Timeline of fictional future events

Mosquito ringtone Science fiction and other related fields of Sabrina Martins 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 Nextel ringtones history, becoming a form of Abbey Diaz alternate history or Free ringtones 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: Majo Mills Timeline of Star Trek, Mosquito ringtone Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic science fiction, Sabrina Martins Timeline of fictional historical events, and Nextel ringtones Timeline of fictional contemporary events.



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**The ''Astronef'' stories by and mollie George Griffith

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**Events of ''transfer them Pirates of 1920'', a film from native jaromir 1911.

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**The U.S. Postal Service faces air piracy from the Death Head Aerial Squadron. (''high chopper The Great Air Robbery'', a film from of foam 1920)

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** klosson the Ingsoc comes to power and forms the state of Oceania (economic rejoinder George Orwell's ''bury his Nineteen Eighty-Four'') (''approximate date'').
**Seeds of a semi-nuclear Little War begin to sprout; over decades it will destroy Washington D.C. and surrounding areas (novel version of ''millimeters a Logan's Run'')

*politicization the 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'')

*1970s
**A possible setting of ''Doctor Who'''s "UNIT dating controversy/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)

*1977
**Jess Hurch Society founded - ''The Muller-Fokker Effect''.

*1980s
**A possible setting of ''Doctor Who'''s "United Nations Intelligence Taskforce/UNIT Era"

*1980
**USOS Seaview designed by retired Admiral Harriman Nelson

*1981
**Kilgore Trout dies - ''Breakfast of Champions''

*1983
**A space virus reaches Earth and kills every dog and cat still living (''Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'')

*1984
**April - Winston Smith, a secretly rebellious file clerk in the Ministry of Truth, is arrested and tortured by Big Brother (1984)/Big Brother (''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' by George Orwell and its two film versions)

*1987
**November - Civilization on Earth is devastated by a nuclear war, cause unknown. (''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' television series)

*1991
**Revolution between humans and enslaved apes occurs on the West Coast of California (''Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'')

*1992
** January 12 - HAL 9000 becomes operational (''2001: A Space Odyssey movie'')
**Khan Noonien Singh rises to power, assuming dictatorial control from South Asia to the Middle East. (''Star Trek'' episode Space Seed)
**Events of ''Barnard's Planet''.
**Nuclear war ravages the West Coast of California (according to opening prologue of ''Battle for the Planet of the Apes'')

*1994
**A runaway planet hurtles between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. (''Thundarr the Barbarian'')

*1995
** Doctor Samuel Beckett steps into the Quantum Leap Accelerator and vanishes. (show ran from 1987 to 1993)

*1996
**The Eugenics Wars end (''Star Trek'' episode Space Seed)
**The ''New Order Nation'' take control of the US and ban music (''Revolution X'' video game)
**John Spartan and Simon Phoenix are frozen as Cryocons

*1997
**Events of ''Escape from New York''.
**August 4 - Skynet goes online
**August 29 - Human civilization is destroyed by Skynet (''The Terminator''; ''Terminator 2''. - ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'', 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 - 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 The Robinson family departs from earth aboard the Jupiter II space craft and becomes Lost In Space.
**November 5 - 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 fascism/fascist regime (which had ruled England since the nuclear war of 1988), causing increasing confusion and unstability, which ultimately brings the regime down (''V for Vendetta'' by Alan Moore and David Lloyd).

*1999
** July 17 - An alien spaceship falls through Earth's atmosphere, levelling part of Mount Everest, destroying Moscow and Stockholm and causing much other damage before finally landing on South Ataria Island. (''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'')
** September 13 - Nuclear waste dumps on the Far side (Moon)/far side of the Moon explode, sending the Moon hurtling into deep space carrying Moonbase Alpha along with it (''Space: 1999'')
** Lavos awakens, destroying civilisation and ushering in a new period of darkness and desperation for humanity. (Chrono Trigger)


*2000
** Efficient international flight has been achieved by fleets of airship/dirigibles, controlled by the Aerial Board of Control (''With the Night Mail'' and ''As Easy as A.B.C.'' by Rudyard Kipling)
**Massive overpopulation (''Make Room, Make Room'' by Harry Harrison and film ''Soylent Green'')
** September 13 - Second Impact occurs at the South Pole, melting the world's ice, tilting the planet off its axis and killing off half of the world's population. (''Neon Genesis Evangelion'')

