History JustForFun / GrandUnifiedTimelineTheDecadeWithNoName

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JustForFun/GrandUnifiedTimeline events from 2000 C.E. to 2009 C.E.

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[[folder:2000]]
* January 1:
** 00:00:
*** Philip J. Fry is accidentally [[labelnote:more]]or so it seems[[/labelnote]] cryogenically frozen for 1,000 years. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
*** Jenny Quantum is born. (''ComicBook/TheAuthority'')
*** The Thirteenth Doctor takes companions Graham, Ryan, and Yaz back in time to the Sydney Harbour Bridge to see New Year's 2000. Ryan later says that this is his favorite New Year's celebration. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
*** As Homer Simpson neglected to make the computers at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Y2K compliant, the Y2K bug spreads out of control, causing worldwide destruction and the collapse of civilization. Lisa, Marge and Maggie Simpson are accepted onboard a rocket carrying humanity's best and brightest to Mars. Homer and Bart sneak aboard a second rocket, only to find it's filled with disliked C-list celebrites which is launched into the sun. Rather than put up with their annoying antics, Homer and Bart prefer to face their end in empty space.(''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'')
*** Because of SanDimasTime, Creator/WillSmith returns from 2222 just barely in time to ring in the new year. A malfunction in the time machine gets him stuck in [[MonochromePast black and white]]. ("Will 2K" music video)
** 00:28: Bender Bending Rodríguez, under the control of spammers, travels back to this time from 3007 ahead of Fry, intending to kill him. He fails. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
** 00:29: Bender from further in the future travels back to this time and tattoos the time code on Fry's ass. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
** 00:30: Philip J. Fry time travels to this date and accidentally creates a duplicate of himself. While one Fry returns to the future, the duplicate stays in this era and resumes his life where he left off, not knowing he is being pursued by Bender. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
** After a century of service, the immortal Captain Jack Harkness takes command of Torchwood Three. [[labelnote:more]]Everyone else is killed out of fear for the 21st century.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
** The Eighth Doctor says goodbye to Chang Lee and Grace Holloway. (''Series/DoctorWho: [[MadeForTVMovie The Movie]]'')
** Philip J. Fry's mother watches Wisconsin beat Stanford 17-9 in the 1999 [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Rose Bowl]]. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
** Greg Cardiff is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
** The Head Alien activates a psychic implant that turns all abductees into his slaves; this includes the majority of SEMME agents. It falls to Joyce Brown, Jason Chesterfield, David Walkerton, and Sal Walters to stop him. [[labelnote:more]]Sal reluctantly shoots Tony [=McHenry=] to stop him.[[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* January 4: Kim Karlsen dies suddenly in Northern Norway. Almost all his friends gather for his funeral (Second sequel to ''Literature/{{Beatles}}'').
* January 9: SCP-939-A6 begins its metamorphosis. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* January 10: SCP-939-A6's symptoms flare up again. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* January 15: Wikipedia is launched. (RealLife, Website/{{Wikipedia}})
* January 24: SCP-939-A's symptoms intensify. It is transferred to a secure concrete bunker. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* January 26: SCP-939-A completes its metamorphosis. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* January 30: Roween Ryan is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* February 10: Henry John Noone is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* March 3: Boyd Gelder disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 6: At 6:02am, the entire planet is shrouded in unnatural darkness. The darkness blocks out the sun, and neither the stars nor the moon are visible. Many believe it to be the end of the world. Governments blame each other, thinking it to be the effect of some secret weapon. Riots, rapes, beatings, and murders are commonplace. Emergency call centers are flooded with reports of monsters roaming the streets and skies. Numerous people simply disappear. It is also during this darkness that thousands of people learn that they have become inhuman monsters. Many of them are killed before they know what has happened to them. Some are killed by mobs of terrified humans, others take their own lives. Those that survive learn that they could return to their human forms. These shapechanging beings are called the Nightbane, for it was at night that they become monsters. (''TabletopGame/{{Nightbane}}'')
* March 7: A Kirijo Group experiment with Shadows goes awry, resulting in numerous researchers dying, various nearby bystanders suffering Apathy Syndrome, and the creation of the Dark Hour.[[note]]Kouetsu Kirijo was attempting to fuse Shadows together to summon Nyx so she could destroy life, but Eiichiro Takeba sabotaged the experiment. Thirteen powerful Shadows of the Major Arcana escape; to prevent them from reuniting, the Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Aigis seals the Death Shadow into a nearby newly-orphaned child.[[/note]] (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* March 28: Jay Cirri amends his will to give 44% of his estate to his children, and 12% to his new wife Sara Tarron. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* April 4: Ben Song leaps into Summer Walsh, a personal assistant in Hollywood. His mission is to prevent the disapperance and death of Neal Russell, a famous actor. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* April 9: In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], Congressman Peter Ross of Kansas, the frontrunner for his party's presidential nomination, is the victim of an assassination attempt while making a speech in Calvin City, Pennsylvania. His campaign manager Clark Kent shields him with his own body, inadvertently revealing to the world that he is ComicBook/{{Superman}}. The critically injured Congressman Ross drops out of the race and asks Superman to take his place. Although he is initially reluctant, Superman agrees and goes on to be elected U.S. President. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* April 10: Mitchell Hundred makes his debut as the Great Machine. (''ComicBook/ExMachina'')
* April 27: Researchers from the secret installation in Greenland proceed to investigate an ancient Inuit tomb. [[labelnote:more]]The tomb turns out to contain the dormant "Tuurngait", a hive-mind entity which proceeds to assimilate the installation crew into itself, one by one.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}: Black Plague'')
* April:
** The town of Grantville, West Virginia vanishes, replaced by empty German countryside. (''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'')
** Shizuo Heiwajima, Izaya Orihara, Shinra Kishitani, and Kyohei Kadota attend high school at Raijin Academy. Izaya gathers followers (made up mostly of traumatized teenage girls). He stirs up a conflict between the high schools in the area, and Shizuo gains some fame as he finds himself in the center of it. Shizuo and Izaya meet for the first time and instantly hate each other. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
* May 6: A human child enters the Monster World for the first time, creating mass panic in Monstropolis. (''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'')
* May:
** Graduates of Lawndale High this year include Daria Morgendorffer and her associates. [[labelnote:more]]Morgendorffer ends her relationship with Tom Sloane after they get accepted to geographically distant colleges.[[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'')
** Thanks to the Eighth Doctor, a young man named Gareth answers the second question on his midterm exam and passes it. Had he answered the third, he would have failed. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* June 4: Bethany Platt is born. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* June 12: Creator/JudgeReinhold is made manager of the Quick Stop. (''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'')
* June: Sarah Clinton graduates from Indiana University and goes to work as a lawyer. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* August 23: An earthquake turns Los Angeles into an island. (''Film/EscapeFromLA'')
* August 31: Birth of Dipper and Mabel Pines. (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'')
* June, July, or August: John Shawcross creates a SyntheticPlague with the intention of killing all who break God's law, and spreads it through the population. ("Literature/TheMoralVirologist")
* July or August: To hide it from Glorificus, the Order of Dagon converts the Key into a human girl[[labelnote:more]]Dawn Summers[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* September 8: Nate [=McCullough=] disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* September 9: Michael Webb is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* September 13: The Second Impact. Oceans rise, killing billions. Tokyo is destroyed. (''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'')
* September:
** Nadezhda Antonovna Gorodetskaya is born to Svetlana and Anton Gorodetsky. (''Literature/NightWatchSeries'')
** Jimmy Brooks, Ashley Kerwin, Paige Michalchuk, Gavin "Spinner" Mason, Hazel Aden, Terri [=McGreggor=] and Sean Cameron begin attending Degrassi Community School. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
** Danny Wilcox, Jennifer Billingsworth, Joe Rosenthal, and Howard Lesse move into a house for Danny and Joe's final year at Indiana University. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* October 14: Eric Husch checks out ''Ship of Theseus'' from the Laguna Verde High School library. He never returns it. (''Literature/SDorst'')
* October 26: Jacob Bohm is born. (''Series/Touch2012'')
* November 2: First bulletin board post from claimed [[TimeTravel time traveler]] John Titor. (UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}})
* November 7:
** UsefulNotes/AlGore concedes to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and then retracts a few hours later as the election results in Florida become disputed. (RealLife)
** U.S. President Creator/RobertRedford is re-elected to a third term. (''Series/Watchmen2019'')
* November 11: Elizabeth Rove [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]]. (''Series/JoanOfArcadia'')
* November 13: Truck Sugar is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* November 15: Serbian peacekeepers enter the United States as a response to the violent Balkanisation of the country after the presidential election. (''Website/TheOnion'')
* November 30: Seventh Presidian held at the New York Public Library. Stephen Swain is chosen as the human contestant; his daughter Holly is accidentally teleported in with him. [[labelnote:more]]The Presidian is aborted without a victor after Bellos is found to be cheating. The library is subsequently destroyed by self-destructing wristbands, but Swain and his daughter escape, as well as his guide.[[/labelnote]] (''[[Creator/MatthewReilly Contest]]'')
* November:
** Billy Butcher returns home and meets his mother for the first time since the death of his wife. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
** Trevor and his bros celebrate Pinkus' promotion at Woodstone Manor. However, he dies pants-less[[note]] He is pant-less because he gave his pants to Pinkus so he can take a cab back to New York City.[[/note]] after mixing pills. His bros dump his body in the river so the police or their parents don't find out. (''Series/GhostsUS'')
* December: [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick try to become entrepreneurs by selling chocolate bars. (''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'')
* December 6: Andrew [=McLaren=] kills his wife Susan. He is seen doing so by a younger version of himself from two days in the past. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* December 13:
** UsefulNotes/AlGore concedes to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush for a second and final time. (RealLife)
** Dr. Jack Bright of the SCP Foundation, in the body of George W. Bush, is elected President ahead of Al Gore in order to prevent SCP-4444, attached Gore's brain, from gaining the political power it needs to herald an alien invasion. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* December 24: The IS-7 incident. [[labelnote:more]]During a cooking competition, a sculptor named Pierre Hoquet (also known as the chef Isaac Dover) is murdered in the residence of celebrity chef Jeff Master, by a confectioner named Dane Gustavia. Gustavia frames Master for the murder and runs away to Zheng Fa.[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'')
* December 25: Marcus Reed destroys one of New York's top gangs by killing it's leader Kev Lar before being recruited by police officer Terry Higgans to be in the PDNY. (''VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity'')
* December 31: In what comes to be known as Bloody New Year's Eve, a giant robot appears in Tokyo, while simultaneously a biological weapon is released around the world. (''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'')
* December:
** Construction on the Millennium Gate begins. Shannon O'Donnel, [[IdenticalGrandson ancestor]] of Kathryn Janeway, works to persuade locals to sell their property to allow the project to proceed, and along the way falls in love with stubborn bookshop owner Henry Janeway. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'')
** Greg Vizcaino is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
** Sal Walters accompanies David and Steven Walkerton as they visit their parents over Christmas holidays. [[labelnote:more]]The Walkertons are her biological parents.[[/labelnote]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Gigatron leads a group of Predacons to attempt to steal all the energy of Earth and obtain Fortress Maximus, but he is stopped by Fire Convoy and his Autobots. (''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'')
* Demon Queen Bansheera escapes, tries to conquer the city built by humans on top of the ruins of her palace. Demonic hordes wiped out, Bansheera sent to hell and sealed there. (''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'')
* Earth is temporarily turned into a [[Pantheon/MaximumSecurity prison for intergalactic criminals]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* The [=MacManus=] brothers begin to hunt down the wicked in Boston. (''Film/TheBoondockSaints'')
* After two years, Gruntilda the witch returns as a skeleton and kills Bottles and the king of the Jinjos, who have been helping Banjo and Kazooie. [[labelnote:more]]They get better[[/labelnote]] Banjo and Kazooie collect more [[PlotCoupons thingies]] to defeat her once more. [[labelnote:more]]Grunty's drill explodes after she drops her spell, leaving her a disembodied head.[[/labelnote]] (''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'')
* Edward Roivas murdered by Pious Augustus. Augustus succeeds in bringing his Ancient into the world. Roivas' granddaughter, Alexandra, summons another Ancient to destroy it. The three timelines established in 26 BC now collapse into one, with the deaths of all three Ancients and leaving only Mantorok alive. (''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')
* Liquid Snake joins FOXHOUND. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'')
* The "Conqueror Worm" incident. [[labelnote:more]]A Nazi space capsule (launched May 20, 1939) returns to Earth, landing at Hunte Castle, Austria. An [[EldritchAbomination Ogdru Hem]], referred to as "the Worm", emerges from the capsule and attempts to end the world. The BPRD agents Hellboy and Roger (with help from the ghost of The Lobster) successfully contain and destroy the Worm.[[/labelnote]] In the aftermath, Hellboy quits the BPRD and begins wandering the Earth. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}: Conqueror Worm'')
* Helen B. Narbon goes mad and hires Mell and Dave to work for her lab. (''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}'')
* The General Construction corporation seeks to refurbish northeast New York City. Citizens who do not leave the Bronx in a timely manner are killed by death squads called "Disinfectors." The city's gangs unite under ''the'' SugarWiki/{{Toblerone}} to fight back. (''Film/Escape2000'')
* Great Garbage Crisis in New York City. The city's excess garbage is put on a gigantic barge, which is then pushed out to circle the world's seas for the next 50 years. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* The ancient monsters known as the Grongi break free from the seal placed upon them by the Rinto warrior Kuuga, and begin attacking Japan in order to unleash the "Ultimate Darkness". Yusuke Godai, a happy-go-lucky vagabond, dons a Rinto artifact during a Grongi attack, becoming the modern-day Kuuga and helping the Tokyo police battle the Grongi. (''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'')
* Garcian Smith successfully resurrects the fallen personae, but Dan mortally injures Harman in a fit of lunacy. Samatha leaves the syndicate and becomes a full-time carer to Harman. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* In her freshman year of high school, Ramona Flowers dates Lucas Lee. She cheats on him and then dumps him for Todd Ingram, who she will date for the rest of high school. (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
* SG-1 helps Thor destroy a huge number of Replicators. Meanwhile, Major Samantha Carter travels with Thor to the Asgard homeworld and helps fend off an attack by Replicator-infested ships. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Apophis attempts to forge a treaty with Heru'ur, but the Tok'ra and SG-1 sabotage the negotiations. However, Apophis had brought a cloaked fleet of motherships with him. He kills Heru'ur and absorbs his troops into his own fleet. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Robert "Dakota Bob" Shaefer is elected president of the United States, with Victor "Vic the Veep" Neuman as his vice-president. Susan Rayner, wife of Dakota Bob, is appointed director of the CIA. With their backing, 'Mother's Milk', 'The Frenchman', and 'The Female' are added to The Boys. Around this time, The Boys gradually become more aggressive and violent in dealing with superhumans. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Malcolm Nolastname is identified as a genius. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* Sora Ikushima is born. (''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'')
* Julian West awakens from a deep sleep after 113 years to discover that the United States has become a socialist utopia. (''Literature/LookingBackward'')
* An escaped prisoner and a necromantic Yakuza boss battle over the Forest of Resurrection. (''Film/{{Versus}}'')
* Two criminals named Boka and Vard travel back in time to Metropolis in 1959. Posing as agents of the Earth Bureau of Investigation, they convince the authorities in 1959 that ComicBook/{{Superman}} is a criminal from the future. They manage to subdue him using red kryptonite and return with him to 2000. Their plan is to take advantage of the fact that Earth's rivers have run dry by having Superman gather the water from two of Saturn's ice moons and sell the water to Earth for billions. In order to ensure Superman's cooperation, they threaten to destroy Metropolis in 1959 with an atomic bomb. However, Superman manages to defeat them before their plan can come to fruition. (Creator/DCComics)
* Sally Morgan is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], Jonathan Kent dies of a heart attack. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* A comic strip featuring the Karkus, a fictional superhero, is published in the ''Hourly Telepress''. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* The prison transport vessel ''Sebrus'', commanded by Warrick Finn, is launched from Hebridan. The ship is transporting three dangerous prisoners, Aden Corso, Lyle Pender and Tanis Reynard, to a prison colony. After becoming caught in an asteroid storm, the ''Sebrus'' is forced to land on [=PRX-005=]. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Luciana Ortega joins ROSA. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* Eric Husch's uncle Zeke dies in a boating accident. (''Literature/SDorst'')
* WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd from 1944 wakes up elderly and battles an elderly WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. Also by this time, Music/BingCrosby's horse still hasn't come in yet, and smellevision replaces television. (''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'')
* Music/BlueOysterCult's cowbell player Gene Frenkle dies. (''Series/SaturdayNightLive'')
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[[folder:Mid to late 20th Century]]
* Merlin visits Bermuda at some unspecified point during the 20th Century. He finds it to be "one big modern mess." (''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'')
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[[folder:2001-2003]]
* ''The Boston Globe'''s investigative team uncovers a massive paedophilia cover-up by the Catholic Church. (RealLife and ''Film/{{Spotlight}}'')
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[[folder:2001]]
* January 1:
** Groundbreaking for the Millennium Gate in Portage Creek, Indiana. Construction would last to 2012. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'')
** New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington merge to form Metropolis. (Creator/DCComics)
* January 20:
** Following a protracted election cycle including a lengthy recount in the state of Florida, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush becomes President of the United States. (RealLife)
** Following a protracted election cycle including a lengthy recount in the state of Florida, UsefulNotes/AlGore becomes President of the United States. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
** Following a protracted election cycle including a lengthy recount in the state of Florida, ComicBook/LexLuthor becomes President of the United States. (Creator/DCComics)
** Following a protracted election cycle including the vaporization of a stack of Gore-Lieberman ballots by a time-traveling kleptomaniac robot, UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush becomes President of the United States. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: Bender's Big Score'')
** A religious fanatic becomes U.S. President after predicting the fall of Los Angeles and imposes a theocratic state; Los Angeles becomes a dumping ground for anyone opposed to his regime. (''Film/EscapeFromLA'')
** George Sears becomes President of the United States. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'')
** Creator/AlFranken becomes President of the United States. (''Literature/WhyNotMe'')
** In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], Herbert Forrest becomes President of the United States. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
** In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], ComicBook/{{Superman}} becomes President of the United States. [[ComicBook/LexLuthor Lex Luthor II]] and his accomplice J. Richard Morton are arrested for plotting against the new President's life. Their plot was discovered thanks to a sting operation involving the defeated presidential candidate Senator Herbert Forrest. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* January 24: A dying Jay Cirri is admitted to the hospital. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* January 27: Jay Cirri's wife Sara Tarron shows up to Jay's hospital room with a lawyer in tow. On his deathbed and barely coherent, Jay signs an altered will that would give Sara 100% of his estate when he dies. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* January 29: Jay Cirri dies. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* January: Maya Hart is born. (''Series/GirlMeetsWorld'')
* February 1: Jimmy Peterson is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* February 10: Birth of Jade Ravings. She would go on to become a GadgeteerGenius, capture specialist and adventurer. (''WebVideo/PokemonTabletopUtopusRegion'')
* March 3: The Flash arrives in Central City after being accidentally transported ten years into the future. (''Series/TheFlash1990'')
* March 7:
** Aliens dredge the ''Steel Duck'' out of the La Brea Tar Pits and attempt to take it over from Ralph Zinobopp. SEMME squad 128 intervene when they notice an undisguised Mayberry Melonpool at the Grammies. The ''Steel Duck'' is liberated from the Aliens and returned to the Zinoboppians, but unbeknownst to everybody, Joyce Brown is replaced with her morally-inverted duplicate. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}, ''Webcomic/{{Melonpool}}'')
** Joyce Brown finds her way back to SEMME HQ, kills her duplicate. [[labelnote:Justification]] Date given in [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/see-gilligan-item-7a-and-star-trek-item-7b/ this strip]] .[[/labelnote]](Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* March 21: Jay and Silent Bob infiltrate Creator/{{Miramax}} so they can stop the ''Bluntman & Chronic'' movie. They also interrupt filming of ''Film/GoodWillHunting 2: Hunting Season''. (''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'')
* April 22: Shawn Farrell disappears and Kyle Baldwin enters a coma. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 9: Curtis Peck disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 21: Tonya Miles is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* May:
** Buffy Summers sacrifices her life to stop Glorificus merging all universes into mathematical chaos and goes to Heaven. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
** Philip [=LaFresque=] receives a letter from his supposedly long-dead father, with a key to a deposit box containing clues that point Philip towards an old, closed mine in Greenland. He heads out to investigate and perhaps find a hint to his father's fate. [[labelnote:''Black Plague'' spoilers]]Eventually, he finds out that a hive-mind entity has taken over the research personnel. He manages to send his friend an e-mail with directions to the base and a plea to destroy everything within.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'')
** A portal to an eldritch city opens up in a small Mexican island village. (''Literature/TheCityOfNever'')
* March - May: Nicholas Angel, now a police captain, joins the [=SO19=] Armed Response Unit. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* June 10:
** U.S. President Creator/AlFranken resigns after only 144 days in office. He is succeeded by Vice President Joe Lieberman, who serves as President until 2019. (''Literature/WhyNotMe'')
* June:
** Shadow the Hedgehog released from cryogenic prison by Dr. Eggman, who attempts to bring about Professor Gerald Robotnik's last wish of vengeance against humanity. Has a change of heart and seemingly sacrifices himself fixing the problem. (''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'')
** Danny Wilcox and Joe Rosenthal graduate from Indiana University. Joe goes on to graduate school. Danny moves to Colorado to work as a computer programmer.(Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* After June: On a night out, Joyce Brown, David Walkerton, and Sal Walters try beer for the first time. Secrets are drunkenly blurted out. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* July: Nicholas Angel gets a commendation for his actions during Operation Takedown. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* September 4: Fertility doctor Juliet Burke leaves for the Island to save the pregnant women who keep dying there. (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* September 5: Alana Mareva disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* September 10: Angelique de Xavia and Raymond Ash defeat a terrorist attack on a dam in Scotland. (''Literature/ABigBoyDidItAndRanAway'')
* [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror September 11]]:
** Terrorist attacks from hijacked planes destroy the World Trade Center in New York City and heavily damage part of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. A fourth plane, United Flight 93, presumed to be headed for the White House is attempted control of by passengers but crashes in a field in Pennsylvania. A total of 2,996 people are killed and more than 6,000 others are injured. (RealLife)
** Mitchell Hundred saves the south tower of the World Trade Center. (''ComicBook/ExMachina'')
** Black 13, sealed in a locker below the North Tower, is destroyed by falling wreckage. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
** [AlternateUniverse] planes hijacked by terrorists hit the Pentagon and the White House. (''Series/{{Fringe}}'')
** Gary Seven prevents Shaun Geoffrey Christopher from boarding one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center. (''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' short story "Assignment: One")
** After their flight is grounded because of the attacks, an alcoholic flight attendant escorts a Pakistani-American child across the country to his destination. (''Film/TheSpaceBetween'')
** The victims of the attack include Doreen Fineman and her three daughters Jenny, Julie, and Gina (''Film/ReignOverMe''), Claire Taylor (''Series/{{CSINY}}''), Tyler Hawkins (''Film/RememberMe''), Sarah Bohm (''Series/Touch2012''), Thomas Schell (''Literature/ExtremelyLoudAndIncrediblyClose''), Jonathan Dixon's college roommate Dave (''Series/AMillionLittleThings''), and Reva (''Literature/MyYearOfRestAndRelaxation'').
