During the War of Unification, Consus, a scientist of the Isu, created the firstShroud of Eden to treat casualties of the war. He later transferred his consciousness into the Shroud in a desperate bid to escape death, but became trapped within his own creation.[1]
2161 Isu Era[]
The Isu High Council ordered the creation of a new workforce under the supervision of the Father of UnderstandingYaldabaoth, the Mother of WisdomSaklas, and the Sacred VoiceSamael.[2]
Project Anthropos took place in Eden under direction of Isu scientist Phanes and with the approval of the Isu Authority in Eden, in which the Isu created the human race as slaves[3] from a pre-existing species.[4] The humans were made to be susceptible to the powers of the adamant-based Apples of Eden.[3]
Unknown[]
The Isu Osiris was killed by his brother Seth. Overwhelmed by grief, Osiris' partner Isis used the Ankh to revive him for one night, during which they conceived their son Horus.[5]
The Isu Poseidon took control over the city of Atlantis from his son Atlas, and let Atlas and his other sons serve as the Archons of Atlantis.[3]
The Isu Hades abducted the Isu Persephone and forced her to become his wife, with the consent of his brother Zeus. He imprisoned Persephone in an area of the Underworld that she reshaped as Elysium, which Hades allowed her to rule alongside her friend Hekate.[3]
The Sister Realms were formed between Atlantis, ruled by Poseidon; the Underworld, ruled by Hades; and Elysium, ruled by Persephone.[3]
2200 Isu Era[]
The Isu craftsman and philosopher Hermes Trismegistus created a Staff of Eden which could grant biological immortality to its wielder.[6]
2223 Isu Era[]
Circa 2223 Isu Era, Juno recovered the prototype Shroud of Eden which housed the consciousness of its creator, Consus.[1]
Unknown[]
Poseidon granted Juno and her husband Aita access to Atlantis, where they secretly started the Olympos Project, in which they experimented on humans and created monstrosities. Poseidon banished them from the city back to Feyan and outlawed human experimentation in Atlantis.[3]
A summit was held by the Sister Realms through a delegation of Atlantean embassies regarding the findings of Atlantis' Solar Dynamics Observatory and the threat of solar instability. Hades was the only leader to attend, but embraced the prospect of annihilation.[3]
Poseidon, on the advice of his dikastesAletheia, destroyed the city of Atlantis due to recurring upheaval and friction between its Isu and human populations, by sinking it into the ocean.[3]
2296 Isu Era[]
Adam and Eve, two Isu-human hybrid slaves, escaped from the city of Eden with an Apple of Eden.[4]
Humanity rose up in rebellion against the Isu, starting the Human-Isu War.[4] The Isu Saturn, Juno's father, was one of the first victims of the conflict.[7]
The Father of Understanding Jupiter, the Mother of Wisdom Juno and the Sacred Voice Minerva[2] retreated to the Grand Temple to find a solution from the impending solar flare, ultimately trying six non-successful options.[8]
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Balor defeated Cú Chulainn but was struck by the latter's weapon, the Gae Bolg, which became lodged into his back. Later, the Isu Odin faced Balor in combat and claimed the Gae Bolg following his victory.[2]
Odin imprisoned Fenrir, the son of Loki and Aletheia, after it was calculated that Fenrir would kill Odin during the impending catastrophe.[2]
Baldr, the son of Odin, was fatally poisoned with mistletoe by Loki in retaliation for the imprisonment of Fenrir.[2]
Aita volunteered as a test subject in an experiment to transfer Isu consciousness into human bodies, though his mind swiftly deteriorated.[8]
Juno developed a seventh solution to escape annihilation, a serum that would allow the Isu to be reborn as humans. Due to worries concerning the pollution of the human genome, the solution was abandoned by Jupiter and Minerva and the serum was locked away.[2]
With Juno's aid, Odin stole the serum of the seventh solution in order to survive the impending catastrophe. Using the serum,[2] Juno secretly added samples of Aita's genetic code into the human DNA allowing him to be reborn in humans as Sages,[9] after which she agreed to end his suffering.[8]Vejovis also took advantage of the similar techniques and developed Sages of his own self.[10]
Juno secretly tampered with the Eye built by Minerva to prevent humanity from inheriting the Earth. After her treachery[8] and role in Odin's theft of the serum[2] was discovered, the High Council stripped her of her title[2] before Minerva and Jupiter digitally imprisoned her consciousness inside the Grand Temple.[8]
After being gravely injured, Loki helped Aletheia upload her consciousness into the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus, hoping for the two of them to reunite after the impending catastrophe.[2]
c. 75000 BC (2306 Isu Era)[]
Minerva made preparations for another solution involving the global aurora borealis device to be tried during the next solar cycle, hoping that it would be successful without Juno's influence.[8]
A solar flare struck the Earth, exterminating most of the Earth's population;[4] less than ten thousand humans, and far fewer members of the Isu, survived the catastrophe.[11]
As the Great Catastrophe struck the Earth, Odin, Tyr, Thor, Freyja, Idun, Frey, Sif, and Heimdall used the serum to upload their DNA into the Yggdrasil device and be reborn as humans in a future generation, before meeting their inevitable doom. Loki killed Heimdall before he could leave the Yggdrasil Chamber and secretly used the serum to be reborn as well.[2]
In the wake of the Great Catastrophe, humanity and the Isu started working together to rebuild civilization.[4] The Isu influenced the early stages of human civilization and would subsequently come to be revered as gods by the humans.[12]
Unknown[]
Abel, the son of Adam and Eve, was killed by his brother Cain in order to steal Abel's Apple of Eden. Cain was later believed to have been the first precursor to the Order of the Knights Templar.[4]
Unknown centuries[]
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Perseus, an Isu-human descendant, used a Sword of Eden to kill Ketos,[4] after he had killed a woman named Medusa who had been turned into the Writhing Dread by an Isu artifact.[13]
Herakles, an Isu-human descendant, performed the Twelve Labours as penance for the murder of his wife and children in an episode of madness.[13]
Jason and the Argonauts went on a quest to find an artifact called the Golden Fleece, which was a Shroud of Eden.[4]
Theseus, a legendary king of Athens aided by Isu technology, slew the Minotaur in the labyrinth below Knossos Palace in Krete.[13]
16th-13th century BC[]
Unknown[]
Moses used the powers of a Staff of Eden to free the Israelites from Egyptian rule and to split the Red Sea during their escape.[4]
14th century BC[]
Unknown[]
PharaohAkhenaten introduced a monotheistic religion in Egypt surrounding his Apple of Eden, which he and his wife Nefertiti believed to be Aten, the disc of the Sun.[14]
1334 BC[]
The Order of the Ancients was founded by Pharaoh Smenkhkare, with the goal of obtaining knowledge and artifacts previously possessed by the Isu.[15] The group served as a precursor to the Templar Order[16] and, possibly, also the Instruments of the First Will.[17]
Unknown[]
Pharaoh Tutankhamun restored the religion of the Egyptian gods discarded by his father Akhenaten, and passed his father's Apple of Eden to the priests of Amun to maintain order and justice for the Egyptian people.[14]
13th century BC[]
Unknown[]
The Trojan War started due to an Apple of Eden, later believed to have been caused by the Isu Eris.[18] The war saw the rise and fall of many famous heroes, including Achilles and Paris.[4] Greek commander Agamemnon would later be revered by the Cult of Kosmos as a "servant of Kosmos".[13]
1274 BC[]
The Battle of Kadesh was fought between the Hittie Empire under Muwatalli II and the forces of Pharaoh Ramesses II.[14]
1269 BC[]
The Siege of Dapur took place, with Pharaoh Ramesses II besieging the Syrian city of Dapur held by the Hittie Empire. Ramesses, guided by the priests of Amun in possession of an Apple of Eden, emerged victorious.[14]
11th century BC[]
Unknown[]
David, who went on to become King of Israel, used the power of a Shroud of Eden to aid him in combat against the giant Philistine warrior Goliath.[4]
10th-6th century BC[]
Unknown[]
An ancient city in Rajasthan, India became irradiated by the powers of a Piece of Eden, though it was later believed to have been caused by an atomic blast.[4]
8th century BC[]
714 BC[]
Shabataka started his reign as Pharaoh of Egypt. During his reign, he was in possession of a Staff of Eden.[4]
6th century BC[]
522 BC[]
September:Darius I claimed the throne of Persia from the usurper Bardiya with aid from the Order of the Ancients.[12]
515 BC[]
King Liao of Wu was killed by Zhuan Zhu, who would later be remembered as one of the "Five Great Assassins" by Sima Qian.[19]
5th century BC[]
500 BC[]
Pythagoras, a Greek scholar and descendant of the Isu, established the religious movement of Pythagoreanism,[20] otherwise known as the Cult of Hermes.[21]
Unknown[]
Pythagoras and his assistant Kyros of Zarax met Hermes Trismegistus in a remote desert, where Pythagoras was entrusted with Hermes' Staff of Eden, which would prolong his life.[22]
Guided by Pythagoras, Kyros of Zarax travelled to the Abandoned Temple of Aphrodite where he saw visions of the Isu Aphrodite, and acquired an Apple of Eden.[22]
Kyros of Zarax won a race against Atalanta, daughter of King Iasius of Arkadia, using the Apple of Eden, winning her hand in marriage.[22]
The Cult of Kosmos was formed after a number of disillusioned followers of the Cult of Hermes decided to form their own splinter-group. In time, the Cult of Kosmos shifted its goal toward taking over the Greek world.[21]
480 BC[]
During the Greco-Persian Wars, the Battle of Thermopylae was fought between the invading Persian Empire led by Xerxes I and the resisting forces of Greece led by King Leonidas I of Sparta. Leonidas and his Spartan army perished during the fight.[13]
465 BC[]
August 4: King Xerxes I of Persia, an ally of the Order of the Ancients, was killed by Darius – who would later be considered one of the earliest Assassins – during an ambush by Darius' co-conspirators. This assassination became the first recorded use of the Hidden Blade.[23][4]
Darius planned to assassinate Xerxes' successor Artaxerxes out of fear he would fall under the influence of the Order of the Ancients, but was stopped by his former ally Amorges, who had joined the Order to bring peace to Persia. Darius and his son Natakas were subsequently forced to flee Persia while the rest of their family was hunted down and killed by the Order.[23]
Unknown[]
The Order of the Ancients planned to assassinate King Artaxerxes after he refused to fall under the Ancients' sway and framed Darius for the attempt;[23] however, the assassination failed, merely leaving Artaxerxes blind and on the run.[13]
451 BC[]
Myrrine, the daughter of King Leonidas, gave her daughter Kassandra the Isu artifact her father once possessed, which would come to be known as the Spear of Leonidas.[13]
The Cult of Kosmos influenced the Oracle of DelphiPraxithea to prophesize that King Leonidas' grandson, Alexios, would bring about the fall of Sparta. After Alexios was thrown off Mount Taygetos, and his sister Kassandra was presumed dead, the Cult kidnapped Alexios to raise as their weapon.[13]
Kassandra met and befriended Ikaros, the golden eagle once owned by Pythagoras, who became her lifelong companion. She later fled to the island of Kephallonia, where she was taken in by a merchant named Markos. Under Markos' care, Kassandra would grow up to become a skilled misthios renowned as the "Eagle Bearer."[13]
Unknown[]
Alexios, now known as "Deimos", gained more influence within the Cult of Kosmos and leadership slowly shifted towards him. Aspasia, lover of Athenian leader Perikles and the Cult's leader, became disillusioned with the Cult and started devising ways to bring them down.[13]
431 BC[]
The Peloponnesian War started between the Greek states of Athens and Sparta, secretly orchestrated by the Cult of Kosmos as part of their efforts to take control of the Greek world.[13]
Kephallonia was freed from the tyrannical rule of the crime lord known as the "Cyclops" by Kassandra, who killed the Cyclops.[13]
Kassandra befriended the naval captain Barnabas after saving him from the Cyclops, and assumed command of his ship, the Adrestia.[13]
Kassandra accepted a contract from the Cultist of Kosmos Elpenor to kill her step-father, the Spartan general Nikolaos. After helping the Spartans win the Battle of Megara, she ultimately chose to spare Nikolaos despite him attempting to kill her as a child.[13]
Kassandra killed Elpenor for manipulating her, and discovered the existence of the Cult of Kosmos.[13]
The Cult of Kosmos held a meeting in the Sanctuary of Kosmos beneath the Sanctuary of Delphi. Kassandra secretly attended and discovered that her brother Alexios lived and was serving the Cult as Deimos, through a shared memory displayed by an artifact known as the Pyramid.[13]
Kassandra relocated to Athens with the help of Herodotos, and became acquianted with Perikles, Sokrates, Alkibiades, and Aspasia, unaware of the latter's Cultist affiliations.[13]
Unknown[]
Kassandra started a search for her mother Myrrine, hoping to reunite her family and find out more about her family's lineage that the Cult of Kosmos was interested in.[13]
Through her travels through Greece, Kassandra dismantled the Cult of Kosmos' hierarchy and influence over the states of Athens and Sparta by killing their high-ranking members.[13]
430 BC[]
Kassandra took down the Monger, a Cultist of Kosmos who had taken over the city of Korinth. During the attempt, she met and allied herself with the Spartan general Brasidas.[13]
429 BC[]
Kassandra returned to Athens in the midst of a plague. She tried to find her friend Phoibe who was out on an errand for Aspasia, but Phoibe was killed by the Cult of Kosmos.[13]
Athenian leader Perikles was abducted by the Cult of Kosmos and executed by Alexios. Perikles' rival, the Cultist Kleon, became the new leader of Athens.[13]
Kassandra smuggled Aspasia out of Athens to escape the Cult of Kosmos, with aid from Sokrates and Hippokrates.[13]
Kassandra reunited with her mother Myrrine on Naxos Island after a 22-year separation, using information she received from Aspasia. Alongside Myrrine, she helped stop the threat Paros Island imposed on Naxos and killed the Cultist Silanos.[13]
While hiding from the Order of the Ancients in Makedonia, Darius and Natakas came into contact with Kassandra and worked alongside her to free the region from the Order's influence.[23]
Kassandra, Darius and Natakas killed Pactyas, Darius' former ally and leader of the Order of Hunters within the Order of the Ancients. Darius and Natakas parted ways with Kassandra as they left Makedonia to hide from the Order once more.[23]
Kassandra travelled to Thera and discovered the Gateway to the Lost City, the entrance to the ancient Isu city of Atlantis, where she met her biological father, Pythagoras. Through him, she started a search for the ancient Atlantis artifacts that would open the Gateway.[13]
Myrrine and Kassandra relocated to their former home in Sparta and reintegrated themselves into Spartan society.[13]
428 BC[]
The Olympic Games of 428 BC took place. Kassandra represented Sparta as its champion after the death of Testikles and won, allowing her to get close to the Pankration judge and Cultist Kallias and kill him.[13]
427 BC[]
Kassandra helped her step-brother Stentor conquer Boeotia for Sparta. In the process, she dispatched the region's four champions Drakon, Deianeira, Aristaios, and Nesaia, with the assistance of her stepfather Nikolaos.[13]
426 BC[]
Pausanias, King of Sparta alongside Archidamos, was dethroned and imprisoned after Kassandra exposed his affiliations with the Cult of Kosmos.[13]
425 BC[]
Summer: The Battle of Pylos was fought between Athens and Sparta. The battle resulted in an Athenian victory, and Kassandra was taken captive when she was defeated in combat by Alexios.[13]
424 BC[]
During her imprisonment, Kassandra learned of Kleon's affiliations with the Cult of Kosmos and conversed with her brother Alexios. She escaped with the help of her friends Barnabas and Sokrates.[13]
Kassandra formed a resistance to Kleon's rule of Athens comprised of Barnabas, Sokrates, Hippokrates, Alkibiades, Herodotos and Aristophanes, which became known as the Periklean Circle.[13]
423 BC[]
Kassandra reunited with Darius and Natakas in Dyme, where they discovered that Phila, leader of the Order of the Storm within the Order of the Ancients, had set up a naval blockade around Achaia.[13]
Kassandra and Darius confronted Phila, which resulted in the latter's death, and took down the Order of the Storm. They subsequently settled down in Dyme, where Kassandra and Natakas had a son, Elpidios.[13]
The Order of the Ancients led by Amorges attacked Dyme, killing Natakas and taking his and Kassandra's son Elpidios captive.[23]
422 BC[]
Kassandra killed the Ancient Gergis, from whom she learned of the alliance between the Order of the Ancients and the Cult of Kosmos.[23]
Kassandra and Darius confronted Amorges in Messenia, where they killed Darius' former comrade and stopped the Order of the Ancients' plans in Greece.[23]
Kassandra and Darius recovered Elpidios from King Darius II south of Messenia. At Kassandra's request, Darius took Elpidios to Egypt where they settled down, and their descendants would eventually give rise to the Hidden Ones.[23]
The Battle of Amphipolis was fought between Athens and Sparta. On the battlefield, the Spartan commander Brasidas was killed by Alexios and the Athenian leader Kleon was killed by Kassandra.[13]
August: Alexios was killed by his sister Kassandra during a confrontation with her and their mother Myrrine atop Mount Taygetos.[13]
After eliminating the Cult of Kosmos, Kassandra returned to the Sanctuary of Kosmos in Phokis to confront the Cult's leader, whom she discovered to be Aspasia. Explaining her ambitions to achieve world peace and find a philosopher king, Aspasia was ultimately spared by Kassandra, who instead destroyed the Cult's artifact, the Pyramid.[13]
Kassandra defeated the Writhing Dread, Minotaur, and Cyclops, and passed the Sphinx's riddle to acquire all four Atlantis artifacts, with which she activated the Gateway to the Lost City.[13]
Instructed by a message from Aletheia, Pythagoras passed the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus down to Kassandra. Without the artifact's powers extending his lifetime, Pythagoras passed away.[13]
Aletheia began to communicate with Kassandra through the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus and asked her to find three symbols intended for the "Heir of Memories."[24]
Kassandra explored simulations of Elysium, the Underworld, and Atlantis created by Aletheia using heavily modified memories of her time as dikastes in order to help Kassandra better understand the powers and importance of the Staff of Hermes Trismegistus. Afterwards, Aletheia officially appointed her the new Keeper of the Staff.[3]
420 BC[]
After six months spent at a holiday resort on Korfu, Kassandra was found by her friends Barnabas and Herodotos, who had organised a treasure hunt to re-awaken her spirit of adventure.[25]
Kassandra killed a group of pirates who had found an Apple of Eden hidden on Korfu by a treasure hunter centuries prior. The Apple interacted with the Spear of Leonidas, permanently de-powering it.[26]
Barnabas found the Apple of Eden, becoming corrupted by it, and was defeated and saved by Kassandra, who destroyed the artifact.[27]
Aletheia tasked Kassandra to find and destroy other dangerous Pieces of Eden across the globe.[28] Kassandra begrudgingly accepted her new mission, and departed Greece with Barnabas and Ikaros after bidding farewell to Herodotos, to whom she gifted the depowered Spear of Leonidas.[29]
Unknown[]
Barnabas and Ikaros eventually passed away, leaving Kassandra to continue her journey alone.[13] She developed very anti-social behavior as a result, choosing to focus entirely on her mission from Aletheia and avoid social interactions as much as possible.[30]
4th century BC[]
330 BC[]
Alexander the Great, ruler of the Macedonian Empire and ally of the Order of the Ancients, started construction of the Herat Citadel, built on top of an ancient Isu temple.[31]
323 BC[]
June 13: Alexander the Great died after having been fatally poisoned by Iltani, who would retroactively be honored as a legendary Assassin.[4] Though Iltani attempted to obtain his Staff of Eden,[31] Alexander would be interred in the Tomb of Alexander the Great in Alexandria with the artifact.[15]
The Prongs of the Trident of Eden that Alexander the Great held were divided after his death. His generals Ptolemy I Soter and Seleucus I Nicator received the Faith and Fear prongs respectively, while the Devotion prong was sent to Macedonia.[32]
3rd century BC[]
227 BC[]
Jing Ke attempted to assassinate King Zheng of Qin, who was supported by the Order of the Ancients, but failed and was killed during the attempt. He was posthumously remembered as one of the "Five Great Assassins" by Sima Qian.[19]
215 BC[]
During the Second Punic War, Kassandra and the Chinese youxiaWei Yu helped the Carthaginian forces commanded by Hannibal Barca defeat the Romans on the Ionian Islands. Wei Yu killed the Roman general in combat and acquired a stone tablet in his possession, which he gave to Kassandra in exchange for information regarding his disciple's condition.[33]
210 BC[]
September 10: Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China previously known as King Zheng of Qin, was killed by Wei Yu with a spearnamed after the late Jing Ke, ending the emperor's tyranny over China. Wei Yu would later be honored as a legendary Assassin for this act.[4]
2nd century BC[]
196 BC[]
A granodiorite stele, later known as the Rosetta Stone, was inscribed with a decree issued in Memphis on behalf of Pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes, as a result of Greek and ethnic Egyptian tensions. It would also contain sensitive information concerning what would later be known as the Assassin Brotherhood.[34]
1st century BC[]
49 BC[]
Masked members of the Order of the Ancients abducted the MedjayBayek and his son Khemu in Siwa, Egypt, in an attempt to obtain information about the Isu vault located there, resulting in Khemu's death.[15]
Bayek temporarily abandoned his Medjay duties to start a quest for vengeance against the Order of the Ancients, sending him on a journey across Egypt.[15]
Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII, under the influence of the Order of the Ancients, banished his sister Queen Cleopatra from Alexandria to become the sole ruler of Egypt.[15]
48 BC[]
Rudjek, one of the masked Ancients who had abducted Bayek and Khemu, was killed by Bayek in the Bent Pyramid in Giza, Egypt.[15]
Bayek returned to Siwa, where he exacted revenge on the false Oracle of Siwa and Order of the Ancients member Medunamun, and acquired the Order's Apple of Eden.[15]
Bayek reunited with his wife Aya in Alexandria, where she gifted him the Hidden Blade once owned by Darius, which she had received from Queen Cleopatra. Bayek then assassinated the phylakitaiGennadios to prevent him from arresting Aya for the murders of the Ancients Actaeon and Ktesos.[15]
The Royal Scribe Eudoros, a member of the Order of the Ancients, was killed by Bayek inside the Bathhouse of Alexandria. During the assassination attempt, Bayek accidentally amputated his ring finger when his Hidden Blade was unintentionally activated.[15]
Bayek and Aya met with Queen Cleopatra at Apollodorus' Estate, where she informed them of more Order of the Ancients members at large: Taharqa, Khaliset, Hetepi and Berenike. Bayek traveled across Egypt to find and eliminate them, hoping to achieve vengeance for the death of his son Khemu.[15]
September 28: Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus was killed by Lucius Septimius on orders of the Order of the Ancients, to prevent an alliance between him and Queen Cleopatra.[15]
Bayek, Aya and Apollodorus smuggled Cleopatra into Alexandria to allow her a meeting with Roman general Gaius Julius Caesar, who subsequently chose her over her brother Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII for an alliance.[15]
Aya infiltrated and opened the door to the Tomb of Alexander the Great to help Cleopatra impress Julius Caesar. This allowed Caesar's ally Flavius Metellus, a Roman general and leader of the Order of the Ancients, to take Alexander the Great's Staff of Eden.[15]
47 BC[]
February:
The Battle of the Nile was fought between the forces of Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII and those belonging to Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. Ptolemy was killed by crocodiles while attempting to escape and his advisor, the Ancient Pothinus, was killed by Bayek.[15]
Julius Caesar, under the sway of the Order of the Ancients, prevented Bayek from killing the Ancient Lucius Septimius during the Battle of the Nile.[15]
Cleopatra became the new ruler of Egypt, under the influence of the Order of the Ancients through her ally Julius Caesar.[15]
Bayek and Aya formed a group consisting of Tahira, Phanos the Younger, Phoxidas, and Pasherenptah in opposition of Cleopatra's rule, believing her to have betrayed Egypt and vowing to oppose the Order of the Ancients.[15]
Roman general and Order of the Ancients leader Flavius Metellus killed Apollodorus to recover the Order's Apple of Eden. He and Lucius Septimius subsequently used the Apple and Alexander the Great's Staff of Eden to open the door to the Siwa Vault, killing Bayek's friend Hepzefa when he tried to stop them.[15]
Bayek killed Flavius Metellus in Cyrene, where the latter had used the Apple of Eden to enthrall the population and be proclaimed proconsul. Having achieved vengeance for Khemu's death, Bayek retrieved the Apple and hid it away.[15]
46 BC[]
Aya recruited Roman senators Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus to her and Bayek's cause and intended to leave for Rome to combat the Order of the Ancients.[15]
Bayek and Aya agreed to part ways and named their Brotherhood the Hidden Ones, vowing to spread its influence throughout both Egypt and Rome.[15]
44 BC[]
March 15:
Lucius Septimius, a Roman soldier and member of the Order of the Ancients, was killed by the Hidden One Aya in combat at the Theatre of Pompey in Rome.[15]
Gaius Julius Caesar, dictator of the Roman Republic and figurehead of the Order of the Ancients, was killed during a Roman Senatorial meeting at the Theatre of Pompey by the Hidden Ones Aya, Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and twenty-one other Roman Senators.[15]
As her newly-founded Brotherhood in Rome continued to grow, Aya abandoned her birth name and adopted the name "Amunet."[15]
42 BC[]
October 23: Marcus Junius Brutus committed suicide when nearly defeated by Marcus Antonius and Octavian,[22] the new leader of the Order of the Ancients,[35] at the Battle of Philippi. The other Hidden Ones,[22] including Publius Volumnius,[1] only temporarily managed to revive Brutus with their Shroud of Eden.[22]
38 BC[]
Roman general Gaius Julius Rufio, a member of the Order of the Ancients, conspired to conquer the Sinai Peninsula as a starting point to take Egypt from Cleopatra's control.[35]
The Mentor Bayek assassinated the Ancients Tacito, Ptahmose, and Ampelius in the Sinai, to aid the local Hidden Ones bureau led by Tahira.[35]
