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Your favorite books, movies, television shows and video games tend to state, specifically, what year they happen. Sometimes it's a very specific year, a vague decade/century ([[Earthbound|199X]], [[Duck Dodgers|24th-and-one-half century]]), or a completely made up timeline ([[Gundam|Universal Century]], [[The Lord of the Rings|Second Age]]). Want to quickly see when your favorite work happened? Do you want to know what was happening in fiction while [[
The idea was inspired by a personal project being undertaken by Gorblax at the ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' forums, where he created a timeline for video games, using years from the Gregorian calendar. It can be found [http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=112759 here].
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* ''[[The Incredibles]]:'' Syndrome's computer file on Elastigirl says that her last superhero activity (and therefore, the rough date of the Superhero Relocation Act) was in 1955.
* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'': If there is a contradiction, dates in stories by John Wagner are assumed to take precedence, [[Word of God|as he is the creator of the comic]]. See also the note on ''Strontium Dog'' for some irregularities regarding "Judgement Day"
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* ''[[Lexx]]'': In a 2001 episode, set in "the very near future", a U.S. presidential candidate is said to have hidden in Vietnam "for 32 years" — from "1969" to "earlier this year." (There ''being'' an election in '01 is presumably down to the machinations of Prince.)
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]], once stated in a letter (#211 in ''Letters by Tolkien'') that the War of the Ring ended about 6000 years ago. This letter was written in 1958, putting the fall of Barad-Dur around 4042 BCE.
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