Timeline of Sapphire

The 1940s

 * 1943
 * December 29th: Boris Rubanenko is born.
 * 1944
 * June 17th: Daisuke Kawashima is born.
 * 1945
 * May 8th: V-E Day. Allied forces win World War II in the European front.
 * May 8th: V-J Day. Allied forces win World War II in the Pacific front.
 * 1946
 * June 9th: Alec Langley is born.
 * 1947
 * July 13th: Michiru Murasaki is born.
 * 1949
 * December 15th: Ivanka Rubanenko is born.

The 1950s

 * 1951
 * November 21st: Khina Sabiri is born.
 * 1953
 * September 7th: Nikita Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of the Soviet Union.

The 1960s

 * 1964
 * October 14th: Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union.
 * 1967
 * June 21st: The Legendary Mission. Lawrence Langley dies; Nina Rubanenko goes missing.

The 1970s

 * 1977
 * January 20th: Jimmy Carter becomes President of the United States of America.
 * 1978
 * June 10-11: Operation Eagle.
 * 1979
 * March 14th: Jake Langley is born.
 * August 13th: Morgana Rubanenko is born.

The 1980s

 * 1981
 * January 20th: Ronald Reagan becomes President of the United States of America.
 * 1982
 * Operation Katana.
 * 1985
 * March 11th: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Chairman of the Soviet Union.
 * 1989
 * Operation Poseidon.

The 1990s

 * 1991
 * June 12th: Boris Yeltsin becomes President of the Russian Soviet Republic, and later the Russian Federation.
 * December 31st: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is dissolved.