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JustForFun/GrandUnifiedTimeline events from 1980 C.E. to 1984 C.E.
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* The newly-regenerated Third Doctor is exiled to 20th century Earth as punishment by the Time Lords indefinitely.[[labelnote:more]]It doesn't take.[[/labelnote]] He becomes scientific advisor to UNIT and takes on (and later parts ways with) Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan on his travels into the TARDIS. The Third Doctor regenerates in this era too.[[note]]As mentioned on the previous page, there is much contradictory information within the show regarding precisely when this era takes place, with various sources either placing it at time of airing (1970-1976), or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (approximately 1975-1983). As the evidence can be interpreted either way, it is discussed on both pages.[[/note]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Over this period the entity known as Jones develops a close personal relationship with James Eglamore. (''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'')
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[[folder:1980]]
* January 1: Trevor [=McPhee=] is returned to Earth after being abducted by the aliens for the third time. As before, ten years have passed and he has not aged a day. He attempts to bond with his 19-year-old son Mark. His ex-wife Theresa's second husband Ray Carter succeeds in recording his disappearance on Super 8 when he is abducted by the aliens for the fourth time. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* January 22: Tim Barnes is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* February 12-14: A lunatic dressed as a miner kills people to prevent a small town's Valentine dance. (''Film/MyBloodyValentine'')
* February 14: Owen Harper is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* February 16: The {{serial killer}} Jerome Horowitz murders his first victim, Cindy Vetterman, as she did not come to his 21st birthday party the day before. In two {{alternate timeline}}s, he is prevented from doing so. He is killed by Dr. Theresa Givens in the first timeline and by FBI Agent Jamie Pratt in the second timeline. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* February 22: The Miracle on Ice, in which the US men's national hockey team came from behind to stuns the heavily favored Soviet national team 4–3 in the medal round of the 1980 Winter Olympics. (RealLife; the 1981 made-for-TV movie ''Miracle on Ice''; the 2004 film ''Film/{{Miracle}}''; and the 2015 ESPN ''30 for 30'' documentary ''Of Miracles and Men'', which unlike the previous two works tells the story from the Soviet side)
* February 24: Two days after the Miracle on Ice, Team USA scores another come-from-behind win, this time 4–2 over Finland, to win the gold medal. (Real Life, ''Miracle on Ice'', ''Miracle'')
* February 26: Sheldon and Missy Cooper are born to Mary and George Cooper. Mary gives birth at a Walmart in Galveston, Texas. (''Series/TheBigBangTheory'')
* Spring:
** A group of teenagers connected to a child's death six years before are killed during prom. (''Film/PromNight1980'')
** Ray Finkle graduates from Stetson University as an honors student, after a prestigious college football career making two NCAA Division 1 records: one for most points in a season, and one for distance. (''Film/AceVentura'')
* March 1: Ron Weasley is born to Molly and Arthur Weasley. (''Franchise/HarryPotter'')
* March 11: Birth of Sean Matsuda in Brazil. He would practice basketball and martial arts as a teenager, emulating Ken Masters in style. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'')
* March 16/May 28: Birth of Nanase Mizukami, younger sister of Kairi and Holuto, in Japan. She would be trained in the traditional fighting style of her family. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[labelnote:justification]]Based on online sources. She could be younger.[[/labelnote]])
* March 25: The Wilmarth Foundation nukes Cthylla, offspring of Cthulhu.[[labelnote:more]]Cthylla survives, but a psychic assault from R'lyeh is sent in retaliation, destroying Miskatonic University.[[/labelnote]] (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Transition of]] Literature/TitusCrow'')
* April 15: Samantha "Sam" Jones is born. (''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'')
* April 21: A mysterious fog brings terror to Antonio Bay. (''Film/TheFog1980'')
* May 11: Henry Hill's last day as a "Wiseguy". (''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'')
* May 18:
** Ian Curtis of Music/JoyDivision dies. (RealLife, ''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople'', ''Film/{{Control}}'')
** Mount St. Helens erupts (RealLife) because of [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-76 76-2]] (Website/SCPFoundation)
** Around this time, Professor Marcus Irving drops out of contact with his sisters. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* May: Fifty years after he was struck by lightning and killed while playing golf, Peterson is [[BackFromTheDead revived]] by a team of surgeons. He is given the designation Single-O. (''Film/JustImagine'')
* June 7: Steve Jablonski is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 10:
** Vuc Andric is born. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
** Gordon Penwick is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* June 13: A group of teenaged camp counsellors are brutally murdered during the renovation of summer camp Camp Crystal Lake. This is revealed to be the work of Pamela Voorhees, a former counsellor at the camp whose son Jason drowned there 22 years earlier. Pamela is killed by a surviving victim, who claims Jason is still alive and lurking somewhere nearby. The camp is nicknamed Camp Blood by the nearby town. (''Film/FridayThe13th1980'')
* June 16: A St. Bernard named Cujo catches rabies. He starts attacking people the following month. (''Literature/{{Cujo}}'')
* June 20: Sam Beckett leaps into Katie [=McBain=], a teenage girl who has just been raped, in Mill Valley, California. He is there to ensure that Katie's rapist Kevin Wentworth, the son of a prominent local family, is brought to justice. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 28: A small-town school organizes a graduation dance for the first time since 1945, awakening a killer's wrath. (''Film/TheProwler'')
* Between April and June: Birth of Yang Dong to Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining (deceased). Ye and her daughter go to live with the Qi family for six months. (''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* July 31: Literature/HarryPotter is born to James and Lily Evans Potter. (''Franchise/HarryPotter'')
* August 13: Two months after the original deaths at Camp Crystal Lake, survivor Alice Hardy is murdered in her home by an unnamed assailant. (''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'')
* August 17: In Australia, Azaria Chamberlain, a baby girl, is eaten by a dingo. The story becomes well-known, even joked about by the media. (RealLife)
* August 19: The spaceship transporting NASA astronauts Colonel Alan Virdon and Major Peter J. Burke encounters a time warp while approaching Alpha Centauri. The ship travels forward to 3085, where they discover that Earth is ruled by intelligent apes. (''Series/PlanetOfTheApes'')
* September 28: Demona retrieves the Praying Gargoyle from Notre Dame Cathedral, and slays the current Hunter, Charles Canmore, in the process. Canmore is survived by his three children Jason, Robyn, and Jon. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* September: LN-18 and J-21 are married. (''Film/JustImagine'')
* Before October: The Battlestar ''Galactica'' and its fleet arrive at Earth, only to discover Earth is not advanced enough to defend against the Cylons. (''Series/Galactica1980'')
* October 5: Ted Striker test-pilots the lunar shuttle XR-2300, but he can't handle it. (''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'')
* October 8: Edwin Garrett disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October 15: After showing him several inactive versions of the implants that the aliens place in the frontal lobes of their test subjects, Dr. Chet Wakeman tells Eric Crawford that they have finally found an active one after cutting open the heads of six people. He demonstrates the [[BrownNote harmful effects]] of the implant on a soldier in an isolation room. The soldier is driven insane within seconds and kills himself by banging his head repeatedly on the glass. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* October 16: Tara Maclay is born. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* October 17: Jane Nance disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October 19:
** Jacob Clarke returns to his childhood home of Lubbock, Texas to visit his mother Sally, who is dying of cancer, and introduce her to his wife Carol and eight-year-old daughter Lisa. This is the first time that Jacob has seen Sally since his elder half-siblings Tom and Becky [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] on January 4, 1959 and brought him to the Greenspan School in Missoula, Montana. Tom tells Jacob that he has come to the conclusion that his father John was a soldier who was injected with psychotropic drugs and Jacob developed abilities as a result. Jacob is less than convinced. To ease Sally's suffering as she dies, Jacob creates an image of John from her memories. Tom is finally convinced that John was an alien, noting that it is ironic that the country's leading debunker has a half-alien half-brother. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Using a UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} aging program, Dr. Chet Wakeman creates an image of Jesse Keys' probable current appearance and distributes it to the UFO project's field agents around the country. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* October 20: Birth of Lilith Aensland. She was created from energy drawn from the succubus Morrigan Aensland and is more-or-less a clone of her. She would gain her own succubus body and powers, becoming Morrigan's "little sister". (''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''[[labelnote:justification]]Date given. She is otherwise estimated to be close in age to Baby Bonnie Hood. [[/labelnote]])
* October 21: The paramedic Jesse Keys receives a report of a car accident involving college students in Morgan's Junction, Missouri. While there, he sees an image of the carny that frightened him as a child and is abducted by the aliens for the first time in more than a decade. He is returned to the same spot approximately three hours later. Both his wife Amelia and nine-year-old son Charlie are concerned about him as he appears to be scared of something. That night, he notices the imprint of an alien hand on his stomach. He returns to Morgan's Junction and finds a glowing green circle in the wheatfield of the local farmer Luke Reynolds. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* October 29:
** Eric Crawford tells his wife Julie and ten-year-old daughter Mary that they are moving to Maine. He does not tell them that it is because the numerous tourists camping out in the desert near Groom Lake make it almost impossible for the UFO project to do its work. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** While he is at home alone, Jesse Keys sees bright lights coming through the window and believes that he is about to be abducted. He goes outside and starts shouting, telling the aliens to leave his family alone. In the confusion, he pushes someone to the ground. It turns out that the lights were from his wife Amelia's car and the person that he pushed was Charlie. The entire family is shaken by the incident. After ten years of marriage, Jesse finally confesses to Amelia that he has been abducted by aliens multiple times and his apparent tumor is an implant that they placed in his head. Amelia believes that it is all in his mind, a symptom of post-traumatic stress due to his service in the Vietnam War, and convinces him to see a doctor for Charlie's sake. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* October 30:
** Tom Clarke appears on television to refute his previous claims that stories of alien abductions and flying saucers were nothing more than a [[GovernmentConspiracy conspiracy]]. When the interviewer asks him why he has gone from a debunker to a believer, he says that he has personal information but does not elaborate. His half-brother Jacob is concerned that Tom will reveal his alien heritage to the world while Eric Crawford is curious as to what changed his mind on the issue. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** In the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota, the neurosurgeon Dr. Franklin Traub tells Jesse Keys and his wife Amelia that the implant is in fact a metallic deposit caused by exposure to unusual chemicals and that it can be dispersed using ultrasound therapy. Jesse is not convinced but he nevertheless agrees to the therapy as he does not want to run the risk of hurting Charlie. He warns Amelia that the UFO project may be looking for him, not realizing that Dr. Traub is one of their field agents. Based on the age progression sketch that he previously received, Traub tells Dr. Chet Wakeman that he has found Jesse Keys. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Before October 31: In the absence of her parents Harold and Jean, Lindsay Weir hosts a keg party. (''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'')
* October 31:
** Two Cylon agents attempt to transmit Earth's location to their fleet but they are stopped by Troy and Dillon. (''Series/Galactica1980'')
** Charlie Keys dresses as [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] for Hallowe'en. He gets into a fight with a boy named Alan Holmes after he calls his father Jesse nuts but it is broken up by his mother Amelia and an apparent passerby, who turns out to be an agent of the UFO project. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Sam Weir has a miserable Hallowe'en, which culminates in him being (accidentally) egged by his elder sister Lindsay. (''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'')
* October: Zombie outbreak in Maricela, put down by Brazilian army. Army also apparently kills surviving natives in the area. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* November 1: Dr. Chet Wakeman goes to the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota to see Jesse Keys, who has been heavily sedated by Dr. Franklin Traub, for himself. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* November 3: Eric Crawford travels to Dallas, Texas to talk to Becky Clarke in the hope of finding out why her elder brother Tom has become a believer in aliens after spending years debunking stories about them. He tells her everything that has happened since the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell crash]], admitting that he can't think of any other way to find the answers that he seeks. That night, Eric and Becky take his private plane to Groom Lake, Nevada and he shows her the alien bodies found in Roswell in 1947. There is a strong mutual attraction between them and they begin an affair. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* November 4:
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan defeats UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife)
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a sixth term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** The New Populist Party candidate ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is elected President of the United States, defeating UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. (''ComicBook/WhatIf'')
** [AlternateUniverse] Creator/HowardStern defeats UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter in the U.S. presidential election. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** [AlternateUniverse] Gary Hart is elected U.S. President. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
** [AlternateUniverse] Ernest Hollings is elected U.S. President. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
** Eunice Danforth makes a deal with Ed Meese to fix the election by using the Brainalyzer to pump Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'s brain into UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's body, thereby quadrupling his I.Q. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnGlenn is re-elected. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
* November 7: After they have sex in a motel in Dallas, Eric Crawford asks Becky Clarke to leave her husband Ronnie and move to Maine with him. He says that he plans to tell his wife Julie about them. After Eric drives away, Becky is approached by her brother Tom. He accuses her of being a selfish little girl who is willing to walk on their mother Sally's grave to get away from Ronnie. When he asks her if she has told Eric that their younger half-brother Jacob is still alive, Becky admits that she hasn't. Tom sees this as evidence that she does not trust Eric any more than he does. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* November 8:
** Jesse Keys realizes that "Dr. Patterson" is an agent of the UFO project as he is aware that the little men that he sees are grey without being told. He renders the agent unconscious and escapes. The aliens create an image of Jesse in order to lure Charlie to Morgan's Junction, Missouri so that they can abduct him. Although the real Jesse arrives and tries his best to protect his son, they are nevertheless both abducted. This is the first time that Charlie is abducted and the last time that Jesse is. When they are returned to Earth, Jesse is suffering brain damage from the implant. After he is brought to hospital, the implant falls out of his nose. He warns his wife Amelia that the project will be looking for Charlie from now on. Amelia and Charlie manage to escape the agents who arrive at the hospital and go into hiding but Jesse remains behind. He soon enters a catatonic state. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Becky Clarke considers leaving her husband Ronnie for Eric Crawford but she can't go through with it as she realizes that she doesn't really trust him and that she doesn't want to leave her children Kim and Andy. Eric is heartbroken as his relationship with Becky represented his last, best chance to become a better man. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** That night, a group of UFO enthusiasts led by Becky and her brother Tom block State Highway 93 in the Mojave Desert so that they can inspect the trucks transporting materiel from Groom Lake. They correctly believe that the trucks contain the bodies from the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell crashsite]]. Although Eric Crawford does not allow them to inspect the trucks, they see the crashed ship being transported by three helicopters across the desert. To Eric's irritation, Tom says, "Still don't know how to fly it, do you?" Another, much larger and fully operational alien ship then appears overhead. The crashed ship is reactivated and enters the mothership. The aliens also retrieve the bodies but leave the artifact found at the crashsite behind. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* November 15: Having lost all of the proof of the existence of the aliens and the threat that they pose to Earth, the UFO project is shut down by the Senate Appropriations Committee after 33 years in operation. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* December 6: Birth of Ibuki to a village of ninjas in Japan. She would be raised as a ninja. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:justification]]As originally depicted, Ibuki is a senior at high school and approaching graduation. Her personal aspirations include entry into a university.[[/labelnote]])
* December 8:
** Music/JohnLennon is shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Building in New York City. (RealLife)
** The assassination is influenced by Huitzilin, a supernatural Aztec entity, for its own purposes. (''[[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'')
** Upon hearing the news, a young Rick Castle doesn't leave his room for a week. (''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'')
** Kim Karlsen's friends, Gunnar, Sebastian, and Ola, all react by going to the same fountain in Oslo, but at different times. Seb takes up studying and becomes a teacher, Ola takes up hair dressing, and Gunnar also takes up studying, becoming an archaeologist. Kim lives in seclusion, but writes post cards to his friends. (Second sequel to ''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* December 14: Birth of Faith Lehane in Boston. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* December 31: Bunch of med-students are killed in a New Year's Eve masquerade party on a train. Perpetrator turns out to be disgruntled former student who was victim of a nasty prank short time ago. (''Film/TerrorTrain'')
* December: Some surviving zombies from Maricela cause a subsequent outbreak in Juruti. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* {Sept|Nov|Dec}ember 4: Birth of Dina to Ryou and Haruka Sarazu. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* Late 1980: Ye Wenjie and Yang Dong return to live at Red Coast Base. (''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* Rebecca Chambers born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* Alyssa Jones breaks her hymen[[note]]by falling off a fence post[[/note]] at age ten. (''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* Jennifer Walters becomes ComicBook/SheHulk. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Randal Graves pisses all over the bathroom floor at school. (''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'')
* The Blues Brothers try to save their orphanage. (''Film/TheBluesBrothers'')
* Private investigator Thomas Magnum begins operating out of author Robin Masters's estate. (''Series/MagnumPI'')
* Sue Sylvester is born. (''Series/{{Glee}}'')
* Nicholas Angel's Uncle Derek, a sergeant from the Met, gives him a pedal police car. Nicholas spends several weeks riding around in it and stopping the other kids for things like littering, and although he loses many friends, he comes to realize that he wants to become a policeman--[[InsistentTerminology officer]]. [[note]]Nicholas later discovers that Uncle Derek was selling drugs on the side, and that the pedal police car was likely bought using that money. He left the car to rust but never lost his interest in the law.[[/note]] (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* End of the Long War between China and Islam. (''Literature/TheYearsOfRiceAndSalt'')
* Britain is swept by a wave of mysterious defenestrations, followed by sightings of an awkwardly-flying superhero. Stonehenge is spotted at a suspiciously Italian coastal cliff. (''Film/ThePumaman'')
* SerialKiller with MommyIssues scalps women in New York. (''Film/Maniac1980'')
* Horrifying truth about Motel Hello's delicious smoked meat is uncovered. (''Film/MotelHell'')
* Would-be astronaut Kazuya Oki is turned into a cyborg (codename Super-1) by the International Space Development Program. However, before he can head into space, the launch base is attacked by the villainous Dogma Empire, and Oki trains in the martial arts before fighting Dogma as a Kamen Rider. (''Series/KamenRiderSuper1'')
* Cristoph Kuyler assassinates a bank president in Paris. While trying to escape, he runs into Duncan [=MacLeod=]. Duncan thought himself retired from the Game and did not carry a sword at the time. He has to evade both Kuyler and a number of approaching police officers. Duncan manages to board a Bateau Mouche, impressing Tessa Noël in the process. Duncan and Tessa would go on to form a romantic relationship that would last for the rest of her life. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* [AlternateTimeline] Earth is a lifeless, windswept rock wiped clean of all life following the return of Sutekh in 1911 and his corresponding rampage. The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith briefly visit here to see the consequences of not intervening to prevent Sutekh from returning. Sarah Jane claims to have come from 1980[[note]]As discussed previously on this page and the previous one, the show is notoriously inconsistent regarding whether this period takes roughly at time of broadcast (mid-1970s) or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but the information is provided here for sake of reference.[[/note]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Richard Collier becomes infatuated with Elise [=McKenna=], eight years after her death. He travels back in time to June 27, 1912 to meet her in person. (''Film/SomewhereInTime'')
* Having spent the last nine years failing to convince anyone of the existence of aliens, Nicholas Ballard has a mental breakdown and checks himself into a mental institution in Oregon. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* A car crash leaves Mamoru Chiba both with amnesia and orphaned. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* Kate Beckett is born [[labelnote:Timing]]She's thirty-one in "Rise", set in 2011[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'')
* Birth of Katherine Brewster. (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'')
* Kevin Smith takes on the Mafia in Miami, and has to kill the man he loves. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* Kiyone Masaki dies in her sleep. Tennyo leaves the household due to her resemblance to Kiyone. Noboyuki and Katsuhito are given instructions to use a script she wrote should Tenchi ever ask why she died. (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'')
* Billy Butcher is suspended from school for talking back to and cursing at a teacher. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* The Ramones help a fan and her schoolmates fight a rock 'n' roll hating principal. (''Film/RockAndRollHighSchool'')
* Henry Hassel returns home to discover his wife in the arms of another man. Furious, he builds a time machine so that he can kill her grandfather in the past. (''[[Creator/AlfredBester The Men Who Murdered Mohammed]]'')
* Life expectancy has increased substantially. (''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'')
* New York is a MegaCity with [[FuturisticSuperhighway multi-lane elevated roadways]], [[LayeredMetropolis suspension bridges hung between towering megastructures]], and personal aircraft buzzing from building to building. Transoceanic airliners are dirigibles. People have numbers instead of names and babies are readily procurable from vending machines. There is a manned mission to Mars. (''Film/JustImagine'')
* Lisa Clarke begins having dreams about Charlie Keys. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* ComicBook/LexLuthor is born. (''Series/{{Smallville}}'')
* Samuel Bernard is born. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* Aaron Rivera (later Shore) is born in Texas. (''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'')
* A group of Thai Catholic school students investigate a decades-old suicide, awakening a VengefulGhost in the process. (''Film/ThreeOhThreeFearFaithRevenge'')
* Dustin Henderson and his family move to Hawkins, Indiana. He soon befriends Mike Wheeler, Will Byers and Lucas Sinclair. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* Dominick Hide, a time traveler from 2130, is assigned to observe the transport systems of London in 1980. He decides to break the rules and land his flying saucer in order to search for his great-great-grandfather, also named Dominick Hide, as the records indicate that he was living in London at this time. In the midst of his search, Dominick meets a young clothes shop owner named Jane Winters and they soon begin a relationship in spite of the fact that he has a wife named Ava in 2130. They have sex and Jane becomes pregnant as a result. The child Dominick, Jr. is Dominick's great-grandfather, meaning that he is [[MyOwnGrampa his own great-great-grandfather]] [[StableTimeLoop whom he had been looking for when he met Jane]]. (''Series/TheFlipsideOfDominickHide'')
* Holly Wheeler is born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* Aries, Neleus and Pelius are born on [=M7G-677=] in the Pegasus galaxy. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Kevin Drayton meets his future wife Carol in a night school class. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Harvey Goodman is born. (''Series/StarCops'')
* Meredith Quill dates a strange but charming man who reveals to her that he came from outer space (he is in fact a manifestation of Ego the Living Planet). They would eventually go on to have a child together. (''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'')
* Salvador Marti begins working for the time ministry as a field agent. That same day he meets the woman who would later become his wife. (''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'')
* Amandine Poulain is killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris and lands on her. (''Film/{{Amelie}}'')
* Chinese master spy Wo Fat is arrested by Steve [=McGarrett=]. (''Series/HawaiiFiveO)''
* Edith Bunker dies. (''Series/ArchieBunkersPlace'')
* Tony Montana leaves Cuba and arrives in Miami during the Mariel boatlift. (''Film/Scarface1983'')
* Birth of Howard Lesse and Jennifer Billingsworth, and Robin [=DeSanto=] [[labelnote:Justification]] States in [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/hoohoo this strip]] that she is seven years away from eligibility for vice president of the United States. Confirmed in [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/thirty-one this one]] to be 31 as of 2011. [[/labelnote]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
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[[folder:1981]]
* January 1: Adrian Mole starts writing his diary. (''[[Literature/AdrianMole The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾]]'')
* January 6: Birth of Hotaru Tomoe to Socuihi and Keiko Tomoe. She would awaken as Sailor Saturn twelve years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* January 19: Buffy Anne Summers is born to Joyce and Hank Summers in Los Angeles. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* January 20:
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States. (RealLife)
** After being inaugurated as the 40th U.S. President, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica reveals his civilian identity of Steve Rogers to the world. Immediately afterwards, he is the subject of an assassination attempt. Over the objections of the Secret Service, President America captures the would-be assassin himself. (''ComicBook/WhatIf'')
* January: Brad Taylor is born. (''Series/HomeImprovement'')
* February 28: While playing baseball with his wife Carol and eight-year-old daughter Lisa in Los Altos, California, Jacob Clarke collapses. His body is beginning to fail due to his [[HalfHumanHybrid half-alien status]]. Jacob gives Lisa the star shaped pendant that belonged to his mother Sally and tells her that he loves her every day and twice on Sundays. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* February: Sheena is born. (''Play for Tomorrow'')
* Spring: Laura Ramstead dies of exhaustion during a high school track race. (''Film/GraduationDay'')
* March 1: In Bakersfield, California, the nine-year-old Charlie Keys is abducted by the aliens while his mother Amelia is buying a pizza. When he is returned several minutes later, Amelia finds that he has three circular impressions behind his left ear. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* March 2: ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'' premieres on [=DC 101=] in Washington, D.C.. (RealLife) and (''Literature/PrivateParts'').
