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John Henry Lefroy was one of two artillery officers who accompanied the Ross Antarctic expedition on the first stage of its voyage to supervise the magnetic observatories that would be set up at St. Helena and the Cape of Good Hope. Lefroy sailed on HMS Terror, and left at St. Helena, where he remained until 1842. His memoirs (Autobiography of General Sir John Henry Lefroy), written between 1886 and 1889 and privately published in 1895, include his recollections of the voyage, as well as his impressions of the Terror’s officers.

This is a good place to record something of our life on board ship. Captain Crozier, who perished afterwards so miserably in the Arctic regions, was one of the most amiable and genial of Irishmen, a first-rate seaman, but not a scientific man. Ross united in his own person almost all the scientific qualifications of the expedition, except Botany, represented worthily by Hooker, and Natural History, rather weakly represented by the three other medical officers. The lieutenants were not selected for their special attainments. Man-of-war etiquette and discipline were of course strictly maintained.

Our party in the gun room consisted of the First Lieutenant Archibald McMurdo, a brother [of] Sir Montague McMurdo, an energetic, fine fellow, who died on his way home of lockjaw, the effect of an apparently trivial accident at St. Helena, by which his knee was lacerated. [This is incorrect--McMurdo was invalided back to England in 1842 and lived until 1875.]

Lieutenant C.G. Phillips, who was an older man than McMurdo, and who was in his boyhood perhaps while Tom Cringle was writing his log. He was taken, with a boat's crew, by pirates on the West Indies, and kept a prisoner some time. He never related his experiences. He had an embittered, sarcastic spirit, the fruit of disappointment, but was otherwise a quiet and pleasant mess-mate.

Then came Lieutenant Kay, who was the life of the party, full of animal spirits, a capital performer on the flute, always good humoured. He was a nephew of Sir John Franklin, and was to have charge of the observatory which Ross was to establish at Van Diemen's Land. We looked upon him as predestined to marry his cousin, Miss ---, but he did not. She became Miss J---, and he married someone else. I met a daughter of his at Adelaide in 1881.

Then we had a capital fellow in the surgeon, John Robertson, a Highlander, big, simple, good-humoured; and a quiet, gentleman-like acting purser, G.H. Mowbray, whom I met some years later at Antwerp in the royal yacht. Lastly, there was the acting master [Pownall Pellew Cotter], a common fellow, of a bad sort.

We always laid in a good supply of poultry, turkeys, bananas, and oranges at the ports. I remember getting eighty splendid oranges at St. Iago in exchange for an old hat, but these supplies sometimes gave out before we got to the next place, and then we were reduced to ship's provisions. We all in turn dined with Crozier, and he on Sundays dined with us, making himself happy and agreeable.

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A Lawyer for Fashion Insiders Dresses the Part

"Right when I come to Rag and Bone, I wear Rag and Bone," Doug Hand said one Tuesday evening a month back as he stayed in the back of Rag and Bone's meatpacking zone store douglas hand .

He is a man of his confirmation, a man of the brand. Which for this condition wraps up he was wearing a Rag and Bone tweed spread with a filtering through vest underneath it, a light blue Rag and Bone shirt with a comfort neck a locale, dull Rag and Bone jeans, decline covered up G.H. Bass seat shoes, an ocean power pocket square and a plaid scarf around his neck.

Mr. Hand, 44, is a bona fide guide.

The genuine ace for Rag and Bone. The real instructor for 3.1 Phillip Lim. The genuine course for Anna Sui.

Moreover as for Steven Alan. Rodarte. Cynthia Rowley. The Council of Fashion Designers of America. Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne, the originators of Public School. Moreover, that is a custom fitted chart.

Mr. Hand is rough of a particular kind of New York striver, the skilled clarification on getting a zone into a magnificence industry not by being inside it yet by being its correct hand.

Hitched a year back to Dany Levy, the producer of DailyCandy, Mr. Hand is a routinely gotten get-together page inhabitant, uses Il Cantinori like an individual parlor region, gets his blondish locks tended to at the John Barrett Salon at Bergdorf Goodman, and puts wholeheartedly in the most unassuming point of interest of his own presentation, down to his ocean power and white striped socks.

"I like truly fly in the sock," he said. "My lower legs taking after a yummy piece of cakes? That is O.K. with me."

