Mercury Rising Timeline

1943

 * July 1 - Joe Lomax is born to John and Laura Lomax in New York City, the second of his parents' four children.

1952

 * The NSA is formed.

1954

 * Martin Lynch is born in Chicago to William and Martha Lynch.

1955

 * October 17 - Art Jeffries is born in Chicago; the first of his parents' only two children. (Mercury Rising: Countdown)
 * Jenny Simmons, later Jenny Lynch, is born to George and Edwina Simmons in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
 * Jack Nichols is born to Jason and Laura Nichols in Columbus, Ohio.

1960

 * July 18 - Tommy Jordan is born in Springfield, Illinois; the first of three children in his family. (S3 - Insanity's End)

1966

 * June 11 - Stacey Siebring is born in Des Moines, Iowa; her parents' first child. (Mercury Rising, Mercury Rising: Shockwave)

1967

 * July 8 - Art Jeffries, Jr., father of twelve year-old Art Jeffries III, is killed in a car accident near Midway Airport in Chicago while on the way to meet young Art's uncle, Dave Jeffries, who was returning from a tour of duty in West Germany. Art, Jr.'s wife and young Art's mother Amanda Jeffries is put into a coma for over thirty years as a result. (S1 - Death Doesn't Take a Holiday)

1971

 * April 17 - The IBM Building in Chicago begins construction at 330 North Wabash.

1973

 * The IBM Building in Chicago is completed.

1981

 * US President Ronald Reagan signs into law the current official directive of the NSA. It states that the agency is only to conduct foreign operations using its resources, and to leave domestic matters to the FBI. Any breach of this directive, especially ones like Nicholas Kudrow and Robert Donaldson's places the NSA into a seriously compromising position with the government.

1982

 * March 13 - Peter Burrell is presumed dead in Beirut, while serving with US Special Forces. (Mercury Rising)

1985

 * May 22 - Peter Lynch is born at Northwestern Memorial at 7:39 AM EDT. (S1 - Long Lost)
 * Roy McOwen joins the Chicago Sun-Times.

1989

 * March 12 - Simon Lynch is born at 6:07 AM at Concordia General as Martin and Jenny Lynch's last child. (S1 - The Fall)

1990

 * March 12 - On Simon Lynch's first birthday, he, Martin, Jenny, and Peter move from 4948 North Natchez Avenue to 2144 West 23rd Street. (S1 - The "L" Plan, Part 2)

1992

 * August 29 - Peter Lynch, in an atypical childhood fashion and wanting to 'see the world', leaves his home, only seven years old at the time. (S1 - Long Lost; Regrets)

1993

 * August 11 - The Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle is completed amongst much fanfare, retaining Chicago's title of containing the tallest building in the world, surpassing the Sears Tower in height by over 550 feet (not counting antennas/masts), and the future Petronas Towers by nearly 600 feet.

1996

 * July 8 - Construction begins on 7 South Dearborn in Chicago, Illinois. (S3 - Whirlwind)

1998

 * March 21 - An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale occurs in Iran, the shockwaves from which rupture major oil fields in Kuwait and northeastern Saudi Arabia. (Mercury Rising: 9/11)
 * April 9 - An F5 tornado passes near Nashville, Tennessee, killing over a hundred and wounding many others. (S3 - Whirlwind)
 * May 3 - Yet another earthquake occurs in Iran, this one magnitude 6.9. The shockwaves only cause minor damage throughout the country, killing few. (S6 - Hierarchy)
 * May 30 - German Mob boss Karl Decker is captured by the FBI after a shootout at his stronghold in the Des Moines outskirts, resulting in the deaths of all his men except Jason Kreuger, who escapes and plans revenge. The FBI suffers only three casualties in the shootout, out of over thirty men. (Mercury Rising: Occupation)
 * June 5 to 12 - Nine year-old Simon Lynch deciphers the original MERCURY code, and is targeted by NSA's Nicholas Kudrow, but is shielded from Kudrow's efforts by Chicago FBI's Art Jeffries, after his parents, Martin and Jenny Lynch, were murdered by Kudrow's second and top hit-man, Peter Burrell. The conflict came to head, with Dean Crandell and Leo Pedranski meeting their fates at the hands of Burrell, but slowly begining what would turn the tables on Kudrow. The resolution finally came in the form of a confrontation atop the city's IBM Building, in which Kudrow and Burrell were killed by Jeffries and an FBI SWAT team led by Tommy Jordan. These events initiated The Conflict. (Mercury Rising)

