Future Timeline (TheMaster197)

2020 - American Realignment

 * The 10 Most Populated Nations - World Population: 7,800,000,000 - up 12.5%
 * 1st: China - 1,442,000,000 - up 7.8%
 * 2nd: India - 1,386,000,000 - up 12.6%
 * 3rd: USA - 332,000,000 - up 7.5%
 * 4th: Indonesia - 274,000,000 - up 15.3%
 * 5th: Pakistan - 220,000,000 - up 26.7%
 * 6th: Brazil - 213,000,000 - up 10.2%
 * 7th: Nigeria - 206,000,000 - up 29.9%
 * 8th: Bangladesh - 165,000,000 - up 11.0%
 * 9th: Russia - 146,000,000 - up 2.1%
 * 10th: Mexico - 129,000,000 - up 13.6%
 * The 15 Largest Economies on Earth (nominal)
 * 1st: United States - $21.008-Trillion
 * 2nd: China - $15.468-Trillion
 * 3rd: Japan - $5.295-Trillion
 * 4th: Germany - $3.672-Trillion
 * 5th: India - $3.258-Trillion
 * 6th: France - $2.596-Trillion
 * 7th: United Kingdom: $2.595-Trillion
 * 8th: Brazil - $2.063-Trillion
 * 9th: Italy - $1.913-Trillion
 * 10th: South Korea - $1.745-Trillion
 * 11th: Canada - $1.732-Trillion
 * 12th: Russia - $1.517-Trillion
 * 13th: Spain - $1.391-Trillion
 * 14th: Australia - $1.386-Trillion
 * 15th: Indonesia - $1.214-Trillion
 * The US economy grows 24.7% in the 2010s beating the 2000s growth of 17.6% the 2000s become known as "America's Lost Decade" just as the 2010s become known as "Europe's Lost Decade"
 * Some of the Fastest Growing economies of the 2010s
 * Ethiopia's GDP is up 152.8% - average of 9.7%
 * Ivory Coast's GDP is up 92.1% after 2011 - average of 8.5%
 * China's GDP is up 108.5% - average of 7.6%
 * India's GDP is up 101.4% - average of 7.3%
 * Bangladesh's GDP is up 92.5% - average of 6.8%
 * Botswana becomes the first sub-Saharan African nation to surpass 70-years in life expectancy
 * The 2020 Census reports that the United States has a population of 331,974,000 which is up 7.5% from 10 years earlier the smallest percentage increase since the 1930s
 * Many noticeable trends occur in the 2020 Census including that the core-city population decrease which dominated the latter half of the 20th century peaking between the 1970 and 1980 census has started to very slowly reverse itself
 * While a few cities in the Great Lakes region noticed massive population dropoffs in the 2000s such as Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo their declines were much less rapid in the 2010s
 * Houston marked their largest single-decade percentage population increase since 2000 increasing to 2,385,122 an increase of 284,859 residents or +13.6%
 * Phoenix, Arizona officially becomes the fifth largest city in the United States increasing to 1,717,810 residents an increase of 272,178 residents increasing +18.8%
 * San Antonio has a massive single-decade population increase to 1,586,251 an increase of 258,844 residents increasing +19.5%
 * Charlotte, North Carolina increases to 911,912 residents an increase of 180,488 residents up +24.7% since the 2010 census
 * Seattle increases to 783,709 residents an increase of 175,049 residents up +28.8% their largest percentage increase since 1920
 * Philadelphia has it's largest single-decade population gain of any census since 1950 increasing +4.9% to 1,600,780 a gain of 74,774 residents since the 2010 census
 * Chicago makes a surprise increasing their population to 2,765,018 increasing +2.6% a gain of 69,420 residents since the 2010 census
 * Surprising trends include Minneapolis increasing +13.1% in population, their largest percentage increase since 1930; Portland increasing +12.6% in population, their largest percentage increase since 1950; San Francisco increasing +10.2%, their largest increase since 1950
 * Detroit only decreased by -5.1% slowest in post-1950 era, Toledo, Ohio only decreased by -3.9% slowest since 1970; Cleveland, Ohio only decreased by -3.1% slowest in post-1950 era, Buffalo, New York only decreased by -1.7% slowest in post-1950 era
 * Cincinnati, Ohio had a population gain of +2.3% their first gain since 1950; Akron, Ohio posts a gain of +0.5% their first since 1960; Milwaukee, Wisconsin had a gain of +0.3% their first since 1960; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania had a gain of +0.1% their first since 1950
 * Unemployment increases in the United States from 3.7% in 2019 to 5.9% in 2020
 * Unemployment increases in the Untied Kingdom from 3.8% in 2019 to 6.1% in 2020
 * 90% of the human population has now completed primary education
 * Indonesia surpasses France and Britain in manufacturing output
 * India surpasses South Korea in manufacturing output
 * Britain's economy shrinks -3.7% in 2020
 * India's nominal GDP surpasses $3-Trillion
 * Ethiopia's nominal GDP surpasses $100-Billion
 * The United States consumes 85,000 MW of Solar PV generated electricity
 * Coal's share of US electricity production drops below 25%
 * Five-year survival rates for Hodgkin's lymphoma approach 100%
 * Global Internet Use surpasses 5-billion people
 * Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics
 * EXPO 2020 is held in Dubai
 * January: Sever recession breaks out in Britain as an effect of Brexit
 * January 21st: U.S. Senate Trial begins for Donald Trump
 * February 5th: Donald Trump is acquitted by a party-line 52-48 vote in the Senate
 * February: Recession begins in Italy and Japan
 * March: Recession begins in France and Germany
 * January 19th: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship Game with a final score of 33-24
 * January 19th: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game with a final score of 35-17
 * January 20th: The Dow Jones Index peaks at 30,016.85
 * February 2nd: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV with a final score of 31-20 with the Tennessee Titans having their "Revenge Season" season the Super Bowl MVP is Patrick Mahomes
 * March 23rd: 200,000 Iraqi civilians storm the US Embassy in Baghdad and hold 450 US soldiers and 74 US citizens there hostage for up to 326 days
 * April 10th: The US begins a blockade of food and supplies into Iraq but in retaliation the militia begins executing two US hostages a week until the blockade is called off
 * May 13th: The first successful vaccine for curing malaria is introduced
 * June: Inflation dips below 1,000% in Venezuela
 * June 15th: The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Milwaukee Bucks in a 4-2 series in the NBA Finals and LeBron James is the first player in NBA history to win a championship on three different teams since Robert Horry in 2007 and the first ever to be named Finals MVP for three different teams
 * July 21st: The US blockade of Iraq is called off
 * July 13th: The first successfully stem-cell grown heart is created
 * July 17th: The first successful stem-cell therapy for congestive heart failure is achieved
 * August: Recession begins in the United States
 * August 9th: The Dow Jones bottoms out at 21,586.55 it'll rise back to 26,000 by years end
 * September 7th: Rupert Murdoch dies at the age of 89
 * November 3rd: The US General Elections
 * Donald Trump fails to win re-election and Bernie Sanders is elected the 46th President
 * Democrats retake the Senate gaining 11 Senate Seats going from a 47-53 Minority to a 58-42 Majority their largest since 2010
 * Democrats gain 42 seats increasing their total to 279 House seats their largest since 1978
 * Baby Boomers lose their majority in the House of Representatives going from 234 House Seats in 2019-21 to 206 House seats in 2021-23 as Generation X goes from 118 seats to 137, and Millennial increase from 26 seats to 45 overtaking the Silent Generation who decreased from 42 seats to 37 seats
 * Millennials gain their first US Senator with a surprise upset victory in South Dakota with 36 year old Democrat Billie Sutton
 * November 4th: 276 hostages in Baghdad, roughly half of them are released following Trump's defeat in his re-election campaign
 * November 15th: The Play Station 5 is launched thus beginning the ninth generation of gaming although many gaming historians consider the Nintendo Switch launched in 2017 to be a gap between the eighth and ninth generation consoles
 * November 23rd: The XBox Series-X is launched
 * November 30th: Recession ends in the United States as the US economy expands by 0.8% in the fourth quarter that year
 * December 15th: The first ever electric semi-truck is produced by Tesla the eCascadia will be released in September, 2021

