Timeline


 * –5 000 000 000: Ly-cilph start travelling.
 *   –650 000 000: Ly-cilph arrive at Milky Way.
 *           –211: Laymil mass-suicide; the Ruin Ring is formed.
 *            100: Kiint visit Earth in secret and start training observers.
 *            600: Tracy Dean is born. (≟)
 *            800: Tyrathca settle on Mastrit PJ.

18th cent.

 * 1764: Fletcher Christian is born.
 * 1793: Fletcher Christian dies.

19th cent.

 * 1899: Al Capone is born.

20th cent.

 * 1925: Patricia Mangano is born. (≟)
 * 1947: Al Capone dies.
 * 1995: Patricia Mangano dies. (≟)

21st cent.

 * 2020: Clavius base established. Mining of Lunar subcrustal resources starts.
 * 2037: Beginning of large-scale geneering on humans; improvement to immunology system, eradication of appendix, organ efficiency increased.
 * 2041: First deuterium-fuelled fusion stations built; inefficient and expensive.
 * 2043: Last Ford Nissan Omnirover produced.
 * 2044: Christian reunification.
 * 2047: First asteroid capture mission. Beginning of Earth’s O’Neill Halo.
 * 2049: Quasi-sentient bitek animals employed as servitors.
 * 2050: Messopia arcology is built. (≟)
 * 2055:
 * Jupiter mission.
 * Lunar cities granted independence from founding companies.
 * 2057: Ceres asteroid settlement founded.
 * 2058: Affinity symbiont neurons developed by Wing-Tsit Chong, providing control over animals and bitek constructs.
 * 2062: First, experimental aerostat extraction of 3He from Jupiter’s atmosphere.
 * 2064:
 * JSKP begins mining Jupiter’s atmosphere for 3He using aerostat factories.
 * Islamic secular unification.
 * 2067: Fusion stations begin to use 3He as fuel.
 * 2069: Affinity bond gene spliced into human DNA.
 * 2070: “Beastie baiting” becomes popular in Britain
 * 2075: JSKP germinates Eden, a bitek habitat in orbit around Jupiter, with UN Protectorate status.
 * 2077: New Kong asteroid begins FTL stardrive research project.
 * 2085:
 * Eden opened for habitation.
 * Luca Comar is born. (≟)
 * 2086: Habitat Pallas germinated in Jupiter orbit.
 * 2090:
 * Wing-Tsit Chong dies, and transfers memories to Eden’s neural strata: start of Edenist culture.
 * Cloudscoops replace aerostats in He3 mining.
 * Eden and Pallas declare independence from UN.
 * Launch buyout of JSKP shares.
 * Pope Eleanor excommunicates all Christians with affinity gene.
 * Exodus of affinity capable humans to Eden.
 * Effective end of bitek industry on Earth.
 * 2091: Lunar referendum to terraform Mars.
 * 2094: Edenists begin exowomb breeding programme coupled with extensive geneering improvement to embryos.

22nd cent.

 * 2103:
 * Earth’s national governments consolidate into Govcentral.
 * Thoth base established on Mars.
 * 2104: After a decade of exowomb breeding programme, Edenist population triples.
 * 2107: Govcentral jurisdiction extended to cover O’Neill Halo.
 * 2115: First instantaneous translation by New Kong spaceship, Earth to Mars.
 * 2118: Mission to Proxima Centauri.
 * 2123: Terracompatible planet found at Ross 154.
 * 2125:
 * Ross 154 planet named Felicity, first multiethnic colonists arrive.
 * Nyvan, second new terracompatible planet, discovered. Multiethnic colonies founded.
 * 2130: Fifth new terracompatible planet discovered. Multiethnic colonies founded.
 * 2131:
 * Edenists germinate Perseus in orbit around Ross 154 gas giant, begin 3He mining.
 * Start of what historians will name the Great Dispersal: massive starship building programme initiated in O’Neill Halo; Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population.
 * 2139: asteroid Braun impacts on Mars.
 * 2151: Avon open for colonization.
 * 2156: New California open for ethnic streamed colonization.
 * 2160: Large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus Earth population by Govcentral starts, peaks at 2 million a week.
 * 2175: Bielefeld founded. (≟)
 * 2178: Srinagar founded.
 * 2180: First orbital tower built on Earth.

