1957:

First artificial satellite launched from Earth. Sputnik 1 is orbited by the Soviet Union, marking the dawn of a new Space Age on Earth.

1969:

Neil Armstrong becomes the first human to walk on Earth's moon, proclaiming the historic Apollo 11 flight to be "One small step for a man, one giant leap for Mankind."

1992:

Eugenics Wars begin when a group of genetically bred 'super-humans' seize control of one-quarter of the globe, plunging Earth into a terrible conflict.

1996:

Eugenics Wars end. The genetic tyrants are overthrown. One "super-human", Khan Noonien Singh, escapes into space aboard the SS Botany Bay.

1996:

Captain Janeway and her crew of the USS Voyager arrive on Earth after travelling through time from the year 2372.

1996:

Ralph Offenhouse, Sonny Clemens and Claire Raymond die, and are cryogenically frozen in a small space capsule in hope of future resuscitation.

2024:

The "Bell Riots" ensue in Los Angeles, with unwitting participant Captain Benjamin Sisko from the 24th century. His symbolic heroism brings in a new age of social refinement and tolerance.

2026:

Joe DiMaggio's hitting record is broken by Buck Bokai, a shortstop from the London Kings.

2053

Earth is devastated by World War III.

2061:

Warp Drive is first conceived and invented by scientist and capitalist Zefram Cochrane in Montana, on Earth.

2063:

The first tests of Warp flight aboard Zefram's ship The Phoenix (an old converted Titan V rocket) are threatened by a time travelling Borg invasion force, finally prevented by crew of USS Enterprise-E.

2065:

SS Valiant lost near galaxy's edge.

2079:

Resolutions are finally reached to settle an anarchic world from a long war of nuclear destruction.

2117:

Zefram Cochrane disappears and is believed dead.

2156:

Romulan Wars begin between Earth Forces and the Romulan Star Empire.

2160:

Romulan Wars ended by the Battle of Cheron. The Treaty of Algeron establishes the Romulan Neutral Zone.

2161:

United Federation of Planets incorporated.

Starfleet established, with a charter "to boldly go where no man has gone before…"

2165:

Sarek of Vulcan is born.

2218:

First Contact with the Klingon Empire. The incident is a disaster, leading to nearly a century of hostilities between the Klingons and the Federation.

2222:

Montgomery Scott is born.

2227:

Leonard H. McCoy is born.

2230:

Spock is born, son of Sarek and Amanda.

2233:

James Tiberius Kirk is born in Iowa on Earth.

2237:

Hikaru Sulu is born in San Francisco on Earth.

2239:

Uhura is born.

2243:

Dr. Richard Daystrom invents duotronics, the basis for the computer systems used aboard the Enterprise and other Starfleet vessels..

2245:

The first USS Enterprise, NCC 1701, is launched. Captain Robert April commands the ship's first five-year mission of exploration.

2245:

Pavel A. Chekov is born.

2250:

Kirk enrolls in Starfleet Academy. As a cadet, he serves aboard the USS Republic.

2251:

Christopher Pike assumes command of the Enterprise. He leads two five-year missions of exploration into the unknown.

2252:

Spock, a cadet at Starfleet Academy, begins serving aboard the Enterprise under Captain Pike.

2253:

Spock graduates from Starfleet Academy.

2254:

Kirk graduates from Starfleet Academy, the only cadet ever to beat the infamous no-win Kobayashi Maru training scenario. Kirk is assigned to USS Farragut.

2254:

USS Enterprise at planet Talos IV. ("The Cage" [TOS]).

2261:

David Marcus, son of James Kirk and Carol Marcus, is born.

2264:

James T. Kirk begins historic five-year mission as Captain of the Enterprise.

2266:

-Romulans violate the Neutral Zone for the first time in over a century.

-Captain Christopher Pike, severely injured in a training accident, returns to Talos IV to live.

2267:

-SS Botany Bay, Khan's sleeper ship is discovered adrift near the Mutara Sector. Khan and his followers are exiled to planet Ceti Alpha V.