2021 - A Better America

 * US life expectancy bottoms out at 78.80-years
 * China's nominal GDP surpasses $15-Trillion
 * Bangladesh's urbanization rate surpasses 40%
 * India's urbanization rate surpasses 35%
 * Ethiopia's fertility rate drops to 4 children per woman
 * Britain's economy shrinks by another -3.1%
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is at 10.9%
 * Unemployment in the United States peaks at 7.9%
 * January 20th: In an hour after Bernie Sanders is inaugurated President of the United States all but 70 hostages are released the remaining 70 will be released when the US rejoins the JCPOA
 * January 21st: Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires from the US Supreme Court and is replaced by Patricia Millett who is confirmed by the Senate on February 23rd
 * January 25th: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer secures $600-million in federal funding to replace water pipes in Flint, Michigan
 * February: Newly elected President Bernie Sanders begins to work on reinstating and reestablishing the treaties that the Trump administration has taken the United States out of such as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on February 12th and the Paris Climate Accord on February 27th
 * February 7th: The New Orleans Saints defeat the Tennessee Titans with a final score of 49-27 in Super Bowl LV as Drew Brees wins his second Super Bowl MVP award in the final game of his career
 * February 10th: The US CAFE mileage standards are re-initiated
 * February 12th: All the hostages in the US embassy in Baghdad are released
 * March 25th: Moon Jae-in personally visits Bernie Sanders and begins a 7-day series of talks on a strategy for achieving peace on the Korean Peninsula
 * April: Unemployment in the United States peaks at 8.2% is down to 7.4% by the end of the year
 * April 30th: Congress passes a tax bill agreement raising the top cooperate income tax rate from 21% to 25% the long-term capital gains tax rate from 20% to 30% and the top income tax rate on incomes greater than $500,000 from 37% to 50% claiming the top tax rates still pale in comparison to what they were under Eisenhower and that this will help end the increasing income inequality that has been going on since the inception of Reaganomics
 * May 25th: The Iranian elections result in a victory for the reformists where reformist leader Mohammad Reza-Aref the leader of the reformists in Parliament is elected President of Iran; while Rouhanni has slowly decreased censorship and restrictions he has not done so to a satisfying enough degree and following nearly three years of economic hardship and violent massive protests this election is seen as a potential end to the unrest
 * June 13th: In the UK the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats merge into one party the Labour Democrats after continuous election issues since 1979 with a split vote
 * June 16th: The Los Angeles Lakers become the first NBA team to 18 championships as they again defeat the Milwaukee Bucks in a 4-3 series and again LeBron James is named NBA Finals MVP
 * August 30th: Prime Minister Boris Johnson's approval rating drops below 20%
 * September 15th: The Bangkok Accords begin
 * September 23rd: India launches it's first manned spaceflight
 * September 29th: Moon Jae-in, Bernie Sanders and Kim Jong-un meet in a tri-lateral meeting in Bangkok where they come to an agreement that North Korea is a nuclear weapons capable nation and that they will greatly reduce the US-led sanctions on North Korea once a peace treaty is signed granted, they end the threats, and never shoot missiles over international waters or other nations territory with Bernie Sanders desperate to not lose majorities in Congress or governorships in the mid-term elections and Moon desperate to keep his party in the Presidency and in majority in The Assembly in 2024
 * October: Japanese election causes the DNP to lose 53 seats leading to a less effective Shinzo Abe administration
 * November: Angela Merkel steps down as Chancellor of Germany after 16 years the first female head of state of Germany and the longest serving German head of state since Kaiser Wilhelm; she is replaced by CDSU party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
 * December 27th: Boris Johnson's approval rating drops below 15%

