fictional dates of the old solar system

[ + links to:  Brackett, Bradbury and "past-future" dates  -  Synchronicities of 1967  -  The chronology of Captain Future  -  Looking ahead with excitement to 1981  -  Uranian Eras ]

The dates of imagined events lend interest to a story, and help to characterize it. 

If the dates are still in our future, they link the tale to us via the chain of year-numbers. If on the other hand the dates are in our past but in the author's future (like, for example, stories written in the 1930s but set in the 1980s), they piquantly contribute to the history of expectations - 

Harlei:  Or to put it another way, the history of what might have been. Particularly in our sub-genre!  The entire OSS is a rich field for nostalgic might-have-beens.  "If only the planets had been habitable / inhabited, if only cheap space travel had been invented, if only this, if only that."  To give a date to a fictional event is to rub in the "if-only" with extra bitter-sweetness.

Zendexor:  And yet you get some critics who complain that dating a story makes it somewhat...er...dated. 

Harlei:  They just don't get it.  Like those who say that Apollo 11 destroyed the readability of fictional first journeys to the Moon because it made them "out of date", as though from July 1969 onwards readers might as well throw  Operation Columbus into the trash bin.  I'm not trying to knock reality, I realize it has its points, but Operation Columbus actually has Apollo 11 beat hollow -

Zendexor:  Well, we can simply say to all that, "Fiction is reality.  A book is a thing that exists.  The ideas in it exist - "

Harlei:  - though it's a pity Hugh Walters doesn't give us a date for the events in Operation Columbus...

Zendexor:  Never mind, we do have the dates of other first-trips-to-the-moon (for example see below, under "1975", "1978" and "2026").

And there are some dates which refer to the far more distant past, since the OSS is really old - that is, it's backed in its own terms by a venerable timeline, as well as "old" in the other sense of being outdated.

Future researchers might model a two- or even three-dimensional "date-space" as outlined in the Diary, Complex Dates.  And if that ever happens, maybe the following list may be of some use as a starter.

One last point: at first the timeline was solely concerned with OSS science fiction, but now I put interstellar events in as well, whenever I come across them; and also some non-OSS solar system stuff (e.g. from Robinson's Mars trilogy).  Such inclusivity should allow interesting comparisons to be made.

Happy browsing, folks.

dates and events

1,195,854 B.C.

Beginning of Era One on Uranus (calculated from information given in Uranian Gleams).

33,000 B.C.

Phsthpok departs Pak [Protector (1973].

32,800 B.C.

First emigration wave departs Pak [Protector (1973)].

32,500 B.C.

Second emigration wave departs Pak [Protector (1973)].

29,000 B.C.  

Year One in the reckoning of the hidden Martian colony on Earth [A Mirror For Observers (1955)].

3417 B.C.   

..."Let me explain, doctor," he purred, "just what you are up against.  We're a very old organization, very old.  Our leader group, which you see before you, can trace itself back to the year 3417 B.C.  When a member dies, the survivors after careful consideration, elect a replacement..."   [The Rulers (1946)]

1861 B.C.   

The "Law of 27,140" (in the dating system of the Martian colony on Earth) states that no assistance can be given to Abdicators by the Martians of the Cities... but also that the Abdicators aren't to be acted against, so long as they do no positive harm.
                                                                                        [A Mirror For Observers (1955)]

1327  

...He had lived more than six hundred years, as few Martians do.  His birth date was the year 1327 by the Western human calendar...  [A Mirror For Observers (1955)]

1444

Henri Lothiere, apothecary's assistant of Paris, is snatched through time to the year 1944 [The Man Who Saw the Future (1930)]

1465    

Zerko Tarkomas, Ruler of the Moon, leads a scientific expedition to Earth [The Moon Conquerors (1930)].

1471   

In Drozma's web of wrinkles were scars from the surgery which, about five hundred years ago, had made his face presentably human.  His first mission into human society had been in 1471 (30,471), when he achieved the status of qualified Observer during the wars of York and Lancaster...   [A Mirror For Observers (1955)]

[The House in November (1970)]

1854    

...in 30,854 he completed the history of the Tasmanians, which is still the recognized Martian text...    [A Mirror For Observers (1955)]

1874

...On March 17, 1874, Ira Johnson, medical student, sat in the law offices of Deems, Wingate, Alden and Deems and listened to an unusual proposition...  [Methuselah's Children (1958)]

From The Lion of Comarre (1949):

The First Electronic Age, Peyton knew, had begun in 1908, more than eleven centuries before, with De Forest's invention of the triode...

[Note from Zendexor: the right date for this is 1906, not 1908, if Google Search informs me correctly.  Still, we're on a fictional time-line here...]

1928

Albert N Wilmarth discovers the dire secret of the Plutonian visitors to the wilds of Vermont.  [The Whisperer in Darkness (1931)] 

1932

9 December, dusk:  Time-traveller Ares Sen Kenlin (see 3059) is found unconscious by James Waters Bendell, on a roadside in the American West.  [Twilight (1934)]

1935 was the year the space-time continuum got mixed up in a confusing shift of probability time-paths [Sidewise in Time (1934)].

Mary Lou Beaufort, from the alternate-time-track Confederate States of America, reaches Mars [Parallel in Time (1940)].

Interplanetary invasion:

Sergeant Evan Paige's gray, brooding eyes stared reflectively at the paper in his hand, dated three days before, June 7, 1941.  Under the official seal of Washington it read:

"Emergency draft.  All men able to bear arms, ages 14 to 55, in defense of Earth against the invaders from Mars.  Your country and your world need you.  REPORT AT THE NEAREST RECRUITING OFFICE IMMEDIATELY."
                                                                            

                                                                                  [One Thousand Miles Below (1940)]

From Dormant (1948):

...At the very hub of the screaming waters lay Iilah, dead now almost for ever, forgotten by time and the universe.

Early in 1941, Japanese ships came and ran the gauntlet of dangerous waters into the quiet lagoon...

From Maker of Universes (1965) we learn that the wily hero "Kickaha" alias Paul Finnegan
in 1941

...at the age of twenty-three... had volunteered for the U.S. Cavalry because he loved horses.  A short time later, he found himself driving a tank...

From The Letter From Mohaun Los (1932) - see under 1940 for Malgraff's disappearance:

A world-wide search was made by his lawyers and relations; but without result.  Then, in the late summer of 1941, the strange vessel containing the aforesaid manuscript was found floating in the Banda Sea, between Celebes and the Spice Islands, by a Dutch pearler.

The manuscript tells the fantastic story of Malgraff's wanderings in space and time.

1943

11 September:  Dr Homer Green undergoes the experiment which makes his tissues invariant (see 2170) [Invariant (1944)]

1944

Descent of airmen Johnny Wild and Danny Black to the subterranean world of Red Valley [The Perilous Descent (1952)].

Atomic space-drive invented in secret [The Great Engine (1943)].

French scientists bring Henri Lothiere forward in time from the year 1444 [The Man Who Saw the Future (1930)].

The last thoughts of tank commander Peter Holroyd before his consciousness is whisked 200,000,000 years into the future:

  "Keep the tank going.  Nurse that engine...  We're almost over... over - Watch out...  There's a dive bomber...  Watch...  He got us - "
   Blackout.                                                               
                                                                                            [The Book of Ptath (1947)]

1946   

Limited liaison between a motion-picture projector in 1946 and one in 2011.  [Film Library (1946)]

From Dormant (1948):

...Something stirred in the depths of Iilah's awareness of himself, something that he had intended to do.  He couldn't remember what.

That was the first real thought he had in late 1946, when he felt the impact of outside energy.  And stirred with returning life...

The cripple Hugh Hunter conceives the aim of an organization to catch war criminals, which later saves the world from mind-control by "Master Brug" [The Doomsday Brain (1967); see also 1955].

   ...Because he was a businessman, he hated all unfinished business...  When he spent some months in a private hospital in 1946, watching his legs wither and become useless, he had ample time to pause and think.  He drew up, for himself, a trial balance of the actual profit and loss of World War Two - not in material but in human terms.  It was then that he realized how much unfinished business still existed... 

1947

From Seedling of Mars (1931): 

It was in the fall of 1947, three days prior to the annual football game between Stanford and the University of California, that the strange visitor from outer space landed in the middle of the huge stadium at Berkeley where the game was to be held...

1948   

From The Great Engine (1943):

THE blue-gray engine lay half buried in a green hillside.  It lay there in that summer of 1948, a soulless thing of metal and of forces more potent than life itself...

1950  

...Now he was alive again, but in so dim a fashion that there was nothing to do but wait for the end.  He waited.

In 1950 he watched the destroyer float towards him...        [Dormant (1948)]

1951

Roy Saber sets off on his adventure in time [Wanderers of Time (1933)].

1952   

Some of the members of the 1942 Brewster expedition to the Moon now return to Earth, long after they were given up for lost [The Moon Conquerors (1930)].

1954

According to No Man Friday (1956), p14, the Americans secretly launched the first artificial satellite in this year.   (Four years in advance of reality, and the reality differed in being not secret, of course.) 

From Evans of the Earth-Guard (1930):

...in 1954, the first crude rocket had thundered out from earth into the great void toward its shining satellite.  Neither that rocket nor the twenty-first had reached their goal, but the next one had.

1955

According to No Man Friday (1956) this is the year the Russians sent up their satellite - secretly, just like the Americans.  (In reality, when it did happen two years later, the Russians, who were first in space, were happy for the world to know it.)

In the preamble to Into the 28th Century (1930) we are informed that

...In the year 1955 peace was restored to the stricken planet, reconstruction began, and the World-State elected a woman, known as the World President, as its Chief Executive...

For 1955 as the present (according to John Varley) see the OSS Diary, 7th December 2016.

Colonel Lawrence Kingsley is recruited by half-blind multi-millionaire Hugh Hunter to become executive director of an organization to catch war criminals [The Doomsday Brain (1967); see also 1946]:

"There is a chair in front of you," the voice continued.  "I trust you will find it comfortable."

He sat down gingerly and waited...  As he became more used to the darkness he thought he could make out a dim figure seated opposite him; he even believed that he could trace the outline of an invalid chair of unusual proportions...  

The year Jay Vickers walked the "enchanted valley": the one to which there's no going back:
   He had carried the dream for more than twenty years and now that the dream was coming true, he saw that it was tarnished with all the time between, that there was no going back to that day in 1956, that a man never can go back to a thing he once has left...
                                                                    [Ring Around the Sun (1952, 1953)]

...and later the records show "Vickers, Jay... l.t. June 20, 1956" - l.t. standing for "life transferred"...

From the alternate history recounted in the introduction to The Psychotechnic League (1981):
   Conflict was inevitable once Eisenhower's death from surgical complications elevated Nixon to the U.S. presidency in June, 1956.  Cold War paranoia distorted Nixon's reactions to unrest within the Communist bloc in the autumn of that year.  Covert U.S. aid to the Hungarian rebels so enraged the Soviet Union that it backed Egypt past the limits of prudence during the Suez Crisis.  The savage Mideast war that followed left Socialism dominant throughout the region and the U.S.S.R. in possession of northern Iran...   

   ...The twenty-fifth of June was a pleasant evening in an unpleasant summer.  I was just strolling home enjoying it.  In no hurry at all, and just wondering whether I would turn in for a drink somewhere when I saw this old man.  He was standing on the pavement in Thanet Street, holding on to the railings with one hand, and looking about him in a dazed, glassy-eyed way...
Thus Mr Reginald Aster meets a bewildered Andrew Vincell, a case of involuntary mental time-travel [Odd (1961)].

1959 is also the year when the mind of the unfortunate Hugh Macklin begins its temporal odyssey in Timeliner (1955).

1962    

14th June: the first pictures from the Russian Venus lander reveal humanoid life on Venus [The Sky People (2006)].

1963    

Elmis, the disguised Martian, begins his stint in Latimer, Massachusetts.  [A Mirror For Observers (1955)]

Arthur Batley is snatched forward to this year from 1913 [Stitch in Time (1961)].

An accidental time-traveller from 1683 finds himself in 1964 and records his impressions and adventures [A Two-Timer (1966)].  "...There are no poor unruly Apprentices here, but good Money is to be earn'd easily by a Stripling.  If these live too easily, so too in a manner do the Children (for all their Schooling is so hard, as I shall tell you later)...  ...the Wives... own no Man's Controul, not even in Law, but manage all things equally with 'em, and take all manner of Work, as bold as Men (for they are as well school'), and High and Low dress themselves in Finery, and leave their Children to bring them selves up (so that many run wild)..."

From Destination Mars (1963):

...He recalled the discovery of this distant belt of radiation by the French scientist Jules-Robert Le Prince.  Its presence had first been suspected back in 1965, when deep space probes registered an unexpected increase in radiation at a distance of some five million miles from the Earth...

Robert Carson (1932-66), space pioneer, dies some days after his spacecraft Wanderer II is damaged by a meteor.  (Due to the trust fund established in his name he posthumously becomes, thousands of years later, The Man Who Owned the World (1961).

Departure of the Black Cloud allows the Sun to reappear in early Spring [The Black Cloud (1957)].  The spring was bitterly cold, but:

...as the Cloud moved outwards from the Sun it took up such a shape as to reflect in the Earth's direction a small proportion of the solar energy incident on it.  This gave warm summer weather early in the month of May, which everyone found exceedingly welcome after the biting winter and spring.  So the Cloud departed from the solar system...    

Amid the time-mixtures described in October the First is Too Late (1966), where Britain is in 1966 is spliced with Europe in 1917, the British Government is faced with the urgent necessity of stopping the madness of World War One.

...It was done simply with a high fidelity gramophone.  Delegates from the continent were ushered through a room in which an old-fashioned tinny machine, the sort you wind up, with a little horn, was playing.  It wheezed out its feeble sounds as the delegates assembled in the conference room.  The delegates were at first surprised at this apparent eccentricity.  Then they were shattered by a sudden switch to full volume on the 1966 equipment.

All that needed to be done was to draw a simple analogy.  The Prime Minister just pointed out that the weapons of his own day, of 1966, bore the same relation to the weapons being used in France, as did this new powerful gramophone to the little whining horn of 1917.  He asked the German staff officers to compare their own weapons with those of the year 1860.  Then perhaps they would understand how things stood.  He wasn't telling them this in order to claim a victory.  He wasn't interested in a victory as they would understand it...  It was rather like a headmaster scolding a group of naughty boys...    

