Sixteenth Age timeline

This is a list of events during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Ages.

## Fifteenth Age

* Emperor Arnuwenz fights Pharaoh Smenkhaten's assault against his empire. His wife Nenarezzi joins him in battle.
* Emperor Arnuwenz sends a trade delegation to King Memban at western Rifandi across the ocean.
* The Prince of Tuwilsas, Parisundas, takes Queen Hēlenni of Isparti.
* The warriors of Isparti besiege Tuwilsas, and use a large wooden horse (the Durippas) to trick the defenders. For their refusal to obey Emperor Arnuwenz's orders, Tuwilsas receives no aid, and the city falls.
* A younger prince of Tuwilsas, Astijanz, was taken southwards where he rules a kingdom founded by survivors. It was the ancestor of the republic of Elen (to the southwest of modern Rabydos), becoming a mixed Pelgir-Gauvajut people.
* Some surviving Tuwilli (people of Tuwilsas) flee eastward to what is now Verucci, where they influence the locals and form their own kingdoms.
* In the Kingdom of Freyrgard, a high-ranking gothi priest, Fersand, founds the Seekers of Speki as a literature club. He is a worshipper of Odin, and he was inspired by Odin's quests for knowledge to establish the club.
* When Freyrgard faces a famine at the northwestern coast, Fersand donates a huge amount of money to support the northwesterners, allowing them to quickly recover from the famine within a month. More and more peasants join the Seekers of Speki and build new schools and libraries.
* The Tuksharan Empire wages wars to expand eastward.
* Resovjant's tribes were overwhelmed by the Tuksharans' more-advanced machinery. The local kingdoms only used minimal Aspuruk machinery, mostly relying on steel, musket guns, and cannons.
* Under Tuksharan imperial rule, the colonial governors create a simplified version of the Eosome alphabet of Resovjant, for the purpose of writing with computers and typewriters.
* Pinoguni suffers from a great civil war.
* Thousands of Pinogunians migrate eastward to the Wonao nations, where they work as craftsmen, traders, engineers, and strategists.
* -567 16A / 4567 15A - The New Calendar is implemented throughout the Tuksharan Empire and its colonies, replacing regnal years.
* 5134 16A - The Fifteenth Age ends with the fall of Remia to Emperor Alexandros III.

## Early Sixteenth Age

* Emperor Alexandros III of Archonia conquers Verucci, Remia (Hothro), and as far east as Zarijana. After he dies, his empire is split between his successors.
	+ His main goal was to plunder the seaports of Vystrane and Knjezvaria.
	+ Prince Vejoreno Njebeskijo, ruler of the leading city of Bezhineska, went all the way to Voiska to fight Alexandros in a sword duel. Alexandros was halfway burning the port down when the prince arrived to challenge him. He wounded the emperor so gravely, that the invader hurried to his ship, leaving a trail of blood across the marble streets.
	+ Alexandros' ship was diverted by a storm towards a swamp in Zarijana, where in his crazed hunger he wandered away from his army and ate from a rotting jackal's corpse. Days later, he died of an unusual disease that no medicine or mutation was able to understand and cure.
