Timeline (Superpowers)

This is the abridged timeline of the Superpowers alternate history, stretching from its first Point of Divergence in 165 AD until the present day (2000 AD). The timeline spans three World Wars, the emergence of electrical, industrial and space age technologies as well as the foundation of colonies on both the Moon, Mars and several asteroids. To provide more specialized information, here are three timelines dedicated to distinct themes in human history :
 * Electricity &amp; Energy Timeline
 * Space Timeline
 * Weapons Timeline

Below is a detailed history of the Roman Empire from 180 to 1247 AD, and the Mayan Conglomerate from 395 to 1247 AD. This extended timeline explores the history of those two nations until just after the crucial year 1221 AD, when they encountered each other and became embroiled in a terribly long war. This detailed timeline is dated in both the Anno Domini and Ad Urbe Condita Calendars (AUC=AD+753 years), and is organized based on the reigns of the Roman Emperors from Sulla I to Magnus II. Over the course of those 1000 years or so, the Roman Empire goes from a mighty European country to the single most powerful entity in the Old World. Meanwhile, the Mayan nation goes from an assortment of unorganized City-states to an incredibly advanced kingdom covering the whole of Central Columbia as well as parts of North and South Columbia.
 * 933-981 AUC
 * 981-1025 AUC
 * 1025-1077 AUC
 * 1077-1092 AUC
 * 1092-1113 AUC
 * 1113-1148 AUC
 * 1148-1184 AUC
 * 1184-1205 AUC
 * 1205-1238 AUC
 * 1238-1290 AUC
 * 1290-1348 AUC
 * 1348-1395 AUC
 * 1395-1453 AUC
 * 1453-1483 AUC
 * 1483-1515 AUC
 * 1515-1554 AUC
 * 1554-1590 AUC
 * 1590-1629 AUC
 * 1629-1645 AUC
 * 1645-1704 AUC
 * 1704-1739 AUC
 * 1739-1765 AUC
 * 1765-1819 AUC
 * 1819-1892 AUC
 * 1892-1948 AUC
 * 1948-2000 AUC

Before year 1

 * 2000 BC - Establishment of the first Mayan Cities
 * 753 BC - Foundation of the City of Rome
 * 509 BC - Transformation of Rome into a Republic 
 * 27 BC - Start of the Principate rule of the Republic under Princeps Caesar Augustus

IInd century

 * 165 - Gaius Correlus Sulla is born in the city of Athens (POD)
 * 172 - Sulla's parents die in a short bout of the plague, leaving the boy alone to fend for himself
 * 173 - Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius adopts the young Correlus while touring his Empire
 * 180 - Marcus Aurelius dies and Gaius Correlus Sulla becomes the next Caesar, Emperor Sulla
 * 186 - The Galen Medical Academy is founded in Jerusalem
 * 192 - Emperor Sulla commands 6 Legions across the Rhine to devastate Barbarian tribes in Magna Germania. Sulla brings a bounty of valuable metals and slaves back to Rome when he holds his first Triumph in 195 CE
 * 195 - The Parthians utterly fail in their attempt to conquer Roman Syria and Mesopotamia

IIIrd century

 * 201 - Emperor Sulla rides his popularity and assembles 5 Legions to conquer Pict territory in the north of Britannia. His acquisitions are organized into the new province of Caledonia. By 206 CE, his forces have successfully conquered the region and two Legions are left behind to start settling the area while Sulla returns home for his Third Triumph
 * 203 - The first secular banking establishments (Latin: Bancos), expanded from the benches of money-lenders, are founded in Jerusalem to safeguard the deposits of clients. These establishments quickly spread to the rest of the Empire
 * 212 - Promulgation of the Sullan Edict, altering the restrictions for the acquisition of imperial citizenship for non-Romans
 * 223 - Correlia, the new capital of Caledonia, is founded on a major ford of the River Clyde
 * 224 - The Parthian Dynasty falls leaving Persia to the Sassanid Dynasty
 * 228 - After 48 years as emperor, Gaius Correlus Sulla dies of a stroke and is succeeded by his adopted son, Gaius Marcus Sulla who becomes Emperor Marcus
 * 244 - The Millennium Credit Crisis imperils the Imperial economy for over a year and eventually forces to reorder the current banking system
 * 247 - Magni Ludi Saeculares are held to celebrate Rome's 1000th Anniversary
 * 258 - Doctor's Guild of Rome is founded to increase the flow of medical knowledge throughout the Empire
 * 272 - Marcus dies and is succeeded by his adopted son, Emperor Benedictus
 * 284/295 - Great Judaean Wall is built along the Empire's border with Persia in the East. It is the grandest defense system in the Ancient world, constituting 3 separate walls that are each capable of withstanding direct hits from all but the largest siege engines
 * 287 - A reformation of the Roman Postal Service provides a much larger infrastructure for the flow of information

IVth century

 * 302 - Clades Urbium occurs in the city of Rome, forcing the Senate to enact laws to curb the urban population in the city and force emigration back to the countryside
 * 305 - Benedictus authorizes an invasion of Hibernia (Ireland) to bring it under Roman control
 * 314 - Conquest of Hibernia ends with a full Roman presence on the island
 * 324 - Beginning of the reign of the 8th Good Emperor, Constantine the Great
 * 330 - Due to the growing presence of Roman Christians (who make up 54% of the population), Constantine establishes the Edict of Milan to officially change the state religion of the Empire to Christianity. The Senate votes almost unanimously in favor of the bill due to the high concentration of Christians in the Patrician order
 * 335 - Constantinopolis is founded over the city of Byzantium and is intended to become both a religious and economic crossroads of the Empire
 * 345 - In Constantinople's forum (the Augustaeum) Emperor Agricola constructs the Aerarium, the Empire's National Reserve
 * 360 - The population of the Roman Empire reaches 100 million people
 * 393 - Emperor Sapiens completes the new Imperial Road Network which spans the entire Empire
 * 394 - Qhich'en Ch'onle Mayapan is born in the city-state Calakmul, he will later unite the Mayan people of Mesoamerica (POD)
 * 395 - Death of the 10th and final Good Emperor, whose biological son now leads the Roman Empire

Vth century

 * 410 - Visigothic King Alaric is captured and excecuted after a failed attack on Roman territory
 * 417 - Cement is invented by Mayapan and it is only the first of his hundreds of technological advancements
 * 419 - Qhich'en accidentally discovers a formula for gunpowder through his experiments
 * 420 - The Academia Carthaginia Bellica is founded as one of the first military academies in the world
 * 428 - Quich'en invents the Mayan wheel and convinces his head of state to implement it extensively in the city
 * 431 - Mayapan is hailed as being a vessel for the thoughts of the Gods and is made the de jure king of his home city
 * 432 - Only a year after taking power in his own city, Mayapan declares the Conglomeration of the Mayan States, with himself as Federal King Mayapan I
 * 435 - Emperor Scipio I declares the island of Melita as the site for his new project, an extensive naval city that will serve as the control center of Mediterranean commerce
 * 439 - Through his divine image and civic reputation, Mayapan has already convinced over 40 of the largest Mayan city-states to join his conglomeration
 * 442 - Teotihuacan is captured by the Conglomerate and is designated as the new Mayan capital in much the same way as the OTL Ottomans made Constantinople their capital
 * 444/453 - Germanic Wars are fought between the Roman Empire and various Barbaric people led by their jointly elected King Attila I. It ultimately ends in 453 CE after the Romans had conquered all of Germania up to the Vistula river and established and modified several provinces
 * 452 - The Nervan Line of Succession comes to an end and is replaced by the Draconian Dynasty, the fourth official Roman Imperial dynasty since 27 BC
 * 457 - Mayapan I dies after having conquered nearly all of Mesoamerica, he leaves behind a strict code for determining succession and ruling the Conglomerate
 * 463 - The Persians are defeated by the Legion at the Siege of Ctesiphon and are pacified to the point that they no longer pose a threat to Rome
 * 476 - The Hunnic empire establishes its first permanent settlements after the Germanic Diaspora to the Urals
 * 482 - Frankish statesman Clovis usurps control of the Hunnic Empire and is elected King Clovis I of the United Federations of Germania, known colloquially to the Romans as the Frankish Union
 * 487 - Emperor Avitus completes the Germanic Road Network which finally connects the Empire's new Industrial Heartland to its population centers in the rest of Europe
 * 492 - The Avitan Reforms of the Roman Legion are completed and now the size of the army stands at 204,800 legionaries divided into 32 Legions, along with thousands of other auxiliary units
 * 496 - Germanic king Clovis I is converted to Roman Christianity following a daring visit by Pope Gelasius I

VIth century

 * 502 - A religious war between the Germanians and the Romans results in the official formation of the Arian Christian Church within the Federations
 * 509 - A law in the Mayan Conglomerate requires that all buildings in major cities be made of stone or brick rather than wood or thatch
 * 510/515 - Roman Navy is reformed by Emperor Scipio II
 * 532 - Graecian Civil War erupts and leaks out to Thrace where a force of 100,000 Macedonian rebels try to take Constantinopolis and separate from the Empire. Before they can lay siege to the city in 533 AD, the General Gnaeus Fablius Comptus arrives to quell the rebellion and bring an end to Greek Separatism in the Roman Empire
 * 534 - The Validian Codex is passed to modernize Roman laws and form the Judicia Imperia as the only Imperial standing court
 * 538 - The Romans found the Center for the Research of Arms and Armor in their Military Academy, this is the first facility of its kind and scale in the world and from now on develops most of Rome's military technology
 * 539 - War of Nubian Unification (539-545) leads to the conquest of Nobatia, Makuria and Alwa by the Romans and their reorganization into the new province of Nubia
 * 539 - An outbreak of the Pestis Gravis in Asia Minor leads to the death of more than 800,000 Roman citizens and a near disaster when the disease almost reaches grain shipments bound for Rome
 * 553 - A joint Roman and Gupta Indian effort ends with the completion of the new Silk Road between Roman Tyrus and China, the Gupta Empire collapses a year later
 * 567 - Following the attempt of a Roman monk to reform the calendar system to be numbered based on the birth of Jesus, Emperor Comptus I improves the AUC Roman Calendar system (Gregorian improvements)
 * 588 - City of Chichen Itza is founded as the center of the new Mayan banking system
 * 590 - Mayan scientists create the fragmentation grenade, a simple hand thrown explosive filled with flint
 * 591 - Taurica is invaded by the Germanians but their master Rome arrives with a force to repel the invaders. The region is nevertheless lost two years later
 * 595 - United Federations of Germania found their new capital of Kiev, naming the city in honor of the Slavic tribes which joined the Union
 * 597 - Senatorial position of Princeps Senatus is made into an important office, whilst at the same time members of the Curia Regis (Royal Court) of the emperor take on more ministerial roles. All of this is in response to the inept nature of the current Caesar

