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District 9 - timeline
Tuesday 1st June: An alien ship stops above the city. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Monday 5th July: Aliens are ferried from their mothership to the District 9 township. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Alien weapons are tested. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Physiological Characteristics of the Alien Species is filmed. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Wikus Van De Mewre and Anton Gobler become friends. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Monday 9th August: MNU officers begin to issue eviction notices to the aliens in District 9. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Tuesday 10th August: MNU Officer Wikus Van De Merwe is hospitalised after falling victim to a contaminating liquid from an alien canister. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Wednesday 11th August: Wikus Van De Merwe escapes from MNU Headquarters. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Thursday 12th August: Wikus Van De Merwe hides himself in District 9. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Friday 13th August: Wikus Van De Merwe and the alien Christopher Johnson fight their way into and out of MNU to retrieve an alien canister. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Friday 10th September: Data on the incident involving Wikus is found on the computer system. (Johannesburg, South Africa)
The year that Christopher Johnson promised Wikus Van De Mewre that he'd return to help. (Johannesburg, South Africa)