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The timeline of the Cyberpunk series has gone through many iterations, with new sourcebooks and games continually expanding on its world. This article covers the canonical timeline following events from Cyberpunk 2013 and Cyberpunk 2020, as established by R. Talsorian Games and CD Projekt RED in Cyberpunk RED and Cyberpunk 2077. Information about the non-canon CyberGeneration (Non-Canon) and Cyberpunk Version 3.0 (Non-Canon) and their alternative timeline can be found in their articles.

Other timelines are included within the Japan, China, Soviet Union, Korea, and Australia articles, as well as those for South-East Asia and Europe.

Series history

Released in 1988, the first Cyberpunk game, Cyberpunk 2013 introduced players to the world of the dark future. Three supplementary books were released, fleshing out the world and character roles.

In 1990, a second edition was released, titled Cyberpunk 2020, the timeline was moved forward 7 years to the year 2020. As a result much of the information from 2013 was greatly expanded upon, the setting of Night City became real and many of the corporations were given full backstories.

In 1993, the timeline was again pushed forward by another 7 years with CyberGeneration (Non-Canon), which focused on supernatural abilities in a more dangerous world. The CyberGeneration series then turned into a spin-off in an alternate timeline.

In 1997, the Firestorm books were published. These two—originally three—adventure books were meant to introduce the concept of the Fourth Corporate War to the player and move the story forward into the late 2020s-30s. The campaign pitched the player up against Arasaka, but with the help of many of the named characters throughout the series such as Morgan Blackhand and Johnny Silverhand. A third Firestorm book was planned but eventually became part of the Cyberpunk V3.0 rule book.

In 2005, Cyberpunk Version 3.0 (Non-Canon) was published. The timeline was pushed into the 2030s and was a direct followup to the events of the Firestorm series. In 3.0, the world had to deal with the fallout of the Fourth Corporate War and the Arasaka nuke in Night City, and the data corruption on the Net. Reviews were negative based on the setting change as well as some of the presentation elements in the book. It was later deemed as part of an alternative timeline, though many of its events were written into Cyberpunk RED.

In 2013, Polish video game developer CD Projekt RED announced they had acquired the license to develop video games based on the Cyberpunk series with creator Mike Pondsmith working closely with the Polish studio. Cyberpunk 2077 would move the timeline much further into the year 2077. The game had a full reveal in 2018, with players assuming the role of V, a lowly cyberpunk in Night City.

Mike Pondsmith later announced Cyberpunk RED, a new edition of the pen & paper RPG set sometime before 2077. As a result of the RED Edition and 2077, the timeline was significantly changed. Creator Mike Pondsmith has said the official timeline is up in the air in regards to the later editions. As such, elements of the Firestorm books and the Cyberpunk v3.0 books have been retired, though which elements are currently unknown.

With the release of the Cyberpunk RED Jumpstart kit, it is revealed that the Fourth Corporate War, the crash of the Net, and the Arasaka mini-nuke events all canonically occur. The World Book places the Fourth Corporate War as starting in 2021 but becoming official in 2022. The crash of the Net is caused by the DataKrash virus, triggered by a dead-man switch activated with the death of Rache Bartmoss, which happens in 2022. The Arasaka mini-nuke event is referred to as the "Night City Holocaust" and is shown to take place in 2023.

Regional timelines

• Greater Europe Timeline: Future Past - Timeline of Europe (1990-2020)
• South-East Asia Timeline - Timeline of Southeast Asia (1940-2019)

Timeline overview

The timeline of the Cyberpunk series diverges dramatically from our own around roughly the 1990s—although other divergences do occur well before then, albeit smaller in size and scope—where the fall of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War leads to a dissemination of nuclear weapons on the black market. Coupled with a US government "deep state" called the Gang of Four, the world soon finds itself in the midst of an economic crisis and the Collapse. Proxy wars, trade wars, and a resurgent Europe butt against the prevailing US world order. Eventually, brief nuclear exchanges and biological warfare around the globe cause the gradual decline of Western civilization. Societies collapse and many governments either dissolve or are reduced to reactionary, petty authoritarian states.

In the chaos, corporations fill the vacuum of power amidst a collapsing social order. Technological advances, unbridled from government oversight or ethical limitations, lead to hundreds of new inventions. As time wears on, some corporations become as powerful as the countries they are housed in. Ultimately, four corporate wars have occurred by 2023, each one becoming more overt and deadly than the last. The infamous Fourth Corporate War was brought to an end by the detonation of a nuclear bomb in the heart of Night City. The years that followed until 2045, the Time of the Red, were a period of global reconstruction as corporations and governments alike tried to recover from unparalleled economic and environmental damage. By 2077, corporate influence is more pervasive than ever, and fears of another devastating corporate war loom large on the horizon.

Lawlessness, chaos and technology. This is the world of Cyberpunk.

1800s - 1980s

1800s

• Sasai Arasaka is born in the mid-to-late 1800's.^{[citation needed]}
• Yui is born.^{[citation needed]}
• Akio Nagawa is born.^{[citation needed]}

1905

• Sasai Arasaka gets married to Yui.^{[citation needed]}

1916

• The Arasaka Corporation is founded by Sasai Arasaka.^{[citation needed]}

1919

• Saburo Arasaka is born.

1935

• Antonio Luccessi is born.

1939

• World War 2 begins.

1942

• Saburo Arasaka is heavily wounded in combat. He is medically discharged from the Imperial Japanese Navy and returns home to Tokyo.

1945

• World War 2 ends.
• Saburo Arasaka attempts suicide on the day of the Japanese surrender.
• Ellen Trieste is born.

1948

• Donald Lundee is born.

1949

• Valentin Domanevka is born.

1954

• Dr. Paul Robichaud is born.

1957

• Margaret Ellen Goldstein is born.

1960

• Sasai Arasaka dies.
• Saburo Arasaka assumes control of the Arasaka Corporation and immediately creates its security division to undertake black operations.
• General Lupold Korepino is born.

1961

• Roland Yee is born.

1967

• Douglas Llewellyn is born.

1968

• Shintaro Takayama is born.

1969

• Colonel Maxwell Von Bruckner is born.
• Colonel Emile Lazarus is born.

