User:Alientraveller/On this day

Need to consult:

• Glyphs
• Rifts
• Abstergo Files
• E-mails
  • Need to add the ones from AC4
• All those bits I wrote up about each state's history during the War of Independence
• Everybody's births and deaths... yay...
• George Washington's notebook

January

1 January

• 1258: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo established an Assassins Guild in Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire.
• 1660: George Monck marched from Scotland to London to stabilize the city in the wake of Oliver Cromwell's death.
• 1804: Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared himself leader of the free republic of Saint-Domingue, and subsequently exterminated thousands of white people living in the country.

2 January

• 1500: Monteriggioni was besieged and destroyed by the Papal Army led by Cesare Borgia. Mario Auditore was captured and Caterina Sforza was captured.

3 January

• 1480: Ezio Auditore da Firenze, age 21, tailed Jacopo de' Pazzi to a meeting with Rodrigo Borgia and Emilio Barbarigo at the Antico Teatro Romano outside San Gimignano. Borgia severely wounded 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.

7 January

• 1778: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton formed an alliance to pursue Benjamin Church, who had betrayed both the Templars and the Continental Army by stealing supplies from Valley Forge.
• 1943: Nikola Tesla died penniless and alone, aged 86, in a hotel in New York City; the Federal Bureau of Investigation ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize all his belongings.

11 January

• 1165: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad was born in Masyaf to Maud and Umar Ibn-La'Ahad. Maud died of complications: her widowed husband Umar raised their child alone.

12 January

• 1774: The Colonial Rite of the Templar Order reconvened to discuss manipulating the American Revolution. Haytham Kenway learned about Kaniehtí:io's death, and his men's encounters with Ratonhnhaké:ton at Martha's Vineyard and the Boston Tea Party.

13 January

• 1129: The Order of the Knights Templar was publicly recognized during the Council of Troyes. Hugues de Payens became the Order's first public Grand Master.

15 January

• 1559: Queen Elizabeth I of England was coronated at Westminster Abbey, and began her rule using an Apple of Eden.

16 January

• 1765: Aveline de Grandpré rescued Thérèse, a young pregnant slave from a plantation, killing her owner's son and his men. Aveline's stepmother Madeleine de L'Isle arranged for Thérèse to be transported to Chichen Itza.

19 January

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

20 January

• 1758: François Mackandal, Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood on Saint-Domingue, was publicly executed for attempting to poison the colony's white inhabitants.
• 2001: George W. Bush became the forty-third President of the United States, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.

24 January

• 41: Roman emperor Caligula was assassinated by Leonius in Rome.

26 January

• 1778: Haytham Kenway and Ratonhnhaké:ton entered the Smith and Company Brewery in New York to confront Benjamin Church, only to meet a decoy and get attacked by his henchmen, resulting in the brewery being set aflame. However, they learned Church had fled to Martinique.

27 January

• 1758: Haytham Kenway recovered from his near-fatal stabbing by Lucio.
• 2011: Harold Kaczmarek left a message for his estranged son Clay, requesting his help fixing his back porch in spite of the heat, while expressing hope his son was fine.

28 January

• 1758: Having ensured Haytham Kenway survived his wounds, and gained revenge on Reginald Birch, Jim Holden committed suicide, unable to his capture and emasculation several months beforehand.

29 January

• 1765: Aveline de Grandpré recovered stolen goods on behalf of her father Philippe Olivier de Grandpré's business partner Gilbert-Antoine de Saint Maxent.

30 January

• 1661: King Charles II of England had Oliver Cromwell's body exhumed and hung in London to punish him for his father's execution.
• 1948: 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.

February

1 February

• 2011: Clay Kaczmarek was captured by Abstergo's Lineage Discovery and Acquisition division and became Subject 16 of the Animus Project.

4 February

• 1765: Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, governor of New Orleans, was assassinated by Aveline de Grandpré for collaborating with the Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer.
• 1945: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin, and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attended the Yalta Conference.

6 February

• 1732: Charles Lee was born in Cheshire, England, to John Lee and Isabella Bunbury.

8 February

• 1265: Hülegü Khan was killed by the Mongolian Assassin Nergüi, as retribution for the destruction of Masyaf and the Levantine Assassins.

9 February

• 1983: Daniel Cross was kidnapped and experimented on by Abstergo Industries, who implanted a suggestion to find and kill the Mentor of the Assassins.

10 February

• 1722: Bartholomew Roberts was assassinated by Edward Kenway off the coast of Príncipe.

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.

22 February

• 1732: George Washington was born in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

March

1 March

• 1804: Eseosa met Ratonhnhaké:ton at the Davenport Homestead in Massachusetts.

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.
• 1498: Giovanni Borgia was born.

5 March

• 1770: The Boston Massacre was ignited by Charles Lee, and Ratonhnhaké:ton was framed for causing it. He managed to escape the city with help from Samuel Adams.
• 1953: Joseph Stalin was killed by the Assassins with the use of poison, making it look like he died of a stroke.

7 March

• 1778: 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 for the Continental Army at Valley Forge.

10 March

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

13 March

• 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia, a Templar puppet, was killed in a bomb attack by the Narodnaya Volya, the public front of the Russian Assassins.
• 1987: Desmond Miles was born to William Miles and his wife on the Farm in Black Hills, South Dakota.

15 March

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

16 March

• 2014: 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 because of their sessions in the Animus.

