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Before the Creation of Earth

Before Time: Ahu – the timeless 10-20 billion years ago: The Big Bang. The Weaver
void, the beginning and end of all begins creating galaxies, planets, and stars. The Wyrm
ca. 0 seconds (13.799 ± 0.021 Gya): Planck things, the primal foundation that explodes stars and creates black holes, although Weaver
Epoch begins: earliest meaningful time. The lies beyond life and death, dislikes this, even though her own laws of physics
Big Bang occurs in which ordinary space and transcendence and oblivion – exists demand it. Singularities are thus hidden behind event
time develop out of a primeval state (possibly as nonexistence. horizons.
a virtual particle or false vacuum) described by Creation: The Triat – Creation, The Big Bang. Fiat Lux. God aka the All-Maker, aka the
a quantum theory of gravity or "Theory of Preservation, and Destruction – Infinity of Infinities, creates the angels. Seven houses of
Everything". All matter and energy of the create and maintain the universe. angels are made one after another, each creating and
entire visible Universe is contained in an The play of energies between them governing a different part of the universe. The ultimate
unimaginably hot, dense point (Gravitational births the Celestines, Gaia, Helios, pinnacle of this new Creation is humanity, which
singularity), a billionth the size of a nuclear Luna, Chronus, Nidhogg, and possesses a spark of the divine itself. Reality exists in
particle. This state has been described as a others. The lesser spirits – Incarna, "layers" or "facets" at this point in time, while Creation
particle desert.WIMPS (weakly interacting Avatars, Preceptors, and Gafflings – took place in seven days it simultaneously happened over
massive particles) or dark matter and dark descend from the Celestines. Things billions of years, and while Eve the Allmother and Adam
energy may have appeared and been the are a bit primal. the Allfather were formed by angelic power, humanity
catalyst for the expansion of the singularity. also evolved from apes in a very slow process.
The infant universe cools as it begins
expanding outward. It is almost completely
smooth, with quantum variations beginning to
cause slight variations in density.
Grand Unification Epoch
ca. 10?43 seconds: Grand unification epoch
begins: While still at an infinitesimal size, the
universe cools down to 1032 kelvins. Gravity
separates and begins operating on the universe
- the remaining fundamental forces stabilize
into the electronuclear force, also known as the
Grand Unified Force or Grand Unified Theory
(GUT), mediated by (the hypothetical) X and
Y bosons which allow early matter at this stage
to fluctuate between baryon and lepton states.
[1]
Electroweak epoch[edit]
ca. 10?36 seconds: Electroweak epoch begins:
The Universe cools down to 1028 kelvins. As a
result, the Strong Nuclear Force becomes
distinct from the Electroweak Force perhaps
fuelling the inflation (cosmology) of the
universe. A wide array of exotic elementary
particles result from decay of X and Y bosons
which include W and Z bosons and Higgs
bosons.
ca. 10?33 seconds: Space is subjected to
inflation, expanding by a factor of the order of
1026 over a time of the order of 10?33 to 10?
32 seconds. The universe is supercooled from
about 1027 down to 1022 kelvins.[2]
ca. 10?32 seconds: Cosmic inflation ends. The
familiar elementary particles now form as a
soup of hot ionized gas called quark-gluon
plasma; hypothetical components of Cold dark
matter (such as axions) would also have
formed at this time.
Quarks Epoch[edit]
ca. 10?12 seconds: Electroweak phase
transition: the four fundamental interactions
familiar from the modern universe now operate
as distinct forces. The Weak nuclear force is
now a short-range force as it separates from
Electromagnetic force, so matter particles can
acquire mass and interact with the Higgs Field.
The temperature is still too high for quarks to
coalesce into hadrons, and the quark-gluon
plasma persists (Quark epoch). The universe
cools to 1015 kelvins.
ca. 10?11 seconds: Baryogenesis may have
taken place with matter gaining the upper hand
over anti-matter as baryon to antibaryon
constituencies are established.
Hadron Epoch[edit]
ca. 10?6 seconds: Hadron epoch begins: As the
universe cools to about 1010 kelvins, a quark-
hadron transition takes place in which quarks
bind to form more complex particles - hadrons.
This quark confinement includes the formation
of protons and neutrons (nucleons), the
building blocks of atomic nuclei.
ca. 1 second: Lepton epoch begins: The
universe cools to 109 kelvins. At this
temperature, the hadrons and antihadrons
annihilate each other, leaving behind leptons
and antileptons - possible disappearance of
antiquarks. Gravity governs the expansion of
the universe: neutrinos decouple from matter
creating a cosmic neutrino background.
Matter Era[edit]
Photon Epoch[edit]
ca. 10 seconds: Photon epoch begins: Most of
the leptons and antileptons annihilate each
other. As electrons and positrons annihilate, a
small number of unmatched electrons are left
over - disappearance of the positrons.
ca. 10 seconds: Universe dominated by
photons of radiation - ordinary matter particles
are coupled to light and radiation while dark
matter particles start building non-linear
structures as dark matter halos. Because
charged electrons and protons hinder the
emission of light, the universe becomes a
super-hot glowing fog.
ca. 3 minutes: Primordial Nucleosynthesis:
nuclear fusion begins as lithium and heavy
hydrogen (deuterium) and helium nuclei form
from protons and neutrons.
ca. 20 minutes: Nuclear fusion ceases: normal
matter consists of 75% hydrogen and 25%
helium - free electrons begin scattering light.
ca. 70,000 yrs: Matter domination in Universe:
onset of gravitational collapse as the Jeans
Length at which the smallest structure can
form begins to fall.
Cosmic Dark Age
ca. 370,000 yrs (z=1,100): The "Dark Ages" is
the period between decoupling, when the
universe first becomes transparent, until the
formation of the first stars. Recombination:
electrons combine with nuclei to form atoms,
mostly hydrogen and helium. Distributions of
hydrogen and helium at this time remains
constant as the electron-baryon plasma thins.
The temperature falls to 3000 kelvins.
Ordinary matter particles decouple from
radiation. The photons present at the time of
decoupling are the same photons that we see in
the cosmic microwave background (CMB)
radiation
ca. 400,000 yrs: Density waves begin
imprinting characteristic polarization (waves)
signals.
ca. 10 million yrs: With a trace of heavy
elements in the Universe, the chemistry that
later sparked life Abiogenesis begins
operating.
ca. 100 million yrs: Gravitational collapse:
ordinary matter particles fall into the structures
created by dark matter. Reionization begins:
smaller (stars) and larger non-linear structures
(quasars) begin to take shape - their ultraviolet
light ionizes remaining neutral gas
200-300 million yrs: First stars begin to shine:
Because many are Population III stars (some
Population II stars are accounted for at this
time) they are much bigger and hotter and their
life-cycle is fairly short. Unlike later
generations of stars, these stars are metal free.
As reionization intensifies, photons of light
scatter off free protons and electrons -
Universe becomes opaque again
200 million years: HD 140283, the
"Methuselah" Star, formed, the unconfirmed
oldest star observed in the Universe. Because it
is a Population II star, some suggestions have
been raised that second generation star
formation may have begun very early on.
300 million years First large-scale
astronomical objects, protogalaxies and
quasars may have begun forming. As
Population III stars continue to burn, stellar
nucleosynthesis operates - stars burn mainly by
fusing hydrogen to produce more helium in
what is referred to as the Main Sequence. Over
time these stars are forced to fuse helium to
produce carbon, oxygen, silicon and other
heavy elements up to iron on the periodic
table. These elements, when seeded into
neighbouring gas clouds by supernova, will
lead to the formation of more Population II
stars (metal poor) and gas giants.
380 million yrs: UDFj-39546284, current
record holder for oldest known quasar.[4]
400 million yrs (z=11): GN-z11, the oldest
known galaxy, forms.[5]
420 million yrs: The quasar MACS0647-JD,
forms
470 - 500 million yrs: Abell 1835 IR1916
forms.
Renaissance[edit]
600 million yrs: Renaissance of the Universe -
end of the Dark Ages as visible light begins
dominating throughout. Possible formation of
the Milky Way Galaxy: although age of
Methusaleh star suggests a much older date of
origin, it is highly likely that HD 140283 may
have come into our galaxy via a later galaxy
merger. Oldest confirmed star in Milky Way
Galaxy, HE 1523-0901. Extent of the Hubble
Extreme Deep Field.
630 million yrs (z=8.2): GRB 090423, the
oldest gamma ray burst recorded suggests that
supernovas may have happened very early on
in the evolution of the Universe[6]
670 million yrs: EGS-zs8-1, the most distant
starburst or Lyman-break galaxy observed,
forms. This suggests that galaxy interaction is
taking place very early on in the history of the
Universe as starburst galaxies are often
associated with collisions and galaxy mergers.
700 million yrs: Galaxies form. Smaller
galaxies begin merging to form larger ones.
Galaxy classes may have also begun forming
at this time including Blazars, Seyfert galaxies,
radio galaxies, normal galaxies (elliptical,
Spiral galaxies, barred spiral) and dwarf
galaxies. UDFy-38135539, the first distant
quasar to be observed from the reionization
phase, forms. Dwarf galaxy z8 GND 5296
forms. Galaxy or possible proto-galaxy A1689-
zD1 forms.
720 million yrs: Possible formation of globular
clusters in Milky Way's Galactic halo.
Formation of globular cluster, NGC 6723, in
the Milky Way's galactic halo
740 million years: 47 Tucanae, second
brightest globular cluster in the Milky Way,
forms
750 million yrs: Galaxy IOK-1 a Lyman alpha
emitter galaxy, forms. GN-108036 forms -
galaxy is 5 times larger and 100 times more
massive than the present day Milky Way
illustrating the size attained by some galaxies
very early on.
770 million yrs: Quasar ULAS J1120+0641,
one of the most distant, forms. One of the
earliest galaxies to feature a supermassive
black hole suggesting that such large objects
existed quite soon after the Big Bang. The
large fraction of neutral hydrogen in its
spectrum suggests it may also have just formed
or is in the process of star formation.
800 million yrs: Farthest extent of Hubble
Ultra Deep Field. Formation of SDSS
J102915+172927: unusual population II star
that is extremely metal poor consisting of
mainly hydrogen and helium. HE0107-5240,
one of the oldest Population II stars, forms as
part of a binary star system. LAE
J095950.99+021219.1, the Bogwiggit Galaxy,
one of the most remote Lyman alpha emitter
galaxies, forms. Lyman alpha emitters are
considered to be the progenitors of spiral
galaxies like the Milky Way. Messier 2,
globular cluster, forms.
870 million yrs: Messier 30 forms in the Milky
Way. Having experienced a Core collapse
(cluster), the cluster has one of the highest
densities among globular clusters.
890 million yrs: Galaxy SXDF-NB1006-2
forms
900 million yrs: Galaxy BDF-3299 forms.
910 million yrs: Galaxy BDF-521 forms
Galaxy Epoch[edit]
Further information: List of the most distant
astronomical objects
1 billion yrs (12.8 Gya, z=6.56): Galaxy HCM-
6A, the most distant normal galaxy observed,
forms. Formation of hyper-luminous quasar
SDSS J0100+2802 - It harbors a black hole
with mass of 12 billion solar masses one of the
most massive black hole discovered so early in
the universe. HE1327-2326, population II star,
speculated to have formed from remnants of
earlier Population III stars. Visual limit of the
Hubble Deep Field. Reionization complete -
the Universe becomes transparent again.
Galaxy evolution continues as more modern
looking galaxies form and develop. Because
the Universe is still small in size, galaxy
interactions become common place with larger
and larger galaxies forming out of the galaxy
merger process. Galaxies may have begun
clustering creating the largest structures in the
Universe so far - the first galaxy clusters and
galaxy superclusters appear.
1.1 billion yrs (12.7 Gya): Age of the quasar
CFHQS 1641+3755. Messier 4 Globular
Cluster, first to have its individual stars
resolved, forms in the halo of the Milky Way
Galaxy. Among the clusters many stars, PSR
B1620-26 b, a gas giant known as the "Genesis
Planet" or "Methusaleh", orbiting a pulsar and
a white dwarf, the oldest observed extrasolar
planet in Universe, forms.
1.13 billion yrs (12.67 Gya): Messier 12,
globular cluster, forms
1.3 billion yrs (12.5 Gya): WISE J224607.57-
052635.0, a luminous infrared galaxy, forms.
PSR J1719-1438 b, known as the Diamond
Planet forms around a pulsar.
1.31 billion yrs (12.49 Gya): Globular Cluster
Messier 53 forms 60,000 light-years from the
galactic centre of the Milky Way
1.39 billion yrs (12.41 Gya): S5 0014+81, a
hyper-luminous quasar, forms
1.4 billion yrs (12.4 Gya): Age of Cayrel's Star,
BPS C531082-0001, a neutron capture star,
among the oldest Population II stars in Milky
Way. Quasar RD1, first object observed to
exceed redshift 5, forms.
1.44 billion yrs (12.36 Gya): Messier 80
globular cluster forms in Milky Way - known
for large number of "blue stragglers"
1.5 billion yrs (12.3 Gya): Messier 55, globular
cluster, forms
1.8 billion yrs (12 Gya): Most energetic
gamma ray burst lasting 23 minutes, GRB
080916C, recorded. Baby Boom Galaxy forms.
Terzan 5 forms as a small dwarf galaxy on
collision course with the Milky Way. Dwarf
galaxy carrying the Methusaleh Star consumed
by Milky Way - oldest known star in the
Universe becomes one of many population II
stars of the Milky Way
2.0 billion yrs (11.8 Gya): SN 1000+0216, the
oldest observed supernova occurs - possible
pulsar formed. Globular Cluster Messier 15,
known to have an intermediate black hole and
the only globular cluster observed to include a
planetary nebula, Pease 1, forms
2.02 billion yrs (11.78 Gya): Messier 62 forms
- contains high number of variable stars (89)
many of which are RR Lyrae stars.
2.2 billion yrs (11.6 Gya): Globular Cluster
NGC 6752, third brightest, forms in Milky
Way
2.4 billion yrs (11.4 Gya): Quasar PKS 2000-
330 forms.
2.41 billion yrs (11.39 Gya): Messier 10
globular cluster forms. Messier 3 forms:
prototype for the Oosterhoff type I cluster,
which is considered "metal-rich". That is, for a
globular cluster, Messier 3 has a relatively high
abundance of heavier elements.
2.5 billion yrs (11.3 Gya): Omega Centauri,
largest globular cluster in the Milky Way forms
3.0 billion yrs (10.8 billion Gya): Formation of
Gliese 581 planetary system: Gliese 581 c, the
first observed ocean planet and Gliese 581 d, a
super-earth planet, possibly the first observed
habitable planets, form. Gliese 581 d has more
potential for forming life since it is the first
exoplanet of terrestrial mass proposed that
orbits within the habitable zone of its parent
star.
3.3 billion yrs (10.5 Gya): BX442, oldest
grand design spiral galaxy observed, forms
3.5 billion yrs (10.3 Gya): Supernova SN
UDS10Wil recorded
3.8 billion yrs (10 Gya): NGC 2808 globular
cluster forms: 3 generations of stars form
within the first 200 million years. Mu Cephei,
giant red star forms
4.0 billion yrs (9.8 Gya): Quasar 3C 9 forms.
The Andromeda galaxy forms from a galactic
merger - begins a collision course with the
Milky Way. Barnard's Star, red dwarf star, may
have formed. Beethoven Burst GRB 991216
recorded. Gliese 677 Cc, a planet in the
habitable zone of its parent star, Gliese 667,
forms
4.1 billion yrs (9.7 Gya): 16 Cygni Bb, the first
gas giant observed in a single star orbit in a
trinary star system, forms - orbiting moons
considered to have habitable properties or at
the least capable of supporting water
4.5 billion yrs (9.3 Gya): Fierce star formation
in Andromeda making it into a luminous infra-
red galaxy
5.0 billion yrs (8.8 Gya): Earliest Population I,
or Sunlike stars: with heavy element saturation
so high, planetary nebula appear in which
rocky substances are solidified - these
nurseries lead to the formation of rocky
terrestrial planets, moons, asteroids, and icy
comets
5.1 billion yrs (8.7 Gya): Galaxy collision:
spiral arms of the Milky Way form leading to
major period of star formation.
5.3 billion yrs (8.5 Gya): 55 Cancri B, a "hot
Jupiter", first planet to be observed orbiting as
part of a star system, forms. Kepler 11
planetary system, the flattest and most compact
system yet discovered, forms - Kepler 11 c
considered to be a giant ocean planet with
hydrogen-helium atmosphere.
5.8 billion yrs (8 Gya): 51 Pegasi b also known
as Bellerophon, forms - first planet discovered
orbiting a main sequence star
5.9 billion yrs (7.9 Gya): HD 176051 planetary
system, known as the first observed through
astrometrics, forms
6.0 billion yrs (7.8 Gya): Many galaxies like
NGC 4565 become relatively stable -
ellipticals result from collisions of spirals with
some like IC 1101 being extremely massive.
Rigel or Beta Orionis, an alpha cygni variable,
forms.
6.0 billion years (7.8 Gya): The Universe
continues to organize into larger wider
structures. The great walls, sheets and
filaments consisting of galaxy clusters and
superclusters and voids crystallize. How this
crystallization takes place is still conjecture.
Certainly, it is possible the formation of super-
structures like the Hercules-Corona Borealis
Great Wall may have happened much earlier,
perhaps around the same time galaxies first
started appearing. Either way the observable
universe becomes more modern looking.
6.3 billion yrs (7.5 Gya, z=0.94): GRB
080319B, farthest gamma ray burst seen with
the naked eye, recorded. Terzan 7, metal-rich
globular cluster, forms in the Sagittarius Dwarf
Elliptical Galaxy
6.5 billion yrs (7.3 Gya): HD 10180 planetary
system forms (larger than both 55 Cancri and
Kepler 11 systems)
6.9 billion yrs (6.9 Gya): Orange Giant,
Arcturus, forms
7 billion yrs (6.8 Gya): North Star, Polaris, one
of the significant navigable stars, forms
7.64 billion yrs (6.16 Gya): Mu Arae planetary
system forms: of four planets orbiting a yellow
star, Mu Arae c is among the first terrestrial
planets to be observed from Earth
Acceleration[edit]
7.8 billion years (6.0 Gya, z=0.4):
Acceleration: dark-energy dominated era
begins, following the matter-dominated era in
during which cosmic expansion was slowing
down.
7.8 billion yrs (6 Gya): Formation of Earth's
near twin, Kepler 452b orbiting its parent star
Kepler 452
7.98 billion yrs (5.82 Gya): Formation of Mira
or Omicron ceti, binary star system. Formation
of Alpha Centauri Star System, closest star to
the Sun - formation of Alpha Centauri Bb
closest planet to the Sun. GJ 1214 b, or Gliese
1214 b, potential earth-like planet, forms
8.08-8.58 billion yrs (5.718-5.218 Gya):
Capella star system forms
8.2 billion yrs (5.6 Gya): Tau Ceti, nearby
yellow star forms: five planets eventually
evolve from its planetary nebula, orbiting the
star - Tau Ceti e considered planet to have
potential life since it orbits the hot inner edge
of the star's habitable zone
8.5 billion yrs (5.3 Gya): GRB 101225A, the
"Christmas Burst", considered the longest at 28
minutes, recorded
8.8 billion yrs (5 Gya): Messier 67 open star
cluster forms: Three exoplanets confirmed
orbiting stars in the cluster including a twin of
our Sun
9.0 billion yrs (4.8 Gya): Lalande 21185, red
dwarf in Ursa Major, forms
9.13 billion yrs (4.67 Gya): Proxima Centauri
forms completing the Alpha Centauri binary
system c. 4,570 Ma: A supernova explosion
(known as the
primal supernova) seeds our galactic
neighborhood
with heavy elements that will be incorporated
into
the Earth, and results in a shock wave in a
dense
region of the Milky Way galaxy. The Ca-Al-
rich
inclusions, which formed 2 million years
before the
chondrules, [1] are a key signature of a
supernova ex-
plosion.
• 4,567±3 Ma: Rapid collapse of hydrogen
molecular
cloud, forming a third-generation Population I
star,
the Sun, in a region of the Galactic Habitable
Zone
(GHZ), about 25,000 light years from the
center of
the Milky Way Galaxy. [2]
• 4,566±2 Ma: A protoplanetary disc (from
which
Earth eventually forms) emerges around the
young
Sun, which is in its T Tauri stage.
• 4,560–4,550 Ma: Proto-Earth forms at the
outer
(cooler) edge of the habitable zone of the Solar
Sys-
tem. At this stage the solar constant of the Sun
was
only about 73% of its current value, but liquid
wa-
ter may have existed on the surface of the
Proto-
Earth, probably due to the greenhouse
warming of
highlevelsofmethaneandcarbondioxidepresenti
n
the atmosphere. Early bombardment phase
begins:
because the solar neighbourhood is rife with
 large
planetoids and debris, Earth experiences a
number
of giant impacts that help to increase its overall
size.
Bef 4,533 Ma: Hadean Eon, Precambrian
ore Supereon and unofficial Cryptic era start as the
hum Earth–Moon system forms, possibly as a result
ans of a glancing collision between proto–Earth
and the hypothetical protoplanet Theia. (The
Earth was considerably smaller than now,
before this impact.) This
impact vaporized a large amount of the crust,
and sent material into orbit around Earth,
which lingered as rings, similar to those of
Saturn, for a few million years, until they
coalesced to become the Moon. The Moon
geology pre-Nectarian period starts. Earth was
covered by a magmatic ocean
200kilometres(120mi) deep resulting from the
impact energy from this and other
planetesimals during the early bombardment
phase, and energy released by the planetary
core forming. Outgassing from crustal rocks
gives Earth a reducing atmosphere of methane,
nitrogen, hydrogen, ammonia, and water
vapour, with lesser amounts of hydrogen
sulfide, carbon monoxide, then carbon dioxide.
With further full outgassing over 1000–1500
K, nitrogen and ammonia become lesser
constituents, and comparable amounts of
methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
water vapour, and hydrogen are released.
• 4,500 Ma: Sun enters main sequence: a solar
wind sweeps the Earth-Moon system clear of
debris (mainly dust and gas). End of the Early
Bombardment Phase. Basin Groups Era begins
on Earth.
• 4,450Ma:
100millionyearsaftertheMoonformed,
the first lunarc rust,formed of
lunaranorthosite,differentiates from lower
magmas. The earliest Earth crust probably
forms similarly out of similar material. On
Earth the pluvial period starts, in which the
Earth’s crust cools enough to let oceans form.
• 4,404 Ma: First known mineral, found at Jack
Hills inWesternAustralia. Detrital zircons
show presence of a solid crust and liquid water.
Latest possible date for a secondary
atmosphere to form, produced by the Earth’s
crust outgassing, reinforced by water and
possibly organic molecules delivered by comet
impacts and carbonaceous chondrites
(including type CI shown to be high in a
number of amino acids and polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)).
• 4,300 Ma: Nectarian Era begins on Earth.
• 4,250 Ma: Earliest evidence for 3.5-4 billion years ago: Life appears on Earth, as well as
spirits.
life, based on unusually high amounts of light Weaver creates Ananasa.
isotopes of carbon, a common sign of life,
found in Earth’s oldest mineral deposits
located in the Jack Hills of Western Australia.
[3]
• 4,100 Ma: Early Imbrian Era begins on Earth.
Late heavy bombardment of the Moon (and
probably of theEarth as well) by bolides and
asteroids, produced possibly by the planetary
migration of Neptune into the Kuiper belt as a
result of orbital resonances between Jupiter
and Saturn.
• 4,030 Ma: Acasta Gneiss of Northwest
Territories, Canada, first known oldest rock, or
aggregate of minerals.
• 4,000 Ma: Archean Eon and Eoarchean Era
start. Possible first appearance of plate tectonic
activity in the Earth’s crust as plate structures
may have begun appearing. Possible beginning
of Napier Mountains Orogeny forces of
faulting and folding create first metamorphic
rocks. Origins of life.
• 3,930 Ma: Possible stabilization of Canadian
Shield begins
• 3,920–3,850 Ma: Final phase of Late Heavy
Bombardment
• 3,850Ma: Greenland apatite shows evidence
of 12 C enrichment, characteristic of the
presence of photosynthetic life.
• 3,850 Ma: Evidence of life: Akilia Island
graphite off Western Greenland contains
evidence of kerogen, of a type consistent withp
hotosynthesis.
• 3,600 Ma: Paleoarchean Era starts. Possible
assembly of the Vaalbara supercontinent;
oldest cratons on Earth (such as the Canadian
Shield, East European Craton and Kaapval)
begin growing as a result of
crustal disturbances along continents
coalescing into Vaalbara - Pilbara Craton
stabilizes.
• 3,500 Ma: Lifetime of the Last universal
ancestor: split between bacteria and archaea
occurs as “tree of life” begins branching out -
varieties of Eubacteria begin to radiate out
globally.
• 3,480 Ma: Fossils of microbial mat found in
3.48 billion-year-old sandstone discovered in
Western Australia.
• 3.400 Ma: Eleven taxa of prokaryotes are pre
served in the Apex Chert of the Pilbara craton
in Australia. Because chert is fine-grained
silica-rich microcrystalline, cryptocrystalline
or microfibrious material, it preserves small
fossils quite well. Stabilization of Baltic Shield
begins.
• 3.340 Ma: Johannesburg Dome forms in
South Africa: located in the central part of
Kaapvaal Craton and consists of trondhjemitic
and tonalitic granitic rocks intruded into mafic-
ultramafic greenstone - the oldest granitoid
phase recognised so far.
• 3,300 Ma: Onset of compressional tectonics.
• 3,260Ma:
Oneofthelargestrecordedimpactevents
occurs near the Barberton Greenstone Belt,
when a 58 km (36 mi) asteroid leaves a hole
almost 480 km (300 mi) across – two and a
half times larger in diameter than the
Chicxulub crater.
• 3,200 Ma: Mesoarchean Era starts.
Onverwacht series in South Africa form -
contain some of the oldest microfossils mostly
spheroidal and carbonaceous alga-like bodies.
• 3,200–2,600 Ma: Assembly of the Ur
supercontinent to cover between 12–16% of
the current continental crust. Formation of
Limpopo Belt.
• 3,100 Ma: Fig Tree Formation: second round
of fossilizations including Archaeosphaeroides
barbertonensis and Eobacterium. Gneiss and
greenstonebelts in the Baltic Shield are laid
down in Kola
Peninsula, Karelia and northeastern Finland.
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• 3,000 Ma: Humboldt Orogeny in Antarctica:
possible formation of Humboldt Mountains in
Queen Maud Land. Photosynthesizing
cyanobacteria evolve; they use water as a
reducing agent, thereby producing oxygen as a
waste product. The oxygen initially oxidizes
dissolved iron in the oceans, creating iron ore -
over time oxygen concentration in the
atmosphere slowly rises, acting as a poison for
many bacteria. As Moon is still very close to
Earth and causes tides 1,000 feet (305 m) high,
the Earth is continually wracked by hurricane-
force winds these extreme mixing influences
are thought to stimulate evolutionary
processes. Rise of Stromatolites:
microbial mats become successful forming the
first reef building communities on Earth in
shallow warm
tidal pool zones (to 1.5 Gyr).
• 2,900 Ma: Assembly of the Kenorland
supercontinent, based upon the core of the
Baltic shield, formed at 3100 Ma.
• 2,800 Ma: Neoarchean Era starts. Breakup of
the Vaalbara: Breakup of supercontinent Ur as
it becomes a part of the major supercontinent
Kenorland.
• 2,770 Ma: Formation of Hamersley Basin on
the southern margin of Pilbara Craton - last
stable submarine-fluviatile environment
between the Yilgarn and Pilbara prior to
rifting, contraction and assembly of the
intracratonic Gascoyne Complex.

