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.

1770 AD

• “Minuteman” Yancy Fry fights “Commies” (according to Fry’s father) in the American Revolution (Possibly for Alternate First)
• The Professor) , Fry and Bender watch as the prevent American Revolutionaries fight the British, from their time machine. (Alternate Second)
• December 17 – Ludwig van Beethoven is born

1775 AD

• April 17: the Professor, Bender, Fry and Leela, all go back in time to Revolutionary War Era America, to clear the Farnsworth name. (Alternate Third)
• April 18
  • Paul Revere’s “midnight ride” takes place, signaling the start of the American Revolution. (Alternate Third)
  • Fry grabs one of the lanterns from the Old North Church while in Boston and briefly changes the course of history. The four once again travel back in time and reset the future. (Alternate Third)

1776 AD

• The United States of America are founded. Date is from historical record.
• the American Revolution took place/The Professor) , Fry and Bender watch as the American Revolutionaries fight the British, from their time machine. (Alternate Second)

1783 AD

• September 3 – Peace of Paris: A treaty between the United States and Great Britain is signed in Paris, formally ending the American Revolutionary War, in which Britain recognizes the independence of the United States; and treaties are signed between Britain, France, and Spain at Versailles, ending hostilities with the Franco-Spanish Alliance.

1788 AD

• Steamboat invented. Date is from historical record.

1793 AD

• Cotton gin invented. Date is from historical record.

1600 AD

• The previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor watch (Alternate Second) (in one reality) the pilgrims arrive in America and get taken over by the British.

1607 AD

• April 26 – June 22 – Mission to Virginia European Pilgrims stole America from the Native Americans.
• April 26 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River.
• May 14 – Jamestown, Virginia, is established as the first permanent English settlement in North America, beginning the American frontier.
• May 15 – From Jamestown, Christopher Newport, George Percy, Gabriel Archer, and others travel six days exploring along the James River up to the falls and Powhatan‘s village.
• May 26 – At Jamestown, the president of the governing council, Edward Wingfield, directs the fort to be strengthened and armed against the many attacks of the natives: “Hereupon the President was contented the Fort should be pallisadoed, the ordinance mounted, his men armed and exercised, for many were the assaults and Ambuscadoes of the Savages …” [John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964)]; 200 armed Indians attack the Jamestown settlement, killing two people and wounding 10.
• May 28 – A wooden defensive wall (palisade) is built by settlers around the Fort at Jamestown. Gabriel Archer writes in his journal, “we laboured, pallozadoing our fort”.
• June 10 – In Jamestown, Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council.
• June 15 – At Jamestown, the triangular fort is completed and armed: “The fifteenth of June we had built and finished our Fort, which was triangle wise, having three Bulwarkes, at every corner, like a halfe Moone, and foure or five pieces of Artillerie mounted in them. We had made our selves sufficiently strong for these Savages. We had also sowne most of our Corne on two Mountaines.” [George Percy (Tyler 1952:19)] The colony reportedly bears extreme toil in strengthening the fort [from John Smith, Proceedings (Barbour 1964:210)].
• June 22 – Christopher Newport sails back to England.

1609 AD

• May – Anglo-Powhatan Wars The previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor watch (Alternate Second)

1610 AD

• April 20 – William Shakespeare‘s play, The Tragedie of Macbeth, is given its first performance, staged at the Globe Theatre in London.
• May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the “starving time” (winter), the fort palisades and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.
• May 24 – Jamestown, Virginia: The temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, issues The Divine, Moral, and Martial Laws.
• June 7 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates decides to abandon Jamestown.
• June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates’ convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (Delaware) at Mulberry Island.
• June 10 – Jamestown: The convoy of temporary Governor Gates, and the ships of Governor Lord De La Warr, land at Jamestown.
• June 24 – Henri Membertou, Grand Chief of Mi’kmaq nation, becomes the first North American aboriginal person to accept baptism into the Christian faith and signs the Concordat of 1610, an agreement with the Roman Catholic Church recognizing the Mi’kmaq as an independent nation
• August 9 – Anglo-Powhatan Wars: The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields; the subsequent use of the term “Paspahegh” in documents refers to their former territory.
• November 6 – After the Parliament of England gives King James only £ 100,000 of an agreed to £ 600,000 of debt relief promised in February under the Great Contract, the King demands the rest of the funds. Parliament is outraged and declares the Contract abandoned on November 9.

