User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 04-06-'12 — E3 hub/@comment-5254145-20120608134914/@comment-4374396-20120609042526

It cannot. It's just logical. If the game STARTS in 1753, how could Connor be born 1755!? Desmond wouldn't be able to access anything. That's why I said (pure imagination of course) that he might be born in 1740 or so.