* March 8: John Shaffner is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 17: Jacob Clarke dies. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* March 30:
** John Hinckley Jr. attempts to assassinate U.S. President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in Washington. (RealLife)
** A Soviet time traveller named Yuri prevents the assassination of UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan; unfortunately for him, this causes the dissolution of the USSR and the erasure of his time travel agency from history. He decides to change careers and work for the Time Repair Agency, fixing paradoxes. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
* April 7: Cassandra Schofield is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* April 12: The ''Columbia'' is launched into orbit, inaugurating the Space Shuttle program. (RealLife) The ten-year-old Cameron Mitchell and his father Frank watch the launch on television in the Veterans' Hospital. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* April 28: Kevin Arthur disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 4: Victor Rutledge dies. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 5: Paige Pratt dies. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* Summer: A fencing-masked killer avenges a high school track star's death from overexertion. (''Film/GraduationDay'')
* June 7: Jack and Johanna Kimball are murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 16: Amy Barrett is born. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* June: Peter Tracey receives a suspended sentence for breaking and entering. (''Series/K9AndCompany'')
* July 27:
** Alexia Ashford appointed senior researcher at Umbrella Rockfort Facility, aged 10. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
** Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton are married for the first time. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* July 29: [[UsefulNotes/CharlesIII Prince Charles]] marries [[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales Lady Diana Spencer]]. (RealLife, ''Series/TheCrown'')
** On the day of their wedding, Lady Diana tries (unsuccessfully) to call off the wedding, then tries to convince Charles to run away with her to California so they can wear old Levi's and eat cold weinies in a Winnebago. (''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'')
** Ben Song leaps into a Los Angeles bounty hunter named Eva Sandoval, on the day of Charles and Diana's wedding. This is his first leap into a woman. He's there to help capture a bail skip named Tammy Jean Jessup, and to get Eva together with her partner and boyfriend Jake. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* July: Death of Donnie Truant. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* August 18: Christopher Ewing is born. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* September 9/December 12: Birth of twin brothers Yun and Yang in Hong Kong. Orphaned at an early age, the two would be raised by a grandfather who trains them in kung fu. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'')
* September 17: Ami Kwean disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* September 18:
** Birth of Elena in Kenya. She would be raised as a fighting princess, her favourite fighting style being capoeira. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:justification]]Said to be 17 years old in 1998.[[/labelnote]] )
** Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is born. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* September 19: Toshiko Sato is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* September 30: Sam Beckett leaps into Linda Bruckner, a single mother with three children, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is there to prevent Linda's son Kevin from disappearing. As Linda's daughter Teresa is only five years old, she can see not only Al but Sam as he is really is. Al tells her that they are angels. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* October 28: SCP Foundation apprehends a many-voiced predator specimen. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* October 31: James and Lily Potter are killed by the evil wizard Voldemort. [[labelnote:more]]The one-year-old Harry is also attacked, with an instant-death spell for which there is no counter, but survives through his mother's love protecting him and causes Voldemort to be defeated.[[/labelnote]] Harry, now called "The Boy Who Lived", is placed into hiding with his only remaining blood relatives, a {{Muggle}} family. (''Literature/HarryPotter'')
* December: Sarah Jane Smith meets K-9. The two of them prevent Brendan Richards [[HumanSacrifice from being sacrificed]] by the Cult of Hecate in Moreton Harwood. (''Series/K9AndCompany'')
* SHADO repels an alien invasion. (''Series/UFO1970'')
* First zombie created by the T-virus. This version of the virus has a 90% infection rate; research begins to generate a variant with 100% infection. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* The ComicBook/XMen and the ComicBook/KittyPryde of a [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast Sentinel-dominated future]] prevent her timeline from occurring. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* The Fourth Doctor saves the universe from total collapse (and the Master), and regenerates. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Ralph Hinkley is given a super-suit by an alien and becomes a superhero. (''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'')
* American David Kessler becomes a werewolf, terrorizes London. (''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'')
* A horribly burned man, simply known as "Cropsy", is released from the hospital and starts a killing spree. (''Film/TheBurning'')
* Four teens attend a carnival in Florida and are stuck in a darkride with a deformed killer. (''Film/TheFunhouse'')
* A bunch of teens are harassed by murderous rednecks in Oregon. (''Film/JustBeforeDawn'')
* James Horton is assigned as the Watcher of the Kurgan. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Diligent Aperture Science engineers complete the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver and Take-A-Wish Foundation initiatives. The company announces products related to the research in a lavish, televised ceremony. These products immediately become wildly unpopular. After a very public string of choking and despondent sick child disasters, senior company officials are summoned before a Senate investigative committee. During these proceedings, an engineer mentions that some progress has been made on "Tier 3", the "man-sized ad hoc quantum tunnel through physical space with possible applications as a shower curtain". The committee is quickly and permanently recessed, and Aperture is granted an open-ended contract to continue research on the "Portal" and "Heimlich Counter-Maneuver" projects in secret. (''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'')
* It's discovered that a GhostTown in Texas has a ghost killer in it. (''Film/{{Scream|1981}}'')
* Bethany discovers she's pregnant and wants to abort the child. Brett Waits threatens to leave her if she does so, and so she has the abortion performed by a medical student and claims it was a miscarriage. Brett stays with her and consoles her during her recovery. He also drops out of school due to his fear of blood and gets a job selling shoes in Monticello. (''Film/{{Dogma}}: [[AllThereInTheManual A Screenplay]]'')
* Birth of Buffy Summers in Los Angeles. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* A fallen building from the flying city of Columbia is discovered in the Alps. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'')
* Billy Butcher joins the Royal Marines. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Six nuclear reactors in North America and Europe are taken over by terrorists on orders from nuclear physicist Dr. Murik for ransom. (''Literature/LicenceRenewed'')
* Birth of Tru Davies. (''Series/TruCalling'')
* Futuro, a supervillain, travels back in time from this year to the Stone Age to commit a crime spree in Bedrock. Returning his native time, Futuro's finally stopped by a time-travelling [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]], Wilma Flintstone, and Betty Rubble. (''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The Flintstone Comedy Show]]''; year taken from its original airdate)
* A dimensional rift called "The Tear" opens over Earth, causing "The Changing", a series of disasters that turns the world into "an untamed planet of ruined cities, mutated creatures, [[ManEatingPlant man-eating plants]] and powerful magic." (''TabeltopGame/{{Wasteland 2010}}'')
* Detective Ray Holt single-handedly apprehends "The Disco Strangler", a notorious serial killer terrorising New York City. The case becomes legendary among the NYPD. (''Series/BrooklynNineNine'')[[labelnote:Justification]]The events are shown in flashback during the pilot episode, and dialogue places it during 1981. Later dialogue suggests that the case has since become famous, at least among police officers.[[/labelnote]]
* First virus that infects floppy disks. (''VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory'' and RealLife)
* Sid Fairgate dies. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Simon Locke is killed in a motorcycle accident. He had been going much too fast because he needed to clear his head as he was afraid of success and his relationship with Andrea Fields becoming serious. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Bryce Larkin is born in Connecticut. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* The Nexus crosses through the Milky Way Galaxy. (''Film/StarTrekGenerations'')
* Dominick Hide Jr. is born in Portobello Road, London. (''Series/TheFlipsideOfDominickHide'')
* Debbie Cunningham is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Kevin and Carol Drayton are married. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* The New Zealander aviatrix Louisa Iredale Wentworth disappears while trying to recreate a famous flight. She is survived by her son Tama. On the same day, Jo Tiegan is born in Australia. In 1995, this causes the Old Man to speculate that Jo may be a {{reincarnation}} of Louisa or possibly a blood relative because they were the only ones who could see through the mirror that allowed people to travel between 1919 and 1995. (''Series/MirrorMirror1995'')
* Arthur Fleck kills three Wayne Enterprises businessmen in the subway of Gotham and then TalkShow host Murray Franklin on his live TV show. Mayoral candidate Thomas Wayne condemns the acts and riots break out in the city. (''Film/Joker2019'')
* Matthew Shawcross begins his Christian televangelist empire. ("Literature/TheMoralVirologist")
* Lily Descoine commits suicide. (''Series/RemingtonSteele'')
* Brady Sullivan is born in Boston. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'')
* In a case of mistaken identity, Fedelia "Fiddler" Jimmerson is arrested for kidnapping. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Birth of Mary Bradford. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1981-1982]]
* Winter: Cleveland experiences the worst winter storm it has ever statistically seen. Harvey Pekar and his girlfriend endure their vehicles being towed and breaking down in the miserable weather, leading to several arguments. (''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Between 1977 and 1982]]
* Linda Mitchell marries Charles Walkerton. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1982]]
* January 1: Laszlo Mahnovski is born. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* January 7: Laurel Bryce disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* January 27: Sam Beckett leaps into a sensationalist talk show host named Roberto Gutierrez in Destiny, New Mexico. He is there to prevent Roberto's fellow reporter Jani Eisenberg from being killed. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* February 8: Randy Taylor is born. (''Series/HomeImprovement'')
* March 22: Jenny Gump (née Curran) dies. (''Film/ForrestGump'')
* Early 1982: Sam Butcher suffers a stroke, losing the use of his arm. A few days later, he hits Carol so hard she loses an eye. Billy Butcher attempts to kill his father, is stopped by Lenny. Billy decides to join the Royal Marines. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* April 1: birth of Sal Walters and David and Steven Walkerton. [[labelnote:more]]Sal and Beef are switched at birth[[/labelnote]] The Walkerton twins inherit Martian DNA from their mother. [[labelnote:Justification]][[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/wheres-my-prince-charming/ Willis states]] that they were born on April Fools' Day. Sal states she is underage in "[[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/college-ho-page-9/ College Ho! #9]]"; this takes place at Danny and Joe's college orientation, which would be in early September of 1997. The age of consent in Indiana is 16.[[/labelnote]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* April 18: Iris Felice is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* May 10: John Constantine is born. (''Series/{{Constantine}}'')
* May 14: In Woburn, Massachusetts, a number of citizens whose children had developed or died from leukemia filed a civil lawsuit against two corporations, W. R. Grace and Company and Beatrice Foods. Grace's subsidiary, Cryovac, and Beatrice were suspected of contaminating the groundwater by improperly disposing of trichloroethylene (TCE), perchloroethylene (perc) and other industrial solvents at their facilities in Woburn near water wells G and H. Jan Schlichtmann is the attorney chosen to represent them. The case would last to 1990. (''Film/ACivilAction'' and real life)
* May 21: Billy Butcher is assigned to the Royal Marines at San Carlos, and gains a commendation when he heroically shoots down an Argentinian plane. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* May:
** Sarah Walker is born. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
** Lindsay Chase is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
** The 22nd Century time traveler Pyrus Bonnington is assigned to observe street crime and violence in London in 1982. In the process of doing so, he witnesses a princess being kidnapped and lands his flying saucer to render assistance. However, he is soon distracted by the vibrancy of this era. After getting drunk in a local pub, Pyrus tries to assault a police officer and is arrested. After he fails to return to his native time of December 2132, his instructor Dominick Hide is sent after him. While there, Dominick makes use of the opportunity to see his former lover Jane Winters and their son Dominick, Jr., who is [[MyOwnGrampa also his great-grandfather]]. (''[[Series/TheFlipsideOfDominickHide Another Flip for Dominick]]'')
* Between March and May: Billy Butcher joins the Royal Marines. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* June 11/12: Battle of Mount Harriet. Billy Butcher's unit takes a fortified position from the Argentinians, but all except Butcher are killed in the effort. Butcher himself is seriously injured, and sits out the rest of the war in a hospital bed. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* June 18: The astronaut Jimmy Hapgood is sent on a mission to UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} but he goes off course. (''Series/LostInSpace'')
* June 28: Daffodil Baxter disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* July 11:
** Italy defeats West Germany 3-1 in the World Cup. (RealLife)
** The Threllips attempt to invade Earth but they are defeated by the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* July 12: [AlternateUniverse] the entire population of Earth disappears. (''TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'')
* July 14: Ryan Freel disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* July 28: By this time, Johnny Truant has moved in with his first foster family. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* July 30: Darren Piersahl is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* July: Stan Pines locks the electron carpet in a secret room in the Mystery Shack. (''Westernanimation/GravityFalls'')
* August 8: Jeffrey Fowler is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* Early August: Johnny Truant totally flips out at his foster parents, necessitating a move to a new family. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* September 25: A replica of the ''Voyager 1'' space probe appears in Medium Earth Orbit, having been sent by the Gliscians of Gliese 445-C from the year [[JustForFun/GrandUnifiedTimelineTheFarFuture 42,412]]. The probe carries their version of the UsefulNotes/VoyagerGoldenRecord, bearing an offering of peace for the humans who have yet to doom them to extinction again. (Website/SCPFoundation, ''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1342 SCP-1342 - To the Makers of Music]]'')
* September 27: The Gliscian space probe and its contents land undamaged in the Pacific Ocean, where they are recovered by the SCP Foundation and designated SCP-1342-1 and SCP-1342-2. (Website/SCPFoundation, ''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1342 SCP-1342 - To the Makers of Music]]'')
* October 2: Fourteen-year-old Marty [=McFly=] meets Dr. Emmett Brown while attempting to take an interocitor tube from Brown's lab. Brown hires Marty on as an assistant. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* October 26: A peaceful band of aliens visit California to collect plant samples, only to flee when authorities arrive. A single castaway is left behind, and is discovered by an Earth boy named Elliot. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 27: No one believes Elliot's claims of having seen a "goblin." That evening, Elliot lures the alien into his house. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 28: Elliot pretends to be sick so he can stay home with the alien he found. He introduces the alien to his brother and sister. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 29: The alien drinks beer, and a psychic bond causes Elliot to get drunk. Elliot ends up in the principal's office after freeing his science class's frogs. The alien learns how to talk; Elliot names the alien "ET." (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 30: ET gathers parts for his communicator. Government agents begin monitoring Elliot's house. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 31:
** A mask company enacts a plan to kill American children on Halloween. (''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'')
** Using Halloween as a cover, ET and Elliot fly to a secluded area in the forest, set up ET's communicator, and attempt to "phone home." (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October: The headquarters of the government agency called "The Shop" are burned to the ground by pyrokinetic child Charlie [=McGee=]. (''Literature/{{Firestarter}}'')
* November 1: Elliot, getting sicker due to his psychic bond with ET, returns home after being out all night. Michael finds a dying ET and brings him home. The government quarantines their house. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* November 2: ET revives after "dying." Elliot, Michael, and their friends return ET to his spaceship. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* November 7: Johnny Truant is in his third foster family in as many months. His foster mother asks that his biological mother stop sending quite so many letters. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* November 18: Madman Marz hunts down people in North Sea Cottages, a camp for gifted children. (''Film/{{Madman}}'')
* Fall: A high school football player named Rico is sidelined during a big game. His team loses, and he spends the rest of his life thinking that the team would have made it to -- and won -- the state championship if his coach had just let him play. (''Film/NapoleonDynamite''[[labelnote:Justification]]Rico's "time machine" in 2004 is already set to 1982 when Napoleon tries to use it, and it's implied that Rico had already tried to time travel earlier on.[[/labelnote]])
* December 3: J.R. and Sue Ellen Ewing are married for the second time. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* December 24: Dante Ferelli disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* A group of three archaeologists arrive at the ruins of the parts of Animaria that didn't lift off into the sky. One is transformed into a [[HalfHumanHybrid leader-class Org]] and murders the other two, leaving their child to be raised by a local aboriginal tribe. The half-human org is sealed. (''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'')
* A Norwegian research team in Antarctica digs up an alien spacecraft, unleashing a creature capable of absorbing and mimicking other lifeforms. This creature later terrorizes an American Antartic research station. (''Film/TheThing2011'' prequel and ''Film/TheThing1982'')
* The Fifth Doctor and his companions Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka rescue a supersonic jet sent back in time 140 million years. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Earth's superheroes drafted into a contest between the Grandmaster and Death. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} contracts cancer from exposure to the toxic Compund 13. Despite attempts by multiple friends and past enemies, including the alien Skrull, Mar-Vell eventually dies from the disease (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Michael Knight and KITT, a sentient car, fight crime. (''Series/KnightRider'')
* A suburban family in California deal with powerful supernatural forces in their home. (''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'')
* Shellshocked Vietnam veteran is antagonized by a small town police force. (''Film/FirstBlood'')
* Donald Salzer gets a promotion in the Watchers' hierarchy. He becomes the Head Historical Researcher for Western Europe. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Birth of Kyle Travers in Metro City. He would grow up to become a professional street fighter, fighting in underground matches to make ends meet. (''[[VideoGame/FinalFight Final Fight: Streetwise]]'')
* Mental Institute doctor is targeted for death by his patients who are convinced that he killed their previous doctor. (''Film/AloneInTheDark1982'')
* Feminist journalist Deborah Ballin is attacked in her home by woman-hating psychopath. (''Film/VisitingHours'')
* A Special Forces team containing Captain Jack O'Neill and Lt. Charles Kawalsky attempts to capture a Soviet spy named Boris in East Germany. It goes disastrously wrong, leading to the death of the team leader Colonel John Michaels. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Robot Jones attends a human school (''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'')
* Mass murderer Russ Thorn escapes from mental institute, crashes a slumber party. (''Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre'')
* Mask de Smith kills a large number of prototype Heaven Smiles in Madison Square Garden. Kun Lan's shadow begins to creep over the Killer 7. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* Birth of William Joseph Blazkowicz II, better known as Billy, to Arthur and Susan Blaze. (''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'')
* Faulty computer program causes a passenger space shuttle to change its course into the sun. (''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'')
* Mrs. Brisby enlists the help of super-intelligent rats that escaped from the labs of NIMH partly thanks to her deceased husband to move her home so that Farmer Fitzgibbon's plow doesn't destroy it with her ill son Timmy inside. (''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'')
* ''Fix-it Felix Jr.'' is released to arcades (''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'')
* Birth of Chad to Will Navidson and Karen Green. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* Greg Mallory shows Rick Burnham the Compound V which Jonah Vogelbaum made to his specifications. Burnham has a heart attack; Mallory is empowered to draw on a generous budget to carry out anti-superhuman operations. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Sam Butcher has another stroke, leaving him barely able to move. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Re-established SPECTRE attempts to take over North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) with mind-control inducing ice cream. (''Literature/ForSpecialServices'')
