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Science Fiction and other related fields of Fiction are often set in the future, or at least involve events in times that have not yet occurred. This list is a chronological collection of significant events from various works of such fiction. It includes some events that were set in the future when the fiction containing them was first written but which have now been overtaken by real History , becoming a form of Alternate History or Failed Prediction in the process.

It is rarely true that science fiction writers are seriously attempting prediction - the needs of the story are usually the primary concern, and science fiction stories are often more about the present in which they are written than the future in which they are supposedly set.

Nevertheless, below are some notable fictional visions of the-future-that-never-was-and-probably-won't-be. See also: Timeline Of Star Trek , Apocalyptic And Post-apocalyptic Science Fiction , Timeline Of Fictional Historical Events , and Timeline Of Fictional Contemporary Events .


19TH CENTURY



20TH CENTURY







  • 1960s

  • --- Ingsoc comes to power and forms the state of Oceania ( George Orwell 's '' Nineteen Eighty-Four '') (''approximate date'').

  • ---Seeds of a semi-nuclear Little War begin to sprout; over decades, it will destroy Washington, DC and surrounding areas (novel version of '' Logan's Run '')


  • 1966

  • ---After stopping in the middle of World War I, and then traveling through World War II, the Time Traveler encounters a Nuclear Explosion in this year in George Pal 's version of '' The Time Machine ''.

  • ---After three decades of global war, a great plague wipes out most of the people on Earth. ('' Things To Come '')


  • 1967

  • ---A computer malfunction sends a group of American nuclear bombers on an attack course toward Moscow. (The novel version of '' Fail-Safe )''


  • 1970s

  • ---A possible setting of '' Doctor Who '''s " UNIT Era ". It is also possible that it takes place during the 1980s.


  • 1973

  • ---Astronaut George Taylor and three other volunteers depart Earth from Cape Kennedy on an important mission 3,000 years into the future. Some months after, another astronaut, Michael Brent, takes off from Earth in an attempt to find his colleague. Weeks later, Taylor's ship returns from the future with three talking apes (one of which is killed almost immediately). After discovering Earth's future fate, the President orders the two surviving apes, Cornelius and Zira captured. Ultimately, a police officer murders them, and the investigation files are ordered sealed (according to the first three '' Planet Of The Apes '' movies)







  • 1984

  • ---April - Winston Smith, a secretly rebellious file clerk in the Ministry of Truth, is arrested and tortured by Big Brother ('' Nineteen Eighty-Four '' by George Orwell and its two film versions).

  • ---The first T-800 series Terminator arrives, sent back in time by Skynet in an attempt to prevent the birth of resistance leader John Connor by killing his mother Sarah before he is even conceived. The John Connor of 2029 sends Kyle Reese back to defend Sarah from the Terminator. He knows that Reese, though doomed, will fall in love with his mother and is, in fact, his father ('' The Terminator '').

  • ---A mountain explodes, releasing The Transformers from a 4 million year sleep. The Autobots then wage their war to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons .




  • 1990s

  • ---Arrival of '')







  • 1996

  • ---The Eugenics Wars end. ('' Star Trek '' episode Space Seed )

  • ---The ''New Order Nation'' take control of the U.S. and ban music. ('' Revolution X '' video game)

  • ---John Spartan and Simon Phoenix are frozen as Cryocons. ( Demolition Man )

  • --- June 6 th - Lucifer-Alpha, a biological weapon under development in the Chernoton Research Facility in Russia , is released into the atmosphere, killing 80% of the Eurasian population. It takes ten years for the virus to mutate into a non-lethal form. ('' Snatcher '')

  • ---Todd, the main character of '' Soldier '', is born.

  • ---A Bioterrorist releases a virus that kills six billion people; the few survivors are forced to live underground. ( Twelve Monkeys )


  • 1997

  • ---Events of '' Escape From New York ''.

  • --- Los Angeles is terrorized by an alien hunter in Predator 2 .

  • --- August 4 th - Skynet goes online.

  • ---'', the first sequel released after 1997, claimed that the advent of Skynet had been delayed, but not prevented, by the events of the first two movies)

  • --- October 1 st - The event setting in motion the storyline of the classic NES game '' Crystalis '' occurs: "The End Day. Savage war engulfs the world... civilization is destroyed. An evolution had taken place. The earth's axis shifted, and all creatures became mutated. Life would never be the same. Those surviving vowed not to repeat the mistakes of the past and erected a great tower in the sky to oppress evil forever..."

  • --- October 16 th The Robinson family departs from earth aboard the Jupiter II space craft and becomes Lost In Space .

  • --- November 5 th - The first recorded appearance of the mysterious terrorist known as "Codename V" in Westminster, London. During the next year he launches a series of elaborate attacks against the Fascist regime (which had ruled England since the Nuclear War of 1988 ), causing increasing confusion and instability, which ultimately brings the regime down ('' V For Vendetta '' by Alan Moore and David Lloyd ).

  • ---In the HAL 9000 is activated.


  • 1998

  • --- The Umbrella Corporation conducts experiments on the citizens of Raccoon City using the Tyrant Virus, or T-Virus for short, which is a mutagenic virus developed to create Bio-Organic Weapons, or BOWs for short. ( Resident Evil )



  • 199X

  • ---All Year - The world is saved from the alien menace known as Giygas by 4 young children, led by Onett native, Ness , with PSI powers and friendship. ('' EarthBound '')




21ST CENTURY

  • 200X

  • ---Year in which the " Digimon Tamers" takes place.

  • ---Years in which the NES Mega Man video game series take place.



  • 2003

  • --- April 7 th - Astro Boy created.

  • ---April - Digimon Emperor begins his conquest of the Digital World. Three new Digidestined are chosen. The Digidestined begin their fight against the Digimon Emperor. The events of '' Digimon '' season 2 begins.





