FO Timeline

What follows is a complete Fallout timeline of all events from every game.
Note that the Fallout world is not our own, but rather one that has diverged from ours soon after World
War II. So, while it takes place in the future, it is not our future, but a future as imagined in traditional
1950s style science fiction.
Much of the following text comes from the timeline in Fallout Bible 0, written by Chris Avellone, which in
turn comes from the original Fallout timeline, created by Brian Freyermuth and Scott Campbell. Some
post-Fallout information was laid out by Rob Hertenstein, and some dates were added by Chris Avellone
himself.
Additionally, this timeline includes all dates seen or mentioned in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout:
New Vegas, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, in all Fallout official
game guides, in the Fallout Bible as well as Van Buren design documents.
1066
October 14: Battle of Hastings occurs in England between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke
of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the
Norman conquest of England.
1215
June 15: The Magna Carta, a charter of rights drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and agreed by
King John of England, is created.
1603
March 24: During the Tokugawa shogunate, the samurai warrior Toshiro Kago is abducted by
mothership Zeta from Japan.
1612
The English soldier, explorer and colonial governor Captain John Smith discovers the region that would
later become Point Lookout State Park.
1630
Boston's North End, what will be one of Boston's oldest neighborhoods, is settled.
1634
February 24: The Ark and Dove, two ships that would later begin the Maryland Colony, arrive at Old
Point Comfort (newar Point Lookout) after a voyage of three months.
Boston Common, the oldest public park in the United States, is founded.
1635
The historic town of Concord is incorporated in Massachusets.
1660
The Old Granary burying ground is established in Boston. It will go on to become the oldest surviving
burial ground in Boston, with many famous Revolutionary War heroes, like Paul Revere and John
Hancock, buried there.
1680
The future Paul Revere House, home of the famed patriot of the same name, is built. It will becomes the
oldest structure in Boston.
1690
The first issue of Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper in Boston, is published.
1692
The infamous Salem witch trials begin.
1697
May 17: Andrew Endicott is abducted by mothership Zeta from his home in Salem.
1711
The Great Fire occurs in Boston. 349 houses, stores, and shops are destroyed, and over a thousand
people are left homeless.
The Old Corner Bookstore is built as an apothecary in Boston after the Great Fire.
The Cabot House, ancestral home of the Cabot family, is constructed in Boston's Beacon Hill
neighborhood.
1713
The Old State House is built.
1714
Soil Stradivarius is fabricated by Antonio Stradivari.
1723
The Old North Church in Boston is built.
1733
Boston's Trinity Church is founded.
1742
Peter Faneuil establishes Faneuil Hall and donates it to the city of Boston.
May 25: Shem Drowne creates The Gilded Grasshopper weather vane. It establishes on the top of
Faneuil Hall.
1754
The French and Indian War begins. George Washington would become a senior officer of the colonial
militia.
1755
Cape Ann earthquake occurs in British Province of Massachusetts Bay. Gilded grasshopper weather vane
has fallen and has broken from Faneuil Hall top.
1763
The French and Indian War ends.
1768
June 28: Gilded grasshopper weather vane has been restored and returned on the top of the Faneuil
Hall top by Thomas Drowne.
1770
The Boston Massacre occurs outside the Old State House, where five American colonists are killed by
British forces.
Paul Revere purchases his house in Boston's North End.
1773
December 16: The Boston Tea Party occurs in Boston Harbor, in protest against unfair taxes on the
colonies.
1775
April 18: Lieutenant Colonel Smith marches with 700 British soldiers to Concord. Robert Newman climbs
the Old North Church and lights two lanterns to warn patriots of the soldiers.
April 19: The American Revolutionary War begins with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
1776
July 4: The American colonies declare independence from Great Britain as the United States of America.
1783
September 3: The Treaty of Paris brings the American Revolutionary War to an official close.
1786
Constitution of the United States is drafted and adopted by the Constitutional Convention of Philly.
1787
The Shamrock Taphouse is established in Boston Harbor.
1789
The Bill of Rights is drafted by the United States Constitution.
1797
October 21: The USS Constitution is finished at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston.
Fort Adams early known as Castle William is officially renamed at ceremony presided over by President
John Adams into Fort Independence.
1798
The Massachusetts State House is completed to house the government of the state of Massachusetts.
Uisce beatha whiskey company is founded.
1823
President of the USA James Monroe presents the Monroe Doctrine, a document that warns the
European powers of the time not to interfere in the affairs of the New World, citing the examples of
colonization and puppet government as possible intolerances.
1843
The Bunker Hill Monument is completed using granite from quarries in Quincy.
1845
American author, poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau moves to a small cabin on the shore of
Walden Pond.
1851
The historic Wildwood cemetery is founded.
1854
Ticknor and Fields publishing company is founded in Old Corner Bookstore by William Davis Ticknor,
John Allen and James Thomas Fields.
1855
June 14: Mormon missionaries arrive in Nevada and build a fort along one of the creeks that flows from
the Las Vegas springs.
1861
April 12: The American Civil War begins.
1862
September 22: First executive order of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham
Lincoln.
1863
November 19: Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers
National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1865
April 9: The American Civil War is officially brought to an end.
April 14 and 15: Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth and
dies the next day.
1874
Jamaica Plain is incorporated.
1877
Capitol Post Newspaper in Washington, D.C. is founded.
The present day structure for Trinity Church is completed.
1879
James Ritty invents the cash register.
1884
December 6: The Washington Monument memorial is completed in the central part of the National
Mall.
1894
April 6 - May 14: Lorenzo Cabot discovers a ruined city in the Arabian desert in which he claims to be the
lost city of Ubar. During the excavation, he stumbled upon an alien artifact and falls under its unstable
influence.
1895
Schoelt, a distributor of propane fuel, is founded.
1898
June 11: Lorenzo Cabot is admitted to Parsons State Insane Asylum.
1903
December 17: The Flyer I airplane, constructed by Orville and Wilbur Wright in Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina, performs its maiden flight for a mere 12 seconds, covering a distance of 120 feet.
In baseball, Boston wins the 1903 World Series.
Mary Anderson invents windshield wiper.
1912
1914
July 28: World War I begins.
1915
1916
1918
Sunset Sarsaparilla enters production.
November 11: World War I comes to an end.
1920s
Lamplight Caverns is converted into a tourist attraction.
1922
Soviet Union is formed by Vladimir Lenin.
1925
Richard G. Drew invents adhesive tape.

1931
Vim! Pop Inc. is founded in Mount Desert Island in Maine by Herbert Reed.
1932
March: Vikki and Vance begin their crime spree.
1935
Carl C. Magee invents the parking meter.
1939
September 1: World War II begins.
1941
December 7: The Attack on Pearl Harbor occurs. The United States declares war on Japan and officially
enters the Second World War.
December 11: The U.S. Congress declares war on Germany, hours after Germany declared war on the
United States.
1942
Sierra Army Depot is built. Its mission is to store and maintain a defensive supply of military ordnance.
This mission continues until 1991.
1943
The Los Alamos Nuclear Research and Development facility, codename: the Reservation, completes
construction. Los Alamos becomes part of the research team for the Manhattan Project.
1945
May 7: Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers, and World War II ends in Europe.
July 16: The first atomic bomb is detonated by the United States during the Trinity Test on the test site
of Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico.
August 6: The Little Boy atomic bomb is deployed by the United States onto the Japanese city of
Hiroshima.
August 9: The Fat Man atomic bomb is deployed by the United States onto the Japanese city of
Nagasaki.
September 2: Japan officially surrenders to the Allied Powers, and World War II completely comes to an
end.
October 24: The United Nations are established.
1948
July 21: A Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress crashes into Lake Mead, remaining mostly intact.
1949
October 1: The People's Republic of China is founded by the Chinese Communist Party and its leader
Mao Zedong.
1951
Local Boston journalist William Schofield conceives the Freedom Trail that would connect important
local historical landmarks. Boston mayor John Hynes decides to put Schofield's idea into action.
1950s
Mr. Pebbles becomes the first cat to be launched into space by USA.
1961
May 5: Captain Carl Bell of the United States Space Agency becomes the first human to enter space; this
claim is disputed by both the Soviet Union and China. Captain Bell's flight in Space Capsule Defiance 7
lasts only twelve minutes and seven seconds, and makes a full revolution around Earth. Bell dies when
the capsule crashes on its return to Earth.
1969
The USA is divided into the Thirteen Commonwealths, each comprising several of the existing states.
The national flag is changed to reflect the division and depicts fourteen stars - thirteen in a circle to
represent the commonwealths and one in the middle to represent the federal government and the
nation as a whole.
July 16: The Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 with U.S.S.A. astronauts Captain Richard Wade, Captain
Mark Garris, and Captain Michael Hagen lands on the Moon. The astronauts become the first humans to
walk on a celestial body other than Earth.
November 14: Virgo III Lander Valiant 12 lands on the Moon.
1992
The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed. It is now responsible for the demilitarization of stores of
surplus ammunition that have been deemed unfit or obsolete for military purposes. This mission is to be
overseen by the Industrial Operations Command in cooperation with the Environmental Protection
Agency, providing a greener, cleaner way to dispose of military ordnance.
2002
The West Tek Research Facility is founded.
2009
In Vegas, Smitty's opens its doors.
2016
Wonderglue is established this year.
2020
The Delta IX rocket is commissioned by the U.S.S.A. The Delta IX rocket is the last of the manned rockets
to the Moon.
2021
Hubris Comics begins publishing comic books, one of their most popular is Grognak the Barbarian.
2026
The original Vim! Pop Inc. factory burns down.
2031
The Boston city council unanimously votes to bury Emilia Butler in the Old Granary burying ground.
2034
The Delta IX rocket is converted for U.S. military purposes. Crew and instrument sections are replaced
with a nuclear warhead.
2037
The Mister Handy series of robots is first brought to market as a general construction and maintenance
unit by General Atomics International.
2039
Prometheus Coal, a division of Poseidon Energy, opens a coal mine in central Utah. As a result a small
village is settled nearby called Eagle Rock.
An early bug in Mister Handy robots that caused interference in the operation of the multiple arms is
fixed with a hardware update, with no major problems since then.
2040
The Tibbets Prison is commandeered by the United States government in association with Vault-Tec and
Poseidon Oil to tie into their Project Safehouse. On April 5, 2040, the Secretary of the Army makes the
decision to build a new Disciplinary Barracks, with a capacity for 456 inmates. A cost ceiling of $363
million in allocated construction dollars is set. The target budget year for funding this project is fiscal
year 2041. Construction begins in fall of 2042, with completion projected for fall of the year 2045.
2041
August 16: Doctor Morrison Rand is abducted by aliens on-board Mothership Zeta when leaving the
campus of Banfield College in Humboldt.
2042
A major earthquake takes place in Mexico City. The Mister Handy general construction robot becomes
the leader in sales in Mexico.
Wilson Automatoys is established in Boston, Massachusetts.
Giddyup Buttercup, a product of Wilson Automatoys, is copyrighted.
June 25: Robert House founds RobCo Industries.
July: Discussions with Vault-Tec to determine space and functional requirements for the new Tibbets
facility occur.
2044
Nuka-Cola is invented by John-Caleb Bradberton.

