| 1982 C.E |
Birth Of Susan Calvin. Incorporation of
U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men. |
I, Robot |
| 2007 C.E |
Susan Calvin begins to work for U.S.
Robots. Later becomes chief robopsychologist. |
I, Robot |
| Early 21st C |
A social and technical renaissance
flourishes on Earth. Development of positronic robots, controlled by the
Three Laws of Robotics. Hyperatomic Drive allows first
successful interstellar journey. Through an accident, Joseph Schwartz is
sent on a time journey 10,000 years into the future. |
The Complete Robot
I, Robot
Pebble In The Sky |
| 2064 C.E |
Death of Susan Calvin. Humanity begins
colonizing several planets including Aurora. The first chaos outbreaks
affect civilization, breaking down confidence. On Earth, citizens cluster
underground, ban robots from cities. Spacers lose empathy. Relations between
Earth and Spacer Worlds deteriorate. |
I, Robots
Foundation's Triumph |
| 3200 C.E |
The planet Solaria [the last Space
world] settled from the planet Nexon. Decline of the robot-dependent Spacer
culture. Later, Han Fastolfe of Aurora creates the humaniform robot,R.
Daneel Olivaw. |
The Naked Sun |
| 3500 C.E |
SpaceTown is established near New York
City. R. Daneel Olivaw is assigned to work with Earthman detective Elijah
Bailey. |
The Caves Of Steel |
| 3501 C.E |
Elijah Bailey and Daneel Olivaw pursue
an investigation on Solaria. Fastolfe becomes influential in Auroran
government and supports new Earth emigration. Opponents led by Keldon
Amadiro want Spacers to terraform and populate new planets. |
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn |
| 3503 C.E |
Baley carries out investigation on
Aurora accompanied by Daneel Olivaw and Giskard Relentlov - a telepathic
robot. Aurora lets Earth colonize new planets. Giskard suggests Earth folk
must build their new worlds completely without robots. |
The Robots Of Dawn |
| 3505 C.E |
The second wave of emigration from
Earth begins, led by Ben Baley. First Settler planet is named BaleyWorld.
Number of Settler planets grows fast. Relations between Settler and Spacer
worlds grow tense. |
Robots And Empire |
| 3537 C.E |
Death of Elijah Bailey on BaleyWorld. |
Robots And Empire |
| 3697 C.E |
Keldon Amadiro and Levular Manamus
begin planting nuclear amplifiers throughout Earth to take revenge for their
earlier defeat. |
Robots And Empire |
| 3700 C.E |
Death of Han Fastolfe. Population of
Solaria vanishes. Daneel Olivaw and Giskard Relentlov formulate the
Zeroth Law of Robotics, to override original Three Laws. Giskard
provides Daneel with telepathic abilities. Amadiro and allies turn on
amplifiers to make the Earth radioactive and inhabitable. Giskard permits
this for Zeroth Law reasons, in order to encourage
human dispersal, then dies because of First Law conflicts. The Great
Diaspora (final emigration) begins. A majority of robots split into two
camps. Giskardians led by Daneel follow the new Zeroth Law religion.
Calvinians think this an outrage. Robotic civil war ensues, mostly unseen by
humans fleeing poisoned Earth. Meanwhile robot ships operating under Auroran
programming cruise the galaxy ahead of the spreading Settlers, terraforming
and preparing planets for colonization. Meme entities will later claim that
this devastated existing races. Memes escape to the Galactic Core. |
Robots And Empire
Foundation's Fear
Foundations And Chaos |
| 3801 C.E |
Spacer-colonized planet Inferno is
doomed by ecological and cultural catastrophe. Robots are built to operate
under New Laws, giving them greater flexibility and freedom. Settler
specialists help terraform the planet. Hostility toward New Law robots grows
evident. Comet crashes into the planet. Merging of Spacer and Settler
culture prevents social collapse. The interstellar robot civil war
eventually reaches Inferno. New Law robots are destroyed or go into hiding. |
Caliban
Inferno
Utopia
Foundation's Triumph |
| 11300 C.E |
Planet Rhodia and the Nebular Kingdoms
led by the noble Hinriad family shake off rule by planet Tyrann and
rediscover democracy. Decadent Spacer worlds slowly die out. Colonization of
Galaxy completed. R. Daneel Olivaw formulates the Encoding Laws, setting
limits to artificial intelligence. Damping effects such as historical
amnesia, brain fever, and Giskardian mentalic persuasion devices are
introduced to fight chaos, Human mind, society and technology stagnate. Some
human and robot groups fight the amnesia. |
The Stars Like Dust
Foundation And Earth
Foundation's Fear
Foundation's Triumph |
| 12000 C.E |
Trantorian Republic of five worlds
becomes Trantorian Confederation, then later the Trantorian Empire. R.
