Timeline of Earth History

This article describes the timeline of Earth History in this Alternate Trek Universe.

19th Century

 * 1) 1861: Seven states secede from the United States to form the Confederate States (the common and original colloquial name of the US) due to thirty years of northern attacks on the south, preventing them from settling western territories (so that the north could retain electoral power), desiring a high tariff (draining money from the heavy import section of the country and protecting their manufacturing), and attempting to incite slave rebellions (again to help the north retain electoral power and incite their own people into hating an entire section of the country). Confederates hated the high tariff, and while the north initially said to 'let them go,' in March, once they passed the Morrill Tariff, the Confederates passed a 10-15% tariff, essentially nullifying the Union tariff. When the north realized their protectionist tariff was going to ruin them, Lincoln finally got into action. Lincoln planned, behind the back of his Secretary of the Navy, to send warships to Sumter and Pickens, two forts his troops still held, hoping to instigate a war with the Confederates firing the first shot. Several more states secede when Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 militia to 'suppress the rebellion.' Those states inform him that using force against another state is not constitutional, but Lincoln does not care. He would go on to destroy printing presses and shut down newspapers of those who disagreed with him, jailing opponents of the war, taking arms from people in violation of the 2nd amendment, searching in violation of the 4th amendment, violating the 5th and 6th amendment by keeping people indefinitely detained for much of the war.
 * 2) 1862: Confederates admit Oklahoma as a state in exchange for Indian support.
 * 3) 1863: One of the largest battles, Gettysburg, is tactically a Confederate victory, with Pickett's charge succeeding, but is portrayed in the northern press as a Union victory, since the Confederates left the north to return to Virginia. General Stonewall Jackson's tactics during the third day are what saved the southern strategy. General A.S. Johnston is sent to President Davis's farm to convalesce.
 * 4) 1864: Cleburne's Memorial comes to the attention of the press, which is overwhelmingly in favor of freeing and arming the slaves, many of whom have already been serving in various capacities in the war for three years. Congress passes the bill in March, and drilling begins that same month. General Joseph E. Johnston is slowly pushed back to Atlanta, and with him, the hopes of the Union and Confederacy hang. Davis almost sacks him, but for some reason, gives him a chance. In the Battle of Peachtree Creek, General Cleburne's daring feint of allowing a gap in the lines allows him to put a whole unit of Union troops in a deadly crossfire, killing most and sending them streaming back, causing a huge break in the Union lines and morale. Union troops are caught up in the deep creek, which becomes a slaughter pen for hours. General Thomas, a Union general from Virginia is also caught in this battle. General Sherman is temporarily relieved of command by Grant, who attempts a feint to Montgomery only to double back to Atlanta, but he smashes against the defenses led by A.S. Johnston and several brigades' worth of Confederate Colored Troops, mixed with recovered white troops and the men and boys of Atlanta, held off long enough for Johnston to double back and force a retreat, pushing the Union north back into Tennessee with most of his forces. While Lincoln is re-elected due to the appearance of a huge Union victory with Grant being sensationalized in the press, he was unable to prevent the huge defeat shortly after his electoral victory. Grant returned to Virginia to try to defeat Lee, and the western theater again fell to Sherman, who was again defeated at Chattanooga, Franklin, and Nashville.

British recognition and French recognition followed in late November/early December, explicitly tied to a jointly negotiated compensated emancipation plan, with foreign loans to compensate owners, in exchange for negotiated rates for ten years on cotton. In the UK, with the split of the US into two, the Irish question comes to the fore, and within 20 years, Ireland gains a devolved parliament with some powers, nipping much of the independence movement in the bud. The British also realize that their empire is in need of settlement, otherwise it will break up as well, and begin sending more settlers into Africa to civilize the land. Their efforts would hinder Zulu settlement into South Africa and Rhodesia, greatly reducing the black populations of both nations, forcing the Zulu into Mozambique. In the US, Lincoln is impeached for various violations of the Constitution and removed from office. The Confederate States claim the Washington Islands (Marquesas) before France consolidates its claim on the rest of Polynesia. In Europe, France is defeated by the Germans who declare a German Empire in Aachen. Napoleon III learns of the news in Paris, far from the front lines. Britain intervenes in Argentina when it agrees to remove Argentinian debts in exchange for the southern cone. The Netherlands does so also with Brazil's empire, gaining some land at the northeastern portion of Brazil, while the Confederacy is distracted, and the Union's economy is still struggling. Australians begin a massive desalination effort to fill the endorheic sea in Australia to try to make the desert habitable again. Plants and animals are beginning to be brought in to help hold the water in, and give ground cover to prevent evaporation. By 1900, the seasonal sea becomes a permanent sea, and soon, clouds and rain would become slightly more commonplace in Australia.
