History JustForFun / GrandUnifiedTimelineTheLate90s

** The existence of dimensional travel is revealed to the world; creation of Infinity Unlimited and the Infinity Patrol. (''{{GURPS}} Infinite Worlds'')

* September: A Girl Scout troop, Troop 42, begins meeting at the same church as Boy Scout Troop 192. Also, Troop 192 has an election for a new Senior Patrol Leader. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')
* September: The goddess Fenira abdicates her duties and, along with her sisters, goes into hiding to avoid punishment. Her mortal friends Jason Bertovich and John Hoelscher each face some troubles of their own which end well for Jason but not so well for John.(''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

* Christmas: After attending Troop 192's Christmas Party, John Hoelscher is able to heal himself. He also meets a woman, Lina, who is revealed to be another goddess looking for the missing Fenira. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

* January 11: Juvenile super genius Kenneth Pendrell introduces some of his friends from his Boy Scout troop to his secret underground la''bor''atory. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

** Boy Scout Troop 192 gets a new member, a Jusenkyo cursed Amazon warrior looking to kill the other similarly cursed Troop members. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

** Boy Scouts from Troops 180 and 192 defend the camporee they are attending from an attempted takeover by Canadian terrorists tired of their country not being taken seriously. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

* June 6: "Matty Hayes" spends the night at the Porter residence. The next morning, the Porters find Proctor on their doorstep, Proctor's services being dismissed by his Master, Justy Yung. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')
* June 12: Boy Scout Troop 192 is supposed to go on a camping trip, but most of the adult leadership accidentally leaves without taking the youth with them. Justy, his mania and thirst for power unchecked without Proctor to focus it on, locks everyone in the church to attempt to assert dominance over them. Over the next few days, Matthew Atanian, the Garden Snake Patrol, and the Porter sisters work to reunite Justy and Proctor. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')
* June 13: Although technically a day early, Sarah Porter gives Matthew Atanian a birthday present in return for the Christmas present he had given her and as thanks for when he had saved her life from the Canadian terrorists. It is the first time she has ever been intentionally nice to him. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

* July: After successfully living through a surprisingly eventful week of summer camp, the Jusenkyo cursed members of Troop 192 come under attack by a secret organization dedicated to keeping the facts about Jusenkyo secret. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

