H1 = 2019
H2 = 2020
H3 = 2020 - 2021
Best to assume this is another one of Diana’s parallel universes.
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I don´t think the year plays a role. In 2019, it was only a thing in China and no one really cared, whereas on the radio they are talking about a second wave and another lockdown. So likely just a reference to the real world situation, not something that would be actually happening in the game world as well.
Now you´re just describing Chongqing 
I think Patient Zero already gave enough COVID vibes…
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It’s why we got the ending that we got. The virus grew so bad that 47 went to isolate himself in a cabin for a year to keep his perfect health perfect.
It all makes sense now.
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Do we have anything that actually proves when the other two games takes place, we know that H16 takes place in 19. However unless I’m mistaken I haven’t actually seen anything in H2 and H3 that exactly says what year it is. Either way it isn’t that important.
It does, yet there is no 2 meters distance requirements or hand sanitisers standing around.
I agree, it’s nothing but a reference. Just like the guards in Colorado describing a man similar to Trump.
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Alexa’s Grave says she died in 2021 and Yates’ calendar is on April 2021
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It’s more so a implied timeline, but for more physical tangible evidence A calendar in Mendoza says that it is April 2021. You can find this in Yates House.
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IO never bothered with dates, the games are supposed to happen when they release 
so H2016 happens in 2016, but some elements show the “2019” date, while others show “2016”
I’m pretty sure H2 mentioned 2019 at least.
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I don’t really know, it’s kind of mixed together, but mostly all 3 games happen during their release date
Well that isn’t correct, since we have an established time frame with H16 taking place 19 years after 47 escape from the Asylum in 1999. That said it was a later change, since there are still items around with 2016 as the year.
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That’s the training, therefore it’s like a “flashback” before the actual 2016 events start happening,
After the training, 47 goes on doing all his missions from legacy games (hence why the legacy trailer plays) and then the trilogy starts in 2016, 2018, and 2020-1 
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It’s not a flash back, it’s not 47 remembering his time at the training facility. It’s a time jump.
1999 - 47 escaped from the Asylum and joins the ICA later that year.
2000 - a year later the first mission in Codename 47 takes place ‘Kowloon Triads in Gang War’.
19 years earlier from the start of H16. Puts the prologue in 1999. If it was 2016 H16 took place, then the time line would not be corrected. We know this if you look at the cut scene from ‘Kowloon Triads in Gang War’ in C47.
What I’m saying is that it’s af unny dialogue and we shouldn’t be too caught up in.
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Well that’s an inconsistency from IO, but my point still stands
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No the game takes place in 2019 and the prologue is set in 1999. Calenders that has the wrong date is an oversight.
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That’s true. Who is the president in Hitman? Usually they do a GTA and have fictional presidents. Like Tom Stewart.
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But even before escaping the Asylum, 47 was doing contract killing, at Lucas Grey’s side. One of these hits was on Diana’s parents.
I just realised that here:
Diana is unknowingly commenting on her own parents’ murder.
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Haha, pretty much and again there’s a tiny timeline inconsistency IO created with that trilogy, but most of it is fine and further is explained during the cutscenes 
Yes, that is true. However these hits where not sanctioned under the I.C.A. The first mission ‘Kowloon Triads in Gang War’ in C47 takes place in 2000, one year after his escape from the Asylum and joins the I.C.A.
The hits Grey and 47 did together where done on Providence behalf, before 47 mind where wiped and the first Asylum burned down (the night Six escaped).
So we know from the time frame that the prologue is set in 1999 due to two different cut-scenes. I want to clarify a mistake I made. ‘Kowloon Triads in Gang War’ cut-scene says “1 year later” and not “2000” as I stated above. However Hitman Contracts gives us the last information in it’s Asylum cut-scene it says “Romania 2000”.
So from this information alone, we already know when 47 escaped and joined the I.C.A.
1999 - Escape from Asylum and joins ICA
2000 - Kills Red Dragon Negotiator in Hong Kong and later Ort-Meyer
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It´s been a while since I last let Dr. Laurent have the honour of operating Mr. Soders, so I was pleasantly surprised to find out that after discovering the truth, he phones non other than Don “Balls” Yates.
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They don’t call him “Balls” for nothing
well, actually, they probably do.
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