The majority of fictional works are set in the present day; however, the "present" in a classic work of fiction will often be some time in the past. This list is a chronological collection of significant events from various works of such fiction. The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... The present is the time that is perceived directly, not as a recollection or a speculation. ...

See also Timeline of fictional historical events and Timeline of fictional future events. Various storytellers have tried to create better backgrounds for their stories by linking them to real history. ... Science fiction and other related fields of fiction are often set in the future, or at least involve events in times that have not yet occurred. ...

1st millennium BC

• 200s BC
  • The events of Plautus' Miles Gloriosus, Pseudolus and Mostellaria (aka A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)

Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 250s BC 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC - 200s BC - 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC Years: 209 BC 208 BC 207 BC 206 BC 205 BC 204 BC 203 BC 202 BC... Titus Maccius Plautus (born at Sarsina, Umbria in 254 B.C.) was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. ... Miles Gloriosus (literally, boastful soldier, in the Latin language) is a stock character from the drama of the classical period, specifically from comedy. ... The main character in Broadways A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Which is based on a number of Plautus plays. ... A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart. ...

18th century

• 1735
  • Lemuel Gulliver writes the preface to the second edition of Gulliver's Travels.

Events April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ... Gulliver Gullivers Travels (1726, amended 1735) is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the travellers tales literary sub-genre. ...

19th century

• 1814
  • The events of John William Polidori's The Vampyre.
• 1835
  • The events of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
• 1841
  • Auguste Dupin investigates The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
• 1842
  • Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by ghosts, in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens -- date is not given in the novel but is speculation, placing the story in the Christmas before the publication date of 1843.
• 1844
  • In April, Monck Mason crosses the Atlantic in a balloon (Edgar Allan Poe: The Balloon-Hoax).
  • Auguste Dupin locates The Purloined Letter.
• 1864
  • German professor Von Hardwigg takes his nephew to the underground trip below Iceland (Jules Verne: Journey to the Center of the Earth)
• 1865
  • Ardan, Barbicane, and Nicholl ride a cannon fired spaceship to the moon (Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon)
• 1872?
  • Phileas Fogg sets for a journey Around the World in Eighty Days with his new valet Passepartout (according to Jules Verne) (1872 is year of publication).
• 1876
  • The Bellman Expedition hunts a Snark, only to discover a boojum. From The Hunting of the Snark -- date is not given in poem, but comes from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen volume two; it is also the year of publication.
• 1878
  • The events of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club
• 1885
  • Allan Quatermain finds King Solomon's Mines
  • Death of Dr. Henry Jekyll by suicide after his Hyde formula counter-agent is depleted.
• 1886
  • The eponymous hero of Allan Quatermain dies at the end of the novel. (However, according to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he merely faked his own death.)
  • The events of Robur the Conqueror
• 1889
  • Dorian Gray dies
• Circa 1890 - 1893
  • Rudyard Kipling travels around India meeting various animals in order to gather research material for The Jungle Books.
• 1891
  • April 5 - Sherlock Holmes disappears in Reichenbach Falls and is presumed dead.
• 1897
  • The events of H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man
• 1899
  • Dorothy Gale first travels to Oz (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
  • Events of Flatland. The book says it takes place in 1999, but a sequel, Flatterland says that Flatland years are exactly 100 years ahead of Christian years. Note that the book was published in 1884.

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The Reichenbach Falls (Reichenbachfall) in Meiringen, Switzerland, have a total drop of 250 m (656 ft). ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... H. G. Wells Herbert George Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels such as The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine. ... 1940s paperback edition The Invisible Man is a famous 1897 science fiction novel(la) by H.G. Wells. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a childrens book written in 1900 by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. ... The cover to Flatland, 6th Edition. ... Flatterland is a 2001 book by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart about non-Euclidean geometry. ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