* March- Dave Nelson is hired as news director of all-news New York radio station WNYX. (''Series/NewsRadio'')
* March - In an alternate timeline, Methos falls in love with Jillian O'Hara, a fellow Watcher, and reveals to her his Immortality. Her subsequent death at the hands of James Horton causes Methos to go [[DespairEventHorizon over the edge]]. He rejoins with Kronos shortly after. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* March 25 - The Belkan War breaks out. (''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'')
* May 1 - Dave, Jack, Evan, Fiona, Tess, Rachel, Tom, Harry, and several others are born. [[labelnote:spoilers]]This is because Discord cursed Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Big Macintosh, Fluttershy, Twilight Sparkle, Shining Armor, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie respectively (among several others) to live as humans on Earth for 25 years.[[/labelnote]] (''Fanfic/FiveScoreDividedByFour'')
* May 21 - Maggie Simpson non-lethally shoots Mr. Burns, after he tries to take candy from the baby. (''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'')
* June 8 - A T-1000 Terminator arrives from the future to kill John Connor. Another T-800 Terminator is sent back to protect him. The Terminator and John are soon joined by the boy's mother, Sarah Connor. (''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'')
* June 9 - John Connor, Sarah Connor and the Terminator escape Los Angeles, and Sarah becomes obsessed with finding out who created Skynet. They eventually break into Cyberdyne in an attempt to stop Judgement Day from ever happening.[[labelnote:more]]Miles Dyson destroys the Cyberdyne building, taking any research with it, while the others flee from the T-1000. At a steel mill, the T-1000 is finally destroyed, along with the remains of the Terminator from 1984. To make sure there is no chance of Judgement Day happening, the Terminator that had protected John destroys itself.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'')
* June 20 - The peace treaty officially ending the Belkan War is signed. (''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'')
* June 24 - Lord Voldemort returns to power after a fourteen year absence and presumed death. The Triwizard Tournament comes to an end. (Literature/HarryPotter)
* July 14 - Lt. Harmon Rabb, Jr. and Lt.JG Caitlin Pike are sent to the Adriatic Sea to investigate the disapperance of a female aviator from the aircraft carrier USS Seahawk at the time of UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars. (''Series/{{JAG}}'')
* August - The ozone layer is fading and estimates state that it will be gone before the end of the year. In Africa, millions perish from the effects of unfiltered sunlight. Among the casualties is Brenda Wyatt. Her [[LastRequest final wish]] is for her husband, Connor [=MacLeod=], to resolve the problem before more people die. (''Film/HighlanderIITheQuickening'')
* September 1 - Harry Potter begins his fifth year at Hogwarts. (Literature/HarryPotter)
* October 12 - The Global Defense Initiative is founded in accordance with the United Nations Global Defense Act, primarily consisting of personnel from Black Ops 9. (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'')
* October- November - Methos romances waitress Alexa Bond, not caring that she has inoperative terminal cancer. The two leave on a world tour. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* November 21 - Birth of Mary Lindsey to single mother Dr. Anne Lindsey. Duncan [=MacLeod=] helps Anne through labor and gives her a house as a present. It is the last meeting between the two former lovers. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* November 28 - First appearance of Thailog, a clone of Goliath. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* December 1 - A meteor impacts Maple Valley, Washington, utterly destroying a local factory owned by the Betty Crocker company but leaving the human infant riding it miraculously unharmed. The girl is soon adopted by the multimillionaire owner of the aforementioned corporation, Hass "The Flame" Harley and named Jade Harley. On the same day, an ectobiological sample is taken of Nanna Egbert, one of the witnesses of the catastrophe. (''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'')
* December 3 - Jade Harley and her adoptive Grandpa, Hass "The Flame" Harley, move to the uninhabited island where the Frog Temple and Becquerel, First Guardian of Earth, are located. An ectobiological sample of Hass is collected. (''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'')
* December 4 - A meteor impacts Houston, Texas, destroying a small record shop. The meteor was carrying a pony and a human infant; the pony dies on impact but the child is miraculously unharmed. The infant, a boy, is adopted by one of the former patrons of the shop and named Dave Strider. On the same day, another infant-bearing meteor ends all aquatic life in a lake in New York, but leaves its cargo unharmed. The infant, this time a girl, is adopted by a local scientist and named Rose Lalonde. An ectobiological sample of Bro Strider, Dave's adoptive guardian, is also collected at this time. (''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'')
* December 25 - Dexter Douglas becomes Freakazoid ({{Freakazoid}})
* Late December - A World With No Boundaries carries out its terrorist activities. (''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'')

* January 9 - A group of aliens arrive on Earth and assume human form, becoming the Solomon family at exactly 8:30 PM ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "7:30 Central"]]).[[note]]Occurs in "Brains and Eggs". Date and time specified in "Jolly Old St. Dick".[[/note]] (''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'')
* January 28 - The Cowboys play Super Bowl XXX against the Steelers. The Steelers are down by three points twice during the game. (RealLife)

* April 13 - A second meteor impacts Maple Valley, Washington. It impacts a local joke shop, destroying the shop, the shopping mall in which the aforementioned shop is situated, and killing Nanna Egbert. The infant boy and the rather hefty unabridged joke book riding the meteor are completely unharmed. The boy is adopted by Nanna Egbert's son and named John Egbert. An ectobiological sample of Mom Lalonde is also taken on this day. (''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'')
* April 28 - Death of Alexa Bond. Methos survives and mourns her. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* April - Raccoon City Police Department's elite anti-terrorist force, STARS, is founded by Albert Wesker, secretly to obtain combat data on Umbrella's [=BOWs=]. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* Spring - Death of India Cohen. Buffy Summers becomes the Slayer and has her first victory over the vampire lord Lothos. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* June 6 - The Catastrophe occurs: an explosion at a laboratory in Moscow, Russia releases a man-made virus called Lucifer Alpha into the winds, effectively killing half of the world's population.[[note]]This occurs on June 6, 1991 in the Japanese version.[[/note]] (''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'')
* June/July - Adam Pierson, a historical investigator for the Watchers, is disillusioned with the organization. He goes AWOL, leaving behind his research on the elusive immortal Methos.(''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* July 2 - Dozens of cities worldwide are destroyed when giant spacecraft appear. They are defeated two days later by a Mac laptop. (''Film/IndependenceDay'')
* July 9 - Birth of Alexander Fox Xanatos to David Xanatos and his wife Fox/Janine Renard. Goliath and the Manhattan Clan stop Oberon from stealing Alexander. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* July 17 - Dr. Amy Zoll replaces Adam Pierson as the head researcher on Methos. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* July 20 - Men land on Mars, discover the corpse of a martian. (''KnownSpace'')

