2049
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- January 1: Proteus AG is chartered in Germany.
- January 20: Alan Adams is inaugurated President of the UCAS.
- A bomb in the Shiawase Atomics offices in San Francisco kills 249 persons attending its inauguration, including Ryoi Shiawase.
- Amazonia annexes Venezuela and enters Colombia. Aztlan troops stop them, dividing Colombia between the two countries.
- The Malaysian People Front (yeah, splitters!) overthrows the communist government of Malaysia.
- Terrorist group Deep Green kills 31 noblemen on a hunt in Dartmoor forest in Great Britain.
- A misfiring ABM system of North Jersey, New Jersey, takes down an Euroflot suborbital flight on approach to John Fitzgerald Kennedy Airport, New York.
- Leonard Aurelius is elected chairman of the board of Ares Macrotechnology, replacing Damien Knight.
- The government of Tir na nOg establishes the Church of Ireland and bans the Catholic Church from the country.
- The "Racial Revenge" trial of the accused murderer of CAS Secretary of State Douglas Bennett and his elven mistress in 2048 takes place in Atlanta. After a number of problems, a mistrial is declared by the end of the year.
- The Sons of Saurons policlub organizes an attack against Humanis policlub headquarters in Seattle, UCAS. 38 people are killed and hundreds wounded.
- "Eric's Ten-Minute War" between the Yakuza and Mafia kills 20 people, as part of a bloody year in Seattle, UCAS.
- Richard, President and CEO of Fuchi, and Samantha Villiers divorce after 16 years of marriage.
- Actress Meg Owen re-appears in a summer stock theater company on Prince Edward Island before disappearing for good.
- Maria Mercurial releases her second album, "Puta".
- Lorenzo "Lock-on" Hayes, left fielder for the Manhattan Yankees, tops the baseball records of Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Sauharu Oh with 847 career home runs and 4,195 hits.
- Saab wins the Euro-Rally for the fifth consecutive time with the Dynamit 776TI.
- Renraku Computer Systems develops the first Semi-Autonomous Knowbots.
- The first Nobel Prize for magic is awarded to a group of mages from Germany and Czechia.
- The Talis Cat is first classified as separate from mundane cats.
- The Great Dragon Arleesh is first spotted.