** Hundreds of planes are diverted from their original courses immediately after the attacks, and 38 of them land in the tiny Canadian town of Gander, Newfoundland. (RealLife and ''Theatre/ComeFromAway'')
** A bunch of chipper morning news shows and commercials air, but nothing particularly interesting happens after that. [[MindScrew Maybe]]. (''Music/NewsAt11'')
* September 12: Harold Finch begins writing a computer program that can analyze data gained by surveillance, with the goal of identifying and stopping terrorist acts before they happen. Over the next three and a half months, Finch will discard forty-two versions of this program. Around this time, several other people, notably Arthur Claypool, begin writing similar programs. (''Series/PersonOfInterest'')
* September 21: Vera Fry disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* September:
** The Boys confront The Seven about what happened on 9/11. Confrontations escalate, with Greg Mallory's children and several CIA agents killed by The Seven. The sides reluctantly agree to a stalemate, and Mallory is permitted to murder Lamplighter to seal the deal. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
** Emma Nelson, Manny Santos, J.T. Yorke, Toby Isaacs and Liberty Van Zandt begin attending Degrassi Community School. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
** In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], the crime boss Diogenes and his son Matthew manage to track down [[ComicBook/TheFlash the retired Flash Wally West]], who has been in WitnessProtection for nine years under the name Michael Edwards. After recruiting several of the Flash's old enemies, Diogenes has Wally's young son David kidnapped. As Diogenes planned, this causes the Flash to come out of retirement. While he desperately searches for his son, Diogenes has his agents fire special guns at the Flash which have the cumulative effect of sapping his speed and aura. Diogenes' overall goal is to transfer this power to Matthew so that he can become a speedster. However, the process [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]]. Matthew is killed as his body can't handle the Flash's speed. Diogenes is so distraught that he immediately dies himself from the shock. Having enjoyed living a normal life for the last nine years, Wally has his stolen speed and aura transferred to his son David, who becomes a speedster. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
** Head Alien and Monkey Master locate the Martian embassy under the Bermuda Triangle. They lure SEMME to it, hoping to use Sal Walters' DNA to open the inner vault containing Martian resurrection technology, but then the Cheese shows up and ruins everybody's plans. [[labelnote:more]]Anthony [=McHenry=] and agent Hooper of squad 37 are killed in action; Hooper rises as a zombie. Linda Walkerton is appointed Big Boss of SEMME.[[/labelnote]] The Head Alien dies, but is sealed in the resurrection chamber. In the aftermath, Sal forcibly brings Joe Rosenthal to SEMME, then angrily quits the organisation and goes rogue. [[labelnote:Justification]]Happens just after Joe starts grad school.[[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* October 1: [[Website/FourChan A Persian basket weaving forum]] is founded. (RealLife, Website/FourChan)
* October 2: A group of archaeologists uncovers the tomb of the sorcerer Anubis in the outskirts of the Giza Plateau. The spirit of Anubis within the Pyramid of Light awakens in response to Yugi Muto solving the Millennium Puzzle in Domino City, and he collapses the tomb, killing all 263 members of the expedition. Concurrently, Yugi is possessed by Yami Yugi, who banishes the shadow creatures surrounding him. (''Anime/YuGiOhTheMoviePyramidOfLight'' English dub)
* October 26: Iris Sagan is born. (''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'')
* October: Buffy Summers is resurrected by her friends. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* December 11: Frank [=DiCenzo=] is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* December: New York is caught in the worst snow storm in decades. Max Payne is framed for his DEA partner Alex Balder's murder while investigating the Valkyr drug epidemic and engages in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge through the New York underworld, his victims including The Finito Brothers, Jack Lupino and Rico Muerte. He eventually discovers that the drug is part of a corporate conspiracy led by executive Nicole Horne, who is responsible for the death of his family three years prior. Max storms the Aesir office tower and kills Horne. (''VideoGame/MaxPayne'')
* December 28: Jeff Master is put on trial for the murder of Isaac Dover. Later that day, the DL-6 incident occurs [[labelnote:more]]Gregory Edgeworth, a California defense attorney, is shot and killed in a courthouse elevator.[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'')
* The ship ''Discovery'' nears the end of its mission to Jupiter. (''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'')
* Ethnic tensions from the year 3001 spill over into this year due to a time-traveling terrorist, who ceases once his daughter realizes that what they're doing is just as bad as what was done to them. (''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'')
* Half-human Org escapes his seal, begins building his forces to resume the war from 3,000 years prior. Animarian remnant wakes up from magical cryosleep, begins recruiting new soldiers. The war resumes, albeit mostly confined to small skirmishes. (''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'')
* College student Tommy Oliver takes part in an archaeological dig, finding the Dino Gems, and Oliver begins researching of dinosaur cybernetics with businessman Anton Mercer. The dig goes sour, [[JekyllAndHyde Mercer turns evil]], and the facility is destroyed. (''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'')
* Alien police organization Space Patrol Delta starts its Earth branch and carries on various research and experiments. Planet Sirius is conquered by Emperor Gruumm, and one of its last survivors escapes to Earth. (''Series/PowerRangersSPD'')
* Publication of Gray's Sports Almanac. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
* Imperiex threatens the universe, and [[ComicBook/OurWorldsAtWar Earth's heroes team up with extraterrestrial forces to defeat him]]. (Creator/DCComics)
* Community college professors take on rapidly evolving aliens. (''Film/{{Evolution|2001}}'')
* Fashion model Derek Zoolander becomes embroiled in an assassination plot. (''Film/{{Zoolander}}'')
* [[EvilPlan The Grand Retour]] of [[AncientConspiracy Les Soldats]] fails (Count A). (''Anime/{{Noir}}'')
* Following a Martian invasion, ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ComicBook/WonderWoman, ComicBook/{{Hawk|man}}girl, ComicBook/GreenLantern John Stewart and [[ComicBook/MartianManhunter J'onn J'onnz]] form the original seven members of the Justice League. (''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'')
* Desmond Hume is trapped on the Island and starts pushing a button every 108 minutes to save the world. (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* A "[[HeroicMime mute asshole]]" kills Liberty City [[TheMafia Mafia]] [[TheDon Don]] Salvatore Leone, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge among other people]]. (''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'')
* Danny Butterman moves out of his father's house and into his own. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* Dr. Narbon kills Dave Davenport; he is later resurrected. (''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}'')
* The Lexx comes to Earth. [[labelnote:series finale spoilers]]And before long, destroys it. Of course.[[/labelnote]] (''{{Series/Lexx}}'')
* Djer, an immortal pharaoh BuriedAlive millennia ago, revives in the Cairo Museum. Methos, the guy responsible for said burial, learns the news and heads for Cairo. He intends to kill Djer.[[labelnote:more]] but only manages to release him.[[/labelnote]] (''Franchise/{{Highlander}}: The Methos Chronicles'')
* A nuclear war has destroyed most major cities. Caesar, son of Cornelius and Zira, tries to cultivate peace between his simian peers and the surviving remnants of humanity. A gorilla general named Aldo opposes his efforts, plotting Caesar's overthrow and doom. (''Film/BattleForThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* Zombie outbreak in Sidi-Moussa. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* Yuki Makimura arrives in Sunnydale and attempts to resurrect The Master. She is stopped by the efforts of Dawn Summers. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Cronus and Apophis are killed by the Tau'ri/Tok'ra alliance in quick succession, Cronus by staff blast to the back from a {{robot|me}} double [[ItMakesSenseInContext of Teal'c]], Apophis by slamming his Replicator-infested ship into his capital world at relativistic speed. The power vacuum caused by the deaths of four powerful System Lords in rapid succession causes chaos in the Goa'uld Empire. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Giorno Giovanna, son of the late Dio Brando, joins the Neapolitan mafia Passione in an attempt to make Italy a better place. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'')
* Kenchi Masaki starts to grow close to Sasami. A jealous Washu and Tokimi conspire with his mother Rea to send him off elsewhere for a while. (''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'')
* Billy Butcher kills Jonah Vogelbaum. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Malcolm Nolastname's hamster dies. Malcolm spends so long giving it CPR that the doctors have to put a shunt in his mouth to help the sores drain. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* A virus wipes out 99% of the human race's females, leading to nuclear war as nations fight over the remaining women and safe quarantine zones, and eventually the collapse of civilization into bands of warring gangs. Griffon Spade and his trusty [=M1A1=] Abrams begin a journey across post-apocalyptic America to find his fiancee Madison. (''VideoGame/BattleTanx'')
* Two criminals are released from prison and begin filming their daily lives in Nova Scotia, Canada. (''Series/TrailerParkBoys'')
* Dr. Fudo and his assistants, Rex and Rutger (Roman) Goodwin, discover planetary particles and develop the first Moment (Ener-D) reactor. In their initial test run, dangerous anomalies arise, prompting Fudo to shut down the experiment. Rutger Goodwin, who wanted to press ahead, decides to explore the Nazca Lines, where he encounters a representative of Yliaster. (''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'')
* Birth of Lavender 'Lavi' Drake in Wild Colony, Utopus. [[GenderBlenderName He]] would go on to become a martial artist and an adventurer. (''WebVideo/PokemonTabletopUtopusRegion'')
* The Gehenna Strain kills 500 million people within two months of its outbreak in New York. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* The ''Daedalus'' XL-141, is launched from Earth. It is the first commercial spaceflight. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* Miss Ellie Ewing Farlow dies. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Shirl is born. (''Film/SoylentGreen'')
* [AlternateTimeline] former U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy dies. (''Film/{{Timequest}}'')
* Cedric Bubley is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], ComicBook/{{Superman}} is dedicated to eradicating all nuclear weapons on Earth in the aftermath of Metropolis being destroyed by an atomic bomb planted by Intergang. His wife ComicBook/LoisLane and most of his friends were killed in the blast. After he sinks an American nuclear submarine, unknowingly killing seven sailors in the process, U.S. President Herbert Forrest attempts to recruit ComicBook/{{Batman}} to defeat Superman by any means necessary but he refuses. The ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica take matters into their own hands as they believe that Superman has gone too far. In the ensuing fight, the ComicBook/MartianManhunter is killed. The Manhunter's death causes Batman to have a change of heart. He is forced to kill Superman using Kryptonite, which he bitterly regrets. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], ComicBook/TheJoker is declared sane by a panel of doctors whose families he threatened to kill. Shortly after his release from Arkham Asylum, he has ComicBook/TheRiddler, the Scarecrow, the Ventriloquist and Killer Moth murdered in the hope of implicating ComicBook/{{Batman}}. He later [[FrameUp frames]] Batman for killing ComicBook/ThePenguin. As Batman believes himself to be guilty, he surrenders to the authorities. He is convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. He eventually realizes the truth and escapes from prison with the help of [[ComicBook/Robin1993 Tim Drake]] and Anarky. Batman confronts the Joker who, in his attempt to kill him, ends up electrocuting himself. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica disbands and its members go their separate ways. The League is eventually re-formed through the efforts of Maxwell Lord, ComicBook/BoosterGold and General Glory. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], U.S. President ComicBook/{{Superman}} embarks on an ambitious series of programs for the betterment of the United States and the world in general. He is able to reduce the US trade deficit by slowly introducing millions of dollars worth of gold bullion, lost in a ship sinking decades earlier, to the economy. President Superman then begins negotiating a scheme of unilaterial disarmament with other world leaders so that the World Peace League, formed by the merging of the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica and other groups, can act as a global peacekeeping force under the authority of the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations. Shortly afterwards, the United States launches a series of orbital solar power stations so that the entire world can benefit from solar energy and be freed from its dependence on fossil fuels. President Superman also attempts to negotiate peace in Northern Ireland but the parties are reluctant to cooperate with either him or each other. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], the United States is experiencing a major recession. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], the Thanagarian crime fighting team Kator Hol and Shayera Thal come out of retirement and resume their duties as [[ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} Hawkman and Hawkwoman]]. Julie Carmody, who blames them for the death of her father George Crystal, is furious and allows her spirit to enter the Atilla battle robot that George built. She later attacks Hawkman and Hawkwoman but they manage to defeat her and her spirit returns to her own body. Hawkman's spirit gains control of the Atilla robot. He brings it into space and activates its self-destruct. He tells Hawkwoman that he was momentarily tempted to keep it in order to eliminate the corruption in human society. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], the [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Team Titans]] fight the forces of the dictator Lord Chaos, whom they learn is the son of Donna Troy. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], ComicBook/{{Batman}} defeats ComicBook/RasAlGhul's plot to wipe out humanity using a bio-engineered virus. Ra's is killed in the process. His daughter Talia attempts to [[BackFromTheDead resurrect]] him using the Lazarus Pit as she has done so many times before but she is unsuccessful. Batman manages to escape from her custody but his rope breaks and he falls, critically injuring himself. When Tim Drake and Alfred Pennyworth find him, they discover that his back is broken and almost all of his leg bones have been shattered. As Gotham has become a practically lawless nightmare city run by TheMafia, Tim Drake [[LegacyCharacter becomes the new Batman]]. After several weeks, however, he is captured and killed by Talia's agents, who believed him to the original Batman. Enraged by Tim's death, Bruce Wayne augments his body with cybernetic implants and comes out of retirement to track down his killer. He eventually discovers that it was Talia, who tells him that she was trying to kill him because of her father's death. After Talia's forces defeat Batman, she places him in the Lazarus Pit so that it can heal him and he can become the new Ra's Al-Ghul. Just before he dies, Batman activates a bomb that kills Talia and her men and destroys the Lazarus Pit. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], ComicBook/LoisLane is pregnant with ComicBook/{{Superman}}'s child but [[ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex but she dies of internal injuries when the child kicks for the first time]]. Superman is so distraught by his wife's death that he leaves Earth. After he is attacked by a Salier ship who mistake him for an Almeracian, Maxima rescues him and tends to his injuries. As she has long been in love with him, she attempts to woo him but she finds that she is continually in the shadow of the deceased Lois and Earth in general. Maxima hopes to marry Superman instead of the Krenon cyborg De'cine, whose people are negotiating a peace treaty with the Lords of Almerac. Maxima's slave Sazu suggests to De'cine that he destroy Earth in the hope that her mistress' chances of winning Superman's love will increase if his beloved adopted planet no longer exists. Superman and Maxima are eventually able to save Earth from De'cine's attack. (''ComicBook/Armageddon2001'')
* A member of the Tok'ra incites a rebellion on a planet ruled by the Goa'uld Qetesh, whose host is Vala Mal Doran. After defeating her Jaffa, the inhabitants of the planet capture Qetesh and torture her for days. Feeling responsible, the Tok'ra rescues Vala, removes the symbiote from her and nurses her back to health. After her recovery, Vala discovers the news of Qetesh's death has not reached the mining planet [=P8X-412=] and sets herself up as its ruler by pretending to be their god Qetesh. She has the native population mine naquadah for her. They eventually learn the truth in 2005. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Norman Babcock is born. (''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'')
* Following pressure from Congress, the Perpetual Unearthly Forces Fund is re-established, and Monster Hunter International resumes its work. At the same time, Cursed One Lord Machado attempts to use an ancient artifact to open a portal to the [[EldritchAbomination Old Ones']] dimension, but is stopped by the newly re-established company. (''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'')

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Before 2002]]
* Pamela, one of the founders of Shortpacked, makes the Drama Tag in the hope of remaining with her family. Despite this, she ultimately succumbs to her terminal illness, leaving her husband, Galasso, a single father to their daughter, Conquest. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2001 – 2002]]
* Sal Walters comes into contact with Dargon Chesterfield and Penny Worthington. [[labelnote:They]] pump her full of drugs, aggravate her existing violent tendencies, and psychologically condition her to destroy SEMME, then [[/labelnote]] leave her at the Martian colony to await the return of the Head Alien.. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2002]]
* January 1: Harold Finch begins working on the forty-third version of his terrorism-detecting program, which he will eventually begin calling The Machine. (''Series/PersonOfInterest'')
* January 9: Mitchell Hundred becomes Mayor of New York City. (''ComicBook/ExMachina'')
* January 24: A group marines enter the Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan to find and eliminate a source of sonar interference which they attribute to insurgents; only their sergeant returns, infected with rabies and having suffered wounds too large to have been inflicted by any known species of bat, but he survives. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Cave Demons")
* January 28:
** Roxanne Whisha disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
** Skill Jones is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* April 8: Joshua Peacock is born. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* April 10: Jordan Collier disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 3: Alec Lehane dies. (''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'')
* May 7: Tara Maclay is killed by Warren Mears. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Early May: Jennifer Billingsworth visits Danny Wilcox in Denver. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* May 25: During a red moon, 4*Town's Toronto concert is attacked by a giant red panda mother. (''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'')
* Late May: Head Alien resurrects inside the Martian colony. He takes control of a Martian starship and attacks Denver, garnering massive media attention; as a result, Aliens and SEMME become public knowledge. David Walkerton and Joyce Brown finally get together. SEMME turns over Alien technology to the US government in exchange for amnesty for the various damages they have caused. [[labelnote:More]] Tony [=McHenry=] is resurrected at the same time as the Head Alien. He is initially under the Head Alien's control, but Mike Warner breaks the manipulation by exploiting his jealousy.[[/labelnote]] Another Head Alien flies into a glitching Cheese and travels across the multiverse, conquering many worlds and killing and tormenting thousands of SEMME agents. [[labelnote:Justification]] [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/so-these-are-our-tickets-huh/ This strip]] shows it happens while ''Film/{{Attack of the Clones}}'' is still in cinemas.[[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* May: Dennis Hofferman is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June: Jennifer Billingsworth graduates from Indiana University. She turns down a good job offer to move to Colorado with Danny Wilcox, eventually getting a job as a reporter with Channel 7 News. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* June - August:
** After turning 18, Francis Nolastname gets himself legally emancipated and leaves for a logging camp in Alaska. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
** A young man inherits a farm from a distant relative, but is attacked by zombie scarecrows wanting revenge for his ancestor's crimes. (''Film/DarkHarvest'')
* July 17: Elijah Kamski is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* July 23: Dr. Jay Ferguson dies. (''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'')
* July 28: Gail Platt and Richard Hillman are married. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* September 8: Hal Nolastname takes a trip to Bavarialand. Somebody at his company hands the board of directors a set of doctored financial records. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* September 10: An explosives-filled helicopter is crashed into the Statue of Liberty by al-Qaeda terrorists. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
* September:
** Craig Manning, Marco Del Rossi and Ellie Nash begin attending Degrassi Community School. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
** Daemona Prune begins attending Lugosi Junior High shortly after she and her parents move to San Francisco. She forms the Phantom Investigators with her friends Kira, Jericho, and Casey. (''WesternAnimation/PhantomInvestigators'')
** Sal Walters pleads guilty to five charges of attempted murder during the Aliens' attack on Denver and is sentenced to five years in prison. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* October 7: Gavin Reed is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* October 31:
** On the tenth anniversary of ''Film/{{Ghostwatch}}'', the BBC airs ''Ghostwatch 2: Return to Studio One'', and viewers once again become witnesses to supernatural activity. (The short story "31-10")
** Michael Myers returns to his childhood home, where an internet reality show competition is being filmed. (''Film/HalloweenResurrection'')
* November 5: Josiah 'Jed' Bartlet is elected to a second term as President of the United States. (''Series/TheWestWing'')
* November 9: Kevin Girardi is paralysed from the waist down in a car accident caused by his friend Andy Baker, [[DrunkDriver who drove drunk]]. (''Series/JoanOfArcadia'')
* November 12: Andrew Wells kills Jonathan Levinson. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* November 18: Rogue elements in the Russian military initiate the largest chemical weapon attack in history, launching artillery shells armed with the Novichok nerve agent at Grozny, Chechnya. (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'')
* November 20: A nuclear bomb detonates in Baltimore, devastating the city. US President J. Robert Fowler narrowly escapes the attack and begins a day-long war with the presumed culprit - Russia. (''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'')
* December 6: Hal Nolastname attends a showing of ''Theatre/TheNutcracker''. Someone at his company hides money. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* December 23: Lucas Wolenczak is born. (''Series/SeaQuestDSV'')
* Late 2002: Amber O'Malley moves to San Francisco to escape her abusive father. She befriends Ethan Siegal, who introduces her to the world of toy collecting. The two start working at Shortpacked. Evan (and, presumably, Rose) start working at [=McAwesome's=] around the same time. [[labelnote:Justification]] Stated in [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/predator this strip]] and [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/aids this one]] to happen three years before 2006, and [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/riddler this one]] says it happened five years before 2007. Late 2002 can accomodate both, if you squint a bit. [[/labelnote]]. [[/labelnote]](Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Faridah Malik is born in Dearborn, United States. (''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'')
* Org-Animarian war concludes with Animarian remnant victorious; it goes back into magical cryosleep just in case. (''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'')
* Leon Kennedy and Jack Krauser sent to South America to apprehend drug lord Javier Hidalgo, who has ties to Umbrella. Krauser fakes his death in a helicopter crash and begins working for Albert Wesker. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'')
* Ramon Salazar, a follower of Los Illuminados, digs up Las Plagas at the behest of Osmund Saddler. All of the local villagers are soon infected. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', date estimated)
* Agent Kay brought out of retirement by Agent Jay to help defeat Serleena. (''Film/MenInBlackII'')
* The space probe Nomad is launched by NASA to seek out a new life among the stars. Due to damage from a meteorite, Nomad would lose contact with Earth. It would later merge with Tan Ru, an alien probe programmed to collect and sterilize soil samples. The new purpose of the combined machine would be to "seek out and sterilize new life". (''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'')
* Mark Grayson becomes ComicBook/{{Invincible}}. (''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'')
* Kim Possible begins her career as a crime-fighter. (''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'')
* Adrian Monk emerges from seclusion and becomes a private detective. (''Series/{{Monk}}'')
* [[Creator/VinDiesel Xander Cage]] recruited by the NSA to stop Eastern European anarchists. (''Film/XXx'')
* Giant spiders terrorize a small town. (''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'')
* A journalist investigates a deadly videotape. (''Literature/TheRing'')
* Helen B. Narbon, Dave Davenport, Mell Kelly, and Artie are stranded on an island by the Dave Conspiracy; they eventually escape. (''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}'')
* The First Tiberium War ends with the destruction of the Temple of Nod in Sarajevo and the apparent death of Kane. Though the Global Defense Initiative is victorious, much of Europe, South America, and Africa is devastated by the fighting, while Tiberium continues to spread unchecked across the planet. (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'')
* A new generation of [=DigiDestined=] appear to save the Digital World after the Digimon Emperor takes control. (''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'')
* The Lords, an ancient race subservient to the godlike Overlord, begin killing exceptional humans who may have the potential to become the modern version of the powerful ancient warrior Agito. The amnesiac Shoichi Tsugami becomes the new Agito and fights to protect humanity alongside policeman Makoto Hikawa, swimmer Ryo Ashihara, and doctor Kaoru Kino[[labelnote:more]]Though ''Agito'' aired in 2001, the official backstory says it takes place two years after the rise of the Grongi (''Kuuga''), which occurred in 2000.[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/KamenRiderAgito'')
* People in Tokyo begin being abducted by monsters that come from mirrors and other reflective surfaces. Intern reporter Shinji Kido gets caught up in the incident and comes into the possession of an Advent Deck, which allows the bearer to form a contract with such monsters and become a Kamen Rider. The Riders are set against one another in the Rider Battle, with the ultimate prize being a single wish; Shinji tries to convince his fellow Riders that more important things are happening, and fights to end the Rider Battle peacefully. (''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'')
* Jacob Kell and his small army of Immortals attack the Sanctuary and exterminate everyone present there except Connor [=MacLeod=], who Kell wants alive, sober and miserable. Duncan [=MacLeod=], Methos, and Joe Dawson go in pursuit, and Duncan finds himself the latest target in Kell's hit list. [[labelnote:more]] The only way for Duncan to kill Kell is to gain another quality Quickening - that of Connor.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/HighlanderEndgame'')
* In the wake of 9/11 and more supervillain attacks than the city deserves, Tesladyne relocates from the Empire State Building to an underground complex beneath a remote island. (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'')
* A zombie washes ashore on St. Thomas. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* The Brainspawn's Infosphere comes online. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* Birth of Kyle Reese. (''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'')
* Network of Intercontinental Expressways opens. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* Anubis appears, defeats several System Lords and Tok'ra. The Jaffa Rebellion begins in earnest. Daniel Jackson {{ascend|to a higher plane of existence}}s and is replaced on SG-1 by Langaran defector Jonas Quinn. The United States launches Earth's first spacegoing warship, the BC-303 USS ''Prometheus''. Her hyperdrive fails rather spectacularly during the shakedown cruise, forcing an emergency landing on the planet Tagrea where she remains stranded for the better part of a year. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Izaya Orihara becomes wanted by the Ikebukuro police and frames Shizuo Heiwajima as an accomplice. While running from the police, Shizuo throws a vending machine at a police car, but is ultimately cleared of all charges once further investigation proves that he could not be involved in the crime. This only serves to fuel the two boys' hatred of each other. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
* James Halliday and Ogden Morrow are comfortable millionaires who own mansions. (''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'')
* Two entomologists appear dead in a skiff on the coast of Florida, decomposed and covered in puncture marks and bite wounds, with mysterious tracks in the sand leading off into the brush; video evidence indicates that both they and a group of Latin American men in 1999 were attacked by [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant centipedes]], though the animals were never found. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Death Crawler")
* Birth of Yusei Fudo.[[labelnote:Justification]]Established to be 19 years old in episode 116[[/labelnote]] (''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'')
* Orie Ballardiae witnesses her parents being killed by a Void with the unusual ability to speak human language. She is rescued and recruited by a member of the Licht Kreis organisation. (''VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth'')
* Allie Keys, a one-eighth alien nine-year-old girl with extraordinary powers, makes the difficult decision to leave Earth and join the aliens. She leaves behind a star shaped pendant as a sign to her parents Lisa Clarke and Charlie Keys that she will return one day. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Bryce Larkin is recruited into the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} during his junior year at Stanford University. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* Francesca Gimpel is born to Heinrich and Lise Gimpel. (''In the Presence of Mine Enemies'')