VIIth century

 * 601 - After half a century of ravaging Arabia, the bubonic plague again makes it through Rome's borders, this time killing millions
 * 604 - Emperor Phillipius is assassinated and his successor is killed by the Plague in the province of Arabia. This leads to a brief period of Sede Vacante of the Imperial Throne during the confusion
 * 610 - Mayan Federal King Ch'anqua II, the son of the previous King and a Nahua concubine, makes Nahuatl the main language of the Conglomerate and brings an end to the cultural stand-off between Nahua and Yucatecan
 * 615 - Emperor Tiberius III sends 4 Legions to raid Sassanid Persia (615-618) to renew the shrinking Roman treasury. Among the plunder are a set of artifacts dubbed by the Romans as "Ampulae Iovae", or "Bottles of Jupiter"
 * 622 - Hegira occurs and the age of Islamic expansion begins
 * 625 - Nahua culture now dominates completely in the Mayan Conglomerate
 * 634 - Copper smelting is discovered for the first time in the Columbias (America) by the Mayans
 * 636 - Muslim armies are repulsed by the Roman Legions at the Battle of the Yarmuk near the Great Judaean Wall
 * 639 - Arab forces crush the Sassanids at the Battle of Nehavend and the last Persian Dynasty falls
 * 642 - Muslim armies begin a rapid expansion to the East, conquering most of Middle Asia
 * 649 - The Ampulae design is finally made economically viable and so an electroplating industry emerges
 * 650 - Roman engineers construct the first Castrae Stellae (Star Fort), starting a trend which will give the Roman Empire the most defensible fortresses in the world
 * 652 - All trade between Rome and the Federations is cut off by the Emperor. Meanwhile, the first pressed glass windows are invented by the Romans
 * 655 - The Germanic Federations' King Karl III attempts an invasion of the Roman Empire but is bested by the new Roman star fortresses (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 through the Caucasus they encouter the Federations, which starts the Caucasian War (661-680)
 * 664 - Roman merchants in Germania found the Conlegium Danuvius Labora. It ultimately grows to become the largest Guild (corporation) in the world
 * 666 - Mayan engineers discover how to cast metals and then forge them into various shapes for industrial use
 * 667 - The first metallic weapons are created in the Conglomerate, soon their armies are armed with metallic arrowheads, swords and shields
 * 675 - Arabs halt expansion to the east to lend more soldiers to the war with the Germanians
 * 680 - The Greatly loved Arabic Caliph Muhammad Utharman Ali dies and all Muslim forces are withdrawn so that there may be a full year of mourning
 * 691 - Rome is now the most populous city in the world with a population of over 4 million people who are all sustained by its massive infrastructure of roads, aqueducts and sewers
 * 699 - The Roman Empire adds the new province of Cimbria (Denmark) to its still growing territory

VIIIth century

 * 701 - Roman academic Gaius Archaedavincus Acutula is born in Dalmatia
 * 714 - Mayan expansion halts at the Isthmus of Pakal (Isthmus of Panama) in response to the failure of advance scouts to return from their journey further south
 * 724 - Celerite Arquus (semi-automatic crossbow) is invented by Archaedavincus
 * 727 - King Pakal II dies with the distinction of having been the longest lived Mayan monarch in history
 * 734 - Archaedavincus invents the Testudo Invicto, an enormous siege machine which he claims can take a fortified city with the help of only a small army
 * 742 - Sunni-Shia Civil War breaks out in the Arabian Empire
 * 747 - Archaedavincus discovers that metal with electricity flowing through it moves in the presence of magnetite, thereby identifying the principles of the electric motor
 * 749 - A method for repeatedly inscribing the same symbols on paper is develloped by Archaedavincus
 * 750 - The Arabian Empire fractures into two nations now at peace, these are Shi'ite Kingdom and the Sunni Republic
 * 758 - The first Testudo is built under the careful supervision of Archaedavincus
 * 764 - A single Testudo accompanied by 1000 men is tested on the walled Arabian city of Susa, the city is later ransomed back to the Muslims for a large quantity of gold
 * 770 - On Archaedavincus' death, the Caesar founds the Academia Archaedavinca Eletrika in Parisium to further his developments on electricity
 * 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 - Vikings make their first raid in the Roman Empire when they pillage a monastery in the north of Britannia
 * 798 - The Roman Navy is brought up to the Armorican Strait to fend off the escalating Viking raids

IXth century

 * 805 - A simple electric motor is built in Parisium
 * 809 - Rechargeable Ampulae are also invented in Parisium
 * 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, a force of 50,000 Viking bersekers land on the north-west coast of Gaul. They are met by 10,000 Roman legionaries, who fought and killed every last Dane, whilst their own force fell to the last 100 or so men
 * 823 - Viking ships reach Iceland and begin to settle there
 * 824 - Treaty of Londinium, signed by Emperor Cassius and King Svorjberd, prohibits Viking raids in the North and Baltic Seas in exchange for Cimbria, which becomes 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 and destroys large portions of the city. Rebuilding and modernisation begin over the ruins
 * 853 - Workers build the Turris Horologis, a 200 m tall mechanical clock tower in the center of Rome
 * 854 - The Islamic Crusade is started by Caliph Haran Ibn Cartal of the Shi'ite Kingdom when he declares holy war on the Sunnis. This leads to nearly every last one of them being massacred or converted by 862 CE
 * 857 - Galileo brings together astronomical proof showing that Terra is not the center of the universe, but that it is in fact the Sun. Although there is great argument within the scientific community, the mediation of the Pope leads to Heliocentricity becoming universally accepted in the Roman Empire
 * 858 - The Colossus Ingens is completed to replace the damaged Colosseum. It has a 750 m wide fighting arena and can 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 largest state owned bank in the Empire, set up in the Forum of Constantinople
 * 878 - Emperor Aulus founds the Academia Arcitectonicus Aulia in the city of Florentia to further the architectural arts
 * 889 - The new Cathedral of Saint Peter is completed in Rome. The structure still serves as the seat of the Pope up to this day
 * 893 - The Mayans encounter the native tribes of the great plains region and begin to use them as their new source of sacrificial victims. This begins a centuries long period of periodic invasion known there as the Cullings
 * 897 - Mayan scientists develop something similar to a galley. The Conglomerate begins colonisation of the Gulf of Mexico

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 Shi'a Arabs launch the First Jihad (979-1001) directed against the Roman empire, taking their 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 - The remaining Arab warriors are expelled from Africa by Rome and the Red Sea Fleet is reinforced to prevent their return
 * 1004 - Scientists in Alexandria design and build a fully functional electric motor
 * 1006 - General Gnaeus Moratius leads a rebellion of the Roman Legions in Hispania, ostensibly over their steadily decreasing wages
 * 1011 - Revolutionaries 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, and 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 Shi'ite 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 Shi'ite 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 Shi'ite 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 - Aegranus completely reforms the Roman army, which now consists of 42 Legions, with troops equipped with ergonomic plate armor and steel weaponry. He also forms the Cabellica, a permanent heavy cavalry arm for the Legion
 * 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 Shi'ite 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 electric motor powered by an array of hundreds of rechargeable Ampulae, recharged by lightning strikes to the Tower
 * 1106 - The Mayans begin construction of the Grand Tower of Ahau, one of their finest pieces of architecture
 * 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 throughout 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 electric generator in Alexandria
 * 1185 - Temujin's wife, Borte, is narrowly saved by her husband from the kidnapping attempt of the Merkit Tribe (POD)
 * 1186 - The future successor of Genghis Khan, Jochi is born, with no ambiguity over his parentage
 * 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), referred 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 starts a trade with Central African tribes to buy their prisoners of war, thereby setting off the Roman-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
 * 1213 - Volta invents the first AC Electric Generator
 * 1215 - First contact between Mayan scouts and Roman colonists, the scouts are deeply distressed and quickly leave to tell their superiors
 * 1216 - The Mayan government decides to send a diplomatic group to greet the new visitors, without weapons. The Romans, thinking the Mayans are just another cowardly native tribe, decide not to waste time with the "primitives"
 * 1218 - Ghenghis Khan chooses his eldest and favorite son Jochi as his heir
 * 1221 - Surprised to find an advanced city in Hispaniola, the Romans decide to sack it for valuables. This incites 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
 * 1228 - Romans are defeated at the Battle of Miraguana when the Conglomerate Standing Army arrives. This begins the Mayan push through Hispaniola
 * 1229 - After the completion of a Windmill Generator near Baiae, Volta founds his "company", Electrika Generalis, offering eletrik energy to the thermal baths in the resort city
 * 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 Mediolanum (Milan)
 * 1237 - The first breech-loaded cannons are built in the Conglomerate
 * 1241 - Volta dies in an explosion after an accidental release of some "Aquas Materias Vegetas", the Roman State "inherits" Electrika Generalis
 * 1242 - Romans establish permanent 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
 * 1257 - Mayans begin to fill galleys with gunpowder and detonate them in contact with Roman Galleons, to devastating effect
 * 1259 - Mongols lead by Gur-gri Khan encounter the Frankish Union, beginning what the Romans call the Barbarian War (1259-1263)
 * 1260 - By now the Industrial Revolution of Rome is in full swing, the Romans have built: 215 Windmill generators, 506 Waterwheel generators 1 Hydroelectric Dam and 10 eletrically powered factories. Power lines stretch across Europa, running along the massive Roman highway system
 * 1262 - Mayan scientists design bullets that allow for rifled firearms to reload as easily as a smoothbore, thereby making them the primary weapon of choice for the Mayan Army
 * 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
 * 1279 - First invasion of Japan by the Mongols, they are driven out by the powerful Japanese samurai
 * 1284 - Seljuk Turks begin heavy guerrilla warfare against the Romans in their captured lands
 * 1285 - Second unsuccessful 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 troops against the Arabs. Start of the Fourth Mongol Expansion (1311-1336)
 * 1315 - Third invasion of Japan (1315-1317) by the Mongols, they are successful in setting up a beachhead 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 electrically 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 successfully 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 guerrilla war, once and for all. Raiding the tomb of Muhammad the Prophet, he secretly 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)
 * 1359 - Caliph Agarthaman Ibn Battim is assassinated 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 Inca 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 a 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 - Inca 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 II 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 Danemarc by the Legions
 * 1462 - Construction of Machu Picchu
 * 1466 - Inca armies encounter Mayan settlements, and procede to take them over
 * 1468 - Mayans send the Holy army to fight off the Inca, however their enemy has a serious advantage in the terrain and therefore the Inca win nearly every battle
 * 1472 - The Mayan Holy Army withdraws from the Andes
 * 1475 - Romans make contact with the Khmer Empire, and find that they have been at war with the Mongols for some time now, peaceful trade begins between them, the Khmerians believing the Romans come from Australia
 * 1478 - A Mayan factory is built that mass-produces arrows from its individual components
 * 1483 - Firearms are invented in Japan
 * 1484 - "Day of the Dead Sun", after an eclipse 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 Inca emperor Huayna Capac, beginning of the Inca Golden Age