1624 AD

• December 31 – Skirmish on Venice (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)

1625 AD

• January 17 – Led by the Duke of Soubise, the Huguenots launch a second rebellion against King Louis XIII, with a surprise naval assault on a French fleet being prepared in Blavet.
• February 3 – Francesca Caccini‘s opera La liberazione di Ruggiero has its premiere, stated in Florence in Italy. The opera will continue to be staged almost 400 years later, as late as the year 2018.
• February 6 – Bogislaw XIV becomes the final Duke of Pomerania, an office that becomes extinct after his death in 1637.
• February 8 – Hafız Ahmed Pasha is designated as the new grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Murad IV, 11 days after the death of Çerkes Mehmed Pasha.
• February 11 – Dutch–Portuguese War: One of the largest naval battles ever fought in the Persian Gulf takes place in the Straits of Hormuz as fleets of the Dutch East India Company and the English East India Company defend Persia against an attack by ships from the colony of Portuguese India.
• February – Huguenot forces under the Duke of Soubise capture the Island of Ré.
• March 21 – James Ussher is appointed Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) and Primate of All Ireland.
• March 1-3 – Mission to France: Gascony (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)
• March 4 – Mission to France: Meung-sur-Loire/Paris (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)
• March 5 – Mission to France: Calais/Return to Paris and Attack on Tower of London (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)
• March 28–April 24 – First Savoine War – Relief of Genoa: The Spanish fleet aids the Republic of Genoa, by overcoming the Franco-Savoyard occupation of the city of Genoa.
• March 25 – Battle of Martqopi: The Safavids are defeated in Georgia.
• March 27 – Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland succeeds to the throne on the death of his father, King James VI and I.

1626 AD

• February 6 – English Invasion of France (Thirty Years’ War Alternate First)

1649 AD

• January 30 – Charles I is the first king to be beheaded while on the throne.

1672 AD

• October 18 – The Treaty of Buchach, between the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, is signed. Part of the Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676).

1697 AD

• Dissolution of the Drumpf States, is due to the Superme Leader Johannes Drumpf is Death (Alternate First)

1500 AD

• Leonardo from Planet Vinci visits Earth and though considered stupid in his homeworld, he becomes a genius on Earth. Before he finishes painting the Mona Lisa, it is stolen by a time travelling Bender. Eventually leaves Earth again for his home planet. (Alternate First)

1509 AD

• Bender, using the Time Sphere, travels back in time to steal the Mona Lisa. (Alternate First)

1519 AD

• May 2 – These are the dates of Leonardo da Vinci. In reality he is an alien from the planet Vinci who returned to his homeworld at the time of his supposed death. (Alternate First)
• June – After a month of travel Leonardo returns to Planet Vinci. (Alternate First)

1547 AD

• January 28 – King Henry VIII of England dies in London, and is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Edward VI, as King of England.
• February 20 – Edward VI of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1575 AD

• February 24 – Dathomirian Invasion of Earth with Eurasia World (Alternate First)
• November 16 – Liberation of Russia (Alternate First)

1591 AD

• January 27 – Duel on Berlin (Alternate First)
• January 28 – Dissolution of the Second Maurya Empire (Alternate First)

500 AD

• Battle of Badon begins (Alternate First)

516 AD

• Battle of Badon ends (Alternate First)

768 AD

• 9 October – Charlemagne was a European leader who was King of the Franks

778 AD

• A Frankish army (supported by Burgundians, Bavarians, Bretons, Lombards, and Visigoths) under King Charlemagne invades Al-Andalus (modern Spain), and conquers the cities of Pamplona and Barcelona. However, the Franks are halted at Zaragoza, in the thughur or frontier zone of the Emirate of Córdoba.
• August 15 – Battle of Roncevaux Pass (Pyrenees): Charlemagne is defeated by the Basques. Among those killed is Roland, governor of the Breton March, who will be immortalized in the 11th century epic The Song of Roland. This marks the beginning of medieval French literature.
• Saxon Wars: Widukind and his close followers return to Saxony from Denmark. He probably makes alliances with the Danes and the northwestern Slav tribes. Saxon rebels destroy the fortress of Karlsburg and sack Deutz (near Cologne), but are unable to cross the Rhine. They are driven back by the garrison of Koblenz, but then ambush and defeat the Frankish pursuers. Counter-attacking Frankish forces pursue the Saxons up the Lahn Valley, and defeat them near Leisa.

