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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.

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 lauched to defeat England, but sinks in the channel.

17th Century

1600: The Third Great Maelstrom - The Age of Turmoil.
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.

20thth Century

1914: The First World War begins.
1918: The First World War ends - The Fourth Great Maelstrom.
1925: Children of Gaia Grey Raven Prophecies The War of Chicago
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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1993: The War of Chicago (Under a Blood Red Moon) 1996:
1997: The Sabbat Siege of Denver begins.
1998: The Sabbat Siege of Denver ends.
1999: Millennial terror begins. Society of Leopold huntsmen seen in Denver; Sullivan Dane slain in Denver by an unknown member of the Sabbat.
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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2007: Hurricane Katrina destroys the U.S. city of New Orleans.
2008: Financial unrest in America, world markets tremble.
2009: President Obama takes office.

2010

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: Fall of Quadafi, widespread civil war in the middle east. Obama re-elected.
2013: Vladamir Putin returns to power and begins the long chess game of rebuilding Mother Russia.

• The Ventrue of Moscow consolidate their power base and move into the void left by the fall of Babba Yaga. For the first time since the Romanovs' Moscow has a Ventrue Prince.

2014: The Rise of the Drones – The U.S begin the widespread use of drones to support the security of its state.
2014: Rise of ISIL, burgeoning attempt to bring the back the Unified Levant.
2014: Racial unrest increases due to the Michael Brown killing in Ferguson, MO.
2015: The first public appearance of the experimental combat drug – L.A.C.E. in Iraq and later that year throughout the Middle East.

• Freddie Gray dies in Baltimore Maryland. Race Riots explode across the city, and several other cities experience unrest.

  Early Summer, St. Louis: The Sabbat begin making childer in mass numbers, making a run at the Camarilla under the cover of race riots.

2016: The beginning of the Greek Civil War. Autumn - The Assassination of Prince Carlak of Prague.

• Atlanta Freedom Marches - the United States Military cracks downs on demonstrators.
  

2017: The U.S. President Clinton assassinated by Muslim suicide bomber in Chicago, Vice President Warren becomes President.
2018: The U.S. government grants declares all corporations subordinate to government control. Production quota's and employment mandates put in place.
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

• 2020:American dollar collapses, leading to a consortium take over of the United States by the United Nations to protect world markets. UN begins implementing UN initiatives and supplanting the US constitution. President Warren is re-elected.
  

• 2021: May 18, Atlanta Freedom Marches - the United States Military cracks downs on peaceful demonstrators, resulting in fighting. 62 demonstrators are injured, national guard troops use water hoses and tear gas to break up the crowds.
  

  July 1: Muslims in Michigan hold a rally for Sharia Law recognition. The Aryan Dawn detonates a bomb killing 2, wounding 40. For 3 days the two groups use Milwaukee for a battle ground exchanging gun fire. Camarilla vampires and Garou have a semi-open war in Milwaukee, there are many breaches of the masquerade.

  July 4: The President calls for calm and offers peace talks. Leaders from both groups attend, but no resolution to the issues. The Gangrel Archon comes to the city to broker a peace deal, but is assassinated by the Phoenix Society before peace can be achieved. Only when kinfolk children are held by vampires can the Garou be convinced to talk. A shaky peace is restored.

  UN and American military begin concerted attempt to disarm American citizens.
  

  UN troops move into the Dallas Fort Worth area at first with assistance from the US military at 5 PM August 5th. Shots are fired at the West End light rail station two blocks from the Texas Book Depository building killing 5 American citizens, and wounding 8 others. UN Troops storm a building resulting in an explosion,setting fire to the building and killing 20 more. US troops stationed in the area mutiny, arresting the UN troops and holding them for trial after being ordered to stand down.

  September 12, The Texas Rangers move UN troops to hold for trial after being formally charged with the killing of American civilians. When federal agents come to take them back to Washington DC Texas National Guard troops turn the Federal agents around, loading them back on planes after a 48 hour stand off.
  

  October 3, Texas Governor McCandless informs the US government of procedures in the Texas legislature to secede from the Union. National Guard troops form a cordon around military bases, cutting them off from all land contact.

  October 30, The US government declares a state of national martial law as unrest flares up across the western states. Texas declares independence and succession from the US. It is quickly followed by Arizona, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah. Federal troops flood into Kansas and Colorado, Wyoming.

• 2022: January 8, Major earthquake hits Arkansas, 8.7 on Richter scale.

  The Tremere decide that the Camarilla cannot protect its interests and separates from the Camarilla.
  

  January 10, Militias in Colorado and Kansas work in concert with troops out of Texas and New Mexico to trap Federal troops and disarm them. Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington succeed.

  March, Missouri and Arkansas waver, UN Troops supported by the Federal troops begin an influx into St.Louis and Little Rock.

  May 3, The Dakotas declare themselves one District. Michigan and Iowa succeed, joining the western states in rebellion. The Western Alliance bombs the bridges on the Mississippi in a unified strike. The bridge at Memphis becomes the only bridge left standing on the whole Mississippi.
  

  June 4, Western Alliance War of Independence is officially declared by the first Western Congress in Cheyenne Mountain.
  

  June 10, Southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan are dragged into the war, as UN troops and United States troops are moved along the northern border.

  August 8, UN troops from Nairobi and Saudi Arabia are blocked at Saskatchewan border.

• 2024: Martin Powell from Kentucky is elected to his first term as President, Annalee Mitchell from New York as Vice President.
• 2025: The Federated States blockade San Francisco harbor, there is a pitched battle in the Pacific.

  Canada closes the border between itself and the U.S. at the insistence of the Federation, though enforcement is only half-hearted.

  The Western Alliance makes a solid run into Tennessee, and north into Mississippi. The Texan forces push Federated troops out of Louisiana. Mexico aids the Western Alliance to break the Federation blockade at New Orleans.

  Mexico aligns itself with Texas and the Western Alliance in a bid to keep the oil pipelines north open.

• 2026: The Battle of Wichita happens, with a decisive defeat of the Federated States by the Western Alliance. There are many scattered battles around the West.
  
• 2027: Treaty of New Orleans - The treaty is signed in New Orleans which is designated a neutral zone between the two new nations and the Mississippi River serves as a designated border between the Federated American States and the Western Alliance. The war ends.

  The Republic of Texas withdraws from the Western Alliance to declare Independence. Texas establishes a cordon of Non-Aggression with the Federated 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.
  

• 2028: FAS government passes sweeping gun bans.
  

  March 18, Black Lives Matter strike teams hit the police in Atlanta, GA after two black men are shot and killed by police exchanging gunfire with them. 11 police are killed in staged ambushes, the National Guard is called in to put down violence.
  

  May 6, The rapidly growing city of East St. Louis is the site of a pitched battle, ostensibly fought between FAS troops and WAS infiltrators. WAS graffiti blamed FAS troops for war crimes during the civil war. Border troops are put on alert and beefed up.

  July 19, Shiloh IL FAS Enemies camp is emptied, FAS and WAS exchange political prisoners. A light garrison remains at the camp.

• 2029: April 25, FAS moves troops into outer Chicago to put down gang violence and uprisings.
  

2030

2030: The Republic of Texas annexes Mexico.

• Manuel Koch elected Governor of the Republic of Texas in November 2030.