 * 1) 1865: Grant's final plan to defeat Lee involves him meeting with Sherman at Lynchburg, Virginia, then doubling back to Richmond to finish his siege. He slowly drags Lee westward, but Sherman is tied down west of the Appalachians, and cannot join him. Lee is instead slowly resupplied with men from the militias of the Carolinas, veterans from Johnston's army he left in Atlanta to help rebuild, and with fresh supplies from the British and French. Lincoln's threat of war was a hollow one, as his cabinet would not support him trying to declare war on Canada or France. Lee had Forrest and Cleburne bring over 20,000 troops from the west to finish the fight, along with 15,000 from the Carolinas, and pushed Grant eastward, till he finally faced him down at Appomattox Courthouse, where a three day battle ended in Grant's surrender and the parole of his army, without most of their war supplies, just a pistol, rations, and horses. Forrest and Cleburne marched west and then pushed Sherman's army out of Tennessee and Kentucky before the end of April, with Confederates in firm control of both states. It was at this time that Lincoln finally decided to negotiate peace for the war he started. The final treaty was signed in late June and ratified on July 2nd by the Union Congress, and July 4th by the Confederate Congress, with an exchange of treaty taking place in Alexandria, Virginia that same day. A giant Confederate flag, visible across the river in the White House, is flown in Arlington County, proudly.
 * 2) 1866: Democrats sweep northern elections in the fall. Republicans try to pass a tariff on Confederate cotton, but this only hurts northern textile industry. Confederates turn around and purchase hundreds of machines from shuttered northern factories, allowing them to jumpstart their own textile industries in the vicinity of where they grow the cotton, drastically reducing the prices of woven fabrics in the south.
 * 1) 1867: Confederates elect John C Breckinridge of Kentucky as their second President, despite northern predictions of Davis becoming a dictator and a coming slave rebellion. Davis does manage to negotiate, with Judah Benjamin, Raphael Semmes, P.G.T. Beauregard, and two other Confederate Catholics, with France and Mexico, hoping to remove a European colonial power from the hemisphere. Remarkably, Davis negotiates $25 million to France, immediately, in exchange for Mexican territory to include Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Baja California, Durango and Sinaloa, Nayarit and Zacatecas, Norte from Jalisco, Aguascalientes, San Luis Potosi and Veracruz above the 21st parallel north. The sparsely settled land transferred over in May, soon after the Russian sale of Alaska to the Confederates for $8 million. Originally, they were going to sell to the Americans, but Lincoln's impeachment trial and the northern economic malaise prevented any consideration; Davis, despite his shortcomings, was able to convince the Russian minister, de Stoeckl, that the southerners would give Russia and Russian settlers a much better deal, and within a few weeks, the deal was negotiated.
 * 1) 1868: Ulysses Grant is elected President on the National Union ticket on a platform of 'Let us have peace,' and moving forward. Unfortunately his is the most corrupt administration in US History up to that point, with bribery, nepotism, and back room deals making up most of his two terms' deals. He did, however, help the US nearly purchase the Dominican Republic, and under his watch, the Indian Wars, led by General Sherman, resulted in the opening of the west to settlement.
 * 2) 1871: Confederates intervene in Cuba's independence struggle, sparking a war between Spain and the Confederate States. A smaller 'war' between Colombia and the CS over the San Andres and Providencia Islands resulted in a negotiated payment of $1.5 million to Colombia and a transfer of sovereignty to the Confederate States. The war with Spain takes 8 months, but finally results in a surrender of Spanish forces; the Confederates successfully brought Cubans into their armed forces, training them in modern warfare, and with veterans like JEB Stuart, Thomas Jackson, Fitzhugh Lee, and others, the Confederates were able to convince the Cubans to join the Confederacy as a state.
 * 1) 1872: Kaiser Wilhelm's son, also named Wilhelm, dies in an equestrian accident.
 * 2) 1874: A joint British-US military incursion on Hawaii convinces the King to negotiate with the Confederacy for admission as a state. Hawaii converts to a republic, the King becomes the first President of Hawaii, and then joins as a state, with the King then being elected the first governor of Hawaii, raising the Confederate flag over the capital.