The Sinai bureau of the Hidden Ones was attacked and destroyed by Gaius Julius Rufio's forces, and Bayek and Tahira were taken captive. Amunet rescued Bayek, and the pair later saved Tahira from Fort Clostra, though she soon died from the injuries she had sustained.[35]
Gaius Julius Rufio was assassinated by Bayek aboard his personal octareme off the coast of the Sinai, shortly after the Roman general's fleet arrived in Egypt.[35]
Sinai resistance leader Gamilat was killed by his former ally, Bayek, after the latter discovered Gamilat had deceived the population of the Sinai to rally them against the Romans. Gamilat's actions later inspired Bayek to create the first tenet of the Hidden Ones' Creed: the prohibition of harming innocents.[35]
High Priestess and God's Wife of AmunIsidora used Akhenaten's Apple of Eden to create illusions of ancient pharaohs across Thebes, which would become known as the Curse of the Pharaohs, in retaliation against grave robbers who had killed her mother.[14]
At Amunet's request, Bayek investigated the Curse of the Pharaohs in Karnak. His investigation, aided by Isidora, Sutekh, Merti, and Tahemet, led him to explore illusions of Aaru, Aten, Heb Sed, and the Duat, where he defeated apparitions of Nefertiti, Akhenaten, Ramesses II, and Tutankhamun.[14]
Isidora was killed by Bayek in the Valley of the Kings after Bayek discovered she was behind Curse of the Pharaohs. He passed her Apple of Eden on to Sutekh, a descendant of Ramesses II, and trusted him to keep it safe.[14]
Sutekh died in the Waset Desert after having seemingly fallen prey to cobras in the Cobra Oasis, and his Apple of Eden mysteriously vanished.[14]
30 BC[]
August 12:
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt and former ally of the Order of the Ancients, was persuaded by her former friend Amunet to give up resistance against Octavian's Roman forces and use poison to take her own life.[36] Amunet would later be honored as a legendary Assassin who killed Cleopatra with an asp.[4]
Amunet escaped Alexandria amidst the Roman army's attack on the city with Cleopatra's son Caesarion, whom she promised to take in as a Hidden One.[36]
1st century[]
Unknown[]
John the Baptist, using a Staff of Eden, started a religious movement with baptism as its central symbol.[4]
Jesus of Nazareth, wielder of a Shroud of Eden, was crucified by the Order of the Ancients, who proceeded to take possession of the artifact.[4] On his way to his crucifixion in Golgotha, Jesus was met by a Sage known as the Wanderer.[34]
Peter, one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles, used John the Baptist's Staff of Eden to become the first leader of Christianity and the first Pope.[4]
James, son of Zebedee, one of Jesus' Twelve Apostles and alleged owner of a Staff of Eden, passed away. The Staff would subsequently be broken into three pieces.[37]
41[]
January 24: The Roman EmperorCaligula, who was affiliated with the Order of the Ancients, was killed by the Hidden One Leonius using a dagger. For this act, Leonius would later be honored as a legendary Assassin.[4]
72[]
Construction began on the Colosseum in Rome under Emperor Vespasian, atop an ancient Isu vault.[38]
90s[]
Governor Verus of Roman Britain was assassinated by AcolyteAnicius of the Hidden Ones, after the Hidden Ones' pleas to Verus and Emperor Domitian to support citizenship for the Iceni were ignored.[2]
2nd century[]
122[]
Caius, a Hidden One working on a contract from the Londinium bureau, attempted to assassinate Roman Emperor Hadrian, but was captured and killed.[2]
164[]
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius agreed to cease hostilities in Britannia and retreat south of the Antonine Wall after motions from the Hidden Ones. MasterEghan of the Hidden Ones was sent to oversee the retreat to verify Aurelius kept his word.[2]
3rd century[]
211[]
February 4: Roman Emperor Septimius Severus died after having been fatally poisoned by Khloe, a Magister of the Hidden Ones, inside his villa in Eboracum.[2]
259[]
The Hidden One Aquilus, a member of the Liberalis Circulus, was taken captive by Romans under command of general Gracchus.[39] An army of Alemanni soldiers, led Aquilus' cousin and fellow Hidden One Accipiter, defeated the Roman legion and saved Aquilus.[40]
Aquilus acquired the Ankh from Accipiter and transported it to his family's villa in Lugdunum, where his father Lucius tasked him with the assassination of the local priest Faustinus, who had betrayed the Liberalius Circulus.[40]
Roman senator Caïus Fulvus Vultur, a member of the Order of the Ancients, killed Lucius and his servant Weke to obtain the Ankh,[40] and brought it with him to Rome.[5]
Aquilus killed Caïus Fulvus Vultur inside his villa in Rome, and took the Ankh back to his home in Lugdunum, where he watched a recording made by his father using the artifact.[5]
Accipiter brokered a truce with the Prefect of Lugdunum to spare the city from being conquered and sacked by the Alemanni.[5]
Aquilus and his wife Valeria were captured by Roman soldiers and transported to be executed in Rodumna. Aquilus was killed by one of the soldiers when the convoy was ambushed by Accipiter.[5]
4th century[]
330[]
May 11: The city of Byzantium was renamed Constantinople by Emperor Constantine I, an associate of a Roman Hidden One;[34] it would later become the capital of the Byzantine Empire.[11]
380[]
Roman Emperor Theodosius I established the Church of Rome as the new state religion of the Roman Empire, and subsequently started the persecution of pagans. The Hidden One Teague subsequently assassinated the priests Vitus, Secunda, and Agapitus in Britannia.[2]
383[]
Magnus Maximus, proclaimed Roman Emperor by his troops, retreated a large portion of the Roman army in Britannia to conquer Gaul.[2]
Marcellus, a Magister of the Hidden Ones, evacuated the Hidden Ones from the bureaus in Eboracum and Venta Belgarum following the Roman retreat from the north of Britannia, and to avoid the hostility of the local population.[2]
5th century[]
423[]
The Hidden One Magister Vitus ordered the withdrawal of their faction from Britannia due to the collapse of the Roman Empire in western Europe, and the threat of invading tribes, advising the Hidden Ones to retreat to the bureau in Cologne.[2]
434[]
Attila became leader of the Hunnic Empire. Utilizing a Sword of Eden named the Sword of Mars, Attila would become feared for his invasions of Europe.[4]
6th century[]
Unknown[]
King Arthur of Britain, a member of the Order of the Ancients[41] and owner of a Sword of Eden named Excalibur,[4] died after having been betrayed by those he loved.[41]
Sigmund recovered a Sword of Eden called Gram from the tree Barnstokk. The artifact was said to have been placed there by Odin.[4]
8th century[]
705[]
Empress Wu Zetian was overthrown in the Shenlong Revolution, ending her short-lived Zhou dynasty, and the Tang was restored. The Golden Turtles, the Chinese branch of the Order of the Ancients, were decimated and retreated into hiding.[42]
751[]
The Battle of Talas was fought between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Tang dynasty, ultimately resulting in an Abbasid victory. The Tang soldier Li E joined the Hidden Ones after being rescued by a group led by Éléna.[43]
754[]
Spring:
The jiedushi An Lushan dispelled accusations of treason and acquired sweeping new powers for his imminent rebellion by answering Emperor Xuanzong's summons and arriving in Chang'an during the Flower Banquet.[19]
The Hidden One Li E assassinated Right Chancellor Yang Guozhong's winning team at the Flower Banquet contest in retaliation for their massacre of Duling village.[19]
755[]
December: An Lushan established the Yeluohe and rebelled against the Tang dynasty from Fanyang in a secret bid to supplant Yang Guozhong as leader of the Order of the Ancients, beginning the devastating civil war known as the An-Shi Rebellion.[19]
756[]
January: An Lushan captured the Tang eastern capital of Luoyang. The Hidden One Li E and the Yan family of Changshan Commandery organized a counter-rebellion in the territories under Lushan's control, freeing Tumen Pass by assassinating three Yeluohe lieutenant generals.[19]
February: An Lushan declared himself emperor of the new state called the Yan.[19]
July:
The road to the Tang imperial capital of Chang'an was exposed after Tong Pass fell to Yan forces due to sabotage by Yang Guozhong, who caused the deaths of the Tang generals Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, and Geshu Han leading its defence.[19]
Chang'an fell to Yan forces. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang and his court fled, but a mutiny by their disaffected guards at Mawei Station led to the execution of his favourite consort Yang Guifei and Right Chancellor Yang Guozhong.[44]
757[]
An Lushan was assassinated by the Hidden One Li E.[45]
796[]
July 29: King Offa of Mercia, a member of the Order of the Ancients whose rapid territorial expansion paved the way for the unification of England, passed away and was succeeded by Ecgfrith of Mercia.[2]
9th century[]
804[]
May 19:Alcuin, an Anglo-Saxon scholar in service of Emperor Charlemagne of the Carolingian Empire, was killed after discovering the existence of the Order of the Ancients on orders of Charlemagne, himself a leader of the Order.[2]
855[]
Eivor Varinsdottir was adopted by King Styrbjorn Sigvaldisson of the Raven Clan following the death of her parents Varin and Rosta at the hands of Kjotve the Cruel, during an attack by the Wolf Clan on her hometown of Heillboer.[46]
858[]
January 13: King Æthelwulf of Wessex, Grand Maegester of the Order of the Ancients in Britain, passed away and was succeeded as King of Wessex by Æthelbald.[2]
861[]
December 11:Basim Ibn Ishaq infiltrated the Winter Palace in Anbar to steal a chest sought by the Hidden Ones. After retrieving a Memory Seal from the chest, he was confronted by the Caliph Al-Mutawakkil, whom he killed in self-defense before fleeing the palace.[47]
December 12: The royal guards began hunting down all thieves in Anbar in retaliation for Al-Mutawakkil's murder. Basim Ibn Ishaq was saved by the Master AssassinRoshan, who took him to Alamut to start his training as a Hidden One.[47]
862[]
February: Basim Ibn Ishaq and Nur killed several mercenaries attempting to infiltrate the HIdden Ones' Alamut camp. After reporting their findings, Nur was sent to Baghdad to investigate the mercenaries' presence.[47]
Unknown[]
The Hidden One Nur returned to Alamut after having been injured during his investigation of the Order of the Ancients in Baghdad. Mentor Rayhan sent Basim Ibn Ishaq, Roshan and Fuladh to Baghdad to continue Nur's investigation.[47]
Basim Ibn Ishaq rescued Ali ibn Muhammad, the leader of the Zanj Rebellion and a Hidden One ally, from the Damascus Gate Prison in Baghdad.[47]
Mas'ood Al-Ya'qoob, a soap mill owner and member of the Order of the Ancients, was assassinated by the Hidden One Basim Ibh Ishaq to end his search for Isu artifacts, in which he used captured workers.[47]
Fazil Fahim al-Kemsa, the first scholar of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad and a member of the Order of the Ancients, was assassinated by the Hidden One Basim Ibn Ishaq during one of his experiments involving Isu artifacts.[47]
The merchant Ning, a member of the Order of the Ancients, was assassinated by the Hidden One Basim Ibn Ishaq during Baghdad's annual Da'irat Al-mal held at the Grand Bazaar.[47]
Wasif Al Turki, a warlord of the Abbasid Caliphate military and member of the Order of the Ancients, was assassinated by Hidden One Basim Ibn Ishaq inside Baghdad's Great Garrison, with the help of Ali ibn Muhammad.[47]
Basim Ibn Ishaq attempted to assassinate Qabiha, the former concubine of Al-Mutawakkil and leader of the Order of the Ancients in Baghdad. However, he hesitated when Qabiha told him to investigate the Isu temple underneath Alamut to understand his true nature, resulting in Qabiha being killed by Roshan instead.[47]
Basim Ibn Ishaq returned to Alamut, where he helped the Hidden Ones fend off an attack by the Abbasid Caliphate's forces after their protection expired. He then defeated his former mentor Roshan when she tried to stop him from accessing the Isu temple underneath the fortress. Roshan subsequently left the Hidden Ones.[47]
Basim Ibn Ishaq investigated the Alamut temple, which led him to discover his own nature as the reincarnation of Loki. Embracing Loki's memories, Basim decided to seek out the other Isu reincarnations, to exact retribution for the suffering inflicted upon his past self.[47]
865[]
Circa 865, Viking leader Ragnar Lothbrok was captured and executed in a pit of snakes by King Ælla of Northumbria, a leading figure among the Order of the Ancients.[2]
867[]
March 21: King Ælla of Northumbria, a member of the Order of the Ancients, was executed in a blood eagle ritual by the Sons of Ragnar, in retaliation for the execution of Ragnar Lothbrok.[2]
Basim Ibn Ishaq and his apprentice Hytham traveled to Constantinople to foil an assassination plot by the Byzantine Emperor Basil I and the Order of the Ancients, against Basil's son Leo.[48]
870[]
Eivor Varinsdottir captured Gull, a slave of Kjotve the Cruel and the reincarnation of the Isu Iðunn, who led her to a temple in the Feiknstafir mountains in search of a treasure. However, Gull betrayed Eivor and took the Apple of Eden they found for herself, only to lose it when the temple began to collapse; Eivor chose to escape while Gull stayed behind and was presumed dead.[49]
The Hidden One Ammon was killed in combat with the Viking raider Sigurd Styrbjornsson during a mission to recover a Shroud of Eden from a merchant in Bulgar. Sigurd claimed Ammon's Hidden Blade as a battle trophy.[49]
Sigurd Styrbjornsson met and befriended the Hidden Ones Basim Ibn Ishaq and Hytham in Constantinople, who subsequently taught him many of their organization's customs.[50]
871[]
April: King Æthelred I of Wessex, Grand Maegester of the Order of the Ancients in England, passed away. His brother, Alfred, succeeded him as King of Wessex and, reluctantly, as Grand Maegester.[2]
872[]
Sigurd Styrbjornsson returned home to Fornburg, Norway after a two-year expedition, accompanied by Basim Ibn Ishaq and Hytham. He gifted Ammon's Hidden Blade to his adoptive sister, Eivor Varinsdottir.[50]
The Raven Clan gained King Harald Fairhair's support in taking down Wolf Clan leader and Order of the Ancients member Kjotve the Cruel.[51] Eivor Varinsdottir killed Kjotve during a siege of the latter's fortress, avenging her parents.[52]
December: Dissatisfied with the unification of Norway's petty kingdoms under King Harald Fairhair's rule, Eivor Varinsdottir, Sigurd Styrbjornson and select members of the Raven Clan left their homeland and sailed to England.[53]
873[]
January: The Raven Clan arrived in Ledecestrescire, Mercia where they established the settlement of Ravensthorpe from the remnants of an abandoned settlement from the Great Heathen Army.[54]
Eivor Varinsdottir helped the Viking jarlskonaSoma retake the region of Grantebridgescire, Mercia, which had fallen under the control of the Order of the Ancients.[46]
Eivor Varinsdottir, Sigurd Styrbjornson, Ivarr the Boneless and Ubba Ragnarsson overthrew King Burgred of Mercia and instated a client king, Ceolwulf II, in his place.[50]
Eivor Varinsdottir helped to instate the Anglo-Saxon nobleman Oswald as King of East Anglia, and defeated an invading Viking clan led by Rued.[2]
The Order of the Ancients attempted to take control of Lunden, but was foiled by Eivor Varinsdottir and the city's reeves, Stowe and Erke Bodilsson, who killed the Ancients Avgos Spearhand, Frideswid, and Vicelin.[2]
Bishop Deorlaf was appointed temporary ealdorman of Sciropescire following his predecessor's death and attempted to negotiate a peace treaty with King Rhodri the Great. However, his efforts were sabotaged by Ivarr the Boneless, who wanted to convince Eivor Varinsdottir to help him kill Rhodri. Eventually, Eivor killed Ivarr himself after he forced her hand by murdering their friend Ceolbert.[2]
Unknown[]
During her travels, Eivor Varinsdottir dismantled the Order of the Ancients' hierarchy and influence in England by killing its high-ranking members, following tip-offs from an anonymous informant known only as "the Poor Fellow-Soldier of Christ."[55]
At Hytham's request, Eivor Varinsdottir explored all six abandoned Hidden One bureaus in England and retrieved several pages of The Magas Codex to aid Hytham's research of the original Hidden Ones.[56]
Eivor Varinsdottir retrieved the Sword of Eden known as Excalibur from an Isu vault underneath Stonehenge, after finding all the artifacts required to activate the mechanism keeping Exaclibur in place.[2]
874[]
Eivor Varinsdottir, Sigurd Styrbjornson and Basim Ibn Ishaq allied with the scholar Fulke and helped Geadric overthrow Eadwyn and become ealdorman of Oxenefordscire, in order to retrieve the Saga Stone from Eadwyn's vault at Cyne Belle Castle. However, Fulke betrayed her allies afterwards and convinced King Alfred the Great to take Sigurd as a prisoner of war, revealing herself to be a member of the Order of the Ancients in the process.[2]
Eivor Varinsdottir and Basim Ibn Ishaq tracked Fulke to Cent, where they tried to help Abbot Cynebert earn the favor of future ealdorman Tedmund in exchange for Fulke's whereabouts. However, the plan failed and Fulke escaped after killing Cynebert.[2]
Eivor Varinsdottir uncovered a plot by the Order of the Ancients to take over Jorvik and assassinated the people responsible: the High Reeve of Jorvik, Audun, and his two lieutenants, Ingeborg and Grigorii.[2]
875[]
Eivor Varinsdottir discovered that the Order of the Ancients had killed the ealdorman of Lincolnscire, Hundbeorht, and prevented them from taking control of the region through one of their members, Bishop Herefrith.[2]
Eivor Varinsdottir helped Birstan, the ealdorman of Essexe, reunite with his childhood love Alfida, and had his current wife Estrid escorted back to Francia by the Viking Rollo under the guise of a kidnapping.[2]
Eivor Varinsdottir and her allies stormed the fortress of Portcestre, where Eivor killed Fulke and rescued her brother Sigurd Styrbjornson, who had been tortured by Fulke in an attempt to awaken Týr's conscience inside him.[2]
Eivor Varinsdottir travelled to an unknown territory called Vinland, where she assassinated Order of the Ancients MaegesterGorm Kjotvesson at Narfljot Camp.[57] Eivor then recovered a Crystal Ball from Gorm's personal effects and gave it to the Kanien'kehá:ka of Karonhiakèn:iate'.[58]
876[]
Halfdan Ragnarsson enlisted Eivor Varinsdottir's help in investigating his lieutenant Faravid, whom he suspected of treason. After the real traitor was revealed to be King Ricsige of Northumbria, who had betrayed Halfdan by siding with the Picts, Eivor hunted him down and killed him.[2]
Eivor Varinsdottir discovered and foiled a plot by the ealdorman of Glowecestrescire, Cynon, and the high priestess Modron to kill Cynon's successor Tewdwr, who they believed to be unfit to rule.[2]
Eivor Varinsdottir reunited with her childhood friend Vili Hemmingson in Snotinghamscire and helped him decide on a new leader for his Viking clan following the passing of his father, jarlHemming.[2]
877[]
King Alfred the Great enlisted Eivor Varinsdottir's help in flushing out and eliminating members of the Order of the Ancients who had infiltrated Wincestre and were plotting against him. Eivor found and killed the Ancients Selwyn, Hilda, and Ealhferth, but was banished from Wincestre after refusing Alfred's offer to convert to Christianity.[2]
Winter:
Eivor Varinsdottir and Sigurd Styrbjornson returned to Norway, where they uncovered the Yggdrasil Chamber, in which they experienced a simulation of Valhalla. Realizing they were the reincarnations of Odin and Tyr, respectively, Eivor eventually came to reject Odin and convinced her brother to abandon the simulation.[59]
Basim Ibn Ishaq revealed himself to be the reincarnation of Loki and vengefully attacked Eivor after deducing she was the reincarnation of Odin. Eivor defeated Basim with Sigurd's help, and left him trapped inside Yggdrasil's simulation.[59]
878[]
January:
Ubba Ragnarsson was killed in the Battle of Cynwit by soldiers of Odda, Ealdorman of Devon at Uffentune.[60]
Eivor Varinsdottir and her allies fought in the Battle of Chippenham, in order to weed out King Alfred the Great and kill him. Alfred escaped, but the Vikings were victorious, despite suffering heavy losses, including Soma, Hunwald, and Hjorr Halfsson.[61]
King Alfred found refuge in the village of Athelnay, where he contacted Eivor Varinsdottir and revealed himself to be "the Poor Fellow-Soldier of Christ," as well as the reluctant Grand Maegester of the Order of the Ancients. In the wake of the Order's destruction, Alfred vowed to establish a new, "universal" order, which would eventually become the Templar Order.[55]
Eivor Varinsdottir found and retrieved Mjölnir, a Piece of Eden formerly wielded by the Isu Thor, in Rygjafylke, Norway.[2]
879[]
Mentor Fuladh of the Justanid region held a council at the Hidden Ones' newly constructed fortress of Alamut.[2] Acolyte Hytham was invited by Mentor Rayhan to receive a promotion and give an account of Basim Ibn Ishaq's betrayal.[2]
Unknown[]
Eivor Varinsdottir encountered the former Hidden One Roshan, who had come to England to assassinate the Ancient Al-Si'la. Eivor helped Roshan complete her mission and the two parted ways, as Roshan left for Jerusalem with documents she had retrieved from Al-Si'la's body.[62]
887[]
Kassandra arrived on the Isle of Skye to search for an Apple of Eden, but her presence inadvertently activated the artifact, which began affecting the locals' minds, giving them intense nightmares and even driving some insane.[63]
Eivor Varinsdottir traveled to the Isle of Skye to investigate the nightmares and ran into Kassandra in a cemetery. After a brief fight and upon noticing they both wielded Hidden Blades, the two warriors agreed to work together to find the source of the nightmares.[64]
Eivor Varinsdottir and Kassandra found the Isle of Skye's Apple of Eden hidden in a cave and together they managed to de-activate it, ending the nightmares plaguing the locals.[65] Kassandra took the artifact and departed the island, though not before accepting Eivor's invitation to celebrate their victory by crashing a nearby wedding, which helped her with her lacking social skills.[66]
889[]
After years of serving the Raven Clan, Eivor Varinsdottir felt she had fulfilled her destiny in England and sailed to Vinland to better understand her connection with Odin. There, Eivor spent her final years conversing with Odin, who explained her nature as a reborn Isu and told her about the Isu's history and eventual demise during the Great Catastrophe.[67]
900[]
The first pictorial representation of a gun was made in India, after it had been created using the knowledge from an Apple of Eden.[4]
10th century[]
985[]
King Eric the Victorious of Sweden, backed by the Hidden Ones, defended himself against the forces of Scandinavian prince Styrbjörn the Strong and his ally Harald Bluetooth, a member of the Templar Order and owner of a prong of the Trident of Eden.[68]
11th century[]
1001[]
The populace of Rome revolted against Pope Sylvester II, a leader of the Templar Order, who was branded a heretic and sorcerer for his support and promotion of science.[12]
1090[]
The Brotherhood that started as the Hidden Ones[15] became a public organization for the first time in their history under the name Assassins, under the directive of Hassan-i Sabbāh in the Levant.[12]
1099[]
July 10:Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a Castilian nobleman and warlord, passed away. His wife subsequently absconded with his piece of the Staff of Eden that previously belonged to Saint James.[37]
July 15: An army of Crusaders captured the city of Jerusalem, marking the end of the First Crusade and the start of a Crusader presence in the Holy Land for over two centuries.[12]
12th century[]
1129[]
January 13: The Order of the Knights Templar was publicly recognized as a military order during the Council of Troyes, with Hugues de Payens serving as the first public Grand Master. With help from Bernard de Clairvaux, de Payens formed the Latin Rule.[12]
1140[]
Circa 1140, the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis discovered an Isu temple underneath the city which contained an artifact known as the Head of Saint Denis. Using knowledge gained from the artifact, the abbot created a sword, akin to a Sword of Eden, which would later come to be known as the Eagle of Suger.[69]
1162[]
Hassan the Younger sent the Assassin who would later be known as Al Mualim from Alamut to establish a fortress in Masyaf, speculated by some to have been due to an ideological rift between the two.[70]
1176[]
August:
Sultan Salāḥ ad-Dīn laid siege to the Levantine Assassins' fortress in Masyaf. Acting on information received from Ahmad Sofian, the Assassins' leader Al Mualim tasked Umar Ibn-La'Ahad with infiltrating the enemy camp, where he left a note tied to a dagger in Salāḥ ad-Dīn's tent.[71]
Šihāb ad-Dīn, uncle to Salāḥ ad-Dīn, brokered a truce with the Assassins on the condition that Umar Ibn-La'Ahad be executed for taking the life of a Ayyubid nobleman during his infiltration of their camp. Against Al Mualim's will, Umar voluntarily had his life taken.[71]
Ahmad Sofian committed suicide inside the quarters of Umar Ibn-La'Ahad's son Altaïr because of his remorse over giving Umar's name to the Saracens while in their captivity.[71]
1187[]
July 4: The Battle of Hattin was fought between the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Saracen forces of Saladin, resulting in a Saracen victory. King Guy of Lusignan, Templar Grand Master Gerard de Ridefort and Raynald of Châtillon were taken as prisoners and later released.[12]
1189[]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed Haras, an Assassin-turned-Templar, inside Masyaf fortress during an attack by the Templars, saving the life of Al Mualim.[11] Altaïr was elevated to the rank of Master Assassin for his actions.[12]
October 4: Templar Grand Master Gerard de Ridefort was beheaded on orders of Saladin after having been captured during the Siege of Acre by the Saracen army.[12]
1190[]
The Knights Templar besieged the Assassins' fortress in Aleppo, on orders of their de facto leader Lord Basilisk, though the Assassins were able to fend off the attack.[72]
Al Mualim tasked Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad with finding the Chalice, an ancient artifact that held powers similar to a Piece of Eden.[72]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad traveled to Damascus and assassinated the Templar Alaat on behalf of Fajera, who handed him one of the keys to the Temple of the Sand, where the Chalice was supposedly held.[72]
Roland Napule, a Templar and head of the hospital in Tyre, was assassinated by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad on orders of the local rafiqHamid. Altaïr retrieved a second key to the Temple of the Sand from one of Napule's captives.[72]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad retrieved the third key to the Temple of the Sand from Templar leader Basilisk at a party in Jerusalem, acting upon information gained from the rafiq Kadar and the nobleman Ayman.[72]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed the Master of the Templars' Jerusalem Tower and his student while attempting to retrieve a map of the Temple of the Sand.[72]
