Timeline

This is the timeline of The Bronze Horus universe. Events are only listed from the divergence point, everything before that remains the same as in our timeline. All dates are in AEE (After Egyptian expedition - the divergence point), however, in universe every civilization has its own dating systems, usually relating to the regnal years of their kings, with ATF (After the Flood) being the official global dating system. Divergence point date is provided in ATF and BCE as well for reference. Events of the most significance are written in **bold**.

## Pre-novel era

**0 - The Kingdom of Egypt sends an expeditionary relief force to the Mycenaean Confederation, helping it survive the barbarian onslaught and stabilizing the country. Egypt pledges further military, financial, and agricultural support to Mycenae (3565 ATF/1185 BCE).**

1 - The Elamite king Hallutush-Inshushinak dies and is succeeded by his son Shutruk-Nahhunte.

2 - The Assyrian king Enlil-kudurri-usur is deposed and killed by Ninurta-epal-Ekur, who takes the throne for himself. The Enskerka Papyrus is published, which proposes the theory that diseases are spread through contact between humans or animals.

4 - The three-field agricultural system begins replacing the two-field system in Egypt. The new method quickly spread to other kingdoms.

5 - Ninurta-epal-Ekur dies and his son Ashur-Dan becomes the new king of Assyria. He immediately prepares for an invasion of Hatti.

6 - The kingdom of Hatti requests supplies from Egypt due to bad harvests in the region and barbarian attacks. The pharaoh Ramesses III agrees to this, hoping that stabilizing the Hittite state will prevent the disasters from spilling over into Egyptian Levant.

7 - Ashur-Dan condemns Egypt for its support to Hatti and threatens to leave the alliance with the pharaoh.

9 - The Hittite king Suppiluliuma II begins a new phase of Hatti's expansion, first targeting the Kaskians in the north.

10 - The magnetic compass is invented by the Phoenicians.

11 - The situation in Mycenae stabilizes and Egyptian troops return home. The Keftiu Accords are signed, linking Mycenae and Egypt even closer and making them into official allies.

12 - Territories taken by the Mycenaeans in the Wilusan War are reorganized into a puppet Kingdom of Wilusa. Hittites begin their subjugation of the Luwians.

13 - The Kassite king Meli-Shippak II dies and is succeeded by his son Marduk-apla-iddina I.

14 - The Hittite campaign against the Luwians comes to an end, with the conquests being reorganized into the puppet Chiefdom of Lukka.

15 - The Hittites invade the neutral Kingdom of Alashiya, seizing its copper mines and making the island into a puppet state. Ramesses demands immediate Hittite withdrawal. Suppiluliuma rejects the demand, sparking tensions between the two kingdoms.

**17 - The Second Hittite-Egyptian War begins due to the issue of Alashiya and border disputes in the Levant. The Mycenaean Confederation joins the Egyptian side. The first battles take place.**

20 - Four-banked ships are first used by the Egyptians in a naval battle.

21 - Suppiluliuma II gets killed during the Battle of Ugarit. Tudhaliya V becomes the new king of Hatti. The Kingdom of Ahhiyawa is established as a puppet of the Mycenaean Confederation.

22 - The astrolabe is invented by the Phoenicians.

23 - Advanced aqueducts are first built in Karduniash.

24 - Ramesses III gets killed during the Battle of Byblos. His son, the 15 year old Ramesses IV becomes the new pharaoh.

27 - New and improved iron ploughs are created in Hatti.

28 - Ramesses IV gets captured by the Hittites and held as a hostage. The Hittites threaten to kill the pharaoh if the Egyptian armies don't stand down. The Egyptian vizier Neferkasoker and the generals refuse, leading to Ramesses IV's death. His son, the 5 year old Ramesses V becomes the new pharaoh officially, though Neferkasoker remains in charge as the regent.

29 - Neferkasoker orders an assassination of Ramesses V and proclaims himself to be the new official pharaoh.

30 - Ramesses VI, brother of Ramesses III, deposes Neferkasoker after a succession crisis and becomes the new pharaoh of Egypt.

32 - The Hittites reach Per-Amun in the eastern Nile delta, the furthest their army had ever gone. Horse-drawn carriages begin to be used on a mass scale by the Hittites.

33 - Ramesses VI sacrifices himself and his small elite guard to save the remainder of the Egyptian army. Ramesses VII becomes the new pharaoh and immediately launches a counterattack on the overstretched Hittite forces.

35 - Tudhaliya V is killed in the Battle of Baalbek. He is succeeded by Suppiluliuma III, who orders a retreat north.

36 - Iornuf is born.

**38 - The Second Hittite-Egyptian War end with a minor Egyptian victory and the Treaty of Damascus is signed. New borders are delineated between the Mycenaean puppet states and the Hittite realm, as well as between the Egyptians and the Hittites, with Egypt receiving some small territorial gains, but ultimately failing to achieve its primary goals. The puppet states of Kingdom of Amurru and Kingdom of Ugarit are established for Egypt and Hatti respectively, and are mostly demilitarized, in order to reduce tensions along the Levantine border.** Kefennu is born.