	+ Without Alexandros, his subjects slowly plotted rebellion, angered by his neglect and obsession with ruling the world and plundering the East. In his capital of Bakhtaras, the princes took down every luxurious object and gave them to all the slaves, before releasing them as freedmen, all to curse their father's misrule. On the unlikely event that their father was to return and perhaps execute them too, they put up replacements that looked exactly like the original decorations, but made from inferior substances.
	+ When news of Alexandros' death reached the rest of the empire, the whole empire celebrated for three nights and chose each of the princes as their new kings. It peacefully split up with a single treaty.
* The Sarnarid and Gosarid nobles clash for control of Remia.
* The warlord Romulos builds a new capital for Verucci, Rompila. He founds the Romulian Empire; while his rivals, the Pompeioi, control Remia.
* 345 16A - Herimann of Ardesch unites his tribes into a single monarchy, and builds an army of charioteers. This year became the start of the Ardeschen calendar.
* 500s 16A - The Tuksharan Empire wages a global war of conquest to annex the whole world. Its victims and enemies develop their own technology to fight back against its flying fortresses, fuelling a sporadic industrial revolution.
* 500s 16A - The Tuksharan Invasion of Western Ardesch. The Battle of the Blackened Woods occurs, when the Ardeschens' salvaged laser cannons tore down the flying castles of the spacefaring foe.
* 500s 16A - The Tuksharan Empire invades the continent of Darros, but its flying castles were repelled and shot down by the more-technologically advanced four superpowers: Darros, Vystrane, Knjezvaria, and Tir. The Emperor of Tukshara is killed in Darros.
* 584-720 16A - Rānzanza Dynasty of the Gauvajut Empire.
* 630 16A - The Wonao tribes of Resovjant revolt against the oppressive Tuksharan governors and expel their forces, having learned the enemy's technology and used it against their tyrants. They found the Kingdom of Resovjant.
* 700 16A - Several Darroskei merchants sail eastward to explore Palkyras. They establish relations between their homelands and Vachelon and Kawwajutas.
* 1012-1351 16A - Wariza Dynasty of the Gauvajut Empire.
* 1200 16A - Suneras' Rebellion
* 1300-1421 16A - Golden Age of the Gauvajut Empire. It spreads north and south.
* 1330-2090 16A - Riguro
* 1402 16A - The Tuksharan Empire spreads eastward into Vachelon, Palkyras, and Randros.
* Romulia is unified into Naria.
* 1442 16A - Orxan Pirates colonise several islands to the west of Randros and raid nearby settlements.
* 1460s 16A - Ardeschen artists, sportspeople, and intellectuals migrate to Kikori, attracted by invitations for sports matches and spices.
* 1491-1628 16A - Vachelon conquers Velgnas.
* 1494-1498 16A - Queen Kamaudari sends fleets to raid and conquer the gold mines of southern Zarijana. Although they managed to capture three ports, her armies were repelled from their other colonies.
* 1512 16A - The Kingdom of Thermir utilises gunpowder against the Tuksharan fleets, and its ally Var uses a blue fuel generated from slugs.
* Tukshara's fleets were driven back when the locals utilised gunpowder to shoot down its flying cities from the sky.

