28 December

• 1476: Ezio Auditore da Firenze beat up Duccio de Luca on behalf of his sister Claudia; collected feathers for his brother Petruccio; and was introduced by his mother Maria to Leonardo da Vinci. After performing an errand for his father Giovanni, Ezio returned home to find his father and brothers had been arrested.
• 1499: Ezio Auditore da Firenze confronted Pope Alexander VI in the Sistine Chapel before opening the Vatican Vault. He encountered Minerva, who had a message for Ezio's descendant Desmond Miles.

29 December

• 1476: Giovanni, Federico and Petruccio Auditore da Firenze were hanged by Uberto Alberti on false charges of treason. That night, Ezio recovered the bodies and burned them, and then sought refuge with Paola's courtesans.

30 December

• 1476: Ezio Auditore da Firenze came to Leonardo da Vinci's workshop, where the polymath deciphered the Codex in Ezio possession to repair his Giovanni Auditore's Hidden Blade.
• 1916: Grigori Rasputin was assassinated in the early hours of the morning.

31 December

• 1476: Uberto Alberti was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze during an unveiling of Andrea del Verrocchio's latest artwork at the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence.