Timeline

==Housekeeping==
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=== Checklist ===
To Do
* Andrea joining the Ranger track
* Dashes to colons
* Mark-X to Mark X
* Q4 or 4th Quarter? 
Done
* Max, Chuck; Jackson, Logan; Derek, Scott, Herc, Pier; Sarah Frost, Marshals; Lily's birthday; Team Triton Tasmania; Steven Moore
==1820 - 1989==
===1820 - 1949===
1820
* First Eady arrives in Australia at Newcastle; moved to Port Macquarie when it opened the following year (1821)
1931
* February 17: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Sheep)
* Klaus Gottlieb born (München, Germany)
1932
* February 4: III Olympic Winter Games begin (New York, United States)
* February 06: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Monkey)
* February 15: III Olympic Winter Games (New York, United States) come to an end
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Monday))
* July 30 - August 14: Games of the X Olympiad (Los Angeles, United States)
1933
* January 26: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rooster)
* Klaus Gottlieb and family move from Germany to Winterthur, Switzerland, after the National Socialist Party comes to power
1934
* February 14: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dog)
* Adina Gottlieb born (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland)
* May 27 - June 10: Campionato Mondiale di Calcio (FIFA; Italy)
1936
* January 29: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rat)
* February 6 - 16: Olympische Winterspiele 1936 (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany)
* August 1 - 16: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936 (Berlin, Germany)
1938
* January 31: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Tiger)
* June 4 - June 19: Coupe du Monde 1938 (FIFA; France)
1939 - 1945
* World War II, the Holocaust
* 1940: 第五回オリンピック冬季競技大会 (V Olympic Winter Games; February 3 -12; Sapporo, Japan) and XII olympiadin kisat (Games of the XII Olympiad; September 21 to October 6; Finland); cancelled
* 1942: FIFA World Cup; cancelled
* 1944: V Giochi olimpici invernali (V Olympic Winter Games; Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy), London Olympics (England); cancelled
* 1944: June 17 - 19: the Jubilee Celebrations of IOC (Lausanne, Switzerland)
* 1946: FIFA World Cup; cancelled
1947
* January 22: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar; Year of the Pig)
* March 12, 1947: Truman Doctirine introduced (United States); Cold War ‘begins’
1948
* January 30 - February 8: V Giochi Olympische d'enviern (St. Moritz, Switzerland (German, Italian, Romansh))
* February 10: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rat)
* July 29 - August 14: Games of the XIV Olympiad (London, United Kingdom)
1949
* January 29: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ox)
* May 23: Germany splits into East and West Germany
===1950 - 1969===
1950
* February 17: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Tiger)
* April 7 - 10: Happy Easter! (Gregorian Calendar)
* April 2 - 8: Hag Sameah v' kasher! (Passover; Jewish Calendar)
* June 17: Ramadan mubarak! (Ramadan; Islamic Calendar)
* June 24 - July 16: IV Campeonato Mundial de Futebol (FIFA; Brazil)
* July 17: Ramadan mubarak! (Eid-al-Fitr (end of Ramadan); Islamic Calendar)
* October 17: Holly Eady born (Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia)
1951 
* February 6: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rabbit)
* March 23 - 26: Happy Easter! (Gregorian Calendar)
* April 5: Elise Javert born (Becket siblings' maternal grandmother; Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée, France)
* April 21 - 27: Hag Sameah v' kasher! (Passover; Jewish Calendar)
* June 6 - July 6: Ramadan mubarak! (Ramadan, Eid-al-Fitr (end of Ramadan); Islamic Calendar)
1952
* January 27: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon)
* February 14 - 25: Vinter-OL (VI Olympic Winter Games; Oslo, Norway)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Friday))
* April 11 - 14: Happy Easter! (Gregorian Calendar)
* April 10 - 16: Hag Sameah v' kasher! (Passover; Jewish Calendar)
* May 25 - June 24: Ramadan mubarak! (Ramadan, Eid-al-Fitr (End of Ramadan); Islamic Calendar)
* July 19 - August 3: Kesäolympialaiset/Olympiska sommarspelen (Games of the XV Olympiad; Helsinki, Finland (Finnish, Swedish)) 
1953
* February 14: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Snake)
1954
* February 03: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Horse)
* October 30: Lars Gottlieb born (Munich, Bavaria, Germany)
* June 16 - July 4: FIFA Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft Schweiz/Campionato mondiale da ballape (Switzerland (German, Italian, Romansh))
1955
* January 24: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Sheep)
1956
* January 6: Camille Langlais born (Domrémy-la-Pucelle, France)
* January 26 - February 5: VII Giochi olimpici invernali (Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy)
* February 12: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Monkey)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Wednesday))
* November 22: Games of the XVI Olympiad begin (Melbourne, Australia) 
* December 2: Birgit Gottlieb (nee Schreiber) born (Lörrach, Germany)
* December 8: Games of the XVI Olympiad come to an end (Melbourne, Australia)
 1958 
* February 18: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar; Year of the Dog)
* June 8 - 29: Världsmästerskapet i Fotboll Sverige (FIFA; Sweden)
 1960 
* January 28: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rat)
* February 18 - 28: VIII Olympic Winter Games (Squaw Valley, United States)
* February 28: Ramadan mubarak! (Ramadan begins; Islamic Calendar)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Monday))
* March 29: Eid mubarak! (Eid-al-Fitr (end of Ramadan); Islamic Calendar)
* April 15 - 18: Happy Easter! (Gregorian Calendar)
* May 19: Tor Reid born (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
* July 6 - 10: Championnat Européen du Football (EuroCup; France)
* August 25 - September 11: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade (Italy)
* September 18 - 25: Giochi Paralimpici Estivi (Italy)
* Thomas Nguyen's future parents emigrate from Biên Hòa, Vietnam, to the Sydney metropolitan area
1962 
* February 5: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Tiger)
* April 28: Thomas Nguyen born (metropolitan Sydney, Australia)
* May 30 - June 17: Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol - Copa Jules Rimet (FIFA; Chile)
* Dona Reid born (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
1963
* January 25: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rabbit)
* Ori Cohen born at home to a Jewish family in a very Jewish neighbourhood (possibly the Lower East Side, New York City, USA)
* Annie Gray born (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
1964
* January 29 - February 9: Les IXes Olympische Winterspiele (Innsbruck, Austria (French, German))
* February 13: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon)
* June 17 - 21: Eurocopa España (EuroCup; Spain)
* October 10 - 24: 第十八回オリンピック競技大会 (Games of the XVIII Olympiad; Tokyo, Japan)
1965
* February 02: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Snake)
* Zachariah Cohen born (possibly the Lower East Side, New York City, USA)
* Andrew Swan born (Scotland, United Kingdom)
* Holly Eady begins a relationship with a man twelve years her senior, becomes pregnant
1966
* Michael Jones born (Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia)
* July 11 - 30: FIFA World Cup (England)
1967
* February 09: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Sheep)
* December 4: Théo Martin born (Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
1968 
* January 30: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rabbit)
* February 6 - 18: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver (Grenoble, France)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Thursday))
* June 5 - June 10: UEFA European Football Championship (Italy)
* September 8: Richard Becket born (Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
* October 12 - 27: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968 (Mexico City, Mexico)
* November 4 - 13: המשחקים הפאראלימפיים ה-3 (III Paralympic Games; Tel Aviv, Isreal)
1969
* February 17: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rooster)
* Xiong Li-hua born (Mainland China)
===1970 - 1979===
1970 
* February 6: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dog)
* May 31 - June 21: Copa Mundial de Fútbol México (FIFA; Mexico)
* July 1: Thurayya Hassan (nee Bihi) born (Mogadishu, Somalia)
* December 7: Masao Mori born (Minamitane, Kagoshima, Japan)
1971
* January 27: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Pig)
* After two miscarriages, the Cohen family welcomes a baby girl, Lesham (possibly the Lower East Side, New York City, NY, United States)
 1972 
* February 3 - 13: 第十一回オリンピック冬季競技大会 (XI Olympic Winter Games; Sapporo, Japan)
* February 15: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rat)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Tuesday))
* Charles Becket born (Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
* April 20: Georges Lapointe born (Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
* June 14 - June 18: Europees du Fußball-Europameisterschaft (EuroCup; Belgium (Dutch, French, German))
* Birgit Gottlieb's parents killed in an automobile accident
* August 2 - 11: Paralympische Sommerspiele (Heidelberg, West Germany)
* August 26 - September 10: Olympische Sommerspiele (Munich, West Germany)
1973 
* February 3: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ox)
* August 15: Dominique Lapierre born (Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée, France)
1974
* January 23: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Tiger)
* June 13 - July 7: Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (FIFA; West Germany)
* December 8: Suha Arale born (Mogadishu, Somalia)
1975 
* February 11: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rabbit)
* April 30: Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war; Thomas Nguyen watches on television; members of his extended family have been killed during the war, others have fled Vietnam as refugees
* July 19: Sumako Mori born (Minamitane, Kagoshima, Japan)
1976
* January 31: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon)
* February 4 - 15: Les XXIes Olympische Winterspiele (Innsbruck, Austria)
* February 21 - 28: Paralympiska vinterspelen (1st Winter Olympic Games for the Disabled; Örnsköldsvik, Sweden)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Wednesday))
* April 15: Sarah Frost born (Stuart Town, Australia)
* June 16 - June 20: Evropsko фудбалско v фудбалу (Yugoslavia (Bosnian/Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene, Serbian))
* July 17 - August 1: Les XXIes olympiques d'été (Montreal, Canada)
* August 3 - 11: Torontolympiad - 1976 Olympiad for the Physically Disabled (Toronto, Canada)
* Birgit Gottlieb enters Technische Universität Berlin; meets and begins courting Lars Gottlieb
1977
* February 18: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Snake)
* March 16: Scott Hansen born (Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
1978
* February 7: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Horse)
* Scott Hansen and his parents move to the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus when his father, Major General Donovan Hansen, takes command of British military forces stationed there; Scott's mother, Colonel Tess Hansen, serves as aide-de-camp
* June 1 - 25: Copa Mundial de Fútbol (FIFA; Argentina)
1979
* January 28: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ram)
* February 16: Angela Hansen born (Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)
===1980 - 1989===
1980
* January (late): Thomas Nguyen begins his studies at the Australian Defense Force Academy (based off this )
* February 1 - 7: Paralympiske vinterleker 1980 (II Winter Paralympics; Geilo, Norway)
* February 14: XIII Olympic Winter Games begin (Lake Placid, United States)
* February 16: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Monkey)
* February 23: XIII Olympic Winter Games come to an end (New York, United States)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Friday))
* May 18, 1980: Mount St Helens erupts with a volcanic explosively index of 5 (Washington, United States)
* June 11 - June 22: Campionato Europeo di Calcio (EuroCup; Italy)
* June 21 - 30: Paralympische Zomerspelen (VI Paralympic Games; Arnhem, Netherlands)
* July 19 - August 3: И́гры XXII Олимпиа́ды (Games of the XXII Olympiad; USSR)
* November 10: Peacekeeping convoy wrecked in Pyla, Cyprus, by a landmine; Major General Donovan and Corporal Tess Hansen killed and driven into shock, respectively; Hercules "Herc" Hansen born.
* November ~12: Donovan Hansen's wedding ring recovered from the wreckage of the convoy, returned to Tess Hansen
* December ~10: Thomas Nguyen graduates at the top of his class
* Fenella Reid born (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
1981
* February 5: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rooster)
* October 1: Lars Gottlieb marries Birgit Schreiber (München, Germany)
* Zachariah Cohen falls into a gang, later killed in a nasty turf war along with some of his peers as well as a couple Triad members. One of the injured party is the local boss's daughter
* Ori Cohen tracks down those responsible for his brother's death, runs into the Triad boss's daughter who's looking to avenge her own injustice: the death of her fiancé. She eventually contracts him as her lieutenant
* Luna Pentecost born
* Former Corporal Tess Hansen and her sons move to Australia for a fresh start
1982
* January 25: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dog)
* May 19: Dietrich Gottlieb born (Munich, Bavaria, Germany)
* November 8: Jake Orenstein born (Clovelly, New South Wales, Australia)
* June 13 - July 11: Copa Mundial de Fútbol – España (FIFA; Spain)
* July 6: Sabine Bachar born (Berlin, Germany)
* Aakash Singh born (Manchester, England, United Kingdom)
1984
* January 14 - 20: Paralympische Winterspiele 1984 (III Winter Paralympics; Innsbruck, Austria)
* February 2: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rat)
* February 8 - 19: XIV zimske олимпијске игри (XIV Olympic Winter Games; Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian))
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Wednesday))
* June 12 - June 27: UEFA Championnat Européen de Football begins (EuroCup; France)
* June 17: International Games for the Disabled begins (New York, United States, Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom) 
* July 22: International Games for the Disabled comes to an end (New York, United States, Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom) 
* July 28 - August 12: Games of the XXIII Olympiad (Los Angeles, United States)
* August 13: Karla Gottlieb born (Munich, Bavaria, Germany)
* September 4: Caitlin Lightcap born (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA)
* Shara Rise born (CA, USA) 
1985
* February 20: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ox)
* February 27: Meadow Cascarret born (Dorset Vale, South Australia, Australia)
* March 3: Hannah Orenstein born (Bondi, New South Wales, Australia)
* May 13: Rhys Jones-Morgan born (Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom)
* September 29: Caden Fallon born (Scone, New South Wales, Australia)
* December 30: Stacker Pentecost born (Tottenham, London, England, United Kingdom)
* Camille Langlais begins sponsoring Birgit Gottlieb's research
* Gottlieb family moves to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, into a home Birgit Gottlieb 'inherits' from a family member (in reality, provided by Camille Langlais); Birgit Gottlieb establishes laboratory facilities in the city
1986 
* February 9: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Tiger)
* March 10: Trinity Moss born (as Timothy Moss) (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
* April 26: Chernobyl disaster (Pripyat, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) >ALC recalls something about the Kaidanovskys potentially having family who helped contain the meltdown<
* May 3: Edan Reid born (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
* May 21: Vigsai Singh born (Manchester, England, United Kingdom)
* May 31 - June 29: Copa Mundial de Fútbol México (FIFA; Mexico)
1987
* Fenella and Edan Reid's mother, Annie Gray, leaves Torquil Reid and gives him with full custody of Edan and Fenella Reid
1988 
* February 17: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Monday))
* November 2: Elizabeth Davies born (Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia)
1988
* January 17 - 24: Paralympische Winterspiele (IV Paralympic Winter Games; Innsbruck, Austria)
* February 13: XV Olympic Winter Games begin (Calgary, Canada)
* February 17: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon)
* February 28: XV Olympic Winter Games come to an end (Calgary, Canada)
* June 10 - June 25: UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1988 (EuroCup; West Germany)
* September 17 - October 2: 서울 夏季 올림픽 (Games of the XXIV Olympiad; South Korea)
* October 15 - 24: 서울 夏季 패럴림픽 (VIII Paralympic Games; South Korea)
1989
* February 6: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Snake)
* March 17: Jamie Walker born (Cairns, Queensland, Australia)
* April 2: Olivia Marsden born (England, United Kingdom)
* June 9: Hermann Gottlieb carried to term by a surrogate mother, Thurayya Hassan ("Success"), and born via c-section (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany); introduced to Lars Gottlieb, who saves him from dissection by Birgit Gottlieb
* June 10: Hermann Gottlieb brought to the Gottlieb family home and introduced to his siblings, Dietrich Gottlieb and Karla Gottlieb, who immediately suspect something is different about him ("A Little Brother?")
