Timeline

The unified history of PCM (so far)

## **Prehistory and Antiquity**

Circa 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 BC- First recorded evidence of Monkeborea's existence.

Circa 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 BC- First recorded evidence of Great R'lyeh's existence.

Circa 500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 BC- First humans were synthesized in Great R'lyeh, where they would be used as slaves and traded to the Monkeboreans for vibranium.

Circa 523 BC- Fall of Great R'lyeh

Circa 500 BC- Fall of Monkeborea

Circa 400 BC- Nomadic peoples known as the Yalsahaf first enter the region of modern Gothia. They become fierce raiders, raiding and pillaging small monke villages and monasteries.

Circa 300 BC- First recorded evidence of Proto-Bethesdalian civilization's existence.

## **Medieval Era**

967- The Yalashaf stop raiding and settle down in the southern mountains of modern Gothia, forming the first Helvetic Kingdom.

1042- Kievan Rus Vikings led by Viktor Orzhov arrive in Northern PCM, colonizing the frozen region that would later become the Kingdom of Orzhovia.

Circa 1300s- Start of the Monketec Empire, controlling the region that would later become Monkeburg as well as part of modern Colto Maltese.

1382- the Orzhov dynasty expands towards the South, forming the relatively small Empire of Greater Orzhovia.

1425- The colony of Aldalon was colonized by the British Empire in Southern PCM.

1498- The War of the Usurper happens in Greater Orzhovia, a civil conflict that ended with the overthrow of the throne by the Arganov dynasty.

1501- The city of St. Arganovisburg becomes the new seat of power in Greater Orzhovia.

1510- A treaty between Great Britain and Portugal leads to the Southern half of Aldalon being ruled by the Portuguese crown, under the name of Colônia Real Lusitana de Ektória.

## **Renaissance and the Age of Discovery**

1521- Spanish navigator Francisco Maltéz arrives at the Colto Maltesian coast, at the point where the city of Valle del Mar would later be built.

Circa 1530- The Monketec civilization disappears. Some believe it was a deliberate genocide by the Spaniards in Colto Maltese, some that it was a disease brought by the colonizers. Some even believe it was caused by a Great Old One.

1683- A group of Chinese immigrants attempt to sail to Colto Maltese, only to land in the Yellow Coast of modern New South China.

1686- After 3 years, another expedition is launched by Chinese settlers independent of the Qing Dynasty, who would establish the first colony of New Taiping on the Yellow Coast.

1699 - A Selachite warlord named Alesia Junhai, leader of the Marzon tribe, conquers all the tribes on the southern coast of modern Marzoniche, proclaiming the Alesian Duchy of Marzoniche, with her village Junhai as its capital and herself as its Duchess.

## **Industrial Revolution**

1752- Emperor Qianlong attempts to nationalize the Yellow Coast Trade Company, but shareholders refused to sell any stock to him.

1796- The Yellow Coast Trade Company changes its name to the New Yellow River Trade Company after successfully colonizing the region’s fertile floodplain.

1822- The weakening of the Portuguese Empire, as well as the Independence of Brazil, awakens a desire for independence in the colony of Ektória.

1824- Ektória proclaims its independence from Portugal.

1849- Emperor Daoguang successfully manages to nationalize the Yellow Coast Trade Company, renaming it to New South China. This helps to restore some faith in the crumbling monarchy amongst the populace.

## **Modern Era**

1912- Following the usurpation of the Qing Dynasty by Kuomintang rebels, an extreme group of Left-KMT revolutionaries manages to coup the New South Chinese government, establishing the Worker’s State Of New South China, led by Mao Xihua.

1939- Nuclear physicist Dr. Irwin Wertham is among the team tasked with the Manhattan Project.

1945- The Allied forces win World War II. Some Nazi scientists escape to Colto Maltese, where they begin secret experiments.

1954- The Colto Maltesian Revolution, led by Augusto Juaréz, institutes Communism in the tropical nation.

1956- Dr. Irwin Wertham starts a small company named Megaton Industries, focusing on nuclear research.

1957- First Megaton Industries nuclear plant is built in Denver, Colorado.

1969- A group of American hippies on vacation in Colto Maltese wander into the Northern jungle and finds the ruins of the Monkeborian city of Aperuk. Nicknaming it Ape City, they decided to start a small anarcho-primitivist commune in the ruins.

1972- Now a nuclear powerhouse, Megaton Industries becomes the Megaton Corporation.

1973- The nation of Ektória becomes Communist, with the aid of the Soviet Union. Great Britain offers a deal with Aldalon, guaranteeing their independence in exchange for loyalty to the Capitalist bloc.

1977- The people of Monkeburg, then just a bunch of anprim communes, declares itself a sovereign nation. The south of Monkeburg dislikes this, so they decide to declare the Socialist Republic of Naramao, which is culturally mixed Spanish/Chinese.

1978- The Worker’s State Of New South China uses the shared ideology and partially common culture as a justification to annex Naramao, ending the country’s 10 month existence.

1979- Princess Kira Arganov of Orzhovia, aged 18 and obsessed with Marxism, overthrows the throne, executing her entire family and proclaiming herself Chairwoman Kira Arganov of the People's Republic of Greater Orzhovia. She changes the capital's name to Arganovingrad.

1981- Disaster strikes in Ektória and Aldalon, as their conflict ends in nuclear annihilation of both nations.

1982- Widespread revolts and protests against the Workers Party across New South China leads to a bloody civil war.

1985- Fredwin Wertham Jr., CEO of Megaton Corporation, purchases the remains of the extinct nations of Aldalon and Ektória, funding the private nation of New Megaton.

## **Recent History**

2000- The First New South Chinese Civil War ends after 18 bloody years, culminating in the victory of the Democratic Liberation Front. It is led by 26 year old politician and field marshal Chen Min, son of rebel leader Chen Chi, who died in the war effort. He establishes the Republic Of New South China.

2020- Having left no heirs, Fredwin Wertham passes away. His vice-president Aiden Rand takes over the company and consequently the government of New Megaton.

## 2021

**August:** A coup backed by New Megaton leads to Generalíssimo Fido Herrera ruling Colto Maltese. The nation becomes a right-wing military dictatorship.

**September:** Prime Minister Chen Min is car-bombed by mafia boss Jiang Li, leading to the Second New South Chinese Civil War.