Lord Basilisk attempted to stop the Siege of Acre by poisoning Acre's water supply, though the plan was thwarted by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Altaïr bested Basilisk in combat, but spared his life in exchange for the location of the Chalice.[72]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed Harash, the second-in-command of Al Mualim, after hearing of his betrayal from Adha, who revealed herself to be the Chalice.[72]
Lord Basilisk was killed in combat with Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad at the harbor of Tyre, after the Templars captured Adha. Despite Basilisk's death, the Templars shipped Adha away from Tyre.[72] Altaïr was eventually able to find Adha again, but was too late as she had been executed by the Templars.[4]
1191[]
July:
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and the brothers Malik and Kadar Al-Sayf infiltrated the Jerusalem Vault to retrieve an Apple of Eden. After encountering Templars led by Grand Master Robert de Sable, Kadar was killed and Malik lost his left arm, though he managed to bring the Apple back to Masyaf.[18]
The Assassins fended off a Templar attack on Masyaf fortress led by Robert de Sable. Al Mualim demoted Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad for betraying the three tenets of the Creed during his mission to the Jerusalem Vault, and assigned him nine targets to assassinate in order to redeem himself.[18]
July–September: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed eight of his nine targets—Tamir, Garnier de Naplouse, Talal, Abu'l Nuqoud, William of Montferrat, Majd Addin, Sibrand, and Jubair al Hakim—in the cities of Damascus, Acre and Jerusalem, discovering all eight to be Templars who had conspired to retrieve the Apple of Eden from the Jerusalem Vault.[18]
September: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad attempted to kill Robert de Sable, his ninth and final target, at Majd Addin's funeral in Jerusalem, but Robert had assigned Maria Thorpe as his decoy. Altaïr spared Maria's life after she informed him of Robert's plan to negotiate an alliance between the Crusaders and Saracens against the Assassins.[18]
September 7:
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad confronted Robert de Sable in King Richard I of England's camp at Arsuf, where he informed the king of Robert's betrayal. After Robert denied the accusations, Richard ordered that Altaïr and Robert have a duel to determine who was telling the truth. Altaïr was victorious, killing the Templar Grand Master, and was allowed to leave by Richard.[18]
Crusader forces commanded by King Richard I and the Saracen army led by Saladin clashed at the Battle of Arsuf, where the Crusaders emerged victorious.[18]
September:
Al Mualim was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad after betraying the Assassin Brotherhood by brainwashing his subjects using the Apple of Eden to make them worship him.[18]
Abbas Sofian sparked a minor civil war among the Assassins against Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad. Abbas stole their Mentor's Apple of Eden, though it slowly began killing him, until he was saved by Altaïr.[11]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad succeeded Al Mualim as Mentor of the Levantine Brotherhood of Assassins, after persuading the Assassins of his capabilities.[71]
Fall:
Grand Master Armand Bouchart, who succeeded Robert de Sable, relocated the Knights Templar to Cyprus. During their relocation from Acre, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad led an Assassin attack on Acre's harbor and captured Maria Thorpe.[73]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad killed the Templar captain Frederick "the Red" in Limassol Castle, after establishing contact with Alexander of Limassol, the local leader of a resistance against the Templar occupation of Cyprus.[73]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued Maria Thorpe from imprisonment by Armand Bouchart, who did not intend to break the Latin Rule by conspiring with women. The two traveled by boat to Kyrenia.[73]
1192[]
Jonas, a merchant from Kyrenia, was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad on behalf of a Templar agent posing as the Kyrenia resistance leader Barnabas, triggering a riot among the populace.[73]
Moloch, leader of a local group of fanatics and a Templar ally, was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Kantara Castle, acting upon information gained from Maria Thorpe and resistance soldier Markos.[73]
The Dark Oracle, a former Cypriot noblewoman, provided the Templars with the locations of resistance members. Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad rescued the members from captivity, and killed the Dark Oracle in Buffavento Castle.[73]
Maria Thorpe and Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad infiltrated Saint Hilarion Castle, where Altaïr killed Moloch's sons, the Templars Shalim and Shahar, eradicating the Templar presence in Kyrenia.[73]
1193[]
The Knights Templar moved all their artifacts out of the Templar Archive in Limassol to an unknown location, on orders of Grand Master Armand Bouchart.[73]
Grand Master Armand Bouchart was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, during a duel between the two inside the Templar Archive.[73]
13th century[]
1204[]
July 12: The Crusaders conquered and sacked the city of Constantinople, ending the Fourth Crusade. During the siege, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had come to Constantinople to spread the influence of the Assassins, was forced to retreat from the city.[71]
1215[]
The First Barons' War started between the forces of King John of England, supported by the Assassin William of Cassingham, and the rebelling English Barons, led by the Assassin Robert Fitzwalter and aided by France.[74]
1217[]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, his wife Maria and their eldest son Darim left Masyaf to oppose the rise of the Mongol Empire and eliminate Genghis Khan. Malik Al-Sayf was left to lead the Assassins, with help of Darim's younger brother Sef.[71]
1226[]
Sef Ibn-La'Ahad was killed by the apprentice Swami on orders of Abbas Sofian, in an attempt to claim control of the Levantine Assassins.[71]
Malik Al-Sayf was framed for the murder of Sef Ibn-La'Ahad by Abbas Sofian, who placed a council in charge of the Levantine Assassins, with himself at its head.[71]
1227[]
February:Jochi Khan, first son of the Mongol warlord Genghis Khan, was fatally poisoned by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad.[74]
August: Genghis Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire, was killed by the Assassin Darim Ibn-La'Ahad in China, after he fell off his horse when it was shot by Qulan Gal.[71] For his vital role in the Khan's assassination, Qulan Gal would later be honored as a legendary Assassin.[4]
1228[]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Maria Thorpe and their son Darim returned to Masyaf, where they were informed of the ruling council. Darim traveled to Alamut to meet with his brother Sef's widowed wife and children.[71]
Malik Al-Sayf was rescued by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad from Masyaf's dungeons, and informed Altaïr and Maria Thorpe of the truth regarding Sef's death. In Altaïr's and Maria's absence, Malik was beheaded by Swami.[71]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and Maria Thorpe confronted Abbas Sofian in Masyaf fortress. Upon being taunted by Swami, Altaïr used his Apple of Eden to force Swami to kill himself. In the ensuing frenzy, Swami fatally stabbed Maria.[71] Altaïr escaped Masyaf with help from his son Darim.[11]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad exiled himself to Alamut, while Abbas Sofian usurped the title of Mentor of the Levantine Assassins. At Alamut, Altaïr made several discoveries and inventions using his Apple of Eden, and retrived six Memory Seals from the Isu temple beneath the fortress.[71]
1241[]
April 9: The Battle of Legnica was fought between the Mongol Empire and the Kingdom of Poland, aided by the Knights Templar. A Templar was captured and later brought to the court of the Mongol prince Möngke Khan.[75]
December 11:Ögedei Khan, the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire and the third son of Genghis Khan, was killed by the Assassin Nergüi.[74]
1247[]
The merchant Mukhlis was saved from the brigands led by Bayhas outside Masyaf by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, who had returned from his self-imposed exile in Alamut.[71]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad started gaining the support of the Levantine Assassins and Masyaf's villagers in attempting to take back the declining Brotherhood under Abbas Sofian, and befriended Malik Al-Sayf's son Tazim.[71]
Abbas Sofian was killed by Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad using the Hidden Gun, during a non-violent assault on Masyaf fortress by Altaïr and his supporters. Altaïr was welcomed back as Mentor of the Levantine Assassins.[71]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad ordered the start of the construction of a hidden library beneath the fortress of Masyaf to hide the knowledge and secrets of the Brotherhood.[71]
1250[]
An unidentified Egyptian Assassin obtained the Scepter of Aset and brought it to the rebelling Mamluks, who used it to remove the reigning Ayyubid dynasty from power and found the Bahri dynasty.[76]
1251[]
July 1: Möngke Khan, a Mongol prince and founder of the Mongolian Rite of the Templar Order, became the fourth emperor of the Mongol Empire.[75]
1255[]
Batu Khan, founder of the Golden Horde, a sub-khanate of the Mongol Empire, was murdered on orders of his subordinate Alexander Nevsky.[74]
1256[]
December 15:Hülegü Khan destroyed the Assassin fortress of Alamut, during his destruction of the Levantine Assassins' holdings.[12]
1257[]
January:Niccolò and Maffeo Polo arrived in Masyaf on invitation of their friend Darim Ibn-La'Ahad, and became acquainted with the Mentor Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[71]
July: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad and his son Darim began training Niccolò and Maffeo Polo in the ways of the Assassin Brotherhood, in the hopes that they would help spread their ideology to the west. Niccolò started writing his journal, The Secret Crusade, detailing Altaïr's life.[71]
August 12:
Hülegü Khan began the Mongol siege on the Assassin fortress at Masyaf,[71] ultimately rendering the fortress abandoned.[11]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad guided Niccolò and Maffeo Polo out of the city and granted them his Codex, the five Masyaf Keys and several books, and allowed the rest of the Brotherhood to escape.[11]
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad passed away after locking himself inside his library with his Apple of Eden and imprinting his final memories into the sixth Memory Seal.[11]
August 14: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo were attacked by a Mongol raiding party in the Syrian countryside, and lost Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex.[77]
1258[]
January 1: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo established an Assassins Guild in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.[71]
January: Niccolò and Maffeo Polo scattered Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's books around various landmarks in Constantinople, and hid the five Masyaf Keys in underground tombs located beneath the city.[71]
1259[]
Niccolò and Maffeo Polo left Constantinople to journey to the Mongol Empire to retrieve Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex, without success.[11]
The Mongol Empire, led by Möngke Khan, started besieging Diaoyu Fortress as part of their campaign to conquer China. A Chinese Assassin fought as a commander in the Song Dynasty army and helped ensure victory, but perished in the conflict.[75]
August 11: Möngke Khan, emperor of the Mongol Empire and member of the Templar Order, was killed by the Chinese Assassin apprentice Zhang Zhi to avenge her father, against her Mentor Kang's wishes.[75]
1263[]
November 14: Alexander Nevsky, a Russian leader and Templar ally, was killed by the Assassin Nergüi for his alliance with the Golden Horde and influence over the Mongol Empire.[74]
1265[]
February 8: Hülegü Khan was killed by the Mongolian Assassin Nergüi, out of retribution for the destruction of Masyaf and the Levantine Assassins.[74]
1269[]
Niccolò and Maffeo Polo returned to their home in Venice, Italy, where they established an Assassins Guild and first met Niccolò's son Marco.[12]
1271[]
November: Marco Polo left on a journey to Asia with his father Niccolò and uncle Maffeo, intent on retrieving the Codex of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.[20]
1275[]
May: Marco Polo retrieved Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex from Kublai Khan's summer palace in Shangdu, bringing it with him when he returned to Venice several years later.[20]
14th century[]
1304[]
July 7: Pope Benedict XI died after being poisoned by his political rival Guillaume de Nogaret, the councilor to King Philip IV of France and Mentor of the French Assassins.[34]
1307[]
October 13:
King Philip IV of France, under the influence of Mentor Guillaume de Nogaret, branded the Knights Templar as heretics and their Temple in Paris was besieged, resulting in the arrests of numerous Templars including Grand Master Jacques de Molay.[34]
Jacques de Molay's advisor hid de Molay's Sword of Eden and the Codex Pater Intellectus in a Templar crypt underneath the Temple before being killed by Master Assassin Thomas de Carneillon.[34]
1312[]
Mansa Muhammad ibn Qu of the Mali Empire embarks on an expedition to the Atlantic Ocean, where he recovers an Apple of Eden from the ocean floor. His activation of the Apple subsequently drives most of his crew mad, and they mutiny against him and kill him. The surviving sane crew members manage to regain control of the ship and bring the Apple back to Muhammad's younger brother, Musa, who is subsequently crowned Mansa.
1314[]
March 18: Jacques de Molay, the last publicly recognized Grand Master of the Knights Templar[12] and a Sage,[34] was burned at the stake alongside Geoffroi de Charney. Before his death, de Molay sent nine of his most trusted men across the known world to continue the Templar Order's objectives underground.[12]
1321[]
September 14: The Assassin Dante Alighieri was killed by the Templars, revealing their continued existence to the Brotherhood.[4]
September 25: Dante's apprentice Domenico Auditore, his wife Isabetta, and their son Renato attempted to bring Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex to Spain, but were attacked in the Otranto harbor by pirates employed by the Templars; Isabetta did not survive the encounter.[4]
1324[]
January: Marco Polo, and later Domenico Auditore's father, were killed by the Templars.[4]
Domenico Auditore bought and renovated the villa in Monteriggioni, renaming it the Villa Auditore. Monteriggioni became the headquarters of the Italian Assassins.[4]
1338[]
Lukas Zurburg was saved by the Assassins from a road thief while travelling from Essen to Adendorf. Zurburg subsequently joined the Assassin Brotherhood.[78]
1340[]
The Templars stole the Scepter of Aset from the reigning Bahri dynasty of Egypt.[76]
The Egyptian Assassin Numa Al'Khamsin traveled to Cairo and interrogated Bachir Al-Djallil, a Templar-allied merchant, who revealed the Scepter was taken to Karnak, before he was killed by Numa.[76]
1341[]
June 7: The reigning Bahri Sultan of Egypt, Al-Nasir Muhammad, was killed by his servant Leila, a secret Templar agent.[79]
Numa Al'Khamsin and his apprentice Ali Al-Ghrabe recovered the Scepter of Aset, disassembled in an Ankh-shaped box, from the Templars in Karnak.[79]
1348[]
The Brothers of the Cross, a secret Templar organization, traveled through the Holy Roman Empire looking for the Ankh, pretending to offer people protection from the Black Death.[78]
1350[]
The Brothers of the Cross and Lukas Zurburg mysteriously vanished from public view.[78]
1355[]
The Assassins stole the original Shroud of Eden from Geoffroy de Charny, a French knight and Templar, and replaced it with a forgery. A member of the Auditore family ordered the Shroud to be buried beneath the Villa Auditore.[22]
1368[]
Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne of China as the "Hongwu Emperor" and established the Ming dynasty. A Sage would end up serving in his court as a Confucian scholar.[34]
1398[]
June 2: A Templar expedition led by Henry Sinclair and James Gunn landed on North American soil.[80]
15th century[]
1402[]
July 17:Zhu Di became the "Yongle Emperor" with aid from the Templars, founding the Ming dynasty and succeeding the Jianwen Emperor.[78]
July: The Chinese imperial army arrested and executed thousands of people on Zhu Di's orders regarding suspicions of being Assassins; the Assassin leader Fang Xiaoru was killed during the purge. Li Tong managed to escape the Assassin headquarters in Beijing with another apprentice and an Apple of Eden.[78]
1417[]
Autumn: The Chinese admiral Zheng He started his fifth exploration voyage, discovering lands in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Middle East, ahead of European explorers.[20]
1424[]
August 12: Zhu Di was assassinated by the Assassin Li Tong while trying to suppress a rebellion in the Gobi Desert.[78]
1431[]
May 30:
Jeanne d'Arc was saved from imprisonment and execution by the Assassin Brotherhood.[41]
Fleur, posing as her master Jeanne d'Arc,[41] was burned at the stake by the English, an act that was orchestrated by rogue Templars.[4]
1440[]
June 29: The Battle of Anghiari was fought between the Florentine and Milanese armies. A six-year old Mario Auditore alerted the Florentine commander Micheletto Attendolo of a surprise attack by the Milanese, resulting in a Florentine victory.[4]
1442[]
Ilario Auditore, an old friend of Cosimo de' Medici, was succeeded as Gonfaloniere of Florence by Luca Albizzi.[4]
1453[]
May 29: Sultan Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, utilizing an Apple of Eden, effectively destroying the Byzantine Empire.[81]'
1454[]
September: Monteriggioni was besieged by the Florentine army led by Federico da Montefeltro. Under Mario Auditore's leadership, Monteriggioni managed to fend off the siege.[22]
October 1: Mario Auditore discovered the Shroud of Eden beneath the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni; while exploring the crypts, Mario lost an eye upon triggering a trap.[22]
1455[]
Lorenzo de' Medici, grandson of Cosimo de' Medici and future leader of Florence, was saved by the Assassin Giovanni Auditore da Firenze from drowning in the Arno.[4]
1476[]
December:Vlad Tepes, the ruler of Wallachia and a Templar, was killed during an Assassin attack led by Ishak Pasha, the Mentor of the Ottoman Brotherhood.[11]
December 26:Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the Duke of Milan, was killed by Templar conspirators Giovanni Andrea Lampugnani, Carlo Visconti, and Gerolamo Olgiati. Visconti and Olgiati were captured and later hanged, while Lampugnani was killed by a Moorish guard.[82]
December 29: Giovanni Auditore and his sons Federico and Petruccio were hanged in front of the Palazzo della Signoria, on false accusations of treason against Florence, by their former ally, GonfaloniereUberto Alberti, who had secretly defected to the Templars.[4]
December 31: Giovanni's son Ezio Auditore assassinated Uberto Alberti as revenge for betraying the Auditore family, while the latter was attending an exposition of Andrea del Verrocchio's work.[4]
1477[]
January: Ezio Auditore, his mother Maria, and sister Claudia left Florence and moved to Monteriggioni to live with Ezio's uncle Mario in the Villa Auditore. Mario informed Ezio of his Assassin heritage and began training him to become an Assassin and follow in Giovanni's footsteps.[4]
1478[]
April 14: Ezio Auditore killed his childhood rival Vieri de' Pazzi in San Gimignano, Tuscany for conspiring with the Templars.[4]
April 26:
Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence, and his brother Giuliano were attacked by the Templar Pazzi conspirators, resulting in Giuliano's death. Lorenzo was saved by Ezio Auditore, who had spied on the conspirators' meeting earlier with aid from La Volpe and had learned about their plan.[4]
Ezio Auditore assassinated the Templar Francesco de' Pazzi, one of the Pazzi conspirators, and hung his body from the Palazzo della Signoria, scaring the remaining conspirators into fleeing Florence and abandoning their plan to take over the city.[4]
Ezio Auditore climbed atop San Gimignano's tallest tower and assassinated Antonio Maffei, a monk formerly employed by Lorenzo de' Medici and one of the Pazzi conspirators.[4]
1479[]
April 12: Ezio Auditore assassinated Francesco Salviati, the Archbishop of Pisa and one of the Pazzi conspirators, in his villa near San Gimignano.[4]
May 3: Ezio Auditore assassinated Bernardo Baroncelli, a banker employed by the Pazzi family and one of the Pazzi conspirators, in San Gimignano.[4]
Ezio Auditore assassinated Stefano da Bagnone, a monk employed as Jacopoe de' Pazzi's secretary and one of the Pazzi conspirators, in the Monte Oliveto Maggiore monastery outside San Gimignano.[4]
1480[]
January 3: Ezio Auditore killed Jacopo de' Pazzi in an act of mercy after witnessing Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia and Emilio Barbarigo mortally wound him during a Templar meeting in the Antico Teatro Romano for his failure during the Pazzi Conspiracy.[4]
1481[]
March 3: Ezio Auditore and Leonardo da Vinci sailed to Venice, with aid from Caterina Sforza, where Ezio formed an alliance with the local thieves guild led by Antonio de Magianis.[4]
May 3: Sultan Mehmet II of the Ottoman Empire passed away, leaving his two sons Bayezid and Cem, a Templar, competing for the throne. Though Cem managed to secure their father's Apple of Eden, Bayezid secured the Ottoman throne.[81]
1482[]
June: Prince Cem hid his Apple of Eden in the Templar Archive on Cyprus after realizing the artifact refused to communicate with him, so that the European Templars could find it.[81]
June 29: Prince Cem met the Knights Hospitaller on Rhodes; however, he was betrayed by the Hospitallers and sent to be imprisoned in Europe,[81] where he would become acquainted with Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia in Italy.[11]
1485[]
September 11: Ezio Auditore assassinated Emilio Barbarigo, leader of the Venetian merchant guild and a Templar, inside his palazzo, with aid from the Venetian thieves guild.[4]
September 14:Carlo Grimaldi, a member of Venice's Council of Ten and a Templar, lethally poisoned the Doge of Venice Giovanni Mocenigo, but was promptly killed in turn by Ezio Auditore, who had infiltrated the Palazzo Ducale using Leonardo da Vinci's flying machine.[4]
1486[]
February 15: Ezio Auditore infiltrated Venice's Carnevale feast and assassinated Marco Barbarigo, the new Doge of Venice and a Templar, with help from Sister Teodora.[4]
July 11:
Ezio Auditore assassinated the Templars Silvio Barbarigo and Dante Moro in the Arsenale di Venezia with aid from Bartolomeo d'Alviano and his mercenaries.[4]
The Italian Templars left Venice to retrieve the Apple of Eden from Cyprus, after ascertaining its location from Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex pages.[4]
1487[]
June 16: The army of Lambert Simnel, a pretender to the English throne and Templar puppet, was defeated by King Henry VII of England, and Simnel was imprisoned.[22]
1488[]
June 25: Ezio Auditore stole the Apple of Eden from the Templars in Venice after they had just returned from Cyprus. Following a confrontation with Rodrigo Borgia, Ezio was formally inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood by his uncle Mario and allies from the courtesans, thieves, and mercenaries guilds, all of whom revealed themselves to be Assassins.[4]
July 7:
The brothers Checco and Ludovico Orsi attacked the city of Forlì on orders of Rodrigo Borgia, after its ruler Caterina Sforza had hired the Orsi brothers to kill her Templar husband Girolamo Riario.[83]
Ezio Auditore arrived in Forlì with the Assassin Niccolò Machiavelli to give the Apple of Eden to Caterina Sforza for safekeeping. He killed Ludovico and Checco Orsi, but passed out after Checco wounded him and he lost the Apple to the monk Girolamo Savonarola.[83]
1491[]
Christopher Columbus, accompanied by the Assassin Luis de Santángel, was lured into an ambush in Venice by Rodrigo Borgia, who promised to fund Columbus' next voyage but wanted to keep the New World a Templar secret. Ezio Auditore rescued Columbus.[84]
Luis de Santángel persuaded Ezio Auditore to accompany him and Columbus back to Spain, in order to help him and fellow Assassin Raphael Sánchez save the Spanish Assassins from persecution by the Spanish Inquisition.[84]
Aguilar de Nerha was officially inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood by the Mentor Benedicto, having joined their ranks after his parents were killed in the Spanish Inquisition.[85]
December:
Prince Ahmed of Granada, son of Emir Muhammad XII of Granada, was taken from Assassin protection by Templars led by Ojeda in an effort to obtain the King's Apple of Eden.[85]
Mentor Benedicto, along with other Assassins including Aguilar de Nerha and Maria, attempted to stop the abduction of Prince Ahmed. Benedicto, Aguilar and Maria were captured, while the other Assassins were killed in the effort. Benedicto was later burned at the stake, but Aguilar and Maria managed to escape.[85]
1492[]
January 2:
Emir Muhammad XII of Granada, during the surrender of the Emirate of Granada, handed the Apple of Eden over to Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada in exchange for the return of his son.[85]
The Assassins Aguilar de Nerha and Maria engaged in a struggle with Tomás de Torquemada and Ojeda for the Apple of Eden, resulting in the deaths of Maria and Ojeda. Aguilar escaped with the Apple.[85]
Ezio Auditore confronted Tomás de Torquemada, who feigned ignorance of[84] his Templar affiliations.[85] Ezio subsequently decided against killing Torquemada and later returned to Italy.[84]
August: Christopher Columbus was entrusted with an Apple of Eden by the Assassin Aguilar de Nerha in Palos de la Frontera while preparing for his voyage to the New World.[85]
August 11: Rodrigo Borgia was elected as the new head of the Catholic Church, after purchasing votes from the other cardinals, and became known as Pope Alexander VI.[86] He subsequently decides to legitimize his younger illegitimate half-brother Bruno and make him a cardinal.
Inquisitor and Templar Gustavo Ramírez discovered a piece of the Staff of Eden hidden in St. Rafael Abbey, and delivered it to Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada, while evading pursuit by the Assassins.[37]
The Spanish Assassins stole a second piece of the Staff of Eden from Dominican monks at the Monastery of St. Lucia before Inquisitor Gustavo Ramírez could recover it.[37]
The Assassin bureau leader in Burgos, Diego de Alvarado, was captured and secretly persuaded to work as a Templar agent by the Inquisitor Gustavo Ramirez. He was subsequently rescued by the Assassins.[37]
Gustavo Ramirez recovered the last piece of the Staff of Eden from Sobroso Castle, where he was betrayed and killed by Diego de Alvarado. De Alvarado fled before the Assassins could recover the artifact.[37]
October 12: Christopher Columbus' fleet discovered the Americas, and landed on the island of Guanahani, inhabited by the Taíno.[11]
1494[]
Bruno Borgia began his service as the Holy See's official emissary to the Spanish Inquisition, advising Grand Inquisitor and fellow Templar Tomás de Torquemada in both Templar and official Inquisition affairs.