* June 13: Dietrich Gottlieb interrupts playtime with Karla Gottlieb to check on a clearly distressed Hermann Gottlieb and is reprimanded by Lars Gottlieb ("Tea Party")
* September 21: Dietrich Gottlieb discovers Hermann Gottlieb's wings ("Changeling")
* December 2: Dietrich Gottlieb takes it upon himself to care for Hermann Gottlieb after it becomes clear Birgit Gottlieb is neglecting him ("Forgotten")
* December 9: Hermann Gottlieb is six months old ("Half-birthday")
* December 25: Hermann Gottlieb's first Christmas; he receives gifts from his siblings and a star mobile from Lars Gottlieb ("Christmas")
* Duke Pentecost born (Tottenham, London, England, United Kingdom)
==1990 - 1999==
1990
* January 12: Hermann Gottlieb's grandparents, Klaus and Adina Gottlieb, visit for the first time since Hermann's birth; they are not allowed to hold or touch him because of his supposed sensory processing disorder ("Visit")
* January 19: Newton "Newt" Geiszler born (Berlin, Germany); Cameryn Lapasa born (Kensington, New South Wales, Australia)
* January 27: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Horse)
* March 27: Hermann Gottlieb's eating solid foods, though he remains lighter than a typical baby his age and is seemingly unable to focus his eyes on nearby objects ("Finger Food")
* May 27: Hermann Gottlieb continues to refuse to crawl ("Forward")
* June 8 - 9: Dietrich Gottlieb and Karla Gottlieb convince their grandparents to help them properly decorate Hermann Gottlieb's room; Klaus Gottlieb suggests Lars Gottlieb divorce an increasingly unstable Birgit Gottlieb; Lars Gottlieb flatly refuses ("Pink + Blue")
* June 8 - July 8: Coppa del Mondo FIFA Italia (FIFA; Italy)
* August 7: Iorangi Parata born (Auckland, New Zealand)
* August 26: With Hermann Gottlieb still refusing to crawl, Dietrich Gottlieb and Karla Gottlieb try to teach him to walk ("Upright")
* August 27: Lily Prince born in hospital (Bonny Hills, New South Wales, Australia)
* September 3: Michelle Ramos born (Sacramento, California, USA)
* September 15: Karla Gottlieb helps Birgit Gottlieb bathe Hermann Gottlieb and is disturbed by her mother's attitude toward her brother ("Waterproof")
* October 1: The Human Genome Project officially begins ()
* October 3: East and West Germany reunify (Germany)
* October 17: Hermann Gottlieb demands (silently) Karla Gottlieb hold him ("Up")
* October 28: Hermann Gottlieb trips on a rug and fractures his arm; Lars Gottlieb explains his hollow bones to Dietrich and Karla Gottlieb ("Fall")
* November 1: Nate Barclay-Harvey born (Point Piper, Australia)
* November 30: Jackson Jones born; paternal grandmother Holly (aka 'Nanny') saves him from being named 'Eugene' (Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia; "Well-born")
* December 16: Karla Gottlieb overhears Birgit Gottlieb trying to teach Hermann Gottlieb bird calls and an argument about Birgit's treatment of Hermann between Birgit and Lars Gottlieb ("Trill")
1991
* January 9: Karla Gottlieb and Dietrich Gottlieb make a concerted effort to teach Hermann Gottlieb to talk ("Colouring") 
* February 9: Sasha Kaidanovskaya born as Alexandra Kovalenko (Ukraine)
* February 15: Hermann Gottlieb says his first real word ('No'); Hermann, Karla Gottlieb, Dietrich Gottlieb, and Lars Gottlieb attend a party ("Commands"); Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Goat)
* March 19: Lò Nàng born (China)
* May 18: Hermann Gottlieb says Karla Gottlieb's name for the first time as they play together inside ("Rainy Day")
* May 19: Dietrich Gottlieb and Karla Gottlieb take Hermann Gottlieb outside and let him take off his shirt in defiance of Lars Gottlieb's rules ("Backyard")
* June 7: Lars Gottlieb catches Hermann Gottlieb outside with his shirt off, explains to Karla Gottlieb and Dietrich Gottlieb the dangers of letting him show his wings ("Red Block")
* December 26: Collapse of the Soviet Union
1992
* February 4: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Monkey)
* February 8 - 23: Les XVIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver (XVI Olympic Winter Games; Albertville, France)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Saturday))
* March 25 - April 1: Les Ve Jeux paralympiques d'hiver (V Paralympic Winter Games; Albertville, France)
* May 17: Tendo Choi born (Beijing, China)
* June 10 - June 26: Europamästerskapet i fotboll Sverige 1992 (EuroCup; Sweden)
* July 25 - August 9: Juegos Olímpicos d'estiu de 1992 (Games of the XXV Olympiad; Barcelona, Spain (Spanish, Catalan))
* September 3 - 22: Juegos Paralímpics d'estiu de 1992 (Spain)
* October 18: Logan Jones born (Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia)
* December 28: Birgit Gottlieb tests Hermann Gottlieb's knowledge of bird songs ("A Song of Frost")
* Lennon Riley born (Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia)
* Melody Kern born (Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia)
* Nikolaas Vos born (Koffiefontein, Free State, Free States, South Africa)
1993
* January 26: Hermann Gottlieb learns the meaning of the word 'monster' long after overhearing Lars Gottlieb refer to him as such ("Inhuman")
* Kelsie Vang born (California, USA)
* Richard Becket and Dominique Lapierre meet in Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée, France, and begin dating.
1994
* February 12 - 27: Vinter-OL 1994 (XVII Olympic Winter Games; Lillehammer, Norway)
* March 10 - 19: Paralympiske vinterleker 1994 (VI Paralympic Winter Games; Lillehammer, Norway)
* April 6: Luna Pentecost, Tamsin Sevier, and Stacker Pentecost offer their services as babysitters and discuss their dreams of being pilots with neighbors Thurayya Hassan and Zaahira Hassan ("Stars Come Out")
* June 9: Hermann Gottlieb celebrates his fifth birthday with a stargazing trip outside of Garmisch-Partenkirchen ("The Stargazer")
* June 17 - July 17: FIFA World Cup (United States)
* July 7: Dafne Naude born (Koffiefontein, Free State, South Africa)
* Maarten Vos born (Koffiefontein, Free State, South Africa)
* Zaahira Hassan born (Tottenham, London, England, United Kingdom)
1995
* January 4: Lars Gottlieb announces Hermann Gottlieb will be homeschooled by a tutor; Hermann protests ("Homeschooling")
* January 31: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Pig)
* February: Richard Becket and Dominique Lapierre marry and honeymoon
* March 6: Camille Langlais visits Birgit Gottlieb's labs in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, chooses Bastien Gottlieb's name, and consults with Birgit on the plans for cloned Valets; Suha Arale, Bastien Gottlieb's surrogate mother, has her final checkup before his birth ("Patronage")
* April 1: Bastien Gottlieb carried to term by his surrogate mother, Suha Arale, and born (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany,); a clone of Hermann Gottlieb, his animal genes have been deactivated but remain in his DNA 
* April 3: Bastien Gottlieb brought to the Gottlieb family home and introduced to his siblings; immediately given his lifelong nickname 'Bunny' ('Hasi' in German) ("Bunny")
* May 7: According to Lin Chao's birth certificate, this is when he was born (the Lingyin Temple in Zhejiang Province, China) 
* May 23: Anais Dufour born to a surrogate (Besançon, France) 
* June 15: Cory Ross born (Winnipeg, Canada) 
* August 2: Blossom Collocott born (Townsville, Queensland, Australia) 
* November 7: Yancy Becket born (Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
* November 12: Chantell Nguyen born (Australia) 
* Scott Hansen begins studies at the RAAF Academy 
* Tsuki Davega born (Australia) 
* September 12: Kris Swan born (East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom) 
1996
* January 22: Paul, the second cloned valet and the first sold to client born (Besançon, France)
* January 29: Lachlan Riley born (Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia)
* February 19: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rat)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Thursday))
* March 31: Quinn Macrossan born (Townsville, Queensland, Australia)
* April 16: Charlotte Kirra Darling born (Darling station, Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia; "Welcome to the World, my Darling")
* April 23: Pietr Vos born fourteen weeks premature; not expected to survive; he does, but underdeveloped nerves mean he is deaf and mute from birth (Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa; "Tiny") 
* May: As soon as she is allowed extended time with him, Pietr's mother, Rianne, begins teaching him British Sign Language; because she is self-taught and Pietr has limited contact with the D/deaf community growing up, Pietr's signing is idiosyncratic and sometimes confusing for even other BSL speakers
* May 22: Russell Garcon, the second of Camille Langlais' cloned valets and the first to serve him, born (Besançon, France)
* May 25: Cato and Ima Moya are born (Netherlands) 
* June 08 - June 30: UEFA Euro 96 (EuroCup; England)
* Mid: Pilot-in-training Derek Collier is introduced to Fiona Stuart by Walter Sorvino, while visiting with Sorvino's family in Darwin. 
* July 19 - August 4: Games of the XXVI Olympiad (Atlanta, United States)
* August 16: X Paralympic Games begin (Atlanta, United States)
* August 20: Pietr Vos brought home from hospital to his family's house in Koffiefontein
* August 5: X Paralympic Games come to an end (Atlanta, United States)
* August 30: Robert Marais becomes the first to suggest Pietr Vos be given up for adoption because of his deafness and Rianne Vos bans him from her home ("Surrender")
* September 5: Jason Egan born (Baking Board, Queensland, Australia)
* September (late): Hermann, Birgit, Dietrich, Karla, and Bastien Gottlieb vacation at Camille Langlais' villa in Antibes, France ("On Holiday")
* December 21: Griet Naude born (Koffiefontein, Free State, South Africa)
* December 25: Hermann Gottlieb receives his much-desired 'Space Champion' helmet ("Space Champion")
1997
* January 18: Atarangi and Marama Raharuhi born (New Zealand)
* January 20: Charlotte Darling learns to pet bees ("Bees")
* February 7: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ox)
* April 30: Birgit Gottlieb argues with Lars Gottlieb over the nature of Hermann Gottlieb and Bastien Gottlieb while the boys make a mess of the sitting room ("Art")
* July 10: Val Vos spends a quiet evening with sons Nikolaas Vos, Maarten Vos, and Pietr Vos ("Stories")
* July 19: Karla Gottlieb commiserates with Hermann Gottlieb about uncomfortable undergarments; they accidentally teach Bastien Gottlieb the word 'bra', much to their horror ("Lingerie")
* August 5: Hermann Gottlieb badly injures his knee attempting to fly from the roof of the family home, leaving him with permanent scarring, a limp, chronic pain, and a need for a cane for maximum mobility
* August 6: Doped to the gills on painkillers, Hermann Gottlieb chats with Karla Gottlieb's unicorn sweater ("Unicorn")
* August 17: According to Lin Feng's birth certificate, this is when he was born (Lingyin Temple in Zhejiang Province, China)
* September 14: Lin Chao and Feng are moved to the Shaolin Monastery (Dengfeng county, Zhengzhou, Henan province, China)
* October 3: Miyahira Setsuko born (Miyako, Ryukyu)
* October 15: Hermann Gottlieb goes outside for the first time since breaking his knee ("Silver Lining")
* November 6: Dana and Tahnee Collier born (Perth, Australia) and Walter Sorvino, FLTLT Collier's best friend, is asked to be their godfather.
