Timeline

The following is a **timeline** of notable events in the world of *Carnival Row*. Dates are organized by the Burguish calendar, which is divided into the Old Era (OE) and the New Era (NE). Aside from the birth dates of characters, dates listed here are generally inexact due to the limited information provided about the *Carnival Row* setting.

## Timeline

### The Old Era

Circa 7500 OE
* The *Song of Tirnanoc*, an epic poem recounting a common faerish creation myth, is written in Tirnanoc around this time. The *Song of Tirnanoc* asserts that the universe was born from the goddess Danu after she encountered and mated with the god Dahír. This union also produced a litany of other gods, from whom royal faerish bloodlines often claimed direct descent.
* At this time, prehistoric humans with hunter-gatherer cultures inhabit the southern part of the continent of Mesogea. Centaurs inhabit the northern part of Mesogea, but migrate to the steppes of Outer Mesogea as humans steadily expand northward.

Circa 600 OE
* The city known as The Burgue is founded by a human tribe called the Beorn on the banks of what would later be named the Beorn River in northeastern Mesogea.

Circa 400 OE
* The mighty Florin Empire rules much of southern Mesogea and the coast of the Silk Sea. The cities of Quivira and Cibola are Florine outposts.
* In Bakarne, an outlying province of the Florin Empire, a slave named Hosea escapes into the desert. He later returns, claiming to have been given a mission from God to spread His word among the slave caste. Hosea develops a following as a holy man and allegedly demonstrates numerous miraculous feats. Eventually, Florine authorities charge Hosea with plotting a slave revolt and hang him. With his last words, Hosea prophesizes that the Florin Empire will fall in 100 years and he will return to lead God's chosen people to salvation. Hosea's life and teachings become the basis for the Cult of the Martyr religion.
* At this time, The Burgue is still only a small village of wattle-and-daub huts.

Circa 300 OE
* In Tirnanoc:
	+ The Queen of the matriarchal Dominion of Anoun in Tirnanoc dies without a female heir. Her son Hadeon is crowned regent.
	+ Hadeon leads Anoun in a successful war against Tirnambeo. The defeated Queen of Tirnambeo grants her sister's hand in marriage to Hadeon to seal the peace treaty between the two countries. After Hadeon's wife gives birth to a daughter, Nimia, Hadeon confines them both to the isle of Lorn, where they live in wretched conditions.
	+ Princess Nimia's mother dies from a blackblood infection. Nimia escapes Lorn, takes the name Titania, and begins a pilgrimage to the many holy sites of Tirnanoc, collectively known as the Sacred Road.
	+ Saint Titania composes The Garden Cantos, an account of her lifelong pilgrimage. The Garden Cantos brings together the scattered faerish belief systems known as the Old Ways into a single, cohesive body of thought, which spiritually unifies the peoples of Tirnanoc.
* In Mesogea:
	+ The Florin Empire collapses amid famine and political unrest, as the Martyr Hosea predicted. Its former provinces and outposts split into independent countries and city-states.
	+ A rivalry develops between the rising maritime city-states of Quivira and Cibola over which is the true seat of the Cult of the Martyr.
		- The King of Quivira converts to the Cult of the Martyr and declares himself Domnitor of the Faith. The Domnitor codifies the life and teachings of the Martyr Hosea, formalizing the Cult of the Martyr into the Church of the Martyr's Holy Passion, more commonly known as the Passionist Church. The Quivira Passionist Church becomes the first organized Martyrite faith, and soon spreads across Mesogea.
		- The royal family of Cibola, which traces its bloodline to the Martyr himself, takes insult at Quivira claiming authority over all Martyrite worship and establishes the Royal Cibolan Orthodox Church. The Cibolan denomination never matches the popularity of the Passionist Church.
	+ At some point after the fall of the Florin Empire, The Burgue develops into a formidable city-state ruled by a monarchy and begins expanding across northern Mesogea, enveloping a swathe of territory that thereafter becomes known as the Beornlands.

Circa 100 OE
* A shipwrecked Mesogean explorer named Isen washes ashore in Anoun, becoming the first known human to set foot in Tirnanoc. Isen is made a guest of the court of Queen Aradis for several years. Isen and Aradis fall in love and have a half-blood son before Isen builds a new ship and attempts to sail back to Mesogea.

### The New Era

Circa 1 NE
* The Burguish Martyrite Schism occurs. The Kingdom of The Burgue breaks with the Quivira Passionist Church and creates the Northern Martyrite Church as a bulwark against Quiviran political machinations. This spurs other Mesogean countries to take similar stands against the Passionist Church, weakening it substantially.