2022 - A New Greater Britain

 * Rwanda and Senegal become the second and third nations in sub-Saharan African to surpass 70-years in life expectancy
 * Hong Kong becomes the first country with over a million people to surpass 85-years in life expectancy
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom peaks at 12.5%
 * Unemployment in the United States is 6.8%
 * Nigeria's fertility rate drops to below 5 children per woman
 * India has become the most populous country on Earth
 * Five year survival rate for breast cancer is reaching 100% in most developed nations
 * Hangzhou hosts the Asian Games
 * Beijing hosts the Winter Olympics
 * Qatar hosts the World Cup
 * The first texting by thinking devices are released
 * January 11th: The Dow Jones Index surpasses its early-2020 high after two years
 * February 6th: The Kansas City Chiefts defeat the San Francisco 49ers with a final score of 35-26 in Super Bowl LVI the Super Bowl MVP is Patrick Mahomes
 * February 27th: Boris Johnson's approval rating reaches an all time low of 9%
 * March 23rd: Medicare-for-All legislation is passed in the United States and is to be implemented incrementally so that by 2030 the United States will have a universal healthcare system; this causes mass protests from conservatives
 * Medicare to cover citizens under the age of 18 in 2024
 * Medicare to cover citizens ages 18-21 in 2026
 * Medicare to cover citizens ages 21-26 and 50-65 in 2028
 * Medicare to cover citizens ages 26-35 in 2029
 * Medicare to cover all citizens in 2030
 * April 3rd: A vote of no-confidence leads to an early UK General Election where the Conservatives lose the election 40.8% to the Labour Democrats 48.3% of the vote causing them to lose 126 seats down from 361 to 235 while the Labour Democrats go from 213 to 339 seats where Vicky Foxcroft becomes Britain's third female Prime Minister at 45 years old she is the youngest PM since David Cameron the winning campaign slogan is "Brexit Isn't Working" and "End Brexit Now. Prevent Britain's Demise"
 * April 23rd: French President Emmanuel Macron wins a narrow re-election in a 51.1% to 48.9%
 * May 19th: The ITER experimental fusion reactor is now active
 * June 3rd: Malaysia applies for membership in the OECD
 * June 15th: The Milwaukee Bucks become NBA Champions for the first time in over half a century as they defeat the Houston Rockets 4-2
 * June 17th: The next generation of ACELA trains are released along the northeast corridor in the US as top speeds increase from 110-mph to 186-mph
 * July 25th: With Moon Jae-in desperate to keep his Democratic Party in the Presidency and maintain the thawing of relations and diplomatic progress in the South, and Kim Jong-un realizing that conservatives in power in the South will undo all the potential economic projects, peace agreements, lifting of sanctions and put them back to pre-2018 relations, The Korean War is declared over and an official peace treaty is signed, ending the world's longest conflict since the Hundred Years War of the 13th-14th Century, despite not having a single battle since 1953 and with this South Korea guarantees $200-Billion in development aid to North Korea over the next 15 years in the form of economic and modernization development projects following this Moon Jae-in's approval rating soars from 51% to 80%
 * August 7th: The Bri-Enter Refferendum is held and the people of Britain vote yes by a margin of 67.1% to 33.9% after living through a severe recession
 * August 27th: The UK begins talking about deals to re-enter the European Union given that the UK economy shrunk by -3.8% in 2020 and another -3.6% in 2021 following Brexit
 * September 3rd: Hurricane Danielle strikes the eastern coast of the United States in a near repeat of the 1821 Norfolk-Long Island hurricane causing $215-billion in physical damages
 * September 20th: Following Hurricane Danielle the US launches the largest climate protocols since Kyoto and sign a treaty that every nation which has less than 25% of their energy come from renewable sources is to to increase that ratio to 50% by 2040 and nations above that ratio must reach 100% by 2050 to help combat climate change
 * October 19th: The United Arab Emirates launch their first unmanned probe to Mars
 * November 3rd: Hurricane Nicole after striking Cuba turns north and strikes Miami it is a small low-end category 4 hurricane that causes $130-billion in damages as it caused $37-billion in damages in Cuba before riding up the Miami-Metro coastline only to head out and restrengthen before striking between Titusville and Jacksonville before mixing with the jetstream and a cold front over central Georgia dumping up to over 30-inches of rain in under eight hours in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina
 * November 8th: The midterm elections are held in the United States where the Democrats lose only 1 seat in the Senate going from 59 Senators to 58 where they lose 48 seats in the House of Representatives going from 280 to 232 and 5 governorships going from 26 to 21, although Florida's governorship turns from Republican to Democrat following Governor Rick DeSantis' terrible handling of pre-storm evacuation measures
 * December 19th: South Korean elections are held and Choo Mi-ae is elected President of South Korea with 52% of the vote in a three way race
 * December 30th: Prime Minister Foxcroft creates a housing scheme for the south and east of London where low occupancy units will be bought by the government and sold at low prices with low interest loans to UK citizens who can't afford to live in London but need to because of their employment

2023 -

 * Japan becomes the second country with over a million people to surpass 85-years in life expectancy
 * South Korea's nominal GDP surpasses $2-Trillion
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is 12.0%
 * Unemployment in the United States is 5.8%
 * Coal's share of US electricity production drops below 20%
 * EXPO 2023 is held in Buenos Aires
 * January 8th: Tom Brady retires from football after losing the Division playoff game to the San Francisco 49ers in a 38-17 blowout
 * February 5th: The Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVII
 * April 17th: The UK begins a plan to completely phase out coal power by 2030
 * March 14th: Xi Jingping extends his presidency of China indefinitely
 * July 16th: NASA's Orion spacecraft is launched
 * August 27th: The Hinkley Point C power station begins operation

2024 - Bernie Gets Re-Elected

 * Life expectancy in India surpasses 70-years
 * India's nominal GDP surpasses $5-Trillion
 * Polio becomes the second disease to be eradicated off the face of the Earth after Smallpox in 1979
 * Ethiopia's urbanization rate surpasses 25%
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is 11.2%
 * Unemployment in the United States is 5.1%
 * Paris hosts the Summer Olympics
 * Bio-electronics become a common treatment for arthritis
 * 3D printing of clothes is now commercially viable
 * Nevada becomes the first state in the United States to get over 25% of its energy from Solar Power and California becomes the second state to get 20% of its energy from solar as Arizona becomes the third state to get 15% from solar
 * February 4th: The San Francisco 49ers defeat the Tennessee Titans in Super Bowl LVIII
 * March 18th: Vladimir Putin steps down as President of Russia and is replaced by United Russia party chairman Vyacheslav Volodin, many around the world are happy to see Putin peacefully step down from power, he said in an interview in 2013 he has "no plans to still be President when he's 100".
 * May 8th: The last living Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 93
 * September 3rd: EU agrees to let the UK entirely back into the European Union
 * November 5th: Bernie Sanders is re-elected President of the United States at the age of 83 he is elected in a landslide with 56.8% of the popular vote and 429 Electoral Votes beating Ted Cruz; the Democrats gain 29 house seats increasing to 261