XVIth century

 * 1504 - Danes encounter the Great Chiefdom and begin to take their lands by force
 * 1507 - The first Danish people set foot on the cape of Africa and begin to colonize it
 * 1517 - Roman missionaries are sent to Teotihuacan to spread Christianity in the Mayan Empire, unfortunately this is not appreciated by the Mayan priests who have them sacrificed. This event is witnessed by Romans in the city, many of whom immediately return home to speak of what they saw
 * 1520 - Ambassadors sent from Rome demand an explanation for the priests' actions. When the Mayans tell them of this custom, the Romans are disguted by it, and two years later the Emperor places a trade embargo between any Roman and the Mayan people
 * 1526 - Mayans establish the Island Fortress of Kamehameha on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, it will serve as the primary Mayan naval base of that oceanic region
 * 1531 - Half-Muscovic and Half-Roman scientist Aulus Nickolus Tesla invents a method of sending an electric current between two points separated by air, without the use of arcing (i.e. radio waves)
 * 1534 - Mayan production levels become on par with that of the Romans, thanks to the Mayans extensive use of the steam engine
 * 1538 - A system of electrically propelled vehicles, powered by the city grid (trams), are built in Rome, this system was designed by Tesla himself
 * 1539 - After nearly a century of experimentation, the Danes are finally able to copy the Ampulae design of the Romans and therefore built their own, far less advanced, versions
 * 1543 - Railway built between the cities of Teotihuacan and Mayapan, and a single steam locomotive is built to utilize this system
 * 1547 - A second railway is built beside the first and they are linked at each end, this way multiple locomotives can use this track
 * 1549 - First Inca firearms are built, the technology having been stolen from the Mayans
 * 1550's : Railway construction in the Mayan empire accelerates at a rapid pace, while at the same time, tramways are being built nearly as quickly in the Roman cities
 * 1551 - Ottoman Empire is sold back heavily Muslim lands by the Mongols
 * 1553 - Romans establish trade links with the Inca, so as to discretely work against the Mayans, without inciting them. In good faith, the Romans are given the technology for firearms by the Inca, in exchange for their technology of rechargeable Ampulae
 * 1559 - Roman scientists quickly create designs for a rifle, using knowledge of classical mechanics they had worked out centuries ago
 * 1561 - Tesla writes his treatise on radio waves, describing their properties, creation and use. Sadly he had become somewhat looked down upon in his later years, due to his unethical experiments, and so this piece of work received little notice, and absolutely no consideration, by the Societas Scholaris de Scientiae (Imperial Society of Science)
 * 1566 - Roman colonists reach India and set up a new city there
 * 1567 - Railways now make it possible to go from one end of the Mayan Empire to the other in 1/100th the time it took to do it on foot
 * 1572 - Mayans develop a gun with a similar mechanism to a percussion rifle
 * 1573 - Titanium is isolated by Roman scientists in Brittania
 * 1575 - Having seen over the years how Volta's periodic table has been predicting dozens of elements, Roman scientists set to work to fill out the table completely, up till element 82
 * 1579 - Telegram sent along wires between Rome and Paris. General Electric starts to mass-construct a newtwork of Telegram stations, all across the empire
 * 1584 - Inca city of Machu Picchu is now the grandest city in all of Columbia
 * 1589 - Australian island of Australiola (Tasmania) is chosen as the site for a Roman penal colony
 * 1592 - Mayans build an enormous wall along their border with the Inca, finally putting an end to their constant raids
 * 1598 - Australiola is completely walled off to prevent the further escape of prisoners

XVIIth century

 * 1605 - Asian Alliance is formed between the Mongolian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in their coordinated efforts against the Khmerians
 * 1609 - Romans trade musket technology to the Khmerians
 * 1614 - South Indian Wars (1614-1622). The Roman Legions start to fight the Muslims in their efforts to continue north in India, both sides agree to restrict the fighting from the Arabian Peninsula, each for their own reasons
 * 1621 - Mayan ships thrown off course arrive on Mongolian soil. Fortunately for them one of the Mongols they meet could speak Nahuatl (the language having already spread from the Romans) and so they are able to be at peace, despite a few close calls
 * 1622 - Romans sell part of their conquered lands in India to the Khmerians so as to stop having to fund a war on the opposite side of the world
 * 1623 - The Roman Classis begins to produce titanium armored, eletrikally powered boats (Ironclads) for near-shore defense
 * 1624 - The Mayans are inducted into the AA (although the name is not changed), they help by sending boats to fight the Khmerians in Indonesia
 * 1627 - Emperor Soryavarman II of Khmer asks the Romans for military aid, they are given a large supply of Celeballistae (artillery version of the Celerite Arquus)
 * 1631 - Roman colonists establish the city of New Alexandria on the west coast of the North Columbia
 * 1634 - The warriors of the Great Chiefdom start to attack Roman colonies, thereby placing themselves into an impossible position
 * 1636 - Carthage-Cuzco Alliance is formed between the Romans and the Inca, it ensures that if either side is attacked by a third-party then the other will come to their aid, this prevents the Mayans from declaring war on the Inca for the next few decades
 * 1642/1659 - Colonization of Northern Columbia by the Romans accelerates rapidly and new cities are being founded almost yearly
 * 1648 - Battle of Kornata. Romans establish their total battlefield dominance by defeating an army of 150,000 Natives, by only using 8,000 soldiers aided by a single Testudo
 * 1656 - Danes are able to make a treaty that formally decides their borders with the Great Chiefdom
 * 1661 - Muscovites join the CCA in order to prevent another raid from the Mongols
 * 1666 - Khmerian expansion stops as they are worried about overextending themselves, Mongols and Arabs however still try to fight them unsuccesfully
 * 1669 - The Great Chiefdom becomes the United Chiefdoms of Columbia after the council elects a single man to hold the position of Supreme Chief. This man then divided the UCC into separate provinces each representing one of the primary tribes of the union
 * 1671 - Mongol and Turkish attacks on Khmer stop due to the excessive loss of life
 * 1673 - Founding of the Columbian (UCC) city of Kanata. This is the first city they've built using entirely permanent stone structures (a skill they've learn't from Roman, Mayan, Danish and Mongol influence)
 * 1677 - In exchange for large tracks of land, the Columbians are allowed into the CCA and are given musket technology, by the Romans
 * 1678 - Seeing their fighting potential, the Mayans ask the Danes to join the AA, in addition to giving them rifling technology
 * 1678/1689 - The Calm. For one of the first times in history there are no wars. However every side is preparing themselves for a fight at any moment
 * 1689 - Khmer is inducted into the CCA. To try and maintain peace, Roman emperor Alexander IX personally goes to visit Mayan emperor Ganchu'a III. Nobody knows what they discuss but after a few hours together the Mayan Emperor brings Alexander IX out in chains and orders him to be sacrificed. The Romans declare war on the Mayans, the AA declares war on the Roman Empire and so the CCA declares war on the AA. Start of the Great War

XVIIIth century

 * 1704 - Treaty of Osaka brings an end to the bloodiest conflict the world had ever seen. Later in the year the Congress of Rome is held. There, all of the world's powers meet together to have the terms of defeat and victory decided
 * 1706 - Rome sends ambassadors to Japan to assess the situation within the newly unisolated nation. To the Romans' surprise, the Japanese have significantly advanced their technology, almost to the same level as their own, and they have become a strongly organized empire
 * 1711 - The Inca set up a colony in Africa, effectively blocking the Mayans from expanding to the South
 * 1713 - The Treaty of Hiroshima is signed. The Romans and Japanese enter into an alliance, agreeing to share technology and information, This gives the Japanese eletrikal technology
 * 1715 - Following the rediscovery of Tesla's final works, Roman scientists attempt a creation of a wireless electrical device, with great success
 * 1717 - General Marius reforms the Legion again, this time modernizing every aspect of it
 * 1719 - Roman explorers begin the colonisation of the rest of North Africa
 * 1721 - First message sent across the Oceanus Brittanicus through radio
 * 1729 - Following the end of the Occupied Zone in North Africa, the Mayans began to spread out from their original position
 * 1731 - Border disputes in Korea cause increased tensions between the Japanese and the Mongol peoples
 * 1737 - First plastic (celluloid) created in the Roman Empire
 * 1743 - The Mayan people develop the first ocean liner, based of the Roman designs for the Ironclad, just on a much larger scale, and without weapons
 * 1745 - Inca scientists develop the first vaccination for a disease, which is Small Pox, one of the leading causes of death in the New World. They immediately begin a nationwide vaccination program
 * 1751 - The Danes attack Muscovy, which is not able to defend itself succesfully due to funding being taken away from the military, following the Great War
 * 1754 - The Roman Empire, in a surprise act, trades the island of Fyn and a large supply of silver to the Danes in exchange for an end in hostilities between their allies, Muscovy. Following this event, relations between Rome and Muscovy begin to deteriorate
 * 1760 - Radio network set up all across the Roman Empire. However, only the Japanese are aware of the technology, and all other nations are astonished at the speed of information in the Roman Empire
 * 1766 - A vaccine for a third disease is created by the Inca, this time it is Typhoid
 * 1767 - An explosive chemical (nitroglycerin) is development in Teotihuacan
 * 1771 - Roman scientists develop something similar to a bolt-action rifle. In an act of good faith, they trade the technology to the Mayans
 * 1773 - Several Mayan scientists are injured after multiple attempts to create a functioning battery
 * 1775 - Despite their previous alliance, the Romans go to war with the Columbians in order to cut them off from the East Coast, beginning of the Coastal War (1775-1778)
 * 1783 - The Roman Senate is replaced by the Officium Imperium (Imperial Bureau), an organisation that, instead of just managing the powers of the Emperor, are meant only to represent their region and bring any issues to the attention of the Emperor
 * 1786 - Following several visits to a chain of islands off the west coast, an Inca biologist proposes the theory that animals can change over time at random, but that only the most adapted animals can thrive in their environment. Amazed by his evidence provided, the Inca scientific community begins a search for what causes this "evolution by the selection of nature"
 * 1791 - A Roman scientist theorizes a machine capable of rapidly performing calculations. He is given funding to make his device a reality
 * 1792 - The Muscovites go to war against the Danes. This time it is the Danes who were caught unprepared. However, the Muscovites almost immediately ask the Romans to join them, but they are swiftly declined.
 * 1799 - After seven years of bloody warfare, the Danes surrender and are made a vassal state of Muscovy

