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Compiled by I. Marc Carlson
( marc-carlson@utulsa.edu )
Some additional material by Richard S. Holmes, Hal Colebatch,
"sloan@geosim.msfc.nasa.gov", and Nessus (http://www.larryniven.org)
Converted to HTML format by Larry King.
Since all of this information has come from other sources, I don't feel as though I can copyright it. Feel free to use it as you wish, within the bounds of other copyrights on this material. If you like the occasional hypothesis that I have left strewn about within, please recall where you found it.
The sources used for this were Larry Niven's stories and novels. Some details from the Ringworld Game by Chaosium were added as well, and are noted as such.
The codes in parentheses indicate the source.
The above materials will be superseded should different information be published.
Finally, all items marked with an * are conjecture, based on the information on hand, and may be further explained by a description in brackets.
I would like to point out that noting the inconsistencies between dates should not be construed as criticism. I'm happy that things hang together as well as they do.
It should be noted that the dates of the Gil Hamilton stories are absolutely internally inconsistent.
This material is in no way official, and the last time I heard had not received any "OK" from Niven. I've never met the man, and have no insight into his writings other than what you see here - so please stop asking me how to contact him.
But I digress...
about 15 Billion Years Ago
Creation of the Universe (Ya gotta start somewhere!).
about 10 Billion Years Ago
Galaxies form.
about 9 Billion Years Ago
The "Outsiders" watch as planet-based sapients begin to develop (MKW7 "A Darker Geometry" - n.b there is some debate on the canonicity of this story).
about 1.5 Billion Years Ago
The Thrint, later known as the "Slavers", rule the Galaxy (This is described as anywhere from 1.5 to 3 Billion years ago).
The crypto-Ptavv Guerdoth's Pruntaquilan Balladeer Coquaturia is hidden in a stasis box (MKW5 "Hey Diddle Diddle").
In the last decades before the end of their rule, the slaves of a Thrint named Plorn produce antigravity, ruining the need for Stage Trees to launch material, and precipitating a major economic crash (World of Ptavvs, "A Relic of Empire").
At this point, Kzanol experiences a failure of his ship, which he abandons. He aims it at the eighth world of F124, and places himself in stasis. His ship slams into a moon orbiting the eighth world, tearing the moon from its orbit and forming the planet later called Pluto. Kzanol slams into the algae-covered sea of F124 - III, later known as Earth (World of Ptavvs).
Before Kzanol actually impacts onto Earth, the Thrint Empire is engulfed in a civil war that will last for a century. This long revolt is led by the Tnuctipun, using their weapons of Sunflowers, and their Bandersnatchi / Whitefood spies. This war quickly involves all known species in the Galaxy, presumably excepting the Outsiders (World of Ptavvs, "The Soft Weapon").
As it becomes clear that the war is lost, the surviving Thrint build a giant telepathic Amplifier designed to order all sentients in the Galaxy to commit suicide on "Last Day" (World of Ptavvs, MKW3 "The Asteroid Queen").
Durvash the Tnuctipun spy discovers a way to halt the impending Suicide Time, but his ship is thrust into Stasis by the impact of a Thrinti Godfist weapon that imbeds the tnuctip vessel into the molten crust of what will someday become the Jotun Mountains of Wunderland (MKW5 "The Hall of the Mountain King").
A day or so before the Last Day/Suicide Time/Suicide Night, Dnivtopun, Overseer of a food world in the 7-1Z-A (Alpha Centauri) System, his wives and his young son, suffer an accident that seals them in a stasis field (MKW3 "The Asteroid Queen"). (MKW10 "Peter Robinson" appears to date this as 3 billion years ago).
Apparently some Thrint arks and colonies emerge from stasis from time to time. None of these appear to survive very far into the future without the support of the Tnuctipun (MKW10 "Peter Robinson").
Somehow, some Thrintun may have survived and gradually evolved into the sessile Grogs of Down ("The Handicapped". It should be stressed that this is a risky hypothesis since the Thrint with the Power were male, and the females were non sentient, while with the Grogs, the situation is reversed).
about 50 Million Years Ago
The evolution of the Pak, progenitors of the human race, on the Pak home world near the core may take place about this time (Game).
about 3 Million Years Ago
Oldest date of Pak records of spaceflight in the Library (Protector).
The planets of nearby stars are are "Pak-formed" and then destroyed in the endless war (Ringworld's Children).
A hollowed out asteroid containing 72 protectors and a 1000 breeders leaves the Pak home world heading for the galactic arms (Protector. According to the game, this is 5 million years ago) .
about 2.5 Million Years Ago
After a half million trip. The "Earth-Pak" arrive on Earth. They discover that the Earth's soil will not support the "tree of life" root, and send a message back to the Pak home world (Protector). At some point after this, the surviving protectors gradually die off, leaving the Pak Breeders to evolve freely (It should be noted that it was Brennan who made the claim that the Pak were what we would term "Homo Habilis", but Brennan wasn't an anthropologist, and there is plenty of evidence of hominid existence on Earth prior to 2.5 Million years ago. This means that the final answer to the link between Humans and Pak has not been revealed - MC).
about 1, 024,500 BCE
At some point, after receiving the message from the "Earth-Pak" fleet, the Ringworld Builders leave the Pak home world in a fleet made up of 10,000 Protectors in fighter scouts and an O'Neill environment full of breeders (Game, Ringworld Engineers have this at 2.5 million years BCE, while Ringworld's Children describes this as 4 million falons ago).
about 1, 024,420 BCE
80 years after the launching of the Ringworld Builder fleet, there are only 600 Protectors left (Ringworld's Children).
about
936,607 BCEBuilding and stocking of the Ringworld from a System with a close in Super Jovian planet (Game, Ringworld's Children has this as being "after 350,000 falans of travel").
Before the Ringworld is completed, 11 Protectors rebel, and are imprisoned on the Maps of Pak in the Isolation Zone in the farther Greater Sea (Ringworld's Children).
????
At some point after the rebellion of the 11 Protector Rebels someone travels to Earth to collect Whales (and who knows what else) (Ringworld's Children).
about 883,000 BCE
The Pak system on the Ring may have broken down about this time ("A few hundred thousand" falons after Creation Ringworld's Children).
about 513,698 BCE
Species differentiation begins on the Ring, suggesting some breakdown of the Protector system (1 million falons before Ringworld's Children).
about 500,000 BCE
Puppeteer population numbers nearly half a trillion. They terraform two of the worlds in their system (Ringworld).
about 250,000 BCE
Approximate age of the "Map of Earth" on Ringworld (Game).
The Ringworld Pak die off from some undisclosed disease (Ringworld Engineers. Game has this at 300,000 BCE).
253,956 BCE
Proserpina has been "trapped" at least this long (1 million falons before Ringworld's Children).
about 100,000 BCE
"Outsiders" help the Puppeteers with technologies. They sell them gravity planers, hyperdrive, and the "Mover of Worlds" (MKW7 "A Darker Geometry" - n.b there is some debate on the canonicity of this story).
53,000 BCE
On Pak, the childless Pak Protectors gather for war (Protector).
about 40,000 BCE
"Cathouse" world built and stocked (MKW1 "Cathouse") (It's really not clear by whom, since the Ringworld Pak Protectors are supposed to be dead by this time. There are sentient Kzin females and telepathic Neanderthal).
33,000 BCE
Phssthpok leaves the Pak home world (Protector).
32,800 BCE
First Emigration Wave leave Pak home world, following up on Phssthpok's flight (Protector - Truesdale's estimate).
32,500 BCE
Second Emigration Wave leaves Pak home world (Protector - Truesdale's estimate).
32,000 BCE
Protector Scout fleet leaves Pak home world (Protector - Truesdale's estimate).
about 15,000 BCE
The Empire of the City Builders begins to spread across the face of the Ringworld (Game).
about 14,975 BCE
The Proto-Ghoul Louis Wu eventually names Cronus becomes a Protector. He begins to direct the breeding of the Night People so that they can communicate across the Ring (Ringworld Throne).
about 8,000 BCE
Importation of species to the Ringworld by the City Builders (Game).
*The Core Stars begin to explode ("At the Core").
The Kzinti develop a fairly stable, homogenous civilization (MKW8 "Jotok"; some 5 squared to 5 cubed generations before the Jotoki arrive).
Jotok merchants visit the planet Kzin, in the 61 Ursa Majoris system. The "Mage-Kzin" appropriate technology from them, and begin to unify their world. Some "prides" become marginalized, but remain unconquered ("Mage Kzin" females are intelligent and fight and duel like males, although this is doubted by some members of the Ritt pride) The Jotoki attempt to hire the Ritt Pride (and likely other marginalized Kzin) as mercenaries against other Kzin, but are themselves enslaved (MKW8 "Jotok") The Kzin use the Jotoki biological sciences to drive their females into non-sentience, and to make all their males into the ideal "Heroes" (MKW3 "Asteroid Queen"; date is an estimate) (Kzin are sometimes pluralized as Kzinti. Both forms appear to be correct).
about 7,000 BCE
The Core Stars complete their 'orgy of self-destruction' ("At the Core").
about 2200 BCE*
The Protector eventually killed by Bram and Anne is at least this age ("tens of thousands of falans old" - Ringworld's Children).
about 1042 CE
The Vampires that Louis Wu will eventually name Bram and Anne are "shaped", becoming Protectors after feeding on the blood of a Protector ("7200 falans ago") (Ringworld Throne).
about 1094 CE
The Protectors Anne and Bram take control of the Repair Center. "Fist of God" mountain is created by a giant impact from outside the Ring ("7000 falans ago"). They kill the Cronus and Anne leaves Bram at the Repair Center ("just under 7000 falans ago") (Ringworld Throne) (Apparently Louis has trouble doing math in his head - he says this is about 1200 CE, however if a Falan is 75 30 hour days long, the math is pretty clear).
about 1607
The Protector Anne returns to the Repair Center to get more Tree of Life. She leaves again shortly thereafter ("5000 falans ago") (Ringworld Throne).
1731 CE
Puppeteers introduce Superconductor Plague to the Ringworld (Ringworld Engineers. Games this date as both 1733 and 1140).
1733 CE
Superconductor Plague causes the "Fall of Cities" on Ringworld (Ringworld Engineers, "Ringword Throne". Game dates this as both 1733 and 1140).
about 1850
Kzin occupy Warhead, in the p Eridani system, because of its nearness to the unconquered Pierin worlds (Ringworld Engineers; exact date is unknown).
1878
The "Vaughn Tiger Man" is killed by Cpt. Henry Vaughn of the 4th Lancers in Dirragha (MKW7 "The Colonel's Tiger").
1900
Karl Landsteiner classifies blood into four types, allowing for the first safe blood transfusions (Reality; "The Jigsaw Man").
1939
Lucas Launcelot Garner is born (Protector).
1940
Karl Landsteiner and Alexander S. Weiner report on the Rh factor found in blood (Reality; "The Jigsaw Man").
1960
Blood banks are found world-wide (Reality).
1964
The Kzinti conquer the Pierin (Game date).
India begins to break up criminals for organ transplants (Reality).
1972
Persephone (Sol X) is deduced by gravitational perturbations (Protector).
1976
The Viking landings on Mars (Reality).
1980
Organ transplants are common (Reality).
about 1983
Messenger VI probe visits Mercury and discovers life ("Coldest Place").
1984
Persephone (Sol X) is first seen by Earth astronomers (Protector).
about 1985?
"Howie" and Eric Donovan's brain visit both Mercury and Venus ("The Coldest Place", "Becalmed in Hell". Date is a guess. It is likely that Eric is founder of the computer company known as Donovan's Brains in the 26th century; he might also be the "Eric the Cyborg" mentioned in the the Game section on The Belt).
Mariner XX flyby of Pluto (Protector. Date is a guess).
1985
First laws are enacted prohibiting organ sale (Game).
1989
It becomes legal to freeze people who are not yet legally dead ("The Defenseless Dead").
The first manned expedition to Pluto ends in disaster, trapping the lander in the Ice. Both of the crew on Pluto commit suicide by exposure to the frozen "atmosphere" ("Wait it Out").
1990
It becomes possible to store any organ for any reasonable period of time. The dying regularly will their organs to Organ Banks ("The Jigsaw Man").
The "Project Gulliver" automated Mars Rovers land on Mars (Game).
1991
Leviticus Hale becomes the first person frozen for a non-terminal disorder (incurable paranoia) ("The Defenseless Dead").
1993
Vermont enacts the first Organ Bank Laws to freeze criminals for crimes (This appeared once as "Arkansas").
Louis Wu's initial estimate of when Fist-of-God mountain was created ("3500 falans ago"). He is mistaken (Ringworld Throne).
1996
20 July:
First manned landing on Mars (Harry Bedrosian, Christopher Luden (Lander), Abe Cooper (Orbiter)). They discover the remains of a Martian ("Eye of an Octopus" - Date given in Game).
1998
World Convention establishes a World Government. The ruling body is called the "United Nations". Subsequently, the U.N. establishes the Amalgamated Regional Militia (ARM) as its police force (Game).
about 2000*
Logically there must be a Second Mars Expedition between the First in 1996 and the Third in 2040. It has been suggested that this might be the Mars expedition mentioned in "The Hole Man", although this is probably not a Known Space story. If it is, then after "thirty years of Mariner Missions" 14 crew members arrive aboard the Percival Lowell, and find an alien base that was studying Earth during the last Ice Age, as well as a quantum black hole. The mission ends with a tragic death and Mars threatened by a black hole.
about 2007
Moon is colonized; Jacob Hovestraydt founds Hovestraydt City ("Patchwork Girl". Dates in "The Girl in Del Rey Crater" suggest c. 2030).
2011
First orbital passenger vessel is launched (World of Ptavvs).
Sometime between 2015 and 2025
The Jupiter Probe launched. "Hard and Soft Plith" created? ("Intent to Deceive").
2017
Cetacean Rights Acts passed.
2018
Garner becomes Superintendent of Police of Greater Los Angeles ("Intent to Deceive").
2025
First automated restaurants ("Intent to Deceive").
Something major but unexplained happens in Australia (MKW7 "The Colonel's Tiger").
about 2030
Magnetic monopoles are discovered (Date is an estimate based in material in Protector).
2038
Valerie Van Scopp Rhine is born in Winnetka, North America ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
about 2040
The Third Mars Expedition's problems begin when John "Jack" Carter (Ecologist) murders Lew Harness (Communications) because of perceived homosexual advances. Carter is tracked to his death by Alf Harness (Linguist), the murdered man's brother, but Carter's death is bought at the cost of Alf Harness's life ("How the Heroes Die").
The remaining twelve (Lieutenant-Major "Mayor" Michael Shute; Rufus Doolittle (Biochemist); Gondot, Lee Cousins (Writer), Hurley (Cook), "Timmy", and seven others) all die when their dome, "Bubbletown" at Lacis Solis, is destroyed by Martians ("At the Bottom of a Hole").
2044
Maxim Yeltzin Shreve is born Outer Soviet, Moon ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
about 2045
A mass driver is built on the Moon in preparation for building an L-5 colony. The company goes bankrupt and the mass driver remains unfinished ("Patchwork Girl").
2050
The construction of the Confinement Asteroid is begun (World of Ptavvs).
about 2050
Estimated date of first wireheader on Earth (Protector).
2053
Boeing Corporation stops launching radioactive waste into Del Rey Crater, on the Moon ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
2060
First colony ships leave for Alpha Centauri (Game).
2061
Ramscoop Robot No. 4 discovers Plateau in Tau Ceti system.
