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This is the timeline of major historical events.

Notable events should be added here as you think of them, and revised as needed. Do not consider this timeline final, it remains in flux. Some sections may be looser than others.

Pre-2000 BCE

Many of these are not exact dates, as modern archeology can only establish some timeframes approximately, using radiometric dating, Dendrochronology, and other means.

• ~1.8MA BCE: Fire then cooking drives human evolution.
• ~500KA BCE: Shelter construction.
• ~400KA BCE: Pigments and later painting develops. (cite cave paintings?)
• ~400KA BCE: Spears developed leading to human dominance over their natural predators.
• ~200KA BCE: First evidence of glue use.
• ~160-40KA BCE: First Ceremonial Burials.
• ~120KA BCE: Fishing develops.
• ~100KA BCE: First beads discovered.
• ~100KA BCE: Habitation of the islands of Khem by the Al’Ta people after the [great disaster].
• ~75KA BCE: First evidence of bedding
• ~65KA BCE: First arrowheads developed
• ~60KA BCE: First sewing needles developed
• ~35KA BCE: First textiles made
• ~30KA BCE: First musical instruments developed.
• ~30KA BCE: First ropes made
• ~20KA BCE: Beginnings of agricultural societies
• ~19KA BCE: Evidence of the first Al’Khem agrarian villages, a noted difference with Al’Ta fishing villages.
• ~15KA BCE: Pottery developed
• ~8000 BCE: First evidence of Chinampas and Hugelkultur Cultivation in the villages of Al’Khem. Al’Ta food forests adopted by Al’Khem.
• ~8000 BCE: Dakhma first used in disposal of corpses by Al’Khem. Later versions of this structure are much larger due to a growing population.
• ~8000 BCE: First evidence of hemp storage in ancient pottery.
• ~8000 BCE: First evidence of alcoholic beverage storage in ancient pottery
• ~6000 BCE: Al’Ta food forests adopted by Al’Khem.
• ~6000 BCE: Invention of bronze. Beginning of the Bronze Age.
• ~6000 BCE: Cannabis seeds and oil used for food by Al’Khem.
• ~5000 BCE: More cultures form permanent farming settlements.
• ~5000 BCE: Sindar empire rises to power with superior military technology.
• ~5000 BCE: Sericulture, the kiln and lacquer developed by Al’Khem.
• ~4500 BCE: Proto-literate societies develop written laws.
• ~4000 BCE: Hemp textiles in use across the Cefnor Basin.
• ~4000 BCE: Height of Sindar Empire around the Cefnor Basin, precise extent not known. Introduction of caste system and slavery throughout the region.
• ~4000 BCE: Earliest evidence of Zuavka use.
• ~3900 BCE: Beginnings of the Path of Truth, the Ankesh Tablets erected.
• ~3500 BCE: Gahk'ell first domesticated in Khem.
• ~3200 BCE: Sailing the Sindar Empire.
• ~3100 BCE: The Sindar capture villages of Khem and force them into slavery for seventy generations later these people would be known as the Da’Kavo.
• ~3000 BCE: Fre'zhi Migrations to northern Pelagea
• ~3000 BCE: Early settlement of the northern Phoenixian Continent.
• ~3000 BCE: Sultanates of Khem unite. Begining of Ta Cycle calender
• ~3000 BCE: First domestication of horses
• ~2750 BCE: Earliest mixed Fre’zhi-Dunedain Praemians communities are formed. First estimated practices of Gaeanism.
• ~2750 BCE: First evidence of cannabis used as a medicine.
• ~2500 BCE: Fall of Sindar Empire due to slave revolt, the Da’Kavo lead this revolt with their Fre’zhi brethren. Though when they returned to their native lands they weren’t the same, a people hardened by Sindarian cruelty. The Sindarian caste system falls in all but the isles of Khem and the proto-Dunedain.
• ~2500 BCE: Bhaang first found in use among the lower castes of Khem, soon brought into use by the Library of Truth.
• ~2500 BCE: Hanging Gardens first created in Kannabarus, a living love poem to a Praemian princess by the sultan Kl’war’nghe.
• ~2400 BCE: The triplets known as the Hermetica are simultaneously crucified on three islands of Khem, they were considered one person and deified afterward.
• ~2100 BCE: First written mention of Gaeanism from Dunedain texts.

