Canon Timeline: Difference between revisions

From Starfleet Command
Jump to navigation Jump to search
created
 
 
(251 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
=='''Pre-Common Era'''==
The events depicted on this timeline are intended to show the major events (including the first production of series ship classes) of the '''Starfleet Command''' timeline, in order to merge the various sources used.


=='''20th Century'''==
'''Pre-Contact Era (1989-2062)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|'''YEAR'''
| '''YEAR'''
|'''EVENT'''
| '''EVENT'''
|'''REF'''
| '''REF'''
|-
| [[1988]]
| The [[Great Khanate]], a rough organization of augmented [[Human]]s, begins to build influence on [[Earth]].
| SFC
|-
| [[1989]]
| Two ships of the DY series were constructed in the province of Xuhan in the country of China; the start of the modern era.
| <ref name=DY_sub>Guide: [[Guide: DY sublight series|DY sublight series]]</ref>
|-
| [[1990]]
| The DY-100 model begins production by the [[Dinyan-Yoyodyne]] Conglomerate.
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|<nowiki>~</nowiki>11 billion years ago
| [[1991]]
|Biological life appeared in the Milky Way Galaxy.
| The ''[[Guide: Apex|Apex]]'' DY-100 variant series enters service with the Great Khanate.
|I-8
| <ref name=Apex>[[Guide: Apex]]</ref>
|-
|-
|<nowiki>~</nowiki>8 billion years ago
| [[1993]]
|DNA-based life first evident in the Milky Way Galaxy.
| The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on [[Mars]] for the first time.
|I-8
| <ref name=Apex/>
|-
|-
|<nowiki>~</nowiki>7.5 billion years ago
| [[1994]]
|A time-traveling culture appears to have colonized on planet 522-IV.
| The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on [[Venus]] for the first time.
|I-8
| <ref name=Apex/>
|-
|-
|<nowiki>~</nowiki>4.5 billion years ago
| [[1996]]
|Humanoids first evolve in the Milky Way galaxy.
| The Great Khanate state falls, with Khan Singh and a handful of followers escaping undiscovered on a DY-100 they had held in reserve.
|I-8
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|<nowiki>~</nowiki>700,000 years ago
| [[1996]]
|The Pnaii is the last FTL culture to have visited and settled (temporarily) the area of space around Earth.
| The Great Khanate's Mars colony fails.
|I-50
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|
|
|
|}
|}


 
=='''21st Century'''==
=='''20th and 21st Centuries'''==
'''Pre-Contact Era (1989-2062)''' (continued)
 