39 - Massive protests against the treaty begin in Egypt, as the population is angry over 20 years of waging a war that lead nowhere.

41 - Hittites resume their colonization efforts of western Anatolia. The Mycenaeans respond by starting to more aggressively settle Wilusa and Ahhiyawa. Amenemheb is born.

**42 - After long preparations, Ashur-Dan launches his conquest of Karduniash, hoping to conquer the entire kingdom and greatly expand his empire, beginning the Assyrian-Kassite War.** Marduk-apla-iddina I is killed in the Battle of Dur-Kurigalzu. Zubaba-shuma-iddina usurps the throne. Ramesses VII is assassinated by the pro-war terrorist organization the Sons of Montu. Ramesses VIII, one of the son's of Ramesses III, succeeds him and endorses idea of returning to war with Hatti.

43 - Suppiluliuma III begins a new campaign against the chiefdoms of Hayasa and Azzi, who had broken away from Hatti during the war. Ramesses VIII almost begins a new war with Hatti, but is stopped by Ramesses IX, a grandson of Ramesses III. Ramesses VIII is deposed and killed, and the successor Ramesses IX immediately cancels all plans for a new war and begins cracking down on the Sons of Montu. The capital of Karduniash Dur-Kurigalzu falls to the Assyrians. Gypsum is first used as a fertilizer in Karduniash to improve agricultural yields. Siege towers are invented and first used by the Assyrians in their sieges of Kassite cities.

45 - The last pieces of unclaimed land in western Anatolia are divided between the Mycenaeans and the Hittites. The March of Masa is established as a puppet of Hatti. Catapults are invented and first used by the Assyrians against the Kassites.

**46 -** **Ashur-Dan and his armies reach Babylon after many victories against the Kassites. An international intervention, headed by Egypt and Hatti, and supported by Mycenae and Elam, takes place in an attempt to stop the Assyrians from conquering Karduniash and becoming too powerful. An ultimatum is sent to Ashur so that the armies would stand down, yet it is rejected by Ashur-Dan. He is briefly at war with the rest of the known world, but is very quickly deposed by his generals, and his son Mutakkil-Nusku becomes the new king of Assyria, immediately accepting the demands of the coalition and withdrawing from Karduniash with minimal gains.** Zubaba-shuma-iddina is arrested by Burnaburiash III's forces and exiled. Burnaburiash III, son of Marduk-apla-iddina I, becomes the new king of Karduniash and begins a wave of reforms to strengthen the country. Hayasans and Azzians are subjugated and their lands reorganized into the puppet state of Hayasa-Azzi, with limited autonomy. The theory proposed in the Enskerka Papyrus is tested in Assyria, where soldiers return carrying a disease from Karduniash, and becomes much more widely accepted.

47 - Shutruk-Nahhunte dies and is officially succeeded by his oldest son Kutir-Nahhunte II. The Elamite succession crisis begins. Misaphris is born.

48 - Hatti finalizes its expansion.

49 - The Sons of Montu launch a last desperate attack to retake control of Egypt, but fail in their attempt. Soon after, Ramesses IX dies from his wounds and transfers power to his son Ramesses X, who pledges to finish his father's work.

50 - The last cell of the Sons of Montu, situated in Zau, is destroyed. The organization is officially called to be defunct.

**51 - The first conference of the Great Powers' Club takes place in Knossos. It is attended by Ramesses X, Suppiluliuma III, Mutakkil-Nusku, and Burnaburiash III. Among other treaties, the Knossos Conventions were signed, establishing international legal standards for warfare.** Ramesses XI, son of Ramesses X, is born.

53 - Suppiluliuma III dies and is succeeded by his son Tudhaliya VI. Mycenaean Confederation starts building windmills.

54 - The first public theaters are opened in Egypt.

55 - Burnaburiash III dies and is succeeded by his son Marduk-apla-iddina II.

56 - The second conference The Great Powers' Club takes place in Nippur. It is attended by Ramesses X, Tudhaliya VI, Mutakkil-Nusku, and Marduk-apla-iddina II. During it, the alliance between Hatti and Karduniash is furthered and formalized, known as the Hattusa-Babylon Axis. In response, Assyria officially rejoins the alliance with Egypt and the Mycenaean Confederation, forming the Triple Alliance.

57 - Tudhaliya VI dies under mysterious circumstances and is succeeded by his brother Suppiluliuma IV. It is suspected that the new king or his chief advisor Hakkarpili were involved in the murder.

58 - Kutir-Nahhunte II is killed and his brother Shilhak-Inshushinak becomes the new Elamite king. The Elamite succession crisis ends. Use of fire becomes adopted for naval warfare.

