Call of Duty Timeline

Placements notes for Black Ops 1 (both the campaign and Zombies maps). Will do the DS and Mobile ports at a later date (since I believe those have unique missions/storys). Intel Docs are collectibles that you can find throughout each level and seeing as you also added diary entries from the past games onto the timeline, figured I'd add the Intel Docs as well.

1945
29th October

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 08: "Project Nova" [Black Ops Timeline]

1948
12th August

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 08: "Project Nova" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1956
25th April
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Shangri-La"
[Zombies Timeline]

1959
12th August
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 01: "Operation 40" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

1960
1st September

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 06: "The Defector" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

5th September
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05
: "S.O.G." (Intel Document 4) [Black Ops Timeline]

6th September
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 01: "Operation 40" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

5th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 01: "Operation 40" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1961
5th March
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 04: "Executive Order" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

17th April
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 01: "Operation 40" [Black Ops Timeline]

24th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 04: "Executive Order" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

Sometime between April 1961 to October 1963
????

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 14: "Revelation" (Mason being brainwashed) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 08: "Project Nova" (Reznov talking to Mason) [Black Ops Timeline]

1962
8th January
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 02: "Vorkuta" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

24th February

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05
: "S.O.G." (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

7th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 14: "Revelation" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

10th October

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 15: "Redemption" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1963
6th June
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 04: "Executive Order" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

6th October

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 02: "Vorkuta"
[Black Ops Timeline]

28th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Kino der Toten"
[Zombies Timeline]

1st November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 02: "Vorkuta" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 08: "Project Nova" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]


6th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Five"
[Zombies Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Ascension" [Zombies Timeline]


10th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 03: "U.S.D.D." [Black Ops Timeline]

17th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 04: "Executive Order" [Black Ops Timeline]

1964
24th January

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1965
13th May

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

1st September
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05
: "S.O.G." (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

1966
15th March

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 12: "Payback" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

13th May
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 10: "Crash Site" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

6th June
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 02: "Vorkuta" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

19th December

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" (Intel Document 4) [Black Ops Timeline]

1967
8th January

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 11: "WMD" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

14th April
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 07: "Numbers" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 11: "WMD" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]


20th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 13: "Rebirth" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1968
21st January

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05: "S.O.G." [Black Ops Timeline]

23rd January
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05
: "S.O.G." (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

29th January
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 06: "The Defector" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

2nd February
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 06: "The Defector" [Black Ops Timeline]

7th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 07: "Numbers" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

9th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 07: "Numbers" [Black Ops Timeline]

11th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 10: "Crash Site" [Black Ops Timeline]

15th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 10: "Crash Site" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]


18th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 11: "WMD" [Black Ops Timeline]

18th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 12: "Payback" [Black Ops Timeline]

20th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 11: "WMD" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

22nd February

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 08: "Project Nova" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

23rd February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 13: "Rebirth" [Black Ops Timeline]

25th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Cinematic Cutscenes) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 14: "Revelation" [Black Ops Timeline]

26th February

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 15: "Redemption" [Black Ops Timeline]

2nd November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 06: "The Defector" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1969
10th June
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 15: "Redemption" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

196?
????

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Dead Ops Arcade" [Zombies Timeline] (Presumably non-canon since is meant to to emulate an arcade game)

1970
2nd March
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 14: "Revelation" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

1978
27th October

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 15: "Redemption" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline] (Possibly non-canon/retconned since Black Ops 2 and Black Ops: Cold War sees Mason and co. alive and working with the CIA)

1999
29th June

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 12: "Payback" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

2011
6th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Call of the Dead"
[Zombies Timeline] (A personal favourite. I mean, who wouldn't wanna play as Freddy Krueger, Buffy, Machete and Mary Poppins Yondu Udonta fighting together as they battle zombies and a superpowered zombie George A. Romero?)