### Ardeschen Age

* 1600 16A - Wars against Redjetesh.
* 1628 16A - South Velgnas secedes from Vachelon.
* 1654-1861 - Ninduweza Dynasty of the Gauvajut Empire. This dynasty waged a war to conquer the south, prompting thirteen native kingdoms to form an alliance to resist Gauvajut attacks. The strongest of these kingdoms were Kislaent and Klutnas.
* Ardesch becomes an empire to compete against Naria in the south. The two empires fight against the Gauvajut, Redjeteshen, and Yawandi empires to take their spices and wealth, sparking the Gunpowder Wars.
* 1645 16A - Ardesch becomes into the Ardeschen Empire.
* 1678 16A - Romulian secessionists form their own state at southern Romulia, Scenarium. They eventually conquer the peninsula thirty years later, expelling the Narian tercios.
* 1680s 16A - Kikori becomes a haven for opponents of the Ardeschen Empire.
* 1701 16A - Palguenia is conquered by the Ardeschen Empire.
* 1702 16A - Unification of Rannar - Var and Thermir conquered, its people forced to submit to the Rannarisk emperor Bergand I.
* 1700s 16A - Ardesch attempts to conquer and enslave various parts of Palkyras and Rifandi.
* 1700s 16A - Elessia suffers from an overpopulation crisis, as poor conditions led to so many orphans being born.
* 1707 16A - The king of Uddae, Liklonth, built a clone farm outside his palace, where he used its men as his army. The other six kings of Elessia built their own clone farms, and the dual high kings Ranonth and Rakderan ordered the creation of a new and obedient slave race.
* May 13, 16A - The helot towns of Parkanoth and Montoppoi started a revolt. The leaders claimed that the kings of Elessia planned to exterminate their own people, using their cloned armies to slaughter the helots and slaves in a great feast.
* 1709 16A - Cannibalism became rampant in Elessian society, where the weak and the slaves were slaughtered as meat. Every year, rich warriors were sent to the villages and slums, where they hunted slaves and helots like animals.
* 1723 16A - Some Ardeschen pirates found colonies on some islands to the west of Palguenia, forming the Pirate State of Liberos (or Black Ardesch) and enslaving the earlier pirates. They regard themselves as the successors of the Orxan Pirates.
* 1742 16A - Dnonthol and Maklevel become high kings of Elessia. They minimise the yearly helot-hunts, focusing instead on slaughtering and eating more rebels.
* 1745 16A - The hunter Rugessor was exiled with thousands of criminals and slaves to the southern edge of the Palkyrian supercontinent, where he founds the republic of Rubaschrand.
* 1748 16A - Rugessor sends several envoys to establish relations with the nearby nations. He sent three envoys to the seven kingdoms of Elessia to the west; and three more to the native kingdoms of Kislaent and Klutnas.
* 1754-1789 16A - Ardesch sends punitive expeditions against its opponents in Kikori. In spite of some colonies, the expeditions were defeated.
* 1762-1769 16A - A few hundred men were led by the rebellious general Findoraend: after fighting against Rugessor's armies, they marched north to conquer Kislaent, but were defeated.
* 1768 16A - The Helot Rebellion was completely defeated. Sixty percent of the helots were slaughtered and eaten, replaced by more clones. The survivors who were not put into harsh labour fled to other lands. Some nations reviled the Elessian refugees as monsters who would eat their people next, while others pitied these frightened runaways.
* June 2, 1769 16A - Tolsyn Baradrij, an intellectual and a worshipper of Perun, writes a book proposing a socialist system. His idea of a future state after the overthrow of the monarchy in Darros led to a peasant revolt, but after it was defeated, Tolsyn had to flee westward to Zarijana to avoid execution. There, he continued writing about economics until he died of old age.
	+ At the end of his life, he gathered hundreds of Darroskei who followed him. They set up a commune influenced by his principles, the first self-proclaimed socialist state in thousands of years.
	+ Some people in Ardesch worshipped him as "Torchilon", the "Bringer of Enlightenment". A few sought to destroy the whole world to ensure that he rules as its god-king, even as that went against Tolsyn's own beliefs.
	+ In Red Ardesch, he was considered as "the first of the three red prophets".
* 1772 16A - The Gauvajut Empire sent an envoy to establish relations with Rubaschrand, but President Trinaar refused the delegation, only preferring to reestablish relations with the Gauvajuts when the latter stopped waging war against the Kislaentir.
* 1775-1923 16A - Rubaschrand welcomes several waves of Elessian immigrants to intermarry with its people. Although Rugessor's advisors warned him not to do it due to the Elessians' notorious cannibalism, he still let them in, as he wanted more people to build up his nation. The republic's population expands to a hundred thousand.
* 1775-1777 16A - The Rubaschrandir rulers executed hundreds of cannibals among the Elessians in their realm, some of which who led hunting parties to kill and eat more people.
* 1779-1832 16A - Redjetesh wages a war to conquer the northern lands. It loses.
* 1781 16A - Ersoviant (in modern Bujan) founded by King Langosadjent.
* 1780s-1790s - The Gauvajut Empire defends several kingdoms in Rifandi from Ardeschen invasion. It saves several kings and invites their nobles to set up colonies in the east coast and the southwest: these Rifandian nobles and their followers became the ancestors of Aujarsax and Omayeran, respectively.
* 1795 16A - Rubaschrand's envoys are sent to the Rifandian duchies to establish relations with them.

