Timeline (5e Fallout Supplement)

Behind the scenes

Much of the following text comes from the timeline in Fallout Bible 0, written by Chris Avellone, which in turn comes from the original Fallout timeline created by Brian Freyermuth and Scott Campbell. Some post-Fallout information was laid out by Rob Hertenstein, and some dates were added by Chris Avellone himself. Additionally, this timeline includes all dates seen or mentioned in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout Tactics and Fallout Brotherhood of Steel, in all Fallout official game guide, in the Fallout Bible as well as Van Buren design documents.

1066

• October 14: The Battle of Hastings is fought in England as part of the Norman conquest, led by William the Conqueror.

1215

• The Magna Carta was signed by King John of England and English barons, greatly limiting his authority as king and placing more power into the hands of the feudal government.

1600s

• Sometime during the Tokugawa shogunate, starting on March 24, 1603, Toshiro Kago is abducted by mothership Zeta from Japan.

1612

• English explorer John Smith discovers a region that would become known as Point Lookout.

1634

• March 25: Lord Baltimore of the Irish House of Lords dispatched the first colonists to Maryland. They would land near the area that would later become Point Lookout aboard two ships, the Ark and the Dove.

1697

• Andrew Endicott is abducted by Aliens (Fallout Supplement) from his home in Salem Village on May 17th.

1714

• The Soil Stradivarius among all the other instruments were created by the Italian music instrument craftsman Antonio Stradivari.

1775

• April 19: The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

1776

• July 4: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress, expressing general discontent toward British rule and announced the United States' intent to independently govern itself.

1783

• September 3: The Treaty of Paris is signed officially ending the American Revolutionary War.

1787

• September 17: The Constitution of the United States was signed by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven states. It went into effect on March 4, 1789.

1791

• December 15: The United States Bill of Rights amended the United States Constitution with ten rights that all American citizens are guaranteed by their government.

1823

• December 2: President James Monroe proposed the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of the United States which stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.

1850

• The Dante And Virgil In Hell is finished by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. The painting is found in both the ghoul city of Underworld in the Museum of History and Littlehorn & Associates headquarters in the Scrapyard office.

1853

• Bleak House by Charles Dickens is written and published.

1861

• April 12: The Battle of Fort Sumter is fought in South Carolina. The Confederate States Army takes the Union controlled fort and begins the American Civil War.

1862

• September 22: President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

1863

• November 19: President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, it was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.

1865

• April 14: While attending a play in Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln is fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. The President would die the following morning.
• April 20: United States Department of War issues a wanted poster for the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
• May 9: President Andrew Johnson declares an official end to the American Civil War with Confederate States of America surrendering at the Appomattox Courthouse a month before.

1867

• March 30: In what would be dubbed Seward's Folly, the United States purchases Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million.

1879

• James Ritty invents the cash register.

1903

• Mary Anderson invents the windshield wiper.
• December 17: Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright flew the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1914

• World War I begins.

1918

• The Sunset Sarsaparilla Company begins production of their brand name product Sunset Sarsaparilla.
• General of the Armies John Pershing issues the From the Battlefields of France speech.
• World War I comes to an end.

1925

• Richard G. Drew invents adhesive tape.

1934

• May 23: Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed, on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

1935

• Carl C. Magee invents the parking meter.

1938

• Fallout Tactics The Bren gun, a Czechoslovakia design, is adopted by the British Empire as the standard LMG of the Commonwealth.

1941

• December 7: Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Empire of Japan.
• December 11: The United States of America declared war on Nazi Germany.

1942

• Sierra Army Depot is erected. Its mission is to store and maintain a defensive supply of military ordnance. This mission continued until 1991. This is a real event, before the Fallout universe diverged from ours.

1943

• The Los Alamos Nuclear Research and Development facility, codename: the Reservation, completes construction. Los Alamos becomes part of the research team for the Manhattan Project.

1945

• July 16: The first atomic bomb is detonated by the United States of America.
• August 6: The first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon, codename "Little Boy," was dropped on Hiroshima by the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, of the United States Army Air Forces.
• August 14: World War II comes to an end. Sometime between now and 1961, divergence occurs.

1948

• July 21: A Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress crashes into Lake Mead, remaining mostly intact.

1949

• October 1: The People's Republic of China becomes the main political force in China.

Jan 3, 1961: Estimated point of Divergence

1960

• July 4: The 50 star flag of the United States of America is adopted.

1961

• May 5: Captain Carl Bell of the United States Space Agency became the first human in space. This claim is disputed by both the Soviet Union and China. Captain Bell's flight in Space Capsule Defiance 7 lasted twelve minutes and seven seconds, and made a full revolution around the Earth. Bell died when the capsule crashed on its return to Earth.

1969

• Assuming that the flag displayed in the Smithsonian Museum of Technology is genuine, rather than a fabrication by the increasingly totalitarian state, the United States created thirteen commonwealths, creating another, intermediate layer of governance between the state and the federal government. The national flag was amended to reflect this and depicts fourteen stars - thirteen in a circle to represent the commonwealths and one in the middle to represent the federal government and the nation as a whole.
• July 16: The Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 with U.S.S.A. astronauts Captain Richard Wade, Captain Mark Garris, and Captain Michael Hagen lands on the Moon. The astronauts become the first humans to walk on a celestial body other than Earth.
• November 14: Virgo III Lander Valiant 12 lands on the Moon.

1992

• The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed. It is now responsible for the demilitarization of stores of surplus ammunition that have been deemed unfit or obsolete for military purposes. This mission is to be overseen by the Industrial Operations Command in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, providing a greener, cleaner way to dispose of military ordnance. The mission continued until 2050.

2002

• West Tek is founded.

2009

• Smitty's is established.

2020

• The Delta IX rocket is commissioned by the U.S.S.A. The Delta IX rocket is the last of the manned rockets to the Moon.

2021

• Hubris Comics begins publishing comic books, one of their most popular is Grognak the Barbarian.

2034

• The last manned mission to the Moon occurs.
• The Delta IX rocket is converted for U.S. military purposes. Crew and instrument sections are replaced with a nuclear warhead.

2037

• The Mister Handy series of robots is first brought to market as a general construction and maintenance unit by General Atomics International.

2039

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Prometheus Coal, a division of Poseidon Energy, opens a coal mine in central Utah. As a result a small village is settled nearby called Eagle Rock.
• An early bug in Mister Handy robots that caused interference in the operation of the multiple arms is fixed with a hardware update, with no major problems since then.

2040

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) The Tibbets Prison is commandeered by the United States Federal government in association with Vault-Tec and Poseidon Oil to tie into their Project Safehouse. On April 5, 2040, the Secretary of the Army makes the decision to build a new Disciplinary Barracks, with a capacity for 456 inmates. A cost ceiling of $363 million in allocated construction dollars is set. The target budget year for funding this project is fiscal year 2041. Construction begins in fall of 2042, with completion projected for fall of the year 2045.

2041

• August 16: Doctor Morrison Rand was abducted by aliens on-board Mothership Zeta when he was leaving the campus of Banfield College in Humboldt.

2042

• June 25: Robert House founds RobCo Industries.
• A major earthquake takes place in Mexico City. The Mister Handy general construction robot becomes the leader in sales in Mexico.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) July: discussions with Vault-Tec to determine space and functional requirements for the new Tibbets facility.

2044

• Nuka-Cola is invented by John-Caleb Bradberton.
• The Great Passion Fruit Famine hits America. People actually notice the taste difference in Nuka-Cola when the passion fruit flavor was removed.
• The X277 "Viper" magnetic rail cannon developed for the U.S. Military by West Tek is deemed too costly to produce on a mass scale and abandoned.

2047

• RobCo Industries becomes one of the most profitable corporations on Earth.

2050

• The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed again. It is refurbished with the latest in technology and is from now on used as a secret research installation for developing and testing robotic, biological and conventional weapons until 2076.

2051

• Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border at Mexico's expense.
• The N99 10mm pistol becomes standard issue military sidearm following the phase out of the N80.

2052

• A television documentary revealing the withered husk of the Texas oil fields brings the oil shortage into American households and reveals how deep the energy crisis runs.
• The last manned space flight to the moon to be performed by the United States Space Administration takes place. On that flight, the astronauts recover the flag planted on the surface by the Valiant 12 team.
• The widely known Nuka-Cola’s Dazzling Blue bottle color was adopted as standard after market research programs indicated that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of a hundred polled.
• The date is based on Fallout Tactics and is not confirmed by canon sources. March 5th: The United States closes its borders.
• April: Resource Wars begin. Smaller nations go bankrupt as the European Commonwealth declares war on the Middle East in response to rising oil prices.
• May: The ailing United Nations begins to collapse. In a series of heated debates, many nations withdraw from the organization as the U.N. tries to keep the peace.
• July: The Linden Street slayings of the Pint-Sized Slasher take place.
• July 26: The United Nations is officially disbanded.

2053

• The socially transmitted New Plague arises, killing tens of thousands. The United States closes its borders and the first-ever national quarantine is declared. The source of the plague is unknown, but rumors persist that it is a genetically engineered weapon.
• ZAX 1.0 goes online, developed by Vault-Tec Industries. Initially a prototype of some of the systems designed to govern the vaults, it is given to the government to help the Department of Energy collect resource data. Within a year, it is taken by the military for plague and tactical research; one version, ZAX 1.2, would later be constructed for West Tek.
• December: Like an exclamation mark on the end of a very bad year, a terrorist nuclear weapon destroys Tel Aviv.

2054

• REPCONN Aerospace is founded following the first launch of the Delta IX rocket.
• January: Limited nuclear exchange in the Middle East raises fears throughout the world.
• In light of the European-Middle Eastern War and the plague scare, the United States officially sets Project Safehouse in motion. The project, financed by junk bonds, is designed to create shelters, called Vaults, for the populace in the event of a nuclear war or deadly plague. Construction begins late in 2054 and proceeds rapidly due to advances in construction technology.

2055

• West Tek Research Facility is established to continue work on a cure for the New Plague. Their viral research and close ties to the federal government eventually lead to them being chosen for the Pan-Immunity Virion Project twenty years later as well as power infantry armor and laser research.
• ZAX 1.2 is brought in to regulate conditions in West Tek. It is not part of the Vault-Tec preservation software, so it does not have any orders to protect humanity after the bombs fall. In the meantime, it calmly calculates data and plays chess with the scientists. Many scientists claim that ZAX is a "big ol' cheater" and draws the game out too much for a computer of his considerable abilities.

2056

• The Integrated Human Resources Management System v2.3, a joint product of the District of Columbia Office of Software Management and the United States Office of Computational Organization, as part of a contract with Computechtron, was implemented.