XIXth century

 * 1804 - Roman Emperor Alexander XIII dies and is succeeded by his 17 year old son Alexander XIV
 * 1806 - Alexander XIV declares war on Muscovy. After two years of war the Muscovites surrender, and the Romans sell them back their land at a steep price
 * 1808 - Electric cars become commonplace in the Roman Empire, just as the internal combustion engine is invented by a Mayan Engineer
 * 1811 - First powered flight in the world at a beach near Pompeii
 * 1813 - King Sepoita of the Islamic Republic of India declares war on the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Kashmir War (1813-1819)
 * 1815 - Alexander XIV signs the Treaty of Teotihuacan, starting a military alliance between the once antagonistic empires
 * 1816 - King Shaka ascends to the throne of the Zulu Kingdom
 * 1817 - Having knowledge of a foreign nation to the south, Shaka develops a somewhat defensive strategy so as to quickly build up a power base in his region
 * 1818 - Mayans develop their own version of a flying machine, but theirs is powered by combustion
 * 1820 - The Mayan emperor enacts a law banning the sacrifice of humans, the last official one having occured half a century earlier. The act having lost favor among the populace following the Great War.
 * 1821 - After conquering all tribes that had once wronged him and assimilating those that had been good, Shaka begins to unite more and more Africa tribes, all under the banner of eventually pushing out the foreigners
 * 1822 - Emperor Alexander XIV declares war on the Danish Empire, with the same goal as he had when fighting Muscovy
 * 1824 - The Zulu Kingdom goes to war against the Danish lands in the south of Africa, the Danes are helpless as all their forces are defending their home territory from the Romans
 * 1827 - On the death of his mother, Nandi, Shaka lashes out in anguish and has 10,000 Danes sacrificed in her honor
 * 1831 - Foundation of the Legio Caelis Expansionis (LCE or the Aerial Expansionary Legion), which is essentially the Roman air force. It consists mostly of military triplanes
 * 1836 - Through a fusion of electrical and mechanical technologies, a Roman computer is completed and used by scientists in Paris
 * 1842 - The Danes are completely expelled from South Africa in every military sense. Financially crippled, the Danes capitulate to the Romans, despite not being at war with them at the time
 * 1844 - The Zulu Empire encounters the Romans and Shaka has 100 of his warriors sacrificed in honor of the occasion. Although disgusted by the "barbarians", the Romans form a treaty to establish the border between the two empires, a border which is drawn strait across the Zambezi River, by suggestion of the Romans
 * 1847 - First airship sets off from the Inca city of Machu Picchu to Cuzco while carrying only the 30 people required to fly it
 * 1849 - Shaka, ill from Smallpox contracted from Roman explorers, calls together all of his high-ranking generals and advisors. He then has all but the General ikNowa murdered, immediately naming him his successor. Four days later Shaka Zulu dies, and he is given the grandest funeral the south of Africa had ever seen. At the funeral, there are 365 men sacrificed all at once as his body is lit aflame
 * 1851 - Quachikuna (airships) finally become a state funded form of transportation in the Inca Empire
 * 1854 - A team of Inca Biologists publish findings, to their contemporaries, that proves that the "colored" matter in cells is the mechanism for inheritance
 * 1857 - Zulus develop bolt-action muskets due to the heavy Roman influence in their region
 * 1859 - ikNowa establishes a state mining facility at a particular site that is heavily saturated with valuable minerals. Zulu architecture begins to show marked Roman influence
 * 1861 - By what was most likely an unfortunate coincidence, military activity near the Muscovic borders of the Romans, Mongols, and Ottomans increased suddenly in the respective nations. Muscovy logically, but incorrectly, assumed that they had formed an alliance against it and so acted preemptively by attacking the Ottoman Empire in full force. The Mongols immediately moved to defend its ally, whose military was only just able to slow the Muscovic advance
 * 1862 - The Romans, worried about the Mongol border drawing steadily closer, enacted a plan they had been preparing for a decade now in case of just this situation. They began to conquer their own Muscovic territory whilst they used their new Deliquium single-wing aircraft to drop Mayan incendiary bombs on strategic Muscovic bases and cities ahead of the Mongol advance. Essentially they were "indirectly" weakening the Mongol's new territories, while at the same time slowing the hordes advance
 * 1865 - End of what would later be called the Magnem Cruorem (the Great Bloodshed). Despite a stable Roman-Mongol border being established, millions upon millions of Muscovites were killed, nearly wiping them out within many regions
 * 1867 - Romans accomplish their "civilizing" of the new lands. There was little resentment towards the Romans as they made their recent conquests appear relatively none violent, and anyone who survived the bombing had no idea that they were being killed by planes, much less that it was Romans murdering them
 * 1867 - A Roman company builds its first of many airships. However, they merely become used as a way for the rich to slowly drift through the sky in their own floating mansion
 * 1869 - A fully electronic Roman computer is built through the use of special semi-conducting metals
 * 1872 - Following seven years of sporadic riots in Roman Muscovy, a prominent Muscovic civil figure, Martin Vaguobatte, delivers a moving speech that declared the Romans as their saviors, not overlords, for saving them from the Mongols. His speech is heard in nearly every household in the empire through household radios
 * 1875 - Discovery of the nucleus of the atom by a joint Roman-Mayan team led by senator-scientist Marcus Fruddius Artifex, the same man who had proposed the particulate theory of electricity in 1844
 * 1878 - Following the test of an incendiary bomb of Roman design, a massive inferno engulfed much of the forests of Southern Gaul nearly threatening the port town of Massiala, but for the use of foam-based retardants imported from Columbia
 * 1880 - Rome regains its status of largest city in the world from rival Teotihuacan with the Eternal City now boasting a population of over 12 million inhabitants (slaves included of course)
 * 1883 - Marcus Artifex puts forward his proofs in his paper "Wave-Particle Duality and the Relation of Eletriki and Photos Atoms" to the Imperial Society of Science. The next year he is awarded a second Tropaeum Intellecto (Monument for Intellect), the only person to make such an achievement
 * 1885 - Realizing he is near death, Emperor Alexander XIV sets his mind to ending his rule as "memorably" as possible, since he was always infertile and frowned upon adoption, thereby leaving him no heir and putting an end to the greatest dynasty the world had ever seen. He personally visits the Ottoman Sultan, Ahmed V, a visit which leads into the signing of the Treaty of Mecca-Rome. This agreement, states, not only, that the Muslim and Christian worlds shall never be at war (permanently putting an end to the religious wars of the last millennium) and that the Roman and Ottoman Empires have an agreement of open-borders and to relations working to maintain peace. Alexander dies shortly after returning to Rome and is buried in his astounding personal Mausoleum in the northern part of the city. The Senate and Curia Episcopates meet to elect a new emperor. Pakus Martinex Rullianus Juvenis, Praetor of Thracia and General in the Muscovik conquest, is appropriately dubbed Emperor Pontifex
 * 1886 - The Roman Praetor of Swahilium sends spies to the Inca colonies in Sub-Saharan Africa to determine how they are so successful in this disease ridden part of the world
 * 1888 - The Mayans agree not be be annoyed by the Romans' invasion of the Republic of Hispaniola, in exchange for large tracts of lands along the west bank of the Nilus Superus (White Nile)
 * 1890 - Finally, 748 years after its discovery, the Romans have full control over the island of Hispaniola, and total domination over all islands east of Cubagua
 * 1893 - Lucius Carus Darvus is the only spy to return to Swahilium. He describes how he snuck into an Inca hospital (which are not open to foreigners) and how he observed doctors giving many injections to infants. He, correctly, believes this to be the source of their immunity
 * 1895 - Opening of the Caeliportum Gentilitionum Romano (National Airport of Rome), flights occur between this airport and the Caeliportum Constantinopolis and Caeliportum Londinium
 * 1899 - Following further acquirements of territory by the Zulus, all major land on Earth is claimed by some national entity or another

XXth century

 * 1901 - Modernization of the Suez Canal is completed. It now can handle four times the flow of vessels as the previous upgrade in 1610 allowed
 * 1903 - Inca scientists prove the double helix theory of the structures for genetic inheritance (DNA)
 * 1906 - A Mayan aircraft propelled entirely by liquid fuel travels safely from the mainland to the island of Xamayca
 * 1908 - The Mayans and Romans begin Project Aetna. Massive funding from both sides goes into the creation of more practical Sifocaeli (jet planes) on the island of Sicily. This is due to its numerous Hydrogen Plants
 * 1909 - Mayan pilot breaks the sound barrier
 * 1911 - Mongol scientists combine the technology of the Mayan "maxim" gun; artillery and combustion engine to create an armored behemoth, similar in design, but greater in scale, to the Roman Testudo
 * 1913 - Experiments involving "lethal metals" is banned by the Romans, Mayans and Japanese due to several deaths attributed to exposure to those substances
 * 1914 - Death of Emperor Pontifex. He was however able to establish a line of succession and all is well
 * 1915 - Chemical laser successfully built by Mayan scientists
 * 1917 - Completion of the "Mind of God", a room-sized Roman computer whose computational capabilities are roughly on par with that of a Desktop in the OTL 2005
 * 1917 - The 2,000 some inhabitants of a small town in Lusitania claim to have witnessed the sun suddenly fall erratically to the earth and even cause the evaporation of water on fabrics and in puddles. Emperor Sulla II states that he himself witnessed the Miraculum Solaris while walking in the Imperial Gardens. This event steps up the current cultural resurgence of religiosity among the Philosophers and the rich of the Empire, as is particularly evident in all the religious themed media of the time. Picturitati (movies) are especially affected
 * 1918 - Roman power output becomes roughly on par with that of the OTL United States and European Union from 1980, combined
 * 1919 - First commercial flight across the Atlantic is performed by a standard electric Roman passenger plane
 * 1920 - Circummeditarranean electric railway is completed. It goes from Emerita, around the Mediterranean till it reaches Carthage
 * 1922 - Discovery of first superconductor by Sicilian scientists
 * 1924 - A working turbine-liquid fuel jet hybrid is finally completed by Project Aetna. With a maximum velocity just bordering the speed of sound and a safe-range of 1,350 km, it was the ultimate vehicle of Roman-Mayan power
 * 1925 - Foundation of the 14th Golden Horde of Mongolia. In times of political stress, the Khan is able to authorize the recreation of the Golden Horde. For this, every able bodied man is given military training and a standing army is made out of a large part of this pool
 * 1927 - Weaponized Plague is developed in secret by the Inca for aerosol deployment. A method of releasing it through artillery is also perfected
 * 1928 - The Inca and Mongols together form an Allied Coalition to contain the power of Rome, Maya and Japan. Every nation excepting the Zulus, Ottomans and Khmerians, join the coalition
 * 1929 - Treaty of Melita is signed by the Heads of State for the Roman, Mayan and Japanese Empires, thereby forming the Viris Mundi (Global Powers or Powers of the World). The Allied Coalition, obviously, takes this as an aggressive action towards its members and acts preemptively. The Golden Horde is quickly flung at Japan's Korean holdings and the Inca launch a full scale biological war in South Columbia and Sub-Saharan Africa, resulting in millions of civilian deaths in the first month of the war, the Global War

