Timeline of world history

This is a timeline of notable world history events.

Before the 2nd millennium BCE

• 12000 BCE: The last Ice Age ends.
• 3400 BCE: Evidence of proto-writing by the Elves in Alva in the form of the Urgabom Script.
• 2200 BCE: Quadratic equations, in the form of problems relating the areas and sides of rectangles, are solved by Valerians.

2nd millennium BCE

• ~2000-1500 BCE: Evidence dated to this period points to the beginnings of an early form of Verk'ohism in the modern regions of Marislia and Baykalia.
• 2000 BCE: Fractions were first studied by the Valerians in their study of Valerian fractions.
• c. 1800 BCE: The Great Vanishing occurs, bringing an end to many Auroran nation-states, most notably the Kingdoms of Terliva, Eruk, and Sihvli, the Empire of Nelokhvi, and the Fiefdoms of Fendelkh.
• 1800 BCE: The first written records of the State of Ni, one of the predecessors of Ni-Rao, date to this century.
• 1900 BCE: First recorded Discovery of Driesic Law, later Driesic Theorum by the Proto-Vistari in modern day South Hills.
• 1600 BCE: The Kingdom of Rao, the second of Ni-Rao's two predecessor states, was established in the highlands east of Ni.

1st millennium BCE

• ~900 BCE: In the Merger of the Crowns, Ni and Rao unite into a single country known as the August Empire of Ni-Rao. Historical records from both states claim that they were the state to conquer the other. The first era of Raonite pyramid building also begins at this time, under Emperor Ramar, the first Emperor of united Ni-Rao.
• 8th century BCE: The earliest documented mention of a spherical Urth comes from the Valerians.
• 8th century BCE: The four oracles travel South-West Aurora, marking the beginning of Kozam.

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

• 6th century BCE: Rise of the Ulvrikian Empire, first and only time Northern Concord was fully united into one empire.
• 648-646 BCE: The Sacking of Nilovia by the City State of Shalisi. The event is often marked as a cultural shift in Southeast Aurora, and with it bringing about the early beginnings of the Kveshi Empire.
• 621 BCE: The Nobility of Er reaches its territorial height under King Meloke. In the same year, the Nobility of Er would merge with The Fiefdom of Fughala to form the Kingdom of Suvol under King Relik I.
• 523 BCE: Ennulus Jakatei Kalamitas reforms the Kormistazic confederacy into an empire.

• 235 BCE: 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.
• 200 BCE: The Great Migration sees a majority the Proto-Vistari people sail from Concord to the Isle of Krommentrum, settling first in the modern day region of Koersland.
• ~150 BCE: The Norvians come in contact with Novaris, landing and settling in Dallacqua.

1st millennium CE

1st century

• January 1st, 1 CE: A meteor impacts the Greater Tear of the Moon in modern day Tavaris. The meteor is seen and recorded by a number of cultures across the world, including Impelanza. Because of this wide documentation of the event across cultures, this impact is later used as the epoch of the Common Era calendar, the international standard calendar for commerce and diplomacy.

2nd century

• 2nd century CE: In the Usprian Wars, Usprian lands shrink considerably further south in Aurora, where at some point the human Maltervenian Empire annexes the Mouth of Elaspin, a major north-south Auroran trade route that passes through the Zycannes for the first time.
• c. 129-135 CE: The Azure Wars take place, marking the establishment of the Grand Monarchy of Salovia.

3rd century

• 277: Lunarism's Elder Council is founded, establishing Lunarism as an organized religion.
• 278: Salovian King Orev IV dies of the Hasoni Plague, the first known instance of the disease. With his death, the Salovian Age of the Elves begins with the ascension of Melit'hasa elf Ærik I.

4th century

• 345: The first Norvians land on Aurora, in modern Emberwood Coast, regularly raiding and conquering Kormistazic coastal provinces in the following decades.

5th century

• 494: The Salovian Age of the Elves ends with the crowing of human King Rorik IV. This also marks the beginning of the First Salovian Golden Age.

6th century

• ~500: Ni-Rao enters into a significant period of decline, known as the Raonite Dark Age. Military threats to the east as well as economic decline cause the first era of Raonite pyramid and monument building to end. The Dark Age would last for about 3 centuries.
• 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 official religion through help of the poet Nori Snorrison.
• 642: The last Norvian kingdom in the Axdelian Peninsula is destroyed by the Rulique Confederacy
• 673: Erik I becomes the second Salovian king to die from the Hasoni Plague.

8th century

• 700: The Age of the Plague begins in Salovia. The three-wave epidemic spanning 125 years resulted in the deaths of between 350,000 and 500,000 individuals.
• 724: The Second Kormistazic empire is founded

9th century

• 831: The Melit'hasa Coup takes place, creating the short-lived Second Kingdom of Melit'hasa.
• 890: Arin II coups a fracturing Ethalria, and installs a matriarchy that would last over a thousand years. She is later given the epithet the Great.
• 842: The Second Kingdom of Melit'hasa is defeated by Salovia in the Battle of Mat’lis Mta.