2057

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) February: United States government removes the Grand Canyon's protected status as a national park.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) May: Uranium mining begins in the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is closed indefinitely.
• March 15–June 15–July 15: Due to some shipping error, the Zion Canyon general store had yet to receive its supply of De-Luxe Mountain Man All-In-One Survival Kits, which it ordered three weeks prior. One month later the shipping company—instead delivering the survival gear—delivered crates of Dinky the Dinosaur(TM) Officially-Licensed Dino-Action Dolls. This blunder was a major loss for the store, causing it to have to sell these toys to regain its lost capital. These toys can still be found in the store in 2281.

2058

• Isla Negra Holdings begins to take control of Point Lookout, Maryland as the New Plague devastates the region.

2059

• The Anchorage Front Line is established, as the United States increases its military presence in Alaska to protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions in the United States and Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard the Alaskan pipeline.
• The first artificial Intelligence is born. Limited by memory constraints, its expansion is rapidly halted. The discovery paves the way for future A.I. research in laboratories throughout the United States.

2060

• Traffic on the streets of the world stops moving. Fuel becomes too precious to waste on automobiles, so alternatives are explored - electric and fission-powered cars begin to be manufactured, but factories can only make limited amounts while conserving fuel. Pressure on fusion research increases.
• The European-Middle Eastern War abruptly stops as the oil wells in the Middle East no longer produce oil. With the fields exhausted, neither side has a reason to continue hostilities. Both the Commonwealth and the Middle Eastern states are almost completely ruined by eight years of war.
• The European Commonwealth falls apart, reduced to hostile nation states, fighting over the remaining resources. The European Civil War begins.

2061

• March: Construction of Vault 108 begins.

2062

• May: Construction of Vault 92 begins.
• May, 3rd: A U.F.O. codenamed "Paladine" crashes just north of Hagerstown, Maryland, but could not be recovered.
• Despite quarantine measures, the New Plague continues to spread, fueling national paranoia.
• Wan Yang is arrested as a suspect in the Niagara Sabotage.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Many Mormon congregations come together to purchase places in Vault 70, located in Salt Lake City.

2063

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Dr. Willem Clark, a top nuclear physicist in his day, is put in charge of all scientific endeavors at the Reservation. Colonel Green, a career soldier in the U.S. army, is put in charge of security.
• August: The construction of most Vaults completed, except for Vault 13, whose construction finally gets off the ground heralding a development cycle that seems plagued with problems. Drills begin in the other cities with completed Vaults, but the increasing frequency of the drills has a "cry wolf" effect, and the turnouts for drills trickle off as the years go on.

2064

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) A photograph of Dr. Clark, Dr. Sebastian, and the Maniac AI surfaces during the lull between the remobilization of Los Alamos and the arrival of its new mission orders.
• March: Construction of Vault 106 begins.

2065

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) The Reservation is given orders to research and produce nuclear missiles that can be fired from an orbiting space platform.
• February: Construction of Vault 76 begins.
• April 14: M.A.R.Go.T. enters service.
• June: Due to enormous demands for electricity from a 17+ million population, a nuclear reactor in New York City goes supercritical, almost causing a meltdown. The near meltdown brings into effect power rationing, and the term "Hot Summer" is used to refer to this incident.
• August: Increasing need for mobility in the United States mechanized cavalry leads the military to focus the efforts on creating a man-based tank - essentially, a two-legged walking armored unit: power armor. Research grows until 2067 and several prototypes are developed, many of which prove to be unworkable in the field. These prototypes pave the way for future advances in military, construction, and fusion technology.

2066

• The U.S. Army conducts a test of a next generation nuclear weapon, dubbed the Super Bomb by the media.
• The U.S. Navy missile cruiser USS Ebon Atoll is accidentally sunk by the U.S. Navy Submarine USS. Interference during the Anchorage Campaign. The Interference mistook the Ebon Atoll for an enemy vessel and shot it with a nuclear torpedo killing all on board. It is one of the worst U.S. Navy disasters since World War II.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Resource rationing in Denver results in Food Riots, after the midwestern parts of the United States and Mexico cannot supply enough food for the population. National Guard units are called in to deal with the situation.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Poseidon Energy shuts down the Eagle Rock mining complex due to the danger and expense. The installation is sold to the government.
• May: Construction of Vault 87 begins.
• Spring: As the oil resources dry up across the globe, China's fossil fuel dependency causes an energy crisis in the nation. China, bordering on collapse, becomes more aggressive in its trade talks with the United States. Unwilling to export oil to China, talks between the United States and China break down.
• June 24: Negotiations between the U.S. and other world powers come to a dramatic end, with the president walking out of oil talks with the other world powers. After a much heated debate, the president stormed out of the meeting and declared that the last known supply of petroleum will be used exclusively by the U.S. and the U.S. will not sell or trade any oil to outside parties.
• Summer: Adding further insult to the Sino-American relations, the first crude fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the power armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general U.S. infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly eleven years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power.
• December: In the winter of 2066, China invades Alaska. The Anchorage Front Line becomes a true battleground. The United States Congress unanimously passes and the then-President of the United States signs the U.S. Declaration of War on China, officially marking the beginning of the Sino-American War.
• December: As a sign of increasing tension between the two countries, Canada proves reluctant to allow American troops on Canadian soil or allow American planes to fly over Canadian airspace. American and Canadian tensions rise, but Canada eventually backs down, and U.S. troops pass through Canada. This sets the stage for the Canadian annexation in 2076.

2067

• The first suit of T-45d power armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future versions, this power armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry heavy ordnance becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns without endangering the wearer. China rushes to create its own versions, but they are many years behind the United States.
• A Nuka-Cola machine can be found on almost every street in America.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Senator Todd Peterson decides to build a secret bunker to house himself and his family should war break out. Senator Peterson is a wealthy man in his own right, but lacks the funds necessary for such a project. Through secret dealings with Poseidon Oil and a covert branch of the government known as the Enclave, the final funding for the project is attained. A construction site is chosen in southern Colorado and work begins.

2068

• May: Construction of Vault 92 ends.
• November: Construction of Vault 112 begins.

2069

• Canada begins to feel the pressure from the United States military as the U.S. draws upon Canadian resources for the war effort. Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada are stretched to the breaking point. Many Americans refer to Canada as Little America, and Canadian protests are unheard.
• February 11: By order of the U.S. government, all Patriot's Cookbook magazines are banned and incinerated. However, many magazines still remained in circulation.
• March: Vault 13 is finally completed - it is the last of the Vaults on the West Coast, and drills begin. Due to its late completion, the "cry wolf" effect that hurt the other Vaults is not as pronounced.
• October: Construction of Vault 76 ends.
• December: Construction of Vault 106 and Vault 108 ends. Vault 108 was in construction for 8 years due to work stoppage.

2070

• The first of the Chryslus Motors fusion-driven cars are developed. Reassuringly big and American, the limited models carry a hefty price tag but are sold out within days. Many Chryslus plants have long since been converted into making military ordnance.

2071

• West Tek Research Facility is put under military command.
• December: Construction of Vault 87 ends.

2072

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Completed B.O.M.B. missiles are sent to different space centers around the U.S. so they can be carried into space and installed into the B.O.M.B. satellites. The process is slow, but it is being carried out fairly regularly.
• Journal-It Software is copyrighted by PagSoft LLC.
• June: The United States Army confirms the development of a "Super Weapon(Liberty Prime)" to liberate Anchorage Alaska.
• June 3: The United States' increasing demand for Canadian resources causes protests and riots in several Canadian cities. An attempted sabotage of the Alaskan pipeline is all the military needs as an excuse to finalize its annexation of Canada, which had already begun in 2067.

2073

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) August: The Ballistic Orbital Missile Base, or B.O.M.B.-001, is completed and partially functional (for security and maintenance bots) using a temporary onboard generator. The only thing the base needs are the manually input final launch instructions and codes, and the main power reactor.
• September 15: As China becomes increasingly aggressive with their use of biological weapons, the United States government felt that a countermeasure was needed. The Pan-Immunity Virion Project is officially formed and plans are made to begin experiments at the West Tek Research Facility in Southern California.

2074

• Despite claiming that it fights a purely defensive war, United States units are deployed to China. Long supply lines and difficult conditions on the mainland lead to the units becoming bogged down in fighting. American infantry, mechanized divisions, and power armor units suffer from strained resource and supply lines.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) The government turns the lower levels of Eagle Rock into a radioactive waste dump. Future founders of the Enclave help Poseidon Energy secure a contract for the operation, leading to the development of Agricola robots and the installation of a bunker on site.
• June: Construction of Vault 112 ends.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) July: Bloomfield Space Center is completed. It is tasked with building Hermes XIII and Hermes XIV, rockets meant to service B.O.M.B.-001 and -002 respectively. Originally meant for Mars missions, the rockets are instead to be used for installing the final elements of the orbital base (reactors), entering final launch instructions, and performing a final check of the station.

2075

• The Sierra Army Depot A.I., Skynet, becomes self-aware.
• RobCo Industries copyrights the Unified Operating System. This system is used for operating the Robco terminals. The copyright is renewed for each of the next two years.
• RobCo brings up plans to purchase REPCONN Aerospace, threatening a hostile takeover otherwise.
• March 21: PVP experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests of the virus on single-celled organisms. Experiments on plant cells are postponed. The pan-immunity virion is renamed Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV).
• May 9: F.E.V. experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests on flatworms; the flatworms exhibit increase size and heightened resistance to viral contagions. Experiments with insects have less success, and further experimentation on insects is postponed by Major Barnett.
• May: Vault 112 seals two years early, for Stanislaus Braun's sadistic desires.
• June 30: F.E.V. experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, with white mice as subjects. Increased size, muscle density, and Intelligence are noted.
• November 9: FEV experimentation (batch 10-011) on rabbits is concluded. Increased size, Intelligence, and (this time) aggressiveness is noted. Apparently, it was hard to determine whether the flatworms in the previous experiments were angrier and more violent than normal. Frankly, the researchers cannot be blamed for this.