-Relations with Klingon Empire deteriorate; open warfare is averted by establishment of the Organian Peace Treaty.

-Spock returns to his homeworld to take T'Pring as his bride, but he is spurned in favour of Stonn.

-Accidental discovery of a parallel 'mirror' universe.

-Coridan is admitted to the Federation after the Babel Conference.

*-USS Defiant arrives from the future in the 2267 to apprehend Klingon renegade Darvin, and prevent him from murdering Kirk.

2268:

-Romulan/Klingon alliance established, permitting the exchange of spacecraft designs and military technology, including the cloaking device.

-Kirk and Spock arrested by Romulan authorities on a covert mission to steal an improved Romulan cloaking device.

2269:

-Kirk's five year mission ends; Enterprise returns to Spacedock for major upgrade.

-Kirk promoted to admiral, Spock and McCoy retire from Starfleet.

2271:

-Enterprise successfully defends Earth from V'Ger probe. Spock and McCoy return to Starfleet.

2284:

Spock becomes an instructor at Starfleet Academy. USS Enterprise assigned to training duty at the Academy.

2285:

-Khan escapes from exile on Ceti Alpha V, hijacks USS Reliant, tries to steal project Genesis.

-Spock dies defending the Enterprise.

-USS Enterprise, NCC 1701 destroyed while Kirk and crew rescue Spock's body, which was later reunited with his katra.

-Spock is reborn at Genesis Planet.

- David Marcus is killed by Klingons.

2286:

-Kirk and company save Earth from an alien probe by bringing two humpback whales to the 23rd century.

-USS Enterprise-A, the second starship to bear the name, is launched. Kirk demoted to Captain, and placed in command of the new ship.

2287:

STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER. (this movie is considered non-canon)

-USS Enterprise-A is hijacked by Spock's half-brother, Sybok, who pursues his visions of God.

2290:

Hikaru Sulu promoted to Captain of the USS Excelsior.

2292:

Tuvok begins first Starfleet career as Junior Science Officer aboard the Excelsior.

2293:

-Klingon moon Praxis explodes, crippling the Klingon economy, forcing major cutbacks in military expenditures, culminating in the Khitomer peace accords.

-USS Enterprise-A retired.

2293:

-USS Enterprise-B, Excelsior Class is launched. On maiden voyage Captain Kirk is missing, presumed dead after discharge from unknown spatial anomaly destroys Deflector Room, in which Kirk was attempting to affect repairs.

(Captain Harriman was charged with gross ineptitude and negligence and was banned from taking command of another Starship ever again. He is now enduring a 40 year sentence mining useless ores on some asteroid somewhere  ;)

2295:

Captain Scott retires, is missing en route to the Norpin Colony aboard USS Jenolen.

2298:

Tuvok resigns from the Academy.

2305:

Jean-Luc Picard born in LaBarre, France, son of Maurice and Yvette-Gessard.

2311:

The Tomed Incident. The Romulans enter an extended period of isolation that lasts until 2364.

2324:

Beverly Howard, the future Doctor Crusher, is born.

2327:

Jean-Luc Picard graduates from Starfleet Academy.

2328:

Cardassian Union annexes Bajor.

2332:

Benjamin Sisko is born on Earth.

2333:

Jean-Luc Picard assumes command of the USS Stargazer.

2335:

William T. Riker is born in Valdez, Alaska, on Earth.

2336:

Deanna Troi is born on Betazed.

2337:

Natasha Yar is born on Turkana IV.

2338:

Data is discovered on planet Omicron Theta.

2340:

Worf is born on the Klingon Homeworld.

2341:

Jadzia is born on Trill.

2343:

Kira Nerys is born on Bajor.

2344:

USS Enterprise -C is destroyed at Narendra III.

2346:

-Worf's parents are killed by Romulans at the Khitomer massacre. Worf is adopted by a human Starfleet officer, Sergey Rozhenko.

-Terok Nor, an ore processing facility orbiting Bajor is built by Cardassians during the occupation.

2348:

Annika Hansen, the future Seven of Nine is born.

