Year

Event

1994

April – Fantastic Four are formed.

May – Hank Pym bombards himself with Pym Particles, becoming Ant-Man.

June – Hulk is created.

July – Thor is cast down from Asgard.

August – Peter Parker (age 15) is bitten by a radioactive spider, becoming Spider-Man.

September – Tony Stark dons the Iron Man suit for the first time.

December – Professor Charles Xavier rounds up a bunch of precocious teenagers and forms the X-Men.

1995

January – Matt Murdock takes up the mantle of Daredevil.

June – Sue Storm and Reed Richards are married.

November – Galactus appears to destroy Earth, but is repelled by the Fantastic Four.

1996

February – Kingpin steps up as a criminal overlord.

June – Aliens murder the secret X-Man Changeling who was in the form of Professor X at the time.

1997

April – Captain Stacy is killed by Doctor Octopus.

1998

February – Spider-Man (age 19) witnesses Gwyn Stacy’s death.

October – Professor X assembles a new X-Men team, including Wolverine and Colossus.

1999

Peter Parker graduates college at the age of 20.

Tony Stark slips into heavy alcoholism.

2000

June – She-Hulk is created.

July – Jean Grey becomes possessed by a primordial cosmic force known as Dark Phoenix. To nourish herself, she consumes a distant star, which supernovas and kills billions of confused aliens. Another alien race known as the Shi’ar condemns Jean to death in a trial by combat. Jean commits suicide to prevent herself from destroying the universe.

2001

February – Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters is wrecked by an alien race known as the Sidri.

May – After malevolent extraterrestrial parasites known as the Brood transform Professor X into the giant insect, he transfers his consciousness to a cloned body and can walk again.

June – Wolverine’s fiancée Mariko Yashida is mind-controlled, stands him up at the altar.

July – Cyclops marries Madelyne Pryor, a clone of his dead girlfriend. He is unaware of this at the time.

November – She-Hulk joins the Fantastic Four.

December – Spider-Man dons the Symbiote suit in the Secret Wars: The Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are transported to another planet to battle.

2002

July – The Mutant Massacre — the Morlocks, a group of homeless mutants who live in the sewers of New York, are systematically eradicated by Sabretooth and the villainous Mr. Sinister. The winged X-Men Angel is crucified and his wings are amputated.

August – Jean Grey’s alive again when her body is found in a healing capsule at the bottom of Jamaica Bay. Turns out Dark Phoenix was never Jean.

September – Peter Parker proposes to Mary Jane Watson.

December – Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are wed.

2003

January – Eddy Brock becomes Venom.

May – Mister Sinister blows up the X-Mansion. Madelyne Pryor realizes she’s a clone of Jean Grey, goes crazy, and then helps open a gate to Hell over New York. Demons pour into Manhattan and mailboxes eat people. Madelyne tries to kill the X-Men and Cyclop’s new girlfriend, Jean Grey. When that fails, Madelyne commits suicide.

July – Atlanteans, influenced by Set, attack the surface world.

August – Scarlet Witch realizes her twin children are just magical figments of her imagination.

2004

January – The X-Men and New Mutants are captured by Genosha. Genosha’s government is overthrown.

November – Magneto rips out Wolverine’s Adamantium skeleton. Professor X lobotomizes Magneto in return.

2005

November – Professor X and Magneto form Onslaught, and most heroes are sent to a parallel universe.

2006

February – The heroes return from the parallel universe.

April – Karen Page dies.

2007

August – The Legacy Virus is stopped by Colossus sacrificing his life.

2009

May – Secret Wars: Nick Fury attacks Latveria

July – Avengers Disassembled: Scarlet Witch destroys the Avengers.

August – Colossus comes back from the dead.

September – The New Avengers are formed.

November – Scarlet Witch reforms the world, creating House of M.

2010

January – Extremis: Iron Man’s suit is upgraded significantly.

Most mutants in the world are stripped of their powers.

April – Civil War: The heroes take sides, and war between them leads to Captain America’s Death.

June – Peter Parker and Mary Jane’s marriage is erased.

August – The Initiative is established, creating teams in every state in America.

September – World War Hulk: Hulk returns after his exile, and nearly conquers the earth.

November – Secret Invasion: The Skrulls make their move, revealing themselves to the world. The heroes stop them but at the cost of Norman Osborn taking over SHIELD.

2011

January – Dark Reign: Norman Osborn founds the Dark Avengers.

March – The X-Men form Utopia off the coast of California.

June – Daredevil takes over as leader of The Hand and builds The Shadowland.

July – Norman Osborn invades Asgard, but is destroyed. The Superhero Registration Act is repealed.

September – Fear Itself: The Asgardian God of Fear is sowing fear and doubt among Marvel’s Superheroes to use it against them.

October – Spider-Island: The Jackal has given to every New Yorker spider-like powers, even heroes and villains.