17 March

• 1778: Admiral Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy, a Templar, was killed by Ratonhnhaké:ton in the Caribbean Sea, after he detonated Biddle's ship the Randolph.

18 March

• 1314: Jacques de Molay, the last public Grand Master of the Templar Order, was burned at the stake in Paris.
• 1770: After returning to the Davenport Homestead from Boston, Ratonhnhaké:ton received his Hidden Blades; rescued Terry from drowning; and was introduced to the Aquila and Robert Faulkner by Achilles Davenport.

20 March

• 2014: The Assassin cell in Protvino, which had been driven insane by the Bleeding Effect, was eliminated by Galina Voronina.

26 March

• 2014: Galina Voronina joined the Altair II as Gavin Banks's enforcer, while Akaki and Nodar Ninidze sent word to their Georgian contacts to form a new Russian Brotherhood.

April

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.

14 April

• 1478: Vieri de' Pazzi was assassinated by his childhood rival Ezio Auditore da Firenze in San Gimignano.
• 1865: Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next morning.

15 April

• 1452: Leonardo da Vinci was born out-of-wedlock to Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine legal notary, and Caterina, a peasant, in Vinci, Tuscany.

18 April

• 1754: Haytham Kenway assassinated Miko at the Royal Opera House in London, and stole his amulet.

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.
• 1578: Uesugi Kenshin, head of the Uesugi clan and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō.
• 1744: Haytham Kenway undertook his first assassination, dispatching a greedy merchant threatening the Templars' interests in Liverpool.
• 1754: Haytham boarded the Providence for Boston.
• 1775: The British Army and colonial militia fought at the Battles of Lexington and Concord. Ratonhnhaké:ton helped claim victory for the colonists.

20 April

• 1521: The Zhengde Emperor of China died without an heir, leaving the country in a state of chaos.
• 1754: Haytham Kenway started his voyage to the New World aboard the Providence.
• 2010: A large amount of oil was spilled in the Gulf of Mexico; Abstergo-controlled British Petroleum made millions of profit cleaing up the oil.

21 April

• 1971: François Duvalier, the President of Haiti, was killed by the Assassins.

23 April

• 1661: King Charles II of England was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• 1998: Daniel Cross lashed out while in a Philadelphia bar due to the Bleeding Effect: the Assassin Hannah Mueller mistook him for one of their own and transported him to a nearby camp.

24 April

• 2014: Gavin Banks ordered his Assassins aboard the Altair II to find the missing William Miles.

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.
• 1717: Samuel Bellamy, a pirate, drowned when his ship the Whydah was sunk during a storm off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
• 1865: The Assassins caught John Wilkes Booth in Virginia and executed him for the murder of Abraham Lincoln.

27 April

• 1554: Monteriggioni was conquered by the Republic of Florence, after Giovannino Zeti had given Florence the keys to the town.

30 April

• 1789: George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States.

May

1 May

• 1757: Believing the Assassins were coming to kill her, Aveline de Grandpré's mother Jeanne left New Orleans with the help of Madeleine de L'Isle and traveled to Chichen Itza, Mexico.
• 2014: Gavin Banks entered William Miles' bunker in Norway and confronted him over his lack of communication.

2 May

• 1519: Leonardo da Vinci died in Amboise, France, at the age of 67, surrounded by his allies Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Niccolò Machiavelli.

3 May

• 1436: Giovanni Auditore da Firenze was born in Monteriggioni.
• 1479: Niccolò Machiavelli was born in Florence.
• 1479: Bernardo Baroncelli was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in San Gimignano.
• 1481: Sultan Mehmet II passed away. His eldest son Bayezid succeeded him; his second son Cem secured his Apple of Eden.

5 May

• 2014: Rebecca Crane discovered the Initiates had been spying on the Altair II.

6 May

• 2014: William Miles and Gavin Banks agreed that William would run background checks on the crew of the Altair II to determine who was the Initiate spy.

12 May

• 1003: Pope Sylvester II, a Templar leader, was branded a heretic for his support of scientific development and burned at the stake.

13 May

• 1500: Ezio Auditore da Firenze assassinated the Master of the Sacred Palace and his men, who had been plotting to kill Nicolaus Copernicus.

14 May

• 1509: The Battle of Agnadello was fought between France and Venice. Though the French were victorious, Bartolomeo d'Alviano kept the Shroud of Eden out of French possession.
• 1908: Nikolai Orelov was ordered to retrieve the Staff of Eden from a facility in Tunguska.

17 May

• 1682: The Sage John Roberts was born in Wales: he became later known as the pirate Bartholomew Roberts.
• 1769: George Washington stood before the Virginian House of Burgesses to call for a boycott of British goods until the Townshend Acts were repealed.

20 May

• 1520: The Aztecs at Tenochtitlan were massacred by Spanish soldiers; the Assassin Giovanni Borgia retrieved a Crystal Skull from an Aztec priest.
• 1743: Toussaint Louverture was born in Saint-Dominigue.

21 May

• 1754: Samuel Smythe requested Haytham Kenway investigate a possible mutiny being planned by the crew on the Providence: he soon discovered someone was leaving a trail by dumping marked barrels.
• 2013: Gavin Banks received the codex of William Miles, and a letter, wherein Miles named him his successor as leader of the Assassin Order.