21st century

*2001
** A timequake occurs, sending the citizens of the world back to 1991, where they must relive their lives in automatic pilot for ten years - ''Timequake''
** An extra-terrestrial obelisk found on the moon, prompting an investigation flight to Jupiter (Saturn in the book), which is sabotaged by HAL 9000 (''2001: A Space Odyssey'' by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick)
** January 20- The triggering of World War III by the secret detonation of a nuclear device in Washington DC by the Soviets, leading to complete destruction of the United States, and creating Deathlands (A fictional series based on this scenario, set a century later)
** January - The inauguration of the Earth UN Government. (''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'')
** February - Work begins on converting the fallen alien spaceship into a battleship of the Earth UN Forces. (''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'')
** June 6 - Shinji Ikari is born. (''Neon Genesis Evangelion'')
** June 30 - Martians invade Earth in the second War of the Worlds. (Marvel Comics' ''Killraven'')
** December - Events of ''Planet of the Apes/Battle For the Planet of the Apes''.
** December 4 - Asuka Langley Soryu is born. (''Neon Genesis Evangelion'')
** Death of Kilgore Trout (per Kurt Vonnegut's ''Timequake'')
**Apes and humans reach an uneasy truce (events of ''Battle for the Planet of the Apes'')
**The Zohar Modifier is discovered. (''Xenogears'')

* 2003
** April 7 - Astro Boy created

*2004
**Supposedly the year that ''Max Headroom'' takes place.

*2005
** The events of Transformers: The Movie
** Genetically modified terrorists seize control of Shadow Moses island. (''Metal Gear Solid'')
** December 24 - the Pluto's Kiss virus causes the complete shutdown of the Internet (''.hack'')

*2006
** Pandemic kills 99.9% of all women (''Battle Tanx Global Assault'').
** Beginning of ''The Bicentennial Man'' movie (the original short story was set in 1976).

*2008
** Five astronauts depart Earth on a one-way mission to Titan (moon)/Titan aboard a vessel cobbled together from aging Apollo hardware and a Shuttle orbiter.

*2009
** February 7 -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'')

*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'')
**Events of ''2010: Odyssey Two''. David Bowman, now a magnetic being, returns to Earth, and later on merges with HAL 9000. Jupiter (planet)/Jupiter explodes, forming Lucifer, a small sun.
**John Boone becomes the first human to set foot on Mars at age 38. (''Mars trilogy'')

*2011
**The Rock hits Earth. (''Remnants'')

*2012
**December 22 - Alien colonisation begins on Earth. (''The X-Files'')

*2013
**Events of ''Escape from L.A.''

*2015
** The third Angel attacks Tokyo-3. Shinji Ikari must defend the city in Eva Unit-01. (''Neon Genesis Evangelion'')
**October 21 - Marty McFly, Doc Brown and Jennifer Parker arrive in the future from 1985 in the film ''Back to the Future Part II'' (1989), and Biff Tannen departs from this year to 1955 with a sports almanac that creates an alternate 1985.
**The events of Half-Life 2 (Estimated)
**December 19 - Yuzo Takaya, Noriko Takaya's father, piloting humanity's first faster-than-light spaceship Luxion, is attacked and killed by aliens. (''Gunbuster'')

*2017
** The Great Awakening in Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine/Star Trek: Deep Space 9

*2019
**The events of ''Blade Runner''.
**The events of ''Akira (film)/Akira''.
**Noriko Takaya and Amano Kazumi are graduated into the machine weapon force. (''Gunbuster'')

*2020
**Arno Stark, the future wearer of the Iron Man armor, travels back in time to battle Spider-Man.

*2021
**Hyperspace gates are set up around the solar system. One of them explodes destroying a part of the moon and forcing emigration to other planets. (Cowboy Bebop)
**P.D. James's dystopia/dystopian novel ''The Children of Men'' (1992) is set in the England of 2021.

*2022
**New York City has become overpopulated with 40 million starving citizens. (''Soylent Green'')

*2025
**T.C. Boyle's novel ''A Friend of the Earth'' (2000) is set in the USA of the year 2025.
**Ambrosia Software's game Escape Velocity is set in 2025.

*2026
**The events of the film ''Metropolis_(1927_movie)/Metropolis''.

