September 2nd, 1945: Japan officially surrendered to the Allies. V-J Day is celebrated all across the world.
July 16th, 1969: The Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 with U.S.S.A. astronauts Captain Richard Wade, Captain Mark Garris, and Captain Michael Hagen lands on the Moon. The astronauts become the first humans to walk on a celestial body other than Earth.
January 12th, 2002: The West Tek Research Facility is founded.
October 23rd, 2032: The plans for building a spaceship that could reach Mars are started. The group known as the Enclave is formed.
March 3rd, 2042: Robert House founds RobCo Industries.
August 1st, 2044: The X277 "Viper" magnetic rail cannon developed for the U.S. Military by West Tek is deemed too costly to produce on a mass scale and abandoned. The Enclave later confiscated the weapon from the Museum of Technology and starts to study it.
September 30th, 2050: The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed again. It is refurbished with the latest in technology and is from now on used as a secret research installation for developing and testing robotic, biological and conventional weapons until 2076.
April 21st, 2051: Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border at Mexico's expense.
October 21st, 2052: The last known manned mission to the Moon is launched. Unbeknownst to the general public or NASA, the Enclave sets up their Moon base.
May 1st-July 31st, 2052: A series of heated debates take part in the United Nations headquarters. With the European Commonwealth at war in the Middle East and the United States increasing its presence in the Pacific, the UN collapses when the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union walk out and resign from the UN Security Council. The rest of the Security withdraws from the UN as well, disbanding it.
January 2053: Limited nuclear exchange in the Middle East raises fears throughout the world.[17]
January 23rd, 2053: In light of the European-Middle Eastern War and the plague scare, the United States officially sets Project Safehouse in motion. The project, financed by junk bonds, is designed to create shelters, called Vaults, for the populace in the event of a nuclear war or deadly plague. Construction begins late in 2054 and proceeds rapidly due to advances in construction technology.
May 2059: The Anchorage Front Line is established, as the United States increases its military presence in Alaska to protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions between the United States and Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard the Alaskan pipeline.
July 2059: The first artificial intelligence is created, but it is limited by memory constraints. This leads to a breakthrough in AI technology and research. The Enclave takes a notice in it and steals the first AI, sending it to their Moon base.
2060: Traffic on the streets of the world stops moving. Fuel becomes too precious to waste on automobiles, so alternatives are explored - electric and fusion cars begin to be manufactured, but factories can only make limited amounts while conserving fuel. The U.S. economy teeters on bankruptcy. Pressure on fusion research European-Middle Eastern War ends as the oil fields in the Middle East run dry. There is no longer a goal in the conflict, and both sides are reduced almost to European Commonwealth dissolves into quarreling nation states, fighting over the remaining resources.
August 2065: Increasing need for mobility in the United States mechanized cavalry leads the military to focus the efforts on creating a man-based tank - essentially, a two-legged walking armored unit: power armor. Research grows until 2067 and several prototypes are developed, many of which prove to be unworkable in the field. These prototypes pave the way for future advances in military, construction, and fusion technology.
June 2066: Adding further insult to the Sino-American relations, the first crude fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the power armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general U.S. infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly eleven years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power.
December 2nd, 2066: The Sino-American War kicks off when Chinese troops make a surprise landing in Anchorage, beating back the U.S forces towards Juneau. For nearly ten years, it would be stalemated between the two superpowers.
February 22nd, 2067: The first suit of T-45d power armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future versions, this power armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry heavy ordnance becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns without endangering the wearer. China rushes to create its own versions, but they are many years behind the United States.
2070: The first of the Chryslus Motors fusion-driven cars are developed. Reassuringly big and American, the limited models carry a hefty price tag but are sold out within days. Many Chryslus plants have long since been converted into making military ordnance.
September 15th, 2073: As China becomes increasingly aggressive with their use of biological weapons, the United States government felt that a countermeasure was needed. The Pan-Immunity Virion Project is officially formed and plans are made to begin experiments at the West Tek Research Facility in Southern California.
February 2nd, 2075:The Sierra Army Depot A.I., Skynet, becomes self-aware.
March 3rd, 2075: RobCo Industries copyrights the Unified Operating System. This system is used for operating the Robco terminals. The copyright is renewed for each of the next two years.
March 21, 2075: PVP experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests of the virus on single-celled organisms. Experiments on plant cells are postponed. The pan-immunity virion is renamed Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV).
May 9, 2075: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests on flatworms; the flatworms exhibit increase size and heightened resistance to viral contagions. Experiments with insects have less success, and further experimentation on insects is postponed by Major Barnett.
May, 2075: Vault 112 seals two years early, for Stanislaus Braun's sadistic desires.
June 30, 2075: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, with white mice as subjects. Increased size, muscle density, and Intelligence are noted.
