Timeline of an alternate today. One important factor to keep in mind is that this timeline is an ALTERNATE to the timeline we know of as 'ours'. Events of both our 'real' world and the World of Darkness are radically different. This timeline below presents events as they unfolded. The truth might not be immediately apparent to Player Characters. When in doubt, check with your Storyteller. For more detailed information : [ <a href="https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline" rel="nofollow">https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline</a> ] *********************************************************************************** 1990 The First Central American Conflict begins. The Fall of South Africa occurs. Very little information comes out of the country other than rumors of genocide. London Riots between labor and racial extremists occur. West and East Germany are reunified. Warsaw Pact breaks up. Soviet Union president Gorbachev appoints successor, Andrei Gorborev. The USSR enters into a period of reform. Night International is formed. Colonel Emile Lazarus graduates from West Point. The Quiet War begins. 1991 Eurospace Agency launches the Hermes Spaceplane. Biotechnica Develops CHOOH2. The New Jersey Arcology is built. Stanford Research Center develops artificial muscles. Plans for Coronado City are drawn. 1992 The Euromarket and Eurodollar are established. The DEA develops artificial plagues to curb the production of drugs in South America, and as a result, multiple drug wars break out. The Governments of Chile and Ecuador collapse. First use of high energy laser lift arrays in USSR. Massdriver established in the Canary Islands by eight member Eurospace Agency. Arasaka, EBM and Petrochem fund the creation of Coronado City. Brooke Bailey Atchison is born. Hua Yuchi forms the The Maoist Loyalist Cabal in the Hunan province of China. The Aldecaldo Clan forms in East Los Angeles, CA. 1993 James Richard Allen is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States of America. TRC Biologic Interface chips are developed in Munich, West Germany. The AV-4 Enters production. A small yield nuclear device is detonated in New York City. 15000 are killed. Colombian Drug-lords are to blame. Construction on Coronado City starts. The First Nomad families appear on the west coast. The Australian Government announces plans to recognize aboriginal land. The Aldecaldo Clan is removed from Los Angeles. The EC Ministry for Economics is formed. 1994 World Stock Market Collapse occurs. The First Central American Conflict ends. Nuclear meltdown occurs in Pittsburgh, PA. 257 are killed and cancer rates skyrocket. The area is known as The Pitt from then on. The Aldecaldo Clan is hired to rebuild The Pitt. Coronado City is founded. Edward Llewellyn is born. The Soviet Union ends and the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics is formed. Pressure from the Corporations leads the Australian government to recognize corporations over the aboriginals. Martial Law is declared in Poland. Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and his first wife, Sarah Ferguson, divorce. Sarah takes their two children, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, to live in Texas. 1995 Construction on the Kilimanjaro Massdriver starts. Yorinobu Arasaka is born. Anastasia Luccessi is born. The Grand unification of Ministries and agencies is carried out in Japan. A Civil war breaks out in China with the Maoist Loyalist Cabal conquering large swaths of the country. The Bloods gang controls all of Miami, Florida. Evienne De Tours is born. 1996 The Event known as The Collapse begins. Martial Law is established in the United States. August 17: U.S. President James Richard Allen and Vice President Harold Harrison Hunt are killed. U.S. Secretary of Defense Jonathan Seward claims the vacant U.S. presidency after the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate decline to accept it. The Lawyer Purge occurs. The first Boostergangs appear. Nomad packs become widespread due to the high rate of homelessness. Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution is scrapped by Arasaka backed politicians. The United States Military withdraws from Japan and Korea. Armatech-Luccessi is founded. Anatoly Novikovo is named head of the USSR Oil subcommittee. Lawrence Hilliard Innovation Ltd. is formed. The Far Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere Group, FACS, is founded by varvious large and small Japanese corporations to counter Arasaka in Japan. Portugal and Italy join the EEC. 1997 The MidEast Meltdown occurs. Conflict in the Japanese government begins between right winged Arasaka and the bureaucratic FACS Group. August 3: Popular Rockerboy Manson, is killed in the United Kingdom. California's economy follows suit with the rest of the nation, and collapses. The KGB Rebellion occurs in the USSR. The event is known as the Nights of Fire. Anatoly Novikovo lays the groundwork for a private army using the remnants of the OMON Unit. Tycho, the first Luna colony, is founded. A toxic spill occurs in the Pacific Northwest, wiping out the fishing industries in the area. The Gang of Four are formally investigated. The United States Military reforms into Combined Operations Groups. The Bald Hill political scandal occurs in Japan, 60% of politicians were arrested for bribery charges. Hong Kong is returned to China from Britain. Drug and smuggling laws are repealed in Thailand. The Yasubisu Affair occurs. 24 French Police officers are killed by Arasaka Security when attempting to arrest a high level executive. 1998 A 10.5 Earthquake decimates Los Angeles. 35% of the city is underwater and upwards of 65000 people are killed. A drought in the Midwest destroys a large amount of crops. Many farms go out of business. The Luds, a Neo-Luddite group emerges in Kentucky. They begin a spree of bombings that last nearly ten years. Rory and Lea Murchison are born. Richard Night is killed by the mafia. Tsunami Defense Systems is founded by Toshio Yamabatsu, Timothy Davidson, and Michelle Teguchi Langley in Osaka, Japan. Coronado City is renamed Night City, in memory of its founder. Howard Murchison is assassinated by Colin Powers. Gerhard Kessler takes control of the International Electric Corporation. The United States Military undergoes trials for a new rifle to replace the M16A2. The formation of the Soviet state oil industries is completed and is known as SovOil. The Martial Law Authority is formed in the United Kingdom. It declares a state of emergency and removes the monarchy. King Charles III, Prince Andrew, and other members of the royal family are forced into exile or detained. Indonesian President Suharto dies. Construction begins on the Intercontinental Maglev system in Night City. Directive 1998-EC-A-000534 is launched in the EC. 1999 Martial law in the United States ends. The United States implements the Federal Weapons Statute. Millennium cults appear in response to the 'threat' of Y2K. Tycho colony established. A massdriver is constructed to provide raw materials for orbital platforms. Hanako Arasaka is born. Ellen Trieste invests in Parker Petrochemicals. Parker Petrochemicals is granted a license by Biotechnica to grow T. Megasuavis, a component of CHOOH2. The Public Information Office is formed in the UK. The Second Korean War begins. Martial Law is declared in Hong Kong after riots break out. The Jodes, former farmers from the dust-bowl, begin salvage operations in the decimated Los Angeles. The Bloods Gang from Florida become a Nomad group. Night Corp is founded by wife of Richard Night. 2000s 2000 Crystal Palace Space Station begins construction. Wasting Plague spreads across the United States and Europe. Firestorms decimate farmland in the northwest. The first Posergangs emerge. Millennium Cult run amok on Jan 1st in an orgy of suicide and violence, most destroy themselves. Donald Lundee joins Armatech-Luccessi as CEO. The Olympic Games in Sydney Australia fail due to bankruptcy. Orbital Air begin construction on a spaceport in Cape York Australia. The Aldecaldo Clan begins construction on Mexico City. The Civilian Justice code is formed in the United States. A Millennium Cult kills upwards of 19000 in a chemical attack in Berlin. EBM Begins to purchase Hamburg, Germany. Alaska becomes a free state. 2001 The World Sat Network is constructed. The Framework for the Net is set up. Armatech-Luccessi is renamed Militech Arms International. Lawrence Hilliard Innovation Ltd is renamed The Hilliard Corporation. The Japan Aerospace Bureau is established. A Military coup occurs in Britain and the British Monarchy collapses. Australia reforms as the Federal Republic of Australia. Western Australia declares independence after rejecting the new government, they are backed by Arasaka. The Jodes finish the salvage operation in LA. They do not win any construction contracts and are left out of a job as a result. 