*2029
**A T-800 is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor in ''The Terminator''.

*2032
**Events of Innocence: Ghost in the Shell
** 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 imprionment to catch him. (''Demolition Man'')
**July 4- John Connor is killed by a T-800. This unit is reprogrammed and sent back in time by Katherine Brewster to protect him. Terminator_3:_Rise_of_the_Machines
**July 23- Aliens attack Earth fleet in the Battle of the Solar System. They are defeated by Noriko piloting the Gunbuster.

*2033
**December 19 - Kouchiro Ohta dies of space sickness. (''Gunbuster'')

*2035
**On the eve of man's first flight to the moon, an uprising against progress becomes violent. (''Things to Come'')

*2036
** Zenon Kar is born (''Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century'')


*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'')

*2044
** Frank Hollister apparently wins the 'Mr Fat Bastard' award in this year. A possible setting of ''Red Dwarf'' before the radiation accident.#Notes/1
**The 17th Siberian Investigative Force finds amnesia/amnesiacs Gillian and Jamie Seed in the Siberian Neutral Zone. (Snatcher)
**December 22: SRS Flight 4003 crashes in the Rocko Mountain range. One body is initially identified as computer instructor Rick Sawamura, but is later discovered to be a heretofore unknown type of bioroid. (Snatcher)
**December 29: Neo-Kobe's Mayor O'Connor asks the countries of the world to investigate the strange bioroids, but investigation proves fruitless. (Snatcher)

*2045
**February 18: The bioroid that replaced Mayor O'Connor is captured, but self-destructs during transport. The bioroids are later dubbed "Snatchers" by the media. (Snatcher)
** The band Fire Bomber performs their first live concert with Mylene Jenius. (''Macross 7'')

*2046
**December: Neo-Kobe experiences "Bioroid Panic." An anti-Snatcher task force is formed. Over 5,000 die in witch-hunts, 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: 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 12000 years getting back home. (''Gunbuster'')

*2049
** The events of ''Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century''

*2050s
** The decade in which the future crime drama ''Minority Report (movie)/Minority Report'' takes place.

*2050
**The year a game ends (when your time runs out) in ''Civilization III''.

*2052
** The story of the game ''Deus Ex''.

*2053
** In ''Star Trek, Earth'' is devastated by World War III.

*2061
**Events of ''2061: Odyssey Three''.
**May 14 - "The Last Question" is first asked of the computer Multivac, in the Isaac Asimov story of that title.

*2062
**The cartoon series ''The Jetsons'', was originally set in 2062. This is because the series first aired in 1962, and the show was a prediction of what life would be like a hundred years in the future. ''Jetsons: The Movie''(1990) states that ''The Jetsons'' is set "Late in the 21st century." Note that no precise date has ever been stated in any episode.

*2063
** April 5: In ''Star Trek'', Zefram Cochrane makes the first human warp flight with the ''Phoenix (Star Trek)/Phoenix''. This attracts the Vulcan (Star Trek)/Vulcans and they make first contact (anthropology)/first contact with humans. The experience also changes Dr. Cochrane considerably.

*2065: Events of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

*2069
** In ''Star Trek'', the Klingon High Council is formed, eliminating the position of Emperor until 2369.

*2071
**The crew of the ship ''Bebop'' travel around the Solar System, trying to catch "bounty-heads." (Cowboy Bebop)

*2077
**A possible setting of ''Red Dwarf'' before the radiation accident.#Notes/1
** World War III starts on October 10, and ends on October 23, with a nuclear war in the computer game ''Fallout (computer game)/Fallout''.

*2080s
**The Adventures of Pluto Nash.

*2081
** Kurt Vonnegut's short story ''Harrison Bergeron'' takes place.

*2084
** War between Earth and Mars virtually destroys humanity. The Universal Migrator

*2099
** Events of Marvel Comics' Marvel 2099 line.

*Late 21st century
**Superman leaves Earth. ("DC One Million")

22nd century

*2101
**War was beginning. (''Zero wing'')

*2103
**Sherlock Holmes is restored to life (''Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century)

*2106
**Phil is born (''Phil of the Future'')

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

*2121
**The year Phil and his family are from. (''Phil of the Future'')

*2122
**Events of Alien (movie)/the first ''Alien'' movie

*2145
**Events of ''Doom 3''
**Events of the ''Doom_(movie)/Doom movie''

*2149
**The Daleks attack Earth. (''Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD'')
**Red Dwarf characters#Arnold Rimmer/Arnold Rimmer is born in this year Red Dwarf

*2151-2154+?
**The events of ''Star Trek: Enterprise''.