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|'''YEAR'''
| '''YEAR'''
|'''EVENT'''
| '''EVENT'''
|'''REF'''
| '''REF'''
|-
|-
|[[1992]]
| [[2000]]
|The Eugenic supermen take over most of South & Southeast Asia.
| The Korean Peninsula Crisis: Famine and then a military coup results in great strife for North Korea. The United Nation responds, though with considerable resistance from China and Russia.  
|I-9
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[1996]]
| [[2001]]
|Khan Noonian Singh and several of his followers escape Earth, as the Angkor fortress is captured.
| With tremendous turmoil over the role of the [[United Nations]] in North Korea and being over-extended in humanitarian crises precipitated by the fall of the Great Khanate, the United Nations is suddenly disbanded.
|I-11
| <ref name=UnitedNations>Memory Alpha: [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/United_Nations United Nations]</ref>, SFC
|-
|-
|[[2030]]
| [[2001]]
|Zephram Cochrane is born.
| The ''[[Guide: Aphrodite|Aphrodite]]'' series mission spacecraft enters service with NASA.
|I-21
| <ref name=Aphrodite>[[Guide: Aphrodite]]</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2032]]
| [[2002]]
|Ares III, the sixth successful mission to Mars, occurs.
| South Korea alone assists the people of North Korea in recovery.  
|I-11
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2035]]
| [[2002]]
|The AFP-1 prototype is lost in a disaster.
| The United States of America and the European Union formalize an economic and defense relationship with what will be called the Western Alliance by media and opponents.  
|I-15
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2036]]-[[2039]]
| [[2003]]
|The first crewed probeships attempt flight out of the Sol system.
| The Korean peninsula is formally reunified under a constitutional monarchy established with North Korean expatriate and Kim Jung Il daughter, Kim Jung Noe.  
|I-13
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2045]]
| [[2008]]
|Five spaceframes of the ''Columbus'' series are ready for flight.
| The Western Alliance space agencies jointly conduct the ''Aventeur'' space missions.
|I-16
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2045]]
| [[2009]]
|(September) UNSS ''Columbus''<nowiki>’</nowiki> mission delayed to a fueling accident.
| The democratic nations of Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran form the Muslim Bloc.  
|I-16
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2046]]
| [[2009]]
|(January 21) UNSS ''Nautilus'' boosts out of Earth orbit for Tau Ceti.
| The ''Aventeur I'' mission (also known as the first of the Grand Tours) launches from [[Earth]] with the ''[[Guide: Aventeur|Lewis and Clark]]'', with Christopher, Fontana and O'Herlihy in deep cryosleep.
|I-16
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|[[2046]]
| [[2009]]
|(February 21, speculative) UNSS ''Icarus'' launches for Alpha Centauri.
| By this time, 6 manned orbital platforms have been assembled over [[Earth]].
|I-16
| <ref name=TAU>[[Guide: TAU]]</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2046]]
| [[2010]]
|(March 21, speculative) UNSS ''Hector'' launches for Arcturus.
| The Pan-African Alliance forms.  
|I-16
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2046]]
| [[2011]]
|(April 21, speculative) UNSS ''Prometheus ''launches for Epsilon Indi.
| The [[New United Nations]] convenes for the first time.
|I-16
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2046]]
| [[2014]]
|(May 5) UNSS ''Nautilus'' is damaged after hitting an object.
| The ''[[Guide: Aventeur|Lewis and Clark]]'' arrives at and studies [[Jupiter]], with the first manned visit to the planet.
|I-16
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|[[2049]]
| [[2018]]
|The <nowiki>’</nowiki>East<nowiki>’</nowiki> orders 5 ''Keldysh'' class cruisers built, four which are ready by [[2053]], in time for World War III.
| The NUN creates the [[International Space Agency]] (ISA), an intended effort to coordinate combined national space exploration.  
|I-25
| SFC
|-
|-
|(before) [[2053]]
| [[2018]]
|UNSS ''Columbus'' is appropriated by the United States of America.
| The [[US Strategic Command]] turns over its exploration and commercial administration space mission roles to the [[International Space Agency]] (ISA). NASA remains independent of ISA.
|I-16
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2053]]
| [[2018]]
|''Columbus'' is destroyed by an Econ kinetic-kill missile.
| The Western Alliance turns over the ''Aventeur'' space missions to the ISA. The European Union turns over all European Space Agency (ESA) operations to ISA.
|I-16
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2053]]
| [[2020]]
|World War III begins.
| The ''[[Guide: Aventeur|Lewis and Clark]]'' arrives at and studies [[Saturn]], the first manned spacecraft to visit the planet.
|I-21
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|[[2055]]
| [[2020]]
|Planned FTL experiments by the United States Air Force are canceled.
| The Western Alliance provides the military command structure for the NUN, giving it extraordinary political power.
|I-18
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2058]]
| [[2020]]
|The United States of America is building the first transorbital warships.
| The crew of the ''[[Guide: Aventeur|Lewis and Clark]]'' discovers evidence of extraterrestrial mining on the moons of [[Enceladus]] and [[Dione]].
|I-18
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|[[2060]]
| [[2024]]
|The White Sands Spaceport is closed and heavy-lift capability ceases.
| Several European nations, including France, become politically destabilized.
|I-19
| <ref name=MB_WW3/>
|-
|-
|[[2061]]
| [[2026]]
|First test of the continuum distortion superimpellor.
| The opening conflicts of World War III break out, with factions of eco-terrorists launching attacks responsible for as many as 37 million deaths.
|I-21
| <ref name=MB_WW3/>
|-
|-
|[[2062]]
| [[2029]]
|The first ''Liberty'' class cruiser attains nominal drive capacity.
| Fusion power technology is achieved; work immediately begins to make it space-capable.
|I-19
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2062]]
| [[2030]]
|The warp surveyor SS ''Leif Eirickson'' departs for 61 Cygni. (speculative)
| The ''[[Guide:Ares (Mars mission class) |Ares I]]'' is [[Earth]]'s first manned mission back to [[Mars]], since the fall of the Great Khanate.
|I-20
| <ref name=Ares>[[Guide:Ares (Mars mission class)]]</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2063]]
| [[2031]]
|(April 4) Zephram Cochrane breaks the light <nowiki>’</nowiki>barrier.<nowiki>’</nowiki>
| The Western Alliance, Pan-African Alliance, Muslim Bloc and a mix of nations from the Far East and Middle East work together to divert a series of asteroids from striking Earth, capturing and diverting six to L-5 points.
|I-18
| <ref name=ECON>Memory Beta: [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/ECON ECON]</ref>, SFC
|-
|-
|[[2063]]
| [[2031]]
|(April 4) Vulcan scouts make first contact with Earth.
| Lee Kuan of China suggests an alliance between the (perceived) disadvantaged nations of China, India, Kazakhstan, (united) Korea, Pakistan, Singapore and Vietnam; the Eastern Coalition (ECON) is formed.
|I-18
| <ref name=Econ>Guide: [[Eastern Coalition]]</ref>, SFC
|-
|-
|[[2064]]
| [[2032]]
|The first ''Liberty'' class cruiser has its armament installation completed.
| '''09 February''': Zefram Cochrane was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
|I-19
| <ref name=MA_ZeframCochrane>Memory Alpha: [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Zefram_Cochrane Zefram Cochrane]</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2064]]
| [[2032]]
|Six new ''Liberty'' class hulls are orbiting Earth.
| '''October 19th''': The ''[[Guide:Ares (Mars mission class)|Ares IV]]'' mission to [[Mars]] fails when the command capsule disappears, stranding two astronauts on the surface. The ''Ares V'' launches early to perform the rescue of the stranded ''Ares IV'' astronauts.
|I-19
| <ref name=Ares/>
|-
|-
|[[2064]]
| [[2035]]
|SS ''Defiant'' & SS ''Valiant'' depart respectively for the upper & lower edges of the galactic disk.
| The multi-national manned prototype ''AFP-1'' experimented on an e-beam pulsed fusion detonation drive but met with a disaster, with 14 lives lost.
|I-25<br>& -27
| <ref name=Columbus>[[Guide: Columbus series|Columbus]]</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2064]]
| [[2036]]
|(November 5) The ''Phoenix'' warp engines are recovered from orbit.
| '''February''': ''[[Guide: TAU|Tau]] One'', the ''Daedalus'', becomes the first manned vessel to attempt to leave the [[Sol]] system, when it launches for the heliopause.
|I-22
| <ref name=TAU/>
|-
|-
|[[2064]]
| [[2039]]
|The ex-''Seneca'' is towed to the (now-empty) ''Valiant'' berth, for transformation into the ''Bonaventure''.
| The evidence of extraterrestrial mining on [[Saturn]]'s moons is released to select space-exploration nations.
|I-28
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|[[2064]]
| [[2040]]
|(October) ''Jules Verne'' has first successful sublight test flight.
| The Mediterranean Alliance forms.
|I-31
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2065]]
| [[2040]]
|The Sparon-DeSota Treaty requires all armed spacecraft within 5,000 Aus of Sol to be crewed internationally.
| The ''UNSS Columbus'', first in a series of interstellar sublight explorers, launches for [[Saturn]] on a test run.
|I-19
| <ref name=Columbus/>
|-
|-
|[[2065]]
| [[2046]]
|The ''Phoenix'' is retired.
| The three remaining in-transit vessels of the ''Columbus'' series are considered to be inevitable losses as communications with each is lost to ion storms.
|I-22
| <ref name=Columbus/>
|-
|-
|[[2065]]
| [[2052]]
|SS ''Defiant'' is believed to have destroyed by the Barrier Alliance in this year.
| The New United Nations sides with the Western Alliance on legal use of oil fields in the South China Sea and Antarctica. The ECON secedes from the NUN in protest.
|I-26
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2065]]
| [[2052]]
|(August 22) Construction starts on SS ''Conestoga'', Earth<nowiki>’</nowiki>s first colonizer.
| A series of confrontations between the New United Nations and the ECON begin to occur over oil fields located in Antarctica and China.
|I-33
| <ref name=MB_WW3/>
|-
|-
|[[2065]]
| [[2053]]
|(December 14) ''Jules Verne'' has first warp run outside Uranus orbit, achieving w1.02.
| ''USSS Columbus'' is destroyed by an [[ECON]] attack, while in orbit.
|I-31
| <ref name=Columbus/>
|-
|-
|[[2066]]-[[2069]]
| [[2053]]
|The'' Liberty ''class system defense cruisers are the primary line of Sol system defense.
| '''01 May''': The climax of World War Three breaks out when the ECON strikes the NUN states first with nuclear attacks, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 600 million.
|I-18
| <ref name=MB_WW3>Memory Beta: [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/World_War_III World War III]</ref><ref name=Phoenix>[[Guide:Phoenix]]</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2066]]-[[2069]]
| [[2053]]
|Full pre-WWIII industrial capacity is achieved by Earth
| Other than military operations taking place under its banner, the New United Nations ceases to operate as a coordinated entity.
|I-30
| <ref name=Phoenix/>
|-
|-
|[[2067]]
| [[2053]]
|(early March) SS ''Conestoga'' christened.
| '''Late Year''': The war culminated when several of Earth's governments met in San Francisco to declare a cease-fire, effectively ending the war.
|I-34
| <ref name=MB_WW3/>
|-
|-
|[[2067]]
| [[2054]]
|(April 4) On the 4<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Cochrane<nowiki>’</nowiki>s flight, the SS ''Conestoga'' launches for Eta Cassiopeiae III, later to be named Terra Nova.
| Colonel Green slaughters his way across North America, culling the "weak" and "impure" and those afflicted with radiation-sickness from humanity's gene pool, killing millions.
|I-34/35
| <ref name=MB_WW3/>
|-
|-
|[[2070]]
| [[2055]]
|51 ''Liberty'' class cruisers are in Sol space.
| The Eastern Coalition formally becomes a nation, subsuming the member states as political regions, and retreats within the haphazard recovery processes that help define the era known as the Post-Atomic Horror.  
|I-19
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2071]]
| [[2058]]
|SS ''Spirit'', the next ''Conestoga'' colonizer, is completed.
| During a preliminary experiment to search for subspace layers (conducted by Zefram Cochrane), all six O'Neil asteroid habitats vanish.
|I-35
| <ref>Memory Beta: [http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Neyel Neyel]</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2073]]
| [[2058]]
|SS ''Leif Eirickson'' makes contact with the Tellarites on 61 Cygni V, days before a Tellarite explorer/merchantman is intercepted by a task force in the vicinity of Neptune.
| The US begins construction of the ''Liberty'' class system defense cruiser, their first post-war transorbital warship.
|I-19/20
| <ref name=Liberty/>
|-
|-
|[[2073]]
| [[2062]]
|By this year, more than 50 warp ships had departed the Sol system.
| [[Mars]] declares independence from [[Earth]], which is peacefully accepted.
|I-24
| <ref name=FSCv4>''Federation Spaceflight Chronology'', v4</ref>
|-
|}
|[[2073]]
'''Expansion Era (2063-2130)'''
|SS ''Valiant'' encounters the galactic barrier and self-destructs.
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|I-26
| [[2063]]
|-
| '''05 April''': Zefram Cochrane tests the ''Phoenix'', demonstrating warp drive by achieving Warp 1 for approximately one minute in the [[Sol]] system.
|[[2073]]
| <ref>Memory Beta: [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/2063 2063 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)]</ref><ref name=Liberty>[[Guide: Liberty]]</ref><ref name=Phoenix/>
|The ''Verne ''class cruiser, the first series-produced vessel, enters United Earth service.
|I-30/31
|-
|[[2075]]
|The 18<sup>th</sup> ''Verne'' class cruiser is built, with 16 interstellar missions for the class currently underway.
|I-31
|-
|[[2076]]
|(late year) SS ''Conestoga'' arrives in orbit of Terra Nova.
|I-35
|-
|[[2077]]
|USS ''Mercury ''& USS ''Banshee'' are lost to hostile actions by unknown forces (the first so lost).
|I-32
|-
|[[2080]]
|The Jovian moons of Ganymede and Europa have become important industrial and military assets.
|I-39
|-
|-
|[[2081]]
| [[2063]]
|The colonists of Terra Nova, determined to be independent, threaten any future attempts by Earth to further settle the planet.
| '''05 April''': A passing Vulcan ship, the ''T'Plana-Hath'', detects the warp signature and lands in Bozeman later that evening, officially making first contact with Humans. '''[''Star Trek: First Contact'']'''
|I-35
| <ref>Memory Beta: [http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/2063 2063]</ref><ref name=Phoenix/>
|-
|-
|[[2081]]
| [[2064]]
|Permanent human presences are established on Ganymede and Europa.
| '''April''': ''SS Defiant'' and ''SS Valiant'' separately depart [[Earth]] orbit, on paths to the upper and lower edges (respectively) of the galactic edge.
|I-39
| <ref name=Defiant_Valiant>[[Guide:Defiant and Valiant]]</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2084]]
| [[2065]]
|The SS ''Leif Eirickson''<nowiki>’</nowiki>s message of contact with the Tellarites reaches Earth.
| A significant number of nations resurrect the New United Nations.  
|I-20
| <ref name=Phoenix/>
|-
|-
|[[2086]]
| [[2065]]
|USS ''Fletcher'' explodes in a warp drive failure, ending the tri-nacelle arrangement and resulting in the ''Verne'' class being restricted  (and re-designated) in a system-defense role.
| The NUN establishes the [[Earth Cargo Authority]], the commercial oversight equivalent to the ISA.
|I-32
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2086]]
| [[2067]]
|SS ''Ascender'', the third ''Conestoga'' colonizer, reaches and settles 36 Ophiuci III.
| The NUN forms the [[United Earth Space Probe Agency]] (UESPA), to help coordinate and develop human presence in interstellar space.  
|I-35
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2087]]
| [[2069]]
|The United Earth Star Fleet (UESF) is formed.
| Current members of the NUN agree to the [[United Earth Defense Pact]], a promise to put Earth's ascendancy and safety ahead of national goals.  
|I-20
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2089]]
| [[2069]]
|The UESF formally assumes authority over the various Terran spaceflight organizations (including the United Earth Space Probe Agency).
| As part of the [[UEDP]], the [[United Earth Stellar Navy]] (UESN) is formed and takes control of all armed human spacecraft within 5,000 AUs of [[Sol]].
|I-44
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2089]]
| [[2069]]
|The ''Verne'' class cruisers have operational control turned over to the UESF.
| The United States turns over all NASA operations to UESPA. The NUN does the same with the ISA.
|I-31
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2089]]
| [[2069]]
|USS ''Scythe'' accidentally opens fire on USS ''Hammer'' & USS ''Emnity''.
| The Utopia Planitia Base (predecessor to the [[Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards]]) was founded.
|I-32
| <ref name=STSC_p39>''Star Trek: Star Charts'', p. 39</ref>
|-
|-
|[[2090]]
| [[2073]]
|(speculative) ''Verne ''class destroyers removed from active duty & delegated to training.
| Earth makes first contact with [[Tellar]], via the ''SS Leif Eirickson'', a ''Wheeler'' transport subclass of the DY-500 series. A few days later, a Tellarite ship already in the immediate vicinity, is intercepted near [[Neptune]] and reports that meeting.
|I-32
| <ref name=Liberty/>
|-
|-
|[[2090]]-[[2130]]
| [[2075]]
|''Messier'' class ships are used to explore outside the Sol system.
| The Gibraltar Dam is completed.  
|I-38
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2091]]
| [[2078]]
|The UESF Academy is founded, with ''Liberty ''class cruisers available as training vessels.
| The New United Nation ceases organized operation as nations individually deal with the Post-Atomic Horror. The UEDP membership strives to remain operational.  
|I-20
| SFC
|-
|-
|[[2091]]
| [[2091]]
|The re-directed SS ''Spirit'' reaches and settles on Alpha Centauri A-II.
| The UESN Academy is opened and supported in its training role by the assignment of a majority of the surviving ''Liberty'' class ships.  
|I-35
| <ref name=Liberty/>
|-
|-
|[[2091]]
| [[2093]]
|The first major upgrade of the ''Messier'' class<nowiki>’</nowiki> warp engines occurs.
| The United Earth Stellar Navy adopts a new shipboard uniform (''speculation'').
|I-38
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|[[2091]]
|The original ''Hercules'' (Y-100) is fielded.
|I-45
|-
|[[2093]]
|By this year, six extra-solar colonies had been established.
|I-24
|-
|[[2095]]
|(speculative) ''Verne ''class decommissioned.
|I-32
|-
|[[2096]]-[[2098]]
|The first series of confrontations with the Kzintis.
|I-35
|-
|[[2096]]-[[2099]]
|The ''Hercules'' model Y-200 is bought bu the UESF.
|I-45
|-
|[[2098]]
|The fourth Kzinti invasion fleet retreats.
|I-38
|-
|[[2099]]
|Type-III cargo modules are introduced by the Terran mining industry.
|I-47
|-
|-
|
|
|
|}
|}