2002 The Food Crash occurs. Crops around the world are hit by a new virus. The United States survives after developing a counter agent. SovOil declares itself independent of the USSR government. As a result. Gorborev resigns in disgrace. Igor Starobin is named president of the USSR. Lupold Korepino is promoted to General of the Soviet Army. Valentin Domanevka joins SovOil. Copernicus, the second Luna Colony is founded. The Santorini Volcano erupts in the Aegean sea, many Greek Islands are hit hard by Tsunamis. 2003 The Second Central American Conflict begins. The Gang of Four begins to crumble under new reforms. U.S. President Jonathan Seward is assassinated. General William Newell takes charge as acting president, and a second period of martial law begins. World News Service star Tesla Johanneson exposes the NSA for orchestrating the First Central American Conflict. Louis Parker dies, his son Trenton Parker assumes control of the company. The Khmer Rouge is driven out of Cambodia and deposes the government of Laos. The Jodes return to agriculture. Directive 2002-EC-A-000306 is launched in the EC. Sugo Manufacturing merges with Mitsubishi and is renamed Mitsubishi-Sugo. Samurai is founded. 2004 Tesla Johanneson is assassinated in Cairo, Egypt by NSA operatives, causing the U.S. to forego a planned a return to civilian government and extend martial law another four years. The First Corporate War begins. Cloned tissue is developed. Peter Kessler is born. Lupold Korepino joins SovOil. The CIA and Army unite to finish off the Gang of Four. General I Ryong Yon launches a coup in South Korea and creates the United Korea junta. Bureaucratic reformation occurs in the EEC after a major scandal. 2005 The Cybermodem is invented. EBM Solos attack Tokyo office of Kenjiri Technologies, Killing 18. The First Corporate War ends. The Mob rule over Night City begins. Peter Van Rijen joins SovOil. Operation Big Stick begins. The Second Korean War ends and the United Republic of Korea is created. General I Ryong Yon is elected president. President I Ryong Yon is killed in a bombing on the presidential palace. General Park is elected President. The Maoist Loyalist Cabal controls southern China. Los Angeles Reconstruction project is finished and many Nomads leave California. Directive 2003-EC-A-001348 is launched in the EC. EBM Declare Hamburg an independent nation. 2006 The first human clone is grown, this leads to the development of artificial organs. SovOil is granted a licence to produce CHOOH2. Operation Big Stick ends with the United States military destroying the Mantoga Corporation. Cyberlimbs become commonplace among the United States Military. Vietnam joins the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations. The Malagay Separatist Movement is launched. The Polish city of Gdansk is annexed by Germany and renamed Danzig. 2007 Lupold Korepino is named commander of the SovOil armed forces. The Second Corporate War begins. Braindance is developed. Parker Petrochemicals is renamed Petrochemical Associates International. The Maoist Loyalist Cabal capture Hong Kong and begin a series of pogroms. New Zealand legalizes Marijuana for the production of Hemp. The Greek military launch a coup and oust the government. 2008 The Orbital War begins. United States forces attack a soviet space installation, the EuroSpace Agency joins the conflict on the side of the soviets. The conflict lasts only a few weeks, and ends after intervention by the Luna Colony. Colorado Springs is destroyed by a meteor shot by the Tycho Massdriver on Luna. Alice Springs, in Australia's Northern territory, is also hit by the Tycho Massdriver. 25,000 people are killed. The band Samurai splits. November 7: The United States government undergoes a period of reform. Martial law is lifted once again, and free elections occur. Taiwan declares independence with the assistance of the Arasaka Corporation. General Jiang Xiax is elected head of the Chinese communist party. The Intercontinental MagLev project in Night City is completed. Greece attempts to annex Cyprus, they are unsuccessful. 