Post by Valas Hune on Aug 3, 2006 17:55:50 GMT -5
Courtesy of drummerdave4689 of GameFAQs...
An X in the ones or tens digit of the year means that I am only sure of
the decade or century. All ?'s in the year means that I have made an educated
assumption about the placement of the event but I am uncertain about the exact
placement. Other than that, the format is basically the same as the timeline
in the MGS3 manual.
4000 - (Ma) Life appears in the oceans.
1789 - (April) George Washington is inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York
City, beginning his term as the 1st President of the United States.
1812 - Federal Hall is destroyed.
1842 - Federal Hall is rebuilt as the United States' first Customs House.
1873 - The first model of the Colt Single Action Army is produced.
1886 - (October) The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, is dedicated by
President Grover Cleveland.
19XX - In the midst of World War I, the true holders of power in America,
China, and the Soviet Union come together in a secret meeting (the
Wiseman's Committee) and make a pact. This marks the beginning of
the Philosophers. The Boss's father is one of them.
- The Boss's father is killed by the other Philosopher's for telling the
Boss too much.
193X - The last of the original Philosophers die.
- Tatyana is raised in a "charm school" as a sleeper agent for the
Philosophers. The Boss is an instructor at one of these schools.
1939 - (August) Albert Einstein writes a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt
urging the development of an atomic bomb.
- (September) German Army invades Poland, setting off World War II.
- (November) Soviet army invades Finland (the Winter War)
194X - Night vision devices are introduced.
1941 - (June) German army launches a surprise attack against the Soviet Union
(Operation Barbarossa).
- (July) British Army's SAS (Special Air Service) formed.
- (December) Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor.
1942 - (August) U.S. army's research division begins development of the atomic
bomb (the Manhattan Project). Otacon's grandfather participates.
- (September) Siege of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) begins.
- The Philosophers pool their countries' money and resources to defeat the
Axis powers and create a new world order (The Philosopher's Legacy).
A secret spy network is established between the countries.
- In the midst of World War II, The Boss forms the Cobra Unit.
- (December) Physicist Enrico Fermi succeeds in splitting an atom inside a
nuclear reactor.
1943 - (January) Soviet army emerges victorious in the battle of Stalingrad.
1944 - (June) Allies land at Normandy (D-day). The Boss and the Cobra Unit take
part. The Boss gives birth to the Sorrow's baby (Ocelot).
- The Philosophers steal Ocelot and raise him. Ocelot joins GRU at an
early age to report the Soviet Union's dealings back to the U.S.
- V-1 rockets fall on London.
1945 - (July) First atomic test in history takes place at Trinity in Los
Alamos, New Mexico in the United States.
- (August) Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Otacon's
father is born.
- World War II ends. The Cold War begins. The Philosopher's are split up.
- Volgin's father launders all the money from the Philosopher's Legacy in
banks all over the world. A microfilm is created with a record of all
the transactions.
- (September) The Democratic Republic of Vietnam declares independence.
1946 - (February) ENIAC, the world's first computer, completed.
1947 - (September) CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) established.
- (October) Pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X1.
- The Boss disbands the Cobra Unit. The Boss returns to the U.S. and the
Sorrow returns to the Soviet Union.
1949 - (April) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) established.
- (May) Germany split into East and West.
- (June) British author, George Orwell, publishes 1984.
- (August) U.S.S.R. tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk,
Kazakhstan, becoming the world's second nuclear power.
- (October) People's Republic of China founded.
1950 - (June) Outbreak of Korean War.
- Snake becomes The Boss's disciple.
1951 - (November) "Buster Dog" atomic test conducted at Area 7 in Nevada, with
Army troops participating. The Boss is exposed to the radiation.
1952 - (November) U.S. establishes the NSA (National Security Agency).
1953 - (April) Watson and Crick discover the double-helix structure of DNA.
- (July) End of the Korean War.
- (August) Nikita Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party.
1954 - (January) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces the New Look
policy (the so-called "massive retaliation strategy").
- U.S. Navy launches the world's first nuclear submarine, the USS
Nautilus.
- (February) Hydrogen bomb tested on Bikini Atoll. Snake is exposed to the
radiation and diagnosed as sterile.
- (March) KGB (Soviet Commission for State Security) formed.
- (May) French garrison of Dien Bien Phu falls, signaling the victory of
the Viet Minh. France pulls out of Indochina.
- (November) Japanese movie, Godzilla, released.
1955 - (April) Albert Einstein dies, pleading for an end to nuclear weapons.
1957 - (August) U.S.S.R successfully launches an intercontinental ballistic
missile (ICBM).
- (October) Soviet Union succeeds in launching the world's first
artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit (the Sputnik Shock).
- IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is established to oversee
applications of atomic power all over the world.
1958 - (January) U.S. launches its first artificial satellite, Explorer 1.
- (October) NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
begins operation.
1959 - (January) Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro comes to power.
- The Boss leaves Snake to go on a secret mission.
- The Soviet Union stops supplying China with nuclear weapons technology.
- (October) Luna 3 moon rocket photographs the dark side of the moon.
- University of Minnesota professor Mordecai Roshwald publishes the novel
Level 7.
- (December) American movie On the Beach released.
1960 - Mafia sting operations start in Chicago.
