Timeline (XYZeed's Future)

== 2020s ==
2020s: Electric vehicles see more sales than ever before, space tourism slowly makes a comeback from the 2000s, though of course it is still for the very rich
Early 2020s: Fortnite becomes much less popular than it had been in the previous decade, moon landings make a comeback , and self distancing rules are strict. 
2020: The coronavirus greatly disrupts socioeconomic activity around the world, sports events all over the world are cancelled, and only a few continue, Minecraft Dungeons becomes a huge flop, becoming Mojang's most unsuccessful game yet
Mid 2020: The Australian bushfires are finally being brought under control, mostly due to large amounts of rain, the UK enters a recession due to not having as much economic support as they did before Brexit, the USA experiences a brief economic recession with the coronavirus causing multiple problems within the nation. The economic recession was strong but only short term, and the economy rapidly returns to normal when the coronavirus pandemic ends.
June-August 2020: The coronavirus finally starts to slow down in the north hemisphere, due to its vulnerability to warm temperatures, with an exception to the United States. However, it speeds up in the Southern Hemisphere.
June 2020-July 2020: The coronavirus begins to spread like a wildfire within Peru, and its total active cases quickly surpass 1,000,000 by the end of the month, due to many states within the USA opening back up, a second wave within the nation occurs, and cases skyrocket. This, however, does not last long and is eventually taken care of. Unlike the first wave that occurred in Spring 2020, which was centered around mainly major cities such as New York, the second wave is centered around more rural areas that were less restrictive in social distancing during the first wave in the Spring. Florida and Texas become the new epicenter for the disease.
June 13th, 2020: Spain's active cases dip below 25,000 as lockdown begins to lift gradually, although the disease has caused a new economic crisis to arise, piling on top of the previous one which happened from 2008-14
June 21st, 2020: Peru enters a full-on lockdown, with its original ending date being at July 21st
July 1st, 2020: Italy eases restrictions for its citizens and the majority of them return back to daily life
July 4th, 2020: A particular riot within the city of Minneapolis sees several large buildings burned to the ground, causing nearly 50 deaths. As the US gets pushed closer to chaos, citizens have to choose whether or not to introduce reforms to the police system
Mid-Late July 2020: Cases of the coronavirus continue to rise rapidly in rural parts of the United States while most urban areas of the United States such as New York have the virus under control. Face covering mandates begin to take place throughout the United States and other parts of the world.
July 15th, 2020: The Peruvian coronavirus lockdown is extended to August 21st as cases have only slightly begun to drop, currently standing at around 2,500,000
Late July 2020: Donald Trump decides to let the riots slide, even after the gruesome one that occurred a couple weeks before. This angers millions of liberals and more people begin to fear that the nation might fall apart
July 17th, 2020: NASA is able to rake up the funds to launch its Mars 2020 mission even in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. This mission aims to study the habitability of Mars for the future of human exploration.
July 28th, 2020: The amount of coronavirus cases in the United States peaks at 2,258,193.
July 30th, 2020: Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe is released on Disney+. Because of nostalgia from its older viewers, it becomes a huge success gaining millions of views in a single day.
August 2020: Even more riots spread across the USA as many people have become enraged by Trump’s decision on ignoring the riots
Early August 2020: Iran is caught, by a few US government officials, planning to launch another attack on the USA. Donald Trump threatens Iran with war if they continue to go on with their plans
August 8th, 2020: The English Premier league begins, although stadiums are only allowed to be at half capacity at first
August 19th, 2020: An assassination attempt is done on Donald Trump in US capital of Washington DC by 3 unknown presumably liberal individuals. As chaos begins to spiral out of control, nearly half of all US cities are being forced to impose strict curfews
August 21st, 2020: Peru eases restrictions for the first time, however, social distancing rules are still very strict, so it does not experience a second wave like the USA
Late 2020: The first hyper loop ever built becomes operational in Abu Dhabi, UAE, the United states continues to experience curfews, riots, and protests for several months, Teslasuit haptic gloves, special gloves made for vr that allow its user to feel different materials, are released to the public, at a whopping price of $5,000 
September 2020: Around this time, the coronavirus is no longer a huge worry within the US, the major worry now is the riots that have caused the nation to nearly descend into chaos. Students are able to attend school in person with some social distancing measures.
