Early Exploration[]
- ~2015
First manned interstellar missions. Star stations built when no habitable planets found.
- 2201
Nonsentient life discovered on Cyteen. Cyteen Station built.
- 2234
Estelle Bok develops jump drive on Cyteen.
- 2300
Cyteen declares independency and Union is founded. Start of the Company Wars.
Company Wars period[]
- ~2320
Earth Company constructs the fleet.
- 2353
- Earth orders fleet to stop operations, Conrad Mazian continues war.
- Merchanter's Alliance formed, Signy Mallory and the Norway defect to join Alliance.
- Mazianni attempt to take over Earth, but are stopped by Alliance.
- 2354
Company Wars formally end with the Treaty of Pell.
Gehenna / Chanur / Merovin period[]
- 2354
Gehenna Colony founded.
- ~2370
The new Earth fleet makes first contact with the aliens of The Compact.
- 2412
Alliance rediscovers Gehenna colony.
- 2530
"Gehenna Doctrine" agreed to by Union and Alliance.
- 2608
Merovin colony is founded by Union.
- 2623
First Alliance/Union contact with the majat of Cerdin (Alpha Hydri).
- 2652
Sharrh demand removal of Merovin colony.
- 2653
Union/sharrh treaty cedes Merovin.
- 2654
Union removes most colonists from Merovin
- 2657
Sharrh attack Merovin, unsuccessfully trying to eradicate human survivors.
- 2658
Sharrh withdraw.
Mri wars period[]
(far down the timeline)
- 2701
First Alliance contact with Regul and Mri.
- 2703
Mri wars begin (Alliance vs. Mri and Regul)
- 2722
Alliance government center moved from Pell to Haven to be closer to the war zone.
- 2730
Fall of Haven to the mri.
- 2743
Haven retaken; end of Mri Wars.
Very far down the timeline[]
- 3187
The Hanan break from the Alliance.
External links[]
- Alliance-Union timeline until 2300, from Cherryh's official site
- Alliance-Union timeline, with book citations (contains plot detail)