2065
Confinement Asteroid is completed. This enables women in the Asteroid Belt to give birth without returning to Earth. Sometime after this, the Belt becomes independent from the Earth; most of the planets and asteroids are under the Belt jurisdiction - including Earth's Moon - but Earth has jurisdiction over Mars (World of Ptavvs, "At the Bottom of a Hole").
about 2065
Ramscoop Robot No. 9 discovers We Made It in Procyon system.
2066
Geraldine Randall born Clavius, Moon ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
2073
Lucas Garner resigns as Superintendent of Police of Greater Los Angeles, and becomes an ARM ("Intent to Deceive"). He is replaced as Superintendent of Police of Greater Los Angeles by Lloyd Masney.
about 2075
Approximate date of the launch of the Lazy Eight I to Sirius (Date is my guess, however, it is mentioned as having reached Jinx by 2097 in World of Ptavvs, based on speed of Slowboat in A Gift from Earth).
about 2076
Approximate date of the launch of the Lazy Eight II, eventually lost with its 50 passengers and 4 crew, en route to Sirius ("Flatlander". Date is my guess, however, it is mentioned as having reached Jinx by 2097 in World of Ptavvs, based on speed of Slowboat in A Gift from Earth. It is possible that there were some people who escaped the runaway slowboat?).
about 2080
Slowboat launched towards Alpha Centauri (Date is estimated, based on speed of Slowboat in A Gift from Earth).
2082
Planck launched towards Tau Ceti (A Gift from Earth. Based on launch date; trip is thirty years long).
2083
Valerie Van Scopp Rhine becomes a full partner with Maxim Yeltzin Shreve in Gabriel's Shield ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
2086
Gil Hamilton born? (This date is based on "The Girl in Del Rey Crater". He suggests strongly that he is 41. But see also entries for 2091, 2093 and 2097).
2091
Wunderland, in the Alpha Centauri system, is colonized by the Nineteen Families (including Schleisser and Freuchen) (Game).
Geraldine Randall disappears after apparently embezzling funds from Gabriel's Shield, a research group run by Rhine and Shreve ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
Maxim Shreve and five others (including Geraldine Randall) register as Shreve Development ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
Gil Hamilton born in Topeka, Kansas (in April)? (This date according to "Death By Ecstasy", since he is 26 in 2117 when Cubes Forsythe dies. But see also entries for 2086, and 2093 and 2097).
2093
April:
Gilbert "Gil" Hamilton born in Topeka, Kansas (Date given specifically in "Death By Ecstasy" or "DD". Also see 2086, 2091, and 2097, however).
2094
Ramscoop Robot reveals the presence of an inhabitable planet around Epsilon Indi (Home).
Alan Jacob Mion claims to have been the first person to visit Persephone. He reports finding a large moon (Protector).
2095
about 2095
Jinx in Sirius system colonized.
2097
Maxim Shreve patents the first practical radiation shield ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
The Second Jinx Expedition, exploring the oceans of Jinx in the Lazy Eight II, discovers surviving Tnuctip "whitefoods" and names them "Frumious Bandersnatchi" (World of Ptavvs. Date calculated from the fact that the report reaches Earth in 2106 from Sirius).
Gil Hamilton born? (This date is based on information in "Death By Ecstasy", and NOT "The Girl in Del Rey Crater". But see also entries for 2086, 2091, and 2093).
2099
Warren Lewis Knowles is tried for excessive speeding ("The Jigsaw Man" - Date given in TKS).
about 2100
By 2100, the Belt population is about one million. This is the era of Four-Gee Jennison, Airlock Atwood, and Monopole Mike - the exploits of Eric the Cyborg and the hazardous journeys of the Ringjammer take place at this time. The Church of Rodney sells gullible Flatlanders phony mineral rights on phantom asteroids (Game).
"Superman Insurrection?"; "Sanction of the Belt over a the use of the Jovian Moons?" (World of Ptavvs).
2094 or 2099 or 2101 or 2105
"First Big Slowboat" launched towards Alpha Centauri, carrying a large scale Shreveshield (Presumably this is a much larger slowboat than the ones launched around 2060 and 2080). ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater" says this happened when Gil Hamilton was eight years old, but his age and date of birth varies from story to story).
2105
First Conference to Review Lunar Law. The Moon becomes the center for criminal trial proceedings and executions for the entire Solar System off Earth ("Patchwork Girl").
about 2105
An economic war between the Belt and Earth (World of Ptavvs).
2106
The report of the Second Jinx Expedition's discovery of Bandersnatch reaches Earth (World of Ptavvs).
2107
A blowout in the Hovestraydt City dome ("Patchwork Girl").
2109
WORLD OF PTAVVS.
Time Retarder field developed. Kzanol the Thrint ("The Sea Statue") awakens, and accidentally takes over the body of Larry Greenberg. They both steal ships and flee first to Neptune, and then to Pluto. After igniting the entire surface of Pluto, Kzanol is sealed in stasis. His second suit, with its telepathic amplifier is dumped into the atmosphere of Jupiter. Greenberg determines that Bandersnatchi are intelligent (Lucas Garner is 170 years old at this time, and Charles Martin "Lit" Shaeffer is First Speaker of the Belt Political Section).
2109
Free Belt Charter proclaimed (Game date? This is quite inconsistent - see 2065).
about 2110
Launch of the Lazy Eight III towards Sirius (presumably carrying Larry Greenberg).
2111
A Ramscoop Robot discovers Silvereyes (Beta Hydri). A power outage at the Copernicus Dome (hospital and penal complex) on the Moon ruins half the organs from four executions ("Patchwork Girl").
"First big slowboat" reaches Wunderland (Estimated based on speed of Tau Ceti slowboats in A Gift from Earth and a launch date of 2101).
The Serpent Swarm is colonized by Belters about this time (MKW2 "Children's Hour").
Kenneth Graham becomes a wire-head pusher ("Death by Ecstasy" dates).
2112
A Belter, Muller, crashes on Mars, near the Lacis Solis ruins, while smuggling monopoles. He discovers that the Martians had wiped out the 3rd Martian Expedition and are still around. The Martians kill him, but his log survives (Lit Shaeffer still First Speaker for the Belt at this time) ("At the Bottom of a Hole").
The Planck reaches Plateau in the Tau Ceti system. The six members of the Crew establish the Covenant of Planetfall, making themselves the rulers of the fifty Colonists ("Gift from Earth"; trip is thirty years long, and they arrive 40 years before second Slowboat. Game date is 2102).
2113
Lucas Garner tells a fictitious story to his partner. Garner is now 174 years old ("Intent to Deceive").
2106 or 2111 or 2113 or 2117
Gil Hamilton emigrates to the Belt ("Death By Ecstasy" says this happened when Gil Hamilton was twenty years old, but his age and date of birth varies from story to story).
Gil Hamilton says goodbye to Naomi Horne ("Patchwork Girl" says this was in 2113; presumably this was when he left for the Belt).
2117
4 January:
Naomi (Horne) Mitchison's daughter Miranda is born ("Patchwork Girl").22 April:
Hamilton has an accident and loses an arm, while killing Cubes Forsythe ("Death by Ecstasy").
2119
Cubes Forsythe's ceremonial drunk on Ceres ("Death by Ecstasy" - presumably after Hamilton is released from the hospital).
Six months later, Gil Hamilton returns to Earth and becomes an ARM (If Hamilton's dates in "Death by Ecstasy" are accepted. He spent three years in a the belt with Owen "Four Gee" Jennison and Homer Chandrasekhar. Owen saved a meteor which had hit him in the chest. But the story "ARM" would suggest he joined in 2122).
2121
June:
Miranda Mitchison is killed by her father, comedian "Ich" Mitchison ("Patchwork Girl").July?
Naomi Mitchison visits the Moon ("Patchwork Girl").6 September:
Naomi Mitchison applies for Lunar Citizenship ("Patchwork Girl").
