Timeline

The Earth Bet timeline. Anyone born before 1982 will likely have a duplicate in Earth Aleph.

1968

 * Edward James "Ted" Hughes has a children's book published.

1969

 * Annette Hebert born.

1975

 * November
 * Betamax debutes in the United States.

1976

 * Max Anders born.
 * June 16
 * Soweto Uprising begins.
 * November 3rd
 * Carrie comes out in theaters.

1977

 * May 25th
 * Star Wars first released in theaters
 * August 20th
 * Voyager 2 launched.
 * September 5th
 * Voyager 1 launched.
 * November 26th
 * In Chernobyl, Ukraine the V. I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station's first nuclear reactor is 'commissioned. Coming online for the first time.

1978

 * Three distinct Entities are in Space around this time.
 * Shawn born around this time.

1981

 * Kayden Russel born.

1982

 * May 20th
 * Golden man found loitering in the ocean.

1983

 * Ciara triggers.
 * Kurt triggers.
 * Lab Rat born.

1985

 * Hana triggers.
 * The Breakfast Club was released with Nicolas Cage in the role of John Bender.

1986

 * Apple born.
 * May
 * David imbibes a Cauldron vial.
 * August 20st
 * Rebecca Costa-Brown meets Doctor Mother and Contessa.
 * August 21st
 * Rebecca Costa-Brown imbibes a Cauldron vial.

1987

 * Superheroes show themselves to the public.
 * Nicholas imbibes a Cauldron vial.
 * King, Screamer, Harbinger, Breed, Crimson, Gray Boy, Nyx, Psychosoma and Jacob founds the Slaughterhouse Nine.
 * Harbinger (Kurt) and Jacob kill King.
 * Jacob becomes Jack Slash, the new leader of the Slaughterhouse Nine.
 * Kurt becomes Number Man and leaves Slaughterhouse Nine.

1988

 * Paige Mcabee born.
 * May 1st
 * Hero, Legend and Eidolon meet with Alexandria, Doctor Mother, Contessa, Number Man, William Manton and Doormaker. Alexandria proposes to found a government-controlled hero team.

1989

 * Vikare dies.
 * Battery born hereabouts.

1990

 * Sabah born.

1991

 * Cherie Vasil born.
 * Ashley Stillons born.

1992

 * Crystal Pelham born.
 * Jonathan Miller triggers.
 * December 13th
 * Behemoth first appears. Attack on Marun Fields.

1993

 * January 19th
 * Protectorate and PRT officially formed.
 * June
 * Brian Laborn born.
 * July 6th
 * Behemoth attacks São Paulo.
 * Carlos born.
 * Dennis born.
 * Dean Stansfield born.
 * Lily born.

1994

 * March 26th
 * Behemoth attacks New York.
 * Victoria Dallon born.
 * Amelia Claire Lavere born.
 * May born.
 * Sarah Livsey born.
 * Rachel Lindt born.
 * Browbeat born (Speculative, could be born before Sophia Hess in 1995).
 * November 1st
 * Behemoth attacks Jakarta.

1995

 * June 13th
 * Taylor Hebert born.
 * June 18th
 * Behemoth destroys Moscow, Russia.
 * Theo Anders born.
 * Sophia Hess born.

1996

 * January 3rd
 * Behemoth attacks Johannesburg.
 * Baumann Parahuman Containment Center built.
 * Armsmaster joins Protectorate.
 * Jean-Paul Vasil born.
 * June 9th
 * Leviathan first appears. Attack on Oslo.
 * Summer
 * Shawn triggers around the end of summer. Addison born.
 * November 6th
 * Behemoth attacks Cologne.

1997

 * The lease of Hong Kong from China comes to an end.
 * Eric Pelham born.
 * Kayden Russel triggers.
 * March 2nd
 * Kenta triggers.
 * April 23rd
 * Leviathan attacks Busan.
 * September 30th
 * Behemoth attacks Buenos Aires.
 * Aisha Laborn born.