*2155
**26 November: Red Dwarf characters#David_Lister/Dave Lister found in a cardboard box under the pool table in the Aigburth Arms. (''Red Dwarf'')#Notes/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 strengh. He becomes Ace Rimmer. In another universe, Rimmer carries on through his life and becomes a snivelling coward. (Red Dwarf)

*2159
**Terraforming/Terraformers settle on LV-426. (''Aliens (1986 movie)/Aliens'')

*2182
**Red Dwarf characters#Arnold Rimmer/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.#Notes/1

*2186
**Abelard Lindsay is born, events of ''"Schismatrix"'' begin. (Shaper/Mechanist)

*2195
**First battle of Mars is fought and lost, Jovians decimate the Utopia Colony on Mars. (Nadesico/Martian Sucsessor Nadesico)

*2196
**Privately owned high mobile battleship Nadesico launches on the mission to rescue survivors of the Jovian invasion of Mars. (Nadesico/Martian Sucsessor Nadesico)

*2199
**Estimated date for the events of ''The Matrix'', according to Morpheus (Matrix character)/Morpheus.

23rd century

**A possible setting of ''Red Dwarf'' before the radiation accident.#Notes/1

*2233
**March 22: James T. Kirk is born (''Star Trek'').

*2245
**The last Earth fleet returns home; Jung Freud becomes president of the UN. (''Gunbuster'')

*2248
**Events of ''"Swarm"'' (Shaper/Mechanist)

*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.

*2263-2268
**The events of the original ''Star Trek''.

*2267
**The events of ''Crusade (TV series)/Crusade'', starting with the release of the Drakh plague into the atmosphere of Earth.

*2274
**The events of ''Logan's Run'' (the movie)

*2283
** Events of ''"Spider Rose"'' (Shaper/Mechanist)

*2291
**Legalization of 'Consensual murder' marks the start of the official "Tournaments" in the game ''Unreal Tournament''

24th century
*2318
**The Journeyman Project the year that extraterrestrials land on Earth to form a permanent alliance.

*2350
**Duck Dodgers/Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century

*2354
**Events of ''"Cicada Queen"'' (Shaper/Mechanist)

*2364-2370
**The events of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''.

*2369-2375
**The events of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''.

*2371-2378
**The events of ''Star Trek: Voyager''.

*2376
** Duncan Makenzie leaves Titan (moon)/Titan for Earth in Arthur C. Clarke's ''Imperial Earth''

*2386
**Abelard Lindsay ascends, events of ''"Schismatix"'' end. (Shaper/Mechanist)

25th century

*2419
**Buck Rogers awakens from his coma (original novella version).
*2443
**The second coming of Jesus (''Futurama (TV series)/Futurama'')
*2491-2492
**Events of the television series ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century''

26th century

*2511
**The Remnants reawaken aboard Mother. (''Remnants'')

*2517
**''Firefly (television series)/Firefly'', television program.

*2525
**In the Year 2525, song by Zager and Evans
**Cleopatra 2525 television series
**Armada 2525 computer game, by publisher Interstel

*2526
**Earth is lost to humanity, and is renamed Lost Jerusalem. (''Xenogears'')

*2552
**Halo: Combat Evolved computer game, by Bungie Studios

*2554
**Events of ''"Sunken Gardens"'' (Shaper/Mechanist)

*2587
**Dargo/Dargo Ktor finds Mjolnir and accepts the role of Thor (Marvel Comics)/Thor. (Marvel Comics' ''Thor (Marvel Comics)/Thor'')

27th century

*2611
**Events of ''The Night's Dawn Trilogy'', by Peter F. Hamilton.

*2634
** McAuliffe Ambush, the first major battle of the Terran-Kilrathi War. (''Wing Commander (computer game)/Wing Commander'').

*2654
**The Terran Confederation (Wing Commander)/Confederation offensive, spearheaded by the TCS Tiger's Claw, pushes the Kilrathi from the Vega Sector. (''Wing Commander (computer game)/Wing Commander'')

*2688
**A guru called Rufus uses a time machine to help Bill S Preston Esq and Ted Theodore Logan to pass a history report as their band 'Wyld Stallions' holds the key to world peace.

