Timeline

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• 76 BE: Sori of Takori convenes an association of kyro leaders in Kota City to standardize currency and measurements, traditionally marking the founding of Kota.
• 51 BE: The King of Arkand dies with no heirs; the Provincial Council begins leasing exclusive charters to royal houses.
• 50 BE: The Stratis Corporation is founded in Arkand.
• 10 BE: Arkandic royal courts are instructed to recognize the laws and judgments of charter companies.
• 0: The Enchantment occurs, introducing aether to the atmosphere.
• ~2: Wizards first use aetherpower within two years of the Enchantment.
• 11: The First Conclave of Charterholders in Arkand establishes a fixed currency exchange rate between charter companies.
• 18: The Syndicate Accords are signed at the Second Conclave, reconstituting the government of Arkand.
• 24: The phosgraph is invented at Tesser University.
• 36: The first aetheric glyphbook is written at the Qamar Library.
• 44-52: The Wizard Revolution overthrows the Kingdom of Monnais and establishes the Republic.
• 52: Zalo kyro engineers develop a tunnel bore system enabling underground rail networks in Kota.
• 54: The wizard requirement for Monnais Presidium delegates is abolished.
• 55: Ercosian engineers develop rotatable phosgraph lenses, enabling scheduled networks.
• 57: Roka develops cheap dual-purpose phosgraph lenses; the ONC commissions the first non-linear scheduled network.
• 62: Petrel Aerostatics introduces the relay balloon, enabling cross-ocean phosgraph transmission.
• 78: The Starlight Phosgraph Union is founded by phosgraph operators across Monnais and Qamar.
• 81: The Starlight Phosgraph Union publishes its first bulletin with an international pulse-encoding standard.
• 83: The ONC joins the Starlight Phosgraph Union.
• 118-121: The Liaran Secession: Liara gains independence from Tilia after merchants blockade the Cormorant Strait, resulting in a bilateral free trade agreement.
• 138: Cobra Armaments is founded in Tilia.
• 140: The Nordovest Institute is founded to study aetherpower.
• 157: The Pax Centralis is formally established as a supranational alliance between Liara and Tilia.
• 180: Coachguard is founded in Tilia as the Coach and Rail Guard.
• 202: The Liara Canal Authority is founded under the Pax Canal Authority Act.
• 217: The Fox River Shipyard is contracted by the Liara Canal Authority to construct canal tugs.
• 218: Coachguard wins a large contract from Northwind Rail.
• 224: Coachguard incorporates and rebrands from Coach and Rail Guard.
• 228.2.27: Wake Society operatives Ranmaru Ito and Naho Okabe are killed at Lantong Plaza in Tesser, triggering the Nine Knot War.
• 228.2.30: Kogane declares war on Stolmont after a censored phosgraph leads to misunderstanding of the Lantong Plaza Incident.
• 231.2.4: Kogane signs the Instrument of Delsin, surrendering claims on Delsin to Stolmont.
• late 232: Hina Teruoka testifies before the Kogane parliament, admitting to censoring the Stolmont phosgraph during the Nine Knot War.
• 233: The Wake Society is declared illegal in Kogane; Takumi Endo’s Kogane Homeland Focus party wins snap elections.
• 234: The Kogane government bans independent political publications.
• 236: IPRO is founded on the Cormorant Strait after an explosion on an LCA tugboat is linked to an overpressurized fuel barrel.
• 249: The portable densimeter is invented.
• 251: The Boreal Ice Cutters guild is founded.
• 257: The IPRO Treaty is signed; Cascina Station is transferred to the newly chartered IPRO.
• 261: The Delsin Autonomy Ordinance is enacted, creating the Free Republic of Delsin.
• 263: Ercos joins IPRO.
• 272: Helix Steelworks (later Helix Dynamics) is founded in Monnais.
• 275: Kota joins IPRO.
• 278-284: The Corsair Uprising: Ikara fights for and wins independence from Arkandic colonial rule.
• 279.9: Captain Barrett sinks the Arkandic ship AOD Ruhig and captures its officers during the Corsair Uprising.
• 286: The Ikaran Coast Guard offers amnesty to former pirates; those who refuse form the Bloodsails.
• 286: Kotan engineers from the Zalo and Da-Se kyros begin a five-year port modernization project in New Harbor.
• 287: Kota joins the Pax Centralis.
• 340: Marisa joins IPRO.
• 342: Stolmont joins IPRO.
• 346: Arkandic engineer Goran Feldt of the Stratis Corporation invents the triplex compressor.
• 350s: Cobra Armaments relocates to Delsin after the success of their K3 rifle.
• ~360s: The Antipressure Front Itaan splits from the Nordovest group.
• 362: Vosanite is discovered in Vosa, Kota.
• 364: Chemist Jinhai Luo of Kemen discovers that vosanite increases aether density.
• 368: The Isuri and Kemen kyros open the Vosa Research Center to develop emerald air from vosanite.
• 372: The first emerald air refinery opens in Vosa, Kota.