World war breaks out between Occidentals and Orientals [The Murgatroyd Experiment (1929):

So engrossed with the pursuits of peace was the western world, that no one noticed the tremendous military preparations nor the equally tremendous population increase that was going on in the Chino-Japanese Empire and the storm of war that overtook the world in 1967 came as a rude surprise to the west. It was a war of white against color; of the science of the west against the man power of the east and south. There is no need to trace in detail the fortunes of the two great combatants. For eleven years, a ruthless war of extermination was waged and it is estimated that over a billion lives were sacrificed. The east suffered most heavily at first, but as their manpower was reduced, they adopted western science and the conflict developed into a deadlock with no prospect of its being broken...

>> see 1978.

...Apparently London, Paris and Rome were in telephonic communication almost without a break, and the news of the great London landslide was telephoned to Madrid and thence radioed to Buenos Aires in 1968...           
                                                                 [The Shape of Things to Come (1933)]

1969

"...Many men lost their lives in trying to reach the Moon, and most people said it was impossible for them to do it - there was even a movement to get their attempts banned.  But the men went on trying.  Duncan, K.K.Smith and Sudden actually got there, but they crashed on the surface and were killed.  Then came the great Drivers.  In 1969 he managed to take his rocket right round the Moon and bring it safely back to Earth..."  [Stowaway to Mars (1936), p.23]

...On November 29, 1969, Robbins and Swain attempted a take-off from an Adirondack plateau.  But the erratic Wellston cyclotrons lived up to the predictions of the pessimists, and let go with a blast of power that destroyed the whole tail of the rocket and sent the main mass of the ship flying out into space with terrific impetus.  Robbins and Swain were undoubtedly killed instantly.

The wrecked craft was hurled roughly toward the asteroid Eros, and took up a loose orbit around that little world as a tiny satellite...

[Eros (1942)]

12th July 1969 is the date of the letter from civil servant Edward Powell to the U.K.'s Minister of Defence, advising the closure of the Portfield research establishment, since its efforts to develop telepathy for purposes of national security have apparently proved a failure.

   ...Although research at Portfield has added to the already considerable statistical proof of the existence of Telepathy, it is - in Doctor Havenlake's opinion - highly unlikely that this erratic, and quite unpredictable force will ever be sufficiently developed to be of use in the practical manner for which we had hoped...            

In actual fact Portfield's discoveries have been all too successful from the telepaths' point of view, and its closure suits them well...          [The New Minds (1967)]

From Confession (1972):

The memory, such as it was, that was in his mind was pitiless.  In late 1969 Paul Marriott, the last human thread of the once-thriving and important Marriott family, had suddenly lost his forward impetus, had stagnated spiritually and fallen into an abyss the nature and depth of which was still blurred in the mist...      

1970

The Red Rash Deaths (1957) in Chicago - caused by a criminal from the future - see 10,221.

1971

On 27 February 1971 Howard Lester, narrator of The Philosopher's Stone, under goes the operation on his pre-frontal cortex which increases his willpower...

In Captain Future's Challenge (1940) 1971 is cited as the date space exploration began:

Gravium was the very life-blood of interplanetary civilization.  For without it, gravitation-equalizers could not be made.  And without equalizers, men didn't dare visit other planets of greater or lesser gravitation than their own.

The first space explorers, back in 1971, had found that out.  Landing on worlds of lesser gravitation than Earth, their circulation, internal organs, their whole anatomy, were damaged.  All were sickened, many crippled and killed...

The Omega Radiation begins (over the next decade its effect on mental health results in the death of most of the population).  Possibly related is the action of Matthew Greville who crashes his car on 7th July at Chelsea Bridge, London [All Fools' Day (1966)]:

July 7th, 1971.  Two-thirty a.m.  The air warm, clear patches of sky loaded with stars, and the Thames rippling quietly through the subdued noises of London like a jet and silver snake.
   Two-thirty a.m.  A car whispering sweetly, as cars do in the moist hours of darkness.  A car, a man and a woman, routed for Chelsea...    

1972

The last mighty air war of 1972, which had ended in the total abolition of all national boundaries and the establishment of the World Government with its headquarters in the new world-capital of New York, had brought peace to the world, but it had also brought some measure of monotony...   [The Universe Wreckers (1930)]

The great plague is released by an unbalanced member of the Organic Unity Party [A Mirror For Observers (1955)].

A war is being fought in the north:

   A rifle bullet spanged against an abandoned tank northeast of the OP, moaned away into the distance.  The bullet only emphasized the loneliness, the isolation of the OP set far out ahead of the front lines on the Arctic battlefields of 1972...

In the midst of this desolation, Corporal Larry Hulser unexpectedly has a brain-wave, a method for remotely detonating explosives.  He naively hopes the invention will end the war - all war...
                                                                                                          [Cease Fire (1958)].

Anti-science measures enacted in the first session of the 93rd Congress [Trends (1939)]:

...the famous Stonely-Carter Bill was passed.  It established the Federal Scientific Research Investigatory Bureau - the FSRIB - which was given full power to pass on the legality of all research in the country.  Every laboratory, industrial or scholastic, was required to file information, in advance, on all projected research before this new bureau, which could, and did, ban absolutely all such as it disapproved of...    

1974

The anti-science act of the previous year (see under 1973) is challenged [Trends (1939)]:

The inevitable appeal to the supreme court came on November 9, 1974, in the case of Westly vs. Simmons in which Joseph Westly of Stanford upheld his right to continue his investigations on atomic power on the grounds that the Stonely-Carter act was unconstitutional...

It was rumoured at first that the court would declare the act unconstitutional, and monster parades were held in every large town against this eventuality.  The League of the Righteous brought its powerful influence to bear - and even the supreme court submitted.  It was five to four for constitutionality.  Science strangled by the vote of one man.   

1975

At 0150 G.M.T. on December 1st, 1975, every telephone in the world started to ring....         [Dial F for Frankenstein (1962)] - full telephone interconnection unexpectedly creates an emergent intelligence.

War breaks out between the USA and the Sino-Japanese Federation [The Dimension of Chance (1932)]

"Selenine, derived from a fossil lichen found by the first rocket-expedition to the moon in 1975, has, as you know, practically wiped out the old-time curse of cancer..."       [The Plutonian Drug (1934)]

Beginning of a World War that will last several years:

In the year 1975, the nations of earth, taking no heed of the lessons of history, had again flown at one another’s throats in a devastating war that outshone all past performances in destruction.  Each side armed with frightful scientific armament, the war became a holocaust. In titanic struggle, they hurled their might at each other, loosing vicious death rays, thunderous cannon, terrifically powerful bombs, and insidious poison gases. Each wanted mastery of the world ; each wanted the enemy wiped out. Yet it was an equal struggle for many years and lives sacrificed amounted to hysterical numbers...

[The Spore Doom (1934)]

The Ronaldson-Chenwith expedition of 1975 is the first to visit asteroid Eros [Castaways of Eros (1943)].

From The Hole That Grew (1932)]:

   When in 1975 it became obvious that the coal supply would soon be exhausted, the necessity for unlocking this vast store of sub-atomic energy became evident.  The task has been a difficult one...       

Selenite ruins on Farside are "discovered by the circumlunar expedition of 1976" - see The Archives of the Moon.

First Mars expedition discovers the Doorway:  an interstellar transportation system.

It was a cubicle of something that looked like slick brown glass.  Ten feet high, six wide and deep.  Inside, at waist level, on the far wall, a lever - curiously shaped, like the head of an old-fashioned walking stick, the slightly curved bar of the L parallel to the wall.  Nothing more than that...                                                                                               [Ticket to Anywhere (1952)]

Sitting US President Jefferson Dayles faces a woman candidate in the election.

...She seemed to be aware of all the pitfalls, and though Dayles' agents kept a complete check on every statement and speech that she made in public, the months went by and she did not slip, and she did not fall.

Dayles observed the performance from a distance, at first with disbelief and then with admiration, but finally with alarm.  "She's got to get tired," he said.  "One of these days she'll be so exhausted she can scarcely stand, and that's the moment for our people to trip her up."

Whatever could be said about the rationality of the candidate did not apply to her followers.  The millennium was about to arrive.  Women could end war, bring peace to the troubled world.  They would right the wrongs of society, control the rapaciousness of business, and once and for all they would end the infidelity of the American male...

[Moonbeast (1963)]

Neville Yeadon, unaware that his mind is soon to be translated to Uranus, is enjoying his lunch hour and the thought that he won't have to work at Kagan Cartons much longer:

The fact that I'll soon be employed elsewhere has, paradoxically, brought back to me some of the buzz I used to derive from working in central London.  Call it the Affectionate Departure Syndrome, with the affection dependent upon the departure.

Nevertheless - it's funny - a week and a half has gone since I gave in my notice at Kagan Cartons, and still I can hardly believe I'm free.  The benign, slow-motion bombshell of Fact is only gradually blasting its way into my intelligence; the full delight of its truth has yet to seep in through every mental pore.  All the same, there's no room for doubt; I've been reliably notified of my good fortune.  So, while Britain swelters, and cold drinks do a roaring trade, I swig the draught of secret happiness.  In future years, while the country remembers 1976 for its heatwave, I shall remember it for my release...

Robert Gibson, Uranian Throne episode 10: The Londoner

Just a hundred years ago, back in 1976, the first men landed on the Moon...
            [Journey by Earthlight in The Challenge of the Spaceship (1958)]

1977

From The Immeasurable Horror (1931):

I was with the first Venusian expedition, under the leadership of Admiral Carfax, in 1977.  We were able to make no more than a mere landing, and were then compelled to return earthward because of our shortage of oxygen, due to a serious miscalculation regarding our needs.  It was unsafe, we found, to breathe the thick, vapor-laden air of Venus for more than short intervals...

4 July 1977: Asher Sutton, man of destiny, comes from the future to encounter his ancestor John H Sutton, in a pasture in Wisconsin.  [Time And Again (1951)]

From Blindness (1935):

...Garnall was drowned in Lake Erie, after returning from Luna, the first man to reach Earth again, alive.  He didn't go on living, of course, but he was alive when he reached Earth.  That we knew.

From Martian Blood (2013):

...no one knew for sure whether the planet was inhabited until Ares I landed there in 1977...

11th August 1977:  Floyd Jones born, in Colorado [The World Jones Made (1956)].

The Refuge is constructed in that same year (p.6) - a building containing a simulation of the Venusian environment, to house a group of people biologically engineered in preparation for that environment.

From The Overman Culture (1971), p.173, the testament of the Mormon, Julius Overman, begins as follows:

"I was born in the year 1977 in London, England, to which corrupt and decadent country I shall not return until time and the will of God have wrought great and cleaning changes..."

From Theory of Rocketry (1958):

...Mr. Edel taught six English classes that year at Richard M. Nixon High School, and the classes averaged seventy-five pupils each...

1977 is the year in which the action of Ring Around the Sun (1952, 1953) takes place.

It had been the blade at first, the razor blade that would not wear out.  And after that the lighter than never failed to light, that required no flints and never needed filling.  Then the light bulb that burned forever if it met no accident.  Now it was the Forever car...     

The year of the invasion of Earth, as recalled by the Sarn-Mother:

"I can tell you very little now.  But call in your archaeologist.  She is a brilliant and learned Sarn.  Briefly, when we landed, the humans had had their civilization for some fifteen thousand years.  It was, by their calendar, 1977.  They had recently developed atomic power of the first order... 

"And - of our fifty-two ships, we lost thirty-nine during the Conquest.  They were intelligent, efficient and deadly fighters.  We captured and enslaved only the scum of the race; the best of humankind died fighting with a grim tenacity that appalled us..."

[Cloak of Aesir (1939)]

The U.N. "disintegrated during the Latin American war of 1977..."

[The Penultimate Truth (1964)]

1978

The year of the first voyage to the Moon in both Prelude to Space (written in 1947) and The Man Who Sold the Moon (1949, 1951).  Also it is the year of the first flight round the Moon, albeit without a landing, in Trends (1939).

Regarding The Man Who Sold the Moon: the date of the flight is not given in the story itself, but it appears in Heinlein's own Future History time-chart:  "First rocket to the Moon, 1978".

From Frogheads (2015):

"You've been on Venus thirty years?"  Ronson seized the chance to change the subject.  "That means you would have belonged to one of the first expeditions."

"Da."  He nodded vigorously.  "Second expedition, 1978.  Chief petty officer, Soviet Space Force."

From Trends (1939):

The nadir of science came in the spring of 1978, a bare month before the completion of the New Prometheus, with the passing of the 'Easter Edict' - it was issued the day before Easter.  By it, all independent research or experimentation was absolutely forbidden.  The FSRIB [see 1973] thereafter reserved the right to allow only such research as it specifically requested.

 - However, that same year the first successful circumlunar flight, carried out in defiance of authority, brings about a popular change of heart.

From The Murgatroyd Experiment (1929) - ref. the account of the outbreak of world war in 1967:

In 1978, two prophets arose in the east and began to preach the doctrines of peace. Chang T’sen Lo paved the way for final peace, but paid the last great penalty at the hands of his war-mad countrymen. Katar Singh, his disciple and successor, took up the work where Chang left off and was successful in his efforts.  >>  See 1980.

Death of Spender on Mars [...And the Moon be still as bright (1948)].  Spender had tried to protect ancient Martian structures from Terran vandals.  The story ends:

   ...They turned and walked from the hall and shut the marble door with the name Spender marked on it and the dates 1950-1978 under that.

   The next afternoon, Whitie did some target practice in one of the dead cities, shooting out the crystal windows and blowing the tops off the fragile towers.  The captain caught Whitie and knocked his teeth out.

From The Earth Killers (1949):   17th July is B-Day - the "Bomb Day" when the USA suffers a nuclear attack; 40 million people killed.

The first expedition to the Moon [The Moon is Hell (1951)].

Kenneth Farrow, volunteer for Operation Groundhog, is subjected to an experiment in suspended animation, which is expected to last a few months.  >> see 2084.
                                                                  [Planet of Exile (1958)]

Airman Price is attacked and thrown through time at the start of the assault mounted on Earth by the alien Ei [Citadel of the Star Lords (1956)].