20th century

Pre World War II

• 1902
  • March - Maurice Leblanc meets Arsene Lupin for the first time and becomes his biographer in June.
• 1903
  • Sherlock Holmes retires to keep bees in Fulworth, Sussex.
• 1913
  • Richard Hannay defeats an assassination plot by a gang of German secret agents in John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps.
• 1914
  • Sherlock Holmes outwits the German secret service shortly before the start of World War I, in the short story "His Last Bow".
• 1919
  • Bulldog Drummond begins adventuring.
• 1920
  • The island of R'lyeh rises from the ocean once more. A group of sailors awakens the Great Old One, Cthulhu, from his ancient sleep. Only one survivor, Gustaf Johansen, is found by the search party sent to rescue the lost ship. (H.P. Lovecraft) (Alternate date: 1924)
• 1923
  • Lord Peter Wimsey solves his first murder, in Bellona Club.
• 1924?
  • Mandrake the Magician begins adventuring.
• 1927?
  • Tarzan first travels to Pellucidar.
• 1928
  • October 11 - Orlando: A Biography (of Virginia Woolf) ends.
  • Simon Templar, "The Saint," begins adventuring.
  • The year of the Dunwich Horror. (H.P. Lovecraft)
• 1929
  • Tintin visits the Soviet Union.
  • Kent Allard becomes The Shadow.
  • Sam Spade on the case of The Maltese Falcon.
• 1930
  • Miss Marple has her first case.
• 1931
  • The Pabodie Expedition discovers the ruins of an ancient city built by the Elder Things in the "Mountains of Madness." (H.P. Lovecraft)
  • Tintin witnesses Japanese invasion of China after an incident similar to Mukden Incident (The Blue Lotus).
  • Doc Savage and companions begin adventuring together.
  • Dick Tracy becomes a detective.
• 1932
  • Tintin becomes briefly a colonel in the army of San Theodoros.
  • The events of Lost Horizon.
• 1933
  • Philip Marlowe become a private investigator.
  • The Spider begins his vigilantism.
• 1934
  • Events of The Thin Man.
• 1935
  • Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane.
• 1936
  • Arsene Lupin narrates his adventures in French radio.
• 1938
  • The superheroes of the Golden Age of Comic Books begin appearing, starting with Superman, by Jerry Shuster & Jerry Siegel
  • October 30 - A number of Martian spaceships land in Grover's Mill, New Jersey; they begin attacking the surrounding area. Similar invasions would occur on many other occasions and locations. (Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.)
• 1939
  • Failed attempt to oust Syldavian king Muskar XII.
  • The original Human Torch is built, and Namor the Sub-Mariner attacks the surface world.

