Timeline

This is the timeline for The Asteroid: Aftermath.

Pre-2016
See History of humanity

2016

 * Donald Trump is elected 45th president of the United States of America.

2018

 * Construction of the wall separating the US and Mexico begins.
 * The infamous 15 October attacks happen all over the world. ISIS claims responsibility.
 * Russia annexes Belarus and Kazakhstan to become the Eurasian Union.

2023

 * Construction of the wall is completed.
 * The Eurasian Union annexes Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Georgia.
 * ISIS loses all their territory. However, they are still an active terrorist group and will continue to remain so until the Asteroid hits.
 * A coup d'etat happens in Lebanon, making Hezbollah the ruling party.

2029

 * The Syria Civil War ends, with a rebel victory. Kurdistan is established in Syria, and Syria becomes democratic.

2031

 * North Korea nukes several cities in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Phillipines and the US West Coast. South Korea and Japan retaliate by nuking Pyongyang, Hamhung and Chongjin, sparking the 2ndKorean War.
 * The Eurasian Union restores former Soviet borders.

2033

 * The 2ndKorean War escalates to a proxy war, with the US and NATO supporting South Korea and CSTO and BRICS supporting North Korea.
 * Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon begins invading Syria, who is still in shambles after the Syrian Civil War.

2038

 * The 2ndKorean War and the War of the Levant end in a South Korean and a Lebanese victory respectively.

2040

 * China, India and Pakistan have a nuclear exchange for control of Kashmir. 275 million die and much of East and South Asia becomes filled with radiation.
 * The Eurasian Union invades Finland, sparking World War III.

2043

 * A small-scale nuclear exchange happens between the Eurasian Union and NATO. 105 million die.

2049

 * World War III ends abruptly by an 8-mile wide asteroid crashing into the Southeastern United States, and tearing a huge chunk of land off of 12 different states, and causing a mass extinction and a new Ice Age. This asteroid and the aftermath over the next 15 years kills 99.98% of all remaining humans, and effectively ends human civilization for approximately 150 years.

2100

 * The Great Migration begins.

2202

 * Civilization re-emerges from isolation. Agricultural tribes arise along the Nile, Mesopotamia, the Danube, the Seine, the Murray, the Yangtze, the Mekong, the Ganges and along the Coasts of the Pacific Rim.

2253

 * The city of Ostracina, the first city to be built since the Asteroid, is built in the former nation of Croatia. It houses 3.2 million people by 4550.

2300

 * Many cities are built, mostly in Southern Europe, Anatolia, the Middle East, the Nile Delta, Southern Mexico, India, China, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim coasts.

2500

 * Humanity reaches a level of technology equal to the Roman Empire era.