The Old Guard (comics + movie) Comprehensive Timeline
Edit: 14 July 25- updated to comply with TOG 2
I spent way too much time spent researching the comics one night resulting in this, my TOG magnum opus, including every confirmed event up until the beginning of the first movie. If there's anything I missed let me know. This is mostly for my own purposes, but absolutely feel free to use it for your own fics/art/meta/etc
Also thank you @yumekuimono for the putting together the photographs on Copley's hyperfixation board, which inspired me to make this.
It's long, so it's all under the cut. Enjoy!
4500s BCE:
Andromache is born in the Western Steppe, later known as Scythia, now known as the Ural region, mostly. Fifteen or so years later her mother(figure) gifts her an axe, naming Andy as her successor instead of her sisters. Five or so years later Andy's mother plans to have her killed out of jealously. Andy doesn't die, though her mother is killed in the conflict. Andy kills her attackers in revenge, then goes back to lead her people as a pseudo-god for an unspecified number of years.
500s BCE:
Quỳnh (Noriko) is born in modern day Vietnam (Noriko in Japan).
330ish BCE:
Lykon is killed for the first time following Alexander The Great to Judea. Andy meets him not long after (comic only canon, the movie doesn't specify when Andy and Lyon meet except to say it's after she meets Quynh).
630s CE:
Andy meets Quynh in Alexandria while fighting with Amir ibn al-As. They become inseparable and travel with Lykon and Yitzhak for a time as roaming soldiers (anything about Yitzhak, so far, is comics only canon)
Note- There's no firmer information on Yitzhak aka Isaac Blue at this time, apart from him being Jewish, a contemporary of Lykon, having been with Andy in the year 1950, and now living in Alaska. There's a wonderful analysis of his likely timeline by @nevermindirah who places him around the time of the Second Temple, somewhere between 500 BCE and 70 CE.
1066:
Yusuf ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn al-Kaysani called al-Tayyib is born in Maghreb, North Africa, to a family of merchants
1069:
Nicolò di Genova is born in Genoa, Italy
1099:
Joe and Nicky meet and kill each other and, according to word of god (aka Greg Rucka), get on to the more pleasurable type of physical relationship very quickly after.
1100-1230:
Andy and Quynh are spotted around the crusades, likely to find Nicky + Joe
1200s:
Noriko (comics only canon) is killed many times fighting rogue samurai around feudal Japan
1550-1600 (Renaissance):
Lykon dies for the last time. Joe saves a young artist from a fire in Genoa, forcing them to avoid Italy for 100 years
1500s (late):
Quynh and Andy attempt to free people from the witch trials and are caught themselves, leading to Quynh's underwater imprisonment.
Andy is then freed by an immortal she has yet to meet, Tuah
(In comics canon, Noriko is lost after falling off a ship somewhere near the Horn of Africa during a storm)
1700s (late):
The Guard are in London for a time. Joe saves a coffee shop owner from the stocks, Andy gets a new axe (that is still very much the same axe, to her).
1770:
Sébastien LeLivre is born in Marseilles, France.
1789-95:
Andy, Nicky, and Joe are at the Paris Commune. Nicky and Joe aren't speaking at the time.
1790s:
Andy meets a former West Indies slave turned British soldier turned highway robber named Achilles. Andy follows him to Australia, starts a life in a small town.
1812:
Booker dies in Russia while following Napoleon. He's hanged for desertion. The Guard meets up with him a few years later. (Note, it's very likely Booker was conscripted in the place of a richer man in exchange for a fee, or as blackmail material, given that married men were exempt from the Grande Armée and even the Imperial Army's levée en masse. My theory is he was caught by a banker or shop owner for his forgeries, and was therefore forced to take the man's place in the army).
1830s:
Booker hangs out with his youngest son Jean-Pierre, likely towards the end of his son's life, at a Parisian restaurant. Andy leaves Achilles for an extended amount of time to go to Jamaica, likely for the Baptist War. She comes back to find him dead, killed by their neighbors. She then razes the entire town in retaliation.
