Timeline: Tom Clancy.
1945:
August 6: Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
August 8: USSR declares war on Japan. Communist government is established in North Korea.
August 9: Atomic bomb is dropped on Nagasaki.
August 14: Japan surrenders, signaling the end of World War 2.
August 17: 38th Parallel established.
August 28: Occupation of Japan begins.
September 2: Japan formally surrenders with the Japanese Instrument of Surrender.
September 6: Post-Surrender Policy for Japan is established.
1946
January 22: CIA is formed.
July 4: Philippines gain independence from America.
December 19: French forces return to Indochina, the First Indochina War begins.
1947: The Cold War begns
May 3: Postwar Constitution enacted.
1949
October 1: The People's Republic of China is founded by Mao Zedong.
1950
June 25: Korean Civil War begins as the North invades the South.
1952:
April 28: Treaty of San Francisco goes into effect. Japan signs the Treaty of Taipei.
1953
July 27: Korean Civil War enters ceasefire, (popular opinion states it ends.) Korean Armistice Agreement is signed. Korean Demilitarized Zone is created.
1954
May 7: French defeated in Indochina. Cambodia, Laos, North and South Vietnam are left.
July 21: 17th Parallel established between North and South Vietnam.
1955
November 1: Vietnam War begins. First half, Vietnamese Final Revolution, involved in expelling the French.
1957
April 17: Sam Fisher is born in Towson, Maryland
1959
January 1: Cuban Revolution. Castro becomes leader of Cuba.
Vietnamese Final Revolution transitions to the Vietnamese Civil War.
1961
April 17-19: Bay of Pigs invasion ends in failure.
August 13: Berlin Wall is built.
1962
October 6: Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963
June 20: Hotline between Washington D.C. and Moscow created.
1964
August 4: Gulf of Tonkin Incident. America enters the Vietnamese Civil War.
1965
April 12: David Crenshaw is born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
April 28: America invades the Dominican Republic to prevent a Communist takeover.
November 14: Battle of la Drang between US and NVA forces
1967
June 5: Six-Day War begins.
1968
January 30: Tet Offensive begins.
June 8: Tet Offensive ends in an overwhelming military victory for America. Yet raises questions of future chances.
1969
July 20: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.
July 25: America begins withdrawal from Vietnam.
October 12: Robert Terrance (Bishop) is born in Seattle, Washington.
1973
January 27: Paris Peace Accords end American involvement in Vietnam.
October 6: Yom Kippur War begins. Israel is attacked by Egypt and Syria. Ends in Israeli victory.
1975
April 30: Vietnamese Civil War ends in Northern victory. Vietnam becomes Communist.
November 28: East Timor declares independence from Portugal.
December 8: Indonesia invades East Timor.
1976
July 17: East Timor becomes part of Indonesia.
August 13: Scott Mitchell is born in Youngstown, Ohio.
1977
July 23: Ogaden War begins between Somalia and Ethiopia.
1978
December 15: Afghanistan receives a Communist government.
1979
January 16: The Iranian Revolution outs the Shah. A theocracy is installed.
November 4: Iranian Hostage Crisis.
December 24: Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
1981
January 20: Iran Hostage Crisis ends.
1983
April 1: Yōji Itami is born in Chou, Tokyo, Japan.
October 25: US invades Grenada to overthrow Communist government.
Year that Sam and Lambert first meet.
1984
Sam begins his work in the CIA.
Sam meets his future wife Regan Burns in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic. After impregnating her, the two are quietly married in a US base in Frankfurt, Germany.
1985
May 31: Sam's only child, Sarah, is born.
1986
People Power Revolution in the Philippines overthrows Ferdinand Marcos.
April 26: Chernobyl Disaster.
1988
May 15: Soviets withdraw from Afghanistan.
December 22: South Africa withdraws from South West Africa (Namibia).
Sam and Regan divorce due to not feelings, for they loved one another, but professions kept them apart. She took custody of Sarah and renamed her 'Sarah Burns.'
1989
February 2: Soviets fully leave Afghanistan.
May 13: Robert joins the US Rangers.
June 4: Tiananmen Square Massacre.
December 3: Meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and George H. W. Bush begins what may be an era of peace.
December 20: Operation Just Cause is launched as America invades Panama to arrest Manuel Noriega on drug trafficking.
