Timeline III: 1000 - 1100 CC

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{| border="3" style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman';"	1000 	Relief of the Millenium Siege.
1007 	Donara is handed over former Penboynian possessions. 	
1015 - 1021	The Pellan Empire take another chunk out of Thungali territory. 	
1025 - 1031	The League of Cityports founds new cities along the Donanda River. 	
1032 	Worshipers of Inanna and other Pellan deities are persecuted in the Thungar Khanate's remaining lands. 	
1034 	Minor coup in Stavalot unsuccessful. 	
1034 	The king of Grone marries a Rovian princess. 	
1034 	Kartrian descendants revolt in Damilonia. By 1035 the rebellion is crushed. 	
1034 - 1043	Salaqi-Hardnitian War ends in Salaqi occupation of Hardnit. In '37 – 38 Rovia tries to intervene by launching a premature attack, it fails. 	
1035 	The League of Cityports send out a fleet to discover the fabled east. Officially, it never returns. 	
1035 	The Falandrian king dies, and his brother is elected to succeed him, but must survive several attempted coups. 	
1035 	The Independent City States (as of then including Enders), Penboyn, Marentia, Falandria, Donara, Vesland and the Pandese Empire sign the Vintendra Treaty. 	
1035 - 1040	Pandese-Ontainian war. The Pandese Empire conquers much of southern Belandria. In 1038 Pelosi is captured. In 1040 the war ends, as Emperor Nikopol II is called back at the news of his wife's death. 	
1036 	The city of Hest rebels demanding former city privileges. The rebellion is crushed. 	
1036 	In Donara the king steps down in favor of a general. This new king puts a definite stop to Iluvar raids, but after this initial activity he seldom leaves the palace. In '43 he himself steps down in favor of the original king's son. 	
1037 	Shamanism repressed in Pellas. 	
1037 	Zagyath agents fail to instigate a rebellion in Nordacria in spite of the unstable condition of Landertes II. 	
1039 	Fanatics in 'Tulanese' Ontaine quelled before they attack Kangrisorn. 	
1039 	The Grone Kingdom purges itself of shamans and druids. 	
1039 - 1042	Continuous coastal raids provokes Penboyn to attack Falandria. Penboyn conquers Corvendile east of Dambergard forcing Falandria to sue for peace. 	
1040 	Unrest in the Grone parts of the Paw. A movement trying to tie the area to Kartria is suppressed. 	
1041 	The Ontainian queen dies barren. 	
1041 	The weird behavior of King Landertes IIs is the cause of another coup in Nordacria.It fails, but disorder reigns. 	
1041 	Mystic movements ("Guardian of the Key" and "the Open Hand") spread in Vesland. 	
1041 - 1042	Preparing to invade Salakand the Rovian king dies. The queen maintains her right to throne, but a contender appears splitting the country in two. 	
1043 	A court faction in Falandria succeeds in ousting king Varald and his family. They (the Corvendiles) escape to Enders. 	
1043 	Rumors insist that the Kartrian Autarch Castanamir III is infatuated with a court lady. 	
1043 - 1044	Zagy-Pandese border skirmishes. 	
1044 	The Salaqi King Ridjon VII dies without male heirs. A three-sided civil war breaks out between the queen and her two daughters.The Duke of Hardnit uses the turmoil to gain a foothold in western Hardnit. 	
1046 - 1051	Falandria attacks Penboyn that seems split by inner chaos. After a five year siege of Latislav, Falandria accepts peace in return for regaining Corvendile. 	
1047 	In Ontaine the King Yarndo dies to be succeeded by his brother. The brother turns out to be more or less insane, and he in turn is removed by a coup. 	
1047 	On Kartria the concubine of Castanamir III dies.He remains apathetic the last six years of his rule. 	
1048 	An army revolt in the Pellan Empire is suppressed. 	
1049 	In Rovia the widow queen loses her last holdout in Damilonia (Osbane). 	
1049 	The High Lands outlaws temples dedicated to deities other than Heimdal. 	
1049 	The Salaqi queen Shandra's sister and mother surrender and are placed in custody. 	
1049 - 1050	The new Ontainian king launches a promised campaign against on the Pandese Empire. It is poorly prepared, and he dies leaving his brother to sue for peace. 	
1050 	Zagyath crushes attempts to establish farms. 	
1050 	The Independent City States gain a monopoly on trade in the Gildani Bay following a decisive naval battle against Osbant. 	
1050 - 1052	The League of Cityports launch a successful campaign against the Iluvar. But in '52 the king forfeits his victories and returns home. 	
1051 	Unsuccessful coup in Kartria. 	
1052 	The untimely (and perhaps suspicious) death of the new Ontainian king is close to causing a civil war. But the ten-year-old son of Yarndo is made the king-in-waiting, while his warden reigns as steward. 	
