Yeah, that was our reasoning for
Inhumans. It could really place anywhere, because it's very non-specific and doesn't
have to be before October 30, 2016 because a) the simulation could be wrong - although it seems very specific and high-tech, and b) that's more about the end of the Terrigen dispersal than the end of the actual outbreak. But especially with it being referred to as "recent", we felt that the October 30, 2016 cap to the placement made sense.
And yeah, we have the main events of
Captain America: Civil War in mid-to-late June 2016. Again, it's a personal preference thing, and I totally get why you've gone with April with the March newspaper and the April FedEx package. But our reasoning for it is:
*
WHiH World News made it very clear with the
Ant-Man stuff that it is real time, (
here,
here,
here, and in dialogue about how Scott will be released on "July 17th" and then in that week saying "this week" and things like that. And while the
Captain America: Civil War content was less explicit about being set in real time, it made sense to us that if part of it is real time, it all is. If it had no actual evidence that it was also real time though and was firmly contradicted, we would have also moved it back, but with
this Earth Day tweet on the right day, April 22nd, we saw confirmation that it was meant to be real time.
WHiH shows the Lagos event to be on May 3, 2016, and then the news says when Steve talks to Wanda that that was "last month" (as well as
Spider-Man: Homecoming Prelude showing the Vienna bombing as "one month later"), placing at least from Ross visiting to the bombing in Vienna, 3 days later (Ross says the Accords will be ratified in 3 days when he visits), all in June 2016.
*We went with September 2016 for
Spider-Man: Homecoming. There was, of course, the contradictory decathlon posters, but we went with the September 14th one because it lined up with the sticker the actress from the decathlon team shared online and the September 23rd homecoming tickets posted online by an extra and revealed on display at a Tokyo event. Plus, the fact that, at least for us, having
Homecoming begin in early September meant we
could actually make the "two months later" work, when we couldn't with it in October. Now, the days of the week presented in
Homecoming are an absolute contradictory mess, but we concluded that the best date (again, just using real world days of the week) for him going to school "two months later" is Thursday, September 8, 2016, with Liz's party the next day being said later in the film to have been "Friday", and the September 14th Washington incident being within the week after. Working back and assuming rounding, with
Civil War finishing up in late June 2016, it could just about work as approximately 2.4 months.
*Peggy is shown in
Emancipation to have been born "April 9, 1921" and died aged "95", placing her death between April 9, 2016 and April 8, 2017. Mid-to-late June worked with this, but early April didn't. Although, admittedly, Peggy's date of birth is all over the place. Peggy's birthday's a bit all over the place.
Her files on display at a USC event and shown in a deleted scene from
The Avengers say April 9, 1919, her medical exam from
The Iron Ceiling is from when she was "26 ⁴/₁₂" at some point before April 1946 which would mean she was born before December 1919, the
Civil War prop released online with the order of service for her funeral says "1921-2016", her obituary in
Emancipation says "April 9, 1921" and that she died aged "95", and
this video says Peggy is "91" in The Winter Soldier. Since
The Winter Soldier is definitively, regardless of debate, between July 2013 and July 2014 (Steve says "I'm 95"), it places her date of birth between July 1921 and July 1923.
1919: Prop on show, deleted scene, tiny prop in
The Iron Ceiling.
1920/1921 (depending on where you place
Civil War): Age in paper in
Emancipation.
1921: Prop posted online, date in paper in
Emancipation
1922: Makeup people.
And if you do some calculating based on Hayley Atwell's age during filming for everything, it would make Peggy's date of birth closer to c. 1914...
But still, 1921 held the most weight in terms of on-screen evidence.
The final exact dates was us making sure the
Civil War dates fell before Peter broke up for summer and using real world days of the week, working with the "Samstag" newspaper in the
Homecoming deleted scene and Tony saying Peter was gone for the "weekend" in
Homecoming. The days of the week thing is just a product of the fact that everything is dated specifically at the wiki even if only ballpark dates are given, so if it could be within a few different days, we use the real days of the week to date it. For whatever reason, a lot of the conversations I've had so far on here have happened to go into the days of the week thing, which is something we rarely implement, but oh well. Anyway, overall, we go with:
*April 9, 1921 - Peggy born.
*April 22, 2016 -
WHiH tweets in real time about Earth Day.
*May 3, 2016 -
WHiH posts in real time about the attack in Lagos.
*Sat, June 18, 2016 - Peggy dies, aged 95.
*Sun, June 19, 2016 - Lagos was "last month". Ross visits. Accords will be ratified in 3 days. Zemo kills Karpov. Steve finds out about Peggy.
*Wed, June 22, 2016 - Vienna. "One month later" after Peter stops a car on the same day as Lagos.
*Thu, June 23, 2016 - Bucky is taken to Germany. Bucky escapes. Tony picks up Peter for the "weekend" (and Friday, which fits because Peter is concerned about dropping out of school).
*Thu, June 23, 2016/Fri, June 24, 2016 (time zones) - Airport fight.
*Fri, June 24, 2016 - Siberia.
*Sat, June 25, 2016 - Happy gives Peter the Samstag newspaper in a deleted scene.
*Early hours of Sun, June 26, 2016 - Tony returns Peter home, said at the same Tokyo event mentioned earlier to be 48 hours after the airport fight, after Tony had him for "the weekend".
*(June 29, 2016 -
Black Panther begins.)
*(July 6, 2016 - Final fight with Killmonger.)
*Thu, September 8, 2016 - 2.4 months after Tony dropped him home, "two months later",
Homecoming picks up.
Just thought I should explain our reasoning there over
Civil War.
Our estimate with
Inhumans was based on a halfway point between Vienna on June 22, 2016 and the end of the Terrigen dispersal on October 30, 2016, giving us late August 2016 as an approximation. But if you're using the same logic, with
Civil War in April, you'd be more likely to place it around July 2016.
