Timeline of Modern Benacia (1685–1690)

Part of Timeline of Modern Benacia

1685 AN

I.1685

• 1: Celebrations erupt in Shirekeep as the year 1685 is proclaimed a Year of Jubilee in Shireroth, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Kaiseress Noor's entering of Shirekeep and ascension to the throne after the Oustfest Massacre and her subsequent election the Kaisership the previous year.
  • Salome delivers a speech from the parapet of the Bâb-an-Nûr to an assembled crowd of Shirekeepers, Palatini Corpsmen, Ŝḥenĉeł'y, and visiting dignitaries, to mark the date of her great grandmother's ascension to the Golden Mango Throne.

    "40 years is the Year of the Ruby Jubilee. Ruby, the Gemstone of the Sun, the Light of the World, whom this nation called Noor. Blessings upon her memory, and fortune upon her progeny."

  • Cedrist Temple, Mirioth (Sathrati): At a ceremony officiated over by Aurangzeb al-Osman and the Council of Sathrati, the magnates of Amity, Miriroth, and Yardistan attend as officiants performed the sacrifice of forty bullocks and forty Deep Singers made as burnt offerings before the Shadowed Halls of Mors. As the scents of roasted meats ascended towards the heavens, the attendant feudal lords and representatives of the Honourable Company joined together in an acclamation directed towards envoys of the Golden Mango Throne arrayed in splendour upon a raised dais, draped in cloth of gold, and overlooking the heaped smouldering pyre:

Kaiseress of Kaisers, the greatest of Kaisers! (repeated 8 times)
The Gods gave you to us! May the Gods save You for us! (repeated 27 times)
As Kaiseress, pious and felicitous, may You rule for many years! (22 times)
For the good of the human race, for the good of the Landsraad, for the good of the Imperial Republic, for the good of all! (24 times)
Our hope is in You, You are our salvation! (26 times)
May it please our Kaiseress to live forever! (22 times)
May You pacify the world and triumph here in person! (24 times)

• 3: By Royal Decree a special visa is established for all participating teams, their staff and guests in the Benacia Cup, which is organized by the Kingdom of Batavia.
• 4: Minister of the Exterior, Aloys Serratus, is heard screaming "they would have absurdity and name it law!" during a meeting with his subordinates.
• 20: The Joint Tribunals for the Southwest and for the Southeast are opened, with the designated purpose of identifying and prosecuting any private companies, front organizations, and individuals in the Global South who aided the Guttuli Protectorate regime in its crimes.
• 21: Having met to discern the validity of Letters Patent found amongst the prisoner's effects, the Council of Sathrati determined that the appointment of Lord Daniel Mortis du Grifos to the Lord Lieutenancy of the island of Amity by the Kaiseress of Shireroth was found to be in good order. This decision, combined with the previous ceremony of acclamation held on the fortieth jubilee of the Kaiseress Noor's return to Shirekeep, effectively marked an acknowledgement of Imperial sovereignty for the first time since the Kalirion Fracture in 1671.
  • The Lord Grifos was shortly thereafter recovered from the oubliettes lovingly preserved by the Jayash al Sathrati in Arg-e Ardashir and reunited with his retinue and permitted to continue on to the port of Erudition, there to find lodgings.

Preceded by: 1680–1684

Timeline of Modern Benacia 1685–present

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