The first perfect cyberarm.

The first known cyber war. After Estonian authorities began removing a statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park Russian hackers lauched data-flooding attacks on Estonia's computer networks.

The first form of perceptive cyberskin is invented.

Genetical muscle booster invented. It is dangerous to the human health yet.

Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in Japan (Fukushima).

Syrian civil war starts.

Global population reached 7 billion.

First synthetic organ transplant.

Russia annexes Crimea from Ukraine after pro European revolution in Kiev. Russian military intervention in East-Ukraine, their soldiers wear no insignias.

Serious ebola epidemic in West Africa.

Islamic State founded on Syrian and Iraqi lands - a military group with religious propaganda.

Personal DNA sequencing costs only $100. Personalized diagnosis and treatments are possible.

UK becomes the most populous country in Europe overtaking both Germany and France.

Southwestern deserts and semi-deserts of the US permanently expand. Sea water desalination plants provide drinking water but agriculture is no longer possible. Hoover Dam ceases to work.

India is the most populous country in the world.

Nanotech clothing.

Yemen collapses due they run out of oil resources and drinking water. Warlords rule the country.

Communist dictatorship collapses in Northern Korea. Two years later the two Koreas unite.

A toxic spill kills off most of salmon population in Pacific Northwest. The Seattle economy is crippled.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency develops and spreads several designer plagues worldwide, targeting coca and opium plants. The governments of Chile and Ecuador collapse. A savage drug war breaks out between dealers and the DEA all over the Americas.

Cyber limbs are almost as agile as humans.

Oil price reaches a very high level worldwide and remain there. Everything is more expensive by 50% which depends on oil: gasoline, food, electricity and plastics. The start of the Energy Crisis.

Neo-Luddites are re-established in western Kentucky. Over the next ten years, the "Luds" are responsible for bombing of airports, factories, freeways and mass transit terminals.

Hunger kills ten millions every year. Food riots in the Third World are common. Many poor states collapse. The population of the Earth stops growing. Developed countries rarely suffer food shortages.

The First Central American Conflict: The U.S. engages in interventionist actions in Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. Military forces are sent to secure the Canal Zone from an ex-U.S. puppet dictator.

The first TRC Biological Interface Chips are developed in Munich, Germany.

Stock Market crash worldwide. The U.S. economy teeters on the brink of collapse.

The Big Bird Flu hits the world killing 10% of the world population, seven hundreds of millions. Legal measures are instituted that severely restrict the rights of those with infectious diseases.

First "extended family" Posergangs established.

Gas extraction starts to decrease.

Federal Weapons Statute established allowing personal firearms widespread distribution. Many people arm themselves in the face of chaos and social breakdown, but this gunslinger attitude only contributes to the decline.

The framework of the Global Computer Net is firmly in place with construction of the WorldSat network. Computer systems around the world are linked via a vast telecommunications grid.

"Rockerboy" Manson killed in England.

9.2 earthquake hits California destroying Los Angeles and plunging the state into bankruptcy. An estimated 250,000 are killed or missing.

Arab terrorists detonate a nuclear device in New York. The whole city is destroyed or contaminated and over 600,000 are killed.

Hurricane destroys Houston killing 2700.

The Nomad Riots: By the end of the year, one in ten Americans are homeless due the drought of the midwest, financial crash, California earthquake or the hurricane. Hundreds of thousands riot for living space throughout the U.S., as nomad packs spring up on the West Coast and spread rapidly throughout the nation. Boostergangs begin to appear in urban areas. The Constitution suspended, and martial law established by the Secretary of Defense, Jonathan Seward.

The Collapse of the United States: Weakened by losses in the World Stock Crash of 2015, overwhelmed by unemployment, homelessness and corruption, many city and state governments collapse or go bankrupt. Thirteen high ranking U.S. politicians, including the president and vice president, tragically die or are killed in a variety of "incidents." Beheaded, burdened by a staggering deficit and snarled in the machinations of it's own bureaucracy, the U.S. government is totally ineffective. Many small businesses are swept away, as only megacorporations are large enough to weather the troubles intact. Unemployment soars as the value of the U.S. dollar plummets.

Lawyer Purge: Irate citizens lynch hundreds of criminal defense attorneys.

The invention of the new generation nuclear reactors.

First cloned tissue growth in vitro. Microsutures and sterilizer fields become some of the first of a wave of high-tech medical breakthroughs.

EBM solos attack Tokyo office of Kenjiri Technologies, killing 18.

Operation Big Stick: U.S. military destroys the Mantonga Corp as an example to others.

End of first Corp War.

The state of Connecticut goes bankrupt.

Food riots in Denver kill 52.

Domestically, martial law continues. The U.S. legal process is streamlined to handle the number of arrests currently being sent through the system.

