Timeline

The following is a timeline centered on the William Winslow universe:

(This timeline differs from the Grand Unified Timeline in that these are major events and the GUT focuses mainly on specific works set within the timeline)

* 1940s:
* July 1944: Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Chicago DNC. Presidency of Henry Wallace.
* 1947/1949: Benson, Arizona UFO incident.
* 1950s: Establishment of SpaceCon. Various space probe missions since the 1950s.
* 1952: Washington UFO sightings.
* Late 1950s: Project Mercury
* 1959: Space Challenge 1
* 1960s: Project Liberty (mix of Project A119/Horizon/Lunex)/Project Pilgrim (Apollo-Gemini)/Project Selene (Lunar landing). and Space Challenge 2
* 1961: Project Mercury (mission to send the first astronaut into space), succeeded in 1961, remaining assets upgraded to Project Mercury Mark II. Project Apollo (mission to send the first astronauts to the Moon), cancelled in 1961, assets switched to Project Mercury Mark II.
* 1965: Project Mercury Mark II/Project Ulysses (missions carrying two astronauts into space), succeeded in 1965, missions ongoing. Moon missions in the 1960s and 1970s.
* July 21, 1967: Selene L9 lands on the Moon.
* 1970s: End of SpaceCon. Project Pilgrim (interplanetary exploration missions), responsible for crewed missions to Venus, Mars, and the Asteroids. In conjunction with NASA/JPL and international partners. 1970s and onward. Project Olympia (space station program, a combination of SpaceCon and US military assets), succeeded in the 1970s. Based on Skylab applications. Strategic Defense Initiative (military space weapons platform), succeeded in the late 1970s. Based on SDI of the 1980s. Project Zenith (military moonbase operation), succeeded in the 1970s. Based on Project Horizon. Project Starlight (military nuclear program on the Moon), succeeded in the 1970s. Based on Project A119.
* 1970: Church of the Eight-Pointed Star formed. NASA Space Shuttle program approved by President Reagan.
* 1979: USAF Space Shuttle program (military space shuttles), began in 1979 and discontinued in 1999. Launched from Vandenberg AFB.
* 1980s: Development of greater private space industry, Vega Aerospace. SSTO spaceplane. Space Station America (military space station), succeeded in the 1980s. Based on Space Station Freedom.
* 1981: National Space Launch System (space shuttle orbiter program), began in 1981 and discontinued in 2001. Launched from Cape Canaveral AFB.
* 1990s: Asteroid mining. Multipurpose long-range spaceplane program (mission to create a fully reusable SSTO spaceplane that can travel interplanetary), successful in the 1990s and 2000s. Based on Ares 1B Lander from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Eagle transporter from Space 1999. Military applications based on Hot Eagle and SUSTAIN. International Moonbase, operation since the 1990s. Shuttle II program (next generation shuttle orbiter), began in the 1990s and still active.
* February 24, 1997: International Mars Mission Consortium.
* 1998: A large impactor is predicted to strike Earth on 9/13/1999. Discovery of negative energy.
* September 13, 1999: INTO, ISTO, ISC, USSC formed, formed as a result of the 1998 Asteroid Crisis
* 2000s: Shuttle III program (latest generation shuttle orbiter), in development.
* 2000: USMC Space Expeditionary Division established. USAF Next Gen Shuttle (next gen shuttle orbiter), active since 2000.
* 2001:
* 2010s: Human Outer Planets Explorer (outer planets exploration missions), crewed mission to Jupiter and Saturn and back. In conjunction with NASA/JPL and international partners. 2010s. X-37C Shuttle program (latest generation military space shuttle), active since the mid-2010s.
* 2020s: Project Diaspora (extrasolar colonization mission), in operation during the 2020s
* 2023: Present day
* Second Era of Good Feelings. 2023-2031.
* 2025: Phobos Incident Project Liberty (used existing Ulysses spacecraft to carry two astronauts or more into space), succeeded in the 1960s. Based on Big G, Advanced Gemini, and Blue Gemini.
* 2042: 75th anniversary of the Pilgrim L-9 lunar landing.
* 2067: Official end of the timeline.

Below is the full timeline for the alternate historical timeline Temporal Incursion 1918.

