Universal Century

The Universal Century Timeline last from 2023 to 2384 A.D. It's a realistic, non-ASB, Clancy-inspired geopolitics-focused timeline (may be to eventful to be completely realistic though).
Timeline created on July 4-5, 2023.
== Timeline ==
=== 2023 ===
* July, 6, 4:49 AM : Zaporijia powerplant nuclear incident ; Kiev and Moscou mutually accused of the incident ; the radioactive cloud contaminates Poland by 10 AM ; NATO Article 5 is triggered. A no fly-zone is declared over Ukraine 1991 borders territory by NATO to be enforced by July 9, 0:00 ; Turkey autorises the crossing of Bosphorus Strait to NATO ships under 20,000 tonnes ;
* July 9-August 13 : NATO intervention in Ukraine ; the Russian Black Fleet is sink by a combined NATO battlegroup (suffering five NATO ships sunk by air, ground and ship launched hypersonic missiles and nuclear submarines ; NATO-sponsored military intervention of Poland in northern Ukraine ;
* August 13 : Atomic bombing of Snake Island ; in retaliation, the Kremlin launch a 15 kt tactical nuke at Snake Island (inhabited), destroying the small island ; Russian Army retreat from the Republics of Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea
* August 29 : Minsk III
* August 2023-2027 : Second Russian Civil War and Partition of Russia in fifteen republic including the Siberian Republic and the Baïkal Fedderation (Chinese puppet state) ; Polish Army occupies Kaliningrad ; Finnish Army conquers Karelia ; China annex Vladivostok
* CSTO is disbanded, Armenia joins NATO later in the year after the resolution of its territorial disputes with Azerbaijan
=== 2024 ===
* March : Annexion of New Manchouria by China
* start of the South African Civil War
* UN intervention in Haïti
* Severoslavia is recognized by 171 UN states
* November, 3 : The 'Fight of the Century' opposes billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg in the UFC Apex in Enterprise, Nevada. The match is the world most viewed until Al'Khader-Freeman in 2043. Zuckerberg won the match at the fourth round with what will become known as the 'Zucker Punch' meme on the Internet.
=== 2024-2054 ===
* Expansion of Turkish sphere of influence in Albania, Kosovo, Libya and Caucasus ; East Mediterranea become a Turkish dominion
=== 2025 ===
* December, 16 : Lunar landing of Artemis IIIhttps://spacenews.com/nasa-planning-to-spend-up-to-1-billion-on-space-station-deorbit-module/, the first since 1972 ;
* December, 21 : Severoslavia joins E.U.
=== 2026 ===
* February, 3 : Severoslavia joins NATO
* April 5-June 19 : US invasion of Venezulahttps://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R44841.pdf : 
** casus belli :
*** Chinese ownership transfert of La Blanquilla (uninhabited 64 sq/km island) from Venezula in exchange of debt forgivness and installation of Chinese strategic bombers in Gran Roque ; the crisis is widely compared to the Cuban Missiles Crisis
*** installation of a high technology chinese oil refinery in Venezuela with the presence of (unrefined) natural ressources vital to the Chinese economy, Venezuela having 303 billions barrels of oil (first world reserve)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Venezuela and China having only 25 billionshttps://www.worldometers.info/oil/china-oil/ and needing 10% of that total per year ;
*** a Puerto Rican fishing boat, the Vasco de Gamma, is allegedly sunk by a chinese submarine, 9 of 17 onboard are killed ; Chinese officials accuses the Gamma to be a CIA SIGINT/ELINT spy ship, which is denied by the White House ;
** forces :
*** US Armed Forces : 150,000-200,000 troops are deployedhttps://www.insider.com/venezuela-what-a-us-military-intervention-would-look-like-2019-6 after a four-day SEAD operations by over 550 aircrafts (bombers, AWACS) ; Guantanamo Bay and Puerto Rico serve as the main naval bases for the invasion ; 30 frigates and corvettes and 10 littoral combat ships are deployed to fight the Venezuelian Navy along with three carrier groups ; Gran Roque and Blanquilla are taken by the US Marines Corps and occupied by US Armed Forces as a first beachhead to Venezuelian costs as helicopter bases and field naval bases for the landing ships ; La Orchilla island is held back by Venezuelian soldiers for six weeks, delaying the invasion of the mainland ; 300 Apache and Cobra helicopters are deployed for ground attack and close air support missions ;
*** Venezuelian Armed Forces : 423,000 troops, reserve and paramilitary ; Venezuelian Air Force is destroyed without a fight ; Russian made Venezulian air defense systems shout down fourteen US planes, including three F-22, before being destroyed ; the Venezuelian army is destroyed over 22 days of ground fight, but the militias, numbering 950,000, fight a guerilla warfare against the US Army and US Marine Corps ; numbering over 4,000 ManPADs in the militia's inventory, USMC and US Army suffers the loss of over a hundred and fifty helicopters
** operations 
*** January-April : US mass ships in Guantanamo Bay and Puerto Rico
*** April 5-6 : USMC take Gran Roque and Blanquilla ; a firefight occurs between CCCP Chinese and Americans personnal for the first