1998

 * Rain O'Fire Frazier born.
 * Uppermost asked the PRT for assistance in managing the NEPEA-5 bill, which sought to curtail parahuman involvement in business and media, and was arguably targeted directly at Uppermost. After a great deal of consideration, the PRT’s head office turned down the request for assistance. NEPEA-5 was passed, and Uppermost disbanded. Many former members of Uppermost joined either the Protectorate or Wards to manage the fines and fees that followed the bill’s passage and avoid bankruptcy.
 * January 18th
 * Leviathan destroys Sydney, Australia.
 * May 15th
 * Missy Biron born.
 * July 3rd
 * Behemoth attacks Jinzhou.
 * Dinah Alcott born (Speculative, could be born in 1999).
 * December 25th
 * Leviathan attacks Madrid.

1999

 * Scion donned the white bodysuit.
 * Purity joins Empire Eighty-Eight.
 * Starlet born.
 * Riley Grace Davis born.
 * July 21st
 * Behemoth attacks Ankara.
 * November 2nd-3rd
 * Lung tests Leviathan
 * Leviathan 'sinks' Kyushu, Japan devastated.

2000

 * February
 * Brockton Bay Brigade arrest Marquis. Dallon family adopts Amelia Claire Lavere, making her Amy Dallon.
 * Marquis birdcaged.
 * Brockton Bay Brigade unmasks before the public, advocating capes without masks, and becomes New Wave. Lady Photon replaces Manpower as leader.
 * April 10th
 * Behemoth attacks Lyon.
 * September 15th
 * Siberian Incident occurs.
 * September 16th
 * Alexandria recovered. Doctor Mother decides to leave Manton be - to attract people to the Protectorate and explain to Legend the appearance of the Case 53.
 * Leviathan attacks Naples.
 * Lung and his mother move to Chaohu.
 * December
 * Lung arrested by the Yàngbǎn.

2001

 * January
 * Jamie Rinke triggers and becomes Nilbog.
 * Nilbog takes over Ellisburg.
 * February 2nd
 * Three PRT squads and Toronto Protectorate team invade Ellisburg. In the ensuing battle all PRT agents (exept Emily Piggot and Thomas Calvert) died and Protectorate capes fled.
 * Ellisburg quarantined, Nilbog designated as S-Class threat.
 * February 25th
 * Behemoth attacks Vanderhoof.
 * Phir Sē becomes Thanda.
 * August Prince born.
 * July 6th
 * Leviathan attacks Hyderabad.
 * December 6th
 * Behemoth attacks Lagos.

2002

 * PRT expands to Canada.
 * Apple becomes a villain.
 * April 23rd
 * Leviathan attacks Shanghai.
 * August
 * Lung escapes from the Yàngbǎn.
 * August 20th
 * Behemoth attacks Bogotá.
 * December 27th
 * The Simurgh first appears in Lausanne, Switzerland.
 * December 30th
 * The Simurgh screams, dementing the entire population of Lausanne.

2003

 * Switzerland Simurgh brainwashing victims declared incurable, all remaining Lausanne citizens killed.
 * Moord Nag becomes warlord in Namibia in Africa.
 * Ash Phoenix joins Atlanta Wards.
 * Jessica Yamada starts to work as parahuman psychologist.
 * Lab Rat modestly climbs PRT's most wanted lists.
 * April 1st
 * Leviathan attacks Seattle.
 * August 12th
 * The Simurgh attacks London.
 * October 3rd
 * Behemoth attacks Lyon again, due to great many nuclear plants in the vicinity.

2004

 * Slaughterhouse Nine captures Riley’s family.
 * Kenzie Martin born.
 * Ashley Stillons triggers.

