Major events of the Marvel Universe

For decades -in particular, since the 1960's- Marvel Comics has been telling noteworthy fictional stories. The following is a list of the major plotlines, detailing such things as first appearances of characters, character deaths (though those tend to be less permanent in superhero comics) and other important developments. Note that all of these events take place within a sliding timescale, which means that they are assumed to have taken place in a period of up to a decade before the current date, regardless of when they were actually published.

Events

 * The Original Galactus Saga - 1966 - Galactus and his herald, the Silver Surfer, plan to destroy Earth.


 * Kree-Skrull War - 1971 - 1972 - The Avengers are involved in a millennia-old interstellar war.


 * The Korvac Saga - 1978 - The Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy track down a mysterious threat from the future.


 * Dark Phoenix Saga - 1980 - Jean Grey becomes the Dark Pheonix after being controlled by the Hellfire Club


 * Days of Future Past - 1981 - Kitty Pride from an dystopic future travels back in time to prevent the event that created her timeline.


 * Contest of Champions - 1982 - The Grandmaster and Death manipulate the heroes of Earth in a game to decide the fate of The Collector.


 * Secret Wars - 1984 - 1985 - The Beyonder kidnaps Earth's heroes and villans to battle on a planet of his creation. Spider-Man finds his Venom costume.


 * Secret Wars II - 1985 - 1986 - A contest of champions with the Beyonder


 * The Fall of the Mutants - 1987 - The X-Men are slain in Dallas during a cataclysmic battle against the Adversary.


 * Mutant Massacre - 1987 - The Marauders kill most of the Morlocks


 * The Evolutionary War - 1988 - The High Evolutionary unleashes attacks all over the world to guide the way of human evolution.


 * Inferno - 1988 - 1989 - Demons from Limbo invade earth.


 * Atlantis Attacks - 1989 - Under the influence of Set the Serpent God, the Atlanteans launch a massive assault on the surface world.


 * Acts of Vengeance - 1989 - 1990 - Major villans unite to fight each others' enemies.


 * The X-Tinction Agenda - 1990 -


 * Cross time caper - 1990 - Excalibur travels trough many alternative realities.


 * Infinity Gauntlet - 1991 - Thanos uses the power of the Infinity Gems to become Supreme Being.


 * Operation: Galactic Storm - 1992 - War between the Kree and the Shi'ar.


 * Infinity War - 1992 - Magus, Adam Warlock's "Evil Side", creates evil doppelgangers of Earth's heroes.


 * X-Cutioner's Song - 1992 - Legacy Virus is created, Stryfe goes up against combined X-teams


 * Infinity Crusade - 1993 - Goddess, Adam Warlock's "Good Side", recruits an army of heroes in her holy war.


 * Maximum Carnage - 1993 - The Carnage Family massacre downtown New York only to have Spider-man and Venom in their way.


 * Fatal Attractions - 1993 - Magneto returns more powerful than ever and detracts Adamantium from Wolverine's bones


 * Starblast - 1994 - Conflict over the New Universe's Star Brand.


 * The Phalanx Covenant - 1994 - The Phalanx race attacks earth.


 * Clone Saga - 1994 - 1997 - The clone of Spider-Man, who was long thought dead, returns. His creator, the Jackal also returns to wreack havoc in Spider-Man's personal life.


 * Age of Apocalypse - 1995 - Legion travels back in time to kill Magneto, but accidentally kills his own father, Charles Xavier, creating a dystopian alternative timeline in which Apocalypse rules the world.


 * Avengers: The Crossing - 1995 -


 * Onslaught (comics)*Onslaught - 1996 - The nigh-omnipotent being Onslaught plans to conquer earth.


 * Operation: Zero Tolerance - 1997 - In the aftermath of Onslaught the U.S. gouvernament starts to round up mutants.


 * Heroes Reborn - 1996-1997 - The heroes that died while defeating Onslaught are revealed to have been transported to an alternate universe that was created by Franklin Richards.


 * Heroes Return - 1997 - The heroes from Heroes Reborn return to the regular Marvel Universe.


 * Contest of Champions II - 1998 - Earth's heroes are abducted and brainwashed with nanoprobes to participate in a fighting competition.


 * Avengers Forever - 1998 - 2000 - Avengers from different time periods are assembled to participate in the Destiny War, a confilct between Kang the Conqueror and his future self, Immortus.


 * Maximum Security - 2000 - Fed up with Earth's interference in intergalactic affairs, the starfaring alien community quarantines the Sol System and turns Earth into a prison for the universe's worst criminals.


 * The Kang Dynasty - Kang and his son Marcus declare war on present-day Earth


 * Infinity Abyss - 2002 -


 * Secret War - 2004/2005 - Nick Fury starts a secret war against Latveria since that country has probably been selling high-tech weaponry to super villains.


 * Avengers Disassembled - 2004 - The Scarlet Witch goes insane and kills or incapacitates the current Avenger-roster.


 * House of M- 2005 - The Scarlet Witch alters reality, creating a world in which mutants are in charge.


 * Spider-Man: The Other - 2005 - Spider-Man goes trough a mysterious, life changing event after facing the super villain Morlun.


 * Decimation - 2005 - 2006 - In the aftermath of House of M the mutant population has greatly decreased.


 * Planet Hulk - 2006 -


 * Annihilation (comics)*Annihilation - 2006 -


 * Civil War - 2006 -