TIMELINE

Month names for the years listed below link to the wikipedia history of events for that month and year.

2056

• ALTERNATE (b): President Haines is negotiating with India to demand Abraham Michaels' return to stand trial. The UN council is meeting again this week to implore President Gaines to repeal the state of Martial Law, his Father joined up with Milos’ gang that he started hating us. Well, that and when his Father erupted and blew up all of Las Vegas. After Cuba took in The Progenitors nobody else is going to be willing to take the risk. The nuclear treaty has already been broken. Arthur is sitting on a bed in his Fathers old apartment building holding a bottle with some undefined alcohol. ... The announcer reports that another three of the notorious “Survivors” have been captured and executed today.
  This brings the count up to 279 out of 283 accounted for.

1. Brian Jaffe [missing] - headed for Alpha Centari
2. Jason Forrest [missing] - (The Ghost), known to be able to go totally incorporeal, possess people’s minds, and induce hallucinations of such a extreme level that psychosomatic wounds have been seen opening on his victims bodies in response to the trauma to their psyche.
3. Abraham Michaels [political asylum] - (The Doc) has sought political asylum with India. President Haines is negotiating with India to demand his return to stand trial. Abraham was lauded early on as a great hero when he performed a public ‘miracle’ by healing over 300 people of various maladies, injuries, and even re-growing lost limbs on several disabled war veterans.
4. Arthur Redford [missing] - reliable sources have tracked him down to the downtown slums of D.C.

2051

• ALTERNATE (b) : Now 87 years old, Arthur travels back in time to 2001 to watch the events of 9/11 unfold on TV from an old bar in Boston.
  Due to "the Godlike Menace," President Gaines declares Martial Law in the United States.

2020-25

• ALTERNATE (c): After about twenty years he ... The whole neighborhood had changed. Always a plush area, the neighborhood had evidently improved several more notches. There was no litter, no vandalism, and people moved with a purposeful air. ... It’s illegal for you to even own the old world currency. Where is your tattoo? Where is your mark? Angry now the man held up his right fist, as it burst into a blazing aura of golden red fire! Was this man a fellow survivor? "General Redford, Sir!"

2011

• ALTERNATE (b): President Milos Wiazowski signs Super Terrorist Registration and Dehumanization act. Officially an addendum to the renewed Patriot Act, this law allows the Government to collect and “tag” any Survivor of the flight 283 at will and, if they determine that the individual represents a threat to America, the government reserves the right to deny their status as homo sapiens and thus their human rights. Over the course of the next 3 three months, 79 Survivors are killed and 25 are captured. Only seven turn themselves in to voluntarily work with the government.

2005

October

• October 13: Khalid Atta, the last surviving hijacker of American Airlines flight 283, arrives at the office of The Hopewell Foundation, requesting asylum. After a small scuffle, Arthur and Brian bring him to the office of Amnesty International in New York.
  Several other Survivors arrive at the Hopewell Office, asking for help on a variety of issues.
• October 12: The Main Cast has a brief altercation with Milos Wiazowski, Daniel Young and several of Milos' Godlike colleagues outside of the Young family's home in Virgina over custody of Maggie and Alex. Unprepared to encounter other people as powerful as they, the Main Cast are defeated, but not before Brian wreaks unintentional, but severe, property damage in the neighborhood with his powers. Later that evening, Milos arrives at the Hopewell Foundation office to give a 24 hour ultimatum for their submission to his will.
  A group called The Human Foundation airs a commercial in prime time, containing footage of Survivor-caused destruction (even some from the fight at the Young's house that very afternoon), asking how the public can not fear the power of the Godlike.
• October 11: In giving "the Godlike Convocation," Milos Wiazowski announces the opening of King Farm as a gated community for the Survivors.
  Arthur races Dale Earnhardt Jr., a horse and a cheetah; unsurprisingly, he wins. The crowd's first response is silence, followed by a deafening cheer.
  Brian meets with Zaida binte Shouk at the U.S. Government's facility in Hopewell, NJ. The meeting ends with no one satisfied.
• October 9: Mandy and brother Mikky are two of the Engine #16 team that responds to an alarm in a Washington, D.C. restaurant. They save the only two people inside before the building collapses.