2349:

Harry Kim is born.

2353:

Chakotay enters Starfleet Academy.

2355:

-USS Stargazer is nearly destroyed in the Battle of Maxia.

-Jake Sisko is born.

2357:

Riker graduates from Starfleet Academy. His first assignment is the ill-fated USS Pegasus.

2361:

Riker, aboard the USS Potempkin participates in a rescue mission at planet Nervala IV. A transporter malfunction creates an exact duplicate of Riker who remains undiscovered on the planet until 2369.

2363:

-USS Enterprise-D, the fifth starship to bear the name, is launched under the command of Jean-Luc Picard.

-William Riker serves as Executive Officer aboard the USS Hood prior to his assignment to the Enterprise.

2364:

-First known contact with the Ferengi. First known contact with the Q.

-Natasha Yar is killed at planet Vagra II.

-The Romulan Empire emerges from a 53 year period of isolation.

-Extragalactic conspiracy uncovered attempting to infiltrate Starfleet Command.

2365:

-Dr. Katherine Pulaski serves as Enterprise-D chief medical officer.

-First known contact with the Borg.

2366:

-Enterprise-C briefly enters this time from the past.

-Worf accepts discommendation for acts his late father did not commit against the Klingon Empire.

-The Borg mount full scale invasion against the Federation. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is captured by the Borg, becoming Locutus of Borg.

2367:

-Thirdly nine starships destroyed by the Borg in the battle of Wolf 359.

-Alexandra Rozhenko, son of Work and K'Ehleyr, is born.

-Wesley Crusher is accepted into Starfleet Academy.

-Jean-Luc Picard serves as Arbiter of succession to determine the new leader of the Klingon High Council.

2368:

-Duras family attempts to seize control of the Klingon High Council, plunging the Empire into a brief civil war.

-Ambassador Spock is sighted on Romulus, supporting reunification of the Romulan and Vulcan peoples.

-Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan dies at age 203.

-Wesley Crusher admits helping to cover up a fatal accident at Starfleet Academy and is held back for a year.

2369:

-Captain Montgomery Scot is discovered alive, suspended in a transporter beam aboard USS Jenolen.

-Cardassians withdraw from Bajor, and Bajoran space, and abandon station Terok Nor.

-Riker's transporter duplicate found alive and well after 8 years alone on Nervala IV.

-A clone of the legendary Kahless the Unforgettable is ruled the rightful heir to the throne, becoming the new emperor of the Klingon Empire.

-Starfleet assumes control of Terok Nor, at the request of the Bajoran provincial government. Starfleet names it Deep Space Nine.

-Benjamin Sisko assigned to command Deep Space Nine.

-Sisko is adopted by the Bajoran people as Emissary to their gods.

-First Stable wormhole discovered near planet Bajor.

-Spiritual leader Kai Opaka killed in the Gamma Quadrant, resulting in a political power struggle to determine her successor.

2370:

-Lore is dismantled while attempting to lead the Borg on a new campaign of conquest.

-The wreck of experimental USS Pegasus discovered. Great attempts are made to prevent the technology falling into the hands of the Romulans. It's prototype cloaking technology breaches Treaty of Algeron.

-Starfleet officer Ro Laren defects to the Maquis.

-Q influences crisis involving anti-time anomaly that threatens all life in the Alpha Quadrant.

-A Bajoran religious extremist group called The Circle attempts to overthrow the Bajoran provisional government.

-Accidental first contact for more than a century with the Alternate Universe.

-First knowledge of the Dominion is acquired. Their soldiers, the Jem'Hadar destroy USS Odyssey in a show of force.

2370:

-Kes is born on Ocampa.

2371:

-Worf promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

-Maniac El Aurian scientist Dr, Soren prevented from destroying planet Veridian III to deflect trajectory of the Nexus ribbon for him to be absorbed.

-Captain James T. Kirk, missing for 78 years is discovered alive within the Nexus ribbon by Captain Picard. Kirk agrees to return to thwart Soren. Their efforts are successful, but Kirk dies in the attempt.