29th century

*2804
**Neo Jerusalem is discovered. (''Xenogears'')

30th century

*2960s
**Original setting of ''Legion of Super-Heroes''

*2999
**December 31 - Philip J. Fry awakes from cryostasis, in the animated TV series Futurama.

31st century

*3000s
**Current setting of the Legion of Super-Heroes (Note: the Legion stories are set 1000 years after the "present day", and the exact period changes with the DC Universe floating timeline).
**By this century, time travel is commonplace. In one alternate future (later cancelled), Earth has long been devastated by an undisclosed conflict. (''Star Trek: Enterprise'' 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)

*3000
**January 1st - Philip J. Fry, after awaking from cryostasis earlier that day in 2999, joins the crew of the Planet Express delivery company in the animated TV series Futurama.

*3001
**Frank Poole is revived, and the events of ''3001: The Final Odyssey'' occur.

*3007
**The alien Badoon invade Earth and the Guardians of the Galaxy resistance group is formed. (Marvel Comics)

*3014
**The Guardians of the Galaxy succeed in liberating Earth from the Badoon (Marvel Comics)

*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)

*3085
**Events of the ''Planet of the Apes'' television series.

33rd century

*3200s
**Setting of the original treatment for the first ''Star Wars'' film, as opposed to the later adopted http://www.starwars.com/community/askjc/steve/askjc20000515.html. The time period is described as "a period of civil wars in the Galaxy."

35th century

*3479
**Events of the ''Planet of the Apes'' animated series.

40th century

*3955
**Events of the first ''Planet of the Apes'' film and its sequel, ''Planet of the Apes/Beneath the Planet of the Apes''; astronaut George Taylor detonates bomb destroying planet Earth.

49th century

*4846
**Commissioning of the starship Andromeda Ascendant. (''Andromeda (television series)/Andromeda'')

*4858-4860
**Commonwealth civil war (''Andromeda (television series)/Andromeda'')

52nd century

*5161-5164+?
**Events of ''Andromeda (television series)/Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda''.

61st 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 (movie)/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 (movie)/Dune'')

Distant future
*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 create 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 a unknown world due to Deus' sudden reactivation. The Mother is ejected from Kadomony.(''Xenogears'')

*~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_%28series%29)

*14292
**July 6-Noriko and Amano return home in the Gunbuster. Earth appears to be dead, but lights up into an enormous "WELCOME HOME" as they enter orbit.

*23,391 ± 400 (10,191 years after the formation of the Spacing Guild)
**House Atreides takes over stewardship of the planet Arrakis (''Dune'', Dune (novel)/novel and Dune (movie)/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 colonisation 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'')

*~ 30,000 (?)
**The events of the Horus Heresy in Warhammer 40,000

*40,000
**The setting for Warhammer 40,000
**Events of ''Barbarella''.

*50,000
**The events of the novel, ''Pebble in the Sky''.

*505th century
**Solaris, the anti-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")

*802,701
**The Time Traveller arrives and encounters the Eloi and the Morlocks (H.G. Wells' ''The Time Machine'').

*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'').

*~3,002,182
**Red Dwarf characters#David_Lister/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''.#Notes/1

*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)

*100,000,000
**The current year in ''Time Squad''.

*200,000,000
**Events of A. E. van Vogt/A. E. van Vogt's ''The Book of Ptath'' (1943).

*4,000,000,000
**Events on a chunk of Michigan that's traveling through space. (Sharr White/Sharr White's ''Safe From the Future'')

*Simulation of 1912 Earth inside a giant computer
** Europe and parts of Africa and Asia disappear and are replaced by an 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. In the novel Backwards, they arrive to collect Lister in Niagara Falls in the year 9891(1989).

*The end of time
**The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in the novel by Douglas Adams.
**The Inquisitor decides there is no afterlife or god, and that the only purpose in existence is to lead a worthwhile life. So, he constructs a time machine to judge every person in history. (''Red Dwarf'')
**The guru Gaspar and the God of War, Spekkio, await the ones who will slay Lavos and it's spawn. (''Chrono Trigger'')

*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 Red Dwarf characters#David_Lister/Dave Lister states he is "an enlightened 23rd century guy."

Links
*http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html
* http://moa.dracandros.com/

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