* October 12 - First appearance of a number of newly-cloned gargoyles: Hollywood, Brentwood, Malibu and Burbank. They are respectively clones of Broadway, Lexington, Brooklyn and Hudson. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* October 13 - First appearance of Delilah. She is the result of combining the DNA of Demona and Elisa Maza. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* October 26 - Jon Canmore reveals the existence of gargoyles to the world. The Manhattan Clan takes refuge with David Xanatos. Jon Canmore forms the Quarrymen. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* November 1 -

* November -

* December 20 -

* January 20 - Kang is inaugurated as president of the United States, after Clinton and Dole are accidentally thrown into space by Homer. (''TheSimpsons: Treehouse of Horror'')

* February - Apophis gates to Earth seeking hosts for his queen and kidnaps Senior Airman Carol Weterings. Col. Jack O'Neill is called out of retirement and sent in pursuit to Abydos, where Daniel Jackson has discovered several thousand gate addresses on a cartouche. Apophis hits Abydos and kidnaps Jackson's wife Sha're, and O'Neill and Jackson return to Earth, where the President of the United States has ordered the creation of Stargate Command and the first nine SG teams. SG-1, comprising O'Neill, Jackson, and Capt. Samantha Carter, and SG-2 pursue Apophis to his capital world Chulak and free several dozen captives and secure the defection of Apophis' First Prime, Teal'c. Teal'c is allowed to join SG-1 after proving his loyalty. (''Series/StargateSG1'')

* June 8 - A T-1000 arrives from the future to kill John Connor. It is destroyed by John and Sarah Connor, with the assistance of a reprogrammed T-800. Myles Dyson, the scientist destined to develop [=SkyNet=], is killed. John and Sarah go into hiding from the government. (''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'')

* June - Albus Dumbledore is killed [[labelnote:more]] by Severus Snape, the Half-Blood Prince.[[/labelnote]] Harry, Ron and Hermione's search for the Horcruxes begins. (''Literature/HarryPotter'')

* Between January and May - Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* May - Buffy Summers is drowned by the Master. Kendra Young becomes the Slayer. Buffy is revived minutes after her death by CPR administered by Xander Harris, resulting in the unprecendented circumstance of two Slayers active simultaneously. Buffy then kills the Master. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')

* July 27 - Harry Potter goes into hiding, as the Death Eaters search for him. (''Literature/HarryPotter'')

* Summer, before August - A group of Boy Scouts visit the Training Ground of Cursed Springs, [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Jusenkyo]]. This leads to many troubles after they return home and have to attend summer camp. (''FanFic/BoyScoutsOneHalf'')
* August 1 - The Death Eaters take control of the Ministry of Magic. (''Literature/HarryPotter'')
* August 4 - [=SkyNet=] goes online. (''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'')

* August 29 - [[AIIsACrapshoot Skynet]] becomes self-aware, and launches a nuclear attack on the Earth, killing billions. (''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'')
* August - Philip J. Fry, a pizza delivery boy, answers a prank call. He attemps to deliver a pizza at Seymour Asses, a false adress. He decides to eat the pizza himself, sharing it with a stray dog. Fry keeps the dog as a pet, naming it Seymour Asses. It would remain extremely devoted until its death in 2012. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')

* September - A Girl Scout troop, Troop 42, begins meeting at the same church as Boy Scout Troop 192. Also, Troop 192 has an election for a new Senior Patrol Leader. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')
* September - The goddess Fenira abdicates her duties and, along with her sisters, goes into hiding to avoid punishment. Her mortal friends Jason Bertovich and John Hoelscher each face some troubles of their own which end well for Jason but not so well for John.(''BoyScoutsOneHalf')
* October 1 - The End Day. (''VideoGame/{{Crystalis}}'')
* October 16 - ''Jupiter 2'' launched; the ship is lost in space. (''Series/LostInSpace'')
* Autumn - The Morgendorffers move to Lawndale. [[labelnote:more]] Daria Morgendorffer begins a friendship with Jane Lane.[[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'')