1972

• Anderson Bennett is born.

1973

• Neonila Novikovo is born.

1974

• Trenton Parker is born.
• Marshall R. Shepard is born.

1977

• Nelson Katzadoulos is born.

1978

• Elizabeth Kress is born.^{[citation needed]}
• Ranolph Christmas is born.^{[citation needed]}

1979

• Angus Youngblood is born.
• Bruce Skiv is born.

1980

• Kei Arasaka is born.
• Peter Van Rijen is born.

1985

• Lupold Korpino joins the Soviet Army.

1986

• Carson Dominguez is born.

1987

• Malcolm Youngblood is born.
• Ramon Sagsaysay is born.^{[citation needed]}

1988

• The State Law and Order Restoration Council launches a coup in Burma and renames the country Myanmar.
• April 7: Kerry Eurodyne is born.
• November 16: Johnny Silverhand is born in College Station, Texas.

1989

• George H.W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States of America.
• The Gang of Four - a group made up of the CIA, NSA, FBI and DEA - forms to secretly run the United States of America behind the president's back.^{[citation needed]}
• Bradley David Parker Jr is born.
• The Cold War ends.
• The Berlin Wall falls.

1990s

1990

• The First Central American War begins - The USA declares open war against the drug cartels of Central & South America.
• The Fall of South Africa occurs. Very little information comes out of the country other than rumors of genocide.
• London Riots between labor and racial extremists occur.^{[citation needed]}
• West and East Germany are reunified.
• Warsaw Pact breaks up.
• Soviet Union president Gorbachev appoints successor, Andrei Gorborev. The USSR enters into a period of reform.
• Night International is formed.
• Colonel Emile Lazarus graduates from West Point.
• The Quiet War begins - The Gang of Four begins attempts covertly sabotage European countries.

1991

• Eurospace Agency launches the Hermes Spaceplane.
• Biotechnica Develops CHOOH2.
• The New Jersey Arcology is built.
• Stanford Research Center develops artificial muscles.
• Plans for Coronado City are drawn.
• Gorborev, Gorbachev’s successor, purges the rest of the old USSR hardliners.

1992

• The European Economic Community and Eurodollar are established.
• The DEA develops artificial plagues to curb the production of drugs in South America, and as a result, multiple drug wars break out.
• The Governments of Chile and Ecuador collapse.
• First use of high energy laser lift arrays in USSR. Massdriver established in the Canary Islands by eight member Eurospace Agency.
• Brooke Bailey Atchison is born.
• Hua Yuchi forms the Maoist Loyalist Cabal in the Hunan province of China.
• The Aldecaldo Clan forms in East Los Angeles, CA.
• The Morro Bay Massacre - Biker gangs loot several towns before being driven out by the military.
• Arasaka, EBM and Petrochem fund the creation of Coronado City.

1993

• James Richard Allen is inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States of America.
• TRC Biologic Interface chips are developed in Munich, West Germany.
• The AV-4 Enters production.
• A small yield nuclear device is detonated in New York City. 15000 are killed. Colombian Drug-lords are to blame.
• Construction on Coronado City starts.
• The First Nomad families appear on the west coast.
• The Australian Government announces plans to recognize aboriginal land.
• The Aldecaldo Clan is removed from Los Angeles.
• The EC Ministry for Economics is formed.
• INTERPOL is sanctioned to operate outside of EEC borders and begins recruiting from schools.

1994

• World Stock Market Collapse - The EEC discovers that the USA has been defrauding the global stock market. This information causes the global economy to collapse overnight.
• The First Central American War ends - US forces are repelled by the Central & South American governments.
• Nuclear meltdown occurs in Pittsburgh, PA. 257 are killed and cancer rates skyrocket. The area is known as The Pitt from then on. The Aldecaldo Clan is hired to rebuild The Pitt.
• Coronado City is founded.
• Edward Llewellyn is born.
• The Soviet Union ends and the Union of Sovereign Soviet Republics is formed.
• Pressure from the Corporations leads the Australian government to recognize corporations over the aboriginals.
• Martial Law is declared in Poland.
• Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and his first wife, Sarah Ferguson, divorce. Sarah takes their two children, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, to live in Texas.^{[citation needed]}

1995

• Construction on the Kilimanjaro Mass driver starts.
• Yorinobu Arasaka is born.
• Anastasia Luccessi is born.
• The Grand unification of Ministries and agencies is carried out in Japan.
• A Civil war breaks out in China with the Maoist Loyalist Cabal conquering large swaths of the country.
• The Bloods gang controls all of Miami, Florida.
• The EEC implements the "Fortress Europe" system, which involves the totalitarian monitoring of citizens and the required carrying of identity cards.
• Evienne De Tours is born.

1996

• The Collapse of the United States begins.
• Martial Law is established in the United States.
• August 17: U.S. President James Richard Allen is assassinated.
• The Lawyer Purge occurs.
• The first Boostergangs appear.
• Nomad packs become widespread due to the high rate of homelessness.
• The Nomad Riots - By now, 1 in 4 Americans are homeless. Hundreds of thousands riot for living space throughout the U.S., Nomad packs spring up on the west coast and spread rapidly through the nation.
• Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution is scrapped by Arasaka-backed politicians.
• The United States Military withdraws from Japan and Korea.
• Armatech-Luccessi is founded.
• State Oil Industries Subcommittee is created, with Anatoly Novikovo on the head.
• Lawrence Hilliard Innovation Ltd. is formed.^{[citation needed]}
• The Far Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere Group, FACS, is founded by varvious large and small Japanese corporations to counter Arasaka in Japan.^{[citation needed]}
• Portugal and Italy finally join the EEC.

