2052	The Last World War erupts after the sinking of the Sun Zhongshan at Mombasa, initially pitting the Anti-Hegemony League (Easterner Alliance) against the Chinese.  After the destruction of Earth's beanstalks and orbital infrastructure, the American and Anglo-European powers declare war on the Easterners.  War spreads to South Asia, South America and Africa.  By summer, the Russian destruction of the Chinese Army at Irkutsk and Omsk leads to full scale use of weapons of mass destruction.  Hundreds of millions die in nuclear, quantum and cyber and nano attacks.  The war finally ends on 1 November after a cease fire negotiated by leaders at Copernicus Base.  The Provisional Executive Council is formed at Copernicus and Istanbul to coordinate relief and from a world government.  Death toll from the war reaches one billion and the northern winter is the coldest of the century, 12 C below normal.   At the war's end, Admiral Narita leads the thousand crewmembers of the Easterner Battlestar asteroid fortress on a nuclear pulse  journey out of the solar system.
2053	Relief efforts continue world-wide as northern spring brings epidemics and starvation.  The Provisional Government establishes its capital in Istanbul, remained as Byzantium.  Provisional governors coordinate relief in fifteen world-wide Districts.  Death rates drop as refugee camps and shantytowns receive basic services, but the war's toll reaches one and three quarters billion dead.  Nuclear powered shuttles resume traffic to Earth's orbit, reestablishing communications networks, bringing relief supplies to colonists  and clearing orbital debris.  Government forces defeat separatist rebels in Tibet and Australia.   The Children of Liberty begin terrorist attacks in northwest America.  The Battlestar exits the solar system as it crew begins shifts of cold sleep.
2054	On 11 April, delegates ratify the Commonwealth Constitution.    The Provisional Executive Council  begins plans for the first Commonwealth election and organizes the fifteen Ministries and their respective Bureaus.  The Executive Council forms the Election and Unification Agencies.  Construction begins on government industrial hydroponic and algae farms.  Global temperatures return to antebellum normal.  Commonwealth space forces destroy the last two rogue Russian spacecraft.  After raids crush the Children of Liberty, the Commonwealth declares all hostiles ceased.
2055	The conservative Horizon Party wins a plurality in the Commonwealth Legislative Assembly and establishes a majority in the Senate and Executive Council.  Francisco Pena, Horizon Party Chairman, becomes the first Finance Minister.  The Executive forms the District Oversight, Regional Oversight and Government Services Agencies.  The Commonwealth invests the first non-hereditary titles of nobility as a reward for services.  Commercial exploitation of the main asteroid belt begins with the deployment of Vesta Base.
2056	Food rationing and martial law end; recovery projects focus on housing and transportation with plans for ten thousand arcologies linked by high speed rail.  All military forces officially come under the auspices of the Ministry of Security, forming the Commonwealth Security Forces (CSF) Joint Command which promptly demobilizes half of the troops and begins eradication of all weapons of mass destruction.  The Commonwealth passes Resolution 319, limiting the capabilities of constitutionally defined Artificial Status beings to "human norms" and Resolution 333, confirming property status of all artificial sentients.  To assure the survival of the human race, the Executive Council approves the creation of agencies to support Project Exodus to establish human presence outside the solar system and Project Genesis to terraform Venus or Mars.  Martian colonists found the University of Deimos at the site of the moon's research base.
2057	The Commonwealth passes Resolution 424, outlawing the genetic manipulation and sex selection of embryos.  The Ministry of Education standardized funding for primary and secondary education, at levels the opposition calls "grossly inadequate".  Anti-government riots break out in many camps and shantytowns, mostly in Districts 1, 10 and 14.  Farside Labs tests an improved plasma drive; it explodes on the third trial, killing three engineers.  Mining operations begin on the metallic asteroid Psyche.  The Ministry of Security forms the Commonwealth Space Force and further reduces the Surface Force by half.  The Battlestar reaches .02c some 400 billion kilometers from Sol, beginning its ramscoop acceleration toward Tau Ceti.
2058	The Freedom Revolution breaks out as rioters and dissidents band together to protest coercive settlement into arcologies; Commonwealth Security Forces suppress the revolt, killing at least four thousand and imprisoning over twenty thousand.  The Executive Council creates the Retirement Services Agency.  The TerraNet global communications networks initiates service.  The Ministry of Space Exploration Bureau (SXB) acquires control of the Astronomer class exploration cruisers, beginning construction of two additional vessels; the Tombaugh undertakes the Fifth Mercury expedition, the first planetary exploration since the war.  Project Exodus inaugurates the Astra Station construction base at Lunar L1.
2059	The Ministry of Housing shuts down the last refugee camps, though with under a thousand arcologies completed, vast shantytowns still ring transport hubs and distribution centers.  A joint CSF and Ministry of Science expedition eradicates the last nanoreplicators from Taiwan, allowing resettlement of the island.  Under the auspices of Project Exodus, construction begins on the Cityship Atlantis at Astra Station.
