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The timeline of Arbor also includes the rich history of its predecessors, the Kingdom of Amokolia and the Frankish Empire.

Amokolian Era

Main article of the History of Amokolia

The Amokolian Era in this overview began with the coronation of Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy as King of Amokolia. The revival of Amokolia was a fact.

1672

  • 22.VI: The revival of Amokolia and coronation of Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy as King of Amokolia, exacly 168 Nortonyears after the foundation of Amokolia. With the Declaration of Brandenburg, the new state is proclaimed as a revival of historic Amokolia.
  • 6.XIV: Amokolian Highlanders invade Mishalan from the west.
  • 13.XIV:
    • Amokolian Highlanders, outraged to see Elwynnese troops now invading Mishalan as well, sweep into the bailiwick of Mittlere Stadt, located in Elwynnese Amokolia, expelling the bailiwick's garrison of startled cudgellers at bayonet point.
    • Advancing Amokolian and Black Legionary scouting parties encounter each other at various points along a roughly agreed line of control. That this line of control had not been exactly demarcated on the ground meant that several formations were obliged to sharply retire westwards or southeastwards upon contact.
  • 14.XIV: Representatives of Amokolia, Black Legions, and Elwynn meet in Araxion to discuss the 'Mishalan problem', agree to a protocol on deconfliction, the disarmament of the remaining bands of Imperial loyalists and resistance groups, and to commence the process of negotiating the division of Mishalan into respective zones of control.

1673

  • 19.VIII: The Tassity Mansabdar dismantle their mobile offshore base southeast of the coast of The Lodge. While an aircraft carrier is anchored north of Naudia'Diva.

