2010 AD

• January 4 – The tallest man-made structure to date, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is officially opened.
• February 12 – 28 – The 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada.
• April 10 – The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, is among 96 killed when their airplane crashes near Smolensk, Russia.
• April 20 – The Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers. The resulting Horizon oil spill, one of the largest in history, spreads for several months, damaging the waters and the United States coastline, and prompting international debate and doubt about the practice and procedures of offshore drilling.
• May 25 – 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 takes place in Oslo, Norway, and is won by German entrant Lena with the song “Satellite“.
• May 12 – Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board.
• June 11 – July 11 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup is held in South Africa, and is won by Spain.
• June 19 – Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling Westling are getting married
• August 5 – A mine landslide at the San José Mine in Chile’s Atacama Desert results in 33 miners being trapped 700 meters underground
• August 10 – The World Health Organization declares the H1N1 influenza pandemic over, saying worldwide flu activity has returned to typical seasonal patterns.
• August 28 – The Bothnia Line railway line in northern Sweden is inaugurated after 11 years of construction
• September 19 – 2010 Swedish general election
• 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.
• December 11 – A suicide bomber blows himself and his car kblows himdelf and his car up in central Stockholm.

2011 AD

• January 15 – The result of the South Sudanese independence referendum, 2011 is in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July.
• May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, was killed on May 2, 2011 during an American military operation in Pakistan.
• July 22 – In Norway, Anders Behring Breivik kills 8 people in a bomb blast which targeted government buildings in central Oslo, then kills 69 at a massacre at a Workers’ Youth League camp on the island of Utøya.
• August 6-11 – The England riots are ongoing.
• 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.

2012 AD

• May 22–26 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan, and is won by Swedish entrant Loreen with the song “Euphoria“.
• June 8 – UEFA Euro 2012, hosted by Poland and Ukraine, begins in Warsaw, with a match between Poland and Greece, which ends 1-1.
• June 17 – Snap legislative elections are held in Greece, following failure to form a government, to elect all 300 members of the Hellenic Parliament and the New Democracy party, led by Antonis Samaras, comes out as the largest party winning 129 out of 300 seats.
• July 1-3 – Shifang protest
• July 4 – EU:s högsta byggnad, Shard London Bridge, invigs i London i Storbritannien.
• July 27–August 12 – The 2012 Summer Olympics are held in London, England, United Kingdom.
• The Eropean Union‘s tallest building, the The Shard London Bridge, is inaugurated in London, United Kingdom.
• September 7 – The Jondal Tunnel is inaugurated in Norway.
• October 25 – the Emporia shopping center is inaugurated in the Hyllie area in Malmö.
• November 6 – 2012 United States presidential election: Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States, defeating his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
• December 16 – Delhi gang rape and murder

2013 AD

• 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 name Francis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.
• April 15 – Boston Marathon bombing: Two Chechnya-born Islamist brothers (one a United States citizen) detonate 2 bombs at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others
• April 24 – The 2013 Savar building collapse, one of the worst industrial disasters in the world, kills 1,134 people in Bangladesh.
• May 14–18 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 takes place in Malmö, Sweden, and is won by Danish entrant Emmelie de Forest with the song “Only Teardrops“.
• May 19 – The riots in Stockholm riots 2013 starting in Husby start with over 100 cars on fire the first night. Lasts another five nights.
• June 8 – Wedding of  Princess Madeleine and Christopher O’Neill 
• July 1 – Croatia becomes the 28th member of the European Union.
• July 10-28 – UEFA Women’s Euro 2013 takes place in Sweden.
• July 24 – Santiago de Compostela derailment
• September 4-5 – Barack Obama visits Stockholm.

2014 AD

• January 1 – Latvia adopts the euro as its currency and becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone.
• February 7–23 – The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia.[6] Slopestyle events are introduced for the first time.
• February 22 – Revolution of Dignity: The Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) votes to remove President Viktor Yanukovych from office, replacing him with Oleksandr Turchynov,
• February 27 – Russo-Ukrainian War begins
• March 8 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 airliner en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur, disappears over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 people on board. The aircraft is presumed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean.
• April 12 – War in Donbas begins
• May 6–10 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is won by Austrian entrant Conchita Wurst with the song “Rise Like a Phoenix“.
• May 16 – Second Libyan civil war begins
• June – Western African Ebola virus epidemic
• Princess Leonore makes her debut with her parents at Stockholm Palace on June 6, 2014.
• June 12 – July 13 – FIFA World Cup
• July 8–August 26 – Amid growing tensions between Israel and Hamas following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June and the revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in July, Israel launches Operation Protective Edge against Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip starting with numerous missile strikes,[40] followed by a ground offensive a week later.[41] In seven weeks of fighting, 2,100 Palestinians and 71 Israelis are killed.
• July 28 – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: 100-year anniversary of World War I‘s commencement (Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia). (Flashback Only)
• September 14 – Riksdag, county council and municipal elections in Sweden. The red-greens will be bigger than the Alliance. The Sweden Democrats become the third largest party.
• September 18 – In the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Scotland votes against independence from the United Kingdom
• September 22 – NASA‘s probe MAVEN enters orbit around Mars  and will study the planet´s atmosphere.
• 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 17 – A submarine hunt for Russian submarines began in the Stockholm archipelago.
• 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.
  • The Atacama Large Millimeter Array shows a protoplanetary disk around the star HL Tauri.
• November 30 – The city motorway Norra länken is inaugurated in Stockholm.
• December 18 – Sundsvall Bridge is inaugurated.
• 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.

