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The timeline established by Terminator Salvation

  • 1965[1]
    • Sarah J. Connor is born.[2]
  • 1980
    • Birth of Katherine Brewster.
  • May, 1984
    • 01:52:00 A terminator, T-800, arrives from the future to kill Sarah Connor.[3]
    • 02:01:00 Kyle Reese arrives from the future, to protect Sarah.[3]
    • The T-800 successfully kills 2 other Sarah Connors, 17 Police Officers, 2 of Sarah's friends and a gun shop owner.[3]
    • Kyle Reese succeeds, destroying the T-800, but dies himself.[3]
    • Some parts from the terminator are left behind at the Cyberdyne facilities.[3]
  • February 28, 1985
    • John Connor is born with Kyle Reese as his father.
  • 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 make out at Mike Kripke's basement.[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
    • 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.[6]
    • 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 is logicaly sent from the future 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.[3]
    • John Connor decides to send back Kyle Reese, to protect Sarah.[3]
    • 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]

So far the story of ends here, but there are new Terminator-movies in development.

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. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Sarah Connor's coffin stated she was born in 1959.
    Note: Sarah Connor Chronicles-timeline claims her birth date in 1965.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 The Terminator
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 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 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.