-USS Enterprise-D destroyed.

-Escort vessel, the Defiant uncovered for use against the Dominion. Romulan Empire loans Starfleet a cloaking device for use in the Gamma Quadrant only.

-Lieutenant Thomas Riker, transporter duplicate of Will Riker, hijacks Defiant to fight the Cardassians in name of the Maquis resistance movement.

-Tal Shiar and Obsidian Order lead an ill-fated all out attack against the Founders homeworld -leaders of the Dominion.

-Starfleet learns of shapeshifter spies among them.

-Benjamin Sisko promoted to Captain.

-Intrepid class starship USS Voyager is missing, presumed destroyed in the Badlands. The ship is transported 75,000 light years to the far side of the Delta Quadrant by an entity known as the Caretaker.

-Crew of the Voyager briefly make contact with Romulans in the Alpha Quadrant through Micro-wormhole.

-First contact with the diseased Vidiians.

-First contact with the various Kazon sects.

2372:

-Klingon forces invade Cardassia. Lieutenant Commander Worf joins Deep Space Nine.

-Time travelling Ferengi scout ship attributed to Human/alien contact at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

-Starfleet put on full alert due to threats of shapeshifter incursions on Earth.

SECOND SEASON OF STAR TREK: VOYAGER.

-Amelia Earhart discovered alive in Delta Quadrant, after being missing for more than 400 years.

-Suicidal Q entity discovered imprisoned in comet.

-The Borg, attempting new invasion of the Federation travel back to the 21st century to eradicate the Federation by preventing Earth's first warp flight, and subsequent first contact with Vulcans. USS Enterprise-E follows them back to protect Earth's future.

2373:

-Klingon General Martok discovered to be shapeshifter spy.

-Crew of USS Defiant unwittingly follow Klingon fanatic Darvin back to 23rd century to prevent him murdering Captain Kirk.

-Tribble species repopulated.

-Kira, surrogate mother, gives birth to Sean, son of Miles and Keiko O'Brien.

-Cardassia forms alliance with Dominion

-Sisko defies Starfleet orders in his obsessive quest to locate and apprehend Marquis turncoat Eddington

-Crew of Voyager sent back In time to 1996, where they encounter time paradox that threatens Earth's existence.

-Civil war ensues in the Q continuum.

-The Voyager enters the edge of Borg space.

-Kes leaves 3 dimensional existence.

2374:

-Dominion begin full scale invasion of Alpha Quadrant.

-The marriage of Worf, and Jadzia Dax.

-Captain Sisko tricks Romulans to participate in the war against the Dominion.

-Death of Jadzia Dax, at the hands of a possessed Gul Dukat.

-Former Borg drone, Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct to Uni-matrix Zero Zero One, joins the crew of the Voyager.

-Contact with Species 8472.

-Crew of Voyager successfully contact Starfleet using Hirogen subspace relays..

-Crew of The Enterprise-E defy orders by protecting the Ba'ku, and their planet's remarkable rejuvenating properties from a potential Federation take-over.

-Dax symbiont takes Ezri Tegin to be ninth host.

-Gul Dukat, possessed by the Pah-Wraiths attempts to destroy the Prophets.

-Legate Damar turns against the Dominion, and with the allied forces, forces their surrender.

-Benjamin Sisko leaves his linear existence and joins the Prophets.

FIFTH SEASON OF STAR TREK: VOYAGER.

-Crew of Voyager undercover preparations and plans by Species 8472 for possible Federation incursion.

-Tom Paris demoted to Ensign for disobeying direct orders and breaking Prime Directive.

-Crew risk further Borg confrontations by attempting to steal a transwarp coil from damaged Borg vessel

-Captain Braxton from the 29th Century attempts to sabotage Voyager's launch, to change the timeline in his favour.

2376:

-Reginald Barclay uses micro wormhole to contact Voyager in Delta Quadrant

-A small group of assimilated Borg children are recovered by Voyager

-Voyager senior Officers infiltrate the Borg Collective via voluntary assimilation.