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*'''[[2308]]'''
*'''[[2308]]'''
**The Nobel Peace prizes for the union between West and East Coast rappers is given, but then stolen by Bender who comes back in time.
**The Nobel Peace prizes for the union between West and East Coast rappers is given, but then stolen by Bender who comes back in time.
**At least Stockholm and New York (but presumably the rest of Earth) are destroyed by Bender.  This is the [[The First Destruction of New York City|first destruction]] of Earth while Fry was frozen.
**At least Stockholm and New York (but presumably the rest of Earth) are destroyed by [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]].  This is the [[The First Destruction of New York City|first destruction]] of [[Earth]] while [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]] was frozen.  New York begins to rebuild itself as a medieval like society.  Previous versions of Fry, Bender and [[Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] watch.
*ca.'''[[2310]]''' – [[Princess Flavia]] begins an affair with [[Basil]].
*ca.'''[[2310]]''' – [[Princess Flavia]] begins an affair with [[Basil]].
*'''[[2354]]''' – [[Kwanzaabot]] begins giving the traditional [[Kwanzaa]] gift: a book entitled "''[[What the Hell Is Kwanza?]]''".
*'''[[2354]]''' – [[Kwanzaabot]] begins giving the traditional [[Kwanzaa]] gift: a book entitled "''[[What the Hell Is Kwanza?]]''".
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**A scientific conference is held about the Anomaly.
**A scientific conference is held about the Anomaly.
**Bender becomes a member of the [[League of Robots]], eventually becoming its leader.
**Bender becomes a member of the [[League of Robots]], eventually becoming its leader.
**[[Yivo]] begins forcing shklis tentacles through the Anomaly and mates with everyone in the universe.
**[[Yivo]] begins forcing shklis tentacles through the Anomaly and mates with everyone in the universe, while previous versions of [[Philip J. Fry|Fry]], [[Bender Bending Rodriguez|Bender]] and [[Hubert J. Farnsworth|the Professor]] watch.
**Yivo takes everyone in the universe out on a date and later proposes, causing everyone on Earth to move onto shkler.
**Yivo takes everyone in the universe out on a date and later proposes, causing everyone on Earth to move onto shkler.
**Bender and his [[Army of the Damned|army]] drag Yivo into their universe to save humanity.
**Bender and his [[Army of the Damned|army]] drag Yivo into their universe to save humanity.

Revision as of 23:14, 20 September 2010

This article is about internal history. For history of the show, see History.

The below is a timeline of fictional events from Futurama.

Early history

The Big Bang creates the Universe.
  • UnknownYivo, a planet-sized alien from another universe, dwells alone in the emptiness of space.
  • The Big Bang – The Universe is created (again) while the previous universe's versions of Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth watch in their Forward time machine. The cowboy universe is also created (Only this one parallel universe is known or thought to exist until the events of "The Farnsworth Parabox").
    • Yivo notices the big bang and realizes shklee is alone.
    • Nibblonians start appearing in our universe, when their race is already 17 years old.
  • Milliseconds after the Big Bang – The evil Brain Spawn come into being and begin their war against the Nibblonians that rages until the 31st century.
  • Eons ago – A frog-like creature and a snake-like creature cooperate to get food and survive, but later evolve to eat the other as food.

Creation of Earth — 1899

  • ca.4.5 billion years agoThe Sun, Earth and the Moon are created, while the previous versions of Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth watch.
  • ca.500 million years ago – An Earth fish crawls onto land, but is immediately killed by a previous universe's version of Bender.
  • 65.5 million years ago – The Brain Spawn cause the extinction of Earth's dinosaurs, while the previous versions of Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth watch.
  • 29,997,000 years ago – Nimbala is emperor of Zubin 5.
  • ca.40,000 years ago to 1783 A.D. – The previous versions of Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth watch the Neanderthals in North America killed by Paleo-Indians.
  • 3500 B.C. – Cats from Thuban 9 arrive in Egypt where they are worshipped like gods. They make the Egyptians build the Great Pyramid of Giza as a giant energy transfer device.
  • 1351 B.C.Bender steals a sarcophagus from Egyptians.
  • ca.1000 B.C. – The people of Osiris 4 visit Ancient Egypt and learn how to build pyramids, travel through space, and how to prepare their dead so as to scare Abbott and Costello.
  • 277 B.C.Nibbler born.
  • 1500sLeonardo from Planet Vinci visits Earth and though considered stupid in his home world, he becomes a genius on Earth. Before he finishes painting the Mona Lisa, it is stolen by a time travelling Bender. Eventually leaves Earth again for his home planet.
  • 1600s – The previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor watch the pilgrims arrive in America, and get taken over by the British.
  • 1770s"Minuteman" Yancy Fry fights "Commies" (according to Fry's father) in the American Revolution, which was viewed by previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor.
Fry accidently kills his grandfather in the past