### The Decline of Imperial Ardesch

* 1818 16A - The Quack Revolution (Kercholtar Revolution) broke out when several doctors demanded the usage of several dangerous medicines. Several countries began to use these "alternative medicines": some patients were able to recover, while more patients had no effects, got worse, or died. As some of the deaths led to greater genetic research, some of the supporters considered this as "the price of progress".
* 1823 16A - The seven kingdoms of Elessia destroy each other in a civil war, sparked by a succession crisis over the sudden deaths of the two kings.
* 1825 16A - Hundreds of Elessians return to their homeland, only to find it in ruins and under the realm of Vachelon. Some of the pilgrims die of fright when they saw poles of corpses lined along the roads, the remains of people who tortured and ate slaves and then each other.
* 1829 16A - Armaud Trisen, an alchemist and a general, revolts against the Palguenian king to establish a republic, which he claimed to be a "worker's paradise". Although it lost land to the Palguenian army, it managed to survive until its conquest by Directorist Ardesch.
	+ Some of the supporters of Armaud's republic were among those purged and slain by the Red Ardeschi armies for not agreeing with their goal to "punish the world".
	+ In spite of this, Armaud himself was comemmorated as "the second of the red prophets".
* 1838 16A - President Ervech Lauros builds a magic circle at the barren rock of Droxind, setting up effigies and using incantations from sorcery books to curse the Ardeschen Empire.
* May 23, 1839 - Outbreaks of plague at the Ardeschen cities of Nyrend and Livaarin: 530 people die from disease. Convinced by his success, President Ervech continued more rites of sorcery as he and his captains sought to plunder more gold and Tuksharan tech.
* 1843 16A - Black Ardesch's pirate fleets battle an expeditionary force of the Ardeschen Empire, led by the dukes Lureand and Ustrech. They lose, and the islands fall to Ardeschen control as an outpost. Ervech's magic circles were demolished and cleansed by the sun priests.
* 1851-2800s 16A - Space travel and exploration.
* 1854-1857 16A - Emperor Furnaard sends a fleet to bombard and enslave Rubaschrand. The defenders prevail with the help of their allies, but a quarter of the country's population is killed in battle.
* 1861 16A - Wanzanna Dynasty of the Gauvajut Empire.
* 1869-1894 16A - Palguenia revolts against the Ardeschen Empire, but was defeated.
* 1872 16A - Imperial Scramble of Randros' empires.
* 1872 16A - Makhagurnashi aliens encountered as explorers and traders.
* 1874-1905 16A - Under the rule of several dictators, Rubaschrand wages war against its ally Kislaent. The Gauvajut Empire intervenes and seizes some of its colonies.
* 1884 16A - Nolaan becomes the prime minister of the Ardeschen Empire, seeking to mobilise it to total war. His teachings were readily adopted by his enemy, the Empire of Rannar.
* 1892-1921 16A - Nolaan sends an expedition to conquer and enslave the Rubaschrandir. Although they manage to establish an enclave supported by airlifts and portals at the eastern edge of the republic, they were eventually defeated.
* 1904 16A - Darros is conquered by a communist army, who overthrows the Emperor and the Volkhov Council of Perun. After developing his country, its first Chairman, Veladros Rugarnok, was torn between two factions in his regime. One faction sought to develop the country and only aid the Tuksharan communists, while the other sought to expand their revolution to unite the world in his utopia. He chose the former faction.
* 1911 16A - While watching a meteor shower on a summer evening, Veladros dies of a heart attack.
* 1911-1916 16A - Lostoi Ragonsil is chosen as the second Chairman of Red Darros. Angered by rebellions by the former volkhov priests, he purges the religion of Rodnovery from Darros, demolishing temples and sentencing devout believers to hard, menial labour in reeducation camps. He later sends armies to annex nearby nations, seeking to force more people to adopt his views.
	+ In Red Ardesch, he was revered as "the third of the three red prophets". He is regarded as the "Awakened", who sometimes literally beats the religion out of people to drag them into a communist utopia.
* May 2, 1916 16A - A worshipper of Perun, Mechand the Assassin, throws an axe at Lostoi, killing him. He kills more of his bodyguards as he escapes westward, where he is welcomed into a rebel state as a champion of Perun.
* 1916-1919 16A - The rebel state of Gronnia, east of Vystrane, wages war against Red Darros, seizing many northwestern provinces that fought back against Red Darros' suppression of the Rodnover faith. It ends in a stalemate and the deaths of several communist party officials, which the Gronnian theocrat proclaimed as "sacrifices to Perun". The authorities of Red Darros were divided on how to deal with Rodnovery: some ordered its destruction, forcing its believers to become atheists, while others proposed tolerating it to prevent future revolts.
* 1922 16A - Nolaan is shot by a vigilante, who accused him of treason after Rannar's government adopted his teachings to turn itself into a fascist state, therefore making Rannar another threat to Ardeschen imperial supremacy.
* 1924-1930 16A - Red Darros and Gronnia fight again. This time. Gronnia is defeated, and its temples were destroyed.
* 1929-1939 16A - Red Darros attempts to conquer Vystrane and Knjezvaria. After several devastating incursions and bombardments, much of its army was defeated by a series of ambushes and laser barrages. The Red Darroskei underestimated the two ancient civilisations having better weaponry than themselves.