=='''22nd Century'''==
=='''22nd Century'''==
 
'''Expansion Era (2063-2130)''' (continued)
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|'''YEAR'''
|'''YEAR'''
Line 329: Line 302:
|'''REF'''
|'''REF'''
|-
|-
|2100
|[[2113]]
|Twenty-five ''Messier'' class vessels have been constructed, by this year.
|By this time on [[Earth]], war, poverty, disease, and the causes thereof have been eliminated.
|I-38
|<ref>[http://memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/2113 Memory Alpha: "2113" (source: Star Trek: First Contact)]</ref>
|-
|-
|2103
| [[2113]]
|(speculative) The ''Hercules'' model FY-500 is introduced.
| The UEDP, acting as a ''de facto'' world government, represents humanity's interests with the interstellar community.  
|I-45
| SFC
|-
|-
|2112
| [[2117]]
|''Roanoke-Gemini'' subclass is purchased with plasma cannons.
| The United Earth Stellar Navy adopts a new shipboard uniform (''speculation'').
|I-48
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2115
| [[2130]]
|The second major upgrade of the ''Messier'' class<nowiki>’</nowiki> warp engines occurs.
| The Traité d'Unification is signed by a majority of [[Earth]]'s nations, establishing the new [[United Earth]] government.
|I-38
| <ref>[http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Trait%C3%A9_d%27Unification Memory Beta:  "Traité d'Unification"]</ref>
|}
'''Romulan War Era (2131-2160)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
| [[2132]]
| Romulan Star Empire first begins (covert) hostilities against Earth, Andor, Tellar and other space-faring states.  
| SFC
|-
|-
|2115
| [[2133]]
|Zephram Cochrane<nowiki>’</nowiki>s team begins development of a new series of warp engine.
| The United Earth government orders the formation of the [[United Earth Starfleet]].
|I-61
| SFC
|-
|-
|2119
| [[2150]]
|Zephram Cochrane leaves Alpha Centauri for deep space and is never seen again.
| The last of the independent nations join United Earth, truly uniting the planet for the first time.  
|I-23
| SFC
|-
|-
|2120-2129
| [[2151]]
|The first mutual defense pacts between Alpha Centauri and resident Terran colonists are signed.
| '''[''Star Trek: ENT'' 1st season]'''
|I-56
|
|-
|-
|2123
| [[2151]]
|DY-500s are being produced in large numbers.
| First Contact between Humans and Andorians, at the Vulcan monastery [[P'jem]].
|I-12
| <ref name=MA_TheAndorianIncident>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Andorian_Incident_%28episode%29 Memory Alpha: "The Andorian Incident (episode)"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2125
| [[2152]]
|(speculative) The ''Phoenix'' warp engines are recovered and preserved at the Smithsonian.
| United Earth and Vulcan, along with other nations (''to be determined later'') agree upon a calendar dating system referred to as [[Starfleet Command:Stardates|Stardate]].
|I-22
| SFC
|-
|-
|2125
| [[2154]]
|The ''Hercules'' model FY-500 is discontinued.
| '''July''': The Earth embassy on [[Vulcan]] is bombed by (covert) Romulan agents.
|I-46
| <ref name=2154_MA>[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/2154 Memory Alpha: "2154"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2132
| [[2155]]
|The first offensive actions by the Romulans begin with an attack on the USS ''Balboa''.
| '''[''Star Trek: ENT'' 4th season (continues)]'''
|I-51
|
|-
|-
|2132-2156
| [[2155]]
|Phase I of the Romulan War: Romulan attacks against Terran (and others<nowiki>’</nowiki>) territories are conducted.
| [[Earth]], [[Andor]], [[Vulcan]], [[Tellar]], [[Alpha Centauri]] and minor worlds (including [[Axanar]] and [[Kaferia]]) approve the first draft of an agreement for an alliance to be formed for trade, cultural exchange, and for mutual protection.
|I-51
| <ref name=IntoWar>[[Guide: 2130-2161 - Into The Romulan War]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2134
| [[2156]]
|The UESF calls for a new survey ship class.
| The Romulan Star Empire begins attacking Earth colonies; the Romulan War begins.    
|I-62
| SFC
|-
|-
|2135
| [[2157]]
|The third (and final) major upgrade of the ''Messier'' class<nowiki>’</nowiki> warp engines occurs.
| The Romulans conduct a starship suicide attack on the planet [[Vulcan]].
|I-38
| <ref name=Kahskhiori>[[Guide: Kahs'khiori]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2136
| [[2160]]
|Four parallel development lines emerge from the original Cochrane team.
| The Romulan War ends.   
|I-62
| SFC
|}
 
