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Planet of the Apes (1968) - timeline

1972

Astronaut Landon graduates college, as 'the golden boy'.

1973

Astronauts travel 3000 years into the future and bring back talking apes, who are killed by the police and the investigation files sealed.

3876

Three astronauts, Taylor, Landon and Dodge, go through a Hasslein Curve ending up not in the Constellation of Orion as Taylor theorizes, but in their own future where Apes have taken over what's left of a post-Atomic War Earth. (Somewhere near NYC in the Nuclear Destroyed Future)

3955

There's a planet, full of apes, looking suspiciously familiar... George Taylor detonates a bomb and destroys Earth.