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[[Science fiction]] and other related fields of [[fiction]] are often set in the future, or at least involve events in times that have not yet occurred. This list is a chronological collection of significant events from various works of such fiction. It includes some events that were set in the future when the fiction containing them was first written but which have now been overtaken by real [[history]], becoming a form of [[alternate history (fiction)|alternate history]] or [[failed prediction]] in the pr(contracted; show full)
*[[1951]]
** An air force crew & scientists at Polar Expedition Six, the Arctic, discover a crashed saucer & fight for their lives against an 8-foot, plant-based, humanoid alien - ''[[The Thing From Another World]]''
** A saucer suddenly lands in a Wash DC field, and a humanoid visitor steps out, with a mess
sage for Humanity. He's preceded by a towering silver robot, whom the visitor calls Gort - ''[[The Day The Earth Stood Still]]'', based upon ''Harry Bates'' ' short story ''Farewell to the Master'', 1940

*[[1952]]
**The Battle of [[Trafalgar Square]] between the "[[police|civic bourgeois guard]]" and the workers triggers social reform in Great Britain (''[[News from Nowhere]]'', [[1890 in literature|1890]]).
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==External links==
*[http://www.mts.net/~arphaxad/history.html Edgar Governo, Historian of Things That Never Were]
* [http://moa.dracandros.com/ Fictional encyclopedia wiki with a section for fictional history]
* [http://manconquersspace.com/MCSPg1.html Man Conquers Space]

[[Category:Fictional timelines|Fictional timelines]]