* December 8: Birgit Gottlieb abandons her family to work for Camille Langlais in France; following Langlais' suggestion (as conveyed by Georges Lapointe), Lars Gottlieb tells the children she's committed suicide; Lars Gottlieb removes and hides his wedding ring, never to wear it again ("Creature")
* Herc Hansen enlists in the RAAF 
1998
*January 28: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Tiger)
* February 7: 第十八回オリンピック冬季競技大会 (XVIII Olympic Winter Games; Nagano, Japan) 
* February 19: Yeung Tang Mǐn born (Hong Kong, China)
* February 22: 第十八回オリンピック冬季競技大会 (XVIII Olympic Winter Games; Nagano, Japan) >this emblem is /so /pretty!!!<
* March 5 - 14: 第七回パラリンピック冬季競技大会 (VII Paralympic Winter Games; Nagano, Japan)
* May 4: Chù Sīqì born (China)
* June 7: Hermann Gottlieb frustrates the first in a long series of tutors ("Tutor")
* June 10 - July 12: Coupe du Monde (FIFA; France)
* November 7: Jihu Liong born (China)
*December 11: Raleigh Becket born (Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
*December 24: Wei Tang Cheung, Wei Tang Jin, and Wei Tang Hu born premature (Shanghai, China)
*The Gottlieb family moves into Garmisch-Partenkirchen proper
1999
*January 31: Aleksis Orlov born as Alexander Ponomarenko (Mariupol, Ukraine)
* February 16: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rabbit)
* February 22: Andrea Hill born (Los Angeles, California, USA); adopted within the week by Dr and Mrs Hill
* April 4: Jesus Curiel born (Anáhuac, Mexico)
* July 2: Felipe Manzanares born (Nuevo Laredo, Mexico)
* August 16: Bastien Gottlieb expresses his desire for wings like Hermann Gottlieb's (again); Hermann expresses his desire to tell Bastien the truth about Bastien's birth and is talked out of doing so by Dietrich Gottlieb ("Special")
* September 23: Jazmine Becket born (Anchorage, Alaska, USA)
* December 30: Karla Gottlieb dyes Hermann Gottlieb's hair and feathers bright blue, getting Hermann into trouble with Lars Gottlieb; Hermann, Dietrich Gottlieb, and Bastien Gottlieb bond over drying Hermann's feathers after the dye is washed out ("Dyeing")
==2000 - 2012==
2000 
* February 5: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Tuesday))
* April 28: Herc Hansen turns a fistfight into an all-out bar brawl after badly losing a game of pool ("Really Stupid")
* June 10: UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft/Europees Voetbalkampioenschap begins (EuroCup; Belgium, Netherlands (German, Dutch))
* June 19: Derek Jones born (Port Macquarie, Australia)
* July 02: UEFA Fußball-Europameisterschaft/Europees Voetbalkampioenschap comes to an end (EuroCup; Belgium, Netherlands (German, Dutch))
* July 18: Hermann Gottlieb discusses his sexual orientation with Dietrich Gottlieb as Dietrich prepares to leave for university ("Types")
* August: Dietrich Gottlieb starts coursework at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin; meets Sabine Bachar, an older student assigned to help him acclimate to the school and city
* September 15 - October 1: Millennium Olympic Games (Games of the XXVII Olympiad; Sydney, Australia)
* October 18 - 29: XI Paralympic Games (Sydney, Australia)
* Q3 or Q4: Logan Jones begins exhibiting severe behavioural problems; diagnosed with conduct disorder
* Julien Langlais and his wife killed in a motor vehicle accident
* Torquil Reid marries Dona Reid
2001 
* January 4: Amelia Allaway born (Australia)
* January 24: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Snake)
* February: Dana and Tahnee Collier start kindergarten
* September 8: Dietrich Gottlieb identifies Hermann Gottlieb's feathers as those of an owl and comforts his suicidal younger brother ("Live")
* Sumitani Utano born (Minamitane, Japan)
* Claire "Jimmi" Fitzroy born (Blacktown, Australia)
* Rene Langlais born (Besançon, France)
* 2001-2: Angela Martijn and Scott Hansen date on-and-off
2002
* January 17: Pietr Vos begins Grade R after having been held back a year by school administrators; meets Griet Naude after falling out of a tree onto her and getting a concussion ("Thorns")
* February 8: XIX Winter Olympics begin (Salt Lake City, United States)
*February 12: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Horse)
*February 14: Griet Naude declares Pietr Vos her boyfriend and they have their 'first kiss' ("Peck")
* February 24: XIX Winter Olympics come to an end (Salt Lake City, United States)
* March 7 - 16: VIII Paralympic Winter Games (Salt Lake City, United States)
* April 5: Holly Eady teaches grandson Logan Jones to knit after kidnapping him for a weekend; they discuss Holly's efforts to take unofficial custody of him ("Silly")
* May 4: Takala Vos born (Koffiefontein, Free States, South Africa)
* May 31 - June 30: 2002 FIFA 월드컵 한국/일본, 2002 FIFAワールドカップ 韓国/日本 (FIFA; Korea, Japan)
* Karla Gottlieb begins undergraduate coursework at ETH Zurich
* September 21: Scott Hansen stands Angela Martijn up one time too many; Herc Hansen meets her at a restaurant then drives her home after the third time she calls looking for Scott; they end up sleeping together ("His Brother's Girl")
* September 22: Scott Hansen discovers Herc's night with Angela and reacts in a somewhat unexpected way by not punching Herc in the face ("His Brother's Girl")
* November 1: Angela Martijn tells Herc Hansen she's pregnant with their child; Herc proposes to her with his father's wedding ring; after Scott Hansen corners him, Herc Hansen admits he and Angela Martijn are dating, she's pregnant, and they're getting married ("Bells")
* Dame Eadith Hackett's older son born
2003
* January 28: Quinn Macrossan and Blossom Collocott meet after Quinn throws paper airplanes at Blossom and then pulls her hair ("Besties")
* February 1: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Goat)
* March 18: Angela Martijn suffers doubts while having her wedding dress re-fitted; her friends Annabelle and Lilian Jiang try to figure out what she plans to name her impending offspring ("Cold Feet")
* March 29: Angela Martijn and Herc Hansen marry; Scott Hansen gets very, very drunk after the reception 
* April 14: The National Human Genome Research Institute successfully sequences the human genome ()
* April 17: Lennon and Lachlan Riley begin Year Six and Year Two, respectively, at a new school and Lennon flies her activist flag ("Blame") 
* April 23: Mako Mori born (Minamitane, Kagoshima, Japan)
* August 14: Charles Victor Hansen born in Medowie, New South Wales, Australia, after nine hours of labor for Angela Hansen, and officially nicknamed "Charlie" ("Perfect")
2004
*January 22: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Monkey)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Sunday))
* March 14: Pietr Vos tries to learn how to braid Griet Naude's hair and fails miserably ("Tangled")
* May: Gottlieb family moves to Berlin after Lars Gottlieb takes a new job and a position as an adjunct faculty member at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
* June 12 - July 04: Campeonato da Europa de Futebol (EuroCup; Portugal)
* August 13 - 29: Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες (Games of the XXVIII Olympiad; Athens, Greece)
* September 17 - 28: Θερινοί Παραολυμπιακοί Αγώνες (Athens, Greece)
* December 16: With the help of Bastien Gottlieb, Hermann Gottlieb discovers the wonder of lemon-flavoured hard candies ("Lemon")
* December 24: In the midst of a heat wave in Medowie, Angela Hansen finally succeeds in convincing Charlie Hansen to fall asleep only to face a Herc Hansen with Vegemite-breath ("That Stuff")
2005
*February 9: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ox)
* Mid: Logan Jones makes his first appearance in juvenile court
* August 30: Hermann Gottlieb and Edan Reid begin post-secondary at the University of Manchester, majoring in astronomy and physics (a single degree at Manchester); Edan meets roommate and subsequent best friend Rhys Jones-Morgan, and notices and begins nursing a crush on classmate Hermann Gottlieb, although he's too big a chicken to say anything about it ("Constants") 
* October 26: Edan Reid finally gets up the courage to approach Hermann Gottlieb and invites him to lunch at an Indian restaurant (his treat, of course); skips class to continue the conversation; introduces Hermann Gottlieb to Rhys Jones-Morgan and Rhys' girlfriend, Vigsai Singh ("Dynamics").
* November 1: Edan Reid finally convinces Hermann Gottlieb to use his first name via threat and the two discuss their families a bit ("Steps")
* November 9: Vigsai Singh convinces Hermann Gottlieb, Rhys Jones-Morgan, and Edan Reid to pose for a photograph taken by her older brother, Aakash Singh ("Cheese")
* November 12: Discussing eye colour, Hermann Gottlieb's Manchester friends discover his achromatopsia and Rhys outs Edan as a ginger ("Sea-colour")
* November 15: Hermann Gottlieb falls on a patch of ice on campus, aggravating his bad knee and injuring his side.
* November 16: Hermann Gottlieb and Edan Reid share a meal of curry in Hermann's dorm room after which, Edan, in high spirits, shares some of his favourite music and dance moves ("Unknown Pleasures")
* November 30: Hermann Gottlieb finds Vigsai Singh in his dorm's hallway and they discuss literature and people with wings ("Angel Experiment")
*December 3: Edan Reid convinces Hermann Gottlieb to join him at a local band's concert; Hermann discovers Edan's favourite soap fragrance ("Youth")
*December 5: Hermann Gottlieb and Edan Reid share Hermann's bed after they pull a near all-nighter to finish a take-home exam ("Orbits")
*December 15: Dominique Lapierre explains his Asperger syndrome diagnosis to Raleigh Becket and the two attend Prague's Christmas market ("Hush")
*December 15 - 16: Edan Reid /finally gets up the courage to admit his feelings to Hermann Gottlieb and is relieved to learn he reciprocates and the pair share Hermann's first kiss and a night stargazing together before he walks Hermann Gottlieb to his train back to Berlin for the winter holidays, promising to call every day of the separation ("Horizons")
*December 16: Hermann Gottlieb arrives back in Berlin for the winter holidays, is overhead telling Dietrich and Karla about his and Edan's relationship by Lars Gottlieb; Lars immediately forbids Hermann to talk to his English friends and announces plans to withdraw Hermann Gottlieb from the University of Manchester and transfer him to Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) ("Return"); Hermann Gottlieb attempts suicide, is saved by quick actions from Karla and Dietrich
*December 17 - 20: Edan Reid calls Hermann Gottlieb repeatedly and receives no answer, prompting him to leave increasingly panicked and desperate voicemails
*December 17: Bastien Gottlieb learns of Hermann Gottlieb's suicide attempt and appoints himself his brother's keeper ("Contagious"); a weak Hermann Gottlieb converses with Dietrich Gottlieb and Karla Gottlieb about his situation and nature when they take their turn at the bedside vigil ("There")
*December 20: Hermann Gottlieb rages at Dietrich Gottlieb for saving his life and trapping him in Lars Gottlieb's house until his eighteenth birthday, at least ("Caged"); after brainstorming with Bastien Gottlieb and Karla Gottlieb, Dietrich Gottlieb proposes a way around the 'no contact' order Lars Gottlieb imposed to Edan Reid and Hermann Gottlieb, both of whom rather enthusiastically agree to begin snail mailing each other using Sabine Bachar's house as a drop; Dietrich has his first experience with Scottish cursing ("Loophole")
*December 21: Karla and Bastien Gottlieb encounter a neighborhood asshole on their way back from grocery shopping and Karla teaches him a lesson about the dangers of gossip ("Polite"); Bastien and Hermann bond over ice cream and Harry Potter movies, despite a disagreement over how to Sort Hermann; Hermann promises never to try to kill himself again ("Sorting")
*Lucy Hansen-Hanlon born
2006
*January 10: Hermann starts classes at Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) and writes his first letter to Edan Reid, then has lunch with Sabine Bachar and receives his first letter from Edan ("Letters"); Edan Reid returns to classes at the University of Manchester and reports to Vigsai Singh and Rhys Jones-Morgan that Hermann Gottlieb isn't coming back. 
* January 29: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dog)
* February 10 - 26: XX Giochi olimpici invernali (XX Olympic Winter Games; Turin, Italy)
* Early: Logan Jones spends a period at a camp for 'troubled youth'; its only effect is to make him better at not getting caught >if he winds up there instead of at school<
* March 8: Hermann and Dietrich Gottlieb pass letters to and from Edan Reid ("Lines")
* March 10 - 19: IX Giochi paralimpici invernali (IX Paralympic Winter Games; Turin, Italy)
* May 4: Edan Reid receives rainbow socks from Hermann Gottlieb for his birthday, responds by sending Hermann a kiss ("Gloss")
* Karla Gottlieb graduates from ETH Zurich
* Dietrich Gottlieb finishes coursework at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
* June 9 - July 9: FIFA Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft Deutschland (FIFA; Germany)
* June 12: Bastien Gottlieb plays semi-willing go-between for Hermann Gottlieb and Edan Reid, meets Anaïs Engelhorn and tries to head off her overtures of friendship; Edan Reid, in a letter, establishes 'leannan' as his official term of endearment for Hermann Gottlieb ("Lonely")
* Karla Gottlieb begins graduate coursework at École Polytechnique de Montréal
* September 4: Jackson Jones tries and fails yet again to be as badass as Commander William Riker and is mocked by Logan Jones for his pains ("The Riker")
* October 6: Edan Reid receives a letter from Hermann Gottlieb and reacts strongly, much to Rhys Jones-Morgan's dismay ("Romantic")
* December 4: Logan Jones 'discovers' (or maybe confirms) his asexuality and sex-repulsion when Melody Kern takes his first kiss ("Unwanted")
* Annalise Dufour born to a surrogate (Besançon, France)
2007
* January (late): Elizabeth Davies begins her studies at the Australian Defense Force Academy
* February 18: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Pig (Sunday)); Logan Jones pushes Derek Jones down a flight of stairs, severely injuring him (a vertebrae fractures in his neck; Derek is left with a surgical scar on his neck and a lasting, extreme fear of Logan) and straining the already rough relationships between all three brothers ("Give In")
* April 19: Bastien Gottlieb discusses sexual attraction with Hermann Gottlieb and first identifies himself as asexual ("Attractive Nuisance")
* June 9: Hermann Gottlieb receives an 'anonymous' package containing a Joy Division t-shirt and a note with a time and address written on it; celebrates by watching his second-favorite skinny, freckled Scotsman on TV ("Zero")
* June 10: Hermann Gottlieb arrives at the address on the previous day's note to find a curry shop and Edan Reid; the share a meal, conversation, cuddles, and kisses before the lateness of the hour forces Hermann to return home ("Piece of Cake")
* November 12: Dietrich Gottlieb officially proposes to Sabine Bachar with a garnet engagement ring; they tell Lars Gottlieb, who reacts very poorly indeed, and Bastien Gottlieb, who's very happy for them ("Regrets")
2008
* February 7: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rat)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Friday))
* May: Hermann graduates the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) with a degree in mathematics
* June 7 - June 29: Campiunadis Europeans da ballape (EuroCup; Austria (Romansh))
* August: Hermann begins doctoral work in Computer Science at the University of Oxford; Edan Reid continues at the University of Manchester & visits Hermann regularly in Oxford
* August 08 - 24: 第二十九届夏季奥林匹克运动会 (Games of the XXIX Olympiad; Beijing, China)
* September 6 - 17: 第十三屆残疾人奥林匹克运动会 (XIII Paralympic Games; Beijing, China)
* Dietrich marries Sabine Bachar 
* Q4: Logan Jones debates dropping out of high school and leaving home; decides against it
* Late: The Collier family transferred from Base Tindal to Base Williamtown, NSW
* December: Jackson Jones graduates from Westport High School in Port Macquarie in the top five percent of his class
* Oliver Hansen-Hanlon born
* Dietrich and Sabine Gottlieb move to Geneva, Switzerland
2009
* January 26: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ox (Monday))
* January 27: Dana and Tahnee start Year 7; Iorangi Parata enlists in the Te Ope Kaatua o Aotearoa (New Zealand Defense Force)
* January: Bastien Gottlieb moves in with Dietrich Gottlieb and his family in Geneva, Switzerland
* February (mid): Jackson Jones begins study at the School of Art and Design at the University of New South Wales; belatedly celebrates his legal adulthood by getting a tattoo (which he occasionally regrets)
* March (early): Jackson Jones and Lily Prince meet and begin dating ("Model")
* April 19: Emma Nur Gottlieb born (Geneva, Switzerland) ("Say 'Uncle'")
* May: Edan Reid graduates from the University of Manchester with a degree in Physics and Astrophysics
* Karla Gottlieb earns her masters' degree in civil engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal
* Mid: The Jones parents finalize an acrimonious divorce; share custody of Logan and Derek
* August: Edan Reid begins Doctoral work in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Queen Mary, University of London
* Karla Gottlieb begins doctoral work in civil engineering at Stanford University
2010
* Q1/Q2: Herc Hansen away from home serving with Scott Hansen and the RAAF No. 77 Squadron in Afghanistan
* February 10: PAIGE completes her first task; Hermann and Edan declare it her 'birthday' (Oxford, England, United Kingdom)
* February 12: XXI Olympic Winter Games begin (Vancouver, Canada)
* February 14: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Tiger)
* February 28: XXI Olympic Winter Games come to an end (Vancouver, Canada)
* March 12 – 21: X Paralympic Winter Games
* June 11 - July 11: FIFA World Cup (South Africa)
* August: Newton Geiszler begins work at MIT as a tenure track faculty member in biology
* November 7: Mako and her parents celebrate Mako's Seven Year Kimono in honour of the upcoming Shichi Go San festival
* November 13 - 14: Mako Mori and her parents attend the Shichi Go San celebrations at the Homan shrine. 
