Timeline

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Prehistory

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

5th century BCE

465 BCE

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

4th century BCE

323 BCE

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

3rd century BCE

210 BCE

• Wei Yu, a Chinese Assassin, assassinated Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China and a Templar ally, with a spear.

1st century BCE

44 BCE

• Forty Senators, secretly members of the Assassin Order, plotted the assassination of the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar while being led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, who was unknowingly aided by the Templars.
• On 15 March, twenty-three of the conspirators stabbed Julius Caesar, killing him.

42 BCE

• Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide in late October during the Battle of Philippi. Other members of the Assassin Order tried using the Shroud of Eden to revive Brutus. Brutus temporarily springs back to life for a very brief moment, only to ultimately die shortly thereafter.

30 BCE

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

1st century

41

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

3rd century

259

• The Gallo-Roman Assassin Aquilus failed to assassinate General Gracchus of the Roman Empire, and was stabbed in the process, resulting in him losing conciousness. Simultaneously, an army of Alamanni under the command of Aquilus' nephew and fellow Assassin Accipiter attacked Gracchus' camp, resulting in an Alamanni victory and Aquilus' rescue.
• Aquilus obtained an ancient artifact known as the Ankh from Accipiter and transported it to his hometown of Lugdunum.
• The priest of Lugdunum, Faustin, a traitor to the local Assassins, was assassinated by Aquilus in his villa.
• Lucius, the father of Aquilus and a high-ranking member of the Assassin Order, and his servant Weke were killed by Lucius' friend and secret Templar Caïus Fulvus Vultur, who stole the Ankh and took it with him to Rome.
• Caïus Fulvus Vultur was killed by Aquilus in his Roman villa, and Aquilus returned the Ankh to Lugdunum.
• Accipiter brokered a truce with the Prefect of Lugdunum, resulting in the Alamanni sparing Lugdunum from plundering and the Prefect paying the Alamanni.
• Aquilus and his wife Valeria were captured by Roman guards in their villa, and escorted towards Rodumna for trial. The Roman guards were ambushed by Accipiter, and the Romans, panicked, killed Aquilus. Accipiter entrusted Valeria with hiding the Ankh.

12th century

1129

• The Order of the Knights Templar was publicly founded with the help of Bernard de Clairvaux, who established the Latin rule, and Hugues de Payens became the Order's first publicly recognized Grand Master.

1176

• Sultan Salah Al'din, the leader of the Saracens, besieged the Levantine Assassins' fortress in Masyaf. Rashid ad-Din Sinan, leader of the Levantine Assassins, assigned Ahmad Sofian to spy on the Saracen forces. After Sofian revealed the real location of the Saracen camp, Master Assassin Umar Ibn-La'Ahad infiltrated the Sultan's tent and left a note tied to a dagger in his personal quarters, though killing a Saracen nobleman in the process.
• Ahmad Sofian was captured by the Saracens, and Shihab Al'din was sent to Masyaf castle to bring an offer of peace. Though against Rashid ad-Din Sinan's will, Umar Ibn-La'Ahad was forced to be executed to save the life of Ahmad Sofian.
• Ahmad Sofian, feeling guilt over Umar's death, commited suicide in the quarters of Umar's son Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, asking forgiveness. Altaïr and Ahmad's son Abbas began their tutelage under Rashid ad-Din Sinan.