2060	The first Commonwealth Census determines that over two billion people have died as a result of the Last World War.  The Census Bureau finalizes the borders of the fifteen Districts and seventy-five regions of the Commonwealth.  Elections return the Horizon Party to power, this time with a clear majority in the Legislative Council.  Former Minister of Space Thomas Atkinson becomes Director of Project Exodus, moving its headquarters from Byzantium to the Serenity Habitat at L4.  The Harmony habitat reaches completion at L5.
2061	The Ministry of Housing announces the end of reconstruction with the dedication of the Yellow Springs Arcology in Hunan, but for the majority of residents, the standard of living remains much worse than antebellum levels.  The Australian Nationalist Front begins a campaign of terror against Asian immigrants.  The Ministry of Energy begins the Starfire Program to build one thousand 20GWe Deuterium-Helium 3 fusion power stations over the next decade.  Project Exodus begins the selection process for the Cityship Atlantis.  The SXB Huygens' dramatic expedition to Halley's Comet  captures the popular imagination.  Anatoly Dmitriev emigrates to Vesta and founds the Vesta Resources Group.
2062	University of Demios researchers announce the Renuex regeneration therapy that with conventional nanotherapies will double Human life span to three centuries; cost limits use to the wealthy.  The SXB resumes outer system exploration with the Tenth Jupiter Expedition and announces the Outer Planet Outpost Program.
2063	Cyclonic storms batter the Bengals, Philippines and Carribia, killing fifteen thousand people and forcing the evacuation of the Dominica Arcology.  Uncoordinated relief efforts lead to the creation of the independent Relief Agency.  Budgetary reallocation increases funding for the Ministries of Transportation, Housing, Health and Environment, at the expense of Science, Technology and Culture.
2064	The Ministry of Agriculture Nutrition Bureau (ANB) reinstitutes food rationing to Arcologies, citing continuing natural disasters and distribution problems; the Ministry forms the Production Bureau to build additional industrial hydroponic and algae farms.  Coordinated Commonwealth Internal Security (CIS) raids and detentions effectively destroy the Australian Nationalist Front.  The SXB establishes a twenty person outpost on Callisto.  Project Exodus begins construction of a second Cityship, Voyager.
2065	The CSF suppress protests aimed at disrupting the Commonwealth elections; lower turnout and stricter voter prerequisites return the Horizon Party to power with an expanded majority.  The Cityship Atlantis departs for Alpha Centauri with Alexander Tate as Captain and Thomas Atkinson as Mayor.  The Nedelin Corporation completes the first NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Region) habitat, Utopia One.  The Ministry of Space Colonial Bureau inaugurates the Verdant habitat at L5 amidst controversy over corruption involving the prime contractor, the Tata Corporation.  The Census Bureau reports that the offworld population has reached 100,000, mostly living in orbital habitats.
2066	Francisco Pena becomes Duke of Horizon on his retirement from government.   The CSF announces the "permanent eradication" of all weapons of mass destruction;  the Commonwealth passes Resolution 980 limiting nanotechnology research to medical and fabrication applications.  Farside Labs tests the prototype Gagarin fast picket, the first non-Cityship to use meta-stabilized metallic hydrogen (MSMH) fuel for power and plasma propulsion.  The SXB establishes research outposts on Titan and Ganymede.
2067	A Ministry of Environment reports confirms that global warming has resumed, prompting calls for greater energy efficiency and conservation.  The CSF sells most of its wartime era space vessels as surplus and begins procuring a small fleet of MSMH-powered Sword class fast frigates for inner system patrol and courier duty.  The CSF also plans construction of a dozen new outposts throughout the solar system to support operations to patrol and protect the growing number of civilian stations and settlements.
2068	The Ministry of Agriculture now produces nearly half of all food and controls distribution of most of the rest.  The Census Bureau reports that the average standard of living has reached antebellum levels; the independent press loudly disputes this claim, resulting in the passage of Resolution 1009,  strengthening libel laws to the point that they effectively restrict freedom of the press.  The District Oversight Agency cuts all funding for District militias, effectively disbanding the remaining local units; the Executive Council replaces two recalcitrant Governors.  The SXB establishes an outpost on the Uranian moon Oberon.
2069	The Ministry of Transportation receives full funding for the worldwide Planetary Superhighway Monorail (PSM) Project, a network of monorail lines flanked by plastcrete roadways.  Funding for the Ministries of Science and Space decrease to accommodate the PSM budget.  SXB establishes research outposts on Enceladus and Triton.