2025 - Second Quarter of the 21st Century Begins

 * The 15 Largest Economies on Earth (nominal)
 * 1st: United States - $26.369-Trillion
 * 2nd: China - $23.058-Trillion
 * 3rd: Japan - $7.014-Trillion
 * 4th: India - $5.759-Trillion
 * 5th: Germany - $4.858-Trillion
 * 6th: France - $3.296-Trillion
 * 7th: United Kingdom: $2.595-Trillion
 * 8th: Brazil - $2.563-Trillion
 * 9th: Italy - $2.313-Trillion
 * 10th: South Korea - $2.305-Trillion
 * 11th: Canada - $2.232-Trillion
 * 12th: Russia - $2.117-Trillion
 * 13th: Indonesia - $1.854-Trillion
 * 14th: Turkey - $1.701-Trillion
 * 15th: Australia - $1.686-Trillion
 * Tanzania's nominal GDP surpasses $100-Billion
 * India surpasses the European Union in steel produciton
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is at 10.4%
 * Unemployment in the United States is at 4.6%
 * Athens, Mexico City, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo begin banning fossil-fuel based vehicles
 * Malaria is eradicated in Mexico
 * EXPO 2025 is held in Osaka
 * Automation begins making unemployment decreases and job growth lag
 * Malaysia becomes a developed high-income country
 * Hook worm disease becomes the third disease to be eradicated worldwide
 * January 15th: Construction on Florida's high speed rail line from Tampa to Orlando begins construction after a 15 year hiatus following former Florida Governor Rick Scott's decision to cancel the project back in 2011
 * February 9th: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Cleveland Browns in Super Bowl LIX with a final score of 39-20 with Patrick Mahomes as the Super Bowl MVP
 * April 7th: The first neuron level human brain simulation is created
 * June 29th: The first ever 3D printed human organs are successfully created
 * August 30th: The FAA begins a complete comprehensive modernization overhaul program of the US airspace system destined to be completed by 2030
 * October 3rd: Chinese President Xi Jingping survives an assassination attempt as a result of this he begins increasing the social credit score programs, government surveillance attempts, and personal freedom restrictions this will cause unrest to increase dramatically over the next two to three years
 * October 7th: Former US President Jimmy Carter dies peacefully at his home in Plains, Georgia he was the last living Cold War president, the oldest living former President ever at the age of 101

2026 - Year of National Tragedies

 * Indonesia's nominal GDP surpasses $2-Trillion
 * Ethiopia's nominal GDP surpasses $200-Billion
 * Bangladesh's urbanization rate surpasses 45%
 * China's urbanization rate surpasses 67%
 * Malaria is eradicated across the Korean peninsula
 * Coal's share of US electricity production drops below 15%
 * Aquaculture is now responsible for the majority of the world's seafood
 * Canada, Mexico and the United States co-host the World Cup
 * Carbon sequestration projects begin in many developed nations
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is at 9.0%
 * Unemployment in the United States is 4.2%
 * Japan's GDP growth dips from 1.8% in 2025 to -2.7% in 2026 thanks to the earthquakes
 * Milan hosts the Winter Olympics
 * Nagoya, Japan who were supposed to host the Asian Games votes to move the hosting location to Tokyo following the earthquakes that June
 * Foxcroft's government introduces programs intended to help alleviate child and family poverty
 * February 8th: The Kansas City Chiefts win their fourth Super Bowl since 2019 defeating the Minnesota Vikings in a 49-13 blowout in Super Bowl LX making the Kansas City Chiefts an 19-0 team giving the Chiefs the first perfect season for an NFL team since the Miami Dolphins in 1972-73
 * April 9th: US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bryer retires and is replaced by Paul Thissen
 * June 23rd: The Tokai fault erupts with its first major quake since 1854 measuring 8.5 on the richter scale just off the eastern coast of central-southern Honshu the quake causes a major tsunami and ends up killing 25,069 people causing $600-Billion in damages shattering the record for the previous costliest natural disaster set 16 years earlier of $360-Billion this earthquake occurs on the Tokai fault zone the tsunamis were up to 21.5 meters high
 * June 25th: Following the Tokai earthquake another 8.4 earthquake occurs this day just like every previous episode this one occurs on the Tonankai fault zone causing another $400-Billion in damages and killing another 40,420 people the tsunamis were up to 26.1 meters high
 * June 29th: The Federal Aid High Speed Rail Act of 2026 is enacted which will allocate $800-billion in retrofitting, building and upgrading lines between many major cities allowing them to travel up to 300-mph on trains by 2050
 * July 5th: Many nations around the world agree on the Climate Refugee Prevention Plan which calls for some massive infrastructure projects such as levies and flood control measures in many coastal areas with places such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, Southern Vietnam, and Eastern China being key target areas for flood prevention measures and many nations agree to help Japan recover from the disasters
 * July 17th: Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain dies, after 74 years on the throne she was the longest serving monarch in British history and one of the longest serving monarchs in world history even beating the length of reign of French King Henry XIV, she is replaced by her son Charles III whose coronation is scheduled to take place on November 22nd, 2026
 * November 3rd: The US mid-term elections
 * The Democrats lose 7 Senate seats going from 59 Senators to 52, 23 House seats going from 262 to 239; but somehow miraculously gain 5 governorships going from 26 to 31
 * Baby Boomers are no longer the largest generation in the US House of Representatives as they go from having 167 seats to 146; while Generation X goes from 156 seats to 150, this is because Millennials go from 89 seats to 119; Generation X will be the largest generation in the house for only a mere two years
 * Baby Boomers begin to lose influence rapidly in the US Senate as their share of Senators decreases from 59 to 54, they peaked in 2017-19 at 67