* The Nemesis comet hits the Earth, wiping out all plant, animal and human life, bar a few survivors, and plunging the world into a seemingly endless winter. The only people who survive are those in underground bunkers or research stations, who are protected from the impact. (''Series/{{Thunderstone}}'')
* U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. develops the first commercial mobile speaking robots, making earlier non-speaking models largely obsolete. (''Literature/IRobot'')
* In Los Angeles, then 18-year old Damien "Dame" Anderson is arrested after drawing a gun to protect Adonis Creed after he got into a violent altercation with his group home caregiver. (''Film/CreedIII'')
* Mike Warner steals David Walkerton's autographed photo of Bob Denver. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2003]]
* January 23: Special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman begin testing out experiments on various urban myths, in what would be their [[LongRunners longest-running hit]] on Creator/DiscoveryChannel. (''Series/MythBusters'')
* January 26: The movie ''American Splendor'' wins the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Harvey Pekar watches the award ceremony at a friend's house. (RealLife, ''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'')
* January:
** Jerry Miller obtains a household robot from Gideon Robotics for his family. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
** Archie "Snake" Simpson and Christine "Spike" Nelson are married. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
** Gabi Kane is killed in a car crash. (''Series/Batwoman2019'')
** SEMME squad 135 investigates extradimensional activity in London. Jason Chesterfield breaks Sal Walters out of prison. Alan Rees is captured and interrogated by Aliens, rescued by SEMME squad 128. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* February 2: Hal Nolastname goes go-karting. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* February 16: Carl Morrissey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 17: Iraq War officially begins. ({{Real Life}})
* March 18: SUZURAN releases her first album, distracting the people of Japan from the Iraq War. Plans are laid for her second album to coincide with the JSDF's arrival at As Samawah. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 19: Following a terrorist attack on New York that led to the deaths of 12,000 people, and after U.S. President George Baker's demands for the Middle Eastern nations to release the terrorist leader "Darin" from their custody go unheard, the United States and its international allies declare war on the Middle East, launching air strikes on their major cities and air force bases. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
* March 20: The day after the Middle Eastern War begins and air strikes have started, the United States and its allies send out ground troops to fight. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
* April 17: Astro Boy is created. (''Manga/AstroBoy'')
* May 4: Nils Ortega writes to his ex-wife Demi about his opposition to the Iraq War. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* May 11: In Japan, Haruaki Fusaishi finds himself lost in the mountains, not far from the village of Yasumizu.[[labelnote:Justification]]The year is explicitly mentioned at the beginning of Mitsuji's extra story.[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/RagingLoop'')
* May 12: Mist covers the village of Yasumizu, and the Feast of the Yomi-Purge begins. (''VisualNovel/RagingLoop'')
* May 25: Tru Davies graduates from college. (''Series/TruCalling'')
* May 26: On the anniversary of her mother Elise's death, Tru Davies starts working at a morgue and begins reliving days to prevent people's deaths. (''Series/TruCalling'')
* May: Commander Harmon Rabb Jr. saves the USS Seahawk Carrier Battle Group in the Arabian Sea from a dirty nuke missile launched from a rogue Iranian diesel sub by puttting his F-14 Tomcat in front of the heat-seeking missile and letting it chase him until it runs out of fuel (''Series/{{JAG}}'')
* Before June: In Midvale, Kenny Li is murdered by Sheriff Ronald Collins after he accidentally takes a photograph of Collins' involvement in a drug deal. Kara and Alex Danvers solve the crime and Collins is arrested. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* Around May/June: Through the overwhelming strength of their Titano-Machina superweapons, the United States and its allies suppress the Middle Eastern forces, ending the war a mere two months after it started. However, due to the Middle Eastern forces feigning surrender, they are unable to secure the singular Juno held by the Middle East. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
* June 12:
** Around 3:00 PM, two entities, known as "The Giant" and "The Dragon," appear in Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they engage in battle using mysterious sounds. [[labelnote:more]]After destroying the Grotesquerie Queen-Beast ("The Giant"), Caim and Angelus ("The Dragon") are shot down by the JSDF.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}})''
** This "6-12 Incident" results in 56 fatalities, 320 injuries, and 60 billion yen in damages. The Japanese government attempts a cover-up, but leaked footage continues to circle on the internet. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* June 27: Hal Nolastname visits Pilgrim Village. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* June: Albert Manning is killed in a car accident. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* July 11: Hal Nolastname visits a haunted house, but has a panic attack, forcing it to shut down. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* July 13: Soos Ramirez realises his father will never be back, and hates his birthdays from then on. On the plus side, he gets a job at the Mystery Shack. (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'')
* July 16: Two nukes go off in Washington D.C., and a third directed at the Pentagon fizzles. (''Literature/TheMerchantPrincesSeries'')
* July 19: Britja agents attack SEMME HQ. [[labelnote:more]] Grace Svenson and Dina Sarazu are killed and [[/labelnote]] several SEMME agents are mindwiped. Penny Worthington seizes control of the Britjas from Dargon Chesterfield. Mike Warner swaps positions with Robin [=DeSanto=] from SEMME squad 82. [[labelnote:Justification]] [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/above-and-beyond/ Date given on Dina's gravestone]] [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* July 22: Bobby Beale is born. (''Series/EastEnders'')
* Between January and July:
** Mary Bradford marries Dr. Peter Paul. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
** The Science Fiction Club are randomly pulled into another universe, where they tangle with Aliens and SEMME squad 128. (''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'', Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* August 12: Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame investigate a strange red mist covering the land of Gensokyo. [[labelnote:more]]Remilia Scarlet was the one that caused it, so that she could go out without the sunlight harming her.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil'')
* August 14: A widespread power blackout occurs throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Major cities like New York, Detroit, and Cleveland are affected. (RealLife)
** Raymond "T-Bone" Kenney hacks into the ctOS system, causing the blackout. (''VideoGame/WatchDogs'')
** Harvey Pekar, in New York with his family to help promote the opening of the ''American Splendor'' movie, experiences the blackout firsthand. The next day he's unable to get a flight out of [=LaGuardia=] Airport because of the blackout, but his spirits are lifted by the movie's positive reviews. (''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'')
* August 22: Hal Nolastname visits Oceanland, and gets to feed a killer whale. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* August: Tommy Oliver enlists several students in his attempt to keep a psychotic murderer [[JekyllAndHyde with mysterious links to Anton Mercer]] from [[EvilutionaryBiologist bringing back the age of the dinosaurs]]. The battles last through May 2004. (''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'')
* September 2: The Pilgrim family moves to Northern Ontario and Scott starts at St. Joel's Catholic High School. He gets into a fight on his first day and meets Lisa Miller in the principal's office. For a couple weeks, she pursues a friendship with him and he continues to act aloof, leading her to think he hates her. They end up becoming best friends.[[labelnote:Justification]]This was the day after Labor Day in 2003. And yes, they have Labor Day in Canada.[[/labelnote]] (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
* September 8: On her fifteenth birthday, Mei is visited by Mepple the fairy, and becomes a Pretty Cure. (''Fanfic/MapleSugarPrettyCure'')
* September 27: Tom, Della and Derek Lincoln are murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* September: Japan hosts an international summit, including Russia and the United States, concerning the 6-12 Incident. (''VideoGame/NieR'')
* October 20: Majestic-12 sets a $18.6 million bounty on each of the 15 people who could possibly foil their plan to create a new Cold War, including Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield. (''[[Creator/MatthewReilly Scarecrow]]'')
* October 26: The aforementioned plan is foiled by Schofield and co. [[labelnote:more]]Schofield's girlfriend, is decapitated by Jonathon Killian in the process, leading to four months of stress leave. A French aircraft carrier is also destroyed in the process, leading to another bounty on Schofield's head, this time five million Euros from the French military.[[/labelnote]] (''[[Creator/MatthewReilly Scarecrow]]'')
* October: ''USS Destiny'', a colony ship incorporating Martian technology, is publicly announced. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* November 28: High school student Light Yagami finds a mysterious notebook on the ground at his school. Kira's first murders are committed. (''Manga/DeathNote'', manga version)
* November: Steve and Lisa are murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* December 2: Nora Darkh is born. (''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'')
* December 13: Osama bin Laden is found and captured in a terrorist compound on the Afghan-Pakistani border. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
* Mid-December: The crew of Moya arrives on Earth in a time-frame where they don't have to worry about {{temporal paradox}}es. [[labelnote:more]]They leave on Christmas Day, in order to protect Earth from everyone who's looking for Crichton's wormhole knowledge.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/{{Farscape}}'')
* December 26: Bun-Bun kills Santa Claus, becoming the new Emperor of Holidays. (''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'')
* December 24-31: Three homeless people in Tokyo, Gin, Miyuki, and Hana, discover an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. The trio then embarks on a quest to return the infant to her mother.(''Anime/TokyoGodfathers'')
* December:
** First cases of what will later be called White Chlorination Syndrome in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The disease causes victims' bodies to break down into sodium chloride, and has a 100% mortality rate. Research on the disease begins, and is met with optimism due to its initial rarity. (''VideoGame/NieR'')
** SEMME squad 128 investigates temporal anomalies in Webcomic/{{Avalon}. The Head Alien is destroyed by the Cheese. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Negi Springfield travels to Japan. (''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'')
* Californian hidden ninja academies are ransacked with all students kidnapped in a brutal attack by the ninja exiled in 1975. The remaining forces from two (barely) surviving academies successfully wage a counter-attack. (''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'')
* Metroplex is constructed. Earth Defence Command is set up, with Marisa Faireborn in a position of leadership. (''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'')
* Nicholas Angel obtains a Peace Lily, and starts tending to it. This causes a rift between him and his girlfriend, Janine, who feels he cares more for the plant than he does for her. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* Buffy Summers leaves Sunnydale [[labelnote:more]]as it's falling into a sinkhole, after defeating The First Evil[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* The Bride awakens from her coma and goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. (''Film/KillBill'')
* The Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica [[ComicBook/JLAAvengers teams up]] with ComicBook/TheAvengers to defeat Krona. (Creator/DCComics, Creator/MarvelComics)
* A team of scientists drill to the Earth's core to restart its rotation. (''Film/TheCore'')
* A reporter temporarily gains the power of God. (''Film/BruceAlmighty'')
* [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] battles [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]. (''Film/FreddyVsJason'')
* Leonard becomes roommates with Sheldon. (''Series/TheBigBangTheory'')
* Dave Davenport becomes unstuck in time, and [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble now never has smoked]]. (''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'')
* A rave is held in Isla de la Muerta in broad daylight. (''Film/HouseOfTheDead'')
* An alternative Ninth Doctor fights off the Shalka's plans to render the Earth uninhabitable (or to them, inhabitable). (''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' [animated serials])
* The Smart Brain Corporation begins attempting to take over the world through the Orphnochs, beings believed to be the next step in human evolution. They develop three sets of Rider Gear, which turn the wearers into powerful armored warriors, to protect the nascent Orphnoch King. However the former members of the Ryusei School, a group of orphans adopted by Smart Brain's founder, begin to fight back with the stolen Gear, accidentally involving the loner Takumi Inui in their battle. (''Series/KamenRider555'')
* A time travel "paradox-free" duplicate of Philip J. Fry finds a new job in an aquarium. He is tasked with taking care of Leelu the narwhal, a rare whale. He would keep this hobby until 2010. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* Inbred killers chase people in the forests of West Virginia. (''Film/WrongTurn'')
* US government takes control of what remains of Cyberdyne Systems and contracts AI research to Cyber Research Systems. (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'')
* Construction begins on International Mass-Scale Transportation System. Radioactive material is sealed in an artificial island in the Indian Ocean. Intercontinental ballistic missiles are detonated high above the atmosphere. Heaven Smiles make their first public appearance by suicide bombing a UN meeting. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* An army of hired killers dressed as Squeky Clean company workers eliminate various people in New York City. (''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'')
* Anubis uses the Eyes of the Goa'uld to assemble a superweapon which he uses to blow up Abydos. [[labelnote:more]]Oma Desala helps the Abydonians to collectively ascend.[[/labelnote]] The other System Lords temporarily unite under Yu, but are no match for Anubis. SG-1, in collaboration with the descended Daniel Jackson, defeats Anubis with an [[CrazyEnoughToWork "absolutely insane" plan]]. Ba'al takes command of the united System Lords. Anubis develops the Kull {{super soldier}}s and uses them to kill off several minor Goa'uld and take their armies. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* The creature EI-01 crash lands on Earth, stopped by the mechanoid lion Galeon. Astronaut Guy Shishioh is gravely wounded by EI-01's arrival and is rescued by Galeon, being rebuilt as a cyborg. (''Anime/GaoGaiGar'')
* Metal Sonic, tired of Eggman's failures, imprisons him and lures Sonic and his friends into a trap to wipe them all out. Shadow the Hedgehog seemingly returns to life during this time. (''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'')
* Francis Nolastname and Piama Tananahaakna marry a month after they meet. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* A pair of police officers and an indie filmmaker investigate "the Beast Killer," a prolific serial killer who leaves traces of both human and animal DNA behind at the crime scenes; by the end of the night, the filmmaker and the killer are dead, and the officers were separately given paid psychiatric leave before resigning from the force. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Werewolf")
* A science experiment meant to give immunity to gamma radiation turns scientist Bruce Banner into the Hulk. (''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'')
* Billions of people are wiped out by the [=HR2=] virus. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* David Caulder is appointed as the director of Moonbase 3 after his predecessor Dr. Tony Ransome is killed in a shuttle crash caused by the pilot, Harry Sanders, suffering a mental breakdown while en route to Earth. Moonbase 3 is operated by Europe while the other four are operated by the United States, the Soviet Union, China and Brazil. The Soviets are on the verge of sending a manned mission to Mars and their long-term goal is to launch a manned orbital flight of Jupiter using Mars as a springboard. (''Series/MoonbaseThree'')
* Timothy Worthy dies. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* Five Bayside High School students dig up a TimeCapsule buried by the Class of 1993. (''Series/SavedByTheBell'')
* Kara Zor-El's pod lands on Earth after spending 24 years trapped in the Phantom Zone. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* Bryce Larkin learns that the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} intends to recruit his close friend Chuck Bartowski. As he knows that CIA work will destroy the good-natured Chuck, Bryce [[FrameUp frames him for cheating]] by putting the answers to exam questions under Chuck's bed. Chuck is expelled from Stanford University, believing that Bryce betrayed him. He eventually learns the truth in November 2007. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* Quincy Bubley is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* The United States and Russia reveal the existence of the Stargate to the United Kingdom, France and the People's Republic of China, the other three permanent members of the UN Security Council, in order to build a coalition against Anubis. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Roxane Gimpel is born to Heinrich and Lise Gimpel. (''In the Presence of Mine Enemies'')
* A much faster moving variety of tennis ball known as a lively ball is developed. Players and spectators must wear special goggles in order to see the lively balls when they are in motion. (Creator/DCComics)
* Susan Calvin receives a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and begins her graduate work in cybernetics. (''Literature/IRobot'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2003-2004]]
* Over the course of their sophomore year, Scott Pilgrim and Lisa Miller form a band. Scott recruits Kim Pine, his partner in one of his classes, as drummer for the band, and proceeds to develop feelings for her. On a Monday, a gang from Benvie Tech High School attacks St. Joel's, and Scott goes to Benvie Tech to fight Simon Lee, a sinister Benvie Tech student who kidnapped Kim. Scott rescues her and they begin dating.[[labelnote:more]]This proves to be a false memory; in reality, Simon Lee was Kim's boyfriend who Scott punched in the face when he saw them hugging. She then broke up with Simon to date Scott.[[/labelnote]] Scott loses his virginity to Kim, but they break up when Scott has to move to Toronto.[[labelnote:more]]Scott doesn't tell Kim this, she instead learns about it from Lisa. [[/labelnote]] (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
* Many Earth governments begin to ban the use of robots for any purposes other than scientific. (''Literature/IRobot'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Between 2000 and 2004]]
* David Willis and Maggie Weidner begin a relationship while working at SEMME. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2004]]
* January 4: Senku Ishigami is born. (''Manga/DrStone'')
* January 10: Agent 47 assassinates Joseph Clarence, an amusement park owner. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
* January: Rocky Tardio dies. (''Series/JoanOfArcadia'')
* January:
** The protagonist prepares to go to university on Monday. (''VideoGame/{{Unpacking}}'')
** ''USS Destiny'' launches. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* February 1: The Carolina Panthers and the New England Patriots play in Super Bowl XXXVIII. (RealLife)
** Five minutes before the halftime show starts, a stagehand attempts to open a beer bottle with a black dress. He rips the bust. ([[https://youtu.be/J36RbBbEzaI Bud Light ad]])
** At the end of the halftime show, Music/JustinTimberlake tears off part of Music/JanetJackson's black dress, briefly revealing her right breast on national television. MoralGuardians everywhere freak out. (RealLife)
** Children and infants across America are severely traumatized by the sight of Janet Jackson's breast. The mass trauma persists for a year (and possibly for the rest of their lives). (''Website/TheOnion'')
* February 2: Saber is summoned by Shirou Emiya in Fuyuki, starting the fifth Holy Grail World. (''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'')
* February 4: Website/{{Facebook}} is founded by Mark Zuckerberg. (RealLife, Website/{{Facebook}})
* February 29: Agent 47 assassinates two drug lords in Chile. (''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'')
* Late February:
** Sal Walters and Jason Chesterfield complete their investigation in London and return to Denver, where they give Linda Walkerton a full report on extradimensional incursions. [[labelnote:Justification]] [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/the-whole-story/ Stated to happen]] eight months after the Britjas' attack on SEMME HQ, but Willis' commentary on [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/this-room-doesnt-exist/ this comic]] says the final battle happens in February. [[/labelnote]](Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
** ''USS Destiny'' meets the Martian retaliatory vessel at the edge of the solar system; its crew is zombified. Penny Worthington leads a Britja assault on the now-defunct SEMME HQ; many die. Joe Rosenthal and Rachel Jackson rebuild Danny Wilcox's SUV into Ultra-Car. Martians attack Earth at the same time the Head Alien's backup plan comes to fruition. Earth is ultimately saved by SEMME, at the cost of many lives, but some leave enough body parts to be resurrected. Martians threaten to invade again in 25 years. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* March 3: Federal agent Jack Bauer thwarts an attempt to assassinate U.S. Senator and presidential candidate David Palmer. (''Series/TwentyFour'')[[labelnote:more]]This and all ''24'' dates should be considered {{Fanon}}, as the show's creators have been deliberately careless about chronology. For instance, Day One takes place on Super Tuesday in an election year (2000 or '04), but one of its [[TheDragon Dragons]], Alexis Drazen, was born on 24 January 1967 and is listed as 35 years old, thus placing the season in... 2002.[[/labelnote]]
* March 17: Agent 47 assassinates an opera singer, a US ambassador to the vatican and, after getting shot and remembering previous hits, the Paris chief of police. (''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' and ''VideoGame/HitmanContracts'')
* March 31: Agent 47 rescues Agent Smith and kills a New York Mafioso. (''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'')
* March: Joe Rosenthal and Rachel Jackson rig up a resurrection chamber using technology salvaged from the Martian invasion by Lith of SEMME squad 37 . [[labelnote:more]] It is first used to make a new body for David Walkerton.[[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* April 4: Honoka Yukishiro celebrates her birthday while being held captive in a jewelry store. (''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'')
* April:
** TV Tropes is established, primarily serving as a Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}} wiki. [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Thousands of lives are ruined]] from this point on. (RealLife, Website/TVTropes)
** Joyce Brown leaks the resurrection chamber plans to a private company on condition that they resurrect Mike Warner first. [[labelnote:Justification]] Resurrection tubes take nine months to fully restore somebody, and Mike is already working at Shortpacked in January 2005, so Joyce can't have leaked the plans later than April 2004. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* May 8: Reimu and Marisa go out in search of whatever or whoever is causing the prolonged winter. (''VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom'')
* May 15: Agent 47 assassinates Vinnie Sinistra, a Cuban crime lord. (''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'')
* Spring:
** Shaun makes plans with his girlfriend to have dinner at a new place. He misses the plans, and she dumps him. (''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'')
** An epidemic of zombies infests the world, (England and London in particular). Shaun gathers his best friend Ed, Liz and her two roommates, Daniel and Diane, and his mother and step-father to try to save them. [[labelnote:spoilers]]Of all of these people, one is killed, one is turned into a zombie and killed, and two are turned into zombies and left alive.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'')
* June:
** Ramona Flowers and Todd Ingram graduate high school. Because Todd is going to vegan college and Ramona to the University of California in the Sky, they break up. (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
** Dylan Michalchuk graduates from Degrassi Community School. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* Early July: A T-X kills several future members of the human resistance. It is destroyed by John Connor and Katherine Brewster with the aid of a reprogrammed and upgraded T-800. (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'')
* July 15: Krista James kills her [[DomesticAbuse abusive boyfriend]] Doug [=McNair=] in self-defense using the Jaffa martial arts technique ''lok'nel'' that Teal'c taught her. The Trust [[FrameUp frames]] Teal'c for killing [=McNair=] but Detective Pete Shanahan is able to prove his innocence. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* July 24: A computer virus spreads across civilian and military computer networks. (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'')
* July 25: [[AIIsACrapshoot Skynet]] becomes self-aware, and launches a nuclear attack on the Earth, killing billions. (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'')
* August 14: The 4400 are returned ''en masse'' to Highland Beach near Mount Rainier in Washington. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August:
** The Mamu logging company is shut down after clearing the forest; the land is bought by a mining company. Francis Nolastname and Piama Tananahaakna move south. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
** Joyce Brown receives a presidential pardon for crimes committed while she was with SEMME. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* September 19: Usean Continental War breaks out (''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'')
* September 22: Oceanic Flight 815 crash-lands on The Island. [[labelnote:more]]There are roughly 70 survivors; John Locke regains the use of his legs. [[/labelnote]] (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* September 27-28: The moon in Gensokyo is replaced with a fake one, and time is stopped so that the real one can be found. (''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight'')
* September:
** Malcolm Nolastname starts high school. Francis and Piama start work at the Grotto. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
** Danny Van Zandt begins attending Degrassi Community School. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
** Jason Chesterfield, Marcie Diaz, and Travis Amir are assigned to a team of elite soldiers to track down Monkey Master. Sal Walters is excluded on account of mental instability. Bobby Walkerton, under the name 'Machete', arrives from the future and lends his assistance. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* October 9: The supercomputer is turned back on. (''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'')
* October 11: Dr. Max Hudson discovers promicin, a previously unknown neurotransmitter which gives the 4400 their abilities. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October 13: Dana Taylor is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* October 23: Laurie Dunne is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* October 25: Agent 47 prevents the assassination of the Secretary of Interior by killing his assassins. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
* October 28: Dennis Ryland orders Dr. Max Hudson to develop a promicin inhibitor in order to prevent the 4400 from developing any further powers. It is known as Project Firewall. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October:
** White Chlorination Syndrome continues to spread through Shinjuku, and some infected persons begin going into psychotic fits before death. Quarantine measures escalate until the Japanese government constructs what is soon called the "Wall of Jericho" around the area, while assuring the international community that treatment will continue of citizens sealed off in Shinjuku. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
** Time-Travelling Xindi from the 22nd century arrive in Detroit, Michigan. They hire Loomis, a local blood bank worker, to acquire eight samples of Human blood for them. The Xindi need to study Human physiology before being able to produce a suitable bioweapon. (''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'')
* November 2:
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush is re-elected. (RealLife)
** U.S. President Creator/RobertRedford is re-elected to a fourth term. (''Series/Watchmen2019'')
* November 4: The Hatch is opened by the Losties. (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* November 12: Judith Montgomery is murdered. (''Series/JoanOfArcadia'')
* November 25: The detective known as L who was working on the Kira investigation was murdered by a God of Death who was manipulated by Kira himself. Other victims include L's assistant and butler, Quillish Wammy, as well as Rem, the Death God herself. (''Death Note'')
* November 27: The Hatch's computer is destroyed, but the system starts failing. Desmond saves the world by using his failsafe, and the sky turns purple briefly. [[labelnote:more]]This burst of electromagnetism alerts Penelope Widmore[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* November:
** According to John Titor's predictions, civil unrest centers around the U.S. presidential campaign. (UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}})
** David Walkerton is fully resurrected following the battle against the Martians. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* September - November: Leon S. Kennedy is sent to rural Spain to rescue the President of the United States' daughter from the cult Los Illuminados. Ada Wong steals a "sample" [[labelnote:more]]of the parasite known as Las Plagas from the corpse of the cult's leader, Osmund Saddler.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'')
* December:
** The last media transmissions from Shinjuku are abruptly cut off. Footage of a white giant circulates on the internet. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
** A botched robbery occurs in North Yankton, forcing Michael Townley to change his surname to De Santa and relocate to Los Santos under witness protection. (''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'')
* December 22: The science team from the freighter, the ''Kahana'', sent by Charles Widmore, land on the Island. (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* December 24: Agent 47 assassinates a porn tycoon and a playboy. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
* December 31: Several people make it off The Island [[labelnote:more]] ...while everyone else jumps through time. The Oceanic Six are rescued.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* Late 2004: Mike Warner returns from the dead. After visiting his parents in New York, he moves to San Francisco and starts working at Shortpacked. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* The original Franchise/{{Godzilla}} from [[Film/{{Gojira}} 1954]] is resurrected by the vengeful spirits of forgotten soldiers that died in WWII and sets forth to seek revenge on Japan. Three guardian-monsters known as Mothra, Baragon, and King Ghidorah are awakened in order to stop Godzilla's wrath. (''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'').