November 9, 2075: FEV experimentation (batch 10-011) on rabbits is concluded. Increased size, Intelligence, and (this time) aggressiveness is noted. Apparently, it was hard to determine whether the flatworms in the previous experiments were angrier and more violent than normal. Frankly, the researchers cannot be blamed for this.
October 1st, 2076: The Enclave finish the construction of their spacecraft. However, their plans shift after the death of Enclave scientist Dr. Richard Stokes, to instead reconquer the wastelands after the nuclear war. In response, the Enclave shifts much of its military power to the Poseidon Oil Rig. The Pacific Fleet is also recalled to Honolulu, before being transferred to San Francisco. Along the way, they engage a Chinese Relief fleet on its way to Anchorage, destroying it and and any chance of Chinese victory in Alaska.
January 31st, 2077: Alaska is reclaimed.
March 23rd, 2077: The President of the United States and all Enclave citizens and benefactors are moved to Vault 0 before heading to Poseidon Oil Rig in August of 2077.
October 23rd, 2077: The Great War breaks out. The Enclave, having been moved to the Poseidon Oil Rig, watch as nuclear warfare destroys much of the world in less than two hours. The Pacific Fleet is crippled by the EMP. Only a few ships survive, two nuclear submarines, a missile frigate, and two patrol boats.
October 31st, 2084: The Enclave lose contact with their Moon base, which unknown to the rest of the world, has been terraformed by the Enclave personnel stationed on there. This is used using several Garden of Eden Creation Kits.
August 24th, 2087: The Enclave Armed Forces start to explore the wasteland, showing lessening effects of the fallout and noting the mutations in the wildlife and regular humans. The Enclave quickly captures fourteen different humans and takes them back to the Oil Rig.
September 3rd, 2088: The fourteen humans that were abducted are declared clean of mutations after a year of highly experimental anti-radiation and mutagenic drugs. The Enclave then switches its mission directives again. Instead of wiping out the wasteland like it originally was supposed to do, it intends to wipe out all mutants.
August 2091: The Enclave send the all-clear signal to Vault 8, which uses its G.E.C.K to restore a significant part of the wasteland. Vault City is then established.
2161: The journey of the Vault Dweller starts. He destroys the Mutant known as the Master and becomes a member of the Brotherhood of Steel. After this, he finds the settlement of Arroyo. The Enclave keeps a close monitor on him via eyebot and satellite.
2231: There is a civil war between factions in the Enclave. The Old Guard of the Enclave wants to take over the entire wasteland and purify it, deeming everything there mutants. The Patriot Guard wants to unify the wasteland under its banner. The Patriot Guard is defeated and flees to Alaska where it reestablishes control over Anchorage with the nuclear submarine USS San Diego as its main base of operations.
2242: The Enclave, after nearly two hundred years of waiting, become known to the wasteland. Using Vertibirds and upgraded power armor, they manage to establish Navarro and several other outposts in California. They later abduct the population of Vault 13 and Arroyo, leading to their destruction at the hands of the Chosen One. The remnants of the Enclave flee East towards Raven Rock, where their next president is located. New Arroyo becomes a flourishing city after the Chosen One finds a G.E.C.K.
2258: The Lone Wanderer is born in the Capital Wasteland. His mother dies from complications in the birth and his father gets access to Vault 101.
2277: James disappears from Vault 101 and his son heads to the surface to search for him. Megaton's atomic bomb is disarmed by the Lone Wanderer. A slave uprising in the Pitt is put down by the Lone Wanderer. He later finds his father in Vault 112, shutting it down. His father is killed by Colonel Autumn and the Lone Wanderer is soon captured by Enclave forces. However, he later destroys Raven Rock and the ZAX Computer that is The Lone Wanderer activates Project Purity, declining the Enclave's request to sabotage the purifier, and the Capital Wasteland was changed forever. After the activation of the purifier and the death of the Colonel Autumn, the Patriot Guard of the Enclave arrives in the Capital Wasteland, after taking control of the Enclave outposts in the rest of the continental United States. Major Samantha Adams, one of the youngest officers in Enclave history at the age of twenty-two, brokers a ceasefire between the Enclave and the Brotherhood of Steel.
2278: The Lone Wanderer is abducted by aliens. He later manages to take over the ship, only for the aliens to reboard it and take control. However, the aliens on board, recognizing the threat that the Lone Wanderer is, agree to head back to their homeworld and never bother Earth again. The Enclave and the Brotherhood of Steel merge into what is known as the Capitol Republic.
2279: The Capitol Republic begins to expand, composing of all settlements in the Capital Wasteland.
2280: The Capitol Republic starts to expand north, eventually annexing the Pitt.
2281: The events of the Courier. Shot in the head twice, the Courier begins by killing Benny, before siding with Mr. House. The Battle of Hoover Dam leaves the NCR crippled, Caesar's Legion destroyed, and the Dominion of New Vegas under the control of Mr. House. His trusted lieutenant destroys the Mojave Brotherhood of Steel.
