Timeline/1951

Timeline

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(Based on dates given directly from the games, official websites, and other media)

Pre-Invasion
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1957

Date Unknown

• Irma Lindeman's daughter, Molly Lindeman is born.

January

• January 1: Benjamin Warner is released to the United States Army for clandestine observation by SRPA.
• January 5: A Goliath is taken down in nearly two hours by a small British squad using hit-and-run tactics.
• January 7: The U.S. Marine Corps lists Joseph Capelli as killed in action before he is reclaimed by SRPA.
• January 11: Joseph Capelli is recruited to the Sentinel Program in SRPA Station 003.
• January 12: Joseph Capelli is assigned to Sentinel Kilo Team under the command of Lt. Stuart Brown.
• January 20: Lieutenant Stephen Cartwright's British Commando unit finds piles of charred bodies. They also discover groups of savage humans seemingly aligned with the Chimera. These foreign fighters ritualistically mutilate both themselves and their victims. They leave slashed-hand markings behind and were recognized as the Cloven.
• January 27: Stephen Cartwright's squad encounters more and more Cloven each day.
• January 29:
  • Stephen Cartwright writes in his journal entry that attempts at communicating with the Cloven result in violence, and that their motives are unclear, as they appear to regard both humans and Chimera as enemies.
  • Joseph Capelli is cited for Conduct Unbecoming. He is suspended for two weeks.
• January 31: Stephen Cartwright observes the Cloven scavenging the bodies of some British soldiers after a battle. Cartwright wonders how even the Cloven can resort to such savagery.

February

• February 1: Staffers at Project Abraham begin vacating the base in Alaska.
• February 6: Lieutenant Colonel Canning is captured and imprisoned in a conversion center in Grimsby, England. He noticed that the facility is running on a skeleton crew, and that the Chimera does not have enough "fresh bodies to warrant full-ties operation". Canning later escaped from his cell and tries to find a way out of the facility.
• February 13: A wounded VTOL pilot notices the sudden early migration of seabirds due to sudden weather changes caused by the Chimera.
• February 18: Captain Samuel Cooper, the military commander of the Ellis Island Research Laboratory, ordered an analysis of the lower deck of the George Washington Bridge to handle specific loads and traffic directed to Ellis Island.

March

• March 3: Project Abraham meets minimum health and safety standards required for final evacuation.
• March 8: A group of British soldiers that were ordered to hunt a group of Cloven found them dead and hanging from a birch tree with their tongues cut out. The soldiers examined the bodies and discovered in their mouths a picture of their presumed leader.
• March 9: Joseph Capelli is discovered by Sentinel Bravo Team as the sole survivor of Operation Bellerophon in a conversion center in Warsaw, Poland for six weeks. How he survived is omitted from the official record and his accounts remains unverified.
• March 10: Before staffers had the opportunity to destroy all medical records in an incinerator as planned, Project Abraham came under heavy fire from the north by the Chimera. U.S. military personnel retreat to the safety of remaining HOV's (high-occupancy vehicles), which continue away from the base with all survivors in tow.
• March 11: The Project Abraham facility is declared abandoned despite the existence of classified materials on site.
• March 15: Sergeant Drake and a British soldier becomes separated from their squad after being ambushed by the Chimera while hunting a group of Cloven. They later found the remains of their squad.
• March 17: Sergeant Drake and his companion are being followed by a group of Cloven.
• March 18: Only the British soldier remains after Sergeant Drake disappeared while gathering water.

May

• May 2: Major Robert Garret of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers notifies to Captain Samuel Cooper that the analysis of the lower deck of the George Washington Bridge is completed and is certified to being able to support the specific loads and traffic to Ellis Island as previously addressed by Cooper.
• May 12: Othmar Ammann, the Chief Engineer of the George Washington Bridge Lower Deck Project, completes his engineering review on the lower deck of the George Washington Bridge to be open to the traffic.
• May 15: British Royal Marine James Grayson raids a conversion center in Manchester, where he discovers his brother, Johnny, has already been infected and succumbed to the Chimeran virus. James is forced to kill his brother. This incident drove Grayson into deserting his unit and went on a vendetta to destroy every conversion center he could find throughout Britain.