1189

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

1191

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and the brothers Malik and Kadar Al-Sayf were sent to retrieve the Second Apple of Eden, known only to them as the "Templar treasure", from a vault in Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. Altaïr confronted the Templar Grand Master Robert de Sable in the vault, which eventually resulted in Altaïr being routed, the death of Kadar and the severe wounding of Malik's right arm. Despite his wound, Malik was able to retrieve the Apple of Eden and return it to Masyaf.
• The Templars followed Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Malik Al-Sayf back to the Assassins' headquarters in Masyaf, and laid siege to the castle. They were eventually routed by Altaïr, who caused several tree logs to crush the Templar army. Robert de Sable and a remaining group of Templars fled.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad was punished for breaking the three tenets of the Creed, and demoted to the rank of novice. Altaïr was sent on a quest to eliminate nine high-ranking Templars fighting for both the Crusaders and Saracens during the Third Crusade in order to restore his rank and honor.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad went on a quest through the Levant, killing eight of his Templar targets - Tamir, Garnier de Naplouse, Talal, Abu'l Nuqoud, William of Montferrat, Majd Addin, Sibrand and Jubair al Hakim - across the cities of Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem.
• The Templar Maria Thorpe was assigned to act as a decoy for Robert de Sable, who realized he was Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's next target. Altaïr was fooled into thinking Maria was the Templar Grand Master, but spared her life. Simultaneously, Robert had managed to unite King Richard I of England and Sultan Salah Al'din against the Assassins, but was ultimately killed by Altaïr during the Battle of Arsuf after having been granted a duel with the Grand Master by King Richard.
• Al Mualim betrayed the Assassin Order, and used the Second Apple of Eden to brainwash the Assassins and civilians of Masyaf to follow his command. Altaïr Ibn-la'Ahad ordered Malik Al-Sayf to distract the Assassins in the village while Altaïr confronted his Mentor. After a long duel facing much of Al Mualim's illusions created by the Apple, Altaïr was able to kill his master, and hid the Apple in Al Mualim's study.
• Altaïr burned Al Mualim's body to prevent him from possibly resurrecting from death, against the Assassins' rule to not burn a man's body. A small civil war broke out targeting Altaïr, fueled by Abbas Sofian, who stole the Apple from the Master's study and activated it on top a watchtower outside of Masyaf castle. The Apple began draining the life from Abbas' body, but Altaïr managed to save Abbas and as a result stopped the civil war.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad persuaded the Levantine Assassins of his capability to lead the Assassins and won their hearts, and Altaïr was eventually accepted as Mentor of the Levantine Assassins.
• In Fall 1191, Altaïr and the Levantine Assassins led an attack on the Templars in Acre's harbor, where the Templars were setting sail to their newly-bought island of Cyprus. Altaïr captured Maria Thorpe, with whom he relocated to Cyprus to eliminate the Templars.

13th century

1204

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad traveled to Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire to bring the Assassin Order to the city. Due to the ongoing Fourth Crusade, Altaïr was forced to return to Masyaf.

1217

• The Mentor of the Levantine Assassins, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, his wife Maria and son Darim left Masyaf to deal with the approaching Mongol threat; Malik Al-Sayf temporarily took over control of the Levantine Assassins.

1225

• Swami, an Assassin apprentice, killed Sef Ibn-La'Ahad under the command of Abbas Sofian, leaving the murder weapon in Malik Al-Sayf's bed.
• Malik Al-Sayf was imprisoned in Masyaf's dungeon after having been framed of Sef's murder. Abbas Sofian places a council in control of the Levantine Assassins, with himself at its head.

1227

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

1247

• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad returned to Masyaf after twenty years of exile, and rescued the merchant Mukhlis from Bayhas and two of his henchmen near Masyaf.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad started gaining support from the Levantine Assassins and the villagers in Masyaf, after meeting the son of his late friend Malik Al-Sayf, Tazim Al-Sayf.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad gathered his Assassin supporters near Masyaf and ordered his men to disarm Abbas Sofian's supporters, but not kill them. Abbas' supporters eventually put down their arms, and opened the gates of Masyaf's inner keep for Altaïr, welcoming their former Mentor.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad confronted Abbas Sofian, and utilized the hidden gun - one of the inventions created with knowledge gained by the Apple of Eden - for the first time on his nemesis, killing him and retaking control over the Levantine Assassin Brotherhood.
• Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad began the construction of a library underneath Masyaf.

1256

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

1257

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

1258

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

1259

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

1269

• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo arrived in Venice, Italy, where they found another Assassins Guild, also training Niccolò's son Marco Polo into the Assassin Order.

1271

• Niccolò and Maffeo Polo left on another journey through Asia, taking Marco Polo with them. Marco Polo was able to retrieve the Codex from the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan.

1296

• The Italian Assassin and poet Dante Alighieri took on a boy who would later be known as Domenico Auditore as an apprentice, whose father was a friend and colleague of Dante.

14th century

1307

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

1314

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

1321

• On 14 September, Dante Alighieri was killed by the Templars.
• The Italian Assassins found out about the continuing existence of the Templars, and Domenico Auditore was given the Codex to take with him to Spain.
• While laying anchor in the Otranto harbor, Domenico Auditore's ship was ambushed by pirates hired by the Templars to retrieve the Codex. Domenico scattered the Codex pages into chests, though Domenico and his family were attacked by the pirates. Domenico's wife was raped and murdered, but Domenico and his son survived, making their way to the beach.

