Timeline (Superpowers)

This is the timeline for the Superpowers alternate history. A basic outline for the changes in the timeline can be found on the original page.

Before year 1

 * 2000 BC - Establishment of the Mayan civilization
 * 27 BC - Formation of the Roman empire

IInd century

 * 156 - Birth of Gaius Correlus Sulla
 * 173 - Adoption of Correlus by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
 * 180 - Death of Marcus Aurelius. Gaius Correlus Sulla becomes Emperor Sulla I
 * 192/195 - Emperor Sulla personally commands 6 legions across the Rhine, devastating the Barbarian lands and bringing home bounty of riches in metals and slaves

IIIrd century

 * 201/206 - Hugely popular with the Senate, Emperor Sulla brings 5 of his battle hardened legions into the Pict lands in the north of Brittania, conquering all of the large settlements of Caledonia. He leaves two legions to finish the job and start settling the area
 * 212 - Sullan Edict grants all inhabitants of Roman territories full citizenship, regardless of religion or ethnicity
 * 223 - Establishment of Correlia on the major ford of the river Clyde
 * 228 - After 48 long years as emperor, Gaius Correlus Sulla dies and is succeeded by his adopted son, Gaius Marcus Sulla, or Emperor Marcus I
 * 284/295 - Construction of the Great Judean Wall along the empires eastern border. It is the grandest defensive structure of the Ancient world, constituting 3 separate walls, each capable of withstanding direct hits from all but the largest siege engines

IVth century

 * 314 - End of the conquest of Hibernia, with a full Roman presence established
 * 324 - Beginning of the reign of the 8th Good Emperor, Constantine I
 * 330 - Due to the growing Christian presence (54% of the population), Constantine puts forth the Edict of Milan, officially changing the state religion of the empire to Christianity. The senate votes for it, almost unanimously, due to the high concentration of Christians in the upper class
 * 335 - Founding of Constantinopolis, a city mean't to become the Christian capital of the empire
 * 394 - Birth of Qhich'en Ch'onle Mayapan, the man who would unite the Mayan people
 * 395 - Death of the 10th and final Good Emperor, whose son now heads the empire

Vth century

 * 410 - Capture of king Alaric I after a failed attack on the Roman border
 * 419 - Qhich'en accidentally discovers gunpowder through his experiments
 * 428 - Invention of the Mayan wheel by Quich'en, followed by its implementation by the head of his city-state
 * 431 - Quich'en is hailed as being a vessel for the thoughts of the Gods and so is placed upon the seat of power in his nation
 * 439 - Through his divine image, over 40 of the largest Mayan city-states join the newly named city of Mayapan, under Emperor Mayapan I
 * 442 - Capture of the city of Teotihuacan, which becomes the new Mayan capital
 * 444/453 - Germanic Wars between the Roman Empire and various Barbaric people led by the jointly chosen King Attila I. Ends with the Romans conquering all of Germania up to the Vistula river
 * 457 - Death of Mayan emperor Mayapan I, after having conquered nearly all of Mesoamerica
 * 476 - Establishment of the first settlements of the Hunnic empire
 * 482 - Usurpation of the Hunnic empire by Frankish representative Clovis, who became King Clovis I of the Frankish Union
 * 496 - Conversion of Frankish king Clovis I to Roman Christianity following a daring visit by Pope Gelasius I

VIth century

 * 510/515 - Reformation of the Roman Navy by Emperor Scipio II, making it 250,000 men strong and cosisting almost entirely of Deceres, supported by swifter quiqueremes
 * 532/534 - Graecian Civil War. A force of 100,000 Greeks attempts a rebellion accros the province of Macedonia, eventually leading to the Battle of Constantinople. The virtually unprotected city would have been taken had the legions under General Gnaeus Fablius Comptus not arrived to quell the rebellion in time
 * 534 - Creation of the Validian Codex, a complete reformation of the old Roman laws
 * 539/545 - The Nubian Wars, which leads to the conquest of the Nobatians, Makurians and Alwans by the Romans
 * 553 - Start of the silk trade between Rome and China
 * 567 - Roman monk attempts to reform the calendar system to be numbered based on the birth of Iesus, but it is rejected by popular vote of the Senate and the Emperor Comptus I
 * 588 - Founding of the city of Chichen Itza by the Mayan Empire
 * 590 - Creation of the first Mayan bomb, a simple hand thrown weapon filled with flint
 * 595 - Founding of the new Frankish capital of Kiev, named in honor of the Slavic tribes which joined the Union

