Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-96.23.142.157-20140601175617/@comment-25900245-20141227230955

After reviewing the references on the timeline page, here are the dates I get:

The writers have stated that the nuclear war occurred in 2052.

Unity day (the 1 October celebration, not the episode) also occurred in 2052, as seen on Jasper's t-shirt in the pilot episode.

In the opening monologue from the pilot episode, Clarke states that the nuclear war was 97 years ago (putting the current year as 2149).

The FIFA football match occurs in 2001 (In the scene from Earth Kills, set in 2148, Clarke states that the game was 147 years ago).

MIR-3 salvaged in 2102 (Raven states this explicitly in Earth Skills)

Moments later she also states that the escape pod is 130 years old, which would put the MIR-3 launch sometime around 2019.

Octavia was born in 2132 (her birth is shown in His Sister's Keep, and the scene is labelled as 17 years ago).