1324

• Marco Polo was killed by the Templars circa January 9.
• Domenico Auditore's father was killed by the Templars.
• Domenico Auditore bought and renovated a villa in Monteriggioni, which from that moment on was known as the Villa Auditore. Monteriggioni became the headquarters of the Italian Assassins.

1338

• The German Lukas Zurburg was saved by the Assassins from a road thief while traveling to Adendorf, and joined their Order.

1348

• The Brothers of the Cross, a secret Templar organization, traveled through Germany offering the people protection from the plague. Their real objective was to find the Ankh.

1350

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

15th century

1402

• Zhu Di, aided by the Templars, became the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty of China, taking on the name Yongle.
• The Yongle Emperor ordered the capture and execution of thousands of Assassins in China. Thousands of Chinese Assassins were killed, including their leader Fang Xiaoru. Li Tong and an Assassin apprentice escaped with an Apple of Eden.

1424

• On 12 August, the Yongle Emperor of China was assassinated by the Assassin Li Tong while trying to suppress a rebellion near the Gobi Desert.

1431

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

1454

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

1476

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

1477

• Mario Auditore and his mercenaries led an attack on the Pazzi in San Gimignano in Tuscany, later joined by his nephew Ezio Auditore. While the mercenaries distracted the Pazzi guards, Ezio Auditore assassinated his rival and the secret Templar Vieri de' Pazzi.

1478

• The Pazzi family, under command of the Templars, orchestrate the Pazzi Conspiracy, resulting in the death of Giuliano de' Medici. Lorenzo de' Medici, the de facto leader and main target of the conspiracy, was saved by Ezio Auditore da Firenze.
• Francesco de' Pazzi, the main orchestrator of the Pazzi Conspiracy, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore.
• After having discussed the Pazzi Conspiracy with Lorenzo de' Medici and later Mario Auditore, Ezio Auditore relocated to San Gimignano in Tuscany, where the remaining Pazzi Conspirators had taken refuge.
• Antonio Maffei, a Pazzi Conspirator and monk who had taken refuge in the center of San Gimignano, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore atop the city's tallest tower.

1479

• Stefano da Bagnone, a Pazzi Conspirator and monk who took refuge in the Monte Oliveto Maggiore outside San Gimignano, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore.
• Bernardo Baroncelli, a Pazzi Conspirator and banker who had taken refuge inside San Gimignano, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore.
• Francesco Salviati, a Pazzi Conspirator and the Archbishop of Pisa, was assassinated by Ezio Auditore while hiding in his Villa Salviati outside San Gimignano.

1480

• Jacopo de' Pazzi attended a meeting with Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia alone, while being secretly followed by Ezio Auditore. For his failure in the Pazzi Conspiracy, Jacopo de' Pazzi was fatally wounded by Rodrigo Borgia and Emilio Barbarigo, before being ultimately killed by Ezio Auditore.
• Ezio Auditore and Leonardo da Vinci moved to Venice, where Ezio would continue his fight against the Templars.

1485

• On 11 September, with help of the Venetian Thieves Guild, Ezio Auditore infiltrated the Palazzo della Seta and assassinated Emilio Barbarigo.
• The Templars plan to poison Doge Giovanni Mocenigo of Venice, entrusting Carlo Grimaldi with the task of poisoning his meal.
• Ezio Auditore, planning to save Mocenigo, was unsuccessful in preventing the poisoning, but killed Carlo Grimaldi.

1486

• Marco Barbarigo, a Templar, became the new Doge of Venice, and refrained from making public appearances in fear of being killed by the Assassins.
• While attending a private party for Carnevale, Marco Barbarigo was shot and killed by Ezio Auditore with the hidden gun.
• Bartolomeo d'Alviano, a mercenary and secretly an Assassin, was attacked and imprisoned by Silvio Barbarigo, until having been rescued by Ezio Auditore.
• With help of Bartolomeo and his mercenaries, Ezio Auditore assassinated Silvio Barbarigo and Dante Moro.
• The Templars set sail for Cyprus, in order to retrieve a Piece of Eden.