November 9: Girolamo Savonarola stirred the Florentines into rebelling against Piero de' Medici using the Apple of Eden. The Medici were exiled and Savonarola became the city's de facto leader.[86]
Ezio Auditore saved Girolamo Savonarola's cousin Marcello from Borgia guards in Florence.[86]
Ezio Auditore saved Piero de' Medici from Girolamo Savonarola's followers in Venice. Together, they took down the attackers and a corrupt herald.[86]
Unknown[]
Ezio Auditore retrieved the six Assassin Seals from the Assassin Tombs in Florence, San Gimignano, Forlì and Venice and claimed the Armor of Altaïr from within the Sanctuary in Monteriggioni.[4]
1495[]
February 25: Prince Cem was killed in Capua by the Assassins, who believed the Borgia were planning to use Cem to conquer Constantinople.[77]
Ottoman Assassins Ishak Pasha, Yusuf Tazim, Murat Bin Husn, and Aleksei Zima travelled to Spain to intercept a trade deal between the Byzantine and Spanish Templars, hoping to recover Niccolò Polo's journal, though the Templars had already taken it elsewhere.[37]
1497[]
June 14:Juan Borgia was killed by the courtesan Fiora Cavazza on orders of his brother Cesare Borgia, allowing the latter to become Captain General of the Papal Armies.[87]
Ezio Auditore killed Girolamo Savonarola's nine lieutenants in an effort to remove Savonarola's control over the Florentine population and regain the Apple of Eden.[88]
1498[]
March 3:Giovanni Borgia was born to Lucrezia Borgia and the Assassin Perotto Calderon, with whom Lucrezia had a secret affair, but suffered from a life-threatening deformation. Calderon stole the original Shroud of Eden from his Brothers in Agnadello to save his son's life. The Assassins subsequently killed Perotto after discovering his betrayal.[22]
May 23:
Girolamo Savonarola lost all his power and influence in Florence and was captured by an angry Florentine mob in front of the Palazzo Pitti. Ezio Auditore regained the Apple of Eden, after Savonarola dropped it and a Borgia soldier briefly stole it.[88]
Ezio Auditore killed Girolamo Savonarola out of mercy while his target was being burned at the stake in front of the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence.[88]
Tomás de Torquemada reconstructed the shattered Staff of Eden in an Isu vault known as the Forge beneath the Monastery of St. Thomas Aquinas in Ávila, Spain.[37]
September 17: Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain and a Master Templar, was killed by the Spanish Brotherhood of Assassins[4][37] inside the Forge in Ávila, Spain. The Staff of Eden was subsequently destroyed using the Forge's collapsing structures, and its remnants were buried.[37]
1499[]
November 23:Perkin Warbeck, a Templar, was hanged by King Henry VII of England for his attempt to claim the English throne.[22]
December: The Italian Assassins assembled the pages of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's Codex and discovered they formed a map of the world, pointing towards the location of an Isu vault in the Vatican.[4]
December 28:
Ezio Auditore infiltrated the Vatican and battled Rodrigo Borgia, who wielded the Papal Staff of Eden, in the Sistine Chapel. Ezio defeated Rodrigo and claimed the Staff, but chose to spare his target's life.[4]
Ezio Auditore opened the door to the Vatican Vault using his Apple of Eden and the Papal Staff and received a message from the Isu Minerva warning Ezio's descendant Desmond Miles of the Second Disaster.[4]
Ezio Auditore escaped Rome with his uncle Mario and the Apple of Eden, but lost the Papal Staff, which remained secured within an underground chamber in front of the Vatican Vault.[38]
1500[]
January 2: Monteriggioni was besieged and destroyed by the Papal Army under orders of Cesare Borgia, who executed the captured Assassin leader Mario Auditore and took possession of the Assassins' Apple of Eden; Ezio Auditore was severely wounded during the siege, and Caterina Sforza was captured.[38]
January: Niccolò Machiavelli became the leader of the Italian Assassins and set up headquarters on Tiber Island in Rome to fight the Borgia. Ezio Auditore joined him and later set up an underground network in the city led by his sister Claudia, La Volpe and Bartolomeo d'Alviano.[38]
Cesare Borgia and Sirus Favero founded the Crows, a Templar organization dedicated to eradicating the Assassins by adopting their own techniques and weaponry. They deceived the Spanish Assassin Raphael Sánchez into training the Crows for five years at Vallombrosa Abbey.[89]
May: Ezio Auditore saved Nicolaus Copernicus from Borgia attacks in Rome after Copernicus betrayed the Templars by making his scientific discoveries of heliocentrism public.[90]
December 16/17: Italian Assassins destroyed several warehouses and factories in Calicut, India owned by Pedro Álvares Cabral, a Portuguese explorer tasked with eliminating the local Assassins Guild. The population of Calicut rose in rebellion against Cabral, and he fled the city.[22]
16th century[]
1501[]
June 30: Ezio Auditore helped Caterina Sforza escape her imprisonment by Lucrezia Borgia in the Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome.[38]
September 20: Agostino Barbarigo, the Doge of Venice and an Assassin ally, died after having been poisoned by an Assassin team consisting of Francesco Vecellio, Cipriano Enu, and Tessa Varzi for making deals with the Borgia.[22]
1502[]
Ezio Auditore destroyed the war machines that Leonardo da Vinci had designed on orders of Cesare Borgia, at da Vinci's own request.[38]
Yusuf Tazim met with a contingent of Venetian Assassins in an joint effort to steer the Ottoman–Venetian War to a peaceful end.[11]
Pietro de Galencia, a Templar spy who had infiltrated Monteriggioni, was killed by the Assassin Lo Sparviero after it was discovered that Pietro had stolen a chest containing blueprints of the Hidden Blade from the Villa Auditore. The Assassins were unable to retrieve the chest, as it had already been delivered to Cesare Borgia.[89]
October 18: The University of Wittenberg opened its doors. Its founder, Friedrich der Weise, previously received a large anonymous donation from the Assassins, stolen from the Templars.[22]
November 1:Vasco da Gama bombarded Calicut for two days in retaliation for the Assassins routing Pedro Álvares Cabral; the Assassins later eliminated da Gama's commanders who were left in the city.[22]
December 31:Micheletto Corella killed Vitellozzo Vitelli and Oliverotto da Fermo for rebelling against Cesare Borgia.[87]
Unknown[]
The Assassin Lo Sparviero foiled an assassination attempt on Leonardo da Vinci by the Crows; the Brotherhood first became aware of the existence of the Crows.[89]
1503[]
Giovanni Borgia was recruited to the Assassin Brotherhood by Francesco Vercellio, the former apprentice of Giovanni's late father, the Assassin Perotto Calderon.[22]
August 1: Ezio Auditore assassinated Juan Borgia the Elder, a Templar and one of Cesare Borgia's lieutenants, while his target was hosting a Pagan party in Rome.[38]
August:
Ezio Auditore killed Baron Octavian de Valois, a Templar and one of Cesare Borgia's lieutenants, in the Castra Praetoria in Rome with aid from Bartolomeo d'Alviano and his mercenaries.[38]
Cesare Borgia ordered his assassin Micheletto Corella to kill Pietro Rossi for his affair with Cesare's sister Lucrezia; Ezio Auditore thwarted the attempt and defeated Michelleto, but chose to spare his life.[38]
Ezio Auditore was promoted to Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and his sister Claudia was inducted into the Brotherhood.[38]
Ezio Auditore claimed the Armor of Brutus after unlocking the treasure of Romulus using the six keys he had retrieved from the Lairs of Romulus across Rome.[38]
August 18: Grand Master Rodrigo Borgia was killed by his son Cesare after refusing to give him the Apple of Eden, using a poisoned apple that Rodrigo had intended to kill his son with for his reckless behaviour. Ezio Auditore retrieved the Apple of Eden from the courtyard of Basilica di San Pietro ahead of Cesare.[38]
September 22:Pius III was elected to the Papacy, succeeding the late Rodrigo Borgia. Cesare Borgia attempted to rig the election in his favor, but was unable to due to having lost all of his influence in the Vatican.[91]
November 1:Julius II became Pope, succeeding Pius III, who had passed away only 26 days after his election.[91]
November 23:Margaret of York was fatally poisoned by the Assassins on behalf of King Richard VII of England, for plotting to claim the English throne in a Yorkist Templar plot.[22]
December: Cesare Borgia was arrested by Fabio Orsini on orders of Pope Julius II, after all his remaining supporters in Rome were elimnated by the Italian Assassins.[38]
1504[]
Cesare Borgia escaped imprisonment from the Castel Sant'Angelo, but was re-captured by Ezio Auditore near Ostia. Pope Julius II struck a deal with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabela of Spain to have Cesare imprisoned in the Castillo de la Mota in Valencia.[91]
Claudia Auditore stepped down as the madam of the Rosa in Fiore in Rome after having been taken captive by Templar spies. The Venetian thief Rosa took over the position.[91]
Ezio Auditore was nursed back to health by the noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo after having been injured in a battle outside of Florence.[92]
November 26: Queen Isabella I of Castille passed away afer having been poisoned by her servant, an acquaintance of Luis de Santángel, at the request of the Assassins for colluding with the Borgia.[22]
1505[]
Ezio Auditore foiled an attempt on Leonardo da Vinci's life by mercenaries employed by Pope Julius II, who sought to deprive the Borgia of the inventor's genius.[92]
Micheletto Corella was taken captive in Zagarolo after Ezio Auditore led a force of 100 Assassins and thieves on against Micheletto's army. Micheletto was imprisoned in the Palazzo della Signoria in Florence and interrogated.[91]
Pope Julius II employed Leonardo da Vinci as a military engineer and became an ally of the Italian Assassins following a meeting with Ezio Auditore.[91]
1506[]
Demetrio il Silente, who had created the "Corvix Blades" based on the original Hidden Blade blueprints stolen from the Villa Auditore in 1502, was sentenced to death for betraying Cesare Borgia, but was rescued by the Assassin Lo Sparviero.[89]
Sirus Favero, the leader of the Crows, infiltrated the Assassins and began plotting to destroy them from the inside as retribution for his son's murder by Lo Sparviero.[89]
Lo Sparviero became aware of Sirus Favero's deception and informed Niccolò Machiavelli after surviving an ambush by the Crows.[89]
Sirus Favero and most of the Crows were killed in Rome by Lo Sparviero and Niccolò Machiavelli. The surviving Crows fled to Forlì, where they were also eliminated soon after.[89]
Ezio Auditore locked his Apple of Eden in the Isu vault beneath the Roman Colosseum,[38] on the artifact's instructions.[91]
Leonardo da Vinci was kidnapped by the Cult of Hermes, who forced him to lead them to the hidden entrance of the Temple of Pythagoras that da Vinci had discovered. Ezio Auditore and da Vinci's apprentice Salaì investigated his disappearance and found a clue directing them to find five of da Vinci's missing paintings.[93]
Ezio Auditore recovered all five da Vinci paintings and discovered hidden markings on each of them, which combined to form a map leading to the Temple of Pythagoras.[93]
June 22: Ezio Auditore killed the Cult of Hermes' leader Ercole Massimo and rescued Leonardo da Vinci. Ezio and da Vinci then explored the Temple of Pythagoras and found an Isu vault which contained, unbeknownst to them, the coordinates of the Grand Temple.[93]
June 24: Ezio Auditore, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Leonardo da Vinci started their journey to Valencia to find Micheletto Corella, based on information from a courtesan named Camilla in Naples.[91]
Michelleto Corella freed his master Cesare Borgia from his imprisonment at the Castillo de la Mota. Cesare began rebuilding his forces and killed Michelleto after the latter betrayed and tried to strangle him.[91]
Cesare Borgia shot Niccolò Machiavelli while he and Ezio Auditore were spying on him, and escaped after Ezio chose to take Machiavelli to a doctor rather than pursue Cesare.[91]
1507[]
March 12: Ezio Auditore killed Cesare Borgia by dropping him from the walls of Viana Castle during the Siege of Viana.[38] This marks the beginning of the First Templar Schism.
April 15:Bruno Borgia received a letter informing him of his nephew Cesare's death. He resigns from his service to the Spanish Inquisition to return to Italy, hoping to restore the Borgia power base.
1509[]
May 14: The Republic of Venice and Kingdom of France fought at the Battle of Agnadello, resulting in a French victory. Bartolomeo d'Alviano was captured by the French, while trying to protect their Shroud of Eden from falling into King Louis XII's hands.[22]
September 10: An earthquake struck Constantinople. Templars fighting under the Byzantine banner re-emerged in the city.[11]
1510[]
January: The Assassin Francesco Vecellio killed Niccolò di Pitigliano in Lonigo for terrorizing the local citizens and abandoning Bartolomeo d'Alviano at the Battle of Agnadello; Francesco took the Shroud of Eden, which Niccolò had stolen, back to the Assassins.[22]
May 12–30: The Prince of Anhua rebellion, orchestrated by the Chinese Assassins in an attempt to assassinate Liu Jin, leader of the Eight Tigers, took place.[94]
August 25: Liu Jin was executed via lingchi on several charges of treason after being betrayed by his lieutanant Zhang Yong, secretly a Templar who sought to usurp Liu Jin's position.[94]
Winter: Ezio Auditore left Italy and started his journey to Masyaf, after having found a letter in 1509 written by his father detailing Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's library.[77]
1511[]
March:
Ezio Auditore was ambushed and captured by Byzantine Templars under the command of Leandros in Masyaf, but escaped his execution by hanging.[11]
Ezio Auditore killed Leandros in Atlas Village, after pursuing him through the Syrian countryside; Ezio retrieved The Secret Crusade by Niccolò Polo from Leandros' body.[11]
May: Ezio Auditore arrived in Constantinople and became familiarized with the Ottoman Assassins, led by Yusuf Tazim, and their struggle against the Byzantine Templars.[11]
Ezio Auditore found four of the five Masyaf Keys over the course of several months with aid from bookkeeper Sofia Sartor in the Yerebatan Cistern, the Galata Tower, the Forum of the Ox, and the Maiden's Tower.[11]
The Byzantine Templars attempted to abduct Prince Suleiman during a party at Topkapı Palace but were thwarted by the Ottoman Assassins. Suleiman and Ezio Auditore subsequently formed an alliance to bring down the Byzantine Templars.[11]
Ezio Auditore assassinated the Janissary captain Tarik Barleti based on incorrect suspicions of colluding with the Byzantine Templars.[11]
Ezio Auditore retrieved the Armor of Ishak Pasha from a hidden chamber inside the Hagia Sophia, after uncovering its location from the ten memoir pages of Ishak Pasha he had found scattered around Constantinople.[11]
Ezio Auditore found and explored Vlad Tepes' prison on the outskirts of Constantinople, retrieving Vlad's sword from within his tomb.[11]
1512[]
Ezio Auditore used explosives to destroy the Great Chain over Constantinople's harbor. Ezio proceeded to set the docked Ottoman fleet ablaze using Greek Fire, and made his way to the Byzantine Templars' hideout in Cappadocia alongside Piri Reis.[11]
March:
Ezio Auditore killed Shahkulu, a Turkmen Templar, in Derinkuyu with aid from the Ottoman spy Dilara.[11]
Ezio Auditore destroyed the Byzantine Templars' ammunition storage inside Derinkuyu, causing the city to be filled with smoke, creating widespread panic.[11]
Ezio Auditore killed Manuel Palaiologos, the Byzantine Templar behind the efforts to remove Ottoman rule in Constantinople and open Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad's library. Ezio recovered the final Masyaf Key from Manuel's body, only to be confronted by Prince Ahmet, who revealed himself to be the true Templar Grand Master, and made his way back to Constantinople.[11]
April:
The Ottoman Assassin leader Yusuf Tazim was killed by the Byzantine Templars while trying to prevent Sofia Sartor's abduction in her bookshop.[11]
Ezio Auditore led the Ottoman Assassins in besieging the Templars' hideout at the Harbor of Theodosius, though he was forced to spare Prince Ahmet in order to save Sofia Sartor's life.[11]
Ezio Auditore and Prince Ahmet met on the wall connected to Galata Tower, where Ezio handed Ahmet the Masyaf Keys. Ahmet tricked Ezio and ordered Sofia's execution, though Ezio saved her from strangulation.[11]
April 25:
Sultan Bayezid II was forced to abdicate the Ottoman throne by his son Selim I, with support from the Janissaries.[11]
Ezio Auditore pursued and defeated Prince Ahmet outside Constantinople, before Ahmet's brother and rival, Sultan Selim I, arrived and slew his sibling. Ezio was spared due to the endorsement of Selim's son Suleiman, but was ordered to leave Constantinople.[11]
May: Ezio Auditore unlocked the library of Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad in Masyaf, though he decided to leave Altaïr's Apple of Eden locked away. Alongside his and Altaïr's mutual descendant Desmond Miles in 2012,[11] Ezio then witnessed a message from the Isu Jupiter about the Toba catastrophe.[77]
June: Sofia Sartor sold her bookshop in Constantinople to the Ottoman Assassins, who hid the Masyaf Keys in the cistern beneath the bookshop. Ezio Auditore became engaged to Sofia, and the couple left for Italy.[77]
1513[]
February: Ezio Auditore announced his impending retirement as Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins, and declared his favored successor to be Lodovico Ariosto.[77]
1515[]
Ezio Auditore placed the English Assassin Hiram Stoddard in charge of a mission to take down a Templar plot, accompanied by Giovanni Borgia, based on intel delivered by Michelangelo.[95]
The Assassins Giovanni Borgia and Hiram Stoddard ambushed the Templar Dei Petrucci while the latter was transporting an Apple of Eden, but the Assassins were eventually held back and Petrucci escaped.[95]
In an act of jealousy, Giovanni Borgia revealed Hiram Stoddard's adultery to the latter's lover, Elena, resulting in a violent confrontation on a rooftop. After being hit in the head by Hiram, Giovanni became possessed by the Isu Consus. Elena died in the skirmish, angering Hiram and drastically altering his personality.[95]
1516[]
The rogue Assassin Hiram Stoddard attempted to steal an Apple of Eden from a remote Assassin hideout in Greece, before being stopped and overpowered by Giovanni Borgia.[95]
1519[]
February:Hernán Cortés and an army of Spanish soldiers—including the Assassin Giovanni Borgia posing as "Botello" on a quest to find a Piece of Eden—landed on the Yucatán Peninsula to explore Mexico.[22]
May 2: Leonardo da Vinci passed away in the Clos Lucé in Amboise, France, with his friends Ezio Auditore and Niccolò Machiavelli at his side; King Francis I of France would spread stories about being at Leonardo's deathbed as propaganda.[77]
November 8: The Spanish expedition party led by Hernán Cortés was welcomed into Tenochtitlan by the Aztec ruler, Moctezuma II.[22]
1520[]
May 20: The Aztecs in Tenochtitlan were massacred by the Spanish during the Toxcatl feast, in response to the gruesomeness of the feast and to plunder Aztec riches. In the chaos, Giovanni Borgia stole a Crystal Skull from an Aztec priest.[22]
June 29: Moctezuma II, used as a puppet by the Spanish to calm the Aztec people, was killed after one of his subjects struck his head with a stone.[22]
June 30: Hernán Cortés and his Spanish soldiers made a narrow escape from Tenochtitlan during the night, known as the Night of Sorrow, during which many Spanish soldiers were slaughtered by the pursuing Aztecs.[22]
1521[]
April 20:Zheng He, China's "Zhengde Emperor", died without an heir, leaving the country in a state of chaos. The Chinese Assassins took the opportunity to infiltrate the imperial palace and rescued several of the Emperor's concubines, including Shao Jun, who was later initiated into the Brotherhood.[12]
May 27:Zhu Houcong became the "Jiajing Emperor" with aid from the Templars, succeeding his late cousin, Zheng He.[12]
July: The Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León died in Havana, Cuba, after having been shot with a poisoned arrow by the Assassins in Florida for failing to heed Miguel Ramon Carlo de Lugo's warning to give up his search for the Fountain of Youth.[78]
1524[]
August: Zhu Houcong ordered a purge of his enemies under the influence of the Eight Tigers, a group of Templar eunuchs.[94] This resulted in the near eradication of the Chinese Assassin Brotherhood, and the few survivors fled to other countries in the west.[96]
The Assassin Shao Jun and her mentor Zhu Jiuyuan traveled to Italy to seek the help of Ezio Auditore, but were ambushed by Templar agents in Venice; Jiuyuan perished in the encounter.[94]
November: Shao Jun met Ezio Auditore at his villa in Tuscany. Ezio agreed to teach her how to rebuild her Brotherhood, and the two of them fought off Chinese imperial guards in Florence and Ezio's villa. Ezio entrusted Jun with a Precursor box before her departure.[96]
November 30: While Ezio Auditore visited Florence with his wife Sofia and their daughter Flavia, he passed away as a result of old age and the battle wounds he had received during his career as an Assassin.[96]
1526[]
The Assassin Shao Jun returned to China at the request of Wang Yangming, the new leader of the Chinese Assassins, to rebuild their Brotherhood and eliminate the Eight Tigers.[94]
Shao Jun allowed herself and her Precursor box to be captured by the Eight Tigers. Jun escaped imprisonment and killed the Tiger Gao Feng, while Wang Yangming killed the Tiger Ma Yongcheng.