1999

 * February 28 - A 5.1 earthquake strikes Chicago at 11:20 AM, and the 1999 Chicago blackout occurs at 6:12 PM when Simon Lynch accidentally shuts down the city power grid. (S1 - Nerd or Hacker?)
 * March 4 - John Burrell, Will Patterson, and Andrew Ridd abduct Simon Lynch and utilize a former Eastwind Airlines 727-cargo jet to flee Midway Airport. (S1 - Terror in the Sky)
 * March 5 - Scott and Katharine Smith are killed in a bombing perpetrated by Andrew Ridd and Will Patterson of Zero Section that destroys the Chicago Span of the Lake Michigan Overpass, forcing Simon Lynch into contemplating suicide. (S1 - Death Doesn't Take a Holiday)

2000

 * July 26 - Construction of 7 South Dearborn is completed when workers finish the installation of the 433 foot-high broadcast antenna on the roof. (S3 - Whirlwind)
 * July 29 - The US Army's research division makes a major breakthrough in nanotechnology when they successfully use nanites to cure a medical patient of cancer.
 * August 14 - Miko Ritan is born to Mark and Carol Ritan in Sturgis, South Dakota. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * August 18 - An F-4 tornado touches down in the Chicago suburb of Cicero at the intersection of W. Roosevelt Road and S. Oakley Blvd at 11:21 p.m, and travels almost to downtown before dissipating. Another tornado, a weaker F-2, touches down in the West Side on W. Lake Street over the Kennedy Expressway. The final toll amounts to over two-hundred million dollars and 102 dead. (S3 - Whirlwind)

2002

 * October 6 - A magnitude 7.0+ earthquake swarm occurs in the Long Valley Caldera of Eastern California, a signal of events to come. (S6 - Fires of Death, Part 1)
 * October 8 - The USGS detects a 4.7 foot uplift of the Long Valley Caldera floor, and raises the Long Valley alert level to yellow. (S6 - Fires of Death, Part 1)
 * October 9 - USGS announces the caldera uplift in Long Valley has reached 9.9 feet, and raises the alert level first to orange, then red after several hydrothermal eruptions occur within the caldera and along the Mono-Inyo Volcanic Chain. Evacuations of the Inyo National Park begin. (S6 - Fires of Death, Part 1)
 * October 10 - The main evacuation of Inyo National Park is complete, while the caldera uplift in Long Valley reaches 12.4 feet, and several large fissures crisscross the caldera floor around 9:09 AM, bisecting both US HWY 395 and the local airport. (S6 - Fires of Death, Part 1)
 * October 11 - The Long Valley Caldera erupts. (S6 - Fires of Death, Part 1, Fires of Death, Part 2)

<!--==2003==
 * November 6 - The Great Bombardment of 2003 begins with the detection of multiple asteroid fragments nearing Earth's atmosphere. (Mercury Rising: Doomsday)
 * December 3 - The Great Bombardment of 2003 ends when fourteen year-old Simon Lynch hacks into the US missile control systems, and launches a specially designed nuclear warhead that nearly incinerates the asteroid responsible for the bombardment, designated JS2144-03, thereby averting the total annihilation of the human race. (Mercury Rising: Doomsday)

2006

 * July 18 - The Chicago World Trade Center is completed amongst the many Post-2003 Reconstruction Period buildings in Chicago, and all across the globe. Tower 1 of the complex surpasses the Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle as the tallest building in the world (2500 feet), and Tower 2 ties the future Chicago Spire as the second tallest building in the world at the time (2300 feet).

