History

This timeline of major events strive to lay out the most important points in the history of Magnia, between the 7th and 15th century. Many of the oldest historic recounts in Magnia were not written down for hundreds of years, but passed down through word of mouth or inscribed in wood or stone. So much has been lost to time, and the accuracy of the legends and myths that recount much of early history is to this day openly questioned by scholars. 
==Current Events==
==== Thyssen War of Succession (1428-present) ====
A civil war within the Kingdom of Thyssen, fought between the young King Esterad I and his cousin Rickard Ambrose, which began after the former King Eyke fell from the battlements of Kastamir Castle. After hearing of the suspicious nature of his brother's death and his nephew's immediate crowning, Rickard's father Lancel rose in open rebellion, declaring his son the true king of Thyssen. While Esterad, known to be cruel and capricious, has certainly not made himself popular, many loyalists still defend his claim, since he is by right the King. The war still rages, and has already caused massive casualties on both sides.
==== The Wincentene War (1419-present) ====
A holy war within the Kingdom of Metina, waged between the Wincentene and Cister Cartian churches, two branches of the same religion, who were brought into conflict after several important critics of the current Pontiff and the state of the religion were executed. The war has raged for many years and has practically split the country in two, with the Wincentenes dominating the west, and Cister Carta the east. Although the Cister Cartian church still control the capital of Pirahn, the Wincentenes are gaining ground, not only in Metina, but in Vichin and surrounding regions as well. 
==Timeline==
===Early History===
ca. 600-700	Urubuhl Invasion of Chorene: The first recorded instance of mentions of Magnia. Chorene fell entirely to Urubuhl invasions and was incorporated into the Rahusha Emirate. The emirate failed to get any permanent foothold in Magnia, however, and lost Chorene in 672, when it was conquered by Emperor Madrahash of Maracacar.
ca. 822 	Founding of the Kingdom of Metina: Metina was established as the first unified Magnian state outside Chorene, only a fraction of the size that the kingdom is today.
842 	Treaty of Lastoria: In the aftermath of a conflict between mages only known as the White War, a treaty was struck between the most powerful mages of the known world, to safeguard their knowledge and prevent anything like that from happening ever again. Those who signed this treaty later became known as the Chapter of Wizards and they formed a magic temple on the Isle of Orak, from where they governed over magic and magical law until the Coup on Orak in the year 1429.
ca. 962 	First Queen of Thyssen: Thyssen was established as a kingdom under Ydreth Bloodeye, at Kaest Myr, meaning Queen's Rock, upon which Kastamir Castle stands today.
ca. 966-972	Emergence of the Vichinian State: The tribal leader Siemon I converted to the Menkhu Faith on 14th of April 966 after he married the daughter of his Maegar ally, Stefan I, an event considered to be the founding the Vichin state and the Ostrow Dynasty. Siemon fought several wars against Queen Oda I of Metina in 963 and 972, allowing Siemon to extend his possessions and by 990, he had transformed Vichin into one of the strongest powers in Magnia.
975 	Corveaux becomes a Principality: A number of disparate tribal states within mordern Corveaux rose to prominence when the tribal leader Damienne initiated a rapid expansion of her territory. By the end of her reign, she had carved out the largest state in Magnia and when her son took the throne in 975, it was officially recognized as a Principality.
===11th Century===
1034-1045	Metinan Invasion of Vichin: King Jaromir of Metina invaded Vichin while the Kingdom was falling apart, capturing Thusham, and conquering Volynia and parts of Greater Vichin. These efforts were put to rest, however, with the Urubuhl Conquest of Albaan.
1047-1054	Urubuhl Conquest of Albaan: In 1047, an Urubuhl conquering party, arrived from Benghezakhan, containing 7.000 horsemen and 50 war elephants. Crossing the Pagan Sea, they won decisive victories in 1048 when the Metinan King Sigmund III was defeated and reinforcements of an additional 5.000 men were quickly supplied. By 1054, the Urubuhls were in control of all of Albaan. Their advance into Magnia was only stopped by Prince Louis IV of Corveaux at the Battle of Peshac Bay.