Circa 300 NE
* The humans of Mesogea discover the faerish continents of Tirnanoc and Ignota to the east of the Great Main. Mesogean countries rush to exploit and colonize the new lands.
* The Kingdom of The Burgue secures vast territories in Tirnanoc. The King of The Burgue declares himself Emperor and inaugurates the Burguish Empire.
* The First Tirnanese War occurs. The Burguish Empire, Quivira, and Cibola grapple over lands in Tirnanoc. The Burguish Empire emerges victorious, seizing massive amounts of Tirnanese territory from the other two Mesogean kingdoms.
* The Quiviro-Cibolan Pact is founded. Humiliated by their defeat in the First Tirnanese War, caused in part by their centuries-old feud, Quivira and Cibola hold a summit. The Domnitor of Quivira agrees to marry the daughter of the King of Cibola, uniting the head of the Passionist Church with the Martyr's bloodline and merging the two states under one monarch. In time, the Pact secures the allegiance of numerous adjacent Mesogean city-states and countries, becoming a superpower and the chief rival of The Burgue.

Circa 450 NE
* An uprising by the Parliament of The Burgue overthrows the Emperor, and the monarchy is abolished. The Burguish Empire is reformed into the Republic of The Burgue, led by an elected Chancellor. Over the next century, the Republic gradually cedes independence to most of the Beornlands.

475 NE
* Aoife Tsigani is born.

Circa 520 NE
* Aisling Querelle is born.

552 NE
* Runyan Millworthy is born.

559 NE
* Absalom Breakspear is born.

568 NE
* Piety Breakspear is born.

573 NE
* Agreus Astrayon is born.

576 NE
* Rycroft Philostrate is born.

577 NE
* Tourmaline Larou is born.

578 NE
* Vignette Stonemoss is born.

583
* Jonah Breakspear is born.

590 NE
* Sophie Longerbane is born.

591 NE
* Imogen Spurnrose is born.

Circa 600 NE
* The Second Tirnanese War, also known as the Great War of Tirnanoc, begins. The Republic of The Burgue declares war on the Quivira-Cibola Pact. The declaration is proposed by the Commonwealth Party, which is galvanized by a nostalgic desire to return The Burgue to its former imperial glory, and passed in Parliament. Tirnanoc becomes the main battlefield between the two superpowers, and the lands of the fae are ravaged by modern weaponry, such as the machine gun and the airship.
* Shortly after the onset of the war, Tourmaline Larou decides to leave Anoun for the relative safety of The Burgue.

606 NE
* The Second Tirnanese War ends. By this time, the Quivira-Cibola Pact has conquered most of Tirnanoc and has begun invading the Kingdom of Anoun. The Republic of The Burgue invokes the Tain Treaty between it and Anoun, allowing it to commandeer Anoun's resources to help it stave off the Pact's relentless advance. Despite this, the combined Burguish and Anouni armies are routed, and the Anouni capital of High Bresail falls. The Burguish Army withdraws from Anoun. Queen Nerissa of Anoun manages to flee Kaer Sidhi, the last free Anouni city, shortly before it falls to Pact forces. The Pact's conquest of Tirnanoc is complete.
	+ The Burguish 13th Light Dragoons raze the Vitris Valley, home to the last of the sparas, to cover their retreat from a large Pact force that is pushing toward High Bresail. Sergeant Rycroft Philostrate formally objects to the order, but carries it out anyway.
	+ The 13th Light Dragoons commandeer a mimasery in the Tirnanese Highlands to guard a vital telegraph line linking High Bresail to the frontlines. Sergeant Rycroft Philostrate meets Vignette Stonemoss.
* Acknowledging that its disastrous defeat has imperiled the fae of Tirnanoc, the Republic of The Burgue extends sanctuary to all fae refugees fleeing the Pact's reign of terror. Most refugees settle in the Carnival Row district, where fae immigrants to The Burgue had resided since the days of the Burguish Empire.

607 NE
* The Republic of The Burgue launches a counter-offensive that reclaims portions of Anoun from the Quivira-Cibola Pact. However, with the Burguish electorate's support for war exhausted due to the previous conflict's unprecedented carnage, and the anti-war Hardtackers winning seats from the fae-sympathetic Commonwealth Party in Parliament, Chancellor Absalom Breakspear reluctantly cuts the counter-offensive short. The Republic and the Pact formalize the end of hostilities with a treaty recognizing the Pact's control of Tirnanoc.

612 NE
* The New Dawn Revolution begins. Inspired by the manifesto of Leonora, a Pact-born faun servant, a collectivist uprising breaks out in the city of Ragusa in the Quivira-Cibola Pact. The uprising escalates into a civil war, with Leonora leading the New Dawn movement against the Pact army. Although the Pact loyalists outnumber the revolutionaries, the New Dawn possesses Ragusa's weapons factories, the heart of the Pact's arms industry, and can bring enough firepower to bear to give them the advantage. Within a year, the Pact is brought to its knees and the New Dawn sets in motion plans to bring the revolution to the Republic of The Burgue.

613 NE (Present day)
* The events of *Carnival Row* occur.

## See also

* *Carnival Row* Season One
* *Carnival Row* Season Two