'''Early Federation Era (2161-2200)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
| [[2161]]
| '''October 11''': United Earth joins Vulcan, Tellar and Andor in founding the United Federation of Planets.    
| SFC<ref name=FedHist>[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Federation_history#Background Memory Alpha:  "Federation History (background)"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2140
| [[2161]]
|(October 5) The ''Daedalus'' is destroyed in a drive chain explosion at warp 4.
| The new UFP Star Fleet adopts a shipboard uniform utilizing characteristics of the founding members' uniforms.
|I-63
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2142
|  
|(January speculative) The Fleet Logistics Division of the UESF is formed.
|  
|I-59
|
|}
 
=='''23rd Century'''==
'''Early Federation Era (2161-2200)''' (continued)
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
| '''YEAR'''
| '''EVENT'''
| '''REF'''
|-
|-
|2142
| [[2200]]
|(May) The Fleet Logistics Division orders the development of a large warp transport.
| Star Fleet adopts a new uniform.
|I-59
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|}
'''Klingon Era (2201-2240)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
| [[2202]]
| The last Vulcan ''[[Guide: Tshin|Tshin]]'' class sublight gunboat ceases operation.
| <ref name=Tshin>Guide: [[Guide: Tshin|Tshin]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2142
| [[2208]]
|(March speculative) Hulls capable of mounting w3 engines are developed.
| Star Fleet [[Star Fleet Organization|re-organizes]], moving away from the five initial branches, as overseen by one of the five founding members.
|I-66
| SFC
|-
|-
|2145
| [[2225]]
|USS ''Horizon'', first of the ''Daedalus'' class, is fielded.
| Star Fleet adopts a new uniform.
|I-63
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2146
| [[2236]]
|The PB-2 engines are given official clearance for w3 cruising.
| [[Archanis]], [[Cursa]] and [[Donatu]] fall to the Klingons.
|I-63
| <ref name=WayWarrior>[[Guide: 2200-2240 - Way of the Warrior]]</ref>
|}
'''Frontier Era (2241-2270)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
| [[2241]]
| Technical start of the '''Four Years War'''.
| <ref name=WayWarrior/>
|-
|-
|2146
| [[2245]]
|A convoy escorted by two Iceland class frigates is almost completely destroyed by a Romulan raiding party, though it is initially blamed on Nausicaans.
| Active end of the '''Four Years War'''.
|I-70
| <ref name=WayWarrior/>
|-
|-
|2147
| [[2254]]
|Starbase One is declared operational.
| '''[''Star Trek: TOS'' 1st Pilot]'''
|I-74
|
|-
|-
|2147
| [[2255]]
|The construction of USS ''Enterprise'' begins.
| The '''Sheliak Conflict''' quickly (starts and) ends with the drafting of the Treaty of Armens.
|I-77
| <ref name=MB_2255>Memory Beta: [http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/2255 2255]</ref><ref name=MA_2255>Memory Alpha: [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/2255 2255]</ref>
|-
|-
|2147-2159
| [[2256]]
|About 400 <nowiki>’</nowiki>Cochrane<nowiki>’</nowiki> fighters are produced.
| '''[''Star Trek: DIS'' 1st season]'''
|I-71
|  
|-
|-
|2149
| [[2257]]
|The Nausicaan <nowiki>’</nowiki>scare.<nowiki>’</nowiki>
| '''[''Star Trek: DIS'' 1st season (continues) - 2nd season]'''
|I-70
|  
|-
|-
|2149
| [[2257]]
|The USS ''Hopkins'' is lost to hostile action.
| Star Fleet adopts a new shipboard uniform (''as seen in the pilot and portions of the first season of ''TOS'', 1st episode of ''DSC''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s second season (Pike and ''Enterprise'' crew'').
|I-73
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2150
| [[2258]]
|The Gradualist Party wins power in the United Earth Senate.
| '''[''Star Trek: DIS'' 2nd season (continues)]'''
|I-68
|  
|-
|-
|2150
| [[2259]]
|Seven more ''Hopkins'' class ships are fielded.
| '''[''Star Trek: SNW'' 1st season]'''
|I-74
|  
|-
|-
|2150
| [[2259]]
|(October) Test flights of USS ''Enterprise'' begin.
| '''[''Star Trek: SNW'' 2nd season]'''
|I-77
|  
|-
|-
|2151
| [[2265]]
|(April 16) A Klingon courier crashes on Earth.
| '''[''Star Trek: TOS'' 2nd Pilot]'''
|I-78
|
|-
|-
|2151
| [[2265]]
|The fate of the silent colony on Terra Nova is discovered by the survey cruiser USS ''Enterprise''.
| Star Fleet institutes a uniform change (''to that seen most often in ''TOS).
|I-35
| <ref name=MA_SU2250s>Memory Alpha: [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_uniform_%282250s-2260s%29 Star Fleet uniform (2250s-2260s)] (mentioned in opening paragraph)</ref>, SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2151
| [[2266]]
|USS ''Intrepid'' is the first Earth ship to report a Rihannsu (Romulan) raid, though the attacker of the SS ''Diana'' is unidentified at the time. The ''Intrepid''<nowiki>’</nowiki>s evidence, however, is lost with the ship in the vicinity of Tau 1 Eridani.
| '''[''Star Trek: TOS'' 1st season]'''
|I-39
|
|-
|-
|2151
| [[2267]]
|The Klingon <nowiki>’</nowiki>incidents.<nowiki>’</nowiki>
| '''[''Star Trek: TOS'' 1st season (continued) - 2nd season]'''
|I-70/71
|
|-
|-
|2151
| [[2267]]
|USS ''Enterprise'' encounters a Romulan patrol of Theta Eridani.
| Khan’s escape from [[Earth]] was revealed when his ship was found adrift in space in the [[Mutara (sector)|Mutara]] sector, some fifty lightyears away.
|I-39
| <ref name=DY_sub/>
|-
|-
|2152
| [[2267]]
|(January 1) USS ''Carronade'' survives a Romulan attack on Defense Outpost 4.
| The [[Treaty of Organia]] is thrust upon both the [[Klingon]]s and the [[Federation]], aborting what will become known as the [[Four Days War]].
|I-81
| <ref name=MA_ToO>Memory Alpha: [https://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Treaty_of_Organia Treaty of Organia]</ref>
|-
|-
|2152
| [[2268]]
|(speculative) The ''Upholder'' class USS ''Intrepid'' is named after the recently-lost ''Messier'' class ship of the same name.
| '''[''Star Trek: TOS'' 2nd season (continued) - 3rd season]'''
|I-39
|
|-
|-
|2152
| [[2269]]
|Phased particle beam weaponry and polarizable armor is introduced.
| '''[''Star Trek: TOS'' 3rd season (continued)]'''; '''[''Star Trek: TAS'' 1st season]'''
|I-70
|
|-
|-
|2153
| [[2269]] || The failure of Project Omega results in subspace disruption in the [[Lantaru (sector)|Lantaru sector]] and the establishment of the Omega Directive. || <ref name=MA_Omega_Directive>Memory Alpha: [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Omega_Directive Omega Directive]</ref>
|The Xindi strike Earth.
|I-78
|-
|-
|2153
| [[2270]]
|(speculative) Some ''Messier''s are re-classified as ''Verdun'' attack cruisers.
| '''[''Star Trek: TAS'' 2nd season]'''
|I-40
|
|}
'''Troubled Era (2271-2300)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
| [[2271]]
| Star Fleet adopts a major new change in uniforms (''as seen in'' TMP).
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2153
| [[2272]]
|(speculative) Some ''Messier''s receive a fourth warp engine upgrade.
| The huge, autonomous vessel known as V'Ger approaches [[Earth]] after passing through a portion of the Klingon Empire. '''[''Star Trek: The Motion Picture'']'''  
|I-40
| <ref name=MA_V'Ger>Memory Alpha: [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/V%27Ger V'Ger]</ref><ref name=Federation>[[Guide: Federation]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2153
| [[2278]]
|(May 25) USS ''Intrepid'' is involved in the first major Klingon confrontation, with three Birds of Prey.
| Star Fleet again adopts a major new change in uniforms (''as seen in'' TWOK ''and on'').
|I-67
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2155
| [[2285]]
|Starbase One is destroyed by a specific Romulan attack.
| ''USS Reliant'' is hijacked by Khan Noonien Singh and the Genesis Device is employed. '''[''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan'']'''
|I-74
| <ref name=MA_Wrath>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan Memory Alpha: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]</ref>
|-
|-
|2156
| [[2285]]
|Romulans begin to overtly attack some Earth colonies.
| ''USS Enterprise'' is destroyed while defying Star Fleet's Genesis planet quarantine. '''[''Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'']'''
|I-51
| <ref name=MA_Search>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_III:_The_Search_for_Spock Memory Alpha: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]</ref>
|-
|-
|2156
| [[2286]]
|USS ''Patton'' reports its own destruction by Romulan forces. The attack results in a declaration of war by Earth.
| A probe of unknown origin which visits and devastates [[Earth]], in an attempt to communicate with an extinct species. '''[''Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home'']'''
|I-86/87
| <ref name=MA_Voyage>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_IV:_The_Voyage_Home Memory Alpha: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]</ref>
|-
|-
|2156
| [[2293]]
|Punitive actions begin against the Romulans.
| The Khitomer Conference, the first full peace negotiations between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, is held at Camp Khitomer, a Klingon colony on the planet [[Khitomer]] near the border with the Federation. '''[''Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country'']'''
|I-40
| <ref name=MA_Khitomer>[http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Khitomer_Conference Memory Alpha: Khitomer Conference]</ref>
|-
|-
|2156
| [[2293]]
|Full-scale war against the Romulans begins.
| CAPT Kirk is (believed to be) killed while attempting to save ''USS Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-B) from a strange energy ribbon. '''[''Star Trek Generations'']'''
|I-51
| <ref name=MA_Generations>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_Generations Memory Alpha: "Star Trek Generations"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2156
|  
|Convoy tactics changed from <nowiki>’</nowiki>constant escort<nowiki>’</nowiki> to <nowiki>’</nowiki>relay.<nowiki>’</nowiki>
|  
|I-71
|
|}
 
