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Due to the latest development in the Terminator franchise this page offers a timeline having conflicts with the previous movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day and the Sarah Connor Chronicles:

  • In the opening narration (of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) John Connor says that he was attacked by the T-1000 when he was 13 years old. This is an inconsistency. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John Connor was only 10 years old, as shown on the police computer when the T-1000 accesses it. So either the events of T2 happened later than 1995 (which isn't possible as John states that these events happened 10 years ago as of T3) or the events of T1 occured in 1981 to make John 13 as of T2.
  • In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Sarah Connors' coffin states she was born in 1959. In previous movies, her birth year had been given as 1965.
  • The writes of the tv-show Sarah Connor Chronicles confirm it is considered as a alternate timeline to this movie.

The timeline established by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

  • 1965[1]
    • Sarah J. Connor is born.
  • 1980
    • Birth of Katherine Brewster.
  • May, 1984
    • 01:52:00 A terminator, T-800 arrives from the future to kill Sarah Connor.[2]
    • 02:01:00 Kyle Reese arrives from the future, to protect Sarah.[2]
    • Kyle Reese succeeds, destroying the T-800, but dies himself.[2]
    • Some parts from the terminator are left behind at the Cyberdyne facilities.[2]
  • February 28, 1985
    • John Connor is born with Kyle Reese as his father.[3]
  • Unknown
    • Cyberdyne starts researching and developing robot technology from the parts of the terminator.[4]
  • 1994
    • Sarah was placed in a mental institution after trying to blow up a computer factory and for telling about the soon to come, Judgment Day.[4]
    • John is taken care of by the foster family, Todd and Janelle Voight.[4]
  • June 7, 1995
    • John Connor and Katherine Brewster kiss. She later becomes his wife and Second in command for the Resistance.[5]
  • June 8, 1995
    • 03:14:00 The terminator T-800 arrives to protect John Connor.[4]
    • 04:58:00 The terminator T-1000 arrives to kill John Connor.[4]
    • The terminator T-800 succeeds in protecting John Connor, it destroys the terminator T-1000 and released Sarah Connor from the mental institution.[4]
    • Sarah and John destroy the remaining parts and the terminator T-800.[4]
    • Sarah and John hide from the government.[5]
    • Sarah collect weapons and trains John in warfare.[4]
  • Somewhere between August 29 - December 31, 1997
    • Sarah was able to live passed the date of the presumed Judgment Day. She dies of leukemia.[5]
    • John continues to live a lonely life, off the grid, undetected by Skynet.[5]
  • 2002
    • Kyle Reese is born.
  • 2003
    • Skynet is being developed by the United States Air Force's Cyber Research Systems division where Lieutenant General Robert Brewster are in charge.[5]
    • The government takes over what's left of Cyberdyne System and United States Air Force's Cyber Research Systems division continues researching robot technology.[5]
  • July 24, 2004
    • After John is hurt in a motorbike accident, he and Katherine Brewster meet each other.[5]
    • A T-X arrives to find and kill the future members of the resistance. It succeeds in killing several members.[6]
    • A computer virus is unleashed and starts to break down all kinds of civilian and military communication networks.[5]
    • A reprogrammed T-850 arrives to protect Katherine Brewster and John Connor and get them safe to Crystal Peak before Skynet goes online.[5]
  • July 25, 2004
    • 17:18:00 Skynet is activated by U.S General Robert Brewster. Skynet becomes self-aware.[5]
    • 18:18:00 First massive nuclear launch initiated.[5]
    • Katherine Brewster, John Connor, and the T-850 go to Crystal Peak in hope of stopping Skynet and preventing the nuclear attack, but they find out that Skynet is not there. Instead, the T-850 brought them there to be safe from the nuclear attack.[5]
    • The T-850 succeeds in destroying the T-X, but is also destroyed also.[5]
    • John Connor begins to put together the Resistance.[5]
  • 2029
    • Skynet decides to send a terminator T-800 back in time to kill Sarah.[2]
    • John Connor decides to send back Kyle Reese, to protect Sarah.[2]
    • John Connor manages to reprogram a T-800 and decides to send it back to protect his younger self in 1995.[4]
    • Skynet decides to send a terminator T-1000 back in time to kill John Connor.[4]
  • 2032
    • John Connor is killed by a T-850.[5]
    • Skynet sends back a T-X to try kill several members of the Resistance, including Katherine Brewster.[5]
  • October 28, 2033
    • Kathrine Brewster reprograms the same T-850 and sends it back to 2004, before Judgment Day to protect her younger self and John Connor from the T-X.[5]