The Great Passion Fruit Famine hits America. People actually notice the taste difference in Nuka-Cola
when the passion fruit flavor is removed.
The X277 "Viper" magnetic rail cannon developed for the U.S. Military by West Tek is deemed too costly
to produce on a mass scale and abandoned.
2049
Mass Fusion Company is founded by Karl Oslow.
2050
April 28: The Nuka-World power plant suffers from a meltdown, just a few months before the park was
scheduled to first open. The accident is then covered up by the Nuka-Cola Corporation. The employee
who reported it, an employee named C. Carlson, is apparently fired and the other employees have to be
reminded of their employee agreement to not discuss park matters. The problem is seemingly ignored
from then on.
May 1: Nuka-World opens its gates for the first time with two theme parks, Nuka-Town USA and Kiddie
Kingdom, selling over 40,000 tickets that day.
A small bottling factory near Nuka-World is transformed into a big modern bottling plant with guided
tour attraction World of Refreshment.
The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed again. It is refurbished with the latest in technology and is
from now on used as a secret research installation for developing and testing robotic, biological and
conventional weapons until 2076.
2051
Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing
pressure on Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the
United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military
enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way
north across the border at Mexico's expense.
Weston water treatment plant is built.
The N99 10mm pistol becomes standard issue military sidearm following the phase out of the N80.
2052
A television documentary revealing the withered husk of the Texas oil fields brings the oil shortage into
American households and reveals how deep the energy crisis runs.
The last manned mission to the Moon occurs.
The widely known Nuka-Cola’s Dazzling Blue bottle color is adopted as standard after market research
programs indicated that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of a hundred polled.
March 5: The socially transmitted "New Plague" arises, killing tens of thousands. The United States
closes its borders and the first-ever national quarantine is declared. The source of the plague is
unknown, but rumors persist that it is a genetically engineered weapon.
April: The Resource Wars begin. Many smaller nations go bankrupt, and Europe, dependent on oil
imports from the Middle East, responds to the Middle East's rising oil prices with military action. The
long drawn-out war between the European Commonwealth and the Middle East begins.
May - July: The United Nations, already suffering, begins to collapse. In a series of heated debates, many
nations withdraw from the organization as the U.N. tries to keep the peace.
July 26: The United Nations is officially disbanded.
2053
ZAX 1.0 goes online, developed by Vault-Tec. Initially a prototype of some of the systems designed to
govern the vaults, it is given to the government to help the Department of Energy collect resource data.
Within a year, it is taken by the military for plague and tactical research; one version, ZAX 1.2, would
later be constructed for West Tek.
The 'Red Menace' holotape game is released to the public by Vault-Tec Game Studios.
December: Like an exclamation mark on the end of a very bad year, a terrorist nuclear weapon destroys
Tel Aviv.
2054
REPCONN Aerospace is founded following the first launch of the Delta IX rocket.
January: Limited nuclear exchange in the Middle East raises fears throughout the world.
In light of the European-Middle Eastern War and the plague scare, the United States officially sets
Project Safehouse in motion. The project, financed by junk bonds, is designed to create shelters, called
Vaults, for the populace in the event of a nuclear war or deadly plague. Construction begins late in 2054
and proceeds rapidly due to advances in construction technology.
2055
West Tek starts working on a new virus to kill the New Plague. Their viral research and close ties to the
federal government eventually lead to them being chosen for the Pan-Immunity Virion Project twenty
years later as well as power infantry armor and laser research.
ZAX 1.2 is brought in to regulate conditions in West Tek. It is not part of the Vault-Tec preservation
software, so it does not have any orders to protect humanity after the bombs fall. In the meantime, it
calmly calculates data and plays chess with the scientists. Many scientists claim that ZAX is a "big ol'
cheater" and draws the game out too much for a computer of his considerable abilities.
2057
February: United States government removes the Grand Canyon's protected status as a national park.
May: Uranium mining begins in the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is closed indefinitely.
2058
May: Nuka-World opens a new park, Dry Rock Gulch during Memorial Day weekend. Park attendance
nearly doubles overnight.
Isla Negra Holdings begins to take control of Point Lookout, Maryland as the New Plague devastates the
region.
2059
The Anchorage Front Line is established, as the United States increases its military presence in Alaska to
protect its oil interests. The Anchorage Front Line causes tensions between the United States and
Canada, as the United States attempts to pressure Canada into allowing American military units to guard
the Alaskan pipeline.
The first artificial intelligence is born. Limited by memory constraints, its expansion is rapidly halted. The
discovery paves the way for future A.I. research in laboratories throughout the United States.
2060
Traffic on the streets of the world stops moving. Fuel becomes too precious to waste on automobiles, so
alternatives are explored - electric and fusion cars begin to be manufactured, but factories can only
make limited amounts while conserving fuel. The U.S. economy teeters on bankruptcy. Pressure on
fusion research increases.
The European-Middle Eastern War ends as the oil fields in the Middle East run dry. There is no longer a
goal in the conflict, and both sides are reduced almost to ruin.
The European Commonwealth dissolves into quarreling nation states, fighting over the remaining
resources.
2061
March: Construction of Vault 108 begins.
2062
May: Construction of Vault 92 begins.
Despite quarantine measures, the New Plague continues to spread, fueling national paranoia.
Many Mormon congregations come together to purchase places in Vault 70, located in Salt Lake City,
Utah.
A U.F.O. codenamed "Palandine" crashes just north of Hagerstown, Maryland, but cannot be recovered.
Wan Yang is arrested as a suspect in the Niagara Sabotage.
2063
Dr. Willem Clark, a top nuclear physicist in his day, is put in charge of all scientific endeavors at the
Reservation. Colonel Green, a career soldier in the U.S. army, is put in charge of security.
August: The construction of most vaults are completed, except for Vault 13, whose construction finally
gets off the ground heralding a development cycle that seems plagued with problems. Drills begin in the
other cities with completed vaults, but the increasing frequency of the drills has a "cry wolf" effect, and
the turnouts for drills trickle off as the years go on.
Grognak & the Ruby Ruins holotape game is released to the public by Hubris Comics Game Studio.
2064
March: Construction of Vault 106 begins.
2065
The Reservation is given orders to research and produce nuclear missiles that can be fired from an
orbiting space platform.
Robert House concludes that atomic war would devastate the Earth within 15 years after every
projection he ran deemed it a mathematical certainty.
February: Construction of Vault 76 begins.
April 14: The M.A.R.Go.T. computer enters service.
June: Due to enormous demands for electricity from a 17+ million population, a nuclear reactor in New
York City goes supercritical, almost causing a meltdown. The near meltdown brings into effect power
rationing, and the term "Hot Summer" is used to refer to this incident.
August: Increasing need for mobility in the United States mechanized cavalry leads the military to focus
the efforts on creating a man-based tank - essentially, a two-legged walking armored unit: power armor.
Research grows until 2067 and several prototypes are developed, many of which prove to be
unworkable in the field. These prototypes pave the way for future advances in military, construction and
fusion technology.
2066
Resource rationing in Denver causes riots. Midwest U.S.A. and Mexico start having food shortages and
can't supply Denver with the food it needs. Food riots occur. National Guard called in.
With more important things to spend their money on, Poseidon Energy closes the inefficient and
dangerous Eagle Rock mine complex and sells it to the U.S. government.
May: Construction of Vault 87 begins.
Spring: As the oil resources dry up across the globe, China's fossil fuel dependency causes an energy
crisis in the nation. China, bordering on collapse, becomes more aggressive in its trade talks with the
United States. The United States' unwillingness to export oil to China leads to a breakdown in talks
between the two countries.
Summer: Adding further insult to the Sino-American relations, the first crude fusion cell is unveiled, one
of the results of the power armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be
manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general U.S. infrastructure begins, but the process is
too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly eleven years later, few sections of the
United States are supplied with fusion power.
Winter: In the winter of 2066, China invades Alaska, and the U.S. Congress declares war upon China. The
Anchorage Front Line becomes a true battleground.
The U.S. Navy missile cruiser USS Ebon Atoll is accidentally sunk by the U.S. Navy Submarine USS
Interference during the Anchorage Campaign. The Interference mistook the Ebon Atoll for an enemy
vessel and shot it with a nuclear torpedo killing all on board. It is one of the worst U.S. Navy disasters
since World War II.
Winter: As a sign of increasing tension between the two countries, Canada proves reluctant to allow
American troops on Canadian soil or allow American planes to fly over Canadian airspace. American and
Canadian tensions rise, but Canada eventually backs down, and U.S. troops pass through Canada. This
sets the stage for the Canadian annexation in 2076.
2067
September: Nuka-World opens a new park, Safari Adventure. As with Dry Rock Gulch, attendance nearly
doubles overnight.
The first suit of T-45d power armor is deployed in Alaska. While lacking the full mobility of future
versions, this power armor is incredibly effective against Chinese tanks and infantry. Its ability to carry
heavy ordnance becomes key in various localized conflicts, and it has the power to destroy entire towns
without endangering the wearer. China rushes to create its own versions, but they are many years
behind the United States.
By this year, a Nuka-Cola vending machine can be found on almost every street in America.
Senator Todd Peterson decides to build a secret bunker to house himself and his family should war
break out. Senator Peterson is a wealthy man in his own right, but lacks the funds necessary for such a
project. Through secret dealings with Poseidon Oil and a covert branch of the government known as the
Enclave, the final funding for the project is attained. A construction site is chosen in southern Colorado
and work begins.
2068
May: Construction of Vault 92 ends.
November: Construction of Vault 112 begins.
2069
Canada begins to feel the pressure from the United States military as the U.S. draws upon Canadian
resources for the war effort. Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada
are stretched to the breaking point. Many Americans refer to Canada as Little America, and Canadian
protests are unheard.
February 11: By order of the U.S. government, all Patriot's Cookbook magazines are banned and
incinerated. However, many magazines still remain in circulation.
March: Vault 13 is finally completed - it is the last of the vaults on the West Coast, and drills begin. Due
to its late completion, the "cry wolf" effect that hurt the other vaults is not as pronounced.
October: Construction of Vault 76 ends.

December: Construction of Vault 106 and Vault 108 ends. Vault 108 was in construction for 8 years due
to work stoppage.
2070
The first of the Chryslus Motors fusion-driven cars are developed. Reassuringly big and American, the
limited models carry a hefty price tag but are sold out within days. Many Chryslus plants have long since
been converted into making military ordnance.
2071
Planned Diversion Programming copyrights the hologame Atomic Command.
December: Construction of Vault 87 ends.
2072
June: Ezra Parker prevents the assassination of Sergey Urbonas.
June 3: Canada begins to be fully annexed by U.S.A. It is fully integrated by January 2076.
The United States' increasing demand for Canadian resources causes protests and riots in several
Canadian cities. An attempted sabotage of the Alaskan pipeline is all the military needs as an excuse to
finalize its annexation of Canada, which had already begun in 2067.
Legislative Act 21-0 is passed by the United States Congress.
Completed B.O.M.B. missiles are sent to different space centers around the U.S. so they can be carried
into space and installed into the B.O.M.B. satellites. The process is slow, but it is being carried out fairly
regularly.
Nuka-World opens a new park, the Galactic Zone, becoming the most popular attraction there.
Planned Diversion Programming copyrights the hologame Automatron.
2073
August: The Ballistic Orbital Missile Base, or B.O.M.B.-001, is completed and partially functional (for
security and maintenance bots) using a temporary onboard generator. The only things the base needs
are the manually input final launch instructions and codes and the main power reactor.
September 15: As China becomes increasingly aggressive with their use of biological weapons, the
United States government feels that a countermeasure is needed. The Pan-Immunity Virion Project is
officially formed and plans are made to begin experiments at the West Tek Research Facility in Southern
California.
2074
Contrary to their claims of seeking only to retake Alaska from the Reds, American power armor units,
infantry and mechanized divisions are deployed to China, but they become bogged down on the
mainland, putting a further drain on American resources and supply lines.
Government decision makers order the dumping of radioactive waste into Eagle Rock's lower mines.
Enclave politics help secure a contract for Poseidon Energy to develop and use their Agricola mining
robots in the operation of the dumping ground. Not surprisingly, the Agricola lab turns out to be a pretty
good bunker as well.
June: Construction of Vault 112 ends.
June 24: Negotiations between the U.S. and other world powers come to a dramatic end, with the
president walking out of oil talks with the other world powers. After a much-heated debate, the
president storms out of the meeting and declares that the last known supply of petroleum will be used
exclusively by the U.S. and the U.S. will not sell or trade any oil to outside parties.
July: The new Bloomfield Space Center completes construction. The facility's first task is to complete the
space rockets Hermes XIII and Hermes XIV to fly to B.O.M.B.-001 and -002 respectively (originally slated
for a Mars mission before new orders arrived). The mission: have the crew deliver and install the bases'
main power reactors, manually enter final launch instructions, manually check for safety nets and
protocols, and do a manual inspection of the station.
2075
The Sierra Army Depot A.I., Skynet, becomes self-aware.
RobCo Industries copyrights the Unified Operating System. This system is used for operating the RobCo
terminals. The copyright is renewed for each of the next two years.
RobCo brings up plans to purchase REPCONN Aerospace, threatening a hostile takeover otherwise.
Vault-Tec Game Studios copyrights the hologame "Red Menace".
Ezra Parker is selected by Modern Industrialist to be in the Top Ten Up and Coming Venture Capital
Managers.
March 21: PVP experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests of
the virus on single-celled organisms. Experiments on plant cells are postponed. The pan-immunity virion
is renamed Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV).
May 9: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, in the wake of successful tests on
flatworms; the flatworms exhibit increased size and heightened resistance to viral contagions.
Experiments with insects have less success, and further experimentation on insects is postponed by
Major Barnett.
May: Vault 112 seals two years early, for Stanislaus Braun's sadistic desires.
June: General Brock becomes the commanding officer of Fort Strong.
June 30: FEV experiments continue at West Tek with batch 10-011, with white mice as subjects.
Increased size, muscle density and intelligence are noted.
August: The United States Space Administration awards contracts to ArcJet Systems to develop the XMB
booster engine and deep range transmitter for their Mars Shot Project, a manned mission to Mars.
November: Unidentified submarine contacts, rumored to be stealth subs of the Chinese "Ghost Fleet"
are spotted by U.S. monitoring stations A-31 and B-19, but no further sightings are reported.
November 9: FEV experimentation (batch 10-011) on rabbits is concluded. Increased size, intelligence
and aggression is noted; it is difficult to determine whether the flatworms in the previous experiments
were angrier and more violent than normal. Frankly, the researchers cannot be blamed for this.
December 17: A general of the U.S. military visits the Switchboard facility and receives a report from
P.A.M. that Chinese stealth technology far outpaces that of the United States, and that the unidentified
submarines spotted by U.S. monitoring stations a month prior may be from the Chinese "Ghost Fleet",
an elite naval unit rumored to possess stealth-capable submarines. The general dismisses the
intelligence as unsubstantiated, but P.A.M. responds by stating no actionable intelligence has come out
of the Shaanxi Province of China since November 2072, except for a reported increase in the
importation of complex polymers and key synthetic compounds. P.A.M. indicates that these are
consistent with research into stealth technology on a large scale, but the general states that unless
concrete evidence can be provided, such information is rumor.
2076
REPCONN Aerospace is bought out by RobCo Industries.
January 3: A military team under the command of Colonel Spindel is sent to the West Tek research
facility to monitor the experiments in the interest of national security, due to fears of international
espionage. Captain Roger Maxson (the grandfather of John Maxson, the High Elder of the Brotherhood
of Steel in 2161) is among the team personnel.
January 12: Splicing in several new gene sequences into their test virus, dogs are injected with batch 11-
101a at West Tek. Although increased strength is noted, increased intelligence is not. Using batch 11-
011, experiments are conducted on raccoons. The same results are noted, but the attempted escape of
several infected raccoons causes Major Barnett to terminate the experiment... and the test subjects.
Two pairs of raccoons, however, are unaccounted for (Scott Campbell and Brian Freyermuth intended
these escaped raccoons to form an intelligent animal community northwest of the Glow called the
"Burrows". This location was never implemented).
January: The United States annexation of Canada is complete. Canadian protesters and rioters are shot
on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their
way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests.
April 15: Once all secondary tests and studies are done on the test subjects, all dogs from the batch 11-
101a Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) tests at West Tek are terminated... from a safe distance.
June: Power armor prototype completed, resulting in the T-51b power armor. This is the pinnacle of
power armor technology before the Great War. Many of these units are sent to China, and they begin to
carve a swath through the Chinese forces. The Chinese resources are strained to the breaking point, and
the supply lines from the nations China has annexed begin to break down.
July: Flotation Homes and Seaweed is published by Vault-Tec.
July 4: The United States celebrates its Tricentennial. Vault-Tec opens Vault 76 in honor of the event.
August: Food and energy riots begin in major cities throughout the United States. Military units begin to
be deployed in cities within the United States to contain rioters; many temporary prisons are
constructed. A state of emergency is declared and martial law soon follows.
August: Hermes XIII and XIV are completed, loaded with cargo and placed on the Bloomfield launch
platform, awaiting the final funding and the okay to launch.
October: Production of B.O.M.B. nuclear missiles is put on hold due to budget cuts. The Reservation is
put on reserve.
October: Due to the seriousness of world events and the threat of nuclear war, Hermes' launch is
postponed while funds are routed to Vault technology. Launch is rescheduled for 2077.
October 4: At West Tek, fifteen chimpanzees are infected with batch 11-111. The most successful test to
date, growth and immunities in the chimpanzees surpass all other subjects. The military practically
drools over the results. Plans are made in secret to begin testing in small quarantine towns in North
America, and the Mariposa Military Base construction is sped up in anticipation of moving the West Tek
project to a location under military supervision.
October 20: Nuka-Cola Quantum is created.

