Rough Terran Timeline
| Description | Humanoid, Bipedal |
| Size | Medium |
| Skin Pigment | Varies |
| Hair | Varies |
| Distinguishing Features | Varies |
| Series | All |
| Planet of Origin | Sol III (Native Name: Earth or Terra) |
| Quadrant | Alpha |
| Background | Extensive. First space travel began in late 20th Century (roughly 300 years ago), and continued expanding to present levels. Once a warlike race, but after the first contact with an alien species the society was changed to focus on exploration. |
| Editors Notes | Terrans are an extremely inquisitive and persistant race. They frequently refuse to give in, even in the face of overwhelming odds. Humans have the desire to constantly learn more about themselves, their surroundings and about life in all it's forms. |
Rough Terran Timeline
| -5 Billion Yrs | The Sol star system and surrounding stellar systems form. |
| -2 Billion Yrs | First single cell organisms evolve on Terra. |
| 5000 BC | Earth is visited by a race of interstellar travelers who are mistaken for gods by the ancient Greeks. The last of these, known as Apollo to the Greeks, dies in 2270, when he realizes that humans have grown beyond the need for such 'gods'. |
| 4000 BC | The first large scale human civilizations form on Earth. |
| 3834 BC | The nearly immortal Flint was born in Mesopotamia. He finally dies in 2297. |
| 600 BC | The Hebrew Bible is written, it will become the basis for Judaism and its daughter religions, Christianity and Islam. |
| 400 BC | The star Sahndara explodes, survivors of that disaster visit Earth where they become admirers of Plato. In 200 BCE they leave Earth to found a society based on Plato's Republic. |
| 4 BC | The reputed birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the teachings of Jesus become the basis for the Christian religion. |
| 625 | The Prophet Muhammad writes the Quran, which becomes the basis of Islam. |
| 1609 | Galileo Galilei constructs Earth's first astronomical telescope. He is convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church for challenging the Terra-centric cosmology that is the official teaching of the church. The church later (in 1992) admits that perhaps Galileo was right and the Earth orbits the sun and not vice versa. |
| 4 July 1776 | The United States of America declares its independence from Great Britain, making the first modern human attempt at large scale republican government. |
| 12 Jan 1905 | Albert Einstein publishes his Theory of General Relativity. |
| 28 July 1914 | The Terran 1st World War begins in the aftermath of the assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand by a Serbian nationalist. |
| 11 Nov 1918 | The Terran 1st World War ends when the allies impose the Treaty of Versailles on Germany. |
| 10 Jan 1920 | The League of Nations is founded in Geneva. It marks the first Terran attempt at global government. Its effectiveness is hampered, however, by the refusal of the United States, whose president proposed the league, to join. |
| 3 Sept 1939 | The Terran 2nd World War begins, when Germany, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, invades Poland. |
| 9 Aug 1945 | The Terran 2nd World War ends when the United States detonates a 2nd nuclear weapon over the Japanese city Nagasaki. During the war the Germans systematically murdered over 11 million non-combatants, most of them Jews, in a system of death camps across Europe. The Allied powers, lead by the United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union began a series of trials, over the objections of the major European churches, of the German leadership for 'Genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity' and executed most of them. Adolf Hitler was not among those tried, he committed suicide to avoid capture by the Soviet Army. |
| 12 Oct 1945 | The United Nations Organization is chartered in San Francisco, CA. The UN is Earth's 2nd attempt at unified government. Unlike the League of Nations, it enjoys the participation of all of Terra's great powers. |
| 4 Oct 1957 | The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, Terra's 1st artificial satellite. |
| 12 April 1961 | Yuri Gagarin becomes the 1st human in space aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1. |
