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1932 - Erik Lensherr is born in Transia to a poor Jewish family.
1939 - World War II begins.
1942 - The young Erik Lensherr and his family are interned in Auschwitz. He meets a Roma girl, another prisoner, Magda.
1945 - Erik and Magda escape Auschwitz together, making their way into Russia. World War II ends. Erik is the sole member of his family to survive Auschwitz.
1950 - Erik marries Magda, in Russia.
1958 - Erik and Magda have a daughter, Anya. They begin to make their way back through the Iron Curtain.
1959 - Charles Xavier is drafted and sent to Korea, along with his stepbrother Cain Marko, where they encounter a mystical gem in a temple. Cain Marko is transformed by the gem into a superhuman Juggernaut.
1961 - Mystique (masquerading as Leni Zauber) works with Victor Creed in Berlin. Pregnant with their child, she leaves.
1962 - Mystique gives birth to Graydon Creed, and abandons him when she discerns he is simply human.
1967 - Erik and Magda are living in the Ukraine, where Erik's employer keeps trying to cheat him. Erik's powers manifest unconsciously when his employer refuses to pay him for work he has done, and Erik causes a crowbar to attack the man. Erik and Magda's home is set on fire in retaliation. Anya dies in the fire, while angry townsmen hold Erik back and beat him. Erik goes berserk and uses his powers to destroy the entire town, frightening the pregnant Magda and causing her to flee.
1968 - Magda flees as far as Transia, where she stumbles across the citadel at Wundagore belonging to the High Evolutionary, seeking refuge, and gives birth to twins Wanda and Pietro there before fleeing into the wilderness to die, fearing that Erik will hunt her down. The infants are taken in by Bova, a servant of the High Evolutionary. Emma Frost is born in Boston, Massachusetts. Weapon X experimental agents Logan, Creed, and Maverick are put into active use.
1969 - Barry D'Angelo is born. Mystique gives birth to another son in Germany, while masquerading as a Baron's widow, and is chased by an angry mob when they see the blue, demonic-looking infant. Mystique drops the child over a waterfall, but he is found by a fortune-teller, Margali Szardos, who names him Kurt Wagner and raises him as her own. Ororo Munroe is born in New York City, New York, but her parents move to Cairo, Egypt, when she is a few months old. The High Evolutionay decides that the young Wanda and Pietro should be raised among humans, and sends them to be fostered by Django and Marya Maximoff, a Roma couple.
1971 - The Weapon X project disbands after agents Logan, Creed, and Maverick shake their programming and disappear. Remy Lebeau is born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
1972 - Mystique meets Irene Adler, a blind mutant woman, in Salzburg, and the two fall in love.
1974 - Alexander Rydell is born in Seattle, Washington. Sharon Smith is born. A bombing in Cairo leaves Ororo Munroe orphaned at five years old. Ororo is taken in by a master pickpocket, Achmed el-Gibar.
1975 - Charles Xavier travels briefly through Cairo, where he encounters an evil mutant, the Shadow King, for the first time and battles him. Charles also encounters the young Ororo, briefly.
1976 - Erik gives up on his search for his lost wife Magda and wanders into Israel. There, he takes a job as a volunteer in a psychiatric ward, where he meets Charles Xavier, and learns Charles is a mutant like himself. The two develop a fast friendship, despite ideological differences.
1979 - A strange boy calling himself Legion appears and attempts to kill Erik, but Charles takes the blast and loses his own life. Erik vows to carry out Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between mutants and humans. Irene has a series of horrible visions of the future, some of which make it clear to Mystique that her son is still alive. Mystique sets out to find Kurt and brings him back with her, only to discover Irene has disappeared. Erik returns to Eastern Europe, searching for Magda, and comes across the Wundagore castle. He learns of his twin children (now 11) living among the Roma and seeks them out. The Wundagore complex intrigues him, and he enters discussions with the High Evolutionary.
1980 - Ororo Munroe feels a calling to travel south, and sets out across the Sahara. She meets the young prince of Wakanda during her journey. The High Evolutionary decides to leave Wundagore, taking all his servants with him with the exception of Bova, who begs to be allowed to stay and care for the twins as she once did. Erik begins planning a school for mutants, to be opened in 1990.
1981 - Ororo reaches the homeland of her ancestors', the Serengheti Plain, where she uses her weather-controlling abilities to help local tribes, who consider her a goddess.
1982 - Emma Frost manifests telepathic ability and is placed in a mental institution.
1984 - Emma Frost escapes the mental institution, causing a fire to mask her tracks.
1986 - A strange, massive satellite frustrates governments worldwide, appearing sporadically but refusing contact. Scientists cannot decide whether the ship is alien or how it got into Earth orbit without anyone noticing. Accusations fly, and US/Soviet overtures of peace to each other begin to break down.
1987 - Messages begin being broadcast over TV and radio from an unknown source calling himself Apocalypse, threatening that mutants will arise and overthrow humanity. Authorities are divided on whether or not anyone should take the threats seriously. Governments discuss opening fire on the orbiting ship. Concerned by the growing negative public attention to mutants, Erik decides to open his School for the Gifted well ahead of schedule and completes his alterations to Wundagore at a frenzied pace.
1988 - Lensherr's School for the Gifted opens. The sporadic messages continue. Some mutants have been drawing public attention to themselves with crime sprees, a few others are 'outed' by neighbors and taken in for questioning in regards to the strange messages. Wrigley Field is destroyed in a mutant attack, killing 700 and injuring an estimated 3000.