2010

 * May 13 - The 2010-2011 Mediterranean crisis begins shortly after Simon Lynch is notified of Karl Decker's survival of the USAF's airstrike on the Sears Tower that occured on November 21, 2009. (Mercury Rising: Mediterranean Unrest)
 * May 14 - The French Navy aircraft carrier Charles DeGaulle is sunk near the Strait of Gibraltar by the hijacked Russian submarine Zemlya, all hands lost. (Mercury Rising: Mediterranean Unrest)
 * May 15 to December 31 - The Mediterranean crisis continues to escalate, with battles between NATO and Atlantropa Alliance (AA) forces occuring all across the basin, with EU forces evacuating Sardinia and Sicily, as well as the coasts of France, Spain, Italy, and Greece. (Mercury Rising: Mediterranean Unrest, Mercury Rising: Mediterranean Incursion)

2011

 * January 1 to May 4 - The Mediterranean Incursion War takes place between the US military, with NATO and EU forces aiding, and the Atlantropa Alliance, under the command of Karl Decker and Jason Kreuger. (Mercury Rising: Mediterranean Incursion, Mercury Rising: Mediterranean Uprising)
 * July 18 - After three years of construction, the Chicago Spire is completed, and at 2300 feet high, equals the height of Tower 2 of the Chicago WTC. (Mercury Rising: Mediterranean Uprising)
 * July 29 - Simon Lynch, with aid of his fellow colleagues at NASA-JPL, discovers that the dwarf planet Ceres' orbit around the Sun was destabilized in 2003, and may be on a collision course with Earth. (Mercury Rising 2: Final Stand)
 * August 7 - A small, rogue fragment of Ceres enters the atmosphere over Washington D.C., and is destroyed by a railgun fired from the USS Spruance. (Mercury Rising 2: Final Stand)
 * September 11 - The United States solemnly commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Al-Qaeda attacks on the original WTC in New York and the Pentagon in D.C. The new WTC Memorial, the first section of the new WTC, is opened amid 9 minutes and 11 seconds of silence before it is revealed to the public for the first time. (Mercury Rising 2: Final Stand)