VIIth century
War (661-680)
 * 610 - Mayan emperor Ch'anqua II makes his native language, Nahuatl, the main language of the empire, forcing its learning upon the populace
 * 615/618 - Sassanid Wars. Due to his excessive spending, Roman emperor Tiberius III sends 4 legions to raid the Sassanian lands for valuables. Among the plunder are a set of artifacts dubbed by the Romans as "Ampulae Iovae", or "Bottles of Jupiter"
 * 622 - Hegira. Islamic expansion begins
 * 625 - Nahua influence becomes dominant culture in the Mayan Empire
 * 636 - Muslims repulsed by the Roman legions at the Battle of the Yarmuk
 * 639 - Arab forces crush Sassanians at the Battle of Nehavend, fall of the Sassanian Empire
 * 642 - Arabs begin a rapid expansion to the East
 * 649 - Perfection of the Ampulae design, beginning of the electroplating industry
 * 655 - The Frankish Union attempts an invasion of the Roman empire, beginning the Second Germanic Wars (655-659)
 * 657 - King Pakal II (Pacal the Great) ascends to the Mayan throne, causing a second age of Mayan expansion
 * 661 - Due to the Arabs expansion to the north they encouter the Frankish Union, which starts the Caucasian
 * 666 - Mayan engineers discover how to cast metals and then forge them into various shapes
 * 675 - Arabs halt expansion to the east to lend more forces to the war with the Franks
 * 680 - Death of the much loved Arabic Caliph Muhammad Utharman Ali, all forces are withdrawn so that there may be a full year of mourning
 * 691 - Rome is the most populous city in the world with a population of 4 million, all sustained by its massive infrastructure of roads, aqueducts and piping

VIIIth century

 * 701 - Birth of Roman philosopher Gaius Archaedavincus Acutula
 * 714 - Mayan expansion halts at the Isthmus of Pakal (Isthmus of Panama) after all advance scouting parties fail to return from the Amazon
 * 724 - Invention of the Celerite Arquus (semi-automatic crossbow) by Archaedavincus
 * 727 - Death of King Pakal II who had the longest rule of any Mayan monarch
 * 734 - Archaedavincus invents the Testudo Invicto, an enormous siege machine which he claims can take a city with only a few men
 * 742 - Start of the Sunni-Shia Civil War (742-750) in the Arabian Empire
 * 747 - Archaedavincus discovers that metal with electrik flowing through it moves in the presence of magnetite
 * 749 - A method for repeatedly inscribing the same symbols on paper is develloped by Archaedavincus
 * 750 - Fracture of the Arabian Empire into two nations at peace, the Sunni Kingdom and the Shi'ite Republic
 * 758 - First Testudo built under careful supervision of Archaedavincus
 * 764 - A single Testudo accompanied by 1000 men is tested on the walled Arabian city of Susa, the city is ransomed back to the Muslims for a large quantity of gold
 * 771 - Emperor Valens I separates Rome's power into three capitals; Rome the political capital, Constantinople the economic capital and Carthage the military capital
 * 776 - The first printing house is set up in Constantinople
 * 789 - First Viking raid on Roman land, a monastery in the north of Brittania is pillaged
 * 798 - Roman Navy is brought up to the Armorican Strait to fend off continued Viking raids

