Post by Zillah on Mar 26, 2016 14:44:05 GMT -6
Timelines:
Events in standard fonts are historical. Those in italics are game events.
Circa 800,000 BC: The first hominids (Homo Erectus) reach the British Isles.
Circa 100,000 BC: The first Neanderthals (Homo Neanderthalis) live in the British Isles.
Circa 30,000 BC: The first modern humans (Homo Sapiens) arrive in the British Isles.
Circa 28,000 BC: Disappearance (absorption or elimination) of Homo Neanderthalis.
Circa 13,000 BC: End of the Ice Age. The British Isles are inhabited permanently.
Circa 8,000 BC: Start of the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) era. Numerous settlements take place, most notably at Fignen Felen and Nab Head in Wales, and Creswell Crags and Star Carr in England.
Circa 7,000 BC: Start of the Impergium.
Circa 6,000 BC: The post-glacial rise in sea level isolates the British Isles from mainland Europe.
Circa 4,000 BC: End of the Impergium. The War of Rage occurs.
Circa 4,000 BC: Start of the Neolithic. Agriculture begins to replace hunter-gatherer societies. With a more settled and stable lifestyle, more complex societies emerge, including funerary rites involving burial mounds and cairns. First appearance of the Wyck.
Circa 3,800 BC: Around this time, the first wooden tracking is laid in the Somerset levels. Similar paths appear in other wetland areas.
Circa 3,700 BC: The West Kennet Long Barrow is built and first used. It remains in use for almost 2,000 years.
Circa 3,000 BC: The Ring of Brodgar stones are erected in Orkney.
Circa 2,900 BC: The first phase of Stonehenge (earthworks) is in use.
Circa 2,800 BC: Silbury Hill is built; the second phase of Stonehenge (timber monument) is in use.
Circa 2,600 BC: Erection of the Avebury stones.
Circa 2,500 BC: Start of the Bronze Age with the first widespread metalworking in the Isles.
Circa 2,500 – 700BC: The main phase of stone circle construction and henge building.
Circa 2,400 BC: The “Beaker Folk” culture emerges and is the focus of considerable barrow building; the final (stone) phase of Stonehenge is completed, remaining in use to circa 1,600 BC.Circa 1,300-1,600 BC A succession of “ water cults ” exists in the British Isles.
Circa 1,200 BC: The “rain of ash” takes place (from the Hekla volcano in Iceland); the climate in the British Isles worsens and marginal settlements fail. The last war against the Fomorians; Battle of Moytura.
Circa 800 BC: The War of Silver and Iron between the Garou and fae.
Circa 700 BC: Start of the Iron Age.
Circa 600 BC-100 AD: The construction of brochs in Scotland.
Circa 600 BC: Indirect trade with Greece. By Roman times, Britain is already known as the “ Tin Isles.”
Circa 500 BC: Emergence of the “Celtic” culture in the British Isles; the appearance of Crannog settlements across the British Isles. The Fir Bolg attempt to invade Ireland.
Circa 300 BC: The abandonment of many hill forts, while some (such as Maiden Castle, Hambledon Hill and Danebury) see expansion and reinforcement.
Circa 150 BC: The emergence of the first native currency, used in conjunction with continental trade.
Circa 100 BC : Trade between Britain and Rome via America (Brittany).
55/54 BC: Julius Caesar invades southeast Britain. The first concerted move against the fae and Garou by Cainites.
AD 43: On the orders of Claudius, Rome invades the British Isles. Over the years that follow, the occupy much of England and undertake campaigns in Wales and Scotland. Ireland remains untouched by the Roman Empire.
AD 60: After harsh treatment by the Roman governor, the Iceni tribe under Boudicca revolts, destroying Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St. Albans) before being crushed by the Roman legions. The druids’ stronghold on Mona (Anglesey) is destroyed by forces under the command of Suetonius.
AD 71: The coming of Mithras
.Circa AD 117: Rome is at height of its power.
AD 122: White Howlers and Kin annihilate Ninth Legion, sacrificing all survivors in dark rites.
Circa AD 125: Romans build Hadrian’s Wall on their northern British frontier to hold back the Caledonians.
Circa AD 167: First Christian missionaries arrive in Britain.
Circa AD 200: The White Howlers fall to the Wyrm.
AD 407: Last Roman regular troops withdraw from Britain.
Circa AD 410: Mithras enters torpor.