September 10th, 2020: The NFL starts its 2020 season with the kickoff game, The amount of coronavirus cases around the world peaks at 6,927,630. The NFL requires fans to wear masks and social distancing measures take place.
October 2020: English Premier League stadiums are allowed to be at full capacity again, Star Wars: The Mandalorian sees its 2nd season arrive on Disney+
October 8th, 2020: Mount Nyiragongo in Congo erupts, and it completely dwarfs the Taal volcano eruption that happened earlier in the year as 101 people are killed by it
October 27th, 2020: Controversy strikes the UK when the government, under Boris Johnson, censors a newspaper that was critical of him
November 3rd, 2020: Joe Biden wins the 2020 United States presidential election with 301 electoral votes. Donald Trump loses with 237 electoral votes. This made many hardcore republicans angry, with theories that the election was rigged for Joe Biden to win. 
November 6th, 2020: Black Widow is released (delayed due to the coronavirus) and it eventually racks up a box office of $801 million
December 1st, 2020: Bulgaria and Croatia enter the EU's eurozone "waiting room"
December 11th, 2020: Voyager 1 stops functioning.
2021-2025: Tensions between Iran and the USA continue to rise.
2021-2022: Joe Biden introduces several reforms to the United States, such as building hundreds of new nuclear power plants, and raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour
January 2021: Peru has mostly recovered from the coronavirus situation
January 20th, 2021: Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th US president.
January 31st, 2021: Exactly 1 year after Brexit first happened, the "Scottish Brexit Riots" started. These riots were for the cause of Scotland's independence, since they did not agree with what Brexit was doing to the UK
February 2021: The 2019-21 coronavirus outbreak is officially declared over after most nations have slowed it down to the point where people can go back to their daily lives, under president Joe Biden, the US government makes several reforms to the police system that help to keep racism and police brutality at a minimum. Riots all throughout the USA begin to dissipate
February 5th, 2021: British Parliament approves of a second independence referendum for Scotland.
February 7th, 2021: The NFL's Super Bowl LV sees the Baltimore Ravens defeat the New Orleans Saints 31 to 21.
March 5th, 2021: The second Scottish independence referendum is held, and the results are that 68% of its citizens want independence from the UK. Thus, the Kingdom of Scotland becomes an independent nation
March 30th, 2021: The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is launched
April 11th, 2021: 6ix9ine passes away due to drug overdose
Mid 2021: The newest Mario game, "Super Mario Dimensions", is gradually released throughout the world. It introduces a feature where Mario can enter a new dimension with new properties and enemies within a level, the UK enters an economic depression, after its economy plummets with the loss of Scotland and EU membership.