2015 AD

• January 7 – Two gunmen belonging to Al-Qaeda‘s Yemen branch kill 12 people and injure 11 more at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, prompting an anti-terrorism demonstration attended by over a million people and more than 40 world leaders.
• January 27 – International Holocaust Remembrance Day is celebrated worldwide, on the day 70 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• February 27 – Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
• March 24 – An Airbus A320-211 operated by Germanwings is deliberately crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
• May 19–23 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is held in Vienna, Austria, and is won by Swedish entrant Måns Zelmerlöw with the song “Heroes“.
• June 13 – Wedding of Prince Carl Philip and Sofia Hellqvist
• September – European migrant crisis
• 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.
• November 13 – Multiple terrorist attacks claimed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Paris, France, result in 130 fatalities.
• December 8 -The Hallandsås Tunnel is inaugurated.

2007 AD

• Jaunary 1
  • Bulgaria and Romania join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eurozone
  • In Denmark, a municipal reform is being carried out which means that the 16 counties will be abolished and replaced by five regions.
  • Ban Ki-moon from South Korea takes office as UN Secretary-General.
• 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.
• May 10–12 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 takes place in Helsinki, Finland, and is won by Serbian entrant Marija Šerifović with the song “Molitva“.
• June 5
  • NASA‘s MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus on route to Mercury.
  • A truck crashes into a train at a level crossing in Kerang, Australia, killing eleven.
• June 29 – In Berlin, Denmark and Germany sign a letter of intent to build a bridge over the Fehmarn Belt.
• June 30 – 2007 Glasgow Airport attack
• July 7 – Live Earth Concerts are held in nine major cities around the world to raise environmental awareness.
• August 1 – The I-35 Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota in the USA collapses, killing around ten people.
• August 15 – Saffron Revolution begins
• 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.

2008 AD

• February 17 – Kosovo formally declares independence from Serbia, to a mixed response from the international community
• April 27 – The Fritzl case is noted in Amstetten, Austria.
• May 20–24 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 takes place in Belgrade, Serbia, and is won by Russian entrant Dima Bilan with the song “Believe“.
• June 7–29 – Austria and Switzerland jointly host the UEFA Euro 2008 football tournament, which is won by Spain.
• August 1-16 – Russo-Georgian war.
• August 20 – Spanair Flight 5022 crashes at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 154 people on board.
• November 4 – 2008 United States presidential election: Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama defeats Republican candidate John McCain and is elected the 44th President of the United States, making him the first African-American to be elected to the office.
• November 26-29 – 2008 Mumbai attacks

2009 AD

• January 18 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept the Israel Defense Forces offer of a ceasefire, ending the conflict.
• January 20 – Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, becoming the first African-American to hold the office.
• April 30 – Attack on the Dutch royal family
• June 1 – Air France Flight 447, en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board.
• June 4-7 – The 2009 European Parliament election is held. The EPP wins
• June 11 – The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain, commonly referred to as “swine flu”, is deemed a global pandemic.
• July 17 – Two bombs exploded separately at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 9 people (including 2 suicide bombers) and injuring 53.
• September 23 – Västberga helicopter robbery
• December 1 – The Treaty of Lisbon comes into force.
• December 18 –James Cameron‘s film Avatar, soon to become the highest-grossing film of all time, has its world premiere.
• December 31 – Sello mall shooting

2000 AD

• January 1 – The Church of Sweden separates from the Swedish state. 
• May 13 – A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede, Netherlands, kills 23.
• July 1 – The Öresund Bridge is inaugurated and opened to traffic.
• August 12 – August 12 – The Russian submarine Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea during one of the largest Russian naval exercises since the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
• September 15 – October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, is the first Olympic Games of the 2000s.
• October 7 – Resignation of Yugoslavia‘s president Slobodan Milošević.
• November 7 – The 2000 United States presidential election:

2001 AD

• January 15 – Wikipedia is launched
• January 20 – George W. Bush, a former governor of Texas, is sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States.
• 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.
• September 11 – Approximately 2,977 victims are killed or fatally injured in the September 11 attacks after American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 are hijacked and crash into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, American Airlines Flight 77 is hijacked and crashes into the Pentagon, and United Airlines Flight 93 is hijacked and crashes into grassland in Shanksville, Pennsylvania as a result of passengers fighting to regain control of the airplane. The Twin Towers collapse as a result of the crashes
• October 8 – Linate Airport disaster: A twin-engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people

2002 AD

• February 8–24 – The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
• May 20 – East Timor regains its independence after 2+1⁄2 years of United Nations administration and 26 years of occupation by Indonesia since 1975.
• May 31–June 30 – The 2002 FIFA World Cup takes place in South Korea and Japan; which is ultimately won by Brazil.
• September 15 – The Swedish general election,
• October 11 – October 11 – Myyrmanni bombing/Seven people are killed and 80 injured in a bombing at a shopping center in Vantaa, Finland

2003 AD

• February 1 – At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
• 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.
• March 20 – The Iraq War begins with the invasion of Iraq by the U.S. and allied forces.
• May 16 – 2003 Casablanca bombings: Islamist militants affiliated with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb carry out a series of suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco, killing at least 41 people.
• August 29 – The IP telephony company Skype is founded.
• September 11 – Anna Lindh dies at 5:29 a.m. from the injuries she received in the knife attack the day before.
• September 14 – 2003 Swedish euro referendum
• September 27 – Landskrona’s trolley bus line is inaugurated.
• October 17 – The “Taipei 101” skyscraper in Taipei officially reaches a height of 508 meters, making it the world’s tallest building.