2005

 * January 20th
 * Riley triggers. She becomes Bonesaw and joins Slaughterhouse Nine, replacing Crimson.
 * Cinereal becomes the new leader of the Atlanta Protectorate, when the previous leader killed himself.
 * May 9th
 * Leviathan sinks Newfoundland. Nearly half a million dead, including Andrew Richter. Dragon transfers to a backup server in Vancouver and becomes a superhero.
 * Sometime later a group of treasure hunters come across a mysterious box. The sea air was thick in his nostrils. He glanced at Margaret.  The woman leaned against the window just in front of the driver’s seat on the small boat.  She’d bundled up in a heavy jacket, but the way her arms were folded spoke of a different kind of discomfort.  “Second thoughts?” he asked.  “Yes.  It feels wrong.”  “It’s for the families.  Mementos,” he told her.  “Just mementos, Geoff,” she answered.  He smiled a little.  Damn.  Then he let himself fall, tipping backwards, as was the rule when wearing scuba gear.  The water was cold, even with the wetsuit, and was thick with grit.  He switched his headlamp off.  Counterproductive, the way it lit up the debris and only made it harder to see.  He’d have to cope when he was deeper.  [...]  “Anyways, this is the reason the radio fritzed,” he said.  He pulled the orange box from the net-weave sack.  “I couldn’t hear a damn thing except the emergency call until I found it and shut it off, and even then, it was still buzzing in and out.”  “A beacon?”  Margaret said.  “In a house, of all places,” he said.  “Nice computer setup.  Might be a geek thing.”  “Might be genuine,” she said.  She opened it.  It was packed with chips.  A voice came from a speaker Geoff couldn’t identify.  “My name is Andrew Richter, and if you are hearing this, I am dead.”  “A will,” Mischa said.  “Shh.”  “I am the most powerful tinker in the world, and I’ve managed to keep my name secret.  People, both good and bad, would want to capture me and use me to their own ends.  I prefer to remain free.  “But freedom has its price.  I create life, much as a god might, and I have come to fear my creations.  They have so much potential, and even with the laws I set, I can’t trust they’ll listen.“  “Oh man,” Geoff said.  “That’s not a good thing.”  “For this reason, this box contains an access key to data I keep in a safeguarded location.  The box, in turn, has been designed as something that exists as a perpetual blind spot for my creations, a built-in weakness.  They cannot hear the distress signal and are programmed to ignore it if they hear of it through other channels.  This type of measure, along with several more, are detailed in the safeguarded measure.”  “Programmed?  Robots?”  Geoff asked.  “Maybe,” Mags said.  “Yes, I create artificial intelligences,” Andrew Richter recited.  “I was close.”  The voice continued without pause.  “And what I provide you with here are tools.  Ways to find my creations, to discern which of them might have deviated from the original plan, ways to kill them if they prove out of line.  Ways to control and harness them.“  Geoff frowned.  “They are my children, and as much as I harbor a kind of terror for what they could do, I love them and hope for great things from them.  To keep their power from falling into the wrong hands, I have included a stipulation that a law enforcement officer must input a valid badge number into this device-“  Geoff glanced at Margaret.  “No,” she said.  “You can’t say no,” he responded.  The voice continued without pause.  “-which must be input within three hours of the time this box was opened.“ - Excerpt from Interlude 26.x
 * June
 * Aiden Tate born.

2006

 * Lab Rat birdcaged.
 * Jean-Paul Vasil triggers and becomes Hijack.
 * May 9th
 * Dragon triggers.
 * Rachel Lindt triggers and becomes Bitch.

2007

 * Battery joins Protectorate.
 * Boston Games occur.
 * Fleur murdered in her civilian identity by a cape looking to earn cred and (consequently) membership in Empire Eighty-Eight. Unmasking movement ends. Lightstar leaves New Wave.
 * Jamestowner attacked a convoy carrying nuclear supply to a Pennsylvania nuclear facility.

2008

 * Sophia Hess triggers.
 * April 10th
 * Newter imbibes a Cauldron vial.
 * September
 * Jamestowner attacked another nuclear facility in the midwest.
 * Annette Hebert dies.
 * Kayden Russel marries Max Anders, becoming Kayden Anders. Purity becomes Kaiser’s second-in-command.
 * Triumph joins Brockton Bay Wards.
 * Lightslinger joins Eminent.
 * Group trigger occurs in New York, involving Flechette and March.
 * Carlos triggers and becomes Aegis.
 * Brian Laborn triggers and becomes Grue.