2009 Joint Euro-Soviet mission to Mars begins. The Mutual Defense Treaty is signed by the United States and China. The Mob War in Night City begins. Anatoly Novikovo is assassinated by Petrochem. Yarno Kurgasyn assumes control of SovOil. The United States begins operation to take control of the Crystal Palace space station, the Tycho mass driver delivers a warning to Washington, D.C. Indonesia invades Papua New Guinea and renames it East Irian Jaya. The Papua New Guinea government escapes to Wellington, New Zealand. The Association of Southeastern Asian Nations disbands. Directive 2009-EC-A-000039 is launched in the EC. 2010s 2010 The Second Central American Conflict ends. Network 54 now controls 62% of all media broadcasting in U.S. Over a million Nomad contractors are abandoned in central and south America, The Long Walk home begins. Food Riots occur in Denver, Colorado. The Lazarus group is formed. The Second Corporate War ends. Construction of the O'Neill One space colony begins. The Corporations and the Triads of Hong Kong ally themselves with against the Maoist Loyalist Cabal. The Night City Psycho Squad is formed by the psychotic Solo Ares. The Italian Government passes a law to allow the confiscation and resale of valuable farmland to corporations. Earthquake decimates Romania, 267 are killed in Bucharest. 2011 Corporations "restructured" the Night City Council due to the anarchy in the last decade. July 13: Bryan LeShawn sets record for deepest independent suit dive, utilizing the Poseidon Fluid Breathing Suit. The Crystal Palace space station is completed by the EuroSpace Agency. Joint Euro-Soviet mission to mars is a success. The Night City Mob War ends, with the Corporations emerging victorious. Marshall R. Shepard joins Petrochem.[3] Filipino President Ramos is killed and his succeed by President Aguilar. An experimental Nanotech device is used in Australia, but becomes dangerously out of control. It is abandoned. An oil rig is hijacked in the Gulf of Mexico and a new Pirate haven is formed, called MetaKey. 2012 A Bioplague is unleashed on Chicago, IL. 1700 are killed. Gerhard Kessler is assassinated. Yarno Kurgasyn retires from SovOil. Arkady Cherminino assumes control of SovOil. Nanotechnology breakthrough is achieved. Filipino President Aguilar is killed for cheating in the election, his successor President Lopez is killed on the way to his inauguration. The Nomad Long Walk ends with only 10% returning home. Drought decimates Spain and a small Corporate war breaks out over water rights. The EC intervenes to stop the conflict. MetaCorp is founded. 2013 The events of Cyberpunk 2013 take place. Netwatch established by joint U.S./ Eurotheatre Treaty. The first Artificial Intelligence is developed by Microtech. The Central African conflict begins. The Neo-Catholic Church begins reformation. Emperor Showa-Tenno dies and Emperor Shinka-Tenno ascends the throne in Japan. Maoist Loyalist Cabal leader Hua Yuchi is assassinated. Filipino President Tiapan is elected. Alt Cunningham captured by Arasaka. Johnny Silverhand concert riot in Night City kills 18, wounds 51. Old Arasaka Tower gutted. Alt Cunningham dies. Johnny Silverhand goes into hiding with the help of the The Aldecaldo Clan. The Mexico City rebuilding project is completed. Eugene Hobson forms StreeTemps. 2014 Turf wars begin in Night City, they are known as The Metal Wars. I-G Transform Redesign the Net. Emperor Shinka-Tenno is removed from power in Japan. The Peoples Liberation Party regain control of large areas of southern China. Hong Kong is liberated. The Association of Southeastern Asian Nations is reformed. The Amnesty International office in London is bombed. They set up a new HQ in New Zealand. The Cape York spaceport completes construction. The Church of Poland is formed, splitting from the Vatican. Kizamasu Inc. own major portion of Houston to build corporate city. 2015 Latvia attempts to invade Lithuania. Cyber-Mercenaries repel the invasion. Douglas Llewellyn joins the Lazarus Group. Nanotechnology becomes commercially available. Japan is removed from the EEC. Japan establishes the New Yen currency. The Yen War begins in Europe, with Germany aiming to limit international corporations in Europe. MetaCorp is founded. Eugene Hobson dies. 2016 The Third Corporate War begins. Angus Youngblood and Ellen Trieste Marry via the Net. The O'Neill One space colony completes construction. Bioware becomes commercially available. The Scottish uprising begins. Water riots begin in Australia. Arasaka funds construction of a desalination plant. Bermeo Incident occurs. 