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"Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop -- ever! Until you are dead."



TERMINATOR FRANCHISE MILESTONES



DATE



FICTIONAL TERMINATOR EVENTS



May 12, 1984

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Present-day events of The Terminator commence in the film on May 12, 1984.

The Terminator is sent from the future (2029) to kill Sarah Connor; she is protected by Kyle Reese; Sarah becomes pregnant.
The Terminator franchise is born to proud parents James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd.
October 26, 1984

The Terminator




February 28, 1985
John Connor is born.















Terminator 2: Judgment Day premieres. James Cameron shoots and prints over one million feet of film to create the movie, which many fans consider to be superior to the original. The film holds the record for biggest opening-weekend box office gross (over $52 million) until the 2003 debut of The Matrix Reloaded.July 3, 1991

Terminator 2: Judgment Day













1995
Year of events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

1997

Sarah Connor dies of leukemia

Sarah Connor dies of leukemia (documented in Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines) -- "No fate but what we make."










August 4, 1997
Skynet goes online.
August 29 marks the anniversary of the Soviet Union's first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1949.
0214 EST, August 29, 1997
Skynet becomes self-aware and initiates nuclear war.

The date of the original "Judgment Day."















Release of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The film marks Arnold Schwarzenegger's last starring role before being elected governor of California, October 7, 2003.July 2, 2003

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines




July 24, 2004, 6:18 PM
The exact date and time of Judgment Day.

















Los Angeles, 2029

Los Angeles, 2029

Future events of The Terminator film franchise anchor in the cataclysmic events of 2029:

  • Two T-800s sent back in time
  • T-1000 sent back to May 13, 1995
  • The Resistance sends friendly T-800 back to protect the boy John Connor








July 4, 2032
John Connor is terminated by a T-101 that infiltrates the Resistance.


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