* In Prague, Hellboy battles a vampire who, according to legend, can only die when defeated in a game of cards. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': The Vampire of Prague)
* In Yorkshire, Hellboy attempts to destroy the vampire Ilona Kakosy. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': The Vârcolac)
* Wilson Wyler Concannon's sole movie ''The Hills Run Red'' is released to a handful of movie theatres, but is quickly pulled for its disturbing violence. (''Film/TheHillsRunRed'')
* The Los Angeles Dodgers begin to experience a decline in playing quality. (''Literature/TheManWhoBroughtTheDodgersBackToBrooklyn'')
* Henry and Abigail Morgan celebrate their anniversary, despite the apparent difference in their physical ages. (''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'')
* A memory erasing device is invented [[labelnote:by]] Fiddleford Hadron [=McGucket=][[/labelnote]] to erase memories of what The Author found. (''Westernanimation/GravityFalls'')
* Aperture Science founder and CEO Cave Johnson names his personal assistant Caroline as his successor, orders a copy of her intelligence to be stored in his computer, and dies of moon rock poisoning. (''VideoGame/Portal2'')
* After Jeffrey Jones falls out of a window, Phineas Bogg jumps after him and [[TimeTravelEscape saves his life by transporting them both through time using the Omni]]. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'')
* Jock Ewing is killed in a helicopter crash in South America. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Rembrandt Brown is killed in the Detroit Uprising against [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica Soviet rule in the former United States]]. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* Marilyn Cuberle is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* Doctors Victor Ehrlich, Wayne Fiscus, Philip Chandler, Jack Morrison, Peter White, Vijay Kochar, Jacqueline Wade, Cathy Martin and Steven Kiley begin their residencies at St. Eligius. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Dr. Daniel Auschlander is diagnosed with liver cancer. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* A madman who dismembered his mother takes body parts from women to put them back together. (''Film/{{Pieces}}'')
* Simon Holmes is born. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* Lysandra Aristedes and Philip Withers are born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* On Langara, there is a major conflict involving Kelowna, Tirania and the Andari Federation in which nothing is resolved. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Kathy Morgan is born. (''Series/{{Spellbinder}}'')
* Cult leader Nix the Puritan is killed and buried in the desert so he can't come back. (''Film/LordOfIllusions'')
* Sherry Nugil begins "waiting" for Mitch Taylor. [[FridgeLogic Apparently]] it doesn't cross her mind how creepy this is. (''Film/RealGenius'')
* Susan Calvin is born. The same year, Lawrence Robertson incorporates US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. (''Literature/IRobot'')
* Los Angeles TV news anchor Jamie Douglas is [[StalkerWithACrush stalked]] by photographer Derek Sanford. (''Film/TheSeduction'')
* Shortpacked opens. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1983]]
* January 20: Pelafina Truant writes her first letter to Johnny in a couple of months. Between now and February 14th, he runs away twice. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* January: The author [[labelnote:named]]Stanford Pines[[/labelnote]] of three journals describing the paranormal phenomena of Gravity Falls disappears. [[labelnote:more]]Stanford's brother, Stanley, assumes his identity and seeks out the journals to try and bring him back.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:Justification]]Stated to happen 30 years before the main series. The events take place in winter.[[/labelnote]] (''Westernanimation/GravityFalls'')
* February 14: Johnny Truant is in with yet another foster family, the father of which is a former marine. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* February 17: Alfred and Alexia Ashford discover they were created by one of Alexander's experiments. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
* March 3: Alexander Ashford is infected with T-Veronica virus. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
* March 12: Buckwheat is assassinated by John David Stutts. (''Series/SaturdayNightLive'')
* March: Pelafina Truant tries to send some rather inappropriate letters to Johnny, is advised not to by the Director of Whalsetoe. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* April 17: Pelafina Truant sends Johnny a dictionary. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* April 24: After witnessing the aftermath of [[ItMakesSenseInContext popping a giant bubble]], Lyman [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome mysteriously disappears]]. (''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'')
* May 2: Johnny Truant sends his first letter to Pelafina[[labelnote:Justification]]A week prior to Pelafina's next letter.[[/labelnote]]. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* May 9: Pelafina Truant thanks Johnny deeply for writing to her. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* May 18: Yin-Li Xu disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 19: Dana Dreamer is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* May: Peter Morrison is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* June 2: Sam Beckett leaps into a hairdresser named Frank Bianca in Los Angeles. He is there to prevent Frank's girlfriend Laura and her nine-year-old son Kyle, who witnessed the murder of a man named Phil Hartman, from being killed. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 12: The suborbital ship ''Spindrift'' is launched. (''Series/LandOfTheGiants'')
* June: The Great Hinamizawa Gas Disaster occurs, which leads to the death of the 2000 residents of Hinamizawa [[labelnote:More]]and unleashes an outbreak of Hinamizawa Syndrome-related murders and atrocities among former residents of the area. Just before the Gas Disaster occurred, the body of a visiting cameraman, Jirou Tomitake, is found dead of clawing out his own throat, a local nurse, Miyo Takano, is found dead after having been incinerated in an oil barrel in the middle of the woods (strangely, a day before someone last reported meeting her), and the daughter of the local priest (who died two years prior of illness), is found dead in front of her family's shrine after having been cut open and gutted.[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'')
* July 1: Birth of Makoto in Tosa District, Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku island, Japan. Makoto would inherit the family dojo in her early teens and strive to re-establish its reputation. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:justification]]Said to be still 15-years-old in 1997/1998. Otherwise considered a bit younger than Ibuki and Elena.[[/labelnote]])
* August 18: Pelafina Truant has a dream about Johnny as she slips into insanity. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* August 19: Ianto Jones is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* August 22: Oliver Knox disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* September 19: Colonel Gennady Akrimov replaces Col. Stanislav Petrov as watch officer at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, which monitors for a US missile attack on the Soviet Union. Colonel Petrov is re-assigned to a bunker near Odessa. (''Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday'')
* September 26:
** A missile warning system detects the apparent firing of four missiles by America at the USSR. After some consideration, the officer on duty, Colonel Stanislov Petrov, dismisses the alert as a technical error. (RealLife)
** A missile warning system detects the apparent firing of four missiles by America at the USSR. After some consideration, the officer on duty, Colonel Gennady Akrimov, concludes the attack is real and alerts his superiors, who order a full strike on the United States. The resulting nuclear exchange causes over 1.5 billion immediate deaths, with billions more dying in the aftermath. (''Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday'')
* September 26-28: Johnny Truant gets into a fight at school during this time. He is physically punished by his foster father. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* October 10:
** Military barracks buildings in Beirut, Lebannon, are struck by suicide truck bombers; 241 American and 58 French service personnel are killed, 150 more are injured, some of whom later succomb to their wounds. Six civilians also perrish in the blasts. (RealLife)
** Marine LT. Mac Taylor is severely injured in the ensuing battle, and a comrade of his, Col. Stan Whitney, dies in his arms. (''Series/{{CSINY}}'')
* October 14: Pelafina Truant receives another letter from Johnny. This puts her into very good form. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* October 25-29: The United States invades and liberates Grenada. (RealLife) and (''Film/HeartbreakRidge'')
* November 2: Mary Winchester is killed in her home in Lawrence, Kansas, after catching Azazel giving her infant son Sam Winchester demon blood. The house burns down while her husband, John Winchester, her oldest son Dean Winchester, and Sam escape. John Winchester eventually becomes a hunter, and trains the Winchester boys in becoming Hunters too. (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'')
* November 6: An extradimensional monster breaks into our dimension from Hawkins Lab, and a girl called "Eleven" escapes the lab in the chaos. Will Byers goes missing. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* November 7-12: Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, and Dustin Henderson meet Eleven, and team up with her to investigate Will's disappearance. Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers, while dealing with teenage drama in their personal lives, team up to investigate a monster causing disappearances (including Will's). Police Chief Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers team up to investigate Hawkins Lab and Will's place in an apparent government conspiracy. Eventually, the three groups come together.[[note]]Will is recovered from the Upside-Down, the monster is disintegrated, and Eleven disappears.[[/note]] (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* November: Nina Morrison dies. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* December 10: Shawn Farrell is born. (''Series/The4400'')
* December 17: Nearly ten years after Elan School's headquarters burns down, a mysterious fire destroys the Scarborough Downs clubhouse in Maine, the same night that the track's phone lines are down and its hydrants don't have water. Its owner, who also owns Elan School, would get an enormous insurance payout and would eventually be investigated for insurance fraud, although nothing is ultimately ever proven. (RealLife, ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* December 19-23: Johnny Truant gets into 15 fights in one week, and is transferred to a different school. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* December 24:
** The boys play ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Chief Hopper attends a Christmas party.[[note]]Hopper leaves some Eggo waffles in a dead drop in the woods, and Will vomits up a slug and flashes back to the Upside-Down for a brief moment.[[/note]] (''Series/StrangerThings'')
** Jason Kane is born. (''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'')
* December 25: Randal Graves gets a Motley Crue jacket for Christmas and bets Dante Hicks that he will still be wearing it in 15 years, because "Crue will always rule". (''[[Film/{{Clerks}} Clerks Holiday Special]]'')
* December 31:
** Alexia Ashford infects herself with the T-Veronica virus and enters cryogenic suspension. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
** New York is besieged by Columbia. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'')
* Estimated date of the Great War in the Magic World. (''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'')
* Charles Xavier forms the ComicBook/NewMutants. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ComicBook/{{Batman}} forms the original [[ComicBook/TheOutsidersDCComics Outsiders]]. (Creator/DCComics)
* The Visitors arrive and begin subtly taking over the Earth. A resistance forms to stop them. (''Series/{{V|1983}}'')
* Brodie Bruce teaches T.S. Quint how to handle comic books, but T.S. opts to join Little League instead. (''Film/{{Mallrats}}'')
* The Griswold family takes a vacation to Walley World. (''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'')
* An evil leprechaun is sealed away with a FourLeafClover. (''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'')
* Heart of Mantorok recovered by Edwin Lindsey and delivered to Edward Roivas.(''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')
* Six-year-old Dave Davenport is mentally possessed by his own future self. (''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'')
* Giant shark attacks Sea World. (''Film/Jaws3D'')
* Pilot Ryo Murasame is critically injured during an attack by the extraterrestrial Badan Empire, who captured him and turned him into a Combatroid called ZX ("Zecross"). Eventually he breaks free from his brainwashing and escapes. (''Film/KamenRiderZX'', ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'')
* Duncan [=MacLeod=] explains to Tessa Noël the secrets of his Immortality. He conveniently leaves out any mention of the Game. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* Six youths cross an unexpected interdimensional portal on the Dungeons and Dragons rollercoaster. They manage to return to the amusement park twice -- the first time ''very'' briefly. The second time, a phone booth and a hot dog stand are destroyed by the evil archmage Venger before it is decided that they'd better let him chase them back into that other dimension. (''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'')
* Emmett Benton begins thinking about using the idea of using holograms and CGI to create musical performances. (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* Clubber Lang pities the fool Rocky Balboa, and beats the Heavyweight Championship title out of him. (''Film/RockyIII'')
* Group of armed men invade Tony Montana's mansion. (''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'')
* An unknown bounty hunter penetrates Firetop Mountain and kills Zagor. (''[[Literature/FightingFantasy The Warlock of Firetop Mountain]]'')
* Rick Burnham returns to CIA duty. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Billy Butcher is discharged from hospital, but anger issues result in him being discharged from the army and unemployed. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* While working at Macy's, Hal Nolastname gets his co-worker, Wendy, drunk and borrows $400 from her. Hal fakes his death to avoid paying her back. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* [=MI6=], KGB, CIA and Mossad participate in a joint operation called Icebreaker to wipe out the Nazi terrorist organization NSAA. (''Literature/{{Icebreaker}}'')
* Birth of Harrison Davies. (''Series/TruCalling''[[labelnote:Justification]]States he was 10 when their mother died.[[/labelnote]])
* A spaceborne plague is brought to Earth by an astronaut. It eventually kills every dog and cat on the planet. (''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* [AlternateTimeline] former U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy dies. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
* The bureaucratic dictatorship seizes power in the United Kingdom. (''1990'')
* Karen Fairgate and Marion "Mack" [=MacKenzie=] are married. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Bobby and Pamela Ewing divorce for the first time. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Gary and Valene Ewing divorce for the second time. They eventually remarry in 1991. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Gary Ewing and Abby Cunningham are married. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* After signing a human rights petition, Masha Peltrovich is deported from the Soviet Union. She immigrates to the United States. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Matthew Scott, Tamara Johansen and Vanessa James are born. (''Series/StargateUniverse'')
* Kelly Olsen is born. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] and ComicBook/LoisLane are married. (Creator/DCComics)
* Judy Shepherd is born. (''Film/{{Jumanji}}'')
* Billy Underwood is born. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* Ye Wenjie is informed that she and her father have been politically rehabilitated. She returns to teach astrophysics and Tsinghua University, and make an abortive attempt to reconnect with her mother and stepfather, and confronts the surviving women who killed her father. (''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* Ye Wenjie's second message reaches Alpha Centauri. The invasion fleet is given Earth's exact coordinates. Trisolarian government begins measures to retard Earth's scientific and technological advancement amid widespread opposition from their own people. (''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* [AlternateUniverse] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Donna and Hyde marry while expecting their first child. Eric breaks up with Big Rhonda, who has been cheating on him. Kelso cheats on his wife with Jackie. Fez has a Flock of Seagulls haircut. (''Series/That70sShow'')
* Fester Addams, during a period in attendance at the Zurich Institute for the Criminally Insane, meets a Hyde named Olga Malakova. She was a concert pianist interred for transforming and massacring a dozen audience members during a performance. Fester was there for doing the kind of things Fester Addams does. (''Series/{{Wednesday}}'')
* Harold Hooper dies. (''Series/SesameStreet'')
* Los Angeles Police Detective Leo Kessler pursues SerialKiller Warren Stacy. (''Film/TenToMidnight'')
* Much of the United States is devastated by nuclear weapons during a war with the Soviet Union. (''Film/TheDayAfter'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1984]]
* February 1: Matt Sandstrom disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* February 21: Laura Holt and Remington Steele face off against formerly incarcerated Major Descoine, who promises that they will be dead by noon that day. (''Series/RemingtonSteele'')
* Early March: Johnny Truant has a violent fight with his foster father, resulting in hospitalisation. Pelafina's sanity suffers and she has to be physically restrained. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* March 15: Twin girls, who will go on to be known as Sarah Manning and Helena, born to a surrogate mother in Wales. Around this time, at least ten others, all genetically identical to Sarah and Helena, are born. (''Series/OrphanBlack'')
* March 16: Elise Appelbaum is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 17: Philadelphia police officer Mike Ehrmantraut accepts his first bribe. He will later come to regret the path his life takes as a result of this decision and wish that he could go back and prevent himself from doing so. (''Series/BetterCallSaul'')
* March 24: Five teenagers bond during a day of school detention in Shermer High School. (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
* March: Ye Wenjie meets Mike Evans while scouting the location for a new radio telescope. [[labelnote:Justification]]Stated to be half a year after she returned to Tsinghua, which was presumably around September[[/labelnote]](''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* Late March or early April: Johnny Truant writes to Pelafina to tell her he won't be getting a new foster family. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* April: Winston Smith begins to rebel against Big Brother. (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'')
* Spring: Wedding of Lois and Hal Nolastname is cut short when Lois goes into labour with Francis. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* Before May: An alternate Shredder attacks the ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}} using a combination of Utrom and Dimension X technology. The Turtles join forces with two groups of wannabes from [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 alternate]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 universes]] to stop him. (''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'')
* May 13:
** A Terminator arrives from the future, looking to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance to victory. Kyle Reese, also from the future, follows so that he can protect her. (''Film/TheTerminator'')
** A Terminator arrives from the future, looking to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance to victory. It is thwarted by a second Terminator sent further back in time to protect and raise her. Kyle Reese, also from the future, follows, and is rescued by Sarah from a T-1000. They defeat the evil robots and travel forward in time to 2017. (''Film/TerminatorGenisys'')
* May 14:
** The Terminator attacks a police station, forcing Kyle and Sarah to flee.[[labelnote:more]]During the night, Sarah sleeps with Kyle, and becomes pregnant.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/TheTerminator'')
** Gage Creed, a two-year-old child is killed when hit by a truck in Ludlow, Maine. (''Literature/PetSematary'')
** Albert Tatlock dies. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* May 15: The Terminator finds Kyle and Sarah, chasing them to a factory.[[labelnote:more]]in the ensuing battle, Kyle is killed, and Sarah destroys the Terminator in a crusher. Cyberdyne later collects the remains of the Terminator.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/TheTerminator'')
* May:
** New York businessman Oroku Saki, secretly crime lord The Shredder, is murdered along with most of his personal ninja guard by four mutant ninjas, as revenge for the death of Hamato Yoshi 15 years earlier. (''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'')
** Grant Bowen is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 3: Having not heard from Johnny for a few months, Pelafina Truant fears she has upset him. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* June 5: In the original timeline, Sam Beckett and Donna Eleese are due to be married but Donna leaves Sam at the altar. After Sam changes history in 1972, she doesn't, and they marry. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 12: Harold and Alice Withers are married. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* June 26: Pelafina Truant thinks Johnny has sent her a working crystal ball. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* June 28: A team of Soviet scientists launch an attempt to penetrate into [[DarkWorld the Upside-Down]]. They are unsuccessful. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* June: Johnny Truant gets into further fights at school and has trouble with his foster father. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* July 3: The last zombie from an outbreak in the 1960s is released from its prison, immediately starting another attack of brain-eaters. (''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'')
* July 13-18: Jason Voorhees, who survived his supposed drowning in 1957 and has been stalking the forests in the area ever since, commits three killing sprees within five days in the Crystal Lake area, murdering a total of 33 people [[note]]The rampage ends in Jason Voorhees' first death[[/note]]. (''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'', ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII Part III]]'' and ''[[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]'')
* July 24: Brenda Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter Erica are found dead in their American Fork, Utah home with their throats slashed. Brenda's brothers-in-law Dan and Ron Lafferty, who had been excommunicated from the [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} LDS Church]] due to their belief in polygamy and had founded a splinter sect, would later be convicted of the murders. (RealLife and ''Series/UnderTheBannerOfHeaven'' [both the original book and the miniseries])
* August 9: Kyle Baldwin is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 12: Helen Cragen dies while watching the closing ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* August 14: Evelyn Catman disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* June, July, or August: [[ScoutOut Youth group]] leader Patrick Butcher is accidentally shot through the neck with an arrow on the grounds of Button House, dying shortly after. (''Series/GhostsUK'')