2122
First Freezer Bill passed, making it legal for people who are technically dead when they were frozen to be broken up for the Organ Banks, if they would be unable to support themselves if awakened. Twelve hundred thousand people are broken up for the Organ Banks. Most of these are "The Freezeout Kids", young people who are unable to adjust to the world they lived in and chose the frozen sleep ("Defenseless Dead").
Gil Hamilton kills his first man, Raphael Haine, an Organlegger (His superior is still Lucas Garner at this point). ("Death by Ecstasy").
The ARMs retire Lucas Garner (Protector).
The "Fourth Slowboat" (The Arthur C. Clarke?) is launched towards Tau Ceti. It carries a larger model Shreveshield ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
2123
21 March:
Holden Chambers and his sister Charlotte are kidnapped. Organlegger Anthony Tiller of the Anubis Gang places his brain into Mortimer Lincoln's body. Anubis places his brain in Chamber's body. They drive Charlotte insane ("The Defenseless Dead").2 November:
Owen Jennison is found dead of a Wirehead incident. Gil Hamilton investigates Owen's death, and meets Taffy.
("Death by Ecstasy").
2124
4 June:
First part of "The Defenseless Dead". Hamilton still works for Garner, who is in his "180's" (According to the dates in the story).PROTECTOR, PART I ("THE ADULTS").
Phssthpok the Pak arrives in the Solar system, where he captures a Belter named Jack Brennan (Lucas Garner is 185 years old at this time; Nicholas Sohl is First Speaker for the Belt Political Section). (Date is given as 11 years after "At the Bottom of a Hole").
2125
3 February:
Passage of the Second Freezer Bill by the Security Council, allowing for the breaking up of the Group II (insane or otherwise not defective enough to serve as organ donors) frozen "Corpscicles" into the Organ Banks. Three hundred thousand are "eligible" ("The Defenseless Dead", second part).March:
The activities of the Anubis Gang appear to push the World Vote to a "No" ("The Defenseless Dead", third part).Taffy gets the chance to practice medicine on the Moon. She and Hamilton separate ("Patchwork Girl").
Maxim Shreve retires ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
The colony ship Ion Maiden crashes onto the surface of We Made It (Date is a blatant guess. Ship name is based on Game information).
2126
4 June:
Raymond Sinclair, inventor of Sinclair monofilament, is murdered. He had been working on a machine to accelerate time ("ARM". Based on Hamilton's statement that the Anubis case had been "early last year". Note: The story is distinctly dated as 4 June 2124).
2127
Hamilton travels to the Moon as a delegate to the Conference to Review Lunar Law. It is held in Hovestraydt City, Grimalde Crater. Hamilton still works for Garner. There are representatives of five lunar cities (Hovestraydt City, Marxgrad?, Outer Soviet?, Clavius*?, Tycho*?, Luna City*?) ("Patchwork Girl". Based on date of 157 years after first landing on the moon).
10 April:
Antsie de Campo, owner and pilot of the Chili Bird out of Vesta arrives on the Moon.12 April:
Chris Penzler, Fourth Speaker for the Belt and delegate to the conference, is attacked. Hamilton works with the Goldskin Marion Shaeffer to track the killer.
13 April:
The Chili Bird leaves Moon with two passengers, Dr. Raymond Forward and a four year old Ruth Hancock Cowles (a clone of Naomi), headed for Confinement Asteroid. Naomi Mitchison is tried for the attempted murder.18 April:
Penzler is finally murdered by Alan Watson. Naomi Mitchison applies for Belt Citizenship. Valerie Van Scopp Rhine's body is discovered in Del Rey Crater. Lucas Garner is 188 years old at this time ("The Girl in Del Rey Crater").
2130
Estelle Randall born (Protector).
2135
Free Parks are common ("The Cloak of Anarchy", TKS).
2150
First recorded Belter taken by "The Snatcher", and returned after four months (Protector).
2152
The Arthur C. Clarke arrives at Plateau. Its crew and passengers are forced to accept the old Covenant of Planetfall (Based on a launch date of 2122, and a trip length of 30 years. Game date 2140).
2161
Slowboats launched towards Epsilon Indii (Date is estimated, based on speed of slowboats in A Gift from Earth).
2170
Second expedition to Persephone. They find no moon. Based on this, the previous expedition of 2094 is considered by astronomers to have been a fraud (Protector).
about 2175
Earth has to "restart" the gulf stream to combat an Ice Age ("Ghost"; exact date is unclear).
2183
An ice asteroid is discovered by Mahmed. It crashes into Mars, most likely destroying any surviving Martians (Protector; Game gives this as 2293, and the asteroid's name as Mahrem).
2189
Home, in the Epsilon Indii system, is colonized by a combination of Slowboats and Ramrobot supply ships.
2191
A Belter is taken by "The Snatcher", and returned after four months (Protector).
2197
2199
2200
Jinx declares independence (Game).
about 2200
Buford Early is born (MKW5 "The Hall of the Mountain King").
Approximate beginning of the "Long Peace" on Earth (MKW5 "The Hall of the Mountain King").
2220
First colonists arrive at Silvereyes, in the Beta Hydri system (Game).
Mary Boethals disappears, and is returned after four months (Protector).
2230
A Belter, Norma Steir, is taken by "The Snatcher", and returned after four months (Protector).
2241
Charles Mon disappears, and is returned after four months (Protector).
2250
A Belter is taken by "The Snatcher", and returned after four months (Protector).
2270
A Belter, Dandridge Sukarno, is taken by "The Snatcher", and returned after four months (Protector).
2290
Great Plague on Plateau (Game).
about 2300*
The Kzin invade Altair ("The Warriors". Date is actually unknown, but I thought it needed to be mentioned!)
2309*
Doug Hooker is diagnosed as being paranoid ("Ethics of Madness". Date is estimated, based on date of Angel's Pencil being launched. Date in story is 2514; TKS date is, at best, speculative. The story is dated from 2514-2585, TKS says that the date is 2425, but involves "safe" Ramjet Technology).
about 2310*
The last of the slowboats to reach Wunderland arrives about this time (MKW6 "Trojan Cat").
about 2321*
Safe Ramscoop is invented by Moscow Motors ("Ethics of Madness"; see 2309 for date rationale).
2330
Lawrence St. John McGee swindles Elroy Truesdale out of his fortune (Protector).
2331
A Belter, Lawrence Jannifer, is taken by "The Snatcher", and returned after four months (Protector).
2332
Nils Rykermann is born (MKW10 "Music Box").
about 2337
First safe Ramship built by Skyhook Enterprises ("Ethics of Madness"; see 2309 for date rationale).
about 2339*
Ramrobot #141 is launched from asteroid Juno towards Sirius / Jinx (A Gift from Earth"; date is estimated).
about 2340
By this time, the wirehead problem has stabilized (Protector).
September 2340 to January 2341
8 September:
Elroy Truesdale disappears for four months (Protector).
2341
9 January:
PROTECTOR, PART II ("VANDERVECKEN").
Elroy Truesdale returns.Truesdale and the Goldskin Alice Jordan go seeking after Vandervecken. They find the man formerly known as Jack Brennan on the artificial world of Kobold. Discovery of the Pak fleet enroute to Earth. Departure of Truesdale and Brennan aboard the Flying Dutchman, and the destruction of Kobold.
about 2341*
Ramrobot #142 is launched from asteroid Juno towards Alpha Centauri / Wunderland (A Gift from Earth; date is estimated).
about 2343*
Ramrobot #143 is launched from asteroid Juno towards Tau Ceti / Plateau (A Gift from Earth; date is estimated).
2344
Pak ships alter course (Protector).
Dimity Carmody is born to Larry and Moira Carmody on Wunderland (MKW10 "Music Box").
about 2345*
Ramrobot #144 is launched from asteroid Juno towards Procyon / We Made It (A Gift from Earth; date is estimated).