2009

 * Unspecified dates:
 * String Theory birdcaged.
 * Paige Mcabee imbibes a Cauldron vial.
 * Dennis triggers and becomes Clockblocker.
 * Kayden Anders divorces with Max Anders; Purity leaves Empire Eighty-Eight.
 * Night and Fog leave Empire Eighty-Eight and form their own duo in Boston.
 * Weld joins Boston Wards.
 * Sarah Livsey triggers, runs away from her parents and changes her name to Lisa Wilbourn.
 * Hijack runs away from Heartbreaker and becomes Regent. He also changes his name from Jean-Paul Vasil to Alec.


 * April
 * Blasto becomes crime lord of East Alston in Boston.
 * Vista joins Brockton Bay Wards sometime during or before the end of April.
 * May or later
 * Victoria Dallon triggers.
 * Summer
 * Taylor Hebert goes to summer camp.
 * Shadow Stalker saves Emma and Alan Barnes from an Azn Bad Boys attack.
 * Autumn
 * Emma and Sophia begin to bully Taylor.
 * December
 * The Simurgh attacks Madison.
 * The Simurgh first uses Tinker power, copying Professor Haywire technology. Portals to Earth Aleph and Cauldron Compound opened, transferring multiple buildings and everything inside to Earth Bet.
 * Francis Krouse, Noelle Meinhardt, Oliver, Luke Brito, Marissa Newland, Jess and Cody imbibe Cauldron vials, becoming Travelers.
 * Madison quarantined.
 * December 23rd
 * Travelers leave Madison.

2010

 * Tinker 15 starts preparation.
 * Kid Win joins Brockton Bay Wards before the end of January.
 * Balminder betrays Cauldron and runs away, taking many Cauldron vials with him. Cauldron allows him to remain free because of his usefulness as plausible deniability/scapegoat and a potential rescuer.
 * Cauldron releases Sveta in Russia for an unknown purpose.
 * Acidbath birdcaged.


 * Circus and Chariot hired by Coil.
 * Purity makes the Azn Bad Boys a priority target.
 * Canary arrested.
 * According to Victoria Dallon, the Chorus gang attacks a mall in Brockton Bay and injures her. Amy Dallon triggers and becomes Panacea. (According to Amy, this event happens in 2009 sometime after Victoria's trigger)
 * July
 * Grue, Bitch, Tattletale and Regent founds the Undersiders.
 * D.D.I.D. measure revoked in Madison.
 * Shadow Stalker joins Brockton Bay Wards with probationary status; she is sent to San Diego in the hopes of being straightened out at summer 'boot camp'.
 * Lightslinger leaves Eminent.
 * Behemoth attacks unknown target. Shadow Stalker attends.
 * Switch Hitter starts cape career as part of Sacred Heart team.