* November 5 - Evey Hammond is saved by V. (''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' [comic])

* December - Gary King suffers from a drug overdose. His best friend, Andy Knightley frantically drives him to a hospital and is in an accident and nearly severing his femoral artery. He spends twelve hours in surgery to save his life, and is then arrested for reckless driving. Gary, meanwhile, recovered from his overdose and fled the scene. This was a point of contention for the two men well into adulthood, and Andy swore off drinking. (''Film/TheWorldsEnd'')
* December 14 - Adrian Monk's wife Trudy is killed by a car bomb. (''Series/{{Monk}}'')
* Christmas - After attending Troop 192's Christmas Party, John Hoelscher is able to heal himself. He also meets a woman, Lina, who is revealed to be another goddess looking for the missing Fenira. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

* January 11 - Juvenile super genius Kenneth Pendrell introduces some of his friends from his Boy Scout troop to his secret underground la''bor''atory. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

* February -

* April -

* May 2 - Voldemort defeated and killed at the Battle of Hogwarts. (''Literature/HarryPotter'')

* May 11 - James Marcus resurrected by his leeches and causes a T-virus outbreak at the Spencer Mansion. Zombies are responsible for a number of what are initially thought to be bizarre murders across Raccoon City. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* May - Death of Kendra Young. Faith Lehane becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* June 6 - "Matty Hayes" spends the night at the Porter residence. The next morning, the Porters find Proctor on their doorstep, Proctor's services being dismissed by his Master, Justy Yung. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')
* June 12 - Boy Scout Troop 192 is supposed to go on a camping trip, but most of the adult leadership accidentally leaves without taking the youth with them. Justy, his mania and thirst for power unchecked without Proctor to focus it on, locks everyone in the church to attempt to assert dominance over them. Over the next few days, Matthew Atanian, the Garden Snake Patrol, and the Porter sisters work to reunite Justy and Proctor. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')
* June 13 - Although technically a day early, Sarah Porter gives Matthew Atanian a birthday present in return for the Christmas present he had given her and as thanks for when he had saved her life from the Canadian terrorists. It is the first time she has ever been intentionally nice to him. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')
* June 14 - Frozen Cossack zombie is thawed out during a photo shoot, leading to a zombie outbreak in Zabrovst. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* July 1 -

* July 23 - A van containing Billy Coen, en route to a trial for war crimes, is attacked by T-virus-infected dogs; Coen escapes, and STARS Bravo Team is sent to apprehend him. Ecliptic Express attacked by T-virus-infected leeches, causing a massive zombie outbreak. Coen joins forces with STARS Bravo Team medic Rebecca Chambers for mutual protection. The two explore the Umbrella Corporation Management Training Facility. Meanwhile, the rest of STARS Bravo team retreat to the Spencer Mansion. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* July 24 - Coen and Chambers find and kill James Marcus. Chambers follows the rest of STARS Bravo team to the Spencer Mansion and claims Coen was killed by zombies. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'') All other members of Bravo team are killed. STARS Alpha team is deployed to rescue any survivors. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'')
* July 25 - Albert Wesker is apparently killed by a Tyrant, but actually survives. Spencer Mansion is detonated; the only survivors of the incident are Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, Barry Burton, Rebecca Chambers, and Brad Vickers. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'')
* July - After successfully living through a surprisingly eventful week of summer camp, the Jusenkyo cursed members of Troop 192 come under attack by a secret organization dedicated to keeping the facts about Jusenkyo secret. (''BoyScoutsOneHalf')

* August 22 - NYPD officer Max Payne arrives at his home and finds out that his wife and daughter has been killed by a trio of junkies. It is discovered that the men were hooked on previously unknown designer drug Valkyrie. (''VideoGame/MaxPayne'')
* August -

* September 27 - Umbrella deploys a Nemesis and several Tyrants to Raccoon City to eliminate any remaining STARS members. Nemesis kills Brad Vickers. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'')
* September 28 - Umbrella deploys a mercenary force to Raccoon City, officially to rescue survivors, but actually to obtain combat data. Jill Valentine, attempting to escape the city, joins forces with them. Only tow of these mercenaries, Carlos Oliveira and Nicholai Ginovaef, manage to survive. Jill in infected with the G-virus by Nemesis and falls into a coma. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'')
* September 29 -

