User:Les/Sandbox/List of dates in Godzilla media

Dates marked in green (

) directly appear within the given piece of media and are thus considered canonical.

Dates marked in yellow (

) do not directly appear, but are still confirmed to be canonical by external sources.

Dates marked in orange (

) neither appear in the piece of media nor are confirmed by external sources, and are thus of dubious canonicity.

Dates marked in red (

) are considered to be non-canonical, either by being contradictory with known information or retconned by subsequent media.

Films

Showa series

Date		Appearance	Description
	August 13, 1954	Godzilla	South Sea Shipping loses contact with the Eiko Maru after its crew becomes Godzilla's first victims.
	June 23, 1962	King Kong vs. Godzilla	Godzilla's escape from the iceberg is reported in The Maicho Shimbun. The date is cut off in the film, but present on the newspaper prop.
	July 23, 1962	King Kong vs. Godzilla	The discovery of King Kong on Faro Island is reported in the Toto Daily. The date is cut off in the film, but present on the newspaper prop.
	September 4, 1964	Mothra vs. Godzilla	The washing up of Mothra's egg is reported in The Maicho Shimbun. The date is unreadable in the film, but present on the newspaper prop.
	January 18, 1965	Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster	The Maicho Shimbun reports on the damage caused by unusually warm air temperatures.
	October 13, 1965	Invasion of Astro-Monster	The P-1's return and Godzilla and Rodan's abduction are reported by The Maicho Shimbun. The dates are cut off in the film, but present on the newspaper props.
	October 22, 1965	Invasion of Astro-Monster	The P-1's return is reported by The Jiji Shimbun. The date is cut off in the film, but present on the newspaper prop.

Heisei series

Date		Appearance	Description
	March 12, 1892	Godzilla vs. Destoroyah	The Maicho Shimbun is approved for third-class mail, as displayed on an issue from July 16, 1996.
	February 6, 1944	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	The time machine KIDS arrives on Lagos Island from July 6, 1992.
	February 14, 1944	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	KIDS arrives on Lagos Island from February 6, 1944. M11 uses the craft to transport a Godzillasaurus to the bottom of the Bering Sea.
	April 7, 1989	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	A Soviet nuclear submarine crashes in the Bering Sea and irradiates the nearby Godzillasaurus into Godzilla. Date given in the Super Complete Works. Events of later movies imply Godzilla existed earlier than 1989.
	October 14, 1989	Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla	One of Godzilla's cells is collected.
	May 3, 1990	Godzilla vs. Biollante	A letter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is stamped to be mailed to Kazuto Kirishima. It is unreadable in the film itself. Biollante has since been retconned to take place in 1989.
	July 1, 1992	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	The time machine MOTHER, believed to be a UFO, is spotted over Tokyo.
	July 2, 1992	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	A meeting is held by the Godzilla Team on the sightings of MOTHER.
	July 2, 1992	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	Sightings of MOTHER are reported in various newspapers. The dates are cut off in the film, but present on the props.
	July 6, 1992	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	The time machine KIDS travels to the Lagos Island of February 6, 1944. It later returns from February 14, 1944.
	December 10, 1994	Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla	One of SpaceGodzilla's cells is collected.
	July 16, 1996	Godzilla vs. Destoroyah	The Maicho Shimbun reports on mysterious events at the construction site of the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line which disrupted its progress.

TriStar series

Date		Appearance	Description
	1963	GODZILLA (novelization)	The nuclear tests that led to the creation of Godzilla/his derivative Zilla began in 1963.
	June, 1968	GODZILLA (junior novelization), Roland Emmerich.	The bomb that created Godzilla/ his derivative Zilla is dropped in June of 1968.
	TPQ June, 1998	GODZILLA (junior novelization)	Godzilla/Zilla awakens over 20 years after June 1968. This makes the earliest point for Godzilla/Zilla's awakening during or after June 1998.
	(September 15) 1975	Godzilla: The Series: "DeadLoch"	Photographs alleged to be of the Loch Ness Monster are taken in 1975, and are alleged by Dr. Elsie Chapman to look similar to contemporary footage of the creature. This corresponds with a photograph in the real world, taken on September 15, 1975 by Charles W. Wyckoff.
	1999	Godzilla: The Series: "Future Shock"	The first episode of season 2 sees a timeskip twenty-three years into the future, to the year 2022.
	May 14, 2002	Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack	The events of GODZILLA (1998) are referred to as having happened 'a few years ago'.
	2004 (0 AD)	Godzilla: The Series: "Future Shock"	In Future Shock's apocalyptic timeline, the D.R.A.G.M.A.s awaken in 2004, eighteen years before 2022.
	2022 (18 AD)	Godzilla: The Series: "Future Shock"	The year 18 AD (After D.R.A.G.M.A.) is confirmed as 2022 by the Gregorian calendar.

Monsterverse

Date		Appearance	Description
	May 16, 2014	Godzilla	"G-Day" - Godzilla and the MUTOs final battle in San Franscico. The date is shown in Godzilla: King of the Monsters on a video recording of the fight during Monarch's senate hearing.