- (May) American U2 spy plane violates Soviet airspace and is shot down
over the Ural Mountains.
- Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announces missile aid to Cuba.
- South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF) forms.
- The U.S. sends the Boss into space to keep up with the Soviet Union in
space exploration.
- (September) Two NSA codebreakers, ADAM and EVA, defect to the Soviet
Union.
1961 - (January) John F. Kennedy assumes office as the 35th President of the
United States.
- (February) U.S. conducts first test of Minutemen intercontinental
ballistic missile.
- (April) U.S.S.R launches Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft in
history, piloted by Yuri Gagarin.
- (May) Alan Shepard becomes first American in rocket flight aboard the
Redstone Rocket.
- (August) Construction begins on the Berlin Wall in Germany.
- American movie The Guns of Navarone released.
- (September) U.S. 5th Special Forces Group, the "Green Berets" activated.
Snake joins.
- (October) U.S.S.R. conducts its first atomic test in space above Russia.
- Japanese movie Last War released.
- (December) U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces increase in military
assistance to South Vietnam.
- Harry Gregson-Williams born.
- The Boss is sent to Cuba as part of a CIA-sponsored invasion under the
guise of taking Cuban exiles back to their country (the Bay of Pigs
invasion).
1962 - (January) Navy SEALS formed.
- (February) U.S. achieves its first manned space flight with the launch
of Friendship 7.
- Major Zero helps Sokolov and his family defect to the U.S.
- (July) Kyle Cooper born.
- (October) American U2 spy planes confirm presence of Soviet missiles in
Cuba, precipitating the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Sokolov sent back to U.S.S.R. He is forced to continue working on the
Shagohod.
- (December) U.S. Mars rocket Mariner 2 approaches Mars and begins sending
back survey data.
- U.S. begins producing the "Davy Crockett" portable nuclear missiles.
- The Boss kills the Sorrow at Tselinoyarsk as part of a secret mission
for the Philosophers.
1963 - (February) U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign Hotline Agreement, establishing a
direct telephone hotline between the American and Soviet leaders.
- (June) British spy James Bond makes his first movie appearance in
"Doctor No."
- (August) U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty
(PTBT) in the Kremlin (banning atmospheric, space-based, and
underwater testing of nuclear weapons).
- Movie "The Great Escape" released.
- Hideo Kojima born.
- (November) U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated. Lyndon B.
Johnson becomes President.
- Colonel Volgin leads an uprising against Krushchev with the Brezhnev
faction.
- John le Carre publishes "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
- 10,000 U.S. military advisors stationed in Vietnam.
- 100,000 South Vietnamese civilians serving U.S. military.
- Granin creates basic Metal Gear design for Volgin but has no actual
results from research.
1964 - (April) James Bond movie "From Russia with Love" released.
- (July) U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into
law.
- (August) Gulf of Tonkin incident.
- The U.S. learns of the Shagohod and decides to get Sokolov back.
- Volgin uses the Philosophers' spy network to suggest that the Boss
defect to the Soviet Union and join his faction. The U.S.
Philosophers use this opportunity to attempt to steal the
Philosophers' Legacy.
- The American Philosophers send Ocelot to infiltrate Volgin's faction
and oversee the operation.
- Tatyana is sent by China to steal the Philosopher's Legacy. She
infiltrates Sokolov's research facility pretending to be an agent of
Krushchev's.
- Snake is sent to Tselinoyarsk to rescue Sokolov (Virtuous Mission).
- The Boss "defects." Volgin kidnaps Sokolov and Tatyana and steals the
Shagohod (Virtuous Mission fails).
- Colonel Volgin uses the Davy Crockett to destroy Sokolov's research
facility. The Boss is blamed for it.
- Krushchev calls President Johnson and demands that the U.S. eliminate
the Boss and Volgin. The American Philosophers decide to use Snake to
fulfill Krushchev's demands, retrieve Sokolov, destroy the Shagohod,
and get the Legacy.
- Snake is sent back to Tselinoyarsk (Operation Snake Eater). Ocelot
(codenamed ADAM) is set up to meet with Snake and assist him.
- Tatyana, posing as EVA, meets up with Snake instead and plants a
transmitter on him.
- EVA gives Granin shoes with a transmitter in one of the heels.
- Ocelot and Snake have a duel but are interrupted by the Pain's hornets.
- Snake kills the Pain and meets Granin at his research facility. Granin
tells Snake about his Metal Gear designs.
- Snake battles with and kills the Fear and the End. EVA steals the C3
plastic explosives from Groznyj Grad.
- Ocelot obtains the Metal Gear designs from Granin.
- Volgin kills Granin and finds the transmitter in his shoe. Snake kills
the Fury and infiltrates Groznyj Grad.
- EVA obtains the Shagohod test data from Sokolov. Snake finds Sokolov
but is captured.
- Volgin kills Sokolov. While torturing Snake, Volgin finds the
transmitter. Ocelot accidentally shoots out Snake's right eye.
- Snake escapes from captivity and meets the Sorrow's ghost. Snake meets
back up with EVA receives the C3.
- The Boss makes Ocelot and EVA both promise that they won't kill Snake.
- Snake uses the C3 to destroy the Shagohod's hangar. EVA tries to steal
the Philosopher's Legacy but is caught by Ocelot.