=='''24th Century'''==
'''Golden Era (2301-2335)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|'''YEAR'''
|'''EVENT'''
|'''REF'''
|-
| [[2312]]
| Star Fleet formally adopts the Terrance-Neltorr Graduated (TNG) warp scale.
| <ref name=DITL_warp>[http://www.ditl.org/index.php?daymain=/pagscitech.php?17 DITL: "Warp Scales"]</ref>
|}
'''Restless Era (2336-2360)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|-
| [[2347]]
| The Cardassian Wars begin.
| <ref name=MA_FCWar>[http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Federation-Cardassian_War Memory Alpha: "Federation-Cardassian War"]</ref>
|-
| [[2350]]
| Star Fleet introduces a major new shift in uniforms (''as seen in the first two seasons of'' TNG).
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
| [[2353]]
| The Tholian War begins.
| <ref name=MB_TholianWar>[https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Tholian_War Memory Beta: "Tholian War"]</ref>
|-
| [[2358]]
| The Tzenkethi War begins.
| <ref name=MB-TZ>[http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Tzenkethi_War Memory Beta: "Tzenkethi War"]</ref>
|-
| [[2360]]
| The Tholian War concludes.
| <ref name=MB_TholianWar>[https://memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/Tholian_War Memory Beta: "Tholian War"]</ref>
|}
 
'''Foundation Era (2361-2370)'''
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
| [[2362]]
| The Tzenkethi War ends.
| <ref name=MB-TZ>[http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Tzenkethi_War Memory Beta: "Tzenkethi War"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2156-2157
| [[2363]]
|(June to June) Six ''Mercury'' class ships are lost.
| ''USS Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-D) is commissioned.
|&nbsp;
| <ref name=MA-2363>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/2363 Memory Alpha: "2363"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2156-2159
| [[2364]]
|Phase II of the Romulan War: Romulans conduct offensive towards Earth and its allies.
| ''USS Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-D) investigates the origin of Farpoint Station. '''[''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' 1st season]'''
|I-51
| <ref name=MA-Encounter>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Encounter_at_Farpoint_(episode) Memory Alpha: "Encounter at Farpoint (episode)"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2157
| [[2366]]
|Fleet actions between the UESF and the Romulans occur, most notably near Gamma Tri.
| Star Fleet makes some minor modifications to its uniform (''as seen starting in the 3rd season of'' TNG).
|I-40
| SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2158
| [[2366]]
|Major concern regarding a potential Romulan invasion of Sol space is entertained.
| The Cardassian Wars conclude.
|I-58
| <ref name=MA_FCWar>[http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Federation-Cardassian_War Memory Alpha: "Federation-Cardassian War"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2158
| [[2369]]
|It is discussed that almost 100 colonies and outposts may have to be abandoned, in order to consolidate a defense of Earth<nowiki>’</nowiki>s core resources.
| Star Fleet introduces a notable change in the duty uniform, and a new combadge to go with it (''as seen on'' DS9 ''and'' VOY).
|I-71
| <ref name=MA_SFuni_2370)>[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_uniform_%28late_2360s-early_2370s%29 Memory Alpha: "Starfleet uniform (late 2360s-early 2370s)"]</ref>, SFC<ref name=SFuni>[[Ranks_%26_Uniforms#Uniforms|Ranks & Uniforms]]</ref>
|-
|-
|2159
| [[2369]]
|Three ''Messier''s surprise & overrun a Romulan forward staging post in Sierra Sector.
| The Bajoran Provisional Government requests Star Fleet assistance in maintaining the mining station Terok Nor, and it is renamed Deep Space 9. '''[''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' 1st season]'''
|I-41
| <ref name=MA-2369>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/2369 Memory Alpha: "2369"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2159
| [[2370]]
|A UESF battle group locates and severely damages a Romulan fleet supply point.
| '''[''Star Trek: TNG'' 7th season]]'''
|I-51
|
|-
|}
|2159-2160
'''Dominion War Era (2371-2375)'''
|(in the months before Cheron) Starbases Two & Three become operational.
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|I-74
|-
|-
|2159-2161
| [[2371]]
|Phase III of the Romulan War: the final attrition battles occur.
| ''USS Voyager'' (NCC-74656) goes missing in the Badlands. '''[''Star Trek: Voyager'' 1st season]'''
|I-51
| <ref name=MA-2371>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/2371 Memory Alpha: "2371"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2160
| [[2371]]
|The Romulan command post at Cheron is crippled.
| ''USS Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-D) is destroyed over Veridian III. '''[''Star Trek Generations'']'''
|I-52
| <ref name=MA_Generations>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_Generations Memory Alpha: "Star Trek Generations"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2161
| [[2372]]
|The final Romulan <nowiki>’</nowiki>plunge<nowiki>’</nowiki> at Alpha Omega B.
| The Second Federation-Klingon War begins.
|I-72
| <ref name=MB-KW>Memory Beta: [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Second_Federation-Klingon_War Memory Alpha: "Federation-Klingon War (2372-73)"]</ref>
|-
| [[2373]]
| The Second Federation-Klingon War ends.
| <ref name=MB-KW>Memory Beta: [http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Second_Federation-Klingon_War Memory Alpha: "Federation-Klingon War (2372-73)"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2161
| [[2373]]
|(May 24) USS ''Cavalier'' is destroyed by a Romulan attack, after the cease fire.
| The second major Borg incursion, the Battle of Sector 001, takes place. '''[''Star Trek: First Contact'']'''
|I-82
| <ref name=MA_Contact>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_First_Contact Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: First Contact"]</ref>
|-
| [[2373]]
| The Dominion War begins.
| <ref name=MA-DW>[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dominion_War Memory Alpha: "Dominion War"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2162
| [[2375]]
|The last ''Messier'', USS ''Braxton'', is destroyed in a warp system failure.
| '''[''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' 7th season]'''
|I-41
|
|-
|-
|2162
| [[2375]]
|(January 21) USS Cavalier survivors are rescured from an M-class world.
| ''USS Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-E) exposes a Sona-Star Fleet plot to force the resettlement of the Ba'ku. '''[''Star Trek: Insurrection'']'''
|I-82
| <ref name=MA_Insurrection>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Insurrection Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: Insurrection"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2162-2164
| [[2375]]
|The Tarn Conflict
| The Dominion War ends.
|I-41/82
| <ref name=MA-DW>[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Dominion_War Memory Alpha: "Dominion War"]</ref>
|-
|2164
|After re-analyzation of SS ''Tupac Amaru''<nowiki>’</nowiki>s sensor data, the 2146 raid previously blamed on the Nausicaans is properly attributed to the Romulans.
|I-70
|-
|2172
|Dr. Helmut Kreutzer, aboard the surveyor USS Schliemann for a pre-colonization assessment mission, dates the planetwide ruins on planet 522-IV as over 7.5 billion years old.
|I-8
|-
|2177
|The last ''Hercules'' model is decommissioned.
|I-46
|-
|2188
|The sublight and low-warp versions of the DY series cease production.
|I-12
|-
|2188
|The USS ''Columbia'' is destroyed by a Klingon raid.
|I-65
|-
|2190-2199
|All but 10 ''Roanoke''s are withdrawn from service.
|I-49
|-
|-
|}
|}


