Form when the malevolent computer Ultivac attempts to take over the world. The original lineup is MeteorMan II, Dr. Phantom, Microman, Beowulf, and Rocketman. Smash DEMON's Redbrood Demonhame in New York City.
The original lineup of the Sentinels breaks up.
VIPER:
On August 22, "Green Monday," VIPER announces its existence to the world by killing dozens of underworld, political, and industrial figures in carefully-staged attacks.
VIPER attempts to conquer the US in "Operation Coil," but is defeated thanks to some Detroit superheroes.
UNTIL:
The UN establishes a commission, the Tribunal on International Law, to study superhumans and related issues.
UNTIL is created by UN treaty — a treaty not signed by the United States, which refuses to allow UNTIL agents to operate within its territory.
Etienne Ste. Germaine retires, leaving his daughter Yvette as the head of his UNTIL-sponsored research project on superhuman powers.
UNTIL's submarine the Njord battles the supervillain Typhoon, forcing him to abort a planned attack on Africa.
UNTIL and the Sentinels defeat a Lemurian invasion of the surface world.
Vanguard:
When Bram McFarlan traps the Drifter in another dimension so he (McFarlan) can revive Mardoom-Thah, the Drifter astrally alerts Vanguard to the threat and persuades him to form a new Justice Squadron to stop it.
Fabulous Five:
The Fabulous Five discover Thaar, home of the Bird People.
The Fabulous Five attack Arcadia because they think it's a Lemurian stronghold. When they discover their mistake, modern superheroes learn about the Empyreans.
The Fabulous Five thwart a second invasion attempt by the "Martians" of 1938, who is revealed to actually be from a planet in the Sirius system.
Peter Renton, son of Amazing Man and Siren of the Fabulous Five, eventually to become the second Amazing Man, is born.
Government-Sponsored Groups:
In Great Britain, Bureau S becomes the Ministry of Superhuman Affairs, a publicly acknowledged branch of government responsible for protecting British citizens from superhuman threats.
The People's Republic of China establishes its own government superteam, the Tiger Squad.
The Soviet Union establishes the People's Legion, its official superteam. The Legion disintegrates in the late Eighties as the Soviet Union itself crumbles.
The United States reveals its first "official" superhuman, the All-American.
Space:
Revenger travels to the Moon and conquers the Selenites.
Earth is invaded by the alien Qularr, who attempt to use giant monsters from alien worlds as weapons against it. Tokyo is nearly destroyed for the first time. After several attempts at conquest, the Qularr are finally defeated and driven from Earth's solar system, though several of their monsters remain on Earth (most confined to the research facility on Monster Island).
The Cryptonauts leave on an expedition to an alternate dimension and never return.
Other:
Princess Mara remarries, this time to Andros, Subchieftain of the Moray barbarian tribe.
Teen hero The Hornet begins his star-crossed career.
The Iroquois superhero called Rainmaker makes his public debut.
The dark god Kigatilik breaks free from his icy prison in Canada.
Mega-Terak escapes Monster Island and attacks Tokyo.
1970's
Fabulous Five:
The Fabulous Five free the Selenites on the Moon, defeating Revenger who dies in a cave-in.
Amazing Man and Siren retire from the team and are replaced by Kestrel and Scirocco.
Archimago casts the Zodiac Working, but his scheme is disrupted by the Fabulous Five. The Slug appears and nearly succeeds in transforming everyone in New York City into Elder Worms.
The Fabulous Five disbands; Diamond becomes a member of the Sentinels.
Lemurians:
The Lemurians attack Derbent on the Caspian Sea in an effort to capture an ancient Lemurian weapon, the Lunal-Kinesis Projector. The Soviet Army and the People's Legion eventually drive them away, but they disassemble the weapon and take it back to Lemuria.
UNTIL:
Sea King teams up with UNTIL's Njord submarine and her crew to defeat Electric Eel and his pirates.
Dr. Yvette Ste. Germaine leaves UNTIL and founds L'Institut Thoth, a think tank and research laboratory devoted to the study of all aspects of "paraphysics."
UNTIL's submarine the Njord is destroyed in battle against Dr. Destroyer as it prevents him from building an undersea base in the Pacific off the coast of the Soviet Union.
Government:
The Ministry of Superhuman Affairs sponsors the creation of the New Knights of the Round Table, Britain's official super team.
The United States Department of Defense issues its first Superhuman Survey.
The Department of Defense's Project Yeoman succeeds, transforming six Navy SEALs into superhumans who are then formed into the team Ameriforce One.
Canada establishes an official superteam, the Northern Guard.