• 2,705 Ma: Major komatiite eruption, possibly

global - possible mantle overturn event.
• 2,700 Ma: Biomarkers of cyanobacteria
discovered, together with steranes (sterols of
cholesterol), associated with films of
eukaryotes, in shales located beneath banded
iron formation hematite beds,in Hamersley
Range, Western Australia; stromatolites of
Bulawayo series in Zimbabwe form — first
verified reef community on Earth.
• 2,600 Ma: Oldest known giant carbonate
platform. Saturation of oxygen in ocean
sediments is reached as oxygen now begins to
dramatically appear in Earth’s atmosphere.
3.4 Proterozoic Eon
3.4.1 Paleoproterozoic Era
Siderian Period
• 2,500 Ma: Proterozoic Eon, Paleoproterozoic
Era, and Siderian Period start. Oxygen
saturation in the oceans is reached: Banded
iron formations form and saturate ocean floor
deposits - without an oxygen sink, Earth’s
atmosphere becomes highly oxygenic. Great
Oxygenation Event led by cyanobacteria’s
oxygenic photosynthesis - various forms of
Archaea and anoxic bacteria become extinct in
first great extinction event on Earth. Algoman
Orogeny or Kenoran: assembly of Arctica out
of the Canadian Laurentian Shield and
Siberian craton - formation of Angaran Shield
and Slave Province.
• 2,400Ma: Huronian glaciation starts,
probably from oxidation of earlier methane
greenhouse gas produced by burial of organic
sediments of photosynthesizers. First
cyanobacteria. Formation of
Dharwar Craton in southern India.
• 2,300 Ma: Rhyacian period starts.
• 2,200 Ma: Iron content of ancient fossil soils
shows an oxygen built up to 5–18% of current
levels.
• 2,100 Ma: Huronian glaciation ends. Earliest
known eukaryote fossils found. Earliest
multicellular organisms collectively referred to
as the “Gabonionta” (Francevillian Group
Fossil).
• 2,050 Ma: Orosirian Period starts. Significant
orogeny in most continents.
• 2,000 Ma: The lesser supercontinent
Atlantica forms. The Oklo natural nuclear
reactor of Gabon produced by uranium-
precipitant bacteria. First acritarchs.
• 1,900 - 1,880 Ma: Gunflint chert biota forms
flourishes including prokaryotes like
Kakabekia, Gunflintia, Animikiea and
Eoastrion
• 1,850 Ma: Sudbury impact structure.
Penokean orogeny. First eukaryotes. Bacterial
viruses (bacteriophage) emerge before, or soon
after, the divergence of the prokaryotic and
eukaryotic lineages.
• 1,800 Ma: Statherian Period starts.
Supercontinent Columbia forms, one of whose
fragments being Nena.
• 1,200 Ma: Stenian Period starts. Red alga
Bangiomorpha pubescens, earliest fossil
evidence for sexually reproducing organism.
Meiosis and sexual reproduction are present in
single-celled eukaryotes, and possibly in the
common ancestor of all
eukaryotes. Supercontinent of Rodinia(1.2
Gyr- 750 Myr) completed: consisting of North
American, East European, Amazonian, West
African,Eastern Antarctica, Australia and
China blocks, largest global system yet formed
- surrounded by superocean Mirovia
• 1,100 Ma: First dinoflagellate evolve:
photosynthetic some develop mixotrophic
habits ingesting prey - with their appearance,
prey-predator relationship is established for
first time forcing acritarchs to defensive
strategies and leading to open “arms”
race.
• 1,000 Ma: Neoproterozoic Era and Tonian
Period start. Grenville orogeny ends. First
radiation of dinoflagellates and spiny
acritarchs increase in defensive systems
indicate that acritarchs are responding to
carnivorous habits of dinoflagellates - decline
in stromatolite reef populations begins.
Rodinia starts tobreakup. First vaucherian
algae. RaynerOrogeny as proto-India and
Antarctica collide (to 900 Ma.)
Trace fossils of colonial Hododyskia (1500Ma-
900Ma): possible divergence between animal
and plant kingdoms begins.
• 900 Ma: Bitter Springs Formation of
Australia: in addition to prokaryote assemblage
of fossils, cherts include eukaryotes with
ghostly internal structures similar to green
algae - first appearance of Glenobotrydion
(900 - 720 Myr), among earliest plants on
Earth
• 850 Ma: Cryogenian Period starts, during
which Earth freezes over (Snowball Earth or
Slushball Earth) at least 3 times. Rift develops
on Rodinia between continental masses of
Australia, eastern Antarctica, India, Congo and
Kalahari on one side and Laurentia, Baltica,
Amazonia, West African and Rio de la Plata
cratons on other - formation of
Adamastor Ocean.
• 800 Ma: With free oxygen levels much
higher, carbon cycle is disrupted and once
again glaciation becomes severe - beginning of
second “snowball Earth” event
• 750 Ma: First Proterozoa appears: as
creatures like Paramecium, Amoeba and
Melanocyrillium evolve, first animal-like cells
become distinctive from plants - rise of
herbivores (plant feeders) in the food
chain. First Sponge-like animal: similar to
early colonial foraminiferan Horodyskia,
earliest ancestors of Sponges were colonial
cells that circulated food sources using flagella
to their gullet to be digested. Kaigas glaciation
(ca. 750 Ma): first major glaciation of Earth -
almost entire planet is covered with ice sheets
up to more than a kilometer thick and
identified from units in Namibia and the South
China Block
• 720Ma: Sturtian glaciation continues process
begun during Kaigas - great ice sheets cover
most of the planet stunting evolutionary
development of animal and plant life - survival
based on small pockets of heat under the ice
• 700 Ma: Fossils of testate Amoeba first
appear: first complex metazoans leave
unconfirmed biomarkers - they introduce new
complex body plan architecture which allows
for development of complex internal and
external structures. Worm trail impressions
in China: because putative “burrows” under
stromatolite mounds are of uneven width and
tapering makes biological origin difficult to
defend - structures imply simple feeding
behaviours. Rifting of Rodinia is completed:
formation of new superocean of Panthalassa as
previous Mirovia ocean bed closes
- Mozambique mobile belt develops as a suture
between plates on Congo-Tanzania craton
• 650 Ma First Demosponges appear: form first
skeletons of spicules made from protein
spongin and silica - brightly coloured these
colonial creatures filter feed since they lack
nervous, digestive or circulatory systems and
reproduce both sexually and asexually
• 650 Ma: Final period of worldwide
glaciation, Marinoan (650 - 635 Myr) begins:
most significant “snowball Earth” event,
global in scope and longer - evidence from
Diamictite deposits in South Australia laid
down on Adelaide Geosyncline
Ediacaran Period
• 635Ma: Ediacaran period begins. Endof
Marinoan Glaciation: last major “snowball
Earth” event as future ice ages will feature less
overall ice coverage of the planet
• 633 Ma: Beardmore Orogeny (633 - 620 Ma)
in Antarctica: reflection of final break-up of
Rodinia as pieces of the supercontinent begin
moving together again to form Pannotia
• 600 Ma: Pan-African Orogeny (600 Ma)
begins: Arabian-Nubian Shield formed
between plates separating supercontinent
fragments Gondwana and
Pannotia - Supercontinent Pannotia (600 - 500
Ma) completed, bordered by Iapetus and
Panthalassa oceans. Accumulation of
atmospheric oxygen allows for the formation
of ozone layer: prior to this,
land-based life would probably have required
other chemicals to attenuate ultraviolet
radiation enough to permit colonization of the
land 400 million years ago: Ananasa creates different species
• 575 Ma: First Ediacaran-type fossils. of flying insects by diversifying them.[2]
• 560 Ma: Trace fossils, e.g., worm burrows, 360 million years ago: Weaver attempts to trap the Wyld
and small bilaterally symmetrical animals. and fails. Ananasa takes the energy released and with the
Earliest arthropods. Earliest fungi. assistance of the Wyrm, who wanted to create and not
• 555 Ma: The first possible mollusk only devour, makes the spider as a perfectly balanced
Kimberella appears. creature. It soon makes its own spirit, pleasantly
• 550 Ma: First possible comb-jellies, sponges, surprising both Ananasa and the Triat.[2]
corals, and anemones. The Mokole are created by Gaia and the Wyld to be her
• 544 Ma: The small shelly fauna first appears. memory.[2]
Phanerozoic Eon Wyld creates the Rokea for Gaia.[2]
Paleozoic Era Weaver creates the Insect Races; shape-shifters from
Cambrian Period
• 541 ± 0.3 Ma: beginning of the Cambrian
Period, the Paleozoic Era and the Phanerozoic
(current) Eon. End of the Ediacaran Period, the
Proterozoic Eon and the Precambrian
Supereon. Time since the Cambrian explosion
the emergence of most forms of complex life,
including vertebrates (fish), arthropods,
echinoderms and molluscs. Pannotia
breaks up into several smaller continents:
Laurentia,Baltica and Gondwana.
• 540 Ma: Supercontinent of Pannotia breaks
up.
• 530 Ma: First fish.
• 525 Ma: First graptolites.
• 521 Ma: First trilobites
Ordovician Period
• 485.4 ± 1.7 Ma: Beginning of the Ordovician
and
the end of the Cambrian Period.
• 485 Ma: First jawless fish.
• 450 Ma: Plants and arthropods colonize the
land.
Sharks evolve.
Silurian Period
• 443.8 ± 1.5 Ma: Beginning of the Silurian
and the end of the Ordovician Period.
• 420 Ma: First creature took a breath of air.
First ray-finned fish and land scorpions.
• 410 Ma: First toothed fish and nautiloids.
Devonian Period
• 419.2±2.8Ma: Beginning of the Devonian
and end of the Silurian Period. First insects.
• 395 Ma: First of many modern groups,
bees, moths, hornets, locusts, ants and termites. When the
Moths refuse to serve her, she destroys their spirits. The
Wyld is outraged and attacks the Weaver. The Weaver
destroys the life on the Moon.[2]
Ananasa creates the Ananasi.[2]
The Severing. The Weaver traps Wyrm. The Wyrm goes
insane. Weaver begins calcifying the Umbra.[3]
The Insect Wars. The Ananasi exterminates the Insect
Races.[2]
150 million years ago: The Mokole begins to create a
civilization, later referred to as the “Age of Kings”.[4]
65 million years ago: Cretaceous period ends with a mass
extinction, the Wonderwork of the Dissolver (Wyrm).
Ammonite shape-shifters and bristlecreeper shape-shifters
die out. All evidence of the Age of Kings is also
destroyed. Surviving Mokole can no longer take the
Drachid form.[4] Paleocene begins. Mokole decide to
guide the evolution of mammals into a new tool-making
species, which eventually become humans. They later
regret this.[4]
God gives the seven angelic houses two commands. First,
to love humanity as much as they loved God. Second, to
never allow humanity to know the angels existed and
looked over them. This second command surprised and
horrified the angels who wished for nothing more than to
show their love and serve mankind.
Angels grow increasingly frustrated at humanity's
inability to truly comprehend and appreciate the world
around them, and at having to keep themselves hidden
from humanity. They fear that humankind will never
achieve its potential, that they will never be anything
more than animals. When they ask God they are told 'If
you would know as I know, come unto Me and see as I
see.' Those few that take God up on the offer are never
including tetrapods.
• 360 Ma: First crabs and ferns.
• 350 Ma: First large sharks, ratfish and
hagfish.
Carboniferous Period
• 358.9 ± 2.5 Ma: Beginning of the
Carboniferous and the end of Devonian Period.
Amphibians diversify.
• 330 Ma: First amniotes evolve.
• 320 Ma: First synapsids evolve.
• 315 Ma: The evolution of the first reptiles.
• 305 Ma: First diapsids evolve.
Permian Period
• 298.9 ± 0.8 Ma: End of Carboniferous and
beginning of Permian Period. By this time, all
continents have fused into the supercontinent
of Pangaea.
Beetles evolve. Seed plants and conifers
diversify along with temnospondyls and
pelycosaurs.
• 275 Ma: First therapsids evolve.
• 251.4 Ma: Permian mass extinction. End of
Permian Period and of the Palaeozoic Era.
Beginning of Triassic Period, the Mesozoic era
and of the age of the dinosaurs.
Mesozoic Era
Triassic Period
• 252.17 ± 0.4 Ma: Mesozoic era and Triassic
Period begin. Mesozoic Marine Revolution
begins.
• 245 Ma: First ichthyosaurs.
• 240 Ma: Cynodonts and rhynchosaurs
diversify.
• 225 Ma: First dinosaurs and teleosti evolve.
heard from again, presumable destroyed for their hubris.
Ahrimal, angel of the Fourth House, perceives great
destruction and turmoil in the future; each day, it becomes
stronger and darker. When he brings this prediction to his
superiors, they tell him it is nothing more than an
anomaly, nothing more than a potential that would never
happen.
The Great Debate. Unsatisfied by his own house's
response, Ahrimal calls several of his friends and tells
them of what he has seen. Though they were concerned
they were unable to agree on any course of action.
Lucifer arrives uninvited and unannounced. He declares
that following both of God's commands is impossible and
he chooses to follow the first at the expense of the
second. Ahrimal and Belial side with Lucifer, while
Lailah and Usiel side with God.
2.3 – 2.5 million years ago: Weaver takes humanity as her
adopted child to help bring order to the world. Humans
discover how to use stone tools and to hunt.[1]
The Endless Night. As the sun sets, Lucifer and a number
-220 Million Years: The possible of angels reveal themselves to humankind and give them
reign of the Dinosaur Kings – the gift of knowledge in a single night that lasts a
Earth’s first evolved sentient beings thousand years.
– and the creation of the Proto- The Fall. Dawn brings the attention of Michael, Seraph of
Mokole as the keepers of memory. the Flaming Sword, and a vanguard of angels. In the
They may or may not have been name of God, Michael orders the rebellious angels to
sentient at this point. While some submit and be unmade, and humankind to give up the
Mokole remember this, they all knowledge and civilization they now possess. Lucifer and
remember it differently – and there Michael clash; Michael is beaten, and withdraws. One
are no physical traces. third of angels are involved with the rebellion. Abel and
-70 Million Years: The Weaver gains one-fourth of humanity side with God, while the rest
consciousness and goes mad. The including Adam and Eve side with Lucifer and the rebel
Wyrm Of Balance attempts to angels.
restrain it, instigating the Wyrm The Age of Wrath begins. God touches the cosmos, the
• 220 Ma: First crocodilians and flies.
• 215 Ma: First turtles. Long-necked sauropod
dinosaurs and Coelophysis, one of the earliest
theropod dinosaurs, evolve. First mammals.
Jurassic Period
• 201.3 ± 0.6 Ma: Triassic–Jurassic extinction
event marks the end of Triassic and beginning
of Jurassic Period. The largest dinosaurs, such
as Diplodocus and Brachiosaurus evolve
during this time, as do the carnosaurs; large,
bipedal predatory dinosaurs such as
Allosaurus. First specialized pterosaurs and
sauropods. Ornithischians diversify.
• 190 Ma: Pliosaurs evolve, along with many
groups of primitive sea invertebrates.
• 180 Ma: Pangaea splits into two major
continents: Laurasia in the north and
Gondwana in the south.
• 176 Ma: First stegosaurs.
• 170 Ma: First salamanders and newts evolve.
Cynodonts go extinct.
• 165 Ma: First stingrays.
• 161 Ma: First ceratopsians.
• 155 Ma: First birds and triconodonts.
Stegosaurs and theropods diversify.
Cretaceous Period
• 145 ± 4 Ma: End of Jurassic and beginning of
Cretaceous Period.
• 130Ma: Laurasia and Gondwana begin to
split apart as the Atlantic Ocean forms. First
flowering plants.
• 115 Ma: First monotremes.
• 110 Ma: First hesperornithes.
• 106 Ma: Spinosaurus evolves.
War. The devastating clash of
powers destroys the Archosauria –
and instigates a wave of extinctions
across Gaia. At it’s end, The Wyrm
is defeated and trapped in the
pattern web, where it goes mad. The
Wyld, unable to manifest directly
within the web, cannot intervene,
but entrusts what power it can pour
through the flaws in the web to
Gaia, who uses it to begin evolving
new lifeforms to replace those
which had been destroyed. The
proto-mokole begin their long
dreaming.
-15 Million Years: The trickle of
mad thought and raw power
escaping from the Wyrm’s
imprisonment gather together into
another greater Celestine, the
Corrupter Wyrm. Able to work
within the web by “corrupting” it’s
strands, the Corrupter Wyrm slowly
begins to inflict a great deal of
damage – unobserved.
-8 Million Years: The Corrupter
Wyrm is revealed, as weakened
sections of the pattern web give way
– and the Shattering separates the
greater celestines (Gaia, Helios,
Luna, etc) – and opens the first,
narrow, rift between matter and
spirit. Across the ages this primal
event will be “reflected” many
infinite touches the finite, the Garden of Eden is
destroyed, Paradise is lost. Where the universe was meant
to be a perfect perpetual motion machine it is now
damaged, broken and slowly winding down. Starting
from this point, the number of layers that make up reality
begin to decrease. Mankind is now mortal, subject to old
age and death.
Lucifer divides the rebel host into five Legions, each
under the command of one of Lucifer's lieutenants. The
Scarlet Legion under Belial, the Ebon Legion under
Abaddon, the Iron Legion under Dagon, the Silver
Legion under Asmodeus and the Alabaster Legion under
Azrael.
The Silent War. For hundreds of years the war was non-
lethal. Battles were more akin to dances or debates. To
humans they appeared as storms or earthquakes.
The Alabaster Legion begins the Haven Project, building
Haven so they might be able to care for humans that have
died.
Caine invents murder and deceit when he kills his brother
Abel, fundamentally altering existence. The War is
suddenly lethal. Abel's death also triggers the first
Maelstrom, a storm in the underworld.
The rebel Legions disagree on how to continue the war
and scatter.
The Time of Atrocities. Many rebel angels grow
increasingly twisted as the war goes on. The Ebon Legion
is especially well known for the depredations and tortures
it inflicts upon humankind.
A new force of mysterious warrior angels called the
Malhim appear alongside the Loyal Host and begin to
turn the tide of the war against the scattered Legions.
The Long March. Lucifer, commanding the Crimson and
Iron Legions, forces the other three back under his
• 100 Ma: First bees.
• 90 Ma: the Indian subcontinent splits from
Gondwana, becoming an island continent.
Ichthyosaurs go extinct. Snakes and ticks
evolve.
• 80 Ma: Australia splits from Antarctica. First
ants.
• 70 Ma: Multituberculates diversify.
• 68 Ma: Tyrannosaurus rex evolves.
• 66 ± 0.3 Ma: Cretaceous–Paleogene
extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous
Period marks the end of the Mesozoic era and
the age of the dinosaurs; start of the Paleogene
Period and the current Cenozoic era.
Cenozoic Era
Paleogene Period
• 63 Ma: First creodonts.
• 60 Ma: Evolution of the first primates and
miacids.
Flightless birds diversify.
• 56 Ma: Gastornis evolves.
• 55 Ma: the island of the Indian subcontinent
collides with Asia, thrusting up the Himalayas
and the Tibetan Plateau. Many modern bird
groups appear. First whale ancestors. First
rodents, lagomorphs, armadillos, sirenians,
proboscideans, perissodactyls, artiodactyls,
and mako sharks. Angiosperms diversify.
• 52 Ma: First bats.
• 50 Ma: Africa collides with Eurasia, closing
the Tethys Sea. Divergence of cat and dog
ancestors. Primates diversify. Brontotheres,
tapirs, rhinos, and camels evolve.
• 49 Ma: Whales return to the water.
times. Opposed by Gaia alone, the
Corrupter’s slow reinforcement by
the power of the primordial Wyrm
Of Balance gives it a small
advantage. It will take eons – but the
ultimate victory of the Corrupter
seems assured. It is, however, the
nature of life to grow, change, and
adapt to anything which threatens it.
Gaia begins to use the trickle of
power which She draws from the
Wyld to work on creating/evolving
something utterly new – a species
capable of restraining the Triat.
banner, ending the Time of Atrocities and beginning the
Time of Babel.
The Grand Experiment. Lucifer selects 10 of his most
trusted retainers and sends them to teach humankind the
secrets of not only Creation but of Heaven as well. This
knowledge spawns the Civilization of Ashes where
human cities rival those built by the angels and include
cities built upon oceans, mountains, deserts and jungles.
Enoch is likely one of these cities.
Asmodeus and Abaddon fear becoming servants to
mankind and plot to sabotage the Grand Experiment.
They discover how to spawn Nephilim by raping
imprisoned women.
Nephilim kill the Ten and dominate mankind.
Lucifer and his angels find out about the Nephilim and
slaughter them. The Grand Experiment fails.
Mankind buckles under the weight of the knowledge of
the Ten and loses the ability to speak the One Language.
Unity amongst humans ends. The Civilization of Ashes
collapses and many of its cities are lost or abandoned.
Angels become ineffable to humankind, reducing the
power of Faith that the rebels are able to draw from them.
The Host descends upon the weakened rebels, ending the
War of Wrath. Every surviving rebel other than Lucifer is
cast into Hell. Lucifer wonders the Earth aimlessly.
Gaia creates Garou. Originally, their life spans were
closer to wolf years, but over time, they begin to have
more human life spans and aging patterns.[5]
Pre-Ice Age: Garou, nature spirits, and Fae fight Wyrm
corruption in Eurasia.[6]
Garou fight the Talons of the Wyrm, eventually binding
them.[7]
1.75 million years ago-100,000 years ago: The Ice Age.
Gaia attempts to root out Wyrm-corruption on her body
• 40 Ma: Age of the Catarrhini parvorder; first by using glaciers. It is not as effective in Eurasia as it was
canines evolve. Lepidopteran insects become in the Americas, as the Wyrm had no direct access to the
recognizable. Gastornis goes extinct. Western hemisphere.[6]Finger Lakes of upstate New York
Basilosaurus evolves. are, according to Garou formed when Gaia reaches down,
• 37 Ma: First Nimravids. scoops out corruption from the area, and sanctifies it.[6]
• 33.9 ± 0.1 Ma: End of Eocene, start of [8]
Oligocene epoch.
• 35 Ma: Grasslands first appear. Glyptodonts,
ground sloths, peccaries, dogs, eagles, and
hawks evolve.
• 33 Ma: First thylacinid marsupials evolve.
• 30 Ma: Brontotheres go extinct. Pigs evolve.
South America separates from Antarctica,
becoming an island continent.
• 28 Ma: Paraceratherium evolves.
• 26 Ma: Emergence of the first true elephants.
• 25 Ma: First deer. Cats evolve.
Neogene Period
• 23.03 ± 0.05 Ma: Neogene Period and
Miocene epoch begin
• 20 Ma: Giraffes and giant anteaters evolve.
• 18-12 Ma: estimated age of the
Hominidae/Hylobatidae (great apes vs.
Gibbons) split.
• 15 Ma: First mastodons, bovids, and
kangaroos.
Australian megafauna diversify.
• 10 Ma: Insects diversify. First large horses.
• 6.5 Ma: First members of the Hominini tribe.
• 6 Ma: Australopithecines diversify.
• 5.96 Ma - 5.33 Ma: Messinian Salinity Crisis:
the precurs or of the current Strait of Gibraltar
closes repeatedly, leading to a partial
desiccation and strong increase in salinity of
the Mediterranean Sea.
• 5.4-6.3 Ma: Estimated age of the Homo/Pan
(human vs. chimpanzee) split.
• 5.5 Ma: Appearance of the genus
Ardipithecus
• 5.33 Ma: Zanclean flood: the Strait of
Gibraltar opens for the last (and current) time
and water from the Atlantic Sea fills again the
Mediterranean Sea basin.
• 5.333 ± 0.005 Ma: Pliocene epoch begins.
First tree sloths and hippopotami. First large
vultures. Nimravids go extinct.
• 4.8 Ma: The mammoth appears.
• 4.5 Ma: appearance of the genus
Australopithecus
• 3 Ma: Isthmus of Panama joins North and
South America. Great American Interchange.
• 2.7 Ma: Paranthropus evolve.
• 2.6 Ma: current ice age begins
Quaternary Period
• 2.58 ± 0.005 Ma: start of the Pleistocene
epoch, the Stone Age and the current
Quaternary Period;
emergence of the genus Homo. Smilodon, the
best known of the sabre-toothed cats, appears.
• 1.9 Ma: Oldest known Homo erectus fossils.
This species might be evolved some time
before, up to 2Ma ago.
• 1.7 Ma: Australopithecines go extinct.
• 1.8-0.8 Ma: colonisation of Eurasia by Homo
erectus.
• 1.5 Ma: earliest possible evidence of the
controlled
use of fire by Homo erectus
• 1.2 Ma: Homo antecessor evolves.
Paranthropus dies out.
• 0.79 Ma: earliest demonstrable evidence of
the controlled use of fire by Homo erectus
• 0.7 Ma: last reversal of the earth’s magnetic
field
• 0.64 Ma: Yellowstone caldera erupts
• 0.6 Ma: Homo heidelbergensis evolves.
• 0.3 Ma: Approximate age of Canis lupus.
Middle Stone Age begins in Africa.
• 0.25 Ma: Neanderthals evolve.
• 0.2 Ma: Middle Paleolithic begins. Homo
sapiens appears in Africa
-1 Million Years: The first, faint,
traces of the ability to directly
manipulate reality allows the rare
creatures known as Homo Erectus to
control the spirits of elemental fire
well enough to use it as a tool and as
protection against predators. Over
the next 900,000 years, variants
evolved with greater powers. While
not yet able to warp reality directly,
they could shift it enough to channel
the energies of the umbra – allowing
them to develop nuministic talents.
Still, so long as they were restricted
to “natural” energies, Gaia could
hide them from the Wyrm. It is in
part for this reason that their
population remains extremely low –
usually around five million in the
entire world.
~300,000 BC: Gaia bonds the proto-
mokole with the proto-humans. The
ability to pass along ancestral lore
and experiences passes into the
proto-human strains in a greatly
weakened form, manifesting as the
ability to pass along complex
narratives. True Language is born.
The proto-mokole gain the ability to
take human forms, imaginations,
and true sentience. Mnesis becomes
subject to change and interpretation
– and the streams of time begin to
diverge.
Preh Middle Paleolithic[edit]
istor Main article: Middle Paleolithic
y 200,000 years ago: appearance of homo
sapiens in Africa.[1]
200,000–180,000 years ago: time of
mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam.
[2]
195,000 years ago: oldest homo sapiens fossil
—from Omo, Ethiopia.[3]
170,000 years ago: humans first start to wear
clothing.[4]
125,000 years ago: peak of the Eemian Stage
interglacial.
120,000–90,000 years ago: Abbassia Pluvial in
North Africa—the Sahara desert region is wet
and fertile.
82,000 years ago: small perforated seashell
beads from Taforalt in Morocco are the earliest
evidence of personal adornment found
anywhere in the world.[5]
75,000 years ago: Toba Volcano supereruption.
[6]
70,000 years ago: earliest example of abstract
art or symbolic art from Blombos cave, South
Africa—stones engraved with grid or cross-
hatch patterns.[7]
64,000 years ago: The bow and arrow first
replace the spear thrower in Africa.
Upper Paleolithic[edit]
Main article: Upper Paleolithic
50,000–30,000 years ago: Mousterian Pluvial
in north Africa. The Sahara desert region is wet
and fertile. Later Stone Age begins in Africa.
45,000–43,000 years ago: Cro-Magnon
The Rise of Humanity:
~100,000 BC: “Homo Sapiens
Sapiens” evolves – the first
creatures with the potential for True
Magic, and thus the potential to bind
the Corrupter. Knowing that it
would take time for them to realize
their potential power, and that they
would be vulnerable to corruption in
the meantime, Gaia intervenes
directly – creating a series of
protector-races from among the
most powerful numina-masters of
the basic human stock and from
those animal types best suited to
their specific duties. The
shapeshifters are closely tied to the
humans they must protect, and are
equipped with powerful numina to
enable them to stand against the
minions of the Wyrm.
~30,000 BC: The last ice age is at
it’s peak, and the first true mage is
born. His power alerts the Wyrm to
both a terrible threat – and an
enormous opportunity. If the
Humans could be corrupted.
The second Wyrm War had begun.
~30,000 BC: Drawing on the
awakening potential of their human
blood and the unconscious support
of their human relatives, the
shapeshifters gain the ability to
employ high-level “gifts”. They will
100,000 years ago: Human diaspora. Early humans leave
Africa and various cultures form. Some Garou discourage
Weaver influence on various cultures, resulting in what
some call “primitive” cultures. Others ignore or actively
encourage Weaver influence.[1]
The first homid Ananasi is born in the Simyan Mountains
of Africa.[2]
70,000 years ago: Neanderthals appear. First Neanderthal
homid Ananasi is born.[2]
63849 BCE: A Shenti (later dubbed Autochthonia) forms
in the Deep Universe as a one-sided shape.[9]
63848 BCE: The pre-Autochthonia Shenti grows into a
two-dimensional surface.[9]
63846 BCE: The pre-Autochthonia Shenti grows from a
two-dimensional surface into a tetrahedron.[9]
63842 BCE: The pre-Autochthonia Shenti grows from a
tetrahedron into a 16-sided shape.[9]
63826 BCE: The pre-Autochthonia Shenti grows from a
16-sided shape into a 256-sided shape.[9]
63570 BCE: The pre-Autochthonia Shenti grows from a
256-sided shape into a 65,536-sided shape.[9]
Fianna arrive in Ireland and are met by the Tuatha De
Dannan.[10]
Garou begin the Impergium. Bastet and Garou
participate, although some Bastet disagree with it, which
eventually leads to a civil war among the Bastet.[11]
Nagah do not participate, although Nagah do cause
Delirium for some reason.[12] With Fianna support,
Druid Verbena mages of Ireland help to enforce the
Impergium through human sacrifice.[10] Sceptre of the
Impergium fetish is created by the Silver Fangs.[13] In
some areas, instead of killing humans, Black Furies
introduced ergot to the grain supply of certain villages in
order to keep the population down.[14]
colonization of Europe.[8] need them. The Mokole gain the Maru-Dikleh War. Two rival Khan Bastet kings decimate
45,000–40,000 years ago: Chatelperronian power to reshape the past thru the tribe.[11]
culture in France.[9] Mnesis, although they will not 20,000-30,000 years ago: Wendigo, Uktena, and Croatan
42,000 years ago: Paleolithic flutes in realize it for millennia. cross the Bering Land Bridge with early Amerindians.[7]
Germany.[10] ~27,000 BC: The Corrupter gains a It appears to them after they had been lead to East Asia by
42,000 years ago: earliest evidence of major victory – capturing and Gaia and prayed for guidance. Wyrm creatures try to
advanced deep sea fishing technology at the imprisoning Ananasa, racial totem follow them, but the bridge breaks and falls into the sea,
Jerimalai cave site in East Timor— of the Ananasi. Her children, taking them with it and isolating the Americas from
demonstrates high-level maritime skills and by already strongly attuned to the Wyrm influence.[6] The Three Brothers build a sacred
implication the technology needed to make Weaver, enter the service of the mound where the bridge was and destroy most of the
ocean crossings to reach Australia and other Wyrm to save her. remaining corruption in the Americas.[6] The Garou
islands, as they were catching and consuming ~25,000 BC: Gaia sends a leadership serves to lessen the Delirium in Amerindians.
large numbers of big deep sea fish such as contingent of Humans and Garou [6] Inuit peoples cross in two waves cross after the bridge
tuna.[11][12] across the land bridge (Now the refreezes, and remain in Northern Canada and Alaska to
41,000 years ago: Denisova hominin lives in “Bering Strait”) into the pure lands. maintain the wards keeping the Wyrm out.[6]
the Altai Mountains. The two Magi in the group perish The totem of the Wendigo changes from Sasquatch to
40,000 years ago: extinction of Homo raising wards against pursuit. In Wendigo.[15]
neanderthalensis.[9] Eurasia, that first, nameless, mage 13000 BCE: A group of Paleo-Indians hunt mastodon,
40,000 years ago: Aurignacian culture begins was long dead, burned out casting bison, woolly mammoth and caribou in the Las Vegas
in Europe.[13] the spell which broke the grip of the valley.[16]
40,000 years ago: oldest known figurative art ice, and opened up the world to his 10500 BCE: The "First Time of Osiris," when Osiris
the zoomorphic Lowenmensch figurine.[14] people. Others were born – but reportedly walks the Earth regularly.[17]
40,000 years ago: oldest known cave paintings. some fell to the Corrupter, becoming 10500 BCE: The end of the previous ice age, and the
Red dots, hand stencils and animal figures in gateways through which it’s full beginning of the Age of Leo.[18]
Altamira Cave, El Castillo, Spain.[15] power could enter the physical 10500 BCE: The Beth-Alpha Synagogue in Galilee
world. That was to prove the first mosaic has encoded time indicators pointing to this year.
Bradshaw rock paintings found in the north- rift between the normal humans and [19]
west Kimberley region of Western Australia their shapeshifting guardians. Of 10500 BCE: The Greek myth of Astraea is linked to this
40,000–30,000 years ago: First human course, with a total human year.[19]
settlement (Aboriginal Australians) in Sydney, population of about ten million, 10000 BCE - 5000 BCE: Most historians place this as
[16][17] Perth[18] and Melbourne.[19] there are rarely more then ten Magi "prehistory."[20] The construction of the Sphinx dates to
40,000–20,000 years ago: oldest known ritual at a time – to some 20,000 Garou. In this time.[17]
cremation, the Mungo Lady, in Lake Mungo, North America, the Nuwisha permit 10000 BCE: The Zi Guang claim to have been founded,
Australia. the newcomers to take over most of influencing and warping the Chi in rice plants to make
35,000 years ago: oldest known figurative art
of a human figure as opposed to a zoomorphic
figure (Venus of Hohle Fels).
33,000 years ago: oldest known domesticated
dog skulls show they existed in both Europe
and Siberia by this time.[20][21]
30,000 years ago: rock paintings tradition
begins in Bhimbetka rock shelters in India,
which presently as a collection is the densest
known concentration of rock art. In an area
about 10 km2, there are about 800 rock
shelters of which 500 contain paintings.[22]
28,500 years ago: New Guinea is populated by
colonists from Asia or Australia.[23]
28,000 years ago: oldest known twisted rope.
28,000–20,000 years ago: Gravettian period in
Europe. Harpoons, needles, and saws invented.
28,000–24,000 years ago: oldest known
pottery—used to make figurines rather than
cooking or storage vessels (Venus of Dolni
Vestonice).[24]
26,000 years ago: people around the world use
fibers to make baby carriers, clothes, bags,
baskets, and nets.
26,000–20,000 years ago: Last Glacial
Maximum.
25,000 years ago: a hamlet consisting of huts
built of rocks and of mammoth bones is
founded in what is now Dolni Vestonice in
Moravia in the Czech Republic. This is the
oldest human permanent settlement that has
yet been found by archaeologists.[25]
21,000 years ago: artifacts suggests early
human activity occurred in Canberra, the
the Caerns – and all the associated
work.
~20,000 BC: The second Wyrm War
ends. The Garou successfully break
the Corrupters grip on the physical
world, while the Magi seal the gates.
While virtually all those involved
perish, it’s a definite victory for the
forces of Gaia. The Corrupter,
unable to maintain it’s unity in the
face of such a defeat, splits itself up
into three lesser celestines (Eater Of
Souls, Beast Of War, and the Defiler
Wyrm), and numerous incarna (The
various Urge Wyrms, Dark Totems,
and so on). It is not a total victory;
“Rage” has infected the
shapeshifters and the Weaver has
“noticed” humans.
~18,000 BC: Humanity becomes a
prize in the great war between the
Weaver and the Wyrm. Since the
Wyrm was trying to claim the race,
the Weaver extends her power to aid
them.
~16,000 BC: Ananasa, having spun
a shield against the Wyrm potent
enough to make destroying her far
more trouble then it’s worth, reaches
out to the Ananasi, and commands
them to turn back to Gaia and the
Wyld. They are not, however,
accepted by the other shapeshifters,
and are thus hunted by virtually
them more productive.[21]'
9600 BCE Ananasi Jericho Euler helps to build the
ancient city of Jericho.[22]
8000 BCE: The Bushmen of sub-Saharan Africa develop
agriculture and animal domestication.[23]
8000 BCE: The oldest signs of human habitation in Japan
(the Jomon) date to roughly this time.[24]
The Concord, the great agreement of the Garou to end the
Impergium (and establishing other traditions of the Garou
as well) is reached around 7000 BCE.[25] First mention
of the Bone Gnawers as a Tribe (the other ones are much
older).[26] When the Impergium ends, Weaver vows
never to allow humans to be victimized again.[27] Black
Furies work with Children of Gaia to end it.[28]
By contrast, some Ratkin suggest 6000 BCE as the rough
date for the beginning of the Impergium.[29]
6000 BCE: Early Progenitors introduce domestication to
the Masses.[30]
The Tuatha De Danann and the Fey leave the physical
world.[10]
Tribal shamans, mystics and healers discover the hidden
precepts of magic, identifying natural and supernatural
sources of power within and outside the borders of
perception. Magic, religion and early science coexist as
the basis of creativity and progress.[31]
10000 BCE - 5000 BCE: Most historians place this as
"prehistory."[1] The construction of the Sphinx dates to
this time.[2]
5002 BC circa: Set was born on shores of the bountiful
river Nile.[3]
5000 BC: Baba Yaga is embraced around this time.[4]
5000 BC: According to Werewolf: The Apocalypse First
Edition, this is one of two possible (rough) dates for the
beginning of the Impergium; pages 14 and 200 describe it
capital city of Australia.[26]
Mesolithic[edit]
Main article: Mesolithic
20,000 years ago: Kebaran culture in the
Levant.
20,000 years ago: oldest pottery
storage/cooking vessels from China.[24]
16,500–13,000 years ago: first colonization of
North America.
16,000 years ago: Wisent sculpted in clay deep
inside the cave now known as Le Tuc
d'Audoubert in the French Pyrenees near what
is now the border of Spain.[27]
15,000 years ago (13,000 BCE): The woolly
rhinoceros goes extinct.
15,000–14,700 years ago (13,000-12,700
BCE): Earliest supposed date for the
domestication of the pig.
14,800 years ago: The Humid Period begins in
North Africa. The region that would later
become the Sahara is wet and fertile, and the
Aquifers are full.[28]
13,000–10,000 years ago: Late Glacial
Maximum, end of the Last glacial period,
climate warms, glaciers recede.
13,000 years ago (11,000 BCE): A major
outbreak occurs on Lake Agassiz, which at the
time could have been the size of the current
Black Sea and the largest lake on Earth. Much
of the lake is drained in the Arctic Ocean
through the Mackenzie river.
13,000–11,000 years ago (11,000 BC): Earliest
dates suggested for the domestication of the
sheep.
everyone.
~10,000 BC: While Magi are still
incredibly rare, the human
population begins to unconsciously
use their powers to manipulate the
natural patterns of growth in plants
– the beginning of agriculture. Gaia
reveals to the shapeshifters that the
humans are destined to rule the
world.
In a victory for the Wyrm, the Garou
fall victim to envy – and betray their
ancient command to protect the
humans. While few will ever admit
it, agriculture was merely an excuse.
The leafcutter ants had developed a
far more efficient system of
agriculture shortly after the first
Wyrm War – and the Garou had
never seen a need to “Protect Gaia”
from them.
The Impergium had begun.
~9500 BC: The Bastet become
seriously “irritated” with the
Garou’s refusal to listen to reason.
The rift between the races never
heals.
~9000 BC: The Gurahl compound
their opposition to the Impergium
with a plan to purge the Wyrm’s
curse of rage from the shapeshifters,
beginning with themselves and the
Garou, who were some of the worst
afflicted. The Garou respond by
as being 3000 years long, but page 29 describes it as
being 1000 years long, and that the Concord (which
ended the Impergium) was reached around 2000 BCE.
Therefore, the other potential time period for the
Impergium to begin is around 3000 BCE – according to
1st Edition. Later editions of Werewolf will place the
Impergium as beginning – and ending – far earlier than
1st Edition does.
Notes Edit
5000 BCE - 476 AD: The ancient, or Classical period.
5000 BCE - 1000 BCE: Difficulties for magic are fairly
low during this time.
4000 BCE: Assamite antitribu Izhim ur-Baal was
Embraced.[1]
4000 BCE: Babylon's first settlers arrive.[2]
4000 BCE: The people of the Indus move away from
animism toward a more abstract view of nature cycles.[3]
4000 BCE - 2800 BCE: Thanatoic and Ecstatic cults arise
in India. The Akashic Brotherhood takes form in China
and Tibet. Babylonian priest-scientists discover principles
of geometry and astronomy, harnessing the power of
mathematics and the heavens to the human will. Druidic
priests and practitioners of magic raise Stonehenge in
accordance with the movements of celestial bodies.
3999 BCE - 3000 BCE Edit
4000-2800 BCE: Thanatoic and Ecstatic cults arise in
India. The Akashic Brotherhood takes form in China and
Tibet. Babylonian priest-scientists discover principles of
geometry and astronomy, harnessing the power of
mathematics and the heavens to the human will. Druidic
priests and practitioners of magic raise Stonehenge in
accordance with the movements of celestial bodies.[1]
12,000 years ago: Jericho has evidence of
settlement dating back to 10,000 BCE. Jericho
was a popular camping ground for Natufian
hunter-gatherer groups, who left a scattering of
crescent microlith tools behind them.[29]
12,000 years ago (10,000 BC): Earliest dates
suggested for the domestication of the goat.
12,000 years ago (10,000 BC): Land ice leaves
Denmark and southern Sweden; start of the
current Holocene epoch.
11,000 years ago (9,000 BC): Earliest date
recorded for construction of temenoi
ceremonial structures at Gobekli Tepe in
southern Turkey, as possibly the oldest
surviving proto-religious site on Earth.[30]
11,000 years ago (9,000 BC): Emergence of
Jericho, which is now one of the oldest
continuously inhabited cities in the world.
Giant short-faced bears and giant ground sloths
go extinct. Equidae goes extinct in North
America.
10,500 years ago (8,500 BC): Earliest
supposed date for the domestication of cattle.
10,000 years ago (8,000 BC): The Quaternary
extinction event, which has been ongoing since
the mid-Pleistocene, concludes. Many of the
ice age megafauna go extinct, including the
megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk,
cave bear, cave lion, and the last of the sabre-
toothed cats. The mammoth goes extinct in
Eurasia and North America, but is preserved in
small island populations until ~1650 BC.
Neolithic[edit]
Main articles: Neolithic and Neolithic
initiating the first War Of Rage. The
Bastet soon become involved by
warning the Gurahl, and are hunted
as well. Fortunately, the war against
them is never as total as that against
the Gurahl. On the other hand, it
lasts far longer. The Grondhr side
with the Gurahl as well, but lack
their durability.
~8500 BC: The Mokole, in an
attempt to assist the Bastet, try to
negotiate the ongoing War Of Rage.
They make the mistake of pointing
out that the Silver Fangs and the
others in general are thoroughly in
the wrong. The Mokole join the
target list, and, thanks to the fact
that they clearly remember every
Garou screw-up, get a high priority
despite the problems inherent in
attacks on crocodilians in swamps.
~8200 BC: The Apis or “Moon
Bulls” – the sages of Gaia – are lost
to the War Of Rage. Their
intervention and self-sacrifice allow
the survival of the Mokole, but the
ability to transform memory into
wisdom is lost.
~8000 BC: The Gurahl withdraw
into the deep umbra or remote
fastnesses. Their Kinfolk are
slaughtered or scattered, and the
bear-cults that’ve been wide-spread
for the last 50,000 years begin to die
Revolution
10,000 – 9,000 years ago: Byblos appears to
have been settled during the PPNB period,
approximately 8800 to 7000 BC. Neolithic
remains of some buildings can be observed at
the site.[31][32]
10,000 – 8,000 years ago (8000 BC to 6000
BC): The Post Glacial Sea Level Rise
decelerates, slowing the submersion of
landmasses that had taken place over the
previous 10,000 years.
10,000 – 9000 years ago (8000 BC to 7000
BC): In northern Mesopotamia, now northern
Iraq, cultivation of barley and wheat begins. At
first they are used for beer, gruel, and soup,
eventually for bread.[33] In early agriculture at
this time, the planting stick is used, but it is
replaced by a primitive plow in subsequent
centuries.[34] Around this time, a round stone
tower, now preserved to about 8.5 meters high
and 8.5 meters in diameter is built in Jericho.
[35]
9,500–5,900 years ago: Neolithic Subpluvial in
North Africa. The Sahara desert region
supports a savanna-like environment. Lake
Chad is larger than the current Caspian Sea. An
African culture develops across the current
Sahel region.
9,500 years ago (7500 BC): Catal Hoyuk urban
settlement founded in Anatolia. Earliest
supposed date for the domestication of the cat.
9,200 years ago: First human settlement in
Amman, Jordan; 'Ain Ghazal Neolithic
settlement was built spanning over an area of
out. Curiously, as organized villages
appear, so do the Ratkin. The Garou
refuse to recognize their mandate
from Gaia, and soon begin to
slaughter the new shapeshifters –
rather then allowing them to become
the wardens of the cities as Gaia
intended. The few who survive this
second War of Rage become
vicious, stealthy, assassins. The last
of the Grondr fall to the Garou, and
their beast-kinfolk are domesticated
by humans.
~7600 BC: The “Impergium” has
become the accepted order of things
among the surviving shapeshifters.
The Rise of Civilization:
~7200 BC: A farmer named Cain,
possessed of great strength of will,
anger, and luck, kills a werewolf in
single combat. Terrified of the likely
consequences of sheltering a
werewolf-slayer, his village casts
him out. In his wandering he
encounters Lilith, a powerful mage
(Not likely to be a coincidence). She
transforms him into a vampire. Cain
returns to his people, throws out the
Garou, and thus allows the humans
to build the first city. Over the next
few centuries, Cain creates the
second generation, and the city
becomes an empire, dominating the
“fertile crescent” in the middle east
15 hectares.[36]
8,000 years ago: Evidence of habitation at the
current site of Aleppo dates to about c. 8,000
years ago, although excavations at Tell
Qaramel, 25 kilometers north of the city show
the area was inhabited about 13,000 years ago,
[37] Carbon-14 dating at Tell Ramad, on the
outskirts of Damascus, suggests that the site
may have been occupied since the second half
of the seventh millennium BC, possibly around
6300 BC.[38] However, evidence of settlement
in the wider Barada basin dating back to 9000
BC exists.[39]
7,200-6,000 years ago: 5200-4000 BC:Ghar
Dalam phase on Malta. First farming
settlements on the island.[40][41]
9,000 years ago (7000 BC): Jiahu culture
began in China.
9,000–3,500 years ago: Mehrgarh civilization
begins in Indian Subcontinent (now in
Pakistan).[42]
8,200–8,000 years ago: 8.2 kiloyear event: a
sudden decrease of global temperatures, likely
caused by the final collapse of the Laurentide
ice sheet, which leads to drier conditions in
East Africa and Mesopotamia.
7,500 years ago (5500 BC): Copper smelting
in evidence in Plocnik and other locations.
7,000 years ago (5000 BC): late Neolithic
civilizations, invention of the wheel and spread
of proto-writing. The oldest golden treasure
found in Varna Necropolis, Bulgaria.
6,100–5,800 years ago: 4100-3800 BC:
Zebbug phase. Malta.
– despite the massive flooding the
region often suffers. Unfortunately,
Cain, seeking to duplicate the power
of the Garou’s “Spirit Magic”,
stubbornly disregarded all warnings,
and “opened himself” to powers
other then what he could draw from
fellow humans. While this did allow
him to draw on external power
sources (“Thaumaturgy”), it also
opened him up to the influence of
the assorted faces of the Wyrm.
Without tradition to guide them, his
“descendants” would thereafter
prove somewhat more vulnerable to
corruption then the Garou. On the
other hand, unlike Rage, it’s bestial
touch will never come to be seen as
“normal” – or desirable.
~7200 BC: In a possibly-legendary
incident, Caine takes his brother
Seth as the first ghoul. Seth later
fathers twin revenant children who
become mages – the guardians of
humanity – and continue to make
appearances to the present day.
~7000 BC: Aided by the fact that
many of the most warlike Garou had
been killed by Cain and his progeny,
the Children Of Gaia, Glass
Walkers, and Stargazers, all of
whom honor, at least partially, their
ancient duty, bring the Impergium to
an end. Greater villages, and the
6,000 years ago (4000 BC): Civilizations
develop in the Mesopotamia/Fertile crescent
region (around the location of modern-day
Iraq). Earliest supposed dates for the
domestication of the horse and for the
domestication of the chicken.
5,900 years ago: 5.9 kiloyear event: a rapid
and intense aridification event, which likely
started the current Sahara Desert dry phase and
a population increase in the Nile Valley due to
migrations from nearby regions. It is also
believed this event contributed to the end of
the Ubaid period in Mesopotamia.
5,800 years ago: (3840 to 3800 BC): The Post
Track and Sweet Track causeways are
constructed in the Somerset Levels.
5,800–5,600 years ago: (3800-3600 BC):
Mgarr phase A short transitional period in
Malta's prehistory. It is characterized by
pottery consisting of mainly curved lines.
5,700 years ago (3800 to 3600 BC): mass
graves at Tell Brak in Syria.
5,700 years ago: (3700 to 3600 BC): Minoan
culture begins on Crete.
5,600–5,200 years ago (3600-3200 BC):
Ggantija phase on Malta. Characterized by a
change in the way the prehistoric inhabitants of
Malta lived.
5,500 years ago: (3600 to 3500 BC): Uruk
period in Sumer. First evidence of
mummification in Egypt.
Bronze Age[edit]
5,300 years ago: (3300 BC): Bronze Age
begins in the Near East[43] Newgrange is built
beginnings of true civilizations,
begin to rise across the world. Sadly,
enmity between Garou and Kindred
has been burned into the
consciousness of both races.
~6800 BC: Driven by the tales that
“great ancient kings” had defeated
the terrors of the night, ancestor
worship spreads through the villages
of the far east.
~6700 BC: Enoch, Zillah, and Irad
begin to create the third generation.
Born into a prosperous and secure
society, freed of the threat of the
Impergium, many of them have little
respect for their guardianship. Over
the next seven hundred years
somewhere between fifteen and
twenty members of the third
generation are created before Cain
forbids further siring.
~6600 BC: The innate reality-
shifting power of the burgeoning
human population of the orient
combines with their widespread
ancestor worship to create a
localized “reality divergence”,
greatly weakening the gauntlet; The
spirits of wise and holy ancestors
begin “dropping in” to assist their
descendants. The effects are
profound, and even extend into
Mnesis; there are now two true –
quite contradictory – histories of the
in Ireland. Hakra Phase of the Indus Valley
Civilization begins in the Indian Sub-
continent.
5,300-5,000 years ago (3300-3000 BC):
Saflieni phase in Maltese prehistory.
5,200 years ago: (3200 BC): Writing is
invented in Sumer, triggering the beginning of
history. Appe
east. The Tao is born.
~6500 BC: The Garou Litany is
formalized. Several of it’s
provisions are relatively new. In the
Far East the weakening umbral
barriers allow the Yama Kings (An
assortment of very powerful, wyrm-
associated, spirits) to manifest
themselves physically.
~6400 BC: The “Glass Walkers” are
recognized as a tribe, among others.
That doesn’t mean they’re liked.
Out in the east especially strong-
willed and enlightened spirits have
begun re-occupying their bodies
when they return, allowing them to
confront the Yama Kings. The Wan
Xian are born.
~6200 BC: Saulot and Chaffri visit
the far east. As a result, several
extremely odd strains of Kindred are
created there.
~6000 BC: Osiris is embraced, and
blood bound, by Zillah to bring his
excursions under control, and to use
his forces against some threat in
Asia. His brother, Set, is embraced
by Irad, and destroys Osiris. Far
more importantly, the Magi Isis and
Anubis create the first Mummies
(Mestha and Horus), the first beings
below the Triat to possess true
immortality – the power to stand
against even the destruction of the
Wyrm. Agriculture, including
systematic irrigation, and the plow,
spreads across the earth. Khetamon,
the last Childe of Osiris, flees to
India – leaving behind the Cult Of
Isis.
~5900 BC: Khetamon returns from
India bearing the discipline of Bardo
– and founds the Children Of Osiris.
Over the centuries, this story gets
badly distorted.
~5800 BC: The first Jyhad. The
third generation rises up against
their elders. Enoch and Irad are
slain, although there are rumors that
Zillah survived. Cain, realizing that
continuing the struggle would
devastate civilization, withdraws.
Set retreats to Egypt, and vows
revenge against the slayers of Irad.
The exact length of this period is
unknown – but two to three
centuries would seem a reasonable
minimum. The reckless use of
“summoned” storms as weapons
during this period causes massive
flooding throughout the fertile
crescent.
~5600 BC: Absimilard embraces the
Nicktuku and sends them after his
former childer, the Nosferatu.
Various other Antediluvians take
action against irritating and /or
treacherous “offspring” as well.
~5400 BC: The Wan Xian and their
various Hengeyokai allies
consolidate their victory over the
Yama Kings and begin healing the
injuries inflicted on the land. The
Wyrm turns it’s attention to
corrupting the rebirth of the Wan
Xian, attempting to tilt the karmic
balance in favor of the return of the
corrupt and evil, rather then the
good and holy.
~5200 BC: The massed belief, and
unconscious power, of the Egyptian
populace consolidates into a
“barrier” against the Wyrm. The
population exceeds five and a half
million – more then the Garou had
permitted to live on all the earth
during the Impergium. The tale of
Osiris becomes a popular myth
cycle among the populace. Set is not
pleased, but even an antediluvian
can do little about faith.
~5000 BC: The thirteen surviving
third generation vampires
consolidate their control over the
remains of the empire – although
several essentially “sit it out” or go
off on their own. With the Garou no
longer much of a threat to human
villages, small settlements begin to
spread widely, a situation that
archaeologists will later believe
marks the beginning of civilization.
~4900 BC: The first innately-
corrupted Wan Xian – the Wan Kuei
or the “Ten Thousand Demons” –
draw their second breath.
~4800 BC: Dracian creates the first
Tree Of Life, but is assaulted by
Amriat. Deanna, Dracian’s mortal
wife, eats the fruit of the tree, and
escapes with her brother, Sarrath – a
werewolf. Over the centuries, she
mothers the Gypsies, entrusts the
seeds of the tree to them – and uses
a few drops of blood from her
husband to sire Ravnos. For long
centuries, the Gypsies evade the
wrath of Amriat by remaining
hidden in the far east.
~4600 BC: The solemn councils of
the Wan Xian are now dominated by
the manipulations of the Wyrm.
They instigate the “War Of Shame”
between the courts of the
hengeyokai. There will be many
centuries of bloodshed before the
deception is revealed. The spirits
withdraw many gifts from the Wan
Kuei, including the ability to draw
umbral energy from nature – forcing
them to drain it from others in order
to “live”. The Wan Kuei become the
Kuei-jin.
~4300 BC: Horus, having gathered
immense power in his sojourn in the
spirit world, resurrects himself, and
breaks Set’s hold over Egypt,
beginning many millennia of power
struggles over the land. His action
inspires the burgeoning revolt
among the fourth generation.
~4000 BC: Humans begin the more-
or-less organized production of
booze. This period also marks the
birth of organized chinese culture –
and the creation of the five great
courts of the kuei-jin.
The Jyhad:
~3900 BC: Troile diablorizes
Brujah. The Jyhad goes into full
swing, and the second capital of
Cain’s ancient imperium is laid
waste. The fourth generation scatters
and sires the fifth – and begins using
armies of humans in attacking their
elders and each other. This leads to a
considerable number of “final
deaths” among the fourth and fifth
generations – and may destroy some
of the third (According to the basic
book, there are only seven surviving
members of this generation).
~3500 BC: Horus revives the Spell
Of Life – and the roster of true
immortals begins to expand. The
Garou begin to enjoy a few real
“victories” in their attacks on
Vampires, as Cain’s power dilutes
too far to permit their use of near-
invincible high-level disciplines.
BC The Bronze Age refers to a period in human
E cultural development when the most advanced
metalworking (at least in systematic and
widespread use) included techniques for
smelting copper and tin from naturally-
occurring outcroppings of copper ores, and
then combining those ores to cast bronze.
These naturally-occurring ores typically
included arsenic as a common impurity.
Copper/tin ores are rare, as reflected in the fact
that there were no tin bronzes in western Asia
before 3000 BC. In some parts of the world, a
Copper Age follows the Neolithic and precedes
the Bronze Age.
The Iron Age was the stage in the development
of any people in which tools and weapons
whose main ingredient was iron were
prominent. The adoption of this material
coincided with other changes in some past
societies often including differing agricultural
practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles,
although this was not always the case.
c. 3200 BC: Sumerian cuneiform writing
system.[1]
3200 BC: Cycladic civilization in Greece
3200 BC: Norte Chico civilization begins in
Peru
3200 BC: Rise of Proto-Elamite Civilization in
Iran
3100 BC: Skara Brae Scotland
3100 BC: First dynasty of Egypt
c. 3000 BC: Egyptian calendar
c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge construction begins.
3100 BC: Menes the great unites
kingdoms of upper and lower egypt.
He is later murdered by a sorceror-
priest disguised as a hippopotamus.
~3000 BC: Writing is invented. As
might be expected, the earliest
known fragments of the “Book Of
Nod” date from shortly after this
time. It should be noted that, while
the vamphyric memories may be
long indeed, this is still more then
2500 years after Cain departed – and
4200 years after the creation of
vampires. The Book of Nod is not
an entirely dependable source.~2800
BC: The first pyramids are created.
Across the world simpler, but almost
as effective, megalithic structures
are used to channel the pattern of
reality. The “Horizon” takes form,
sealing off the mad denizens of deep
umbra. Unfortunately, as a side
effect of this raising of barriers, the
Sundering divides the Shadowlands
from the world of the living – and
the Faerie from Arcadia.
~2750 BC: The Children Of Gaia
persuade Gilgamesh to reject the
embrace and institute a purge of the
vampires within his kingdom. This
enjoys some success, at least where
vampires use it against each other.
In the lands of the dead, Charon has
3100 BCE-2890 BCE: Egypt has Menes Dynasty.
Crocodilopolis founded. Mokole exist openly with
humans, and are worshiped by the Hem-ka-Sobk. They
are allied with Bubasti and Silent Striders. Elder Mokole
are mummified by the Hem-ka-Sobk, and remain asleep
to this day in Egypt.[2]
According to Werewolf: The Apocalypse Rulebook,
roughly 3000 BCE is one of two possible times for the
beginning of the Impergium; pages 14 and 200 describe it
as being 3000 years long, but page 29 describes it as
being 1000 years long, and that the Concord (which
ended the Impergium) was reached around 2000 BCE.
Therefore, the other potential time period for the
Impergium to begin is around 5000 BCE – according to
1st Edition. Later editions of Werewolf will place the
Impergium as beginning – and ending – far earlier than
1st Edition does.[3][4][5]
According to some Ratkin, 3000 BCE is the rough date at
which the Garou reached the Concord, thus beginning the
Age of Man.[6]
In the second half of this millennium, several cultures
begin using tokens imprinted into clay for business
transactions. The symbols were mostly pictographic so
users of any language could understand. As the markings
became more common, and as curved lines were hard to
draw in clay, the lines became straighter and more
abstract. Eventually, the first form of writing evolved.[7]
The first human settlements typified as "urban life" begin
around this time.[8]
3800 BCE Edit
Sumer's Uruk period starts at about this time.[7]
Babylonian tablet series named "The Day of Bel" is
thought to have been written during this time, the reign of
In its first version, it consisted of a circular
ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.[2]
c. 3000 BC: Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in
Romania and the Ukraine
3000 BC: Jiroft civilization begins in Iran
3000 BC: First known use of papyrus by
Egyptians
2800 BC: Kot Diji phase of the Indus Valley
Civilization begins
2800 BC: Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
period in China
2700 BC: Minoan Civilization ancient palace
city Knossos reach 80,000 inhabitants
2700 BC: Rise of Elam in Iran
2700 BC: The Old Kingdom begins in Egypt
2600 BC: Oldest known surviving literature:
Sumerian texts from Abu Salabikh, including
the Instructions of Shuruppak and the Kesh
temple hymn.
2600 BC: Mature Harappan phase of the Indus
Valley civilization (in present-day Pakistan and
India) begins
2600 BC: Emergence of Maya culture in the
Yucatan Peninsula
2560 BC: King Khufu completes the Great
Pyramid of Giza.
2500 BC: The mammoth goes extinct.
2200 -2100 BC: 4.2 kiloyear event: a severe
aridification phase, likely connected to a Bond
event, which was registered throughout most
North Africa, Middle East and continental
North America. Related droughts very likely
caused the collapse of the Old Kingdom in
Egypt and of the Akkadian Empire in
arrived.
~2500 BC: Continent-spanning
trade routes, better, hybridized,
crops, specially bred animals,
metalwork and other improvements
become the norm. In the dark lands,
Charon has organized the Ferrymen.
~2200 BC: Foundation of the Shih.
The Kuei-jin are forced to concede
most governance of humans to
humans.
~2100 BC: The first formal
bureaucracies and written codes of
laws are created. The Children Of
Gaia manage to get involved in
both.
~1700 BC: Advised by “Mummies”,
the Egyptian priests produce early
versions of “The Book Of Going
Forth By Day”.
~1650 BC: Aryan invaders wipe out
the Indus Valley culture. The
gypsies are forced to flee and return
to the west.
1523 BC: The first HIT Mark I’s are
made in china.
~1500 BC: In the Shadowlands the
Shining Ones have sought the “Far
Shores”. While they do not
understand the effect, they shape
their own paradises and hells – and
open the way for others with lesser
force of will.
~1400 BC: Early steel, the first
Sargon I, King of Agade.[9]
3500 BCE Edit
Artisan-priests of Babylon discover sacred geometry and
astrology.[10][11]
Legendary mystick Isis Samshen founds the Cult of
Seshat.[12]
3200 BCE Edit
3200 BCE - 2900 BCE: Sumer's Jemdat Nast period, best
described as an extension and decline of the Uruk period.
[7]
3120 BCE Edit
The latest Kali Yuga, or Age of Iron, begins, according to
Buddhist and Hindu reckoning.[13]
3114 BCE Edit
August 13: According to the Mayans, a "creation event"
happens on this date. Their Long Count calendar counts
the number of days from this date.[14][1] NOTE: The
Long Count calendar begins counting from August 11th,
not August 13.[15] We have let this stand as-is, assuming
the Mayans did things slightly differently in the World of
Darkness.
3102 BCE Edit
February 18: At midnight during a new moon, a new Kali
Yuga (the Age of Iron, or the Age of Darkness) begins.
This age is supposedly the final one before the end of the
universe, when the Brahma rests and Shiva closes his
eyes.[16][17]
3100 BCE Edit
3100 BCE - 2890 BCE: Egypt's Menes Dynasty.
Crocodilopolis founded. Mokole exist openly with
humans, and are worshiped by the Hem-ka-Sobk. They
are allied with Bubasti and Silent Striders. Elder Mokole
are mummified by the Hem-ka-Sobk, and remain asleep
to the modern day.[2]
Mesopotamia.
2200 BC: completion of Stonehenge.
2070 BC: Yu the Great established the Xia
Dynasty in China
2000 BC: Believed birth year of Abraham in
Ur of the Chaldeans, Mesopotamia, who is the
father of Abrahamic Religions which as of the
21st Century AD are adhered to by more than
50% of humanity;[3] Domestication of the
horse
1800 BC: alphabetic writing emerges
1700 BC: Indus Valley Civilization comes to
an end but is continued by the Cemetery H
culture; The beginning of Poverty Point
Civilization in North America
1600 BC: Minoan civilization on Crete is
destroyed by the Minoan eruption of Santorini
island.
1600 BC: Mycenaean Greece
1600 BC: The beginning of Shang Dynasty in
China, evidence of a fully developed Chinese
writing system
1600 BC: Beginning of Hittite dominance of
the Eastern Mediterranean region
1500 BC: Composition of the Rigveda is
completed
1400-400 BC: Olmec civilization flourishes in
Pre-Columbian Mexico, during Mesoamerica's
Formative period
1496 BC: Traditional date for giving of the Ten
Commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai
ushering in monotheistic religion
1200 BC: The Hallstatt culture
1200-1150 BC: Bronze Age collapse in
simple alphabets
~1360 BC: Attempting to undermine
the influence of Vampires
(Especially the Settites) in Egypt the
Children of Gaia manage to “get the
ear” of the pharaoh Akhenaten, and
institute various reforms – as well as
assaults on the vampire’s havens.
Unfortunately, the Children are so
incompetent at running Egypt that
most of their reform efforts are
discarded as soon as Akhenaten dies
– and Egypt is left gravely
weakened. Horus concludes that the
Garou are idiots.
~1200 BC: The Tal’mahe’Ra is
founded by Magi fascinated by
death. Naturally enough, a few
vampires get involved.
Vicissitude/The Souleaters are
accidentally “brought back” from
the deep umbra sometime during the
next few centuries. In a possibly-
related incident, the Fomori Wars
are fought, as the Wyrm unleashes
it’s first new weapon since the
second Wyrm War.
~1000 BC: The lords of the
Assyrian empire fall to the Wyrm,
resulting in an incredible “reign of
terror” throughout the middle east.
In the far east, the Rig Veda is
compiled, and the Artificers – the
precursors of Iteration X – wield
3006 BCE Edit
3006 BCE: The True Brujah started preparing war against
the false Brujah.[18]
3000 BCE Edit
China's civilization is at least this old.[19] "Yellow
Emperor" Huang Ti and Queen Lo Tsu found mystickal
Chinese dynasties on geometry and astrology.[10]
Around this time, humanity acquires urban life and
abstract mathematics.[20][21]
Forerunners of the Syndicate appear with the
development of trade and economy.[22]
The dawn of Indian civilization. The cities of Harrapa and
Mohenjodaro are founded on the Indus.
2999 - 2000 BCE Edit
According to some sources, the Concord was reached
somewhere around 2000 BCE.[1] Lore-speaker Gron
would have lived at about this time.
A massive meteor of near civilization-destroying
proportions may have landed somewhere in the desert in
the Middle East.[2]
The hero Gilgamesh ascends to the throne of Uruk.[3]
Kindred offer him the Embrace, but he decides against it
due to the intervention of Siduri Sabitu, a Child of Gaia,
and he rejects the Embrace and turns the people against
the Kindred.[4]
2630 BCE - 2610 BCE (approx.): Imhotep, a vizier and
wizard, and the first architect and physician known by
name to written history. His name is revered by
Daedaleans.[5] He is the architect of the pyramids and an
expert in medicine.[6]
2200 BCE - 700 BCE Bronze Age in the Britain.
Wyrmslayer, a Fianna, forges the first Klaive. [7]
2000 BCE - 1500 BCE: A period of flooding and invasion
in the Indus valley, caused by the invasion of the Yehnn
Southwestern Asia and in the Eastern
Mediterranean region. This period is also the
setting of the Iliad and the Odyssey epic poems
(which were composed about four centuries
later).
c. 1180 BC: Disintegration of Hittite Empire
1100 BC: Use of Iron spreads.
1046 BC: The Zhou force (led by King Wu of
Zhou) overthrow the last king of Shang
Dynasty; Zhou Dynasty established in China
1020 to 930 BC: The beginning of the
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) occurred
sometime between these dates
890 BC: Approximate date for the composition
of the Iliad and the Odyssey
800 BC: Rise of Greek city-states
Classical antiquity[edit]
Main article: Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long
period of cultural history centered on the
Mediterranean Sea, comprising the
interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece
and Ancient Rome. It refers to the timeframe
of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.[4][5]
Ancient history includes the recorded Greek
history beginning in about 776 BC (First
Olympiad). This coincides roughly with the
traditional date of the founding of Rome in 753
BC and the beginning of the history of Rome.
[6][7]
776 BC: First recorded Olympic Games.
753 BC: Founding of Rome (traditional date)
745 BC: Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the new
king of Assyria. With time he conquers
great influence in Greece and China,
and will continue to do so for many
centuries.
~950 BC: Horus finally drives Set
out of Egypt and destroys all his
progeny. Unfortunately, Set perfects
his own powers in exile and founds
the true “Followers Of Set”.
~900 BC: The Himalayan Mage
Wars between the Akashic
Brotherhood and Handura
(Precursors of the Euthanatos)
begin. The Ahl-i-Batin are formed,
and the verdant plain of Afghanistan
is reduced to desert during a conflict
between the Celestial Chorus and
the Handura. The war will take
some 300 years to resolve.
800 BC: The Ahl-i-Batin begin the
Unity Plan. Rome and Carthage are
founded about this time.
~650 BC: Children Of Gaia explore
the far east, and commune with the
dragons of the Celestial
Bureaucracy. Along the way they
help to codify the Confucian Laws
and battle the eastern vampires –
without much success.
600 BC: In one of the oddest
alliances in history, Zoraster, a
prophet of light, somehow winds up
working with the Settites to crush
the Baali. Charon, lord of the dead,
sails to map the Far Shores.
(Aryans). They defeat the Harappan culture, but are
forced to consult them to help rebuild the civilization.[8]
(Please note that Aryan Invasion Theory is not considered
a valid historical theory in real life)
2900 BCE Edit
3200 BCE - 2900 BCE: Sumer's Jemdat Nast period, best
described as an extension and decline of the Uruk period.
[9]
2900 BCE - 2370 BCE: Sumer's Early Dynastic period.
[9]
2890 BCE Edit
3100 BCE - 2890 BCE: Egypt's Menes Dynasty.
Crocodilopolis founded. Mokole exist openly with
humans, and are worshiped by the Hem-ka-Sobk. They
are allied with Bubasti and Silent Striders. Elder Mokole
are mummified by the Hem-ka-Sobk, and remain asleep
to the modern day.[10]
2800 BCE Edit
4000 BCE - 2800 BCE: Thanatoic and Ecstatic cults arise
in India. The Akashic Brotherhood takes form in China
and Tibet. Babylonian priest-scientists discover principles
of geometry and astronomy, harnessing the power of
mathematics and the heavens to the human will. Druidic
priests and practitioners of magic raise Stonehenge in
accordance with the movements of celestial bodies.[5]
[11] Although Stonehenge serves as a Cray, it is not itself
a Cray. Rather it was erected by the Wyck as a "lens" over
a natural upwelling of wild magick.
2800 BCE - 1100 BCE: Followers of science and magic
explore the intricacies of their respective paths. Historical
scientists include Imhotep and Daedalus. The Golden Age
of Greek Magic encompasses the exploits of Orpheus and
Medea. Moses and his brother Aaron lead the Israelites
out of Egypt.[11]
neighboring countries and turns Assyria into an
empire.
728 BC: Rise of the Median Empire.
722 BC: Spring and Autumn Period begins in
China; Zhou Dynasty's power is diminishing;
the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought.
700 BC: the construction of Marib Dam in
Arabia Felix.
660 BC: purported date of the accession of
Jimmu, the mythical first Emperor of Japan.
653 BC: Rise of Persian Empire.
612 BC: An alliance between the Babylonians,
Medes, and Scythians succeeds in destroying
Nineveh and causing subsequent fall of the
Assyrian empire.
600 BC: Sixteen Maha Janapadas ("Great
Realms" or "Great Kingdoms") emerge in
India.
600 BC: Evidence of writing system appear in
Oaxaca used by the Zapotec civilization.
c. 600 BC: Pandyan kingdom in South India.
586 BC: Destruction of the First Temple in
Jerusalem (Solomon's Temple) by the
Babylonians.
563 BC: Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha),
founder of Buddhism is born as a prince of the
Shakya tribe, which ruled parts of Magadha,
one of the Maha Janapadas.
551 BC: Confucius, founder of Confucianism,
is born.
550 BC: Foundation of the Persian Empire by
Cyrus the Great.
549 BC: Mahavira, founder of Jainism is born.
546 BC: Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus
563 BC: Prince Siddhartha
Gautama, later known as Buddha,
The Enlightened One. is born. He is
recognized by the Children Of Gaia
in the far east as an emissary from
the celestines.
550 BC: Lao Tzu’s wisdom
confounds the Stargazers. His
enigmatic philosophy/way/method
is recorded in the Tao Te Ching, a
work so enigmatic that it’s rumored
to occasionally awaken a reader’s
avatar.
507 BC: Operating independently,
the Children Of Gaia, Glass
Walkers, and Brujah, found the first
great democracy in Athens. As
thoroughly corrupting such a system
requires far more work then
corrupting a single overlord, the
Wyrm promptly tries to crush the
idea.
~500 BC: Kindred gain control of
the Tal’mahe’Ra and the Brujah take
control of Carthage. Troile himself
is often seen visiting the city. Rome
becomes a republic, and, in the
Shadowlands, Charon returns
carrying signs from the Shining
Ones who had become the
custodians of the far shores. He
founds the Republic of Stygia, and
begins raising the city Stygia on the
Isle Of Sorrows. Over the ensuing
2700 BCE Edit
The Harappan civilization develops sophisticated cities
and agriculture. The concept of deities such as Shiva
dates back to this period.[8]
2558 BCE - 2532 BCE Edit
The reign of Pharaoh Khafre.[12]
2500 BCE Edit
Archmagi Djhowtey and his wife Sesheta are active in
Phoenicia (located in the Mediterranean and the Middle
East, and in Egypt. The two are responsible for the
creation of the alphabet.[13]
Early Void Engineers use astronomy and the wheel to
seek new places.[14]
2370 BCE Edit
2900 BCE - 2370 BCE: Sumer's Early Dynastic period.
[9]
2333 BCE Edit
Dan Gun establishes the first Korean kingdom, Choson
("The Land of the Morning Calm"), in this year.[15]
2300 BCE Edit
Sargon of Akkad gathers seers and magicians and
conquers the Sumerians. All Mesopotamia comes under
his rule.[16][17]
2100 BCE Edit
In Sumer, Uthegal's rule is usurped by one of his
lieutenants, establishing the third Ur dynasty shortly
before this point.[3]
China's near-mythical Xia dynasty is founded around this
time.[18]
2000 BCE Edit
The Egyptian Thothian cult is at its height.[19]
Kemit literature declares Seshat "She who is Foremost in
the House of Books."[20]
The Sumerian society collapses when the Amorites
King of Lydia.
544 BC: Rise of Magadha as the dominant
power under Bimbisara.
539 BC: The Fall of the Babylonian Empire
and liberation of the Jews by Cyrus the Great.
529 BC: Death of Cyrus
525 BC: Cambyses II of Persia conquers
Egypt.
c. 512 BC: Darius I (Darius the Great) of
Persia, subjugates eastern Thrace, Macedonia
submits voluntarily, and annexes Libya,
Persian Empire at largest extent.
509 BC: Expulsion of the last King of Rome,
founding of Roman Republic (traditional date).
508 BC: Democracy instituted at Athens
c. 500 BC: completion of Euclid's Elements
500 BC: Panini standardizes the grammar and
morphology of Sanskrit in the text
Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is
known as Classical Sanskrit
500 BC: Pingala uses zero and binary numeral
system
499 BC: King Aristagoras of Miletus incites all
of Hellenic Asia Minor to rebel against the
Persian Empire, beginning the Greco-Persian
Wars.
490 BC: Greek city-states defeat Persian
invasion at Battle of Marathon
483 BC: Death of Gautama Buddha
480 BC: Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes;
Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
479 BC: Death of Confucius
475 BC: Warring States period begins in China
as the Zhou king became a mere figurehead;
centuries, while Rome ruled on
Earth, he also constructs “Roman-
style” roads throughout much of the
Shadowlands of Europe.
~250 BC: The Artificers invent
gunpowder.
146 BC: Carthage is betrayed and
sacked. The Brujah face a coalition
of the Cappadocians, Malkavians –
and Toreador – all controlled by the
Ventrue of Italy. The city is
destroyed, Troile is gravely injured
or slain, and rituals are performed to
keep earth-melded Kindred from
rising. The Brujah begin the shift
from a clan of philosophers to a clan
of rebels.
~100 BC: Set virtually wipes out the
Cult Of Isis, and gains a twisted
version of the “Ritual Of Life”. He
uses it to create the seven Bane
Mummies. They’re not what he had
in mind. Set vanishes, probably
going into torpor, sometime before
the birth of Christ.
The Christian Era:
~5 BC: Christ The Anointed One is
born (OK, so the calender is a little
mixed. That’s not my fault). The
Children Of Gaia recognize him as
an equal to Buddha – an emissary
from the celestines.
migrate into the area and gain control of the region.[3]
The Wu Lung are founded around this time.[21]
Nagah appear in the Indus Valley, and settle there,
eventually spreading all over the world.[22]
Though the exact date is unknown, this is a likely time
period for the first War of Rage. It begins because Vinata,
a corrupted Nagah, slays Petros the Unyielding, a Silver
Fang Ahrounwho was carrying a message to Konstantos
the Savage of the Silver Fangs to the west to stop
harassing the other Fera. Konstantos blames a Bubasti for
it, and kills him. Konstatos then demands that
the Gurahl resurrect Petros, but the Gurahl refuse,
believing that the Nagah acted properly, and the Garou
frenzy and attack. The surviving Guhrahl of the attack
beg sanctuary from the Grondr. The Gurahl and Grondr
attack the Garou in retaliation, and the conflict spins out
of control.[23] Apis and Grondr become
extinct. Fianna wipe out the Nagah in Ireland and kill
every single snake there. [24] Bastet are decimated.
[25] The Gurahl Gift ofProphetic Vision saves some
Gurahl, although some misinterpret or ignore the
warnings that it gives. [26]Gurahl create the Rite of the
Ban to protect themselves against inadvertently giving
information to their enemies. [27]
1960 BCE - 1900 BCE (approx.): Career of
legendary Daedalus the Great.[1
1880 BCE - 1633 BC: Bone Gnawers following all
scavenger totems except for Rat try to helpSilent
Striders fighting Set.[1] They both lose and the Silent
Striders are driven from Egyptby Set's Curse. Rat is the
only totem remaining in his tribe. Enmity
between Rat and Owlbegins.[1] The date is difficult to
determine exactly – some books (Werewolf Storytellers
Companion) suggest it happened around 1800 BC[2],
China is annexed by regional warlords
470/469 BC: Birth of Socrates
465 BC: Murder of Xerxes
458 BC: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, the only
surviving trilogy of ancient Greek plays, is
performed.
449 BC: The Greco-Persian Wars end.
447 BC: Building of the Parthenon at Athens
started
432 BC: Construction of the Parthenon is
completed
431 BC: Beginning of the Peloponnesian war
between the Greek city-states
429 BC: Sophocles's play Oedipus the King is
first performed
427 BC: Birth of Plato
424 BC: Nanda dynasty comes to power.
404 BC: End of the Peloponnesian War
400 BC: Zapotec culture flourishes around city
of Monte Alban
399 BC: Death of Socrates
384 BC: Birth of Aristotle
331 BC: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III
of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela,
completing his conquest of Persia.
326 BC: Alexander the Great defeats Indian
king Porus in the Battle of the Hydaspes River.
323 BC: Death of Alexander the Great at
Babylon.
321 BC: Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the
Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.
305 BC: Chandragupta Maurya seizes the
satrapies of Paropanisadai (Kabul), Aria
(Herat), Arachosia (Qanadahar) and Gedrosia
but Rage Across Egypt suggests it happened during the
13th Dynasty, which ran from about 1786 BC to 1633
BC (according to that same book)[3], and “Who's Who
Among Werewolves: Garou Saga” suggests it happened
as far back as 1880 BC, or even before then.[4]
1856 BCE: Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. This
occurs because Lot turns his daughters over to the mob to
be gang-raped, and in response, Black Furies descend
upon the cities viamoon-bridges and destroy them. [5]
1830 BCE: Hammurabi orders the construction
of Etemenanki ("the foundation of heaven and earth"), a
seven-tiered ziggurat.[6]
1766 BCE - 1112 BCE: The Shang dynasty in China.
They leave the first evidence of a written language.[5]
1700 BCE: Harrapan culture in India begins to decline.[6
1600 Golden Age of Greek Magick begins. Medea, Circe,
Orpheus and dozens of others exhibit mystical powers.
Philosopher Aretus writes the basis of the Kitab al
Alacir. [1]
2000 BCE-1500 BCE: A period of flooding and invasion
in the Indus valley, caused by the invasion of the Yehnn
(Aryans). They defeat the Harappan culture, but are
forced to consult them to help rebuild the civilization.
[1] (Please note that Aryan Invasion Theory is considered
discredited in real life.)
Aryans arrive in India. India adopts caste
system. Nagah are considered to be of the two highest
castes. [2]
A Sanskrit version of the Hymn of the One is (possibly)
written.[3]
The Egyptian king Thothmes rules around this time.
According to legend, Thothmes establishes a guild of
Sacred Artisans.[4]
1523 BCE Edit
(Baluchistan)from Seleucus I Nicator, the
Macedonian satrap of Babylonia, in return for
500 elephants.
300 BC: Construction of the Great Pyramid of
Cholula, the world's largest pyramid by
volume (the Great Pyramid of Giza built 2560
BC Egypt stands 146.5 meters, making it 91.5
meters taller), begins in Cholula, Puebla,
Mexico.
273 BC: Ashoka the Great becomes the
emperor of the Mauryan Empire
261 BC: Kalinga war
257 BC: Th?c Dynasty takes over Vi?t Nam
(then Kingdom of Au L?c)
250 BC: Rise of Parthia (Ashkanian), the
second native dynasty of ancient Persia
232 BC: Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great;
Decline of the Mauryan Empire
230 BC: Emergence of Satavahanas in South
India
221 BC: Qin Shi Huang unifies China, end of
Warring States period; marking the beginning
of Imperial rule in China which lasts until
1912. Construction of the Great Wall by the
Qin Dynasty begins.
207 BC: Kingdom of Nan Yueh extends from
Canton to North Vi?t Nam .
206 BC: Han Dynasty established in China,
after the death of Qin Shi Huang; China in this
period officially becomes a Confucian state
and opens trading connections with the West,
i.e. the Silk Road.
202 BC: Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at
Battle of Zama.
The first application of artificial creation, later
dubbed HIT Mark I. Examples include Talos, the bronze
giant; Daedalus' mechanical minotaur, and the terracotta
army of Ch'in Shih-huang-ti.[5]
1520 BCE Edit
The "Platonian" Atlantis, a Minoan colony on the Aegean
island of Thera, is destroyed when the volcano which
formed the island erupts.[6]
1500 BCE Edit
The mages of Etemenanki, the first Labyrinth, create a
gate.[7]
1480 BCE - 1489 BCE: Thothmes III ("Born of Thoth")
and his queen Hatshepsut summon the masons of
Babylon, Hebrew architects, priests of Isis and Osiris, and
a thousand-odd mysticks from the wilderness (including
some strange people from a land later called Cathay).
Together, the two rulers craft a fellowship of sacred
Artisans and a priesthood of healers and diviners, as well
as laying forth the nine Cornerstones to Creation. The two
lodges become known as the Reed of Thoth and
the Cupbearers of Isis.[1][2][3]
1480 BCE - 1489 BCE: The Artificers emerge around this
time from the Reed of Thoth.[4][5]
1400 BCE: Thutmosis IV comes to the Sphinx, buried up
to its neck in sand. He sleeps and dreams that the Sphinx
tells him to free it from the desert sand, and he will be
made Pharaoh.[6]
1353 BCE - 1335 BCE: The reign of Ikhnaton. The Book
of Ages begins to form as Menu-hetep collects disparate
Singers into a single Congregation.[1][2] This marks the
beginning of the Celestial Chorus' "Second Age."[3]
Founding of Judaism. The Weaver influences it with the
seed of Dogma. The semi-Incarna of
the Patriarch eventually forms.[4]
200 BC: El Mirador, largest early Maya city,
flourishes.
200 BC: Paper is invented in China.
c. 200 BC: Chera dynasty in South India.
185 BC: Shunga Empire founded.
149-146 BC: Third Punic War between Rome
and Carthage. War ends with the complete
destruction of Carthage, allowing Rome to
conquer modern day Tunisia and Libya.
146 BC: Roman conquest of Greece, see
Roman Greece
129 BC: Roman conquest of Turkey.
121 BC: Roman armies enter Gaul for the first
time.
111 BC: First Chinese domination of Vi?t Nam
in the form of the Nanyue Kingdom.
c. 100 BC: Chola dynasty rises in prominence.
80 BC: The city of Florence is founded.
49 BC: Roman Civil War between Julius
Caesar and Pompey the Great.
44 BC: Julius Caesar murdered by Marcus
Brutus and others; End of Roman Republic;
beginning of Roman Empire.
40 BC: Roman conquest of Egypt.
27 BC: Formation of Roman Empire: Octavius
is given titles of Princeps and Augustus by
Roman Senate - beginning of Pax Romana.
Formation of influential Praetorian Guard to
provide security to Emperor
18 BC: Three Kingdoms period begins in
Korea. The temple of Jerusalem is
reconstructed.
6 BC: Earliest theorized date for birth of Jesus
of Nazareth. Roman succession: Gaius Caesar
1250 BCE: Trojan War takes place. When Agamemnon
returns home, he is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra;
for sacrificing his daughter for good
winds. Clytemnestra is in turn, murdered by her son
Orestes. Orestes is hounded by vengeful Black Furies for
matricide, until he reaches Athens and throws himself on
the mercy of the court. The Incarna Athena casts the
deciding vote to spare his life. The Black Furies no longer
trust the Athenians to fairly dispense justice, and take
over justice in Athens for nearly a century. [1]
1220 BCE: Moses leads the Israelite Exodus, performing
many miracles along the way.[2]
1200 BCE: Around this
time, Fomori appear. Fianna battle in the Fomorian
Wars for theBritish Isles.[3][4]
2800 BCE - 1100 BCE: Followers of science and magic
explore the intricacies of their respective paths. Historical
scientists include Imhotep and Daedalus. The Golden Age
ofGreek Magic encompasses the exploits
of Orpheus and Medea. Moses and his brother Aaronlead
the Israelites out of Egypt.[1]
1766 BCE - 1112 BCE: The Shang dynasty in China.
They leave the first evidence of a written language.[2]
End of the Golden Age of Greek Magick.[3]
1120 BCE - 630 BCE: Ma'inite period.[4]
11th Century - 256 BCE: The Zhou Dynasty is the high
point of ancient China.[1][2][3]
1020 BCE: Hebrews found kingdom in Palestine.[4]
Around 1000 BCE, the Chou dynasty outlaws all Wu.[5]
1000 BCE: The Wu-Keng enter the Sam Chin Ak, which
binds them into Infernal service for the next three
thousand years.[citation needed]
1000 BCE: End of the Low Mythic Age.[6]
1000 BCE: Beginning of the Iron Age[2] in Europe and
and Lucius Caesar groomed for the throne.
4 BC: Widely accepted date (Ussher) for birth
of Jesus Christ.
in East and Southeast Asia.[1][7]
1000 BCE: The first Polynesians leave southeast Asia and
settle Tonga and Samoa.[8][9]
1000 BCE - 800 BCE: The Mahabharata and the
Ramayana join the tradition of Vedic canon.
The Handura, Idran, and other proto-Chakravanti cults
evolve.[10][11]
996 BCE: Suleiman the Wise is born.[1]
966 BCE: Suleiman founds the city of Palmyra, in what is
now central Syria, northeast of Damascus. It was to
become a major trade centre at the junction of several
trade routes.[1]
965 BCE - 300 BCE: Himalayan Wars begin.
Misunderstanding between Akashic missionaries
and Hindu magi sparks feud. Reincarnation Arts ensure
the feud is long and bitter. Ends through Akashic
withdrawal and seclusion.[2][3][4][5][6]
965 BC: Suleiman becomes king of Israel; moves to
consolidate power in the Lands of Faith by building a
massive Temple in Jerusalem at the confluence of
many Ley Lines, in accordance with Hermetic principles.
This upsets the balance of power between humans and
djinn in favor of humans.[7][8][5][9]
965 BCE - 937 BCE: Suleiman raises temple and
assembles many of the basic tenets ofHermeticism.[2]
950 BCE: Career of the archmagus Solomon, king
of Israel. Solomon wrote three magickal texts, of which
two (the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon survive in
watered-down editions. The unabridged books later form
the basis of the Order of Hermes.[10]
950 BCE: The Akashic Brotherhood enters India. They
choose to stay in their northern camps, but are interested
by the Handura, Dacoits, and other proto-Thanatoic sects.
[11]
945 BCE - 930 BCE: The great khans and pashas of
the Invisible World decide that the meddling of humans in
"their" world must come to an end. The 10,000 Djinni
Plague begins in 645 BCE.[1][12][13] Malicious spirit
hordes invade the Middle East. Suleiman contains many;
early Arab sorcerers capture or destroy the remainder in
or before 930 BCE.[2][1]
939 BCE: Suleiman compiles and releases the Solomonic
Code.[1]
929 BCE: The nation of Etruria is founded.[14]
928 BCE: Suleiman the Wise dies under mysterious
circumstances.[1]
900 BCE: The White Coumatha begins the Himalayan
Wars. Plague strikes an Akashic camp.Smoke Tiger kills
the Dacoit Ranjit and accuses the Dacoits of murdering
those destined to oppose the sect. Dacoit Acarya
Natadeva and Vajrapani Chan Ng halt hostilities.[11]
A small sect of priests, The White Veils of the
Temple live in the Holy Land.[15]
900 BCE - 600s BCE' (or -400 BCE[16], or -300
BCE[6]): Himalayan Wars.[17][18]
900 BCE - 500 BCE: The Etruscan civilization.[19]
1000 BCE - 800 BCE: The Mahabharata and the
Ramayana join the tradition of Vedic canon.[1]
899 BCE: Varjapani sifu Chan Ng reverses his position
and orders the death of all death mages along the Ganges.
[2]
850 BCE: Beginning of the Wheel of
Swords. Thanatoic scholars notice that young mages
seem to have vendettas against other mages they've never
met, and conclude that theirAvatars are reincarnating
carrying the rage of their former lives. These mages -
even young children - are susceptible to Infernalism.[2]
850 BCE: Necrosynthetic magic becomes a high art
among the Idran, who use it to become the Nagaraja.[2]
800 BCE: The art of writing with ink and brush is quite
rare at this time.[3]
800 BCE: The people known as the Celts first appear
in Austria.[4]
800 BCE: Melanippe, a Maenad, exists around this time.
She creates a Wonder, theDithyramb of the Maenad
Melanippe.[5]
800 BCE (approx.): The Garou discover that the Fae have
been using them. The War of Silver and Iron begins.[6]
800 BCE - 500 BCE: Growth of Greek city-states (e.g.
Athens). Expansion of Congregationalactivities
into Europe.[7]
800 BCE - 115 BCE: The Sabaean period.[8]
900 BCE - 600 BCE: Himalayan Wars.[1][2]
Himalayan Wars end. Misunderstanding
between Akashic missionaries and Hindu magi sparks
feud. Reincarnation Arts ensure the feud is long and
bitter. Ends through Akashic withdrawal and seclusion.[3]
1120 BCE - 630 BCE: Ma'inite period.[4]
680 BCE: The Milesian school of philosophy attempts to
define reality through pure reason.[5]
679 BCE: The beginning of the Himalayan Wars,
although this is contradicted by other sources.[6][1]
672 BCE - 525 BCE: The 26th Dynasty in Egypt ; the
increasing contact between Greece and Egypt (and the
import of mercenaries from the former to the latter)
allows Black Furies to enter the land of Khem and help
strengthen the remaining werewolves there.[7][8]
660 BCE: Lydian king Gyges sends Greek mercenaries
to Egypt to aid Pharaoh Psammethicus I. First major
Hellenizing influence on the Thothian practise of the Art.
[9]
660 BCE: Jimmu Tenno, the future emperor of
the Japanese Yamato dynasty, is born.[10]
650 BCE: Legends say the great Black
Fury Leukippes slays a corrupt priest of Apollo,Kamisos,
around this time.[11]
650: The Milesian school describes the world as
consisting of fundamental, primordial elements. Thales of
Miletus and his disciples develop the Greek atomic
theory.[12]
640 BCE: Solon of Athens is born.[13]
612 BCE: Scythians and Medes sack Nineveh. Black
Fury Leukippes and her pack fight in the battle. [14]
604 BCE - ???: Lao-Tse inspires Taoist alchemy and Arts,
perhaps influenced by the Akashic Brotherhood.[15]
600 BCE: By this year, Hinduism has branched into a
number of schools.[16]
600 BCE: The Greeks venerate Dionysus.[17]
According to the Nephite Priesthood, God grants secret
wisdom to the Nephi.[18]
Many Enuma Anu Enil fragments are inscribed at this
time.[19]
672 BCE - 525 BCE: The 26th Dynasty in Egypt; the
increasing contact between Greece andKhem
(Egypt) (and the import of mercenaries from the former
to the latter) allows Black Furies to enter the land of
Khem and help strengthen the
remaining werewolves there.[1][2]
900 BCE - 500 BCE: The Etruscan civilization.[3]
800 BCE - 500 BCE: Growth of Greek city-states
(e.g. Athens). Expansion of Congregationalactivities
into Europe.[4]
A scroll featuring the Hymn of the One dates to this
period.[5]
Start of the Greek and Chinese Golden Ages of Science.
[6]
Creation of Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism and
Zoroastrianism.[6]
586 BCE: The Idran lose themselves, becoming corrupt
in deed, and later Naraki in fact.[7]
581 BCE: Pythagoras is born.[8]
580 BCE - 200 BCE: The Golden Age of Greek Science.
Science and discovery of the day provide a firm
foundation for what will be the "Western paradigm."
Foundations for theSunantese Daedaleas are
laid. Plato, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Archimedes, Aristotl
e.[8][9]
564 BCE: Gautama Buddha inspires new faith
throughout India and, later, Asia.[8]
560 BCE - 200 BCE: Golden Age of Chinese
Science. Kung Fu-tse, Lu Pan. Chinese paradigmbased on
celestial order.[10][9]
560 BCE: Pythagoras of Samos, an Awakened magus and
mathematician, travels to Egyptand becomes an initiate in
the cult of Thoth (by this time, in decline).[11]
559 BCE: Solon of Athens dies. He later becomes
the Muse of Justice.[12]
551 BCE: Master Kung Fu-tse (Confucius) is born.[10]
[13]
550 BCE: Cyrus the Great establishes the Persian Empire.
[14]
545 BCE: Pythagoras returns to Greece and begins
spreading his ideas to the mystery cults present in all
cities. He gets the strongest response from the cults
dedicated to Mercury, god of communication and
eloquence.[11] Cults of Hermes flourish
in Greece, Italy, Egypt. Split
between Acousmatic and Mathematic factions sparks War
of Hermes.[10]
540 BCE: Pythagoras expresses the goal of reproducing
nature through a system of mathematical
interrelationships.[15]
535 BCE: Enlightenment of the Buddha Sakyamuni.
Exposure to his teachings and physical presence causes
many spontaneous Awakenings. During his life, no
destructive magics work in the vicinity of his disciples,
allowing the Akashic Brotherhood and Thanatoics to
attempt peace. Battle-hardened
reincarnating Avatars make this largely futile.[16]
525 BCE: Pythagoras travels to Croton in
southern Italy and begins forming his own secret
personality cult based on Thothian concepts: number
theory, music and astronomy.[11]
514 BCE: The Night of Fana. The Kamil, or Entelechy,
appears. Beginning of the Ahl-i-Batin.[10][7][14][9][17]
[16]
509 BCE: Foundation of the Roman Republic.[4]
503 BCE: The All-Consuming Fire falls prey to demons
masquerading as Vedic gods. The impostors claim that it's
all well and good to escape the suffering of the Wheel by
meditation, but the compassionate thing to do is to
annihilate the Wheel altogether.[18]
501 BCE: The first recorded biomechanism is a hand
created for Sun Tzu.[19]
500 BCE: Roman historian Hegesistatus escapes from leg
manacles by cutting off his foot; later, he crafts a wooden
replacement.[20][21]
500 BCE: Pythagoras dies. The Greek cult of Hermes is
at its height in Athens; Socrates and most other Athenians
are familiar with its ideas, and Plato is probably an
initiate. Although he never Awakens, Plato's writings are
very influential to the forming of the Greek
magickalpraxis. The cult of Hermes begins spreading
to Rome, where Hermes is known as Mercury.[11]
500 BCE: Hindu concepts of the soul, karma and dharma
are radically re-examined by spiritual teacher Siddhartha
Guatama. He becomes known as the Buddha.[22]
500 BCE: Persia becomes the centre of the vast
Achaemenid Empire which stretches from
southeast Europe and north Africa in the west to India in
the east, and from the Caucasus mountains and the Syr
Darya river in the north to the Gulf of Oman in the south.
The Taftaniare hailed as great mystics, warriors, and
purveyors of Truth.[14]
500 BCE - 384 BCE: The Years of the Shroud, a period
of the Himalayan Wars unable to be pierced by temporal
scrying magic.[16]
500 BCE - 300s AD: Mystery cults of the Classical
World, such as the Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries,
the cults of Isis and Mithraism, flourish throughout this
period.[23]
nts Edit
Golden Age of Greek Science continues. Foundations for
the Sunantese Daedaleas are laid.Western paradigm takes
form.[1]
Golden Age of Chinese Science continues. Cosmic order
dominates Chinese paradigm.[1]
Mithraism dates from this period, with Mithra appearing
as a Persian god of light and wisdom.[2]
Herodotus visits Babylon and reports that every woman
in the city must spend a night in the "Temple of
Aphrodite" atop Etemenanki to await a conjugal visit
from Marduk. In truth, the resident priests use a "Sacred
Marriage" ritual to activate the gate, giving the Void the
strength to manifest.[3]
497 BCE: Pythagoras dies.[1]
496 BCE - 480 AD: The Searing Wind sect of the Wan
Xian attempts to take Mount Kailas, which is defended by
the Akashic Brotherhood. The Wan Xian strikes an
alliance with Yi Han, the Five-Ghost Emperor, a Yomi-
corrupted Wu Lung. His involvement escalates the
conflict into the Dragon River War. The resulting
devastation leads to a decade of famine and drought
which brings the Dalou'laoshi into the conflict.[4][5]
494 BCE: Gautama Buddha dies.[1]
490 BCE - 250 BCE: Within a relatively short period of
time, viziers establish four great cities through use of
magic: Ad, Thamud, Tasm, and Jadis are build by
the Taftani. The Taftani kings and warlords of these cities
engage in increasingly destructive battles until all four are
blasted beyond recognition.[6]
479 BCE: Master Kung Fu-tse (Confucius) dies.[4][7]
478 BCE: Temple of Apollo built at Delphi.[8]
475 BCE: By this year, Chinese culture has acquired the
sophistication and ruthlessness that would be put to good
use by Qin Shihuang.[9]
470 BCE: Socrates is born.[1]
460 BCE: Hippocrates is born.[1]
444 BCE: Vedavati comes to prominence, uniting many
dead thanatoic sects and Chantries, as well as recruiting
many mortal princes and Ecstatics to her cause. Her order
is dubbedNatapas, the Dancers of the Inner Fire. She later
collaborates with Grand HarvesterSubramanian, uniting
the death mages of India into a force they dub
the Chakravanti.[10]
424 BCE: Four brothers, mages known as the Sons of
Thucydides, discover the Inventium in the Astral Umbra.
[11]
420 BCE: Beginning of Lu Pan's career.[4]
414 BCE: Larth Fulumchva is born in the Etrurian city
of Tarchna.[12]
400 BCE: Hippocrates founds the Cosian Circle.[4][13]
400 BCE: By this year, the Himalayan War has turned
the Akashayana from ascetics into warriors.[14]
400 BCE - 100 BCE: One hundred years after Pythagoras'
death, his followers split into two
groups: Acousmatics who are devoted to Pythogoras' rites
and sayings; and the Mathematicfaction, who are devoted
to number theory and music. Conflicts between the two
come to a head during the War of Hermes. The
Mathematicals migrate to Plato's Academy as the Cults of
Mercury, while the Acousmatics die out.[4][15][5][16]
400 BCE - 250 AD: Petra is built by the Nabateans.[6]
[17]
400 BCE - 100 BCE: War of Hermes continues.[1]
Life of Fionn mac Cumhail, Fianna Kinfolk. He had
adventures with a band of mercenaries called The Fianna
Eireann, after the Garou tribe. His spirit and those of his
comrades were eventually bound into the Sword of Fionn,
a powerful Fianna Fetish.[2]
Golden Age of Greek Science continues.
Western paradigm takes form.[3]
Golden Age of Chinese Science continues. Cosmic order
dominates Chinese paradigm.[1]
500 BCE - 384 BCE: The Years of the Shroud, a period
of the Himalayan Wars unable to be pierced by temporal
scrying magic. After this point, the Akashic
Brotherhood is largely contained by the Sapindya
Sadananda (Consanguinity of Eternal Joy) and
the Natatapas.[4]
965 BCE - 300 BCE: The Himalayan War ends.[5][6][7]
399 BCE: Socrates dies.[3]
391 BCE: End of the career of Lu Pan.[1]
390 BCE: Cisalpine Celts defeat Rome Warders of
Men prevent Fianna from cleansing the city
of Wyrm Taint.[8]
390 BCE: Beginning of Plato's career.[3]
384 BCE: Beginning of Aristotle's career.[3]
381 BCE: End of Plato's career.[3]
377 BCE: Hippocrates dies.[3]
371 BCE: Lyle (eventually embraced to become
a Ventrue) presumably was born this year.[9]
360 BCE: Beginning of Praxagorus' career.[3]
354 BCE: The combined might of the Grand
Harvester Subranamian and Vedavati of
theNatatapas manifest as the Shivasakti Ayavatara, or
"Iron Avatar," and destroy the lastAkashic stronghold
south of the Ganges, ending the Himalayan Wars. The
two factions unite, forming the core of the Chakravanti.
[4][10]
350 BCE: Beginning of the career of Shang Yang.[1]
342 BCE: Lyle is Embraced by an unknown Ventrue sire.
[9][11]
341 BCE: End of the career of Shang Yang.[1]
340 BCE: Epicurus is born.[3]
338 BCE: The Eunuch Bagoas assassinates Persian
King Artaxerxes III. The bitter emotions of Persians and
the symbolic fall of an empire turn Artaxerxes' Court into
a powerful Node(later claimed by the Chakravanti).[12]
335 BCE: End of Praxagorus' career.[3]
334 BCE - 323 BCE: Alexander destroys the Persian
Empire, begins the consolidation of the Greek world and
Hellenistic age.[13]
332 BCE: Alexander the Great conquers Egypt, resulting
in a fusion of Persian, Egyptian andGreek cultures.
Resultant travel and communication allows a fusion of
different sorts of Kabbalah, Gnosticism and Persian
religion, creating what is recognizable as the beginnings
of the Hermetic tradition.[14][15]
331 BCE: Alexander the Great wins the battle of Arbela
and conquers the Persian Empire.[16]
329 BCE: The city of Themiscrya is destroyed
by Alexander the Great. This solidifies the resolve of the
exiled Sisters of Hippolyta.[17]
327 BCE: Alexander the Great tries to take India,
bringing Greek priests and mages, with whom
the Chakravanti recognize a kinship.[18]
322 BCE: End of Aristotle's career.[3]
320 BCE: Necross is Embraced by an
unknown Malkavian sire.[19]
323 BCE - 30 BCE: Somewhere in this time-frame Black
Furies establish the Sept of the Bloodied Stair in
Alexandria's Kom ash-Shuqqafa catacombs, with
a Caern of Enigmas and Rage.[20][21]
300 BCE: The Sunantese Daedaleas is founded.[3]
300 BCE: Mo-Tzu is born.[1]
300 BCE: The Yayoi people make an appearance
in Japan.[22]
300 BCE: The Jnani compose the Drahma Sutra from the
recollections of the Akashic Record. The styles of Do, as
well as its name, are codified for the first time.[23]
The tomb in which Larth Fulumchva is imprisoned dates
to this period.[24]
Korean tribes uniting under Chinese pressure form the
kingdoms of Puyo and Koguro.[25]
Cosian influence starts to wane in an increasingly
barbaric world.[26]
The Sky-Throat lived at roughly this time. She won
the Sept of Luna's Forest Glory for theGet of Fenris from
the Fianna, and the two tribes agreed to share the
caern. [1]
400 BCE - 100 BCE: War of Hermes continues.[2]
580 BCE - 200 BCE: The Golden Age of Greek Science.
Science and discovery of the day provide a firm
foundation for what will be the
"Western paradigm." Plato, Pythagoras,Hippocrates, Arch
imedes, Aristotle.[3]
560 BCE - 200 BCE: Golden Age of Chinese
Science. Kung Fu-tse, Lu Pan. Chinese paradigmbased on
celestial order.[3]
Alchemy dates back to roughly this period.[4]
Archimedes builds legendary war machines and carefully
documents his methods.[5]
Chandragupta Maurya unites most of India.[6]
Callimachus is a poet, grammarian and librarian at
the Library of Alexandria.[7]
490 BCE - 250 BCE: Within a relatively short period of
time, viziers establish four great cities through use of
magic: Ad, Thamud, Tasm, and Jadis are build by
the Taftani. The Taftani kings and warlords of these cities
engage in increasingly destructive battles until all four are
blasted beyond recognition.[8]
287 BCE: Archimedes is born.[9][10]
271 BCE: Epicurus dies.[9]
260 BCE: Shin-Huang-Ti, First Emperor of China, and
patron of the Dalou'laoshi, is born.[2]
256 BCE: End of the Zhou Dynasty.[11][12][10] The
"First Chinese Empire" arises, led by Emperor Cheng.
[13][5]
241 BCE: Mo-Tzu dies.[2]
221 BCE: With the coming of Qin Shuhuang, the first
Emperor to unify China[14], Fu Xiaunites the Wu
Lung.They begin persecuting peasant wizards,
inadvertently angering theAkashic Brotherhood.[2][15]
[16][17][18]
220 BCE: The "Wu-Keng"'s otherworldly masters
transform them into women to escape imprisonment. As
punishment, they order all Wu-Keng to disguise
themselves as women for the remainder of their servitude.
[19]
212 BCE: Archimedes dies.[9][10]
210 BCE: Shin-Huang-Ti, First Emperor of China, and
patron of the Dalou'laoshi, dies.[2]
200 BCE: Dalou'laoshi founded.[2]
200 BCE: Sometime around this year, the Grand Hall of
Endless Gates arises in the Astral Umbra from the needs
of travellers for a waystation or shelter.[20]
200 BCE: A famous legalist work is written by
Prince Han Fei Tzu, warning a ruler not to let private
affairs get in the way of statecraft.[21]
400 BCE - 100 BCE: War of Hermes ends.[1] One
hundred years after Pythagoras' death, his followers split
into two groups: Acousmatics who are devoted to
Pythogoras' rites and sayings; and
the Mathematic faction, who are devoted to number
theory and music. Conflicts between the two come to a
head during the War of Hermes. The Mathematicals
migrate to Plato's Academy as the Cults of Mercury,
while the Acousmatics die out.[1][2][3][4]
190 BCE - 170 BCE: Silk
Accord. Artisans from Europe and Asia travel between
their native lands, establishing early silk trade and
information exchange. Sunatese Deadaleas signs pact
with Dalou'laoshi.[1] The Silk Accord brings together
Western Daedaleans and the Dalou'laoshiin a pact based
on the exchange of knowledge and trade.[3][5]
186 BCE: The Roman Senate outlaws all lodges and
playhouses of Bacchus (Dionysus).[6]
175 BCE: Aristarchus begins his tenure as the fifth
Librarian at the Library of Alexandria. He is one of the
first known people to suggest a heliocentric model of the
solar system.[7]
160 BCE - 100 BCE: Burning Tiger War. Akashics, Wu
Lung and Dalou'laoshi savage each other. Devil-
wizard Tau-tse raises demon army and attacks all sides
until being banished by Akashics Te Kwan and Zhen Ba.
[1][3]
150 BCE: Roman Cult of Mercury at its height. Magi cast
spells in large groups using many expensive rites.
Generally operates covertly.[2]
150 BCE: Mt. Ossa Calyx. Various societies of Greek
philosopher-scientists gather to preserve the knowledge
of the Classic Age. Pericles of
Rhodes assassinates Modesto the Just and assumes
leadership of Calyx.[1][8]
145 BCE: Aristarchus ends his tenure as the fifth
Librarian at the Library of Alexandria[7], passing the
metaphorical torch to Kydas.[9]
116 BCE: Kydas ends his tenure as the sixth Librarian at
the Library of Alexandria.[9]
115 BCE - 300 AD: The first Himyarine period.[10]
111 BCE: Vietnam's Au Lac is conquered by the Han
Empire.[11]
104 BCE: The mummy known as "Jacob" is born at
approximately this time (100 years before Christ).[12]
100 BCE: Establishment of silk routes leads Taftani to
contact with Wu Lung wizards fromChina.[10]
323 BC - 30 BC: Somewhere in this time-frame Black
Furies establish the Sept of the Bloodied Stair in
Alexandria's Kom ash-Shuqqafa catacombs, with
a Caern of Enigmas and Rage.[13][14]
Archimedes builds large-scale machines, such as the
hydraulic screw and war engines.[15]
The Sacred Congregation is founded, marking the end of
the Celestial Chorus' First Age and the beginning of the
Second Age.[16][17]
Rome's representative government suffers a slow decline,
as senators power is directly proportional to how close his
legions are stationed to Rome.[18]
Late 2nd Century BCE Edit
A Nephandus known as Domitius Tanicius Linus lives
among the Roman occupational army as an advisor. After
challenging a cabal to retake a stolen Node, they shatter
his Avatar and curse him to live as long as the Node holds
strength. From this point on, Bosnia knows no peace.[19]
323 BC - 30 BCE: Somewhere in this time-frame Black
Furies establish the Sept of the Bloodied
Stair in Alexandria's Kom ash-Shuqqafa catacombs, with
a Caern of Enigmas and Rage.[1][2]
57 BC: Cinvortrix of the Hounds of the Horned
One and Elim of the Fierce Ones battle for the high
kingship of Tara. Elim wins, and proclaims himself Ard
Righ or high king of all theFianna, although this claim
will not be recognized by most Fianna outside of Ireland
for some time.[3][4]
54 BCE - 40 BCE: War between Celtic sorcerers
and Roman legions as Romans invadeBritain. Druids
retreat into woods and forge pacts with fae.
[5] Roman invasion of Britain. The destruction of many
Celtic sorcerers and druids.[6]
49 BCE: Julius Caesar begins his rule of Rome.[7]
44 BCE: Julius Caesar is assassinated.[7] Provides the
impetus for Lucius Casioli's transformation of Mt. Ossa
Calyx into the Collegium Praecepti, the Brotherhood of
the Rule.[6]
44 BCE: After Caesar's death, Lucius Casioli changes Mt.
Ossa Calyx into the Collegium Praecepti. Moves guild
hall from Greece to Rome, names its craft Ars Praeclarus.
[5]
31 BCE: The Solium Submergens emerges for the second
time, this time brought up by an earthquake in the Black
Sea, and the Rite of Undying Pursuit is enacted to chase
the threat through eternity.[8]
31 BCE: Octavian and Mark Antony clash in Greece.
Octavian's navy blockades and sinks Antony's ships.
Antony and Cleopatra are routed to Egypt, where
Octavian follows.[9]
30 BCE: Octavian catches up to Mark
Antony and Cleopatra in Egypt, where Octavian absorbs
Antony's army and annexes Egypt.[9]
27 BCE: Octavian offers to settle into private life, leaving
the Roman senate with the messy job of cleaning up the
republic. They offer him plenty of perks and incentives to
stay. Octavian names himself Augustus and becomes the
de facto ruler of Rome.[9]
10 BCE - 400 AD: Codification of the Hermetic arts in
the Corpus Hermeticum, attributed toHermes
Trismegistus. Over time, pagan influences decrease and
the influence of Christianity increases. The Messianic
Voices form as a faction within the larger Hermetic body.
[6]
4 BCE: Jesus of Nazareth is born.[5]
4 BCE - 30 AD: Life of Jesus Christ.[10][6]
3 BCE: Apollonius of Tyana, Greek magus and healer, is
born.[11]
Sometime late in this century, or early in the following,
the Kyphur cats, Kinfolk to theBubasti tribe of the Bastet,
become extinct save for a few Blood Bound remnants
kept by theFollowers of Set.[12]
By this time, the Vietnam kingdom of Au Lac has
developed a sophisticated bronze-working society.[13]
Sometime early in this century, or late in the preceding,
the Kyphur cats, Kinfolk to theBubasti tribe of the Bastet,
become extinct save for a few Blood Bound remnants