May 17th, 2021: Liverpool wins the English premier league narrowly against Manchester United, with a final score of 6 to 5
May 26th, 2021: The shortest total lunar eclipse of the century occurs, lasting a mere 14 and a half minutes
June 11th, 2021: Jurassic World: Dominion is released to theaters, and it concludes the Jurassic World trilogy and the Jurassic Park series altogether
June 25th, 2021: Manchester experiences a terrorist attack done by an unknown group, they set off several bombs and kill thousands of people. They mysteriously left afterwards, and the British government began to look into this terrorist group to see if they could find out more about them
July-August 2021: The 2021 Summer Olympics are successfully held in Tokyo, Japan, after being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mid July 2021: Development on the Mad Box video game console continues after it was supposedly "cancelled" back in 2019
Late 2021: Costa Rica fully completes their goal of becoming carbon neutral, thousands of Kurdish rebels begin to help Rojava in the Syrian civil war, and they also make attempts to combine their military strengths and technologies to defeat the opposing sides
October 2021: NASA's Artemis 1 mission is delayed to November 2022 due to safety concerns
October 2nd, 2021: Liberal Democrat Ed Davey is elected the UK's new Prime Minister
October 15th, 2021: Russian military units begin sending in reports that Rojava had started to build up a nuclear arsenal, most likely due to their rising economy, which was also a cause of support from other Kurdish regions
October 31st, 2021: Knives Out 2, the sequel to the 2019 film Knives out, is released to theaters. It does not do as well as its previous film due to critics complaining about it having a weak plotline compared to the first movie, although its box office still manages to be twice that of its budget
November 18th, 2021: The Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia is finally complete, and it is opened to the public in the following month
December 2021: It was confirmed that Rojava had been working on nuclear weapons, as well as several of their Kurdish allies. Several nations such as China begin intervening
December 4th, 2021: Efforts of other nations prove futile when Rojavan military units nuke the city of Damascus. This disaster ends up killing 200,000+ people over time (indirectly and directly)
December 9th, 2021: A devastating mega tsunami over 400 feet high sweeps over the coast of Washington and Oregon, costing almost 10,000 lives and millions of dollars in damage
December 17th, 2021: Avatar's sequel, Avatar 2, is released to theaters. It gains an even larger box office than its predecessor, with a whopping $3.5 billion USD
2022: Citizens all over the UK are losing their jobs, and unemployment reaches a crisis point. The British government proposes multiple ways to bring the economy back up, Emoni Bates joins the Detroit Pistons and he absolutely revolutionizes the team, as well as setting several new NBA records, the majority of smartphones by now make use of 5G technology, 3D printed cars enter production
January-February 2022: Rojava is condemned by countries all around the world for nuking Damascus
January 2022: The terrorist group that attacked Manchester back in June 2021 reveal themselves to be the "Imperial British Regiment" (IBR). Their goal was to turn the UK into a totalitarian imperialistic absolute monarchy, by attacking cities until the current government surrendered. The UK government tried arresting members of the IBR, but they had ways of escaping that were unusually clever
January 2nd, 2022: Syria becomes too weak after Damascus had gotten nuked, and it gives independence to the Republic of Rojava
February-March 2022: Spain's economic crisis has turned into a depression, and dozens of riots pop up asking for economic reforms
March 4th, 2022: Minecraft: The Movie is released, taking Minecraft to the cinemas. But, similar to most video game movies, it does not do too well
April 9th, 2022: The hit EDM-pop song "Searching..." is released on this date, and it quickly enters into the top songs of the year and even of all time
April 10th, 2022: Titanic 2, a near exact replica of the Titanic, sets sail. It does not end up crashing into an iceberg like its predecessor, despite there actually being an abundance of ice on its journey at this time. This is due to the advanced 21st century technology that is integrated within the ship
May 2022: Hover taxis are first implemented into the city of Dubai, and they prove helpful, because they help to decrease ground traffic significantly. However, they are extremely expensive, and other cities/nations don't implement them for years and years
May 6th, 2022: Black Panther 2 sees its release to theaters, and it surprisingly almost gains 2x the box office that its previous movie did
May 7th, 2022: Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez responds to the economic depression by implementing the world's first UBI system. Spain's economic crisis is over in months, and in fact, its economy continues to go up rapidly
May 13th, 2022: Marine Le Pen takes over the position of president of France. She was against the UBI movement and said that the French economy was doing "just fine". In fact, most people believed her, leading to her election
May 30th, 2022: A vaccine for the coronavirus is invented by German scientist Harald zur Hausen
July 17th, 2022: A beautiful meteor shower is produced by the comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
July 29th, 2022: The 5th and final Indiana Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Maze of Mysteries, is released, although it does the poorest out of all the other Indiana Jones movies
August 1st, 2022: Voyager 2 stops functioning, about 2 years after Voyager 1
August 14th, 2022: Denmark is the second nation to introduce UBI
Late 2022: All nordic nations except for Iceland proceed to introduce a UBI system, and in the coming years, other regions will follow in their footsteps
November 1st, 2022: NASA launches its Artemis 1 mission, a test mission to start up their Artemis program. This mission ends up being successful and the Orion spacecraft does not malfunction as it would have if it were launched a year earlier
December 18th, 2022: Brazil defeats Argentina 2-1 in the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals
December 20th, 2022: Harrison Ford passes away at age 80
2023: The Swedish economy begins to swell to the point of Sweden having the 10th largest economy in the world, and this inspires tens of countries to introduce UBI in order to stabilize their economies, a hyperloop known as the "Heartland Hyperloop" is built and opened next to Interstate 70 in the state of Missouri, foldable phones have practically become obsolete by now
January 5th, 2023: The UK finally establishes a UBI system in order to bring their economy back up
January 28th, 2023: Only a few months after developing his vaccine, Harald zur Hausen passes away due to lung cancer.