Great Britain passes a law concerning the registration of superhumans.
The GRU assassinates the American superhero Ricochet in Paris while he's on an assignment for the CIA.
A mishap with the test of the Delta Bomb transforms the White Sands, New Mexico region into the irradiated area now known as Burning Sands.
Space:
Jennifer Anne Ward (Black Mask X) is born. The Sentinels spend several months involved in an intergalactic war and are believed dead by the general public.
The Mandaarians, an enigmatic alien species, first visit Earth as peaceful explorers. Later visits occur in 1979, 1984, 1991, and 1999.
The Gadroon attempt to conquer Earth and are driven off by a force of Earth's superhumans that includes many supervillains (Dr. Destroyer among them).
Supernatural:
The Speed Demon, a demonically-possessed trucker, begins fighting crime in and around Vibora Bay.
Bethany (Witchcraft) and Pamela (Talisman) Duquesne are born.
The Mighty Canadians sacrifice all of themselves (except Celestar) to destroy the dark god Kigatilik.
Dark Seraph first appears.
Dr. Destroyer:
Dr. Destroyer first appears. His attempt to conquer California and the world is narrowly defeated by a large group of superhumans:
Kid Chameleon and Ocelot are killed.
David Ward's wife, Sharon, dies. David never remarries, and since he has no son, assumes the Mask will either pass to another family or the legend will end with him.
VIPER teams with Dr. Destroyer to mind-control the world's leaders in "Operation Oroborous"; when Destroyer betrays the snakes and the Serpent Lantern is lost in the ensuing fight, VIPER swears eternal enmity against him.
Stronghold:
Dr. Charles Wildman proposes the creation of Stronghold to Congress.
The United States completes the construction of Stronghold, the world's first prison designed solely to contain superhuman criminals.
Other:
The Outcasts, a team of misfit superheroes, forms in Vibora Bay.
David Farquar begins the newsletter that will eventually become SuperWorld Magazine.
The Peacekeepers superhero team is founded in Chicago.
James Harmon IV (Defender) is born.
Brendan Grant (Kinetik) is born.
The Advanced Research Group is founded as a corporation.
Queen Mara's twins, Prince Marus and Princess Thalassa of Atlantis are born.
Scirocco succumbs to mental illness and becomes a supervillain.
General Lorenco João Garrastazu e Silva takes power in Chíquador.
1980's
ARGENT:
The Advanced Research Group changes its name to the Advanced Research Group Enterprises (ARGENT) as a marketing ploy.
ARGENT is exposed as a criminal organization; its leaders flee the United States.
UNTIL:
UNTIL builds the Guardhouse, it's equivalent of Stronghold, on a small island in the North Atlantic.
DEMON lures four superheroes and several UNTIL officers into an ambush in Lagos, Nigeria, slaughtering them all as a sacrifice to dark underworld gods.
Gyrfalcon, a villainous Birdman of Thaar, is killed in battle with UNTIL agents.
UNTIL launches its second mega-submarine, the Aegir.
UNTIL founds its own official superteam, UNITY.
Government:
The United States government establish PRIMUS, an anti-super crime law enforcement agency roughly equivalent to UNTIL.
The first Northern Guard team splits up.
Scandal rocks the New Knights of the Round Table, significantly diminishing the group's reputation.
All members of Ameriforce One, the United States's superhuman SEAL team, are killed when a Soviet sub they are trying to recover explodes.
Canada passes the Superhuman Sponsorship Act, requiring Canadian superheroes to register with the government.
The French government passes a law requiring the registration of superhumans.
The United States creates the Department of Superhuman and Paranormal Affairs (DOSPA).
The New Knights of the Round Table stop an attack by Samhain, thereby restoring themselves to the public's good graces.
Canada forms a second Northern Guard.
The second Northern Guard team splits up.
Stronghold incorporates "hot sleep" technology to restrain its most dangerous inmates.
Dr. Destroyer:
Following an attempt by Dr. Destroyer to conquer the United States using several supervillains (including his minions Menton and Mentalla) as pawns, Congress passes the American Superhuman and Paranormal Registration Act.
From March 30 to June 24, Dr. Destroyer rules Earth thanks to his mind-control satellite weapons. But when he goes too far and orders Vanguard to destroy the Statue of Liberty, Vanguard snaps and singlehandedly defeats him in battle in the skies above Washington, D.C.
Doctor Destroyer threatens to eliminate 90% of humanity with death-ray satellites but is eventually found and defeated by several superhero teams working together.
Dr. Silverback:
The gorilla who will be known as Dr. Silverback is captured by mercenary animal traders in Rwanda and sold to Dr. Phillippe Moreau.