* Decepticons conquer Cybertron. Autobots retain control of the moons. (''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'').
* Starscream, having been resurrected by Unicron, travels back in time to assasinate Optimus Prime, pursued by Star Saber and Victory Leo. Beast Megatron, having travelled through the Blasty Zone, arrives to save Starscream, but is driven off by the timely arrival of Optimus Primal. They are soon joined by Lio Convoy, who fight against Beast Megatron, Starscream, Smokescreen, Gigant Bomb, and Rebirth Megatron (who originally posed as an Autobot, Reverse Convoy). (''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: Robot Masters'')
* Axe Cop, real name Axey Smartist, is born to Bobber and Gobber Smartist. (Webcomic/AxeCop)
* Ashley Graham kidnapped by Jack Krauser and handed over to Los Immunados patriarch, Osmund Saddler. Krauser and Ada Wong, under orders from Albert Wesker, attempt to obtain Las Plagas samples; Krauser is apparently killed in the attempt. Leon Kennedy travels to Spain and rescues Ashley, killing Saddler in the process. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'')
* [[ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004 Sue Dibny is murdered.]] (Creator/DCComics)
* A [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} group of youngsters]] discover their parents are supervillains, and resolve to stop them. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* A rapid-fire series of disasters [[ComicBook/AvengersDisassembled shatter]] ComicBook/TheAvengers.[[labelnote:more]]It's the Scarlet Witch's fault; later retconned to be Doctor Doom's.[[/labelnote]] (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ComicBook/NickFury engages in a ComicBook/{{Secret War|2004}} against Latveria. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Namie Yagiri shows her brother Seiji Yagiri Celty's head. Seiji falls in love with it. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
* A [[ComicBook/NewAvengers new Avengers team]] is formed, including ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Max Walker of TEC resolves to stop the corrupt Senator [=McComb=]. (''Film/{{Timecop}}'')
* Gregory House deals with challenging medical cases. (''Series/{{House}}'')
* Global warming leads to a new ice age. (''Film/TheDayAfterTomorrow'')
* Napoleon Dynamite helps his friend Pedro run for class president. (''Film/NapoleonDynamite'')
* Archaeologists in the Antarctic wind up caught between [[Franchise/{{Alien}} two]] [[Franchise/{{Predator}} groups]] of extraterrestrials. (''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'')
** A battle between two groups of aliens spills over into Gunnison, Colorado. (''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'')
* Benjamin Franklin Gates hunts for the Founding Fathers' hidden treasure. (''Film/NationalTreasure'')
* Coop finds Megas in a junkyard and rebuilds the robot his way. Kiva and the Glorft both arrive looking for Megas. Coop, piloting Megas, beats up a lot of bad guys. (''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'')
* An incident occurs in which Nicholas Angel swears off the use of guns. [[labelnote:more]]This is possibly the incident when he shoots a drug dealer, which he describes to Danny Butterman later.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* The events of ''Un-Man'' occur. (''The Psychotechnic League'')
* Sergeant First Class William James becomes a team leader of a U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq, after the previous leader is killed. (''Film/TheHurtLocker'')
* The BOARD Corporation accidentally releases the ancient monsters known as the Undead from their confinement. They begin the Battle Royale, which will determine the dominant species on the planet. Former BOARD employee Kazuma Kenzaki uses Rider System 02 (Blade) to battle and seal the Undead before they can destroy humanity. (''Series/KamenRiderBlade'')
* Doctor Impossible unleashes his fifth Doomsday Device, The Meta-Metavirus, is defeated for the 12th time and incarcerated.
* The Key to the World, a trinklet which grants the holder dominion over Earth, is brought to Townsville.[[labelnote:more]]It is eventually claimed by Mojo Jojo, who uses his new power to end war, hunger, and poverty, establish free electricity for life, and give everyone puppies. then he gets bored and returns to villainy.[[/labelnote]](''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'')
* The SGC develops a weapon to combat the Kull warriors. Anubis launches a full-scale attack on Earth. SG-1 locates and activates an Ancient outpost in Antarctica, destroying his fleet. Jack O'Neill is promoted to Brigadier General, takes command of the SGC, and promotes Samantha Carter to Lieutenant Colonel. Ba'al steps into the power vacuum left by Anubis and begins driving back the other System Lords. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* The SGC sends an expedition through the Stargate to coordinates found in the Ancient outpost. They discover {{Atlantis}}, an Ancient city-ship, in the oceans of a planet in the Pegasus Galaxy, and begin battling the vampiric race known as the Wraith. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Nagisa Misumi and Honoka Yukishiro are recruited by two mysterious fairies to battle the forces of the Dark Zone. They become the first modern day Pretty Cure. (''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'')
* Wilma "Will" Vandom, Hay Lin, Irma Lair, Cornelia Hale, and Taranee Cook become the new Guardians of the Veil, AKA [[FunWithAcronyms WITCH]]. They spend the next two years liberating the planet Meridian from Prince Phobos, aided by rebel leader Caleb, and installing his long-lost sister Elyon Brown, as the true ruler. [[labelnote:Justification]]When the series starts, they're listed as 13 years old, but when the second season starts, which is immediately after the first season, they're 15[[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}})
* Kitty Kenarben leaves her husband and son. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* The tide is turned against AIDS. (Nuveen Investments [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zbEsQYMb0 Super Bowl ad]])
* Professor Fudo's Moment reactor overloads and explodes[[labelnote:more]] due to the actions of Rutger Goodwin[[/labelnote]], detaching a chunk of Domino City from the mainland which becomes the satellite. Fudo's final act is to eject his infant son, Yusei, in an escape pod to save his life. [[labelnote:more]]Rutger severs his right arm, which bears the Signer Mark of the Crimson Dragon's head, and gives it to Rex, then completely succumbs to the influence of Earthbound Immortal Uru[[/labelnote]].
* JSDF sent to As Samawah. SUZURAN's second album is released around the same time. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* Terry [=McCammon=] dies of lung cancer. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* [AlternateTimeline] Major General George Hammond seemingly dies of a heart attack. After learning that the Aschen anti-aging vaccine causes infertility in 2010, Dr. Janet Frasier comes to believe that the Aschen murdered him in order to keep their secret. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Somewhere in autumn, a crossroads with another dimension accidentally appears in a small Russian town. (''Literature/TheFootfallsOfChessHorses'')
* Signs of an apocalyptic prophecy cause light and dark supernaturals to clash after centuries of truce. (''Film/NightWatch'')
* A year after the end of the Middle Eastern War, Spanish forces stationed in Saudi Arabia are suddenly and brutally devastated by twenty-eight Titano-Machina of unknown affiliation. It soon comes to light that these superweapons were created from the Juno held by the Middle East. The United States forces its allies and neutral nations alike to hand over their own Juno and Titano-Machina, and soon dispatches them into the Middle East, beginning World War III. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
* A mere three months into World War III, the death toll exceeds that of 250 million people. Some Asian and South American nations ally with the Middle East, and all-out war reaches every area of the planet. The United States is completely unable to reclaim the Middle East. Human civilization and the Earth's biosphere as a whole has begun rapidly collapsing as a result of all the devastation, and all major powers have been reduced to fighting one another. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
* Elle Woods graduates from Harvard Law School. (''Film/LegallyBlonde'')
* Galasso hears that bringing back things from the 1980s makes money, so he brings back Ronald Reagan to work at Shortpacked. Universe-hopping Head Alien, henceforth referred to as Head Alien II, is trapped in Walkyverse Prime.
* Leslie Bean comes out as gay. She divorces her husband and her father cuts off all contact. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Before 2005]]
* Judai Yuki (Jaden Yuki) wins a card design contest sponsored by [=KaibaCorp=], and his Neo-Spacians are blasted into space. Judai includes his Yubel card with them, as it has been giving him nightmares. (''Anime/YuGiOhGX'')
* Estimated birth of Annie Hastur, a child mage prodigy, and Nunu, a Freljordian adventurer.[[labelnote:note]]Although most characters' ages are ambiguous, Annie and Nunu are still young children by the time of the Noxus vs. Ionia rematch event. See the main page for further justification.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'')
[[/folder]]
----

[[folder:2005-2007]]
* Various figures bet against the US housing market, seeing it as a bubble about to pop. Come 2007, they're proven right when the economy crashes. (RealLife and ''Film/TheBigShort'')
* The remaining governments of Earth ban the use of robots. (''Literature/IRobot'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2005]]
* January 1: The Tenth Doctor regenerates. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* January 12: Agent 47 assassinates several members of the Gator Gang, a drug distribution group. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
* January 20: Sam Axe is honorably discharged from the US Navy. (''Film/BurnNoticeTheFallOfSamAxe'')
* January 25: Pedro Aabdar is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* January: Robin [=DeSanto=] and Mike Warner start working at Shortpacked. Robin moves in with Amber O'Malley. Agatha Larsen starts working at [=McAwesome's=] around the same time. [[labelnote:Justification]] In [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/bonkers this strip]], which happens just after New Year's Day 2006, Robin says she's been there for a year. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* February 8: As a demonstration of Harold Finch's Machine, a number is given to government agents. They eventually recognize that the number is the social security number of a man whom they confirm to be a traitor. (''Series/PersonOfInterest'')
* February 11: A couple are brutalized by three masked people, seemingly ForTheEvulz. (''Film/TheStrangers'')
* February 14: Three guys start Website/YouTube. (RealLife, Website/YouTube)
* February 17: Agent 47 assassinates two gang leaders during a wedding. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
* February 23: Adam and Jamie blow up a cement truck. It's the most iconic explosion in their careers. (''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'')
* February 24: Harold Finch's Machine goes online, codenamed Northern Lights by the government. (''Series/PersonOfInterest'')
* February: Solid Snake infiltrates Shadow Moses to stop renegade members of FOXHOUND. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'')
* March 5:
** Rose Tyler meets the Ninth Doctor. [[labelnote:pedantry]]Technically, her first meeting with the Ninth Doctor was in 1987 on the day her father died, although she was no more than a year old then. She also meets the Tenth Doctor on January 1, immediately before his regeneration.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
** Ellie Ravenwood Oswald dies. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* March 6: Mickey Smith meets the Ninth Doctor. [[labelnote:pedantry]]Also met in 1987 at a young age.[[/labelnote]] Plastic shop window dummies attack central London. [[labelnote:more]]Mickey is kidnapped by the Nestene and is replaced by a duplicate. The Nestene Consciousness starts taking control of the dummies from the London Eye, but Rose stops it.[[/labelnote]] Rose joins the TARDIS. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* March 15: The Tokyo Earthquake/Tokyo Twilight Disaster occurs. A series of supernatural phenomena [[note]]caused by a very powerful Grim Greed named the Twilight Apostle[[/note]] centered on Tokyo cause over 30,000 deaths. [[labelnote:more]]Shiori is struck by rubble and dies in Kou's hands. In a desperate plea to remain with Kou, she inadvertently merges with the Twilight Apostle to create the illusion that Shiori is still alive. Asuka becomes orphaned when her parents die protecting her from the Greeds, and later takes her mother's Soul Device: Exerion Hearts, as a keepsake. Mitsuki's parents are killed in the disaster while on a business trip, marking the start of the Hokuto Group's involvement with the Eclipse and Zodiac. Rion becomes gravely injured and is bedridden at a hospital, and during surgery to save her life, she unknowingly merges with an Angel-type Grim Greed feeding off of her despair. Gorou's girlfrind Futaba is killed by the Greeds when he attempts to protect her from them with his newly obtained Soul Device; Arc Trinity, and fails. Later, Gorou quits university and joins the JSDF.[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'')
* March:
** George Sears "resigns" as President. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'')
** Renowned billionaire explorer Mark Hordstrom goes missing while climbing Mount Everest; an audio recording recovered shortly before he disappeared makes reference to something out in the blizzard picking off his team one by one before it rips open his tent and attacks him, too. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Yeti")
* April 3: The household android Andrew is delivered to the Martin family. (''Film/BicentennialMan'')
* April 8: Ken Barlow and Deirdre Rachid are married for the second time. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* April 18: Diana Skouris adopts Maia Rutledge. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* April 27: Creator/SeanPenn is paroled from prison. (''Second Chance'')
* April: Now a sergeant, Nicholas Angel receives an award. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* May: Orlando is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 1: Mike Chulaski is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 9: Agent 47 assassinates a Sheikh, a Scientist and a white supremacist. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
* July 22: Three teenage gunmen attack DownEast Mall in Rockpoint, Maine, just outside Portland. 93 people are killed and 242 injured before one shooter is killed by police and the other two kill each other. (''Shelter in Place'')
* June 23: Website/{{Reddit}} is founded. (RealLife, Website/{{Reddit}})
* August 2-14: A forest ranger is stalked by a poacher in the Pacific Northwest after she disables some of his traps; when the poacher attacks her, he is mysteriously killed by [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti an unknown, possibly intelligent animal]]. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Bigfoot")
* August 15: Agent 47 assassinates a rogue CIA agent, an illegal arms dealer and two rival assassins. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
* September 15: The Digi-Chef Digital Food Molecularizer is released. (''Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide'')
* September 22: Agent 47 assassinates the Vice President and a rival assassin to prevent the president from being killed. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
** The FBI Behavior Analysis Unit, consisting of Senior Agent Jason Gideon, Unit Chief Aaron Hotchner, Ellie Greenway, Derek Morgan, Dr. Spencer Reid, Jennifer Jareau, and Technichal Analyst Penelope Garcia, handle their first case as a team. Together, they investigate the case of rapist and serial killer Tim Vogel, AKA "The Footpath Killer". (''Series/CriminalMinds'').