  • 2007

  • --- August 7 th - Odyssey 5 watch the Earth destroyed and the Seeker sends them back 5 years to prevent this happening. ('' Odyssey 5 '')

  • --- '')



  • 2009

  • --- February 7 th -Space launching ceremony of the SDF-1 Macross . The same day, the Zentradi army arrives in the Solar System and war breaks out when the Macross's guns automatically fire on the Zentradi. This is the beginning of Space War I. ('' The Super Dimension Fortress Macross '')

  • ---'')

  • --- June 1 st - ''The Pulse'', the deployment of an EMP weapon, destroys a significant amount of the computer-based infrastructure in the U.S., in turn leading to economic and social breakdown across the country. ('' Dark Angel '')

  • ---Events depicted in '' Dino Crisis '' occur.


  • 2010

  • --- February - The Zentradi's Boddole Zer Fleet of 4.8 million ships annihilates the surface of the earth. ('' The Super Dimension Fortress Macross '')

  • --- March - Space War I ends. ('' The Super Dimension Fortress Macross '')

  • --- May 10 th - Regina, David, Dylan and the other members of SORT and TRAT travel through the Timegate, traveling to what they think is the Cretaceous (it turns out to be the future). ('' Dino Crisis 2 '')

  • --- October - The end of human civilization (Stephen King's 'The End of the Whole Mess')

  • --- A 23-year-old Lisa Simpson nearly marries a British College classmate of hers. ('' The Simpsons '' - " Lisa's Wedding "; the Flash-forward in this episode takes place "15 years in the future")

  • ---Events of ''''. David Bowman, now a magnetic being, returns to Earth, and later on merges with HAL 9000 . Jupiter explodes, forming Lucifer, a small sun.

  • ---John Boone becomes the first human to set foot on Mars at age 38. ('' Mars Trilogy '')

  • ---Mankind completes its first fully-functional space colony, Beyond Coast. ('' Policenauts '')

  • ---The first attempt at executing Jason Voorhees fails. Jason escapes and chases after a woman named Rowan. Both are accidentally frozen and preserved for centuries to come. ('' Jason X '')

  • ---The nations of Yuktobania and Osea fight a war that lasts from September to New Year's Eve, when a force of Yuktobanian and Osean air force pilots team up to bring peace. ('' Ace Combat 5 '')



  • 2012

  • ---In an underground bunker in Utah , a Dalek , the last of its race, gets loose and kills 200 people before it is stopped ('' Doctor Who '' - '' Dalek '')

  • --- December 21 st - All of time and space collapses as the universe (of which we are merely fragments) attains self-consciousness and expands into the Supercontext. All events that happen after this occur in the minds of humanity rather than in an objective consensus reality.('' The Invisibles '')

  • --- December 22 nd - Alien colonization begins on Earth. ('' The X-Files '')


  • 2013

  • ---Events of '' Escape From L.A. ''

  • --- The Policenauts , a group of specially-trained policemen, are formed in order to secure the colonists in Beyond Coast. The "original cops" (as they've been nicknamed by the public) consisted of Jonathan Ingram and Ed Brown from the LAPD , Salvatore Toscanini from the NYPD , Joseph Sadaoki Tokugawa from the Tokyo MPD and Gatse Becker from Scotland Yard . Later, Jonathan disappears after a space-walking accident with the EMPS prototype Yuri and is presumed dead.

  • ---Discovery of the '').




  • 2017

  • --- The Great Awakening in ''''



  • 2020

  • ---Arno Stark, the future wearer of the Iron Man armor, travels back in time to battle Spider-Man .

  • --- Machine Man is rebuilt and reactivated by rebels against the corporations who rule the world.

  • ---Events depicted in '' Reign Of Fire '' occur.

  • ---The events depicted in the film version of V For Vendetta occur.



  • 2022

  • ---New York City has become overpopulated with 40 million starving citizens. ('' Soylent Green '')




  • 2029

  • ---A T-800 is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor in '' The Terminator ''.

  • ---Pericles, Capt. Davidson and the Oberon space station are pulled into an electromagnetic storm and disappear. ('' Planet Of The Apes '')




  • 2032

  • ---Events of ''''.

  • ---Simon Phoenix is released from the cryoprison into a milquetoast future where he quickly wreaks havoc over a subdued and nonviolent society. Old school cop John Spartan is then released from cryogenic imprisonment to catch him. ('' Demolition Man '')

  • ---Events of the last season of SeaQuest DSV .

  • ---'')

  • --- July 23 rd - Aliens attack Earth fleet in the Battle of the Solar System. They are defeated by Noriko piloting the Gunbuster .



  • 2035

  • ---The events of '' Soldier '' occur.

  • ---On the eve of man's first flight to the moon, an uprising against progress becomes violent. ('' Things To Come '')

  • ---Paul Metcalfe ('' Captain Scarlet ''} is born.

  • ---Events depicted in '' I, Robot '' occur.


  • 2036

  • --- Zenon Kar is born ('''')


  • 2037

  • --- Jonathan Ingram is miraculously discovered alive, thanks to the cold-sleep module in the Yuri suit, preserving his youth as well. After a year of rehabilitation, Jonathan stays on Earth and forms a private investigation agency. ('' Policenauts '')

  • ---Overmind's war against humanity ends in victory for the machines, leaving only 40 million human survivors. ('' GURPS Reign Of Steel '')


  • 2038

  • --- Launch of the 7th Macross Battleship that will travel to the center of the Milky Way. ('' Macross 7 '')


  • 2040

  • ---Death of Caesar the Ape . ('' Battle For The Planet Of The Apes '')

  • ---Japanese pharmacist Kenzô Hôjô disappears on his way home during a Wednesday. A few weeks later, his wife Lorraine goes to Earth and hires Jonathan to investigate his disappearance, triggering the events of '' Policenauts ''.


