Earth

Below is a simple history of Earth.

2250
In the opening centuries of the third millennium, Earth's population continued to swell at a staggering rate. By 2250 the planet held over 30 billion people.

2267
Air pollution is severe in many major cities, the European Environmental Council estimated that one of every nine urban dwellers died by the age of 30 from lung related diseases.

2314
Most of the Earth's major nations ally to quell the rising tide of crime within their borders. The Global Commonwealth established a rudimentary dome colony on Jupiter's moon Io and began shipping violent criminals there.

2349
Physicist Gisela Togra, wins the Nobel Prize for physics for her neutrino reactor.

2356
Petrak Togra's assassination leads to the Rubicon rebellions and ultimately to the demise of the Global Commonwealth.

JDA president Grote Reber suppressed the rebellions in four short days without consulting any of the national governments involved. The JDA's position of global leadership is cemented. Reber negotiates the dissolution of the Global Commonwealth and the transfer of its remaining authority, mostly bureaucratic, to the JDA.

2362
The Jovian Detention Authority has an autonomous police force that is the largest standing army in the world.

2382
The Togran Foundation is founded by molecular physicist Alpheus Togra, son of Petrak Togra, the third and last Chancellor of the Global Commonwealth.

2387
Togran Foundation members number nearly one thousand, and Togra's work on matter conversion is making great strides.

2391
Alpheus Togra confided to a few of his closest associates that he had cracked element 115's secret.

2400
By 2400 almost a million people were expelled to Io annually.

2447
In 2447 a rocket containing nuclear waste for deep space disposal malfunctioned and crashed near Bombay, killing over four million people in the first few months.

Earth's Last Years (2501+)
Earth now in its last century (26th), is in an ecological state of collapse, with numerous earthquakes and unable to provide a satisfactory atmosphere for life

2507
A regiment of Exploratory Corps aboard an Imperium cruiser en route to a new colonization assignment mutiny, seize the ship and abandon the crew on an undeveloped world.