Timeline up to Terminator Salvation
2002
Kyle Reese is born.
2003
Marcus Wright is on death row and is approached by Serena Kogen to donote his Brain and Heart for research for Cyberdyne.
The government takes over what’s left of Cyberdyne System and United States Air Force’s Cyber Research Systems division continues researching robot technology.
Skynet is being developed by the United States Air Force’s Cyber Research Systems division where Lieutenant General Robert Brewster are in charge.
July 24, 2004
After John is hurt in a motorbike accident, he and Katherine Brewster meet each other.
A T-X arrives to find and kill the future members of the resistance. It succeeds in killing several members.
A virus is unleashed and starts to break down all kinds of civilian and military communication networks.
A reprogrammed T-850 arrives to protect Katherine Brewster and John Connor and get them safe to Crystal Peak before Skynet goes online.
July 25, 2004
17:18:00 Skynet is activated by U.S General Robert Brewster. Skynet becomes self-aware.
18:18:00 First massive nuclear launch initiated.
Katherine Brewster, John Connor, and the T-850 go to Crystal Peak in hope of stopping Skynet and preventing the nuclear attack, but they find out that Skynet is not there. Instead, the T-850 brought them there to be safe from the nuclear attack.
The T-850 succeeds in destroying the T-X, but is also destroyed also.
John Connor begins to put together the Resistance.
Unknown
Marcus Wright is converted into a Prototype Terminator Infiltrator with a mission to get John Connor and Kyle Reese to Skynet. He is then buried in the ground just outside Los Angeles and laid dormant.
2018
Marcus Wright akawens and meets Kyle Reese and Star.
John Connor takes overall leadership of the resistance.
The T-800 series Terminator comes online 8 years before predicted.
Kyle Reese and Star are captured by Skynet but are successfully rescued by John Connor and Marcus Wright.
John Connor is impaled through the heart by a T-800 and Marcus Wright donotes his heart in a heart transplant to allow Connor to live.
Skynet Central is destroyed by John Connor and Kyle Reese using Terminator fuel cells as a bomb.
2029
Skynet decides to send a terminator T-800 back in time to kill Sarah.
John Connor decides to send back Kyle Reese, to protect Sarah.
John Connor manages to reprogram a T-800 and decides to send it back to protect his younger self in 1995.
Skynet decides to send a terminator T-1000 back in time to kill John Connor.
July 4, 2032
John Connor is killed by a terminator T-850.
2032
Skynet sends back a terminator T-X to 2004 to try kill several members of the Resistance.
October 28, 2033
Kathrine Brewster reprograms the terminator who killed John Connor and sends it back to 2004, before the Judgment Day to protect the younger couple of herself and John Connor.
The story continues in the Terminator Salvation timeline in 2018. A alternate timeline to this movie can be seen in Sarah Connor Chronicles. A forging between The Sarah Connor Chronicles-timeline and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines-timeline have been suggested (Not official).
