Timeline

• Patriots living in Boston form the "Sons of Liberty".

• Inauguration ceremony for President Washington takes place at Federal Hall.

• The Philosophers are founded.

• The Boss is born as daughter of the Philosophers.

• Last member of the Philosophers dies.

• Scientist Albert Einstein sends letter to US President Roosevelt proposing the development of an atomic bomb.
• Outbreak of World War II.

• UK founds SAS (Special Air Service Regiment).

• US founds OSS (Office of Strategic Services).
• Physicist Enrico Fermi succeeds in developing world's first nuclear reactor.
• US Army Corps of Engineers begin work on Manhattan Project.
• Grandfather of Otacon (Hal Emmerich) participates in Manhattan Project.
• Battle of Stalingrad; The Boss forms Cobra Unit.

• Cobra Unit participates in allied invasion of Normandy.

• World's first atomic bomb is detonated in Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.
• Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
• Father of Otacon (Hal Emmerich) is born.

• World's first computer, ENIAC, is completed.

• CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) is founded in America.
• Cobra Unit is disbanded.

• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) established.
• Soviet Union tests atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk.
• Germany splits into East and West.

• US President Truman orders production of slew of nuclear warheads.
• The Boss encounters Naked Snake and trains him in combat, demolition, and intel gathering techniques.
• Outbreak of Korean War.

• MOSSAD (Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) is founded in Israel.
• Nuclear test takes place in Nevada desert. US Army troops participate. The Boss is exposed to large amounts of radiation.

• Wernher von Braun outlines a plan to send humans to Mars.
• NSA (National Security Agency) is founded in America.

• Nikita Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of Soviet Communist Party.
• Watson and Crick discover the double-helix structure of DNA.

• US Navy launches world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus.
• Hydrogen bomb tested on Bikini Atoll. Naked Snake, Godzilla, and the crew of Japanese fishing boat, Daigo Fukuryu Maru, are exposed to radiation.
• Secretary of State Dulles announces the New Look Policy (massive retaliation strategy) in America.
• KGB (Soviet Union Committee for State Security) is founded.

• Albert Einstein dies, pleading for end to nuclear weapons.
• World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs holds its first session in Japan.

• US successfully tests first ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).
• Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik 1.

• US successfully launches Explorer 1 satellite.

• Cuban Revolution begins.
• NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is born from NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).

• American U2 spy plane violates Soviet airspace.
• Soviet Premier Khrushchev announces missile aid to Cuba.
• Two NSA codebreakers, ADAM and EVA, defect to Soviet Union.

• International negotiations between US and Cuba cease.
• President Kennedy earns disapproval of the Philosophers.
• Gagarin travels aboard Vostok 1 in world's first manned space flight.
• Alan Shepard becomes first American to experience rocket flight.
• Construction begins on Berlin Wall.
• Green Berets (US 5th Special Forces Group) created.
• Soviet Union tests atomic bomb in Arctic Circle.

• U2 spy planes confirm presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• Marking the end of a 114 day strike, the New York Times publishes 702 page Sunday edition.
• Valentino Tereshikova travels aboard Soviet Vostok 6, becoming the first female cosmonaut.
• Soviet and American leaders sign the Hot Line Agreement.
• Soviet Union, US, and UK sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
• US President Kennedy is assassinated.

• US Department of Health announces that cigarettes cause lung cancer.
• Gulf of Tonkin Incident occurs in Vietnam.
• Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater.
• Naked Snake awarded the title of Big Boss.

• US drops bombs on North Vietnam.
• Sigint joins ARPA.

• US Department of Transportation establishes the EMT emergency medical technician response system.

• Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
• SALT-1 (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) initiated.
• EVA disappears in Hanoi.

• US Apollo program puts first man on moon.
• US Department of Defense and ARPA establish ARPAnet, the basis for the Internet.

• First paramedic system introduced in Seattle, Washington, USA.
• San Hieronymo Peninsula Incident. Successor Project ends.
• Major Zero disbands FOX Unit. Big Boss ordered to become FOXHOUND commander.
• US leadership acquires remainder of the Philosophers' Legacy.
• The Philosophers change their name to the Patriots.

• Soviet Union launches world's first space station, Salyut-1.
• Les Enfants Terribles Project commences.
• Big Boss establishes FOXHOUND Unit.

• Apollo program ends with Apollo-17.
• Les Enfants Terribles Project gives birth to the sons of Big Boss (Solid and Liquid).
• Big Boss leaves the Patriots.

• US launches Skylab space station.
• US ground troops withdrawn from Vietnam.

• Richard Dawkins publishes The Selfish Gene.

• US Delta Force (1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta) established.

• Soviet invades Afghanistan (new cold war begins).
• Frank Jaeger rescues an orphaned Naomi from civil war in Rhodesia.

• US launches Columbia, the world's first space shuttle.

• Falklands War begins.

• US President Reagan announces the SDI.

• Gorbachev's new administration brings Soviet Union into post-cold war era.

• Space shuttle program stalls due to Challenger explosion.
• Soviet space station, Mir, is launched.
• Human Genome Project proposed. Worldwide gene research commences.
• Soviet nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl.

• Berlin Wall falls.
• Raiden goes to war as child soldier in Liberia.

• Iraq invades Kuwait.
• East and West Germany are reunited.

• Gulf War commences.
• Soviet Union collapses, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) rises in its place.

• Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is ratified.

• Outer Heaven Uprising.

• United Nations adopt Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

• Zanzibarland Disturbance.
• Ocelot scouted by newly formed FOXHOUND Unit.
• The Patriots perform surgery, install enhanced cybernetic body onto Gray Fox.
• UK scientists successfully create somatically cloned sheep.

• Joint team of Japanese, American, and European scientists announce the successful mapping of the human genome.

• Multiple terrorist attacks strike the US on September 11.

• Multilateral military strike launched upon Iraq.

• Shadow Moses Incident.
• Documentary "The Truth Behind Shadow Moses" becomes best selling book.

• Manhattan Tanker Incident.
• Construction on Big Shell Disposal Facility commences.

• Big Shell Incident.
• Ocelot (Liquid) retrieves GW from Arsenal Gear.

• Precipitated by the Arsenal Gear Manhattan Incident, US begins to actively enlist PMC troops.

• Raiden rescues Sunny, who is then left to Snake and Otacon.
• Worldwide demand for PMC (Private Military Company) troops increases, disputes intensify. SOP System adopted.

• Raiden captured by the Patriots, rescued by EVA.

• The Patriots release information regarding Big Boss and CQC.
• Guns of the Patriots Project.
• The Patriots AI network, centered around JD, is destroyed.