*See Bellum Mundum for Events*

 * 1932 - Signing of the Treaty of the Kor'na Yasse, formally ending the Global War
 * 1933 - Members of the Global Powers meet together in the Kor'na Yasse, now known as the Praetorium Mundum. Although it is still being upgraded to their standards, it is agreed that the newly christened Praetorium Mundum, is to be the headquarters for the Foedus Terrae, an international organization with the purpose of maintaining order on Earth
 * 1933 - First mammal is cloned. Inca scientists successfully create a living clone of the llama, the nations primary domestic animal. Though it comes to much acclaim at first, by the next year the creature has already expired, doing nothing to dissuade further attempts at the process
 * 1934 - "Mind of God" computer is upgraded and expanded using modern technology. It now has a storage capacity of 3000 PenteQuadis (OTL 1500 terabytes) and a processing speed of 3.6 TetrAmbs (OTL 3.6 GHz). Roman computers utilize solid state drive and photonic integrated circuit technology
 * 1935 - Tepeu I is the first man-made satellite to enter Earth orbit. It takes a photo of Europe and relays atmospheric data back to the ground. Though the rocket technology was Mayan, the computer equipment all had to be bought off of the Romans, and so it was nowhere near on par with the Roman's latest technology
 * 1936 - Beginning of the African Plague. A strain of influenza mutated somewhere in the Roman province of Swahilium begins to spread throughout Africa. Two months after the first outbreak, the Inca have a vaccine, but neglect to make this news international
 * 1937 - Death toll from Swahili Influenza reaches 60 million. At this point the Inca finally reveal to the world their vaccine, acting as heroes to the world community
 * 1938 - Romans launch their own satellite C-1. It is placed in geostationary orbit above Carthage, showing off the superior automated technology of the Romans. Powered by the sun, it is to remain in place to act as a relay station for communications between Melita and Carthage
 * 1939 - Detonation of Aztlan, the first liquid-based particle bomb (H-bomb). From this point onwards a sort of cultural rivalry begins between the Mayans and the Romans. Although it is a simultaneous arms race, and space race, there is little to no animosity or real danger in their competition. The driving forces behind it are the egotistical nature of both nations, with each trying to prove themselves Earth's greatest power

The 40's


1940


 * February - Construction of Spaceship Hermes is completed. Launch is expected for halfway through the year
 * April - Production of Kw-XL rockets begins. First Mayan ICBM capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. Each rocket has a maximum payload of around 370 kilotons and an effective range of 10,000 km
 * July - On the 14th, Hermes is finally launched, thereby propelling the first humans into space. Following the resounding success of the mission, Emperor Sulla II proclaims that by 1947 (2700 AUC) man will have walked on the moon. The Artemis Program is extended so as to achieve this lofty goal
 * October - A Platonist Revolution (socialist revolution) takes place in the Khmer Empire. Aided covertly by the Danes (who are themselves platonist) a revolutionary army forms and takes Djayakarta, killing Emperor Srindarman III in the process
 * November - First supersonic commercial flight, from Rome to Alexandria
 * December - The platonists rest full control of the Khmer Empire, creating the First Republic of Khmer

1941
 * March - Detonation of Zachariah, Rome's first liquid particle bomb test
 * May - Terrorist plot involving bringing non-metallic weapons onto a plane is foiled thanks to the use of chemical sensors and backscatter radiographemae used on all passengers
 * June - First space walk ever is performed by Mayan cosmonauts
 * August - 100th Roman communication satellite is sent up. They now have a complete satellite network that reaches to all their world territories. The network even covers the entire Ottoman, Khmerian and Danish empires, though none of them know this to be the case
 * December - Launching of the first Japanese satellite. This one however resembles Tepeu I more in scope than the Roman communication satellites

1942


 * February - Japanese scientists propose a method for creating a pure-fusion nuclear bomb through Induced Gamma Emission. They sell the technique to the Mayans in exchange for a huge quantity of lethal metals (in this case uranium)
 * July - Project Helios is begun. It has the stated aim of setting up satellites to harvest solar energy and "beam" it back to the ground
 * November - Detonation of Votan, the first pure-fusion particle bomb. This Mayan nuclear device exploded with an approximate yield of 66 megatons, the largest man-made explosion on Earth, so far

1943


 * January - Detonation of the first Japanese particle bomb. Dubbed Tokugawa, it is a regular particle bomb with an approximate yield of 107 kilotons
 * March - Mayan scientists perfect a method to produce fuel from agricultural products, at a total price half that of harvesting actual oil, a 200% increase in efficiency from the previous method
 * July - A severely maimed burn-victim, in the Inca Empire, completely recovers following the use of therapeutic stem cells, creating a good deal of interest from the Inca scientific community
 * September - A paper is published by a Mayan scientist outlining detailed designs for the creation of a fission power plant.
 * October - The Osiris satellite is sent into high-Earth orbit. It is the first space based telescope ever launched

1944


 * January - An unmanned Roman probe, Luna, safely lands on the surface of the Moon. The entry was designed to mimic the one planned for the Artemis Program, as well as to take large quantities of scientific date of the Lunar surface
 * April - Birth of an artificially created Cama (Camel-Llama). This is just another addition to the string of successes the Inca have been having with genetic technology. This includes a cloned llama from 1939 that is still living in perfect health at this time
 * October - Roman Slave Market is at an all time low. All businesses that used slaves have largely replaced them with automatons and many functions of a house slave are being replaced by computers or automatons as well
 * November - First Mayan communication satellite is launched

1945


 * March - Stem cell applicator goes into circulation in the Inca Empire. It uses a similar mechanism to a paint roller to apply a layer of undifferentiated cells over any surface after each application
 * June - Unmanned probe Luna IV lands on the Moon. Contained inside it is a fully-functional radioisotope piston generator and electric welding tools for use by the team projected to land in 2699 (1946)
 * July - Therapeutically cloned organs become the dominant source of transplants in the Inca Empire
 * September - Detonation of a thermobaric explosive device at a Mayan test site

1946


 * February - Circummediterranean Railway is upgraded to a magnetically levitated design that can reach speeds in excess of 600 km/h. Furthermore, the track now completely in circles the Mediterranean Sea, passing through the Pons Mons Calpi to accomplish this feat
 * June - Man walks on the Moon. Lander Luna VI safely reaches the moon's surface carrying five Roman cosmonauts. Over the course of two weeks, the landing pod is converted into a permanent structure, after which all five men use the secondary capsule to make the return trip back to Earth
 * July - Re-entry of the capsule into the atmosphere is a complete success. Only minor injuries are sustained by several crewmen upon landing in the ocean
 * September - Designs for a reusable stellar vehicle are completed by Roman scientists. It is planned to be put into use in less than four years

1947


 * January - A rifle using magnetically accelerated rounds is put into use by the Legion in the role of a heavy-weapon
 * April - Transgenic crops replace the last type of natural crops farmed within the Inca Empire. This completes their five year modernization process of their agricultural industry
 * May - Mayans launch their own spatial telescope
 * December - Castrum Astri is completed with all 7 compartments united in Earth orbit. The station is the most advanced man-made satellite of its time, housing 10 specially trained soldiers and their commanding officer. This group circulates with one of 5 groups every three months, ensuring no ill effects are suffered by prolonged exposure to outer space

1948


 * January - Mayan scientists discover a new allotrope of carbon that has approximately 100 times the strength of noricum, and one sixth its weight. Funding is immediately put into discovering a method of mass production
 * March - First line of Mongolian single-wing bombers go into production
 * May - Plans for the A-4 Heavy-Vulcan missiles and A-5 Phoínix rockets are completed. A-4 contain a single 53 megaton pure-fusion warheard, whilst the A-5 launches 20 individual 121 kiloton pure-fusion warheads over a wide area
 * September - Nationwide celebrations following the 7th successful Moon Landing by Roman cosmonauts (7 is an important number in the modern Roman culture). The day before most of the landing team returned, the 21st, is generally considered the founding date of the city of Heliopolis on the Moon's surface, with the original Heliopolis having ironically been burned to the ground nearly a millenia ago.
 * October - Beginning of the Swahilium Civil War. Always having been the most downtrodden of the Roman Provinces, Swahilium has recently been seeing even harder times than usual, particularly after 29% of the population was wiped out in the pandemic over a decade ago
 * December - Swahilium's capital of Australafrica is captured by the revolutionaries. Sifocaeli of the CEL wipe out one of the rebel's convoys, killing their second-in-command

1949


 * February - The First Cherubim Missile-Attack satellite is launched. This is a massive Roman satellite equipped with a large complement of Space-to-Surface Missiles capable of easily hitting even a small moving vehicle. Each missile is launched on a direct path from the satellite to their target and so, very little fuel is required for them as gravity does most of the acceleration
 * April - Following a minor border skirmish between the Ottomans and the Mongolians, Dalai Khan pays a visit to the Ottoman Sultan to ensure that peace is maintained
 * July - Swahilium Civil War ends a month after the recapture of Australafrica. Due to the fact that virtually anything being used by the rebels that is visible from space is quickly destroyed by rockets, their ability to fight against the Legion was reduced to almost zero. Once the Legion moved in to surround the city there was 5 hour standoff between both forces, at which time the rebels were obliterated by rocket fire upon coming out of hiding to combat the legionaries. Although less than 100 legionaries were lost during the war, the cost of weaponry put into combat was enormous, by most national standards anyway
 * August - Mayans create the first domestic Fission Power Plant. Built along the coast, East of Chichen Itza, the plant operates at approximately 2100 MW of electrical output
 * November - Designs for particle bombs are given to the Mongols by the Foedus Terrae in exchange for their continued secrecy over these weapon's existence

The 50's
1950


 * March - First Hybrid-car is released in the Mayan Empire
 * June - Invention of a nuclear battery, by a Gallian scientist, that uses the process of induced gamma emission to store and release massive amounts of energy
 * October - Hydroponics facility established in Heliopolis. Following this development, the city now has complete self-sustainability
 * November - Detonation of Jöchi, the first Mongol particle bomb. The test is however considered a failure by Alliance standards as the actual yield was only 8% of the expected yield, compared to Quetz which was 107% of the expected yield

1951


 * April - Optima Confligator is completed. The 18th Roman particle accelerator, and the 27th in the world, the Optima Confligator most importantly takes the prize of the largest particle accelerator in the world. It is capable of accelerating protons up to 99.9999999999999991% the speed of light, an impressive feat, even for the Romans
 * May - Life expectancy in the Inca Empire exceeds 90 years, the leading cause of death being senile dementia (OTL Alzheimer's Disease), this being one of the few illnesses that modern medicine cannot cure
 * September - A fourth Cherubim Missile-Attack satellite is launched
 * October - Following a commercial airline crash into a Mayan skyscraper, the Alliance of Earth passes a law making it illegal to build any caeliportum within the city limits

1952


 * January - The Mongol army officially integrates particle bomb weaponry into its arsenal through the usage of large bombers as a primary delivery mechanism
 * March - Standardization of the Project Helios satellites design is completed and construction of the space-based solar collectors begins in the Roman Empire
 * July - First Imperial Olympic Games with events for women. Running alongside the usual Olympic events for men, this year is the start of the Ludus Palatinus Olympiae Feminis (Imperial Games of Olympia for Women)
 * August - Production of the A-100 begins. It is the first vehicle to be powered by a nucleonic gamma reactor. In essence it uses a process similar to that of the nuclear battery to power each of its ramjet engines, this design allows for the jet to be suddenly boosted for take-off, even before air-intake reaches useable levels. With a maximum speed of 6720 km/h and a max range of 40,000 km, it is the sifocaelus with the highest speed and greatest combat distance in the world