Regardless of the course that there is a patina of marvel that goes with him (the glittery night parties, the well-related life redesign and even yummy lower legs), Mr. Hand spends titanic bits of his days doing impossibly standard lawyering. He drafts passage level position understandings, crucial powers contracts with makers abroad and gains reports checking ensured ground.

In any case, this is the sort of ensured help that with improve level originators need, and Mr. Hand is happy to give it. As a structure up partner of the boutique firm Hand Baldachin and Amburgey, he works like a talent scout. He interfaces with fashioners considering in their occupations, causes them land positions and theory, and see the improvement of master help/authority/budgetary bearing as he rides the ringing lift with them.

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In 2006, Mr. Hand got together with Marcus Wainwright and David Neville of Rag and Bone and checked their first head cash implantation from the head Andrew Rosen.

"He's been there since Marcus and I were two people in an office," Mr. Neville said. "He's seen everything, great and astonishing."

He goes about as consigliere as much as paper-pusher. "What he does is an incomprehensible system like a power," said Robert Tagliapietra, the co-originator of Costello Tagliapietra, for which Mr. Hand settled terms of a joint exertion with the Japanese markdown retailer Uniqlo.

Regardless, that is just the standard business a scramble of his duties.

Suffering provoking affiliations, looking at the exchanging of industry nark, and managing goliath checks at the Boom Room, these are the improvement necessities that Mr. Hand invites with the most relish. On his Twitter channel, @Handofthelaw, he posts selfies that area the chic closeness of a methodology certified guide, looking — to propose his stunning silliness and individual man about town, Euan Rellie — like a "1950s saw entertainer."

Any place he goes, he dresses the part. Mr. Hand's troupes ceaselessly identify with which clients he will be seeing. Everything considered the Rag and Bone uniform that he wore when meeting with its technique get-together to look at new thing introductions in the corporate office upstairs from the West thirteenth Street store.

It left him sensible to take off into the Manhattan night.

First up: drinks with his amigo and client Jason Stalvey, a 34-year-old who makes a neurological rest quiet practice at Columbia University by day and furthermore $17,800 croc skin duffel sacks. (An accreditation of his sacks are sold at Barneys.)

The two men met outside the Brass Monkey on Little West twelfth Street. Mr. Stalvey was wearing a white V-neck T-shirt that understood his pecs and an adequately flawlessly considered cruiser coat.

Settling in at a corner banquette, Mr. Hand referenced a glass of Lagunitas IPA, and began to experience his own stand-out stand-isolated stand-detached record: Grew up in Laguna Beach, Calif. Gone to Vassar in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where he sang in the a cappella collecting and twofold associated with perspective and mind science. Kept graduating school at New York University, experienced obvious a late night at Moomba ("wild night times," he passed on, "a huge amount of fun") and in the wake of getting his J.D. in 1997, took an occupation at the white-shoe law office Shearman and Sterling, as an extra in mergers and acquisitions. (In 2009, Mr. Hand had an immature with his first life accessory, the style engineer Katherine Zorn.)

Finally, he and two additional things made Hand Baldachin and Amburgey, which watches out for boss expert in having clients in stunning fields, including inside system and sports. (For example, Mr. Hand has regulated unquestionable checking pursues for the Brooklyn Nets.)

Continually and now and again bafflingly, jabber with Mr. Hand goes to the subject of structure. Such it was as he snacked on a brussels make plate of blended greens.

Asking about his life ornamentation, he said that they battle for extra room at their space near Union Square. He lived in France after school and experienced vivacious verbalizations of love for cashmere sweaters. He was pulled in to N.Y.U. to consider law in setting on the additional room required by a defilement winter. "Some piece of why I moved East was a hankering to wear various bits of clothing," he said.

Around 7:30, Mr. Hand paid the check, said his goodbyes to Mr. Stalvey and ricocheted a taxi set out toward NoLIta.

There, he was to go to a social gathering for another client, the men's wear maker Todd Snyder.

Inside Mr. Snyder's Elizabeth Street store, Mr. Hand dissected the racks, which were gathered with excessive cotton sweatshirts created with the Champion logo. The pieces were imagined an association deal Mr. Hand had wrangled between Mr. Snyder's drawing and Champion.

It was clear the event was less going to be dazzling, yet Mr. Hand wasn't limiting this thought. He is the sort of person who will go wherever in the relationship of a client or a potential one.