* September 26: Megalith is destroyed, ending the Usean Continental War. (''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'')
* Late Fall: Agent 47 fakes his death with the help of Diana, and causes a massacre at his funeral. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman Blood Money}}'')
* September: Peter Stone begins attending Degrassi Community School. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* December 12:
** Ava Dixon is killed in a car accident. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
** Rosanna Cartland is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* December 21: [[spoiler:Luke Castellan]] steals Zeus' lightning bolt and Hades' helmet while the campers are on a trip to Olympus. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* December 24:
** A 10-year-old resident of Los Angeles creates the Pluto's Kiss virus, disabling almost all computer systems worldwide for a period of 77 minutes. Internet usage is restricted to government and business use only for the next 2 years. (''Franchise/DotHack'')
** Calypso hosts the 10th Twisted Metal tournament in the city of Los Angeles, destroying most of it during its course. Captain Carl Roberts, driver of Outlaw, is the winner and asks as his prize for a world free of Twisted Metal. Calypso complies...and sends him to space, to a world free of Twisted Metal...and everything else. (''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'')
* December: Sergeant Nicholas Angel is stabbed in the hand [[SurpriseSantaEncounter by a man in a Santa Claus suit]]. Nick Angel is given time off to recover. During this time, his girlfriend Janine leaves him, feeling he's unable to "switch off" his police officer mindset. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* Demons invade Briarwood a second time, leader killed this time. (''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'')
* Offworld aliens begin the process of immigrating to Earth. (''Series/PowerRangersSPD'')
* The single universe created in the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis of 1985]] is [[ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis reshuffled]], different universes becoming dominant in certain areas due to the actions of the heroes of the first event. The multiverse is reborn in miniature as [[ComicBook/FiftyTwo fifty-two]] new universes are created. (Creator/DCComics)
* Battle of Autobot City; Optimus Prime and Megatron are fatally wounded. The former dies, the latter is upgraded into Galvatron. Attack on Cybertron by Unicron, who is defeated by the ascendancy of Rodimus Prime and the energies of the Matrix of Leadership. Angolmois energy scattered through space and time. (''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'')
* Alternate timeline temporarily created where [[ComicBook/HouseOfM mutants are the dominant species]]. After reality is restored, many mutants are turned into normal humans, drastically reducing the mutant population. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Martians invade and are killed by germs. (''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'')
* An overabundance of flowers is spotted covering Gensokyo, and Reimu, Marisa and the other heroines set out to pinpoint the cause. (''VideoGame/TouhouKaeidzukaPhantasmagoriaOfFlowerView'')
* A documentary crew begins filming at the Scranton branch of office supply company Dunder Mifflin. (''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]: An American Workplace'')
* A sudden increase in the number of Makamou causes the secret organization Takeshi to spring into action, sending its Oni warriors to protect humanity against the supernatural threat. The young civilian Asumu Adachi encounters the Oni known only as Hibiki, and becomes his student in the hopes of someday becoming an Oni himself. (''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'')
* Atomic Robo and a team of Tesladyne Action Scientists encounters a [[StupidJetpackHitler cyborg-producing Helsingard complex]] beneath a village in Italy's Apennie Mountains (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'')
* Marshall Ericksen and Lily Aldrin get engaged, prompting Ted Mosby to begin his (apparently interminable) search for true love. Shortly thereafter, he meets and falls in love with Robin Scherbatsky. (''Series/HowIMetYourMother'')
* Terry Higgans fakes his death. (''VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity'')
* The first Slasher incidents occur in Ikebukuro. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
** Anri Sonohara is physically abused by her father. Although this is not an uncommon occurrence, it causes her mother to snap and use the demon blade Saika to kill her husband and then herself, right before Anri's eyes. Saika then goes into Anri. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
* In revenge for Terry's death Marcus Reed takes down all of New Yorks gangs looking for a mole in the NYPD finding out it's Terry Higgans before killing Terry in a fight on a train. (''VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity'')
* Ramona Flowers dates her college roommate Roxie Richter at some point around this time. (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
* [[labelnote:Series spoilers]]A Japanese high school is rocked by a pair of murders. Two students, one male and one female, are both found dead, and a third who happened to be a close friend of both is missing. An investigation finds that the male had been known to be romantically involved with both females, as well as a number of other students.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:more]]Using the release date of the original visual novel.[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'')
* The Replicators, under the command of a {{robot|me}}ic version of Samantha Carter, invade the Milky Way and begin assimilating Goa'uld motherships, killing most of the remaining System Lords; they are finally destroyed by an Ancient superweapon on Dakara. Ba'al is defeated by the Jaffa Rebellion. Anubis attacks Dakara but the ascended Ancient Oma Desala sacrifices herself to [[SealedEvilInADuel bind him on the higher planes in eternal ascended combat]]. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Catherine Langford dies. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Jack O'Neill is promoted to Major General and transfers to the Pentagon; Hank Landry replaces him as CO of Stargate Command. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Using Ancient communication stones, the SGC accidentally reveals the Milky Way to the Ancients' {{evil counterpart}}s the Ori, who launch a crusade to forcibly convert the galaxy to their worship. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* The Zonder make their appearance. Guy Shishioh, now Cyborg Guy, and Galeon battle these beasts by becoming the Super Robot [=GaoGaiGar=]. They are aided by the Gutsy Geoid (later Galaxy) Guard and former Zonder general Soldato J. (''Anime/GaoGaiGar'')
* The Dark Zone is defeated, but at cost of Nagisa and Honoka's abilities to become the Pretty Cure. Life resumed normally to the two... until shortly after... (''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'')
* The Queen of the Garden of Light is separated into different forms. One of them, a girl named Hikari Kujou, becomes Shiny Luminous and joins Nagisa and Honoka in their adventures (''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'')
* The Black Arms race arrives on Earth, intending on using humanity as their food source. Shadow the Hedgehog learns of his true purpose and eradicates the race. (''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'')
* Steven Prince's firm is bought out. (''Film/TheWorldsEnd'')
* In Scotland, Hugh "Wee Hughie" Campbell's girlfriend is killed by A-Train's carelessness. Billy Butcher reconvenes The Boys, bringing in Wee Hughie to bring the number up to five in the absence of Greg Mallory. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Dewey Nolastname is accidentally put in his school's special needs class. A fraud conspiracy is brought to light at the company where Hal Nolastname works. Reese Nolastname joins the army and is sent to Afghanistan. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* Research continues into White Chlorination Syndrome, while the JSDF continues to defend the Wall of Jericho from infected berserkers. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* A group of treasure hunters and a documentarian travel to the Baltic Sea to recover the wreck of a Finnish ship full of tsarist gold; they are attacked by [[GiantSquid a gigantic creature]], and only the leader of the treasure hunters survives, refusing to talk about the incident or ever returning to the sea again. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Kraken")
* Overcome by loneliness and nihilism, Yusuke Fujiwara summons Darkness (Nightshroud), dragging several students at Duel Academy to their deaths and destroying the Obelisk Blue dorm. Fubuki Tenjoin (Atticus Rhodes), the sole survivor, merges with Darkness. (''Anime/YuGiOhGX'')
* A coalition of nations made up of former ASEAN members forms the Bangkok Economic Alliance. (''VideoGame/FrontMission series'')
* The European Union grows to encompass all of the European nations, creating the European Community (EC). (''VideoGame/FrontMission series'')
* Earliest known sighting of Rem; the Child of the Eclipse, by a would-be freelance photographer. (''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'')
* Surrealist painter Arthur Mays begins working at Kisaragi High School as an Art teacher. (''VisualNovel/LuxPain'')
* Bobby and Ann Ewing are married. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Luther Bubley is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* Corporal Joe Bauers is selected for a suspended animation experiment on the grounds of being the most average person available. (''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'')
* Noah Daniels is born in the UndergroundCity North Col. (''Series/{{Thunderstone}}'')
* Charin dies. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Charlie Graham is born. (''Film/{{Hereditary}}'')
* Jude's fish dies. (''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'')
* Jason Chesterfield's team tracks down Monkey Master. Sal Walters makes a botched attempt to help. Joe Rosenthal founds Rosethal Robotics [[labelnote:Justification]] Joe states [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/yeah-yeah-im-great-i-know/ here]] that, as of 2006, Ultra Car was "last year's breakthrough". [[/labelnote]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2006]]
* January:
** Lorne Malvo meets insurance salesman Lester Nygaard at a hospital in Bemidji, Minnesota. (''Series/{{Fargo}}'')
** A Light Other searches for the mystical Chalk of Fate in order to save his son from the Dark. (''Film/DayWatch'')
* February 19: James Hoffman is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* March: The Slitheen are defeated thanks to the Ninth Doctor, Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* April 8: Nochizawa Eiji is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* April 20: Kohiruimaki Karen is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* April 23: Sergeant Nicholas Angel is transferred from London to Sandford. [[labelnote:details]]The reason given is that he so out-classes his fellow officers that they are beginning to look bad.[[/labelnote]] Upon arriving in Sandford, he immediately arrests a group of village youths for underage drinking, as well as PC Danny Butterman for drunk driving. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* April 27: Sergeant Angel chases and arrests a shop-lifter, but Simon Skinner, who owns the supermarket that was being robbed, does not press charges. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* April 28: Martin Blower and Eve Draper star in an atrocious production of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Later that night, they are brutally murdered. When the bodies are discovered, their deaths are attributed to a car accident. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* April 29: An explosion destroys the home of George Merchant, killing him in the process. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* Before May: Following the death of Nancy Pelosi, Robin [=DeSanto=], on an epic sugar high, is elected State Congressional Representative for California's 8th District on a platform of geting Creator/{{Hasbro}} to make a figure of [[Franchise/StarWars Padmé Amidala in funeral gown with casket accessory]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* May 1: Tim Messinger is killed when a spire breaks off the decrepit church and smashes his head. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* May 11: Sergeant Nicholas Angel, with the aid of Danny Butterman and most of the Sandford police force, engage in an epic shootout and arrest Sandford's entire Neighborhood Watch Association with no fatalities. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* Late May: Robin [=DeSanto=] forces Amber O'Malley to finally meet her online boyfriend in person [[labelnote:Justification]] Happens just after ''Videogame/{{New Super Mario Bros}}'' released in America[[/labelnote]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* May: Percy Jackson has his first encounter with a monster. His mother Sally and his friend Grover take him to Camp Half-Blood afterwards, but Sally is taken to Hades in the process. Percy wakes up in Camp Half-Blood, where he is told that he is a demigod by Mr. Brunner/Chiron. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* June 10: Percy Jackson is claimed by his divine father Poseidon. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* June 11: Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood go on a quest for Zeus' lightning bolt. They travel across the continental United States while battling monsters along the way. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* June 21: Percy Jackson duels the god Ares and wins. The quest ends. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* Jule 24: The Second Titan War begins. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* Spring-Summer: Nanoha Takamachi receives Raising Heart, befriends Fate Testarossa, and helps the TSAB to resolve the Jewel Seed incident. (''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'')
* Summer: The Stark family take a detour into the scenic Pine Barrens on their way back from a vacation at the Jersey Shore; they are attacked by [[TheJerseyDevil an unknown creature]], but they all survive. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Jersey Devil")
* June 4: Hayate Yagami becomes the final master of the Book of Darkness and the Wolkenritter (''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'')
* June 24: Edward Grainer dies on his 100th birthday. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* June:
** [[Film/JamesBond Bond]], after defeating Le Chiffre at both the stock market and poker, gets his heart broken. (''[[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Casino Royale]]'')
** Reese Nolastname deliberately fails his final exams to stay at home for another year. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
** Marco Del Rossi, Ellie Nash, Paige Michalchuk and Alex Nuñez graduate from Degrassi Community School. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* July 3: John Horus, member of the Seven Guns, assassinates the United States President, Vice-President and several advisors. A manhunt begins for rest of the group. (''ComicBook/BlackSummer'')
* July 5: The Ramirez family tries to illegally emigrate to the United States; the parents are found dead and mysteriously drained of blood, though their daughter survived; the border patrol officers shot at [[{{Chupacabra}} a creature found at the scene]], but official reports made no mention of it. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Chupacabra")
* July 9: After trying to find his way back to the surface world, the rat Roddy St. James discovers a plot by the Toad to flood the sewer rats' home. (''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'')
* July 15: Website/{{Twitter}} is founded. (RealLife, Website/{{Twitter}})
* July 17: Freddie Peacock is born. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* July 29: Shigemura Yuuni is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* Summer: Hazuki starts work on ''The Pathfinder Disaster''. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* September 6: Scott Pilgrim starts at the University of Toronto and meets Stephen Stills and Wallace Wells[[labelnote:more]]in a manner eerily similar to his meeting Lisa Miller[[/labelnote]]. (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
* September 7: Team Kimba's first day of school at the Whateley Academy (Literature/WhateleyUniverse)
* September:
** Judai Yuki begins his studies at Duel Academy. He and his classmates use friendship and card games to defeat the Sacred Beasts. (''Anime/YuGiOhGX'') [[labelnote:Justification]]Stated to have occurred 10 years after the original series.[[/labelnote]]
** Blon Fel-fotch Slitheen sets forth a plan to escape the Earth using an interdimensional rift using the TARDIS. [[labelnote:more]]It backfires, regressing Blon into an egg. The Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler send the egg to a Raxacoricofallapatorian family to start life anew.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
** Marco Del Rossi and Ellie Nash begin attending Toronto University. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
** Paige Michalchuk begins attending Banting University. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* Between May and October: Danny Wilcox marries Jennifer Billingsworth. Joyce Brown meets Becky [=MacIntyre=]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* October 3: An accident that occurs while a mysterious artifact is being probed causes a whole bunch of mucking around in the space-time continuum. (''Series/{{Eureka}}'')
* October 13: A university professor and her nephew accidentally disturb a nest in the Honey Island Swamp and are attacked by a mysterious creature, but survived. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Swamp Creature")
* October:
** Operation Katina. (''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'')
** During his inauguration speech, President Shambal of Mozambique is assassinated by an agent of Vortex. The head of security for the speech, Johnny English of [=MI7=], is dishonourably stripped of his knighthood for his failure. (''Film/JohnnyEnglishReborn'')
** Conquest starts working at Shortpacked. Ultra Car's brain is tranferred to a hybrid electric vehicle. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* October/November: A giant van opens up the heart of the TARDIS to make Rose travel to 200,100. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Autumn:
** Jack Donaghy transfers from a GE appliance division to become a major executive at Creator/{{NBC}}. [[labelnote:more]] Jack retains the title of "Head of East Coast and Microwave Oven Programming", but does not interact with the microwave team for the rest of his run at GE.[[/labelnote]] Tracy Jordan joins the cast of NBC sketch comedy program ''The Girlie Show'', which is almost immediately renamed ''TGS with Tracy Jordan''. (''Series/ThirtyRock'')
** NBS gets a new network president, Jordan [=McDeere=]. Its flagship show, ''Studio 60,'' gets a new production team of Matt Albie and head writer Danny Tripp after the previous show runner, Wes Mendell, delivers an impromptu diatribe on the state of American television on air. (''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'')
** Kitty Kenarben reunites with her family. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* November 9: Rie brings some smutty {{yaoi}} {{fanart}} to a literature club meeting. The other girls are impressed, but Hazuki doesn't get the appeal. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* November 13: Shinkawa Shouichi is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* Late November/Early December: Francis Nolastname loses his job (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* November: Matthew Santos is elected President of the United States. (''Series/TheWestWing'')
* December 24: Billy Lenz escapes from an insane asylum and terrorizes a sorority [[labelnote:more]]with the help of his sister Agnes[[/labelnote]]. (''Film/BlackChristmas2006'')
* Late December: David Walkerton shaves his head, and sells the hair to buy Joyce Brown a pocketwatch chain for Christmas (the pocketwatch itself is a future birthday present). (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* December 25:
** A regenerated Tenth Doctor defeats the Sycorax leader... with a satsuma. His hand is also cut off, but he just grows a new one due to the early hours of regeneration cycle. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
** The Book of Darkness incident is resolved. (''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'')
* December 30: Jason Chesterfield, Marcie Diaz, and Travis Amir track down Monkey Master, but Head Alien II teleports him away at the last minute. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* December 31: Jason Chesterfield reunites with Sal Walters on a dramatic rooftop. Robin [=DeSanto=] moves in with Leslie Bean. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Archaeologist Andrew Hartford hires a team to help him search for the jewels of an artifact called the Corona Aurora. (''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'')
* The Decepticons driven off of Cybertron and settle on Charr. Galvatron returns to lead his people, completely insane. Quintessons attempt to use the leaderless Decepticons to shut all Cybertronians down, but they are thwarted. (''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'', [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers cartoon continuity]])
* Kida Masaomi moves to Tokyo, but keeps in contact with childhood friend Mikado Ryugamine. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
* [[ComicBook/{{Annihilation}} Annihilus invades the positive matter universe]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] exiled to an [[ComicBook/PlanetHulk alien planet]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Superhuman Registration Act [[ComicBook/CivilWar2006 divides America's superheroes]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Ben Tennyson finds the Omnitrix and uses it to battle evil. (''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'')
* Shawn Spencer begins acting as a "psychic" consultant for the Santa Barbara PD. (''Series/{{Psych}}'')
* Matt Saunders enters a relationship with superhero G-Girl. (''Film/MySuperExGirlfriend'')
* Harold Crick begins to hear a voice narrating his life. (''Film/StrangerThanFiction'')
* Sam Tyler is hit by a car and awakens in 1973. (''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'')
* While testing the myth that hatmaking chemicals cause insanity, [[Series/MythBusters Adam Savage]] dies of mercury poisoning. In the afterlife, [[ChessWithDeath he challenges Death of Inhaling Hatmaking Chemicals to a mythbusting duel]]. He then revives the brain of Hitler (who had died in the Reichstag fire of 1933), solely using equipment that would have been available to the Germans at the time; proving that Nazi Science could have kept Hitler's brain alive in a jar. Having won the duel, Adam is sent back to life in his own time, as is Hitler's brain. (''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'')
* Scott Pilgrim's college career. He meets [[OccidentalOtaku Natalie Adams]] through his friend's girlfriend Julie Powers, her roommate. The two of them start dating, against Julie's wishes, and Scott, Stephen, and Natalie form a band, Kid Chameleon. Natalie begins to change, selling all her anime merchandise and asking that people call her "Envy". She takes control of the band, recruiting Steph Nordegraf, Cole, and an unnamed guitarist, and moving Scott from bass to drums. (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
* Tokyo is beset by Worms, a race of shapeshifting aliens with an unknown agenda. The secret organization ZECT begins production of the Masked Rider System to battle the Worms, but the first completed Zecter, the Kabuto Zecter, falls into the hands of the mysterious Souji Tendo, who fights the Worms on his own terms and refuses to work with ZECT. (''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'')
* The Egyptian government sends Atomic Robo and a team of Action Scientists to deal with a steampowered pyramid supertank. In the wake of the mission, Tesladyne employee Jenkins is ordered on a week-long vacation, over which he destroys the Ramirez cartel. (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'')
* Otani-Lincoln Laboratories sign a 100-year research agreement with GDI. (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'')
* Jamal Malik, an uneducated call centre assistant from the slumbs of Mumbai, becomes the first person to win the jackpot on India's ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire''. (''Film/SlumdogMillionaire'')
* The disappearance of Corefire, Doctor Impossible escapes jail and unleashes his sixth Doomsday Device, Iceworld. (''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'')
* A drug cartel called the Lucian Alliance rises into the power vacuum left by the fallen Goa'uld Empire. USS ''Prometheus'' is destroyed by an Ori KillSat. The Ori collapse the planet [=P3Y-229=] into a supergate to send a fleet of warships into the Milky Way, [[CurbStompBattle steamrolling]] a combined fleet of Tau'ri, Jaffa, Asgard, and Lucian Alliance ships that attempts to stop them. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* The Atlantis Expedition encounters the Asurans, a race of Replicator kin created by the Ancients. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* The 11 Masters of Sol invade Earth. The Gutsy Galaxy Guard chases after them and is listed as MIA after defeating them (''Anime/GaoGaiGar FINAL'')
* The Dark King is defeated for good, ending Nagisa, Honoka and Hikari's adventures, but they would stay on call whenever trouble arises. (''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'')
* The Dark Fall threatens the world by attempting to obtain 7 World Fountains. It's up to Saki Hyuuga and Mai Mishou to 'take up Nagisa and Honoka's mantle' as the new Pretty Cure to defeat the Dark Fall (''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'')
* Nothing happened here that involved a hedgehog and a princess who won't cry. [[CosmicRetcon Seriously. Move along.]] (''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'')
* George Greenby is born to environmental activists Terrence and Daisy Greenby. 106 days later, Annie Bellis is born to the scientist Eric Bellis and his music teacher wife Susan Bellis. (''Literature/GeorgesSecretKeyToTheUniverse'')
* Nerissa returns following Phobos' fall. The Veil on Meridian is lifted, granting the Guardians brand new powers. Nerissa "recruits" a number of people in her attacks and loses them soon after, including Will Vandom's boyfriend Matt Olsen and Nerissa's former teammates, including resurrecting her old friend Cassidy. Cornelia's sister Lilian is revealed to have the power of the Heart of the World and Caleb learns Nerissa's his mom. (''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'')
* A mysterious woman named Cassandra attacks Griffin and Madison, capturing their son Brandon and using mind-control to usurp control of their army. The couple pursue her across the continent and into Europe, defeating and allying with various tank-riding gangs as they fight for their child. (''VideoGame/BattleTanx: Global Assault'')
* An unknown party attacks the government research facility housing the remains of "the Dragon" from the 6-12 Incident. Afterward the corpse is moved to a new location, rumored to be in America. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* There are great strides against cancer. (Nuveen Investments [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zbEsQYMb0 Super Bowl ad]])
* The 3rd Street Saints surface in Stilwater. (''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'')
* As the previous year's tournament left Los Angeles completely in ruins, Calypso turns the 11th Twisted Metal tournament into a "World Tour", making cities across the globe the battle arenas for his violent vehicular contest. Amanda Watts, the driver of Twister, is this year's winner[[labelnote:reasoning]]Calypso states in Miranda's ending in ''Head-On'' that Amanda won "the year she competed", and thus any other possible winner (such as Outlaw-II) must have won one of the subsequent tournaments held in the 3 years between ''2'' and ''Head-On''.[[/labelnote]] and she asks for the ability to drive at the speed of light, which leaves her stranded on prehistoric times. (''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 2'')
* A mysterious radio signal is broadcast through the cellular networks, reducing anyone exposed to violent, mindless zombies, later dubbed Phoners, who attack and kill anyone not affected. A handful of survivors led by Clayton Ridell flee New England but are pursued by the Raggedy Man, an intelligent Phoner with psychic powers. (''Literature/{{Cell}}'')
* A serial killer attacks several people in Kisaragi City, including Mika Nozaki. They then disappear without trace. [[labelnote: Spoilers]]They are revealed a year later to be Lt. Tanaka of the Kisaragi Police, under the influence of a powerful [[MindVirus Silent]].[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/LuxPain'')
* A plague called the Big Death wipes out almost everyone over the age of thirteen. (''Series/{{Jeremiah}}'')
* Vic is born. (''Film/ABoyAndHisDog'')
* [AlternateUniverse] most SCUBA equipment manufactured after this year is designed to account for the differences in density between [[BloodIsSquickerInWater human blood]] and water. (''Blog/WhatIf'')
* Major Bryce Ferguson dies of a brain aneurysm. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Death of Ben Hargreeves. (''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'')
* Admiral Mysterious arrives in this year with Julie Andrews in tow, who immediately starts suffering ill effects. Ulrich Zadore manages to save her by reversing polarity, which turns her into the High Time Queen. (''Podcast/{{Hello from the Magic Tavern}}'')
* Ethan Siegal realises he is gay. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]

[[folder:After 2006]]
* A remarkable breakthrough in treating spinal cord injuries is celebrated in a nationally televised ceremony. Creator/ChristopherReeve walks to the podium to present the award. (Nuveen Investments [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5zbEsQYMb0 Super Bowl ad]])
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2007]]
* January 9: Yuuto Sakurai disappears the day before his marriage to Airi Nogami, leaving her with no memory of his existence. (''Series/KamenRiderDenO'')
* January:
** Lester Nygaard wins the Insurance Salesman of the Year award. (''Series/{{Fargo}}'')
** Becky [=MacIntyre=] meets Sal Walters. Danny and Billie Wilcox move into a house. [[labelnote:Justification]] Danny and Billie originally [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/nine/ moved into their new house]] on the 9th anniversary of ''Roomies'', at which point Billie was already a month pregnant, and their child was born on the [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/ten-years/ 10th anniversary]]. Unless Billie was pregnant for 13 months, they must have moved into the house eight months before DJ is born in September.[[/labelnote]] Galasso "discovers" the Tome of the Ages in the Shortpacked storage room, which describes a time when Shortpacked and Toys "Я" Us "were" a single company, and "foretells" that they will one day be reunited. With this "knowledge", he proclaims Ethan Siegal as the chosen one, and the Toys "Я" Us employees accept this so they can keep their jobs. Ethan is quickly fired from Shortpacked for refusing to impregnate Conquest; Faz Oh Lee "discovers" some more scripture which declares that Ethan was in fact a false prophet and Faz Oh Lee is the true chosen one. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* February 1: In a parallel universe, the TARDIS [[ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld lands in a world full of zeppelins]]... and Cybermen. After destroying the factory in London, the Tenth Doctor and Rose return to their normal universe, but Mickey stays behind. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* February 2: Ichigo Yamazaki gets her first email from Hazuki. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* February 3: Subaru Aki asks Ichigo Yamazaki to look into suspicious activities connected with the pop star SUZURAN. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* February 9: Hazuki dumps her boyfriend, Taro, and asks Ichigo Yamazaki to be her new boyfriend. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* February 10: The SS-5 Incident. [[labelnote:more]]Di-Jun Huang, president of Zheng Fa, is assassinated by Sirhan Dogen. Huang's body double, who staged it as a kidnapping, takes his place as president. A journalist named Jack Cameron stumbles onto the scene, and is murdered.[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'')
* February 15: Ichigo Yamazaki cracks szran03.pdf and uncovers a conspiracy. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* February 19: Hazuki resolves to seriously work on ''The Pathfinder Disaster'', and realises her friends will never quite get her. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* February 21: Hazuki's brother, Ken, gives her a box of girls' manga donated by a friend of his. Ichigo Yamazaki discovers that SUZURAN-related news always comes out at just the right time to distract the people of Japan from the Iraq War. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* February 22: Hazuki gives her friend a lesson in what older men really want out of teenage girls. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 6: The Fremda Memo is written. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* March 14: Ichigo Yamazaki does not send Hazuki anything for White Day. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 15:
** Hazuki realises she is in love with Ichigo Yamazaki. Ichigo gets a lead on the SUZURAN case from a man named Kurosaki. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
** The Department of Health and Human Services fires Luciana Ortega from ROSA, likely due to her brother's fame as a whistleblower. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* March 23: Hazuki gives some advice to a girl whose name she doesn't know, who is coming to terms with her sexual orientation. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 24: Ichigo Yamazaki realises she can't hack the JSDF servers. Mr. Kurosaki asks to meet her in person. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 26: Hazuki writes a heartfelt email to Ichigo Yamazaki. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 28: After two days with no response, Hazuki tries emailing Ichigo Yamazaki again. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 29: Hazuki ties to distract herself from the lack of contact from Ichigo Yamazaki by reading a manga that turns out to be {{yuri}}. After some confusion about her own feelings, she starts to realise she's a lesbian. Ichigo goes to meet Mr. Kurosaki in Tokyo, but backs out when she realises she's a teenage girl in a strange city meeting an older man she doesn't actually know. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 30: Hazuki's friend Sachiko gets a love letter from the girl whose name Hazuki doesn't know. Hazuki comes to terms with her own sexual orientation. Ichigo Yamazaki realises she truly loves Hazuki. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March 31: Ichigo Yamazaki resolves to come clean about her gender to Hazki. Hazuki resolves to tell Ichigo about her sexuality. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* March:
** K-9 is left to guard a black hole from consuming the Earth. Meanwhile The Slitheen establish Coldfire Construction in their plans to power down the Sun and scavenge the Earth. (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
** The protagonist moves in with her college friends. (''VideoGame/{{Unpacking}}'')
** Faz Oh Lee "receives" a new revelation, that his destined bride is Amber O'Malley and not Conquest. A schism opens within Shortpacked between those who accept the Gospel of Faz and those, led by Amber, who reject it and hold true to Ethan Siegal as the true messiah. Ultimately, Mr. Galasso declares that he forged the Tome of the Ages as part of a needlessly complicated plan to gain control of Toys "Я" Us, but some nevertheless continue to follow the Tome's teachings. Ethan Siegal returns to Shortpacked. Conquest quits, and begins buying up independent toy stores.
