Timeline of world history

The following is a timeline of major historical events on Tellurus.

Prehistory

 * c. 315,000 BP: Humans first originate in Rhodin, likely in the Hadban Plateau.
 * c. 250,000-200,000 BP: Humans spread throughout most of Rhodin and northwest Ozara.
 * c. 200,000-100,000 BP: Humans spread throughout the rest of Rhodin and south Hatar; Avarda then to south and east Serica and northeast Capricornia; central Ozara and south Talamor.
 * c. 100,000-50,000 BP: Humans spread throughout the centers of Hatar and Serica; east and northwest Capricornia; south Ozara, central and east Talamor, and Aiganesia and northern Equatoria.
 * c. 50,000-12,000 BP: Humans spread throughout the souths of Capricornia and Equatoria. the norths of Serratar and Talamor is largely uninhabited due to the Last Glacial Maximum.

Ancient history

 * c. 1000 BCE: Rise of Infernalism in Serica through the proselytization of Yanshizu and her Six Infernal Apostles, establishing the Phoenician Matriarchy.

Post-classical history

 * 902: South Serican Wars, catalysis of the Fengese state as the Empire of Fengjiang through wars of consolidation in south Serica.
 * c. 1100-1200: Emergence of proto-industrialism in Serica, characterized by the development of sophisticated premodern gas drilling and metallurgical processes (see ).
 * 1302: The 1302 eruption of Mount Remu, initiating an approximate century-long period of crisis and societal upheaval now recognized as the Calamity of the 14th Century.
 * 1303-1810: Start of the Great Fragmentation after the collapse of the Empire of Fengjiang, heralded by destabilization events such as the Bloody Turban Rebellions and Revolution of the Hundred Houses.

Early modern history

 * 1669-1703: Ashwaaresh Raj established by the Ashwaaresh Invasions, spanning most of Capricornia at its height.
 * 1800-1900: Increasing Hataro-Fengese colonial conflict in Capricornia, Avalono-Fengese War in 1874-X.
 * 1810: First Fengtianmen Congress, reunifying Fengjiang.
 * 1845-1877: Rampant speculation in Hyperaustrea over textile industrialization creates the Muslin Bubble; conflicts are fought to sustain the bubble, such as the Muslin Wars in 1856-9. The bubble's collapse in 1870 and resulting economic depression incite the Great Saint's Rising in 1870-7.

Modern history

 * 1918-1921: Qohak War
 * 1936-1947: Great Serrataran War, two consecutive conflicts involving every global power and their colonies, lasting in Hatar from 1936-44 and in Serica from 1944-7, ended respectively by the XXX and XXX. Colonial conflict implicated other continents in the conflict, primarily Capricornia and Rhodin. Deadliest war in history.
 * 1947-1960: Barenian Ascendancy; decolonization begins.
 * 1955: Fengjiang announces atomic capability through Project Double-N, sparking atomic brinkmanship with Arsytia in the Serican Atomic Crisis.
 * 1960: Sixteenth Fengtianmen Congress completes the total centralization of Fengjiang under a symbiotic clerical-combinial arrangement known as Fengese corporatocracy. Emergence of Fengjiang as a superpower with the founding of the GOCE.
 * 1977: Fengjiang surpasses Barenia as the largest economy on Tellurus.
 * 1984-1986: Deployment of the by Barenia in 1984 negates the Fengese ICBM fleet. Preemptive Fengese strike starts the Kaurissmas War in 1984-5, only major armed conflict between the TTO and GOCE. Tensions calm after Fengjiang deploys the Tianwang in 1986, an SDI equivalent.