2000 - 1000 BCE

• ~2000 BCE: Development of Dunedain Empire which considers itself successor to Sindar Empire. With an Aristocracy composed of the Sindarin servant Caste.
• ~2000 BCE: Construction of the first Great Library and its tradition of architectural wonder on Lake Haali. Curiously also the first evidence of coca use.
• ~2000 BCE: Due to the strain on the Dunedain armies, men from Ozian settlements are drafted into imperial armies. Settlements occupied predominantly by women.
• ~1985 BCE: Heliocentric model of the solar system first proposed by Hk’laesh of the Great Library of Haali, he was torn apart by hungry otters for his heresy.
• ~1600 -1250 BCE: Da'Kavo (slave soldier) rule founding the Shining Empire, characterised by great prosperity, advances in engineering and well-ordered civic institutions .
• ~1550 BCE: Khems develop mirrors and begin piping sunlight into their subterranean structures.
• ~1500 BCE: Dunedain Empire includes lands later to become the Edain provinces of Eluvatar, Minos, St. Oz, Myroria, etc.
• ~1400 BCE: Khemish Settler Junks full of livestock and supplies arrive on Jutensan shores.

1000 - 500 BCE

• ~960 BCE: Porcelain popularizes in Al’Khem.
• ~898 BCE: The First Divine Republic is formed under leadership of Listener Revia Ozi
• ~897 BCE: Schism in Khem as many fight for the body to be sovereign, the Self Heresy eventually becomes the standard teachings of the Library of truth. This was extremely popular among women who previously had no choice in sexual partners.
• ~890 BCE: Keihesse’zhi renounce Gaeanism and begin ancestor worship and hero veneration. The School of the Whirling Winds, an esoteric sect of the Keihesse’zh Temple, devotes itself to finding the "seventy-two holy names of the unnamed people" in the fabric of creation.
• ~Dunedain Empire splits into western Meneltarma Empire and eastern Verateminas Empire, Minos revolts in the chaos. Z Plague spreads through trade routes devastates the human population.
• ~850 BCE: Rape becomes illegal in Khem. As does beeding outside of caste.
• ~843 BCE: First mention of the city of Mere-ruhn, the Keihesse’zhi "house of the dead" and the holiest place in the Keihesse’zhi faith.

500 BCE - 1 BCE

• ~500 BCE: Rise of Minosian Empire in Cefnor
• ~500 BCE: Founding of Pelagis
• ~450 BCE: Khem establishes a heliocentric model of the solar system.
• ~400 BCE: Minosian Empire encroaches on Meneltarman and Verateminas coastal lands
• ~400 BCE: Pelagian (autonomous?) city-state is a regional power
• ~100 BCE: Verateminas resurgence (brief)
• ~14 BCE: The Divine Republic of Ozia conquers Moacia

1 - 250 CE

• 5 CE: Pelagians sack Verateminas
• 100 CE: Moaz Ozian develops
• 100-234 CE: Pelagian invasion of Al’Khem, punctuated by short lived victories and territory constantly shifting between factions.
• 250 CE: Eruvist cults discovered by the Great Library of Carcossa, the Akasa’Datu Da’Kavo are formed to root them out.

250 - 500 CE

500 - 750 CE

• 592 CE: Listener Palaom forms the Videnti, a secret police to enforce Gaeanist worship.
• By 600 CE: Collapse of the Meneltarma Empire into several warring states including Meneltarma, Romenna, Ilium, Annuminas, Eldalondei, and Anor
• 600 CE: The first attempt of Akasa'Datu Da'Kavo to steal the Whispers, the Akasa’Datu are hunted down by Videnti after barely escaping the tower. Beginning of strained relations.
• 600 CE: Ozians blockade Khem in revenge for the Whispers incident.
• 610 CE: Khems make amends for the incident with offers of gold and spices.

750 - 1000 CE

• 800 CE: First mention of the Legend of Lanhi, a story about an Ozian fisherwoman from Moacia who is caught in a tropical storm, then ends up in La Sava.
• 810 CE: Khemish shipyards boom with activity as The Library invests heavily in the Apa’Datu Da’Kavo and their shipping schemes.