1834:
São Paulo. Joe jumps through a window as a distraction for reasons as yet unknown.
1853:
1850s:
Joe and Nicky spotted on the ground of the Crimean War.
All four are together for a mission involving a hedge maze, a cannon, and a beheading.
Joe, Nicky, and Andy in Rome for the Italian Risorgimento (reunification).
1863:
Nicky goes undercover of sorts in the American Civil War as a Confederate soldier in Pennsylvania. Joe is helping the slaves Nicky frees along with the Quakers in York. The Guard appear at the Battle of Gettysburg
1870, September:
Booker and Andy meet in San Francisco after Booker unknowingly saves Merrick's great grandfather in a frontier town because of an inexplicable feeling he should stay to help
1887:
Nicky and Joe save a young person in Zanzibar, presumably the victim of a hate crime
1904:
The Guard prevent a coup in Haiti
1914-18:
The Guard fight in The Great War. Joe saves a little girl who becomes the youngest Nobel Laureate in Medicine. Andy fights in the Gallipoli campaign and in France
1916:
Andy saves a refugee family in Montenegro, one of whom goes on to develop early diabetes detection.
1917:
Andy takes part in a battle in Passchedaele, Belgium, and adopts an orphaned boy, Zeus
1932, November:
Joe and Nicky go to a bar in Berlin, run into the person they saved in Zanzibar, and punch a Nazi.
1944:
Andy is involved in the French Resistance in WWII
1945, August:
The Guard prevent a third atomic bomb
1950:
Andy and Yitzhak eat a meal made for them by Zeus somewhere not in the US
1956-59:
Joe, Nicky, and Booker are spotted helping the Cuban Revolution
1968:
Nicky and Andy appear at MLK speeches separately. Joe and Nicky rescue a man from a cave (poss. Onyx Cave, AZ in Oct. or Gory Hole, IN in Nov. -US cave incidents are very well recorded)
1969, July:
The Guard take down a pedophilic serial killer in Minnesota (possibly based on Stanley Rice). Nicky and Booker stay to track down everyone who knowingly let the killer go free. Joe and Andy head on to San Francisco to watch the moon landing at a bar.
1970s:
Andy and Booker in Rome
1975, April:
Andy helps in Operation Babylift in Vietnam
late 1970's:
Andy lands in Cleveland, not knowing where she is after a job. Coincidentally, she cleans herself up in a restaurant owned by Zeus, who she hadn't seen in decades.
1978:
Booker gets captured by a cult of murder- and sex-obsessed nuns in NYC. Three months later Andy rescues a reluctant Booker from the nuns' compound in Guyana
1989:
Andy helps people escape East Germany
1992:
Booker serves as a combat medic in Sarajevo. Nicky attends university under the name N Smith (likely a graduate school given the wording of the ID. My guess, either for medicine or computer science, both of which were rapidly evolving at the time)
1994:
Nile Freeman born, South Side of Chicago, IL
2000s:
The Guard rescue children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are also linked to the US 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan.
2005:
Nile's dad killed in action on the ground as a Marine
2012:
The Guard take a CIA assignment in Surabaya, Indonesia, with Copley and Booker as the point persons
2013:
Andy goes by the alias Alexandra Black in the Czech Republic
2014:
Joe goes by the alias Joseph Jones in Germany. The Guard is seen in Syria near an USAF F-22 bombing site.
2019:
Andy takes a break to travel. Joe and Nicky travel to Eastern Turkey. Booker is contacted by Copley on behalf of Merrick Industries.
2020:
Nile dies for the first time in Afghanistan at the hands of an enemy insurgent. Official record has her killed in action. The events of the movie (aka comics Opening Fire 1-5) commence. Booker returns to Paris in his exile, where he receives occasional grocery drops from Joe, and is later kidnapped by Quynh.
2025:
Events of The Old Guard 2 (a complete break from comics canon)