Mr. Hand looked toward the front of the store and saw another client: Nickelson Wooster, the 55-year-old Instagram sensation and style vagabond.

He walked around and applauded Mr. Wooster on his jodhpur-like pants. "These are captivating," he said. "I have to wear a suit standard," he included.

"Your obligation is to look super-delighting and super-tall," Mr. Wooster believe it or not, sounding less vigilant.

Mr. Hand made another dunk into the social affair and found Mr. Snyder staying in the store.

The two men began prattling and Mr. Hand referenced that he'd beginning late began from parties at Rag and Bone and was as time goes on in addition paying extraordinary personality to Mr. Wooster

"You have everybody," Mr. Snyder passed on, finishing a manhattan.

A server moved nearer with another round of refreshments, which Mr. Hand and Mr. Snyder firmly saw.

They rung glasses.

"To continued with progress," Mr. Hand said to his client and possibly to himself as well.

The List of Five

Suit "This is bizarre," Mr. Hand said. "I love my Rag and Bone suits. I wear them most days. Regardless, I have some important Huntsman suits. In case I need a power suit, that is what I wear. It's mind boggling English fitting."

Drink Rusty Nail. "Single malt Scotch whisky with a sugary Drambuie. It's dazzling. Fairly sweet. Not unimaginably sweet. Much on an exceptionally fundamental level undefined from me."

Watch Rolex Daytona. "I have five or six watches, yet this is the one I wear continually. It was a gift from the Rag and Bone people and Andrew Rosen. It's silver with a white face, 2012."

Shoes To Boots. "My go-to shoe in case I'm tidying up to go out. They're starting at beginning late astonishing and normal, yet they have a continuously modest profile."

Dress shirt Paul Stuart. "I've been wearing them since school."

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George H.W. Bush, U.S. Leader as Iron Curtain Fell, Dies at 94

George H.W. Bush, the U.S. president who fashioned a restrained response to the Soviet Union’s collapse and assembled the multinational coalition that liberated Kuwait from an Iraqi invasion, hoping that would be a model for “a new world order,” has died. He was 94.

Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday at his home in Houston, according to a statement from a family spokesman. The longest-living president in American history, he used a wheelchair in recent years after being diagnosed with a form of Parkinson’s disease. His wife of 73 years, Barbara, died on April 17 at age 92.

“George H.W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for,” his son and former President George W. Bush said in a separate statement.

President Donald Trump said in a statement: “President Bush always found a way to set the bar higher.”

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“I love you, too,” were his last words, spoken to his son George W. Bush, according to the New York Times.

George H.W. Bush drew on a lifetime of experience in international affairs during a presidency that faced tests around the globe. The achievements he could claim on the world stage weren’t enough to win him a second term, as American voters held him accountable for rising unemployment. His 1992 defeat at the hands of Democrat Bill Clinton made Bush the eighth U.S. president to lose a bid for re-election after serving a full term. The Bush name was far from done, however, as two of his sons became governors who ran for the presidency, with one succeeding.

Groomed for Success

Born to New England privilege, successful in the oil business in Texas, Bush straddled the Republican Party’s ideological divide between northeastern moderates and southern conservatives. He built his specialty in foreign policy as he ascended in Republican politics, serving in Congress and as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, special envoy to China and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

His rise to the pinnacle of American power was based more on experience, friendships and party service than on any signature cause or exhortation, and as the 41st U.S. president, from 1989 to 1993, he struggled to articulate what he called “the vision thing.”

‘Sacrificial Devotion’

“Despite an almost sacrificial devotion to the Republican Party,” former New York Times writer Tom Wicker wrote in a 2004 biography, Bush “sometimes exhibited chameleon-like changes of coloration within its spectrum of opinion and never overcame the suspicions of its most conservative elements.”

Bush served as vice president under Ronald Reagan even after mocking Reagan’s campaign agenda as “voodoo economics.” He courted his party’s tax-cutting wing as a candidate for president in 1988 — “Read my lips: No new taxes” — then infuriated it by agreeing to a tax increase. He appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court both David Souter, who became a gift to liberals, as well as Clarence Thomas, a hero to conservatives.

Following his 1992 defeat, Bush’s eldest son, George W., carried out a rapid rise through politics in time to succeed Clinton as president in 2000.