## Contents

* 11890s
* 21900s
* 31910s
* 41920s
* 51930s
* 61940s
* 71950s
* 81960s
* 91970s
* 101980s
* 111990s
* 122000s
* 132010s

## 1890s

* **John Nichols,** future U.S. Senator from Ohio is born outside of Cleveland, Ohio in March 1892.
* ***William McKinley** is elected the 25th president of the United States on November 3, 1896 and re-elected in 1900.*
* *The **Spanish-American War** in 1898, the United States defeats the empire of Spain and acquires Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico.*

## 1900s

* ***President McKinley** is shot on September 8, 1901, dying eight days later, allowing his Vice President **Theodore Roosevelt** to assume the presidency and later elected in 1904.*
* ***Howard Taft** is elected the 27th president of the United States on November 3, 1908.*

## 1910s

* ***Woodrow Wilson** is elected 28th president of the United States on November 5, 1912 and later re-elected in 1916.*
* **John Nichols** saves thirty-six U.S. Marines while wounded at the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918. He claims his survival is a consequence of encountering an "angel."

## 1920s

* ***Warren G. Harding** is elected 29th president of the United States on November 2, 1920, later succumbing to health issues in 1923. This allowed his Vice President **Calvin Coolidge** to assume the presidency. Coolidge is elected in 1924.*
* **Robert Nichols,** future U.S. President and son of John Nichols is born in Cleveland, Ohio in February 1925.
* ***Herbert Hoover** is elected 31st president of the United States on November 6, 1928.*
* *The **Great Depression** occurs after the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 concluding the Roaring Twenties and ushering in the Turbulent Thirties.*

## 1930s

* ***Franklin D. Roosevelt** is elected 32nd president of the United States on November 8, 1932, he is re-elected three times in 1936, 1940 and 1944. Before dying of complications to polio on April 12, 1945. The longest-serving president in U.S. history.*
* **John Nichols** is elected as U.S. Senator from Ohio, serving from January 3, 1933 until his death in 1968.

## 1940s

* ***World War II** begins as the United States enters the global conflict after a surprise attack is conducted by the Empire of Japan on its Pearl Harbor base on December 7, 1941.*
* *With the death of FDR, new Vice President **Harry S. Truman** assumes the presidency and is elected in 1948.*

## 1950s

* *Famous World War II General **Dwight D. Eisenhower** is elected the 34th president of the United States on November 4, 1952 and is re-elected in 1956.*
* **John Nichols** successfully lobbies against the inclusion of Alaska and Hawaii into the U.S in 1958.

## 1960s

* ***John F. Kennedy**, 35th president of the United States takes a motorcade through Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 and is subsequently assassinated by lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald. Ultimately igniting a flurry of conspiracy theories that remain strong over fifty years later.*
* ***Lyndon B. Johnson**, JFK's Vice President runs for election in 1964, which becomes known as a realignment election where Democrats would begin to struggle to win states in the South and Republicans would begin to win them instead.*
* *JFK's 1960 election presidential rival **Richard M. Nixon** runs for election in 1968 and wins, he is re-elected in 1972.*
* Senator **John Nichols** dies in office in 1968, his son Robert runs to succeed him.

## 1970s

* ***Richard M. Nixon,** 37th president of the United States resigns from the office on February 1974 as the result of an investigation into the Watergate scandal. This event allows **Gerald R. Ford** to assume the presidency, Ford is elected in 1976.*
* *Ford picks New York Senator **Matthew Sinclair** as his Vice President on March 5, 1974.*
* ***Gerald R. Ford** is assassinated by Lynette Fromme in San Francisco, California, Vice President **Sinclair** assumes the presidency on September 5, 1975.*
* Robert Nichols' grandson Lucas is born on July 4, 1976.
* President Sinclair defeats Governor Jimmy Carter by winning New York and Ohio on November 2, 1976.

## 1980s

* Little known Ohio Senator **Robert Nichols** is elected 40th president of the United States on November 4, 1980 and re-elected in 1984.
* Widely popular California governor **Tom Bradley** is elected 41st president of the United States on November 8, 1988 and re-elected in 1992.

## 1990s

* Libertarian Republican Senator from Illinois **William Morgan** is elected 42nd president of the United States on November 1996 and re-elected in 2000.

## 2000s

* Highly popular North Carolina governor **Henry Raymond** is elected 43rd president of the United States on November 2004 and re-elected in 2008.
* The Vilkovian terrorist organization VKO launches a massive attack on Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington DC on **Labor Day 2002.**
* The attack leads to a formal declaration of war with Vilkovia and an invasion of the country which would become known as the **Vilkovian War of 2003.**

## 2010s

* Republican governor of Missouri **John Hansen** is elected the 44th president of the United States on November 2012. Hansen is currently running for re-election in the 2016 election cycle.

**Grand Unified Timeline**

The William Winslow's World timeline is broken down by decade starting in the 1930s and continuing until roughly 2050.