IXth century
Shi'ites, leading to nearly every last one of them being massacred or converted
 * 805 - A simple electric motor is built in Paris
 * 809 - Invention of a rechargeable Ampulae in Naples
 * 817 - Viking raids reach their apogee
 * 819 - Roman explorers discover Iceland, which they name Frigerra
 * 822 - Battle of the Baltic, the first large naval battle that sets off the Danish Wars (822-824) between the Romans and the Vikings
 * 823 - Landing of the Northmen. On Augustus 6, 50,000 Viking bersekers land on the north-west coast of Gaul. They are met by 10,000 Roman legionnaires, and the Danes fought to the last man, whilst the Romans had only 100 or so men left
 * 823 - Viking ships reach Iceland and begin to settle there
 * 824 - Treaty of Londinium signed by Emperor Vespens and King Svorjberd, prohibiting Viking raids in the North and Baltic Seas, in exchange for Cimbria, known as Danemarc to the Vikings
 * 845 - A Jewish astronomer, known in Rome as Galileo (the Galilean), creates a simple refracting telescope by combining the power of two lenses
 * 851 - A major earthquake strikes Rome, destroying large portions of the city. Rebuilding and modernisation begins
 * 853 - Construction of the Turris Horologis, a 200 m tall mechanical clock tower in the center of Rome
 * 854/862 - The Islamic Crusade. Caliph Haran Ibn Cartal of the Sunni Kingdom declares holy war on the
 * 857 - Galileo brings together astronomical proof showing that Terra is not the center of the universe, but that it is the Sun
 * 858 - Completion of the Colossus Ingens to replace the damaged Colosseum. It has a 750 m wide fighting arena and could comfortably seat 350,000 spectators at once
 * 867 - The Palace of the Imperials is built over some of the ruins of the destroyed buildings
 * 872 - Mayan scientists discover an efficient way of launching a projectile with the explosive force of gunpowder
 * 876 - Founding of The Argentaria, the state owned bank set up in the Forum of Constantinople
 * 893 - The Mayans encounter the native peoples of the great plains and decide to use them as their new source of sacrificial victims
 * 897 - Development of something similar to a galley, in the Mayan Empire. Colonisation of the Gulf of Mexico begins

Xth century

 * 911 - Romans encounter the Danes in Iceland, beginning the Icelandic Wars (911-953)
 * 917 - In order to better fight the Icelandic Wars, Roman engineers design the Galleon, a huge sailing ship armed with many celerite arqui
 * 944 - The Danes get into fights with the Frankish Union due to their close borders, sparking the War of the North (944-955)
 * 953 - The Treaty of Reykjavík divides Iceland into an eastern Roman half and a western Viking half
 * 957 - The Viking Erik the Wise discovers the shore of Groenland (Greenland) and sets up a colony there
 * 961 - Erik uses his influences to take the throne of the Danish Kingdoms, and as king, enters into a trade agreement with the Romans
 * 979 - The united Sunni Arabs launch the First Jihad (979-1001) directed against the Roman empire, taking there lands near the Horn of Africa
 * 983 - Due to heavy loss of Roman land, Pope Urbanus III calls for a crusade against the Islamic world. Suddenly, 6 million able bodied Christians are signing up to join the Roman Legions in Egyptus
 * 986 - 2 million auxiliaries, 14 legions and 5 Testudo join the 6 legions holding back the Arabs from Herakleopolis
 * 989 - Battle of Thebes. Over half of both forces clash just 7 km east of Thebes, resulting in one of the bloodiest battles in human history
 * 995 - The majority of Roman forces are withdrawn from Egyptus, the crusade being considered a success
 * 998 - Development of the first handheld firearm in the Mayan empire