- Volgin tells the Boss to put the Legacy somewhere safe, but she keeps
it. She gives EVA a fake Legacy and lets her escape.
- Snake fights Volgin and destroys the Shagohod. Volgin is killed by
lightning from the Sorrow's storm.
- Snake and EVA escape to the lake where the Boss is waiting. The Boss
destroys Groznyj Grad and the Granin Research Facility with the Davy
Crockett.
- Snake battles with and kills the Boss. Before she dies, she gives Snake
the Philosopher's Legacy and her Patriot.
- Snake and Ocelot have one last meaningless duel.
- Snake and EVA escape in a WIG and head for Alaska (Operation Snake Eater
successful).
- EVA leaves Snake, taking the fake Legacy, and goes back to China. She
leaves a tape explaining the Boss's true mission.
- Snake brings the Philosopher's Legacy back for the United States and is
awarded the title of "Big Boss."
- The Director of the CIA decides to create an infiltration unit for the
army.
- Big Boss defects from the FOX unit.
- (September) First test flight of XB70, a heavy bomber capable of Mach 3.
- (October) Tokyo Olympics held.
- U.S.S.R. sends 3 cosmonauts into space aboard the Voskhod 1.
- Khrushchev is ousted from power. Brezhnev becomes the First Secretary
of the Communist Party, with Kosygin as Premier.
- China conducts its first successful nuclear test in the Takla Makan
desert.
- (December) Motosada Mori born.
- Ocelot practices torture techniques at Lubianka Prison in the Spetsnaz
headquarters. He serves as a special torture advisor in the
concentration camps.
- Vulcan Raven begins training in Russia with the Bimpel.
1965 - Sigint joins ARPA. He takes part in the development of ARPAnet.
1966 - The U.S. government conducts a study on emergency medical treatment. The
Department of Transportation lays the groundwork for the creation of
the EMT system.
1968 - EVA disappears without a trace in Hanoi.
1969 - ARPAnet goes online.
1970 - Para-Medic establishes the nation's first paramedic system in Seattle,
Washington.
- Major Zero disbands FOX.
- The United States accumulates the remainder of the Legacy. The U.S.
branch of "Philosophers" changes its name to the "Patriots."
- America, the Soviet Union, France, England, and China sign the NPT
(Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).
- Some remaining FOX members execute a revolt against the U.S. government.
- Major Zero and Big Boss are mistakenly charged with treason.
1971 - Carrying on the traditions of Major Zero and his FOX unit, Big Boss
establishes FOXHOUND.
- Big Boss and FOXHOUND disarm the FOX resistance members and destroy the
"ultimate weapon" (events of Portable Ops).
1972 - Big Boss is wounded in combat and falls into a coma.
- The "Les Enfants Terribles" project. The sons of Big Boss are born.
- Liquid Snake moves to England upon birth.
- Gray Fox is born.
- Psycho Mantis is born in a small village in Russia. His mother dies in
childbirth. Mantis burns his village down and is later recruited by
the KGB.
1974 - NEST (Nuclear Emergency Search Team) is established to provide
technological support to the FBI during incidents involving criminal
threats of nuclear weapon use.
1976 - Nastasha Romanenko is born and raised in Prypiat, Ukraine.
197X - Iraq is inspected by the IAEA, but only allows inspectors from Bulgaria
and Russia to enter.
? - Vamp is born in Romania. His church is blown up by a terrorist's bomb
and he is forced to feed on the blood of his dead family while stuck
in the rubble.
1979 - Raiden is born in New York City. Solidus kills his parents and raises
him as a soldier in the Army of the Devil.
1982 - Naomi Hunter is born.
198X - Sniper Wolf is born in a Kurd tribe in Iraq. Her family is killed by
Saddam Hussein in a chemical attack.
- Big Boss finds Wolf and brings her to the U.S.
1984 - Gray Fox kills Naomi's parents in Rhodesia and takes Naomi with him.
- Big Boss finds Naomi and Gray Fox during Mozambique's civil war and
brings them to the U.S.
- Big Boss and Gray Fox return to Africa to continue fighting the war.
1986 - Nastasha Romanenko and her family are showered by the radiation from the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Prypiat (a city 3 kms north
of Chernobyl).
198X - Big Boss secretly establishes his armed fortress nation "Outer Heaven"
in South Africa and takes in many mercenaries and war orphans. He
continues his role as the commander of FOXHOUND.
- Otacon begins having an affair with his stepmom, Julie (Emma's mother).
- Otacon's father commits suicide and Otacon leaves the family. Emma and
Julie later move back to England.
1989 - (April) David Christy, the author of this FAQ, is born.
- Raiden fights in the Liberian Civil War alongside Solidus. Raiden
becomes the leader of the small boys unit.
- At the end of the civil war, Raiden is taken in by an NGO and brought
back to the United States.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, setting off the Gulf War.
- Nastasha's parents participate in the cleanup at Chernobyl and die of
radiation sickness. Nastasha moves to the U.S.
- Liquid works for the British special force SAS to destroy the mobile
SCUD missile launchers in the Gulf War.
- He becomes a POW in Iraq and is declared MIA.
- Solid Snake infiltrates western Iraq with a platoon of Green Berets.
