Timeline (2000-2099)

**NOTE**: All events listed that are beyond the present day are events planned for the future, but events planned in the present/past (e.g, the announcement of the withdrawal of soldiers from an area in January 2024 when the current date is June 19, 2023)

## 2000

### January

* Yukon's government is overthrown. The new government insists that the country no longer be referred to as "*the* Yukon", instead preferring simply "Yukon".

### February

* The creation of Kilodor after the resignation of Cnaeus Glabrio.

### March

* New Cairo starts production of the **hand-held nuclear launcher**. As a kick in the face to the Majo efforts it has nearly the same range and twice the yield of their artillery shells.

### April

* Disillusioned from any further attempts at Mars, Russia opts to create their own **Orbiting Space Station.**

### May

* Release of *Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.*

### June

* The Gallian navy accidentally sinks a battleship into the Roman Province of Sardinia et Corsica, beginning of the Sardinia Dispute.

### December

* **Castra Astra II** is built in planetary orbit. The old station is scheduled for controlled re-entry that same week.

## 2001

### January

* While making making an address to the Jester Senate in his car, **Emperor Sergei VII** had his wheels knocked out by freedman. **Iosif Endroshenko**, aiming from a Melista hovering outside and Sergei's car spun and ended up crashed into a tree, striking his head. Although CC missiles immediately blow him out of the sky, nothing can be done for the 51 year old who dies seconds before medics have the chance to revive him. Marx, his cousin, succeeds as Emperor.

### February

* Trentian **Stokes Tunnel**, that connects Popstar to mainland Asia, is completed. The Later Wu and Korea are now linked by transit systems.

### March

* ***Super Smash Bros. Melee*** is released with King Dedede of Yekaterinburg and Meta Knight of Majonian being added.

### May

* An army lead by Quartinus Sertorius destroys the Gallian main army at Olbia.

### June

* ***Saturninus-15*** is launched, the 21st *Ivan*-class space shuttle used by the Conglomerate.

### September

* Death of WWII General Julianus Flaccus (born 1917).
* September 11: A group of terrorists who hijacked planes headed for New York were shot out of the sky by New English Anti-Air force guns.

### November

* Start of the Rhine **Militas Program**, the Poster Nations is let in on the program on the condition The Rhine Federation are given 40 permanent seats in the Curia Munda and that the Legio Terrae has a wing for the sole protection of the Inca. The project is so astounding that there is unanimous agreement.

## 2002

Feb 2002: First launch of Kirby-16

Mar 2002: *Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land* is released.

Jun 2002: Saturninus L. Verres is named *The Jester of Maximus* by The Jester Union, which lead some historians to name him Saturninus Jestor to differentiate him from the earlier Roman Emperor with the same name.

Sep 2002: First launch of Spivey XLIII

Oct 2002: First launch of Tricky-9

Dec 2002: Construction begins on the **Statio Aethereus Exquaesitionis Scientificae** (Space Station of Scientific Research). It will be the first research station for the effects of zero-gravity and space radiation on Earth systems and organisms.

## 2003

Jan 2003: Completion of the **SAES** research station in space.

Mar 2003: Jester Vice President Tony Lowry dies in a car crash, He is succeeded by Scott Thomas.

May 2003: 3 Kirby Games are released a week between each other, *Kirby Air Ride* on May 1st, *Kirby Board Game* on May 8th and *Kirby Slide* on May 15th.

Jun 2003: A subsidary to Nintendo called HAL Laboratory is created.

Sep 2003: Rhine President Gerhard Haltmann is murdered by Rhine nationalists, Haltmann's position is replaced by Helmut Von Bismarck.

Dec 2003: A joint Gallian-Kilodor team of scientists **invents a flawless prosthetic**. Taking commands directly from nerve impulses, the limb is able to perfectly mimic all movement capabilities of the human arm.

## 2004

Feb 2004: Release date of *Kirby & the Amazing Mirror.*

May 2004: Hungarian scientists develop a flexible material that becomes as hard as noricum when a force threshold is passed, its use as military body armor is however surpassed by carbon nanotube-fibers

Jun 2004: Release of *Rome Total War*, the original game that kickstarted this timeline.

Aug 2004: The **last Mileton particle fission bombs are decommissioned**. All other nuclear weapons of Miletos are pure fusion, two step fusion, or dirty fission bombs

Sep 2004: Death of Gisgo, his son Bomilkarolor succeeds him.

Oct 2004: A Roman commander, Aulus Celadus is killed by insurgents after a allegation gone wrong.