A hostile alien invasion is (possibly) thwarted by a ruthless general -

General Paul T Tredway was an arrogant man with the unforgivable gift of always being right.  When the object came out of the sky in the late spring of 1979, it was General Tredway who made all of the decisions concerning it...         [Day of Succession (1959)].

1980

The year of the secret Venusian invasion of Earth, in Three to Conquer (1956).

It was also, in Master of the Asteroid (1932), the year of the disappearance of the Selenite,

...the first known rocket ship to dare the zone of the asteroids.

At the time of its disappearance, fifty years ago, in 1980, a dozen voyages had been made to Mars and a rocket base had been established in Syrtis Major...

In 1980 was passed the UN Extraterrestrial Protection Act [The Sky People (2006), p108].

On page 40 of The Simulacra (1964) we learn that the "fracas of 1980" saw the Oregon-North California region hit by Red Chinese guided nuclear missiles.

From The Universe Maker (1953):

"We Shadows," she began, "are trying to undo the effects of the psychological disaster that demoralized the human race, beginning in the Twentieth Century.  The pressure of civilization was apparently too much for millions of people.  Everywhere men sought to escape and they found the means late in 1980 in the newly invented floaters....

From an article in Captain Future Spring 1941:

...The Mercurians had attained a certain civilization before ever the first Earthmen had opened the spaceways and visited the planet, in 1980.  They did not have the mighty past of the Martians, but they had achieved progress commensurate with their numbers...

From The Murgatroyd Experiment (1929) - ref. 1967 and 1978:  End of the world war of 1967-80.

A sudden hatred of war swept over Africa and the Orient and since the primary cause of the conflict, the overpopulation of the world had been removed by the high mortality of the conflict, the weary world was glad to accept his teaching and in 1980, the nations laid aside their arms and peace again reigned.

1981

First trip to Venus - in spaceship Astarte whose log is found over a century later in Space Cadet (1948).

First trip to Mars - when the Gloria Mundi blasts off from Salisbury Plain [Stowaway to Mars (1936), p.31].

The few hardy souls who had elected to spend the night upon the open inhospitality of Salisbury Plain slept no later than dawn upon the morning of the twelfth of October, 1981, for it was with the first rays of sunlight that the influx which would last all day began...

1982

The premature explosion of the seventeenth Mars-rocket ushered in the year 1982...  [Dreadful Sanctuary (1948)]

Birth of Susan Calvin [I, Robot (1950)].

The fake documentaries by Gottlieb Fischer revise history to exculpate the Third Reich -
...Because in 1982, Germany was once again a world power...    [The Penultimate Truth (1964)].

1983

...They were used to being frisked, ever since that fanatic Alaska nationalist publisher emptied a .32 at then-President Hutzmeyer in '83... [Critical Mass (1962)]

1984

First expedition to Mars, according to Transit of Earth (1971).

The new "Democratic Socialist Party of Great Britain" wins the general election of 1985 in the imagined future of The Country of the Mind (1975).

Merger of the Democrat and Republican parties in "about 1985" [The Simulacra (1964)]:

...Now there was just the one party...  and everyone, by law, belonged to it...

First permanent Space Station [Spy in Space (1977)].

"First," he said, "read me the Pigeon Report - you know, from the Brief History.  I want to see if I remember it right."

"Chapter Two," said the voice promptly.  "First contact with a non-Solar intelligence was made by Commander Ralph C. Pigeon on July 1st, 1987, during an emergency landing on Titan..."

[Stranger Station (1956)]

Appalled by the news of a nuclear attack on Damascus, mathematician Lucas Hutchman decides to build a "neutron resonator" with which he can force all world governments to disassemble and abandon all nuclear weapons.  His communication to world leaders includes a description of the device, which is able to cause detonation of every nuclear device on the planet, information that the contraption already exists, and an ultimatum that it will be activated at noon GMT on 10th November 1988.  "YOU MUST NOW ACT ACCORDINGLY!"                                           [The Peace Machine (1971, 1985)]

1989

...a secret Department of Defence study, Project BARSOOM, which had been carried out by Harvard's School of Psychology in 1989.  In this experiment in controlled sociology, various sample populations had been assured that the human race had made contact with extraterrestrials....
                                                                           [2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)]

In Indoctrinaire (1970, 1979), 1989 is the year of World War Three:

   In July 1989...  the first stage of the war took place when the post-revolutionary Cuban society invaded the south-eastern tip of the United States...  For eight incredible days, the tiny force of Cubans, representing virtually the whole of the country's armed forces, had fought their way three hundred miles up the Floriday peninsula.  Cape Canaveral had fallen to them, and the space-centre destroyed.  Finally, in a massive counter-attack, in which the Americans had used almost every kind of weapon available to them, the invasion force had been wiped out...

Pluto at perihelion.  The first expedition to land there.  [Wait it Out (1968)]

The idea of the "dude farm" is put forward as a way of preserving old ways in an age of mechanisation.  [City (1952), p.31]

Expedition led by the Cornell brothers sets out for Pluto [The Plutonian Drug (1934)].  (Returns in 1996.)

Round about this year, according to The Simulacra (1964), p.20, the position of First Lady begins to assume a stature greater than that of the President.

A hundred years further on, in 2090, the house of Claus Coman in A Man of Double Deed (1965) is an ancient but well-preserved relic of the days before the Atomic Disaster of 1990.

Geological upheavals hugely damage the Earth, setting the scene for Mal Irish's adventure the following year in Catastrophe Planet (1966):

"...The fall of '90.  I was on satellite duty on Sheppard Platform when the first quake hit.  We saw it all from up there - the smoke on the day side and the thousand-mile fires at night.  They gave the order to evacuate the station - I never knew why."
   "Pressure from Moscow," I told him.  "They thought we were doing it."
   "Sure.  Everybody panicked.  I guess we did, too.  Our shuttle made a bad landing west of Havana.  I was one of three survivors.  Spent a few days at Key West; then they flew me in to Washington.  Hell of a sight.  Ruins, fires, the Potomac out of its banks, meandering across Pennsylvania, the Washington Monument sticking up out of twenty feet of water, the capitol dome down, a baby volcano building up where Mount Vernon used to be - "    

Mal Irish's adventure on a wrecked Earth which is threatened further by aliens beneath the Antarctic [Catastrophe Planet (1966)].

...In 1992, almost a century ago, World War III had come and gone, and none of the theoreticians had been able to predict what form it would take.  It had always been assumed that the Big War would annihilate most of the population and turn the major countries into vast uninhabited areas similar to what they had been in pre-history.  That had been the first misconception.  Humanity had survived practically unscathed - the only real casualty had been the land itself.

The second mistake had been in the assumption that - if war came - America, Russia and China would fight it out among themselves in one or another of the few simple permutations possible.  In the real event, America, Russia, and China had found themselves on the same side; and they never did find out for certain who the opposition was.  The enemy had assembled his forces, struck, and retired to safety before any of the Big Three discovered the war had started.

The first indication had come when the soil began to die...

From The Zap Gun (1967), p.51:

"...You know perfectly well, as any sane human would, that there is absolutely no argument for producing genuine weapons, either in Wes-bloc or Peep-East.  Mankind was saved from destruction when the two monoliths secretly met at plenipotentiary level in Fairfax, Iceland, in 1992, to agree on the "plowsharing" principle..."     (>>2004)

The narrative of Ubik (1969) begins at the moment when an organization of "inertials" (nullifiers of psi powers) loses tract of an opponent:

At three-thirty A.M. on the night of 5 June 1992, the top telepath in the Sol System fell off the map in the offices of Runciter Associates in New York City.  That started vidphones ringing.  The Runciter organization had lost track of too many of Hollis' Psis during the last two months; this added disappearance wouldn't do... 

Runciter himself, seeking advice, goes to consult his dead wife Ella, who is being kept in a state of "half-life" in cold-pac in the Beloved Brethren Moratorium in Zürich... 

Last Call for Doomsday (1956) tells what happens after it is realized in 1992 that the asteroid Nereus will hit the Earth in 1997:

...the first mathematical formulae of doom came out on the calculator printing-tape.  Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin, spelled out in an equation... 

   "In five years, the eccentricity of the asteroid Nereus will bring it finally across Earth's orbit at a point where it will collide with Earth.  This collision will make our planet uninhabitable..."  

A "cosmoquake" is caused by the gravitational backwash of passing alien interstellar craft:

   ...Speaking roughly, for one and a half seconds at 14:06 Greenwich mean time of May 1, 1992, everybody on nearly all the northern hemisphere felt the ground seem to drop away underfoot in a slanting direction...          [Things Pass By]

1993 

In 1993 President Moraga signed into law the bill that terminated American economic development on Luna...  [Time Out of Joint (1959)]

...in 1993 an Australian scientist had stumbled on the force field and, almost by accident, given mankind the stars...                                        [Takeover Bid (1965)]

...The cloud of anti-neutrinos was first observed crossing the orbit of Jupiter on the third day of January, 1993 - and, because of the extreme difficulty of detecting its existence at all, the astronomers were quite content to use the term 'cloud' in their early reports.  It was not until a month had passed that they dropped the word and inserted in its place the more accurate, though highly emotive, phrase 'rogue planet'...                                   [A Wreath of Stars (1976)]

1994

Later, as she sat in her robe at the kitchen table drinking coffee, her plate of toast and apple-sauce before her, she looked out on the sight of the ditch-rider arriving in his little flat-bottom boat which put-putted up the canal in its official way, never hurrying and yet always arriving on schedule.  This was 1994, the second week in August.  They had waited eleven days, and now they would receive their share of water from the great ditch which passed by their line of houses a mile to the Martian north.   [Martian Time-Slip (1964), p.16]

...In February of 1994 a battle broke out at Base One, the nominal capital of the Lunar colonies.  Soldiers from the nearby missile base were set upon by colonists, and a five-hour pitched encounter was fought.  That night, special troop-transporting ships left Earth for Luna...  [Time Out of Joint (1959)]

Australia, population 35 million, is on the threshold of discovering a means of interstellar travel.  Col. Peter Chart, R.A.A.F., takes off in a force-bubble at near-light speed, and is physically recovered but catatonic... 

...Nobody had bargained for the immense expansion that would follow the opening up of Australia to Asian immigrants and the impetus this would give to the development of the inland desert.  Up to 1970 settlement was in most cases confined to a narrow strip of coastline seldom more than one hundred miles wide.  Now, in 1994, there were market gardens in the far west where once a farmer had been lucky to graze two sheep to the acre, and they were well on their way to planting wheat where Lake Eyre had once turned a white mirror of dried salt to the sun.                                                [Takeover Bid (1965)]

The Neptunians begin to tamper with the rotation of the Sun:

It was on the third day of May, 1994, that the world received its first news of the strange behavior of the sun...  [The Universe Wreckers (1930)]

West Germany enters the Union as the 53rd of the United States in 1994 according to page 25 of The Simulacra (1964).

1995   

Astronomers observing Mercury detect an apparently artificial structure at the planet's north pole [Fire Pattern (1984)].

4th April: first encounter between security agent Cussick and the future world-dictator Floyd Jones [The World Jones Made (1956)].

He always remembered that day; the spring air was cool and full of new growth.  The war had ended the year before.

...In those days he had been idealistic...  the task of suppressing extremist political and religious sentiment had, in 1995, seemed merely bureaucratic...

6th June: Harold Newman, incompetent bank clerk, is having a bad day.

...His trouble wasn't only headaches.  Nervousness made him acutely error-prone.  While the other clerks confidently balanced their cash, he lost himself in a confusion of figures...

...We're near the end of the century, thought Newman.  More than three hundred years of Banking without any fundamental change in Banking methods.  Travel and transport has been revolutionised: the face of the earth changed...  But with the persistence of Time, Banking had endured, unchanged and inexorable...

Shortly afterwards Newman suffers a "blinding shaft of agony" as a prelude to a vast increase in his brain-power - because, unbeknownst to him, he was operated on as a baby by an illegal time-traveller from centuries in the future.  (The change in Newman comes just in time - for a few days later he's needed in order to save the world.)     [One Against Time (1969)]

The January 14, 1996 copy of Time has a picture of a world-saver on the cover and his biography inside - while the man himself had believed he was living in 1959 [Time Out of Joint (1959)]:

RAGLE GUMM - MAN OF THE YEAR

Long-delayed return of the 1990 Pluto expedition:

"...forlorn, frozen Pluto, which only one terrestrial expedition has so far visited - the expedition led by the Cornell brothers, John and Augustine, which started in 1990 and did not return to earth till 1996, when nearly everyone had given it up as lost.  John, as you may have heard, died during the returning voyage, together with half the personnel of the expedition: and the others reached earth with only one reserve oxygen-tank remaining..."  [The Plutonian Drug (1934)]

...If only Crockhouse had been elected in '96 instead of Braden, with his packed ballots in Indiana and Puerto Rico!                                 [Critical Mass (1962)]

Expedition to Mercury to investigate what to telescopic observers seems like an artificial alien object [Fire Pattern (1984)].

Expedition into the Mare Crisium:

...the Sea of Crises.  Three hundred miles in diameter - and almost completely surrounded by a ring of magnificent mountains, it had never been explored until we entered it in the late summer of 1996.

Our expedition was a large one.  We had two heavy freighters which had flown our supplies and equipment from the main lunar base in the Mare Serenitatis, five hundred miles away...

[The Sentinel (1951)]

The first space flight was made by Robert Roth in 1996.  Roth visited Venus and Mars...  
                                                          [The Three Planeteers (1940)]

5th February...   Inventor Gibbs attained near perfection with a perpetual motion machine using the anti-friction electronic grid that is now an integral part of industry... 
                                                                          [One Against Time (1969), p.71]

Headline, 7th April 1997:

VENUSIAN ORE DEPOSITS OBJECT OF DISPUTE

[Time Out of Joint (1959), p.119]

Revolution in Saudi Arabia [The Ceres Solution (1981), p.50].