February 5th, 2023: The Kansas City Chiefs go against the San Fransisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, a repeat of the Super Bowl 3 years earlier. The Chiefs also win the Super Bowl just like they did in their previous Super Bowl.
March 24th, 2023: Due to the success of its newest movie, a new Phineas and Ferb series is started up that is similar to its predecessor except that Phineas and his friends are now highschoolers
April 12th, 2023: Minecraft update 2.0.0 is finally released, and it is the biggest update in Minecraft history. 20+ new mobs are added, such as Rhinoceroses, Elephants, Snakes, Dragons, and much more. Different dog breeds are added, Cherry, Elm, and Cyprus trees are added, as well as multiple new materials and ores. Even new game modes are added! This update absolutely revolutionizes Minecraft and makes it a bigger and more widespread game than ever before.
April 19th, 2023: A brain implant that is able to vastly improve human memory and treat Alzheimers is successfully tested, with plans to release it to the public (at a high price) in the next few years
Mid 2023: A new computer virus, known as Coronavirus 2.0, begins to arise. It spreads itself through emails, that when opened, releases the virus into the user's computer. Coronavirus 2.0 then begins to delete most files inside the computer and replace them with insane amounts of clutter that eventually lead to the user's computer being overloaded. It wrecks havoc on the digital world and millions scramble to find a way to stop this virus.
Summer 2023: The Mad Box is first released, and it completely crushes the Xbox Scarlett and PlayStation5 (both released in 2020) to the dust, as it quickly becomes the best selling video game console of all time
June-July 2023: Multiple employees working for Nickelodeon began complaining that they were being treated very poorly and had harsh working conditions. As a result, these employees went on strike, costing Nickelodeon millions of dollars and shutting down the Nickelodeon TV channel
June 2023: Rojava begins sending military units to other Kurdish regions in order to conquer them and give independence to Kurdistan. Most of these regions gladly accept being part of their territory, but the non-kurdish regions within these nations fight back
July 9th, 2023: A horror game called "Trapped" is released on the Mad Box, and it eventually turns out to be one of the most successful games of the decade. In this game, you are trapped in a tiny, confined, dark room where you never know what's gonna come out at you when you attempt to move around it. The player is not even given any light source, so they must trust their instincts
July 11th, 2023: Nickelodeon re-airs its TV channel after the strikers were either fired or they decided to continue working
Late 2023: As with most other nations that introduced UBI, the UK's economic depression begins to halt, Apple begins to release its iPhone 14 all around the world, which is revolutionary, due to its extreme durability and 2k camera quality, Nickelodeon was still hard hit from their June/July strike incident, and they struggled to compete against other programs such as Cartoon Network, which in turn struggled to compete against streaming services like Netflix and Disney+
October 2023: Fighting has gotten very severe within Iraq and Iran, with thousands of casualties every single week. This is due to the struggle for Kurdish independence
October 30th, 2023: Being influenced by its neighbors, Iceland is the 21st country to introduce UBI
November 2023: A new subgenre of EDM, known as Virustep, begins to arise. It is named after the coronavirus epidemic that occurred a few years earlier, and it is meant to be a post-apocalyptic feeling version of dubstep music, it is found out that Rojava is developing an even larger arsenal of nukes than before
December 1st, 2023: Bulgaria enters the Eurozone and adopts the euro as its official currency
December 19th, 2023: Baghdad is nuked by the Rojavan military, forcing Iraq to give up its Kurdish land to Rojava. At this point, nations from all over the world began to intervene. Fears of WWIII beginning continue to arise
December 22nd, 2023: The third Avatar movie reaches theaters, surprisingly still managing to have an increase in box office revenue compared to its previous movies
December 31st, 2023: Disney extends copyright law so that Steamboat Willie won’t enter the public domain until 2030