** Children of various other former SEMME agents and their friends and allies, from different possible futures, arrive to rescue Bobby Walkerton, only to be captured by Head Alien II; Daniel Jason Wilcox manages to escape. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Between January and March:
** Deffrey Vale School is infiltrated by the Krillitane amalgam race. The Tenth Doctor, Mickey, Rose, and Sarah Jane investigate. K-9 Mk III is destroyed in the battle, but the Doctor gives Sarah Jane a replacement. Mickey joins the TARDIS. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
** (estimated) Mr. Saxon rises to rank of UK Minister of Defence as if from nowhere. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Spring: In a desperate attempt at losing their virginity before college, high school seniors Seth, Evan and Fogell attempt to obtain alcohol to bring to a party, leading to a night of whacky hijinx. (''Film/{{Superbad}}'')
* April 4: Hazuki finally sends Ichigo Yamazaki an email explaining her self-discovery. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* April 7: Ichigo Yamazaki and Hazuko meet in person for the first time. (''Cell Phone Love Letter'')
* April:
** Francis Nolastname starts working at Amerisys Industries. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
** A group of hoaxers plan to film a fake video of an attack by the Dover Demon in order to cash in on the 30th anniversary of the original sightings in Dover, Massachusetts; video evidence indicates that they were attacked by the actual Dover Demon, and none of their bodies were ever found. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Dover Demon")
** Arthur Mays meets a strange yet charming young woman while walking in Rainbow Hill. Her love for life and inner radiance inspires a new set of paintings from him. [[labelnote: Spoilers]]Unknowingly, he is also infected by her Original Silent, which will ultimately drive him to depression and nearly killing himself.[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/LuxPain'') [[labelnote:*]]Arthur mentions in an in-game interview that he had his profound artistic experience six months ago.[[/labelnote]]
** Ultra Car starts working at Shortpacked. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Between January and April: Elton Pope joins a group of people investigating the Doctor and alien invasions, dubbing it "LINDA" (London Investigation 'n' Detective Agency). LINDA discover the Fifth [[labelnote:justification]]throwaway line in "Time Crash"[[/labelnote]] and Tenth Doctors, but only fleetingly. [[labelnote:more]]Victor Kennedy takes over this gang, absorbing most of them, before being defeated by the Tenth Doctor.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* March - May: Francis and Hal Nolastname take a father-son motorcycle trip for Francis's 21st birthday. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* May 18: Shinozaki Rika is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* Between May and June: The Battle of Canary Wharf. [[labelnote:more]]The Cybus Cybermen and the Daleks, save the Cult of Skaro, are pulled into the Void, while Rose gets trapped in an alternate universe in 2010. The Tenth Doctor says his last goodbyes.[[/labelnote]] Around the same time, the Racnoss comes out of hiding to take over H.C. Clements [[labelnote:more]]after discovering Torchwood One has synthesised her power source that can awaken her children after billions of years. She tells Lance, the coffee boy of that company to start her schemes.[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/DoctorWho'' [[labelnote:justification]]The Racnoss appears to start her plans around June, six months before "The Runaway Bride". It can probably be inferred this comes after Torchwood One's collapse.[[/labelnote]])
* June 3: Two young stepbrothers, Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher, begin Summer holiday and get very bored very quickly. To keep themselves occupied, they know what they're gonna do today! They decide to build a rollercoaster in their backyard (which somehow spreads across the whole town) while Phineas's older sister Candace tries to get them in trouble from their mother, but fails miserably. Meanwhile, Perry, their pet platypus, stops the evil Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz from pulling the eastern sea board using tin foil, but destroys Doofenshmirtz Evil Inc. in the process. [[labelnote:justification]] In the title sequence, the first day on the calendar is June 3. If we're supposed to believe Phineas, this is the first day of Summer Vacation.[[/labelnote]](''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'')
* June 18: Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Tyson, and Clarisse come back to the continental US from their odyssey in the Sea of Monsters (aka, the BermudaTriangle). Percy duels Luke Castellan aboard the ''Princess Andromeda''. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* June:
** Ned Bigby, Jennifer Mosely and Simon Cook graduate from Polk Middle School. (''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'')
** Donna Noble turns left and gets a job as a temp at HC Clements, which leads to her adventures with the Tenth Doctor. [[labelnote:more]]The coffee boy Lance bonds with Donna, feeding her coffee with trace amounts of Huon particles over six months in order to awaken the Racnoss offspring.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:Donna's world in "Turn Left"]] In an alternate timeline/universe created by one of the Trickster's Brigade latching onto Donna's back, she turns right and becomes a secretary, never meeting the Doctor until after his death. Donna, with the help of Rose's cannibalisation of the TARDIS in 2009, travels through time and reverses these events, waking up on the planet Shan Shen, knocking the Trickster beetle off her back.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
** Malcolm and Reese Nolastname graduate from high school. Reese starts work as a janitor. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
** Jimmy Brooks, Gavin "Spinner" Nelson, Emma Nelson, Manny Santos, Toby Isaacs and Liberty Van Zandt graduate from Degrassi Community School. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
** Alex Danvers graduates from Midvale High School. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
** Dorothy Keener loses her job and her adoptive parents in quick succession. She moves to Denver to track down her biological father and reunites with David Walkerton. [[labelnote:more]] Head Alien II shows her a carefully edited selection of scenes from alternate universes, and convinces her that Joyce Brown is a maniac who kills Walky in every universe except the one where he marries Dorothy.[[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* June 22: Overlord unleashes the brainwashing Spiral Zone, conquering half the world in a matter of days and reducing billions of people to mindless Zoners. The Zone Riders, an elite international military unit led by Colonel Dirk Courage, is Earth's last chance at survival. (''WesternAnimation/SpiralZone'')
* July 7: Haruhi Suzumiya and "John Smith" use a field stripe marker to deface the athletic field of East Junior High School in Nishinomiya, Japan, with unknown ideograms later interpreted as "I am here". This incident is, or becomes, the earliest point to which TimeTravel is possible. (''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'')
* July 17: A journalist goes missing in the ocean off of Monterey Bay, California; the Coast Guard was unable to identify [[SeaMonster what had attacked her]] based on the film evidence. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Monster of Monterey")
* July: After fleeing to Alaska to escape a mob[[note]]In all fairness, it was Spider-Pig's fault[[/note]], Homer Simpson returns to Springfield, USA to save it from being turned into the second Grand Canyon by the Environmental Protection Agency. He also reconciles with Marge. Again. (''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'')
* August 7: Earth is destroyed. An alien being called the Seeker sends the crew of the space shuttle ''Odyssey'', Chuck Taggart, his son Neil, Angel Perry, Kurt Mandel and Sarah Forbes, back in time five years to prevent its destruction. (''Series/OdysseyFive'')
* August 8: Solid Snake infiltrates the U.S.S. ''Discovery'' to obtain photographic evidence of Metal Gear RAY. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'')
* August 24: Nils Ortega's website The Broken Seal leaks the Fremda Memo. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* August: The Ampersand Event occurs over Los Angeles. It's followed by sporadic reports of people disappearing, some returning with brain damage. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* Autumn: A group of goth college students hold an amateur ceremony in a cemetery, and are encountered by a strange, red-eyed dog; four of the five students die in a car crash, and the fifth was never seen again, nor were there any records of her anywhere. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Hellhound")
* September 9: John and Sarah Connor and Cameron arrive in this time and resolve to take down [=SkyNet=] once and for all. Cromartie's head, which has also arrived now, begins rebuilding itself. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* September 19: On his 26th birthday, Chuck Bartowski receives the Intersect in an email from his former friend, UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} Agent Bryce Larkin. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* September 20: The Obelus Event over Los Angeles. Čefo dies. Cora Sabino loses her job after she leaves work in a panic. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* September 21: After a brief encouter with an otherworldly being, Nils Ortega's estranged family is taken into government custody, except for Cora Sabino, who manages to escape. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* September 24: A mind-controlled Cora Sabino attempts to break into Google. She's not the first attempt. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* September 26: Cora, the ROSA crew, and the Fremdans are taken to NORAD where they will be ostensibly safe from Obelus. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* September 30: Yuuki Asuna is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* September:
** Malcolm Nolastname begins his studies at Harvard. Lois gets pregnant yet again. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
** Emma Nelson, Manny Santos and Liberty Van Zandt begin attending Smithdale University. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
** Alex Danvers begins attending National City University. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
** Susan Heffley buys her son Greg his first diary around the same time he enters middle school. (''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'')
** Birth of DJ to Danny and Billie Wilcox. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* c. September/October: Gods from the outside world enter Gensokyo and begin amassing faith, and Reimu goes to confront them to prevent the closing of her own shrine. (''VideoGame/TouhouFuujinrokuMountainOfFaith'')
* c. October:
** Gwen Cooper fills Suzie Costello's position in Torchwood Three after Suzie commits suicide. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
** Derek Reese and three other Resistance fighters arrive from 2027. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* October 2:
** Atsuki Saijo transfers into Kisaragi High School, having arrived in Kisaragi City the night beforehand. Saijo is actually an undercover operative of FORT, investigating the nexus of a MindVirus that FORT has identified in Kisaragi. (''VisualNovel/LuxPain'')
** The Broken Seal leaks an audio recording showing that President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush knew about ROSA's activities as far back as 2004, contradicting Bush's own sworn testimony that he didn't know about it until recently. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* October 3: UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush resigns the presidency. UsefulNotes/DickCheney is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* October 4: An anti-Shadow mission goes wrong, resulting in Ken Amada being orphaned and Shinjiro Aragaki leaving SEES.[[note]]Ken's mother accidentally summons her Persona but cannot control it, and SEES mistakes it for a Shadow. When they realize the truth, Shinjiro loses control of his own Persona, which brings Ken's mother's house down on her.[[/note]] (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* October 8: After fleeing Obelus with [[spoiler:the Genome]] in tow, Cora goes to find Ampersand. She witnesses a standoff between Ampersand, Obelus, and Esperas. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* October 9: Nils Ortega posts online that his estranged family is in federal custody. The pressure on the feds leads to their release shortly after. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* October 10: A mean girl throws chewing gum in Mabel Pines' hair, ruining her school photo. Mabel and Dipper both shave part of their heads, result in matching terrible but hilarious photos. (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'')
* October 11: Nils Ortega emails Kaveh Mazandarani, and talks about his estranged family. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* October 19: U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush is assassinated in UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}. UsefulNotes/DickCheney succeeds him as President. (''Film/DeathOfAPresident'')
* October 21: A WitchHunt sweeps Kisaragi City, which is actually orchestrated by Graham Miller looking for telepaths that can help him tap a vast pool of psychic energy in the city. Atsuki Saijo foils him and destroys his Original Silent. (''VisualNovel/LuxPain'')
* October 25: Derek Reese kills the author of a chess program that would have been a predecessor to [=SkyNet=] and then joins up with John and Sarah Connor. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* November 14: Cameron is damaged in a car explosion and tries to kill John Connor. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* November 16: A group of kids enter a restricted area in a national park to film a skateboarding video and are attacked by [[GiantFlyer an enormous bird]] (''Series/LostTapes'': "Thunderbird")
* November 25: Website/KnowYourMeme is founded. (RealLife, Website/KnowYourMeme)
* November: Dakota Bob Schaefer is killed by a rabid wolverine; Vic the Veep becomes president. The next day, the Homelander leads America's supes in a coup d'etat, killing Vic; all involved are killed by the US military using special CIA-developed weaponry. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is appointed president. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Fall: A group of hunters in Fouke, Arkansas, are found dead; news reports suggest that they were the victims of bear attacks, but locals insist that the real culprit was [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the Fouke Monster]]. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Southern Sasquatch")
* December 14: Percy, Thalia, and Annabeth rescue Nico and Bianca di Angelo. Annabeth is taken captive by Dr. Thorn. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* December 17: Percy, Nico, Bianca, Grover, Thalia, and Zoë start their quest to save Annabeth Chase and Artemis. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* December 20: Artemis and Annabeth are rescued from Dr. Thorn. The quest is completed. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* December 21: Zoë dies. A new constellation is formed in the night sky in her honor. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* December 24: Donna Noble meets the Tenth Doctor for the first time, after she was teleported into his TARDIS by accident. [[note]]The Racnoss race is ended once and for after the Doctor drowned the Racnoss offspring and Mr. Saxon, aka the Master, who escaped Malcassairo in the year 100 trillion orders a tank to shoot the ship down.[[/labelnote]] [[/note]] [[labelnote:Donna's world in "Turn Left"]]In an alternate timeline/universe created by one of the Trickster's Brigade latching onto Donna's back, the Racnoss is still defeated, but the Doctor drowns as Donna doesn't tell him to stop and Mr. Saxon, aka the Master remains on Malcassairo in the year 100 trillion. This universe's Donna meets Rose for the first time here.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Late December: Head Alien II infuses Rachel Jackson with Martian DNA and sends her to the universe ruled by the Drama Tag in the hope that she will free his past self, who was/is trapped there; in Walkyverse Prime, she is replaced by an Alien in a human suit. [[labelnote:Justification]] She [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/rachel-2 says]] it's been four years as of January 2013, but based on what happens at Joyce and Walky's wedding, it must have been before the Vegas trip. The simplest explanation is that it was four year and a couple of months, and Rachel is rounding.[[/labelnote]] Jason Chesterfield breaks up with Sal Walters because he has gotten involved with Marcie Diaz. Sal quits her job, briefly moves out of David Walkerton and Joyce Brown's apartment, and tries and fails to get a job with the CIA. Joyce and Walky fly off to Washington to try and elope but the plan falls through when they are unable to find two willing witnesses. They fly off to Las Vegas for a lark, and may or may not get married in secret. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* December: Aliens attack Los Angeles. Duke Nukem kicks their asses.[[labelnote:Justification]]Based on the in-game [[https://www.reddit.com/r/dukenukem/comments/pevbhf/october_2007_when_does_duke_nukem_3d_take_place/ calendar textures]].[[/labelnote]] (''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'')
* By this time, the Quintessons have scattered across the galaxy. Unleashing of the HatePlague. Revival of Optimus Prime, who retrieves the Matrix from Rodimus and cures the plague. (''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'', [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers cartoon continuity]])
* [[ComicBook/AmazonsAttack Amazons invade America]]. (Creator/DCComics)
* Sinestro creates the Sinestro Corps, which [[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar goes to war]] with the [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Green Lantern Corps]] and attempts to conquer Earth. (Creator/DCComics)
* Namie Yagiri becomes Yagiri Pharmaceuticals' Research and Development Department. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
** Seiji tells his sister that he's in love with Celty's head. Out of jealousy, Namie tries to get rid of the head but is too intrigued by it to follow through. She instead conducts experiments on it, and begins to abduct illegal immigrants with the help of Izaya Orihara.
* Ajira Flight 316 crashes on the Island. [[labelnote:ending spoilers]]after John Locke's death. Four of the Oceanic Six end up on the Island 1977 mid-flight with the surviving Losties. Sun, Ben, Ilana and Frank remain in the present. Jacob is murdered by Ben. Desmond is brought to the island by Charles Widmore. The Losties, along with the ones from the DHARMA Initiative return. The Man in Black, also known as the Smoke Monster, takes the form of Locke and starts planning to get off the Island. Jacob is killed by Jack and Hurley becomes the Island's new protector after Jack gives his life to save the Island from destruction. Kate, Lapidus, Miles, Sawyer and Alpert leave the Island.[[/labelnote]] (Series/{{Lost}})
* ComicBook/TheDeathOfCaptainAmerica. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Phalanx [[ComicBook/{{Annihilation}} attempt to conquer the Kree Empire]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]] returns to Earth [[ComicBook/WorldWarHulk seeking revenge for his exile]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Spy Michael Westen is abandoned by his superiors and forced to settle in Miami. (''Series/BurnNotice'')
* Autobots and Decepticons battle for the Allspark on Earth. (''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'')
* Moon is colonized; Jacob Hovestraydt founds Hovestraydt City there (''Literature/ThePatchworkGirl'')
* Valentine Morgenstern attempts to destroy the Clave, but fails. (''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'')
* The demon Lilith revives Jonathan Morgenstern, who creates an order of Dark Shadowhunters. (''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'')
* [[labelnote:some time before]]The time-displaced Billy Shipton adds a message to Sally Sparrow in easter eggs in the [=DVDs=] that she owns, or will own. Larry Nightingale is fascinated by these and transcribes the enigmatic message.[[/labelnote]] Sally Sparrow discovers the Weeping Angels at the old manor Wester Drumlins. [[labelnote:more]]At her friend Kathy Nightingale's house, she sees the first glimpse of the Tenth Doctor's message. Kathy is thrown through time by the Angels. While at Larry's DVD shop the same recording of the Doctor almost appeared to say that he could hear her. She contacts the police, but one of the detectives, Billy Shipton, is sent through time by the Angels as well, dying of old age that night. After discovering the truth behind the [=DVDs=] she returns to Wester Drumlins with Larry. On a portable DVD player, the Doctor's strange words in the DVD easter egg suddenly become part of a two-way conversation. The Doctor warns Sally and Larry of the Weeping Angels. The two board the TARDIS while escaping the Angels, but the TARDIS leaves without them. However, the Angels are locked in place forever.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* The Doctor is chased for his lifespan by the Family of Blood. [[labelnote:more]]He later uses a chameleon arch to hide himself from the time travelling family.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:justification]]while recounting his dream containing these events, the Doctor's human disguise recalls he was in 2007.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Sam Tyler [[labelnote:You know what, spoilers.]]awakens from his coma and dies in an attempt to return to the 1970s.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'')
* Mysterious, genie-like creatures called Imagin begin appearing in Japan, "granting" wishes and attempting to alter history. Luckless high school dropout Ryotaro Nogami is drafted into becoming Den-O, the protector of the timestream, after he accidentally reveals himself to be a Singularity Point; he is later joined by the teenage version of his future brother-in-law, Yuto Sakurai. (''Series/KamenRiderDenO'')
* SCP Foundation recovers the soul extractor from a burned-out factory. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* SG-1 sends the Sangraal to the Ori galaxy through the supergate, killing the Ori. Ba'al implants himself in [[DarkMessiah Adria]], who manages to ascend and gain the power of Origin. The Asgard, having exhausted the last attempt to stop their clone degeneration, transfer the sum total of their knowledge to the SGC and commit mass suicide. SG-1 and General Landry destroy several Ori motherships with Asgard weapons but become trapped in a time dilation field aboard the USS ''Odyssey'' for fifty years, which are then reversed by [[ReversePolarity reversing the polarity]] (except for Teal'c, who had to carry the information on how to escape the Ori ships back in time with him). (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* SG-1 takes the ''Odyssey'' through the supergate to find the Ark of Truth, which they use to reveal the falsity of Ori worship to all devotees of Origin, forcing Adria into [[SealedEvilInADuel eternal battle]] with Morgan la Fay. (''Series/StargateSG1: Film/StargateTheArkOfTruth'')
* The International Oversight Advisory orders the USS ''Apollo'' to the Pegasus Galaxy, carrying the Horizon weapons system, to destroy the warships being constructed on the Asuran homeworld. The Asurans retaliate by sending a KillSat to destroy Atlantis; the Expedition is forced to move the city-ship to another planet. Rodney [=McKay=] triggers an Asuran override code to have them attack the Wraith. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* The Atlantis Expedition discovers a nine-chevron stargate address in the Atlantis information database. The SGC constructs an offworld base, designated [[WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt Icarus Base]], to research a way to reach it. (''Series/StargateUniverse'')
* The Dark Fall is finally defeated, Saki and Mai can resume their lives, while standing by if a new massive threat comes. (''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'')
* Nozomi Yumehara stumbles upon Coco and recruits her friends as the new incarnations of the Pretty Cure to restore the Palmier Kingdom and protect the world from the Nightmares group. (''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'')
* Earliest possible date of the first appearance of Cure Moonlight [[labelnote:Justification]] With the exception of Urara (who was 13) and Ako (who was 10), all Pretty Cure are at or about 14 years old. This is also magical girl standard, as well.[[/labelnote]]. (''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'')
* Satellite photos of Shinjuku reveal a black "dot" in the area, but authorities dismiss it as an irregularity. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* Penny moves in into the apartment next to Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter. (''Series/TheBigBangTheory'').