Dr. Phillippe Moreau's experiments in "genetic advancement" have their first, accidental success when he grants superhuman intelligence to the gorilla who will become Dr. Silverback.
Doctor Silverback is rescued from Professor Moreau's labs by the New Knights of the Round Table. He is taken in by Dr. Dina Morrison and other employees of Cambridge Biochemical Labs.
In a landmark ruling for nonhuman intelligence on Earth, Dr. Silverback wins his independence and legal status as a citizen of the British government.
Dr. Macabre:
Macabre's Janus Key is put in secure storage in Stronghold but in 1993 is discovered to have disappeared.
MeteorMan II defeats Dr. Macabre and retires.
Space:
The second Gadroon invasion is easily defeated.
Supernatural:
Takofanes the Undying Lord arises in Oklahoma and begins marching toward the East Coast. After he kills several superheroes who try to stop him at the Mississippi River, a larger group of superheroes band together to defeat him in eastern Kentucky.
Kigatilik summons the demon Tilingkoot, who teams with the villain Roi D'Hiver to create a "Black Winter" in Quebec. The two are ultimately defeated by Hivernant and Le Fort.
The Chaos-Beast and his horde of reality-warping demonic beings attempt to invade the Earth and are defeated by the Justice Squadron.
The Monster first appears, slaying the St. Louis superheroine Briquette.
Supervillain Teams:
Danar Nicole quits the European Parliament in disgust, undergoes the treatments that transform him into the villainous Fiacho, and begins forming Eurostar.
Eurostar first appears, releasing its Eurostar Manifesto as a statement of intent.
Binder encounters Blackstar when they both try to rob the same jewelry store; they team up and establish the Ultimates.
Mechanon:
Mechanon first appears, attempts to destroy humanity with America's nuclear arsenal, and is defeated by the Sentinels.
Mechanon attacks, and destroys, Sentinel Island.
Mechanon clashes with the Liberty League in Philadelphia, killing the superheroine Lightspeed.
Other:
Annette Berkelheimer founds the Institute for Human Advancement (IHA) to champion the cause of "true humans" over mutants and superhumans.
Doctor Sebastian Poe founds the Parapsychological Studies Institute (PSI) to study superhuman phenomena.
Corazon Valenzuela (Sapphire) is born in Los Angeles.
Don "Captain Patriot" Randall dies of a heart attack.
A rogue Selenite uses Revenger's leftover technology to threaten the Earth with nuclear devastation but is defeated by MeteorMan.
Mega-Terak escapes Monster Island and attacks Osaka.
A terrible accident creates the monstrous Grond.
In Boston, VIPER helps the Justice Squadron defeat DEMON in the "Demonflame Incident," creating a state of war between the two organizations that exists to this day.
Thomas Cassidy founds SNN, the Super News Network.
After her father Prince Andros of Atlantis dies in an accident, Princess Thalassa of Atlantis slays the court advisor Ikthos and becomes the supervillainess Stingray.
The light-manipulating Canadian master villain Borealis first appears.
Kristina Pelvanen, formerly the superheroine Rowan, founds the Ravenswood Academy, nominally an ordinary (if highly exclusive) private school, but secretly intended primarily to train young superhumans in the proper use of their abilities.
Miami's superteam the Watch forms.
1990's
Dr. Destroyer:
Doctor Destroyer and Mechanon begin a war sparked by Mechanon's demand that Destroyer frees his artificially intelligent computers. Battles occur all over the world, with a final, inconclusive, confrontation in Ankara, Turkey that wreaks havoc on the city.
Doctor Destroyer launches his artificial island, Destruga, in an attempt to gain statehood. When that scheme fails, he turns toward Hawaii but is defeated by the combined might of the United States military and American superheroes.
Stronghold:
The Great Stronghold Breakout occurs due to a series of unfortunate mishaps.
Canada builds Stronghold North to hold its captured supercriminals. Borealis becomes its first resident in 2001.
VIPER:
The Cottonmouth Incident: Authorities capture the VIPER supervillain Cottonmouth, who reveals much of the inner workings of the organization before being assassinated by his former employers.
VIPER creates the Dragon Branch, its own "team" of supervillains.
VIPER threatens the world with bioweapons in "Operation Fever Dream," but is defeated by superheroes.
The "VIPER-Eurostar War" begins in Europe, and lasts until 1998.
UNTIL:
Juan Martinez retires as Secretary-Marshal of UNTIL and is replaced by Wilhelm Carl Eckhardt.
UNTIL founds its undersea base in the Atlantic, Nautilus.