1991 - The military secretly injects soldiers in the Gulf War with Big Boss's
"soldier genes" as part of an experiment (Gulf War syndrome).
- The Gulf War ends.
- (September) IAEA discovers that Iraq had been developing nuclear weapons
right under their nose.
- (October) The KGB is dissolved and replaced by the SVR.
- (December) The Communist system collapses. End of the Soviet Union.
1992 - The Cold War ends.
- Snezhinsk, Sergei Gurlukovich's home, is bought out by America.
Gurlukovich establishes a private army that aims to restore Mother
Russia.
- Psycho Mantis moves to the U.S. and joins the FBI as a psychic profiler.
- Nastasha joins the DIA. She marries Richard Ames but they soon are
divorced. Ames disappears.
- Ocelot serves in the Russian Tax Police's elite SWAT team and then joins
the SVR.
- Ocelot is dissatisfied with the rigid system of the KGB (SVR) and is
recruited by FOXHOUND.
- Running Man is a short-range runner at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
- He is banished from the Athlete's Association for doping. He joins
European terrorists.
199X - Big Boss begins construction on Metal Gear TX-55 to establish military
superiority over the world. He kidnaps Dr. Pettrovich's daughter,
Ellen, to force him to work on Metal Gear TX-55.
1993 - (January) Start-2 Accord signed.
- (September) A coup d'etat is launched against Russian President, Boris
Yeltsin. Vulcan Raven participates.
- The coup d'etat fails and Vulcan Raven is demoted. Raven flees the
country and becomes a mercenary. He joins Outer Heaven.
1994 - Liquid is rescued from Iraq by the U.S. government and returns to
England.
? - Fatman downloads a guidebook off of the internet and builds an atomic
bomb.
- Solid Snake joins FOXHOUND.
1995 - Nastasha leaves the DIA to become a freelance analyst. She writes for
assorted information magazines and U.S. Naval information magazines.
- NATO discovers that a new nuclear weapon is under construction at Outer
Heaven. FOXHOUND is asked to take care of it.
- Big Boss sends Gray Fox to Outer Heaven and captures him (Operation
Intrude N313).
- Big Boss then sends in the inexperienced Solid Snake hoping that he can
trick Snake into delivering false information about Metal Gear TX-55
back to the U.S.
- Snake is able to rescue Gray Fox, Dr. Pettrovich, and Ellen.
- The U.S. government tries to kill Kyle Schneider because he is a
liability.
- Snake finds Metal Gear TX-55 and destroys it, causing Outer Heaven's
self-destruct sequence to begin.
- Snake is confronted by Big Boss while escaping. Snake defeats Big Boss
and escapes from Outer Heaven. Outer Heaven is destroyed, but Big
Boss manages to survive (Operation Intrude N313 successful).
- NATO conducts an air raid on the remains of Outer Heaven to eliminate
any evidence of the war orphans that reside there. Big Boss rescues
the survivors. Kyle Schneider is one of them.
- Snake retires from FOXHOUND.
- Vulcan Raven joins FOXHOUND (with high recommendation from Ocelot).
- Roy Campbell becomes the new commander of FOXHOUND.
1996 - Nastasha attends the Canberra Committee, the world's first nationally
hosted nuclear weapons abolition proposal group, as an advisor.
1997 - Big Boss establishes the military regime, Zanzibar Land in Central Asia
and fights off the CIS army with his army of mercenaries to declare
its independence (The Mercenary War).
- Gray Fox becomes the leader of Zanzibar Land. Dr. Pettrovich voluntarily
begins construction on Metal Gear D. Running Man is recruited by
Zanzibar Land.
- (July) First sub-critical test performed at the Nevada Nuclear Testing
Facility.
- Kyle Schneider becomes part of the NASA special force. He is equipped
with a hi-tech ninja suit and renamed Black Color. He is later
recruited by Big Boss in Zanzibar Land.
199X - Start-3 negotiations begin.
1999 - Petroleum begins to run out causing an energy crisis.
- Dr. Kio Marv invents OILIX to solve the energy crisis.
- Holly White enters Zanzibar Land as a journalist.
- Dr. Marv is abducted and taken to Zanzibar Land. The U.S. calls upon
FOXHOUND to handle the situation.
- Colonel Campbell calls Snake out of retirement to recover Dr. Marv and
OILIX (Operation Intrude F014).
- Snake successfully infiltrates Zanzibar Land and finds Dr. Marv dead.
Snake kills Dr. Pettrovich and recovers OILIX.
- Snake destroys Metal Gear D and kills Gray Fox.
- Big Boss confronts Snake once more and Snake kills Big Boss. Before Big
Boss dies, he tells Snake that he is Snake's father.
- Snake escapes from Zanzibar Land and disappears into Alaska (Operation
Intrude F014 successful).
- Roy Campbell retires from FOXHOUND.
- Dr. Clark starts the gene therapy project. He revives Gray Fox, keeps
him drugged, and experiments on him.
- Big Boss's body is taken by the U.S. government for gene therapy
experiments.
- The test on the National Missile Defense program succeeds but is
considered a chance happening.
- A countermeasure program to the Y2K bug is distributed worldwide along
with a secret program designed by the Patriots.
Continued below...
