Timeline (Everyone's Future)

=== 21st century ===
==== 2020s ====
===== 2021 =====
* June 14th: Start of Everyone's Future.
* July 11th: Euro 2020 concludes with Belgium beating the Netherlands 2-1 in the final.
* August 15th Terrorist group Taliban conquers much of Afghanistan, except the Panjshir region.
* October 10th A broad-spectrum antiviral drug first developed in 2011 received unexpected wide attention after a hacker promoted it in an interview with a news media, and so the development of it accelerated in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
===== 2022 =====
* June: Terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda and ISIS begin to treat Afghanistan as a safe haven, despite Taliban's initial promise of the contrary.
* December 10th: Belarusian Dictator Alexander Lukashenko was assassinated by an anti-Russian soldier during the 30th anniversary parade of the formation of the Republic of Belarus.
* December 15th: Fearing an anti-Russian Belarus, Russia invades Belarus to fully take them over.
* December 26th: The Russian Federation incorporates Belarus into their nation, under the framework of 'Union State'.
* The Democrats retain their majority following the US Congress election.
===== 2023 =====
* Early 2023: Sanctions were imposed on Russia by several nations after their invasion of Belarus which was widely condemned. Some Belarusians form partisan groups in order to opposed Russian dominance. 
* January 19th: The COVID-19 pandemic was declared over by the WHO after most developed nations had gotten the crisis under control. 
* March 4th: A historic vote resulted in Russia being suspended from the OSCE due to invading a nation without any reasoning that other nations saw as being valid.
* March 5th: China heavily criticises the West for suspending Russia from the OSCE.
* Mid-Late March: Anti-chinese racism began to soar in western nations after this move after it had just begun to decline after the COVID-19 pandemic. A major trade war was beginning to take shape. 
* April China, by now facing an economic crisis caused by the trade war, decides to starts flexing its military muscle to threaten Taiwan.
* Sinophobic sentiment had reached an all time high due to the earlier devastating COVID-19 pandemic. Hate crimes involving physical violence and also cybercrimes has been reported across the globe, against Chinese entities and individuals. These included but aren't limited to hacking, racial slurs, punchings, vandalisms.
* The dark web became a popular destination for those people engaged in hacking against Chinese sites to leak sensitive data and also to boast their achievements. This comes after an increased clampdown by mainstream social media services like Twitter against these hacking activities.
* Similarly, due to increased concerns of 'Big Tech', alternative structures such as federated or decentralised services like Mastodon and also the Dark Web gained more mainstream acceptance.
* A group of Uighur exiles, having just escaped into Afghanistan from Chinese 'reeducation camps' in their homeland, began to plan for something extremely sinister. After joining Al-Qaeda, they formed strange bedfellows with people from other countries; even non-Muslims like radicalized anarchist factions of Hong Kong anti-establishment movement and also those who had turned completely sinophobic after being personally affected in the worst way by the COVID-19 pandemic years earlier.
* The Al-Qaeda terrorist cell manage to smuggle highly enriched uranium into Afghanistan from Pakistan in order to construct two sets of miniature nuclear devices. After they are constructed, they and the cell smuggled into Pakistan again and covertly rented transport ships thanks to their moles in various shipping companies.
=====2024=====
* One of the Al-Qaeda mini nukes are first transported into Hong Kong. There it was temporarily hidden in the remote areas by the local radicals who dubbed themselves as 'Vendetta', taking inspiration from a Hong Kong action film.
* Another nuke which is onboard a ship is bound for Shanghai.
* March 15th: The Ides of March terrorist attacks occurs. First, the Vendetta attacked the International Financial Center Tower in Hong Kong by detonating car bombs in the basement. Then, they raided the Hong Kong MTR and the tram bound for the Hong Kong International Airport where they loaded the mini-nukes. The hijacked trains then speeded toward the airport and obliterated it with the nukes. At the same time, the second set of nukes exploded in the Shanghai Harbor, causing massive damage including the almost-destruction of its landmark icon. In concert with the attacks, multiple cyber-attacks involving the hijacking of celebrity accounts and the frontpages of prominent websites in China and elsewhere occurred in order to claim responsibility of the attack. Multiple cyberattacks across critical systems such as power factories and even the Three Gorges power dam happened too; the latter causing devastating floods to downstream cities such as Wuhan. Under pressure from the Al-Qaeda leader beforehand who do not want to lose their safe haven again, they self-attributed as members of the Islamic State (ISIS) when they admitted the attacks. The death toll was estimated in the scale of hundreds of thousands, surpassing 9/11 as the deadliest terrorist attack ever. All of the members who participated in the attack were all slain and were proclaimed as 'syahid'.