2004 AD

• February 4 – Mark Zuckerberg launches “TheFacebook”, later renamed to Facebook, a social networking website for Harvard University students
• March 11 – Al-Qaeda bombings on Cercanías trains in Madrid, Spain, kill at least 192 people.
• 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 12–July 4 – Portugal hosts the UEFA Euro 2004 football tournament, which is won by Greece.
• August 13–29 – The 2004 Summer Olympics are held in Athens, Greece.
• November 2 – 2004 United States presidential election: George W. Bush is re-elected President of the United States, defeating his Democratic challenger John Kerry.
• November 22 – The Orange Revolution begins, following a disputed presidential election in Ukraine where Viktor Yanukovych won against Viktor Yushchenko amid accusations of electoral fraud. A revote results in Yushchenko being declared the winner.

2005 AD

• February 14 – YouTube, an American online video sharing and social media platform was launched by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim headquartered in San Bruno, California.
• July 7 – Four coordinated suicide bombings hit central London, killing 52 people and injuring over 700.
• October 27 – November 16 – French riots

2006 AD

• February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.
• May 18–20 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 takes place in Athens, Greece, and is won by Finnish band entrant Lordi with the song “Hard Rock Hallelujah“.
• June 3 – Montenegro declares its independence from Serbia and Montenegro after a May 21 referendum 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
• June 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup takes place in Germany; Italy defeats France in the final.
• 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.
• August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines ‘planet‘ at its 26th General Assembly, removing Pluto‘s status as a planet and reclassifying it as a dwarf planet 76 years after its discovery. Ironically, this was in the same year when NASA sent its first probe to the celestial body.
• September 17 – In Sweden, elections are held for municipalities, county councils and the Riksdag.
• December 2 – Nintendo launches the Wii home video game console in Japan.
• December 10–22 – Christer Fuglesang becomes the first Swede in space, when he goes with the US space shuttle Discovery (mission STS-116).

1992 AD

• February 7 – The Maastricht Treaty is signed, founding the European Union.
• February 8 – The opening ceremony for the 1992 Winter Olympics is held in Albertville, France.
• March 1 – The first victims of the Bosnian War are a Serb bridegroom’s father and an Orthodox priest in a Sarajevo shooting. In the Bosnian independence referendum, held from February 29 to March 1 and boycotted by Bosnian Serbs, the majority of the Bosniak and Bosnian Croat communities have voted for Bosnia-Herzegovina‘s independence.
• March 12 – The tram accident at Vasaplatsen in Gothenburg
• March 23 – Sierra Leone Civil War begins
• April 5 – Bosnian War: Serb troops, following a mass rebellion of Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina against the Bosnian declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, besiege the city of Sarajevo.
• 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.
• July 25–August 9 – The 1992 Summer Olympics are held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
• November 3 – In the 1992 United States presidential election, Democratic Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican President George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.

1993 AD

• January 1 – Czechoslovakia ceases to exist, as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the Dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
• February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six people and injuring over one thousand.
• December 31 – Georgian Civil War ends
• April 19 – Waco siege: A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
• May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
• June 25 – Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.
• 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.
• November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
• December 2 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down by police.
• December 16 – Macedonia becomes independent from Yugoslavia.

1994 AD

• February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.
• April 7 – July 19 – Rwandan genocide
• April 26 – Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
• 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.
• May 12 – First Nagorno-Karabakh War ends
• June 17
  • NFL star O. J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in a white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson’s Brentwood, Los Angeles mansion, where he surrenders.
  • The 1994 FIFA World Cup starts in the United States.
• July 17 – Brazil wins the 1994 FIFA World Cup, defeating Italy 3–2 in a penalty shootout in the final (full-time 0–0).
• September 18 – In The  Swedish general election, Ingvar Carlsson defeat Carl Bildt
• September 28 – The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
• October 1 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council.
• December 4 – The Stureplan murders
• December 11 – First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin orders troops into Chechnya.

1995 AD

• January 1 – Austria, Finland and Sweden join the European Union.
• January 17 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake strikes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan with a maximum Shindo of 7, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
• April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy
• August 24 – Windows 95 is launched by Microsoft.
• October 3 – Murder trial of O. J. Simpson: Former American Football star O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder in a criminal trial for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
• November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
• December 14 – The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris, officially ending the Bosnian War.

1996 AD

• July 19 – The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States/August 4 – The 1996 Summer Olympics conclude.
• September 19 – The American Space Shuttle Atlantis Docks with the Russian Space station Mir.
• November 5 – 1996 United States presidential election: Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeats his Republican challenger, Bob Dole and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot.
• December 13 – Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is elected by the United Nations Security Council the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.

1997 AD

• Zuban invasion of New York City in Planet Earth for the next 1003 years. (Alternate First)
• January 1 – Malmöhus County and Kristianstad County are merged into Skåne County
• January 25–April 15 – Albania suffers severe riots and teeters on the brink of civil war
• May 23 – The landslide in Vagnhärad: Five villas in Vagnhärad slide into the Trosaån. 33 houses are being emptied due to continued landslide risk
• May 1 – Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as the Labour Party wins the 1997 United Kingdom general election and returns to government for the first time in 18 years.
• July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
• August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales, is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l’Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am.
• October 2 – The EU’s new “constitution” the Treaty of Amsterdam is signed
• October 27 – Stock market declines trigger the Asian financial crisis.
• 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.
• January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton‘s alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the House of Representatives‘ impeachment of him.
• February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
• April 10 – Good Friday Agreement: An hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
• June 3 – Eschede train disaster: an Intercity-Express high-speed train derails between Hanover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
• June 10–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
• September 20 – In The 1998 Swedish general election. Göran Persson Wins
• 7 October – Oslo‘s new airport Gardermoen is inaugurated.
• October 30 – Gothenburg discothèque fire
• 6 December – Gävle is hit by a violent snowstorm. Schools are closed and residents are asked to stay indoors.