1997

• The Mideast Meltdown - A nuclear exchange makes most of the Middle East inhospitable. The global fuel supply is cut.
• Conflict in the Japanese government begins between right winged Arasaka and the bureaucratic FACS Group.
• August 3: Popular musician "Rockerboy" Manson is killed in the United Kingdom.
• California's economy follows suit with the rest of the nation, and collapses.^{[citation needed]}
• Anatoly Novikovo lays the groundwork for a private army using the remnants of the OMON Unit.
• Tycho, the first Moon colony, is founded.
• A toxic spill occurs in the Pacific Northwest, wiping out the fishing industries in the area.
• The Gang of Four are formally investigated.
• The United States Military reforms into Combined Operations Groups.
• The Bald Hill political scandal occurs in Japan, 60% of politicians were arrested for bribery charges.
• Hong Kong is returned to China from Britain.
• Drug and smuggling laws are repealed in Thailand.
• Hurricanes hit the coast of Europe, leaving thousands without shelter. Dams begin construction across the coast to curb rising tides.
• An earthquake occurs in the Bay of Biscay, causing tsunamis that hit the coast of Spain.
• Incidents occur between the Greek military and Turkish immigrants fleeing the Mideast Meltdown.
• The Yasubisu Affair occurs. 24 French Police officers are killed by Arasaka Security when attempting to arrest a high level executive.^{[citation needed]}

1998

• A 10.5 Earthquake decimates Los Angeles. 35% of the city is underwater and upwards of 65000 people are killed.
• A drought in the Midwest destroys a large amount of crops. Many farms go out of business.
• The Luds, a Neo-Luddite group emerges in Kentucky. They begin a spree of bombings that last nearly ten years.
• Rory and Lea Murchison are born.
• Richard Night is killed by the mafia.
• Tsunami Defense Systems is founded by Toshio Yamabatsu, Timothy Davidson, and Michelle Teguchi Langley in Osaka, Japan.^{[citation needed]}
• Coronado City is renamed Night City, in memory of its founder.
• Howard Murchison is assassinated by Colin Powers.
• Gerhard Kessler takes control of the International Electric Corporation.
• The United States Military undergoes trials for a new rifle to replace the M16A2.
• The formation of the Soviet state oil industries is completed and is known as SovOil.
• The Martial Law Authority is formed in the United Kingdom. It declares a state of emergency and removes the monarchy. King Charles III, Prince Andrew, and other members of the royal family are forced into exile or detained.
• Indonesian President Suharto dies.
• Construction begins on the Intercontinental Maglev system in Night City.^{[citation needed]}
• The Night of Fire - The KGB, backed by the Organitskaya, attempt to overthrow the government of the USSR but are defeated.
• Directive 1998-EC-A-000534 is launched in the EC.

1999

• Martial law in the United States ends.^{[citation needed]}
• The United States implements the Federal Weapons Statute.
• Millennium cults appear in response to the 'threat' of Y2K.
• Tycho colony established. A mass driver is constructed to provide raw materials for orbital platforms.
• Hanako Arasaka is born.
• Ellen Trieste invests in Parker Petrochemicals.
• Parker Petrochemicals is granted a license by Biotechnica to grow T. Megasuavis, a component of CHOOH2.
• The Public Information Office is formed in the UK.^{[citation needed]}
• The Second Korean War begins - hostilities break out along the border between North and South Korea over alleged violated airspace.
• Martial Law is declared in Hong Kong after riots break out.
• The Jodes, former farmers from the dust-bowl, begin salvage operations in the decimated Los Angeles.
• The Bloods Gang from Florida become a Nomad group.
• Night Corp is founded by Miriam Night, the wife of Richard Night.

2000s

2000

• Crystal Palace Space Station begins construction.
• The Wasting Plague spreads across the United States and Europe.
• Firestorms decimate farmland in the northwest.
• The first Posergangs emerge.
• Millennium Cult run amok on Jan 1st in an orgy of suicide and violence, most destroy themselves.
• Donald Lundee joins Armatech-Luccessi as CEO.
• The Olympic Games in Sydney Australia fail due to bankruptcy.
• Orbital Air begin construction on a spaceport in Cape York Australia.
• The Aldecaldo Clan begins construction on Mexico City.
• The Civilian Justice code is formed in the United States.^{[citation needed]}
• A Millennium Cult kills upwards of 19000 in a chemical attack in Berlin.
• EBM Begins to purchase Hamburg, Germany.
• Alaska becomes a free state.^{[citation needed]}

2001

• The World Sat Network is constructed. The Framework for the Net is set up.
• Armatech-Luccessi is renamed Militech Arms International.
• The Japan Aerospace Bureau is established.^{[citation needed]}
• A Military coup occurs in Britain and the British Monarchy collapses.^{[citation needed]}
• Australia reforms as the Federal Republic of Australia. Western Australia declares independence after rejecting the new government, they are backed by Arasaka.
• The Jodes finish the salvage operation in LA. They do not win any construction contracts and are left out of a job as a result.
• As a result of the Wasting Plague decimating the population, Greece loosens its immigration policy.
• King Hassan II of Morocco dies of the Wasting Plague. His son Mohammad becomes king and keeps his father's policy of closing ties with Europe.

2002

• The Food Crash - crops around the world are hit by a new virus. The United States survives after developing a counter agent.
• SovOil declares itself independent of the USSR government. As a result. Gorborev resigns in disgrace.
• Igor Starobin is named president of the USSR.^{[citation needed]}
• Lupold Korepino is promoted to General of the Soviet Army.
• Valentin Domanevka joins SovOil.
• Copernicus, the second Moon Colony is founded.
• The Santorini Volcano erupts in the Aegean sea, many Greek Islands are hit hard by Tsunamis.
• Portugal, in an effort to decrease Spains influence over them, contracts law enforcement to Amazonian Security and Arasaka.
• Spain's parliament breaks down due to widespread corruption. Smaller political parties and yearly elections now make long-term decision-making almost impossible.