September

• September 29: John Roberts is ratified by Congress as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
• September 23: President George W. Bush is expected to ratifiy the list of bases to be closed as part of BRAC 2005.
• September 18: Maggie Young's birthday party. Daniel Young returns early from a business trip and hits his wife, Julie, over the pressence of "freaks" in his home. Arthur's response is aggressive and Julie says that she no longer wants to talk to him.
• September 12: Michael Brown, head of FEMA since January, 2003, resigns after FEMAs poor response to Hurricane Katrina leads to allegations that he falsified his resume.
• September 11: Fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Main Cast, and attendants, return from a seemingly one-day jaunt to the disasterous possible future of 2056 to discover that they have missed nearly 4 months of time.

August

• August 29: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall a second and third time, on the Gulf Coast and in Mississippi, as a Category 4 Hurricane. Most of the city of New Orleans is flooded, thousands of lives are lost and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages accrue. FEMA and the Bush administration are widely criticized for their percieved failure to better prepare for and respond to the disaster; especially relevant are issues of race and class.
• August 25: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall just north of Miami, Florida, as a Category 1 Hurricane.
• August 10: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches.
• August 9: Though its landing is moved from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Edwards Air Force Base, California, due to inclement weather, successfully Space Shuttle Discovery returns safely home at 0511 PDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight."
  Rep. Curt Weldon, R-PA. and vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, claims that the Department of Defense had identified Mohammed Atta and 3 other 9/11 terrorists as members of Al Qaeda in 1999, through the actions of a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger," but did not share this information with the FBI. article
• August 7: During a Congressional recess, President Bush appoints hotly contested nominee John Bolton as the United States' ambassador to the U.N., side-stepping the need to have him approved by the Senate.
  Saudi Arabia's King Fahd dies; the new king, King Abdullah, is seen as a moderate who will not make many changes to the country.
  Republican Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham propose a Bill to expressly prohibit cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. McCain states that the issue of torture is "not about who they are. It's about who we are." The Bill frustrates the White House and ammendments force it to be tabled until the Senate reconvenes in September.
• August 1: NASA's MESSENGER probe to Mercury makes an Earth flyby.

July

• July 26 - Launch for Space Shuttle Discovery return to flight mission STS-114. This is the first Space Shuttle flight in nearly two and a half years since the breakup of Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.
• July 24 - Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement.
• July 21 - A terrorist attack on London, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 Underground trains and a London bus. The bombs failed to explode properly, and only one injury was reported.
• July 19 - President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
• July 16 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince released.
• July 10 - Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm killing 10 people, after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean. Dennis caused 2-5 billion dollars damage in the United States.
• July 7 - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, with three explosions reported on the London Underground and one on a bus. Over 50 deaths were reported, and over 200 injured.
  Al-Qaeda admits to the killing of Egypt's Ambassador, Ihab al-Sherif.
• July 6 - The International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Olympic Games to London, defeating the favorite Paris in the final round.

June

• June 21 - Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft (a joint Russian-United States project) failed 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
• June 17 - A 6.7 aftershock,which followed a 5.3 earthquake the previous day, hits California making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in California.
• June 13 - Singer Michael Jackson is acquitted of all charges of harming children.
• June 5 - Switzerland votes to join the Schengen area and to allow same-sex partnerships.

May

• May 31 - W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be Deep Throat.
• May 19 - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith released, effectively completing the Star Wars movie saga begun by George Lucas in 1977.
• May 17 - Kuwaiti women gain the right to vote.
• May 15 - A passenger ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the Bura Gauranga River in Bangladesh, leaving over 100 people missing.
• May 10 - A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate.
  The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).
• May 4 - In one of the largest insurgent attacks in Iraq to date, at least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
• May 1 - A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, which leaves at least 25 people dead and injured more than 30 others. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad.