* March 16th: All of China went into complete lockdown in order to hunt for possible remaining nuclear devices. ISIS released a statement denying such attacks although little believed it. Despite risking clampdown by web services, many people expressed sentiment of schadenfreude in regards of the attack, although most in overall expressed pure horror and sympathy.
=====2025=====
* After an intelligence report by Russia confirms ISIS' innocence and Al-Qaeda's complicity in such attack, China abruptly invades Afghanistan again, through the Wakhan corridor.
* The Panjshir resistance refused to collaborate with Chinese invaders, and so they became the latter's target.
* Siege of Kabul. The city stood for 55 days before falling into Chinese hands. An official from the Communist (Maoist) Party of Afghanistan is proclaimed as the leader of a Chinese aligned client state.
* Siege of Kandahar. It surpassed the grim record of WWII's Siege of Leningrad by Nazi troops in terms of casualties.
* Iran decided to assist Chinese troops in securing the control of the region.
* Just like in 2001-2021, an insurgency takes hold in Afghanistan, although the Chinese authorities employed far brutal methods such as massive imprisonment of people deemed as disloyal in large gulag camps.
* North Korea falls into economic instability. As a result China finally allows the toppling the Kim Jong Un regime with a massive bribery plan by the international community and to allow a formation of a denuclearised, neutral and reunified Korean state.
=====2026=====
* The United States and the European Union decide to covertly support pro-democratic faction of Afghan insurgency once more. This support later expands to include pro-royalist factions.
* By now the first modules of the NASA Lunar Gateway is sent into orbit around the Moon.
* The renewed Afghan conflict begins to sap Chinese capabilities and resources.
=====2027=====
* The Belarusian partisan movement scores a major victory against Russia after they employed cyberattacks to expose governmental secret documents that discredited some major Russian politicians.
=====2028=====
* The local public opinion in Russia began to turn against Putin.
=====2029=====
* Massive popular uprising in Russia finally succeeds in removing Putin and his authoritarian regime from power. Afterwards, it fell into a second Russian civil war.
====2030s====
=====2031=====
* First batches of Tesla android robots are released commercially.
=====2032=====
* Iran pulled out of Afghanistan after mounting civil unrest in the country.
* China sent a man to the Moon. This is followed by Russia afterwards.
=====2033=====
* The Equal Rights Amendment is finally passed in the United States.
* By this time, NASA has successfully returned the first samples from Mars.
=====2034=====
* Seasteading and colonisation of the Antarctic begin to take shape, starting with the construction of artificial islands and domes. These are the go-to choice for libertarians wishing to live away from countries they deemed 'too strict'.
* The Gateway space station begins the first phase of construction.
=====2035=====
* The US, EU, Russia and China are constructing their respective moon bases.
=====2037=====
* Iran's theocratic regime is replaced by a secular republican regime, with the former being limited to an enclave at Qom.
=====2039=====
* NASA lands the first human on Mars.
====2040s====
=====2041=====
* Despite their great effort, China could not subdue Afghanistan which is well known as graveyard of empires. As soon as the last of its troops pull out from there, the CCP's reign in China is finally over as it is replaced by a federated state.
* The Next Generation Arecibo Telescope detected first definitive signals from extraterrestrials.
=====2042=====
* The second Russian civil war is finally over, which saw the secession of some autonomous republics such as Dagestan, Chechnya, Tuva, and even the region of Siberia. A constitutional monarchy is instated in Afghanistan with the House of Barakzai restored. After almost half a century of war, Afghanistan finally gained true peace.
=====2049=====
* After a status referendum, Tibet became an independent state and a buffer between India and China. It pledged itself to be a neutral state, just like Switzerland.
====2050s====
=====2057=====
* A peaceful direct extraterrestrial contact occurs, when numerous spaceships landed across the globe.
====2060s====
=====2060=====
The movement to create United Nations Parliamentary Assembly begins to go mainstream.
=====2069=====
On the centenary of the first Moon landing, museum/library institutions including UNESCO reveals plan to put large human archives on the lunar surface and even beyond. Web companies like Amazon has even indicated interest to pursuing similar plans. 
====2070s====
=====2075=====
The United Nations Parliamentary Assembly is finally created.
=====2078=====
Humans visit Saturn within a SpaceX Starship. Fusion power is now the norm.
====2080s====
=====2083=====
Breakthrough Starshot. A number of nano-spaceship is sent to explore Alpha Centauri system by beam propulsion.
=====2089=====
The first space elevator is now operational.
====2090s====
=====2099=====
Humans set up a colony on Titan.
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