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Media by Chronology[]

Distant Past[]

  • 12M.A.: By this point, the Na'vi have evolved on Pandora. For the next 12 million years, the Na'vi experience few evolutionary changes or changes in population numbers.[1]
  • ?: The life of Taronyu, the first Na'vi to ride a banshee.[2]
  • The Omatikaya Hometree existed over 20,000 years before the events of Avatar.[3]

9th Century BC[]

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Toruk - The First Flight occurs

21st century[]

  • In the early 21st century, the Resources Development Administration (RDA) is formed in Silicon Valley, California when its two founders borrow money from friends and family to begin the company.[6]
  • In the early 21st century, the first maglev trains go into operation.[7]
  • Sometime prior to 2048, the Bengal Tiger goes extinct.[8]
  • At some point between 2030 and 2057, the planet Coeus (later known as Polyphemus) is discovered using a ground based telescope named COSIN.[9]
  • By the middle of the century, the first combat exoskeletons are used.[10]
  • The RDA proposes a worldwide mass transit system.
  • The late 21st century is blighted by numerous conflicts. These were often short, bloody clashes against rogue governments and terrorist factions.
  • At some point between 2050 and 2077, Pandora is discovered by human astronomers using a space telescope.[11]

2077[]

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The third craft is dropped from orbit.

  • Latest possible date for the launch of the craft bearing the ROVRs, the first landings on Pandora.

2084[]

  • The first mission on the surface of Pandora is established; two remotely operated ROVRs that are dropped from orbit by ISV Bradbury[12] A third follows soon after on the ISV Venture Star and travels across a sixty meter wide patch of rainforest, investigating plant and animal life.[13][14]

Early 22nd century[]

  • Sometime prior to 2146, Quaritch is involved in a conflict in Nigeria.[15]
  • Sometime during this century, the Pandoran Research Foundation is formed as a collaboration between the RDA and leading Earth scientists to find uses on Earth for Pandoran resources.[16]

2101[]

  • On June 21st, the OPS console (which would later be located outside the jail cell Jake, Grace and Norm were stuck in) was manufactured.[17]

2102 or 2103[]

2103 or 2104[]

2117[]

2119[]

  • Mass colonization on Pandora begins sometime close to this year.[21]

2124[]

2126[]

2129[]

  • By this year, Earth has undergone significant deforestation coupled with the almost total extinction of wildlife on land and in the oceans.
  • The SecOps are founded.[26]

2130s[]

2136[]

  • Birth of Neytiri.[27]
  • Grace Augustine receives her avatar around this year.[28]

2138[]

2140s[]

  • Sometime early in the 2140s, an accident during tectonic subduction exercises in a deep-sea trench induces a tremendous tsunami that engulfs a large section of the Pacific coast.[30]
  • Sometime between 2143 and 2148[31], a huge intra-continental war rocks the Earth. Jake Sully is deployed into active service in Venezuela with the Marines and is paralyzed by a spinal injury.

2142[]

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Grace begins teaching Na'vi children at the school house.

  • Around or in this year, many children of the Omatikaya Clan and avatars fall ill with a mysterious disease and Mo'at and Grace figure out the cause and create a cure with the help of the Tawkami Clan made from the flower of syekalin.
  • A school house for the Na'vi is founded.

2145[]

2146[]

  • A group of Na'vi children involved in TAP attempt to escape, but they are stopped and John Mercer shoots Aha'ri to death.

2148[]

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Jake is found by the RDA.

  • Summer: Tom Sully is mugged and killed.[33]
  • The Beijing Zoo successfully clones a few Bengal Tiger cubs, bringing them back from extinction.[34]
  • July 7: Jake Sully picks a fight in a bar and is thrown out.[33] RDA agents approach him and inform him about the Avatar Program.[35]
  • Tom Sully is cremated.[35]
  • July 28: Jake Sully and some marines leave Earth on ISV Venture Star for Pandora.[35]

2149[]

2150s[]

  • The events of the main series mostly take place in the 2150s, including the Pandoran War.

