February 3 – The US announces it is tracking alleged Chinese spy balloons over the Americas, later announcing that the balloons did not collect any information. One balloon drifts from Yukon to South Carolina before being shot down the next day, and a second hovers over Colombia and Brazil. This event is followed by subsequent detections and shootdowns of high-altitude objects elsewhere.
February 6 – A 7.8 Mwwearthquake strikes southern and central Turkey and northern and western Syria followed by a 7.7 Mww aftershock on the same day, causing widespread damage and at more than 59,000 fatalities and 121,000 injured.
August 8 – 2023 Hawaii wildfires: 17,000 acres of land are burned and at least 101 people are killed, with two others missing, when a series of wildfires break out on the island of Maui in Hawaii
September 26 – Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Maria in 2017, makes landfall in Florida as a category four hurricane. It has a death toll of 236 and leaves more than 685 missing.
August 4 – The Beirut explosion : At least 220 people are killed and 5000 injured when two explosions occur in the Lebanese capital Beirut. Lebanese authorities say that large quantities of ammonium nitrate stored in a hangar building in the city’s port caused the explosion.
December 8 – COVID-19 pandemic: The United Kingdom becomes the first nation to begin a mass inoculation campaign using a clinically authorised, fully tested vaccine, Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. Margaret Keenan, 90, becomes the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer vaccine after trials.
September 15 – In Sweden, M, KD, L and SD declare themselves the victors in the parliamentary election after the preliminary vote count has been completed. Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson admits defeat and requests to be dismissed from her post.
October 14 – The Tidö agreement between the Riksdag parties Christian Democrats, Liberals, Moderates and Sweden Democrats is presented
April 11 to May 19 – 2019 Indian general election: Narendra Modi secures a landslide victory, with his party BJP alone gaining 303 of the 543 seats in parliament, and his political alliance winning 353 seats of the 543
October 18 – Riots in Chilean capital city Santiago erupt as civil unrest escalated as a reaction to a series of economic measures and Government’s declarations labeled as abuse by protesters
October 25 – Tourists visit the summit of Uluru (also known as Ayers Rock) for the last time, as a ban on climbing the famous rock in Australia’s Northern Territory comes into effect
June 3 – London Bridge attack: Eight people are murdered and dozens of civilians are wounded by Islamist terrorists. Three of the attackers are shot dead by the police. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
August 17 – 2017 Barcelona attacks: 22-year-old Younes Abouyaaqoub drives a van into pedestrians on La Rambla in Barcelona, killing 13 people and injuring at least 130 others.
February 1 – The World Health Organization classifies the spread of the Zika virus. as an international emergency. The last time it happened was during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014.
September 19 – In Sweden, elections are held for the Riksdag, the county councils and the municipalities. The incumbent bourgeois government coalition, the Alliance, becomes the largest bloc, but does not get its own majority. The Sweden Democrats are elected for the first time and are given a leading role in Sweden’s Riksdag, which thus for the first time has eight parties.
October 7 – The Juholt affair: The party leader of the Swedish Social Democrats, Håkan Juholt, is found to have charged too much allowance for his overnight apartment.
February 15 – A meteor explodes over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, injuring 1,489–1,492 people and damaging over 4,300 buildings. It is the most powerful meteor to strike Earth’s atmosphere in over a century. The incident, along with a coincidental flyby of a larger asteroid, prompts international
March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the nameFrancis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
September 26-December 15 – Hong Kong protests: Benny Tai Yiu-ting announces that Occupy Central is launched as Hong Kong’s government headquarters is being occupied by thousands of protesters. Hong Kong police resort to tear gas to disperse protesters but thousands remain.
October 19 – Comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) makes a very close approach to Mars and is observed via surface rovers and satellites.
October 31 – A spacecraft of the model SpaceShipTwo crash lands. One person dies.
November 12
The uncrewed Rosetta spacecraft‘s Philae probe successfully lands on Comet 67P, the first time in history that a spacecraft has landed on such an object.