127 protesters are killed by corporate security teams. 2017 Blair is inaugurated as President of the United States of America. His vice president is Elizabeth Kress. The first self-aware human clone is created. The O'Neill Two Space colony is completed and named Galileo Cylinder. NASA launches a mission to mars. Imperial Metropolitan Agriculture forces capture Bristol, dealing a blow to the Martial Law Authority and strengthening the Restoration movement. London is flooded as the Thames flood barriers are bombed. The Martial Law Authority is disbanded and the monarchy is restored in the United Kingdom. Princess Beatrice is crowned Queen Victoria II in Westminster Abbey a week later. A new period of martial law is declared to maintain order while the UK's districts and reorganized and the Democratic Government Committee debates how to set up the new Parliament. The DGC has yet to issue a final report as of 2018 EuroSpace Agency launch a mission to Jupiter. The European Brushfire War begins. The O'Neill Three space colony is completes and named Paradise Station. The EuroSpace Agency send another joint mission to mars with SovOil. Human cloning laws are passed in Europe. The Pirate Haven of MetaKey is moved to Tampa Florida to begin the salvage operation of the city. Poland is attacked by Czechoslovakia but are repelled. Romania invades Bulgaria. Rolf Schneider is elected president of the European Council. Evienne De Tours is elected to join the European Council. Interpol launches their organized crime division. Directive 2017-EC-A-001021 is launched in the EC. Greece annexes Macedonia with the aid of Albania. In retaliation Serbia invades Albania. Pritap Suwarti is assassinated. Amelia Young dies. U.S. President Blair falls ill and is incapacitated. His vice president, Elizabeth Kress, becomes acting president. 2019 April 14: President Blair dies. Elizabeth Kress is sworn in as the next President of the United States of America, and holds office until at least 2045, winning re-election at least four times. L-5 Space colonies revolt and declare independence. L-4 Space colonies placed under martial law. Orbital colony revolt at L-3. NASA Mars mission is successful. Emperor Jinkyoku-Tenno ascends the throne in Japan. Opium production begins anew in the golden triangle of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. Storm Technology begins operations in Chicago, Illinois. Albania is annexed by Yugoslavia. 2020s 2020 The events of Cyberpunk 2020 take place. Arasaka discovers precious natural deposits under a facility in Africa. Militech supports the native population in removing Arasaka, they fail and Arasaka buy the rights to the land. The Seven Nomad Nations are formed. A Neurotoxin spill occurs in the Latvian town of Jelgava. Lithuania is to blame. The Second Joint SovOil ESA Mars mission is successful. Storm Technology contracts the Jodes and The Aldecaldo Clan to begin the Chicago salvage and reconstruction project. Several Nomad nations are contracted to build an extension of the Intercontinental MagLev in Boston, MA. Carbon Plague ravages Night City for two weeks, then mysteriously stops. Chicago Rebuilding Project begins. NASA's crewed Pathfinder mission to Jupiter launches in the summer of 2020. It is expected to reach Jupiter in 2025. 2021 NASA builds a base on Mars, it is called Chryse Base. StreeTemps open regional offices in San Francisco and Seattle. Euro Aquacorp CINO attempts to acquire bankrupt Aquacorp IHAG. 2022 The events of Cyberpunk: The Arasaka's Plot take place. Rache Bartmoss is killed in a Corporate raid, dead man switch unleashes DataKrash virus two weeks later. The Fourth Corporate War begins. The Chicago Rebuilding Project collapses when Arasaka factions detonate virus bomb to deny the city to Militech. DataKrash virus infests 78.2% of the NET. Industrial factories appear in orbit around Mars. The Seven Hour War begins when O'Neill Two, Galileo Cylinder, declares independence. The ESA and SovOil build a base on Mars, called Isidis Base, and creates a colonial government. The Civic Order bill is passed in the United Kingdom. 2023 : Today