Timeline

The Dennoverse works on an alternate history timeline with variably different events which affect the course of the world at large. Below are several key events which changed the course of history.

## First Millenium

### 1100: The Norman-Dunkeld Union

Malcom III of Scotland only bore a single daughter, Mary of Scotland, before he suffered an untimely death, of which was unclear if it was natural or of disease (Some historians point to seizure, others to a stroke). Under Mary’s regency, the house of Dunkeld was fearful that Henry I of England would use this as an advantage to break the Treaty of Abernethy. Instead, Henry saw it fit that the entire isle be united under one banner, whether it be Scottish or English. To the surprise of many, he accepted the conditions of a matrilineal marriage between the Normans and the Dunkelds.

Mary would only bear one son before dying in childbirth, who would be named Henry II Dunkeld of Brittania, which was united under the Kingdom of Scotland.

### 1159-1202: Re-Emergence of Galla Aquitania

*Main Article: Aquitaine*

The wedding between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II allowed England to inherit Aquitaine from France, creating the Angevin Empire. This started the Capetian-Plantagenet rivalry, which resulted in Angevin victory and allowed Aquitaine to annex the rest of France.

Ultimately, this event allowed Aquitaine to replace France on the world stage.

### 1261: The Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire

*Main Article: The Collapse of the Holy Roman Empire*

The Great Interregnum after Fredrick II cracked the foundations of the Holy Roman Empire, allowing Aquitaine to act upon its own interests and put King Ottokar II upon the throne, resulting in numerous wars, both internal and external, ultimately resulting in Bohemia becoming the last kingdom in the Empire, thus shattering it.

### 1526: The Ottomans invade Carpathia

Decades after their successful conquering of Byzantium, Suleiman I set his eyes north to the Carpathian empire. Carpathia, which stretched from Belgrade to Crimea, was ruled under Emperor Louis II of Hungary. After he married Mary of Habsburg in 1522, which sealed an alliance with the Illyrians and the Netherlands, the Ottomans feared this would disrupt their power over the Balkans and demanded that they break the alliance. After Louis II denied the request, this started the Battle of Mohács, where on the 29th of August the Carpathian and Ottoman forces clashed, leading to an overwhelming Ottoman victory which resulted in the death of Emperor Louis II. After Carpathia fell, this started the Ottoman-Habsburg Wars.

### 1564: The Shattering of The Baltic Empire

During the Protestant Reformation, the Baltic Empire’s counter-reformation efforts were largely in part to the seat of the Baltic Throne, Poland. However, the kingdom of Latvia and Estonia, both of whom were ruled under Protestant kings, formed the New Livonian Order in secret, to be free of their Catholic overlords. Between 1562 and 1564, the New Livonians fought against Sigismund II, where the Treaty of New Livonia was signed shortly after. This then resulted in the creation of Poland-Lithuania in 1569, where Sigismund vowed to reclaim the lands that were lost, but never saw it through.

### 1590: Patrilineal/Matrilineal Naming Scheme

Main Article: Patrilineal/Matrilineal Naming Scheme

Names would now append the junior partner's last name to the junior partner.

### 1914-1918: World War I

Allied Powers: Aquitania, Brittania, Canada, Australia, India, Ceylon, New Zealand, Newfoundland, South Africa, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, Japan, Montenegro, Italy, USA, Romania, Portugal, Hejaz, Greece, Siam, China

Central Powers: Germania, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Illyria, Bohemia

Result: Allied Victory, dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Austrian Empire, The Illyrian Troubles

### 1918-1930: The Illyrian Troubles

Main Article: Illyria

A supposed discrepancy of the draft caused the Illyrian Empire to nearly enter a civil war, until Alexander I Karađorđević signed a treatise that would remove Bosnia and Serbia from the Empire's drafts for 20 years. However, this would have the dire consequence of not having enough soldiers for the defence of Illyria from Axis powers.

### 1939-1945: World War II

Allied Powers: Aquitania, France, Britannia, Canada, USA, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia (unofficially)

Axis Powers: Germania, Italy, Japan, Vichy Aquitan, Yugoslavia (Formerly Illyria)

Result: Allied Victory, dissolution of the Aquitania Empire and emergence of the Aquitaine Republic, emergence of East and West Germany, Illyria proclaimed a republic

## Second Millenium

### 2026: The Great Rumble

Main Article: The Great Rumble

A 9.7 magnitude earthquake rocked the western seaboard, which destroyed Seattle, Los Angeles, and most of The Bay Area. A subsequent tsunami destroyed multiple townships across the Oregon and California coast.

### 2026-2030: The Second Korean War

Main Article: Second Korean War

The Second Korean War, or 2KW, was an opportunistic war instigated by North Korea after the crippling blow that The Great Rumble dealt to the United States. Even though they had support from Russia and China, North Korea launched an effective kill switch; a bioengineered virus would infect the waters of the Earth, plunging humanity into chaos. It did not stop their enemy as they had hoped, and the One Korean Republic would be established.

### 2028-2032: The Zalim Plague

Main Article: Zalim

The Zalim Plague was a virus released by a rapidly losing North Korea, which resulted in the deaths of 3 billion people globally.

### 2035: The Establishment of The Armed Forces of The United Nations (AFUN)

Main Article: Armed Forces of the United Nations (AFUN)

The United Nations signed into their charter that they can possess their own military body, with contributions from its member states.