time since 1953 and the Korean War, on the airfield of the strategic bombers ;
*** April 5-May 17 : Venezuelian troops on La Orchilla repel USMC helicopters and troops for a month and a half, becoming a propaganda victory for the regime ;
*** May 22-26 : SEADs operation against Venezuelian Air Defenses who collapse ; 14 US planes are down by a mix of Russian and Chinese mad flak defenses ;
*** May 27-28 : USMC landing in the Gulf of Venezuela, the largest American amphibious assault since 1944 with 50,000 troops over 36 hours ; 678 Americans are killed during the operation (for 15,000 Venezuelian troops) ; Venezuelians soldiers, along with civilians, are nicknamed 'Zulus' by the US Soldiers
*** June 7 : during military operations into Maracaibo Lake, a fleet of 13 US transport and support helicoptes (Chinhook and Apache) are destroyed by a lightning storm ;
*** June 16-19 : Siege of Caracas and exil of Nicolas Maduro to Saudi Arabia ;
** outcome :
*** Juan Gaido is instigated as President of Venezuela by the Provisional Authority set up by the White House but the country is divided between several military factions unrecognized by the UN, Libyan wise
*** start of the Venezuelian civil war that will last of 11 years, Gaido bill be assassinated in a car bomb 7 month after the siege of Caracas ;
*** US lost 1,500 troops during the first phase of the war, but the guerilla warfare in the center and south of the country will claim the lives of over 8,000 US troops and nearly 200 fixed and rotary-wing aircrafts thanks to the proliferation of man portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons ;
*** proclamation of Bolivar's Republic in southern and central Venezuela by general Teresa Gonzalez ; Gonzalez became a worldwide meme especially on 4chan and reddit alike where she became some sort of anti-capitalist and/or anti-globalist Messiah ;
=== 2026-2031 ===
* Humanitarian crisis of South Africa ; over 3 millions Afrikaners leave South Africa, the majority (2.26 millions) goes to Australia, the rest to Argentina, Irelande and the Baïkal Federation ;
=== 2029-2031 ===
* Israel-Iran War or Euphrates War : Israel is supported by NATO ; Mossad uses an Iranian falseflag attack on Turkey to provoke Article 5 but fails ; Israel tries to apply for NATO membership but the vast majority of member countries refuses (except Canada, US and UK) ; Israel and Iran armed forces arrives at a stalemate around the Euphrates ; partition of Iraq between the Greater Israel (west side) and UIR (Unified Islamic Republic) with the 'Peace of Ryad' on August, 1rst 2031 bokered by Saudi Arabia ; war-torned Syria is partitionned between US sponsored Kurdistan, Israeli colonies and Turkish occupied zones in northern Syria
=== 2033 ===
* November, 30 : Alexandretta incident : start of the Turkish Federation-Greater Israel border clashs over former Lebanese and Syrian countries ;
=== 2036 ===
* October, 14 : French aircraft carrier Richelieu is launched at Saint-Nazaire and begin sea trialshttps://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/air-defense/le-porte-avions-francais-de-nouvelle-generation-sera-mis-a-la-mer-en-2036-1203904
* India annexes Sri Lanka which became its main spaceport of the next centuries ; China support the Tamil Liberation army in Sri Lanka by recognizing the Tamil Eadam state and providing intelligence and guerrilla (RPGs, AK-47s) weapons to the Tamils ; the annexion is not recognized by most countries and UN ;
=== 2038 ===
* October, 11 : French aircraft carrier Richelieu is commissionned into the French Marine Nationalehttps://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-services/air-defense/le-porte-avions-francais-de-nouvelle-generation-sera-mis-a-la-mer-en-2036-1203904
=== 2045 ===
* August, 29 : IBM presents Blue Dream, the first self-aware Artificial Intelligence ;
=== 2047 ===
* July, 12 : SpaceX built and NASA commissionned Ares One orbits Mars before Chinese ; humiliation for China, Paramount leader of China, Wang Qinghong, risks his 2048 reelection
* December, 4 2047-January 17, 2048 : Annexation of Taiwan by China and Sino-American War ; 
** neither Japan nor AUKUS nor South Korea intervene in the ensuing battle despite huge diplomatic pressure by the US ; 
** Chinese aircraft carrier Hunan is sunk by a L.A. class sub ; American aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford is sunk by five hypersonic missiles ;
** Taiwanese Armed Forces are overwhelmed by Chinese Marine infantry and air superiority from Chinese naval aviation and continental air force ; US declares and enforces a no-fly zone over Taiwan ; 
** December 31 : Congress refuse to intervene further, POTUS send the Marines : 10,000 are deployed over a two weeks period on the island ; 
** January 17 : China loses 15,000 soldiers during the military operations ; Chinese special forces occupies TSMC, POTUS orders the launch of an air-launch cruise missile on the factory to destroy it and prevent the technology to fall into Chinese hands after SEALs failed to detonate a MOAB from inside the factory ; 50 SEALs are killed during the operation ; 
** start of the World's Microchip Crisis of 2047-2064 ; Chinese victory ;
=== 2049-2055 ===