800 AD

• December 25 – Charlemagne, king of the Franks, is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III as Charles I, with the title “Emperor of the Romans”. The coronation takes place during Mass at the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome, on Christmas Day. The Frankish Empire is formed in Western Europe, which is not recognized by Empress Irene at Constantinople. This triggers a series of disputes with the Byzantines around who is officially ruling the former Western Roman Empire.

814 AD

• January 28 – Charlemagne dies at around age 71.

977 – 979

• Feud of the Svyatoslavychivi

1001

• September 11 – Zuban Imperium Invasion of Mars (Alternate First)

1005

• A doctor covers a guy in blood-sucking leeches as a way of determining whether he’s healthy or not. The man is deemed healthy but he still freaks out over being drained by leeches. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• Prince Vladimir´s Plan/Russian Civil Strife (Possibly for Alternate First)

1022

• February 24 – Zuban Imperium Invasion of Kievan Rus and Earth (Alternate First and Prediction for 1000 Years with 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine)
• March 30 – Zuban Imperium Invasion of Kievan Rus and Earth is end (Alternate First)

1025

• Prediction for 1000 Years with Project 2025?

1356

• January 20 – Edward Balliol surrenders his title as King of Scotland, to Edward III of England. ca. February – Burnt Candlemas: Edward III of England burns down every town and village in Lothian, Scotland.
• February 1 – Alien Invasion of Earth (Alternate Fisrt)
• June 17 – The city of Lwów is granted Magdeburg rights by Casimir III of Poland. The advantages of the rights were not only economic, but also political.
• September 19 – Hundred Years’ War – Battle of Poitiers: The English, commanded by Edward, the Black Prince, defeat the French. The greatly outnumbered English forces not only rout the French, but capture the French king John II of France and his youngest son, the future Philip II of Burgundy.
• October 17 – Erik XII proclaims himself king of Sweden, in opposition to his father, King Magnus IV. Thus begins a civil war in Sweden between father and son, which will last until Erik’s death in 1359.
• October 18 (St Luke’s Day) – The Basel earthquake affects northern Switzerland, with a maximum MSK intensity of IX–X (Destructive–Devastating), leaving around 1,000 dead. It is the most damaging intraplate earthquake known to have occurred in central Europe.
• December 25 – Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, promulgates the Golden Bull, a constitution for his empire.

1410

• Banking industry regulations originate around this time, according to Gary, a banking industry regulator. (Alternate Fisrt)

1431 AD

• January 9 – Pretrial investigations for Joan of Arc begin at Rouen in France, which is under English occupation.
• February 21 – The trial of Joan of Arc for heresy begins.
• March – Alexander I Aldea takes the throne of Wallachia with support from Alexander I of Moldavia.
• March 3 – Pope Eugene IV succeeds Pope Martin V, to become the 207th pope.
• May 30 – 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen (Orginial Timeline)/Joan of Arc lives during this century. (Possibly for Alternate First)
• June 16 – The Teutonic Knights and Švitrigaila sign the Treaty of Christmemel, creating an anti-Polish alliance.
• September – Battle of Inverlochy: Donald Balloch defeats the Royalists.
• October 30 – The Treaty of Medina del Campo is signed, consolidating peace between Portugal and Castille.
• November 9 – The Battle of Ilava: The Hungarians defeat the Hussite army.
• November 18 – A treaty in Suceava concludes an attack on Poland, launched this year by Alexander I of Moldavia during the Lithuanian Civil War.
• December 13 – Vlad, future Prince of Wallachia as Vlad II Dracul, is made a member of the Order of the Dragon. Because of this, his son Vlad III the Impaler will inspire the literary figure named Dracula.
• December 16 – Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre-Dame de Paris.

from 1495 to 1498

• Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper. Date is from historical record. (Alternate First by Bender)

450 AD

Byzantium

• July 28 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 49, falls from his horse while hunting at Constantinople and dies soon afterward. He has reigned since 408, mostly under the domination of his Christian sister Pulcheria, who has been allowed to return to court (see 441).
• August 25 – Pulcheria is forced to marry and co-rule the Eastern Roman Empire. She gives the imperial diadem to the Illyrian (or Thracian) officer and senator Marcian, age 58, and is crowned as empress in the Hippodrome at Constantinople, in the first religious coronation ceremony.
• Marcian orders the execution (or assassination) of the unpopular court eunuch Chrysaphius. He discontinues the tribute payments to Attila.
• All the Temples of Aphrodisias (City of Goddess Aphrodite) are demolished and its libraries burned down. The city is renamed Stauroupolis (City of the Cross).

