In a near‑future authoritarian state, Caesar leads an uprising that ends ape slavery.
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Historical Record
By 1991, urban centers run on labor that citizens prefer not to see. Training facilities, corporate campuses, and municipal services depend on routines that keep the city running and keep questions quiet. A single act of conscience collides with a single act of violence, and the streets become a seminar in power: who commands, who obeys, and who refuses. Sirens narrow; slogans widen; and the architecture of control reveals itself at every door.
Historically, 1991 is a hinge between habit and reform. It exposes the cost of a system designed for convenience rather than dignity, and it demonstrates how quickly order can become brittle when legitimacy is contested. Policy memos drafted in the aftermath propose new rules, but the city learns that rules without respect cannot hold. The date enters the archive as the point where coexistence stops being a slogan and starts becoming a demand.
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Q: When does Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) take place?
A: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) happens in 1991 AD .