Timeline

This is the timelime for the universe portrayed by Chatoyance in her Conversion Bureau stories. Taking place in the real-world as our possible future, it's what could happen if current trends continue, "business as usual"; resulting in financial collapse, disasters caused by climate change due to nothing being done to seriously combat climate change, and general, rampant capitalism, short-term profit and gain, having disastrous consequences. (Note that the page is dynamic, with dates being the current year but however many years added as needed, to fit the nature of the timeline.)

1300

 * Willelmus Learmount

Nippon Exclusion Zone

 * Japan is gradually evacuated as Fukushima and other reactor sites become spreading permanent death zones. Initially, the Japanese government, desperate for cheap energy, put people back into Fukushima, letting them pay with their lives. Increasing their nuclear energy dependence despite Fukushima, more nuclear disasters follow, until the problem cannot be ignored any longer. Japan becomes the Nippon Exclusion Zone, so radioactive nothing can ever set foot there again, and the Japanese people become a nation without a country and wander the world.

Pacific Ecotastrophy

 * The Pacific Ocean becomes the world's largest, and spreading, ecotastrophy.

The Great Collapse

 * The fiat currency issue comes to a head. There is no more denying that most, if not all, first world nations are utterly bankrupt and in completely insolvable debt, and have been for many decades. The world financial situation disintegrates; this is called the Great Collapse.

Austerity War

 * Many wars across the world occur as a result of the Great Collapse, collectively known as the Austerity War.

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Retroactively known as "Year Zero"
 * Nearing the time of the Emergence of Equestria, the world has become relatively stable. The population has returned and expanded rapidly: with every person fed and watered, but with nothing to do, humans breed wildly in a global version of the 'bounce back effect' that occurs now, when charities feed those in impoverished countries. Unlike now, however, nanotech food recycling prevents the massive, even greater starvation that always follows crusades to feed the hungry. The world population reaches nineteen billion.

Emergence of Equestria

 * At 2:30 AM, just north east of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean (28.8558,-142.414221), Equestria emerges.

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Known as "Year One"
 * Sometime after April, the first Conversion Burau opens in San Francisco, fitted with 100 clinics. Later, the second Conversion Bureau opens in Vancouver, with 500 clinics.
 * A Conversion Bureau in Ottawa (the capital of the former country of Canada) is referenced in 27 Ounces, and may have been the third, fourth, or fifth Conversion Bureau to open.

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Known as "Year Two"

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Known as "Year Three"

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Known as "Year Four"

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Known as "Year Five"

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Known as "Year Six"

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Known as "Year Seven"
 * Sometime between January–June, the Barrier Wall finally encircles the entirety of the Earth, meeting at a point just off the tip of South Africa, consuming the entire Earth.

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 * This is the final year of the process in which the cosmos of Equestria consumes the spacetime around the Earth; by this time the Earth itself had already been consumed for eight years, this is just the last step in the process. After this, Equestria doesn't touch our universe of Mundis again for likely millennia.