1999 AD

• April – Digital terrestrial television was launched in Sweden
• April 1 – Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories to become Canada’s third territory.
• April 20 – Columbine High School massacre:
• June 10 – Kosovo War and NATO bombing of Yugoslavia: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Yugoslav forces from Kosovo.
• 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.
• December 31 – Boris Yeltsin resigns as president of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting president.

1986 AD

• The Bread machine was popular in the late 1980s.
• February 28 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot to death on his way home from the cinema in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 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”.

1987 AD

• June 11 – The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected for a third term at the 1987 general election.

1988 AD

• August 8 – Iran–Iraq War ends

1989 AD

• June 4 – 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre: A violent military crackdown takes place on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
• 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.
• December 16- 25 – Romanian revolution

1990 AD

• January 19-20 – Black January
• April 7 – MS Scandinavian Star, a Bahamas-registered ferry, catches fire en route from Norway to Denmark, leaving 158 dead.
• April 24 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.
• May 22 – Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.
• 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.
• August 2 – Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
• September 4 – Traffic with X 2000 trains begins in Sweden.
• October 3 – Cold War: East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.
• 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.
• December 23 – In the Slovenian independence referendum, 88.5% of the overall electorate (94.8% of votes), with the turnout of 93.3%, support independence of the country.

1991 AD

• January 13 – January Events/Singing Revolution: Soviet forces storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence, killing 14 civilians and injuring 702 more. In Latvia, a series of confrontations between the Latvian government and the Soviet government take place in Riga.
• May 21 – At Sriperumbudur, India, a suicide bomber from LTTE attacks a political meeting, killing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and at least 14 others.
• June 25 – Breakup of Yugoslavia: Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
• 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.
• October 1 – Dissolution of Yugoslavia: Forces of the Yugoslav People’s Army surround Dubrovnik, beginning the Siege of Dubrovnik, which lasts until May 31, 1992.
• December 26 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Supreme Soviet meets for the last time, formally dissolves the Soviet Union, and adjourns sine die, ending the Cold War. All remaining Soviet institutions eventually cease operation on December 31.

20th Century?

• The Stupid Ages. (Alternate First)
• 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)

1988 AD

• Fry hides his lucky seven-leaf clover from his brother. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Fry falls through the ice before ice fishing with his father and catches a cold. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Barack Obama works as a pizza delivery boy for Mr. Panucci. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Fry fails to win the Nerd Search ’88 Science Competition, which is won by Josh Gedgie. (Possibly for 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”)
• December 17 – The Simpsons debuts on the Fox Network.

Between 1990 and 1996

• 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)

1993 AD

• Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States.

1994 AD

• Fry fails to graduate from Coney Island Community College. (Possibly Alternate First)

1994 AD or 1995 AD

• 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)

1998 AD

• July – Fry’s dog Seymour Asses has become a beloved member of the Panucci’s Pizza family (Possibly Alternate First)
• Unknown – The United States Air Force launches the top-secret satellite USAF Flying Destiny, and the Federal Communications Commission launches the equally top-secret FCC V-Chip. A short time later, both satellites collide to form the planet-censoring V-GINY (Possibly Alternate First)

1999 AD

• 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 spills beer on the control console at New York FOX station WNYW, knocking Single Female Lawyer off the air. (Possibly 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
  • Fry is sent on a fake pizza delivery to I. C. Wiener at Applied Cryogenics. 
  • Fry is frozen at the stroke of midnight when pushed by Nibbler. He wakes up in the future.

2000s

• (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)
• New Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (Alternate First)

2000 AD

• January 1 (Possibly 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. 
  • Using a time code tattooed on his ass, Fry returns from the year 3007 back to New York and lives in the upstairs storage room of Panucci’s Pizza.  Bender also travels back in time to kill Fry but loses him.
  • A Bender from “way at the end” comes to put the code on Fry’s ass in the first place. 
  • Seymour sees Fry frozen in a cryogenics tube. 
  • Fry’s family calls off the search for their missing son.
  • Lord Nibbler’s mother dies.
  • 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. 
• 8 November – Bender attempts to kill someone with the same name as Fry. All of Al Gore‘s votes are destroyed after Bender accidentally shoots them causing George W. Bush to win the election. (Both Bender´s Alternate First and George W Bush´s Orginial Timeline)
• The City of New York quietly dispatches its massive garbage supply out to sea. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Wisconsin wins the Rose Bowl, 17-9. This is Fry’s mother’s strongest memory of this day. (Possibly Alternate First)
• Past-O-Rama is “like stepping back into the year 2000!” (Alternate First)

2001 AD

• The movie Jury Duty II: Trouble on the Hubble, starring Pauly Shore, is released. (Alternate First)
• Fry‘s ex-girlfriend Michelle leaves her husband and family behind and freezes herself for 265 years. (Alternate First)
• (later changed to 990 by Lars)  unaware that Fry has also been frozen. (Alternate First)
• Brain spawn use the Infosphere to start a thousand-year quest to obtain all knowledge in the universe. (Alternate First)

2002 AD

• A barge filled with New York’s garbage 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)

2003 AD

• Lucy Liu is named People magazine‘s “Sexiest Woman of the Year”. (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)

2007 AD

• Charlie’s Angels III: The Legend of Charlie’s Gold is released in cinemas. (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)
• July 17 – The Svalvard Global Seed Vault starts preserving seeds of every known plant species.
• 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 cousin Leroy. (Alternate First)