December 27 – The December December agreement the Löfven I Cabinet and the Alliance is presented, and Stefan Löfven therefore announces that extra elections will not be called in 2015.
October 22 – Four are killed after a knife knife attack at a school in Trollhättan in Sweden. The dead are a student, a student assistant, a teacher (who died on December 4 of the same year) and the perpetrator Anton Lundin Pettersson himself.
October 31 – Metrojet Flight 9268, an Airbus A321 airliner en route to Saint Petersburg from Sharm el-Sheikh, crashes near Al-Hasana in Sinai, killing all 217 passengers and 7 crew members on board. Later investigations revealed a bomb was likely responsible for the crash with Islamic State being the primary suspect.
April 16 – Virginia tech massacre: 23 year-old Seung-Hui Cho fatally shot 32 people and injured 17 others. He used two semi-automatic pistols to kill them and killed himself as police arrived on the scene.
November 27 – A peace summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is held in Annapolis, Maryland,USA in the presence of US President George W. Bush.
14 June – The EU-summit in Gothenburg begins. On the same weekend, there are several large demonstrations against the meeting. Riots break out at some of the demonstrations. During the so-called Gothenburg Riots (June 14 – 16), approximately 1,000 people are taken into custody by the police and 80 are taken to hospital. Shops and public places are destroyed. A young man is shot by the police and is seriously injured, but survives. US President George W. Bush visits Sweden during the summit, which is the first time a sitting US president has visited the country.
February 4 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is renamed to “Serbia and Montenegro” (after its two constituent states) after its leaders reconstitute the country into a loose state-union between Montenegro and Serbia, marking an end to the 73-year-long use of the name “Yugoslavia” by a sovereign state.
May 1 – The European Union expands by 10 new member states: Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
June 3 – Montenegro declares its independence from Serbia and Montenegro after a May 21referendum and becomes a sovereign state. Two days later, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro officially disbands after Serbia declares its independence as well, ending an 88-year union between the two countries and leaving Serbia as the successor country to the union
July 12 – Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing three others. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel two days later.
April 29 – Los Angeles riots: The acquittal of four police officers in the Rodney King beating criminal trial triggers massive rioting in Los Angeles. The riots will last for six days resulting in 63 deaths and over $1 billion in damages before order is restored by the military.
August 25 – The Sámi Parliament holds its first meeting. The Thing shall “monitor issues relating to Sami culture in Sweden”.
September 13 – Oslo I Accord: Following initially secret talks from earlier in the year, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington, D.C. after signing a peace accord.
May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers more than seven years to complete, officially opens between England and France; it will enable passengers to travel by rail between the two countries in 35 minutes.
December 1 – The Höga Kusten Bridge is inaugurated north of Härnösand in Sweden, and will be Sweden’s longest suspension bridge
December 19 – The movie Titanic has premiered in cinemas.
1998 AD
January 1 – The Västra Götaland County is formed by a merger of the more than 300-year-old counties of Skaraborg, Älvsborg County and Gothenburg County and Bohus County. However, two of Skaraborg County’s municipalities, Habo municipalities and Mullsjö municipalities, were transferred to Jönköping County.
June 10-13 – European Parliament election, turnout is record low in several countries, for example Sweden. The Liberal People’s Party is reaping successes that are considered to be due to Marit Paulsen
August – The gay, bi and trans festival Stockholm Pride is organized for the first time.
December 20 – Handover of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People’s Republic of China after 442 years of Portuguese rule in the settlement.
April 26 – Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union “killed at least 4,056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property”.Radioactive fallout from the accident is concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people are forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, “traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere”.
November 9 – Cold War and Fall of the Berlin Wall: Günter Schabowski accidentally states in a live broadcast press conference that new rules for traveling from East Germany to West Germany will be put in effect “immediately”. Late this evening, East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades. In the first week, travel visas will be issued to around 25% of the East German population.