2345
Truesdale and Brennan meet the first Pak Ships (Protector).
2346*
Ramrobot #142 arrives at Wunderland (Date is an estimate).
2348*
Ramrobot #141 arrives at Jinx (Date is an estimate).
2350*
Angel's Pencil, a "Safe Ramjet", launched towards Epsilon Eridani (-or- We Made It / Procyon (It is the fourth "slowboat" to be sent to Procyon)) ("The Warriors", MKW2 "The Children's Hour", MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentine". MKW9 "Fly-by-Night" "The Warriors" says it's the fourth ship to Procyon. Other, later stories, refer to Epsilon Eridani (including the reference to "fifth of the River" in MKW8 "Telepath's Dance", the plot of which is later supported in MKW9 "Fly-by-Night").
2351
The Home Colony "fails" when Truesdale releases the "Tree of Life" virus into the atmosphere, in order to make more human Protectors (Protector).
2352*
Greg and Joanna Loeffler emigrate to Plateau ("Ethics of Madness"; see 2309 for date rationale).
2354
Dimity Carmody's first paper is published (MKW10 "Music Box").
2355
Angel's Pencil meets the Kzin Warship RRzzinr (Tracker) and defeats it ("The Warriors", MKW8 "Telepath's Dance"). The date for this may be 2366, but it then conflicts with the dates given in MKW10 "One War for Wunderland".
Happy Gatherer encounters the Gutting Claw. The Kzinti destroy the human ship, and take the crew prisoner and gradually kill them . Selena Guthlac works with Gutting Claw's Telepath to save Angel's Pencil (MKW8 "Telepath's Dance"). Gutting Claw's Telepath later takes the name Shadow (MKW9 "Fly-by-Night").
Peter Nordbo is born (MKW3 "Inconstant Star").
about 2355
A GIFT FROM EARTH.
Ramrobot #143 lands on Plateau. It leads to a revolution which destroys the Planck and abolishes the Covenant of Planetfall (Date in Game and MKW1 "Iron" is 2397, Date is 2410 in TKS).
2357
Ramrobot #144 lands on We Made it, after passing an Outsider ship (A Gift from Earth; date is estimated).
about 2360*
Greg and Joanna Loeffler reach Plateau ("Ethics of Madness"; see 2309 for date rationale).
2360
Dimity Carmody is made Special Professor of Mathematics and Astrometaphysics (MKW10 "Music Box").
2361
First Kzin scouts probe the Wunderland System (MKW5 "The Hall of the Mountain King").
2362*
Earth begins broadcasting news of the Kzinti attacks to the colonies (MKW10 "One War for Wunderland").
2365*
Hooker stops taking his medication ("Ethics of Madness"; see 2309 for date rationale).
2366*
Hooker steals a Ramship ("Ethics of Madness"; see 2309 for date rationale).
2367
News of the Kzin reaches Wunderland, at about the same time that Kzin scouts are probing the planet. The Government begins trying to re-learn the whole concept of war, as well as dealing with fearful political infighting of factions unable to comprehend the concept that they are really in danger. At this time, Peter Brennan who publishes an Internet journal The Friend, and Professor Nils Rykermann are on the Defense committee (MKW10 "One War for Wunderland").
The populace of Wunderland holds off the Kzin for nearly six months while they refit the three slowboats in orbit (MKW2 "The Children's Hour" "six months" may refer to the lead up time to the invasion, and not simply the actual invasion period).
Ka'ashi / Alpha Centauri / Wunderland is invaded by a Kzin fleet from Hssin (a world in the R'hshssia / Innes's Star system) (MKW4 "The Survivor", MKW10 "One War for Wunderland").
Three slowboats packed with refugees flee Wunderland (including the the R.P.Feynman). Ingrid Raines is on board one of these, which heads towards Earth (MKW2 "The Children's Hour"). Dimity Carmody is placed aboard another, previously shielded and hidden slowboat along with more refugees, aimed at We Made It. This ship is almost destroyed shortly after launch (MKW10 "One War for Wunderland").
Wunderland is occupied by Kzin forces (MKW9 "His Sergeants Honor").
*At some point early in the occupation, Peter Brennan leads a resistance band in the hills. When he is finally killed by Kzarl-Sergeant, Brennan kills nine Warriors armed only with a rotary knife. The Kzinti honor him by not eating him, but stuffing his skin and putting it on display in their Sergeant's Mess (MKW9 "His Sergeants Honor").
2373
The report of the Kzin warship arrives at Earth (MKW7 "The Colonel's Tiger").
2375
People begin being taken off their drugs to prepare for the impending war (MKW3 "Madness Has Its Place").
2378
First Kzin Fleet is launched against Sol.
2378*
Hooker reaches Plateau and kills Joanna Loeffler, her daughter, son-in-law, and a grandson ("Ethics of Madness"; see 2309 for date rationale).
2379*
Hooker flees Plateau, followed by Greg Loeffler. Hooker unknowingly kills Loeffler with his communications laser ("Ethics of Madness"; see 2309 for date rationale).
2380
Peter Nordbo inherits the Landholdership of Gerning on Wunderland (MKW3 "Inconstant Star").
*Slowboat Obler's Paradox en route to Vega is taken by Kzinti (MKW8 "Slowboat Nightmare" - dating is unclear; the ship was obviously launched after '57, before word of the Kzin reached Earth, and was in flight for 20 years before the story began).
2383
First Fleet is destroyed by the Strather Launch Array (MKW7 "A Darker Geometry" -- if this is "Gutfoot's Horde", then it is at this battle that Creditors-Telepath is captured (MKW8 "Choosing Names" - n.b there is some debate on the canonicity of this story).
2384
Second Kzin Fleet is launched against Sol.
2387
Harold's Terran Bar opens (MKW2 "The Children's Hour").
The Slowboats from Wunderland arrive at Sol (MKW5 "The Hall of the Mountain King"). (See however 2397 and 2406)
2389
Second Fleet is shattered by the Mercury Launch batteries. One fourth is totally destroyed. The remainder limp back to Alpha Centauri (MKW7 "A Darker Geometry", MKW4 "The Man Who Would Be Kzin"). Col. Buford Early uses a Telepath, Halloran, to gauge the Kzin response (MKW4 "The Man Who Would Be Kzin" -- if this is "Pareet's Pride", then they are considered a bandit fleet on the edge of the Patriarchy (MKW8 "Choosing Names").
2391
Short-Son of Chiir Nig is on Hssin / Innes's Star (MKW4 "The Survivor").
The Third Fleet is launched against Sol under Chsst-Admiral, Dominant Commander of the Fleet (MKW7 "A Darker Geometry" - n.b there is some debate on the canonicity of this story).
2396
Third Fleet hits the Solar System in a more subtle feint-and-pounce attack. They shatter Sol's defenses before being destroyed (MKW7 "A Darker Geometry"). Hero's-Blood-Soaked-Mane destroys the human/dolphin crewed "dreadnaught" Bbloo-Baboon (MKW9 "His Sergeants Honor").
Chuut-Riit's Fleet passes through Hssin's system. Short-son, now Trainer-of-Slaves, is "recruited" (MKW4 "The Survivor").
2397
The Sun-Tzu / Dolittle is launched toward Alpha Centauri as a part of Project Cherubim, a plan to use Human Protectors against the Kzin (MKW7 "A Darker Geometry" - n.b there is some debate on the canonicity of this story).
The Slowboat carrying Ingrid Raines arrives at Earth from Wunderland (MKW2 "The Children's Hour"). (See however 2387 and 2406).
2398
Jinxian scientists develop boosterspice; gene-tailored ragweed, possibly based on Tree-of-Life virus (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Nora Argamentine",Ringworld's Children).
2399
Trainer-of-Slaves reaches Ka'ashi / Alpha Centauri (MKW4 "The Survivor").
about 2400*
Transfer Booths are introduced? (They are shut down on Tiamat in MKW2 "The Children's Hour". They are mentioned as "luxuries" not available on Wunderland (MKW10 "Music Box").
