Library:Scipia Timeline

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The page outlines important event in the histories of nations, situated on the continent of Scipia in Ajax. It is an arid continent, dominated by the Ninva Desert at its center. To its north lies the Periclean Sea, across which lies the continent of Belisaria. To its south lies the continent of Malaio, which Scipia borders by land. Scipia is comprised of the nations of Alanahr, Antilyea, Anyanwu, Aretias, Ascalzar, Charnea, Cyrassinia, Fahran, Itayana, Kembesa, M'Biruna, Mysia, Perateia, Sydalon, Talahara, Talakh, Tyreseia, Vardana, and Yisrael. The Nine Cousins of Sante Reze also either border or sit just off the coast of western Scipia.

Modern polities:

  - Sydalon
  - Yisrael
  - Aretias
  - Ascalzar
  - Talakh
  - Talahara
  - Tyreseia
  - Alanahr
  - Vardana
  - Mysia
  - Perateia
  - Fahran
  - Kembesa
  - M'Biruna
  - Charnea
  - Itayana
  - Khemetu
  - Sante Reze


Defunct polities:


Adjacent Entities:
  - Velikoslavia

  - Gran Aligonia

Prehistory-2000 BCE

1999-1500 BCE

  •   c. 1500 BCE (c. 1500 BCE): Kel Aman presence along the western Rubric Coast is attested by Aradian writings.

1499-1000 BCE

999-500 BCE

  •     c. 1000-900 BCE (c. 1000-900 BCE): The Kingdom of Ke'sem is founded in present-day Kembesa and Fahran by ancient She'dje speakers.
  •   887 BCE (887 BCE): The city of Perateia, today known as Leonople, was founded by Heliadic Gythacan colonists.
  •   842 BCE (842 BCE): The most-commonly accepted year for the foundation of the ancient city-state of Tyria, according to legend.
  •   c. 700 BCE (c. 700 BCE): The Kel Aman city-state of Manassa is founded and forms a hegemony over the western Rubric Coast and the Adras Mountains in the interior.
  •     c. 600 BCE (c. 600 BCE): The Kingdom of Ke'sem dissolves into the rival kingdoms of Melewa and Yebwi.
  •     500 BCE (500 BCE): The Confederation of Tamazgha is established in central Scipia, later expanding up to the coast of present-day Talahara.

499-400 BCE

399-300 BCE

299-200 BCE

  •   298 BCE (298 BCE): The city-states of Weskera, Manassa, Batana, and Rušadar break away from the Confederation of Tamazgha and form the First Kingdom of Talahara.
  •     c. 250 BCE (c. 250 BCE): The Kingdom of Talahara is conquered by the Nefzawan confederation of Kel Hadar tribes from the Adras Mountains, supported by Tyrian city-states.
  •   c. 230 BCE: Territories in what is today Sydalon are annexed by the ascent Latin Republic.
  •     214 BCE (214 BCE): The Kingdom of Yebwi conquers of Tongo-Tongo Kingdom of M'bala to the south.

199-100 BCE

  •     136 BCE (136 BCE): The Kingdom of Yebwi is wracked by civil war and its borders shrink under the consoldiation of the Endis dynasty.
  •   c. 129 BCE (c. 129 BCE): Nefzawan Talahara is made a client state of the Latin Empire following military conquest of the coast.

99-1 BCE

  •   62 BCE (62 BCE): Latin forces assist the House of Hiram in conquering the remnants of the Tyrian confederation in modern-day Tyreseia, ending the Tyrian civilization and ushering in eventual Latin rule of the region.

1-99 CE

100-199

  •     c. 129 BCE (c. 129 BCE): The Nefzawan dynasty in Talahara goes extinct leading to unrest across the region. After a Latin pacification campaign, the region is formally incorporated into the province of Aradia Ultima.

200-299

300-399

400-499

  •   485 CE (485 CE): Leo III Iovianus, the first recognized Perateian emperor, proclaims himself Latin Emperor and establishes his capital at Leonople, quickly assuming control of eastern provinces of the empire.

500-599

  •       526 CE (526 CE): Melewa expands into the eastern Ninva, consolidating the territory of Hatesha.

600-699

  •   Between 600 and 650: Yacuyare seafarers begin voyages into and across the Oorupaqi via the Paraguasurun islands.
  •   675: The commonly accepted year in which the Yacuyare come into contact with the Latin Empire in modern Yisrael.
  •     June 698: The Prophet Mesfin is born.

700-799

  •   October 762: Following the withdrawal of Latin legions, the Kel Aman expel the last Latin administrators from the region and found the Second Kingdom of Talahara, ruled by the Kutaman dynasty.
  •     October 771: The Almurid Caliphate is established by the Caliph Khuzayma.
  •   776 (776): The last Latin legion withdraws from New Tyria after decades of repeated defeat and loss of control of the periphery. Latin administrators are either swiftly ejected or reorganize their meager urban holdouts into city-states.