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World War II and after

• 1940
  • The Justice Society of America is formed.
  • The Human Torch and Namor battle and eventually team up.
• 1941
  • Professor Reinstein is assassinated by a Nazi spy resulting in the irretrievable loss of critical data for Project Rebirth. To make the most of the project's one successful public test subject, Steven Rogers becomes the patriotic superhero Captain America.
• 1945
  • Captain America and his sidekick, Bucky, disappear and are presumed KIA. However, only Bucky was killed and Captain America was placed in a state of suspended animation in ice for decades.
• 1947
  • Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarity go On the Road.
  • December 25 - Scrooge McDuck returns to business.
• 1948
  • Hercule Poirot retires.
  • Scottie McTerrier dies and is temporarily replaced by an imposter. Matilda McDuck becomes caretaker of the McDuck castle.
• 1952
  • The great McDuck calamity. For several reasons Scrooge McDuck looses a large part of his money (he regains it later). Gyro Gearloose invents Little Helper.
• 1953
  • May 10 - Con-man and magician John Constantine is born. (Hellblazer)
  • August 8 - Sam Beckett born in Elk Ridge, Indiana. Simultaneously, 46-year-old Sam Beckett arrives in Cokesburg, Pennsylvania via time-travel. (Quantum Leap)
  • The invasion force from Mor-Tax leave their base on Mars and finally arrives on Earth in cylinders and begin destroying human civilization through shielded war machines until they are stopped by common bacteria. In this same year, 3 million colonists leave Mor-Tax en route to Earth, estimated to arrive in 1993. (The War of the Worlds; a date from an episode of War of the Worlds places the end of the invasion in early September)
• 1955
  • November 5 - Dr. Emmett Brown comes up with the idea for the flux capacitor, which makes time travel possible. (Back to the Future)
  • November 12 - A bolt of lightning strikes the clock tower in Hill Valley, California at exactly 10:04 pm. (Back to the Future)
• 1958
  • Gaston Lagaffe appears in the office of Spirou magazine.
• 1961
  • Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm become the Fantastic Four.
  • Scientist Henry Pym becomes the Ant-Man.
• 1962
  • Scientist Bruce Banner becomes the Incredible Hulk.
  • Doctor Doom first battles the Fantastic Four.
  • Physician Donald Blake becomes the Mighty Thor.
• 1963
  • High school student Peter Parker becomes the Amazing Spider-Man.
  • Tony Stark becomes the Invincible Iron Man.
  • The First Doctor leaves London to begin his adventures (Doctor Who - An Unearthly Child).
• 1964
  • Lawyer Matt Murdock becomes Daredevil.
• 1965
  • Carnival archer Clint Barton becomes Hawkeye.
• 1966
  • Scientist Pamela Isley becomes Poison Ivy.
  • The First Doctor battles the War Machines on C-Day, when the supercomputer WOTAN attempts to take over the world's computer systems (Doctor Who - The War Machines). On the same day, the Second Doctor deals with the alien Faceless Ones (Doctor Who - The Faceless Ones).
• 1971
  • Scientist Ted Sallis attempts to recreate the lost super-soldier serum that created Captain America. Sallis is betrayed by his wife Ellen to agents of A.I.M. He injects himself with the formula while crashing his car into the Florida Everglades swamp. He becomes the Man-Thing as the result.
• 1972
  • Scientist Alec Holland completes his extensive studies and marries. He and his new bride Linda are hidden by the government and begin several months work on creating the Bio-Restorative Formula to promote extraordinary worldwide plant growth.
• 1973
  • Alec Holland's work is sabotaged. He is caught in a chemical explosion and becomes the Swamp Thing in the swamps of Louisiana.
  • The Swamp Thing confronts Anton Arcane and meets Arcane's niece, Abigail. Swamp Thing and Abby secretly begin to fall in love in their subsequent encounters over the years.
  • Events of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• 1974
  • Hercule Poirot dies.
• 1975
  • A double of the Swamp Thing is destroyed. Believing Swamp Thing to be dead, Abby Arcane eventually marries Matt Cable.
• 1976
  • The Swamp Thing is seemingly cured by his brother Edward and resumes his role as Alec Holland.
  • Events of several stories from the unpublished Bicentennial Man anthology.
  • Events of the book Tales of the City.
• 1977
  • August 16 - Elvis Presley goes back to his home planet. (Men in Black)
• 1978