April

• April 25: A passenger train derails in Amagasaki Hyogo Prefecture Japan killing 107 people and injuring another 456.
• April 20: At least 46 workers have been killed and several others injured in a blast at an explosives factory in Zambia.
  56 hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale.
• April 19 - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
• April 15 - At least 21 people died and around 50 people were injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
• April 9: The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place.
• April 2: Pope John Paul II, dies.

March

• March 28 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake struck off Sumatra, 3 months after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.
• March 21 - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
• March 20 - At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
• March 19 - A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and injured about 12 other people.
  A time bomb explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40.
  A mine blast occurrs at the Xishui coal mine in Shuozhou and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine. The death toll is up to 59.
• March 10 - Jack goes onto the operating table at Genzyme in an effort to remove a microscopic computer chip of unknown origin from his lower back. The Main Cast, Vivian and three Genzyme doctors are present and the entire group finds themselves swept into the future as a strange side-effect of Arthur's powers.
• March 7 - Carrie Ann Sellers dies, but her "Godlike energy" lingers on inside her body and escapes from John Hopkins Hospital, only to be stopped by Arthur and carried away by Brian.
• March 1 - The US Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes under age 18.

February

• February 22 - More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran.
• February 16 - The National Hockey League cancels its 2004-2005 season becoming the first North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labour dispute.
• February 15 - More than 200 people are killed by a blast at a mine in Fuxin, north-east China.
• February 14 - A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut kills Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people were also hurt.
  Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at mosque in Tehran, Iran.
• February 12 - Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid.
• February 10 - Mandy stands for arraignment in an Athens, Georgia court for the murder of Jesse Trundel, but due to the unasked for influence of Milos Wiazowski, the charges are soon dropped.
  North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States.
  Saudi Arabia holds its first ever elections for municipal authorities, in which only men are allowed to vote.
• February 7 - Athens Banner-Herald reports "Godlike charged with Murder."
• February 7 | ALTERNATE (e): An 87 year old Arthur from an alternate future timeline visits the present, "main" Athur while the later sleeps and, at super speed, tells him the story of his possible, horrific futures.
• February 6 - The Main Cast, Beth, Vivian, Julie, Julia Lee, Harley and Agent Vernon Marks have their "reunion" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Marks arrests Mandy for her crime in Georgia and in the brief chaos that follows Jack is laid low by sniper fire.
  In Jacksonville, the New England Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX, 24-21. The victory claimed the Patriots' third NFL league title in four years.
• February 3 - The Washington Post reports Vigilante Strikes Again.
• February 2 - The Survivors have their identities returned, their accounts and licenses restored and their legal status switched from "deceased" back to "living."
• February 1 - The Washington Post reports that a "Mysterious Vigilante Stops Robbery."