### Directorist Ardesch

* 1930 16A - The last emperor of Ardesch dies without a successor, plunging Ardesch into a devastating civil war. Scenarium's army invades Ardesch. A worldwide economic recession hits much of the world, plunging billions into poverty.
* 1939 16A - The First Director seizes power and wages a war against Scenarium to the south, and enslaves his opponents.
* 1939-1944 16A - Angered by the economic downturn, several generals seize power in Pinoguni to build their own empire.
* 1940-1960 16A - Three great groups were formed:
	+ Entente - Rannar, Ardesch, Marnoxai, Zyrason, and Anguillas
	+ Potente - Scenarium, Zarijana, Redjetesh. The Gauvajut Empire was a distant ally.
	+ Hegemony - Pinoguni
* 1940 16A - The imperial armies of Pinoguni offer an ultimatum to the Pinogunian communities in the Wonao kingdoms, to bow to the armies and enjoy privileges. Most of the local Pinogunians refuse and take up arms, pledging their loyalty to their rulers instead of the Pinogunian junta. They eventual arm themselves and fight against the Hegemony, preventing further eastward conquests of the Wonao realms.
* 1940 16A - The kings of the Wonao nations declare an "antaesad", a "rainbow war", to fight back against the Pinogunian imperials. Ironically, many of the crusaders who took part were descendants of Pinogunian exiles, who cursed the imperials for murdering many innocents in conquered territories.
	+ The greatest of those Wonao crusaders was himself a Pinogunian, fighting other Pinogunians of the empire to rescue his friends. After the Pinogunian imperials were defeated, he was one of hundreds of warriors who were knighted by the Resovjantien king.
* 1940 16A - First Ardeschen Civil War destroys most of the nation’s population.
* 1942 – First Director unifies Ardesch in a three-month blitzkrieg, fights Scenarian attacks from south.
* 1942 16A - Prisapura helps its enemies turn their forces push back against Pinoguni's armies.
* 1943-1945 16A - The First Director turns his forces eastwards to destroy Zarijana. He dies of a heart attack.
* 1943-1946 16A - The First Director sends a fleet a conquer Rubaschrand. It is defeated.
* 1944 16A - Incensed by their cruelty, the Emperor's sons overthrow Pinoguni's junta and execute their generals. The other generals in Pinoguni's colonies fight among themselves and were defeated by the locals. Although the new government of Pinoguni agrees to return its plundered wealth to their victims, Pinoguni is blacklisted from international diplomacy for decades.
* 1945 16A – Prydain, aided by Marnoxai and Rannar troops, overthrow Scenarian emperor. First Director wages war on Zarijana.
* 1948 16A – First Director dies of heart attack, Second Director turns his wars southward to claim Scenarian possessions.
* 1950s 16A – Ardesch joins the Second Space Race between Tuksharan Empire and other Jerdiskar nations; begins diplomatic relations with Makhagûrna aliens as they study each other’s cultures, histories, and technology.
* 1951 16A – Second Director overthrown and executed, Third Director liberalizes country.

### Red Tide Era

* June 28, 1963 16A – Second Ardeschen Civil War, Red Tide overthrows Third Director’s government. That date is henceforth celebrated as "Red Liberation Day" or "Day of the Flags", and is observed with parades and colourful flags.
* 1975 – Independence granted to colonies, executions and mass sacrifices of “deviants” and “heretics” in former possessions provoke the Ardeschi government to wage wars. The Maardauvar raid Ardesch to capture more "deviants" to be killed as sacrifices to their dark gods.
* 1976 – 1977 – Bog War between Holy Maardau League and Republic of Ardesch; Ardesch reconquers Maardauvar nations, mass-execution of entire Maardauvar populace -- the Maardau Genocide.
* 1976-1978 16A - Rubaschrand receives an influx of refugees from Red Ardesch.
* September 19, 1978 - Coups take place in outlying islands and coastal provinces in the west, resulting in the reestablishment of the Pirate Republic of Liberos (also known as "Black Ardesch" or the "Free Speech Pirates"). The resulting state's governments vary from anarchist unions to fledgling democracies.
* 1979 – A film about a homosexual dictatorship triggers international outrage against Ardesch, as they fear that Ardesch would impose the video’s fictional society if it takes over the world.
* September 21, 1980 – The Slavonian Brotherhood is formed, ending a local civil war. It becomes an ally of the Zarijanian Empire when the latter’s Khshorjo (emperor) orders its missionaries to stop preaching the Mazdajasna religion in its borders. The League of the Pure is formed between the two nations, and is later joined by 36 others.
* May 19, 1981 – November 21, 1981 – The dictatorship of Pure Lotharesch secedes from Ardesch, reestablishes the Directors' regime, and mass-executes suspected "deviants" and "race-traitors"; Ardesch tries to reconquer it and loses, but manages to rescue hundreds of them from execution.
* Vystrane and Knjezvaria join the Slavonian Brotherhood as autonomous regions.