* December (mid): Logan Jones graduates from Westport High School in the lower half of his class due to lack of effort; moves out of the family home
2011
* February 3: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rabbit)
* March 11: the Great East Japan earthquake (東日本大震災; Japan), also known as the Tōhoku disasters, begin at 14:46 JST (05:46 UTC) with a magnitude 9.0 (Mw) undersea megathrust approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) east off the coast of the Oshika Peninsula of Tōhoku (epicenter) and 30 km (19 mi) below sea level (hypocenter). 
* April: Peridot born (Mile End, London, England, United Kingdom) 
* May: Hermann Gottlieb earns Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Oxford; moves to London, shares a flat with Edan Reid
* June (mid): Logan Jones drops out of university after a semester during which he rarely attended class or completed required work; cuts off contact with all family members except Nanny
* August 6 - 11: Riots beginning in Tottenham, London, spread throughout the city and other municipalities in the United Kingdom causing widespread property damage, 5 deaths, and thousands of arrests
* August: Hermann Gottlieb begins work at Imperial College London as a tenure track faculty member in the Department of Computing
2012
* January 23: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon (Monday))
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Wednesday))
* June 08 - July 1: Чемпіонат Європи w Piłce Nożnej (EuroCup; Ukraine, Poland)
* July 21: Hermann Gottlieb and Edan Reid arrive in Glasgow to prepare for their wedding (and avoid the Olympics)
* July 27 - August 12: Games of the XXX Olympiad (London, United Kingdom)
* August 6: Hermann Gottlieb and Edan Reid enter a legal civil partnership (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom) and leave the next morning on honeymoon to the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales, with Edan driving a rented car.
* August 29 - September 9: XIV Paralympic Games (London, United Kingdom)
* December ~12: Pietr Vos drops out of high school at the end of Grade 10 after struggling with classwork for years because of limited accommodations for his deafness
* December (mid): Jackson Jones and Lily Prince graduate university; Jackson with an undergraduate degree in art and design, Lily with an undergraduate degree in political science and a generous scholarship to Melbourne Law School; Jackson accepts a job as a CAD technician at a firm in Melbourne
* Meryem Gottlieb born (Geneva, Switzerland)
==K-War==
===2013===
* January 17: June Orenstein born (Canberra, Australia)
* February 10: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Snake)
* Karla Gottlieb earns her doctorate in civil engineering from Stanford University
* August 03: A 7.1 earthquake rumbles through the Izu-Bonin-Mariana subduction system 
* August 10: K-DAY; Trespasser attacks San Francisco; RAF pilot Luna Pentecost killed in the first assault 
* August 11 - 15: Trespasser moves to Oakland, down to Hayward, back across to San Mateo, then down to San Jose (1; tens of thousands die in the rampage and in subsequent days from Blue exposure, including Yeye Choi and Rhys Jones-Morgan (San Francisco)
* August 11: People around the world watch K-Day coverage
** Jackson Jones and Lily Prince in Melbourne; Jackson falls into an acute depression lasting several weeks 
** Hermann Gottlieb and Edan Reid in metro London; Karla Gottlieb in Montreal 
** The Vos family in Koffiefontein
* August 15: USAF defeats Trespasser with three nuclear warheads, the fallout from both the radiation and Blue rendering the Bay area uninhabitable and giving rise to the San Francisco Exclusion Zone and the contaminated wasteland "Oblivion Bay" (2)
* August 18: Hermann Gottlieb begins correspondence with Newton Geiszler; Edan Reid is amused by the rivalry between the two
* Edan Reid earns his Ph.D in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Queen Mary, University of London
===2014===
* January 31: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Horse)
* February 5: Hundun attacks Metro Manila; makes landfall near Taal during a massive tropical storm. Authorities don't realize what's happening until it reaches Taguig City, however they kill it in one nuclear strike just east of the city. (3, 2)
* February 7: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры begin (XXII Olympic Winter Games; Sochi, Russia)
* February 20: Russian forces invade and begin annexing Ukraine's territory of Crimea (Ukraine)
* February 23: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры comes to an end (Sochi, Russia) 
* March 7 - 16: Зимние Паралимпийские игры 2014 (XI Paralympic Winter Games; Sochi, Russia)
* April 23: Pietr Vos proposes to Griet, presenting her with a small diamond ring purchased with money borrowed from his family ("Reactions")
* May: The Hansen brothers transfer to RAAF Base Richmond; Scott Hansen on assignment as a flight instructor; Herc Hansen, in preparation for retirement, purchases a home in St Ives, Australia and moves in with Angela and Chuck
* June 1: Kaiceph attacks Cabo San Lucas. Attempts to lure the creature away from the city failed. The nuclear strike that killed it effectively halved the city’s livable area. (2)
* June 12 - July 13: Copa do Mundo da FIFA (Brazil)
* Unknown: Chief Sergeant Second Class Xiong Li-hua finally notices the discussion of menopause among her colleagues and colleagues’ wives and realizes that if she wants to go through with having a child, she would have to actively work on it
* Q3: Herc Hansen’s planned retirement date 
* September 2: With great effort, the RAAF lures Scissure to the outskirts of Sydney to a mostly-evacuated area near Garigal and kills it in a nuclear strike; Angela Hansen killed by Scissure (3, 4, 2)
* September (early): Chuck, Herc, and Scott assigned family quarters at RAAF Base Richmond; Chuck begins therapy for PTSD.
* September 15: Seoul Conference begins; Idea of Jaegers proposed by Doctor Yamamoto Takako of Shinohara Heavy Industries with the full backing of SHU owner Richard Barclay-Harvey; Jasper Schoenfeld given credit for the proposal
* September: Jackson Jones proposes to Lily Prince; she accepts 
* October 1: Pan Pacific Defense Corps (PPDC) established; Hermann Gottlieb begins work on Mark I Jaeger OS as a contractor
* October 4: Max and his four siblings born in Hawkesbury, Australia
* November 9: Jaeger program officially begins; Hermann Gottlieb begins work full-time with Jaeger program, leaves Imperial College London and becomes full-time PPDC employee; 
* Edan Reid, currently unemployed, talks his way into a position with the PPDC analyzing the structure of the Breach and consulting on Kaiju sensors
* Nov 17: Max meets Chuck Hansen when Herc Hansen presents him to Chuck, moving into the Hansens’ quarters and becoming Chuck’s lifelong companion and confidant.
* Q4: Captain Derek Collier and Lieutenant Walter Sorvino selected for Jaeger program
* December 1: Hermann (J-Tech; OS coding), Edan (K-Sci; Breach analysis), and Tendo Choi (base logistics) begin work at the Jaeger Proving Grounds in Kodiak, AK, USA
* December: Dana and Tahnee Collier graduate from highschool (Medowie, NSW); Griet Naude graduates high school (Koffiefontein, FS, South Africa)
* December: Chief Sergeant Second Class Xiong Li-hua offered a promotion to First Class (OF-9) but declines due to the time commitment
* December (late): Jaeger Academy candidates begin arriving on Kodiak Island; Caden Fallon, Elizabeth Davies, Meadow Cascarret, and the surviving Hansens make the move; Caden Fallon and Meadow Cascarret, and the Hansen brothers are especially chosen by the RAN and RAAF, respectively, to attend the Jaeger Academy as part of the first class of potential Rangers
* December 24: Pietr Vos and Griet Naude marry (Koffiefontein, FS, South Africa)
* December 30: Vaudeville returns from their honeymoon; Vos family presents the young couple with the keys to their new home
* Hermann and Edan leave London for Kodiak; sublet their flat to Olivia, with the understanding that Kris Swan and Bastien Gottlieb will share the flat upon their high school graduations the following spring.
===2015===
* January: The Jaeger Academy opens to military candidates. Since Jaegers are controlled by brains, the powers-that-be request pairs of candidates with hypothetically similar brains in case one fails. Bruce and Trevin Gage, Scott and Herc Hansen, Duc Jessop, Kaori Koyamada, Stacker Pentecost, Janna Rautio, Mimmi Seppänen, Tamsin Sevier, Xie Ming, Zheng Yi, Xichi Po, Lo Hin Shen, Meadow Cascarret, Caden Fallon, Elizabeth Davies, Derek and Fiona Collier, and Walter Sorvino are among those forwarded. 
* January 1: Hermann, Edan, and Tendo meet at the Jaeger Proving Grounds, as do Ranger Cadets, Meadow Cascarret and Scott Hansen, striking up a friendship-with-benefits relationship, and Ranger Cadets Herc Hansen and Stacker Pentecost, striking up a friendship (with occasional benefits). 
* January: Chief Sergeant Second Class Xiong Li-hua offered the promotion again, this time including one for her assistant, Lo Nang, to OF-8. Xiong and Lo accept. 
* January (late): Drift Compatibility confirmed between RAN officers and friends Caden Fallon and Meadow Cascarret
* January 30: Brawler Yukon officially launches; Adam Casey suffers a neural surge, loses control, and dies. 
* February 18: Sergio D'onofrio assigned to Brawler Yukon and would suffer a similar fate had Caitlin Lightcap not supplemented his brain with her own and the Jaeger takes its first steps
* February 19: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Goat; Thursday)
* February 21: The Academy implements a curriculum for a two-pilot system
* Q1: Fiona and Derek Collier are found to be Compatible 
* March (early): Meadow Cascarret and Nate Barclay-Harvey meet while celebrating Meadow’s top-of-the-class marks on the engineering portion of the Academy curriculum
* March (late): Chief Sergeant Second Class Xiong Li-hua becomes pregnant
* Unknown: Peru offers Drift testing for any multiples of South American descent; Cato and Ima Moya go for it and come out on top 
* April: Yeung Tang Mǐn 'starts work' at the Hong Kong Shatterdome
* April 23: Karloff attacks Vancouver, BC, Canada; Brawler Yukon takes the kill
* May: Chief Sergeant Second Class Xiong Li-hua put in charge of the as-of-then unbuilt Jaeger storage facility but isn’t allowed within 5 kilometers of the site due to the risk of fetal exposure to construction materials and possible Blue from KSci samples. 
* May (mid-late): Sponsors begin sending their best and brightest to the Academy for a leg up on the competition; Sasha Kaidanovskaya, Aleksis Orlov, Chuck Darling, and the Moya twins arrive on Kodiak Island; Chuck Hansen latches onto Chuck Darling immediately
* June: The Academy's Winter class graduates; Elizabeth Davies graduates qualified to be a Ranger but without finding a copilot
* June: The Great Food Poisoning of June '15 ravages the Academy. Among its victims are Charlie Darling and Chuck Hansen who, among other sufferers, throw up in the canteen on at least one bystander. The Australians ensure the nickname 'Chuck' sticks to both of them. 
* June 20 – December: Chuck Darling, Hermann Gottlieb, Sasha Kaidanovskaya, Aleksis Orlov, Cato and Ima Moya, Kagiso and Itumeleng Mogodi, and Wei Tang Cheung, Jin, and Hu attend the Jaeger Academy
* June (late): the Academy makes plans with the Shatterdome as to how they'll solve the housing problem in Kodiak; they agree to send two planes of graduates every two weeks until there are no more graduates in the Academy. 
* Q3: Major General Thomas Nguyen assumes command of the Sydney Mini 'Dome and convinces Command to allow Chantell Nguyen to serve as his Equerry, despite her 'underqualification' for the position
* July: Nate Barclay-Harvey and Scott Hansen meet at an Academy graduation party
* July (mid): the Academy sends all their graduates and their families by plane to Hong Kong (so Chuck Hansen and the Collier twins would be in this bunch; (“Puppy Parka”); Chief Sergeant Third Class Lo Nang reassigns her SiC, conscripts and promotes Tang Min to Chief Sergeant Fourth Class
* July (mid): Nate Barclay-Harvey hears about the chaos en 'Dome, gets herself to Hong Kong, and offers Chief Sergeant Third Class Lo her help (" A Gal who Knows what She's Doing")
* August: Bastien Gottlieb begins his studies at Imperial College London
* August: Herc Hansen and Scott Hansen come to an agreement not to bring one-night stands back to his quarters for Chuck's sake
* September: Lily Prince breaks off her engagement to Jackson Jones and returns her ring, citing Jackson's lack of career ambitions and prospects; Jackson throws it and the already-purchased wedding bands into Port Macquarie Harbour off Town Beach 
* September 30: Elize Vos born at home (Koffiefontein, FS, South Africa)
* October: the Hong Kong Shatterdome gets itself organized into a number of 'Mini 'Domes'. 
