Pre 1900

5,000,000,000 Years Ago (5 Billion Years Ago)
The star that would one day be known as Sol began to condense out of nebular material, forming the sun and the solar system.

2,000,000,000 Years Ago (2 Billion Years Ago)

  • The civilazation on planet Tagus III flourished. Much still remains a msytery about this civilation, even in the 24th Century (A.D.), partially because this planet remains sealed off to outsiders, and has been since the 23rd Century.
  • First single-celled organisms evolved on Earth.

1,000,000,000 Years Ago (1 Billion years Ago)
The Slaver Empire existed, and controled most, if not all of the Milky Way Galaxy.  One of the races controlled by the Slavers revolted. The Slaver Empire was overthrown.

Millions of Years Ago
The inhabitants of the planet Organia underwent a transformation from humanoid bodies to beings of pure energy.

1,000,000 Years Ago (1 Million Years Ago)

  • The Tkon Empire became extinct about 600,000 years ago when their sun went supernova during a period of time known to the Tkons as the Age of Makto. According to legend, the Tkons were once enormously powerful, even capable of moving stars. Prior to the Age of Makto, other Tkon eras included the Ages of Fendor, Ozari, Xora, Cimi, and Bastu. The population of the Tkon had numbered in the trillions.
  • Sargon's people, a technologically advanced civilation, explored the galaxy aboard space vessels and planted colonies on many planets. Spock speculated that Sargon's account of such colonization might explain certain elements of Vulcan prehistory, suggesting that Spock's people may have originally been from Sargon's planet.

500,000 Years Ago

  • Civilaztion flourished on the planet Bajor many milennia ago. The culture beaosted architects, artists, builders, and philosphers. By Earth's 24th Century, the Bajoran culture was all but destroyed by the Cardassians, who forced the Bajorans to resettle on neighboring planets.
  • A terrible cataclysm on Sargon's planet totally ripped the atmosphere away. The planet was left almost totally dead., the only survivors suspended in special protected canisters stored deep below the surface. Millannia later, Sargo would describe the cataclysm as being the result of a crisis faced when a civilization becomes so powerful that its inhabitants dare think of themselves as "gods." Prior to this disaster, Sargon's people roamed the galaxy aboard starships.
  • The technologically advanced inhabitants of the planet Talos IV were nearly wiped out by a terrible war. The war made the surface of Talos IV uninhabitable, and the few remaining Talosians survived by living underground. They found this life limiting, so they devoted themselves to developing their mental powers, while their technical skills atrophied. They developed a practice of telepathically sharing illusory experiences with specimens in their menagerie of alien life-forms, gathered prior to the war, when the Talosians were a spacefaring race. The Talosians eventually found such illusions to be a dangerous narcotic that very nearly destroyed what was left of their civilization.

200,000 Years Ago
The civilization of the planet Iconia flourished, becoming a strong influence on many ancient cultures, as evidenced by linguistic similarities between Iconian, Dewan, Iccobar, and Dinasian. Ancient texts described the Iconians as "demons of air and darkness," suggesting that the Iconians could travel to other planets without the use of spaceships, possibly with the use of an interdimensional transport system..

13498 B.C./139,755 V.O.D. (Vulcan Old Date)
Zakal is born on Vulcan in the middle of a storm. Zakal is Old Vulcan for The Fury.

13248 B.C./140,005 V.O.D.

  • Khoteth, a student of Zakal, coverts to the tenats of Surak, and changes his name of Sotek.
  • Zakal, the last of the old Kolinahru Mind-lords, Ruler of Shanaikahr, dies of Lung-Lock fever. His chosen successor, Khoteth (Sotek), places Zokal's katra in the vrekatra, the reseptacle in which his eternal spirit would rest for alleternity.
  • S'task, Surak's closest disciple, leaves Vulcan with his followers, to allow Surak the chance to be successful, after S'task realizes that Surak's teachings may not be as perfect as they seem. S'task and his followers eventually land on Romulus and Remus and their descendents establish the Romulan Star Empire.

8000 B.C.

  • A race of intelligent spacefaring organisms became nearly extinct. These spacefaring organisms formed a symbionic relationship with humanoid life-forms that lived within their bodies, providing life support, and effective becoming "living spaceships" to their humanoid companions.