2070	The Horizon Party strengthens its majority, but falls short of gaining a tenth seat on the Executive Council.  The Census Bureau produces detailed documentation every region, highlighting the eradication of hunger and the remaining war plagues.  Unofficial experiments aimed at terraforming Mars begin, despite an official ban protecting native life.  The SXB Brache and Barnard begin a multi-year Kuiper survey highlighted by an expedition to Quaoar.
2071	The first attempt to acquire Legislative representation for the quarter million residents now living in space fails overwhelmingly.  Commonwealth Internal Security uncovers a coup plot by several senior CSF officers; broadcasted trials result in convictions of all thirty-two conspirators, with twelve quickly executed and the rest imprisoned for treason.  The SXB establishes an outpost on Pluto.  The First Kuiper Survey Expedition reaches Quaoar.
2072	The Commonwealth enacts Resolution 1109, legalizes what is effectively lifetime slavery, officially "Artifact Status" or AS, for convicted felons and chronic debtors.  The CIS puts down violent protests by civil rights groups, killing hundreds and sentencing thousands to lifetime AS.  Resolution 1116 passes, requiring mandatory "social adjustment treatments" for all AS.  The Voyager departs for Alpha Centauri with five thousand colonists that are overwhelmingly dissenters.  Continued funding for Project Exodus barely passes and is limited to research for a faster ramscoop technology.
2073	Project Genesis' Board of Governors officially chooses Venus over Mars for the terraformation project, prompting the resignation of Director Pradeep Virma; he emigrates to Mars.   Residents permanently evacuate the Ganesha Eight arcology after a fire guts the complex, killing over two thousand.
2074	A pirate radio station at Mare Smythii  releases suppressed investigative reporting on deficient arcology construction and corruption in the Ministry of Housing; a CSF raid kills the radio operators, and the original reporters are arrested for libel, but internal reviews vindicate the findings; eight hundred arcologies are evacuated and demolished; the Progressive Party Minister of Housing and twenty officals receive AS sentences.  The SXB launches the Cousteau, a short-range ramscoop ship co-developed with Project Exodus, to explore the Scattered Disk and inner Oort Cloud.
2075	The Horizon Party wins a veto-proof majority in the Commonwealth elections, gaining a tenth Executive Council seat and leaving the opposition in the hands of four minor parties: Green, Justice, Freedom and Progressive.  The SXB Brown reaches Sedna, beginning the furthest exploration of the Astronomer class ships.  The population of Mars reaches 100,000.
2076	The inaugural PSM link from Boston to Chicago begins service.  A bill which would have effectively limited offworld colonization to full Citizens barely fails to pass the Legislature.  The SXB Cousteau reaches the dwarf planet Eris.  The SXB Huygens reaches the dwarf planet Haumea.
2077	At the Congress of Paris, three Commonwealth opposition parties, the Justice, Freedom and Progressive, unite to form the Liberal Party.  The Ministry of Transportation secures funding for the Bering Bridge link between North America and Asia.  Commonwealth Resolution 1222 recognizes the legality of "freetowns" founded in the shadows of arcologies and on reclaimed land, placing them under the authority of the Ministry of Housing.   The Battlestar's ramscoop reaches maximum velocity of .13c over 1.5 light years from Sol.
2078	PhillipsEricsson begins sale of high-efficiency energy absorption/storage panels (ASP panels) for collecting and storing electromagnetic energy.  The Ministry of Housing funds a project to outfit all arcologies with ASP panels.  The SXB Cousteau returns from Eris.
2079	The Commonwealth Supreme Court narrowly upholds designated Artificial Status for convicts and debtors.  The CSF crushes the New Munchen "slave revolt", killing over three thousand AS and sympathizers who had seized the arcology in a political protest.  Liberal Senator John Anderson resigns to become Director of Project Exodus.
2080	The Horizon Party narrowly maintains its veto-proof majority , with the Liberal Party becoming the second largest party with 31% of the popular vote and five Executive Council seats.  Commonwealth Resolution shuts down the Unification Agency.  The SXB Tombaugh and Cousteau depart on separate exploration of the Kuiper in search for water-rich bombardment materials for Project Genesis.
2081	The Exodus Project receives funding to construct two additional upgraded Cityships, capable of over one quarter light speed.  Pavel Karinsky publishes The Mechanist Universe, outlining his manifesto of immortality achieved through technological means and the rejection of spiritualism; Karinsky soon achieves a substantial cult following.
2082	The Horizon Minister of Environment, Baron Jacque d'Urville commits suicide under the cloud of a corruption investigation.  The Executive Council vetoes an effort to shut down Project Genesis.  The SXB establishes Charon Research Lab on Pluto's moon to conduct hazardous high energy physics research.
