Wasteland Archives

Events & Timeline

The Great War, the Resource Wars, and the events that shaped the world before and after the bombs fell.

  • Destruction of the Institute — The Destruction of the Institute is a pivotal event in the history of the Commonwealth, representing one of the possible conclusions to…
  • Fall of New Vegas (or Independence) — The Fall of New Vegas — or its independence — was the 2281 resolution of the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, when the Courier's choices…
  • Fall of Shady Sands — The Fall of Shady Sands was the nuclear destruction of the New California Republic's capital city, a catastrophe that shattered the NCR's…
  • Operation Anchorage — Operation: Anchorage refers both to the final U.S. counteroffensive that drove the Chinese military out of Anchorage, Alaska in January…
  • Project Purity Activation — Project Purity's activation in August 2277 was the moment the Jefferson Memorial's water purifier finally came online, delivering the…
  • The Battle for the Commonwealth — The Battle for the Commonwealth was the 2287 climax of the conflict over the Institute's future, in which the Sole Survivor — allied with…
  • The Battle of Hoover Dam — The Battle of Hoover Dam, often referred to as the First Battle of Hoover Dam, was a pivotal military engagement in 2277 between the New…
  • The Capital Wasteland Purification — The Capital Wasteland Purification was the 2277-2278 campaign to secure and distribute the clean water of Project Purity across the ruined…
  • The Enclave Oil Rig Destruction — The destruction of the Enclave's Poseidon Oil Rig in 2242 marked the decisive defeat of the Enclave's West Coast operations and their…
  • The Exodus from Vault 13 — The Exodus from Vault 13, occurring in 2161, refers to the departure of the Vault Dweller from the sealed underground shelter to locate a…
  • The Expedition to the Sierra Madre — The Expedition to the Sierra Madre, occurring in 2281, was a forced mission undertaken by the Courier at the behest of Father Elijah, a…
  • The Founding of the NCR — The New California Republic was officially founded in 2189, marking the emergence of the first and largest organized post-War democratic…
  • The Great War of 2077 — The Great War of 2077 was the cataclysmic global thermonuclear exchange that fundamentally reshaped the world of Fallout, reducing it to a…
  • The Master's Defeat — The Master's Defeat was the destruction of the Master and his Unity by the Vault Dweller of Vault 13 in 2162, ending the greatest…
  • The NCR-Brotherhood War — The NCR-Brotherhood War was a devastating conflict between the New California Republic and the Mojave chapter of the Brotherhood of Steel,…
  • The Pitt Uprising — The Pitt Uprising was the 2277 slave rebellion in the ruined steel city of Pittsburgh, where the enslaved workers of the Pitt rose against…
  • The Resource Wars — The Resource Wars were the cascading global conflicts over dwindling oil, minerals, and food from 2052 to 2077 that bankrupted the old…
  • The Scorched Plague Outbreak — The Scorched Plague Outbreak of 2102 was the sudden eruption of the Scorched infection across Appalachia, as scorchbeasts emerged from the…
  • The Siege of Navarro — The Siege of Navarro, occurring in 2242, was the climactic military assault by the New California Republic on the last major Enclave…
  • The Unity's Rise — The Unity's Rise was the decades-long expansion of the Master's mutant empire from the 2150s to 2162, as the Master converted the super…