2152[]

Tsu'tey (young) holding the body of Sylwanin

A young Tsu'tey holding Sylwanin's body

  • The Na'vi children in the old school house are attacked. Grace manages to save most of them, but Sylwanin is killed.[33]

2154[]

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Jake awakens after cryosleep on May 19.

  • Miles Socorro is born at Hell's Gate sometime this year but not past August 23.
  • The events of Avatar, Avatar: Brothers and Avatar: Tsu'tey's Path occur.
  • May 19: at 17:09, Jake Sully and Norm Spellman (along with other personnel) arrive on Pandora and meet Grace; they are shown their avatar bodies for the first time and Jake records his first video log.[35]
  • May 20: At 8:00, Jake and Norm Spellman take their avatars out for the first time.[35]
  • May 21/22: After meditation at the Tree of Souls with Neytiri, Mo'at, and Eytukan, Tsu'tey takes his hunter trainees out for training, which spills into the following day. At 9:00, Trudy Chacón takes Grace, Jake, Norm and Lyle Wainfleet into Pandora's forests; Jake is chased by a thanator, he meets Neytiri who takes him to the Omatikaya clan. Tsu'tey and his trainees, who originally tried capturing Jake earlier in the night, express doubt about the elders' decision to let Jake stay, but Tsu'tey respects Eytukan's decision. Neytiri and Tsu'tey discuss matters at the Tree of Voices after Neytiri interrupts Tsu'tey during his attempt to commune with Sylwanin.[37]
  • May 22: Jake is told his mission: to remove the Omatikaya from their Hometree.[35]
  • May ?: In an evening, Dr. Max Patel sees Jake describing the Hometree to the marines. Presumably, he notifies Grace, who decides to move away from the base.[35]
  • May ?: On the next day, Trudy takes Grace, Jake, Norm and their avatars to the Hallelujah Mountains.[35]
  • May 30: At 21:32, Jake records his twelfth video log at Site 26.[35]
  • June 29: Jake records his 42nd video log at Site 26, around a month after the team arrived there.[35]
  • June or August ?: Jake persuades Mo'at to let Grace visit the village again.[35]
  • August ?: Jake kills a hexapede and becomes a taronyu (hunter).[35]
  • August ?: Ka'ani and Saeyla tame direhorses. After some discussion between Eytukan and Tsu'tey, it's decided that Jake, Ka'ani, and Saeyla should undergo the banshee taming right of passage the following day. Tsu'tey communes with the spirit of Sylwanin at the Tree of Voices.[38]
  • August ?: Jake tames a banshee and becomes an Ikran Makto along with Ka'ani and Saeyla. During the night at the Tree of Voices, Neytiri reveals to Tsu'tey that Grace has returned to the village.
  • August ?: Neytiri takes Jake to the Tree of Souls.[35]
  • August 13: Jake is threatened by a great leonopteryx. That night, Neytiri tells him about her grandfather's grandfather who was the fifth Toruk Makto.[35]
    • At 23:00, Jake starts showing doubts about who he is on his video log number 87.[35]
  • August ?: Jake returns to the base and reports to Colonel Quaritch.[35]
  • August 18: Jake is accepted as one of The People, Jake and Neytiri mate at the Tree of Voices.[35]
  • August 19: RDA Bulldozers level the Tree of Voices. After Jake damaged the cameras of one bulldozer, Quaritch leaves for Site 26 to take them back to the base. Jake, Grace and Norm are confined to Hell's Gate.[35]
    • The Omatikaya take revenge, attacking the bulldozers and escorts that destroyed the Tree of Voices.[33]
  • August 20:
  • August 21: At dawn, the Omatikaya arrive at the Tree of Souls. The link shack lands somewhere nearby.[35]
    • Jake tames a great leonopteryx.[35] After dropping onto the great leonopteryx and bonding with it, he persuades the creature to form a temporary partnership with him to protect Pandora, illustrating his point with mythological tales he and his brother enjoyed. Together, they confront an RDA soldier on a Scorpion Gunship before leaving to find the Omatikaya.[39] As Toruk Makto, Jake finds the Omatikaya at the Tree of Souls.[35]
    • At night, Grace succumbs to her wounds and dies.[35]
  • August 22: Jake and Neytiri gather 15 Na'vi clans (including the Omatikaya, Olangi, Tayrangi and Trr'ong clans).[35]
    • Max tells Jake that the base is mobilized for a preemptive attack.[35]
  • Neytiri flying Mountain Banshee

