After Colony Timeline

 AC 001
       Several nations establish permanent space stations in geosynchronous
       Earth orbit. This is the first year of the After Colony (AC) calendar.

 AC 020
       The colony A02026 is constructed at Lagrange point 5. This colony will
       later become the home of the fierce and mighty Long clan when they are
       exiled from Earth by their fearful government.
       Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 022~
       Space colony construction begins at Lagrange point 1. Due to
       unexpectedly severe conditions and strange new diseases, construction is
       greatly delayed.
AC 050~
       Nations begin withdrawing from space, until the countries of the Middle
       East - leaving the oil industry and looking for a new enterprise to invest in
       - join the colony project. Colony construction begins at the other
       Lagrange points.
AC 070
      Due to scarce resources and limited supplies from Earth, disputes break
      out at each Lagrange point. The Middle Eastern nations intercede and
      negotiate an end to the conflicts.
AC 087
      The colony V08744 is constructed at Lagrange point 2.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 102
      An Island 2 type colony is completed at Lagrange point 1 (L-1). With this
      success achieved, the colony project goes on to construct population
      centers composed of multiple colonies, popularly known as "colony
      clusters."

      On Earth, international disputes continue to escalate. Civilians flee the
      conflict by emigrating to the colonies, and soon 15% of the human
      population is living in space.
AC 130~
      With Earth's territorial lines redrawn, the conflicts die down.
AC 133
      In the process of negotiating a lasting peace between the warring nations,
      the "United Earth Sphere Alliance" is established. In order to keep the
      peace - and deal with nations that oppose the new world government -
      the Alliance Forces are formed. One of the Alliance's key financial
      supporters is the military-industrial combine called the Romefeller
      Foundation.
AC 140~
      One by one, Earth's nations join the Alliance. As their mother countries
      join, the colonies are also enrolled, willing or not. The colonies are critical
      of the Alliance and its intentions, and the Alliance decides to respond with
      force in order to silence its critics.
AC 147
      In the name of peace and justice, the Alliance invokes the authority of its
      member nations to forcibly seize control of the colonies. Forces are
      stationed in space as part of the Alliance's "Cosmo-arma" (space forces).
AC 149
      The Alliance assembly transfers control of the previously-independent
      colonies to the mother countries that originally constructed and settled
      them. These nations then kindle a new colony emigration boom.
AC 150~
      The colonists, favoring autonomy, become increasingly dissatisfied with
      Alliance control.
AC 165
      In order to peacefully oppose the Alliance, the citizens of the colonies
      elect Heero Yuy as their representative. His charismatic leadership
      strengthens solidarity between the colonies.
AC 170
      Colony leader Heero Yuy's policies of demilitarization and non-violence
      are well-received by many of Earth's nations.
AC 173
      OZ, a subsidiary of the Romefeller Foundation, begins development of
      humanoid weapons known as "mobile suits."
AC 174
      Colony leader Heero Yuy makes a goodwill tour of Earth's nations, laying
      the groundwork for colonial independence.
AC 175
      Scientists Doctor J, Professor G, Doktor S, Instructor H, Master 0 and
      Howard complete the first combat-ready mobile suit. This prototype Leo
      is also known as the Tallgeese.

      On April 7, colony leader Heero Yuy is assassinated by an unknown
      gunman. The leaderless colonies are thrown into chaos, and the Alliance
      plans a second military intervention. In reaction to the assassination, the
      Tallgeese developers quit the mobile suit project and disappear.

      The Romefeller Foundation's OZ subsidiary becomes a secret society.
AC 176
      The Romefeller Foundation's OZ subsidiary begins production of a
      scaled-down version of the mobile suit Leo.
      Source: Encyclopedia of Gundam W

      The Alliance forms its first mobile suit force, the Special Mobile Suit corps
      or "Specials." The Specials, made up of Romefeller Foundation
      employees, are essentially a front for the secret society OZ.

      Under the pretext of suppressing the chaos in the colonies, the Alliance
      again sends in the military. Mobile suits are first used in combat. All
      colonies are placed under military supervision, and communication
      between colonies is prohibited to prevent future collaboration.
AC 180
      Doctor J, Professor G, Doktor S, Instructor H and Master 0 design the
      Wing Gundam Zero. OZ discovers their whereabouts, and they are forced
      to end their collaboration, split up and go underground.