1953


 * February - One of Chirons booster rockets malfunctions and output drops to 41% just at take-off. Though the thrust his cut as soon as the problem is detected, the craft loses its balance on the launch pad and falls over, irreparably damaging the rockets, and causing extensive damage to Chiron itself. Following this event, the Emperor authorizes Project Prometheus, an attempt to produce an entirely self-dependent spacecraft'
 * April - Creation of the Zulu Imperial Airforce. As a gift, the Romans give them four C-89 sifocaeli with complementary flight lessons
 * July - Romans develop their own cure for cancer, 10 years after the Inca and 2 years after the Mayans developed theirs. Unlike the Inca vaccine, and the Mayan photodynamic therapy, the Roman method involves releasing microscopic machines into the body designed to attach themselves to the body in the presence of cancer cells. They then begin to release heat into the tumor causing cell death after sevelar hours exposure. This is the first medical usage of nano-automatons
 * November - Following the completion of the 9,300 MW Tik'al Particle Reactor, over 40% of the Mayans electricity production is handled by nuclear power. This puts them at two-thirds of the way to their final goal of 60% of total power generated

1954


 * January - Another minor skirmish at the Ottoman-Mongol border. Tensions have been steadily increasing over the past three decades and full-scale war has been only just held off by the Foedus Terrae. This time however, things quickly devolve into a battle, and war is declared on the Mongols by the Ottoman Caliph
 * March - Several hundred tank and infantry groups are mobilized across the Mongol border by the Ottomans. Strangely they encounter no resistance at all
 * April - On the morning of the 9th, three mushroom clouds appear on the horizon near the city of Ögadaburg. By the end of the day, all the attacking Ottoman infantry are dead and over half their tanks have been destroyed. A tactical retreat is unanimously decided upon, the following morning. Realizing the Mongols have some kind of massively destructive weapon, the Ottoman Caliph goes to meet the Alliance of Earth and warn them of this threat
 * May - Following weeks of discussion, the Alliance finally decides to come clean to the world about the existence of particle weaponry. The Inca, Ottoman and Khmer Empires are furious about this revelation and demand the termination of all nuclear weapon programs. Wanting to prevent the expected nuclear devastation of the world by the Mongols, the Japanese launch a blank ICBM across the Mongol Empire and then have it return the same way to come and crash into the Maria Nippona. Worried by this display of power, the Mongols sign a treaty with the Japanese wherein either side agrees to only use particle bombs in the event of such an attack on their own soil
 * July - Following the news of the treaty, the Khmerians and Ottomans jointly decide to further attack the Mongol Empire. Beginning the Great Asiatic War
 * October - Construction of the first structure built entirely on the Moon is finished in Heliopolis
 * December - The Romans secretly back the Ottomans in their war efforts against the Mongols, whilst the Danes begin to do the same for the Khmerians

1955


 * February - Lunar Space Station Artemis is completed at the Earth-Moon A2 Punctum Agravitas (OTL L1 Lagrangian Point). It serves both as a relay point for the limited Earth-to-Moon communications, as well as flight control for all entering and exiting traffic
 * April - The Ottomans achieve a stunning victory over Mongol armored behemoths at the Battle of Uyngju thanks to Roman rocket artillery support. The Mongols are still not aware of the Roman aid
 * June - Creation of the Ahau Lunar Base by the Mayans
 * September - Carbon nanotube armor is invented in the Mayan Empire. The method of its creation is sold to the Romans in exchange for microchip technology
 * October - Detonation of Hercules on the far side of the Moon. At 312 megatons, it takes the title of Largest Man-Made Explosion in History

1956


 * April - Success of the Montauke Project. Following several attempts at creating a function particle fusion reactor, the team in Roman North Columbia was finally able to implement a design generating over 3 times more energy than that being taken in by the reactor
 * May - With Roman assistance, the Inca begin to send aid to the Ottoman Empire in its efforts against the Mongols. This also helps to further improve relations between the Roman and Inca people
 * July - Following an inquiry into the high-yield of the Hercules detonation, the Romans discovered the cause for the explosion being 1% over the theoretical maximum yield. Large quantities of Helium-3 was discovered on the Moon's far side, deposited over the eons by the solar wind. Plans are made to exploit this resource for its potential use in nuclear power generation
 * August - The 15th Golden Horde of Mongolia is unleashed on the Republic of Khmer
 * October - Japanese artillery is mobilized to help defend the Khmerians

1957


 * January - Creation of the Legio Terrae, the standing army of the Alliance of Earth
 * March - Production of lorica carbonata. Following the purchase for carbon nanotube armor designs, Roman scientists made some changes to the form and eventually created the latest lorica for the army
 * June - Completion of the first commercial particle fusion reactor near Paris. Providing 23,200 MW of power, it is the fifth most powerful generator in the world at the time
 * July - Helios Satellite network is completed. It provides 21% of Roman power generation needs
 * September - A ceasefire is worked out between the Mongols and Khmerians with the help of Japanese involvement
 * December - The last of Roman ground-based solar panels have their resources allocated elsewhere, completing the phasing in of space-based solar energy

1958


 * January - Having difficulty indirectly fending off the Golden Horde from Ottoman territory, the Romans unofficially declare war on the Mongol Empire, essentially fighting through the Ottomans
 * March - Roman scientists develop a method to safely store antimateriae for long periods of time. This is done in hopes of using it in power generation and weapons development programs
 * May - Roman Army detonates an EMP missile over the attacking Mongol armored behemoths. Though it is a non-nuclear device, it stills requires an explosion to function, leading the Mongols to believe their territory has been nuked. On the 14th the Mongol Khan orders 10 nuclear bombers to attack the Ottoman advance military bases. Though all ten are intercepted by Roman missiles, the nuclear crisis goes on, till a the Japanese can mediate another prevention of particle bomb usage. The war however, still continues
 * June - Not able to use any more EMP weapons in the war, the Romans opt for CI-96 bunker busters to destroy the armored behemoths
 * October - A ceasefire with the Mongol Empire is agreed upon through intervention of the Foedus Terrae
 * November - Romans begin production of an experimental handheld microwave-laser rifle

1959


 * March - Life expectancy in the Inca Empire finally reaches 100 years
 * June - Start of Operation Fulmen with the stated goal of creating an electromagnetic launching platform for lunar return vehicles from Heliopolis
 * July - Electric reactive armor is invented in the Roman Empire. Similar to the prevalent reactive armour, the electric kind however has two conductors as part of the plates, creating a high-power capacitor. When a projectile impacts the armor, the energy is released and vaporizes the projectile, diffusing a significant amount of its energy
 * December - On the 25th, the birth of the first human clone is announced to the Inca Empire. The boy is named Manco, after the mythical first Sapa Inca

The 60's
1960


 * February - The last Roman particle fission bombs are decommissioned. All other nuclear weapons of the Empire are pure fusion, two step fusion, or dirty fission bombs
 * May - Mayan scientists develop a flexible material that becomes as hard as noricum when a force threshold is passed, its use as military body armor is however surpassed by carbon nanotube-fibers
 * August - Antimateriae Genitor particle accelerator is completed near Massiala. It is the first accelerator dedicated to the production of antimatter in the form of antiprotons, making it at 0.5 g/month
 * October - General Yacuney leads a rebellion of the army in Cubagua. The government is barely able to maintain control, and a Civil War ensues
 * November - The Cubaguan government begs the Foedus Terrae for help, but the Legio Terrae is still busy in Asia, so the Roman Legion is sent in its place. With power from their satellites, the Roman armies' combat effectiveness is in no way diminished in this far off country
 * December - Electromagnetic launching platform built on the Moon

1961


 * January - Completion of the Prometheus spaceship. It is the first spacecraft to be completely reusable, as the Archimedes model required an external fuel tank
 * March - Method for producing oil from carbon dioxide in the air is developed in the Roman Empire. Though it requires large facilities, a specific type of geology and large quantities of power, none of these are issues for the Empire, who still manages to make a profit by selling the oil to the Mayans
 * June - A joint Inca-Rome team of scientists invents a flawless prosthetic. Taking commands directly from nerve impulses, the limb is able to perfectly mimic all movement capabilities of the human arm
 * July - Communication is lost with the Mayan spacecraft Itzamna, as it was making its journey to the Red Planet
 * September - Three-dimensional holographic displays become common place in the Roman Empire
 * October - Construction begins on the Statio Aethereus Exquaesitionis Scientificae (Space Station of Scientific Research). It will be the first research station for the effects of zero-gravity and space radiation on Earth systems and organisms
 * November - A Roman Signiferius is killed in Cubagua. This is one of the first deaths on the Roman side, which only serves to further increase public opinion that the Legion is doing the right thing

1962


 * March - Site is established in Roman Africa for the construction of a Space Elevator
 * April - Mayans build an armored land vehicle powered by a miniature fission reactor, similar in design to the ones that power their ships
 * June - Unmanned probe confirms that Itzamna experienced a failure of the life support systems nearly halfway to Mars, currently the Mayans have no remedy to this situation
 * August - Danes commission the construction of a massive railgun artillery piece, in Greenland, from the Romans. Though the weapon is capable of reaching Roman cities, it fires one shell at a time and has an accuracy, at that distance, of barely a square kilometer, making it all but useless for a strike against Rome
 * September - The Inca build their first nuclear fission reactor
 * December - Cubaguan Head of State is killed by Rebel assassins

1963


 * March - A large radio telescope is completed in Heliopolis
 * May - The Holy Inca City of Apu is rebuilt by a team of Roman and Inca engineers and builders. This was done as an act of bonding between the two nations after the cause of the original city's destruction was revealed to the world
 * June - A group of Hispaniolan insurgents set off a bomb in Colona's central metro, killing 64 people. This causes the Legion to release that this once peaceful separatist group can become violent, and so a Legion is sent to wipe them out
 * August - A second Prometheus-class space ship is finished and dubbed Daedalus
 * December - First nuclear-powered submarine rolls out of the Inca docks

1964


 * January - Roman women receive the right to hold a position in the Officium Imperium; this is considered the culmination of the women's rights movements of the last century
 * April - Detonation of Thor the first Danish particle bomb, the design is however much more advanced than any other first particle bomb as it has been in development for quite a while
 * May - Completion of the SAES research station in space
 * July - Hispaniolan insurgents stop directly going into battle with the Legion, they still continue to inflict considerable damage on Roman civilian and military assets
 * October - Inca scientists create a human with enhanced haemaglobin, it is theorized that the child will never experience muscle fatigue
 * November - Start of the Inca Militas Program, the Alliance of Earth is let in on the program on the condition the Inca are given 40 permanent seats in the Censum Parlamentum and that the Legio Terrae has a wing for the sole protection of the Inca. The project is so incredible there is unanimous agreement

1965


 * February - There is a test fire of the Groenland Nuclear Artillery Station (Nordic: Mjöllnir). The world is in shock, though no military action is taken
 * March - General Kuo'gan leads the Zulu Army and Imperial Airforce in a coup for control of the Zulu Kingdom. King Ghanshi is evacuated by helicopter just before his palace is taken
 * April - General Kuo-gan declares himself President of the Platonist Grand Zulu Republic. The Legio Terrae and Roman Legion move in to protect the trade of the valuable mineral assets that the country possesses
 * June - The First clone of an extinct animal is born in the Inca Provinces
 * August - The First Potestas Kinetic-Artillery Satellite is launched into orbit
 * November - One of the primary bases for Hispaniolan insurgents is discovered by the Roman Intelligence Service