2076

• RobcOS v.85 is copyrighted.
• REPCONN Aerospace is bought out by RobCo Industries.
• January 3: A military team under the command of Colonel Spindel is sent to the West Tek research facility to monitor the experiments in the interest of national security, due to fears of international espionage. Captain Roger Maxson (the grandfather of John Maxson, the High Elder of the Brotherhood of Steel in 2161) is among the team personnel.
• January 12: Splicing in several new gene sequences into their test virus, dogs are injected with batch 11-101a at West Tek. Although increased strength was noted, increased intelligence was not. Using batch 11-011, experiments are conducted on raccoons. The same results are noted, but the attempted escape of several infected raccoons causes Major Barnett to terminate the escape... and the test subjects. Two pairs of raccoons, however, are unaccounted for.
  • Note: Scott Campbell and Brian Freyermuth intended these escaped raccoons to form an intelligent animal community northwest of the Glow called the "Burrows". This location was never implemented.
• January: The United States annexation of Canada is complete. Canadian protesters and rioters are shot on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests.
• April 15: Once all secondary tests and studies are done on the test subjects, all dogs from the batch 11-101a Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) tests at West Tek are terminated... from a safe distance.
• June: Power armor T-51b series prototype completed, resulting in the T-51b power armor. This is the pinnacle of power armor technology before the Great War. Many of these units are sent to China, and they begin to carve a swath through the Chinese forces. The Chinese resources are strained to the breaking point, and the supply lines from the nations China has annexed begin to break down.
• July: Flotation Homes and Seaweed is published by Vault-Tec Industries.
• August: Food and energy riots begin in major cities throughout the United States. Military units begin to be deployed in cities within the United States to contain rioters, and many temporary prisons are constructed. A state of emergency is declared, and martial law soon follows.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) August: Hermes XIII and Hermes XIV are completed, loaded with cargo and placed on the Bloomfield launch platform, awaiting the final funding, and the okay to launch.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) October: Production of B.O.M.B. nuclear missiles is put on hold due to budget cuts. The Reservation is put on reserve.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) October: Due to the seriousness of world events and the threat of nuclear war, Hermes' launch is postponed while funds are routed to vault technology. Launch is rescheduled for 2077.
• October 4: At West Tek, fifteen chimpanzees are infected with batch 11-111. The most successful test to date, growth and immunities in the chimpanzees surpass all other subjects to date. The military practically drools over the results. Plans are made in secret to begin testing in small quarantine towns in North America, and the Mariposa Military Base construction is sped up in anticipation of moving the West Tek project to a location under military supervision.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) November: Enclave personnel seize control of Bloomfield Space Center and begin researching and developing a way to convert Hermes XIII and 14 into a personnel transports to transport important individuals off-planet.
• December: Fifteenth edition of Coping With Mr. Virus! is published by Vault-Tec.

2077

• Gas prices sky rocket Fallout Tactics with the regular gas price being $7450.99 per gallon and $8500.99 per gallon for premium.
• The U.S. Army commissions General Atomics International to manufacture the Mister Gutsy line of combat robots. The Mister Gutsy line is completed just before the Great War and are released for use.
• Robert House puts himself in stasis.
• A Chinese sabotage attempt takes place at Hoover Dam.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) New Plague hits Denver. Rioters burned down large parts of the city in their fear of contamination and anger at their treatment. Many panicked and fled the city by car, clogging the freeways when they ran out of gas and trapping everyone behind them.
• January 7: Major Barnett orders transfer of all Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) research to the newly-constructed Mariposa Military Base, despite objections by the research team.
• January 10: Alaska is reclaimed, and the Anchorage Front Line is again held by the Americans.
• January 22: The first domestic use of power armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine control. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting Americans at home. Food riots increase, and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the military both in Canada and the United States. They are captured, and are sent to military prisons.
• February: F.E.V. Research is leaked to the world through an unknown source. Protests in many major cities and governments around the world, as well as accusations that the U.S. was responsible for the New Plague. F.E.V. is seen as the threat, and serves only to fuel tensions. The governments of the world fear what the U.S. is up to. Speculating anything from trying to make a breed of super soldier, to trying to make Hitler's master race, they begin to panic.
• February 16th: The testing of the Archimedes I weapons system was successful. However, despite precautions being taken, several minor systems were overloaded. Furthermore, both the Black Mountain communications array and the Hidden Valley United States Armed Forces bunkers experienced system frying power fluctuations at the time of the testing. However the Archimedes II testing was pending the long-range communication/targeting system on the Euclid's C-Finder.
• February 22nd: The Army takes control of the HELIOS One installation in Nevada from Poseidon holdings. Full use of the laser artillery enters the American arsenal.
• March: Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President and the Enclave retreat to the Poseidon oil rig and make contingency plans for continuing the war.
• March: Vault Dweller's Survival Guide is published by Vault-Tec.
• July: Between July 10 and October 23: Sierra Army Depot is evacuated.
• August: Sometime prior to August 15, General Constantine Chase, the hero of the Anchorage Reclamation, begins testing a virtual reality simulation of the Reclamation at the V.S.S. Facility in Washington, D.C.
• September 6: Technicians at the V.S.S. Facility notice General Chase is making radical, unrealistic changes to the Anchorage simulation. They believe Chase is becoming obsessed with the simulation and is gradually going insane, but refrain from confronting him out of fear that they will lose their jobs to military contractors.
• October 10: Captain Roger Maxson and his men discover that the scientists at Mariposa Military Base have been using "military volunteers" (military prisoners who didn't have their brains scooped for use in robobrains) as test subjects in their experiments. Morale in the base breaks down, and in light of the mental breakdown of Colonel Robert Spindel stationed at the base, Maxson's men turn to him for leadership.
• October 13: After an interrogation, Maxson executes Robert Anderson, the chief scientist at Mariposa Military Base.
• October 15: Colonel Spindel commits suicide.
• October 18: Scientist executions at the Mariposa come to an end.
• October 20: Captain Roger Maxson, now in control of Mariposa, declares himself to be in full desertion from the army (via radio)... and receives no reply.
• October 21: Maxson orders all families stationed outside the base moved inside the Mariposa facility.
• October 22: The Platinum Chip is processed. It is due to be delivered via courier to Robert House the next day.
• October 23: L.O.B. Enterprises is raided by federal agents.
• October 23: Fallout 4 prologue begins.
• October 23: The Great War begins, and ends. Lasting only a scant 2 hours, most of Earth is reduced to cinders in that time.
  • A pre-Halloween costume show, called Freddy Fear's House of Scares was scheduled later that day in Washington, D.C.
  • Nuka-Cola Quantum is released to the public, trucks leave the factory to make deliveries.
  • 82 students from the Early Dawn Elementary school go on a field trip to Lamplight Caverns with a couple of teachers and a few parent chaperons.
  • In the early morning (U.S. Eastern Standard time) the war begins, triggered by an unknown party. The United States and China deploy their nuclear arsenals. Other countries, seeing the missiles on their way, launch their planes and fire their warheads as well. Air raid sirens sound, but very few people heed the warning. The vaults are sealed. Two hours of nuclear bombardment later, the War ends, along with much of humanity.
  • Randall Clark witnesses the destruction of Salt Lake City and, by extension, the death of his family. The city is hit by thirteen nuclear warheads, resulting in total destruction.
  • Mr. House saves Las Vegas and most of the surrounding area from complete destruction with his defenses at the Lucky 38, stopping 68 of the 77 ICBMs launched at Las Vegas (59 through forced deactivation and 9 destroyed with laser cannons mounted on top of the Lucky 38). The resulting "light show" can be seen as far as Mexico City. Nine of the warheads evade destruction, a fault of Mr. House being forced to use an inferior operating system without the Platinum Chip, but only damaging minor parts of the Mojave Desert, with the most damaging detonation being near Nellis Air Force Base.
  • The Sierra Madre gala event begins, but is cut short by the war. The casino hermetically seals itself and the holographic security murders many of the guests. The few scattered survivors eventually commit suicide in the following hours and days. Vera Keyes dies from an overdose of her pain medication, while Frederick Sinclair dies in his attempt to disarm his traps. The only known survivor is Dean Domino.
  • Vault 12 fails to close properly. Once it becomes known that the other vaults have sealed, people within Bakersfield attempt to force their way into Vault 12 to protect themselves and their families.
  • The West Tek Research Facility is hit by warheads, breaking open the F.E.V. tanks on levels four and five and releasing it into the atmosphere. Mutated by radiation, it loses its mutagenic abilities, but it later complicates things for the Master.
  • The Mariposa Military Base survives; the soldiers within protected from the radiation and FEV flooding the wasteland.
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Surviving scientists and soldiers based in Los Alamos band together with other survivors they encounter for safety. They set up a temporary camp in a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde and attempt to contact the federal government for further instructions. No contact is ever made. A small vault is built into the cliff side to shield the only computer they have from the elements.
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) All Enclave personnel leave Bloomfield Space Center to either take cover or maintain "hot spots". Sub-reactor is turned off. Bloomfield, B.O.M.B.-001 & 002, and Hermes XIII & Hermes XIV are completely forgotten.
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Two Poseidon scientists are trapped in the AGRICOLA Lab. After four years, one dies of natural illness. After one more year, the other commits suicide.
  • Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Due to seismic activity, some radiation seeps into the sub-levels of the Reservation. Even though the people underground are safe from the blasts, radiation eventually takes its toll.
• October 25: At Mariposa, Platner, bound in power armor, is sent out to get specific readings on the atmosphere. He reports no significant radiation in the area surrounding the facility.
• October 27: After burying the scientists in the wastes outside of Mariposa, the soldiers seal the military base, then head out into the desert, taking supplies and weapon schematics with them. Captain Maxson leads his men and families to the government bunker at Lost Hills.
  • Note: Although Maxson's points in his holodisk indicated that civilian personnel other than the families of soldiers under his command were to remain at the base, whether they did so or not is unknown.
• October 28: After having wandered for five days, Randall Clark takes refuge in a former USGS research station inside a cave in Zion Canyon.
• October 31: A black rain begins to come down in areas across the United States and likely the globe, causing a spike in radiation levels in affected areas.
• November: Captain Maxson, his men, and their families, arrive at the Lost Hills bunker a few weeks later, suffering many casualties along the way, including Maxson's wife (but not his teenage son). The surviving soldiers go on to become the Brotherhood of Steel.
• November: During the Exodus, a faction within the Brotherhood of Steel led by Sergeant Dennis Allen breaks off to explore the southeast West Tek Research Facility(Glow) to recover technology. The Captain refuses to permit that, so Allen and his separatist group splits away from the Brotherhood of Steel, taking power armor and weapons with them.
• November: The separatists make their way to the West Tek research facility. They arrive there twenty days later, and are promptly chewed apart by the West Tek's unforgiving automated defense systems. Wounded, Allen begins to suffer radiation poisoning from a leak in his suit. Before he dies, he logs what happened to the expedition into a holodisk.
• November: Ms. Carrie Delaney is the last adult to leave Little Lamplight Caves in search for help. Ten year old child Jason Grant takes charge in her absence.

2078

• January 8–10: What sounded like a two day windstorm occurred in Zion Canyon, the radiation dropped 500 rads.
• January 15: Glowing green snow fell in Zion Canyon.
• January 28–30: The background radiation in Zion Canyon is finally low enough for Randall Clark to explore outside the USGS research station. He quickly finds himself to be the only living thing in the immediate vicinity.
• The dwellers of Vault 87 are locked in airtight chambers and exposed to the Forced Evolutionary Virus(FEV) by the Vault's Overseer and his security, who are simply, though callously, following the "plan" laid out by Vault-Tec. The vault's population is transformed into super mutants.
• The city of kids, Little Lamplight is officially founded. By unanimous vote Jason Grant is named as the city's first mayor.

2080

• The first effects of radiation are seen in the survivors. Widespread mutations occur with animals and humans alike. Those that survive the effects of the mutations are permanently changed. New species are created almost overnight.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) John Bloch's military group makes a peace-protection pact with local ranchers.

