Timeline (movie)

This page contains a timeline of events of the Watchmen universe. This list contains elements seen in the movie and its viral marketing. They sometimes contradict the timeline established in the original comics, such as the Comedian's age.

1930

• John David Keene is born.^[1]
• Birth of Jon Osterman.

1933

• Janey Slater is born.^[2]

1938

• Nite Owl fights at Gotham Opera House.^[2]

1939

• The Comedian takes out bank robber.^[2]
• Sally Jupiter takes a photo with the Police Chief.^[2]

1940

• The memorial photograph of the Minutemen is shot. After this, the Comedian sexually assaults Silk Spectre, but is stopped by Hooded Justice.

1942

• Birth of Walter Kovacs.
• Norman Rockwell makes a painting with Silk Spectre defeating Adolf Hitler.

1945

• Jon Osterman learns watch repair from his father.^[2]

23 Feb

• Comedian lands at Iwo Jima and plants the American flag.^[2]

August 6

• An atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima by Miss Jupiter.

August 14

• V-J Day: Silhouette meets her companion, then a nurse in Times Square.^[3]

1947

• The Doomsday Clock is invented.^[2]

1949

• The Doomsday Clock is set to 3.^[2]

1950

• Walter Kovacs sees a man pay his mother.^[2]
• Birth of Dan Dreiberg.
• Birth of Adrian Veidt.

1951

• Dollar Bill is shot while guarding a bank.^[2]

1953

• Doomsday Clock is set to 2.
• Sally is pregnant and retires; birth of Laurie Juspeczyk.
• Mothman is taken to an asylum.

1954

November 12

• Silhouette and her lover are murdered.^[4]

• End of the Minutemen.

1959

• Jon Osterman meets Janey Slater in a bar.
• They go on a date in a carnival.

November 10

• Jon Osterman's circulatory system is seen in the Gila Flats kitchen by Dexter Redback.^[5]

November 14

• Jon Osterman's partially muscled skeleton appears for thirty seconds to J. Sanderson outside the perimeter fence at Gila Flats.^[6]

1962

March 10

• Wally Weaver writes a testimony concerning Dr. Manhattan, attending Senators George Malloy, Colin Newberry and William Holmes.^[7]

March 15

• Wally Weaver writes the affidavit of his testimony and publishes it.^[8]

1964

• Moloch kidnaps the Governor of New Jersey.^[2]

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