22 May

• 1718: Blackbeard laid siege to the city of Charles-Towne in South Carolina, demanding medical supplies for the diseased-ridden pirate haven of Nassau in exchange for hostages.

23 May

• 1498: Girolamo Savonarola was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze to spare him the pain of being burned at the stake.
• 2014: The Assassins Eric Cooper and Stephanie Chiu were exposed as Initiate spies, but William Miles and Gavin Banks opted to spare them, seeing them as potential allies, not traitors.

25 May

• Charles II returned from exile to England.

27 May

• 1521: Zhu Houcong became the Jiajing Emperor of China, with aid from the Templars.

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.

June

6 June

• 1884: Nikola Tesla arrived in New York City, and was introduced to his employer Thomas Edison.

7 June

• 1341: Al-Nasir Muhammad, the ninth Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, was assassinated by his servant, Leila, a Templar agent.
• 1692: An earthquake hit Port Royal, Jamaica, sinking much of its land and killing 2000 people.

10 June

• 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.

13 June

• 323 BCE: Alexander the Great died after being poisoned by Iltani.

14 June

• 1754: The Aquila engaged the Providence: Louis Mills confronted Haytham Kenway below deck but was killed in the subsequent duel. Kenway then forced Samuel Smythe to sail the ship into a storm, successfully evading the Aquila.

15 June

• 1775: Ratonhnhaké:ton accompanied Samuel Adams and John Hancock to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, where he watched George Washington be sworn in as Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. Connor noticed Charles Lee sitting behind, so Adams restrained him from attacking the Templar by introducing him to Washington.

16 June

• 1778: 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.
• 2014: Shaun Hastings hacked the Initiates' network, leaving a message imploring them to join the Assassins.

17 June

• 1775: John Pitcairn was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He recovered a letter from his uniform which revealed a plot to George Washington, and passed this information to Israel Putnam.
• 1778: At Valley Forge, Haytham Kenway revealed to Connor that George Washington had ordered an attack on his village, Kanatahséton. Connor angrily broke his ties to both men, admonishing Haytham for witholding this information until it was opportune, and rode off to prevent the attack. However, he was forced to kill Kanen'tó:kon in the attempt.
• 1952: Jack Parsons was killed in an explosion in his laboratory caused by Abstergo Industries.

18 June

• 1747: Haytham Kenway returned Edward Kenway's journal to Reginald Birch in Prague. Birch informed Haytham that his mother Tessa had died from injuries sustained in a fall.

20 June

• 1747:
  • Aveline de Grandpré was born to Philippe Olivier de Grandpré and his placée Jeanne in New Orleans.
  • Nadir Shah was killed by the Assassins.

21 June

• 1582: Oda Nobunaga was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō during an attack on Honnō-ji.
• 1604: Elizabeth Jane Weston and her husband Johannes Leo attended a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Prague.

23 June

• 1765: Baptiste was assassinated by Aveline de Grandpré in the Louisiana Bayou.

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.
• 1753: Haytham Kenway kidnapped Lucio in Corsica. He also confronted Miko for the first time, and stole his Hidden Blade when the Assassin attempted to rescue the young man.

26 June

• 1541: Peruvian governor Francisco Pizarro was killed by the Assassins who stormed his palace.

28 June

• 1776: Ratonhnhaké:ton was to be executed after being framed for plotting to kill George Washington. However, the remorseful Haytham Kenway threw a knife at the rope, freeing Connor and enabling him to stop Thomas Hickey from assassinating the Commander. Israel Putnam arrived to apologize for the mistake.
• 1778: The Continental Army emerged victorious over the British at the Battle of Monmouth, despite Charles Lee's attempts to sabotage George Washington's position. After Ratonhnhaké:ton informed the Commander of his treachery, Lee was court-martialed.

30 June

• 1501: Caterina Sforza escaped imprisonment in the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome with aid from the Assassin Ezio Auditore da Firenze.
• 1520: Hernán Cortés and his Spanish soldiers, including the Assassin Giovanni Borgia, made a narrow escape from Tenochtitlan known as the Night of Sorrow.
• 1908: The Tunguska explosion occurred when Nikola Tesla sent a burst of energy to a Templar research station in Tunguska, where a Staff of Eden was kept; the Assassin Nikolai Orelov was the only survivor.

July

3 July

• 1747: Haytham Kenway confronted his former nursemaid Betty, whom he suspected of having a relationship with Jack Digweed, the man who betrayed his father Edward.

4 July

• 1747: Haytham Kenway intercepted a letter from Betty for the treacherous Jack Digweed addressed to Germany.
• 1776: Achilles Davenport and Ratonhnhaké:ton came to Philadelphia to find George Washington, just as the signing of the Declaration of Independence commenced. Samuel Adams informed Connor Washington had returned to New York to hold off the British, so he just watched John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin sign the document.

6 July

• 1571: Mōri Motonari was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō.

7 July

• 1488: Ludovico and Checco Orsi were assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze on the outskirts of Forlì, but Checco managed to severely wound him. As he fell unconscious, Ezio dropped the Apple of Eden, which was picked up and taken by Girolamo Savonarola.

8 July

• 1737: Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, the Governor-General of Saint-Domingue, was killed by the Assassin Adéwalé for his brutal treatment of slaves.
• 1754: Haytham Kenway arrived in Boston and met with Charles Lee, William Johnson and Thomas Hickey. They attacked an Assassin-affiliated mercenary camp to recover Johnson's research into the First Civilization.
• 1801: Toussaint Louverture, a former slave, was made governor-general of Hispaniola.