XIth century

 * 1001 - All Arab warriors are expelled from Africa and a stronger naval presence built to prevent their return
 * 1004 - Scientists in Alexandria design and build a fully functional electrik motor
 * 1006 - Roman General Gnaeus Moratius leads a massive rebellion of the Roman army, over their steadily decreasing wages
 * 1011 - Revolutionnaries take political control over the Brittanic Isles, using them as a base to raid Roman-Danish shipping lanes
 * 1012 - Panicked by recent events, a group of Senators assassinate Emperor Julianus I and take control of the state, next in line, Emperor Pellatius I flees to Constantinople to retain his power base
 * 1013 - The Revolutionaries in Brittania officially declare themselves Free Brittania
 * 1015 - Beginning of the Imperial Civil War (1015-1022) between the Western and Eastern Roman Empires
 * 1017 - 61 Native tribes north of the Mayan Empire form a coalition of sorts to join together against the Mayan threat
 * 1019 - Eastern Roman General Marcus Publius Pugnatus develops a unique style of hand-to-hand combat called Deluctatis, to aid in the increasing number of inner city battles during the civil war
 * 1022 - The East-West Roman border finally stabilizes but occasional skirmishes still occur
 * 1024 - Mayan emperor Palenk'ua III claims to have been given a revelation by the god Kinich Ahaw, saying that Ahaw is the only existing god, all the other deities being merely a "confusion" on the part of the priests, due to his great power
 * 1026 - Beginning of a Holy War (1026-1083) towards the south in the name of the Mayan's one god, now referred to only as Ahau
 * 1037 - The 61 Native tribes form a nomadic nation with over 200 other tribes, lead by a council of chiefs. This nation is known (in english) as the Great Chiefdom
 * 1043 - The Sunni Kingdom launches the Second Jihad (1043-1049), this time against the Frankish Union to the north
 * 1046 - The Mayans conquer most of the Western Antilles
 * 1049 - Caliph Hasim Ibn Kaluhke is killed in battle resulting in an internal struggle over control of the Sunni Kingdom
 * 1052 - Discovery of an unusual source of silver in the Californian region, workers in the area develop the "Sickness of Ahau", they're skin burns and eventually random organs fail
 * 1055 - Mayans decide to destroy the heavy waste product of the silver mines by collecting all of it and blowing it up with gunpowder, believing its removal will appease Ahau
 * 1056 - Disposal does not go as planned, the explosion is one thousand times as large as expected, vaporizing the surrounding area, whilst all those nearby developped the Sickness of Ahau
 * 1057 - Seljuk Turks begin their conquest of the Sunni Kingdom (1079-1091)
 * 1066 - Pope Aegranus I calls for all the Roman Christians to unite behind him, the Western Senate, General Moratius the Younger and the Eastern Emperor Pellatius II, are forced by the people to give power to the new Roman Emperor, Aegranus I. The title of Emperor and Pope become synonymous, and the Roman Golden Age begins
 * 1068/1075 - Complete reform of the Roman military, now consiting of 42 legions. Ergonomic plate armor becomes a staple of the legionnaires. Formation of the Cabellica, heavy cavalry arm of the Legions
 * 1087 - Roman geographers theorize the existence of a new continent to the far west, it is called Columbia, in honor of the current emperor
 * 1091 - Capture of Mecca by the Seljuk Turks, end of the Sunni Kingdom
 * 1092/1106 - Construction of the Wall of Europa on the border between the Romans and the Franks. It is considered a greater defensive structure than even the Judean Wall, particularly as it has a diverted river as a moat running along most of its length
 * 1094 - The Seljuk Empire adopts Islam as their official state religion