10th century

• 911: Salovian King Eric abdicates without naming an heir, ushering in the second Succession Crisis. Six months later, Yuria of Velianebi House becomes the first Queen of Salovia. Her ruling tactics and policies defined the following century, aptly known as The Yurian Rule.
• 968: Clarityism is officially founded.
• 972: Staynes is formed after the collapse of the Maltervenian Empire.
• 992: Lerin XVII dies, marking the Salovian Interregnum.

2nd millennium CE

11th century

• 1017: Fortunan Empire is founded.
• 1032: The Nobility of Baykalia is overthrown by the Remis the Great, who reinstates the Salovian Monarchy. This also marks the beginning of the Grand Reconquest.

12th century

• 1128: Temuj becomes Khan of Alva following a brief civil war, gaining the name Gunghris Khan and founding the Alvan Empire.
• 1139: The completion of the Grand Reconquest, with the reconquest of Tivot from Caltharus and Wachovia in the Twin Wars of Tivot.
• 1140: The Second Salovian Golden Age begins.
• 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

• 1215: Staynish annexes Valeria, bringing the final Elven politically dominated nation in Aurora to an end.
• 1254: Assassination of Tugri Khan, fracturing the Alvan Empire.
• 1256: Triarchy Period ends with the establishment of the Kingdom of Tretrid. First Tretridio-Dallacquan War.

14th century

• 1304: Salovia acquires its first colonies in the form of trading ports along the eastern coast of modern-day Vivancantadia, marking the first bout of Salovian colonialism.
• 1310s: First record of an occarina is in Staynes.
• ~1300: Ni-Rao reaches its territorial maximum around this time. At its peak, Ni-Rao reached over the Danvreas Range into modern-day Mikubana in Bana, south all the way to Reijia, and controlled part of King's Island in Tavaris.
• 1301-1304: The Vistari States rally under the Kingdom of Vierbaak to push out the Alvan Tribes from Northern Kromentrum, forming the First Vistari Empire under Hendrik I.
• 1304: The 1,152 independent Tavari chiefdoms agree to unite under Utor, Chief of Nuvo, as King of All Tavaris, concluding more than 150 years of off-and-on civil war, in order to unite against invaders from Ni-Rao.

15th century

• 1400s: A series of several major plagues break out in Ni-Rao, devastating the country's population, economy, and military. Across the 15th century, 1 out of every 6 Raonites dies. Ni-Rao's domination of the region effectively ends.
• 1408: Æris the Elven Usurper becomes the fourth and final elven King of Salovia, dying in 1493.
• ~1470-1490: The religion of Akronism first forms in northwestern Tavaris. According to worshippers, the goddess Akrona appeared physically on Urth at this time.
• 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

• 12 March 1506 - 7 December 1509: Vistari Explorer Anton-Koen Taalen is the first to circumnavigate the globe.
• 12 January - 19 December 1515: Caltharus Throne War - Lambertus the Great unites the thrones of Staynes and Caltharus to form Morstaybishlia.
• 3 June 1560: Rosalica is formed with the Westmound Heights Agreement.
• 1575 - The Third Kormistazic empire collapses and is annexed by the Morstaybishlian empire.
• 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.
• 1644: Fortunan Empire breaks apart into multiple states.
• 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. Tretridian Anarchy begins.
• 1663-1672: An epidemic of Hasoni Plague spreads through Salovia, killing between 15,000 and 25,000 individuals. Among those dead was Salovian King Yurev IV, the final king to die from Hasoni Plague.
• 1680s: Tretrid reconquers remaining splinter states. Tretridian Anarchy ends.
• 1698: Caven Wars begin.
• 1700: Hanna Piano invents an acoustic, stringed musical instrument, which is soon named after her.

18th century

• 1704: Caven Wars end, resulting in hegemony of Morstaybishlian power in South East Yasteria and capitulation of the Caven Empire.
• 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.
• 1780: The first military submersible vessel "Skilpadden", is designed and made by the Norgsveltian inventor Bjørn Haakonson. It was the first verified submarine capable of independent underwater operation and movement,
• 1780s: Morstaybishlia is the first nation to begin the Industrial Revolution with the invention of the spinning jenny.
• 1793: Norgsveltian Ragnal Volda and his wife Ragnild Volda and fellow scientist, believed observed electrical phenomena were caused by two different metals joined together by a moist intermediary. He verified this hypothesis through experiments and published the results.
• 1795: First Posolic War begins. It marks the deadliest Continental war for Aurora in 220 years.
• 1797: Riamin Klevins invents the slide trumpet.
• 1800: Norgsveltians Ragnal Volda and Ragnild Volda created the first true battery.

