The Omniums turn against humanity.
An international organisation is formed to end the war.
Overwatch's top brass have a Halloween party
Before Reinhardt's retirement or Ana's disappearance, after whenever Mercy joins Overwatch (here, when she is 18); guess: 2067.
Comic: JunkensteinBlackwatch's mission in Rialto backfires. Blackwatch suspends operations.
Overwatch sends in a strike team to save hostages on Kings Row from Null Sector
Month is a guess from London weather.
Overwatch sends a strike team to Havana to capture Maximilien, Talon's financier.
After Uprising, before the Fall; month is a guess from Cuban hurricane season.
A turning tide of public opinion and a devastating explosion at their headquarters in Switzerland lead to Overwatch being disbanded with the Petras act.
Winston initiates recall, the start of the game's timeline.
All other dates calculated from the "present day" of 2076, 60 years in the future from Overwatch-the-game's launch.
Events since Recall presumed to move forward close to real time, making Overwatch's current year 2085.
Hana Song is born.
D.Va defends Busan as part of the MEKA project.
Animated Short: Shooting StarEfi Oladele is born.
Orisa is built when Efi rebuilds an OR-15 unit following Doomfist's attack on Numbani.
Dated to February from the story blog, but difficult to pinpoint.
Origin Story: OrisaStory Blog: An Interview With Inventor Efi OladeleReinhardt Wilhelm is born.
Reinhardt defends Germany from the Omnic invasion as part of the Crusaders.
Reinhardt's commander, Balderich, is killed defending Eichenwalde
During the Crisis, but after Overwatch is formed, since they invited Balderich.
Animated Short: Honor and GloryReinhardt saves Torbjörn's life during the operation. In return, he lets his friend name his first daughter, Brigitte.
Before Brigitte's birth, after Reinhardt joins Overwatch.
Twitter: White Dome ReportOverwatch top brass take a group photo.
After McCree's hiring, while Pharah was 11 or 12 according to the GDC talk.
YouTube: Excerpt from Michael Chu's GDC 2017 talkBrigitte Lindholm is born to Ingrid and Torbjörn, named by Reinhardt.
Story Update: Torbjörn's LetterReinhardt leads the strike team to Kings Row.
Overwatch puts Reinhardt into mandatory retirement.
After Uprising, Reinhardt's benching mentioned during Storm Rising.
Reinhardt and Brigitte travel the German countryside, where she acts as his squire, repairing his crusader armour.
Presumed after Brigitte turns 18.
Comic: Dragon SlayerReinhardt and Brigitte visit Eichenwalde after receiving Recall. Reinhardt decides to answer.
Animated Short: Honor and GloryMako Rutledge is born.
Displaced from his home after the Australian outback is given to Omnics, Mako joins the Australian Liberation Front, which evetually detonates the Omnium for it to be reclaimed by the Junkers.
Some time after the crisis ends, long enough before present day for Junkertown to be fully established.
After being kicked out of Junkertown, Junkrat and Roadhog attempt revenge on the Junker Queen, which involves a worldwide treasure heist.
Presumed that the heist takes a year; Anubis map was a target.
Animated Short: Junker Town: The PlanSiebren de Kuiper is born.
Kuiper's work on understanding gravity culminates in an experiment to create an artificial black hole; it warps his perception of time and drives him insane
Old enough to be grey-haired leading up to it.
Origin Story: SigmaKuiper is freed from imprisonment at a government facility by Talon, only to be weaponised.
Reaper, Widowmaker and Sombra's weaponry can be heard in the short, so some time after they all joined.
Origin Story: SigmaWinston is born.
Winston and Hammond escape Horizon Lunar Colony. Winston joins Overwatch.
After Hammond's birth; before Mei is frozen, long enough for them to become friends.
Origin Story: Wrecking BallWinston creates the Chronal Accellerator for Tracer shortly before Uprising.
Presuming it took some months to develop after she was found.