23rd cent.

 * 2205:
 * 130th new terracompatible planet discovered: Historians mark here the end of the Great Dispersal.
 * Antimatter production station built in orbit around sun by Govcentral in an attempt to break the Edenist energy monopoly.
 * 2208: First antimatter-drive starships operational.
 * 2209: Carys Thomas discovers the Norfolk Tears.
 * 2210: Richard Saldana transports all of New Kong’s industrial facilities from the O’Neill Halo to an asteroid orbiting Kulu: He claims independence for the Kulu system, founds Christian-only colony, and begins to mine 3He from the system’s gas giant.
 * 2218: First voidhawk gestated, a bitek starship designed by Edenists.
 * 2225: Establishment of a hundred voidhawk families: Habitats Romulus and Remus germinated in Saturn orbit to serve as voidhawk bases.
 * 2229: Ashly Hanson is born.
 * 2230: Kulu settled by Richard Saldana.
 * 2232: Conflict at Jupiter’s trailing Trojan asteroid cluster between Belt Alliance ships and an O’Neill Halo company hydrocarbon refinery. Antimatter used as a weapon; twenty-seven thousand people killed.
 * 2238:
 * Treaty of Deimos; outlaws production and use of antimatter in the Sol system; signed by Govcentral, Lunar nation, Asteroid Alliance, and Edenists. Antimatter stations dismantled and abandoned.
 * Avon becomes independent.
 * 2245: (plot of “New Days Old Times”)
 * 2250:
 * Richard Saldana dies; coronation of Gerrald Saldana as King of Kulu: Foundation of Kulu Kingdom.
 * Rubra is born.
 * 2257: The Land Liberation War is fought on Nyvan. Attacks on GovCentral buildings and employees forces Earth to abandon it's claim to the planet. Nyvan enters a 17 year period of isolation, durring which 23 nations form on the planet's surface.
 * 2260: Jerez discovered; Parma and Kulu dispute its ownership; Parma loses; Chloe Saldana becomes the Prince of Jerez. (≟)
 * 2267: First skirmish involving use of antimatter among colony worlds.
 * 2270: Eighth skirmish involving use of antimatter among colony worlds. Cumulative total: thirteen million killed.
 * 2271:
 * Avon summit between all planetary leaders. Treaty of Avon, banning the manufacture and use of antimatter throughout inhabited space: Formation of Human Confederation to police agreement; construction of Confederation Navy begins.
 * Gerrald Saldana dies; coronation of Alastair Saldana.
 * 2294: Rubra abandons Edenism.
 * 2300: Confederation expanded to include Edenists.

24th cent.

 * 2301: First contact: Jiciro race discovered, a pre-technology civilization: System quarantined by Confederation to avoid cultural contamination.
 * 2306: Rubra germinates Valisk.
 * 2310: First ice asteroid impact on Mars.
 * 2325: Kiera Salter is born. (≟)
 * 2330:
 * First blackhawks gestated at Valisk.
 * Valisk closed to “spiritual seekers”.
 * 2350: War between Novska and Hilversum: Novska bombed with antimatter; Confederation Navy prevents retaliatory strike against Hilversum.
 * 2356: Kiint homeworld discovered.
 * 2357: Kiint join Confederation as “observers”.
 * 2360: A voidhawk scout discovers Atlantis.
 * 2365: Magellanic Itg fleet composed only of blackhawks.
 * 2371: Edenists colonize Atlantis.
 * 2375: Firedrakes geneered in Charmaine, Tropicana. (≟)
 * 2383: Candy buds plant-machine assembled/geneered in Karriwak, Tropicana. (≟)
 * 2390: Rubra dies.
 * 2393: (plot of “Candy Buds”)
 * 2395: Tyrathca colony world discovered.
 * 2400: Ashly Hanson visits Nyvan. (≟)

25th cent.