| 20 July 1969 | Neil Armstrong becomes the 1st human to set foot on the moon aboard the American spacecraft Apollo 11. |
| 2 March 1972 | The United States space probe Pioneer 10 is launched, and becomes the 1st man-made object to leave the Sol system in 1983. |
| 4 July 1976 | The United States of America celebrates its Bicentennial and becomes the longest lived republic in the history of mankind, surpassing the longevity of the Roman Republic. The United States robot lander Viking 1 lands on Mars. |
| 28 Jan 1986 | The Crew of the United States space shuttle Challenger is killed when the orbiter explodes 73 seconds after launch |
| 12 July 1992 | Khan Noonian Singh assumes behind the scenes control of the Indian government. Other genetic supermen assume similar control in the Balkans, Africa, and Asia. |
| 21 Dec 1996 | The last of the brushfire wars caused by the supermen peter out. Later historians will refer to these conflicts as the Eugenics Wars. |
| 15 Feb 1999 | Voyager 6 is launched to investigate alien transmissions detected by NASA. |
| 20 Aug 2002 | Nomad 1 is launched by NASA. |
| 12 Sep 2004 | 1st manned mission to Mars. |
| 15 Aug 2009 | 1st manned mission to Saturn, commanded by Captain Shaun G. Christopher (USAF) is launched. |
| 1 May 2018 | Fast STL propulsion ends the need for sleeper ships and opens the Asteroid belt and the Jovian Moons to exploitation. |
| 1 April 2032 | Zephrem Cochrane is born. |
| 12 Oct 2036 | The United Nations Treaty on Human Rights is adopted by every major power. Among its provisions is that no Terran citizen may be held accountable for the crimes of an ancestor. |
| 23 July 2037 | The NASA Interstellar Probe Charbydis is launched, it is presumed lost in 2044 when telemetry ceases. |
| 5 May 2061 | First successful warp drive demonstration by Zephram Cochrane, which is followed by First Contact from an alien species. |
| 12 Oct 2064 | Martian Colonies founded. |
| 12 Oct 2065 | SS Valiant launched on a deep space exploration mission and is later destroyed near the galactic rim, by her captain, to prevent psionic enhanced crewmen from returning to Earth. |
| 30 April 2066 | Centauri colony founded. |
| 12 June 2067 | Sir John Burke of the Royal Academy discovers Sherman's Planet. |
| 20 April 2079 | WWIII on begins on Terra when Col. Pieter Green leads a Boer rebellion in Azania (South Africa). By the end of 2079, the war has spread to most of Africa and the Middle-East. By 2080, the whole world is at war. By the time the War ends 37 million are killed. |
| 14 March 2080 | The 3rd World War Ends with the Melbourne Accords, much of China, Africa, Asia and the Middle East are ruined Wastelands. |
| 12 Oct 2080 | The San Francisco Accords are signed between the United States, the European Union, the Russian Federation, the Empire of Japan, Australia, Canada, and Brazil. The accords lay a groundwork for a credible international government. |
| 1 Jan 2123 | SS Mariposa departs bearing colonists bound for the Ficus sector. |
| 14 Aug 2156-
21 May 2160 |
Romulan Wars between Earth and the Romulan Star Empire. The war ends after the Battle of Cheron which was a humiliating defeat for the Romulans. The Treaty of Algeron established an armistice and created the Romulan Neutral Zone. |
| 1 Jan 2161 | United Federation of Planets founded. Starfleet established. |
| 21 Feb 2218 | General Orders adopted after the disastrous first contact with the Klingon Empire. |
| 2 May 2223 | Federation relations with the Klingon Empire degenerate into complete hostility. This situation lasts over seventy years. |
| 27 Mar 2224 | Dr. Richard Daystrom is born. |
| 12 Mar 2239 | The Four Years War with the Klingon Empire begins with a Klingon attack on Arcadia IV. |
| 6 June 2242 | Starfleet defeats the Imperial Klingon Fleet off Donatu V (Sherman's Planet). |
| 12 April 2243 | The Treaty of Khitomer ends the Four Years War. |
| 12 Feb 2248 | Dr. Richard Daystrom invents duotronic computer systems. |
| 1 Jan 2261 | Stardate System adopted. |
| 23 July 2265 | Romulans violate the Neutral Zone for the first time since the Treaty of Algeron. |
| 23 June 2269 | Khan Noonian Singh discovered aboard the sleeper ship SS Botany Bay and is marooned on Ceti Alpha V by Capt. James Kirk. |
