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. 3300–2600 BCE: Mass migration of the Kurhans from the lands of modern day Kursica, ancestors of the modern Hatarian. They would spread across Avarda and Hatar, up to the old Avardan Kingdoms, the later Ardasid empire, and up to modern Avalonia, conquering the old Hatarian cultures. The Kuszan peoples would however stay in Kursica.
 * c. 2600 BCE: Rise of the Khalijtu civilization in modern day Karthya.
 * c. 1150 BCE: Almanubian Silver Crisis
 * c. 1000 BCE: Rise of Infernalism in Serica through the proselytization of Yanshizu and her Six Infernal Apostles, establishing the Pyrotic Matriarchy.
 * 335-317 BCE: Rise of the Ardasid Empire through Ardas the Great's conquests, spanning across east Avarda, the Katal Rift, and west Rhodin. Empire collapses after his death in 317 BCE, split between his successors in the Darian Wars of 317-301 BCE.
 * 1-33: Iosus Kauriss is born in Aþasdaur and proselytizes teachings now forming Kaurissem.
 * 127-180: Great Lustrations, the Bishop Generals unify the Holy Land as the Synodate of Katalia.

Post-classical history

 * XXX: Occidental Dubitance, Kaurissem schisms into Orthodox Kaurissem and Occidental Kaurissem.
 * 710: Council of Narau, establishing the papacy and Holy See.
 * 902: South Serican Wars, catalysis of the Fengese state as the Empire of Fengjiang through wars of consolidation in south Serica.
 * 1094: Austral Schism over questions of papal supremacy and influence in Katalia, establishing the Katalese Antipapacy.
 * c. 1100-1200: Emergence of proto-industrialism in Serica, characterized by the development of sophisticated premodern gas drilling and metallurgical processes (see ).
 * 1159-1223: Vesperian Decades, period of military upheaval and economic turmoil caused by the Katalese Crusades in 1159-1223. Ended by the capitulation of the Katalese Antipapacy and resolution of the Austral Schism in 1223. Katalia is split into Raiftsmark and XXX by the Ana Aiweinsfrauja.
 * c. 1300-1500: Purgation of Avarda, period of southwards military expansion and Orthodox Kaurissemite missionary effort in eastern Avarda by Raiftsmark.
 * 1302: The 1302 eruption of Mount Remu, initiating an approximate century-long period of worldwide 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.
 * 1311-1334: Great Hatarian Famine, combination of blight, abnormally poor weather, and conflict triggers a continental famine which kills 50-100 million people.
 * c. 1400s: Elucidations, birth of industrialism and empirical science in south Serica, leading to the popularization of Materialist Infernalism.

Early modern history

 * 1669-1703: Ashwaaresh Raj established by the Ashwaaresh Invasions, spanning most of Capricornia at its height.
 * 1722: Collapse of the Salaqamh Dynasty
 * 1800-1900: Pearl Games, increasing Hataro-Fengese colonial conflict in Capricornia, Avalono-Fengese War in 1874-X.
 * 1810: First Fengtianmen Congress, nominally reunifying the Five Great Houses into 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.
 * 1849: Scholar's Conspiracy, creating Vesnay, the first humanist and arguably socialist nation.
 * 1891: January Revolution overthrowing the Arsytian Empire, establishing the Arsytian Commune by the next year.

Modern history

 * 1912: South Ranomia gains independence.
 * 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.
 * 1945-1947: Project Thunderbird, Barenia develops the atomic bomb. Barenia begins the atomic bombing of Fengjiang as part of the war effort, dropping X bombs and killing XXX,XXX.
 * 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 and associated Abrogations complete 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.
 * 1961: Karthian Revolution
 * 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.