Hello everybody! This is my first Iron Man/Avengers fic! Please read the prolog. You will be lost without it, because I changed a shit-ton of history. Seriously, it's really important.

disclaimer : I own nothing. thanks and enjoy!

-December 9, 1939-

Howard Stark is born.

-July 4, 1940-

Steve Rogers is born.

-1957-

Stark industries is founded, and starts creating weapons.

-1959, WW2 starts-

Technology is slightly more advanced than era-compliant, with the exception of the atomic bomb, which hasn't been created yet.

-1961, America enters war-

Stark industries begins work on supper soldier serum and the atomic bomb.

-1962-

Steve Rogers becomes captain America, Stark industries signs the largest weapons contract in history making Howard his first billion. Isaac Stark dies in the trenches in France.

-April 8, 1965-

Captain America's plane crash. Obidiah Stane is born.

-July 16, 1965-

First atomic bomb ever is tested in the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico. Stark industries alone produced the bomb, and sells it to the allies for $20 million USD. Stark makes nuclear missals for the U.S. until 1984. Howard also begins looking for Captain America in the arctic ocean.

-September 2, 1965-

WW2 ends. Maria Carbonell (Later Maria stark) is born.

-January 3, 1968-

Stark industries sends the first permanent privately owned satellite into space, begins construction of the Apollo 11 rocket, and helps NASA design early spacesuits. Howard Stark becomes richest man alive.

-July 20, 1969-

Howard Stark joins Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin as the first people on the moon. He signs his name in the dirt, and draws a Stark Industries logo.

-1974-

Howard meets Obidiah Stane.

-1979-

Howard becomes worlds first trillionaire, Obidiah joins Stark industries board.

-June 3, 1983-

Howard meets Maria Carbonell. Construction teams finish Stark Manor in New York City. It holds the record for the largest privately owned home in America.

-1984-

Stark industries launches the Stark advanced orbital lab into space.

-November 19, 1988-

Howard and Maria get married in Paris, France underneath the Eiffel Tower.

-1990-

Howard goes on his last trip to the arctic to search for Captain America, and finds the Tesseract.

-1991-

Stark industries begins preliminary tests on Project Blue Island, attempting to use the Tesseract to power all of Manhattan. The projects fails, leaving the lab without power for three weeks.

-1992-

S.H.E.I.L.D confiscates the Tesseract, and finds Captain America, but unsure how to wake him, leaves him frozen.

-May 29, 1993-

Howard and Maria's only child, Antonia E. Stark, is born.