9 July

• 1755: Edward Braddock was fatally wounded by Haytham Kenway after French, Abenaki, Lenape and Shawnee forces ambushed his expedition.

10 July

• 1754: Haytham Kenway and Charles Lee rescued Benjamin Church from captivity by Silas Thatcher, killing his henchman Cutter in the process.
• 1755: Kaniehtí:io showed Haytham the entrance to the Grand Temple, but to his disappointment, his amulet did not open it. Regardless, the two began a relationship.

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.
• 1774: William Johnson was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton after he threatened the Iroquois Chiefs during a meeting at Johnson Hall.

13 July

• 1754: Haytham Kenway and Charles Lee humiliated Edward Braddock in Boston, so they could turn John Pitcairn from his duties to Braddock to those of the Templars.
• 1755: Lee was inducted into the Order with Braddock's Templar ring.

14 July

• 1747: Haytham Kenway and Reginald Birch tracked down Jack Digweed in Germany, and discovered a British soldier torturing him. Kenway gave chase, while Birch killed Digweed to prevent him revealing the truth about Edward Kenway's death. Haytham killed the soldier, but learned his father was an Assassin, and left to pursue another soldier, Tom Smith, whom he had spotted leaving earlier, having discovered they were in Edward Braddock's regiment.
• 1754: The Colonial Rite of the Templar Order assaulted Southgate Fort in Boston: Benjamin Church executed Silas Thatcher, while Haytham became interested in Kaniehtí:io, the leader of the Natives they had rescued.

15 July

• 1747: Haytham Kenway pursued Tom Smith on horseback from Germany to the Dutch Republic.

16 July

• 1747: Haytham Kenway and Tom Smith were apprehended by British troops who mistook them for deserters. Haytham escaped the hangman's noose but Smith was killed.
• 1945: With Abstergo Industries' permission, J. Robert Oppenheimer oversaw the successful testing of the first atomic bomb.

17 July

• 1747: Edward Braddock requested Haytham Kenway help him in the defence of Bergen op Zoom. He also expressed no surprise that Tom Smith, one of the killers of Edward Kenway, served in his regiment.
• 1918: Nicholas II of Russia and his family were murdered under Vladimir Lenin's orders.

20 July

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

30 July

• 1983: Galina Voronina and her twin sister were born to a Russian Assassin scientist and an unidentified man.

August

2 August

• 1775: Achilles Davenport introduced Ratonhnhaké:ton to Benjamin Tallmadge to help in uncovering the plot against George Washington. He told Connor to find Thomas Hickey in New York.

4 August

• 1755: Kaniehtí:io ended her relationship with Haytham Kenway upon overhearing [[Charles Lee]'s report that Edward Braddock had died of his wounds, meaning Haytham had left him for dead and not killed him like he promised. Neither were aware that they had conceived a child.

8 August

• 2012: Clay Kaczmarek committed suicide at the Animus Project laboratory in Rome, though an artificial construct of him would live on inside the Animus.

11 August

• 1492: Grand Master of the Italian Templar Order, Rodrigo Borgia, was elected as Pope.

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.
• 1753: Haytham Kenway confronted Reginald Birch over the poor conditions of Lucio's imprisonment.

14 August

• 1791: Dutty Boukman commenced the Haitian Revolution with a Voudou ceremony, where he appointed Jean-François Papillon, Georges Biassou, and Jeannot Bullet as the generals in charge of the slave rebellion.

18 August

• 1503: Rodrigo Borgia, Pope and former Grand Master of the Italian Templar Order, was killed by his power-hungry son, Cesare Borgia, at the Castel Sant'Angelo.

27 August

• 1776: The British defeated the Continental Army under George Washington's command at the Battle of Long Island.
• 2013: Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings resolved to recover Desmond Miles's body, or to at least learn what Abstergo planned to do with his DNA.

29 August

• 1776: With the help of the Colonial Assassins, George Washington evacuated his troops across the East River in New York without a single loss of life.
• 1793: Toussaint Louverture gave a speech at Camp Turel, while Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, the commissioner of the French Army in Saint-Dominigue, announced his intent to free the colony's slave.

September

1 September

• 2012: Desmond Miles was kidnapped in New York by Abstergo and brought to the Animus Project laboratory in Rome.

2 September

• 1874: Nikola Tesla discovered an Apple of Eden in the mountains near Tomingaj.
• 2012: Desmond Miles began reliving the memories of his ancestor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.

3 September

• 1658: Oliver Cromwell died after contracting malaria.
• 1783: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the American Revolutionary War.
• 2012: Damian Saravakos cleared Desmond Miles for medical study.
• 2013: Rebecca Crane emailed Gavin Banks, informing him she was planning to investigate Abstergo Entertainment.

4 December

• 2012: Desmond Miles accessed Lucy Stillman's e-mail.

5 September

• 1781: The French Navy, aided by the Aquila, emerged victorious over the British Royal Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake.
• 2012: Harlan T. Cunningham called William Miles asking if he wanted to stage a rescue of Desmond Miles, but William informed him Lucy Stillman was on the case.

6 September

• 1757: The French aristocrat and military officer Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette was born.
• 2012: Lucy Stillman sent a request for help from the other Assassins.
• 2013: Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings visited the ruins of the Farm where Desmond Miles grew up in South Dakota.