XIIth century

 * 1103 - The Turris Horologis is significantly improved. It is now run by an electrik motor powered by an array of hundreds of rechargeable Ampulae, recharged by lightining strikes to the Tower
 * 1111 - Unable to penetrate the Judean Wall, the Seljuk Turks turn eastward to try and conquer India (1111-1131)
 * 1123 - Viking settlers arrive at North America and slaughter a group of natives
 * 1125 - Establishment of the Viking city of Røngsbruk in North America
 * 1130 - A Christian revolt in the Danish city of Veerståndt is crushed by the local citizens, unofficial executions of Christians start to occur throught the Nordic Empire
 * 1142 - Romans send three galleons to find the continent of Columbia
 * 1143 - Roman explorers arrive on the shore of Hispaniola and immediately send two of the ships to report back
 * 1146 - Seven galleons full of settlers and supplies set out to colonize the newly discovered lands
 * 1147 - Establishment of the city Colona, with the purpose of preparing to build a large colonial city in the New World
 * 1149 - Colona reaches a population of 20,000
 * 1156 - Creation of "acceptably" efficient electrical wires, in the Roman Empire
 * 1157 - Learning from history, Roman emperor Magnus I sends out several legions to raid Muslim lands for colonial funding
 * 1158 - Seeing how little the Turkish soldiers could do against the advanced arms and armor of the legionnaires, Magnus I sends a force of two legions to take the Muslim capital and everything in between, beginning the Arabian War (1158-1161)
 * 1160 - Capture of Mecca by Roman forces
 * 1162 - Birth of Temuchin in the Mongol Steppes
 * 1168 - Great Chiefdom reaches from the west to east coast of North Columbia
 * 1173 - Colona reaches a population of 200,000 due to heavy immigration
 * 1177 - Site for the city of Nova Roma is prepared on the coast of Hispaniola
 * 1182 - Creation of a prototype electrik generator in Alexandria
 * 1191 - Establishment of the written Constitution of Rome, it does not have a large affect on the powers of the Emperor however
 * 1195 - Beginning of the reign of Emperor Magnus II (Magnus the Great), reffered to as Emperor Optimus in the later half of his reign
 * 1197 - The Glorious Reform. Emperor Magnus II begins a campaign to insure that every single child of a Roman citizen is given a full "Latinized" education
 * 1199 - Completion of the Grammaticus Universalis, a place of learning for Roman erudites that rivals the libraries of Alexandria in scope

XIIIth century

 * 1204 - Magnus II begins to periodically send troops to capture men from Central Africa, beginning of the African Slave Trade
 * 1206 - Ghenghis Khan unites the tribes of Mongolia
 * 1209 - Using New Rome as a base of operations, the Roman colonists begin to take over the rest of Hispaniola
 * 1211 - Roman scientist Lucius Parellus Volta proposes his Tabula Typica de Elementae
 * 1215 - First contact between Mayan scouts and Roman colonists, Mayans flee in fear of the "White Men"
 * 1216 - Mayan commanders, believing the Romans to be a warning from their Old Gods, send a group to greet the new visitors. The Romans, thinking the Mayans are just another cowardly native tribe, decide not to waste time with the "primitives"
 * 1217 - Volta constructs a full-scale functioning protype of a dynamo
 * 1218 - Ghenghis Khan chooses his eldest son Jochi as his heir
 * 1221 - Suprised to find an advanced city in Hispaniola, the Romans decide to sack it for valuables. This encites the Mayan people and so the Two Hundred years War (1221-1437) begins between the Mayan Empire and the Roman Empire
 * 1226 - All major population centers in the Song Empire have been conquered by the Mongols
 * 1229 - With the completion of his Windmill Generator near Baiae, Volta founds his "company", Electrik Generalis, offering eletrik energy to nearby Villas
 * 1232 - Ghenghis Khan dies of heart failure, his son Jochi takes over as Gur-gri Khan, who focuses his efforts on the rest of Asia
 * 1236 - Volta finishes his second Windmill Generator, this time north of Milan
 * 1237 - Romans defeated at Battle of Miraguana when the Mayan Holy Army arrived, beginning of the Mayan push through Hispaniola
 * 1241 - Volta dies in an explosion after an accidental release of some "Aquas Materias Vegetas", the Roman State "inherits" Electrik Generalis
 * 1242 - Romans establish perminant outposts, in the southern half of Africa along the east coast, in order to more easily enslave the local populations
 * 1246 - Mongols call the Seljuks to aid them in their conquest of northern India (1246-1249)
 * 1251 - Establishment of the Mongols new Capital, Temujin
 * 1259 - Mongols lead by Gur-gri Khan encounter the Frankish Union, beginning what the Romans call the Barbarian War (1259-1263)
 * 1262 - Mayan scientists are finally succesful in building a firearm that puts spin on the projectile, inventing the first rifle
 * 1263 - Death of Gur-gri Khan, his late brother's son becomes Kublai Khan
 * 1266 - Large scale production of the final rifle design begin in the Mayan Empire
 * 1271 - Kublai Khan establishes strict rules over the inheritance of the Mongol leadership, so as to prevent infighting
 * 1271 - Roman settlers arrive on the mainland of South Columbia and establish a city
 * 1275 - Completion of the upgrades to the Universalis, making it the most advanced center for research in the world
 * 1277 - Mayans begin to fill galleys with gunpowder and detonate them in contact with Roman Galleons, to devastating effect
 * 1279 - First invasion of Japan by the Mongols, they are driven out by the powerful Japanese samurai
 * 1284 - Seljuk Turks begin heavy guerilla warfare against the Romans in their captured lands
 * 1285 - Second unsuccesful invasion of Japan by the Mongols
 * 1288 - Language barrier between the Mayans and the Romans is finally broken when the Romans employ a Hispaniolan native who speaks both Latin and Nahuatl
 * 1291 - Peace talks between the Mayans and the Romans do not go well when the medium suddenly collapses during the negotiations, blood flowing from his mouth. Luckily the Romans had already learned Nahuatl from him