2083	The Ministry of Space establishes the Aperture research base on Mercury, using corporate sponsorship to compensate for funding shortfalls.  The Vesta Mining Consortium builds the Vesta Star the flaship of a class of mixed transport liners powered capable of sustained .1 gee acceleration and by a high efficiency MSMH CNO-protium fusion engine.  The Amun Settlement agreement ends a vicious trade war between the Nedelin and Tata Corporations and begins the transformation of the NEAR planetoid into a sprawling mining installation and habitat.
2084	Accounting irregularities lead to the arrest or dismissal of the senior management of the PSM Project.  Project Genesis begins Venus Terraformation Phase I, bombardment with diverted of short period comets; the project hires private contractors to dispatch robotic drones begin diversion of water-rich comets, Centaurs and Kuiper objects toward Venus.
2085	The Liberal Party shows significant gains in Commonwealth elections, receiving 39% of the vote, gaining twenty-three seats on the Senate and six on the Executive Council; with assistant from the small Green and People's party, Liberals manage to block some Horizon legislation through filibusters and coalitions with the moderate wing of the Horizon Party.  The Midas mining habitat, first of over a hundred to roam the Belt, is completed at Vesta.  The SBX Cousteau begins a ten year survey of the inner Oort belt.
2086	The Torres Straight Bridge connects Australia and New Guinea.   Pavel Karinsky receives Ministry of Culture certification of Mechanism as a recognized philosophical organization.  The SXB launches the Hesperus to explore within 2 million kilometer's of sun's photosphere and to deploy probes deep into the solar core.
2087	The Census Bureau reports that offworld population has reached one million people.  The first vehicles cross the Bering Bridge, linking PSM networks on five continents.  Pradeep Virma is convicted of illegal Martian terraforming, stripped of his Knighthood and exiled to Phobos.  An antimatter containment accident destroys the Charon Research Lab, killing all twenty personnel.
2088	The Liberal Party sponsors the compromise Resolution 1592, allowing for the colonization of Tau Ceti's presumed habitable planet by dissidents led by Director John Anderson.  The Commonwealth passes Resolution 1595, hereditizing some titles of nobility and 1596, requiring at least a knighthood for restricting Senatorial membership, ennoblement for  Executive Council membership, though these changes do not affect the composition of the present government.
2089	The CSF crushes the last major slave revolt in Commonwealth history, overrunning the West Pullman Arcology and killing forty-two hundred AS and sympathizers; personality adjustment programs become more stringent.  The last two Astronomer class cruisers, SXB Brache and Barnard are mothballed at Astra Station.  The first Project Genesis bombardment comets strike Venus.
2090	The Liberal Party suffers election losses to the reform wing of the Horizon Party, which focuses on fiscal responsibility and anti-corruption reforms; infighting within the Horizon Party blocks most resolutions.  The Supreme Court overturn C.R. 1596 in a narrow ruling, allowing any Citizen to hold any office.  The Cityship Libertas departs for Tau Ceti with ten thousand mostly libertarian dissidents aboard.
2091	The Legislature votes to cut all funding for Project Exodus after negative habitability indications cancel plans to send the fourth Cityship to Sigma Draconis; comprise legislation allows funding to continue for another voyage to Alpha Centauri.  The SXB Hesperus is lost after a massive solar flare; a rescue attempt by vessels based on Mercury saves half the crew, but Captain Khalid Masoud and the command crew goes down with their ship, into the sun.
2092	A rebuilt Charon Research Lab opens near the site of the original installation.  The Cityship Constellation departs for Alpha Centauri with ten thousand aboard.  Project Exodus again faces cancellation, but the Agency secures alternative funding from the Martian and Belter mining companies to build another Cityship at the Vesta shipyard.  Pradeep Virma returns to Mars and wins election as Mayor of Mangalla.
2093	A massive drought begins in sub-Saharan Africa, crippling food production and starting massive dust storms that sweep across the Sahel, the Saharan Desert and over the Atlantic into the Caribbean.  Funding increases for the Ministries of Environment and Agriculture at the expense of Education, Space, Science and Technology Ministries.  Commonwealth Resolution 1801 grants an automatic knighthood to an elected member of the Senate and automatic life Barony to an elected member of the Executive.
2094	The Commonwealth narrowly passes Resolution 1844, the Artificial Status Progeny Act, effectively hereditizing Artificial Status; an immediate appeal to the Supreme Court upholds the law.  Terrorists destroy a five kilometer span of the Moluccas Bridge, preventing a planned connection of the the PSM to Australia.  Pradeep Virma resigns his mayorship and founds a small community in the badlands of Lycus Sulci.
2095	The reform wing of the Horizon Party unites behind Count Alphonso Dubrin to take effective control of the Commonwealth government.  In the ensuing election, the Liberal Party splinters, leaving Horizon with a veto-proof majority.  The SBX Cousteau returns to the inner solar system.