Mid-Late 2020s: Sci-fi movies begin to define the cinema industry, with successful movies and series such as Avatar and the newly released Beyond gathering more interest towards these types of films
Mid 2020s: The coronavirus vaccine invented in 2022 has become widespread in most developed nations. Developing nations take a little longer to distribute this vaccine, people begin wanting to "bring back" the roaring 20s, and this part of the decade sees the rapid rise in popularity of electro swing music. Wolfgang Lohr, the Swingrowers, and Parov Stelar are among the most popular electro swing artists, the world economy slowly recovers following the coronavirus outbreak, the majority of AI entities are at a level where they can pass the Turing test, automation begins to grow to worrying levels, and nations that don't make use of UBI begin to struggle, it is becoming easy to reverse aging in species such as mice and fruit flies, VR video games begin to approach traditional video games in popularity
2024: The Detroit Pistons have clearly become the best team in the NBA, losing only a few games by a matter of 1-6 points, baseball begins to gain popularity in Canada for unknown reasons, rivaling hockey by the end of the decade. This trend does spread to other nations in coming decades as baseball becomes one of the world’s most popular and celebrated sports, the difference in economic power between nations with and without UBI becomes even more drastic, especially in the United States, which continues to struggle with its economy due to the aftermath of the coronavirus and BLM riots (as they were frequently called by now), China becomes the world's largest economy, the Thirty Meter Telescope, and extremely powerful land-based telescope, is fully operational, a few hyperloops are opened in different locations around the world, AI reaches the halfway point to reaching human intelligence
Early 2024: Rojava spreads its influence into Iran and Turkey, striking fear into their citizens. However, they do not surrender and fight their best against Rojava
January 2nd, 2024: The creator of Coronavirus 2.0, Entin Ivanovich, is found and arrested. He is a 35 year old male from Moscow, Russia. Coronavirus 2.0 was later shut down for good.
January 10th, 2024: Windows '24 is released as the successor to Windows 10, being even more secure and fast, along with new features that are heavily intertwined with AI
January 29th, 2024: Doc Savage, a new movie based off of the 1975 film and the series of novels written in the 30s and 40s, is released to theaters. It's box office is moderate, gaining only slightly more than the movie's budget
February 2024: The USA begins sending soldiers to the Middle East to fight in the Rojava conflict
March-April 2024: The Detroit Pistons prove just as successful in March Madness as they do normally, winning the championship game in April against the San Fransisco Golden State Warriors
March 3rd, 2024: GPT-4 is the first AI to generate a high school essay that would have otherwise been given an A
March 17th, 2024: Queen Elizabeth II is diagnosed with Melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer. Many worry that this could lead to the end of her life, after Putin steps down as the president of Russia, he appoints communist Pavel Grudinin as the next president of Russia
March 31st, 2024: The Wall Street Crash of 2024 occurs after the US is unable to carry the burden of its previous disasters any longer, and stock markets all over the country begin to plummet. Fears of a second "Great Depression" begin to arise
April 2024: Russian president Grudinin agrees to continue Putin's wishes of controlling more Ukranian territory, and he along with the military begin to plan a full scale invasion of Luhansk and Donetsk
May 3rd, 2024: Donald Trump is elected as the Republicans’ primary presidential candidate by a landslide against Marco Rubio
May 16th, 2024: Rojava's capital, Ar Raqqah, is captured by Russian military units and the Rojavan conflict is put to a short standstill
June 3rd-8th 2024: A disastrous tornado outbreak unfolds in the US states of Nebraska and Kansas. Several supercells equipped with F3 or higher tornadoes are spotted, and thousands of people are killed
June 4th, 2024: The "Great Rojavan Massacre" is committed against the Russian soldiers in Ar Raqqah who were unaware of Rojava's plans against them. Over a thousand soldiers were killed in this massacre and it was too late for any of Russia's allies to come and save them. However, this distracts Rojava from fighting against Turkey and Iran, as they had highly militarized their borders by now