2012 AD

• Michelle Jenkins freezes her body at Applied Cryogenics. (Alternate First)
• The War of 2012 occurs. Conan O’Brien claims to having lost his legs during the conflict.
• Al Gore drives a hybrid taxi, or “hybraxi” for short. (Alternate First)
• Lars Fillmore hitches a ride with Michelle for 990 years. (Alternate First)
• Fry locates Leelu and nearly takes her home, but releases her after realizing she is with a male narwhal. (Alternate First)
• Bender visits the second Philip J. Fry and attempts to kill him. (Alternate First)
• Fry returns from his trans-Arctic voyage. (Alternate First)
• Bender blows up Panucci’s Pizza, which causes Fry‘s time duplicate to become Lars Fillmore and ends up flash-fossilizing Seymour Asses. Bender hides under the future location of the Planet Express building for 1000 years. (Alternate First)
• Gas costs $100 a gallon. (Alternate First)
• Seymour Asses dies. (Alternate First)
• December 21 – Some people believed that the world would end (Orginial First Timeline)

2018 AD

• December 27 –  Charles Constantine dies. (Alternate First)

2019 AD

• Project Satan is created. (Alternate First)
• May 7 – The most evil car is built using many evil mechanics such as Hitler’s steering wheel. (Alternate First)
• June 20 – The Were-Car virus is first transmitted, with Calculon being its first victim (Alternate First)

1970s

• During the 1970s, environmental thinking took off in earnest, which in Sweden manifested itself, among other things, in the Green wave
• the popularity of the disco music genre and subculture peaks during the mid-to-late 1970s.
• Personal computer
• Heroin abuse starts around this time to become a big problem in the world.

1972 AD

• June 17 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee.

1973 AD

• January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam
• September 11 – Chilean coup d’état
• September 15 – King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden dies and is succeeded by his grandson Carl XVI Gustaf.

1974 AD

• April 6 – Swedish pop group ABBA‘s song “Waterloo” wins the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, UK.
• April 25 – Carnation Revolution: A left-wing military coup in Portugal restores democracy, ending 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship in the country. Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano flees to Brazil and is granted political asylum by Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel.
• July 20 – August 18 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus

1975 AD

• The Sex Pistols were one of many bands when punk rock broke through at the end of the decade.

1976 AD

• July 28 – Tangshan earthquake

1977 AD

• March 27 – Tenerife airport disaster

1978 AD

• September 17 – The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt.

1979 AD

• March 28 – Three Mile Island accident
• December 24 – The Soviet Union covertly launches its invasion of Afghanistan – 3 days later, PDPA general secretary Hafizullah Amin is executed in Operation Storm-333 and Babrak Karmal replaces him, beginning the war.

1980s

• Rubik’s Cube
• Hard rock is late 1960s

1980 AD

• March 23 – Swedish nuclear power referendum
• 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
• April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia, with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen, launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a crewed reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit
• August 1 – The first 24-hour video music channel MTV (Music Television) is launched in the United States and airs its first video, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.

1983 AD

• September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.

1985 AD

• November 13 – Armero tragedy: The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by lahars, in the town of Armero, Colombia.
• November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
• November 27 – Halley’s Comet passes Earth.

1986 AD

• January 28 – Space Shuttle Challenger disaster – STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch from the United States, killing the crew of seven astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

1947 AD

• March 12 – The Cold War begins: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed, to help stem the spread of Communism.

1950s

• Rock music took its first chords in the 1950s.
• The price of oil was low after the Second World War, and until the oil crisis of 1973.
• Increased Leisure among Teenager created youth Subculture, such as Mods
• I USA möjliggjorde den ökade bilismen och det låga bensinpriset utbredningen av fler villaförorter.
• In the United States, the increase in motoring and the low price of gasoline enabled the spread of more residential suburbs.

1950 AD

• June 25 – The Korean War begins

1952

• July 23 – The European Coal and Steel Community is established.

1953 AD

• July 26 – Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution.
• July 27 – The Korean War ends

1954 AD

• November 1 – Algerian War of Independence: The Algerian National Liberation Front begins a revolt against French rule

1956 AD

• October 23 – The Hungarian Revolution breaks out against the pro-Soviet government, originating as a student demonstration in Budapest. Hungary attempts to leave the Warsaw Pact.
• October 29 – November 7 – Suez Crisis

1957 AD

• May 27 – Governments in many countries invested a lot of money in Infrastructure. Here is the Redevelopment of Norrmalm and the construction of the Stockholm Metro in Sweden.
• October 4 – Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth

1958 AD

• 28 October – The first IKEA department store opens in Älmhult.

1959 AD

• January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.

1960 AD

• March 21 – Sharpeville massacre
• May 22 – Valdivia earthquake
• July 5 – Congo Crisis begins

1961 AD

• August 13 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 people to die at the Wall.

1962 AD

• October 16-28 –  Cuban Missile Crisis

1963 AD

• August 28 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history.
• November 22 – Assassination of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, and Governor of Texas John Connally is seriously wounded at 12:30 CST. Upon Kennedy’s death, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th president of the United States. A few hours later, President Johnson is sworn in aboard Air Force One, as Kennedy’s body is flown back to Washington, D.C. Stores and businesses shut down for the next four days, in tribute.

1964 AD

• Februaby 9 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show and thus have their breakthrough in the United States.

1965 AD

• Mrach 8
  • Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first human to complete a  Spacewalk.
  • Vietnam War: Some 3,500 United States Marines arrive in Da Nang, South Vietnam, becoming
• November 25 – Congo Crisis ends

1967 AD

• June 5-10 – Six-Day War
• 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

1968 AD

• January 5– August 21 – “Prague Spring

1969 AD

• August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.

