Timeline

The timeline of major events thus far

* 1801: Thomas Jefferson elected President of the United States by the House of Representatives, following a tie in the Electoral College – United States
* 1801: Volt is born on January 5
* 1802: Ludwig van Beethoven performs his *Moonlight Sonata* for the first time
* 1802: Onyx Baryonyx is born on May 19
* 1803: The United States more than doubles in size when it buys out France's territorial claims in North America via the Louisiana Purchase. This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny which involves annexing and conquering land from Mexico, Britain, and Native Americans.
* 1803: The brother's Mom is killed by the dark one
* 1804: World population reaches 1 billion.
* 1804 the slaveowner, currently a pesant beggar uses the recently deceased Ashley to live forever
* 1818: Mary Shelley publishes *Frankenstein*.
* 1820: Discovery of Antarctica.
* 1825: First isolation of aluminum.
* 1836: Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver and sets up a firearms company to manufacture his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a six bullets firearm shot one by one without reloading manually.
* 1840: Upper and Lower Canada are merged into the Province of Canada.
* 1841: The word "dinosaur" is coined by Richard Owen
* The great auk is rendered extinct.
* 1859: Construction of Big Ben is completed.
* 1859: Charles Darwin publishes *On the Origin of Species*. (which onyx himself lived through)
* 1863: United States President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln issued a preliminary  on September 22, 1862, warning that in all states still in rebellion (Confederacy) on January 1, 1863, he would declare their slaves "then, thenceforward, and forever free." The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, officially abolished slavery in the entire country.
* 1873: Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.
* 1877: On August 17, Henry McCarty (who later becomes Billy the Kid) kills a blacksmith named Francis Cahill who becomes his first murder victim.
* 1878: First commercial telephone exchange in New Haven, Connecticut.
* 1884: First electric car produced by Thomas Parker in Wolverhampton.
* 1886: Karl Benz sells the first commercial automobile.
* 1886: Construction of the Statue of Liberty; Coca-Cola is developed.
* 1890: The cardboard box is invented.
* Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity; J. J. Thomson identifies the electron, though not by name.
* 1901 Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-Atlantic radio signal
* 1903 The first teddy bear is invented.
* 1903 The first Tour de France is held.
* 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City results in the deaths of 146 workers and leads to sweeping workplace safety reforms.
* 1911 Sinking of the *RMS Titanic*. Onyx and Volt survive the titanic, pocketing some loot to sell in the future.
* 1914 World War I begins.
* 1914 Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies.
* 1917 The National Hockey League is formed in Montreal, Canada.
* 1917 Independence of Finland.
* 1918 The Armistice of 11 November 1918 ends World War I.
* 1923 Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party as hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic begins.
* 1923 The Walt Disney Company is founded
* 1929 Wall Street crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Great Depression.
* 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
* 1937 Toyota founded in Japan by Kiichiro Toyoda
* 1937 Volkswagen founded by the German Labour Front.
* 1939 Ferrari founded in Modena, Italy (as Auto Avio Costruzioni) by Enzo Ferrari.
* 1939 Volt and Onyx enlist in ww2, looting most of the vehicles and equipment. years later they sold of the war material when they dug it out of the bunker.
* 1946 First images of the Earth taken from space
* 1949 George Orwell publishes *Nineteen Eighty-Four*.
* 1950 *Bertie the Brain*, one of the first computer games, is released
* 1953 The first color television is produced.
* 1961 Yuri Gagarin, flying the Vostok 1 spacecraft as part of the Vostok program, becomes the first human in space
* 1962 Walmart founded in Rogers, Arkansas by Sam Walton.
* 1963 Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes U.S. president.
* 1967 Summer of Love, in which as many as 100,000 people, mostly young people sporting hippie fashions of dress and behavior, converged in San Francisco's neighborhood of Haight-Ashbury Volt met his first girlfriend there. a plus size girl named peggy.
* 1968 ***The Love Bug*** premiers. Volt watches it with Onyx. it is Volt's favorite movie.
* 1968 Volt and Onyx visit area 51 and meet the real Herbie.
* 1969 The Stonewall riots in New York City instigate the gay rights movement. Volt's girlfriend is killed in the process. this the only time Volt snaps and
* kills most of the dirty cops before fleeing with Onyx.
* 1969 The first manned mission to the Moon
* 1969 The Woodstock festival in Bethel, New York, attracts an audience of more than 400,000.
* 1969 Creation of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the earliest incarnation of the Internet
* 1971 Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 400
* 1971 Release date of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial home video game console. Onyx buys a few for their computer power.
* 1972 The arcade game *Pong*, the first commercially successful video game, is released.
* 1972 Release of *A Computer Animated Hand*, one of the first ever computer animations.
