A timeline of events in the "Zombies Timeline". It features events from the Call of Duty series from January 9th 1913 until an unknown date from the zombies mode in the games Call of Duty: World at War, Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

• Note that the events of (some, but not all) maps that have dates, do not go in chronological order, due to time travel.

1913

January 9th

• Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda

1916

June 9th

• Robert McNamara is born in San Francisco, California

1917

May 29th

• John F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts.

1926

August 13th

• Fidel Castro is born in Birán, Cuba.

1930s

Unknown

• Billy Handsome is arrested and imprisoned on Alcatraz Island for the murders of 116 people.
• Michael "Finn" O'Leary is arrested and imprisoned on Alcatraz Island for 16 counts of gambling fraud after his wife, actress Angelina Bow, informs the police of his misdeeds.
• Albert Arlington is arrested and imprisoned on Alcatraz Island after being found guilty as part of Los Angeles heist.

1932

February 26th

• Albert Arlington designs Icarus, a makeshift aircraft, that he intends to use to escape the island with his fellow mobsters.

June 13th

• Salvatore DeLuca is arrested and imprisoned on Alcatraz Island for numerous breaches of the law, including the distribution of alcohol and running prostitution rings.

1933

Unknown

• Stanley Ferguson begins his job as a prison guard at Alcatraz.

December 31st

• After being incarcerated in the Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, designing plans, gathering materials and waiting until the time is right, Billy Handsome, Sal Deluca, Albert Arlington and Finn O'Leary attempt to escape the island.

1934

January 19th

• Morning: Finn O'Leary, Salvatore DeLuca and Billy Handsome are executed by electric chair for the murder of Albert Arlington.

1939

December 4th

• Richtofen and Schuster perform the first successful teleportation by teleporting a walnut.

After December 4th

• After revealing his teleportation discovery to Dr. Maxis, Maxis becomes angry, as Richtofen was supposed to be experimenting with the Element 115 formula to reanimate dead bodies and for use in the Wunderwaffe DG-2.

1940

January 4th

• After 30 days of working on matter transference, Richtofen decides it is time to use a human test subject. Richtofen is successfully teleported, being the first human to do so. He teleports to the M.P.D. (on the Moon), not intending to go there. He examines it for a while. In the process, he touches it, shocking him. This is seemingly the reason for Richtofen hearing voices in his head, and the reason for him becoming a sociopath. After examining it for a while, he is teleported to a jungle, presumably Shangri-La.

January 23rd

• Richtofen finally returns and begins working on Griffin Station.

February 4th

• George A. Romero is born in New York City, New York, USA.

1942

January 20th

• Ludvig Maxis creates File 1 and stores it in the datenbediensteter.

Unknown

• After two years of work, doctors Richtofen, Groph, Schuster and other Group 935 members who worked secretly from Maxis managed to build Griffin Station and the Vril Generator. Richtofen unveils the Vril Generator to the other members and makes Groph the lead scientist at Griffin Station.
• Stanley Ferguson leaves his job as a prison guard at Alcatraz.

1944

Sometime before September 15th

• Tank Dempsey is captured by Imperial soldiers on a raid before the battle of Peleliu. He is put in a rat-infested cage submerged in malarial water.
• 2 weeks after his capture, Dempsey gnaws through the cage, attacks his captors and escapes.

May 16th

• Danny Trejo is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1945

Unknown

• Nikolai Belinski, Takeo Masaki, and an unknown Mexican are captured and tested on by Richtofen.

September 2nd

• Richtofen accidentally kills the Mexican subject.

September 10th

• A marine team, led by Tank Dempsey, traverses from a German airfield and arrives at Wittenau Sanatorium, to rescue Peter McCain. Tank is later captured by Richtofen and replaces the Mexican subject, after being the only survivor of the mission.

September 17th

• Richtofen struggles to keep Dempsey under control during experimentation.