1674

  • 5.IV: Negotiations begin on a treaty between Amokolia, Elwynn and the Unified Governorates. The idea of the treaty is to make a final recognition of the Amokolian nation as shared between the three states and establish common institutions for Amokolian culture and cooperation.
  • 10.IV: Amokolia announces a renaming of traditional Amokolian-language placenames to Germanian calques of the same:
Niü Veña > Neue Vene
Jeanezville > Johannsdorf
Mürtin > Martinstadt
  • 12.IV: Demonstrations, organized by the Amokolian Freedom Front, against Amokolian renamings of traditional Amokolian placenames simultaneously take place in Anun, La Terre, Malexander, Mishalan, and outside the Amokolian representation in Eliria.
  • 15.IV: Ten days into the negotiations between Amokolia, Elwynn and the Unified Governorates on a treaty between them, the Parties have tentatively agreed on a free-trade regime for most products and services between them, as well as a free movement of people of Amokolian ethnicity across the borders for the purposes of family reunification, work, visit and study.
  • 20.IV: With dispute on exceptions to the free-trade regime between Amokolia, Elwynn and the Unified Governorates, the parties suspend negotiations pending political conversations at home.
  • 15.VI: Without warning, the Amokolian delegation to the negotiations with Elwynn and the Unified Governorates makes demands for a territorial resettlement of the Amokolian, Elwynnese and UGB borders. In so doing, the Amokolians demand a stretch of land just south of Elwynnese Mishalan all the way to St Riksburg and the River Elwynn, thus cutting off Elwynnese Mishalan from Severnaya Gubernya. Furthermore, the Amokolians demand that Elwynn and the Unified Governorates vow, if Amokolia ever would be attacked, to come to any aid requested by Amokolia, but that Amokolia would be exempt from aiding Elwynn or the Unified Governorates if the tables, so to speak, were turned. Elwynnese government stunned by the stupidity of bringing forth the idea, and begins plans for a no-deal scenario. In a communiqué to the Amokolian–Batavian king, Elwynnese prince Ander Avon-El writes: "you are clearly breaking the spirit of our previous agreement, as well as the spirit of these negotiations".
  • 16.VI: Elwynn sets up extended border controls against Amokolia. Discussions in the Council of Eliria on suspending the current treaty with Amokolia with the premise that no advice from the Amokolian government on the current status of that treaty. Amokolian consul in Eliria called up to the Council of Eliria to explain himself, but leaves without making any answers of any kind on any matters posed to him.
  • 5.VII: With no answers from the Amokolians, the Elwynnese government regards the previous treaty with Amokolia suspended. Free-trade regulations with Amokolia cease. Elwynnese legate in Brandenburg recalled.
  • 8.VII: The revelation of the extent of Amokolian ambition and designs for installing the King of Batavia upon the Golden Mango Throne draws the factious Vulture States together in common cause. In spite of border skirmishes and a general chaffing under the presumption of the Black Legions with regards to the exercise of supreme command over all allied forces in the Benacian theatre of operations, the "vultures" swiftly came to a ready consensus that the conquest of the eastern heartlands of the former Imperial Republic by a Batavian was deeply undesirable. In consequence of which they willingly made common cause to meet the newly perceived Amokolian threat and readily endorsed UGB proposals to establish a multinational force to watch the inter-Amokolian frontier established after the partition of Mishalan in 1673.
  • 24.VII:
    • Amokolia sets up speakers along the border with Elwynnese Amokolia and Severnaya Gubernya that chant the "Song of Vinandy" to the other side of the border. A flag of Amokolia is displayed every 200 meters along the border.
    • The Company de Orient Express announces that the Orient Express timetable will continue despite increasing tensions between Amokolia, Elwynn and Unified Governorates.
  • 1.VIII:
    • At 08:15 the following morning the Amokolians first learned of the vulnerability of their digital infrastructure to remote intrusion when, in a steady progression from north to south along the line of control separating the Kingdom of Amokolia for the Severnaya Gubernya, the newly installed propaganda speakers switched over from playing the Song of Vinandy to a looped version of the unofficial N&H cri de cœur.
    • Operations of the Oriental Express in the Severnaya Gubernya are temporarily suspended to allow a thorough investigation of the circumstances surrounding the alleged shooting of an infamous personage whose ability to escape from the furiously sadistic retribution of the Imperial Regency had previously been assessed as ranging from minimal to "vanishingly nonexistent".
    • At 12:00 the speakers along the border with Severnaya Gubernya were restored and the Song of Vinandy started to play again.
