Significant events in the great world that is Popmundo! Read about Popfests, elections, revolutions and other events of historic significance here!
For the implementation history see the Community News archive.
Go to the Discussion of the history of Popmundo for guidelines and discussion about what's historic.
Understanding date stamps…
The date stamps that I use in this timeline are pretty straight forward but I will explain them just in case. The first number indicates the popo-year. The second number indicates the day of the year. There are 56 days in each popo-year. In the case that the specific day or year are unknown an XX is inserted in place of the number. Any help that you can offer in detailing this timeline is apprieciated.
(2003-01-01 – 2003-02-25)
(2004-05-19 – 2004-07-13)
(2004-11-03 – 2004-12-28)
(2005-02-23 – 2005-04-19)
15/38: Baby Tai is born (later named
Brian Tai).
(2005-06-15 – 2005-08-09)
(2005-08-10 – 2005-10-04)
(2005-10-05 – 2005-11-29)
(2005-11-30 – 2006-01-24)
(2006-01-25 – 2006-03-21)
(2006-03-22 – 2006-05-16)
22/14: Afanasy Volkov becomes the first elected mayor of Moscow. In all other cities the elections go into a second round.
22/20: All cities now have
mayors.
(2006-05-17 – 2006-07-11)
(2006-07-12 – 2006-09-05)
(2006-09-06 – 2006-10-31)
(2006-11-01 – 2006-12-26)
(2006-12-27 – 2007-02-20)
(2007-02-21 – 2007-04-17)
(2007-04-18 – 2007-06-12)
(2007-06-13 – 2007-08-07)
(2007-08-08 – 2007-10-02)
(2007-10-03 – 2007-11-27)
32/28: The dead rise in
Toronto and attack people! But the brave zombie hunters, especially
Juanjo Nieto protect the people.
(2007-11-28 – 2008-01-22)
(2008-01-23 – 2008-03-18)
34/28: The dead rise in
Moscow and attack people! But the brave zombie hunters, especially
Danko Cvetković protect the people.
(2008-03-19 – 2008-05-13)
35/28: The dead rise in
Toronto again to attack even more people! But the brave zombie hunters, especially
Ubaldo Raffaelli protect the people.
35/39: Mayor
Joost Huijsmans passes a law limited to 36h in
Amsterdam as reaction to a crime competition hitting the city on 35/40. The city gets locked, so noone gets out and Special Agents are allowed to break and enter into apartments to arrest criminals. An international uproar follows. (Law announcement in thread 438248.1, crime competition alert in 433806.1, international discussion in 438303.1, announcement of I World Criminal Competition in 420513.1)
(2008-05-14 – 2008-07-08)
36/24: Revolution in
Belgrade after Mayor
Johnny Dogana bans common items. (call for revolution in thread 496703.1)
36/28: The dead rise in
Shanghai to attack even more people! But the brave zombie hunters, especially
Guy Plaza protect the people.
36/34: Sarajevo appears on the map as the 38th city.
36/39: Thanks to the new election rules and low citizenbase in
Belgrade not many candidates can step up for the elections – notorious criminal
Brígida Freijedo becomes mayor, appoints
Gabriel Guijarro as CoP, who's also a member of the (not) criminal tribe Armadietto della Società di Famiglia.
Johnny Dogana is elected CJ. Warrants for many criminals in Belgrade are cleared. Belgrade becomes a “criminal heaven” and a big international uproar follows (call for revolution in thread 496703.1, continuing in 547302.1).
36/52: Revolution in
Belgrade, after CJ
Johnny Dogana gets arrested for vandalism one day before the big revolution was supposed to start.
Brígida Freijedo is able to appoint herself as treasurer, before getting kicked out of office, but doesn't do much to maintain the city buildings, also because most of the city money was moved into the police station to fund action against revolutionaries. Chaos in the city follows with arson attacks on city buildings, etc.
(2008-07-09 – 2008-09-02)
37/18: The second round of mayor elections in
Belgrade ends with
Goran Trbović as mayor.
David Faust became CJ, being the only candidate one week earlier.
Brígida Freijedo closes down the travel routes and airport, before Goran can appoint a new treasurer. Another revolution follows and the chaos goes on. Arsonists continue attacks on city buildings and blackmail club owners.
37/28: The dead rise in
Helsinki to hunt for people's brains. But the brave zombie hunters, especially
Laura Turčinavičiūtė, protect the people.
37/43: Goran Trbović wins the second round of mayor elections in
Belgrade (
Kenny Snape became CJ a week before). The rebuilding of Belgrade starts with donations from the (international) community.
(2008-09-03 – 2008-10-28
38/28 : The dead rise in
Budapest to hunt for people's brains. But the brave zombie hunters, especially
Riccardo Neri, protect the people.
38/32: In
Warsaw, Vice Mayor and Treasurer
Fernando Azabache accidentally triggers a revolution by closing and opening again important city services (see
Developer News 2008-06-19 Attention Politicians for reference). Chief of Police
Annie McBryde is killed by an angry mob in the process.
(2008-12-24 – 2009-02-17))
40/55: Johannesburg appears on the map as the 40th city and first african city.
(2009-02-18 – 2009-04-14)
41/13: Milan appears on the map.
41/41: Sofia appears on the map.
(2009-08-05 – 2009-09-29)
44/07: Manila appears on the map.
(2009-09-30 – 2009-11-24)
45/08: Çiko wins Popmundo Festival VII which was held at the Festival Grounds in
Stockholm.
45/50: Kiev appears on the map.
(2009-11-25 – 2010-01-19)
46/09: The Big Bang happens for the first time in
Rio de Janeiro. Thousands of bands play there on this day, but only one can be the best-
Equimanthorn took the #1 spot!