2096	Alphonso Dubrin becomes Minster of Finance  and pushes through the Resolution 1901, requiring a balance Commonwealth budget.  Government cutbacks mandated by C.R. 1901 slash a third of Ministry of Space funding, forcing the abandonment of all Commonwealth-sponsored civilian space projects except Project Genesis, few research labs and the Cousteau.   The Technology Ministry's Advanced Studies Bureau perfects safe long-term cryogenic hibernation.
2097	The Great Droughts spread across the American Midwest and into Central Asia and Eastern Europe.  The massive Bihar earthquake strikes the Ganges River basin, toppling arcologies and  killing nearly two million people.  Under heavy security, the Moluccas Bridge opens to traffic, linking Australia to the rest of the world.  The Cousteau departs on its Second Oort Expedition.
2098	Commonwealth Resolution 1952 nationalizes all food production within the Ministry of Agriculture and establishes the Rationing Bureau.  The Executive Council creates the  Project Lombardi Agency under Director Amelia Lombardi to attempt to control earthquakes via seismic feedback.
2099	Project Lombardi begins construction of a series of feedback stations along the Ring of Fire.  Commonwealth Resolution 2000 establishes the Basic Allotment, guaranteeing basic food, housing and medical care to all Commonwealth Residents and creates the Allotment Agency to administer it .   Millennialists led by Reverend Paulo sabotage arcologies across the Brazilian Regions, killing hundreds before a Commonwealth Internal Security (CIS) infiltrator assassinates the Cult of Fire leader.  Pavel Karinsky and two hundred followers leave Earth to found the Mechanist settlement of Eternity north of the Hellas Basin on Mars.
2100	The reform wing of the Horizon Party maintains control of the party and the Commonwealth in the elections.  The Census Bureau produces a documentary of the 21st Century called Triumph from Ruin, touting the progress made in material well-being, life expectancy and peace during the Commonwealth era.
2101	The world economy enters a period of stagnation, with negative growth per capita.  A group of sixty futurists forms the Time Travel Society and begins a voluntary fifty year hibernation at an undisclosed facility in the Australian Outback.  The Ministry of Transportation proclaims the main PSM network complete; it links all major urban centers on six continents; funding for Antarctica bridge and tunnel projects is denied.
2102	A series of powerful earthquakes devastate California and the Mediterranean, causing few deaths but massive property damage.  The crash of the Byzantium and Zurich markets initiates the Quake Depression.  The Project Lombardi  terminates with Director Lombardi's resignation.  The last Cityship, Mariner, departs from Vesta towards Alpha Centauri with ten thousand colonists led by  Baron James McKnight, commander of the first Mars and Saturn expeditions.  Project Exodus terminates, with its remaining assets auctioned to commercial interests.  At Copernicus, Senator Arianne Bourassa, Countess Wu Jun and Sir Anatoly Dmitriev preside over ceremonies marking the fiftieth anniversary of the armistice.
2103	The Commonwealth raises taxes to pay for quake reconstruction projects, further weakening the economy.  Tax protests begin in the off-world colonies.  Alphonso Dubrin resigns as Finance Minister, pressured over both economic mismanagement issues and his support for the Lombardi Project.
2104	The Quake Depression deepens, with a quarter of the Citizen population out of work.  During Constitution Day celebrations, the CSF patrols urban areas to break up protests, but limit arrests to the worst offenders.  The Uranus Sky Mining Corporation begins Helium 3 harvesting operations out of the small moon Mab.
2105	The reform wing of the Horizon Party collapses, with fiscal conservatives joining the main conservative wing.  The new administration promises steps to promote private sector growth and lower taxes.  Arianne Bourassa becomes Duchess of Normandy on her retirement from the Senate.  The Cityship Atlantis arrives in the Alpha Centauri System, taking up orbit around the outer world of Alpha Centauri B, and naming the cool watery world Atlantis.  While some colonists immediately settle on the surface, many remain in orbit as the Atlantis Modification Project begins to improve the world's chilly alien climate.
2106	The Commonwealth Executive and Legislature force through an austerity program, cutting funding across the board and essentially dismantling the Exploration Bureau.  The Liberal Party officially splinters into it's three original constituencies: Progressive, Justice and Freedom.  Alphonso Dubrin joins the Progressive Party and forms an alliance with the Justice Party.  The first large Kuiper bodies begin to impact Venus, adding water and altering the rotation of the planet.  The Cousteau returns from the Second Oort expedition; late in the year, with a new crew, it sets off on the Third.
2107	The Rationing Bureau resumes food rationing in response to the depression and continuing droughts.  Hurricanes and typhoons ravage the coastlines in what becomes the warmest year on record.  Food riots spread among Resident populations in South America and Asia.  The CIS arrests Green Party protestors, including Senator Amelia Li.