* September:
** The Soviet Union invades the United States. When the small town of Calumet, Colorado is occupied by Soviet forces, a group of high schoolers escape into the wilderness, forming a guerilla group known as the "Wolverines", named after their school mascot. (''Film/RedDawn1984'')
** Dante Hicks and Randal Graves start high school. A fellow student in their class named Lance Dowds is selected for the freshman hazing tradition, and he has a pickle inserted into his ass and is forced to walk ten feet with it in. Randal and the others henceforth dub him "Pickle Fucker." (''Film/ClerksII'')
** After helping Marty [=McFly=] with a science project, Doc Brown talks to a man on the telephone about purchasing the man's used [=DeLorean=]. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* September - early October: Johnny Truant begins applying to various boarding schools. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* October 8: ComicBook/LexLuthor and Arianna Carlin are married. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
* Around October 31: Mike Wheeler and his friends Will Byers, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair dress as Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} for Halloween, and get caught up in another adventure. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* October:
** Dr Baxter Stockman is arrested for robbery and extortion after using his Mouser robots to undermine the foundation of every major corporate building in New York,and then threatening to collapse them unless his demands are met. He is foiled by his former assistant April O'Neil. (''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'')
** Maurice Hall is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* November 6:
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan is re-elected U.S. President, defeating UsefulNotes/WalterMondale. (RealLife, ''Series/TheGoldbergs'')
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a seventh term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** [AlternateTimeline] Walter Mondale defeats UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in the U.S. presidential election. (''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'')
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
** Roberta Lincoln votes for Walter Mondale. (''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'')
** Karen Wheeler votes for Ronald Reagan, while Claudia Henderson votes for Walter Mondale. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
** Walter Mondale defeats Ronald Reagan in the U.S. presidential election. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** UsefulNotes/BobDole is elected U.S. President. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
* November 8: Advance start out as a newly elected political party, with Julia Salisbury and Peter Clement as leaders, promising freedom and equality for all. Also, it's {{A|mbiguousGender}}lex [[FeaturelessProtagonist Winston's]] first night on the job as TV broadcaster. (''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'' -- "Day 1: The Election")
* November 15: Jeremy Donaldson interviews Katie Brightman and [[ConspiracyTheorist Alan James]] (author of ''Alan James Is Right''), both telling stories about Advance from different points of view. Also interviewed are some figures like Constable [[StrawHypocrite Bob Peele]] and "Tit-Wank" Tony Dawson, capped off with a group of University students performing their latest play, ''Hey! Friendship!'' on live TV. Plus, the [[MyLittlePanzer Mr. Snugglehugs toys]] are growing popular these days. (''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'' -- "Day 8: The Fallout")
* November 23: Dr. Peter White is shot in the groin by Nurse Shirley Daniels in the morgue of St. Eligius. He later dies. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* November 26-27: Marty [=McFly=] runs into Jennifer Parker for the first time since fourth grade, and is immediately smitten. He briefly considers borrowing a car he saw concealed in Doc Brown's lab[[note]]The car is actually a covered up [=DeLorean=] time machine, still incomplete[[/note]] to impress Jennifer, and stops Needles from actually doing so. Jennifer still goes out with Marty when he asks. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* November: Bobby and Betsy Gibson Ewing are born. Dr. Mitch Ackerman kidnaps them immediately after their birth. He tells their mother Valene Ewing that they were stillborn. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Fall: Midway through the 1984 NFL season, Ray Finkle joins the Miami Dolphins. (''Film/AceVentura'')
* December 15: Mike Wheeler and his best friends Will Byers, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair attend the Hawkins Middle School Snow Ball dance. Mike and Eleven kiss for the second time and begin their relationship, as do Lucas and Max Mayfield. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* December 24: Billy Chapman suffers a psychotic flashback. Christmas is ruined. (''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight'')
* December 31: The fourth leg of Creator/WillSmith's time travel escapades, this time going to a breakdancing club where DJ Jazzy Jeff is performing. The time machine malfunctions and slows everything down, then sends Will and company forward to 2222. ("Will 2K" music video)
* December:
** Pelafina Truant suffers from winter cold. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
** A SerialKiller murders people dressed in SantaClaus costumes. (''Film/DontOpenTillChristmas'')
* Franchise/{{Godzilla}} appears once again to rampage across Tokyo. He is eventually subdued and trapped in a volcano. (''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'')
* Mt. St. Hilary erupts, jolting the dormant Transformers back to life. Their war re-erupts on Earth. (''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'')
* Ashley Graham and Ramon Salazar born. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'')
* Superheroes and supervillains of Earth [[ComicBook/SecretWars1984 pitted against one another by the Beyonder]]. During the conflict, ComicBook/SpiderMan acquires a new costume that turns out to be an [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} alien symbiote]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} The Pride]] is formed when the Gibborim recruit six young couples to help them destroy the world in exchange for a fifty-fifty shot at immortality. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* The Fifth Doctor and his companions Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough prevent the rise of the Malus. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* "Locksmith company" H.C. Clements is founded by Mr. Clements as a front for Torchwood One's research. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher begins solving real crimes. (''Series/MurderSheWrote'')
* The Ghostbusters open for business in New York City. (''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'')
* Gremlins terrorize the small town of Kingston Falls. (''Film/{{Gremlins}}'')
* Daniel learns karate from Mr. Miyagi to defend against the Cobra Kai. (''Film/TheKarateKid'')
* Alex Rogan is recruited as a Starfighter through an arcade game. (''Film/TheLastStarfighter'')
* Buckaroo Banzai and his Hong Kong Cavaliers defeat the Red Lectroids. (''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'')
* Cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers terrorize New York City. (''Film/{{CHUD}}'')
* Freddy Krueger returns from the dead to murder the teens of Elm Street in their dreams. (''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'')
* Jay and Silent Bob see ''Film/PurpleRain'' and decide to model their lives on Morris Day and the Time. (''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'')
* Detroit cop Axel Foley fights crime in Beverly Hills. (''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'')
* A dishonorably discharged U.S. soldier equips himself with an arsenal and, with (very) limited assistance from his brother, establishes a vast network of illegal businesses in a thriving Florida city. Continuous failure to stop him through arrests and lethal force set an example for other would-be one-man armies to follow. (''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'')
* In East Germany, Stasi agent Gerd Wiesler is assigned to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman. (''Film/TheLivesOfOthers'')
* Australian outback is terrorized by a gigantic boar. (''Film/{{Razorback}}'')
* ZX (Ryo Murasame) battles the Badan Empire, joining with the Kamen Riders and eventually being dubbed the 10th Rider. (''Film/KamenRiderZX'', ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'')
* Methos uses the identity of "Adam Pierson" to study ancient languages at Oxford University. He attracts the attention of Donald Salzer, who recruits him for the Watchers. "Pierson" is employed as a historian by the organization. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Birth of Patricia, daughter of Tom and surrogate sister to Alex. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:justification]] Stated to be 14 years old in 1998.[[/labelnote]])
* Music/PaulMcCartney has a really bad dream while stuck in traffic. (''Film/GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet'')
* Emmett Benton hires Eric Raymond to help him run his music label, continues to secretly work on a computer program he calls "Synergy" in spite of his failing health. (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* Birth of Jonny to Benton and Rachel Quest. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* Birth of Jessie to Race and Estella Bannon. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* Birth of Hadji Singh. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* New Jersey wimp and bully victim Melvin Junko falls into a toxic waste barrel and becomes a brave and powerful (albeit horribly mutated) superhero. (''Film/TheToxicAvenger'')
* First known case of zombification due to transfusion of contaminated blood. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* Doctor Impossible creates the Termination Machine, his first Doomsday device, The Champions form. (''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'')
* Alex Gardner stops a conspiracy which aimed to assassinate the President of the United States in the dreamworld. (''Film/{{Dreamscape}}'')
* Billy Butcher meets Becky Saunders, a social worker who helps him overcome his problems with alcohol and anger. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Birth of Piama Tananahaakna in Alaska. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* Young Adam Wayne leads a patriotic revolution to gain his London neighbourhood's independence. (''Literature/TheNapoleonOfNottingHill'')
* Due to a shortage of police officers, the new Mayor of New York City orders a lowering of recruitment standards for the police academy despite the protests of Chief of Police Henry Hurst and Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris. The new lax standards attracts a motley crew of outcasts including paramilitary gun enthusiast Tackleberry, human sound effect machine and martial artist Larvell Jones and local troublemaker Carey Mahoney who joins the academy as an alternative to prison. (''Film/PoliceAcademy'')
* The monstrous entity known only as "Pennywise The Dancing Clown" or "IT" resurfaces in Derry, Maine and resumes its reign of terror from 27 years earlier. William Denbrough, Benjamin Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richard Tozier, Edward Kazprack, Stanley Uris and Michael Hanlon, the self-proclaimed "Losers Club", return to Derry for a final showndown with IT, but Uris, still heavily traumatized by his childhood encounter with IT, commits suicide rather than return. (''Literature/{{IT}}'')
* Miss Ellie Ewing and Clayton Farlow are married. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Michael Mallory is killed in a car accident. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* Laura Sinclair is [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]]. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* Although she killed him in self-defense, Liz Tate is nevertheless convicted of the murder of her [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]]. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Jason Ewing dies. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Eli Wallace is born. (''Series/StargateUniverse'')
* Lithuanian submarine commander Marko Ramius pretends to defect from the USSR to the USA on board of the Typhoon-class submarine ''Red October''. It's up to C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan to prove whether this is true or not. (''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'')
* The Asgard High Council discovers that Loki has been performing unsanctioned experiments on humans. He is banished as punishment. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], Laura Kent is born to [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] and [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois Lane-Kent]]. (Creator/DCComics)
* Kevin Girardi is born. (''Series/JoanOfArcadia'')
* Dr. Cornelius Hathaway performs an operation to remove a cerebral tumor on live television. It is watched by John Parsons. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* Kate Corrigan joins the BPRD. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'')
* Ping-Pong veterans Tycho Brahe and Jonathan Gabriel are brought out of retirement by the U.S government to oppose the machinations of the Soviet Union. Several dangerous, high-stakes ping-pong matches against the Soviet players ensue, culminating in a MutualKill between Brahe and Oksana Svedlobigoba, forcing Gabriel to play the final match by himself against a team of Soviet twins. Thanks to Brahe's last words, he succeeds, giving America the victory. (''Webcomic/PennyArcade - Paint The Line II'')
* A musician named Corey Howard, and a goth punk named June Tuesday, have some BelligerentSexualTension while working at a Permanent Record store in San Diego. (''Series/That80sShow'')
* Eric Husch is born. (''Literature/SDorst'')
* Dr. Patricia Cromwell leaves her husband Michael and settles in the village of Lipo Lipo in the Venezuelan jungle. A few months later she gives birth to a son. (''Film/Jungle2Jungle'')
* Stuart Johnson's uncle dies from AIDS. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* After several months of communicating by letters and telephone, Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner meet and get married. (''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'', RealLife)
* War is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia. BigBrotherIsWatching. (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'')
* Birth of Leslie Bean. [[labelnote:Justification]] [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/first-base Says she is 27]] towards the end of 2011. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1984 - 1985]]
* The Soviet Union secretly builds an underground facility in Hawkins, Indiana, and sets a mall on top of it. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=198X=]/1980s]]
* Summer: A group of sadists kidnap a woman and torture her to test the limits of human pain. (''Film/GuineaPigDevilsExperiment'')
* President UsefulNotes/{{Ron|ald Reagan}}nie is kidnapped by ninjas. Blade and Striker prove to be bad enough dudes to rescue the president. (''VideoGame/BadDudes'')
* Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way visits a historically inaccurate version of this decade. (''Fanfic/MyImmortal'')
* A young boy, as a prank {{gone horribly wrong}}, suffers a traumatic injury from a Fredbear animatronic. The child suffers nightmares following this incident and presumably dies sometime afterwards.[[note]]This may or may not be the Bite of '87 -- details and evidence both for and against it are murky.[[/note]] (''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4'')
* Jack O'Neill suffers nine broken bones (including skull fractures) after his parachute malfunctions when making a clandestine drop over the Iran-Iraq border. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* By this time, 79.7% of the world's population are under the age of 21. (''Literature/LogansRun'')
* On Thursday, May 26, following weeks of tension between East and West, the Russians launch a nuclear missile strike, which quickly escalates into all-out war, with more than 200 megatons hitting Britain. [[note]]May 26 fell on a Thursday twice during the 1980s, in 1983 and 1988. However, it's not clear if the film is set in an AlternateHistory or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.[[/note]] (''Film/{{Threads}}'')
* The sonar operator of a Soviet submarine falls asleep and the sub crashes on the beach in Malibu Beach, California. ("[[Music/RayStevens Surfin' USSR]]")
* Aliens begin abducting children and implanting them with Martian DNA [[labelnote:more]] in collaboration with Linda Walkerton[[/labelnote]]. At some point, a young Robin [=DeSanto=] witnesses an abduction and hitches a ride; despite not having been selected, she receives Martian DNA at her own insistence so that she can run away, and as a result, she gains super speed. To root out abductees, B4 is reconstituted as SEMME by Anthony [=McHenry=] [[labelnote:more]] who is unknowingly backed by Dargon Chesterfield[[/labelnote]]. Most abductees would be recruited by SEMME. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
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[[folder:1970s - 1980s]]
* The newly-regenerated Third Doctor is exiled to 20th century Earth as punishment by the Time Lords indefinitely.[[labelnote:more]]It doesn't take.[[/labelnote]] He becomes scientific advisor to UNIT and takes on (and later parts ways with) Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan on his travels into the TARDIS. The Third Doctor regenerates in this era too.[[note]]As mentioned on the previous page, there is much contradictory information within the show regarding precisely when this era takes place, with various sources either placing it at time of airing (1970-1976), or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (approximately 1975-1983). As the evidence can be interpreted either way, it is discussed on both pages.[[/note]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Over this period the entity known as Jones develops a close personal relationship with James Eglamore. (''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1980]]
* January 1: Trevor [=McPhee=] is returned to Earth after being abducted by the aliens for the third time. As before, ten years have passed and he has not aged a day. He attempts to bond with his 19-year-old son Mark. His ex-wife Theresa's second husband Ray Carter succeeds in recording his disappearance on Super 8 when he is abducted by the aliens for the fourth time. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* January 22: Tim Barnes is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* February 12-14: A lunatic dressed as a miner kills people to prevent a small town's Valentine dance. (''Film/MyBloodyValentine'')
* February 14: Owen Harper is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* February 16: The {{serial killer}} Jerome Horowitz murders his first victim, Cindy Vetterman, as she did not come to his 21st birthday party the day before. In two {{alternate timeline}}s, he is prevented from doing so. He is killed by Dr. Theresa Givens in the first timeline and by FBI Agent Jamie Pratt in the second timeline. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* February 22: The Miracle on Ice, in which the US men's national hockey team came from behind to stuns the heavily favored Soviet national team 4–3 in the medal round of the 1980 Winter Olympics. (RealLife; the 1981 made-for-TV movie ''Miracle on Ice''; the 2004 film ''Film/{{Miracle}}''; and the 2015 ESPN ''30 for 30'' documentary ''Of Miracles and Men'', which unlike the previous two works tells the story from the Soviet side)
* February 24: Two days after the Miracle on Ice, Team USA scores another come-from-behind win, this time 4–2 over Finland, to win the gold medal. (Real Life, ''Miracle on Ice'', ''Miracle'')
* February 26: Sheldon and Missy Cooper are born to Mary and George Cooper. Mary gives birth at a Walmart in Galveston, Texas. (''Series/TheBigBangTheory'')
* Spring:
** A group of teenagers connected to a child's death six years before are killed during prom. (''Film/PromNight1980'')
** Ray Finkle graduates from Stetson University as an honors student, after a prestigious college football career making two NCAA Division 1 records: one for most points in a season, and one for distance. (''Film/AceVentura'')
* March 1: Ron Weasley is born to Molly and Arthur Weasley. (''Franchise/HarryPotter'')
* March 11: Birth of Sean Matsuda in Brazil. He would practice basketball and martial arts as a teenager, emulating Ken Masters in style. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'')
* March 16/May 28: Birth of Nanase Mizukami, younger sister of Kairi and Holuto, in Japan. She would be trained in the traditional fighting style of her family. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[labelnote:justification]]Based on online sources. She could be younger.[[/labelnote]])
* March 25: The Wilmarth Foundation nukes Cthylla, offspring of Cthulhu.[[labelnote:more]]Cthylla survives, but a psychic assault from R'lyeh is sent in retaliation, destroying Miskatonic University.[[/labelnote]] (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Transition of]] Literature/TitusCrow'')
* April 15: Samantha "Sam" Jones is born. (''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'')
* April 21: A mysterious fog brings terror to Antonio Bay. (''Film/TheFog1980'')
* May 11: Henry Hill's last day as a "Wiseguy". (''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'')
* May 18:
** Ian Curtis of Music/JoyDivision dies. (RealLife, ''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople'', ''Film/{{Control}}'')
** Mount St. Helens erupts (RealLife) because of [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-76 76-2]] (Website/SCPFoundation)
** Around this time, Professor Marcus Irving drops out of contact with his sisters. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* May: Fifty years after he was struck by lightning and killed while playing golf, Peterson is [[BackFromTheDead revived]] by a team of surgeons. He is given the designation Single-O. (''Film/JustImagine'')
* June 7: Steve Jablonski is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 10:
** Vuc Andric is born. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
** Gordon Penwick is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* June 13: A group of teenaged camp counsellors are brutally murdered during the renovation of summer camp Camp Crystal Lake. This is revealed to be the work of Pamela Voorhees, a former counsellor at the camp whose son Jason drowned there 22 years earlier. Pamela is killed by a surviving victim, who claims Jason is still alive and lurking somewhere nearby. The camp is nicknamed Camp Blood by the nearby town. (''Film/FridayThe13th1980'')
* June 16: A St. Bernard named Cujo catches rabies. He starts attacking people the following month. (''Literature/{{Cujo}}'')
* June 20: Sam Beckett leaps into Katie [=McBain=], a teenage girl who has just been raped, in Mill Valley, California. He is there to ensure that Katie's rapist Kevin Wentworth, the son of a prominent local family, is brought to justice. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 28: A small-town school organizes a graduation dance for the first time since 1945, awakening a killer's wrath. (''Film/TheProwler'')
* Between April and June: Birth of Yang Dong to Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining (deceased). Ye and her daughter go to live with the Qi family for six months. (''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* July 31: Literature/HarryPotter is born to James and Lily Evans Potter. (''Franchise/HarryPotter'')
* August 13: Two months after the original deaths at Camp Crystal Lake, survivor Alice Hardy is murdered in her home by an unnamed assailant. (''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'')
* August 17: In Australia, Azaria Chamberlain, a baby girl, is eaten by a dingo. The story becomes well-known, even joked about by the media. (RealLife)