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.

• 1860: The Four States Agreement is agreed to by the Aspirian states, ending centuries of instability in the region, recognizing each other as sovereign entities, resolving territorial disputes, and promoting economic cooperation.
• 6 February 1873: The first indoor ice hockey game is held at the Crystal Peak Skating Rink in Volkgoroda, Volkia.
• 11 March 1885: 1885 Volkgoroda food riot kills approximately 850 people, sparking the Volkian Revolution.
• 25 May 1885: Yuri IV abdicates, sparking a chain of events that leads to the creation of the Volkian Federative Republic.

• 3 October 1887: Gransmer Inventor Ottozhon Gunther Freidavoder, kmown as the Patron Saint of Volarologists, invented the first powered Airship, the rigid Freidskiff, named for his daughter Freida who is said to have helped with the invention.

• 17 April 1888: The Volkian Federative Republic is formed.

• 1888: Table tennis is invented in South Staynes, then named whiff-whaff; it was a parlour game which involved books for nets and golf balls instead of the modern poly material balls today.

• 1897: The size of the Morstaybishlian Empire peaks following its political union with Packilvania; it is the largest colonial empire in world history.

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.
• 17 August 1917: Thadeus II signs the Great Charter of the Liberties. Morstaybishlia becomes a democratic nation.
• 11 November 1917: Orson Klarass is elected as the first prime minister of Morstaybishlia.

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.
• 9 March 1925: Volkian Civil War begins after an attack on a federal armory by monarchists.
• 18 May 1926: Volkian Civil War ends, resulting in a federal victory.

1930s

• 14 Febuary 1938: Gransmeric inventor Wilhemzhon Kurt creates the first purpose-built radio telescope.

1940s

• 9 December 1941: Ethalrian chemists Sabine Ehrlich and Katrin Goehr detect barium after bombarding uranium with neutrons. This is correctly interpreted by Norogradian physicist Vince Massi as nuclear fission.

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

• 1960: The Tretridian impactor probe Mōna 1 misses Olune due to a malfunction and becomes the first artificial object in heliocentric orbit.

• 28 April 1961: Ethalrian female astronaut Almut Fichtner conducts the first manned spaceflight.

• 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.

• 11 November 1967: Asendavia is the first nation to land men on Olune, thwarting the Auroran Space Race.

• 16 May 1968: Morstaybishlia wins the Auroran Space Race, landing three men and the first woman on Olune.

• 4 September 1969: Auterner Astronaut Pieter-Johan Maarten, serving under the Vistari Space Program, becomes the first elf on Olune, landing alongside the first lunar plaque.

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.
• 10 May 1975: Roneria IV of Ethalria is executed, ending a dynastic matriarchy of over a millennium. Ethalria becomes a fascist dictatorship under Delores Sofura.
• 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.
• 10 August 1975: Ethalria fragments into two nations; the Republic of Ethalria and the Matriarchy of Ethalria.
• 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

• 22 April 2000: The Rotantic Congress is formed.
• 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.
• 18 November 2006: Four suicide bombers target the Autumn Harvest Festival in Volkgoroda, killing 128 civilians in Volkia's deadliest terrorist attack.

2010s

• 10-28 May 2014: The 2014 Dverian War occurs, resulting in the division of the Dveria into north and south. The war leads to Tano joining South Hills.
• 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.
• June 13, 2017: The League of Novaris is established after five nations sign the League's Charter.
• 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. Both Ethalria's are split to make up six Ethaln nations.
• 25 June 2018: The UNAC is formed, replacing the ACA and the Auroran Union.
• 7 November 2019: The Lion of Taren Incident.

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.
• 24 July 2020: July 2020 Caltharus attacks.
• July 24, 2020: Julius Karling launches a coup against the Neu Arkian government, kicking off the Karolingian Crisis. Tensions between Arkalarius and Tretrid seriously inflamed.
• 25 - 29 July 2020: 2020 Nocturne riots.
• 21 August 2020: August 2020 Caltharus police attack.
• 27 August 2020: Hafsokt Charter signed by 23 nations, founding the Global Crisis Council under now de facto IFSC Chairperson Klara Sarinov.
• September 25, 2020: Karolingian Crisis ends after the League of Novaris authorized military intervention.
• October 16, 2020: Eldras VI assassinated. The Balistrian Coalition War starts.
• December 19, 2020: Balistrian Coalition War ends, with Balistria partitioned.
• 16 January, 2021: Telve Kvirkdelen is assassinated after 55 years leading Helslandr, causing Helslandr Civil War to start 10 days later.
• 8 March 2021: 2021 Joralesian attacks are the worse terror attacks in Joralesian history.
• 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.