History of Iteration 3

The below article attempts to represent the history of Iteration 3 (strictly relating to the in-game universe) by presenting historical events. Moreover, they have been split into different time periods (called *eras*) in order to logically structure these events in an interesting way.

## The Beginning Era: 25/02/23 - 05/03/23

* 25/02/23: Iteration 2 (see History of the Server) abruptly ends. A poll is held to decide the future map of the server, which will end up being the 1:90 map used today. The 'new server' had officially begun, at least in terms of geopolitical preparations for its actual launch.
* 25/02/23: The Holy Kushite Empire is founded.
* 25/02/23: The 2nd Banovina of Bosnia is founded.
* 25/02/23: The initial United Kingdom, led by player Haunt, is founded.
* 25/02/23: The Saltin Empire is founded, claiming Greece, Turkish Thrace, Istanbul/Constantinople, the north-western Anatolian Coast, Cyprus and the Libyan Coast. It is uncoincidentally led by the player Salty.
* 25/02/23: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Prussia announce their foundation and claims via joint announcement.
* 25/02/23: The SPQR is founded and announces its initial claims, which are somewhat smaller territorially than those of today.
* 25/02/23: The Socialist Republic of Turkey is founded.
* 25/02/23: Swiss claims are announced via a map.
* 25/02/23: France is founded.
* 25/02/23: Finland is founded.
* 25/02/23: Oakania is founded (not to be confused with the Oakania of iteration 2). The country claimed the majority of the Balkans.
* 26/02/23: South African preliminary claims are announced, with them being announced the nation's foundation.
* 26/02/23: The Romanian National Salvation Government, later the Romanian Republic of today, announces its claims.
* 26/02/23: A new world map made by player Leonicomil features the claims of the Kyivan Rus', and Israel, indicating the foundation of these countries.
* 26/02/23: The claims of the Hauntian United Kingdom are reiterated.
* 27/02/23: The Kyivan Rus' claims are reiterated, this time by country members.
* 27/02/23: Algeria is featured on another world map. Also around this period, following diplomatic tensions with the SPQR, Bosnia disbanded. Diplomatic tensions between Algeria and the Holy Kushite Empire immediately began.
* 27/02/23: The Kingdom of the Benelux is founded.
* 27/02/23: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is founded.
* 27/02/23: Following tensions between Syria and Israel which may have begun a few days ago but certainly reach a boiling point on this date, the The Israeli-Syrian Conflict began.
* 27/02/23: The World Alliance of Nations is founded, its founding member being the Saltin Empire, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Syria.
* 01/03/23: The leader of Algeria disbanded the country and migrated to Mongolia.
* 01/03/23: Following intense diplomatic tensions between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Kyivan Rus' over a notorious strip of land connecting the Polish-Lithuanian heartland to the Black Sea, known as the 'Black Sea strip', an international committee made of the leader of Switzerland, Romania and the SPQR mediates the border conflict. The Poles end up keeping Odessa city, but agree to leave the rest of the Strip as demilitarized territory.
* 02/03/23: The Hauntian United Kingdom unclaims Sri Lanka.
* 02/03/23: Bavaria is founded.
* 02/03/23: The Hauntian United Kingdom withdraws from Africa, barring Nigeria, following low-intensity diplomatic tensions with South Africa.
* 03/03/23: The Church of the Flying Fish is founded.
* 03/03/23: The Hauntian United Kingdom claims Ireland and Greenland.
* 03/03/23: The Kingdom of Barbaria is founded, consisting of Continental Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco and the Western Sahara.
* 03/03/23: The Latin League is founded, an alliance between initially Romania and the SPQR, later to be jointed by the Kyivan Rus'. It will later be de facto disbanded due to the foundation of the Jeddah Accords and the Mutual Assistance Compact (MAC), both alliances eclipsing the League and with all League members being part of both future alliances.
* 03/03/23: The player Dragoon claims the Balearic Islands, stating "This be mine".
* 04/03/23: Following Bosnia's collapse, the United Siberian Republics are created by the former nation's founder, player Mikio.
* 04/03/23: The Jeddah Accords are founded as a response to 'WAON aggression'.