 
'''Uncharted Era (2376-)'''  
=='''23rd Century'''==
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"  
 
| [[2377]]
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
| '''[''Star Trek: Voyager'' 7th season]'''
|'''YEAR'''
|
|'''EVENT'''
|'''REF'''
|-
|-
|2201
| [[2378]]
|The re-settled Terra Nova colony thrives.
| '''[''Star Trek: Voyager'' 7th season (continued)]'''
|I-35
|
|-
|-
|2209
| [[2378]]
|The ''Conestoga'' reactor on Terra Nova is shut down.
| The destruction of one (of six) of the Borg's transwarp hubs also results in the return of ''USS Voyager'' to the Alpha Quadrant.
|I-35
| <ref name=MA-2378>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/2378 Memory Alpha: "2378"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2260-2269
| [[2379]]
|The last nine of 10 ''Roanokes'', used as navigation training vessels, are withdrawn from service.
| A ''coup d'état'' on Romulus brings a new praetor, Shinzon, to power, and his threat to [[Earth]]. '''[''Star Trek Nemesis'']'''
|I-49
| <ref name=MA_Nemesis>[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek_Nemesis Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: Nemesis"]</ref>
|-
|-
|2265
| [[2380]]
|The USS ''Enterprise'' uncovers the fate of the SS ''Valiant''.
| '''[''Star Trek: LD'' 1st season]'''
|I-26
|
|-
|-
|2266
| [[2381]]
|Khan Noonian Singh<nowiki>’</nowiki>s DY-100 is discovered in the Mutara Sector, 50 lightyears from Earth.
| '''[''Star Trek: LD'' 2nd & 3rd seasons]'''
|I-11
|
|-
|-
|2279
| [[2383]]
|USS ''Frost Ridge'', the last of the ''Roanokes'', is retired.
| '''[''Star Trek: PRO'' 1st season]'''
|I-49
|
|-
|-
|2285
| [[2384]]
|The ''Ascender'' reactor on Terra Nova is shut down.
| '''[''Star Trek: PRO'' 1st season (continues)]'''
|I-35
|
|-
|-
|2291
| [[2387]]
|The ''Spirit'' reactor on Terra Nova is shut down.
| The Romulan star supernovas, destroying [[Romulus]].<ref name=MA_2387>[[https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/2387 Memory Alpha: "2387"]</ref>
|I-35
|  
|-
|-
| [[2399]]
| '''[''Star Trek: PIC'' 1st season]'''
|
|}
|}


=='''25th Century'''==


=='''24th Century'''==
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
{|border="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" width="100%"
|'''YEAR'''
|'''YEAR'''
|'''EVENT'''
|'''EVENT'''
|'''REF'''
|'''REF'''
|-
|-  
|2365
| [[2401]]
|The remains of Lt. Col. Richey, USAF, of ''Charybdis'' (TAU Three), are found on Theta 116-VIII by the USS ''Enterprise''.
| '''[''Star Trek: PIC'' 2nd & 3rd seasons]'''
|I-14
|
|-
|-  
|2366
| [[2402]]
|A joint UFP-Tarn survey of Torgu-Va finds descendents of the Tarn and humans (from the USS ''Verdun'') still fighting.
| '''[''Star Trek: PIC'' 3rd season (continues)]'''
|I-41
|
|-
|}
|}


References:
==References==
<references />


I – UFP Starfleet and It<nowiki>’</nowiki>s History, Vol. I
[[Category: Background]]

Latest revision as of 07:26, 23 July 2026

The events depicted on this timeline are intended to show the major events (including the first production of series ship classes) of the Starfleet Command timeline, in order to merge the various sources used.

20th Century

Pre-Contact Era (1989-2062)

YEAR EVENT REF
1988 The Great Khanate, a rough organization of augmented Humans, begins to build influence on Earth. SFC
1989 Two ships of the DY series were constructed in the province of Xuhan in the country of China; the start of the modern era. [1]
1990 The DY-100 model begins production by the Dinyan-Yoyodyne Conglomerate. [1]
1991 The Apex DY-100 variant series enters service with the Great Khanate. [2]
1993 The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on Mars for the first time. [2]
1994 The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on Venus for the first time. [2]
1996 The Great Khanate state falls, with Khan Singh and a handful of followers escaping undiscovered on a DY-100 they had held in reserve. [1]
1996 The Great Khanate's Mars colony fails. [1]

21st Century

Pre-Contact Era (1989-2062) (continued)

