Transformers Animated timeline

This timeline covers the history of the Transformers Animated cartoon continuity.

10 BYA

 * After the Autobots awakened in the "present", Ratchet stated that "We've been around for 10 billion years."  It is not made explicit, but from the context it seemed as if he was referring to the Transformer race as a whole.

Some year

 * A crew of Autobot repairbots working on a damaged space bridge gateway stumbled upon the lost All Spark (Animated). After a battle with Megatron and the Nemesis, their ship crashes to Earth, settling underwater in Lake Erie.

50 years later

 * The Autobot repair crew awakened and became celebrities in the city of Detroit.