Yu Dayong, a member of the Eight Tigers, was killed by the Assassin Shao Jun in the port city of Macau. In retaliation for the attack, Qiu Ju ordered the port set ablaze.[94]
1527[]
Giovanni Borgia discovered the formulae for the philosopher's stone from the "True Magic" chapter of the Book of Abraham in the study of the Swiss scientist Bombastus, when Giovanni took his Crystal Skull to Bombastus for study.[22]
1529[]
January 9:
Wei Bin, a member of the Eight Tigers, was killed by the Assassin Shao Jun inside his fortress in Nan'an.[94]
Wang Yangming, the Mentor of the Chinese Assassins, was killed by the Templar Zhang Yong, the leader of the Eight Tigers, who took the Precusor box from his body.[94]
1530[]
Qiu Ju, one of the Eight Tigers, was killed in a duel with the Assassin Shao Jun in the Forbidden City, after Shao Jun was ambushed by the Templars during a meeting with her friend Empress Zhang.[94]
1532[]
Altan Khan, ruler of the Tümed Mongols, launched an siege on the Great Wall of China. The Assassin Shao Jun thwarted the invasion by closing the wall's gates.[94]
Shao Jun killed the Templar Zhang Yong, leader of the Eight Tigers, atop the Great Wall during the Mongol invasion. Before dying, Zhang Yong revealed that the Precursor box had been sent to another branch of the Templar Order, outside of China.[94]
1536[]
Quila, an Incan chasqui, recovered a letter detailing a plot orchestrated by Francisco Pizarro to assassinate Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui of the Neo-Inca State.[97]
Quila and Gonzalo Pardo, a Spanish Assassin, were captured by the Inca nobleman Tuti Cusi on false accusations of conspiring to kill the Incan Emperor after trying to enlist his aid. They were saved by Cusi's son, Quila's ex-husband Ayar Acar.[97]
Quila, Ayar Acar and Gonzalo Pardo prevented an assassination attempt on Emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui by killing Tuti Cusi and his henchmen. Quila became the Emperor's personal chasqui, and was invited by Pardo to join the Assassin Order.[97]
1541[]
June 26: The Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of the Inca Empire, was killed by the Assassins.[4]
1542[]
The Assassin Giovanni Borgia communicated with Zhu Houcong through his Crystal Skull. Upon realizing the Emperor's threats, Borgia warned the Brotherhood of the danger.[22]
1549[]
July 27:Francis Xavier, a Jesuit missionary, arrived in Japan to spread the influence of Christianity and the Templar Order.[74]
1554[]
April 27: The Republic of Florence conquered Monteriggioni, after the Florentine exile Giovannino Zeti handed the town keys to Florence. The Medici allowed the Auditore to continue their rule of the town.[4]
1558[]
November 17: Queen Mary I of England was killed by the Assassins, to free the people of England from her oppression.[4]
1559[]
January 15: Queen Elizabeth I of England, successor to her half-sister Mary I, was crowned at Westminster Abbey and began her rule over England, with the aid of an Apple of Eden.[4]
1567[]
January 23: Zhu Houcong was killed via mercury poisoning by the Chinese Assassins on orders of the Mentor Shao Jun.[94]
1571[]
July 6:Mōri Motonari, head of the Mōri clan, was assassinated by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō to allow Oda Nobunaga to conquer Chūgoku, paving the way for Tokugawa Ieyasu.[74]
1573[]
May 13:Takeda Shingen, head of the Takeda clan, was killed in his camp during an attack by Honda Tadakatsu and the Assassin Hattori Hanzō, to obtain Shingen's Sword of Eden.[74]
1576[]
June 21: The Battle of Gogunda was fought between the Army of the Mughal Empire and the Rajput chief Maharana Pratap Singh. Despite the Mughal Army's victory, Pratap Singh refused to recognize Mughal rule for several years until his army was defeated.[20]
1578[]
April 19:Uesugi Kenshin, head of the Uesugi clan and a member of the Templar Order, was killed by the Assassin Hattori Hanzō.[74]
1581[]
The Jesuit missionary Francisco Cabral was forced to resign from his post by fellow missionary Alessandro Valignano, after Cabral confronted Valignano about the latter using his position to scour Japan for Templar recruits.[74]
November 19: Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia, son of Ivan the Terrible, died; the Assassins were somehow involved in his death.[4]
1582[]
June 21: Oda Nobunaga, head of the Oda clan, was attacked by his vassal Akechi Mitsuhide at Honnō-ji; he was subsequently assassinated the Assassin and monk Yamauchi Taka to obtain his Sword of Eden, which was then transported to China by Liu Yan.[74]
1586[]
October 26: English alchemist Edward Kelley moved with his family to Třeboň from Prague, where he worked with John Dee for Count Vilem Rožmberk; using a Crystal Ball, Kelley communicated with the Isu.[22]
1589[]
May: John Dee left Třeboň and returned to England after an argument with Edward Kelley over the use of the Book of Abraham; Kelley started working at the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.[22]
1590[]
August 18: The Roanoke Colony in the New World was found deserted; the disappearance of the colony had some relation to the Assassin–Templar War.[8]
1591[]
The Golem killed various members of the nobility and alchemists in Prague, the seat of the Holy Roman Empire; by conversing with it, Elizabeth Jane Weston prevented its attempt to kill her stepfather Edward Kelley.[22]
1596[]
December 23: The Assassin Hattori Hanzō was killed by his longtime rival and fellow ninja Fūma Kotarō in Edo.[74]
1597[]
November 1: Edward Kelley committed suicide, by jumping off the roof of Hněvín Castle, where he was imprisoned by Emperor Rudolf II of the Holy Roman Empire, for failing to create gold.[22]
1598[]
September 18:Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the unifier of Japan, was killed by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka in Fushimi Castle.[74]
1600[]
October 21: The Battle of Sekigahara was fought between the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari, ending in a Tokugawa victory. Ishida's vassal Shima Sakon was killed by the Assassin Yamauchi Taka.[74]
17th century[]
1615[]
May–June: The second Siege of Osaka was fought between the Tokugawa shogunate and the Toyotomi clan; the Toyotomi clan was defeated, and thus the last threat to the shogunate. Many samurai, including the Assassin Hattori Masanari, perished in the conflict.[74]
1651[]
September 3: The Battle of Worcester was fought between the English Royalists and Parliamentarians, resulting in a victory for Parliament and the end of the English Civil War. Prince Charles II fled England and lived in exile in mainland Europe.[22]
1660[]
May 29: Prince Charles II returned to London after years of exile in France, the United Provinces and Spanish Netherlands.[22]
1661[]
May 29: King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland was crowned at Westminster Abbey; a man wielding a Piece of Eden was present at the coronation.[22]
1666[]
September 2: The Great Fire of London started, destroying thousands of buildings in the medieval City of London, ending on September 5.[20]
1673[]
April:Thom Kavanagh, a Sage from Boston, was captured by the Mentor of the Caribbean Assassins, Bahlam, to prevent him from falling under Laureano de Torres y Ayala's Templar influence.[9]
1688[]
King James II of England was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution, which saw William III and his wife, James' daughter Mary II succeed him as monarchs, ensuring a Protest regime.[20]
1690[]
Louis-Joseph d'Albert de Luynes and three other Assassins attempted to recruit Julie d'Aubigny, but d'Aubigny attacked and defeated them. After a second attempt, she agreed to join the Brotherhood and started training under Maréchal.[34]
1692[]
February: The Salem witch trials started, during which people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts stood trial to face execution in Salem Village, under the supervision of the Templars William Stoughton and Samuel Parris.[98]
June: Master Assassin Thomas "Tom" Stoddard arrived in Salem from London on assignment to retrieve a Piece of Eden from the colonies.[98]
June 10:Bridget Bishop was hanged in Salem on suspicions of witchcraft. The Assassin Tom Stoddard bore witness to the event.[98]
June:
The Assassin Tom Stoddard and his contact Jennifer Querry infiltrated a Templar warehouse, where they found several imprisoned woman in the facility's basement. They rescued Dorothy Osborne and David, after promising to lead them to the artifact, fending off several attackers in the process.[98]
While fleeing through the swamp, Tom was forced to abandon Jennifer and David to protect Dorothy. While carrying her, Dorothy became possessed by Consus' consciousness, who spoke through her, leaving a message intended for Tom's descendant Charlotte de la Cruz.[98]
Tom, Dorothy Osborne and Jennifer were captured by the Templars at the Salem docks. While being interrogated, Dorothy allowed Consus to take hold of her, giving Jennifer the opportunity to free Tom. Jennifer was killed in the ensuing fight, and Dorothy commited suicide to prevent the Templars from using her.[98]
William Stoughton was shot by Samuel Parris before the former could kill Tom, citing that the Templars' unneeded violence conflicted with their goals. Tom and David were allowed to escape, and later burried Jennifer and Dorothy before Tom realized David was Jennifer's son and decided to adopt him.[98]
1696[]
The Great Recoinage of 1696 occured, with King William III of England attempting to replace the worn coins in circulation. Subsequently, many counterfeit couns were produced and entered circulation.[99]
William Lowndes, the Secretary of the Treasury in England and an Assassin, tasked fellow Assassin Omar Khaled with lending aid to Warden of the Royal Mint Isaac Newton to resolve the issue of money counterfeiters following the Great Recoinage.[99]
1699[]
British pirate William Kidd hid his treasures in the New World, including his sawtooth cutlass on Cerros and his Ring of Eden on Oak Island, after realizing he was pursued by British authorities and the Templars.[8]
18th century[]
1701[]
May 23: The British privateer William Kidd was hanged in London on accussations of piracy, after having been captured in New York.[8]
July 9: The War of the Spanish Succession started between the powers of Europe to determine the successor to King Charles II of Spain.[9]
1703[]
A slave ship bound for the Americas was raided by the Assassin Omar Khaled, who managed to save all 1000 slaves aboard the vessel, but lost his own life in the process.[99]
1712[]
Edward Kenway, dissatisfied with his precarious life in Bristol and failing marriage to Caroline Scott, decided to become a privateer in the West Indies. On the night of Edward's set departure, Emmett Scott, Caroline's father, had his Templar associates Tom Cobleigh and Julian burn down the farm of Edward's parents, to prevent Caroline from returning there. Disowned by his father Bernard for the pain he brought upon the family, Edward took revenge on Tom and Julian.[100]
Edward Kenway became a privateer aboard the Emperor and reluctantly turned to piracy along with the rest for the crew after the captain, Alexander Dolzell, decided it was the best way to continue earning money once the War of the Spanish Succession was over.[100]
1713[]
January:
Benjamin Pritchard, a Templar and the captain of the British merchant ship the Amazon Galley, was killed by the pirate Alexander Dolzell.[100]
Edward Kenway joined the crew of the Sea Dog's Bite, captained by Edward Thatch, after proving himself in a fight against his former crewmate Blaney, who was killed by Thatch for cheating. Mentored by both Thatch and Benjamin Hornigold, Edward became a successful privateer.[100]
April 11: The Treaty of Utrecht was signed between the belligerents of the War of the Spanish Succession, effectively ending all armed conflict between the powers of Europe. Privateers in the West Indies were no longer needed, causing many privateers, including Edward Kenway, Edward Thatch and Benjamin Hornigold, to turn to piracy.[9]
1714[]
The Assassin Duncan Walpole, disillusioned with his slow rise in the Brotherhood's ranks, secretly defected to the Templar Order after meeting the Templar Henry Spencer in London.[101]
Duncan Walpole traveled to the West Indies to train with the Mentor Ah Tabai, where he acquired maps detailing the locations of the West Indies Brotherhood's bureaus, which Walpole planned to deliver to the Templars in Havana.[9]
1715[]
June: The Assassin Duncan Walpole was killed by the pirate Edward Kenway, after Walpole had killed Edward's captain Abel Bramah and both ships had been destroyed near Cape Bonavista. Stealing Walpole's identity, Edward saved Stede Bonnet from British soldiers and sailed with him to Havana, Walpole's intended destination.[9]
July:
Edward Kenway, impersonating Duncan Walpole, met Woodes Rogers and Julien du Casse in Havana and delivered Walpole's maps of the Assassin bureaus to the Templar Grand Master, Laureano de Torres y Ayala. Torres then inducted "Walpole," Rogers and du Casse into the Templar Order.[9]
The Templars killed several Assassins in Havana while protecting the Sage Bartholomew Roberts, who could lead them to the Observatory, from falling into their hands. That evening, Edward Kenway was caught on suspicions of freeing Roberts, and was to be sent to the British Templars with the Spanish Treasure Fleet.[9]
July 30: The Treasure Fleet lost eleven of its twelve vessels in a hurricane off the coast of Florida. The remaining ship, later rechristened the Jackdaw, was stolen by pirate captives led by Edward Kenway and Adéwalé, and managed to escape the storm.[9]
September: The Templar Julien du Casse was killed by Edward Kenway in his stronghold in Great Inagua, to prevent du Casse from warning his fellow Templars of Edward's escape.[9]
1716[]
March:
The pirate and Assassin Mary Read invited Edward Kenway to the Brotherhood's headquarters in Tulum, on the Yucatán Peninsula; there, they explored the Mayan ruins and Edward identified a statue of the Sage.[9]
The Mentor Ah Tabai, Mary Read and Edward Kenway defended Tulum from an attack by the slaver Laurens Prins.[9]
Edward Kenway helped the Assassin Opía Apito defend the bureau on the Cayman Islands from a Templar attack, and killed the Templar and thief Lucia Márquez, from whom he took a Templar key.[9]
Edward Kenway helped the Assassin Antó defend the bureau in Kingston from a Templar attack, and killed the British officer and Templar Kenneth Abraham, from whom he took a Templar key.[9]
June: The French pirate Olivier "La Buse" Levasseur destroyed a vessel captained by Barnes off Devil's Rock, and rescued its captives Alonzo Batilla and Jumao, whom he rewarded with their own ship. Alonzo subsequently obtained the schooner Wanderer.[102]
July:Samuel Bellamy replaced Benjamin Hornigold as captain of Hornigold's pirate fleet by majority vote and Hornigold's rule to not attack British ships was neglected. Hornigold was escorted away from the pirates to another island by Alonzo Batilla.[102]
November: Samuel Bellamy, La Buse and Alonzo Batilla attacked a galleon of the Spanish Treasure Fleet, but were lured into a trap by Captain Francis Hume of the British Navy, a Templar.[102]
1717[]
January:
Alonzo Batilla recovered Laurens Prins' slaver route and destroyed Francis Hume's ship, who had attacked Samuel Bellamy on orders of Laureano de Torres y Ayala.[102]
Edward Kenway attacked the fort at Punta Guarico to steal Laureano de Torres y Ayala's gold, but instead devised a plan to use Torres and his gold to acquire Bartholomew Roberts from Laurens Prins, who had the Sage in his employ.[9]
February: Samuel Bellamy, La Buse and Alonzo Batilla set a trap for the Whydah, Laurens Prins' slave ship transporting a Piece of Eden. The Whydah and its treasure were secured, and the pirates were able to sink the attacking King George captained by Francis Hume.[102]
April 27: The slaver Laurens Prins was assassinated in Kingston by Edward Kenway, aiding his friend Mary Read in finishing her assassination contract after Prins refused to sell Bartholomew Roberts. Roberts managed to escape Kingston.[9]
Edward Kenway helped the Assassin Rhona Dinsmore defend the bureau in Havana from a Templar attack, and killed the Templar Hilary Flint, from whom he took a Templar key.[9]
Edward Kenway helped the Assassin Upton Travers defend the bureau in Nassau from a Templar attack, and killed the pirate and Templar Jing Lang, from whom he took a Templar key, as well as Upton's brother Vance, who had betrayed the Assassins.[9]
May: Alonzo Batilla aided Christopher Condent in finding supplies and rum for the Pirate Republic of Nassau; La Buse fled Nassau with the Piece of Eden after discovering the Templars had infiltrated the republic.[102]
September: La Buse escaped from a Templar attack on an enemy ship, leaving the wreckage of his vessel Le Postillon behind; Alonzo retrieved La Buse's codebook from the Templar merchant Barnes, detailing his location to be Mayaguana.[102]
December: Barnes was fatally shot by fellow Templar Christopher Condent, after being unable to discern the location of Olivier Levasseur to Condent and Benjamin Hornigold.[9]
1718[]
January: The pirates Edward Kenway and Edward Thatch, the latter now renowned as "Blackbeard," traveled to a shipwreck of the Spanish Treasure Fleet to find medicine for the people of Nassau, without success.[9]
March:Richard Thompson was saved from marooning on an island by Alonzo Batilla, and revealed that Olivier Levasseur had joined Edward Thatch's crew. Batilla endeavoured to catch up with Levasseur.[102]
April: Edward Thatch was overrun by a British Man O' War. After being saved by Edward Kenway, Thatch's men discovered a shipment of medicine from Charles-Towne aboard the Man O' War.[9]
May: Edward Thatch laid siege to Charles-Towne, South Carolina for a week, holding men hostage in exchange for medicine. Edward Kenway infiltrated the town, stealing the town's medicine instead.[9]
July 22:
Governor Woodes Rogers of the Bahamas arrived in Nassau with Commodore Peter Chamberlaine, extending a pardon from King George I of the Great Britain to all pirates.[9]
Commodore Peter Chamberlaine was assassinated by Edward Kenway for threatening the Pirate Republic. Edward and Charles Vane destroyed the British blockade of the city with a fireship.[9]
August: Alonzo Batilla and Olivier Levasseur retrieved their Piece of Eden and used its powers to fight off Christopher Condent. Levasseur escaped to hide the artifact from the Templars, while Batilla distracted the pursuing Governor Woodes Rogers before ultimately escaping.[102]
November 22: Edward Thatch was killed off the coast of Ocracoke, during a British Navy assault led by Robert Maynard. Edward Kenway and the Jackdaw managed to escape.[9]
November 23: Charles Vane and Edward Kenway were marooned on Isla Providencia, after Jack Rackham deposed Vane as captain and captured the Jackdaw.[9]
December 10: The pirate Stede Bonnet was executed in Charles-Towne. Before his death, he left behind clues for his friend Edward Kenway to lead him to his hidden treasure on Santa Lucia.[9]
1719[]
February: Edward Kenway was saved from Isla Providencia by an arriving ship, after having fought Charles Vane, who had lost his sanity on the island.[9]
May: The pirate Benjamin Hornigold joined the Templar Order in Kingston after accepting Governor Woodes Rogers' pardon. Edward Kenway sailed to Príncipe to save the Sage Bartholomew Roberts from the Templars.[9]
June 19: The pirate hunters and Templars John Cockram and Josiah Burgess were killed by Edward Kenway, after Edward had saved Bartholomew Roberts from the Templars' attack. Roberts was elected as the replacement of pirate captain Howell Davis.[9]
September:
Edward Kenway and Bartholomew Roberts captured the Portuguese ship Nosso Senhor da Compreensão and secured the Templars' blood vials on board. Roberts renamed the ship Royal Fortune and made it his flagship.[9]
The pirate hunter and Templar Benjamin Hornigold was killed by his former friend Edward Kenway on Santanillas for betraying the Pirate Republic.[9]
Edward Kenway was betrayed by Bartholomew Roberts and turned in to the British authorities in Kingston, after Edward and Roberts visited the Observatory; there, Roberts took possession of the complex' Crystal Skull.[9]
Edward Kenway's former first mate Adéwalé, disillusioned with the pirate lifestyle, decided to join the Assassin Brotherhood and began training with the Mentor Ah Tabai.[9]
1720[]
October 31: The pirates Mary Read, Anne Bonny, and Jack Rackham were captured by British soldiers near Jamaica.[9]
November 18: Jack Rackham was executed in Port Royal in Kingston, Jamaica.[9]
November 28: Mary Read and Anne Bonny were led to trial in Port Royal, but managed to evade death by hanging by revealing their pregnancies. Edward Kenway, also imprisoned in Port Royal, was present for the trial.[9]
1721[]
April: Edward Kenway and Anne Bonny escaped imprisonment in Port Royal with the aid of the Mentor Ah Tabai; Mary Read died in prison, due to complications from childbirth. Edward decided to join the Assassins, out of respect for Mary.[9]
May: Woodes Rogers, the Governor of the Bahamas and a Templar, was severely wounded during an assassination attempt by Edward Kenway at a party in Kingston. Rogers survived his wounds and later returned to England, but was expelled from the Templar Order for his continued slave trading.[9]
November 28: The French bandit Cartouche was saved from death by his lover Mireille, the leader of the French Assassins, who managed to fake his execution. Cartouche joined the Assassin Brotherhood.[34]
Unknown[]
Edward Kenway unlocked a hidden vault in Tulum using Mayan keystones he had found while exploring the West Indies, and retrieved a set of Mayan Armor created using scavanged Shards of Eden.[9]
1722[]
February 10: The pirate and Sage Bartholomew Roberts was killed by the Assassin Edward Kenway, who took possession of his Crystal Skull and blood vials. Upon Roberts' request, Edward destroyed his body to prevent it from falling into Templar hands.[9]
August:El Tiburón, Laureano de Torres y Ayala's right-hand man and bodyguard, was killed by the Assassin Edward Kenway in Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta in Havana.[9]
September 1: Laureano de Torres y Ayala, Grand Master of the Caribbean Templars, was killed inside the Observatory in Jamaica by the Assassin Edward Kenway.[9]
September: The crew of the Jackdaw were taken captive by the pirate Edward Low while attempting to recover gold from a sunken Spanish ship. Edward Kenway rescued his crew members and defeated Low.[92]
October:
Edward Kenway returned to England with his daughter Jennifer Scott, who had just arrived in Great Inagua, after Edward heard news that his wife Caroline Scott had passed away two years earlier.[9]
The West Indies Assassins relocated from Tulum to Great Inagua, after Edward Kenway left them his hideout there.[9]
1723[]
Edward Kenway killed the Templars Emmett Scott, father of Caroline Scott, and Wilson in a warehouse in Bristol for the pain they had brought upon his late wife and parents.[100]
Robert Walpole, the future Prime Minister of Great Britain and cousin of the Assassin Duncan Walpole, pardoned Edward Kenway and his pirate crew. Walpole later introduced Edward to both the Stephensen-Oakley family, who helped him purchase a mansion in London, and his future assistant, Reginald Birch.[100]
Unknown[]
Edward Kenway joined the British Brotherhood of Assassins and eventually became its co-leader alongside Miko.[1] He also traveled around the world in an attempt to learn more about the Isu, exploring the temples in Rome and Alamut,[80] and found a Shroud of Eden, which he hid away in the Tower of London.[1]
1724[]
December 24: Edward Kenway met with a West Indies Assassin in London who informed about a potential new Precursor site in Southeast Asia, which Edward agreed to investigate.[103]
1725[]
A number of Dutch East India Company ships went missing in the Straits of Malacca. The Templars framed the company led by the Macau-based merchant Madam Lee for the incident, on behalf of Lee's business rivals.[104]
Hendrik, a navigator for the Dutch East India Company who had discovered the location of Angkor, asked Madam Lee to sponsor an expedition to the lost capital of the Khmer Empire, but she turned him down.[104]
February:
Edward Kenway arrived in Macau to begin his investigation of Angkor, and protected the Dutch navigator John Young, who had stolen Hendrik's story about Angkor, from an attack by Shimazu clanninja.[103]
Edward discovered that Hendrik had been assassinated by the Templars,[105] and was mistaken for his murderer by his fellow company men, which led Edward to become a wanted fugitive in Macau.[106]
Edward and John took shelter in the village of a Chinese laborer named Zhang, whom the former had rescued during an altercation with Shimazu ninja.[107]
Edward stole resources from one of Madam Lee's warehouses to create a remedy to treat an outbreak of cholera in Zhang's village.[108]
Edward infiltrated the Mandarin's House in Macau to recover Hendrik's sea log from Madam Lee, but was interrupted by an attack by Shimazu ninja.[109] While helping Lee's guards fend off the attack, he lost Hendrik's log to the Templar Shimazu Saito, but managed to keep the cipher needed to decode the book's contents.[110]
Edward formed an alliance with Madam Lee to recover Hendrik's log from the Templars and deal with Lee's business rivals: Alan Jacob, Jan van Aert and Master Sun.[104]
Edward Kenway and John Young protected Madam Lee's merchant ships from an attack by pirates hired by Master Sun, and captured their captain, Rupiya.[111]
Edward Kenway staged a public raid on a Far East Company ship transporting opium to expose the company's drug trafficking,[112] after Alan Jacob had tried to frame Madam Lee's company for smuggling opium.[113]
Edward Kenway destroyed an opium shipment with the help of John Young and Rupiya to prevent both Shimazu Saito—who was acting on Mastern Sun's behalf—and Madam Lee from stealing it, ending his partnership with Lee in the process.[114]
Edward Kenway founded the Zhang Wei Union in the A-Ma Cultural Village, as a front to conduct his business in Macau discreetly.[115] During the organization's first contract to escort a trading vessel to Manila, they defended a Dutch East India Company ship from pirates.[116] Edward rescued several prisoners from the pirates' ship, including the Korean scholar Yun Pyeong-Gyu, whom he thereafter recruited.[117]
1735[]
The Victoire, captained by the Assassin Adéwalé, ambushed a convoy of French Templar ships near Saint-Domingue, and intercepted a parcel adressed to Bastienne Josèphe in Port-au-Prince. While fleeing from the Templars, the Victoire was destroyed in a storm, and Adéwalé washed up in Port-au-Prince.[118]
Adéwalé formed an alliance with Bastienne Josèphe and Augustin Dieufort, leader of the Maroon rebellion against the Governor Pierre, Marquis de Fayet. Adéwalé stole the Experto Crede, making it his flagship, and helped free the colony's slaves.[118]
The Experto Crede protected the Vautour, a French merchant ship transporting French scientists for the French Geodesic Mission and slave spying for the Assassins and Maroons, from pirate ships.[118]
December 3: The Assassin Edward Kenway was killed in his family's estate in London by masked men employed by Reginald Birch, Edward's property manager and secretly a Templar. The masked men proceeded to steal Edward's journal, and kidnapped his daughter Jennifer.[119]
December 12:Haytham Kenway, son of Edward Kenway, started his tutelage under Reginald Birch on his mother Tessa's request, and left with Birch for Europe to find his sister Jennifer.[119]
1737[]
On orders of Governor Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, a French vessel took down a slave ship while the Experto Crede was trying to free its slaves from the French.[118]
July 8:
Pierre, Marquis de Fayet, Governor-General of Saint-Domingue was killed by the Assassin Adéwalé in Port-au-Prince for his harsh treatment of slaves in the colony.[118]
Adéwalé left Port-au-Prince to return to the Assassin Brotherhood after giving Bastienne Josèphe the content of the Templar parcel adressed to her: the Precursor box.[118]
1738[]
February 20: The Swedish Levant Company was founded in Stockholm, as a front for the Swedish Brotherhood of Assassins.[80]
1744[]
April 19: Haytham Kenway was formally inducted into the Templar Order. His first mission was to kill a greedy merchant in Liverpool.[119]
1745[]
May 11: The Siege of Louisbourg started. The Assassin John de la Tour sacrificed himself fighting off the invading British forces, while Achilles Davenport and Abigail sought the safehouse of the Hermeticist Nicolas Court.[80]
1746[]
Achilles Davenport, a former student of the Mentor Ah Tabai in the Caribbean,[80] established the Colonial Brotherhood of Assassins in the Thirteen Colonies and assumed the title of Mentor.[8]
1747[]
June 11:Juan Vedomir, a Templar assigned to decode Edward Kenway's journal, was killed by Haytham Kenway for working with the Assassins. Haytham took the journal with him, and later brought it to Reginald Birch in the Templar headquarters in Prague.[119]
June 19:Nāder Shāh, the ruler of Iran and owner of the Koh-i-Noor, was killed by a group of assassins led by the Assassin Salah Bey. The Koh-i-Noor fell into the hands of Ahmad Shāh Durrānī.[80]
September: During the retreat from the Siege of Bergen op Zoom, Edward Braddock ordered the execution of a family asking for passage on his boat. Braddock's relationship with Haytham Kenway deteriorated as the latter feared Braddock was turning away from the Templar Order.[119]
1749[]
The brig Aquila was constructed in Brest, France[8] on orders of the Assassin Council in Paris.[80] The ship would become the flagship of the Assassin Navy within several years.[8]
1751[]
The Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer seduced the Assassin Rhona Dinsmore in Havana to steal her maps of the Yucatán Peninsula. While searching for a Precursor box on the peninsula, de Ferrer stumbled upon the Maya city of Chichen Itza and, believing the city had been built atop a Precursor site, wrote to Grand Master Reginald Birch, requesting that an excavation site be set in the area as soon as possible.[80]
November 21:
The Assassin Vendredi discovered and disturbed the Piece of Eden in the Isu Temple near Port-au-Prince, on orders of the Mentor François Mackandal, triggering an earthquake that destroyed the city. Vendredi was killed by the Master Templar Lawrence Washington during his escape.[80]
Lawrence Washington stole a Precursor box and the Voynich manuscript from the camp of François Mackandal in Saint-Domingue.[80]
1752[]
January: The Assassins Shay Cormac, Liam O'Brien, and Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye rescued a group of allied smugglers from the Royal Navy. Shay stole the Royal Navy's sloop Morrigan and made it his flagship.[80]
March: The Assassin Adéwalé met the Mentor Achilles Davenport of the Colonial Brotherhood at the Davenport Homestead to inform him that their Precursor box and manuscript had been shipped to North America. Adéwalé then returned to Saint-Domingue with supplies to help victims of the earthquake.[80]
April: After meeting with their associate Le Chasseur, the Assassins discovered that the Voynich manuscript was in the possession of Lawrence Washington.[80]
July: Master Templar Lawrence Washington was killed by the Assassin Shay Cormac outside Washington's estate in Mount Vernon.[80]
1753[]
June 25: Haytham Kenway abducted Lucio Albertine to help his mother, the captive Monica, a codebreaker and Assassin associate, decode Edward Kenway's journal for the Templars. Haytham stole the Hidden Blades of Miko, Lucio's Assassin bodyguard, while engaged in combat with him.[119]
1754[]
April 18: Haytham Kenway assassinated Miko during a performance of The Beggar's Opera at the Theatre Royal in London, and retrieved the Grand Temple's key from him.[8]
April 20: Haytham Kenway boarded the Providence to start his 72-day long journey to the New World to find the Grand Temple. During the journey, Haytham killed the Assassin sailor Louis Mills and managed to evade capture by the Aquila, luring it to its destruction in a storm.[8]
May: The Templar Samuel Smith was killed by the Assassins Shay Cormac in Terra Nova. Shay retrieved the Precursor box from Smith.[80]
July:
The Templar James Wardrop was assassinated by the Assassin Shay Cormac during the Albany Congress in Albany, New York. Shay retrieved the Voynich manuscript from Wardrop.[80]
Benjamin Franklin, with the use use of electricity and help of the Assassins Shay Cormac and Hope Jensen, made the Precursor box functional. Reading the Voynich manuscript, the box displayed a holographic map of the globe, highlighting Port-au-Prince, Lisbon and the Arctic.[80]
July 8: Haytham Kenway arrived in Boston, Massachusetts and formally took up the position of Grand Master of the Colonial Templars, recruiting Charles Lee, William Johnson and Thomas Hickey.[8]
July 10: Haytham Kenway and Charles Lee rescued the surgeon Benjamin Church from capture by the slaver Silas Thatcher, and recruited him into the Colonial Templars.[8]
July 13: Haytham Kenway recruited the soldier John Pitcairn into the Colonial Templars, after attacking and threatening his former comrade Edward Braddock in order to get him to release Pitcairn from service.[8]
July 14: The Colonial Templars besieged the fortress of Southgate in Boston and killed the slaver Silas Thatcher. They then freed all of Thatcher's slaves, including a Kanien'kehá:ka woman named Kaniehtí:io.[8]
November 15: Haytham Kenway formed an alliance with Kaniehtí:io, who claimed she could lead him to the Grand Temple, by planning a joint attack on Edward Braddock.[8]
1755[]
July 9: General Edward Braddock was fatally wounded by Haytham Kenway during the Braddock Expedition, with aid from Haytham's fellow Templars, Kaniehtí:io, the Abenaki, Shawnee, and Lenape, for his betrayal of the Templar Order's principles.[8] Braddock died four days later.[119]
July 10: Kaniehtí:io took Haytham Kenway to the entrance of the Grand Temple, which the latter tried to access using his Key, but was unsuccessful.[8]
July 13: Charles Lee was formally inducted into the Templar Order by Grand Master Haytham Kenway.[8]
August 4: Charles Lee met with Haytham Kenway to confirm Edward Braddock's death. Overhearing their discussion, Kaniehtí:io realized that Haytham had lied about making sure Braddock was dead and, believing Haytham had merely used her, cut ties with him.[119]
November 1: The Assassin Shay Cormac disturbed the Piece of Eden in the Temple beneath the Carmo Convent in Lisbon, causing an earthquake that destroyed the city and killed thousands of citizens. Shay managed to outrun the earthquake but was left severly traumatized.[80]
1756[]