YEAR EVENT REF
2000 The Korean Peninsula Crisis: Famine and then a military coup results in great strife for North Korea. The United Nation responds, though with considerable resistance from China and Russia. SFC
2001 With tremendous turmoil over the role of the United Nations in North Korea and being over-extended in humanitarian crises precipitated by the fall of the Great Khanate, the United Nations is suddenly disbanded. [3], SFC
2001 The Aphrodite series mission spacecraft enters service with NASA. [4]
2002 South Korea alone assists the people of North Korea in recovery. SFC
2002 The United States of America and the European Union formalize an economic and defense relationship with what will be called the Western Alliance by media and opponents. SFC
2003 The Korean peninsula is formally reunified under a constitutional monarchy established with North Korean expatriate and Kim Jung Il daughter, Kim Jung Noe. SFC
2008 The Western Alliance space agencies jointly conduct the Aventeur space missions. SFC
2009 The democratic nations of Arabia, Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran form the Muslim Bloc. SFC
2009 The Aventeur I mission (also known as the first of the Grand Tours) launches from Earth with the Lewis and Clark, with Christopher, Fontana and O'Herlihy in deep cryosleep. [1]
2009 By this time, 6 manned orbital platforms have been assembled over Earth. [5]
2010 The Pan-African Alliance forms. SFC
2011 The New United Nations convenes for the first time. SFC
2014 The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Jupiter, with the first manned visit to the planet. [1]
2018 The NUN creates the International Space Agency (ISA), an intended effort to coordinate combined national space exploration. SFC
2018 The US Strategic Command turns over its exploration and commercial administration space mission roles to the International Space Agency (ISA). NASA remains independent of ISA. SFC
2018 The Western Alliance turns over the Aventeur space missions to the ISA. The European Union turns over all European Space Agency (ESA) operations to ISA. SFC
2020 The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Saturn, the first manned spacecraft to visit the planet. [1]
2020 The Western Alliance provides the military command structure for the NUN, giving it extraordinary political power. SFC
2020 The crew of the Lewis and Clark discovers evidence of extraterrestrial mining on the moons of Enceladus and Dione. [1]
2024 Several European nations, including France, become politically destabilized. [6]
2026 The opening conflicts of World War III break out, with factions of eco-terrorists launching attacks responsible for as many as 37 million deaths. [6]
2029 Fusion power technology is achieved; work immediately begins to make it space-capable. SFC
2030 The Ares I is Earth's first manned mission back to Mars, since the fall of the Great Khanate. [7]
2031 The Western Alliance, Pan-African Alliance, Muslim Bloc and a mix of nations from the Far East and Middle East work together to divert a series of asteroids from striking Earth, capturing and diverting six to L-5 points. [8], SFC
2031 Lee Kuan of China suggests an alliance between the (perceived) disadvantaged nations of China, India, Kazakhstan, (united) Korea, Pakistan, Singapore and Vietnam; the Eastern Coalition (ECON) is formed. [9], SFC
2032 09 February: Zefram Cochrane was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. [10]
2032 October 19th: The Ares IV mission to Mars fails when the command capsule disappears, stranding two astronauts on the surface. The Ares V launches early to perform the rescue of the stranded Ares IV astronauts. [7]
2035 The multi-national manned prototype AFP-1 experimented on an e-beam pulsed fusion detonation drive but met with a disaster, with 14 lives lost. [11]
2036 February: Tau One, the Daedalus, becomes the first manned vessel to attempt to leave the Sol system, when it launches for the heliopause. [5]
2039 The evidence of extraterrestrial mining on Saturn's moons is released to select space-exploration nations. [1]
2040 The Mediterranean Alliance forms. SFC
2040 The UNSS Columbus, first in a series of interstellar sublight explorers, launches for Saturn on a test run. [11]
2046 The three remaining in-transit vessels of the Columbus series are considered to be inevitable losses as communications with each is lost to ion storms. [11]
2052 The New United Nations sides with the Western Alliance on legal use of oil fields in the South China Sea and Antarctica. The ECON secedes from the NUN in protest. SFC
2052 A series of confrontations between the New United Nations and the ECON begin to occur over oil fields located in Antarctica and China. [6]
2053 USSS Columbus is destroyed by an ECON attack, while in orbit. [11]
2053 01 May: The climax of World War Three breaks out when the ECON strikes the NUN states first with nuclear attacks, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 600 million. [6][12]
2053 Other than military operations taking place under its banner, the New United Nations ceases to operate as a coordinated entity. [12]
2053 Late Year: The war culminated when several of Earth's governments met in San Francisco to declare a cease-fire, effectively ending the war. [6]
2054 Colonel Green slaughters his way across North America, culling the "weak" and "impure" and those afflicted with radiation-sickness from humanity's gene pool, killing millions. [6]
2055 The Eastern Coalition formally becomes a nation, subsuming the member states as political regions, and retreats within the haphazard recovery processes that help define the era known as the Post-Atomic Horror. SFC
2058 During a preliminary experiment to search for subspace layers (conducted by Zefram Cochrane), all six O'Neil asteroid habitats vanish. [13]
2058 The US begins construction of the Liberty class system defense cruiser, their first post-war transorbital warship. [14]
2062 Mars declares independence from Earth, which is peacefully accepted. [15]

Expansion Era (2063-2130)

2063 05 April: Zefram Cochrane tests the Phoenix, demonstrating warp drive by achieving Warp 1 for approximately one minute in the Sol system. [16][14][12]
2063 05 April: A passing Vulcan ship, the T'Plana-Hath, detects the warp signature and lands in Bozeman later that evening, officially making first contact with Humans. [Star Trek: First Contact] [17][12]
2064 April: SS Defiant and SS Valiant separately depart Earth orbit, on paths to the upper and lower edges (respectively) of the galactic edge. [18]
2065 A significant number of nations resurrect the New United Nations. [12]
2065 The NUN establishes the Earth Cargo Authority, the commercial oversight equivalent to the ISA. SFC
2067 The NUN forms the United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA), to help coordinate and develop human presence in interstellar space. SFC
2069 Current members of the NUN agree to the United Earth Defense Pact, a promise to put Earth's ascendancy and safety ahead of national goals. SFC
2069 As part of the UEDP, the United Earth Stellar Navy (UESN) is formed and takes control of all armed human spacecraft within 5,000 AUs of Sol. SFC
2069 The United States turns over all NASA operations to UESPA. The NUN does the same with the ISA. SFC
2069 The Utopia Planitia Base (predecessor to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards) was founded. [19]
2073 Earth makes first contact with Tellar, via the SS Leif Eirickson, a Wheeler transport subclass of the DY-500 series. A few days later, a Tellarite ship already in the immediate vicinity, is intercepted near Neptune and reports that meeting. [14]
2075 The Gibraltar Dam is completed. SFC
2078 The New United Nation ceases organized operation as nations individually deal with the Post-Atomic Horror. The UEDP membership strives to remain operational. SFC
2091 The UESN Academy is opened and supported in its training role by the assignment of a majority of the surviving Liberty class ships. [14]
2093 The United Earth Stellar Navy adopts a new shipboard uniform (speculation). SFC[20]

22nd Century

Expansion Era (2063-2130) (continued)

YEAR EVENT REF
2113 By this time on Earth, war, poverty, disease, and the causes thereof have been eliminated. [21]
2113 The UEDP, acting as a de facto world government, represents humanity's interests with the interstellar community. SFC
2117 The United Earth Stellar Navy adopts a new shipboard uniform (speculation). SFC[20]
2130 The Traité d'Unification is signed by a majority of Earth's nations, establishing the new United Earth government. [22]

Romulan War Era (2131-2160)

2132 Romulan Star Empire first begins (covert) hostilities against Earth, Andor, Tellar and other space-faring states. SFC
2133 The United Earth government orders the formation of the United Earth Starfleet. SFC
2150 The last of the independent nations join United Earth, truly uniting the planet for the first time. SFC
2151 [Star Trek: ENT 1st season]
2151 First Contact between Humans and Andorians, at the Vulcan monastery P'jem. [23]
2152 United Earth and Vulcan, along with other nations (to be determined later) agree upon a calendar dating system referred to as Stardate. SFC
2154 July: The Earth embassy on Vulcan is bombed by (covert) Romulan agents. [24]
2155 [Star Trek: ENT 4th season (continues)]
2155 Earth, Andor, Vulcan, Tellar, Alpha Centauri and minor worlds (including Axanar and Kaferia) approve the first draft of an agreement for an alliance to be formed for trade, cultural exchange, and for mutual protection. [25]
2156 The Romulan Star Empire begins attacking Earth colonies; the Romulan War begins. SFC
2157 The Romulans conduct a starship suicide attack on the planet Vulcan. [26]
2160 The Romulan War ends. SFC

Early Federation Era (2161-2200)

2161 October 11: United Earth joins Vulcan, Tellar and Andor in founding the United Federation of Planets. SFC[27]
2161 The new UFP Star Fleet adopts a shipboard uniform utilizing characteristics of the founding members' uniforms. SFC[20]

23rd Century

Early Federation Era (2161-2200) (continued)

YEAR EVENT REF
2200 Star Fleet adopts a new uniform. SFC[20]

Klingon Era (2201-2240)

2202 The last Vulcan Tshin class sublight gunboat ceases operation. [28]
2208 Star Fleet re-organizes, moving away from the five initial branches, as overseen by one of the five founding members. SFC
2225 Star Fleet adopts a new uniform. SFC[20]
2236 Archanis, Cursa and Donatu fall to the Klingons. [29]

Frontier Era (2241-2270)

