Heroic Histrionics

This universe is an AU where we took six families and switched their time periods around. These families were the Rogers, Rhodes, Barnes, Stark, Potts, and Carter. Many characters in the universe will stay where they started, while these guys and the changes they bring with them are going to be not quite where they started in their canon orientations. This is the timeline for the events of this reversal.

1897
• August 15th: Howard Anthony Stark is Born. His parents are practicing Jewish.
1915
• November 19th: James Rupert Rhodes (Rhodey) is Born in Philadelphia.
1917
• May 29th: Tony (Anthony Edward) Stark is Born in Brooklyn.
1918
• January 24th: Howard enlists for WWI before the draft can get him, and manages to make his brilliance known in training so he could be diverted into weapon creation instead of the front lines.
1919
• May 23rd: Jennifer Rhodes is born.
1920
• March 17th: Virginia “Pepper” Potts is born as the only child of her parents.
1922
• March 22nd: Howard finally released to come home from his government obligations to find his son already learning to build things.
• August 17th: Rhodey’s dad dies, and his mother moves the family to New York in search of work and New Start. She finds a housekeeping position.
• November 14th: George Barnes is born.
1924
• Rhodey and Tony meet while Tony is fleeing some older kids and nearly bowls the asthmatic over. They quickly become inseparable.
1941
• Howard makes friends with George Barnes, and they negotiate to build a business in the younger man’s name, with Tony to come on as a partner once they’re established.
• Pearl Harbor causes the business plans to be derailed and Howard pulls them both into government work when his weapon expertise is once again called upon.
1943
• August: Tony gets caught in the draft, but plays it off as having enlisted, though he’s terrified because his heritage is well known in his neighborhood.
• August: Howard puts forward Rhodey as an option to Erskine after hearing about the young man’s failed effort to follow Tony into service.
• September: Pepper manages to weasel her way into the army, having successfully talked a medical evaluator into agreeing she was male.
• September: Rhodey completes training and is the test subject for the serum, only for Erskine to die. As he refused being a lab-rat, he’s instead sent straight to the front since he’s hardly the public symbol that they’d been hoping for.
• October: The 107th is captured, and Tony meets Pepper for the first time. They hit it off immediately and between the two of them manage to keep things sort of less than awful in captivity.
• November: Rhodey finds out about the situation and manages to get the information and get in to get out Tony and those who would become the Commandos. Word only reached him because of Howard keeping tabs on his son.
1944
• January: People start to tell stories back home about Captain America and his Commandos. There is an immediate cover-up about said Captain being a black man.
• December: Things go horribly wrong and the train disaster happens to Tony. He’s picked up by Russians.
1945
• January: Rhodey evaluates his options and gives his apologies before crashing the plane into the ocean in the wake of the Red Skull fight.
1946
• June: Tony’s given a replacement arm for what he lost in the fall. He immediately starts to fuss with it. It has the unfortunate drawback of them moving up their timeline to get him sorted out and on their side.
1947
• Howard officially gives up on bringing his son’s body home and focuses his attention on finding Rhodey’s downed ship.
1948
• March: All identity of Tony Stark is effectively stamped out and his tinkering urges are directed toward Russian projects between a few test missions.
1949
• April 27th: Obadiah Stane is born.
1950
• Howard helps create SHIELD and leaves it in Pepper’s frighteningly capable hands. Her and George Barnes keep in contact.
1951
• Tony is no longer permitted free time around his missions after managing to recover enough sense of self to try to flee on one. Thereafter he’s frozen when not needed once it’s determined to be safe to do so.
1960
• The Tesseract is found.
1964
• June 22nd: Howard Stark dies in his sleep. All project notes and as of yet incomplete projects are left to Barnes for the business as the only heir Howard has remaining.
1969
• In the wake of the Black Rights Movement, the truth about Captain America’s actual heritage comes to light. Within the year the heritage of Tony Stark, as well as Pepper’s gender while one of the Commandos is also revealed.
• December 18th: (Robert) Bruce Banner is born.
1970
• March 10th: James Buchanan Barnes is born.
1971
• January 7th: Clint(on Francis) Barton is born.
• July 4th: Steven Grant Rogers is born.
1972
• George Barnes meets Obadiah and they immediately hit it off.
1973
• April: Joseph Rogers dies in Vietnam a week before his unit was to be recalled.
1974
• September 21st: Rebecca Barnes is born.
1976
• Sarah Rogers goes out of her way to sign Steve up for the first of many cutting edge medical studies to try and alleviate his rapidly developing health problems.
1979
• Steve and Bucky meet when Bucky finds the younger boy lost after having gone outside from one of his appointments. They quickly determined how to keep in contact and met from time thereafter.
1984
• November 22: Natasha Romanoff (Natalia Romanova) is born.
1985
• Sarah gets Steve in for a particularly cutting edge procedure, one that actually works to improve his health dramatically. The lab doing it is the same one that worked with Jessica Jones as a child.
1987
• Bucky heads to college a year early and gets into MIT.
1989
• March: Bucky makes assistant bots as a thesis project.
• November: Sarah Rogers dies during her hospital shift while trying to subdue a patient who came in armed. Her death leads to Steve deciding to go military for his education after high school.
1990
• June: Bucky manages to lock down his degree with his parents, sister, and best friend attending.