XIVth century

 * 1300 - Completion of the fortification of New Rome. All defenses included, the land fortifications are nearly a kilometer deep, and the naval fortifications leave only a small entrance for ships
 * 1311 - Ograi Khan turns on the Turks and starts to send troop against the Arabs. Start of the Fourth Mongol Expansion (1311-1336)
 * 1315 - Third invasion of Japan (1315-1317) by the Mongols, they are succesful in setting up a beachead but their presence does not last long
 * 1323 - Roman emperor Ferrarus creates 4 more legions to aid in the war in Columbia
 * 1323 - Lighthouse of Pharos is felled by an earthquake, reconstruction of an even grander replacement begins
 * 1326 - Phasing out of the original testudos is complete, having been replaced with an electrikally powered version
 * 1330 - 8 Waterwheel generators are built near Rome, supplying large amounts of electrika to the Roman capital
 * 1336 - Treaty of Tehran ends the war between the Mongols and the Turks, establishing an embassy in the city to control their international relations
 * 1342 - Crushed between three empires, the Frankish Union sends 2 million soldiers, in desperation, towards the border with the Romans. They succesfully get over the wall and begin to bring in more troops. Beginning of the Great Germanic War (1342-1362)
 * 1345 - Unable to win any direct confrontations, Frankish Commander Markus-Louis decides to spread out the army in thousands of insurgent groups to terrorize the Roman countryside
 * 1348 - Under strain of lack of men, from three hugely costly wars, Roman General Publius Pharrus Orbanus opts to stop the Arabic guerilla war, once and for all. Raiding the tomb of Muhammad the Prophet, he secretely ships his, oddly intact, corpse back to Rome, and then declares this to all the Arabian people, telling the Turks he will return it, in exchange for an end to hostilities. Instead the Muslims declare a Third Jihad (1348-1359)
 * 1350 - By now the Industrial Revolution of Rome is in full swing, the Romans have built: 215 Windmill generators, 506 Waterwheel generators 4 Hydroelectric Dams and 10 eletrically powered factories. Power lines stretch accross Europa, running along the massive Roman highway system
 * 1359 - Caliph Agarthaman Ibn Battim is assasinated by Roman spies, Muslim, half-Turkish and half-Roman, politician Ottomanus takes power as Emperor Ottoman I, of the new Ottoman Empire. He negotiates an end to the war, and the return of Mohammed and several of the Muslim holy cities, in exchange for a huge sum of Turkish gold
 * 1362 - Muscovik Revolution in The Frankish Union, the Muscovites are now in political power and promptly sign the Treaty of Kiev, creating an official border between the two empires of Muscovy and Roma
 * 1363 - Isolation of the element Tungsten which, due to it's high melting point, is used to make the first functional lightbulbs
 * 1367 - First Mayan contact with an Incan explorer, who is sacrificed
 * 1372 - Popular General Faustus Galerius Pertinax, brings a small army into Rome and kindly "asks" the Senate to make him Emperor, they comply as he is a much loved veteran and commander in all three of the recent wars. He immediately gives himself the title Alexander, beginning the Alexandrian Dynasty
 * 1395 - Death of Emperor Alexander I
 * 1398 - Publication of the Catalan Atlas, the first published book to have incredibly accurate maps of most of the known world