* October 1 -

* October 4 - Eva Ushiromiya, the one known survivor of the Rokkenjima Mass Murders, dies of heart failure on the 12th aniversary of the incident that took away almost all of her family. Her niece, Ange, the one surviving heir to the Ushiromiya fortune, jumps off the roof of the hospital that night in an attempted suicide. (''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'')

* October 31 -

* November 2 - Josiah "Jed" Bartlett elected President of the United States. (''TheWestWing'')

* November 29 - Ryo Hazuki witnesses his father's death at the hands of Lan Di, who is looking for the Dragon Mirror. Ryo vows revenge. (''VideoGame/{{Shenmue}}'')
* Early December - Rudi is born to Juniper Mackenzie, chief of the Clan Mackenzie. The fact that he is nearly a month premature briefly obscures the fact that his biological father is Mike Havel, leader of the Bearkillers and (by this time) fiance of Signe Larssen. Given the name "Artos" at his Wiccanning, Rudi will eventually become High King of a united Willamette Valley. (Literature/{{Emberverse}})
* December 27 - Claire Redfield infiltrates Umbrella Headquarters in Paris, but is captured and taken to Rockfort island for detention. Shortly thereafter, Albert Wesker released the T-virus to create a distraction, allowing him to obtain data on the Veronica virus. Claire escapes with the aid of Steve Burnside, but they wind up being diverted to the Umbrella Antarctic Facility, which has also suffered a viral outbreak. They are later pursued by Chris Redfield and Albert Wesker. Alexia Ashford awakes from cryogenic suspension and kills Alfred, but is herself later killed by Chris. Chris and Claire escape Antarctica and set off to bring down Umbrella, leaving Wesker behind. However, Wesker also manages to escape. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')

* January 1 -

* January 6 - Eustace Fargo born. (''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'')
* January 9 - Johanna Beckett, a New York attorney, is murdered by an assailant who goes unidentified. Her daughter Kate will be inspired by her grief and anger at the inconclusive investigation to join the NYPD. (''Series/{{Castle}}''[[note]] It's been 'twelve years' in the episode "Knockdown", broadcast in early 2011. The precise date appears on a tombstone in the episode "Always".[[/note]])
* Mid-January to Early-February - Ramona Flowers dates Matthew Patel to piss off all the local jocks who want to date her.[[labelnote:justification]]It was football season in the 7th grade.[[/labelnote]] (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')

* February - Sarah Connor meets Charley Dixon for the first time. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')

* April 16 - May 17 - A Hyksos sword arrives in New York City to be demonstrated in a museum. It is followed by Prince Khyan, an immortal Hyksos, tries to reclaim a sword that once belonged to his dead half-brother, Pharaoh Apophis. Methos, an old enemy of Khyam, feels obligated to stop him by taking Khyan's Quickening. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', novel: ''The Captive Soul'')

* March-May - Fry unintentionally cuts short the broadast of the series finale of ''[[Series/AllyMcBeal Single Female Lawyer]]'' on New York City Creator/{{Fox}} flagship station WNYW. This has far reaching consequences for the Omnicronians. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* Spring - After a heated make-out session in Tom Sloane's car, he and Daria Morgendorffer begin a relationship, despite Sloane having not broken up with Jane Lane yet. After the incident, Morgendorffer and Lane were not on speaking terms until the end of the following summer. (''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'')

* June 19th - Creator/StephenKing is injured in a car accident. He would have died but for the sacrifice of a member of Roland's ''ka-tet''. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
* June 29 - A reprogrammed Terminator arrives from 2027, sent to protect John Connor, and adopts the name Cameron Philips to infiltrate human society. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* June - Buffy graduates from and blows up her high school. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* July 17 - An alien spacecraft crashes into South Ataria Island in the Bonin Islands. (''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'')
* July - Humanity finally discovers what UsefulNotes/Nostradamus meant in Quatrain X.72:

* August 1 - Seven chosen children get sucked into the Digital World. (''Anime/DigimonAdventure'')
* Summer - Igor Teplov, a Light Magician, kills Alisa Donnikova, a Dark Witch, in a duel at Artek Young Pioneer Camp. (''Literature/NightWatch'')
* August 24 - John and Sarah Connor flee their current home town due to fears of Terminators. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')

