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Tiberium Timeline

• According to Biblical accounts, Cain murders his brother Abel, becoming the first murderer in the world.

1800 BC

• Earliest alleged reports of the existence of the Brotherhood of Nod.

1914 -1918 AD

• Great World War I started by assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrillo Princip, member of the Serbian Black Hand movement, in Sarajevo.

1990

• After a failed assassination attempt at Saddam Hussein, Special Operations Group Echo: Black Ops 9 is forced to go public. 

1994

• United States Congress begins an investigation of several large defense corporations. Close ties to theBrotherhood of Nod are revealed.

1995

• Tiberium meteor impacts the Earth. The Brotherhood of Nod emerges as a superpower.
• October 12: The Global Defense Initiative is founded in accordance with the United Nations Global Defense Act.

1996

• The ion cannon research budget is approved by the United Nations. Development begins, headed by DrWong Hu Chan.

1999

• The First Tiberium War erupts.

2002

• The first Computer Assisted Biologically Augmented Lifeform prototype is damaged in an ion cannon strike against the Cairo Temple of Nod.
• Project ReGenesis shut down.
• First Tiberium War ends, Kane is apparently killed by an ion cannon blast.

2006

• Otani-Lincoln Laboratories presents its offer to GDI; signs a 100 year contract for the development of All Terrain Structures.

2009

• Otani-Lincoln Laboratories receives its first contract from GDI for the development of semi-autonomous structures.

2017

• GDI anti-piracy convention

2019

• Jack Granger joins GDI.

2025

• GDSS Philadelphia is operational.
• Otani-Lincoln Laboratories deploys their first fully functional semi-autonomous structures, a series ofbarracks.

2027

• Jannero Drake assassinated.
• GDI adopts the principle of Deep Industrial Design, in order to create strong recognizable silhouettes that facilitate immediate unit identification on the battlefield. This change brings about an 85% decrease in friendly fire incidents.

2030

• January 12: EVA compiles a report for General James Solomon concerning the theoretical Second Tiberium War.
• Brotherhood emerges once again as a superpower following reunification by Anton Slavik. Kane reappears and prepares to transform the world. Second Tiberium War begins.
• September 2: Kane broadcasts to Philadelphia, hacking it's communication channels, announcing his return.
• December: Second Tiberium War ends. Kane is "killed" by Michael McNeil and stored by CABAL in a stasis tube.
• December 12: Michael McNeil and Anton Slavik log their thoughts about the Second Tiberium War.

2031

• Firestorm Crisis erupts as CABAL rebels when a massive ion storm ravages the Earth. Tiberium growth estimate indicate that within a year Earth will be unable to support human life. Crisis is resolved the same year, Tacitus based decontamination procedures are deployed by GDI with extreme success. CABALdefeated by joint GDI/Nod strikes on his central core. Slavik is later assassinated and replaced by Marcion.

2034

• Rio Insurrection

2035

• February 16: Chief Engineer A. Sarkov releases a technical briefing/memorandum on the principles of next-gen GDI design.

2036

• March 10: Advanced development block is delivered to chief engineer A. Sarkov.

2037

• Mutant Exodus

2038

• Cologne begins running strategic simulations for the city. It never rates as above "minor strategic value".

2039

• March 12: Mammoth Mk. II's production comes to an end, despite protests. Mammoth 27 is scheduled to be put in production at Reykjavik, Iceland.

2040

• Battle of San Vicente in Argentina: OLL deploys their first fully automatic War Factory in the field.

2042

• In a show of goodwill towards the vanished mutant population, G-330X habitat modules are deployed by GDI on the borders of Red Zones.

2043

• Due to minimal Nod activity over the globe, GDI closes 60% of their bases.
• Intense preparations for the Third Tiberium War begin in Australia, under the command of Kilian Qatar.
• May 27: The last CABAL bunker is destroyed.
• May 28: INN broadcasts Passing Thoughts with Constance Fitchaven, with a feature on the Mutant Exodus.

2047

• The process of GDI becoming a superstate reaches its final stages - while there are still technically individual Member Nations, the reality is that GDI has become a unified political and military super-state.
• The GDSS Philadelphia is destroyed by a Nod nuclear weapon. The Third Tiberium War begins.
• The Scrin invasion begins after the Liquid Tiberium Explosion at Sarajevo. Defeat of the Scrin in Italy and itsRelay Node. The Third Tiberium War ends with Kane achieving his goal of capturing a threshold, the Scrinbeing driven from Earth, and GDI successfully defending its territory.

