19th Century
20th Century
21st Century
This is a summary of lore events occurring in the 20th Century in the Star Citizen universe.
1901 – 2000
| Date | Type | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1930-02-18 | Exploration | Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh. |
| 1948-02-16 | Exploration | Miranda discovered by Gerard Kuiper. |
| 1959-09-13 | Exploration | The Soviet Luna-2 Space Probe becomes the first manmade object to reach the surface of Luna, impacting east of Mare Imbrium. |
| 1961-04-12 | Exploration | Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first Human to reach space, and first to complete an orbit of Earth. |
| 1966-03-01 | Exploration | The Soviet Venera-3 Space Probe crash-lands, becoming the first manmade object to reach the surface of Venus. |
| 1969-07-16 | Exploration | American Neil Armstrong becomes the first Human to visit Luna, and subsequently the first to visit a foreign astronomical object. |
| 1971-11-27 | Exploration | The Soviet Mars-2 Lander becomes the first manmade object to reach the surface of Mars, although it fails during descent. |
| 1977-03-10 | Exploration | Rings of Uranus discovered by James Elliot, Edward Dunham and Jessica Mink. |
| 1978-06-22 | Exploration | Charon discovered by James Christy. |
| 1979 | Exploration | Jovian Rings discovered by NASA's Voyager 1 probe. |
| 1984-07-22 | Exploration | Rings of Neptune discovered by Patrice Bouchet, Reinhold Häfner and Jean Manfroid. |
| 1992-08-30 | Exploration | Kuiper Belt discovered by David Jewitt and Jane Luu. |