1966


 * Febuary - Tired of the Civil War in Cubagua, the Foedus Terrae opts to just take control of the country at all costs
 * March - Two Roman Legions attack the Hispaniolan Rebel Base, all the while supported by Cherubim and Potestas space strikes and A-100 air strikes. The heavily fortified position is wiped-out in less than an hour, with only one Roman casualty
 * April - Reforms are planned to upgrade the old-Mayan cities of West-Hispaniola in hopes of bridging the massive gap in the standard of living between either side of the Roman island
 * July - An A-5 Phoínix ICBM is launched at the Rebel controlled capital of Tainoa in Cubagua. Within several seconds, 140,000 people are dead and the entire Rebel command is wiped alongside half of their forces. The Japanese take over the island with Alliance consent, though several years of clean-up and integration still lie ahead
 * September - Battle of Auriopolis. Alliance and Roman forces clash with the army of the Zulu Republic outside the industrialized mining site of Auriopolis. It is a one-sided massacre against the Zulus

1967


 * January - Detonation of ikNowa, first Zulu particle bomb
 * February - Following last months revelation, the Alliance enters into an agreement with the new Zulu Republic. King Ghanshi's blood runs dry at the same time as the ink of the Treaty
 * May - Completion of the Roman Space Elevator
 * July - Tohil is launched, its the third Coyotl-class space shuttle in use by the Mayans
 * November - While making making an address to the Roman Senate, Emperor Lucius is shot in the neck by the freedman Swahilus Madrana, aiming from a Melista hovering outside. Although CC missiles immediately blow him out of the sky, there is nothing that can be done for the young Emperor as he dies several seconds before medics have the chance to revive him. Emperor Raphael, his eldest son, is declared Caesar
 * December - Construction on the Aeneas, a massive Roman spaceship that will colonize Mars, is begun around the Empire

1968


 * February - Inca scientists develop a safe method of telomerase insertion therapy. Over a month of 8 treatment sessions, an individual can revert their biology to that of around 64-72% of their current age. Multiple applications can reduce someone's age to a minimum of 21 years. Though there are numerous short term side effects, such as certainty of cancer, retroviral therapy and cancer treatments can permanently fix these problems
 * March - The Alliance of Earth begins to build an Orbital Particle Bomb Launcher, meant as a counter to the Danish nuclear artillery station in Greenland
 * May - Ares III lands on the surface of Mars. It is the first man-made object placed by Man onto the Red Planet
 * July - Roman scientists develop a marketable quantum processor. Though it isn't as powerful as other available microchips, it is relatively easy to scale upwards by adding more together. The potential of the technology is considered limitless
 * November - Mayan scientists invent a type of superconductor that works relatively close to the melting point of water (OTL -93 degrees Celsius)

1969


 * January - An Inca scientist provides experimental evidence for the shrinking of the Y chromosome, he is exiled from the largely patriarchal Roman academic circles
 * April - Heron automated spaceship is launched. It is designed not only to perform all sorts of construction in space, but it is also capable of interplanetary travel within the Solar System
 * May - Ares VI, VII and VIII are launched towards Mars followed by Heron. There, they will be assembled in Martian orbit into a long-distance communication satellite
 * July - Heliopolis reaches a population of 10,000 settlers
 * November - Potestas Kinetic Artillery Satellite Network is finished
 * December - Aeneas Mars Colonizer is completed. The interplanetary ship is capable of sustaining 30 settlers over the long trip to Mars. Its destination on the planet's surface is the Valles Magnus (OTL Mariner Valley), where a colony is destined to be set up

The 70's
1970


 * January - Aeneas sets off for the Red Planet
 * March - Japan begins a program to develop its own nuclear submarines, each capable of holding 20 ICBMs of either nuclear or convential design. This is put into operation so as to maintain their title as the dominant naval power on Earth
 * June - Ehecatl, the fifth Mayan space shuttle of the Coyotl design, undergoes its maiden voyage
 * July - Aeneas arrives in Martian orbit just as Heron finishes construction of the Martian communication satellite. Upon landing, its starts building the Roman city of Troy
 * September - The Foedus Terrae holds the Ares Conference. There, the future of Martian colonization is seriously discussed by the three spatial-powers of Earth. Numerous scientifically viable methods for terraforming are proposed; however, at current levels of technology it would take over a century for Mars to be made habitable
 * October - Romans enact the Persephone Project. Ares X, XI, XII and XIII are launched, transporting a large quantity of solar powered satellites equipped with powerful electromagnets. These will form the Octavius Belt around Mars that acts like an artificial planetary magnetic field, keeping radiation levels in its shadow similar to sea level on Earth
 * November - Japanese Chōsen Tunnel, that connects the Home Islands to its mainland territories, is completed. The entire Japanese Empire is now linked by transit systems
 * December - The Castrum Astri II is completed in planetary orbit. The old station is scheduled for a controlled re-entry within the week

1971


 * February - Mayans attempt to enact a deal with the Japanese to create a joint Martian Base. It is rejected on the grounds of there being no economic incentive for Japan
 * April - Disillusioned from any further attempts at Mars, the Mayans opt to create their own Orbiting Space Station
 * July - Danes build the first mobile nuclear artillery pieces
 * October - Romans start production of the hand-held nuclear launcher. As a kick in the face to the Danish efforts it has nearly the same range and twice the yield of their artillery shells
 * November - Construction is started on a Transmeditteraneum Railway Tunnel. "Filled" with a vacuum, this railway will allow magnetically levitated trains to travel at 4570 km/h between Rome-Melita-Carthage

1972


 * January - Adam, the first android to leave the "uncanny valley," is created in Alexandria
 * February - Emperor Raphael rejects the Senate's proposal for a Transatlantic Railway on the grounds of impracticality
 * March - Philo, the second unmanned vessel of the Heron design, is launched into space
 * June - Ares XXII arrives around Mars, releasing 20 Custos Angelis satellites in orbit
 * July - Death of the current Mongolian Khan. Zshang Khan is next in line. A week after taking power he declares war on the Khmer Empire, his brother having died in the previous war against them
 * August - After confirming the Mongols won't use nuclear weapons, the Japanese opt not to help the Khmerians as tensions between the Alliance and the Platonist Nations of the world have been increasing over the past decade
 * September - Aeneas sets out for Mars a second time, bringing another wave of colonists and materials
 * October - The Danes and Zulus move to send aid to the Khmerians

1973


 * March - The UCC passes a referendum in order to bring their economic policies towards a more Platonist form
 * May - Production begins on the A-126 Unmanned Hypersonic Jet by the Romans. It is the first caelus automaton to utilize a nucleonic gamma reactor for propulsion, allowing it to operate at velocities exceeding 10,000 km/h
 * August - With the success of the A-126, plans are made for the creation of an Extra Atmospheric Fighter-Bomber. To operate continuously in either media of air and space it will require two different kinds of propulsion systems, a difficult challenge containing it in the body of a fighter
 * December - The Japanese Empire begins production on its Peninsula-class Supercarriers. At 412,620 tons they are the largest military sea vessels in history

1974


 * February - The Danish Empire creates, what the Romans call, the Confoedera Unitae Platiorum (Confederacy of United Platonists). It is joined by the Khmerians, the Vinlanders, the Zulus and of course the Danes. This somewhat helps to unify their efforts in helping the Khmerians
 * April - The Mayan Holy Army begins to equip Railguns to its infantry. This makes them the second empire, after the Romans, to do so
 * July - The city of Troy on Mars reaches a population of 100 settlers. Centrifugal sleeping units are brought into use to counteract the potential effects of the planet's low gravity, much like the ones that have been in use on the Moon since 1958
 * September - The Japanese Emperor reconsiders his nation having never built their own lunar base. He commissions the nations top scientists and economists to plan for its construction
 * December - The Danish Army itself lands on the Langka Peninsula to directly combat the Mongols

1975


 * January - The Mongol Empire invades the Republic of Vinland. Feeling threatened, the UCC joins CUP and themselves declare war on the Mongols
 * February - The Roman Empire forces the Mongols to sign the Treaty of Halorium, limiting their ability to expand within North Columbia. It in no way impedes their current military progress
 * May - Launch of the first Seraphim Radionerva Satellite by the Romans. Only members of the Foedus Terrae are made aware of this technology
 * August - Citing the Mongols numerous violation of the International Code, the Danes implore the Foedus Terrae for an intervention in the war. Following what the Media would describe as "sub triclinium" deal-making, the Alliance agreed to assist in the CUP's protection
 * September - Following several days of orbital and aerial bombardment, the Mongol army in North Columbia has been crippled beyond use. Having suffered billions of aureus in damages, the Mongols offered the Confederacy an end to global hostilities, an offer they did not refuse
 * December - Construction is completed on a second Roman Space Elevator. This one is completed in South Columbia so as to distinguish it from the first one built in Africa

1976


 * January - The Confederacy declares foundation of its new official capital, Kallipolis in Danish Columbia
 * February - A deal is made between the Japanese and the Romans. The Japanese government will pay the Romans to transport personnel and materials from the Earth to a Japanese lunar base. Akari's location is chosen to be 100 km West of the Roman Helium production plant on the lunar far side
 * April - Having recovered economically from its war with the Mongols, the Republic of Khmer declares war on the lone island nation of Papua. The least advanced nation of Earth, Papua is helpless in the face of the Khmer Army. Though a Japanese vessel receives a distress signal, help is slow in coming
 * May - The Foedus Terrae finally agrees to send aid to the Papuans and within a week the Legio Terrae has established a defensive line across half the island
 * June - Establishment of the Akari lunar base
 * October - Start of the modernization program for the Cherubim Satellite network
 * December - The Platonist Confederacy jointly declares war against Papua. Though the Alliance is technically not at war with them, the war is informally between those two organizations

1977


 * January - Troy reaches a population of 1,000 settlers. Expansion plans are made to have 50,000 people by halfway through the decade (1982 or 2735 AUC)
 * March - Construction is completed on the Millenial Palace by the Japanese Empire. Combining Roman and Japanese architecture, the Millenial Palace was designed by Roman architects and uses the most advanced materials available at the time. Chief Architect Faustus Baebelus Florentius boasts that the structure will last a thousand years, hence it was named as such by the Japanese Emperor
 * July - Battle of Weawaq. Hoping to break the defensive line, the Confederate forces move out the largest army they can muster. Taken by surprise, the Alliance is for once on the losing side of a battle. All seems lost till a Roman Seraphim satellite passes over the battlefield and unleashes its power on the enemy armor, causing them to flee in terror of the Alliance's "invisible weapon"
 * September - Launch of Sol I, II and III by the Romans, they will be assembled by Heron into a Close Solar Observer within the orbit of Mercury. These are the first probes of the Sol Series, designed to observe the sun in case of any activity that could affect the actions of the Empire
 * November - Romans withdraw their support for Papua as they still hold resentment for their unprovoked actions during the last World War. Following the Veto of an Alliance presence on the island, Japan is forced to personally send its army to hold up the defenses against the entire onslaught of Confederate forces

