Timeline

The following is a rough timeline of the events in the Red Mars Trilogy.

2000s

 * 2010: John Boone and Frank Chalmers spend six weeks together on a US space station.
 * 2020: John Boone, age 38, lands on Mars in a group of 4.
 * 2026: Ares leaves Earth's orbit for Mars.
 * 2027: First Hundred arrive on Mars.
 * 2032: Japanese and other groups arrive on Mars.
 * 2035: Hiroko and farm team depart.
 * 2046: John Boone begins investigating terraforming sabotage.
 * 2047: Peter Clayborne born.
 * 2048: First applications of gerontological treatment.
 * 2049: Beginning of Great Storm.
 * 2051: End of Great Storm.
 * 2052: First Olympus Mons festival.
 * 2053: Death of John Boone.
 * 2057: Revision and re-signing of Mars Treaty.
 * 2061: First Martian Revolution and World War III.
 * 2075: Jackie and Dao born.
 * 2076: Nirgal born.
 * 2090: Nirgal and Desmond circumnavigate Southern Hemisphere.

2100

 * 2100: Second space elevator built at Sheffield.
 * 2101: Soletta in position.
 * 2102: M-38 Conference on Terraforming in Burroughs.
 * 2104: Dorsa Brevia Conference
 * 2106: Aerial lens incident.
 * 2108: Deimos Incident
 * 2115: Nirgal Vallis covered.
 * 2120: West Aquifer Discovered.
 * 2123: M-year 50 celebration.
 * 2124: Sabishii curfew.
 * 2127: Antarctic Incident, Second Martian Revolution and Battle for Sheffield.


 * 2128: Martian Constitutional Congress and Ambassador's Trip to Earth.
 * 2129: Birth of Zo Boone.
 * 2134: Nirgal lives on Tyrrhena Massif
 * 2155: Sax meets Ann in Da Vinci
 * 2160: Pulsed Fusion space travel introduced.
 * 2171: Nirgal's run with the ferals.
 * 2180: Zo and Ann visit Jovian and Uranian systems.
 * 2181: Grand Canal election campaigns.
 * 2190: Beginning of illegal immigration from Earth to Mars.

2200s

 * 2206: Death of Michel Duval.
 * 2211: Underhill Reunion.
 * 2212: Third Martian Revolution and Cable Crisis.