HISTORICAL TIMELINE
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1343
Grand Prince Barak III of Navsland set sail in a grand fleet of 2000 adventurer warriors and exiles. He had announced to explore the world in search of new trade partners and spread the name of Navsland. At the end of his journey, he promised a new realm to permanently extend Navslandian reach.
1345
FEBRUARY
Barak and his army arrive in Kian. They invade the Free City of Westria. In the Battle of Bonabahari Beach, Barak's 2000-strong forces triumphed over Sea Lord Édouard Sartre's army of 1500. Citizens fled as Navslandian warriors pillaged the city. In the aftermath, new rulers announced guarantees for the protection of Gallatic residents (ethnic Valencians).
JULY
Barak founded the Grand Duchy of Westria. An advisory council was created to bargain duties and regulations, primarily taxation, with representatives of Gallatic burghers.
SEPTEMBER
The lack of competent writers in formal Navish script forced Barak to rely on Siti Wa Okeke, his Mtunzi Royal. In addition to her role as court historian, she helped Barak administer official edicts and other decisions on realm management. She learned Valence Santonian to translate the Grand Prince's proclamations to the native Gallatics. Her formative tenure under Barak's reign shaped the modern role of Imtunzi in Jasundia.
1347
Presumed dead, Nevin X succeeded Barak III as the new grand prince in Navsland.
1348
New ships commissioned for a grand trade fleet. A sea ban was enacted and all trading with overseas merchants ceased.
1354
SEPTEMBER
A foreign fleet full of exotic goods arrived in Navsland. Due to the Sea Ban enacted by Grand Prince Nevin X, port authorities tried to turn away the ships. They were confused to see Navish symbols on the fleet's sails. The Grand Steward was dispatched to inspect the fleet. It was discovered the Gallatic crew was commanded by the original captains of Barak's fleet. At the capital, they personally delivered a message to Nevin. In it, Barak wrote the success of his journey and claimed the trade fleet's cargo were native products of his new realm. He named the Kian continent "Jasiri Dunia Mpya." It means "brave new world." Barak invited Nevin to chart new sea routes between Navsland and Westria.
1356
MARCH
Trade fleet sent to Navsland finally returned to Westria. The captains report their journey to Barak. Nevin agreed to amend the sea ban for restricted trade with Westria. Only court-sanctioned traders participated.
MAY
Navslandian lieutenants had begun replacing the Gallatic burgher elite in key leadership roles, coordinated by the Mtzuni Royal. Despite this, a large number of Gallatics retained their positions to minimize interruption in realm transactions. Membership in Barak's privy council included both Navslandian and Gallatic elite.
JULY
The new Navslandian rulers in Westria created unease in the region. To improve their reputation, top military commanders formed mercenary bands and offered services to nearby city-states and kingdoms. Barak founded the Children of Nya, hand-picked mercenaries that adopted Northern chivalry into Navslandian martial tradition.
1360
Construction of the new city harbor for Westria commenced.
1370
The new Westria harbor was completed. It added new piers, facilities, fortified coastal defenses, and a grand shipyard. A network of canals was built around the Westrian River to connect the harbor to the inner city. The increased capacity of the city's harbor attracted traders in neighboring cities and towns to facilitate commerce in Westria. The city became a major port in the region.
1387
JANUARY
Grand Prince Barak III and I of Navsland and Westria died in an accident. He was succeeded by Grand Duke Barak II.
APRIL
Westria joined the Occidental League, a commercial and defense confederation of city-states
1395
The first Navslandian trade post was built in Westria. Stationed merchants founded an enclave settlement northeast of the city, close to the harbor. The local Gallatics named it "Neustria." For its inhabitants, they called them "Noirs." It was based on Jasiri Dunia Mpya, the Navish name for Kian. Before it became the nation's name, the term originally referred to locals descended from Navslandian migrants.
1423
Grand Duke Zaki I married Queen Méraud of Gallatin.
1435
There were an estimated 4,000-6,000 Navslandians that lived in Westria.
1456
Grand Duke Zaki I declared war on the Kingdom of Oriens to seize the port province of Des Arc. The 1st Battle of Semmes was initially won by King Charles III's combined forces of 4,000 soldiers and mercenaries.
1457
JULY
The 2nd Battle of Semmes concluded in a decisive victory for Zaki. 1,500 reinforcements from Gallatin helped turn the tide against Oriens.
NOVEMBER
3,000 Westrian soldiers marched into the capital city, Semmes. Charles capitulated to Zaki's demands.
1458
Queen Méraud of Gallatin died. Her daughter, Faustine, inherited the throne.
1460
Zaki I died. His son, Zaki II, became grand duke.
1483
Westria formed a personal union with the Kingdom of Gallatin. Zaki II inherited the throne upon the death of his sister, Queen Faustine.
1484
King Zaki asserted Gallatin claims to Oriens and declared war. He led 7,300 Gallatin and Westrian soldiers to battle against King Charles IV's army of 6,000. Charles was able to slow the advance of Zaki's forces. This gave time for hired mercenaries from Valencia to provide reinforcements.