June 8 – The 1990 FIFA World Cup begins in Italy. This was the first broadcast of digital HDTV in history; Europe would not begin HDTV broadcasting en masse until 2004.
November 12 – Pop duo Milli Vanilli, consisting of Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, are being revealed after it was revealed that they are not the real singers on the studio recording of their Grammy-nominated album, in fact it was others who sang the tunes on record.
August 25 – November 18 – Battle of Vukovar is War of 1991 with Yugoslavia Wars
September 15 – The Swedish general election, Carl Bildt wins. the Moderates advance together with the Christian Democrats and New Democracy.
September 24 – Nirvana breaks through, when they release the album Nevermind, which becomes one of the most famous and successful albums ever. The song Smells Like Teen Spirit is on the album and becomes the symbol of generation X. This is also the beginning of a great time for the grunge rock style.
Fry’s era is referred to as the Stupid Ages more than once in the series. No dates are given, but the 20th century seems stupid enough to me (Alternate First)
Josh Gedgie’s winning science experiment is launched into space. Years later, it will be dumped on Saturn‘s dump moon. (Possibly for Alternate First)
February 13–28 – The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada/What Hermes will later describe as a “legendary Jamaican bobsled team” first competes in the Winter Olympics. This is historical fact, which is not to be confused with the slightly fictionalised account given in the movie Cool Runnings.
1989 AD
June 16 – The film Ghostbusters II is released, tarnishing the previously well-regarded Ghostbusters franchise. (“This number has been lame since 1989”)
Applied Cryogenics experiences their penultimate power failure (Alternate First)
1991 AD
The Internet commences robbing people of their privacy (6ACV03). This is actually the date Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.
1992 AD
Date of manufacture of the green Latura in the Past-O-Rama exhibit. (Alternate First)
Fry scrawls a picture of himself on a rocket (Possibly Alternate First)
1995 AD to 1998 AD
Fry is unemployed. “I haven’t had time off since I was twenty-one through twenty-four!” (Possibly Alternate First)
1997 AD
Last known power failure at Applied Cryogenics/Applied Cryogenics: No power failures since 1997″. Despite this failure and the previous one, Applied Cryogenics will actually maintain continuous power – or at least avoid critical outages – through war, barbarism and alien invasions for the next 1003 years. (Alternate First)
HAL 9000, the subject of Calculon’s one-man show HAL 9000, comes online in Urbana, Illinois. (Alternate First)
Date on the last existing can of anchovies (“Angry Norwegian Anchovies” brand) in the year 3000. (Alternate Fisrt)
August – Fry finds Seymour in a New York street after a pizza delivery to “Seymour Asses” which turned out to be a crank call. (Possibly Alternate First)
Nibbler is assigned as Supreme Fuzzler for a Nibblonian scientific outpost on the planet Vergon VI, where he will remain assigned for a further thousand years. Over the following centuries, Nibblonians consume many of the planet’s animal inhabitants and gradually fill the planet’s core with dark matter. (Alternate First)
Fry’s bank account is left with a balance of 93 cents which, after one thousand years of gathering interest, becomes $4.3 billion. (Possibly Alternate First)
Decemder 31 (Possibly Alternate First)
9:00am – Fry wakes up
10:00pm – After dinner, Fry leaves his family’s house for work at Panucci’s/Fry wasn’t at his house after 10:00pm according to Farnsworth in this episode.
evening – Nibbler orders a pizza to be delivered to Applied Cryogenics, using the pseudonym I. C. Weiner.
11:35pm – Fry leaves Panucci’s to deliver Nibbler’s pizza, leaving Seymour to wait for him outside. This scene occurs in more than one episode, but “Jurassic Bark” is the first time a clock is visible.