The birth of Hal 9000:

"I am a Hal Nine Thousand computer, Production Number 3.  I became operational at the Hal plant in Urbana, Illinois on January 12, 1997..."
                                                                                [2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)]

From the blurb on the back cover of my copy of Project Jupiter (1958):

The year is 1997, and the Moon, Mars and Venus have already been conquered.  Jupiter is the next goal, but the money for the expedition must come from Congress and there is tremendous opposition being offered by the conservationists who are very earthbound in their views.

Max Andrews, the rocket mechanic who wants to be director of the expedition, and Ellen Gallagher, the senator from California who introduces the Bill into Congress, are the main characters of this story.  They are average human beings who have the DREAM - the Dream to conquer the stars.    

The asteroid Nereus hits the Earth [Last Call for Doomsday (1956)].

1998

The Falling Sickness first attacked workers in a Greenland radium mine, in 1998.  [The Crucible of Power (1939)]

"Upon the 14th of April, AD 1998, all was prepared for the great test.  My financial affairs had been settled with an eye to the future in more ways than one.  The time-travel room, lavishly set with windows and looking like a very large telephone kiosk, stood waiting in the middle of Farmer Wright's field.  As I walked towards it, not knowing what Fate held in store for me, I thought what an incongruous object it looked standing amid the furrows.  Without the slightest hesitation, I unlocked the door, stepped inside and relocked it, started the air-purifying apparatus, took one last look at Earth, fresh with the aura of spring, and closed the projector switch..."  [Seeker of Tomorrow (1937)]

Shipping people between planets was expensive, even in this year of grace 1998...  [Swords of Zar-Tu-Kan (2013)]

Ragle Gumm finds out it's not 1959 [Time Out of Joint (1959)]

The third expedition of Mark Carew [Treasure on Thunder Moon (1942)].

1999

The first two expeditions to Mars - as told in The Martian Chronicles (1950) - come to grief.

Thorn Laurel, father of Aline Laurel, is killed around Uranus [Treasure on Thunder Moon (1942)].

From The Mind Parasites (1967):
...Without consulting anyone about it, a group of five hundred of us decided that the moon would have to be detached from earth's gravitational field.  We commenced work on this operation in January 1999...

"Lovecraft and the Kadath Inscriptions", a lecture delivered by Dr Gilbert Austin before the New York Historical Society on 18th June, 1999.  - footnote in The Mind Parasites (1967).

2000

Date of the Saturnian visit to Earth in Crisis 2000 (1959).

We read in The Martian Chronicles (1950) how the Third Expedition to Mars, in April 2000, is bamboozled by the Martians.

22 Feb: date of Moon's departure from Earth orbit, in The Mind Parasites (1967).

2001

The year of 2001 - A Space Odyssey (1968).  In other words, the first expedition to the environs of Saturn (according to the book) or Jupiter (according to the film).  (This tale is only borderline OSS - I include it here because after all its expectations do shed some light on the Old Space Program.)

According to The Martian Chronicles (1950) the Fourth Expedition to Mars, in June 2001, finds that the Martians have been more or less wiped out by disease brought by previous Earth expeditions.

Second space flight, in which Robert Roth visits Jupiter and Saturn, but crashes upon his return to Earth, and lives only two days.     [The Three Planeteers (1940)]

2002   

The rise of Jones to power [The World Jones Made (1956)]. 

Gretana ty Iltha, from the plan Mollan, arrives secretly on Earth:

This is May 10th, 2002 AD.  I am Greta Rushton, aged twenty-one, unmarried, American citizen, but grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland - which accounts for any atypical features of my accent or unfamiliarity with current American usage.  My father was an oil company executive.  Both he and my mother were killed in the Saudi Arabian revolution of 1997, but their overseas investments provide me with an adequate income which lets me indulge my interest in travel...

The Ceres Solution (1981), p.50

2003

...the great Witness Revival of 2003...  [Bridge (1952)]

From I, Robot (1950):

...Most of the world governments banned robot use on Earth for any purpose other than scientific research between 2003 and 2007...

2004

From Seeker of Tomorrow (1937):  re the Dublin-New York rocket flight of 2004:  "Not to be outdone, another fool starts out from Dublin and plunges clean through a skyscraper in New York, smearing himself all - "

In 2004 the child-cripple Denny Hargate has his first, apparently magical, glimpse of the interstellar traveller Gretana at Cotter's Edge [The Ceres Solution (1981), prologue].

[ibid., page 58:]

Spring came early in 2004, bringing unconscious relief from a hard winter in which power cuts and commodity shortages had been particularly severe...

...he recalled the day his l-p record collection had fused together in a lump, back around '04, due to a momentary failure of the building's cooling network...

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1964)

In The Zap Gun (1967) the Cold War is now a pretence carried out by the governments of Wes-bloc and Peep-East whose weapons-design projects are secretly "ploughshared" into consumer products:

..."Look," he said, this time gently, as if the autonomic interviewer were really alive and not merely an arbitrarily endowed sentient concoction of Wes-block technology of A.D. 2004...

2005

War on Earth causes most settlers on Mars to head back to the home planet - The Martian Chronicles (1950).

In August, a meeting in New York which has fateful consequences:

...Out of the infinite combinations there must always come the point at which Van Field Ruyter stood by the master control in the year 2005.  It would be so forever and forever.  And forever and forever would Stanley King and Merl Hudson, torn from their rightful lives, be sundered and dispersed, partaking of all possible experience, until again they were returned to that inevitable moment in the year 2005, when the cycle would begin all over without end -  

[Finality Unlimited (1936)]

2007

Invasion of Earth by parasites from Titan [The Puppet Masters (1951)]:
   For me it started too early on July 12th, '07, with my phone shrilling in a frequency guaranteed to peel off the skull.  The sort of phone my Section uses is not standard; the audio relay was buried surgically under the skin back of my left ear - bone conduction.  I felt around my person, then recalled that I had left it in my jacket across the room.  'All right,' I growled.  'I hear you.  Shut off that damned noise.'
   'Emergency,' a voice said in my ear.  'Report in person.'

From Seeker of Tomorrow (1937):  DAILY VOICE headline of May 22, 2007:  NEW ROCKET RECORD - TO N.Z. IN EIGHTEEN HOURS.

2 Feb:  Spaceship Pallas departs for Pluto [The Mind Parasites (1967)]

From I, Robot (1950):

...Most of the world governments banned robot use on Earth for any purpose other than scientific research between 2003 and 2007...

2008   

Susan Calvin obtains her Ph.D. and joins U.S.Robots as a "robopsychologist" [I, Robot (1950)].

Norman Muller is selected by Multivac as the statistically average voter to stand in for the entire electorate:

...The historians would speak soberly of the Muller Election of 2008.  That would be its name, the Muller Election.

The publicity, the better job, the flash flood of money that interested Sarah so much, occupied only a corner of his mind.  It would all be welcome, of course.  He couldn't refuse it.  But at the moment something else was beginning to concern him.

A latent patriotism was stirring.  After all, he was representing the entire electorate.  He was the focal point for them.  He was, in his own person, for this one day, all of America!

[Franchise (1955)]

2010

In 2010 A.D. it was estimated that nineteen million people in the United States had become floaters or Planiacs.  The stay-at-home majority was shocked and economists predicted disaster for the land unless something was done to bring the skyriding population back to earth...            [The Universe Maker (1953)]

(see 2012)

The public are ordered down into underground "ant tanks" to shelter from nuclear war [The Penultimate Truth (1964) - for example the

...Tom Mix World War Three anti-septic subsurface communal living tank, established in June of 2010 A.D....                                                                                                      >>  See 2025.

2011   

Time-liaison between a film projector of 2011 and one of 1946.  [Film Library (1946)]

July 7th: Matthew Greville approaches Chelsea Bridge again, for sentimental reasons, forty years after his insane car crash, during which time he has risen to leadership of the Western Republic.

   The Thames was blue.
   A blue river!  He had seen plenty of blue rivers in the last twenty years.  But somehow he had never expected that the Thames could turn blue once more.  But having been free from industrial pollution for nearly forty years, what other colour could it be?
   He was amazed and enchanted.
   Greville turned his attention to the bridge.  It was falling to pieces...   
                                                                                     [All Fool's Day (1966)]

2012

From The Universe Maker (1953):

(see 2010)  When a hard-pressed Congress in 2012 tried to pass a law restricting sky-riding to vacations only, it was too late.  The voting power of the Planiacs frightened the house majority, and thereafter the floaters - who had themselves received a big scare - were a political force to be reckoned with...

From Trouble with Time (1960):

...It bore the certificate of the Mars Bureau of Antiquities, guaranteeing that "this full-scale reproduction is an exact copy of the so-called Siren Goddess, discovered in the Mare Sirenum by the Third Expedition, A.D. 2012 (A.M.23)".

2015

From chapter 1 of The Moon Maid (1923):

In 2015 Mars had dispatched a ship for Earth with a crew of five men provisioned for ten years.  It was hoped that with good luck the trip might be made in something less than five years, as the craft had developed an actual trip speed of one thousand miles per hour.  At the time of my graduation the ship was already off its course almost a million miles and generally conceded to be hopelessly lost.

From I, Robot (1950):

...it was in 2015 that the Second Mercury Expedition was sent out.  It was exploratory and financed in part by U.S.Robots and in part by Solar Minerals...

In Sinister Barrier (1939) the Vitons, parasitic energy beings who have preyed on humanity since time immemorial, are exposed and defeated in 2015:

"Swift death awaits the first cow that leads a revolt against milking," mused Professor Peder Bjornson.  It was a new slant, and a wicked one, born of dreadful facts...

...Halfway to the door he emitted a brief gasp, stumbled, fell...  The date was May the seventeenth, 2015.

2016   

IN MEMORIAM.  2016 A.D.  NEAR THIS SPOT THE ENEMY OF THE SOL SYSTEM PALMER ELDRITCH WAS SLAIN IN FAIR COMBAT WITH THE CHAMPION OF OUR NINE PLANETS, LEO BULERO OF TERRA.

"Hoopla," Leo ejaculated, impressed despite himself.  He read it again.  And again.  "I wonder," he said, half to himself, "if Palmer's seen this..."

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldtritch (1964), p.97

Accidental blastoff of the Ark II, headed for Alpha Centauri, on 14 September 2016, with a crew of children (their parents were due to join the ship the next morning).   
                                                                            [Flight of the Ark II (1956)]

2017

10 Feb:  Captain James Ramsay sets out for Pluto to seek for traces of the Pallas [The Mind Parasites (1967)]; see 2007.

From The Shape of Things to Come (1933):
...Three schools, the Unamuno Foundation of Coimbra, the Columbia University of New York, and the Tokio Social College, accounted for more than a third of the World Council in 2017.

Also from The Shape of Things to Come, p365:

..."We do not suppress individuality; we do not destroy freedom; we destroy obsessions and remove temptations.  The world is still full of misleading doctrines, dangerous imitations and treacherous suggestions, and so it is the duty of government to erase these"; so ran the uncompromising memorandum issued by the Educational Council in 2017...    

The bronze bell on Sri Kanda
     ...tolled once, without human aid, during the great earthquake of 2017.
                                                           [The Fountains of Paradise (1978)]

2018

2 March:  The Pallas is found, deserted, floating about 2 million miles from Pluto [The Mind Parasites (1967)]

Epic voyage of the spaceship Meteor to find the levium deposit on Oberon [Treasure on Thunder Moon (1942)].

2020

On the first mission to Mars, all the explorers except one are killed by a mysterious vortex in Cydonia.  Months later a second mission follows...  [Mission to Mars (film, 2000)]

2020 is also the year of the first man on Mars in Red Mars (1992).

2021    

Liar! - the episode of Herbie the mind-reading construct [I, Robot (1950)].

From The Ceres Solution (1981):

The single Aristotle space habitat, completed in 2021, had been built in the form of a cone - a shape which provided environments with different gravities.

Among those benefiting from the conical configuration had been medical researchers, who were grateful for the opportunity to study the effect of low-gravity conditions on patients with certain types of cardiac trouble.  They had been given their own facilities in the 0.3G and 0.5G bands on condition that all patients who were fit enough would accept jobs in the zero-gravity production areas...

From the epilogue to The Black Cloud (1957):  On 17 January 2021 "J.B." is left wondering whether to disseminate the code which will allow resumption of communication with the Cloud.

The Second Sleep (2019) quotes a letter of warning - soon borne out by events - sent to a number of high-placed individuals on 22nd March 2022:

...Three months ago I formed, with a group of like-minded colleagues, a working party to consider what contingency measures should be taken to prepare for a systemic collapse of technical civilisation... 

...We regard our society as having reached a level of sophistication that renders it uniquely vulnerable to total collapse.  The gravity of the threat has increased vastly since 2000, with the transfer of so much economic and social activity to cyberspace...

2023  

...And Vince would have been in on Maury Frauenzimmer's scheme, put by Maury to Sepp von Lessinger in person at a conference of ersatz engineers in New York in 2023, to make use of von Lessinger's time travel experiments to send a psychiatrist back to 1925 to cure Führer Hitler of his paranoia...

The Simulacra (1964), p.44

The generally accepted reality of AD 2024 was one which contained and also was bounded by things like energy crises, the third world war which seemed both inevitable and imminent, attritive strikes, terrorism, failing resources, social decay, famine, and advertising campaigns for children's knife-proof undergarments...

The Ceres Solution (1981).p.33

The main part of the action of The Ceres Solution (1981) takes place in 2025.

...She breakfasted early and spent an hour conscientiously absorbing TV newscasts, with special emphasis on her part of the United States and how its inhabitants were responding to their physical, political and cultural environment in the year AD 2025.  The international news was no worse than usual - the smallpox outbreak in the Netherlands was being brought under control; Sarawak had tested a second fusion device in spite of protests from neighbouring countries; preliminary reports were coming in of some kind of major mishap on the Aristotle space colony; and Britain had introduced sugar rationing for a trial period of three months.  In the U.S.A. the steel, coal and dock strikes were close to being settled, but there had been setbacks in the negotiations on the power workers' and the hospital staffs' pay claims; California police had discovered a partially-completed high-megaton bomb in an underground cavern close to the centre of the Palmdale bulge; in Flint, Michigan, the owner of a sporting goods store had killed his wife by tying her to a chair and hurling a total of 381 darts at her.  And in the Annapolis area, because of a westerly wind, temperatures were comparatively high and the radiation count comparatively low.