* An amateur adventurer goes missing in the Daintree Rainforest of Australia; saliva found on his camera belonged to [[PrehistoricMonster no known animal]]. A pair of paranormal investigators travel to Fallview, California, to examine apparent demonic activity, and are attacked by a large owl-like creature. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Devil Dragon", "Death Raptor")
* The disastrous filming of the pilot episode of the reality show ''Apocalypse'' takes place in West Virginia. (''Film/WrongTurn2Dead'')
* Annabelle Fritton transfers from Cheltenham Ladies' College to St. Trinian's School for Girls. (''Film/{{St Trinians}}'')
* The Light of Destruction reaches Earth, is defeated by friendship and card games. (''Anime/YuGiOhGX'')
* Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist and weapons maker Tony Stark is kidnapped by the terrorist organization the Ten Rings after he is wounded. He is forced to make weapons for medical attention, but instead turns the materials into a set of PoweredArmor. After escaping, he abandons weapons making and becomes the first modern super hero Iron Man. (''Film/IronMan1'')
* Earth is devastated by the nuclear apocalypse. (''Series/WonderWoman1975'')
* Jason Summerfield is born. (''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'')
* ''The Bojack Horseman Show'', a heavily rewritten version of a TV pitch called ''Mitch's Life'', debuts to overwhelmingly negative response. The show is quickly cancelled. (''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'')
* A three person mission consisting of Captain John Parsons, Dr. Evans and Mr. Williams is sent from Mars to determine the feasibility of repopulating Earth, which had been [[HomeworldEvacuation evacuated]] due to the devastating fallout from the Earth Wars on June 18, 1987. They discover Dr. Cornelius Hathaway, who created [[ArtificialFamilyMember robot copies of his deceased wife Alice and children Susan, Marguerite and John]] to combat his terrible loneliness. Dr. Hathaway is the [[SoleSurvivor only surviving human on Earth]]. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* The world is attacked by hordes of rampaging mutant creatures known as "Ruffians". A volunteer army is formed to fight against them, but creates even more problems with their disregard for collateral damage and suppression of the civilian population. In response, a second resistance movement is formed by a messianic MysteriousWaif called Achi, dedicated to defending the innocent from the Ruffians and the renegade army alike. (''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'')
* The Federal Expert Service, a high-class crime-solving unit answering directly to the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, is formed in Moscow. (''Series/{{Trace}}'')
* Joe Nobody meets Maria while living overseas. The two fall in love and eventually marry. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool''[[labelnote:Justification]]The narration says they separate after five years together in approximately 2012.[[/labelnote]])
* Robin [=DeSanto=] drafts a bill to permanently outlaw cancer in the United States. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2008]]
* January 1: A girl is gang-raped by a rival bowling team. (''Film/{{Gutterballs}}'')
* January 2: A SerialKiller butchers teens at a bowling alley. (''Film/{{Gutterballs}}'')
* January 6: Vasili Vashikin is killed[[labelnote:more]]by Billy Butcher[[/labelnote]] to protect a secret. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* January 7: The Boys are officially disbanded. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* January 8: Wee Hughie discovers what Vasili Vashikin had unearthed. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* January 9: Jessica Bradley testifies on behalf of Vought-American. As Billy Butcher's final plan goes into operation, The Boys and their associates are picked off one by one. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* January 10: Jessica Bradley takes the fall for Vought-American. Wee Hughie stops Billy Butcher from setting off bombs throughout New York. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* February:
** The TARDIS refuels at the active Cardiff Rift, opened by Owen Harper several days earlier to save the Earth and his team at Torchwood. Jack catches it and causes it to fly to the end of the universe while trying to shake him off. [[labelnote:Donna's world in "Turn Left"]]In an alternate timeline/universe created by one of the Trickster's Brigade latching onto Donna's back, this does not happen, as the Tenth Doctor is already dead.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
** The Wall of Jericho is destroyed as berserk white creatures soon called "the Legion," led by a red-eyed variant designated "Red Eyes," overrun JSDF defenders in Shinjuku. Survivors report hearing similar sounds as during the 6-12 Incident. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* May:
** A giant monster tears up New York City. [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Not him.]] (''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'')
** First cases of White Chlorination Syndrome outside Shinjuku. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* Spring: A former astronaut admitted to a hospital begins to act erratically and exhibit symptoms of an unknown illness, which are actually being caused by [[ChestBurster a parasitic alien resembling a giant wasp]]; though the hospital is put on lockdown, the alien escapes and is never found, though similar attacks begin taking place as far away as South America; the Enigma Corporation is contracted by the Mexico City police department to investigate a series of grisly, ritualistic murders centered around the abandoned train depot of Los Portales, which turn out to have been caused by a cult attempting to summon [[EldritchAbomination an Aztec god]]; the creature is never seen after the Enigma Corporation agents open fire on it and the Mexican government burned Los Portales to the ground, posthumously convicting the cult leader of all the killings. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Q: The Serpent God")
* June 3: An entranceway to the Labrynth is discovered on Camp Half-Blood ground by accident. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* June 5: Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson begin the Quest for Daedalus by entering the Labrynth. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* June 21: A group of girls celebrate a birthday party at Bear Lake, Utah, but are attacked by [[PrehistoricMonster an amphibious creature]] which proceeds to kill all but two of the group, and neither the victims' bodies nor the creature are ever found, though tourism to Bear Lake continues despite the persisting rumors and footage from that night. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Bear Lake Monster")
* June 27: Camp Half-Blood hosts a burial ceremony for Percy, only for Percy to return to camp alive. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* June:
** Ramona Flowers and Roxie Richter break up and don't have much contact for several years. (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
** Susan Rayner's senatorial campaign is crushed when 'Monkey' releases a tape of her having sex with Billy Butcher. Wee Hughie threatens Vought-American with genocide if they ever attempt to weaponise supes again. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Early 2008: Proposition 469 gains significant support from conservatives when Ronald Reagen endorses it, and from women aged 18--50 when Congresswoman Robin [=DeSanto=] adds a clause which, in addition to banning cancer, would require Ethan Siegal and Thaddeus to have sweaty mansex. Leslie Bean adds a further clause mandating that Robin make out with her every day, which leads to a sudden surge in support among young men. Joyce Brown and David Walkerton begin student teaching. Amber O'Malley breaks up with Nathan. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* July 7: Katrina Beaufort is born. (''Fanfic/MaFille'')
* July 22: Allison Young is born. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* Beginning of July: The Battle of the Labrynth begins; Kronos' Titan Army launches an invasion of Camp Half-Blood, which the campers are able to beat back. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* July: War breaks out between two great nations using magnetic force bombs that tilt the Earth off its axis and sinks the continents. The majority of Earth's population is destroyed in the cataclysm. (''Anime/FutureBoyConan'')
* August 27: Henry Stickmin successfully breaks into a bank in the middle of the desert by hiding in a money bag; unfortunately, he is detected by a laser grid and arrested. (''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'')
* c. August: Scientific experiments go horribly awry in the secret Russian town, Gorky 17. The Russian army subsequently bombards the town. (''VideoGame/{{Odium}}'')
* Summer:
** A group of high school students spend a weekend at an Oklahoma lake but are attacked by [[TentacledTerror unidentified tentacled creatures]]; only two of the five students survive. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Oklahoma Octopus")
** Two animal rights activists break into a textile factory that they believe is being used as a staging ground for the illegal wildlife trade; they and a security guard are attacked by a giant anaconda, and one of the activists as well as the warehouse owner disappear, but the snake is never seen again (''Series/LostTapes'': "Megaconda")
** Two extreme sports enthusiasts go missing during a three-day, 500-mile race across the Gobi Desert; their deaths were officially attributed to heat exposure, but there were [[SandWorm strange burrows]] around where their equipment was found. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Death Worm")
* September 5: The War of the Eye ends, with a treaty negotiated by Juniper Mackenzie and Sandra Arminger at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. An annual Meeting at Corvallis is established to allow the various communities of the Willamette Valley to resolve disputes. (''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'')
* September:
** Martha Jones meets the Tenth Doctor for the first time. The Doctor saves the patients and staff of the Royal Hope Hospital from suffocating on the Moon and defeats the Plasmavore, whom the Judoon execute for murder. Martha joins the TARDIS. [[labelnote:more]]She and Captain Jack, who had joined in the intervening travels, then leave not too long afterwards thanks to the events of the Year That Never Was.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:Donna's world in "Turn Left"]]In an alternate timeline/universe created by one of the Trickster's Brigade latching onto Donna's back, the Judoon still apprehend the Plasmavore, with the help of Sarah Jane Smith and Martha, but both, along with most of the staff of the hospital die of suffocation. Maria Jackson, Luke Smith and Clyde Langer are also missing and feared dead. The Year That Never Was never shall be as the Master/Prof. Yana remains on Malcassairo at the end of the universe.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
** Luke Smith is activated by the Bane. He is later adopted by Sarah Jane Smith, and joins Maria Jackson and Clyde Langer in the fight against alien threats from Ealing. [[labelnote:more]]Over the following months, the Trickster interferes with Sarah Jane's history for the first time. Andrea Yates with the help of Maria Jackson reverses it. The Slitheen return to destroy the world twice. The Xylok Mr. Smith is reformatted and turned to good through a computer virus after almost sending the Moon toward the Earth.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
** The Japanese government and imperial family relocate to Kyushu (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
** A few days after his 50th birthday, high school chemistry teacher Walter White learns that he has lung cancer. Upon his decision to create a nest egg for his family after his death, he meets with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, to propose a joint operation producing methamphetamine. (''Series/BreakingBad'')
** Leslie Bean, Robin [=DeSanto=], Mike Warner, Ethan Siegal, and Amber O'Malley move into a house together. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* October: Honshu becomes a battleground between the JSDF and the Legion. White Chlorination Syndrome cases skyrocket, as do instances of people transforming into white berserkers. Fleeing Japanese refugees are barred from other countries fearful of WCS. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* October 7: Kirigaya Kazuto is born under the name of Narusaka Kazuto. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* October 10: WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd destroys WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic with the help of Super Mecha Death Christ. (Website/ChannelAwesome)
* October 27: Carlos Ortiz is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* November 4:
** UsefulNotes/BarackObama is elected U.S. President, defeating John [=McCain=]. (RealLife)
** John [=McCain=] is elected U.S. President. (''Shooting War'')
** UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton is elected U.S. President. (''The Trial of Tony Blair'')
** UsefulNotes/SarahPalin is elected U.S. President, narrowly defeating former Vice President Joe Lieberman. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
** U.S. President Creator/RobertRedford is re-elected to a fifth term. (''Series/Watchmen2019'')
** Norman Muller, a department store clerk in Indiana, [[TheChosenOne is chosen]] by [[MasterComputer the massive computer Multivac]] to [[TheEveryman represent the opinions and views of the entire American people]] in the U.S. presidential election. ("Literature/{{Franchise}}")
** Proposition 469 fails by a narrow margin due to Mike Warner stealing ballots. As a result, cancer remains legal in America. [[labelnote:Justification]] Voting is on the same day as the presidential election. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* November 22: Dimension-hopping thief Daiki Kaitou attempts to steal an elaborate gold handgun from the affluent Kurosaki family, but is forced to abandon it after it is damaged during his escape from the police. Two years later, Kaitou would hijack the time-traveling train [=DenLiner=] in order to "redo" the theft, this time preventing the damage as well as saving a number of letters written to the young Reiji Kurosaki by his late mother. This causes a change of heart in the future version of Kurosaki, a member of the TimePolice G-Men, which leads to his partner, the artificial Imagin Eve, going berserk and trying to wipe out humanity. (''[[Series/KamenRiderDenO Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy]]'')
* November 28: Galasso fires all his employees. They respond by knocking him out, locking him in the video game cage, and declaring Ethan Siegal to be the new general manager. [[labelnote:Justification]] Happens on Black Friday[[/labelnote]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Early December: Leslie Bean starts working at Shortpacked. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* December 25: Percy, Thalia, and Nico go on a quest to take back the sword of Hades. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''[[Literature/TheDemigodDiaries The Sword of Hades]]'')
* December 24-25: The starship Titanic and its nuclear storm drive is set for a collision course with Earth in its voyage of the damned. The Tenth Doctor meets Wilfred Mott for the first time. [[labelnote:Donna's world in "Turn Left"]] In an alternate timeline/universe created by one of the Trickster's Brigade latching onto Donna's back, the Titanic crashes into London, wiping out its entire population and irradiating much of the south of England. The UK is cut off from the rest of the world thanks to this disaster. Donna, Wilf and Donna's mother are at safe distance thanks to the intervention of Rose, who tells Donna she is the most important person in the whole of creation (which went about as well as you'd expect). Due to the devastation of her home, Donna's family is forced to move to Leeds.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* December 28: Margaret Cain is born. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* December 31: Scott Pilgrim gets a haircut. He and Envy Adams have a huge argument that results in them breaking up, throwing Scott into a deep depression that will last until mid-2009, when he graduates. He and Stephen Stills leave Kid Chameleon and Envy starts her own band, The Clash at Demonhead, which hits it big and gets her famous. (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')
* UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump runs for the U.S. presidency. (''Deterrence'')
* As predicted by John Titor, the Second American Civil War begins. (UsefulNotes/{{Usenet}})
* The demon Dai Shi, sealed in 8,000 B.C.E., breaks free from his bonds, and the Order of the Claw is forced to pursue and battle him a second time. (''Series/PowerRangersJungleFury'')
* [[ComicBook/FinalCrisis Darkseid attempts to seize control of reality using the Anti-Life Equation]]. [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry Allen]] returns to life, but ComicBook/{{Batman}} dies.[[labelnote:more]]Actually, he was sent back in time.[[/labelnote]] (Creator/DCComics)
* [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] and Mary Jane make a deal with Mephisto and [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay erase their marriage from history]] to save Aunt May. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* [[ComicBook/SecretInvasion Skrulls invade Earth]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Jason Voorhees is captured by the U.S. government and imprisoned at a research facility at Crystal Lake. (''Film/JasonX'')
* A hibernating [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] is awakened in London and rapidly produces offspring that wipe out much of humanity. (''Film/ReignOfFire'')
* A deadly virus strikes Scotland, prompting the British government to wall off the country. (''Film/{{Doomsday}}'')
* A FBI team investigates fringe science with the help of a mad scientist that worked on such science back in the 1970s and 1980s. (''Series/{{Fringe}}'')
* The alien Klaatu lands in Manhattan with a message for the world. (''Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill2008'')
* [[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Stuff happened]]... [[CanonDiscontinuity don't worry about it]]. (Creator/DCComics)
* The Eleventh Doctor arrives in Leadworth for the second time meets 19-year-old Amy Pond. [[labelnote:more]]He convinces the Atraxi that incinerating the human residence would be a supremely bad idea[[/labelnote]]. The Atraxi apprehends Prisoner Zero. [[labelnote:more]]Prisoner Zero warns the Doctor of the Pandorica and the Silence[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale run a second-hand book and DVD store. Sally is compiling a dossier on her strange experiences with the Doctor years before. [[labelnote:spoilers:]][[StableTimeLoop She then gives the Tenth Doctor the dossier for when he gets stranded in 1969, in order to warn Sally in 2007.]][[/labelnote]] ("Blink", ''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Alex Drake is shot and sent back in time to 1981. (''Series/AshesToAshes2008'')
* Kida Masaomi's gang begins to identify themselves as the Yellow Scarves. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
** Saki Mikajima, under Izaya Orihara's instruction, approaches Kida. She eventually becomes his girlfriend. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
* A hot spring appears outside the Hakurei Shrine, caused by a nuclear-powered raven who wishes to turn Gensokyo into the new Hell, and Reimu and Marisa traverse underground to stop her. (''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'')
* Suicide booths go into business. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* The final battles of the UN Wars, between the United Nations and rebel forces. Near the end of the war, a massive alien creature dubbed the "Bird Human" arises. (''Anime/MacrossZero'')
* The Fangire race rises from its dormancy since the 1980s. Violin maker Wataru Kurenai finds himself compelled to battle them as the mysterious warrior Kiva, all while the Wonderful Blue Sky Organization fights both Fangire and Kiva, handing the latest version of the IXA System to bounty hunter Keisuke Nago and tasking him to hunt down Kiva. (''Series/KamenRiderKiva'')
* Private detective Sokichi Narumi breaks into a secret laboratory to rescue a young man called the "Child of Fate". However, due to the bumbling of his assistant Shotaro Hidari, Sokichi is mortally wounded shortly after rescuing the young man, who he names Philip in honor of Literature/PhilipMarlowe. In order to escape from the building, Shotaro and Philip use the experimental Double Driver belt to transform into Kamen Rider Double. They would later label this incident "Begins Night", as the night everything began for them. (''Series/KamenRiderDouble'')
* A wildfire destroys the Californian communities of Agrestic and Majestic. (''Series/{{Weeds}}'')
* Nozomi actually managed to ''impress'' the head honcho of the Nightmare, Despariah, causing the organization to crumble and stop being a threat. However, in process, she and her friends lost her ability to become Pretty Cures... until... (''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'')
* Aoba Kuronuma persuades Ran Izumii to become the leader of his gang, the Blue Squares. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
* Nozomi and friends quickly became the Pretty Cures again, more powerful than before, after being called into the Cure Rose Garden, in order to combat a new threat in form of the Eternal group. (''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Go! Go!'')
* The SGC, Travelers, and Wraith join forces to defeat the Asurans for good. First contact with the Vanir, an Asgard splinter faction. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* A news crew and two firefighters go into the sewers to find a lost cat, but are attacked by [[LizardFolk a strange humanoid creature]]; the news crew are both killed and partially eaten, but the firefighters return alive (''Series/LostTapes'': "Lizard Man")
* The body of Mark Hordstrom and another major discovery are made in the Himalayas and transported by cargo ship, and two journalists bribe one of the ship's workers to break the story a day early; video evidence indicates that the second major discovery was [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti a live animal]] which proceeded to escape and kill them, though their deaths were officially attributed to drowning, and the ship was diverted to Plum Island, keeping the story from ever being broadcast. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Yeti")
* A task force is assembled to investigate a dramatic rise in teenage disappearances at secret underground raves in New York City, which they discover are being organized by [[LizardFolk strange people with glowing eyes in hooded coats]], but all of their evidence is seized, no arrests are made, and the task force is abolished because of "budget cuts." (''Series/LostTapes'': "Reptilian")
* Yubel returns to Earth and causes drags Duel Academy into the Spirit World. Some time after it is brought back, Darkness reawakens and attempts to assimilate all souls on Earth, but he is defeated by friendship and card games. (''Anime/YuGiOhGX'')
* Mayor Marshall Winslow and chief of police Richard Monroe of Stilwater are killed by the 3rd Street Saints. Later, "Playa" is invited to a party onboard Alderman Richard Hughes' yacht. Hughes attempts to kill Playa, but a bomb on the yacht detonates, killing Hughes and sending Playa into a coma. (''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'') [[labelnote:Justification]]An obituaries page on the now-defunct official ''Saints Row'' website lists Monroe's death year as 2008; other obituaries are inconsistent with the events of the game.[[/labelnote]]
* This is the furthest year that an alternate Professor Marcus Irving (from 1997) steals future technology from. By Irving's own account, hover tech (like that of the [=DeLorean=]'s) still hasn't been invented by this time. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* Lavi Drake's father is possessed by a ghost and kills his mother, before attempting to kill him. At the last minute he is saved by a mysterious green dragon that takes him to the Tyrant Mountains, where he will be [[RaisedByWolves Raised By Dragons]] until his late teens. (''WebVideo/PokemonTabletopUtopusRegion'')
* Ed Gold is born. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Christian Mueller and Winnie Barnes are married. (''Series/USAHigh'')
* Lt. General George Hammond dies of a heart attack. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Annabelle Barker is raped and murdered by a paedophile who's never caught. In her grief, her sister Taryn makes a deal with an EvilSorceror to get revenge, but it's a ruse for the warlock to take her soul. Luckily, she's rescued and uses her new powers to oppose the darkness. (''Film/DemonHunter2016'')
* Clark Wayne and Amanda Mason are married. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
* Dr. Susan Calvin receives her Ph.D., and joins United States Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. as a robopsychologist. (''Literature/IRobot'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder: 2008-2009]]
* Less than a year after Kazuto is born, his parents die. He is subsequently adopted by the Kirigaya family. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder:2009]]
* January 2: Jeff Tracy is born. (''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'')
* January 14:
** 12 people are killed and 19 wounded in a killing spree carried out by Inubushi Keiko at Awazumi Municiple Hospital in Hokkaido, Japan. (''VisualNovel/{{Remember11}}'')
** Mabel Pines gets a great number of Valentine's Day cards, but Dipper gets none. Mabel glues all her cards together to make a big one for Dipper. (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'')
* January 15: Three minutes after taking off from [=LaGuardia=] Airport, US Airways Flight 1549 hits a flock of geese, taking out both engines. Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is forced to ditch the plane in the Hudson River. EverybodyLives. (RealLife, ''Film/{{Sully}}'')
* January: The US-Japan Joint Operation Accord begins, and American forces begin aiding the JSDF against Legion attacks. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* February 17: Two planes collide in the skies above Albuquerque, resulting in 167 deaths. (''Series/BreakingBad'')
* February 22: The 81st Annual Academy Awards is attacked by a dirty bomb, and more biological attacks follow throughout Los Angeles and Anaheim. LA is evacuated 3 days later. (''Music/YearZero'')
* February 26: [AlternateTimeline] Phoebe Halliwell is executed for witchcraft. (''Series/Charmed1998'')
* March 7: Yukari Takeba receives a letter from her father which has been in a time capsule for years. She awakens her Persona the same night. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* March:
** Shinjuku is repeatedly carpet-bombed in joint US-Japanese operations, but Legion forces seem unaffected. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
** The United States launches nuclear strikes against Iran and North Korea over the ricin attacks in California. (''Music/YearZero'')
** Joe Nobody sees an article on ''The Huffington Post'' about how several programs in the "troubled teen" industry are shutting down due to the economy. He reads some reader comments about how Elan School is still operational and still abusive, and resolves to get Elan closed once and for all. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* April 6: A youth arrives in Iwatodai for the first time since the Moonlight Bridge incident nearly ten years prior. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* April 9: A powerful Shadow of the Magician Arcana attacks the S.E.E.S. dorm, only to be destroyed when the newcomer awakens their Persona and unknowingly calls upon the power of Death. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* April 10: A man crashes a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of people waiting for a job fair, killing eight people and injuring numerous others. He is never caught. (''Literature/MrMercedes'')
* Before April 12: The Tenth Doctor reunites with Donna Noble and they save London's residents from being converted into members of the Adipose race. The sky is poisoned [[labelnote:more]]by the Sontarans[[/labelnote]] with the Atmospheric Emissions System installed in roughly 300 million cars worldwide. [[labelnote:more]]The Doctor sets the skies alight, ruining the Sontarans' plans and Luke Rattigan blows up the Sontaran ship.[[/labelnote]] The TARDIS is suddenly dragged to the planet Messaline in 6012. [[labelnote:Donna's world in "Turn Left"]] In an alternate timeline/universe created by one of the Trickster's Brigade latching onto Donna's back, the Adipose plan is successfully put to fruition in North America, killing 60 million. The Series/{{Torchwood}} team is killed saving the world from the Sontarans' ATMOS plan, apart from Jack, who is transferred to Sontar. Foreigners have been placed into "labour camps". Wilf notes the stars are going out, so Donna meets up with Rose to reverse the mess the world has got into using a cannibalised TARDIS.[[/labelnote]] The Earth and 25 other planets are stolen from the sky. [[labelnote:more]]This was caused by the Daleks, who were stopped by the Doctor and Donna Noble, who were warned about this on the planet Shan Shen by Rose Tyler. As the result of a Time Lord-human metacrisis, Donna's memories are erased before her mind is burnt out.[[/labelnote]] The Doctor is once again without any companions. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* April 10: The Sburb Beta is released. (''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'')
* April 12: On Easter, the Tenth Doctor and a jewel thief named Lady Christina de Souza get on a London bus and are stranded on a desolate planet, formerly the metropolis San Helios. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* April 13: John Egbert receives his copy of the Sburb Beta, and begins playing with his three friends, Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider, and Jade Harley. Though they are initially unaware of this, playing the game completes the StableTimeLoop that brought about their own existence, but this same time loop results in the destruction of human civilization via a rain of meteors and a vast explosion triggered by Becquerel, First Guardian of Earth. The sole survivors are the kids, their guardians, the humorless gentleman known only as fedoraFreak, and the actor Creator/NicolasCage. Of these, only Cage remains on Earth; the rest escape into the Medium via Sburb. (''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'')
* April 19: Kirigaya Suguha is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* April 21:
** First [=FlashForward=] occurs at 17:00:00, caused by an experiment at the LHC. Whole world's consiousness flashes to October 23, 2030 for 2 minutes. Future splits into two parallel universes, henceforth referred to as A and B [[labelnote:more]]In universe A, the pre-[=FlashForward=] continuity, the world never experienced a FlashForward. It is unclear whether it experienced a blackout. In universe B, the post-Flash timeliine, the world saw a glimpse of universe A, and acted upon the information, thus creating a differing universe.[[/labelnote]](''[[Series/FlashForward2009 FlashForward]]'', novel)
** Asada Shino is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* April 29: Raiden infiltrates the Big Shell to surpress the Sons of Liberty. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'')
* April:
** A reporter, a police officer, and two ATF agents enter the Appalachian wilderness to bust a moonshining operation, but are attacked by [[ManiacMonkeys unknown animals]] which leave their bodies so mutilated that they can only be identified through DNA and dental records. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Devil Monkey")
** The new transfer student and Junpei Iori join SEES, enabling them to being exploring Tartarus. The transfer student is appointed the field commander of SEES, and others begin referring to them as the leader despite Mitsuru Kirijo being the leader on paper.[[note]]The newcomer joins SEES on April 18 in the base game and FES and on April 20 in Portable; Junpei joins the next day.[[/note]] (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* May 9: SEES battles and destroys a powerful Shadow of the Priestess Arcana. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* May 10: Gamers and Critics led by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd and Webvideo/TheNostalgiaCritic respectively face off in the ultimate showdown. [[labelnote:more]]It ends in a tie, after [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses That Guy With the Glasses]] asks for the fighting to stop, and suggests everyone to set aside their differences to partake in crossovers.[[/labelnote]] (''Webvideo/TGWTGYearOneBrawl'')
* May 23: Konno Yuuki and Konno Aiko are born. Due to a batch of bad blood, their family is infected with HIV.