June

• Unknown Date: The U.S. naval fleet reaches the British coast and deploys aerial surveillance craft to scout the area; no signs of human or animal life are detected.
• June 4: Dr. Joshua Lederberg writes a letter to Richard Gorrell on the results produced by Project Abraham. Leberberg also declines to participate in Project Phoenix due to ethical concerns.

July

• Unknown Date: John Martinez writes to his letter to his daughter, Ellie Martinez.
• July 7: British soldiers follow several Clovens from Lancaster and observe them engaging against the Chimera, despite the Cloven being usually avoiding conflict with the Chimera at all costs.
• July 8: Eleven SRPA employees die from severe head trauma caused by Jordan Shepherd's new-found psychokinetic powers. Shepherd is overpowered and sedated by a SRPA panic team.
• July 10:
  • Jordan Shepherd is transferred to SRPA Station Igloo in Iceland for Project Daedalus.
  • Captain Samuel Cooper writes to all SRPA personnel on Ellis Island that a scheduled drop-off of a disassembled Chimeran dropship will be arriving on July 22nd.
• July 11: The events of Resistance: Fall of Man begin.
  • The Cloven came from Lancaster have lured Chimeran forces to York to set up a conflict between arriving American military forces and the Chimera.
  • After unsuccessfully trying to contact British forces, the U.S. Navy launches Operation Deliverance. The 3rd Ranger Regiment are airlifted to York in order to secure a landing site. The flight is decimated by Chimeran anti-aircraft fire.
  • Sergeant Nathan Hale and members of the 1st Ranger Regiment arrive in York. The 1st Ranger Regiment suffers heavy casualties, Hale is infected by Crawlers and becomes semi-immune to the Chimeran Virus. The surviving remnants of the 1st Ranger Regiment, including Hale, regroup at an abandoned bus depot and manage to secure a landing zone at the depot. However, the Chimera launch Spire missiles at York, decimating the 1st Ranger Regiment. Hale is knocked unconscious during the attack. The comatose soldiers along with Hale are transported to a Chimeran conversion center in Grimsby by Carriers.
  • John Martinez dies in combat.
• July 12:
  • Nathan Hale regains conscious and is able to save Captain Rachel Parker before she could be infected by Crawlers. Together, Hale and Parker escape from the Grimsby conversion center and are extracted by the British resistance. Hale arrives in Manchester and helps the British to protect their convoy which contains a captured Angel. They are able to repel Chimeran forces and safely extract the Angel.
  • Operation Shear is initiated and overseen by Lieutenant Stephen Cartwright. Hale arrives in Nottingham and assists the British in sealing the tunnel nexus. In spite of the success of Operation Shear, little do the British Army know that they have just stopped the Chimera from excavating another Chimeran tower. Shortly following after Operation Shear, British Northern Command in Cheshire, containing the Angel from Manchester, is attacked and occupied by Chimeran forces.
• July 13:
  • SRPA Executive Director Lyle K. Parsons orders the reclamation of all surviving test subjects of Project Abraham to be analyzed, should the threat of further transformation, similar to the case of Jordan Shepherd, is contained. After learning reports of Nathan Hale being alive and active in England, Parsons orders the capture of Hale as a top priority.
