2011

"At ease, soldier! Look, I'm sorry about that little show back there, but we thought it best to break it to you slowly." "Break what?" "You've been asleep, Cap. For almost 70 years."

- Nick Fury and Steve Rogers

This is a timeline of events that occurred in 2011.

14

 * Tony Stark gives James Rhodes a new version of the War Machine armor.

5

 * In the Arctic, a Russian oil team discovers the crashed Valkyrie. Eighteen hours later, SHIELD agents are dispatched to the area, and exploring the wreckage they find the body of Steve Rogers, who is still alive and cryogenically preserved in the ice.

7

 * Steve Rogers' body is thawed out of the ice, and he is taken to New York City.

8

 * Rogers wakes up and tries to run away from SHIELD Headquarters building but is stopped by Nick Fury in Times Square.

9

 * Rogers is sent to stay at the Retreat for some time.