59 - Assyria enters into an unofficial alliance with Elam and start drafting plans on the partition of Karduniash. Private clinics begin opening on a large scale in Egypt, followed by other countries.

61 - The third conference of the Great Powers' Club takes place in Byblos. It is attended by Ramesses X, Suppiluliuma IV, Mutakkil-Nursu, and Marduk-apla-iddina II.

62 - First wagonways are built in Elam for transportation of resources from the Zagros Mountains.

63 - Mutakkil-Nursu dies and is succeeded by his son Ashur-resh-ishi. Kefennu becomes the chief of the royal Egyptian guard.

65 - Amenemheb becomes the Egyptian royal envoy to every foreign land. Pratipa becomes the ruler of the Kingdom of Kuru in India.

66 - The fourth conference of the Great Powers' Club takes place in Nineveh. It is attended by Ramesses X, Suppiluliuma IV, Ashur-resh-ishi, and Marduk-apla-iddina.

67 - The Kingdom of Kush is founded by the qore Taharqa, who immediately begins skirmishes with Egyptian forces to the north. The sextant is invented by the Phoenicians.

69 - The first stock exchange is founded in Tyre.

70 - A new rebellion begins in Egyptian Kush, suspected to be funded by Taharqa.

71 - Amenemheb is sent to broker a peace treaty between Egypt and the Kushite rebel cell in Paaleq.

## The Rise of Kemet

**Spoiler warning: this section contains heavy spoilers for the novel The Rise of Kemet.**

### 71

* The Egyptian peacemaking attempts to put an end to the Kushite Rebellions fails, as an Egyptian army unit from the Army of Amun executes Kushite rebels and civilians in Paaleq before Amenemheb arrives.
* The Fifth Great Powers' Club Conference begins in Ugarit. It is attended by Ramesses X, Suppiluliuma IV, Ashur-resh-ishi, and Marduk-apla-iddina.
* **The four kings of the great powers are assassinated during a dinner in the mayor's palace, as part of the conspiracy organized by the Elamite king Shilhak-Inshushinak and executed by agents of the king of Ugarit Harharran.**
* Riots erupt in Ugarit, with the entourages of the deceased monarchs clashing among themselves and the locals. Much of the city is engulfed in chaos and destroyed. Harharran flees the kingdom.
* **The Great Powers' War begins, as the new Hittite king Muwatalli III, urged by his advisor Hakkarpili, declares war on Egypt. Egypt calls on its allies - the Mycenaean Confederation and the Kingdom of Assyria - to join the war, while Hatti calls Karduniash to its side.**
* Muwatalli marches out to the Levant, leaving Hakkarpili in charge of Hatti. Hakkarpili begins accruing more influence in the capital.
* Elam joins the war on the side of the Pact of Civilizations - the new alliance formed from the Triple Alliance.
* **Assyrian invasion of Karduniash begins. The Kassite city of Dur-Kurigalzu is taken and razed by the Assyrian army.**
* Explosives are first used in battle, with Egyptians using them to attack Hittite positions.
* Taharqa invades Egypt and begins a rapid advance north, linking up with various cells of the Kushite rebels. General Ranubkheper of the Army of Amun is unable to stop it and continuously retreats north.
* Ramesses XI is officially crowned as the new pharaoh of Egypt.
* Elam invades Karduniash from the south. Shilhak-Inshushinak's wife Lim-Kiririsha is left in charge of Elam while Shilhak campaigns.
* Hittite forces begin fighting Egyptians in the Levant and Mycenaeans in western Anatolia.
* The Egyptian puppet kingdom of Amurru is overrun by Hittite forces.
* Ramesses XI marries Nebtu.
* Karduniash suffers many defeats and quickly loses much of its territory. The Siege of Babylon begins.

### 72

* Various insurrections, sponsored by Elam through Kush, spring up in Egypt. They are mostly successfully dealt with by Amenemheb and his entourage.
* The Siege of Byblos begins. The Hittite advance stalls as they cannot take the city.
* Muwatalli issues a manhunt for Harharran for his presumed part in the assassination of the kings.
* Hittites begin funding rebels in Egyptian Canaan so they would help break through Egyptian lines.
* Nebtu gives birth to Ramesses XII, the successor to the Egyptian throne.
* **Babylon is taken by Assyrian and Elamite forces. The entire court is executed by Shilhak-Inshushinak and his soldiers. The Kingdom of Karduniash is fully divided between the Kingdoms of Assyria and Elam, with most of the territory going to the Elamites.**
* Hittite forces overrun the Mycenaean puppet Kingdom of Wilusa, take significant portions of the Kingdom of Ahhiyawa.
* The puppet Kingdom of Babylonia, ruled by Nebuchadnezzar from Isin, is established by Shilhak.
* Amenemheb receives a letter from the Alashiyan king Huzaru, who decides to defect to the Pact of Civilizations.
* **The Egyptian liberation of Alashiya begins. Egyptian units disembark and, together with forces loyal to Huzaru, eliminate everyone loyal to the Hittites in the island. The independent Kingdom of Alashiya is established.**
* The Mycenaeans defeat Hittite and Luwian forces near Milawanda, begin their advance in the Hittite puppet Chiefdom of Lukka.
* **Tiglath-Pileser marches north to fight the Hittite puppet Chiefdom of Hayasa-Azzi.**
* The Kingdom of Yahweh is proclaimed to be established by Zeror and his monotheist rebels in Canaan, after receiving significant funding from the HIttites, by way of the Arameans.
* Amenemheb travels to the Canaan, hires the Moabites to disrupt the Aramean supply routes and the Edomites to defeat the Canaanite rebels.
* **The Edomites sack Jerusalem, the main stronghold of the rebels, and kill most of them including the leader Zeror.**
* Egyptian forces reestablish control over Canaan, defeat the remaining rebel holdouts. Zeror's son Abiel manages to escape with a few followers.
* Hakkarpili begins raising new personal armies and executing political opponents, further entrenching himself in the kingdom.
* The Kingdom of Pancala is founded in India.

### 73

* The Assyrian campaign is successful, with the chiefdom being destroyed, most fighters killed, and the both capitals razed, but the Assyrian army suffers serious casualties as well.
* **The Elamite king Shilhak-Inshushinak betrays his coalition partners and, together with Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia, invades Assyria.**
* The Siege of Ashur begins. A pro-Elamite rebellion within the city is organized by the Disciples of Ishtar, led by Ninsina, and the Assyrian Merchants' Consortium, led by Hanodeen.
* Tiglath returns to Assyria, but is defeated near Ashur. The remaining part of the Assyrian army retreats east, heading towards Egyptian Levant.
* **The rebels in Ashur take control and let the Elamites into the city. The Elamite puppet Kingdom of Assyria is established by Shilhak, with Ninsina being declared its ruler.**
* The remaining part of Tiglath's Assyria is overrun by Elamite forces and transferred to Ninsina.
* Amenemheb learns of Shilhak's betrayal and his previous involvement in funding Egyptian rebels, and tries to warn the pharaoh.
* The Assyrian exiles reach the Egyptians during their battle with the Hittites.
* **Shilhak's army ambushes the unexpecting Egyptian and Hittites forces midway during a battle. Egyptians and Assyrians retreat south, while the Hittites head north to Kizzuwatna.**
* Pro-Hakkarpili forces assume control of the gates of Kizzuwatna and deny entry to Muwatalli and his army.
* The Pankus assemblymen send a unit to arrest Hakkarpili and remove him from power, but their attempt fails. Hakkarpili learns of their involvement and executes the assemblymen after ambushing them with his loyalist soldiers. Only the Pankus designated survivor remains alive, hidden in the Pallanna valley in the west.
* **Hakkarpili proclaims the death of Muwatalli and the start of his official rule as the king of Hatti. He signs a peace treaty with Elam and joins Shilhak's faction.**
* Muwatalli and his soldiers are surrounded in Ugarit and sail out once the Elamites approach.
* **Harharran returns to the region and is made to be the King of the Levant, under Shilhak-Inshushinak.**
* Shilhak's army begin advancing south, in hopes of taking the entire Egyptian Levant.
* Muwatalli's Hittite exiles land in Egypt and begin besieging Per-Amun. They are soon talked into standing down and joining forces with the Egyptians.
* In Men-nefer, the leaders of Egypt, Alashiya, the Mycenaean Confederation, and the Assyrian and Hittite exiles - Ramesses XI, Huzaru, Eteweokles, Tiglath-Pileser, and Muwatalli III respectively - meet to address Shilhak's invasion and his involvement in the assassination of the previous kings.
* **The rulers form the Organization of Free Kingdoms, a military alliance replacing and combining all their previous alliances and pacts, created in order to combat Shilhak's coalition.**
* Shilhak officially establishes the Eastern Coalition, led by Elam and containing all its allies and puppet states.
* The Great Powers' War officially ends and the OFK-EC War begins.
* Taharqa begins funding the resurgent Sons of Montu, reestablished by Montuherkhepeshef, the uncle of Ramesses XI, at the request of Shilhak.

## The March of Deshret

**Spoiler warning: this section contains heavy spoilers for the novel The March of Deshret.**

### 73

* The Hittite and Assyrian exiles are assigned nomes in the Nile Delta for temporary living.
* Anti-Hittite protests, fueled by the rise of the Sons of Montu, intensify.
* Taharqa's brother Harsiotef begins building a coalition to dethrone him.
* Hakkarpili has Muwatalli's mother Kapurti assassinated.
* Minimu, the designated Pankus survivor, creates the Alliance to Restore the True King in the Pallanna Valley and organizes rebel forces to defeat Hakkarpili, believing that Muwatalli is still alive.
* Washuba is made the chief advisor to Hakkarpili.
* Hakkarpili forcibly marries Muwatalli's sister Niwalka.