* September 6 - John and Sarah Connor settle in Red Valley, New Mexico. John begins attending school and meets Cameron, who is posing as a classmate. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* September 7 - A T-888 posing as a substitute teacher tries to kill John Connor, destroyed by Cameron. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* September 9 - John and Sarah Connor and Cameron travel forward in time to 2007. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* September 13 - A nuclear explosion sends the Moon hurtling out of Earth's orbit; the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha thereafter have many adventures. (''Series/{{Space 1999}}'')
* September -

* October 18 - Mitchell Hundred gains the ability to talk to machines. (''ComicBook/ExMachina'')
* Early November - God, in the guise of a homeless man, is beaten by three demons in New Jersey. He is left trapped due to being in life support (''Film/{{Dogma}}'')
* Mid November - Loki and Bartleby learn of the loophole to get back into heaven. Metatron charges Bethany in stopping them. She is assisted by two "prophets" [[note]]Actually JayAndSilentBob[[/note]], Rufus and Serendipity. In their quest, Loki slays all of the Mooby executives for their crimes save one. [[note]]Loki and Bartleby are killed in New Jersey. God is rescued from his prison by Bethany, who is killed doing so. God revives her and repairs her uterus, revealing that she's pregnant again.[[/note]] (''Film/{{Dogma}}'')

* December 24 - Solid Snake infiltrates Zanzibar Land to rescue Kio Marv. (''VideoGame/MetalGear2'')
* December 31 -

** Around 22:00 - Phillp J. Fry leaves his family for the last time to head to work at Panucci's Pizza. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* Winter - Four members of the Regin Brothers steal Fáfnir's Talon from the Inquisition's European office in Berne and bring it to Moscow. It is intercepted by Vitaly Rogoza, a Dark Other[[labelnote:more]] and actually a Twilight Mirror. Rogoza later drains Svetlana Nazarova of her powers and dematerialises into the Twilight[[/labelnote]]. The Talon is recovered by the Day Watch, who hand it over to the Inquisition. (''Literature/NightWatch'')

* November 12th - Security guard Mike Schmidt completes his first week as a night guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (the last one dying almost a week earlier). Two days later, he gets fired. By the end of the year, the pizzaria closes for good due to failing business as a result of the calamities that took place there during the late 1980s. (''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'')

* Power plant owner and supervillain Hank Scorpio conquers the east coast of the United States (TheSimpsons)

* A monolith is discovered at the Tycho crater on the Moon. ([[TwoThousandOne 2001: A Space Odyssey]])

* Gotham City struck by an earthquake. Franchise/{{Batman}} [[ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand struggles to maintain some semblance of order]]. (DCComics)
* The fallen angel Asmodel bonds with Comicbook/TheSpectre, leading to [[DayOfJudgment hell on Earth]]. Asmodel is defeated and [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] becomes the new Spectre. (DCComics)

* Spring - After a heated make-out session in Tom Sloane's car, he and Daria Morgendorffer begin a relationship, despite Sloane having not broken up with Jane Lane yet. After the incident, Morgendorffer and Lane were not on speaking terms until the end of the following summer. (''{{Daria}}'')

** Forced to go into hiding, the Jusenkyo cursed members of Troop 192 move to a [[MaisonIkkoku boarding house]] in Japan. They are surprised to find the Porter sisters from Girl Scout Troop 42 living there, as well. (''FanFic/BoyScoutsOneHalf'')

* The {{Thunderbolts}} arise to fill the void left by the many missing heroes. (Creator/MarvelComics)

* Comedian Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, George Costanza, and Cosmo Kramer are tried and sentenced for one year in state prison for not following the Good Samaritan Law. (''{{Seinfeld}}'')

* Super-genius Jarod travels America and rights wrongs. (''ThePretender'')

* Manservant Neville begins to construct a Polyditetrahexamono-Trioctalon. [[labelnote:more]]Sometime around then, he also discovers the Middleman.[[/labelnote]] (TheMiddleman)

* March- Dave Nelson is hired as news director of all-news New York radio station WNYX. (''NewsRadio'')

* Death of Buck the Briard, the Bundy family dog. He is happy to get rid of them. He is soon reincarnated into Lucky and gets adopted by the Bundies again.(''MarriedWithChildren'')