1488

• The Templar boats returned from Cyprus with an Apple of Eden.
• Ezio Auditore followed and killed the courier carrying the Apple of Eden, and attended a meeting with Rodrigo Borgia dressed as the courier. Ezio attacked Rodrigo, and the two men faced off. Ezio was eventually joined by his allies who had helped him over the years, who were unbeknownst to him Assassins themselves. Eventually, after Rodrigo's henchmen were killed, Rodrigo fled the scene and left the Apple of Eden in the hands of the Assassins.
• Ezio Auditore was formally inducted into the Order of Assassins in Venice.
• Ezio Auditore and Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian diplomat and Assassin, traveled to Forlì to safely hide the Apple of Eden in the hands of Caterina Sforza in the city's citadel.
• Forlì was attacked by the Checco and Ludovico Orsi, employed by Rodrigo Borgia. The city was eventually sieged by the Templars, until Ezio Auditore infiltrated the city and helped to reclaim it alongside Niccolò Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza.
• Ezio Auditore saved Caterina's children - Bianca and Ottaviano Riario - and killed Ludovico Orsi atop a watchtower in the Romagna countryside.
• Checco Orsi attacked Forlì and secured the Apple of Eden, before proceeding to flee towards the mountains in the Romagna countryside. He was chased and ultimately assassinated by Ezio Auditore, though Ezio Auditore was fatally stabbed in the chest by Checco.
• Due to his wound, Ezio Auditore passed out and the Apple of Eden was taken by a Florentine monk, Girolamo Savonarola.

1494

• Girolamo Savonarola used the Apple of Eden to become the leader of Florence, and exiled Piero de' Medici.
• Ezio Auditore saved Marcello Savonarola, cousin of Girolamo, from Borgia guards and traveled to Venice to find Girolamo.
• Piero de' Medici was attacked by Savonarola's followers in Venice, and together with Ezio Auditore took down his attackers and a corrupt herald.

1495

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

1497

• Niccolò Machiavelli and Ezio Auditore began fighting Girolamo Savonarola and his followers in an effort to overthrow his corrupt rule over Florence and reacquire the Apple of Eden.
• Ezio Auditore assassinated nine of Savonarola's lieutenants spread around Florence, and the Florentines were rallied in revolt against Savonarola by La Volpe and Paola.
• Cesare Borgia, the illegitamate son of Pope Alexander VI, had his brother Juan Borgia killed by his employee Fiora Cavazza, allowing Cesare to become Captain General of the Papal armies in his brother's place.

1498

• Savonarola was taken captive by an angry mob and taken away to be executed, allowing the Apple of Eden to be reobtained by the Assassins. Savonarola was publicly burned at the stake, though Ezio Auditore assassinated him whilst the fire had not spread high enough to reach the monk, sparing him from a painful death.
• Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, gave birth to a child named Giovanni Borgia, who was malformed and whose biological father was unknown. Perotto Calderon, an Assassin who was tasked with spying on the Borgia while taking on the guise of a courier, had been in a romantic relationship with Lucrezia, and was thrown into jail after the child's existence was found out by the Borgia. Calderon escaped from the jail and took Giovanni to Agnadello, where the Assassins were holding the Shroud of Eden. Calderon was eventually confronted and killed by members of the Assassin Order for betraying the Creed, amongst which was his own apprentice Francesco Vecellio.

1499

• Mario Auditore, Niccolò Machiavelli, Bartolomeo d'Alviano, Antonio de Magianis, La Volpe, Paola and Sister Teodora travelled to Rome to distract the Borgia guards in the city, whilst Ezio Auditore infiltrated the Basilica di San Pietro via the Passetto di Borgo. Ezio confronted Pope Alexander VI and a fight ensued between the two men after Ezio's failed assassination attempt. Both using their respective Pieces of Eden - an Apple and a Staff - Rodrigo eventually gained the upper hand using the Staff's powers and took the Apple from Ezio. Attempting to gain entrance to the Vault underneath the Sistine Chapel, Ezio again confronted the Pope and overpowered him. Using both Pieces of Eden, Ezio entered the Vault and received a message. Together with Mario Auditore, Ezio escaped from Rome and returned to Monteriggioni.

16th century

1500

• On January 2, Cesare Borgia besieged the town of Monteriggioni to strike at the Auditore in retaliation for their actions in Rome. The Borgia destroyed and overwhelmed the city, resulting in the capture of Caterina Sforza, the execution of Mario Auditore and the abandonment of the town.
• Niccolò Machiavelli became the leader of the Italian Assassins and relocated their headquarters to Rome, where he was soon joined by Ezio Auditore. Niccolò and Ezio began strengthening their position in the city, and Ezio helped setting up the local Courtesans, Thieves and Mercenaries Guilds.