  • 2044

  • --- Frank Hollister apparently wins the 'Mr. Fat Bastard' award in this year. A possible setting of '' Red Dwarf '' before the radiation accident. 1

  • ---The 17th Siberian Investigative Force finds Amnesiacs Gillian and Jamie Seed in the Siberian Neutral Zone. ('' Snatcher '')

  • ---'')

  • ---'')



  • 2046

  • ---December: Neo-Kobe experiences "Bioroid Panic." An anti-Snatcher task force is formed. Over 5,000 die in Witch-hunt s, and the mayor requests that all citizens submit to testing. The panic spreads throughout Japan by the end of the year. ('' Snatcher '')


  • 2047

  • --- April 20 th: Japanese government passes the "Snatchers and the Protection of Civil Rights" bill, requiring a warrant for Bioroid tests.

  • ---May: The Rug-Hunt organization is formed to study the Snatchers.

  • ---August: Rug-Hunt and the Anti-Snatcher task force merge and become JUNKER (Japanese Undercover Neuro-Kinetic Elimination Rangers).

  • ---Mid-October: Snatchers begin actively hunting down JUNKERs. At least three are killed in October alone, one is left brain-dead, and the entire Descartes family is massacred.

  • ---November: A well-known KBC newscaster, a Yakuza mob boss, a prominent religious figure, and a former biotechnology firm president are revealed to be Snatchers.

  • ---December: The Japanese government quarantines Neo-Kobe due to the increasing Snatcher problem.


  • 2048

  • ---Earth attacks the aliens' home at the center of the galaxy using an enormous black hole bomb. The bomb is too damaged to go off, and Gunbuster restarts it with one of its engine cores, causing it to take 12,000 years getting back home. ('' Gunbuster '')


  • 2049

  • --- The events of ''''






  • 2056

  • --- The interactive events of the begin.


  • 2054

  • --- Events of





  • 2062

  • ---The cartoon series '') states that ''The Jetsons'' is set "late in the 21st century." Note that no precise date has ever been stated in any episode.

  • -- The Flintstone and Rubble families are sent to the Jetsons' time-era via a malfunctioning time machine constructed by Elroy Jetson. They stay in the Jetsons' era for a period of time and become famous, before returning to the Stone Age . - '' The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones ''







  • 2071

  • ---The crew of the ship ''Bebop'' travel around the Solar System, trying to catch "bounty-heads." ('' Cowboy Bebop '')







  • 2082

  • --- Falkenburg's Mercenary Legion is formed and begins first operations on Hadley. ('' CoDominium '')



  • 2087

  • --- Professor Trillias Backtein develops a method of travelling faster than light, the Subspace Warp System, which enables interstallar travel. (" Star Ocean ")

  • -- To commemorate this event, 2087 was designated the first year of the new system of dates, S.D.



  • Late 21st century

  • --- Superman leaves Earth. ('' DC One Million '')

  • --- 13th Gundam Fight begins. Possible setting for '' G-Gundam ''.

  • --- The Bloody Valentine War. Possible setting for '' Gundam SEED ''.



22ND CENTURY

  • 21XX

  • ---Events of the numbered Mega Man X games.







  • 2110

  • --- CoDominium Fleet swear allegiance to Sparta. CoDominium


  • 2112

  • ---Man tries to revive the guitar in colorless totalitarian society, commits suicide after failure. ( Rush 's 2112 (album) )




  • 2122

  • ---Events of the first '' Alien '' movie.





  • 2150

  • ---The war of the three political entities ().

  • ---Fifth World War ('' Strontium Dog '').




  • 2155

  • --- found in a cardboard box under the pool table in the Aigburth Arms. ('' Red Dwarf '') 1


  • 2156

  • ---Arnold Rimmer is kept back a year in an alternative universe. Being a foot taller than the rest of his classmates makes him buckle down and learn inner strength. He becomes Ace Rimmer. In another universe, Rimmer carries on through his life and becomes a snivelling coward. ('' Red Dwarf '')



  • 2161

  • ---The Vault Dweller leaves Vault 13 to find a water chip. ('' Fallout '')




  • 2182

  • --- Arnold Rimmer fails to fix a drive plate on the mining ship '' Red Dwarf ''. A cadmium II radiation blast kills him and 1,167 people. The only survivor is Dave Lister, who is in stasis. 1




  • 2196

  • ---Privately owned high mobile battleship Nadesico launches on the mission to rescue survivors of the Jovian invasion of Mars. ('' Martian Successor Nadesico '')




  • Late 22nd Century/Early 23rd Century

  • --- 5 Gundams are launched from the colonies to Earth to fight the oppressive UESA and OZ. Possible setting for the '' Gundam Wing '' series.



23RD CENTURY




  • 2216

  • ---During the '7 Day Siege', the Skaarj surround Earth. In a bold move, NEG commandos destroy the Skaarj mother ship, causing the Skaarj to retreat in disarray. ('' Unreal '' series of PC games)


  • 2219

  • --- Following the Human/Skaarj war, many of Earth's cities lay in ruins. When the New Earth Government attempted to assert its authority over these areas, they were confronted by many rebel groups, often covertly financed by the great corporations, which had established bases in the destroyed cities.('' Unreal '' series of PC games)





  • 2229

  • --- November 22 nd - The United Powers League is said to take control of Earth.