1052 - 1053	The former king of Falandria (Corvendile) dies attempting to regain his throne.His nephew in Enders now think he holds a claim to the throne. 	
1052 - 1053	The Pellan Empire launches successful raids into Borsoch and the Thungar Khanate. 	
1052 - 1053	Rovia invades Salakand and swiftly conquer Brin Lebin and Venikin. 	
1053 	Ontainian Civil War. The stewardship endures. 	
1054 	Foolish Iluvar attempt at paper money ends in massive swindling. Someone laughs. 	
1054 	A military uprising in Vesland fizzles. 	
1054 	The Duke of Hardnit come to terms with Queen Shandra of Salakand.In effect, he is left with a small coastal strip. 	
1054 - 1055	The citizens in Ollyway rise against King Landertes II. They oust the mayor, the king's brother, muster and march on Hest, where they are defeated resoundingly. 	
1055 - 1057	Behind-the-scenes forces in Kartria tries to provoke a war against Penboyn, but the Penboynian diplomats repeatedly ward off the attempts. 	
1056 	Tribes in central Belandria tries to break free from Ontaine. They are brutally suppressed. 	
1057 	A proposal to dissolve the League of Cityports does not carry.But the 'decadent life' on the Blue Isles is the cause of many angry voices. 	
1058 	Falandrian-Penboynian hostilities flare up again as the the Corvendile Earldom (the county of the former Falandrian king) pledges allegiance to the Penboynian king. 	
1058 - 1060	Rovia tests the strength of Salakand in a series of border skirmishes. 	
1058 - 1063	Zagyath launches an attack on Hardor. The Pandese defense is stalwart, but somehow Margos, the priest-king of Hardor is suddenly ('63) on their side. Though not a conquest of Hardor, it gives Zagyath its desired access to the river Belse. 	
1059 	The Salaqi queen Shandra (and her sister's husband) die suddenly in the spring. Her son Ridjon VIII inherits the throne and the Rovian War, which he ends. 	
1059 	The Iluvar tribal leader is killed by his younger brother. 	
1060 	The Kingdom of Donara sends a large army directly towards Kangrisorn, that is through the Regentop Range. The army disappears without a trace. 	
1060 	The Edict of Cheiband regulates all coinage in Bandagora. 	
1061 	In the last year of his life the madness of the Nordacrian Kong Landertes II increases to a frightening crescendo. The king insults every ambassador, and the fear of a Pandese war causes unrest. The death of the king and the crowning of Ditseng II restores order. 	
1061 	Uprising in the Pellan Empire. 	
1062 - 1073	Marentian Civil War. Dissatisfied with its treatment, the army tries to instate a dictator in Balvine. At first, it appears to succeed. Only the area around Essara remains loyal to Autarch Nimrod III, but he gathers his loyal troops and recapture Balvine using wizardry before the rebels truly organize. Then for a time the rebellion seems defeated as the leaders fight among themselves, but in '65 a strong leader emerges uniting the ranks of the rebels. Nimrod is no general, and can only organize magical raids on the enemy. It is his successor Celestian IV, that from '69 slowly forces the rebels back. Despite much negotiation, the civil war ends in slaughter (the so-called Massacre at Sparkia).	
1063 - 1064	King Ridjon VIII of Salakand bungles an attack on Hardnit. 	
1064 	The Iluvar ruling clan is extinct. The tribes cannot agree to a new leader. 	
1064 - 1068	Civil War in the League of Cityports. After four of indecisive struggle (the Velvet War) the league is divided into four parts: The Blue Isles, Chivenor (and Skolister), Oriester (and Deselior), and Anistar. 	
1064 - 1072	Osbantine civil war. After a long futile naval war Osbant is split in two, one with its capital in Crimloyd, another centered in Pavian. 	
1067 - 1068	The High Lands launches pre-emptive raids on its eastern barbarian neighbors. 	
1068 	The Duke of Hardnit return to Enders as a successful coup instigated by the Salaqi king makes him lose control of the army. 	
1068 - 1069	The Pellan Empire quells unrest in the far north. 	
1068 - 1070	The land surrounding the city of Hardor is temporarily put under the rule of Emperor Sardis III, but Hardor proper is still governed by Margos the priest-king, who is apparently a puppet of Zagyath. 	
1070 - 1072	Helped by huge financial aid from the Independent City States, the Duke of Hardnit regains control of his possessions. 	
1071 - 1072	A country-wide rebellion makes Grone king flee to Utisana (in southern Grone), where he hides until the religious storm blows over. 	
1072 	The Pandese Emperor Sardis III kills Margos, the priest-king of Hardor (and uncle to Silandis), in a duel. This restores order to the city of Hardor. 	
1072 	In Ontaine the king's brother dies as he tries to usurp the throne.  	
1072 	The Falandrian king is let to believe that his family is plotting against him. He executes most of his closest relatives. 	