* 1974 World population reaches four billion.
* 1975 Altair 8800, the first commercially successful personal computer, is released.
* 1975 volkswagen releases the first fuel injected beetle, the model that Volt owned.
* 1975 Microsoft founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
* 1976 Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I and Steve Jobs then convinced Wozniak to sell the system, giving birth to Apple Computer.
* 1977 Star Wars is released and quickly becomes the highest-grossing film of all-time. Volt and onyx go to see the premiere.
* 1977 Release date of the Atari 2600 video game console in North America.
* 1980 Volt Buys a used 1975 Volksagen beetle.
* 1981 Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States.
* 1981 IBM Personal Computer released.
* 1982 Sony releases the world's first commercially sold CD Player, the Sony CDP-101.
* 1983 Nintendo releases the Family Computer (Famicom) video game console in Japan.
* 1985 Release date of the Macintosh 128K, the first successful mass-market personal computer to feature a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse.
* 1985 North American release date of the Nintendo Entertainment System, a rebranding of Nintendo's Family Computer. Volt enjoys the console, particularily
* spy hunter.
* 1985 November: Windows 1.0, the first Microsoft Windows operating system, released.
* 1986 Volt is shot and turned into a robot.
* 1987 World population reaches five billion.
* 1987 Windows 2.0 released.
* 1988 George H. W. Bush is elected President of the United States.
* 1989 Release date of the Game Boy handheld console in Japan.
* 1989 Release date of the Game Boy handheld console in North America.
* 1989 North American release date of the Sega Genesis, a rebrand of Sega Mega Drive.
* 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall; the Revolutions of 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Bloc begin in Europe, which leads to the end of the Cold War.
* 1989 The first episode of *The Simpsons* premieres on Fox.
* 1991 North American release date of the Super Nintendo Entertainment Sytem, a rebranding of the Super Famicom.
* 1993 Bill Clinton becomes President of the United States.
* 1993 Release date of Windows NT 3.1.
* 1994 Release date of the PlayStation in Japan.
* 1995 Release date of Windows 95.
* 1995 Release date of the PlayStation in North America.
* 1995 Premiere of *Toy Story*, the first computer-animated feature film and the first Pixar Animation Studios film.
* 1995 Dolly the sheep becomes the first successful cloned mammal.
* 1995 Volt becomes a street racer and learns how to drift.
* 1998 Release date of Windows 98.
* 1998 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
* 1998 Release date of Nintendo's Game Boy Color handheld console in North America.
* 1999 The first episode *SpongeBob SquarePants* airs on Nickelodeon.
* 1999 Volt successfully beats the night kids and wins the drift tournements.
* 2000 The ILOVEYOU computer virus affects Windows computers and spreads fast.
* 2000 George W. Bush is elected President of the United States, after a contentious recount in Florida.
* 2001 September 11 attacks: Al-Qaeda terrorists crash planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. A fourth plane is downed on the outskirts of Stonycreek Township, Pennsylvania; 2,996 people die in the attacks.
* 2003 The last Volkswagen Beetle is made in Mexico, after 65 years in production, making parts for Volt harder to find.
* 2004 Onyx sells the ww2 era lot he left in the bunker at RM Sothbys, making a massive profit.
* 2005 YouTube is founded by Jawed Karim, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.
* 2005 Reddit is founded by Steve Huffman, Aaron Swartz and Alexis Ohanian.
* 2006 Nintendo launches the Wii. Onyx hates the motion controls.
* 2006 Introduction of the iPhone.
* 2008 Google Chrome is released.
* 2008 Tesla Roadster launched, the first mass production lithium-ion battery electric car.
* 2009 Barack Obama takes the office as the first African-American president of the U.S.
* 2010 The iPad is introduced.
* 2010 Instagram is launched.
* 2015 Liquid water is found on Mars.
* *2019 Avengers: Endgame* was released in theaters, breaking many box-office records, including becoming the highest-grossing movies of all time.
* 2019 The COVID-19 pandemic begins in Wuhan, China; the start of an ongoing global pandemic.
* 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic claims 1.8 million lives and infects at least 83 million people worldwide.
* 2021 tensions between nations ramps up
* 2022 the pandemic evolves
* 2022 nuclear war is declared after the pandemic affects the brain, effectively wiping out 99 percent of the population.
* 2022 Volt and Onyx hide in a fallout shelter.
* 2022 Twenty second century.
* 2023 the wold starts re evolving
* 2040 dinosaurs re evolve into existence.
* 3030 Emma is born
* 3030 Onyx and Volt crawl out of the bunker
* 3030 Volt meets his Wife and Butter is born
* 4040 Volt and Onyx meet Emma.
* 4041 Tree is found
* 4041 Jade Baryonyx is born, her mother dies.