Amid the domestic chaos Hawaii is declared a military preserve.

Self-driving cars are widespread in the developed world.

Artificial meat is on the market.

Cybernetic implants come into common usage by First World elite military units. Corporations start to follow suit with their in-house security forces.

First known human clone grown in vitro. Mindless, it only lives for 6 hours.

Unemployed people in the developed countries starts to migrate in farms and villages and work in the agriculture.

The Second Corporate War: A number of firms, including Petrochem, dispute control of oil fields in the South China Sea. Some governments actively support both sides in the conflict.

Corporations begin to methodically and ruthlessly eradicate Mob rule in many U.S. cities. Corporate security forces gain greater autonomy of action as state forces prove ineffectual.

Spanish becomes an official language in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Food and electricity prices increase further by 50% again, gasoline prices by 100%.

Limb regeneration experiments proved successful. Some years and this process will be routine way to grow back lost body parts.

Quantum computers are widely available.

Corporations eradicate mob rule in Night City.

New generation nuclear power plants start to work all around the world. The end of the Energy Crisis of the developed countries. Price of electricity reduces onto its quarter and its half of the level it was in 2010. End of the recession of the developed countries. The poor countries are less affected however they can export more products to the US and EU. The Greens protest against the nuclear power plants worldwide.

Corporate consolidation of power continues. Network 54 now controls 62% of all media broadcasting in U.S. 

The CIA and NSA are purged after being linked to a series of independent and qustionable activities, including the 2nd CAW. Both organizations are gutted. The military then helps re-establish some semblance of federal control in the United States. The State of Emergency continues.

A new plague kills more than 17,700 in Chicago. The city is quarantined and blockaded for a year.

Rockerboy Johnny Silverhand's concert in Night City, NorCal, kills 18, wounds 51 in an assault on the Arasaka Complex. Old Arasaka Complex is gutted.

Programmer Alt Cunningham's mind is transferred into the Net by her own creation, the Soulkiller Program.

Technology is made continually more accessible to the public. Cybernetics and direct neural machine interfacing become common fashion and style elements of American culture. Many people voluntarily have portions of their bodies replaced with cybernetic equivalents and enhancements. Net traffic continues to grow as direct neural processors and cybermodems become more common.

The ratio of non-Hispanic whites falls to 50% in the USA. Even less between children.

First true artificial intelligence developed at Microtech's Sunnyvale, NorCal, facility.

The Ihara-Grubb transformation algorithms redesign the Net into a virtual reality matrix.

The "Metal Wars" begin in Night City as gangs battle for turf. Other cities also face hordes of well armed, cyber-enhanced thugs establishing urban territories. Local attempts at control vary in effectiveness. Cybersoldiers are hired by corporations and others to bolster their use of force as a standard tool of business.

The Cyberpunk Movement: Simultaneously, a counter-movement starts, made up of a coalition of ex-cybersoldiers, Net operators, media performers, and nomads, all dedicated to fighting the growing corporate control of money, material and, most importantly, information. They call themselves Cyberpunks.

The AV-4 Aerodyne Assault Vehicle is developed to deal with riots in U.S. urban zones.

Cyberware gets into fashion in the EU.

The first basic nanotech cyberware is marketed commercially.

The Cyberpunk movement is in full swing, but corporate power continues to grow. Anarchistic and paranoid by nature, the Cyberpunks are too disorganized to keep the multinationals from acting with total authority across the face of the world. State governments try to exert more local control over corporate activities, but with little success. Many are bought out. Most of the public is apathetic or, due to corp propaganda, view the Cyberpunks as dangerous criminals.

First self-aware human clone is created, but dies after a few weeks.

President Blair begins to flex federal power again, starting with a committee to monitor corporate activity. Blair falls ill and dies later this year and VP Elizabeth Kress is sworn in. She continues to pursue Blair's policies.

President Kress consolidates a faction in the Senate to provide a permanent watch committee limiting corporate powers and investigating abuses.

A big tsunami washes away some little island nations on the Pacific Ocean.

Genetic engineered "designer babies" are available.

Rache Bartmoss, Cyberpunk netrunner, is killed, but soon afterwards his posthumous memoirs, Rache Bartmoss' Guide to the Net, are released. They reveal his state of semi-suspended animation.

Pro-Corporate Republican Gerald Hastings elected to the presidency after a massive, corporate-backed media campaign against incumbent Kress. The Pro-Corporate movement gains momentum. The Senate corporate watch committee is disbanded.

The ratio of Muslims reaches 15-30% in Western European countries especially in French, Belgian, German, Dutch and Austrian cities. Migrants from Africa and elsewhere are turned back and often shot.

Summer heat waves are common in the US and EU. American Southwest to Texas and Oklahoma is semi-desert.

Fukushima nuclear disaster cleanup will end within 10 years.