Circa AD 410: Picts, Irish, Saxons and others start invading in earnest, shattering the remnants of Roman civilization.
AD 415: Fenrir capture their first Fianna Caern in Britain.
AD 432: St. Patrick arrives in Ireland.
Circa AD 446: Vortigern, one of two rival claimants to the High Kingship of Britain, authorizes the use of Saxon “foederati” to defend Britain against the Picts and the Irish.
Circa AD 450: Hengist, a Danish mercenary, arrives in England at the invitation of Vortigern.
Circa AD 500 :Battle of Mount Badon. The British defeat the Saxons, but there is great slaughter on both sides.
Circa AD 500: Settlers from Ireland found Dal Riada in Scotland.
AD 597: St. Augustine establishes his mission to the Saxons of England.
Circa AD 500-600: In the face of Saxon pressure, many Britons migrate to Armorica (Brittany).
AD 664: At the Synod of Whitby, the Celtic Church bows before the Roman Church.
Circa AD 710: First contact recorded with the “North-men.”
AD 779: Offa crowned King of all “Angle-land.”
AD 793: Northmen “Vikings” burn Lindisfarne Abbey.
AD 843: Scottish and Pictish kingdoms are united under Kenneth MacAlpin.
AD 1014: High King Brian Boru’s army defeats combined force of Irish and Vikings at Clontarf. Boru is slain.
AD 1066: William, Duke of Normandy, invades and captures England. The coming of the Triumvirate. The Triumvirate polarize British vampiric politics, and soon war breaks out between the Cainite factions.
1071: William invades Scotland and forces Malcolm III, king of Scotland, to pay homage.
AD 1085: Domesday Book commissioned.
Mithras returns to London.
AD 1087: William I dies, William II crowned.
AD 1094: Duncan II temporarily displaces Donald Bane as Scots king.
AD 1096: Crusades begin; the king’s brother Robert Cuthouse joins the crusaders.
AD 1097: Edgar takes the Scottish throne.
AD 1098: King Edgar of Scotland agrees on the boundaries of his kingdom with the Norwegian king.
AD 1100: William II dies, Henry I crowned.
AD 1106: Henry defeats his brother Robert, back from crusade, capturing Normandy.
AD 1107: Alexander I becomes King of Scotland.
AD 1101-1105: “War of Tor” between the Tremere and Glastonbury’s native defenders. Both sides claimed victory.
AD 1105:The Tremere complete their Lions Gate chantry.
AD 1124: David I is crowned King of Scotland.
AD 1130:Church outside the Scottish village of Damburrow vanishes.
AD 1135: Henry dies, Stephen I seizes the throne.
AD 1138: David I of Scotland invades England and is defeated. Children of Gaia take control of Great River Caern in London by deposing the senile Silver Fang leader, whose father in turn had taken it from the Fenrir. They destroy many of the vampires in London.
AD 1139 – 1141: Civil war between Stephen and Matilda, daughter of Henry. Stephen defeated, but escapes.
AD 1141- 1148: Civil war continues. Matilda eventually retreats to France.
AD 1153: Matilda’s son Henry invades, forces Stephen to appoint him heir. Malcom IV becomes King of Scotland.
AD 1154: Stephen dies, Henry II crowned. Cardinal Nicholas Breakspear becomes the first and only Englishman to hold the office of pope as Adrian IV. Mithras defeats the last remnants of the Triumvirate’s power.
AD 1162: Henry II appoints his Chancellor, Thomas Becket, to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury.
AD 1164: Henry attempts to reform the Church, leading to quarrel with Becket. Becket flees to France.
AD 1165: William I, the Lion, crowned King of Scotland.
AD 1169:The Fianna and the Silver Fangs reach an accord on Ireland.
AD 1170: Thomas’ Men founded. Becket returns from France and is slain. The Earl of Pembroke invades Ireland.
AD 1173: Henry defeats a rebellion led by his sons.
AD 1174: William I of Scotland captured while trying to invade England. He is forced to swear loyalty to Henry.
AD 1180:Cistercian monks near Damburrow abandon their chapel after half their number commit suicide.
AD 1183: Second rebellion by Henry’s sons crushed.
AD 1189: Henry II dies after third rebellion. King Richard I crowned and promptly leaves on Third Crusade.
AD 1192: Richard captured by Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, as he returns from crusade.
AD 1194: Richard ransomed and freed.