1000 - 1250 CE

• 1000 CE: Theocratic Empire of Delfos peaks.
• 1232 CE: First official military use of rockets when Al’Khem used their թռչող հակահրդեհային սուրն (flying fire lances) to repel Ozian invaders from the city Bara’kaal.
• 1242 CE: June 9th: Falastur Ruisigusugoriar Eluvatumi (Falastur I) forms the Eluvatund Riund Cifundebar (Royal Confederacy of Eluvatar)

1250 - 1500 CE

• 1250 CE: Novmiri traders and settlers arrive in Phoenexia.
• 1345 CE: Khemist Librarians decide to study the bottom of Lake Haali by sectional dredging, biological interest soars as Library Naturalists come to observe the wonders of the world below.
• 1398 CE: Eluvataran Royal Navy conquers Minos, naval flag becomes national flag.
• 1432 CE: The Great Library codifies “Servile Rights” for the first time. This puts an end to Khemish involvement in the slave trade as a supplier and instead the nation focuses on importation of slaves and transition into the servile caste.

1500 - 1600 CE

• 1573 CE: The first Circumnavigation Races begin in La Sava. Only two of the 47 competing ships finish it.
• 1590 CE: The Divine Republic of Ozia colonizes Vazhu’vir in Australis.
• 1593 CE: The Al-Bolu Khanganate, the Empire of Pelagis, and the Empire of Haradrim sign a Naval Cooperation Treaty to combat Ozian and Prydeinian piracy.

1600 - 1700 CE

TODO: Rewrite to match The Last King plans

• 1600 CE: First Kingdom of Letonna is formed.
• 1610 CE: Pelargir Company chartered.
• 1655 CE: Pelagis falls to combined Eluvataran, Ozian, and Myrorian force. The result of the Pelagian Empire leaving a power vacuum is the formation of the states of Austrasia, Neustria, and Myroria.
• 1678 CE: Resdayn I Omaryseth of Myroria dies. First Imperial election. His son, Resdayn II Omaryseth, is elected king.

1700 - 1800 CE

TODO: Rewrite to match The Last King plans

• 1701 CE: Resdayn III Omaryseth elected king of Myroria.
• 1715 CE: Council elects Maryn I Hlaatroth king of Myroria, the first king from outside House Omaryseth.
• 1725 CE: The War of the Last Eluvataran Succession (The Last King victorious)
• 1730 CE: Eluvataran Industrial Revolution begins (slowly).
• 1735 CE: Colony of Valorium created by the Pelagir Company via the Bustos Family.
• 1745 CE: Ëarvedui Ruisigusugoriar Eluvatumi (The Last King) leaves the Note of Absence (and absents himself by leaving)
• 1747 CE: Khemish Whaling peaks.
• 1750 CE: First War of Eluvataran Non-Succession
• 1750 CE: First Letonese Empire formed
• 1760 CE: “Soon may he return” consensus, two party system forms in Eluvatar
• 1780 CE: Second War of Eluvataran Non-Succession
• 1780 CE: Bustos Family lead hostile takeover in Valorium (Pelargir Colony), creating the Allied States of Bustos.
• 1782 CE: Industrial Revolution in the Allied States of Bustos slowly begins.
• 1783 CE: Oboputh Gewaldesi Goludogalutuil (On Nations Ability to Become Wealthy, your Majesty) by Elendil Gofari, published.
• 1783 CE: Charter of the Allied States of Bustos written by Duke Christopher. Slavery is officially abolished as a result. Also known as Charter of Rights.
• 1785 CE: Eluvataran Industrial Revolution takes off.
• 1787 CE: Citizens of Telembria revolt against the two-party political system.
• 1788 CE: Telembria offers revolutionaries land and capital to form new nation in exchange for peace agreement and cessation of hostilities.
• 1789 CE: The Ozian Industrial Revolution begins only in La Sava, based on the Eluvataran model.
• 1797 CE: Myrorian inventor Therevam Flouridrith invents an industrial paper-making machine, making books cheaper than ever before and starting the Industrial Revolution in Myroria.
• 1798 CE: A mysterious woman under the pen-name "Madame Ousi" publishes The False Social Consciousness of Labor and Monopolists. Factory Managers in La Sava ban readers from reciting the book in factories after several minor labor riots.
• 1799 CE: The Republic of Megatridimensional Order is formed by revolutionaries from Telembria, as a result of the peace agreement.

