Character Timeline

This timeline covers the birth of a selection of characters whose ages are known. It isn't a comprehensive listing of all characters' birthdates; some characters, like Mystique and Loren, will probably never be assigned definite years of birth. It also tracks only the two oldsters whose lives are well-documented, both because they're my characters and I know them, and because they are two of the major pivots of the universe... and because people like Mr. Sinister, who are also very influential, have far more mysterious histories.

The observant viewer will notice that this timeline brings us up to 1980 for the creation of the All New All Different team. The Marvel Universe itself started (the first flight of the Fantastic Four) in about 1973 or 1974 by this timeline. I tend to assign more time to the MU than its writers do; I would assume that as of present day, the MU has lasted for 15 years. This would, by this timeline, set "present day" in 1988 or 1989. Of course, we have a while to go before we get to "present day"!

Year

Characters Born

Polaris' Lifeline

Xavier's Lifeline

1928

Erika Lehnsherr

b.

1935

Carolyn Xavier

b.

1944

liberated from Nazi death camps

father dies

1945

mother remarries

1947

married

1950

Minda Garfield

first child b.

1951

Kurt Marko d.

1952

off to college

1953

fiance, mother die

1955

first child, husband d.

got BA; romance with Malcolm Kinross

1956

Pietro and Wanda

Pietro and Wanda b.

got MA

1957

Masha Rasputina

1958

Stephanie Summers, Henrietta McCoy, Omari Munroe

1959

John Grey, Wendy Worthington

1960

Heike Wagner, Lorne Dane

met Raven

got MD/PhD

1961

Roberta Drake, Alexandra Summers

left Wundagore

work with war victims

1963

Pavla Rasputina

1964

burned out, wandered

1965

Rogue

1966

met Carolyn

killed Shadow Queen; met Erika, Gabriel

1967

Tad Smith

1968

Danielle Haller; Bobbi DaCosta; Donna Ramsey

fled Israel

Danielle b., Gabriel d.

1969

Kit Pryde

1974

Ilya Rasputin

1976

first battle with X-Factor

X-Factor's first battle

1979

Mary Richards

1980

all-new all-different cast