Dec 2004: **Antimateriae Genitor** particle accelerator is completed near Rome. It is the 500th accelerator dedicated to the production of antimatter in the form of antiprotons, making it at 0.5 g/month

## 2005

Jan 2005: The French President, Alphonse Coty, is killed by a unknown source.

Feb 2005: A explosion kills Roman Pilot Placus Silanus after his satellite blew up before it even reenters the Stratosphere.

Mar 2005: Release Date of *Kirby: Canvas Curse.*

Jun 2005: Death of Marcus Daroritum, Former President of Reggio Milan (1971-1977).

Sep 2005: Life expectancy in Dream Land stabilises at 83.6 years

Dec 2005: A accidental gun shot kills Reggio Milan's colonial governor, Kaeso Sachius.

## 2006

Jan 2006: The late Daroritum and Sachius are combined into a new character, Daroach, by Nintendo to pay respect (not to be confused with Brandon Daroach).

May 2006: Release of *Kirby: Squeak Squad.*

Jun 2006: Gallie begins production of an **experimental handheld microwave-laser rifle**

Sep 2006: Sextus Taranza overthrows Publius Volta to become the next Colonial Governor of Sarawak.

Oct 2006: 4th Jester-Dream war breaks out. (2006-2008)

Dec 2006: Jester Army detonates an **EMP missile** over the attacking Dream armored behemoths. Though it is a non-nuclear device, it stills requires an explosion to function, leading the Jesters to believe their territory has been nuked. On the 14th, Marx orders ten nuclear bombers to attack the Majo advance military bases. Though all ten are intercepted by Dream missiles, the nuclear crisis goes on, until a the Waddle Dee can mediate another prevention of particle bomb usage. The war however, still continues

## 2007

Feb 2007: Germiyan scientists develop a method to **safely store antimateriae** for long periods of time. This is done in hopes of using it in power generation and weapons development programs

Mar 2007: *Kirby of the Stars: Magical Tower of Medal Land* is released worldwide with the new Nintendo Wii (KOTS: MTOML is Similar to how Kirby Super Star Stacker was not released worldwide in OTL, same thing happened here).

May 2007: Abolishment of the Yugoslavian Monarchy due to the resignation of Micheal II Karadordevic. His son, Paul, continues his claim.

Jun 2007: Completion of the **first commercial particle fusion reactor** near Florence. Providing 67,420 MW of power, it is the **third most powerful generator in the world** at the time.

Sep 2007: Following an inquiry into the high-yield of the *Juno* detonation, the Romans discovered the cause for the explosion being 1% over the theoretical maximum yield. Large quantities of Helium-3 was discovered on the Moon's far side, deposited over the eons by the solar wind. Plans are made to exploit this resource for its potential use in nuclear power generation

Oct 2007: The foundation of CoderDream, a Coding website that can make anything, first developed in 2004. (OTL Scratch)

Dec 2007: Detonation of ***Star-Stacker*** on the far side of Mars. At 852 megatons, it takes the title of **Largest Man-Made Explosion in History**.

## 2008

Jan 2008: The **First clone of a dead person** is born in Gallie.

Feb 2008: **General Kindred Smith** leads the Yellowknife Army and Imperial Air force in a coup for control of Yellowknife. **King Justin** evacuates by helicopter just before losing his palace.

May 2008: General Kindred declares himself Kindred I of Yellowknife. The Legio Terrae and Roman Legion invade to protect supplies of the valuable mineral assets from that country.

Jun 2008: ***Super Smash Bros. Brawl*** is released, with the additions of Gryll, Xanthos (2001, Firequad) and Dark Meta Knight.

Jul 2008: *Kirby Super Star Ultra* is released.

Aug 2008: Detonation of **Mighty King**, first Canadian particle bomb.

Oct 2008: Tertius Lucullus overthrows Cornelius Tridius to become President of Miletos.

Nov 2008: Following last months revelation, the PN enters into an agreement with the new ruler of Yellowknife. King Justin's blood runs dry at the same time as the ink of the Treaty.

## 2009

Jan 2009: More of the Kirby series is transported to the Wii.

May 2009: Carthaginian Rebel Mago Yutpan is killed by a fire by the Saharans

Jun 2009: End of the Sardinia Dispute.

Sep 2009: The Popstar Nations begin to build an **Orbital Particle Bomb Launcher**, meant as a counter to the Cyronid nuclear artillery station in Iran.

Nov 2009: Roman General Vibius Dellius is slashed in the face by Gainus Metellus in a bar in Coney Island, NY. Metellus then looked behind and was slashed by Anthony Haltmann, a Dream General.

