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- January 9: Proteus AG begins construction on its Helgoland headquarters though a shell company.[1]
- February 13: Aztechnology opens the Spindle orbital platform.[1][2]
- March 26: Operation RECIPROCITY: The Corporate Court conducts a joint military strike against Aztechnology and Aztlan for nationalizing corporate assets.[1][3]
- March 29: Shortly after Operation RECIPROCITY, Aztechnology accepts the terms of the Veracruz Settlement along with the seven AAA megacorps, and Aztechnology pays reparations to those AAA corps whose assets it nationalized.[1]
- May 1: Panama is admitted into Aztlan.[1][4]
- June 24-25: JetBlack records what will be his final sessions at Carrion Studios.[5]
- July 8: Maria Mercurial's Who Weeps for the Children? hits number one on the MTCA's Top 100, pushing her to novastardom.[1][6][7]
- August 4: Frumious joins Shield Wall.[1]
- September: Maria Mercurial's Take it to Mister pushes her Who Weeps for the Children? out of the number one spot on the MTCA's Top 100.[8]
- October 10: JetBlack is killed on his way home from a Seattle concert.[1]
- November 3: Colbert Group CEO Alan Adams (Democrat) and Thomas Steele (Technocrat) are elected the 4th President and Vice-President of the UCAS. Edna Wallace is re-elected President of the CAS.[1]
- December 8: Humanis Policlub assassinates Seattle mayor Daniel Fedderson.[1]
- December 18: Amanda "Euphoria" Lockheart becomes a simsense star with the release of her first starring role, Shotgun Blue.[1][9]
- December 29: A massive earthquake levels Izmir, Turkey.[1][10]
- Louis de Bourbon-Anjou a noble man from France (who belongs to the House of Bourbon-Anjou) dies in rather bizarre car accident, which his son, Enrique de Bourbon-Anjou blames on the House of Orléans.
- Authority over the Panama Canal is transferred to the Corporate Court, and the Pan-Corporate Zone is designed as a "megacorporate protectorate" with its own governor and security provided by all of the AAA megacorps except Aztechnology.
- Scotland declares full independence.
- After a TerraFirst! cell destroys its Seattle plant, Hawkshorne Chemical settles a class-action lawsuit out of court with Arthur Vogel to stop producing a highly-toxic insecticide. Hawkshorne does not destroy its stockpile as promised and instead stores it.
- The lead singer and four crewmembers of the band Immortal 8 are tried and convicted for magical assault after they are discovered to be unlicensed magicians who magically influenced audiences and talent agents. Magically-active musicians lose their audiences in the aftermath.[11]