### 74

* Men-nefer starts enforcing movement restrictions as a result of protestor activities.
* Amenemheb gets a letter from Harsiotef offering an alliance.
* The Egyptian court officials meet to discuss the possibility of allowing women into the military, as the EC has already adopted such a policy.
* **Horminuter's Army of Montu is defeated by the EC near Kadesh. This battle marks the first use of elephants by the EC in the war. Horminuter and his remaining soldiers are captured and taken to Ugarit.**
* Ramesses sends out an exploratory force of five Egyptian-Phoenician ships west, with the intent of discovering new lands and new kingdoms which could help the OFK in the war effort in some way.
* Amenemheb meets with Hathorhotep, the mayor of Iunet, who sends her commander Nedjmed to Men-nefer to talk with the pharaoh about the inclusion of women in the military.
* Amenemheb proceeds to Buhen, near where he meets with Harsiotef. They agree on assassinating Taharqa, so that Harsiotef would become the new qore of Kush and would rejoin Egypt, with Kush as an autonomous region.
* Lim-Kiririsha meets with representatives from Dilmun and Magan in Susa and begins supporting the corporatist factions of these kingdoms, with the promises that they would join the EC after their victory.
* **Civil wars begin in Dilmun and Magan between the pro-EC corporatist factions and the now pro-OFK monarchist factions.**
* The EC continues to advance in the Levant. Shilhak meets with Phoenician representatives and pushes them to leave Egypt.
* Ramesses signs a decree allowing women to join the military of Egypt, which causes some unrest in the kingdom.
* **Amenemheb manages to prevent Phoenician cities from joining the Kingdom of the Levant. The Phoenician cities declare neutrality and establish a factually independent state.**
* The Egyptian court learns that the Sons of Montu are behind the protests in the capital.
* Muwatalli's brother Arnuwanda is assassinated by Washuba. The public is told that the cause of death was a hunting accident.
* Egyptian captains Rashaken and Sutenhi travel to the independent Red Sea port of Imn-Niwt to recruit the infamous assassin known as the Silver Serpent for their mission to assassinate Taharqa. The assassin agrees and travels back with them to Kush.
* The Mycenaeans advance further and completely overrun the Chiefdom of Lukka, also occupying some parts of western Hatti.
* The Hittite resistance spreads and more rebel cells are established in various cities around the kingdom.
* Niwalka gives birth to the son of Hakkarpili, who is made to be the successor to the throne.
* **The Sons of Montu, along with civilian protestors, attack the palace quarter in Men-nefer. They manage to break in and enter the inner courtyard. They are defeated and most of them arrested or killed, due to the combined efforts of Ramesses and his royal guards, the capital's Medjay force led by Uaprahet, and a division of female soldiers led by Nedjmed from the Army of Horus.**
* The Egyptian army begins rounding up and arresting the escaped participants of the riot. After torturing some of them, they learn the location of the organization's underground headquarters, located in Men-nefer.
* **Egyptian soldiers infiltrate the headquarters and kill or arrest all the members there, foiling their plans and putting an end to the organization. The Sons' leader Montuherkhepeshef attempts to escape, but is captured and executed by Ramesses publicly.**
* Shilhak departs east, leaving his generals Eparti and Kindattu in charge of the Levantine front, in order to deepen the ties between him and his eastern allies and get more support from them.
* Shilhak meets with Zubani, the leader of the Lullubi who have been fighting as mercenaries along with the EC. Zubani gets permission to pull his troops from the Levant to take over the now mostly empty territories of the former Hayasa-Azzi.

