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2010[]

  • Nunavut, the Inuit territory in northern Canada, is dissolved in accordance with the Nepean Act.
  • January 20: The US federal government seizes all Native American lands. [1]
  • February 10: A new virus is discovered in India; symptoms of infection include severe allergic reactions that eventually kill by asphyxiation. The disease is called Kali's Harvest in India where it killed 450 million people; the rest of the world will come to know it as Virally-Induced Toxic Allergy Syndrome (VITAS). VITAS will kill a quarter of the world's population over the next two years, including Pope John Paul III. [1][2][3]
  • Keruba International achieves extraterritoriality and begins competing with BMW.
  • June 22: The French economy finally breaks under the strain of VITAS, ending the country's resistance to the new corporate culture.[1]
  • September 16: Michel Beloit buys and restructures BMW, integrating it with Saeder Munitions and Krupp Manufacturing, into what would become Saeder-Krupp. [1]
  • October 28: 10.5 million of the 14 million inhabitants of Madagascar have died from VITAS by this time. [1][4]
  • October 31: Quebec secedes from Canada.[1]
  • Maria Kapatelis, daughter of Greek shipping magnate Stavros Kapatelis, is kidnapped. Her father pays the ransom of ten million American dollars, but she is never returned; the only kidnapper the authorities could locate is killed in a firefight.
  • The Yakuza of Seattle is given official recognition as the Dungeness Crabs of the 87th Prefecture by the oyabun of the Watada-rengo in Chiba, Japan. This approval of and support for their activities allows the Seattle Yakuza to grow rapidly and expand its operations.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 19
  2. o30783549Shadows of Europe p. 97
  3. o98082743Cyberpirates! p. 92-93
  4. o98082743Cyberpirates! p. 93
  5. Mob War! p. 14

2011[]

The Year of Chaos

  • January 13: The first baby is born with the condition that will later be described as Unexplained Genetic Expression.[1]
  • January: The Mexican government dissolves in the wake of VITAS outbreaks. Hundreds of thousands of refugees swarm the US border. [2]Sixth World Almanac claims April 7[1]
  • February: The IRA kills forty-four soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment in Coalisland.[3]
  • February 9: The Black Tide hits the North Sea coast, killing thousands and displacing millions in Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Denmark and Norway. Half a million people eventually die from the Black Tide's effects.[4][5]
  • March: The IRA kills thirty-one soldiers of the British Parachute Regiment in Ulster.[3]
  • March 14: Newsweek magazine is the first media outlet that describes UGE babies as "elves" and "dwarfs."[1]
  • April 14: The IRA destroys the British SAS base in Belfast, killing thirteen operators and eleven Protestant paramilitaries.[6]
  • May: Beginning now and for the next three years, numerous UGE children disappear, are given up for adoption, or simply abandoned.[1]
  • July: Operation Discovery, a clandestine eight-man mission to Mars, makes planetfall and begins its survey.[7]
  • August 15: The Indonesian government collapses following VITAS and several volcanic eruptions.[1]
  • September 3 UK: The basalt columns of Giant’s Causeway rise on the coast of Northern Ireland, taller and more solid than they have ever been. Throughout the year, stone circles erupt from the ground across the United Kingdom.[1]
  • October 31 USA: The annual Samhain ritual in Salem, Massachusetts is attended by some new guests: A ghostly hunting group, later identified as the Wild Hunt, appears out of the evening mist charges around the celebrants.[1]
  • November 18: A tribe of yeti is conclusively identified in Nepal.[1]
  • November 23 GERMANY: The Treaty of Passau settled all remaining disputes about the rights of national and international corporations, effectively guaranteeing extraterritoriality to any corporation larger than a certain size.[8]
  • December 24: The Awakening. [1][8]
    • The great eastern dragon Ryumyo appears on Mount Fuji.
    • Under the cover of a fierce storm, Daniel Coleman leads a walk-out of the Abilene detainment camp. Guards attempt to stop him, but their bullets bounce off a glowing field. Coleman leads his people into the storm, leaving no trace.[9]
    • The main cabin of the primary Operation Discovery module suffers a catastrophic malfunction and crashes on Mars, killing five of the eight astronauts. The survivors begin the return to Earth in the command capsule.[7]
    • 00:00:01 - Saeletra makes its one and only appearance.[10]
    • The first mana storm sweeps across the Australian Outback.[11]Sixth World Almanac says February 20[1]
  • December 26: Ley lines and standing stones re-emerge all over Britain. The Great Welsh Dragon Celedyr is sighted over Caerleon.[12]
  • England's Sizewell B nuclear power station suffers a critical meltdown. 7,800 people die within the first month and nearly 80,000 will die of various cancers over the next thirty years.[13]
  • A nuclear power plant in Dounreay, Scotland, suffers a meltdown, creating the Scottish Irradiated Zone.[13]
  • The Auvergne volcano in France erupts.