2108	Mars, the Belt and NEAR colonies apply direct funding from local taxation to keep alive basic Ministry of Space programs, including the Genesis Project, and to keep open the series of research bases from Mercury to Charon.  Large sections the Sao Paulo freetowns burn during a massive food riot that kills twelve thousand people.  The Supreme Court rules the detention of Senator Li to be illegal.  The City of Chiron is incorporated on Atlantis, with Thomas Atkinson elected its first mayor.
2109	Commonwealth Resolution 2315 imposes stricter censorship laws and restricts the free movement of Residents.  Taxes increase to fund expanded government food production.  Floodwalls collapse in West Bengal, killing at least twelve thousand freetown residents.
2110	The Progressive-Justice Alliance wins 31% of the electorate, but falls short of the executive strength necessary to act as an effective opposition.  Alphonso Dubrin becomes Minister of Justice as a member of the opposition; Baroness Amelia Li becomes Environment Minister.  The Constellation reaches Alpha Centauri, barely passing the Voyager.
2111	Comprehensive climate legislation stalls in the Legislature.  The Supreme Court upholds C.R. 2000.  The Voyager reaches Alpha Centauri; the two newly arrived Cityships take up orbit above Atlantis.  Some leaders among the new Atlantian arrivals press for a declaration of independence from the Commonwealth, but the resolution fails to pass.  However, a second resolution, harshly condemning Commonwealth policies toward Residents and people of Artifact Status receives overwhelming approval and is formally transmitted back to Sol.  As with the Atlantis, more than half the population of the new Cityships remains in orbit as surface modifications progress.
2112	Assemblies on Mars and the Belt begin pressing the Commonwealth for greater autonomy or separate Regional representation.  Adam Ares Moreno Cohen, the first person born on Mars, dies in an accident on Pavonis Mons.
2113	The Great Drought enters its twentieth year; calls for geoengineering programs fail to muster support after a contentious Legislative debate.  Typhoon Wanda submerges most of East Bengal, destroying freetowns and  arcologies alike, killing nearly four million people.
2114	The Commonwealth narrowly passes C.R. 2452, the Home Rule "Amendment", allowing off-world colonies nearly complete control of their "internal affairs", provided they do not attempt to secede or "subvert" the Commonwealth.  Mars and Luna from Planetary Legislatures while habitat and asteroid settlements avoid a federal approach and create or empower local counciles.
2115	The Progressive-Justice Alliance wins nearly 34% of the electorate, allowing them to form an effective opposition with their junior partners, the Green and Freedom parties.  The Census Bureau reports that despite increases in life expectancy, the population of Earth appears to be in decline, though continuing deaths in East Bengal maybe be responsible.  The majority of off-world colonies, including Mars, Luna and most habitats and asteroids form the Solar Coordinating Council (SCC) to oversee joint programs and expenditures in conjunction with the Ministry of Space.
2116	The Cousteau returns from its Third Oort Expedition and enters a period of maintenance and eventual mothballing, as SBX funding continues to fall.   The Ministry of Infrastructure begins construction of a series of terawatt-class CNO fusion reactors, the "Antares 1000" series,  to replace the aging Starfire De-He3 plants.
2117	The Commonwealth economy experiences its first real growth since 2100, with Horizon Minister of Finance Countess Karen Tsivilsky claiming credit for the recovery.  The government refuses to lift Depression-era rationing and restrictions, but increases the budget for basic services in the "Top 8" Ministries and the Allotment by 10%.
2118	Urban and campus demonstrations against the censorship and passport laws spread.  The CIS storms the University of Miami after a student takeover, killing over four hundred protesters.  The Commonwealth Executive declares a state of siege and imposes curfews in several regions, including all of the First and Fourth Districts.
2119	Urban riots decrease on Earth as increases in food production, the end of rationing for Citizens and growth of employment and government services improve living conditions.  The CIS curtails continuing demonstrations in the universities with massive shows of force and numerous arrests.  The SCC assumes full control over the Charon Research Lab to avoid its closure as part of a Commonwealth austerity measure.  The Cityship Mariner reaches Atlantis and a plebiscite to secede from the Commonwealth based on lack of representation in the Legislature passes overwhelmingly.  Atlantis declares itself a Republic, broadcasts its declaration of independence back to the Solar System and elects Thomas Atkinson its interim president.
2120	The Horizon Party gains control of the Commonwealth government by winning 61.9% of the electorate and maneuvering to control two-thirds of the Ministries.  The Census Bureau confirms that Earth's population is declining, attributing the trend to the falling birth rate.  Minister of Finance Karen Tsivilsky is invested as Duchess of Chuvash, becoming the first sitting Minister so rewarded.  The SCC assumes full control over Project Genesis, as the Commonwealth continues to shift its limited resources to domestic needs.  The Martian local government overturns restrictions on terraformation and begins full-scale atmospheric modifications with biological agents.  Pradeep Virma dies on Olympus Mons.