2012

 * January 17 - The world learns that the oil reserves in the Middle East are near depletion, causing all nations in the region, as well as western countries to fight over the remaining oil. US and NATO troops also lock down recently discovered oil reserves in central Venezuela. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * March 10 - A 6.7 earthquake occurs in Tikal, Guatemala, the former capital of the Mayan Empire, while Simon Lynch and his brother Peter, son Joseph, and brother Simon are on a tour of the city with several others. The earthquake exposes a large chamber, hidden since after its completion in 107 AD. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * March 12 - A 7.2 earthquake occurs in Chicago, Illinois, around 10:11 AM. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * March 15 to 21 - A Category 4 hurricane forms from a tropical storm in the South Atlantic in 35 hours, and slams ashore in Rio de Janeiro on the 19th, killing over seven thousand in the tidal surge alone, with total damage estimates nearly reaching $27 billion by May 2. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * March 22 - The Freedom Tower in New York City is topped out at 1,776 feet, with completion scheduled for August and opening for September 11, eleven years after the attacks on the original WTC. (Mercury Rising: 2012, Mercury Rising: 9/11)
 * April 2 - The largest artificial island ever created is finished off the Southern California coastline, and is named Linchar Island. Linchar City and a coinciding airport begin construction about three months later. To counter significant earthquakes in the region, an advanced seismic resistance program was undertaken by the US Army Corps of Engineers, who also installed large mass dampers in all the island's large structures and skyscrapers. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * April 9 - US President Jonathan Tomson finally reveals the existence of the Mercury program to the world, as well as the story of Simon Lynch and the events surrounding the code. (Mercury Rising: 2012, Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * April 14 and 15 - People all over the world commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and Simon Lynch finally learns of Josiah and Nancy Lynch's existence and their survival of the sinking. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * May 13 - A 7.0 earthquake occurs in Reno, Nevada, around 8:48 A.M., killing one thousand forty-eight and injuring several hundred when the Silver Legacy Hotel and Casino in downtown Reno collapses, covering the city in a dust cloud for several hours. City Hall, the Reno Events Center, and St. Mary's Regional Hospital also suffer heavy damage. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * May 29 - The largest aftershock of the Reno earthquake occurs, rated magnitude 6.3. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * June 1 - Around 1:19 a.m., a terrorist working for Al-Qaeda detonates a tactical nuclear device on Interstate 70 in Sevier County, Utah, killing forty-four and irradiating over a hundred-square miles of the state. The mushroom cloud is visible from Salt Lake City for slightly over eighteen hours. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * June 29 - The 6th largest earthquake in recorded history occurs, as a 9.7 earthquake nearly destroys the city of Las Vegas. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * July 4 - The first underwater supervolcanic eruption in recorded history occurs in the Atlantic Ocean at a point over a thousand miles east of Bermuda, sending superheated water vapor and steam miles into the atmosphere for thousands of miles in all directions, providing fuel for the dying Tropical Storm Gordon to grow into the largest and most ferocious tropical cyclone in recorded history. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * July 5 to 7 - Tropical Storm Gordon strengthens from a tropical storm to a Category 6 hurricane in forty-eight hours, becoming the strongest and largest tropical cyclone ever recorded on earth. On July 7, it becomes a Category 7 hypercane, the first officially recognized storm of its kind in recorded history. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * July 9 - Hypercane Gordon slams ashore in Plymouth, England, with winds topping 300 mph. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * July 18 - An 8.2 earthquake strikes Japan, causing severe damage throughout the entire country, especially near the epicenter in Tokyo, where much of the city is completely leveled, and portions of the coastline sink underwater forever, as Tokyo Bay rises nearly 37 feet within hours. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * July 26 - Puerto Rico votes to join the United States as the 51st state, narrowly passing in a vote of 87 - 81. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * August 5 - The Freedom Tower in NYC is completed, with the opening ceremony still scheduled for September 11. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * August 9 - The 4th largest earthquake in recorded history occurs, as a 10.2 earthquake occurs along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, creating a 510 foot high megatsunami that destroys much of the Pacific Northwest, including Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma, and Portland. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * August 10 - A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Cardiff, England, and completely levels the city after it generates a 107 foot-high tsunami. The effects of the tsunami are felt throughout Ireland and the UK, forcing postponement of the 2012 Olympic Games for several weeks. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * August 16 - In New York City, the 125th Street Fault ruptures, unleashing a 6.3 earthquake on the city, which is quite ill prepared for such an event. Several of the skyscrapers of Battery Park, vulnerable to soil liquefaction, partially collapse, with several of the cables that support the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges failing as well, though the bridges themselves remain intact. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * September 11 - In NYC, the Freedom Tower is dedicated and opened amid solemn remembrance of the attacks in 2001. Somehow, the tower was almost totally undamaged by August's quake. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * September 15 - US Army Satellite A-89521 collides with Space Station Prometheus over North America, destroying it completely. No one was killed, as the station was unmanned at the time. The collision is deemed an accident. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * September 19 - The Dabbahu Volcano in Northeastern Ethiopia erupts, rupturing the Dabbahu Fissure with an 11.0 earthquake that creates the Ethiopian Sea, as well as the island of Eritrea-Dijbouti. The rupture's effects also sink portions of western Yemen and southwestern Saudi Arabia beneath the Red Sea, destroying the Yemenese capital of Sana'a. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * October 30 - A swarm of earthquakes, (the largest being 7.4) occur under the Point Reyes area in California northwest of San Francisco, creating a fracture along the local area of the San Andreas Fault that splits the peninsula from the mainland, creating Point Reyes Island. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * November 7 - A magma uplift is detected beneath Reno after yet another earthquake swarm, forcing the evacuation of the city. Mount Reno is formed from the succeeding eruption, which destroys the city forever. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * November 14 - A 9.4 earthquake occurs in the Indian Ocean, unleashing another tsunami, similar in power to, but slightly larger than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, though far less people die than in 2004. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * November 23 - The volcano that formed Bermuda, thought to be extinct for thousands of years, erupts catastrophically, killing the 72,000 people who inhabit the island. The eruption forces a redirect of transatlantic flights and shipping, severely disrupting commerce and travel for days. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * November 25 - An 8.9 earthquake occurs in Hilo, Hawaii, killing thousands in the quake itself, and the succeeding ninety-five foot tsunami which erases 91% the city from existence. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * December 12 - Valles Caldera in New Mexico begins showing signs of unrest after thousands of years of slumber. An eruption nearly equivalent to the 2002 eruption of the Long Valley Caldera occurs around 11:47 PM, killing thousands in the resulting ash cloud and pyroclastic flow, which also disrupts major commercial air routes. Ashfall by about an inch reaches as far as Santa Fe and Phoenix, and about a centimeter is reported as far away as Oklahoma City and Dallas-Ft. Worth. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * December 14 - A 7.7 earthquake occurs in Franklin County, Ohio, causing major destruction throughout the region, killing over one hundred-fifty five thousand, and resulting in the complete destruction of the state capital of Columbus. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * December 17 - After a series of large earthquake swarms, more than 50% of the volcanoes in West Antarctica erupt, destabilizing nearly half of the West Antarctic ice sheet, causing a global sea level rise of 5 meters, thereby forcing a major relocation of coastal populations all across the planet. (Mercury Rising: 2012)
 * December 20 to 21 - In the race to stop the pole shift, NASA launches dormant Project SIMON nanites into space, aboard the Shuttle Yorktown, in an attempt to block the excess radiation from Sol. The plan succeeds in preventing a major pole shift, with the crust only moving by 214.4 miles to the northwest. (Mercury Rising: 2012, Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * December 31 - Celebrations take place across the globe, not only for New Years Eve, but for the continued existence of the human race. (Mercury Rising: 2012, Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)