* May 30: Bullies at Gekkoukan High begin collapsing. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* May: A Wisconsin militia group and one of two reporters are found dead during a raid by government agents after the second reporter managed to escape the carnage of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent an unknown creature]]; their deaths were officially attributed to wolf attacks, but no such animals were ever found. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Beast of Bray Road")
* June 1: Terrorists detonate an EMP weapon in the United States, destroying electronics nation wide and making the United States a third-world country overnight. (''Series/DarkAngel'')
* June 6: Shinjiro Aragaki tells the junior members of SEES that the recent victims all bullied Fuuka Yamagishi, who was considered for SEES membership and is apparently missing. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* June 8: Mitsuru interrogates the remaining bully and discovers Fuuka was locked in the gym overnight, realizing this means Fuuka ended up stuck in Tartarus. SEES goes to rescue Fuuka, but Fuuka awakens her Persona and ends up using her navigation skills to help SEES defeat powerful Shadows of the Empress and Emperor Arcanas. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* June 10: Amy Barrett dies of the Gehenna Strain. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* June: two outdoor enthusiasts try out catfish noodling in the White River of Arkansas; one of them as well as their fishing guide are killed after disturbing [[PrehistoricMonster a large, unknown fish]]; the survivor's requests to drag the river both to recover the victims' bodies as well as to prove the existence of the creature are repeatedly denied, and the deaths are officially attributed to alligator attacks (''Series/LostTapes'': "White River Monster"); a group of paranormal investigators is found death in a Lakeview, Colorado, home after trying to deal with a purported poltergeist in the building, their deaths officially attributed to cardiac arrest (''Series/LostTapes'': "Poltergeist")
* Early 2009: Ethan Siegal realises it's wrong to keep Galasso imprisoned and tries to free him, but Robin [=DeSanto=] imprisons him instead. Ultra Car accidentally breaks Galasso out of his cage, and he promptly fires everybody except Faz Oh Lee again and shuts down Shortpacked. Amber O'Malley discovers Mike Warner working at [=McAwesome's=] while drunk and blackmails him into being her boyfriend on pain of telling everybody that he becomes nice when inebriated. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* July 7: SEES destroys powerful Shadows of the Hierophant and Lovers Arcanas. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* July 12: Nathan Ingram creates a contingency option within Northern Lights, allowing him to help prevent crimes deemed "irrelevant" by its government handlers. (''Series/PersonOfInterest'')
* July 14: Gustavo Fring, the leading drug kingpin in the American South-West, is killed by Hector Salamanca of the Juarez Cartel. (''Series/BreakingBad'')
* July 20: Takeharu Kirijo finds and shares a video made by Eiichiro Takeba about how the Dark Hour came about and how to end it. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* July 21: SEES stumbles upon a robot girl named Aigis, who develops a fixation on their leader. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* July 28: Ken Amada joins SEES in pursuit of revenge for his mother's death. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* July:
** The Redding family moves into a fixer-upper house, but are attacked by a group of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent bloodsucking humanoid monsters]]. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Vampire")
** Birth of Stephen to Billie and Danny Wilcox. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* August: A coalition of terrorist groups declare jihad against the United States. (''Music/YearZero'')
* August 6:
** In an uncomfortable coincidence of dates, Japan agrees to exercise the nuclear option on Shinjuku. Through the rest of August, nuclear weapons are dropped on dense concentrations of Legion forces. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
** SEES encounters Strega, a group who have been using the Dark Hour to perform assassination, while trying to destroy powerful Shadows of the Chariot and Justice Arcanas. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* August 9: Akihiko talks Shinjiro into rejoining SEES. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* August 11: Percy Jackson and Charles Beckendorf detonate a bomb aboard the ''Princess Andromeda'', the Titan Army's main ship. Several monsters and traitor demigods die. Percy survives, Charles does not. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* August 14: A team of three commandos, led by Cole Sullivan, arrives into a Polish town where some mysterious disaster has occurred. They subsequently find the town overrun by mutated monsters and barely any survivors. (''VideoGame/{{Odium}}'')
* August 16:
** Junpei meets Chidori Yoshino and begins to flirt with her. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
** Kronos leads his Titan Army of demigods and monsters in an invasion of Manhattan, New York City. The god Morpheus puts the mortal population of the city to sleep for the battle. Camp Half-Blood prepares a defence of the city. The Battle of Manhattan begins. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* August 17: Second day of the Battle of Manhattan. Percy manages to defeat Hyperion in Central Park. Poseidon and his cyclopses defeat the giant monster Typhon in the Hudson River. Meanwhile, Kronos is able to launch a surprise attack on the Empire State Building - and therefore Mount Olympus itself. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* August 18:
** Nathan Clark is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
** Third and final day of the Battle of Manhattan. Percy does battle with Kronos in the Hall of the Gods. The demigod [[spoiler:Luke Castellan]] sacrifices himself to defeat Kronos, and the Titan is 'scattered'.[[note]](meaning, he is reduced to scattered dust; technically not dead but unable to form any kind of body)[[/note]] The Battle of Manhattan and the Titan War in general end on Percy Jackson's 16th birthday. On the other side of the country, Jason Grace destroys the Titan base on Mount Othrys. Percy makes the Olympian Gods swear on the Styx that they will not abandon their children but claim them by 13 years of age, while giving representation to the children of minor gods. Percy and Annabeth begin dating. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'')
* August: Paul Klein is born in [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the Greater German Reich]]. (''In the Presence of Mine Enemies'')
* June - August: Kelly Jones begins working for [=MI7=] (''Film/{{St Trinians}}'')
* Before September: Torchwood Three investigates a gentleman's club on the site of Torchwood India, which has been frozen in time for over eight decades. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' [radio dramas])
* September 1: Alison [=DiLaurentis=] leaves a slumber party to get to the bottom of a series of threatening messages she has received. Near her home, she's hit on the head from behind and buried alive, but is dug out by a psychic friend. Mona Vanderwaal, the person behind the threatening messages, mistakes Bethany Young for Alison and hits her in the head with a shovel; Bethany is later buried alive in the same grave Alison was[[note]]by Alison's friend Spencer's sister, who thinks it's Alison and that Spencer killed her[[/note]] and suffocates. When Mona sees the real Alison alive, she helps her go into hiding. (''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'')
* September 5: Chidori reveals herself to be a member of Strega and kidnaps Junpei in an attempt to prevent him from participating in SEES's operation to destroy a powerful Shadow of the Hermit Arcana. Thanks to the efforts of SEES, the Shadow is destroyed and Chidori is captured. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
** Ken learns exactly what killed his mother.[[note]]Shinjiro uses his Persona to save Ken from the Hermit Shadow, and Ken recognizes it as the being that killed his mother.[[/note]] (''Manga/{{Persona 3}}'')
* September 5: Farhan Qureshi & Raju Rastogi embark on a road trip to find their old college roommate Rancho, following a lead that Rancho's old UnknownRival Chatur Ramalingam got from his secretary's attempt to contact Phunsukh Wangdu [[spoiler:aka the impostor Ranchhodas who went to school with them]]. During their journey, they come across [[spoiler:the funeral of the father of the real]] Ranchhodas Shamaldas Chanchad and crash the wedding of Rancho's old flame Pia Sahastrabuddhe. (''Film/ThreeIdiots'')
* September 11: The Friday that Chatur Ramalingam had scheduled for a meeting with the famous scientist Phunsukh Wangdu to sign a contract for a million dollar deal with Rockledge Corporation.[[note]]It is unknown how serious Phunsukh was being when he humoursly claimed a week prior that that he would not be able to sign the deal because Chatur took his pen, [[spoiler:referring to the astronaut pen Rancho received from their college director Viru Sahastrabuddhe as a token of excellence that Chatur assumed Rancho stole after the latter used it to sign the Declaration of Defeat document Chatur brought]].[[/note]] (''Film/ThreeIdiots'')
* September 17: A Spanish study group is formed at Greendale Community College. (''Series/{{Community}}'')
* September 30: Chris Miller is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* September:
** Torchwood Three is ordered destroyed by the British government in order to cover up the first 456 incident. Shortly thereafter, the 456 reestablish contact, demanding the governments of Earth surrender 10% of their children to them. The surviving members of Torchwood thwart them. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
** Annabelle Fritton is made head girl at St. Trinian's School for Girls. At the same time, Piers Pomfrey attempts to recover the treasure stolen from his ancestor in 1589. (''Film/{{St Trinians}}'')
** A group of campers go missing in the Appalachian wilderness; a small search crew was sent to find them, and ultimately all of them were killed, with two of the campers never being seen again; in spite of [[Main/{{Wendigo}} video evidence to the contrary]], their deaths were officially attributed to bear attacks. (''Series/LostTapes'': "Wendigo: American Cannibal")
** Parepin is introduced into water supplies in major US cities, with the alleged goal of protecting against biological terrorism, with the rest of the country to follow. Free speech is restricted, leading to the jailing/execution of protestors. (''Music/YearZero'')
* October 4:
** SEES destroys powerful Shadows of the Fortune and Strength Arcanas. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
** Ken confronts Shinjiro about his mother's death. Takaya Sakaki, the leader of Strega, attempts to kill Ken, but Shinjiro takes the bullets for him. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
** Ayano Keiko is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* October 6: Everyone in the world blacks out at the exact same time, 11:00 am Pacific time, for 2 minutes 17 seconds [[labelnote:more]]During which, everybody in the world had visions of themselves 6 months in the future[[/labelnote]]. (''[[Series/FlashForward2009 Flash Forward]]'')
* October 12: Light Yagami, otherwise known as Kira, disguised as L, speaks with Near, L's successor, for the first time. (''Manga/DeathNote'')
* October 15: Study group members and best friends Abed Nadir and Troy Barnes make a pact that they will never lie to each other. (''Series/{{Community}}'') [[labelnote:Timing]]The precise date is given in "Contemporary Impressionists". It also matches the original U.S date that the episode this pact was made in was broadcast.[[/labelnote]]
* October: Jason Grace goes missing. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'')
* November 2: After learning about how to influence Google's search algorithms, Joe Nobody starts a blog about Elan School's abuses. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool''[[labelnote:Justification]]Date taken from the earliest entry on the blog linked to in the comic.[[/labelnote]])
* November 3: Despite Strega's continued interference, SEES destroys a powerful Shadow of the Hanged Man Arcana, the last Shadow to escape from the Kirijo experiment ten years ago. This will supposedly end the Dark Hour. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* November 4: The Dark Hour persists. SEES learns of the prophesied Fall, the destruction of all life at the hands of Nyx.[[note]]Shuji Ikutsuki, SEES's faculty advisor, reveals he manipulated SEES into destroying the powerful Shadows so they could combine into Death and bring about the Fall. He and Takeharu Kirijo then kill each other.[[/note]] (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* November 22: Strega interrupts a dispute between Junpei and Chidori at the gates of Tartarus. Takaya shoots Junpei, but Chidori sacrifices herself to revive him. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* Late November: Leslie Bean inspires Ethan Siegal to make another attempt to break into standup comedy. He garners applause with a spiel drawing on his experience in selling toys, and starts performing semi-regularly. [[labelnote:Justificaion]] Happens on Black Friday weekend. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* November: The nuclear campaign in Japan is declared successful, and there is no sign of any remaining Legion berserkers. (''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'')
* December 2-3: Aigis identifies the Death Shadow and confronts him, but he defeats her and explains the Fall can only be prevented by the defeat of Nyx, which he believes is impossible. He reveals himself as the Harbinger of Death and offers SEES the chance to kill him and thus erase their knowledge of the coming Fall. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* December 14: Percy Jackson goes missing. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'')
* December 17: Jason Grace, Piper [=McLean=], and Leo Valdez go to Camp Half-Blood for the first time. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'')
* December 18: Jason, Leo, and Piper begin their quest to rescue the godess Hera. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'')
* December 21: Jason, Leo, and Piper rescue the godess Hera. (''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'', ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'')
* December 24: The Master is resurrected by a cult [[labelnote:more]]but due to his wife's interference CameBackWrong [[/labelnote]]. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* December 25: [[labelnote:''The End of Time'' spoilers]] The Master causes the entire human population of Earth to become clones of himself[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* December 26: [[labelnote:''The End of Time'' spoilers]]The Time Lords, led by Rassilon, attempt to end time itself, deleting the Master's template from the human race in the process. The Master thwarts this by apparently sacrificing himself.[[/labelnote]] The Tenth Doctor slowly begins his regeneration cycle. He says farewell to Sarah Jane and Luke Smith around the same time period. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* December 31: SEES rejects the Harbinger's offer, and he tells them that Nyx will arrive at the top of Tartarus at the end of the next month. (''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'')
* December: Amber O'Malley gets a pair of pet hamsters, SNKRS and Ani. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Late 2009: Roz [=DeSanto=] visits with Robin and her friends, and persuades Robin to finally get together with Leslie Bean. Shortpacked reopens, bigger and better than before, thanks to a congressional loan arranged by Robin [=DeSanto=]. Ronald Reagan moves on to other things. Jacob Williams starts working at Shortpacked. Amber O'Malley and Mike Warner visit Mike's parents in New York, fight the Giant Mutant Frosted Honey Bun. [[labelnote:Justification]] According to [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/this-man-this-manhattan/ Willis' notes]], "This Man, This Manhattan" happens in 2008 due to Marcie and Travis still being with Jason, even though it ran in 2009. However, by this point in ''It's Walky'', they had not yet left him. Furthermore, this comic happens after Black Friday 2008, and Amber says it is over five years since SEMME's final battle against the Martians. George Warner also says that Mike died about six years previously, which would suggest 2010; however, Mike died in late February and "This Man, This Manhattan" was published in October; since George uses the qualifier "about", we can surmise the Martian invasion was a little less than six years prior and George is just rounding to the nearest integer, which would fit with a date of October 2009. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* Wendy Watson takes a job with the Jolly Fats Weehauken Temp Agency, a.k.a. the Middleman and [=O2STK=]. (Series/TheMiddleman)
* The falsely imprisoned Nick Vrenna fights through an underground high-security prison full of mutants (that were created after genetic experiments got out of control) and diverts the water supply to prevent the plague from spreading outside. (''VideoGame/{{Abuse}}'')
* Reconstruction of the alien fortress, dubbed the ''Macross'' is completed. Giant alien warriors known as the Zentraedi attack Earth in an attempt to claim the ship (''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'')
* [[GovernmentConspiracy Project Leviathan]] comes to an end, all its test subjects believed dead. (Anime/ElCazadorDeLaBruja)
* Near Apocalypse of '09. (Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse)
* [[ComicBook/BlackestNight The dead rise across the universe]] and seek to destroy all life. (Creator/DCComics)
* Norman Osborn grows in power and influence. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Kree (led by [[ComicBook/TheInhumans the Inhumans]]) and Shi'ar (led by Emperor Vulcan) go to [[ComicBook/WarOfKings war]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica returns. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Norman Osborn [[ComicBook/{{Siege}} goes to war with Asgard]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Conflict arises between the Yellow Scarves and the Blue Squares. Izaya Orihara sells information to both sides. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
** Under Izaya's recommendation, Saki Mikajima approaches the Blue Squares. They then kidnap her and break her leg to get Kida Masaomi's attention. Masaomi runs to save her, but freezes up as he gets close, ultimately failing to save her. Four members of the Blue Squares--Kadota Kyohei, Walker Yumasaki, Erika Kawisawa, and Saburo--betray their gang and save Saki instead. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
*** As a result of this incident, Masaomi leaves the Yellow Scarves and breaks up with Saki. He invites Mikado Ryugamine to join him at Raira Academy, and Mikado accepts. (''Literature/{{Durarara}}'')
* The last known baby is born in Argentina; all other humans are mysteriously infertile. Global instability rises as people realize they are the last generation. (''Film/ChildrenOfMen'' (film))
* A viral cure for cancer [[GoneHorriblyWrong mutates into a lethal strain]] that kills billions, and turns most of the survivors into [[OurVampiresAreDifferent monsters]]. (''Film/IAmLegend'' [film])
* Yuji Kaido placed into cryogenic stasis after being diagnosed with a terrible disease. (''Anime/BlueGender'')
* Marianne vi Britannia assassinated; her son Lelouch and daughter Nunally are sent to Japan as political hostages. (''Anime/CodeGeass''[[labelnote:more]]1954 CE[[/labelnote]])
* A large spaceship appears in Gensokyo's skies, and the heroines chase after it in search of treasure. (''VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject'')
* Second Industrial Revolution begins. (''The Psychotechnic League'')
* Maria Jackson leaves with her father to America. Rani Chandra joins Sarah Jane's team. [[labelnote:more]]Mrs. Wormwood and Commander Kaagh search for the body of the galactic conqueror Horath on Earth. Kaagh has second thoughts, sacrificing himself and Wormwood to prevent themselves from being released.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
* North Korean President Choi Kim seeks peaceful reunification with South Korea. His son Choi Song, seeing this as weakness, deposes his father and takes over North Korea as a dictator, threatening the world with nuclear missiles. A joint military coalition attempts to bring Song in, but the job is eventually completed by Christopher Jacobs, a mercenary with the PMC Executive Operations[[labelnote:more]]According to ''Mercenaries 2'', Jacobs' storyline is the canonical one.[[/labelnote]]. (''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}}: Playground of Destruction'')
* Dimensional chaos causes massive alterations to reality, as well as unleashing hordes of monsters. The mysterious photographer Tsukasa Kadoya is tasked by the Kamen Riders with the job of resolving the problem while they prevent further damage to reality. Tsukasa becomes Kamen Rider Decade and begins traveling between parallel versions of reality, working with the Kamen Riders he finds there to protect their worlds. (''Series/KamenRiderDecade'')
* The aristocratic Sonozaki family ramps up distribution of the illegal devices called Gaia Memories as part of patriarch Ryubee's plan to initiate a "Gaia Impact". Private eye Shotaro Hidari and his partner Philip battle the Dopants (humans who use Gaia Memories) as Kamen Rider Double, later gaining assistance from police investigator Ryu Terui, who himself possesses the power of Kamen Rider Accel. (''Series/KamenRiderDouble'')
* Mystery novelist Richard Castle begins shadowing NYPD Detective Kate Beckett as part of his research for his latest project, which will become the novel ''Heat Wave''. (''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'')
* Two monsters fight for high school student Jyugon's affections. (''Film/VampireGirlVsFrankensteinGirl'')
* An experiment involving a quantum decomputer summons an EldritchAbomination Atomic Robo shares a long enmity with. (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'')
* Charley Dixon and Derek Reese are killed. Sarah Connor is arrested, but freed by John and Cameron. Cameron is badly damaged; John Henry takes her chip to the future. John and Catherine Weaver go into hiding. The fates of Sarah Connor and James Ellison are unknown. (''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'')
* Otani-Lincoln Laboratories receives its first R&D contract from GDI to develop semi-autonomous structure. (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'')
* [AlternateTimeline] After Earth makes contact with the Aschen Confederation, the Goa'uld are wiped out. Earth begins to suffer a precipitous drop in global birthrates[[labelnote:more]]due to sterility drugs secreted in Aschen anti-aging vaccines. The former SG-1 sacrifices itself to send a message back in time to before SG-1 contacted the Aschen to warn them off[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/StargateSG1'': "2010")
* The Wraith hook up a zero-point energy module to a hive ship, causing it to grow into a nearly indestructible super-hive which is sent to attack Earth. Atlantis uses a wormhole drive to jump to Earth and aid in the defense. Col. John Sheppard flies an F-302 carrying a nuclear warhead aboard the super-hive and detonates it, destroying the ship and saving the planet. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* The Lucian Alliance launches a surprise attack on Icarus Base. During the attack, the team successfully dials the nine-chevron address and evacuates through the gate, ending up aboard the millions-of-years-old Ancient exploration ship ''Destiny''. (''Series/StargateUniverse'')
* The Eternal group is brought down by Nozomi, the Boss proving too evil for Nozomi to forgive. Still retaining their Pretty Cure powers, they resume their lives until their powers are needed again. (''Anime/YesPrettyCure5 Go! Go!'')
* Love Momozono saves her favorite dancer from a monster from Labyrinth and incidentally awakened her ability to become a Pretty Cure, eventually committing herself and her friends (also awakening their Precure abilities) to combat the Labyrinth. (''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'')
* The first Great Big Gathering: Love, along with Miki Aono and Inori Yamabuki team up with Nagisa, Honoka, Hikari, Saki, Mai and Nozomi (along with her friends Rin Natsuki, Urara Kasugano, Komachi Akimoto, Karen Minazuki and Kurumi Mimino) to stop the creature called Fusion (''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'')
* A prison transport crashes in the backwoods of West Virginia. Only two survivors are discovered in the next morning. (''Film/WrongTurn3LeftForDead'')
* Lucifer rises when all the Seals are broken and finally walks the Earth. The Apocalypse has begun. Lucifer is free and seeks a vessel. During his time on Earth, he kills gods, angels, demons, humans and binds Death and the other Four Horsemen to his side with a supernatural spell. (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'')
* Calypso hosts a new Twisted Metal tournament (presumed to be the 14th, as 3 years went on since the 11th), once again a world tour taking place on several of the world's most famous locations. (''VideoGame/TwistedMetal Head-On'')
* The androids Martin and Alicia create a human named Cain using uncontaminated DNA samples, 12 years after humanity was wiped out in a biological war on July 24, 1997. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* According to the Eighth Doctor, a former San Franciscan security guard named Gareth becomes the head of a seismology taskforce, and invents an earthquake detection system that saves human lives countless times over. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Abel Gutierrez travels to Anoza to meet the legendary Master Quoker in hopes that he will train him. Eventually, he agrees to do so. (''WebAnimation/MinilifeTV'')
* Ben Song leaps into Kamini Prasad, a chef at a family-owned Indian restaurant in Portland, Oregon. He's there to prevent Kamini's family from falling apart after the restaurant burns down later that evening. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* Rosenthal Motors introduces a line of intelligent, polite, friendly zoomer cars. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* David Willis marries Maggie Weidner. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} and RealLife)
* [AlternateUniverse] Sal Wilcox dies. Her husnand, Danny, defeats Monkey Master. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=200X=]]]
* Early May: The untested AI [=GLaDOS=] is activated for the first time as one of the planned activities on Aperture Science's first annual bring-your-daughter-to-work day. In many ways, the initial test goes well: Within one picosecond of being switched on, [=GLaDOS=] becomes self-aware. The "going well" phase lasts for two more picoseconds, at which point [=GLaDOS=] takes control of the facility, locks everyone inside, and begins a permanent cycle of testing. Her goal: beat the hated Black Mesa in the race to develop a functioning portal technology. (''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'')
* May 16: Days after [=GLaDOS=]'s self-awareness, Black Mesa successfully deploys an interdimensional gate through which an alien race emerges. Gordon Freeman defeats the source of the trouble and is placed into stasis by an enigmatic figure. [[labelnote:more]]The Combine arrive and conquer and decimate Earth's forces in seven hours[[/labelnote]]. (''VideoGame/HalfLife1'')
* Proto Man, the first robot capable of independent thought is created, but runs away to preserve his individuality after a stray remark from Light. Light then constructs Rock and Roll, the second and third examples of the next generation of robots designed to lead other robots. Dubbed "Robot Masters", six more were created for industrial purposes. But Dr. Wily, Light's embittered ex-colleague, steals these six robots and reprograms then to conquer the world. Rock takes up arms as the hero "Mega Man" to defeat his brothers alongside Wily's own creations. (''Franchise/MegaMan'' series)
* Dr. Wily rules the world with his robot army. Proto Man and Mega Man try, and fail, to defeat him. (''Music/TheProtomen'')
* "Wild Ones", also known as Digimon start bio-emerging from the digital world into the real world. (''Anime/DigimonTamers'')
* Birth of Philip J. Fry II to Yancy Fry, Jr., and his unnamed wife. He is named after a paternal uncle. He would go on to become the first man to walk upon Mars. Hubert J. Farnsworth is supposedly a distant descendant of this boy. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* A man, having fallen asleep in the nineteenth century, awakes into the mid-noughties into a perfect version of London society. After learning many things and meeting many wonderful people, he was rather frustrated to wake up in the nineteenth century again and discover that ItWasAllADream. (''[[Creator/WilliamMorris News From Nowhere]]'')
* The Amnesia faction is created, intending to create a new system of rules for the Hollow Night phenomena. However, early conflicts with another faction cause one of its founders to die and another to quit. [[labelnote:*]]Using the 'happens in year of publication' system of the GUT, Hilda (the third founder) is in her early twenties in 2012. This implies that Amnesia is a fairly recently-founded organisation at that point in time.[[/labelnote]](''VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth'')
* Sometime after the Tokyo Twilight Disaster, Asuka Hiiragi joins the Nemesis organization and becomes an Enforcer. She moves to the United States branch to train under them for about five to six years. (''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'')
* Shio Takahata founds the delinquent gang BLAZE in Morimiya City alongside his friend Kazuma, intending to create a community where misfits and outcasts of society can belong. Akihiro is one of those members who becomes second in-command under Shio's and Kazuma's wings. (''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu'')
* A cop investigating a string of mass child murders learns that the Devil is trying to prevent the second attempt at Christ's return. (''Film/{{Belzebuth}}'')
* Peter and Mary Paul divorce. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]

* September 2: The Pilgrim family moves to [[CanadaEh Northern Ontario]] and Scott starts at St. Joel's Catholic High School. He gets into a fight on his first day and meets Lisa Miller in the principal's office. For a couple weeks, she pursues a friendship with him and he continues to act aloof, leading her to think he hates her. They end up becoming best friends.[[labelnote:Justification]]This was the day after Labor Day in 2003. And yes, they have Labor Day in Canada.[[/labelnote]] (''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'')

* January: Robin [=DeSanto=] and Mike Warner start working at Shortpacked. Robin moves in with Amber O'Malley. Agatha Larsen starts working at [=McAwesome's=] around the same time. [[labelnote:Justification]] In [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/bonkers this strip]], which happens just after New Year's Day 2006, Robin says she's been there for a year. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}