2400
Chuut-Riit arrives at Wunderland to command the forces there (MKW2 "The Children's Hour").
*The Slowboat carrying Dimity Carmody is found near We Made It and she is the sole survivor (MKW10 "One War for Wunderland").
2401
Fourth Kzin Fleet begins to prepare to invade Sol when the news of the Third Fleet's failure reaches them.
(MKW4 "The Survivor").Under the advise of Jacobi, Kraach-Captain takes Kenneth Upton-Schleisser's family hostage (MKW6 "Trojan Cat").
2402
The Sun-Tzu encounters the Belly-Slasher in interstellar space. The Dolittle is destroyed. Both Sun-Tzu and Belly Slasher are picked up by an Outsider vessel (MKW7 "A Darker Geometry" - n.b there is some debate on the canonicity of this story).
2403
Fourth Fleet is launched (It includes some "Unclawed" human crewmembers as well). It is the first fleet to employ a professional force (MKW4 "The Survivor", MKW2 "The Children's Hour").
2404
Five Black Prides (or battle fleets) girdle the Alpha Centauri fleet (MKW4 "The Survivor").
2405
Kenneth Upton-Schleisser catches up to the R.P.Feynman, ostensibly to turn the Slowboat over to the Kzin to allow them to infiltrate the Solar defenses just before the Fourth Fleet is scheduled to hit the Solar System (MKW6 "Trojan Cat").
2406
The slowboat R.P.Feynman from Wunderland arrives at Sol (MKW6 "Trojan Cat"). (See however 2387 and 2397)
Nuclear medical supplies reach Wunderland (MKW11 "Catspaws").
2407
The Wunderland resistance makes some movements against the Kzin. (MKW11 "Catspaws").
2408
Ulf Reichstein Markham is 18 years old, and joins the resistance (MKW1 "Iron").
The First Battle of the Caves. Hroar-Officer sends Kzin Units into the Hohe Kalkstein cave system to root out the "Feral Humans"/The Resistance. Corporal, who soon becomes Sergeant, and later Raargh-Sergeant allies with Nils Rykermann and Leonie Hansen to fight together to survive the Morlocks (MKW10 "The Corporal in the Caves").
The Fourth Fleet reaches Sol and is destroyed, although just barely, at the Battle of Ceres (MKW2 "The Children's Hour", MKW4 "The Survivor").
2409
UNSN Catskinner / Yamamoto (under Capt. Jonah Matthieson and Lt. Ingrid Raines) is launched from Sol.
(MKW2 "The Children's Hour")."Outsiders" contact a ship near We Made It. The aliens sell the human colonists a hyperdrive manual. Dimity Carmody is able to understand the technology and Stefan Brozik begins to build hyperdrive shunts. Brobdig Shaeffer is one of his engineers (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentine", MKW10 "One War for Wunderland", Ringworld)
2410
Beginning of the construction of the Hyperspace Armada (Game).
Yiao-Captain takes Peter Nordbo Landholder of Gerning on Wunderland on a quest to a distant star in the constellation of Tigripardus (MKW3 "Inconstant Star").
2410-2515
Fifth Fleet is in the planning stage.
2412
The hyperspace ships from We Made it arrive at Earth, bringing the new technology (MKW4 "The Survivor").
2412
News of the Fourth Fleet's fate is received back at Wunderland.
2414
Approximate ETA of the Pak First Emigration Fleet's arrival at Earth (The fleet never actually arrives) (Protector).
2419
UNSN Catskinner / Yamamoto. reaches Alpha Centauri and damages the Kzin Command structure, asteroid bases, and some planetary military bases. Near lightspeed kinetic missiles, giant iron eggs, either yielding 12 gigaton impacts, or 12 (1) gigaton impacts, hit the planet to the core, and blot out the sun (this may refer to Catskinner) (MKW2 "The Children's Hour", MKW9 "Windows of the Soul" -- It should be noted that this story also refers to the occupation as being 40 years long). Catskinner shatters an asteroid in slowing down, destroying a "Free Wunderland Navy". The ship, Jacob Matthieson and Ingrid Raines and and her crew are captured by Ulf Markham. Raines and Matthieson crack the computer network and crash it. Chuut-Riit is eaten by his children.
The Ramscoop Raid kills Raargh-Sergeant's mate Murrur and their kit (MKW10 "Music Box").
2420
The Thrint Dnivotopun and his family are released from Stasis by a Serpent Swarm prospector, and soon takes over Ulf Markham. Jacob Matthieson finds out that ARM General Buford Early stowed away in stasis. The Kzin mobilize to stop the "Slaver". The origin of Kdapt-Preacher at the hands of Harold Yathkin-Schotmann and Catskinner's AI. Dnivotopun's power is felt throughout the Wunderland system (MKW3 "The Asteroid Queen").
Aboard the UNSN Shark, the first UN FTL human vessel to reach Alpha Centauri, Lt. Nora Argamentine leads a crew specifically to track down the crew of the Catskinner / Yamamoto. The Shark is destroyed, and Lt. Argementine is captured and turned over to the Kzin "Trainer-of-slaves" (MKW4 "The Survivor").
The Kzin fifth is destroyed before Catskinner rams the Thrint vessel and Dnivotopun and the family of Thrinti vanish back into stasis. Wunderland's moon is destroyed (MKW3 "The Asteroid Queen").
Outsider's Gift, a hyperdrive ship, leading the hyperfleet armada, reaches Alpha Centauri as the UN invades Wunderland. (MKW3 "The Asteroid Queen". MKW4 "The Survivor"). The Kzin are driven from Alpha Centauri. Nora Argamentine and the Jokoti of Teacher of Slaves rebel and kill all but Teacher aboard the NestingSlashtoothBitch. Teacher flies the ship to Hssin (MKW4 "The Survivor").
Ulf Reichstein Markham is 30 years old (MKW1 "Iron").
At the Abbey, Raargh-Sergeant defends Captain Jorg van Thoma and Vaemar-Riit, son of Chuut-Riit during the Liberation (MKW9 "His Sergeants Honor")
2421
An assault on Hssin wipes out the Kzin presence in that system (MKW5 "The Hall of the Mountain King", MKW4 "The Survivor", MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentine").
Ulf Reichstein Markham is in the office of the Minister for War for the Provisional Government. Jonah Mattheison, having alienated General Buford Early, is reduced to being on the bum in Munchen when he is hired to work in a mining operation in the distant Jotun Range. After this, he goes off with Tyra Nordbo (MKW5 "The Hall of the Mountain King" - 2 years after Catskinner arrives).
2423
NestingSlashtoothBitch arrives at Hssin, only to find that the UN Fleet had scoured it of organized Kzin activity (MKW4 "The Survivor").
2425
The Battle of Down. It is a "Victory" with a loss of three humans to each Kzin killed. Among the killed is Vice Commander Yoni Marshall (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentine").
We Made It marines are badly beaten during their assault on Ch'Aakin (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentine").
Down (L5 1668) is annexed from the Kzin.
Raargh and Vaemar are captured by rag-tag remnants of a Resistance comprised of former slaves loyal to Chuut-Ritt and young Kzintosh. There is a large Extermination faction at this time. Dimity Carmody returns to Wunderland (MKW10 "Music Box").
????
Contact with Grogs (TKS, "The Handicapped". Date is unknown, but Beowulf Shaeffer knows about Grogs in "Ghosts", and sessile Grogs are being shipped in "Grendel").
2427
Margrave (L Serpens / 27 Serpens) discovered by J. Margrave Julland. His ship crashes on the surface, and the eight survivors vanish(Game).
Arthur Guthlac is stranded in a storm on a hunting trip on Wunderland (MKW11 "Three at Table")
2428
Monkeyshine and Furlessface are born to Nora Argamentine (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentine").
