Timeline (A Regular Future)

2019

 * Protests break out all over the world including in places like Hong Kong, Lebanon, Ecuador, Algeria, Spain, and Iraq, due to several reasons including corruption, incarceration of opposition leaders and government decisions that violate the civil liberties of the people. These are met with deadly force from the police and other government assets. During the heat of the Hong Kong protests, American corporations like Blizzard, Nike, NBA and Apple, as well as celebrities like Jackie Chan and LeBron James, are criticized for their pro-China messages.
 * Climate strikes and protests occur in cities across the world, including one in Montreal, Canada led by activist Greta Thunberg and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
 * An impeachment inquiry against the President of the United States, Donald Trump is announced by the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to begin, after a whistleblower alleged that the president and other officials pressured the foreign leaders of other nations- most notably Ukraine, to investigate 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden.