1888[1]: Nikola Tesla abandons works on an incredibly bright light bulb, which turns out to be a rudimentary electron microscope.
1888[2]: Year on a tank discovered in Helsingard's 2005 Italy base. That implies that he invented tanks 26 years before anyone else.
1923, Sept 3[3]: “The Atomic Robot”, the world’s first “automatic intelligence” is unveiled to the world by Nikola Tesla at a small press conference in New York City. A whirlwind of controversy surrounds Tesla and The Robot for months. Many scientists believe it to be a hoax. Many religious leaders decry it as an afront to God. Tesla and his Atomic Robot are a mainstay of newspaper headlines and scientific news for the next decade.
1924, June[4]: Nikola Tesla’s Houston Street laboratory and home is severely damaged in an alleged confrontation between Atomic Robo and a “wizard” sent at the behest of Thomas Edison.
1924, November[3]: Tesla’s Atomic Robot formally adopts the name “Atomic Robo” after a year of being referred to by the press as “The Robot”, “The Atomic Robo”, and later “Robo”.
1926[1]: Atomic Robo and Nikola Tesla discovers the incredibly bright light bulb/rudimentary electron microscope while cleaning out the lab's back storage. They start work on new version ten times the size.
1927[1]: Atomic Robo and Nikola Tesla complete work on the scaled up electron microscope, which turns out to be a inter-dimentional gateway to the Vampire Dimension. Two creatures come through and are subdued. The gateway is disassembled and forgotten.
1928, May[3]: Atomic Robo earns a PhD in Physics from Columbia University.
1938, October 10[5]: Atomic Robo’s first mission for the U.S. Army; Atomic Robo’s first encounter with Baron Heinrich von Helsingard; destruction of Helsingard’s secret Himalayan fortress laboratory.
1940, May 7[3]: Atomic Robo is officially granted full legal status as a human being and recognized as an American citizen by the United States Supreme Court. Some religious leaders protest the controversial desicion. In the years that follow Atomic Robo is recognized by the majority of Western nations as a human being under their laws.
1940[6]: Atomic Robo is shot down over Chengkund, China after taking out his attacker with his sidearm. He was flying Charlie Simmon's, a fellow Flying Tiger, patrol at the time.
1943, January 31[3]: Atomic Robo founds Tesladyne. At this point it is little more than a corporate entity to hold the recently deceased Tesla’s patents and assets while Robo fights in World War Two.
1943, July - August[3]: Atomic Robo is sent to destroy Laufpanzers, prototype mechanized troops, during the Invasion of Sicily. First of many encounters with Otto Skorzeny. (Vol 2, Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War)
1947, May[7]: Atomic Robo disrupts an illegal rocketry experiment performed by Jack Parsons.
1961, October[3]: Atomic Robo stops a rogue Russian scientist from detonating a nuclear weapon powerful enough to destroy all life on Earth. (Red 5 FCBD ‘08)
1967[8]: Helsingard drop a then late model Oldmobile onto Atomic Robo from the 80th story of the Empire States Building to ground level in an attempt to kill him.
1975, August 10[9]: NASA’sViking I begins its ten month trip to Mars with top secret envoy Atomic Robo aboard. The mission is a success, despite the need to doctor or suppress a number of photographs of and from the Martian surface due to Robo’s “interference”.
1985[2]: A Helsingard cyborg attacks Atomic Robo and his "Famed Action Science League" in France.
1989, Summer[10]: Atomic Robo battles a giant sea monster off the coast of Clearwater, Florida.
1997, ????[12]: Atomic Robo’s brain is temporarily hi-jacked by a disgruntled researcher developing a so-called “swarm hack” technology.
2002[13]: Tesladyne's primary base of operation is moved from the top floors of the Empire States Building to an undisclosed top secret location.
2005, February[2][11]: Atomic Robo, with the help of Action Scientist teams Alpha and Beta, investigates an underground facility in the Italian countryside. It is expected to belong to Baron von Helsingard.
2006, November 15[14]: Atomic Robo gets his own Blog.
2006, December 31[15]: Atomic Robo embarks on a Tesladyne tradition.
2007, March 26[1]: Atomic Robo returns from a few month trip to the Vampire Dimension courtasy of Dr. Nefarious.
2007, April 26[16]: Atomic Robo returns from dealing with giant acid spewing slugs in North Dakota.
2007, May 7[17]: Atomic Robo celebrates his 84th birthday and 'oversees' Tesladyne's latest rocket launch.
2007, November 14[6]: Tesladyne requested to investigate reports of an attack by giant ants near Reno, Nevada. Atomic Robo and a squad of Action Scientists quell the attack, but are at a loss to explain the cause.
2007, November 15[6]: Tesladyne requested to investigate reports of a “mobile pyramid” roaming Egyptian desert.
2007, November 16[18]: Tesladyne investigates the “mobile pyramid” only to find that the entire monument is a giant steampowered supertank operated by a waterclock program that took five thousand years to compute. It is perhaps the greatest archaelogical find in Egyptian history.