An X in the ones or tens digit of the year means that I am only sure of
the decade or century. All ?'s in the year means that I have made an educated
assumption about the placement of the event but I am uncertain about the exact
placement. Other than that, the format is basically the same as the timeline
in the MGS3 manual.
4000 - (Ma) Life appears in the oceans.
1789 - (April) George Washington is inaugurated at Federal Hall in New York
City, beginning his term as the 1st President of the United States.
1812 - Federal Hall is destroyed.
1842 - Federal Hall is rebuilt as the United States' first Customs House.
1873 - The first model of the Colt Single Action Army is produced.
1886 - (October) The Statue of Liberty, a gift from France, is dedicated by
President Grover Cleveland.
19XX - In the midst of World War I, the true holders of power in America,
China, and the Soviet Union come together in a secret meeting (the
Wiseman's Committee) and make a pact. This marks the beginning of
the Philosophers. The Boss's father is one of them.
- The Boss's father is killed by the other Philosopher's for telling the
Boss too much.
193X - The last of the original Philosophers die.
- Tatyana is raised in a "charm school" as a sleeper agent for the
Philosophers. The Boss is an instructor at one of these schools.
1939 - (August) Albert Einstein writes a letter to President Franklin Roosevelt
urging the development of an atomic bomb.
- (September) German Army invades Poland, setting off World War II.
- (November) Soviet army invades Finland (the Winter War)
194X - Night vision devices are introduced.
1941 - (June) German army launches a surprise attack against the Soviet Union
(Operation Barbarossa).
- (July) British Army's SAS (Special Air Service) formed.
- (December) Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor.
1942 - (August) U.S. army's research division begins development of the atomic
bomb (the Manhattan Project). Otacon's grandfather participates.
- (September) Siege of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) begins.
- The Philosophers pool their countries' money and resources to defeat the
Axis powers and create a new world order (The Philosopher's Legacy).
A secret spy network is established between the countries.
- In the midst of World War II, The Boss forms the Cobra Unit.
- (December) Physicist Enrico Fermi succeeds in splitting an atom inside a
nuclear reactor.
1943 - (January) Soviet army emerges victorious in the battle of Stalingrad.
1944 - (June) Allies land at Normandy (D-day). The Boss and the Cobra Unit take
part. The Boss gives birth to the Sorrow's baby (Ocelot).
- The Philosophers steal Ocelot and raise him. Ocelot joins GRU at an
early age to report the Soviet Union's dealings back to the U.S.
- V-1 rockets fall on London.
1945 - (July) First atomic test in history takes place at Trinity in Los
Alamos, New Mexico in the United States.
- (August) Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Otacon's
father is born.
- World War II ends. The Cold War begins. The Philosopher's are split up.
- Volgin's father launders all the money from the Philosopher's Legacy in
banks all over the world. A microfilm is created with a record of all
the transactions.
- (September) The Democratic Republic of Vietnam declares independence.
1946 - (February) ENIAC, the world's first computer, completed.
1947 - (September) CIA (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) established.
- (October) Pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X1.
- The Boss disbands the Cobra Unit. The Boss returns to the U.S. and the
Sorrow returns to the Soviet Union.
1949 - (April) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) established.
- (May) Germany split into East and West.
- (June) British author, George Orwell, publishes 1984.
- (August) U.S.S.R. tests its first atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk,
Kazakhstan, becoming the world's second nuclear power.
- (October) People's Republic of China founded.
1950 - (June) Outbreak of Korean War.
- Snake becomes The Boss's disciple.
1951 - (November) "Buster Dog" atomic test conducted at Area 7 in Nevada, with
Army troops participating. The Boss is exposed to the radiation.
1952 - (November) U.S. establishes the NSA (National Security Agency).
1953 - (April) Watson and Crick discover the double-helix structure of DNA.
- (July) End of the Korean War.
- (August) Nikita Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party.
1954 - (January) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announces the New Look
policy (the so-called "massive retaliation strategy").
- U.S. Navy launches the world's first nuclear submarine, the USS
Nautilus.
- (February) Hydrogen bomb tested on Bikini Atoll. Snake is exposed to the
radiation and diagnosed as sterile.
- (March) KGB (Soviet Commission for State Security) formed.
- (May) French garrison of Dien Bien Phu falls, signaling the victory of
the Viet Minh. France pulls out of Indochina.
- (November) Japanese movie, Godzilla, released.
1955 - (April) Albert Einstein dies, pleading for an end to nuclear weapons.
1957 - (August) U.S.S.R successfully launches an intercontinental ballistic
missile (ICBM).
- (October) Soviet Union succeeds in launching the world's first
artificial satellite, Sputnik, into orbit (the Sputnik Shock).
- IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is established to oversee
applications of atomic power all over the world.
1958 - (January) U.S. launches its first artificial satellite, Explorer 1.
- (October) NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
begins operation.
1959 - (January) Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro comes to power.
- The Boss leaves Snake to go on a secret mission.
- The Soviet Union stops supplying China with nuclear weapons technology.
- (October) Luna 3 moon rocket photographs the dark side of the moon.
- University of Minnesota professor Mordecai Roshwald publishes the novel
Level 7.
- (December) American movie On the Beach released.
1960 - Mafia sting operations start in Chicago.
