Timeline of Earth

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Timeline of Earth is focused on the events occuring on Earth. It is more detailed than the Common Timeline article.

Pre-Singularity Age (pre - 2112)
Date Description
2000 First working 5-qubit quantum computer demonstrated at the Technical University of Munich.
2014 First electronic quantum processor created
Ok glacier in Iceland is considered completely melted. [1]
2040 Peak Oil reached.
2046 Pyrenees glaciers are considered completely melted.
2061 Last batch of Armagnac brandy was bottled.
2069 Efforts to postpone the inevitable sinking of Venice are withdrawn.
2078 First orbital solar panel arrays sent into orbit around Earth.
2082-09-04 Last polar bear in the wilds dies by drowning. Only a handful of polar bears exist on different zoos around the world.
2096 Alpine glaciers are considered completely melted.
2110 Construction of the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid over Tokyo Bay is finished.


Post-Singularity Age (2112 - 2201)
Date Description
2112 First space elevator built on Earth.
2137 Sea levels have risen 2 meters from pre-industrial time.
July 29, 2145 L'Avenir, the first ever domed city, was built in Central-France.
March 24, 2158 Dome city of Dongyeon-hang was built in southeastern Republic of Korea.
2198 Tehran and other cities within the Iranian Plateau are fully transformed into a series of dome cities after a monumental national infrastructure project by the government of Iran.
Solar Age (2201 - 2800)
Date Description
2300 United Governed Space Authority declares the atmosphere of Earth unsafe to breathe without augmentation.
Extrasolar Age (2800 - 3222)
Date Description
3030 By now, due to runaway global warming, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable and beyond any prospect of feasible rehabilitation, with humanity having now long resided in climate-controlled domed cities.
Interstellar Age (3222 - present)
Date Description
May 11, 3989 The Xin Xiwang government aggressively readjusts the political climate of the Commonwealth of Earth to favour their interests. New Manhattan is usurped as the seat of the Commonwealth Senate, with their headquarters moved to Xin Xiwang. Additionally, the Equatorial Space Elevator security contract is transferred over to Argonaut Inc., replacing Axil Industries overnight.
May 12, 3989 The Equatorial Space Elevator Nerve Gas Attacks. The African and Guyanese Space Elevators are flooded with nerve gas by Argonaut Inc automated security in a purge of the Axil Industries forces stationed on them.
May 13, 3989 The Five Hour War. The Earth detachment of the Axil Merchant Marines turn their guns on Argonaut vessels in response to the gas attacks, crippling their rival's trade fleet. They are ordered to stand down by the Axil Industries CEO before the IGSA Peacekeeping Forces and Commonwealth Navy arrive to end the violence.