Winston is monitoring Tracer's vitals as she trains in the Uprising comic.
Comic: UprisingWinston is on the strike team for Storm Rising.
Winston initiates recall after Reaper drops an escape pod on him
Animated Short: RecallWinston and Tracer foil an attempt by Reaper and Widowmaker to retrieve Doomfist's gauntlet.
After Recall, presumably before Doomfist's escape.
Animated Short: Overwatch Cinematic TrailerWinston hosts dinner for Tracer and her partner.
Comic: ReflectionsHammond is born.
Winston and Hammond escape Horizon Lunar Colony. Hammond arrives in Junkertown.
After Hammond's birth; before Mei is frozen, long enough for Winston to become friends with her.
Origin Story: Wrecking BallWrecking Ball leaves Junkertown to travel the world.
Aleksandra Zaryanova is born.
After Infiltration, Zarya is called in by Chairman Volskaya to track down Sombra
Animated Short: InfiltrationElizabeth Caledonia “Calamity” Ashe is born.
Ashe forms the Deadlock Gang with McCree and two others.
Before McCree's arrest in 2056, after he is a "reasonable" age to be a gang leader
Ashe and the Deadlock Gang attempt a train heist, meeting with McCree.
Animated Short: ReunionBastion is created.
Bastion is part of an Omnic attack on the town of Eichenwalde, before becoming disabled during combat.
Animated Short: The Last BastionBastion awakes, overcomes the vestiges of its wartime programming, and begins exploring.
Not long before Comic: Binary in ~2076
Animated Short: The Last BastionBastion travels north to Sweden, where it meets Torbjörn.
Comic: BinaryAkande Ogundimu is born.
Akande loses an arm in the aftermath of the Omnic Crisis.
Akande takes the mantle of Doomfist from Akinjide Adeyemi (the Scourge).
After Retribution, before the Stom Rising.
Doomfist speaks to an unnamed Omnic in the Storm Rising end cinematic.
Akande is defeated and captured by Winston, Genji and Tracer on an Overwatch mission in Singapore.
Before the Genji leaves and the fall, minimum three weeks after Maximilien's capture in Storm Rising.
Origin Story: DoomfistTwitter: STORM RISING INTEL EXAMINATION – MAXIMILIENAkande escapes prison.
After Infiltration, before February.
Comic: MasqueradeAkande kills Vialli and takes his place on the Talon Council.
Venetian Masquerade takes place in February.
Comic: MasqueradeAkande rerieves his gauntlet from Numbani.
Unclear on whether this was before or after Masquerade; likely after as the gauntlet is not shown.
Origin Story: OrisaGenji Shimada is born.
Some time before Retribution, Genji is nearly killed by his brother Hanzo. Overwatch rescues him, rebuilding his body and recruiting him into Blackwatch.
Blackwatch's mission in Rialto backfires. Blackwatch suspends operations.
Genji is training with Tracer in the Uprising comic.
Comic: UprisingGenji is on the strike team for Storm Rising.
Some time between Storm Rising and the fall of Overwatch, Genji leaves to travel the world. He meets Zenyatta, who guides him spiritually.
Genji is featured in the Storm Rising event; noted as "abandoning" Overwatch on his hero profile, so before the fall.
Genji returns to visit his brother Hanzo, who cannot believe he is alive.
Probably after Recall, given what Genji says to Hanzo at the end of the short.
Animated Short: DragonsGenji is staying in Nepal with Zenyatta, where he writes to Mercy.
Comic: ReflectionsHanzo Shimada is born.
Some time before Retribution, Hanzo nearly kills his brother Genji. Broken-hearted, he abandons his clan and begins travelling the world.
Genji returns to visit his brother Hanzo, who cannot believe he is alive.
Animated Short: DragonsJamison Fawkes is born.
After being kicked out of Junkertown, Junkrat and Roadhog attempt revenge on the Junker Queen, which involves a worldwide treasure heist.