November: Enclave personnel seize control of Bloomfield Space Center and begin researching and
developing a way to convert Hermes XIII and XIV into a personnel transports to transport important
individuals off-planet.
December: Fifteenth edition of Coping With Mr. Virus! is published by Vault-Tec.
Pipfall, the holotape game is released into the public by Vault-Tec Game Studios.
2077
Nick Valentine, a police detective from Chicago, is brought to Boston to apprehend notorious criminal
Eddie Winter during "Operation Winter's End." It ends in failure, resulting in the death of Valentine's
fiancee, Jennifer Lands, by Winter who escapes capture. Valentine seeks treatment for PTSD and has his
brain scanned, eventually being used to implant artificial memories into a prototype synth over a
century later.
Automobile coolant prices sky rocket with the regular coolant price being $7450.99 per gallon and
$8500.99 per gallon for premium.
Robert House puts himself in stasis.
A Chinese sabotage attempt takes place at Hoover Dam.
New Plague hits Denver. Rioters burn down large parts of the city in their fear of contamination and
anger at their treatment. Many panic and flee the city by car, clogging the freeways when they run out
of gas and trapping everyone behind them.
January 7: Major Barnett orders transfer of all Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) research to the newly
constructed Mariposa Military Base, despite objections by the research team.
January 10: Alaska is reclaimed, and the Anchorage Front Line is again held by the Americans.
January 22: The first domestic use of power armor within the United States for crowd and quarantine
control begins. Units originally serving in China and the Anchorage Front Line find themselves fighting
Americans at home. Food riots increase and many civilians are killed. Several soldiers defect from the
military, both in Canada and the United States. They are captured and sent to military prisons.
February: FEV Research is leaked to the world through an unknown source. Protests arise in many major
cities and governments around the world, as well as accusations that the United States is responsible for
the New Plague. F.E.V. is seen as the threat, and serves only to fuel tensions. The governments of the
world fear what the U.S. is up to, speculating anything from trying to make a breed of super soldier to
trying to make Hitler's master race, they begin to panic.
March: Prepared for a nuclear or biological attack from China, the President and the Enclave retreat to
the Poseidon oil rig and make contingency plans for continuing the war.
March: Vault Dweller's Survival Guide is published by Vault-Tec.
April: an American destroyer is sunk, one of the surviving soldiers on board being Thomas Davis, a
member of Beaver Creek Lanes.
April 2: John-Caleb Bradberton puts himself in stasis using the LEAP-X Program.
April 28: An accident occurs at Nuka-World's power plant, causing a large amount of coolant to
discharge into the river. Park administration covers up the incident and fires the whistleblower.
June 14: The Berkeley Springs Police Department defused a bomb that was planted by "The Appalachian
Assassin."
July: Between July 10 and October 23: Sierra Army Depot is evacuated.
July 4: After contact with the contaminated lake water causes a medical crisis at a General
Atomics-sponsored bass fishing tournament, Lake Quannapowitt is closed to the public.
August: Sometime prior to August 15, General Constantine Chase, the hero of the Anchorage
Reclamation, begins testing a virtual reality simulation of the Reclamation at the VSS Facility in
Washington, D.C..
August 27: Miners strike outside Garrahan Estate, protesting their working conditions.
September 6: Technicians at the VSS Facility notice General Chase is making radical, unrealistic changes
to the Anchorage simulation. They believe Chase is becoming obsessed with the simulation and is
gradually going insane, but refrain from confronting him out of fear that they will lose their jobs to
military contractors.
October 10: The Army detachment at Mariposa discovers that the scientists have been using "military
volunteers" (military prisoners who didn't have their brains scooped for use in brain bots) as test
subjects in their experiments. Morale in the base breaks down, and in light of Colonel Robert Spindel's
mental breakdown, the men turn to Captain Roger Maxson for leadership.
October 13: After an interrogation, Maxson executes Robert Anderson, the chief scientist at Mariposa.
October 15: Colonel Spindel commits suicide. All scientists are executed.
October 20: Captain Roger Maxson, now in control of Mariposa, declares himself to be in full desertion
from the army via radio... and receives no reply.
October 21:
Maxson orders all families stationed outside the Mariposa facility moved inside.
9:30 am EST: Vault-Tec staff at Vault 94 receive new encrypted orders. With the exception of
maintenance engineer Tyrone Hayes, the staff wrap up their assignments and depart for Vault-Tec
University. Hayes contacts Pastor Gabriella Salavar and informs her that she and her congregation
having a standing invitation to enter Vault 94.
October 22: The platinum chip is processed in Sunnyvale, California. Mr. House expects the courier to
arrive tomorrow afternoon.
October 23: The Great War
Early morning: The Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and the U.S. Air Force report sightings of
possible Chinese submarines at 00:01 am EST and aircraft approaching U.S. territory at 03:37 am.
A pre-Halloween costume show was going to be on later that day, called Freddy Fear's House of
Scares. The preparations were made that morning.
Nuka-Cola Quantum is released to the public.
82 students from the Early Dawn Elementary school go on a field trip to Lamplight caverns with
a couple of teachers and a few parent chaperons.
Federal agents raid L.O.B Enterprises.
Dr. Hein is taken hostage by the A.F.A.D. at the Angry Anaconda in Nuka-World.
09:13 am EST: The Integrated Operational Nuclear Detection System (IONDS) reports four
probable launches of ballistic missiles. The U.S. Armed Forces go to DEFCON 2.
09:17 am EST: NORAD confirms the IONDS report. The U.S. Armed Forces go to DEFCON 1.
Bombers are scrambled for immediate takeoff.
09:26 am EST: Response Scenario MX-CN91 is ordered by POTUS. Full nuclear retaliation is
authorized.
The bombs and missiles fly. Who struck first is unknown. Other countries, seeing the missiles on
their way, launch their planes and fire their warheads as well. Air raid sirens sound, but very few people
heed the warning, thinking it is a false alarm. The vaults are sealed. Two hours of nuclear bombardment
ensues upon the earth's surface. The effects are far worse than most imagined. The Earth's faults shift
violently, thrusting mountain ranges through the soil. Whole lands are submerged under floods of
water.
Fallout 4 prologue begins.
9:42 am: Nuclear strikes on New York City and Pennsylvania are confirmed.
The Sole Survivor and their family evacuate from their home to Vault 111. Once inside, they and
the other vault residents are placed in indefinite cryogenic suspension by Vault-Tec personnel.
9:47 am: Washington D.C. and Boston are struck with nuclear weapons.
The Great Blackout: EMP produced by the bombing kills unshielded electronic devices such as
vehicles and other machinery. It lasts for an unknown period of time.
In the confusion of the Great War, mothership Zeta abducts Sally and her sister, her parents
died during the war.
The Sierra Madre Casino hermetically seals itself during the grand opening gala and the
holographic security murders all of the guests except Dean Domino.
The Lucky 38's systems crash under the weight of the nuclear attack, knocking Robert House
unconscious.
The platinum chip, still at Sunnyvale, becomes buried under the rubble from the aftermath of
the Great War where it would stay buried for over 200 years.
Vault 12 fails to close properly. Once it becomes known that the other vaults have sealed,
people within Bakersfield attempt to force their way into Vault 12 to protect themselves and their
families.
The West Tek research facility takes a direct hit, breaking open the FEV tanks on levels four and
five and releasing it into the atmosphere. Mutated by radiation, it loses its mutagenic abilities, but it
later complicates things for the Master.
The Mariposa Military Base survives, the soldiers within protected from the radiation and FEV
flooding the wasteland.
Surviving scientists and soldiers based in Los Alamos band together with other survivors they
encounter for safety. They set up a temporary camp in a cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde and attempt to
contact the federal government for further instructions. No contact is ever made. A small vault is built
into the cliff side to shield the only computer they have from the elements.
All Enclave personnel leave Bloomfield to either take cover or maintain "hot spots." The sub-
reactor is turned off. Bloomfield, B.O.M.B.-001, and 002, and Hermes XIII and XIV are completely
forgotten.
Thirteen nuclear warheads obliterate Salt Lake City within seven minutes.
Two Poseidon scientists are still trapped in the Agricola lab. After four years, one dies of natural
illness. After one more year, the other commits suicide.
Seismic activity causes radiation to seep into the sub-levels of the Reservation. Even though the
people underground are safe from the blasts, radiation eventually takes its toll.
October 24: The Boylston Club adds a Memoriam Gala to its October events calendar.
October 25: Platner takes his power armor outside Mariposa to get specific readings on the atmosphere.
He reports no significant radiation in the area surrounding the facility.
October 27: After burying the scientists in the wastes outside of Mariposa, the soldiers seal the military
base, then head out into the desert, taking supplies and weapon schematics with them. Captain Maxson
leads his men and families to the government bunker at Lost Hills.
Note: Although Maxson's points in his holodisk indicated that civilian personnel (presumably
families of the scientists or other civilians not associated with the military) were to remain at the base,
whether they did or not is unknown.
October 30: A week after the initial blast, a black rain begins to fall, caused by the massive amounts of
radioactive particle debris (mainly soot) from the nuclear firestorm a week earlier. Plants and animals
both go rapidly into extinction.
October 30: Surviving members of the Boylston Club who can make it to the clubhouse attend a
Memoriam Gala. At midnight, they drink a final toast of poisoned wine and presumably all die.
November: Captain Maxson, his men and their families, arrive at the Lost Hills bunker a few weeks later,
suffering many casualties along the way, including Maxson's wife (but not his teenage son). The
surviving soldiers go on to become the Brotherhood of Steel.
November: Ms. Carrie Delaney is the last adult to leave Little Lamplight Caves in search for help. Ten-
year-old child Jason Grant takes charge in her absence.
November 2: Psychoactive drugs are released throughout Vault 106.
November 2: Special Election for Senator of the Appalachia Territories due today, filling the vacated seat
of Sam Blackwell.
December 25: The security and support staff of Vault 111 celebrates Christmas.
2078
January 26 The city of kids, Little Lamplight is officially founded. By unanimous vote Jason Grant is
named as the city's first mayor.
January 28: Radiation levels on the surface become low enough for survivors to perform brief
expeditions.
January 30: In Zion Canyon, Randall Clark ventures outside for the first time.
April 23: Vault 111's 180-day mandatory shelter period elapses, but the overseer refuses to open the
vault, having not received the scheduled all-clear signal. The support staffers and security grow restless
with their continued confinement and plot a mutiny.
July: The originally planned launch date for the United States Space Administration's Mars Shot Project,
a manned mission to Mars. The USSA, however, feared the launch date may be delayed by a year or
more due to unrest overseas.
October 24: Vault 94 re-opens and dispatches "Vault Ambassadors" across Appalachia to aid any
survivors and act as missionaries.
The planned launch date for Hermes-13 and Hermes-14, intended for use in the latest manned mission
to Mars. However, as the war with China intensified, the Enclave and Department of Defense agents
seized control of the Space Center and tried to retrofit the rockets for travel to B.O.M.B. 002 and
another planet.
The dwellers of Vault 87 are locked in airtight chambers and exposed to the FEV by the vault's Overseer
and his security, who are simply, though callously, following the "plan" laid out by Vault-Tec. The vault's
population is transformed into hideous super mutants and centaurs.
The planned opening of the Angry Anaconda at Nuka-World.
Rex Meacham finishes Project Cobalt.
2079
The Puppet Man leaves Vault 77.
2080
The first effects of radiation are seen in the survivors. Widespread mutations occur with animals and
humans alike. Those that survive the effects of the mutations are permanently changed. New species
are created almost overnight.
John Bloch's military group makes a peace-protection pact with local ranchers.
2081
The Skynet AI in Sierra Army Depot becomes self-aware, according to its own records.
2082
December 24: Raider Rosalynn Jeffries leads a group of Cutthroats in an attack on Charleston, but is
defeated and captured. The Responders attempt to negotiate a prisoner exchange with her lover,
Cutthroats leader David Thorpe. Thorpe responds by destroying Summersville Dam with a mini nuke,
killing Rosalynn and triggering a disaster that would come to be known as "the Christmas Flood."
2083
Thomas Eckhart is made President of the United Sates by manipulating automated voting systems in
Appalachia.
Summer: The city of Necropolis is founded by the ghoul survivors of Vault 12 and the U.S. citizens that
fled to Bakersfield when the bombs fell.
2084
Spring: Set takes control of Necropolis, wresting control from the original Overseer. The Vault 12
Overseer, not willing to take a dirt nap, is driven north and is lost to history.
April 10 - June 14: Randall Clark makes a journey from his refuge in Zion to Salt Lake City in search of the
remains of his family. Unable to locate anywhere familiar to him he returns to Fallen Rock cave defeated
and exhausted.
2085
The planned date for the U.S. military to bring the Vertibird, a Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL)
aircraft, into service. For obvious reasons, this never happens, but the Enclave resumes development
after regaining its footing.
2087
December: After most of the initial survivors in the Reservation succumb to radiation, those "fortunate"
enough to not die have turned into ghouls. And after spending ten years underground, they finally come
back to the surface. Twelve ghouls, including Dr. Willem Clark, volunteer to search the wastes in the
hopes of finding other survivors.
2088
The computer in Mesa Verde fails. The scientists resort to carving their most important schematics into
the kiva walls.
December: Of the twelve volunteers to explore the wastes, only one comes back to the Reservation; Dr.
Willem Clark. However, he has brought back a few dozen fellow ghouls to seek shelter at the
Reservation.
2089
Scientists in Mesa Verde began to drill the village children in the ways of mathematics and science so
that knowledge is not forgotten. They hope that their descendants will one day help bring civilization
back to the wasteland.
January: After explaining the hardships and prejudices placed against ghouls by smoothskin humans, the
ghouls of the Reservation proclaim Dr. Willem Clark as their leader. Willem further solidifies his place as
leader by explaining his plans to one day make the ghouls the rightful and true heirs to the Promised
Earth and that becoming a ghoul was the next, logical step in the evolutionary process.
2090
Vault 29 opens. Harold sets out to make his fortune as a trader, making the circuit around the survivalist
communities in the wasteland.
2091
Vault 8 opens, and they use their G.E.C.K. to create fertile ground for their city. This eventually becomes
Vault City.
Note: While Lynette says that the city was founded 120 years ago, which would place the event
around 2120, the Chosen One later says that it's 70 years before the Vault Dweller left Vault 13. This
probably means that Fallout 2 was initially meant to take place earlier, and the dialogue file was not
corrected.
2092
LA Vault opens, the Boneyard is founded and attracts survivors.
Dr. Richard Moreau is exiled from Vault City for murder. The circumstances surrounding the murder are
unknown, but he changes his last name to Grey and heads south.
2093
The Hub is founded by a man named Angus. He sets up camp around a filthy oasis in the desert and
proceeds to begin trading with other settlements.
2095
September 20 - November 15: 28 Mexican survivors, 11 male, 8 female and 9 children, arrive in Zion
Canyon and settle down.
2096
Harold rises to the level of a caravan boss in the Hub. His caravans suffer occasional attacks in the
wastes, but Harold's caravan outfit survives and prospers... until the mutant attacks begin to pick up a
few years later.
February: The inhabitants of Vault 22 leave their vault due to an outbreak of mutated spores infecting
most of the dwellers and overrunning the vault.
February 11: About 118 survivors of Vault 22 move out of the Mojave Wasteland and travel to Zion
Canyon. Most are infected with the spores and bring spore carriers and spore plants to the Zion Valley
and attack/kill most of the Mexican survivors already in Zion.
February 14: According to Randall Clark, the Vault 22 survivors eat the Mexican survivors they took
captive.
February 19 - January 13, 2097: Randall Clark embarks on a one-man guerrilla war against the Vault 22
survivors, killing dozens in traps and ambushes. The terrified survivors eventually begin attributing the
attacks to a vengeful spirit.
2097
January: J. Hendricks becomes overseer of the remaining Vault 22 survivors, and as his first order as
overseer orders everyone to leave Zion canyon.
January 13: The thirty-four Vault 22 survivors leave Zion Canyon after 10 months of ambushes from
Randall Clark.
January 17: Randall Clark finds a single female from Vault 22 caught in a bear trap, after sparing her life
he tends to her wounds and takes her in. Her name is Sylvie.
A man named Jonathan Faust leads his group of about 200 people from the overcrowded Vault 15 into
the wastes of the outside. Eventually, they become a raider band known as the Vipers.
2101
March 5: During the delivery of his child with Sylvie, Randall Clark encounters complications and sadly
both her and the baby die. Randall begins to seriously consider suicide after the loss of his second
family.
The Vault City Overseer retires and the Council of Citizens is established. The Council appoints the initial
First Citizen.
2102
May 22: Increasing mutant attacks on Harold's caravans frustrate him to the point of financing and
leading an expedition to find out where the mutants are coming from. Consulting with a scientist and
doctor at the Hub, a man by the name of Grey, the two of them decide to join forces.
June 23: Richard Grey's expedition (including Harold) finds the Mariposa Military Base and is summarily
scattered and defeated by the mutant inhabitants. Grey is knocked into one of the vats of Forced
Evolutionary Virus (FEV) by a robotic arm, and Harold is knocked unconscious, only to awaken later out
in the wasteland.
June 27: Harold, already mutating, is found by traders and taken back to the Hub. His former caravan
partners and employees, horrified by his condition, abandon him.
July: Richard Grey, now horribly mutated by the virus, crawls from the vat, covered with FEV and in
terrible pain. Barely able to think or perceive his surroundings, he crawls into the vat control room and
begins his audio log. He fades in and out of consciousness, sometimes for days or weeks at a time.
July–November: Richard Grey begins to acclimate to his condition, and begins his first tests of animals by
exposing them to FEV. These experiments and his growing awareness lay the foundation for his plans for
the Unity and the master race. He takes the name "the Master".
October 23: Fallout 76 begins - Vault 76 opens its doors to the wasteland for Reclamation Day.
November: The first human victim wanders into Mariposa, and Grey consumes him.
December: Grey continues his experiments on wanderers that enter Mariposa with no success. The
creations are flawed (due to the radiation counts in their bodies), making them big but incredibly stupid,
and Grey consumes them rather than letting them live.
2103
January: The Master discovers the problem with the influence of radiation on his mutations, and he
begins to choose his subjects more carefully. The first classic super mutants are born. He begins his plans
to build an army.
2103-2130: Throughout this period, the Master begins slowly gathering test subjects, willing or
unwilling, from local human stock. The Great Winter of 2130 and the scarcity of human subjects make
building his army difficult.
2108
August: Randall Clark encounters Feral ghouls for the first time in Zion Canyon.
2110
The scientists and survivors in the subterranean levels of the Commonwealth Institute of Technology
officially found The Institute.
2120
Angus rules over growing Hub and establishes himself as governor.
Skynet is given final orders by its masters, then left to rot in Sierra Army Depot, according to its own
records.
2123
April 25: 24 children, half boys, half girls, arrive in Zion Canyon from an unknown place.
April 25 – January 23, 2124: Randall Clark begins leaving gifts, like books and medicine, and notes for the
children to make the most of their new home. He signs every note as "The Father". The children later
form the tribe the Sorrows.
2124
January 23: Randall Clark dies peacefully on top of Red Gate.
2125
Winter: Angus is murdered. The Hub is thrown into chaos.
2126
A band of merchants seizes the water tower in the Hub. They demand anyone wanting water must pay a
toll. The Great Merchant Wars begin.
2126-2128: The Great Merchant Wars are fought, the Water Merchants seal up the town, but are
outnumbered.
2127
Vault 101's original Overseer dies after grooming a subordinate to continue his work.
2128
A man named Roy Greene makes peace in the Hub and negotiates a settlement. The Hub's central
council is formed, composed of two representatives from each of the Hub caravan companies. A long
period of indecisiveness and meetings maintain the status quo in the Hub.
2130
The Great Winter occurs.
2131
2131-2135: The Master begins ordering his super mutants to gather human stock from caravans. For
many years, the caravan disappearances are blamed on monsters in the desert, and even when the
abductions begin to occur on Hub caravans, the deathclaws are blamed. The super mutant army grows.
2134
A faction within the Brotherhood of Steel led by Sergeant Dennis Allen gains strength, and they urge the
Elders to let them explore the southeast Glow for artifacts. The Elders refuse, so Allen and his separatist
group splits away from the Brotherhood of Steel, taking some technology and weapons with them.
Led by Sergeant Dennis Allen, a small group of Brotherhood of Steel separatists make their way to the
West Tek research facility in search of technological artifacts. They arrive there twenty days later, and
are promptly chewed apart by the West Tek's unforgiving automated defense systems. Wounded, Allen
begins to suffer radiation poisoning from a leak in his suit. Before he dies, he logs what happened to the
expedition into a holodisk.
2135
Elder Roger Maxson dies of cancer. His son, already an accomplished soldier, takes up the role of
"General" (Elder) within the Brotherhood of Steel. John Maxson becomes a member of the Paladins,
showing tremendous promise as a soldier.
2137
The Master begins to mass-produce super mutants. Only about one in six or one in five attempts are
successful, and of these successes, only half seem to last to go on to be part of his growing army, called
the Unity.
2138
The cryogenically frozen Robert House regains consciousness.

