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1492-1520[]

1492
Rodrigo Borja is elected Pope, adopting the name of Alexander VI.
Christopher Columbus is rejected in the court of Castile with his idea to reach the Indies by sailing west.
1495
King John II of Portugal dies. His cousin Manuel I is crowned as king of Portugal.
1497
Italian explorer John Cabot lead an English expedition to Asia and disembarked in the land currently known as Cabotia, and claimed it to England.
1500
Pedro Álvares Cabral led an expedition which disembarked on Brasil, claiming the land for Portugal.
1501
Arthur Tudor, prince of Wales, and Catherine of Aragon get married.
1503
Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini is elected Pope, adopting the name of Pius III.
1504
Queen Isabella I of Castile dies. Her daughter Joanna I is crowned as queen of Castile.
1506
Joanna I of Castile's husband Phillip, is crowned as king of Castile.
Phillip I of Castile dies. His father-in-law, Ferdinand II of Aragon, assumes as regent of Castile. Phillip's son Charles of Ghent, inherits the Low Countries and Franche-Comté.
1507
Giuliano della Rovere is elected Pope, adopting the name of Julius II.
1509
King Henry VII of England dies. His son Arthur Tudor, is crowned as king of England as Arthur I of England.
1513
Somebody different than Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici is elected Pope, adopting the name of Julius III.
1514
Ferdinand Magellan, discovered the strait that bears his name and explored the Pacific coast of Brasil and southern Cabotia.
1515
Charles of Ghent, is declared of age and assumes power in the Low Countries.
Magellan discovers the Manuelinhas, so called after king Emanuel I of Portugal.
1516
Ferdinand II of Aragon dies. His daughter Joanna is proclamed Queen of Castile and Aragon. Joanna's son Charles, is crownd in Flandes as king of Castile and Aragon. Charles becomes also king of Navarre, Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia.
1517
Martin Luther publishes his 90 Theses, motivated by the corruption of the church. After a great deal of controversy, Rome begins adopting these theses.
1519
Holly Roman Emperor Maximilian I dies, his grand son, Charles (king of Aragon, Naples and Castile), is crowned as King of Germany, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, and Count of the Tyrol.
1520
The war of Communities starts in Castile against king Charles and his pretensions to nominate Flemish people in the Castilian courts.

1521-1550[]

Europeans begin dealing with some advanced cultures in Cabotia and Brasil, like the Tawantinsuyo and the Meshicas, while less advanced cultures begin disappearing under European colonization.

1521
Belgrade falls to the Ottomans, lead by Suleiman I.
King Manuel I of Portugal dies. His son John III is crowned as king of Portugal.
1522
Charles I of Castile wins the War of the Communities in Castile. He punish the Castilians by including even more Flemish in the Castilian administration.
1523
Charles I of Aragon, make efforts to unite the Crown of Aragon as one kingdom, including the Kingdom of Aragon, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencia, Sicily, Naples and Sardinia. The Capital is set at Valencia.
1524
Emperor Suleiman I of the Ottomans, and King Louis II of Hungary, sign the Treaty of Budapest, granting the Turks control on the whole Balkans.
1525
Magellan discovers the New World Isthmus, founding the Portuguese colony of Istmo.
1532
François, Dauphin of France, marries Mary Tudor, heir of the English Crown.
1536
John Chauvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is published in Latin.
1537
François, Dauphin of France, dies.

1551-1580[]

