Iteration I - Original Timeline
Historical Key: Plain black text denotes mortal events, while text in red text denote the popularly accepted dates of Cainite historical events and blue italics represent events of significance in the Underworld of the Dead.
Contents
4th Century
326: Constantinople Founded - Michael's Final Speech to the Cainites of Rome, the Departure of the Triumvirate and the Formation of the Inconnu.
5th Century
476: The Fall of Rome - The First Great Maelstrom.
11th Century
1022:The wizard Tremere and his mortal followers steal Tzimisce blood in order to become immortal, thus beginning the First Omen War.
12th Century
1133:The self-created blood wizard Tremere diablerizes the Salubri ancient to cement his bloodline's legitimacy.
1184: The first institution of the Inquisition via Papal Bull titled: Ad Abolendam in response to the growing threat of the Catharist heresy in Southern France.
13th Century
1204: The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople - The Death of Michael and the Destruction of his Dream.
1205:The War of Princes begins as word of Michael's destruction ripples across Europe.
1252: Pope Innocent IV, authorizes the use of torture in the search for heresy by the Inquisition. - The first Cainite victims fall to the Inquisition.
1282: War of the Sicillian Vespers - Gratiano, the youngest childe of the Lasombra Ancient strikes the first blow in the "First Anarch Revolt" by leading a motley collection of rebellious childer to storm the Castle of Shadows on Sicily, overwhelming its defenses and consuming his ancient sire's blood.
14th Century
1337: The Hundred Years War begins.
1347: The Black Death decimates Europe - The Second Great Maelstrom.
1381: The Peasant's Revolt of England - The Start of the First Anarch Revolt.
1395: Tzimisce Anarchs led by Lugoj Blood-Breaker unearthed the location of the Tzimisce Ancient, disinterred it and committed the Amaranth upon their clan founder.
15th Century
1435: Hardstadt calls for the Formation of a Camarilla to challenge the chaos of the Anarchs, the European Elders are sceptical, but a core group forms around the charismatic Ventrue.
1444: The Diablerie of Cappadocius, the Birth of the Giovanni Clan and the beginning of the Cappadocian Purge.
1450: The Founders of the Camarilla amass enough influence with the elders of Europe to counter Anarch aggression - the ancient stronghold of Clan Assamite discoved by Camarilla agents.
1453: The Hundred Years War ends.
1455: The English - War of Roses - begins.
1485: The English - War of Roses - ends.
1492: Columbus discovers the New World and claims the Americas for Spain.
1493: The Second Convention of the Camarilla held in the English village of Thorns to discuss the terms of the Anarch's surrender; Clan Assamite punished for its role in the Revolt with the Tremere Curse and most Anarchs re-enter the Camarilla fold. The Toreador Rafael de Corazon makes his famous speach demanding the enforcement of the Traditions with the Masquerade and the those Anarchs who reject the terms of the Convention of Thorns flee to later become the Sabbat.
16th Century
1514: Lord Roger de Camden - Cappadocian Seneschal to Prince Mithras is slain by the Giovanni.
1542: The Witchcraft Act is passed in England forbidding the practice of witchcraft.
1558: Queen Elizabeth rises to the English throne.
1576: The first permanent theater established in London.
1588: The Spanish Armada is launched to defeat England, but sinks in the channel.
1600: The Third Great Maelstrom - The Age of Turmoil.
17th Century
1605: November 5th - English catholics try to blow up the parliment building and fail.
1666: The Great Fire of London - Ambrogeno Giovanni seeks the aid of Tremere expert in a Babalonian Translation of the Sargon Fragment.
1692: The Salem Witch Trials.
18th Century
1757: The East India Company becomes the defacto government of India.
1776: The American Revolution.
1798: The Departure of Prince Mithras for the East - the Regency of Valerius of London.
19th Century
1812: The War of 1812.
1863: Establishment of the world's first underground railway - the Metropolitan Railway began in London.
1882: The British Empire gains control of Egypt.
1885: Prince Mithras returns to London and deposes Valerius.
1888: The Jack the Ripper Murders capture the attention of the world.
1897: Publication of 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. - The First worldwide breach of the Masquerade.
20th Century
1914: The First World War begins.
1918: The First World War ends - The Fourth Great Maelstrom.
1939: The Second World War begins with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.
1941: The United States of America drawn into W.W.II with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
1945: The conclusion of World War II - The Fifth Great Maelstrom and the Disappearance of Charon.
1951: The Final Repeal of the English Witchcraft Act.
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1990: The awakening of Baba Yaga.