June 20th, 2024: The Parker Solar Probe becomes the first spacecraft to successfully reach the atmosphere of the sun
June 22nd, 2024: A mysterious sinkhole appears in Miami, Florida, which commences to swallow almost a dozen homes. 8 deaths are a result of this disaster
July 2024: Sweden's economy passes that of Brazil's, become the 9th most economically prosperous nation in the world, hundreds of Rojavan soldiers are shot and killed at the borders of Turkey and Iran, and without any nuclear bombs left in their arsenal, the conflict slowly turned into a standoff
July 17th, 2024: VR first allows people to sense touch not only on their hands, but on their face as well, so that you could feel wind blowing past you in-game. This is allowed with the release of the Oculus VRMask
August 15th, 2024: Half-Life 3 is finally released after a 20 year gap from the release of its last game. it is originally available on the Xbox Scarlett (released 2020), but it eventually spreads to Steam, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 5. It is even playable on several VR systems towards the later half of the decade
Late 2024: The United States's economic crisis reaches breaking point, and many people begin to agree that they had entered the second Great Depression. Unemployment had also soared to hazardous levels, Russia was forced to postpone their invasion of Ukraine due to setbacks from the Rojavan conflict
September 2024: SpaceX launches the world's first ever crewed mission to Mars. The ship does not have any problems and over the course of several months it travels to Mars. Astronauts aboard the BFR rocket exercise heavily in order to keep their muscles in shape, as being in 0g can significantly weaken muscle tissue to the point where people can't even walk
September 12th, 2024: The Democrats elect Joe Biden as their primary presidential candidate in hopes that he will be re-elected
September 24th, 2024: Artemis 3 lands on the moon along with its crew, Matthew Dominick and Anne McClain, the latter being the first woman to be on the moon, and both being the first humans to land on the moon since 1972. The crew stays for around a week and then proceeds to return back to Earth. Approximately every year after this, NASA continues to send humans to the Moon
October 1st, 2024: "Weird Al" Yankovic gets in a three way car crash that paralyzes him, eventually leading to his death later in the week
November 3rd, 2024: Joe Biden is re-elected as US president after defeating Mike Pence in the 2024 presidential election. He was re-elected nearly with only 4 more electoral votes than Mike Pence.
December 24th, 2024: A memorable sci-fi movie named "Beyond" is released on this day. It is set in the far off year of 6712 where a crew of 10 people venture to new galaxies using faster than light technology. It is extremely successful, becoming the highest grossing film of the entire year
January 1st, 2025: Puerto Rico becomes the 51st state of the USA.
May 11th-15th, 2025: The Imperial British Regiment starts committing more attacks on British cities, including Sheffield, Cardiff and continuing the attack on Manchester.
June 13th-20th, 2025: Iran unleashes a series of 5 naval attacks against American military bases in Iraq. Donald Trump proposed war 5 years earlier, but president Joe Biden decides to negotiate instead.
March 15th, 2026: The world population surpasses 8 billion.
Late 2020s: Most developing nations finally start seeing the coronavirus vaccine being distributed within their borders
April 27th, 2027: US president Joe Biden is assassinated by Trump supporter Phillip Shelton in anger of his extended presidency. Vice President Kamala Harris then becomes the 47th, and first female president of the United States
June 4th, 2027: Controversy arises after Conservatives and some Liberals declare Kamala Harris‘s presidency undemocratic and declare that they need another election. 
June 10th, 2027: The Constitution Party is the first Conservative Group to support Kamala Harris.
December 1st, 2029: A Simpsons episode released on this day receives lots of complaints. Millions of viewers describe it as "highly disturbing" and the next day it is taken off air. This is seen as a huge setback for the Simpsons, and many wonder if it will even be cancelled.
December 13th, 2029: FOX announces that it will no longer be airing the Simpsons.
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