1073 - 1075	The Pandese Emperor Sardis III declares war on Nordacria. He conquers Ollyway and Hest, and King Ditseng II dies as his army is defeated in '75. The brother, Sirian II, has no choice but to accept the loss of the two cities. 	
1074 	Upon the death of the (west-)Osbantine king in Crimloyd,  Grone, Rovia and East Osbant attack the realm to claim each their part. The royal family flees as troop morale drops to a all-time low. 	
1074 	The Iluvar formally drop claims on currently Veslandic territory west of Brossi in return for rights of passage through the Almodar Pass. 	
1074 	Brief insurrection in Hardnit. 	
1074 - 1075	A fanatical Inanna cult kills the Pellan Emperor Oktavio IV. The inept nephew has no support, and the theocracy of the New Sun Lands (Neä Keä-Sonda) is declared. 	
1075 	Theodor V is crowned king of (West-)Osbant. He is supported by the Independent City States and immediately launches a campaign to unite Osbant. 	
1077 	Osbant reunited under Theodor V. 	
1080 	The university of Anistar is founded. 	
1080 - 1082	A foolish campaign by the Duke of Hardnit to reconquer the western parts of the duchy from Salakand is stopped by his death in battle at Penhaven. 	
1081 	The Crown Prince Tiolan (later IV) of Vesland discovers a hoard of gold in the Brossis. 	
1082 	Border incidents between Falandria and Penboyn. 	
1082 - 1085	Central control in Zagyath disrupts and popular supports for the ruler swigs back and forth ending in his stepping down. 	
1084 	The king of Ontaine dies in battle attacking the city of Harastor. 	
1084 - 1086	Inept Rovian rulership causes king Kawflen to accept a Melekit challenge to an ennead. The Melekit, Simon, wins the duel after two years of Kawflen's postponements. 	
1084 - 1086	The New Sun Lands attacks into Grone, but has no lasting successes in Grone proper.
Eyronia, however, remains in the hands of the New Sun Lands. 	
1086 	The Pandese performs a police action on Pelosi. 	
1087 - 1093	Rovian-Salaqi war. Rovia attacks Salakand, but Salakand is better prepared than expected. Both the Rovian and the Salaqi king dies during the war, and the New Sun Lands aid Rovia. The upshot is that Salakand takes Salona back from Rovia. When the Rovian king Simon Melekit dies in 1088, he is succeeded by the compentent general Tiarz. 	
1088 	The Ontainian child king dies, and his warden is made king. 	
1089 	Zagyath formally reinstates succession laws unused since before the time of the Iluvar. 	
1092-1094 	Anistarian-Nordacrian War. Anistar attacks Busenbar (in the Shendar river valley). King Sirian II drives the Anistarians back, but is killed '93 in a battle by at the Shenanda river near the Bay of Andalak. After a minor indecisive naval battle in the Andalak peace is declared 1094. 	
1093 	Falandria launches long-term raids into Varnasir lands. 	
1094-1095 	Falandrian viking plundering and piracy provokes the Independent City States to block the mouth of Felendar at the city of Dambergard with a primarily Endorian warships. The blockade is lifted after repeated insurances from the Falandrian king. 	
1094-1100 	Ontaine-Pandese war. Ontainian raids are countered by a Pandese punitive mission in the winter of 1094. The Ontainians attempt to strike back in '95 and try to lay siege to Feldenkrak, but the Pandese do not allow them to get close. A cease-fire is negotiated following skirmishes in '96. In '97 Sardis hopes to open a new front by taking the so-called Kirrlar Pass. It is too well defended, and the assault ends in disaster killing the emperor. His brother Milatis VI takes the throne and considers the war over. So it seems, but when Milatis dies in '99, the Ontainians move quickly on Pandesa. The new emperor Hardaukar III drives them out of Eubonia, however. 	
1095 	The Iluvar conquer Oriester and sack it. 	
1096 	The priesthoods of Enki, Inanna and Vahaun found a new organization to present the three priesthoods outwardly as a united front. It is called the Trinity Church. 	
1097 	Ollyway successfully reunites with Nordacria when Sardis IV dies. 	
1097 	The New Sun Lands oversea possession Eyronia fails to gain independence. 	
1098 	Salakand and Hardnit negotiate an end to hostilities as unrest grows in the Salaqi kingdom. Four shires north of the Brindan remain Salaqi, at least in name. 	
1098-1102 	Salaqi civil war.The Salaqi nobility rebels in an attempt to change the constitution and end the Two Hundred Years War. They name a duke king and are hopeful at first, but by 1100 the holdout is the city of Ployd. It falls in 1102. 	
1099 	The Pandese Emperor Milatis VI is killed in a duel by the Nordacrian Prince Kalil during the siege of Ollyway. Hardaukar III becomes emperor.