Three former UNTIL agents found Executive Control Solutions, a security firm that eventually comes to specialize in anti-supervillain security.
The supervillain Ankylosaur first appears after stealing his now-infamous suit of powered armor from UNTIL.
UNTIL completes the construction of its GATEWAY space station, mankind's first large, permanently-manned facility in space.
Eurostar:
Eurostar launches an invasion of Poland with an army of cloned soldiers created by Teleios, the Perfect Man. Teleios's existence is revealed to the world in the aftermath of the thwarted attack.
Scorpia and Feuermacher murder Professor Muerte, loot and destroy his facilities, and defect from Terror, Inc. to join Eurostar.
ARGENT:
The Justice Squadron thwarts an ARGENT-sponsored coup in Guamanga.
The San Francisco-based Freedom Patrol suffers a major defeat at the hands of ARGENT.
Government:
The German government passes a law requiring the registration of superhumans.
The United States Army initiates "Project Greenskin" in an attempt to take control of the supervillain Grond; the project fails, leading to a destructive rampage by Grond and the deaths of most of the scientists involved.
The FBI completes the Stalwart-powered armor suit, thus giving it an official superhero to supplement its Hostage Rescue Teams.
Daniel James Johnson becomes the Golden Avenger of PRIMUS, succeeding Robert Kaufman.
Canada's latest attempt to establish the Northern Guard, a team of official heroes, fails as the team votes to dissolve itself. The RCMP forms the "Steelhead Branch" to deal with superhuman threats.
The United States Department of Defense reveals Janissary, a superhuman soldier it has succeeded in creating. A program is begun to test the feasibility of creating more superhuman soldiers.
Kristine Griswold gains solar energy powers and becomes the superheroine Victory, working for the United States Air Force. Project Sunburst takes place.
Space:
Star*Guard Brin Rei Tarn is slain by the renegade Star*Guard Mordace. His replacement is the first human Star*Guard, Andre Almena.
The third Gadroon invasion attempt to land in Canada, but is defeated by several heroes who team up to form the third Northern Guard.
The Monster-Master takes control of Monster Island's giant monsters and teleports them to New York City, but is eventually defeated by several teams of superheroes.
The first known kelvarite meteorite crashes to Earth, in western Kentucky.
Vibora Bay:
Takofanes the Archlich attacks Vibora Bay but is driven away by Dr. Scarab, who sacrifices his life to defeat the undead sorcerer. Doctor Ka moves to Queen City to take up Dr. Scarab's role as a mystic crimefighter there.
Jennifer Anne Ward, now a private investigator in Vibora Bay, adopts the identity of Black Mask X, against her father's wishes (at least at first).
Organizations:
Annette Berkelheimer dies and is replaced as the leader of the IHA by Archer Samuels.
PSI is revealed to be a criminal organization employing supervillains with psionic powers.
Other:
Li Chun the Destroyer appears in China. After defeating the Tiger Squad in a two-day running battle, he mysteriously disappears.
The California Patrol, an informal team of West Coast heroes, is founded.
Borealis attacks a NATO installation but is defeated by the Vancouver superhero team SUNDER and imprisoned.
Doctor Macabre dies in prison; the Janus Key and his other mystical artifacts are discovered to have vanished from secure storage.
Black Paladin first appears.
Foxbat first appears and attempts to steal the Empire State Building.
The Warlord first appears, and attempts to conquer Vietnam.
Anderson Powell, who formerly fought crime in New York City as the growing hero Titan, founds Bastion Alpha Security, which beginning in 2001 provides clients with security personnel who possess low-level superhuman abilities.
Los Defensores de Méjico (the Mexican Defenders), a Mexican superhero team, disintegrates when several members are implicated in a corruption scandal.
Taipan makes his first appearance, murdering three superheroes and two civilians in Melbourne.
Following the death of his daughter in a New York City super battle, Senator Phillip Glassman becomes an ardent campaigner against superhumans and a supporter of the IHA.
Black Rose and Amazing Man II re-organize the Sentinels; MeteorMan III chooses to retire from the team.
Thomas Cassidy launches the SNN Sidekick television network.
Mechanon kidnaps the Mechanic, leader of the Liberty League, but is found and defeated by the League before it (Mechanon) can dissect him.
Defender becomes a part-time superhero in New York City.
Sapphire's mutant powers manifest.
A lab accident gives Brendan Grant superpowers, and he becomes Kinetik.
Baron Nihil is somehow released from his extradimensional prison.
Shugoshin receives his Spirit Swords and begins his crimefighting career in San Francisco.
Grand Cienelago Island, a secret resort for superheroes, opens.