20th Century

  • ca.1900Gwen's family starts making candy hearts out of earwig honey and bone meal
  • ca. 1930s – Farnsworth attempts to kill Adolf Hitler, but misses and kills Eleanor Roosevelt instead.
  • 1947 – Time travelling Planet Express crew create the Roswell UFO incident. Philip J. Fry accidentally kills the man he believed to be his grandfather. Fry then impregnates his grandmother, becoming his own grandfather. Also, Bender's head is left behind in this time period, it stays in the dirt for over 1000 years.
  • 1948Yancy Fry, Sr. (Philip's father and simultaneously his son) born.
  • 1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt dies of getting shot by a ray gun.
  • 1971Yancy Fry, Jr. (Philip's older brother and simultaneously his grand-son) born.
  • 1974Philip J. Fry is born at Brooklyn Pre-Med Junior Hospital.
  • 1980 – Philip J. Fry starts wanting a robot for a best friend.
  • 1988 – Philip J. Fry hides his lucky 7-leafed clover from his brother.
  • ca.1994 – Fry fails to graduate from Coney Island Community College.
  • 1996 – Fry's dog Seymour Asses is born.
Seymour.jpg
  • 1997
  • 1998
  • 1999
    • Philip J. Fry accidentally spills beer on the control console at New York FOX station WNYW, knocking Single Female Lawyer off the air.
    • Fry's bank account is left with a balance of 93 cents, which after one thousand years of gathering interest, becomes $4.3 billion.
    • 31 December – Fry is sent on a fake pizza delivery to I. C. Wiener at Applied Cryogenics.

