Timeline (L'Avenir)

The timeline for the scenario, L'Avenir.

Politics

 * Saudi Arabian women are allowed to drive
 * The European Union implements the GDPR

Entertainment

 * 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea
 * 2018 FIFA World Cup in European Russia

Science/Technology

 * NASA launches TESS and InSight
 * Parker Solar Probe begins orbit of the Sun
 * BepiColombo is launched to Mercury
 * 2 space tourists fly around the Moon (first time humanity has traveled past low-Earth orbit since 1972)

Politics

 * British troops leave Germany

Science/Technology

 * JAXA's SELENE-2 spacecraft is launched (delayed from expected launch in 2018)
 * The James Webb Space Telescope is launched
 * Jeddah Tower in Saudi Arabia is completed; becoming the first kilometer tall building and the tallest building in the world

Politics

 * Andrew Jackson is replaced by Harriet Tubman on the American 20 Dollar Bill

Entertainment

 * 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan
 * Launch of Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Japan

Science/Technology

 * ESA's ExoMars rover lands on Mars
 * Launch of NASA's Mars2020
 * The Compass Navigation System is completed
 * Upgrading of the Large Hadron Collider

Science/Technology

 * ESA's Euclid probe is launched
 * India's first manned spaceflight happens

Entertainment

 * 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China
 * 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar

Science/Technology

 * ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer is launched.

Politics

 * Germany's last nuclear power plants are phased out

Science/Technology

 * Kanal Istanbul is finished
 * London's super sewer is completed
 * OSIRIS-REx returns to Earth with samples from Asteroid Bennu

Entertainment

 * 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France

Science/Technology

 * British Lunar Mission One lands and begins drilling into the Lunar surface

Science/Technology

 * Giant Magellan Telescope is completed
 * New GPS system NextGen is fully implemented

Entertainment

 * 2026 FIFA World Cup in Morocco
 * 2026 Winter Olympics

Science/Technology

 * ESA launches PLATO

Science/Technology

 * The second Gotthard road tunnel is completed in Switzerland

Entertainment

 * 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California

Science/Technology

 * New Horizons leaves the solar system

Entertainment

 * 2030 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway

Science/Technology

 * Masdar City is completed

Science/Technology

 * Britain's HS2 rail link is completed
 * Foundation of DamIt!, a Dutch construction company specializing in building dams, levees, and other types of water controlling systems.

Science/Technology

 * Last of Swiss nuclear power plants are phased out
 * The ESA launches LISA

Science/Technology

 * Last of Japanese nuclear power planets are shut down
 * The Northwest Corridor rail route is completed

Science/Technology

 * The Setsuzoku maglev route, connecting Tokyo and Osaka, is completed.