2003

• The Second Central American War begins - As a desperate power-move, the USA once again declares war on drug cartels.
• The Gang of Four begins to crumble under new reforms.^{[citation needed]}
• U.S. President Harold Harrison Hunt is murdered. Secretary of Defense, John Seward takes charge as acting president and a second period of martial law begins.^{[citation needed]}
• World News Service star Tesla Johanneson exposes the NSA for orchestrating the First Central American War.
• Louis Parker dies, his son Trenton Parker assumes control of the company.
• The Khmer Rouge is driven out of Cambodia and deposes the government of Laos.
• The Jodes return to agriculture.^{[citation needed]}
• Sugo Manufacturing merges with Mitsubishi and is renamed Mitsubishi-Sugo.
• Directive 2002-EC-A-000306 is launched in the EC.
• The EEC rules that European citizens can hold their tax payments for up to three years if there’s significant evidence of abuse of funds by their government. If ruled against by the international court, offenders are required to pay back tax plus interest.
• Following Morocco's example, Tunisia enters the EEC sphere of influence.
• Samurai is founded.^{[citation needed]}

2004

• Tesla Johanneson is assassinated in Cairo, Egypt by NSA operatives, causing the U.S. to forego a planned return to civilian government and extend martial law for another four years.
• The First Corporate War begins - A conflict between Euro Business Machines and Orbital Air over the buyout of Transworld Airlines escalates into open combat.
• Cloned tissue is developed.
• Peter Kessler is born.
• Lupold Korepino joins SovOil.
• The CIA and Army unite to finish off the Gang of Four.^{[citation needed]}
• General I Ryong Yon launches a coup in South Korea and creates the United Korea junta.
• Bureaucratic reformation occurs in the EEC after a major scandal.
• Italy legalises the Sicilian Mafia and Neapolitan Camorra as legitimate political parties to curb bribery in the senate. The Nuova Mafia is founded.

2005

• The Cybermodem is invented.
• EBM Solos attack Tokyo office of Kenjiri Technologies, Killing 18.^{[citation needed]}
• The First Corporate War ends - Orbital Air troops breach the compound of Euro Business Machines CEO Ulf Grunwalder and force a surrender. Other corporations realise warfare may be a viable business tactic.
• The Mob rule over Night City begins.
• Peter Van Rijen joins SovOil.
• November 5: Presidential appointee Henry Jacobi is assassinated. Evidence points towards the Montoga Corporation.
• November 17: Operation Big Stick - The Mantoga Corporation is asked to leave the country. When they refuse, the US military destroys all Mantoga facilities around the world in just 12 hours.
• The Second Korean War ends - China pulls out support, allowing North Korea to be annexed. United Korea is founded, with General I Ryong Yon as its first president.
• President I Ryong Yon is killed in a bombing on the presidential palace. General Park is elected President.
• The Maoist Loyalist Cabal controls southern China.
• Los Angeles Reconstruction project is finished and many Nomads leave California.
• Directive 2003-EC-A-001348 is launched in the EC.
• EBM declares Hamburg an independent nation.
• The socialist government of Greece menaces with nationalisations.

2006

• The first human clone is grown, leading to the development of artificial organs.
• SovOil is granted a licence to produce CHOOH2.
• Operation Big Stick officially closes with the last living Mantoga Corporation administrator found and killed in Bonn, Germany.
• Cyberlimbs become commonplace among the United States Military.
• Vietnam joins the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations.
• The Malagay Separatist Movement is launched.^{[citation needed]}
• In preparation for the planned Euro/Sov mission to Mars, Operation "Green Man" begins to create humans adapted to the harsher climates through breeding and cloning.
• The Greek government is overthrown by the army with corporate backing. Survivors flee to Rhodes and receives help from Turkey.

2007

• Lupold Korepino is named commander of the SovOil armed forces.
• The Second Corporate War begins - After conflicts over drilling rights in the South China Sea, Petrochem believes SovOil responsible for an accident that destroyed one of their drilling stations and declares war.
• Braindances are invented.
• Parker Petrochemicals is renamed Petrochemical Associates International.
• The Maoist Loyalist Cabal capture Hong Kong and begin a series of pogroms.
• New Zealand legalizes Marijuana for the production of Hemp.
• Funds designated for the rebuilding of towns destroyed by the 1997 earthquake is redirected towards hosting the Olympic Games. Civil outrage ensues.

2008

• The First Orbital War - United States forces attack a Soviet space installation, the EuroSpace Agency joins the conflict on the side of the soviets. The conflict lasts only a few hours, and ends with Tycho dropping a rock on Colorado Springs.
• Alice Springs, in Australia's Northern territory, is also hit by the Tycho Massdriver. 25,000 people are killed.
• The band Samurai splits.^{[citation needed]}
• November 7: The United States government undergoes a period of reform. Martial law is lifted once again, and free elections occur.
• Taiwan declares independence with the assistance of the Arasaka Corporation.
• General Jiang Xiax is elected head of the Chinese communist party.
• The Intercontinental MagLev project in Night City is completed.
• Greece attempts to annex Cyprus and Macedonia but fails.
• Corporations attempt to buy up farmland in the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal sells, but Spain doesn’t.

2009

• Joint Euro-Soviet mission to Mars begins.
• The Mutual Defense Treaty is signed by the United States and China.
• The Mob War in Night City begins.
• Anatoly Novikovo is assassinated by Petrochem.
• Yarno Kurgasyn assumes control of SovOil.
• The United States begins operation to take control of the Crystal Palace space station. The Tycho mass driver drops a rock off the coast of Washington, D.C. as a warning.
• Indonesia invades Papua New Guinea and renames it East Irian Jaya. The Papua New Guinea government escapes to Wellington, New Zealand.
• The Association of Southeastern Asian Nations disbands.^{[citation needed]}
• Terrorists bomb the Olympic Games opening ceremony. Among the 12 casualties are King John Charles I and several other members of the royal family. Future king Phillip V survives.
• Taking Portugal's lead, Italy begins selling its southern regions to corporations.
• Directive 2009-EC-A-000039 is launched in the EC.

2010s

2010

• The Second Central American War ends - Countless soldiers are left to make the trek home from Panama themselves and are vilified by the media.
• Network 54 now controls 62% of all media broadcasting in U.S.
• Food Riots occur in Denver, Colorado.
• The Lazarus group is formed.
• The Second Corporate War ends - SovOil takes de facto control of the South China Sea. It’s discovered the accident that started the war was a genuine accident.
• Construction of the O'Neill One space colony begins.
• The Corporations and the Triads of Hong Kong ally themselves against the Maoist Loyalist Cabal.
• The Night City Psycho Squad is formed by the psychotic Solo Ares.
• The Italian Government passes a law to allow the confiscation and resale of valuable farmland to corporations.^{[citation needed]}
• The south of Romania is hit by an earthquake. Bucharest is hit hardest as 267 people are killed by its walls collapsing.
• Algeria begins hiring corporate paramilitary squads to combat rebels. Media coverage of the skirmishes are extremely popular in Europe.

2011

• Corporations "restructure" the Night City Council due to the anarchy of the last decade.^{[citation needed]}
• July 13: Bryan LeShawn sets record for deepest independent suit dive, utilizing the Poseidon Fluid Breathing Suit.
• The Crystal Palace space station is completed by the EuroSpace Agency.
• Joint Euro-Soviet mission to mars is a success.
• The Night City Mob War ends, with the Corporations emerging victorious.
• Marshall R. Shepard joins Petrochem.
• Filipino President Ramos is killed and his succeed by President Aguilar.
• An experimental Nanotech device is used in Australia, but becomes dangerously out of control. It is abandoned.
• An oil rig is hijacked in the Gulf of Mexico and a new Pirate haven is formed, called MetaKey.
• Compulsory sale of land below the required level of productivity begin in Portugal.
• A majority of Southern Italy is placed under corporate control.
• Greece raises taxes to gain funds to fight off partisan movements. Most corporations abandon them.

2012

• The Wasting Plague is unleashed on Chicago, IL. 1700 are killed.
• Gerhard Kessler is assassinated.
• Yarno Kurgasyn retires from SovOil.
• Arkady Cherminino assumes control of SovOil.
• Nanotechnology breakthrough is achieved.
• Filipino President Aguilar is killed for cheating in the election, his successor President Lopez is killed on the way to his inauguration.
• The Nomad Long Walk ends with only 10% returning home.
• Metacorp is founded.
• Operation "Green Man" is publicly shut down after information leaks to the presses. Both INTERPOL and the European Space Agency continue the project independently.
• Drought decimates Spain and a small Corporate war breaks out over water rights. The EC intervenes to stop the conflict.
• Italy officially organises itself into four states: north, south, central, and insular.

2013

• Most adventures in the Cyberpunk 2013 series take place.
• Netwatch established by joint U.S./ Eurotheatre Treaty.
• The first Artificial Intelligence is developed by Microtech.
• The Central African conflict begins.^{[citation needed]}
• Emperor Showa-Tenno dies and Emperor Shinka-Tenno ascends the throne in Japan.
• Maoist Loyalist Cabal leader Hua Yuchi is assassinated.
• Filipino President Tiapan is elected.
• Alt Cunningham is kidnapped by Arasaka. Johnny Silverhand concert riot in Night City kills 18, wounds 51. Old Arasaka Tower gutted. Alt Cunningham dies.
• Johnny Silverhand goes into hiding for a with the help of the Aldecaldos.
• The Mexico City rebuilding project is completed.
• Algeria's anti-terrorism operations extend to Libya, where the rebels train their soldiers.
• Eugene Hobson forms StreeTemps.^{[citation needed]}

2014

• Turf wars begin in Night City, they are known as The Metal Wars.
• I-G Transform Redesign the Net.
• Emperor Shinka-Tenno is removed from power in Japan.
• The Peoples Liberation Party regain control of large areas of southern China.
• Hong Kong is liberated.^{[citation needed]}
• The Association of Southeastern Asian Nations is reformed.^{[citation needed]}
• The Amnesty International office in London is bombed. They set up a new HQ in New Zealand.
• The Cape York spaceport completes construction.
• Kizamasu Inc. own major portion of Houston to build corporate city.
• Neo-Catholic Reformation - Celibacy is abolished and women are allowed to become priests. The Church of Poland splits off from the Vatican.
• Portugese farmers immigrate to Spain and France.

2015

• • Lithuania hires cybernetic Mercenaries to repel an invasion by Latvia. This is one of the first big uses of what would become known as Solos.
• Douglas Llewellyn joins the Lazarus Group.
• Nanotechnology becomes commercially available.
• Japan is removed from the EEC after ten years of conflict.
• Japan establishes the New Yen currency.
• The Yen War begins in Europe, with Germany aiming to limit international corporations in Europe.
• MetaCorp is founded.
• The EEC declares that all combat-oriented Cyberware held by civilians must be registered and a psychological evaluation must be passed or the Cyberware will be removed.
• Spain ends is suppression of AgriCorps. Highwaymen begin re-appearing as a result.
• Europa Sur, an alliance of criminal organisations, is founded.
• Eugene Hobson dies.^{[citation needed]}

2016

• The Third Corporate War begins - Merrill, Asukaga & Finch discovers a confidence scheme organised by the Rothstein Fund. Hostilities break out entirely over the Net.
• Angus Youngblood and Ellen Trieste Marry via the Net.
• The O'Neill One space colony completes construction.
• Bioware becomes commercially available.
• The Scottish Uprising begins.^{[citation needed]}
• Water riots begin in Australia. Arasaka funds construction of a desalination plant.
• The Bermeo Incident - 127 protesters are killed by corporate security teams.
• Jihadists begin to preach against a westernising Morocco and Tunisia.

2017

• Blair is inaugurated as President of the United States of America. His vice president is Elizabeth Kress.
• The first self-aware human clone is created.
• The O'Neill Two Space colony is completed and named Galileo Cylinder.
• NASA launches a mission to mars.
• Imperial Metropolitan Agriculture forces capture Bristol, dealing a blow to the Martial Law Authority and strengthening the Restoration movement.^{[citation needed]}
• London is flooded as the Thames flood barriers are bombed.^{[citation needed]}
• The Martial Law Authority is disbanded and the monarchy is restored in the United Kingdom. Princess Beatrice is crowned Queen Victoria II in Westminster Abbey a week later. A new period of martial law is declared to maintain order while the UK's districts and reorganized and the Democratic Government Committee debates how to set up the new Parliament. The DGC has yet to issue a final report as of 2020.^{[citation needed]}
• Arasaka discovers precious natural deposits under a facility in Africa. Militech supports the native population in removing Arasaka, they fail and Arasaka buy the rights to the land.^{[citation needed]}
• The Seven Nomad Nations are formed.
• A Neurotoxin spill occurs in the Latvian town of Jelgava. Lithuania is to blame.^{[citation needed]}
• Germany signs a deal allowing their troops to train in Hungary in exchange for supporting them militarily.