Dec 2009: Sol-Class ***Spivey L*** lands on the surface of the Sun. It is the **first object placed by Man on our Sun.**

## 2010

Jan 2010: ***Super Smash Bros.*** is imported to the Wii.

Mar 2010: In this universe, Non-Kirby Shooters aren't as popular as a result of a different socio-political climate. Oregon-Owned Call of Duty fades into obscurity, while other shooters focus on their stories and atmospheres to compensate.

Jun 2010: Mumbaian scientists develop a marketable **quantum processor**. Not as powerful as other available microchips, it can still be scaled upwards by adding them in series. The potential of the technology is considered limitless.

Sep 2010: An Roman-Born Dream scientist named Spurius Maximus provides experimental evidence for the **shrinking of the Y chromosome**, Spurius is exiled from the largely patriarchal Dream academic circles.

Oct 2010: Kaeso Drusus win the 2010 election to become Governor of Preston.

Dec 2010: Release of *Kirby's Epic Yarn.*

## 2011

Jan 2011: Release of *Kirby Mass Attack.*

Feb 2011: *3D Classics: Kirby's Adventure* is released.

May 2011: ***Tatum* automated spaceship** is launched. It is designed not only to perform all sorts of construction in space, but it is also capable of **interplanetary travel** within the Milky Way.

Apr 2011: *Kirby's Return to Dream Land* is released, which involved Bomilkar's son, Mago.

Jul 2011: **Spivey LI, LII and LIII** are launched towards Jupiter followed by *Tatum*. They will be assembled in Jupitarian orbit to create a **long-distance communication satellite.**

Sep 2011: Coloniae Saturninae reaches a population of 1 million settlers.

Dec 2011: Tokyo gains its status of **largest city in the world** again from rival Rome with the Samurai City now boasting a population of over 46 million inhabitants.

## 2012

Jan 2012: *Kirby's Dream Collection Special Edition* is released by Dream Land.

Feb 2012: Drusus accidentally fires his gun, hitting someone to cause the 2012 Sexton Accident.

Mar 2012: An election occurs in Gallie, Emmanuel Macron doesn’t become president of Gallie.

Jun 2012: ***Troy* Jupiter Colonizer** is completed. The interplanetary ship is capable of sustaining 30 settlers over the long trip to Jupiter. Its destination on the planet's surface is the Viridian Alley (OTL West Jupiter), where a colony is destined to be founded.

Jul 2012: Valerius VI Dolabella of Iuvavum is found dead in his home, Due to a lot of uprisings in Iuvavum at that time, They elect 17 year old Zan Partizanne (born 1995) as the new Queen, becoming the 1st female ruler of Iuvavum.

Sep 2012: Nationwide celebrations following the 92nd successful Moon Landing by Gallian cosmonauts (92 is an important number in the modern Gallian culture).

Oct 2012: A Saudi assassin murders a Sidonese diplomat for the Cyronids, Sidon then declares war on Saudi Arabia, The Sidon-Saudi War (2012-2019) has Begun.

Dec 2012: French scientists discover **a new allotrope of carbon** that has approximately 100 times the strength of noricum, and one sixth its weight. Funding is immediately put into discovering a method of mass production.

## 2013

Jan 2013: The release of the 3DS and the Wii U.

Mar 2013: A bunch of Kirby games are merged into ***NES Remix 2.***

Apr 2013: ***Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS*** is released.

Jun 2013: Plans for the A-9 **Heavy-Vulcan** missiles and A-10 **Phoínix** rockets are completed. A-9 contain a single 120 megaton pure-fusion warheard, whilst the A-10 launches 20 individual 165 kiloton pure-fusion warheads over a wide area.

Sep 2013: Foundation date of the city of **New Preston** on Jupiter's surface

Dec 2013: Production of **lorica carbonata**. Following the purchase for carbon nanotube armor designs, Roman scientists made some changes to the form and eventually created the latest lorica for the army.

## 2014

Jan 2014: Release of a Super NES Remix.

Feb 2014: The Sidonese capture Cassius Gracchus, a Roman general while he was driving down a road in Beirut, Lebanon.

Mar 2014: Construction of the **first store built entirely on the Moon** is finished in Coloniae Saturninae.

