This is a listing of known dates in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series.

80 million years ago

• The Auroa archipelago is formed

16th century

• Europeans discover Auroa, but were eventually run off by the locals.

1770

• James Cook discovered Auroa.

19th century

• The Europeans came back in force to Auroa this time in search of gold, and established more permanent settlements.

1953

• Auroa was leased to the U.S. to sway Soviet influence in the area.

1970

June

• 1: Jace Skell is born in Denmark.

1980

July 20

• Hollie Mackenzie is born in the United Kingdom.
• Anthony Perryman is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1989

• Kimberly Hernandez is born in San Diego, California.

1991

• Jace Skell founded his startup, Skell Technology, in Silicon Valley.

mid-1990s

• Mads Schulz, a retired U.S. Marine who was stationed on one of those airbases in Auroa decided to start his own community, the Homesteaders that broke free from society and oppose humanity’s dependence on industrialization.

1995

• A self-driving vehicle cross the entire United States, without a human touching the wheel.

1996

• The computer Deep Blue was created. It out-smarted Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov every step of the way.

1997

• Jace Skell introduced his very first prototype drone.

2000

October 1

• Operation Mystic Tiger : During Operation Archangel, Rainbow operator Twitch mentions being in Bolivia reminded her of Brazil during Operation Mystic Tiger to Ghost operator Nomad.

2001

September

• 11: Jace Skell loses his wife in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

November

• U.S.A. first deployment of lethal drones. They have already saved countless US lives.

2002

August

• 2: Captain Victor Foyte and 8 other members of his ODA 574 team are killed in the Philippines during an Abu Sayyaf ambush.^[1]
• 18: Master Sergeant Scott Mitchell is given the Silver Star for his actions during the ambush.

2003

Classified

2004

Classified

2005

Classified

2006

Classified

2007

July

• Scott Mitchell is promoted to Captain and recruited into The Ghosts.^[1]
• 4: The USS Clarence E. Walsh is sunk, starting the Korean conflict.^[2]

September

• Conflict ends; but resumes when General Paik seizes a nuclear weapon.

December

• 22: General Paik commits suicide; his missile is destroyed, and the conflict comes to an end.

2008

• CEO Jace Skell purchased the Auroa lease from the U.S. Government.

March

20: Operation Castle.

April

• 16: Operation Iron Dragon. The Ghosts are deployed to Tbilisi, Georgia to capture Bakur Papashvili.^[3]
• 24: Operation Eager Smoke.

May

• 2: Operation: Stone Bell.
• 7: Operation: Black Needle.
• 14: Operation: Gold Mountain.

June

• 6: Operation: Witch Fire.
• 10: Operation: Paper Angel.
• 24: Operation: Zebra Straw.

July

• 3: Operation: Blue Storm.

September

• 1: Operation: Dream Knife.
• 16: Operation: Ivory Horn.
• 22: President Dmitri Arbatov has been executed.

October

• 3: Operation: Arctic Sun.
• 23: Operation: Willow Bow.

November

• 10: Operation: White Razor. Moscow is recaptured from the Ultranationalists and the 2008 Russian war comes to an end.

2009

January

• Mitchell's Ghost Team field-tests the Cross Com system during a rescue operation in Waziristan.^[1]

May

• The Eritrean war begins after Ethiopian Colonel Tesfaye Wolde launches an invasion.^[4]
• 16: Operation: Burning Sands.
• 23: Operation: Flame Pillar.
• 29: Operation: Cold Steam.

June

• 4: Operation: Quiet Angel.
• 11: Operation: Gamma Dawn.
• 16: Operation: Spectre Wind.
• 22: Operation: Subtle Keep.
• 25: Operation: Torn Banner; Wolde is killed and the conflict ends.

2010

• The Ghosts are deployed to Cuba to safeguard elections.^[5]

March

• 20: Operation: Watchful Yeoman.

April

• 3: Operation: Angel Rage.
• 12: Operation: Jaguar Maze.
• 21: Operation: Hidden Spectre.
• 27: Operation: Rapid Python.

May

• 12: Operation: Liberty Storm; Cuban election day.
• 19: Operation: Ocean Forge.

June

• 6: Operation: Righteous Archer.

August

The Ghosts are deployed to Colombia to root out the MFLC.^[6]

• 1: Operation: Totem Ground.
• 12: Operation: Mercy Sword.
• 13: Operation: Vapor Knife.
• 15: Operation: Steam Dragon.
• 16: Operation: Brave Down.
• 17: Operation: Ocelot Desert.
• 28: Operation: Ocean Hammer.
• 28: Operation: Shattered Wing.