* Kelly Bundy considers getting married herself. Her WeddingDay is a disaster when husband-to-be Lonnie Tot turns out to be a [[TheCasanova casanova]] type. Last recorded adventure of the Bundies. (''MarriedWithChildren''[[note]]"How to Marry a Moron" was supposed to be the season finale, but ended up being the series finale though an older, unaired episode got broadcast a month later.[[/note]])

* July 14 - Lt. Harmon Rabb, Jr. and Lt.JG Caitlin Pike are sent to the Adriatic Sea to investigate the disapperance of a female aviator from the aircraft carrier USS Seahawk at the time of TheYugoslavWars. (''Series/{{JAG}}'')

* February - Sarah Connor meets Charley Dixon for the first time. (''TheSarahConnorChronicles'')

* September 6 - John and Sarah Connor settle in Red Valley, New Mexico. John begins attending school and meets Cameron, who is posing as a classmate. (''TheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* September 7 - A T-888 posing as a substitute teacher tries to kill John Connor, destroyed by Cameron. (''TheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* September 9 - John and Sarah Connor and Cameron travel forward in time to 2007. (''TheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* September 13 - A nuclear explosion sends the Moon hurtling out of Earth's orbit; the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha thereafter have many adventures. (''{{Space 1999}}'')

* January 28 - Al Calivicci steps into the Imaging Chamber and tells Sam Beckett (who has leaped into a high school football player in 1962) that the Steelers are down by 3 points in Super Bowl XXX. (''Series/QuantumLeap'' and, [[AccidentallyAccurate amazingly]], RealLife)

* October 4 - Eva Ushiromiya, the one known survivor of the Rokkenjima Mass Murders, dies of heart failure on the 12th aniversary of the incident that took away almost all of her family. Her niece, Ange, the one surviving heir to the Ushiromiya fortune, jumps off the roof of the hospital that night in an attempted suicide. (''VisualNovel/UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'')

* May 21 - Maggie Simpson non-lethally shoots Mr. Burns, after he tries to take candy from the baby. (''TheSimpsons'')

* June 8 - A T-1000 arrives from the future to kill John Connor. It is destroyed by John and Sarah Connor, with the assistance of a reprogrammed T-800. Myles Dyson, the scientist destined to develop [=SkyNet=], is killed. John and Sarah go into hiding from the government. (''{{Terminator}}'')

* August 4 - [=SkyNet=] goes online. (''{{Terminator}}'')

* August 29 - [[AIIsACrapshoot Skynet]] becomes self-aware, and launches a nuclear attack on the Earth, killing billions. (''{{Terminator}}'')

* June 29 - A reprogrammed Terminator arrives from 2027, sent to protect John Connor, and adopts the name Cameron Philips to infiltrate human society. (''TheSarahConnorChronicles'')

* August 24 - John and Sarah Connor flee their current home town due to fears of Terminators. (''TheSarahConnorChronicles'')

* Michael Jordan returns to professional basketball, after playing a game with the Looney Tunes characters against Swackhammer and his Monstars (''SpaceJam'')

* March-May - Fry unintentionally cuts short the broadast of the series finale of ''[[AllyMcBeal Single Female Lawyer]]'' on New York City Creator/{{Fox}} flagship station WNYW. This has far reaching consequences for the Omnicronians. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')

* The evil witch Gruntilda steals Tooty the bear to suck out her beauty. Banjo and Kazooie collect [[PlotCoupons various items]] to rescue her. [[labelnote:more]]The two, with help from the Jinjos knock Gruntilda off her tower and trap her beneath a boulder.[[/labelnote]] (''BanjoKazooie'')

* Enderri invade the solar system, defeated by the Champions in The Titan Incident at the cost of Galatea. (''SoonIWillBeInvincible'')

** Emma Paris' mysterious informant gives her a cryptic warning not to open Pandora's Box. (''Black Light'')

* November 29 - Ryo Hazuki witnesses his father's death at the hands of Lan Di, who is looking for the Dragon Mirror. Ryo vows revenge. (''{{Shenmue}}'')

* June 8 - A T-1000 arrives from the future to kill John Connot. It is destroyed by John and Sarah Connor, with the assistance of a reprogrammed T-800. Myles Dyson, the scientist destined to develop [=SkyNet=], is killed. John and Sarah go into hiding from the government. (''{{Terminator}}'')