  • Alec Holland's cure fails to hold, and he reverts back to being the Swamp Thing, while helping the Challengers of the Unknown. He is made an honorary member of the team, but the Challengers soon disband afterward, leaving Swamp Thing alone again.
  • Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, Illinois, to murder its residents on October 31, Halloween, then escapes to the town hospital to stalk his sister, Laurie Strode. After being pursued by Dr. Loomis, both Myers and Loomis die in an explosion at the hospital, ending Myers' reign of terror forever (Halloween and Halloween II, and not counting future sequels)
  • John Constantine, still young and cocky, attempts to summon a demon in Newcastle. However, he gives it the wrong name and thus loses his control over it. As punishment it drags 11-year-old Astra Logue to Hell. Constantine is driven mad and spends the next few years in and out of mental institutions. (Hellblazer)
• 1979
  • Gnostic cult operating in Silent Hill inflicts near-fatal injury to Alessa Gillespie in an attempt to reunite her twinned soul. Harry Mason and wife find abandoned infant on roadside near Silent Hill.
  • A man named Ash reads the Necronomicon and accidentally unleashes the Evil Dead. Ash is forced to sever his demon posessed hand and replaces it with a chainsaw. Ash is then swept back in time to the Dark Ages to confront the Army of Darkness.
  • Lawyer Jennifer Walters is shot by gansters. Her cousin Bruce Banner gives Jen an emergency blood transfusion that later transforms her into the Savage She-Hulk.
• 1980
  • The Battlestar Galactica reaches Earth, but the Cylon fleet is closely following; as Earth is not yet equipped to handle a Cylon attack, the Galactica and its rag-tag fleet keep its distance from Earth; it is assumed they shortly after leave the Solar System for another planet with climates similar to Earth (Galactica 1980 TV series)
• 1982
  • The Incredible Hulk gains the intelligence of Bruce Banner, and a large assemblage of heroes petitions President Ronald Reagan to grant him Amnesty. Reagan does so, despite the protests of General Thunderbolt Ross.
• 1983
  • Alex Rogan leaves Earth to become the Last Starfighter to confront the space menace of Xur and the Kodan Armada.
  • Swamp Thing is reunited with Matt Cable and Cable's wife Abby. They are hunted by the corrupt Sunderland Corporation, who manage to shoot Swamp Thing down, via the National Guard.
• 1984
  • An autopsy is performed on the cryogenically stored Swamp Thing by the Floronic Man who discovers the true nature of the creature's origins as a plant with the borrowed consciousness of the deceased Alec Holland. The Swamp Thing learns the truth, kills General Sunderland and escapes. Swamp Thing later confronts the Floronic Man and is reunited with his friend Abby. He is eventually taught by Abby to embrace the identity of Alec Holland, while still recognizing himself as being a plant creature.
  • The Beyonder abducts several Marvel Super Heroes and villains to fight the first Secret Wars on Battleworld. Several days later: The Hulk returns with a wounded leg, the She-Hulk has replaced the Thing in the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man has a new black costume, among other the changes that have been made.
  • May 12 - A T-800 Terminator arrives from the future to kill Sarah Connor (The Terminator).
  • Lestat rises from his coma and becomes a rock star
  • Raymond Stantz, Egon Spengler and Peter Venkman form the paranormal investigations and eliminations service known as Ghostbusters.
  • Two sailors from 1943 arrive in 1984 via a wormhole when a radar-blocking device goes wrong. - The Philadelphia Experiment
  • Matt Cable falls into a coma after being possessed by Anton Arcane. Swamp Thing rescues Abby from Hell and in doing so admits his deep personal feelings for her.
  • In a small town, the young guardians of a mogwai inadvertently break some important rule about caring for the creature and inadvertently unleash a horde of murderously mischeavous gremlins on the community which cause havoc until the children and the original mogwai stop them. - Gremlins
• 1985
  • Abby Cable realizes her comatose husband Matt will never awaken. Swamp Thing and Abby declare their love and become physically intimate. They declare themselves married, and Abby assumes the last name of Holland.
  • Swamp Thing's body is destroyed by exposure to toxic waste. He learns of his supernatural power to rebuild his body from natural flora. John Constantine later introduces himself and explains to Swamp Thing why his new powers exist.
  • The Crisis On Infinite Earths transforms the DC Comics Multiverse into a single universe.