September

• 3: Operation: Titan Bolt.
• 11: Operation: Silver Spider.
• 15: Operation: Fierce Viper.
• 28: Operation: Whisper Shadow.
• 30: Operation: Noble Strike.

October

• 7: Operation: Savage Fortress.
• 13: Operation: Eagle Clarion.
• 13: Operation: Emerald Sky.

2011

• Jace Skell created a new headquarters on Auroa.
• A UN force is deployed to Korea to neutralize General Jung Chong-Sun's aggressive expansion.
• Captain Mitchell's Ghosts are profiled on Modern Heroes television.

2012

• Operation: Partiot a classified Rainbow event mentioned by Nomad during Operation: Archangel confirmed by Caveira.
• The Ghosts are deployed to Kazakhstan to stop Asad Rahil's coup.^[7]

April

• 22: Operation War Wraith; the Spring Tigers are eliminated.^[1]

May

• The Ghosts are deployed to Afghanistan to eliminate a Taliban leader.^[8]

2013

• An RC-12 carrying Guardrail IX crashes in Nicaragua.^[9]
• NAJSA is to be signed in Mexico City. General Ontiveros launches a coup. Mitchell's team deploys and eliminates the coup leaders.

2014

• Juan de la Barrera tries to finish what General Ontiveros started.^[10]
• Mitchell is seriously wounded but still alive after stopping Barrera's nuclear warhead.

February

• 19: General Keyes calls for a review of the future of warfare. Mitchell is profiled by Colonel Harris.^[11]

2015

Classified

2016

Harmony Fox is born in San Diego.

2017

Classified

2018

Classified

2019

• Kimberly was offered a position in Ghost Recon at the age of 30. Readily accepting the offer, she successfully completed her training and was assigned primarily to missions where her strong capacity for adaptation in any environment and exemplary hand-to-hand combat skills have been deemed essential. She was given the callsign Fury.
• The Santa Blanca Cartel turns Bolivia into a narco-state.^[12]
• The Ghosts are sent to Venezuela to rescue American hostages from rogue troops.^[13]

July

• 27: A bomb explodes at the US embassy in Bolivia.
• A few days later, undercover agent Ricky Sandoval is found executed.
• A Ghost team known as Kingslayer Team led by Nomad under Operation Kingslayer is then sent to Bolivia to disrupt the cartel,^[14] as the actions move Santa Blanca to the number four spot on the terrorist list.
• Operation: Kingslayer The Ghosts team up with the Fourth Echelon leader Sam Fisher to delete classified intel sold to Unidad.
• Operation: Watchman Sam Fisher is deployed to Bolivia in order to recover sensitive intelligence data from a rogue CIA officer. Fisher has Fourth Echelon contact Karen Bowman and borrow the Ghost team to assist in his mission.
• Operation: Archangel The Ghosts team up with Rainbow Six operatives to rescue a cartel spy.
• Operation: Silent Spade The Ghosts team up with Scott Mitchell and a young Ghost Recon recruit John Kozak to stop a plan to launch uranium-based weapons in Bolivia.
• Operation: Oracle The Ghosts teams up with a fellow Ghost Major Cole D. Walker who's Nomad's friend to stop a conspiracy involving a spy working towards a top secret drone program for Unidad.
• Operation: Narco Road was a secret operation that occurred simultaneously with Operation Kingslayer to find "El Invisible", a mysterious Buchon of the Santa Blanca cartel responsible for their international smuggling network.
• The Ghosts successfully disrupt the cartel's operations. The rebels are left leaderless. The cartel leader known as El Sueno is brought into custody for information about other criminal organization in exchange for his safety.

Later

• Bolivia is in disarray after the fall of the cartel. With the ensuing power vacuum, the Bolivian government hired private military company Los Extranjeros to assist Unidad establish control over a section of Bolivia, working with Santa Blanca remnants. Nomad and the Ghosts are sent to recover remaining US personnel and assets, but their chopper is shot down.
• The Ghosts eliminate Los Extranjeros leaders, recover the remaining assets and exfiltrate the country. Bolivia is set for a brighter future with the cartel, Unidad and the mercenary group gone.

2020

• Mitchell briefs Alpha Team during the Sri Lankan conflict.^[15]
• Drone production begins on Auroa.

