The ESU Timeline

This is the official guideline to the ESU Timeline.

Dawn of Time

To be added.

The Beginning of the Universe

To be added.

Formation of Life

To be added.

Rise of Humanity

Madame Wilhelmina (1765)

• To be added.

Doctor Hex (1854)

• To be added.

World War I (1914 - 1918)

1914

• June 28^th
  • Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated.
  • Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
• July 29^th
  • Austria invaded Serbia.
• August 1^st
  • Germany declared war on Russia.
• August 2^nd
  • Germany invaded Luxembourg.
• August 3^rd
  • Germany declared war on France.
• August 4^th
  • Germany invaded Belgium.
  • Great Britain declared war on Germany.
• August 6^th
  • Austria declaration of war on Russia.
• August 12^th
  • French and British declaration of war on Austria-Hungary.
• August 23^rd
  • Battle of Mons (British Expeditionary Force)
• October 1^st
  • The first division of Canadian troops sailed to complete its training in Great Britain.
• October 21^st – November 17^th
  • Germany failed to reach the English Channel in the First Battle of Ypres.
• November 2^nd
  • Russia and Serbia declared war on Turkey.
• November 5^th
  • Britain and France declared war on Turkey

1915

• February 11^th
  • The first Canadian soldiers land in France.

• April 22^nd – May 25^th
  • The Second Battle of Ypres.
• April 25^th
  • Landing of British and French troops at Gallipoli.
• April 26^th
  • Secret Treaty of London between England, France, Russia, and Italy.
• May – June
  • The Actions at Festubert and Givenchy.
• May 23^rd
  • Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary.
• December 19^th
  • Beginning of the Allied withdrawal from Gallipoli.

1916

• February 21^st
  • Beginning of the Battle of Verdun.
• May 31^st – June 1^st
  • Battle of Jutland.
• June 2^nd – June 13^th
  • The Battle of Mount Sorrel
• June 4^th
  • Russia began offensive in eastern Galicia.
• July 1^st – November 18^th
  • Battle of the Somme.
• August 27^th
  • Italy declared war on Germany.

1917

• February 1^st
  • Germany began unrestricted submarine warfare.
• April 6^th
  • The United States declared war on Germany.
• April 9^th – May 4^th
  • Battle of Arras.
• April – May
  • Battle of the Scarpe.
• June 26^th
  • American troops began landing in France.
• July 31^st – August 9^th
  • Germany ended Russia's last offensive.
• July 31^st – November 10^th
  • Third Battle of Ypres.
• August 20^th – December 15^th
  • Second Battle of Verdun.
• November 27^th
  • Supreme Allied War Council established at Versailles.
• December 5^th
  • Russia signed an armistice with Germany.
• December 7^th
  • American Declaration of War on Austria-Hungary.
• December 15^th
  • Armistice concluded between the Central Powers and Russia.

1918

• January 8^th
  • President Wilson announced his Fourteen Points program for peace.
• March 3^rd
  • Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
• March 21^st
  • Germany launched an offensive along the Somme.
• April 9^th
  • Germany launched an offensive at Ypres.
• May 27^th
  • Germany launched an offensive on the Aisne.
• July 15^th – August 7^th
  • Second Battle of the Marne.
• August 8^th – August 11^th
  • The Battle of Amiens.
• August 21^st – September 3^rd
  • Second Battles of the Somme and of Arras.
• September 26^th
  • The Allies began their final offensive on the Western Front.
• September 29^th
  • Bulgaria signed an armistice.
• November 3^rd
  • Austria signed an armistice.
• November 11^th
  • Germany signed an armistice.

The Ghost (1923)

• To be added.

Pre-World War II (1933 - 1939)

1933

• January 30^th
  • Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.

1937

• Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

1938

• German Anschluss with Austria.

• September 30^th
  • Treaty of Munich.

World War II (1939 - 1945)

1939

• March
  • Hitler invades Czechoslovakia.
• March – April
  • Britain rearms and reassures Poland.
• Late August
  • Russia and Germany sign pact.
• September 1^st
  • Hitler invades Poland.
• September 3^rd
  • Britain and France declare war on Germany.

September 1939 – May 1940

• "Phoney War."

1940

• April – May
  • Hitler invades Denmark and Norway.
• May 10^th
  • Blitzkrieg.
  • Chamberlain resigns.
• May 26^th
  • Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo).
• June 11^th
  • Italy enters war on side of Axis powers.
• June 22^nd
  • France signs armistice with Germany.
• July 10^th – October 31^st
  • Battle of Britain.
• September 22^nd
  • Tripartite Pact.
• December
  • British rout Italians in N. Africa.

1941

• Early in the year
  • Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia.
• June 22^nd
  • Hitler attacks Russia – Operation Barbarossa.
• December 7^th
  • Pearl Harbor.
• December 8^th
  • Britain and US declare war on Japan.

1942

• April 18^th
  • Doolittle Raiders Bomb Japan.
• June
  • Battle of Midway.
• August
  • Allies invade N. Africa.
• October 23^rd
  • Battle of El Alamein.
• November
  • Battle of Stalingrad.
  • Allies push into N. Africa.

1943

• May 12^th
  • Axis surrenders in N. Africa.
• July
  • Allies invade Sicily.
• August
  • Allies take Sicily.
• September 3^rd
  • Italy surrenders.
• November
  • Allies meet at Tehran.

1944

• January
  • German siege of Leningrad ends.
• June 5^th
  • Rome liberated.
• June 6^th
  • D-Day in Normandy.
• August 25^th
  • Paris liberated.
• September 8^th
  • V2 Flying Bombs.
• December 16^th
  • Battle of the Bulge Begins.

1945

• March
  • Allies cross the Rhine.
• April
  • Russians reach Berlin.
• April 28^th
  • Mussolini captured and executed.
• April 30^th
  • Hitler commits suicide.
• May 7^th
  • Germany unconditionally surrenders.
• May 8^th
  • V.E. day.
• July 5^th
  • Churchill loses election.
• July 8^th
  • Russia declares war on Japan.
• August 6^th
  • Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
• August 9^th
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
• August 14^th
  • Japanese surrender.
• September 2^nd
  • MacArthur accepts Japan’s unconditional surrender.

Purple Bolt (2002 – 2020)

2002

• September 19^th
  • Jonathan Kayne is born to Emily and Peter Kayne.

2007

• November 15^th
  • Peter Kayne does an experiment in his house which causes Jonathan to be struck by lightning.
  • Emily Kayne comes home and they take Jonathan to the hospital.
  • Jonathan is treated using a set of experimental drugs.
• November 16^th
  • Jonathan wakes up and was let go from the hospital.

2009

• December 20^th
  • Peter and Emily Kayne found Kayne Labs.

2020

• June 26^th
  • Jonathan Kayne graduates Phebridge City High School.
• October 1^st
  • Jonathan Kayne starts his first year at Phebridge City University.
• October 18^th
  • Jonathan Kayne begins to experience weird moments he can't explain.
  • Jonathan Kayne investigates the issue, by sneaking into his parents' lab, and discovered that his molecular structure had changed to allow him to move faster than any other human being.
• October 19^th
  • Jonathan Kayne begins training.
• November 19^th
  • Jonathan Kayne becomes a superhero known as "The Bolt" to the public.

Thor (2021)

• To be added.

The Ethereals (2022)

• To be added.