      OZ begins development of the "Zodiac" series of mobile suits, which
      eventually includes the Tragos, Aries, Pisces and Cancer.
      Source: Encyclopedia of Gundam W

      Quatre Raberba Winner is born. Unlike his 29 sisters, he is born naturally
      rather than being a test-tube baby. Though genetic engineering has largely
      solved the reproductive complications that plagued the previous century's
      space colonists, the Winner family objects to this engineering on religious
      grounds; Quatre's mother dies in childbirth. Father Winner never tells his
      son of the circumstances of his birth, instead letting Quatre believe that he
      is a test-tube baby like his sisters.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 182
      The Alliance decides to stage a military intervention in the Sanc Kingdom,
      an advocate of Heero Yuy-style total pacifism. The capital falls in one
      day. King Peacecraft is killed; Princess Relena is rescued and adopted by
      his trusted aide Darlian, while Prince Milliardo's whereabouts are
      unknown.

      Conflict breaks out in Eastern Europe. The Bloom family's wagon is
      caught in the crossfire between Alliance forces and rebels; Katherine
      Bloom (age 4) survives, but her parents and her baby brother Triton (age
      2) are believed to be killed. Katherine is taken in by her parents' circus
      troupe.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 187
      A virus breaks out at L2's V08744 colony. An antidote is developed, but
      is not provided to the poorer and less desirable colonists. Among the
      unwanted is a gang of orphans led by a boy named Solo; a member of his
      gang steals the antidote from an Alliance base, but too late to save Solo.
      Dying, Solo promises to be with his friend forever, and the seven-year-old
      boy thus adopts the name "Duo." Though Duo didn't get enough antidote
      for himself, he never contracts the virus, and attributes this to Solo's
      watching over him.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization

      After this, Duo and his fellow urchins are taken in by V08744's Maxwell
      Church. While the other boys are soon placed with foster homes, Duo
      ends up living at the church with the Reverend and kindly nun Sister
      Helen. Since Duo refuses to have his long hair cut, Sister Helen braids it
      for him. Ever the theological quibbler, Duo maintains that he doesn't
      believe in God, but he believes in the god of death as he's seen his
      handiwork many times in his short life.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 188
      Revolts break out in many colonies, and are ruthlessly crushed by the
      Alliance.

      At L3's X18999 colony, which is still a year from completion, Quinze
      leads an uprising. He and his followers steal eight Alliance mobile suits and
      attack Alliance military installations. Brigadier General Septem, the ranking
      Alliance officer at the colony, permits Specials officer Treize Khushrenada
      and three of his cadets, including 12-year-old Lucrezia Neun, to join the
      battle. Treize's forces handily outmanuever and defeat the rebels, though
      Treize is injured when he uses his mobile suit to block a bazooka shot
      aimed at Septem's base.

      Meanwhile, assassin Adin Lowe and his young ward have arrived at
      X18999. Adin's last assignment is to eliminate Septem. The assassination
      attempt fails, and Adin proceeds to rig the Alliance base's armory with
      explosives. Before he can detonate the charges, the hitman is mortally
      wounded, and it falls to his ward - the boy later code-named Heero Yuy -
      to trigger the explosives.

      After the X18999 crisis, Treize spends some time recovering in hospital,
      where he meets nurse Leia Barton. Leia's father, Barton Foundation head
      Dekim Barton, is reported killed in the conflict. Adin's ward is adopted
      and trained by Doctor J.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero

      Another uprising takes place at L2's V08744. Rebels seize the Maxwell
      Church, and when the Reverend urges them to lay down their arms and
      follow Heero Yuy's path of peace, they accuse him of being an Alliance
      spy. The rebels agree to leave the church if Duo can steal them a mobile
      suit, but when he returns to the church with his booty, he finds that the
      Alliance has attacked and razed it. 245 people are killed in the "Maxwell
      Church Massacre," including the Reverend and Sister Helen.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero

      At A0206, Master O, Chang Wufei's tutor, disappears from the Chang
      family's house. Dekim Barton commissions him, and his four fellow
      scientists, to develop an advanced mobile suit - a Gundam - for the
      resistance scheme known as "Operation Meteor."
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization
AC 189
      L3's X18999 colony is completed. Mariemeia Barton is born here; her
      mother is Leia Barton, and her father's identity is unknown.