2140
Decker forms Underground in the Hub and starts pulling strings.
2141
Spring: Vault 15 opens.
Winter: Raiders begin to organize in the region as food supplies run low. The Khans and the Vipers begin
terrorizing local settlements.
2142
Spring: Shady Sands is founded and a wall is erected to protect the settlement from raiders.
2150
Around the early 2150s the Vipers recover from their defeat by Angus at the Hub, replenish their ranks
from captured slaves and caravan drivers, and begin to establish a power base in the badlands to the
north of the Hub (and south of the Lost Hills Bunker). Driven by a religious frenzy (and the need to
provide for their much larger numbers of soldiers and disciples), they begin raiding more frequently than
before, attracting the attention of the Brotherhood of Steel.
2152
As their influence slowly spreads throughout the wastes, the Master finds humans, doomsday cultists,
and rather than dip them in the vats, he demands their obedience as spies - their leader is a man named
Morpheus, an ex-member of the gang called the Rippers, and he pledges his followers to the Master.
Morpheus and his cultists form the future core of the Children of the Cathedral.
2154
Vault 17 is raided and its inhabitants taken prisoner by the Master's Army. They are subsequently turned
into super mutants, among them, Lily Bowen.
2155
The Gun Runners begin their career as successful weapon manufacturers and merchants.
The Brotherhood sends out a few squads of scouts to track the Vipers down - it is more of a training
exercise conducted by John Maxson's father, as the Brotherhood is convinced that a small detachment
of troops in power armor would be sufficient to deal with a group of raiders, no matter how large. One
Brotherhood squad, lead by Maxson, finds the Vipers. Expecting the raiders to break and run, Maxson
doesn't take into account the religious ferocity of the Vipers (or their poisoned weapons), and when a
single arrow nicks him with his helmet off, he dies within hours. John Maxson takes up the role of Elder,
and Rhombus becomes the new head of the Paladins.
The Paladins, now led by Rhombus, begin a full-scale campaign against the Vipers, tracking them down
and wiping out almost all of their members within the span of a month. Some of the Vipers are able to
flee north and east into the mountain range.
Note: According to Chris Avellone's Fallout Bible #6, the Vipers were never heard from again. It
was added there possibly because they don't appear in the final game, but it is inconsistent with Fallout,
where the Vipers are mentioned by several characters (Ian, Aradesh, Killian) as still being around. The
surviving Vipers must have therefore been still active in California until at least 2161. Furthermore, small
groups of Vipers can be found in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281.
After capturing a caravan of vault dwellers, the Master learns the location of the Boneyard Vault, the
future site of the Cathedral. He conquers the inhabitants and sets up operations there, and the human
cultists begin to use the Vault as their powerbase. Within the Vault, the Master begins to send out
patrols to Vault locations in search of these other Vaults. This move is finalized in the subsequent year,
2156.
2156
The Master sees advantages in establishing a benevolent "religion" (the Children of the Cathedral), and
using them as spies in settlements throughout the wastes. Missionaries from the Children of the
Cathedral spread slowly across the wasteland, acting as eyes and ears for Morpheus and the Master.
2157
The Master learns the location of the Bakersfield Vault, Vault 12, and sends a detachment of super
mutants there to seize the vault. Many ghouls are snapped like twigs in the attack, and Set finally parleys
with the super mutants, telling them that the ghouls are the vault survivors the super mutants are
looking for. The super mutants, angered at failing to find an intact vault, set up a small garrison at the
watershed to watch the inhabitants and ensure Set's...cooperation in the war to come.
2159
Jon Zimmerman hires a band of mercenaries known as the Regulators to help protect Adytum from the
deathclaw and the odd random attack by raiders.
2161
Harold appears in the Hub's Old Town.
October: A Brotherhood of Steel patrol comes across a dead super mutant in the badlands. They take
the corpse back to the Scribes, and Head Scribe Vree begins her examinations of the super mutant.
December 5, 07:21: Fallout begins Vault 13's Overseer, Jacoren, sends the Vault Dweller out into the
wastes to find a replacement of the Vault 13 water chip.
December 15: The Vault Dweller discovers Shady Sands and meets Tandi, and Ian, who join the Vault
Dweller in searching for the water chip.
December 30: The Vault Dweller recruits Dogmeat in Junktown.
December: Killian Darkwater takes firm control of Junktown, drives out the last of Gizmo's kind, and
then enforces his own brand of frontier justice. Life is fair and safe under his law.
December: Thanks to the Vault Dweller's persistence, the Khans are completely destroyed, leaving only
one survivor named Darion.
2162
January 4: The Vault Dweller visits Scrapheap. (Unverified, location only present in Fallout Demo)
January 5: Someone starts stealing water from the magazine in Vault 13.
January 17: The Vault Dweller reaches the Hub and negotiates with the Water Merchants to deliver
water to Vault 13, buying the Vault some time.
January: With the Vault Dweller's assistance, Harold brings the new recent ghoul population of the Hub
into equality with the humans. The two sides work together, and the Hub prospers.
February 13: The Vault Dweller recovers the water chip in Necropolis. Ian is killed by a super mutant and
reduced to a cinder.
February 23: The Children of the Cathedral send their doctor to Junktown.
March 3: The Vault Dweller defeats the Master.
March 5: Date that the Boneyard will be invaded by the Master's Army.
March 24: The Master's Army attack Necropolis, killing all of the ghoulish inhabitants except Lenny, Cain
and another ghoul hiding behind a library, leaving a truly dead city behind them.
April 4: The Master's Army would invade the Hub.
April 20: The Vault Dweller destroys the Mariposa Military Base. Dogmeat, being colorblind, doesn't
recognize a forcefield and charges into it, dying defending his master.
May 10: Fallout ends - The Vault Dweller returns to Vault 13, only to be told to leave by Jacoren. Some
members of the vault (led by Theresa, the head of the "return to the surface" faction, and including her
supporters, Pat and Lyle), follow soon afterwards. The Vault Dweller marches into the wasteland, leaving
Vault 13 behind.
May 23: The Master's Army would invade the Lost Hills bunker.
The Brotherhood of Steel help the other human outposts drive the Master's Army away with minimal
loss of life on both sides of the conflict. The advanced technology of the Brotherhood is slowly
reintroduced into New California, with little disruption or chaos. The Brotherhood of Steel wisely
remains out of the power structure, and becomes a major research and development house.
July 2: The Master's Army would invade Junktown.
July 22: The Master's Army would invade Shady Sands.
2163
April 19: The Master's Army invades Vault 13, ultimately ending Fallout. (Original unpatched game)
2165
May 12: Vault Dweller removes his Vault suit and from this day forward, never wears it again.
July 10: The Vault Dweller heads north with a small group of fellow vault dwellers and wastelanders and
founds the small village of Arroyo.
2167
August 18: Construction of Arroyo completed.
2174
Fallout ultimately ends, as the Master's Army discover Vault 13. (Patched versions of the game)
2178
August: The Institute begins research on samples of FEV.
2180
The Commonwealth Minutemen defend Diamond City against a super mutant attack.
With their village having outgrown available space and resources, many Ciphers adopt a nomadic
lifestyle, returning to the village only occasionally to resupply or raise children until they're old enough
to walk on their own.
2185
Summer: At high noon, super mutant Marcus and Brotherhood of Steel Paladin Jacob cross paths many,
many miles southwest of Broken Hills and punch and shoot each other for a few days. Eventually, they
give up, laughing, unable to get an advantage over the other. The two start traveling together, arguing
over Unity and Brotherhood of Steel doctrine and whether or not the Master could truly neuro link his
biology into the Cathedral computer network.
Fall: Marcus and Jacob, along with a collection of ghouls, humans, and super mutant followers, found
the community of Broken Hills.
2186
In Shady Sands, Tandi helps her father Aradesh bring a new community and new life out of the broken
remains of the world. They are responsible for the New California Republic, whose ideals spread across
the land.
Spring: Jacob says goodbye to Marcus, then moves on for parts unknown.
2187
Nick Valentine and DiMA escape the Institute.
2188
October 2: Vault Dweller has a daughter, who later becomes the Village Elder.
2189
The New California Republic is voted into existence as a sprawling federation of five states: Shady Sands,
Los Angeles, Maxson, the Hub and Dayglow.
The Followers of the Apocalypse rise to become a major influence in New California. Thanks to the Vault
Dweller's help, they gain control of the LA Boneyard.
2190
Vault 70 opens and its residents use their three G.E.C.K.s to found the city of New Jerusalem in the ruins
of Salt Lake City.
2195
Chris Avellone becomes the mayor of Springfield.
2196
After the death of Aradesh, Tandi is unanimously elected President of NCR by the NCR council. As
expected, she proceeds to do an exceptional job.
2197
January 1, 06:29: Fallout Tactics begins - A Brotherhood of Steel squad, led by the Warrior, is sent to free
the village of Brahmin Wood of raiders.
2198
The Enclave resumes work on various pre-War technologies, including power armor variations. None of
these are much of an improvement over the conventional old power armor, and some are actually
worse.
Fallout Tactics ends - After rushing to Vault 0, the Warrior destroys the Calculator, Vault 0's mad AI,
defeating his robotic army.
After years of trying the "natural" way, the ghouls of the Reservation discover they are indeed sterile.
Dr. Willem Clark and Dr. Sebastian begin to devise a plan to create a viable way for ghouls to procreate.
2200
B.O.M.B.-002 is knocked out of orbit and crashes in the Grand Canyon.
2204
Inside the secret section of Vault 81, Curie completes her work on the universal cure and all the samples
created are properly stored. She begins to wait for further instructions from Vault-Tec while parts of the
vault deteriorate and the mole rats run free and breed.
2208
January 16: After writing his memoirs, Vault Dweller vanishes from Arroyo and is presumed dead. The
Vault Dweller leaves the vault suit behind, folded on the bed. Some say the Vault Dweller was taken by
the sky spirits, others say that the Vault Dweller felt it was time to move on and leave the Elders to guide
Arroyo to its destiny.
February 2: The One-Moon (Month) Cycle of mourning for the Vault Dweller ends, and activity in Arroyo
begins to return to normal.
February 2: Final training of the Vault Dweller's daughter for the role of Village Elder begins. She
undergoes a great deal of physical training and tutoring in various sciences, mathematics, and, of course,
weapon skills.
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel begins - The Initiate, a Brotherhood of Steel initiate belonging to the Texas
Expedition, is sent to the town of Carbon to find Rhombus and his paladins.
Just after the arrival of the Initiate in Carbon, the Vault Dweller also arrives in the town and settles for a
while.
2209
Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel ends - With the indications of the Vault Dweller, the Initiate founds the city
of Los, destroys the Church of the Lost and enters the Secret Vault. They activate the self-destruct
system inside and take the escape monorail leading to an exit in the mountains, causing the destruction
of the Attis Army, Los and the Secret Vault, and ending the Texas Expedition of the Brotherhood of Steel.
2210
January 31: The Vault Dweller's daughter takes her mystic test, a key ingredient of which is several pots
worth of hallucinogenic plants from Hakunin's garden. She runs the gauntlet in the Temple of Trials,
using her charm to pass most of the tests after her handgun jams (and is ruined) on the first level. She
offers numerous criticisms of the test, resulting in many revisions.
Note: The broken handgun is the one seen on her table in the opening movie of Fallout 2.
February 2: The Vault Dweller's daughter ascends to the role of Village Elder. She rules with a steady
hand, and her wisdom is greatly respected.
2215
Under Presidential Order, Enclave scientists begin to work on an upgraded version of power armor.
Many prototypes are developed and tested.
August 1: Congressman Dick Richardson rises to power within the Enclave, aided by pressure from his
father, President Richardson.
2220
The Reservation begins to purchase human slaves from the various tribes around the region. The ghouls
trade what weapons they make in their underground smithies for healthy humans. The healthiest are
used for the ghoul procreation experiments, while the rest work until they die from exhaustion and
disease.
New Jerusalem's intolerant prophet and apostles repeatedly vote to have no commerce with outsiders
from other, failed communities, refugees, or tribals.
March 5: Congressman Richard "Dick" Richardson is elected president for the first term of five, through
aid and political pressure by his father (the previous President Richardson).
October: Enclave scientists develop a reliable version of the Mark II power armor. The prototype results
(and accidents... and explosions... and deaths) are classified by order of the new President Richardson
for the sake of morale.
2224
March: The Institute have developed two promising strains of FEV and receive new subjects from the
Commonwealth to experiment on. Their synthetic organics program decides to move to a new avenue of
exploration that requires non-irradiated DNA.
2227
The spouse of the Sole Survivor is briefly freed from cryogenic suspension at Vault 111 by agents of the
Institute in a field operation led by Conrad Kellogg. The agents kidnap the infant Shaun and the Sole
Survivor's spouse is murdered by Kellogg. The Sole Survivor then reenters suspension, while the rest of
the residents' life support is cut.
July: After years of research and experimentation, Dr. Sebastian successfully creates a born ghoul
through procreation in the Reservation. The human host, like all the ones preceding him, dies during
childbirth (evidently hosts can be male or female).
August: The first successful Born ghoul. Due to the radioactive chemistry of the ghouls, the first Born
ghoul rapidly grows into adulthood within a month. The Born ghoul is named Measles due to his large,
swollen glands in his jaw. Only three other Born ghouls will be birthed between this year and 2253. The
procreation experiment only has a 2% success rate.
2228
The ghouls of Capital Wasteland are driven underground by hostile mutants and humans, forming the
Underworld in the Museum of History.
2229
May: Broken Mask incident: An early third generation synth, Mr. Carter, enters Diamond City and after a
few drinks, pulls out a gun and kills four or five people before being killed himself. Carter's death reveals
to the Commonwealth the existence of advanced synths.
2231
Edward Sallow is given to the care of the Followers of the Apocalypse in the Boneyard. The boy is being
raised as a scribe.