  • The Time of The Gathering, as shown in the movie Highlander
  • A group of Cybermen come from the future to try and prevent the destruction of their home planet of Mondas (Doctor Who - Attack of the Cybermen).
  • October 26 At 1:21 a.m., Doctor Emmet Brown successfully demonstrates his time machine.
• 1986
  • Events of Jitterbug Perfume
  • Five S.A.I.N.T. robot soldier prototypes are constructed by Nova Robotics. Number Five is struck by lightning and attains sentience. (Short Circuit)
  • Events of Silent Hill. Harry Mason and adoptive daughter, Cheryl, return to Silent Hill on vacation. Comatose Alessa unleashes powers to draw Harry, Cheryl and key cult members into the "Otherworld". Samael born to Alessa and quickly killed by Harry. Harry returns to real world with new infant daughter.
  • Tommy Vercetti, a low-level Mafia enforcer, is present when a drug deal goes awry in the Floridian resort of Vice City. Setting out to get the money back, he infiltrates various gangs and eventually takes over the entire city. (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City)
  • Believing himself to be free of the Hulk, Bruce Banner marries Betty Ross.
  • Swamp Thing and Abby's illegal declaration of marriage is discovered by the press and challenged by the authorities as a criminal offense that will eventually be declared officially legalized.
• 1987
  • June 14 - Following a game between the Mets and Phillies, someone spits on Kramer and Newman, causing Newman to drop his baseball cap. For years, Keith Hernandez, whose crucial error cost the Mets the game, is blamed for the incident, but the spitter is later revealed to be relief pitcher Roger McDowell. (Seinfeld)
  • Rabo Karebekian writes down his life's story (Bluebeard (novel))
  • A Special Forces squad in Central America is attacked by a terrible alien (Predator)
  • NASA launches one of America's last deep space probes. Astronaut Buck Rogers is accidentally flash-frozen and is lost in space for over the next 500 years.
• 1988
  • Superman and Wonder Woman have their first date.
  • Tefé Holland is conceived by Swamp Thing, John Constantine, and Abby Holland.
  • The superheroine Black Orchid is killed. Two others of her kind emerge to take her place.
  • The Joker, to gain revenge on Batman, shoots and paralyzes Batgirl: Barbara Gordon. The Joker then goes on to murder Robin: Jason Todd.
  • September 14 - The Sandman escapes from Frederick Burgess.
  • Bill S. Preston and Ted (Theodore) Logan are visited by a man from the future. He lends them a time machine disguised as a phone booth to help them with a history report. At the same time, Bill and Ted engage in conversation with future versions of themselves. Future Ted reminds his past self to wind his watch back. Events of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
  • The aliens thought to be dead by bacteria in 1953 are accidentally revived at dumpsite Fort Jericho. The Blackwood Team is forged to stop them where they and the aliens are locked in frequent battles for over a year.
  • A Cyberman warship fleet approaching Earth is destroyed by the Time Lord artifact known as the Nemesis (Doctor Who - Silver Nemesis).
• 1989
  • Matt Cable emerges from his coma and dies. He later becomes Matthew the Raven, servant of The Sandman.
  • The Earth Elemental named Tefé Holland is born as an infant human being to Swamp Thing and Abby Holland.
  • Dave Lister lands on an exact replica of Earth after going through a cosmic storm. After meeting his future self, he does not go to see 'Run From the Wind'. (Red Dwarf)
• 1990
  • Giant worms called graboids attack the town of Perfection, Nevada. (Tremors).
• 1991
  • Thanos collects the six Infinity Gems and creates the Infinity Gauntlet, which he uses to make half of the universe vanish, effectively killing half of everything all at once in a mass genocide, done merely to impress his consort Death. It is restored shortly thereafter following Thanos's battles with the superheroes and villains of the Marvel Universe, its cosmic entities, and Thanos's own niece Nebula. (Thanos Quest and Infinity Gauntlet)
  • Harry Mason kills a cult fanatic from Silent Hill and goes into witness protection with his daughter, Cheryl. For protection their names are changed to Harry and Heather Morris.
• 1992
  • Yuske Urameshi begins fighting demons (Yu Yu Hakusho)
  • After finding out that his mother has been murdered, Carl "CJ" Johnson returns to the state of San Andreas to find her killer. His actions culminate in widespread rioting in the city of Los Santos. (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