2018

• EuroSpace Agency launch a mission to Jupiter.
• The European Brushfire Wars begin.
• The O'Neill Three space colony is completed and named Paradise Station.
• The EuroSpace Agency sends another joint mission to mars with SovOil.
• Human cloning laws are passed in Europe.
• The Pirate Haven of MetaKey is moved to Tampa, Florida to begin the salvage operation of the city.
• Poland is attacked by Czechoslovakia but the invasion is repelled.^{[citation needed]}
• Romania invades Bulgaria.^{[citation needed]}
• Rolf Schneider is elected president of the European Council.^{[citation needed]}
• Evienne De Tours is elected to join the European Council.
• Interpol launches their organized crime division.
• Directive 2017-EC-A-001021 is launched in the EC.
• Greece annexes Macedonia with the aid of Albania. In retaliation, Serbia invades Albania.
• The European Space Agency begins a mission to Jupiter.
• The first laws against Cloning of sentient beings are passed in the EEC.
• Terrorist attacks are performed across Italy by the Nuova Mafia. Sections of Southern Italy are placed under martial law and remained under it as of 2020.
• Pritap Suwarti is assassinated.^{[citation needed]}
• Amelia Young dies.^{[citation needed]}
• U.S. President Blair falls ill and is incapacitated. His vice president, Elizabeth Kress, becomes acting president.^{[citation needed]}

2019

• April 14: President Blair dies. Elizabeth Kress is sworn in as the next President of the United States of America.^{[citation needed]}
• L-5 Space colonies revolt and declare independence.
• L-4 Space colonies placed under martial law.
• Orbital colony revolt at L-3.
• NASA Mars mission is successful.
• Emperor Jinkyoku-Tenno ascends the throne in Japan.
• Opium production begins anew in the golden triangle of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos.
• StormTech begins operations in Chicago, Illinois.
• The European Space Agency begins construction of a Mass driver in the Canary Islands.
• Albania is annexed by Yugoslavia.^{[citation needed]}

2020s

2020

• Most adventures in the Cyberpunk 2020 series take place.
• The Second Joint SovOil ESA Mars mission is successful.
• StormTech contracts the Jodes and the Aldecaldos to begin the Chicago salvage and reconstruction project.
• Several Nomad nations are contracted to build an extension of the Intercontinental MagLev in Boston, MA.
• The corporate alliance controlling Portugal breaks down. Two rival factions compete for the presidency.
• The Carbon Plague ravages Night City for two weeks, then mysteriously stops.
• Chicago Rebuilding Project begins.^{[citation needed]}
• NASA's crewed Pathfinder mission to Jupiter launches in the summer of 2020. It is expected to reach Jupiter in 2025.

2021

• NASA builds a base on Mars, it is called Chryse Base.
• StreeTemps open regional offices in San Francisco and Seattle.^{[citation needed]}
• Aquacorp IHAG is manipulated towards bankruptcy by EuroBank. Rival Aquacorps OTEC and CINO begin competing to claim their assets, with EuroBank hoping to buy out all three.

2022

• The Fourth Corporate War begins - OTEC hires Militech, and conversely CINO hires Arasaka. The long history between the two companies intensifies the conflict beyond EuroBank's expectations.
• The events of Cyberpunk: The Arasaka's Plot take place.
• Febuary 22nd - EuroBank forces a ceasefire between OTEC and CINO. However, Arasaka and Militech continue covert operations against each other independently.
• Rache Bartmoss is killed in a Corporate raid. His dead man switch unleashes the DataKrash virus two weeks later.
• The Chicago Rebuilding Project collapses when Arasaka factions detonate a virus bomb to deny the city to Militech.
• The DataKrash virus infests 78.2% of the NET.
• Industrial factories appear in orbit around Mars.
• The Seven Hour War begins when O'Neill Two, also known as Galileo Cylinder, declares independence.
• The ESA and SovOil build a base on Mars, called Isidis Base, and creates a colonial government.
• The Civic Order bill is passed in the United Kingdom.^{[citation needed]}

2023

• International trade breaks down.
• Gargoyles Nomad tribe plans New York City Maglev extension preliminary work to begin.
• NASA begins offering commercial flights to Mars.
• Contact is lost with the Pathfinder mission to Jupiter after Cape Canaveral and NASA's mission control center are destroyed during the Fourth Corporate War.
• August 19: Events of the first half of Cyberpunk 2077: Your Voice take place.
• August 20:
  • The Night City Holocaust - A nuclear device is detonated in the Arasaka Towers, destroying much of central Night City. Over a half million people are killed. Another quarter million die in the resulting aftermath.
  • Events of the second half of Cyberpunk 2077: Your Voice take place.
  • The Time of the Red begins - Atmospheric particles from widespread devastation stains the sky red for two years.
• August 21:
  • Kei Arasaka is talked into committing seppuku by Spider Murphy.
  • Events of the epilogue of Cyberpunk 2077: Your Voice take place.
• Events of Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny? take place.
• Militech nationalized by President Elizabeth Kress.
• Arasaka forces expelled from continental US.^{[citation needed]}
• Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Northern California, and British Colombia unify into the Pacifica Confederation.^{[citation needed]}
• The Net is shut down by Rache Bartmoss.
• The Japanese government nearly collapses, but saves itself by forcing Arasaka to take the full blame for the destruction of the Fourth Corporate War. Arasaka is forced to confine its operations to Japan for the next several years as it rebuilds its reputation.

2025

• The Fourth Corporate War officially ends.
• Arasaka is exiled back to Japan.
• NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Bureau launch a joint mission to Saturn.^{[citation needed]}
• Alt Cunningham establishes Ghost World in the ruins of Hong Kong.^{[citation needed]}

2026 - 2029

• The Diaspora begins - Groups displaced from ruined cities set out to reclaim locations abandoned since the Collapse.
• Widespread looting of old tech and abandoned storehouses.
• Limited VPNs within corporate parks.
• United States is a functional dictatorship under President Elizabeth Kress's State of Emergency.

2026

• The opposing sides in the Fourth Corporate War sign a belated formal truce. Militech then tries and fails to reestablish contact with NASA's lost Pathfinder mission.