800-899

  •   April, 815: Zahir ibn Ja'far, a grandson of Khuzaymah, leads a host of Bedouin cavalrymen into Sulh, compelling the Ulemah to elect him as the Fifth Caliph. His ascension marks the beginning of the Halimid Caliphate.
  •   865 (865): Several east Tyresene city-states, centered around New Tyria, confederate into the First Sacred League to resist Halimid expansion.
  •   878 (878): Halimid military commander Shurahbil ibn al-Murrah conquers much of modern-day western Tyreseia and forces the capitulation of the city-state of Coptia, now known as Oyat.

900-1000

  •     902-906: The Halimid Caliphate invades Talahara from the sea, forcing capitulation after four years of war.

1000-1099

  •   1006: The Kingdom of Sante Reze forms by Rezese leaders sailing west and overthrowing their ruling clan cousins in Oxidentale.
  •   c. 1050 (c. 1050): Kaiponu Tauā mercenaries from the Tahamaja Empire establish forts and trading posts on the Janubi coast leading to intermittent conflict and commerce.
  •     1055: The Kutaman dynasty launches a coup against the Gharib governors of Talahara and restores the Second Kingdom.
  •   1058 (1058): Tyresene city-states remaining under Gharib suzerainty begin a decade-long breakaway struggle from Halimid control.
  •   1095: Presbyter Princeps Euphrosynos V of the Coptic Nazarene Church establishes the Collegium bibliothecae tyriensis in New Tyria as a center of learning; in modern times the Collegium becomes the National University of Tyreseia.

1100-1199

  •     1126-1133: A Talaharan and Tyrian trade conflict breaks out into war. Peace is concluded after a Talaharan land invasion is decisively thwarted, leaving Talahara in a disadvantaged position.

1200-1299

  •   1216: The Kutaman dynasty of Talahara is deposed by the Zwawan Confederation.
  •   1237: The Kingdom of Sydalon is established following the First Scipian Crusade.

1300-1399

  • *   April 5, 1323 (1323-04-05): Bizan Hazarasp establishes the Hazaraspid dynasty, and gains control over the Kalzashi mountain tribes and bordering Perateian provinces in what is now Vardana.
  •   1336: Ihemod is born.
  •   1355-1357: Ihemod invades Deshret and Tebua, establishing the Empire of Charnea with its capital in Agnannet.
  •     December 30, 1353 (December 30, 1353): The eruption of Mount Siriwang destroys the Tahamaja Empire and Ozerosi influence recedes from the continent following widespread coastal destruction.
  •     1367 (1367): The Ihemodian invasion of the southern Caliphate sees the destruction of the ancient city of Melewa and the regional court relocates to Azwa.
  •     1370-1345: The Tenerians, led by Ihemod, invade the Zwawan Confederation to restore the borders of ancient Tamazgha. The Zwawans are forced to capitulate in 1375.
  •   1390: Ihemod dies.
  •     1393-1396 (1393-1396): The countries of Janubia, Masara, Meharia, and Degama secede from the rump state of Ihemod's empire.

1400-1499

  •     1412: The Tenerians are expelled from the Rubric Coast by a Kel Aman revolt and the Third Kingdom of Talahara is established.
  •   1468: The Scipian Rezese-dominated cities federate into the Nine Cousins to present a more unified political power in both Sante Reze and western Scipia.
  •     1474: Vitomir I announces his support for the Kastamonites dynasty in the succession dispute after the death of Philip III.

1500-1599

  •     1531: The Awakar rebellion causes the collapse of the Charnean Empire. Alanahr breaks away from Tenerian rule. The Ihemodian remnants reorganize into the Awakar Confederacy.

1600-1699

  •       1611-1617: Talahara wages a war of territorial expansion against the Ihemodian rump state of Awakar. The territory gained provides Talahara with increased commercial access to the southwest and sees the expansion of the Talaharan slave trade.
  •       1670-1677 (1670-1677): Janubi, Fahrani, and Vardanan forces unite to remove Mutulese influence from the island of Barriset. The war ends in defeat for the Scipian coalition.

