2015: The Hegira. Numerous sleeper ships are launched.

2017:  World War III: The Global Jihad.  An uprising of muslim extremists led to the establishment of a global caliphate over much of Southeast Asia, the MIddle East, Africa, Europe and South America.

2068: World War IV: The Reformation.  A series of rebellions sparked by a resurgent North American Alliance resulted in the formation of  the first true world government: a representative socialistic republic.

2172: The Lesser Exodus, man's second wave of interplanetary colonization begins.

2192: World War V.  Few records of this time survive.  Numerous small conflicts ignited a conflageration which completely devestated the Earth's bosphere.

2195: The Scattering begins as the last sleeper ships leave Earth.

2406: Space Warp technology developed, interplanetary contact reestablished.

2429: The Commonwealth of Man established with twelve member planets.

Sanderra Timeline (All dates Before Commonwealth Era (b.c.e.) and Commonwealth Era (c.e.))

234 b.c.e:  Colony Ship Speedwell Launched.

157 c.e.: The first town, named Speedwell after the colony ship is established.

159 c.e.: New Zionist scientists make first contact with The Commonwealth.

167 c.e.: Sanderra officially listed as a Commonwealth Colony World. The Commonwealth Tower is erected.

170 c.e.: Colonists experience the first Fire Storms.  Over 300 people died.  This meteorlogical phenomenon would recur every 26 years, but  never again with such devestating effect.

170 c.e.: The town of Ferrisville is founded.

172 c.e.: City of Mayflower is incorporated.

176 c.e.: The Arid Hill Copper Mines are opened east of Mayflower.

180 c.e. Mayflower wins the first in a series of arbitrations over water related issues.

181 c.e. The copper mines close, leaving a small destitute community amid the blasted landscape.

183 c.e. Planetologist Lisa Kynes arricves to conduct the first full survey of Sanderra.

196 c.e. New life is breathed into the town of Aridill when the north plateau is chosen for the site of Sanderra's new Mercantile Exchange.

197 c.e. A series of six small tremors are felt in the river valley causing no injuries and only minor damage.  The tremors are also recorded by New Zionists in the Badlands, indicating that much larger quakes occured on the other side of the planet.