7 September

• 1191: Robert de Sable was assassinated by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad at the Battle of Arsuf.
• 2012: A team of Assassins launched a failed rescue attempt on Desmond Miles at the Animus Project laboratory in Rome.

8 September

• 2012: After unlocking his own Eagle Vision, Desmond Miles was escorted by Lucy Stillman out of the Animus Project laboratory as part of Project Siren.

9 September

• 2012: Lucy Stillman introduced Desmond Miles to Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane at the Rome hideout. He began synchronizing with the memories of Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

10 September

• 210 BCE: Qin Shi Huang was assassinated by Wei Yu.
• 2012: Gavin Banks received word that the Assassin cell in Australia had been destroyed.

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.
• 2012: Desmond Miles collapsed from the Bleeding Effect.
• 2013: Gavin Banks, concerned by the lack of response from their cell in Osaka, ordered the Altair II to sail to the Philippines and to purchase weapons.

12 September

• 2012: While calling Gavin Banks, the Canadian Assassin cell led by Janice were attacked and killed by Daniel Cross's team.

13 September

• 1770: Robert Faulkner taught Ratonhnhaké:ton how to sail the Aquila during their voyage to Martha's Vineyard, where they purchased cannons and recruited artillery officers. At Amanda Bailey's tavern, Connor almost had an altercation with Benjamin Church and Nicholas Biddle. While sailing home, Faulkner taught Connor how to command the ship in battle, just as they were attacked by British schooners and a frigate.

14 September

• 1321: Dante Alighieri was murdered by the Templars.
• 1485: Doge Giovanni Mocenigo was murdered by the Templar Carlo Grimaldi, who was in turn assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze.
• 2012: Adriano Maestranzi texted William Miles to inform him of the members of the Assassin cell in Canada had survived.

15 September

• 2012: Desmond Miles viewed the message from Minerva left for him in the Vatican Vault through the Animus. Abstergo attacked the Rome hideout, but Desmond and Lucy Stillman killed their guards, prompting Warren Vidic to flee. The Assassin cell drove to Switzerland.

16 September

• 1498: Tomás de Torquemada was killed by the Spanish Assassins.
• 1781: Haytham Kenway was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton during the attack on Fort George in New York City. Afterwards, Connor recovered Haytham Kenway's journal.
• 2012: Having been blocked by Italian police, Shaun Hastings drove his Assassin cell to Monteriggioni, where they opted to hide out in the Sanctuary beneath Villa Auditore.

17 September

• 1757: Haytham Kenway and Jim Holden rescued Jennifer Scott in Damascus, but Holden was captured helping the other two escape.
• 2012: Adriano Maestranzi met the survivor of the Canadian cell and texted William Miles regarding Daniel Cross's involvement.

18 September

• 1747: The British Army retreated from Bergen op Zoom. Edward Braddock had a disagreement with a Dutch family who requested his help fleeing, and ordered his executioners to slaughter them all.
• 2012: Abstergo obtained recordings of Ezio Auditore da Firenze's memories from the Rome hideout.

19 September

• 2012: William Miles texted Adriano Maestranzi complaining that Lucy Stillman's cell had gone dark.

20 September

• 1501: Doge Agostino Barbarigo was killed by the Assassins in retribution for his alliance with the Borgia.

21 September

• 1757: Haytham Kenway found Jim Holden in Egypt, but was too late and found his friend had been transformed into a eunuch.
• 2012: Daniel Cross called Warren Vidic from Philadelphia, expressing anger that they had lost custody of Desmond Miles.

22 September

• 1520: Selim I, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, passed away in Çorlu, Tekirdağ.
• 2012: Erudito emailed Desmond Miles in the Sanctuary, giving him the passwords for his fellow Assassins' accounts on the Hephaestus Email Network.

23 September

• 2012: Daniel Cross called Dr. Sung, telling her he refused to take an assignment that would mean returning to Denver.

24 September

• 1780: 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 Army, resulting in the Battle of West Point. Ratonhnhaké:ton ensured the Patriots' victory, but Arnold escaped by boat.

25 September

• 1757: Jennifer Scott revealed to Haytham Kenway that Reginald Birch masterminded the death of their father and her kidnapping, all for Edward Kenway's journal.
• 2012: Rebecca Crane was photographed shopping for supplies in Monteriggioni.
• 2013: An interview with Ajay Rana was published discussing the collaboration between MysoreTech and Abstergo Entertainment.

26 September

• 2012: In an email posing as William Miles, Warren Vidic told Lucy Stillman not to worry about the amount of time Desmond Miles was spending in the Animus.

27 September

• 1770: Ratonhnhaké:ton returned to the Davenport Homestead from Martha's Vineyard, and received his Assassin robes from Achilles, who informally inducted him into the Brotherhood.
• 2012: Rebecca Crane informed her teammates about an unmarked van in Monteriggioni: William Miles emailed Shaun Hastings with updates on the cells in Moscow, São Paulo, Osaka and Denver.

29 September

• 2012: Shaun Hastings had an altercation with a local from Monteriggioni.

30 September

• 2012: William Miles boarded a plane from London to France.

October

1 October

• 1454: Mario Auditore led an expedition into a cave below the Villa Auditore. A trap blinded him in one eye, but he managed to recover the Shroud of Eden.