Daneel Olivaw uses early "laws of humanics" to guide it. Human origins
forgotten. |
The Currents Of Space |
| 12300 C.E |
Half of the inhabited worlds of the
Galaxy are part of Trantorian Empire. Trantor supports rebellion of planet
Florina against oppression by planet Sark. |
The Currents Of Space |
12500 C.E
1 G.E |
Trantorian Empire becomes the Galactic
Empire. Start of Galactic Calendar. |
|
| 827 G.E |
Arrival of Joseph Schwartz (thrown
forward in time during the early 21st Century). A radioactive sparsely
populated Earth tries to revolt against the Empire by using a bio-weapon.
Rebellion fails, thanks partly to Schwartz and a mentalic amplifier. Empire
initially helps Earth recover, then effort is mysteriously abandoned. |
Pebble In The Sky
Foundation's Triumph |
| 900 G.E |
Forced evacuation of inhospitable
Earth. Establishment of colony on planet Alpha. |
Foundation And Earth |
| 975 G.E |
An alien race is discovered on a desert
world and moved to Cepheus 18. Later they mysteriously escape beyond the
Galaxy. |
Blind Alley |
| 2000 G.E |
Daneel Olivaw and R. Yan Kansarv
establish a robot production and repair facility on distant Eos. The great
Emperor Ruellis helps establish principles of good paternalistic government,
augmenting the stability of an unchanging society against chaos. |
Foundation And Chaos
Foundation's Triumph |
| 3000 G.E |
During a chaos outbreak, ancient
personality simulations Voltaire and Joan of Arc debate about machine
intelligence. With support of Calvinian robots, the Empress Shoree-Harn
tries to introduce a new calendar and shake up social rigidity without
success. |
Foundation's Fear
Foundation And Chaos |
| 8789 G.E |
A new "renaissance" begins on planet
Lingane. Falls into chaos eight years later. |
Foundation's Triumph |
| 11865 G.E |
Humanoid robot Dors Venabili is
constructed on Eos |
Foundation's Fear |
| 11867 G.E |
The only extragalactic human colony is
abandoned in the Greater Magellanic Cloud. All data is suppressed. |
Foundation And Chaos |
| 11988 G.E |
Birth of Hari Seldon and Cleon I.
Daneel Olivaw knows the Empire is destabilizing, partly due to frequent
chaos outbreaks. He is forced by the Zeroth Law to
actively interfere, first as Chief of Staff, then as First Minister. His
secret genetic experiments lead both to Hari's mathematical genius and the
appearance of human mentalics. |
Prelude To Foundation
Foundation's Triumph |
| 12010 G.E |
Cleon I becomes Emperor. |
Prelude To Foundation |
| 12020 G.E |
Hari Seldon lectures on possibility of
psychohistory. Daneel persuades him to develop a practical science to help
save the Empire. Dors Venabili becomes Seldon's wife. They adopt a boy,
Raych. Seldon and Yugo Amaryl begin to flesh out psychohistory. |
Prelude To Foundation |
| 12028 G.E |
Calvinian robots, led by R. Plussix,
move to Trantor and find historical documents dating from era of Shoree-Harn,
as well as the sims Voltaire and Joan of Arc. They help seed a new
"renaissance" on planet Sark. Seldon helps remove Laskin Joranum from
politics. Daneel resigns his post. Cleon I makes Seldon First Minister.
Voltaire and Joan get into the Trantorian Mesh where they meet the ancient
memes, triggering a rebellion among "tiktok" robots who kill many of
Daneel's positronic companions. Seldon strikes a deal to get the memes off
Trantor. Sark renaissance falls into chaos. |
Foundation's Fear
Eto Demerzel
Foundation's Fear |
| 12038 G.E |
Death of Cleon I. A military junta
seizes power. Seldon resigns as First Minister. |
Cleon I
Dors Venabili |
| 12040 G.E |
Birth of Wanda Seldon, daughter of
Raych. A new "renaissance" begins on planet Madder Loss. Its collapse rocks
galactic society. |
Dors Venabili
Foundation And Chaos |
| 12048 G.E |
"Death" of Dors Venabili and Fall of
the junta. Puppet Emperor Agis XIV ascends the throne. Real power is in the
hands of the Commission for Public Safety. Daneel brings Dors to the Eos
base for repair. |
Dors Venabili
Wanda Seldon
Foundation And Chaos |
| 12052 G.E |
Birth of Bellis Seldon. Hari Seldon
discovers Wanda's metal abilities. He tries to find others, without success.
Psychohistorical equations predict the unavoidable collapse of the Empire.