Europe

• Spring – Justa Grata Honoria, eldest sister of emperor Valentinian III, sends her ring to Attila the Hun in an effort to escape a marriage being forced upon her by her brother. Now about 34, she has had an affair with an officer in her household and has allegedly plotted to overthrow Valentinian, who has sent her to a convent at Constantinople. Attila announces his intention to marry her, says he expects to be given half the Western Roman Empire as her dowry, and gathers a large Hun invasion force. Flavius Aetius, Roman general (magister militum), musters an army in Gaul of Burgundians, Celts, Ripuarians, Salian Franks and Visigoths under the command of the Visigoth king Theodoric I.
• Angles, Saxons and Jutes invade Britain, marking the beginning of the Old English period (approximate date).
• Remodelling of the Dome of Baptistry of Neon, Ravenna (Italy) begins (approximate date).

451 AD

• Spring – Attila gathers his vassals—Bastarnae, Gepids, Heruls, Ostrogoths, Rugians, Scirians and Thuringians (among others), and smashes through Germany, causing widespread panic and destruction. He arrives in Belgica with an army (50,000 men) and crosses the Rhine.
• April 7 – Attila’s forces invade Gaul and sack Metz. The major cities of Strasbourg, Worms, Mainz, Trier, Cologne, Reims, Tournai, Cambrai, Amiens and Beauvais are destroyed by the Huns.
• Eudocia, daughter of Emperor Valentinian III, marries Huneric in Ravenna. The engagement serves to strengthen the alliance between the Western Roman Empire and the Vandal Kingdom.
• June – Attila approaches Aurelianum (modern Orléans) and the city’s inhabitants close the gates, forcing him to lay siege. After learning of the Hun invasion, Flavius Aetius (magister militum) moves quickly from Italy into Gaul, and joins forces with Visigoth king Theodoric I.
• June 20 – Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Châlons): Attila avoids a pitched battle near Orléans, and withdraws to the Catalaunian Plains (Champagne-Ardenne). The Roman coalition defeats the Huns, but Theodoric I is killed in the encounter. This is one of the last military victories of the Western Roman Empire, before the victories of Emperor Majorian against the Alemanni, Visigoths, Suebi and Burgundians, between 457 and 461.
• Thorismund succeeds his father Theodoric I as king of the Visigoths. He is crowned in the capital at Toulouse, and extends the Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania.

452 AD

• The Huns under Attila invade Northern Italy. Emperor Valentinian III flees from Ravenna to Rome, and sends Pope Leo I to persuade him to return to the Hungarian Plain. The cities of Aquileia, Padua and Verona are destroyed by the Huns. Milan is saved because Attila is offered a huge amount of gold. Flavius Aetius (magister militum) is unable to raise a new army against him.
• Rome is threatened by Attila but not attacked, due to a last-minute effort by Leo I. Threatened by news of reinforcements from the Eastern Roman Empire and the plague breaking out among the Huns, Attila is persuaded to withdraw.
• The city of Venice is founded by fugitives from Attila’s army. They flee to small islands in the Venetian Lagoon.
• King Vortigern marries Hengist‘s daughter, Rowena, and becomes king of the Britons. The Anglo-Saxons increase their settlements in Britain (according to British legend).

453 AD

Byzantium

• July – Empress Pulcheria dies of natural causes at Constantinople. She has commissioned many new churches in the city during her reign. Her death leaves Flavius Aspar (magister militum) as the dominant influence on her husband, Marcian.
• Anthemius marries Marcia Euphemia, daughter of Marcian, and is elevated to the rank of comes. He is sent to the Danubian frontier to rebuild the border defences.
• The late Attila’s other sons Dengizich and Ernakh, establish their kingdoms north of the Black Sea (Ukraine), supported by vassal states.

Europe

• Attila the Hun is found dead in bed, after a wedding feast with the Goth princess Ildica. He dies of a nosebleed at his Hungarian stronghold, drowning in his own blood at age 47 (approximate). The Huns celebrate a strava (lamentation) over his burial place with great feasting. Attila’s son Ellac is appointed successor, which his brothers Dengizich and Ernakh refuse, dividing the Hunnic Empire.
• Theodoric II succeeds his brother Thorismund as king of the Visigoths, Thorismund having been murdered after he violated the alliance with the Western Roman Empire.