1501

• Ezio Auditore infiltrated the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome with the objective to kill Rodrigo and Cesare Borgia. Finding out that both Rodrigo and Cesare left the castle, Ezio Auditore shifted his focus to rescuing his ally Caterina Sforza, who was held prison inside. Ezio found and captured Lucrezia Borgia inside the castle, and used the key she had in her possession to free Caterina. Escaping on horseback from the castle, Ezio ensured Caterina's safety by fighting off the chasing guards.

1502

• Upon the request of Leonardo da Vinci, who was forced into serving the Borgia, Ezio Auditore destroyed all four of Da Vinci's military creations for the Borgia army, severely weakening their position in Italy.

1503

• With the intention of taking down Cesare Borgia's finances, Ezio Auditore rescued Egidio Troche, a Roman senator indebted to Cesare. With Egidio's help, Ezio devised a plan to follow Egidio while he was escorted by Borgia guards to make a delivery of money to Cesare's banker. Using a guard's disguise, Ezio brought the money to a party the banker - Juan Borgia the Elder - was holding, and assassinated the banker while being hidden on a bench.
• Bartolomeo d'Alviano and his mercenaries engaged in heavy conflict with French soldiers under the command of Octavian de Valois. During a skirmish between the two factions, Bartolomeo's wife Pantasilea Baglioni was kidnapped by the French. Working with Ezio Auditore, Bartolomeo pretended to have surrendered himself to the French and had himself escorted into the French camp - located in and around the Castra Praetoria - by his own mercenaries and Ezio, who had disguised themselves as French soldiers. The mercenaries attacked the French inside the camp, and Ezio assassinated Octavian de Valois, rescuing Pantasilea in the process.
• Using intel obtained from the Roman Thieves Guild, Ezio Auditore and a group of Assassin apprentices thwarted a Templar plan to kill Pietro Rossi, an actor who was in a secret relationship with Lucrezia Borgia. At a play at the Colosseum in which Pietro was playing Jesus, Ezio took out the Templar guards around the Colosseum and entered the play alongside his apprentices dressed as Romans. Ezio took out Micheletto Corella, Cesare's personal assassin, but ultimately spared him out of disgust for Micheletto's motives. Ezio brought Pietro to a doctor after finding out he was poisoned as well, and obtained a key to the Castel Sant'Angelo from the actor. Ezio subsequently found the thief Paganino spying on him, and after chasing him found out that he was a spy from the Borgia and had betrayed the Assassins and Thieves. Paganino committed suicide by plunging Ezio's hidden blade into his own neck.
• Claudia Auditore da Firenze was inducted into the Assassin Order, and Niccolò Machiavelli promoted Ezio Auditore da Firenze to Mentor of the Italian Assassins.
• Pope Alexander VI tried poisoning his own son Cesare Borgia by tricking him into eating a poisoned apple, but failed when his daughter Lucrezia Borgia warned Cesare of their father's plan. Cesare, who had already taken a bite of a poisoned apple, shoved an apple down his father's throat, resulting in his death. He proceeded to unleash his fury on his sister and demanded the location of the Apple of Eden, who revealed it was located in the courtyard of the Basilica di San Pietro. Ezio Auditore gave the Pope his last rites, and Lucrezia told Ezio of the Apple's location as well. Ezio raced Cesare to the Basilica, and eventually beat him to it and re-obtained the Apple.
• Using the Apple of Eden, Ezio Auditore exterminated many of Cesare's remaining Templar forces in Rome, and in late 1503 Pope Julius II had Cesare arrested on grounds of murder, betrayal and incest, and was held prisoner in the Castel Sant'Angelo.

1509

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

1510

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

1511

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

1519

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

1520

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

1521

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

1524

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

1541

• On 26 June, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro was killed by the Assassins.

1558

• On 17 November, Queen Mary I of England was killed by the Assassins. She was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I, who ruled using the Second Apple of Eden.

18th century

1763

• The American Revolution broke out between the united thirteen colonies of America, led by the Assassin-affiliated George Washington, against the British Army.

1781

• The American Revolution was won by the Continental Army under the command of George Washington, and the United States of America was created by the Founding Fathers, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

19th century

1812

• Using an Apple of Eden, Napoleon Bonaparte heavily expanded the reach and influence of his empire and invaded countries in eustern Europe.