  • Catalina and Claude, partners in crime and romance, leave the state of San Andreas for Liberty City. (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
  • The Mortal Kombat tournament takes place on Shang Tsung's island. Ultimately, Liu Kang defeats Goro and Shang Tsung, thus ending Goro's winning streak and keeping Earthrealm seemingly safe for another generation.
• 1993
  • Superman dies in battle with the alien monster Doomsday to save Metropolis.
  • The Red Dwarf crew travel to the far distant future into a Time Hole. They arrive in a Universe where time runs backwards. They land on Earth in the year 3991 (or 1993). They 'unlive' three weeks of their lives.
  • July - Death takes human form to walk amongst mortals and understand the lives she must take. She visits New York and meets Sexton Furnival, a strange young man who wants to commit suicide. (Death: The High Cost of Living)
  • August 28 - Astronauts on the moon open a kind of hyperbolic chamber releasing the sorceress Rita Repulsa. In response, Zordon of Eltar selects five average teenagers to become the first team of Power Rangers. (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)
  • Events depicted in the Jurassic Park movie occur.
  • Superman returns to life and encounters four impostors to his name.
• 1994
  • Green Lantern Hal Jordan becomes possessed by the evil Parallax, and begins the Zero Hour Crisis in Time.
  • Multibillionaire David Xanatos has Castle Wyvern relocated to the top of his corporate headquarters in Manhattan. The survivors of the Gargoyle Clan living there finally awaken, starting the events of Gargoyles.
  • Quidditch World Cup held in England. Ireland vs. Bulgeria. (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
  • Donkey Kong Jr. meets Diddy Kong, and they both become friends. The events of Donkey Kong Country take place.
  • March 17. On Saint Patrick's Day, Carol Hathaway attempts to commit suicide. John Carter starts his third year of medical school at County General. (ER)
  • Carol Hathaway and Dr. John Taglieri are engaged, and Doug Ross feels he still loves her. John Carter endures the harshness of his mentor, Peter Benton. Susan Lewis discovers her immature sister Chloe is pregnant. (ER)
  • September 27: Quinn Mallory's attempt to create and anti-gravity device opens an interdimensional portal that Quinn travels through for the first time. (Sliders)
• 1995
  • Dr. Sam Beckett prematurely uses the Quantum Leap accelerator and begins traveling through time.
  • Small-town minister Jesse Custer is possessed by Genesis, the spawn of an angel and a demon. Faced with confirmation of the afterlife, he sets off on a literal search for God with an aim to making Him pay for the pain He has inflicted on humanity. (Preacher)
  • John Constantine outwits the demon Buer into releasing the souls of all children ever condemned to Hell - including that of Astra Logue, the child John had accidentally sent there decades before. (Hellblazer)
  • May 18- Carol Hathaway and John Taglieri's marriage is called off by Taglieri, who realizes Carol doesn't love him as much as he loves her. (ER)
  • Peter Benton hires physical therapist Jeanie Boulet to take care of his mother. After Mrs. Benton dies, Peter and Jeanie have a brief relationship. Mark Greene becomes an attending physician at County, and feels responsible for the death of a pregnant woman. He also hires Kerry Weaver as the new chief resident, and discovers that his wife has been cheating on him. Chloe Lewis gives birth and then runs away, leaving her sister to take care of the baby. John Carter becomes a surgical sub-intern. Jeanie Boulet starts working at County as a physician's assistant. Doug Ross is in danger of losing his job, but is allowed to stay after heroically rescuing a young boy trapped in a drainage pipe during a torrential rainstorm. Carol Hathaway starts a relationship with paramedic Ray Shepard. Med student Jing-Mei 'Deb' Chen quits after nearly killing a patient. (ER)
• 1996
  • Kerry Weaver becomes the new chief of emergency medicine at Cook County, and Dr. Donald Anspaugh is the new chief of staff. Doug Ross meets his father for the first time in years. Chloe Lewis returns and reclaims custody of her child, leaving for Phoenix with her new policeman husband. Susan Lewis quits and also moves to Phoenix, shattering Mark Greene's crush on her. John Carter gets his medical doctorate, becoming a surgical intern. Ray Shepard's parter, Raul Melendez, is killed in a fire. A devastated Shepard begins showing signs of unusual hostility, and Carol Hathaway ends her relationship with him. Peter Benton is harsh on new intern Dennis Gant. Jeanie Boulet discovers she caught HIV from her adulterous husband. (ER)