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 20
  2. o12707240Shadowrun 20th Anniversary p. 25
  3. 3.0 3.1 o89952224Tír na nÓg pg. 29
  4. o30783549Shadows of Europe pg. 10
  5. o84296706Germany Sourcebook pg. 22
  6. o89952224Tír na nÓg pg. 30
  7. 7.0 7.1 o48834768Missions p. 52
  8. 8.0 8.1 o84296706Germany Sourcebook pg. 24
  9. o82435997Native American Nations Volume One p. 74
  10. o26531536Denver: The City of Shadows p. 73
  11. o57038227Target: Awakened Lands p. 17
  12. o66933837London Sourcebook p. 18
  13. 13.0 13.1 o66933837London Sourcebook p. 17

2012[]

References

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 23
  2. o30783549Shadows of Europe p. 11, 97
  3. o30783549Shadows of Europe p. 70
  4. o30783549Shadows of Europe p. 81
  5. o30783549Shadows of Europe p. 97
  6. o57038227Target: Awakened Lands p. 18

2013[]

  • January 1: Naga appear near Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Cambodian peasants begin to worship them as rulers of rivers and rain.[1]
  • April 2: The Inter-Corporate Council fails to stop the violence between Keruba International and ORO.[1]
  • May 23: The IRA attacks Aldershot, the home of the British Army.
  • June 15: The Combat Biking League is founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana..[1]
  • August 12: Xinjiang province secedes from China and names itself Uighurstan. Chinese are massacred in Urumqi and Kashgar.[1][2]
  • September 13: In Vatican City, Pope John Paul IV dies in his sleep. He is replaced by a moderate Brazilian cardinal who takes the name John XXV. Despite this change in power, several Irish Catholic bishops who had refused to accept John Paul IV's denouncement of metahumans break from the Catholic Church and instead go to the Church of Ireland, a small splinter church. (Tír na nÓg) [1]
  • November: The wall around the Saar-Lorraine-Luxembourg Special Administrative Zone is finished.
  • The Trojan-Satsop nuclear power plant in Redmond, Washington, USA suffers a partial meltdown, releasing radioactive contamination into Beaver Lake and the surrounding areas.[3][4]
  • In Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., the Denver Union Stockyards are purchased by Denver Foodstuffs Inc. (DFI) and turned into one of the Southwest's largest sources of algae for food purposes.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 24
  2. o70096438Shadows of Asia p. 202
  3. o03045067New Seattle p.65
  4. o87427754Seattle 2072 p.114
  5. o26531536Denver: The City of Shadows p. 139

2014[]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 25
  2. 2.0 2.1 o84296706Germany Sourcebook pg. 24

2015[]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 26
  2. o84296706Germany Sourcebook pg. 24
  3. o53561113Aztlan p. 37-38
  4. o89952224Tír na nÓg p. 30-31
  5. o98082743Cyberpirates! p.52

2016[]

  • March 12: A major oil spill in the North Sea creates the Scottish Fringe Toxic Zone.[1]
  • July 28: Ares buys NASA.[1]
  • October 15: William Springer assassinates US President Jesse Garrety and escapes justice.[1]
  • October 31: "Bloody Monday." Russian President Nikolai Chelenko, Prime Minister Lena Rodale of the United Kingdom, and Minister Chaim Schon of Israel are all assassinated.[1]
  • November 8: US presidential elections are held as usual, but due to the President's murder, the winner will be inaugurated immediately. Vice President William Jarman wins.[1]
  • November 11: US President-Elect William Jarman is sworn in and then passes Executive Order 17-321, ordering the removal of all Native Americans from US soil by any means necessary, effective immediately.[1]Native American Nations Vol. 1&2 call it the Resolution Act of 2016[2][3]
  • December 12: Cheyenne nationalists feed false information to the US Army concerning the location of a band of Native warriors. The Army strike kills Kiowa non-combatants, effectively wiping out the tribe.[1][4]
  • Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, establishes the first hermetic studies curriculum.

References

2017[]

References

2018[]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 31
  2. o53561113Aztlan p. 38-39
  3. o26531536Denver: The City of Shadows p. 31-32
  4. o57038227Target: Awakened Lands p. 18
  5. o30783549Shadows of Europe p. 11

2019[]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 o34954845Sixth World Almanac p. 32
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