AD 1199: Richard dies. King John crowned.
AD 1202: John loses French territories to King Philip II. Fourth Crusade begins.
AD 1204: John loses Normandy to the French king. Constantinople falls. War of Princes begins.
AD 1205: King John and Pope Innocent III dispute the appointment of the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
AD 1207: John rejects the pope’s archbishop.
AD 1209: England placed under papal interdict. Cambridge University founded.
AD 1213: John forced to back down and give England to the pope, receiving it back again as a papal fief.
AD 1214: William the Lion succeeded by his son Alexander II in Scotland.
AD 1215: The barons revolt and force John to sign the Magna Carta. Melusine d’ Anjou and supporters and Mithras sign Rose Treaty.
AD 1216: John dies. Henry III crowned as a minor (9 years old). Regents appointed (William the Marshal, Hugh de Burgh).
AD 1217-1221: Papal Legate Pelasius leads the Fifth Crusade.
AD 1218: Treaty of Worcester; Llywelyn ap Iorwerth recognized as regent of royal castles of South Wales “ ‘till the king comes of age.”
AD 1219: Llywelyn ap Iorwerth attacks English earldom of Pembroke; conflict between England and Wales.
AD 1220: Lawman’s “History of the British ”; recounts mythical history of Britain, starting with Brutus coming from Troy to be first ruler of Britain: becomes generally accepted version of history. London caern lost to the Circle of Red.
AD 1224: First Franciscans arrive at Oxford.
AD 1225: The Magna Carta reissued in definitive form. Thomas’ Men officially become part of the Oculi Dei.
AD 1227: Henry III begins personal rule in England.
AD 1229: The Flaying Plague devastates the British Garou
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AD 1232: Henry III removes Hugh de Burgh from power.
AD 1233: Henry III prepares army to undertake Irish expedition.
AD 1234: Reputed death of Michael Scott the wizard.
AD 1235: English forces largely conquer Connaught in Ireland.
AD 1235: Grosseteste becomes Bishop of Lincoln and begins plans to introduce a version of the inquisition into England, with local juries denouncing their neighbors ’ sins under oath.
AD 1237: Treaty of York signed between Henry III and Alexander II, King of Scots; defines boundaries of both kingdoms.
Events in standard fonts are historical. Those in italics are game events.
Circa 800,000 BC: The first hominids (Homo Erectus) reach the British Isles.
Circa 100,000 BC: The first Neanderthals (Homo Neanderthalis) live in the British Isles.
Circa 30,000 BC: The first modern humans (Homo Sapiens) arrive in the British Isles.
Circa 28,000 BC: Disappearance (absorption or elimination) of Homo Neanderthalis.
Circa 13,000 BC: End of the Ice Age. The British Isles are inhabited permanently.
Circa 8,000 BC: Start of the Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) era. Numerous settlements take place, most notably at Fignen Felen and Nab Head in Wales, and Creswell Crags and Star Carr in England.
Circa 7,000 BC: Start of the Impergium.
Circa 6,000 BC: The post-glacial rise in sea level isolates the British Isles from mainland Europe.
Circa 4,000 BC: End of the Impergium. The War of Rage occurs.
Circa 4,000 BC: Start of the Neolithic. Agriculture begins to replace hunter-gatherer societies. With a more settled and stable lifestyle, more complex societies emerge, including funerary rites involving burial mounds and cairns. First appearance of the Wyck.
Circa 3,800 BC: Around this time, the first wooden tracking is laid in the Somerset levels. Similar paths appear in other wetland areas.
Circa 3,700 BC: The West Kennet Long Barrow is built and first used. It remains in use for almost 2,000 years.
Circa 3,000 BC: The Ring of Brodgar stones are erected in Orkney.
Circa 2,900 BC: The first phase of Stonehenge (earthworks) is in use.
Circa 2,800 BC: Silbury Hill is built; the second phase of Stonehenge (timber monument) is in use.
Circa 2,600 BC: Erection of the Avebury stones.
Circa 2,500 BC: Start of the Bronze Age with the first widespread metalworking in the Isles.
Circa 2,500 – 700BC: The main phase of stone circle construction and henge building.
Circa 2,400 BC: The “Beaker Folk” culture emerges and is the focus of considerable barrow building; the final (stone) phase of Stonehenge is completed, remaining in use to circa 1,600 BC.Circa 1,300-1,600 BC A succession of “ water cults ” exists in the British Isles.