AD 9: Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, the Imperial
Roman Army's bloodiest defeat.
14: Death of Emperor Augustus (Octavian),
ascension of his adopted son Tiberius to the
throne.
26-34: Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, exact date
unknown.
37: Death of Emperor Tiberius, ascension of
his nephew Caligula to the throne.
40: Rome conquers Morocco.
41: Emperor Caligula is assassinated by the
Roman senate. His uncle Claudius succeeds
19 AD: Glamourgan, a faerie mage,
defeats various monsters and builds
Cardiff Keep.
33 AD: Death of Christ. Malkavians
claim that the “miraculous”
disappearance of the body is one of
their best pranks ever. The gypsies
claim that he gave them permission
to steal everything that isn’t nailed
down, in gratitude for their stealing
one of the nails which had been
forged to nail him up.
kept by theFollowers of Set.[1]
Sometime early in this century, or late in the preceding,
the Methuselah that gives rise toMictlantecuhtli arrives in
North America.[2]
Messianic Voices forms as a faction within
the Hermetics which espouses the teachings of Christ.[3]
In an attempt to increase the popularity of technology,
the Artificer Hero of Alexandria writes the Pneumatics
and creates ingenious gadgets to amuse idle spectators.
Among other things, he creates a puppet show with
automatically-closing curtains, a device to open temple
doors when a fire is lit, a machine to dispense holy water.
[4]
A mysterious race of sentinels appears in the Grand Hall
of Endless Gates. Travellers can wander the Hall, but are
not permitted to set up residence.[5]
By this time, Laos' Ban Chiang civilization has organized
into several city-states, called mandalas.[6]
The Sacred Congregation undergoes a rapid conversion to
Christianity.[7]
The first organized conservation effort of traditional ways
begins this century.[8]
4 BC - 30 AD: Life of Jesus of Nazareth. According to
some heretics, a powerful magician.[9]
10 BC - 400 AD: Codification of the Hermetic Arts,
culminating in the Corpus Hermeticum, a 17-scroll
document attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. Initially
pagan, Hermetic sorcerers gradually shift to Christianity.
[9]
43 AD-410 AD: Period
of Roman Britain. Fianna discover "Hollow
Men" fomori there at this time. [10][citation needed]
100 AD circa: The Battle of Ice. The Four Courts battle
over the Crystal Fortress. Notable because
him.
43: Rome enters Britain for the first time.
54: Emperor Claudius dies and is succeeded by
his grand nephew Nero.
68: Emperor Nero commits suicide, prompting
the Year of the four emperors in Rome.
70: Destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of
Titus.
79: Destruction of Pompeii by the volcano
Vesuvius.
98: After a two-year rule, Emperor Nerva dies
of natural causes, his adopted son Trajan
succeeds him.
106-117: Roman Empire at largest extent
under Emperor Trajan after having conquered
modern-day Romania, Iraq and Armenia.
117: Trajan dies of natural causes. His adopted
son Hadrian succeeds him. Hadrian pulls out
of Iraq and Armenia.
126: Hadrian completes the Pantheon in Rome.
138: Hadrian dies of natural causes. His
adopted son Antoninus Pius succeeds him.
161: Death of Antoninus Pius. His rule was the
only one in which Rome did not fight in a war.
192: Kingdom of Champa in Central Vi?t
Nam.
200s: The Buddhist Srivijaya Empire
established in Maritime Southeast Asia.
220: Three Kingdoms period begins in China
after the fall of Han Dynasty.
226: Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of
the Sassanian Empire.
238: Defeat of Gordian III (238–244), Philip
the Arab (244–249), and Valerian (253–260),
132 AD: Horus resurrects, and takes
the Alps as his stronghold. His war
with the Settites continues, on an
ever-larger scale.
~150 AD: The White Howlers fall to
the Wyrm – and are transformed
into the Black Spiral Dancers.
~200 AD: The Roman Empire starts
to disintegrate, in part due to Settite
meddling. In the Shadowlands, the
“Christian” wraiths set sail for their
own version of the far shores –
“Paradise”. Being strong-willed,
they call it into being within the
Tempest.
350 AD: Creation of the Kiasyd.
They’re next heard from in 1215,
when they take over Strasbourg,
Germany. Nobody ever does find
out why they wanted the place.
413 AD: Creation of the Cainite
Heresy.
438 AD: Set up by Settites, the
Tal’mahe’Ra goes to war with the
Assamites. This continues until 517
– when they find out what’s going
on, and both groups turn on the
Settites. Along the way, the
Talmahe’Ra splits into subsects,
which don’t get back together until
the Treaty Of Enoch in 1750.
476 AD: Thanks to Brujah efforts
the city of Rome falls to attacking
barbarians. While remnants of the
no firstborn were on the battlefield: inanimae lead
squadrons of changelings and enslaved mortals.[1]
Hermes, the Greek messenger god, is transformed
into Hermes Trismegistus, or Hermes the Thrice-Great.[2]
Veneration of Mithra transforms into a widespread
"mystery religion" throughout the Roman Empire.[3]
The Messianic Voices appear as a Christian fringe group
within the Sacred Congregation.[4] At the same time,
the Sons of Mitras grow in power. By the end of the
century, the two faiths are rivals.[5]
Lao-tzu allegedly appears to Chang Tao-ling in a
mountain cave. After complaining that demonic influence
led the world away from the Tao, Lao-tzu made Chang
the first Celestial Master (not related to the Celestial
Masters).[6]
The archival venture of Flavius Longinus Didacus falls
apart.[7]
Wyrm corruption appears throughout Pictish Scotland.
[citation needed]
A pack of White Howlers attack the pit where the Beast-
of-War appeared from, but are dragged down and
corrupted into Black Spiral Dancers instead
200s-600s: Alchemy flourishes.[1]
During this century, Croatan fully destroy the Adena
mound-building culture in the Ohio Valley.[2]
Fionn mac Cumhail, a Fianna Kinfolk, has adventures
with a band of mercenaries called TheFianna Eireann,
after the Garou tribe. His spirit and those of his comrades
is eventually bound into the Sword of Fionn, a
powerful Fianna Fetish.[3]
The Mouseion joins the Bibliotheca Iskandrina in
the Vulgate.[4]
300s - 1300s: Golden Age of Pagan Magick begins.[2]
By this time, Doissetep is considered a centre for
by Shapur I of Persia, (Valerian was captured
by the Persians).
280: Emperor Wu established Jin Dynasty
providing a temporary unity of China after the
devastating Three Kingdoms period.
285: Diocletian becomes emperor of Rome and
splits the Roman Empire into Eastern and
Western Empires.
285: Diocletian begins a large-scale
persecution of Christians.
292: The capital of the Roman empire is
officially moved from Rome to Mediolanum
(modern day Milan).
301: Diocletian's edict on prices
313: Edict of Milan declared that the Roman
Empire would tolerate all forms of religious
worship.
325: Constantine I organizes the First Council
of Nicaea.
330: Constantinople is officially named and
becomes the capital of the eastern Roman
Empire.
335: Samudragupta becomes the emperor of
the Gupta empire.
337: Emperor Constantine I dies, leaving his
sons Constantius II, Constans I, and
Constantine II as the emperors of the Roman
empire.
350: Constantius II is left sole emperor with
the death of his two brothers.
354: Birth of Augustine of Hippo
361: Constantius II dies, his cousin Julian
succeeds him.
378: Battle of Adrianople, Roman army is
empire will continue for some time,
the end is coming. As the empire
falls, many Toreadors slip into
torpor – hoping to awaken in
another time of debauchery and
excess. In the Shadowlands, the first
Maelstrom erupts.
500 AD: The Dark Ages begin.
While many mourn the destruction
of the roman empire, others view
this as a chance to hold a centuries-
long vamphyric party. In the
Shadowlands, Charon appoints
himself emperor – and banishes the
Ferrymen, who refuse to accept the
notion – or the changing of the
Senators into the Deathlords. The
rebuilding begins.
537 AD: Battle Of Camlan and
death of King Arthur.
541 AD: The bubonic plague
appears in Egypt. Over the next fifty
years somewhere between 1/3 and
2/3’rds of the population of Europe
will die. Minor outbreaks will
continue, but the bubonic plague
will not be seen again at this
intensity until 1347.
652 AD: Morgan Le Fey retreats to
Avalon.
754 AD: The Cainite Heresy is
uncovered and declared anathema.
While it’s impossible to fully stamp
out the various blood cults that have
magickal learning.[3]
India's Gupta dynasty comes to power.[4]
Several Buddhist schools emphasize bodhisattvas as role
models for Buddhists to follow.[5]
The Messianic Voices rise to become the dominant voice
within the Sacred Congregation.
400 While the Roman Empire descends into decadence
and disrepair, China has formed the most advanced
civilization in the world.[1]
The Merovingians, a faction of the Messianic Voices, date
to roughly this century.[2]
By the end of this century, the Sons of Mitras have gone
underground.[3]
The Lamanites slay all the people of Nephi until only he
prophet Moroni is left to complete the writings of his
father Mormon.[4]
A Persian scroll called the Zolondrodere surfaces (which
may be a translation of an earlier work). The scroll,
roughly translated, is the Covenant of the Silver Portal.[5]
[6]
The Beth-Alpha Synagogue in Galilee dates to this
period.[7]
The physical aspect of the Library of Alexandria is
destroyed by Bishop Theophilus. Its essence continues on
as the Bibliotheca Iskandrina in the Vulgate.[8][9]
500 - 550: The Akashic Brotherhood constructs several
monasteries throughout the East to help enlighten the
common people. The most famous, the Shaolin, soon
gains great reputation.[1]
Around 500 AD, settlers from Ireland found
Dalriada. Fianna capture two Caerns just prior to the
initial landings.[2]
During this century Arturus the Bear-King rules in
Britain.[3]
defeated by the Germanic tribes.
380: Roman Emperor Theodosius I declares
the Arian faith of Christianity heretical.
395: Theodosius I outlaws all religions other
than Catholic Christianity.
406: Romans are expelled from Britain.
407-409: Visigoths and other Germanic tribes
cross into Roman-Gaul for the first time.
410: Visigoths sacks Rome for the first time
since 390 BC.
415: Germanic tribes enter Spain.
429: Vandals enter North Africa from Spain for
the first time
439: Vandals have conquered the land
stretching from Morocco to Tunisia by this
time.
455: Vandals sack Rome, capture Sicily and
Sardinia.
c. 455: Skandagupta repels an Indo-
Hephthalite attack on India.
476: Romulus Augustus, last Western Roman
Emperor is forced to abdicate by Odoacer, a
chieftain of the Germanic Heruli; Odoacer
returns the imperial regalia to Eastern Roman
Emperor Zeno in Constantinople in return for
the title of dux of Italy; most frequently cited
date for the end of ancient history.
405 St. Jerome finishes the Vulgate.
The Christian Gospel is translated into
Latin.[1]
410 August 24 Rome is sacked by
Alaric, King of the Visigoths. Decisive
event in the decline of the Western Roman
Empire.[2]
infiltrated the catholic church over
the centuries, if only because they’re
all independent, things get far more
difficult for them.
800 AD: Charon creates the
“Dictum Mortem” or Code Of The
Dead, to restrain the excesses of the
wraiths and their interference with
the living.
812 AD: Thanks to Charlemagne,
Ventrue control of Christianity
reaches its all-time high.
848 AD: Magus Tremere is
narrowly prevented from taking
control of the entire Order of
Hermes. He is now recognized to be
dangerously ambitious.
900 AD: The Fisher’s/Christian’s
golden ship – the first built on the
Shores of Paradise – sails into the
harbor of Stygia. Charon recognizes
the Fishers.
960 AD: Jorsca, a young Gypsy,
establishes a loose alliance with
Lareth, an elder Gangrel. Their pact
of mutual assistance gradually
becomes a tradition within both
their “families”.
999 AD: Gerbert of Aurillac, later
Pope Sylvester II, and by some
accounts an accomplished magus,
orders the founding of the “occult”
section(s) of the vatican library, and
(supposedly) sponsors an order of
Career of philosopher Lao Tzu.[4]
Cleisthenes revolutionizes Athenian democratic
government.[5]
By this time, Chinese writing, political thought, and
Buddhism have all been introduced toJapan.[6]
Buddhism and Hinduism are in a philosophical clash for
followers.[7]
The Malleus Nefandorum first appears in a half-dozen
cities along the Mediterranean coast.[8]
Classical period of Guatemalan Mayan city-states begins.
Some of the “gods” to whom blood was given may have
been vampires. Other city-states revere Bastet of
the Balam tribe.[9]
A Stargazer sees The Cow, a Gorgon, in India, and
worships it as a god. [10]
600s: Alchemy flourishes.[1]
The court of Japanese Emperor Shotoku.
The Kaizankai cabal trace their ancestry to this point.[2]
The influence of the Shi-Ren wanes.[3]
Buddhism and Hinduism are in a philosophical clash for
followers.[4]
Rise of the Islamic Empire. The leader of a mystical cult
at the time eventually becomes the Archbishop of
Madness, Doge Klypse, Maeljin of Sykora, the Urge-
Wyrm of Paranoia.[5]
Beginning of the Seventh century: brief attacks of the
Black Furies on members of the Catholic Church. A
couple of centuries later, Black Furies will form the Order
of Our Mercyful Mother.[6]
700 A group of Chi'n Ta who gather around the imperial
court of Japan form the basis of theSaensaeng.[1]
800s-1100s: Cambodia's Angkor period.[1]
The Freedom Razor cabal is founded as
a Chakravanti assassins' cult.[2]
431 June 22-July 31 Council of
Ephesus Confirmed the original Nicene
Creed,[3] and condemned the teachings of
Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, that led
to his exile and separation with the Church of
the East.
455 June 2 Rome is sacked by Genseric,
King of the Vandals.[4] Another decisive
event in the Fall of Rome and held by some
historians to mark the "end of the Roman
Empire".[5]
476 September 4 Odoacer deposes the last
Roman Emperor Romulus Augustulus
Considered by many to be the starting
point of the Middle Ages[6]
c. 500 Battle of Mons Badonicus.
The West Saxon advance is halted by
Britons in England. Chiefly known today for
the supposed involvement of King Arthur but
because of the limited number of sources, there
is no certainty about the date, location, or
details of the fighting.[7][8]
507 Spring The Franks under Clovis defeat
the Visigoths in the Battle of Vouille.
The Visigoths retreated into Spain.[9]
c. 524 Boethius writes his Consolation
of Philosophy It has been described as the
single most important and influential work in
the West on Medieval and early Renaissance
Christianity.[10]
525 Dionysius Exiguus publishes the
Dionysius Exiguus' Easter table. This
initiated the Anno Domini era, used for the
Gregorian and Julian calendars.
mages.
1022 AD: Under the leadership of
Tremere, several Magi try for
immortality thru alchemy and
vampire blood. The attempt fails,
resulting in undeath rather then in
eternal life. It also gains the enmity
of the Tzimisce – who are not
pleased at having clan members
used, and used up, in
experimentation. Sadly, the usual
Kindred infighting reaches such a
level that the line begins a policy of
blood bonding all initiates. Rumors,
always denied, state that the
members founding council itself are
also blood bound – probably to
Tremere himself.
~1030 AD: The Tzimisce ally with
the Gangrel and the Nosferatu in a
pogrom against the Tremere.
Progress is slow – especially at first
– but the newly-established
“Chantries” will eventually begin to
fall.
~1100 AD: Several Knights are
embraced during the first crusade,
and sent to find the Holy Grail.
They do, and in drinking from it
gain special powers against evil – as
well as the ability to get along
without drinking blood. They
become the Order Of The Bitter
Ashes – but soon lose custody of the
Greek literature and Indian mathematics are translated
into Arabic, leading to an evolution of Arab science,
capable of absorbing new ideas.[3]
First appearance in correspondence of organization called
"Cabal of Pure Thought." Cabal is a faction of the Sacred
Congregation, dedicated to enforcing the idea of a single
religion as a means to Ascension.[4]
The Sisters of Hippolyta find a semi-permanent home in
southern France. They expand from a concentration on
healing arts to a general focus on the connections
between mind, body, and the Earth.[5]
Late 800s Edit
Leif Ericsson comes to North America. It's debatable if he
brought Life-mages with him.[6]
900 Sometime during this century, a Viking settlement is
established somewhere on the island of Newfoundland,
and a few Fenrir made the journey as well. Conflict
quickly arose between the Fenrir and native Garou, and
the settlement didn't last more than a few decades. Stories
say that some of the Get remained and bred into native
populations, giving rise to the Ymir's Sweat.[1]
Early 900s: An unknown Wyrm-mage uses a
powerful fetish called the "Hunger Stone" to capture
much of Falcon's brood (including Children of
Karnak, Firebirds, and other Falconspirits; the Great
Flock is not among the captured), which he was going to
sacrifice to his “dark masters”. The bulk of the Silver
Fangs make a journey into the Umbra to find the lost
spirits, descending into the third great circle of
the Malfean spiral, called Peduratus, and find the spirits
there. The combined forces of the Silver Fangs and the
captured spirits manage to defeat the Black Spiral
Dancers and Banes that try to prevent their escape. They
escape, though many Silver Fangs die along the way.[2]
527 August 1 Justinian I becomes
Eastern Roman Emperor. Justinian is best
remembered for his Code of Civil Law (529),
and expansion of imperial territory retaking
Rome from the Ostrogoths.
529—534 Justinian I publishes the
Code of Civil Law. This compiled centuries
of legal writings and imperial pronouncements
into three parts of one body of law.
529 Benedict of Nursia founds
monastery at Monte Cassino. The first of
twelve monasteries founded by Saint Benedict,
beginning the Order of Saint Benedict.
532 January 1 Nika Riots in
Constantinople. Nearly half the city
being burned or destroyed and tens of
thousands of people killed.[11]
533 December 15 Byzantines, under
Belisarius, retake North Africa from the
Vandals. Vandal kingdom ends and the
Reconquest of North Africa is completed.
535-554 Gothic War in Italy as a
part of Justinian's Reconquest.
Byzantines retook Italy but crippled the
Byzantine economy and left Italy unable to
cope against the oncoming Lombards.
563 Saint Columba founds mission
in Iona. Constructed an abbey which
helped convert the Picts to Christianity until it
was destroyed and raided by the Vikings in
794.[12]
568 The Kingdom of the Lombards
is founded in Italy. Survived in Italy until
the invasion of the Franks in 774 under
Grail. In the Shadowlands, Charon
adopts a feudal style of government,
takes many deceased crusaders into
his service – and institutes the
system of guilds. The “Christian”
wraiths set up their own orders of
knights.
~1120 AD: The Tremere creates the
Gargoyle line. Now reinforced with
powerful, loyal, and swiftly self-
reproducing shock troops, they
begin to hold their own against the
Tzimisce – and even begin to inflict
serious losses on their foes.
1128 AD: The Templars are
officially recognized by the pope.
They prove willing to go to
incredible, and perilous, lengths to
regain, and hold, the holy land –
studying assorted numina, learning
of herbs and poisons, gathering
relics, collecting wealth, recruiting
magi – and sometimes even
accepting vamphyric backing.
They’re supposedly purged in 1314
– but rumors of holy knights
wielding magical powers continue
long after that date.
1133 AD: Tremere diablorizes
Saulot, who seems to accept it
willingly. The Tremere council
divides the known world into areas
of responsibility. The Inconnu
quietly begin backing the Tzimisce
The dwindling Brotherhood of the Rule, seeing their
roads and cities being carved up as building materials for
castles, decides they have had enough.[3]
An Hermetic-turned-vampire takes the tome containing
the original Greater Ritual of Summoning. He is later
stricken from their records.[4]
Orthodox Christianity comes to Russia, and with it,
the Messianic Voices.[5]
Ibn Fadlan, on a journey across Europe, encounters some
subhuman creatures. Later historians will identify them as
Neanderthals.[6]
1000 Camazotz become completely extinct in the Old
World.[1]
The Artificers have gained enough influence to begin
expansion; they begin to introduce their ideas
to Europe via Italian explorers and the Moors in Spain.[2]
[3]
The Craftmasons attempt to revive commerce by
sponsoring merchant guilds and trade fairs in major cities
throughout Europe, including Flanders and France.[4][5]
The Knights of St. George and the Dragon are founded
in Syria.[6]
Classical period of Guatemalan Mayan city-states ends,
having begun in the 500s. Some of the “gods” to whom
blood was given may have been vampires. Other city-
states revere BalamBastet.[7]
Late 11th century Edit
The kingdoms of Naples and Sicily are conquered by the
Normans, uniting them into a single kingdom.[8]
Byzantine Emperor Alexius I sends a letter to Pope Urban
II, requesting some small military aid and money to be
used against the Seljuk Turks.[9]
800s-1100s: Cambodia's Angkor period.[1]
Thunder’s Roar, Philodox Metis Shadow Lord,
Charlemagne. pogrom in vengeance for the death founds Judges of Doom camp. [2]
c. 570 Muhammad is born. Professed of Saulot. Crusades One of the crusaders later becomes Knight
receiving revelations from God, which were 1200 AD: The foundations of the Entropy, the Wyrm’s Spawn, Maeljin ofKhaaloobh,
recorded in the Qur'an, the basis of Islamic Sabbat are laid as youthful, blood the Urge-Wyrm of Consumption.[3]
theology, in which he is regarded as the last of bound, Tzimisce – ruthlessly Thanks to the Crusades, Europeans begin to discover the
the sent prophets. exploited as disposable troops in intellectual heritage of the Muslims, including alchemy.
577 The West Saxons continue their their elder’s conflicts – seek to find [4][5]
advance at the Battle of Deorham. Led to the a way to break their elders control The Society of Pymander is founded in Spain.[6]
permanent separation of Cornwall, England over them. Those who do rebel, with Merchant guilds and trade fairs spring up
from Wales. some success, but are finally driven in Flanders and France.[7]
581—618 March 4—May 23 Sui to take refuge in western europe. By the end of the century, the Craftmasons have made a
Dynasty in China. China unified once again Minor magical conflicts mark the lot of progress, but they still encounter opposition
during this period for the first time in almost beginning of the “Ascension War” from Superstitionists.[7]
400 years. by later reckoning. A band of insane mages lay waste to
590 September 3 Gregory the Great 1215 AD: The Magna Carta. the Hermetic Covenant of Fuat Drochit in Ireland, turning
becomes Pope. The missionary work Humans formalize ideas of rights, stones to flowers and setting fire to wells. An account
reached new levels during his pontificate, limits to authority, and “the natural mentions "ravaging marauds like unto the mad, strewing
revolutionized the way of worship for the order”. The gauntlet between matter storms like flour in a baker's hovel." When word of the
Catholic Church (Gregorian Chants), liturgy, and spirit is reinforced and the link attack reaches House Criamon, the term "Maraud" sticks.
etc., and was soon canonized after his death. between the Dreaming and Earth is [8][9]
597 Augustine arrives in Kent. damaged. The Japanese Insei system of "retired" rulers controlling
Christianization of England (Anglo- 1229 AD: The Inquisition is the country lasts into this century.[10]
Saxons) begins. founded. While the far more Tantra emerges from Buddhism.[11] The Rasarrnava, a
598—668 Massive Chinese (Sui prominent Spanish Inquisition Tantric manuscript dealing with the transmutation of
and Tang) invasions against Korean Goguryeo. doesn’t begin until 1478, and torture metals, is written.[12]
Contributed to the fall of the Sui will not be approved until 1255, the The Mithraic Singers transform themselves into a secret
Dynasty, and Goguryeo fell under the forces of inquisition is still a terrible threat to and heretical knightly order, who revere Mithras as an
the Tang and Silla. supernatural beings throughout early prophet.[13]
7th century[edit] Europe, as the great catholic church The Palatines have reorganized as the Palatine Knights, a
See also: 7th century begins to admit their existence. It’s secret order of knights and priests.[14]
Year Date Event Significance more of a threat to vampires, as so The Gothic period of art and architecture overtakes the
602—629 Last great Roman- many of them employ it against Classic period.[15]
Persian War. Long conflict leaves both each other. Goratrix, a founding Professor Donald Richardson cites this period as the
empires exhausted and unable to cope with the Tremere, is disciplined for origin of a series of events leading to the founding of
newly united Arab armies under Islam in the
630s
604—609 Grand Canal in China is
fully completed[13] Its main role throughout
its history was the transport of grain to the
capital.
618—907 June 18—June 1 Tang
Dynasty in China. The essential
administrative system of this dynasty lasts for
286 years.
622 9 September— 23 September
Muhammad Migrates from Mecca to
Medina. Event will have designated first
year of the Islamic Calendar, as Anno Hegirae.
626 Joint Persian-Avar-Slav Siege of
Constantinople Constantinople saved, Avar
power broken and Persians henceforth on the
defensive
627 December 12 Battle of Nineveh.
The Byzantines, under Heraclius, crush
the Persians.
632 June 8 Death of Muhammad.By this
point, all of Arabia is Muslim.
632 June 8 Accession of Abu Bakr as first
Caliph.Though the period of his caliphate was
not long, it included successful invasions of
the two most powerful empires of the time.
633—634 Battle of Heavenfield.
Northumbrian army under Oswald
defeat Welsh army.
638 Jerusalem captured by the Arab
army, mostly Muslims, but with contingents of
Syrian Christians.Muslims.
641 Battle of Nehawand. Muslims
overdoing just that – and sulks for
centuries.
1231 AD: P. Gregory IX officially
creates the Society of Leopold.
Originally a scholarly order, charged
with keeping good records of the
supernatural, it will take over the
anti-supernatural mission, and the
fervor, of the inquisition after that
organization winds down. It will
begin recruiting, and swearing in,
Condottiere (High-quality
mercenaries), as protectors, guards,
and hunters, in the late 1400’s.
1240 AD: The first Anarch revolt
flares as elder Kindred force blood-
bound Childe’ to face the fires of the
Inquisition alone – while they
escape. The Tremere Gargoyles start
to become “stubborn”, the Anarchs
kill everyone, and the Assamites
strike at will. The false Black Hand
is founded.
~1285 AD: The Anarchs unite with
the Assamites, and destroy
Lasombra. The Anarch revolt is at
it’s peak.
1289 AD: Founding of the Sons Of
Ether, originally a secretive cult
based on an ancient scroll.
~1300 AD: The Mistridge Covenant
(Order Of Hermes) is destroyed by
Artificer Magi. The Ascension War
goes into full gear.
the New World Order.[16]
Early 1100s Edit
Merchant-prince Lorenzo Golo discovers the Kitab al-
Alacir.[17]
1200 By this time, Clan Cappadocian has made inroads
across Europe, in monasteries, universities, and in courts
of royalty.[1][2]
The Silver Fang house known as House Wyrmfoe may
have officially formed or been recognized during this
century, in recognition of their efforts to save
many Garou Kinfolk (of a variety of tribes, not only those
of the Silver Fangs) from the Inquisition.[3] They may
have arisen or been recognized as late as the mid-1300s,
however.[4]
The Inquisition strengthens the power of the Church and
assaults the supernatural.[5][6] It arises partly out of a
desire to "purify" practitioners of the Old Faith.[7][8]
Western and Eastern Artificers manage to establish
consistent contact.[9][10]
China's invasions of Japan late this century causes rifts
within the Akashic Brotherhood that have yet to heal by
the end of the 20th century.[11]
A Hermetic mage this century will later go on to be
reincarnated as Branwyn Elsepth.[12]
The Solificati reach their height as an organized group of
alchemical mages.[13]
Kublai Khan attempts to annex Vietnam into the Yuan
empire, but his troops are repelled.[14]They manage to
sweep through Laos with little difficulty.[15]
China's Tang dynasty falls.[16]
During the Mongol invasions, the Jnani avert disaster for
the Akashayana by making contact with shamans who
support the Mongols.[17] The Shi-Ren are devastated as
their lands are placed in the hands of Confucian
conquer Persia. ~1320 AD: The Camarilla forms. administrators.[18]
643 Arab Army led by 'Amr ibn Due to extremely strict enforcement Two Sleeper priests are sent in an attempt to secure an
al-'As takes Alexandria. of the “traditions” the Inquisition alliance with Prester John. They're followed by two
645 In Japan, the Soga clan falls. comes to believe that it’s crusade members of the Messianic Voices. While the Sleeper
This initiates a period of imitation of against the Kindred has been priests end up in the court of Genghis Khan, the Singers
Chinese culture, The Nara period begins a year successful. The war against the apparently enter Prester John's kingdom. Before
later. Anarchs and the Assamites dismissing them, John tells them he will one day sing
650 Slav occupation of Balkans continues – while the inquisition with their Chorus.[19]
complete. returns to chasing more The forerunners to the Seers of Chronos are a scattered
663 Synod of Whitby. Roman conventional heretics. bunch.[20]
Christianity triumphs over Celtic Christianity 1325 AD: The Cabal of Pure The Palatine Knights are broken.[21]
in England. Thought holds a meeting in the Messianic Voices and Ahl-i-Batin texts first mention
668 Ends of the Three Kingdoms White Tower and founds the Order "angels" in relation to one's inner Fount.[22]
period in Korea. Established a Unified Of Reason, later to be known as the The Orb of Honorius, a Wonder, is created by
Silla which led to the North South States Technocracy. a Hermetic mage named Regnum using the blood of
Period 30 years later.[14] 1331 AD: The Aztecs begin building seven powerful but insane vampires.[23]
674-678 First Arab siege of their empire and Shaitan orders the Early 13th century Edit
Constantinople. First time Islamic armies deaths of any and all shapeshifters Political schemes and plots within the Byzantine
defeated, forestalling Islamic conquest of in Mexico. He’s been working on Empire are one of the reasons the word "byzantine" is
Europe. the Aztecs since 1116 – and isn’t used to describe complex structures, organizations and
681 Establishment of the Bulgarian about to let anyone, or anything, plans.[24]
Empire. A country with great influence interfere. Late 13th century Edit
in the European history in the Middle Ages. 1347 AD: The black death comes King Alexander III of Scotland dies without heirs, setting
685 Battle of Dun Nechtain. from China. Within a few years it off a struggle among Scottish nobility.[25]
Picts defeat Northumbrians, whose has claimed one third of the The late 1200s are described as being part of the reign
dominance ends. population of Europe and even, of Jack Debiltongue, a great Bone Gnawer of England,
687 Battle of Tertry reportedly, quite a few Vampires and who rules over the Garou of London. He manages to save
Established Pepin of Herstal as mayor Garou. The social repercussions are many wolves from death, slays ruffians who abuse the
over the entire realms of Neustria and monstrous. While this is not the last poor, and defeats the Black Spiral DancerDrededoom and
Austrasia, which further dwindled outbreak of the plague, it is the last his followers.[26]
Merovingian power. to approach this magnitude. It 1300 By the end of the century,
698 Arab army takes Carthage. spreads so swiftly throughout the Lhiannan bloodline dies out, destroyed by loss of
End of Byzantine rule in North Africa Europe, and kills so many, that it wilderness territory and the church's extermination of
698 North South States Period provokes the second great pagan practices. [1][2][3]
begins in Korea. Silla and Balhae
coexisted in the south and north of the
peninsula, respectively, until 926[15][16]
8th century[edit]
See also: 8th century
Year Date Event Significance
711 Umayyad conquest of Hispania
under Tarik. Will begin a period of Muslim
rule within in the Al-Andalus (with various
portions of Iberian peninsula) until nearly the
end of the Fifteenth Century.
718 Second Arab attack on
Constantinople, ending in failure. The
combined Byzantine–Bulgarian forces stop the
Arab threat in Southeastern Europe.
726 Iconoclast movement begun in
the Byzantine Empire under Leo III. This was
opposed by Pope Gregory II, and an important
difference between the Roman and Byzantine
churches.
732 October Battle of Tours. Charles
Martel halts Muslim advance.
Significant moment that led to the
forming of the Carolingian Empire for the
Franks, and halted the advancement of the
Moors in southwestern Europe.
735 26 May Death of Bede.
Bede was later regarded as "the father
of English history"
750 25 January Beginning of Abbasid
Caliphate. Would become the longest
lasting caliphate, until 1519 when conquered
and annexed into the Ottoman Empire.
751 Pepin the Short founds the
maelstrom. Between this and the
dawning “Age Of Reason” the
dreams of humanity are shaken, and
hence the “Shattering” almost
destroys the Faerie.
~1400 AD: First Technomancer
Symposium decides to usurp control
of reality. In the Shadowlands, there
is a rebellion of the “Fishers”
against Charon. It fails, and Charon
brands the Fishers, the Shining
Ones, and the religious in general,
Heretics. They are ejected from
Stygia, and an inquisition is
instituted against their possible
return.
1425 AD: An army of demons rises
in Lithuania but is defeated by a
coalition of earthly magical beings.
1435 AD: Their position now
(virtually) hopeless, the Anarchs sue
for peace. Some, however, refused
to accept defeat and turned to new
tactics – putting all of the Kindred at
risk of discovery. These defiant
rebels christen themselves the
Sabbat. Their war against the
Camarilla will reach it’s European
peak in the 1500’s, but will continue
for centuries thereafter.
1440 AD: Sensing the shift in the
occult climate, the Verbena,
Hermetric, and Celestial Chorus,
adopt more formal organizations.
By 1300, the Elder Cainites of Europe realize the Society
of Leopold and Inquisition are serious threats. Hundreds
of Cainites are killed by mortals throughout the
century. [4]
Around 1300, enemy Heart Eaters are brought down by
fellow Uktena. [5]
The early 1300s are described as being part of the reign
of Jack Debiltongue, a great Bone Gnawer of England,
who rules over the Garou of London. He manages to save
many wolves from death, slays ruffians who abuse the
poor, and defeats the Black Spiral DancerDrededoom and
his followers.[6]
The Silver Fang house known as House Wyrmfoe may
have arisen during the middle part of this century.
[7] Alternatively, they may have been officially
recognized in the 1200s for their efforts to save
many Garou Kinfolk (of a variety of tribes, not only those
of the Silver Fangs) from the Inquisition. [8] See
[Burning Times]] for more information.
The Black Furies' Sisterhood is formed to keep wise
women and kinfolk safe from theInquisition.[9]
The Black Plague spreads across Eurasia, allegedly
created by the Ratkin Plague Lords. (Note: Page 89
of WTA: Ratkin (book) alleges this happened in
the 1100s, but the earliest historical accounts of the Black
Death date to the early 1330s in China. Presumably this
was an error on the author's part; here I assume the actual
historical time range for the plague's emergence.)[10][11]
[12]
Around the beginning of the century, Cleo Verthank is
born to a gypsy couple.[13]
The Order of Reason infuses the wold with criticism and
doubt as each advance in science undermines pseudo-
science, and thus, the Church.[14] Their uprising is
Carolingian dynasty.
754 Pepin promises the Pope central
Italy. This is arguably the beginning of the
temporal power of the Papacy.
768 Beginning of Charlemagne's
reign.
778 15 August Battle of Roncevaux
Pass.
786 14 September Accession of Harun al-
Rashid to the Caliphate in Baghdad.
793 Sack of Lindisfarne. Viking
attacks on Britain begin. Generally
considered the beginning of the Viking Age
that would span over two centuries, and reach
as far south as Hispania and as far east as the
Byzantine Empire, and present day Russia.
794 Heian period in Japan.
Considered to be the last classical
period of History of Japan. Chinese influence
was at its strongest during this era in Japan.
795 29 JulyDeath of Offa. Marks the end of
Mercian dominance in England.
800 25 December Charlemagne is crowned
Holy Roman Emperor. With his
crowning, Charlemagne's kingdom is officially
recognized by the Papacy as the largest in
Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire.
800 Gunpowder is invented
(somewhere around 9th century)
9th century[edit]
See also: 9th century
Year Date Event Significance
814 28 January Death of Charlemagne.
Would be a factor towards the splitting
1444 AD: Augustus Giovanni
diablorizes Asshur, the founder of
the Cappadocians. He’s unpleasantly
shocked when his first attempt to
“pass on” the new potency of his
blood results in the creation of
Baron Samedi. It may not have been
a good idea to diablorize the master
of Mortis after all.
1449 AD: The Battle Of Flames.
The Hermetric and Verbena
Dragonrider Mages defeat the
Craftmasons and the Artificers – but
losses are heavy. The dragonhost
will not rise to war again in this age
of the world.
1450 AD: Construction of the
Horizon Realm refuges begins.
1453 AD: The Renaissance begins
and will continue for the next two
centuries – more or less.
1466 AD: The council of the nine
traditions forms, and the structure of
magic (The nine spheres, the levels
of skill, and so on) is designed. Still,
some few Magi go their own ways –
especially the Marauders.
1478 AD: The Spanish Inquisition.
1486 AD: The Camarilla begins a
blood hunt against the entire
Assamite Clan, most of whom did
not join in when the Anarch’s sued
for peace.
1492 AD: Columbus, while not the
unseen by mostSingers, except those who have studied
the prophecies of Lucien, such as Valoran.[15][16]
Career of the Knights Templar. Began when twelve
knights decided they would make the roads to the Holy
Lands safe.[17]
Early this century, the Prieure de Solomon breaks from
the Knights Templar.[18]
The Sacred Congregation begins leaning away from Latin
and toward vernacular languages, requiring non-Latin
editions of The Theophanies.[19][20]
A Byzantine Greek manuscript surfaces, which is
translated from an earlier 5th centuryPersian scroll,
the Zolondrodere. Roughly translated, the manuscript is
the "Covenant of the Silver Portal."[21][22]
Members of the Order of Reason use Lesser Viasilicos to
communicate with each other.[23]
Tamerlane massacres the Hindus of Delhi.[24]
The authority of Japan's Ashakaga Shogunate begins to
dwindle.[25]
The fall of the Cambodian Khmer Empire and the
Mongol invasions prove that the balance between order
and chaos is not being kept.[26]
The Palatine Knights break up when just over half their
number join the Cabal of Pure Thought.[27]
The Rroma begin entering Europe in large numbers.[28]
The iconography of the bloody spear is adopted by
the Red Spear Society.[29]
By this time, the Shona are masters of a vast empire
covering thousands of square miles. The centre of this
empire is the city of Great Zimbabwe.[30]
House Merinita is subsumed into House Ex Miscellanea.
[31]
Late 14th Century Edit
Nightshade may be born at this time.[32]
of his empire almost 30 years later.
825 Battle of Ellandun. Egbert
defeats Mercians. Wessex becomes the
leading kingdom of England.
827 Muslims invade Sicily.
First encounter of attempts to conquer
Byzantine Sicily, until the last Byzantine
outpost was conquered in 965.
840 Muslims capture Bari and much
of southern Italy.
843 Division of Charlemagne's
Empire between his grandsons with the Treaty
of Verdun. Sets the stage for the founding
of the Holy Roman Empire and France as
separate states.
843 Kenneth McAlpin becomes king
of the Picts and Scots, creating the Kingdom of
Alba.
862 Viking state in Russia founded
under Rurik, first at Novgorod, then Kiev.
864 Christianization of Bulgaria.
866 Fujiwara period in Japan.
Would become the most powerful clan
during the Heian period in Japan for around
three centuries.
866 Viking Great Army arrives in
England. Northumbria, East Anglia, and
Mercia were overwhelmed.
868 Earliest known printed book in
China with a date.
871 Alfred the Great assumes the
throne, the first king of a united England. He
defended England from Viking invaders,
formed new laws and fostered a rebirth of
first to discover N. America, is the
first to “popularize” it in Europe. As
the ancient wards collapse, massive
exploitation, and colonization,
efforts will be underway within the
next few decades – bearing with
them numerous wyrm spirits.
1493 AD: After years of negotiation,
the Camarilla and Anarchs sign the
Convention Of Thorns – officially
ending the Anarch Movement.
1496 AD: The Camarilla imposes
the Treaty Of Tyre on the Assamites.
Those who refuse to accept flee to
join the Sabbat – while the others
accept the curse of the Tremere.
1515 AD: First known use of ritual
magic to change a vampire (Talaq
the Assamite) into a revenant.
1519 AD: Cortes arrives in Mexico
with 600 men and a few elder
vampires. He claims Mexico for
Spain with their help. Shaitan calls
to his masters for help, and they
respond by spawning the
Pandemonium. Helena finds Shaitan
in Torpor, and is scared away –
leaving behind one of her Progeny,
Galbraith – who becomes the Prince
of Mexico City. Shaitan takes
control of Galbraith for his hellish
masters. Melinda Galbraith is
recruited by the Sabbat two years
later. She will later become the
1400 Shadow Lord Celestina Gregoras is raped by an
insane fellow Garou, who is in turn hunted down and
killed. She later gives birth to the metis Sonya The Iron
Maiden, who later invents the talen of Leech’s Blood.
Sonya eventually becomes Warder of the Sept of the
Night Sky, as her mother was. She later dies in battle
against the Kindred. [1]
Witch hunts take place in Europe. Ceilican of Bastet tribe
is erroneously believed to be exterminated. Prior to this,
the Bastet had been prosperous for 4000 years[2].
The Eye of the Storm cabal is established.[3]
This century and the next see the rise of great artist-
engineers.[4]
This century and the next see the Order of
Reason ascending to power.[5][6][7]
An officially-sanctioned effort is underway to present a
variety of vernacular editions of The Theophanies.[8]
A sect of Singers from Ural, who had been isolated from
the trunk of the Congregation for centuries, rejoins
bringing with them an ancient scroll containing the Hymn
of the One.[9]
As evidence of the High Guild's influence,
the Medici family's fortunes are on the rise.[10]
The town of Clarion is founded in Horizon.[11]
Members of the Order of Reason use Lesser Viasilicos to
communicate with each other.[12]Owning one becomes a
source of pride to future Technocrats.[13]
Young and eccentric genius Madame des
Bellestours devotes her life to the study of astrology.[14]
Neville Sinclair might date back as far as this time.[15]
[16]
One of the Ali-beh shaar of the Ahl-i-Batin mentions
the Hem-ka Sobk to the Council of Nine. This brief
mention consists most of what is known about them.[17]
religious and scholarly activities. Sabbat Regent – and quietly protect A few Kopa Loei make the arduous journey to the Grand
c. 872 Harold Fairhair becomes King the Infernalists. Convocation, but upon seeing the foreigners' disdain of
of Norway. 1524 AD: The last surviving tribal mages, they refuse to join the Traditions and return
874 Iceland is settled by Norsemen. Camazotz are found, and slain, in home.[18]
882 Kievan Rus' is established. their south american refuge. The fifth Dalai Lama founds Tibet's theocracy.[19]
Would be sustained until the Mongol ~1525 AD: The Heretics / The authority of Japan's Ashikaga Shogunate dwindles.
invasion of Rus' over four and a half centuries, Renegades assault Stygia and reach [20]
despite peaking during the middle 11th century America in the shadowlands. By this time, there are branches of the Knights of St.
during the reign of Yaroslav the Wise. Shortly thereafter the third great George and the Dragon as far apart asIreland and India.
885 Arrival of the disciples of Saints Maelstrom erupts – and creates the [21]
Cyril and Methodius in Bulgaria Creation sharp division between the upper The Bacchantes become known as the Fellowship of Pan.
of the Cyrillic script; in the following decades and lower levels of the lands of the [22]
the country became the cultural and spiritual dead. The Shroud now stands The Palatine Knights become known as the Palatine
centre of the whole Eastern Orthodox part of between the living and the powers Brotherhood.[23]
the Slavic World. of the dead. The stygian “guilds” By this time, the Order of Hermes is falling apart.
885—886 Vikings attack Paris. seize the chance to rebel, but are The Massasa War has taken its toll, and none of the
893 Simeon I becomes ruler of the eventually put down. Houses trust each other.[24]
First Bulgarian Empire in the Balkans. 1609 AD: The more blatant and Voormas is a Master.[25]
896 Arpad and the Magyars are obvious members of the Sabbat are From this time onward, Ars Cupiditae forms the
present in Pannonia. forced to take refuge in Scandinavia. backbone of the Order of Hermes.[26]
899 26 October Death of Alfred the More subtle individuals simply The Order of Hermes bans the use of firearms and other
Great. conceal themselves. Fighting "despicable implements of the foes of Mistridge." The
10th century[edit] continues, but on a much smaller precept quickly becomes outdated.[27]
See also: 10th century scale. The Inquisition reaches its peak.[28]
Year Date Event Significance ~1635 AD: The first Tremere Eloine is born in Ireland.[29]
~900 Mayan Empire collapses Chantry in N. America is founded in By this time, Psychopomps are no longer able to rid the
907 Tang Dynasty ends with Boston. emanations of the Khwaja al-Akbar, and depart reality.
Emperor Ai deposed. The Five Dynasties and 1639 AD: The Order Of The Golden [30] Daemons are forced to reincarnate without their
Ten Kingdoms period in China commences. Dawn is founded. guidance, renewing their inner struggle with their
910 King Edward the Elder of 1650 AD: Enoch falls to attacks by Daemons' desires.[31]
England, son of King Alfred, defeats the various wraiths and creatures of the Early 15th Century Edit
Northumbrian Vikings at the Battle of Shadowlands. For the first time in Nightshade may be born during this time.[32]
Tettenhall; they never raid south of the River centuries, the Tal’mahe’Ra is Mid 15th Century Edit
Humber again. without a home. Given that they The two social groupings of Cainite, the High
910 Cluny Abbey is founded by
William I, Count of Auvergne. Cluny
goes on to become the acknowledged leader of
Western Monasticism. Cluniac Reforms
initiated with the abbey's founding.
911 The Viking Rollo and his tribe
settle in what is now Normandy by the terms
of the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, founding
the Duchy of Normandy.
917 Battle of Anchialus. Simeon I
the Great defeats the Byzantines.
Recognition of the Imperial Title of the
Bulgarian rulers.
919 Henry the Fowler, Duke of
Saxony elected German King. First king of the
Ottonian Dynasty. Henry I considered the
founder and first king of the medieval German
state.
925 The first King of Croatia (rex
Croatorum), Tomislav (910–928) of the
Trpimirovic dynasty was crowned. Tomislav
united Croats of Dalmatia and Pannonia into a
single Kingdom, and created a sizeable state.
927 King Aethelstan the Glorious
unites the heptarchy of The Anglo-Saxon
nations of Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Kent, East
Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria founding the
Kingdom of England.
927 According to Theophanes
Continuatus (The Continuer of Theophanes's
Chronicle) - Tomislav of Croatia defeated
Bulgarian army of Tsar Simeon I under Duke
Alogobotur, in battle of the Bosnian
Highlands. Bulgarian expansion to the west
also believe that several
Antediluvians – or even Cain
himself – slumber there, it is a major
blow.
1692 AD: The Ventrue begin the
Salem Witch Trials in an attempt to
destroy the Tremere. While they
think it did, the tactic doesn’t
actually work.
~1700 AD: The Sabbat – apparently
believing that it didn’t have enough
enemies already – starts a “war”
with the Black Spiral Dancers in
Europe. This doesn’t do either side
any good at all.
1720 AD: The Sabbat sees a chance
to get out from under three centuries
of the Camarilla’s interference, and
begins a mass transfer to the new
world.
~1725 AD: The Garou accuse the
Nuwisha of working with the Wyrm,
initiating begin the third War of
Rage. Like the first two, this is a bad
idea – and costs the Garou some of
their oldest and most valuable allies.
The vast majority of the Nuwisha
effectively end this one- sided “war”
by (more or less permanently)
transferring themselves into the
umbra sometime around 1750.
1743 AD: An anarch reveals his
“true nature” to a masonic lodge.
This creates a group of hunters and
Clans and Low Clans, fall out of disfavour, possibly as a
result of the Anarch Revolt and the rise of
the Camarilla and Sabbat.[33][34]
The Sacred Congregation is in desperate need of
motivation and reunification; the arrival ofValoran is seen
as a literal Godsend.[35][36]
A group of mages unsuccessfully petitions the Council of
Nine to start a head-to-head war with the Order of
Reason. The mages later become the Order of Sanguine
Souls cabal.[37]
Late 1400s Edit
The Turtle Council House sub-realm is constructed
in Horizon by Dreamspeakers.[38]
The Sodality of Zetetics cabal is founded.[39]
Some of the first custos and their families move
to Horizon and begin to settle.[40]
1500 By this time, the Anda have been wiped out by
the Wan Kuei.[1][2]
Hernando de Soto arrives in American southwest,
subjugating and conquering natives. Native shifters harry
Spaniards.[3]
Spanish Inquisition. One of the torturers eventually
becomes the Lady Aife, Caliph of Pain,
the Maeljin of Angu, Urge-Wyrm of Cruelty.[4]
Bear dancing begins in the areas of India and Pakistan,
degrading the sacred dances of theGurahl by tormenting
their bear kinfolk. Gurahl stop performing ritual dancing,
considering it to be profaned.[5]
Second War of Rage begins in the New World. Old
World Nagah immigrate to the Americas and find Nagah
already there, to their surprise. Zuzeka forms.[6]
Conquistadors conquer the Americas. Wyrm influenced
conquistadors plunder gold of South American empires,
as this symbolized the corruption of the purity of the
was stopped.
927 Death of Simeon I the Great.
Recognition of the Bulgarian Patriarchate, the
first independent National Church in Europe.
929 Abd-ar-Rahman III of the
Umayyad dynasty in al-Andalus (part of the
Iberian peninsula) takes the title of Caliph or
ruler of the Islamic world. Beginning of the
Caliphate of Cordoba (929-1031).
936 Wang Geon unified Later Three
Kingdoms of Korea.
955 Battle of Lechfeld. Otto the
Great, son of Henry the Fowler, defeats the
Magyars. This is the defining event that
prevents the Hungarians from entering Central
Europe.
c.960 Mieszko I becomes duke of
Polans.First historical ruler of Poland and de
facto founder of the Polish State.
960 Song Dynasty begins after
Emperor of Taizu usurps the throne from the
Later Zhou, last of the Five Dynasties. A that transforms her into the first
319-year period of Song rule (Northern &
Southern combined) goes underway.
962 Otto the Great crowned the
Holy Roman Emperor. First to be
crowned Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40
years.
963-964 Otto deposes Pope John
XII who is replaced with Pope Leo VIII.
Citizens of Rome promise not to elect
another Pope without Imperial approval.
965-967 Mieszko I of Poland and
his court embrace Christianity, which becomes
– far worse – the information is
passed to the higher levels of the
masons.
1750 AD: The Eastern and Western
branches of the Tal’mahe’Ra sign
the Treaty Of Enoch. They retake,
and rebuild, the city of Enoch in the
Shadowlands.
1752 AD: Goratrix, a founding
Tremere, is found to have defected
to the Sabbat, and to have
encouraged more defections. The
Council, aided by Tremere,
mystically brands all Sabbat
Tremere as traitors.
1763 AD: The Technomancy
arcanely maps the city of El Dorado
out of existence, although many of
it’s Magi are slain by paradox in
doing so.
1778 AD: Muricia employs the rite
Ahrimane.
1790 AD: The industrial revolution.
The Settites move into Haiti. In the
Shadowlands, Charon begins the
wholesale “smelting” of wraiths,
beginning the stygian version of the
revolution.
1804 AD: The Sabbat Inquisition is
created.
1808 AD: The Sabbat consolidate
their grip on NYC, and successfully
take over Washington DC –
Americas. [7] One of the conquistadors eventually
becomes Lord Steel, the Duke of
Hate, Maeljin of Abhorra, Urge-Wyrm of Hatred.[8]
The Artificers' work in optics is very important to physics
in this century.[9]
This century sees the rise of many great artist-engineers.
[9]
The Order of Reason ascends to power in this century.
[10]
Cosian-turned-Artificer Ambroise Pare designs
mechanical limbs made of bronze, gears and springs.[10]
[11]
An astronomer and associate
of Kepler named Faustmann develops the Perpetual
MotionProcedure, using it to set in motion a mechanical
model of the solar system.[12]
Two rival German Adytums, one Catholic and one
Lutheran, engage in constant strife over denominational
policy. When hearing of a threat posed by the Order of
Reason, the two Adytums joined forces long enough to
deal with the threat, and then resumed their fighting.[13]
An Akashic Brother in Kyoto creates
a Talisman, Master Joro's Sash.[14]
Letitia the Venerated creates the Quietsong Effect to try to
bring her master, Hasan Naraswami, out of Quiet.[15]
Trinite, a Chorister monastery, is founded 10 miles west
of Concordia.[16]
A young Chakravanti befriends Akrites Salonikas.
Salonikas, amused by the young man's serious
demeanour, christens him "Senex," or "Old Man." The
name sticks.[17]
Senex studies in Great Zimbabwe. By the time the city
falls, he is an accomplished sorcerer.[17]
The colonial spirit overtakes Europe, destroying much
national religion. although it is burned, and reclaimed native African culture.[18]
969 John I Tzimiskes the last by the Camarilla, in 1814. Tamerlane's Mughal descendants encourage religious
Byzantium empire and Nikephoros II are being 1812 AD: The Sabbat reaches it’s tolerance.[19]
executed. Sultane of Rums are proclaim. all-time high. Christianity and European trade are introduced to Japan.
976 Death of John I Tzimiskes; 1822 AD: Charles Babbage [20]
Basil II (his co-emperor) takes sole power. “invents” the difference engine. The The shamans of Mongolia begin to organize and call
Under Basil II zenith of the power of Virtual Adepts are founded. themselves the Sons of Tengri.[21]
Eastern Empire after Justinian. 1834 AD: The unexpected final The Portuguese disrupt trade, weakening the Shona
978 Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir death of the current regent kicks off civilization and leading to the downfall ofGreat
becomes de facto ruler of Muslim Al-Andalus. the Sabbat Civil War. Zimbabwe.[22]
Peak of power of Moorish Iberia under 1848 AD: The Inconnu-Tremere Giorgio Vasari associates the Gothic art movement with
"Almanzor". battle hits an all-time high. the Visigoths and accuses them of having destroyed the
981 Basil II (called "Bulgar Slayer") ~1860 AD: The Garou – still Classic movement. This is the first known negative
begins final conquest of Bulgaria by Eastern unwilling to listen to anybody and connotation of "Gothic."[23]
Empire. Conquest finished by 1018. throughly paranoid – are led by Ahl-i-Batin Masters and Oracles venture
985 Eric the Red, exiled from agents of the Wyrm to initiate the to Mercury's Umbra, where they found the City of Brass.
Iceland, begins Scandinavian colonization of fourth War Of Rage, destroying the [24]
Greenland. Australian Bunyip tribe. This time, Zhun Liao is considered one of China's foremost creators
987 Succession of Hugh Capet to the however, the Wyrm’s agents are of Wonders. Between now and the19th century, she
French Throne. Beginning of Capetian unable to resist gloating – and a few creates the Inestimably Lovely Plum Blossom Dream Fan
Dynasty. of the wiser Garou begin to realize of Madam Zhun Liao.[25]
988 Volodymyr I of Kiev embraces that they’ve been screwing things up Early 1500s Edit
Christianity, which becomes national religion. for nearly 12,000 years. Most of Garou discover Region 7 in the Umbra, which eventually
989 Peace and Truce of God formed. them refuse to admit it. becomes the CyberRealm.[26]
The first movement of the Catholic 1885 AD: The founding of the Martin Luther initiates the Protestant Reformation.[27]
Church using spiritual means to limit private Arcanum. The first chapterhouse is A rogue physician and alchemist, Philippus Aureolus
war, and the first movement in medieval built in london in 1889. Theophrastus Bombastus V, catches the fancy of
Europe to control society through non-violent 1892 AD: Premium Oil Incorporated a Solificati cabal.[28]
means. is taken over by the Wyrm. In 1932 Franciscan monk Roberto of Aragon begins chronicling
High Middle Ages[edit] it will be renamed Pentex Inc. the traditions and practises of the tribes they hope to
Further information: High Middle Ages convert to Christianity.[29]
11th century[edit] Mid-1500s Edit
See also: 11th century The Ceilican tribe is erroneously believed to be
Year Date Event Significance exterminated. Prior to this, the Bastet had been
c. 1001 Leif Ericson is to settle
during the winter in present-day Canada at
L'Anse aux Meadows. Ericson is to be
the first European to settle in the Americas
during the Norse exploration of the Americas.
1016 Canute the Great becomes King
of England after the death of Edmund Ironside,
with whom he shared the English throne.
Danes become kings of England for the
next 26 years before the last rise of the Anglo-
Saxons before the Norman Conquest.
1018 The Byzantines under Basil II
conquer Bulgaria after a bitter 50-years
struggle. Concludes the Byzantine
conquest of Bulgaria.
1021 The Tale of Genji, written by
Murasaki Shikibu, is completed sometime
before this date.[17] It is sometimes called
the world's first novel, the first modern novel,
the first psychological novel or the first novel
still to be considered a classic.[18]
1037 The Great Seljuk Empire is
founded by Tughril Beg. Would be a major
force during the first two Crusades, and an
antagonist to the Byzantine Empire over the
next century...
1049 Pope Leo IX ascends to the
papal throne. Leo IX was the pope that
excommunicated Patriarch of Constantinople,
Michael Cerularius (who also excommunicated
Leo), which caused the Great Schism.
1050 The astrolabe, an ancient tool of
navigation, is first used in Europe. Early tool
of marine navigators, astrologers, astronomers.
prosperous for 4000 years. Many Ceilican flee Europe for
North America, where they will interbreed with native
cats (cougars mostly), all the while pretending to be
extinct.[30]
The Akashic Brotherhood gift Concordia's Spirit Ward
with the Taeo Temple.[31]
Witch hysteria starts around this time.[32]
1600 Kunio Ashida is taken by mages of Doissetep and
trained by the Akashic Brotherhood.[1]
The Flying Dutchman starts making appearances.[2]
The Artificers' work in optics is very important to physics
in this century.[3]
Some believe that Sister Bernadette and Akrites
Salonikas had an affair during his self-imposed exile in
the Arctic.[4]
The Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga and Onondaga
nations unite to form the Iroquois Confederacy.[5]
Chinese organized crime has its roots in this century.[6]
Benjamen Holmscroft inherits Vannever Hall, a
former Order of Hermes Chantry.[7]
The study of alchemy becomes more scientific and less
metaphysical.[8] It is still mired in secrecy, symbolism
and allegory, as can be seen with the treatise Twelve
Keys.[9]
Dvorec Cverdvinsk, a castle owned
by Hermetic Master Anania Divraniya, is built
in Clarion,Horizon.[10]
It's unknown whether life-mages came to North
America with the pilgrims.[11]
This century and the next sees the rise of a new type of
scholar: the artist-engineer.[12]
The increasing European hegemony allows
the Hippocratic Circle to contact "lost" Cosians elsewhere
in the world in order to become a truly global
1054 The East-West Schism which
divided the church into Western Catholicism
and Eastern Orthodoxy. Tensions will
vary between the Catholic and Orthodox
churches throughout the Middle Ages.
1066 William the Conqueror, Duke of
Normandy, invades England and becomes
King after the Battle of Hastings. End of
Anglosaxon rule in England and start of
Norman lineage.
1067 Pope Gregory VII elevated to
the papal throne. This begins a period of
church reform.
1071 The Seljuks under Alp Arslan
defeat the Byzantine army at Manzikert. The
Normans capture Bari, the last Byzantine
possession in southern Italy. Beginning of the
end of Byzantine rule in Asia Minor.
1075 Dictatus Papae in which Pope
Gregory VII defines the powers of the pope.
Peak of the Gregorian Reform, and an
immense factor in the Investiture Controversy.
1077 Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV
walks to Canossa where he stands barefoot in
the snow to beg forgiveness of the Pope for his
offences, and admitting defeat in the
Investiture Controversy. This helps
establish Papal rule over European heads of
state for another 450 years.
1077 The Construction of the Tower
of London begins. The tower of London
was the ultimate keep of the British Empire.
1086 The compilation of the
Domesday Book, a great land and property
organization.[13]
The Wu Lung offer the emperor the magic and martial
abilities to stop the Shaolin. The Wu Lung help the
emperor storm the Shaolin Temple (coincidentally where
the Akashic Brotherhood also train), shattering the
Akashics' power in China and creating further enmity
between the two societies.[14]
The Wu Lung's Phoenix Empress shares her insights
into Life magic with a small group of female students;
these Phoenixes become the first female members of the
organization.[15]
Hermetic John Dee and Dreamspeaker Edward
Kelly have a long and profitable partnership.[16]
Era of Dutch Sovereignty in New York takes place from
1609-1664. Chester R. Van Gelding is born during this
time. He eventually joins the Seventh Generation.[17]
The Seventh Generation turns European colonists in
America against the Native Americans. It also
orchestrates witch hunts. [18]
A Wendigo caern in the Adirondacks is seized by Silver
Fangs and becomes the seat of House Wyrmfoe. [19]
Madzimbabwe Courts are divided on how to respond
to European encroachment.[20]
Early 1600s Edit
The Ananasi known as Tomas Hogarth is known to have
lived since at least this time period, and may have been
around well before that.[21]
England suffers a religious and political revolution in the
mid-to-late 1600s.[22]
Mid-1600s Edit
The Order of Reason falls into their own civil war, and no
longer have anything that can seriously be called a central
leadership.[23]
Late 1600s Edit
survey commissioned by William the
Conqueror to assess his new possessions.
This is the first such undertaking since
Roman times.
1088 University of Bologna is
formed. It is the oldest university in
Europe.
1095 Pope Urban issues the Crusades
to capture the Holy Land, and to repel the
Seljuk Turks from the Byzantine Empire from
Alexios I Komnenos. This would be the first of
9 Major Crusades, and a number of other
crusades that would spread into the late 13th
century.
1096 First Crusade. Jerusalem is re-
taken from the Muslims on the urging of Pope
Urban II. This would lead to the
beginning of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, which
would last for nearly two centuries; within the
era of the Crusades to the Holy Land.
1098 The Cistercian Order is
founded. Was a return to the original
observance of the Rule of St. Benedict.
12th century[edit]
See also: 12th century
Year Date Event Significance
1102 Kingdom of Croatia and
Kingdom of Hungary formed a personal union
of two kingdoms united under the Hungarian
king. The act of union was deal with Pacta
conventa, by which institutions of separate
Croatian statehood were maintained through
the Sabor (an assembly of Croatian nobles) and
the ban (viceroy). In addition, the Croatian
Valka Great-thorn, a warrior woman of the Get of Fenris,
simultaneously attacked Wyrm andUktena forces, who
were fighting over the Caern of the Sentinel in New York
State. Weakened from their bloody battle, both the
Uktena and the Wyrm forces lost. The Get took over
theCaern.[24]
1700 The islands of the south Pacific —
including Hawai'i — first come to the attention
of Europeanexplorers in this century.[1]
Until the end of this century, Kali is venerated by ritual
strangulation and dismemberment by the Thugs.[2]
Classicism becomes popular, but is deposed by the
romanticists.[3]
Jasper Covington of the Children of Gaia acts as
impresario and chief marketer for the Age of
Enlightenment, which in turn creates democratic
governments and freedom movements.[4]
The Order of Reason conquers
the Arcosia Chantry in Yenosia.[5]
The Order of Reason guides Britain into an Industrial
Revolution.[6]
A gentleman with whom Jebediah Spector Brown will
later study alchemy claims to come toLondon early this
century.[7]
Porthos Fitz-Empress owns large plantations in North
Carolina and Tennessee, concealing and guarding two
private Nodes.[8]
The Knights of Radamanthys are founded in Greece.[9]
The Zolondrodere (the Covenant of the Silver Portal)
surfaces, an English translation of a14th-
century Byzantine Greek manuscript.[10][11]
This century and sees the rise of a new type of scholar:
the artist-engineer.[12]
The increasing European hegemony allows
nobles retained their lands and titles.Medieval
Hungary and Croatia were (in terms of public
international law) allied by means of personal
union until 1526. Although, Hungarian-
Croatian state existed until the beginning of the
20th century and the Treaty of Trianon.
1106 9/28 Henry I of England defeats his
older brother Robert Curthose, duke of
Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebrai, and
imprisons him in Devizes castle; Edgar
Atheling and William Clito are also taken
prisoner. This victory made a later
struggle between England and the rising
Capetian power in France inevitable.
1107 Through the Compromise of
1107, suggested by Adela, the sister of King
Henry, the Investiture Struggle in England is
ended. This compromise removed one of the
points of friction between the English
monarchy and the Catholic Church.
1109 In the Battle of Naklo,
Boleslaus III Wrymouth defeats the
Pomeranians. Polish access to the sea is re-
established.
1109 8/24 In the Battle of Hundsfeld,
Boleslaus III Wrymouth defeats Emperor
Henry V. German expansion to the centre
of Europe is stopped.
1116 The Byzantine army defeats the
Turks at Philomelion. The Turks abandon the
entire coastal area of Anatolia and all of
western Anatolia
1117 The University of Oxford is
founded. It is the oldest university in the
the Hippocratic Circle to contact "lost" Cosians elsewhere
in the world in order to become a truly global
organization.[13]
The Dreamspeakers have so splintered in their relations
with racist Traditions that by this time fully half of them
have returned to their native peoples. This schism results
in the demise of many Dreamspeakers, and a rift
between Tradition and Council that will not be fully
healed even three centuries later.[14]
European imperialism in China leads to a backlash
against the Celestial Chorus.[15]
The last European shamanistic tradition, the Lapps, die
out in Scandinavia.[16]
The Palatine Knights become known as the Fellowship of
the Hammer.[17]
The life of England's Hellfire Clubs.[18]
For a while, European museums, collectors of oddities,
and Hermetic mages develop a fascination with shrunken
heads from New Zealand.[19]
House Criamon is subsumed into House Ex Miscellanea.
[20]
Maeve McKinnon, an Irish witch, creates a Grimoire,
the Book of Shadows of Maeve McKinnon.[21]
Early 1700s Edit
Uktena briefly recapture the Caern of the Sentinel from
the Get of Fenris with the help of theShadow Lords.
Shortly after the Uktena and Shadow Lords take to
fighting and the Get of Fenris seize the caern once
again. [22][23]
Ishaq Balsara, later Primus of the Order of Hermes, is
born the only child of a British mother and Persian father
in Cairo.[24]
Mid-1700s Edit
Some visionaries within the Order of Reason, led
United Kingdom.
1118 The Knights Templar are
founded to protect Jerusalem and European
pilgrims on their journey to the city. Becomes
the most recognizable, and impactful military
orders during the Crusades.
1121 12/25 St. Norbert and 29 companions
make their solemn vows marking the
beginning of the Premonstratensian Order.
This order played a significant role in
evangelizing the Slavs, the Wends, to the east
of the Holy Roman Empire.
1122 9/23 The Concordat of Worms was
drawn up between Emperor Henry V and Pope
Calixtus II. This concordat ended the
investiture struggle, but bitter rivalry between
emperor and pope remained.
1123 3/18-3/27 The First Lateran
Council followed and confirmed the Concordat
of Worms.
1125 Lothair of Supplinburg, duke of
Saxony, is elected Holy Roman Emperor
instead of the nearest heir, Frederick of
Swabia. This election marks the
beginning of the great struggle between the
Guelfs and the Ghibellines.
1125–1127 Jingkang Incident
The Jurchen soldiers sack Kaifeng,
bringing an end to the Northern Song Dynasty
in China; the Song moves further south and
makes Lin'an their new capital.
1130 12/25 Roger II is crowned King of
Sicily, a royal title given him by the Antipope
Anacletus II. This coronation marks the
by Reginald Proctor, begin planning to institute a single
world government.[25][26]
Late 1700s Edit
German founded Canadian town Lunenburg starts to
become prominent. Get of Fenris settle in it.[27]
Fianna begin to immigrate to Nova Scotia.[27]
The Order of Hermes enchants a pool of natural spring
water in Concordia's Entropy Ward with
strong Forces magic, allowing anyone to walk across it as
though it were solid. It comes to be called the Miracle
Pool.[28]
The oldest financial transactions from Balador
Pleasuredome date to this time, although the Realm is far
older.[29]
Australia begins to see use as a British prison.[30]
The Artificers begin tinkering with analog computing
machines.[31]
Ishaq Balsara disappears from the Order of Hermes,
returning home to care for his parents. Once they die, he
begins to call himself ibn-Thoth and returns to the Order.
[32]
Magister Hermann Straussen grows old.[33]
1800 A British platoon encounters a local tribe. Soldiers
begin to go missing during the night, replaced with Fetish
Statues.[1]
Somewhere in this century an Ananasi named Abiele
Dumont invents a flyfot (that is, afetish) called
the Armoire of Abiele.[2]
During this century the thus-
far Indian and Chinese Khan begin to breed with
the Englishthat have arrived in their homelands, largely
out of respect for their ability and ferocity.[3]
Clouster's Purge, a bloody war between the Khan Lord
Clouster and Sultan Jampal of Indiaduring this time.
beginning of the Kingdom of Sicily and its
Mediterranean empire under the Norman
kings, which was able to take on the Holy
Roman Empire, the Papacy, and the Byzantine
Empire.
1135 The Anarchy begins in England.
This will mark a 19-year period of
Government strife and Civil War between the
supporters of Stephen and Matilda, and end
with the crowning of Matilda's son, Henry II,
and beginning the Plantagenet dynasty.
1139 April The Second Lateran Council
declared clerical marriages invalid, regulated
clerical dress, and punished attacks on clerics
by excommunication. Enforces the major
reforms that Gregory VII began to heavily
campaign for several decades earlier.
1147–1149 The Second Crusade was
in retaliation for the fall of Edessa, one of the
first Crusader States founded in the First
Crusade. It was an overall failure. This was
the first Crusade to have been led by European
kings.
1150 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of
Barcelona, married Queen Petronilla of
Aragon. They had been betrothed in 1137.
This marriage gave the Kingdom of
Aragon access to the Mediterranean Sea,
creating a powerful kingdom which expanded
to control many of the Mediterranean lands.
1152 The Synod of Kells-Mellifont
established the present diocesan system of
Ireland (with later modifications) and
recognized the primacy of Armagh. This
Thirty Khan died, along with many more Kinfolk; the
war aggravated tensions between the Indians and the
English, and would eventually be revived in the 1940s-
1950s in the Nagda-Rackbur War.[4][5]
Garou of various tribes begin to enter Egypt, interested in
the cause of taking this land from the vampires that ruled
it and in breaking the Silent Striders' curse.[6][7]
The inbred Bubasti Bastet become stronger due to new
blood from European genes.[3]
Agents of the Wyrm begin sowing seeds for the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.[8]
Wendigo spread south, all the way into Mexico.[9]
Stargazers' homelands begin to fall to the Wyrm. This
continues up to the present.[citation needed]
Most modern magick colleges are founded in this century.
[10][11]
Syed Pinckney is a surgeon and a barber.[12]
An early Time-Motion Manager named Forge creates
the Time-Motion Study Procedure to help him determine
the most efficient means of assembling HIT Mark IIIs.
[13]
Many occult groups are founded this century, most of
whom claim descent from theRosicrucian Brotherhoood.
[14]
The field of "psychical studies" comes about as an
attempt to scientifically quantify the paranormal abilities
of humanity.[15]
Porthos Fitz-Empress owns large plantations in North
Carolina and Tennessee, concealing and guarding two
private Nodes.[16]
Julian Spence begins a self-study of the long-term effects
of opium on the brain.[17]
Japan's feudal period lasts until this time.[18] As Japan
industrializes, water pollution causes many
synod marks the inclusion of the Irish Church
into mainstream European Catholicism.
1158 The Hanseatic League is
founded. This marks a new period of
trade and economic development for northern
and central Europe.
1163 The first cornerstone is laid for
the construction of Notre Dame de Paris.
1166 Stefan Nemanja united Serbian
territories, establishing the Medieval Serbian
state. This marks the rise of Serbia which will
dominate the Balkans for the next three
hundred years. Allies of Serbia at this moment
become the Hungarian Kingdom and the
Republic of Venice.
1171 King Henry II of England lands
in Ireland to assert his supremacy and the
Synod of Cashel acknowledges his
sovereignty. With his landing, Henry begins
the English claim to and occupation of Ireland
which would last some seven and a half
centuries.
1174 7/12 King William I of Scotland,
captured in the Battle of Alnwick by the
English, accepts the feudal lordship of the
English crown and does ceremonial allegiance
at York. This is the beginning of the
gradual acquisition of Scotland by the English.
1175 Honen Shonin (Genku) founds
the Jodo shu (Pure Land) sect of Buddhism.
This event marks the beginning of the
Buddhist sectarian movement in Japan.
1176 5/29 At the Battle of Legnano, the
cavalry of Frederick Barbarossa is defeated by
native kappa to sicken and die.[19]
The Void Engineers have spaceships during this century.
[20] They use them to reach theUniverse behind
the Horizon mid-century.[21]
Darkside Moon Base is constructed.[22]
The Order of the Black Willow, a British sect of
the Euthanatos, falls to infernalism.[23] Still, many
Romantics seize the symbol of autumn representing death
and decay as part of the circle of life. Their neo-Gothic
descendants carry on the trend.[24]
The Nephite Priesthood has its origin in Mormonism.[25]
The mystic backlash of this century, as well as the
addition of two unpredictable and newConventions to
the Order of Reason, gives the Traditions an edge.[26]
[27]
London becomes a focal point for the Invisible
Exchequer's efforts this century.[28]
The Void Seekers have nearly completed their work, as
most of the Earth has been explored.[29]
The rise of feminist writers like Mary
Wollstonecraft brings a new awareness of the rights of
women to society at large. This further supports
the Sisters of Hippolyta.[30]
The popularization of Arabian and Persian cultures by
Sir Richard Burton and other adventurers causes
the Taftani to relax and come back into the public eye.
[31]
Accounts of large quadrupeds with long necks and tails
come out of the Congo. These creatures are
dubbed mokole-mbembe.[32]
The dynasty of the Rama family reforms Siamese law and
expands its borders, conqueringChiang Mai and
subjugating Cambodia.[33]
Until this century, there is only one female Wu Lung:
the infantry of the Lombard League. This is the
first major defeat of cavalry by infantry,
signaling the new role of the bourgeoisie.
1179 March The Third Lateran Council
limits papal electees to the cardinals alone,
condemns simony, and forbids the promotion
of anyone to the episcopate before the age of
thirty.
1183 The final Peace of Constance
between Frederick Barbarossa, the pope, and
the Lombard towns is signed. The
various articles of the treaty destroyed the
unity of the Empire and Germany and Italy
underwent separate developments.
1183 The Taira clan are driven out of
Kyoto by Minamoto Yoshinaka. The two-
year conflict which follows ends at the Battle
of Dan no Ura (1185).
1184 November Pope Lucius III issues
the papal bull Ad Abolendam. This bull
set up the organization of the medieval
inquisitions.
1185 Windmills are first recorded.
1185 The reestablishment of the
Bulgarian Empire.
1185 At the Battle of Dan no Ura,
Minamoto Yoshitsune annihilates the Taira
clan. The elimination of the Taira leaves the
Minamoto the virtual rulers of Japan and
marks the beginning of the first period of
feudal rule known as the Kamakura Period.
1186 1/27 The future emperor Henry VI
marries Constance of Sicily, heiress to the
Sicilian throne. This marriage shifts the
the Phoenix Empress.[34]
European imperialism in China leads to a backlash
against the Celestial Chorus.[35]
Many of Myanmar's "Karen" ethnic group are converted
by Baptist missionaries.[35]
The Technocratic Union "clears the way," allowing
the Order of Hermes to make inroads into the Middle
Kingdom.[36]
Wesleyan Revival occurs in response to the excesses of
the Roman Catholic Church.[37]
The Knights of St. George and the Dragon become the
first of the Celestial Chorus' old guardian orders to admit
men and women equally.[38]
The Acharne originate in the cults of Greece.[39]
Slavery ends in Eastern Europe, which begins an exodus
of Roma to North America.[40]
The Ghost Wheel Society first appears in the American
West.[40][41]
An Ecstatic shaman, William Cross, publishes The
Journeys of William Cross. The journal is the first known
mention of the Emerald Queen.[42]
Aboriginal Australian rock paintings depict the Prince of
Nightmares.[43]
Two things keep the Artificers busy during this century:
following up on industrial processes and the obsession
with refining the previous generations of analog
computers.[44]
The Baruti begin to fear that the destruction of ancient
traditions is starting to outpace their ability to salvage lost
information.[45]
Only the continued presence of Senex prevents
the Euthanatos from declaring theMadzimbabwe defunct.
[46]
Horatio Alger writes a series of children's books where
focus of the Guelphs/Ghibelline struggle to
Sicily and marks the ruin of the House of
Hohenstaufen.
1187 Saladin recaptures Jerusalem.
Would lead to the Third Crusade.
1189 July 6 Richard I ascends the throne of
England. His heavy taxation to finance
his European ventures created an antipathy of
barons and people toward the crown, but his
being absent enabled the English to advance in
their political development.
1189–1192 The Third Crusade
follows upon Saladin's uniting the Muslim
world and recapturing Jerusalem. Despite
managing to win several major battles, the
Crusaders did not recapture Jerusalem.
1192 Minamoto no Yoritomo is
appointed Sei-i Taishogun, or shogun for short.
He is the first of a long line of military
dictators to bear this title. The institution
would last until 1913.
1193 Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar
Khilji sack and burn the university at Nalanda.
This is the beginning of the decline of
Buddhism in India.
1193 The first known merchant guild.
1199 Europeans first use compasses.
13th century[edit]
See also: 13th century
Year Date Event Significance
1202 The Fourth Crusade sacked
Croatian town of Zadar (Italian: Zara), a rival
of Venice. Unable to raise enough funds to pay
to their Venetian contractors, the crusaders
heroes go from rags to riches through hard work, luck,
and good deeds.[47]
Some shamans still practise in some small towns
in Europe as late as this century.[48]
Although the Muse of Horror has been around as long as
mankind, it is only this century that one of the most gifted
poets of the Western world gives her a name: Lenore.[49]
The Electrodyne Engineers discover Etherspace.[50]
Russian military records describe what they call almas
and kaptars in Central Asia. Historians will later realize
they're surviving populations of Homo habilis.[51]
Some Technocrats examining governmental forms
become enamored of the ideas of Proudhon, Bakunin and
Kropotkin, which come to be called the anarchist
movement.[52]
The Reality Coders first appear.[53]
Reports begin of some sort of spirit/ghost/demon/thing
which attacks people through mirrors after a light goes
out.[54]
By this time, the Maximi of the Order of Reason become
renamed the Invisible Collegium.[55]
Early 1800s Edit
Aida-Wedo Mangum spends much of her time living and
socializing with the free black and Creole society of New
Orleans.[56]
The Pupils of Parmenides finally untangle themselves
from the Celestial Chorus early this century.[57]
Marianna of Balador is born in Venice, and Awakens at a
young age.[58][59]
Charles Babbage invents the first difference engine,[60]
[61] and later the analytical engine.Artificers appropriate
one of Babbage's analytical engines and begin applying a
sentience-expanding algorithm. At the ?th iteration,
the Computer gains sentience as a spirit of
agreed to sack the city despite letters from
Pope Innocent III forbidding such an action
and threatening excommunication. Siege of
Zara was the first major Crusade's action and
the first attack against a Catholic city by
Catholic crusaders.
1204 Sack of Constantinople during
the Fourth Crusade. Considered to be the
beginning of the decline of the Byzantine
Empire.
1205 Battle of Adrianople. The
Bulgarians under Emperor Kaloyan defeat
Baldwin I. Beginning of the decline of the
Latin Empire.
1206 Genghis Khan was elected as
Khagan of the Mongols and the Mongol
Empire was established. The Mongols
would conquer much of Eurasia, changing
former political borders.
1208 Pope Innocent III calls for the
Albigensian Crusade which seeks to destroy a
rival form of Christianity practiced by the
Cathars.
1209 The University of Cambridge is
founded.
1209 Founding of the Franciscan
Order. One of the more significant orders in
the Roman Catholic church, founded by Saint
Francis of Assisi.
1212 Spanish Christians succeed in
defeating the Moors in the long Reconquista
campaigns, after the Battle of Las Navas de
Tolosa.By 1238, only the small southern
Emirate of Granada remained under Muslim
technology merges with it.[62][63]
By this century, due to corruption and complacency, a
dedicated Daedalean will almost certainly be killed as a
threat to the "greater good."[64]
Early this century, a young man accompanies survey
missions of the new United States of America. He
encounters a Deep Universe entity who introduces him to
travel beyond theGauntlet. He spends the following
decades mapping the Near Universe, and later produces
the theory of Dimensional Science.[65]
Marie Laveau and Dr. John unite different factions
in New Orleans into a single Craft, theBata'a.[66]
China's population has swelled to 300 million by this
century.[67]
By this century, French excursions into
the Mekong threaten Siamese sovereignty.[68]
Early 1800s: Individual Get of Fenris begin to arrive
in Australia, as well as the first Silent Striders.[69]
Early 1800s: The first colonies of Ananasi crop up
in Mexico.[70]
Pittsburgh and its surrounding communities grow at an
extraordinary rate.[71]
The Pleroma Project is established outside New
Madrid, Missouri.[72]
The Order of Reason is in complete disarray, existing in
name only. The situation leads to thePromethean Plague.
[73]
Zhun Liao is considered one of China's foremost creators
of Wonders. Between the 16th century and now, she
creates the Inestimably Lovely Plum Blossom Dream Fan
of Madam Zhun Liao.[74]
Mid-1800s Edit
Forces of the Wyrm nearly seize the Sept of the White
Water at Niagara Falls, but Kinfolk of the Fianna and the
control.
1215 15 June The Magna Carta is
sealed by John of England. This marks one
of the first times a medieval ruler is forced to
accept limits on his power.
1215 Fourth Lateran Council. Dealt
with transubstantiation, papal primacy and
conduct of clergy. Proclaimed that Jews and
Muslims should wear identification marks to
distinguish them from Christians.
1216 Papal recognition of the
Dominican Order.
1219 Serbian Orthodox Church
becomes autocephalous under St. Sava, its first
Archbishop.
1227 18 August Genghis Khan dies.
His kingdom is divided among his
children and grandchildren: Empire of the
Great Khan, Chagatai Khanate, Mongolian
Homeland, and the Blue Horde and White
Horde. (Which would later become the Golden
Horde.
1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus'
resumes. Causes the split of Kievan Rus'
into three components (present day Russia,
Ukraine, Belarus, greatly effects various
regions of raided lands in other parts of
Europe; Golden Horde formed.
1257 Founding of the University of
Paris.
1257 Provisions of Oxford forced
upon Henry III of England. This establishes a
new form of government-limited regal
authority.
Fianna themselves helped to save it, beginning the shared
use of thecaern between the Uktena and the Fianna to this
day.[75][76][77][78]
Children of Gaia openly mingle with the Native
Americans in the Seattle area until this time. Their
presence is the likely origin of the legend of
the Sasquatch.[79]
The Ecstatics dedicate a series of public baths,
called Piacere, to the Celestial Chorus and place them
in Concordia's Prime Ward.[80]
Tom "Laughing Eagle" Smithson is captured and sent to
the Null-B Construct for slave labour.[58]
Russian traders and missionaries begin
invading Siberia in increasing numbers.[81]
Late 1800s Edit
Glass Walkers "discover" the Caern of the Solar
Barque in Heliopolis, and claim it as their own.[82]
The hostilities between the Pumonca and Old
World Garou die down in the face of their massive
common foe, the Storm Eater.[83]
The Storm Eater's escape from its bonds eventually
rouses many Mountain Guardian Gurahlfrom slumber to
help in the battle to defeat it.[84]
The squalor, overcrowding and disease rampant in this
century cause the Masses to lose faith in technology, so
they turn to spiritualism, giving the Superstitionists a big
boost in the waning years of the century.[85] Awakenings
increase as people grow dissatisfied with industrialism.
[86][87] Among those who benefit are
the Verbena's Moon-Seekers.[88]
The Wing Kong Elite cabal is founded.[89]
A French tradesman and female samurai marry, and
produce Andre Takahashi.[90]
Experts believe the Mafia is imported
1258 29 January– 10 February Siege of
Baghdad Mongols (the Ilkhanate) ensure
control of the region; Generally considered the
end of the Islamic Golden Age.
1272-73 The Ninth Crusade
occurs.Considered to be the Last Major
Crusade to take place in the Holy Land.
1273 29 September Rudolph I of Germany is
elected Holy Roman Emperor. This
begins the Habsburg de facto domination of
the crown that lasted until is dissolution in
1806.
1274 Thomas Aquinas' work, Summa
Theologica is published, after his death. Is
the main staple of theology during the Middle
Ages.
1279 19 March Battle of Yamen.
Marks the end of the Song Dynasty in
China, and all of China is under the rule of
Kublai Khan as the emperor.
1282 Sicilian Vespers. Sicilians
massacre Angevins over a six-week period,
after a Frenchman harassed a woman.
Would mark a two decade period of
war, and peace treaties mainly between
Aragon, Sicily, and the Angevins.
1283 Catalan Courts. Presided
by king Peter III of Aragon for the whole
Principality of Catalonia, it became in one of
the first medieval parliaments that banned the
royal power to create legislation unilaterally.
1296 Edward I of England invades
Scotland, starting the First War of Scottish
Independence.
to America by Italian immigrants at the end of this
century.[91]
Struggles between the Invisible
Exchequer and vampires rock criminal organizations
around the world.[92]
Triad members who come to the United States begin to
create "tongs."[93]
The Technocracy arrives in the Inventium, upsetting the
balance.[94]
The Explorators and the Electrodyne Engineers begin an
extraterrestrial rivalry.[95]
Wolfgang von Reismann's alchemical longevity keeps
him alive until late this century.[96]
At the end of this century, the modern Technocratic
Union is founded.[97] A Time Tablecovering the next 50
years is laid out.[28] The Precepts of Damian are
established.[98][99] The new Progenitors change the goal
of the Convention from the preservation of life to its
modification.[100] The transformation of the Invisible
Exchequer from Italian banker-princes to modern
industrial capitalists is complete, and
Queen Victoria renames them the Syndicate.
[101] The International Brotherhood of
Mechanicians build a self-aware computer and
becomeIteration X in celebration.[44]
The Sophia project gets its start within the Pleroma
Project.[102]
The original Dithyramb tablets disappear from the walls
of the temple to Dionysus where they've laid for the last
2600 years.[103]
A Virtual Adept describes magic by comparing it with
sight. Some have perfect vision, some don't, and a rare
few are entirely blind.[104]
Frederick Law Olmstead, a Fianna Kinfolk, is
1297 11 September The Battle of Stirling instrumental in saving the Sept of the White Water,
Bridge. William Wallace emerges as the an Uktena caern, from agents of the Wyrm. In response,
leader of the Scottish resistance to England. the Uktena agree to shared the caern with
1298 Marco Polo publishes his tales the Fianna. [105]
of China, along with Rustichello da Pisa. A 1900 The Sept of the Healing Dawn once again becomes
key step to the bridging of Asia and Europe in the one caern in Egypt (aside from the remote Sept of the
trade. Western Flame) where the Silent Striders could find rest
1299 27 JulyThe Ottoman Empire is founded and regainGnosis.[1]
by Osman I. Becomes longest lasting Islamic City Parent spirits begin to appear. [2]
Empire, lasting over 600 years into the 20th CyberRealm becomes a large, full-fledged Realm.[3]
century... Glass Walkers begin to make Cornerstone fetishes.[3]
Late Middle Ages[edit] Increased materialism and wealth, particularly in the
Further information: Late Middle Ages United States, strengthens Vorus, Urge Wyrm of
14th century[edit] Greed. [4]
See also: 14th century
Year Date Event Significance
1305 August 23 William Wallace is
executed for treason.
1307 Friday, October 13th The Knights
Templar are rounded up and murdered by
Philip the Fair of France, with the backing of
the Pope. Hastens the demise of the order
within a decade.
1307 Beginning of the Babylonian
Captivity of the Papacy during which the
Popes moved to Avignon. Begins a period
of over seven decades of the Papacy outside of
Rome that would be one of the major factors of
the Western Schism.
1310 Dante publishes his Divine
Comedy. Is one of the most defining
works of literature during the Late Middle
Ages, and among the most recognizable in all
of literature.
1314 23–24 June Battle of Bannockburn.
Robert the Bruce restores Scotland's de
facto independence.
1325 The Aztecs found the city of
Tenochtitlan. This would be the epicenter and
capital of the Aztec kingdom for nearly 200
years until the Siege of Tenochtitlan led by
Hernan Cortes.
1328 The First War of Scottish
Independence ends in Scottish victory with the
Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton and de jure
independence.
1333 Emperor Go-Daigo returns to
the throne from exile, and begins the Kenmu
restoration. The Kamakura Shogunate
comes to an end, and the Kenmu Restoration
only lasts a few years before the Ashikaga
Shogunate begins.
1337 The Hundred Years' War begins.
England and France struggle for a dominating
position in Europe and their region. The war
will span through three/four different war
periods within a 116-year period.
1346 August 26th Battle of Crecy.
English forces led by Edward III and
Edward, the Black Prince defeat the French
forces of Philip VI despite being outnumbered
at least 4 to 1, with the longbow being a major
factor in favor of England. Also considered to
be the beginning of the end of classic chivalry.
1347 The Black Death ravages
Europe for the first of many times. An
estimated 20% - 40% of the population is
thought to have perished within the first year.
 The first of many concurrences of this
plague, This was believed to have wiped out as
many as 50% of Europe's population by its
end.
1347 The University of Prague is
founded. It is the oldest Czech and
German-Speaking University in the world
1368 The fall of the Yuan Dynasty. Its
remnants, known as Northern Yuan, continued
to rule Mongolia. The breakup of the
Mongol Empire, which marked the end of Pax
Mongolica.
1370 Tamerlane establishes the
Timurid Dynasty. During this 35-year
period, Tamerlane would ravage his fellow
Islamic states such as the Golden Horde and
the Delhi Sultanate in order to accomplish his
goal of a restored Mongol Empire.
1378 The Western Schism during
which three claimant popes were elected
simultaneously. The Avignon Papacy
ends.
1380 Prince Dmitry Donskoy of
Moscow led a united Russian army to a victory
over the Mongols in the Battle of Kulikovo.
1380 Chaucer begins to write The
Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's greatest work,
and one of the foundations towards the
formation of the Modern English language
1381 Peasants' Revolt in England.
Quickest-spread revolt in English
history, and the most popular revolt of the Late
Middle Ages.
1381 The Bible is translated into
English by John Wycliffe. First print
published in English (Vulgate)
1386 October 18-19th The University of
Heidelberg is founded. It is the oldest
university in Germany.
1389 June 28th Battle of Kosovo in
Serbia. This was in many respects the decisive
battle between the Turks, led by Sultan Murat,
and Christian army, led by the Serbs and their
duke Lazar. The battle took place in Kosovo,
the southern province of the Medieval Serbian
Empire. After this battle Turkish empire
continued to spread over the Balkans, to finally
reach Vienna.
1392 Joseon Dynasty founded in
Korea. Becomes longest reigning Korean
dynasty.
1396 The Battle of Nicopolis.
The last great Crusade fails.
1397 The Kalmar Union is formed.
Queen Margaret I of Denmark unites
the Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, and lasts
until 1523.
1399 Richard II abdicates the throne
to Henry of Bolingbroke, who becomes Henry
IV of England. End of Plantagenet
Dynasty, beginning of the Lancaster lineage of
kings.
15th century[edit]
See also: 15th century
Year Date Event Significance
1402 July 20th Battle of Ankara
Bayezid I is captured by Tamerlane's
forces, causing the interregnum of the Ottoman
Empire.
1405 Chinese Naval Expeditions of
Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean (to
Eastern Africa) begins, under the leadership of
Zheng He. This will be the first of seven of
the Ming Dynasty-sponsored expeditions,
lasting until 1433.
1409 Ladislaus of Naples sells his
"rights" on Dalmatia to the Venetian Republic
for 100,000 ducats. Dalmatia would with
some interruptions remain under Venetian rule
for nearly four centuries, until 1797.
1415 Kingdom of Portugal conquers
Ceuta. Beginning of the Portuguese Empire.
1415 October 25th Battle of Agincourt.
Henry V and his army defeat a numerically
superior French army, partially because of the
newly introduced English longbow. The
turning point in the Hundred Years' War for
15th Century England that lead to the signing
of the Treaty of Troyes signed 5 years later,
making Henry V heir of France.
1417 The Council of Constance ends.
The Western Schism comes to a close,
and elects Pope Martin V as the sole pope.
1419 Hussite Wars begins after 4
years after the death of Jan Hus in central
Europe, dealing with the followers of Jan Hus
and those against them. Although the war
was a stalemate (ended around 1434), it was
another factor that[clarification needed]
between the Catholics and Protestants before
the Protestant Reformation.
1429 Joan of Arc lifts the siege of
Orleans for the Dauphin of France, enabling
him to eventually be crowned at Reims.
The battle at Orleans is the first of
many which ultimately drive the English from
continental Europe.
1431 30 May Trial and execution of
Joan of Arc. Death of the woman who helped
turned the Hundred Years' War in favor of the
French over the past two years.
1434 The Medici family rises to
prominence in Florence. This ushers in a
period of significance of the Medici's, such as
bankers, popes, queens (regents) and dukes,
throughout Europe (mainly Italy, especially the
Florentine Republic), over the next three
centuries.
1439 Johannes Gutenberg invents the
printing press. Literature, News, etc. becomes
more accessible throughout Europe.
1442 Battle of Szeben Third
significant victory for the Hungarian forces led
by Janos Hunyadi over the Ottoman forces.
1444 November 10th Battle of Varna
Final battle of the Crusade of Varna;
Ottomans are victorious over the Hungarian-
Polish armies, and Wladyslaw III of Poland
dies.
1453 Constantinople falls to the
Ottoman Turks. End of the Byzantine
Empire (or Eastern Roman Empire to some);
Constantinople becomes capital of Ottoman
Empire.
1453 The Hundred Years' War ends.
England's once vast territories in France
is now reduced to only Calais, which they
eventually lose control of as well.
1455 May 22 Battle of St. Albans
Traditionally marks the beginning of
the War of the Roses.
1456 Siege of Belgrade Major
Ottoman advances are halted for 7 decades,
last major victory for Hunyadi.
1459 Smederevo falls under the Turks
Marks the end of the Medieval Serbian
Empire.
1461 The Empire of Trebizond falls
to the Ottoman Turks.Last Roman outpost to
be conquered by the Ottomans.
1467–1477 Onin War takes place in
Japan. First of many significant civil wars
between shogunates that would continue for
another century during the Muromachi period.
1475 The Khanate of Crimea is
conquered and made a vassal state by Ottoman
Empire. Venice is defeated and the
Ottoman Empire becomes master of the
Aegean Sea.
1485 Thomas Malory composes Le
Morte d'Arthur Perhaps the best-known
work of Arthurian literature in English.
1485 August 22nd Battle of Bosworth
Field. Richard III dies in battle, and Henry
Tudor becomes king of England; last shift of
Houses/kingship during the War of the Roses.
1487 June 16 Battle of Stoke.
Marks end of the War of the Roses.
1492 Reconquista ends. Marks end
of Moorish/Muslim rule within Iberian
Peninsula; Unification of Spain and Portugal,
respectively.
1492 Christopher Columbus reaches
the New World. Age of Discovery into
the New World begins.
1492–1499[edit]
Events between the traditional end of the
Middle Ages in 1492 and the beginning of the
16th century:

1494 June 10 Spain and Portugal sign

the Treaty of Tordesillas and agree to divide
the World outside of Europe between
themselves. Pope's ruling will lead to the
division of Brazil and Spanish America, as
well as the formation of the Spanish
Philippines and Portuguese colonies in India
and Africa.
1494–1559 The Italian Wars.Italian Wars
will eventually lead to the downfall of the
Italian city-states.
1497 Vasco da Gama begins his first voyage
from Europe to India and back.Vasco da Gama
was the first European to sail directly to
Eastern Asia from Europe.
1499 Ottoman fleet defeats Venetians at the
Battle of Zonchio.The first naval battle that
used cannons in ships.
1500: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and
King of Spain was born.
1500: Guru Nanak the beginning and
spreading of the 5th largest Religion in the
World Sikhism.
1500: Spanish navigator Vicente Yanez Pinzon
encounters Brazil but is prevented from
claiming it by the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1500: Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares
Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.
1500: The Ottoman fleet of Kemal Reis defeats
the Venetians at the Second Battle of Lepanto.
1501: Michelangelo returns to his native
Florence to begin work on the statue David.
1501: Safavid dynasty reunified Iran and ruled
over it until 1736. Safavids adopt a Shia
branch of Islam.[4]
1502: First reported African slaves in The New
World
1503: Foundation of the Sultanate of Sennar by
Amara Dunqas, in what is modern Sudan
1503: Spain defeats France at the Battle of
Cerignola. Considered to be the first battle in
history won by gunpowder small arms.
1503: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the
Mona Lisa and completes it three years later.
1503: Nostradamus was born on either
December 14, or December 21.
1504: A period of drought, with famine in all
of Spain.
1504: Death of Isabella I of Castile, Joanna of
Castille became the Queen.
1505: Zhengde Emperor ascended the throne
of Ming Dynasty.
1505: King Sultan Trenggono built the first
Moslem kingdom in Java, called Demak, in
Indonesia . Many other small kingdoms were
established in other islands to fight against
Portuguese. Each kingdom introduced local
language as a way of communication and
unity.
1506: Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona
Lisa.
1506: King Afonso I of Kongo wins the battle
of Mbanza Kongo, resulting in Catholicism
becoming Kongo's state religion.
1506: At least two thousand converted Jews
are massacred in a Lisbon riot, Portugal.
1506: Christopher Columbus dies in
Valladolid, Spain.
1506: Poland is invaded by Tatars from the
Crimean Khanate.
1507: The first recorded epidemic of smallpox
in the New World on the island of Hispaniola.
It devastates the native Taino population.[5]
1507: Afonso de Albuquerque conquered
Hormuz and Muscat, among other bases in the
Persian Gulf, taking control of the region at the
entrance of the Gulf.
1508–1512: Michelangelo paints the Sistine
Chapel ceiling.
1509: The Battle of Diu marks the beginning
of Portuguese dominance of the Spice trade
and the Indian Ocean.
1509: The Portuguese king sends Diogo Lopes
de Sequeira to find Malacca, the eastern
terminus of Asian trade. After initially
receiving Sequeira, Sultan Mahmud Syah
captures and/or kills several of his men and
attempts an assault on the four Portuguese
ships, which escape.[6] The Javanese fleet is
also destroyed in Malacca.

Gun-wielding Ottoman Janissaries and

defending Knights of Saint John at the Siege of
Rhodes in 1522, from an Ottoman manuscript.

Spanish conquistadors with their Tlaxcallan

allies fighting against the Otomies of
Metztitlan in present-day Mexico, a 16th-
century codex
1510s[edit]

Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition

that circumnavigated the globe in 1519–1522.

Michelangelo Buonarroti
1509–10: The 'great plague' in various parts of
Tudor England.[7]
1511: Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal
conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate
of Malacca in present-day Malaysia.
1512: Copernicus writes Commentariolus, and
proclaims the sun the center of the solar
system.
1512: The southern part (historical core) of the
Kingdom of Navarre is invaded by Castile and
Aragon.
1512: The first Portuguese exploratory
expedition was sent eastward from Malacca (in
present-day Malaysia) to search for the 'Spice
Islands' (Maluku) led by Francisco Serrao.
Serrao is shipwrecked but struggles on to Hitu
(northern Ambon) and wins the favour of the
local rulers.[8]
1513: Machiavelli writes The Prince, a treatise
about political philosophy
1513: The Portuguese mariner Jorge Alvares
lands at Macau, China, during the Ming
Dynasty.
1513: Henry VIII defeats the French at the
Battle of the Spurs.
1513: The Battle of Flodden Field in which
invading Scots are defeated by Henry VIII's
forces.
1513: Sultan Selim I ("The Grim") orders the
massacre of Shia Muslims in Anatolia
(present-day Turkey).
1513: Vasco Nunez de Balboa, in service of
Spain arrives at the Pacific Ocean (which he
called Mar del Sur) across the Isthmus of
Panama. He was the first European to do so.
1514: The Battle of Orsha halts Muscovy's
expansion into Eastern Europe.
1514: Dozsa rebellion (peasant revolt) in
Hungary.
1514: The Battle of Chaldiran, the Ottoman
Empire gains decisive victory against Safavid
dynasty.
1515: The Ottoman Empire wrests Eastern
Anatolia from the Safavids after the Battle of
Chaldiran.
1516–1517: The Ottomans defeat the Mamluks
and gain control of Egypt, Arabia, and the
Levant.
1517: The Sweating sickness epidemic in
Tudor England.[9]
1517: The Protestant Reformation begins when
Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses in Saxony.
1518: Mir Chakar Khan Rind leaves
Baluchistan and settled in Punjab.
1518: Leo Africanus, also known as al-Hasan
ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi,
Arabic:??? ??? ???? ?????? ??????), an
Andalusian Berber diplomat who is best
known for his book Descrittione dell’Africa
(Description of Africa) describing the
geography of North Africa, is captured by
Spanish pirates; he will be taken to Rome and
presented to Pope Leo X.
1518: The Dancing Plague of 1518 begins in
Strasbourg, lasting for about one month.
1519: Leonardo da Vinci dies of natural causes
on May 2.
1519: Wang Yangming, the Chinese
philosopher and governor of Jiangxi province,
describes his intent to use the firepower of the
fo-lang-ji, a breech-loading Portuguese
culverin, in order to suppress the rebellion of
Prince Zhu Chen-hao.
1519: Barbary pirates led by Hayreddin
Barbarossa a Turk appointed to ruling position
in Algiers by the Ottoman Empire, raid
Provence and Toulon in southern France.
1519: Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of
Holy Roman Empire as Charles V, Holy
Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).
1519–1522: Spanish expedition commanded
by Magellan and Elcano first to circle Earth
1519–1521: Hernan Cortes leads the Spanish
conquest of Mexico.

Hernan Cortes
1520s[edit]

Francis I of France
Martin Luther at age 46 (Lucas Cranach the
Elder, 1529)
1520–1566: The reign of Suleiman the
Magnificent marks the zenith of the Ottoman
Empire.
1520: The first European diplomatic mission to
Ethiopia, sent by the Portuguese, arrives at
Massawa 9 April, and reaches the imperial
encampment of Emperor Dawit II in Shewa 9
October.
1520: The Yousafzais defeat Dilazaks at the
battle of Katlang to found the Yousafzai
dynasty in Pakhtunkhwa in modern-day
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
1520: The Portuguese established a trading
post in the village of Lamakera on the eastern
side of Solor (in present-day Indonesia) as a
transit harbour between Maluku and Malacca.
1520: Sultan Ali Mughayat Shah of Aceh
begins an expansionist campaign capturing
Daya on the west Sumatran coast (in present-
day Indonesia), and the pepper and gold
producing lands on the east coast.
1521: Belgrade (in present-day Serbia) is
captured by the Ottoman Empire.
1521: After building fortifications at Tuen
Mun, the Portuguese attempt to invade Ming
Dynasty China, but are expelled by Chinese
naval forces.
1521: Philippines encountered by Ferdinand
Magellan. He was later killed in battle in
central Philippines in the same year.
1521: Jiajing Emperor ascended the throne of
Ming Dynasty, China.
1521: November, Ferdinand Magellan's
expedition reaches Maluku (in present-day
Indonesia) and after trade with Ternate returns
to Europe with a load of cloves.
1521: Pati Unus led invasion of Malacca (in
present-day Malaysia) against the Portuguese
occupation. Pati Unus was killed in this battle,
and was succeeded by his brother, king
Trenggana.
1522: Rhodes falls to the Ottoman Turks of
Suleiman the Magnificent.[10]
1522: The Portuguese ally themselves with the
rulers of Ternate (in present-day Indonesia)
and begin construction of a fort.[8]
1522: August, Luso Sundanese Treaty signed
between Portugal and Sunda Kingdom granted
Portuguese permit to build fortress in Sunda
Kelapa
1523: Sweden gains independence from the
Kalmar Union.
1523: The cacao bean was introduced to Spain
by Hernan Cortes
1524–1525: German Peasants' War in the Holy
Roman Empire.
1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano is the first
European to explore the Atlantic coast of North
America between South Carolina and
Newfoundland.
1524 - Ismail I, the founder of Safavid dynasty,
dies and Tahmasp I becomes king.
1525: Spain and Germany defeat France at the
Battle of Pavia, Francis I of France is captured.
1526: The Ottomans defeat the Kingdom of
Hungary at the Battle of Mohacs.
1526: Mughal Empire, founded by Babur, rules
India until 1857.
1527: Sack of Rome, which is considered the
end of the Italian Renaissance.

Sack of Rome by Charles V forces.

1527: Protestant Reformation begins in
Sweden.
1527: The last ruler of Majapahit falls from
power. This state (located in present-day
Indonesia) was finally extinguished at the
hands of the Demak. A large number of
courtiers, artisans, priests, and members of the
royalty moved east to the island of Bali;
however, the power and the seat of government
transferred to Demak under the leadership of
Pangeran, later Sultan Fatah.
1527: June 22, The Javanese Prince Fatahillah
of the Cirebon Sultanate successfully defeated
the Portuguese armed forces at the site of the
Sunda Kelapa Harbor. The city was then
renamed Jayakarta, meaning "a glorious
victory." This eventful day came to be
acknowledged as Jakarta's Founding
Anniversary, and Fatahillah Park was named
after the heroic prince.
1529: The Austrians defeat the Ottoman
Empire at the Siege of Vienna.
1529: Treaty of Zaragoza defined the
antimeridian of Tordesillas attributing the
Moluccas to Portugal and Philippines to Spain.
1529: Imam Ahmad Gragn defeats the
Ethiopian Emperor Dawit II in the Battle of
Shimbra Kure, the opening clash of the
Ethiopian–Adal War
1530s[edit]

Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1536 – 1537,

Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland.