2013

 * January 1 - The world begins rebuilding from the series of 2012 disasters, the recovery of which will take years. (Mercury Rising: 2012, Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * February 7 - Construction of the Mubarak al-Kabir begins in Madinat al-Hareer, Kuwait. It later becomes the first building on Earth to reach over 1 kilometer in height when completed in 2016. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * March 12 - On the first anniversary of the 2012 Chicago earthquake, groundbreaking for Frank Lloyd Wright's mile-high The Illinois, heavily modernized, occurs. The massive sway that the building would experience from winds is offset by a series of three tuned mass dampers installed on the 150th, 350th, and 500th floors; and the dampers, nearly 1000 lbs. each, are also designed to offset potential earthquake activity from the Chicago Fault. (Mercury Rising: 2012, Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * April 2 - Construction of the Bering Strait Bridge begins, one of the last major links in the Global Highway System. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * April 16 - In Indonesia, construction begins on the Sunda Strait Bridge, which will also one day become a link in the Global Highway System (GHS). (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * May 7 - In both Germany and Denmark, construction crews begin construction of the Fehmarn Belt Bridge across the Fehmarn Belt of the Baltic Sea, eventually reducing rail travel time between Hamburg and Copenhagen by nearly 5 hours by 2018. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)
 * June 21 - A 7.0 earthquake occurs 450 miles southwest of Plymouth, England, unleashing a 67 foot-high tsunami that ravages the remains of the city and fully erases it from existence. No casualties are reported. (Mercury Rising 3: Full Circle)

2016

 * January 20 - Construction of the Mubarak al-Kabir in Kuwait is completed, becoming the first human skyscraper to exceed 1 kilometer in height. It remains the tallest in world until the completion of The Illinois in 2017.

2017

 * May 23 - The Illinois in Chicago is completed amongst much fanfare, celebrating its completion as the first mile-high skyscraper in the world, paving the way for a new generation of skyscrapers to come. (Mercury Rising: The Continuing Journey)

2022

 * January 10 to 24 - The 24th Winter Olympic Games occur in Denver, Colorado.
 * July 18 - Construction of the Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid in Tokyo Bay begins, part of the massive reconstruction of Tokyo after the devastating 8.2 earthquake and tsunami in 2012 that nearly destroyed the city.