Animated Short: Junker Town: The PlanJesse McCree is born.
McCree forms the Deadlock Gang with Ashe and two others.
Before McCree's arrest in 2056, after he is a "reasonable" age to be a gang leader
McCree is arrested for his activities in the Deadlock Gang and recruited to Blackwatch at age 17.
Age citation would be nice.
Overwatch top brass take a group photo.
After McCree's hiring, while Pharah was 11 or 12 according to the GDC talk.
YouTube: Excerpt from Michael Chu's GDC 2017 talkBlackwatch's mission in Rialto backfires. Blackwatch suspends operations.
McCree happens to be in London on vacation during the Uprising crisis.
Comic: UprisingMcCree loses an arm.
McCree has his arm in Uprising, loses it after Echo goes into statis and before Comic: Train Hopper.
McCree travels the world as an outlaw, dispensing vigilante justice. During this time he foils a robbery in Hanamura, and spoils a massive Talon train heist for a glowy crate. One of the Talon soldiers knows McCree.
Long enough after the Fall for McCree to build an outlaw reputation, before Recall.
Comic: Train HopperTwitter: Vigilante justiceMcCree tips off the Deadlock Gang to get them to derail a military train, in order to free Echo.
Animated Short: ReunionMcCree meets Sombra in Castillo in December
Comic: ReflectionsMei-Ling Zhou is born.
In 2067, the scientists at Ecopoint Antarctica are put into crytostatis, and the Ecopoint is lost in a terrible storm.
Mei was in statis for 9 years before Recall awoke her.
Animated Short: Rise and ShineMei is awakened from cryostasis by Winston's Recall signal in 2076, to find Overwatch has been disbanded, and that she is the sole survivor at the Ecopoint. She sets out to meet up with Winston.
Animated Short: Rise and ShineFareeha Amari is born to Ana Amari.
Overwatch top brass take a group photo.
After McCree's hiring, while Pharah was 11 or 12 according to the GDC talk.
YouTube: Excerpt from Michael Chu's GDC 2017 talkPharah leads a mission to an awakened Anubis Omnium.
Some time not long before Old Soldiers.
Comic: Mission StatementGabriel Reyes is born.
Gabriel Reyes joins the Soldier Enhancement Program in response to the Omnic Crisis.
Gabriel Reyes is made the Strike Commander of the original Overwatch Strke Team, then later becomes the head of Blackwatch.
Overwatch top brass take a group photo.
After McCree's hiring, while Pharah was 11 or 12 according to the GDC talk.
YouTube: Excerpt from Michael Chu's GDC 2017 talkShortly before Retribution, Reyes hires Moira to Blackwatch, to help manage his "condition".
Blackwatch's mission in Rialto backfires. Blackwatch suspends operations.
Reyes is monitoring the situation in London, before helping the strike team remotely.
Comic: UprisingCommander Reyes is presumed dead after an explosion at Overwatch headquarters.
Reaper's operation in Giza is interrupted by Soldier: 76 and The Shrike
Comic: Old SoldiersReaper attempts to infiltrate Winston's hideout at Watchpoint Gibraltar to gain a list of ex-Overwatch operatives
Animated Short: RecallWinston and Tracer foil an attempt by Reaper and Widowmaker to retrieve Doomfist's gauntlet.
After Recall, presumably before Doomfist's escape.
Animated Short: Overwatch Cinematic TrailerReaper works with Sombra and Windowmaker to infiltrate Volskaya Industries.
Animated Short: InfiltrationReaper is seen watching a young family, implied to be relations.
Comic: ReflectionsReaper takes a place on the Talon council.
Venetian Masquerade takes place in February.
Comic: MasqueradeJack Morrison is born.
Jack Morrison joins the Soldier Enhancement Program in response to the Omnic Crisis.
Jack Morrison becomes the Strike Commander of Overwatch.
Overwatch top brass take a group photo.