20002499

Fry is frozen for 1000 years
Philip J. Fry II, Yancy's son is born and named after his uncle
Philip J. Fry II becomes the first man on Mars and becomes a big success
FXJKHR the 60th President
The Fairness in Hell Act is introduced
  • 2000
    • 1 January – Seconds into the new year, Philip J. Fry is cryogenically frozen due to the actions of Lord Nibbler/his future self.
    • Using a time code tattooed on his ass, Fry returns from the year 3007 back to New York and lives in the upstairs storage room of Panucci's Pizza. Bender also travels back in time to kill Fry but loses him.
    • Seymour sees Fry frozen in cryogenics tube.
    • Fry's family calls off the search for their missing son.
    • 8 November — Bender attempts to kill someone with the same name as Fry. All of Al Gore's votes are destroyed after Bender accidentally shoots them causing George Bush to win the election.
  • 2000s
    • (presumably early) Baywatch: The Movie becomes the first movie shot entirely in slow-motion, and wins Pamela Anderson the Oscar.
    • Atlanta moves offshore, but after over-developing, sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and is lost until the early 31st century.
    • Philip J. Fry, II is born.
  • 2001
    • The movie Jury Duty II: Trouble on the Hubble starring Pauly Shore released.
    • Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle leaves her husband and family behind and freezes herself for 1000 years, unaware that Fry has also been frozen.
    • Brain Spawn start 1000 year quest to obtain all knowledge in the universe.
  • 2002 – A barge filled with New York's garbage starts floating around the oceans of Earth for 50 years, as no country will take it - not even that filthy one.
  • 2003
    • Lucy Liu is named People magazine's "Sexiest Woman of the Year."
    • Fry gets a job at an aquarium working with a narwhal called Leelu.
  • 2006 – Britney Spears becomes queen of something.
  • 2007 – The movie Charlie's Angels III: The Legend Of Charlie's Gold is released.
  • 2008 – Stop and Drop becomes America's favorite brand of Suicide Booth.
  • 200?(quite late)Fry's nephew and namesake born to his brother Yancy.
  • 200? – The Loch Ness monster is revealed to be a log with a Halloween mask stapled to it
  • 2010 – Leelu is released into the wild and Fry searches for her with Mr. Panucci's cousin Leroy.
  • 2012
    • War of 2012, in which Conan O'Brien loses his legs. Its name may be a pun on The War of 1812.
    • Fry locates Leelu and nearly takes her home but releases her after realizing she is with a male narwhal. Fry returns to New York. Bender blows up Panucci's Pizza in an attempt to kill Fry, but only ends up burning off Fry's hair and damaging his larynx, altering his voice. Fry then freezes himself to return to the future, living under the name "Lars Fillmore". Bender also returns to the future, believing to have killed Fry.
    • Seymour is killed and fossilized as a result of the Panucci's Pizza explosion.
  • 2019Project Satan initiated to create the world's most evil automobile. Calculon, who was then a mindless construction robot arm, is infected with automotive lycanthropy.
  • 20??Philip J. Fry II becomes first man on Mars.
  • 2038Earth's petroleum reserves run out.
  • 2052 – New Yorkers launch their garbage into space, ending the voyage of the garbage barge.
  • 2063
    • Giant blocks of ice start being dropped into the ocean to combat global warming.
    • Lucy Liu again named People magazine's "Sexiest Woman of the Year."
  • 2063+
    • Cyborgs enslave humanity. (Most likely after 2063).
    • Giant carrots enslave humanity.
    • ca.2100 –(Likely between 2068-2136) The alien FXJKHR becomes 60th president.
  • 2159 – Establishment of the Central Bureaucracy.
  • ca.2200
    • Pine trees become extinct.
    • Kidnappster begins holding Lucy Liu's Head prisoner.
  • 2208 – Scientists increase the speed of light.
  • 2200s
    • Decapodians (Zoidberg's people) arrive on Earth.
    • Decapodians eat the anchovy species into extinction.
    • Cast of Star Trek: The Original Series does some musical reunion specials; "Welshie" added to cast to replace Scotty, as James Doohan can't yodel.
    • Church of Trek soars in global popularity. Germany re-named "Nazi Planet Episode Land" as a result. The Church's popularity threatens world leaders, leading to the Star Trek Wars (not to be confused with the Star Wars Trek) and banning of the Church and the show; only remaining copies rocketed to Omega III.
    • The ruins of Old New York progressively decay underground, and many of the upper-city's sewer lines are routed through or near them. Eventually, radioactive waste and good ol' American feces turns sewer-dwelling humans into a race of mutants.
  • ca.2256 – Spears are used as weapons.
  • 2275Fairness in Hell Act of 2275 passed, stipulating that anyone who can defeat the Robot Devil in a fiddle contest wins a solid gold fiddle and may leave Robot Hell. Losers only get a smaller silver fiddle, and the Robot Devil may kill them at his discretion.
  • 2300s
    • American Express ceases to exist.
    • By the year 3000, "getting twenty-fourth century" is a slang term similar to "getting medieval," implying that the 24th century was a notably primitive and/or violent era, at least by 31st century standards.
  • 2308
    • The Nobel Peace prizes for the union between West and East Coast rappers is given, but then stolen by Bender who comes back in time.
    • At least Stockholm and New York (but presumably the rest of Earth) are destroyed by Bender. This is the first destruction of Earth while Fry was frozen. New York begins to rebuild itself as a medieval like society. Previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor watch.
  • ca.2310Princess Flavia begins an affair with Basil.
  • 2354Kwanzaabot begins giving the traditional Kwanzaa gift: a book entitled "What the Hell Is Kwanza?".
  • 2400s – VISA ceases to exist.
  • 2443 – The second coming of Jesus, who is now a zombie (possibly the reason for Voodoo becoming mainstream). For some unexplained reason, this results in most video cassettes being damaged.
  • 2475Washington DC rededicated to Washington the Sweathog.

25002899

Mars University Founded
New New York in the 2850s
Turanga Leela is born and left at the Orphanarium
  • ca.2500 – New New York eliminates garbage problem.
  • ca.2600Chapek 9 colonized by radical robot separatists; Robot Elders carved from meteorites.
  • 2600s – New New York elects a supervillain governor who steals many world monuments and relocates them to Monument Beach, placing his face on Mount Rushmore.
  • 2620 – Uranus is changed to Urectum, to end annoying joke.
  • 2636Mars University founded.
  • ca.2700 – Cast of Star Trek: The Original Series leaves Earth.
  • 27?? – Last ghosts of humans die off.
  • 2790 – Bender's uncle Vladimir constructed; activated
  • 2801 – Robot Santa Claus constructed; goes berserk.
  • 2841 – (9 April) Professor Hubert Farnsworth born in New New York City.
  • 2849 – Prof. Farnsworth learns to read while still in diapers, evidently at age 8.
  • 2850s – At this time Slurm is being sold as a medicinal tonic. Corruptatron runs for mayor.
  • 2850s/60s– Prof. Farnsworth joins the Academy of Inventors which begins holding annual symposia.
  • 2865Sith Invasion.
  • 2877 – Prof. Farnsworth finishes graduate school.
  • 2881 – Prof. Farnsworth starts working for Mom's Friendly Robot Company.