1832

• Ludger Duvernay, a Canadian journalist and Assassin, posted a number of articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique, the leaders of the Templar Order.
• Ludger Duvernay was arrested on orders of the Château Clique, who even rallied the public against Duvernay. The Assassins eventually freed Duvernay, and he founded the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society after his release, hoping to gain Independence for Canada.

1865

• On 26 April, John Wilkes Booth, the murder of American President Abraham Lincoln, was killed by the Assassins.

1881

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

1887

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

1888

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

20th century

1908

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

1910

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

1913

• Skulls of members of the First Civilization were found around Boskop, South Africa.
• The Federal Reserve System was created on 23 December under supervision of the Templars.

1914

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

1916

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

1917

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

1924

• On 21 January, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Soviet Union and a strong ally of the Assassins, died due to long-term illness. Joseph Stalin, one of his followers and secretly a Templar, eventually took over leadership of the Soviet Union, and became a tyrant and dictator.

1926

• On 31 October, Harry Houdini was killed by the Templars in order to obtain the First Apple of Eden from him.

1937

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

1939

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

1943

• The USS Eldridge briefly manifested in a future state due to the usage of a Piece of Eden.

1945

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

1948

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

1952

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

1953

• On 5 March, Joseph Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee and one of the Templars who orchestrated World War II, was killed by the Assassins.
• On 19 August, the Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a plot orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi began an authoritarian rule over Iran.

1954

• On 7 June, English mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing was killed on orders of his former contractors Abstero Industries, after having made a computers despite orders given to him to only make a fake robot for the press.
• On 27 June, the Guetamalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán was overthrown in a coup d'etat orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, and replaced by a military junta led by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.

1963

• On 22 November, American President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, a presumable Templar sleeper agent, while driving in Dallas, Texas. William Greer, a CIA agent "trained" by Abstergo Industries using the Second Apple of Eden, and Kennedy's driver, stole Kennedy's Apple of Eden during the chaos and Vice President and secret Templar Lyndon B. Johnson took over the Presidency.

1969

• An Abstergo-controlled NASA flight to the Moon results in the recovery of the Fifth Apple of Eden.

1971

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

1973

• The Chilean president Salvador Allende was overthrown in an Abstergo-orchestrated coup d'etat masterminded by Henry Kissinger. Allende's communistic regime was replaced by a military junta and later by Augusto Pinochet.

1985

• Abstergo Industries kidnapped a young boy of Assassin descent, naming him Daniel Cross and labelling him Subject 4, and was implanted with an impulse into his brain by doctor Warren Vidic that would force him to unknowingly climb the ranks of the Assassin Order, and kill the Mentor when he was given the opportunity.

1991

• Backed by Abstergo Industries, Boris Yeltsin unseated Mikhail Gorbachev, the head of the Soviet Union, and disbanded the Soviet Union, becoming the first President of the Russian Federation.

1997

• Abstergo Industries buried several constructed skeletons near the site of Tim White's expedition in Ethiopia to prevent the knowledge of the First Civilization having created the human race from becoming public knowledge.

1998

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

21st century

2000

• On 5 November, while with Hannah visiting Assassin camps in the Middle East, Daniel Cross was abducted by men employed by the Mentor, and taken to the Mentor's Dubai headquarters.
• On 6 November, Daniel Cross awoke to meet the Mentor, and eventually heard the Mentor's wish for Daniel to be his successor. Upon being given the Mentor's ceremonial hidden blade, Daniel's impulse in his brain was activated, and he assassinated the Mentor.
• On 7 November, George W. Bush, a puppet used by the Templars, won the American Presidential election against Al Gore, who was backed by the Assassins, and became President of the United States.
• Daniel Cross returned to Abstergo Industries' Philadelphia facility and was drugged into revealing the locations of all Assassin hideouts he had visited, after which the Templars initiated "The Great Purge", an operation to eliminate all these hideouts. Only a few Assassins managed to escape the Templar attack teams and a few off-the-grid hideouts remained unscathed.>ref name="ACRV"/> The Templars found a secret hidden beneath an Assassin safehouse in Philadelphia. The few remaining Assassins were forced to operate from underground cells.

2003

• Desmond Miles, son of the de facto Assassin leader William Miles, ran away from the remote Assassin compound he grew up in called "the Farm," located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, believing his parents to be nothing more than conspiracy freaks and wanting to live his own life, eventually finding a job as a bartender in New York City.