The Boomers, wandering in the Mojave Wasteland seeking a new refuge, come across the Nellis Air
Force Base and settle in what will become their new refuge.
Jeremy Maxson, the Brotherhood of Steel High Elder, decides that it was time to expand BOS operations
into the east. He sends an expeditionary force composed of five paladins to confirm the location of
Peterson's bunker. The expedition leader, Andrea Brixley, discovers the bunker, disables its security and
opens it for habitation. For over a decade she and her fellow paladins explore the east and forge
relationships with many of the tribes that inhabit the area.
2232
Leonard Boyarsky is exiled from Vault City.
2233
A number of angry tribals, raiders and disassociated attackers gang up on New Jerusalem and sack it,
killing most of the Mormons in the process.
2235
The Enclave experiments on deathclaws, attempting to create special fighting units for waging war in
hostile environments.
While there had already been a small number of ghouls in the area soon to become the town of Gecko,
the population swells and the town of Gecko is formed. The new influx of ghouls bring scavenged
technology and know-how, and the power plant in Gecko becomes operational later that year. Vault City
looks upon their new neighbors with growing concern.
The new Mormon living prophet, Judah Black, leads most of the remnants of the Mormon community
north to Ogden, Utah. They establish the town of New Canaan.
2236
Working with some squatters, the Mormons get the Jericho Water Plant running fresh water into New
Canaan.
July 20: Enclave scouts discover the remains of the Mariposa Military Base and find it partially
destroyed.
July–August: Enclave scientists and chemical corps scour the remains of Mariposa while assault squads
comb the desert for slaves they can use to excavate the military base and get to the Forced Evolutionary
Virus (FEV) vats. One of the squads includes soldier Frank Horrigan, age 25 at the time, recently removed
from duty on the President's Secret Service detail to take some R&R time in the wastes after some
undocumented psychotic blunder or another.
August: Melchior is captured by an Enclave patrol and becomes part of the slave excavation force at
Mariposa.
September: Enclave construction crews and super mutant slaves begin excavations. They uncover the
FEV, and mutations begin to occur in the human workers. Frank Horrigan comes into contact with the
FEV and is sent to the Enclave labs for study.
October: Melchior begins to mutate, but keeps his intelligence and cunning in the wake of the
transformation, making him smarter than your average super mutant. Realizing that the Enclave will kill
the super mutants after they get the FEV data, he begins to use his magician talents to hide away
weapons for the mutants to defend themselves when the Enclave decides to dispense with them.
2236-2238: Horrigan gradually mutates from exposure to FEV, gaining the physique and slow, stupid,
single-mindedness of a super mutant. He is kept heavily sedated, operated on, and studied. He is
conscious for only brief periods at a time, then quickly sedated after the bloodshed is over.
2237
The remnants of the Naval Research Institute clear the mirelurks off the wreck of a beached aircraft
carrier that later becomes Rivet City.
January: The Enclave, having obtained the FEV data, abandons the military base site after more
mutations occur, causing a second generation of super mutants to arise - the Enclave leaves a single
squad behind to wipe out the super mutants, but the mutants, using armaments they have cached in
the base during excavation, reduce the squad to ashes after suffering heavy casualties. The remaining
first and second generation super mutant slaves decide to remain in the base, and the group forms a
new community.
2238
Harold arrives in Gecko, and (with a lot of shaking of his head) he does his best to help the ghouls with
the running of the nuclear power plant.
NCR explorers discover Eagle Rock and quickly realize that it is a source of energy and some water—
albeit a dangerous source. Within the year, NCR miners are there, and more come shortly thereafter.
Many of them are dregs/outcasts from other communities. The town of Burham Springs is established
by Trent Burham, a wealthy NCR mine merchant.
2239
January 23: Tests begin to run dry on Frank Horrigan. It is suggested that he be used as a field operative
and be used in tests in the wasteland against local populations.
March 27: Frank Horrigan is manufactured for his new role. A new version of power armor is built to
accommodate his mass, and he is sealed inside. After a few horrifically successful field tests, Horrigan
becomes the Enclave's solution to numerous sticky problems.
April 25: Inaugural meeting of the Rivet City Council, consisting of Horace Pinkerton, Annette Holmes
and Brad Danvers takes place. The city officially gains its name.
2240
Thomas Moore comes to Vault City and becomes a citizen.
Goodneighbor is founded by a group of criminals exiled from Diamond City.
The Battle of the Castle occurs. The Commonwealth Minutemen are displaced after their headquarters is
destroyed by a mirelurk queen. Radio Freedom goes off air.[
2241
By this time, Junktown has become a member of the New California Republic as part of the state Shady.
Around this time, Daisy Whitman's Vertibird crashes near the trapper town of Klamath due to a rotor
malfunction. Later on, Lily Bowen uses parts from the broken craft to create her signature weapon, the
Vertibird blade.
Herbert Dashwood meets Argyle and steals his girlfriend. They are best friends ever since.
In the Capital Wasteland, the settlement of Megaton is attacked by raiders. During the attack, Colin
Moriarty's father is killed and Colin inherits his wealth, including Moriarty's Saloon.
The worst dry season in many years causes a drought in the Northern California area, hurting crops and
brahmin in both Arroyo and Modoc.
January: The first samples of jet begin to arrive in Redding, courtesy of the Mordino family.
February: Vault City rejects offers of alliances with both the Bishop family of New Reno and NCR.
February: A survey party from Vault 101 led by Anne Palmer scouts the area of Springvale and Megaton.
March: Raider attacks on caravans to Vault City begin.
May 15: Fallout 2 intro - The Enclave sends a coded sequence to Vault 13, activating its central computer
and declaring that it is time to leave the vault. Martin Frobisher gathers the Vault 13 dwellers together
for the "Leaving The Vault" video, a tutorial movie of Vault-Tec about the rules to follow when vault
dwellers left their vault.
May 16: Less than a day later, Vault 13 is opened, only to be greeted by two Enclave verti-assault
squads. The squads kill three of the vault dwellers who were "resisting capture" and storm Vault 13,
kidnapping all the inhabitants.
May 17: Enclave animal handlers drop an intelligent deathclaw unit into Vault 13 from a safe distance to
kill anyone investigating the vault and cloak the Enclave's presence. Other intelligent deathclaws are
sent into the desert surrounding Vault 13 to check for any escapees or witnesses.
July 25, 08:24: Fallout 2 begins - The Chosen One begins his mystic test, descending into the Temple of
Trials like his mother before him.
July 27: The Chosen One leaves the failing community of Arroyo in search of the Garden of Eden
Creation Kit.
August 30: The Chosen One happens upon a confrontation between Frank Horrigan and civilians. The
civilians resist his demands and are executed.
October 23: A vision of Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the first time.
2242
Two synths, Armitage and A3-21, are built in the Commonwealth by the Institute.
Nuclear Nellie, a howitzer style gun capable of firing a nuclear shell, is made functional at the
Reservation. A "dirty" shell is created to use on Willem’s enemies. However, since the heavy lift cable is
broken, there is no way to bring the gun from its underground lair.
Jeremy Maxson renames Todd Peterson's bunker after his famous ancestor, Roger Maxson. He then
sends a full complement of troops for occupation. Andrea Brixley is promoted to Elder, given the rank of
General, and placed in charge. The remainder of her exploratory team is given the title of Elder as well.
January 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the second time.
April 21: Hakunin appears to the Chosen One in his dream for the third time, without regard to the
progress of the Chosen One.
July 20: Arroyo is attacked by Enclave soldiers, and the villagers are enslaved and brought to the Oil Rig.
The Chosen One has a fourth and final vision of Hakunin.
Fall: Fallout 2 ends - The Chosen One enters the Enclave's oil rig using the damaged tanker and destroys
the Poseidon oil platform, killing the President of the United States and ending the Enclave's plans for
world domination.
After the Enclave's destruction, the refugees of Arroyo and Vault 13 resettle, building a new community
with the aid of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit. Finding themselves hundreds of miles from their vault,
the members of Vault 13 choose to join the villagers in establishing a new community. Their technical
expertise, combined with the villagers survival skills, allow the new settlement to grow and prosper. Two
generations of the same bloodline are re-united, and their savior, the Chosen One, becomes Elder,
presiding over the village in the years to come.
The Arroyo elder lives for many years after the destruction of the Enclave. She seems pleased that the
ancient separation between Vault 13 and the Vault Dweller has been reconciled, and many are the times
she tells the Chosen One she wished the Vault Dweller were alive to have seen the reconciliation take
place. Certain that the safety of the new village had been secured and the new community was
flourishing, the Elder passes away a few months later in her sleep. Many of the older Arroyo residents
believe that she now lives in the vault of the sky, telling the Vault Dweller of the Chosen One's brave
deeds.
Relations between the Slags and residents of Modoc flourish. Between the two peoples, Modoc
prospers and becomes a major farming community, supplying all the outlying regions with food.
Metzger's slave trade in the Den expands greatly, giving him influence and power throughout most of
the area. Breeding pens are started and eventually no one is safe from the threat of being enslaved.
Travelers avoid the Den, hearing of the evils committed within its walls.
Optimizing Gecko's power plant becomes the first step in forging a spirit of cooperation between Gecko
and Vault City. Gecko's increased power production becomes instrumental in helping Vault City's
expansion.
In the years following the destruction of the Enclave, Vault City continues to stagnate, choking on its
own isolationism. Its Vault 8 generator, which was never intended to support such a large population,
prevents Vault City's necessary expansion. Eventually, the city is absorbed by NCR, which has spread
steadily northwards since its founding.
Not long after the destruction of the Enclave, the Bishop family of New Reno is blessed with a child. This
child seems to have little in common with the Bishops, preferring instead to spend his days exploring the
wastes. When he turns thirteen, he seizes control of the Bishop family and leads them to victory over
the remaining New Reno families. He dies quietly in his sleep at the age of seventy-three, never having
known his real father.
Though the Wright family never completely recovers from Richard's death, the knowledge that the killer
had been brought to justice eases their troubled sleep.
Myron dies less than a year after the defeat of the Enclave, stabbed by a jet addict while drinking in the
Den. His discovery of jet is quickly forgotten, and now there is no one who remembers his name.
The Chosen One still hears mention of Harold from time to time. Apparently, the tree growing from his
head has gotten larger, and if rumors are to be believed, fruit is growing from it. The seeds are said to
remarkably tough, and several of them have taken root even in the most barren stretches of the
wasteland.
Several years after buying the excavator chip from the Chosen One, Marge LeBarge is able to purchase
and control both the Morningstar and the newly opened Kokoweef mines. Marge is an easy choice for
Mayor, and using her new political power, she makes Redding join the growing New California Republic
in return for a seat in the NCR's Hall of Congress.
With the destruction of the conspiracy to destroy the mutants, Broken Hills begins to thrive. Then the
uranium ran out. The city, having lost its sole reason for existing, slowly disperses. The residents carry
their riches with them, leaving the place a wind-swept, desolate ghost town. A few hold-outs remain,
attempting to eke out a pathetic existence, but eventually, they too disappear.
Inspired by the example set by the Chosen One, Marcus eventually travels across the great mountains to
the east, searching for other refugees from the Master's army. The Chosen One never hears from him
again.
With the support the Chosen One secured from the New California Republic, the Vault 15 squatters soon
become self-sufficient and productive members of society.
The Chosen One's help with Vault 15 launched the New California Republic's push to civilize its
neighbors. Though there are many more obstacles to overcome, the NCR now have a foothold into the
northern wastes.
The Shi flourish, creating a botanical scourge on the radiation surrounding their beloved town. Though
this vine cannot grow in other soils, the Shi take care to nourish it in their lands. They continue to grow
in strength and prominence, forming the basis of a new empire.
The destruction of the Enclave erases all trace of President Richardson from history. Now the title of
"President" is used simply as a boogieman to frighten children.
As for the tanker vagrants... well, as vagrants do, they drift on.
2244
Refugees begin arriving in New Canaan in large numbers, telling stories about a war in the west.
2245
Judah Black dies of old age.
NCR halts production on the railroad lines. The need for coal diminishes and the powder gangs rise up.
2246
Sallow and Bill Calhoun, a fellow Follower, are sent east to study tribal dialects, and meet with Mormon
missionary Joshua Graham.
During the expedition, Sallow discovers a cache of historical books, some of them regarding ancient
Rome, including Commentarii by Julius Caesar himself, which fascinates the young man.
2247
Graham, Calhoun, and Sallow are captured by the Blackfoot tribe for ransom. The young Sallow uses his
knowledge to train the tribals in the art of warfare, impressing them enough to become their leader.
Sallow assumes the name of ancient Roman emperor Caesar and makes Joshua Graham his right-hand
man. He decides to create an empire modeled after the historical Roman Empire, intending to erase the
tribals' individual identities and replace them all with a single, monolithic culture - the Legion.
5th Engineering Company blows up Burham Mines, causing incredible fires to break out all over the
area, even in veins of coal encased in rock. Many die. Many become gehennas. NCR abandons Burham
Springs.
After coming out of a strange and powerful fever, Jeremiah Rigdon claims that an angel appeared to him
in a vision, calling him to be the living prophet of god.
2248
President Tandi becomes ill and dies at the age of 103. Her vice-president Joanna Tibbett is sworn in as
new President of the NCR.
Caesar begins his conquest of the tribes of northern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, western New
Mexico and southeastern Utah.
Hannibal Hamlin becomes a slave at the age of 15.