Portrait of Ivan the Terrible

1531–32: The Church of England breaks away
from the Roman Catholic Church and
recognizes King Henry VIII as the head of the
Church.
1531: The Inca Civil War is fought between
the two brothers, Atahualpa and Huascar.
1532: Francisco Pizarro leads the Spanish
conquest of the Inca Empire.
1533: Anne Boleyn becomes Queen of
England.
1533: Elizabeth Tudor is born.
1534: Jacques Cartier claims Quebec for
France.
1534: The Ottomans capture Baghdad.
1534: Affair of the Placards – Francis becomes
more active in repression of French
Protestants.
1535: The Munster Rebellion, an attempt of
radical, millennialist, Anabaptists to establish a
theocracy ends in bloodshed.
1535: The Portuguese in Ternate depose Sultan
Tabariji (or Tabarija) and send him to
Portuguese Goa where he converts to
Christianity and bequeaths his Portuguese
godfather Jordao de Freitas the island of
Ambon.[11]
1536: Katherine of Aragon dies in Kimbolton
Castle, in England.
1536: In England, Anne Boleyn is beheaded
for adultery and treason.
1536: Establishment of the Inquisition in
Portugal
1536: Foundation of Buenos Aires (in present-
day Argentina) by Pedro de Mendoza
1537: Portuguese establishes Recife in
Pernambuco, north-east of Brazil.
1537: William Tyndale's partial translation of
the Bible into English is published, which
would eventually be incorporated into the King
James Bible.
1538: Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada founds
Bogota.
1538: Spanish–Venetian fleet is defeated by
the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Preveza.
1539: Hernando de Soto explores inland North
America.
1540s[edit]
1540: Sher Shah Suri founds Suri dynasty in
South Asia, an ethnic Pashtun (Pathan) of the
house of Sur, who supplanted the Mughal
dynasty as rulers of North India during the
reign of the relatively ineffectual second
Mughal emperor Humayun. Sher Shah
decisively defeats Central Asian invader
Humayun in the Battle of Bilgram (May 17,
1540).
1541: Pedro de Valdivia founds Santiago de
Chile.
1541: An Algerian military campaign by
Charles V of Spain (Habsburg) is unsuccessful.
1541: Amazon River is encountered and
explored by Francisco de Orellana.
1541: Capture of Buda and the absorption of
the major part of Hungary by the Ottoman
Empire.
1541: Sahib I Giray of Crimea invades Russia.
1542: War resumes between Francis I of
France and Emperor Charles V. This time
Henry VIII is allied with the Emperor, while
James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are
allied with the French.
1542: Spanish explorer Ruy Lopez de
Villalobos named the island of Samar and
Leyte Las Islas Filipinas honoring Philip II of
Spain and became the official name of the
archipelago.
1543: Ethiopian/Portuguese troops decisively
defeat the Adal-Ottoman Muslim army at the
Battle of Wayna Daga; Imam Ahmad Gragn
killed.
1543: Copernicus publishes his theory that the
Earth and the other planets revolve around the
Sun

Nicolaus Copernicus
1543: The Nanban trade period begins after
Portuguese traders make contact with Japan.
1544: The French defeat an Imperial–Spanish
army at the Battle of Ceresole.
1544: Battle of the Shirts in Scotland. The
Frasers and Macdonalds of Clan Ranald fight
over a disputed chiefship; reportedly, 5 Frasers
and 8 Macdonalds survive.
1545: Songhai forces sack the Malian capital
of Niani
1545: The Council of Trent meets for the first
time in Trent (in northern Italy).
1546: Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief
architect of St. Peter's Basilica.
1546: Francis Xavier works among the peoples
of Ambon, Ternate and Morotai (Moro) laying
the foundations for a permanent mission. (to
1547)
1547: Henry VIII dies in the Palace of
Whitehall on 28 January at the age of 55.
1547: Edward VI becomes King of England
and Ireland on 28 January and is crowned on
20 February at the age of 9.
1547: Emperor Charles V decisively
dismantles the Schmalkaldic League at the
Battle of Muhlberg.
1547: Grand Prince Ivan the Terrible is
crowned tsar of (All)Russia, thenceforth
becoming the first Russian tsar.
1548: Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used
for the first time on the battlefield in Japan,
and Takeda Shingen is defeated by Murakami
Yoshikiyo.
1548 Askia Daoud, who reigned from 1548 to
1583, establishes public libraries in Timbuktu
(in present-day Mali).
1548: The Ming Dynasty government of China
issues a decree banning all foreign trade and
closes down all seaports along the coast; these
Hai jin laws came during the Wokou wars with
Japanese pirates.
1549: Tome de Souza establishes Salvador in
Bahia, north-east of Brazil.
1549: Arya Penangsang with the support of his
teacher, Sunan Kudus, avenged the death of
Raden Kikin by sending an envoy named
Rangkud to kill Sunan Prawoto by Keris Kyai
Satan Kober (in present-day Indonesia).
1550s[edit]

Hans Eworth, Queen Mary, c. 1555-1558

Suleiman the Magnificent

Akbar the Great

Philip II of Spain
1550: The architect Mimar Sinan builds the
Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul.
1550: Mongols led by Altan Khan invade
China and besiege Beijing.
1550–1551: Valladolid debate concerning the
human rights of the Indigenous people of the
Americas
1551: Fifth outbreak of sweating sickness in
England. John Caius of Shrewsbury writes the
first full contemporary account of the
symptoms of the disease.
1551: North African pirates enslave the entire
population of the Maltese island Gozo,
between 5,000 and 6,000, sending them to
Libya.
1552: Russia conquers the Khanate of Kazan
in central Asia.
1553: Mary Tudor becomes the first queen
regnant of England and restores the Church of
England under Papal authority.
1553: Portuguese found a settlement at Macau.
1554: Portuguese missionaries Jose de
Anchieta and Manuel da Nobrega establishes
Sao Paulo, southeast Brazil.
1554: Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned in the
Tower of London upon the orders of Mary I for
suspicion of being involved in the Wyatt
rebellion.
1555: The Muscovy Company is the first
major English joint stock trading company.
1556: Publication in Venice of Delle
Navigiationi et Viaggi (terzo volume) by
Giovanni Battista Ramusio, secretary of
Council of Ten, with plan La Terra de
Hochelaga, an illustration of the Hochelaga.
[12]
1556: The Shaanxi earthquake in China is
history's deadliest known earthquake during
the Ming dynasty.
1556: Georgius Agricola, the "Father of
Mineralogy", publishes his De re metallica.
1556: Akbar the Great defeats the Sultan of
Bengal at the Second battle of Panipat
1556: Russia conquers the Astrakhan Khanate.
1556–1605: During his reign, Akbar expands
the Mughal Empire in a series of conquests (in
the Indian subcontinent).
1556: Mir Chakar Khan Rind captured Delhi
with Emperor Humayun.
1556: Pomponio Algerio, radical theologian, is
executed by boiling in oil as part of the Roman
inquisition.
1557: Habsburg Spain declares bankruptcy.
Philip II of Spain had to declare four state
bankruptcies in 1557, 1560, 1575 and 1596.
1557: The Portuguese settle in Macau (on the
western side of the Pearl River Delta across
from present-day Hong Kong).
1557: The Ottomans capture Massawa, all but
isolating Ethiopia from the rest of the world.
1558 Elizabeth Tudor becomes Queen
Elizabeth I at age 25.
1558–1603: The Elizabethan era is considered
the height of the English Renaissance.
1558–1583: Livonian War between Poland,
Grand Principality of Lithuania, Sweden,
Denmark and Russia.
1558: After 200 years, the Kingdom of
England loses Calais to France.
1559: With the Peace of Cateau Cambresis, the
Italian Wars conclude.
1559: Sultan Khairun of Ternate (in present-
day Indonesia) protests the Portuguese's
Christianisation activities in his lands.
Hostilities between Ternate and the
Portuguese.
1560s[edit]

School of Francois Clouet, c. 1560–1561,

Mary, Queen of Scots.

Galileo Galilei by Ottavio Leoni

William the Silent

Don Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, the Iron

Duke of Alba. Governor of the Netherlands
from 1567 to 1573
1560: Ottoman navy defeats the Spanish fleet
at the Battle of Djerba.
1560: Elizabeth Bathory is born in Nyirbator,
Hungary.
1560: By winning the Battle of Okehazama,
Oda Nobunaga becomes one of the pre-
eminent warlords of Japan
1561: Sir Francis Bacon is born in London.
1561: Guido de Bres draws up the Belgic
Confession of Protestant faith.
1562: Mughal leader Akbar reconciles the
Muslim and Hindu factions by marrying into
the powerful Rajput Hindu caste.
1562–98: French Wars of Religion between
Catholics and Huguenots.
1562: Massacre of Wassy and Battle of Dreux
in the French Wars of Religion.
1562: Portuguese Dominican priests build a
palm-trunk fortress which Javanese Muslims
burned down the following year. The fort was
rebuilt from more durable materials and the
Dominicans commenced the Christianisation
of the local population.[11]
1563: Plague outbreak claimed 80,000 people
in Elizabethan England. In London alone, over
20,000 people died of the disease.
1564: Galileo Galilei born on February 15
1564: William Shakespeare baptized 26 April
1565: Battle of Talikota fought between the
Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar and the Deccan
sultanates.
1565: Mir Chakar Khan Rind died age of 97.
1565: Estacio de Sa establishes Rio de Janeiro
in Brazil.
1565: The Hospitallers, a Crusading Order,
defeat the Ottoman Empire at the Siege of
Malta (1565).
1565: Miguel Lopez de Legazpi establishes in
Cebu the first Spanish settlement in the
Philippines starting a period of Spanish
colonization that would last over three hundred
years.
1565: Spanish navigator Andres de Urdaneta
discovers the maritime route from Asia to the
Americas across the Pacific Ocean, also known
as the tornaviaje.
1566 Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the
Ottoman Empire, dies on September 7.
1566–1648: Eighty Years' War between Spain
and the Netherlands.
1567: After 45 years' reign, Jiajing Emperor
died in the Forbidden City, Longqing Emperor
ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty.
1567: Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned by
Elizabeth I.
1568: The Transylvanian Diet, under the
patronage of the prince John Sigismund
Zapolya, the former King of Hungary, inspired
by the teachings of Ferenc David, the founder
of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania,
promulgates the Edict of Torda, the first law of
Freedom of religion and of conscience in the
World.
1568–1571: Morisco Revolt in Spain.
1568–1600: The Azuchi-Momoyama period in
Japan.
1568: Hadiwijaya sent his adopted son and son
in-law Sutawijaya, who would later become
the first ruler of the Mataram dynasty of
Indonesia, to kill Aryo Penangsang.
1569: Rising of the North in England.
1569: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
is created with the Union of Lublin which lasts
until 1795.
1569: Peace treaty signed by Sultan Khairun of
Ternate and Governor Lopez De Mesquita of
Portuguese.
1570s[edit]

Oda Nobunaga.

The Battle of Lepanto.

Sir Francis Drake.

1570: Ivan the Terrible, tsar of Russia, orders
the massacre of inhabitants of Novgorod.
1570: Pope Pius V issues Regnans in Excelsis,
a papal bull excommunicating all who obeyed
Elizabeth I and calling on all Roman Catholics
to rebel against her.
1570: Sultan Hairun of Ternate (in present-day
Indonesia) is killed by the Portuguese.[11] The
reign of Sultan Baabullah.
1571: Pope Pius V completes the Holy League
as a united front against the Ottoman Turks.
1571: The Spanish-led Holy League navy
destroys the Ottoman Empire navy at the
Battle of Lepanto.
1571: Crimean Tatars attack and sack Moscow,
burning everything but the Kremlin.
1571: American Indians kill Spanish
missionaries in what would later be
Jamestown, Virginia.
1571: Spanish conquistador Miguel Lopez de
Legazpi establishes Manila, Philippines as the
capital of the Spanish East Indies.
1572: Brielle is taken from Habsburg Spain by
Protestant Watergeuzen in the Capture of
Brielle, in the Eighty Years' War.
1572: Spanish conquistadores apprehend the
last Inca leader Tupak Amaru at Vilcabamba,
Peru, and execute him in Cuzco.
1572: Catherine de' Medici instigates the St.
Bartholomew's Day massacre which takes the
lives of Protestant leader Gaspard de Coligny
and thousands of Huguenots. The violence
spreads from Paris to other cities and the
countryside.
1572: First edition of the epic The Lusiads of
Luis Vaz de Camoes, three years after the
author returned from the East.[13]
1572: The 9 years old Taizi, Zhu Yijun
ascended the throne of Ming Dynasty, known
as Wanli Emperor.
1573: After heavy losses on both sides the
Siege of Haarlem ends in a Spanish victory.
1574: in the Eighty Years' War the capital of
Zeeland, Middelburg declares for the
Protestants.
1574: After a siege of 4 months the Siege of
Leiden ends in a comprehensive Dutch rebel
victory.
1575: Oda Nobunaga finally captures
Nagashima fortress.
1575: Following a five-year war, the
Ternateans under Sultan Baabullah defeated
the Portuguese.
1576: Tahmasp I, Safavid king, died.
1576: Sack of Antwerp by badly paid Spanish
soldiers.
1577–80: Francis Drake circles the world.
1577: Ki Ageng Pemanahan built his palace in
Pasargede or Kotagede.
1578: King Sebastian of Portugal is killed at
the Battle of Alcazarquivir.
1578:The Portuguese establish a fort on Tidore
but the main centre for Portuguese activities in
Maluku becomes Ambon.[11]
1579: The Union of Utrecht unifies the
northern Netherlands, a foundation for the later
Dutch Republic.
1579: The Union of Arras unifies the southern
Netherlands, a foundation for the later states of
the Spanish Netherlands, the Austrian
Netherlands and Belgium
1579: The British navigator Sir Francis Drake
passes through Maluku and transit in Ternate
on his circumnavigation of the world. The
Portuguese establish a fort on Tidore but the
main centre for Portuguese activities in
Maluku becomes Ambon.[14]
1580s[edit]

The fall of Spanish Armada

George Gower, c. 1588, Queen Elizabeth I of

England

Shah Abbas I of Persia

1580: Drake's royal reception after his attacks
on Spanish possessions influences Philip II of
Spain to build up the Spanish Armada. English
ships in Spanish harbours are impounded.
1580: Spain unifies with Portugal under Philip
II. The struggle for the throne of Portugal ends
the Portuguese Empire. The Spanish and
Portuguese crowns are united for 60 years, i.e.
until 1640.
1582: Oda Nobunaga is assassinated by his
general, Akechi Mitsuhide.
1582: Pope Gregory XIII issues the Gregorian
calendar. The last day of the Julian calendar
was Thursday, 4 October 1582 and this was
followed by the first day of the Gregorian
calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582
1582: Yermak Timofeyevich conquers the
Siberia Khanate on behalf of the Stroganovs.
1583: Death of Sultan Baabullah of Ternate.
1584–85: After the Siege of Antwerp, many of
its merchants flee to Amsterdam. According to
Luc-Normand Tellier, "At its peak, between
1510 and 1557, Antwerp concentrated about
40% of the world trade...It is estimated that the
port of Antwerp was earning the Spanish
crown seven times more revenues than the
Americas."[15]
1584 : Ki Ageng Pemanahan died. Sultan
Pajang raised Sutawijaya, son of Ki Ageng
Pemanahan as the new ruler in Mataram, titled
"Loring Ngabehi Market" (because his home in
the north of the market).
1585 : Colony at Roanoke founded in North
America
1585–1604: The Anglo-Spanish War is fought
on both sides of the Atlantic.
1587 - The reign of Abbas I marks the zenith
of the Safavid dynasty.
1587 : troops that would invade Pajang
Sultanate of Mataram storm ravaged the
eruption of Mount Merapi. Sutawijaya and his
men survived.
1588 : Mataram into the kingdom with
Sutawijaya as Sultan, titled "Senapati Ingalaga
Sayidin Panatagama" means the warlord and
cleric Manager Religious Life.
1588: England repulses the Spanish Armada.
1589: Spain repulses the English Armada.
1590s[edit]
1590: Siege of Odawara the Go-Hojo clan
surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Japan
was unified (1590).
1591: Gazi Giray leads a huge Tatar expedition
against Moscow.
1591: In Mali, Moroccan forces of the Sultan
Ahmad al-Mansur led by Judar Pasha defeat
the Songhai Empire at the Battle of Tondibi.
1592–1593: John Stow reports 10,675 plague
deaths in London, a city of approximately
200,000 people.
1592–1598: Korea, with the help of Ming
Dynasty China, repels two Japanese invasions.
1593–1606: The Long War between the
Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Turks.
1595: First Dutch expedition to Indonesia sets
sail for the East Indies with two hundred and
forty-nine men and sixty-four cannons led by
Cornelis de Houtman.[16]
1596: Birth of Rene Descartes.
1596: June, de Houtman’s expedition reaches
Banten the main pepper port of West Java
where they clash with both the Portuguese and
Indonesians. It then sails east along the north
coast of Java losing twelve crew to a Javanese
attack at Sidayu and killing a local ruler in
Madura.[16]
1597: de Houtman’s expedition returns to the
Netherlands with enough spices to make a
considerable profit.[16]
1598: The Edict of Nantes ends the French
Wars of Religion.
1598: Abbas I moved Safavids capital from
Qazvin to Isfahan in 1598.
1598–1613: Russia descends into anarchy
during the Time of Troubles.
1598: The Portuguese require an armada of 90
ships to put down a Solorese uprising.[11] (to
1599)
1598: More Dutch fleets leave for Indonesia
and most are profitable.[16]
1599: The Mali Empire is defeated at the
Battle of Jenne
1599: The van Neck expedition returns to
Europe. The expedition makes a 400 per cent
profit.[16] (to 1600)
1599: March, Leaving Europe the previous
year, a fleet of eight ships under Jacob van
Neck was the first Dutch fleet to reach the
‘Spice Islands’ of Maluku.[16]
1600: Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake
for heresy in Rome.
1600: Battle of Sekigahara in Japan. End of the
Warring States period and beginning of the
Edo period.
1600: The Portuguese win a major naval battle
in the bay of Ambon.[17] Later in the year, the
Dutch join forces with the local Hituese in an
anti-Portuguese alliance, in return for which
the Dutch would have the sole right to
purchase spices from Hitu.[17]
1600: Elizabeth I grants a charter to the British
East India Company beginning the English
advance in Asia.1600: On February 17
Giordano Bruno is burned at the stake by the
Inquisition.
1600: Michael the Brave unifies the three
Romanian countries: Wallachia, Moldavia and
Transylvania after the Battle of ?elimbar from
1599.
1601: Battle of Kinsale, England defeats Irish
and Spanish forces at the town of Kinsale,
driving the Gaelic aristocracy out of Ireland
and destroying the Gaelic clan system.
1601: Michael the Brave (first unifier of
Romania), voivode of Wallachia, Moldavia and
Transylvania, is assassinated by the order of
the Habsburg general Giorgio Basta at Campia
Turzii.
1601–1603: The Russian famine of 1601–1603
kills perhaps one-third of Russia.
1601: Panembahan Senopati, first king of
Mataram, dies and passes rule to his son
Panembahan Seda ing Krapyak
1601: Matteo Ricci is given permission to live
in Beijing.
1602: Matteo Ricci produces the Map of the
Myriad Countries of the World (??????, Kunyu
Wanguo Quantu), a world map that will be
used throughout East Asia for centuries.
1602: The Portuguese send a major (and last)
expeditionary force from Malacca which
succeeded in reimposing a degree of
Portuguese control.
1602: The Dutch East India Company (VOC)
is established by merging competing Dutch
trading companies.[4] Its success contributes
to the Dutch Golden Age.
1602: June, British East India Company's first
voyage, commanded by Sir James Lancaster,
arrives in Aceh and sails on to Bantam where
he is allowed to build trading post which
becomes the centre of British trade in
Indonesia until 1682.[5]
1602: Two emissaries from the Aceh Sultanate
visit the Dutch Republic.
1603: Elizabeth I of England dies and is
succeeded by her cousin King James VI of
Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and
England.
1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu takes the title of
Shogun, establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate.
This begins the Edo period, which will last
until 1869.
1603–1623: After modernizing his army,
Abbas I expands the Persian Empire by
capturing territory from the Ottomans and the
Portuguese.
1603: First permanent Dutch trading post is
established in Banten, West Java.[5] First
successful VOC privateering raid on a
Portuguese ship.
1604: A second English East India Company
voyage commanded by Sir Henry Middleton
reaches Ternate, Tidore, Ambon and Banda.
Fierce VOC hostility is encountered in Banda
thus beginning Anglo-Dutch competition for
access to spices[5]
1605: Tokugawa Ieyasu passes the title of
Shogun to his son, Tokugawa Hidetada, and
"retires" to Sunpu.
1605: Gunpowder Plot failed in England.
1605: The fortresses of Veszprem and Visegrad
are retaken by the Ottomans.
1605: February, The VOC in alliance with Hitu
prepare to attack a Portuguese fort in Ambon
but the Portuguese surrender.[4]
1605: Panembahan Seda ing Krapyak of
Mataram establishes control over Demak,
former center of the Demak Sultanate.
1605: The King of Gowa, a Makassarese
kingdom in South Sulawesi, converts to Islam
1606: The Long War between the Ottoman
Empire and Austria is ended with the Peace of
Zsitvatorok—Austria abandons Transylvania.
1606: Treaty of Vienna ends anti-Habsburg
uprising in Royal Hungary.
1606: Assassination of Stephen Bocskay of
Transylvania.
1606: Time of Troubles: Vasili IV becomes
Tzar of Russia.
1606: The Dutch East India Company enters
into an alliance with the Johor Sultanate to
attack Portuguese Malacca, but they are
repelled.
1606: Captain Willem Janszoon and his crew
aboard the Dutch East India Company ship
Duyfken becomes the first recorded Europeans
to sight and make landfall in Australia.
1606: A Spanish fleet occupies Ternate and
Tidore.[4]
1607: Jamestown, Virginia, is settled as what
would become the first permanent English
colony in North America.
1607: Flight of the Earls (the fleeing of most of
the native Gaelic aristocracy) occurs from
County Donegal in the west of Ulster in
Ireland.
1607: Iskandar Muda becomes the Sultan of
Aceh (r. 1607–1637). He will launch a series
of naval conquests that will transform Aceh
into a great power in the western Malay
Archipelago.
1608: Quebec City founded by Samuel de
Champlain in New France (present-day
Canada).
1608: The Dutch East India Company
establishes a settlement in Siamese Ayutthaya.
1609: The Netherlands and Spain agree to a
Twelve Years' Truce in the Eighty Years' War.
1609: Maximilian of Bavaria establishes the
Catholic League.
1609: The Dutch East India Company
establishes a factory in Hirado, Japan. VOC
traders also make forays into South Sulawesi
and Banjarmasin, Borneo.
1610s[edit]
1610: Pedro de Peralta, governor of New
Mexico, establishes the settlement of Santa Fe.
1610: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
army defeats combined Russian- Swedish
forces at the Battle of Klushino and conquers
Moscow.
1610: The VOC appoints Pieter Both as its first
Governor-General to enable firmer control of
their affairs in Asia.[4] Previously all business
had (in theory) required the approval of the
Heeren XVII, a group of seventeen
shareholders in Amsterdam.
1610: Ottoman Grand Vizier Kuyucu Murad
Pasha is able to crush the major remnants of
the Jelali Revolts, bringing an end to general
anarchy in Anatolia.
1610: Matteo Ricci dies in Beijing.
1610: Panembahan Seda ing Krapyak of
Mataram in Central Java attacks Surabaya, a
major power on the north coast.
1610: King Henry IV of France is assassinated
by Francois Ravaillac.
1611: The Pontifical and Royal University of
Santo Tomas, the oldest existing university in
Asia, established by the Dominican Order in
Manila[6]
1611: The English establish trading posts at
Sukadana (southwest Kalimantan), Makassar,
Jayakarta and Jepara in Java, and Aceh,
Pariaman and Jambi in (Sumatra) threatening
Dutch ambitions for a monopoly on East Indies
trade.[5]
1611: The Kingdom of Gowa ends its major
push to convert the Makassarese and Bugis in
South Sulawesi to Islam.
1611: The Dutch establish a post at Jayakarta
(later 'Batavia' and then 'Jakarta').
1611: A Dutch trader is killed in Banjarmasin
and the Dutch East India Trading Company
sacks the city.
1611: The first publication of the King James
Bible.
1612: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh captures
the North Sumatran port of Deli.
1613: The Time of Troubles in Russia ends
with the establishment of the House of
Romanov, which rules until 1917.
1613–1617: Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth is invaded by the Tatars
dozens of times.[7]
1613: The Dutch expel the Portuguese from
their Solor fort, but won't stay for long.
1613: The Dutch East India Company makes
its first forays into Timor.
1613: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh captures
the North Sumatran port of Aru, subjugating
the Sultanate of Deli. This allows Aceh to
focus its expansionary efforts on the Straits of
Malacca. Iskandar Muda continues on to sack
Johor and kidnap its Sultan's family, but is later
forced to retreat back to Aceh.
1613: The Dutch East India Company is forced
to evacuate Gresik because of the Mataram
siege of neighboring Surabaya. The VOC
enters into negotiations with Mataram and is
allowed to set up a trading post in Jepara.
1613: Panembahan Seda ing Krapyak of
Mataram dies and is succeeded by his son.
1614: John Napier publishes Mirifici
Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio, the first
table of logarithms.
1614: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh sinks a
Portuguese fleet off of Bintan Island.
1615: The Battle of Osaka (last major threat to
Tokugawa Shogunate) ends.
1615: A Dutch East India Company attack on
Portuguese Malacca is repelled.
1615: The Portuguese stop hiring Japanese
mercenaries after a brawl in Malacca.
1615: Panembahan ing Alaga of Mataram
conquers the Eastern Salient of Java (the
heartland of the old Majapahit Empire).
1615: The Dutch East India Company is in
open hostilities with the Kingdom of Gowa,
South Sulawesi.
1616: The last remaining Moriscos (Moors
who had nominally converted to Christianity)
in Spain are expelled.
1616: Death of retired Shogun Tokugawa
Ieyasu.
1616: English poet and playwright William
Shakespeare dies.
1617: Sultan Iskandar Muda of Aceh conquers
Pahang on the South China Sea.
1617: Panembahan ing Alaga of Mataram puts
down a major revolt in Pajang.
1618: The Defenestration of Prague.
1618: The Bohemian Revolt precipitates the
Thirty Years' War, which devastates Europe in
the years 1618–48.
1618: Bethlen Gabor, Prince of Transylvania
joins Protestant Rebels.
1618: The Manchus start invading China.
Their conquest eventually topples the Ming
Dynasty.
1618: Dispute leads to the execution of
Dutchmen in Mataram-controlled Jepara.
1619: Bethlen Gabor is defeated outside
Vienna.
1619: Jan Pieterszoon Coen appointed
Governor-General of the VOC who would
show he had no scruples about using brute
force to establish the VOC on a firm footing.
While Ambon and Pattani had been the major
VOC trading centers to this point, Coen is
convinced that Dutch need a more central
location near the Sunda Strait.
1619: Dutch East India Company, English East
India Company, and Sultanate of Banten all
fighting over port city of Jayakarta. VOC
forces storm the city and withstand a months-
long siege by the combined English,
Bantenese, and Jayakartan forces. They are
relieved by Jan Pieterszoon Coen and a fleet of
nineteen ships out of Ambon. Coen had burned
Jepara and its EIC post along the way. The
VOC levels the old city of Jayakarta and builds
its new headquarters, Batavia, on top of it.

Jan Pieterszoon Coen (8 January 1587 – 21

September 1629), the founder of Batavia, was
an officer of the Dutch East India Company
(VOC) in the early seventeenth century,
holding two terms as its Governor-General of
the Dutch East Indies.
1620s[edit]
1620: Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the
Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White
Mountain.
1620: The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the
Mayflower at Cape Cod.
1620–1621: Polish-Ottoman War over
Moldavia.
1620: Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans
and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The
Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River
Prut.
1620: Almost the entire native population of
Banda Islands was deported, driven away,
starved to death or killed in an attempt to
replace them with Dutch colonial slave labour.
1620: Diplomatic agreements in Europe
commence a three-year period of cooperation
between the Dutch and the English over the
spice trade.[5]
1621: The Battle of Chocim: Poles and
Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat
the Ottomans.
1622: Capture of Ormuz; The island of
Hormuz was captured by an Anglo-Persian
force from Portuguese.
1622: Jamestown massacre: Algonquian
natives kill 347 English settlers outside
Jamestown, Virginia (one-third of the colony's
population) and burn the Henricus settlement.
1623: Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban
VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623.
1623: In a notorious but disputed incident,
known as the 'Amboyna massacre', ten English
and ten Japanese traders are arrested, tried and
beheaded for conspiracy against the Dutch
Government.[8] The English quietly withdraw
from most of their Indonesian activities
(except trading in Bantam) and focus on other
Asian interests.
1624–1642: As chief minister, Cardinal
Richelieu centralises power in France.
1624: The Dutch West India Company invades
the Portuguese colony of Bahia in Brazil.
1625: New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch
West India Company in North America.
1626: St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican
completed.
1627: Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to
Protestant La Rochelle, which eventually
capitulates.
1627: Aurochs go extinct.
1628—1629: Sultan Agung of Mataram
launched a failed campaign to conquer Dutch
Batavia.
1629: Abbas I, the Safavids king, died.
1629: Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish
Protestant forces in the Thirty Years' War to
counter Ferdinand II's expansion.
1629: Iskandar Muda of Aceh Sultanate
launched a failed attempt to take Portuguese
Malacca.
1630s[edit]
1630: The Dutch West India Company invades
the Portuguese colony of Pernambuco and
founds Dutch Brazil.
1631: Mount Vesuvius erupts.
1632: Battle of Lutzen, death of king of
Sweden Gustav II Adolf.
1632: Taj Mahal building work started in Agra,
India.
1633: Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his
trial before the Inquisition.
1633–1639: Japan transforms into "locked
country".
1634: Battle of Nordlingen results in Catholic
victory.
1634: Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic
Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit
missionaries from Ethiopia.
1636: Emperor Fasilides founds the city of
Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia
for the next two centuries.
1636: Harvard University is founded in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1636: The Portuguese are expelled again from
their Solor fort by the Dutch following a
reoccupation.
1637: Shimabara Rebellion of Japanese
Christians, ronin and peasants against Edo.
1637: Rene Descartes publishes "Discours de
la Methode" ("The Discourse on the Method")
in French.
1637: The first opera house, Teatro San
Cassiano, opens in Venice.
1637: Qing dynasty attacked Joseon dynasty.
1639: Naval Battle of the Downs – Republic of
the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a
Spanish fleet in English waters.
1639: Disagreements between the Farnese and
Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the
Wars of Castro and last until 1649.
1639–1651: Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil
wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and
England.
1640s[edit]
1640: King Charles was compelled to summon
Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots.
1640–1668: The Portuguese Restoration War
led to the end of the Iberian Union.
1640: Torture is outlawed in England.
1641: The Tokugawa Shogunate institutes
Sakoku- foreigners are expelled and no one is
allowed to enter or leave Japan.
1641: The Irish Rebellion.
1641: Rene Descartes publishes Meditationes
de prima philosophia Meditations on First
Philosophy.
1642: 5th Dalai Lama swept power in Tibet, he
established the theocratic state in Tibet after
series battles against regional Kingdoms.
1642: Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman
achieves the first recorded European sighting
of New Zealand.
1642: Beginning of English Civil War, conflict
will end in 1651 with the execution of King
Charles I, abolishment of the monarchy and
the establishment of the supremacy of
Parliament over the king.
1644: Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected
Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave of
1644.
1644: The Manchu conquer China ending the
Ming Dynasty. The subsequent Qing Dynasty
rules until 1912.
1644–1674: The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War.
1645: The death of Miyamoto Musashi,
legendary Japanese Samurai warrior, of natural
causes.
1645–1669: Ottoman war with Venice. The
Ottomans invade Crete and capture Canea.
1646: Sultan Agung of Mataram dies – and is
buried at his graveyard at Imogiri
1647: Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes
sultan.
1647–1652: The Great Plague of Seville.
1648: The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty
Years' War and the Eighty Years' War and
marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman
Empire as major European powers.
1648–1653: Fronde civil war in France.
1648–1657: The Khmelnytsky Uprising – a
Cossack rebellion in Ukraine which turned into
a Ukrainian war of liberation from Poland.
1648–1667: The Deluge wars leave Polish–
Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins.
1648–1669: The Ottomans capture Crete from
the Venetians after the Siege of Candia.
1649: King Charles I is executed for High
treason, the first and only English king to be
subjected to legal proceedings in a High Court
of Justice and put to death.
1649–1653: The Cromwellian conquest of
Ireland.
1650s[edit]
1650: Francesco Redi challenges the theory of
spontaneous generation by demonstrating that
maggots come from eggs of flies.
1651: English Civil War ends with the
Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of
Worcester.
1652: Cape Town founded by the Dutch East
India Company in South Africa.
1654–1661: Mehmed Koprulu is Grand Vizier.
1655: The English, led by Sir William Penn
and General Robert Venables, took over the
last Spanish fort in Jamaica.
1655–1661: The Northern Wars cement
Sweden's rise as a Great Power.
1658: After his father Shah Jahan completes
the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him
as ruler of the Mughal Empire.
1660s[edit]
1660: The Commonwealth of England ends
and the monarchy is brought back during the
English Restoration.
1660: Royal Society of London for the
Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded.
1661: Mehmed Koprulu dies and is succeeded
by his son Ahmed.
1661: The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of
China begins.
1661: Cardinal Mazarin, de-facto ruler of
France, dies.
1662: Koxinga captures Taiwan from the
Dutch and founds the Kingdom of Tungning,
which rules until 1683.
1662: Jacques Aymar-Vernay, who later
reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in
Europe, is born.
1663: Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary.
1663: France takes full political and military
control over its colonial possessions in New
France.
1663: Robert Hooke discovers cells using a
microscope.
1664: The Battle of St. Gotthard: count
Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans.
The Peace of Vasvar – intended to keep the
peace for 20 years.
1664: British troops capture New Amsterdam
and rename it New York.
1664: John Evelyn's forestry book, Sylva, is
published in England.
1665: The Great Plague of London.
1665: Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire at
the Battle of Mbwila.
1665–1667: The Second Anglo-Dutch War
fought between England and the United
Provinces.
1666- The Great Shivaji-Agra Visit
1666: The Great Fire of London.
1667: The Raid on the Medway during the
Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1667–1668: The War of Devolution; France
invades the Netherlands. The Peace of Aix-la-
Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt.
1667–1699: The Great Turkish War halts the
Ottoman Empire's expansion into Europe.
1667: As a result of the Treaty of Breda
between Dutch and England, the Dutch
secured a worldwide monopoly on nutmeg by
forcing England to give up their claim on Run,
the most remote of the Banda Islands. While
the Dutch did not press their claims on New
Netherland.
1668: Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain
and Portugal recognizes Portugal as
independent country.
1669: The Ottomans capture Crete.
1670s[edit]
1670: The Hudson's Bay Company is founded
in Canada.
1670: The city of Charleston is founded in
present-day South Carolina.
1672–1673: Ottoman campaign to help the
Ukrainian Cossacks. John Sobieski defeats the
Ottomans at the second battle of Khotyn
(1673).
1672–1676: Polish-Ottoman War.
1672: Rampjaar in the Netherlands –
Combined attack by France, England and two
German states on the Republic of the United
Provinces.
1672: Lynching of Johan de Witt and his
brother Cornelis de Witt in the Hague –
William III of Orange takes power.
1672–1678: Franco-Dutch War.
1673: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek is the first to
observe microbes with a homemade
microscope, using samples he collected from
his teeth scrapings, raindrops, and his own
feces. He calls them "animalcules."
1674: The Treaty of Westminster ends the war
between England and the Republic of the
United Provinces.
1674: Maratha Empire founded in India by
Shivaji.
1676: The Treaty of Zurawno brings Polish-
Ottoman hostilities to a halt.
1676: Kara Mustafa becomes Grand Vizier.
1676–1681: Russia and the Ottoman Empire
commence the Russo-Turkish Wars.
1678: The Treaty of Nijmegen ends various
interconnected wars among France, the Dutch
Republic, Spain, Brandenburg, Sweden,
Denmark, the Prince-Bishopric of Munster,
and the Holy Roman Empire.
1680s[edit]
1680: The Pueblo Revolt drives the Spanish
out of New Mexico until 1692.
1681: The Pasha of Buda supports Imre
Thokoly's rebellion in Hungary.
1682: Sultan Mehmed IV, advised by Kara
Mustafa, decides to disregard the existing
peace treaty with Leopold I, due to expire in
1684.
1682–1683: The Ottomans make camp at
Adrianople.
1682: Peter the Great becomes joint ruler of
Russia (sole tsar in 1696).
1682: La Salle explores the length of the
Mississippi River and claims Louisiana for
France.
1683: China conquers the Kingdom of
Tungning and annexes Taiwan.
1683: A Habsburg council of war is held in
Vienna.
1683: The Battle of Vienna finishes the
Ottoman Empire's hegemony in south-eastern
Europe.
1685: Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws
Protestantism in France. King Charles II dies.
1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae
Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1688: The Siege of Derry.
1688: Siamese revolution of 1688 ousted
French influence and virtually severed all ties
with the West until the 19th century.
1688–1689: The Glorious Revolution starts
with the Dutch Republic invading England,
England becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1688–1691: The War of the Two Kings in
Ireland.
1688–1697: The Grand Alliance sought to stop
French expansion during the Nine Years War.
1689: William ascends to the throne over
England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1689: John Locke publishes his first 'Letter
Concerning Toleration'.
1689: The Treaty of Nerchinsk established a
border between Russia and China.
1689: The Battle of Killiecrankie is fought
between Jacobite and Williamite forces in
Highland Perthshire.
1689: The Karposh rebellion is crushed in
present-day Republic of Macedonia, Skopje is
retaken by the Ottoman Turks. Karposh is
killed, and the rebels are defeated.
1690s[edit]
1690: The Battle of the Boyne in Ireland.
1692: Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
1692: Port Royal in Jamaica is destroyed by an
earthquake and tsunami, estimated 2000 die,
2300 are injured.
1692–1694: Famine in France kills 2 million.
[9]
1693: The College of William and Mary is
founded in Williamsburg, Virginia, by a royal
charter.
1694: The Bank of England is established.
1694: Mary II of England dies.
1695: The Mughal Empire nearly bans the East
India Company in response to pirate Henry
Every's capture of the Ganj-i-Sawai.
1696–1697: Famine in Finland wipes out
almost one-third of the population.[10]
1697: The earliest known first-class cricket
match takes place in Sussex.
1697-1699: Grand Embassy of Peter the Great
1699: The Treaty of Karlowitz ends the Great
Turkish War.
1699: Thomas Savery demonstrates his first
steam engine to the Royal Society.
1700: With the decline of the spice trade,
textiles are now the most important trade item
in the Dutch East Indies
1700-1721: Great Northern War between
Tsarist Russia and the Swedish Empire.
1701: Kingdom of Prussia declared under King
Frederick I.
1701: Ashanti Empire is formed under Osei
Kofi Tutu I.
1701–1714: The War of the Spanish
Succession is fought, involving most of
continental Europe.[6]
1701–1702: The Daily Courant and The
Norwich Post become the first daily
newspapers in England.
1702: Forty-seven Ronin attack Kira
Yoshinaka and then commit seppuku in Japan.
1702–1715: Camisard Rebellion in France.
1703: Saint Petersburg is founded by Peter the
Great; it is the Russian capital until 1918.
1703–1711: The Rakoczi Uprising against the
Habsburg Monarchy.
1704: End of Japan's Genroku period.
1704: First Javanese War of Succession.[7]
1705: George Frideric Handel's first opera,
Almira, premieres.
1706: War of the Spanish Succession: French
troops defeated at the Battles of Ramilies and
Turin.
1706: The first English-language edition of the
Arabian Nights is published.
1707: The Act of Union is passed, merging the
Scottish and English Parliaments, thus
establishing the Kingdom of Great Britain.[8]
1707: After Aurangzeb's death, the Mughal
Empire enters a long decline and the Maratha
Empire slowly replaces it.
1707: Mount Fuji erupts in Japan for the first
time since 1700.
1707: War of 27 Years between the Marathas
and Mughals ends in India.
1708: The Company of Merchants of London
Trading into the East Indies and English
Company Trading to the East Indies merge to
form the United Company of Merchants of
England Trading to the East Indies.
1708–1709: Famine kills one-third of East
Prussia's population.
1709: The Great Frost of 1709 marks the
coldest winter in 500 years.
1709: Hotaki dynasty founded in Afghanistan.
1709: Charles XII of Sweden flees to the
Ottoman Empire after Peter I of Russia defeats
his army at the Battle of Poltava.

Tokugawa Yoshimune, Shogun of Japan

1710s[edit]
1710: The world's first copyright legislation,
Britain's Statute of Anne, takes effect.
1710-1711: Ottoman Empire fights Russia in
the Russo-Turkish War.
1711-1715: Tuscarora War between British,
Dutch, and German settlers and the Tuscarora
people of North Carolina.
1712: War of the Spanish Succession: The
French defeat a combined Dutch-Austrian
force at the Battle of Denain.
1712: The first shipment of coffee from Java
reaches Amsterdam.[9]
1713: The Treaty of Utrecht ends the War of
the Spanish Succession.
1713-1714: Tarabai establishes the rival
Maratha Empire government in Kolhapur
against Chattrapati Shahu.
1714: Accession of George I, Elector of
Hanover, to the throne of Great Britain.
1715: The first Jacobite rising breaks out; the
British halt the Jacobite advance at the Battle
of Sheriffmuir; Battle of Preston.
1715: Louis XIV dies, leaving France greatly
enlarged but deep in debt; The Regency takes
power under Philippe d'Orleans.
1715: Pope Clement XI declares Catholicism
and Confucianism incompatible.
1716: Establishment of the Sikh Confederacy
along the present-day India-Pakistan border.
1717: The Netherlands, Britain and France
sign the Triple Alliance.
1717: Surabaya rebels against the VOC.[10]
1718: The city of New Orleans is founded by
the French in North America.
1718: Blackbeard (Edward Teach) is killed by
Robert Maynard in a North Carolina inlet on
the inner side of Ocracoke Island.
1718-1730: Tulip period of the Ottoman
Empire.
1719: The Spanish attempt to restart the
Jacobite rebellion fails.
1719: Second Javanese War of Succession.[10]
1720s[edit]

Europe at the beginning of the War of the

Spanish Succession, 1700
1720: The South Sea Bubble.
1720: Spanish military embarks on the Villasur
expedition, traveling north from Mexico into
the Great Plains.
1720–1721: The Great Plague of Marseille.
1721: Robert Walpole becomes the first Prime
Minister of Great Britain (de facto).
1721: The Treaty of Nystad is signed, ending
the Great Northern War.
1721: Kangxi Emperor bans Christian
missionaries because of Pope Clement XI's
decree.
1721: Peter I reforms the Russian Orthodox
Church.
1722: Afghans conquer Iran, overthrowing the
Safavid Shah Sultan Husayn.
1722: Kangxi Emperor of China dies.
1722: Bartholomew Roberts is killed in a sea
battle off the African coast.
1722–1723: Russo-Persian War.
1722–1725: Controversy over William Wood's
halfpence leads to the Drapier's Letters and
begins the Irish economic independence from
England movement.
1723: Slavery is abolished in Russia; Peter the
Great converts household slaves into house
serfs.[11]
1723–1730: The "Great Disaster", an invasion
of Kazakh territories by the Dzungars.
1724: The Treaty of Constantinople is signed,
partitioning Persia between the Ottoman
Empire and Russia.
1725: The Fulani nomads take complete
control of Futa Jallon and set up the first of
many Fulani jihad states to come.[12]
1726: The enormous Chinese encyclopedia
Gujin Tushu Jicheng of over 100 million
written Chinese characters in over 800,000
pages is printed in 60 different copies using
copper-based Chinese movable type printing.
1727–1729: Anglo-Spanish War.
1729–1735: Charles Wesley and John Wesley
begin Methodism in England.
1730s[edit]

Qianlong Emperor
1730: Mahmud I takes over Ottoman Empire
after the Patrona Halil revolt, ending the Tulip
period.
1730–1760: The First Great Awakening takes
place in Great Britain and North America.
1732–1734: Crimean Tatar raids into Russia.
[13]
1733–1738: War of the Polish Succession.
1735–1739: Russo-Turkish War.
1735–1799: The Qianlong Emperor of China
oversees a huge expansion in territory.
1735: Governor-General Dirck van Cloon dies,
one of many victims of malaria in Batavia.[14]
1736: Nader Shah assumes the title of Shah of
Persia and founds the Afsharid dynasty; he
rules until his death in 1747.
1736: Qing Dynasty Chinese court painters
recreate Zhang Zeduan's classic panoramic
painting, Along the River During Qingming
Festival.
1738–1756: Famine across the Sahel; half the
population of Timbuktu dies.[15]
1738: Pope Clement XII issues In eminenti
apostolatus, prohibiting Catholics from
becoming Freemasons.
1738: Turlough O'Carolan, famous Irish
harper, dies.
1739: Nader Shah defeats the Mughals at the
Battle of Karnal and sacks Delhi.
1739: Great Britain and Spain fight the War of
Jenkins' Ear in the Caribbean.
1740s[edit]

Frederick II the Great, King of Prussia

The extinction of the Scottish clan system

came with the defeat of the clansmen at the
Battle of Culloden in 1746[16]
1740: Frederick the Great comes to power in
Prussia.
1740: The British attempt to capture St.
Augustine, Florida but lose to the Spanish
during the Siege of St. Augustine.
1740–1741: Famine in Ireland kills ten percent
of the population.
1740–1748: War of the Austrian Succession.
1740: 9 October, a massacre of Batavia's ethnic
Chinese begins after they are suspected by the
VOC of planning a rebellion; approximately
10,000 are killed and the Chinese quarter is
burned.[17]
1741: Russians begin settling the Aleutian
Islands.
1741: Pope Benedict XIV issues Immensa
Pastorum principis against slavery.
1742: Marvel's Mill, the first water-powered
cotton mill, begins operation in England.[18]
1743: The capital of the Sultanate of Mataram
Kartasura fell under Geger Pecinan uprising —
Raden Mas Garendi (Sunan Kuning) led
Chinese mercenaries revolted against
Pakubuwono II.
1744: The First Saudi State is founded by
Mohammed Ibn Saud.[19]
1744: The French attempt to restart the
Jacobite rebellion fails.
1744–1748: The First Carnatic War is fought
between the British, the French, the Marathas,
and Mysore in India.
1745: Second Jacobite rising is begun by
Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland.
1745: 17 February, Pakubuwono II establishes
a new kraton in Sala village, along with
Surakarta Sunanate.
1747: Ahmed Shah Durrani founds the Durrani
Empire in modern-day Afghanistan.
1748: The Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the
War of the Austrian Succession and First
Carnatic War.
1748–1754: The Second Carnatic War is
fought between the British, the French, the
Marathas, and Mysore in India.
1750s[edit]

The Death of General Wolfe

1750: Peak of the Little Ice Age.
1754: The Treaty of Pondicherry ends the
Second Carnatic War and recognizes
Muhammed Ali Khan Wallajah as Nawab of
the Carnatic.
1754: King's College is founded by a royal
charter of George II of Great Britain.[20]
1754–1763: The French and Indian War, the
North American chapter of the Seven Years'
War, is fought in colonial North America,
mostly by the French and their allies against
the English and their allies.
1755: The Lisbon earthquake occurs.
1755–1763: The Great Upheaval forces
transfer of the French Acadian population from
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
1755: 13 February, the Treaty of Giyanti is
signed, effectively partitioning the Mataram
Sultanate; the VOC recognizes Mangkubumi
as Sultan Hamengkubuwana I, who rules half
of Central Java; Hamengkubuwana I then
establishes Yogyakarta Sultanate, moves to
Yogya and renames the city Yogyakarta.[21]
1756–1763: The Seven Years' War is fought
among European powers in various theaters
around the world.
1756–1763: The Third Carnatic War is fought
between the British, the French, the Marathas,
and Mysore in India.
1757: The Battle of Plassey signals the
beginning of formal British rule in India after
years of commercial activity under the
auspices of the East India Company.
1757: 17 March, Salatiga treaty between
Prince Sambernyawa with Pakubuwono III and
Hamengkubuwono I further partitions the
remnant of Mataram Sultanate; the
Mangkunegaran Grand Duchy is established.
1758: British colonel James Wolfe issues
Wolfe's Manifesto.
1759: French and Indian War: French
commander Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and
British commander James Wolfe die during the
Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
1760s[edit]

Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.

George III, King of Great Britain.

1760: George III becomes King of Britain.
1760: Zand dynasty is founded in Iran.
1761: Maratha Empire defeated at Battle of
Panipat.
1762–1796: Reign of Catherine the Great of
Russia.
1763: The Treaty of Paris ends the Seven
Years' War and Third Carnatic War.
1763: Kingdom of Mysore conquers the
Kingdom of Keladi.
1765: The Stamp Act is introduced into the
American colonies by the British Parliament.
1766: Christian VII becomes king of Denmark.
He was king of Denmark to 1808.
1766–1799: Anglo-Mysore Wars.
1767: Burmese conquer the Ayutthaya
kingdom.
1768: Gurkhas conquer Nepal.
1768–1772: War of the Bar Confederation.
1768–1774: Russo-Turkish War.
1769: Spanish missionaries establish the first
of 21 missions in California.
1769–1770: James Cook explores and maps
New Zealand and Australia.
1769–1773: The Bengal famine of 1770 kills
one-third of the Bengal population.
1769: French expeditions capture clove plants
in Ambon, ending the VOC monopoly of the
plant.[22] (to 1772)
1770s[edit]

Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des

sciences, des arts et des metiers

Rejtan and the Partitions of Poland on a

painting by Jan Matejko
1770: James Cook claims the East Coast of
Australia (New South Wales) for Great Britain.
1770–1771: Famine in Czech lands kills
hundreds of thousands.
1770: James Cook stops at Onrust Island in the
Bay of Batavia for repairs to his ship
Endeavour on his voyage around the world.
[23]
1771: The Plague Riot in Moscow.
1771: Richard Arkwright and his partners build
the world's first water-powered mill at
Cromford.
1772: Reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee
executed in Denmark.
1772: Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup
d'etat, becoming almost an absolute monarch.
1772–1779: Maratha Empire fights Britain and
Raghunathrao's forces during the First Anglo-
Maratha War.
1772–1795: The Partitions of Poland end the
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and erase
Poland from the map for 123 years.
1773–1775: Pugachev's Rebellion, the largest
peasant revolt in Russian history.
1773: East India Company starts operations in
Bengal to smuggle opium into China.
1775: John Harrison H4 and Larcum Kendall
K1 marine chronometers are used to measure
longitude by James Cook on his second voyage
(1772–1775).
1775–1782: First Anglo-Maratha War.
1775–1783: American Revolutionary War.
1776: Illuminati founded by Adam Weishaupt.
1776: The United States Declaration of
Independence is adopted by the Continental
Congress in Philadelphia.
1776: Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of
Nations.
1778: Tay Son Dynasty is established in
Vietnam.
1778: James Cook becomes the first European
to land on the Hawaiian Islands.
1778: 24 April, the Royal Batavian Society of
Arts and Sciences is established by a group of
Dutch intellectuals;[24] this institution is a
pioneer of scientific efforts in Indonesia and
the founder of the National Museum of
Indonesia.
1779–1879: Xhosa Wars between British and
Boer settlers and the Xhosas in the South
African Republic.
1780s[edit]

George Washington

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the

Citizen
1780: Outbreak of the indigenous rebellion
against Spanish colonization led by Tupac
Amaru II in Peru.
1781: The city of Los Angeles is founded by
Spanish settlers.
1781–1785: Serfdom is abolished in the
Austrian monarchy (first step; second step in
1848).
1783: Famine in Iceland, caused by the
eruption of the Laki volcano.
1783: Russian Empire annexes the Crimean
Khanate.
1783: The Treaty of Paris formally ends the
American Revolutionary War.
1785–1791: Imam Sheikh Mansur, a Chechen
warrior and Muslim mystic, leads a coalition
of Muslim Caucasian tribes from throughout
the Caucasus in a holy war against Russian
settlers and military bases in the Caucasus, as
well as against local traditionalists, who
followed the traditional customs and common
law (Adat) rather than the theocratic Sharia.
[25]
1785–1795: The Northwest Indian War is
fought between the United States and Native
Americans.
1787: The United States Constitution is written
in Philadelphia and submitted to the states for
ratification.
1787: Freed slaves from London establish
Freetown in present-day Sierra Leone.
1787: Kansei Reforms instituted in Japan by
Matsudaira Sadanobu.
1787–1792: Russo-Turkish War.
1788: First French Quaker community
established in Congenies.
1788: First permanent European settlement
established in Australia by Britain at Sydney.
1788–1790: Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790).
1788: New Hampshire becomes the 9th state to
ratify the United States Constitution, and by
the terms of Article VII it takes effect.
1788–1789: Inconfidencia Mineira, conspiracy
against the colonial authorities in Brazil.
1789: George Washington is elected the first
President of the United States; he serves until
1797.
1789: Great Britain and Spain dispute the
Nootka Sound during the Nootka Crisis.
1789–1799: French Revolution.

Napoleon at the Bridge of the Arcole

1789: The Liege Revolution.
1789: The Brabant Revolution.
1790s-1800[edit]
1790: The United States of Belgium is
proclaimed following the Brabant Revolution.
1790: Suppression of the United States of
Belgium and re-establishment of Austrian
control.
1790: Establishment of the Polish-Prussian
Pact.
1791: The Constitutional Act (or Canada Act)
creates the two provinces of Upper and Lower
Canada in British North America.
1791: Suppression of the Liege Revolution by
Austrian forces and re-establishment of the
Prince-Bishopric of Liege.
1791–1795: George Vancouver explores the
world during the Vancouver Expedition.
1791–1804: The Haitian Revolution.
1792–1802: The French Revolutionary Wars
lead into the Napoleonic Wars, which last from
1803-1815.
1792: The New York Stock & Exchange Board
is founded.
1792: Polish–Russian War of 1792.
1792: King Gustav III of Sweden is
assassinated by a conspiracy of noblemen.
1792: March, Hamengkubuwana I dies.[26]
1793: Upper Canada bans slavery.
1793: The largest yellow fever epidemic in
American history kills as many as 5,000
people in Philadelphia, roughly 10% of the
population.[27]
1793–1796: Revolt in the Vendee against the
French Republic at the time of the Revolution.
1794: Polish revolt.
1794: Jay's Treaty is concluded between Great
Britain and the United States, by which the
Western outposts in the Great Lakes are
returned to the U.S. and commerce between
the two countries is regulated.
1794: Qajar dynasty founded in Iran after
replacing the Zand dynasty.
1795: Mohammad Khan Qajar razes Tbilisi to
the ground.
1795: Establishment of the French-backed
Batavian Republic in present-day Netherlands.
1795: Pinckney's Treaty between the United
States and Spain grants the Mississippi
Territory to the U.S.
1795: The Marseillaise is officially adopted as
the French national anthem.
1795: Kamehameha I of the Island of Hawaii
defeats the Oahuans at the Battle of Nu'uanu.
1796: Edward Jenner administers the first
smallpox vaccination; smallpox killed an
estimated 400,000 Europeans each year during
the 18th century, including five reigning
monarchs.[28]
1796: War of the First Coalition: The Battle of
Montenotte marks Napoleon Bonaparte's first
victory as an army commander.
1796: The British eject the Dutch from Ceylon.
1796: Mungo Park, backed by the African
Association, is the first European to set eyes on
the Niger River in Africa.
1796–1804: The White Lotus Rebellion
against the Manchu Dynasty in China.
1797: Napoleon's invasion and partition of the
Republic of Venice ends over 1,000 years of
independence for the Serene Republic.
1798: The Irish Rebellion fails to overthrow
British rule in Ireland.
1798–1800: The Quasi-War is fought between
the United States and France.
1799: Napoleon stages a coup d'etat and
becomes First Consul of France.
1799: Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
1799: The assassination of the 14th Tu'i
Kanokupolu, Tuku?aho, plunges Tonga into
half a century of civil war.
1799: Tipu Sultan is killed in a battle with
British forces.
1800: 1 January, The bankrupt Dutch East
India Company (VOC) is formally dissolved
and the nationalised Dutch East Indies are
established
1800s[edit]
See also: Timeline of the Napoleonic era
1801: Giuseppe Piazzi discovers the dwarf
planet Ceres. - Italy
1801: Thomas Jefferson elected President of
the United States by the House of
Representatives, following a tie in the
Electoral College - United States
1801: The Kingdom of Great Britain and the
Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United
Kingdom.
1801: Ranjit Singh crowned as King of Punjab.
1801: Napoleon signs the Concordat of 1801
with the Pope.
1801: Cairo falls to the British.
1801: Assassination of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
1801: British defeat French at the Second
Battle of Abukir
1801–1815: the First Barbary War and the
Second Barbary War between the United States
and the Barbary States of North Africa
1802: Treaty of Amiens between France and
the United Kingdom ends the War of the
Second Coalition.
1802: Ludwig van Beethoven performs his
Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
1803: William Symington demonstrates his
Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical
steamboat".
1803: The United States more than doubles in
size when it buys out France's territorial claims
in North America via the Louisiana Purchase.
This begins the U.S.'s westward expansion to
the Pacific referred to as its Manifest Destiny
which involves annexing and conquering land
from Mexico, Britain, and Native Americans.
1803: The Wahhabis of the First Saudi State
capture Mecca and Medina.
1803: War breaks out between Britain and
France; this is considered by some to be the
beginning of the Napoleonic Wars.
1803: First phase of Padri War. (to 1825)
1804: Haiti gains independence from France
and becomes the first black republic.
1804-1813: Russo-Persian War.
1804: Austrian Empire founded by Francis I.
1804: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of
the French.
1804: World population reaches 1 billion.
1804: First steam locomotive begins operation.
1804: Morphine first isolated.
1804–1810: Fulani Jihad in Nigeria.
1804–1815: Serbian revolution erupts against
the Ottoman rule. Suzerainty of Serbia
recognized in 1817.
1805: The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the
French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for
British dominance of the seas, a major factor
for the success of the British Empire later in
the century.
1805: Napoleon decisively defeats an Austrian-
Russian army at the Battle of Austerlitz.
1805–1848: Muhammad Ali modernizes
Egypt.
1806: Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a
consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.
1806: Cape Colony becomes part of the British
Empire.
1806-1812: Russo-Turkish War, Treaty of
Bucharest.
1807: Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.
1807: Potassium and Sodium are individually
isolated by Sir Humphry Davy.
1808: Beethoven performs his Fifth Symphony
1808–1809: Russia conquers Finland from
Sweden in the Finnish War.
1808–1814: Spanish guerrillas fight in the
Peninsular War.
1808: Herman Willem Daendels the Governor-
general of the Dutch East Indies (1808–1811)
begin the construction of Java Great Post
Road.[10]
1809: Napoleon strips the Teutonic Knights of
their last holdings in Bad Mergentheim.

The discoveries of Michael Faraday formed

the foundation of electric motor technology
1810s[edit]

1819: 29 January, Stamford Raffles arrives in

Singapore with William Farquhar to establish a
trading post for the British East India
Company. 8 February, The treaty is signed
between Sultan Hussein of Johor, Temenggong
Abdul Rahman and Stamford Raffles. Farquhar
is installed as the first Resident of the
settlement.
1810: The University of Berlin was founded.
Among its students and faculty are Hegel,
Marx, and Bismarck. The German university
reform proves to be so successful that its
model is copied around the world (see History
of European research universities).
1810: The Grito de Dolores begins the
Mexican War of Independence.
1810: The trumpet gets valves.
1810s–1820s: Most of the Latin American
colonies free themselves from the Spanish and
Portuguese Empires after the Latin American
wars of independence.
1810s–1820s: Punjab War between the Sikh
Empire and British Empire.
1812: The French invasion of Russia is a
turning point in the Napoleonic Wars.
1812: British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval
is assassinated.
1812–1815: War of 1812 between the United
States and Britain; ends in a draw, except that
Native Americans lose power
1813: Jane Austen publishes Pride and
Prejudice
1813–1837: Afghan-Sikh Wars.
1814: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to
Elba.
1814: Elisha Collier invents the Flintlock
Revolver.
1813–1907: The contest between the British
Empire and Imperial Russia for control of
Central Asia is referred to as the Great Game.
1814–16: Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal
(Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.

