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.
1609	14 September	Michel Masson, notable merchant, explorer, navigator and colonial administrator, is born in Monbec, Saint Marcus colony.
1610		Port Calme is established by Gaullican colonists, founding the colony that would become known as Terre-Belle.
1622	15 August	A fort at present-day Sainte-Marie is founded by Gaullican colonists.
1629	25 November	A fort at present-day Saint-Célestin is founded by Gaullican colonists.
1640-99		Demand for Asterian Superior beaver pelts rises coupled with a 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 results in the Gaullican acquisition of the Caldish colonies of New Estmere and Sheah. New Gaullica's southern border is clarified.
1728	7 March	The Rayenne Convention is signed, establishing the westernmost boundery between New Gaullica and New Estmere to the Dummont River.
1729		Victory in the Pereramonic Wars sees the colony of Nou Remena acquired by Gaullica. The period known as the Gaullican ascendancy begins in Asteria Superior.
1729	22 April	Vivien Gérin-Lajoie, general, statesman, and leader of the Patriote Movement, is born in Rivière-Rouge, Upper Cassier.
1749		Cheboctoc is founded by Gaullican colonists, founding the colony that would become known as Chicadie. Cobequid's War would but would ultimately be defeated and driven further north.
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.
1757	14 October	The 1st Cassien Parliament covenes in Sainte-Marie, the legislative capital of Cassier.
1762	10 January	Politician and prominant Whig Robin Boulle publishes a panthlet "Esprit de Mère" which advocates for Cassien independence.
1763	8 June	Robin Boulle and many other pro-republican or radical Whigs are arrested for "disturbing the peace", generating outrage among their supporters and sympathizers.
1763	29 November - 5 March	The Sons of the North led by Jean Maraux mount the Maraux rebellion against the colonial government in Upper Cassier. Gaullican authorities regain control after assenting to many of Maraux's demands, including the creation of the province of Beamount.
1764-65	26 February - 3 June	The Battle of Beauporte, followed by the Siege of Belleview, sees Gaullican and colonial forces engaged by militamen in the province of New Sylvange.
1765	10 August	A rebel victory in the Battle of Bouleauville sees the evacuation of Gaullican and colonial forces from Belleview. Rebel leaders issue the St. Croix declaration, proclaiming Cassier's independence from the Gaullican Empire and marking the beginning of the Patriote Rebellion.