Back in the West, "the 370 Raid" occurs. Porter's group try to rob the NCR Storehouse and Bank to seize
the payroll to pay his men. They are caught by the NCR and end up "blowing" the vault and completely
ruining the future ability to settle the payment problems in the area (exact circumstances are unknown,
as Porter's group didn't actually steal the money, but it's gone nonetheless). Captured and sold out by
Spineless Stan Lowery (a man in the 370 team who didn't participate in the raid), Porter still feels guilty
about his role in the collapse of the eastern part of NCR, since his actions blew any chance of the
economy stabilizing. Porter and his gang are arrested and imprisoned in Black Canyon.
Twelve daring people drift into Burham Springs to start salvaging. Two years after the end of this influx,
all are dead except Phil, Sparky, and Frank LaFrancis.
Almost half of the residents of New Canaan leave because they believe Jeremiah Rigdon is not the true
living prophet. They leave with Bishop Mordecai.
2249
Members from Porter's team escape many times though there's nowhere to run and they are caught or
surrender. At least one escape was planned by NCR Lt. Gov Dodge (Dodge hoped that Porter will loop
back to pick up the money from the blown vault, but the escape he arranged only resulted in the 308th
getting free, not the 370th, and since Porter didn't steal the vault money anyway he wouldn't know
where to find it).
A lucrative slave trade is established with Caesar’s Legions and the Blackfoot tribe.
Summer: The Blue Destiny Brothel, Herbert Dashwood's favorite whorehouse, shuts down when the
girls die from a cholera outbreak.
2250
Caesar declares himself the son of Mars, Roman god of war.
Porter's gang (the 370th) and the 308th put on work-release to Denver. The work-release also made
more room in the prison for some more dangerous prisoners, as the place was getting overcrowded. The
prisoners travel with hobos, dodge tribals, lose about half their numbers (from clashes with slavers,
tribals, radscorpions, and other monsters).
Daniel goes to find his six cattle in a storm and is captured by robots from the prison. Also, Bishop
Mordecai and five others return to New Canaan as the sole survivors of their attempt to resettle New
Jerusalem. They do not acknowledge Jeremiah Rigdon as the living prophet.
Harmon Jurley becomes leader of the Paradise Falls slavers.
2251
Herbert Dashwood is voted "honorary ghoul" at Underworld.
Porter's gang reaches Denver. Goals: Once there, they were to see about scavenging as many building
supplies as possible, establishing a track outpost, and pave the way for NCR occupation. They make
camp.
Dogs overrun the old salvager camp.
May 10: Jillian McKinley is apprehended by ULYSSES' robots. The Rusty Hooks lose their best and only
mechanic/weapons smith. Sid is "volunteered" to take her place.
2252
Bloomseer Poplar arrives at the Oasis.
15-year-old Scott Wollinski is sold to a caravan merchant by his father, who hopes for a better life for his
son. Wollinski would travel with the caravans for few years, working as an indentured servant, until
buying his freedom and settling down in Canterbury Commons.
June 15: Kyle "the Hook" and his Rusty Hooks discover Bloomfield Space Center and declare it their
home.
June 30: Sid figures out how to fire up the sub-reactor. Bloomfield has power once more, but sub-
reactor is only operating at 45% efficiency.
2253
38 NCR citizens are massacred by Mojave raiders.[154] President Joanna Tibbett is voted out of office by
the NCR congress after a "timid" reaction to the massacre, and is replaced by Wendell Peterson.
President Peterson dispatches three battalions of NCR infantry into the Mojave Wasteland.
October 23: The Prisoner escapes from Tibbets Prison, dooming the world and creating a holocaust of
epic proportions.
October 23: Sentry robots at Bloomfield become semi-active – not moving, but the optical lenses and
sensors turn on and start surveying for escaped prisoners from the Big MT. The robots ignore the Rusty
Hooks.
October: Dr. Presper and his NCR followers find security overrides for the turrets and security bots at
Bloomfield, as well as the space rockets' launch codes. They invade Kyle's beloved Bloomfield – Kyle and
his men do not resist Dr. Presper and his technically more advanced brigade – and launch themselves
into space to dock with B.O.M.B.-001. Four NCR soldiers stay behind with the remaining rocket to
prevent anyone from launching the second rocket. The Rusty Hooks keep clear of the launch pad and
form an "understanding" with the NCR guards.
2254
A Brotherhood of Steel expedition led by Owyn Lyons is sent to Washington, D.C. on the East Coast to
search for technology, investigate reports of super mutant activity and re-establish connection with the
squad that was sent there before, not knowing that the ship carrying the Brotherhood squad crashed
near Chicago during a storm.
2255
Caesar establishes the first capital of his Legion in the ruins of Flagstaff, Arizona.
On the way to the Capital Wasteland, the Brotherhood expeditionary force attacks the raider town
called "The Pitt" and razes it to the ground. These events are later known as the Scourge. They suffer
only one casualty, Ishmael Ashur who is believed dead.
The Brotherhood of Steel expeditionary force under Owyn Lyons arrives in the Capital Wasteland.
The Brotherhood of Steel establishes the Citadel as their main base of operation in the ruins of The
Pentagon.
2256
The child of the Chosen One, aged only thirteen, seizes control of the Bishop family and leads them to
victory over the remaining New Reno families.
2257
Allistair Tenpenny hires Tara Fields, Jeff Strayer, Dave, Dukov and Crowley to raid Fort Constantine.
The Lone Wanderer is presumably conceived sometime in October of this year.
2258
July 13: Fallout 3 prologue begins - The Lone Wanderer is born and Catherine dies during childbirth.
James, distraught by the loss of his wife, travels to Vault 101 with his child via Megaton, with the help of
Paladin Cross, abandoning Project Purity.
2259
Madison Li arrives at Rivet City and takes over as head of the city's science lab from Pinkerton.
Pinkerton's whole staff starts working with her instead.[173] Incensed by this, Pinkerton moves to Rivet
City's broken bow and becomes a recluse, continuing his experiments alone.
James is hired by Overseer Alphonse Almodovar as Vault 101's vault physician.
The Lone Wanderer's first birthday is celebrated in Vault 101.
2260
A generator in the Citadel overloads, creating errors in the artificial intelligence routines of the medical
robot called Sawbones, giving him intelligence beyond his programming and a disliking for his human
masters.
Amata Almodovar's mother dies from unknown causes.
2265
Bannon arrives in Rivet City and helps establish it as a trading center of the Capital Wasteland (or so he
claims).
A 7-year-old girl from Little Lamplight kills a mole rat with a knife as big as her arm, and is named after
the weapon. She is considered to be a bona fide celebrity ever since.
2267
The Great Khans arrive in the Mojave Wasteland.
Regulators first appeared in the Capital Wasteland around this time.
2268
Stanley Armstrong, a Vault 101 technician, loses a copy of Dean's Electronics.
July 12: Stanley Armstrong with Andy's help, repairs Vault 101's water purifier.
July 13: The Lone Wanderer celebrates their tenth birthday and receives presents: a Pip-Boy 3000, a
kid's baseball cap, A birthday poem, a Grognak the Barbarian comic book, a sweetroll, and a BB gun.
2269
A slave named Caleb Smith escapes from his masters and joins a raider band.
2270
Pacification of the Mojave: NCR forces under General Kimball destroy the tribes in the Bullhead City
area.
2271
A slave named Hannibal Hamlin escapes from his master.
Daisy Roe, the sister of Ernest "Uncle" Roe, wife of Louis Pacion, and mother of Derek Pacion is killed in
a raider attack on her caravan.
The Ranger Unification Treaty is signed between the NCR and the Desert Rangers. It is around this time
that the NCR moves into the New Vegas area.
2272
Three Dog restarts Galaxy News Radio, operating under the protection of Brotherhood contingents.
The New California Republic establishes the Mojave Outpost.
Johnson Nash and Ruby Nash move to Primm as agents for the Mojave Express.
Nova moves to Megaton.
2273
Reilly starts Reilly's Rangers.
Corporal Sterling of the NCR Rangers is captured and tortured by Caesar's Legion legionnaires. He
manages to escape by rolling into the Colorado River down an embankment and is rescued by fellow
Rangers.
Aaron Kimball retires from the military and runs for the office of one of the Hub's governors.[154]
Wendell Peterson is voted out of office and Kimball is sworn in as the new NCR president, just two
months after starting his political career.
2274
NCR scouts reach Hoover Dam, causing Mr. House to recruit three tribes and recondition them into the
Three Families. By the time the NCR reaches the ruins of Las Vegas, they are able to return home with
tales of a city of lights in the middle of the desert. Not long after, tourist money starts rolling into the
newly christened New Vegas.
The NCR reluctantly sign the New Vegas treaty. NCR are allowed to control the Hoover Dam and to set
up headquarters at Camp McCarran, while recognizing Mr. House and the three families as the rightful
owners of the Strip. 5% of the energy from the dam is transferred to the Strip while the rest goes back to
California.
Hoover Dam restarts and the Strip blazes with light. The first trickle of privileged, curious NCR citizens
visits the Strip. The Strip opens for business.
MacCready becomes the mayor of Little Lamplight.
Hannibal Hamlin finds Lincoln's head and establishes the anti-slavery organization known as the Temple
of the Union.
August 3: The Lone Wanderer passes the G.O.A.T.
Louis Pacion is killed in a raider attack on his caravan much like his wife Daisy Roe was three years prior.
Their son Derek is taken in by Daisy's brother Ernest Roe, mayor of Canterbury Commons.
2275
Camp McCarran, NCR's headquarters in the Mojave Wasteland, is established. Conflict with the Mojave
Chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel begins.
The NCR government ceases to officially support the Followers of the Apocalypse, and establishes its
own Office of Science and Industry.
Benny kills Bingo and takes over the Chairmen. The Chairmen then start renovating The Tops.
Maggie's parents die in a raider attack, and she is rescued by the caravan guard Billy Creel.
Legion scouts report the NCR has occupied and restarted Hoover Dam, restoring electrical power to the
Strip. Caesar begins planning war against the NCR.
2275-2276: Legion forces gradually assemble east of the Colorado River. The NCR becomes aware of the
threat when scouting parties fail to return from expeditions east.
2276
Henry Casdin and several members of the Brotherhood of Steel leave the Citadel and form the
Brotherhood Outcasts.
The Mojave Wasteland Brotherhood of Steel, led by Elder Elijah, are dealt a crushing blow in the loss of
HELIOS One to the NCR in Operation: Sunburst.
October 2: William Brandice moves his family to Grayditch, after leaving Navarro, deserting from the
Enclave army.
November 15: The scientist doctor Weston Lesko moves into Grayditch, moving in with Fred Wilks and
his son Bryan. He soon moves into a shack nearby.
2277
Intended year for Vault 13 to open once again.
Harold appears in the Capital Wasteland. He is discovered by several people who begin to worship him
as a god, and a small and exclusive cult known as the Treeminders begin to form in secrecy. Bob begins
to blossom and many plants grow in the area, which becomes green with life, a stark contrast to the
outer wasteland.
Caesar's Legion moves into the Mojave, setting up their base of operations at Fortification Hill.
The First Battle of Hoover Dam takes place. Caesar's Legion forces under the command of Joshua
Graham attempt to take the Hoover Dam from the NCR. Although the attack is initially successful, the
NCR lures the Legion into a trap and sends them retreating. Most of Boulder City is reduced to rubble in
the battle. Legate Graham, deemed responsible for the defeat by Caesar, is coated in pitch, lit on fire,
and tossed into the Grand Canyon to set an example for others.
A band of raiders attempt an assault on Megaton but fail when their leader Boppo is shot and killed by
the town sheriff, Lucas Simms.
August 17, 09:04: Fallout 3 prologue ends and Fallout 3 begins - James disappears from Vault 101 and
his son/daughter, the Lone Wanderer (aged 19), heads to the surface to search for him.
A slave by the name of Wernher travels to the Capital Wasteland from The Pitt by way of a rusty
handcart, seeking the help of someone to free his people from their slaver oppressors and on a later
unknown day, encounters the Lone Wanderer, who decides the fate of the slaves and changes the
destiny of The Pitt forever.
The Brotherhood Outcasts seek assistance when trying to recover valuable pieces of technology from
the Virtual Strategic Solutions facility in the Capital Wasteland. The Lone Wanderer arrives later on at an
unknown date and assists them by taking part of the Anchorage Reclamation simulation.
The Lone Wanderer enters Megaton in search of their Father and meets Moira Brown at the Craterside
Supply. Moira, with the help of the Lone Wanderer, writes the Wasteland Survival Guide. The book
becomes so widely used that it migrates across the United States, with copies turning up in the Mojave
Wasteland by 2281.
Doctor Weston Lesko begins his experimentation at Marigold station, attempting to decrease the size of
giant ants, turning them into fire ants by accident, which then proceed to destroy the town of Grayditch.
James, the Lone Wanderer's father, sacrifices himself at Project Purity to thwart Colonel Autumn's
attempt to commandeer the facility for the Enclave. Several other people at the project survive.
The Lone Wanderer embarks on a search for a Garden of Eden Creation Kit.
Fallout 3 base-game ends - The Lone Wanderer activates Project Purity, declining the Enclave's request
to sabotage the purifier, and the Capital Wasteland is changed forever. Adams Air Force Base is also
destroyed. The East Coast Brotherhood of Steel begins to distribute Aqua Pura to a thirsty Capital
Wasteland. Regardless of the Lone Wanderer's decision in the mobile base crawler, the Enclave still lose
the war, and lose almost all influence and prominence in the Capital Wasteland, leading them to an
uncertain future.
Madison Li leaves the Capital Wasteland and travels to the Commonwealth.
A steamship, the Duchess Gambit, travels down the River Potomac and docks to the southeast of
Alexandria Arms in the Capital Wasteland. The ferryman offers wastelanders a chance to travel to Point
Lookout. The Lone Wanderer embarks on a journey to seek out pre-War treasures, but instead discovers
a feud between two parties from before the War.
The Earth is saved by the Lone Wanderer from an alien threat when they are captured in the northern
Capital Wasteland by an alien mothership named Zeta, taking the control of the ship with a typical group
of survivors from Earth's past, and destroying another alien mothership near Zeta.
Vault 81 opens its door to the Commonwealth inviting communication and much needed trade with any
friendly settlements. This move is made out of dire necessity for food and parts to maintain the two
hundred year old vault as there is still a great deal of isolationist sentiment amongst the population.
2278
Tabitha gathers a group of Mariposa super mutants and establishes the State of Utobitha at the Black
Mountain radio complex.
The NCR massacres dozens of Great Khans at Bitter Springs.
Following the abduction and killing of four soldiers, NCR troops assault the Great Khans' settlement at
Red Rock Canyon and massacre several dozen men, women and children. This event goes unreported in
NCR press.
Elder Owyn Lyons of the East Coast chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel dies of natural causes and is
succeeded by his daughter Sentinel Sarah Lyons. This does not last long as she is soon KIA and a
succession of ineffectual leaders attempt to lead for several years.
2279
November 14: The Securitron vault suffers a radiation leak at 3:47. A maintenance bot is dispatched a
minute later. At 3:50, a power surge occurs. The bot becomes non-responsive, and the vault goes on
Security Alert Level 1.
2280
The Brotherhood of Steel send their first recon team to the Commonwealth. The mission is a success,
with the team returning with information on the region and other important assets.
2281
New Canaan is destroyed by the White Legs in an attempt to gain enough favor with Caesar's Legion to
be assimilated.[244] The surviving residents of New Canaan are scattered across Utah.
Caesar's Legion attacks Nipton, everyone is killed but Oliver Swanick and Boxcars, but Boxcars is left with
his legs crippled.
Benny, Jessup, McMurphy, Chance and several other Great Khans travel out into the Mojave Wasteland
to ambush the Courier carrying the platinum chip.
October 11: Fallout: New Vegas intro - The Courier is ambushed and shot in the head by Benny, left for
dead in a shallow, unmarked grave in Goodsprings Cemetery. Victor finds the body and retrieves it, and
the Courier makes a miraculous recovery in the care of Doc Mitchell.
October 19, 08:00: Fallout: New Vegas begins - The Courier regains consciousness and leaves Mitchell's
house in Goodsprings for search of revenge against Benny.
The Courier eventually finds Benny and works among various factions in the fight for Hoover Dam.
The Courier follows an old radio message broadcasting about the gala in the Sierra Madre, leading them
to an abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker. Here, they are captured by Dog and taken to the Sierra
Madre. In the Sierra Madre, they have to obey Elijah with a group of survivors, but the Courier takes
over from Elijah and manages to escape from the Sierra Madre to return into the Mojave Wasteland.
An expedition of the Happy Trails Caravan Company lead by Jed Masterson for New Canaan by passing
into Zion Canyon is about to start and the Courier takes part. In Zion Canyon, all members of the
expedition except the Courier are killed. The Courier walks out of the history of the tribes of Zion,
shifting the fragile balance of power.
A strange satellite crashes in the Mojave Drive-in. The Courier arrives and inspects the satellite during
the night, which triggers the unique teleporter on board the satellite and transports them to Big MT. In
Big MT, the Courier becomes a cyborg after a science experiment went awry; their brain, heart, and
spine have been replaced with advanced technologies. The Courier encounters the Think Tank, some of
former Big MT executives, asking for the Courier's aid to save them from Mobius. The Courier and
Mobius meet and the Courier gets at least their heart and spine back in their body.
Ulysses meets the Courier in the Divide and a battle takes place. The two couriers fight beneath an
ancient flag at the edge of the world, each carrying a message for the other.
Robert Joseph MacCready leaves the Capital Wasteland for the Commonwealth at some point.
2282
McDonough becomes Mayor of Diamond City by running on an anti-ghoul platform, "Humanity for
McDonough"; after his inauguration, he passes an anti-ghoul decree, banning all ghoul residents from
Diamond City.
General Joe Becker dies at some point before May of this year.
2283
Following his successes as a Knight in the East Coast Brotherhood as well as possessing a strong will and
a knack for diplomacy, a sixteen year old Arthur Maxson is promoted to Elder and given command of the
East Coast Chapter. He continues his impressive career first by recanting several of Owyn Lyons
initiatives including the protection of common wastelanders in favor of collection of technology and
reconnecting with the West Coast Elders which brought the Brotherhood Outcasts back into the fold and
bolstered their numbers.[241]
Liam Binet, Institute scientist, establishes communication with the Railroad under the codename
"Patriot".
2284
The Brotherhood of Steel send Recon Squad Artemis to investigate the Commonwealth. Contact with
the squad is immediately lost and all members are killed except Paladin Brandis.
2287
The Quincy Massacre occurs. The attacking Gunners kill all but 20 of the town's residents and occupy the
ruins. A squad of Commonwealth Minutemen attempt to defend the town, but fail. The surviving
Minutemen, led by Preston Garvey, escort the remaining settlers northwest. Over time, the group is
reduced to a mere five people.
Recon Squad Gladius, the third Brotherhood scout team, arrive in the Commonwealth. They set up base
within the Cambridge Police Station but after days of fighting, four out of seven members of the team
are killed.
The Institute launches an attack on the Railroad's safehouses, including their headquarters at the
Switchboard.
October 23: Fallout 4 begins - the Sole Survivor leaves Vault 111, exactly 210 years after the start of the
Great War in search of their son.
The Sole Survivor rescues Nick Valentine from Vault 114, after being held captive by Skinny Malone and
a large number of Triggermen.
Conrad Kellogg is killed by the Sole Survivor in Fort Hagen.
The Brotherhood of Steel and Elder Arthur Maxson arrive in the Commonwealth from the Capital
Wasteland, with Boston Airport being secured and set up as a regional base of operations, leaving the
Prydwen in hover mode above the airport. Vertibirds begin to patrol the skies, and research patrols and
ground teams carry out operations throughout the region. Cambridge Police Station is also reinforced.
[263]