The Assassin Shay Cormac stole the Voynich manuscript from the Davenport Homestead, believing that Achilles Davenport knew about the Seismic Temples and was indifferent to putting innocent lives at risk, but was attacked by the Mentor. Shay jumped off a cliff after having been cornered by the Assassins and was presumed dead.[80]
June:
Shay Cormac was nursed back to health by Barry and Cassidy Finnegan at the request of Colonel George Monro, a Templar. On the insistence of Monro, Shay started financing the renovations of New York.[80]
Shay Cormac rescued Christopher Gist from hanging by the Assassin-affiliated gangs in New York, from whom he reclaimed the Morrigan, and seized Fort Arsenal as his new home.[80]
Le Chasseur, a smuggler and ally of the Colonial Brotherhood, was killed during a Templar attack on Fort La Croix by Shay Cormac, to prevent him from warning the Assassins of Shay's survival.[80]
Shay Cormac received a prototype grenade launcher from Benjamin Franklin and used it to destroy a factory in New York which was being used by the Assassin-affiliated gangs to manufacture poisonous gases.[80]
Unknown[]
Shay Cormac infiltrated Fort de Sable, where he found and retrieved the armor worn by the Templar James Gunn during his expedition to North America in 1398.[80]
Shay Cormac retrieved the armor of an unidentified 11th century Templar from a shipwreck in the North Atlantic, after finding all the keys to the chamber where the armor had been locked away.[80]
1757[]
May 1:Jeanne, a former pupil of François Mackandal, fled from her home in New Orleans to a working colony in Chichen Itza, fearing retaliation from the Assassins for having stolen an artifact known as the Heart of the Brotherhood. Madeleine de L'Isle, the new wife of Jeanne's former husband Philippe Olivier de Grandpré, assisted Jeanne with her departure and promised to look after her and Phillipe's daughter, Aveline de Grandpré.[120]
August 10: Colonel George Monro escaped an Abenaki ambush led by the Assassin Kesegowaase with the aid of Shay Cormac, after being released following his surrender at the Siege of Fort William Henry.[80]
September 17: Jennifer Scott was rescued by her brother Haytham Kenway and Jim Holden from servitude at the palace of Governor As'ad Pasha al-Azm of Damascus, after having spent years as a concubine at Topkapı Palace. However, they were detected by the palace guards and Holden was captured while buying Haytham and Jennifer time to escape.[119]
September 21: Haytham Kenway rescued Jim Holden from the Abou Gerbe monastery on Mount Ghebel Eter in Egypt, where Holden had been castrated and buried in sand. In retaliation, Haytham set fire to the monastery and killed all the priests present.[119]
October 9:
Grand Master Reginald Birch was killed in his chateau near Troyes, France by Jennifer Scott, with the help of her brother Haytham Kenway, for having been responsible for their father's death and selling her into slavery.[119]
Haytham Kenway freed Reginald Birch's prisoners Lucio and Monica Albertine, but was impaled with a sword by a furious Lucio. He was subsequently nursed back to health over the course of several months by Jennifer Scott and Jim Holden.[119]
November 3: The Assassin Kesegowaase was killed by Shay Cormac in Albany. The Templar George Monro was killed in a fire lit by the Assassin Liam O'Brien, who stole the Voynich manuscript from Monro.[80]
1758[]
January 20: François Mackandal, Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue, was publicly executed after attempting to poison the white inhabitants of the colony. His pupils Agaté and Baptiste fled to Louisiana.[120]
January 28: Once Haytham Kenway had made a full recovery, Jim Holden committed suicide, as he was no longer able to cope with the injuries and emotional trauma inflicted upon him at Abou Gerbe.[119]
Haytham Kenway returned to the Thirteen Colonies,[119] where he inducted Shay Cormac into the Templar Order in place of the late George Monro.[80]
June 8–July 26: The Siege of Louisbourg was fought between the Royal Navy and French Navy. The Templars, using James Cook's HMS Pembroke, thwarted an attack by the Experto Crede captained by the Assassin Adéwalé during the attack.[80]
The Assassin Adéwalé was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac at Vieille Carrière after being distracted by Grand Master Haytham Kenway.[80]
1759[]
October: The Assassin Hope Jensen was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac following an altercation inside her mansion in New York. The Assassin Liam O'Brien returned to Achilles Davenport with the location of another temple retrieved from their Precursor box.[80]
November 12: Aveline de Grandpré was recruited into the Assassin Brotherhood by the Mentor Agaté. After several months of training, she was formally inducted into the Order.[120]
1760[]
The Assassin Louis-Joseph Gaultier, Chevalier de la Vérendrye was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac in the North Atlantic during an expedition to distract the Templars from their search for the Precursor temple in the Arctic.[80]
March: A Seismic Temple in the North Atlantic created an earthquake after its Piece of Eden was disturbed during a confrontation between Achilles Davenport, Liam O'Brien, Haytham Kenway and Shay Cormac. Liam was killed by Shay, and Achilles was shot in the leg by Haytham, who decided to spare the Mentor at Shay's request, so that the could warn the other Assassins of the dangers of the Seismic Temples.[80]
November 2:
Colonial Templars led by Charles Lee assaulted Ratonhnhaké:ton, Haytham Kenway's illegitimate son with Kaniehtí:io, during their search for the Grand Temple in the Mohawk Valley. After being unable to locate the site, the Templars eventually abandoned their search.[8]
The Kanien'kehá:ka village of Kanatahséton was set aflame by George Washington of the British Army, killing many villagers including Kaniehtí:io. Unable to save his mother, Ratonhnhaké:ton blamed Charles Lee and the Templars for the attack and vowed revenge.[8]
1762[]
July 17: Emperor Peter III of Russia was assassinated, possibly by the Assassin Brotherhood. His wife, Catherine the Great, became Empress of Russia.[121]
1763[]
The Colonial Templars effectively destroyed the Colonial Brotherhood by wiping out nearly all of its remaining members. Achilles Davenport entered a life of exile in the Davenport Homestead.[8]
1765[]
February 4:Jean-Jacques Blaise d'Abbadie, the Governor of Louisiana and a Templar puppet, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré for colluding with the Templars to hand over the colony to the Spanish government.[120]
1766[]
June 23: Baptiste, the leader of a Maroon smuggling operation impersonating his former Mentor François Mackandal, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré for colluding with the Templar Order, on orders of Baptiste's former Brother, Agaté.[120]
1768[]
October 27:Antonio de Ulloa, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana and a Templar, was attacked by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré while trying to escape New Orleans during the Louisiana Rebellion. Aveline ultimately spared the Governor's life and retrieved a map leading to a Templar work camp in Chichen Itza.[120]
1769[]
The Templar Rafael Joaquín de Ferrer was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré in the Isu ruins underneath Chichen Itza, where de Ferrer oversaw a working colony made up of freed slaves brought from Louisiana. Aveline also obtained half of an Isu artifact called the Prophecy Disk, and was reunited with her mother Jeanne.[120]
October 4: Ratonhnhaké:ton came into contact with Juno through the Clan Mother's Crystal Ball, who informed him that he needed to join the Assassin Brotherhood in order to protect his village from destruction.[8]
October 29: Achilles Davenport, former Mentor of the Colonial Assassins, took Ratonhnhaké:ton under his tutelage after seeing him defend himself against a group of bandits who had tried to rob the Davenport Homestead.[8]
1770[]
March 5:
Ratonhnhaké:ton saw his father, Haytham Kenway, for the first time in Boston, and was unable to prevent him and Charles Lee from starting the Boston Massacre by causing British soldiers to open fire on a group of civilian protesters.[8]
Ratonhnhaké:ton was framed for the Boston Massacre by the Colonial Templars, but was able to clear his name with the help of Samuel Adams. At Achilles Davenport's request, Ratonhnhaké:ton renamed himself "Connor" to move more freely throughout the Thirteen Colonies.[8]
March 18: Connor was inducted into the Assassin Brotherhood by the Mentor Achilles Davenport. He then started reconstruction on the Aquila, anchored in the harbor of the Davenport Homestead, and became its captain, with Robert Faulkner as his first mate.[8]
1771[]
The Spanish Templar Diego Vázquez's attempts to take over smuggling operations in the Louisiana Bayou were disrupted by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré, with the aid of Agaté, Gérald Blanc, Élise Lafleur, and Roussillon.[120]
1772[]
Aveline de Grandpré returned to Chichen Itza, where she made peace with her mother Jeanne over her abandonment years prior and retrieved the other half of the Prophecy Disk using a map leading to another Isu ruin.[120]
1773[]
November 6: The Assassin Connor aided the Sons of Liberty in defying William Johnson's smuggling operation by destroying his tea shipments in Boston Harbor to disrupt Johnson's purchase of indigenous American land.[8]
December 3:Stephane Chapheau killed one of William Johnson's tax collectors, with aid from Connor, and started his tutelage under the Assassin.[8]
December 16: The Boston Tea Party occured, in which members of the Sons of Liberty movement and the Assassin Connor dumped British shipments of tea into Boston's harbor in defiance of British authority.[8]
December: The northern district of Boston was liberated from Templar influence by the Assassin Connor, with aid from Duncan Little. Duncan subsequently joined the Assassin Brotherhood and started his tutelage under Connor.[8]
1774[]
January 12: The Colonial Templars held a meeting in Boston to discuss recent events and the resurgence of the Colonial Assassins. Haytham Kenway was informed of Kaniehtí:io's death in 1760 and the possibility of Connor being his son.[119]
July 11: The Templar William Johnson was killed by the Assassin Connor in front of Johnson Hall, amidst a violent business deal to purchase the lands of clans of the Iroquois Confederacy.[8]
1775[]
The southern district of Boston was liberated from Templar influence by the Assassin Connor, with aid from Clipper Wilkinson. Wilkinson subsequently joined the Assassin Brotherhood and started his tutelage under Connor.[8]
April 18: Members of the Sons of Liberty rode out to warn British colonists of an imminent attack by the British Army; with aid from Connor, Paul Revere warned their allies in Lexington and then proceeded to Concord with William Dawes, though the two men were detained by British soldiers.[8]
April 19: The British Army and colonial militia engaged at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, where the militia under leadership of John Parker, James Barrett, and Connor managed to emerge victorious.[8]
June 16: The Continental Army was formed by the Patriot colonists. The Continental Congress appointed George Washington to be its Commander-in-Chief.[8]
June 17: The Continental Army and British Army fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill at Charlestown, Massachusetts. British commander John Pitcairn, a Templar, was killed during the battle by the Assassin Connor, though the British managed to claim victory and captured Charlestown.[8]
1776[]
Eseosa, grandson of the Assassin Adéwalé, began to rebuild the Brotherhood in Saint-Domingue, recruiting Dutty Boukman, Toussaint Brédá, Georges Biassou, Jean-François Papillon, and Jeannot Bullet into his ranks.[20]
George Davidson, an African slave, joined up with a group of American revolutionaries and escaped to the Thirteen Colonies with the help of Aveline de Grandpré, on request of her stepmother Madeleine de L'Isle.[120]
The Templar Julie de la Serre and her daughter Élise survived an assassination attempt by the rogue Assassin Bernard Ruddock, who had been hired by a British Templar family, the Carrolls, due to their oppossition to Julie's husband François' leadership of the Parisian Rite. In the aftermath, Élise learned about her family's Templar affiliations and began training to succeed her father as Grand Master.[122]
June 28: The Assassin Connor was led in New York to hang after having been imprisoned alongside the Templar Thomas Hickey while trying to prevent the latter's assassination of George Washington. With aid from Achilles Davenport[8] and secretly Haytham Kenway,[119] Connor escaped and killed Hickey.[8]
July 4: The Declaration of Independence was signed by the Founding Fathers, proclaiming independence of the Thirteen Colonies as the United States from Great Britain.[8]
September 21: The Great Fire of New York started, destroying the area west of Broadway in the city.[8]
October 13:
The Templar Diego Vázquez was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré at a soirée in New Orleans.[120]
Philippe de Grandpré died after having been poisoned by his wife Madeleine de L'Isle, the secret leader of the Louisiana Rite of the Templar Order, after he found evidence of Templar influence in his business.[120]
December 25: Continental Army forces led by George Washington and accompanied by Connor crossed the icy Delaware River to launch a surprise attack on Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey.[123]
December 27: The Assassin Charles Dorian was killed by the Templar Shay Cormac in the Palace of Versailles, after Charles was entrusted with a Precursor box at an Assassin meeting.[80] Charles' son Arno was subsequently taken in by the De la Serre family as a ward.[34]
1777[]
New York was liberated from Templar influence by the Assassin Connor, with aid from Deborah Carter, Jamie Colley and Jacob Zenger. All three subsequently joined the Assassin Brotherhood and started their tutelage under Connor.[8]
Connor recovered William Kidd's Ring of Eden from Oak Island after having obtained all pieces of Kidd's treasure map.[8]
George Davidson, who had become a Templar fighting in Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré with aid from Connor. From Davidson, Aveline was able to discern that the elusive Templar known as the "Company Man" was her own stepmother, Madeleine de L'Isle.[120]
Agaté, Mentor of the Louisiana Assassins, committed suicide after having been bested by his pupil Aveline de Grandpré when he attacked her upon hearing news of the Company Man's identity.[120]
Madeleine de L'Isle, the Master Templar in charge of the Louisiana Rite, was killed by her stepdaughter, the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré, in Saint Louis Cathedral during Aveline's feigned induction into the Templar Order. Aveline then activated the Prophecy Disk using the Heart of the Brotherhood gifted to her by her mother, and witnessed a recording of Eve's election to leader of the human rebellion from around 75010 BC.[120]
1778[]
January 7: Haytham Kenway and Connor formed an alliance to pursue Benjamin Church, who had betrayed both the Templar Order and the Continental Army, stealing several of the Army's supply crates.[8]
January 26: Haytham Kenway and Connor besieged the old Smith and Company Brewery in pursuit of Benjamin Church, though instead found a decoy of Church and were attacked by his henchmen, resulting in the brewery being set aflame.[8]
March 7: Benjamin Church was killed by Haytham Kenway and Connor aboard his ship off the coast of Martinique, where the pair recovered the stolen supplies of the Continental Army.[8]
March 17: Admiral Nicholas Biddle of the Continental Navy, a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Connor on the Caribbean Sea, during a battle between the Aquila and Biddle's ship, the USS Randolph.[8]
June 16: Haytham Kenway and Connor attacked and captured several British soldiers in New York to discern the British Army's plans, learning that they planned to march from Philadelphia to New York.[8]
June 17:
Connor ended his alliance with Haytham Kenway after discovering the latter knew George Washington had ordered the attack on his village in 1760, a fact he had deliberately kept hidden from Connor.[8]
George Washington ordered an attack on the village of Kanatahséton after receiving reports of indigenous tribes allying with the British. Connor managed to hold off the attack, but was forced to kill his friend Kanen'tó:kon, who had been convinced by Charles Lee that Connor had betrayed his people.[8]
June 28:
The Continental Army, led by the Marquis de Lafayette and aided by Connor, fought the British Army at the Battle of Monmouth in an attempt to stop their march on New York. Despite Charles Lee's attempt to sabotage the outcome of the battle, Connor was able to secure the Patriots' retreat and spare George Washington of a humiliating defeat.[8]
Prompted by Connor, George Washington investigated Charles Lee and eventually had him court-martialled for insubordination and poor command decisions, leading to Lee's suspension from military duty.[8]
1780[]
September 24: Major General Benedict Arnold betrayed the Continental Army with help from John André, and attempted to surrender the garrison at West Point to the British, resulting in the Battle of West Point. The Assassin Connor ensured the Patriots' victory, but Arnold escaped by boat.[8]
1781[]
September 5: The French Navy, aided by the Aquila, defeated the British Navy at the Battle of the Chesapeake; in exchange for Connor's aid, the French Navy shelled New York with ships for the Assassin's attack on Fort George.[8]
September 16: Grand Master Haytham Kenway was killed by his son, the Assassin Connor, who planned to eliminate Charles Lee instead, during his infiltration of Fort George.[8]
September: Achilles Davenport, Mentor of the Colonial Brotherhood, passed away and was buried next to his wife and son by his apprentice Connor, who succeeded him as leader of the Colonial Assassins.[8]
October 19: The Continental Army claimed victory at the Siege of Yorktown, effectively winning the American Revolutionary War;[124] George Washington retrieved an Apple of Eden at Yorktown.[125]
1782[]
October 2: Charles Lee, who had succeeded Haytham Kenway as Grand Master of the Colonial Templars, was killed by Connor in the Last Drink tavern in Monmouth, after the Assassin had pursued Lee through New York and Boston. Connor retrieved the Grand Temple Key from Lee.[8]
1783[]
April: Connor came into contact with Juno through his village's Crystal Ball, who told him to hide the Grand Temple Key somewhere safe; the village's inhabitants had been forced to migrate as their land had been sold by the United States government.[8]
September 3: The Treaty of Paris was signed between delegates of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, formally ending the American Revolutionary War and establishing the United States.[20]
November 25: The last remaining troops of the British Army departed from the new free and independent State of New York in the United States on Evacuation Day.[8]
Unknown[]
George Washington approached Connor to ask him to dispose of his Apple of Eden,[126] which had been giving Washington troubling visions of an alternate timeline where Connor never became an Assassin and Washington had been corrupted by the Apple and ruled the United States as a tyrant.[125] After they were both briefly transported to this timeline,[127] Connor took the Apple and tossed it into the ocean.[128]
1784[]
Doctor Edmund Judge, a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Aveline de Grandpré in Newport, Rhode Island, in order to recruit Patience Gibbs into Connor's Assassin Brotherhood.[129]
1788[]
February 8: Élise de la Serre arrived in London to help her mentor Frederick Weatherall search for Bernard Ruddock, the Assassin who had tried to kill Élise's mother in 1776. Élise met with Weatherall at the mansion of the Carroll family, who offered to aid their search in exchange for Haytham Kenway's correspondence with his sister Jennifer Scott.[122]
April 6:
Élise de la Serre received Haytham Kenway's letters from Jennifer Scott, who hoped she would put them to good use and unite the Assassins and the Templars in their goals.[122]
Élise de la Serre saved Bernard Ruddock from being killed by the Carrolls, who wanted to cover their involvement in the assassination attempt on Julie de la Serre. Élise then fled back to France alongside Frederick Weatherall after killing May Carroll.[122]
1789[]
January: Élise de la Serre saved Bernard Ruddock from execution in order to learn who was behind the assassination attempt on her mother. After Ruddock denied knowing his employer's identity, Élise gave him six months to discover it.[122]
April 30: George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York, after a short retirement at Mount Vernon.[20]
May 5:
The Estates-General gathered in Versailles, where King Louis XVI of France discussed France's economic crisis.[34]
François de la Serre, Grand Master of the French Templars, was killed by Charles Gabriel Sivert and Le Roi des Thunes in a Templar coup d'état orchestrated by François-Thomas Germain, who had been banished from the Order by de la Serre for his extremist views. De la Serre's adoptive son Arno Dorian was arrested for the murder.[34]
July 14:
The Bastille in Paris was stormed and captured by the Parisian militia, signalling the start of the French Revolution. Arno Dorian and Pierre Bellec escaped captivity in the Bastille, and Bellec invited Arno to join the Assassins.[34]
Bernard Ruddock met with Élise de la Serre and falsely accused Le Roi des Thunes of having ordered the assassination attempt on Élise's mother in 1776.[122]
July 25:
Arno Dorian attempted to reconcile with Élise de la Serre, discovering her Templar affiliations in the process, but Élise turned him away for having failed to deliver a letter which could have prevented her father's murder.[34]
Arno Dorian joined the Assassin Brotherhood after discovering their hideout underneath the Sainte-Chapelle and started his tutelage under Pierre Bellec.[34]
October 5–6: The Women's March on Versailles occurred in protest against the monarchy of France. A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, ensured the march remained peaceful.[34]
1791[]
January 5: The Templar Charles Gabriel Sivert was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian inside the Notre-Dame cathedral for his role in the assassination of François de la Serre.[34]
January 19: Le Roi des Thunes, the leader of the Cour des Miracles and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian for his role in the assassination of François de la Serre. The Marquis de Sade, who had helped Arno, became the new leader of the Cour.[34]
March 31:
Arno Dorian rescued François-Thomas Germain, secretly the new Templar Grand Master, after he feigned capture by the Templars inside his silversmith workshop. Germain falsely accused the Templar Chrétien Lafrenière of having commissioned the pin that killed François de la Serre.[34]
Chrétien Lafrenière was killed by Arno Durian during a meeting between his faction of conservative French Templars and members from other European branches. Arno discovered that Lafrenière had tried to warn François de la Serre of his impending assassination, and realized Germain's deception.[34]
April 1: Élise de la Serre was saved by Arno Dorian from an ambush of François-Thomas Germain's radical Templar faction.[34]
April 2:
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Mentor of the French Assassins, was poisoned by fellow Assassin Pierre Bellec because of his willingness to work with the Templars. Bellec attempted to frame the Templar Élise de la Serre for the murder.[34]
Pierre Bellec was killed his apprentice Arno Dorian, after the latter refused to join his crusade against the Templars and the Assassin leadership, which Bellec believed needed to be eliminated to save the Brotherhood from corruption.[34]
August 14: Dutty Boukman held a religious ceremony at Bois Caïman, prophesizing that Jean-François Papillon, Georges Biassou and Jeannot Bullet would become leaders of a revolution to free the slaves of Saint-Domingue.[20]
August 21: The Haitian Revolution ignited; led by members of the Assassin Brotherhood, the slaves of Saint-Domingue rose up in revolt against their French masters.[20]
November:
Dutty Boukman was captured in battle with the French Army near Acul and publicly beheaded by General Rouxel. The Assassins Elsie and Fabien were initially assigned to save Boukman, but were ordered to desist to let Boukman's death inspire a revolution.[130]
After repeatedly massacring white colonists and his own men, Jeannot Bullet was ordered to death by Eseosa for breaking the tenets of the Creed.[20]
Unknown[]
Arno Dorian solved all of Nostradamus' enigmas around Paris and obtained the keys to a vault in the Parisian Brotherhood's headquarters, from which he retrieved the Assassin outfit once worn by Thomas de Carneillon.[34]
1792[]
Summer:Théroigne de Méricourt uncovered a Templar conspiracy to starve Paris' population in order to turn them against the French royal family. A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, helped Méricourt recover some of the stolen food, and killed one of the Templar conspirators, Madame Flavigny.[34]
August 10:Tuileries Palace, the residence of King Louis XVI, was stormed by an armed mob. Arno Dorian retrieved the King's correspondence with his late Mentor Mirabeau, and Napoleon Bonaparte retrieved an Isu temple key from the King's secret hiding place.[34]
September 2:
Frédéric Rouille, a French Army captain and Templar, was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian in the Grand Châtelet while overseeing the execution of the prison's inmates as part of the September Massacres.[34]
A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, aided Georges Danton's attempt to stop an Austrian spy ring by killing the Comte and Vicomte de Gambais.[34]
October 31: The Templar Marie Lévesque was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian while hosting a party at Luxembourg Palace, for her involvement in the conspiracy to starve Paris' population. Arno escaped with Élise de la Serre using a stolen hot air balloon.[34]
1793[]
January 20:Louis-Michel le Peletier, a member of the Nationaly Assembly and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Arno Dorian inside the Palais-Royal.[34]
January 21:
King Louis XVI of France was executed by guillotine in Paris, as decreed by the National Assembly with the Templars' influence. Arno Dorian and Élise de la Serre made a failed assassination attempt on Grand Master François-Thomas Germain at Louis' execution.[34]
Arno Dorian was expelled from the Assassin Brotherhood for his reckless actions and continued disregard for orders, as voted by the Assassin Council.[34]
June: The Templar Aloys la Touche was assassinated by Arno Dorian in Versailles while overseeing the execution of prisoners by guillotine.[34]
July:
A group of Girondists were smuggled out of Paris by a team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, before they could be arrested by François Hanriot.[34]
General Marcourt, a Templar, and his fellow conspirators were killed by a team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, for plotting to overthrow the French Republic.[34]
August 29: The French civil commissioner of Saint-Domingue, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, declared all slaves in the colony to be freed men.[20]
November 13:Didier Paton, a spy working for Maximilien de Robespierre, was sentenced to death after uncovering the existence of the Templar Order. A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, rescued Paton and recruited him into the Brotherhood.[34]
1794[]
February 10:Jacques Roux, a radical Roman Catholic priest and leading figure among Les Enragés, who were being used by the Templars to stir up chaos in Paris, was killed by a team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian.[34]
April 5: Georges Danton was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution, despite a team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, attempting to save him, as Danton believed his death would ruin Maximilien de Robespierre's reputation.[34]
May: A team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian, retrieved their late Mentor Mirabeau's Assassin relics from his crypt underneath the Panthéon in Paris, before the Templars could steal them.[34]
June 8: The Festival of the Supreme Being commenced at the Le Champ de Mars. However, due to the intervention of Arno Dorian and Élise de la Serre, the festival backfired as Maximilien de Robespierre's influence began to fall.[34]
July 28:
Maximilien de Robespierre, a French politician, Jacobin leader and Templar, was executed by guillotine in the Place de la Révolution.[34]
François-Thomas Germain, Grand Master of the French Templars and a Sage, was killed by Arno Dorian in the Templar crypt beneath the Temple in Paris. Before his death, Germain killed Élise de la Serre using Jacques de Molay's Sword of Eden.[34]
July 29: The remaining Jacobin leaders were killed by French revolutionaries led by Théroigne de Méricourt, with aid from a team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian. Following the collapse of the Jacobin party, a less radical government was established under the Directory.[34]
August 3: Arno Dorian traveled to Saint-Denis to meet with the Marquis de Sade, who requested the manuscript of Nicolas de Condorcet in exchange for a ship to take Arno away from France.[69]
August 4: Arno Dorian retrieved Nicolas de Condorcet's manuscript from a child thief named Léon, but was eventually convinced by him to stop Napoleon Bonaparte's men from accessing an Isu temple underneath Saint-Denis.[69]
August 7:
Arno Dorian entered the Saint-Denis Temple, where he killed Philippe Rose and retrieved the Head of Saint-Denis. After using the Head to escape, Arno retrieved an Apple of Eden from the artifact and sent it to Al Mualim in Cairo, Egypt. He also gave Nicolas de Condorcet's manuscript to the Marquis the Sade, but decided to stay in France.[69]
Napoleon Bonaparte was arrested and placed under house arrest for supporting Maximilien de Robespierre during the French Revolution and stealing a small army to search for the Saint-Denis Temple.[69]
August 20: Napoleon Bonaparte was released from house arrest due to his powerful influence.[69]
August:
Arno Dorian eliminated the Cult of the Iron Mask and retrieved the Iron Mask from them, which had formerly belonged to a famous prisoner whose identity was never revealed.[69]
Arno Dorian retrieved the Eagle of Suger from a secret chamber inside the Basilica of Saint-Denis where it had been hidden, after solving all of Suger's riddles around Saint-Denis.[69]
September: Bernard Ruddock met with Arno Dorian in Versailles and gave him a letter from Élise de la Serre, in which she instructed Arno to retrieve her belongings, including Haytham Kenway's letters, which were to be given to Ruddock, to allow him to parley with the Brotherhood and rejoin their ranks.[122]
September 12: Arno Dorian retrieved Élise de la Serre's belongings from Frederick Weatherall, but was betrayed by Bernard Ruddock, who revealed he was still serving the Carroll family. Ruddock then attempted to take revenge for the death of May Carroll, but was killed by Weatherall.[122]
October: The procession carrying Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ashes was attacked by raiders while passing through Saint-Denis. Arno Dorian and another Assassin successfully defended the convoy and made sure it reached the Panthéon in Paris.[69]
Unknown[]
Arno Dorian formally rejoined the Assassin Brotherhood and eventually rose to the rank of Master Assassin.[34]
1795[]
October 5: The royalist uprising of 13 Vendémiaire was suppressed by the French Republic under leadership of Paul Barras and Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon earned infamy for attacking the royalists in Paris with cannons.[34]
1797[]
August 24: Toussaint Louverture expelled Léger-Félicité Sonthonax from Saint-Domingue and became de facto ruler of the colony.[20]
1798[]
May 19: Napoleon Bonaparte embarked from Toulon on an expedition to Egypt and Syria, secretly with intention of acquiring the Apple of Eden from the Saint-Denis Temple.[69]
1799[]
July 15: A soldier of the French expedition in Egypt discovered the Rosetta Stone, a stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis. The stele was missing part of the first script pertaining to the Assassins.[34]
August 24: Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for France from Egypt, after having successfully retrieved the Apple of Eden of the Saint-Denis Temple.[69]
November 9: Napoleon Bonaparte established himself as the new ruler of France as First Consul during the coup of 18 Brumaire.[34]
1800[]
December 24: An attempt on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte using the Machine Infernale, known as the plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, was thwarted by a team of Assassins, including Arno Dorian.[34]
19th century[]
1801[]
July: Toussaint Louverture captured the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, with aid from Eseosa, becoming the leader of Hispaniola and freeing all slaves across the island.[20]
1802[]
May: Toussaint Louverture surrendered to General Charles Leclerc, sent by his brother-in-law Napoleon Bonaparte, who falsely claimed that France had no intention of restoring racial hierarchy in Saint-Domingue.[20]
November 1: Charles Leclerc died of poisoning by Eseosa, though his cause of death was believed to be yellow fever.[20]
1803[]
November 18:Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of Toussaint Louverture's lieutenants, defeated General Rochambeau at Vertieres. Rochambeau pulled out of Vertieres at night, knowing the colony was finally lost to France.[20]
1804[]
January 1: Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared himself leader of the free republic of Saint-Domingue, and subsequently exterminated thousands of white people living in the country.[20]
March 1: Eseosa started training under Connor, the leader of the Colonial Brotherhood, at the Davenport Manor in Massachusetts in preparation for his assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines for his tyranny over Saint-Domingue.[20]
1808[]
August: Napoleon Bonaparte and Arno Dorian entered the crypt beneath the Temple in Paris, and buried the remains of François-Thomas Germain in the Parisian catacombs.[34]
1830[]
August 25: A group of Templars lead by Charles Rogier instigate a series of riots in Brussels, Belgium, leading to the beginning of the Belgian Revolution.