### 75

* **The Hittite exiles depart from Egypt, using Egyptian and Alashiyan ships. They are ambushed at sea by Hakkarpili's fleet, secretly built during Muwatalli's rule, but saved by the Mycenaean fleet under king Anaxandrides. The Hittites successfully land in Hatti and join the wanax Eteweokles and his Mycenaean forces.**
* The monarchist factions ask for more support from the OFK but fail to receive it due to strained resources. The factions soon lose the civil wars and the monarchs flee to Egypt.
* Dilmun and Magan are taken over by the corporatist factions. The two countries officially join the EC.
* Muwatalli's and Eteweokles' forces reach and quickly take over Tarhuntassa, establishing the city as their base of operations. Muwatalli establishes contact with the Hittite resistance.
* Muwatalli's brother Nerikkalli escapes Hattusa with his allies and begins hiding from Hittite authorities.
* **Taharqa is assassinated by the Silver Serpent, Rashaken, Sutenhi, and a soldier impersonating a captured general Ranubkheper. Kush quickly falls into chaos.**
* The Kushite civil War begins, with Harsiotef fighting Taharqa's wife Benemba and her son Nassor. Harsiotef is covertly supported by Egypt.
* **The Kemet Intelligence Agency is founded in Khemenu, with Rashaken and Sutenhi becoming some of its first commanders.**
* Shilhak returns west with new forces and the Babylonian general Zikarsin, and stops in Ugarit on the way. Horminuter pretends to defect to the EC and joins Shilhak's entourage, though he is almost constantly watched by Shilhak's agents. Horminuter secretly conspires to assassinate Shilhak.
* Serketine, an opium based painkiller, is invented on the battlefield by Egyptian medics. The substance quickly spreads through most OFK field camps.
* The OFK forces advance north in Hatti, inflicted more defeats on Hakkarpili's army. After taking Tuwanuwa, they join forces with Minimu's main resistance army.
* The OFK splits its army in Hatti, with one advancing in the direction of Kanesh, while the other attacks Purushanda. Both cities are soon taken.
* Hakkarpili hires more mercenaries, including a Cimmerian company led by the warlord Tugdam.
* Some Lullubi are sent by Zubani and Shilhak to help Hakkarpili.
* Harsiotef wins the Kushite Civil War and establishes his control over the region. Talks between the Egyptian and the Kushite courts begin in regards to the matter of the reunification.
* **Representatives of Egypt, Kush, Phoenicia, and Canaan meet in Men-nefer to discuss the possibility of joining together in a federal kingdom.**
* The preliminary treaty is signed, which would come into effect once the war ended.
* Tiglath-Pileser becomes disillusioned with the OFK and its lack of resolve to retake Assyria and leaves the capital.
* The Egyptian-Phoenician ships sent out by Ramesses discover Khonsmia and come into contact with the Olmec civilization.
* Shilhak travels to the frontline in Canaan and introduces Horminuter as one of his new advisors.
* General Eparti starts conspiring against Shilhak, feeling that the Elamite king is not fit to lead the army and the kingdom in this war.
* The OFK forces close in on Hattusa. Nerikkalli meets with Muwatalli and becomes one of his generals.
* **Tugdam rallies all the barbarian mercenaries and together they take over the surrounding areas of Hattusa, as well as most of the city itself, wanting to ransack it before Muwatalli can reach it.**
* The Siege of Hattusa begins.
* EC forces in the Levant encircle several Egyptian units and defeat them, advancing even further into Canaan.
* The Hittite general Lihsuman and Mycenaean kings Tharybis and Trechus are killed in the fighting in and around Hattusa. Trechus' sacrifice creates an opening in the wall and allows the OFK to enter the city.
* **Eteweokles and his Mycenaean contingent depart east to prevent more barbarians from arriving to Hattusa. Eteweokles fights the Mushkian warlord Argishti - the former co-chief of Hayasa-Azzi - and kills him. Eteweokles suffers critical injuries during the fight and soon dies. The Mycenaeans still win the battle and return to Hattusa.**
* **Hattusa is retaken by Muwatalli. All the barbarians are killed or driven off the capital region, including their leader Tugdam, who is shot to death by archers. Muwatalli executes Hakkarpili and Washuba, while his soldiers kill Hakkarpili's son. Muwatalli proclaims the end of Hakkarpili's reign and the end of being part of the EC.**
* Muwatalli meets with Mycenaean kings and learns of Eteweokles' death. The king also makes Minimu his chief advisor and creates a new independent Pankus.
* Muwatalli signs an official peace treaty with the Mycenaeans and agrees on the border between the two states.
* The EC forces reach Ashkelon, preparing for a battle with the OFK forces near it.
* **Horminuter pretends to attempt to assassinate Shilhak. His attempt is foiled and he is killed by Eparti, who himself tries to kill Shilhak but is defeated and arrested by the guards. Shilhak takes a drink out of a cup, where poison was put in by Horminuter during his fake assassination attempt. Shilhak discovers this too late, but before death manages to give instructions to general Kindattu. Shilhak-Inshushinak dies.**
* General Kindattu becomes the official leader of EC forces in the west. Due to disagreements with Eparti and other commanders, the army is disorganized and easily defeated by the OFK the next day.