Circa 1,200 BC: The “rain of ash” takes place (from the Hekla volcano in Iceland); the climate in the British Isles worsens and marginal settlements fail. The last war against the Fomorians; Battle of Moytura.
Circa 800 BC: The War of Silver and Iron between the Garou and fae.
Circa 700 BC: Start of the Iron Age.
Circa 600 BC-100 AD: The construction of brochs in Scotland.
Circa 600 BC: Indirect trade with Greece. By Roman times, Britain is already known as the “ Tin Isles.”
Circa 500 BC: Emergence of the “Celtic” culture in the British Isles; the appearance of Crannog settlements across the British Isles. The Fir Bolg attempt to invade Ireland.
Circa 300 BC: The abandonment of many hill forts, while some (such as Maiden Castle, Hambledon Hill and Danebury) see expansion and reinforcement.
Circa 150 BC: The emergence of the first native currency, used in conjunction with continental trade.
Circa 100 BC : Trade between Britain and Rome via America (Brittany).
55/54 BC: Julius Caesar invades southeast Britain. The first concerted move against the fae and Garou by Cainites.
AD 43: On the orders of Claudius, Rome invades the British Isles. Over the years that follow, the occupy much of England and undertake campaigns in Wales and Scotland. Ireland remains untouched by the Roman Empire.
AD 60: After harsh treatment by the Roman governor, the Iceni tribe under Boudicca revolts, destroying Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St. Albans) before being crushed by the Roman legions. The druids’ stronghold on Mona (Anglesey) is destroyed by forces under the command of Suetonius.
AD 71: The coming of Mithras
.Circa AD 117: Rome is at height of its power.
AD 122: White Howlers and Kin annihilate Ninth Legion, sacrificing all survivors in dark rites.
Circa AD 125: Romans build Hadrian’s Wall on their northern British frontier to hold back the Caledonians.
Circa AD 167: First Christian missionaries arrive in Britain.
Circa AD 200: The White Howlers fall to the Wyrm.
AD 407: Last Roman regular troops withdraw from Britain.
Circa AD 410: Mithras enters torpor.
Circa AD 410: Picts, Irish, Saxons and others start invading in earnest, shattering the remnants of Roman civilization.
AD 415: Fenrir capture their first Fianna Caern in Britain.
AD 432: St. Patrick arrives in Ireland.
Circa AD 446: Vortigern, one of two rival claimants to the High Kingship of Britain, authorizes the use of Saxon “foederati” to defend Britain against the Picts and the Irish.
Circa AD 450: Hengist, a Danish mercenary, arrives in England at the invitation of Vortigern.
Circa AD 500 :Battle of Mount Badon. The British defeat the Saxons, but there is great slaughter on both sides.
Circa AD 500: Settlers from Ireland found Dal Riada in Scotland.
AD 597: St. Augustine establishes his mission to the Saxons of England.
Circa AD 500-600: In the face of Saxon pressure, many Britons migrate to Armorica (Brittany).
AD 664: At the Synod of Whitby, the Celtic Church bows before the Roman Church.
Circa AD 710: First contact recorded with the “North-men.”
AD 779: Offa crowned King of all “Angle-land.”
AD 793: Northmen “Vikings” burn Lindisfarne Abbey.
AD 843: Scottish and Pictish kingdoms are united under Kenneth MacAlpin.
AD 1014: High King Brian Boru’s army defeats combined force of Irish and Vikings at Clontarf. Boru is slain.
AD 1066: William, Duke of Normandy, invades and captures England. The coming of the Triumvirate. The Triumvirate polarize British vampiric politics, and soon war breaks out between the Cainite factions.
1071: William invades Scotland and forces Malcolm III, king of Scotland, to pay homage.
AD 1085: Domesday Book commissioned.
Mithras returns to London.
AD 1087: William I dies, William II crowned.
AD 1094: Duncan II temporarily displaces Donald Bane as Scots king.
AD 1096: Crusades begin; the king’s brother Robert Cuthouse joins the crusaders.
AD 1097: Edgar takes the Scottish throne.
AD 1098: King Edgar of Scotland agrees on the boundaries of his kingdom with the Norwegian king.
AD 1100: William II dies, Henry I crowned.
AD 1106: Henry defeats his brother Robert, back from crusade, capturing Normandy.
AD 1107: Alexander I becomes King of Scotland.