1832[]
The Skull and Bones society is founded at Yale University by a group of Templars to serve as a means of recruiting future members of the Order.
January: The Château Clique – leaders of the Templar Order in Lower Canada – arrested several journalists, including the Assassin Ludger Duvernay, for publishing articles accusing the Canadian administration of serving the Château Clique. Duvernay was freed by the Assassins.[78]
June 24: The first Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day was celebrated in the gardens of John McDonnell's house in Montreal, where a Templar agent killed one of McDonnell's servants.[22]
1839[]
June 27:
The Assassin Arbaaz Mir and Raza Soora retrieved the Koh-i-Noor from the Amritsar Temple underneath the summer palace of Ranjit Singh, after being tasked by the Mentor Hamid to protect it from the Templars.[131]
Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Sikh Empire was fatally poisoned by William Hay Macnaghten and Templar General Francis Cotton to help the British Empire conquer India,[131] secretly under the Templar banner.[12]
Princess Pyara Kaur activated the Koh-i-Noor, causing her to temporarily serve as a vessel for the Isu Durga. Telling humanity to stand united, the Precursor was shot at by Francis Cotton, instead destroying the diamond. Enraged, the Precursor released a burst of energy, killing Cotton.[131]
1841[]
Hamid, the Mentor of the Indian Brotherhood, was taken captive by the Templars William Sleeman and Alexander Burnes and robbed of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, before being freed by Arbaaz Mir.[31]
William Sleeman acquired the location of the Herat Temple in Afghanistan from using their Precursor box alongside the Koh-i-Noor in the Amritsar Temple. Sleeman accidentally caused the destruction of the Amritsar Temple while shooting at Arbaaz Mir.[31]
Arbaaz Mir pursued the Templars to Herat in Afghanistan, where he located and infiltrated the temple but was captured by the Templars. Held prisoner by Alexander Burnes at Katasraj Temple, Arbaaz escaped, retrieved the Precursor box and Koh-i-Noor from the Templars, and was allowed to flee after beating Burnes in a duel.[20]
William Sleeman took control of the Summer Palace in Amritsar and held Arbaaz Mir's lover Pyara Kaur prisoner. Arbaaz infiltrated the palace and confronted Sleeman, securing Pyara's safety by trading her for the Precursor box and Koh-i-Noor. Pyara stabbed Sleeman, allowing Arbaaz to retrieve the Koh-i-Noor.[31]
Wanting to keep the Koh-i-Noor safe, Arbaaz Mir gave it to the British Assassin Ethan Frye, who later hid it somewhere in India.[31]
1847[]
Albert, the Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, commissioned a secret vault underneath Buckingham Palace to hide the Shroud of Eden he had found in the Tower of London, where the artifact had been previously hidden by the Assassin Edward Kenway.[1]
1849[]
March 29: The Sikh Empire fell at the end of the Second Anglo-Sikh War. Control of the region fell to the British Templars, in the name of the British Empire.[12]
1852[]
John Sutter, a pioneer in the California Gold Rush, was ambushed by a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, who forced him to return the gold he obtained through the labour of the Maidu people.[98]
1853[]
February 18:János Libényi, a Hungarian tailor, attempted to assassinate AustrianEmperorFranz Joseph I but failed to succeed. The attempt was orchestrated by a figure called the "Magus," who wanted Libényi to initially use his experimental weapon, but János acted on his own earlier than anticipated.[132][133]
1858[]
January 14:Felice Orsini, equipped by Oscar Kane,[133]attempted to bomb the French EmperorNapoleon III at the opera theater of Rue le Peletier while killing innocents civilians. However, with the combined efforts of the Assassin Simeon Price and the acrobat Pierrette Arnaud, the calamity was lower than expected as the emperor survived.[134]
1861[]
April 12: The American Civil War broke out, splitting the United States into the Union led by the Asassin-supported President Abraham Lincoln, against the Confederate States led by Templar-backed Jefferson Davis.[32]
1863[]
July 4: General Ulysses S. Grant ensured a victory for the Union States at the Siege of Vicksburg, gaining the attention and support of the Assassin Brotherhood.[32]
The Mentor of the American Brotherhood tasked Varius with retrieving a Dagger of Eden from the Aztec Club and bringing it to General Ulysses S. Grant.[32]
The Templar agent Cudgel Cormac stole the artifact from the Aztec Club after a struggle with the Assassin Varius, intending to take it back to Grand Master William M. Tweed.[32]
Varius and his new apprentice Eliza stole the Dagger of Eden back from Cudgel Cormac before it was passed on to Grand Master Tweed. Eliza successfully brought the artifact to General Ulysses S. Grant.[32]
April 26:John Wilkes Booth, a Templar affiliate, was killed by the Assassins for the murder of President Abraham Lincoln of the United States.[4]
1867[]
Emperor Napoleon III of France sent French Army officer and Assassin Jules Brunet to train the troops of the Tokugawa shogunate as part of a diplomatic military mission.[136]
August:
A samurai from the Fukuoka Domain murdered British sailors Robert Ford and John Hutchings of the HMS Icarus for drinking and sleeping near the tea house. This incident would become known as the Icarus affair and would cause diplomatic tensions between the Tokugawa shogunate and the United Kingdom, the latter of which wanted the local authorities to arrest the Kaientai for the deaths of Ford and Hutchings.[137]
The British diplomat and Templar Harry Parkes negotiated with Tokugawa commissioners from the Tosa domain led by Goto Sojiro to convict the Kaientai responsible for the Icarus affair.[136] However, a lack of sufficient evidence meant that the investigation had to be moved to the city of Nagasaki (the site of the Icarus affair). Eventually, all charges against the Kaientai were dropped.[137]
In the aftermath of the Icarus affair, Jules Brunet met shogunTokugawa Yoshinobu in his private quarters in Edo, assuring him that the French and Japanese Brotherhoods would support the shogunate against the Templar-backed Imperial Court in Kyoto. However, Yoshinobu was ready to concede as British demands were backed by Emperor Mutsuhito, against the wishes of Brunet. The discussion was cut short when a spy attempted to assassinate Yoshinobu only for Brunet to stop them, though the spy managed to escape through a window.[136]
November 19: Tokugawa Yoshinobu conceded to the British and the Imperial Court by abdicating the title of shogun.[136]
Jules Brunet tasked his Japanese contact, Matsuo, to mobilize all Assassin agents on the island in order to ensure the victory of the Tokugawa shogunate and their allies as war became inevitable. Disheartened by Yoshinobu's willingness to concede to the Imperials and the British, Brunet hoped that a republic would blossom in Japan if the Tokugawa forces were to win.[136]
1868[]
January 27-31:
Imperial and Shogunate forces clashed near the Kyoto ward of Fushimi during the Battle of Toba–Fushimi. The battle ended in a decisive Imperial victory, and marked the beginning of the Boshin War between the Imperial Court and the Tokugawa shogunate.[136]
Shiba Ibuka was present for the Battle of Tuba-Fushimi, but chose to flee the battlefield. His sister Atsuko, who had disguised herself as a man to watch over him, was forced to fight in his place to protect her brother's reputation.[136]
February 10:
Rupert Ferris, owner of Ferris Ironworks and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Jacob Frye in Croydon, England. Jacob's escape from the Templars resulted in a train crash outside Croydon.[1]
Sir David Brewster, a Templar scientist, was killed by the Assassin Evie Frye in Croydon during an experiment on an Apple of Eden that destroyed his laboratory and the artifact.[1]
February: Jacob and Evie Frye left for London to retake the city from Grand Master Crawford Starrick, and met with Henry Green, the Assassin overseeing the local Brotherhood bureau. In time, the twins also became acquianted with their allies Charles Dickens, Frederick Abberline, Clara O'Dea, and Alexander Graham Bell, and started their own criminal gang, the Rooks, to combat the influence of the Templar-run Blighters.[1]
March 4: Ulysses S. Grant was sworn in as the 18th President of the United States. His inner circle was subsequently infiltrated by the Templars, who entrusted him with a Precursor box and pages of the Voynich manuscript while simultaneously corrupting his administration.[138]
Evie Frye and Henry Green recovered a disc key and document detailing a Shroud of Eden from a secret vault in the former mansion of Edward Kenway.[1]
Dr. John Elliotson, a Templar manufacturing Starrick's Soothing Syrup, was killed by the Assassin Jacob Frye in Lambeth Asylum, London.[1]
Evie Frye recovered an Isu key hidden by Edward Kenway at the top of St. Paul's Cathedral, but lost it during a fight with the Templar occultist Lucy Thorne.[1]
Jacob Frye forged an alliance with Crawford Starrick's cousin Pearl Attaway, and assassinated her business rival, the Templar Malcolm Millner. After discovering Attaway was a Templar herself, Jacob assassinated her inside a train carriage at Waterloo station.[1]
Evie Frye assassinated Lucy Thorne after infiltrating the Tower of London, where both women mistakenly believed the Shroud of Eden to be located. Evie recovered the Isu key from Thorne.[1]
Philip Twopenny, the Governor of the Bank of England and a Templar, was killed by the Assassin Jacob Frye while the former was trying to rob his bank to transfer the money to the Templars.[1]
Jacob Frye thwarted a Templar plot to assassinate British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and his wife Mary Anne Disraeli, and later killed the mastermind behind it: General James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan.[1]
Blighters leader and former Templar associate Maxwell Roth was killed by the Assassin Jacob Frye in a burning Alhambra Music Hall, after a short-lived alliance between the two which resulted in the near deaths of child labourers.[1]
Jacob and Evie Frye infiltrated Queen Victoria's ball at Buckingham Palace and foiled Crawford Starrick's plan to murder the Queen and the other guests. Although Starrick managed to use this distraction to retrieve the Shroud of Eden, he was soon killed by Jacob, Evie and Henry Green, who returned the Shroud to its vault.[1]
Jacob and Evie Frye, with the aid of Queen Victoria, stopped an upstart Templar faction from executing several terrorism attacks around London and eliminated their leader.[1]
Jacob and Evie Frye found an underground vault in London where the Assassin Michel Reuge had hidden the Aegis, an Isu armor once worn by Minerva. After retrieving all of Reuge's keys from music boxes scattered around London, the Assassins opened the Aegis' vault and Evie claimed the armor for herself.[1]
Henry Raymond, a penny dreadful writer, was killed by Jacob and Evie Frye after orchestrating a fake bomb threat at Buckingham Palace to steal the Queen's Sceptre with the Dove.[139]
Jacob and Evie Frye helped Duleep Singh, the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, in his quest to reclaim his heritage, in spite of the Templar Brinley Ellsworth's attempts to sabotage them. After luring Singh into a trap where he tried to kill him, Ellsworth was defeated by Evie and then spared by Singh because of their past friendship.[140]
October 6-November 6:
The Battle of Aizu was fought when Imperial forces led an invasion of Aizu, a pro-Tokugawa feudal domain that sent thousands of troops for the shogunate war effort.[136]
During the Battle of Aizu, Shiba Atsuko, now a fully-trained shinobi, was tasked with infiltrating the camp of the Imperial army to acquire its attack plans. Although Atsuko was successful in her mission, her Assassin mentor Nakano Takeko was fatally shot and Atusko was forced to decapitate her to prevent her head from falling into Imperial hands.[136]
Shiba Atsuko faced off against the Templar William Lloyd and was saved by her brother Ibuka, who killed Lloyd and carried Atsuko away from the battlefield. However, Itsuka had been mortally wounded by Lloyd and later succumbed to his injuries.[136]
Shiba Atsuko was nursed back to health by the Japanese Assassin spy Matsuo, who convinced her to join the Brotherhood after telling her about his brother's deeds, saving her and the Musashi Masamune.[136]
1870[]
July 19: Emperor Napoleon III declared war against Prussia after Kaiser Wilhelm I's advisors, influenced by German Templars, convinced their ruler to instigate the French Emperor.[141]
1871[]
January 28: After months of warfare, the Prussians were victorious in the war against the French. This led to the establishment of the German Empire and the Third French Republic as the successor to the Second French Empire.[142]
May 18-May 28: Parisians revolted against the new republic and convened another Paris Commune to go against the French government. Despite the aid of the French Assassins, the Parisians' defense fell against the French Army and the commune was dissolved. As a result, the Third French Republic stood as the official government for France.[142]
1874[]
September 2:Nikola Tesla found an Apple of Eden in the wilderness after fleeing to Tomingaj in Croatia, which inspired him to pursue a life of study and innovation.[20]
1881[]
March 13: Tsar Alexander II of Russia, who was affiliated with the Templars,[143] was killed in a bomb attack by the Assassins Ignacy Hryniewiecki[121] and Nikolai Rysakov[144] of the Narodnaya Volya, a radical faction of the Russian Assassins.[143][121]
1884[]
June 6: Nikola Tesla arrived in New York City. He started working for Thomas Edison, a Templar, but left Edison Machine Works in 1885.[20]
1885[]
December 28: The Indian National Congress, a political party that would become the principal leader of the Indian independence movement, was founded. A Sage was present during its creation.[34]
1887[]
May 20: Several Assassin members of the Narodnaya Volya, including Aleksandr Ulyanov, were publicly hanged after a failed assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander III of Russia.[143]
Mina Bergson, a member of the British Assassins, was tasked to infiltrate the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and eventually married Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, one of its co-founders and a Templar puppet.[78]
1888[]
The British Assassin known as Jack the Lad, having developed an extremist view of the Creed, wrestled control of the Rooks from his mentor Jacob Frye with the help of dangerous criminals.[145]
August 31: Jack the Lad killed an Assassin initiate posing as the prostitute Mary Ann Nichols in Whitechapel, London, starting a series of murders that gave him the moniker Jack the Ripper.[145]
September 8: Jack the Ripper killed an Assassin initiate posing as Annie Chapman in Whitechapel.[145]
September 30:
Jack the Ripper killed two Assassin initiates, one posing as Elizabeth Stride and another as Catherine Eddowes, in Whitechapel.[145]
Jack the Ripper infiltrated his former mentor Jacob Frye's hideout and captured him, subsequently imprisoning him in Lambeth Asylum.[145]
October: Evie Frye returned to London from India after having been summoned by her brother Jacob. With help from Fredderick Abberline, she discovered Jacob was missing and started investigating the Whitechapel murders.[145]
October 29: The Assassin Nikolai Orelov attempted to kill Tsar Alexander III of Russia, a Templar ally, aboard his train bound for St. Petersburg, resulting in the Borki train disaster. The Tsar defeated Nikolai using a Staff of Eden, but ultimately spared the Assassin's life.[143]
November 2: Evie Frye killed brothel owner Olwyn Owers, an ally of Jack the Ripper, at Owers Manor in Cotswold.[145]
November 9: Evie Frye assassinated Chief Warder John Billingsworth of the Deptfordprison hulks, where Jack the Ripper kept his hostages. The Metropolitan Police Service subsequently stopped Jack's kidnapping operations.[145]
November: Evie Frye killed Jack the Ripper inside Lambeth Asylum, after maneuvering her way through the asylum's patients set loose by Jack. Jacob Frye was subsequently rescued, and Evie worked with Frederick Abberline to hide Jack's identity and ties to the Brotherhood.[145]
1891[]
December 20:William Robert Woodman was killed by an assassin employed by his co-founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott, after a meeting with Gustav Meyrink.[22]
1894[]
November 1: Tsar Alexander III of Russia died of kidney failure,[12] caused by injuries inflicted by Nikolai Orelov in 1888.[143] His son, Nicholas II, succeeded him.[12]
1896[]
Spring: Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers assumed full leadership of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, after an argument between Mathers and William Wynn Westcott forced the latter to leave the Order.[22]
20th century[]
1901[]
January 22: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom passed away at the age of 81, marking the end of the Victorian era.[20]
December: Financier and Templar John Pierpont Morgan withdrew his funding of Nikola Tesla's experiments after Tesla intended to make electricity a free product, which stood in opposition of the Templars' plans.[4]
1907[]
September: The Peruvian Amazon Company is founded by Julio César Arana, Grand Master of the Peruvian Rite of the Templar Order, to serve as a front for Templar activities in the Amazon Basin.
1908[]
June 30:Nikola Tesla released a burst of electricity to a Templar research facility in Tunguska from his Wardenclyffe Tower during an Assassin raid on the facility, destroying the Staff of Eden and creating a large eruption known as the Tunguska explosion. Nikolai Orelov was the only survivor.[143]
1909[]
December 17: King Leopold II of Belgium is assassinated in Brussels by members of Eagle Squadron.