After McCree's hiring, while Pharah was 11 or 12 according to the GDC talk.
YouTube: Excerpt from Michael Chu's GDC 2017 talkMorrison orders the strike team dispatch to London.
Comic: UprisingCommander Morrison is presumed dead after an explosion at Overwatch headquarters.
Morrson becomes Soldier: 76, pursuing vigilante justice in jaded fashion.
Soldier:76 travels to Dorado in Mexico, to find who is supplying weapons to Los Muertos.
Animated Short: HeroSoldier: 76 faces off against Reaper, and meets Ana, in Giza.
Comic: Old SoldiersSoldier: 76 is staying with Ana in the Necropolis.
Comic: ReflectionsShort Story: BastetOlivia Colomar is born.
Orphaned by the Omnic Crisis, Olivia falls in with the Los Muertos gang, becoming an expert hacker.
Origin Story: SombraOlivia's actions are detected by the Eye. She goes underground, becoming Sombra.
Origin Story: SombraSombra works with Reaper and Windowmaker to infiltrate Volskaya Industries, but has an ulterior motive.
Animated Short: InfiltrationSombra meets McCree in Castillo in December
Comic: ReflectionsSombra is tracked to her hideout by Zarya.
After Infiltration.
Comic: SearchingSombra helps Akande assassinate Vialli and take his place on the Talon council.
Venetian Masquerade takes place in February.
Comic: MasqueradeSatya Vaswani is born.
Satya Vaswani is taken in by Vishkar at a young age, after being identified as a archetech candidate.
"young Satya Vaswani was [...] placed in the care of Vishkar's architech academy" in hero profile.
Symmetra is troubled after her superior, Sanjay Korpal, has her engage in corporate sabotage.
Comic: A Better WorldTorbjörn Lindholm is born.
Torbjörn gains notoriety as a skilled engineer, but his weapons were linked to a networked computer system against his wishes.
Before the Omnic Crisis (well, causing it); long enough to build a reputation.
Torbjörn is recruited to join the original Overwatch strike team.
Torbjörn loses his arm, but has his life saved by Reinhardt. In return, he lets his friend name his first daughter, Brigitte.
Before Brigitte's birth, after Reinhardt joins Overwatch.
Twitter: White Dome ReportOverwatch top brass take a group photo.
After McCree's hiring, while Pharah was 11 or 12 according to the GDC talk.
YouTube: Excerpt from Michael Chu's GDC 2017 talkBrigitte Lindholm is born to Ingrid and Torbjörn, named by Reinhardt.
Story Update: Torbjörn's LetterTorbjörn is part of the strike team on Kings Row.
After Overwatch's fall, Torbjörn begins travelling the world, searching for the weaponry he designed in order to deactivate it.
Comic: DestroyerTorbjörn comes across a Bastion unit acting strangely.
Comic: BinaryLena Oxton is born.
An accident occurs while Tracer is piloting the experimental Slipstream jet, and she is lost in time.
Presuming she was a test pilot aged 18, otherwise there's not much time for Winston to develop the Chronal Accellerator.
Tracer is recovered months after the accident.
Winston creates the Chronal Accellerator for Tracer shortly before Uprising. She becomes a Strike Team agent.
After an impassioned speech to Commander Morrison, Tracer joins her first Strike Team mission to her home town.
Comic: UprisingTracer is on the strike team for Storm Rising.
Tracer goes to a speech by Mondatta, but fails to stop his assassination by Windowmaker.
Animated Short: AliveWinston and Tracer foil an attempt by Reaper and Widowmaker to retrieve Doomfist's gauntlet.
After Recall, presumably before Doomfist's escape.
Animated Short: Overwatch Cinematic TrailerTracer and her partner Emily go to Gibraltar to visit Winston.
Comic: ReflectionsAmélie Lacroix is born.
Amélie is kidnapped by Talon and turned into a sleeper agent. She kills her husband, Gérard Lacroix, then disappears again.