Burned Up

Bush 43, as the son is sometimes known, signed on with the tax-cutting conservatives who had distrusted his father, resumed armed combat against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and, on the strength of the leadership he showed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, won the second term his father had been denied.

Had Bush 43 sought to distinguish himself from his father? Such speculation “burns me up a little bit,” Bush 41 said in a 2009 interview with Fox News. “I don’t think there’s ever been any competition of that nature that I’m aware of.”Still, their legacies were intertwined. Public approval of the first Bush presidency slid during his son’s terms, then rebounded, according to the Gallup Poll. Bush received a 63 percent approval rating in June 2014, compared with 53 percent for his son.

In “41: A Portrait of My Father,” published in 2014, the younger Bush praised his father’s accomplishments and said that while other biographies may be objective, “This one is not. This book is a love story.”

Family Business

Another Bush son who went into the family business, Jeb Bush, the former two-term governor of Florida, lost his bid to become the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.

The popular image of George H.W. Bush as president was that he was cautious above all, a caricature sealed by “Saturday Night Live” comedian Dana Carvey’s impression of him repeating the phrase, “Wouldn’t be prudent.” Bush’s refusal to gloat when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union disintegrated spurred accusations that he cared more about his friendship with Mikhail Gorbachev than the quest for democracy around the globe.

Later scholarship would take a kinder view.

With his restrained public comments, Bush “coaxed the Soviet Union toward worldwide surrender” by “never giving Moscow a pretext to reverse course,” Michael Beschloss and Strobe Talbott wrote in “At the Highest Levels: The Inside Story of the End of the Cold War” (1993).

Deliberate Restraint

Publicly celebrating the fall of the Iron Curtain “would have been the stupidest thing I could have done,” Bush said in “41,” an HBO documentary about his life that aired in 2012. “Everybody’s got certain levels of respect and pride, and for me to stick my finger in the eyes of Gorbachev or the Soviet military would have made no sense at all.”

In an address marking Gorbachev’s resignation on Dec. 25, 1991, Bush said, “We stand tonight before a new world of hope and possibilities and hope for our children, a world we could not have contemplated a few years ago.”

The “new world” Bush envisioned had, earlier that year, survived a major test.

After Iraq invaded neighboring Kuwait in August 1990, Bush arranged the coalition of dozens of countries that came to Kuwait’s defense. Following weeks of bombardment that began in January 1991, coalition ground troops routed Iraq’s army in 100 hours in Operation Desert Storm.

In his State of the Union address on Jan. 29, 1991, Bush said that what was at stake in Kuwait “is more than one small country. It is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind — peace and security, freedom and the rule of law.”

Bush chose not to chase the enemy into Iraq to topple the Hussein regime. That could have made the U.S. “an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land,” he later wrote, a comment oft-quoted years later when his son did order an invasion of Iraq.

Protecting Kuwait

Saving Kuwait was the high point of Bush’s term in office, lifting his approval rating to 90 percent in polls before a faltering economy at home chipped away at his popularity. The U.S. went into recession from July 1990 until March 1991, and the unemployment rate climbed to 7.8 percent in June 1992 from 5.4 percent when he took office.

A growing federal deficit also forced Bush to renege on the “no new taxes” campaign pledge he had made, to acclaim from his party.

The deficit rose each year of his presidency, from $152.6 billion in 1989 to $290.3 billion in 1992. During closed-door budget negotiations in 1990, the Democrats who controlled Congress insisted that Bush, not they, put tax increases on the table.

Bush, relenting, released a statement that included “tax revenue increases” in a list of necessary measures. In some quarters of his party, that was never forgiven.

Did he regret his acquiescence? “Nope, because it was right,” he said in the HBO documentary.

Poppy’s Youth

George Herbert Walker Bush was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, named for his maternal grandfather, George Herbert Walker, founder of the Wall Street investment firm G.H. Walker & Co. Since his grandfather was known as “Pop,” Bush became “Poppy.”

His father, Prescott Bush, was a partner at Wall Street’s Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. before serving as a Republican senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1963. While experiencing politics and public service through his father, Bush said he learned important lessons about modesty from his mother, the former Dorothy Walker.

“She had these kind of truisms that served me in good stead even when I got to be president of the United States,” he recalled in the HBO film. “She said, ‘Nobody likes a braggadocio, don’t be bragging about yourself all the time.’ She said, ‘Listen, don’t talk all the time.’ She said, ‘Give the other guy credit.’”