1057 	Destruction of the Corvian fleet: After King Louis IV repelled an Urubuhl invasion of Magnia in 1054, he was prompted to send his grand admiral Sean-Claude Delacour to the Skahazadans. This, however, turned out to be a massive failure. The Corvian fleet was burned by Solomon the Lion, a loss Corveaux never recovered from.
===12th Century===
1116 	Establishment of the Sultanate of Chorene: Mesud I became the first sultan to control nearly all of the Chorenese lands. Despite a temporary occupation of Konaya in 1190 by Vichin forces, the sultanate, under Mesud’s son Karaman II, was quick to consolidate its power.
1140-1143	Fragmentation of Vichin: Before his death in 1140, King Eslaw III of Vichin divided the country among his four sons and made complex arrangements intended to prevent fratricidal warfare. He created five principalities, one for each of his four sons, and then the seniorate of Kurnow, intended to be given to the eldest prince, who would become the Grand Prince of Kurnow. These arrangements broke down already within the generation of his sons and a period of fragmentation was ushered in that would span the next two centuries.
===13th Century===
1201 	Battle of Grimmen Field: The Albaani Urubuhls were defeated by an alliance of the Cister Cartian military and were eventually driven from nearly all of Albaan, except for the Urubuhl Kingdom of Valona.
1228 	Death of the Jade Queen: It is widely reported that the Jade Queen, perhaps the most powerful wizard in history, was slain near the city of Nazaire by the semi-legendary Prince of Vichin Lazsek the White. It is said, that went Lazsek's burning sword carved through her body, she splintered into a thousand pieces of jade stone.
1240-1242	The Corvian Invasion: A conflict of unprecedented proportions. The Principality of Corveaux, during a period of great national pride and prosperity, invaded the Westerlands with three armies. Magiore and Vichin were hit the hardest, but the war ended prematurely after the death of the Prince of Corveaux, which began an interregnum within the state. Without true leadership, the army decided to retreat, but was caught in the spring rains of Magiore, forcing the armies to abandon their supplies and horses in the heavy mud floods, and eventually having to give up on their retreat. Unable to return to their homeland many, led by Anton Nagy, settled in Cassow to form the Golden Horde
1242 	Fall of the Principality of Corveaux: After the death of Louis VI during his invasion of Magnia, Corveaux fell into a recession and rapid decline. The bulk of the royal army never returned home and eventually, the Corvian state fell to infighting and fragmented into roughly 12 different principalities.
1228-1255	Expulsion of the Valonian Urubuhls: Between dynastic strife within the Amareed Emirate, which greatly affected Valona, and the Metinan armies that were expanding westward, raiding into Valonian territory, many felt that the Urubuhls had failed to protect them. Popular uprisings took place throughout the region. City after city deposed their governors and installed local Magnates in their place. This marked the end of the Skahazadani era in Albaan and the last Urubuhls were chased out of Valona in 1255, which left only small principalities that were engaged in constant and vicious fighting among themselves.
===14th Century===
1329 	First King of corveaux: After uniting much of the former Corvian realm by force, with aid from the Golden Horde, Thomas I was crowned the first King of Corveaux in a coronation ceremony of lesser princes and counts in the new city of Troisanne.
1315-1336	The Golden Horde's annexation of Valona: The Emperor of the Golden Horde Anton Nagy crossed the Wrynova River in 1315, capturing the city of Monteleone in 1317, and annexing the northern half of the region from the warring magnates, crushing several revolts of the Valonian nobility between 1332 and 1336.
1320-1333	Reign of Vladislav IV of Vichin: In 1313, Vladislav conquered Greater Vichin and in 1320, he became the first king crowned in the new Cister Cartian cathedral in Kurnow, despite King John of Carinthia having also claimed the crown. The remainder of Vladislav’s reign was spent fighting John, who undertook several expeditions, usually supported by the Golden Horde, between 1327 and until Vladislav’s death in 1333.