1910[]
November:Frank A. Vanderlip, Paul Warburg, Charles Norton, Benjamin Strong, Jr., Henry Pomeroy Davison, and Nelson W. Aldrich,[11] members of the Templar Order, met at the Jekyll Island Club on Jekyll Island and designed the "Plan" to take control of the capitalist market.[38]
1913[]
Autumn: Skulls of the Isu were found in the village of Boskop in South Africa.[12]
December 23: The Federal Reserve System was created as part of the "Plan" designed by the Templars, and as the first step to controlling the capitalist market.[12]
1914[]
June 28: Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo by a member of the Black Hand, sparking World War I.[20]
June 29:Khioniya Guseva, disciple of Grigori Rasputin, attempted to kill her master in Pokrovskoye. Even though his intestines fell out, Rasputin managed to use the powers of the splinter of the Staff of Eden to survive and force Guseva to mutilate herself.[22]
December 24: On Christmas Eve, British and German soldiers called a truce amidst the fighting of World War I. During the truce, an Assassin operating as a medic for the British killed General Erich Albert, a Templar.[22]
1916[]
Spring: The Assassin Lydia Frye, granddaughter of Jacob Frye, took down a German Templar spy network in London with the aid of Winston Churchill, and assassinated the Master Spy, a Sage.[1]
December 29: The Templar agent Grigori Rasputin was assassinated by a group of conspirators led by Felix Yusupov,[12] with influence of the Assassins.[4]
1917[]
March 15: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicated the Russian throne after the start of the Russian Revolution, under pressure of the Assassins.[12]
November 7: Nikolai Orelov infiltrated the Winter Palace in Petrograd, tasked by Vladimir Lenin to kill Tsarevich Nicholas II of Russia. After finding out that the Imperial Sceptre in the Palace was a mere replica of the Staff of Eden, Nikolai decided to spare the Tsarevich's life.[143]
November 15: Nikolai Orelov infiltrated the asylum in Krasnoyarsk to meet Khioniya Guseva. After hearing her account of the splinter's power, he granted her wish to die by killing her with his Hidden Blade.[22]
November 22: Nikolai Orelov and two henchmen unearthed the corpse of Grigori Rasputin to recover the splinter of the Staff of Eden, based on information from Tsarevich Nicholas II.[143]
December: Several scientists and members of the Russian Assassin Brotherhood, including Sergei and his wife, left to form a community in an Assassin science city at a facility in Protvino, provided by the Russian Academy of Sciences.[20]
1918[]
July 17:
Tsarevich Nicholas II and his family were massacred in Yekaterinburg by Templars intent on retrieving their Precursor box, though Nikolai Orelov rescued the Tsarevich's daughter Anastasia Nikolaevna and secured the box.[146]
After the Precursor box and Nikolai's shard were activated in conjunction, the consciousness of Shao Jun was transferred from the box to Anastasia. Nikolai planned to bring Anastasia to the Assassins and the pair fled from Yekaterinburg to Kazan, fending off the Templars along the way.[146]
September:
Nikolai Orelov was betrayed by his friend Leon Trotsky on behalf of the revolution and captured by the Templars. Using Shao Jun's skills, Anastasia saved Nikolai from capture and the two escaped from Kazan by boat.[146]
Upon arriving in Moscow, Anastasia was taken by Sergei to meet the Russian Mentor while Nikolai was forced to report to the local bureau. The Assassins intended to extract Shao Jun's memories from Anastasia, which caused Nikolai to betray his brothers and rescue Anastasia.[146]
Nikolai saved Anastasia from imprisonment in the Assassins' hideout next to Spasskaya Tower. After Nikolai successfully destroyed a pursuing Assassin tank, he met Anastasia in front of Bolshoi Theatre and gave her his wife's forged papers, which she used to flee to Germany under the name "Anna Anderson".[146]
Nikolai Orelov, his wife Anna, and daughter Nadya fled Russia with the splinter of the Staff of Eden and settled in the United States.[143]
November: Moina Mathers, formerly Mina Bergson, took leadership of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and abandoned the Assassin Order after the death of her husband Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers.[78]
1919[]
January 21: The Irish War of Independence started between the Irish Republic and the United Kingdom. At least one Assassin participated in the conflict.[34]
November 7: In twelve cities in the United States, agents of the Bureau of Investigation launched the Palmer Raids, directed by Alexander Mitchell Palmer, to arrest and deport radical leftists, though many innocents including Anna and Nadya Orelov were also rounded up.[147]
1925[]
March 12:Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China and Grand Master of the Chinese Templars, was assassinated by members of the Assassin Brotherhood in Beijing.[148]
1926[]
January: Nikolai and Innokenti Orelov were visited by the Assassin Sergei, who was tasked to bring Nikolai back to the Russian Assassins, at their cabin in the woods of Connecticut. Nikolai killed Sergei after the latter threatened Innokenti's life.[147]
October 31: The illusionist Harry Houdini was killed by the Templars to retrieve the Piece of Eden he possessed, which he used to obtain fame during his career.[4]
1927[]
February:
British Templar Grand Master Thaddeus Gift was killed by Albert Bolden, the Black Cross, in London, England for abandoning the Templars' principles and using the Order for personal gain.[148]
Darius Gift, son of Thaddeus Gift, was sent to Shanghai to deliver a box to Chiang Kai-shek, with the intention of drawing him into the Order's fold.[148]
The Black Cross Albert Bolden infiltrated the Templar-built train Great Wall, carrying White Russian soldiers led by the former Templar Yuri Dolinsky to the warlord Zhang Zongchang to fight Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, where Bolden killed Dolinsky for betraying the Order.[149]
April:
Darius Gift was mistaken for the Black Cross by two Frenchmen in Shanghai, before being saved from his harassers by the Black Cross. However, Darius' box was stolen by the actress Ruan Lingyu, posing as a prostitute, while he was distracted.[148]
Grand Master Stirling Fessenden of the Shanghai Rite of Templars organized a meeting with the local Master Templars, informing them that they should offer their aid to the Black Cross in any capacity while he searched for a traitor in their ranks.[148]
The Black Cross infiltrated the Great World, headquarters of the Hop Wo Society, a front for the Green Gang, where he was ambushed. After allowing himself to be captured to meet gang leader Du Yuesheng, he escaped the building.[148]
Darius Gift infiltrated the Mingxing Motion Picture Company after discovering Ruan Lingyu's true identity, but was overpowered by her accomplice Zhang Damin when confronting her. Ruan decided to aid Darius, and after escaping from Zhang, she handed the box's contents to him.[148]
The Black Cross discovered the traitor within the Order was Soong Ching-ling, wife of the late Sun Yat-sen, who acted to keep the box out of the hands of Chiang Kai-shek, realizing the latter had no intention of joining the Order.[148]
Grand Master Stirling Fessenden was called to a meeting by Du Yuesheng, where Chiang Kai-shek revealed his disinterest in joining the Templar Order.[148]
April 12: The Black Cross killed Flowery Flag, an agent of Du Yuesheng who was sent to kill Darius Gift. Having learned that the Black Cross killed his father, Darius shot him in retaliation, causing the Black Cross to fall from a rooftop.[148]
1928[]
Nikolai and Innokenti Orelov were tracked down by a team of Assassins employed by the Bureau of Investigation. They took down all Assassins except the team's leader, who managed to catch Nikolai. Innokenti complied to Nikolai's request to shoot the man, killing both the team leader and Nikolai.[147]
1930[]
March 12:Mahatma Gandhi started the Salt March in disobedience against the British's salt laws in India until April 5, and managed to gather a large following with aid from his Apple of Eden.[4]
1936[]
The Egyptian Brotherhood of Assassins, under the leadership of MentorOmar Sharif, first makes contact with the Muslim Brotherhood, beginning an on-and-off partnership between the two organizations. The Assassins promised to aid the Muslim Brotherhood in their fight against the British, as long as the Assassins eliminated enemies of the Brotherhood when needed.
1937[]
Abstergo Industries was founded by Templar Order members Frank A. Vanderlip, Charles Norton, Henry Ford, Gero Kramer, Ransom Eli Olds, Prescott Bush, Nelson W. Aldrich, Henry Pomeroy Davison, and Benjamin Strong, Jr. to serve as a public front, which would primarily be used as a shadow company to control the world's capitalist market.[38] Harold Sanderson is named Abstergo's inaugural CEO; however, he merely serves as a puppet of the Founders, who (with the exception of Kramer) serve as the company's inaugural Board of Directors.
April 26: The town of Guernica was bombed on orders of Nationalist Spain under Francisco Franco by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, to route the Spanish republican rebels, as part of the Spanish Civil War. Several Spanish Assassin died during the bombing.[150]
May:
The Templar Rufus Grosvenor, a former disciple of the Master Spy, convinced the Assassin Norbert Clarke, sent by the British Brotherhood to aid the Spanish Assassins, to take his own life.[150]
Grosvenor, posing as Norbert Clarke, joined Ignacio Cardona's Assassin cell in Barcelona, intending to have him unlock the powers of the Koh-i-Noor with the Precursor DNA in his genes.[150]
Fighting broke out in between the Nationalists and communists in Barcelona. With the Assassins undecided on what faction to join, Grosvenor persuaded Cardona to use the Koh-i-Noor, nearly killing the Assassins.[150]
Albert Bolden, the former Black Cross, attacked Grosvenor to reacquire the Koh-i-Noor, but failed and escaped with an unconscious Cardona instead. After the Assassin awoke, Bolden revealed to him Grosvenor's deception and convinced him to join forces against Grosvenor.[150]
Bolden and Cardona confronted Grosvenor and the Assassins, rallied behind the Templar, in a church in the Spanish countryside. Bolden and Cardona were overpowered, and with another opportunity to use the Koh-i-Noor, Cardona destroyed the church and routed Grosvenor and Glaucia Acosta.[150]
Bolden and Cardona continued fighting in the Spanish Civil War, before Bolden would guard the ruins of the abandoned church, where the Koh-i-Noor remained buried.[150]
1939[]
September 1:World War II started, orchestrated by the Templar Order, who influenced leaders on either side of the conflict such as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring chaos and turmoil to the world's population.[4]
Members of the Assassin Brotherhood started infiltrating the German nuclear war project headed by Templar Obbergruppenführer Gero Kramer, until Kramer discovered and removed the Assassins.[151]
1940[]
September 7: The Nazi bombing of London, known as the Blitz, started, destroying large portions of the city and killing thousands of civilians.[151]
September: The Assassins Boris Pash and Julia Dusk successfully recruited Eddie Gorm to work as a double-agent in the German nuclear war project, after Gorm's family was killed in the Blitz.[151]
1942[]
September:
Eddie Gorm abducted Nazi physicist Werner Heisenberg at a Nazi meeting at the Wilhelm Institute in Berlin, discovering that the German nuclear war project was a front for Gero Kramer's Die Glocke project.[151]
Eddie Gorm and an injured Julia Dusk escaped from the Wilhelm Institute to an Assassin safehouse in Berlin, where Boris Pash revealed the existence of the Assassins and Templars to Gorm and recruited him into the Brotherhood.[151]
1943[]
January 7: The Templars faked Nikola Tesla's death[151] in a hotel room in New York City and pressured the FBI to order the Alien Property Custodian to seize Tesla's belongings.[4]
February 27:
The Assassin Eddie Gorm infiltrated the Nazis' hydroelectric water plant in Vemork, where he confronted and was overpowered by the Templar Obbergruppenführer Gero Kramer.[151]
Gero Kramer placed Eddie Gorm in Die Glocke, a proto-Animus developed by Nikola Tesla using the Nazis' Apple of Eden, to use Gorm's genetic memory and locate Pieces of Eden in the past they could acquire through time travel.[151]
Allied forces besieged the Vemork facility, causing Gero Kramer and the Nazis to flee with their captive Nikola Tesla. Eddie Gorm was rescued by fellow Assassin Julia Dusk.[151]
July 15:
Assassins Eddie Gorm and Julia Dusk besieged Książ Castle, where they killed Templar Obbergruppenfürher Gero Kramer during a party and retrieved his Apple of Eden.[151]
Nikola Tesla revealed Boris Pash's secret alliance with Templar scientist John von Neumann, causing Eddie Gorm and Julia Dusk to turn on Pash. Dusk blew herself up with a grenade in an attempt to destroy the Apple of Eden; Pash instead took the artifact and left Gorm for dead.[151]
October 28:
Aboard the USS Eldridge, Assassin Boris Pash and Templar John von Neumann combined their efforts to use the Apple of Eden and Die Glocke to travel back in time and kill Adolf Hitler, who had fallen out of the Templars' control, a project that would come to be known as Project Rainbow.[151]
Assassin Eddie Gorm killed Nikola Tesla aboard the USS Eldridge to thwart Project Rainbow, before taking his own life in front of Boris Pash.[151]
The USS Elridge briefly manifested in a future state using the powers[18] of the Apple of Eden, though the project was ultimately deemed a failure.[151]
1944[]
July 1–22: The Bretton Woods conference was held by European powers – secretly economic agents of the Templars – to form the World Bank, as part of the "Plan".[38]
November 10:Barthel Schink, the leader of the anti-fascist group Edelweiss Pirates, was hanged by the Nazis. Before his hanging, he told Miriam Kurtz to retrieve a Piece of Eden from the Cologne Cathedral and bring it to the Assassins in Paris.[9]
December 25:Keith Scipione, an agent of Abstergo Industries, purchased the original Shroud of Eden from a member of the Baguttiani in Milan, Italy.[22]
1945[]
April 30: Adolf Hitler was killed by Assassin Levi Shapiro outside his Führerbunker, after having killed his body double inside the hideout. The Assassins also took possession of his Isu artifact.[4]
July 16: The Manhattan Project tested its first atomic bomb, designed by J. Robert Oppenheimer, at the Los Alamogordo air base in New Mexico. The tests were authorized by Abstergo Industries.[4]
August 6–9: The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6 by the United States, and a second hit the city of Nagasaki on August 9.[20]
August 12: Emperor Hirohito of Japan surrendered to the Allies, marking the end of World War II.[20]
1947[]
March 10: Templar Ronald Reagan becomes president of the Screen Actors Guild, allowing the Templars to gain a foothold in Hollywood.
1948[]
Assassin Jean Spangler begins taking bit roles in various Hollywood films while covertly investigating Templar influence in the Hollywood film industry.
January 30: Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Templar sleeper agent Nathuram Godse to retrieve his Apple of Eden, after he had used it to lead a non-violent rebellion against British rule in India.[4]
May 14: The State of Israel is officially declared by World Zionist Organization leader David Ben-Gurion. Assassin Levi Shapiro is present for the official declaration of independence, and later the same day, establishes the Israeli Brotherhood of Assassins, with himself as Mentor.
May 15: Beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The Egyptian Assassins would fight alongside the Muslim Brotherhood in order to combat Israeli Templar interests in Palestine. During the war, the Assassins would become acquainted with Yasser Arafat, who would become a long-time associate and ally of the Assassin Order.
August 16: British economist Harry Dexter White was killed by the Templars after betraying the Order by warning the Soviet Union of their capitalist plans.[38]
1949[]
September:Jean Spangler films her appearance as an extra in the film Young Man with a Horn on a set owned by Abstergo Industries, during which an Abstergo security guard spots her talking to Boris Pash and relays her allegiance to the Assassins to his superiors.
October 7: In an operation overseen by Ronald Reagan and Prescott Bush, Jean Spangler is abducted by a pair of Templar agents known simply as "M." and "X." outside of the Los Angeles Farmers Market. False clues, including a fake note addressed to someone named "Kirk" (meant to incriminate Kirk Douglas, the leading man in Young Man with a Horn) are planted to throw investigators off the trail. She is taken to a secret Abstergo site and interrogated by Abstergo's Head of Operations and Inner Sanctum member Heinrich Müller; she subsequently reveals that a number of Assassin spies had infiltrated various U.S. Government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department. Spangler is killed, her body is disposed of, and the information extracted from her is passed along, via several Abstergo intermediaries, to Senator Joseph McCarthy. Spangler's disappearance is never officially solved.
1950[]
February 9: Using the information provided to him by Abstergo, Senator Joseph McCarthy gives a speech o the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, accusing 205 State Department employees of being Communists. Using the Senator's speech as a pretext, Templars within the State Department conduct a secret purge of the State Department and also learn of the Assassins' involvement in Project BLUEBIRD.
1952[]
January 26: The Cairo fire is staged by the Muslim Brotherhood in protest of British occupation, against the wishes of the Egyptian Assassins. After 26 innocent people and Mentor Omar Sharif are killed in the riots, the Assassins terminate their partnership with the Brotherhood. Omar's son Mohammed would succeed him as Egyptian Mentor.
June 17: Rocket engineer Jack Parsons died due to injuries received in an explosion in his laboratory orchestrated by Abstergo Industries, after Parsons made plans to reveal the secrets behind Aleister Crowley's formula.[22]
November 4: After Prescott Bush is elected to the United States Senate, he formally steps down as Grand Master of the American Rite of the Templar Order, but remains active in Templar affairs.
1953[]
March 5:Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, was killed by the Assassins[4] with the use of poison, making it look like he died of a stroke.[20]
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) initiative Project BLUEBIRD, a mind control program spearheaded by Assassin Boris Pash, started after being sanctioned by the Mentor of the American Assassins, who hoped to gain an advantage over the Templars.[152]
August 19: Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh of Iran was overthrown in a coup d'état orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to stop his plans to nationalize the Iranian oil industry.[38]
1954[]
June 7: President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala was overthrown in a joint operation orchestrated by Abstergo Industries and the United Fruit Company to protect their capitalist interest.[38] Carlos Castillo Armas is subsequently installed as the leader of a military dictatorship.
1957[]
February 8: While on his deathbed, Templar scientist John von Neumann was killed by his former ally, Assassin Boris Pash, accompanied by Alekseï Gavrani, so that Pash could obtain his Piece of Eden.[152]
1958[]
July 29: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a government agency of the United States, was founded with influence of Abstergo Industries.[9]
1963[]
January 2:
Members of the Assassin Boris Pash's Bloodstone Unit, including Alekseï Gavrani and Julia Gorm, interrogated Cooper, a Templar who had infiltrated the United States Army in Vietnam.[152]
Alekseï Gavrani expressed his grievances with the Bloodstone Unit's tactics and was sent home by Boris Pash in response.[152]
November 22:
President John F. Kennedy of the United States was assassinated as part of a Templar conspiracy orchestrated by Kennedy's Vice President, Templar Lyndon B. Johnson,[4] and members of the Bloodstone Unit, under direction of CIA director and Assassin William King Harvey, a secret Templar.[152] Templar sleeper agent Lee Harvey Oswald also participated.[4] Johnson becomes President after Kennedy's death.
Kennedy's driver, the Assassin William Greer, took the President's Apple of Eden,[152] while another Apple was used by the Templars to create confusion.[4] Assassin Alekseï Gavrani took the Apple from Greer, believing Boris Pash to be a traitor.[152]
Alekseï Gavrani brought the artifact to William King Harvey instead and took up the mantle of CIA agent QJ/WIN again.[152]
1964[]
Boris Pash and his Bloodstone Unit experimented on Julia Gorm using their Apple of Eden, which eventually successfully resulted in the conciousness of her father Eddie Gorm taking over her mind. Gorm then endeavoured to kill Pash like her father wanted to.[152]
July 30:
Assassin Alekseï Gavrani, aboard an American ship disguised as a Vietnamese vessel in the Gulf of Tonkin, tracked Boris Pash to the island of Hòn Mê.[152]
Alekseï Gavrani promised to protect Boris Pash and Zenia, pregnant with Pash's child, from Julia Gorm in exchange for the Apple of Eden. Gavrani confronted Gorm, but the encounter left them both mortally wounded.[152]
Boris Pash used Gavrani's radio to contact the USS Maddox. He was met by William King Harvey, who took the Apple of Eden upon revealing his Templar affiliations. Templar scientist Warren Vidic helped in Zenia's labour, and the child – later known as Nathalie Chapman – became a prisoner of the Templars.[152]
1967[]
June 5-10: The Six-Day War is fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, resulting in a victory for Israel. During the June 7 liberation of the Old City of Jerusalem, General Yitzhak Rabin becomes the first person to visit the city and discovers a Shroud of Eden - later confirmed to be the same shroud once used by Jesus of Nazareth - in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He eventually stores the Shroud in a secret location known only to him.
1969[]
July 21: NASA's Apollo 11 spaceflight to the Moon, funded by Abstergo Industries, resulted in the recovery of an Apple of Eden from the Moon's surface.[4]
1970[]
Abstergo Industries approaches President Milton Obote of Uganda with a request to build a facility in the country. Obote refuses as it goes against his Move to the Left policies.
1971[]
Abstergo Industries' first Precursor Habitation Expedition took place as the second phase of what later became the Phoenix Project. By the end of the decade, the expeditions uncovered seven large Denisovan sites across the globe.[34]
January 25: General Idi Amin, a known Templar ally, takes power as President of Uganda in a military coup orchestrated by Abstergo Industries and overseen by Master Templar and Inner Sanctum member Samuel Mbazzi. The coup was in response to previous president Milton Obote's refusal to allow an Abstergo research facility (which would later be known as "The Pyramid") to be constructed in the country. Amin subsequently allows both the Templars and Abstergo to operate freely in Uganda under his administration.
April 21:François Duvalier, the fortieth President of Haiti, was killed by the Assassins, for his oppression over the Haitian people.[4]
July:Sentinel Health Systems, a health system subsidiary of Abstergo Industries, is founded by Dr. Samuel Mbazzi to serve as a secondary front for Templar activities in central Africa.
1973[]
Construction on The Pyramid, Abstergo's facility in Kampala, Uganda, reaches completion. The facility subsequently becomes the central headquarters for Sentinel Health Systems.
September 11: President Salvador Allende of Chile was overthrown and killed in a military coup orchestrated by Abstergo Industries and engineered by Henry Kissinger to stop the nationalization of industries in Chile.[38]Augusto Pinochet is subsequently installed as the new President of Chile.
1977[]
Nathalie Chapman escaped Warren Vidic's laboratory, taking her father's Apple of Eden and the blueprints for the Animus, giving the latter to Assassin William Miles.[152] Miles gave them to Russian Assassin Medeya Voronina in Moscow, after she rescued him from Templar agents, and told her to build the machine.[20]
1979[]
August 10-11: The Uganda National Liberation Front (an Assassin front group), supported by the Tanzanian Army, captures Kampala. During the battle, the Assassins attempt to assassinate both Idi Amin and Samuel Mbazzi. Both men survive, but are badly injured, and thus are forced to leave the country and eventually flee to Libya.
1980[]
Abstergo Industries started the Animus Project, directed by Warren Vidic and Samuel Mbazzi, with the intention of exploring the genetic memories of subjects to discover the secrets of the Assassins and the Pieces of Eden.[20]
July 29: Abstergo Industries' Surrogate Initiative passed its twenty-third test session to relive the genetic memory of another individual, when its director Aileen Bock relived the memories of Miriam Kurtz through her son Seamus' DNA.[9]
Following the unexpected death of Subject 1, Warren Vidic himself becomes Subject 2 of the Animus Project, taking a four-hour Animus session, first reliving the life of an 18th century Hungarian ancestor, then Jeanne d'Arc's executioner Geoffroy Thérage in 1431.
October: The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (PIJ), an extremist splinter group of the Muslim Brotherhood, is founded in Gaza. At the request of Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian Brotherhood of Assassins volunteer to fight the PIJ on their behalf.
1982[]
March 14: 21-year old Joseph Kony is identified as a potential candidate for the Animus Project after a routine medical screening during a visit to the Sentinel clinic in Gulu, Uganda. After he is also identified as being a Sage, Dr. Mbazzi personally invites him to take part in a "special medical study" at the Pyramid in Kampala. Later that same day, Kony officially begins his sessions in the Animus as Subject 3, reliving the memories of one of the bodyguards of Mansa Musa of the Mali Empire.
July: Warren Vidic personally traveled to Kampala to personally oversee the progress being made in Joseph Kony's Animus sessions. In between sessions, both Vidic and Mbazzi would experiment on Kony; these experiments would be similar to the ones that would later be performed on Daniel Cross, though not nearly as controlled. However, due to his status as a Sage, Kony would reject any attempt at programming. These attempts would continue until the end of Subject 3's sessions.
August 9: Aileen Bock was severely injured in an accident involving the Animus during the thirty-seventh test session of the Surrogate Initiative, after which the project was put on halt.[9]
November 26: Subject 3's sanity finally snaps due to a combination of the Bleeding Effect, his status as a Sage, and the experiments performed on him. After viewing a memory indicating the location of the African Apple of Eden, he suffers a psychotic break and violently murders the assistants of both Doctors Vidic and Mbazzi. He subsequently destroys the Animus itself as well as the recordings of his sessions, injures both Vidic and Mbazzi, and escapes the Pyramid, all while claiming to hear the voice of the Virgin Mary (actually believed to be the voice of the IsuJuno) calling to him.
1983[]
February 9: A 10-year old boy, later named Daniel Cross, was kidnapped by Abstergo Industries and used as Subject 4 of the Animus Project. His memories were implanted with a hidden impulse to kill the Mentor of the Assassin Brotherhood before being released from captivity.[143]
1985[]
September: Warren Vidic experimented on Daniel Cross with a device capable of mimicking Piece of Eden capabilities across a network, between Subject 4's Animus sessions.[38]
1986[]
An Abstergo team led by Dr. Alan Rikkin located the hideout of Joseph and Mary Lynch, seeking the latter to use her genetic memories to locate Aguilar de Nerha's Apple of Eden. Mary committed suicide with the help of her husband, who told their son Callum to flee.[85]
1987[]
An Assassin spy within Mossad learns of the Israeli government's possession of Jesus' Shroud of Eden for the first time, though is unable to learn its location. The Israeli Assassins relay this information to the Assassins in Palestine.
1988[]
December 10-14: The Palestinian Assassins participate in a series of secret meetings with PLO leader Yasser Arafat, encouraging him to seek peace with Israel.
1991[]
August 19–21: President Boris Yeltsin of Russia took political power from President Mikhail Gorbachev in a staged coup d'état by standing up to communism, with aid from Abstergo Industries and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a Templar member.[38]
December 8: The Belavezhskaya Accords were signed in the Belavezhskaya Forest by the Presidents of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, declaring the dissolution of the Soviet Union.[38]
December 25: Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation as President of the Soviet Union, making Boris Yeltsin the leader of Russia.[38]
1995[]
July to November:Benjamin Netanyahu, chairman of Knesset opposition party Likud and a high-ranking member of the Israeli Rite of the Templar Order, holds a number of rallies attacking Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and railing against the Oslo Accords, generating public hostility towards Rabin.
November 4: Rabin is assassinated by Abstergo sleeper agent Yigal Amir after an anti-violence rally in support of the Oslo peace process.
1996[]
The Israeli and Palestinian Assassin guilds merge to form the United Brotherhood of the Holy Land, in an effort to foster peace between Israel and Palestine.
June 18: Benjamin Netanyahu is elected to his first term as Prime Minister of Israel, cementing Templar control over Israel as well as bring peace talks with Palestine to a halt. Netanyahu also gains custody of the Shroud of Eden.
1997[]
January: Abstergo agents buried several constructed skeletons near the site of Tim D. White's expedition in Ethiopia, to prevent knowledge of the Isu creating the human race becoming public.[4]
1998[]
April 23: Daniel Cross was brought to an Assassin compound outside Philadelphia by the Assassin Hannah Mueller to meet Paul Bellamy, after noticing Daniel's Assassin tattoo and witnessing him attack a man he called a Templar as a result of the Animus' Bleeding Effect.[143]
April 24: Daniel Cross had a vision and discovered his purpose to find the Mentor, while reliving his ancestor Nikolai Orelov's memories of the Tunguska explosion. Daniel and Hannah visited Assassin hideouts around the globe for two years to find the Mentor.[143]
1999[]
September 4–16: Apartment buildings in the cities Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk in Russia were bombed by Chechen terrorists, orchestrated by Abstergo Industries to boost the popularity of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.[38]
2000[]
May 7: Vladimir Putin became the second President of Russia, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.[38]
November 6: Mentor Robert Callaghan was killed in Dubai by the unwitting Templar sleeper agent Daniel Cross, sending the Assassin Order into chaos and removing their influence over the 2000 American presidential election.[143]
November 21: Daniel Cross returned to the Abstergo Industries facility in Philadelphia. After entering the Animus, Daniel revealed the location of Assassin compounds and Abstergo initiated the Great Purge: a worldwide operation in which Abstergo strike teams attacked Assassin hideouts.[143]
The Animus Project started using Assassins captured during the Great Purge as subjects to explore their genetic memories, including Paul Bellamy.[147]
21st century[]
2001[]
January 20:George W. Bush became the forty-third President of the United States, after winning the 2000 presidential election rigged by Abstergo Industries.[38]
October 7: The War on Terror started. At some point, William Miles tasked Emmanuel Barraza with finding a Templar presence in the war, but ended up killing innocent children armed with bombs on a bus aimed for peace talks. Emmanuel vowed to never take a life again.[20]
2002[]
October 19: Daniel Cross infiltrated the Assassins' hidden Library of Ivan the Terrible beneath the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where he killed the Assassin sentry and acquired the Prophet's Codex, written by Ezio Auditore.[147]
2003[]
March 13:Desmond Miles ran away from "the Farm", the Assassin community in the Black Hills in South Dakota he grew up in, on his sixteenth birthday, to escape the life his parents had chosen for him.[11]