1947 AD

• July 9 – The time-travelling Planet Express crew create the Roswell UFO incident. Zoidberg is studied and disected while Fry accidentally kills the man he believed to be his grandfather. Fry then impregnates his grandmother, becoming his own grandfather. (Alternate First)
• July 10 – Bender‘s head is left behind in this time, and it remains buried for over 1000 years. (Alternate First)

1948 AD

• Jaunray 4 or April 4 – Yancy Fry, Sr. (Philip’s father and simultaneously his son) is born. (Possibly for Alternate First)

1950 AD

• May 2 –Sherri Fry (Fry’s mother and simultaneously his daughter-in-law) is born. (Possibly for Alternate First)

1951 AD

• Pete’s TVs: “letting people watch news reports in our window since 1951” (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)

1960 AD

• August 9 – David Duchovny is supposedly born. This date is taken from Duchovny’s IMDb page. In the Futurama universe, David Duchovny is in fact the individual who will later be known as Calculon; his birth date might be a lie
• November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon, to become (at 43) the second youngest man to serve as President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.

1963 AD – 1968 AD

• Professor Farnsworth, Zoidberg and Dr. Amy Wong meet Andy Warhol here after time traveling through the effects of H2OGfat laced with Opal from Lyndon Johnson’s head. They return after a moment. (Alternate Third)

1962 AD

• While attempting to kill Hitler a second time, Farnsworth accidentally shoots into the wrong decade and kills Eleanor Roosevelt instead. (Alternate Third)

1966 AD

• 8 September – Star Trek: The Original Series debuts on NBC.
• 26 December -The first Kwanzaa is celebrated from now until 1 January, 1967.

1968 AD

• Zoidberg inspires Andy to paint a painting called ‘Unwelcome Guest‘ in 1968. (Alternate Third)

1969 AD

• Shea Stadium: “Home of the 1969 & 1986 World Champion [New York] Mets”
• 20 January –Richard Nixon is inaugurated as President of the United States of America.
• 20 July – The Lunar landing site is established after the Apollo Lunar Module reaches the Moon‘s surface.

1971 AD

• Yancy Fry, Jr. is born (Possible Alternate First)

1972 AD

• 4 September –The Price Is Right begins airing on CBS with Bob Barker as host.
• 31 December – Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve begins airing with Dick Clark as host.
• The band Devo forms (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)

1973 AD

• Computers in 3000 are twice as fast as they were in 1973 according to Richard Nixon. (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)
• Muhammed Ali faces an 80ft-tall mechanical Joe Frazier. The entire Earth is destroyed. (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)

1974 AD

• 9 April –Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run, breaking the all-time record set by Babe Ruth.
• 9 August
  • Richard Nixon officially resigns as the President of the United States of America during the Watergate scandal.
  • Gerald Ford is subsequently sworn in as President.
• 14 August – Philip J. Fry is born at Brooklyn Pre-Med Junior Hospital. (Possible Alternate First)

1975 AD

• In Leela’s dream, the Yellow Brick Road is renamed MLK Boulevard. (Maybe Alternate First)

1977 AD

• 20 January – Jimmy Carter succeeds Gerald R. Ford as the President of the United States.
• 11 March – Charles Constantine is born.
• 25 May – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is released.
• Unknown – Life in Hell is created by Matt Groening.

1979 AD

• Unknown date – The Partridge Family Lunchbox is buried (Alternate First)

1980s

• Zap Brannigan’s favourite musical era. “For me, there are only one Eighties.” (Alternate First)

1980 AD

• Unknown – Fry starts wanting a robot for a friend around this time

1984 AD

• Stricken with incurable boneitis, “that guy” (Steve Castle) is cryogenically frozen until a cure can be found.
• He’s from the 1980s, but also has certainly seen Apple’s “1984” advert. His name is revealed on the DVD commentary track for this episode.

1985 AD

• Commercials for the McDonald’s Lettuce and Tomato with the slogan “Keep the hot side hot, and the cool side cool” begin circulating. (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)

1986 AD

• Shea Stadium: “Home of the 1969 & 1986 World Champion [New York] Mets”. Since this sign appears in the year 3000+, note the oblique implication that the Mets won’t win the World Championship again for over a thousand years.

1929 AD

• March 4 – Herbert Hoover is sworn in, as the 31st president of the United States.

1930 AD

• October 12 – Legs Diamond was shot and wounded at the Hotel Monticello on Manhattan’s West Side. Two gunmen forced their way into Diamond’s room and shot him five times before fleeing. Still in his pajamas, Diamond staggered into the hallway and collapsed. When asked later by the New York Police Commissioner how he managed to walk out of the room, Diamond said he drank two shots of whiskey first. Diamond was rushed to the Polyclinic Hospital in Manhattan, where he eventually recovered/Fry, Leela, Bender and Hermes appear in a bar, in a Head trip, after Fry licked Herbert Hoover’s head. They return after getting shot at (Alternate Third)

1932 AD

• November 8 – 1932 United States presidential election: Democratic Governor of New York Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.

1933 AD

• January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independence, against the wishes of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
• March 4 – Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) is sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States, beginning his “first 100 days“. About the Great Depression, he proclaims “The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself” in his inauguration speech. It is the last time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on March 4.
• Adolf Hitler declares his proclamation of Germany.
  • In the second incarnation of the universe, Professor Farnsworth kills Hitler. (Alternate Second)
  • In the third incarnation of the universe, Professor Farnsworth misses and kills Eleanor Roosevelt by mistake. (Alternate Third)

1936 AD

• August 1-16 – The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.

1938 AD

• October 30 –  Orson Welles narrates the brilliant radio broadcast, The War Of The Worlds.