Timeline up to Terminator Salvation

    • 2002
      • Kyle Reese is born.
    • 2003
      • Marcus Wright is on death row and is approached by Serena Kogen to donote his Brain and heart for research for Cyberdyne.
      • The government takes over what's left of Cyberdyne System and United States Air Force's Cyber Research Systems division continues researching robot technology.[5]
      • Skynet is being developed by the United States Air Force's Cyber Research Systems division where Lieutenant General Robert Brewster are in charge.[5]
    • July 24, 2004
      • After John is hurt in a motorbike accident, he and Katherine Brewster meet each other.[5]
      • A T-X arrives to find and kill the future members of the resistance. It succeeds in killing several members.[7]
      • A virus is unleashed and starts to break down all kinds of civilian and military communication networks.[5]
      • A reprogrammed T-850 arrives to protect Katherine Brewster and John Connor and get them safe to Crystal Peak before Skynet goes online.[5]
    • July 25, 2004
      • 17:18:00 Skynet is activated by U.S General Robert Brewster. Skynet becomes self-aware.[5]
      • 18:18:00 First massive nuclear launch initiated.[5]
      • Katherine Brewster, John Connor, and the T-850 go to Crystal Peak in hope of stopping Skynet and preventing the nuclear attack, but they find out that Skynet is not there. Instead, the T-850 brought them there to be safe from the nuclear attack.[5]
      • The T-850 succeeds in destroying the T-X, but is also destroyed also.[5]
      • John Connor begins to put together the Resistance.
    • Unknown
      • Marcus Wright is converted into a Prototype Terminator Infiltrator with a mission to get John Connor and Kyle Reese to Skynet. He is then buried in the ground just outside Los Angeles and laid dormant.
    • 2018
      • Marcus Wright akawens and meets Kyle Reese and Star.
      • John Connor takes overall leadership of the resistance.
      • The T-800 series Terminator comes online 8 years before predicted.
      • Kyle Reese and Star are captured by Skynet but are successfully rescued by John Connor and Marcus Wright.
      • John Connor is impaled through the heart by a T-800 and Marcus Wright donotes his heart in a heart transplant to allow Connor to live.
      • Skynet Central is destroyed by John Connor and Kyle Reese using Terminator fuel cells as a bomb.
    • 2029
      • Skynet decides to send a terminator T-800 back in time to kill Sarah.[2]
      • John Connor decides to send back Kyle Reese, to protect Sarah.[2]
      • John Connor manages to reprogram a T-800 and decides to send it back to protect his younger self in 1995.[4]
      • Skynet decides to send a terminator T-1000 back in time to kill John Connor.[4]
    • July 4, 2032
      • John Connor is killed by a terminator T-850.[5]
    • 2032
      • Skynet sends back a terminator T-X to 2004 to try kill several members of the Resistance.[5]
    • October 28, 2033
      • Kathrine Brewster reprograms the terminator who killed John Connor and sends it back to 2004, before the Judgment day to protect the younger couple of herself and John Connor.[8]
The story continues in the Terminator Salvation timeline in 2018. A alternate timeline to this movie can be seen in Sarah Connor Chronicles. A forging between The Sarah Connor Chronicles-timeline and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines-timeline have been suggested (Not official).

References

  1. ↑ (1)"Skynet Database: Human Central Archive" Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: DVD Special Features (specifies year as 1965).
    (2) Toyfare issue 142, page 54, 55, June, 2009
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 The Terminator
  3. ↑ There is some confusion about Johns age from movie to movie, so the original date is used as mentioned in The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
    Note: In the narration of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, it is stated that John Connor is 13 years old when the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day happened. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day itself, it is stated that he is 10 years old.
  4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  5. ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 5.18 5.19 5.20 5.21 5.22 5.23 5.24 5.25 5.26 5.27 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
  6. ↑ Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, dialogs in the movie confirm this date. In the "Terminator Timeline" section on the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, DVD Special Feature, it is stated that the T-X arrived in year 2003.
  7. ↑ Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, dialogs in the movie confirm this date. In the "Terminator Timeline" section on the Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, DVD Special Feature, it is stated that the T-X arrived in year 2003.
  8. ↑ The date is displayed in the HUD of the T-850 when readjusting the internal clock.Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
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