1555
Charles I of Aragon abdicates the Crown of Aragon to his son Phillip.
1556
Charles V abdicates his Austrian positions and as Holy Roman Emperor to his brother Ferdinand. He also abdicates as king of Castile to his bastard son John, with Philip as regent until John comes to age.
1557
King John III of Portugal dies. He is succeeded by his two years old grandson Sebastian (regented by his Aragonese grand mother Catherine of Habsburg).
King Arthur I of England dies. He is succeeded by his daughter Mary Tudor as Mary I of England
1558
Pope Paul IV condemns the Reformist and Purist movement of the Church.
1559
Pope Adrian VII revokes the ban on the Reformist and Purist movements. Many Purist bishops do not recognize the authority of Rome, though.
1562
King John III of Castile is declared of age and assumes as John III of Castile, and John I of the Low Countries.
1566
John III of Castile and I of the Low Countries, married Mary I of Scots.
1578
King Sebastian of Portugal dies. His uncle Cardinal Henry, is crowned as king Henry I of Portugal.
1580
Cardinal King Henry I of Portugal dies. The crown is disputed between Antony, grandson of Manuel I, Catherine of Braganza, and Philip I of Aragon. Catherine of Braganza was crowned as Queen Catherine I of Portugal.

1581-1610[]

1611-1640[]

1641-1670[]

1662
King John IV of Castile and II of the Low Countries converts to Puritanism. He abdicates the Castilian crown to his brother Charles.

1671-1700[]

1701-1730[]

1703
The Parliaments of Scotland and the Low Countries issue an Act of Union.
1709
The 30 Years War or War of Germanic Succession starts, after the last Austrian Hapsburg dies. The Habsburg related houses from Low Countries, Castile, and Aragon, where opposed by some of the other German principates.

1731-1760[]

1739
End of the War of Germanic sussession. The Hohenzollern from Brandenburg became elected as Roman Emperors, and allied William of Orange-Hapsburg (brother of the king of Low Countries) is recognized as the new King of Austria.
1743
Martin Luther is cannonized. St Martin Luther, Doctor and Reformer of the Church.

1761-1790[]

1764
Crimean War. A long time allied of the Ottoman Empire the Khanate of Crimea, in alliance with the Dual Commonwealth, Aragon, England, Moravia and Russia fight the Ottomans to get full sovereignty and control of the Crimean Peninsula.
1768
First Partition of Russia between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire.
1783
Second Partition of Russia between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Ottoman Empire, Crimea, Kazachstan, and Sibiria.
1784
New England declares independence from England.

1791-1820[]

1795
The Great War of 1795, which is actually a series of almost unrelated conflicts. The Dual Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire (with support of Crimea, Kazachstan, Sibiria and France) wave war against Russia who was nominally supported by Germany, Denmark, and Scotland and Low Countries; while Austria (in alliance with Helvetia and Hungary) fight against France for the control of Northern Italy.
Third Partition of Russia between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, the Ottoman Empire, Crimea, Kazakhstan, and Sibiria. Russia ceases to exist as an independent entity for the next century.
1798
Egypt falls under Aragonese control.
1812
Robertia declares independence from England.
1815
Second Franco-Austrian war for the control of Northern Italy. Hungary and Helvetia follow the call of the Pope to remind neutral.

1821-1850[]

1823
New Sweden declares independence from Robertia.
1828
France and Hungary declare war against Austria for the control of northern Italy. In a course of five weeks between February and March, Austria surrenders all possessions in Italy.
1830
Massive uprise in Italy begins in March against Hungary and France and in demand of an independent national state. Austria give military support to the Italians but avoids direct war against Hungary and France. The uprisings soon extend also to the Papal states.
Octuber: Italy is proclaimed as a kingdom, soon recognized by Austria, Bavaria, Helvetia and Aragon. Hostilities against France and Hungary cease by November with the Hungarians keeping Venice.
1840
Hungary recognizes the Kingdom of Italy.
1842
France recognizes the Kingdom of Italy.
1846
Netongo declares independence from Robertia.

1851-1880[]

1864
United Kingdom Succession War starts: After the death without heir of King William of Scotland and the Low Countries, a succession war started between the English and German pretenders.
1866
United Kingdom Succession War ends: the Union is preserved but the monarchy is abolished. Scotland and the Low Countries becomes a Republic.
1868
Guyana declares Independence from Scotland and Low Countries.
1870
England grants independence to Newfoundland.
Riots begin in the Novgorodian provinces of Sweden.
1875
Accused of corruption and mishandling of the Novgorodian crisis, the king of Sweden is forced to abdicate. The Novogorodian crisis escalates as a full Civil War inside the kingdom of Sweden.
Patagonia declares Independence from Scotland and Low Countries.
1876
Borinken declares Independence from Scotland and Low Countries.
England grants independence to Hudson.
1877
Royalists in Sweden surrender but the civil war continues between Unionists and Federalists.