The boundaries set by the Congress of Vienna,

1815.
1815: The Congress of Vienna redraws the
European map. Reaction And conservatism
dominate all of Europe.[11] The Concert of
Europe attempts to preserve this settlement,
but the forces of liberalism and nationalism
make for dramatic changes. It marks the
beginning of a Pax Britannica which lasts until
1914.
1815: Napoleon escapes exile and begins the
Hundred Days before finally being defeated at
the Battle of Waterloo and exiled to St Helena.
His defeat brings a conclusion to the
Napoleonic Wars
1815: April, Mount Tambora in Sumbawa
island erupts, becoming the largest volcanic
eruption in recorded history, destroying
Tambora culture, and killing at least 71,000
people, including its aftermath. The eruption
created global climate anomalies known as
"volcanic winter".[12]
1815: Jane Austen publishes Emma in
December.
1816: Year Without a Summer: Unusually cold
conditions wreak havoc throughout the
Northern Hemisphere, likely influenced by the
1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.
1816: Independence of Argentina.
1816–1828: Shaka's Zulu Kingdom becomes
the largest in Southern Africa.
1817: Principality of Serbia becomes suzerain
from the Ottoman Empire. Officially
independent in 1867.
1817: First Seminole War begins in Florida.
1817: Russia commences its conquest of the
Caucasus.
1817: Princess Charlotte of Wales dies
following childbirth.
1818: Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein.
1818: Independence of Chile.
1819: John Keats writes his odes of 1819.
1819: Peterloo massacre in England.
1819: The modern city of Singapore is
established by the British East India Company.
1819: Theodore Gericault paints his
masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa, and
exhibits it in the French Salon of 1819 at the
Louvre.
1820s[edit]

1816: Shaka rises to power over the Zulu

Kingdom. Zulu expansion was a major factor
of the Mfecane (“Crushing”) that depopulated
large areas of southern Africa
1820: Missouri Compromise.
1820: Regency period ends in the United
Kingdom.
1820: Discovery of Antarctica.
1820: Liberia founded by the American
Colonization Society for freed American
slaves.
1820: Dissolution of the Maratha Empire.
1820–1835: At least 5000 Mexicans die in
Apache raids, and 100 settlements are
destroyed.[13]
1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the
island of Saint Helena.
1821: Mexico gains independence from Spain
with the Treaty of Cordoba.
1821: Peru declares its independence from
Spain.
1821: Navarino Massacre.
1821–1830: Greece becomes the first country
to break away from the Ottoman Empire after
the Greek War of Independence.
1822–1823: First Mexican Empire, as
Mexico's first post-independent government,
ruled by Emperor Agustin I of Mexico.
1822: Prince Pedro of Brazil proclaimed the
Brazilian independence on 7 September. On 1
December, he was crowned as Emperor Dom
Pedro I of Brazil.
1823–1887: The British Empire annexed
Burma (now also called Myanmar) after three
Anglo-Burmese Wars.
1823: Monroe Doctrine declared by US
President James Monroe.
1824: Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth
Symphony.
1824: Cadbury is established in Birmingham.
1825: Erie Canal opened connecting the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
1825: First isolation of aluminum.
1825: Independence of Bolivia.
1825: The Stockton and Darlington Railway,
the first public railway in the world, is opened.
1825: The Decembrist revolt.

Decembrists at the Senate Square.

1825–1828: The Cisplatine War results in the
independence of Uruguay.
1825: Java War. (to 1830)
1826: Samuel Morey patents the internal
combustion engine.
1826–1828: After the final Russo-Persian War,
the Persian Empire took back territory lost to
Russia from the previous war.
1827: Death of William Blake, Ludwig van
Beethoven
1828–1832: Black War in Tasmania leads to
the near extinction of the Tasmanian aborigines
1829: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust
premieres.
1829: First electric motor built.
1829: Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan
Police Service, the first modern police force.
1830s[edit]
1830: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints is established on 6 April 1830.
1830: July Revolution in France.
1830: The Belgian Revolution in the United
Kingdom of the Netherlands led to the creation
of Belgium.
1830: Greater Colombia dissolved and the
nations of Colombia (including modern-day
Panama), Ecuador, and Venezuela took its
place.
1830: November Uprising in Poland against
Russia.
1830: End of the Diponegoro war. The whole
area of Yogyakarta and Surakarta Manca
nagara Dutch seized. 27 September, Klaten
Agreement determines a fixed boundary
between Surakarta and Yogyakarta and
permanently divide the kingdom of Mataram
was signed by Sasradiningrat, Pepatih Dalem
Surakarta, and Danurejo, Pepatih Dalem
Yogyakarta. Mataram is a de facto and de yure
controlled by the Dutch East Indies.
1831: France invades and occupies Algeria.
1831: Ioannis Kapodistrias, the First Governor
of Greece is murdered at Nauplion.
1831: The Belgian constitution is ratified and
Leopold I is crowned as first "King of the
Belgians".
1831: Great Bosnian uprising against Ottoman
rule occurs.
1831–1836: Charles Darwin's journey on the
HMS Beagle.

Emigrants leaving Ireland. From 1830 to 1914,

almost 5 million Irish people went to the
United States alone.
1831: November Uprising ends with crushing
defeat for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw.
1831-1833: Egyptian–Ottoman War.
1831: Second phase of Padri War. (to 1838)
1832: The British Parliament passes the Great
Reform Act.
1833: Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery
throughout the British Empire.
1833–1876: Carlist Wars in Spain.
1834: The German Customs Union is formed.
1834: Spanish Inquisition officially ends.
1834: Britain amends the Poor Law demanding
that any paupers requesting assistance must go
to a workhouse.
1834–1859: Imam Shamil's rebellion in
Russian-occupied Caucasus.
1835–1836: The Texas Revolution in Mexico
resulted in the short-lived Republic of Texas.
1836: Battle of the Alamo ends with defeat for
Texan separatists.
1836: Battle of San Jacinto leads to the capture
of General Santa Anna.
1836: Samuel Colt popularizes the revolver
and sets up a firearms company to manufacture
his invention of the Colt Paterson revolver a
six bullets firearm shot one by one without
reloading manually.
1837: Telegraphy patented.
1837: Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist.
1837: Death of Alexander Pushkin.
1837–1838: Rebellions of 1837 in Canada.
1837–1901: Queen Victoria's reign is
considered the apex of the British Empire and
is referred to as the Victorian era.
1838: By this time, 46,000 Native Americans
have been forcibly relocated in the Trail of
Tears.
1838–1840: Civil war in the Federal Republic
of Central America led to the foundings of
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua,
and Costa Rica.
1839: Kingdom of Belgium declared.
1839–1851: Uruguayan Civil War.
1839–1860: After the First and Second Opium
Wars, France, the United Kingdom, the United
States and Russia gain many trade and
associated concessions from China resulting in
the start of the decline of the Qing dynasty.
1839–1919: Anglo-Afghan Wars lead to
stalemate and the establishment of the Durand
line

The Great Exhibition in London. Starting

during the 18th century, the United Kingdom
was the first country in the world to
industrialise.

The Charge of the Light Brigade during the

Crimean War
1840s[edit]
1840: New Zealand is founded, as the Treaty
of Waitangi is signed by the Maori and British.
1840: Upper and Lower Canada are merged
into the Province of Canada.
1841: The word "dinosaur" is coined by
Richard Owen
1842: Treaty of Nanking cedes Hong Kong to
the British.
1842: Anaesthesia used for the first time.
1843: The first wagon train sets out from
Missouri.
1843: Short stories A Christmas Carol and The
Tell-Tale Heart published.
1844: Persian Prophet the Bab announces his
revelation on 23 May, founding Babism. He
announced to the world of the coming of "He
whom God shall make manifest". He is
considered the forerunner of Baha'u'llah, the
founder of the Baha'i Faith.
1844: First publicly funded telegraph line in
the world—between Baltimore and
Washington—sends demonstration message on
24 May, ushering in the age of the telegraph.
This message read "What hath God wrought?"
(Bible, Numbers 23:23)
1844: Millerite movement awaits the Second
Advent of Jesus Christ on 22 October. Christ's
non-appearance becomes known as the Great
Disappointment.
1844: The great auk is rendered extinct.
1844: Dominican War of Independence from
Haiti.
1844: Heinrich Heine coins the term
"Lisztomania" in regards to the public's
frenzied reaction to the pianist Franz Liszt.
1845: Unification of the Kingdom of Tonga
under Taufa?ahau (King George Tupou I).
1845: Lunacy Act 1845 passes through
Parliament.
1845–1846: First Anglo-Sikh War.
1845–1872: The New Zealand Land Wars.
1845–1849: The Irish Potato Famine leads to
the Irish diaspora.
1846–1848: The Mexican-American War leads
to Mexico's cession of much of the modern-
day Southwestern United States.
1846–1847: Mormon migration to Utah.
Liberal and nationalist pressure led to the
European revolutions of 1848
1847: The Bronte sisters publish Jane Eyre,
Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.
1847–1901: The Caste War of Yucatan.
1848–1849: Second Anglo-Sikh War
1848: The Communist Manifesto published.
1848: Revolutions of 1848 in Europe.
1848: Seneca Falls Convention is the first
women's rights convention in the United States
and leads to the battle for women's suffrage.
1848–1858: California Gold Rush.
1848: William Holman Hunt, John Everett
Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti found the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
1849: The first boatloads of gold prospectors
arrive in California, giving them the nickname
49ers.
1849: Roman Republic's constitutional law
becomes the first to abolish capital
punishment.
1849: The safety pin and the gas mask are
invented.
1849: Earliest recorded air raid, as Austria
employs 200 balloons to deliver ordnance
against Venice.
1850s[edit]
1850: The Little Ice Age ends around this time.
1850: Alfred Tennyson is appointed Poet
Laureate after the death of William
Wordsworth.
1850–1864: Taiping Rebellion is the bloodiest
conflict of the century, leading to the deaths of
20 million people.
1851: The Great Exhibition in London was the
world's first international Expo or World Fair.
1851: Louis Napoleon assumes power in
France in a coup.

Dead Confederate soldiers. 30% of all

Southern white males 18–40 years of age died
in the American Civil War.[14]
1851–1852: The Platine War ends and the
Empire of Brazil has the hegemony over South
America.
1851–1860s: Victorian gold rush in Australia
1851: Herman Melville publishes Moby-Dick.
1852: Frederick Douglass delivers his speech
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" in
Rochester, New York.
1853: United States Commodore Matthew C.
Perry threatens the Japanese capital Edo with
gunships, demanding that they agree to open
trade.
1853–1856: Crimean War between France, the
United Kingdom, the Ottoman Empire and
Russia
1854: Battle of Balaclava and the Charge of
the Light Brigade.
1854: The Convention of Kanagawa formally
ends Japan's policy of isolation.
1854: SS Arctic disaster: The steamship SS
Arctic collides with the SS Vesta and sinks off
the coast of Newfoundland.
1854–1855: Siege of Sevastapol; city falls to
French and British forces.
1855: Bessemer process enables steel to be
mass-produced.
1855: Walt Whitman publishes the first edition
of Leaves of Grass.
1855: Cocaine is isolated by Friedrich
Gaedcke.
1856: Rana dynasty of Nepal established by
Jung Bahadur Rana.
1856: World's first oil refinery in Romania
1856: Neanderthal man first identified. Age
still unknown.
1857: Sir Joseph Whitworth designs the first
long-range sniper rifle.
1857–1858: Indian Rebellion of 1857. The
British Empire assumes control of India from
the East India Company.
1858-1947: British Empire in India lasts for 90
years.
1858: Invention of the phonautograph, the first
true device for recording sound.
1858: Construction of Big Ben is completed.
1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin
of Species.
1859–1869: Suez Canal is constructed.

The first vessels sail through the Suez Canal

1860s[edit]

Robert Koch discovered the tuberculosis

bacilli. The disease killed an estimated 25
percent of the adult population of Europe
during the 19th century.[15]

David Livingstone, Scottish explorer and

missionary in Africa
1860: Giuseppe Garibaldi launches the
Expedition of the Thousand.
1860: The Pony Express started.
1861–1865: American Civil War between the
Union and seceding Confederacy.
1861: Russia abolishes serfdom.
1861–1867: French intervention in Mexico and
the creation of the Second Mexican Empire,
ruled by Maximilian I of Mexico and his
consort Carlota of Mexico.
1861: Death of Prince Albert.
1861: James Clerk Maxwell publishes On
Physical Lines of Force, formulating the four
Maxwell's Equations.
1862: The Pony Express ended.
1862: Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables.
1862: French gain first foothold in Southeast
Asia.
1862–1877: Muslim Rebellion in north-west
China.
1863: Baha'u'llah declares his station as "He
whom God shall make manifest". This date is
celebrated in the Baha'i Faith as The Festival
of Ridvan.
1863: Formation of the International Red
Cross is followed by the adoption of the First
Geneva Convention in 1864.
1863: First section of the London Underground
opens.
1863: France annexes Cambodia.
1863: Edouard Manet exhibits his painting The
Luncheon on the Grass, sparking public
outrage.
1863–1865: Polish uprising against the
Russian Empire.
1864: Circassian Genocide.(21 May 1864)
1864–1866: The Chincha Islands War was an
attempt by Spain to regain its South American
colonies.
1864–1870: The Paraguayan War ends
Paraguayan ambitions for expansion and
destroys much of the Paraguayan population.
1864: June, The first railway track in Indonesia
was laid between Semarang and Tanggung,
Central Java by the Dutch colonial
government.[16]
1865–1877: Reconstruction in the United
States; Slavery is banned in the United States
by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution.
1865-9 April 1865: Robert E. Lee surrenders
the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops)
to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox
Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the
American Civil War.
1865-14 April 1865: United States President
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by actor and
Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth,
while attending a performance at Ford's
Theater, Washington, D.C.. He dies
approximately nine hours after being shot on
15 April 1865.
1865: Gregor Mendel formulates his laws of
inheritance.
1865: Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland.
1866: Successful transatlantic telegraph cable
follows an earlier attempt in 1858.
1866: Austro-Prussian War results in the
dissolution of the German Confederation and
the creation of the North German
Confederation and the Austrian-Hungarian
Dual Monarchy.
1866–1868: Famine in Finland.
1866–1869: After the Meiji Restoration, Japan
embarks on a program of rapid modernization.
1867: The United States purchases Alaska
from Russia.
1867: Canadian Confederation formed.
1867: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
1867: The Principality of Serbia passes a
Constitution which defines its independence
from the Ottoman Empire. International
recognition followed in 1878.
1867: The Luxembourg Crisis: diplomatic
confrontation between France and Prussia on
the status of Luxembourg and the towns
fortifications are torn down.
1868: The Expatriation Act of 1868 is
approved by the U.S. Congress, one of the
early blows which would eventually lead to the
death of the common law doctrine of perpetual
allegiance
1868: The Fourteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution is approved.
1868: Cro-Magnon man first identified.
1868: Michael Barrett is the last person to be
publicly hanged in England.
1868–1878: Ten Years' War between Cuba and
Spain.
1868: The Batavian Museum (today National
Museum of Indonesia) was officially opened
by Dutch East Indies government.
1869: Leo Tolstoy publishes War and Peace.
1869: First Transcontinental Railroad
completed in United States on 10 May. -
United States
1869: Dmitri Mendeleev created the Periodic
table.
1869: The Suez Canal opens linking the
Mediterranean to the Red Sea.

From 1865-1870 Paraguay lost more than half

of its population in the Paraguayan War against
Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.

Black Friday, 9 May 1873, Vienna Stock

Exchange. The Panic of 1873 and Long
Depression followed.
1870s[edit]
1870: Rasmus Malling-Hansen's invention the
Hansen Writing Ball becomes the first
commercially sold typewriter.
1870–1871: The Franco-Prussian War results
in the unifications of Germany and Italy, the
collapse of the Second French Empire and the
emergence of a New Imperialism.
1870: Official dismantling of the Cultivation
System and beginning of a 'Liberal Policy' of
deregulated exploitation of the Netherlands
East Indies.[17]
1870-1890: Long Depression in Western
Europe and North America.
1871-1878: In Germany, Otto von Bismarck
attacks the privileges of the Catholic Church in
the Kulturkampf ("Culture War")
1871–1872: Famine in Persia is believed to
have caused the death of 2 million.
1871–1914: Second Industrial Revolution
1871: Royal Albert Hall opens in London.
1871: The Paris Commune briefly rules the
French capital.
1871: The feudal system is dismantled in
Japan.
1871: Henry Morton Stanley meets Dr. David
Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika.
1872: Yellowstone National Park, the first
national park, is created.
1872: The first recognised international soccer
match, between England and Scotland, is
played.
1873: The Panic of 1873 starts the "Long
Depression".
1873: Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity and
Magnetism published.
1873: The samurai class is abolished in Japan.
1873: Blue jeans and barbed wire are invented.
1873: The beginning of the bloody Aceh War
for Dutch occupation of the province.[17]
1874: The Societe Anonyme Cooperative des
Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, and Graveurs,
better known as the Impressionists, organize
and present their first public group exhibition
at the Paris studio of the photographer Nadar.
1874: The Home Rule Movement is
established in Ireland.
1874: The British East India Company is
dissolved.
1874–1875: First Republic in Spain.
1875: HMS Challenger surveys the deepest
point in the Earth's oceans, the Challenger
Deep
1875–1900: 26 million Indians perish in India
due to famine.
1875: Georges Bizet's opera Carmen premiers
in Paris.
1876: Bulgarians instigate the April Uprising
against Ottoman rule.
1876: Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle is first
performed in its entirety.
1876: Queen Victoria becomes Empress of
India.
1876: Battle of the Little Bighorn leads to the
death of General Custer and victory for the
alliance of Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho
1876–1879: 13 million Chinese die of famine
in northern China.
1876–1914: The massive expansion in
population, territory, industry and wealth in the
United States is referred to as the Gilded Age.
1877: Great Railroad Strike in the United
States may have been the world's first
nationwide labour strike.
1877: Crazy Horse surrenders and is later
killed
1877: Asaph Hall discovers the moons of Mars
1877: Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
1877–1878: Following the Russo-Turkish War,
the Treaty of Berlin recognizes formal
independence of the Principality of Serbia,
Montenegro and Romania. Bulgaria becomes
autonomous.
1878: First commercial telephone exchange in
New Haven, Connecticut.
A barricade in the Paris Commune, 18 March
1871. Around 30,000 Parisians were killed,
and thousands more were later executed.
1879: Anglo-Zulu War in South Africa. - South
Africa
1879: Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb.
1879–1880: Little War against Spanish rule in
Cuba leads to rebel defeat.
1879–1883: Chile battles with Peru and
Bolivia over Andean territory in the War of the
Pacific.
1879-1884: Belgium is engulfed in a political
crisis, dubbed the First School War, over the
role of religion in state education.
1879: 21 April, Kartini was born in Jepara,
today the date is commemorated as women's
emancipation day in Indonesia.
1880s[edit]
1880–1881: the First Boer War.
1881: Tsar Alexander II is assassinated.
1881: Wave of pogroms begins in the Russian
Empire.
1881: Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Sitting Bull
surrenders.
1881: First electrical power plant and grid in
Godalming, Britain.
1881: President James A. Garfield is
assassinated.
1881-1882: The Jules Ferry laws are passed in
France establishing free, secular education.
1881–1899: The Mahdist War in Sudan.
1882: The British invasion and subsequent
occupation of Egypt
1883: Krakatoa volcano explosion, one of the
largest in modern history.

Thomas Edison was an American inventor,

scientist, and businessman who developed
many devices that greatly influenced life
around the world, including the phonograph,
the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting,
practical electric light bulb.
1883: The quagga is rendered extinct.
1883: Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure
Island is published.
1884: Siege of Khartoum.
1884: Germany gains control of Cameroon.
1884: Mark Twain publishes The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn.
1884: Sir Hiram Maxim invents the first self-
powered Machine gun.
1884–1885: The Berlin Conference signals the
start of the European "scramble for Africa".
Attending nations also agree to ban trade in
slaves.
1884–1885: The Sino-French War led to the
formation of French Indochina.
1885: Louis Pasteur creates the first successful
vaccine against rabies for a young boy who
had been bitten 14 times by a rabid dog.
1885: King Leopold II of Belgium establishes
the Congo Free State as a personal fiefdom.
1885: Britain establishes a protectorate over
Bechuanaland (modern Botswana).
1885: Singer begins production of the
'Vibrating Shuttle'. which would become the
most popular model of sewing machine.
1885: Rock Springs massacre: White miners
rioted, killing at least 28 Chinese immigrant
miners.
1886: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson is
published.
1886: Burma is presented to Queen Victoria as
a birthday gift.
1886: Karl Benz sells the first commercial
automobile.
1886: Construction of the Statue of Liberty;
Coca-Cola is developed.
1886: Russian-Circassian War ended with the
defeat and the exile of many Circassians.
Imam Shamil defeated.
1887: The British Empire takes over
Balochistan.
1887: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his
first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet.
1888: Louis Le Prince records the Roundhay
Garden Scene, the earliest surviving film.
1888: Jack the Ripper murders occur in
Whitechapel, London.
1888: Slavery banned in Brazil.
1888: Founding of the shipping line
Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij (KPM)
that supported the unification and development
of the colonial economy.[17]
1889: The Mayerling Incident: Crown Prince
Rudolf of Austria and Baroness Mary Vetsera
are found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.
1889: Eiffel Tower is inaugurated in Paris.
1889: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad establishes the
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, a reform sect
of Islam.
1889: End of the Brazilian Empire and the
beginning of the Brazilian Republic.
1889: Vincent van Gogh paints Starry Night.
1889: Aspirin patented.
1889: Moulin Rouge opens in Paris.

First bus in history: a Benz truck modified by

Netphener company (1895)