700 BC

• Leela is sent via time portal in Ancient Greece in an attempt to save Earth‘s inhabitants from the 31st century. Here she encounters Ulysses and Homer. (Alternate First)

360 BC

• Great Fall of Atlantis (Alternate First)

274 BC

• Nibbler is born (Alternate First)

45 BC

• March 17 – Caesar´s Civil War: In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus

44 BC

• March 15 (the Ides of March) – Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, is assassinated by a group of senators, amongst them Gaius Cassius Longinus, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Caesar’s Massilian naval commander, Decimus Brutus.

27 BC

• The Pantheon is constructed in Rome.

12 AD

• Some pork meat is conservated for 3,000 years.

117 AD

• Trajan subdues a Jewish revolt (the Kitos War), then falls seriously ill, leaving Hadrian in command of the east.
• On his death bed, Trajan allegedly adopts Hadrian and designates him as his successor.
• August 9 – 11 – Emperor Trajan dies of a stroke at Selinus in Cilicia, age 63, while en route from

180 AD

• End of Marcomannic Wars
• The Quadi are chased westwards, deeper into Germania. The Praetorian prefect, Tarutenius Paternus, achieves a decisive victory against the Germanic tribes.
• March 17 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius dies after a week’s illness at his camp in Vindobona (modern Vienna). He is succeeded by his son Commodus (age 18).
• The Era of the Five Good Emperors ends.
• Rome creates a 4-mile wide buffer zone by the Danube.
• Work begins in Rome on the building of the Column of Marcus Aurelius.
• 180–395 – Late Empire in Rome.
• Northern British from beyond Hadrian’s Wall invade the North of modern-day England, causing Emperor Commodus to allow swathes of Northern cities to establish city walls.
• Cassius Dio arrives in Rome and becomes a Senator

3500 BC

• Cats from Thuban 9 arrive in Egypt where they are worshipped like gods. They make the Egyptians build the Great Pyramid of Giza as a giant energy transfer device. (Alternate First)

3000 BC

• Apokoliptian Invasion of Earth (Alternate First)

2560 BC

• The Great Pyramid of Giza is completed (date is from historical record). The cats intend to use it to drain Earth’s angular momentum and transmit it to their gradually decelerating homeworld, restarting its spin. Unfortunately the cats have become domesticated, lazy and stupid and the plan is abandoned. (Alternate First)

1351 BC

• Bender steals a sarcophagus from Egyptians/Travelling back in time from 3007, Bender steals the sarcophagus and death mask of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, then hides in the limestone cavern underneath the future location of the Planet Express building until 3007. (Alternate First)
• Amenhotep III is buried. (Alternate realities with fisrt or second)

1274 BC

• The Battle of Kadesh (or Battle of Qadesh) in Syria, regarded as the largest (5,000–6,000) chariot vs. chariot battle in antiquity. The end of the battle is followed by some 15 years of border warfare ended by the signing of the earliest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians, the Treaty of Kadesh.
• Ramesses II (the Great) fights a number of campaigns in Canaan and Syria, with the aim of recovering territories lost in the post-Kadesh revolts.
• Shalmaneser I becomes king of the Assyrian Empire.

1000 BC

• The people of Osiris 4 visit Ancient Egypt and learn how to build pyramids, travel through space, and how to prepare their dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello. (Alternate First)

200000 BC/ca. 40,000 years ago to 1783 A.D. – Mission to Earth/The previous versions of Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth watch the Neanderthals in North America killed by Paleo-Indians (in one reality, they do not watch this). (Alternate Fisrt, Second and Third)

26987 BC – Homo sapiens drive the Neanderthals from the Neander Valley. Neanderthals settle in a nearby glacier along with several prehistoric creatures.

15000 BC – is when the Paelo-Indians lived in America (The previous versions of Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth watch for Alternate Second and Third)

10000 BC – Three tribes, the Wenja, Udam, and Izila settle in the region of present-day Central Europe known as Oros, sparking conflict (Tribal War in Oros) for resources and territory. (Possibly Alternate First)

23rd October 4004 BCE – The Earth and all life on it is created, according to the chronology of Archbishop James Ussher, to which creationists will cling well into the 31st century.