This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 1970s.
1970[]
- Gila Flats is shutdown.[1]
- After serving two years in prison, Twilight Lady is set free and moves to France, where she vanishes into obscurity.
- On Laurie Juspeczyk's 20th birthday, she and Jon Osterman move into an apartment together in Washington, D.C.
- Sally Jupiter attempts to visit Laurie Juspeczyk, but a government agent stops her from entering, saying she is not on the building's approved visitors list. Sally writes a letter to Laurie warning that she's making a mistake in moving in with Doctor Manhattan and urging her to contact Hollis Mason or Nelson Gardner to ask them about Jon's failed relationship with Janey Slater.
- Adrian Veidt secretly purchases an island to conduct secret research with the long-term goal of saving mankind from nuclear war.[2]
February[]
- While performing covert duties in Lik Dao, Eddie Blake sustains a gunshot wound, requiring the removal of a .22-caliber bullet from his left thigh. Doctor Edward Ross tends to Blake's injuries.[3]