2 October

• 1782: Charles Lee was assassinated by Ratonhnhaké:ton at the Last Drink tavern in Monmouth, New Jersey. Connor took the Grand Temple Key hanging around his neck as a trophy.

3 October

• 2012: William Miles came to Zürich and texted Harlan T. Cunningham to tell him he would meet Adriano Maestranzi the following day.

4 October

• 1769: Ratonhnhaké:ton, aged 13, underwent a coming-of-age ritual where he communed with Juno through his village's Crystal Ball. He was told to seek the Assassin insignia to stop the Templars from discovering the sanctuary, and the Clan Mother instructed him he would find it by journeying east.
• 2012: Warren Vidic, posing as William Miles, emailed Lucy Stillman to inform her he had viewed the recording of Minerva in the Vatican Vault.

5 October

• 2012: Gavin Banks contacted William Miles, informing he had personally verified the Assassin cell in Australia had been eliminated.

6 October

• 2012: William Miles updated Shaun Hastings on the cells in Moscow, São Paulo, Osaka and Denver.

8 October

• 1757: Haytham Kenway, Jim Holden and Jennifer Scott began their assault on Reginald Birch's château near Troyes.
• 2012: The Corriere di Monteriggioni published a story speculating that the Villa Auditore would be sold, having taken notice of Lucy Stillman's team.

9 October

• 1757: Reginald Birch was killed by Jennifer Scott at his château near Troyes, avenging her father Edward Kenway. Her half-brother Haytham Kenway was wounded during the attack.

10 October

• 2012: Desmond Miles recovered Ezio's Apple of Eden from the Colosseum Vault, but Juno possessed him and revealed Lucy Stillman's treachery, forcing him to kill her. When William Miles and Harlan T. Cunningham arrived, Desmond had gone into shock, so William ordered Harlan to place his son back in the Animus.

11 October

• 2012: Abstergo Entertainment opened its studio in Montreal.

12 October

• 1773: Ratonhnhaké:ton was informed by Kanen'tó:kon that William Johnson was seeking to purchase their people's land. As he left, he encountered the injured hunter Myriam. Achilles Davenport tended to her, while Connor used his new rope darts to dispatch the poachers who wounded her.
• 2012: Warren Vidic initiated the second stage of the Animi Training Program.

13 October

• 1307: The Knights Templar were branded heretics by Pope Clement V, on behalf of King Philip IV of France.
• 2012: Daniel Cross called Dr. Sung, expressing panic after reading a report on the failed Project Siren.

14 October

• 2012: Lucy Stillman was buried by the Assassins in a cemetery outside Rome.

15 October

• 1888: Nikolai Orelov received an order to assassinate Tsar Alexander III on his return from the Crimea to St. Petersburg.

16 October

• 2012: Rebecca Crane chatered a flight from Rome to New York for her, Shaun Hastings, and William and Desmond Miles, but William realized they had been discovered and decided to go dark.

17 October

• 2012: Daniel Cross called Warren Vidic over the failure of Project Siren, and requested permission to oversee their activities in Rome.

18 October

• 2012: William Miles's team purchased a campervan in Vinadio.

19 October

• 1781: The British Army surrendered at Yorktown, effectively losing the American Revolutionary War; George Washington subsequently retrieved an Apple of Eden.
• 2002: Daniel Cross retrieved Ezio Auditore da Firenze's Codex from the Library of Ivan the Terrible beneath the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• 2012: After arriving in Rome, Cross expressed frustration at Theodore Rizzo's request he oversee the Animi Training Program. Warren Vidic convinced him to do it for at least a couple of days.

21 October

• 1600: The Battle of Sekigahara was fought. Shima Sakon was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō.

22 October

• 1926: Harry Houdini was attacked on the Templars' behalf, causing his appendix to rupture and eventually kill him, allowing them access to his Apple of Eden.
• 2012: Daniel Cross lashed out at three recruits in the mess hall for the Animi Training Program. Theodore Rizzo asked Warren Vidic to remove Cross from the program, but he refused.

23 October

• 2012: Daniel Cross left the Animi Training Program to track down Desmond Miles on his own: Warren Vidic asked Theodore Rizzo to ready a team to back him up.
• 2013: Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane arrived in Montreal to get jobs at Abstergo Entertainment.

24 October

• 2012: Adriano Maestranzi sent Gavin Banks a message in Morse code telling him to sail to New York, as William Miles had not made contact.

25 October

• 2012: Feeling secure, William Miles texted Harlan T. Cunningham requesting help fleeing Italy.

26 October

• 2012: Theodore Rizzo's team found Daniel Cross tracking Desmond Miles in Florence.

27 October

• 1768: The Louisiana Mentor Agaté ordered Aveline de Grandpré to assassinate the New Orleans governor Antonio de Ulloa. However, she spared him out of sympathy for his family, and after he revealed the Templars were transporting slaves to excavate artifacts in Mexico.
• 2012: Daniel Cross and Theodore Rizzo's team assaulted Adriano Maestranzi's cell in Florence to retrieve Desmond Miles. Ezio's Apple of Eden was used to turn Cross on his backup, and he slaughtered them all. William Miles' cell boarded a plane to New York, where Gavin Banks greeted them with their cover story.

28 October

• 2012: Juhani Otso Berg was greeted by Warren Vidic at a new house purchased for him by the Templars.