### 76

* The EC begins retreating north, with OFK in pursuit.
* Eparti manages to escape and takes a portion of the army north to Ugarit.
* A succession crisis begins in the Mycenaean Confederation, as the sons of Eteweokles Tirynthius and Hecataeus both fight for the throne, both having significant support behind them.
* The OFK win many more battles and retake most of their lost territories in the Levant. Kindattu and Zikarsin leave the Levant and cross the Euphrates to Assyria with their forces.
* Shilhak's body is delivered to Lim-Kiririsha, who learns of Horminuter's and Eparti's attempts to assassinate him. Eparti is denounced and cut off from EC support.
* Lim-Kiririsha becomes the official ruler of Elam and removes all disloyal nobles from power to stabilize the state.
* **Zubani meets with Lim-Kiririsha and asks for additional funds and forces and recognition as an official member of the EC in exchange to staying within the coalition and defending against the OFK. Lim agrees. Zubani establishes the Kingdom of Lullubum and starts removing opposing chiefs to consolidate his rule.**
* The Kingdom of the Levant is overrun from all sides by OFK forces. The Siege of Ugarit begins, with Harharran and Eparti defending the city as rogue commanders within the EC.
* Muwatalli continues consolidating his kingdom and manages to defeat most of the remaining insurrectionist pro-Hakkarpili cells, except the largest one in Kizzuwatna.
* Phoenicians officially agree to join Egypt in the new federation, seeing the OFK as clear winners in the Levant.
* The leaders of the OFK and various other nobles go to Eteweokles' funeral in Mycenae. Ramesses establishes ties with the pro-OFK Tirynthius and pledges his support. Tiglath-Pileser allies with Hecataeus and receives his support for the reconquest of Assyria in exchange for Tiglath recognizing Hecataeus as the new wanax of the Confederation.
* **The Second OFK Conference begins in Enkomi, attended by Ramesses XI, Muwatalli III, Tiglath-Pileser, Huzaru, and Iphiclus who temporarily represents Mycenae. The city is decided to be the new headquarters of the OFK. Tiglath leaves the faction during the conference due to the other rulers not supporting him retaking Assyria. The remaining OFK leaders decide on seeking peace with the EC.**
* Tiglath-Pileser splits from the OFK armies with a small band of loyalist Assyrians and begins his own campaign against Assyria around the Euphrates.
* Ugarit is taken by the EC. Eparti kills himself, while Harharran is captured and arrested. The OFK mandate of Amurru is established in the area of the former kingdom of Ugarit, to be ruled and maintained jointly by all the OFK countries.
* Amenemheb sends a proposal for a treaty conference to the leaders of the EC.
* Lim-Kiririsha discusses the prospect of peace with her allies, all of whom agree. She meets with Nebuchadnezzar and they discuss the potential further integration of the EC, including a common currency, a single military, and eventually a single empire.
* **The Damascus Peace Conference begins in the neutral Aramean city of Damascus and is led by the chief of the city Hadadezer. It is attended by Ramesses XI, Muwatalli III, Huzaru, and Tirynthius of the OFK, and Lim-Kiririsha, Nebuchadnezzar, Ninsina, Zubani, Simmasihu, and Rimsin of the EC. The OFK denounces Tiglath and his rogue warband, while the EC denounces pro-Hakkarpili rebels. The Treaty of Euphrates is signed and proclaimed to the city by Hadadezer. The OFK-EC War ends.**
* Soldiers return home to their respective kingdoms. A prisoner exchange takes place between the factions. Harharran is sent to Elam. While Tiglath is allowed to be taken by the OFK.
* Ramesses issues an official manhunt for Tiglath, however he is convinced by the generals to replace him with a more competent Assyrian leader and discreetly fund and arm this new rebel force in the Kingdom of Assyria to help overthrow it.
* **Ramesses officially proclaims the creation of the Commonwealth of Kemet, Kush, and Retjenu, where Kush and the Levant would have significant autonomy and local rule, while still being factually part of Egypt and following its foreign policy and most important domestic policy. Harsiotef becomes the leader of the state of Kush within the Commonwealth, while a council of Phoenician kings and Canaanite chiefs become the ruling body of the state of Retjenu. Ramesses also officially abolishes slavery within the entire Commonwealth.**
* Lim-Kiririsha meets with the most prominent nobles of Elam and proclaims a new age when Elam would become the world's most powerful kingdom and soon consolidate the entire EC.
* OFK forces under the Assyrian general Shu-Kutum find Tiglath and his warband in Hatti. Tiglath refuses to surrender, but his soldiers are convinced to turn him over in exchange for receiving continuous material support from the OFK for causing chaos in Assyria.
* **Tiglath is turned in and taken by the OFK soldiers. Shu-Kutum executes Tiglath. The OFK forces return south, while leaving wagons of weapons for the Assyrians now under Naram-Eil.**

## The Khonsu War

**Spoiler warning: this section contains spoilers for the short story collection The Khonsu War (Operation Kingmaker, Annunitum's Wrath, A Day in the Life of a Babylonian, Operation Ouroboros, and Indra's Curse).**

77 - Naram's Assyrian band crosses the Euphrates and begins rebel activity with the intent of destabilizing and overthrowing the EC Assyrian government. KIA agents infiltrate Assyria and maintain contact between the rebels and the OFK governments. KIA begins Operation Deluge, which continuously funds and supplies Naram-Eil with weapons. RKS Wadj-wer returns to the Commonwealth after its expedition to the far west, bringing back news of the Olmec civilization to the pharaoh. Further Commonwealth expeditions are sent out west to establish further contact with the Olmecs. The Eastern Coalition Secret Service is founded by Lim-Kiririsha's decree. Watermills are first built in Assyria. The Men-nefer Stock Exchange is merged with the Tyre Stock Exchange to create the Commonwealth Stock Exchange. Resheph's Blades, a mercenary company based in Retjenu, is founded by Barekbaal Adad.

