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7000 B.C. The world is created. Ether God has a very busy week, Gia dances with the North Wind or the World Melon is planted depending on who you ask.

1500 B.C. A  race known as the Boreans established an  empire  over what  is  present day   Anobora, Eventium,   Lusatenia, Yhule,   Suria,  Eghan, Ruthania, Trabozan, and Rawmia. We would view this as  approximate the equivalent of the Roman Empire.

430 A.D.  The  Rawmians revolt against the Borean  Empire  and  are joined  by the Ruthanians and  Yhule  who kill the Borean  Empress and sack Educia, the Borean capital.

440 A.D.  In the chaos that follows the collapse of the Empire  a tribe of the human inhabitants  of the Rawmian Islands, known as the Loterians, moved into the tottering Borean Empire.

487 A.D. The Lotarian King Almeric is crowned Emperor thus forming  the Lotar-Borean Empire.

490 A.D. St. John the Schubber converts the Trabazonie to Christianity.

 510 A.D. St. Schubert the Steeadfast converts the Rawmian to Christianity and suffers a most horrible mayterdom.

650 A.D. The Slavs begin invading the Lotar-Borean Empire .

702 A.D. The Slavs kill the Lotar Emperor Roderick the III and  occupy Suria, Ruthania, and Mordavia. The Lotar-Borean Empire  collapses.

703 A.D. St.. Anna of the Astonishingly Large Mallet converts the Surians to Christianity and blugons the rest with her cry "At lest this will get their attention!"

720 A.D. Mohammed declares himself a prophet of God and launches his first  Jihad The Moslems conquering Chaldea, Barbary, and large sections of  Lusatenia.

760 A.D. King Sigmund of Oldenia unites the Rawmian islands.

800 A.D. King Sigmund is crowned Emperor of Rawmia and Borea  by the Pope.

830 A.D.  Irene the Pious is declared Empress in  Eventine  as  the  Eventines  swear never to obey to the "Barbarian rabbit put forth by the Anti-Christ in Euducia". This begins the schism between the Greek and the Educia church.

1000 A.D.-1300 A.D. Anobora is torn by civil between the Pope and the Emperor. Their respective parties are known as the Guelf (Papist) and Ghibellines (Imperialist). This  breaks  the peninsula into the various states  that  exist today.

1235 A.D. The Vulture Cult, a secretive, ill reputed  Rawmian pagan cult, is banned by Emperor Frederick the IV  of Rawmia.

1242 A.D. The Gora conquer Eghan.

1260 A.D. The Halfling crusade begins with the St. Jerome day massacre of the Halflings of the city of Luvie in Suria starting the great and terrible Calogisian Crusade. The  Halflings had evolved their own peculiar form of  Christianity after their conversion by St. James the Lesser By Half that  the humans find revolting (that and can you really trust some  who refuses to wear no shoes anyway?). Thousands  die in the pogroms and purges that follow. The  Halfling population is reduced by half.

1289 A.D. The Trabozan conquer Eghan.

1300 A.D. Emperor  Ludwig the VI  dies fighting the  Guelfits  in Naples. His son Ludwig the V refuses the  Anoborian crown and the  Empire ceases as a political body of real power and the Emperor is  only a shadow ruler of the Rawmian Islands. Abandoned  the Ghibelline party is smashed in many areas by  the Guelfs. Not ones to rest on past laurels the victorious Guelfs promptly split into  the  White  and Black parties and  continue  to  methodically murder each other.
 (These three factions are still active in Anobora politics and the cause of a considerable amount of bloodshed. However by the date of the campaign the Pope  Emperor conflict has been largely forgotten by them.)

1311 A.D. The Surian King Jacob the Fair kidnaps the Pope and drags him  off  to Suria. The  Anborians, jealous, elect another Pope and the process  escalates until 1440 when  all six Popes are forced to abdicate (the other three were  considered too unimportant to notice).

1323 A.D. The Condiccians conquer Eghan.

1362 A.D. The black plague hits  Anobora. Half  the population dies.

1369 A.D.  The Halfling Mark Polofoot returns from a long journey  to the Orient with secrets of the Nijia.

1370 A.D.  Albert of Ostphilia is Elected Emperor  after  defeating Charles  of Meckleland. Albert, having forced very other Duke,  Margrave , or Count of the Rawmian Islands  to swear fealty to him  becomes  the first Emperor with real power.

1411 A.D.  Duke Niccoli of Metosa conquers northern Anobora except for Condiccia attempting to create a kingdom out of the area. Just as he is about to attack Estiva he dies from the plague.

1412 A.D. The Condiccians reconquer Eghan.

1413 A.D. The Yhule Sultan purges the Red Yhule from the  Yhule Empire. The Red Yhule claim it is because they were of a  different Muslim  sect. The  Yhule  say it is because the Red Yhule have  taken up demon worship. Many of the exiled Red Yhule take as mercenaries  and are imported as light cavalry as the Sradiotte.

1414 A.D.  Jonathan  Tabor, a theological professor in  the  Rawmian  human Aluman  population came up with new and austere version of  Christianity that was name after him, Taborism.

1420 A.D.  the  Trabozan concede defeat by the Rawmians  when Princess Clara of Trabozan marries Gunther the II of Rawmia in a bizarre, symbolic marriage .

1425 A.D. The Truce of Xanten is signed by the Emperor and the Rawmian nobility making the Tarborite religion tolerated in the Empire.

1458 A.D. King Stephen of Ruthania is killed at the battle of Nicolopius. The  Yhule  conquer Ruthania.

1459 A.D. The Lusitanians  conquer Eghan.

1462 A.D.  Emperor  Gunther the II of Rawmia defeats the   Yhule   at Al-Jasmier and the Turkish Sultan Al-Kammier is killed.

1475 A.D.  The Duchy of Mitosa conquers the Republic of Gora.

1481 A.D.  Duke  Erasmo of Fearro is poisoned by a  courtier  and civil war breaks out in the city between the Guelf and Giberlline fractions.

1483 A.D. Duke Fillipo Maria Marquis of Metosa crowns declares himself  king of Lotar , thus following in his father’s foot steps.

1483 A.D. Ferdinand, King of Lusatenia, is Elected King of Suria by the Surian Parliament after Casmir the IX dies without a legal heir

1484 A.D.  The  city of Fearro invites the Emperor  in  to  restore order and administer the city. While the Rawmian end the civil war Fearro finds itself the spring board for Imperial ambitions in Anonbora

1485 A.D.  Metosa takes Mantue over after a Marquis  inspired  plot opens the city to them.   Rawmia briefly conquers Eghan from the Lusitanians . Seeing what  they got  the  Rawmian  force it back on the Lusitanians  as  part  of  the Truce of Bologna in 1487.

1487 A.D. The renegade monk turned Taborite Salitorie leads the revolution of 1487, taking Estivia over form the De’ Meriggio dictatorship.

1486 A.D. The Estivan Taborites stage several raids of the Papal states.

1488 A.D. Present day.
 

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