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==751th century BC==
===75010 BC===
*[[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"/>
*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"/>


==750th century BC==
===75000 BC===
*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"/>
==6th century BC==
===522 BC===
*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"/>
==5th century BC==
===500 BC===
*[[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"/>
==4th century BC==
===323 BC===
*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"/>
==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.<ref name="AC2"/>
==1st century BC==
===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==
===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===
*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==
===259===
*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 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 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>
*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"/>
*Accipiter brokered a truce with the Prefect of Lugdunum to spare the city from being conquered and sacked by 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"/>
==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==
===1129===
*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===
*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.<ref name="TSC">''[[Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade]]''</ref>
**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===
*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"/>
===1190===
*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>
*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 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"/>
*[[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 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 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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
===1191===
*July:
**Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and the brothers [[Malik Al-Sayf|Malik]] and [[Kadar Al-Sayf]] infiltrated [[Solomon's Temple]] 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>
**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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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.<ref name="AC1"/>
**[[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"/>
**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===
*[[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"/>
*[[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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
===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.<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==
===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.<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===
*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===
*[[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"/>
*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"/>
===1227===
*February: [[Jochi Khan]], first son of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan, was fatally poisoned by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad.<ref name="ACM"/>
*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"/>
===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.<ref name="TSC"/>
*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 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 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 First Civilization ruins 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===
*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 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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
===1250===
*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===
*December 15: [[Hülegü Khan]] destroyed the Assassin fortress of Alamut, during his destruction of the Levantine Assassins' holdings.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
===1257===
*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"/>
*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"/>
*August 12:
**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 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===
*January 1: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo established an Assassins Guild in Constantinople, in the Byzantine Empire.<ref name="TSC"/>
*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===
*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===
*Niccolò and Maffeo Polo returned to their home in [[Venice]], Italy, where they established an Assassins Guild.<ref name="Encyclopedia"/>
===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.<ref name="ACI"/>
===1275===
*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"/>
==14th century==
===1307===
*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===
*March 18: [[Jacques de Molay]], the last publicly recognized Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and Geoffroi de Charney were burned at the stake. 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===
*September 14: Dante Alighieri was killed by the Templars, revealing their continued existence to the Assassins.<ref name="AC2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>
*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"/>
===1324===
*January: Marco Polo, and later Domenico Auditore's father, were killed by the Templars.<ref name="AC2"/>
*Domenico Auditore bought and renovated the villa in [[Monteriggioni]], renaming it [[Villa Auditore]]. Monteriggioni became the headquarters of the Italian Assassins.<ref name="AC2"/>
===1338===
*[[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===
*The Templars stole the Scepter of Aset from the reigning [[Bahri dynasty]] of Egypt.<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===
*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===
*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==
===1402===
*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"/>
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*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>
*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"/>
*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"/>
===1477===
*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===
*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"/>
*April 26:
**[[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"/>
**[[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, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze atop San Gimignano's tallest tower.<ref name="AC2"/>
===1479===
*April 12: [[Francesco Salviati]], a Pazzi conspirator, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in his villa near San Gimignano.<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"/>
*[[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===
*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"/>
===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.<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===
*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===
*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"/>
*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"/>
===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 [[Teodora Contanto|Sister Teodora]].<ref name="AC2"/>
*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.<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"/>
===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|Henry VII]] of England, and Simnel was imprisoned.<ref name="ACPL"/>
===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.<ref name="AC2"/>
*July 7:
**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"/>
**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"/>
===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.<ref name="AC2D">''[[Assassin's Creed II: Discovery]]''</ref>
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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>
*October 12: Christoffa Corombo's fleet discovered the Americas, and landed on the island of {{Wiki|Guanahani}}, inhabited by the [[Taíno]].<ref name="AC2D"/>
===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.<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 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===
*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===
*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 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"/>
===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.<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===
*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"/>
*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==
===1501===
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*[[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"/>
*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===
*August 1: [[Juan Borgia the Elder]] was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze at Juan's Pagan party in Rome.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*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.<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"/>
**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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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===
*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 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"/>
*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===
*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===
*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"/>
*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"/>
===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]].<ref name="ACBH"/>
===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.<ref name="ACPL"/>
*September 10: An earthquake struck Constantinople. Templars fighting under the Byzantine banner re-emerged in the city.<ref name="ACRV"/>
===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.<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"/>
===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.<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"/>
*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 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"/>
*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|Janissary]] captain [[Tarik Barleti]] was assassinated by Ezio Auditore da Firenze on incorrect suspicions of colluding with the Templars.<ref name="ACRV"/>
===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]].<ref name="ACRV"/>
*March:
**[[Shahkulu]], a Turkmen Templar, was killed by Ezio Auditore da Firenze in [[Derinkuyu]] with aid from the Ottoman spy [[Dilara]].<ref name="ACRV"/>
**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"/>
**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"/>
*April:
**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"/>
**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"/>
**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"/>
*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===
*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===
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*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===
*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>
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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"/>
===1582===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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==
===1651===
*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===
*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===
*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==
===1701===
*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"/>
===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===
*The brig ''[[Aquila]]'' was constructed in {{Wiki|Brest}}, France, which 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 activated the defense mechanism of a first civilization structure in [[Haiti]], on orders of [[François Mackandal]], triggering an earthquake that destroyed Port-au-Prince. 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]] to help the captive [[Monica]], 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===
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*November 1: The Assassin Shay Cormac triggered the defense mechanism of a First Civilization temple beneath [[Lisbon]], causing an earthquake that destroyed the city and killed thousands of citizens.<ref name="ACRG"/>
===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===
*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===
*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===
*March: A First Civilization temple in the North Atlantic created an earthquake after its defense mechanism was triggered in a struggle 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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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"/>
===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.<ref name="AC3L"/>
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*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"/>
===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]].<ref name="AC3L"/>
===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.<ref name="AC3L"/>
===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.<ref name="AC3"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
===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|Iroquois Confederacy]].<ref name="AC3"/>
===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.<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"/>
*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"/>
*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===
*[[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>
*[[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"/>
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
===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]].<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"/>
*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===
*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===
*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"/>
*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 recruit [[Patience Gibbs]], 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"/>
*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"/>
===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"/>
*July:
*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"/>
===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"/>
===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==
===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.<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===
*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"/>
===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 First Civilization ruins 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"/>
===1865===
*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 pursuea a life of study and innovation.<ref name="ACI"/>
===1881===
*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===
*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]], 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===
*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===
*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===
*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==
===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===
*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"/>
===1910===
*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===
*Skulls of the First Civilization were found in the village of [[Boskop]] in {{Wiki|South Africa}} in autumn.<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===
*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"/>
*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===
*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===
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*[[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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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"/>
*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===
*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"/>
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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===
*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==
===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.<ref name="ACBH"/>
*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"/>
===2002===
*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"/>
===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.<ref name="ACRV"/>
*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===
*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===
*[[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===
*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"/>
*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>
*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"/>
===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.<ref name="TLA"/>
===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,<ref name="ACI"/> news of the operation still reached the press.<ref name="AC1"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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"/>
*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.<ref name="AC1"/>
*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"/>
*September 12: A team of Assassins in [[Whistler]], Canada was exterminated by Abstergo agents led by Daniel Cross.<ref name="ACI"/>
*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"/>
==References==
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