During this time, Sam is part of a CIA team that conducted a raid on MCAS Banco de Panama to find Noriega's drug money. He spends most of the rest of the year sleeping in a ditch between Kuwait and Baghdad.
Anna Grimsdottir was in the tenth grade.
1990
Scott's mother passes away.
August 2: Iraq invades Kuwait, beginning the Persian Gulf War.
October 3: Germany is reunified.
Fisher participates in the Gulf War as a Navy SEAL.
1991
Sam is rescued by fellow SEAL and friend Victor Coste after an ambush by Republican Guards leaves 2 men dead and Vic unconscious.
March 4: Sam has his first contact with Douglas Shetland in Iraq.
March 12: During Operation SCARAB TOOTH, Sam and Douglas meet for the second time.
February 28: Gulf War ends.
December 25: The Cold War ends.
December 26: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolves.
1992
May 2: Douglas and Sam meet yet again, Sam was a SEAL liaison on loan to the Columbian Army during Operation Salsa Verde. Douglas is later captured by FARC rebels. Sam sets off on his own to rescue his comrade.
1993
September 21: Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer) is officially formed. Possible CIA funding.
October 3: Battle of Mogadishu.
December 24: Suhadi Sadono becomes the leader of the DDD.
1994
Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group is formed. AKA Ghost Recon.
Scott joins the US Army.
1996
Sam is discharged from the Navy
1999
February 15: Sam joins the newly created Third Echelon. He is sent to Belgrade in Yugoslavia to stop a ship from delivering missiles. After this he infiltrates the hideout of the perpetrators and finds evidence of Russian involvement.
March 19: Crenshaw graduates from the US Air Force Academy.
April 5: Elite counter terror force Rainbow is formed.
June 4: US and CIA support for the Darah Dan Doa is ceased.
August 30: East Timor votes for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum.
2000
The High Altitude Warfare Xperimental Squadron (H.A.W.X.) is formed
Rainbow engages in the Phoenix Group/Ebola virus crisis
Regan Burns succumbs to ovarian cancer. Sarah is 15 years old
David Bowers becomes President of the United States.
2001
After a misunderstood impeachment, David Bowers is returned to the office of President.
Rainbow Operation Rogue Spear
October 16: Douglas Shetland is falsely accused of the Bagram Incident.
2002
February 3- April 15: Douglas is found not guilty. Promoted to 5-star desk job just shy of civilian work.
March 23: Itami joins the SDF.
May 20: East Timor becomes a democracy.
July 3: Douglas leaves the Marine Corps.
September 8: Scott joins OPFOR.
November 17: Douglas is awarded over $700,000 in damages from the Bagram lawsuit.
2003
Splinter Cell Checkmate Novel
January 3: Douglas uses his money to found the PMC Displace International.
April 9: Robert joins Ranbow Six.
2004
Rainbow: CopyCat incident
Splinter Cell 1: Georgian Information Crisis.
2005
Sam kills Phillip Masse.
Itami is sent to Ranger training.
Bishop and teammate Knight participate in hostage situation in France.
Splinter Cell 1: Novel
Scott joins the Ghosts. And is sent to Georgia
2006
Japan creates the Information Self Defense Force in the face of information warfare. Surrounding countries make a big stink.
H.A.W.X. Squadron is disbanded. Captain David Crenshaw and wingmen Casper and Talon join mega PMC Artemis Global Security.
Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda Novel
Splinter Cell: Indonesian Crisis/ LAX Incident (Pandora Tomorrow)
Darah Dan Doa crumbles apart.
Shadownet is formed.
Itami is sent to Special Forces training.
2007
Splinter Cell; East Asian Crisis (Chaos Theory)
Second Korean Civil War
ISDF is disbanded.
Toshiro Otomo is arrested.
Displace International is shut down.
Rainbow: VX nerve gas crisis. And later nuclear scientists.
2008
Splinter Cell: Fallout Novel.
Splinter Cell: Red Mercury Plot (Double Agent)
Sarah Fisher is killed by a drunk driver.
Ghosts assist Russian military in preventing an Ultranationalist coup
Rainbow: Black Arrow.
Patricia Caldwell is elected as president, becoming the first female US president. Running on a platform of bipartisan cooperation and staying out of pointless foreign wars.