2011

 * Dinah Alcott triggers.
 * Kenzie Martin triggers.
 * January
 * Taylor Hebert triggers.
 * Taylor spends a week in the hospital under psychiatric observation. PRT pays a visit to Taylor, following crisis points procedure, but finds her near catatonic.
 * At the very end of the month Taylor returns to school.
 * February
 * Taylor starts running every morning after Sophia goaded some boys into trying to catch her.
 * February 24th
 * The Simurgh attacks Canberra, Australia. Scion doesn’t show up, but Eidolon and Legend defeat her. Canberra quarantined.
 * March
 * Undersiders hit the Ruby Dreams casino.
 * Browbeat triggers.
 * March 23rd
 * Lung recruits Bakuda.
 * April
 * Browbeat joins Brockton Bay Wards.
 * April 8th
 * Taylor decides to accelerate her plans for becoming a superhero due to bullying.
 * April 10th-11th
 * Taylor finishes her costume and heads out. She finds group of gangsters from the Azn Bad Boys, as well as their boss, Lung, and attacks them.
 * April 11th
 * Taylor joins the Undersiders.
 * Bakuda starts recruiting civilians, sticking bombs inside their heads.
 * April 12th
 * The bank robbery is planned.
 * April 13th
 * Taylor fails to negotiate with Armsmaster.
 * April 14th
 * The bank robbery occurs.
 * Dinah Alcott kidnapped.
 * April 15th
 * The Undersiders fight Bakuda.
 * Bakuda’s bombing starts. Using bombing as a distraction, Oni Lee releases Lung.
 * (Between April 14th and April 22nd) The Travelers hired by Coil.
 * (Between April 15th and April 22nd) Bitch attacks dog fighting ring.
 * April 23rd
 * Brockton Bay supervillains meet at Somer's Rock and make an alliance against Azn Bad Boys.
 * April 24th
 * Taylor smacks Emma at the mall.
 * April 25th
 * School meeting and first raid on ABB occur.
 * May 5th
 * The Undersiders attack a PRT fundraiser. They escape pursuit with the aid of Coil, who reveals himself as their current employer and pitches them for the longer term.
 * May 6th (ish)
 * Empire Eighty-Eight's civilian identities are revealed to the public by Coil.
 * May 15th
 * Leviathan attacks Brockton Bay.
 * May 27th (ish)
 * Taylor talks to Lisa about her future.
 * June 3rd
 * Former E88 capes attack a convoy of food trucks; the Undersiders use the opportunity to kidnap Shadow Stalker.
 * June 4th
 * Undersiders attack the PRT building, fight the Dragonflight.
 * June 5th
 * The Undersiders claim their territories.
 * (Between June 5th and June 17th)
 * Slaughterhouse 9 attack Brockton Bay.
 * June 17th
 * Skitter and Trickster (and Genesis?) threaten the mayor of Brockton Bay to force him to argue against condemning the city. Turns out his son is Triumph, and Triumph's girlfriend Prism is having dinner with them.
 * June 18th
 * Travellers and Undersiders fight the Dragonsuits, taking Emily Piggot hostage.
 * June 19th
 * Mayoral debate. Coil openly attacks, faking his own death and a lot of journalists'. Thomas Calvert is appointed acting PRT director. He meets with the Travellers and Undersiders for totally legitimate reasons, pretends to set Dinah Alcott free but instead shoots Skitter in the chest, locks her in a room set on fire surrounded by mercenaries with machine guns and grenades, and fails so hard to kill her that she shoots him in the head.
 * June 20th
 * Noelle breaks out of her containment in the middle of the night. At 4am, Tattletale calls Faultline asking if she can hire Labyrinth for a thing, and Contessa calls on Faultline's Crew asking if they'd rather stop investigating Cauldron or die. Ignis Fatuus speaks, exposing Cauldron's connections to the Case 53s, the Triumvirate, and the PRT in general. The Travellers go home, except Trickster is imprisoned and Echidna is dead. Weld, Gully, and other case 53s leave the Protectorate, later forming The Irregulars.
 * June 26th
 * Legend publicly announces he's leaving the Protectorate.
 * July 8th
 * Summer high school classes open in Brockton Bay. Taylor goes to stop Greg Veder outing her by accident, and gets outed on purpose by James Tagg. That evening, she holds court with with the Teeth, the Fallen, and Accord and then assaults the PRT in retaliation.
 * July 14th
 * Taylor surrenders to the PRT, kills Alexandria and James Tagg, and signs on as Weaver.
 * July 26th
 * Behemoth attacks New Delhi. Scion kills Behemoth.

2012

 * January 20th
 * Khonsu's first appearance.
 * January 23rd
 * Cauldron's shadow Illuminati meeting.
 * October 10th
 * Bohu and Tohu first appearance, attacking Bucharest.

