Watchmen

By svestus

  • Obie Williams born

    Born in Louisiana, enlisted in the US Army and fought against the Germans in France in World War 1. He returned a hero and reunited with his childhood sweetheart Ruth Robeson.

  • Nelson Gardner born

  • Hollis Mason Born

    Approx 1916

  • Sally Jupiter Born

    Approx 1920

  • Tulsa Massacre begins

    Obie Williams and Ruth Robeson killed.

  • Edward Blake born

  • Jon Osterman born

    Late 1928 or early 1929 (before May 12th 1929)

  • Hollis Mason graduates from Police Academy

  • Action Comics #1 goes on sale

  • Hooded Justice stops mugging

  • Hooded Justice "stops robbery"

    His "stopped robbery" is featured in the New York Gazette the following day, the 14th

  • Hollis Mason becomes Nite Owl

    "Early 1939"

  • Silk Spectre appears

    Article from this date, she started slightly earlier.

  • Adrian Veidt born

  • Minutemen are formed

    Date approx Fall of 1939.

  • Walter Kovacs born

  • Minutemen Photograph taken

    Blake assaults Jupiter. Scientists synthesize plutonium. Blake leaves the minutemen shortly after.

  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

  • Jon Osterman's father pushes Jon into science

    After news of the atomic bomb

  • Sihouette outed, ousted, and then murdered

  • Dollar Bill shot as his cape was stuck

    Sometime between Silhouette's murder and Sally Jupiter leaving the minutemen.

  • Sally Jupiter leaves the Minutemen

    Marries her agent, Laurence Schexnayder

  • Jon Osterman attends Princeton

  • Minutemen disband

    Only Nite Owl, Mothman, Hooded Justice, and Captain Metropolis remained.

  • Sally Jupiter gives birth to Laurie

  • Judd Crawford born

    in Tulsa

  • Hooded Justice retires

    After refusing to unmask himself before the House Unamerican Activities Committee. Around the same time East German circus strongman Rolf Muller disappears, and 3 months later a body believed to be his washes up in Boston.

  • Sally and Laurence's marriage ends

  • Jon Osterman earns a PhD in Atomic Physics

  • Ozymandias first appears

    Late 1958, non specific

  • Nixon promises "Maximum force" against Russians

  • Jon Osterman's first day at Gila Flats

    Meets Wally Weaver and Janie Slater

  • Janie and Jon begin relationship

    While on vacation to an amusement park in New Jersey. It's here Janie's watch gets broken. (day approx)

  • Jon Osterman's Accident

    day approx

  • Jon Osterman's funeral

    day approx

  • Dr M is formed

    After a couple weeks of coming back piece by piece

  • Dr Manhattan is revealed to the world

  • Dr M meets Ozymandias at a charity event

    This is also the party where Hollis Mason begins to consider retirement now that there is a superhero.

  • Dr M meets President Kennedy

    While knowing his eventual fate.

  • Nite Owl passes the torch

    After retiring, he gives Dan permission to use his name. Writes his book "Under the Hood" later that year. Between Hollis' retirement party and Kennedy's assassination, Dr M sparks the transition to electric cars.

  • JFK Assassinated

    Possibly by The Comedian. Shortly afterwards, Janie and Dr M argue over why Jon didn't stop it from happening.

  • Walter Kovacs makes Rorschach mask

    Using a dress originally made for Kitty Genovese (day approx)

  • Nite Owl II and Rorschach team up

  • Crimebusters first (and last) meeting

    Sometime between April 22nd and 26th.

  • Dr M joins Laurie on patrol

    Janie leaves Dr M shorty afterwards (or before, it's hard to say)

  • Jon Osterman's father dies

    His father never knew Jon "survived" his accident. After his death, Dr M reveals his true name to the public. And moves in with Laurie.

  • Nixon asks Dr M to intervene in Vietnam

    day approx

  • Dr M is reintroduced to Blake in Saigon

    day approx

  • Vietnam War ends

    day approx. Dr M watches Blake shoot a pregnant woman in a bar and does nothing to stop it.