  • ---Project ''Purification'' started. ('' Starcraft '')



  • 2231

  • ---Yma/Human Accord of Wayne Barlowe 's '' Expedition ''

  • --- January 6 th - A marine team including Cpl. Andrew 'Frosty' Harrison arrives on LV-1201 and is ambushed by Xenomorphs in the remnants of the Primary Operations Complex. Harrison accidentally disables the defense grid of the Forward Observation Pods, allowing Xenomorphs to enter. At the Pods, a vengeful mercenary whose fiancé was killed during the attack knocks out Harrison and has him placed in a cell. Harrison escapes and travels through the Pods, accidentally releasing the Predator captured on December 1st. Harrison and the Predator escape the Pods. The artificial Xenomorph Hive is liberated by rampaging Xenomorphs. Eisenberg abducts the Xenomorph Empress from her lair. ('' Aliens Versus Predator 2 '')

  • --- January 7 th - Harrison returns to the Primary Operations Complex to save his fellow marines. Rykov travels into a Xenomorph Hive to face the Predator that crippled him, only to be killed. A lone Xenomorph frees the Empress and captures Dr. Eisenberg. The Pods are destroyed by a huge explosion. Harrison and the surviving marines leave in their vessel. ('' Aliens Versus Predator 2 '')

  • --- July 11 th - Several people are abducted at Gateway Station, presumably by the Iron Bear mercenaries. ('' Aliens Versus Predator 2 '')



  • 2241

  • --- "Strider Wars" are won by sacrificing a planetary colony. The colony is disguised to look like a major control center and as it is attacked, is detonated, destroying the planet and the invading Strider forces. The architect of this victory, a young female officer with power beyond her years leaves the military, unable to reconcile her feelings over the incident. Records indicate she joined the Terran Colonial Authority as intelligence officer aboard a Marshal's patrol vessel. ('' Unreal '' series of PC games)




  • 2250

  • --- Empire of Man proclaimed. ('' CoDominium '')


  • 2251

  • --- Leaked classified data files indicate that an incident occurred on the outer rim of human space. Ancient artifacts are found, initiating inter-corporation warfare and the reemergence of the Skaarj, eager to claim whatever power the artifacts held. Although most details are still highly classified, it seems that a TCA Marshal was involved in destroying the artifacts and preventing the awakening of an ancient power that could have spelled disaster ('' Unreal '' series of PC games).


  • 2254

  • ---Space station '' Babylon 4 '' disappears shortly after construction is finished.


  • 2256

  • ---Construction is finished on space station '' Babylon 5 ''.


  • 2257 - 2262

  • ---The events of '' Babylon 5 '', starting with the attempted assassination of Vorlon ambassador Kosh upon his arrival on the station.


  • 2260

  • --- During the mostly covert Corporation Wars, Izanagi Corporation's research facility on Lamdon 3 was destroyed by a strike force from the Axon Research Corporation, despite the protection of the NEG ThunderCrash force. Axon was able to not only destroy the facility, but also retrieve the advanced plasma ion tank under development there. ('' Unreal '' series of PC games)




  • 2267

  • ---The events of '' Crusade '', starting with the release of the Drakh plague into the atmosphere of Earth.


  • 2267

  • ---In the Green's World Rebellion, three thousand miners revolt against harsh working conditions.('' Unreal '' series of PC games)


  • 2271

  • ---The space probe Voyager 6 returns to Earth as part of gigantic machine entity, known as V'ger. ('''')



  • 2276

  • --- Stolen "Nexus" prototype missiles are recovered by the NEG military in a daring raid on a Hellion convoy on the surface of Taron. This missile was later used in colonial suppression.('' Unreal '' series of PC games)



  • 2283

  • ---The infamous AI uprising on LBX-7683 (metallic asteroid in the Erican cluster) resulted in a massive loss of human life. Rebelling against the humans, robotic workers and battle droids mutinied and claimed their home as their own sovereign world. The previous owners of LBX-7683, the Liandri Corporation sent in a small tactical squad. The squad penetrated the robots' prime facility, destroying the central AI generators and preventing the machines from replicating themselves. A group of the sentient machines were inserted into a stasis matrix and were later reprogrammed for corporate purposes. The leader of the robot force, Xan Kriegor resisted memory wiping, but succumbed to reprogramming. ('' Unreal '' series of PC games)


  • 2285

  • ---The events of ''''


  • 2286

  • ---The alien probe returns to Earth to communicate with the humpback whales and Kirk and his crew travels back in time to 1986 to pick George and Gracie. ('''').


  • 2287

  • ---The events of ''''


  • 2291

  • --- 'Consensual murder' is legalized, opening the way for a previously underground event - the "Tournament" to go mainstream. Mining companies had long been running small leagues and matches to channel aggression. Liandri Mining Corporation begins to tri-cast the fights. Xan Kriegor is the first champion of the Liandri Tournament, which quickly becomes viewed as the defacto human space championship. Xan was already legendary because of his success in the long-running (but not legally sanctioned) tournaments on the mining worlds. He leads the Liandri Corporation sponsored team - "The Corrupt". ('' Unreal '' series of PC games)


  • 2293

  • --- Malcolm - a human - unseats Xan, and becomes one of the "Great" champions of the Tournament. A huge media figure, Malcolm is hailed as the biggest star in human history and is worshipped as a god. His success nets great rewards for his sponsoring corporation, attracting the attention of jealous rivals both in the arenas of the Tournament and in the corridors of power a galaxy away. Xan is returned to the Liandri Corporation for upgrades. ('' Unreal '' series of PC games)


  • ---Klingon diplomats launch a peace initiative toward the United Federation of Planets, following the disastrous explosion of the energy facility on Praxis. This leads to the '')



24TH CENTURY

  • 23XX

  • --- Events of ned it forward. Zero is said to have been in stasis for 100 years at the start of the Zero series.