1978


 * January - Danes launch a naval attack all along the Papuan coast. They are repulsed by the mighty Japanese fleet
 * April - The Imperial Assembly of Japan votes to enact a withdrawal of half their forces stationed in Papua
 * June - Completion of 4 kilometer thick defenses along the Danish-Roman border in North Columbia
 * July - UCC officially joins the Confederacy of United Platonists and lends soldiers and boats to the war in Papua
 * October - Complete withdrawal of Japan from Papua due to excessive costs with no actual gain
 * November - Conquest of the Republic of Papua by the Platonists, the island is put under official control of the Khmer Republic

1979


 * March - Launch of Sol XIX, XX and XXI by the Romans
 * June - Attempted assassination of the Ottoman Sultan by Platonist rebels, treatments in an Inca immersion tank following surgery bring him back from the brink of death
 * August - Inca Militas Program reaches a turning point with the birth of Enoch. This child is the finest product of the project, Emperor Raphael even declaring him the "culmination of all human evolution"
 * December - Completion of the Alliance Cloning Facility in the Inca Empire. Once operational, it is to begin production on the soldiers that will come to make up the main force of the Legio Terrae

The 80's
1980


 * January - First asteroid mining site established on a M-type asteroid (OTL 16 Psyche). Once the site is finished, it is estimated that it could literally double Rome's global Iron production
 * March - Start of the Midas Program by the Romans. With current models proclaiming the economic viability of increased asteroid mining, the Emperor has proposed a project to, not only exploit an additional 20 asteroids by the end of the decade (1987), but to set-up a wholly unthought of before network to transport the materials to Earth
 * June - Mayans finish construction on their own electromagnetic mass driver on the Moon. This more than cuts the cost of their lunar missions to less than a fourth
 * October - Sustainability program is completed for the Akari lunar base. It can now maintain a population of 114 settlers

1981


 * February - All members of the Platonist Confederacy have finally passed a referendum that will promote further political unity within the organization
 * May - Completion of the 16 Psyche mining base. Annual production of the facility is estimated to be 10,000,000 tons, though this is well below the projected quantity, expansions to the facility are expected to be undergone as a part of the Midas Program
 * June - Creation of the SC-34 Gunship by the Romans. Having approximately the weight of a Vastator boat, the SC-34 is the first example of a military spaceship
 * September - First asteroid mining site established on a Near-Earth Object (433 Eros). Though it is currently only meant to mine Gold, Silver and Aluminium, plans are made to expand the facility to process even more amounts of materials

1982

November - Death toll for the Ottoman rebellion exceeds 10,000 people, and the international media has started to call it a civil war. Still, the Ottomans refuse outside influence for fear of being taken advantage of
 * March - Romans complete their fourth interplanetary starship, the Ozymandias. The others in the Roman spacefleet are the Aeneas, the Imhotep and the Hesperia interplanetary starships, plus the Daedalus and Prometheus space shuttles. As well, two others are still in construction and are yet to be christened by the Emperor
 * April - Rebels on the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula start a revolt in the name of Platonism, at first it seems as if they're only a minor threat and the local government sends in their own troops to deal with the problem
 * June - It has become apparent that the Platonist Rebels have had some outside assistance as they use far better weapons than was expected
 * July - New particle reactors are finished in the Roman Lunar colonies to sustain the current population of 580,000 people, more than three-quarters of which live in the capital of Heliopolis

1983


 * January - The third asteroid mining site is established, this time on LII Gordias (Ceres)
 * April - Alliance of Earth overrules the Ottoman request of non-interference and send 1 Roman Legion and two Alliance Legions to help
 * May - Confederacy increases its illicit supplies to the rebels by several times, but is unwilling to risk a serious international incident by sending its own troops. All Alliance members are still unaware of their influence there
 * October - Roman Intelligence Service discovers what the Confederacy has been doing and convinces the government to focus efforts instead on cutting off their supply lines
 * December - Interplanetary Romulus vessel is completed. Its design far supersedes its predecessors and its size is also much greater

1984


 * February - The first section of the Portantia Network is completed. This part consists of four stations in fixed positions along Earth's orbit that can transport any ship at high-interplanetary speeds between each other
 * March - Ottoman Civil War gains momentum as insurgents pop up all across the nation
 * April - Fission plant several hundred kilometers from Tikal experiences a meltdown as the worst nuclear accident in human history, with 90 immediate deaths, 22,000 attributable deaths within the next twenty years and an estimated 290,000 people exposed to dangerous levels of radiation
 * May - Newly released fission-powered private automobiles experience painfully low sales due to public outcry following the recent disaster. Their high-price though and the high number of rich supporters of the product in the government ensure that it is not a complete failure
 * July - Two more Alliance Legions arrive in Arabia to help deal with the Rebels, relations between the Confederacy and the Alliance are at their worst yet
 * August - The sixth interplanetary vessel, dubbed the Africanus is completed and given the role of a surveillance vessel for both Earth and foreign space colonies. Unlike its predecessors the Africanus focuses most on orbital maneuverability and sensor systems rather than speed or duration of journeys

1985


 * January - Per the agreements of the 1981 Treaty of Chumash, a joint Inca-Maya space elevator is completed near the city of Qusqu, the Inca capital. Both nations now rely on this method alone to launch their own satellites
 * February - Planet is on the brink of war when the Danes undergo a "blank firing drill" of the Mjöllnir Nuclear Artillery Station in Greenland, the first test fire in more than a decade. The demonstration that it can reach across the Atlantic nearly to the Equator fails to intimidate the Roman government which responds by sending a second Legion of their own to the Ottomans
 * June - Emperor Raphael of Rome dies after an hour or so of surgery following an ambush by African rebels on a military convoy he was accompanying in the province of Bantua. He is succeeded by his adopted son Vibius Aemillius Optatus, who is crowned Emperor Cicero
 * September - Japan, eager to stay ahead of the Conglomerate, finishes its own space elevator, the first to extend from a station in the middle of the ocean, more specifically the Pacific Ocean
 * November - The completion of the seventh interplanetary Roman starship is met with great celebration across the Empire as an important milestone in the history of space travel. The craft is dubbed the Cicero and this ship as well is a huge step forward in the technology of interplanetary ships

1986


 * January - Construction is started on the grandest engineering project in human history. Emperor Cicero plans to build advanced damming stations at the three entrance points to the Mare Nostrum (Mediterranean), so at OTL Gibraltar, Suez and Dardanelles. Once completed the stations will regulate the water level of the Mediterranean as well as completely control the flow of war into and out of it. With construction occurring concurrently in all places at once, the project is intended to be completed by 1990
 * February - Rest of the Portantia Network is completed and now non-interplanetary ships are capable of travelling anywhere within the asteroid belt in journeys measured in weeks rather than months
 * April - Ottoman Rebels are reduced to only a minor threat after the last mission in a series of strikes against their forces. Though the Ottomans are effectively at peace, and can handle matters on their own now, they are extremely resentful for years of war on their own territory and what they see as occupation by the foreign Alliance. All military ties are severed and the Ottoman Caliphate reverts to a nearly isolationist state
 * July - The latest interplanetary starship of the Romans, the Alexander, is unlike any other craft ever built in space before it and it has earned the distinction as the first Interplanetary Warship. Its intention is to be the personal spacecraft of the central government and the Caesar
 * December - Population of the Troy colony exceeds 100,000 people

1987


 * January - By this year resources from Roman asteroid mining are already providing an enormous boost to Rome's industrial capacity, sparking what many call an Industrial Revolution
 * February - Upgrades to the Suez Canal region are completed in line with the Magneuropa Program
 * March - Japanese astronauts at last reach Mars and establish their first colony there, this success over the Mayan Conglomerate cements the Japanese position as Rome's most powerful ally
 * June - Alongside the Magneuropa Program a plan to build huge artificial lakes and rivers in the Sahara Desert start to be put into action, it is expected that once the project is complete (scheduled for 1992) most of the Sahara will rather quickly become arable land. One of the greatest hurdles of the project is the 2 TW of continuous power that will need to be generated to sustain these artificial rivers
 * August - The Confederacy completes their first ten point-defense laser arrays at their most important military bases. These are intended to counter Roman space artillery in the event of a war
 * November - Construction is completed on the initial Underground Section of the city of Troy on Mars. This section consists of a massive roughly rectangular facility built completely underground that houses 100,000 people and has major shopping and relaxation districts for the inhabitants wishing to get out of the Martian sun that shines through the windows on the surface

1988


 * January - Hydroelectric Dam blocking off the Dardanelles Straights is completed in line with the Magneuropa Program, this now provides most of the power for the city of Constantinopolis
 * March - Via Martia is completed, connecting the two major Roman settlements on Mars and the growing Japanese base, this was a joint project between the two nations
 * April - There is a sudden uprising of over 2 million Platonist rebels in the Inca nation, the Alliance for its part is absolutely shocked by this and they immediately move several Mayan battalions, 3 Roman Legions and half of all Alliance forces to help protect the major Inca cities, the engagement is known as the Inca Revolution, but this is only the beginning
 * May - Only a week after the start of the Inca Revolution, Roman satellites detect a rapidly moving object originating from the Mjöllnir Nuclear Artillery Station that is headed for Europe. Protocols for this moment that have been in place for decades activate and the projectile, which is determined to have been nuclear, is prematurely detonated before even passing over Ireland. To the horror of the entire Roman people, the trajectory is calculated to have set it on a course for the city of Rome itself, and the detonation would most likely have killed over 10 million people, including the entire Roman government and the Emperor. The Empire immediately goes to war against the Confederacy and within a day so do the other members of the Alliance. The Bellum Aegidis has begun
 * August - First Battle of Durorium is the first major battle of war, with nearly the entire Danish fleet in action at once. The Roman city was torn apart by artillery fire and all of the defending ships, making up most of the Baltic Fleet, were destroyed
 * December - Cambrian provincial capital of Wentria is destroyed when the Danes make a bombing run against it with a hypersonic, nuclear missile, the Romans now fully intend to repeal the former treaty promising not to use nuclear weapons against the Confederacy

The 90's
1991 1992
 * November - The Treaty of Stockholm is signed by all Confederacy members, finally bringing the Third World War to an official close. The Alliance of Earth emerges victorious and largely unscathed, having suffered about 114 million civilian and military casualties alone
 * December - Congress of Tyre is held to reorganize the defeated nations. Rome is given custodianship of the Danish and Khmer states, whilst the Mayans must take care of all former Confederate states in North Columbia. The Republic of Vinland is also integrated into the United Chiefdoms of Columbia, causing a great deal of unrest in the region. Finally, all former Confederate nations are forced to adopt a less socialist form of government, though many are permitted to remain republican
 * February - Civil War breaks out in the Chiefdoms as Vinlanders refuse to join the Union. Since the Chiefdoms are not permitted to field an army, the Alliance must come in to quell the discontent
 * March - Several Roman convoys in Djayakarta are attacked by guerrilla soldiers
 * April - Roman intelligence traces the recent attacks to a nationalist terrorist group formed from the former Khmer armed forces when the issue of surrender was sent out. This Battalion of Kali is well armed and highly supported by the local populace
 * July - Construction is started on the Pons Transatlanticus, a bridge spanning the entire Atlantic Ocean, from Audenisonea in Columbia to Lusitania in Europe