 * 3) 1878: Kaiser Wilhelm I dies in an assassination attempt, and Frederick III is crowned emperor. His reign results in an expansion of German colonization as well as growing ties to the British Empire, hoping to curry favor against France, but also to open new markets in Africa. Kamerun, Togoland, Tanganyika, Namibia, Kiautschou Bay, and numerous Pacific islands fall under the German flag
 * 4) 1886: Berlin Conference officially divides Africa between European powers. Frederick III looks to Dixie, the Union, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and sees outposts of British culture, and sees none of German culture, and decides that his people will colonize Africa, civilize it, and create their own outposts of German culture that will eventually become their own free nations; British ministers to the conference hear of Frederick's plans for Africa and step up their own colonization game. With Confederate success at integrating their own armies and their own former servants, the British and Germans, rather than segregation and alienation, adopt slow integration policies, where Africans who become Christian and speak English or German, and adopt the culture of the colonizers are brought into the new society's mainstream. Slowly but surely, Africans who abandon tribalism become more and more 'western,' and while they don't get management jobs, officer positions in the armies, or high elected positions, Africans are entrusted with more than they otherwise would have, and they begin thinking of themselves as 'British Kenyans,' or 'German Namibians.'
 * 1) 1891: The Luo tribe in Kenya is decimated for attacking British settlers.
 * 2) 1896: Republicans nominate McKinley, a political conservative, while the Democrats nominate William Jennings Bryan, a left wing socialist, marking the point where the two parties switch ideologies in the US.

20th Century
In North America, the US and CS stay out of the fight. President Woodrow Wilson in the US runs on a platform of keeping the US out of war. CS President Thomas Jackson, however willingly trades with the British and the Germans, which angers the French, a longtime ally of the Confederates. Due to an oversight in the Confederate War Department, shipments to Europe are simply mislabeled with metric units, resulting in a quart-sized liter, 2-pound kilogram, and yard-sized meter, which is called the Confederate Metric System in Europe. Shipments from the CSA in some countries, such as Italy, Austria, and Switzerland, cause them to begin thinking of those slightly different measurements as more convenient for trade, and a number of them begin labeling their own domestic products as "CMS compliant" to improve usage in the Confederacy, Canada, the UK, and Union. With nations in Europe moving towards the imperial system in their implementation of metric, the British Empire begins reversing its metrication amongst the people. Germany's economy is also flourishing but has much of the same structural problems, both it and France needing to compete with Confederate and American farmers. However, Germans have a stronger cultural tie to the Confederacy due to the Texas Germans being such a cultural force in Dixie, and with Confederate films made in German influencing German culture towards a freer and more confederalist direction, and away from the centralizing tendencies of Europe as a whole. German political participation is around 80%, and women are earning money in urban jobs. Due to the French occupation, Germany officially abandons the metric system and adopts the Confederate Metric System, based on an exact yard, pound, quart, defining the meter, kilogram, and liter in terms of the YPQ system. Due to German industrial power, most of Europe also begins trending towards this alternate system, while France, Spain, Portugal, and those nations captured by the USSR remain on the classic metric system.
 * 1) 1904-14: Australia's inland sea grows and becomes self-sustaining through natural rains. Forests with native Australian trees, and grasslands, grow and the desert blooms.
 * 2) 1912: War breaks out in Europe when a Serbian shoots Austro-Hungarian Archduke Ferdinand. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after they refuse to negotiate and hand over the assassin, while France declares war on Austria-Hungary, and Russia does over its ally, Serbia. Germany asks the UK to intervene to prevent war, and only once France declares war on Germany for 'conspiracy to declare war' does Germany declare war back; the UK sides with Germany, and soon, Europe plunges into a multifaceted war across the continent.
 * 1) 1916: What would later be revealed as a 'false flag' with the Lusitania, the British bring in the Confederates and Americans when a French submarine sinks the 'civilian' ship by intentionally navigating it into sub-infested waters, without escort, and in the cargo hold were a number of munitions secretly bound for the UK. Once sunk, both the US and Confederates declared war on France, hoping to hasten the end of the war for the Allied powers. By September, Confederates landed in Europe, and in November, Americans landed. Neither would be integrated into European armies, but would have their own commands, and would eventually help beat back the French, Turks, and Russians.