Jun 2014: Hungary develops their own **cure for cancer**, 90 years after Egypt and 14 years after Czechoslovakia developed theirs. Unlike the Egyptian vaccine, and the Czech photodynamic therapy, the Hungarian method involves releasing microscopic machines into the body designed to attach themselves to the body in the presence of cancer cells. They then begin to release heat into the tumor causing cell death after sevelar hours exposure. This is the **first medical usage of nano-automatons..**

Aug 2014: Kaeso Drusus resigns, his 2nd in hand Manadus Papirius decides to elect Roy Derell of Florida, who is shortly after renamed to Royston Clifford the 5th Governor of Preston

Sep 2014: One of ***Tatum'***s booster rockets malfunctions and output drops to 41% just at take-off in Reggio Milan, with Colonial Governor Taranza inside. Though the thrust his cut as soon as the problem is detected, the craft loses its balance on the launch pad and falls over, irreparably damaging the rockets, and causing extensive damage to *Tatum* itself, Taranza dies shortly after from blood loss. Following this event, Luna III authorizes Project Prometheus, an attempt to produce **an entirely self-dependent spacecraft.**

## 2015

Mar 2015: *Kirby's Triple Deluxe* is released in memorial of Taranza.

Jun 2015: **Dream Confligator** is completed. The 38th Dream particle accelerator, and the 1,494th in the world, the Dream Confligator most importantly takes the prize of the **largest particle accelerator in the world**. It is capable of accelerating protons up to 99.999999999999999999999997% the speed of light, an impressive feat, even for Dream Land.

Jul 2015: Believed death of Ahmose Dionysios, Egyptian General

Sep 2015: A Captured Russian general Pyotr Radmonovich revolts in Armenia with the goal of overthrowing Shah Darius VIII and installing a sympathetic general. The army seizes Yerevan, capital of the Sophene province of Armenia, without much resistance. He begins marching north along the Tigris.

Oct 2015: Dream Land President Vince Patrulo is killed by a enraged officer, He is succeeded by Francis Miller.

Dec 2015: ***Nintendo Badge Arcade*** is released.

## 2016

Jan 2016: Roman empress Luna III abdicates. **Saturninus Badoglio** is next in line. A week after taking power he declares a embargo on Gallie, his brother having been killed in the previous war against them.

Feb 2016: **Caesar Bomilkarolor** of Magomoros is shot dead by a enraged officer after a altercation. He is succeeded by his adopted son **Orestes Domna Magalor**, crowned **Caesar Magalor**.

Mar 2016: After a crane accident, a wrecking ball kills New England's President, Paul Haltmann, shortly after he is succeeded by Bernie Sanders.

Apr 2016: A plan to build huge artificial lakes and rivers in the Sahara Desert starts to be put into action, it is expected that once the project is complete (scheduled for 2020) most of the Sahara will rather quickly become arable land. One of the greatest hurdles of the project is the 2 TW of continuous power that will need to be generated to sustain these artificial rivers.

May 2016: *Kirby: Planet Robobot* is released 2 months after the death of Paul Haltmann, he is outlived by 4 sons and 1 daughter.

Jun 2016: Construction is completed on an **Underground Section** of the city of Jupitiro on Mars. This section consists of a massive roughly rectangular facility built completely underground that houses 100,000 people and has major shopping and relaxation districts for the inhabitants wishing to get out of the Martian sun that shines through the windows on the surface.

Jul 2016: Sicilian provincial capital of **Messana** is destroyed when Gallie makes a bombing run against it with a hypersonic, nuclear missile. The Romans now fully intend to repeal the former treaty promising not to use nuclear weapons against Gallie.

Aug 2016: Jupitiro reaches a population of 1 million settlers. Expansion plans are made to have 5 million people by 2025.

September 2016: Anthony Haltmann becomes the 2nd leader of the Haltmann Regime at 25.

Oct 2016: Russia is accused of sabotaging the 2016 Miletian Election. Later, Anthemius Lepidus/Francisca Partizanne defeats Paul Haltmann Jr. and his sister, Susie, Lepidus become the 31st President of Miletos.

Nov 2016: The Squeak Squad collapses as Daroach and Lepcis are arrested.

Dec 2016: Darius VIII is forced to retreat from Persia, electing instead to either retake Tehran or aid in its defense with his army in tow. Darius IX has retaken the Cyronid Empire and restored the Cyronid dynasty on its throne.

## 2017

Jan 2017: Construction finishes on a **second Roman-Rhine Space Elevator**. This one is completed in Munich to distinguish it from the one in Hannover.

Mar 2017: Wyoming founds its new official capital, **Denver**, in Colorado.

Apr 2017: New atomic reactors are finished for the Roman Lunar colonies to sustain the current 2.1 million people living on the Moon, more than three-quarters of which live in the capital of Coloniae Saturninae, the others are Nova Florence, Nova Rome and Nova Genoa.