* August 19: The spaceship transporting NASA astronauts Colonel Alan Virdon and Major Peter J. Burke encounters a time warp while approaching Alpha Centauri. The ship travels forward to 3085, where they discover that Earth is ruled by intelligent apes. (''Series/PlanetOfTheApes'')
* September 28: Demona retrieves the Praying Gargoyle from Notre Dame Cathedral, and slays the current Hunter, Charles Canmore, in the process. Canmore is survived by his three children Jason, Robyn, and Jon. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* September: LN-18 and J-21 are married. (''Film/JustImagine'')
* Before October: The Battlestar ''Galactica'' and its fleet arrive at Earth, only to discover Earth is not advanced enough to defend against the Cylons. (''Series/Galactica1980'')
* October 5: Ted Striker test-pilots the lunar shuttle XR-2300, but he can't handle it. (''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'')
* October 8: Edwin Garrett disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October 15: After showing him several inactive versions of the implants that the aliens place in the frontal lobes of their test subjects, Dr. Chet Wakeman tells Eric Crawford that they have finally found an active one after cutting open the heads of six people. He demonstrates the [[BrownNote harmful effects]] of the implant on a soldier in an isolation room. The soldier is driven insane within seconds and kills himself by banging his head repeatedly on the glass. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* October 16: Tara Maclay is born. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* October 17: Jane Nance disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October 19:
** Jacob Clarke returns to his childhood home of Lubbock, Texas to visit his mother Sally, who is dying of cancer, and introduce her to his wife Carol and eight-year-old daughter Lisa. This is the first time that Jacob has seen Sally since his elder half-siblings Tom and Becky [[FakingTheDead faked his death]] on January 4, 1959 and brought him to the Greenspan School in Missoula, Montana. Tom tells Jacob that he has come to the conclusion that his father John was a soldier who was injected with psychotropic drugs and Jacob developed abilities as a result. Jacob is less than convinced. To ease Sally's suffering as she dies, Jacob creates an image of John from her memories. Tom is finally convinced that John was an alien, noting that it is ironic that the country's leading debunker has a half-alien half-brother. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Using a UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} aging program, Dr. Chet Wakeman creates an image of Jesse Keys' probable current appearance and distributes it to the UFO project's field agents around the country. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* October 20: Birth of Lilith Aensland. She was created from energy drawn from the succubus Morrigan Aensland and is more-or-less a clone of her. She would gain her own succubus body and powers, becoming Morrigan's "little sister". (''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}''[[labelnote:justification]]Date given. She is otherwise estimated to be close in age to Baby Bonnie Hood. [[/labelnote]])
* October 21: The paramedic Jesse Keys receives a report of a car accident involving college students in Morgan's Junction, Missouri. While there, he sees an image of the carny that frightened him as a child and is abducted by the aliens for the first time in more than a decade. He is returned to the same spot approximately three hours later. Both his wife Amelia and nine-year-old son Charlie are concerned about him as he appears to be scared of something. That night, he notices the imprint of an alien hand on his stomach. He returns to Morgan's Junction and finds a glowing green circle in the wheatfield of the local farmer Luke Reynolds. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* October 29:
** Eric Crawford tells his wife Julie and ten-year-old daughter Mary that they are moving to Maine. He does not tell them that it is because the numerous tourists camping out in the desert near Groom Lake make it almost impossible for the UFO project to do its work. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** While he is at home alone, Jesse Keys sees bright lights coming through the window and believes that he is about to be abducted. He goes outside and starts shouting, telling the aliens to leave his family alone. In the confusion, he pushes someone to the ground. It turns out that the lights were from his wife Amelia's car and the person that he pushed was Charlie. The entire family is shaken by the incident. After ten years of marriage, Jesse finally confesses to Amelia that he has been abducted by aliens multiple times and his apparent tumor is an implant that they placed in his head. Amelia believes that it is all in his mind, a symptom of post-traumatic stress due to his service in the Vietnam War, and convinces him to see a doctor for Charlie's sake. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* October 30:
** Tom Clarke appears on television to refute his previous claims that stories of alien abductions and flying saucers were nothing more than a [[GovernmentConspiracy conspiracy]]. When the interviewer asks him why he has gone from a debunker to a believer, he says that he has personal information but does not elaborate. His half-brother Jacob is concerned that Tom will reveal his alien heritage to the world while Eric Crawford is curious as to what changed his mind on the issue. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** In the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota, the neurosurgeon Dr. Franklin Traub tells Jesse Keys and his wife Amelia that the implant is in fact a metallic deposit caused by exposure to unusual chemicals and that it can be dispersed using ultrasound therapy. Jesse is not convinced but he nevertheless agrees to the therapy as he does not want to run the risk of hurting Charlie. He warns Amelia that the UFO project may be looking for him, not realizing that Dr. Traub is one of their field agents. Based on the age progression sketch that he previously received, Traub tells Dr. Chet Wakeman that he has found Jesse Keys. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Before October 31: In the absence of her parents Harold and Jean, Lindsay Weir hosts a keg party. (''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'')
* October 31:
** Two Cylon agents attempt to transmit Earth's location to their fleet but they are stopped by Troy and Dillon. (''Series/Galactica1980'')
** Charlie Keys dresses as [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] for Hallowe'en. He gets into a fight with a boy named Alan Holmes after he calls his father Jesse nuts but it is broken up by his mother Amelia and an apparent passerby, who turns out to be an agent of the UFO project. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Sam Weir has a miserable Hallowe'en, which culminates in him being (accidentally) egged by his elder sister Lindsay. (''Series/FreaksAndGeeks'')
* October: Zombie outbreak in Maricela, put down by Brazilian army. Army also apparently kills surviving natives in the area. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* November 1: Dr. Chet Wakeman goes to the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota to see Jesse Keys, who has been heavily sedated by Dr. Franklin Traub, for himself. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* November 3: Eric Crawford travels to Dallas, Texas to talk to Becky Clarke in the hope of finding out why her elder brother Tom has become a believer in aliens after spending years debunking stories about them. He tells her everything that has happened since the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell crash]], admitting that he can't think of any other way to find the answers that he seeks. That night, Eric and Becky take his private plane to Groom Lake, Nevada and he shows her the alien bodies found in Roswell in 1947. There is a strong mutual attraction between them and they begin an affair. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* November 4:
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan defeats UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife)
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a sixth term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** The New Populist Party candidate ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is elected President of the United States, defeating UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. (''ComicBook/WhatIf'')
** [AlternateUniverse] Creator/HowardStern defeats UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter in the U.S. presidential election. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** [AlternateUniverse] Gary Hart is elected U.S. President. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
** [AlternateUniverse] Ernest Hollings is elected U.S. President. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
** Eunice Danforth makes a deal with Ed Meese to fix the election by using the Brainalyzer to pump Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'s brain into UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan's body, thereby quadrupling his I.Q. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnGlenn is re-elected. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
* November 7: After they have sex in a motel in Dallas, Eric Crawford asks Becky Clarke to leave her husband Ronnie and move to Maine with him. He says that he plans to tell his wife Julie about them. After Eric drives away, Becky is approached by her brother Tom. He accuses her of being a selfish little girl who is willing to walk on their mother Sally's grave to get away from Ronnie. When he asks her if she has told Eric that their younger half-brother Jacob is still alive, Becky admits that she hasn't. Tom sees this as evidence that she does not trust Eric any more than he does. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* November 8:
** Jesse Keys realizes that "Dr. Patterson" is an agent of the UFO project as he is aware that the little men that he sees are grey without being told. He renders the agent unconscious and escapes. The aliens create an image of Jesse in order to lure Charlie to Morgan's Junction, Missouri so that they can abduct him. Although the real Jesse arrives and tries his best to protect his son, they are nevertheless both abducted. This is the first time that Charlie is abducted and the last time that Jesse is. When they are returned to Earth, Jesse is suffering brain damage from the implant. After he is brought to hospital, the implant falls out of his nose. He warns his wife Amelia that the project will be looking for Charlie from now on. Amelia and Charlie manage to escape the agents who arrive at the hospital and go into hiding but Jesse remains behind. He soon enters a catatonic state. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Becky Clarke considers leaving her husband Ronnie for Eric Crawford but she can't go through with it as she realizes that she doesn't really trust him and that she doesn't want to leave her children Kim and Andy. Eric is heartbroken as his relationship with Becky represented his last, best chance to become a better man. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** That night, a group of UFO enthusiasts led by Becky and her brother Tom block State Highway 93 in the Mojave Desert so that they can inspect the trucks transporting materiel from Groom Lake. They correctly believe that the trucks contain the bodies from the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell crashsite]]. Although Eric Crawford does not allow them to inspect the trucks, they see the crashed ship being transported by three helicopters across the desert. To Eric's irritation, Tom says, "Still don't know how to fly it, do you?" Another, much larger and fully operational alien ship then appears overhead. The crashed ship is reactivated and enters the mothership. The aliens also retrieve the bodies but leave the artifact found at the crashsite behind. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* November 15: Having lost all of the proof of the existence of the aliens and the threat that they pose to Earth, the UFO project is shut down by the Senate Appropriations Committee after 33 years in operation. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* December 6: Birth of Ibuki to a village of ninjas in Japan. She would be raised as a ninja. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:justification]]As originally depicted, Ibuki is a senior at high school and approaching graduation. Her personal aspirations include entry into a university.[[/labelnote]])
* December 8:
** Music/JohnLennon is shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Building in New York City. (RealLife)
** The assassination is influenced by Huitzilin, a supernatural Aztec entity, for its own purposes. (''[[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'')
** Upon hearing the news, a young Rick Castle doesn't leave his room for a week. (''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'')
** Kim Karlsen's friends, Gunnar, Sebastian, and Ola, all react by going to the same fountain in Oslo, but at different times. Seb takes up studying and becomes a teacher, Ola takes up hair dressing, and Gunnar also takes up studying, becoming an archaeologist. Kim lives in seclusion, but writes post cards to his friends. (Second sequel to ''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* December 14: Birth of Faith Lehane in Boston. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* December 31: Bunch of med-students are killed in a New Year's Eve masquerade party on a train. Perpetrator turns out to be disgruntled former student who was victim of a nasty prank short time ago. (''Film/TerrorTrain'')
* December: Some surviving zombies from Maricela cause a subsequent outbreak in Juruti. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* {Sept|Nov|Dec}ember 4: Birth of Dina to Ryou and Haruka Sarazu. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* Late 1980: Ye Wenjie and Yang Dong return to live at Red Coast Base. (''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* Rebecca Chambers born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* Alyssa Jones breaks her hymen[[note]]by falling off a fence post[[/note]] at age ten. (''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* Jennifer Walters becomes ComicBook/SheHulk. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Randal Graves pisses all over the bathroom floor at school. (''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'')
* The Blues Brothers try to save their orphanage. (''Film/TheBluesBrothers'')
* Private investigator Thomas Magnum begins operating out of author Robin Masters's estate. (''Series/MagnumPI'')
* Sue Sylvester is born. (''Series/{{Glee}}'')
* Nicholas Angel's Uncle Derek, a sergeant from the Met, gives him a pedal police car. Nicholas spends several weeks riding around in it and stopping the other kids for things like littering, and although he loses many friends, he comes to realize that he wants to become a policeman--[[InsistentTerminology officer]]. [[note]]Nicholas later discovers that Uncle Derek was selling drugs on the side, and that the pedal police car was likely bought using that money. He left the car to rust but never lost his interest in the law.[[/note]] (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* End of the Long War between China and Islam. (''Literature/TheYearsOfRiceAndSalt'')
* Britain is swept by a wave of mysterious defenestrations, followed by sightings of an awkwardly-flying superhero. Stonehenge is spotted at a suspiciously Italian coastal cliff. (''Film/ThePumaman'')
* SerialKiller with MommyIssues scalps women in New York. (''Film/Maniac1980'')
* Horrifying truth about Motel Hello's delicious smoked meat is uncovered. (''Film/MotelHell'')
* Would-be astronaut Kazuya Oki is turned into a cyborg (codename Super-1) by the International Space Development Program. However, before he can head into space, the launch base is attacked by the villainous Dogma Empire, and Oki trains in the martial arts before fighting Dogma as a Kamen Rider. (''Series/KamenRiderSuper1'')
* Cristoph Kuyler assassinates a bank president in Paris. While trying to escape, he runs into Duncan [=MacLeod=]. Duncan thought himself retired from the Game and did not carry a sword at the time. He has to evade both Kuyler and a number of approaching police officers. Duncan manages to board a Bateau Mouche, impressing Tessa Noël in the process. Duncan and Tessa would go on to form a romantic relationship that would last for the rest of her life. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* [AlternateTimeline] Earth is a lifeless, windswept rock wiped clean of all life following the return of Sutekh in 1911 and his corresponding rampage. The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith briefly visit here to see the consequences of not intervening to prevent Sutekh from returning. Sarah Jane claims to have come from 1980[[note]]As discussed previously on this page and the previous one, the show is notoriously inconsistent regarding whether this period takes roughly at time of broadcast (mid-1970s) or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but the information is provided here for sake of reference.[[/note]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Richard Collier becomes infatuated with Elise [=McKenna=], eight years after her death. He travels back in time to June 27, 1912 to meet her in person. (''Film/SomewhereInTime'')
* Having spent the last nine years failing to convince anyone of the existence of aliens, Nicholas Ballard has a mental breakdown and checks himself into a mental institution in Oregon. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* A car crash leaves Mamoru Chiba both with amnesia and orphaned. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* Kate Beckett is born [[labelnote:Timing]]She's thirty-one in "Rise", set in 2011[[/labelnote]]. (''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'')
* Birth of Katherine Brewster. (''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'')
* Kevin Smith takes on the Mafia in Miami, and has to kill the man he loves. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* Kiyone Masaki dies in her sleep. Tennyo leaves the household due to her resemblance to Kiyone. Noboyuki and Katsuhito are given instructions to use a script she wrote should Tenchi ever ask why she died. (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'')
* Billy Butcher is suspended from school for talking back to and cursing at a teacher. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* The Ramones help a fan and her schoolmates fight a rock 'n' roll hating principal. (''Film/RockAndRollHighSchool'')
* Henry Hassel returns home to discover his wife in the arms of another man. Furious, he builds a time machine so that he can kill her grandfather in the past. (''[[Creator/AlfredBester The Men Who Murdered Mohammed]]'')
* Life expectancy has increased substantially. (''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'')
* New York is a MegaCity with [[FuturisticSuperhighway multi-lane elevated roadways]], [[LayeredMetropolis suspension bridges hung between towering megastructures]], and personal aircraft buzzing from building to building. Transoceanic airliners are dirigibles. People have numbers instead of names and babies are readily procurable from vending machines. There is a manned mission to Mars. (''Film/JustImagine'')
* Lisa Clarke begins having dreams about Charlie Keys. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* ComicBook/LexLuthor is born. (''Series/{{Smallville}}'')
* Samuel Bernard is born. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* Aaron Rivera (later Shore) is born in Texas. (''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'')
* A group of Thai Catholic school students investigate a decades-old suicide, awakening a VengefulGhost in the process. (''Film/ThreeOhThreeFearFaithRevenge'')
* Dustin Henderson and his family move to Hawkins, Indiana. He soon befriends Mike Wheeler, Will Byers and Lucas Sinclair. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* Dominick Hide, a time traveler from 2130, is assigned to observe the transport systems of London in 1980. He decides to break the rules and land his flying saucer in order to search for his great-great-grandfather, also named Dominick Hide, as the records indicate that he was living in London at this time. In the midst of his search, Dominick meets a young clothes shop owner named Jane Winters and they soon begin a relationship in spite of the fact that he has a wife named Ava in 2130. They have sex and Jane becomes pregnant as a result. The child Dominick, Jr. is Dominick's great-grandfather, meaning that he is [[MyOwnGrampa his own great-great-grandfather]] [[StableTimeLoop whom he had been looking for when he met Jane]]. (''Series/TheFlipsideOfDominickHide'')
* Holly Wheeler is born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* Aries, Neleus and Pelius are born on [=M7G-677=] in the Pegasus galaxy. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Kevin Drayton meets his future wife Carol in a night school class. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Harvey Goodman is born. (''Series/StarCops'')
* Meredith Quill dates a strange but charming man who reveals to her that he came from outer space (he is in fact a manifestation of Ego the Living Planet). They would eventually go on to have a child together. (''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'')
* Salvador Marti begins working for the time ministry as a field agent. That same day he meets the woman who would later become his wife. (''Series/TheMinistryOfTime'')
* Amandine Poulain is killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris and lands on her. (''Film/{{Amelie}}'')
* Chinese master spy Wo Fat is arrested by Steve [=McGarrett=]. (''Series/HawaiiFiveO)''
* Edith Bunker dies. (''Series/ArchieBunkersPlace'')
* Tony Montana leaves Cuba and arrives in Miami during the Mariel boatlift. (''Film/Scarface1983'')
* Birth of Howard Lesse and Jennifer Billingsworth, and Robin [=DeSanto=] [[labelnote:Justification]] States in [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/hoohoo this strip]] that she is seven years away from eligibility for vice president of the United States. Confirmed in [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/thirty-one this one]] to be 31 as of 2011. [[/labelnote]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1981]]
* January 1: Adrian Mole starts writing his diary. (''[[Literature/AdrianMole The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾]]'')
* January 6: Birth of Hotaru Tomoe to Socuihi and Keiko Tomoe. She would awaken as Sailor Saturn twelve years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* January 19: Buffy Anne Summers is born to Joyce and Hank Summers in Los Angeles. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* January 20:
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States. (RealLife)
** After being inaugurated as the 40th U.S. President, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica reveals his civilian identity of Steve Rogers to the world. Immediately afterwards, he is the subject of an assassination attempt. Over the objections of the Secret Service, President America captures the would-be assassin himself. (''ComicBook/WhatIf'')
* January: Brad Taylor is born. (''Series/HomeImprovement'')
* February 28: While playing baseball with his wife Carol and eight-year-old daughter Lisa in Los Altos, California, Jacob Clarke collapses. His body is beginning to fail due to his [[HalfHumanHybrid half-alien status]]. Jacob gives Lisa the star shaped pendant that belonged to his mother Sally and tells her that he loves her every day and twice on Sundays. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* February: Sheena is born. (''Play for Tomorrow'')
* Spring: Laura Ramstead dies of exhaustion during a high school track race. (''Film/GraduationDay'')
* March 1: In Bakersfield, California, the nine-year-old Charlie Keys is abducted by the aliens while his mother Amelia is buying a pizza. When he is returned several minutes later, Amelia finds that he has three circular impressions behind his left ear. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* March 2: ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'' premieres on [=DC 101=] in Washington, D.C.. (RealLife) and (''Literature/PrivateParts'').