30th century

31st century

3000

The Cruiseship Titanic is sucked into a black hole

3001

Cubert Farnsworth is released from his cloning tank
The second Omicronian invasion of Earth and the death of Free Waterfall Jr.
  • February — March
  • April
    • (9th) Cubert Farnsworth removed from cloning tank; designated Prof. Farnsworth's successor.2ACV10
      Episode
  • April — December
    • Hermes is put on paid vacation by Morgan Proctor, his temporary replacement after his attempts of promotion to grade 35 are ruined. He sorts out the Master IN Pile and gets demoted 2 grades for finishing 2 seconds early; he then gets promoted to grade 37 for noticing an error in Proctor's paperwork.2ACV11
      Episode
    • Planet Express Crew rediscover the lost underwater city of Atlanta.2ACV12
      Episode
    • Mother's Day – Earth robots revolt at Mom's instigation; called off the next morning.
    • Earth again invaded by Omicronians after their larva become major fast food sensation; Free Waterfall Jr. eaten.
    • Bender's uncle Vladimir dies.
    • Earth successfully invades Spheron 1.
    • Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle unfrozen.
    • Pauly Shore unfrozen for the 1000 year anniversary of Jury Duty II: Trouble on the Hubble
    • Zapp Brannigan crashes a space-going restaurant onto the Planet Amazonia
    • New New York v. Santa Bender case held. Santa Bender was to be executed at sundown.

3002

  • January — July
    • Massive dark matter spill on the Plutonian penguin refuge. Free Waterfall, Sr. eaten by penguins.
    • Earth invaded by the Brain Spawn; defeated by Fry and the Nibblonians.
    • Dr. Zoidberg and Harold Zoid make the movie The Magnificent Three.
    • Martian natives kidnap Amy Wong. She is later released when the worthless "bead" their ancestors traded the planet for is revealed to be a valuable, enormous diamond. The Martians leave Mars and buy a nicer planet.
    • New New York v. Fry and Bender case held. Both Fry and Bender are sent to the HAL Institute for Criminally Insane Robots.
    • Bend-Aid benefit concert for broken robots held in San Francisco.
    • Universe threatened by "time skips;" Prof. Farnsworth and the Globetrotters create a black hole to absorb damaging time radiation.
  • August
  • September
    • (21st) the Planet Express Crew travel back in time to Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
  • September — December
    • Three-time Grammy winner and teen singer Wendy found dead in her bathtub at the age of 18
    • Star Trek convention held on forbidden planet Omega 3; Welshie killed.

3003

Leela discovers her true origins
Decapodians invade Earth
Fry makes a deadly deal with the Robot Devil
  • January — February
    • Kif and Leela's offspring born.
    • Turanga Leela finds out her true origins.
  • February
    • (14th) (Valentine's Day) Bender dates the ship, dumps it, the ship doesn't take the break-up well and almost crashes itself into a quasar. The crew dumps their cargo of candy hearts into the quasar causing a mystical love radiation that spreads across the universe destroying many, many planets, including two gangster planets and a cowboy world.
  • February — December

30043006

  • 3004
    • Fry and the Nibblonians defeat the Brain Spawn permanently by banishing them to an alternate pocket dimension.
    • Earth conquers the Spiderians of Tarantulon 6; Nixon's head refunds everyone $300.
    • The 3004 Olympics are held on Earth. Hermes Conrad competes for Jamaica in the five hundred meter limbo but is disqualified. Bender wins five gold medals in various fembots' bending events competing for the fictitious Grand Duchy of Robonia under the name Coilette.
    • Fry makes a deal with the Robot Devil and becomes a notable holophonor star. However, his holophonor opera Leela: Orphan of the Stars, while performed with great success in the first act, flops as a result of the Robot Devil's interference.
  • 3005 – The 'Brainless Drones' who run the Box Network cancel Planet Express's license to make deliveries.