2005

• After having been trained by William Miles, the Assassin Lucy Stillman was sent to infiltrate Abstergo Industries and cut off primary contact with the Assassin Order. She attended university, where she studied cognitive neuroscience, but was eventually forced to leave when her mentors considered her topic of study a pseudo-science. After failing to attend several other universities, she was contacted by Warren Vidic, who offered her a job to become his assistant. Over time, Lucy began to grow to despise William, believing him to not regard the Assassins as human beings and thinking his tasks for the Assassins to be inhumane. Lucy secretly betrayed the Assassins and joined the Templar Order.

2010

• William Miles inducted Clay Kaczmarek into the Assassin Order, and tasked him with infiltrating Abstergo Industries and obtaining intel on the Animus Project from Abstergo CEO Alan Rikkin's computer. Clay got the information and returned it to William.
• In 2010, Abtergo Industries experimented on Subject 15 for the Animus Project. Due to Subject 15 being pregnant, the memories of both her and the fetus' father were conflicting, resulting in overlapping memories in the Animus and psychological damage to Subject 15.
• William Miles placed Clay Kaczmarek into a team of four members, including Lucy Stillman. William arranged for Clay to be abducted by Abstergo's Lineage Discovery and Acquisition, in order for him to be used in the Animus Project to obtain more information on the project's goals. Clay was named "Subject 16," and Lucy was given the objective of ensuring Clay's safe escape from Abstergo once enough information was obtained.
• Clay Kaczmarek discovered about Lucy Stillman's betrayal of the Assassin Order and continued to be held by Abstergo to be experimented upon, though Lucy did not inform Warren Vidic of Clay's knowledge of her betrayal to ensure his safety.
• In late December 2010, junior professor Shaun Hastings released secret information about Abstergo Industries to Wikileaks. Abstergo CEO Alan Rikkin arranged an appointment with Shaun, and Shaun was captured by Abstergo guards and taken into a van. The van's onboard computer was hacked to show that the fuel tank was nearly empty, and during a stop at a gas station Shaun was recued by the Assassin Rebecca Crane.
• After an email from Lucy Stillman to Warren Vidic about Subject 15's psychological problems on December 14, Vidic ordered Steve Gibbs to have the disposal team kill Subject 15, and had James Morse write an accident report on her death.
• Warren Vidic and Lucy Stillman started a secret project titled Project Siren, after data from Subject 16 pointed Desmond Miles as the Animus Project's new desired subject. Warren and Lucy made preparations for Lucy to extract Desmond from Abstergo should he not be willing to co-operate, and make Desmond believe she was on his side. She was given the objective of finding an Apple of Eden through having Desmond relive the memories of his ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze, and to bring it to Abstergo once she found it.

2012

• Long exposure to the Animus eventually resulted in Clay Kaczmarek suffering from the "bleeding effect", endangering his mental state. Clay uploaded an AI copy of his subconscious into the Animus for his successor to find and painted cryptic messages on the wall of his cell using his own blood before committing suicide due to the mental incapability of controlling the overlapping personalities the bleeding effect caused.
• Desmond Miles, son of the de facto Assassin leader William Miles who ran away from the Assassin Order at a young age, was abducted by Abstergo Industries to take part in the Animus Project, which dubbed him as Subject 17. Forced to relive the memories of his ancestor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to acquire a map detailing all the Pieces of Eden, Desmond eventually escaped Abstergo with the help of Lucy Stillman, an undercover Assassin operative.
• Warren Vidic started the Animi Training Program to train Abstergo operatives in combat, aiming to use them to combat the Assassin remnants.
• An Assassin cell located in Italy consisting of Lucy Stillman, Desmond Miles, Shaun Hastings and Rebecca Crane located the Apple of Eden formerly owned by Ezio Auditore underneath the Colosseum after Desmond relived Ezio's memories in the Animus. The cell retrieved the Apple, though Juno, a member of the First Civilization, took possession of Desmond's body and forced him to kill Lucy. The long exposure to the Animus and the shock of killing his friend resulted him going into shock, and later a coma. Having been retrieved alongside his cell, Desmond was put in the Animus by his father William in hopes of restabilizing his mind.
• William Miles, Desmond Miles, Rebecca Crane and later Shaun Hastings relocated to New York, where they planned to find the "Grand Temple" left behind by the First Civilization.