Meeting Barbara

At Phillips Academy boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts, Bush lettered in baseball, soccer and basketball. At 17, attending a dance in Greenwich, Connecticut, he met 16-year-old Barbara Pierce, daughter of the president of McCall Corp., publisher of magazines including McCall’s and Redbook. They married in January 1945, while Bush was on leave from the U.S. Navy.

Bush enlisted on his 18th birthday, seven months after the U.S. entered World War II. He was the youngest U.S. naval aviator when he completed preflight training in June 1943, according to the Navy.

He flew 58 combat missions in the Pacific war against Japan, one of which almost ended his life.

On Sept. 2, 1944, the TBM Avenger he was piloting in a bombing raid on the island of Chichi Jima was struck by anti-aircraft fire. Bush parachuted from the airplane before it crashed in the ocean. A U.S. submarine located his yellow lifeboat and rescued him. His two crewmates didn’t survive.

Bush received the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action.

Family Connections

After the war, he earned an economics degree and made Phi Beta Kappa at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he was captain of the baseball team. He then parlayed family connections into lucrative business success in Texas, a path that his firstborn son, George W., would later follow on his own way to the presidency.

With his wife and that son, Bush moved to Odessa, Texas, to join an oil field-supply firm that was a subsidiary of Dresser Industries, on whose board his father sat. Dresser was acquired in 1998 by its competitor, Halliburton Co. After his apprenticeship he settled in Midland and helped start a new business buying and developing oil leases.

With two partners, brothers Hugh and William Liedtke, Bush founded Zapata Petroleum Co. in 1953, the name inspired by the 1952 Marlon Brando film “Viva Zapata!” By the end of the 1950s, Bush had moved his family to Houston and was running an offshoot of Zapata that churned out profits from high-risk offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Enters Politics

In Houston, he became chairman of the Harris County Republican Party. Following a spirited, unsuccessful challenge to Democratic U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough — “He does not represent Texas; he represents the New Frontier and the labor bosses in Detroit,” Bush said in one television commercial — Bush won two terms in the House of Representatives, from 1967 to 1971. After another failed Senate bid, he was named ambassador to the UN by President Richard Nixon.

Nixon turned again to Bush two years later, to succeed Robert Dole as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Bush was handed the unenviable mission of revitalizing the party as the Watergate scandal was bringing it down.

“It was a bleak future at that moment” for Republicans, Bush said in the HBO documentary. “But that’s why these things come and go. It gives me perspective over the years. I mean, when it seems gloomy and down, you bounce back.”

China Assignment

Gerald Ford, who became president when Nixon resigned, appointed Bush chief of the U.S. liaison office in China in 1974. Based in Beijing, then called Peking, Bush sometimes traveled to meetings by bicycle and entertained guests with old movies, popcorn and soft drinks, according to a 1975 New York Times profile that said he “succeeded, at least to a limited degree, in erasing the image that many persons in Peking had of America as an elitist country.”

Ford recalled him in 1976 to take over the CIA, an agency, Bush later said, that was “battered by a decade of hostile congressional investigations, exposés, and charges that ran from law-breaking to simple incompetence.”

When Democrat Jimmy Carter became president in January 1977, Bush was out of politics for the first time in a decade. He began a campaign for president in May 1979 that, for a time, looked like it might spoil what became the Reagan Revolution.

‘Voodoo Economics’

He defeated Reagan in the kickoff Iowa caucuses and went on to win six other primary contests before bowing to Reagan’s overwhelming delegate lead. Along the way, he derided as “voodoo economics” Reagan’s contention that lower taxes could be combined with higher military spending with no effect on the deficit. That didn’t stop Reagan from naming Bush to his ticket.

Bush’s “finest moments” as vice president, Time wrote in 1984, may have come when he acted “calmly and with sensitivity” amid the turmoil set off by the assassination attempt on Reagan in March 1981. Bush deferentially declined entreaties to take a helicopter directly to the White House, where aides were monitoring reports of Reagan’s medical condition. Bush later explained, “Only the president lands on the South Lawn.”

During Reagan’s second term, Bush tried to distance himself from the Iran-Contra scandal, the secret effort to aid anti-communist rebels in Nicaragua with money raised from arms sales to Iran. He claimed he had been “out of the loop.”