  • 2300

  • --- Crono and crew are transported to this era by a Time Gate , only to discover that the last human survivors of "The Day of Lavos " are being exterminated by the robots they built centuries before. Crono and crew fight and eventually halt the genocide and destroy the central computer of the robots, named " Mother Brain ." ( Chrono Trigger )

  • ---It is also the year Marle and her friends must travel to to use the Chrono Trigger, a Time Egg used to halt a casuality in the flow of time. They climb high atop Death Mountain and revive their hero, Crono. ( Chrono Trigger )


  • 2302

  • --- The gene-boosted monster - Gorge - defeats Malcolm in a brutal contest and is named champion of the Tournament. The aging Sniper Rifle (a relic of centuries past) is removed from the Tournament as is "Assault" - a team-based event that forms a part of the competition. Many fans of the Tournament complain at these changes, with some combatants refusing to participate in the new format. ('' Unreal '' series of PC games)


  • 2303

  • --- The most anticipated tournament ever takes place, with three former champions (Xan, Malcolm, and Gorge) each captaining a team. Vehicles are introduced to Tournament combat. The Hellions, eager to prove themselves as mercenaries for hire, enter the Tournament in hopes of securing new contracts. Xan has received upgrades and is deadlier than ever. He is also backed by a team of combat droids from LBX-7683. An updated Sniper Rifle is added to the weapon roster, along with several other weapons designed for the larger outdoor combat environments of the new Onslaught and returning Assault events. ('' Unreal '' series of PC games)



  • 2307

  • ---Ricky Oates driven insane by 'jaunting' awake ('' The Jaunt '' by Stephen King)


  • 2311

  • ---The Tomed Incident occurs, between the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire. Several thousand beings on both sides die. The Romulans enter a period of isolationism, although several clashes occur with the Klingon Empire. ('''')






  • 2358

  • ---The Yma Orbistar "Starfish" enters orbit around Darwin IV. ('' Expedition '')




  • 2366

  • ---Barlowe publishes his Account of the expedition to Darwin IV.





  • 2371

  • ---The events of ''''.


  • 2373

  • ---The Borg ship tries to assimilate Earth only to be defeated by the Starfleet armada led by the '''').


  • 2375

  • ---The events of ''''.



  • 2379

  • ---The events of ''''


  • 2381

  • ---Events of ''''.

  • ---Events of ''''. Zeus kills his son Ares , god of war. Hercules puts down a rebellion and uncovers a Skrull conspiracy.




25TH CENTURY

  • 2400

  • --- Earth , once a desolate and barren planet, is now rich and full of life thanks to Crono and crew's efforts to stop Lavos back in 1999 . The new future was prospering and going exceedingly well. Belthasar builds a laboratory and dubs it " Chronopolis ," where space and time experiments are conducted. The biggest and most risky experiment of the century was put in to motion. Scientist begin to experiment with the Frozen Flame ; however, something goes completely wrong and the end result is the Time Crash , which engulfs Chronopolis and all of its inhabitants and throws them back to the year 10,000 BC ( Chrono Cross )



  • 2433

  • ---The events of .

  • --The date is represented as S.D. 346 in the Star Ocean dating system.



  • 2453

  • ---The events of .

  • --The date is represented as S.D. 366 in the Star Ocean dating system.








26TH CENTURY



  • 2511

  • ---The Remnants reawaken aboard Mother. ('' Remnants '')



  • 2520

  • ---A botched first contact between the Earth Empire and the Draconian Empire leads to a short but bloody war that results in millions of dead. A peace treaty is negotiated and a frontier established between the two interstellar powers, but a cold war lasts for years afterward ('' Doctor Who '' - '' Frontier In Space '').



  • 2526

  • ---Earth is lost to humanity, and is renamed Lost Jerusalem. ('' Xenogears '')

  • ---A conference is held on Earth to unite the systems of humanity in a war against the Cybermen . The Cybermen's attempt to disrupt this conference is foiled by the Fifth Doctor , but his companion Adric is killed ('' Doctor Who '' - '' Earthshock '').


  • 2540

  • ---Raids on cargo ships, apparently by both sides, threaten to start a new war between the Draconian and Earth Empires. However, when it is revealed that the Dalek s are responsible, the two empires form an alliance to battle the Daleks ('' Doctor Who '' - '' Frontier In Space '').


  • 2552

  • ---(September) computer game, by Bungie Studios

  • ---Covenant fleet reaches Earth on Thursday, November 9th, 2552 @ 6:07AM (timezone unknown)






27TH CENTURY



  • 2624

  • ---Dr. Krupp develops Gravitic Warp, which enables travel at speeds far greater than those possible via subspace warp. (" Star Ocean ")

  • --The date is represented as S.D. 537 in the Star Ocean timeline.



  • 2640

  • ---Battle of Sauron. Empire of Man falls apart afterwards. CoDominium



2669
The events described in Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger. Col. Christopher Blair deploys the Temblor Bomb and destroy the Kilrathi homeworld, Kilrah. End of the Terran-Kilrathi Galactic War.

  • 2688

  • ---A guru named Rufus uses a time machine to help Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted "Theodore" Logan of the late 1980s to earn a passing grade on a high school history report, as their rock band "Wyld Stallions" holds the key to world peace. ('' Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure '')



28TH CENTURY




29TH CENTURY


  • 2801

  • According to Futurama, a robot Santa Claus is built in this year.



  • 2859

  • ---The events of "". (" Star Ocean ")

  • --Represented in the series as the year S.D. 772.



30TH CENTURY

  • 2903

  • ---Second Empire of Man proclaimed. CoDominium






31ST CENTURY


  • Sometime in this century, the events of the MechWarrior series of PC games happen.


  • 3000s

  • ---Current setting of the floating timeline).

  • ---By this century, time travel is commonplace. In one alternate future (later cancelled), Earth has long been devastated by an undisclosed conflict. ('''' episode, "Shockwave").

  • ---Ulysses kills the giant cyclops when he rescues the children and his son, Telemachus. The ancient gods of Olympus are angry and threaten a terrible revenge. ('' Ulysses 31 '')

  • ---The decline and eventual end of the Earth Empire, as Earth's various colonies break away from it ('' Doctor Who '' - '' The Mutants '').