* March 8: John Shaffner is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 17: Jacob Clarke dies. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* March 30:
** John Hinckley Jr. attempts to assassinate U.S. President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in Washington. (RealLife)
** A Soviet time traveller named Yuri prevents the assassination of UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan; unfortunately for him, this causes the dissolution of the USSR and the erasure of his time travel agency from history. He decides to change careers and work for the Time Repair Agency, fixing paradoxes. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
* April 7: Cassandra Schofield is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* April 12: The ''Columbia'' is launched into orbit, inaugurating the Space Shuttle program. (RealLife) The ten-year-old Cameron Mitchell and his father Frank watch the launch on television in the Veterans' Hospital. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* April 28: Kevin Arthur disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 4: Victor Rutledge dies. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 5: Paige Pratt dies. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* Summer: A fencing-masked killer avenges a high school track star's death from overexertion. (''Film/GraduationDay'')
* June 7: Jack and Johanna Kimball are murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 16: Amy Barrett is born. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* June: Peter Tracey receives a suspended sentence for breaking and entering. (''Series/K9AndCompany'')
* July 27:
** Alexia Ashford appointed senior researcher at Umbrella Rockfort Facility, aged 10. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
** Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton are married for the first time. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* July 29: [[UsefulNotes/CharlesIII Prince Charles]] marries [[UsefulNotes/DianaPrincessOfWales Lady Diana Spencer]]. (RealLife, ''Series/TheCrown'')
** On the day of their wedding, Lady Diana tries (unsuccessfully) to call off the wedding, then tries to convince Charles to run away with her to California so they can wear old Levi's and eat cold weinies in a Winnebago. (''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'')
** Ben Song leaps into a Los Angeles bounty hunter named Eva Sandoval, on the day of Charles and Diana's wedding. This is his first leap into a woman. He's there to help capture a bail skip named Tammy Jean Jessup, and to get Eva together with her partner and boyfriend Jake. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* July: Death of Donnie Truant. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* August 18: Christopher Ewing is born. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* September 9/December 12: Birth of twin brothers Yun and Yang in Hong Kong. Orphaned at an early age, the two would be raised by a grandfather who trains them in kung fu. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'')
* September 17: Ami Kwean disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* September 18:
** Birth of Elena in Kenya. She would be raised as a fighting princess, her favourite fighting style being capoeira. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:justification]]Said to be 17 years old in 1998.[[/labelnote]] )
** Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is born. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* September 19: Toshiko Sato is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* September 30: Sam Beckett leaps into Linda Bruckner, a single mother with three children, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is there to prevent Linda's son Kevin from disappearing. As Linda's daughter Teresa is only five years old, she can see not only Al but Sam as he is really is. Al tells her that they are angels. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* October 28: SCP Foundation apprehends a many-voiced predator specimen. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* October 31: James and Lily Potter are killed by the evil wizard Voldemort. [[labelnote:more]]The one-year-old Harry is also attacked, with an instant-death spell for which there is no counter, but survives through his mother's love protecting him and causes Voldemort to be defeated.[[/labelnote]] Harry, now called "The Boy Who Lived", is placed into hiding with his only remaining blood relatives, a {{Muggle}} family. (''Literature/HarryPotter'')
* December: Sarah Jane Smith meets K-9. The two of them prevent Brendan Richards [[HumanSacrifice from being sacrificed]] by the Cult of Hecate in Moreton Harwood. (''Series/K9AndCompany'')
* SHADO repels an alien invasion. (''Series/UFO1970'')
* First zombie created by the T-virus. This version of the virus has a 90% infection rate; research begins to generate a variant with 100% infection. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* The ComicBook/XMen and the ComicBook/KittyPryde of a [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast Sentinel-dominated future]] prevent her timeline from occurring. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* The Fourth Doctor saves the universe from total collapse (and the Master), and regenerates. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Ralph Hinkley is given a super-suit by an alien and becomes a superhero. (''Series/TheGreatestAmericanHero'')
* American David Kessler becomes a werewolf, terrorizes London. (''Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon'')
* A horribly burned man, simply known as "Cropsy", is released from the hospital and starts a killing spree. (''Film/TheBurning'')
* Four teens attend a carnival in Florida and are stuck in a darkride with a deformed killer. (''Film/TheFunhouse'')
* A bunch of teens are harassed by murderous rednecks in Oregon. (''Film/JustBeforeDawn'')
* James Horton is assigned as the Watcher of the Kurgan. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Diligent Aperture Science engineers complete the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver and Take-A-Wish Foundation initiatives. The company announces products related to the research in a lavish, televised ceremony. These products immediately become wildly unpopular. After a very public string of choking and despondent sick child disasters, senior company officials are summoned before a Senate investigative committee. During these proceedings, an engineer mentions that some progress has been made on "Tier 3", the "man-sized ad hoc quantum tunnel through physical space with possible applications as a shower curtain". The committee is quickly and permanently recessed, and Aperture is granted an open-ended contract to continue research on the "Portal" and "Heimlich Counter-Maneuver" projects in secret. (''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'')
* It's discovered that a GhostTown in Texas has a ghost killer in it. (''Film/{{Scream|1981}}'')
* Bethany discovers she's pregnant and wants to abort the child. Brett Waits threatens to leave her if she does so, and so she has the abortion performed by a medical student and claims it was a miscarriage. Brett stays with her and consoles her during her recovery. He also drops out of school due to his fear of blood and gets a job selling shoes in Monticello. (''Film/{{Dogma}}: [[AllThereInTheManual A Screenplay]]'')
* Birth of Buffy Summers in Los Angeles. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* A fallen building from the flying city of Columbia is discovered in the Alps. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'')
* Billy Butcher joins the Royal Marines. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Six nuclear reactors in North America and Europe are taken over by terrorists on orders from nuclear physicist Dr. Murik for ransom. (''Literature/LicenceRenewed'')
* Birth of Tru Davies. (''Series/TruCalling'')
* Futuro, a supervillain, travels back in time from this year to the Stone Age to commit a crime spree in Bedrock. Returning his native time, Futuro's finally stopped by a time-travelling [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]], Wilma Flintstone, and Betty Rubble. (''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The Flintstone Comedy Show]]''; year taken from its original airdate)
* A dimensional rift called "The Tear" opens over Earth, causing "The Changing", a series of disasters that turns the world into "an untamed planet of ruined cities, mutated creatures, [[ManEatingPlant man-eating plants]] and powerful magic." (''TabeltopGame/{{Wasteland 2010}}'')
* Detective Ray Holt single-handedly apprehends "The Disco Strangler", a notorious serial killer terrorising New York City. The case becomes legendary among the NYPD. (''Series/BrooklynNineNine'')[[labelnote:Justification]]The events are shown in flashback during the pilot episode, and dialogue places it during 1981. Later dialogue suggests that the case has since become famous, at least among police officers.[[/labelnote]]
* First virus that infects floppy disks. (''VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory'' and RealLife)
* Sid Fairgate dies. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Simon Locke is killed in a motorcycle accident. He had been going much too fast because he needed to clear his head as he was afraid of success and his relationship with Andrea Fields becoming serious. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Bryce Larkin is born in Connecticut. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* The Nexus crosses through the Milky Way Galaxy. (''Film/StarTrekGenerations'')
* Dominick Hide Jr. is born in Portobello Road, London. (''Series/TheFlipsideOfDominickHide'')
* Debbie Cunningham is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Kevin and Carol Drayton are married. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* The New Zealander aviatrix Louisa Iredale Wentworth disappears while trying to recreate a famous flight. She is survived by her son Tama. On the same day, Jo Tiegan is born in Australia. In 1995, this causes the Old Man to speculate that Jo may be a {{reincarnation}} of Louisa or possibly a blood relative because they were the only ones who could see through the mirror that allowed people to travel between 1919 and 1995. (''Series/MirrorMirror1995'')
* Arthur Fleck kills three Wayne Enterprises businessmen in the subway of Gotham and then TalkShow host Murray Franklin on his live TV show. Mayoral candidate Thomas Wayne condemns the acts and riots break out in the city. (''Film/Joker2019'')
* Matthew Shawcross begins his Christian televangelist empire. ("Literature/TheMoralVirologist")
* Lily Descoine commits suicide. (''Series/RemingtonSteele'')
* Brady Sullivan is born in Boston. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'')
* In a case of mistaken identity, Fedelia "Fiddler" Jimmerson is arrested for kidnapping. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Birth of Mary Bradford. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1981-1982]]
* Winter: Cleveland experiences the worst winter storm it has ever statistically seen. Harvey Pekar and his girlfriend endure their vehicles being towed and breaking down in the miserable weather, leading to several arguments. (''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Between 1977 and 1982]]
* Linda Mitchell marries Charles Walkerton. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1982]]
* January 1: Laszlo Mahnovski is born. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
* January 7: Laurel Bryce disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* January 27: Sam Beckett leaps into a sensationalist talk show host named Roberto Gutierrez in Destiny, New Mexico. He is there to prevent Roberto's fellow reporter Jani Eisenberg from being killed. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* February 8: Randy Taylor is born. (''Series/HomeImprovement'')
* March 22: Jenny Gump (née Curran) dies. (''Film/ForrestGump'')
* Early 1982: Sam Butcher suffers a stroke, losing the use of his arm. A few days later, he hits Carol so hard she loses an eye. Billy Butcher attempts to kill his father, is stopped by Lenny. Billy decides to join the Royal Marines. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* April 1: birth of Sal Walters and David and Steven Walkerton. [[labelnote:more]]Sal and Beef are switched at birth[[/labelnote]] The Walkerton twins inherit Martian DNA from their mother. [[labelnote:Justification]][[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/wheres-my-prince-charming/ Willis states]] that they were born on April Fools' Day. Sal states she is underage in "[[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/college-ho-page-9/ College Ho! #9]]"; this takes place at Danny and Joe's college orientation, which would be in early September of 1997. The age of consent in Indiana is 16.[[/labelnote]]. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* April 18: Iris Felice is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* May 10: John Constantine is born. (''Series/{{Constantine}}'')
* May 14: In Woburn, Massachusetts, a number of citizens whose children had developed or died from leukemia filed a civil lawsuit against two corporations, W. R. Grace and Company and Beatrice Foods. Grace's subsidiary, Cryovac, and Beatrice were suspected of contaminating the groundwater by improperly disposing of trichloroethylene (TCE), perchloroethylene (perc) and other industrial solvents at their facilities in Woburn near water wells G and H. Jan Schlichtmann is the attorney chosen to represent them. The case would last to 1990. (''Film/ACivilAction'' and real life)
* May 21: Billy Butcher is assigned to the Royal Marines at San Carlos, and gains a commendation when he heroically shoots down an Argentinian plane. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* May:
** Sarah Walker is born. (''Series/{{Chuck}}'')
** Lindsay Chase is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
** The 22nd Century time traveler Pyrus Bonnington is assigned to observe street crime and violence in London in 1982. In the process of doing so, he witnesses a princess being kidnapped and lands his flying saucer to render assistance. However, he is soon distracted by the vibrancy of this era. After getting drunk in a local pub, Pyrus tries to assault a police officer and is arrested. After he fails to return to his native time of December 2132, his instructor Dominick Hide is sent after him. While there, Dominick makes use of the opportunity to see his former lover Jane Winters and their son Dominick, Jr., who is [[MyOwnGrampa also his great-grandfather]]. (''[[Series/TheFlipsideOfDominickHide Another Flip for Dominick]]'')
* Between March and May: Billy Butcher joins the Royal Marines. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* June 11/12: Battle of Mount Harriet. Billy Butcher's unit takes a fortified position from the Argentinians, but all except Butcher are killed in the effort. Butcher himself is seriously injured, and sits out the rest of the war in a hospital bed. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* June 18: The astronaut Jimmy Hapgood is sent on a mission to UsefulNotes/{{Saturn}} but he goes off course. (''Series/LostInSpace'')
* June 28: Daffodil Baxter disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* July 11:
** Italy defeats West Germany 3-1 in the World Cup. (RealLife)
** The Threllips attempt to invade Earth but they are defeated by the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* July 12: [AlternateUniverse] the entire population of Earth disappears. (''TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'')
* July 14: Ryan Freel disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* July 28: By this time, Johnny Truant has moved in with his first foster family. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* July 30: Darren Piersahl is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* July: Stan Pines locks the electron carpet in a secret room in the Mystery Shack. (''Westernanimation/GravityFalls'')
* August 8: Jeffrey Fowler is born. (''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman'')
* Early August: Johnny Truant totally flips out at his foster parents, necessitating a move to a new family. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* September 25: A replica of the ''Voyager 1'' space probe appears in Medium Earth Orbit, having been sent by the Gliscians of Gliese 445-C from the year [[JustForFun/GrandUnifiedTimelineTheFarFuture 42,412]]. The probe carries their version of the UsefulNotes/VoyagerGoldenRecord, bearing an offering of peace for the humans who have yet to doom them to extinction again. (Website/SCPFoundation, ''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1342 SCP-1342 - To the Makers of Music]]'')
* September 27: The Gliscian space probe and its contents land undamaged in the Pacific Ocean, where they are recovered by the SCP Foundation and designated SCP-1342-1 and SCP-1342-2. (Website/SCPFoundation, ''[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1342 SCP-1342 - To the Makers of Music]]'')
* October 2: Fourteen-year-old Marty [=McFly=] meets Dr. Emmett Brown while attempting to take an interocitor tube from Brown's lab. Brown hires Marty on as an assistant. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* October 26: A peaceful band of aliens visit California to collect plant samples, only to flee when authorities arrive. A single castaway is left behind, and is discovered by an Earth boy named Elliot. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 27: No one believes Elliot's claims of having seen a "goblin." That evening, Elliot lures the alien into his house. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 28: Elliot pretends to be sick so he can stay home with the alien he found. He introduces the alien to his brother and sister. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 29: The alien drinks beer, and a psychic bond causes Elliot to get drunk. Elliot ends up in the principal's office after freeing his science class's frogs. The alien learns how to talk; Elliot names the alien "ET." (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 30: ET gathers parts for his communicator. Government agents begin monitoring Elliot's house. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October 31:
** A mask company enacts a plan to kill American children on Halloween. (''Film/HalloweenIIISeasonOfTheWitch'')
** Using Halloween as a cover, ET and Elliot fly to a secluded area in the forest, set up ET's communicator, and attempt to "phone home." (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* October: The headquarters of the government agency called "The Shop" are burned to the ground by pyrokinetic child Charlie [=McGee=]. (''Literature/{{Firestarter}}'')
* November 1: Elliot, getting sicker due to his psychic bond with ET, returns home after being out all night. Michael finds a dying ET and brings him home. The government quarantines their house. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* November 2: ET revives after "dying." Elliot, Michael, and their friends return ET to his spaceship. (''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'')
* November 7: Johnny Truant is in his third foster family in as many months. His foster mother asks that his biological mother stop sending quite so many letters. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* November 18: Madman Marz hunts down people in North Sea Cottages, a camp for gifted children. (''Film/{{Madman}}'')
* Fall: A high school football player named Rico is sidelined during a big game. His team loses, and he spends the rest of his life thinking that the team would have made it to -- and won -- the state championship if his coach had just let him play. (''Film/NapoleonDynamite''[[labelnote:Justification]]Rico's "time machine" in 2004 is already set to 1982 when Napoleon tries to use it, and it's implied that Rico had already tried to time travel earlier on.[[/labelnote]])
* December 3: J.R. and Sue Ellen Ewing are married for the second time. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* December 24: Dante Ferelli disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* A group of three archaeologists arrive at the ruins of the parts of Animaria that didn't lift off into the sky. One is transformed into a [[HalfHumanHybrid leader-class Org]] and murders the other two, leaving their child to be raised by a local aboriginal tribe. The half-human org is sealed. (''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'')
* A Norwegian research team in Antarctica digs up an alien spacecraft, unleashing a creature capable of absorbing and mimicking other lifeforms. This creature later terrorizes an American Antartic research station. (''Film/TheThing2011'' prequel and ''Film/TheThing1982'')
* The Fifth Doctor and his companions Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka rescue a supersonic jet sent back in time 140 million years. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Earth's superheroes drafted into a contest between the Grandmaster and Death. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} contracts cancer from exposure to the toxic Compund 13. Despite attempts by multiple friends and past enemies, including the alien Skrull, Mar-Vell eventually dies from the disease (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Michael Knight and KITT, a sentient car, fight crime. (''Series/KnightRider'')
* A suburban family in California deal with powerful supernatural forces in their home. (''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'')
* Shellshocked Vietnam veteran is antagonized by a small town police force. (''Film/FirstBlood'')
* Donald Salzer gets a promotion in the Watchers' hierarchy. He becomes the Head Historical Researcher for Western Europe. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Birth of Kyle Travers in Metro City. He would grow up to become a professional street fighter, fighting in underground matches to make ends meet. (''[[VideoGame/FinalFight Final Fight: Streetwise]]'')
* Mental Institute doctor is targeted for death by his patients who are convinced that he killed their previous doctor. (''Film/AloneInTheDark1982'')