29 October

• 1769: After fighting bandits seeking to seize the Davenport Homestead in Massachusetts, Achilles Davenport chose to recruit Ratonhnhaké:ton, thereby reviving the Colonial Assassins.
• 1888: The Borki train disaster took place, foiling Nikolai Orelov's assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III of Russia.
• 2012: William Miles' team arrived at Turin, New York.
• 2013: Melanie Lemay inducted the Abstergo Entertainment research analyst into their job exploring Edward Kenway's memories.

30 October

• 2012: Desmond Miles recovered from his coma, and led his cell into the Grand Temple. Juno induced the Bleeding Effect so he would relive his ancestor Haytham Kenway's memories and find the key necessary to preventing the catastrophe.

31 October

• 1926: Harry Houdini died of a ruptured appendix planned by the Templars.

November

1 November

• 1802: The French general Charles Leclerc died of poisoning administered by Eseosa in revenge for Toussaint Louverture's deportation: the poison gave him yellow fever-like symptoms.

2 November

• 2013: The Initiates smuggled a blood vial out of the offices of Abstergo Entertainment.

3 November

• 1769: Ratonhnhaké:ton spent his day training and learning under Achilles Davenport at his homestead in Massachusetts.

4 November

• 2012: Gavin Banks ordered five Assassin teams to lure the Templars from discovering Ezio's Apple of Eden at the Grand Temple.

5 November

• 2000: While staying in Cyprus, Daniel Cross was sedated and transported by two Assassins to meet the Mentor.
• 2012: John forced an Abstergo Entertainment research analyst to hack Olivier Garneau's computer.

6 November

• 1773: Ratonhnhaké:ton arrived in Boston and sought the help of Samuel Adams in preventing William Johnson from purchasing the Iroquois' lands. He put this off to help Stephane Chapheau, who was being evicted from his home by Redcoats.
• 2000: Daniel Cross murdered the Mentor in Dubai.

7 November

• 1917: As the Russian Revolution concluded, Vladimir Lenin requested Nikolai Orelov assassinate Tsar Nicholas II. Infiltrating the palace in Saint Petersburg, Orelov chose to spare the Tsar, and only asked for information on the Staff of Eden's whereabouts.
• 1919: Orelov was staying at a tavern with his family when the Palmer Raids commenced, taking away his wife Anna and daughter Nadya for deportation. Nikolai retrieved his son Innokenti, whom he was forced to raise alone.

8 November

• 2012: Abstergo's Operations Division published a report on Juhani Otso Berg, approving him for Level 5 missions.

9 November

• 2012: Harlan Cunningham texted William Miles informing him that they were successfully distracting the Templars from their location.

10 November

• 2012: William Miles emailed Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane to ease tensions in their cell.

11 November

• 1760: Ratonhnhaké:ton, age 4, was assaulted by Charles Lee on the outskirts of Kanatahséton. Meanwhile, George Washington attacked the village: Ratonhnhaké:ton awoke to find his village on fire, and returned to witness his mother Kaniehtí:io's death, which he blamed Lee for.

12 November

• 1759: The Louisiana Mentor Agaté recruited Aveline de Grandpré into the Assassins.
• 2012: Juno hacked into the Hephaestus Email Network, contacting Desmond Miles for the first time.

13 November

• 2013: Melanie Lemay inquired into a bad quality screenshot from a introductory Animus video, unaware it was a hack from Juno.

14 November

• 2012: Juno sent an email to Shaun Hastings requesting he not interfere in her messages to Desmond Miles.

15 November

• 1754: Haytham Kenway spoke to Kaniehtí:io for the first time, and the two agreed to ally against Edward Braddock.
• 1773: After meeting with Samuel Adams, William Molineux and Stephane Chapheau, Ratonhnhaké:ton embarked on destroying William Johnson's tea smuggling operation.
• 1783: Connor buried the Grand Temple Key in the grave of his namesake, Connor Davenport.
• 1917: Nikolai Orelov travelled to Krasnoyarsk to speak to Khioniya Guseva after the artifact possessed by Grigori Rasputin. She told him about how he survived her assassination attempt, and used the artifact to force her to multilate herself. At her request, Nikolai killed her to end her pain.

16 November

• 2012: Desmond Miles broke into an Abstergo building in New York to recover a battery for the Grand Temple. Daniel Cross confronted him but Desmond knocked him out and escaped.
• 2013: Olivier Garneau went missing in Chicago.

17 November

• 1558: Queen Mary I of England was killed by the Assassins.

18 November

• 1803: Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeated the French Army at the Battle of Vertières, leading to their departure from Saint-Dominigue.
• 2013: Following security concerns, Abstergo Entertainment detained three of their employees in their bunker. John manipulated an Abstergo Entertainment research analyst detained there into hacking the Abstergo Cloud server in a failed attempt to have Juno possess them.

• 19 November
• 1581: Prince Ivan Ivanovich of Russia died of blows to the head, sustained from an Assassin's attempt on his life.
• 2012: Juno showed Desmond Miles how the First Civilization initially planned to prevent the Toba catastrophe by building four towers that would shield Earth.

20 November

• 2012: Juno demonstrated how the First Civilization tried to use the technology of the Shards of Eden on a larger scale to prevent the Toba catastrophe.

21 November

• 2000: Warren Vidic emailed Alan Rikkin, Nancy Nilop and David Kilkerman to inform that Daniel Cross had returned to their facility in Philadelphia.