After Retribution and before her duel with Ana.
Widowmaker defeats Ana Amari in a sniper battle, revealing her identity and sending Ana underground.
Between Uprising and the Fall
Comic: LegacyWidowmaker assassinates Mondatta, despite Tracer's interference and her musings upon spiders.
Animated Short: AliveWinston and Tracer foil an attempt by Reaper and Widowmaker to retrieve Doomfist's gauntlet.
After Recall, presumably before Doomfist's escape.
Animated Short: Overwatch Cinematic TrailerWindowmaker works with Sombra and Reaper to infiltrate Volskaya Industries.
Animated Short: InfiltrationAmélie visits her husband's grave in December.
Comic: ReflectionsAna Amari is born.
Ana gives birth to Fareeha Amari
Ana is recruited to join the original Overwatch strike team. She becomes Morisson's second in command.
Ana leads a mission in which Torbjörn loses his arm, but has his life saved by Reinhardt.
Before Brigitte's birth, after Reinhardt joins Overwatch.
Twitter: White Dome ReportOverwatch top brass take a group photo.
After McCree's hiring, while Pharah was 11 or 12 according to the GDC talk.
YouTube: Excerpt from Michael Chu's GDC 2017 talkAna remotely prepares the strike team.
Between Uprising and the Fall, Ana is defeated in a sniper duel by Talon's new top sniper, Widowmaker, surprised that she is is Amélie Lacroix. Ana decides to let the world think she is dead and go underground.
Comic: LegacyComic: Old SoldiersOrigin Story: AnaSoldier: 76 locates Ana, known as the Shrike, in Giza, where they face off against Reaper.
Comic: Old SoldiersSoldier: 76 is staying with Ana in the Necropolis.
Comic: ReflectionsShort Story: BastetJean-Baptiste Augustin is born.
Hero Page: BaptisteBaptiste is orphaned during the Crisis.
Baptiste joins Talon as a mercenary.
Baptiste deserts Talon, 27 August ████ at Ti Ôtel Lanbi in Port-de-Paix, Haiti
Year is redacted; Talon agents shown to have the same armour as featured in Retribution, but also did when he joined, so who knows
Story Update: SUBJECT: CUERVA STRIKE TEAM - LOG RECOVEREDOrigin Story: BaptisteBaptiste travels the world to evade Talon operatives, helping in conflict zones where he can.
Hero Page: BaptisteBrigitte Lindholm is born to Ingrid and Torbjörn, named by Reinhardt.
Story Update: Torbjörn's LetterReinhardt and Brigitte travel the German countryside, where she acts as his squire, repairing his crusader armour.
Comic: Dragon SlayerReinhardt and Brigitte visit Eichenwalde after receiving Recall. Reinhardt decides to answer.
Animated Short: Honor and GloryBrigitte takes up arms herself to fight alongside Reinhardt.
Origin Story: BrigitteLúcio Correia dos Santos is born.
At some point, Lúcio steals the Sonic Amplifier technology from Vishkar, which his father developed. He uses it to resist Vishkar's curfews, becoming a freedom fighter and global music star.
Angela Ziegler is born.
Mercy visited Torbjörn in the hospital after he lost his arm.
Before Brigitte's birth, after Reinhardt joins Overwatch.
Story Update: Torbjörn's LetterOverwatch top brass take a group photo. Mercy is a university student visiting Torbjörn.
After McCree's hiring, while Pharah was 11 or 12 according to the GDC talk.
YouTube: Excerpt from Michael Chu's GDC 2017 talkSome time before Retribution, Genji is nearly killed by his brother Hanzo. Mercy is his lead surgeon, beginning a long friendship between the two.
Mercy is monitoring Genji's vitals as he trains in the Uprising comic, then joins the strike team to King's Row.
Comic: UprisingMercy is on the strike team for Storm Rising.