2081

• The Skynet AI, in Sierra Army Depot, becomes self-aware, according to its own records.

2083

• May: Throughout the month Randall Clark notes mutated life returning to Zion Canyon. Particularly, prickly pear, honey mesquite, banana yucca, Bighorners, stinging flies larger than normal lizards, and something dragonfly sized that zaps them in mid air then scoops them up.
• Summer: The city of Necropolis is founded by the ghoul survivors of Vault 12 and the US citizens that fled to Bakersfield when the bombs fell.

2084

• April 10–~June 17: Randall Clark leaves Zion Canyon to visit Salt Lake City, circling pockets of radiation and scavenging. Outside of Nephi he caught the trail of three men heading toward Fountain Green, he didn't follow however, believing them to be cannibals bue to the missing corpses of the old couple he mercy killed on the day of the Great War.
• Spring: Set takes control of Necropolis, wrestling control from the original Overseer. The Vault 12 Overseer, not willing to take a dirtnap, is driven north and history loses sight of him.

2085

• The planned date for the U.S. military to bring the VB-02 Vertibird, a Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft, into service. For obvious reasons, this never happens, but the Enclave resumes development after regaining its footing.

2087

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) December: After most of the initial survivors in the Reservation succumb to radiation, those "fortunate" enough to not die have turned into ghouls. And after spending ten years underground, they finally come back to the surface. Twelve ghouls, including Dr. Willem Clark, volunteer to search the wastes in the hopes of finding other survivors.

2088

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) The computer in Mesa Verde fails. The scientists resort to carving their most important schematics into the kiva walls.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) December: Of the twelve volunteers to explore the wastes, only one comes back to the Reservation; Dr. Willem Clark. However, he has brought back a few dozen fellow ghouls to seek shelter at the Reservation.

2089

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Scientists in Mesa Verde began to drill the village children in the ways of mathematics and science so that knowledge is not forgotten. They hope that their descendants will one day help bring civilization back to the wasteland.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) January: After explaining the hardships and prejudices placed against ghouls by smoothskin humans, the ghouls of the Reservation proclaim Dr. Willem Clark as their leader. Willem further solidifies his place as leader by explaining his plans to one day make the ghouls the rightful and true heirs to the Promised Earth and that becoming a ghoul was the next, logical step in the evolutionary process.

2090

• Vault 29 opens. Harold sets out to make his fortune as a trader, making the circuit around the survivalist communities in the wasteland.

2091

• Vault 8 opens, and they use their Garden of Eden Creation Kit (G.E.C.K.) to create fertile ground for their city. This eventually becomes Vault City.
  • Note: While Joanne Lynette says that the city was founded 120 years ago, which would place the event around 2120, the Chosen One later says that it's 70 years before the Vault Dweller left Vault 13. This probably means that Fallout 2 was initially meant to take place earlier, and the dialogue file was not corrected.

2092

• The Los Angeles Vault opens, the Boneyard is founded and attracts survivors.
• Dr. Richard Moreau is exiled from Vault City for murder. The circumstances surrounding the murder are unknown, but he changes his last name to Grey and heads south.

2093

• The Hub is founded by a man named Angus, who sets up camp around a filthy oasis in the desert, and he proceeds to begin trading with other settlements.

2095

• September 20–November 15: 28 Mexican survivors – eleven male, eight female and nine children – settle in Zion Canyon.

2096

• Harold rises to the level of a caravan boss in the Hub. His caravans suffer occasional attacks in the wastes, but Harold's caravan outfit survives and prospers... until the mutant attacks begin to pick up a few years later.
• February: The inhabitants of Vault 22 leave their vault due to an outbreak of mutated spores infecting most of the dwellers and overrunning the Vault.
• February 11: About 118 survivors of Vault 22 move out of the Mojave wasteland and travel to Zion Canyon. Most are infected with the spores and bring spore carriers and spore plants to the Zion Valley and attack/kill most of the Mexican survivors already in Zion.
• February 14: According to Randall Clark, the Vault 22 survivors eat the Mexican survivors they took captive.
• February 19 - January 13, 2097: Randall Clark begins to ambush the Vault 22 survivors and continues to until the remaining 34 survivors leave Zion.

2097

• January: J. Hendricks becomes overseer of the remaining Vault 22 survivors, and as his first order as overseer orders everyone to leave Zion Canyon.
• January 13: The thirty-four Vault 22 survivors leave Zion Canyon after 10 months of ambushes from Randall Clark.
• A man named Jonathan Faust leads his group of about 200 people from the overcrowded Vault 15 into the wastes of the outside. Eventually they become a raider band known as the Vipers.

2101

• The Vault City Overseer retires and the Council of Citizens is established. The Council appoints the initial First Citizen.

2102

• May 22: Increasing mutant attacks on Harold's caravans frustrate him to the point of financing and leading an expedition to find out where the mutants are coming from. Consulting with a scientist and doctor at the Hub, a man by the name of Richard Grey, the two of them decide to join forces.
• June 23: Richard Grey's expedition (including Harold) finds the Mariposa Military Base and is summarily scattered and defeated by the mutant inhabitants. Grey is knocked into one of the vats of Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) by a robotic arm, and Harold is knocked unconscious, only to awaken later out in the wasteland.
• June 27: Harold, already mutating, is found by traders and taken back to the Hub. His former caravan partners and employees, horrified by his condition, abandon him.
• July: Richard Grey, now horribly mutated by the virus, crawls from the vat, covered with F.E.V. and in terrible pain. Barely able to think or perceive his surroundings, he crawls into the vat control room and begins his audio log. He fades in and out of consciousness, sometimes for days or weeks at a time.
• July–November: Richard Grey begins to acclimate to his condition, and begins his first tests of animals by exposing them to F.E.V. These experiments and his growing awareness lay the foundation for his plans for the Unity and the master race. He takes the name "the Master".
• November: The first human victim wanders into Mariposa, and Grey consumes him.
• December: Grey continues his experiments on wanderers that enter Mariposa with no success. The creations are flawed (due to the radiation counts in their bodies), making them big but incredibly stupid, and Grey consumes them rather than letting them live.

2103

• January: The Master discovers the problem with the influence of radiation on his mutations, and he begins to choose his subjects more carefully. The first classic super mutants are born. He begins his plans to build an army.
• 2103-2130: Throughout this period, the Master begins slowly gathering test subjects, willing or unwilling, from local human stock. The Great Winter of 2130 and the scarcity of human subjects make building his army difficult.

2108

• August 22–September 3: Randall Clark tracks 10 sets of barefoot tracks northeast of the Zion Canyon entrance, and finds feral ghouls, which he believes to be the result of dementia until they attack him on sight. Over a little more than a week, he rids Zion of the ghouls.

2113

• February 5-6: Randall Clark attempts to commit suicide on his 60th birthday, with the help of a bottle of Whiskey and a 12 guage shotgun.

2120

• Angus establishes himself as governor over the Hub.
• Skynet is given final orders by its masters, then left to rot in Sierra Army Depot.

2121

• Spring: Vault 15 opens.
• Winter: Raiders begin to organize in the region as food supplies run low. The Khans and the Vipers begin terrorizing local settlements.

2122

• Spring: Shady Sands is founded and a wall is erected to protect the settlement from raiders.

2123

• April 25: 24 children, half boys, half girls, arrive in Zion Canyon from an unknown place. Randall Clark takes interest, and starts watching them from a distance.

2124

• January 2–22: Randall Clark begins leaving gifts, like books and medicine, and notes for the children to make the most of their new home. He signs every note as "The Father". The children later form the tribe the Sorrows. Clark also realizes that he is terminally ill, probably with lung cancer.
• January 23: Randall Clark makes his final notes as he climbs up Red Gate to make sure the children will not find his body, and reveal the mythological "Father" figure to merely being an old man. He dies peacefully shortly afterwards.

2125

• The Vipers attempt to raze the Hub in its formative years. Despite the numerical advantage, they are defeated by a coordinated defence led by Angus. Beaten, they retreat to the north.
• Winter: Angus is murdered. The Hub is thrown into chaos.
• Spain emerges as the technological and economic leader of the European union, and begins instituting policies that lead to the eventual separation of the eastern members of the European Union.

2126

• A band of merchants seizes the water tower in the Hub. They demand anyone wanting water must pay a toll. The Great Merchant Wars begin.
• 2126-2128: The Great Merchant Wars are fought, the Water Merchants seal up the town, but are outnumbered.

2127

• Vault 101's original Overseer dies after grooming a subordinate to continue his work.

2128

• A man named Roy Greene makes peace in the Hub and negotiates a settlement. The Hub's Central Council is formed, composed of two representatives from each of the Hub caravan companies. A long period of indecisiveness and meetings maintain the status quo in the Hub.

2130

• The Great Winter occurs.

2131

• A group of machinists comes to the Boneyard, settling into an old, abandoned factory and beginning to manufacture weapons and ammunition.
• 2131-2135: The Master begins ordering his super mutants to gather human stock from caravans. For many years, the caravan disappearances are blamed on monsters in the desert, and even when the abductions begin to occur on Hub caravans, the deathclaws are blamed. The super mutant army grows.

2135

• Elder Roger Maxson dies of cancer, and his son, already an accomplished soldier, takes up the role of "General" (Elder) within the Brotherhood of Steel. John Maxson becomes a member of the Paladins, showing tremendous promise as a soldier.

2137

• The Master begins to mass-produce super mutants. Only about one in six or one in five attempts are successful, and of these successes, only half seem to last to go on to be part of his growing army, called the Unity.

2138

• The cryogenically frozen Robert House regains consciousness.

2140

• Decker forms the Underground in the Hub and starts pulling strings.

2148

• The brutal eastern European winter forces the Belukr tribe to flee from European Union territory. In the following spring, the tribe makes its way to Moscow, where they encounter the Muscovite Vault Dwellers.

2150

• Around the early 2150s the Vipers recover from their defeat by Angus at the Hub, replenish their ranks from captured slaves and caravan drivers, and begin to establish a power base in the badlands to the North of the Hub (and south of the Lost Hills Bunker). Driven by a religious frenzy (and the need to provide for their much larger numbers of soldiers and disciples), they begin raiding more frequently than before, attracting the attention of the Brotherhood of Steel.

2151

• The Brotherhood of Steel Elder Council sends out Knights to seek traces of Sergeant Dennis Allen's separatist group. All they find is ruins.
• Crimson Caravan Company is founded by Demetre Romara.
• The Boneyard machinists run out of scrap in the surrounding area, form trade relations with Adytum.

2152

• As their influence slowly spreads throughout the wastes, the Master finds humans, doomsday cultists, and rather than dip them in the vats, he demands their obedience as spies - their leader is a man named Morpheus, an ex-member of the gang called the Rippers, and he pledges his followers to the Master. Morpheus and his cultists form the future core of the Children of the Cathedral.

