Timeline

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This is a guide to the timeline of events that occur in The Umbrella Academy comics published by Dark Horse. The exact years of the comics' events are conjectural, based on time gaps and the years that are given in the comic.

Constant timeline

All events prior to the early 1960s took place before any known alternations to history occurred, and therefore remain the same in all timelines.

Pre-20th century

Unknown year

• God creates the universe, with Earth and the Void as big parts of it. Within the Void, he rules over the domain of Heaven while the Devil rules over Hell.

1800s

• United States president Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
  • Some time later, the Lincoln Memorial is constructed in Lincoln's honor, with a giant statue of him as the centerpiece.
• Gustave Eiffel builds the Eiffel Tower, a monument in Paris that is secretly a spaceship meant to take him to another world. However, completing it would take several decades, so Eiffel presents the Tower as completed to the public while he secretly continues working on it from the inside for years, replacing parts of his body with machinery as he goes and turning himself into a zombie-robot.

Early 20th century

Pre-1953

• Reginald Hargreeves arrives on Earth, and shows to the world his inventions including the Televator, the Levitator, the Mobile Umbrella Communicator, and Clever Crisp Cereal.
• Hargreeves makes incredible breakthroughs enhancing the brain of the chimpanzee, and soon chimpanzees with the same intelligence as humans are integrated into human society. His first test subject, Phinneus Pogo, becomes his closest associate and confidant.
• Hargreeves is later knighted for these accomplishments.

1950s

1953

• Forty-three babies are born simultaneously to women across the world who had not shown any signs of pregnancy prior to this. Sir Reginald Hargreeves then travels around the world to adopt as many as possible, and after acquiring seven of them, vanishes from the world. He discovers they each have extraordinary abilities, and trains them in secret in the private Umbrella Academy just outside the City.
  • The same instant the children were born, in a staggering coincidence, was the same moment "Tusslin' Tom" Gurney ended his wrestling match with the space-squid from Rigel X-9, taking it out with a move known as the "atomic flying elbow."

Unknown year

• Hargreeves discovers that Number Seven's abilities are far too powerful and dangerous to be controlled. He begins to lie to her that she has no powers and feeding her depressants to repress her abilities.
• Hargreeves creates Mom to act as caretaker for the children and name them (Number One became Luther Hargreeves, Number Two became Diego Hargreeves, etc).

1960s

• The Vietnam War begins, and soon chimpanzees and vampires become involved in the conflict.

Meteor apocalypse timeline

All events before this point are part of the meteor apocalypse timeline as well, but the events detailed here are altered or undone in future timeline alterations.

1960s

1963

• Number Five uses his abilities to travel twenty years into the future and does not return. That same day, the Umbrella Academy make their public debut fighting the rampaging Eiffel Tower, which has activated now that Gustave Eiffel's work on it is complete. The Tower rockets into space, leaving Paris and Earth alone.
• The Academy become world famous superheroes, even gaining the respect of the United States government.
• November 23: Number Five travels back from the future and prevents an assassination attempt on United States president John F. Kennedy's life in Dallas.

1966

• An unknown force causes the Lincoln Memorial statue to come to life and attack Washington, D.C.. The Umbrella Academy fight it off, as Hargreeves meets with President Kennedy about an impending missile crisis. Kennedy gives Hargreeves the detonator to the entire country's nuclear arsenal to use if need be.

Unknown dates

• Hargreeves creates Mom to act as caretaker for the children and name them (Number One becomes Luther Hargreeves, Number Two becomes Diego Hargreeves, etc).
• Hargreeves meets and befriends Dr Zoo [11]
• Hargreeves discovers Afterspace a newborn region of space that breaks the laws of science. [18]
• Hargreeves discovers a pocket dimension within After space, within it he constructs the Hotel Oblivion, a massive holding facility on another planet, for all the villains the Academy has captured over the years. It is managed by a being known only as the Scientific Man.
• The Academy fights the psychotic Doctor Terminal and sends him to the Hotel, but he leaves behind robots called the Terminauts to defeat the Academy should they ever split up and reform.
• Luther becomes the youngest person ever to go to space when he takes a trip to Mars with Pogo. The two encounter Martian apes while there, and the ensuing fight leaves Luther so badly injured that Hargreeves is forced to graft his head onto the deceased ape's cybernetically enhanced body. This increases Luther's already impressive superhuman strength, and earns him the nickname "Spaceboy", which he adopts for future missions.

1970s

1971

• Hargreeves kicks Klaus out of the Academy after deciding he's of no more use to the team. Klaus makes his to Hollywood, where he discovers more about his powers, befriends actress Vivian Clarke, and becomes entangled in the politics of the city's vampire underworld.

Unknown dates

• The Kraken and Vanya secretly form a rock band known as the Prime 8's with their friend Body.
  • Soon after this, Hargreeves finds out about the band and shuts it down, sending Vanya to a private music school and putting Diego on double duty.
• The Academy fights the Murder Magician and sends him to the Hotel Oblivion.
• The Horror dies out on a mission in "The Jennifer Incident", a very vague and mysterious event of which the circumstances are very unclear even to the other Umbrella Academy members.
• The Kraken develops a close working relationship with Inspector Lupo and Body, who is now a cop.

1978

• Hargreeves sends Spaceboy to a base on the moon, so he can better protect Earth from extraterrestrial threats. While there, Luther constructs a robot called Ben to help him do tasks and keep him company.

1980s

1983

• Hargreeves dies of a heart attack.
• Rumor, Spaceboy, Kraken, and Séance attend his funeral. Vanya is driven mad and has her powers unleashed by the Orchestra Verdammten, which turns her into "The White Violin" and leads to her wiping out all life on Earth, including the Academy.
• Having traveled from 1963, Number Five arrives in the City, seemingly days after the end of the world, and finds he cannot return home. He proceeds to attempt to survive and maintain his sanity.

2030s

2033

• After fifty years alone in the apocalyptic wasteland, Five finally calculates the formula for backwards time travel, and attempts to travel back to the day he left in 1963.

Nuclear Armageddon timeline

Various dates

• Attempting to travel back, Number Five is discovered by the Temps Aeternalis, moderators of the timeline, who employ him as an assassin and splice his DNA with the genes of other famous killers. Five works for them for a while, jumping around history and killing several notable figures, but eventually decides to jump back to 1963 to stop the White Violin and save the world.

1980s

1983

• Five's attempt instead lands him in 1983, the day after Hargreeves' death, and he attends his funeral with his siblings. Their reunion activates the Terminauts, which they team up to fight, and during the battle, the Kraken rejects Vanya, sending her to the Orchestra Verdammten.
• Five and Pogo attempt to find the source of the apocalypse, and they're attacked by agents of the Temps Aeternalis, all of whom Five kills viciously. When they return to the Academy building, it's attacked by the Orchestra, led by the White Violin. She kills Pogo and the remaining Academy members team up to stop her. Five shoots her in the head, but not before she manages to shatter the moon and make its pieces rain down on Earth, but the Séance manages to stop the meteor shower with his telekinesis, ultimately saving the world.

1984

• Some time after defeating the White Violin, the Academy disbands once again, and the Temps Aeternalis dispatch Hazel and Cha-Cha to hunt down and capture Number Five.