## The Cold War Era: 05/03/23 - 18/03/23

* 05/03/23: The Jeddah Accords ratifies a set of rules regarding the nature of the Accords and their fight against the WAON, beginning the The WAON-JA Cold War.
* 05/03/23: The Benelux and French settle their low-intensity dispute over Belgium, with the region becoming part of the Benelux.
* 05/03/23: The Council of Australia is founded.
* 05/03/23: The Federal Republic of Brittany is founded, claiming a vast amount of overseas territories. This ends up sparking a number of low-intensity diplomatic conflicts, or at least enrages some of the international community.
* 05/03/23: Due to the Hauntian United Kingdom losing South-Western England (the larger Cornwall region) to Brittany, the country claimed Gambia.
* 05/03/23: The United Soviet States of Japan are founded.
* 05/03/23: Brittany retreats from some of its formerly claimed lands, following negotiations with South Africa, which recognized the new claims in return for this withdrawal.
* 05/03/23: The Romanian National Salvation Government announced its 'final claims', being the same claims of today's Romanian Republic, unchanged since then.
* 05/03/23: The United States are founded by player Klessmant.
* 05/03/23: Player abandoned claims Michigan.
* 05/03/23: Following Romania claiming Silistria, Oakania announces its dissolution. The country's members most probably flee to China, though this is more difficult to confirm. The Bulgarian Grand State claimed all of the remainder of the country's territory, being a Jeddah Accords-sponsored state. The Romans announced their intention to later occupy the remaining Oakanian lands (excluding the Hungarian territories), with the WAON also laying claim to the remaining Oakanian territory.
* 05/03/23: The Romanian National Salvation Government steps down, elections being held in Romania following this.
* 05/03/23: The leader of Prussia claims Cuba. Having occupied Syria before (following the mostly abrupt end of the Syrian-Israeli Conflict), he announced the "PRUSSIA-CUBA-SYRIAN UNION".
* 05/03/23: The leader and only member of the DPRK, Zenith, the server's creator, also claimed Cuba and disbanded his former nation.
* 05/03/23: The United Siberian Republics claimed Alaska and expanded their claims in Siberia.
* 05/03/23: The Saltin Empire 'migrates' to Scandinavia, where it claims Norway, Sweden and Denmark and also the majority of Northern Africa.
* 05/03/23: The Turkish Socialist Republic transforms into the Sublime Turkish State.
* 06/03/23: The Hauntian United Kingdom unclaimed Greenland and claimed the lands of the Dominican Republic and Suriname.
* 06/03/23: The Kingdom of Siam is founded.
* 06/03/23: The Sublime Turkish State claimed Thrace, Rhodes, Crete and Selanik following the withdrawal of the Saltin Empire to Scandinavia.
* 07/03/23: "Non-Communist" Japan is founded.
* 07/03/23: The Sublime Turkish state expands its claims further, claiming a section of Bulgaria, Georgia and all of historical Macedonia.
* 07/03/23: Switzerland announces its claims officially and also claims the Turks and Caicos islands as a colony.
* 08/03/23: The Saltin Empire collapses.
* 08/03/23: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth claims the Saltin Empire's African Holdings, following the country's collapse, also claiming the rest of the long-inactive Barbaria. Their claim map also featured Switzerland, though in a different shade relative to the rest of the territories on the map.
* 08/03/23: Iberia is founded.
* 08/03/23: Canada is founded.
* 09/03/23: Iberia claims Morocco.
* 09/03/23: Siam expands its claims.
* 09/03/23: The Jeddah Accords and World Alliance of Nations hastily agree to calm down the tensions between the two factions by employing a policy of détente and by purposely calming tensions by other means.
* 10/03/23: The JA and WAON consider collaborating against Finland, though the negotiations do not result in any concrete changes.
* 10/03/23: Germany is founded.
* 11/03/23: Iberia claims the Azores and the Canarias Islands.
* 11/03/23-14/03/23: The Cold War calms down completely, though both factions continue trying to assert their dominance. The WAON is losing ground due to the departure of its member nations' own members from Magna Terra.
* 14/03/23: Mongolia reiterates its claims.
* 17/03/23: The 2nd Portuguese Empire is formed by player Mikio following the disbanding of the United Siberian States.

## The Dark Era: 18/03/23 - 24/04/23

* 18/03/23: The Hauntian United Kingdom withdrawals from North America and claims Cameroon.
* 19/03/23: The Bulgarian Grand State disbands, splitting its lands between Rome and Turkey.
* 19/03/23: The Portuguese Empire modifies its claims.
* 20/03/23: Player Tyblios claims Singapore.
* 21/03/23: The Kyivan Rus' claims all the lands between their past claims and the Volga river.
* 23/03/23: Germany, "in the name of WAON", claimed the majority of Africa and other overseas territories. On the same day, the nation's claims were reduced to their former state, following discussions between server members.
* 28/03/23: Canada's government migrated to the Western United States, proclaiming the Western Union.
* 06/04/23: Iberia's leader, cumiam, proclaimed its infamous message of "i all spain all portgal all africa all philipnes all mexica all florida all america del sul all austra", claiming all of the lands mentioned. The claims were never enforced and disputes broke out especially between the Portuguese and Iberians.
* 09/04/23: Mongolia updates their claims.
* 11/04/23: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth unclaimed Spain.
* 20/04/23: The Western Union became the United States of America.