2028

 * June 17 to 30 - The 34th Summer Olympic Games occurs in both New Seattle, Washington, and Vancouver, British Columbia. This is the first time that multiple cities are selected to host Olympic Games. It is also a second for Vancouver, after hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics.-->

2079

 * May 2 to 30 - Discovery is made of non-human skeletal remains in the Tharsis Region of Mars, and the human colony of McAuliffe City is evacuated when a deadly, unknown virus that mutates humans into zombie-like creatures spreads after the remains are discovered. (Mercury Rising: The Martian Paradox)

<!--==2092==
 * The 50th Summer Olympic Games are held in New York City, their second, after hosting the 2066 Winter Games.

2132

 * June 4 to 18 - The 60th Summer Olympic Games are held in Nairobi, Kenya.

2137

 * June 28 - Volcanic eruptions and superquakes collapse the polar ice caps on Earth, raising sea-levels by nearly 90 meters above the 2011 datum. Around 1.1 billion are displaced and nearly 8 million die in the worst catastrophe to strike the planet since 2012. (Mercury Rising: Borealis Four)
 * July 2 - The risen sea levels generate enough heat to begin fueling hurricanes and even minor hypercanes on this date, killing nearly a million more atop the already 8 million dead. These systems begin striking coastal cities across the globe with devastating force, including Washington, D.C., Moscow, Paris, Leeds, Rome, and Tokyo. (Mercury Rising: Borealis Four)
 * July 25 - The terraforming of Mars is completed after nearly two decades of intensive research, development, and labor. A Category 4 hurricane strikes the coastline of Amazonis Bay near Olympic City; killing only two, due to advanced construction methods in buildings and issuance of necessary warnings and evacuations of the coastline. (Mercury Rising: Borealis Four)

2138

 * January 2 - Nearly seven months after the Ice-Cap Melting, settlers begin to colonize the newly-habitable interiors of Antarctica and Greenland, while thirty-one light-years away, the colony ship Zealandia settles into orbit of the planet designated Borealis 4, under the command of UESA Commander Simon Jeffries III. (Mercury Rising: Borealis Four)

2139

 * December 24 - Luna is fully terraformed after an even greater effort than Mars' terraforming. Its reflectivity was initially reduced to 40%, but certain aspects of the nano-terraforming kept the reflectivity at its original strength as viewed from Earth, by adding a white sheen to the moon's atmosphere. (Mercury Rising: Borealis Four)

2142

 * November 26 - Thanksgiving is celebrated by the first one-hundred million inhabitants of the newly terraformed Venus, which required more effort than the terraforming of Luna and Mars combined. (Mercury Rising: Borealis Four)

2162

 * December 28 - Simon Lynch, Sr. dies at the age of 173 in Chicago, leaving behind a legacy no one else has ever achieved.

2282

 * July 8 to 22 - The 100th Summer Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece, on Earth, in honor of the original, ancient Olympic Games.
 * September 17 - Satellites belonging to the United Earth Space Agency (UESA) in orbit around Saturn and Uranus detect a planetary collision in the star system of Omega Eridani.

5612

 * December 21 - A crust shift of Earth occurs, causing widespread geological and geographical changes, though human technology is significantly advanced enough at this period in history that the actual damage and casualties are minimal. On the newly terraformed colony-planet of 82 Eridanus III, its crust also shifts, generating megatsunamis and superquakes of up to magnitude 11; altering its geography heavily as well, and killing nearly a thousand of the 4.5 billion colonists.

12,144 AD

 * After over seventeen millenia of subsidence, Washington D.C., capital of the still existing United States of America, finally falls below sea level, and its population of 76 million is evacuated. The US capital is then moved to New York, where it remains for nearly eight-thousand years.

19,012 AD

 * March 12 to December 20 - On the planet Nimrod in orbit of the red giant star Omega Eridani, the greatest land battle in history occurs. The battle quickly expands from the surface and into space to kill more than twenty billion across the system.

20,012 AD

 * December 21 - The universe is ended by God as the final part of the judgement of humankind. Every star in the universe goes supernova, destroying their respective planetary systems, and resulting in the total annihilation of life itself.