 * 2) 1917: Russia negotiates an end to fighting due to a revolution within its borders, while Turkey capitulates a month later, and France a month after that. By November 11, the fighting has stopped, on a day that would become Armistice Day in the British Empire.
 * 3) 1918: The Treaty of Versailles is negotiated, stripping France of much of its colonial empire, and forcing massive reparations on it, which force a period of hyperinflation in France, encouraging all manner of radical political factions to rise up. A communist rebellion in Lyons is put down by the army in 1920. The Ottoman Empire is divided up, with a British Mandate of Palestine created, a Christian state of Syria, a Muslim state of North Syria, a Christian state of Assyria, a Kurdish state, a larger Armenia, and a newly enlarged Greece with Northern Epirus, Crete, Cyprus, Constantinople, and much of the Aegean coastline, along with Trebizond as an exclave to the east. Austria-Hungary wins, but loses in winning with growing tensions amongst its various ethnicities. The Confederate States take French colonies (New Caledonia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Polynesia), and purchased the Virgin Islands from the UK and Denmark, along with the Bahamas, which the US was courting the British to purchase.
 * 4) 1921: Austria-Hungary divides its lands into German, Czech, and Hungarian, with Austria claiming portions of Czechia with German majorities, creating Teschen Silesia, Sudetenland, and German Bohemia, along with making additions to upper and lower Austria, and forming Vierburgenland with its capital at Ödenburg, including such towns as Wieselburg; Budweis is also part of this Austria.
 * 1) 1924: Germany, having joined the League of Nations, agrees to a Schleswig plebescite, which results in Tonder becoming a border town. Polish agitation on Silesia, West Prussia, and Posen results in a worsening in German-Polish relations for nearly a decade, and results in Germany pulling out of the LoN by 1932.
 * 2) 1924-5: Austro-Hungarian Civil War results in a negotiated end to the double crown. Hungary keeps most of its Hungarian lands, despite Slovakian protests, and despite Romanian protests, Szeklerland, the Transylvanian German land, and a corridor to Hungary remain Hungarian. Czechia and Slovakia merge into a single nation, due to their smaller sizes, forming Czechoslovakia, and Austria keeps its lands, including Marburg an der Drau in Steiermark. The Kustenland goes to Italy, while Rijeka becomes Slovenian.
 * 3) 1928: France's economy is flush with American cash, but it isn't modernizing its industry as much as it needs to do. It uses the money to pay off its war reparations to Germany, Italy, and the UK, who then use the money to pay the Americans and Confederates.  If the money flow stops, the French economy will grind to a halt.  Unemployment is increasing due to adoption of assembly lines, and housing is in short supply.  Farm wages have only risen 4.5% while urban wages increased around 45%.
 * 1) 1929: Due to massive monetary inflation and contraction by the US Federal Reserve, a Great Depression strikes in the US, and reverberates around the world, causing global trade to grind nearly to a standstill.
 * 2) 1929-33: Radical left-wing elements in an ideology called 'fascism,' derived from socialism in Italy take over France, and the French economy begins growing through massive government spending on war and industry. In the CSA, without a central bank, the people aren't as adversely affected since the country is much more rural than the USA to its north. By 1934, the CS economy is back to normal, having grown since 1932.
 * 3) 1938: Smedley Butler warns of a fascist coup attempt in the US. FDR's administration is favorably compared to that of the fascists in France, Turkey, and Poland. France invades Alsace-Lorraine and Belgium, hoping to claim the Rhineland industry in Germany before they can react.
 * 4) 1940: FDR is defeated by the Republican Roger Taft in his bid for a third term, after it is discovered he is wheelchair bound with polio and his administration was infested with communist spies from the USSR.
 * 5) 1941: The CS is attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese after the CS cut off oil to the Japanese, hoping to limit their attacks on China, a Confederate ally. Both US and Confederate ships are destroyed in the harbor.
 * 6) 1943: Southern Italy joins the Allied powers, and hangs Mussolini. A joint Soviet-Allied pincher movement occurs in Turkey, forcing its capitulation in 1944. Poland turns on the Soviets, who initially supplied them to attack Germany (unknowingly urged on by German communists and socialists in the Volga ASSR within the Soviet Union). The USSR joins the allied powers.