2027 - New World Powers

 * India's nominal GDP surpasses that of Japan becoming the third largest economy on Earth
 * China's GDP Growth dips from 5.7% in 2026 to 3.8% in 2027
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is at 7.6%
 * Unemployment in the United States is 3.9%
 * Pakistan's fertility rate drops to 3 children per woman
 * Buenos Aires hosts the 2027 Pan-American Games
 * February 7th: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Indianapolis Colts in a 57-30 victory in Super Bowl LXI making them the first NFL team to three-peat marking their fifth championship in the past 9 seasons, Henry Ruggs is named the Super Bowl MVP
 * May 2nd: The Labour Democrats win re-election with 48.3% of the vote to the Conservatives 38.1% causing them to gain another 63 seats where the Conservatives go from 235 to 182 and the Labour Democrats go from 339 to 402
 * May 13th: Mass protests breakout across campuses and city streets all over China over Xi Jinping's regime when they're attempted to be suppressed in a similar fashion as the Tienanmen Square protests more demonstrations breakout where students fight with police and workers go on strike similar to what happened in France in 1968, the protesters occupy city centers around government buildings
 * May 16th: Many factories all throughout China go on strike all at once as workers demand more equal pay, better working conditions, better labor practices and better working hours, saying that the labor policies are still remnants of the Jiang Zeman-Hu Jintao era
 * May 26th: The biggest widespread of protests in China ever threatening to put the economy into its first potential recession if it continues for more than half a year like the Hong Kong protests of 2019-20, many of the airports, trains, commercial areas are shut down because of how rampant and widespread they have become, an all out protest occurs in Beijing where student protesters fight with police leading to 23,000 arrests in just 24 hours
 * July 25th: The United States and North Korea sign a peace treaty ending the state of war between the two nations and agree to gradually end the sanctions granted that North Korea ends nuclear testing and threats of attack
 * August 4th: 3,000,000 protesters occupy Tienanmen Square with a list of demands from an end to the one-party system, democratic elections, transparency, a massive reduction government censorship, better working conditions, more democratic working conditions, faster reduction in pollution and a new constitution, the government cannot suppress this protest like they did in 1989 with the world watching, many international transparency organizations are accusing the Chinese government of suppressing info about the protests to the point of military and government hackers blurring live satellite images of the event and editing live on the spot footage to show just business as usual
 * August 30th: With the threat of a recession in mainland China being caused by the unrest and increasing condemnation and pressure from international organizations and other nations Xi Jingping announces that first nationwide democratic elections in China to be held on November 30th the deadline for drafting a new constitution and that he will step down from power where he is to be replaced by whoever wins the election on January 1st; while 2011 was known as the "Arab Spring" 2027 becomes known allover the world as the "Chinese Summer"
 * November 15th: The Play Station VI is released the first fully-immersive VR console is released
 * November 30th: For the first time ever in the PRCs history a multiparty election is held in a five way election where Lu Hao the CCP candidate won with 38% of the vote

2028 - Generational Shift

 * China's GDP growth recovers from 3.3% to 7.0%
 * Italy and Spain become the first European nations to surpass 85-years in life expectancy
 * The fertility rate in sub-Saharan Africa drops below 4 children per woman
 * Global infant mortality drops below 2%
 * Global urbanization rate reaches 60%
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is at 6.4%
 * Unemployment in the United States is 3.7%
 * Los Angeles hosts the Summer Olympics
 * January 1st: Surprisingly true to his word for fear of facing international sanctions, and a potential political revolution Xi Jingping peacefully steps down from power and transfers power to Lu Hao
 * February 6th: The Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl LXII in a final score of 42-35 giving the Eagles their second championship of the century
 * February 27th: North Korea joins the World Bank Group
 * April 27th: China becomes the second country to land a man on the moon after the United States in 1969 thus beginning a new space race for Mars
 * November 5th: The United States General Elections
 * Pete Buttigieg is elected the 47th President of the United States with Conor Lamb being elected the 51st Vice President, beating Republican candidate Cory Gardner
 * The Democrats gain 8 Senate seats going from 52 to 60; their largest elected majority since 1978, also gain 37 house seats going from 239 to 276
 * Baby Boomers lose their majority in the Senate down to 48 Seats, Generation X are up to 30 Seats and Millennials are up to 16
 * Millennials become the largest generation in the House of Representatives as they increase from 119 seats to 149 seats overtaking Generation X who go from 150 seats to 137; they will be the largest generation in the house until the 2054 elections when they're taken over by Generation Z
 * Baby Boomers share of the US Senate decreases from 54 Senators to 48 meaning that for the first time in over a quarter of a century they make up less than half of US Senators

2029 - Eastern Rise

 * China's nominal GDP surpasses that of the United States becoming the largest economy on Earth for the first time since the 19th century
 * India's nominal GDP surpasses $10-Trillion
 * Nigeria's fertility rate drops to below 4 children per woman
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is at 5.3%
 * Unemployment in the United States it as 3.6% which is the lowest rate since 1969
 * January 20: In his inauguration speech; Pete Buttigieg announces that the United States will become the first nation to successfully send a man to Mars in a speech rather reminiscent of JFK's inauguration speech
 * February 4th: The Chicago Bears defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LXIII with a final score of 28-26 marking the first time the Chiefs have lost a Super Bowl in the past 10 years where Sam Howell is named Super Bowl MVP
 * March 23rd: North Korea joins the International Monetary Fund
 * April 19th: Britain implements a universal basic income program to help alleviate poverty, and prepare for future challenges of unemployment with increasing automation
 * September 7th: Clarence Thomas dies of a heart attack at the age of 81 and is replaced by Michelle Taryn Friedland swinging giving the Supreme Court a 5-4 advantage of liberal judges over conservative judges this is key to some of the future decisions the court will make in the near future
 * November 30th: Finland becomes the first nation to completely ban coal use for electricity production