2025
13th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Moon"
[Zombies Timeline]
 
Placements notes for Black Ops 1 (both the campaign and Zombies maps). Will do the DS and Mobile ports at a later date (since I believe those have unique missions/storys). Intel Docs are collectibles that you can find throughout each level and seeing as you also added diary entries from the past games onto the timeline, figured I'd add the Intel Docs as well.

1945
29th October

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 08: "Project Nova" [Black Ops Timeline]

1948
12th August

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 08: "Project Nova" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1956
25th April
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Shangri-La"
[Zombies Timeline]

1959
12th August
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 01: "Operation 40" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

1960
1st September

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 06: "The Defector" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

5th September
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05
: "S.O.G." (Intel Document 4) [Black Ops Timeline]

6th September
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 01: "Operation 40" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

5th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 01: "Operation 40" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1961
5th March
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 04: "Executive Order" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

17th April
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 01: "Operation 40" [Black Ops Timeline]

24th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 04: "Executive Order" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

Sometime between April 1961 to October 1963
????

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 14: "Revelation" (Mason being brainwashed) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 08: "Project Nova" (Reznov talking to Mason) [Black Ops Timeline]

1962
8th January
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 02: "Vorkuta" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

24th February

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05
: "S.O.G." (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

7th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 14: "Revelation" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

10th October

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 15: "Redemption" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1963
6th June
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 04: "Executive Order" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

6th October

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 02: "Vorkuta"
[Black Ops Timeline]

28th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Kino der Toten"
[Zombies Timeline]

1st November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 02: "Vorkuta" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 08: "Project Nova" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]


6th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Five"
[Zombies Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Ascension" [Zombies Timeline]


10th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 03: "U.S.D.D." [Black Ops Timeline]

17th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 04: "Executive Order" [Black Ops Timeline]

1964
24th January

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1965
13th May

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

1st September
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05
: "S.O.G." (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

1966
15th March

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 12: "Payback" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

13th May
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 10: "Crash Site" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

6th June
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 02: "Vorkuta" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

19th December

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" (Intel Document 4) [Black Ops Timeline]

1967
8th January

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 11: "WMD" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

14th April
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 07: "Numbers" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 11: "WMD" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]


20th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 13: "Rebirth" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1968
21st January

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05: "S.O.G." [Black Ops Timeline]

23rd January
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 05
: "S.O.G." (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]

29th January
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 06: "The Defector" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

2nd February
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 06: "The Defector" [Black Ops Timeline]

7th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 07: "Numbers" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

9th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 07: "Numbers" [Black Ops Timeline]

11th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 10: "Crash Site" [Black Ops Timeline]

15th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 09: "Victor Charlie" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 10: "Crash Site" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]


18th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 11: "WMD" [Black Ops Timeline]

18th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 12: "Payback" [Black Ops Timeline]

20th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 11: "WMD" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

22nd February

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 08: "Project Nova" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

23rd February
Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 13: "Rebirth" [Black Ops Timeline]

25th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Cinematic Cutscenes) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 14: "Revelation" [Black Ops Timeline]

26th February

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 15: "Redemption" [Black Ops Timeline]

2nd November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 06: "The Defector" (Intel Document 1) [Black Ops Timeline]

1969
10th June
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 15: "Redemption" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

196?
????

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Dead Ops Arcade" [Zombies Timeline] (Presumably non-canon since is meant to to emulate an arcade game)

1970
2nd March
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Mission 14: "Revelation" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

1978
27th October

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 15: "Redemption" (Intel Document 3) [Black Ops Timeline] (Possibly non-canon/retconned since Black Ops 2 and Black Ops: Cold War sees Mason and co. alive and working with the CIA)

1999
29th June

Call of Duty: Black Ops
: Mission 12: "Payback" (Intel Document 2) [Black Ops Timeline]

2011
6th November
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Call of the Dead"
[Zombies Timeline] (A personal favourite. I mean, who wouldn't wanna play as Freddy Krueger, Buffy, Machete and Mary Poppins Yondu Udonta fighting together as they battle zombies and a superpowered zombie George A. Romero?)

2025
13th October
Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies mode: "Moon"
[Zombies Timeline]
Thanks Ma'am.
 
