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
pre-27,000 BCE		Humans arrive in Asteria Superior and into the vicinity of what is modern day Cassier.
pre-14,900 BCE		The Bison Spearhead, found in Breloux.
14,000 BCE		A rise in global temperature cause the glaciers to begin retreating, allowing Paleo-Asterians to move increasingly far north.
12,500 BCE		The Normer paintings in Sombre Cave, located in New Sylvagne, are created.
7,000 BCE		The earliest evidence of human habitation of Terre-Belle is dated to this time.
3,000–2,000 BCE		The indigenous peoples of the Southwest and Weanoke River begin cultivating quash, maize and beans.
3,000 BCE		Paleo-Borealians begin to settle in northernmost reaches of Cassier.

12th century

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

15th century

Year	Date	Event
1488		Badawiyan navigator Assim Asteris arrives on Île du Édouard, Terre-Belle, and claims the land for the Crown of Caldia.

16th century

Year	Date	Event
1500s		Euclean mariners establish seasonal outposts and settlements on Cassier's western coast in the Gulf of Chicadia and Dumont Bay.
1534	25 April	Explorer Rogerin Dumont lands at the mouth of the Saint Marcus River and claims what is present-day western Cassier for the Kingdom of Gaullica, naming the land "New Gaullica".
1535-36		Dumont, with six ships and 220 men, conducts his second voyage and returns to Cassier. He sails up the St. Marcus River and establishes several forts throughout the region.
1540-1545		The last of the Ghaillish settlements in the Gulf of Chicadia and Terre-Belle become largely abandoned.
c. 1580		The Ganonsyoni peoples inhabiting the St. Marcus basin disappear due to internal and external pressures. Their disappearance opens up the region for Euclean settlement, particularly Gaullicans.

17th century

Year	Date	Event
1603		Explorer Nathan de Beaumont ventures into the Cassien interior and becomes the first documented Euclean to reach Lake Beaumont. His exhibition would also discover gold and other precious metals in what is now Breloux, sparking a gold rush.
1605	5 June	The St. Marcus colony with its capital of Monbec is founded by Beaumont, marking the beginning of Gaullican rule in Cassier.
1608	7 September	The city of Bellevue in what is now New Sylvagne is founded at the site of Fort St-Charles.
1609	14 September	Michel Masson, a notable merchant, explorer, navigator and colonial administrator, is born in Monbec City.
1610		The city of Porte-Calme is founded is what is now Terre-Belle.
1622	15 August	The city of Sainte-Marie is founded by Gaullican colonists near the site of a fort by the same name.
1640-99		Growing demand for Asterian Superior beaver pelts in conjunction with an increasing Euclean population and tensions over land rights culiminates in the Fur Wars, which sees various indigenous groups fight against each other.
1665-66		The first census of New Gaullica is conducted.
1670	1 June	The colonies of Chicadia and Terre-Belle are established.
1670	6 October	The Dumont Bay Company is chartered in order to monopolize the burgeononing fur and precious metals trade.
1671		The St. Marcus colony is split between the colonies of Upper and Lower Cassier.
1680		The Land Act of 1680 encourages Gaullican immigration to the New Gaullican colonies, authorizing 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 First Nations is signed in Sainte-Marie, bringing an official end to the Fur Wars.

18th century

Year	Date	Event
1721		The Gilded Wars result in the Gaullican acquisition of the colonies in what is present-day Rizealand.
1728	7 March	The Rayenne Decree is proclaimed, granting Gaullicans the rights to live and settle in any colony controlled by Gaullica.
1729		Victory in the Pereramonic Wars sees the Gaullican acquisition of the colony of Nou Remena, marking the beginning of the period known as the Gaullican ascendancy.
1729	22 April	Vivien Gérin-Lajoie, general, statesman, and leader of the Patriote Movement, is born in Rivière-Rouge, Upper Cassier.
1750		New Sylvagne is seperated from Chicadia as its own colony.
1753	1 – 9 September	The Verlois Conference; the first of several meetings discussing New Gaullica's status within the Gaullican empire, is held in the Gaullican capital of Verlois.
1757	1 July	The Contiental Decree of 1757 confederates the five colonies of New Gaullica; Upper Cassier, Lower Cassier, New Sylvagne, Chicadia, and Terre-Belle; into the Domain of Cassier.
1757	14 October	The 1st Cassien colonial assembly covenes in Sainte-Marie; the legislative capital of Cassier.
1761	10 January	Robin Bouillers; a popular Chicadian politician and figurehead from New Sylvagne, publishes the panthlet "Pensée Rationnelle" which criticizes the Cassien colonial government and advocates for Chicadia's seperation from Cassier.
1762	8 June	The Cassien colonial assembly passes the Favouritism Act which heavily taxed intercolonial commerce, all but forcing Cassien merchants to exclusively trade with Gaullica.
1762	23 August - November 24	Outraged from the colonial government's violation of terms made in Great Settlement of 1699, Jean Maraux; a freedom fighter of Métis heritage, launches a revolt against the Cassien colonial government, beginning the Maraux Rebellion. The revolt reached is climax on November 24 which saw Maraux's forces decisively defeat the colonial forces sent to quash the rebellion at the Battle of Pinsbourg, in what is present day Beaumont.
1762	25 December	Negotiations between the rebels and the Cassien government resulted in the Christmas Day Agreement, which saw the colonial government grant considerable concessions and resulted in the creation the district of Beaumont. Though successful in ending the rebellion, the agreement was deeply unpopular among the Cassien public.
1763	January - 4 April	Protests against the increasingly unpopular colonial government take place throughout Cassier. The provincial and colonial governments respond harshly, resulting in the imprisonment or forceful relocation of hundreds.
1763	May - October	Robin Bouillers and other politicians either critical of the Cassien government, supportive of the protestors, or both are forced to resign from their positions in the colonial assembly. Bouillers began writing his final panthlet; "Esprit de Raison"; but died from food poisoning before its completion. An altered version of his panthlet calling for Chicadian independence was be published posthumously.
1764	13 June - 10 August	Gaullican and colonial forces are engaged by militamen in the provinces of New Sylvange and Chicadia. A rebel victory in the Battle of Bouleauville forces the evacuation of Gaullican and colonial forces from Bellevue.
1764	21 September - 9 October	A group of would-be leaders assemble in the village of St. Croix, New Sylvagne, in order to discuss the rapidly deteriorating situation in Cassier and the other Gaullican colonies in Asteria Superior. After their request to negotiate with the colonial government was angrily rebuffed they would issue the St. Croix declaration, marking the beginning of the Patriote Rebellion.