* October 27: Mafui'e attacks New Zealand; Brawler Yukon takes the kill in Auckland; the photos of Brawler hanging out on a beach are a boon to PPDC PR >where is zis meta<
* November 25: Hong Kong Shatterdome opens; Chief Sergeant Second Class Xiong Li-hua officially receives her First Class stars and assumes command; some are scandalized that isn’t wearing her uniform properly while getting her First Class stars, most are amazed someone can run the largest (quasi)military facility on earth whilst heavily pregnant; Scott Hansen meets Nate (officially) at the Shatterdome opening gala
* Check December 3: Sasha and Aleksis leave Anchorage for the Hong Kong Shatterdome and present Hermann with The Parka. (should this be later?)
* December 6: Tacit Ronin deploys with Rangers Kaori and Duc Jessop (Japan)
* December ~10: Jackson Jones tracks down Logan Jones in Brisbane and convinces him to join the PPDC and attend the Jaeger Academy with him ("Excuse")
* December 15: Cherno Alpha launches (Russia)
* December 22: Horizon (1) Brave deployed with pilots Xichi Po Lo Hin Shen (China)
* December 26: Lucky Seven launches with Rangers Scott and Herc Hansen ("A gift for all Australia") with a parade in Sydney 
* December 28: Triton Tasmania launches with Rangers Caden Fallon and Meadow Cascarret with a parade in Perth 
* December 30: Coyote Tango (Japan) launched with Tamsin Sevier and Stacker Pentecost as pilots
* Q4: Hermann Gottlieb proposes marriage to Edan Reid; Edan accepts
===2016===
* January: the Collier twins, Ren Ginningham and her brother, Andrea Hill, Jackson and Logan Jones, Iorangi Parata, Darja Tarasenko, several South American candidates, and a number of Canadians start at the Jaeger Academy
* January 3: Ikuchi attacks Shanghai; Coyote Tango takes the kill after the Kaiju grabs it in its talons and takes flight (Ashao refers to the event in "Good Morning, Shaolin")
* January 6: Xiong Fei Yen born (Hong Kong, HK, China)
* February: Iorangi Parata is placed on the Ranger track at the Academy
* February 8: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Monkey (Monday)); Horizon (2) Brave launches with Zheng Yi and Xie Ming
* February 9: HK-16 attacks Hong Kong; Horizon Brave units 1 & 2 engage fail; Lucky Seven kills the Kaiju. 
* February: The Jones brothers are put on the Ranger track at the Academy; Logan Jones prescribed reading glasses which is he tries his hardest to avoid wearing and is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder; Jackson Jones discovers his berserk button ("Instinct")
* February: Wei Tang Liu approaches the Shaolin monastery and inquires as to whether two of its most talented martial artists, Lin Chao and his younger brother, Feng, would like to be the trial run for a Jaeger with a more organic fighting style. 
* February: China declares its Jaeger mass production line obsolete
* February: Xiong Fei Yen has her first headache and fusses for most of the night and the better part of the day, the same day, it turns out, that Hannibal Chau tries intimidating Xiong into giving him Kaiju salvage rights. It doesn't work, but they do reach a middle ground commiserating about being kept up all night by small children
* February (Mid-Late): Horizon Brave programme cancelled
* February (very late): Wei Tang Liu offers Cadet Chuck Darling the rights and development lead to the Mark V in exchange for waiving her copilotship with Wei Tang Cheung. She agrees and Liu takes her on a two week private cruise and vacation to Egypt. 
* February 28: Klaus Gottlieb dies at home in Hameln, Germany 
* March: Lin Chao and Feng start at the Jaeger Academy; they and the Jones brothers are introduced and the quartet quickly become friends, sparring partners, and roommates; Logan and Feng are immediately inseparable ("Curtains")
* March: Iorangi Parata and Lin Feng have a memorable first encounter
* March 14: Jamie Walker begins work as the deputy chief of the Sydney Shatterdome's press office
* March 17: Cato & Ima Moya meet with Peruvian Government representative Mr. Soya to discuss (again) the name of the in-construction Mark II that will be theirs. They still don’t come to an agreement. ("The Naming of Solar Prophet")
* March (late): Cato tells Ima she’s thought of a name that would work on multiple levels; Cato & Ima Moya inform Mr. Soya of their thought, and confirmed that the Mark II will be Solar Prophet ("The Naming of Solar Prophet")
* Q1 or Q2: Lachlan Riley is recruited to attend the Jaeger Academy as part of an Australian government program to bring more Indigenous Australians into the PPDC
* April 3: Horizon (3) Brave launches
* Check: April 13: Diablo Intercept launches >Collier twins haven’t graduated yet<
* April: Elizabeth Davies,and Iorangi Parata are introduced after Drift Science identifies them as potentially Drift Compatible; they quickly prove the classification system correct
* April: The Jones brothers meet Andrea Hill after suffering a separated shoulder in training; Logan Jones and Andrea Drift for the first time; Jackson Jones comforts her about being Drift Compatible with Logan ("You'll Get Used to Him")
* April: After discussing it with Griet and his family, Pietr Vos decides to enlist with the PPDC in order to earn enough money to pay off his debts and save for his family's future 
* April (late): Victory Alpha launches with Kagiso and Itumeleng Mogodi as pilots 
* May 5: Rolling Stone publishes a feature article on the Jaeger programme, with Romeo Blue’s victory parade on the cover
* May 15: Onibaba attacks Tokyo; Mako's parents killed; Coyote Tango takes the kill and becomes self-aware; Tamsin Sevier and Stacker Pentecost's last deployment as Rangers
* May 16: Coyote Tango removed from active roster for repairs
* May (mid): Tamsin Sevier and Stacker Pentecost are diagnosed with radiation-induced cancer and vascular degeneration, respectively; All Mark I pilots undergo extensive screening and testing.
* May: Xiong pulls more strings than a master puppeteer and has the paperwork removing Mako Mori from legal limbo processed as fast as possible
* May: the Chilean cadets slated for Diablo Intercept are arrested and expelled
* May: Xiong tells the South American governments and sponsors that if they can't pick new candidates by graduation, she'll pick them herself
* May (late): Xiong sends Miss Yeung to an address in Kowloon for finalized adoption papers which turns out to be the place of work of one Hannibal Chau. It doesn't go well, but Cadet Chuck Darling ends up with a knife and a job offer. ("Lion")
* May (late): Four Mark I pilots are diagnosed with radiation-induced cancers and vascular degeneration. Command honourably discharges them from active service (Stacker Pentecost, Tamsin Sevier, Meadow Cascarret, Caden Fallon); Mark I Jaegers begin undergoing intensive inspections and repairs; Scott Hansen accompanies Meadow to her appointment and makes a confession, earning him a punch in the face 
* Mary (very late): Caden Fallon returns to her hometown of Scone
* Mid: Chako meet and strike up a permanent (if occasionally strained) friendship
* June: The Summer class graduates, moves to the Hong Kong Shatterdome 
* June: Derek Jones learns his brothers will be Rangers
* June (late): The Jones brothers meet Chuck Hansen and immediately begin tormenting him; Jackson Jones meets Chuck Darling and immediately begins not-stalking and arguing with her ("Hey, Darling")
* June: None of the South American powers-that-be can decide on new candidates; Xiong makes good on her threat and assigns Dana and Tahnee Collier to Diablo Intercept
* June 10: Championnat d'Europe de football begins (EuroCup; France)
* June 21: Itak attacks Tokyo; Tacit Ronin takes the kill, Victory Angel an assist
* June ~20: Pietr Vos arrives in Kodiak, AK, United States, to begin Jaeger Academy semester; immediately struggles with classroom work because of lack of accommodations ("Skip")
* June 22: Dominique Lapierre dies
* June 25: Eden Assassin launches with Mimmi Seppänen and Janna Rautio (Russia)
* July: Raleigh Becket, Yancy Becket, Tendo Choi, Jesus Curiel, Tsuki Devega, Jason Egan, Felipe Manzanares, Lachlan Riley, and Pietr Vos attend Jaeger Academy
* July 1: Hermann Gottlieb, Edan Reid, Tendo Choi, Yeung Tang Min, and Fu Changchang attend the combined Canada / Hong Kong Day celebrations; Edan is murdered by 'person(s) unknown'; 
* July: Iorangi Parata and Elizabeth Davies are offered the refitted Triton Tasmania; they accept instantly ("Two Voices")
* July: Emere Seccombe, the Handler for the first Team Triton Tasmania, is assigned as Handler for the second ("Intimidate")
* July: Fellow Australians Lachlan Riley and Jason Egan are paired as potentially Drift Compatible; they are very, very much so; the two's relationship is immediately romantic and sexual
* July 10: Championnat d'Europe de football comes to an end (EuroCup; France)
* August 5: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016 begin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
* August 9: Lima Shatterdome established; Victor Peláez assumes command; Solar Prophet deploys with Rangers Cato and Ima Moya
* August: "Judgement Day": Reckoner makes landfall in Hong Kong after over a month of playing cat-and-mouse but Xiong saves her city of ten million from a monster by stalling with three pieces of junk, two water bombers, orange paint, Disney music, rubber cement, explosives, and an army of land vehicles until Tacit Ronin arrives and takes the kill but argues Xiong should get the credit so she does; Tang Mǐn assaulted by BuenaKai cultists in public shelter; Hannibal Chau sustains a grievous head injury; Logan Jones and Lin Feng sneak out of the 'Dome to watch the action up close ("Enjoy the Show")
* August (mid): Pietr Vos’ talent for hand-to-hand combat spotted by Michelle Ramos when Pietr spars with Lachlan Riley ("Exposed"); she lobbies for and receives approval from Academy administrators to groom Pietr for a Fightmaster position
* August 21: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016 come to an end (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
* August 28: Team Vulcan Specter's handler "runs screaming for the airport"; Jamie Walker extorts his way into the position ("Timing"; AO3)
* August 31: Jamie Walker demonstrates, painfully, he is not to be messed with ("Spoons")
* September 7 - 18: Jogos Paralímpicos de Verão de 2016 (Rio de Janerio, Brazil)
* Q4: Planning begins for the evacuation of New Zealand
* Q4: Logan Jones has both shoulders tattooed with blackwork similar to this to 'complete his Ranger look'.
* October: Hardship attacks San Pedro, United States; Romeo Blue takes the kill
* October 19: Puma Real launches with Luz and Paz Costa (Panama)
* October 23: Final adoption papers verified for Mako Mori; Coyote Tango begins to speak in halting sentences
* November: Mako Mori's disposable income goes towards a beginner Japanese calligraphy set which she presents to Stacker Pentecost (at Christmas, maybe?; )
* Q4: Lachlan Riley and Jason Egan are promised an under-construction Jaeger to be based at the Lima Shatterdome; they choose the name Victoria Sur for her
* November 23: Anchorage Shatterdome opens; Hermann Gottlieb, Tendo Choi, and Darja Tarasenko transfer there. 
* December 4: Vladivostok Shatterdome opens; Kliment Kozlov assumes command. 
* December 15: Tokyo Shatterdome opens; Nakasone Ren assumes command. 
* December ~15: The Winter class graduates; Tsuki Devega as a certified mechanic; Pietr Vos in the bottom five percent of his Jaeger Academy class (thus isn't tested for Drift Compatibility and he is assigned a random ID number) but as a certified hand-to-hand combat and self-defense instructor and he departs on home leave
* December (late): Ragnarok attacks Tokyo; TBD takes the kill, Victory Angel an assist
* December (late): Lachlan Riley and Jason Egan move to the Lima Shatterdome
===2017===
* January - June: Zeke Amarok, Ilisapie Flint, Cory Ross, and Gunnar and Vic Tunari attend the Jaeger Academy
* Check: January 1: Stacker Pentecost assumes command of the Anchorage Shatterdome; Newton Geiszler begins work the Nagasaki Shatterdome; Shaolin Rogue launches (China); Pietr Vos begins assignment as combat instructor at the Lima Shatterdome
* January 2: Marshal Hikai Kota resigns command of the Tokyo Shatterdome; Nakasone Ren assumes command
* January 10: Vulcan Specter launches with a parade in Sydney; Logan Jones picks a fight with the Hansen brothers (with Jackson Jones' help) in front of the press, quickly establishing themselves as the 'anti-heroes' of the Australian Jaeger programme; Derek and their parents attend; Scott Hansen has no regrets ("Bad Boys")
* January 28: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rooster (Saturday))
* Q1: News about the plague of radiation-induced cancer and vascular deterioration among Mark I Rangers reaches the public and they demand blood. The UN Investigation, dubbed "Jaegergate" by the press, begins. 
* Q1: the Wei triplets take care of Mako Mori after her Drift with Chuck Hansen; Scott Hansen handles Chuck ("Resonance")
* February: Sydney Shatterdome photoshoot (timing based on this and Rorykurago's original timeframe)
* February 23: Coyote Tango accompanies Stacker Pentecost and Mako Mori to a diplomatic dinner ("Tales of a Coyote"; "Azalea"; "Choke") 
* March 31: Pietr Vos ends assignment as combat instructor at the Lima Shatterdome
* April 1: Pietr Vos begins assignment as combat instructor at the Panama City Shatterdome
* April 16: Pietr Vos begins home leave
* May 1: Pietr Vos resumes duties at the Panama City Shatterdome
* May: Operations for the western South Pacific are transferred from Hong Kong to the almost-complete Sydney Shatterdome; The Jaegers sponsored by Australia leave for Sydney via aircraft carrier but not before the Sydney Mini ‘Dome experiences a plumbing failure. Chuck Darling’s clothes fall victim but Chantell finds her some borrowed clothes, including a G Danger product test t-shirt ("Gurgle")
* May (mid): The Costa twins discover the existence of Elize, Griet, and the blob that will become Izzy Vos and insist on sewing clothes for them; Elize Vos nearly explodes into sparkles at her first sight of the lacy layer-cakes they send her
* Check: May 5-8: The Jones brothers visit the Anchorage Shatterdome for tweaks to Vulcan Specter's AI after their 'sea trials' with Hermann Gottlieb >should Lightcap be mentioned, too?<; Logan Jones picks fights with the Becket brothers; Logan Jones and Lin Feng then challenge the Becket boys to another fight ("Monster," "Beckets Bite Back," "Black and Blue and Orange") 
* May (mid): the Sydney Mini-'Dome to the nearly completed Sydney Shatterdome; Meadow Cascarret transferred to Watsons Bay for continued medical treatment at the nearby Sydney Shatterdome
* May 25: Sydney Shatterdome established; Thomas Nguyen assumes command
* May 25 - 31: Fleet Week 2017
* June (mid): Chuck and Max Hansen move to Kodiak, AK, United States, to attend the Jaeger Academy
* June: Newton Geiszler, Chuck Hansen, Stephanie Lanphier, and Kennedy LaRue start at the Jaeger Academy
* June 29: Brawler Yukon becomes self-aware ("Hell of a Brawl")
* July 10: Danger launches with the Yancy and Raleigh Becket (United States) 
* July 11: Los Angeles Shatterdome established; Peyton Turner assumes command
* July: Chuck Hansen knocks out Newton Geiszler after an argument at the Jaeger Academy and is placed on disciplinary probation
* July 21: Coyote Tango returned to active duty with Gunnar and Vic Tunari as pilots
* Q3: Nate Barclay-Harvey, Meadow Cascarret, and Scott Hansen go on a short vacation (Broken Hill, Australia; "Quick")
* August 6: Hermann Gottlieb and Newton Geiszler meet face-to-face for the first time at a conference in Seattle; They promise never to talk to each other again (for anything other than PPDC business)
* September 4: Romeo Blue becomes self-aware ("Into the Blue")
* September 14: Matador Fury launches with Felipe Manzanares and Jesus Curiel (Mexico)
* October: Pietr Vos passes the qualification exam for a Fightmaster position
* October 1: Hermann Gottlieb becomes aware of the sentient Jaegers
* October 3: Hermann Gottlieb sends the memo "Jaeger Software" to Marshals Kliment Kozlov, Nakasone Ren, Thomas Nguyen, Victor Peláez, Gregory Santoyo, Peyton Turner, Xiong Li-hua, Yamane Takahashi(?)