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Placement notes for Black Ops DS

1963
21st November

Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 07: "Hung Out To Dry" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 08: "Behind Enemy Lines" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 09: "New Alliance" [Black Ops Timeline]


1967
10th November

Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 01: "The Recovery Job" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 02: "Breaking Free" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 03: "On The Run" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 04: "Coastal Run" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 05: "To The Rescue" [Black Ops Timeline]


1968
6th February

Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 10: "Light it up!" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 06: "Welcome To The Jungle" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 11: "River Raiders" [Black Ops Timeline]


23rd February
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 12: "Last Heli Out" [Black Ops Timeline]

24th February(?)
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 13: "Stolen Wings" [Black Ops Timeline]

25th February
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 14: "To The Motherland" [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 15: "The Payback" [Black Ops Timeline]


26th February(?)
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 16: "Cold Feet" [Black Ops Timeline]

14th March

Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 01: "The Recovery Job" (Opening cutscene) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 06: "Welcome To The Jungle" (Opening cutscene) [Black Ops Timeline]

Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 13: "Stolen Wings" (Opening cutscene) [Black Ops Timeline]
Call of Duty: Black Ops DS: Mission 16: "Cold Feet" (Ending cutscene) [Black Ops Timeline]
 
A small heads up, but I don't think placements for Black Ops Mobile will be doable at this time since I cannot find a playable copy or any walkthroughs on YouTube. If anyone happens to find either, lemme know and I'll check it out.
 
Placement notes for the (IMO) underrated Call of Duty: Ghosts (the video game, not to be confused with fan-favourite character Simon "Ghost" Riley).
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Only focusing on the main campaign for this post, but I'll do placements for the Extinction mode later.

2015
8th July
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 06: "Legends Never Die" [Ghosts Timeline]


2017
10th July

Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 01: "Ghost Stories" [Ghosts Timeline]

2027
6th June

Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 02: "Brave New World" [Ghosts Timeline]

7th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 03: "No Man's Land" [Ghosts Timeline]

Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 04: "Struck Down" [Ghosts Timeline]

8th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 05: "Homecoming" [Ghosts Timeline]


15th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 07: "Federation Day" [Ghosts Timeline]


16th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 08: "Birds of Prey" [Ghosts Timeline]


17th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 09: "The Hunted" [Ghosts Timeline]


20th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 10: "Clockwork" [Ghosts Timeline]


25th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 11: "Atlas Falls" [Ghosts Timeline]


27th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 12: "Into the Deep" [Ghosts Timeline]

Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 13: "End of the Line" [Ghosts Timeline]

28th June
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 14: "Sin City" [Ghosts Timeline]


5th July
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 15: "All or Nothing" [Ghosts Timeline]

Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 16: "Severed Ties" [Ghosts Timeline]
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 17: "Loki" [Ghosts Timeline]
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 18: "The Ghost Killer" [Ghosts Timeline]

????
Call of Duty: Ghosts: Mission 18: "The Ghost Killer" (Post-credits) [Ghosts Timeline]
 
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Also, you're more than welcome to put my placement notes to use in your timeline.
thanks, Judgy, I will put them on the timeline now. I will put them on the reading order and proper edit the rest when we are in the post-WW2, cos you know Time Travel is involved.
 
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thanks, Judgy, I will put them on the timeline now. I will put them on the reading order and proper edit the rest when we are in the post-WW2, cos you know Time Travel is involved.
Ehhhh, Time Travel is only really involved in the Zombies Timelines. Anything else is usually a flashback or whatnot.
 
Considering doing placement notes for the original Modern Warfare trilogy and any spin-off content (I know there's a tie-in comic miniseries involving Ghost, as well as a live-action short). Watch this space.
 
On another note, it seems that "Ghost Stories" is also canon to the events of the Extinction mode in Ghosts, since the Federation seizing control of ODIN and the subsequent strikes on Earth is also what causes the Cryptids to awaken?

Well, this is gonna be fun.
 

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