  • After losing contact with Northern Command, Nathan Hale and Rachel Parker arrive to discover its dire situation. Hale and Parker are separated, which the former fought through the facility and killing the captured Angel. Northern Command is immediately abandoned. Hale travels to Cheddar in Somerset and assists Stephen Cartwright in repelling the Chimeras that are attacking the town and killing most of Cartwright's team. Together, Hale and Cartwright follow the retreating Chimera to Cheddar Gorge.
  • Cartwright and Hale discover an excavated Chimeran tower in Cheddar Gorge. They travel to Southern Command where it is besieged by Chimeran forces. Hale and Cartwright manage to assist British personnel in the evacuation. The survivors are evacuated to Cardiff, except for Nathan Hale who decided to follow the source of the power conduits from the Chimeran towers. Hale enters the tunnels, that lie beneath Bracknell, and travels several miles, following the underground power conduits, all the way to the central Chimeran Tower known as C-3 in the Lambeth suburb of London.
• July 14:
  • Nathan Hale radioed Rachel Parker and reports his conclusion that destroying the hub tower in London would destroy the Chimera in Britain. A joint British-American military assault is organized in launching an all-out attack on Chimeran-occupied London, initiating the Battle of London.
  • Doctor Thomas Yearling and several solders infiltrate the London Chimeran tower to make an assessment of its purpose and functions.
  • The events of Resistance: Fall of Man end. The Battle of London results in a major victory and turning point for humanity. The main Chimeran tower is destroyed by Nathan Hale, creating an unstable chain reaction that propagates all the connected towers in the network and killing all Angels throughout Britain and causing the deaths of all Chimeran forces en mass within minutes. After the combat subsided, all surviving personnel of the British forces are investigated the ruins of five towers as they attempt to research and reverse engineer on Chimeran technology and also searching in every city and village for survivors. 921 human survivors are found, who hid themselves under basements and bunkers (78 of them children, including Stephen Cartwright's daughter, Angela, are among them). The U.S. Army list Hale as killed in action.
• July 15:
  • Nathan Hale is extracted by a SRPA Black Ops team led by Major Richard Blake to SRPA Station Igloo. But upon arriving in Iceland, SRPA Station Igloo comes under attack by the Chimera. Jordan Shepherd, now code-named as Daedalus, escapes. Surviving SRPA personnel, including Blake, Hale, and Dr. Fyodor Malikov evacuated Station Igloo.
  • Dr. Nancy Forbes sends her message from SRPA Station Kali to Captain Samuel Cooper that they have completed their study of the Chimeran dropship.
• July 17:
  • Nathan Hale is recruited into the Sentinel Program.
  • Preston Niland of the 22nd Infantry Regiment died after the end of Operation Morning Star.
• July 22: The U.S. Navy freighter Maui is scheduled to arrive in New York, bringing the cargo of a disassembled Chimeran dropship to SRPA Station Kali on Ellis Island.
• July 23: Canada comes under attacked by a series of spire missiles. Millions are informed to be killed from the initial bombardments while others in the hundreds of thousands are infected by Crawlers. Following the siege, many comatose bodies have overrun local hospitals as the Canadian government is completely unsure how to proceed.
• July 28:
  • Chimeran forces are seen gathered at scalar reactor nodes, grouped around each tower. Reconnaissance proves that the nodes provide resupply points for the Hybrids, and that they are connected to the tower's energy grids.
  • Loyd Gowers writes a request to Frank Connors of the Federal Department of Energy in regards to the unusual power fluctuations and brownouts associated with Ellis Island.