1344 	Formation of the Valonian League: In November of 1343, Andrea Aryaan, Lady of Valona, captured Monteleone and declared its independence from Anton Nagy. In 1344, she hosted a general council of the magnates of Valona, who had all put down their arms to discuss the future of the region and on the 2nd of March, the Valonian League was founded. Andrea was proclaimed Chief of the League and under her, the magnates combined their armed forces which numbered 18.000 warriors.
1333-1370	Reunification of Vichin: Vladislav Iv's son Casmer III finally reunified the country and greatly solidified its position in both foreign and domestic affairs. He integrated and centralized the Vichin state, establishing a powerful state treasury, and internationally, the King was an active diplomat, cultivating close contacts with the other Magnian rulers.
1360 	First Olive War: An incredible drought laid the many olive fields of the Magnian Horn scorched and barren. The Chorenese peasants, having foreseen their devastating lack of produce earlier that summer had struck a deal with the lords of the region, who promised they would be exempt from tax until the following year. However, Sultan Kakar II later demanded all taxes be paid to pay for his war efforts. The angered peasants rose in bloody revolt, which was quickly ended by a large mercenary force under the sultan. This sowed the seeds for future, much more devastating conflicts in Chorene.
1371-1374	Second Olive War: The cousin of Sultan Kakar, Krushaw Khan, declared war against the sultan at a council for several viziers of Chorene. The forces took Ezurum in 1371, and in 1372, the sultan was crushed by the viziers. The sultan fled to Zis where he died in 1374, and after lengthy and heated discussions, the viziers divided the realm among his son and two daughters. Feeling his claim to the throne had been ignored, Lord Krushaw held Kakar’s children in contempt, while another distant cousin of the former sultan, Karaman Yazi, marched his forces home without swearing fealty to the new sultan.
1379 	Fall of Valona: After Andrea's death in 1368, the League began to disintegrate, with many of its members breaking away. While the lords began to serve their own interests, some even allying themselves with the Golden Horde, the northern lords continued the fight against Anton Nagy II, until 1379, when the Horde captured Monteleone. The resistance collapsed and the entire Valonian area was incorporated into their Empire.
1381 	Third Olive War: Karaman Yazi and his brother and sister, Zeyn and Perciva, under the pretext of supporting Kakar II, living in exile in Zis, marched towards Pendosis with 20.000 men. Here, they were met by loyalist forces who slew Karaman, defeated his army, and captured his brother and sister.
1382-1384	Vichin Civil War: After King Louis Martel died in 1382 with no male heir, began an interregnum in Vichin, which resulted in a bloody civil war that ended several noble houses. A small faction in Kurnow succeeded in gathering support for a solution, crowning Louis' 10-year-old daughter Hedwig and marrying her to the venerated prince Florence II of Carinthia. This did not only quell the civil war, but began a long Vichin-Carinthian union.
1386-1389	Fourth Olive War: Lord Krushaw Khan declared war against sultan Kakuros II of Chorene. One by one, he defeated near Kakuros and his siblings and made himself sultan of Chorene. Taking advantage of the general confusion, Memet I, son of Karaman Yazi, captured Pendosis on May 13th and placed on the throne a pretender called Jirij, who claimed to be the son of Kakuros II. In the end, however, Memet was defeated by Krushaw’s forces and was executed in 1389, virtually ending the fourth olive war.
===15th Century===
1408-1410 	The Last Olive War: Rising against the cruelty of Sultan Cuphan Pitch-Black, the young Elyria II, declared war. She captured Konaya in 1409 and attacked Pendosis twice. She was driven out the first time by Cuphan, but on her second siege of the city, the locals opened the gates to let her in and as her army slew Cuphan’s, the two fought a legendary duel. The last olive war was ended and Elyria established a peaceful regime as Sultan of Chorene.