XVth century

 * 1400 - Battle of New Rome. Mayan forces finally penetrate up to the inner wall of New Rome and begin a day long battle against the 2 defending legions. Ending in a Roman victory
 * 1412 - Mayan scientists invent functional steam engine
 * 1417 - Muscovites innact a deal with the Romans allowing them to send their legions through their lands to help fight the Mongols
 * 1418 - Realising what is happenning, the Mongols officially declare war against the Roman-Muscovite Alliance (1418-1448)
 * 1421 - Mayans begin to colonize Africa
 * 1425 - Following a fourth invasion by the Mongols, the Japanese Empire decides to isolate itself entirely from the outside world to fortify its coastal borders and internally reestablish themselves as a unified nation
 * 1432 - Mayans start to send ships to colonize the islands to the west
 * 1437 - Seeing the futility in the war, Emperor Itzcoatl II succesfully attempts to bring piece between his people and the Romans, resulting in the Treaty of Colona, which reorganized the borders of Hispaniola and involved the exchange of various materials
 * 1438 - Incans begin to spread throughout the Andes
 * 1439 - Romans reach Australis and begin colonisation
 * 1442 - Slave Revolt in Iberia, before the Legions arrived they had amassed an army of nearly 70,000 armed men (albeit with crude weapons)and had killed several thousand citizens. The Legion was therefore forced to brutally quell the rebellion, ensuring that as few as possible survived
 * 1444 - A second slave revolt occurs, this time in Gaul, it is however much smaller than the first
 * 1447/1449 - Slave revolts are occuring all across the Empire, threatening the stability of the State
 * 1448 - Mongol attacks on Muscovy suddenly cease with no apparent explanation
 * 1449 - Emperor Alexander III meets with the Senate to discuss the current crisis in the Empire. After a week of arguments the Senate finally enacts the Professio de Patronatos de Omnium et Servorum (Declaration of the Rights of Men and of the Slaves). This document, while it does not emancipate the slaves, does illegalize any form of their mistreatment, in addition to changes made in other areas of the law
 * 1453 - Looking to establish more of a power base on mainland Europa, the Danes send their armies south from Danemark, starting the Cimbrian War (1453-1457)
 * 1457 - The last of the Danes are expelled from Danemark by the Legions
 * 1462 - Construction of Machu Picchu
 * 1466 - Incan armies encounter Mayan settlements, and procede to take them over
 * 1468 - Mayans send the Holy army to fight off the Incans, however their enemy has a serious advantage in the terrain and therefore the Incans win nearly every battle
 * 1472 - The Mayan Holy army withdraws from the Andes
 * 1475 - Romans make contact with the Khmer Empire, who they find have been at war with the Mongols for some time now, peaceful trade begins between them, the Khmerians believing the Romans come from Australia
 * 1483 - Firearms are invented in Japan
 * 1484 - "Day of the Dead Sun", after an exlipse lasts over half a day, the Mayans proceed to sacrifice a constant stream of people, by the end of the eclipse over 30,000 have been made sacrificial victims
 * 1493 - Beginning of the reign of Incan emperor Huayna Capac, beginning of the Incan Golden Age