2021

• Two years later after Operation Kingslayer, the CIA uncovered El Invisible location in a shack in Arizona and sent the Ghost infiltrator to tie up the loose ends.
• The insurgent/ultranationalist conflict.^[16]
  • Bravo Team members Dalton Hibbard and Joe Booth neutralize General Maxim Cherskiy.^[17]
  • A Ghost Lead tries to locate Aleksandr Treskayev.^[16]
• A Ghost Team searches for a nuclear weapon under cover from the H.A.W.X. Program.^[18]
• A Ghost Team is deployed to stop Yuri Treskayev.^[19]

June

• The Artemis Global Security conflict.^[20]

2022

February

• 22: Cole D. Walker, Josiah Hill, and Nomad partake in covert operations in the Middle-East. Hill forms a bond with Walker in Afghanistan.

2023

• Operation "Take Down Overlord".^[21]

October

• 14: A The Ghosts is deployed to Russia to neutralize General Sokolov.^[22]

2024

• Auroa is home to more than 30,000 souls. Internal security has been entrusted to the Private Military Company named Sentinel Corp.
• Ghost Recon is reconstituted as the Group for Specialized Tactics.
• The Nicaraguan rebellion; the Ghosts neutralize corrupt President Raphael Rivera.^[23]
• Andrew Ross leads a Ghost Team to rescue agent Delgado; they shut down a Bedayat jadeda network.^[24]

March

• Joe Ramirez's Ghost Team Predator is killed by an ambush in Nicaragua.
• 3: Operation: Nimble Guardian.
• 28: Operation: Subtle Arrow.

April

• 9: Operation: Noble Tempest.
• Raven's Rock coup begins.
• 17: Operation: Tiger Dust.
• 24: Operation: Silent Talon.

May

• 12: Operation: Firefly Rain.
• 14: Operation: Ember Hunt.

June

• 2: Operation: Deep Fire.

July

• 13: Operation: Valiant Hammer.
  • Ghosts are saved by the help of H.A.W.X. Squadron missile strike on enemy tank.
• 18: Operation: Gallant Thief.
• 21: Operation: Invisible Bear.
• 23: Operation: Shattered Mountain.

September

• 21: Operation: Secure Dawn.
• 21: Operation: Cold Walker.
• 22: Operation: Argent Thunder.

2025

• The naval cargo ship, USS Seay, sinks near the Auroa Archipelago, home of Skell Technology.
• Operation: Greenstone 32 Ghosts are sent to the island aboard the USS Wasp in Operation: Greenstone, where Nomad is later stranded in Auroa after a helicopter crash from a drone swarm.
• Cole D. Walker takes over the island along with Sentinel Corps and sends the order to kill invading Ghosts teams. Weaver is among the Ghosts who perish.
• Nomad later thwarts Walker's plan by finding Jace Skell and working with his colleagues to destroy Walker's war drone submarine, using a virus uploaded into Sentinel's system. Walker is killed by Nomad.
• Operation: Checkmate Nomad halts the production of a top secret drone program called the CLAW, which allows the user to control drones with their mind. Nomad tracks down 5 people in charge of the project to go after the leader, the Leon Fairrow aka the Strategist and teams up with Fourth Echelon leader and Splinter Cell operative Sam Fisher once more to capture the Strategist and take him back to the United States congress to face justice.
• Operation Red Patriot Sentinel and Trey Stone hire the Russian ultranationalist group called Raven's Rock to proceed with the Wonderland Conspiracy via alternative methods by releasing toxic gas in the United States. Colonel Mitchell dispatches Nomad to take down various leaders behind the Red Patriot operation, before finally killing Trey Stone. The Conspiracy is over and the people responsible back in the States and Russian Federation are arrested.
• Operation Amber Sky Team Rainbow operators Ash, Finka and Thatcher, plus Lesion as contact, arrive on Auroa to help the Ghosts stop Sentinel from manufacturing and selling a chemical weapon called Amber Ruin.

3 months later

• Nomad and the remaining Ghost team are evacuated from the Auroa archipelago. Auroa becomes the target of a race against time for the plunders of technology left behind sought after by powerful countries. The rogue Russian special forces group Bodark is secretly working towards recovering the technology and plans to false flag the Russian Federation into starting World War III by committing atrocities in the archipelago while disguised with Russian military uniforms and equipment.
• Operation: Motherland Nomad and the Ghosts are once again sent to help the Outcasts establish peace on the islands and set up a proper unified government with the Central Intelligence Agency's backing, with CIA agent Karen Bowman working as the handler for the operation.

2034

• 20 years into the future, the Ghosts fight a group of ex-soldiers known as the Phantoms in an unstable world.^[25]

Alternate Future (World War III)

• World War III has occurred in an alternate 2020.^[26]

The Ultimate Tom Clancy Game Chronology Timeline

Appearances

• See Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon (media franchise)

Notes and references