The Sole Survivor and Nick Valentine enter Kellogg's memories together in the Memory Den in
Goodneighbor.
The Sole Survivor and Nick get assigned the case which leads them to Far Harbor on The Island in search
of a young woman. The Sole Survivor later gets involved in a local conflict, and eventually resolves it.
The Sole Survivor enters the Glowing Sea and traces Doctor Brian Virgil, a former Institute scientist, and
gains information on how to enter the Institute.
An Institute Courser designated Z2-47 tracks down a runaway synth named K1-98, who has been
kidnapped by the Gunners and held captive in Greenetech Genetics. The Sole Survivor tracks down Z2-
47, in their efforts to gain a Courser chip. Z2-47 and the Sole Survivor simultaneously assault the
building. The Gunner forces are defeated, and Z2-47 is killed by the Sole Survivor.
With the assistance of Virgil and an unknown organization, the Sole Survivor builds a signal interceptor
to teleport inside of the Institute. The Sole Survivor gains access, and finally finds their son.
The Sole Survivor later gets involved in a conflict between the various factions and eventually resolves it.
The Mechanist releases robots upon the commonwealth, the Sole Survivor assists a robot by the name
of Ada and manages to end the Mechanist's robot threat.
The Sole Survivor assists Valery Barstow in her experiments and expansion of Vault 88.
The Sole Survivor travels to Nuka-World and after going through the gauntlet and defeating the
overboss gets offered to be the new overboss of Nuka-World (the outcome is currently unknown).
2297
The following is based on the Collector's Edition Fallout 3 Official Game Guide's Afterword entry and has
not been confirmed by canon sources.
September 10: Moira Brown writes a daily log reminiscing on the Lone Wanderer's actions in 2277, and
begins working on a biography of them.
End of information based on the Collector's Edition Fallout 3 Official Game Guide's Afterword entry.
2316
The Bishop child, leader of the Bishop family of New Reno and the son of the Chosen One, dies quietly in
his sleep, having never known his real father.
2377
Estimated year that the United States will be habitable again, according to the Vault 101 PA System.
2910
Big MT suffers a "sonic invasion" and is saved by Blind Diode Jefferson.
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2070
Chryslus Motors debut the first fusion-powered cars.
2072
The US begins annexing Canada.
2074
US troops are deployed in China. The President walks out of trade negotiations, declaring that US oil
won't be for sale or trade.
2076
The US completes its annexing of Canada, and deploys T-51b power armor (made possible by nuclear
fusion cells) in China. On July 4, Vault 76 is opened to celebrate the US tricentennial.
2077
On October 23 the Great War begins. As Ron Perlman puts it in the intro to Fallout 2, "The earth was
nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands, quickly raged out
of control. Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell
beneath the boiling oceans. Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the
background radiation that blanketed the earth." Also on this day, Nuka-Cola Quantum is released to the
public.
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Note that the Fallout world is not our own, but rather one that has diverged from ours soon after World
War II. So, while it takes place in the future, it is not our future, but a future as imagined in traditional
1950s style science fiction.
Note that the timeline is only for the chronological sequence of the Fallout world events; birthdates are
not allowed here and must be put in the birthdates page.
Behind the scenes
Much of the following text comes from the timeline in Fallout Bible 0, written by Chris Avellone, which in
turn comes from the original Fallout timeline, created by Brian Freyermuth and Scott Campbell. Some
post-Fallout information was laid out by Rob Hertenstein, and some dates were added by Chris Avellone
himself.
Additionally, this timeline includes all dates seen or mentioned in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout:
New Vegas, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, in all Fallout official
game guides, in the Fallout Bible as well as Van Buren design documents.
2080
Survivors of the Great War still living on the surface begin to notice mutation spreading, both among
themselves and animals.
2102
The start date of Fallout 76. It's Reclamation Day, again.
2126
In The Hub, a group of merchants seize control of the settlement's water tower and rival merchants
unite to fight them. The Great Merchant Wars begin.
2138
Robert House awakens from cryogenesis.
2161
Start date of the original Fallout.
2165
The Vault Dweller, protagonist of Fallout, settles down and founds the settlement of Arroyo with several
other exiles from Vault 13 and members of local surface tribes.
2189
The settlements of Shady Sands, Los Angeles, Maxson, the Hub, and Dayglow vote to combine
themselves into a federation called the New California Republic.
2228
The ghouls of the Capital Wasteland form the Underworld.
2231
The Boomers settle Nellis Air Force Base.
2241
Start date of Fallout 2.
2255
Caesar establishes a base for the Legion in Flagstaff, Arizona. The Pitt, a raider settlement in what was
Pittsburgh, is attacked by the Brotherhood of Steel and almost the entire population is wiped out in an
action called 'the Scourge'.
2258
Start date of Fallout 3, or at least its character creation.
2270
The NCR defeats the tribes based around Bullhead City in an action called the Pacification of the Mojave.
2271
The NCR and the Desert Rangers sign the Ranger Unification Treaty.
2272
Galaxy News Radio makes its first broadcast.
2277
Caesar's Legion moves into the Mojave, and the first Battle of Hoover Dam occurs. Boulder City is
flattened, but the Legion is defeated when the NCR lure them into a trap. Caesar blames Legate Graham,
and he is punished by being set on fire and thrown into the Grand Canyon.
2281
Start date of Fallout: New Vegas.
2287
The Quincy Massacre occurs when the Gunners attack the Commonwealth Minutemen, leaving only 20
of them alive. Start date of Fallout 4.
2910
The furthest event in the timeline of Fallout is a hypothetical one, but if you complete the excellent Old
World Blues expansion for Fallout: New Vegas and fully upgrade Blind Diode Jefferson, the AI who has
the blues, then the epilogue explains he eventually "created a symphonic counter-frequency that saved
Big MT from sonic invasion in 2910. If you didn't hear about it—good."
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Background
Events below must be specifically referenced by date in-game and appropriate references added for
each. Dates mentioned in non-canon sources are found on the timeline here.
This article is under construction. References waiting to be vetted and merged into the table are found
here. Please follow merging directions carefully. Timelines use the present tense.
Pre-War
To 1700
Pre-War timeline
Date Event Game Ref.
1000-200 B.C. Adena Native Americans live in Appalachia. Fallout 76 [1]
1066 The Battle of Hastings takes place. Fallout 3 [2]
1612 John Smith discovers Point Lookout. Fallout 3 [3]
1634 Two English settler ships, the "Ark" and the "Dove," land near Point Lookout. Fallout 3
[4]
1634 Boston Common is established. Fallout 4 [5]
1660 The Granary Burying Grounds are established. Fallout 4 [6]
1680 The structure that would later serve as Paul Revere's home is built. Fallout 4 [7]
1690 Boston's first newspaper, Publick Occurrences, is published. Fallout 4 [8]
1697 May 17 Andrew Endicott is abducted by aliens from his home in Salem. Fallout 3 [9]
1700s
Pre-War timeline
1711 Cabot House is established in Boston, Massachusetts. Fallout 4 [10]
1711 The Great Fire of 1711 takes place in Boston. Fallout 4 [11]
1713 The Old State House is built in Boston. Fallout 4 [11]
1714 The Soil Stradivarius violin is created by the Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari. Fallout 3
[12]
1723 The Old North Church is built. Fallout 4 [13]
1742 French merchant Peter Faneuil donates building to the city of Boston, subsequently named
Faneuil Hall. Fallout 4 [13]
1770 The Boston Massacre takes place outside of the Old State House. Fallout 4 [11]
1770 Paul Revere purchases the home that would later be situated on the Freedom Trail. Fallout
4 [7]
1775 April 18 Lieutenant Colonel Smith marches with 700 British soldiers to Concord, beginning the
events of the Revolutionary War. Fallout 4 [13][14]
1776 Berkeley Springs is established. Fallout 76 [15]
1776 Jul 4 The Declaration of Independence is issued, splitting the newly formed United States of
America from King George III and Great Britain. Fallout 3 [16][17]
1786 The Constitution of the United States is drafted. Fallout 3 [18]
1787 Sep 17 The Constitution of the United States is adopted. Fallout 3 [17]
1791 The Bill of Rights is ratified. Fallout 3 [17]
1794 Point Pleasant is founded. Fallout 76 [19]
1797 Fort Independence is named at a ceremony presided over by President John Adams. Fallout
4 [20]
1798 The new Massachusetts State House is completed. Fallout 4 [11]
1798 Uisce Beatha company begins distilling whiskey. Fallout 76 [21]
1800s
Pre-War timeline
1816 May Hopewell Cave is discovered. Fallout 76 [1]
1822 Nicephore Niepce makes major breakthrough in photoengraving, a predecessor of photography.
Fallout 76 [22]
1823 President James Monroe presents the Monroe Doctrine.Fallout 3 [23]
1845 Henry David Thoreau begins his stay at Walden Pond cabin as part of a transcendentalist
experiment. Fallout 4 [24]
1848 The California Gold Rush kicks off, bringing many would-be miners to the west coast of the
United States. Fallout 76 [25]
1856 Grafton is founded. Fallout 76 [26]
1858 The Whitespring Resort is established. Fallout 76 [27]
1861 May Colonel Kelley receives a promotion to lead the 1st Virginia Infantry. Fallout 76'
[28]
1861 June 3 The first land battle of the American Civil War occurs near Philippi, Virginia. Fallout
76 [29]
1862 President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery in the United
States. Fallout 3 [30]
1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address. Fallout 3 [31]
1865 April 20 The War Department in Washington issues a wanted poster for the capture of John
Wilkes Booth following the assassination of President Lincoln. Fallout 3 [32]
1866 Eastern Regional Penitentiary is established in Appalachia. Fallout 76 [33]
1869 Helvetia is settled by German and Swiss immigrants. Fallout 76 [34]
1879 James Ritty invents the cash register. Fallout 3 [35]
1890 July 14 The Legal Tender Act is passed. Fallout 76 [36]
1894 Welch, West Virginia is founded. Fallout 76 [37]
1894 Lorenzo Cabot embarks on an expedition to the Rub' al Khali desert in Arabia, in search of the
legendary lost city of Ubar. Fallout 4 [38]
1895 The Schoelt propane company is established. Fallout 4 [39]
1897 Boston's subway system is built, the first of its kind in the United States. Fallout 4 [40]
1898 Lorenzo Cabot is imprisoned in Parsons State Insane Asylum by his son, Jack. Fallout 4
[41][42]
1900s
Pre-War timeline
1903 Dec 17 The Wright Flyer I aircraft successfully makes the first sustained and controlled heavier-
than-air powered flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Fallout 3 [43]
1903 Mary Anderson invents the windshield wiper. Fallout 3 [35]
1907 A mining disaster occurs in Monongah, resulting in 367 fatalities. Fallout 76 [44]
1908 May 10 Mother's Day is first celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia. Fallout 76 [26]
1918 Boston wins their last World Series championship. Fallout 4 [45]
1918 The Sunset Sarsaparilla Company is founded. New Vegas [46]
1925 Richard G. Drew invents adhesive tape. Fallout 3 [35]
1928 The Silver Bridge is constructed, connecting the communities of Gallipolis, Ohio and Point
Pleasant, West Virginia. Fallout 76 [47]
1931 Vim! Pop Incorporated is founded. Fallout 4 [48]
1934 "Flying Scotsman" sets a world speed record for steam trains, traveling at 100 mph. Fallout
76 [49]
1935 Carl C. Magee invents the parking meter. Fallout 3 [35]
1938 The Giant Teapot is built as a landmark representing the largest pottery industry in the world.
Fallout 76 [50]
1941 Dec 11 The United States of America declares war on Germany. Fallout 3 [51]
1945 The United States ends World War II by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Fallout 4 [52]
1948 July 21 A B-29 airplane crashes into Lake Mead. New Vegas [53]
1950 May 15 The West Virginian Liberty Bell begins the "U.S. Savings Bonds Independence Drive" tour
of the state, ending on Independence Day. Fallout 76 [54]
1952 The Miners Monument is built to commemorate the hard working miners of Appalachia. A
replica was installed in the town of Beckley. Fallout 76 [55]
1961 May 5 Captain Carl Bell becomes the first human in space aboard Defiance 7. Fallout 3
[56]
1967 The Silver Bridge collapses into the Ohio River, resulting in 46 deaths. Fallout 76 [47]
1968 Congress adopts the National Bridge Inspection standards in response to the Silver Bridge
tragedy. Fallout 76 [47]
1969 July 16 The Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 becomes the first manned space vehicle to touch
down on the moon. Fallout 3 [57]
1969 Nov 14 Valiant 12 mirrors that of its predecessor and reaches the moon. Fallout 3
[58]
1969 The Thirteen Commonwealths are established. Fallout 4 [11]
1978 The Pumpkin House is founded. Fallout 76 [59]
To 2070
Pre-War timeline
2002 West Tek is founded as a private contractor for the U.S. government. Fallout [60]
2003 Cazadores are created by Borous at Big MT. New Vegas [61]
2009 Smitty's is established. New Vegas [62]
2020 The Delta IX rocket is commissioned by the United States Space Administration. Fallout 3
[63]
2021 Hubris Comics begins publishing comic books, including Grognak the Barbarian. Fallout 3
[64]
2026 The original Vim! Pop factory burns down, and a recreation is built. Fallout 4 [48]
2031 Morgantown's local college rebrands as Vault-Tec University. Fallout 76 [65]
2031 Boston city council unanimously votes to have Emilia Butler's remains interred within the
Granary Burying Grounds. Fallout 4 [6]
2031 The Mistress of Mystery makes her debut in Hubris Heroes #8, published by Hubris Comics.
Fallout 76 [66]
2036 Landview Lighthouse is established. Fallout 76 [67]
2041 Aug 16 Professor Morrison Rand was abducted by aliens while leaving Banfield College in
Humboldt, Oregon. Fallout 3 [68]
2042 Egret Tours Marina is founded along the Charles River. Fallout 4 [69]
2042 Wilson Atomatoys is founded in Boston. Fallout 4 [70]
2042 June 25 Robert House founds RobCo Industries. New Vegas [71]
2043 Spring Mass Fusion is founded by Karl Oslow. Fallout 4 [72]
2044 Project dedicated to the development of X277 "Viper" magnetic rail cannon is abandoned due to
cost. Fallout 3 [73]
2044 Amateur chemist John-Caleb Bradberton discovers the formula for Nuka-Cola. Fallout 4
[74]
2044 The Great Passion Fruit Famine takes place, forcing Nuka-Cola Corporation to alter their soda
recipe. Fallout 3 [75]
2050 May 1 The Nuka-World amusement park opens, featuring its first two attractions, Nuka-Town
U.S.A. and Kiddie Kingdom. Fallout 4 [76]
2052 An energy crisis takes place, resulting in initiatives to develop alternate fuels. New Vegas
[77]
2052 The last manned flight to the moon arrives on its surface. Fallout 3 [58]
2052 July 26 The United Nations disbands before brokering a cease fire between European and
Middle Eastern forces. Fallout 3 [78][79]
2053 US Robotics Disposal is founded. Fallout 4 [80]
2054 REPCONN is founded shortly after the completion and launch of the Delta XI rocket. New
Vegas [77]
2058 The Dry Rock Gulch attraction opens at Nuka-World. Fallout 4 [81]
2060 The U.S. military develops cargobot for reconnaissance and delivery of supplies in hostile
environments. Fallout 76 [82]
2060 The city of Bradberton is founded, intended for staff members who wanted to shorten their
commute to Nuka-World. Fallout 4 [83]
2061 Lewisburg is given the year's "Coolest Small Town USA" distinction. Fallout 76 [84]
2061 March Construction of Vault 108 begins. Fallout 3 [85]
2061 March 17 Allegheny Asylum shuttered. Fallout 76 [86]
2062 Hubris Comics founds holotape game studio. Fallout 76 [87]
2062 Wan Yang is arrested as a suspect in the Niagara Sabotage. Fallout 3 [88]
2062 May Construction of Vault 92 begins. Fallout 3 [85]
2062 May 3rd A U.F.O. codenamed "Paladine" crashes just north of Hagerstown, Maryland, but could
not be recovered. Fallout 3 [89]
2064 March Construction of Vault 106 begins. Fallout 3 [85]
2065 February Construction of Vault 76 begins. Fallout 76 [85]
2065 April 14 M.A.R.Go.T. enters service. Fallout 3 [90]
2066 May Construction begins on Vault 87. Fallout 3 [85]
2066 Winter Chinese forces invade Alaska. Fallout 3 [91][92]
2066 The U.S.S. Ebon Atoll sinks off the coast of Alaska. Fallout 3 [93]
2066 United States scientists introduce the fusion cell as a potential solution to the energy crisis.
Fallout 3 [94]
2067 The Safari Adventure attraction opens at Nuka-World. Fallout 4 [81]
2067 Power armor is first deployed in Alaska. Fallout 3 [95]
2068 Construction begins on Vault 112. Fallout 3 [85]
2070 to Great War
Pre-War timeline
2070 The United States Space Administration launches the Deep Sleep project to test hibernation
pods in outer space. Fallout 76 [96]
2071 The Silver Shroud vs. Captain Cosmos episode airs on the Silver Stroud radio program for
Thanksgiving. Fallout 4 [97]
2071 West Tek research facility is placed under United States military command. Fallout [98]
2072 The last of Nuka-World's additions, Galactic Zone, opens to the public. Fallout 4 [99]
2072 July 14 The Charleston Herald reports the death of five individuals due to a mob shootout at the
Ultra-Luxe Casino in Las Vegas. Fallout 76 [100]
2072 July 17 Chinese spy Shanghai Sally is killed in Galveston after a police chase through multiple
cities. Fallout 76 [101]
2073 Sep 15 U.S. government establishes Pan-Immunity Virion Project to combat use of biological
weapons. Fallout [60]
2074 Spring Cambridge Polymer Labs, LLC is founded. Fallout 4 [102]
2075 Jan 14 BADTFL agents break up a major firearms smuggling ring supplying illegal arms across
the country. Fallout 76 [103]
2075 Feb 14 The Anaheim Jets win Super Bowl CXII, 95-90. Fallout [104]
2075 Feb 15 Under pressure from the United States Army, the CEO of Dyer Chemical hands over
control of the company's production line for Project Clean & Clear. Fallout 76 [105]
2075 May 27 The Whitespring publishes a press release announcing the resort's 2080 Initiative, a
major five-year renovation project. Fallout 76 [106]
2075 June General Brock assumes command of Fort Strong. Fallout 4 [107]
2075 August The USSA awards ArcJet Systems the contract to develop the XMB booster engine and
deep range transmitter for the Mars Shot Project. Fallout 4 [108]
2075 REPCONN is purchased by RobCo Industries. New Vegas [77]
2077 The Mariposa Military Base is built in central California to conduct Forced Evolutionary Virus
research. Fallout [109][110]
2077 January 10 Anchorage, Alaska is liberated from Chinese. Fallout 76 [92][111]
2077 April 2 John-Caleb Bradberton undergoes surgical procedure to have his head transplanted into
the LEAP-X system, sustaining his life indefinitely. Fallout 4 [112]
2077 June 4 A bomb is defused successfully near a Berkeley Springs highway, thwarting the
"Appalachian Assassin." Fallout 76 [113]
2077 Oct 22 The platinum chip is created in Sunnyvale, California. New Vegas [114]
Great War
Great War aftermath
2077 Oct 23 The United States is struck by nuclear weapons, a cataclysmic event known as the Great
War. Fallout 4 [115]
2077 Oct 27 Captain Maxson leaves Mariposa, leading his group to the government bunker at Lost
Hills. Fallout 2 [116]
Post-War
Post-War timeline
2102 Fallout 76 begins. Fallout 76 [117]
2161 Fallout begins. Fallout [117]
2178 Institute Directorate pre-approves research on samples of the FEV virus. Fallout 4 [118]
2180 The Commonwealth Minutemen defend Diamond City from a super mutant attack, rising to
prominence as a result. Fallout 4 [119]
2197 Fallout Tactics begins. Fallout Tactics [117]
2208 Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel begins. Fallout BoS [117]
2224 Institute FEV research reaches impasse due to subjects' radiation exposure. Fallout 4
[118]
2229 May The Broken Mask incident occurs in Diamond City. Fallout 4 [120][121]
2240 The Commonwealth Minutemen's headquarters, the Castle, is destroyed by a sea monster.
Fallout 4 [20]
2240 The town of Goodneighbor is founded by criminals banished from Diamond City.Fallout 4
[122]
2255 A Brotherhood of Steel expedition led by Owyn Lyons arrives in the Capital Wasteland. Fallout
3 [123]
2271 The NCR Rangers and the Desert Rangers sign the Ranger Unification Treaty, merging their
efforts in the Mojave. New Vegas [124][125]
2273 The NCR sends Rangers on covert reconnaissance missions to Hoover Dam and the ruins of Las
Vegas. New Vegas [126]
2274 President Aaron Kimball sends the NCR army into the Mojave in force, with the objective of
occupying and repairing the Hoover Dam. New Vegas [127]
2274 Robert House begins renovations of New Vegas. New Vegas [128]
2277 Caesar's Legion moves into the Mojave, setting up their base of operations at Fortification Hill.
New Vegas [129]
2277 NCR forces defeat Caesar's Legion during the Battle of Hoover Dam. New Vegas [130]
[131]
2281 Fallout: New Vegas begins. New Vegas [117]
2282 McDonough is elected mayor of Diamond City and banishes ghoul residents. Fallout 4
[132]
2282 General Joe Becker dies, plunging the Commonwealth Minutemen into infighting over his
replacement. Fallout 4 [133]
2287 Fallout 4 begins.

