Editing 2005 IDW timeline

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

'''70,000 B.C.''' - [[Beast Wars]] occours.  [[Magmatron (BW)|Magmatron]] travels to Earth's distant past in search of an army. {{Storylink|The Gathering}} ''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 (G1)|Shockwave]] battled the [[Dynobots]] on [[Earth]], and is deactivated in a volcanic eruption in [[Wikipedia:Eureka, Nevada|Eureka, Nevada]].<ref>Exact time unknown, overlaps mammoth extinction, 10,000 years ago has been suggested.</ref>

'''? A.D.''' — [[Thunderwing (G1)|Thunderwing]] renders Cybertron uninhabitable.<ref>700 stellar-cycles ago, presumptively ~700 years ago.</ref>

'''1984''' — [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] investigates [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon's]] activities on [[Earth]] and is deactivated when Bludgeon triggers the eruption of [[Wikipedia:Mount St. Helens|Mount St. Helens]] <small>(4 years later than in the real world.)</small> {{Storylink|Spotlight: Soundwave}}

'''2002''' — Current era of Transformer activity on Earth begins.

==References==
<references/><div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [http://transformers.wikia.com Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki], a [http://www.wikia.com Wikia] wiki.</small></div>