| 19 Aug 2269 | Organian Peace Treaty imposed upon the Federation and the Klingons. |
| 24 May 2271 | 2nd Babel Conference, called to consider the admission of Coridan to the Federation is nearly disrupted by Orion terrorists. |
| 6 Nov 2272 | USS Enterprise accidentally intrudes on Tholian Space and is nearly captured by Commander Loskeen of the Tholian Defense Forces. |
| 28 Oct 2274 | Enterprise Incident nearly triggers a 2nd Romulan War, the Federation acquires a working Romulan cloaking device. |
| 20 Sept 2276 | Memory Alpha, slated to be the main repository of Federation knowledge, destroyed by an alien intelligence just before its completion. |
| 18 April 2281 | V'Ger Incident. |
| 9 Mar 2283 | USS Reliant lost in combat with USS Enterprise in the Mutara Nebula, after the USS Reliant is hijacked by Khan Noonian Singh. The Genesis Device is detonated in the nebula, and a new class M world is created. |
| 19 May 2283 | USS Enterprise lost to a Klingon raider off the 'Genesis Planet'. Tectonic instability caused by the presence of proto-matter in the original matrix caused the planet to explode only 71 days after its creation. The Genesis Terraforming Project is declared to be a failure. |
| 21 Dec 2283 | Alien Probe of unknown origin nearly destroys Starfleet Headquarters on Terra. |
| 25 Jan 2287 | Klingon moon Praxis explodes, posing such a threat to the Klingon homeworld of Klinzhai that the Khitomer accords are signed with the Federation. |
| 21 April 2311 | Tomed Incident between Federation and Romulans. Thousands of Federation lives lost in a Romulan attack. Romulans enter a phase of extreme isolationism. The USS Endeavor, last of the Constitution class starships, is decommissioned . |
| 3 Sep 2336 | The General War begins with a Klingon attack on Station Salem One. Among the ships destroyed at anchor is the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701B) |
| 15 April 2344 | Narenda III incident. During negotiations for a separate Klingon-Federation peace. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701C) comes to the aid of the Klingon outpost on Narenda III under Romulan attack. Federation forces decimated, but their sacrifice helps cement Federation-Klingon relations. |
| 1 Mar 2346 | Khitomer Massacre. Four thousand Klingons are brutally killed during a Romulan sneak attack after the signing of the Federation-Klingon Peace Treaty that ended the General War. |
| 1 Jan 2349 | Isolinear computer chip perfected. |
| 1 June 2350 | War breaks out between the Federation and the Cardassian Union. |
| 12 Mar 2357 | Talarian forces enter the Cardassian War on the Cardassian side with an attack on the Federation outpost at Galen IV. |
| 26 Dec 2364 | Romulans emerge from isolationist phase after their outposts along the Neutral Zone begin vanishing. |
| 5 Oct 2365 | First contact made with Borg. |
| 2365 | Androids awarded full civil rights within the Federation. |
| 18 June 2366 | Romulan Admiral Alidar Jarok defects to the Federation. |
| 1 Sep 2366 | Uneasy truce reached between Federation and Cardassian Union. The Cardassians agree to evacuate Bajor, which will become a Federation protectorate. The Federation concedes 3 contested planets to the Cardassians. |
| 1 Jan 2367 | Battle of Wolf 359. Thirty-nine starships destroyed and over 11,000 people killed by an unsuccessful Borg incursion. Starfleet will be a long time in recovering from these personnel losses. |
| 29 Dec 2367-
18 Jan 2368 |
Brief Klingon civil war sparked by attempt of Duras family to seize control of the Klingon High Council. |
| 1 Jan 2369 | Cardassians withdraw from Bajor; stable wormhole to the Gamma Quadrant discovered; Terek Nor mining station renamed Deep Space 9. |
| 2370 | Second attempted invasion of Federation by Borg under the command of renegade Soong-type android Lore foiled. Federation-wide "speed limit" of Warp 5 introduced. Maquis terrorism begins; first contact with the Jem'Hadar. |
| 2371 | Romulans loan Federation cloaking technology; Romulan/Cardassian alliance against the Dominion formed. USS Enterprise-D destroyed at Veridian III. USS Voyager lost in the Delta Quadrant. |
| 2372 | Klingon Empire attacks Cardassia; ends Khitomer peace accords with Federation. |