2030 - New Leadership for the 2030s

 * The 10 Most Populated Nations - World Population: 8,450,000,000 - up 8.3%
 * 1st: India - 1,513,000,000 - up 9.2%
 * 2nd: China - 1,481,000,000 - up 2.9%
 * 3rd: USA - 353,000,000 - up 6.3%
 * 4th: Indonesia - 309,000,000 - up 12.8%
 * 5th: Pakistan - 264,000,000 - up 20.5%
 * 6th: Nigeria - 259,000,000 - up 25.7%
 * 7th: Brazil - 229,000,000 - up 7.5%
 * 8th: Bangladesh - 181,000,000 - up 9.7%
 * 9th: Russia - 145,000,000 - down 0.7%
 * 10th: Mexico - 144,000,000 - up 11.6%
 * The 15 Largest Economies on Earth (nominal)
 * 1st: China - $34.058-Trillion
 * 2nd: United States - $32.360-Trillion
 * 3rd: India - $10.838-Trillion
 * 4th: Japan - $8.614-Trillion
 * 5th: Germany - $6.212-Trillion
 * 6th: France - $4.897-Trillion
 * 7th: United Kingdom: $4.195-Trillion
 * 8th: Brazil - $3.863-Trillion
 * 9th: Russia - $3.517-Trillion
 * 10th: South Korea - $3.005-Trillion
 * 11th: Italy - $2.953-Trillion
 * 12th: Canada - $2.932-Trillion
 * 13th: Indonesia - $2.854-Trillion
 * 14th: Turkey - $2.591-Trillion
 * 15th: Nigeria - $2.456-Trillion
 * The US economy grows 21% in the 2020s
 * Some of the Fastest Growing economies of the 2020s
 * Ethiopia's GDP is up 173.4% - average of 10.6%
 * Ivory Coast's GDP is up 161.5% - average of 10.1%
 * Bangladesh's GDP is up 143.3% - average of 9.3%
 * India's GDP is up 128.2% - average of 8.6%
 * North Korea's GDP is up 82.5% - average of 6.2%
 * China's GDP is up 79.4% - average of 6.0%
 * Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay co-Host the World Cup for the 100th Anniversary
 * Manila hosts the Asian Games
 * Stockholm hosts the Winter Olympics
 * 28% of cars sold this year are self-driving this is up from 2% in 2025
 * Coal's share of US electricity production is now 7.6%
 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is down to 4.4%
 * The United Kingdom implements universal basic income for more urban, densely populated, technologically advanced areas of the nation which are more effected by automation and the former coal country and industrial heartland areas
 * Many OECD nations agree that all automobiles are to be self-driving
 * Printed newspapers are beginning to end circulation altogether in many developed nations
 * Unemployment in the United States is at 3.4%
 * Roughly 95% of the mines in the Korean DMZ have been deactivated and removed since efforts by both Koreas began in 2018
 * February 3rd: The Buffalo Bills defeat the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl LXIV with a final score of 42-30 giving the Buffalo Bills their first ever championship where Carson Beck is named Super Bowl MVP
 * February 27th: The UN adopts the UNESCO 2050 half century goals with the hopes of eliminating extreme poverty, fossil fuel generated electricity, hunger, illiteracy, malaria, yellow fever, diptheria, and tuberculosis by 2050, along with getting fertility rates in developed countries down to 2.5 in sub-Saharan Africa and 2.0 in South Asia
 * March 1st: Construction begins on the United States' first maglev line going from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago Union Station a distance of 17-miles at speeds of up to 268-mph
 * May 23rd: On the southern section of the San Andreas fault just outside of San Bernadino where the Southern San Andreas fault and the San Juanicto fault meet a major 8.1 earthquake 150 years overdue erupts causing $320-Billion in damages before a fire breaks out destroying 18% of San Bernadino given the somewhat dry 2029-30 rain season and the 2027-30 west coast drought, this earthquake finally gets more affluent California residents to sympathize with the less fortunate residents as to how severe the states housing shortage and in-affordability problems have become promoting a rebuild of the Los Angeles area with a more public-transit less car-orientated, more environmentally friendly design called "An Even Greater Los Angeles Area"
 * Mercalli Scale Index of XI from Rialto and Keenbrook to Beaumont
 * Extreme shaking from Ontario to San Jacinto and Palm Springs
 * Violent shaking from Santa Ana and Compton to the Salton Sea
 * Severe shaking from Lancaster, Torrance and Inglewood to Salton City
 * Very strong shaking from Gorman, Santa Monica and Northridge to Westmoreland
 * Strong shaking from Bakersfield to Mexicali
 * Moderate shaking from Baja California to Fresno
 * Light shaking reported from San Jose to Delta Rio Colorado
 * Weak shaking reported as far away as San Francisco
 * June 13th: The United States overturns its 2010 ruling on Citizens United in a 5-4 decision
 * October 17th: The US forgives all debt held by Puerto Rico
 * November 5th: US Mid-Term Elections
 * The Democrats lose 6 Senate seats going from 60 Senators to 54 Senators; and 23 House seats going from 276 Representatives to 253 Representatives along with losing 2 governors
 * Baby Boomers go from 48 Senate seats to 42 Senate seats; Generation X peaks at 32 US Senators as the number of Millennials go from 16 Senators to 21 Senators

2031

 * Unemployment in the United Kingdom is down to 4.0%
 * Unemployment in the United States is down to 3.3% the lowest rate since 1953
 * Bangladesh's urbanization rate surpasses 50%
 * China's urbanization rate surpasses 70%
 * February 9th: The Buffalo Bills defeat the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl LXV with a final score of 39-30 getting their second straight Super Bowl with Carson Beck getting his second Super Bowl MVP Award
 * April 3rd: Labour Democrats win another Election in Britain where they only lose 8 seats going from 402 to 394 seats as Vicky Foxcroft becomes one of the most popular PMs of the post-war era by this time many of the austerity measures of the 2010s Conservative governments are reversed

2032

 * Jakarta hosts the Summer Olympics with Indonesia becoming the first Southeast Asian nation to host


 * 5 year survival rates for kidney cancer are approaching 100%
 * 35% of the Arabian Peninsula's electricity comes from solar power
 * Nevada becomes the first state in the US to get a majority of their electricity from solar power
 * February 8th: The Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl LXVI against the Chicago Bears in a 35-7 blow out where Henry Ruggs wins his second Super Bowl MVP award
 * September 4th: Real estate mogul and former US President Donald Trump dies of a stroke in his Palm Beach home Mar-A-Lago at the age of 86, with the memory of his Presidency only his few supporters really mourn him
 * October 27th: China applies for membership to the OECD
 * November 2nd: The US General Elections
 * Pete Buttigieg is re-elected President of the Untied States beating Republican Scott Taylor
 * The Democrats gain 7 seats in the Senate going from 54 Senators to 61, 33 seats in the House of Representatives going from 253 Representatives to 286 Representatives and 4 governors going from 26 to 30; all their largest majorities since 1978
 * Millenialls become the majority in the US House of Representatives going from 182 seats in the house to 224 seats, they will hold the majority of the House of Representatives until the 2052 elections; Baby Boomers decline rapidly from 112 seats to 86
 * Millennials are beginning to surge in the US Senate going from 21 Senators in 2031-33 to 30 Senators in 2033-35; while Baby Boomers go from 42 Senators to 35 Senators