* Feminist journalist Deborah Ballin is attacked in her home by woman-hating psychopath. (''Film/VisitingHours'')
* A Special Forces team containing Captain Jack O'Neill and Lt. Charles Kawalsky attempts to capture a Soviet spy named Boris in East Germany. It goes disastrously wrong, leading to the death of the team leader Colonel John Michaels. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Robot Jones attends a human school (''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'')
* Mass murderer Russ Thorn escapes from mental institute, crashes a slumber party. (''Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre'')
* Mask de Smith kills a large number of prototype Heaven Smiles in Madison Square Garden. Kun Lan's shadow begins to creep over the Killer 7. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* Birth of William Joseph Blazkowicz II, better known as Billy, to Arthur and Susan Blaze. (''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'')
* Faulty computer program causes a passenger space shuttle to change its course into the sun. (''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'')
* Mrs. Brisby enlists the help of super-intelligent rats that escaped from the labs of NIMH partly thanks to her deceased husband to move her home so that Farmer Fitzgibbon's plow doesn't destroy it with her ill son Timmy inside. (''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'')
* ''Fix-it Felix Jr.'' is released to arcades (''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'')
* Birth of Chad to Will Navidson and Karen Green. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* Greg Mallory shows Rick Burnham the Compound V which Jonah Vogelbaum made to his specifications. Burnham has a heart attack; Mallory is empowered to draw on a generous budget to carry out anti-superhuman operations. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Sam Butcher has another stroke, leaving him barely able to move. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Re-established SPECTRE attempts to take over North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) with mind-control inducing ice cream. (''Literature/ForSpecialServices'')
* In Prague, Hellboy battles a vampire who, according to legend, can only die when defeated in a game of cards. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': The Vampire of Prague)
* In Yorkshire, Hellboy attempts to destroy the vampire Ilona Kakosy. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': The Vârcolac)
* Wilson Wyler Concannon's sole movie ''The Hills Run Red'' is released to a handful of movie theatres, but is quickly pulled for its disturbing violence. (''Film/TheHillsRunRed'')
* The Los Angeles Dodgers begin to experience a decline in playing quality. (''Literature/TheManWhoBroughtTheDodgersBackToBrooklyn'')
* Henry and Abigail Morgan celebrate their anniversary, despite the apparent difference in their physical ages. (''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'')
* A memory erasing device is invented [[labelnote:by]] Fiddleford Hadron [=McGucket=][[/labelnote]] to erase memories of what The Author found. (''Westernanimation/GravityFalls'')
* Aperture Science founder and CEO Cave Johnson names his personal assistant Caroline as his successor, orders a copy of her intelligence to be stored in his computer, and dies of moon rock poisoning. (''VideoGame/Portal2'')
* After Jeffrey Jones falls out of a window, Phineas Bogg jumps after him and [[TimeTravelEscape saves his life by transporting them both through time using the Omni]]. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'')
* Jock Ewing is killed in a helicopter crash in South America. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Rembrandt Brown is killed in the Detroit Uprising against [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica Soviet rule in the former United States]]. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* Marilyn Cuberle is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* Doctors Victor Ehrlich, Wayne Fiscus, Philip Chandler, Jack Morrison, Peter White, Vijay Kochar, Jacqueline Wade, Cathy Martin and Steven Kiley begin their residencies at St. Eligius. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Dr. Daniel Auschlander is diagnosed with liver cancer. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* A madman who dismembered his mother takes body parts from women to put them back together. (''Film/{{Pieces}}'')
* Simon Holmes is born. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* Lysandra Aristedes and Philip Withers are born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* On Langara, there is a major conflict involving Kelowna, Tirania and the Andari Federation in which nothing is resolved. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Kathy Morgan is born. (''Series/{{Spellbinder}}'')
* Cult leader Nix the Puritan is killed and buried in the desert so he can't come back. (''Film/LordOfIllusions'')
* Sherry Nugil begins "waiting" for Mitch Taylor. [[FridgeLogic Apparently]] it doesn't cross her mind how creepy this is. (''Film/RealGenius'')
* Susan Calvin is born. The same year, Lawrence Robertson incorporates US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. (''Literature/IRobot'')
* Los Angeles TV news anchor Jamie Douglas is [[StalkerWithACrush stalked]] by photographer Derek Sanford. (''Film/TheSeduction'')
* Shortpacked opens. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1983]]
* January 20: Pelafina Truant writes her first letter to Johnny in a couple of months. Between now and February 14th, he runs away twice. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* January: The author [[labelnote:named]]Stanford Pines[[/labelnote]] of three journals describing the paranormal phenomena of Gravity Falls disappears. [[labelnote:more]]Stanford's brother, Stanley, assumes his identity and seeks out the journals to try and bring him back.[[/labelnote]] [[labelnote:Justification]]Stated to happen 30 years before the main series. The events take place in winter.[[/labelnote]] (''Westernanimation/GravityFalls'')
* February 14: Johnny Truant is in with yet another foster family, the father of which is a former marine. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* February 17: Alfred and Alexia Ashford discover they were created by one of Alexander's experiments. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
* March 3: Alexander Ashford is infected with T-Veronica virus. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
* March 12: Buckwheat is assassinated by John David Stutts. (''Series/SaturdayNightLive'')
* March: Pelafina Truant tries to send some rather inappropriate letters to Johnny, is advised not to by the Director of Whalsetoe. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* April 17: Pelafina Truant sends Johnny a dictionary. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* April 24: After witnessing the aftermath of [[ItMakesSenseInContext popping a giant bubble]], Lyman [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome mysteriously disappears]]. (''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'')
* May 2: Johnny Truant sends his first letter to Pelafina[[labelnote:Justification]]A week prior to Pelafina's next letter.[[/labelnote]]. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* May 9: Pelafina Truant thanks Johnny deeply for writing to her. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* May 18: Yin-Li Xu disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 19: Dana Dreamer is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* May: Peter Morrison is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* June 2: Sam Beckett leaps into a hairdresser named Frank Bianca in Los Angeles. He is there to prevent Frank's girlfriend Laura and her nine-year-old son Kyle, who witnessed the murder of a man named Phil Hartman, from being killed. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 12: The suborbital ship ''Spindrift'' is launched. (''Series/LandOfTheGiants'')
* June: The Great Hinamizawa Gas Disaster occurs, which leads to the death of the 2000 residents of Hinamizawa [[labelnote:More]]and unleashes an outbreak of Hinamizawa Syndrome-related murders and atrocities among former residents of the area. Just before the Gas Disaster occurred, the body of a visiting cameraman, Jirou Tomitake, is found dead of clawing out his own throat, a local nurse, Miyo Takano, is found dead after having been incinerated in an oil barrel in the middle of the woods (strangely, a day before someone last reported meeting her), and the daughter of the local priest (who died two years prior of illness), is found dead in front of her family's shrine after having been cut open and gutted.[[/labelnote]] (''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'')
* July 1: Birth of Makoto in Tosa District, Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku island, Japan. Makoto would inherit the family dojo in her early teens and strive to re-establish its reputation. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:justification]]Said to be still 15-years-old in 1997/1998. Otherwise considered a bit younger than Ibuki and Elena.[[/labelnote]])
* August 18: Pelafina Truant has a dream about Johnny as she slips into insanity. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* August 19: Ianto Jones is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* August 22: Oliver Knox disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* September 19: Colonel Gennady Akrimov replaces Col. Stanislav Petrov as watch officer at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, which monitors for a US missile attack on the Soviet Union. Colonel Petrov is re-assigned to a bunker near Odessa. (''Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday'')
* September 26:
** A missile warning system detects the apparent firing of four missiles by America at the USSR. After some consideration, the officer on duty, Colonel Stanislov Petrov, dismisses the alert as a technical error. (RealLife)
** A missile warning system detects the apparent firing of four missiles by America at the USSR. After some consideration, the officer on duty, Colonel Gennady Akrimov, concludes the attack is real and alerts his superiors, who order a full strike on the United States. The resulting nuclear exchange causes over 1.5 billion immediate deaths, with billions more dying in the aftermath. (''Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday'')
* September 26-28: Johnny Truant gets into a fight at school during this time. He is physically punished by his foster father. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* October 10:
** Military barracks buildings in Beirut, Lebannon, are struck by suicide truck bombers; 241 American and 58 French service personnel are killed, 150 more are injured, some of whom later succomb to their wounds. Six civilians also perrish in the blasts. (RealLife)
** Marine LT. Mac Taylor is severely injured in the ensuing battle, and a comrade of his, Col. Stan Whitney, dies in his arms. (''Series/{{CSINY}}'')
* October 14: Pelafina Truant receives another letter from Johnny. This puts her into very good form. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* October 25-29: The United States invades and liberates Grenada. (RealLife) and (''Film/HeartbreakRidge'')
* November 2: Mary Winchester is killed in her home in Lawrence, Kansas, after catching Azazel giving her infant son Sam Winchester demon blood. The house burns down while her husband, John Winchester, her oldest son Dean Winchester, and Sam escape. John Winchester eventually becomes a hunter, and trains the Winchester boys in becoming Hunters too. (''Series/{{Supernatural}}'')
* November 6: An extradimensional monster breaks into our dimension from Hawkins Lab, and a girl called "Eleven" escapes the lab in the chaos. Will Byers goes missing. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* November 7-12: Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, and Dustin Henderson meet Eleven, and team up with her to investigate Will's disappearance. Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers, while dealing with teenage drama in their personal lives, team up to investigate a monster causing disappearances (including Will's). Police Chief Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers team up to investigate Hawkins Lab and Will's place in an apparent government conspiracy. Eventually, the three groups come together.[[note]]Will is recovered from the Upside-Down, the monster is disintegrated, and Eleven disappears.[[/note]] (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* November: Nina Morrison dies. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* December 10: Shawn Farrell is born. (''Series/The4400'')
* December 17: Nearly ten years after Elan School's headquarters burns down, a mysterious fire destroys the Scarborough Downs clubhouse in Maine, the same night that the track's phone lines are down and its hydrants don't have water. Its owner, who also owns Elan School, would get an enormous insurance payout and would eventually be investigated for insurance fraud, although nothing is ultimately ever proven. (RealLife, ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* December 19-23: Johnny Truant gets into 15 fights in one week, and is transferred to a different school. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* December 24:
** The boys play ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. Chief Hopper attends a Christmas party.[[note]]Hopper leaves some Eggo waffles in a dead drop in the woods, and Will vomits up a slug and flashes back to the Upside-Down for a brief moment.[[/note]] (''Series/StrangerThings'')
** Jason Kane is born. (''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'')
* December 25: Randal Graves gets a Motley Crue jacket for Christmas and bets Dante Hicks that he will still be wearing it in 15 years, because "Crue will always rule". (''[[Film/{{Clerks}} Clerks Holiday Special]]'')
* December 31:
** Alexia Ashford infects herself with the T-Veronica virus and enters cryogenic suspension. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
** New York is besieged by Columbia. (''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'')
* Estimated date of the Great War in the Magic World. (''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'')
* Charles Xavier forms the ComicBook/NewMutants. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ComicBook/{{Batman}} forms the original [[ComicBook/TheOutsidersDCComics Outsiders]]. (Creator/DCComics)
* The Visitors arrive and begin subtly taking over the Earth. A resistance forms to stop them. (''Series/{{V|1983}}'')
* Brodie Bruce teaches T.S. Quint how to handle comic books, but T.S. opts to join Little League instead. (''Film/{{Mallrats}}'')
* The Griswold family takes a vacation to Walley World. (''Film/NationalLampoonsVacation'')
* An evil leprechaun is sealed away with a FourLeafClover. (''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'')
* Heart of Mantorok recovered by Edwin Lindsey and delivered to Edward Roivas.(''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')
* Six-year-old Dave Davenport is mentally possessed by his own future self. (''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'')
* Giant shark attacks Sea World. (''Film/Jaws3D'')
* Pilot Ryo Murasame is critically injured during an attack by the extraterrestrial Badan Empire, who captured him and turned him into a Combatroid called ZX ("Zecross"). Eventually he breaks free from his brainwashing and escapes. (''Film/KamenRiderZX'', ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'')
* Duncan [=MacLeod=] explains to Tessa Noël the secrets of his Immortality. He conveniently leaves out any mention of the Game. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* Six youths cross an unexpected interdimensional portal on the Dungeons and Dragons rollercoaster. They manage to return to the amusement park twice -- the first time ''very'' briefly. The second time, a phone booth and a hot dog stand are destroyed by the evil archmage Venger before it is decided that they'd better let him chase them back into that other dimension. (''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons1983'')
* Emmett Benton begins thinking about using the idea of using holograms and CGI to create musical performances. (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* Clubber Lang pities the fool Rocky Balboa, and beats the Heavyweight Championship title out of him. (''Film/RockyIII'')
* Group of armed men invade Tony Montana's mansion. (''Film/{{Scarface 1983}}'')
* An unknown bounty hunter penetrates Firetop Mountain and kills Zagor. (''[[Literature/FightingFantasy The Warlock of Firetop Mountain]]'')
* Rick Burnham returns to CIA duty. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Billy Butcher is discharged from hospital, but anger issues result in him being discharged from the army and unemployed. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* While working at Macy's, Hal Nolastname gets his co-worker, Wendy, drunk and borrows $400 from her. Hal fakes his death to avoid paying her back. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* [=MI6=], KGB, CIA and Mossad participate in a joint operation called Icebreaker to wipe out the Nazi terrorist organization NSAA. (''Literature/{{Icebreaker}}'')
* Birth of Harrison Davies. (''Series/TruCalling''[[labelnote:Justification]]States he was 10 when their mother died.[[/labelnote]])
* A spaceborne plague is brought to Earth by an astronaut. It eventually kills every dog and cat on the planet. (''Film/ConquestOfThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* [AlternateTimeline] former U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy dies. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
* The bureaucratic dictatorship seizes power in the United Kingdom. (''1990'')
* Karen Fairgate and Marion "Mack" [=MacKenzie=] are married. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Bobby and Pamela Ewing divorce for the first time. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Gary and Valene Ewing divorce for the second time. They eventually remarry in 1991. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Gary Ewing and Abby Cunningham are married. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* After signing a human rights petition, Masha Peltrovich is deported from the Soviet Union. She immigrates to the United States. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Matthew Scott, Tamara Johansen and Vanessa James are born. (''Series/StargateUniverse'')
* Kelly Olsen is born. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] and ComicBook/LoisLane are married. (Creator/DCComics)
* Judy Shepherd is born. (''Film/{{Jumanji}}'')
* Billy Underwood is born. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* Ye Wenjie is informed that she and her father have been politically rehabilitated. She returns to teach astrophysics and Tsinghua University, and make an abortive attempt to reconnect with her mother and stepfather, and confronts the surviving women who killed her father. (''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* Ye Wenjie's second message reaches Alpha Centauri. The invasion fleet is given Earth's exact coordinates. Trisolarian government begins measures to retard Earth's scientific and technological advancement amid widespread opposition from their own people. (''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* [AlternateUniverse] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Donna and Hyde marry while expecting their first child. Eric breaks up with Big Rhonda, who has been cheating on him. Kelso cheats on his wife with Jackie. Fez has a Flock of Seagulls haircut. (''Series/That70sShow'')
* Fester Addams, during a period in attendance at the Zurich Institute for the Criminally Insane, meets a Hyde named Olga Malakova. She was a concert pianist interred for transforming and massacring a dozen audience members during a performance. Fester was there for doing the kind of things Fester Addams does. (''Series/{{Wednesday}}'')
* Harold Hooper dies. (''Series/SesameStreet'')
* Los Angeles Police Detective Leo Kessler pursues SerialKiller Warren Stacy. (''Film/TenToMidnight'')
* Much of the United States is devastated by nuclear weapons during a war with the Soviet Union. (''Film/TheDayAfter'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1984]]
* February 1: Matt Sandstrom disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* February 21: Laura Holt and Remington Steele face off against formerly incarcerated Major Descoine, who promises that they will be dead by noon that day. (''Series/RemingtonSteele'')
* Early March: Johnny Truant has a violent fight with his foster father, resulting in hospitalisation. Pelafina's sanity suffers and she has to be physically restrained. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* March 15: Twin girls, who will go on to be known as Sarah Manning and Helena, born to a surrogate mother in Wales. Around this time, at least ten others, all genetically identical to Sarah and Helena, are born. (''Series/OrphanBlack'')
* March 16: Elise Appelbaum is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 17: Philadelphia police officer Mike Ehrmantraut accepts his first bribe. He will later come to regret the path his life takes as a result of this decision and wish that he could go back and prevent himself from doing so. (''Series/BetterCallSaul'')
* March 24: Five teenagers bond during a day of school detention in Shermer High School. (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
* March: Ye Wenjie meets Mike Evans while scouting the location for a new radio telescope. [[labelnote:Justification]]Stated to be half a year after she returned to Tsinghua, which was presumably around September[[/labelnote]](''Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem'')
* Late March or early April: Johnny Truant writes to Pelafina to tell her he won't be getting a new foster family. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* April: Winston Smith begins to rebel against Big Brother. (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'')