Gretana took in the news with the practised indifference which preserved her sanity...

A secret society which aims to change past history, so as to prevent World War One, makes use of a predicted temporal anomaly, described in one of Sir Isaac Newton's secret papers, which allows a person at a specified location in Constantinople to be sent back from 2025 to 1914...

...In the early hours of the morning of 31 May 2025, Hugh Stanton left Trinity College Cambridge in a small motorcade which he was surprised to see was travelling with a police escort.  The Companions of Chronos might have been past their prime but they clearly still counted some pretty influential people among their members.

"Best to be safe," McCluskey said.  "Imagine, Isaac Newton arranges a time-precise rendezvous with history across a distance of three hundred years and we miss it because we're stuck in traffic..."

Time and Time Again (2014)

The action of The Penultimate Truth (1964) takes place in 2025.  The great deception - the pretence that World War Three is continuing, when it fact it has finished a decade ago - finally ends, to be replaced with further deception...

Lucas Garner reminisces about robot waiters in "around 2025" in Intent to Deceive (1968). 

...They were just introducing automated restaurants...

The first colonizing venture leaves Earth for Mars:

They floated weightlessly around the room.  December 21st, 2026: they were moving faster than anyone in history.  They were on their way.  It was the beginning of a nine-month voyage - or of a voyage that would last the rest of their lives.  They were on their own.
                                                                                              [Red Mars (1992), p.28]

2028

14 October 2028:  Front page feature of the New York Times,

                                     LUNARIAN PLANET LOCATED

                                     Did Nuclear War Destroy Minerva?

...A tenth planet, christened Minerva after the Roman goddess of wisdom, is now known to have existed approximately 250 million miles from the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter...  [Inherit the Stars (1977), p.104]

2029

20 November 2029:  Victor Hunt's report from Ganymede, setting out the solution to the mystery of the Lunarians/Minervans.     [Inherit the Stars (1977), p.190-200]

The evasion tactics of the modified Nestor 10 as described in Little Lost Robot (1947).

The first lunar base is established, in the crater Ptolemaeus - see Timeliner (1955).

From The Comedian's Children (1958) in which a voyager to Iapetus crash-lands on his return and releases a plague:

The quiet third of the Twenty-First Century came to an end at ten o'clock on the morning of May 17, 2034, with the return to earth of a modified Fafnir space cruiser under the command of Capt. Avery Swope.  Perhaps in an earlier or a later day, the visitation which began on the above date might have had less effect.  But the earth was lulled and content with itself, and for good reason - international rivalries having reverted to the football fields and tennis courts, an intelligent balance of trade and redistribution of agriculture and industry having been achieved...    

2047

In May, 2047, the latest experiment having revealed only highly interesting but negative results, Malcolm Mackay looked at Burns.

"John, that settled it," he said slowly.  "Something is missing, and we won't get it here in a pair of lifetimes, even long ones.  You know the only place we can find it."

"I suppose you mean the Sun," replied Burns sadly...    [Blindness (1935)]

The Impossible World [1939] tells us how a product of biological science known as adaptene was able to fit people for life on other worlds:

...Now, in 2050 A.D., bio-conditioned Earthmen were to be found on ten different worlds of the Solar System - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Saturn and Titan.  Adaptene had burst the former bonds of the narrow range of conditions under which the human body could survive.

11th November: the date of a historical document studied centuries later by the historians in Star's Reach - a communication from a General Burkert regarding the evacuation and relocation of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, at a time when messages are being received from another star system, amid crisis on Earth.

2055

Though including some drug-induced time-travel, Now Wait For Last Year (1966) is basically set in the year 2055, in the midst of a losing war against Proxima Centauri.  The Terran leader Gino Molinari has made the disastrous mistake of allying with the humans of Alpha Centauri against the chitinous "reegs" of Proxima, though the latter would prefer to make peace on the basis of live-and-let-live - a move which Earth's ruthless and powerful allies are determined to prevent by force if necessary.

Following the 2043 entry from Indoctrinaire (1970, 1979):  the report of the commission sent by the Australian government, to survey the aftermath of World War Three in those parts of the world which had fallen silent, was made public in 2055.

From The Shape of Things to Come (1933):

...The population total crept back to 1,500 millions in 2060...  

Also, 2060 was the date of the Keying-up Plan (various economic projects such as: weather control, soil science, parks...) 

"...Our planning of human activities for the next few generations will involve no fundamental changes at all for humanity.  It will be a keying-up of the sort of life for which our race, however darkly, confusedly and unsuccessfully, has always striven..." 

In a society which has gone to sick lengths to control population by fobbing women off with genetically engineered animal-origin pseudobabies:

You are cordially invited
to attend the pseudoparturition
and ensuing cocktail hour
to celebrate the arrival of
HONEY    BLOSSOM
Cherished event to occur on
Twelveweek's Sixday of 2063 at
19:30 hours
Reception Room, Rockabye Hours Clinic

          R.S.V.P.                                              Mr. and Mrs. John Hanley Slade

[Conditionally Human (1952)]

A nuclear bomb is exploded in space (on the other side of the Sun to avoid affecting the Earth) to generate powerful radio waves, whose echoes are used to identify more of possible impactors for the SPACEGUARD organization for protection against Earth-impactors [The Hammer of God (1993)].

The action of The World Thinker (1945) begins place in October 2073, with the escape of Kenna Parker six months after her incarceration in the Federal Women's Camp in Manning, Nevada.  To quote the tale's blurb:

Planetary secret agent Lanarck places himself in the power of Laoome, weird creator, and plunges into perilous dream worlds on the difficult quest for a lovely girl fugitive!

The movie-going public gets its first experience of the "sollies" ("sol" for "solid" - denoting films that are feelable as well as watchable; i.e. "feelies" as well as "movies"):

...Brad Crayshaw first skyrocketed to fame in the fall of 2073 when the sollies were given their world premiere simultaneously in New York, Chicago and Hollywood (which was to have a new name before the following year was out.)...                
                                                                                   [Housemaid 103 (1957)]

2075

"It was argued by many at the Families' meeting of 2075, the year of the Covenant, that we should reveal ourselves, since civil liberty was firmly re-established.  The majority did not agree at that time..."
                                                                              [Methuselah's Children (1958)]

2081  

...The ice meteorites ranged in size from ten to a hundred cubic miles; and when they had melted their huge volume of water down on the surface, and into the atmosphere, Venus had oceans and oxygen...  By 2081 A.D. the Institute of General Semantics, just then entering its governmental phase, realized the null-A potentialities of the bountiful planet.  By this time, transported trees and other plants were growing madly...    [The World of Null-A (1948)]

2082  

Wyatt and Carpenter's foolhardy, doomed attempt at a Brightside Crossing of Mercury.

   ...I guess I was about ten when Wyatt and Carpenter made the last attempt - that was in 2082, I think.  I followed the news stories like a tri-V serial and then I was heartbroken when they just disappeared.
   I know now that they were a pair of idiots, starting off without proper equipment, with practically no knowledge of surface conditions, without any charts - they couldn't have made a hundred miles - but I didn't know that then and it was a terrible tragedy...

2083

The action of Tidal Moon (1938).

Amherst shook his head.

"That's ironic.  In 2083, two months' old news has to be carried by hipp.  It's like going back to post medievalism."

"It is.  But you know radio is useless in the flood belt of Ganymede..."

First permanent colonies established on Mars and Venus by 2085. 
                                                                  [The Three Planeteers (1940)]

The world population reached 2,000 millions again in 2085 [The Shape of Things to Come (1933)].

Indecipherable transmission received from Sirius [The Hammer of God (1993)].

Election of the first genetically advanced New Man to (unspecified) high office [Our Friends from Frolix 8 (1970)].

2090   

August 8....  "Each of the girls had triplets.  Wonderful.  At this rate of reproduction, the period when chance can destroy them will soon be reduced to an actuarial minimum...  I am continually impressing on the children that their descendants will be the future rulers of the world..."   [Slan (1940)]

One warm October afternoon, in the year 2090, Claus Coman could be seen disembarking from the Moon-Earth ferry, in Twelfth City, Section 7... 
                                                                                 [A Man of Double Deed (1965)]

2094

Possible first exploratory visit to Persephone was by Alan Jacob-Mion, in 2094.  Mion's claim has been cast into doubt...   [Protector (1973)]

2095  

Concordat signed between the vugs of Titan and the UN [The Game Players of Titan (1963)].

2096

Mysterious trouble occurs in the duplication of Old Masters.

...Ross Trafford was the senior technician of Public Art Galleries (S.E. Section).  Under him was a team of electronic engineers, skilled, competent and unimaginative.  From his city office he directed operations and dealt with all calls from the area.  The morning of Tuesday, 12th May, 2096, promised to be typical of his routine...

..."An erratic Leonardo.  Unusual.  Probably something quite simple, a weakened coil or a sticking fuse.  Just a little disturbing, though."  It nagged at the back of his mind...

[Rogue Leonardo (1964)]

2100

Implied date - since the Young expedition was "four decades earlier in 2060" - of the Hammond expedition to Uranus: Planet of Doubt (1935).

Julian the 9th born on 1st January 2100 in Chicago.  [The Moon Men (1925), p.18]

The advanced New Men are changing the map of human thought in ways incomprehensible to the Old Men:

   ...Bernhad's Theory of Acausality, for example - in 2103 Bernhad, working at the Zürich Polytechnic Institute, had demonstrated that Hume, in his enormous skepticism, had been fundamentally right: custom, and nothing else, linked events understood by the Old Men as cause-and-effect...             [Our Friends from Frolix X (1970)].

2106 

The alien Sea Statue comes out of stasis in The World of Ptavvs (1966).

From The Shape of Things to Come (1933), p.369-70:

...Most of the old faculties of the Modern State Movement dissolved into technical organisations under these Controls, with the one exception of that former department of the science faculty the department of social psychology, which by 2106 had become, so to speak, the whole literature, philosophy, and general thought of the world.  It was the surviving vital faculty of the Modern State Movement, the reasoning soul in the body of the race.

In the end it became something like what the early nineteenth century used to think existed under the name of Public Opinion, the consensus of active thought and imagination throughout the world.  It is plain that by 2106 this rule by a pervasive intelligence had become an unchallenged success.  It was all that was left by way of King, President or Supreme Government on earth...    

2109   

21st March: date of historical document shedding light on the crisis on Earth at that time, and how the project for communication with another star system continues amid socio-political disintegration. 

"...We're going to have to figure out soon how much of an operation we can keep going here without outside help, whether there's a point to doing so, and what if anything we're going to tell the CETI team and the support staff..." 
                                                                            [Star's Reach, p.116]

Miles Rodney works for Administrator Slayton Ford from this year till the crisis of 2136.  [Methuselah's Children (1958)]

Discovery of the asteroid Kali which is on a collision course with Earth [The Hammer of God (1993)].

The main action of The Many-Coloured Land (1981): the year in which the one-way time-route to exile in the Pliocene is taken by the batch of eight trippers whose fortunes are followed in the book.

From The Mad Moon (1935), in which Grant Calthorpe undergoes adventures and vicissitudes on Io:
...before he was twenty-one he had hunted knife-kite and threadworm on titan, and triops and uniped on Venus.
   That had been before the gold crisis of 2110 had wiped out his fortune...  

2111

Jack Sands' adventure on Europa in Redemption Cairn (1936) - the adventure starts in September 2111:

There I sat, Jack Sands, ex-rocket pilot.  Yeah, the same Jack Sands you're thinking of, the one who cracked up the Gunderson Europa expedition trying to land at Young's Field, Long Island, in March, 2110.  Just a year and a half ago!

2112

Conflict between a Terran colonist and native Martians [At the Bottom of a Hole (1966)].

Crisis in Ward T of the US Army Hospital beneath St Albans, N.Y., as victims of combat shock learn to vanish into their own created dimensions of reality [Disappearing Act (1953)].

2113

John Markham, who was trapped and frozen underground in the 'Nine Days Tranquiliser' nuclear holocaust of 1967, is revived to find himself in a culture dominated by androids [The Uncertain Midnight (1958)].

Tests for space virus were negative.  (Since the Ganymede disaster of 2113, spacemen had been highly conscious of the dangers they might be bringing back to Earth.)                                                           [The Space Vampires (1976)]

"At the time of the crisis of 2113 I was an assistant correlation cleark in the Division of Economic Studies, Control Section."  [Methuselah's Children (1958)]

2117

Reflections on a 2117 childhood encounter with Captain Carlsen, discoverer of the huge alien ship dubbed the Stranger [The Space Vampires (1976)].

Funeral of Nelson F Webster (2034-2117).  His son and successor, Jerome A Webster, suffers from agoraphobia - a disability which turns out to have huge consequences  [Huddling Place, the second tale in City (1952)].

According to Vanguard to Neptune (1932):

...To date none of the other satellites of Jupiter had been visited, though the ill-fated De Castro expedition of 2117, which crashed on Jupiter itself somewhere in the region of the famous Red Spot, had intended including Io, Callisto and Europa in its itinerary...

22nd April 2117: the accident which kills asteroid-dweller Cubes Forsyth.  [The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (1976).]

A boy discovers that it can be fun to walk outdoors rather than use the Door-to-Door matter-transmission network:

On April 12, 2117, the field-modulator brake-valve in the Door belonging to Mrs. Richard Hanshaw depolarized for reasons unknown.  As a result, Mrs. Hanshaw's day was completely upset and her son, Richard, Jr., first developed his strange neurosis... 
                                                                         [It's Such a Beautiful Day (1954)]

2119

Thomas Cornwall's voyage to the Moon [The Crucible of Power (1939)]:

Captain Thomas Cornwall was a young ordnance engineer, on leave from the army.  His rocket was the first to attain the velocity of escape - 11.3 km/sec.  His triumphant return, after two weeks on the Moon, won him the world's frantic acclaim.  The feat seemed symbolic of the reawakening of man, after the long night of the Black Century...

2122

First uprising against the Kalkars, led by Julian 9th.  [The Moon Men (1925)]

The enactment of the Freezer Law of 2122 - by which the State confiscates the stored bodies of those who had opted for cryogenic preservation without sufficient funds for continued maintenance - puts many organlegging gangs out of business.  [The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton (1976)]

2123

21st March 2123: kidnapping of Holden and Charlotte Chambers, at the behest of the Anubis organization of organleggers [The Defenceless Dead, in The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (1976)].

