1999

In-Universe

 * Philip J. Fry spills beer on the control console at New York FOX station WNYW, knocking Single Female Lawyer off the air.
 * Fry's bank account is left with a balance of 93 cents, which after one thousand years of gathering interest, becomes $4.3 billion.
 * 31 December
 * Fry is sent on a fake pizza delivery to I. C. Wiener at Applied Cryogenics.
 * Fry is frozen at the stroke of midnight when pushed by Nibbler. Wakes up in the future.

Alternate Reality

 * 31 December
 * Fry bumps his head on the cryogenic tube instead of freezing himself, causing a rip in space-time.
 * The Vice Presidential Action Rangers abduct Fry and inform him that if he does not return to the cryo-tube, the universe will be destroyed.
 * Fry does not return to the cryo-tube, and the universe is destroyed.
 * Fry and the Vice Presidential Action Rangers are floating around outside the universe, they start a game of Dungeons and Dragons.

Real World Production

 * 28 March
 * Futurama's pilot episode, "Space Pilot 3000", is aired.
 * 4 April
 * Episode two, "The Series Has Landed", is aired.
 * 6 April
 * Episode three, "I, Roommate", is aired.
 * 13 April
 * Episode four, "Love's Labours Lost in Space", is aired.
 * 20 April
 * Episode five, "Fear of a Bot Planet", is aired.
 * 27 April
 * Episode six, "A Fishful of Dollars", is aired.
 * 4 May
 * Episode seven, "My Three Suns", is aired.
 * 11 May
 * Episode eight, "A Big Piece of Garbage", is aired.
 * 18 May
 * Episode nine, "Hell Is Other Robots", is aired. End of broadcast season one.
 * 26 September
 * Episode ten, "A Flight to Remember", is aired.
 * 3 October
 * Episode eleven, "Mars University", is aired.
 * 7 November
 * Episode twelve, "When Aliens Attack", is aired.
 * 14 November
 * Episode thirteen, "Fry and the Slurm Factory", is aired. End of production season one.
 * 21 November
 * Episode fourteen, "I Second that Emotion", is aired.
 * 28 November
 * Episode fifteen, "Brannigan, Begin Again", is aired.
 * 12 December
 * Episode sixteen, "A Head in the Polls", is aired.
 * 19 December
 * Episode seventeen, "Xmas Story", is aired.