* October 9: Pietr Vos ends assignment as combat instructor at the Panama City Shatterdome
* October 10: Issac “Izzy” Vos born at home (Koffiefontein, Free State, South Africa); Pietr Vos misses the birth while in crossing the Atlantic; begins parental leave ("Coming"); despite the olive branch of his grandson's name, Pietr's father-in-law still disapproves of Pietr ("Namesake")
* October: Vanessa Novoa takes a fall, hurting her leg, and RSVPs 'not coming' to the Mark III Launch Gala (meta)
* October 17: Yamarashi attacks LA; G Danger takes the kill, Romeo Blue, an assist; Raleigh gets into a fight with Yancy afterwards; the Becket boys learn of Hermann Gottlieb's secret
* October: the Mark Launch gala; Teams Shaolin Rogue, Vulcan Specter, Matador Fury, G Danger, and Chrome Brutus attend, as well as Wei Tang Liu with Chuck Darling, Xiong and her husband, Nguyen and Dame Eadith, and Nate Barclay-Harvey; Liu spends the evening helping Chuck raise money for the Mark V, programming Jackson, and chasing out triplets; Jackson Jones becomes trapped in an elevator with Chuck Darling, an experience they both come to deeply regret; Logan Jones ignores his 'date' to hang out with Lin Feng
* October (mid): Lachlan Riley and Jason Egan confronts Marshal Victor Peláez about the status of Victoria Sur after they are not invited to the Mark III launch gala in Hong Kong; Peláez confirms the Jaeger will never be finished and they'll likely never be Rangers and suggests they think about what they want to do instead; after discussion, the ask to be transferred to the Sydney Shatterdome and found other positions
* October 27: Radiation-induced vascular deterioration takes its toll on Meadow Cascarret; she suffers an aortic aneurysm and dies, becoming the first of the four Rangers poisoned by poorly shielded Jaeger reactors to succumb; Scott Hansen takes it very, very hard
* October (late): Lachlan Riley and Jason Egan move to the Sydney Shatterdome and are greeted by Logan Jones, who (of course) picks a fight; it ends with a tussle involving both Joneses, Jason, and Lachlan which leaves all four of them mildly injured and Andrea with a broken nose ("Say Hello"); it's the beginning of a long-term polyamorous relationship between Jason, Lachlan, and Andrea
* Q4: PPDC Command sends Chuck Darling a letter informing her that she is no longer guaranteed a spot in the first Mark V but that she may join the candidate pool if she so chooses. She calmly approaches Chantell Nguyen who goes to war for her but to no avail. 
* November 29: Pamana City Shatterdome established; Gregory Santoyo assumes command.
* December (early): PPDC Command verbally promises Chuck Hansen the right hemisphere of Australia's planned Mark V Jaeger
* Q4: Chuck Darling finally engages Jackson Jones in a fight when he takes his antagonizing too far and, among other things, pulls her hair so she hangs him for it with her braid; Marshal Thomas Nguyen asks her not to do it again, confines Jackson to quarters
* December: The Winter class graduates. This includes Chuck Hansen with the highest scores in the institution's history and Max (not unlike this) who’s assigned a permanent handler-rank PPDC ID; Chuck and Max returns to the Sydney Shatterdome where Chuck resumes his attachment to Chuck Darling who he knows is his copilot.
* December: Pietr transferred to the Vladivostok Shatterdome to serve as Fightmaster
===2018===
* January: Max Hansen chosen as the model for Striker Eureka's logo
* January (mid): Chuck Darling and Chuck Hansen sneak out and get tattoos of their Jaeger logo design; Darling’s is over her ribs on her back, Hansen’s is on his arm after he presents a forged parental consent form
* January (late): An authorized Drift between Chuck Darling and Chuck Hansen goes horribly wrong; Darling suffers a neural surge and sustains extensive scarring; Jackson Jones witnesses her collapse and rushes her to Medical; Darling is transferred to Anchorage for treatment with Dr Caitlin Lightcap while Hansen remains unharmed and in Sydney; upon learning of this, Jackson falls into a long depression ("Bounce" "Collapse", "Bye, Darling")
* January/February: Jackson Jones' torment of Chuck Hansen reaches a new level of intensity 
* February: Chuck Darling comes out of her coma and is not a happy camper. 
* February 9: 平昌 冬季 올림픽 begin (XXIII Olympic Winter Games; Pyeongchang, South Korea)
* February 16: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dog)
* February: Jamie Walker attempts to lift Jackson Jones's depression by introducing him to Nate Barclay-Harvey; it sorta works ("Platter")
* February 25: 平昌 冬季 올림픽 come to an end (XXIII Olympic Winter Games; Pyeongchang, South Korea)
* March 9: 平昌 冬季 패럴림픽 begin (XII Paralympic Winter Games; Pyeongchang, South Korea)
* March 14: Hellmaw attacks Singapore; Lucky Seven takes the kill and awakens ("Lucky Break"), Vulcan Specter earns her first assist ("Bad Boys")
* March 18: 平昌 冬季 패럴림픽 (XII Paralympic Winter Games; Pyeongchang, South Korea)
* Q2: Nate Barclay-Harvey checks up on Chuck Darling ("Organic Programming scraps")
* Q2: The PTBs decide there will only be one SE unit/that the SE on the verge of hitting production will be the only SE unit and withdraw funding
* April 16: Pietr Vos begins home leave
* April: Chuck Darling overhears that she no longer has enough brain matter to pilot a Jaeger, let alone support a neural bridge and suffers a relapse. 
* May 1: Pietr Vos resumes duties at the Vladivostok Shatterdome
* May 8: Tikbalang attacks the Philippines; Shaolin Rogue and Team Horizon Brave defeat it
* May 21: Xing Tian attacks Indonesia; G Danger takes the kill near Manado, Horizon (1) Brave earns an assist
* June 14 - July 15: Чемпионат мира по футболу (FIFA; Russia)
* August 22: Scythetail attacks Indonesia; Triton Tasmania takes the kill near Jakarta
* November 6: Raythe attacks; Cherno Alpha takes the kill in the Okhotsk Sea
* June 1: Pietr Vos transferred to the Los Angeles Shatterdome to serve as Fightmaster
* June: The Summer class graduates; Derek Jones receives the semester's highest rating as a potential Handler
* July 1: First evacuees from New Zealand arrive in Temporary Zealand, NSW, Australia; Derek Jones transferred to Shinohara Heavy Industries's Los Angeles branch with the rest of the admin graduates as grunt labour; Pietr Vos assigned to the Los Angeles Shatterdome Fightmaster
* July 7:Star Festival (Japan); Echo Saber launches in Tokyo with Kita Momoko and Yukimura Kieko as pilots
* Check: August 22: Shaolin Rogue fails to deploy against Scythetail, Crimson Typhoon launched instead; Triton Tasmania takes the kill. (can't remember which Kaiju we're moving where) 
* August 23: Crimson Typhoon's launch-day parade
* Q2/Q3: Marshals Peyton Turner (LA), Gregory Santoyo (Panama), and Nakasone Ren (Tokyo) are dismissed as scapegoats for Jaegergate, but Xiong comes out smelling like roses. 
* November 8: Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Vladivostok Shatterdome
* November 20: Technicians performed an unauthorized OS/AI reinstallation on Shaolin Rogue. 
* Noveber 21: Lin Chao tries to kill himself, he and Feng are placed on suicide watch. 
* December: Rangers Wei Cheung, Jin, and Hu go to Anchorage to oversee the application of their balance tech in Chrome Brutus’ new skates. (”Cut, Copy, Paste”)
* December 16: Pietr Vos ends assignment as Fightmaster at the Los Angeles Shatterdome
* December 17: Pietr Vos begins home leave and a nightmarish trip to Koffiefontein
* December: Ranger Wei Tang Cheung and Quartermaster Yeung Tang Min perform an unauthorized Drift monitored by Jin and Hu. Xiong tightens the triplets' curfew, enlists Tang Min in light Ranger training.
===2019===
* January 1: Christine Matevosian (LA), Cebrián Arriola (Panama), and Souma Minami (Tokyo) assume command of their respective Shatterdomes; Jackson Jones wakes up not alone and with the worst hangover in the history of ever ("Deprived"); Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Sydney Shatterdome after suffering a nightmarish trip from Koffiefontein; meets Thomas Nguyen and Nate Barclay-Harvey, though he probably doesn't remember the latter ("Deprived")
* January 3: Chuck Hansen meets Pietr Vos; the pair show possible Compatibility in both an informal sparring match and a formal test in the Kwoon; Chuck declares Pietr his copilot ("He's My Copilot")
* January 4: Chuck and Pietr Drift for the first time, confirming their Drift Compatibility ("Strong and Holding")
* January 7: Jackson Jones sees Chuck Darling for the first time since her collapse the previous year and freaks out ("A Distinct Lack of Caffeine"); Chuck Darling and Chuck Hansen see each other for the first time since their failed Drift; it doesn't go well 
* January 8: Jackson Jones approaches Chuck Darling and it doesn't go well, despite his gift of a plush drop bear ("Plushie"); Pietr Vos Drifts with Sergio D'onofrio ("Safe") and Chuck Darling ("Sync"); Derek Jones notified of his assignment as Handler to Team 'SE' in Sydney and consults Nanny before accepting (“Convo”)
* January 9: The Sydney Shatterdome bids farewell to Team DriftSci ("Go, Team DriftSci!", "Go!"); Derek Jones speaks with Nanny Jones about his upcoming assignment and nervously greets Jackson and Logan when they come on the line ("Convo") 
* January 10: Nanny Jones asks Jamie Walker to keep an eye out for Derek Jones ("Roomie")
* January 11: Jamie Walker appeals to Chantell Nguyen for an expidited housing request ("Roomie"); The Most Awesome Girls' Night of Jan 2019!