    The assault on the Tree of Souls on August 23rd

    August 23: At 6:00, the Assault on the Tree of Souls begins. Trudy, Tsu'tey, Lyle Wainfleet, Paz Socorro and Quaritch die in the battle. The Na'vi prevail.[35]
  • With the battle having gone in the Na'vi's favor, John Mercer orders the termination of all Na'vi students in The Ambassador Program. Their teacher Alma Cortez refuses, and instead puts the students into cryosleep.[29]
  • August 24: Jake makes his last log entry. His consciousness is permanently transferred to his avatar.[35]
  • September: The events of Avatar: The Next Shadow occur. The Omatikaya clan has temporarily relocated to an area near Hell's Gate.[40]
  • September 7: Ka'ani interferes with Katherine Hale's plans to establish a new mine for Hell's Gate. Arvok is coerced into a plan to kill Jake by his parents. Arvok challenges Jake to First Blood; Jake wins but is accidentally poisoned by Arvok with a knife his mother had laced with poison. Jake enters a coma.[40]
  • September 8: With help from Katherine Hale, Mo'at crafts an antidote for Jake and cures him. Artsut, Ateyo, and Arvok are banished from the Omatikaya clan.[40] Jake and Neytiri visit Jake's human body one more time.

2155[]

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Neteyam is born in 2155.

2156[]

2157[]

2160s[]

c. 2161[]

  • The Na'vi begin coordinating and training themselves to fight the RDA in case they ever return to Pandora.[41]

2163[]

2168[]

  • The RDA returns between January 2168 and August 2168.[42]
    • The scene in the prologue of Avatar: The Way of Water occurs during this time, specifically the one where Jake and Neytiri escape the forest burning.
    • The events of Avatar: The High Ground begin during this time. The Na'vi begin preparing against the RDA's return en-masse and begin training in zero gravity.

2169[]

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Concept art of Bridgehead

  • Avatar: The High Ground continues into this year.[43]
    • The Na'vi confront Frances Ardmore in outer space.
    • Josh Winslow and Meg Elkins are killed.
    • The RDA retakes Hell's Gate and by this point, the RDA begins retaking all of Pandora.
  • The city of Bridgehead undergoes major development this year due to advanced 3D printing, while Jake has been leading the resistance against the RDA.
  • Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora occurs in this year.[29]
    • After fifteen years of cryosleep, the students of The Ambassador Program wake up, emerging into a world where the RDA and Na'vi are at war. With the aid of the Resistance, the students set out on a journey to link with their heritage and explore Pandora.[29]

2170s[]

2170[]

Tonowari and Ronal prepare for battle

The skirmish about to begin

  • Most of Avatar: The Way of Water occurs in this year, presumably in the first half of the year.[44]
    • Months pass as the Sully family stays with the Metkayina clan, and Ronal's pregnancy progresses. The children learn how to freedive and about the marine life in the Eastern Sea.
    • Lo'ak befriends the tulkun Payakan after Aonung strands Lo'ak in the ocean.
  • It is strongly suggested The Way of Water has a final week of sorts, which begins about halfway throughout the film, since in a deleted scene, Ardmore is seen telling Quaritch she will give him a SeaDragon for only one week to search for Jake. Additionally, Ronal is heavily pregnant when she chastises Lo'ak for bonding with Payakan. From this point on, many condensed events occur in a short period of time:
  • Avatar: Reckoning is suggested to begin this year.[45]