2153

• Vault 760-C opens. The residents begin rebuilding Vancouver, Canada, and scouring the wastelands for music.

2154

• Vault 17 was raided and its inhabitants taken prisoner by the Master's Army. They were subsequently turned into super mutants, among them Lily Bowen.

2155

• The machinists in the Boneyard name themselves Gun Runners.
• The Brotherhood sends out a few squads of scouts to track the Vipers down - it is more of a training exercise conducted by John Maxson's father, as the Brotherhood is convinced that small detachment of troops in power armor would be sufficient to deal with a group of raiders, no matter how large. One Brotherhood squad, lead by Maxson, finds the Vipers. Expecting the raiders to break and run, Maxson doesn't take into account the religious ferocity of the Vipers (or their poisoned weapons), and when a single arrow nicks him with his helmet off, he dies within hours. John Maxson takes up the role of Elder, and Rhombus becomes the new head of the Paladins.
• The Paladins, now led by Rhombus, begin a full scale campaign against the Vipers, tracking them down and wiping out almost all of their members within the span of a month. Some of the Vipers are able to flee north and east into the mountain range.
  • Note: According to Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible #6, the Vipers were never heard from again. It was added there possibly because they don't appear in the final game, but it is inconsistent with Fallout, where the Vipers are mentioned by several characters (Ian, Aradesh, Killian) as still being around. The surviving Vipers must have therefore been still active in California until at least 2161. Furthermore, small groups of Vipers can be found in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281.
• After capturing a caravan of vault dwellers, the Master learns the location of the Boneyard Vault(Los Angeles Vault), the future site of the Cathedral. He conquers the inhabitants and sets up operations there, and the human cultists begin to use the Vault as their powerbase. Within the Vault, the Master begins to send out patrols to Vault locations in search of these other Vaults. This move is finalized in the subsequent year, 2156.

2156

• The Master sees advantages in establishing a benevolent "religion" (the Children of the Cathedral), and using them as spies in settlements throughout the wastes. Missionaries from the Children of the Cathedral spread slowly across the wasteland, acting as eyes and ears for Morpheus and the Master.

2157

• The Master learns the location of the Bakersfield Vault, Vault 12, and sends a detachment of super mutants there to seize the vault. Many ghouls are snapped like twigs in the attack, and Set finally parleys with the super mutants, telling them that the ghouls are the Vault survivors the super mutants are looking for. The super mutants, angered at failing to find an intact Vault, set up a small garrison at the watershed to watch the inhabitants and ensure Set's...cooperation in the war to come.

2158

• Regulators take control of Adytum. The trade relations with the Gun Runners sour, as the trade begins to favor the settlement heavily.

2159

The people of the Belukr Tribe and the Muscovite Vault Dwellers form the Reborn Coalition of Soviet Nations

2161

• Harold appears in the Hub's Oldtown.
• October: A Brotherhood of Steel patrol comes across a dead super mutant in the badlands. They take the corpse back to the Scribes, and Head Scribe Vree begins her examinations of the super mutant.
• December 5, 07:21: Fallout begins The Vault Dweller is sent out into the wastes to find a replacement of the Vault 13 water chip.
• December 15: The Vault Dweller discovers Shady Sands. Meets Tandi, and Ian, who joins the Vault Dweller in searching for the water chip.
• December 30: The Vault Dweller recruits Dogmeat in Junktown.
• December: J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game Killian Darkwater takes firm control of Junktown, drives out the last of Gizmo's kind, and then enforces his own brand of frontier justice. Life is fair and safe under his law.
• December: Thanks to the vault dweller's persistence, the Khans are completely destroyed, leaving only one survivor named Darion.

2162

• January 4: The Vault Dweller visits Scrapheap.
• January 5: Someone starts stealing water from the store room in Vault 13.
• January 17: The Vault Dweller reaches the Hub and negotiates with the Water Merchants to deliver water to Vault 13, buying the Vault some time.
• January: With the Vault Dweller's assistance, Harold brings the new recent ghoul population of the Hub into equality with the humans. The two sides work together, and the Hub prospers.
• February 13: The Vault Dweller recovers the water chip in Necropolis. Ian is killed by a super mutant and reduced to a cinder.
• February 23: The Children of the Cathedral send their doctor to Junktown.
• March 3: The Vault Dweller defeats the Master.
• March 24: The Master's Army attack Necropolis, forcing most ghouls to flee and sparing none of the ghoulish inhabitants that stayed, leaving a truly dead city behind them.
• April 20: The Vault Dweller destroys the Mariposa Military Base. Dogmeat dies defending his master, vaporized by a forcefield.
• May 10: Fallout ends - The Vault Dweller returns to Vault 13, only to be told to leave by Jacoren. Some members of the vault (led by Theresa, the head of the "return to the surface" faction, and including her supporters, Pat and Lyle), follow soon afterwards. The Vault Dweller marches into the wasteland, leaving Vault 13 behind him.
• May 12: Vault Dweller removes his Armored Vault 13 jumpsuit and from this day forward, never wears it again.
• July 10: The Vault Dweller heads north with a small group of fellow vault dwellers and wastelanders and founds the small village of Arroyo.
• The Brotherhood of Steel helps the other human outposts drive the Master's Army away with minimal loss of life, on both sides of the conflict. The advanced technology of the Brotherhood is slowly reintroduced into New California, with little disruption or chaos. The Brotherhood of Steel wisely remains out of the power structure, and becomes a major research and development house.
• The former residents of Vault 760-C ratify the Treaty of Vancouver, forming the Music Appreciation Society.

2167

• August 18: Construction of Arroyo completed.

2170

• Followers of the Apocalypse reports from this year are the first to confirm the existence of an intact Hoover Dam.

2172

• The Enclave find a Forced Evolutionary Virus research military base.

2180

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) With their village having outgrown available space and resources, many Ciphers adopt a nomadic lifestyle, returning to the village only occasionally to resupply or raise children until they're old enough to walk on their own.

2185

• Summer: At high noon, super mutant Marcus and Brotherhood of Steel Paladin Jacob cross paths many, many miles southwest of Broken Hills and punch and shoot each other for a few days. Eventually, they give up, laughing, unable to get an advantage over the other. The two start traveling together, arguing over Unity and BoS doctrine and whether or not the Master could truly neurolink his biology into the Cathedral computer network.
• Fall: Marcus and Jacob, along with a collection of ghouls, humans, and super mutant followers, found the community of Broken Hills.

2186

• In Shady Sands, Tandi helps her father Aradesh bring a new community and new life out of the broken remains of the world. A trial council government of the New California Republic is formed, drafting a constitution. Its ideals spread across the land.
• Spring: Jacob says goodbye to Marcus, then moves on for parts unknown.

2188

• October 2: Vault Dweller has a daughter, who later becomes the Arroyo Elder.

2189

• The New California Republic is voted into existence as a sprawling federation of five states: Shady Sands, Los Angeles, Maxson, Hub and Dayglow.
• The Followers of the Apocalypse rise to become a major influence in New California. Thanks to the Vault Dweller's help, they gain control of the L.A. Boneyard.

2190

• Vault 70 opens and its residents use their three G.E.C.K.s to found the city of New Jerusalem in the ruins of Salt Lake City.

2195

• Fallout Tactics Chris Avellone (Fallout Tactics) becomes the mayor of Springfield.
• Fallout Tactics January 4: Latham's airship crashes near Osceolla.
• Fallout Tactics January 5: Latham takes leadership of Gammorin's Army. As their new leader, he discovered that the supermutants are a simple, good people, with a loyalty stronger than that shown by regular humans. With the help of other crash survivors, he reorganized the mutant group into a fighting force. However, he began to notice symptoms of brain damage sustained in the duel: Hallucinations and bouts of angers and depression.

2196

• Fallout Tactics April 9th: Gammorin's forces inadvertedly wake up the Calculator, nearly leading to a holocaust of epic proportions.
• After the death of Aradesh, Tandi is unanimously elected President of New California Republic (N.C.R.) by the NCR council. As expected, she proceeds to do a kick-ass job.

2197

• Fallout Tactics January 1, 06:29: Fallout Tactics begins - A Brotherhood of Steel squad, led by the Warrior, is sent to free the village of Brahmin Wood of raiders.
• Fallout Tactics April 6: Brotherhood forces clash with Gammorin's Army. Latham abandons the Brotherhood cause entirely.

2198

• The Enclave resumes work on various pre-War technologies, including power armor variations. None of these are much of an improvement over the conventional old power armor, and some are actually worse.
• Fallout Tactics Fallout Tactics ends - During the attack on Vault 0, the Warrior stops the Calculator, averting a holocaust of epic proportions at the hands of its robotic army.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) After years of trying the "natural" way, the ghouls of the Reservation discovered they were indeed sterile. Dr. Willem Clark and Dr. Sebastian begin to devise a plan to create a viable way for ghouls to procreate.

2200

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) B.O.M.B.-002 is knocked out of orbit and crashes in the Grand Canyon.

2205

• New California Republic introduces laws protecting ghouls and other mutants within its territories.

2208

• January 16: After writing his memoirs, Vault Dweller vanishes from Arroyo and is presumed dead. The Vault Dweller leaves the Vault Suit behind, folded on the bed. Some say the Vault Dweller was taken by the sky spirits, others say that the Vault Dweller felt it was time to move on and leave the Elders to guide Arroyo to its destiny.
• February 2: The One-Moon (Month) Cycle of mourning for the Vault Dweller ends, and activity in Arroyo begins to return to normal.
• February 2: Final training of the vault dweller's daughter for the role of Arroyo Elder(village elder) begins. She undergoes a great deal of physical training and tutoring in various sciences, mathematics, and, of course, weapon skills.
• Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel begins - The Initiate, a Brotherhood of Steel initiate belonging to the Texas Expedition, is sent to the town of Carbon to find Rhombus and his paladins.
• Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Just after the arrival of the Initiate in Carbon, the vault dweller also arrived in the town and settled for a while.

2209

• Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel ends - With the indications of the Vault Dweller, the Initiate found the city of Los, destroyed the Church of the Lost and come into the Secret Vault. They activate the self-destruct system inside and took the escape monorail leading to an exit in the mountains, causing the destruction of the Attis Army, Los and the Secret Vault, and ending the Texas Expedition of the Brotherhood of Steel.

2210

• January 31: The Vault Dweller's daughter takes her mystic test, a key ingredient of which is several pots worth of hallucinogenic plants from Hakunin's garden. She runs the gauntlet in the Temple of Trials, using her charm to pass most of the tests after her handgun jams (and is ruined) on the first level. She offers numerous criticisms of the test, resulting in many revisions.
  • Note: The broken handgun is the one you see on her table in the opening movie of Fallout 2.
• February 2: The Vault Dweller's daughter ascends to role of Village Elder. She rules with a steady hand, and her wisdom is greatly respected.