* Second American Civil War ; secession of Texas ; the self-proclaimed Republic of Alaska progressively aligns its diplomacy (and oil economy) with Chinese interests ;
* Second Korean War and Reunification of Korea as the RUK (ReUnified Korea), officially still named DPRK ; migration crisis from south Koreans to Japan and Australia with over 8 millions refugees, including 3.6 millions in Australia
* Second Sino-Indian War
* the American Civil War and the clashs inside NATO members and allies (Israel, Greece, Turkey) provoke the collapse of NATO ;
* European Union starts its own defensive alliance under germano-french leadership called the EATO ;
* California collapses ; three millions californians are relocated to Australia ;
=== 2065 ===
* Collapse of the Turkish Federation and 'New Barbary Wars' in Mediterranea and Black Sea ; the Richelieu battlegroup hunt down several Turkish drone-carriers
* Australia became the most stable and populous (politically unified) Western country
=== 2101 ===
* settlement of Mariner Valley Colony
=== 2162 ===
* August, 29 : Black August ; a Carrington-class solar storm roams several planets of the solar system including Earth and Luna with a force of -1,200 nT ; the consequences over world economy are about 7.25 trillion UN$ with the destruction of several satellites, energy infrastructure and computer systems ; this event plunged the UN into a global crisis while Mars is spared and its 2.5 million citizens continues their technological progress and independence over food and oxygen production, having to rely on themselves as the interplanetary fleet is grounded and the telecommunications are jammed for over five years ; Black August is also the first time over five billion people on Earth see the night sky, an event which would have a deep and long-lasting consequence over culture, migration (to less night polluted areas) and municipality policies as several cities, including megalopolis as BosWash and Tokyo (numbering around a 100 million each, most of them having never see the nightsky), cut off their lights once a month between 0:00 and 2:00 or investing in alternative public light systems (infrared) ; after this event, several hundred billion of UN$ will be invested into R&D in telecoms, material technology and electronics to avoid such another event in the future ;
=== 2176 ===
* July 4 : Mars Independence : heavily influenced by Muskianism, the Libertarian Republic of Mars (MLR) is proclaimed on the constitutionnal model of the United States, on the tricentinary of the American Independence Day
* UN becomes UNEL (United Nations of Earth and Luna) with five major colonies along the Lagrangian Points ;
=== 2200s-2350s ===
* colonization of the SatEx (for Satellites Extérieurs) mainly around Jupiter (Jovian Federation) Saturne (Saturnal Union) ;
=== 2216 ===
* October, 18 : launch of the first interstellar spaceship, the UNS Freeman Dyson, to Alpha Centauri ; the fifty size crew is to be hibernated for most of the travel ; 
=== 2262-2362 ===
* Reign of Elizabeth V, the longest since Elizabeth II
=== 2297-2309 ===
* thanks to breakthrough in nanomaterial, construction of the first six space elevator on Galapagos (Pacific Federation) and Mapaca (Brazil), São Tomé and Príncipe and Lake Victoria (United States of Africa), Singapour and off the coast of Central Sulawesi in the Gulf of Tomini
* to avoid the association with 'Venerian' (also derived from Venus), inhabitants of Venus vote to 73.81% tu use the demonym Venusian ;
=== 2309 ===
* July 27 : 2309 Solar Storm ; another Carrington-class hit several space infrastructures, better prepared since the one in 2162 ; the storm was accurately predicted over five days before thanks to Chandraskatta's Algorithm, a pattern recognition mathematical model in the chaotic solar activity allowing to predicts coronal mass ejections and storms ;
=== 2362-2367 ===
* First Helium Wars between the Jovian Federation (supported by SatEx) and UNEL ; Jovians and Saturnians are labeled 'Heliumonarchies'
=== 2384 ===
* August, 27 : destruction of StarStream, the main Jovian Helium elevator to the orbital refinery, by a UN Special Forces stealth commando ; start of the Second Helium War
* August 29 : According to the UN Bureau of Demographics, the 'Heliospheric Community' reach 10 billion people (10,140,263,200) by that date :
** SolState (or Cisbeltic System or Tellurate) : 9,883,232,000
*** Mercurian Concordate : 140,000
*** United Venusian Cities (UVC) : 12,000,000
*** Earth (UNEL) : 9,086,000,000
**** Luna (UNEL) : 120,981,000
**** Lagrangian O'Neill Colonies : 50,000,000 (under UNEL mandate) from Island-I to Island-IX
*** Martian Libertarian Republic (MRL) : 609,111,000
**** Martian O'Neill Cylinders : 5,000,000
** Beltic League : 18,000,000
** SatEx (or Transbeltic System or Heliumate) : 239,031,200
*** Jovian Federation : 148,981,000
*** Saturnal Union : 90,000,000
*** Neptunian Authority : 25,000
*** Uranian Worker's Union : 23,500
*** Pluto : 1,200 (under international jurisdiction of the Treaty of Pluto and Charon of 2201)
**** Charon : 500