May 2017: Start of the 2nd **Midas Program**, This time it is by Hungary. With current models proclaiming the economic viability of increased asteroid mining, the Hungarian Emperor, Franz III has proposed a project to, not only exploit an additional 140 asteroids by the end of the decade (2019) but build an unimaginably practical transport network to bring materials back to Earth.

Jul 2017: Caesar Magalor laments that his nation never built a lunar base. He commissions the nations top scientists and economists to design one.

Sep-Oct 2017: 3 games are released 2 weeks within each other, similar to 2003, *Team Kirby Clash Deluxe* on September 9th, *Kirby's Blowout Blast* on September 22nd and *Kirby Battle Royale* on October 13th.

Nov 2017: The city of New Preston on Jupiter reaches a population of 100 settlers. Centrifugal sleeping units, like the ones that have been in use on the Moon since 1961 and On Mars since 1978, are brought into use to counteract the potential effects of the planet's high gravity.

## 2018

Jan 2018: Miletos forms their 39th army in Miletos, named the Elementus, Lead by Henry Partizanne (1996-)

Mar 2018: *Kirby Star Allies* is released, which quickly has high-raising sales, It becomes the most sold game of all time. (It still holds the title as of 2022, with 8B copies sold and counting)

Apr 2018: Deciding that Space warfare is important for the future, Zan moves to the Jambastion with 2 of her 8 siblings, Flamberge Partizanne (born 1996) and Fransisca Partizanne (born 1998), forming the Mage Sisters.

Jun 2018: The Foedus Terrae holds the **Ares Conference**. There, the future of Jupitiaran colonization is seriously discussed by the three spatial-powers of Earth. Numerous scientifically viable methods for terraforming are proposed; however, at current levels of technology it would take over a century for Jupiter to be made habitable

Jul 2018: 17 year old Lentulus Agrippa defeats one of Kirby's revolters, Sextus Victorinus, killing him.

Aug 2018: ***Crimea***, the 50th Jester space shuttle of the *Ivan* design, has its maiden voyage

September 2018: Royston Clifford leaves office, electing Harvard Maxwell as the next governor.

Nov 2018: Jester colonists start building the Jester city of Harpo**.**

## 2019

Jan 2019: Dream Land begins a program to develop its own **nuclear submarines**, each capable of holding 20 ICBMs of either nuclear or convential design. This is put into operation so as to maintain their title as the **dominant naval power on Earth.**

Feb 2019: Release of *Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn.*

Mar 2019: **Battle of Pyongyang**. Korean forces clash with the army of Osaka outside the industrialized mining site of Pyongyang. It is a one-sided massacre of the Koreans.

Jun 2019: Titus Iuventius of Rome orders the execution of Luna III Badoglio and the decimation of her legions. Again, he orders a second decimation and is refused, though this time a cabal of Kemetic polytheists attempt to kidnap Luna. Saturninus's army catches the kidnappers, rescues Luna, and marches on Athens from Thessalonica. Riots begin, first under the Christians and then under the Manichaeans.

Sep 2019: Iuventius flees to Rhodes with many hardline pagans and dissatisfied Roman-Egyptians, abandoning Athens to Saturninus. With no word of reinforcements from Gallie, Iuventius declares himself and his legions to be in revolt. He names himself King Baias IV in the old capital of Rhodes.

Dec 2019: Saturninus dislodges Hungary from the province and a battle at Novi Sad is mentioned indirectly by a less-than-accurate source. Germanic sources likewise mention a defeat under Andrew Horthy, a Hungarian President attested in the *Getica*. With the Roman occupation of the city, the Danube frontier is more secure than it has been since the rule of Saturninus I.

## 2020

Jan 2020: Baias is betrayed by one Recip Erdogan, who lies and tells the forces stationed at the city gates that Baias has surrendered. Saturninus's forces are able to enter and a day of street fighting ensues. Baias is forced to retreat to Izmir.

Feb 2020: Beginning of the Corruption Virus in The Jester Union.

Apr 2020: Infected toll from the **Corruption Virus** reaches 1 million.

Jun 2020: Emperor Marx of Jester Union contracts the **Corruption Virus.**

Sep 2020: Detonation of ***Dauphin*** the first Yukonian antimatter bomb, the design is however much more advanced than any other first particle bomb as it has been in development for quite a while.

Oct 2020: *Kirby Fighters 2* is released.