2287: Mr. House and his space program begin. The Courier starts on a long journey west to wipe out the Midwest Brotherhood of Steel. The Prydwen under the command of Arthur Maxson arrives in the Boston Commonwealth while the Capitol Republic launches several attacks on raider confederations. The Sole Survivor, the commander of the Commonwealth Minutemen, destroys the Institute and agrees to an alliance with the Capitol Republic.
2293: The Lone Wanderer and Colonel Samantha Adams have their first child. The name of the Lone Wanderer is then revealed to be Alan Shepard. The C.R continues to expand, taking New York after a grueling five year campaign against raiders. The Minutemen distinguish themselves in this war.
2295: The Capitol Republic and the Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel meet. The Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel, after most of their leaders and mutants being killed by the Courier, is absorbed into the C.R. The Lone Wanderer and the Courier meet. They fight for hours, but are unable to get an upperhand on each other. The two retreat, promising to settle it one day.
2296: A brief war between the Dominion of New Vegas and the Capitol Republic starts. The Lone Wanderer ends it by bringing the Hermes-Bradley Orbital Weapon System over New Vegas and threatening to unleash the nuclear payload unless House negotiates. The Courier, only having ARCHIMEDES II in his pocket, is unable to respond with equal force. Mr. House and the Lone Wanderer later sign a peace treaty. The Dominion of New Vegas would be absorbed into the Capitol Republic, but with a large degree of autonomy. Not wanting to risk a war without the death of thousands, the C.R agrees. Mr. House later sends the Ghouls of Repconn into space, leading to the first successful space mission in nearly two hundred and fifty years.
2310: The C.R and the N.C.R merge after the New California Republic is invaded by the Fifth Mexican Empire. The C.R now composes of all regions of the former Continental United States. They later invade Mexico. The C.R is now renamed the New United States of America.
2315: Mexico is conquered. Mr. House, after nearly nineteen years of finding or manufacturing spare parts and other space equipment, sends a manned expedition to the moon. That is where the Enclave that survived for nearly three hundred years are found. The Moon has a thriving population of over one hundred and twenty-two thousand occupants. The Ghouls of Repconn are shot on sight. Mr. House comes into contact with the Enclave remnants on the Moon.
2316: The N.U.S.A and the Enclave on the moon reach an agreement. The Enclave are absorbed in exchange for autonomy like Vegas. The N.U.S.A agrees on the basis that they let them use the Moon as a base for future manned space flights into the solar system.
2346: The N.U. population reaches over sixty million, most of them in the Core Region. The New United States later make contact with the Japanese Empire, sparking a war between these two factions.
2348: Following a devastating attack on Shady Sands by the Japanese Empire, the Lone Wanderer, as his last act of head of the N.U.S.A, launches the last missiles of the Hermes-Bradley, destroying Tokyo and forcing the Japanese Empire to surrender. With it, the vast empire falls into American hands. The eastern coast of China, most of the Pacific, and the Aleutians are now in the hands of the Americans.
2421: The N.U.S.A is then reorganized into the United Earth Government. With the fall of Russia and Europe to N.U.S.A forces, the Earth is finally reunited. The UEG's colony on the Moon flourishes along with the colony on Mars, all terraformed by G.E. .
2448: The mass effect technology are found in the Prothean Ruins on Mars after farmers blast an area for some unknown reason. This leads to a dramatic outbreak of ship technology and ship weaponry. The Charon Relay is uniced. The first colonies in what is known as the Frontier are established.
2500: The population of humanity reaches over five billion, as a rapid expansion of colonies are continuing.
2550: At the census, the population of humanity is revealed to be over seven billion, with six billion in the Sol System and the rest spread over twenty-six other colonies.
2557: Two science research vessels find a new Mass Relay near the colony of New Washington, a UEG colony.
CODEX UPDATE!
The Unified Earth Government: The UEG is the governing body of Earth and her colonies. Only two regions are known to offset this; the Dominion of New Vegas and her two colonies, and the Enclave on the Moon. They are a bicameral federal republic, with a President as head. Every colony sends a representative to the Moon, where New Luna, the capital of the UEG, is located. The armed wing of the UEG is the United Earth Military.
The Dominion of New Vegas: With the mysterious Mr. House as Executor, the D.N.V has two colonies and the Mojave. The D.N.V has its own security forces, such as the New Vegas Army and the Securitrons, that can be taken control by the United Earth Government in times of war. They even have their own navy in space, known as the Colonial Vegas Navy. The CVN however is small and with only a few warships; they mostly rely on the UEM.
The Enclave of Luna: Following the destruction of the world, the Enclave of Luna terraformed the Moon. With that in mind, they exercise a great deal of autonomy within the UEG, though they are subject to the same rules in times of war. New Luna, the capital of the UEG, is located in their territory. They are known to be the research base for the UEG.