Timeline (Venusian Haven)

Prelude

An artists rendering of the formation of Venus.

• 4.5 Billion Years Ago — A protoplanet collides with early Venus. The collision forces the planet upside down and pushes a debris field into orbit around the planet. Over a million years, the debris field would coalesce into Neith (the moon of Venus). The new moon stabilizes Venus' axis tilt and rotational speed.

17th Century

• 1610 — Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei becomes the first to record the phases of Venus and discovers Neith.

• 1672 — Franco-Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini becomes the first to observe Neith and provides the first details of the moon.

18th Century

• 1761 — Russian astronomer Mikhail Lomonosov confirms the existence of an atmosphere around Venus.

20th Century

1960s

1962

• December 14 — American Mariner 2 becomes the first man-made object to flyby Venus.

1966

• March 1 — Soviet Venera 3 becomes the first man-made object to impact Venus.

1969

• January 22 — General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev is assassinated in Moscow. Premier Alexei Kosygin (over time) becomes the undisputed leader of the Soviet Union.

1970s

Venera 7 was the first probe to land safely on Venus.

1970

• December 15 — Soviet Venera 7 becomes the first man-made object to transmit data from the surface of Venus.

1975

• October 22 — Soviet Venera 9 becomes the first man-made object to both orbit Venus, and the first to transmit images from the Venusian surface.

1980s

1982

• March 1 — Soviet Venera 13 becomes the first man-made object to transmit color images from the Venusian surface, as well as the first confirmation of life on Venus.

1985

• June 11 — Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first person to set foot on Venus. The Soviet Union begins to populate Venus.

1990s

1990

• August 7 — The United States set foot on Venus.

21st Century

2000s

2001

• March 17 — Five Soviet settlements unite and declare independence as the Confederation of New Kamchatka (becoming the first independent nation on Venus).