  • May- Graboids reappear in Mexico and develop into even deadlier creatures. (Tremors 2: Aftershocks).
  • Events depicted in the The Lost World: Jurassic Park book occur.
  • July 2-July 4- Aliens launch a deadly attack on Earth, but are taken out by a computer virus. (Independence Day)
• 1997
  • Agent J joins the MIB, and Agent K retires. Men in Black.
  • As Donkey Kong (Jr.) races in kart games against Mario (Mario Kart 64), Diddy has an adventure for himself (Diddy Kong Racing).
  • Events depicted in the The Lost World: Jurassic Park movie occur.
  • A volcano erupts in Dante's Peak, Washington. (Dante's Peak)
  • A volcano forms in Los Angeles. (Volcano)
  • A nest of huge evolved cockroaches is wiped out in New York. (Mimic)
  • Dr. Dennis Gant dies after falling or jumping onto the train tracks. Peter Benton's flame Carla Reese gives birth to their child prematurely. Mark Greene is left traumatized after a mysterious person assault's him in the men's room. An African-American man sues him, claiming he neglected his brother in favor of a caucausian patient. Carol Hathaway contemplates becoming a doctor, but decides to remain a nurse. Anna Del Amico, Elizabeth Corday and Robert Romano begin working at County. John Carter switches from surgery to emergency medicine, redoing his intern year. Doug Ross's father dies in a car crash; he and Carol Hathaway begin a relationship. (ER)
  • Jim Corrigan forsakes his role as the Spectre and goes to Heaven when a funeral is at last held for him.
• 1998
  • The events of various Resident Evil games take place.
  • Godzilla causes chaos in New York. (Godzilla)
  • Anna Del Amico leaves for Philadelphia. Third year med student Lucy Knight begins her rotation at Cook County. John Carter's cousin Chase is left with severe brain damage after a drug overdose. Elizabeth Corday and Peter Benton have a brief relationship. In order to get a license to practice medicine in the US, Corday has to redo a year as an intern. Doug Ross becomes an attending physician for the ER's pediatrics ward. Mark Greene's mother has a stroke. Donald Anspaugh's son, Scott, dies of cancer. (ER)
• 1999
  • Tyler Durden, along with Project Mayhem, blows up the headquarters of the world's largest credit agencies. (movie version of Fight Club)
  • Doug Ross quits and leaves for Seattle, leaving Carol Hathaway saddened. Shortly after, she discovers that she is pregnant; she ends up giving birth to twins. Robert Romano becomes the new chief of staff after Donald Anspaugh resigns from the position. Mark Greene and Elizabeth Corday begin a relationship. Luka Kovac, Cleo Finch and Dave Malucci start working at County. Jeanie Boulet and her new policeman husband Reggie Moore adopt a HIV-positive baby, and Jeanie quits to spend more time with her newly formed family. (ER)
  • August 1 Seven human children are sent into the digital world, beginning the events of Digimon Adventure.
  • August 11 The secret leaders of the world gather in London to crown the star child that will bring humanity to its knees and begin an eternal age of totalitarian Order. Division X and a cell of Invisible fighters raid the ceremony, killing the star child and destroying the elders' plans forever. Jolly Roger, Sir Patrick Crowley, Sir Miles Delacourt and Detective Inspector Jack Flint are all killed during the assault. (The Invisibles)
  • September - Donkey Kong's mother, Wrinkly Kong, dies.
  • December 28 - December 31- Satan tries to cause the Apocalypse by impregnating Christine York before the new millennium. (End of Days).
  • December 31 - John Constantine and Zatanna throw a New Year's Eve party in New York City that is attended by the Swamp Thing, Black Orchid, Animal Man, Shade, the Changing Man, Robotman, and Bernie Madden, who regards this gathering of Totems as potentially resulting in the end of the world as midnight approaches.
  • December 31 - Robert MacDougal and Virginia Baker attempt to steal $8 billion electronically in Kuala Lumpur on the stroke of midnight (Entrapment)
  • December 31 - Norbert and Dagget are dragged from the real universe by an unknown being and asked to create their own world as a start-over (The Angry Beavers)
  • December 31 - New York pizza boy Philip J Fry is trapped in cryogenic stasis. He will not wake for another 1000 years. (Futurama)
• 1999 - 2002 - The events of Farscape