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What follows is a complete Fallout timeline of all events from every game.

The historic town of Concord is incorporated in Massachusets.

The infamous Salem witch trials begin.

Soil Stradivarius is fabricated by Antonio Stradivari.

The Old North Church in Boston is built.

Boston's Trinity Church is founded.

The French and Indian War ends.

The Shamrock Taphouse is established in Boston Harbor.

The Bill of Rights is drafted by the United States Constitution.

Uisce beatha whiskey company is founded.

The historic Wildwood cemetery is founded.

April 12: The American Civil War begins.

April 9: The American Civil War is officially brought to an end.

Jamaica Plain is incorporated.

Capitol Post Newspaper in Washington, D.C. is founded.

The present day structure for Trinity Church is completed.

James Ritty invents the cash register.

Schoelt, a distributor of propane fuel, is founded.

June 11: Lorenzo Cabot is admitted to Parsons State Insane Asylum.

In baseball, Boston wins the 1903 World Series.

Mary Anderson invents windshield wiper.

In baseball, Boston wins the 1912 World Series.

July 28: World War I begins.

In baseball, Boston wins the 1915 World Series.

In baseball, Boston wins the 1916 World Series.

Sunset Sarsaparilla enters production.

In baseball, Boston wins the 1918 World Series.

November 11: World War I comes to an end.

Lamplight Caverns is converted into a tourist attraction.

Soviet Union is formed by Vladimir Lenin.

Richard G. Drew invents adhesive tape.

March: Vikki and Vance begin their crime spree.

Carl C. Magee invents the parking meter.

September 1: World War II begins.

October 24: The United Nations are established.

The West Tek Research Facility is founded.

In Vegas, Smitty's opens its doors.

Wonderglue is established this year.

The original Vim! Pop Inc. factory burns down.

Wilson Automatoys is established in Boston, Massachusetts.

Giddyup Buttercup, a product of Wilson Automatoys, is copyrighted.

June 25: Robert House founds RobCo Industries.

Nuka-Cola is invented by John-Caleb Bradberton.

Mass Fusion Company is founded by Karl Oslow.

Weston water treatment plant is built.

July 26: The United Nations is officially disbanded.

March: Construction of Vault 108 begins.

May: Construction of Vault 92 begins.

Wan Yang is arrested as a suspect in the Niagara Sabotage.

March: Construction of Vault 106 begins.

April 14: The M.A.R.Go.T. computer enters service.

May: Construction of Vault 87 begins.

May: Construction of Vault 92 ends.

November: Construction of Vault 112 begins.

October: Construction of Vault 76 ends.

Planned Diversion Programming copyrights the hologame Atomic Command.

December: Construction of Vault 87 ends.

June: Ezra Parker prevents the assassination of Sergey Urbonas.

Legislative Act 21-0 is passed by the United States Congress.

Planned Diversion Programming copyrights the hologame Automatron.

June: Construction of Vault 112 ends.

The Sierra Army Depot A.I., Skynet, becomes self-aware.

Vault-Tec Game Studios copyrights the hologame "Red Menace".

June: General Brock becomes the commanding officer of Fort Strong.