- (May) American U2 spy plane violates Soviet airspace and is shot down
over the Ural Mountains.
- Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announces missile aid to Cuba.
- South Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF) forms.
- The U.S. sends the Boss into space to keep up with the Soviet Union in
space exploration.
- (September) Two NSA codebreakers, ADAM and EVA, defect to the Soviet
Union.
1961 - (January) John F. Kennedy assumes office as the 35th President of the
United States.
- (February) U.S. conducts first test of Minutemen intercontinental
ballistic missile.
- (April) U.S.S.R launches Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft in
history, piloted by Yuri Gagarin.
- (May) Alan Shepard becomes first American in rocket flight aboard the
Redstone Rocket.
- (August) Construction begins on the Berlin Wall in Germany.
- American movie The Guns of Navarone released.
- (September) U.S. 5th Special Forces Group, the "Green Berets" activated.
Snake joins.
- (October) U.S.S.R. conducts its first atomic test in space above Russia.
- Japanese movie Last War released.
- (December) U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces increase in military
assistance to South Vietnam.
- Harry Gregson-Williams born.
- The Boss is sent to Cuba as part of a CIA-sponsored invasion under the
guise of taking Cuban exiles back to their country (the Bay of Pigs
invasion).
1962 - (January) Navy SEALS formed.
- (February) U.S. achieves its first manned space flight with the launch
of Friendship 7.
- Major Zero helps Sokolov and his family defect to the U.S.
- (July) Kyle Cooper born.
- (October) American U2 spy planes confirm presence of Soviet missiles in
Cuba, precipitating the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Sokolov sent back to U.S.S.R. He is forced to continue working on the
Shagohod.
- (December) U.S. Mars rocket Mariner 2 approaches Mars and begins sending
back survey data.
- U.S. begins producing the "Davy Crockett" portable nuclear missiles.
- The Boss kills the Sorrow at Tselinoyarsk as part of a secret mission
for the Philosophers.
1963 - (February) U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign Hotline Agreement, establishing a
direct telephone hotline between the American and Soviet leaders.
- (June) British spy James Bond makes his first movie appearance in
"Doctor No."
- (August) U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty
(PTBT) in the Kremlin (banning atmospheric, space-based, and
underwater testing of nuclear weapons).
- Movie "The Great Escape" released.
- Hideo Kojima born.
- (November) U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated. Lyndon B.
Johnson becomes President.
- Colonel Volgin leads an uprising against Krushchev with the Brezhnev
faction.
- John le Carre publishes "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold."
- 10,000 U.S. military advisors stationed in Vietnam.
- 100,000 South Vietnamese civilians serving U.S. military.
- Granin creates basic Metal Gear design for Volgin but has no actual
results from research.
1964 - (April) James Bond movie "From Russia with Love" released.
- (July) U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into
law.
- (August) Gulf of Tonkin incident.
- The U.S. learns of the Shagohod and decides to get Sokolov back.
- Volgin uses the Philosophers' spy network to suggest that the Boss
defect to the Soviet Union and join his faction. The U.S.
Philosophers use this opportunity to attempt to steal the
Philosophers' Legacy.
- The American Philosophers send Ocelot to infiltrate Volgin's faction
and oversee the operation.
- Tatyana is sent by China to steal the Philosopher's Legacy. She
infiltrates Sokolov's research facility pretending to be an agent of
Krushchev's.
- Snake is sent to Tselinoyarsk to rescue Sokolov (Virtuous Mission).
- The Boss "defects." Volgin kidnaps Sokolov and Tatyana and steals the
Shagohod (Virtuous Mission fails).
- Colonel Volgin uses the Davy Crockett to destroy Sokolov's research
facility. The Boss is blamed for it.
- Krushchev calls President Johnson and demands that the U.S. eliminate
the Boss and Volgin. The American Philosophers decide to use Snake to
fulfill Krushchev's demands, retrieve Sokolov, destroy the Shagohod,
and get the Legacy.
- Snake is sent back to Tselinoyarsk (Operation Snake Eater). Ocelot
(codenamed ADAM) is set up to meet with Snake and assist him.
- Tatyana, posing as EVA, meets up with Snake instead and plants a
transmitter on him.
- EVA gives Granin shoes with a transmitter in one of the heels.
- Ocelot and Snake have a duel but are interrupted by the Pain's hornets.
- Snake kills the Pain and meets Granin at his research facility. Granin
tells Snake about his Metal Gear designs.
- Snake battles with and kills the Fear and the End. EVA steals the C3
plastic explosives from Groznyj Grad.
- Ocelot obtains the Metal Gear designs from Granin.
- Volgin kills Granin and finds the transmitter in his shoe. Snake kills
the Fury and infiltrates Groznyj Grad.
- EVA obtains the Shagohod test data from Sokolov. Snake finds Sokolov
but is captured.
- Volgin kills Sokolov. While torturing Snake, Volgin finds the
transmitter. Ocelot accidentally shoots out Snake's right eye.
- Snake escapes from captivity and meets the Sorrow's ghost. Snake meets
back up with EVA receives the C3.
- The Boss makes Ocelot and EVA both promise that they won't kill Snake.
- Snake uses the C3 to destroy the Shagohod's hangar. EVA tries to steal
the Philosopher's Legacy but is caught by Ocelot.