2052

• The Marked of Kane are activated. Rumors of cyborg activity spread like wildfire.
• In an assault on the Rocky Mountains Complex with back up from the Black Hand, Nod forces successfully capture the Tacitus.
• The city of New Eden is consumed by the rapidly expanding North European Tiberium field.
• A GDI military unit is ambushed and destroyed in Red Zone 483 by Nod-aligned local militia.

2058

	The following is based on the cancelled Tiberium FPS and has not been confirmed by canon sources.

• Rapid Assault and Intercept Deployment forces led by FBC Ricardo Vega battle a second Scrin invasion in Italy.

2062

• June 14: With humanity on the brink of extinction, Kane presents an offer to the GDI council. Nod and GDIcome together.
• The Incursion War between Nod Separatists and GDI begins.
• Development begins on a next-generation battlecruiser. 
• July 27: The Brotherhood of Nod's leader, Kane arrives to meet the GDI directory council in Great Britain.
• The Bleak Brothers comedy duo is formed.

2064

• GDI introduces a new line of personal protection suits - the semi-final generation of Zone Armour, an upgrade from the Third Tiberium War suits.
• SA-1 Orca enters service
• The global stratospheric waste disposal fleet is fully functional and enters service, marking the beginning of the GST development.

2065

• AW-30 Avatar enters service.

2066

• AT-6 flame tank enters service.
• AHV-8 Sandstorm enters service
• Battle of Waukesha 
• AT-22 Hunter enters service.
• Christian Pierce comes to BZ-11 to create a new life for himself. He becomes a hero of GDI and is recruited into its special forces.

2068

• Predicted date when Tiberium renders Earth uninhabitable.
• The new Kodiak Battlecruiser is unveiled by GDI.

2069

• AW-12 Mastodon enters service
• GDIS Michael McNeil destroys fortified Obelisks in Africa, marking the first major deployment of the Kodiak-class Battlecruiser.

2070

• The Separatists gain the upper hand against GDI after forming an alliance.
• Due to the Separatist's advantage, Nod phases out the Isis-class Obelisk of Light almost completely.

2071

• GST Methuselah enters service.

2072

• GDI develops the crawler, giving them the advantage.
• Henry Liu locates the headquarters of Echo, a GDI covert R&D division, with a working Obelisk of Darknessinside. Alyssa is sent by Kane to recover the technology and stop GDI interference without casting shadow on the Prophet.

2073

• Battle of Gerlach Flats.
• AT-414 Refractor enters service.
• GDI defeats the Separatists, driving their leads into hiding and ending the Tiberium Control Network Conflict.

2074

• The Anubis-class Obelisk of Light enters service.
• Elias Caruso dies.
• Nod Separatists attack Paris and the Incursion War enters the final phase.
• Gideon attempts to destroy Chicago with the GST Methuselah. The crisis is averted by Christian Pierce with the GSC Kennedy, but he is captured in the process Gideon forced Pierce to acquire a "GDI database" from a library. However, it was all part of plot by Kane, who knew the device was much more valuable. Pierce was angered to learn most of his life had been manipulated by Kane and attacked him, but Kane killed him.

2075

• Nod Crawlers enter service.
• Brother Alphus betrays Kane during intitial field tests of Nod crawlers.
• SG-11 Salamander enters service.

2076

• GDI Commander Parker is horrifically wounded during the Incursion War.

2077

• AT-5 stealth tank enters service.
• May 1: The TCN is completed - GDI and Nod host a ceremony to celebrate this fact. Gideon disrupts the ceremony. Beginning of the Ascension Conflict.
• May 6: New Adana is attacked by Nod Separatists.
• May 8 : GST Tzadik goes down in the Tin City area.
• May 8: The Bleak Brothers comedy duo calls it quits.
• May 9: Colonel Louise James attempts a coup d'etat against Evelyn Rios and Wesley Riggs in New Adana.
• May 10: Gideon kills Johann Pascal.
• May 10: GDI forces under the command of Daniel Stojack open fire on a Yellow Zone orphanage.
• May 11: The Fourth Tiberium War ends and the TCN is activated. Kane and much of the Brotherhood of Nod disappear from the Earth, with all the Tiberium on the planet being removed, restoring the world fully to Blue Zone status. TCN continues to provide Tiberium energy/resources for the world at large.