 * 7) 1945: France is defeated, along with Poland, Bulgaria, and Japan. The CS detonated a nuclear bomb near an uninhabited island within view of a large contingent of the army and navy, and bluffed the Japanese that they had twenty more such bombs, forcing the Japanese to surrender on the deck of the carrier CSS Robert E Lee. Paris fell in May of 1945. Peace to France is much more lenient, but still harsh. France loses Euskadi, along with Spain, which supplied France with munitions (the allied powers agreed not to attack Spain if they agreed to this, and retaking Roussillon). Brittany becomes independent; Corsica, Nice, both Savoy states become Italian; Briey and Belfort become German, along with a few minor portions of land along the Saille River join Germany. Belgium is absorbed into the Netherlands due to the pleadings of the Flemish community, which also restores the ancient border of Artois and Cambray. Luxembourg is separated and merged with the nation of Luxembourg, and the Walloons are given a choice of living in the Netherlands or living in France, and some 1/3 leave for France. Dutch from the original Netherlands move in, beginning the decline of Walloon in the Netherlands. On the east, Kalisch is divided between Germany and Poland, and Peisern and a few other small near-border towns that are across rivers are given to Germany, with a river border made between them and Poland. Poland is divided between East and West.
 * 1) 1946-47: Germany's royal family is decimated and a near civil war in Germany threatens to break out. Rebels who fought in the resistance with the Confederates want a more decentralized Germany without a Prussian centralized state running things. Over the course of two years, Germany finally decides to create a parliamentary republic, modeled mostly along Confederate lines.  Prussia is broken into its provinces, and smaller states are merged into larger states, though city-states remain independent.
 * 2) 1948: The Chinese Civil War finally ends with Chiang Kai Shek winning with Confederate aid, which also defeats the Korean communists as well, without any secret deals to divide Korea in two. China is now divided between north (communist) and south (capitalist). Kai Shek has also been influenced for the past thirty years by his ties to the Confederacy, and his form of nationalism has become a form of Chinese Confederalism, with a national government for regulating interprovincial trade, foreign trade, and national defense, while the provinces of China handle most everything else. In 1949, the Confederation of Chinese States is declared. Over in Europe the situation over East and West Poland turns into a Cold War between Communism and Capitalism for nearly 40 years.
 * 3) 1954: Kermit Roosevelt helps overthrow the Shah of Iran, so as to help oil flow into the US and UK; however the obvious ties to the US government soon give rise to a new type of operative - economic hit men. These persons work for 'think tanks' and 'consultant firms' to ensure US economic and political objectives are met.
 * 4) 1963: US President Kennedy is shot in Chicago; later it would be revealed that instead of a lone gunman, there were at least 3 gunmen, including one which hid in a sewer that shot him as the car slowed down.
 * 5) 1965: the US passes a new Civil Rights Act which finally protects black Americans' rights to vote, attend school, and get job without discrimination.
 * 6) 1973: US President Nixon is threatened with impeachment but resigns. He also took the US off the gold standard.
 * 7) 1992: The US gains a President Clinton, who sells missile secrets to communist China in exchange for campaign donations in 1996, and is impeached in 1998 but not removed for lying under oath.
 * 8) 1993: the Confederate States elect the first black President, who served as Vice President under the last President.
 * 9) 1999: Confederates elect the first hispanic President, Carl Cespedes, a descendent of the Cuban freedom fighter, and current governor of that state.

21st Century

 * 1) 2001: A false-flag is conducted in New York in the US to accomplish a number of objectives; it conveniently destroys evidence in a number of government corruption investigations, allows gold stored under the World Trade Center to be stolen, allows a huge violation of civil liberties to pass in the form of the Patriot Act, and allows the US to go to war in the Middle East and Asia in Afghanistan and soon in Iraq, despite it having nothing to do with the original parties claimed to have hit the WTC.
 * 2) 2003: The US invades Iraq, toppling the dictator they funded in the 80s against Iran. Confederates condemn the action in the UN since Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
 * 3) 20056: The Confederate States elect the first female President Jessica Howard.
 * 4) 2008: the US elects Bartholemow O'Bannon, a half-black senator from Illinois, whose background is almost completely unknown, running on a vague platform of 'Hope and Change.' Many Americans vote for him simply because he's black, in the hope that it will stop much of the media hype over race.
 * 5) 2010: President O'Bannon passes the 'Affordable Care Act' which nationalizes health insurance and makes the federal government responsible for paying for health care for all 164 million Americans.