That view would be challenged by Reagan’s secretary of State, George Shultz. He wrote in his 1993 memoir that he had warned Bush, face to face, that an arms-for-hostages exchange had at least been attempted and “would never stand up in public.”

‘Gentler Nation’

Along with his “Read my lips” tax pledge, Bush vowed to shape “a kinder, gentler nation” as he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in 1988. His victory over Democrat Michael Dukakis, whom he portrayed as soft on crime, made Bush the first sitting vice president in more than 100 years to get elected to the top job.

Seeking re-election in 1992, Bush found himself challenged not just by Clinton but also by Ross Perot, the billionaire founder of Electronic Data Systems Corp., running as an independent. Television cameras caught Bush checking his watch during a three-way debate in which Perot displayed a folksy wit and Clinton demonstrated his ability to connect with voters’ pocketbook concerns.

Perot’s Share

On Election Day, Clinton took 43 percent of the vote to Bush’s 37 percent, with Perot winning almost 19 percent. Of Perot, Bush would later say: “I think he cost me the election, and I don’t like him.” Others doubt that Perot had a decisive impact on the result.

In a final chapter to the arms-for-hostages case, Bush, in his waning weeks in the Oval Office, pardoned Reagan’s defense secretary, Casper Weinberger, and five others.

Bush moved from the White House back to Houston, where he monitored development of his presidential library. He formed an unlikely and lasting friendship with Clinton, teaming up to raise relief funds for victims of the December 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia and of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. He parachuted from airplanes to mark several birthdays in his later years. His last jump came when he turned 90.

In November 2017, about midway through his 94th year, he became the longest-living U.S. president, a distinction that had been held by Ford, who died in 2006.

Bush is survived by sons George, Jeb, Neil and Marvin and daughter Dorothy Bush Koch, plus 17 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. His first daughter, Robin, died of leukemia at age 3.

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1900-1950: Captain America, Peggy Carter, and S.H.I.E.L.D.

1901:

DATE: unknown EVENT: The Council of Nine orchestrates the assassination of President McKinley.

1906:

DATE: unknown EVENT: The Council’s headquarters The Arena Club is founded.

1914:

DATE: july 28th EVENT: world war i begins

1917:

DATE: march 10th EVENT: James Buchanan “Bucky’ Barnes is born.

DATE: august 15th EVENT: Howard Stark is born.

1918:

DATE: may 8th EVENT: Joseph Rogers dies while fighting in the war with the 107th as a consequence of a mustard gas attack. He received a posthumous Purple Heart.

DATE: july 4th EVENT: Steve Rogers is born.

DATE: november 11 EVENT: World War I ends.

1921:

DATE: april 9th EVENT: Margaret “Peggy” Carter is born.

1929:

DATE: october 24th EVENT: Council member Thomas Gloucester orchestrates the Wall Street Crash.

1930:

DATE: january 10th EVENT: Dr. Abraham Erskine begins experimentation on a Super Soldier Serum.

DATE: september 6th EVENT: Steve Rogers meets Bucky Barnes in New York City.

1933:

DATE: unknown EVENT: Johann Schmidt begins searching for the Tesseract.

1936:

DATE: october 15th EVENT: Sarah Rogers dies of tuberculosis.

1937:

DATE: april 24th EVENT: Dottie Underwood and other Soviet girls train to become master assassins in the Red Room program.

1939:

DATE: september 1st EVENT: World War II begins.

DATE: september 30th EVENT: Howard Star founds Stark Industries.

1940:

DATE: august 7th EVENT: Peggy Carter calls off her wedding and enlists in the British counter-intelligence and security agency, MI5.

DATE: october EVENT: Peggy Carter becomes an advisor to American agency Strategic Scientific Reserve.

DATE: november 11th EVENT: Johann Schmidt injects himself with the Super Soldier Serum, transforming him into the Red Skull.

DATE: december 24th EVENT: Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers enlist while visiting New York City’s U.S. Recruiting and Induction Center, but Steve is designated 4F and rejected. He tries four more times in four different cities but meets the same fate each time.

DATE: december 25th EVENT: Led by Dr. Erskine along with Howard Stark, Peggy Carter, and Colonel Chester Phillips, the Strategic Scientific Reserve’s Project Rebirth chamber is completed and ready to transform volunteers into super-soldiers.