• 374: A second vosanite refinery opens in Qime, Kota.
• 378: The Nordovest Institute formalizes standardized aether density grades.
• 382: The vosanite refinement process is licensed to the Zalo Technical Kyro.
• 392: The Triplex Crisis: the Stratis Corporation raises triplex compressor fees in Arkand; the Syndicate Board nationalizes the patent and transfers it to the Finance Guild.
• 400: The Pax Centralis establishes the Cormorant Security Protocol for joint military operations.
• 406: Ercos joins the Pax Centralis for Cormorant Security Protocol protection from Bloodsails attacks.
• 410: Counterfeit triplex compressor-compressed containers flood the Itaan market, causing fatal accidents.
• 413: The blue-stripe levy is added to the IPRO Treaty; Monnais, Qamar, and Arkand join IPRO.
• 418: The ONC-ZTK Refinery Agreement is signed between the ONC and the Zalo Technical Kyro.
• 428: A catastrophic vosanite refinery disaster in Qime triggers the Black Air Conflict in Kota.
• 431: An emerald storage tank explodes at Vosa train station, killing over 600 and ending the Black Air Conflict.
• 431: The Lock 19 Blockade: Liaran sovereigntists block a canal lock, which is seized by soldiers in IPRO vests.
• 431: IPRO creates the Enforcement Team in response to the Lock 19 Blockade.
• 432: Clairon aircraft company is founded by Boris Claire in Monnais.
• 433: IPRO Enforcement Team exposes the Emerald Circuit smuggling ring on the ONC Tramontane.
• 433: The Pax Centralis Oversight Council is created following the Black Air Conflict.
• 434: Pantheon (Finance Guild) acquires Lock 19 in Liara.
• 446: The Stratis Corporation hosts the Triplex Centennial Expo in Highwater.
• 448: The Fox River Maritime Company is founded and given ownership of the Fox River Shipyard.
• 450: The Ikaran Federal Office begins the Harmonization Edicts, relocating all executive offices to Southbar.
• mid 400s: The Sankofa Group first appears in Delsin.
• 455: SikuTech Aeromechanics is founded in Ternmouth.
• 458: The Goldwind Agricultural Cooperative is founded by four Tilian farms.
• 464: Theo Koli wins the Monnais Agricultural Academy Grand Prize for inventing EpiNou wheat.
• 465: Helix Steelworks purchases Applied Aetherics and rebrands to Helix Dynamics.
• 468: The first Clairon Grand Prix air race is held at the Ferroix Salt Flats.
• 472-485: The Locust War: the Goldwind Agricultural Cooperative wages a pest management campaign against locust swarms across Tilia.
• 474: Crop duster pilot Curtis Claire is killed flying through a locust swarm during the Locust War.
• 477: Greyhound completes development of the aeromech; Goldwind Agricultural Cooperative purchases the first production run for the Locust War.
• 478.9.17: A Clairon Crane in Ikaran livery crashes in Kota, triggering the Crane Affair investigation.
• 479.4.19: The Pax Marshals Bureau raids Calder Bend Airstrip; smuggler James Wyatt is killed during the Crane Affair.
• 481: IPRO establishes the Orange Stripe designation to track crisis stockpile items.
• 486: Pax authorities seize Goldwind Agricultural Cooperative-owned aeromechs in connection with the Crane Affair.
• 489: Coachguard assigns aeromechs to Coachguard Nord.
• 490s: Ercos and Kota join the Starlight Phosgraph Union.
• 497: The Starlight Phosgraph Union is banned in Ikara under the Harmonization Edicts.
• 497-502: The Ikaran Park Service is diverted to internal security; claw beasts overrun several western Ikaran towns.
• 502: The Ikaran Civil Revolt: the Coalition of Civil Officers broadcasts demands for repeal of the Harmonization Edicts; Commander Silva marches on Southbar and the Federal Office vacates.
• 505: The Administrative Charter is enacted, defining the modern Ikaran state.
• early 500s: The Sankofa Group spreads to Amberlee, Kota, and Liara.
• 520: The Starlight Phosgraph Union begins hosting the Phosgraph Biennale.
• 568: Cerevisiaen leader Scamdalf Drongo introduces the Cerevisiaen Pellet Compass.
• 602: A Cerevisiaen Council resolution declares the Cerevisiaen Pellet Compass undesirable.
• 652: Helix Dynamics invents the CRP engine.
• 668: Northwind Rail licenses laminated iron technology from Helix Dynamics.
• 674: Helix Dynamics first applies the CRP engine to land vehicles.
• 713: The Valve War: Arkand’s Maritime Union invades Lusquo; Pax forces intervene and Lusquo becomes a Pax protectorate.
• 715: The first CRP-powered hydrofoil is constructed at the Fox River Shipyard.
• 735: The Ribbon War: Monnais and Arkand go to war over Arkandic theft of CRP technology from Helix Dynamics.
• 902: The Universal Cassette Protocol is introduced.