2033 - Conservative Reset

 * India's urbanization rate surpasses 40%
 * EXPO 2033 is held in Chicago giving the United States its first exposition in almost half a century since New Orleans 1984 and as a anniversary to the 1933 Centennial Exposition
 * Following the humiliating defeats in Presidential years since 2020 the more moderate Republicans begin distancing themselves from the Republican Party and join the Libertarian Party which is renamed the Moderate Libertarian Party this is first done on a more local and state level in more blue states at the head of this movement is New York Senator Elise Stefanik
 * February 6th: The Chicago Bears defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LXVII with a final score of 38-36 marking the revenge with Sam Howell getting his second Super Bowl MVP award
 * September 8th: North Korea joins the World Trade Organization

2034

 * Automation crisis begins in the United States as unemployment bottoms out at 3.0%
 * Denver, Colorado hosts the Winter Olympics
 * Australia becomes the first developed nation to get all its electricity from renewable sources
 * January 3rd: Washington DC becomes the 51st state of the United States
 * February 5th: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl LXVIII with a final score of 37-32 where Patrick Mahomes is given his record 5th Super Bowl MVP award
 * August 23rd: Former US President Bill Clinton dies at the age of 88
 * August 24th: Puerto Rico becomes the 52nd state of the United States
 * October 10th: Recent former US President, Bernie Sanders dies in his Vermont home at the age of 93 he is mourned all over the world he is the third ex-President to die of old age in the past three years
 * November 7th: US Mid-Term Elections
 * Millennials surge from 30 Senators to 44 Senators becoming the largest generation in the US Senate a title they will retain until the 2062 Senate Elections
 * The Democrats lose 3 Senators going from 61 to 58 and 17 House seats going from 282 to 265, the Democrats also gain 4 Governorships going to 34 governors the same amount they had in 1977-79
 * For the first time since John Schmitz in 1972 a third party member non-Independent is elected to the US House of Representatives, where 3 Liberty Moderate members are elected, they also gain 1 Governorship, one of them is Elise Stefanik of New York

2035

 * The 15 Largest Economies on Earth (nominal)
 * 1st: China - $54.493-Trillion
 * 2nd: United States - $41.055-Trillion
 * 3rd: India - $18.938-Trillion
 * 4th: Japan - $9.314-Trillion
 * 5th: Germany - $8.712-Trillion
 * 6th: France - $6.897-Trillion
 * 7th: United Kingdom: $6.795-Trillion
 * 8th: Brazil - $5.863-Trillion
 * 9th: Russia - $5.517-Trillion
 * 10th: Indonesia - $4.564-Trillion
 * 11th: South Korea - $4.005-Trillion
 * 12th: Italy - $3.953-Trillion
 * 13th: Canada - $3.932-Trillion
 * 14th: Nigeria - $3.856-Trillion
 * 15th: Turkey - $3.691-Trillion


 * 76% of new cars in the US sold this year are self-driving
 * Coal's share of US electricity production 0.8%
 * February 4th: The Cincinnati Bengals defeat the Buffalo Bills with a final score of 46-23 in Super Bowl LXIX
 * April 19th: The UK General Election is held where the Labour Democrats lose only 23 seats going down from 394 to 371 seats as Vicky Foxcroft steps down as head of the Labour Democratic party after being Prime Minister for 18 years, she is the longest serving PM in over 200 years since Robert Jenkinson who served from 1812 to 1827 and ranks as one of Britain's greatest PMs and potentially the greatest PM Britain had since Churchill and Attlee; she is replaced by Pamela Nash, who is the first Scottish PM since Tony Blair in 2007
 * July 9th: Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore sign a treaty creating an economic union between the three nations with the goal of creating a political union by 2045
 * October 10th: The first ever lunar base is built a group project with NASA and several large contractors although the base can only house 10 people

2036

 * Malaria is eradicated from China
 * China, the United States and many other nations begin investing in foreign aid to help build flood protection barriers in Bangladesh and southern Vietnam fearing that rising sea levels will create a Bangladeshi and Vietnamese refugee crisis that will dwarf the aftermath of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and the Vietnam War
 * Nigeria's fertility rate drops to below 3 children per woman
 * Nuclear fusion starts to become commercially viable
 * In-vitro meat is beginning to rapidly replace the traditional meat industry
 * Seoul hosts the Summer Olympics this time as a unified Korea where as the last time Seoul hosted the Summer Olympics North Korea did not participate at all and Germany had two different teams
 * February 3rd: The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LXX with a final score of 39-30 where Patrick Mahomes is given his sixth and final Super Bowl MVP award, retiring a champion and named the greatest NFL player of all time
 * April 13th: At the age of 86 US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito falls in the shower and fractures his pelvis in an accident that leads him to be in the hospital for 33 days, he vows to stay on the bench until 2041 much in the same spirit as Ginsburg 18 years earlier
 * November 4th: The US General Elections
 * Following a bigger party split and realignment; the Democrats gain 8 Senate seats going from 57 Senators to 65 and 28 House seats going from 265 to 293 their largest majorities since 1966
 * Conor Lamb is elected the 48th President of the United States becoming the third consecutive democratic president he is also the first Vice President to be elected President since George H.W. Bush in 1988
 * The Millennial Generation becomes the majority in the US Senate going from 44 Senators to 56 Senators a title they will maintain until the 2060 Senate Elections
 * Generation Z gets their first congress member in the US House of Representatives she is a 32 year old Liberal Moderate from Ohio's 6th District