Russia explodes into an ultranationalist coup, rebellions by the SRN in east Africa and various groups like Al Assad in the Middle East grow intense as events threaten the security of the world. Imran Zakhaev heads the ultranationalists along with elements of the Russian military and criminal group Blatnoi. Iran is subject to a coup of its own, but this one failed. Nevertheless, rebellions around them run high. The situation escalates later into the war when a large thermobaric bomb codenamed Trinity is detonated in the city of Carruth in Africa. Turning the events into a quasi-world war, made nearly worse by a near conflict between US and Russian forces near Iran's border. The conflict ends when Zakhaev, ultranationalist generals such as Stagleishov, and other parties involved are either killed or captured. Beginning a period of warming relations between America and Russia.
2009
Mitchell leads a rescue mission in Waziristan. Also goes on peacekeeping missions in Eritrea.
Rainbow: GLF/LEGION virus.
Splinter Cell: Conviction and Endgame Novels.
2010
Ghosts safeguard elections in Cuba and Columbia
Rainbow: Las Vegas Terror Attacks.
2011
May 2: Osama bin Laden is killed by SEAL Team Six.
Third Korean Civil War. Generals Jung and Song seize power after the North offers an olive branch to the south after diverting funds to civilian infrastructure. The discovery of nuclear weapons in a cargo ship by Australian forces warrants the invasion of North Korea to apprehend the leaders. At the end of the war, Pyongyang's government returns to power and issued a formal statement condemning their actions. North Korea signs an international treaty, and began the slow process of rebuilding, and disclosure of its nuclear capabilities. The declassified reports revealed the involvement of the Ghosts, and showed how close the world came to full-out nuclear war.
Japan enters military isolationism after TKCW
Las Trinidad-Brazilian War.
Crenshaw and his wingmen go back to the Air Force.
Splinter Cell: Third Echelon Conspiracy/D.C. EMP Attack. (Conviction Game)
Artemis launches surprise invasion of America in conjunction with EMP attacks.
A few months later, Artemis is eliminated and the US homeland is secure. Crenshaw kills the CEO and high officials in an airstrike. H.A.W.X. is reinitiated and Crenshaw becomes colonel.
US forces completely withdraw from Japan.
2012
Ghost Recon: Operation War Wraith Novel
Ghost Recon: Summit Strike.
2013
Japan's military goes up a few thousand personnel, much to the embarrassment of China, whose claims specified much larger numbers by then.
Ghost Recon: Mexican Civil War begins in response to the signing of the North American Joint Security Agreement (NASJA) between America, Mexico, and Canada to unify security and combat smuggling and terror movements.
Ghost Recon: Mexican Rebellion erupts from the end of the civil war, spreads to other Central American countries.
NASJA is successfully signed and initiated.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist.
Splinter Cell: Blacklist Aftermath Novel
October 14: US soldiers go their second week in the Middle East without combat as terror activities around the world drop.
November 26: Taliban leaders surrender in response to the outcome of the Blacklist.
2014
January 21: Al Qaeda broadcasts its abandonment of its Jihad in response to the Blacklist.
January 31: President Caldwell meets with world leaders to discuss possible future plans in response to shrinking terror.
February 4: US forces leave the Middle East with sizable forces to monitor security.
March 5: Middle East begins reconstruction.
March 21: Hezbollah crumbles to pieces.
March 25: Malaysian Jihad Brotherhood defiantly proclaims to continue fighting.
May 16: Several South American guerrilla groups abandon their cause.
May 22: Somalia slowly returns to stability.
May 23: Chechen rebels agree to a treaty brokered by Sweden and Ukraine, ending their rebellion against Russia.
June 21: Taiwan holds a referendum and declares full independence and name as the Republic of Taiwan. The PRC denounces the declaration, but is unwilling to act militarily after the embarrassment of the Third Korean Civil War.
September 11: Middle East reconstruction nears completion.
2015
June 4: Middle East is fully completed. Celebrations ring throughout the world.
August 1: Venezuelan billionaire Ramon Solano seizes power, intending to turn the country into a South American superpower.
August 19: Allied forces and Chinese elements invade Venezuela following the destruction of an oil rig in Lake Maracaibo, escalating into a flashpoint and regional war.
September 15: Ramon is captured and the superpowers make an agreement on the Venezuelan matter. China is forced to accept a treaty of recognizing Taiwanese independence and relinquishing territorial claims near the mainland in exchange for oil.
Smaller terror groups continue their struggle, but are systematically hunted down.