  • 3001

  • ---Frank Poole is revived, and the events of '''' occur.





  • 3017

  • ---New Chicago Revlot. First Contact. Beginning of the events in "The Mote in God's Eye". CoDominium


  • 3028

  • ---Earth is destroyed by the Drej. Surviving humans drift throughout the galaxy. ('' Titan A.E. '')



  • 3044

  • ---''16 A.E. (After Earth)'' - the events of '' Titan A.E. '' occur.


  • 3050

  • ---First appearance of The Clans in the Periphery of the Inner Sphere ( Battletech ).


  • 3052

  • ---The Trial of Tukayyid is orchestrated by Clan Wolf to decide the fate of the Inner Sphere. The Clans would later be defeated by Comstar forces, resulting in the Fifteen-Year Truce of Tukayyid ( Battletech ).





33RD CENTURY


  • 3235

  • ---The year given as the setting in some Sonic The Hedgehog comics by Archie Comics . (However, recent issues have presented conflicting dates, ranging from 5000 to 12000, with 10000 and 12000 being the most frequently mentioned.)



35TH CENTURY

  • 3460

  • ---Ron Brent arrives in this time. He is accompanied by a tribe of primitive humans, names a little girl "Nova", and later lives alone in Hidden Valley. ('' Return To The Planet Of The Apes '')




36TH CENTURY

  • 3524

  • ---Kirth Girsen finds and kills Attel Malagate (the Woe), the first of the five criminals known as '' The Demon Princes ''. The rest (Kokor Hekkus {The Killing Machine}, Viole Falushe, Lens Larque, and Howard Alan Treesong), are caught and killed by him soon afterwards. (In the Demon Princes series the year was restarted in 2000, the current events of the novels begin in the year 1524.)



37TH CENTURY



39TH CENTURY

  • 3805

  • ---The Conformists, a group within the unified Catholic church, settles on Soekheviti. Eve Online


  • 3841

  • ---The Conformists take control of Soekheviti. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 3897

  • ---The Conformists lose power and are exiled from Soekheviti. Eve Online



40TH CENTURY



41ST CENTURY


  • 4004

  • ---The Universe ends in the year 4004 AD. ( James Blish , ''Cities in Flight'')


  • 4017

  • --- March 6 th - Squidward is defrosted out of a freezer after being frozen for 2000 years. Everything in this future world is chrome, including the sea creatures (they get spray-painted chrome). ('' SpongeBob SquarePants - SB-129 '')


  • 4015-4085?

  • ---Setting of Star Runerz by Nick Hollard In which Damian Quan And his crew battle the evil at work behinde the Terroristian Army of Scrois.



43RD CENTURY



49TH CENTURY





51ST CENTURY

  • ~ 5000

  • ---Another Ice Age occurs on Earth . Around this time, the Supreme Alliance comes to power, and is eventually defeated at the battle of Reykjavík . The Alliance's Minister of Justice, Magnus Greel, escapes through Time to the 19th century, using a time cabinet powered by zygma energy ('' Doctor Who '' - '' The Talons Of Weng-Chiang '').




52ND CENTURY



55TH CENTURY

  • 5408

  • ---Year Zero of the Third Expansion of Humanity and the establishment of the Druz Doctrines of Hama Druz ( Stephen Baxter , ''Exultant'')



61ST CENTURY

  • 6000s

  • ---The events of the video game series Xenosaga begin. Due to the vagueness of the times given in the game ('20xx' followed by '4000 years in the future'), it is possible the events cross over into the 62nd century.


  • 6041

  • ---Machinery rules the galactic universe, with humanoids and conscious robots in control, the human race is reduced to a state of apathy. (TV version of '' Dune '')



62ND CENTURY

  • 6100s

  • ---The Great Revolt, a human rebellion against the machines, forcing human beings to use their minds for development and breeding; this leads to the formation of mental training schools and the discovery of the spice Melange, both of which would be the turning point for the human race. (TV version of '' Dune '')



64TH CENTURY



DISTANT FUTURE



  • 7089

  • ---The second planet in the VH-451 system is bought by people of French origin from the Tau-Ceti System. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 7277

  • ---The Zohar Modifier is integrated into System Deus. The experiment testing System Deus goes wrong, causing the tested planet, Miktam04B, to be destroyed. It is during this experiment that The Wave Existence is pulled from its higher dimension and trapped into the Zohar Modifier. ('' Xenogears '')

  • ---Abel faces the Zohar Modifier; his desire for a mother making the Modifier instantly creates a human female in Kadomony. Deus later inserts his own program into the female, creating The Mother. ('' Xenogears '')

  • ---The Elridge, carrying System Deus, is forced to crash into an unknown world due to Deus' sudden reactivation. The Mother is ejected from Kadomony. (''Xenogears'')


  • 7703

  • ---A wormhole leading to an unknown area of the universe opens. ('' EVE Online '')



  • 7989

  • ---The Conformists start migrating through the eve gate, spurred on by Dano Gheinok. Gheinok being one of their leaders leads them to the planet Athra. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 7993

  • ---The third planet in the VH-451 system is bought by a Mega-Corporation. Small scale colonization begins soon after. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 8000

  • ---Dano Gheinok proclaims himself prophet and sets the foundation of the Amarr theocracy. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 8017

  • ---The system CM5-17, later renamed Pator, is discovered. Its main planet Matar is quickly colonized due to its hospitable conditions. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 8052

  • ---The last colony ship from Tau-Ceti, carrying colonists who would later become part of the Gallente Federation, passes through the EVE Gate. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 8061

  • ---The EVE Gate closes due to a large disturbance of an unknown type that has rendered New Eden a wasteland to this day. ('' EVE Online '')