      Zechs Merquise and Lucrezia Neun graduate from the Specials' Lake
      Victoria academy, with the highest and the second highest marks in the
      academy's history, respectively.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization
AC 190
      On Earth, a nameless ten-year-old boy fights against the Alliance as part a
      team of mercenary mobile suit pilots. His team is wiped out in a failed
      ambush, its location betrayed by an Alliance spy. The spy is revealed to
      be a girl named Middie Une, traveling with the mercenary corps, who
      spies to support her sick father and three brothers.
      Source: Episode Zero
AC 191
      At X18999, Leia Barton dies of an illness.

      On April 8, terrorists steal prototype Aries mobile suits from the Alliance's
      JAP point base. General Catalonia, commander of the Specials (and
      leader of the secret society OZ), dispatches Treize (age 19) and Zechs
      (age 15) to quash the rebellion. A terrorist captures eleven-year-old
      Relena Darlian, daughter of the Alliance's vice-minister for foreign affairs,
      and holds her hostage; she is rescued by Zechs. Zechs, in actuality
      Milliardo Peacecraft of the Sanc Kingdom, recognizes his long-lost sister
      but does not reveal his identity to her.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 192
      Howard and Professor G, both members of the salvage organization
      known as the Sweeper Group, complete the huge space ship Peacemillion
      and hide it on the lunar surface. Howard then goes to Earth to work
      aboard a salvage ship, while Professor G and his Sweeper cohorts remain
      in space.

      On the return trip, the Sweepers discover a stowaway and bring him
      before Professor G. The stowaway gives his name as "Duo Maxwell."
      Professor G replies, "What, like Maxwell's Demon?" - to which Duo
      responds, "I'm no demon, I'm the god of death!"
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 193
      Treize Khushrenada becomes leader of the secret society OZ, and
      commander of the Specials.

      A shuttle carrying Quatre Raberba Winner is hijacked by a gang of
      renegades known as the Maganac Corps. Using the Winner family's
      captured ships, and with the tacit blessing of father Winner, the Maganac
      Corps plan to ferry workers from the resource satellite MO-III back to
      their families on Earth. Unwilling and unpaid, the MO-III workers have
      become virtually prisoners on the satellite.

      Feeling an affinity for the warm-hearted and closely-knit Maganac Corps,
      who are all test-tube babies as he believes himself to be, Quatre helps
      them in their rescue mission. He saves Maganac leader Rashid from a
      traitor and fights off Alliance forces to guard their escape, winning the
      Maganac Corps' eternal respect and gratitude. The Maganac Corps
      escort the rescued workers to Earth, while Quatre brings Instructor H
      back home with him.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 194
      Specials ace Zechs Merquise receives the first two-rank promotion in the
      organization's history, and acquires the nickname "Lightning Baron."

      Doctor J has given his ward, the boy later code-named Heero Yuy, an
      extensive course of training to prepare him for Operation Meteor. Heero
      carries out a sabotage mission, blowing up an Alliance base inside a space
      colony. Due to his miscalculation, the explosion causes civilian casualties,
      including a little girl and her puppy whom he had met earlier in the day.
      When the remorse-stricken Heero buries the dead puppy, Operation
      Meteor mastermind Dekim Barton demands that Doctor J re-train his
      agent to eliminate such useless human weaknesses.
      Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz novelization

      The Alliance condemns the aging colony A0206. Rather than attempt to
      resettle its inhabitants, the fierce Long clan, General Septem orders that
      they be wiped out with biological weapons. Treize, preferring conventional
      warfare, dispatches a Specials force to destroy the colony before the
      Alliance's biological weapons unit arrives. Long Meirang, granddaughter
      of matriarch Ron Shirin, battles the Specials mobile suits using a
      reconstructed Tallgeese; her husband, the scholarly Chang Wufei, comes
      to her aid in the incomplete Shenlong Gundam. The Specials' attack is
      repulsed, and the Alliance's biological weapons are destroyed. Alliance
      officer Sally Po reports that the mission was successful, ensuring that
      A0206 will be left alone in future.