August

• Unknown Date: Captain Ronald Murray of the New York State Police designs a weapon that became known by its handlers in SRPA as the XR-13 Bellock.
• August 1: Nathan Hale is assigned to Sentinel Echo Team under the command of Lieutenant Hank Leavitt.
• August 2: U.S. platoons are ordered to recover data from a recon base and come under attack from the Cloven. However, an unspecified hostile faction then enters the fray, and attacks both humans and Cloven alike. An hour later, an Allied response finds only the dead bodies of human soldiers and Cloven raiders. The base itself is unmarked except for the command center which is blackened by thermite grenades. No data is found.
• August 6: Harvey Corbin writes a response to Richard Gorrell that the Ellis Island project is currently at $1.6 million dollars over budget and suspends all payment bills concerning to the project.
• August 7: The Cloven routinely ransack Chimeran scalar reactor nodes, and the lack of a response from the Chimera would seem to suggest a relationship between the two factions. U.K. Intelligence believes that the Cloven are stockpiling weapons to use against Allied forces.
• August 9: Dr. Nancy Forbes writes a process report to SRPA Field Units that scientists had successfully modified the artifact-based control modules that can be used to manipulate the Chimeran specimens in SRPA's possession.
• August 11: General Owen Sommers address General Order 417 to all military forces on the following order of all executive level escape routes.
• August 11: The U.S. Army list Benjamin Warner as killed in action.
• August 12:
  • Benjamin Warner is reclaimed by SRPA Tactical Ops.
  • President Noah Grace refuses to allow any Canadian refugees from the afflicted areas in Canada that fell to the Chimera into the United States. However, he promised whatever aid the U.S. can provide for Canada in the form of food rations and medical supplies.
  • 1st Lieutenant Al Farley of the 11th Transportation Battalion addresses the scheduled delivery of Shipment 89754 and memorandum to Sergeant Hampton aboard the U.S.S. Puerto Rico.
  • Captain Samuel Cooper addresses a memorandum on withdrawal procedures to all SRPA personnel on Ellis Island.
• August 13:
  • Benjamin Warner is recruited into the Sentinel Program.
  • The Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Washington, D.C. delivers their shipment to Ellis Island which is consigned by Captain Samuel Cooper.
  • Dr. Leonid Makine writes a letter to his colleague Dr. Joshua Lederberg to inform him that he will be forcibly recruit to the SRPA laboratory on Ellis Island.
• August 14:
  • Benjamin Warner is assigned to Sentinel Team Echo.
  • The Chimera begin their attack on the United States. The events of Resistance: Burning Skies begin. New York fireman Tom Riley is caught in the middle of the invasion and joins the Minutemen, a militia led by Ellie Martinez.
• August 15:
  • Tom Riley and Ellie Martinez infiltrate SRPA Station Kali on Ellis Island, where they learn about the "human source" for Richard Gorrell's Project Phoenix.
  • The events of Resistance: Burning Skies end. Tom Riley and Ellie Martinez infiltrate the conversion tower to save human abductees, including Riley's family. Riley is forced to euthanized his infected wife. Riley destroys the tower and kills Gorrell.
• August 17: Benjamin Warner is cited for breaking SRPA Code of Zero Correspondence; in which he attempted to make contact with his family.
• August 20: Maine, parts of New Hampshire, Vermont and New York are hit by Spire missiles. President Grace declares the country's first Gray Zone and orders the territory sealed off.
• August 29: The events of Resistance: Retribution begin. James Grayson is imprisoned and sentenced to death by firing squad for desertion, despite being seen by many as a hero. His sentence is avoided as the Maquis offers to recruit Grayson, due to his knowledge of Chimeran conversion centers.
• August 30:
  • British troops encounter Cloven encampments, but heavy fire forces them to withdraw. After action reports describe Chimeran weapons more devastating than anything seen before, it is currently unknown whether the Cloven are in possession of advanced Chimeran weaponry, or if they have simply modified existing designs.
  • Operation Overstrike is initiated. The First Squadron of British and Maquis forces attempt to land on Chimeran-occupied Rotterdam from the air but unexpectedly encounter Chimeran anti-aircraft gun towers that devastate the First Squadron. The operation almost becomes a disaster; however, the efforts of the surviving remnants of Maquis and British commando forces (including Stephen Cartwright, Colonel Roland Mallery, Raine Bouchard and James Grayson) are able to destroy the gun towers and allowing the Second Squadron to reinforce and retake Rotterdam.