2215

• Under Presidential Order, Enclave scientists begin to work on an upgraded version of power armor. Many prototypes are developed and tested.
• August 1: Congressman Dick Richardson rises to power within the Enclave, aided by pressure from his father, President Richardson.

2220

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) The Reservation begins to purchase human slaves from the various tribes around the region. The ghouls trade what weapons they make in their underground smithies for healthy humans. The healthiest are used for the ghoul procreation experiments, while the rest work until they die from exhaustion and disease.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) New Jerusalem's intolerant prophet and apostles repeatedly vote to have no commerce with outsiders from other, failed communities, refugees, or tribals.
• March 5: Congressman Richard "Dick" Richardson is elected president for the first term of five, through aid and political pressure by his father (the previous President Richardson).
• October: Enclave scientists develop a reliable version of the Mark II power armor. The prototype results (and accidents... and explosions... and deaths) are classified by order of the new President Richardson for the sake of morale.

2227

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) July: After years of research and experimentation, Dr. Sebastian successfully creates a ghoul through procreation in the Reservation. The human host, like all the ones preceding him, dies during childbirth (evidently hosts can be male or female).
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) August: The first successful Born ghoul. Due to the radioactive chemistry of the ghouls, the first Born ghoul rapidly grows into adulthood within a month. The Born ghoul is named Measles due to his large, swollen glands in his jaw. Only three other Born ghouls will be birthed between this year and 2253. The procreation experiment only has a 2% success rate.

2228

• The ghouls of Capital Wasteland are driven underground by hostile mutants and humans, forming the Underworld in the Museum of History.

2230

• A US satellite crashes near Moscow, detonating its nuclear payload. While the physical devastation was minimal, the EMP effect of blast crippled the technological supremacy of the Muscovite Vault Dwellers and allowing the Belukrians to take more control in the Reborn Coalition of Soviet Nations.

2231

• Caesar(Edward Sallow) is given to the care of the Followers of the Apocalypse in the Boneyard. The boy is being raised as a scribe.
• Around this time, the Boomers that had been wandering in the Mojave Wasteland come across the Nellis Air Force Base and settle in what will become their new refuge.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) High Elder Jeremy Maxson sends an expedition under Andrea Brixley east, to find Peterson's bunker. Brixley's team renovates the bunker and establishes their base within. For ten years, the Paladins explore the eastern fringes and form relations with neighboring tribes.

2232

• Leonard Boyarsky is exiled from Vault City.

2233

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) New Jerusalem is sacked by a large group of tribals, raiders, and other disgruntled folk. A large number of Mormons perishes in the attack.

2235

• The Enclave experiments on deathclaws, attempting to create special fighting units for waging war in hostile environments.
• While there had already been a small number of ghouls in the area soon to become the town of Gecko, the population swells and the town of Gecko is formed. The new influx of ghouls bring scavenged technology and know-how, and the power plant in Gecko becomes operational later that year. Vault City looks upon their new neighbors with growing concern.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) The new Mormon living prophet, Judah Black, leads most of the remnants of the Mormon community north to Ogden, Utah. They establish the town of New Canaan.

2236

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Working with some squatters, the Mormons get the Jericho Water Plant running fresh water into New Canaan.
• July 20: Enclave scouts discover the remains of the Mariposa Military Base and find it partially destroyed.
• July–August: Enclave scientists and chemical corps scour the remains of Mariposa, while assault squads comb the desert for slaves they can use to excavate the military base and get to the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) vats. One of the squads includes soldier Frank Horrigan, age 25 at the time, recently removed from duty on the President's Secret Service detail to take some R&R time in the wastes after some undocumented psychotic blunder or another.
• August: Melchior is captured by an Enclave patrol and becomes part of the slave excavation force at Mariposa.
• September: Enclave construction crews and super mutant slaves begin excavations. They uncover the FEV, and mutations begin to occur in the human workers. Frank Horrigan comes into contact with the FEV and is sent to the Enclave labs for study.
• October: Melchior begins to mutate, but keeps his intelligence and cunning in the wake of the transformation, making him smarter than your average super mutant. Realizing that the Enclave will kill the super mutants after they get the FEV data, he begins to use his magician talents to hide away weapons for the mutants to defend themselves when the Enclave decides to dispense with them.
• 2236-2238: Horrigan gradually mutates from exposure to FEV, gaining the physique and slow, stupid, single-mindedness of a super mutant. He is kept heavily sedated, operated on, and studied. He is conscious for only brief periods at a time, then quickly sedated after the bloodshed is over.

2237

• The remnants of the Naval Research Institute lead by Horace Pinkerton clear the mirelurks off the wreck of a beached aircraft carrier that later becomes Rivet City.
• January: The Enclave, having obtained the F.E.V. data, abandons the military base site after more mutations occur, causing a second generation of super mutants to arise - the Enclave leaves a single squad behind to wipe out the super mutants, but the mutants, using armaments they have cached in the base during excavation, reduce the squad to ashes after suffering heavy casualties. The remaining first and second generation super mutant slaves decide to remain in the base, and the group forms a new community.

2238

• Harold arrives in Gecko, and (with a lot of shaking of his head) he does his best to help the ghouls with the running of the Nuclear Power Plant.

2239

• Thomas Moore comes to Vault City and becomes a Citizen
• January 23: Tests begin to run dry on Frank Horrigan. It is suggested that he be used as a field operative and be used in tests in the wasteland against local populations.
• March 27: Frank Horrigan is manufactured for his new role. A new version of power armor is built to accommodate his mass, and he is sealed inside. After a few horrifically successful field tests, Horrigan becomes the Enclave's solution to numerous sticky problems.
• April 25: Inaugural meeting of the Rivet City Council, consisting of Horace Pinkerton, Annette Holmes and Brad Danvers takes place. The city officially gains its name.

2241

• By this time, Junktown has become a member of the New California Republic as part of the state Shady.
• Herbert Dashwood meets Argyle and steals his girlfriend. They are best friends ever since.
• In the Capital Wasteland, the settlement of Megaton is attacked by raiders. During the attack, Colin Moriarty's father is killed, and Colin inherits his wealth, including Moriarty's saloon.
• The worst dry season in many years causes a drought in the Northern California area, hurting crops and brahmin in both Arroyo and Modoc.
• January: The first samples of Jet begin to arrive in Redding, courtesy of the Mordino family.
• February: Vault City rejects offers of alliances with both the Bishop family of New Reno and NCR.
• February: A survey party from Vault 101 led by Anne Palmer scouts the area of Springvale and Megaton.
• March: Raider attacks on caravans to Vault City begin.
• July 25, 08:24: Fallout 2 begins - The Chosen One begins his mystic test, descending into the Temple of Trials like his mother before him.
• July 27: The Chosen One leaves the failing community of Arroyo in search of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit.
• August 30: The Chosen One happens upon a confrontation between a Enclave squad led by Frank Horrigan and civilians. The civilians resist his demands and are executed. Luckily for the Chosen One, Horrigan merely scoffs at him as he tells him to go about his business, before leaving the scene with his goons.
• October 23: A vision of Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the first time.

2242

• Two androids, Armitage and A3-21, are built in the Commonwealth by the Institute.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Nuclear Nellie, a howitzer style gun capable of firing a nuclear shell, is made functional at the Reservation. A "dirty" shell is created to use on Willem’s enemies. However, since the heavy lift cable is broken, there is no way to bring the gun from its underground lair.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Jeremy Maxson renames Todd Peterson's bunker after his famous ancestor, Roger Maxson. He then sends a full compliment of troops for occupation. Andrea Brixley is promoted to Elder, given the rank of General, and placed in charge. The remainder of her exploratory team is given the title of Elder as well.
• January 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the second time.
• April 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the third time, without regard to the progress of the Chosen One.
• May 15: Fallout 2 intro - The Enclave sends a coded sequence to Vault 13, activating its central computer and declaring that it is time to leave the vault. Martin Frobisher gathers the Vault 13 dwellers together for the "Leaving The Vault" video, a tutorial movie of Vault-Tec about the rules to follow when vault dwellers left their vault.
• May 16: Less than a day later, Vault 13 is opened, only to be greeted by two Enclave verti-assault squads. The squads kill three of the vault dwellers who were "resisting capture" and storm Vault 13, kidnapping all the inhabitants.
• May 17: Enclave animal handlers drop an intelligent deathclaw unit into Vault 13 from a safe distance to kill anyone investigating the vault and cloak the Enclave's presence. Other intelligent deathclaws are sent into the desert surrounding Vault 13 to check for any escapees or witnesses.
• July 20: Arroyo is attacked by Enclave soldiers, and the villagers are enslaved and brought to the Enclave oil rig. The Chosen One has a fourth and final vision of Hakunin.
• Fall: Fallout 2 ends - The Chosen One enters the Enclave's oil rig using the damaged tanker and destroys the Poseidon oil platform, killing the President of the United States and ending the Enclave's plans for world domination.
• After the Enclave's destruction, the refugees of Arroyo and Vault 13 resettle, building a new community with the aid of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit. Finding themselves hundreds of miles from their Vault, the members of Vault 13 choose to join the villagers in establishing a new community, and their technical expertise, combined with the villagers survival skills, allow the new settlement to grow and prosper. Two generations of the same bloodline are re-united, and their savior, the Chosen One, becomes Elder, presiding over the village in the years to come.
• The Arroyo elder lives for many years after the destruction of the Enclave. She seems pleased that the ancient separation between Vault 13 and the Vault Dweller has been reconciled, and many are the times she tells the Chosen One she wished the Vault Dweller were alive to have seen the reconciliation take place. Certain that the safety of the new village had been secured and the new community was flourishing, the Elder passes away a few months later in her sleep. Many of the older Arroyo residents believe that she now lives in the vault of the sky, telling the Vault Dweller of the Chosen One's brave deeds.
• Relations between the Slags and residents of Modoc flourish. Between the two peoples, Modoc prospers and becomes a major farming community, supplying all the outlying regions with food.
• J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game Metzger's slave trade in the Den expands greatly, giving him influence and power throughout most of the area. Breeding pens are started and eventually no one is safe from the threat of being enslaved. Travelers avoid the Den, hearing of the evils committed within its walls.
• J.E. Sawyer's Fallout Role-Playing Game Optimizing Gecko's power plant becomes the first step in forging a spirit of cooperation between Gecko and Vault City. Gecko's increased power production becomes instrumental in helping Vault City's expansion.
• Not long after the destruction of the Enclave, the Bishop Family of New Reno is blessed with a child. This child seems to have little in common with the Bishops, preferring instead to spend his days exploring the wastes. When he turns thirteen, he seizes control of the Bishop Family and leads them to victory over the remaining New Reno families. He dies quietly in his sleep at the age of seventy-three, never having known his real father.
• Myron dies less than a year after the defeat of the Enclave, stabbed by a jet addict while drinking in the Den. His discovery of jet is quickly forgotten, and now there is no one who remembers his name.
• The Chosen One still hears mention of Harold from time to time. Apparently, the tree growing from his head has gotten larger, and if rumors are to be believed, fruit is growing from it. The seeds are said to remarkably tough, and several of them have taken root even in the most barren stretches of the wasteland.
• Several years after buying the Excavator Chip from the Chosen One, Marge LeBarge is able to purchase and control both the Morningstar and the newly opened Kokoweef mines. Marge is an easy choice for Mayor, and using her new political power, she makes Redding join the growing New California Republic in return for a seat in the NCR's Hall of Congress.
• With the destruction of the conspiracy to destroy the mutants, Broken Hills begins to thrive. Then the uranium ran out. The city, having lost its sole reason for existing, slowly disperses. The residents carry their riches with them, leaving the place a wind-swept, desolate ghost town. A few hold-outs remain, attempting to eke out a pathetic existence, but eventually, they too, disappear.
• Inspired by the example set by the Chosen One, Marcus eventually travels across the great mountains to the east, searching for other refugees from the Master's army. The Chosen One never hears from him again.
• With the support the Chosen One secured from the New California Republic, the Vault 15 squatters soon become self-sufficient and productive members of society.
• The Chosen One's help with Vault 15 launched the New California Republic's push to civilize its neighbors. Though there were many more obstacles to overcome, the NCR now had a foothold into the northern wastes.
• Shi eventually went into an uneasy trading relationship with the tanker vagrants after the destruction of the Hubologists, and the two groups went on to make San Francisco a major fishing and trading center.