11:??pm – Nibbler’s chauffeur, Digby, lands them on the roof of Applied Cryogenics.
slightly before midnight – Nibbler hides underneath the desk that Fry will sit at as the new millennium rolls in, intending to deliberately make Fry fall in the cryogenics tube, so that in the future (specifically, the episode “The Why Of Fry”) he can defeat the evil brains on behalf of all intelligent life. An alternate version of Fry arrives from an alternate future in which he failed to defeat the brains. He delivers to Nibbler the dire warning, “Scootie-Puff Junior sucks!” before disappearing. The alternate Fry’s interference has no lasting effect on the timeline until the events of “The Why Of Fry” in 3002 or so.
11:58pm – Two minutes to midnight, Fry boards the elevator to the Applied Cryogenics floor
(presumably early) Baywatch: The Movie becomes the first movie shot entirely in slow-motion, and wins Pamela Anderson the Oscar. (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)
Atlanta moves offshore, but after over-developing, sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and is lost until the early 31st century (Alternate First)
Nibbler’s plan proceeds: Fry falls backwards into a cryogenic chamber. At that exact instant, Digby (who is also in the room) remembers that he left his spacecraft on the roof unlocked, and locks it remotely using his key fob. These four musical tones and the response from the ship are the last things Fry hears before being frozen.
Seconds into the new year, Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen due to the actions of Lord Nibbler/his future self.
Digby and Nibbler, now drunk, lose their keys and are forced to take a taxi back to Vergon 6, leaving their spaceship parked on the Applied Cryogenics roof.
2 January -Seymour waits for Fry outside Panucci’s Pizza.
A barge filled with New York’sgarbage starts floating around the oceans of Earth for 50 years, as no country will take it, not even “that really filthy one” (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)
Fry gets a job at an aquarium working with a rare narwhal called Leelu. (Alternate First)
2005 AD
October 20 – Yancy Fry Jr marries an unnamed woman (Possibly Alternate First)
Between ~2005 and 2007?
Philip J. Fry’s nephew, also named Philip Fry honour of his uncle, is born to Yancy Fry and his wife. (Philip Fry Jr appears to be roughly five to seven years old when Bender accosts him in 2012.) (Alternate First)
In the original timeline, Philip Fry Jr is named because the original Philip Fry disappeared in 2000 and Yancy Fry misses him. In the current revision of the timeline, this is no longer true, but this paradox is seamlessly resolved by the Time Code. (Alternate First)
2006 AD
Britney Spears becomes queen of something. (Possibly Alternate First)
Wearing a sink plunger on his head as a horn, Fry-B duels with Leelu. (Alternate First)
February 3 – Philip J. Fry II (Fry’s nephew and simultaneously his great-grandson) is born. He is destined to be the 1st man on Mars and one of the 21st century’s greatest celebrities. (Possibly Alternate First)
2008 AD
January 15 – A Suicide Booth is built in New York (Alternate First)
Fry-B plays with Leelu on a rubber raft in her tank, which she punctures (Alternate First)
Creation of the “infinitely priceless thousand-year-old brandy”, later involved in Bender’s initiation ceremony into the League of Robots (Alternate First)
2010 AD
July 31 – Leelu is released back into the sea. (Alternate First)
August 4 – Depressed, Lars Fillmore hires Leroy’s fishing boat to take him to the North Pole to find her. (Alternate First)
The Loch Ness monster is revealed to be a log with a Halloween mask stapled to it. (Alternate First)
Leelu is released into the wild and Fry searches for her with Mr. Panucci‘s cousinLeroy. (Alternate First)
September 22 – The command council of Iraq orders its army to “deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets”, initiating the Iran–Iraq War.
1981 AD
Mars 12 – Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1979 and 1990 and was one of the most influential figures in European politics during the 1980s
September 3 – At 05:00, Sweden switches to right-hand traffic after several years of preparation and road safety propaganda. The preparations took four years, and cost around SEK 600 million. The traffic diversion is monitored by 8,000 police and conscripts, and during the transition night 20,000 people work to adapt 350,000 road traffic signs for right-hand traffic