2175[]

2179[]

  • On June 20th, a batch of emergency oxygen, which was on Pandora in 2154, expires.[47]

Near Future[]

After a six year trip back to Earth, the Pandoran Research Foundation starts the Avatar: Discover Pandora exhibition, with samples collected by Avatar Program scientists, to educate people on Earth about Pandora.[48] The exhibit is one of many PRF projects intended to teach Earth civilians about environmental concerns using Pandora as a point of comparison. Norm contributes to the exhibition and is featured in video recordings.
The Avatar Network is created to encourage unaffiliated experts and interested civilians to help contribute to the PRF knowledge base.
The PRF starts laying the groundwork for future eco-tourism on Pandora.

Distant Future[]

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Jaclyn Ogden in her avatar

  • Generations after the human-Na'vi conflicts,[49] humans are being welcomed back to Pandora.[50]
  • Human expats start having children on Pandora, ushering in the first generation of humans born on the moon.[51]
  • Alpha Centauri Expeditions begins offering civilian eco-tourism trips to Pandora.[52]
The events of Pandora: The World of Avatar.
  • By this point, Jaclyn Ogden has found a way to overcome the DNA limitations of the avatars.

Non-canon Events[]

The following events took place in non-canon material.

2114[]

2132[]

  • Latest possible date Able Ryder joins the army.

2134[]

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Ryan Lorenz is murdered.

2137[]

  • Latest possible date Able Ryder excels at Signals and Decoding.

2141[]

  • Latest possible date Able Ryder joins the RDA.

2142[]

2146[]

  • Dr. Anson Langley arrives on Pandora, working for the Avatar Program.

2147[]

2150s[]

2152[]

References[]