Miners and prospectors ascend the Chilkoot

Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush

Studio portrait of Ilustrados in Europe, c. 1890

1890s[edit]
1890: The Wounded Knee Massacre in South
Dakota was the last battle in the American
Indian Wars. This event represents the end of
the American Old West.
1890: Italy annexes Eritrea.
1890: First use of the electric chair as a method
of execution.
1890: Independence of Luxembourg.
1890: Death of Vincent van Gogh.
1890: The cardboard box is invented.
1891: Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the
Ahmadiyya movement, claims to be Promised
Messiah and Imam Mahdi.
1891: 1891 Chilean Civil War.
1891: Wrigley Company is founded in Illinois.
1891 Pope Leo XIII launches the encyclical
Rerum Novarum, the first major catholic
document on social justice
1892: Basketball is invented.
1892: The World's Columbian Exposition was
held in Chicago celebrating the 400th
anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival
in the New World.
1892: Fingerprinting is officially adopted for
the first time.
1892: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite
premieres in St Petersberg.
1892: John Froelich develops and constructs
the first gasoline/petrol-powered tractor.
1893: US forces overthrow the government of
Hawaii.
1893: The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary
Organisation is formed.
1893: New Zealand becomes the first country
to enact women's suffrage.
1893: The Coremans-de Vriendt law is passed
in Belgium, creating legal equality for French
and Dutch languages.
1894: First commercial film release by Jean
Aime Le Roy.[citation needed]
1894: First gramophone record.
1894: Karl Elsener invents the Swiss Army
knife.
1894: France and the Russian Empire form a
military alliance.
1894–1895: After the First Sino-Japanese War,
China cedes Taiwan to Japan and grants Japan
a free hand in Korea.
1894–1906: Dreyfuss Affair in France.
1894: Lombok War[17] The Dutch looted and
destroyed the Cakranegara palace of Mataram.
[18] J. L. A. Brandes, a Dutch philologist
discovered and secured Nagarakretagama
manuscript in Lombok royal library.
1895: Volleyball is invented.
1895: Trial of Oscar Wilde and premiere of his
play The Importance of Being Earnest.
1895: French troops capture Antananarivo in
Madagascar.
1895: Wilhelm Rontgen identifies x-rays.
1895–1896: Abyssinia defeats Italy in the First
Italo–Ethiopian War.
1895–1898: Cuban War for Independence
results in Cuban independence from Spain.
1896: Olympic Games revived in Athens.
1896: Philippine Revolution ends declaring
Philippines free from Spanish rule.
1896: Ethiopia defeated Italy at the Battle of
Adwa.
1896: Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.
1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity;
J. J. Thomson identifies the electron, though
not by name.
1897: Gojong, or Emperor Gwangmu,
proclaims the short-lived Korean Empire: lasts
until 1910.
1897: Benin Expedition of 1897 loots and
burns Benin.
1897: Greco-Turkish War.
1897: Bram Stoker writes Dracula.
1898: The United States gains control of Cuba,
Puerto Rico, and the Philippines after the
Spanish–American War.
1898: Empress Dowager Cixi of China
engineers a coup d'etat, marking the end of the
Hundred Days' Reform; the Guangxu Emperor
is arrested.
 1898: H. G. Wells publishes The War of the
Worlds
1898: Empress Elisabeth of Austria is
assassinated by anarchist Luigi Lucheni.
1898–1900: The Boxer Rebellion in China is
suppressed by an Eight-Nation Alliance.
1898–1902: The Thousand Days' War in
Colombia breaks out between the "Liberales"
and "Conservadores", culminating with the
loss of Panama in 1903.
1898: General van Heutz becomes chief of
staff of Aceh campaign. Wilhelmina becomes
queen of the Netherlands.[17]
1899–1902: Second Boer War begins.
1899–1913: Philippine–American War begins.
1899–1900: Indian famine kills over 1 million
people.
1900[edit]
Hawaii becomes an official U.S. territory.
Galveston Hurricane in Texas kills 8000
people.
L. Frank Baum publishes The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz.
King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated.
Exposition Universelle held in Paris,
prominently featuring the growing art trend Art
Nouveau.
Eight nations invaded China at the same time
and ransacked Forbidden City.
XX 1901: Australian colonies unified under single 1900 AD: The amazing Conversion Early 1900sEdit
cent government. Boxer Rebellion ends. Edward Engine of Professor Vargo is Alani Astarte, Homid Galliard Black Fury, is born. [5]
VII becomes King of the United Kingdom and demonstrated during the Paris Danny "Diz" Walton, later inventor of the "Ricky Rat"
the British Dominions and Emperor of India Exhibition. He’s most upset that character, is born. [6]
upon the death of Queen Victoria. Platt machines of war are more popular, Somewhere around the turn of the century,
Amendment limits the autonomy of Cuba in
exchange for withdrawal of American troops.
Assassination of William McKinley. Emily
Hobhouse reports on the terrible conditions in
the 45 British concentration camps for Boer
women and children in South Africa.
Guglielmo Marconi receives the first trans-
Atlantic radio signal.
1902: Second Boer War ends. Philippine–
American War ends. Cuba gains independence
from the United States. Willis Carrier invents
the first modern electrical air conditioning unit.
Unification of Saudi Arabia begins. Venezuela
Crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy
sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela in order
to enforce collection of outstanding financial
claims.
1903: First controlled heavier-than-air flight of
the Wright Brothers. Herero and Namaqua
Genocide, the first genocide of the 20th
century, begins in German South-West Africa.
In Russia the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks
form from the breakup of the Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party. Pius X becomes
Pope. The teddy bear is invented. The first
Tour de France is held. Independence of
Panama, the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is
signed by the United States and Panama. The
Ottoman Empire and the German Empire sign
an agreement to build the Constantinople-
Baghdad Railway.
1904: Entente cordiale signed between Britain
and France. A Japanese surprise attack on Port
Arthur (Lushun) starts the Russo-Japanese
and leaves. In related news, a
Technomancy Symposium votes
against the existence of Ether,
provoking the Sons of Ether to leave
the Technomancy for the Traditions.
1911 AD: The Mexican Revolution
marks the start of the Second
Anarch Revolution. It ends when the
Sabbat screws over both the
Anarchs, and the Camarilla, and
takes control of most of Mexico.
1914 AD: Czar Vargo’s airships fly
over New York, Washington, Paris,
London, and Rome – demanding the
surrender of all national powers, and
world rulership for the common
good. His death rays beat off an
Iteration X robot army, but he is
finally overcome by Progenitor
clones thanks to his reluctance to
kill living beings. The NWO covers
up the “incident” with enormous
effort. In the meantime, the German
Ventrue and French Toreadors start
world war one. This does not work
out well.
1917 AD: Lenin and the Bolsheviks
seize “control” of Russia – with the
help of the Brujah Council. Sadly,
the “council” never manages to
agree on anything else. On a
different front, Premium Oil, (Later;
Pentex) establishes an alliance with
the Black Spiral Dancers.
the Technocratic Union is modernized under the supposed
guidance of Queen Victoria.
The Conventions' Guilds become Methodologies.[7]
[8]Control's humanity has vanished.[9]
The International Brotherhood of
Mechanicians' Computer has gained sentience at the ?th
iteration of a sentience-expanding algorithm. In honour of
this achievement, they change their name to "Iteration
X."[10][11][12]
The ?sculpian Order intend to become the Progenitors of
a new race of humans.
The Analytical Reckoners investigate a new reality and
become its Virtual Adepts.
The Explorators broke the barrier of Earth's orbit; as Void
Engineers, they seek to impose order on everything
beyond the Gauntlet.
The Invisible Exchequer becomes an
international Syndicate.
Lightkeepers are merged with the Skeleton Keys to rule
from an Ivory Tower.
(Electrodyne Engineers appear to have kept their
moniker, being almost uniformly utopian.)
Iteration X advances during this century are too numerous
to detail.[13] The century is ushered in by Henry Ford's
automotive assembly plant.[14]
Etherite mages shatter the unity of the atom early this
century by adding subatomic confusion - over 100 new
theoretical particles.[13]
Experts believe the Mafia is imported
to America by Italian immigrants.[15]
Struggles between the Syndicate and vampires rock
criminal organizations around the world.[16]
Elijah Worvil creates a wand for his magic act, "Dr.
Worvil's Wonders of the World of Magic."[17]
War. Trans-Siberian railway is completed.
Construction of the Panama Canal begins.
Roger Casement publishes his account of
Belgian atrocities in the Congo Free State. End
of British expedition to Tibet.
1905: Russo-Japanese War ends. Revolution of
1905 in Russia. Persian Constitutional
Revolution begins. Trans-Siberian Railway
opened. Albert Einstein's formulation of
relativity. Schlieffen Plan proposed. The
British Indian Province of Bengal, was
partitioned by the Viceroy of India, Lord
Curzon. First Moroccan Crisis. The Norwegian
Parliament declares the union with Sweden
dissolved, and Norway achieves full
independence.
1906: Earthquakes in San Francisco, California
(death toll: 3000) and Valparaiso, Chile (death
toll: 20,000) occur. Dreyfus Affair ends.
Stolypin reform in Russia creates a new class
of affluent kulaks. Brazilian inventor Alberto
Santos-Dumont takes off and flies his 14-bis to
a crowd in Paris. Death of Paul Cezanne. The
Muslim League is formed by Nawab
Salimullah Khan of Dacca. The US began the
Second Occupation of Cuba.
1907: Herero and Namaqua Genocide ends. A
peasants' revolt in Romania kills roughly
11,000. The Indian National Congress splits
into two factions at its Surat session, presided
by Rash Behari Bose. Persian Constitutional
Revolution ends with the establishment of a
parliament. Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907. The
Anglo-Russian Entente bring a pause in The
1920 AD: The Shadowlands are
battered by the 4’th great
Maelstrom. The spectres begin
direct attacks on the living world.
1924 AD: Reestablishment of the
Sabbat Inquisition by Julian of the
Black hand.
1933 AD: The Code Of Milan is
adopted to establish the modern
Sabbat, as their civil war winds
down. The sect is reasonably
coherent again by 1940.
1938 AD: The Void Engineers
attempt to invade from mars, but
create so much paradox that reality
rewrites it as a radio broadcast by
Orson Wells. The rest of the
Technocracy is not pleased.
1940 AD: The Technocracy aids the
Nazis, in a bid to control Europe. In
the Shadowlands, Charon goes to
war with the Jade Emperor over the
distribution of the souls of the dead.
1941 AD: A Gangrel embraces a lot
of gypsies in a concentration camp,
and leads a mass escape. The Virtual
Adepts denounce the Nazis, report
the death camps, and condemn
Iteration X’s using them for
experiments. They threaten to take
direct action themselves.
1944 AD: Prince of Los Angeles
orders the “punishment” of Jeremy
MacNeil (Brujah). His thugs overdo
At the dawn of the century, the Void Engineers launch the
first Horizon Constructs. Keplerbegins plans for the Dark
Side Construct, an entire city to be built on the far side of
theMoon.[18]
Early this century, Charles Fort researches and documents
"Fortean Anomalies," manifestations of Paradox which
defy accepted laws of science.[19][20]
Charles Reid's origins are unknown, but he's been active
in the United States of America since early this century.
[21]
The Technocratic Union and the Council of Nine
Traditions have been warring over the moons
of Jupiter since early this century.[22]
By this time, the Nebuu-afef is hiding
in Austria and Hungary, being affording some protection
by the era's anti-Semitic sentiments.[23]
At the turn of the century, the Knights of St. George and
the Dragon becomes the first of theCelestial Chorus' old
Christian factions to begin admitting non-Christian
members.[24]
From this point, Iteration X relies heavily on the Digital
Enhancement Interface.[25]
1850-1900: Growing interest in the occult and
spiritualism, combined with the rise of
the Theosophist movement, results in a weakening of the
scientific paradigm and an increase in the number of
recruits for the Traditions.[1]
1889-1900: The first great expansion stage of
the Arcanum. Multiple chapter houses are opened
across Europe and North America.[2]
Notulf leaves Aix-la-Chapelle and retreats to the
surrounding woods.[3]
The Sept of the Healing Dawn becomes a location
in Egyptwhere Silent Striders can rest and regain Gnosis.
Great Game in Central Asia. Elections to the
new Parliament of Finland are the first in the
world with woman candidates, as well as the
first elections in Europe where universal
suffrage is applied.
1908: First commercial radio transmissions.
The Ford Motor Company invents the Model
T. First commercial Middle-Eastern oilfield
established, at Masjed Soleyman in southwest
Persia. The Tunguska impact devastates
thousands of square kilometres of Siberia.
Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman
Empire. Independence of Bulgaria. Austro-
Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina,
triggering the Bosnian Crisis. Pu Yi, the last
Emperor of China, assumes the throne. 1908
Messina earthquake kills over 70,000 people.
Start of publication of Robert Baden-Powell's
Scouting for Boys in London.
1909: United States troops leave Cuba.
Bosnian crisis ends with Austro-Hungary's
annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Robert
E. Peary claims to have reached the North Pole
though the claim is subsequently heavily
contested. Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909.
Ottoman countercoup fails in the Ottoman
Empire. A revolution forces Mohammad Ali
Shah, Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty to
abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
Japan and China sign the Jiandao/Gando
Treaty
1910s[edit]
See also: Timeline of World War I
1910: Beginning of the Mexican Revolution.
it – and covering up the incident
provokes an Anarch revolt. The
result is the Anarch Free States,
under Jeremy. In the wider arena,
the Virtual Adepts information on
the Nazi necromantic experiments
causes the Technocracy to shift their
support to the Allies.
1945 AD: Atomic bombs used to
force the surrender of Japan. Fifth
Maelstrom engulfs the
Shadowlands, on a worldwide scale.
Charon battles the Malfean Gorool,
and is lost with it. The Hierarchy of
the Shadowlands begins to lose
control in the aftermath, especially
as many/most of their older and
more powerful wraiths can no
longer reach the upper levels of the
Shadowlands.
1946 AD: Technocracy abandons
Mexican industries. Pentex is quick
to grab it. They also drain all but
four of the Nodes in Mexico City.
The four Nodes that remain are
hidden by Shaitan and his forces.
1947 AD: Pentex allies with the
Sabbat – allowing Harold Zettler (A
Sabbat Pricus) to join it’s board of
directors.
1950 AD: A Nosferatu delivers the
plans for atomic weapons to the
Soviets while disguised as Julius
Rosenberg – thus provoking an
It is the only caern in Egypt aside from the remote Sept of
the Western Flame where they can do so.[4]
Black Fury Freebooters find two unclaimed caerns in
the Congo and open the both of them, thus birthing
the Dark River Caern and the Blessed Home Caern.[5]
Artemis Silver-Dawn, a Ragabash Black Fury of
the Freebooters camp discovers the site of what will
eventually become the caern at Cumberland Falls
(guarded later by the Sept of the Moon's Blessing)
somewhere around this time.[6]
Around this time the creature known as
the Yahwie begins hunting and
slaying Ananasi inAustralia.[7]
The Boxer Rebellions in China.[8][9] The Wu
Lung and Akashic Brotherhood cease fighting outright, as
both sides support the Rebellion as a last-ditch effort to
drive the Technocracyout of China.[10]
The Jade Demon, a Nephandi, falls in love.[8]
The Akashic Brotherhood initiates very few non-
Asian mages before this year.[11]
Lord Edmund releases what becomes the most famous
English translation of Kitab al Alacir, the Book of Ether.
[12]
Professor Vargo displays his Conversion Engine to the
world in the Palace of Electricity at theParis
Expedition this year.[13][14] Frustrated with the lack of
interest (and the interest in the weapons of war featured),
Vargo makes a speech decrying weapons of war, then
takes his Engine and vanishes from public view.[15][16]
[17]
The works of Gregor Mendel are rediscovered.[18] The
scientific roots of the Mutagenic Engineers are founded.
[19]
The Technocracy's Great Symposium this year disproves
George V becomes King of the United
Kingdom and the British Dominions and
Emperor of India. Union of South Africa
created. 5 October 1910 revolution in Portugal
and proclamation of the First Portuguese
Republic. Imperial Japan annexes Korea.
Deaths of Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain. Boy
Scouts of America is founded. Halley's Comet
returns. Montenegro is proclaimed an
independent kingdom. Albanian Revolt of
1910.
1911: Xinhai Revolution in China overthrows
the Qing Dynasty. Roald Amundsen first
reaches the South Pole. Triangle Shirtwaist
Factory fire results in the deaths of 146
workers and leads to sweeping workplace
safety reforms. New Delhi becomes the capital
of British India. Ernest Rutherford identifies
the atomic nucleus. The Italo-Turkish war
leads to the capture of Libya by Italy. Eugene
B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS
Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco
harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands
on a ship. Agadir Crisis.
1912: End of the Chinese Empire; Republic of
China established. The African National
Congress is founded. Morocco becomes a
protectorate of France. Sinking of the RMS
Titanic. First Balkan War begin. Woodrow
Wilson is elected 28th President of the United
States. Arizona becomes the last state to be
admitted to the continental Union. United
States occupation of Nicaragua begins. The
Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party, is
immense spate of underground
shelter building. In just a few years
an immense, comfortable,
underground warren will be
available. Many similar projects,
artificial disasters, and construction
manipulations are also carried out.
The Nosferatu have places
everywhere.
1952 AD: H. Hoover creates “SAD”
(Special Affairs Department) of the
FBI on the advice of Dr. Emil Zotos
– his psychiatrist, and a
technomancer. Charles Horner is
named head of the department. The
Sabbat Caitiff are united as a “clan”
by Joseph Pander.
1954 AD: The Technocracy tries to
destroy Turing, his AI plans, anyone
or anything nearby – and to bring
back the pieces. Turing programs an
Infinite Creation Loop, and creates
the Digital Web. He is sucked into
the new Realm and never heard of
again.
1955 AD: Virtual Adepts escape
with great amounts of information
about the Technocracy. Orders are
given to destroy them – without
exceptions. The Technomancy is
delayed for decades as a result.
1957 AD: FBI “Special Affairs”
Department, now at it’s largest size
ever with 25 agents – loses 6 agents
the concept of ether.[20] TheElectrodyne Engineers begin
to desert.[21][22]
Queen Victoria's Grand Council of World
Government has evolved into the Technocratic Unionby
this year.[23]
By this year, John Eaton Simcoe controls a network of
banks and entertainment houses fromSan Diego to
the Alaskan border.[24]
By this year, most Triads have put aside their political
ambitions and are nothing more than organized crime
groups.[25]
Former Craftmasons and members of the Invisible
Exchequer unite to form the Syndicate.[1]
By this year, the Five Metal Dragons have paved the way
for the Western Technocracy to subvert Heaven's law
itself.[26]
By this year, House Luxor has little do to with the rest of
the Order of Hermes.[27]
Victoria Station is secured in Lunar orbit this year.[28]
1901 Magadon, Incorporated founder Bryant
Vandegrift is born.[1]
The Uktena Theurge known as Broken Medicine is born
this year.[2]
Glass Walkers, led by Kanakis and his daughter Cynen,
call for the establishment of a multitribal council to
coordinate the activities of Garou in Australia. This is the
start of the Jindabyne Council.[3]
Yokoshi of the Bushi was Embraced by Yashiri in this
year.[4]
An 1890 prediction by the Difference Engineers predicts
a 90% probability of the existence of flying machines by
this year.[5]
Queen Victoria dies.[6] As a result, the Syndicate falls
into internal dispute regarding the direction to take within
founded.
1913: Niels Bohr formulates the first cohesive
model of the atomic nucleus, and in the
process paves the way to quantum mechanics.
In the 1913 Ottoman coup d'etat, Ismail Enver
comes to power.Ford Motor Company
introduces the first moving assembly line. La
Decena Tragica. Yuan Shikai uses military
force to dissolve China's parliament and rules
as a dictator. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of
Spring infamously premiers in Paris. Treaty of
London. Second Balkan War and Treaty of
Bucharest. The Federal Reserve System is
created.
1914: Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo,
triggering the start of World War I. The United
Kingdom establishes the Sultanate of Egypt as
a protectorate. Panama Canal opens. Benedict
XV becomes Pope. Martha, last known
passenger pigeon, dies.
1915: The RMS Lusitania is sunk. The United
States occupation of Haiti begins. Armenian
genocide in the Ottoman Empire. D. W.
Griffith's The Birth of a Nation is released.
First use of poison gas at the Battle of Neuve
Chapelle and Second Battle of Ypres.
1916: Easter Rising in Ireland. The
implementation of daylight saving time.
Warlord Era begins in China. David Lloyd
George becomes the Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom. The Gallipoli Campaign
fails. First use of tanks at the Battle of Flers-
Courcelette. Battle of the Somme. Grigory
investigating Denise Gerard and Dr.
Timothy Clarke.
1960 AD: Some few Followers Of
Set join the Sabbat as “Serpents of
Light”.
1961 AD: Virtual Adepts join the
Traditions – but are required to
accept a five-year probationary
period before acceptance. Quite a
few see the entire deal as a simple
matter of bribery; data on the
Technomancy in return for
sanctuary.
1966 AD: Timothy Leary founds a
“faith” aroud LSD and free love.
1968 AD: Lodin, Prince of Chicago,
gets permission from the Ventrue
Justicar to settle the Anarch problem
once and for all. More than 100
vampires are said to have
disappeared that night.
1969: The lunar landings open the
gates of wonder in millions of
human minds. The “Resurgence”
opens the paths to Arcadia to again.
The Sidhe nobles return and try to
regain control with the Beltaine
“Night of Iron Knives Massacre”,
starting the Accordance War. It ends
in 1972, with recognition of
“Commoner’s Rights” and the rise
of High King David.
1984 AD: The first cyborg HIV
Marks are built. In a celebration of
the Technocracy.[7]
Anais Chevalier meets Neville Sinclair and Pietro
diGenoa at either Prince Albert's birthday party, or a party
celebrating the death of Queen Victoria.[8]
1902 A number of Bone Gnawer leaders seize
upon Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's ideas and form a sept, based
in Moscow, known as theSept of the People's Will. This
experimental sept follows the social teachings of Marx.
[1]
Sleeper Arnold Johnson is born.[2]
Lammas' The March of the Nine is published
by Paradigma Press.[3]
1903 M. Weatherford's An Illustrated Guide to the
Travels of the Nineis published by Paradigma Press.[1]
Anna Sheldrake's prophecies are published.[2]
Henry Ford starts up his own company, the Ford Motor
Company. He and three friends produce three cars a day.
[3]
Officials approach homesteaders in Las Vegas about
running a rail line through the Stewart Ranch. The small
town would be a point for crew changes, service and
maintenance.[4]
1904 William Watersmith, Lord Craven, New World
Order, sends a message (the "Judas Note") to
Mssrs. Carlisle and Roberts,Seekers of the Void,
recommending the destruction of the
luminiferous ether from the Consensus, a message to
theElectrodyne Engineers to stay in line.[1] Although the
ether isn't central to their methods, it is an important part
of the ideology of the Engineers. They rebel, and request
a seat on the Council of Nine Mystic Traditions. The
Council, desiring to fill the long-vacant Seat of Matter,
accepts.[2][3] The Engineers join with other utopian
rebels, and call themselves the Sons of Ether, taking a
Rasputin is assassinated by H.H. Prince Felix
Youssoupov. The Pact is agreed upon by both
the Congress and the Muslim League at the
Indian city of Lucknow. Battle of Verdun. The
Arab Revolt begins
1917: Russian Revolution ends the Russian
Empire; beginning of Russian Civil War. USA
join the Allies for the last 17 months of World
War I. Independence of Poland and Finland
recognised. The first Pulitzer Prizes are
awarded. October Revolution in Russia.
Ukrainian–Soviet War begins.
1918: End of World War I. German Revolution
begins. Abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Spanish flu pandemic. Murder of Tsar
Nicholas II and his family. Poland, Ukraine
and Belarus are among a number of states to
declare independence from Russia. Finnish
Civil War. Mehmed VI becomes last Sultan of
the Ottoman Empire and last Caliph.
Partitioning of the Ottoman Empire begins.
The Kingdom of Iceland and The State of
Slovenes, Croats and Serbs are established.
The British occupy Palestine. Mutawakkilite
Kingdom of Yemen is founded. Azerbaijan
Democratic Republic is declared. Armenian–
Azerbaijani War begins. Polish–Ukrainian War
begins.
1919: Treaty of Versailles redraws European
borders. German Revolution ends with the
collapse of the German Empire and the
establishment of the Weimar Republic. Victory
for Estonia in the Estonian War of
Independence. League of Nations founded in
1984, the Virtual Adepts have a field
day of computer and electronic
sabotage – annoying the
Technomancy no end.
1985: The Tal’mahe’Ra launches the
Shadow Crusade against
Vicissitude.
1990 AD: “Baba Yaga” awakens,
destroys the Brujah Council in
Russia – and permits Boris Yeltsin
to “take control” there. She
embraces Sergei Voshkov, but still
finds it almost impossible to
understand or manage the modern
world.
1993 AD: Pr. Lodin of Chicago
orders a Blood Hunt against all
lupines within the city. The Garou
and the Sabbat attack, destroying
almost half it’s Kindred. A rather
fragile peace results. In Washington
DC, the FBI Special Affairs
Department director is driven mad,
but Senator Grubhold’s incident
with the Garou results in increased
funding for SAD.
1994 AD: Relevant information on
this period is found in the Runestone
Chronicle and other campaign logs.
number of Technocratic secrets with them.
Some time between 1904 and 1921, Aleister
Crowley falls to the Nephandi.[4]
The influx of the Technocratic Union into the Middle
East devastates local Traditions andCrafts. The Ahl-i-
Batin's numbers are diminished significantly, but they
still fare better than the Taftani. The Batini are still unable
to meddle in politics as blatantly as they once did.[5][6]
[7]
The Order of Reason had originally planned to have a
model of the fundamental universe, fully understandable
by the general public, to be released by this year. The
work of Michael Faraday in 1831 advanced that estimate
considerably.[8]
1905-1907: Some of the worst floods ever to
hit Nevada occur.[1]
Dr. Harold Schere completes the creation of what comes
to be known as Schere's Disease.[2]
Albert Einstein completes his Special Theory of
Relativity, invalidating the concept of ether.[3] The Sons
of Ether leave theTechnocratic Union, and seek
membership in the Council of Nine Mystic Traditions.[4]
[5][6][7][8] The Royal Ethernautical Societythreatens to
tell the public about the Order of Reason's 19th
century space program unless it is left alone.[9] Etherites
attend a Symposium to hammer out their Scientific Ethos.
[10]
Japan has a military victory against Russia, strengthening
the political position of the military.[11]
January Edit
Two rail lines meet in Jean, Nevada. The occasion is
commemorated with an act of sympathetic magic, the
driving of a golden spike.[12]
May Edit
Paris. Polish-Soviet War begins. The Italian
National Fascist Party is established by Benito
Mussolini. Comintern established. Egyptian
Revolution of 1919. Turkish War of
Independence begins. End of Polish–Ukrainian
War. The International Labor Organisation is
established. Ernest Rutherford discovers the
proton. First experimental evidence for the
General theory of relativity obtained by Arthur
Eddington.
1920s[edit]
See also: Roaring Twenties
1920: Mexican Revolution ends. Greece
restores its monarchy after a referendum. Red
Army invasion of Azerbaijan and Armenia
ends the Armenian–Azerbaijani War and
concludes with their incorporation into the
Soviet Union. Mohandas Gandhi launches
Non-cooperation movement. Prohibition in the
United States enforced.
1921: Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer of the Nazi
Party as hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic
begins. Russia invades Georgia and
incorporates it into the Soviet Union. End of
Russian Civil War, Polish-Soviet War and
Ukrainian–Soviet War. Coup brings the
Pahlavi dynasty to power in Iran.
1922: Ottoman Sultanate abolished by the
Turkish Grand National Assembly; Sultan
Mehmed VI is deposed. Irish Free State is
established, while the Province of Northern
Ireland is created within The United Kingdom.
The Irish Civil War begins. The Italian
reconquest of Libya begins. The union of
May 15: The railroad establishes "Las Vegas Land and
Water," with 1,200 city lots advertised as prime real
estate. By the end of the day, only 200 lots remain and the
railroad walks away $265,000 richer. Considered the
official founding of the city of Las Vegas.[13][12][14]
[15][16]
December Edit
Las Vegas is provided with a permanent electricity
infrastructure.
he Sons of Ether are given a permanent seat on
the Council of Nine, filling the spot left vacated by
the Solificati since 1471.[1]
Theodore Fleckman attempts an Entropy effect to
sinkCalifornia. The attempt sends him into a Paradox
realm, later dubbed Fleckman's Folly.[2]
The Golden Gate Hotel and Casino opens to the public at
One Fremont Street.[3]
January Edit
January 1: The population of Las Vegas is 1,500.[4]
April Edit
April 18: The Umbrood Cob loses cohesion
1910е Teiresias is born in this decade, at some point
before 1914.[1]
The Ratkin Danny "Diz" Walton is born sometime in this
decade.[2]
Early 1910s: The Wise Guys pack forms in Chicago, led
by Gianluigi Lucci. “Wise Guys” will eventually become
a term referring to an entire camp of the Glass Walkers,
which Lucci will also lead.[3]
The Void Engineers begin to reach the other planets in the
solar system in the 'teens of this decade.[4]
Etherite Dr. Dike builds "Vrum Vrum Boom," a car
designed to take children on adventures.
1914-1918: The Great War. The War provides
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El
Salvador is dissolved. Egypt gains
independence from the United Kingdom,
though British forces still occupy the Suez
Canal. March on Rome brings Benito
Mussolini to power in Italy. Howard Carter
discovers Tutankhamen's tomb. Gabriel
Narutowicz, President of Poland is
assassinated. The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), the world's first officially
Communist state, is formed. Pius XI becomes
Pope. James Joyce publishes Ulysses. The
Washington Naval Treaty is signed. Mohandas
Gandhi calls off Non-cooperation movement.
1923: Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic
ends with the introduction of the Rentenmark.
Time Magazine is first published. Irish Civil
War ends. The Beer Hall Putsch, an attempt to
overthrow the Weimar Republic, ends in
failure and brief imprisonment for Adolf Hitler
but brings the Nazi Party to national attention.
A military coup ousts and kills Bulgarian
Prime Minister Aleksandar Stamboliyski. The
Great Kanto earthquake kills at least 105,000
people in Japan. Turkish War of Independence
ends; Kemal Ataturk becomes the first
President of the newly established Republic of
Turkey; Ankara replaces Istanbul as its capital.
The Walt Disney Company is founded.
1924: Death of Vladimir Lenin triggers power
struggle between Leon Trotsky and Joseph
Stalin. The Caliphate is abolished by Kemal
Ataturk. The U.S. Federal Bureau of
Investigation founded under J. Edgar Hoover.
the Technocracywith a testing ground for their new
developments in mechanical and chemical warfare.[1]
[2] The Sons of Ether are dragged into the technological
terror as well.[3]
Benjamen Holmscroft, founder of the Arcanum,
apparently dies at the age of 62.[4] In the years prior, he
is not seen by anyone except Winthrop Murray and the
new Grand Chancellor.[5]Hermetic Andrew
Taylor believes he simply disappears because his
longevity is becoming too apparent.[6]
Sgt. Major Kyle witnesses a massive device wreaking
havoc, a tripod three storeys high.[7]
Reginald Proctor commits suicide.[8]
The Syndicate's goal of uniting humanity under one
government and one currency are smashed with the
advent of World War I.[9]
July Edit
July 24: Professor Vargo reappears (calling himself Czar
Vargo), with bizarre airships over New York, Washington,
D.C., Paris, London and Rome. Vargo in incensed that the
leaders of the world have been making war when they
should have made peace, and thus gives the them three
hours to place their national powers in his hands.
While Sleeper weapons are prove ineffective,
the Technocracy unleashes a number of secret weapons
— including steam-driven robots and mutant soldiers —
to disable the ships. Vargo retreats, and his ships vanish.
[10][11][12][13] During the struggle, the Ivory
Tower creates a sister organization, the Operatives, to
circumvent Vargo. The two groups together become
known as the New World Order.[9][14]Michael
Faraday is among those who fight Vargo, but he
disappears afterwards
1915 Premium Oil undergoes a change of management –
The August Uprising in Georgia against Soviet
rule. George Gershwin composes Rhapsody In
Blue. U.S. Immigration Act of 1924
significantly restricts immigration from Asia,
the Middle East, and Southern Europe.
1925: Benito Mussolini gains dictatorial
powers in Italy. Mein Kampf is published. First
televisual image created by John Logie Baird.
Locarno Treaties are signed. Serum run to
Nome.
1926: Hirohito becomes Emperor of Japan.
Coups in Greece, Poland and Portugal install
new dictatorships.
1927: The Jazz Singer, the first "talkie", is
released. Joseph Stalin becomes leader of the
Soviet Union. Chinese Civil War begins. Bath
School disaster. Australian Parliament
convenes in Canberra for the first time. The
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
officially becomes the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Saudi
Arabia gains independence. The BBC is
granted a Royal Charter in the United
Kingdom. World population reaches 2 billion.
Charles Lindbergh's flight to Paris.
1928: Discovery of penicillin by Alexander
Fleming. Warlord Era ends in China. Malta
becomes a British Dominion. Bubble gum is
invented. King Zog I is crowned in Albania.
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed in Paris.
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent
Movement is established. Mickey Mouse is
created at the Walt Disney Studio. Hassan al-
Banna founds the Muslim Brotherhood.
and a name change to Pentex Incorporated.[1]
By this year, the leadership of the Arcanum has almost
entirely overturned.[2]
U.S. troops invade Haiti.[3][4]
Martin St. Christopher, later a Void Engineer, is born.[5]
Las Vegas constructs generators to provide electricity to
the city 24 hours a day.[6]
The Council for the Enforcement of Scientific Ethics
Tribunal is convened to rule on the identity of the creator
of the Chemical Conversion Engine.[7]
March Edit
March 20: James "Wirehead" Peritone sends a message to
the New World Order disavowing any responsibility for
the Zimmermann Telegram. He says he and
the Adepts stand squarely with the NWO and share the
same goals, and the NWO should stop trying to find a
scapegoat for its own failings.[8]
James "Wirehead" Peritone sends a message to the Virtual
Adepts urging caution, and telling whomever was
responsible for the Zimmermann Telegram should think
of how he would have to deal with the
other Conventions before they act.[8]
1916 Due to a crisis in Pentex' oil dealings, they
spin Premium Oil's assets into a new, publicly traded
company: Endron International. The investors give the
company the shot of capital it needs.[1]
The 51st Council of the Council of Nine meets
in Horizon.[2]
Vol V. of the Annual Proceedings of the
Arcanum contains an article by Elizabeth Sandler on the
etymology of the world "alchemy."[3]
Yuan Shikai, president of the Chinese Republic, dies. By
this point, even his closest lieutenants have deserted him.
1929: Wall Street crash of 1929 and the
beginning of the Great Depression. Leon
Trotsky is exiled First people sent to the gulag
in the Soviet Union as Stalin assumes effective
control. Pope Pius XI signs the Lateran Treaty
with Italian leader Benito Mussolini. Vatican
City is recognised as a sovereign state. Saint
Valentine's Day Massacre. The first Academy
Awards are presented.
1930s[edit]
See also: Timeline of the Great Depression
1930: Aided by the Great Depression, the Nazi
Party increases its share of the vote from 2.6%
to 18.3%. Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
Salt March by Mohandas Gandhi and the
official start of civil disobedience in British
India. Military coups replace governments in
Peru and Brazil. Haile Selassie becomes king
of Abyssinia. First FIFA World Cup hosted.
1931: Floods in China kill up to 2.5 million
people. Independence of South Africa.
Construction of the Empire State Building.
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is adopted as the
United States's national anthem. The Second
Spanish Republic is declared. The Chinese
Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong.
Statute of Westminster creates the British
Commonwealth of Nations. Japan invades
Manchuria, China and occupies it until the end
of World War II.
1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected
President of the United States. Eamon de
Valera becomes President of the Executive
Council (prime minister) of the Irish Free
[4]
The Colorado River floods much of the Yuma Valley. As
a result, Arthur P. Davis proposes to control the Colorado
with a dam of unprecedented height.[5]
The Utopian League forms the Council for the
Enforcement of Scientific Ethics to serve as the judges of
the Sons of Ether.[6]
At some point following the Fourth Great Maelstrom,
the Night of Short Chains occurs, starting the Great War.
[7]
July Edit
July 1: The Fourth Great Maelstrom begins at the
battlefields of the Somme in France; theNihil created
there lingers until the storm ends in 1929.[8]
December Edit
Felix Yusupov, a Silver Fang Kinfolk, (allegedly)
kills Rasputin on December 29.[9] Various canon books
describe Rasputin as being a member of several different
vampire clans, aShadow Lord, an Ecstatic, and
a Puppeteer. The truth remains murky. See
the Rasputinarticle for full information.
1917 Colin Jenner, president of Pentex Incorporated, dies
in an automobile accident. Board member Fulton
Clark replaces him; soon after a pack of Black Spiral
Dancers approaches Clark about an alliance, to which he
agrees.[1]
Silver Fangs and other aristocratic clans move to stop the
impending revolution in Russia, but their methods prove
unable to stop what has begun, especially since the
revolution proves to be backed by a number of forces,
including Brujah and Bone Gnawers. Minions of
the Wyrm take advantage of the chaos to launch attacks
against the Garou; the Silver Fangs rally the
divided tribes together to make a series of counterattacks,
State. The Nazi party becomes the largest
single party in the German parliament. Military
coup in Chile. BBC World Service starts
broadcasting. The Neutron is discovered.
Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
1933: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of
Germany. New Deal begins in America. Japan
and Germany announce they are going to leave
the League of Nations. United States
occupation of Nicaragua ends. Prohibition in
the United States is abolished.
1934: Dictatorships begin in Brazil and
Bolivia. Mao Zedong begins the Long March.
United States occupation of Haiti ends. United
States grants more autonomy to the
Philippines. Adolf Hitler instigates the Night of
the Long Knives, which cements his power
over both the Nazi Party and Germany. With
the death of President Hindenburg, Hitler
declares himself Fuhrer of Germany. Bonnie
and Clyde are shot to death in a police ambush.
John Dillinger is gunned down by the FBI
outside the Biograph Theater.
1935: Second Italo-Abyssinian War concludes
with the exile of Haile Selassie and the
conquest of Abyssinia by Benito Mussolini.
Persia becomes Iran. William Lyon Mackenzie
King is elected Prime Minister of Canada.
Enactment of the Nuremberg racial laws.
1936: Beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
Great Purge begins under Stalin. Edward VIII
becomes King of the British Commonwealth
and Emperor of India, before abdicating and
handing the throne to his brother, George VI.
but it ends in failure when they encountered
the Zmei Shazear while raiding a Black Spiral
Dancer caern at the behest of theChildren of Gaia. The
carnage will weaken the Garou of Russia literally for
years, and also cast doubt on the leadership abilities of
the Silver Fangs. The failure may also have sown a seed
of resentment in the Silver Fangs toward the Children of
Gaia.[2][3]Agents of the Wyrm end up in control of
Russia's government.[3]
Soldiers seize the Arcanum's St. Petersburg Chapter
House and destroy most of its records and books.[4]
Roger Thackery, later representative of the Virtual
Adepts, is born.[5]
World War I brings the Technocracy by the hundreds into
the Middle East, and the paradigmbegins to
ossify. Taftani begin to die from Paradox in numbers
greater than those who have died from duelling.[6]
The United States of America enters World War I.[7]
January Edit
January 19: German Foreign Minister Arthur
Zimmerman sends a telegram to GermanMinister
to Mexico authorizing him to offer the
Mexicans American lands and money in exchange for
their helping Germany in the war. British Intelligence
intercepts it.[8]
February Edit
After seeing what Americans do about Germany's breach
of the Sussex pledge, British Intelligence forwards them
the Zimmerman Telegram.
1918: The Great War. The War provides
the Technocracywith a testing ground for their new
developments in mechanical and chemical warfare.
[1] Because of the War, the Virtual Adeptsare two years
behind schedule upgrading their first-generation
George Nissen and Larry Griswold build the
first modern trampoline. Hoover Dam is
completed. Arab Revolt in Palestine against the
British begins to oppose Jewish immigration.
Italy annexes Ethiopia. "Benjamin", the last
known thylacine, dies in Hobart Zoo.
1937: Japanese invasion of China, and the
beginning of World War II in the Far East.
Rape of Nanking. Neville Chamberlain
becomes Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom. The Irish Republican Army attempts
to assassinate King George VI of the United
Kingdom. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
is the first feature-length animated movie
released. Deaths of George Gershwin and
Maurice Ravel. German zeppelin Hindenburg
crashes in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
1938: Anschluss unifies Germany and Austria.
Munich agreement hands Czechoslovakia to
Nazi Germany. Great Purge ends after nearly
700,000 executions. Kristallnacht in Germany,
while Time Magazine declares Adolf Hitler as
Man of the Year. DC Comics hero Superman
has its first appearance.
1939: End of Spanish Civil War; Francisco
Franco becomes dictator of Spain. Molotov–
Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the
Soviet Union. Nazi invasion of Poland triggers
the beginning of World War II in Europe.
Soviet invasion of Poland begins 16 days later.
Palestinian revolt against the British ends. Pius
XII becomes Pope. Death of Sigmund Freud.
1940s[edit]
See also: Timeline of World War II
computers.[2]
Lone Wolf Lupo challenges Luciano “Steam-Engine”
Arrigo to a duel, and slays him.[3]
The Garou in Russia begin to lose ground with the defeat
of the anti-Communist forces. Even the Bone
Gnawers begin to realize that what they began might be
going out of control.[4]
July 17: Bolsheviks execute Czar Nicholas II and his
immediate family. However, Princess Anastasia, a Silver
Fang Kinfolk, escapes, and is secreted out of Russia by
Silver Fangs via Moon bridge.[4]
Bartholomew Wise-in-the-Ways-of-the-
Wyrm (homid, Theurge, Fianna) is born in
NorthernScotland.[5]
Dr. Catherine Nichols, later a Void Engineer, is born.[6]
[7]
By the end of the War, the newly-christened New World
Order begins hunting Reality Deviants as part of an
elaborate campaign to protect humanity.[8]
A Batini assassin, angry at the Technocracy's wartime
rape of their mutual homeland, killsMuhammed ibn Yusuf
al-Mush'awidi.[9]
By this time, half the cars in the US are Ford Model-Ts.
[10]
Many Utopians start leaving to join Russia's Bolsheviks,
attracted by the possibility of a "Scientific State."
1939-1945: World War II. The Zmei Gregornous awakens
inRussia at some point during the War.[1]
[2] The Garou Teiresiasis blinded by Nazi tormentors.
[3]Nephandic influence is on the rise throughout.[4][5][6]
[7] The Sept of Fafnir's Brood is founded during the war.
[8]
Gottfried, along with his loyal ghoul Johann, are
1940: Nazis invade France, the Netherlands,
Denmark and Norway. Katyn massacre of
Polish soldiers in USSR and the Soviet
occupation of the Baltic states. Winter War
between Soviet Union and Finland. Soviet
Union annexes the Baltic states. Winston
Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom. Battle of Britain, the first
entirely aerial military campaign, becomes the
first significant defeat for the Axis powers. The
Blitz begins. Leon Trotsky is assassinated.
Chechen insurgency begins in Soviet Union.
1941: Operation Reinhard commences the
main phase of The Holocaust. Attack on Pearl
Harbor, which leads to the USA joining World
War II. Hitler commences the Nazi invasion of
the Soviet Union. Siege of Tobruk in North
Africa is the first major defeat for Hitler's land
forces. Siege of Leningrad begins.
1942: Battle of Midway. Battle of the Coral
Sea. First and second Battles of El Alamein.
Battle of Stalingrad and Guadalcanal
Campaign begin. Internment of Japanese-
American citizens in the US begins. Manhattan
Project begins.
1943: Battle of Stalingrad ends with over two
million casualties and the retreat of the
German Army. The failed Battle of Kursk
becomes the last Nazi offensive on the Eastern
Front. Warsaw Ghetto uprising fails. Tehran
Conference between Franklin Roosevelt,
Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin agrees to
launch Operation Overlord. Green Revolution
begins.
destroyed during the Allied Forces' first massive
bombing.[9]
1941-1943: Siege of Leningrad. Anton
Nordenskald fights the Germans. [10]
November, 1941: Bone Gnawers do their best to help the
besieged humans of Leningrad survive by feeding the
hungry with what they can scrounge through their Gifts.
[11][12]
Black Spiral Dancers discover
a Chantry of mages feeding off a location
of Wyrmish energies near Giza. They slay the mages and
take the inverted pyramid as their own, establishing
theHive of the Thrashing Serpent.[13]
Virtual Adept James "Wirehead" Peritone, liaison to the
other Technocratic Conventions, is killed when a bomb
destroys a London flat this summer.[14]
Virtual Adept Roger Thackery leads the effort to involve
the US in the war, and subvert theTechnocracy's
commitment to the Axis.[15]
The Statisticians form a task force to
investigate Autochthonia.[16]
During the Battle of Britain, Dr. Horatio Wingbat perfects
his Etherjet Rocketpack.[17]
The El Cortez Hotel opens in Las Vegas on Fremont
Street to a crowd of cowboys who still ride horses around
town.[18]
April Edit
Nazi occupation of Greece and it surrounding islands
begins. Iona Kinslayer gains respect by battling the
Germans and saving The Sept of Bygone Visions, a
powerful Black Fury caern, from the Wyrm.[19]
April 3: The El Rancho Vegas hotel opens in Las Vegas.
It's the first casino in what comes to be called the Strip.
1944: D-Day. The Siege of Leningrad ends
with Soviet victory after over a million deaths.
Chechen insurgency ends with deportation of
the entire Chechen population. First
operational electronic computer, Colossus,
comes online. Death of Edvard Munch.
1945: Bombing of Dresden. Battle of Berlin.
Yalta Conference. End of World War II in
Europe. The Holocaust ends after ~12 million
deaths, including 6 million Jews. Deaths of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler and
Benito Mussolini. Creation of the atomic
bomb, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. End of World War II in Asia and
beginning of the Occupation of Japan. Potsdam
Conference divides Europe into Western and
Soviet blocs. United Nations founded.
Independence of Korea. Deaths of Anne Frank
and Bela Bartok. Independence of Indonesia.
Nuremberg trials begin.
1946: Italy becomes a republic. French Fourth
Republic established. Independence of Jordan.
Nuremberg trials end. First Indochina War
begins. First images taken of the Earth from
space. Bhumibol Adulyadej becomes King of
Thailand. Mustafa Barzani founds the
Kurdistan Democratic Party. Treaty of Manila
declares Philippines independent.
1947: Independence of India and Pakistan and
beginning of First Indo-Pakistani War.
Invention of the first practical transistor.
Breaking of the sound barrier. Harry Truman
establishes the Truman Doctrine of
containment of Communism. Creation of the
[20]
September Edit
Garou attacks on German troops assist in reducing the
force that strikes at Leningrad. TheRussian Get of
Fenris war with their German brethren.[11][12]
October Edit
October 15: Roger "NemaTrode" Thackery issues his first
report to the rest of theConventions, informing them of
the death of his predecessor James Peritone. He mentions
the Nazi persecution of scientists, the murder of Jews
(and thus all men are not created equal), and
condemns Iteration X's use of the situation to conduct
experiments.[14][7]
November Edit
Bone Gnawers do their best to help the besieged humans
of Leningrad survive by feeding the hungry with what
they can scrounge through their Gifts.[11][12]
December Edit
December 1: Roger "NemaTrode" Thackery sends a
message to all Virtual Adepts. Their plan to bring
the United States into the war is about to reach fruition,
but they must be cautious, as their lives would become
extremely difficult were the other Conventions to find out
about their plans.[14]
December 7: Japan launches a surprise attach on Pearl
Harbor.[21][22]
1939-1945: World War II. The Zmei Gregornous awakens
inRussia at some point during the War.[1]
[2] Nephandic influence is on the rise throughout.[3][4]
[5] By this time, the United States of America joins, and
everyone is involved.[6][7] The GarouTeiresias is blinded
by Nazi tormentors.[8] The Sept of Fafnir's Brood is
founded during the war.[9]
1941-1943: Siege of Leningrad. Anton
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
1948: United Nations establishes Israeli
Independence and the formation of the official
State of Israel. Arab-Israeli War. Berlin
Blockade begins. Marshall Plan; founding of
the OECD and the World Health Organization.
Assassination of Mohandas Gandhi. The
independence of Burma. Beginning of
apartheid in South Africa. Division of North
and South Korea. First Indo-Pakistani War
ends. The Soviet Sever-2 expedition become
the first party to indisputably set foot on the
North Pole.
1949: Creation of NATO. Berlin Blockade
ends. Partition of Germany into the Soviet
socialist German Democratic Republic and the
NATO-backed Federal Republic of Germany.
COMECON founded by USSR and the Eastern
Bloc. Partition of Kashmir. Establishment of
the People's Republic of China under Mao
Zedong; The Republic of China relocates to
Taiwan. Soviet Union tests atomic bomb.
1950s[edit]
See also: Timeline of events in the Cold War
1950: Communist victory in the Landing
Operation on Hainan Island and Wanshan
Archipelago Campaign end the Chinese Civil
War. Beginning of the Korean War. Lhamo
Dondrub becomes the 14th Dalai Lama of
Tibet.
1951: Colombo Plan comes into effect. Treaty
of San Francisco ends the Occupation of Japan
and formally concludes hostilities between
Japan and the US.
Nordenskald fights the Germans. [10]
Japan sees a series of conquests from the Pacific to the
border ofIndia. After the Battle of Modway, their army is
gradually beaten back and confined to its own borders.
[11]
The Basic Magnesium plant is built midway
between Boulder City and Las Vegas.[12]
Orson Welles visits Carnival in Rio de Janeirio for the
documentary film project It's All True. He captures
footage of Bone Gnawer elders dancing in the streets. He
also catches Suarez, the Kindred Prince of Rio on film
accidentally breaking the Masquerade. Suarez calls the
studio, which cuts Welles’ funding. The footage is
destroyed. [13]
Black Spiral Dancers discover
a Chantry of mages feeding off a location
of Wyrmish energies near Giza, Egypt. They kill the
mages and took the inverted pyramid as their own,
establishing the Hive of the Thrashing Serpent.[14]
The spring issue of Paradigma includes "A Call for All
Good Scientists" to join the good fight against Hitler,
from Professor Burn.[15]
The winter issue of Paradigma includes a note from
Doctor Danvers that the Allied forces' recent victories can
be traced to Danvers' protege, Jet Boy.[15]
Jermyn Talbot receives a BA in Linguistics from the
University of London, London, England.[16]
The Journal of Victorian Studies begins publication in
this year.[17]
Sapachai Phuttaisong is born.[18]
Michael "Firecracker" McPherson, bani Euthanatos, gives
sanctuary to an Austrian wraith. Tattooed on the wraith's
body are words in archaic French, English, Italian and
Greek, with new names and modern things in the text.
1952: European Defence Community formed.
Egyptian Revolution under Gamal Abdel
Nasser overthrows King Farouk and ends
British occupation. Death of King George VI.
Queen Elizabeth II becomes Monarch of the
Commonwealth realms. Bonn–Paris
conventions end allied occupation of West
Germany. Slansky Trial in Czechoslovakia.
First Lady of Argentina Eva Peron dies of
cancer aged 33. Detonation of the hydrogen
bomb. First scheduled flight by commercial
jet. Development of the first effective polio
vaccine by Jonas Salk. Mau Mau Uprising
begins in Kenya.
1953: Independence of Cambodia. Discovery
of the three-dimensional structure of DNA.
First ascent of Mount Everest. Mohammed
Mossadeq deposed in Iran. End of the Korean
War. Death of Joseph Stalin; East German
Uprising leads to the arrest and execution of
Lavrentiy Beria; power struggle begins
between Georgy Malenkov and Nikita
Khrushchev. Elvis Presley's musical career is
launched.
1954: Paris Treaty establishes Western
European Union, Supreme Court of the United
States decides Brown v. Board of Education,
ordering an end to racial segregation in public
schools. Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley
and His Comets, brings rock and roll to the
American mainstream. The Soviet Union
generates first electricity by nuclear power.
First Indochina War ends. Algerian War begins.
First Taiwan Strait Crisis begins.
The text prophecies that the "children of Abraham and of
Daenna" will be destroyed.[19] Auchmann gives
McPherson a list of mages involved in the atrocities of
the Holocaust.[20]
The Technocracy turns against the Axis, and joins forces
with the Traditions. Situation Six, the first combination
Traditions/Technocracy cabal, is formed.[21][22][23]
Abner Tripplethorpe lies abut his age to join the Navy.
[24]
December Edit
December 2: The first artificial nuclear chain reaction
occurs at the University of Chicago.Oscar Martin is one
of the witnesses.[25]
1943 Jeremy MacNeil, a Brujah exile, arrives in Los
Angeles and befriends Toreador Christopher
Houghton. [9] [10]
Allied Forces again drop bombs on Aix-du-Chapelle,
whileIkkenai leaves the city.
The Octagon's magical protection saves the city from
complete destruction.[11]
Around this time the vampire Stalest Coursain arrives in
theVancouver area.[12]
1941-1943: Siege of Leningrad. Anton
Nordenskald fights the Germans. [13]
Shukri Lightning-on-the-Dunes disappears into the
Western Desert after discovering some interesting
artifacts.[14]
Wungala Rose's mother Bulangu is killed by her own
brother in a drunken rage; shortly after, Wungala
(a homid Philodox of the Black Furies) is found and
taken away by Garou.[15]
Klaus Hortemone is born into a Swiss noble house.[16]
The spring issue of Paradigma contains "Chapter XX:
Final Gambit" of Doc Eon's adventures, transcribed
1955: Nikita Khrushchev assumes control of
the Soviet Union. Signing of the Warsaw Pact.
First Sudanese Civil War begins. First Taiwan
Strait Crisis ends. Antimatter first produced.
Formation of the Central Treaty Organization.
1956: Independence of Sudan and Tunisia and
full independence of Pakistan. French Fifth
Republic established. The Hungarian Uprising
crushed by Soviet troops. Nasser's
nationalisation of the Suez Canal triggers the
Suez crisis. Brasilia constructed.
1957: Launch of Sputnik 1 and the beginning
of the Space Age. Independence of Ghana.
Treaty of Rome, which would eventually lead
to the European Union. Harold Macmillan
become British Prime Minister. First
prescription of the combined oral contraceptive
pill.
1958: Great Chinese Famine begins in China.
NASA, the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority
and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
(CND) founded. CND's symbol, the peace
sign, is first used. Invention of the optical disc
and the cassette tape. Second Taiwan Strait
Crisis.
1959: Cuban Revolution. Independence of
Cyprus. Admission of Alaska and Hawaii into
the United States. Uprising in Tibet against
China leads to the exile of the Dalai Lama.
First documented AIDS cases. Beginning of
the Vietnam War. First images of the far side of
the Moon. Richie Valens, Buddy Holly and
The Big Bopper die in a plane crash. By this
time, the gulag has been effectively disbanded,
by Joe "Lucky Skunk" Ross.[17] It also contains a note
from Doctor Orbital, who bemoans that many members
of the Sons of Ether have joined the Nazis in the war.[18]
The 53rd Council of the Council of Nine meets
in Horizon.[19] To the outrage of
many,Hermetic Master Getulio Vargas Sao
Cristavao takes the Seat of Forces, representing the Order
of Hermes on the Council of Nine, replacing Master Liao
Xaoxequin.[20][21] The War causes great division in
Horizon's ranks.[4]
B.R. Elsenwoods' Walking Hawk and the Iroquois
Nation is published by Granadine Press.[22]
Jermyn Talbot takes a position as instructor of Latin at the
School of St. Anne-on-the-Hill,Oxford, England.[23]
A Swiss Hermium alchemist, Dr. Albert Hoffman,
discovers LSD.[24]
A brief coalition
between Technocrats and Traditionalists disrupts a
huge Nephandicsummoning at Berkenschoss, a German
castle near the Black Forest. What some say is the
greatest Paradox storm in history obliterates the fortress
and several surrounding towns.[25]
Pharmacopeist Dr. L. Keogh develops Staticorpidrin, or
"Stasis," a drug which helps halt the ageing process.[26]
Sekaye Leblanc Awakens.[27]
Lieutenant Oscar Martin leverages his physics degree and
military training into a position with the Corps of
Engineers.[28]
The Matter Transmission Portal is first
created in Philadelphia by the Sons of Ether.[29]
August Edit
August 12: The USS Eldridge vanishes
from Philadelphia Harbor. It won't appear again for
another forty years.[30]
after over a million recorded deaths. World
population reaches 3 billion.
1960s[edit]
See also: Civil Rights Movement and
Swinging Sixties
1960: European Free Trade Association
formed. 1960 U-2 incident sparks deterioration
in relations between superpowers. Year of
Africa: Independence of 17 African nations.
Assassination of Patrice Lumumba begins
Congo Crisis begins. Khrushchev withdraws
Soviet cooperation with China, initiating the
Sino-Soviet split. The Birth control pill
becomes commercially available. Sharpeville
Massacre in South Africa. United States
presidential election, 1960 marks the first
televised debates between presidential
candidates. Mau Mau Uprising ends. First
manned descent to the deepest point on Earth,
the Mariana Trench. Construction of the first
laser. The Beatles form in Liverpool.
Muhammad Ali wins gold in Rome.
1961: Great Leap Forward ends in China after
the deaths of roughly 20 million people.
Construction of the Berlin Wall. First human
spaceflight. Congo Crisis: Assassination of
Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. UN
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold dies in a
plane crash.
1962: Cuban missile crisis. Algerian war ends
with the independence of Algeria. The Beatles'
first record and the beginnings of the British
Invasion. Death of Marilyn Monroe.
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation begins. A
1944 Prince Don Sebastian of Los Angeles orders the
brutal beating of the anarch leader Jeremy MacNeil.[9]
[10]
Tsula attempts to kill Nazis, along with
their Japanese andItalian allies in a mansion close to Aix-
la-Chapelle, but is destroyed by one of
the German generals who turns out to be amage,
causing Konstantin to become leader of the kumpania.
[11]
Father deGama, the Celestial Chorus' representative on
the Council of Nine, dies. He is replaced by Najjda
Bantu.[12]
The Technocratic Union withdraws its support of the Axis
and begins supporting the clear winners, the Allies. They
initiate an alliance with the Traditions. Huge joint ritual
outsideBerlin led by
Masters Callistro bani Tytalus and Creon the
Sane bani Bonisagus banishes or
destroys Nephandi archmages.[13][5][14]
Hassam al-Jadidi ibnu Faridi bani Fortunae retires.[15]
Stephen Landon Masters bani Fortunae is born.[15]
Dr. Horatio Wingbat is shot down over Normandy.[16]
Miriam ben-Himida detects that her husband Dov
Cotovsky has gone barabbi.[17]
One of the Masses discovers a weapon of destruction
neither side of the Ascension Waranticipated.
The Traditions and Technocracy seize the opportunity to
focus their resources on driving the largest cults
of Nephandi from the world.[18]
Vietnam's Vietminh movement sees a counterpart in Laos'
Pathet Lao.[19]
The Japanese islands are punished for their involvement
in the War with heavy bombing.[20]
Jason Ninemen is interviewed regarding Situation
coup ends the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of
Yemen and establishes the Yemen Arab
Republic. North Yemen Civil War begins.
Sino-Indian War. Second Vatican Council is
opened by Pope John XXIII.
1963: Independence of Kenya and creation of
Malaysia. Birmingham campaign. Martin
Luther King, Jr. delivers "I Have a Dream" at
the March on Washington. Assassination of
John F. Kennedy. Launch of the first
geostationary satellite. Paul VI becomes Pope.
1964: Leonid Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev and
assumes power in the Soviet Union.
Independence of Malta, Malawi and Tanzania.
Civil Rights Act abolishes segregation in the
USA. Colombian armed conflict begins. The
Beatles first visit to the United States.
Rhodesian Bush War begins. First close-up
images of Mars
1965: Deaths of Winston Churchill and
Malcolm X. Congo Crisis ends; Joseph
Mobutu becomes dictator of the Congo. Anti-
Communist purge in Indonesia kills up to
500,000 people. Second Indo-Pakistani War.
Second Vatican Council is closed by Pope Paul
VI. Singapore gains independence.
1966: Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation ends.
China's Cultural Revolution begins.
Independence of Lesotho, Botswana and
Barbados.
1967: Summer of Love. Six Day War.
Attempted secession of the Republic of Biafra
from Nigeria triggers the Nigerian Civil War.
ASEAN founded. The Beatles release their
Six and Doctor Mondial.[21]
January Edit
January 20: Control announces a shift in its attitudes
toward World War II. Given Hitler's search for magical
and mystical relics, the Technocracy will be withdrawing
its support and placing it firmly behind the Allies.[22]
April Edit
Astonishing Science Stories publishes "Chapter XX:
Final Gambit" of Doc Eon's adventures, transcribed
by Joe "Lucky Skunk" Ross.[23]
June Edit
June 10: Situation Six joins several mages who arrive on
D-Day.[24]
December Edit
December 21: Jeremy MacNeil launches the Second
Anarch Revolt in Los Angeles. Prince Don Sebastian is
slain in combat with Salvador Garcia
he kumpania returns to Aix-di-Chapelle, where their new
leader Konstantin founds a kind of "de-Nazification"
program among the city's Kindred.[13]
A very large Flock of the Talons of Horus is seen this
year; whether or not this was the Great Flock is unknown.
The Great Flock's last confirmed sighting was in 1349.
[14]
Fleming publishes his English translation of the Kitab al
Alacir.[15]
H.W. Fat's The Song of Fall Breeze is published by Folly
Press.[16]
Ananiya Divraniya bani Flambeau is born.[17]
The newly-exiled Nephandi attack Jupiter's moons,
destroying the Ptolemy (captained byMartin St.
Christopher) and attacking the rest of the Void
Engineer fleet.[18]
The detonation of two atomic bombs over
landmark album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band. Australian Prime Minister Harold
Holt disappears while swimming at Cheviot
Beach, Victoria.
1968: Assassinations of Martin Luther King,
Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy during the Poor
People's Campaign. Prague Spring crushed by
Eastern Bloc military intervention. May 1968
protests in France. The Troubles begin in
Northern Ireland. Tet Offensive occurs in
South Vietnam.
1969: Moon landings. Woodstock festival.
Sino-Soviet border conflict. The Manson
Family Murders. Creation of ARPANET, the
earliest incarnation of the Internet. Muammar
Gaddafi overthrows King Idris of Libya in a
Coup d'etat and establishes the Libyan Arab
Republic. Death of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Stonewall riots in the US instigate the gay
rights movement.
1970s[edit]
1970: Nigerian Civil War ends with the
reintegration of the Republic of Biafra with
Nigeria after ~3 million deaths. Edward Heath
becomes Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom. Polish 1970 protests. Cambodian
Civil War begins. Kent State massacre leaves
four students dead and nine injured. Yemeni
Civil War ends. Ratification of the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty. Containerisation
adopted globally, massively boosting global
trade. Maiden flight of the Boeing 747. Bhola
Cyclone kills 500,000 people in East Pakistan.
Black September in Jordan begins. Death of
the Japanese cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasakidemonstrate the sheer
destruction possible through purely "scientific" means.[5]
[19][20]
The Vietminh independence movement establishes a
capital at Hanoi.[21]
The Fifth Great Maelstrom rushes through
the Shadowlands as a result of the atomic bombs dropped
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the untold numbers
murdered in Europe because of the Holocaust.[22][23]
[24]
The Australian government seeks to capitalize on the end
of the war to increase immigration. The population
booms.[25]
The Malfean Gorool, possibly awakened by the Fifth
Great Maelstrom, attacks Stygia. Charonattacks the
creature and disappears with it into the Tempest. He is not
seen again.[23]
A surgeon and war criminal from the Nazi death camps
escapes Europe and continues his work in South America.
He eventually becomes Thurifurge, the Master of
Stagnation and Lord of
Disease, Maeljin of Lethargg, Urge-Wyrm of Apathy.[26]
Turgiv Bruzov, a famous Gurahl Russian portrait painter,
smuggles six Soul Brush fetishes out of Russia. His
whereabouts are unknown.[27]
Shawda Dorrit is born. [28]
Antonine Teardrop, Homid Philodox Stargazer, is
born. [28]
February Edit
February 17: Alan Turing sends a letter to Roger
Thackery regarding Turing's cracking of the Enigma
code. He realizes he'll be asked to demonstrate how he
did it once the war's over, so he's asked the Sons of
Gamal Abdel Nasser. Anwar Sadat becomes
President of Egypt. Deaths of Jimi Hendrix
and Janis Joplin. Break-up of the Beatles. FLQ
seizes hostages, causing Prime Minister Pierre
Elliot Trudeau of Canada to issue the War
Measures Act
1971: Black September in Jordan ends.
Bangladesh Liberation War ends in
independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan
and precipitates Third Indo-Pakistani War.
Internment begins in Northern Ireland.
Invention of the microchip. Idi Amin seizes
power in Uganda. Completion of the World
Trade Center (North tower). Joseph Mobutu
renames The Republic of the Congo Zaire.
Greenpeace founded. COINTELPRO officially
ends.
1972: Northern Ireland's Bloody Sunday. First
Sudanese Civil War ends. Martial law declared
in the Philippines by President Ferdinand E.
Marcos. Munich massacre occurs at the 1972
Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1973: 1973 Chilean coup d'etat. Yom Kippur
War, Beginning of the Watergate scandal. First
space station, Skylab, is launched. The
Supreme Court of the United States decides
Roe v. Wade. Death of Pablo Picasso. First
close-up images of Jupiter. The Sears Tower is
completed.
1974: Turkish occupation of Cyprus. Carnation
Revolution in Portugal begins transition to
democracy. Emperor Haile Selassie I of
Ethiopia is overthrown in a military coup. First
close-up images of Mercury. Discovery of
Ether to construct a primitive version of one of their
computers to use, knowing it will be dissected and
copied. Turing also contemplates Virtual Reality and the
potential of intelligent machines, which he realizes may
anger the other Conventions, so urges the idea be kept
secret for as long as possible.[29]
March Edit
The Perfect State is adopted by anarchs in California and
the Anarch Free State is formed.[citation needed]
May Edit
May 6: Situation Six kills several Nephandi in the ruins
of the Reichstag.[30]
June Edit
June 11: Situation Six captures Dr. Alois Richter and
three other mages.[30]
July Edit
July 16: The United States of America drops the first
atomic bomb outside Alamorgordo, New Mexico.[8][31]
August Edit
August 6: An atomic weapon is dropped on the city
of Hiroshima.[8]
August 9: A second atomic weapon is dropped on the city
of Nagasaki.[8]
August 10: Jade Scorpion, a Howl of the Devil-
Tiger awakes near Nagasaki. She tries to feed
on tainted Chi and experience Den. She deals with Yama
Kings and creates the hereticalScorpion
Eater Dharma. [32]
August 14: Japan's Emperor Hirohito offers the Allies an
unconditional surrender
1946 The 35th official meeting of the Camarilla's Inner
Circle.[citation needed]
The Children of Gaia in Russia begin attempting to
prevent the Soviet government from developing atomic
"Lucy" (Australopithecus afarensis) in
Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge. World population
reaches 4 billion. Resignation of Richard
Nixon.
1975: The Fall of Saigon ends the Vietnam
War. Death of Francisco Franco; Juan Carlos I
becomes King of Spain. Haile Selassie I dies in
mysterious circumstances. Dmitri
Shostakovich dies. Cambodian Civil War ends
with victory for the Khmer Rouge. The Killing
Fields murders begin. First Cricket World Cup
hosted.
1976: First outbreak of the Ebola virus. Death
of Mao Zedong. End of Cultural Revolution.
Steve Wozniak invented the Apple I and Steve
Jobs then convinced Wozniak to sell the
system, giving birth to Apple Computer.
Church Committee.
1977: Introduction of the first mass-produced
personal computers. Launch of the Voyager
spacecraft, currently the most distant man-
made objects in the universe. Queen Alia of
Jordan is killed in helicopter crash. Deaths of
Elvis Presley and Charlie Chaplin. Tenerife
disaster marks the deadliest accident in
aviation history. Shaba I conflict involves
Safari Club.
1978: Invention of artificial insulin. Discovery
of Pluto's moon Charon. Independence of
Tuvalu. Jim Jones's New religious movement
The Peoples Temple ends in the organized
mass killing and suicide of 920 people. Birth
of the first test-tube baby. Cambodian-
Vietnamese War begins. Uganda–Tanzania War
weapons.[1]
British Get of Fenris Ahroun Gordon Kent begins his
quest to restore the good name of his tribe by hunting
down any Get of Fenris that had been involved in the
Third Reich.[2]
The infamous Samuel Haight is born this year to
a Garou father and Kinfolk mother in Wyoming.[3]
Akrites Salonikas' My Travels North is published
by Sipristi Press.[4]
Jermyn Talbot takes a position as instructor of Greek at
the School of St. Anne-on-the-Hill,Oxford, England.[5]
A spirit of rebirth pervades the Traditions after years of
war. Reconciliation Day is instituted. The Sons of
Ether play a role in bringing the fractured Traditions back
into harmony followingWorld War II.[6][7]
The Traditions/Technocracy alliance used to defeat
the Nephandi is dissolved and disavowed.[6]
Dr. Paulinus Mercer dies during a special performance
at Victoria Station.[8]
The declaration of war is nullified by
the Thai government and the US State Department,
recognizing Thailand as a neutral party in the war.[9]
Aline Levesque is born.[10]
Doctor Mondial goes missing.[11]
Bugsy Siegel arrives in Las Vegas.[12]
June Edit
June 13: In their last official joint action,
the Traditions/Technocracy Wewelsberg Tribunaljudges
and executes Awakened war criminals, and gives the
tainted Node at Dachau to theConsanguinity of Eternal
Joy for stewardship.[13][14][11]
July Edit
A riot in Hollister, California brings a motorcycle gang
calling themselves "Pissed-Off Bastards of Bloomington"
begins. War in Afghanistan (1978–present)
begins. Deng Xiaoping commences Economic
reform in the People's Republic of China.
Spanish transition to democracy is completed.
John Paul I and then John Paul II become
Pope.
1979: Smallpox eradicated. Soviet–Afghan
War begins. Rhodesian Bush War ends. Iranian
Revolution and Iran hostage crisis. Shah Reza
Pahlavi forced into exile. Arrival of Pope John
Paul II in Poland, eventually sparking the
Solidarity movement. First close-up images of
Saturn. Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom.
Implementation of China's One child policy.
Uganda–Tanzania War ends with defeat for
Uganda and the exile of Idi Amin. Cambodian-
Vietnamese War ends with the overthrow of
Cambodia's Khmer Rouge regime. 1.7 million
people known to have been murdered in The
Killing Fields. Sino-Vietnamese War.
Nicaraguan Revolution. Central Treaty
Organization dissolved.
1980s[edit]
1980: Independence of Rhodesia, which
becomes Zimbabwe. Independence of Vanuatu.
Ronald Reagan is elected President of the
United States. 1980 eruption of Mount St.
Helens. Queen Beatrix becomes monarch of
the Netherlands. Beginning of the Iran–Iraq
War, Salvadorian Civil War and Contra War.
Assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar
Romero. Disappearance and death of Azaria
Chamberlain. Solidarity union forms at
to national attention. The media attention gives them so
many new members, they change their name to the Hell's
Angels.[15]
August Edit
Tom "Laughing Eagle" Smithson escapes the Null-
B Construct.[16]
October Edit
Magadon Limited is founded by Bryant
Vandegrift (freshly retired from the Army)
in Trenton,New Jersey.[17]
December Edit
December 26: Bugsy Siegel opens the Flamingo Casino.
1947 1947-1969: The US Air Force investigates incidents
of UFOs as a potential threat to national security.[1]
A partnership between Pentex Incorporated and
the Sabbatforms, placing Harold Zettler on the board of
directors. He will eventually become the Division director
of the Special Projects Division (SPD), which includes
such projects as Project Iliad andProject Odyssey.[2][3]
[4]
The Nagda-Rackbur War of the Khan begins this year.
The conflict between Lord Rackbur and Sultan Amir
Nagda will decimate the tiger-shifters.[5][6]
Quabbas' The March of Nine is published by Collegium
Press.[7]
Rumours insist that Aleister Crowley is killed by
the Virtual Adepts or New World Orderagents, but
nothing is proven.[8][9]
Elron Saine bani Thig creates Elron's Umbrood Protocol
Schematic and Incantation Mentor.[10]
A Void Engineer spacecraft crashes in Roswell, New
Mexico. The event proves disastrous to the Technocracy.
[11][12][13] Cover-ups by the Void Engineers and New
World Order keep the truth from the public, but sparks a
Poland's Gdansk Shipyard under Lech Walesa,
and begins agitation for greater personal
freedoms. Death of John Lennon.
1981: Independence of Palau. First orbital
flight of the Space Shuttle. Wedding of
Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana
Spencer. Assassination of Anwar Sadat.
Launch of MTV. Iran releases the 52 U.S.
hostages held in Tehran after 444 days.
President Reagan and three others were injured
after an assassination attempt.
1982: Death of Leonid Brezhnev; Yuri
Andropov becomes leader of the Soviet Union.
First Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Falklands
War. Hama massacre in Syria leads to more
than 10,000 deaths. First execution by Lethal
injection takes place in Texas. Sony releases
the world's first commercially sold CD Player,
the Sony CDP-101. Princess Grace of Monaco
dies following a car accident.
1983: GPS development declassified following
the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
Independence of Brunei. End of dictatorship in
Argentina. Second Sudanese Civil War begins.
Invasion of Grenada by the United States.
Bombing of U.S. Embassy in Beirut. The 1983
Beirut barracks bombing results in the deaths
of 307 people, hastening the removal of
international peacekeeping forces in Lebanon.
1984: The human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) is recognized as the cause of
HIV/AIDS, and research on zidovudine and
other treatments gets underway. Death of Yuri
Andropov; Konstantin Chernenko becomes
UFO craze that persists through the rest of the century.
[14]
Alan Turing proposes the idea of a Virtual Reality, a
mirror to reality entirely within computers. The concept
circumvents the careful planning of the Time Table.[11]
[15]
British India is split into Hindu India and
Muslim Pakistan.[16]
The Feng Tak Commerce Bank is founded in Hong Kong.
[17]
The "Sleepytown" detainment camp completes its
transformation into an idealized small town drenched in
1950's Americana.[18][19][20]
Timothy Washington is born.[21]
Congress votes to rename the Boulder Dam in honour of
President Herbert Hoover.[22]
Dougal Mountain-Speaker and his pack revitalizes and
reclaims a lost Uktena caern on Grandfather Mountain in
Appalachia.[23]
June Edit
Joe "Lucky Skunk" Ross chronicles "The Moons of
Madness" for this month's Astonishing Science Stories,
including a particularly spectacular (mis-)use of Doc
Eon's Time Watch. This may the first appearance
of Wrinkle, who drags the Carmine Countessa into
nothingness.[24]
June 20: Bugsy Siegel is killed in his living room,
sustaining nine gunshots wounds.[25]
July Edit
From this time until December 1969, the US Air Force
open Project Blue Book, with the purpose of tracking
claims of UFOs and attempting to ascertain their veracity.
[26]
September Edit
Premier of the Soviet Union. Beginning of the
1983–85 famine in Ethiopia and the 1984-85
UK miners' strike. Sino-British Joint
Declaration agrees to hand Hong Kong back to
China by 1997. Assassination of Indira
Gandhi.
1985: End of 1982 Lebanon War. Live Aid.
Death of Konstantin Chernenko; Mikhail
Gorbachev becomes Premier of the Soviet
Union. First use of DNA fingerprinting. End of
military leadership in Brazil.
1986: Challenger and Chernobyl disasters.
South Yemen Civil War. Launch of the space
station Mir. First close up images of the planet
Uranus. Return of Halley's Comet. End of
dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the
Philippines. Iran-Contra becomes public.
Assassination of Olof Palme.
1987: Stock market crash of 1987. First
Intifada between Israel and Palestine begins.
World population reaches 5 billion. The
antidepressant drug Prozac becomes
commercially available.
1988: Perestroika begins. End of the Iran–Iraq
War. End of dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet
in Chile. Pan Am Flight 103 falls over
Lockerbie, Scotland. Myanmar Armed Forces
launch a military coup. Construction of the
Channel Tunnel begins. George HW Bush is
elected President of the United States.
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall; 1989 revolution
and collapse of the Soviet Bloc in Europe.
Tiananmen Square Massacre in China. End of
Soviet–Afghan War. End of dictatorship in
September 19: Jared Thorpe of Iteration X reports
to Control that he has infiltrated severalVirtual
Adept meetings, and finds Alan Turing's ideas of Virtual
Reality to be dangerous. The Adepts have also been in
contact with the Sons of Ether. Thorpe doesn't know what
the Adepts are up to, but it seems subversive.[27][28]
October Edit
October 14: Pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
in a Bell X-1 rocket plane
1948 Jermyn Talbot gains his Ph.D. in Linguistics at
Oxford University, Oxford, England.[1]
An Eighth Degree Aeon devotee joins the Sons of
Tertullain, sparking a war that lasts for years, and
reducing the Order's membership to a mere 10 magicians.
[2]
The first president of the Republic of Korea, Lee Seung
Man, is elected.[3]
Deguchi Onisaburo dies.[4]
Butch Levi is born.[5]
1949 Kolya Blood-of-Iron (Homid, Galliard, Silver
Fangs) is born inSaint Petersburg; he will eventually
become a mighty warrior and Master of the Rite before
being badly wounded in the attack of the Aral Sea
Caern in 1996.[1]
Dougal Mountain-Speaker, Homid Theurge of
the Fiannadiscovers a lost caern of the Uktena on
Grandfather Mountain; his pack soon participates in
the rite to revitalize and reclaim the caern. He will
eventually become Sept Leader for the Sept of the
Grandfather, and then its Warder.[2]
Founding of Israel. Sarah Rasheeda Ben-
Fasil, Homid TheurgeChild of Gaia is born shortly
afterwards.[3]
The summer issue of Paradigma includes a note from
Paraguay and first direct Presidential election
in Brazil since 1960. Death of Emperor
Hirohito, his son Akihito becomes Emperor of
Japan. Fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie.
Exxon Valdez oil spill. First close up pictures
of Neptune. First Liberian Civil War begins.
Death of Salvador Dali.
1990s[edit]
1990: Sir Tim Berners-Lee invents the World
Wide Web. John Major becomes Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom. German
reunification. Launch of the Hubble Space
Telescope. Gulf War begins. Contra War ends.
Myanmar Armed Forces place Aung San Suu
Kyi under house arrest. North and South
Yemen unify to form the Republic of Yemen.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change releases its first assessment report,
linking increases in carbon dioxide in the
Earth's atmosphere, and resultant rise in global
temperature, to human activities.
1991: Gulf War ends in US withdrawal and
failed uprising. Dissolution of the Soviet
Union and independence of 15 former Soviet
republics. Boris Yeltsin becomes the first
President of the Russian Federation. Ten-Day
War in Slovenia begins the Yugoslav Wars.
Beginning of the Somali, Sierra Leonian and
Algerian Civil Wars. The first Website is put
online and made available to the public. Final
end of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
1992: Maastricht Treaty creates the European
Union. Bill Clinton is elected President of the
United States. End of dictatorship in Albania
Professor Van Baas regarding Iteration X[4], as well as a
note from Professor Equator about werewolves.[5]
The Communists' popular support allows them to expel
their rivals. Their takeover of Chinacauses many Triad
members to depart to Hong Kong and the United States
of America.[6][7]
Jarmyn Talbot ends his work as Instructor of Greek and
Latin at the School of St. Anne-on-the-Hill
(Oxford, England). He joins
the Arcanum's London Chapter House, becoming a
Journeyman.[8]
Professor Donald Richardson destroys the consensus of
the Collegium of History by becoming the foremost
advocate of "spiritual ancestry" for the New World Order.
[9]
Dr. Charles Reid begins nurturing promising students
toward involvement with theProgenitors.[10]
The New Zealand government passes a law requiring a
permit to set foot on Kapiti Island.[11]
August Edit
August 29: The Soviet Union detonates an atomic bomb
in Kazakhstan, horrifying the nativeGarou. Overcome
with Rage, the Red Talons blame the Children of
Gaia (who had been trying to foil the nuclear efforts
through subtle and political means, and obviously failed)
and turn on them. The Silver Fangs do nothing to stop the
bloody designs of Griffin's tribe, perhaps still bitter over
the poor advice of the Children of Gaia in the battle
of 1917 that led to defeat at the talons of
the Zmei Shazear. The Children of Gaia will suffer grave
casualties and will be forced to go into hiding; officially
they are in exile from this point onward. (Note: The
massacre of Children of Gaia may have taken some time
to gain steam; refer to year 1956 for another potential
and South Korea. End of Salvadorian Civil
War. Bosnian War begins. Los Angeles riots
over the acquittal of those involved in the
beating of Rodney King.
1993: Velvet divorce between Czech Republic
and Slovakia. Independence of Eritrea. Oslo
accords end First Intifada between Israel and
Palestine. 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The Waco siege ends after a 51-day standoff,
leaving 86 people dead.
1994: End of apartheid in South Africa and
election of Nelson Mandela. Establishment of
NAFTA. Cave of the Patriarchs massacre. First
Chechen War begins. 1994 civil war in Yemen.
Assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana and
Cyprien Ntaryamira triggers the Rwandan
genocide. Opening of the Channel Tunnel.
Death of Kim Il-sung. Kim Jong-Il becomes
Supreme Leader of North Korea. Death of
Kurt Cobain.
1995: Establishment of the World Trade
Organization. American terrorist Timothy
McVeigh bombs the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City. Srebrenica
massacre. NATO bombing raids in Bosnia end
the Bosnian War; Dayton Accords signed.
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. North Korean
famine begins. Third Taiwan Strait Crisis
begins. Austria, Finland and Sweden join the
European Union.
1996: First Congo War begins. Third Taiwan
Strait Crisis ends. First Chechen War ends.
First Liberian Civil War ends. End of
dictatorship in Taiwan. Dolly the sheep
date when this all occurred.) [12]
1950 Bruno Giovanni helps a politician
from Massachusetts with his campaign.[1]
Shukri Lightning-on-the-Dunes returns from his
disappearance in 1943, claiming enlightenment and
considerably aged by whatever ordeal he went through.
[2]
The Red Talon Galliard known as Tundra Runner is born
this year; presumably he was born in the earlier part of
the year (January through March or even April), as that is
when gray wolves are born. He will eventually become
leader of the Red Talons of Russia.[3][4]
By this year, Magadon Limited has five research
contracts with the US Army and one with the United
Nations, with construction beginning on a new research
facility in West Virginia.[5]
An 1890 Electrodyne Engineer prediction gives a 100%
probability of the existence of self-powered high-
explosive bombs by this year.[6]
The Red Army invades Tibet and crushes its army.[7]
North Korea invades South Korea.[7]
Kannagara Jou Shan comes out of seclusion, uniting
the Akashayana under the goal of spreading its teachings
to the West.[8]
Nu Ying, Raging Eagle, is born.[9]
Around this year, Iteration X considers the Ascension
War to be over. "Once you introduce the idea of the flying
car to the Masses, it's really all over."[10]
December Edit
December 12: The Syndicate sends a message to Alan
Turing warning him to stop his "virtual reality" project, as
they consider it dangerous. They warn Turing that they
possess compromising photographs of him with another
man, which could damage his position with the British
becomes the first successful cloned mammal.
The Taliban government takes control of
Afghanistan. Port Arthur massacre leaves 35
people dead, leading to tighter gun regulations
in Australia. Nepalese Civil War begins.
1997: Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom. Transfer of sovereignty
over Hong Kong from UK to China. Lottery
Uprising in Albania. Kabila ousts Mobutu:
Zaire becomes the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Diana, Princess of Wales is killed in a
car accident in Paris. Sound barrier broken on
land.
1998: Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa
against the West. Kenya and Tanzania
bombings. Google is founded by Larry Page
and Sergey Brin. Second Congo War begins.
Good Friday Agreement brings an end to The
Troubles in Northern Ireland. North Korean
famine kills an estimated 2.5 million people by
this point. Death of Frank Sinatra.
1999: Euro is introduced. Kosovo War ends the
Yugoslav Wars. Islamist insurgency in Nigeria
begins. Hugo Chavez becomes President of
Venezuela. Second Chechen War and Second
Liberian Civil War begin. Fourth Indo-
Pakistani War. Crisis in East Timor leads to
1400 deaths. Columbine High School massacre
in Colorado, USA. World population reaches 6
billion.
21st century[edit]
2000s[edit]
2000: 3rd millennium celebrations. End of
Israeli occupation of Lebanon. Second Intifada
government. Once he ceases work, they will mail him all
copies of the photos.
Mid 1900s Edit
The Holocaust nearly decimates the Chevra Kedisha.[26]
The Technocratic Union becomes increasingly
paternalistic.[27]
The Staussen Academy is in a state of terrible decline.
[28]
Late 1900sEdit
By late this century, the Kopa Loei have almost died out
entirely.[29]
Senex forbids access to Pluto's Shard Realm.[30]
The Verbena, in the ashes of World War II and the Rune
War, find themselves rejuvenated.[31]
2000-2100: The Age of Aquarius arrives at some point
during this period.[1]
The ghoul Dr. Nancy Reage is Embraced by her domitor,
theMalkavian Dr. Douglas Netchurch.[2]
The Stargazers formally secede from the Garou Nation to
join the Beast Courts.[3][4]
Garou elders admit that the Sixth Sign of the Prophecy of
the Phoenix has come to pass, and that the Seventh is
surely nigh.[4]
An Umbral maelstrom sweeps through Ta-tchesert,
the Silent Striders Tribal homeland, scattering its few
inhabitants to the four winds. This includes Natifa Wheel-
Dreamer andSekhet Wheel-Dancer,
but Wepauwet remains.[5]
During the summer, Medusa, one of the Gorgons and
great ancestor spirits of the Black Furies disappears
without explanation. Also around this time, some Black
begins. George W. Bush is elected President of
the United States. Vicente Fox becomes the
first opposition President of Mexico. Vladimir
Putin becomes President of Russia. British
Army launch Operation Palliser which
effectively ends the Sierra Leone Civil War.
International Space Station begins operations.
First Inter-Korean Summit. al-Qaeda suicide
bombs the USS Cole.
2001: September 11 attacks: Terrorists destroy
the World Trade Center in New York City,
damage The Pentagon in Washington, DC.
Massive earthquakes hit the western state of
Gujarat, India, leaving at least 30,000 dead.
War on Terror declared. Afghan War begins.
Wikipedia founded. African Union founded.
During economic crisis in Argentina
government effectively froze all bank accounts
for twelve months which led to riots and
President de la Rua's resignation from office.
President Joseph Estrada of the Philippines
impeached.
2002: 2002 Bali bombings. Riots and mass
killings in the Indian state of Gujarat leave
1044 dead. Chechen rebels seize theatre in
Moscow. America demands Iraq allow
unfettered access to weapons inspectors.
Guantanamo Bay detention camp is
established. Algerian Civil War ends. Beltway
sniper attacks. Rose Revolution in Georgia.
Independence of East Timor.
2003: Iraq War begins, triggering worldwide
protests. War in Darfur begins. The Human
Genome Project is completed. Second Congo
Furies begin to suffer from the Metamorphic Plague, a
sort of "Wyld disease."[6]
Copper mine blasting in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
stirs up Thunderwyrm-like creatures,
which Garou destroy.[7]
Weaver Device “Conundrum” is released, called
“Mechagodzilla 2000” by Warez e-zine.[8] Its creator
seems to have used a Godel (Paradox-spirit) to make
it. [9]
The 45th meeting of the Technocratic Union's Inner
Circle, advancing the Time Table.[10][11]
The Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia.[12]
Macau is returned to the control of China.[13]
The Akashayana and Wu Lung agree to an alliance to
defeat the Technocracy and preserve their remaining
strongholds in China and Tibet. Arranged marriages are
introduced between Akashics such as the Vajrapani and
the Wu Lung in service of the Thousand-Tiger Lord.[14]
The Sam Chin Ak, the pact binding the Wu-Keng to
Infernal service, ends, supposedly. The demons, however,
claim the Chou yan have broken the agreement.[15][16]
The membership of House Hong Lei has doubled since
its inception.[17][18]
The Knights Templar are split over their direction.
Several dozen reunited with the Celestial Chorus.[19]
Kaduna Christians protest when the government
considers selective implementation of the Sharia legal
code on behalf of its Muslim majority.[20]
The vast majority of Iterators before this year have or
had Digital Enhancement Implants, but the number
begins to drop sharply to between 50 and 60%.[21]
The Macrotehnicians are founded as
a Methodology of Iteration X.[22]
Evelyn Kinsella is courted by several cabals, but she ends
War ends with more than 5 million dead.
Second Liberian Civil War ends. Space Shuttle
Columbia is destroyed on re-entry.
2004: Enlargement of NATO and the European
Union incorporates most of former Eastern
Bloc. Union of South American Nations
formed. Madrid train bombings. Orange
Revolution in Ukraine. Beslan school hostage
crisis. Boxing Day Tsunami occurs in Indian
Ocean, leading to the deaths of 230,000. Death
of Ronald Reagan and Yasser Arafat.
2005: IRA end military campaign in Northern
Ireland. 7/7 attacks on London Underground.
Angela Merkel becomes Germany's first
woman Chancellor. Tulip Revolution in
Kyrgyzstan. Second Intifada ends. Israel
withdraws from Gaza. Cedar Revolution in
Lebanon triggered by the Assassination of
Rafic Hariri. Second Sudanese Civil War ends.
Hurricane Katrina kills nearly 2000 people in
the Gulf of Mexico. 80,000 are killed in an
earthquake in Kashmir. The Kyoto Protocol
comes into effect. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
becomes President of Iran. Death of Pope John
Paul II; Benedict XVI becomes Pope. Mike
Brown discovers Eris.
2006: Independence of Montenegro. 2006
Lebanon War. Mumbai bombings.
Comprehensive Peace Accord ends the
Nepalese Civil War. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
becomes President of Liberia, and thus Africa's
first elected female head of state. The
International Astronomical Union creates the
first formal definition of a planet, and excludes
up picking Truce Singh as her sole partner.[23]
Suchart Ransinbrahmanikul joins the Political Triage
International cabal.[24]
The Creepshow opens in Las Vegas.[25]
A bad year to be a kahuna in Hawai'i, as
the Technocracy steps up its Pogrom against Crafts.[26]
Towards the end of the year, cases of acheri are reported
by the Traditions less frequently as the Traditions focus
their attention on other matters.[27]
House Skopos, a tiny group within the Order of
Hermes dedicated to quantum reality, is founded by Spiro
Hatzis.[18]
The Children of Knowledge accept the Order of Hermes'
offer of membership, and join asHouse Solificati.[28]
The Shadow Curtain surrounding Russia collapses.[29]
Paradigma Volume 95, Issue 1 contains a Practical Guide
to the Kitab al-Alacir.[30]
Hunter-net is breached twice by monsters. Both were let
on by the Messengers to tell theImbued about the walking
dead, after which they were both removed by the
Messengers.[31]
John O'Malley is killed by a risen at a train station.
[citation needed]
January Edit
The Karmapa Lama flees Tibet for Dharamsala.[32]
January 1: By this point the Dies Ultimae camp of
the Glass Walkers properly forms, having created the
camp's handbook and several packs based around the
concept.[33]
Some of humanity expects the Apocalypse on this date.
[34] Some members of Iteration X are miffed that
humanity didn't all decide to become Iterators.[35]
Ernesto C. Amanguale attends a New Year's party with
Pluto from the list. Execution of Saddam
Hussein. The Baiji, the Yangtze river dolphin,
becomes functionally extinct.
2007: Anti-government protests in Myanmar
crushed by ruling junta. Spike in food prices
and subprime crisis help trigger global
recession. Assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
2008: Stock markets plunge around the world.
End of Monarchy in Nepal. Barack Obama is
elected President of the United States. Cyclone
Nargis kills 133,000 in Myanmar. Gaza War
begins. 2008 South Ossetia war. Kosovo
declares independence, to mixed reaction.
Battle of Basra - Iraqi forces crack down on
Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi forces in Basra and
Sadr City. 2008 Mumbai attacks. The Large
Hadron Collider is completed as the world's
largest and most powerful particle collider.
2009: Gaza War ends; Gaza blockade
continues. Sri Lankan Civil War ends. Election
protests begin in Iran. Second Chechen War
ends. Boko Haram rebellion begins in Nigeria.
Death of Michael Jackson. Burj Khalifa in
Dubai, the world's tallest skyscraper, is
completed. Great Recession officially ends.
Formation of BRICS economic bloc. Treaty of
Lisbon ratified.
2010s[edit]
2010: David Cameron becomes Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom. Benigno Aquino III is
elected as the 15th President of the Philippines.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills
230,000. The threat of Greece defaulting on its
debts triggers the European sovereign debt
other members of his Tradition.[36]Bernhardt "Doctor
Comet" Mueller disappears from the party, having
projected himself forward in time to the end of the world.
[37]
January 4: The Nephite Priesthood meets in Salt Lake
City. No one's sure exactly what happens, but the entire
Priesthood is eradicated, save for Elder Jedidiah Baker.
[38][39][40][41]
January 8: Richard Holt sends a message to his ex-
wife Hannah to describe how their daughter is near death
despite being very responsible with drug use.[42]
January 21: Ishaq bani Quaesitor officially announces
that the Quaesitori have declared aWizards'
March against House Tremere, thus beginning
the Second Massasa War.[43]
February Edit
February 12: A "Hazuko" sends a communique to "Niles"
regarding the uncertainty withextradimensional matters,
now that the Dimensional Storm has erected a barrier, and
severalDeep Universe outposts are out of contact.[44]
March Edit
Dr. Angela Hernandez is promoted to Field Director of
Midwestern North America.[45]
August Edit
Japan's Mount Oyama erupts, forcing the evacuation of
the inhabitants of the island, including the Void
Engineers of Oyama Station. Virtual
Adepts and Ecstatics sweep in and take over.[46]
The Aladdin Resort and Casino opens in Las Vegas.[47]
This issue of Paradigma is the last to receive full
circulation, and contains a call for a coherent and unified
terminology to be used in describing Etheric studies.
[48] Paradigma's Paris offices are destroyed.[49]
October Edit
crisis and Ireland's financial crisis. The largest
oil spill in US history occurs in the Gulf of
Mexico. North Korea shells the island of
Yeonpyeong. Aung San Suu Kyi is released
from house arrest. 2010 Moscow Metro
bombings. Arab Spring triggered by self-
immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi on
December 17, 2010 in Tunisia. 2010
Kyrgyzstani revolution. 2010 Nigerien coup
d'etat. 10 April the President of Poland, Lech
Kaczynski, is among 96 killed when their
airplane crashes in Smolensk. The Burj Khalifa
located in Dubai opened to the public and
stood as the tallest structure in the world,
standing at 829.8 m (2,722 ft).
2011: Independence of South Sudan. Arab
Spring: revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and
Libya follow, as well as uprisings in Yemen
and Bahrain, and protests in several other Arab
countries. Syrian civil war begins. Occupy
movement inspires worldwide protests. News
International phone hacking scandal. A 9.0
earthquake in Japan triggers a tsunami and the
meltdown of the Fukushima Nuclear Power
Plant. Second Ivorian Civil War ends with the
arrest of former president Laurent Gbagbo.
Deaths of Osama bin Laden, Muammar
Gaddafi, and Kim Jong-Il. Iraq War ends. Riots
flare across England. Bombings occur In
Russia and Somalia. World population reaches
7 billion. Floods in Pakistan, Thailand and the
Philippines kill roughly 2500 people. Death of
Steve Jobs.
2012: Northern Mali conflict, the MNLA
October 20: A report is made regarding the Avatar Storm.
[50]
October 23: Newly-Awakened Virtual Adept Catherine
Calvert sends an email to fellow AdeptLars Anywhere,
commenting on his introductory files about mage life.[51]
October 31: Chorister Bob
Templeton meets Euthanatos Ziggy Pulanski in Sal's to
discussParadox. After a rude object lesson, Pulanski
leaves.[52]
November Edit
In early November, the Fourth Battle of Tara occurs; a
large assault of Black Spiral Dancersattacks the Silver
Tara of the Fianna, who manage to repel the attack.[53]
November 23: Chorister Bob
Templeton meets Euthanatos Ziggy Pulanski in Sal's to
discuss the theory and practice of Paradox.[54]
December Edit
A group of Czech Nephandi discover that the Realm of
their unholy patron has drifted, as though the result of
a great shockwave.[55]
December 25: Chorister Bob
Templeton meets Euthanatos Ziggy Pulanski in Sal's to
discuss different Tradition theories on Paradox.[56]
December 31: Chorister Bob
Templeton meets Euthanatos Ziggy Pulanski in Sal's to
discuss different methods on tricking Paradox.[57]
2001 The Kuei-jin Ming-Xiao arrives in Los
Angeles' Chinatown. Tong activities increase at the same
time.[1]
Future literary master Kaji Hanako is a high school
student.[2]
Many Kahin invade the ruins of Petra, recapturing it from
thevampire who had been living there.[3]
Dreamspeaker Safia Phiri's paper "An Examination of
declares Azawad an independent state. Yemeni
President Ali Abdullah Saleh steps down. 2012
Benghazi attack leads to the death of US
ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. The Higgs
boson is discovered. Hurricane Sandy kills 209
people in North America, while Typhoon
Bopha kills over 1,600 in the Philippines.
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first
person to break the sound barrier without a
vehicle. Conflict begins in the Central African
Republic. UN Climate Change Conference
agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol until 2020.
Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense
against the Palestinian-governed Gaza Strip.
2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'etat.
2013: The French military intervenes in the
Northern Mali conflict. Chelyabinsk meteor.
Pope Benedict XVI resigns and Pope Francis
becomes Pope. Terrorist attacks occur in
Boston and Nairobi. The Rana Plaza collapses
in Bangladesh. Edward Snowden releases
classified documents concerning mass
surveillance by the NSA. President of Egypt
Mohamed Morsi is deposed by the military in
a coup d'etat. Croatia becomes a member of the
European Union. The Euromaidan protest
begins in Ukraine. A chemical attack in
Ghouta, Syria is blamed on President Bashar
al-Assad. Typhoon Haiyan kills nearly 6150
people in the Philippines and Vietnam. Deaths
of Hugo Chavez, Nelson Mandela and
Margaret Thatcher. Conflict begins in South
Sudan. Uruguay becomes the first country to
fully legalise cannabis. End of 2012–2013
Modern Mysticism" is due to be published by Baruti
Press late this year.[4]
Project Stormwarden, an effort to break through
the Avatar Storm, is started.[5]
At the end of the year, Astraea nears Aquarius.[6]
Late this year, Fitzgeralds Hotel and Casino is purchased
by Majestic Investor.[7]
In the summer, an outbreak of nightmares occurs among
children of Indian immigrants living in Raleigh-
Durham, North Carolina.[8]
House Janissary is wiped out during
the Second Massasa War.[9]
The Ngoma join the Order of Hermes as House Ngoma.
[9]
House Xaos, a neo-Discordian group, is founded
by Kallisti from the remnants of House Thig.[9]
On her birthday, Niki Yemana and some other radical
mages remove an oil spill from the Indian Ocean by
causing it to rain over the owner of the responsible oil
company on his home in Texas. The Paradox
Backlash nearly kills her entire cabal.[10]
The New Horizon Council meets in Los Angeles to trap
the Nephandi, and decimate Jodi Blake's minions. They
use the success to unite the Traditions.[11][12]
Lord Edward Gilmore is the last to leave Concordia, at
which point every path into Horizonbecomes
impenetrable.[13]
February Edit
February 23: Paradigma staff Lynette Anselm sends a
note to Dr. Robert Goldfarb, about howodd she feels
having just returned from an interdimensional clinic.[14]
April Edit
April 7: Evelyn Kinsella and Truce Singh hang out in
some redwoods. Singh claims it's a place he can "cope
Cypriot financial crisis.
2014: The worst Ebola virus epidemic in
recorded history begins in West Africa, to date
infecting more than 20,000 people and killing
more than 7,000. Euromaidan protest in
Ukraine sparks a revolution and the overthrow
of Viktor Yanukovych, leading to Russia's
annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbass.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and Indonesia
AirAsia Flight 8501 disappear mid-flight,
while Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down
over Ukraine and Air Algerie Flight 5017
crashes in Mali. A coup d'etat in Thailand
overthrows the caretaker government. King
Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates; his son
becomes King Felipe VI. Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan kill over 130 students in Pakistan.
Israel launches an assault on the Gaza Strip in
response to tit-for-tat murder-kidnappings,
leading to the deaths of 71 Israelis and 2100
Palestinians. ISIS begins its offensive in
northern Iraq, leading to intervention in Iraq
and Syria by a US-led coalition. Second
Libyan Civil War begins. The Rosetta
spacecraft's Philae probe becomes the first to
successfully land on a comet.
2015: Five former Soviet countries form the
Eurasian Economic Union. Charlie Hebdo
shooting in Paris. Boko Haram perpetrates a
massacre of over 2000 people in Baga,
Nigeria, and allies itself with ISIS. Al-Shabaab
perpetrates a a mass shooting in Kenya, killing
148. Houthis overthrow the government in
Yemen, triggering a military response by Saudi
with" to avoid Jhor, but Kinsella knows there's no such
place on Earth.[15]
April 8: Evelyn Kinsella and Truce Singh give the good
death to Jim Houle, a child molester.[16]
April 9: Evelyn Kinsella and Truce Singh ferry Janine
Houle and her three captive children to some Choristers.
[16]
April 19: New Iterator William Albacastle makes a
contribution to Iteration X's historical archives.[17]
May Edit
May 22: Mortal scientists detect new planetary body in
the solar system, distinctly red in colour, which they
dub 2001 KX76.[6]
June Edit
June 8: Chorister Cam Trinh of Grand
Rapids, Michigan writes about his Awakening.[18]
August Edit
August 17: Armature Harlan Gandt has been parsing
the Balt decryption and has discovered the email
exchanges between Balt and Xadreque Machado.[19] He
immediately reports the exchange to Comptroller Lisa
Chatham, who congratulates him on his loyalty and
orders him to report to Personnel for psychological
excision and intellectual reformation.[20] She
ordersJason Wells to destroy Gandt's office and to have
him tailed to Personnel just in case.[21]
October Edit
The Get of Fenris destroy the Swords of Heimdall, Thule
Society and Asatru Futhark.[
2002 is the Year of the Damned.
Events Edit
The call is made for the Great Council of Uktena.[1]
Mysterious communiques spread to mages, carrying the
mark of the Sphinx. The transmissions praise cabals who
Arabia. A series of earthquakes in the
Himalayas kills over 10,000 people. ISIS
claims responsibility for the Kobani massacre
in Syria, the Sousse attacks in Tunisia, a
mosque bombing in Kuwait, the Suruc
bombing in Turkey, multiple bombings in both
Beirut and Paris, and inspires a shooting in San
Bernardino, California. Turkey and Russia
intervene in the Syrian Civil War. The heads of
China and Taiwan meet for the first time, while
the United States and Cuba resume diplomatic
relations. 195 nations agree to lower carbon
emissions. Liquid water is found on Mars. First
close-up images of Ceres and Pluto.
fight theTechnocracy and admonish those who don't. The
unknown authors come to be called the Rogue Council.
[2]
President Bush and Congress green-light a radioactive
waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain northwest of Las
Vegas.[3]
During an eclipse late this year, Laklebb manifests
physically for the third time, appearing simultaneously at
eight places on Earth. Those who listen to the winds of
the Avatar Storm hear a terrible voice whisper
"Soon, they will be free, and all willfall apart."[4]
The Eighth Tenet, the first to be added to the Code of
Hermes since its creation, is pushed through by Ishaq ibn-
Thoth, Primus of House Quaesitor.[5]
Taking on many of the remnants of House Thig, House
Verditius is restored to status as a full House.[6]
Out of the reach of Control, and exposed to wider
supernatural mysteries and Traditionalistswho respect
reason, members of Panopticon begin to question
the Pogrom and start going AWOL or
joining technomantic cabals.[7]
January Edit
January 23: Gabriel Lafayette, bani Solificati, excitedly
sends a message to Magister Marissa Desantos regarding
the (re-)discovered Astral Sojourn rote, which appears to
bypass theAvatar Storm entirely.[8]
March Edit
An unknown recipient in Barcelona receives a flyer on
his windshield bearing the mark of the Sphinx.[9]
March 2: Frontier Frank receives an email containing the
image of a Sphinx, listing an address and a time.
He, Ziggy Pulanski, Ying and Yang investigate and find
a Node.[10]
April Edit
An anonymous Hermetic sees a billboard marked with
a Sphinx, advising him to red a new book on alchemy
by John Crow. Calling the number provided puts him in
contact with a young person dabbling with alchemy, and
on the verge of Awakening.[11]
April 18: Brandon Quint and Jamie Courage receive a
padded envelope bearing a Sphinx, warning Quint to be
at Darlana Newcastle's home the next night.[12]
April 19: Brandon Quint arrives at Darlana Newcastle's
home as ordered, and enters. Shortly after,
the Technocracy invades; in the confusion, Chelsea
Newcastle and Padmanabhan Krishnam are killed.[13]
May Edit
Mason White sees a telecast regarding the destruction of
a barn hiding a "meth lab." The telecast has a Sphinx icon
in the corner. White and his cabal visit the barn, find the
drug lab as described, and blow it up.[9]
Mochi Katame views a webpage, containing
a Sphinx image, regarding what's happening at
the Kokanee Salmon Hatchery.[14]
May 7: Malcolm Dugall and Lady Sasha Nebtov receive
all-access passes to a soccer game, bearing the image of
a sphinx. They go and see a chantry-mate, Devon,
attempting to sell aTalisman to someone else. When they
attempt to stop the transaction, the other man shoots
Devon through the heart.[11]
May 30: The man attempting
to buy Devon's Talisman attacks his former chantry, and
thecabal is forced to relocate. Malcolm Dugall intends to
reclaim the stolen Talisman.[15]
June Edit
June 6: Aaron Dogon sees some graffiti written in
Japanese accompanied by a sphinx. He interprets the
graffiti as confirmation that his participation in Jupiter's
Forge is vital.[11]
December Edit
December 22: From at least this date onward, there will
be no more viable Garou births. All the Garou who will
fight in the Final Battle have already been born.[16]
2003 Astraea approaches the constellation of Leo.[1]
Coral Castle in Florida is destroyed by an implosive
wave-function collapse, caused by a young Ernesto C.
Amangualeplummeting to Earth[2]
During E3, Virtual
Adepts H0usefly, C0y0te and Holly chat in a
#lamerlecture channel. It ends when H0usefly boots
everyone out after realizing C0y0te stole his lectures file
through a back door.[3]
An earthquake strikes Los Angeles.[4]
Transmissions from the Rogue
Council summon Emissaries to the Australian Outback.
The Emissaries locate Nodes never catalogued by Void
Engineer surveyors.[5]
Angel sightings in Los Angeles relax the area's paradigm.
[6]
January Edit
Dr. Marcus Jackson receives a message from the Rogue
Council on his classroom's blackboard.[7]
January 1: If the Sons of Ether vacant department Chairs
are not filled by this time, the Ad Hoc Restructuring
Committee will suspend or combine them.[8]
February Edit
February 3: Gawain Alexander and Jezebel Lee land
at Rome's daVinci International Airport, and prepare to
visit Etruscan ruins the next day.[9]
February 4: Gawain Alexander overhears a grad student
discussing the archaeological significance of
an Etruscan pottery shard with a Dr. Massimo Pallottino.
They both seem to beAwakened, and whatever's buried in
the field has a religious significance to them.[7]
February 5: Using false documentation provided by
Dr. Marcus Jackson, Gawain Alexanderand Jezebel
Lee infiltrate the Etruscan digsite. They find that the
archaeologists there are hoping to uncover the tomb of
one of Etruria's 12 high priests.[7]
February 6: Gawain Alexander detects waves of anxiety
from Dr. Pallottino, but has become rather chummy with
Pallottino's associate, Dr. Lucrezia della Passaglia.[7]
February 7: The Etruscan dig hasn't yet uncovered
anything but more pottery. Dr. Passagliaconvinces
Dr. Pallottino to join her and "Dr." Gawain
Alexander and Jezebel Lee at a local bistro for dinner, but
he seems preoccupied and quickly excuses himself,
claiming he needs rest for the next day... a day when the
dig site is closed.[7]
February 8: Gawain Alexander and Jezebel Lee spend the
day exploring Etruscan tombs, and notes that they're laid
out like the homes the Etruscans may have had in life.
When an object wasn't entombed, it was painted onto the
walls, which was apparently enough to ensure its
presence in the afterlife.[10]
February 9: Gawain Alexander sees the sights
in Tarquina, and after vising Dante Alighieri's tower,
ponders wonder the nature of the area lends to thoughts of
piercing the veil between worlds.[10]
February 10: Violent thunderstorms keep
the Etruscan archaeological dig closed. Gawain
Alexander doesn't mind, but Dr. Pallottino is in a foul
mood.[10]
February 11: Because of yesterday's storm,
the Etruscan archaeological dig is soaking wet. Not much
progress is made, infuriating Professor Pallottino all the
more.[10]
February 12: One of Professor Pallottino's students finds
what could be the top of the tomb Pallottino's been
searching for all this time.[10]
February 13: Professor Massimo Pallottino finishes
clearing the entrance of what he calls the Tomb of the
Priest. It resembles other Etruscan tombs of the period,
save for a golden seal engraved with "By order
of Quintus Fabius Maximus Cuncator, consul of Rome,
let no man disturb this tomb, as what lies within is
abhorrent in the eyes of the gods and the state of Rome."
Pallottino immediately wants to open the tomb, seal or
no, but Gawain Alexander and Dr. della
Passaglia convinces him to wait until tomorrow.[10]
February 14: Gawain Alexander and Jezebel Lee follow
Professor Pallottino to the Etruscantomb early in the
morning, and find it swarming with Spectres. They
initially suspect anecromantic vampire, but seeing it use
genuine Awakened magic, they realize it's a liche, and
one who hates priests of Hermes. They shoot it into
the Dark Umbra and escape.[10]
February 15: Gawain Alexander gives his final thoughts
on the events on the Etruscanarchaeology dig, and says
that although he now believes in the Rogue Council, he
doesn't necessarily trust it, wondering how much more
about the liche the Council knew than what he had been
told.[11]
March Edit
Douglas Sands' wife Faye Sands is abducted from their
home.[12]
March 2: The Blacklisted mailing list discusses methods
of circumventing the Avatar
Storm.malevolence@iamlegion.org claims he just
summons a spirit and then "steps through" it. Messy, but
it works. inanna@afflixxion.com thinks that's
reprehensible, and says she just asks her familiar to hide
her soul.[13]
April Edit
April 1: During a raid on a Technocracy clearing-house
under cover as a printer, Phillip Morcant and the rest of
his cabal (Alexeis DesJean, Janet Wolf, Aaron
Dogon and Xoca) find a pristine copy of The Fragile
Path. The altered text sends them to Iraq, where they
recover theTenth Seat.[14]
April 30: Jon Fairmont is about ready to give up on
the New Hope Farm, but the arrival of a sick and
dying cu sith convinces him otherwise.[15] The cabal
(Kameria Fairmont, Teague O'Connel, Deborah
Gray, Takoda Walking-Bear and Aileen Wilkinson)
begins instructing new initiates.[16][17][18][19][20]
Lily meets a German man named Rolf at The
Asylum in Santa Monica. She thinks he's SO beautiful.
[21]
May Edit
May 1: Jon Fairmont tells the initiates of the New Hope
Farm about what it means to beVerbena.[22]
May 21: Lily thinks it may be getting serious with Rolf.
He said he's got something very special to give her next
week.[21]
May 31: Lily is probably Embraced by Rolf.[21]
June Edit
June 6: Lily wakes up at 9PM. She would find that
strange, except she can't remember going to sleep last
night. In fact, she can't remember anything that happened
since last Saturday night.[21]
June 10: Lily wakes up late again. She hasn't eaten
anything in four days. She wonders what's wrong with
her.[21]
June 11: Rolf comes to Lily and informs her that the
reason she hasn't eaten anything is because the only thing
she can eat now is blood. He gives her a bag from
the blood bank. She wants to resist, but can't.[21]
June 20: During the Midsummer's Eve celebrations at
the New Hope Farm, Jon Fairmontsacrifices himself.
Primal magic begins to return to the farm.[23] An initiate
named Tomwants to leave, but Kamaria
Fairmont convinces him of the necessity of Jon's actions.
[24]
July Edit
July 4: The New Fremont District Celebration, honoring
the work of the Neighborhood Committee and their
sponsors towards the Rejuvenation of old North Vegas, is
held at the North Vegas Community Center. The event is
sponsored by Endron International, King
Brewery and Dragon Valley Wines, and
other Pentex subsidiaries.[25]
July 26: Rolf tells Lily that he'll have to leave soon, as
people are trying to force him out of the country. She
notes he doesn't mention taking her with him.[21]
July 27: Valerie Mason goes missing during church
services.
July 28: Page two of the London Times "Society" section
features a photograph taken at theTaurus Club. Identified
as present in the photograph was Mr. Eric Baring-
Gould — a man missing and presumed dead since the
winter of 1880.[26]
July 29: Mt. Etna, located on the east coast of Sicily,
erupted without leaving a trace of residue. Weather
satellites and citizens with cameras recorded a plume of
ash sprouting from the vent of the volcano throughout the
day, however the expected rain of ash did not materialize,
and the Italian National Geological Council reported none
of the accompanying tremors typical of an eruption.[26]
July 30: Six-year-old Valerie Mason has been missing for
the last 72 hours, after allegedly being abducted during
church services in suburban Boston. "She ran into the
vestry during Mass," said 26-year-old single mother Anna
Mason, "and I chased after her to stop her." Ms. Mason
then related that an "angel" flew in through a stained
glass window to "take her little girl to Heaven." Ms.
Mason has refused to answer any further questions from
police, claiming that Valerie is "with the angels now."
Search for the missing child continues. The mother has
been admitted to Harborview Psychiatric Facility for
psychological evaluation.[27]
July 31: The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) today issued a press release
regarding the appearance of Stellar Object #2001KX76,
the tabloid-dubbed "Red Star" that recently became
visible to the naked eye. The press release stated that
details were still "admittedly inconclusive," but that the
object is more likely to be a comet than a self-sustained
radiant object.[28]
August Edit
August 1: Los Angeles County Board of Health reports
that doctors in the area have reported an unusual number
of crescent-shaped birthmarks on female children being
born in the last two weeks.[26]
August 6: Deng Xiao-Min is under arrest for having dug
up his father's grave three days after burial, and severing
the corpse's head. There has been an increase in this sort
of desecration in recent weeks, but Beijing police are at a
loss to understand why.[29]
August 7: Tensions escalate in the Middle East as Israeli
forces seek Palestine resistance fighters in the small town
of Tulkarm, going so far as to fire rockets from
helicopters at cars believed to hold resistance leaders.[28]
August 8: A small Silicon Valley firm, Virtual Solutions,
was burned down by an electrical fire. 10 employees were
killed. Arsonists are confused how multiple fires could
spring up at multiple points throughout the building. The
CEO was reportedly attempting to develop virtual
chatroom to link the company's servers with an
undisclosed server outside the US. TheNational Security
Agency is showing up to consider new angles to the
investigation.[30]
August 11: WTOJ broadcasts a GWNet intercept. The
message is sent from Karin Jarlsdottirto King Jonas
Albrecht. Karin confims the findings of the Grand
Concolation in the Sept of the Anvil-Klaiven and nearby
territories: there have been no viable Garou births for
more than a year. All children have been
ordinary Kin human babies or wolf pups. Garou pregnant
withmetis have miscarried.[31]
A concert headlined by the LA-based band Winter
Solstice ends prematurely tonight when the lead
singer, Tyria Winter, stops mid-song, mumbles, "I have
nothing to sing," and stumbles offstage.[32]
August 13: Miami resident Laetitia Hawkins has retained
counsel against alternative-faith ministry the Typhonic
Temple of Illumination. According to her lawyer,
Hawkins plans to testify that she was being groomed for
advancement in the temple’s hierarchy, but once she
found that its members indulged in practices of dubious
legality (key to the affidavit is an "orgy of blood"), she
asked to withdraw from the organization. Shortly
thereafter, its members detained her and physically
assaulted her.[26]
August 14: WTOJ broadcasts a SchreckNet intercept
from Samir to Beckett. The message indicates that the
two will be performing some sort
of thaumaturgical ritual.[26]
August 15: Detroit City Councilman Leonard Dates is
shot and killed by police after a standoff at a local radio
station. Dates had been holding several people hostage,
reading passages from the Book of Revelations on-air,
claiming that Judgment Day had arrived.[12]
August 17: The 15-foot golden statue of the
angel Moroni disappears from the Los Angeles Mormon
Temple. The statue apparently vanished at the height of a
violent thunderstorm that swept the city this night.[27]
August 18: A routine LA police patrol discovers that the
15-foot golden statue of the angelMoroni is missing from
its lofty perch atop the Los Angeles Mormon Temple. The
statue, only recently restored to its place following the
disastrous Devil’s Night earthquake, apparently vanished
at the height of a violent thunderstorm that swept the city
last night.[27]
August 19: An intercept from the source "rogue" appears
on WTOJ. The Tenth Seat ofHorizon has appeared at a
meeting of the Rogue Council. The intercept's authors
demand the seat so they may defend it against
the Technocrats, some of whom attacked the very
meeting in which it appeared.[30]
August 20: The marine biology research
ship Tethys today in the Falkland Islands recorded the
passage of what appears to be a southward migration
of sharks of at least five separate species. Scientists
aboard the Tethys commented that the migration was
unexplainable by current studies of shark behavior, and
the ship changed course to follow the migration and
observe.[31]
August 21: An Israeli Defense Force spokesman today
named a previously unknown religious sect called
"the Amkhat" as the target of recent incursions into
Tulkarm and other West Bank towns. An IDF dossier
released to the press accuses this cult of a wide variety of
outrages, from terrorist activities to ritual cannibalism.
Palestinian Authority representatives called the Israeli
claims inflammatory, but insiders whisper that the
Authority has been trying to root out Amkhat for some
time. Meanwhile, Egypt announced that it was
withdrawing its support from the current round of peace
talks, citing the Tulkarm incursions and "Israeli
fabrications."[33]
August 22: New York State Troopers investigating the
derelict garbage scow May Belle, found floating along
the Hudson River last week, discovered the mutilated
body of elderly marinerAlluscious Henry, along with the
remains of three mongrel wolves. Today, the Albany
County Medical Examiner declared Henry’s death a result
of an attack by rabid wolves and alerted county and state
public health and animal control officials. Investigators
also uncovered some evidence linking Henry to a fringe
animal-rights group called the "Sept of the Green."[31]
Lily is forced to bail Rolf out of jail because his visa has
expired. He looks frightened, and Lily's afraid he'll leave.
[21]
August 24: Private security forces repel an attack aimed
at sabotaging the completion of theApophis Pipeline,
currently under construction by Endron Oil.[31]
August 25: Endron Oil officials confirmed that
the Apophis Pipeline — attacked last night — will be
completed on schedule as planned and that security will
be redoubled. The identity of the terror group responsible
remains unknown.[31]
August 26: An intercept from the Digital Web is
broadcast over WTOJ. The citizens ofSleepytown are
being drafted and assigned to "enhanced military
training."[30]
August 27: Bonn police responding to a disturbance in
the city’s warehouse district this morning discovered the
bodies of 23 immigrant workers slain in a "violent
Satanic ritual." All of the victims were arranged
according to a complex pattern laid in chalk across the
floor of an abandoned storage facility, and according to
forensics reports, all of them were killed within moments
of one another. Sources within the police department
revealed that a ragged hole approximately three meters
across appears to have been burnt through the roof of the
structure directly over the ritual site, but refused to
speculate on the cause. The perpetrators remain at large.
[27]
August 28: His Holiness John Paul II today issued a papal
proclamation condemning the growing trend of violence,
militarism, atheism and "pagan idolatry" across the
world. Although such declarations from the pontiff are
not unprecedented, his especially harsh language has
worried several observers. One Vatican insider told
journalists, "In the past, His Holiness has been a firm but
benevolent advisor. This time he’s speaking of Judgment
Day."[28]
August 29: A previously unknown terrorist group calling
itself the Fifth Age today released a nerve agent in a
downtown Osaka office tower, killing over 500 workers
there. The leader of the terrorists, a man known only
as Mikaboshi, escaped the police dragnet.[29]
September Edit
September 1: Researchers today in Alexandria reported
strange tremors emanating from the Egyptian desert. The
quakes, not measuring more than 2.1 on the Richter scale,
seem to originate in two spots barely a mile apart, and as
the aftershocks from a quake in one location abate, a new
one begins in the other.[28]
Pentex Holdings has a meeting of the Board of Directors
in the Sacramento Marriott. While the entire board enters
the executive suite the meeting is held in, only Franklin
Rubin, subdivision director of finances for Pentex, is seen
leaving. When hotel staff enter the suite later this
evening, they find none of the other executives present.
[31]
September 2: Independent auditors hired to review the
ledgers of investment companyMoribund &
Smirch discover that more than 100 of the company's
shareholders — who, according to the banks, have all
been cashing in their checks — are recorded as being
legally dead. Some for as many as a hundred years.[26]
September 4: Doctor Reiki Ozawa, noted expert on the
Asian art of feng shui, has disappeared from his $4
million home in the Santa Monica Hills. Friends say that
the scholar had spent the past 20 years "aligning" and
"adjusting" the furnishings in his home to compensate for
"flaws" in the surrounding landscape. He left a recorded
phone message in which he declared he had finally
finished his 20-year project. Since then, no further
evidence of the missing scholar has been found, and
police have no further leads.[29]
September 5: In the third case of graveyard vandalism in
as many nights, the tomb ofChicago socialite Annabelle
Sforza was dug up last night by parties unknown. Ms.
Sforza’s skeletal remains are found scattered around the
Forest Lawns graveyard and her tombstone smashed by
what appear to be hammer blows.[12]
September 7: Multiple witnesses reported seeing ethereal
text floating through the Khan al-Khalili in Cairo last
night. The text, reported by some to be in Arabic, others
in Hebrew and still others in Aramaic and Greek, seemed
to be a passage from the Book of Exodus: "Stretch out
thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness
over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be
felt."[33]
September 9: Baltimore 911 switchboard operators today
confided that UFO reports have recently skyrocketed in
and around the nation’s capital. Over 1,000 people in the
Tri-State area claim to have seen lights in the sky or
"alien creatures" roaming their neighborhoods.[28]
The Bayview Killer's latest victim is discovered.[26]
September 10: Ministry of Health official Ming
Xian today reported the unfortunate death, from Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), of Li Po Tze,
investigator for the People’s Armed Police. Inspector Li,
who came to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to
investigate reports of sedition among the local
bureaucracy, is the first victim of SARS in the region and
is thought to have been infected in Beijing before his
departure. If that is true, this case will be the first reported
since the World Health Organization lifted the travel
advisory against the Chinese capital. Dr. Ming has
ordered a quarantine to prevent a new outbreak of the
disease.[29]
September 11: Surrounded by crowds of horrified
sightseers and papal novitiates, CardinalGiancarlo
Salvatore this morning immolated himself in the center of
St. Peter’s Square after an impassioned speech
proclaiming that the end of the world was at hand.
Declaring that "thegates of Hell are breaking" and that
"the Holy Church has fallen into the clutches of demons,"
Salvatore handed a document to a British tourist that he
claimed would reveal "the truth that [his] fellow
Cardinals have been keeping from the world." The Holy
See has made no public comment regarding the
Cardinal’s death, though the gates of the city have been
closed to sightseers until further notice. The whereabouts
of the British tourist who supposedly received Cardinal
Salvatore’s testament are unknown.[28]
September 12: More than a dozen members of
a Chicago area “blood cult” were arrested last night on
suspicion of numerous charges including kidnapping. The
“blood cult” maintains that it existed to satisfy the whims
of its “dark mistress,” whom its members insist is a
vampire.[26]
September 15: Seven brutal murders have occurred
within a 15-block radius in the Bayview area of San
Francisco over the past two months. The most recent
victim was discovered Tuesday. All the victims were
killed in what police describe as a "ritual" manner, their
bodies drained of a considerable amount of blood, which
was not found at the scene of any of the crimes. The San
Francisco Police Department informed fearful citizens
that it is following "all possible leads" in the case of the
so-called "Bayview Killer," but admits that it hasn’t made
much progress.[26]
September 16: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from proj-
odyssey.com, regarding FomoriDevelopment and
Training Facility #87-001, and how it has been destroyed.
Satellite footage reveals that the fomori rebelled and
seized control of the arms depot, then proceeded to ignite
the facility’s chemical banks, releasing a cloud of
poisonous fumes. Approximately 50 fomori have escaped
to the nearby town of Burnt Gallows, Texas, and are
preventing the local population from fleeing.[31]
September 17: Doctors at the Richmond's Medical
College of Virginia are reportedly baffled by the dramatic
increase in cases of extreme bipolar depression over the
last month. Theorizing a heretofore unsuspected
epidemiological cause, local authorities called in the
Center for Disease Control, who have uncovered that all
patients had visited a common location. The Poe
Museum, near the popular nightlife district of Shockoe
Slip, had appeared in the dreams of each patient,
prompting them to visit the museum. The CDC yesterday
closed the museum until it can be fully investigated.[26]
September 18: Spokespeople for NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) today vigorously denied allegations
released recently on several fringe websites and other
alternative media outlets, which state that many of the
satellites recently launched to observe Stellar Object
#2001KX76 (the so-called "Red Star") are actually
designed to monitor the global population and tied to a
massive crowd-control project dubbed "Ragnarok." They
deny that William Albacastle, named in several of the
reports, has ever worked for NASA or JPL.[30]
September 19: A mysterious group of individuals known
as "The Ventrue" has been the cause of much
consternation in the global finance community recently.
Although members of this hidden cabal are unknown,
a rival bloc of anonymous financiers believed to be
centered inVenice recently issued a communique to
numerous national trade and securities commissions that
outlined a list of actions these "Ventrue" might take.
Many of these tips turned out to be true, and projected
benefits to the "Ventrue" (using hypothesized numbers)
have been significant.[26]
September 22: Chicago Police question members of the
prominent Ballard family on suspicion of association with
the "blood cult," members of which were detained
previously. Thepatriarch of the Ballard family has proven
elusive, however, and is still sought for questioning.[26]
September 23: St. Louis' famed Gateway Arch was
seriously damaged by what some theorize was an act of
terrorism. At precisely midnight last night, a detonation
echoed across Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Park accompanied by an impressive pyrotechnic display.
Bright lights and subsequent explosions continued for
several minutes, causing serious structural damage to the
arch. As of this morning, police had the area cordoned off
and were refusing to comment on reports of upward of
two dozen bodies found at the site. Clearly visible on the
arch itself were scorch marks, strange sigils and the word
"Vodantu."[27]
September 24: A Nigerian Bishop
visiting Baltimore, Jude Bankole Kuti, collapsed today in
the middle of a speech to local faith groups. Kuti died
minutes after paramedics discovered multiple lacerations
on his skin, carvings of Aramaic, Greek and Hebrew
phrases. Six members of the audience reportedly suffered
similar but non-lethal wounds. Four fled the scene.
Linguists summoned by the city's medical examiners
have translated the phrases into fragments of Gnostic
scripture dating from the 1st to 5th centuries AD. The
most common injury reads: "What binds me has been
slain/and what turns me about has been overcome/and my
desire has been ended/and ignorance has died."[28]
September 25: WTOJ today broadcasts an intercept
from GWNet, in a message from Amy Hundred-Voices.
She's met a Mokole once before, so was considered the
"resident expert" at the Sept of the Green. "Even Mother
Larissa wasn't too shy to ask my opinion after the
messenger had come and gone under flag of truce."
Unforuntately, she wasn't much help, and could only
confirm that the visitor was fresh from his First Change.
He carried a single message: "What must be
remembered?"[31]
September 26: Civil engineers recently unearthed what
seemed to be a squatter colony in a sewer junction
beneath the streets of Atlanta. The subterranean structure
turned out to be some type of crypt, as bodies were found
in extreme stages of decay and disfigurement. Doctors
suggest the makeshift tomb might have been a yellow
fever (or other epidemic) mass grave not unlike the ones
found in nearby Savannah. Others remain dubious, as the
bodies seemed too fresh to have been buried at the time
of the yellow fever threat.[26]
September 29: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from an
unknown source, a message from someone to Her
Majesty Penangallan Queen Laiami Kai: The symptom
Laiami Kai reports is widespread among the Kuei-jin.
Although none would report directly, several mandarins
and ancients have called for the arrival of a number of
mortals from whom they can draw Chi. They, like Kai,
appear to have lost their ability to draw Chi from the air.
Their sudden need for living blood "bodes ill for
the Great Wheel."[29]
September 30: Residents of Los Lunas, New
Mexico reportedly witnessed a fiery light show in the
skies over their city shortly after midnight. Umberto
Reyes, a local resident, claims to have seen three angelic
figures fighting "a winged monster" amid the clouds,
using "swords and spears of pure lightning." Reyes
claims the battle raged directly over his small farm,
lasting from midnight until nearly 3:00 AM, until one of
the angels "split the monster open and pulled out its
heart" with a resounding thunderclap that shook local
houses to the foundations. Authorities and emergency
services as far away as Albuquerque confirm that a sonic
boom shattered windows and knocked items from their
shelves at three o'clock that morning, but believe the
shockwave was generated by a low-flying military
supersonic aircraft. Less easily explained are the cataracts
that have stolen Reyes' eyesight and the sudden hair loss
that local health officials say closely resembles severe
radiation poisoning.[27]
October Edit
October 1: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from hunter-
net.org: "The sun is gone. But I have a light. The fire is
coming for us all.— God45"[12]
October 2: Three people were killed, dozens injured and
traffic was snarled in Midtown Manhattan when a half-
block of 43rd Street near Times Square collapsed this
morning. Several yards of the blacktop fell in,
overturning vehicles and releasing foul-smelling gasses.
City engineers theorize the destruction resulted from the
collapse of the so-called "dragon's graveyard," the
underground facilities for the New York Times'
decommissioned printing presses. Witnesses also report
that thousands of sewer rats swarmed out of the fissures
caused by the collapse.[26]
October 3: One of the holiest sites in the world became a
site of religious and political violence today as Jews and
Muslims clashed outside the Dome of the
Rock in Jerusalem. The Muslim mosque is built on the
site of the ancient Hebrew Temple and overlooks the so-
calledWailing Wall, the last remains of the Temple and
holiest site in Judaism. Riots broke out today after local
airwaves were suddenly (and thus far, inexplicably)
flooded with a recorded message stating in both Hebrew
and Arabic that, "The temple will be rebuilt." Authorities
say that Muslims at the Mount tried to eject Jews from
the area around the Wall, while Jews tried to enter the
Dome of the Rock itself. Thirty-one people were dead
before the time authorities arrived to quell the riot.[28]
October 4: Yale researched Yves Darra is found murdered
in his office. Darra was working on a new translation of
the apocalyptic Dies Ignis, believed to be the inspiration
for many images found in the Book of Revelations.[27]
October 6: WTOJ broadcasts a ShreckNET intercept from
"FaF": FaF arrived in Damascusfollowing the traces of
that which she will not yet name. She was led to the lair
of Bistakh, the Kurdish daughter of Alamut who has lived
there since the Crusades. "I found only ashes upon her
sleeping bier, and the smells of blood and desert sand
lingering in the air. I continue my search."[26]
October 7: Police were flooded with over a dozen calls
last night relating to unexplained sightings in the city
of Faro, WA, 50 miles from Walla Walla. Officials traced
the cause to a large quantity of a hallucinogenic drug in
the town’s drinking water supply. WWPD have not as yet
identified the substance. A review of recorded phone calls
contained similar testimony relating to "lights" and
"disembodied sounds" in the homes of Faro residents.
The wide sampling of similar reports suggests the same
chemical affected all 15 witnesses. Scientific experts will
arrive in town this weekend to conduct further inquiries.
[34]
October 8: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept
from GWNet from Son-of-Moonlight: Moonlight accepts
the title Ard Righ in memory of Bron Mac Fionn, who
died in battle with Banes of theWyrm. Moonlight intends
"to pledge myself to the grand alliance Margrave
Konietzko has established for this very purpose. This is
the time to be counted!"[31]
The FBI's Special Affairs Division captures Nathaniel
Bordruff.[26]
October 9: A man identified as Eneas Zoetope stumbled
into an Upstate New York towntoday, completely covered
in blood and gore. He surrendered to the authorities,
saying only "Revenge is done. Now my sister can rest."
Police continue to question him as to who the blood
belongs to and where the bodies are, but all he has said so
far is "Nunnehi."[32]
October 10: Federal agents of the hush-hush Special
Affairs Department refused to comment on the escape
from their custody of Nathaniel Bordruff, whom they
apprehended two days ago. Agents refused even to
confirm Bordruff’s identity, although local law
enforcement officials were more forthcoming. Bordruff
himself claimed to be "fighting vampires," though
members of the recently exposed "blood cult" insisted
that Bordruff himself was a vampire.[26]
October 12: The famed annual Ash Man counterculture
event draws thousands of devotees and tourists to a desert
location outside Gerlach, Nevada. The Bright Foundation,
a religious organization based in Las Vegas, had been
using the event to recruit followers. Several regular
attendees of the festival left their homes and jobs to
commit themselves to a "Family Compound" in the
Nevada desert. Spokespersons for the Bright Foundation
deny that their organization was involved in the attempt
of several cult members to burn several attendees alive.
[27]
October 13: Calcutta authorities were helpless as mobs
gathered along the shores of the Ganges River, claiming
to be there to witness “the ascension of the demon
avatars.” The gathering turned violent when an explosion
rocked the scene. The crowd rioted, resulting in the
deaths of well over 100 people and nearly five times that
number injured. Witnesses claimed to have seen burning
figures walking on the surface of the river and four-armed
avatars (described as manifestations of Hindu gods)
attacking people and drinking their blood. Indian
authorities have declared a state of emergency and
imposed martial law in an effort to restore order.[26]
A police raid on the Church of Abaddon Ascendant's
newly built Washington D.C. temple leaves 12
churchgoers and four police officers dead. This evening,
an anonymous caller reportedly phoned the office of the
mayor demanding that he and his officials "bow before
theEbon King who waits." Immediately thereafter the city
is plunged into inexplicable darkness, touching off bloody
riots that continued despite the declaration of martial law
and the deployment of National Guard troops, tanks and
helicopters.[26]
October 14: Before being cut off during today's broadcast
of the Charlie Krongold Show, live on NPR stations
nationwide, a caller identifying himself only as
"Bookworm" launched into the following tirade: "They
say the end is coming — and it is — but what if we can
stop it from really being the final, game-over end? We
can fortify ourselves. We can be good people. Lead by
example. Monsters flourish like germs. If we keep a
good, clean environment, the beasts can't get a foothold.
We've let them go too long, and now the conspiracy is
entrenched. But we can stop it! Society can still heal.
These don't need to be our last days. The tunnel is going
to be long and dark, but we can make it through to the
other side. We can find our virtue to stop the monst
—"[12]
October 15: The nation's capital returned to calm — and
daylight — this morning, shortly after the mayor retracted
his earlier comments that an alternative religion calling
itself theChurch of Abaddon Ascendant was a "degenerate
cult," and further promised to protect the organization
from "persecution" by law enforcement agencies.[26]
October 16: Gerlach police have yet to announce arrests
of the religious cult members who attempted to burn
victims alive at last weekend’s Ash Man festival. Federal
officials have convened an investigation of the Bright
Foundation.[27]
October 17: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from an
unknown source, from Three Whispers: "An army, I say.
An army of bakemono is on the march
through Mongolia with an ancient dead creature at its
head. Dorbul the Brave, they call him, and they have
already overthrown the Tiger’s Throat dragon nest. Only I
escaped."[29]
October 19: The newly installed American administrator
in Iraq today called his agenda in the region "advancing
the plan laid out for us in Scripture." Despite a stream of
communiques from Washington arguing that the
ambassador was referring to Christian charity, sources
inside the interim authority in Baghdad claim that many
top officials are now "reading Revelations for policy
choices."[28]
October 20: One day after the US' Ambassador
to Iraq called his agenda "advancing the plan laid out for
us in Scripture," massive protests took place in Syria and
much of the rest of the Arab World today over fanatic US
rhetoric. Syrian government officials, speaking to
protesters, decried the "Christian fanaticism being
spouted by America."[28]
October 21: The Scottish town of Achnasheen was the
center of an unexpected burst in seismic activity last
night, registering 4.3 on the Richter scale. Residents
report sulfurous odors rising from the ground in nearby
fields, and several people claim to have seen greenish
lights, like flames, on the hilltops at night.[31]
October 22: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from
the Digital Web. "Twelve of us have come from far, three
of us dying on the scarred ground of Bangladesh. We
have but one message. Prepare, for Voormas has taken
the Realm of Entropy."[30]
October 23: Jerusalem residents and religious leaders
were horrified last night by a shower of sulfurous rock
that left blazing trails across the sky and caused untold
damage among the city's holiest shrines. The rain of fire
and brimstone began at midnight and lasted until just
before dawn, causing fires and spawning clouds of
noxious fumes that left close to 450 people dead and
thousands injured.[28]
October 24: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from an
unknown poster on hunter-net.org. The post regards a
massive shape, like a Gothic cathedral, appearing on
the LA skyline. "I think it was at least a mile wide, more
than a hundred stories high." The poster originally
thought that it was a vision from the Messengers, except
the waitress at the cafe also saw it.[12]
October 26: Mr. Jonathan Cross and his
wife Alexandra appear tonight on LA television channels
pleading for the return of their daughter Jenna, said to
have been abducted by one of the many blood cults now
making the news. They describe her abductor as a
bearded New Age guru calling himself "Smiling
Jack."[26]
October 27: Ohio State University becomes a
battleground in the afternoon as two groups of assailants
engage in a running gun battle, lasting a full eight hours.
Witnesses also report a variety of sights, including such
fanciful beings as dragons and elves. No sign of such
beasts are uncovered after the battle ends, but authorities
are reportedly at a loss as to the motives or identities of
the combatants. Those arrested at the scene are seemingly
suffering fromacute amnesia and deny any memory of a
battle, much less any fairy tale monsters. Sixteen people
die during the violence.[32]
October 28: A man staggers into a Detroit emergency
room tonight, covered in blood and claiming to have been
attacked in the night. Doctors find no vital signs when
they conduct tests. His heart rate is zero, and he does not
appear to be breathing. When doctors attempt to place
the man in a secured facility for further study, the man
grows enraged and fights his way out of the hospital,
vanishing into the night.[26]
October 30: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from an
unknown source on GWNet: "Do not come to the Wheel
of Ptah caern in Morocco. The Garou there have
contracted the Red Death, a plague that resists their
healing abilities. The Red Death already spreads to your
lands — do not seek it out."[31]
October 31: The UN Security Council today granted
extraterritorial law-enforcement powers to the World
Advisory Council. Staffed by members of
the international intelligence, military and scientific
communities, the Council’s expertise will be used to
dismantle the infrastructure ofThe Nine, a terrorist
organization credited with attacks worldwide. Advisors
will assist global military and law enforcement as well as
manage member nations' detention camps. The demand
for outside assistance comes in the wake of the deaths of
54 FBI agents who attempted to apprehend members of
the so-called "Akashic Brotherhood." The cult is one of
many fringe cells that US State Department officials
accuse of using psychotropic chemicals and biological
weapons to fulfill The Nine’s
anarchist, apocalyptic agenda.[30]
November Edit
November 1: Wendell Delburton is murdered in a field
outside Wichita by Lucifer.[12][27]
November 3: Authorities are baffled by what they can
only call an “unexplained phenomenon” involving a total
solar eclipse seen in the Middle East. No eclipse was
expected. The event obscured the face of the sun as
visible in Cairo, Alexandria and parts
of Palestine, Syria andSaudi Arabia. The “eclipse” lasts
for just over 20 minutes, and is filmed by numerous
media outlets in the region, as well as by members of
the Ashuki Corporation. Though explanations have been
offered, ranging from orbiting space debris to a close pass
by a "rogue" asteroid, experts have dismissed these
theories as "highly unlikely."[33]
November 4: Atlanta citizens woke this morning to find
billboards across their city bearing the message, “The end
of the world is nigh.” All these billboards were leased by
a man who simply goes by the name “Violin,” but sources
say that the checks paying for their rental were signed by
a William Hannon.[12]
Los Angeles suffers its first night of violence as two rival
gangs start an all-out war in the streets.[27]
November 5: WTOJ broadcasts an intercerpt from "Tara"
on ShreckNet, sent to "Cal." Tara relates how
"the weakness" returned last night, worse than ever
before and at the worst possible time. Tara was forced
into a meeting with one of the MacNeils, and he
obviously sensed that something was going on. Instead of
leaving her be, he pressed the advantage he thought he
had, trying to get her to agree to his terms. She woke up
from a frenzy with hisblood down her throat and his
corpse falling to ash between her fingers. "It’ll be hard to
explain, but at least the weakness has passed for
now."[26]
South Central Los Angeles suffers through a second night
of violence and looting tonight as several gangs engage in
an all-out battle for territory. Fires rage through many
areas, the governor has not yet declared a state of
emergency or called in the National Guard, despite
repeated calls from the mayor’s office. Matters take a
strange turn when a local "shock-jock" radio host
interviewed a supposed member of one of the warring
gangs. "We fight forManishtusu, and all the fallen will
bow before him in a pool of blood!" Occult experts claim
that "Manishtusu" is the name of a demon in biblical lore,
one that has been linked to no less than eight violent cults
in Los Angeles since the early 1930s.[27]
November 7: Weekend concert-goers at a music festival
report seeing an itinerant prophet who promises
"salvation for the children of Seth and Cain" for those
who accept the "path ofGolconda." According to
witnesses, the prophet had a third eye in the center of her
forehead, as well as hands that wept blood from stigmata
that appeared as she extolled onlookers to "accept the
path."[26]
November 10: An intercept is broadcast over WTOJ,
from Mandarin Ch'eng Hao via an unknown source.
Ch'eng has faced great difficulty in recent times crossing
the Wall and has meditated for three lunar cycles on the
nature of Yin. "Tonight, I enter the Yin World to discover
what lies behind these troubles."[29]
November 11: An intercept is broadcast over WTOJ,
from Mephi via GWNet. The Walking Thunder
Caern in Kenya is gone. Mephi found the bones of all
the Ahadi who lived there picked clean, and some of the
locals said there had been a swarm of locusts, though
locusts who eat Fera flesh is something new. There was a
single spirit messenger there, and all it said was, "It is
free."[31]
November 12: Twenty-three NASA staff members vanish
from Cape Canaveral in the wake of the firebombing of
their offices and laboratories. This is the latest instance of
missing aerospace research personnel, joining reports of
similar disappearances in Kazakhstan,Ecuador and the
offices of 12 aerospace industry corporations.[30]
November 13: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept
from Bishop Andrew Emory to his Archibishopover an
unknown source. Emory is quite sure the attackers
were Black Hand. The one he cornered called the
Archbishop a traitor. Conrad was wounded in the attack
and so was Emory. "I reclaimed my sire’s blood. Judge
me as you would."[26]
November 14: New York police dispatchers last night
responded to over 300 calls reporting a "monster" by
the Manhattan side of the East River. Various reports
describe the "monster" as having tentacles and being of
indiscernible size.[26]
It rains hundreds of frogs in Alexandria. It begins when
an unexpected storm comes in off the sea, battering the
coast and the immortal Pharos harbor with torrential rains
and high winds. But after the rains die down, frogs cover
the streets.[28]
November 17: Previous reports of the "monster" seen
in New York's East River might not have been out of
line. CDC agents report that biological detritus left in the
monster’s wake consisted of a never-before-seen
amalgam of necrotic flesh and fungus, in addition to an
amount of as-yet-unspecified biomatter.[26]
An African-American man calling himself Dante appears
in the live broadcasts of the Monday-night football game
between the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions, and the
final episode of the live reality show Who Wants to
Marry a Movie Star? The man,
appearing simultaneouslyto witnesses on both the Movie
Star set in Los Angeles and at Detroit’s Ford Stadium,
issues an enigmatic warning to "everyone who knows the
truth."[30]
November 18: WTOJ intercepts a broadcast from Alina
Chan via an unknown source, to unspecified "Honored
Queens": Chan was ordered by her father, the Golden
Lion EmperorChan Jianglu, to travel to the Queens'
courts under flag of truce. She was to request aid against
the unknown demon-hunters who have suddenly
appeared in their midst, and to tell them of the siege they
have lain on the court in Singapore, of the burning of
the Lexicon Cluband other worrisome developments. "I
will not do so, for it is now too late. The Kuei-jin of
Singapore have been sent to Yomi by these madmen, so I
send only a warning that you could be next."[26]
Throughout North Africa, snakes begin to slither up
through the sand, even through cement and tile flooring.
There are reports of over 20 snake and poison-related
deaths.[28]
November 19: Executives at both Disney/ABC and
General Electric/NBC deny involvement in the strange
simultaneous appearance of an African-American man in
the live broadcasts of the Monday-night football game
and of the final episode of the live reality show Who
Wants to Marry a Movie Star?.[30]
November 20: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept
from GWNet. The Zmei Goluko has awoken from his
slumber on the Taimyr Peninsula. He has consumed
the Black Spiral Dancers who awaited him and has
emerged from the earth. He heads south.[31]
November 21: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from a more
mundane source, alt.conspiracies. The poster writes how
it rained hundreds of frogs last week in Alexandria;
snakes slithered up through the ground in North
Africa three days ago, and earlier today reports of swarms
of locusts began to drift into various news organizations
in Egypt. The poster wonders why the news isn't making
it to North America.[28]
November 24: Scientists at Puerto Rico's world-
famous Arecibo Radio Observatory are unable to explain
the strange electromagnetic interference that is causing
strange displays in the night sky and blanketing airwaves
with waves of sound that one official describes as "a
chorus of bestial growls and moans." At a recent
conference, scientists concurred that, whatever the
source of the strange noises is, the strength of the
interference is steadily increasing. One unnamed official
insisted that he had been able to discern distinct voices
and patterns of speech among the noise.[28]
A fire sweeps through Manhattan's Barnard
College tonight, destroying the library and rare-books
collection. The fire also exposes an extensive
underground complex records call the "Chantry of Five
Boroughs." Ashy remains are all that are left of the
inhabitants.[26]
November 26: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept
from Dictatrix11 on hunter-net.org, possibly referring to
the fire of the 24th: "Those who wish to assist me, stay
out of the blood camps. There is nothing you can do from
inside. Stay on the outside to protect those who remain
free. Weaken the power of the blood drinkers. And wait
for the fire to start."[12]
December Edit
December 1: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from an
unknown individual over the Panopticonintranet. The
communique advises that Tradition-aligned deviants have
successfully freed recently Awakened detainees from a
penitentiary in Woomera, Australia. Initial reports suggest
the prison guards surrendered rather than follow through
with orders to execute the prisoners. Panopticon ops have
attempted to retake Woomera only to be repelled
by lightning strikes that damaged equipment but left
agents unharmed. Communications suggest that 52% of
captured operatives chose suicide over surrender to the
deviants.[30]
Panic breaks out throughout the city of Calcutta tonight
when the rat population is seemingly driven mad from
fear or illness and began attacking humans. Hundreds die
in the initial chaos, and thousands more are expected to
die from infection in the days and weeks to come.
Reports of "Rat Kings" are widespread among those who
have endured the attacks.[31]
Judge Donna Brandenburg sentences "vampire-
hunter" Ernesto Gutierrez to life in prison after a jury
unanimously finds him guilty. Gutierrez murdered eight
individuals between the years of 1997 and 2003, though
none of their bodies have been found. Gutierrez was
arrested after an attempted murder during which his
victim escaped and contacted authorities. The victim
testified at night, as she suffered from acute hepatic
porphyria (a.k.a. "Schere's Disease"), an allergy to direct
sunlight—likely the source of Gutierrez’s belief that she
was a vampire.[26]
December 3: Eyewitnesses and photographs both report
that the buildings of Tokyo are apparently growing and
changing on their own, through unknown means. Crowds
have gathered in awe to watch enormous skyscrapers
grow taller and more angular. The phenomenon might
also be linked to a sudden tenfold increase in the rate of
violent crime throughout Tokyo.[29]
December 4: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from an
unknown source. The message indicates that
the freehold of Queen Karolinda is no more, and the
queen herself is dead, victim of a massive ghille dhu,
nearly twelve feet in height, which came to the author's
lands sowing death and destruction in its wake. Green
Man's Fever grips the citizenry, and many more have
died. Before it left, the ghille dhu roared a message: "The
last Gold Oath is broken, and the world is theirs at
last!"[32]
December 7: The Iron Rapids Manufacturing plant in Iron
Rapids, Michigan undergoes a series of explosions
tonight.[12]
Lily hasn't heard from Rolf since the night she bailed him
out of jail.[21]
December 8: Local and national media today descend on
the wreckage of the ruins of the Iron Rapids
Manufacturing plant. Rows bodies, all with wooden
stakes driven through their hearts, were found in a variety
of windowless rooms. Law enforcement sealed off the
area after oneDetroit-area station broadcast footage of
several of these corpses coming to life when the stakes
were removed. Local resident Douglas Sands, arrested at
the scene, screams, "I got them, Faye!" to the cameras
before being dragged away, apparently referring to his
wife, abducted from their home last March and never
found.[12]
December 9: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from a radio
broadcast at 2.4 MHz. The poster notes that his or her
companions don’t have any electricity, except when
Doctor Cole’s generator works. There’s no running water,
but we’ve got the river and a good filtration system
going. There’s food, grown from vegetables on the
rooftops. "And we keep getting bigger. Bit by bit, block
by block." They keep gaining ground, which is attributed
to "Lupe." Lupe and her soldiers never stop finding ways
to keep out the monsters and kill them in their dens.[12]
December 10: Lynchburg, Virginia's police station has
been inundated by reports from terrified motorists who
report that the nearby town of Roanoke has vanished
from the face of the earth. Travelers on Highway 220
report that a strange, low-lying fog blankets the area. Cell
phones will not function in the region, and radios emit an
eerie sound that witnesses describe as the "howls of the
damned." Several reports also included sighting vehicles
stopped at various points along the highway with their
lights on, doors open and engines running, but no sign of
their owners.[31]
December 11: Groups of villagers from parts of the
famed Black Forest have banded together to serve in a
vigilante group calling itself the "Army of the Wise God."
Claiming to take leadership from a mysterious man
named "General Geoffrey," this group has ejected all
national authorities and held a series of lynchings of those
they proclaim enemies. The bloodiest lynching was of the
entire population of a neo-pagan commune that had lived
peacefully in the Forest since right after the Second
World War. The Army of the Wise God branded the
commune’s members as "unwitting slaves
of Samael and Moloch" and executed them all, sending
photographs and other grizzly evidence to national media
outlets.[28]
December 12: According to the few residents who
managed to escape, the small town ofTemple
Corner, Maine has been invaded by a religious extremists.
This nameless group reportedly serves a woman named
"Zhyzhak, Chosen of Green Dragon" and uses a wild
dogs and wolves in its rites. One escapee reported that
many villagers had been fed to these apparently rabid
animals. He also said he was given a message from the
enigmatic Zhyzhak, one destined for a certain
"Albrecht."[31]
December 15: An unknown man gets dumped
unceremoniously in a Midtown park a few minutes before
sunrise this morning. The man is bound and gagged.
When onlookers come closer to help the man, he screams
incoherently. As the sun rises, the man bursts into flame.
The flames consume him quickly, reportedly leaving only
a pile of ash no more than a minute afterward.[26]
December 16: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept
from Exalted-of-Gaia via GWNet: The Maeljin
Incarna Hellbringer rode out above Jerusalem in broad
daylight. It is heading northwest, toward the Margrave.
[31]
December 17: In a pronouncement made from the Tower
of London to address the fears resulting from a series of
recent purported "hauntings," the Prince of Wales last
night called on the population to take to the streets to
defend their nation. "Britannia will always protect us," he
said, "but she hungers." In the aftermath, dozens of
vigilante gangs built wicker men all over the city.
Hundreds of looters and vandals were captured and
imprisoned inside the effigies and burned to death.
Sources inside Buckingham Palace say that the strange
pronouncement was written in consultation with a
previously unknown society called theHarbingers of
Avalon, who some claim are tied to the Knights Templar.
[30]
December 18: "The graveyards have given up their
dead!" is the cry repeated over and over for the last three
days, by a hysterical voice speaking on Mexico
City's Radio Joya, station XEJP. Phone service to the city
is out, and over-flights by the Mexican Army report that
parts of the city are in flames, but the streets appear
deserted.[34]
December 19: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from a ham
radio at 10.5 MHz: "I think all of us fought to keep things
as they were, to save civilization from the monsters and
the darkness. But maybe that wasn’t the point, because
civilization was where the monsters and the darkness
came from—the things that controlled us and kept us
ignorant. What we fought to protect was the same thing
the creatures wanted to control.