1881-1910[]

1881
Peace of Copenhagen to end the Swedish Civil War. The former kingdom of Sweden divided in four sovereign republics: Sweden, Estonia, Finland and Novgorod, all grouped on a loose federation called the Swedish Commonwealth with a tariff union and common defense pact.
1882
Each Republic of the Swedish Commonwealth sanction their own constitution.
1884
England establishes the Dominion of St Lawrence.
1888
The Holy Roman Empire ceases to exist. The Roman Emperor becomes the king of Germany, recognized by all independent electors but Austria and Bavaria, who, otherwise, do not oppose the situation which had actually been the de facto situation for the last century.
1897
England grants independence to Cooba.
1903
King Alfonso XIII was deposed by a military coup, and a junta assumed the government in Castile.

1911-1940[]

1912
The Great War of 1912 erupts in Europe. France, Austria, Aragon and the Dual Commonwealth, with their colonies and other minor states, are in war against an alliance of England, Germany, Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.
Chamaïca declares independence from France.
1914
Civil War erupts in the Dual Commonwealth. Nationalist movements in Lithuania and Ruthenia show sympathy to the Allied Powers.
1915
England grants political independence to New South Wales under a military alliance. Complete independence is promised at the end of the Great War.
1916
Turkey invade Aragonese controlled Egypt in January and annexes the territory.
The Dual Commonwealth Surrenders in May, soon followed by France and Austria in July. Without allies, Aragon seeks a conditional armistice which is granted in August.
The Frankfurt conference begin soon after the recognition of the Aragonese armistice.
1917
In April, following separate negotiations, Austria, Italy, Lombardy, Bavaria and Helvetia agree to form a federation called Austrian-Italian Union. Favoured by referendum in each nation, the Union is ratified at Frankfurt.
In December, the Frankfurt Pact is signed. The Dual Commonwealth is divided in four different nations: Poland, Lithuania, Russia and Ruthenia. Turkey is recognized full control of Arabia and Egypt. New South Wales's independence is recognized.
1918
Russia invades Ruthenia in January, and get some territorial concessions.
Russia invades Novogorod in April. All the Swedish Commonwealth repeals the attack and by late July they had invaded Russia. Situation in Russia could not be legally resolved for the neutrality clauses of the Swedish Commonwealth constitutions, and the de facto occupation of Russia would last until November when the Czar of Russia accepted a surrendering without abdication.
1919
Lithuania: the White Ruthenian Massacre takes place; near 1000 non-combatant ethnic Ruthenians in Lithuania are killed by the Lithuanian government. Ruthenia declares war to Lithuania.
1922
The Lithuanian-Ruthenian war ends with the Peace of Warsaw. Several White Ruthenian provinces of Lithuania are incorporated to Ruthenia, but Lithuania keeps Vilnius.
1923
Second Russian-Ruthenian War and first Crimean-Ruthenian War. Basically a series of skirmishes to fix some pending border disputes.
1938
First Ruthenian Civil War. The National Government was soon overthrown.
1929
Polish-Ruthenian War. A small shooting war for a border dispute.

1941-1970[]

1943
Russian-Crimean War. A small shooting war triggered by ethnic Russians seeking independence from Crimea. Status quo was preserved.
1956
Second Polish-Ruthenian War (February-March) and third Russian-Ruthenian War (May-July).

1971-2000[]

1975
Portugal grants independence to Istmo.
Hungary-Ruthenia War.
1976
Second Ruthenian Civil War.
1980
Castile is transformed in a parliamentary republic with a functional democracy.
1981
Second Crimean-Ruthenian War.
1984
Third Ruthenian Civil War (or Ruthenian secession war).

2001-present[]

2002
Third Crimean-Ruthenian War.
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