The Definitive X-Men Movie Timelines (XCU)

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The Original Timeline

5000 BC: En Sabah Nur arrives in Egypt with his Four Horsemen (DOFP post-credits scene).
3600 BC: En Sabah Nur is defeated.
1832: James Howlett is born.
1845: Victor Logan and James Howlett escape from home.
1932: Charles Xavier is born.
1934: Raven Darkhölme is born.
1938: William Stryker Jr. is born.
1944: Erik Magnus Lehnsherr hold at the concentration camp.
1945: James Logan operates in Japan.
1953: Jason Stryker is born.
1959: Ororo Munroe is born.
1962: X-Men: First Class
1963: Magneto is captured. The Brotherhood of Mutants disband.
1965: Emma Silverfox is born, a clone of Emma Frost created by Project WideAwake/Essex Corp.
1968: Mortimer Toynbee Jr. is born, son of the first Toad.
1972: Sean Cassidy II is born, a clone created by Project WideAwake/Essex Corp.
1973: James Logan deserts New York and embarks on a final war tour. James Logan and Victor Creed are then recruited by Stryker in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Mystique kills Bolivar Trask.
1975: Peter Maximoff II is born, a clone created by Project WideAwake/Essex Corp. Affected by accelerated growth.
1977: After years, James Logan leaves Team X. Jason Stryker is cryogenized.
1978: Magneto escapes (or is freed) and finally joins Xavier. They start working together again. Xavier takes a new serum which doesn't inhibit his mutant powers, but brings several collateral effects on the long term.
1979: "The Last Stand" Prologue. Xavier and Magneto recruit Jean Grey.
1983: X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The Weapon X Project occurs.
1989: Warren Worthington III's childhood flashback.
1991: The X-Men finally reform - Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl, Beast, Havok, Emma Silverfox/White Queen.
1996: Beast, Havok and Emma Silverfox leave the team, and the remaining X-Men temporarily stop their activity.
1999: X-Men ("Future time" from a First Class perspective). Wolverine joins the X-Men.
1999: X2
2000: X-Men: The Last Stand
2001: Magneto regains his powers.
2002: The X-Men fights Magneto again, as hinted by Wolverine in DOFP.
2007: The X-Men disband. Logan disappears.
2008: The Wolverine
2010: "The Wolverine" Post-Credits sequence.
2023: The DOFP Bleak Future.


The New Timeline

5000 BC: En Sabah Nur arrives in Egypt with his Four Horsemen (DOFP post-credits scene).
3600 BC: En Sabah Nur is defeated.
1832: James Howlett is born.
1845: Victor Logan and James Howlett escape from home.
1932: Charles Xavier is born.
1934: Raven Darkhölme is born.
1938: William Stryker Jr. is born.
1944: Erik Magnus Lehnsherr hold at the concentration camp.
1945: James Logan operates in Japan.
1953: Jason Stryker is born.
1959: Ororo Munroe is born.
1962: X-Men: First Class
1963: Magneto is captured. The Brotherhood of Mutants disband.
1965: Emma Silverfox is born, a clone of Emma Frost created by Project WideAwake/Essex Corp.
1968: Mortimer Toynbee Jr. is born, son of the first Toad.
1972: Sean Cassidy II is born, a clone created by Project WideAwake/Essex Corp.
1973: X-Men: Days of Future Past. Mystique frees Logan.
1975: Xavier adopts Jean Grey some time after the car crash.
1982: The British mutant Archangel (not Warren) operates in Germany. Logan is finally captured by Stryker and turned into "Weapon X".
1983: X-Men: Apocalypse. The X-Men reform - Cyclops, Mystique, J. Grey/Phoenix, Beast, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, M. MacTaggert.
1992: Dark Phoenix
1997: Emma Silverfox/Frost quits Russel Tresh's project and facility.
2002: Generation X. Featuring Emma Silverfox/Frost and Banshee II.
2008: The New Mutants
2023: The DOFP New Future.



Alternate Universes:

The Rogue Cut (2023)
Deadpool (2016-2018)
Legion
Logan (2029)
The Gifted
Some dimensions Deadpool visited at the end of "Deadpool 2".

 

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Revised some concepts here and there, especially:

1991: The X-Men finally reform - Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey/Marvel Girl, Beast, Havok, Emma Silverfox/White Queen.
1996: Beast, Havok and Emma Silverfox leave the team, and the remaining X-Men temporarily stop their activity.

 

[Herofan]

I would imagine, for X-Men/X2 to take place in the future relative to when they were released, as was claimed (but still as close to their present as possible), they would happen around 2006 or 2010. Or at least 2000 .

It was funny that the first film said not-too-distant future but the marketing also said the future is here.

 

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It was funny that the first film said not-too-distant future but the marketing also said the future is here.

Hahaha you're right.

Well, with the overabundance of prequels set in (previous) different decades, we can interpret the "future" of X-Men 1 as being "the future of the prequels".
It's an alternate 1999 where technology is more advanced. You can see that in First Class's 1962 too.

 

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Birthdays related to the timelines:

1829: Victor Logan
1832: James Howlett
1870: Sebastian Shaw
1908: William Stryker Sr.
1930: Erik Magnus Lehnsherr
1932: Charles Xavier
1933: Moira MacTaggert (FC)
1934: Raven Darkhölme
1938: Henry McCoy; William Stryker Jr.
1940: Sean Cassidy
1942: Alexander Summers
1943: Caliban
1945: Mortimer Toynbee Sr. (DOFP)
1950: Wade Wilson
1952: Archangel (XM:A) - not Warren, but a British Cheyarafim.
1953: Jason Stryker (stopped to age from 1977 to 1983).
1955: Peter Maximoff
1958: Kurt Wagner
1959: Ororo Munroe
1960: Dr. Shaw (X2)
1965: Emma Silverfox; Scott Summers.
1966: Jean Grey
1968: Mortimer Toynbee Jr. (XM1)
1970: Moira MacTaggert Jr. (TLS) - FC Moira's niece (daughter of her brother).
1972: Sean Cassidy 2 (XMO:W clone)
1973: Callisto
1974: Cecilia Reyes
1975: Peter Maximoff 2 (XMO:W clone) - accelerated growth.
1976: Piotr Rasputin
1977: Robert Drake; Warren Worthington III.
1978: Yukio
1980: Katherine Pryde
1981: Marie D'Ancanto
1982: Lucas Bishop
1984: Roberto da Costa (TNM/DOFP)
1985: Samuel Guthrie
1986: James Proudstar; Danielle Moonstar.
1987: Illyana Rasputin
1988: Rahne Sinclair
1993: Clarice Fong

 

[Herofan]

Wasn't the end of Wolverine supposed to be in 1979, Three Mile Island meltdown? Or is that just vaguely implied enough?

 

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Wasn't the end of Wolverine supposed to be in 1979, Three Mile Island meltdown? Or is that just vaguely implied enough?

In both the timelines, Cyclops is 18 years old in 1983. So "Origins" is set in 1983, roughly 15 years before X1 (1999).

Logan worked some years with Team X. He was recruited in 1973. The events of "Origins" are set 6 years after Logan's departure from Team X. 1977 + 6 = 1983.

Also, Gambit hinted at the "radiation fear", so the Three Mile Island Incident happened "time before".