DEFINING POINTS IN WORLD HISTORY
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1999                Hundreds killed in New York City food riots.
2001                Shiawase Decision establishes
                         extraterritoriality to multinational
                         corporations.
2002-2008           The Resource Rush.
2003                Anglo-Japanese suborbital Ghost unveiled,
                         breaking international travel speed
                         records.
2004                Libya attacks Israel with chemical weapons.
                         Israel retaliates with nuclear weapons.
                         Nuclear meltdown in Kent, Great Britain.
2005                United Nations moves to Geneva following
                         major earthquake in New York City.
2009, May 16        SAIM occupation of the United States Shiloh
                         Launch Facility ends with the launch of
                         Lone Eagle nuclear missile toward
                         Russia.
2010                VITAS plague breaks out in New Delhi and
                         spreads worldwide, killing 25% of the
                         worlds population. United States
                         government passes the Re-Education and
                         Re-Location Act.
2011                Mexican government collapses, beginning five-
                         year period of wide-spread governmental
                         disintegration and the Year of Chaos.
                         Emergence of Unexplained Genetic
                         Expression (UGE). Nuclear meltdowns in
                         Scotland and Britain.
2011, December 11   Great Dragon Ryumyo appears in Japan,
                         signaling the start of the Mayan Sixth
                         World. Ley Lines activate in Great
                         Britain. Daniel Coleman Howling Coyote
                         leads Native Americans out of Abilene Re-
                         Education Center.
2014                Creation of the United Free Republic of
                         Ireland. Howling Coyote announces claim
                         to North America, claims responsibility
                         for Redondo Peak eruption. U.S. Military
                         beset by tornadoes.
2015                Hong Kong secedes from China.
2016                General Secretary Nikolai Chelenko (Russia),
                         President Jesse Garrety (United States),
                         Prime Minister Lena Rodale (Great
                         Britain), and Minister Chiam Schon
                         (Israel) assassinated. U.S. ratifies the
                         Resolution Act of 2016, sanctioning
                         total extermination of Native American
                         tribes.
2017, August 17     Great Ghost Dance causes simultaneous
                         eruptions in the Western U.S..
2018                Treaty of Denver signed. Formation of Native
                         American Nations. Dr. Hosato Hikita of
                         ESP Systems unveils ASIST technology.
                         U.S. Spaceplane America disintegrates in
                         orbit, falling on Australia.
2021, April 30      Goblinization begins.
2022                VITAS again spreads worldwide. Racial riots
                         worldwide. Formation of independent
                         Quebec, the Caribbean League and other
                         nations.
2023, November      Republic of Moscow throws surprise attack on
                         Hamburg. Great Britain enters the
                         EuroWars.
2024                Introduction of commercial simsense.
2025                University of California in Los Angeles
                         offers first undergraduate program in
                         occult sciences.
2027                First operation fusion reactor goes on line.
2029, February 8    Computer virus crashes worldwide computer
                         network.
2030                EuroWars begin. Formation of the United
                         Canadian and American States.
2031                Eastern block countries invade resource-rich
                         Europe.
2033                Awakened forces invade Brazil, creating
                         Amazonia. Aztlan secedes from NAN.
2033, January 23    38 Nightwraith fighter-bombers attack both
                         sides of the EuroWars, effectively
                         ending it.
2034                Ten UCAS states secede to form the
                         Confederate American States.
2034, May           Matrix Systems releases first commercial
                         cyberterminal.
2035, July          Texas rejoins CAS.
2035, March         Texas secedes from CAS and attacks Aztlan.
2036                Alamos 20,000 claims first terrorist act,
                         firebombing of Ohio community.
2037                Formation of Tir Tairngire, sparking Tsishian
                         secession and Californian declaration of
                         independence.
2038                British government discovered to be involved
                         in gene-manipulation on citizens.
2039                Chemical spill in Teeside Industrial District
                         in England kills 70,000.
2039, February 7    Night of Rage.
2041                EuroAir flight 329 downed by terrorist dragon
                         Sirrurg.
2041                Policlubs emerge in Europe.
2044                Aztlan annexes most of Mexico.
2047                120,000 die in Tynesprawl, England from para-
                         VITAS.
2048                Aztlan and several megacorps sign Veracruz
                         Settlement