1700-1799

  •   1711-1734 (1711-1734): Janubi ports are closed to prevent the spread of plague. Domestic unrest is put down by the household soldiers of the Gidonid dynasty. Kembesa enters into a period of relative isolationism.
  •     1713-1715: The First West Scipian War.
  •   March 20, 1715: The Proclamation of the Kingdom of Yisrael and crowning of the first Jewish king since the destruction of the Second Temple.
  •     1722: The second Talaharan invasion of the Awakari Empire ends in failure.
  •   September 20, 1734: The Roth family establishes a small import-export bank called the Roth Company in Ashkelon under royal patronage.
  •   1750: The northernmost territory of the Nine Cousins, Ypau Yisaz, is sold to Yisrael to fund the rebuilding of the Rezese navy. Tens of thousands of Rezese, including many of the city's Jewish population, begin to abandon the city, devastating its economy.
  •   1750s: The Arthuristan Illumination began to influence Yisraeli elites and the Yisraeli Crown.
  •     July 19, 1759 (1759-07-19): Prince Basil Kamytzes, commonly recognized as the first monarch of Aretias, is granted the appanage of Aretias by his father Emperor Athanasios I Kamytzes.

1800-1899

  •   1813-1823: The reign of Reuven of Ashkelon as Nasi under King Nechemia I establishes a foothold of officials, government reforms, and structures guided by classical liberal thought in the Yisraeli Court.
  •   March 29, 1834 (1834-03-29) to June 20, 1838 (1838-06-20): The Talaharan Civil War sees the Third Kingdom overthrown by the liberal Republic of Talahara which is subsequently deposed by anarchists leading to the foundation of the United Communes.
    •     1836: Northwestern Talahara is invaded by Yisrael during the conflict which establishes a colonial protectorate.
  •     August 8, 1839 (1839-08-08): Aretias becomes a tributary to the Hazaraspid Kingdom.
  •   1858-1879: The Yematid dynasty ascends to the throne of the Kingdom of Meharia and launches a war of expansion, conquering the Principality of Degama and the Duchy of Masara.
  •   March 14, 1883 (1883-03-14): The provisional Tyreseian Republic is overthrown in a military coup d'etat led by Azmelqart Xidduni, ushering in the Workers' Federation.
  •     1890: The Rubric Coast Consortium is formed between the syndicalist states of Talahara and Tyreseia.
  •   1891: King Meir II, upon the advice of advisors from a conservative faction at the Yisraeli Court, establishes the Royal Yisraeli Special Political Police to enforce the White Terror.