* January 12: Derek Jones arrives at Sydney Shatterdome; greeted by his new roommate, Jamie Walker ("My Old Friend, Fred")
* Check: January 14: Derek Jones becomes Handler for Team Striker Eureka; the Jones brothers are very unhappy with this discovery >which part of "Squire"?<
* January: the Jones brothers dognap Max (dog) and set off a chain reaction of mishaps; Logan Jones ends up with a broken collarbone and without a disciplinary write-up (for once); Jackson Jones ends up with a severe laceration and another disciplinary write-up, this time for concussing Chuck Hansen ("’napped")
* January (mid): Chantell Nguyen forces Jackson Jones to take the 'Decorum for Rangers' course with Pietr Vos ("Decorum")
* January (late): Pietr Vos moves into a shared suite with all four Hansens
* February 1: Pietr Vos begins home leave
* February 5: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Pig)
* February (early): Marshal Thomas Nguyen trades ‘Domes with Marshal Xiong Li-hua of the Hong Kong Shatterdome; returns with his love of Sydney restored
* February 16: Lucky Seven badly damaged in Manila by Mizuchi, Herc Hansen is badly injured, Scott Hansen less so; G Danger takes the kill, Horizon (1) Brave, an assist; Scott encourages Herc to think the breakdown in the Drift was Scott's fault
* February 17: Pietr Vos resumes intensive Ranger training
* February: The Powers-that-Be decide not to repair Lucky Seven, thus scrapping and making it the first Jaeger permanently removed from service due to damage
* March 3: The Hansen brothers face a formal inquiry into the destruction of Lucky Seven; Scott Hansen stripped of Ranger rank for 'failure of command' in the Second Battle of Manila and is demoted to 'officer'; all Australian Rangers (including Ranger-in-training Pietr Vos) attend the inquiry in support of him, except for Chuck Hansen ("Stripped")
* March: Lachlan Riley passes his qualification exam for the role of ‘Fightmaster’, releasing Pietr Vos from the position 
* March 20: Caden Fallon dies at home in Scone of complications from radiation-induced cancer
* March 29: Scott Hansen leaves Sydney for his new assignment at the Panama City Shatterdome without a word to Herc or Chuck
* April 1: Scott Hansen assumes duties as a spotter helicopter pilot at the Panama City Shatterdome
* April 12: A Kaiju attacks near Osaka, Japan; Cherno Alpha and Crimson Typhoon defeat it
* May: Bastien Gottlieb graduates from Imperial College London with a degree in computer science
* ~May: Chuck Hansen and Ruby Maher begin a relationship, the first serious one for each of them
* ~May: Marshals’ weekly conference call; Xiong Li-hua describes the most recent incident with Team Crimson Typhoon; Thomas Nguyen reveals Chuck Hansen and Ruby Maher’s budding relationship to the surprise, dry pride (Xiong), and worry for Herc Hansen (Stacker Pentecost) ("Pffft")
* May: Pietr Vos and Scott Hansen continue correspondence 
* June: Bastien Gottlieb begins work with Reunion, an NGO working to reconnect families separated by Kaiju attacks and Kaiju-related relocations and evacuations
* July 22: Clawhook attacks near San Diego, US; G Danger takes the kill
* Jul 31: At Marshal Thomas Nguyen’s request, Hermann Gottlieb writes and sends him the memo "Kaiju Strength Analysis & Predictions", as well as to Marshals Cebrián Arriola, Kliment Kozlov, Christine Matevosian, Victor Peláez, Stacker Pentecost, Souma Minami, Xiong Li-hua, Yamane Takahashi (Nagasaki)
* August 15: Chuck Hansen discovers he's the subject of a fierce Internet competition; meets Nate
* September: Herc and Chuck Hansen Drift as part of a 'calibration exercise'; surprisingly, they're Compatible
* September (late): Chuck Hansen has the new Striker Eureka logo tattooed over the previous one
* October (early): Chuck Hansen and Pietr Vos Drift with Striker Eureka for the first time
* October (early): Pietr Vos removed as Ranger and scheduled for transfer to the Anchorage Shatterdome; Chuck Hansen expresses his extreme displeasure with this move and the assignment of Herc Hansen as his copilot to Marshal Thomas Nguyen; Nguyen places a note in Pietr's dossier noting the reassignment was made over his protests; Nguyen also convinces Command to allow Pietr to retain his Ranger title, pay, and benefits
* October 27: Pietr Vos begins parental leave
* October (late): Herc and Chuck Hansen are officially assigned as the right and left hemispheres of Striker Eureka; Pietr Vos removed and reassigned from Ranger to Fightmaster, scheduled for transfer to the Anchorage Shatterdome, and goes on home leave; Chuck expresses his extreme displeasure to Marshal Nguyen
* November 1: Anniek Vos born at home (Koffiefontein, FS, South Africa)
* November 2: Striker Eureka's AI becomes fully self-aware and forms a permanent Ghost Drift with Pietr Vos, Herc and Chuck Hansen but father and son never develop a similar link
* November (early): Pietr Vos informs Chuck Hansen that he is distantly related to Griet Vos and the Voslings through Angela Hansen
* November 24: Pietr Vos begins assignment to Anchorage Drift Science
* November 28: First attack on the Breach ends in failure 
** When the bomb bounces off the Breach and lands harmlessly a distance away, Iorangi Parata is the first to report materials cannot enter it
** Triton Tasmania destroyed and pilots Parata and Davies killed when the emergent Kaiju punctures the hull; Chrome Brutus takes the kill; Jackson Jones watches helplessly in Vulcan Specter from the shore of Guam and Logan Jones has to keep him from charging in to help which would be a really stupid move seeing as Vulcan Specter cannot withstand abyssal pressures ("Guam")
** Upon return to the Shed, Jackson Jones lashes out at the first person he feels vaguely responsible for the failed plan he sees, Hermann Gottlieb, and throws him against a wall; gets knocked down by Chuck Hansen and begins a continuing run of bad luck with technology courtesy of Lucky; Jackson also goes after the Marshal but breaks Chantell Nguyen's nose instead
** Chuck Hansen watches from Sydney’s LOCCENT
** Pietr Vos watches from the Anchorage Drift Science lab and is deeply shaken by the first in-battle Ranger deaths
* December: Admiral David Rowland removed from command over the failure of the attack on the Breach and the loss of Triton Tasmania and her pilots.
* December 17: Marshals’ weekly conference call; Thomas Nguyen asks someone to take Hermann Gottlieb in and declines to host Newton Geiszler; Cebrián Arriola questions his request; Souma Minami offers Newt's contract up and declares Xiong mad and suicidal; Xiong Li-hua takes both contracts (”Trade”; AO3); Pietr Vos begins home leave
===2020===
* January 1: Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Tokyo Shatterdome
* January 12: Hermann Gottlieb and Newton Geiszler begin work as the co-Chief Science Officers at the Hong Kong Shatterdome
* January (mid): Elize Vos begins Grade R (“First Day”)
* January (late): The Shatterbucks staff encounter Hermann Gottlieb and Newton Geiszler together for the first time; Tendo Choi meets the future Alison Choi
* January 25:Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Rat)
* February 29: Danger destroyed off the coast of Anchorage by Knifehead but takes the kill; Ranger Yancy Becket killed 
* March 1: Chuck Hansen learns of the destruction of Danger during the Battle of Anchorage and the death of Yancy Becket and is deeply shaken by the loss of two of his idols
* Check: March 11: Jauna Rautio breaks her arm in a bar fight.
* March 12: Medical declares Jauna Rautio unfit to jockey until her arm heals
* March 13: Pietr Vos begins assignment as left hemisphere pilot of Eden Assassin at the Vladivostok Shatterdome
* March 14: Chuck Darling arrives in Vladivostok from Anchorage with Pietr's customized Drivesuit; they spend the evening watching a Bollywood movie with Tall and Taller Sasha
* March 19: Hammerjaw attacks near Gangneung, South Korea; Eden Assassin with Pietr Vos takes the kill; Pietr Vos experiences a harrowing Ghost Drift
* April 26: Pietr Vos begins home leave
* May 10: Pietr Vos resumes assignment as Fightmaster at the Tokyo Shatterdome
* Check: May 25: A Kaiju attacks near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Cherno Alpha, Crimson Typhoon, and Striker Eureka defeat it >since this is Striker’s first engagement, should Striker really take the kill? (Chuck's timeline)<
* June: UEFA EuroCup begins (Europe)
* June: Funding to Jaeger program cut; Construction of Anti-Kaiju Wall, aka the "Wall of Life" begins; Lars Gottlieb leaves the Jaeger program to head Anti-Kaiju Wall project; Lars Gottlieb and Hermann Gottlieb essentially disown each other; Raleigh Becket dismissed from the PPDC
* July 1: Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Los Angeles Shatterdome
* July: UEFA EuroCup comes to an end (Europe)
* July 24 - August 9: XXXII オリンピックのゲーム (Games of the XXXII Olympiad; Tokyo, Japan)
* August: Hound attacks what's left of Auckland, New Zealand; Striker Eureka takes the kill
* August 25 - September 6: 第十六回パラリンピック競技大会 (Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games; Tokyo, Japan)
* November 10: Atticon attacks near Seoul, South Korea; Cherno Alpha takes the kill
* December (early): Pietr Vos receives notice his enlistment will be extended four years as per a 'stop-loss' clause in the Ranger contract he signed in 2019; forcefully expresses his displeasure, as does Griet Vos when she finds out; he vents to Chuck and Herc Hansen, Chuck Darling, and Dr Caitlin Lightcap; Lightcap attempts to convince Command to permanently assign Pietr to Drift Science, she fails
* Q4: Felix Choi born (Anchorage, AK, United States)
* December 16: Pietr Vos begins home leave
* December 31: Scott Hansen’s contract with PPDC ends and is not renewed
* Sean Rise born (Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia)
===2021===
* January 1 - June 10: Mako Mori attends the Jaeger Academy
* January 1: Hidoi attacks near Bangkok, Thailand; Crimson Typhoon takes the kill; Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Panama City Shatterdome
* February 9: Lin Feng injured in a traffic collision ("Cosmic Accident")
* February 12:Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Ox)
* February (mid): Pietr Vos begins assignment as left hemisphere pilot of Shaolin Rogue at the Hong Kong Shatterdome 
* February: Repeated Drifts between Lin Chao and Pietr Vos correlate with increasing depression in the latter
* March (mid): Pietr Vos begins home leave
* March (mid-late): Pietr's family report his depression to Dr Caitlin Lightcap; she immediately dispatches Chuck Darling to accompany him from Koffiefontein to Anchorage for treatment
* April: Chuck Darling assigned to Pietr Vos as his Handler
* April (late): Pietr Vos completes a single patrol as right hemisphere pilot of Chrome Brutus with Spare Cory Ross while Zeke Amarok and Ilisapie Flint watch the Stanley Cup final
* April (late): Marshals' weekly conference call; Xiong Li-hua secures Pietr Vos's services at the Hong Kong Shatterdome for the remainder of the year with Stacker Pentecost’s support and Yamane Takahashi and Cebrián Arriola’s protests ("Skylight")
* May: Evacuation of New Zealand completed
* May (early): Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Hong Kong Shatterdome; Chuck Darling accompanies him to the Madhouse
* May (mid): Griet, Elize, Izzy, and Anni arrive in Hong Kong and are picked up by Crimson Typhoon at the airport
* May (mid-late): The Vos family, the Wei triplets, and Chuck Darling are photographed for a puff piece; Pietr's family presented with Striker Eureka bombers to match his
2021 Q3: Cheung and Mako Mori train in the sim together ("Gummi Bears and Flowers")
* August 27: A Kaiju attacks the west coast; Chrome Brutus drives it northward, sustaining massive damage and eventually letting the Kaiju die of exposure.
* September 24: Pietr Vos assists in the kill of Meathead in the Battle of Hangzhou with Xichi and Horizon 1 Brave while serving as left hemisphere pilot; regular right hemisphere pilot Lo Hin Shen is on leave for a family funeral; Vulcan Specter with Horizon 2 Brave deployed near Taiwan in advance of the Battle of Hangzhou, a storm forces the Jones brothers to spend several nights in Hong Kong before returning to Sydney; Jackson Jones sees Chuck Darling again and resumes arguing with her; meets Pietr's family and charms Izzy ("Bunny"); Logan Jones spends the time hanging out with Lin Feng; picks a fight with the Wei triplets and meets Wei Tang Liu in an unforgettable fashion ("The Jones vs Hong Kong")
* September 28: Rika Vos born in Medical at the Hong Kong Shatterdome (Hong Kong); Marshal Xiong Li-hua ensures she has South African citizenship
* October 9: Ceramander attacks Hawaii; Striker Eureka and Coyote Tango defeat it
* Q4: Xiāngliǔ attacks Macau, China; Team Horizon Brave gets an assist
* December 16: Pietr Vos begins home leave; travels with family to Koffiefontein
===2022===
* January 1: Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Tokyo Shatterdome
* January (mid): Izzy Vos begins Grade R
* January (mid): Pietr Vos begins assignment as left hemisphere pilot of Echo Saber which is on loan to the Sydney Shatterdome
* January (mid-late): Pietr Vos attempts to play matchmaker between Jackson Jones and Chuck Darling; she is completely oblivious to both of their attempts to kindle any interest in Jackson
* January 31: Spinejackal's arrival in Australia heralds the Battle of Melbourne; Striker Eureka takes the kill, Echo Saber with Pietr Vos, an assist; Pietr Vos badly injures his shoulder (making Chuck Hansen quite upset) to such a degree as requiring surgical repair and there is initially doubt over whether he will be able to return to Ranger duties; Vulcan Specter deploys but Marshal Thomas Nguyen holds her out of combat, much to Jackson Jones’ immense frustration
* February 1: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Tiger); Pietr Vos begins medical leave
* February 4: 第二十四届冬季奥林匹克运动会 begins (XXIV Olympic Winter Games; Beijing, China)
* February (mid): Frustrated by his inability to communicate one-handed, Pietr Vos convinces Chuck Darling to work to develop a permanent Ghost Drift with him; they eventually succeed
* February 20: 第二十四届冬季奥林匹克运动会 comes to an end (XXIV Olympic Winter Games; Beijing, China)
* February: Jackson Jones puts on a Firefly screening for certain parties in residence at the Sydney Shatterdome; Pietr Vos, Chuck Darling, Chuck Hansen, the Raharuhi twins, Logan Jones, Team Echo Saber, and Derek Jones attend ("Can't Take this Seat from Me")
* March 4 - 13: 第十三届冬季残疾人奥林匹克运动会 (XIII Paralympic Winter Games; Beijing, China)
* Spring: Mark III Reconstruction Project begins
** Mako tests her Ghost Drift hypothesis with Crimson Typhoon; when the experiment suggests a late-model Jaeger will accept new pilots, the plan continues to a blueprint review of G Danger
* July 24: Taurax attacks the Philippines; Striker Eureka takes the kill near Mindanao
* July 31: Pietr Vos ends medical leave
* August 1: Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Anchorage Shatterdome
* August: Ruby Maher meets her future husband on a vacation to Ireland
* September 7: A Kaiju attacks in the China Sea; Crimson Typhoon takes the kill
* September (late): Pietr Vos begins assignment as left hemisphere pilot of Hydra Corinthian to Stephanie Lanphier's right at the Panama City Shatterdome after Kennedy LaRue is injured in an accident
* November 6: A Kaiju attacks St Lawrence Island, US, and kills the Tunari brothers; Coyote Tango still takes the kill
* November 21: كأس العالم لكرة القدم begins (FIFA; Qatar)
* November (late): Pietr Vos resumes duties as Fightmaster at the Anchorage Shatterdome
* December 17: Pietr Vos begins home leave
* December 18: كأس العالم لكرة القدم comes to an end (FIFA; Qatar)
===2023===
* January 1: Pietr Vos begins assignment as Fightmaster at the Vladivostok Shatterdome