1914 AD

• February 6 – Peasant armament support march
• June 28 – Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria: Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, 19, assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Duchess Sophie, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, triggering the July Crisis overnight and eventually World War I. Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo and Zagreb break out.
• July 28
  • The official start of World War I when Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia by telegram. Tsar Nicholas II of Russia orders a partial mobilization against Austria-Hungary.
  • Henriette Caillaux, wife of French minister Joseph Caillaux, is acquitted of the murder of Gaston Calmette by reason of crime passionnel.
• September 7-14 – First Battle of the Marne
• October 19 – November 22 – First Battle of Ypres
• December 18-19 – The meeting of the Three Kings

1915 AD

• February 19 – Battle of Gallipoli
• May 7 – RMS Lusitania is Out of Service
• September 22 – The Nordic Company new department store on Hamngatan in Stockholm is inaugurated, which is of an international type. The department store has 1,500 employees, and the architect is Ferdinand Boberg. Sweden’s first escalator was later built there.
• Fry is in 1915 and has to fight in Worlds War I against the Omicronians. (Alternate First with Mexican-American Civil War)

1916 AD

• February 21 – December 18 – Battle of Verdun
• April 24-29 – Easter Rising
• July 1- November 18 – Battle of the Somme
• November 7
  • 1916 United States presidential election: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats Republican Charles Evans Hughes, when California is called a week after Election Day.
  • Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
  • Radio station 2XG, located in the Highbridge section of New York City, makes the first audio broadcast of presidential election returns.

1917 AD

• March – The Zimmermann Telegram is published in the American press.
• May – Hunger riotsk occurs in, among other things Norrköping, Gothenburg and Stockholm, why the Social Democrats and LO form a workers’ committee, to regain control over the workers.
• June 5
  • Swedish police attack suffrage demonstrators outside the Parliament House in Stockholm , where 20,000 workers are gathering for the debate on sweeping democratic reforms. The June Riots when the police block the road
  • Swedish police shock suffrage supporters on Gustav Adolfs torg in Stockholm.
• December 6 – The Senate of Finland officially declares the country’s independence from Russia.
• In 1917 Fry wins an award for saving the world and tells his story of how he did it: Fry is lost on his way to the Omicronian Empire and asks for directions, but he ends up asking the leader and is sent to P.O.W. camp. (Alternate First with Mexican-American Civil War)

1918 AD

• January 27 – May 15 – Finnish Civil War
• February – The Spanish flu
• March 3 – Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• November 11 – Remembrance Day
• December 1 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (which later becomes the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed, in particular ending Serbia’s existence as a sovereign state for the next 87 years (it would not regain its sovereignty until 2006).

1920 AD

• Philo Farnsworth works to pioneer the Television.

1923 AD

• June 16 – The storming of Ayan in Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War.

1926 AD

• Campaigns of Romanov´s effect (Alternate First)

1927 AD

• Wedding of Dimitri Floydorovich Sudayev and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna (Alternate First)
• May – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before.

1900 AD

• Gwen’s family starts making candy hearts out of earwig honey and bone meal. (Alternate First)

1904 AD

• February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.

1906 AD

• St. Petersburg, Russia, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna comforts her youngest granddaughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
• April 23 – In the Russian Empire, the Fundamental Laws are announced at the first state Duma.

1908 AD

• November 3 – 1908 United States presidential election: Republican candidate William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan,

1909 AD

• March 4 – Theodore Roosevelt steps down and William Howard Taft is inaugurated as President of the United States.

1911 AD

• May 30 – The Indy 500 is first held.

1913 AD

• March – The House of Romanov celebrates the 300th anniversary of its succession to the throne, amidst an outpouring of monarchist sentiment in Russia.

1800 AD

• Light bulb, steamboat and cotton gin invented, according to Leela. “Those are all from the nineteenth century!” Note that she’s wrong on two of the three counts; the steamboat and the cotton gin are both from the 18th century, above. (Orginial Timeline or Alternate First)

1810 AD

• October 12 – First Oktoberfest: Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

1812 AD

• January 19 – Peninsular War: The French-held fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo is stormed by the Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington.
• February 12 – Napoleon authorizes the usage of Mesures usuelles, the basis of the metric system.
• February 24 – Prussia and France sign the Treaty of Paris.
• March 14 – Prussia and Austria sign the Treaty of Paris.
• March 16–April 6 – Siege of Badajoz (Peninsular War): The Anglo-Portuguese Army, under the Earl of Wellington, besieges Badajoz, Spain and forces the surrender of the French garrison.
• March 19 – The Cortes of Cádiz creates the first modern Spanish constitution.
• May 16 – Russian field marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War (1806–12) and annexing Bessarabia to Imperial Russia.
• June 1 – War of 1812: U.S. President James Madison asks the U.S. Congress to declare war on the United Kingdom.
• June 4 – Following Louisiana‘s admittance as a U.S. state, the territory by that name is renamed the Missouri Territory.
• June 16 – New York State charters the City Bank of New York (later Citibank).
• June 18 – The War of 1812 between the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom begins with US declaration.
• June 24 – Napoleon‘s Grande Armée crosses the Neman River, and invades Russia.
• July 18 – Russia’s Patriotic War – Battle of Klyastitsy: Kulnev defeats Oudinot, but sustains a mortal wound.
• August 5 – War of 1812: Tecumseh‘s Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne‘s 200 Americans at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat
• August 12 – Peninsular War: The combined English and Portuguese army under the command of Wellington enters Madrid, following the Battle of Salamanca.
• August 15 – War of 1812 – Battle of Fort Dearborn: Potawatomi warriors overrun the United States fort in Illinois Territory.
• August 16 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit, without a fight, to the British Army.
• August 19 – War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate Guerriere, off the coast of Nova Scotia. The British shot is said to have bounced off Constitution‘s sides, earning her the nickname “Old Ironsides”.
• September 7 – Napoleonic Wars – French invasion of Russia – Battle of Borodino: The bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars ends in a tactical victory for Napoleon. There are at least 70,000 casualties, with a minimum of 6,562 dead from the French Grande Armée alone.
• September 14 – French invasion of Russia and Fire of Moscow: Napoleon‘s troops enter Moscow, which is deliberately set on fire by Muscovites, on orders of Fyodor Rostopchin. Later accounts report that France lost 40,000 troops during four days of fire between September 17 and 20, and that 20,000 Russian soldiers were killed in what would be described in 1876 as “the greatest example in history of national self-sacrifice for the destruction of an invader.
• October 9 – War of 1812: American naval forces under Lieutenant Jesse Duncan Elliott capture two British warships, HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia.
• October 12 – The capital of the Pennsylvania, United States, is permanently moved from Lancaster to Harrisburg.
• October 13 – War of 1812 – Battle of Queenston Heights: As part of the Niagara campaign in Ontario, Canada, United States forces under General Stephen Van Rensselaer are repulsed from invading Canada by British and native troops, led by Sir Isaac Brock (who dies during the battle).
• October 18–20 – Second Battle of Polotsk – Russians attack and defeat a Franco-Bavarian force in Belarus.
• October 19 – Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
• October 23 – Malet coup of 1812: General Claude François de Malet attempts unsuccessfully to overthrow the Napoleonic régime in Paris.
• October 24 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Maloyaroslavets: An inconclusive encounter between the French vanguard and a Russian force leads Napoleon to decide to retreat along the same line as his advance, with disastrous results.
• November 3 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Vyazma: The rearguard of Napoleon’s retreating army is defeated.
• November 5 – 1812 United States presidential election: James Madison defeats DeWitt Clinton.
• November 10 – 1812 United Kingdom general election: The Tory Party is victorious, under Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool.
• November 15–18 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Krasnoi: Napoleon’s retreating army is again defeated in a series of skirmishes.
• December 8 – The M6.9–7.5 San Juan Capistrano earthquake affects Alta California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong) to IX (Violent), killing 40 parishioners at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
• December 14 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
• December 20 – The first volume of Grimms’ Fairy Tales is published in Germany.
• December 29 – War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Java, off the coast of Brazil.
• December 30 – The Convention of Tauroggen is signed.