6000 B.C.

  • The great leader Landru of planet Beta III in star system C-111 chose to provide for his people's future after his death by creating a powerful computer system that would run the planet's society. Prior to Landru's rise to power, the planet had been wracked by war. Landru changed his society, returning to a simple time of peace and tranquility. The computer was programmed with the sum of Landru's knowledge and was given the prime directive of always acting for the good of the people. The knowledge that Landru had been replaced after his death with a computer was kept from the people.
  • Unknow aliens took several humans from Earth to be raised on a distant planet. The descendants of these humans were trained for generations so that they could secretly return to Earth as part of an effort to prevent Earth from destryoing itself before it could mature into a peaceful society.

4000 - 3000 B.C.

  • First large-scale human civilaztions develop in Sumer region of the Nile river valley on Earth. The SUmerians were responsible for the earliest known form of writing, known as cuneiform. The civilization also had the first known records of the use of wheeled vehicles. The first epic tales of Gilgamesh began in this period.

3834 B.C.
The (nearly) immortal Flint was born in Mesopotamia on Earth. Flint described his early self as a bully who didn't die, despite serious injuries in an ancient war. FDlint lived under a variety of assumed names, including Merlin, Leonardo da Vinci, and Johannes Brahms, finally settling on a small planet he purchases under the name of Mr. Brack.

500 - 600 B.C.

  • First records of parts of the old testament.
  • Birth of Confucianism and Buddhism.
  • Height of the Greek age of philosphy and the influence of the Greek oracle at Delphi.

4 B.C.
Jesus Christ was born. Christ's teachings would become the basis of Earth's Christian religions.

±34 A.D.
Jesus Christ was cruxified by the Romans.

1 - 900 A.D.
The society on planet 892-IV (Magna Roma), evolving on a path similar to that of Earth, developed a culture similar to Earth's ancient Rome,a remarkable example of Hodgkin's Law of parallel planet development.

625 A.D.
Mohammed began writing the Koran. This work would become the cornerstone of the Muslim religion.

1609 A.D.
Galileo Galilei constructed Earth's first astronomical telescope. Galileo would later become known as the father of modern science for his work supporting the Copernican view of the universe.

1666 A.D.
Sir Isaac Newton postulates laws of universal gravitation - linking celestial and earthly mechanics - and his three laws of motion, and develops calculus to discover and describe his theories.

1700 - 1799 A.D.
A group of interstellar anthropologists called the Preservers visited planet Earth at least once during this time period. They judged Earth's American Indians to be in danger of extinction, and transplanted a small group of Delaware, Navajo, and Mohicans to a distant Class-M planet, where they were encouraged to live in a manner that preserved their culture.

1755 A.D.
Forced Deportation of the Acadians from their lands by the British in present day Nova Scotia, Canada, for refusing to swear fealty to the crown and to take up arms against the foes of England.

1776 A.D.
13 colonies of Great Britain's on the North American continent succede from the British Empire and form their own nation, the United States of America, under the leadership of General-turned-President George Washington.

1799 A.D.
Henry Spencer of Baltimore, Maryland, builds a sailing ship, a scooner named Enterprise.

1856 A.D.
Sigmund Freud was born in Freiburg, Moravia, which was at the time part of Austro-Hungarian Empire on Earth.

1877 A.D.
Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli observes what he believes are markings on Mars, which he calls canali - Italian for channels or furrows. Canali is misinterpreted as "canals," suggesting artifical structures. With subsequent writings by Percival Lowell and others, humans actively speculate about intelligent life on other worlds.

1890 A.D.
Howard Philips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on Earth. Lovecraft would later become a famous gothic writer, who also researched about the old gods of Earth's past.

1893 A.D.
Lt. Commander Data is accidentally thrown back into the past while investigating evidence that aliens from the future may have attempted to interfere with Earth's history. While in 19th-century San Francisco, Data encounters writer Samuel Clemens, who became suspicious of Data's activities. Data also met Guinan in the past, learning that the future Enterprise bartender had visited Earth some 472 years prior to her service aboard the starship.

 
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