Overview Timeline (Principia Moderni III Map Game)

This is the Official Timeline for the Principia Moderni III Univserse. It is divided by decade, and only major events are included.

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1400s
The 1400s as a Century were a very troubling time period. Conflicts raged across Europe and the Near East. At the same time, exploration began in earnest, with trade picking up. New technologies, like the caravel and printing press, emerged to better society. Also, religious reforms began, notably with the Great Schism of the Catholic Christian Churches.

1400s
The main conflicts of the early aughts involved the Personal Union between Poland and Lithuania. Their ruler, Wladyslaw Jagiello, saw an oppurtunity to take the burgeoning Muscovite nation, and leaped at it. This triggered the Great Northern War, which led to a temporary union between all three nations.

Upset by the change in the balance of power, Novgorod, Prussia, Pskov, and the Holy Roman Empire, led by Austria, then launched the Muscovite Crusade.

In the West, England and France managed to put their violent history behind them. England then worked to unite the British Isles, while France tried to control its feudal messes. Meanwhile, the Castilians took parts of Morocco to secure Gibraltar.

At the same time, Timur the Lame continues to conquer huge chunks of the Near East, including Damacus, which was under the Mamluk Sultanate. His holdings would not last, however, as a Civil War broke out near the end of the decade.

1410s
The Timurid Civil War continued into the early part of this decade. At first, new survivor states emerged in the Middle East, but most states end up in the Mamluk fold, who survived an invasion from Yemen, and even came out stronger with the vassalization of Yemen. The Mamluks also gained Mecca and Medina, Makuria and Alodia, as well as Mesopotamia.

In the New World, the Cahokian Civilization grew techonologically to incorporate iron into their military and tool-based assemblage of tools. The Incans and other Southern Tribes gained copper, triggering their Metal Revolution.

Wars continued to plague Euurope in this decade. The short, but influential Venetian-Padua Conflict led to an increase in the power of the Holy Roman Empire. In Northern Europe, the Norse Wars limited Nordic involvement in Europe. When the Holy Roman Empire, led by Austria, held its own, the United Nordic Crown underwent a Civil War, which resulted in a Swedish victory.

1420s
With both the Ottomans and the Mamluks struggling to fill the perceived power void left by the Timurid Civil War, tensions built up as vassals grew into contention. This triggered the Ottoman-Mesopotamian War, which spanned most of the decade - 1420 to 1427. When the Georgians intervened, however, the Ottomans gained the upper hand. This triggered a period of prosperity for the Georgians, while the Mamluks devolved into civil wars, largely fought over republicanism.

In Europe, Naples took over Tuscany peaceably, and a second, larger, war broke out over Cyprus, in which Castile gained the island. In Holland, floods destroyed villages early in the decade. The Austrians strengthened their grip on the Holy Roman Empire by inheriting Bohemia. At the same time, however, Hesse and Bavaria were growing in regional power, as well, while the Lowlands grew more and more distant from the Empire. Saxony was universally invaded by the Empire in 1929.

In the New World, Cahokia underwent a massive plague, which caused widespread havoc and a shrinking of both population and the nation's size. The Aztec Triple Alliance was also founded in this decade, as was the Colorado Confederation.

In the Far East, Japanese feudalism continued, but was interupted by an invasion from Ming China, that took place from 1424 to 1427.

1430s
In Europe, Naples' ruler, Ladislaus I, was crowned King of Italy by the Pope. Italy conquered Savoy in this decade as well. At the end of the decade, in 1439, Castile, Venice, and Austria all declared war on Morocco in the Second Morocco Crusade.

The Aztecs and Mayans both expanded by large amounts this decade. The Yucatan began to organize itself, using technology from its northern neighbors.

In the Near East, the Mamluk Sultanate was in all-out rebellion, continuations from the spill-over that resulted at the end of the Ottoman-Mesopotamian War.