2121	Hurricane Yolanda strikes New Orleans, killing tens of thousands and leaving the city submerged for a month; controversial rebuilding efforts begin under the sponsorship of  Minister of Housing, Count William DuBois.  Atlantis holds its first regular elections, electing Thomas Atkinson to a six-year term as president of the Republic.  Robert Dunbar becomes the first person to celebrate a verifiable 200th birthday.
2122	The Ministry of Space disbands the Exploration Bureau, selling its remaining assets to the SCC, which reforms the organization as the Colonial Space Exploration Agency (CSEA or "See-Sea") and establishes its headquarters at Juno.  The first Antares 1000 power plant, Unit 1, outside of Lagos, begins commercial operation.
2123	The world-wide Great Drought reaches its thirty year but shows signs of dissipating; externally grown  Midwest American crops succeed for the first time since 2105.
2124	Word of the Atlantian revolt reaches Sol.  The Commonwealth Legislature adopts C.R. 2890, a ban on all interstellar travel and colonization.  The CIS puts down pro-Atlantian riots in Hildago, detaining and reprogramming hundreds of protestors.
2125	The Horizon party receives 66.1% of the electorate and gains a two-thirds majority in the Senate, allowing it complete control of the government.  Hundreds of thousands protest the election results and many are arrested, including, briefly Count Alphonso Dubrin.  Decreased demand for Helium 3 contributes to the bankruptcy of the Uranus Sky Mining Corporation.
2126	The Weather Service Bureau (EWSB) declares the Great Drought at an end, but despite increased and more regular rainfall patterns, the EWSB reports that temperatures have risen 4C and sea-level have risen two meters since 2000.  Commonwealth Resolution 3001 forms the Climate Control Agency (CCA) to carefully review and supervise peer-reviewed efforts to model and control Earth's environment.
2127	A pro-opposition documentary released by LaGrangeNet, a semi-autonomous Near Earth Colony media outlet, leads to mobilization of a CSF Naval Fleet under Admiral Zhaoxing Hu.  Mediation led by Alphonso Dubrin defuses the crisis; the compromise agreement allows for independent media in the colonies but allows for jamming and greater censorship on Earth.  James McKnight becomes the second president of Atlantis.
2128	A small asteroid, 2128 BG14 or "Nyundo" impacts in the Sulu Sea, causing twenty thousand deaths, widespread damage from tsunamis and demonstrating the inadequacy of the current planetary defense grid.
2129	A resolution that would relieve Earthbound press restrictions fails to make it out of committee, prompting Minister of Infrastructure Alphonso Dubrin to begin a series of protest meetings across the world.  The Ministry of Security increases funding for the planetary defense grid by 20% and places it under the control of the Space Force.  The remnants of the Freedom and Green parties join the Progressive-Justice Alliance to reform the Liberal Party as a united opposition to Horizon.
2130	The Horizon Party wins nearly 70% of the electorate, despite a strong showing by Alphonso Dubrin's reunited Liberal Party.  Protests over voting irregularities are widespread, but a heavy police presence quickly defuses violence.  After tsunami-related delays, the seventy-fifth Antares 1000 power plant begins operation outside of Darwin, marking the completion of the Ministry of Energy's regional deployment  plan.
2131	After a failed attempt to challenge Commonwealth election results, Alphonso Dubrin refuses to be seated on the Executive Council and begins a protest outside the Capitol in Byzantium, shutting down the Executive and Legislative councils.  On the twentieth day of the protest, CSF troops storm the protestors and arrest Dubrin on charges of treason.
2132	Alphonso Dubrin allegedly commits suicide under CIS-controlled house arrest while awaiting his trial.  Massive protests and riots rock Earth and spread to the off-world colonies.  The Anarchist Revolution begins as a coordinated band of protestors seize control of key installations and cities across Earth.  Though the actual number of conspirators is small, their successes cause Lord Admiral Hu, fleet commander of the CSF, to assume massive collaboration.  Hu orders the planetary defense grid to attack the rebel stronghold arcologies in Houston, resulting in over three million deaths.  Once the Revolution collapses and the true facts become evident, the off-world colonies threaten secession and begin arming themselves.  After some delay, Commonwealth authorities arrest, try and execute Hu, defusing the crisis.  Over five hundred Anarchists face Artifact Status sentences.  The final death toll from the Revolution tops five million.
2133	An investigative panel finds three mid-level CIS police officials guilty of conspiracy in the death of Alphonso Dubrin and two officers guilty of committing the murder; they are sentence to Artifact Status.  The Liberal party fragments into its constituent parts as the leadership fails to reach consensus on a post-Dubrin succession or policy direction.  On Atlantis, Janet Hwang becomes the third president of the Republic.
2134	Facing public displeasure, the ruling Horizon Party passes resolutions to relax some censorship and increases the Allotment and basic services spending by 5% above inflation.  A resolution to allow direct representation of the off-world colonies as a "seventy-sixth" region fails in committee, but some colonial leaders found a lobbying organization called the "Spirit of the Seventy-sixth".