### 2037: The Kazakh Revolution

The Kazakh Revolution began on October 2nd, 2036, as the result of two political parties dividing the country as a whole. One party desired to become a state of Russia, after suffering greatly from the effects of The Great Decline after The Second Korean War, while the other still desired independence. Kazakhstan recently became an important location for the Neodymium industry, as deep mining efforts have discovered large reserves of bastnasite and monazite. While Russia was interested in annexing, then president Dima Kazlovka was not interested in war, as the effects of the Zalim Plague made Russia's military power near futile. However, despite the potential gain that becoming annexed would bring, the Independent party became militant. This started a civil war between those divided, but would eventually end after then-president Rustam Nursultan agreed to allow Kazakhstan to become a state of Russia on February 11, 2035. The People's Liberation of Kazakhstan, abbreviated PLK, would rise six months later. Their goal was to disrupt Russian presence inside Kazakhstan's borders, and to eliminate Nursultan. After several high-profile attacks on Russian industry and commerce, both the Russian and Kazakh militaries would mobilize to wipe out the remaining threat. Russia, who recently became part of AFUN, called on Section 56 to assist in their suppression of The PLK, citing that the PLK was a terrorist organisation. What would follow was two years of brutal wins and losses on both sides of the conflict. Surprisingly, however, The PLK had managed to overcome all three of its enemies, and killed Nursultan in a motorcade. The last battle between Russia, Kazakhstan, and Section 56 was at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which would then result in a ceasefire between all four combatants once word of Nursultan's assassination was reached. AFUN would negotiate with Russia and the leader of PLK, Alikhan Makhmud, to divide the lands between them. PLK would secede the northern part of Kazakhstan to Russia, which would become known as Pyortizstan. Kazakhstan became independent under its new ruler Alikhan Makhmud. Today, Kazakhstan is mostly known for its high stake in the Neodymium trade, where it supplies the precious materials needed to manufacture the powerful magnets in vehicles, weapons, bionics, and more.

### 2040: Democracy Automata

The 47th president of the United States, Bridgette Langley, was sworn into office in 2032. Her campaign was reportedly 'dead center', appealing to all sides of the political spectrum by vowing to compromise on hot topics, such as the limiting of powerful prosthetics and the Gauss Weapons ban of 2034. Her first term was met with positive reaction, even more so when she ran for her second term.

In August of 2039, in the middle of her second term, members of the radical hacking group known as The Zenith Collective released a rather peculiar video to the whistle blowing site SneakyLeaks. In the video, President Langley has her leg replaced by a technician inside the Oval Office. At first, it appeared as though The Zenith Collective was attempting to mock her hypocrisy for using humanoid prosthetic limbs, like she had taxed the year prior. However, this would be the least of their problems as soon as The President's head revealed a micro-quantum computer, revealing that the President of The United State was, in fact, an android. This prompted investigation from The Senate, which revealed that both Langley and her running mate, Thomas Tennison, were both Androids manufactured by SYSNA, who used both androids to attempt to lower business taxes for the Android and Synaptic industry. During their term, about 17 laws pertaining to Androids were passed, including an internal weapons clause that passed with the Gauss Weapons ban of 2034, allowing androids to possess such weaponry. When Secret Service agents came to apprehend the Androids, Langley and Tennison opened fire on them, resulting in four deaths. This resulted in a standoff lasting two days, ending in the FBI raid of the SYSNA labs to manually shut off both androids.

The 2040 election ended in the victory of Michael Lowe, whose first action in office was the ban of 'Humanoid androids without external visible marking to differentiate between humans and androids'. SYSNA’s CEO, Wynnstan Gaspar, was promptly arrested and executed for high treason, the first time anyone has been executed for Treason in the U.S. since 1952.

### 2042: Venusian Expansion

The International Space Exploration Institute (ISEI) began its first building blocks on building a space station within both Martian and Venusian orbit. However, the Venusian station was more fruitful than the Martian station.

### 2080: End of The Russian Federation

The largest collapse of capitalist society yet seen has had the same effect on the largest communist country. The lack of imports and exports led to many of Russia’s cities undergoing famine, disease, and riots. Russia’s numerous oblasts and republics would start declaring themselves as autonomous, most notably the Sakha Republic, which would claim the entire Far Eastern Federal District. The only remnants of the Russian Federation would be the westernmost regions of Russia which remained loyal to Moscow (Save for Kaliningrad, which would proclaim its independence as a Free City). Despite numerous attempts and wars to reclaim these lost lands, the central body of the government collapsed, and a nationalist party took control of what remained of The Russian Federation, which would be recognized later as “The Russian State”.

### 2084: Venusian Expeditions

Working on the theory that the higher layers of Venus’ atmosphere would allow for Lighter Than Air vehicles to easily float, the Hawking program would commence between 2071 and 2084. Hawking-17 would lead to the successful deployment of a small ‘buoy’ in Venus’ atmosphere, which kept a constant altitude and sent vital data back to Earth.

### 2110-2120: Venus Expansion/Age of Venusian Piracy

Venus becomes inhabited by humans, who live on floating cities (Aerostats) and trade back to Earth primarily through cable mining the surface of Venus. Silicone is the main export on Venus, among other exotic materials both on the ground and in the atmosphere. However, numerous factions on Venus begin to wrest for control over the new planet, either for corporate, economic, or political gain. One of the main factions was none other than the fragments of The Russian Federation, who viewed Venus as a Russian state due to the Venera program in the 60’s and 70’s. Aphrodite, a megacorporation who oversaw the mining, export, and import of the majority of Venus’ capita, also sought to hold the entire planet under a monopoly.