3007

  • November — December
    • The people who cancelled Planet Express's license are fired for incompetence and then beaten up. Most die from their injuries and are ground into a pink powder used for various reasons. Planet Express are allowed back on the air.
    • Nudist alien scammers take control of Planet Express and eventually Earth and send Bender back in time to steal Earth's treasures. The Planet Express crew kill the scammers by firing a doomsday device at the their spaceship.
    • Fry travels back in time to New York in 2000 to resume his old life
    • Leela falls in love with Lars Fillmore and nearly marries him. The wedding is called off after Hermes is decapitated again.
The Anomaly

3008

  • January — December
    • Lars and Nudar are killed, afterwards Lars is revealed to be a time paradox duplicate of Fry. Lars is buried at Orbiting Meadows.
    • Bender is ordered to go back in time to put the tattoo on Fry's butt in the first place, but due to Bender's illogical screw up of time, a rip in space is created.
    • A scientific conference is held about the Anomaly.
    • Bender becomes a member of the League of Robots, eventually becoming its leader.
    • Yivo begins forcing shklis tentacles through the Anomaly and mates with everyone in the universe, while previous versions of Fry, Bender and the Professor watch.
    • Yivo takes everyone in the universe out on a date and later proposes, causing everyone on Earth to move onto shkler.
    • Bender and his army drag Yivo into their universe to save humanity.
    • Yivo breaks up with humanity and leaves for shklis universe through the Anomaly, which closes forever.
    • Dark Matter prices tripled and are $9.99 per ball. Mombil profits greatly.
    • Space Demolition Derby held. Planet Express Ship wins.
    • Bender becomes insane from playing Dungeons and Dragons.
    • Professor Farnsworth infiltrates Mom's dark matter mine in Alaska to get revenge for being dumped by making dark matter useless as fuel, with the Anti-backwards crystal.
    • Cornwood is created and destroyed.
    • All dark matter everywhere is useless as fuel.
    • Professor Farnsworth harnesses Nibblonians as a temporary form of transportation.
    • The Planet Express Ship is (and presumably other spacecraft are) converted to run on Whale Oil.

3009

3010

3011 — 3099

  • 3030 -
  • 3050 -
The wasteland of Earth in the year 10000, showing the monuments of humans, apes, birds, cows and some slug maybe.

3100 — 10 000

  • 4972
    • The book "A Brief History of Time Travel" is released. Using time travel, it seems to have been reappeared in the year 3007.Bender's Big Score
      Film
  • ?
    • Intelligent apes overthrow humanity.6ACV07
      Episode
    • Intelligent bird overthrow the apes.6ACV07
      Episode
    • Intelligent cows overthrow the birds.6ACV07
      Episode
    • Some intelligent slug maybe overthrow the cows. They then somehow have their civilization destroyed.6ACV07
      Episode
In the year 10 000 000, humanity fight a losing war against the robots.
In the year 1000 000 000, all life in the universe is wiped out, and Earth is a vast desert.

10 000 — End of the universe

  • 10 000
    • Earth has become a wasteland, with the few humans left living primitively as nomads.6ACV07
      Episode
  • 105 105
    • Along with an ongoing ice age, humans are more civilised again, using laser weaponry.6ACV07
      Episode
  • 252 525
  • 351 120
    • Earth is covered in water with huge sea monsters.6ACV07
      Episode
  • 1 000 000 ½
    • Human kind is enslaved by giraffes.6ACV07
      Episode
  • 5 000 000
  • 5 000 005
    • The advanced of the two has been overrun by the brutal Dumblocks.6ACV07
      Episode
  • 10 000 000
    • Humanity fights a losing war against the robots, that they unknowingly of the coming terror had constructed to make their lives easier.6ACV07
      Episode
  • 50 000 000
    • Earth is covered with beautiful and intelligent women with the knowledge of creating backwards time machines. Men are extremely rare in this era, and even old and very stupid men are prized.6ACV07
      Episode
  • 1 000 000 000
    • All life in the universe is wiped out, and a vast desert is all that remains of planet Earth.6ACV07
      Episode
  • ca. 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 999 983
    • The Nibblonian race comes into existence.
  • ca. 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
    • The last of all protons decay, signaling the ultimate end of the current universe.6ACV07
      Episode
    • Seconds after the universe ends, a new big bang happens and forms a new universe, perfectly identical to the last. And the cycle restarts.6ACV07
      Episode

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