### Cyber Youth and Anti-Theist Era

* 1981 – 1984 – Ardesch wages war against Zarijana (again) and the Slavonian Brotherhood; stops when its leaders were overthrown by the Cyber Youth.
* April 22, 1981 - Several western provinces secede to create the Republic of West Ardesch, also known as "Green Ardesch" after its flag and its environmental policies. Like its mother country, it focuses on social justice, but its government rejects the harsh policies used in the rest of Ardesch. It later hosts thousands of refugees and guerillas from Kikori, triggering Red Ardesch to build walls to block further attempts to escape. Green Ardesch also establishes relations with the Free Speech Pirates to fend off Red Ardeschi attacks and crusades.
* July 31, 1981 - A scientist flees from arrest to the Gauvajut Empire for creating a pill that successfully alters sexual orientation and psychology, though it also reduces creativity. The resulting usage and replication of this pill by governments around the world triggered countless protests and dozens of terrorist attacks, and the latter is known as the "Pill Wars".
* 1985 – Remaining Ardeschi colonies given independence; some join Zarijana or the Slavonian Brotherhood, who introduce green technologies and their respective religions.
* 1988 - Pure Lotharesch betrays Zarijana, and wages war against it to finish its ancient vendetta.
* 1991 – Third Space Race, mainly to seize failed space colonies after the Tuksharan Empire’s defeat.
* 1991 – A drug-addicted heretic led a local revolt in western Zarijana, founding the Utopian Order out of anger against the teachings of the Holy Avesta.
* 1996 – In the wake of Utopianist cults and terrorist attacks, the Anti-theists take over Ardesch’s government, and outlaw all religious activity.
* 1998 – The Red Tide and the Directors’ Men reappear in parts of Ardesch.
* 1999 – Two-thirds of Ardesch’s population is of foreign origins: the Vanuri language displaces Ardarisko as its national tongue.
* 1999-2467 16A - Prosperity
* 1999-2003 - Ardesch sends its armies towards countries accused of "bigotry", to take over their governments and install puppet regimes. Even though they developed their new colonies and improved literacy and healthcare, the Ardeschi rulers are very harsh, demanding the locals to obey them. Ardesch also sends starfighters to bomb several countries, such as Rannar, Red Darros, the Slavonian Brotherhood, and Zarijana, to plunge the dictatorships into chaos: when several more clones were sent to install new regimes, they were defeated.
* 1999-2001 - Pure Lotharesch's clone armies were sent eastward to slaughter the peoples of Darros and establish new colonies. They were defeated.
* 2002-2004 16A - Ardesch sends another fleet to conquer Rubaschrand and establish a colony. The Rubaschrandir angrily expel the Ardeschi forces colonising their land.
* July 12, 2002 16A - The President of Ardesch declares that her nation is focused on world domination. Her goal was to "direct humanity into absolute progress" and "punish the whole world for all of its sins".
* 2001 – 2039 – Ardeschi-Utopianist War.

### Fall of Ardesch

* 2006 16A – A rude Ardeschi activist, "The Slug", attacks a diplomat from the Gauvajut Empire.
* 2007 16A - Under its new leaders and with an army of myriads of clones, Ardesch begins its attacks against various countries.
* 2007 16A - Ardesch invades a duchy, dragging the Gauvajut Empire into its war.
* 2008 16A - Ardesch and Lotharesch begin their wars.
* 2009 16A - Prime Minister Suwelli initiates the Human Sanctification Project, mutating several people to become less sexual and more intelligent.
* 2013 – Said diplomat, Pahhurkas, becomes Prime Minister and dictator of the Gauvajut Empire after winning an election.
* 2014 – The first of the Eastern Enclaves are created from the sparsely-populated eastern coast of the Gauvajut Empire to exile dissidents against Pahhurkas’ national belief.
* 2017 – The Technocrats use nanites to bind most of Ardesch’s people to obey them, in the guise of resolving crime and entertaining its people.
* 2019 – 2056 – Third Ardeschi Civil War/Cyber Conflict. From this time onwards, other nations began to mock Red Ardesch by condemning it as a "land of ghosts", as they prayed that it will never take over the world. Other nations began to observe Red Ardesch's day as a "ghost festival" to celebrate its defeat.
* June 13, 2021 – Many of the Eastern Enclaves create a new government to oppose the Gauvajut Empire, and they are supported by Red Ardesch.
* 2026-2030s - Red Ardesch sends its armies to conquer the Gauvajut Empire and subjugate the Eastern Enclaves. One reason for this was because the leaders of Ardesch sought to create a new headquarters in case if their capital collapses to the Utopianists, as it was too dependent on a cybernetic network, making it more vulnerable to hacking.
* 2027 - A force of six commanders landed at what is now Siangwaan, launching attacks against the Gauvajut realm and massacring its people in punitive expeditions. This invasion was later defeated by a combined Gauvajut-Enclaves force. Some of the armies used sorcerers to conjure a great curse against the Gauvajut realm, but their incorrect ritual backfired, causing them to vanish from the world.
	+ Accoriding to Gauvajut and Vozonid legends, they were turned into infernal, undead wraiths, their minds twisted into hatred against all mortals.
* December 21, 2039 – Ardesch’s capital, Teranchir, is conquered by the Utopianists, who then wage a war of extermination against the Ardeschi people for their “deviant” beliefs and their mechanised bodies. Millions of Ardeschis flee to other countries.
* 2040 - Green Ardesch and the Free Speech Pirates retake most of the west to fight back against the Utopianists' exterminations.
* May 18, 2045 – Utopianists expelled from Teranchir’s ruins.
* July 28, 2045 – With the year's Ghost Month expired, Ardesch is reconsecrated to its old gods.
* Under a coalition government formed by the Green Ardeschens and pirates, most of the remaining Ardeschis were rehabilitated. The remaining eastern raiders, Lotharesch, and Utopianists were gradually defeated and subjugated into the new Ardeschen state. The tombs and homes of the Anti-theists were demolished and used as graveyards and landfills.
* 2045 – Many of the foreign Ardeschi return to their ancestral homelands due to nostalgia, more likely due to the Gauvajuts' support. Some return to Ardesch to help parts of it rebuild during its third civil war.
* 2050's - Pure Lotharesch wages war against Green Ardesch, as its leader sought to kill the latter's people for "racial treason" (for not following its ideology).
* October 3, 2061 – Second Republic of Ardesch declared, reuniting the exhausted remnants of Lotharesch with its mother country, while allowing Green and Black Ardesch to retain their independence. As its new government reversed many of the extreme policies of its predecessor, it has regained its former allies.
* 2072 16A – Utopianists finally defeated. Zarijana plunged into civil war.
* 2070-2075 16A - The Ardeschi ritual resulted in an excess amount of magic, leaving the eastern regions vulnerable to attack from other dimensions. It also roused hosts of nature spirits, who aided the beseiged Gauvajut, native, and Enclave armies to fend off the undead enemy. The earth spirits then set up a magical network to prevent incursions from other dimensions.