2037

 * Orbital solar power is finally becoming more feasible
 * Using the supermajorities in Congress, newly elected President Conor Lamb introduces a Universal Basic Income program for future automation job elimination and older workers who can't keep up with technological change called "Social Security 2.0"
 * February 8th: The Buffalo Bills defeat the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LXXI
 * July 17th: The last coal power plant in the United States officially goes offline
 * September 19th: The Bogota Treaty is signed creating the Latin Union, the spiritual successor to CELAC which establishes a customs unions throughout Latin America leading to the goal of a common market by 2050 and fighting economic inequality, corruption and crime throughout the region

2038

 * North Korea and South Korea co-host the World Cup
 * Five year survival rates for leukemia are approaching 100%
 * February 7th: The Cincinnati Bengals defeat the Las Vegas Rams in Super Bowl LXXII
 * November 2nd: The US Mid-Term Elections
 * The Democrats lose 5 Senate seats going from 65 to 60; 29 House Seats going from 293 to 264 and 7 governorships going from 34 to 27 while the Republicans lose 9 Senate seats going from 34 to 25 along with 31 House seats going from 124 to 93 and 11 Governorships going from 13 to 2 as the Liberty Moderates gain 14 Senate seats going from 1 Senator to 15 Senators, 61 House seats going from 17 Representatives to 78 Representatives and 19 governorships going from 2 governors to 21 governors, this marks the largest share of a non-Democrat or Republican party since the Whigs in the 1850s
 * Millennials go from 56 Senators to 64 Senators giving them the largest majority of any generation since the Baby Boomers in 2021-23

2039

 * India's fertility rate drops to 2 children per woman
 * Malaria is eradicated worldwide thanks to a new innovative vaccine created in 2020

2040 - End of Democratic Presidents

 * The 10 Most Populated Nations - World Population: 8,950,000,000- up 5.9%
 * 1st: India - 1,618,000,000 - up 7.0%
 * 2nd: China - 1,496,000,000 - up 1.0%
 * 3rd: USA - 371,000,000 - up 5.1%
 * 4th: Indonesia - 337,000,000 - up 9.1%
 * 6th: Nigeria - 309,000,000 - up 19.2%
 * 5th: Pakistan - 302,000,000 - up 14.5%
 * 7th: Brazil - 241,000,000 - up 5.1%
 * 8th: Bangladesh - 194,000,000 - up 7.1%
 * 9th: Ethiopia - 162,000,000 - up 14.8%
 * 10th: Mexico - 157,000,000 - up 8.8%
 * Some of the Fastest Growing economies of the 2030s
 * North Korea's GDP is up 213.4% - average of 12.1%
 * Ethiopia's GDP is up 160.1% - average of 10.0%
 * Ivory Coast's GDP is up 145.5% - average of 9.4%
 * Bangladesh's GDP is up 126.0% - average of 8.5%
 * India's GDP is up 115.3% - average of 8.0%
 * The US economy grows 20.5% in the 2030s
 * Nearly 96% of the cars sold this year are self driving
 * Five year survival rates for bowel cancer are approaching 100%
 * Supersonic air travel is becoming much more commonplace
 * April 17th: UK General Elections are held where the Labour Democrats lose 50 seats going from 371 to 321 and after this election, considering the automation recession that has been taking place for a year, similar to how John Major was re-elected in 1992
 * July 17th: Nairobi, Kenya hosts the Summer Olympics becoming the first African nation to host the Olympics in its 144 year history
 * November 6th: US General Elections
 * Democratic candidate Conor Lamb loses his re-election bid to Liberty Moderate candidate Elise Stefanik who becomes the 49th President of the United States and the first female President of the United States
 * The Democrats lose another 8 seats in the Senate down from 60 to 52 their lowest number since 2020; another 27 seats in the House down from 264 to 237; however, gain 3 governorships up to 26 while the Liberty Moderate Party gains 33 seats in the Senate up from 15 to 48; 120 in the House up from 78 to 198 and the remaining 2 Republican governorships up to 23 as the former Republican Party and Libertarian Party are completely absorbed into the Liberty Moderate Party
 * Generation Z gains their first Senator a 39-year old Democrat from Kentucky named Dane Hammond, former Representative of Kentucky's 6th district and a 39 year old Lawyer from Illinois named Sasha Obama-Peters

2041

 * January 30th: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito decides to retire now that a President of a different party is in the White House, he is replaced with Justin R. Walker from Kentucky

2042

 * sub-Saharan Africa's fertility rate drops to below 3 children per woman
 * Global infant mortality rate drops below 1%
 * Malaysia hosts the World Cup
 * November 4th: The US Midterm Elections
 * Millennials reach their peak number in the US Senate with 70 Senators, the next largest generation is Generation X at 18 Senators, then Boomers at 12 Senators, then Generation Z at 2 Senators then the Silent Generation at 1 Senator
 * The Liberty Moderate Party gains 1 seat in the Senate going from 48 to 49 and lose 17 seats in the House going from 198 to 181

2043

 * Bionic eyes are perfected thus causing the rate of blindness to drop substantially over the next decade

2044

 * 100% of the cars sold in the United States are self driving
 * Berlin hosts the Summer Olympics becoming the first European city in 20 years to host
 * November 8th: The US General Elections
 * Elise Stefanik is re-elected President of the United States
 * The Millennial Generation reaches their peak number in the US House of Representatives at 304 members which is just about the highest number for any generation in US history

2045 - Decline of a Dynasty

 * April 19th: The UK General elections are held and the Labour-Democrat Party lose 106 seats going from 321 seats in Parliament to 215 seats, while the Conservatives gain 109 going from 231 seats to 340 giving the Conservatives their first majority since 2022; this is the longest time any single party in Britain has held a majority in their entire nations history; she will eventually return as PM in 2051, signaling a social change in the country, she is replaced as PM by Chloe Smith
 * June 1st: Riots and protests break out across the US about workers rights, automation, multi-nationalism, etc this is the first in a series of student protests over the next five years
 * July 9th: Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore agree to form a political union with each other called Malingnei

2046 - End of an Era

 * Egypt hosts the World Cup
 * April 13th: US Congressional Senator Mike Enzi of Oklahoma dies at the age of 102, he was the last Senator to be a member of the Silent Generation
 * October 30th: US Congressional Representative Jose Serrano dies just after his 103rd birthday he was the last member of Congress belonging to the Silent Generation