Now it’s gone. The monsters have been dragged into the
light, and they have to play on the same field as the rest
of us. This isn’t just our reckoning, it’s theirs as well.
We’re going from a corrupt and damaged world into
something new, and it doesn’t have to be worse than this.
It can’t be worse than this. Not if we’re there, on the
ground, helping it take shape.

I drove past a broken-down truck on the way up this hill,

a man and a woman walking away from it. I’m going to
drive back down right now and find them.

Help them inherit the earth.

Soldier out.[12]
December 22: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from
"Pascek" via SchreckNET: "H: Yes, I’ve putBell on the
matter as a condition of his reinstatement. Beckett is as
good as ash."[26]
December 23: A mysterious and massive outbreak of
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, has sparked
panic and fears of an epidemic or worse in Egypt and
throughout parts of the Middle East. Over the past week,
over 600 newborns between the ages of six weeks and
less than 24 hours have died of unexplained causes in
hospitals throughout Egypt. Physicians and medical
experts say that while sudden and unexplained deaths do
occur with some infants, the breadth of this outbreak is
completely unprecedented and may represent an unknown
infection of some kind. “SIDS is not a contagious
disease,” says Dr. Mariq Hanoushof Cairo. “This
epidemic clearly involves something beyond simply
random chance. Frankly, we’re at a loss.” Egyptian
authorities have declared a state of emergency and called
upon the assistance of the World Health Organization.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have
also volunteered experts and resources to aid in both
isolating and containing the cause of the fatalities.[28]
December 24: Members of a self-professed vampire gang
known as the Sabbat demonstrated the supernatural
powers at their command last night. Before an assembled
crowd at a political rally, the Sabbat vampires proclaimed
their superiority over the "kine," and chaos ensued as the
vampires attempted to feed on human blood. Those
present reported manifest "tentacles of darkness," the
vampires moving at superhuman speed and exhibitions
ofsuperhuman strength, such as tearing a fire hydrant
from its moorings and flipping a police cruiser. Whether
this was an elaborate prank or not remains to be seen.[26]
December 28: A powerful earthquake, measuring 8.3 on
the Richter scale, shakes the polar plateau of Antarctica,
opening a crevasse some 30 miles long and half a mile
wide. A Russianscientific team crossing the plateau at the
time is reported lost. In related news, stories are trickling
in from across the Southern Hemisphere of people
experiencing strange dreams the night of the quake,
dreams of a shadowy figure emerging from frozen
ground.[31]
December 30: A massive metal zeppelin appears
above Paris this morning, transmitting messages to every
radio, television and computer screen in the region from a
man calling himself "Czar Vargo, Master of the World."
In what he claimed was his "final message," Vargo
offered emigration to a new world of technological
wonders for those who accepted his terms. "You denied
my overtures for peace at the beginning of the last
century. Now is your last chance. Accept universal
brotherhood and join our hidden Utopia. Reject it, and
you reap the ruin of your own unreason."[30]
December 31: Satellite imagery, airplane over-flights and
eye witnesses all agree that theBermuda Triangle has
been visibly glowing for the last week. This portion of the
North Atlantic, defined by the southern tip of the state
of Florida, the Bahamas and the Greater Antilles, has long
been a region of strange phenomena, and oceanographers
are at a loss to explain the yellow light now bathing the
area. Reports of ships being pulled under the waves by
huge tentacles, and of mythical mermaids swimming
through the phosphorescent water, are only adding to the
mania surrounding the phenomenon.[28]
2004The Apocalypse Forecast. Technocracy projections
from 1999calculate a 75.367% chance of some form of
global catastrophe by this year. Projections also favoured
some kind of internal war in the same time period.[1][2]
The Chaioth Ha-Quadesh forms the most prominent
faction ofMarauders in the world.[3]
Presumably towards the end of the year, the events
ofGehenna: The Final Night begin.
January Edit
January 2: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from an
unknown sender via amenti.org. The author, as per the
council’s request, I bent a considerable portion of his
efforts of late to the task of getting a hold of Count Tjeby.
As the Avenger knows, Tjeby has always been good
about heeding both the will and the call of the council,
and I had expected this occasion to be no different. After
he had grown sure that conventional means would simply
not suffice, he endeavored to discern Tjeby's location
through mystical means. What he was certainly not
prepared for, however, was the utter failure of those
means as well. This turn of events leads him to a single,
inexorable conclusion: "Our esteemed brother is no
longer among the living. This would be no cause for
concern, but for the current state of affairs in Duat. If our
old friend was indeed forced into a death cycle now —
with Neter-khertet the way it is — I fear greatly what
may have become of him."[4]
January 5: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept
from Witness1 over hunter-net.org. The message is
simple: "The time for our new world has begun."[5]
January 6: In Palermo, Sicily, members of the cult calling
itself the Society of the Nascent Flood today claimed
credit for a mass kidnapping, claiming that those
abducted would be used to feed the thirsts of their undead
masters.[6]
January 7: WTOJ intercepts a radio broadcast at 23 MHz:
"Help us! The sky has broken open over Ar-Ramadi and
the sun is blotted out. It rains blood and
fire. Demons walk the streets and speak the name
of Vaniel, their master. Most of the population has been
enslaved and made to tear down their homes to build a
grand citadel to the Dark One. They’re coming for me
—"[5]
January 8: The island of Hawaii was destroyed today in a
massive explosion, as the volcanoesMauna
Loa and Mauna Kea erupted with more force than even
the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa. The eruptions are the
latest in a series of freak volcanic eruptions, as active,
dormant and even presumed extinct volcanoes across the
globe erupt in full force.[7]
January 9: WTOJ broadcasts a message intercepted
from Kuro-sama via an unknown source. "Honored Bone
Ancestor: In these darkest of times, I find the call of
the Hundred Clouds has grown so loud I can no longer
ignore it. The cycle is over. I move on."[8]
January 11: An unprecedented rave takes place
simultaneously at nearly every location in San
Francisco tonight, drawing almost every resident into its
wild revels. The so-called "Avatar Trance" was sponsored
by two groups, the Waydown Viktae and the Bay Area
Bacchantes. Police and FBI attempts to shut down the
city-wide dance party fail completely, and authorities are
baffled by malfunctioning equipment and the
"conversion" of officers and agents to the ecstatic vibe.[4]
January 13: WTOJ broadcasts an intercept from GWNet:
"The Final Battle has arrived.Margrave Yuri
Konietzko and Queen Tamara Tvarivich call all warriors
of Gaia to join with them to defeat the Wyrm at last.
Forces gather at the Sept of the Night Sky. Do not
tarry!"[9]
January 14: The crew of the American Antarctic coastal
station has vanished shortly after a desperate email was
dispatched to Washington, DC. The text of the email was
simply, "Theblood gods are here." Communications with
Palmer coastal station have been similarly silent.[6]
April Edit
April 15: Lily meets a really nice guy in the Surfside
Diner. When she tells him she has to leave, she feels like
Cinderella.[10]
April 16: Lily meets up with the guy from the diner again.
[10]
April 24: Lily brings E back to her apartment. He tells her
he's going back home soon.[10]
April 25: E kisses Lily, and she can't stop herself from
drinking his blood in response. She drinks too much, and
gives him some of her blood to save him. When he
awakes, she tells him what she's done; he tells her he
never wants to see her again.[10]
May Edit
May 8: Afraid of what will happen, Lily hasn't been able
to feed since that night with E. She remembers Rolf had
gotten her blood from the blood bank.[10]
May 24: An employee of the Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power investigates strange sightings in the LA
sewers. Quadrant 13 seems normal.[10]
May 25: An employee of the Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power hears some strange noises in Quadrant
14 and 15. He calls dispatch and confirms that there are
no other inspectors in the area.[10]
May 26: An employee of the Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power hears some strange noises in Quadrant
16, and sees what may be an animal at an intersection.
[10]
May 27: An employee of the Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power sees some moreanimal prints,
apparently leading into an old sealed section of the
sewers. Dispatch advises to proceed with caution.[10]
May 28: An employee of the Los Angeles Department of
Water and Power enters the sealed section of the sewers,
and continues to hear the animal. After finding a human
corpse with evidence of being eaten, he gets lost in the
tunnels and is unable to raise dispatch. At the end, he
realizes the creature is hunting him.[10]
August Edit
Lily has a photo taken of her in Santa Monica.
Somehow, E gets a hold of it.[10]
September Edit
September 5: Hannah Glazer, a Los Angeles prostitute,
has an appointment with Arthur Kilpatrick in Santa
Monica. Kilpatrick likes to play "Lockdown in the
Womens' Prison."[10]
September 7: Los Angeles prostitute Hannah Glazer has
an appointment with Vandal B. Cleaver at 7:30. She
reminds herself to bring the blowtorch and pliers.[10]
September 12: Los Angeles prostitute Hannah Glazer has
an appointment with David Hatterat Hollywood's Luckee
Star Motel.[10]
September 15: Los Angeles prostitute Hannah Glazer has
an appointment with Simon Milligan on the first floor of
her apartment building, the Skyeline Apartments. She
hates that guy.[10]
September 16: Los Angeles prostitute Hannah Glazer has
an honest-to-god date with Paul Anderson, who lives one
floor below her at the Skyeline Apartments.[10]
September 17: Los Angeles prostitute Hannah Glazer has
an appointment with a new client,Jezebel Locke, at
the Empire Hotel. Locke infects her with the Ninth Circle
plague.[10]
October Edit
The "present" of VTM: Vampire: The Masquerade -
Bloodlines .[10]
Various vampire sects of Los Angeles all scheme to
possess the Ankaran Sarcophagus, an ancient artifact that
has connections to Gehenna.
The Gangrel Noddist scholar Beckett arrives in town to
find and study it.[10]
Caine is rumoured to have been sighted in Los Angeles,
posing as a mortal.[10]
Alternate Events
A near-Earth asteroid is discovered, and found to be on a
collision course with Earth. It's dubbed 2004
Typhon. Leland Chin and the First Church of the
Unidentified Flying Object, Reformed believe it's the
Olympian mothership coming to take the worthy back
home to their galaxy.[11][12]
At some point in this year, the majority of the events
ofGehenna: The Final Night take place, as well as
conclude.
December Edit
December 22: Paradigma successor www.renegade-
science.orgposts some commentary on the nature of truth,
reality, and Science.[1]