2241 Technical start of the Four Years War. [29]
2245 Active end of the Four Years War. [29]
2254 [Star Trek: TOS 1st Pilot]
2255 The Sheliak Conflict quickly (starts and) ends with the drafting of the Treaty of Armens. [30][31]
2256 [Star Trek: DIS 1st season]
2257 [Star Trek: DIS 1st season (continues) - 2nd season]
2257 Star Fleet adopts a new shipboard uniform (as seen in the pilot and portions of the first season of TOS, 1st episode of DSC's second season (Pike and Enterprise crew). SFC[20]
2258 [Star Trek: DIS 2nd season (continues)]
2259 [Star Trek: SNW 1st season]
2259 [Star Trek: SNW 2nd season]
2265 [Star Trek: TOS 2nd Pilot]
2265 Star Fleet institutes a uniform change (to that seen most often in TOS). [32], SFC[20]
2266 [Star Trek: TOS 1st season]
2267 [Star Trek: TOS 1st season (continued) - 2nd season]
2267 Khan’s escape from Earth was revealed when his ship was found adrift in space in the Mutara sector, some fifty lightyears away. [1]
2267 The Treaty of Organia is thrust upon both the Klingons and the Federation, aborting what will become known as the Four Days War. [33]
2268 [Star Trek: TOS 2nd season (continued) - 3rd season]
2269 [Star Trek: TOS 3rd season (continued)]; [Star Trek: TAS 1st season]
2269 The failure of Project Omega results in subspace disruption in the Lantaru sector and the establishment of the Omega Directive. [34]
2270 [Star Trek: TAS 2nd season]

Troubled Era (2271-2300)

2271 Star Fleet adopts a major new change in uniforms (as seen in TMP). SFC[20]
2272 The huge, autonomous vessel known as V'Ger approaches Earth after passing through a portion of the Klingon Empire. [Star Trek: The Motion Picture] [35][36]
2278 Star Fleet again adopts a major new change in uniforms (as seen in TWOK and on). SFC[20]
2285 USS Reliant is hijacked by Khan Noonien Singh and the Genesis Device is employed. [Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan] [37]
2285 USS Enterprise is destroyed while defying Star Fleet's Genesis planet quarantine. [Star Trek III: The Search for Spock] [38]
2286 A probe of unknown origin which visits and devastates Earth, in an attempt to communicate with an extinct species. [Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home] [39]
2293 The Khitomer Conference, the first full peace negotiations between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, is held at Camp Khitomer, a Klingon colony on the planet Khitomer near the border with the Federation. [Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country] [40]
2293 CAPT Kirk is (believed to be) killed while attempting to save USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) from a strange energy ribbon. [Star Trek Generations] [41]

24th Century

Golden Era (2301-2335)

YEAR EVENT REF
2312 Star Fleet formally adopts the Terrance-Neltorr Graduated (TNG) warp scale. [42]

Restless Era (2336-2360)

2347 The Cardassian Wars begin. [43]
2350 Star Fleet introduces a major new shift in uniforms (as seen in the first two seasons of TNG). SFC[20]
2353 The Tholian War begins. [44]
2358 The Tzenkethi War begins. [45]
2360 The Tholian War concludes. [44]

Foundation Era (2361-2370)

2362 The Tzenkethi War ends. [45]
2363 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is commissioned. [46]
2364 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) investigates the origin of Farpoint Station. [Star Trek: The Next Generation 1st season] [47]
2366 Star Fleet makes some minor modifications to its uniform (as seen starting in the 3rd season of TNG). SFC[20]
2366 The Cardassian Wars conclude. [43]
2369 Star Fleet introduces a notable change in the duty uniform, and a new combadge to go with it (as seen on DS9 and VOY). [48], SFC[20]
2369 The Bajoran Provisional Government requests Star Fleet assistance in maintaining the mining station Terok Nor, and it is renamed Deep Space 9. [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1st season] [49]
2370 [Star Trek: TNG 7th season]]

Dominion War Era (2371-2375)

2371 USS Voyager (NCC-74656) goes missing in the Badlands. [Star Trek: Voyager 1st season] [50]
2371 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is destroyed over Veridian III. [Star Trek Generations] [41]
2372 The Second Federation-Klingon War begins. [51]
2373 The Second Federation-Klingon War ends. [51]
2373 The second major Borg incursion, the Battle of Sector 001, takes place. [Star Trek: First Contact] [52]
2373 The Dominion War begins. [53]
2375 [Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 7th season]
2375 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) exposes a Sona-Star Fleet plot to force the resettlement of the Ba'ku. [Star Trek: Insurrection] [54]
2375 The Dominion War ends. [53]

Uncharted Era (2376-)

2377 [Star Trek: Voyager 7th season]
2378 [Star Trek: Voyager 7th season (continued)]
2378 The destruction of one (of six) of the Borg's transwarp hubs also results in the return of USS Voyager to the Alpha Quadrant. [55]
2379 A coup d'état on Romulus brings a new praetor, Shinzon, to power, and his threat to Earth. [Star Trek Nemesis] [56]
2380 [Star Trek: LD 1st season]
2381 [Star Trek: LD 2nd & 3rd seasons]
2383 [Star Trek: PRO 1st season]
2384 [Star Trek: PRO 1st season (continues)]
2387 The Romulan star supernovas, destroying Romulus.[57]
2399 [Star Trek: PIC 1st season]

25th Century

YEAR EVENT REF
2401 [Star Trek: PIC 2nd & 3rd seasons]
2402 [Star Trek: PIC 3rd season (continues)]

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Guide: DY sublight series
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Guide: Apex
  3. ↑ Memory Alpha: United Nations
  4. ↑ Guide: Aphrodite
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Guide: TAU
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Memory Beta: World War III
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Guide:Ares (Mars mission class)
  8. ↑ Memory Beta: ECON
  9. ↑ Guide: Eastern Coalition
  10. ↑ Memory Alpha: Zefram Cochrane
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Columbus
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 Guide:Phoenix
  13. ↑ Memory Beta: Neyel
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Guide: Liberty
  15. ↑ Federation Spaceflight Chronology, v4
  16. ↑ Memory Beta: 2063 (source: Star Trek: First Contact)
  17. ↑ Memory Beta: 2063
  18. ↑ Guide:Defiant and Valiant
  19. ↑ Star Trek: Star Charts, p. 39
  20. ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 20.10 20.11 Ranks & Uniforms
  21. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2113" (source: Star Trek: First Contact)
  22. ↑ Memory Beta: "Traité d'Unification"
  23. ↑ Memory Alpha: "The Andorian Incident (episode)"
  24. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2154"
  25. ↑ Guide: 2130-2161 - Into The Romulan War
  26. ↑ Guide: Kahs'khiori
  27. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Federation History (background)"
  28. ↑ Guide: Tshin
  29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 Guide: 2200-2240 - Way of the Warrior
  30. ↑ Memory Beta: 2255
  31. ↑ Memory Alpha: 2255
  32. ↑ Memory Alpha: Star Fleet uniform (2250s-2260s) (mentioned in opening paragraph)
  33. ↑ Memory Alpha: Treaty of Organia
  34. ↑ Memory Alpha: Omega Directive
  35. ↑ Memory Alpha: V'Ger
  36. ↑ Guide: Federation
  37. ↑ Memory Alpha: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  38. ↑ Memory Alpha: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
  39. ↑ Memory Alpha: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  40. ↑ Memory Alpha: Khitomer Conference
  41. ↑ 41.0 41.1 Memory Alpha: "Star Trek Generations"
  42. ↑ DITL: "Warp Scales"
  43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 Memory Alpha: "Federation-Cardassian War"
  44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 Memory Beta: "Tholian War"
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 Memory Beta: "Tzenkethi War"
  46. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2363"
  47. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Encounter at Farpoint (episode)"
  48. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Starfleet uniform (late 2360s-early 2370s)"
  49. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2369"
  50. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2371"
  51. ↑ 51.0 51.1 Memory Beta: Memory Alpha: "Federation-Klingon War (2372-73)"
  52. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: First Contact"
  53. ↑ 53.0 53.1 Memory Alpha: "Dominion War"
  54. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: Insurrection"
  55. ↑ Memory Alpha: "2378"
  56. ↑ Memory Alpha: "Star Trek: Nemesis"
  57. ↑ [Memory Alpha: "2387"
Retrieved from "http://starshiptracker.com/sfcwiki/index.php?title=Canon_Timeline&oldid=51583"