Here's the Spoiler-iffic Timeline of the Watchmen TV show (So Far)

Freshly revised and updated thanks to the fine folks over on /r/watchmen.

  • 1914:

    • Will Reeves born

  • 1917-1918:

    • O.B. Williams (Will Reeves' father) fights for the US in WWI, receives propaganda pamphlet

  • 1921:

    • Tulsa massacre

  • 1938:

    • Will Reeves enlists in NYPD

    • Autumn:

      • Will Reeves starts as Hooded Justice

  • 1939:

    • Will joins Minutemen

  • 1940:

    • Will Reeves disrupts Eddie Blake's assault on Sally Jupiter

  • 1947:

    • Riot at Harlem theater, Will uncovers mesmerism plot

  • 1949:

    • Judd Crawford Born

  • Between 1947 & 1955:

    • Will Reeves quits the Minutemen

  • 1952:

    • The House Un-American Activities Commission asks Hooded Justice to reveal his identity to a single member for the committee, HJ refuses.

  • 1955:

    • Sen John Keene (father to Joe Keene), communicates w/Tulsa Sheriff Dale Dixon Crawford (Judd's grandfather) on Cyclops stationery

    • Hooded Justice disappears

    • Nelson Gardner has his final contact with Will Reeves

  • 1959:

    • Aug 20: Jon Osterman enters the Intrinsic Field device at Gila Flats

    • Nov 22: Dr. Manhattan fully materializes at Gila Flats

  • 1960:

    • Dr. Manhattan debuts on the world stage

  • 1966:

    • Nelson Gardner (Capt. Metropolis) founds the Crimebusters with Night Owl (Dan Dreiberg), The Comedian, Silk Specter (Laurie Blake), Rorschach, Ozymandias, and Dr Manhattan. The group, if it ever really came to fruition, did not have much success.

  • 1971:

    • Trieu's mother's village in Vietnam is burned by the Comedian

    • Dr Manhattan delivers victory for the US in Vietnam

  • 1975

    • Will Reeves (now working in a Harlem movie theater) inherits Capt. Metropolis' estate

  • 1976:

    • January 15: Angela Abar born in Saigon

  • 1977:

    • Keene act passed

  • 1979:

    • Veidt builds the Ring

  • 1980's:

    • Trieu Born in Vietnam

  • 1985:

    • October:

      • Vietnam made 51st state

    • 11/2:

      • Squid Event

      • Doc goes to Europa

  • 1987:

    • May

      • Angela's parents killed by VLF

  • 1990's:

    • Trieu completes 4 phD's at 15

  • 1995

    • April

      • Dan Dreiberg & Laurie Blake prevent OKC bombing

      • Dan stays silent, is put into custody

      • Laurie turns FBI

  • 2005ish

    • Trieu's mother dies, Trieu "harvests her memories," and creates Bian

  • 2007

    • Trieu Launches Nostalgia, becomes a billionaire

  • 2008ish

    • Trieu learns that Doc is on Europa, sets up Manhattan Booths and "Eye on Mars"

    • Trieu tells Veidt that Doc is on Europa

  • 2009:

    • Doc leaves Europa

    • May: Doc & Angela Meet, begin relationship

    • Dec: Doc & Angela Break Up

    • Dec 13 (Date derived from timeline given by Doc to Veidt, relative to 11/2/85):

      • Doc goes to Veidt for the Ring

      • Doc sends Veidt to Europa

      • Doc tells Will about Judd

    • Dec 23

      • Doc becomes Cal

  • 2010

    • Abars move to Tulsa

    • Trieu begins launching 50 Voyager-Class space probes

      • Note that it would take 1-2 years for a Voyager-Class Probe to reach Europa, depending on where Earth & Jupiter are in their orbital cycles when the probe launches

    • Dec 13: Veidt's First Anniversary, begins writing The Watchmaker's Son, already messing with horseshoes

  • 2011

    • Dec 13: Veidt's 2nd Anniversary, finishes and stages The Watchmaker's Son

  • 2012

    • Trieu purchases Veidt companies

    • Veidt declared "missing", after Veidt board goes to Karnak to get his blessing for the sale

    • Dec 13: Veidt's 3rd Anniversary, begins experimenting with catapults & suits, has a run in with the Game Warden

  • 2013

    • Dec 13: Veidt's 4th anniversary

    • Veidt escapes to surface, leaves "Save me D" message

    • Veidt's trial begins

  • 2014

    • Veidt's trial concludes

    • Dec 13: Veidt's 5th anniversary

  • 2015

    • Trieu is licensing micro-fusion propulsion tech

    • Dec 13: Veidt's 6th anniversary

  • 2016

    • Dec 13: Veidt's 7th anniversary, gets his horseshoe cake (7 candles)

    • Dec 24: White Night

  • 2017

    • DOPA passes via Joe Keene, allowing Tulsa PD to go masked.

  • 2017-2018

    • Construction on Millennium Clock begins

  • 2018-2019

    • Something crashes in Tulsa (approx. one year after Trieu's arrival in Tulsa)

      • Assuming Veidt escapes/is rescued by Trieu in 2016, it would take 1-2 years for his ship to come back to Earth, and crash in Tulsa, at Voyager speeds

        • But if it's "micro fusion" it could be a lot faster

  • 2019

    • Sep 8: 7th Kavalry shoots a Tulsa PD officer in a random traffic stop.

    • Sep 9: Veidt declared dead on 3 continents

    • Sep 9: Raid on cattle ranch

    • Sep 9 or 10: Crawford’s have dinner with Abars, Judd later murdered

    • Sep 16: Judd murdered (as reported on Peteypedia)

    • Sep 22: Angela takes Nostalgia

    • Sep 24: Laurie is kidnapped by Cyclops

    • Sep 25: "the Calamity at Greenwood" per Peteypedia. "Greenwood" refers to the area around Greenwood Street, which is the "town square" that contains the Cultural Center, Angela's bakery, the Dr Manhattan phone booth, Mr. News, and so on. It is the site of the 1921 massacre, rebuilt.

    • Sep 26:

      • Haz-Mat teams are collecting the remains of Unidientified Subjects 1 & 2, who are suspected to be (names redacted in Peteypedia)

      • Laurie Blake is still missing

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