2nd November: the Belter, Owen Jennison, is found dead.  (The subsequent investigation implicates the organlegger known as Loren.)  [Death By Ecstasy, inThe Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (1976)]

2125

The security council passed the second Freezer Bill on February 3, 2125.  Now it would go to the world vote in late March.  The voting public numbered ten billion, of whom perhaps sixty per cent would bother to phone in their votes...
                               [The Defenceless Dead, in The Long ARM of Gil Hamilton (1976)]

Phssthpok the Pak arrives at Sol.  Brennan turns Protector.  [Protector (1973)]

The long-lived Howard Families try the experiment of allowing a small percentage of their membership to reveal their existence, since 

...it had become extremely difficult to counterfeit new identities for the ever-increasing number of us holding public ages incompatible with personal appearance...

                                                                  [Methuselah's Children (1958)]

All of Earth waited for the small black hole to bring it to its end.  It had been discovered by Professor Jerome Hieronymus at the Lunar telescope in 2125 and it was clearly going to make an approach close enough for total tidal destruction...                                                                    [About Nothing (1977)]

2127

Tibet and America, each claiming the Radiant Heat Monopoly, applied for a War Permit for 2127, A.D.

The Universal War Board granted it, stating, of course, the conditions...

[War No. 81-Q (1928)]

2129

Attempt by Garth Hammond's Volcano Steam and Metals Corporation to drill through Earth's crust ends in disaster [The Crucible of Power (1939)]:

...For, after a billion dollars had been spent to sink the great pit forty thousand feet, the bottom of it suddenly split.  Men and refrigerating machines were drowned in flaming lava.  A rain of boiling mud drowned the new city of Hammondspit, Virginia, taking twenty thousand lives.

From Our Friends From Frolix 8 (1970)]:   In 2130 Blaise Black, a certified G-sixteen New Man, had upset Wolfgang Pauli's Synchronicity principle...  making all computations, including those derived from astrophysics, fundamentally easier.  Black's System, as it was called, ended at last any reliance on Old Man theory and practice.        

2132

Garth Hammond departs for Mars [The Crucible of Power (1939)].

New York City is "destroyed in the final World War of 2132" [Goddess of the Moon (1940)].

Carl Dennell, who was made immortal at the cost of his emotions, now finds that his intellect is no longer keeping pace with the progress of mankind [The Coming of the Ice (1926)]:

...to the intellect, monotony cannot exist: it was one of those emotions I had left behind.  One day, however, in the year 2132, a great discovery was made by a man called Zarentzov.  It had to do with the curvature of space, quite changing the conceptions that we had all followed since Einstein...

Interstellar traveller Thors Provoni sends a message to Earth: he is returning with alien allies who will help him free the mass of Old Men from the genetically advanced New Men and Unsuals who have dominated human affairs for decades [Our Friends from Frolix X (1970)].  It had been this way for fifty years now, since 2085 when the first New Man had been elected... 

2136

6th June: the 21st birthday of Miss Octavia Lattery; the day she has been asked to open the letter sent to her from the 20th century...          [Chronoclasm (1953, 1956)]

Public hostility forces the long-lived Howard Families to flee from Earth into interstellar space [Methuselah's Children (1958].

2138

Marriage of Garth Hammond to Doris Wayne, heir to the Marine Mines billions [The Crucible of Power (1939)].

2140  

5 October: birth of Leon Cartwright, future Quizmaster of the Nine Planets.

..."You can't operate this," Moore said quietly.  "This isn't your line.  What are you?  I examined the records.  You were born October 5, 2140, outside the Imperial Hill.  You've lived there all your life; this is the first time you've been on this side of the Earth, let alone on another planet.  You had ten years of nominal schooling in the charity department of the Imperial Hill.  You never excelled in anything..."

[Solar Lottery (1955)]

"The punishment for Wade Trask," said Medellin, "has been adjudicated as death.  Accordingly, your group becomes forthwith responsible for the actions of the said Wade Trask, it being understood that no limitations except those legally permissible can be placed upon the said Wade Trask's movements and activities.  The condemned seditionist, Wade Trask, shall be instructed to report to the converter for execution not later than midnight a week from this day."

"Acknowledged," said the voice of Tilden Arallo, "at 10.30 a.m., August 26, 2140 A.D., on behalf of Group 814."

[The Mind Cage  (1957)]

2142

According to Flight on Titan:

The year 2142, as most people recall, was a disastrous one in the financial world.  It was the year of the collapse of the Planetary Trading Corporation and the year that ushered in the resultant depression.

Tim and Diane Vick therefore resolve to try their luck prospecting for flame-orchids on Titan...

2144

"Space" (the space stations, plus colonies on the Moon and Venus) declares its independence from the dominant Earth nation, Brazil.  [The Outward Urge (1959)]

2143   

...And sure enough, his guess had been lucky: on May 4, 2143, a Bindman named William Rust Lawrence had died, killed in an auto accident in Arizona.  And Pete had become his heir, inherited his holdings and entered his Game-playing group.

[The Game Players of Titan (1963)]

2145

Officially, Boss Kellon was merely executive secretary of the Union of Spacemen, Managers and Engineers.  But Boss, now in 2145, was equivalent to Caesar.  From the unitron converters on Mercury to the lonely mining outposts scattered across the Jovian moons, the Union dominated mankind...   [Breakdown (1942)]

It would have disappointed Wells and his fellow prophets to have had a true vision of A.D. 2145.  We were on another swing of the pendulum.  Scientific progress in the sense of physics, chemistry and engineering, had slowed its advance to a minumum while the world caught up and re-adjusted...                        [Worlds to Barter (1931)]   The people of 2145 are horrified when a voice from the future announces they will be forced to evacuate their present Earth and swap worlds, via time-travel, with their remote descendants of the 5022nd Century, who are living in a dying world.

2146

The Solarion, in 2146, returning with her seventh cargo of sunstone, was accosted by a strange vessel in space - a slim red arrow of a ship, unlike the mirror spheres of SPC.  Heliographs flashed a message, signed "Redlance", demanding surrender of the ship and cargo, "in the name of liberty and human right."  [The Crucible of Power (1939)]

 2148

Report reaches Earth that the Sun Station has been lost [The Crucible of Power (1939)]:

The Solarion III, in 2148, safely reached the Sun and returned.  But her holds were empty and she brought appalling news...

For a treatment of some important events of this mid-22nd-century year see the 1966 film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., based on the 1964 Dr Who serial (in which the invasion occurred in the year 2164 - the figure being later rounded for the film). 

[Note from Zendexor: I never saw the film but I vaguely remember some of the images in the original TV version, though I had forgotten the plot.  According to Wikipedia the Daleks attempt to turn the entire Earth into a spaceship.]

2156

Warning of the approach of an anti-matter world:

It was on January 15, 2156, that the astrophysicist, Dr. James Carter, had the first glimmer of light - literally.  He was working on the new five-hundred-inch reflector of the Mt. McKinley observatory at the time, and noticed a darkening of his photographic plate from the spectrometer focused on Polaris...
                                                                                                           [Minus Planet (1937)]

2157

Margie even wrote about it in her diary.  On the page headed May 17, 2157, she wrote, "Today Tommy found a real book!"            [The Fun They Had (1954)]

The Moon is steered to collide with an anti-matter world that threatens the Earth [Minus Planet (1937)].

2161    Mind-sculptor Barkun Kris re-creates the personality of composer Richard Strauss and imprints it upon Jerom Bosch. 

"...Naturally you'll realize that by this time nothing remains of your body but some bones, which we have not disturbed.  The body you have now was born in our own time and was volunteered for your use..."     [A Work of Art (1956)]

2167

Disappearance of Kennicot Muir and founding of the Society of Thieves [The Paradox Men (1953)].

2170

4 August:  Carew, from the Institute, visits Dr Homer Green, the Invariant.  (See 1943.)

...to tread on rugs, to see chairs covered in cloth with a nap, to see instruments for smoking, to see and hear a primitive radio... above all to see an open fire; all this gave me a sense of unreality, prepared though I was.  Green saw by the fire in a chair, as we almost invariably find him, with a dog at his feet.  He is perhaps the most valuable man in the world...

The peacefully seated man expresses confidence that the invariant-treatment will work on him.

"It does work, Dr Green," I assured him.  "Indefinitely."

"We mustn't be premature," he said.  "After all, a short time - "

"Do you recall the date, Dr Green?" I asked.

"September 11th," he said.  "1943, if you want that, too."

"Dr Green, today is August 4, 2170," I told him earnestly.

The "Misadventure" - a nuclear war which leaves Earth a wreck.
                            [If There Were No Benny Cemoli (1963)]

...For three months now, this Earth-year of 2170, mysterious accidents had been happening to commercial space-ships.  Non-arrival at destination, and then later found by the Interplanetary Patrol, derelicts in space.  Gruesome damn' thing.  A ship unharmed, save that its air was gone...    [Phantom of the Seven Stars (1940)]

2171

from POWER UNLIMITED by Martin Brand, Solar City, Earth, 2171, regarding contra-terrene matter:

...Undismayed by the untouchable stuff, the space engineers have named it familiarly seetee, and they are reaching daringly to grasp it now.  The mightiest force yet known, it can create a new kind of freedom - the freedom of power.  Or, misused, it can crush every human freedom.  That is the problem and the promise all our planets face today.

Seetee Shock (1949, 1950)

2172

The time-retracing Toynbee Twenty-Two crash-lands in the Ohio River near Wheeling on 21st July, five years before its launch. 

On 22nd July a man is found wandering along the river bank,

dazed, almost naked, carrying a leather-bound book with him.  The book bore the gold-stamped legend - T-Twenty-two...

The man joins the Society of Thieves and becomes known as Alar....  [The Paradox Men (1953)]

Exploratory expedition to Persephone, the outermost planet.

...Persephone was reported to have no moons and an atmosphere typical of gas giant worlds...    [Protector (1973)]

2173

Spoken in 2177:

"...Four years ago the Lunar Station began sending me microfilm plates of both celestial hemispheres by the space second.  One of these plates is of particular interest, and I feel that what it shows may have a bearing on the future of civilization.  It should be analysed immediately."   [The Paradox Men (1953)]

2176

28th April:  Will Carewe, believing that he has just taken an immortality drug, reflects...

...Could it be that there would come a day, perhaps only a hundred years in the future, on which he would have to check his diary to remember the colour of Athene's hair?  Without absolute continuance of the personality was there such a thing as immortality?  Or did it simply mean that his deathless body would be inhabited by a series of strangers, each fading imperceptibly into the next as the biological slates were wiped clean? 
                                                                                         [One Million Tomorrows (1970)]

2177

A momentous year.  Bern Haze-Gaunt, the evil Chancellor of America Imperial, is plotting "Operation Finis". 

6 June:  the action of The Paradox Men begins on or just before this date.  Evening: the masked ball in the Imperial Palace...

21 July:  Launch of the transphotic universe-circumnavigating time-retracing history-re-writing Toynbee Twenty-Two [The Paradox Men (1953), p.97] -  a second chance for the human race.

2188

From The Dark Backward (1958), in which the Managerial Boards give dissidents an object lesson to show how much worse things were in the past:

"What year do you think this is, Val?" she asked.

I stared at her.  "It's 1951."

She shook her head and now her dark face and her dark eyes had pity in them...

"It's 2188, Val.  Over two hundred years from the time you think you live in."

It didn't make any sense to me at all, but again I got that unearthly feeling that things were crumpling around me...    

2189

First visit to Erebus Valley, Mercury [Where the Nightlife Never Ends].

From Indoctrinaire (1970, 1979):
"...if you can imagine a place existing at two different times, then that is this.  Where we are now is the Planalto of AD 2189.  Where we were somewhere over there," he waved vaguely with his hand, "was in 1989."    

2190

Midshipman Blane was cashiered at 0800 hours on Sarday, Ma 35, 2190, on the parade deck of the ship of the line Tyrant, fifty million tons, on station off Callisto, nine months out of Terra on the Trans-Jovian cruise...     [The Star Treasure (1971)]

Return of spatial engineer Rick Drake to Pallas from Earth [Seetee Ship (1951, 1968)]:

...on a March morning of 2190, aboard the Planetaria.  He had spent four years at Solar City... and now he had come back to the Mandate, with his new degree and his daring dreams and not much else, to build a seetee bedplate.

2196

"Three years ago, in 2196, the results of the Holdane Expedition to the asteroids were published at some length in an official pamphlet by the Society for Interplanetary Research..."  
[fragment of The Master of Destruction]

2197

Beginning of the Venusian invasion and disastrous "Venusoforming" described in The Metamorphosis of Earth (1951).

In the year 2197, the first intimation of a strange peril of world-wide scope and gravity came and passed unrecognized for what it really was in the form of a newspaper dispatch from the Sahara, reporting a sand-storm of unprecedented fury...

2200

Marcius Kemble, Dictator of Mars, is exiled to Pluto.  [Escape from Pluto (1947)]

2203  

The events of Solar Lottery.  To quote the blurb:

"Positions of public power decided by a sophisticated lottery.  Everyone had a chance, could live in hope.  Opium for the people.  One day you too could be boss.  And with it: The Assassination Game, which you could watch on TV.  Would the new man be good enough to avoid his chosen killer?  Survival of the fittest formalised into a game.  Lots of excitement for everyone, keeps them all happily distracted while the Big Five industrial complexes run the world, the solar system, the people, unremarked, unopposed. 

Then in the year 2203 a hitch developed in the system."

[The Other Sky (1964)]

2220  

Astronomer Eugenia Insigna discovers the Sun's neighbour star, Nemesis [Nemesis (1989)].

2221

The Jovian moon Io is removed from the British Imperial Protectorate [Revolt on Io (1941)]

2234

..."Kreuther!" said Mallory thoughtfully.  The affair sounded like one of Kreuther's moves.  That power-mad genius, exiled from Earth after the thwarted Lunar Campaign of 2234, was accustomed to strike in just this fashion...       
                                                                                                  [Revolt on Io (1941)]

2235  

The Rifflin expedition heads for the eighth planet [The Vanguard to Neptune (1932)].