September

• September 1: James Grayson accompanies Raine Bouchard and Colonel Roland Mallery to investigate a conversion facility in Bonn, Germany. Grayson is separated from his companions and fights his way through the city ruins hoping to reunite with them. Bouchard is captured by the Chimera. Grayson set explosives charges inside the Bonn facility before he rescues and escape with Bouchard. The Bonn facility is soon destroyed by Grayson, who is then reprimanded by Raine and Mallery. They leave for Luxembourg while leaving Grayson behind.
• September 2: James Grayson arrives at the Chimeran Construction Zone in Gerolstein and assists Major Cartwright and British soldiers in destroying several Chimeran Earth Movers that threatens Luxembourg.
• September 3:
  • Chimeran forces launch a massive attack on the Maquis Fortress in Luxembourg. Stephen Cartwright and James Grayson assists Maquis and British Royal Marines to hold off Chimeran forces until all remaining military personnel and refugees are evacuated to the Maquis safe zone in Reims. Dr. Claude Bouchard finished his serum that will eradicate the Carrier strain but is killed.
  • In response to the Chimeran attack on the American northeast, President Noah Grace approved the construction of the Liberty Defense Perimeter.
• September 4: Maquis and British leaders begins their plan to assault the Chimeran tower in Paris and deliver the Dr. Claude Bouchard's serum to the Chrysalis Lair. However, James Grayson argued that Raine Bouchard has been infected and feared she will jeopardize the mission. His warnings are ignored and is taken away into confinement by Roland Mallery.
• September 5: Rachel Parker and Stephen Cartwright frees James Grayson from confinement and is given a second sample of Dr. Claude Bouchard's serum to infect the Chrysalis Lair.
• September 6:
  • Major Stephen Cartwright leads a task force to attack Chimera-occupied Paris. Roland Mallery is infected by Raine Bouchard and battle against James Grayson, forcing the latter to kill the former Maquis colonel.
  • Grayson releases Dr. Claude Bouchard's serum at the "heart" of the Chrysalis Lair and allowing the slow death of the Carrier strain in Europe, and grounding Chimeran conversion centers to a halt. Raine Bouchard mutates into a being known as the Chrysalis and battle Grayson. The Chrysalis is defeated, but it forewarns Grayson that some of the surviving Chimera are evolving into more advanced species and are only starting a newer conversion process. Major Cartwright's task force successfully destroys the Paris hub tower and, just as similar to the destruction of the London hub tower in England, causing massive disorganization among the Chimera throughout Western Europe. However, Chimeran forces are still active in Spain, the Balkans, and Russia, as construction of vast fleets of warships are completed, which their targets and destinations remained unknown at that time.
• September 9: The events of Resistance: Retribution ends. Following the liberation of Western Europe, surviving British and Maquis soldiers had made a memorial for those who were killed or converted by the Chimera during Operation Overstrike. James Grayson's record is cleared by British command and is offered a field promotion to Major. Instead, Grayson decided to continue his work with the Maquis.
• September 18: Benjamin Warner is cited for a second attempt in making contact with his family.

October

• October 14: President Grace calls for the immediate evacuation of Chicago. The evacuation came too late as the city fell under a wave of Spire missiles, infecting many of Chicago's population. The Spire attack claims Chicago and surrounding areas. Government troops seal off a 50-mile radius around the city. Millions are abandoned to the Chimera as the nation's second Gray Zone is declared.