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1997: The Sabbat Siege of Denver begins.
1998: The Siege of Denver broken and the Sabbat routed.
1999: Millennial terror begins. Society of Leopold huntsmen seen in Denver; Sullivan Dane slain in Denver by an unknown Cainite.
2000: Millennial terror ends. The Battle of New York - The Fall of the Sabbat in the Big Apple.
21st Century
2001: The New York Trade Center Bombing (9-11). America's War on Terrorism begins.
2002: U.S.A invades Afghanistan. Internally, the U.S. passes Homeland Security Act.
2002 - 2013: Western Powers Occupation - U.S./ NATO Alliance defeats Iraqi Regime and begin eleven years of expansion and occupation throughout middle-east.
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2004: The Philadelphia Nuclear Attack - During the Philadelphia Peace Marches held in the spring of 2004, Philadelphia is destroyed by a terrorist nuclear attack. President Bush dies while attending the peace rallies. Vice President Cheney becomes president. Passage of Homeland Security Act II & Emergency Powers Act invoked.
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2006: Americanization of North American Muslims, known as "The Pogrom".
2007: Hurricane Katrina destroys the U.S. city of New Orleans.
2008: The Pogrom extended to other violent or seditious minorities.
2009: Civilian Reprisals - ethnic minorities strike back at U.S. Government through suicide bombings, assassinations and full scale rioting.
2010: Within the U.S. the Emergency Powers Act extended to Martial Law.
2011: The Arab Spring - numerous Mideastern nations experience popular revolutions. For the first time, the United States government publicly acknowledges the validity of Global Warming.
2012: The United States Constitution suspended indefinitely due to endemic civil unrest.
2013: Atlanta Freedom Marches - the United States Military cracks downs on peaceful demonstrators.
2014: The Rise of the Drones – The U.S begin the widespread use of drones to support the security of its police state.
2015: The first public appearance of the experimental combat drug – L.A.C.E. in Iraq and later that year throughout the Middle East.
2016: The beginning of the Greek Civil War.
2017: The U.S. President Cheney assassinated by Muslim suicide bomber in Chicago, Vice President Rumsfield becomes President.
2018: The U.S. government grants sovereignty to corporations with military contracts.
2019: The Quebec Crisis and the Canadian Civil War - Quebec succeeds from Canada. The United States government and Great Britain become involved in Canadian Civil War.
2020: New Foundlands' War begins and ends - The United States and England struggle for supremacy over the North Atlantic and the eastern Canadian Territories. The British navy gives a good account of itself in the North Atlantic, but is ultimately broken by the American fleet - the world's largest navy. In the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Quebec the British and American forces square off and while the British lose the war, they do significant damage to their American counterparts.
2021: Quebecois Sovereignty cemented in its Charter of Independence. From this point forward the Nation of Quebec controls all of Canada from the 96th parallel east to the Atlantic Ocean and from the St.Lawrence Seaway north to the Arctic Ocean. The United States acknowledges Quebec as a legitimate nation and as an ally. Ironically, Western Canada becomes a staging ground for Western Secessionist forces. During the summer of the same year, the W.H.O. designates L.A.C.E. a worldwide health issue.
2022: The Western Secession - Secessionists begin ethnic cleansing in Oregon and Washington State. Even though numerous minorities suffer from Neo-Nazi attacks, the Native American casualties are highest and produce the most tangible response - reciprocal violence. The FBI determines that the Neo-Nazi secessionists are tied to the Quebecois freedom movement.
2023: President Rumsfield killed by Native American assassin. The United States military assumes control of executive powers. Albuquerque quarantined by the C.D.C. and destroyed by the military after a fatal outbreak of a previously unknown character devastates the population. The government determines that the Neo-Nazi secessionists are behind the biological attack.
2024: Western Alliance War of Independence Begins.
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2026: Western Alliance War of Independence Ends.
2027: Treaty of New Orleans - Division of the old U.S. into three separate nations: the Western Alliance, Federated American States and the Independent Republic of Texas. The treaty is signed in New Orleans which is designated a neutral zone between the three new nations and the Mississippi River serves as a designated border between the Federated American States and the Western Alliance. Initially, all three nations establish themselves as heirs to the old U.S.A. and its constitutional republic, but within decades they each diverge radically to form new forms of government more in keeping with a more militaristic century.
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2077: W.W.III officially ends - Sixth Great Maelstrom
22nd Century
2147: The Rise of the Red Death - Seventh Great Maelstrom
2197: The Dark Kingdom of Stygia Destroyed - Eighth Great Maelstrom.
