A Timeline of Events

'	The collapse of Base Reality.
.	God comes into existence.
c. 2050 BC	Sanxingdui culture (三星堆; pinyin: Sānxīngduī; literally "three stars mound") established.
c. 28	"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near." John the Baptist begins his ministry.

May 20, 1862	President Lincoln passes the Homestead Act, allowing farmers can take over large areas of land recently seized from Native Americans. As a result, Mystery X's ancestors relocate from the Deep South to Kansas, establishing farms on what was recently the homeland of America's indigenous people; X lives on a patch of the original free land handout. He still hears the voices of angry Native Americans in the wind.
January 1, 1889	Wovoka has his vision of the resurrection Paiute dead and the removal of whites from North America, leading him to teach his people of the Ghost Dance.
August 30, 1868	Leonard "Live-Forever" Jones dies.
March 25, 1916	"Mr. Ishi", last member of the Yahi tribe of Northern California, known as the "last wild Indian", dies.
January 20, 1920	Guo Moruo completes his first draft of "Nirvana of the Phoenix"; the final version would be completed by January 3, 1928.
March 13, 1921	Roman Ungern von Sternberg proclaims Mongolia an independent monarchy under his rule. His regime exists for six months, ending with his ouster and hand over to the Red Army on August 21, 1921, and his execution on September 15, 1921.
July 16, 1945	"Now we are all sons of bitches." Trinity conducted by USARMY in the Jornada del Muerto desert, about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the White Sands Proving Ground.
October 4, 1957	Sputnik 1 (Спутник-1) is launched into an elliptical low earth orbit by the Soviet Union.
October 5 – October 17, 1970	October Crisis (La crise d'octobre) in Quebec, Canada. Members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) murder Quebec trade minister Pierre Laporte, kidnap British Trade Commissioner James Cross.
January 20, 2001	Giles Thrush becomes president of the United States. Under his leadership, America conquered and annexed seven Middle Eastern nations (including Iraq).
November 30, 2006	Buddy Johnson passed through on his way to parts unknown.
December 30, 2006	Mollkins are first presented as a legitimated species group (rather than being treated as deformed humans) by American geneticists; this action paves the way for decades of unclear policy regarding their human rights status. Their sudden appearance and population explosion radically alter international legal and social culture.
January 9, 2007	The horrorist group IO issues the "Foundation Day" declaration, beginning their long-running campaign.
November 1, 2007	Ikory declares independence from Canada. Ikorian militia engage in a series of violent skirmishes with Canadian police and military that last through to January 2008, ending in a cease-fire but no legal acceptance of Ikorian sovereignty by any Canadian or international body.
November 12, 2007	Washington A C rises up from the ocean, quickly being colonized by aggressive American land-grabbers. Within the year, it became the 52nd American state.
December 14, 2007	Unsama Ben Mollkin declares that the capture and enslavement of Mollkins will be met with force, calls all Mollkins to support Hizmollka. Ten days later, on Christmas Eve, Hizmollka cells in Washington DC topple the Washington Monument and blow up a tanker full of pig's blood inside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

January 21, 2008	The Sinkhole Crisis begins as stock markets around the world plunge amid growing signs of a U.S. recession.
March - April 2008	Rising food and fuel prices spark riots across Asia and Africa.
May 3, 2008	Cyclone Nargis kills ~133000 in Burma (Myanmar).
May 12, 2008	Wenchuan Quake (7.9 Mw) kills ~68000 in Sichuan, China.
October 3, 2008	TARP is draped over the collapsing U.S. economy in preparation for elections.
January 20, 2009	Barry Liberal becomes the President of the United States.
April 26, 2009	Wild Turkey Swine Recombinant Filth Flu warnings issued.
December 16, 2009	Discovery of GJ1214b, the first-known exoplanet on which water could exist.
April 20, 2010	The Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
November 17, 2010	Researchers at CERN trap 38 antihydrogen atoms for a sixth of a second, marking the first time in known history that humans have trapped antimatter.
January 14, 2011	The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power. This event sparks a chain of related government ousters, mass protests, and even a U.S.-backed civil war in Libya.
May 1, 2011	President Liberal declares that Unsama Ben Mollkin has been killed by U.S. forces.
January 31, 2012	433 Eros flies by Earth at a distance of 0.1790 astronomical units.
June 6, 2012	The second and final solar transit of Venus of the 21st century.

December 21, 2012	timeclnder brak dawn; fly, you pyramids, fly.
20??	The Gas Wars are fought, culminating in the final hollowing and collapse of the nations.
20??	Orbital Space City Ketheres is/has been/will be in orbit.
2-A5	Water wars escalate into open conflict as a large-scale, intercorporate battle is fought across the Scrapyards to control all potable water supplies. Ice pirates, cloud stealers, and desalinization plants become the watch-words.
2-C8	Air Wars and the flight into Deep Space by Those Able.
B-0	Aliens perform the Heavenly Purification rites on Earth.
B-0-1	The Garbage Planet.
2-I3-850	Singularity dissolved by Retrogressives.