* January 22: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon)
* February: The Vos family joins Pietr Vos in Vladivostok
* May: Bastien Gottlieb enters King's College law school in London
* May 14: A Kaiju attacks and destroys Brawler Yukon; Romeo Blue takes the kill
*Check: Summer: G Danger's frame removed from Oblivion Bay and transported to Anchorage; Gipsy takes a liking to Mako Mori >make this earlier?<
* July 1: Thomas Nguyen informs Jackson Jones of PPDC Command's desire to remove him as a pilot of Vulcan Specter, giving the right hemisphere to Logan Jones and placing a new Ranger (Mori Mako is the first choice) in the left hemisphere, and offers to protest on his behalf; Jackson and Logan discuss and ask Nguyen to make their case; Command decides to move forward with finding a new copilot for Logan Jones, despite Nguyen's objections being supported by Stacker Pentecost; Command 'encourages' Nguyen to retire; he vents his frustration to Dame Eadith Hackett
* July 31: Marshal Thomas Nguyen’s last day in command at the Sydney Shatterdome; there is a party
* August 1: Former Major General Thomas Nguyen begins life as a civilian
* July (late): Thomas Nguyen pushed into retirement and replaced with Zachary Josephs by PPDC Command
* August 8: The Jones brothers arrive in Anchorage Logan Jones' Drift Compatibility test with Mako Mori; Logan sabotages the test by picking a fight in town with Raleigh Becket which leaves him too injured for the test to proceed
* Q4: Zachery Josephs, under orders from PPDC Command, begins a campaign to force Jackson Jones into retirement through extra work and regularly replacing him with Andrea Hill for patrols; Jackson, being a stubborn fucker, is unmoved
* November 15: A Kaiju attacks Santiago, Chile; Puma Real and Matador Fury defeat it
* December: Zachary Josephs's plan backfires spectacularly when Andrea Hill suffers a breakdown, quits the PPDC, and checks herself into a mental health hospital, leaving Command no choice but to keep Jackson Jones on active duty
* December 17: Pietr Vos begins home leave and travels with family to Koffiefontein
* December: Andrea Hill quits the PPDC and moves out of the Team Vulcan Specter suite and into Lachlan and Jason's suite
===2024===
* January 1: Pietr Vos starts at the Sydney Shatterdome as Fightmaster; reunited with Chuck Hansen; Scott Hansen works on the Wall outside Long Beach, CA, United States
* January 2: A Kaiju attacks Shanghai, China; Crimson Typhoon takes the kill
* January (mid): Chuck Hansen attempts to convince Pietr to protest Pietr's assignment as temporary pilot of Horizon 2 Brave at the Lima Shatterdome; Pietr accepts the assignment
* January (mid): Anniek Vos begins Grade R
* January (mid): Pietr Vos begins assignment as left hemisphere pilot of Horizon 2 Brave at the Lima Shatterdome; Chuck Hansen tries to convince him to protest the assignment but Pietr leaves Sydney anyway
* January 24: A Kaiju attacks Lima, Peru; Solar Prophet and Team Horizon Brave defeat it; Fenna Vos born in a Kimberley hospital (NC, South Africa)
* January 26: Pietr Vos honourably discharged from the PPDC
* January 29: Pietr Vos returns to Koffiefontein
* January 31: Chuck Hansen visits Koffiefontein
* February 10: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Dragon)
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Thursday))
* April 7: KM-24 attacks near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, destroying Eden Assassin and killing her pilots, Mimmi Seppänen and Janna Rautio, and a reactor containment breach forces permanent evacuation of a large area near the city ("Containment" (AO3)); Cherno Alpha takes the kill 
* May 10: Kabiri attacks Seattle, US and kills the Gage twins; Romeo Blue still takes the kill; Richard Becket dies in the attack; extensive damage to city's underground infrastructure leads to thousands of deaths in the following years;
* July 5: Insurrector attacks LA; Striker Eureka takes the kill
* July 30: Bonesquid attacks Port Moresby, Papau New Guinea; Striker Eureka takes the kill, Vulcan Specter, an assist
* August 13: Biantal attacks Taipei, Taiwan and destroys Tacit Ronin, killing Duc and badly injuring Kaori Jessop; Crimson Typhoon takes the kill 
* August 14: Ranger Kaori Jessop dies of her injuries
* August (late): Jackson Jones begins to experience vivid nightmares; diagnosed with PTSD; the Jones brothers realize they're unlikely to live much longer if they remain Rangers, continue anyway; Jackson realizes he's the oldest active duty Ranger aside from Herc Hansen
* August 28: A Kaiju attacks; Striker Eureka takes the kill
* September (early): Andrea Hill gives birth to Sunny and Sky; Sunny is genetically Lachlan's child and Sky is genetically Jason's
* September 14: Taranais attacks Queen Charlotte Sound; Cherno Alpha takes the kill
* September (mid): Jackson Jones visits Andrea Hill and her newborn twins, Sunny and Sky
* September 25: Rachnid's arrival in Australia heralds the Battle of Brisbane; against protocol, Vulcan Specter deploys without backup, a transport difficulty delaying Striker Eureka's arrival; Zachary Josephs orders the Jones brothers to eject before they're killed and Jackson successfully triggers the escape sequence despite having suffered grave injuries and Logan having been knocked unconscious into a coma ("Red"); Striker Eureka takes the kill, Vulcan Specter, an assist with her destruction; Derek Jones reassigned as Handler to Team Vulcan Specter and is dragged to Brisbane by Jamie Walker
* September 26: Jackson Jones wakes up in Royal Brisbane Hospital's ICU; learns that his left leg has been amputated below the knee, his right hip has sustained irreparable nerve damage, and that, well, he was technically dead for four minutes after his heart stopped due to critical blood loss from his other injuries; cardiac massage was required to restart his heart, leaving him with a scar in the center of his chest; also learns Logan Jones remains in a coma from Derek Jones ("White")
* September 29: Jackson Jones finally tracks down Logan, who has been hiding in the part of Jackson’s mind they share in the Drift, and convinces him to return to his own body; Logan wakes up, learns he has suffered fractured cervical vertebrae and permanent nerve damage which leaves him with a quiet, raspy voice and skin across his chest, upper arms, shoulders, and back that sometimes itches and feels like it is trying to crawl away ("Gold")
* October 4: Raksaksa attacks Kuching, Malaysia and destroys Mammoth Apostle, killing pilots Violet and Erik Byrd; Striker Eureka takes the kill ("First Responders") 
* October (early): Logan Jones discovers bubble bath has a soothing effect on his crawly skin (or at least distracts him from it); begins blogging about his experiences with it under his real name; to everyone's surprise the blog is an immediate hit. Companies and small businesses begin sending him samples to test and review
* October: Andrea Hill, Lachlan Riley, and Sunny and Sky to the United States' Safe Zones to live with Andrea's family; Jason Egan remains at the Sydney Shatterdome and continues to work in LOCCENT, planning to stay through the 'Dome's decommissioning
* October 12: Anchorage Shatterdome shut down, sold to a private buyer; Xiong Li-hua prepares to cede control of the Hong Kong Shatterdome to Stacker Pentecost and leave with her people but their departure is delayed a day by weather in Anchorage
* October 13: Xiong Li-hua relinquishes command of the Hong Kong Shatterdome to Marshal Stacker Pentecost with her blessing and goes on leave with her people 
* October (mid): The Jones brothers face a formal inquiry into the destruction of Vulcan Specter; both Jackson and Logan are found to have acted properly and are honourably discharged from the PPDC with full pensions and benefits ("United Front")
* October (mid): The Jones brothers accept job offers from Dr Caitlin Lightcap and make plans to move to the United States
* October 18: Lima Shatterdome shut down
* October 19: Tokyo Shatterdome shut down, sold to Shinohara Heavy Industries
* October (late): Logan Jones moves to Pittsburgh
* October 31: Fiend attacks near Acapulco, Mexico; Striker Eureka takes the kill
*Check: November: Jackson Jones, able to walk on his own long enough to bid Derek Jones farewell ("Jar of Dirt"), moves to Pittsburgh and begins work in Caitlin's lab 
* November 9: Panama City Shatterdome shut down, sold to a private buyer
* November 19: Tailspitter attacks near Sapporo, Japan; Crimson Typhoon takes the kill
* November 26: Adina Gottlieb dies in hospital in Geneva, Switzerland
* Check: November 30: Kojiyama attacks; Crimson Typhoon and Striker Eureka defeat it >Chuck’s page says Striker takes the kill, ALC will check kill tallies because she’s petty<
* December (early): Logan Jones gets a visited from Stacker Pentecost at Caitlin's lab; agrees to be a reserve pilot for the relaunched G Danger if Raleigh Becket can't be found ("Recruiting Drive") 
* December 11: Vladivostok Shatterdome shut down
* December 13: Sasha and Aleksis Kaidanovsky arrive in Hong Kong with Cherno Alpha
* December 20: Los Angeles Shatterdome shut down, sold to Shinohara Heavy Industries
* December 29: Sydney Shatterdome shut down, sold to Shinohara Heavy Industries; Striker Eureka decommissioned
* December 30: Anti-Kaiju wall across Sydney Harbour destroyed in under an hour by Mutavore; Striker Eureka deploys and takes the kill despite their official decommissioning and the closure of the Sydney Shatterdome
* December 31: Raleigh Becket and what’s left of Team Striker Eureka arrive in Hong Kong; Chuck Hansen goes out of his way to antagonize Raleigh in the mess hall (possibly encouraged by Herc giving Chuck’s meal to Raleigh)
===2025===
* January 1: Jason Egan arrives in the United States
* January 3 (EST): Logan Jones receives a call from Stacker Pentecost telling him to get on a plane (which turns out to be a Russian military jet) at the Pittsburgh airport for a flight to Hong Kong; hugs Jackson Jones and leaves with no explanation
* January 4: 
** Newton Geiszler Drifts with a portion of Mutavore's brain 
** Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori nearly destroy the Shatterdome during their neural test in G Danger when Raleigh’s memory of Knifehead leads Mako to chase a RABIT; Chuck Hansen remains in LOCCENT attempting to shut down her out-of-control systems with Tendo Choi
** Chuck Hansen forcefully expresses his displeasure with the Becket-Mori team to Stacker Pentecost; picks and loses a fight with Raleigh
** Hong Kong shuts down its airspace in preperation for the impending Battle of Victoria Harbour grounding Logan Jones' jet and stranding him in Vladivostok
** Yeung Tang Mǐn wishes her knights-in-crimson-armour well, goes about her Event routine as per usual (ie, making dozens of cups of takeaway coffee)
** Battle of Victoria Harbour; Crimson Typhoon, Cherno Alpha, and Striker Eureka deploy against Otachi and Leatherback; G Danger takes the kills, Striker Eureka and Cherno Alpha, assists for both, Crimson Typhoon, an assist for Otachi
** Striker Eureka disabled by Leatherback's EMP; Herc Hansen’s collar bone broken when Leatherback punches the Conn-pod; Chuck Hansen cheers on the relaunched G*psy Danger
** All non-essential personnel watch from the staff shelter in the Hong Kong Shatterdome, including Derek Jones
* January 5: V-K-Day
** Chuck charges Max with taking care of Herc; Max says 'goodbye' to Chuck and is transferred into Herc's custody; Chuck accepts Stacker Pentecost as a copilot and they Drift successfully enough to pilot Striker ()
** Hermann Gottlieb and Newton Geiszler Drift with Kodachi 
** Herc Hansen commands Operation Pitfall from Hong Kong LOCCENT 
** Operation Pitfall and the Second Battle of the Breach; Striker Eureka takes the kill of Scunner and assists with the kill of Slattern when Stacker Pentecost and Chuck Hansen sacrifice themselves by detonating their nuclear payload, and with the kill of Raiju
** Herc Hansen promoted to Marshal, assumes overall command of Hong Kong Shatterdome; Max celebrates the closure of the Breach from Hong Kong LOCCENT 
** All non-essential personnel watch from the upper level staff lounge in the Hong Kong Shatterdome 
** Derek Jones upset to the point of vomiting after Chuck's death and is moved to Medical
** Jackson Jones learns from Quartermaster Yeung that Derek is in good health (ish)
** 36 hours after his mysterious disappearance, Logan Jones returns to the Monkey House with no explanation and a Russian military parka he gives to Jackson Jones
==Post-War==
===2025===
* January 6: Chief Sargent Major First Class Xiong Li-hua assumes co-command of the Hong Kong Shatterdome and returns to facility with her people; Derek Jones promoted to Equerry to Marshal Herc Hansen and is granted marshal-level access to all PPDC systems and records
* January 29: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Snake)
* January (late): Chuck finds himself slowly becoming Chu Siqi's familiar
* January (late): Derek Jones discovers Logan Jones's trip to Vladivostok earlier that month and confronts him about it
* Check: February 8: Herc, Mako, Raleigh, Hermann, and Newt leave for the formal inquiry into Operation Pitfall in Geneva (maybe just migrate the entry on the formal inquiry page) 
* Check: February 12: Herc, Mako, Raleigh, Hermann, and Newt return from Geneva (does everyone return that day?)
*February 21: Newt leaves Hong Kong for New Zealand
* February 28: Hong Kong Shatterdome shut down; Hermann leaves Hong Kong for New Zealand
* April: "Sprout" Novoa-Tamahori born
* May 18: Elise Javert dies
* Q2: Max and Herc travel to Koffiefontein; meets Petunia; 60 days later, they welcome six adorable wrinkle-balls to the world; one puppy joins Herc and Max on their travels, the other five remain in Koffiefontein with the Voslings
* 2025 (mid): Ethan Barclay-Harvey becomes CEO of SHO
* Q3: Logan Jones begins correspondence with Australian martial artists Blossom Collocott and Quinn Macrossan
* November: The bond between Scott Hansen and Lucky broken by mutual agreement
* November: Scott Hansen travels to South Africa, visits Pietr Vos, accepts employment as an aircraft mechanic, and moves to Kimberley, NC
===2026===
* Early: Nate Barclay-Harvey stages a 'relatively bloodless' coup at SHO and becomes CEO
* Q4 or 2026 Q1: After encouragement from Jamie and Nanny, Blossom and Quinn visit Pittsburgh; the pair immediately attach themselves to Logan like limpets and he's strangely fine with it; Caitlin tests both Blossom and Quinn for Drift Compatibility and discovers Blossom could be Logan's 'Drift soulmate' (Quinn is insanely jealous); after much discussion, the pair Drift and form a lingering connection similar to the one Logan shares with Jackson ("Powerpuff Girls take on DriftSci")
* February 17: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Horse (Tuesday))
* ~June: A routine Drift between the Jones brothers becomes anything but and they wind up with a permanent mental connection to Vee "(Vee)"
* ~Q4: Logan Jones travels to Australia; visits Nanny, Jamie, Blossom, and Quinn; acts with Blossom as a test 'pilot' for Shinohara Heavy Industries' prototype SFL Jaegers; Vee requests permission to form a permanent connection with Blossom which is granted
===2027===
* February 6: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Goat (Saturday))
* ~: Logan Jones moves back to Australia where he’ll share a home with Blossom and Quinn and assist in running MojoDojo and leaves Jackson in Chuck Darling's capable hands ("Going")
===2028===
* January 25: Fenna Vos begins Grade R (based on the start date for Australian schools)
* January 26: Happy New Year! (Lunar Calendar, Year of the Monkey (Saturday))
* February 29: Leap Day! (Gregorian Calendar (Tuesday))
* Button born (Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia)
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