Vaedmar enters Munchen University (MKW10 "Music Box").
2430
Vaemar-Riit, a Kzin noble escorts a groups of Human and Kzin students into the unexplored Grossgeister Swamp on Wunderland to investigate the wreckage of an old Kzin ship (MKW11 "Grossgeister Swamp").
2431
Yankee Clandeboye is involved in the Virgo Fiasco. Commander Shimmel takes the Virgo Volunteers to 59 Virginis, in 12 Hyperships, and loses 780 men. Clandeboye is charged with mutiny (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentine").
2433
The MacDonald-Rishaii Peace Treaty concluded (MKW4 "The Survivor").
Search for buried nuclear materials and Tree-of-Life on Wunderland (MKW11 "Catspaws").
2435
Teacher-of-Slaves and his Jotoki slaves complete rebuilding of Shark in the ruins of Hssin, with the brain-damaged but surviving Nora (MKW4 "The Survivor"). The Shark is finally able to travel to W'kkai (BD+50 1725 / HDraper 88230 / Gleis-830), deep in the sphere of the Patriarchy. Teacher-of-Slaves assumes the name Grraf-Nig.
2436
Major Yankee Clandeboye is ordered to track down his cousin, Nora Argamentine. Grraf-Nig begins to suspect the W'kkai Kzin of treason against the Patriarch (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Lt. Nora Argamentine").
2437
Graff-Nig's plans for escape fall through, and he is renamed "Conundrum-Prisoner". Major Yankee Clandeboye returns to Earth with Nora's diary. Nora's myth begins to grow (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Nora Argamentine").
2438
Hwass-Hwasschoaw is returned to W'kkai. He purchases Nora and her children. Major Yankee Clandeboye is assigned to Barnard's Starbase. Graff-Nig begins to translate stolen materials sent by Ulf Reichstein Markham for the Patriarch. Nora is taken to Barnard's Starbase with Clandeboye (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Nora Argamentine").
2439
"Trolls and Bridges" is established to teach the UN Navy how to run a war outside ARM channels. "The Myth of Nora Argamentine" is published (MKW6 "The Heroic Myth of Nora Argamentine").
2443
The Rover and her crew travel to explore a unique star. The Kzin get the Hyperdrive (MKW1 "Iron"; date is "10 years after the war").
Ulf Reichstein Markham is 50 years old; he dies. Engaged by Tyra Nordbo, the Rover and her crew travel in search of the final fate of Peter Nordbo. They encounter a powerful Tnuctip artifact built around a black hole. They rescue Nordbo (MKW3 "Inconstant Star"; date is "10 years after the war").
*Sometime after this, the Patriarch's Clan seek out females to breed in the ability to fly in Hyperspace into their bloodline (MKW9- "Fly-by-Night", Ringworld's Children)
about 2445*
Human and Kzin expeditions to Pele (MKW9 "Pele").
Organlegging occurs on Tiamat (MKW9 "Windows of the Soul").
2449
Second Man-Kzin War begins by diversionary attacks on Sigma Draconis and Barnard's Star (Game).
2456
Angel's Pencil colonizes Sheathclaws, 90 LY from Earth. The colony is comprised of Humans and Kzinti Telepaths (MKW9 "Fly-by-Night", Ringworld's Children).
2475
Second Man-Kzin War ends. The Kdatlyno are freed (Game).
about 2490*
Humans aboard the Hopewell make first contact with the Pierin near Zeta Reticuli (Game).
Third Man-Kzin War begins (Game dates this as 2491-2531).
about 2495*
Wunderlanders carve the Canyon on Warhead. Third Man-Kzin War ends. Warhead (p Eridani) annexed, and renamed Canyon (Ringworld Engineers; Game).
about 2500*
Manned Ramscoop obsolete (TKS).
Contact with various other aliens, some as part of the Kzin Empire (TKS).
The Cormorant is captured by Kzinti, Dr. Marybeth Bonet is the only survivor (MKW8 "Galley Slave" dating is speculative due to insufficient internal information),
Locklear is captured by Kzin looking for the Eridani worlds, and stranded on an uncharted world orbiting a black dwarf. There he encounters sentient female Kzin and telepathic Neanderthal (MKW1 "Cathouse"; MKW2 "Briar Patch". Date is a guess, but is shortly before the 4th War).
The Callisto is on a spy mission behind the "Chord of Contact" when it crashes on a planet, only to be met by a Kzin ship scouting for the Last Fleet heading to attack Margrave, under Admiral Lehruff. The crew of Callisto free the crypto-Ptavv Guerdoth's Pruntaquilan Balladeer Coquaturia (MKW5 "Hey Diddle Diddle").
Fourth Man-Kzin War begins by a series of kamikaze attacks on human ships guarding the Eridani worlds (Game. Note that the Game dates for the fourth war are 2560-2584. However, because of the information in "Flatlander" and MKW9 "Fly-by-Night", I have moved it up.
Harvey Mossbauer's family is killed and eaten (Ringworld Engineers).
Sinbad Jabar lands on Meerowsk, and invades the Hareem of the Patriarch's Voice. His stuffed body is placed on display ("Procustes").
2500
Contact with the Puppeteers made by a human named Pierson. They are sometimes referred to as Pierson's Puppeteers (TKS, Fleet of Worlds).
2505
Covenant of Shasht is signed on Fafnir/Shasht at then end of the Fourth Man-Kzin War.
2550
Nessus enters Human Space (Ringworld, Fleet of Worlds).
about 2560-2575
Sometime during these years is a time of peace between the fourth and fifth wars.
2562*
Major stock market crash (77 years before "A Relic of Empire").
about 2570*
Harvey Mossbauer lands on Kzin and sets a bomb in the Hareen of the Patriarch. He is taken intact and stuffed for display (Ringworld Engineers).
2575*
End of the Fifth Man-Kzin War ("Prisoner of War").
2589
Home is recolonized (Game).
2595*
A single Kzin ship attacks the Solar System ("Prisoner of War". Date is a guess, although the five Man-Kzin wars are mentioned).
2600
The Sixth Man-Kzin War begins (Ringworld says there have been six Man-Kzin Wars, and that the last was 250 years before - i.e., c2600).
2615
Humans occupy Kzin during war ("Flatlander" says "thirty years ago").
2618*
Sixth Man-Kzin War ends (Date is a guess, estimated from a date 40 Kzin years prior to "The Soft Weapon").Jason Papandreou is a volunteer gunner in an Earth Warship.
The war is highly unequal, in Earth's favor. Two Kzin worlds are annexed (Fafnir and ???). The Kzin are placed on probationary status, allowed to possess NO weapons other than police restraint devices ("The Soft Weapon").
2622
Beowulf Shaeffer becomes chief pilot for Nakamura Lines ("Neutron Star").
2627
Dr. Richard Schultz-Mann begins to track Stage Trees across Known Space (12 years before "A Relic of Empire").
2633
Gregory Pelton buys a No.2 General Products Hull ("Flatlander").
2639*
Stock Market Crash. Nakamura Lines goes belly-up. Beowulf Shaeffer is given passage to We Made It and some expectations of back pay ("Neutron Star"). Richard Schultz-Mann encounters pirates ("A Relic of Empire" - Date is unknown, but takes place before the Puppeteers leave Known Space. For lack of any more specific information, I have placed it assuming that the stock market crash that "Captain Kidd" threatened to cause was the one that collapsed Nakamura Lines).
2640
Nakamura Lines goes bankrupt; no back-pay for Shaeffer ("Neutron Star").
2641
Beowulf Shaeffer is hired by the Puppeteers to investigate BVS-1, (Called by Brennan and Truesdale Phthsspok's Star). Sigmund Ausfaller plants a bomb aboard Shaeffer's ship Skydiver ("Neutron Star"). This is the last time Carlos Wu is off Earth for nine years ("The Borderland of Sol").