• June: Immediately after the graduation, Steve heads off to his army training. His mother’s medical persistence had him grow up shockingly healthy compared to his sickly childhood.
1991
• October 20th: George and Winifred Barnes are caught in the California fire that came to be known as the Oakland Firestorm. They were out there to meet a prospective new scientist for the company. Bucky gets custody of his teenage sister and decides to focus on the company instead of continuing his schooling.
1993
• September: Steve and Peggy meet on a joint mission in Macedonia between England and the US.
1995
• April: Bucky gets his prototype AI up and running and promptly decides he’s not going to follow up on it for the company, instead making her an assistant. He names the AI SARAH after Steve’s mother.
1999
• January: Peggy decides to sign up with SHIELD after her time with the British Army is finished. Her and Pepper immediately hit it off.
2000
• New Years: Killian makes the mistake of approaching the Barnes siblings via Rebecca and manages to offend her, and in turn keep Bucky from wanting anything to do with his project. He doesn’t take it well.
2001
• September 11: National catastrophe.
2003
• Bruce’s project goes off the rails and the Hulk is created. A pre-radiation state of this project that was used on Steve as a teenager.
2007
• September: Bucky and Rebecca start discussing making the company public instead of private. Obadiah overhears and isn’t fond of this plan.
2008
• January: Obadiah organizes a hit on Bucky, knowing he’d get enough control out of the company to nullify the threat to the company.
• May: Afghanistan goes down. Due to his fascination with it as a child, Bucky actually manages to save his life with the reactor, though the suit immediately runs into a snag where flight is concerned.
• June: Bruce breaks Harlem.
• September: Bucky comes home and plans to go public with the company are discarded so that the siblings can work out what they’re doing with it. They hold a press conference the next day on Bucky’s insistence.
• September: Bucky finally meets Steve’s Peggy as she’s his SHIELD liason.
• September: After spending so long on the armor, Bucky ended up fascinated, and sets about trying to figure out how to make it something more substantial, leaving his sister to deal with the highly concerned Steve and Obadiah both.
2009
• Late April: Bucky ends up in front of the Senate and is aggressively cheerful at them to deflect attention. He manages to keep them out of his project.
• May: Obadiah turns up, having gotten his hands on Bucky’s project shortly after he came home, and there’s a knockdown fight that results in the man dying. Peggy managed to keep Rebecca out of the fight.
• June: Bucky realizes he’s in deep shit with his health and gets in contact with Peggy to see if there’s any doctors she would recommend.
• July: Between the Senate and his health worries, he convinces Steve to take one of the suits, in spite of that not being his preferred combat style.
• August: Bucky and his sister agree to build the tower in New York and get it started.
• November: Natasha meets Winter Soldier on assignment and is shot by him.
2010
• February: Natasha sent around with all the files that Howard had left with SHIELD as per Pepper’s request. She immediately draws Bucky’s attention when she sticks around as an assistant.
• April: Vanko pops up at the race and Bucky ends up diving onto the track to intercept him before he can come up into the crowd.
• November: Worried due to the lack of results so far with the Palladium, Bucky sets in motion the year-long science symposium his dad never got around to.
2011
• April 25th: Thor crashes down in New Mexico and Coulson ends up on the scene.
• May 1st: After over a year of work, Bucky finally manages to make something of Howard’s notes and manages to test it a bit.
• May 5th: Vanko, having been recruited by Hammer, makes a mess of the symposium and effectively trashes the area.
• May 6th: Thor and the Warrior’s Three trash New Mexico town.
• July: Rhodey is finally found and Fury is the first person he sees when he wakes.
• September: Tony starts being kept awake until the new year to have him deal with duplicating, or at least deciphering, some of the new technology for HYDRA. He doesn’t get as far as they would have liked before he gives them difficulty and has to be reset.
2012
• May 4th: Loki arrives on the scene and screws up a SHIELD facility, taking people with him.
• Within a week after the 4th: Causes a scene in Europe, then the next day fucks up New York all over the place. Peggy keeps Coulson from dying and lectures the erstwhile Avengers into compliance.
• Early December: The Mandarin starts killing people on National television. Steve takes exception to it and Bucky ends up in the middle of it. The Army is not amused.
• End of December: Killian grabs Rebecca to show off and everything falls apart when Maya can’t fix her before Killian loses his patience and kills his partner. Bucky takes it incredibly badly, and Steve keeps his focus on protecting the president and constituents.
2013
• January: Bruce turns up to do what he can for Rebecca, and manages to stabilize the Extremis she’d been modified with.
• February: Tired of the ongoing threat of the shrapnel, Bucky goes to get it removed. Due to other issues the surgery had to be pulled out of before the reactor could be removed. He’s not exactly happy about that.
• November 8th: Jane Foster caught up with the Ether.
• November 10th: Shit gets real in London with Dark elves.
2014
• April 4th: Assassination attempt on Fury kicks off things going to hell in Washington DC.
• April 5th: Rhodey surprised and admittedly a little jealous of Sam’s wings. They hit it off in the middle of the chaos.
• April 6th: Helicarriers come down, and Rhodey is a mess because once again, Tony’s vanished on him.
2015
• Late April: Avengers recover Loki’s staff.

From this point, the timeline is liable to veer even more wildly off course, though I have nothing planned out from here.