1813 AD

• January 28 – The novel Pride and Prejudice, entered by Fry, Leela, and the Big Brain in 3001 (3ACV07), is first published. (Alternate First)

1818 AD

• Fall of Antares Empire (Alternate First)

1820 AD

• The Golden Age of Muttonchops begins. (Alternate First)

1821 AD

• September 27 – The Army of the Three Guarantees enters Mexico City, and the following day the Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain is proclaimed, following the Mexican War of Independence.

From 1833 AD to 1896 AD

• Dates of Alfred Nobel, who instituted the Nobel Prizes. 3012 Presidential candidate Chris Travers won a Nobel Prize (in an unspecified field and year), which is seen on screen in this episode, showing (as with real Nobel prizes) Alfred Nobel in profile and the years of his birth and death. The death year shown is correct, “MDCCCXCVI”, but the birth year shown is clearly “MOOCCXXI”, a meaningless number in Roman numerals. The correct birth year would be “MDCCCXXXIII”. This is presumed to be an animation error, rather than an indication that Alfred Nobel’s birth year is something different in the Futurama universe.

1846 AD

Bender is in the town of Salem, Massachusetts and assembles himself together with a magnet and ends up singing folk songs which pleases the townspeople who introduce a fembot named Samantha (Alternate First)

1861 AD

• March 4 – Abraham Lincoln is sworn in as the 16th president of the United States.
• April 12 – The American Civil War begins with the bombardment ofFort Sumter, South Carolina.
  • The World War: European Intervention in the American Civil War (Alternate First)
• May 13 – Great Comet
• October 13 – Battle of Santa Rosa Island

1872 AD

• November 30 – The first world cup is played between Scotland and England in a match.

1874 AD

• Light bulb invented. Date is from historical record.

1887 AD

• The Golden Age of Muttonchops ends. (Alternate First)

1890 AD

• July 31 – October 18 – Around the World in Eighty Days (Alternate Fisrt)
  • July 31 – London
  • August 1 – Paris
  • August 9 – Istanbul
  • August 23 – Arga
  • September 9 – Lanzhou Village
  • September 29 – San Francisco
  • October 4 – New Mexico Desert
  • October 10 – New York
  • October 11 – Atlantic Ocean
  • October 18 – From Atlantic Ocean to London

1720 AD Alternate First

• November 18 – The pirate captain Calico Jack Rackham was hanged in Port Royal, Jamaica.

1728 AD Alternate First

• The Blood of the Aztec Curse pursuit took place shortly after Captain Jack Sparrow saved Elizabeth Swann from drowning at the coast of Port Royal, with the Black Pearl cursed crew commanded by Hector Barbossa against the HMS Interceptor crew hired by Jack Sparrow, while the HMS Dauntless crew commanded by Commodore James Norrington joining late the pursuit.

1743 AD Alternate First

• Antarian Invasion of Earth

1750 AD Alternate First

• The Quest for the Fountain of Youth took place, with the Queen Anne’s Revenge crew, the HMS Providence crew and the Spanish attempting to find the Fountain of Youth. Note: In the “Pirate Lore” featurette for Dead Man’s Chest, actress Keira Knightley said the real era of piracy was in the mid-1700s at its height. While production designer John Myhre stated that a date of 1750 was chosen, he also note it could be “a bit earlier, or just a hair later,” confirming that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides takes place in that range.

1751 AD Alternate First

• The Quest for the Trident of Poseidon took place shortly after the battle at the Devil’s Triangle in which the Monarch was destroyed and her crew perished, with the Dying Gull crew, the Queen Anne’s Revenge crew, the Silent Mary crew and the Essex crew attempting to find the Trident of Poseidon either to broke all the curses over the Seven Seas or to bring the power of the Seas to the British Empire.