The Looniverse has a long and storied history. Look, now, on these landmark events...
19th Century
Net.ropolis was once known as Babbagetown. Little is known of how far the origins of this city go back. The history of the LNHQ is also rather murky. Factually, it's known that the current LNHQ used to be the Net.ropolis Hotel Grand. However, the site itself lies on a magical locus, and has long attracted both heroes and villains.
20th Century
Sometime in the 1920s or '30s, a hero by the name of Boy Lad formed the Legion of Net.Heroes. During this time, he was the only member (Boy Lad Jr., his sidekick, wasn't allowed to join, due to the "no sidekicks are allowed to join" rule). No one knows what ultimately happened to him, although someone who claimed to be him made an appearance in the Omaha Project series.
'40s-'50s
After Boy Lad disappeared, the Agents of P.U.L.P., Classics Squad, and Society of Wireless Heroes (a Britian-based super group) took over the hero game in the 1940s and 1950s. Some members of the Classics Squad would eventually become part of the current LNH incarnation, such as Old Comics Man, Golden Man, and Kid Yesterdaze.
The Vaguely McCarthyist Administration came to power sometime during this period, and forced some prospective heroes into retirement before the Classics Squad formed.
'60s
During 1960s, the Net.astic Nine and the Challengers of the Abominable helped protect Net.ropolis and the Looniverse from destructive forces. As a child, Sig.Lad was a member of the Net.astic Nine. At the end of the 60's, a demon going by the name of Anti-Christ Lad controlled all of Net.ropolis, including this time period's incarnation of the LNH: the Legion of Net.Hippies. Self-Righteous Preacher joined the Net.Hippies and helped free them from Anti-Christ Lad's thrall, sending him back to Net.Hell. A few Net.Hippies, like Nudist Man, Super Apathy Lad, and Procrastination Boy, have joined the Legion in the present day.
'80s
The Legion of New-Wave Heroes arrived on the scene and quickly disappeared. Other teams that operated between this time and the rise of the LNH include the Tantalising Teens and L.E.G.I.O.N.. Macroman also had a heroic career for over a year, early in the decade.
'90s
1992
In May of 1992, Dr. Killfile
Call To Arms / 501 Blues: The Long Road to Nowhere
1994
Omaha Project
Valentine's Day Ball
LNH Registration Act
Mysterious virus
Retcon Hour
Crisis of Infinite Sidekicks
Retcon Midnight
Marriage of Pli and Touri
1996
1997
In 1997 Tsar Chasm returned from the dead and it was revealed that he was posing as the LNHer Kid G. In 1998, Dr. Killfile also returned with no explanation of how he had cheated death in the pages of Teenfactor.
[[NWO]]
[[Evil's Last Stand]]
1998
[[Saviors of the Net]]
During an issue of Saviors of the Net, the Apathy Beast was used by Doctor Net.ropolis, causing the posting of LNH stories and the momentum of the LNH imprint to gradually slow down. This slowdown would not begin to reverse itself until the latter half of 2004. It was particularly strong between 1999 and 2001, for reasons revealed in Weird Comics #1.
1999
21st Century
2000
Mutton Mania -> ending of Saviors of the Net.
2001
In the pages of The Team #25, the city of Sig.ago was completely destroyed. It would eventually be restored through the power of Retcon.
In Cute Anna, Crypt Looter #2, a number of LNHers were married, including Deja Dude, Master Blaster and Sister State-the-Obvious, Innovative Offense Boy and Ordinary Lady, and Cheesecake Eater Lad and aLLiterative Lass. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.creative/msg/f8e400cca85fa446?dmode=source&hl=en Since then, a few of them have become parents.
2002
In 2002, Hexadecimal Luthor decided to give up doing the hero-and-villain punch-em-up thing with Bicycle Repair Lad. Gathering pieces of the long-shattered Cosmic Plot Device and forming them into the Cosmic Reset Button, he retconned himself into the President of the Loonited States.
[[Jesse Willey's Grocery List]]
[[Flame Wars IV]]
[[President Evil]]
2003
[[Bride of C'Thulhu]]
[[Flame Wars VI]]
2004
Hex Luthor is re-elected as President.
2005
2005 was the year of the plot to destroy the RACCies, as Manga Man returned, as a hero, as a villain, and as a mysterious manipulator. Cosmic beings toyed with the people of Net.ropolis, the history of the LNH itself was threatened, and confusion reigned in the chaotic cascade manner.
This was also the year that the Inhilators invaded the Solar System, destroying Pluto and Neptune and washing the Looniearth in psychic static before being tossed into the Big Bang and utterly destroyed. Afterwards, thousands of members of the Inhilator underclass were left on Earth.
2006
In the 2006 Mid-Term Election, Haiku Gorilla won a seat as Senator for the "floating" city of Net.ropolis. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.comics.creative/msg/e30331ffc28dafae
Dr. Killfile returned and faced a team made of his various relatives, each side trying to exterminate the other, with the LNH and Net.ropolis caught in the middle.
Ripping Dancer joined the LNH.
The Wordinator attacked the Looniverse.
2007
At the end of March 2007, the Ultimate Ninja decided to go on vacation for the month of April. An April that, in total, came out to 465 days. The Infinite Leadership Crisis was an event in which every member of the LNH became leader for a day - literally; each leader disappeared at midnight.
2008
2009
'10s
2010
While a considerable number of LNH stories came out in 2010, very few of them were set in current continuity. Thus, little of significant impact happened that year, although Tyrannus Auron arrived in the mainstream Looniverse at Christmas.
2011
Obscure Trivia Lad mysteriously returned to life.
See also LNH History, History of Earth-20.