  • 3.VIII: The speakers along the border with Elwynnese Amokolia and Severnaya Gubernya were turned off. Construction work was started near the tripoint.
  • 10.VIII: Elwynn and Amokolia resume negotiations on a new treaty, the suspension of the Treaty of Brandenburg is lifted, and free trade is restored.
The "Pact of Reykjavík": Genuine power-play, or an effort to flush out an Elwynnese spy in Haraldsborg? Only time will tell.
  • 11.X: New rumours begin to circulate in the press, derived from sources of deniable provenance, once again addressing the vaulting ambition of Arkadius IV of Batavia. Disappointed by the Elwynnese reaction to his fervently expressed desire for the Golden Mango Throne, the King of Amokolia, or so it is alleged, decided to take his chess pieces to Reykjavík in a search for new partners willing to play his game. It would appear that his opening gambit was well received in certain quarters where eminent personages managed, momentarily, to bestir themselves from the deadening torpor of lives spent trapped in a perpetual orgy sufficiently to endorse a proposal for the union of Amokolia and Gascony under the personal rule of the Batavian King. The lure with which the King of Amokolia sought to gull the "Generous Giver" into alienating a portion of his grubbingly assembled realm and plethora of titles? The prospect of a belated revenge for a past slight. The new union would see the long traduced name Froyalan plastered once more across the map of Benacia.
  • 23.X: Kalgachia announces the full closure of its borders with Amokolia.
  • 11.XI:
    • Rumours of the detente between the Amokolia and Stormark fuel anti-Amokolian sentiment in Mishalan, where bitter memories of the fleeting Froyalaner occupation in 1651, the inciting incident for the Auspicious Occasion, continue to cast their shadow. After a period of dormancy following the collapse of Imperial authority, the Konkordskaya Bratva, KDF sponsored liberators of Mishalan and subsequent custodians of the worker colonies during the twenty-year period of population management that ensued, re-emerged onto the political scene in Amokolia and the divided portions of Mishalan with the issuance of sombre warnings about the "unforeseeable consequences" of readmitting into Benacian lands the cultural contagion which the veterans of the liberation struggle had scoured clean.
    • Similarly, news of the purported "Pact of Reykjavík" further galvanised the Raspur Pact, and the Vulture States especially, with a new resolve to put aside their differences and maintain a united front against the possible resurgence of the threat posed by an alien theocracy to Benacian civilisation. Ransenar, the Sovereign Confederation, and Talenore each pledged to increase their national contributions to the multinational force assembled in Mishalan. Moreover the numbers were swelled still further by the arrival of volunteer fighters from Alalehzamin but also from further afield. Euran volunteers, recruited by the Euran Destiny Party, and who had begun to arrive in the airports and harbours of Drak-Modan and the Unified Governorates, were now beginning to move inland, by road and rail, towards the Severnaya Gubernya. To the surprise of Benacia Command the half-caste children of those Shirerithians who had settled in Constancia following the Euran War had rallied to the cause of the old country in sufficient numbers to establish two brigade-strength volunteer formations - the Aftokratorikoí Partizánoi tou Káizer Domínous (Imperial Partisans of Kaiser Dominus) and the Legeóna tis Prostátida Liv (Legion of the Protectress Liv Dravot). These volunteers, although welcomed, were assigned to the Multinational Forces gathering in Elwynnese Mishalan and, under the guise of providing some basic training, were kept well back from the frontier, lest their enthusiasm give rise to any mischief.
  • 12.XI: Operation Pallbearer - with the attention of regional powers focused on the Matter of Amokolia, the vexing question of the insurgency in Crisco, along with its spillover into Ransenar, had assumed a lower priority than in preceding months. True to form, the Imperial Regency had begun proceedings to negotiate away another portion of its sovereignty to the insurgents. The Ransenari authorities had however been adamant that no effort be spared to ensure the restoration of order along the eastern bank of the river Elwynn, along the mid-course of the river between Shirekeep and the Guttuli Protectorate. Crucial to this was control of the river ports of Teldrin and Tyrelwynn. Teldrin, in particular, as one of the Captaincy ports and the corporate headquarters for ESB operations in Benacia, was judged to be of vital strategic importance to the new Kingdom.
  • 13.XI:
    • The construction of the Jessdenkmal is completed near the tripoint of Amokolia, Benacia and Elwynn.
    • As a precaution the Company de Orient Express cancels all Orient Express train services to and from Severnaya Gubernya.