## The Resurgent Era: 24/04/23 - Today

* 24/04/23: The Crown of Czechia was founded.
* 27/04/23: The Portuguese Empire disbands following the 'Iberian annoyances' and the Bulgarian Socialist Republic is founded in its stead.
* 01/05/23: The Hauntian United Kingdom claims Mauritania.
* 10/05/23: Korea was founded.
* 10/05/23: The modern Great Britain is founded, 'exiling' the Hauntian United Kingdom to Mauritania (note: the term 'Hauntian' was used only to differentiate between the two countries).
* 30/05/23: The Diyakenid Empire is formed.
* 01/06/23: The Bulgarian SR expands its claims further west.
* 01/06/23: Sjaelland, then Denmark, was founded.
* 03/06/23: Iceland was founded.
* 03/06/23: Hindustan was founded.
* 04/06/23: The Kingdom of the Southern Gulf is founded. The Greater Persian Empire is founded, with Hindustan and the KSG being vassals of the Persian heartland. Around this date, the server becomes far more active.
* 05/06/23: The KSG expanded into Oman.
* 10/06/23: The SPQR expanded into Hungary, Montenegro and the parts of Greece then unclaimed.
* 12/06/23: Daharbi was founded.
* 12/06/23: The autonomous Roman region of Tuscia was founded in the Caribbean, claiming the Lesser Antilles.
* 15/06/23: The Republic of Caraketa was founded.
* 20/06/23: The Kingdom of Gotland was founded.
* 20/06/23: The Bulgarian SR, following diplomatic tensions with Persia, was disbanded, and the Islamic Union of Kazakhstan was created by the former Bulgarian leader.
* 22/06/23: The Holy Dominion of Cyprus was founded.
* 23/06/23: The Confederation of Bosnia was founded.
* 24/06/23: New Karpatskopolis was founded.
* 24/06/23: New Oakania was founded.
* 24/06/23: The Wagner PMC was founded.
* 01/07/23: Caraketa expanded its claims into the Caribbean.
* 04/07/23: Following apparent tensions between Persia and Hindustan, Arkis, the latter country's former king, abdicated and created the Kingdom of Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
* 04/07/23: Cyprus announced their claim on South Georgia Island, which would later be undone.
* 04/07/23: Hindustan retreated from the Kashmir region following the coming to power of King Ghili.
* 04/07/23: Denmark retreated to the Sjaelland region and changed its name accordingly.
* 07/07/23: Caraketa modified their claims.
* 08/07/23: Cyprus announced their new colonial claims.
* 09/07/23: The Kingdom of Sri Lanka and the Maldives expanded its claim and became the Tamil Kingdom.
* 11/07/23: Cyprus announced the undoing of their overseas claims.

## The Uncertain Era

* 13/07/23: A new member to Magna Terra, Dario Greggio, threatened to start a war in Great Britain by creating a 'fascist-syndicalist' state. This caused great shock in the international community.
* 14/07/23: The Romanian Parliament passes an act approving support of all types to Great Britain.
* 14/07/23: Dario Greggio and his group migrated to Denmark, where they established another fascist state.
* 14/07/23: Sjaelland proclaims a state of emergency following this announcement. Romania pledges its support for Sjaelland.
* 15/07/23: Following debates within the Magna Terra Discord server about fascism, Dario Greggio is banned, having proclaimed himself as an actual fascist. He discussed about how fascism is the realization that not all people are good and that its corporatist economic system is the better option to both capitalism and socialism. However, he mostly discussed with Azephlion and refused to answer other members, albeit some of them violent in their discourse with Dario. He also said that he considers fascism a science as it is the study of the perfect method of governance, however, this claim was more or less rebuked by XiphosS. In the end, he was banned by the server staff. Another one of his arguments for justifying fascism is an infallible ideology was that authority, if it protects your family and you, should not be questioned/is not evil. The debates and the fiery counter-arguments can still be seen in the #general channel of the Magna Terra Discord server.
* 15/07/23: Following the aforementioned ban, Sjaelland ended its state of emergency, with the state's lands no longer being in danger.
* 18/07/23: The Kingdom of the Urals is founded.
* 18/07/23: Nieuw Gelre is founded.
* 20/07/23: The Crown of Czechia claims Silesia and Saxony.
* 20/07/23: A group which arrived on Magna Terra sometime ago began openly preparing for a conflict with the already existing United States of America, wishing to claim some of their lands.
* 20/07/23: The Turkish Crisis begins.
* 21/07/23: The Crimean Crisis begins.
* 21/07/23: The first volume of the Cluj Courier is released.
* 22/07/23: The Crimean Crisis ends officially.
* 23/07/23: The British United Reporting Network (BURN) released its first documentary.
* 23/07/23: The second volume of the Cluj Courier was released.
* 24/07/23: The 'Duck Incident' happens in Persia. Due to this, the Turkish Crisis concludes, the Turks unexpectedly prevailing.
* 24/07/23: Duck joins the United Kingdom.
* 24/07/23: The third volume of the Cluj Courier was released.
* 27/07/23: The Romanian Broadcasting Channel (RBC)'s first broadcast was made public.
* 28/07/23: The BURN released its second documentary.
* 29/07/23: The RBC released its second documentary.
* 31/07/23: The Romanian Leader of Parliament (LP) is deposed by the president XiphosS due to incompetence.
* 31/07/23: Romania and Great Britian both left the Mutual Assistance Compact.
* 04/08/23: 1SeBi3 became the new Romanian LP. A new government was quickly assembled.
* 05/08/23: The Roman province of Noricum declared its independence. The Legio Noricum was created.
* 06/08/23: The Roman province of Tuscia declared its independence. The Worker's Republic of Italy was created.
* 07/08/23: Dommond's Spain claims all of Iberia, starting the 3-way Spanish Civil War.