1900-1999

  •   1901: Following trends in Belisaria and agreeable to the growing notion of popular consent from liberal circles inside the Crown, King Meir II establishes an advisory body called the Knesset elected from a limited franchise.
  •     1915-1918: The Second West Scipian War.
  •   November 4, 1919: The 1919 Revolution in Yisrael breaks out after King Nechemia II cracks down on liberal dissent after the conclusion of the Second West Scipian War. The liberal revolution succeeds after less than two months of fighting between loyalists to the Crown and the Yisraeli constitutional liberal faction.
  •     1919: Talahara invades southeastern Yisrael and annexes the Timna Strip, a region home to a Kel minority group with rich but unexploited oil reserves.
  •   September 3, 1920: The 1920 Constitution is ratified by the constitutional liberal-backed Constitutional Assembly in Yerushalayim. Yisrael becomes a constitutional monarchy. King Josiah III, Nechemia's more liberal son, is crowned and takes the throne after a 9-month regency.
  •   1920-1925: Modernists seize power in Agnannet, reform the Awakar Confederacy into the Second Charnean Empire.
  •   January 12, 1924 (1924-01-12): Aretias becomes a Vardani tributary.
  •   April 5, 1924 (1924-04-05): The First Republic of Vardana is established following the overthrow and execution of Tiridates V Hazarasp.
  •   February 14, 1928 (1928-02-14): Perateian Emperor John XIV Anicius inherits the Latin throne and results in a personal union of Latium and Perateia.
  •   Late 1920s-1930s: A two-party system emerges in Yisrael between the center-left Constitutional Liberal Party, the heirs of the constitutional liberal faction and victors of the 1919 Revolution, and the right-of-center Royalist Conservative Party, the remnants of the supporters of Nechemia II and reactionaries opposed to the liberalization under the 1920 Constitution.
  •   1930: The Kingdom of Meharia invades and conquers the Kingdom of Janubia during the Hanaki War. King Mengesha III Yemata founds the Empire of Kembesa.
  •     1932: Yisrael invades Gran Aligonia during a point of weakness for the island nation and installs a colonial protectorate that lasts until 1951.
  •   1936: Clamour for reform in the Empire of Kembesa results in liberalization and the introduction of a constitution.
  •     1940-1941: Phase I of the The Third West Scipian War. Phase I lasts only a few months and leads to an ignominious defeat of Yisrael by Sydalon. Sydalon all-but-imposes a peace treaty on Yisrael, in which it occupies the southern Yarden River Valley (which it legally claims), ordered war reparations, created military limitations and economic sanctions, and put in place other conditions humiliating to the Yisraelis. A dovish accomodationist caretaker government is formed due to the treaty.
  •   December 4, 1941: General David Azoulay overthrows the "peace government" in a military coup d'etat using elements of the remaining Royal Yisraeli Army.
  •   1941-1951: Yisrael is ruled by the authoritarian-nationalist Autocracy regime.
  •     1945-1947: Agala secedes from Charnea, leading to the Agala War and Teno-Itayana border war.
  •   April 5, 1948 (1948-04-05): Samuel Najaryan initiates a successful military coup and becomes Paramount Leader of Vardana.
  •       1949: Phase II of the Third West Scipian War. After the so-called "Long Pause" of the 3rd WSW from 1941, in 1949 war breaks again as General Azoulay and his Autocracy government, rearmed and resupplied by a secretive overseas operation, launches a surprise attack on the Sydalenes that evicts them from the Yarden River Valley and occupies parts of southern, western, and southeastern Sydalon in a reverse of outcome of Phase I.
  •         1950-1951: The Year of Blood. Just a year after emerging triumphant over Sydalon, the bloodiest civil war since the Second Temple era erupts in January 1950. Two concurrent rebellions - the initial leftist uprising, which organizes into the Socialist Front of Yisrael, and the liberal-conservative Constitutionalist faction, which follows shortly thereafter - do battle against the loyalists to the Autocracy regime and against themselves. In the course of the fighting, the Empire of Yisrael collapses, as Yisrael loses its occupations in Sydalon and its protectorates in Tarshish and Gran Aligonia. Tens of thousands are killed or injured. The ideological extremism and animosity led to brutal massacres and atrocities. The Azoulayists and the Socialist Front both were defeated and its remnants surrendered to the Constitutionalists, who established a Provisional Government to restore the 1922-1940 constitutional order.
  •     1951: The Liberation of Kirthan sees Talahara overthrow the Yisraeli Protectorate of Tarshish.
  •   1952-2006 (1952-2006): Dissatisfaction with enacted reforms leads to further civil unrest in Kembesa. A militant orthosocialist movement embarks on a long-term campaign of violence against the Kembesan state until it is dismantled.
  •   1952: The Kingdom of Yisrael is reestablished and a special election held to elect its first president, which is won overwhelmingly by Asher Berkowitz, the head of the Constitutionalists and the acting Prime Minister of the Provisional Government.
  •   1952-1976: Yisrael enters its "Open Fifties" era, which is marked by a broad liberalization of society, culture, and family life, including the establishment of a limited welfare state, public entitlements, broad-based civil rights, and increase in secularization.
  •   1957: Military crackdown results in Agnannet Crush, killing hundreds.
  •     1964-1966: The Fourth West Scipian War. Yisrael is invaded after an escalation of diplomatic tit-for-tats by Sydalon, which avows to annex the whole of the Jewish kingdom under its Christian flag. An international coalition of unlikely powers joins to help Yisrael fend off the Sydalene onslaught.
  •     1968-1974: The Yarden peace process began with the election of Constitutional Liberal President Boaz Benayoun and his plan to formally end frequent conflict with Sydalon.
  •   1968-1974: The Late Sixties Crisis erupts during the term of President Benayoun, which is characterized by increasing radical left-wing activity, legislation, cultural events, and mass protests. This activity invites a conservative reaction, which coalesces into an strident opposition to the political project of the Open Fifties, as well as to the Yarden peace process.
  •     1973: The Yarden Accords are struck between Sydalon and Yisrael.
  •   April 18, 1974: President Benayoun is assassinated by an opponent of the Yarden Accords.
  •   1974: Hatha begins November offensive, informal start of the Ninvite War.
  •   1976: The election of Conservative President Binyamin Schwartz ushers in the end of the Open Fifties and the beginning of the Schwartz Revolution, which is characterized by a conservative and religious turn in society and culture.
  •     mid-1980s-late 2010s: Sydalon-Yisrael relations enter their "friendly" era.
  •   c. 1983-1986 (c. 1983-1986): President of the Regency Arman Boghossian initiates an autocoup, resulting in a brief civil war and the eventual establishment of the Second Republic of Vardana.
  •   1997: President Adom Greenbaum becomes entangled in a corruption scandal and resigns the presidency. His Vice-President, Yanky Fishbein, becomes president, eventually earning the moniker "the honest one in-between the wicked ones."
  •   1998: The Yisraeli political world watches to their horror as geopolitical patron and top ally Arthurista undergoes a left-wing syndicalist revolution that overthrows the aristocratic constitutional monarchy. Yisraeli foreign policy is considered adrift until the Yisraelis pivot towards Latium and Lihnidos in the mid-2000s under President Eitan Herzog.

2000-present

  •   2016-present (2016-present): Orthosocialist militant activity in Kembesa resumes.
  •           January 1, 2019-present (January 1, 2019-present): The Fahrani Civil War.