Dec 2020: Rome commissions the construction of a massive railgun artillery piece, in Rome, from Alabama. Though the weapon is capable of reaching Alabama's cities, it fires one shell at a time and has an accuracy, at that distance, of barely a square kilometer, making it all but useless for a strike against Alabama.

## 2021

Feb 2021: The **Holy Cyronid City of Persepolis** is rebuilt by a team of Roman and Germiyan engineers and builders. This was done as an act of bonding between the two nations after the cause of the original city's destruction was revealed to the world.

May 2021: A 100th *Ivan*-class space ship is finished and dubbed *Samaria.*

Jun 2021: Major General Aulus Sempronius is executed by Iuventius for secretly working with Saturninus V.

Jul 2021: **General Spruance** leads a rebellion of the army in Florida. The government is barely able to maintain control, and a Civil War ensues

Aug 2021: Florida President Al Gore begs the Foedus Terrae for help, but the Legio Terrae is still busy in Gallie, so the Roman Legion is sent in its place. With power from their satellites, the Roman armies' combat effectiveness is in no way diminished in this far off country.

Oct 2021: **Electromagnetic launching platform** built on the Moon

Dec 2021: Method for **producing oil from carbon dioxide** in the air is developed in The Falklands. Though it requires large facilities, a specific type of geology and large quantities of power, none of these are issues for the empire, who still manages to make a profit by selling the oil to Zaire.

## 2022

### January

Jan 7th: A Roman Signiferius is killed in Miami. This is one of the first deaths on the Roman side, which only serves to further increase public opinion that the Legion is doing the right thing.

Jan 11th: Monterrey builds an armored land vehicle powered by a **miniature fission reactor**, similar in design to the ones that power their ships.

Jan 17th: The **last Roman particle fission bombs are decommissioned**. All other nuclear weapons of the Empire are pure fusion, two step fusion, or dirty fission bombs.

Jan 22nd: *Kirby and the Forgotten Land* is released.

Jan 26th: Creation of the **Austin Lunar Base** by Alabama.

Jan 31st: Gallie achieves a stunning victory over Roman armored behemoths at the **Battle of Piedmont** thanks to Granadian rocket artillery support. Rome is still not aware of the Granadian aid.

### February

Feb 5th: Following weeks of discussion, the Popstar Nations finally decides to come clean to the world about the existence of particle weaponry. Russia, Oslo, Rasia, Miletos and Nova Australae are furious about the revelation and demand the termination of all nuclear weapon programs. Wanting to prevent the expected nuclear devastation of the world by Rome, Osaka launches a blank ICBM across Tokyo and then have it return the same way to come and crash into the **Maria Nippona**. Worried by this display of power, Osaka sign a treaty with Tokyo wherein either side agrees to only use particle bombs in the event of such an attack on their own soil.

Feb 13th: Following a commercial airline crash into a New England skyscraper, the Popstar Nations passes a law making it illegal to build any caeliportum within the city limits.

Feb 22nd: The Miletian army officially integrates **particle bomb weaponry** into its arsenal through the usage of large bombers as a primary delivery mechanism.

Feb 29th: **Hydroponics facility** established in Coloniae Saturninae. Following this development, the city now has **complete self-sustainability.**

### March

Mar 6th: Detonation of ***Tito***, the first Yugoslavian particle bomb. The test is, however, considered a failure by Popstar standards as the actual yield was only 3% of the expected yield, compared to *Star-Stacker* which was 416% of the expected yield.

Mar 14th: **First Hybrid-car** is released in France.

Mar 20th: Invention of a **nuclear battery**, by a Gallian scientist, that uses the process of induced gamma emission to store and release massive amounts of energy.

Mar 26th: A Jester counterattack, led by Marx, slams into the Dream line at Tesla, routing them north along Plain Plains.

### April

Apr 2nd: Saturninus enters the city of Rhodes with little resistance. Baias flees to link up with his Germiyan allies who betray him to the Romans shortly after.

Apr 8th: A rifle which **magnetically accelerates rounds** is outfitted by the Legion as a heavy weapon.

Apr 19th: Designs for a **reusable stellar vehicle** are completed by Roman scientists. It is planned to be put into use in less than four years.

Apr 30th: **Man walks on the Sun**. Solar lander **Spivey LXXVI** safely touches down on the surface of the moon carrying five Roman cosmonauts. Over two weeks, the landing pod is converted into a permanent structure, after which all five men use the secondary capsule to make the return trip back to Earth.

### May

May 5th: Detonation of a **thermobaric explosive device** at a Rhine test site.

