Timeline of Cassien history

This is a brief timeline of the history of Cassier, comprising important social, economic, political, military, legal, and territorial changes and events in Cassier.

Prehistory

Year	Date	Event
14,000 BCE		At some unknown time prior to this date, Paleo-Asterians arrive in the southernmost areas of modern day Cassier.
14,000 BCE		Glaciers that covered Cassier began melting, allowing Paleo-Asterians to move north into mainland Cassier.
4,000 BCE		Most likely period of ongoing early settlement of southern Terre-Belle by indigneous peoples.
3,000–2,000 BCE		Indigenous peoples of the northeast begin to cultivate different types of squash.
3,000 BCE		Paleo-Borealiens begin to settle in northernmost reaches of Cassier and Terre-Belle.

12th century

Year	Date	Event
1200s CE		Paleo-Borealians cross Haillet's Sea from northeastern Cassier and reach George Ruset Land.

15th century

Year	Date	Event
1488		Badawiyan navigator Assim Asteris lands in the Barrier Islands and claims the land for the Crown of Caldia. The precise location of Asteris' landing is widely debated but generally believed to be on the island of Île-du-Édouard, Terre-Belle.

16th century

Year	Date	Event
1500s		Euclean mariners from Caldia, Varienland, and Estmere establish seasonal outposts and settlements on Cassier's western coast in the Gulf of Chicadie.
1534	25 April	Explorer Rogerin Dummont conducts his first voyage. He explored the Gulf of Chicadie and the Saint Marcus river, claiming the land for the Kingdom of Gaullica.
1535-36		Dummont with six ships and 220 men returned to Cassier. He sailed up the Saint Marcus river and reached the Hauronian villages in what is now Monbec City and Sainte-Marie.
1540-1545		Ghaillish colonists establish a settlement near Port Calme, Terre-Belle but is soon abandoned.
c. 1580		The Ganonsyoni peoples disappeared from the Saint Marcus river valley due to internal and external pressures. Their disappearance opened up the Saint Marcus river valley to Euclean traders, especially Gaullicans who would soon be dominant in the region.

17th century

Year	Date	Event
1603		Explorer Nathan de Beaumont ventured further inland in what would become the colony of Upper Cassier and became the first documented Euclean to reach Lake Beaumont in central Cassier. His exhibition would also discover gold in the upper Saint Marcus watershed and spark the first Cassien gold rush.
1605	5 June	Gaullican colonists establish the first permanent Euclean settlement in Cassier at Monbec, founding the Saint Marcus colony that would later become known as Lower Cassier.
1608	7 September	Belleview is established by Gaullican colonists, founding the colony that would become known as Nouvelle-Sylvagne.
1610		Port Calme is established by Gaullican colonists, founding the colony that would become known as Terre-Belle.
1622	15 August	Fort Sainte-Marie is founded by Gaullican colonists.
1629	25 November	Fort Saint-Célestin is founded by Gaullican colonists.
1640-99		Demand for the dwindling Asterian Superior beaver pelts, the large increase in Euclean colonists further following the discovery of gold and tensions over land rights culiminates in the Fur Wars.
1665-66		The first census of Asteria Superior is conducted.
1670	6 October	The Dummont Bay Company is formed to monopolize the burgeononing Asterian fur and precious metals trade.
1671		The Saint Marcus colony is split into Upper and Lower Cassier
1680		The Settlement Act of 1680 encouraged Euclean immigration to New Gaullica, authorized colonial governments to issue land grants to prospective settlers and provided incentives among colonists to encourage population growth.
1699	1 May	The Great Settlement of 1699, between the colonies of New Gaullica and numerous First Nations, is signed in Sainte-Marie to end the Fur Wars.

18th century

Year	Date	Event
1721		The Gilded Wars ends in a Gaullican victory over Caldia, leading to Gaullican control over the colonies of New Estmere and Sheah. New Gaullica's southern border is clarified.
1729		Gaullica's victory in the Pereramonic Wars sees the colony of Nou Remena acquired by Gaullica. The period of Gaullican hegemony in Asteria Superior; the Gaullican ascendancy, begins.
1749		Cheboctoc is founded by Gaullican colonists, founding the colony that would become known as Chicadie. The Souriquois peoples of the region attempt to resist but are ultimately driven further north to Lower Cassier.
1753	1 – 9 September	The Verlois Conference, the first of several meetings that would discuss Cassier's status within the Gaullican empire, is held in Verlois.
1757	1 July	The Gaullican Asterian Superior Act of 1757 joins the five colonies of New Gaullica; Upper Cassier, Lower Cassier, Nouvelle-Sylvagne, Chicadie, and Terre-Neuve, into a confederated state called the Domain of Cassier.
1763		Many pro-republican and radical Whigs are arrested or have their publicians banned for "disturbing the peace", sparking outrage among their supporters and moderates.