XIII.1674

  • 18.XIII: In a speech to the Reichstag, Amokolian chancellor unveils a monument to the victims of the Froyalanish genocide while at the same time avoiding any questions about the Reykjavik Pact rumours. In the same speech, the chancellor declares Amokolië ist das Heimatland der Froyalaner ("Amokolia is the Froyalanish homeland") and calls on Kalgachia to repatriate the Froyalaners it imported as bonded labourers between 1652 and 1656. In response to this speech, Elwynn, Sathrati, the Sovereign Confederation, Shireroth and Talenore begin requiring visas from West Amokolian citizens visiting in these countries. Furthermore, Elwynn declares West Amokolian citizenship incompatible with Elwynnese citizenship, and requires any such dual citizens to choose their nationality within three months.
  • 19.XIII: Sanama closes its borders to arrivals from West Amokolia, the only exception being nationals of visa-free travel treaty nations. The Federal Council cites national security concerns as reason for the decision.
  • 21.XIII: In response to the Amokolian Chancellor's speech, Kalgachia announces a programme of voluntary repatriation to Amokolia of its surviving Froyalanish population (who are entirely elderly due to sterilisation on their original arrival). Initial response to the programme among that population, who have spent most of their lives in Kalgachia and established comfortable albeit humble lives within Kalgachi society, is lukewarm; only enough to fill two Florets apply for emigration on the first day. The Kalgachi government's announcement is accompanied by a strongly-worded rescript to Amokolia - notable for being signed directly by the country's ruling Council of Perfecti rather than any diplomat - appraising the Amokolian government of the underlying causes of the suppression of the Froyalanish and warning of the existential dangers of a Benacian state resuming the indulgence of Storish élites.
  • 22.XIII:
    • Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy unveils the official monument "Valfreyja" to commemorate the Froyalanish genocide. And calls on all Micras countries to recognize the genocide.
    • Declaring Amokolia under the leadership of Arkadius to be a "diseased limb, one in urgent need of excision", Benacia Command and the Unified Governorates repudiate all hitherto established agreements and understandings with the Kingdom. Klaes Schultheiss, the Gubernatorial Commissioner of Information, would later direct allied and affiliated media outlets to observe that "If Amokolia wishes to assume the mantle of the Froyalanish, then its present situation - forever confined to the barren tundra that once housed the gelding camps of the Froyalan National Reservation - could not be more appropriate. If the King of Amokolia desires to motivate Benacian patriots to work tirelessly for his destruction, and the effacement of his name and seed from the face of Micras, then he is certainly succeeding."
  • 24.XIII: The Kingdom of Ransenar bans entry to all Amokolian citizens and requests the exit of all Amokolian nationals from its territory over the next month.
  • 25.XIII: A series of explosions destroy an electrical plant in Cherokee and several substations throughout and surrounding the Amokolian Capital Region, temporarily darkening the City of Brandenburg. Police successfully pursue and kill two of the saboteurs. Ammunition bears the makers mark of Brennecke Munitions Factory, unused plastic explosives bear the makers mark of Lumin Fireworks, both located in Gaton, Guttuli Protectorate.
  • 1.XV: Elisabeth Asara is born, the eldest child of Arkadius Frederik Gustavus des Vinandy and Clara des Vinandy - Sundara Waffel-Paine.

1678

Frankish Era

1678

  • 1.X: The emperor orders the evacuation of all children from Chryste, before the city is completely closed off by Ransenar as a result of the naval blockade.
  • 11.X: Clara Sundara, wife of Emperor Arkadius, renounced all her titles in Arkadius's countries and declared her intention to divorce him. She subsequently left for Natopia, vowing never to return.
  • 21.X: The divorce is legally recognized], the marriage contract is dissolved. The emperor carries the titles "Nawab of Tassity" and "Lord in Jorvik" in his own right. The use of both titles, without imperial consent, is considered illegal.
  • 13.XIV: The Raspur Pact is carrying out a rocket attack on Johannsdorf. The result of that attack was censored until after the end of the war.

1679

1680

  • 18.III: The first 500 Froyalaners were welcomed after their release from Elwynn. Camps are set up in Iskander, Martinstadt and Tsofnhafen.
  • 1.VII: The rest of the Froyalaners were received by the Kaiser on the new border with Elwynn. Mittlere Stadt was transferred to Elwynn. Arietta has come under the Frankish flag.
  • 10.VIII: The Franco-Guttulinese Treaty is signed in Musika.
  • 16.VIII: The building of the Froyalan Tribunal was opened by the Kaiser. Eva von Babenberch was appointed prosecutor, after which the legal proceedings were started.
  • 1.IX: The Franco-Krasnocorian Treaty is signed in Grandbay, which establishes the Autonomous Province of Mishalacia. In addition, an agreement was concluded whereby a Nikolaj Class Aircraft Carrier is purchased.
  • 7.XIII: The Frankish government declared the Treaty of Brandenburg and the Treaty of Concord no longer in force.
  • 31.XV: Francia, Ravaria and Stormark sign a treaty which, if ratified, will transfer Gascony, Ravaria and Los Bananos to Francia, as well as join Stormark and Francia in a military alliance.

1681

Arbor Era

Mahmud bin Alsalam, Emir of Arbor

1685

  • 5.XIII: The Arbor Spring started, in which the continuation of the Frankish Empire was transferred to the Emirate of Arbor.

1686

  • 24.XII: A new policy to open up the emirate more was introduced. Foreigners can apply for visas in three classes.

1687

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