Seldon team works out plan to save human knowledge and create a Second
Empire via the Foundation. Death of Yugo Amaryl. |
Wanda Seldon |
| 12058 G.E |
Raych, Manella, and Bellis move to
Santanni where a New Renaissance has begun. Anacreon Province seeks
independence. Chaos breaks out on Santanni, Raych dies, and his family is
lost in space. Stettin Palver, another mentalic joins the Seldon Project. |
|
12067 G.E
1 F.E |
Puppet Emperor Klayus I sits on the
throne. Hari Seldon is put on trail and Commission for Public Safety exiles
the Encyclopedia Foundation to Terminus. Beginning of the Foundation
Calendar. Vara Liso, a strong mentalic, gets entangled in Farad Sinter's
hunt for robot "eternals." Calvinian robots foiled in a plot to ruin Seldon
Project and stymie Daneel's control over human history. |
Foundation
Foundation And Chaos |
| 2 F.E |
Reign of puppet Emperor Semrin. Members
of the Encyclopedia Foundation exiled to Terminus. Daneel plans using human
mentalics to design an overmind Gaia. Millions of ancient archives
destroyed. A New Renaissance on planet Ktlina is devoured by chaos. A
heretic robot tries to send Seldon into the future but is foiled by Daneel.
Mors Planch dives into the future. |
Foundation's Triumph |
| 3 F.E |
Death of Hari Seldon. Chief
Commissioner Linge Chen dies. Replacement pays attention mostly to Trantor
and vicinity. Psychohistorians provoke succession at Empire's Periphery. |
The Originist |
| 50 F.E |
Anacreon declares independence,
separating Terminus from the Empire. Seldon's hologram explains the true
purpose of the Foundation. Terminus offers scientific support for
neighboring kingdoms, balancing their powers. Foundation of the United Stars
Organisation ( USO ) . Warning : The
information below is access - restricted to registered Time - Agents . |
The Encyclopedists
The Mayors |
| 80
- 195 F.E |
Foundation
develops quasi-religious sway over neighboring kingdoms. Foundation then
relies more on economic influence. |
The Mayors
The Traders
The Merchant Princes |
|
195 F.E |
Under Cleon II,
Imperial General Bel Riose campaigns against the Foundation, conquering
large territories. But Cleon recalls the fleet, as predicted by
psychohistory. |
The General |
|
260 F.E |
Dagobert VIII
rules remnant Empire. The rebel Gilmer's troops sack Trantor. Second
Foundation protects the Galactic Library, then signs a peace treaty with
Gilmer. |
Trantor Falls |
|
300 F.E |
Empire of
Dagobert IX has shrunk to twenty worlds centered on Neotrantor. The Mule, a
mutant with strong mentalic power, conquers the Foundation, knocking Seldon
Plan off course. The Mule establishes the Union of Worlds and searches for
the Second Foundation. |
The Mule
Search By The Mule |
|
305 F.E |
Members of the
Second Foundation mentalically alter the Mule, who then gives up further
conquest. |
Search By The
Mule |
|
310 F.E |
Death of the
Mule. The Foundation regains strength, but also begins studying neglected
mental sciences, further endangering Seldon Plan. |
Search By The
Foundation |
|
376 F.E |
The Foundation
searches for the Second Foundation, fearing its mentalic rule. Diverting
this search with a ruse, the Second Foundation continues operating secretly
on Trantor (Star's End). Daneel Olivaw unleashes his Gaia overmind. |
Search By The
Foundation |
|
498 F.E |
The Gaia overmind
offers Golan Trevize ("the man who is always right") a choice between an
Empire built by physical force, one rules by Second Foundation mentalics, or
a galaxy-sized version of Gaia.. Galaxia. No other options are presented and
no other humans consulted. Trevize chooses Galaxia. Preparations being for
gradual assimilation of humanity into the collective overmind. |
Foundation's Edge |
|
499 F.E |
Trevize embarks
on a journey, seeking to explain his choice. On Solaria he finds the
planet's vanished folk have become a new race. Reaching Earth, he meets R.
Daneel Olivaw, whose actions to this point were compelled by the Zeroth Law.
Trevize realized any real solution must take into consideration robots,
Solarians, memes, mutants, and any other kind of intelligence. The right
answer may not be to simplify. |
Foundation And
Earth |
|
520 F.E |
First Galactic
Coalescence Investigation Commission convenes on planet Pengia. The
subsequent Great Destiny Debates rage on for 180 years, interrupted by waves
of violence, amnesia, and chaos. Robotic civil ward reignite. Foundation
civilization approaches ultimate confrontation with both Gaia and Chaos. |
Foundation's
Triumph |
|
1020 F.E |
116th Edition of
the Encyclopedia Galactica published. |
Foundation |
1054 F.E
25621 C.E |
117th Edition of
the Encyclopedia Galactica published. |
Foundation's
Triumph |
