1948
January 14th
KNRS ER-2 (1) is launched from Netherlands space centre Guyana.
January 4th
Great Britain grants independence to Burma , the republic of Burma(2) is also a member of the commonwealth of nations.
March 18th
France, Great Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg sign the treaty of Brussels.
April 19th
Burma joins the United Nations , it is the second country on mainland Southeast Asia to join the United Nations and the second to be offer a membership in the greater east Asia alliance but like Siam , is joining the United Nations instead.
May 14th
The declaration of Independence of Israel is made.
The United States grants Israel de facto recognition.
May 15th
The British mandate of Palestine is officially terminated ,the same day , expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq enter Israel and clash with Israeli forces.
The Netherlands governments announces that the recognize Israel.
May 27th
In less then eight minutes and flying at warp 2.5, KNRS ER-2 , makes the longest warp flight from Mars to Neptune.
June 8th
KNRS Amsterdam visit the asteroid belt for a four day survey mission , the goal of the survey is to find out of exploration of the asteroid belt (3) is economic feasible and worth it.
June 12th
After a four day survey , KNRS Amsterdam leaves whit valuable data on the asteroids , now knowing what materials are out there , the royal Netherlands spaces force now can begin thinking of creating mining installations there to extract those materials.
June 24th
The Soviet Union cuts off all land and sea routes to West Berlin, in an attempt to pressure the Allies to evacuate.
June 26th
US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin , the same day the US and British pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to West Berlin.
July 3rd
Four KH-2 Kolibrie II painted blue , begin flying for the royal Netherlands air force as VIP choppers , the are the first of a batch of 20 ordered by the royal Netherlands air force.
July 15th
US President Harry Truman nominated for another term.
July 20th
President Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.
September 4th
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands decides after long period of having toughed about it , not to abdicate , so that princes Juliana can continuo raising here four daughters whit out the burden of being head of state.
October 8th
The first DAF build moon rovers are driven on the moon by personal of Moon base Eisinga and New Amsterdam moon base , who each received one rover , the rover allows the personal to explore the Moon beyond the moon base as before the where limited to a hundred meters beyond the moon base ore where forced to use the transporter to get to a location.
November 4th
Netherlands space centre Guyana personal begins working on building the ER-3 , the first warp 4 capable spaceship which is equipped whit two phase banks and one torpedo launcher bank , is also the first ER (4) spaceship which assembly will be done at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard , as the ER-3 is to big to be launched from Netherlands space centre Guyana.
December 28th
US announces a study to launch an Earth satellite.
December 29th
US state department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit.
(1) KNRS ER-2 was the backup for ER-1 in case something happened during the test flights , but whit ER-1 having completed successfully both the first warp 1 and warp 2 flight whit a Netherlands build spaceship , ER-2 can assist in testing together whit ER-1 , wile performing also other useful duty’s.
(2) Burma joined the commonwealth of nations as a counter to the Japanese led greater east Asia alliance.
(3) the royal Netherlands spaces force is still depending on resources from the Netherlands , Netherlands Guyana and the Netherlands east Indies , the cost for operating the royal Netherlands space force is also very high and the hope is that the survey of the asteroid belt , the royal Netherlands spaces force can determined if it is worth to mine the asteroids in the asteroid belt.
(4) the ER-3 spaceship is the prototype for a yet to be build class which will function as a patrol ship for use in the sol system.
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