May 27th: Unmanned probe ***Kirby-27*** lands on the Sun. Contained inside it is a fully-functional radioisotope piston generator and electric welding tools for use by the team projected to land in 2025.

### June

Jun 7th: Birth of an artificially created **Racoon Devil** (Racoon-Tasmanian Devil). This is just another addition to the string of successes the Romans have been having with genetic technology. This includes a cloned Racoon from 1985 that is still living in perfect health at this time.

Jun 12th: **First speed of light commercial flight** from Beijing to Lagos, Nigeria.

Jun 20th: A **democratic** **revolution** toples the last Tokyo Ruler. Revolutionary armies aided covertly by Osaka take Tokyo and murder **President Shinzo Abe.**

Jun 29th: **Stem cell applicator** goes into circulation in Lisbon. It uses a similar mechanism to a paint roller to apply a layer of undifferentiated cells over any surface after each application.

### July

Jul 1st: International Railway is outfitted for magnetic levitation of trains, allowing speeds in excess of 780 kph. The new track completely encircles the Earth, passing through the Eurasia, The Americas and Australia to complete the circuit.

Jul 6th: Iuventius, swearing to avenge those who died in Honey Fields, raises an army to march on Caesar Magalor's postition. He quickly retreats to Magic Town. By this point, the city is better-fortified, though the situation among the populace remains volatile. No matter how high a city's walls are, an angry populace will always prevail. The Christian population not already following Magalor begins to riot, angered by Saturninus's persecutions. Magalor storms the city and Iuventius dies in battle. Rome is once again held by a Christian.

Jul 12th: A Saharan invasion lands along the coast of Zaire, storming the city of Luanda before fanning out through South Africa.

Jul 19th: **The Antonius** is assembled from its seven compartments in orbit. The station is the most advanced man-made satellite of the time, housing ten specialist soldiers and their commanding officer. This group circulates with one of five groups every three months, ensuring no ill effects are suffered by prolonged exposure to stellar radiation and low-artificial gravity.

Jul 22nd: Tokyo President Shinzo Abe is shot by a Osaka Nationalist, leading to Abe's death.

Jul 30th: Hannover explodes into violence, spurned by both the presence of King Wilhelm V and years of discontent and national migrations. Though neither are connected with each other, both perceive weakness in the central government and aim to take advantage of the situation.

### August

Aug 2nd: First line of **Trentian single-wing bombers** go into production.

Aug 6th: Dream President Miller resigns from Politics after a scandal, he is succeeded by Adeleine Williams, who becomes the first female to hold the office.

Aug 9th: Founding date of the city of **Rhakotis** on the Moon's surface by the Cyronids, with the original Rhakotis having ironically been turned into Alexandria over 2 millenniums ago.

Aug 11th: Beginning of the **Sevilla Civil War**. Always having been the most downtrodden of the Granadian Provinces, Sevilla has recently been seeing even harder times than usual, particularly after 29% of the population was wiped out in the pandemic 2 years ago.

Aug 16th: Sevilla's capital of **Sevilla** is captured by the revolutionaries. Franco of the CEL wipe out one of the rebel's convoys, killing their second-in-command.

Aug 18th: **Sevilla Civil War** ends 2 days after the recapture of Sevilla.

Aug 22nd: Hannover creates the **first domestic Fission Power Plant**. Built along the coast, East of Berlin, the plant operates at approximately 2100 MW of electrical output.

Aug 25th: Attempted Assassination of Kirby: While making making an address to the Dream Senate, **Kirby** is shot in the head by freedman. **Leslie Moore**, aiming from a Melista hovering outside, Kirby manages to survive and CC missiles immediately blow Moore out of the sky.

Aug 28th: With the success of the A-126, plans are made for the creation of an **Extra Atmospheric Fighter-Bomber**. To operate continuously in either media of air and space it will require two different kinds of propulsion systems, a difficult thing to contain in the body of a fighter plane.

Aug 30th: **Former Dream Usurper Baku** is shot in the neck and is executed.

Aug 31st: Former Russian Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who defeated Spiridon Putin at the battle of Nova Moscow in 1964, dies at the age of 91.

### September

Sep 1st: Floridian Governor-General Alan Robinson resigns, replacing him with someone else. Therefore, Florida joins the Popstar Nations.

Sep 4th: Release of *Kirby's Gourmet Clash*

Sep 5th: The Cheney Raid: 400 swat forces barge into a house in Cheney, CO, killing 5.

Sep 6th: Harvard Maxwell resigns as Governor of Preston, losing his position due to The Haltmanns gaining power, lead by Mike Haltmann, they elect 17 year old Flaccus Taranza (born 2005), son of Sextus as the next governor.