January

• January 31 - Arthur seeks to save the life of Carrie Ann Sellers by going back in time and pulling her into the present before her burns can get too bad. He apparently succeeds and places her in the care of his friend Dr. Ramon Naranjo.
  Mandy rides along with Engine #16 to a box alarm fire at the Park Monroe highrise apartment.
• January 30 - The first Parliamentary elections in Iraq since the overthrow of the Ba'ath Party government led by Saddam Hussein take place.
  Jack re-locates the abandonned Subway Station that he and friends had found years before. He soon brings Arhtur to visit the site, which he has dubbed Contingency.
• January 28 - Condoleeza Rice is confirmed as the new U.S. Secretary of State.
  Mandy finds and begins her relationship with Washington, D.C.'s Engine Company #16.
• January 27 - The Main Cast, Harold and Beth return from West Virginia to Washington, D.C.
• January 26 - Jack arrives in West Virginia with a van full of equipment and Beth.
  A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers.
  Athens Banner-Herald reports on the death of Jessie Trundel and disappearance of Carrie Sellers.
• January 25 - Brian returns to earth, landing in St. Louis, Missouri just before dawn, and quickly heads back east, in a nervous attempt to find his friends following his experience in space.
  Shortly after noon Mandy reaches Athens, Georgia and waits for the attack she witnessed in her vision to occur. She is soon met by Brian and they find Carrie Ann Sellers and her pursuers. Mandy kills Jessie Trunde and Carrie goes missing. (It's worth noting, though, that Mandy's vision of the event showed it being nighttime when it happened. It is also worth noting that Carrie Sellers DIED the "first time" this event happened and Arthur later "reconstructed" the event)
  Arthur and Harold arrive in Clarksburg around noon, while Brian and Mandy arrive an hour later due to Brian's leaping powers.
  Joelle Millar begins her diplomatic relations with the U.S. Government on behalf of the Sudan in the case of imprisoned Survivor 17 year old Zaida binte Shouk.
• January 24 - Brian accidentally leaps into orbit during the President's speech and quickly comes back to earth, causing an earthquake in Hartford, Connecticut (41.76° North longitude, 72.69° West latitude) and its antipode in the Indian Ocean to the west of Australia. The quake measures 7.4 on the Richter scale and its effects are felt as far away as Washington, D.C. Although no deaths are caused directly, more than 500 people are injured up and down the New England coast. Brian meets with his father a few hours later and then leaps again, intentionally heading for space and now achieving a trans-Lunar orbit.
  President Bush pre-empts prime time television programs to deliver his full The American Gods Address.
  Mandy witnesses and intervenes (anonomously) in a robbery in a small convenience store in downtown Washington, D.C. She sets herself on fire and severely injures one of the robbers, sparking many rumors in the area. After this encounter, Mandy has a vision of a lynching by fire in Georgia and steals a car in hopes of getting there in time to prevent the attack.
  Late at night, Arthur and his father, Harold, leave for the privacy of a hunting camp in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
• January 23 - Johnny Carson dies. The Main Cast depart for their individual homes to visit family and friends who thought them dead.
• January 22 - Ashton Sawyer dies of heart failure at 4:23am EST.
  The Main Cast and friends make a surprise appearance at a U.S. Government/Celera organized press conference and Brian Jaffe delivers a speech to announce the existence of the [[1]].
  President Bush makes weekly radio address (about freedom, anti-terror and the beginings of his "American Gods" speech).
• January 21 - The [[2]] leave Seattle by air for a Celera facility outside of Washington, D.C., under the power of Ashton Sawyer. Upon arrival, most Survivors scatter, paniced, for parts unknown.
  Late in the evening the Main Cast rescues Julie Young and her children, as well as the passengers of a city bus, from the wreckage of an accident in Georgetown. Jack collapses as the concentrated use of "Godlike power" pulls his "spirit" out of his body. A bystander captures footage of Brian Jaffe lifting the bus above his head.
• January 20 - The [[3]] wake up from their "comas" at a Celera aligned facility near Seattle.
  George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington D.C. for his second term as 43rd President of the United States.
• January 19 - President Bush attends "Celebration of Freedom" concert for military.
• January 18 - President Bush attends "Saluting Those Who Serve" event.
• January 14 - The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of planet Saturn.
• January 12 - Deep Impact (space mission) is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.

2001

• September 11: the events of 9/11 occur, spawning the Survivors of Flight AA 283.
  At age 87 (in 2051 - age 35 in 2005), Arthur was watching 9/11 in a old Boston Bar.

• September 11 | ALTERNATE (b): Milos is ambushed as he leaves for the airport that morning, on the freeway, Arthur raced down the road alongside him, and with several deft slashes, cut both right tires of the limo he was riding in. Immediately the limo went out of control and crashed into the guardrail. Several other vehicles lost control as well and caused a grand pileup. No casualties or major injuries. Only a massive tangle of cars that will take hours to clear up. Milos did not make the AA 283 flight.

• September 11 | ALTERNATE (c): Arriving back at Milo’s house, the night before the flight, Arthur kills Milos.

ARTHUR REDFORD's Personal Timeline

• ALTERNATE (d): Arthur spent almost five years shifting back and forth between the same twenty five years, trying to undo the damage he had done. After his last attempt, one which almost resulted in the total erasure of all the Survivors, Arthur finally came to his senses.

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