 * 6) 2011: Confederates elect James Yun, the first Asian President.
 * 7) 2012: President O'Bannon is reelected in a shady election, despite widespread unpopularity. People who oppose his policies are simply shouted down by being called 'racist,' regardless of the validity of their objections
 * 8) 2016: Haley Clinton is elected President against a New York real estate developer, who decides to move to Richmond after giving his concession speech.
 * 9) 2017: The US increases its troop engagements in Syria and Libya, getting caught in a quagmire. Investigations into election meddling by Russia are stopped by the administration, and Republican investigations into voter fraud are stymied by calls of 'sexism' by the media. Confederates elect Paul Locke as their President, with Julia Love as his Vice President.
 * 10) 2022: An EMP hits the United States, causing a power blackout; the Confederate States is not affected, as its electric grid is state-by-state and hardened against such attacks since the 1990s. The US collapses, and recalls its military from around the world to protect the homeland. Millions of Americans die from starvation, exposure, diseases, infections, and violence. The phenomenon of 'SJWs' results in a number of violent and angry youth, miseducated and misinformed, who lash out against those who disagree with them and tell them things they disagree with, but many of those same SJWs are the first to die as a result of their own violence against conservatives. A civil war rages across the US, as many conservatives band together to survive, a number of them so-called 'preppers,' while many of the liberals in cities simply wait for the government to save them and take care of things. President Clinton passes emergency executive orders, using continuity of government powers, and moves the government to Denver Airport, where a hardened facility had been constructed. Her orders grow increasingly harsh and soon parts of the military rebel and join the resistance to her; the media is still up and running, with many of them continuing to put forth left-wing propaganda, and calling anyone who disagrees with the President anti-American. UN forces enter the US as 'peacekeeping forces' but are soon realized to be there to assume control, and the conservatives begin fighting the UN as well.
 * 11) 2023: The US Civil War finally ends after the Denver airport is surrounded and the administration is forced to abdicate. A military tribunal finds them guilty of violating the constitution, and imprisons the former President. Confederates decide to render humanitarian aid to the US, despite grumbling from the northerners that they should've done more sooner, though most of the conservative Christians are grateful and seek to rebuild the US.
 * 12) 2024: The US Democrat party ceases to exist, and the Republican candidate for president wins a 35-state landslide, allowing him to pass a series of amendments, inspired by the Confederate Constitution, rolling back all the welfare state programs, spy programs, deep state corruption, and reducing the size of the US government down to where it was in the early 20th century before the welfare programs. The US returns to a gold standard. Europe disbands the European Union, which had fallen under the sway of the globalists. An era of peace and prosperity begins around the world.
 * 13) 2048: genetic engineering programs are publicized with 'New Humans' or 'Augments' being born within the last 10 years who are smarter, stronger, and 'better' than regular humans. Eugenics programs in India, Russia, China, Brazil, and the US soon result in a third world war.
 * 14) 2055-58: Third World War is fought, with limited nuclear exchange. Rio de Janeiro, Vladivostok, Greenland, and Labrador are hit, and land troops and drones conduct much of the fighting, resulting in over 620 million dead in the war, and another 3 billion across Asia, Africa, and South America.
 * 15) 2063: Zefram Cochrane conducts a successful warp flight around the solar system, attracting the attention of a passing Vulcan scout ship, initiating first contact.
 * 16) 2063-70: Vulcans help humans with removing nuclear fallout from the air, land, and water, and help with humanitarian aid to the humans.
 * 17) 2089: Humans create a United Earth Confederation to conduct diplomacy with interstellar powers and conduct trade, but which also recognizes the already existing interstellar colonies of the various nations. For the purpose of stellar defense, the United Earth Starfleet is chartered.
 * 18) 2096: Humans create the United Earth Space Probe Agency to conduct a unified exploration of space, rather than competing amongst themselves.
 * 19) 2151: Humans launch the NX-01 SS Enterprise, the first Warp 5 ship.
 * 20) 2156-60: Earth-Romulan War takes place between Earth and the Romulan Star Empire. Due to Earth's numerous colonies and their adaptability, they are able to force the Romulans into a truce, creating a neutral zone between Earth and its friendly species, and the Romulans. Both sides agree to establishing a series of starbases along the zone to prevent incursions by either power.
 * 21) 2161: Earth joins with Vulcans, Tellarites, Andorians, and a few other species to make the United Confederation of Planets