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The X-Men films, X-Men, X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand take place around this time. The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ... X-Men is an action movie, first released in Australia on 13 July 2000. ... X2 is an action movie, first released in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2003, and in the United States on May 2, 2003. ...

• 2000
  • January 31-July 23: Events of Clerks: The Animated Series.
  • Billy and Mandy first meet the Grim Reaper in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. Mandy tricks Grim into becoming her (and Billy's) best friend forever.
  • February 14- On Valentine's Day, John Carter and Lucy Knight are brutally stabbed by a schizophrenic patient; Lucy dies of pulmonary embolism.(ER)
  • Jing-Mei 'Deb' Chen returns to County, now a doctor. Later, she discovers she is pregnant; she ends up giving the baby up for adoption. Following his stabbing trauma, John Carter develops a drug addiction; it is discovered and he is sent to a rehab clinic in Atlanta. Abby Lockhart starts at County as a med student, but becomes a nurse after her ex-husband fails to pay her med school tuition. Her bipolar mother, Maggie Wyczinski, appears at the hospital. Luka Kovac and Carol Hathaway are close to a relationship, but Carol leaves for Seattle to reunite with Doug Ross. Luka then starts dating Abby; their first date goes awry when they are mugged and Luka beats the mugger to death. Peter Benton and Cleo Finch start a relationship. Robert Romano names Benton director of diversity. Mark Greene discovers he has brain cancer. Kerry Weaver feels attracted to another woman, Dr. Kim Legaspi. (ER)
  • November- Lex Luthor is elected U.S. President in the DC Universe.
  • December 31- On New Year's Eve, Mark Greene's brain tumor is successfully removed. (ER)
• 2001
  • November 23 - Lonely bachelor Greg Feely learns that he is just a "holiday personality" for super-agent Ned Slade, an operative for secret police force The Hand. Or possibly he's just going crazy. (The Filth)
  • December 19 - The Something Positive webcomic begins, documenting the lives of Davan and his friends in real time.
  • Catalina, a bank robber, shoots her boyfriend Claude at the scene of a robbery in Liberty City and leaves him for the police. As Claude is being transferred to his prison in Liberty City, the police convoy is attacked. Claude escapes and works his way up the criminal food chain, eventually turning the tables on Catalina and escaping with half a million dollars. (Grand Theft Auto III)
  • The events of Evil Con Carne.
  • Events depicted in Tremors 3: Back to Perfection occur.
  • Events depicted in Jurassic Park III occur.
  • Mark Greene recovers from his brain surgery. He marries Elizabeth Corday, who gives birth to a girl named Ella. Later, his daughter Rachel moves in with him and Elizabeth. Maggie Wyczenski tries to commit suicide. Abby Lockhart and Luka Kovac split up; Luka is briefly involved with a scheming French waitress, Nicole. Jing-Mei 'Deb' Chen quits and Dave Malucci is fired after 'killing' a patient because Kerry Weaver was unavailable (Weaver covers her own mistake). Robert Romano fires Kim Legaspi, Weaver's lesbian friend; Weaver starts dating firefighter Sandy Lopez. Med student Michael Gallant starts at County. Cleo Finch quits at County to work in another hospital; Peter Benton does the same in order to win a custody battle over his son Reese. John Carter is the new chief resident; he also discovers that his parents are divorcing. Susan Lewis returns to County.(ER)
• 2002
  • Events of Spider-Man
  • Agent K returns to the MIB. Men in Black II.
  • Events of Orange Crush
  • Events of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
  • General Skarr retires.
  • Giant spiders attack the town of Prosperity, Arizona. (Eight Legged Freaks)
  • Ella Greene almost dies when ingesting some of Rachel's XTC; Mark Greene and Elizabeth Corday almost separate. Then Greene discovers his brain tumor has returned; this time it kills him. Corday is devastated by the loss. Gregory Pratt starts working at County as an intern, and begins a relationship with Jing-Mei 'Deb' Chen, who has returned with proof that she had no part in the earlier patient death. The hospital is quarantined after an outbreak of smallpox. Robert Romano walks into a helicopter's rear blade and has his arm chopped off. It is successfully reattached but recovers slowly. John Carter and Abby Lockhart start dating. Abby's brother Eric Wyczinski, who turns out to be bipolar, disappears. (ER)
• 2003
  • Events of Silent Hill 3. Heather Morris (Cheryl Mason) is found by the Silent Hill cult. They mastermind Harry Mason's murder leading Heather to seek revenge.
  • Georgia Lass is struck and killed by a flaming piece of space debris (a toilet seat from the Mir Space Station). She then becomes a grim reaper. (Dead Like Me)
  • Supernatural, psychotic killers Freddy Kreuger and Jason Voorhees fight to the death. (Freddy vs. Jason)
  • Gregory Pratt deals with his mentally handicapped stepbrother Leon. JohnCarter's grandmother dies. He and Luka Kovac travel to Congo, where Luka almost dies. He returns to the US; Carter stays in Congo for a while and dumps Abby Lockhart via a letter. Med student Neela Rasgotra and nurse Samantha Taggart start working at County; Abby Lockhart is back in med school. Michael Gallant starts his internship at County. On Thanksgiving, Robert Romano is killed by a crashing helicopter. Jing-Mei 'Deb' Chen's parents are in an accident while on vacation in China. Archie Morris starts his internship at County.(ER)
• 2004
  • Events of Spider-Man 2.
  • October 3-October 10. Events of the Alien Vs. Predator movie.
  • John Carter returns from Congo with his new love Makemba 'Kem' Likasu; she is pregnant but miscarries. After the tragedy, Kem leaves Carter. Jing-Mei 'Deb' Chen's mother has died, and her father has brain damage, needing full-time care. Samantha Taggart]], whose ex-husband stalks her, starts dating Luka Kovac. Michael Gallant is called away for duty in Iraq. Susan Lewis is pregnant after a brief relationship with helicopter medic Chuck Martin. After Sandy Lopez dies in a fire, Kerry Weaver fights for the custody of their newborn baby Henry. Neela Rasgotra and Abby Lockhart graduate from med school and start their internships at County, along with new intern Ray Barnett. Elizabeth Corday quits and returns to England after losing her medical license. (ER)
  • December 24- On Christmas Eve, Jing-Mei 'Deb' Chen euthanizes her father and quits her job at County.(ER)
• 2005
  • Rose Tyler discovers that an alien beneath London is plotting to destroy humanity. She meets a mysterious man calling himself The Doctor and together they defeat the creature. He asks her to join him on his adventures in time and space, and she accepts. (Doctor Who)
  • Abby Lockhart has a brief relationship with med student Jake Scanlon. Kerry Weaver finally meets her birth mother, but because she is a lesbian her Christian mother cannot accept her. John Carter and Kem Likasu reunite; Carter decites to quit his job at County and move to Africa with Kem. Susan Lewis also quits after getting a tenura at another hospital. Michael Gallant visits Chicago while on leave from Iraq; he later marries Neela Rasgotra. Gregory Pratt visits his estranged father. Luka Kovac and Samantha Taggart break up; Luka and Abby Lockhart reunite and Abby becomes pregnant. New attending Victor Clemente and Luka clash; Luka becomes the new chief of emergency medicine.(ER)
  • Earth is invaded by an unidentified alien race, via machines burried underground. They are eventually defeated by germs, at the toll of a billion human deaths (War of the Worlds (2005)|War of the Worlds]].