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
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| 1989
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Two ships of the DY series were constructed in the province of Xuhan in the country of China; the start of the modern era.
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[1]
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| 1990
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The DY-100 model begins production by the Dinyan-Yoyodyne Conglomerate.
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[1]
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| 1991
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The Apex DY-100 variant series enters service with the Great Khanate.
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[2]
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| 1993
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The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on Mars for the first time.
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[2]
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| 1994
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The Great Khanate successfully lands a man on Venus for the first time.
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[2]
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| 1996
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The Great Khanate state falls, with Khan Singh and a handful of followers escaping undiscovered on a DY-100 they had held in reserve.
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[1]
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| 1996
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The Great Khanate's Mars colony fails.
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21st Century
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| 2001
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The (original) United Nations collapses.
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[3]
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| 2001
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The Afrodite series mission spacecraft enters service with NASA.
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[4]
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| 2009
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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.
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[1]
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| 2011
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The New United Nations convenes for the first time.
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SFC
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| 2014
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The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Jupiter, with the first manned visit to the planet.
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[1]
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| 2018
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The US Strategic Command turns over its exploration and commercial administration space mission roles to the International Space Agency (ISA).
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SFC
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| 2020
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The Lewis and Clark arrives at and studies Saturn, the first manned spacecraft to visit the planet.
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[1]
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| 2020
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The crew of the Lewis and Clark discovers evidence of extraterrestrial mining on the moons of Enceladus and Dione.
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[1]
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| 2024
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Several European nations, including France, become politically destabilized.
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[5]
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| 2026
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The opening conflicts of World War III break out, with factions of eco-terrorists launching attacks responsible for as many as 37 million deaths.
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[5]
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| 2031
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The United States, Eastern Coalition and European Alliance work together to divert a series of asteroids from hitting the planet, capturing six of them for resource mining.
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[6]
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| 2032
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09 February: Zefram Cochrane was born in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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[7][8]
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| 2039
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The evidence of extraterrestrial mining on Saturn's moons is released to select space-exploration nations.
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[1]
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| 2052
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A series of confrontations between the New United Nations and the ECON begin to occur over oil fields located in Antarctica and China.
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[5]
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| 2053
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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.
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[5]
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| 2053
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Late Year: The war culminated when several of Earth's governments met in San Francisco to declare a cease-fire, effectively ending the war.
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[5]
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| 2054
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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.
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[5]
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| 2058
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During a preliminary experiment, conducted by Zefram Cochrane, to search for subspace layers, all six O'Neil asteroid habitats vanish.
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[9]
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| 2063
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05 April: Zefram Cochrane tests the Phoenix, demonstrating warp drive by achieving Warp 1 for approximately one minute in the Sol system.
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[10]
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| 2063
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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.
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[11]
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22nd Century
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EVENT
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| 2113
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By this time on Earth, war, poverty, disease, and the causes thereof have been eliminated.
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[12]
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| 2130
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The Traité d'Unification is signed by a majority of Earth's nations, establishing the new United Earth government.
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[13]
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23rd Century
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EVENT
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| 2250
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The Federation colony on Archanis IV is attacked, resulting in the death of 112 Federation citizens by attackers unknown.
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[14]
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| 2251
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Captain Garth of the USS Xenophon, investigating the attack upon Archanis IV, finds a disabled Klingon cruiser inside Federation space. This leads him to discover the presence of a Klingon garrison on the nearby Federation protectorate world of Axanar. Klingon Admiral Kkorhetza declines the opportunity to surrender the garrison on Axanar.
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[14]
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| 2252
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The Four Years War breaks out when Klingon forces attempt to break through the containment of Axanar.
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[14]
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| 2255
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The Sheliak Conflict quickly (starts and) ends with the drafting of the Treaty of Armens.
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[15][16]
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| 2256
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The Four Years War concludes with a draw and the establishment of a Klingon neutral zone. The long 'cold war' period with the Klingon Empire starts at this point.
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[14]
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| 2266
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Khan’s escape from Earth was revealed when his ship was found adrift in space in the Mutara sector, some fifty lightyears away.
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[1]
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| 2273
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The huge, autonomous vessel known as V'Ger approaches Earth after passing through a portion of the Klingon Empire.
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[17]
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24th Century
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| 2312
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Starfleet formally adopts the Terrance-Neltorr Graduated (TNG) warp scale.
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[18]
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| 2358
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The Tzenkethi War begins.
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[19]
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| 2362
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The Tzenkethi War ends.
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[19]
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| 2372
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The Second Federation-Klingon War begins.
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[20]
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| 2373
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The Second Federation-Klingon War ends.
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[20]
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| 2373
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The Dominion War begins.
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[21]
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| 2375
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The Dominion War ends.
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[21]
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