2135	In an election deemed free and fair by almost all, the Horizon Party wins a narrow 52% majority against a fragmented opposition, barely maintaining a Senate and Executive majority.  The Cityship Libertas reaches Tau Ceti.  The crew and colonists name the only habitable world Libertas, form the Council of Citizens and immediately vote for independence, creating into a libertarian government.  CSEA begins to refit the Cousteau with an improved ramscoop system.
2136	Bombardment of Mars by comets rich in water and ammonia begins.  Viggo Turki is born on Atlantis.  Libertine explorers confirm the existence of an Artifact marker on Gram, the largest moon of gas giant Siegfried in the Tau Ceti system .
2137	Hurricane Zeke devastates Cuba, killing thousands.  On Atlantis, half of President Hwang's cabinet resigns to protest mismanagement of the Modification Project and the President's feuds with the Cityship captains.
2138	Under the command of Captain Jose Cardenas, the Cousteau begins a deep exploration mission to the Oort Cloud.  Across two worlds and three habitats, CIS operatives arrest eighteen leaders of the Spirit of the Seventy-sixth on suspicion of sedition, but the Ministry of Justice declines prosecution and orders their release.
2139	Vesta Shipyards begins development of a proto-type high thrust multi-ring ion drive.  Thomas Atkinson reluctantly agrees to a second term as president of Atlantis and convinces the Cityship crews to remain at Atlantis for the time being.  Duchess Chuvash agrees to retire in an effort to improve the Horizon Party's standing in the upcoming election.  Duchess Normandy reluctantly agrees to lead the Horizon Party into the elections.
2140	The Horizon Party maintains an increased majority in the Legislative Assembly, winning 54% of the electorate.  Duchess Normandy becomes Minister of Finance and de-facto head of the government.
2141	CCA scientists successfully divert Hurricane Emma from the North American coast.  The Cousteau encounters a derelict alien vessel half a light-year from the sun; no systems remain functional but science teams date the hull at twenty million years old.
2142	CSEA launches the Xenon Sprinter experimental ion vessel from Vesta, accelerating at up to two tenths of a gravity for the bulk of its round trip to the Jovian Trojans.  An effort to overturn C.R. 2890 and its ban on interstellar travel fails in committee, prompting the resignation and immigration to Mars of Elector Carter Kagnon.
2143	The Cousteau returns from its five year mission, arriving at Charon to a hero's welcome; the Artifact is placed in an underground laboratory sphere.
2144	The CSF begins construction of the Caesar class patrol cruiser, incorporating new high thrust variable ion engines.
2145	The Horizon Party maintains control of a government nearly unchanged by election results, though Citizen voter turnout shows marked decline.  Thomas Atkinson retires to his Serenity Ranch at the end of his term as president; Alice Bourges becomes president of the Atlantian Republic.
2146	News of the Libertine revolt reaches the Solar System.  Captain Cardenas takes the Cousteau on a second cruise into the Oort Cloud.
2147	The Tangerine Plague brings the TerraNet web-sphere to a near collapse across Earth and Near orbital space.  Lunar technicians and AIs isolate their nodes and recover TerraNet.
2148	Members of the Spirit of the Seventy-sixth form the Colonial Party, hoping to gather support for greater representation.  TerraNet Nova, a more secured and restricve web -sphere, begins operations across Commonwealth space.  News of the Libertine revolt reaches Atlantis.
2149	Opposition groups, including the Colonial Party, join the Liberal Alliance in an attempt to win the Commonwealth Election.  The Valentina mining habitat reaches completion.  Captain Horatio Tate cojoles Atlantian government approval to hold a plebiscite on launching the Cityship Mariner onwards to Delta Pavonis.
2150	The Horizon Party ekes out a 51.5% majority in the Assembly Legislature, barely maintaining control of the government.  Duchess Normandy resigns and retires to her estates.   The Mariner Plebiscite overwhelmingly passes, and the Cityship Mariner begins preparations for a new voyage.
2151	The Cousteau returns to Charon and enters mothballs for a second time.  Members of the Time Travel Society emerge from hibernation and complain that little has changed in fifty years; installing newer equipment and recruiting more members, they divide into three groups, vowing to hibernate for 50, 100 and 150 years.  Captain Horatio Tate leads eight thousand Atlantians colonists aboard the Cityship Mariner on a fifty-six year journey to Delta Pavonis.  Ishtar Benz becomes president of the Atlantian Republic.
2152	General Electric begins selling relatively compact MSMH protium fusion reactors for use in medium-sized land, sea and air vehicles.  Zhang Ping is arrested for instigating the Tangerine Plague.  Tomas Johannessen is born on Atlantis.