  1. The World of Avatar: A Visual Exploration, p.g. 64
  2. https://www.cirquedusoleil.com/toruk/pandora?explore
  3. The World of Avatar: A Visual Exploration page ??
  4. Toruk - The First Flight took place 3,000 years before the events of the film, and their ages were both 15 at the time.
  5. https://www.facebook.com/torukthefirstflight/videos/1282373775121924/ Interview. 3,000 years before 2154, also accounting for the lack of a 0 AD in the modern calendar, places it at around 837 BC.
  6. James Cameron's Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide, page 147
  7. James Cameron's Avatar: The Game Pandorapedia entry for Floating Mountains
  8. News presenter in 2148 says "The Bengal Tiger, extinct for over a century, is making a comeback." Heard in Jake's room in the Earth intro of Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition.
  9. Pandora was discovered in 'the late 21st century' ie 2050 at the earliest, and Polyphemus two decades beforehand (in 2030 at the earliest), according to Avatar: The Game's Pandorapedia. The first landings on Pandora were in 2084, so allowing time for travel it was discovered in 2077 at the latest, providing us with a latest-possible discovery for Polyphemus in 2057.
  10. James Cameron's Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide pg. 11
  11. Avatar: The Game's Pandorapedia describes the discovery as taking place in 'the late 21st century; ie after 2050. 2077 is the latest possible date that the ROVR mission could have launched, considering it arrived in 2084.
  12. In-game wiki entries for Drop Pod in Pandora ROVR.
  13. http://work.akqa.com/mcdonalds/avatar/
  14. Humanity must have established its first satellite around Pandora by this point, as satellite navigation was already available to the team.
  15. In Avatar Quaritch was head of security on Pandora for at least two years - plus the journey time to get to Pandora.
  16. https://www.avatar.com/about
  17. https://www.yourprops.com/yellow-OPS-Console-original-movie-prop-Avatar-2009-YP808905.html
  18. Avatar: The Way of Water: The Visual Dictionary mentions he was 51 at death, although it is unknown if he was turning 52 this year.
  19. Avatar script: "DR. GRACE AUGUSTINE sits up in her link, stretching and cracking her neck after a long session. She's fifty, with a strong face and fiercely intelligent eyes." Note that she may have been 51 at death because her birthday may have been during the three months.
  20. Avatar: The Way of Water: The Visual Dictionary
  21. MTV: James Cameron: "Because when we drop in, even in the first film in, as it will be known in the future, we're dropping into a process that's 35 years in to a whole colonization."
  22. The World of Avatar: A Visual Exploration
  23. Avatar: Adapt or Die
  24. Avatar Script, page 2
  25. In Avatar Jake mentions it is his birthday in his final video log. Also, as he and Tom were twins, they must have been born the same day and year.
  26. Propaganda poster celebrating 25 years.
  27. Avatar Script, page 35
  28. https://www.stanwinstonschool.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-avatar-part-two
  29. 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 https://www.gameinformer.com/preview/2023/06/12/becoming-one-with-nature-and-guns
  30. Pandorapedia article for Able Ryder.
  31. Jake Sully was in active service in the war, meaning he had to be over 17. He left the planet in 2148.
  32. In Avatar Grace states that Tom trained for three years.
  33. 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 33.4 Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition
  34. Mentioned on Jake's TV in Avatar: Extended Collector's Edition.
  35. 35.00 35.01 35.02 35.03 35.04 35.05 35.06 35.07 35.08 35.09 35.10 35.11 35.12 35.13 35.14 35.15 35.16 35.17 35.18 35.19 35.20 35.21 35.22 35.23 35.24 35.25 35.26 35.27 35.28 35.29 Avatar
  36. https://www.pandorapedia.com/human_operations/vehicles/scorpion_gunship.html
  37. Avatar: Tsu'tey's Path, issue 1 and other issues in the miniseries cover events that weren't shown in the original movie
  38. Avatar: Tsu'tey's Path, issue 2
  39. Avatar: Brothers
  40. 40.0 40.1 40.2 Avatar: The Next Shadow
  41. Jake mentions they have been training for seven years in The High Ground, volume 2
  42. The Avatar site mentions there are 13 years instead of 14 years between the final battle of Avatar and the Sky People returning. 2154 + 13 is 2167, but this is too low considering the "one year later" claim in The Way of Water since The Way of Water must also be set in 2170 provided the Tuktirey information. Because the final battle was set near the end of 2154, it can be rounded up to 2155 which makes both claims make sense, using the logic that a length such as "a year and 4 months" or even "a year and 7 months" can simply be rounded down to "one year later" for the convenience of storytelling. Additionally, Spider says the battle was 14 years ago during The High Ground, suggesting 2168 because 2168 - 14 = 2154, the year of the battle.
  43. Jake mentions 15 years have passed in The High Ground, volume 2
  44. Avatar: The Way of Water: The Visual Dictionary mentions Tuktirey was born in 2163 and is also 7 years old, meaning it's impossible for the movie to be set before 2170.
  45. Although a year has not been provided, Lily Reese is said to have "not been on Pandora 16 years ago".
  46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LF1RonbhSQ&t=216s
  47. https://www.yourprops.com/Emergency-Respirator-original-movie-prop-Avatar-2009-YP61858.html
  48. http://www.avatardiscoverpandora.com/about-the-exhibition/
  49. The World of Avatar: A Visual Exploration, p.g. 65
  50. http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/08/15/d23-2015-pandora-the-world-of-avatar-details-unveiled
  51. https://www.visitpandora.com/about
  52. http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/08/17/d23-2015-pandora-the-world-of-avatar-preview-images
  53. Calculated by the fact that, by the time of the tsunami accident, he has been a soldier for around 9 years, joined at the age of 18.
  54. James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (iOS/Android)
  55. 55.0 55.1 55.2 55.3 55.4 55.5 55.6 James Cameron's Avatar: The Game
  56. Pandorapedia entry for Lost Cathedral
  57. Lungoray appeared in the game, and he died in 2152.
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