November

• Unknown Date: The Chimera have completely taken over Canada.
• November 1:
  • Joseph Capelli is assigned to Bravo Team and participated in Operation Icarus. Capelli's actions in this operation resulted in heavy casualties and the loss of SRPA Substation Kappa.
  • The very first Liberty Defense Tower went active in Columbus, Ohio.
• November 16: President Grace reveals to his Cabinet Project Omega: a proposal to negotiate an exclusive truce between the United States and the Chimera. With the exception of Secretary of War Henry Walker and Vice President Harvey McCullen, the Cabinet approved Project Omega.
• November 19:
  • Nathan Hale traveled to Chimera-occupied South Dakota to discover the fate of his adoptive family.
  • President Grace enacts Project Omega. Henry Walker and along with his wife, Myra, chose to defect from the Grace Administration and expose Project Omega to the public through the resistance group Freedom First.
• November 21: Nathan Hale discovers his adoptive family dead and a message left by his foster sister, Susan Farley, who survived and had a fled to the nearest Protection Camp.
• November 25: The Chimera overrun a Protection Camp just outside the Liberty Defense Perimeter in Montana.
• November 27: Washington, D.C. comes under a Spire attack, shortly after President Grace made a public news conference in front of the refurbished Lincoln Memorial. The threat is quickly contained by the military. The attack on Washington forced the American government to relocate to Denver, Colorado that is within the Liberty Defense Perimeter.
• November 28: The SRPA initiated Operation Iron Fist is initiated. Echo Team successfully procured several nuclear fuel rods from a Chimeran base near the town of Hot Springs, South Dakota.
• November 29: Henry and Myra Walker are intercepted and captured by the Chimera while en route to Freedom First in Chicago. The couple are brought to the Hasbro Mining pit near Madison, Wisconsin.

December

• Date Unknown: SRPA adopted the M5A2 Folsom Carbine as the standard-issue weapon for the Sentinel program.
• December 3: Echo Team is sent to Chicago to capture the Walker's. However, they learned from Freedom First that the Walker's had never arrived in the city.
• December 7: Daedalus is recaptured by American forces and is imprisoned near Sheridan, Wyoming.
• December 10: Nathan Hale is sent to infiltrate a Freedom First base near Custer, Montana to learn the whereabouts of the Walker's. He is outed by his foster sister Susan Farley. After being subsequently released, both Hale and Susan reconciled in which the latter expressed her refusal to come with Hale.
• December 11: The prisoners at the Hasbro Mining pit begin building several escape tunnels. Myra Walker is taken and converted.
• December 13: Specter Team led by Lieutenant David LaSalle infiltrate and photograph a Chimeran shipyard in Gerolstein, Germany.
• December 15:
  • A SRPA recon unit working with the Maquis discovered the Chimera Construction Zone in Gerolstein. General Archibald Solomon recommend elevating the alert level on the Liberty Defense Perimeter and notifying the Department of War of a probable homeland assault within the next two years.
  • President Grace initiated his Victory Tour in the wake of Daedalus' capture. He began his Victory Tour in Denver. During a rally in front of the Colorado State Capitol, Freedom First rebels, Anthony Puzo and Susan Farley, attempt to assassinate the President. However, the assassination attempt is foiled by Nathan Hale; only the Governor of Colorado was non-fatally wounded. Puzo is killed by return fire while Farley is captured and imprisoned for life on the charges of murder.
• December 17: The northern border of the Liberty Defense Perimeter becomes operational. Defense columns stretch from Ohio to southern Idaho.
• December 20: The prisoners at the Hasbro Mining pit began their escape through the escape tunnels. Only several prisoners made out of the mining pit before Chimeran guards discovered and stopped the escape attempt.
• December 21: Harley Burl, an escaped prisoner from the Hasbro Mining pit, made contact with SRPA and divulge on the location of Henry Walker. SRPA dispatched Strike Force Zebra to rescue the 282 remaining prisoners from the mining pit. Sentinels, led by Nathan Hale, stormed the conversion center and find Walker dead and his recording on Project Omega.
• December 24: President Grace begins his negotiation with Daedalus in which he declared settling a truce between the United States and the Chimera. The negotiation quickly fails in which Nathan Hale kills Grace for treason and Daedalus escapes to the safety of a Chimeran warship which was allowed into Sheridan's airspace as part of the negotiations. Before retreating back to Chimeran territory, Daedalus ordered the warship to destroy Sheridan in retaliation for his imprisonment.
• December 25: The U.S. government covered up Noah Grace's cause of death. Vice President Harvey McCullen publicly announced Grace's death as a result of an "undisclosed illness".
• December 25: Harvey McCullen becomes the 34th President of the United States.