A timeline of all major events in the Halo universe from the time of the Forerunners through the rule of the Created.
The Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine, informally known as an FTL drive or slipspace drive, was invented by a team of scientists led by Tobias Fleming Shaw and Wallace Fujikawa and unveiled to humanity in April 2291.
The Domus Diaspora was a time period during humanity’s expansion into the galaxy that saw massive colonization efforts of hundreds of colony worlds in the span of around thirty years, starting in 2362.
The colony world of Reach, the first ever extrasolar colony established by humanity, was colonized sometime in 2362 by the colony ship Odyssey.
The colony world of Arcadia, one of the many outer worlds to be colonized in the 25th century, was settled sometime in 2429.
The colony world of Meridian, a moon orbiting Hestia V in the Hestia system, was an outer colony world colonized sometime in 2431.
The outer colony world of Harvest, one of the youngest human colonies, was settled sometime in 2468.
In 2491, Doctor Elias Carver published a series of findings regarding the possibility of insurrection in the outer colonies.
The Battle for Earth was a large-scale space, air, and ground battle between the invading Covenant forces and the UNSC Home Fleet on and around Earth at the end of 2552.
The Voi Memorial was erected in March 2553, marking the end of the Human-Covenant War and to remember all who were lost during the conflict.
~107,445 BCE - 106,445 BCE
After the emergence of the Flood on ancient human worlds around 107,445 BCE, human civilization was desperate to expand their territory away from Flood-controlled regions of space. As part of this expansion, humans clashed with Forerunner-populated worlds, sparking a war between the two species.
~106,498 BCE - 106,445 BCE
The Battle of Charum Hakkor was one of the final battles of the Human-Forerunner Wars and also one of the largest, spanning over fifty years and likely consuming millions of lives.