### Post-Ardesch events

* 2080-2400 16A - First Restoration - In many nations across Jerde, victims of human sacrifices were cloned back to life.
	+ There was a debate on whether cloning the dead to life was acceptable, but the destruction left behind by Red Ardesch was the main reason for the plan to be approved.
	+ This was done again three times: at the spread of the Denlotia, after the fall of Klesha, and after the end of the Reorganisation Wars and the banishment of the Terrans.
* 2160-2520 16A - Ice Age
	+ The Ice Age led to millions of people dying from frost waves and starvation.
	+ Many people fled to other planets, but due to their association with the warmongerers of their world and the Human Sanctification Project, many Jerdiskar were kept in prison colonies. To avoid this, they had to flee to the Jerdiskar colonies.
	+ One of the most notorious incidents was due to the Novantirnas and Norse folk forcibly relocating thousands of Jerdiskar refugees to set up colonies in barren, isolated planets. Many of them became mining and factory slums, while some prospered: all of them were unhappy that their new rulers often called them "prison colonies" because it led to harassment of colonials.
	+ On Jerde, the survivors built underground cities beneath the ice. They relied on corporations to protect and feed them.
* 2230-2290 16A - Age of the Four Strains. Four people created variants of the notorious Rho-Pill to mutate humanity into an "idealised" form. As their nations' authorities hunted them down, they mutated their followers and clones into creating their own armies to establish their own empires, competing for the remaining land that was not frozen over. One by one, each of the Four Strain-makers were defeated, and their mutagens banned and kept as artifacts alongside wrecks of superweapons.
	+ Blonde Pill/Ev-Pill - By Mr. Ervaachae Rysaalos of eastern Ardesch. It transforms the drinker into a blonde, blue-eyed person obsessed with beauty and "the beautiful race", to the point that they will dislike other people for not being as "superior" as them.
	+ Silver Pill/Nore-Pill - By Mrs. Adwanche Ragaeno of Tiluri. It makes the person more altruistic and less suspicious of strangers, but merciless against anyone suspected of "cruelty", "selfishness", or "discrimination".
	+ Steel Pill/Kiang-Pill - By Mr. Yifang Luo of Daizhou. It makes the person more obsessed with intelligence, skill, technology, and science.
	+ Scarlet Pill/Dnor-Pill - By Mrs. Rukita Engtadlo of Borunda. It makes the person more obsessed with war, fitness, athletics, masculinity (even if the drinker is female), and combat; and makes the person's body stronger and tougher at the cost of emotional stability. Some variants can turn the person's skin crimson or pink, and the eyes to turn green.

## Trivia

* Many countries throughout Jerde used two calendars: the Tuksharan calendar (add 567 years to the 16th Age date) and the Ardeschen calendar (subtract 345 years from the 16th Age date).
* Certain events in the Sixteenth Age timeline correspond to events in our world:
	+ Arnuwenz-Smenkhaten War (15A) - The Battle of Kadesh (1274 BC)
	+ Fall of Tuwilsas (15A) - Trojan War (1180 BC)
	+ Founding of Verucci (15A) - The Aeneid (1170s BC?)
	+ Alexandros III (early 16A) - Alexander the Great's conquests (336-323 BC)
	+ Sarnarid-Gosarid War (early 16A) - Diadochi (323-319 BC)
	+ Founding of Rompila (early 16A) - Founding of Rome (753 BC)
	+ Pompeioi, Remia (early 16A) - Caesar's Civil War, Pompey (49-45 BC)
	+ Unification of Ardesch (345 16A) - Battle of Teutoburg Forest, Hermann's defeat of Julius Caesar's armies (9 AD)
	+ Romulia unified into Naria (middle 16A) - Hapsburg control of Spain (1506)
	+ Orxan Pirates (1442 16A) - European pirates (1650-1680)
	+ Ardeschen wars against Palkyras and Rifandi (1700s 16A) - European imperialism (1760-1914)
	+ Tolsyn (1769 16A) - Karl Marx (1867)
	+ Elessia - ancient Sparta
	+ Kelchorin Revolution, Quack Revolution - ivermectin advocates on the Internet, American and European right-wing anti-vaxxers (2021)
	+ Trisen (1829 16A) - Paris Commune (1821)
	+ Nolaan - Fascism in Europe (20th century)
	+ Communist Darros (1904) - Russian Revolution
	+ Lostoi rules over Darros, purge against Rodnovery (1911-1916) - Lenin or Joseph Stalin, persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church
	+ Collapse of the Ardeschen Empire (1930) - Great Depression
	+ Pinogunian Ruin (1939-1944) - Japanese Empire, Showa Japan
	+ First Director (1939-1945) - Nazi Germany
	+ Defeat of Scenarium (1945) - Allied defeat of Fascist Italy
	+ Emperor's sons defeat junta, Pinogunian warlords fight each other (1944) - Matsue Incident
	+ Director's war against Zarijana (1945) - Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
	+ Second and Third Directors (1945, 1951) - Francoist Spain
	+ Red Darros-Red Tukshara Split, Red Schism - Sino-Soviet split, Yugoslavia
	+ Ardeschi world domination wars and crusades (1970s, 1990s-2030s) - The Cold War
	+ Green Ardesch (1981) - West Germany
	+ Ardeschi-Utopianist War (2001-2039) - War on Terror
* In earlier drafts, Thermir and Roxerai were members of the Entente (replaced with Rannar and Marnoxai), and Darros was a member of the Potente.

## See also

* Sixteen Dancers
* Post-Gauvajut timeline