      Meirang, mortally wounded in the battle, dies in Wufei's arms. Wufei, who
      had once mocked his wife's conviction that she was the reincarnation of
      the legendary hero Nataku, gives this name to the Shenlong Gundam in
      Meirang's memory. He tells Master O that he will pilot the Shenlong as
      part of Operation Meteor.
      Source: Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero
AC 195
      At each colony cluster, anti-Alliance rebels prepare for Operation
      Meteor. Planned by Dekim Barton and coordinated by Quinze, the plan
      involves dropping a space colony on Earth to create a climatic catastrophe
      and global chaos. Then five super-advanced mobile suits, the Gundams,
      will be sent to Earth to seize control of the planet. The space colonists will
      thus become the rulers of the human race.

      At the L3 colony cluster, designated Gundam Heavy Arms pilot Trowa
      Barton realizes that Doktor S and his aides are trying to subvert his
      father's plan. When he threatens to rat them out to Dekim, he is shot and
      killed. A nameless mercenary, one of the mechanics working on the
      Heavy Arms, volunteers to take Trowa's place and assume his name.
      Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz novelization, Episode Zero

      Aboard a Sweeper Group ship, Duo Maxwell decides he can't stomach
      Operation Meteor's genocidal blueprint. He attempts to blow up the
      Gundam Deathscythe and thus derail the operation, but finds that
      Professor G has defused his bombs. Professor G urges Duo to steal the
      Deathscythe, telling him to go to Earth and there join forces with Howard.
      Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz novelization

      At the L4 colony cluster, Quatre Raberba Winner and Instructor H have
      completed the construction of the Gundam Sandrock. As the final
      instructions for Operation Meteor arrive, Instructor H smashes the display
      and tells Quatre to do as his own conscience dictates.
      Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz novelization

      At L5's A0206 colony, Chang Wufei likewise rebels. Realizing that Ron
      Shirin plans to drop the ramshackle colony as part of the operation, and
      disapproving of the planned mass destruction, he takes off for Earth with
      the Shenlong Gundam to fight for justice.
      Source: Endless Waltz, Endless Waltz novelization

      On April 7, "Operation Meteor" begins - apparently ahead of schedule.
      Five Gundams descend to Earth and begin attacking Alliance military
      bases and factories. Their goal is to cripple the secret society OZ

.
      On May 19, the Gundams attack an Alliance meeting at the New
      Edwards base. The Alliance's military leaders, who had that very day
      decided to begin disarmament and make peace with the colonies, are
      killed. OZ then discards its Specials cover and launches "Operation
      Daybreak", overwhelming the Alliance's terrestrial forces and seizing
      control of Earth.

      In September, Treize resigns as leader of OZ under pressure from the
      Romefeller Foundation. OZ splits into Romefeller and Treize factions. The
      Foundation launches "Operation Nova," dropping mass quantities of
      mobile dolls to Earth to eliminate the Treize faction and any other
      resistance.

      On December 24, the Eve Wars begin. White Fang (a movement fighting
      for the independence of the space colonies, led by Quinze and the
      erstwhile Zechs Merquise) and the World Nation (the Romefeller
      Foundation's world government, now led by Treize Khushrenada) begin a
      massive space battle. Treize is killed in battle, and the World Nation
      surrenders. White Fang's last gambit, an attempt to drop the space
      fortress Libra on Earth, is foiled and Zechs disapears. Representatives of
      the space colonies make peace with the World Nation, and the Earth
      Sphere Unified Nation is established.
AC 196
      Terrorists blow up a conference at which delegates of all the space
      colonies have gathered. The terrorists turn out to be remnants of the White
      Fang resistance group, led by a man named Sogran. Our heroes discover
      that Sogran is sponsored by a Romefeller Foundation subsidiary, with the
      ultimate aim of stirring up another war so that there will be a market for its
      military hardware. Sogran and his backers are exposed, and their
      followers turn on them.
      Source: Blind Target

      On December 25, at the L3 colony cluster, the space colony X-18999
      declares war against the Earth Sphere Unified Nation. Its leader is
      Mariemeia Barton, who declares that she is the daughter of Treize
      Khushrenada and rightful ruler of the world. Quietly backing her is Dekim
      Barton, who plans to give his original Operation Meteor another try...
      Source: Endless Waltz

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