2030s - 2040s

2030 - 2035

• Resettlement of Suburban Night City.
• Reestablishing of Nomad High Roads.
• Start of CitiNets, local VPNs established in some Reclaimed Cities.
• Rumors of Johnny Silverhand's body being found in cold storage in the wreckage of Old Night City arise.
• Start of Night City Reconstruction

2030

• Ziggurat founded.
• Ziggurat develops first CitiNet and Data Pool in Night City.
• Rocklin Prosthetics rebrands to Rocklin Augmentics.

2031

• July 4: Jefferson Peralez is born.

2032

• April 10: Elizabeth Peralez is born.
• Makigai MaiMai begins production.^{[citation needed]}

2035 - 2049

• First Wave Cities start Reclamation.
• Rebuilding of old factories and old tech begins to be replaced, new corps begin to rise.
• Sightings of Morgan Blackhand in various First Wave cities arise.
• Netwatch attempts to clear out the R.A.B.I.D.S. but fails, so it shuts down all major nodes into the old NET.
• Most cities in the New United States, Pacifica Confed, Free States, and Canada have Citinets and Data Pools courtesy of Ziggurat.
• First Megabuildings constructed to handle population growth.
• Events of the Black Dog story take place.

2045

• Most adventures in the Cyberpunk RED series take place.
• Thorton starts production of the Colby C125.^{[citation needed]}
• December 29: Song So Mi is born.

2046

• Colonel Shiming Xu is appointed the new head of Kang Tao by the government of China.^{[citation needed]}
• May 26: Jackie Welles is born.

2050s

2050

• Shiming Xu's defense company, now debt-free under his leadership, is rebranded Kang Tao. It makes its official debut on the weapons market with the A-22B Chao smart-pistol, making a bold play for a niche dominated by Arasaka.^{[citation needed]}

2051

• A major outbreak of "bird flu" occurs in Night City, killing 7,000 people.
• April 30: Misty Olszewski is born.

2052

• Rebuilding of Night City's Corporate Plaza begins.

2053

• October 12: V is born.

2055

• Quadra starts production of the Turbo-R 740.^{[citation needed]}

2058

• Quadra starts production of the Turbo-R V-Tech.^{[citation needed]}
• David Martinez is born.^{[citation needed]}

2059

• A second major bird flu outbreak occurs in Night City, killing 10,000 people.

2060s

2060

• Lucius Rhyne elected to the Night City Council as a member of the Devolutionist Party.
• Thorton Colby C125 ends production.^{[citation needed]}
• Lagaretta predicts that the pace of technological development of the time would lead to the confirmation of the existence of white holes and the discovery of a theory for quantum gravity within fifteen years.

2061

• A third major bird flu outbreak called the Great Bird Flu of 2061 occurs in Night City, killing 12,000 people.

2062

• Haiti is officially abandoned after a series of vicious storms. A large portion of its population resettles in Night City's Pacifica.
• Quadra Turbo-R 740 ends production.^{[citation needed]}
• The private security company Secure Services Incorporated (SSI) is founded.^{[citation needed]}
• July 17: NC Dam Ltd. begins construction of a dam and reservoir outside Night City. Residents of the town of Laguna Bend, set be flooded by the reservoir, attempt to disrupt construction, but are forcibly evacuated.^{[citation needed]}

2063

• May 4: Night City adopts the Avian Extermination Act to quell outbreaks of avian-borne diseases, which claimed tens of thousands of lives in the city across multiple epidemics over the past decade.

2064

• 2064 Night City Marathon takes place.
• March 2: Premiere of Bushidō X: Fade to Black.^{[citation needed]}

2065

• January: Rosalind Myers, previously the CEO of Militech, becomes the third President of the New United States of America.^{[citation needed]}
• Marc de Santos wins the 2065 Global F1 Championship.

2067

• An Arasaka bodyguard intercepts an assassin's bullet, saving the life of the Emperor of Japan.^{[citation needed]}
• The Moxes are formed after the death of Elizabeth Borden.^{[citation needed]}
• The first permanent human settlement is constructed in Antarctica.
• The last wild shark dies.

2068

• A major bushfire in Australia kills the entire wild koala population with the exception of one survivor, named "Omega", who becomes the last of her species. A citizen protest prevents authorities from euthanising Omega.
• Hunter Hyland is involved in war crimes committed by Kendachi in South America. Officially called a "humanitarian expedition" to Colombia, Hunter recalled that they "drowned those villages in napalm. And we made sure everyone was home first".

2069

• January: The Unification War begins - at the direction of President Myers, the New United States of America instigates a campaign to re-annex the Free States.
• Higurashi 20-13 Mantis Blades line is discontinued because of a flaw: they interfaced poorly with neural processors and a certain section of the prefrontal cortex.

2070s

2070

• June 6: During the Unification War, the NUSA carpet bombs Sacramento. Night City, under siege from NUSA forces, receives "humanitarian aid" from the Soviet Union that independent observers claim consists of truckloads of weapons. The Republic of Texas also officially closes its borders to refugees from Night City.^{[citation needed]}
• June: The Unification War ends - Arasaka arrives to break the siege of Night City at the request of Councilman Lucius Rhyne. Unwilling to draw Arasaka into the war, President Rosalind Myers reluctantly signs the Treaty of Unification with the Free States to end hostilities. Night City becomes an independent city-state and Lucius Rhyne is elected mayor. For its help, Rhyne welcomes Arasaka back to the city, giving it a seat on the Night City Council and allowing it to rebuild its American headquarters in the new Corpo Plaza.
  • Events of Cyberpunk 2077: Ten of Swords take place.
• Kang Tao rapidly expands the "smart guns" market, leaving behind its past competition Nokota and Tekhtronika. Now Kang Tao is competing with the major players like Arasaka and Tsunami Defense Systems.^{[citation needed]}

2071

• Arasaka security forces prevent mass riots in San Francisco.^{[citation needed]}
• Night City criminalizes the sale of domesticated fowl such as chickens on the grounds that they have become carriers of a plague.
• Events of Cyberpunk 2077: 2AM - She Calls take place.^{[citation needed]}

2072

• An outbreak of zoonotic disease called the Rat Fever of 2072 occurs in Night City.
• Declan "Brick" Griffin becomes the leader of the Maelstrom gang.

