| 2052 | Last World War: The Pan-Anglo Eurasian Alliance defeats the Easterner and Russo-Asian alliances in an eight month world conflagration. Two billion people die in the war and its aftermath. The Commonwealth is established. |
| 2056 | The first Commonwealth-wide Machine Laws limit the capabilities of all synthetic sentients to “mid-range human” levels. |
| 2065-2102 | Project Exodus: Cityship sub-light habitats depart the Solar System, four towards Alpha Centauri (Gaia) and one towards Tau Ceti (Zarathustra). |
| 2073-2330 | Project Genesis: The Venus Terraformation Project transforms Venus into a habitable world. |
| 2120-2300 | The Mars Terraformation Project transforms Mars into a habitable world. |
| 2181-2182 | The Colonial War results in the independence of the offworld Solar System colonies. |
| 2197 | On Gaia, Yan Rheyes and the Janus AI discover the principles of macrojump faster-than-light technology. |
| 2206 | The Confederation is established, reuniting humanity. |
| 2238-2335 | The Confederation establishes over one hundred interstellar colonies within a hundred light-years of Sol. |
| 2243-2244 | The Amaterasu War pits the Confederation against Easterner refugees at 82 Eridani (Amaterasu). |
| 2251-2262 | The M’kkiae War pits the Confederation against the M’kkiae race and Easterner enclaves. The conflict ends with the subjugation of the Easterners and extinction of the M’kkiae. |
| 2304 | Approval of Life Therapy, a permanent genetic alteration conferring enhanced longevity and health, spawning the origin of the Homo Nobilis race. |
| 2335-2355 | The Great Schism, a protracted conflict fought over cultural, religious and synthetic freedoms, destroys the old Confederation and effectively ends interstellar society. Two billion people die within the Solar System and Earth collapses into a patchwork of warlord states. |
| 2412 | Founding of the Asteroid Belt Confederation at Vesta. |
| 2413 | Albert Kagnon-Mellon proclaims himself Duke of Hesperia on Mars. |
| 2464-2516 | The Martian Unification Wars eventually establish Albert Kagnon-Mellon as Emperor of Mars. |
| 2519 | The Mars-Belter War begins… |