MCU Timeline: Black Panther
Millions of years ago - a vibranium meteorite crashes into Africa. The metal affects the plants around it, causing them to develop unusual mutations. One of the plants would later be known as the Heart-Shaped Herb.
Thousands of years ago:
Five African tribes settle in the impacted area and found Wakanda.
The panther goddess Bast comes to a Wakandan warrior shaman and leads him to the Heart-Shaped Herb, which allows him to become the first Black Panther.
He becomes king and unites four of the five tribes. The fifth, the Jabari tribe, isolate themselves in the mountains.
Thanks to vibranium, Wakanda is ahead of the rest of the world in technological advancement and hides in isolation to avoid the upheavals of the outside world.
~1980/81 - T'Challa and Nakia are born.
1981 - T'Chaka becomes king of Wakanda.
1980s:
King T'Chaka's brother, Prince N'Jobu, goes to the United States as a spy.
T'Chaka sends another spy, Zuri, to keep an eye on him.
N'Jobu falls in love with an American woman. They have a child - Erik.
N'Jobu becomes radicalized and comes up with the idea of giving vibranium weapons to black people around the world so they can overthrow all countries and let Wakanda rule them all.
1988:
Wakanda releases misleading tourism advertisement video "I Love Wakanda".
1992:
Knowing that T'Chaka will not support his idea, N'Jobu helps Ulysses Klaue steal a quarter ton of vibranium from Wakanda. This results in the deaths of Wakandans, including W'Kabi's parents.
T'Chaka comes to Oakland to bring N'Jobu back to Wakanda for trial. He reveals that Zuri was sent to spy on N'Jobu.
N'Jobu attempts to kill Zuri, but is stopped by T'Chaka, who kills him.
T'Chaka orders Zuri not to tell anyone what happened.
The Wakandans fly home, leaving behind the body and N'Jobu's son, Erik.
Young Erik finds his father's dead body with claw-shaped wounds on his chest.
2000s:
Erik Stevens graduates from Annapolis at age 19.
He then completes graduate school at MIT.
Stevens joins the Navy SEALs and is sent to Afghanistan, where he receives the nickname "Killmonger".
Killmonger joins the JSOC ghost unit.
At some point he also serves in Iraq.
Between April 2015 and May 2016 - Ulysses Klaue gets a prosthetic arm made from a Wakandan weapon.
The main events of the movie take place in mid-May 2016 (shortly after Civil War).
~May 8, Night - T'Challa and Okoye pick up his ex, Nakia, from her mission in Nigeria so she can attend his coronation the next day.
~May 9:
Morning - T'Challa, Nakia and Okoye arrive in Wakanda.
In London, Erik "Killmonger" Stevens and Ulysses Klaue raid the Museum of Great Britain with an African exhibit made of vibranium. They kill several people, steal the artifact, a mask, and escape.
Note: more proof that it's not summer, as the Official Timeline and Fandom Wiki would have us believe. Have you ever seen bare trees in the summer? Most of the trees around are already green, except for a few like in this screenshot, which means it's April-early May. We already know it's early May after the Civil War and Black Widow timelines, so this is just more proof that I'm right, yay.
~Noon - T'Challa's coronation. Zuri gives him a drink that removes T'Challa's Black Panther powers.
M'Baku, the chieftain of the Jabari tribe, challenges T'Challa but loses the fight.
T'Challa is proclaimed king.
Night - Zuri gives T'Challa a drink made from the Heart-Shaped Herb, which restores his Black Panther powers and sends him to meet T'Chaka in the Ancestral Plane.
After returning, T'Challa talks to Zuri about his father.
~May 10:
T'Challa asks Nakia to stay in Wakanda. Nakia refuses, saying that she has found her calling and that Wakanda should do more for the people outside.
T'Challa goes to talk to W'Kabi, Okoye's husband, about Nakia's offer.
Okoye gathers Wakandan leaders to inform them of the attack on the Museum. T'Challa promises W'Kabi to capture Klaue and bring him to Wakanda.
Evening - T'Challa visits Shuri in her lab and receives new communication devices, sound-absorbing automated sneakers, and a new suit.
~May 11:
Night in South Korea/Afternoon in Wakanda - Klaue's attempt to sell stolen vibranium to an American buyer in Busan, South Korea.
T'Challa, Nakia and Okoye get inside an underground casino where the deal is to take place. There, they meet T'Challa's not-so-old friend Everett Ross from the CIA, who turns out to be the "buyer."
Klaue arrives with armed guards. Okoye starts a fight.
Busan Car Chase that ends with Klaue's capture.
~May 12:
2 pm in South Korea/~7 am in Wakanda - Ross interrogates Klaue at the local CIA office. Ulysses tells Everett that Wakanda is not what he thinks it is.