AD 1101-1105: “War of Tor” between the Tremere and Glastonbury’s native defenders. Both sides claimed victory.
AD 1105:The Tremere complete their Lions Gate chantry.
AD 1124: David I is crowned King of Scotland.
AD 1130:Church outside the Scottish village of Damburrow vanishes.
AD 1135: Henry dies, Stephen I seizes the throne.
AD 1138: David I of Scotland invades England and is defeated. Children of Gaia take control of Great River Caern in London by deposing the senile Silver Fang leader, whose father in turn had taken it from the Fenrir. They destroy many of the vampires in London.
AD 1139 – 1141: Civil war between Stephen and Matilda, daughter of Henry. Stephen defeated, but escapes.
AD 1141- 1148: Civil war continues. Matilda eventually retreats to France.
AD 1153: Matilda’s son Henry invades, forces Stephen to appoint him heir. Malcom IV becomes King of Scotland.
AD 1154: Stephen dies, Henry II crowned. Cardinal Nicholas Breakspear becomes the first and only Englishman to hold the office of pope as Adrian IV. Mithras defeats the last remnants of the Triumvirate’s power.
AD 1162: Henry II appoints his Chancellor, Thomas Becket, to the post of Archbishop of Canterbury.
AD 1164: Henry attempts to reform the Church, leading to quarrel with Becket. Becket flees to France.
AD 1165: William I, the Lion, crowned King of Scotland.
AD 1169:The Fianna and the Silver Fangs reach an accord on Ireland.
AD 1170: Thomas’ Men founded. Becket returns from France and is slain. The Earl of Pembroke invades Ireland.
AD 1173: Henry defeats a rebellion led by his sons.
AD 1174: William I of Scotland captured while trying to invade England. He is forced to swear loyalty to Henry.
AD 1180:Cistercian monks near Damburrow abandon their chapel after half their number commit suicide.
AD 1183: Second rebellion by Henry’s sons crushed.
AD 1189: Henry II dies after third rebellion. King Richard I crowned and promptly leaves on Third Crusade.
AD 1192: Richard captured by Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, as he returns from crusade.
AD 1194: Richard ransomed and freed.
AD 1199: Richard dies. King John crowned.
AD 1202: John loses French territories to King Philip II. Fourth Crusade begins.
AD 1204: John loses Normandy to the French king. Constantinople falls. War of Princes begins.
AD 1205: King John and Pope Innocent III dispute the appointment of the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
AD 1207: John rejects the pope’s archbishop.
AD 1209: England placed under papal interdict. Cambridge University founded.
AD 1213: John forced to back down and give England to the pope, receiving it back again as a papal fief.
AD 1214: William the Lion succeeded by his son Alexander II in Scotland.
AD 1215: The barons revolt and force John to sign the Magna Carta. Melusine d’ Anjou and supporters and Mithras sign Rose Treaty.
AD 1216: John dies. Henry III crowned as a minor (9 years old). Regents appointed (William the Marshal, Hugh de Burgh).
AD 1217-1221: Papal Legate Pelasius leads the Fifth Crusade.
AD 1218: Treaty of Worcester; Llywelyn ap Iorwerth recognized as regent of royal castles of South Wales “ ‘till the king comes of age.”
AD 1219: Llywelyn ap Iorwerth attacks English earldom of Pembroke; conflict between England and Wales.
AD 1220: Lawman’s “History of the British ”; recounts mythical history of Britain, starting with Brutus coming from Troy to be first ruler of Britain: becomes generally accepted version of history. London caern lost to the Circle of Red.
AD 1224: First Franciscans arrive at Oxford.
AD 1225: The Magna Carta reissued in definitive form. Thomas’ Men officially become part of the Oculi Dei.
AD 1227: Henry III begins personal rule in England.
AD 1229: The Flaying Plague devastates the British Garou
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AD 1232: Henry III removes Hugh de Burgh from power.
AD 1233: Henry III prepares army to undertake Irish expedition.
AD 1234: Reputed death of Michael Scott the wizard.
AD 1235: English forces largely conquer Connaught in Ireland.
AD 1235: Grosseteste becomes Bishop of Lincoln and begins plans to introduce a version of the inquisition into England, with local juries denouncing their neighbors ’ sins under oath.
AD 1237: Treaty of York signed between Henry III and Alexander II, King of Scots; defines boundaries of both kingdoms.