- Volgin tells the Boss to put the Legacy somewhere safe, but she keeps
it. She gives EVA a fake Legacy and lets her escape.
- Snake fights Volgin and destroys the Shagohod. Volgin is killed by
lightning from the Sorrow's storm.
- Snake and EVA escape to the lake where the Boss is waiting. The Boss
destroys Groznyj Grad and the Granin Research Facility with the Davy
Crockett.
- Snake battles with and kills the Boss. Before she dies, she gives Snake
the Philosopher's Legacy and her Patriot.
- Snake and Ocelot have one last meaningless duel.
- Snake and EVA escape in a WIG and head for Alaska (Operation Snake Eater
successful).
- EVA leaves Snake, taking the fake Legacy, and goes back to China. She
leaves a tape explaining the Boss's true mission.
- Snake brings the Philosopher's Legacy back for the United States and is
awarded the title of "Big Boss."
- The Director of the CIA decides to create an infiltration unit for the
army.
- Big Boss defects from the FOX unit.
- (September) First test flight of XB70, a heavy bomber capable of Mach 3.
- (October) Tokyo Olympics held.
- U.S.S.R. sends 3 cosmonauts into space aboard the Voskhod 1.
- Khrushchev is ousted from power. Brezhnev becomes the First Secretary
of the Communist Party, with Kosygin as Premier.
- China conducts its first successful nuclear test in the Takla Makan
desert.
- (December) Motosada Mori born.
- Ocelot practices torture techniques at Lubianka Prison in the Spetsnaz
headquarters. He serves as a special torture advisor in the
concentration camps.
- Vulcan Raven begins training in Russia with the Bimpel.
1965 - Sigint joins ARPA. He takes part in the development of ARPAnet.
1966 - The U.S. government conducts a study on emergency medical treatment. The
Department of Transportation lays the groundwork for the creation of
the EMT system.
1968 - EVA disappears without a trace in Hanoi.
1969 - ARPAnet goes online.
1970 - Para-Medic establishes the nation's first paramedic system in Seattle,
Washington.
- Major Zero disbands FOX.
- The United States accumulates the remainder of the Legacy. The U.S.
branch of "Philosophers" changes its name to the "Patriots."
- America, the Soviet Union, France, England, and China sign the NPT
(Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty).
- Some remaining FOX members execute a revolt against the U.S. government.
- Major Zero and Big Boss are mistakenly charged with treason.
1971 - Carrying on the traditions of Major Zero and his FOX unit, Big Boss
establishes FOXHOUND.
- Big Boss and FOXHOUND disarm the FOX resistance members and destroy the
"ultimate weapon" (events of Portable Ops).
1972 - Big Boss is wounded in combat and falls into a coma.
- The "Les Enfants Terribles" project. The sons of Big Boss are born.
- Liquid Snake moves to England upon birth.
- Gray Fox is born.
- Psycho Mantis is born in a small village in Russia. His mother dies in
childbirth. Mantis burns his village down and is later recruited by
the KGB.
1974 - NEST (Nuclear Emergency Search Team) is established to provide
technological support to the FBI during incidents involving criminal
threats of nuclear weapon use.
1976 - Nastasha Romanenko is born and raised in Prypiat, Ukraine.
197X - Iraq is inspected by the IAEA, but only allows inspectors from Bulgaria
and Russia to enter.
? - Vamp is born in Romania. His church is blown up by a terrorist's bomb
and he is forced to feed on the blood of his dead family while stuck
in the rubble.
1979 - Raiden is born in New York City. Solidus kills his parents and raises
him as a soldier in the Army of the Devil.
1982 - Naomi Hunter is born.
198X - Sniper Wolf is born in a Kurd tribe in Iraq. Her family is killed by
Saddam Hussein in a chemical attack.
- Big Boss finds Wolf and brings her to the U.S.
1984 - Gray Fox kills Naomi's parents in Rhodesia and takes Naomi with him.
- Big Boss finds Naomi and Gray Fox during Mozambique's civil war and
brings them to the U.S.
- Big Boss and Gray Fox return to Africa to continue fighting the war.
1986 - Nastasha Romanenko and her family are showered by the radiation from the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in Prypiat (a city 3 kms north
of Chernobyl).
198X - Big Boss secretly establishes his armed fortress nation "Outer Heaven"
in South Africa and takes in many mercenaries and war orphans. He
continues his role as the commander of FOXHOUND.
- Otacon begins having an affair with his stepmom, Julie (Emma's mother).
- Otacon's father commits suicide and Otacon leaves the family. Emma and
Julie later move back to England.
1989 - (April) David Christy, the author of this FAQ, is born.
- Raiden fights in the Liberian Civil War alongside Solidus. Raiden
becomes the leader of the small boys unit.
- At the end of the civil war, Raiden is taken in by an NGO and brought
back to the United States.
1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait, setting off the Gulf War.
- Nastasha's parents participate in the cleanup at Chernobyl and die of
radiation sickness. Nastasha moves to the U.S.
- Liquid works for the British special force SAS to destroy the mobile
SCUD missile launchers in the Gulf War.
- He becomes a POW in Iraq and is declared MIA.