2245

• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Judah Black dies of old age.

2246

• Sallow and Bill Calhoun, a fellow Followers of the Apocalypse, are sent east to study tribal dialects, and meet with Mormon missionary Joshua Graham.
• During the expedition, Sallow discovers a cache of historical books, some of them regarding ancient Rome, including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon and the Commentarii de Bello Gallico by Julius Caesar himself, which fascinates the young man.

2247

• Graham, Calhoun and Sallow are captured by the Blackfoot tribe for ransom. The young Sallow uses his knowledge to train the tribals in the art of warfare, impressing them enough to become their leader.
• Sallow assumes the name of ancient Roman emperor Caesar and makes Joshua Graham his right-hand man. He decides to create an empire modeled after the historical Roman Empire, intending to erase the tribals' individual identities and replace them all with a single, monolithic culture - the Legion. He tells Calhoun to go back to the Followers and spread the news of these happenings.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) After coming out of a strange and powerful fever, Jeremiah Rigdon claims that an angel appeared to him in a vision, calling him to be the living prophet of god.

2248

• President Tandi becomes ill and dies at the age of 103. Her vice-president Joanna Tibbett is sworn in as new President of the NCR.
• Caesar begins his conquest of the tribes of northern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, western New Mexico and southeastern Utah.
• Hannibal Hamlin becomes a slave at the age of 15.
• Herbert Dashwood and Argyle took shelter in and were subsequently banished from Rockopolis.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Almost half of the residents of New Canaan leave because they believe Jeremiah Rigdon is not the true living prophet. They leave with Bishop Mordecai.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Sulik's sister Kurisu becomes leader of Blackfoot tribe.

2249

• Summer: A cholera outbreak at the Blue Destiny Brothel kills most of the prostitute in addition to Madam Destiny Chao, which shuts down the brothel for good.

2250

• Caesar declares himself the son of Mars, Roman god of war.
• Harmon Jurley becomes leader of the Paradise Falls slavers after Penelope Chase' death that resulted from leading the slavers to Rockopolis.
• Rockopolis is razed and its population sold to The Pitt. Argyle dies trying to escape.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) Daniel goes to find his six cattle in a storm and is captured by robots from the prison. Also, Bishop Mordecai and five others return to New Canaan as the sole survivors of their attempt to resettle New Jerusalem. They do not acknowledge Jeremiah Rigdon as the living prophet.

2251

• Herbert Dashwood is voted "honorary ghoul" at Underworld.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) May 10: Jillian McKinley is apprehended by ULYSSES' robots. The Rusty Hooks lose their best and only mechanic/weapons smith. Sid (Van Buren) is "volunteered" to take her place.

2252

• Bloomseer Poplar arrives at the Oasis.
• 15-year-old Scott Wollinski is sold to a caravan merchant by his father, who hopes for a better life for his son. Wollinski would travel with the caravans for few years, working as an indentured servant, until buying his freedom and settling down in Canterbury Commons.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) June 15: Kyle "the Hook" and his Rusty Hooks discover Bloomfield Space Center and declare it their home.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) June 30: Sid figures out how to fire up the sub-reactor. Bloomfield has power once more, but sub-reactor is only operating at 45% efficiency.

2253

• 38 NCR citizens are massacred by Mojave raiders. President Joanna Tibbett is voted out of office by the NCR congress after a "timid" reaction to the massacre, and is replaced by Wendell Peterson.
• President Peterson dispatches three battalions of NCR infantry into the Mojave Wasteland.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) October 23: The Prisoner escapes from Tibbets Prison, dooming the world and creating a holocaust of epic proportions.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) October 23: Sentry robots at Bloomfield become semi-active – not moving, but the optical lenses and sensors turn on and start surveying for escaped prisoners from the Big MT. The robots ignore the Rusty Hooks.
• Van Buren (not confirmed as canon) October: Dr. Victor Presper and his New California Republic followers find security overrides for the turrets and security bots at Bloomfield, as well as the space rockets' launch codes. They invade Kyle's beloved Bloomfield – Kyle and his men do not resist Dr. Presper and his technically more advanced brigade – and launch themselves into space to dock with B.O.M.B.-001. Four NCR soldiers stay behind with the remaining rocket to prevent anyone from launching the second rocket. The Rusty Hooks keep clear of the launch pad and form an "understanding" with the NCR guards.

2254

• Fallout 2 is programmed to ultimately end 13 game years after gameplay starts, so hurry up with that Garden of Eden Creation Kit (G.E.C.K.)!
• A Brotherhood of Steel squad led by Owyn Lyons is sent to Washington, D.C. on the East Coast to search for technology.

2255

• Caesar establishes the first capital of his Legion in the ruins of Flagstaff, Arizona.
• On the way to the Capital Wasteland, the Brotherhood expeditionary force attacks the raider town called "The Pitt" and razes it to the ground. These events are later known as the Scourge.
• The Brotherhood of Steel expeditionary force under Owyn Lyons arrives in the Capital Wasteland.
• The Brotherhood of Steel establishes the Citadel as their main base of operation in the ruins of The Pentagon.

2256

• The child of the Chosen One, aged only thirteen, seizes control of the Bishop Family and leads them to victory over the remaining New Reno families.
• The Capitol Preservation Society retrieved the Constitution of the United States from the National Archives.

2257

• Allistair Tenpenny hires Tara Fields, Jeff Strayer, Dave, Dukov and Crowley to raid Fort Constantine. Fallout 3.
• Approximately around this year, Harold appeared in the Capital Wasteland. He is discovered by several people who began to worship him as a god, and a small and exclusive cult known as the Treeminders begin to form in secrecy. Bob began to blossom and many plants grew in this area, which became green with life, a stark contrast to the outer wasteland.

2258

• July 13: Fallout 3 prologue begins - The Lone Wanderer is born and Catherine dies during childbirth.
• James, distraught by the loss of his wife, travels to Vault 101 with his child via Megaton, with the help of Paladin Cross, abandoning Project Purity.

2259

• Madison Li arrives at Rivet City and takes over as head of the city's science lab from Horace Pinkerton. Pinkerton's whole staff starts working with her instead. Aggravated by this, Pinkerton moves to the Broken Bow of Rivet City and becomes a recluse, continuing his experiments alone.
• James is hired by Overseer Alphonse Almodovar as Vault 101's vault physician.
• The Lone Wanderer's first birthday is celebrated in Vault 101.

2260

• A generator in the Citadel overloads, creating errors in the artificial intelligence routines of the medical robot called Sawbones, giving him intelligence beyond his programming and a disliking for his human masters.
• Amata Almodovar's mother dies from unknown causes.

2261

• Dennis Crocker begins his political career as a local mayor in the New California Republic.

2265

• Bannon arrives in Rivet City.
• A 7-year-old girl from Little Lamplight kills a mole rat with a knife as big as her arm, and is named after the weapon. She is considered to be a bona fide celebrity ever since.

2267

• The Great Khans arrive in the Mojave Wasteland.

2269

• Under the command of General Aaron Kimball, the New California Republic Army entered the eastern Sierra Nevada region to drive out or eliminate all raider tribes operating in the Owens Lake area. The operation was successful and brought a lasting to peace to the eastern Sierra Nevadas.
• A slave named Caleb Smith escapes from his masters and joins a raider band.

2270

• Pacification of the Mojave: NCR forces under General Kimball (Aaron Kimball) finally destroy the tribes in the area surrounding Bullhead City, seizing it for the NCR. Kimball is elevated to the status of national hero.

2271

• The Ranger Unification Treaty is signed between the New California Republic and the Desert Rangers. The NCR begins expanding into the Mojave.
• A slave named Hannibal Hamlin escapes from his master.
• Daisy Roe, the sister of Ernest "Uncle" Roe and wife of Louis Pacion is killed in a raider attack on her caravan.

2272

• Three Dog restarts Galaxy News Radio, operating under the protection of Brotherhood contingents.
• The New California Republic establishes the Mojave Outpost.
• Johnson Nash and Ruby Nash move to Primm as agents for the Mojave Express.
• Nova moves to Megaton.

2273

• Reilly starts Reilly's Rangers.
• NCR Rangers reach Hoover Dam.
• Corporal Sterling of the NCR Rangers is captured and tortured by Caesar's Legion legionnaires. He manages to escape by rolling into the Colorado River down an embankment and is rescued by fellow Rangers.
• Aaron Kimball retires from the military and runs for the office of congressman in the Hub (which insists on calling its delegates governors).
• Wendell Peterson is voted out of office and Kimball is sworn in as the new NCR president, just two months after his predecessor assumed the post.

2274

• Robert House recruit the Boot Riders, Slither Kin and a tribe of cannibals (White Glove Society) turning them into the Three Families. Renovations of the city begin.
• Benny becomes leader of the Boot Riders after killing the previous chief, Bingo, in a knife fight over disagreements on joining Mr. House. As new chief, Benny joins Mr. House and accepts the new name given to his tribe by Mr. House, the Chairmen.
• President Aaron Kimball orders the occupation of the Hoover Dam as first act of office.
• Attempting to occupy Hoover Dam, the NCR instead meet Mr. Robert House and the Three Families. The sides enter negotiations, resulting in the signing of the Treaty of New Vegas. NCR is allowed to control the Dam and to set up headquarters at Camp McCarran, while recognizing Mr. House and the three families as the rightful owners of the Strip. 5% of the energy from the Dam is transferred to the Strip while the rest goes to California.
• Hoover Dam restarts and the Strip blazes with light. The first trickle of privileged, curious NCR citizens visits the Strip. The Strip opens for business.
• Dennis Crocker was elected to the ambassadorship.
• The NCR Embassy is set up in the New Vegas Strip.
• Robert Joseph MacCready becomes the mayor of Little Lamplight.
• Hannibal Hamlin finds Lincoln's Head and establishes the anti-slavery organization known as the Temple of the Union.
• August 3: The Lone Wanderer takes the Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test (G.O.A.T.).