2073

• DT&R triples their airship fuel consumption to satisfy Australia's growing need for plastic.

2074

• October 24: In Italy, an earthquake kills an estimated 98 people. In Night City, President Rosalind Myers's offer to provide Militech forces for the city's security is sharply criticized by the NCPD Commissioner.^{[citation needed]}
• An Arasaka investigation destroys a terrorist cell in Rio de Janeiro, killing all those responsible for a series of attacks.^{[citation needed]}
• Nadia begins working for Trauma Team International as a medtech.
• Lucyna Kushinada meets Kiwi for the first time, who brings her into Maine's crew.

2075

• The supposed remains of Rache Bartmoss are dumped at the Municipal Landfill on the 10th of April.
• Sasquatch becomes the leader of the Animals gang.
• The Night City Journal names Somalia the #1 tourism destination of 2075.
• Events of the first half of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners take place.

2076

• NASA's crewed Pathfinder mission to Jupiter remains missing after fifty years of searching for its signal.
• Events of the second half of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners take place, with Episodes 6-7 being separated by some months but less than a year.
  • David Martinez, an edgerunner who had quickly risen to prominence in the previous year, makes his last stand in the Corporate Center of Night City. Media puts the blame of the damage in the surrounding area on a terrorist attack by an unknown party.
• Events of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Mission Kit take place some time after the end of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, but before the prologue of Cyberpunk 2077.
• Events of Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team take place before the beginning of Cyberpunk 2077.
• October/November: Cyberpunk 2077 Prologue takes place. V and Jackie Welles team up as mercenaries to become legends of Night City.

2077

• Arasaka announces the development of the Relic, a unique biochip which users can imprint their personalities on for their descendants to communicate with after they die.
• Switzerland's publishing house since 1488 prints its final book and goes bankrupt.
• China and India hold an economic summit and sign a trade agreement. China lifts its ban on the export of certain rare earth metals to India, and both countries agree to open their shared border to allow organic persons and biopodders to cross.
• Biotechnica geneticists announce they can now revive three extinct species, the North American beaver, swift fox, and eastern cottontail, on-demand for wealthy clients.
• Worsening atmospheric conditions reduce the common gull population to critically endangered levels.
• Antonio Luccessi, founder of Militech, dies.
• April-Before August: Cyberpunk 2077 Acts 1 to 3 take place half a year after the Prologue.
  • April: V and Jackie are hired by fixer Dexter DeShawn to carry out a heist to steal a special chip prototype known as the Relic from Yorinobu Arasaka's suite in Konpeki Plaza.
  • Events of Cyberpunk 2077: No Coincidence take place shortly before The Pickup.
  • May 1st: The Kujira arrives in Night City, aboard are Saburo Arasaka, Hanako Arasaka and Goro Takemura.
  • The heist at Konpeki Plaza occurs not long after the Kujira's arrival. During the heist, Saburo Arasaka is murdered by his son, Yorinobu. V and Jackie escape Konpeki Plaza with the Relic, but Jackie dies shortly after. V is killed by Dexter to cover his tracks, but is revived by the Relic and rescued by Goro Takemura.
  • Events of Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout take place around the time of Saburo Arasaka's murder.
  • Events of Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word take place some time after Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout and somewhere around Act 1.
  • Events of Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams take place some time after Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word and after Act 1.
  • Yorinobu becomes Arasaka's next CEO, and blames his father's death on Militech, exacerbating tensions between the two corporations. Yorinobu also begins subtly dismantling Arasaka, framing his changes as necessary reforms and financial streamlining.
  • Mayor Lucius Rhyne of Night City dies. Deputy Mayor Weldon Holt becomes Acting Mayor until a new election is held. Holt, City Councilman Jefferson Peralez, and a slate of less significant individuals announce their candidacy for the election. Peralez eventually wins the election and becomes Night City's next mayor.
  • After some weeks of rest, V starts to look for a way to cure themselves.
  • "Omega", the last living wild koala, dies outside Sydney, Australia.
  • NUSA President Rosalind Myers announces she will seek another term in office.
  • Militech announces plans to construct a new colony on Mars, and begins selling residential modules.
  • V, with the help of Panam Palmer, assault a power plant to create an EMP which takes down a Kang Tao AV carrying the Relic designer Anders Hellman. The incident results in a significant power outage for Night City that causes over €$120 million in damage.
  • Hanako Arasaka is kidnapped by V and Goro Takemura during the Aratama Matsuri festival in Night City. She is later rescued by a strike force led by Adam Smasher.
  • V manages to contact with Alt Cunningham to find information about Soulkiller.
  • Mid-Late June: Events of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty take place.
  • V confronts their imminent death due to the Relic and chooses their fate. V's decision has potential ramifications for the future of Arasaka and the world.
• Mid-Late Summer: Cyberpunk 2077 epilogue takes place. A few months after the assault on Arasaka Tower, V is either at the Arasaka Orbital Station where their Relic chip has been extracted; if they returned from Mikoshi they are on their way to the Crystal Palace or leaving Night City for good; if Johnny was the one to return he leaves the city as well.

2078

• April 20-30: Night Corp expects to finalize the first connections of a maglev network connecting Night City to other NUSA cities.
• May 3-5: Lizzy Wizzy is scheduled to play concerts at the Crystal Palace as part of her Cosmic Tour.
• Winter: The first connections of Night Corp's intercontinental maglev network are planned to become operational.
• Moore Technologies plans to release the Artifex, an advanced 3D printer that scans the user's brain to create objects that the user imagines.

2079

• Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty epilogue takes place. V recovers from their surgery and wakes up from a two-year coma, then returns to Night City.

2080s

2080

• August 20: Premiere of Bushidō 13: Solitude.
• Night Corp's 3-hour maglev connection to Chicago is expected to become operational.
• Leading AI analytics predicts, with 74% confidence, that a second hot war between the New United States and the Free States will occur by this year.

2090s

2095

• Orbital Air launched a space probe equipped with an AI that is expected to reach the extrasolar planet of Proxima Centauri b in 2095.