September 20th

• Richtofen confirms his discoveries:
  • Takeo, Tank, and Nikolai have all lost their memories
  • Nikolai only functions with a vodka-based serum
  • Tank hates Richtofen even with his memory wiped
  • Takeo is quiet and prefers to say Japanese proverbs

Between September 20th and October 1st 

• Richtofen learns that Maxis is not mass producing the Wunderwaffe DG-2.

Between October 1st and November 20th

• Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai arrive at the Rising Sun Facility, a Group 935 mining site for Element 115.
• Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai travel to Der Riese, the main Group 935 facility, near Breslau, Germany.

1947

June 6th

• Robert Englund is born in Glendale, California, USA.

1955

April 6th

• Michael Rooker is born in Jasper, Alabama, USA.

October 5th

• Dr. Robert Oppenheimer sends a message to Dr. Vannevar Bush.
• Dr. Vannevar Bush sends a message to Dr. Robert Oppenheimer in response to his message.

October 24th

• Dr. Vannevar Bush sends a message to Dr. Robert Oppenheimer.

October 31st

• Dr. Vannevar Bush sends a message to Dr. Robert Oppenheimer.

1956

January 1st

• Dr. Robert Oppenheimer sends a message to Dr. Vannevar Bush.

Sometime before November 1963

Unknown

• Yuri Zavoyski, an Ascension group member, is transferred to work on sending monkeys to space by Gersch. Yuri later goes insane and traps Gersch in a Gersch Device, which lets the zombies in the Soviet Cosmodrome.

1963

Between October 16th and November 22nd

• Sometime after the events of being teleported through time to an abandoned theater in Berlin, Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai, are again teleported through time and use a lunar lander to get to a Soviet Cosmodrome in the USSR. They later decide to help Gersch, to fix the Casimir Mechanism.
• John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Fidel Castro, and Robert McNamara are attacked by zombies, when they invade the Pentagon.

1969

Unknown

• After the teleporter at Der Riese malfunctions due to the Wunderwaffe DG-2 being used inside the teleporter, Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai are sent through time to an abandoned Group 935 theater, in Berlin, Germany.

1977

April 14th

• Sarah Michelle Gellar is born in New York City, New York, USA.

Unknown

March 17th

• While making a film in Siberia, George A. Romero, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Danny Trejo, Robert Englund and Michael Rooker are attacked by zombies. George, then later becomes infected with Element 115 and attacks the celebrities. Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai are then teleported to the same location in Siberia, but are trapped in a room. The celebrities retrieve the Golden Rod and give it to Richtofen. Then, Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai teleport to "Paradise".

Unknown

• Two adventurers, Brock and Gary, find Shangri-La, but they are later attacked by zombies. Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai, time travel back and save Brock and Gary, only for them to end up where they started. Richtofen takes the Focusing Stone from Shangri-La.
• Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai arrive at Groom Lake and use a teleporter there to arrive on the Moon. Richtofen's plan comes together and he assumes control of the zombies after he switches souls with Samantha Maxis. As a counter measure, Ludvig Maxis unleashes rockets upon the Earth in an attempt to lower the severity of Richtofen's control. Now Samantha fights with Dempsey, Nikolai, and Takeo against Richtofen and his undead army.
• At the same time during the events of Richtofen, Tank, Takeo and Nikolai arriving on the Moon, the CIA and CDC are dispatched to fight zombies at a Nevadan nuclear testing site, following the explosion of the nuke going off.
• Sometime before a group of survivors arrive in the area, the CIA and CDC are dispatched to fight zombies at a bus depot, a farm and a town.
• A CDC soldier loses communications with the rest of his team, being stranded at a diner.
• After the events of the Earth being destroyed, a group of survivors, Marlton Johnson, Abigail "Misty" Briarton, Samuel Stuhlinger, and Russman attempt to survive in Hanford, Washington and they decide to complete a task for either Richtofen or Maxis.
• After the fight against the zombies in Washington, Marlton, Misty, Samuel and Russman are teleported by Richtofen to Shanghai, China, which has become overrun with zombies, and are again asked by either Richtofen or Maxis to complete an objective for them.

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