1942:

DATE: march 3rd EVENT: Red Skull discovers and secures the Tesseract.

DATE: august EVENT: HYDRA General Warner Reinhardt’s team, tasked with discovering more artifacts related to the Tesseract, find the corpse of a blue-skinned extraterrestrial, a Kree soldier they dub G.H.

1943:

DATE: june 14th EVENT: Steve Rogers is recruited by Dr. Erskine for Project Rebirth.

DATE: june 22nd EVENT: Steve Rogers is successfully transformed through the use of the super-soldier serum. However, Dr. Erskine is assassinated by HYDRA operative, Heinz Kruger.

DATE: june 23rd EVENT: Steve Rogers refuses to be kept in a lab as a research specimen and goes on a USO tour instead as Captain America.

DATE: november 3rd EVENT: Captain America leads an assault on a HYDRA facility in Austria to liberate  Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Montgomery Falsworth, Jacques Dernier, Bucky, and the rest of the 107th, some of whom will form the Howling Commandos.

DATE: november 5th EVENT: Howard Stark’s research of HYDRA’s mysterious power source leads him down the path to developing a New Element. Tony Stark later completes this research to improve upon his arc reactor.

1944:

DATE: june EVENT: General John McGinnis’ soldiers raid Howard Starks lab and steal his research along with Midnight Oil, a combat drug originally designed to keep its users awake and alert, but which had the side effect of causing the user to go mad.

1945:

DATE: january EVENT: The Howling Commandos capture Arnim Zola but Bucky Barnes falls from the HYDRA train in the process and is presumed dead.

DATE: january EVENT: Werner Reinhardt discovers the “Obelisk”, a Kree Diviner used to contain Terrigen Crystals which would release Terrigen Mist upon exposure.

DATE: march 4th EVENT: Captain America and the Howling Commandos defeat Red Skull, who uses the Tesseract and subsequently vanishes, never to be seen again. Captain America crashes the HYDRA plane Valkyrieoff the coast of Greenland and is presumed dead.

DATE: march 4th EVENT: Reinhardt tests the Obelisk on an unwilling Chinese woman named Jiaying. She survived the experiment but was locked up in a cage while Reinhardt moved his base of operations upon hearing of Red Skull’s presumed death.

DATE: may 7th EVENT: Soldiers encounter a mysterious phenomenon known as Zero Matter or the Darkforce while on the battlefields of Europe.

DATE: may 21st EVENT: Reinhardt is interrogated by Peggy Carter and sentenced to life imprisonment, despite him attempting to share information on the Obelisk and Kree.

DATE: september 2nd EVENT: World War II ends.

1946:

DATE: april EVENT: Howard Stark is tried by the United States Congress to determine whether or not he’s a traitor when some of his inventions show up for sale on the black market. Stark flees the country, believing he will be convicted, and tasks his butler Edwin Jarvis with assisting Peggy Carter on her mission. He becomes the SSR’s most-wanted target.

DATE: april 16th EVENT: Soviet scientist Anton Vanko tells Carter and Jarvis that Roxxon is the only company with the means of weaponizing Stark’s dangerous chemical compound, Nitramene. The Roxxon Refinery explodes that same night.

1947:

DATE: unknown EVENT: The Cold War begins.

DATE: july 11th EVENT: Peggy Carter arrives in Los Angeles where an exonerated Howard Stark has opened up a new estate and started a motion picture company.

1948:

DATE: unknown EVENT: An unidentified Iron Fist is caught on film by the Chinese Government while defending a secret passage into K’un-Lun from soldiers who had become lost in the jungle.

DATE: september EVENT: Howard Stark and Peggy Carter plan to form S.H.I.E.L.D.

1949:

DATE: january EVENT: S.H.I.E.L.D. is first launched

DATE: unknown EVENT: Zola, now recruited by S.H.I.E.L.D., begins to rebuild HYDRA from within the agency. He and former HYDRA agents track down Bucky Barnes, who had survived his fall and was in the custody of Soviet authorities. Bucky’s memory is wiped and modified, as is his body; he’d lost an arm but was outfitted with a metal prosthetic. HYDRA kept Bucky cryogenically frozen, thawed out only when needed as the elite assassin, Winter Soldier.

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