IDW timeline

A timeline for the events of IDW Publishing's mainline Transformers series.

70,000 B.C. - Beast Wars occours. Magmatron travels to Earth's distant past in search of an army. ''At this time there is not yet direct evidence The Gathering is in the same continuity as IDW's other Transformers stories.

? B.C. — Shockwave battled the Dynobots on Earth, and is deactivated in a volcanic eruption in Eureka, Nevada.

? A.D. — Thunderwing renders Cybertron uninhabitable.

1984 — Soundwave investigates Bludgeon's activities on Earth and is deactivated when Bludgeon triggers the eruption of Mount St. Helens (4 years later than in the real world.)

2002 — Current era of Transformer activity on Earth begins.