2013

 * Spring
 * Kenzie Martin assigned to the Baltimore Wards.
 * June 19th-24th
 * The Slaughterhouse Nine-Thousand
 * Thursday's suck
 * Chris Elman born.
 * Early winter arrived.
 * Tinker 15 starts building a tower.
 * Switch Hitter forms Girls at Bat.
 * December: Interlude: End

2014
First year after Gold Morning
 * Ashley Stillons returns to civilization, Ashley Stillons leaves it.
 * Around April 21, Kenzie Martin settles in her parents home.
 * Group trigger occurs in a mall, involving Rain.

2015
Second year after Gold Morning
 * Summer
 * July
 * 14th: Team Therapy starts meeting.
 * August
 * 15th: Parahumans Online returns to the tiny baby/zombie internet.
 * 16th: "Gunslingers" lose a fight against a group of villains including Love Lost and someone who wears fur too often.
 * 17th: A Bet-Gimel portal in north-east America that had closed to refugees re-opens, without convincing explanation.
 * 18th: Moonsong posts a private thread about team Reach, remembering the dead and living. Capricorn read it.
 * 19th: Ashley sounds unimpressive on the internet, gets help from Victoria.
 * 20th: Rain looks for information on multi-triggers; makes contact with March.
 * 21st: Acceptance and rejection emails sent out to university applicants.
 * 22nd: The Guild posts a guide to the multiverse and how dangerous it is.
 * 24th: Someone slanders Weld, and Tristan and Sveta defend him. Sveta realises that she's been getting online abuse from other Case 53s, and gets a new PHO account.
 * Autumn
 * September
 * 7th of September: four mercenaries attack the Norfair Community Center.
 * Victoria interviews with various cape teams, arguing with some Fallen, then visits some sad kids in hospital. At night, broken trigger at a disputed construction site.
 * Ten days to two weeks later, Victoria talks to Jessica Yamada about a problem.
 * 20th of September: Victoria meets the therapy group.
 * They go look for legal and other caping advice.
 * Some troubles in Cedar Point happen.
 * Victoria has lunch with Natalie and discusses Cedar Point attacking Advance Guard, then Rain tells the team he's Fallen; Victoria meets Jessica Yamada around dinner time, while Rain returns to the Mathers camp with Erin and has to talk to the leadership.
 * The Mather's Fallen Camp is attacked.
 * 29th of September: The Fallen retaliate by expanding and scrambling portals in The City.
 * Early October
 * Refugee processing station attacked by paramilitary.
 * Goddess throws a hissy fit
 * Military conflict in Africa.Bet spools down
 * On the third day after the prison is destroyed, Breakthrough goes shopping.


 * Wardens and allies return from Africa.Bet. The Navigators Incident happen. Breakthrough and Foresight are ambushed.
 * Aiden and The Heartbroken visit Kenzie Martin in a hospital.
 * 2 days later Bluestocking's team attempts to break out Etna and Crested from Patrol Office. Breakthrough strikes uneasy deal with them.
 * Imp wrecks Swansong's apartment to cover up Aiden's leaks. She gets caught. Breakthrough and Undersiders ally against March, Cradle and Love Lost.
 * Eight days after the prison is destroyed, Valkyrie finds Riley, Rinke, and Dr. Yamada.

2016

 * Last 20.e2:
 * Lily step ups to sponsor Rain's resumed probation.
 * Chastity and Cassie decide to follow Rain to the City.
 * Last 20.e3:
 * Harbinger V and Sveta Karelia have a road trip to the ruins of Los Angeles.
 * Five joins The Majors as Limerick.
 * Cryptid was arrested by The Wardens.
 * Late April.
 * Last 20.e4:
 * Riley Davis returns to The City from her self-exile. She has a run-in with Lookout.
 * Last 20.e5:
 * Dragon, tipped by Riley, starts investigation into Lookout' activity.


 * The Majors arrest Lord of Loss in one of the corner worlds.

Trivia

 * While the divergence point is technically 1980, Scion did not reveal himself until 1982. Which set off a chain of events that led to the distinguishable timelines of Earth Bet and Aleph.
 * A complete, interactive timeline (up to the end of Worm) can be found at