Shaeffer hires a ghostwriter, Ander Smitarrasheed ("Crashlander").
2645
Puppeteers develop the Quantum II Hyperdrive (TKS).
Beowulf Shaeffer is again hired by the Puppeteers to test-fly a QII Hyperdrive vessel. He discovers that the core of the Galaxy is exploding ("At the Core" - four years after "Neutron Star", Fleet of Worlds).
The Puppeteer Exodus begins, causing a massive stock market crash (TKS, Fleet of Worlds, Ringworld (date estimated as 2646), "At the Core").
Shaeffer meets Elephant (Gregory Pelton) and Sharrol Janss (an analyst for Donovan's Brains Inc). Shaeffer and Elephant travel to the most unique world in Known Space and discover what can harm a General Products Hull ("Flatlander" - shortly after "At The Core").
Shaeffer and Sharrol move in together in Nome ("Crashlander").
2648
Shaeffer is traveling to Gummidgy when the Kdatlyno artist Lloobee is kidnapped ("Grendel". Four years after "Flatlander", but seven years after Nakamura Lines collapses).
Intrabelt Mining sells three tugs to the Sixth Congregational Church of Rodney ("At the Borderland of Sol").
2649
Tanya Wu is born ("Procustes").
2650
Nessus leads a crew of Puppeteer raised human Colonists on an expedition to the Grw'oth world aboard the Explorer (Fleet of Worlds).
In Known Space, the UN authorities assign Sigmund Ausfaller to search for the Puppeteers. In response, the Puppeteer agents try to destabilize the Fertility Laws (Fleet of Worlds). According to Ringworld, it is about this time that the Fertility Laws are revised to allow more Birthrights. Eventually, they can be purchased, fought for in the Arena, or won by Lottery.
The Colonist crew of the Explorer seeks for the truth about their past. They find the Long Pass. Eventually the Colonists declare their independence from the Fleet of Worlds, and rename NP-4 "New Terra" (Fleet of Worlds).
Louis Gridley Wu is born. Ship disappearances around Sol. Beowulf Shaeffer is stranded for three months on Jinx, where he runs into Carlos Wu. Dr. Julian Forward is practicing piracy using a neutronium mass created at the behest of Nessus ("The Borderland of Sol", Fleet of Worlds - Mention is made of this being 2 years after "Grendel"; however, it is "eight years or thereabouts" after Neutron Star. Internal evidence in Fleet of Worlds indicates that this might take place as late as 2652).
2651
Some sort of Incident with the Kzin? (Game).
26
52New Terra leaves the Fleet of Worlds, to seek its own destiny (Fleet of Worlds).
2654
Beowulf Shaeffer and Sharrol move to Fafnir with Carlos Wu and Feather Filip ("Crashlander").
2655
Shaeffer meets up with Ander Smitarrasheed. Smitarrasheed kills Ausfaller in order to gain Carlos Wu's nanotech autodoc. Shaeffer and Sharrol emigrate to Home ("Ghost" / "Crashlander" framing story. Date is estimated based on internal evidence).
Nessus and the Papandreous run into some hostile Kzinti ("The Soft Weapon". 12 years after "At the Core", 40 Kzin-years after the last war?).
2660*
The Sheathclaws Kzin Fly-by-Night encounters "Martin Wallace Graynor" aboard the Odysseus bound for Home (MKW9- "Fly-by-Night").
2670
Louis Wu studies stories of the Puppeteers in college (Ringworld).
2684
Puppeteer Fleet of Worlds leaves Known Space ("The Soft Weapon").
about 2700
Expansion, Consolidation, Relative Peace (TKS).
Thruster Drives replace fusion drives (but not entirely) (TKS).
2830
Louis Wu makes the first contact with the Trinocs ("There is a Tide" - Louis Wu is 180 years old, hence born in 2650).
2836
UN-Trinoc Treaty (Game).
2850
RINGWORLD.
Louis Wu is 200 years old. In exchange for the Quantum II Hyperdrive, Louis Wu, Teela Brown and Speaker-To-Animals begin their journey to the Ringworld in Nessus' ship, the Lying Bastard.
2851
The Lying Bastard impacts on Ringworld (Date given in Ringworld Throne).
about 2852
Teela Brown leaves with Seeker.
Louis Wu and Speaker-To-Animals return to Known Space.
The Conservative faction takes over the Puppeteer government and ousts the Hindmost (Ringworld Engineers).
Wembleth born to Teela and Seeker (Ringworld's Children has this at 80 falans, but this would be 2872 or so).
2853
Halrloprillalar dies (Ringworld Engineers).
2854
Chmee, formerly Speaker-To-Animals, takes Louis Wu on a tour of Kzin (Ringworld Engineers).
Louis Wu visits the hunting park outside Blood-of-Chwarambr City at the invitation of Chtarra-Ritt ("Ringworld Throne").
The ships in the Ringworld halo arrive starting about this time (Ringworld's Children).
2874
A large body impacting the sun sets the Ring off-center (22 falans before the Hot Needle of Inquiry arrives on Ringworld - Ringworld Throne).
2878
THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS.
Louis Wu is kidnapped by a Puppeteer to return to the Ringworld (It's been "22 years" since he's seen a Puppeteer; however, the date is given specifically in Ringworld Throne).
2880
Louis Wu, Chmee, and the Hindmost reach the Ringworld aboard the Hot Needle of Inquiry. Louis Wu boils a sea to stop a plague of mirror Sunflowers (Ringworld Engineers; date given in Ringworld Throne).
2881
Ringworld stability restored (Ringworld Engineers. Date given in Ringworld Throne: "The sun moved....").
Louis and Chmee leave Map of Mars on Hidden Patriarch (Ringworld Throne).
Teela leaves the spill mountains ("Over 40 falans ago" - Ringworld Throne). At some point Teela reaches the Citadel of the Penultimate Rebel Protector and is exposed to Tree-of-Life (Ringworld's Children).
2882
Chmee and Louis Wu part company, with Chmee leaving for the Map of Earth (Ringworld Throne).
2883
Louis left Harkee and Kawa (Ringworld Throne).
2884
The Reds made peace with the Grass Giants (Ringworld Throne - "30 falans ago").
2885
Grass Giants gathered with the Reds and Sea People and shared maps (Ringworld Throne - "24 falans ago").
2892
A combined expedition of Wunderland and Jinx humans, a Kzin captain, and the Wunderkzin Telepath Peter Robinson, organized by the Institute of Knowledge travel to a huge 9 mile wide Thrint/Slaver stasis box located by the Puppeteers. They find the giant telepathic Amplifier that ordered the "Suicide Night"/"Last Day" event (MKW10 "Peter Robinson").
THE RINGWORLD THRONE.
Valavirgillin gathers together a party of Vampire Hunters. Louis Wu visits Weaver Town. The first Kzin ships arrive at the Ring, they are accompanied by, or closely followed by, an ARM war fleet. These are stopped by the Hindmost and Bram.
2893
The Hindmost and Louis Wu defeat the remainder of Teela Brown's Protectors, as well as Bram and Ann. Tunesmith, the newly made Ghoul Protector, joins them (Ringworld Throne).
RINGWORLD'S CHILDREN
Louis and Acolyte (a child of Chmee), deal with the "Fringe War", and help Tunesmith and the Pak Protector Proserpina to deal with the outside threat to the Ring. The Ring takes flight.
2895
(Son-of-Chmee and an ex-ARM named Quinn travel to Ringworld). (Referred to in Ringworld "encyclopedia").
about 2900-3000
Expansion. Known Space becomes the Thousand Worlds (TKS).
Longevity strongly effects society (TKS).
3101
Minor incident on Margrave ("Safe at Any Speed").
about 22,500
Expected arrival of the Core Wave Front. End of most life in Known Space..... presumably.
about 120,000
Loeffler's ship comes close enough to Hooker's ship to destroy its life system ("The Ethics of Madness").
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