2275

• Camp McCarran, New California Republic's headquarters in the Mojave Wasteland, is established. Conflict with the Mojave Chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel begins.
• The NCR government ceases to officially support the Followers of the Apocalypse, turning to the Office of Science and Industry.
• Benny kills Bingo, takes over the Boot Riders, and makes them the Chairmen. The Chairmen continue renovating The Tops under Mr. House's watchful eye.
• Maggie's parents die in a raider attack, and she is rescued by the caravan guard Billy Creel.
• The NCR restarts Hoover Dam and gets it to 50% capacity within a year of occupying it.
• Legion scouts report the NCR has occupied and restarted Hoover Dam, restoring electrical power to the Strip. Caesar begins planning war against the NCR.
• 2275-2276: Legion forces gradually assemble east of the Colorado river. The NCR becomes aware of the threat when scouting parties fail to return from expeditions east.

2276

• Henry Casdin and several members of the Brotherhood of Steel (Columbia chapter) leave the Citadel and form the Brotherhood Outcasts.
• Freeside has near completely degraded into lawlessness. The Kings are formed, with support from the Followers of the Apocalypse, becoming the only form of law and order in the area..
• The Van Graffs come to Freeside, establishing their operations in the Silver Rush. The Kings protest the kicking out of the original owner, but a few well placed plasma bolts resolve the problem. The Brotherhood ignores the Van Graffs under orders from Elder Elijah.
• Horace Pinkerton entered Vault 112 and salvaged computer parts, acquired a memory chip and later constructed a circuit neuralizer.
• October: NCR executes Operation: Sunburst, expelling the Mojave Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel from the HELIOS One facility. The Brotherhood's Elder, Elijah, disappears into the wastes. With no one to lead, then Head Paladin Nolan McNamara takes over as leader and retreats all wounded and remaining forces into Hidden Valley.
• October 2: William Brandice moves his family to Grayditch, after leaving Navarro, deserting from the Enclave army.
• November 15: The scientist and doctor Weston Lesko appears in Grayditch, moving in with the Wilks family. He soon relocates into a shack nearby.

2277

• Caesar's Legion moves into the Mojave, setting up their base of operations at The Fort.
• The Courier delivers a mysterious package containing ICBM launch codes for the local missile base to Hopeville. After dropping it off and leaving, several nuclear detonations begin to occur underground destroying Hopeville and Ashton and several NCR supply lines and land routes by sinking them into the earth. In the aftermath, the land that encompassed Hopeville and Ashton becomes known as the Divide among local tribes and the NCR.
• The First Battle of Hoover Dam takes place. Caesar's Legion forces under the command of Joshua Graham attempt to take the Hoover Dam from the New California Republic. Although initially successful, the NCR lures the Legion into a trap and sends them reeling. Most of Boulder City is reduced to rubble in the battle. Legate Graham, deemed responsible for the defeat by Caesar, is coated in pitch, lit on fire, and tossed into the Grand Canyon to set an example for others.
• A band of raiders attempt an assault on Megaton but fail when their leader Boppo is shot and killed by the town sheriff, Lucas Simms.
• Doctor Weston Lesko begins his experimentation at Marigold Metro Station, attempting to decrease the size of giant ants, turning them into fire ants by accident, which then proceed to destroy the town of Grayditch.
• August 17, 09:04: Fallout 3 prologue ends and Fallout 3 begins - James disappears from Vault 101 and his son/daughter, the Lone Wanderer (aged 19), heads to the surface to search for him.
• The Lone Wanderer enters Megaton in search of their Father and meets Moira Brown at the Craterside Supply, Moira Brown with the help of the Lone Wanderer, writes the Wasteland Survival Guide. The book becomes so widely used that it migrates across the United States, with copies turning up in the Mojave Wasteland as early as 2281 by way of caravans.
• October 23: The originally planned completion date for Vault 13's assigned experiment in prolonged isolation.
• The Brotherhood Outcasts seek assistance when trying to recover valuable pieces of technology from the Virtual Strategic Solutions facility in the Capital Wasteland. The Lone Wanderer arrives and may assist them by taking part of the Anchorage Reclamation simulation.
• A slave by the name of Wernher travels to the Capital Wasteland from The Pitt by way of a rusty handcart, seeking the help of someone to free his people from their slaver oppressors and encounters the Lone Wanderer, who decides the fate of the slaves and changes the destiny of The Pitt forever.
• James, the Lone Wanderer's father, sacrifices himself at Project Purity to thwart Colonel Autumn's attempt to commandeer the facility. Everyone else at the project survives.
• Marcus, having gathered a group of other Mariposa super mutants and Nightkins around him, settles down in and around the Black Mountain radio complex, hoping to create a safe-heaven for super mutants.

2278

• Fallout 3 ends - The Lone Wanderer activates Project Purity, either with or without the modified Forced Evolutionary Virus of the Enclave and the Capital Wasteland was changed forever.
• Raven Rock is destroyed, as well as Adams Air Force Base, the Citadel might also be destroyed depending on the Lone Wanderer's actions. Lyons' Brotherhood of Steel begins to distribute aqua pura to a thirsty Capital Wasteland.
• A steamship, the Duchess Gambit, travels down the River Potomac and docks to the southeast of Alexandria Arms in the Capital Wasteland. Tobar (The ferryman) offers wastelanders a chance to travel to Point Lookout. The Lone Wanderer embarks on a journey to seek out pre-War treasures, but instead discovers a feud between two parties from before the War.
• The Earth is saved by the Lone Wanderer from an alien threat when they are captured in the northern Capital Wasteland by an alien mothership named Zeta, taking the control of the ship with an atypical group of survivors from Earth's past, and destroying another alien mothership which was near Zeta.
• Tabitha gathers a group of Mariposa super mutants and drives out Marcus and those loyal to him from Black Mountain and establishes the State of Utobitha. Marcus travels with his supporters to Mount Charleston, where he establishes Jacobstown in honor of his old friend (Jacob).
• Following the abduction and killing of four soldiers, NCR troops assault the Great Khans' settlement at Bitter Springs and massacre several dozen men, women, and children. This event goes unreported in NCR press.
• Elder Nolan McNamara begins sending out small patrols from Hidden Valley, for the first time since the Brotherhood of Steel (Mojave chapter)'s defeat at Helios One.

2279

• November 14: The Securitron vault experiences technical problems, including a radiation leak at 3:47 and a power surge at 3:50. The protectron dispatched at 3:48 becomes non-responsive due to the power surge and the facility goes on Security Alert Level 1 at 3:54.
• Sometime in this year Chris Haversam joins the Bright Brotherhood.

2281

• September: The prisoners of New California Republic Correctional Facility, under the command of Samuel Cooke and Eddie, over throw the NCR security at the New California Republic correctional facility and begin raiding the surrounding area as the Powder Gangers.
• A pack of Deathclaws moves into Quarry Junction after the Powder Gangers steal Sloan's dynamite supply; halting mining operations. I-15 is subsequently closed off due to its proximity to Quarry Junction and the Deathclaws.
• New Canaan is razed by the White Legs in an attempt to gain enough favor with Caesar's Legion to be assimilated. The surviving residents of New Canaan are scattered across Utah.
• October: Benny, Jessup, McMurphy, Chance and several other Great Khans travel out into the Mojave Wasteland to ambush the courier carrying the Platinum Chip and take it.
• October 11: Fallout: New Vegas intro - The Courier is ambushed, shot in the head by Benny, and left for dead in a shallow, unmarked grave in the Goodsprings cemetery. Victor finds the body and retrieves it, and the Courier makes a miraculous recovery in the care of Doc Mitchell.
• October 12: Joe Cobb's raider gang attacks a group of Crimson Caravan traders on the Long 15. Ringo escapes the gangers and hides in Goodsprings.
• October 19, 08:00: Fallout: New Vegas begins - The Courier regains consciousness and leaves Mitchell's house in Goodsprings for search of revenge against Benny.
• The Courier follows an old radio message broadcasting the Sierra Madre's grand opening, leading them to an abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker. They are captured by Dog and God and awaken within the Villa surrounding Sierra Madre. Within the Sierra Madre, they are forced by rogue Brotherhood of Steel Elder Elijah to assemble a team to crack the casino's Vault, but a showdown within the guts of the casino ends with the Courier escaping back to the Mojave.
• The Happy Trails Caravan Company, led by Jed Masterson, lead a caravan expedition in search of the New Canaanite survivors to attempt to remedy their own financial difficulties. The caravan, along with the Courier, venture through Zion Canyon, though a subsequent ambush and slaughter leads the Courier to find sanctuary among the region's tribes. Aided by Joshua Graham and Daniel, the Courier manages to settle a growing war between the tribes and find a way back to the Mojave.
• A strange satellite crashes in the Mojave Drive-in, and a hapless Courier finds themself transported to the ruins of Big Mountain upon investigating. They are lobotomized and reduced to the state of a walking cadaver before they manage an audience with Big Mountain's Think Tank and find themselves caught up in a fight for the very future of Science! as well as the fate of the denizens of the Mojave. Following confrontations with giant robo-scorpions, the Think Tank, and the Courier's own brain, they stumble back into the Mojave - complete with cybernetic augmentations and a handy teleportation pistol.
• At the mysterious urging of Ulysses, the Courier walks the Lonesome Road into the ruins of the pre-War city of Hopeville. The two couriers stalk each other until a final showdown at the edge of the world, beneath an Old World flag and above a cavernous silo filled to the brim with armed warheads - enough to purge both the East and the New California Republic.

2282

• Fallout: New Vegas ends - In the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, the Courier who had cheated death in the cemetery outside Goodsprings cheated death once again, and the Mojave Wasteland is forever changed.
• Society scouts come across the New California Republic and Caesar's Legion, and enters the war alongside the NCR.

2292

• Caesar's Legion, the New California Republic and the Society are forced to end their war, signing the New Vegas Concord and creating firm borders for each of the three tribes. An uneasy truce is maintained for the next 50 years.

2297

• Gray paragraphs are based on Fallout 3 guide epilogue and have not been confirmed by primary sources September 10: Moira Brown writes a terminal entry about recent developments and the legacy of the Lone Wanderer. Including writing a new book, a compilation of "the best and most useful tales of the Lone Wanderer for the next generation."

2316

• The Bishop child, leader of the Bishop family of New Reno and the son of the Chosen One, dies quietly in his sleep, having never known his real father.

2910

• An invasion of sonic objects occurs at Big MT. Blind Diode Jefferson is involved in repelling them.

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