2237   

First superluminal flight (15th January).  Meanwhile, on the same day, on Erythro, habitable world in the Nemesis system, Marlene Fisher steps unprotected onto the planetary surface for the first time.  [Nemesis (1989]

2240  

...I don't know how much time passed before I managed to say, "You found it."

Eleen glanced back over her shoulder at me, beaming.  "Yes.  This is everything they'd been able to figure out about the aliens by 2240 - more than two hundred years ago..."    [Star's Reach, p.154]

2250

...the Ceres Mining Company, organized in 2250 for the exploitation of the mineral resources of Ceres, Pallas and Vesta...  [The Stars My Destination (1955), p134]

2251

Cordele, Georgia,

...had been depopulated in 2251 and kept empty for the statutory whole year, which meant that the people now living in it did not exist as far as Metagov was concerned...
                                                                       [Orbitsville Departure (1983)]

2260

"Sort of a shame.  Romantic, kind of.  I mean, leaving just one graveyard untouched during all these centuries.  The other graveyards were cleaned out, what year was it, Jim?"

"About 2260, I think.  Yeah, that was it, 2260, almost a hundred years ago.  But some Salem Committee they got on their high horse and they said, "Look here, let's have just ONE graveyard left, to remind us of the customs of the barbarians..."

[Pillar of Fire (1948)]

2263

Mace Waldron, the famous pilot who saved that Martian liner in 2263...  [Jay Score (1941)]

2270

Jay Score's piloting rescues the Upskadaska City.

You may remember the stunt that the audiopress of 2270 boosted as "McNulty's Miracle Move"?  It's practically a legend of the spaceways.  Afterward, when we'd got safely home, McNulty disclaimed the credit and put it where it rightfully belonged.  The audiopress had a good excuse, as usual.  They said he was the captain, wasn't he?  And his name made the headline alliterative, didn't it?  Seems that there must be a sect of audio-journalists who have to be alliterative to gain salvation.  [Jay Score (1941)]

2278

Colonization of Erebus Valley, Mercury [Where the Nightlife Never Ends].

2293

Disappearance of Orbitsville, the Dyson sphere which had absorbed Earth's attention for two centuries; beginning of a Renaissance on Earth.  [Orbitsville Departure (1983)]

2300

Erebus Valley, Mercury, is "inducted into the Republic" [Where the Nightlife Never Ends].

2301

15 February:  Ben Reich, megalomaniac boss of Monarch Utilities, having wakened screaming from his recurrent dream of The Man With No Face, comes to a decision: he will murder his arch-rival Craye D'Courtney of the D'Courtney Cartel.

It's D'Courtney who's giving me the screams.  Not because I'm afraid of him.  I'm afraid of myself.  Known all along.  Known it deep down inside.  Knowing that once I faced it I'd have to kill that D'Courtney bastard.  It's no face because it's the face of murder...   [The Demolished Man (1953), p9]

2302

...It was a diamond-clear morning - one of a seemingly endless succession of fine mornings in that summer - yet he was a acutely conscious of the date as he moved about the familiar environment of the kitchen.  August 25, 2302.  Only nine years had passed since Orbitsville had departed for another universe, but it had been two whole centuries since an exploration ship had slipped away from the Earth-Moon system heading for unknown space.  Now the Columbus was fully stored and ready to spiral out of Polar Band One to test itself against sun-seeded infinities, and the date would be one for the history books...
                                                                                   [Orbitsville Departure (1983)]

2312

Date of the events in the eponymous novel 2312 (published 2012).

2320   

Interstellar drive invented [Far Centaurus (1944)].

2330

Construction of the Replicator (which of course is immediately used to Replicate itself) brings all former economics to an end.  (This is part of the distant background to the ninth-millennium tale, Flame Lords of Jupiter.)

2332  

The plague known as the Gray Death strikes our planet; the Confederated Nations of Earth throw all their resources into combating it.  However, the situation is saved only by a maverick scientist who organizes the first ever space-voyage, to obtain healing radium salts from the Moon.  [Goddess of the Moon (1940)]

2336

16 September:  Gully Foyle, spaceman, marooned on the wreck of the merchant ship Nomad, sees the approach of what he trusts is a rescue ship.  But the ship, Vorga, passes him by, leaving him to his fate.  This act galvanizes the hitherto dull-witted, unambitious Foyle:

...the stereotype Common Man was no more.  The key turned in the lock of his soul and the door was opened.  What emerged expunged the Common Man for ever.

"You pass me by," he said with slowly mounting fury.  "You leave me rot like dog.  You leave me die, Vorga...  No.  I get out of here, me.  I follow you, Vorga.  I find you, Vorga.  I pay you back, me.  I rot you.  I kill you, Vorga.  I kill you deadly."

The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a chain of reactions that would make an infernal machine of Gully Foyle...     [The Stars My Destination (1955), p21]

2340

September: kidnap of Roy Truesdale by the protective Brennan-monster who lurks on the borders of the Solar System [Protector (1973)].

2341

Elroy did not twitch when acrid smoke curled up from the message spool.  He had half expected that.  In any case he had recognized the voice.  His own.  He must have made this tape for... Vandervecken... during the time he couldn't remember.

He spoke to the blackened tape.  "You wouldn't lie to yourself, would you, Roy?"

Under what circumstances?

He got out of the car and walked to the Tourist Office and bought a morning newstape.  His set still worked, though the message spool was a charred lump.  He played the tape for the date.  January 9, 2341...                                     

October: Brennan the Protector discovers the Pak fleet that is headed towards Sol.
November: departure of the Flying Dutchman.  Brennan destroys his former refuge, Kobold.
                                                                                              [Protector (1973)]

2342

May: discovery of the Pak scouts.
July: Roy Truesdale in stasis.  Departure of the ship Protector.   [Protector (1973)}

2391

Morton Cargill is brought from 1954 to 2391 by the Inter-Time Society for Psychological Adjustments.....  where he is told he is to be killed as therapy for the descendant of a girl passenger who had died in a car he'd crashed...   [The Universe Maker (1953)]

2432

Yawning, Mr. Eric Stokes-Harding stood before the great open window, staring out.  Below him was a wide, park-like space, green with emerald lawns, and bright with flowering plants.  Two hundred yards across it rose an immense pyramidal building - an artistic structure, gleaming with white marble and bright metal, striped with the verdure of terraced roof-gardens, its slender peak rising to help support the gray, steel-ribbed glass roof above.  Beyond, the park stretched away in illimitable vistas, broken with the graceful columned buildings that held up the great glass roof.

Above the glass, over this New York of 2432 A.D., a freezing blizzard was sweeping.  But small concern was that to the lightly clad man at the window, who was inhaling deeply the fragrant air from the plants below - air kept, winter and summer, exactly at 20 degrees C...                   [The Cosmic Express (1930)]

Expedition of the spaceship Goddard to Pluto [Expedition to Pluto (1939)].

Sign outside a building:
                                            FOUNDED IN
                                                   2432
                                          BY SMITH & CO.

Riley thought the huge, humming machines very interesting.  Within the transparent plastic cages intricate mechanical fingers were making clothes...  And suddenly, he recalled a word he had heard.

"Mother, what does 'work' mean?"

Mrs Ashton was shocked.

"Riley, where did you hear that dreadful word?"               [The Pleasure Age (1947)]

2450   

...All old Dr Full knew was that she was peering at the neck of the forceps and then turned white.  Very carefully, she placed the half of the forceps back in its loop of cloth and then replaced the retractor and the speculum.  "Well?" he asked.  "What did you see?"

"'Made in U.S.A.,'" she quoted hoarsely.  "'Patent applied for July 2450'." 

[The Little Black Bag (1950)]

2461

Passage of the Stability of the Social Order Act...

"Here we are - Section 64a - relating to the threat to social and economic stability caused by excessive time immigration from the belligerent centuries.  Immigration by time, whether by Highway J, sub-dimensional transit, pathological hibernation, or whatever method, is an offense under the Stability of the Social Order Act of 2461, for which the maximum penalty is compulsory euthanasia..."

[Highway J (1953)]

The first independence movements among the colonized planets started in 2470 [The Three Planeteers (1940)].

2479

Date of the Official Rule Book for the Annual Terran-Martian Football Game [Rule 18 (1938)]:

"Each player on the respective teams must be able to present documentary evidence that he is of pure blood of the planet upon whose team he plays for an unbroken span of at least ten generations.  Verification of the aforesaid documentary evidence and approval of the players upon this point shall be the duty of the Interplanetary Athletic Control Board..."

2481

Outbreak of the White-Yellow War [Seeker of Tomorrow (1937)].

2486

From Seeker of Tomorrow (1937):  "...Move those feet of yours a little more and your tongue a little less.  And, just in case you want to keep up the play, Methuselah, may I anticipate a question by informing you that this is the year of disgrace 2486?"

2490   

End of the 2481-90 War...

...brought to an end by a militant organization of women who, first of all, refused to bear any more children, then deserted the munitions factories, causing both sides to withdraw great numbers of men to replace them, and, finally, took up arms and assassinated the individuals whom they considered to be the key men of the war.  The conflict was the direct cause of the world matriarchy that held sway for the next three thousand years...     [Seeker of Tomorrow (1937)]

2495

Manufacture of "Man-hunter, model eleven" by the Sixth Reich - the machine long afterwards encountered by Carlotta vom Acht.  The inscription traced on its carapace:

WAFFENAMT DES SECHSTEN DEUTSCHEN REICHES
BURG EISENHOWER, A.D.2495
MENSCHENJAGER MARK ELF

                    [Mark Elf (1957)]

2500

The Fourth World War started in the year 2500... with the United States against the Mongol hordes, who had conquered all of Earth except this country.  In their onward sweep of conquest, the yellow legions had seized the interplanetary colonies of all nations except Space Base 10, a U.S. possession...  The Asiatic hordes are being led by Kama Khan, a direct descendant of his famous forerunner, Genghiz Khan...  [Suicide Squadrons of Space (1940)]

2505  

"Thousands of you coming here.  From where?"

"From the future, of course.  Time travel wasn't developed until C/H 127.  That's... oh say, A.D. 2505 by your chronology..."
                                                                                 [Hobson's Choice (1952)]

2507  

...Then came the fabulous "sea-rush" of 2507, brought about by the simultaneous development of two inventions...  [Waters of Wrath (1940)]

2511

...The space liner I had seen burning in A.D. 2511 was the only ship ever lost on the Earth-Centauri line...  [Far Centaurus (1944)]

2560  

Gilbert Gosseyn, amnesiac, is thrown out of the Games Machine's competition, the procedure by which all candidates for all posts are chosen by rational means. 

...He thought, What in the name of reason is going on here?  This can't be happening to a law-abiding human being on the peaceful Earth of 2560 A.D....
                                                                   [The World of Null-A (1948), p.48]

Attack on Venus by interstellar invaders. 

...Population of Venus as of 2560 A.D. - 119,000,038 males, 120,143,280 females, the book said...    [The World of Null-A (1948), p.85]

2567

"...C/H 127.  That's... oh say, A.D. 2505 your chronology.  We didn't set up our chain of stations until C/H 189."                                      [Hobson's Choice (1952)]

2654 

...I was amused on my last day by a question asked by a ten-year-old boy, the son of one of the supervisors.  We stood on a rampart overlooking one of the vast production pits, several hundred feet deep and miles across...

The little boy looked with awe at the scene, then turned his face upward, demanding, "What are we going to do when this hole gets so big that it takes up the whole world?"

We laughed...                                                    [The Dwindling Sphere (1940)]

2660

The year referred to in the title of Ralph 124C 41+ ; A Romance of the Year 2660.

2675    

....My part in repelling the attempted Martian invasion of Earth in the years 2675-77 was a limited one...

...On April 1st, 2675, war came in earnest, as dreadful as it was unexpected. 

So suddenly were the raiders upon us that we knew it not.  They struck Earth effectively in three places.  Steel mills in Labrador, built to accommodate the large quantities of ore mined in the Republic of Greenland, were blown to bits in the night by roving bombs...

[When Planets Clashed (1931)]

2677   

End of the Martian invasion of Earth which began in 2675 (q.v.).

2732  

16th September:  the incident on the Sun described by the Neutron Rig Operator in Incandescence (2017).

2821  

22nd October:  Archiving of the story of Star's Reach into the central archive of the Guild of Rememberers. 

2830

...the case of Laird Graynon, Police Inspector, 900th Sector Station, New York City, who on July 7, A.D.2830, was falsely accused of accepting bribes, and de-energised.

SOLUTION: Obtained the retirement of Inspector Graynon two months before the date given in the charge.  He retired to his farm, and henceforth exerted the very minimum of influence on the larger scene of existence...  [>>2874]  [The Search (1943)]

In this year Louis Wu discovers a planet with a neutronium moon [There is a Tide (1968)].

THEN, the planet had no name.  It circles a star which in 2830 lay beyond the fringe of known space, a distance of nearly forty light-years from Sol.  The star is a G3, somewhat redder than Sol, somewhat smaller.  The planet, swinging eighty million miles from its primary in a reasonably circular orbit, is a trifle cold for human tastes...    

2852   

The year from which the vessel Segomay 8 is snatched forward in time [The Winged Man (1944)].

2874

[continued from 2830]  ...He lived in this probability world of his own until his death in 2874...  [The Search (1943)]

2896   

"...It almost happened on Earth once... back in 2896.  The Earth was almost wiped out when one man yearned for power and used biological warfare in its most hideous form.  He knew what the result would be, but that didn't stop him..."     [Cosmic Engineers (1939, 1950)]

2951   

Persian expedition under Prince Khan-Li discovers the ruins of New York City and of Washington, D.C. 

...Turning suddenly upon me with a look of triumph, he exclaimed:

"It is ours!"

"What is ours?" I asked.

"The knowledge we sought"; and he pointed to the inscription:

NEW YORK STOCK EXC...

                                                                                   [The Last American (1889)]

3040  

Gulf Stream open to public claim [Waters of Wrath (1940)].