Sep 7th: Coloniae Saturninae build the first restaurant on the moon.

Sep 10th: The Mausoleum of Fallen Emperors is built in Ukraine, To reminisce the fallen Emperors of Samaria.

Sep 11th: Death of Australian Colonial Governor Vibius Sabinus.

Sep 13th: A protest in Tomi, Bulgaria is put down by the Roman Legions, killing 70 people.

Sep 17th: After a fiery speech gone wrong, a riot ensues in Nova Permus, killing 57.

Sep 23rd: Floods devastates the city of Carthago Nova, where a riot was taking place lead by Theodekles Yutpan. Magalor storms the city and kills Yutpan.

Sep 27th: Dream Land and Oregon-Deseret sign the Treaty of San Diego whereby Preston (in Oregon) is formally ceded to Dream Land by Oregon-Deseret.

### October

Oct 3rd: Jester Union begins a program to develop its own **nuclear submarines**, each capable of holding 20 ICBMs of either nuclear or convential design. This is put into operation so as to maintain their title as the **dominant naval power on Earth.**

Oct 6th: The Volcano Republic attempt to enact a deal with The Union of Metal to create a **joint Martian Base**. It is rejected for lack of an economic incentive for Japan.

Oct 9th: **The Speyer Crash**, A Roman, Jester and Alabaman Bullet-cars all collide with each other, Injuring Marx, Tiberius Scarus and Victor Pedius.

Oct 10th: Oslo builds the first **mobile antimatter artillery pieces.**

Oct 17th: The Later Wu decide to colonise their side of Mars, founding the city of Xiangdu

Oct 23rd: Minerva, the white dragon with extremely long purple hair, is moved to Preston, OR.

Oct 26th: The world begins to change into Radiation Laser Nukes, which a guy found in the 2000s.

### November

Nov 2nd: A heated rivalry between the Haltmanns and the Partizannes begins to form after Oscar Partizanne defeats a insurgent army at Hamilton, which a Haltmann, William Haltmann, had claimed to be theirs.

Nov 7th: A jet-powered jet crashes into a building in Delaware, killing 156, Popstar Nations puts down some Roman Legion anti-air defense to keep sure that the city is defensible.

Nov 14th: A bushfire happens near Salta, Argentina, killing 15.

Nov 26th: Death of Former President Tito Martinez (b.1951)

### December

Dec 6th: Death of Julius Norbanus (b.1934)

Dec 18th: Russia starts to make decisions when they rename the City of Astana in Kazakhstan to Nur-Sultan.

Dec 26th: DNA sampling reveals some general's ancestors related to the Samarian Emperors.

## 2023

### January

Jan 4th: Valerius's body becomes the last body to The Mausoleum of Fallen Emperors.

Jan 7th: Anthony Haltmann, facing major threat, resigns as the leader of the Haltmann Regime.

Jan 13th: Susie Haltmann becomes the 3rd leader of the Haltmann Regime at the age of 27.

Jan 15th: Lentulus Agrippa replaces Vibius Dellius as the vice-leader.

Jan 29th: Gallie breaks off relationships with Tokyo after their attempt to enact a deal with The Union of Metal to create a **joint Martian Base is massively rejected.**

### February

Feb 2nd: Zaire surrenders to the Saharan Union, ceding OTL Cameroon to the Saharans.

Feb 11th: The Mausoleum of Fallen Emperors becomes a historical site.

Feb 23rd: The beginning of production of Antimatter nukes by Rasia.

### March

Mar 7th: A shelling of Ottawa causes a war between Canada and Yukon, beginning of the Hemisphere War.

Mar 28th: The Siege of Cheyenne begins, ending with the Popstar Union storming the city.

### April

Apr 11th: Coloniae Saturninae reaches a population of 150,000 people.

Apr 22nd: The first Sudric colony city is set up in Mars, named Nova Dal Raida.

Apr 23rd: Death of Valerian White, actor (b.1930).

### May

May 10th: A snowstorm hits Idaho, slowing down the Hemisphere War on the front.

May 31st: The Fall of Denver to Popstar forces.

### June-July

June 17th: Wyoming capitulates to The Popstar Union.

June 31st: Shelling of Vancouver. by Alyeska.

July 8th: Yukon surrenders to the Popstar Union.

July 30th: Alyeska signs a ceasefire, end of Hemisphere War.

### August

August 2nd: The first knowledge of Protonic laser guns are prototyped by Trentian scientists.