22 November

• 1917: Nikolai Orelov exhumed Grigori Rasputin's body to recover the shard of the Staff of Eden he wore around his neck. Afterwards, he informed his wife Anna they were leaving Russia and that he was abandoning the Brotherhood.
• 1963: John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Texas by the Abstergo sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald, allowing the Templars to steal his Apple of Eden. His Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was subsequently sworn in as President of the United States.

23 November

• 2012: Warren Vidic and Ctibor Hašek agreed Daniel Cross would not be reinstated as a member of their Operations.

24 November

• 2012: Warren Vidic called Dr. Sung to inform her that Daniel Cross would go under his care.

25 November

• 1783: Ratonhnhaké:ton watched the British Army evacuate New York City.

26 November

• 2012: Rebecca Crane warned William Miles that she had detected someone trying to pinpoint their location from the Animus Project laboratory.
• 2013: John was killed in the bunker of Abstergo Entertainment.

27 November

• 2012: Adriano Maestranzi confirmed to William Miles that Abstergo was hacking into the Hephaestus Email Network, and that he would prepare his cell to counteract them.

28 November

• 2012: Harlan Cunningham led the Florence cell in dispatching the four Abstergo employees hacking into their network. However, they were followed by Juhani Otso Berg.

29 November

• 2013: 15 people, many of whom were members of Erudito, were arrested in connection to the disappearance of $10 million from bank accounts across the globe.

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.
• 2012: Juhani Otso Berg led an Abstergo strike team on the Assassin cell in Florence: Adriano Maestranzi detonated a bomb, leaving Berg and Harlan Cunningham the only survivors.

December

1 December

• 2013: Rebecca Crane and Shaun Hastings left Abstergo Entertainment, having recruited a research analyst to be their mole.

2 December

• 2012: Desmond Miles and Daniel Cross fought for possession of a First Civilization battery at a mixed martial arts event in São Paulo, Brazil.

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.
• 1773: Stephane Chapheau went on a rampage against British troops in Boston after his money was stolen. Ratonhnhaké:ton defended him but also admonished him for his behavior, instructing him to seek out and only kill the leader of William Johnson's men. Afterwards, Connor invited him to join the Colonial Assassins.

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.
• 1783: George Washington dissolved the Continental Army at the Fraunces Tavern in New York.

5 December

• 2012: Warren Vidic called Dr. Sung to check on Daniel Cross's condition.

6 December

• 2012: Laetitia England promoted Juhani Otso Berg to the rank of Master Templar.

7 December

• 2012: Juno revealed to Desmond Miles that the First Civilization hoped to protect themselves by placing the Apples of Eden into orbit.

8 December

• 2012: William Miles went to recover a First Civilization battery from Egypt so his son Desmond would concentrate on finding the Grand Temple Key.

9 December

• 2012: William Miles recovered a First Civilization battery from a museum in Cairo.

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.
• 2010: Shaun Hastings sent WikiLeaks several confidential Abstergo documents under the name "Guy Fawkes". Abstergo captured him, but he escaped with Rebecca Crane's intervention.

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.

12 December

• 2012: William Miles was captured by Juhani Otso Berg's team in Cairo and taken to Rome, where Warren Vidic recorded a ransom video for Desmond Miles, demanding Ezio's Apple of Eden in exchange for his father.

14 December

• 2010: After Lucy Stillman expressed concern for Subject 15's health, Warren Vidic gave her the day off and then ordered a disposal unit.
• 2012: Daniel Cross and Warren Vidic were assassinated by Desmond Miles in Rome, who rescued his father William.

16 December

• 1740: The War of the Austrian Succession began, forcing Reginald Birch and Haytham Kenway to put off their search for Jennifer Scott and to settle in a château near Troyes.
• 1773: The Boston Tea Party took place.
• 2013: Abstergo Entertainment obtained a blood sample from Milton Jones, and with it the memories of his ancestor Adéwalé.

17 December

• 2012: Juno showed Desmond Miles how her husband Aita volunteered for an experiment that would enable the First Civilization to survive the Toba catastrophe. Meanwhile, Daniel Cross was buried in Rome.
• 2013: Gavin Banks and Emmanuel Barraza met with the Assassin cell in Osaka, discovering that they had taken up the guise of the Onmoraki-Gumi.

18 December

• 2012: Juno revealed to Desmond Miles that the First Civilization sought to transfer their consciousnesses into new vessels.

19 December

• 2012: William Miles ordered Harlan Cunningham to leave Vienna for Rotterdam.

20 December

• 2012: Desmond Miles excavated the Grand Temple Key from Connor Davenport's grave in the Davenport Homestead, Massachusetts.

21 December

• 1682: Jack Rackham was born in Port Royal, Jamaica.
• 2012: Desmond Miles died to save the Earth from the solar flare by touching the Eye; however, he also released Juno from imprisonment in the Grand Temple.

24 December

• 1914: Erich Albert was assassinated during the Christmas Truce of World War I.

25 December

• 1776: George Washington and several Colonial Assassins including Ratonhnhaké:ton crossed the Delaware River and conquer Trenton, New Jersey.
• 1991: Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union. Boris Yeltsin, a Templar puppet, became the leader of Russia.
• 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, age 17, 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 at the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence.
• 1502: Vitellozzo Vitelli and Oliverotto da Fermo were killed by Micheletto Corella on orders of Cesare Borgia.