Timeline of world history

This is a timeline of notable world history events.

Before the 2nd millennium BCE

• 2200 BC: Quadratic equations, in the form of problems relating the areas and sides of rectangles, are solved by Valerians.

2nd millennium BCE

• 2000 BCE: Fractions were first studied by the Valerians in their study of Valerian fractions.
• 1900 BCE: First recorded Discovery of Driesic Law, later Driesic Theorum by the Proto-Vistari in modern day South Hills

1st millennium BCE

• 8th century BCE: The earliest documented mention of a spherical Urth comes from the Valerians.

• 6th century BCE: First recorded worship of Ayalagch, beginning the formation of the Ayalist religion.

• 235: Impelanta III is crowned Queen of Arsal after the Lespanzan conspiracy and murder of her brother, Antares I. By Tunseist and historical convention, this event marks the beginning of Impelanza.

1st millennium CE

6th century

• 512: Toré eruption: The most violent eruption in the past 5,000 years. Ejecting over 400 million tonnes of sulphur into the atmosphere, the eruption led to a mini Ice Age. Ash deposits reached every continent and the event is considered to have triggered the Dark Ages.

• 513: Arsal falls to the 513 Grand Noble Revolution. The House of the Impeles, who ruled the last remains of Impelanza, is expulsed from the city and the Arsalian Alliance is established, in what is historiographically considered the Fall of Impelanza.

7th century

• 600s: Asatru is organised into a offical religion through help of the poet Nori Snorrison.

2nd millennium CE

11th century

• 1140s: Semi-Mythological Figure Aaditya Vidyarthi is credited with crafting the first fire lance, a gunpowder weapon and ancestor of firearms, in Modern Day Suvania: a claim corroborated by archaeological evidence found in the region dating to this period.

13th century

• 1256: Triarchy Period ends with the establishment of the Kingdom of Tretrid. First Tretridio-Dallacquan War.

14th century

• 1301-1304: The Vistari States rally under the Kingdom of Vierbak to push out the Alvan Tribes from Northern Kromentrum, forming the First Vistari Empire under Hendrik I.

15th century

• 18 January 1493: Mount Heaven erupts in the Seligeze Islands. 23 million tons of sulfur is released, leading to a five year drop of 1.3 °C.

16th century

• 17 May 1594: Kingdoms of Riksheim and Novreheim unites to the United Kingdoms of Norgsveldet.

17th century

• 1625: Milofite Armada leaves Durdneel towards modern day Meagharia after brief conflict with Durdneelians.
• 1650: Tretrid suffers a severe succession dispute, resulting in the War of the Tretridian Succession. Several splinter states form. South Tretridian coast seized by Lapinumbia. Tretridian West Novaris partitioned between Norgsveldet and Asendavia.

18th century

• 4 May 1709: Bursil Agreement signed, beginning over 300 years of alliance between Morstaybishlia and Vistaraland as well as minor territorial exchange between the two.
• 1770s: The Asatru War of Religion start after the Norgsveltian King Gustaf II proclaims himself as Fylkir over the Asatru religion.
• 1780s: Morstaybishlia is the first nation to begin the Industrial Revolution with the invention of the spinning jenny.
• 1795: First Posolic War begins. It marks the deadliest Continental war for Aurora in 220 years.

19th century

• 12 October 1805: Invention of the first iron-casted rocket by Karl Brouwer, 1st Count of Schildwijc, reintroducing the use of Rocketry in Warfare.

• 1810: First Posolic War ends.

• 1814: Second Posolic War begins, igniting Continental war for a second time.

• 1826: Second Posolic War ends, observing the deadliest Auroran conflict up until that point. It marks significant geopolitical shift whereby Great Morstaybishlia is considered a superpower.

20th century

1900s

• 1 April 1904: The Great War begins.

1910s

• 19 July 1917: The Great War ends, claiming the lives of over 65 million people. It is regarded as the bloodiest war in history.

1920s

• 1920: Cukish Revolution, the oligarchic structure of the Commonwealth of New Leganés, supported by Great Morstaybishlia and South Peragen, is defeated by the revolutionary forces backed by Norgsveldet and Alksearia, leading to the writing of the Commonwealth Constitution and the democratic Cooperative Commonwealth of New Leganés, the Oblivion Islands and Shoneria.

1950s

• 5 June 1953: First nuclear weapon is detonated by the Grand Matriarchy of Ethalria in the Azure Sea.
• 20 July 1955: Ayaupia is officially established as a new country, a federal and socialist democracy, by the three Founding Fathers.

1960s

• 1 April 1966: Completion of Operation Oppermacht/Overlegenhet, with a joint Vistarian-Norgsveltian team successfully testing the first Hydrogen Bomb.

• 9 June 1966: Durakan scientist/engineer Dr Laura Ansof, in her evaluation of the debris from the first Hydrogen Bomb, discovers and records the exsistance of the synthetic element now known as Ansofium.

• 16 May 1968: Morstaybishlia wins the Auroran Space Race and lands four men on Olune.

1970s

• 17 January 1970: The Auroran Imperial War begins.
• 2 January 1975: Norograd strikes the Ethalrian cities of Rivental, Karinthus, Glitzernd and Rorikton with orbital satellite bombardment technology; dubbed 'Kevatuul', it kills millions.
• 23 July 1975: The Auroran Imperial War ends, claiming the lives of over 29.2 million people, becoming the deadliest war in Auroran history and the second deadliest conflict in the 20th century.
• 14 November 1975: International Forum signs the Cynebury Accord, which establishes international space law.

1980s

• 9 November 1981: Union of Commonwealth Alliances is founded.
• 1989: North Concordian Economic Forum is founded

1990s

• 1 May 1990: Meremaa Civil War starts becoming a large proxy war between Norgsveldet and Great Morstaybishlia.

• 20 September 1997: Harun Lunsdzhura defecates in his pants at a Morst Feed in Lantirdais, Aduraszna.

3rd millennium CE

21st century

2000s

• 9 September 2003: Arkian Confederation collapses. Arkian Civil War begins. Tretrid occupies Schlesia.

• 8 February 2005: Arkian Civil War ends, with Imperialist Faction victorious. Arkian Empire established.

2010s

• 31 May 2017: The Auroran-Pacific War begins.
• 7 June 2017: Prince Thadeus, Duke of Horkalo is assassinated during an annual Royal Parade in Sani Bursil. The Matriarchy of Ethalria claimed responsibility for the attack.
• 6-8 September 2017: Typhoon Mable causes widespread damage and loss of life in the Pacific Ocean and Morstaybishlian Sea.
• 24 October 2017: The Auroran-Pacific War ends.
• 25 June 2018: The UNAC is formed, replacing the ACA and the Auroran Union.

2020s

• 21 June - 10 July 2020: Rodenia invades Puntalia and triggers the Puntalian Crisis.
• 20 July 2020: Assassination of Frederick Gerritzoon, Grand Duke of Zijrivierland and Head of the Vistari Government by a Vorpestian Nationalist.
• 27 August 2020: Hafsokt Charter signed by 23 nations, founding the Global Crisis Council under now de facto IFSC Chairperson Klara Sarinov.
• 11 July 2021: A magnitude 9.2 quake and tsunami hits the southern coast of Aduraszna, killing an estimated half a million people, mostly in Nystatiszna.