Killmonger attacks the office and takes Klaue with him. Ross shields Nakia and is shot in the spine. The Wakandans take him to Shuri.
At an abandoned airfield, Killmonger kills Klaue and his own girlfriend, whom Klaue was trying to use as cover.
Evening in Wakanda - back in Wakanda, Suri heals Ross.
W'Kabi receives bad news that Klaue has slipped through T'Challa's grasp.
T'Challa visits Zuri and demands to know the truth about N'Jobu's fate.
~May 13:
Sunrise - Killmonger reaches the Wakandan border and brings Klaue's body to W'Kabi.
Everett Ross wakes up in Shuri's lab.
Noon - T'Challa and Nakia talk about T'Chaka's mistake that led to the creation of Killmonger.
1:35 pm - they are called back to the lab where Ross tells them about Killmonger.
The Wakandan leaders gather in the throne room. W'Kabi brings in Killmonger, who reveals himself to be N'Jadaka, N'Jobu's son, and challenges T'Challa for the throne.
Evening - T'Challa and N'Jadaka fight. N'Jadaka wounds T'Challa and kills Zuri. He then throws T'Challa off a cliff and, having won the challenge, becomes king of Wakanda.
Nakia helps Ramonda and Shuri escape. Shuri takes T'Challa's Black Panther necklace with her.
Night - Nakia returns to Okoye and asks her to help overthrow N'Jadaka. Okoye refuses.
Nakia takes Ross and they head into the forest to reunite with Ramonda and Shuri.
N'Jadaka undergoes the Black Panther ritual.
Nakia sneaks into the room and watches as N'Jadaka orders all the Heart-Shaped Herbs to be burned so that no one else can become king/Black Panther. She takes one with her.
All other Heart-Shaped Herbs are burned.
~May 14:
Jabari fisherman finds barely alive T'Challa and brings him to M'Baku.
N'Jadaka takes the second new Black Panther suit that Shuri made for T'Challa.
He orders vibranium weapons to be sent to Wakandan spies in every country in the world, so that they will start revolutions and kill those in power, their children, and anyone who opposes them. Thus, Wakanda will become the Wakandan Empire, and N'Jadaka will rule them all.
W'Kabi and Okoye argue, and W'Kabi tells her that he doesn't mind the coming war and deaths so that Wakanda can rule the world.
Evening - Nakia takes Ross, Shuri, and Ramonda to the Jabari to give them the last Herb. Jabari warriors surround them.
Night - they are brought to M'Baku, and Nakia offers him the Herb.
M'Baku takes them to T'Challa, who is in a coma.
Ramonda makes a drink from the Herb and gives it to T'Challa, restoring his health and powers.
In the Ancestral Plane, T'Challa talks to his father, who offers him to stay there. T'Challa tells him that he must stop N'Jadaka.
~May 15:
Morning - T'Challa and Co discuss the situation. Shuri gives T'Challa the Black Panther necklace with his suit.
T'Challa asks M'Baku for his army. M'Baku refuses to help.
~6 pm - N'Jadaka prepares to strike at New York, London and Hong Kong, where local "War Dogs" (spies) agree to cooperate.
Note: same places of power as in Doctor Strange, huh? Do you know any other cities, Marvel?
T'Challa shoots down one of his birds loaded with weapons.
Nakia, Shuri and Ross sneak into Shuri's lab.
N'Jadaka orders W'Kabi to kill T'Challa. The Dora Milaje attacks N'Jadaka.
The Battle of Mount Bashenga.
M'Baku and his tribe join in the midst of the battle.
Everett Ross destroys all Wakandan aircraft leaving the country with weapons.
W'Kabi and his tribe surrender to Okoye.
During their duel, T'Challa plunges his blade into N'Jadaka's chest.
~7 pm - T'Challa carries the dying N'Jadaka to watch Wakandan sunset.
T'Challa offers to heal him, but N'Jadaka declines the offer and asks to be buried in the ocean. He pulls the blade out of his chest and dies.
~May 16:
While out for a walk in the city, T'Challa kisses Nakia and asks her to stay again.
Some time later, but probably still in May 2016:
T'Challa buys the building where N'Jobu lived and died. And also two buildings next to it to create the first Wakandan International Outreach Center.
He and Shuri go to Oakland.
T'Challa places Nakia in charge of social outreach, and Shuri in charge of science and information exchange.
Probably June 2016:
At a UN meeting in Vienna, T'Challa announces that Wakanda is opening itself to the world.
Second half of 2016/2017/Early 2018:
Shuri deprograms Bucky Barnes and brings him out of cryo. The locals nickname him "White Wolf".
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