* Spring: Wedding of Lois and Hal Nolastname is cut short when Lois goes into labour with Francis. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* Before May: An alternate Shredder attacks the ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}} using a combination of Utrom and Dimension X technology. The Turtles join forces with two groups of wannabes from [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 alternate]] [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 universes]] to stop him. (''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'')
* May 13:
** A Terminator arrives from the future, looking to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance to victory. Kyle Reese, also from the future, follows so that he can protect her. (''Film/TheTerminator'')
** A Terminator arrives from the future, looking to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance to victory. It is thwarted by a second Terminator sent further back in time to protect and raise her. Kyle Reese, also from the future, follows, and is rescued by Sarah from a T-1000. They defeat the evil robots and travel forward in time to 2017. (''Film/TerminatorGenisys'')
* May 14:
** The Terminator attacks a police station, forcing Kyle and Sarah to flee.[[labelnote:more]]During the night, Sarah sleeps with Kyle, and becomes pregnant.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/TheTerminator'')
** Gage Creed, a two-year-old child is killed when hit by a truck in Ludlow, Maine. (''Literature/PetSematary'')
** Albert Tatlock dies. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* May 15: The Terminator finds Kyle and Sarah, chasing them to a factory.[[labelnote:more]]in the ensuing battle, Kyle is killed, and Sarah destroys the Terminator in a crusher. Cyberdyne later collects the remains of the Terminator.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/TheTerminator'')
* May:
** New York businessman Oroku Saki, secretly crime lord The Shredder, is murdered along with most of his personal ninja guard by four mutant ninjas, as revenge for the death of Hamato Yoshi 15 years earlier. (''ComicBook/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage}}'')
** Grant Bowen is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 3: Having not heard from Johnny for a few months, Pelafina Truant fears she has upset him. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* June 5: In the original timeline, Sam Beckett and Donna Eleese are due to be married but Donna leaves Sam at the altar. After Sam changes history in 1972, she doesn't, and they marry. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 12: Harold and Alice Withers are married. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* June 26: Pelafina Truant thinks Johnny has sent her a working crystal ball. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* June 28: A team of Soviet scientists launch an attempt to penetrate into [[DarkWorld the Upside-Down]]. They are unsuccessful. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* June: Johnny Truant gets into further fights at school and has trouble with his foster father. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* July 3: The last zombie from an outbreak in the 1960s is released from its prison, immediately starting another attack of brain-eaters. (''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'')
* July 13-18: Jason Voorhees, who survived his supposed drowning in 1957 and has been stalking the forests in the area ever since, commits three killing sprees within five days in the Crystal Lake area, murdering a total of 33 people [[note]]The rampage ends in Jason Voorhees' first death[[/note]]. (''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'', ''[[Film/FridayThe13thPartIII Part III]]'' and ''[[Film/FridayThe13thTheFinalChapter The Final Chapter]]'')
* July 24: Brenda Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter Erica are found dead in their American Fork, Utah home with their throats slashed. Brenda's brothers-in-law Dan and Ron Lafferty, who had been excommunicated from the [[UsefulNotes/{{Mormonism}} LDS Church]] due to their belief in polygamy and had founded a splinter sect, would later be convicted of the murders. (RealLife and ''Series/UnderTheBannerOfHeaven'' [both the original book and the miniseries])
* August 9: Kyle Baldwin is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 12: Helen Cragen dies while watching the closing ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* August 14: Evelyn Catman disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* June, July, or August: [[ScoutOut Youth group]] leader Patrick Butcher is accidentally shot through the neck with an arrow on the grounds of Button House, dying shortly after. (''Series/GhostsUK'')
* September:
** The Soviet Union invades the United States. When the small town of Calumet, Colorado is occupied by Soviet forces, a group of high schoolers escape into the wilderness, forming a guerilla group known as the "Wolverines", named after their school mascot. (''Film/RedDawn1984'')
** Dante Hicks and Randal Graves start high school. A fellow student in their class named Lance Dowds is selected for the freshman hazing tradition, and he has a pickle inserted into his ass and is forced to walk ten feet with it in. Randal and the others henceforth dub him "Pickle Fucker." (''Film/ClerksII'')
** After helping Marty [=McFly=] with a science project, Doc Brown talks to a man on the telephone about purchasing the man's used [=DeLorean=]. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* September - early October: Johnny Truant begins applying to various boarding schools. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* October 8: ComicBook/LexLuthor and Arianna Carlin are married. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
* Around October 31: Mike Wheeler and his friends Will Byers, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair dress as Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} for Halloween, and get caught up in another adventure. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* October:
** Dr Baxter Stockman is arrested for robbery and extortion after using his Mouser robots to undermine the foundation of every major corporate building in New York,and then threatening to collapse them unless his demands are met. He is foiled by his former assistant April O'Neil. (''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'')
** Maurice Hall is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* November 6:
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan is re-elected U.S. President, defeating UsefulNotes/WalterMondale. (RealLife, ''Series/TheGoldbergs'')
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a seventh term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** [AlternateTimeline] Walter Mondale defeats UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in the U.S. presidential election. (''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'')
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
** Roberta Lincoln votes for Walter Mondale. (''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'')
** Karen Wheeler votes for Ronald Reagan, while Claudia Henderson votes for Walter Mondale. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
** Walter Mondale defeats Ronald Reagan in the U.S. presidential election. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** UsefulNotes/BobDole is elected U.S. President. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
* November 8: Advance start out as a newly elected political party, with Julia Salisbury and Peter Clement as leaders, promising freedom and equality for all. Also, it's {{A|mbiguousGender}}lex [[FeaturelessProtagonist Winston's]] first night on the job as TV broadcaster. (''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'' -- "Day 1: The Election")
* November 15: Jeremy Donaldson interviews Katie Brightman and [[ConspiracyTheorist Alan James]] (author of ''Alan James Is Right''), both telling stories about Advance from different points of view. Also interviewed are some figures like Constable [[StrawHypocrite Bob Peele]] and "Tit-Wank" Tony Dawson, capped off with a group of University students performing their latest play, ''Hey! Friendship!'' on live TV. Plus, the [[MyLittlePanzer Mr. Snugglehugs toys]] are growing popular these days. (''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'' -- "Day 8: The Fallout")
* November 23: Dr. Peter White is shot in the groin by Nurse Shirley Daniels in the morgue of St. Eligius. He later dies. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* November 26-27: Marty [=McFly=] runs into Jennifer Parker for the first time since fourth grade, and is immediately smitten. He briefly considers borrowing a car he saw concealed in Doc Brown's lab[[note]]The car is actually a covered up [=DeLorean=] time machine, still incomplete[[/note]] to impress Jennifer, and stops Needles from actually doing so. Jennifer still goes out with Marty when he asks. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* November: Bobby and Betsy Gibson Ewing are born. Dr. Mitch Ackerman kidnaps them immediately after their birth. He tells their mother Valene Ewing that they were stillborn. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Fall: Midway through the 1984 NFL season, Ray Finkle joins the Miami Dolphins. (''Film/AceVentura'')
* December 15: Mike Wheeler and his best friends Will Byers, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair attend the Hawkins Middle School Snow Ball dance. Mike and Eleven kiss for the second time and begin their relationship, as do Lucas and Max Mayfield. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* December 24: Billy Chapman suffers a psychotic flashback. Christmas is ruined. (''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight'')
* December 31: The fourth leg of Creator/WillSmith's time travel escapades, this time going to a breakdancing club where DJ Jazzy Jeff is performing. The time machine malfunctions and slows everything down, then sends Will and company forward to 2222. ("Will 2K" music video)
* December:
** Pelafina Truant suffers from winter cold. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
** A SerialKiller murders people dressed in SantaClaus costumes. (''Film/DontOpenTillChristmas'')
* Franchise/{{Godzilla}} appears once again to rampage across Tokyo. He is eventually subdued and trapped in a volcano. (''Film/TheReturnOfGodzilla'')
* Mt. St. Hilary erupts, jolting the dormant Transformers back to life. Their war re-erupts on Earth. (''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'')
* Ashley Graham and Ramon Salazar born. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'')
* Superheroes and supervillains of Earth [[ComicBook/SecretWars1984 pitted against one another by the Beyonder]]. During the conflict, ComicBook/SpiderMan acquires a new costume that turns out to be an [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} alien symbiote]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* [[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} The Pride]] is formed when the Gibborim recruit six young couples to help them destroy the world in exchange for a fifty-fifty shot at immortality. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* The Fifth Doctor and his companions Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough prevent the rise of the Malus. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* "Locksmith company" H.C. Clements is founded by Mr. Clements as a front for Torchwood One's research. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher begins solving real crimes. (''Series/MurderSheWrote'')
* The Ghostbusters open for business in New York City. (''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'')
* Gremlins terrorize the small town of Kingston Falls. (''Film/{{Gremlins}}'')
* Daniel learns karate from Mr. Miyagi to defend against the Cobra Kai. (''Film/TheKarateKid'')
* Alex Rogan is recruited as a Starfighter through an arcade game. (''Film/TheLastStarfighter'')
* Buckaroo Banzai and his Hong Kong Cavaliers defeat the Red Lectroids. (''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'')
* Cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers terrorize New York City. (''Film/{{CHUD}}'')
* Freddy Krueger returns from the dead to murder the teens of Elm Street in their dreams. (''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'')
* Jay and Silent Bob see ''Film/PurpleRain'' and decide to model their lives on Morris Day and the Time. (''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'')
* Detroit cop Axel Foley fights crime in Beverly Hills. (''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'')
* A dishonorably discharged U.S. soldier equips himself with an arsenal and, with (very) limited assistance from his brother, establishes a vast network of illegal businesses in a thriving Florida city. Continuous failure to stop him through arrests and lethal force set an example for other would-be one-man armies to follow. (''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'')
* In East Germany, Stasi agent Gerd Wiesler is assigned to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman. (''Film/TheLivesOfOthers'')
* Australian outback is terrorized by a gigantic boar. (''Film/{{Razorback}}'')
* ZX (Ryo Murasame) battles the Badan Empire, joining with the Kamen Riders and eventually being dubbed the 10th Rider. (''Film/KamenRiderZX'', ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'')
* Methos uses the identity of "Adam Pierson" to study ancient languages at Oxford University. He attracts the attention of Donald Salzer, who recruits him for the Watchers. "Pierson" is employed as a historian by the organization. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Birth of Patricia, daughter of Tom and surrogate sister to Alex. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:justification]] Stated to be 14 years old in 1998.[[/labelnote]])
* Music/PaulMcCartney has a really bad dream while stuck in traffic. (''Film/GiveMyRegardsToBroadStreet'')
* Emmett Benton hires Eric Raymond to help him run his music label, continues to secretly work on a computer program he calls "Synergy" in spite of his failing health. (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* Birth of Jonny to Benton and Rachel Quest. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* Birth of Jessie to Race and Estella Bannon. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* Birth of Hadji Singh. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* New Jersey wimp and bully victim Melvin Junko falls into a toxic waste barrel and becomes a brave and powerful (albeit horribly mutated) superhero. (''Film/TheToxicAvenger'')
* First known case of zombification due to transfusion of contaminated blood. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* Doctor Impossible creates the Termination Machine, his first Doomsday device, The Champions form. (''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'')
* Alex Gardner stops a conspiracy which aimed to assassinate the President of the United States in the dreamworld. (''Film/{{Dreamscape}}'')
* Billy Butcher meets Becky Saunders, a social worker who helps him overcome his problems with alcohol and anger. (''ComicBook/TheBoys'')
* Birth of Piama Tananahaakna in Alaska. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* Young Adam Wayne leads a patriotic revolution to gain his London neighbourhood's independence. (''Literature/TheNapoleonOfNottingHill'')
* Due to a shortage of police officers, the new Mayor of New York City orders a lowering of recruitment standards for the police academy despite the protests of Chief of Police Henry Hurst and Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris. The new lax standards attracts a motley crew of outcasts including paramilitary gun enthusiast Tackleberry, human sound effect machine and martial artist Larvell Jones and local troublemaker Carey Mahoney who joins the academy as an alternative to prison. (''Film/PoliceAcademy'')
* The monstrous entity known only as "Pennywise The Dancing Clown" or "IT" resurfaces in Derry, Maine and resumes its reign of terror from 27 years earlier. William Denbrough, Benjamin Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richard Tozier, Edward Kazprack, Stanley Uris and Michael Hanlon, the self-proclaimed "Losers Club", return to Derry for a final showndown with IT, but Uris, still heavily traumatized by his childhood encounter with IT, commits suicide rather than return. (''Literature/{{IT}}'')
* Miss Ellie Ewing and Clayton Farlow are married. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Michael Mallory is killed in a car accident. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* Laura Sinclair is [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]]. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* Although she killed him in self-defense, Liz Tate is nevertheless convicted of the murder of her [[DomesticAbuse abusive husband]]. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Jason Ewing dies. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Eli Wallace is born. (''Series/StargateUniverse'')
* Lithuanian submarine commander Marko Ramius pretends to defect from the USSR to the USA on board of the Typhoon-class submarine ''Red October''. It's up to C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan to prove whether this is true or not. (''Literature/TheHuntForRedOctober'')
* The Asgard High Council discovers that Loki has been performing unsanctioned experiments on humans. He is banished as punishment. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* In a [[MultipleChoiceFuture possible future]], Laura Kent is born to [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] and [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois Lane-Kent]]. (Creator/DCComics)
* Kevin Girardi is born. (''Series/JoanOfArcadia'')
* Dr. Cornelius Hathaway performs an operation to remove a cerebral tumor on live television. It is watched by John Parsons. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* Kate Corrigan joins the BPRD. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'')
* Ping-Pong veterans Tycho Brahe and Jonathan Gabriel are brought out of retirement by the U.S government to oppose the machinations of the Soviet Union. Several dangerous, high-stakes ping-pong matches against the Soviet players ensue, culminating in a MutualKill between Brahe and Oksana Svedlobigoba, forcing Gabriel to play the final match by himself against a team of Soviet twins. Thanks to Brahe's last words, he succeeds, giving America the victory. (''Webcomic/PennyArcade - Paint The Line II'')
* A musician named Corey Howard, and a goth punk named June Tuesday, have some BelligerentSexualTension while working at a Permanent Record store in San Diego. (''Series/That80sShow'')
* Eric Husch is born. (''Literature/SDorst'')
* Dr. Patricia Cromwell leaves her husband Michael and settles in the village of Lipo Lipo in the Venezuelan jungle. A few months later she gives birth to a son. (''Film/Jungle2Jungle'')
* Stuart Johnson's uncle dies from AIDS. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* After several months of communicating by letters and telephone, Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner meet and get married. (''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'', RealLife)
* War is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia. BigBrotherIsWatching. (''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'')
* Birth of Leslie Bean. [[labelnote:Justification]] [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/first-base Says she is 27]] towards the end of 2011. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
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* The Soviet Union secretly builds an underground facility in Hawkins, Indiana, and sets a mall on top of it. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
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[[folder:[=198X=]/1980s]]
* Summer: A group of sadists kidnap a woman and torture her to test the limits of human pain. (''Film/GuineaPigDevilsExperiment'')
* President UsefulNotes/{{Ron|ald Reagan}}nie is kidnapped by ninjas. Blade and Striker prove to be bad enough dudes to rescue the president. (''VideoGame/BadDudes'')
* Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way visits a historically inaccurate version of this decade. (''Fanfic/MyImmortal'')
* A young boy, as a prank {{gone horribly wrong}}, suffers a traumatic injury from a Fredbear animatronic. The child suffers nightmares following this incident and presumably dies sometime afterwards.[[note]]This may or may not be the Bite of '87 -- details and evidence both for and against it are murky.[[/note]] (''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4'')
* Jack O'Neill suffers nine broken bones (including skull fractures) after his parachute malfunctions when making a clandestine drop over the Iran-Iraq border. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* By this time, 79.7% of the world's population are under the age of 21. (''Literature/LogansRun'')
* On Thursday, May 26, following weeks of tension between East and West, the Russians launch a nuclear missile strike, which quickly escalates into all-out war, with more than 200 megatons hitting Britain. [[note]]May 26 fell on a Thursday twice during the 1980s, in 1983 and 1988. However, it's not clear if the film is set in an AlternateHistory or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.[[/note]] (''Film/{{Threads}}'')
* The sonar operator of a Soviet submarine falls asleep and the sub crashes on the beach in Malibu Beach, California. ("[[Music/RayStevens Surfin' USSR]]")
* Aliens begin abducting children and implanting them with Martian DNA [[labelnote:more]] in collaboration with Linda Walkerton[[/labelnote]]. At some point, a young Robin [=DeSanto=] witnesses an abduction and hitches a ride; despite not having been selected, she receives Martian DNA at her own insistence so that she can run away, and as a result, she gains super speed. To root out abductees, B4 is reconstituted as SEMME by Anthony [=McHenry=] [[labelnote:more]] who is unknowingly backed by Dargon Chesterfield[[/labelnote]]. Most abductees would be recruited by SEMME. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
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