1409-1421 	The Golden War: A war in the Westerlands which marked the fall of the Golden Horde, who had dominated the area for nearly 200 years, allowing Vichin to annex all of the Westerlands as protectorates while Thyssen, who had been allies of the Horde, ceded their autonomy and became a principality under the Vichin state. In one fell swoop, Vichin had become one of the largest and most powerful states in the world.
1415 	Death of Yan Wincentene: The preacher and Cister Cartian critic Yan Wincentene, who had been imprisoned for a year, was burned at the stake for heresy, sparking the Wincentene War.
1422 	Formation of the Second Valonian League: After the Golden War, Vichin had annexed several important holdings of former Valonian magnates in the Westerlands, along with the cities of Nazaire and Monteleone. When they refused to acknowledge the independence of the former Valonian cities, the magnate of Nazaire pleaded with the other lords and a new general council was called in Valona in 1422. During the meeting, a treaty nearly identical to the one which was struck during the first Valonian League was written and proclaimed Andrea's granddaughter and a descendant of two Valengar houses, Luchella Aryaan, the new chief of the League.
1422-1423 	The Valonian Aggression: The new Valonian League fought the Vichinian forces on multiple occasions, until a peace treaty was signed on the 4th of October, 1423, where Florence II of Vichin agreed to yield his claims in Valona.
1427 	New Cister Cartian proclamation: King Florence of Vichin, in an attempt to further solidify his position in an uneasy state, and to avoid the crown's immense debt to the church, was swayed into declaring Cister Carta state religion and heresy punishable by death. This proclamation angered several of the Vichinian provinces, who rose in open rebellion. When Vichin sent soldiers to quell the rebels, they were unexpectedly met with Corvian reinforcements, who defeated the small Vichinian forces under the pretense of supporting "the freedom of religious expression and independence from tyranny for all the Vichinian provinces and protectorates".
August 13th, 1428 	The Doom of Deepwater: On the same day that a small Corvian force of 200 men assailed the Westerland Barony of Sonder, having ignored their orders to lie in wait across the Corvian border, the town of Deepwater Motte was destroyed by an unmistakably magical cataclysmic event. The Corvians were naturally blamed for the incident, and since any use of magic in warfare was forbidden by the Chapter of Wizards, the Doom acted as the direct casus belli that forced Vichin into the Western War.
1428-1429 	The Western War: A war between Corveaux and Vichin that resulted in the total loss of Vichin's provinces and later King Florence's execution by the church, after he attempted to intervene in the arrest and subsequent execution of Sultana Elyria Yazi of Chorene, for her alleged homosexuality and infidelity.
August 21st, 1428 	Thyssen Independence: An army of 20.000 Corvians marched on Thyssen to attack the Vichinian provinces. The night before they planned to cross the border, Prince Eyke of Thyssen died and the following morning, his 13-year-old son Esterad declared that he would allow the Corvian troops to pass through his lands and into Carinthia, if they were to recognize Thyssen as an independent Kingdom. Louis XIV agreed and Esterad was later chosen as King at the Folkmoot, over his cousin Rickard Ambrose. Unhappy, Rickard and his father Lancel Ambrose rode home to Wrymouth and called their banners in open rebellion, starting the Thyssen War of Succession.
February 1st, 1429	The Coup on Orak: A coup within the former Sultanate of Chorene after the death of Sultana Elyria Yazi. At a grand council held on neutral ground, within the wizard's academy on the Isle of Orak, three of Elyria's children attempted to seize the throne, and the conflict that ensued led to the dissolution of Chorene and the complete destruction of the Chapter of Wizards. It is perhaps the single most important turning point in contemporary history.
1429-present 	The Dissolution War: The civil war that ensued after the Coup on Orak, which resulted in the death of all but three of the late Elyria's thirteen children. The Chorenese lands were split into four realms and fighting has only temporarily been halted by a frail ceasefire, struck in early 1431.