3042   

Sudden raw materials shortage -

...Green’s fingers riffled the sheaf of teletyped flimsies.
“This is what I’ve got to tell you. Here are the latest reports from our
mines in the Andes and from the Moon. We’re faced with a drastic raw
materials shortage. Our supply of Uradonite is giving out.”
Uradonite. Nobody had to tell Chick Evans and me what that would mean.
The whole space-flying industry was dependent upon the volatile-active
element Z-470. Nullo-grav units had made vessels weightless. But that
could not provide propulsion. Then came the Mansfield cyclotronic
engine, a power unit by which the immensely heavy atoms of Z-470 were
broken down into electronic streams, the rocket-streams by which all
space-flyers are propelled...

An expedition is therefore quite rightly sent to Neptune...  [The Wings of Icarus (1943)]

3048

Ares Sen Kenlin's trip on a space-liner from Earth to Mars takes 5 days.  [Twilight (1934)]

3057

The Martians suddenly threaten Earth with a "Photo-Atomic Ray", which makes it imperative to send an expedition to Saturn in search of a substance called "tridium" which may neutralise the Ray.

...The Earth, in this year of grace 3057, was a wonderful place to live in, and Copia was the political and cultural center of the Earth.  For nine hundred years now, the peoples of the Earth had lived at peace with one another as members of a single integrated community...  No longer did region war against region, or group against group, or class against class...
                                                                                         [Cave-Dwellers of Saturn (1939)]

3059

Ares Sen Kenlin of Neva'th City begins his voyage in time.  (See 1932.)  [Twilight (1934)]

3145

The oddity of an ageing G4 yellow moving about a common axis with a white supergiant no more than eleven million years old had already engaged the interest of the cosmologists attached to the Chinese / American fleet.  The spectroanalysis spurred them into active investigation.

The supposedly Earth-like planet of the distant binary system was filed under the appellation G4PBx/4582-4-3.  Symbols were despatched on their lengthy journey through the dust clouds to Earth.

Berthed inside the flagship of the fleet, then cruising the outer fringes of the Ophiuchus dust clouds, was an automated colonizing ship.  The ship was programmed and despatched to G4PBx/4582-4-3.  The year was 3415.                                                                              [Helliconia Winter (1985)]

3150

The last of the Sutton family moves out of their area of Wisconsin.  [Time And Again, p.185]

3174

The monks of the order of St Leibowitz succeed in reconstructing electric light [A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)].

3368  

...He had fought in the deadly little wars of the Moons of Jupiter for years, then the Universal Debacle of 3368, after that the Martian Revolution...

[The Red Witch of Mercury (1945)]

3600

When Earth's colonizing starship entered the Freyr-Batalix system in 3600 A.D., it established a base on Aganip, the inner planet closest to Helliconia.  On Aganip, 512 colonists were landed.  They had been hatched aboard the starship during the final years of its voyage...

[Helloconia Summer (1983), p.331]

3735

...the Motu Proprio of Pope Celestine the Eighth...  [A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)]

3749

...the confirming document of Anno Domini 3749, Quo peregrinatur grex, pastor secum...  [A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)]

3756

The "Casu belli nunc remoto" of Pope Paul.  [A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)]

3781

Nuclear war again, and the departure of the monks of the order of St Leibowitz for Alpha Centauri.                [A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)]

4160

The Second Great Fleet reaches Arclour, the Starward Pole of Uranus.  [Calculated from data in Uranian Gleams (2015) and www.ooranye.com.]  The Final Era begins.  [See also Uranian Thule (2018)]

The historian says:

Everybody knows the bare outline of the events which ushered in our present era; how the Second Great Fleet did succeed in reaching Arclour and its ultimate sivvan, and how that discovery retro-triggered our retro-Fostering of Ooranye, that is to say, the grafting of Ooranye's true history onto the history of our solar system. 

4901

...it was in 4901 that nuclear war broke out between the planets... after a statesman on Earth made the mistake of using the old derogatory term "immigrants" about the inhabitants of Mars...  Mars was silenced for ever...  Earth was hit by no more than twelve 10,000 megaton bombs.  It was enough...  [Helliconia Winter (1985)]

...The Year 5000.  He had become one of the Kotolies.  The Kotolies, a strange, shy little animal native to Mercury, had been brought back to Earth in the fortieth century and crossbred with dogs.  The new hybrid, a domesticated pet, could speak and think the language of Earth, while still retaining the lore of Mercury.

English had long formed the universal speech, but the white and coloured races had both disappeared...  A blend, a merging, an amalgamation of the old stocks, the world-wide type now stood nearly seven feet tall, deeply golden of skin, richly varied in the coloration of hair and eyes...     [Finality Unlimited (1936)]

From The Man Who Awoke (1933):

"...Do you pretend to come from that shameful scene?"

"That is precisely the sort of thing we used to do," replied Winters, "although we did not call it by the same set of names."  He could barely repress his elation.  There could no longer be the slightest doubt of it - he was alive in the year 5000!  His clock had been accurate!

The Forester's face was growing red.  "Timberfall!  You have been amusing long enough - now tell me the truth:  Where is your orig?"

5976

Catherine Martin is awarded her diploma by the College of Science, Alkatoon, Mars [Cosmic Engineers (1939, 1950), p.18]

5980

Jovian forces driven back to Jupiter; end of Jupiter's inconclusive war against Earth and Mars.    [Cosmic Engineers (1939, 1950), p.27]

5998

(Class-room lecture given by the Most Honorable Erru Saggus, Professor of Hamurriquanean Archaeology at the World-University of Toshtush, on the 365th day of the year 5998:)

Males, females, androgynes and neuters of the class in archaeology, you have learned, from my previous lectures, all that is known or inferred concerning the crudely realistic art and literature of the ancient Hamurriquanes.  With some difficulty, owing to the fragmentary nature of the extant remains, I have reconstructed for you their bizarre and hideous buildings, their rude mechanisms...

[The Great God Awto (1940)]

6344

...By the year 6344, living forms were again in moderate abundance.  The human population took a solemn vow that they would hold all possessions in common, declaring that not only life but its freedom was sacred... [Helliconia Winter (1985)]

6371

I saw the first of the strange creatures who appeared among us in the year 6371, men who were later known to be from the planet Venus.  But they were repulsed, for they were savages compared with the Earthmen, although they were about equal to the people of my own century, 1900...  [The Coming of the Ice (1926)]

6842  

The year from which Robairst is snatched forward in time [The Winged Man (1944)].

6948

Catherine Martin is revived from suspended animation  [Cosmic Engineers (1939, 1950), p.20]

7301

Morton Cargill is brought forward in time from 2391 to 7301, to Merlic, capital of Merlica.

"...What the Shadows started in the twenty-second or twenty-third century had more implications than they realized.  A civilization which would not normally have existed came into partial existence as a result of their work, and it has never quite become real.  See that city down there - " He motioned at the mist below - "It's not really there yet.  If you were to go down into it, you would find yourself coming presently to what is literally the edge of the world..." 
                                                                                 [The Universe Maker (1953)]

7877

...They kept their records, they transmitted a constant stream of information back to Earth; present transmissions could be expected to arrive there in the year 7877.  The intricacies of the Helliconian biosphere and its response to change throughout the Great Year could be understood only when at least two complete cycles had been studied...
                                                                                         [Helliconia Summer (1983)]

7990

Return of Asher Sutton to Earth from his mission to 61 Cygni.  [Time And Again (1951) - the book depicts an interstellar empire but the action takes place in the Solar System and is relevant to the OSS in its portrayal of Earth and asteroids.]

"According to the revision of the year 7990," said the robot, "arrived at by convention, any male human under the age of one hundred, sound in mind and body, and unhampered by religious bonds or belief, which are subject to a court of inquiry, must fight a duel whenever challenged."  [p.28]

...War, the man had said.  A war in time...

It would load the personnel of the Justice Department of the year 7990 with spies and fifth columnists and saboteurs.  And it would do that thing so cleverly one could never find the spies.

But, as in an ordinary, honest war, there would be strategic points.  As in chess, there would be one key square.

Sutton was that square...    [p.126-7]

8003   

An advance in time-travel research.

"You don't know?" asked Case.  "Why, it was a man in your own time.  A man who is living at this very moment..."

"Case," said Pringle, "this is 7990.  Michaelson really did very little with it until 8003."

[Time and Again (1951), p.118]

8300

It was the last day of summer in the last year of the eighty-third century A.D.

Humming to itself high in the stratosphere, a vane carried J. Smithlao, psychodynamician, over the 139th sector of Ing Land...

[All the World's Tears (1957)]

8323

19th May: Resken 905 is summoned by the Flame Lords of Jupiter.

8386    

...Sutton sat easily and picked up the wrench.  He weighed it in his hand.  Blood, he thought, talking to the wrench.  You'll have blood upon one end before the day is out.

"Tell me," said Dean.  "Now that you're here, what do you plan to do?"

"Easy," said Sutton.  "You're going to talk to me.  You're going to tell me something I need to know."

"Gladly," Dean agreed.

"You said you came from the eighty-fourth.  What year?"

"Eighty-three eighty-six," said Dean.  "But if I were you, I'd go up a little ways.  You'd find more to interest you."

"But you figure I'll never get even so far as that," said Sutton...

[Time and Again (1951), p.170]

10,402

Del Two-Forty A, time traveller, sets off forward in time - many millennia later he will meet a traveller from 1951, in a far future world.  [Wanderers of Time (1933)]

12,000   

Lord Clane Linn's archaeological researches on Venus...

...His own estimate of the time that had gone by since the great war was of the order of 8,000 years.  He had enough data from other pits concerning the calendar system of the ancients to guess that by their reckoning, present-day Linn was existing in 12,000 A.D.     [Empire of the Atom (1956)]

12,455

...in the year 12,455, a group of star-systems near Polaris complained that Earth was too remote to appreciate their problems, and they set up an independent kingdom [The Star Kings (1949)].

13,582

...That golden shape on the golden steps shook and fluttered like a bird gone mad - like a bird imbued with an intellect and a soul, and, nevertheless, driven mad by ecstasies and terrors beyond human understanding.  A thousand worlds watched. 

Had the ancient calendar continued, this would have been A.D. 13,582.  After defeat, after disappointment, after ruin and reconstruction, mankind had leaped among the stars.

Out of the shock of meeting inhuman art, of confronting non-human dances, mankind had made a superb esthetic effort and had leaped upon the stage of all the worlds.

The golden steps reeled.  Some eyes that watched had retinas.  Some had crystalline cones.  Yet all eyes were fixed upon the golden shape which interpreted "The Glory and Affirmation of Man" in the Inter-World Dance Festival of what might have been A.D. 13,582....

[No, No, Not Rogov! (1959)]

15,862   

...it only made matters worse when someone in the computing section worked out the future history of our errant freighter.  You see, nothing is ever really lost in space.  Once you've calculated its orbit, you know where it is until the end of eternity.  As we watched our lounge, our library, our games, our mail receding to the far horizons of the solar system, we knew that it would all come back one day, in perfect condition.  If we have a ship standing by it will be easy to intercept it the second time it comes round the sun - quite early in the spring of the year A.D. 15,862.    [Special Delivery (1957)]

21,000  

The Earth's lands turn into soft mud and become uninhabitable [The Winged Man (1944)].

24,999   

The US nuclear submarine Sea Serpent arrives in this year, having been snatched from the 20th century [The Winged Man (1944)].

27,346

Start-date of "The Empire of Lyceus II" as reported by Possessor Kingston Craig in the Palace of Eternity [The Search (1943)].

27,378

End-date of the Empire of Lyceus II, A.D.27,346-27,378 [The Search (1943)].

29,940

28th or 29th March 29,940: starting point for the time-sortie of The Machine-Man of Ardathia (1927).

"...If I am not mistaken in my calculations, you are thirty thousand years in the past.  What date is this?"

"June 5th, 1939," I replied, feebly.  The creature went through some contortions, sorted a few metal tubes with its hands, and then announced in its metallic voice:

"Computed in terms of your method of reckoning, I have travelled back through time exactly twenty-eight thousand years, nine months, three weeks, two days, seven hours, and a certain number of minutes and seconds which it is useless for me to enumerate exactly."

33,885   

From Seeker of Tomorrow (1937), regarding the cataclysmic events of 33,885 A.D:

...The Invader, we were informed, was a planet about twice the size of Jupiter, which had come through interstellar space, cleaved a path through the solar system and vanished into the cosmos.  It passed between the orbits of Mars and the asteroid belt, its influence upsetting the normal balance of half the system, making the paths of the asteroids, Mars and Earth much more eccentric, capturing and taking with it two members of the Trojans group of asteroids... 

34,656

From Seeker of Tomorrow (1937):

'...I rubbed my eyes and looked again.  Standing beside the bed, his face expressive of kindly solicitude, was a bald-headed man garbed in rompers of brilliant hue....

'"You are within my house situated in the city of Leamore," he answered in a pleasantly modulated voice, "and the year is 772 by the new reckoning, or 34656 by the old.  You have leaped a chasm of time representing about thirty-two thousand years!"

39,000

By 39,000 the kingdoms of Lyra, Cygnus, and the Baronies of the great Hercules Cluster had declared independence from the Mid-Galactic Empire [The Star Kings (1949)].

62,339

For convenience the government of the Mid-Galactic Empire is shifted from Earth to a world of Canopus [The Star Kings (1949)].

129,411

The Mid-Galactic Empire takes the lead of the star-kingdoms when the galaxy is suddenly invaded by alien and powerful creatures from the Magellanic [The Star Kings (1949)].

202,115

John Gordon, of 20th century Earth, accepts a mind-swap with Zarth Arn, prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire [The Star Kings (1949)].

500,000  

...The year 500,000.  Man had disappeared from the planet Earth, and no longer occupied a position anywhere in the evolution of the universe.  Yet many traces of him remained, and his influence persisted... 

...interplanetary wars had weakened the race...  Man survived on Saturn only through hybrid amalgamation with the conquerors...  [Finality Unlimited (1936)]

800,768   

...He must get a little more power out of the motor, or they would crash to their deaths in a few minutes!  A fine ending for their daring dash to Jupiter - the first space flight since the great comet swarm of 800,768 A.D.  [The Metal Moon (1932)]

802,701

The year the Time Traveller emerged into a far-future England divided between the Eloi and the Morlocks - as narrated in The Time Machine (1895).

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