After the fall of Overwatch, Mercy dedicates herself to helping the broken and disposessed in crisis areas around the world.
Mercy receives a letter from Genji, while in the field.
Comic: ReflectionsMoira O’Deorain is born.
People are experimenting on animals at Horizon Lunar Colony. How can she not be involved.
Ends before or at 2067 when Reyes hires her for Blackwatch, possibly after shutting her down. Start unknown; put at Hammond's birth.
Shortly before Retribution, Reyes hires Moira to Blackwatch, to help manage his "condition".
Blackwatch's mission in Rialto backfires. Blackwatch suspends operations. Moira is implied to have sold out the mission. Talon snipers have abilities similar to Moira's fade.
Moira becomes the Minister for Genetics at Oasis.
Some time after Retribution, or around the Fall; long enough for her to gain a reputation.
Moira is on the Talon Council.
Definitely in Masquerade, unknown for how long.
Comic: MasqueradeZenyatta is created.
Seems very young but date from hero profile.
Zenyatta and some other Omnic monks have a spiritial revelation and co-found a monastery in Nepal. (This presumes Zenyatta is a founding member.)
Some time between his creation, to meeting Genji while wandering.
Some time between Storm Rising and the fall of Overwatch, Genji leaves to travel the world. He meets Zenyatta, now wandering the world.
Meets Genji while wandering, so time based on Genji's event.
Genji is staying in Nepal with Zenyatta.
Comic: ReflectionsEcho is part of Overwatch.
Echo becomes military property when Overwatch falls.
She was on a military train in statis; otherwise speculative. Has been away since before McCree lost his arm.
Echo is awakened and freed by McCree.
Animated Short: ReunionGérard Lacroix is injured in an attack on Blackwatch's Rome facility, partially prompting Reyes to seek retribution. He is later seen in the debriefing.
Comic: RetributionGérard Lacroix is killed by his wife Amélie.
After Retribution and before her duel with Ana.
Harold Winston is born.
Incredibly rough, from him looking about 40 when Winston was very young in Recall.
Animated Short: RecallHarold Winston is guiding Winston's development at Lucheng Interstellar's Horizon Lunar Colony.
From Winston's birth until the ape uprising, before Mei is frozen.
Animated Short: RecallThere is an uprising among the test subjects on the Horizon Lunar Colony. Harold Winston presumed dead, although his suit is missing.
Origin Story: Wrecking BallA wheelchair appears on the Lijang Tower map, Lucheng's headquarters.
Talon assassins appear to use hard light technology, invented by Lúcio's father.
Symmetra is troubled after her superior, Sanjay Korpal, has her engage in corporate sabotage.
Comic: A Better WorldSanjay Korpal is on the Talon Council.
Definitely in Masquerade, unknown for how long.
Comic: MasqueradeTalon carries out attacks on various Overwatch failities, including Oslo and Blackwatch Rome.
Before/prompting Retribution, for long enough to become an obvious culprit.
Comic: RetributionAntonio, a Talon leader is assassinated. Talon snipers have an ability similar to Moira's fade; assassins appear to use hard light technology, a Vishkar-owned invention.
Talon supplies Null Sector with weaponry.
Talon's money handler Maximilien is captured by the Overwatch Strike Team in Havana. He sells out Doomfist's location in return for clemency.
Twitter: STORM RISING INTEL EXAMINATION – MAXIMILIENTalon runs a massive train heist for a glowy crate. One of them knows McCree.
Long enough after the Fall for McCree to build an outlaw reputation.
Comic: Train HopperTalon, with Oasis, appears to be funding archaeological research (and stealing statues) in Ilios, Petra and Ayutthaya.
Statues from Ilios have made their way to Talon's HQ in Rialto and Widowmaker's house Château Guillard. The analysis robots at Ayutthaya are the same as in Oasis.
Talon plans to start a new Omnic Crisis.
Venetian Masquerade takes place in February.
Comic: Masquerade