1800 - 1850 CE

• 1800 CE: Madame Ousi's Writings are banned by the Parpaski direship.
• 1802 CE: The first recorded use of bio-warfare by the Allied States, when Bustian Soldiers distribute smallpox infected blankets to released native prisoners of war.
• 1804 CE: The Divine Republic of Ozia defaults on its debt. Beginning of the Ozian Labor Riots.
• 1807 CE: Maryn IV Hlaatroth releases the Quartering of the Country decree, giving large swaths of the countryside to the Great Houses on the guarantee that they will construct factories and improvements. Growth of Myrorian cities slows as most people work on House-owned farms or factories. Myroria will stay predominantly rural for years.
• 1807 CE: The Parpaski Direship jails Madame Ousi, communists take over the prison and start the Ozian Communist Revolution
• 1809 CE: La Savan Communists storm the Parpaski estate, and take control of the island
• 1810 CE: Industrial Revolution of the Allied States takes off.
• 1812 CE: Madame Ousi creates the Peoples Divine Republic of Ozia, and is recognized by the Listener.
• 1814 CE: Madame Ousi begins her Cultural Revolution by simplifying the Ozian alphabet, establishing Ozian as the official language, and outlawing minority religions within Ozia. She creates the secret police units, STIA and SOSOT.
• 1815 CE: Madame Ousi's government heavily focuses on teaching literacy, math, and science throughout Ozia.
• 1815 CE: Nouvé Resdaynia chartered, Myroria's only colony.
• 1823 CE: Madame Ousi implements plans for fully industrializing Ozia with her Five Year Plans.
• 1825 CE: Madame Ousi's last publication, The Economy of Cities, dictates her guidelines on how to best plan Ozian cities.
• 1826 CE: Austrasians invent Photography. Dull pictures for the next hundred years.
• 1835 CE: The Republic of Megatridimensional Order expands after the genocide of the Terronian Nation.
• 1837 CE: Myrorian naturalist Andraren Raranyseth publishes "On the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". Commonly shortened to just "Struggle for Life", the book details Raranyseth's theory of evolution by natural selection.
• 1840 CE: Al’Khem adopts the Gaeanist alphabet, this cuts down significantly on Library paperwork and simplifies the Great Record. The beginning of rewriting the Great Record.
• 1846 CE: Madame Ousi passes away, her last will and testament giving instructions on electing new Primavs and their term limits.

1850 - 1900 CE

Ask Gulliver to date these.

• 1??? CE: Eluvatar attempts to nationalize Pelargir Company
• 18?? CE: Pelargir Company secedes to form the Commonwealth of Hemland
• 18?? CE: Rykkovaan Revolution.
• 1852 CE: The Republic of Megatridimensional Order and the Viscuito engage in first Caustium War.
• 1854 CE: The People's Divine Council of Economic Experts insists on more industrialization and education.
• 1855 CE: The Republic of Megatridimensional Order and the Viscuito engage in second Caustium War.
• 1858 CE: The Republic of Megatridimensional Order defeat and assimilate the Viscuito, ending the second Caustium War.
• 1860 CE: Ozian manufacturers exceed quotas set by the Economic Council, causing a supply glut. The Economic Experts restrain the enormous growth with high interest rates, declaring a decade long period of "great moderation".
• 1885 CE: The Megatrine Expansion Wars begin.
• 1888 CE: The Megatrine Expansion Wars end.
• 1898 CE: The Great War begins with ???. Eluvatar and its allies the Coalition of Carth (the Northern Powers), made up of Eluvatar, Myroria, Al-Khem, and ???, and L'Entente Cordiale, made up of the Elaran Empire (?), Saint Oz, Letonna, Austrasia (?), Neutria (?), and the Elaran vassal states.