  • ---The last group of Conformists arrive on Athra, all of the Conformists settle on the continent of Amarr from which they will later take their name. ( EVE Online )


  • 8100

  • ---By this time, smaller settlements in the world of eve had perished, a few were saved by close proximity to larger, more self sufficient settlements. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 8307

  • ---The automatic terraforming process started on the third planet in the VH-451 system completes despite the massive social collapse accompanying the closure of the EVE Gate. ( EVE Online )


  • ~10,000

  • ---Man's reign on Earth is believed to be finished. (the song '' In The Year 2525 '')

  • ---North Central Positronics is a very popular provider of mental enhancement. (Mentioned once in The Dark Tower )

  • ---The corrupt and decadent Empire of Earth is defeated by computer minds created by a group of teenagers, who later became the Titans. ('' The Butlerian Jihad '')

  • --- Anti-gravity is discovered at the OnOff star ( A Deepness In The Sky ).




  • 12,090

  • ---D is hired to protect Doris Lang from Count Magnus Lee. ('' Vampire Hunter D '')


  • 14,090

  • ---Charlotte Elbourne is kidnapped by Meier Link, and D is hired to find her. ('''')


  • 14,292

  • --- July 6 th - Noriko and Amano return home in the Gunbuster . Earth appears to be dead, but lights up into an enormous "WEΓCOME HOME" as they enter orbit.


  • 16,262

  • ---The first recorded civilization emerges on Caldari Prime, the third planet of the VH-451 solar system. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 16,470

  • ---The first Amarr Emperor is selected from the six heirs. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 17,276

  • ---The events of the game Xenogears begin.


  • 17,453

  • ---The Raata-Oryioni and Fuukiuye empires merge, forming the Raata Empire on Caldari Prime. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 18,622

  • ---Four distinct civilizations develop on Matar. They gradually become aware of each other, but primitive communications technology keeps them from maintaining steady contact. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 20,022

  • ---The Udorians arrive on the Amarr continent, spurring the Amarrian society into rapid changes. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 20,078

  • ---The Reclaiming is launched; the Amarrians start a war to conquer all the lands of Athra. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 20,371

  • ---The Amarrians conquer the last Udorian state. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 20,374

  • ---On Matar, technology has reached a sufficient level where regular trade becomes possible. As a result, technological advances speed up. A global civilization develops that is still steeped in tribal tradition. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 20,544

  • ---The Amarrians conquer the last state on Athra; they now control the entire planet. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 20,998

  • ---The Raata Empire falls and is divided into a myriad of small states. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 21,290

  • ---The first stargate since the collapse of the EVE Gate is built between Amarr and Hedion. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 21,413

  • ---The first Minmatar spaceship is built. Over the next few decades, the Minmatar settle on a number of planets and moons in several systems through the use of ancient star gates. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 21,523

  • ---The Amarrians discover the Ealurians and subsequently conquer them in the spirit of The Reclaiming. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 21,656

  • ---The Rouvenor family comes into power in Garoun and quickly becomes the greatest Empire on the plane. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 21,714

  • ---Doule Dos Rouvenor III inherits his father's crown starting a new calender based on his ascension. The age of Rouvenor Iari begins. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 21,837

  • ---The Garoun Empire collapses, but its legacy remains and a period of rapid technological advance follows. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 21,875

  • ---The Amarrians initiate the moral reforms, the status of the Emperor is altered, and the power of the apostles curbed. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,463

  • ---The Gallente spot the Caldari on Caldari Prime, but are unable to establish contact. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,355

  • ---The Amarr arrive in the Pator system. They soon begin raiding the Minmatar Empire for slaves. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,480

  • ---The Amarrians invade and conquer the Minmatar Empire. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,517

  • ---Contact between the Gallente and the Caldari is established. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,588

  • ---The Gallente build their first star gate. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,631

  • ---The Cultural Deliverance Society arrives on Caldari Prime. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,684

  • ---Isuuaya, the first Caldari Corporation is established on Caldari Prime. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,762

  • ---The current Amarr Emperor is chosen. Rather than commit ritual suicide like the other four heirs not chosen for Emperor, Khanid II flees, stealing the Empire's two Titan ships and setting up his own Empire, the Khanid Kingdom in his vast estates to the south. The Udorian Tash-Murkon heir family ascend in the social ladder to fill the gap left by the Khanid heir family. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,794

  • ---The Gallente meet the Intaki. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,809

  • ---The Gallente meet the Mannar. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 22,821

  • ---The Sotiyo-Urbaata Drive, the first warp drive of the new era is built by the Caldari. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,058

  • ---Amarr scientists discover Jump Drive technology, allowing instant jumps between star systems without the use of star gates. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,121

  • ---The Gallente Federation, consisting of the Gallente, Mannar, Intaki, Jin-Mei and the Caldari, is founded. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,155

  • ---The Gallente-Caldari War begins as a result of the Caldari trying to leave the Federation. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,156

  • ---The Caldari retreat from Caldari Prime, vowing to return. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,180

  • ---First contact between the Amarrians and the Gallente Federation, soon after the Amarr come into contact with both the Caldari and the Jovians. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,216

  • ---The Amarr-Jove war starts and ends within a short time with the massive defeat of an over-confidant Imperial Navy detachment at the battle of Vak'Atioth. ('' EVE Online '')

  • ---The Minmatar seize their chance to rebel in the Empire's weakened state. The Amarrians and their forces can do little as the Minmatar form their own Republic to the north. Minmatar collaborators, the Nefanter tribe remain loyal to the Empire and are given their own space between the Republic and the Empire and develop the moniker "Ammatar". ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,236

  • ---Eve Standard Time is established at the Yulai Convention. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,248

  • ---The Gallente-Caldari War ends. As a result, the Caldari fight off numerial superiority of the Gallente with technological advancements and gain independence from the Gallente Federation; however, they lose their home planet of Caldari Prime. They relocate and set up their own autonomous government centered at their new home of New Caldari. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,341

  • ---Events of the game ''Eve Online'' begin. ('' EVE Online '')


  • 23,391 + 400 (10,191 years after the formation of the Spacing Guild)

  • --- House Atreides takes over stewardship of the planet Arrakis . (''Dune'', Novel and Film ).