  • Wally Weaver dies of cancer

    It was "quite sudden" (day approx)

  • Banquet honoring Eddie Blake

    Laurie drunkenly confronts him about the rape of her mother.

  • Nelson Gardner dies

    Leaves his entire estate to Will Reeves

  • Rorschach's kidnapping case

    Inciting event for Rorschach's attitude shift

  • Ozymandias retires and reveals his identity to the public

  • Nixon proposes amendment to allow for a third term

  • Judd Crawford marries Jane Alexander

  • Angela Abar born

    in Saigon

  • "Cal Jelani" "born"

    in "Philadelphia, PA"

  • Keene Act passed

    In response to the police strike. Headline: "Police say: Let them do it"

  • The Comedian ends the Iranian Hostage Situation

  • Writer Max Shea disappears

  • Eddie Blake drunkenly visits Moloch

    Approx a week before Blake was killed.

  • Adrian Veidt kills Edward Blake

  • Beginning of the Graphic Novel

  • Rorschach investigates Edward Blake's murder

    Also warns Dan

  • Rorschach warns Veidt, Dr M, and Laurie

    Laurie and Dan go to dinner

  • Eddie Blake's funeral

    Rorschach visits Moloch

  • Dr M's television interview

    After learning about the cancer cases linked to him, he goes to Arizona to pick up a picture of himself and Janie, and then goes to Mars.

  • Russian's invade Afghanistan

    No longer afraid of Dr Manhattan

  • "Assassination attempt" on Veidt

    Also, Moloch murdered, and Rorschach arrested.

  • Dr. Malcom Long meets Walter Kovacs

  • Walter Kovacs attacks inmate in lunchline

    Dan and Laurie save people from a tenement building fire.

  • Russian tanks move into Pakistan

  • Hollis Mason killed

    Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre II break Rorschach out of prison. Dr. M takes Laurie to Mars to discuss the fate of the world.

  • Nite Owl II and Rorschach head to Karnak

    They discover Veidt's involvement and leave for Karnak shortly before midnight. Rorschach puts his journal in the mail. Max Shea and the other artists/scientists are killed in an explosion as they left the island where they'd been working.

  • 11/2

    a.k.a. DIE (Dimensional Incursion Event) Nite Owl II and Rorschach arrive in Karnak, Veidt triggers the Alien attack, and explains his plan to them after the fact.

  • New Frontiersman begins to publish excerpts from Rorschach's journal

  • Marcus and Elise Abar are killed

    In an suicide bombing in Saigon on VVN Day 1987 (day approx)

  • Robert Redford elected POTUS

    Along with the Blue Wave of '92

  • Rorschach's Journal published in its entirety

  • Laurie and Dan arrested in Oklahoma

    After stopping the Oklahoma City bombing.

  • Wade Tillman gets certificate from Extraterrestrial Squid Society

    this is very important

  • Adrian Veidt's last public appearance

    Kenya awarded him its highest civilian honor, the Chief of the Order of the Golden Heart,

  • Cal Jelani admitted to hospital in Saigon

    Angela claims she found him wandering in a confused state on 12/19

  • Veidt declared missing

    During the purchase of Veidt Enterprises by Trieu, the board of directors went to Karnak to get his approval on the sale and found it abandoned.

  • The White Night

  • Trieu acquires Veidt Enterprises

    Also, Ronnie Ngo Dinh, then the governor of Vietnam, caused an international incident by claiming that the Vietnamese Liberation Front had assassinated Mr. Veidt as an act of terror against the United States. He used the assertion to justify an escalation of actions against VLF militants. The ensuing police actions resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths.

  • Keene Act Ammended

    DOPA (Defense of Police Act) passed, and Tulsa police begin wearing masks.

  • Adrian Veidt declared dead

    After being missing for 7 years.

  • Angela Abar takes Will Reeves' Nostalgia