1882 – 1892
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| Year | Births | Deaths | Scientific Discoveries | Timeline Events and Comments |
| 1882 | Formation of Aerial Steam Navigation Company in California | |||
| 1883 | War of the Four Empires between France and the Triple Empire begins. | |||
| 1884 | David Beatty | Imperial Russian Spacecraft Land on Luna. Czar Claims all of the Moon for the Russian Empire. Vessels use both rockets and aerolyth to achieve velocity for direct lunar mission. Four vessels are launched. One is destroyed in boost phase by a rocket engine failure, a second hard lands on the moon and explodes, the third suffers a critical failure during engine restart for lunar ascent. Only the fourth vessel safely returns to Earth. It is enough though. The Great Powers enter the Space Age. | ||
| 1885 | Charles Darwin | Aerial Fire Engine Targee completed at James Eads Union Aerial Works south of St. Louis Missouri. | ||
| 1886 | Henri Giffard | Formation of several additional aerial navigation companies | Great Chicago Fire | |
| 1887 | John Stringfellow | First Commercial Aerolyth Flyers built | Great powers begin exploitation of space, Using combinations of solid fuel/liquid oxidizer rockets and aerolyth boosters the Great Powers begin construction of orbital platforms | |
| 1888 | Eduard Totleben | Super Oxidizer | War of the Four Empires ends, France forces Triple Empire to cede territories along former Franco-Spanish border. To raise money to pay for War Reparations Triple Empire sells some holdings in Mediterranean and Equatorial Africa to Russian Empire. They also sell Cuba and other Puerto Rico to the United States of America. | |
| 1889 | Frederick Marriott | |||
| 1890 | Nicola Tesla | Lunar Spacecraft | Vienna World’s Fair | |
| 1891 | Richard Burton | France builds first aerial ironclad | ||
| 1892 | First Treaty High Port is opened above Ascension Island. Within the following five years there will be seven additional High Ports in Geosynchronous Orbit |