Timeline (Extinction)

This is a timeline of major events that occur in Scenario: Extinction.
== The Early Floods ==
=== 2025 ===
*May 6th: The last resident of Tangier, Virginia commits suicide when a storm destroys his house. 
*December 12th: Kivalina, Alaska is permanently submerged after severe tidal flooding.
=== 2037 ===
*March 14th: The government of Kiribati is officially dissolved and many of its former citizens are evacuated to refugee settlements in Fiji.
*March 16th: Tuvalu follows Kiribati and orders for the evacuation of all citizens to Fiji before May 1st.
=== 2040 ===
*April 18th: The Tampa Sea Wall is destroyed in a bombing and the city is inundated with water, causing an estimated 80,000 deaths.
== The Resource Wars ==
=== 2059 ===
*September 14th: The Sudan begins to cut the water supply to Ethiopia by redirecting the Blue Nile in order to conserve as much water as possible. This is condemned by the surrounding countries and the Ethiopian government orders Sudan to release their grip on the water supply within 14 days. 
*September 28th: With a complete refusal issued by the Sudanese government, Ethiopia declares war and invades the southeastern corner of Sudan.
=== 2062 ===
*February 4th: The Russian government is dissolved and the President evacuates to a small territory located in the far north Ural Mountains. 150 million people are left stateless and soon attempt to illegally enter richer countries such as Finland and Poland. Many are simply gunned down by border patrol. Moscow becomes a war zone controlled by gangs armed with the former assets of the Russian army. 
=== 2085 ===
*By this year, the majority of countries have collapsed or experienced significant economic and societal decline.
== The Comet ==
=== 2099 ===
*January 3rd: Thanatos, the Comet which strikes Nicosia 21 years later, is detected for the first time using advanced sky scanning technology.
=== 2107 ===
*May 18th: the United States government suffers from a significant breach of information which exposes the federal government, in cooperation with richer state governments, for unfairly distributing the available resources and purposely forcing most other states into poverty and dissaray. 
*July 4th: The United States Civil War begins after Colorado declares independence and Fort Carson is seized. Multiple poor states in the central plains and south follow.
*July 7th: Alaska declares independence. 
*July 8th: Mississippi and Kansas secede. 
*July 10th: the United States government orders all secessionist states to nullify their declarations of independence, threatening to declare martial law. 
*July 12th: The President of the United States declares martial law. Georgia and Montana both consider this an illegal action taken without the permission of the states, and threaten to declare the union null and void.
== Post-Comet ==
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