 * 2402:
 * Tyrathca join Confederation.
 * Idria discovered.
 * 2405: (plot of “Deathday”)
 * 2407: Tonala’s Ironberg Foundry construction begins.
 * 2408: Mining operations start in Idria.
 * 2411: Nyiru knocked into orbit above Narok.
 * 2415: Kiera Salter dies. (≟)
 * 2420: Kulu scoutship Ethlyn discovers Mirchusko and the Ruin Ring.
 * 2428: Bitek habitat Tranquility germinated by Crown Prince Michael Saldana, orbiting above Ruin Ring.
 * 2432: Prince Michael’s son, Maurice, geneered with affinity: Kulu abdication crisis; Prince Michael exiled; coronation of Lukas Saldana.
 * 2441: Prince Noton is born.
 * 2447: (plot of “The Lives and Loves of Tiarella Rosa”)
 * 2457: Ombey discovered by Royal Kulu Navy.
 * 2458: Seventh shed of Tonala’s Ironberg Foundry completed; construction halts.
 * 2470: Ombey open for immigration.
 * 2480: Last Edenist contact with Valisk.
 * 2496: Koblat founded.
 * 2500: Ombey reaches 10 million inhabitants; Ombey principality founded.

26th cent.

 * 2505: Prince Noton becomes the head of the Kulu Corporation.
 * 2510: Pasto founded. (≟)
 * 2532: First intact Laymil corpse found in Ruin Ring.
 * 2544: Jantrit distroyed.
 * 2550:
 * Mars declared habitable by Terraforming office.
 * Mr. Butterworth is born
 * 2558: Samual Aleksandrovich leaves Kolomna to join the Navy.
 * 2565:
 * First Dyhaan DLA404 landcruiser manufactored on Varzquez.
 * Dariat is born.
 * 2575:
 * Laton’s group settles secretly in Schuster County
 * Dariat and Anastasia meet.
 * Kursk reaches stage three. (≟)
 * 2576: LDC formed.
 * 2580:
 * Dorado asteroids discovered around Tunja, claimed by both Garissa and Omuta.
 * Part of the Tonala’s Ironberg Foundry becomes a national nature preserve.
 * 2581:
 * Dorados War: Garissa genocide and Omuta blockade.
 * Exnall founded.
 * 2582: LDC establishes a colony on Lalonde; Durringham founded.
 * 2586: (plot of “Escape Route”)
 * 2587: Coastuc-RT founded.
 * 2588: Anglade suffers bacterial plague.
 * 2591: Last Dyhaan DLA404 landcruiser manufactored on Varzquez.
 * 2595: Emmerson born. (≟)
 * 2596:
 * Chaumort independent.
 * Biosphere cavern drilling starts in Ayacucho.
 * 2599: Sehad germinated.

27th cent.

 * 2602:
 * Aethra is germinated around Murora.
 * Wryde founded.
 * 2605:
 * Arklow counties bankrupt.
 * Samual Aleksandrovich becomes First Admiral.
 * 2606: Syrinx and Ruben holiday on Uighur.
 * 2608:
 * Kirsten Saldana crowned Princess of Ombey.
 * Prince Howard replaces Prince Noton as the head of the Kulu Corporation.
 * Oconto founded.
 * 2610:
 * Ly-cilph arrive to Lalonde system.
 * Northway under assessment for colonization permit. (≟)
 * 2611:
 * Confederation has 862 members.
 * End of the Omuta sanctions.
 * (main plot of the trilogy)

Planned events
(as of 2611; many probably did not took place as planned after the end of the Possession Crisis)
 * 2630: Murora expected to be fully grown.

=Notes= (≟) Approximate date.