**78 - Operation Kingmaker is begun by the KIA in order to make sure Tirynthius becomes the new wanax of the Mycenaean Confederation.** Tirynthius begins his campaign in Thracia to secure support from the remaining kings, Hecataeus begins his own campaign in Illyria. Egyptian made guns are sent to Tirynthius and are first used by him and his officers against a Thracian warband, resulting in a decisive victory for the Mycenaeans. **The Assyrian Liberation Army is founded by Naram-Eil and begins conducting attacks in Assyria, using weapons supplied by the KIA.** Operation Annunitum's Wrath begins, as the ECSS is tasked with finding the source of armaments used by the ALA. Zubani begins a series of campaigns against neighboring Iranian tribes, reaching the Caspian Sea and further expanding the Kingdom of Lullubum. Hatti begins building windmills on a large scale. First five story apartment complexes are built in Babylonia. An emergency bell system for calling doctors, firefighters, and policemen is first established in Babylonia.

**79 - Campaigns in Thracia and Illyria come to an end. Tirynthius is crowned as the new official wanax of the Mycenaean Confederation.** The first cotton mills' complex is opened in Ashur. The ALA commits a terrorist attack during the opening ceremony of the second complex in Mari, causing hundreds of deaths and the destruction of two mills. Eastern Coalition cracks down harder on the ALA, arresting thousands of suspected members. **ECSS manages to establish a clear connection between the OFK and the ALA, causing the Harran Crisis - a massive diplomatic crisis as the two factions prepare to go to war over this matter.** Tensions subside as the OFK secretly agrees to lure out and execute the remaining ALA members themselves in return for the EC not pursuing further action against the OFK. The remaining Assyrian renegades, including Naram-Eil, are lured into a mountain pass near the Hittite-Assyrian border and killed by KIA agents. The Assyrian Liberation Army ceases to exist. Ramesses leads a Commonwealth campaign against the Libyans, after their most recent incursions into Lower Egypt. All the Libyan lands up to the Gulf of Sirte are conquered and annexed into the Commonwealth, forming the semi-autonomous province of Tjehenu. First subscription services - monthly carriage passes for travel in Babylon - are introduced in Babylonia. Surnames begin to be used in an official capacity. The Kingdom of Pancala declares war on the Kingdom of Kuru.

80 - The final anti-Muwatalli holdout in Hatti surrenders, as Muwatalli completes the reclamation of his kingdom. The Mesopotamian Freedom Front is founded by escaped Babylonian slaves, who fight for the abolition of slavery in the entire EC. First Mycenaean colonies are founded in western Sicily. ECSS operation Anzu's Flight begins, with the objective of delivering secret Commonwealth documents, detailing a plan for a potential invasion of Hatti, to the Hittites. The Behdeti Papyrus is published, where the first successful attempts at using vaccines are recorded. The first concert with over 10 000 listeners is held in Men-nefer.

81 - The Kingdom of Punt joins the OFK, becoming the first sovereign country to join the faction after its founding. Muwatalli begins his campaign in Cimmeria. Operation Ouroboros is begun by the KIA, as its agents are sent to oversee Muwatalli's campaign and make sure the stolen fake Commonwealth documents are delivered to him by the ECSS, while also preventing the ECSS from harming the king in any other way. **Operation Ouroboros and Anzu's Flight come to an end, as the fake invasion plans are delivered to the Hittite king and the KIA thwarts the assassination attempt on him by the ECSS.** The Cimmerian campaign ends, with the Hittites conquering the Cimmerian peninsula, lands south of the Dnieper, the Donbas, and western Caucasus. The first Olympic Games are held in the Mycenaean Confederation. Resheph's Blades begin operating in India.

82 - A large Cimmerian revolt in the conquered territories is crushed by the Hittites. The Mycenaeans settle first colonies in southern Italy. The Mesopotamian Freedom Front expands as it is joined by dozens of thousands of free people all over Babylonia. The MFF also begins actions in Dilmun and Magan. **The ECSS begins the operation Indra's Curse, intending to help the Kingdom of Kuru defeat the Kingdom of Pancala in India and join the EC. The KIA likewise begins Operation Mist, kidnapping the pro-EC king of Kuru Pratipa from India and imprisoning him in Punt, making him believe that the EC did this and turning him against the faction.**

83 - The KIA stages a rescue attempt of Pratipa and delivers him back to India. The KIA is ambushed by the ECSS near the capital of Kuru, with all of their personnel and crew on the mission killed. **Pratipa is killed by the ECSS so that a pro-OFK figure would not assume the throne of Kuru. With the help of the ECSS and the mercenary company Resheph's Blades, Kuru conquers Pancala.** Shantanu, the youngest son of former king Pratipa, assumes the throne of Kuru, with his mother and the high priest of the country as regents. Kuru begins the negotiations for joining the EC.