1900 - 1925 CE

• 1909 CE: The Aquiare Revolution sees the end of Khemish aristocracy and their involvement in the Great War.
• 1913 CE: Ozian Communists secretly found Ad’Soghuk to drill, store, and refine oil in the arctic region.
• 1914 CE: Nek'ko Tes'h'la develops alternating current bringing also the electrification of Khemish cities with the Gentu River Project. Hydroelectric power becomes a reality.
• 1919-1926 CE: Resdaynian Indigenous Wars. Fendryn Quarrovth crushes the rebellion, becoming a Myrorian hero. Fendryn begins to harbor political ambitions.

1925 - 1950 CE

• 1930 CE: Fendryn Quarrovth takes the Myrorian throne.
• 1941 CE: Ma'at Sa'Bayt or "Justice Learned" Party dominates Khemish elections. Mh'ra Ht'ter is elected En'Ku on a platform demonizing Kaihesse'zhi and espousing Khemish exceptionalism.

1950 - 1975 CE

• 1950 CE: Fendryn Quarrovth dies. Peté Tar-Ilium elected king.
• 1951 CE: The Republic of Megatridimensional Order begins the Megatrine Southern March.
• 1951 CE: (Fall) Myroria announces it possesses nuclear weapons.
• 1951 CE: (Fall) Pelagian Nationalists conduct a bombing campaign across Myroria.
• 1953 CE: The CSSD passes legislation forbidding State Governments and corporations from minting their own currency.
• 1958 CE: The Megatrine Southern March ends. Thirteen tribes/civilizations were displaced and assimilated as the Megatrine border moved further south.
• 1964 CE: The Megatrine Civil War in the Republic of Megatridimensional Order begins.
• 1966 CE: The 1966 Foreign Purge is conducted in the Republic of Megatridimensional Order.
• 1969 CE: The Iseltov Intervention coups the Parpaski regime, removing all Direship influence from the Senate temporarily. Parpaski leadership tried in Ozi’pol for crimes against humanity, a first in the Cefnor Basin.
• 1969 CE: Peté Tar-Ilium is impeached by the Council of Great Houses. Fredrika is elected queen
• 1972 CE: The Second Divine People’s Republic of St. Oz is founded.

1975 - 2000 CE

• 1975 - 1983 CE: Centralization of power towards the Empeuress. Council of Great Houses loses power and nobles opposing the "new reforms" go missing.
• 1979 CE: People’s Senate of Ozia passes new voting laws, allowing 16 and older women and 18 and older men to vote. Ozia has universal sufferage for the first time in history.
• 1981 CE: People’s Senate of Ozia passes the "Paska Laws" aimed to reduce the power of the Direships and formally denounce the Ozian Privateers.
• 1981 CE: The Megatrine Civil War in the Republic of Megatridimensional Order ends.
• 1982 CE: Cefnor Conference in Carcossa, Al'Khem. (might be removed)
• 1990-1997 CE: Democratic reforms in Myroria. Last vestiges of aristocracy among the Houses eliminated and they transition into open and transparent political parties. More nobles "disappear".
• 1996 CE: March 24: Vol the Merciful dies of lung cancer.
• 1999 CE: Myroria has its first nationwide elections, creating a parliament as a democratic body. However, it still has only "advisory" powers and most power continues to rest with the monarch.

Post-2000 CE

This section is the "present" and is somewhat more in flux than average as a result.

• 2005 CE: Meneldur, Crown Prince of Myroria, leaves the Imperial Residence. No public statement is made but he is soon spotted living at Ilium Estate in County Ivorheart with his disgraced father.
• 2008 CE: Fredrika Tar-Ilium dies. A decree released after her death turns the nation into a constitutional monarchy with little power given to the monarch. The nation is restyled the "Noble Republic of Myroria". Meneldur is elected king. The parliament elects Sendryna Quarrith Prime Minister of Myroria.
• 2011 CE: Khem develops self organizing drone swarm AI, with (someone) to clean up a nuclear explosion in (country).
• 2012 CE: Peté Tar-Ilium dies.
• 2016 CE: Listener Adara dies and Listener Neari assumes power. Within the first month she orders the People’s Republic of Ozia to create a multi-party democracy.
• 2017 CE: Ozians adopt a new constitution forming the third Divine Republic

Post-2100 CE

These events are for Future Tech RPs and are even more subject to change than other events, as they follow events which have not been decided, much less ever RPed.

• 2110 CE: First colony ship launched by Cefnor Community???
• 2498 CE: Invention of FTL travel