- Solid Snake infiltrates western Iraq with a platoon of Green Berets.
1991 - The military secretly injects soldiers in the Gulf War with Big Boss's
"soldier genes" as part of an experiment (Gulf War syndrome).
- The Gulf War ends.
- (September) IAEA discovers that Iraq had been developing nuclear weapons
right under their nose.
- (October) The KGB is dissolved and replaced by the SVR.
- (December) The Communist system collapses. End of the Soviet Union.
1992 - The Cold War ends.
- Snezhinsk, Sergei Gurlukovich's home, is bought out by America.
Gurlukovich establishes a private army that aims to restore Mother
Russia.
- Psycho Mantis moves to the U.S. and joins the FBI as a psychic profiler.
- Nastasha joins the DIA. She marries Richard Ames but they soon are
divorced. Ames disappears.
- Ocelot serves in the Russian Tax Police's elite SWAT team and then joins
the SVR.
- Ocelot is dissatisfied with the rigid system of the KGB (SVR) and is
recruited by FOXHOUND.
- Running Man is a short-range runner at the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
- He is banished from the Athlete's Association for doping. He joins
European terrorists.
199X - Big Boss begins construction on Metal Gear TX-55 to establish military
superiority over the world. He kidnaps Dr. Pettrovich's daughter,
Ellen, to force him to work on Metal Gear TX-55.
1993 - (January) Start-2 Accord signed.
- (September) A coup d'etat is launched against Russian President, Boris
Yeltsin. Vulcan Raven participates.
- The coup d'etat fails and Vulcan Raven is demoted. Raven flees the
country and becomes a mercenary. He joins Outer Heaven.
1994 - Liquid is rescued from Iraq by the U.S. government and returns to
England.
? - Fatman downloads a guidebook off of the internet and builds an atomic
bomb.
- Solid Snake joins FOXHOUND.
1995 - Nastasha leaves the DIA to become a freelance analyst. She writes for
assorted information magazines and U.S. Naval information magazines.
- NATO discovers that a new nuclear weapon is under construction at Outer
Heaven. FOXHOUND is asked to take care of it.
- Big Boss sends Gray Fox to Outer Heaven and captures him (Operation
Intrude N313).
- Big Boss then sends in the inexperienced Solid Snake hoping that he can
trick Snake into delivering false information about Metal Gear TX-55
back to the U.S.
- Snake is able to rescue Gray Fox, Dr. Pettrovich, and Ellen.
- The U.S. government tries to kill Kyle Schneider because he is a
liability.
- Snake finds Metal Gear TX-55 and destroys it, causing Outer Heaven's
self-destruct sequence to begin.
- Snake is confronted by Big Boss while escaping. Snake defeats Big Boss
and escapes from Outer Heaven. Outer Heaven is destroyed, but Big
Boss manages to survive (Operation Intrude N313 successful).
- NATO conducts an air raid on the remains of Outer Heaven to eliminate
any evidence of the war orphans that reside there. Big Boss rescues
the survivors. Kyle Schneider is one of them.
- Snake retires from FOXHOUND.
- Vulcan Raven joins FOXHOUND (with high recommendation from Ocelot).
- Roy Campbell becomes the new commander of FOXHOUND.
1996 - Nastasha attends the Canberra Committee, the world's first nationally
hosted nuclear weapons abolition proposal group, as an advisor.
1997 - Big Boss establishes the military regime, Zanzibar Land in Central Asia
and fights off the CIS army with his army of mercenaries to declare
its independence (The Mercenary War).
- Gray Fox becomes the leader of Zanzibar Land. Dr. Pettrovich voluntarily
begins construction on Metal Gear D. Running Man is recruited by
Zanzibar Land.
- (July) First sub-critical test performed at the Nevada Nuclear Testing
Facility.
- Kyle Schneider becomes part of the NASA special force. He is equipped
with a hi-tech ninja suit and renamed Black Color. He is later
recruited by Big Boss in Zanzibar Land.
199X - Start-3 negotiations begin.
1999 - Petroleum begins to run out causing an energy crisis.
- Dr. Kio Marv invents OILIX to solve the energy crisis.
- Holly White enters Zanzibar Land as a journalist.
- Dr. Marv is abducted and taken to Zanzibar Land. The U.S. calls upon
FOXHOUND to handle the situation.
- Colonel Campbell calls Snake out of retirement to recover Dr. Marv and
OILIX (Operation Intrude F014).
- Snake successfully infiltrates Zanzibar Land and finds Dr. Marv dead.
Snake kills Dr. Pettrovich and recovers OILIX.
- Snake destroys Metal Gear D and kills Gray Fox.
- Big Boss confronts Snake once more and Snake kills Big Boss. Before Big
Boss dies, he tells Snake that he is Snake's father.
- Snake escapes from Zanzibar Land and disappears into Alaska (Operation
Intrude F014 successful).
- Roy Campbell retires from FOXHOUND.
- Dr. Clark starts the gene therapy project. He revives Gray Fox, keeps
him drugged, and experiments on him.
- Big Boss's body is taken by the U.S. government for gene therapy
experiments.
- The test on the National Missile Defense program succeeds but is
considered a chance happening.
- A countermeasure program to the Y2K bug is distributed worldwide along
with a secret program designed by the Patriots.
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