  • 28,702

  • ---The first human vessel - a small surface lander, the "Atlantean" - makes planet-fall on Rubi-Ka. It is immediately followed by a second lander, the "Rimor". Both surveyor vessels have been commissioned by the Omni-Tek Corporation. ('' Anarchy Online '')


  • 29,475

  • ---Illegal restrictions on colonization are lifted after prolonged ICC objections. Rival corporations are now allowed to transport passengers to and from Rubi-Ka. Ships in orbit immediately begin to transport new colonists to the surface. The population mushrooms overnight, causing logistical problems and chaos. The Rubi-Kan infrastructure is unprepared for the massive influx of colonists. ('' Anarchy Online '')



  • 40,000

  • ---The setting for Warhammer 40,000 .

  • ---Events of '' Barbarella ''.

  • ---A creature with the ability to assume any shape departs this era for 20th century Metropolis , and tries to imitate Superman . (''Superman'' (1st series) #87, February 1954 ).



  • 200,000

  • ---The period of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. Earth is at its height, covered with megacities, with five moons and a population of 96 billion, the centre of a galactic domain that covers a million worlds and a million species. However, its development is retarded for 91 years by the manipulations of news space station Satellite 5, until it is put back on track by the Ninth Doctor ('' Doctor Who '' - '' The Long Game '').


  • 200,100

  • ---One hundred years on from '' The Long Game '', mankind's development is still being obstructed, this time being kept docile by the watching of hundreds of deadly Game Show s produced by the Badwolf Corporation ('' Doctor Who '' - '' Bad Wolf '').


  • 505th century

  • ---Solaris the Tyrant Sun unleashes a cancer plague, forcing the current Superman to sacrifice his life in rewriting Solaris' programming. (" DC One Million ")


  • 700th century

  • ---The original Superman returns to Earth, forges a covenant with his descendants and retreats to the inner core of the Sun. (" DC One Million ")



  • 853rd century

  • ---The events of "DC One Million" take place. Vandal Savage is still alive in this century. ( DC Universe )


  • ~1,000,000

  • ---The Solar System is destroyed as the Human race leaves its cradle for the last time ('' Babylon 5 '').

  • ---In an alternate future where the sun has turned red, Earth has been long abandoned by its natives due to the Earth's oceans and other sources of water completely evaporating. Superman , powerless because of the red sun, is stranded here for a time when tricked into traveling into the far future by the Superman Revenge Squad. Eventually, Superman returns to the 20th century. ('' Action Comics '' #300)

  • ---In a possible future, a Cyborg version of Charles Montgomery Burns recovers his long-lost teddy bear Bobo. ('' The Simpsons '')



  • ~2,008,000

  • ---The powerful wizards Avatar and Blackwolf battle for the fate of the world. ('' Wizards '')


  • ~3,000,000

  • ---Events depicted in '' Dino Crisis 2 '' occur.

  • ---Jerome Branch Corbell returns to Earth after his flight to the center of the galaxy. ('' A World Out Of Time '')


  • ~3,002,182

  • --- Dave Lister released from Stasis . He is the last human being alive. His companions are a hologram of his dead bunkmate, a senile computer and a life form that evolved from a cat he smuggled aboard. Events of '' Red Dwarf ''. 1



  • ~10,000,000

  • ---The 57th Segment of Time, when solar activity wipes out all life on Earth . Refugees of humanity leave for the planet Refusis ('' Doctor Who '' - '' The Ark '').


  • ~30,000,000

  • ---The Time Traveler finds a world in which all intelligent life is wiped out, the day/night sequence has vanished and the Earth is about to be frozen by an eclipse ( H.G. Wells ' '' The Time Machine '').


  • 50,000,000

  • ---After humanity's final extinction, an insect-like race arises on Earth and becomes the dominant species. They are possessed by the Great Race of Yith, who have been forced to leave their previous home on a planet near Taurus. At some point in the future, this race will also die out, and the Yithians will be forced to relocate again to Mercury, taking over the bodies of a plant-race living there. ( H.P. Lovecraft )







  • 400,000,000,000

  • ---Commander Höek and Cadet Stimpy explore the uncharted regions of space. ('' Ren And Stimpy '')


  • Simulation of 1912 Earth inside a giant computer

  • --- Europe and parts of Africa and Asia disappear and are replaced by a primeval continent ('' Darwinia (novel) '').


  • " 1993 "

  • ---The Red Dwarf crew travels into the far distant future to a point after the Universe has begun collapsing towards a Big Crunch , causing time to run backwards until it is the equivalent of 1993 on Earth again (or 3991, as the locals write it). They spend three weeks in Nodnol ( London backwards). In the novel ''Backwards'', they arrive to collect Lister in Niagara Falls in the year 9891 (1989).



THE END OF TIME



BEYOND THE END OF TIME

  • Climax of Isaac Asimov 's story The Last Question . The end of time itself is said to be ten trillion years in the future, and the climax of the story occurs even later, after a "timeless interval".



NOTES

1Perhaps conscious of the slow development of Earth's space programme, several different dates have been given in '' Red Dwarf '' for the time from which Lister and Rimmer originate. In the early television series the dates 2044 and 2077 are both given. The first novel, published after the second season was transmitted, gives dates in the 22nd Century . In the fourth season Dave Lister states he is "an enlightened 23rd Century guy."


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