1485
Zaki's victory in Oriens attracted Navslandian warriors to become mercenaries and create new bands.
1486
OCTOBER
The equal number of victories and losses between Gallatin and Oriens made a stalemate increasingly apparent. With resources nearly exhausted, white peace was favored by both sides. In the 4th Battle of La Petite Roche, Zaki was able to capture Charles.
DECEMBER
Charles abdicated the throne of Oriens. Zaki was proclaimed "King of Gallatin, Oriens, Duke of Westria." The Collège Général (later Kolèj Jeneral), the Oriens legislature, informed Zaki that during his coronation ceremony, he had signed the Caroline Articles. It prevented the King of Oriens from issuing new laws without the consent of the nobility and guaranteed representation in the Collège Général.
1497
Emperor Zaki of the Gallatics
Leaders of the Occidental League assembled to proclaim Zaki as Emperor of the Gallatics in an "election by adoration." In acceptance, Zaki and his successors had to sign a Pacta Conventa or articles of agreement. In it, the Occidental aristocracy laid out the terms and conditions for every reign. The Collège Général refused to accept the Pacta Conventa as Oriens law unless the Caroline Articles were re-negotiated to include the realms of Gallatin and Westria. Zaki conceded and signed the new articles.
1500
Port records and manorial surveys indicated that around 10,000-20,000 Navslandians permanently settled since 1370.
1512
New inland routes to McMasterdonia and Stakhr led to increased attacks from the Berezaiti bandits, Mehrabist nomads native to the fallen Kianese realm of Harā Bṛzatī.
1520
Frequent Berezaiti raids on border towns disrupted trade in important routes. To eliminate the threat, Emperor Sefa I invaded the Berezaiti heartlands. 10,000 Berezaiti warriors clashed with the Gallatic forces' 11,000 soldiers. The Berezaiti were pushed south across the Three Sisters Rivers, where they held their ground and defeated the Gallatic invaders.
1524
After the failed Red Turbans Rebellion in Navsland, hundreds of rebels evaded capture and escaped to the Gallatic Empire. They were called the "Bantreaders." It was later used to call subsequent political migrants.
1526
Sefa I surrounded the remaining Berezaiti nomads in the Kafkuh ruins, the old Harā Bṛzatī capital. In total defeat, they pledged their lands and allegiance to him.
1592
Qumran was conquered by Empress Nya after the Fall of Alamein, the seat of the Salman sultans.
1593
The Turan toll monopoly on routes to McMasterdonia had long antagonized Gallatic merchants. The Kolèj Jeneral demanded military action from Nya. 5,000 Gallatic soldiers were rallied at Turan's borders. Its sheikh, Reza Salaad, pre-emptively negotiated his surrender to Gallatic rule. Sheikh Reza's Pledges set the permanent contract that protected the religious rights of Turan's Mehrabist subjects. The contract extended to all Mehrabist people in the Gallatic Empire.
1612
MARCH
The Doctrine of Four Nations culminated into the state, referred to by historians as the Nobles' Commonwealth, where the imatushuja (lit. "princes"; noble class) consolidated its power over the Emperor. The Carolines Articles merged with the Pacta Conventa and Sheikh Reza's Pledges. Regardless of their ethnicity and religion, the aristocracies of the Gallatic Empire held equal rights and privileges.
Empress Nya agreed, in addition to convoking the Kolèj Jeneral every two years, to govern under the supervision of a grand council (Barazakuu Elfuimbili) elected from the Kolèj. The Kolèj maintained a standing army for the defense of the Commonwealth and can veto almost all state affairs such as war declarations, imperial marriages, and taxes. In case of tyranny, the imatushuja: Nobility, clergy, cities, and military forces in the Commonwealth can form legal rebellions against state authority. They could also unite as confederations in the absence of state authority to maintain order and protect each of the country's regions against external threats.
NOVEMBER
Nya's refusal to sign a new law to replace hereditary imperial succession with elective monarchy forced the Kolèj Jeneral to disobey the Empress. Her orders to suspend the Kolèj session were ignored. The Uasi Wa Utukufu (Glorious Rebellion) started.
1614
Empress Nya and Kolèj Jeneral came to a compromise. Candidates for the new elective monarchy were limited to the imperial house and imatushuja descendants of the 2000 warriors from Grand Prince Barak's expedition. Many of the original 2000 intermarried with the local aristocracy, the majority comprised the Gallatic upper classes. The Uasi Wa Utukufu ended. In celebration, Imtunzi Tabari Lekoye described the renewed doctrine where "our state is a nobles' republic under the presidency of the Emperor."
1650
Sefa II dropped Navish as an official court language. Kijasundi became the primary language of the Gallatic court. Valence Santonian was restricted to rural Gallatic offices.
1764
An estimated 600,000 Noirs lived in the Gallatic Empire. There were 4,500,000 Gallatics and 750,000 Kianese (Berezaitis, Turanis, and Qumranis). The total population supposedly amounted to 5,850,000 people.
1775
Emperor Sefa III was embroiled in a border dispute with the Kingdom of Valencia. Disagreements with the Kolèj Jeneral over the use of the standing army in border skirmishes forced Sefa to hire mercenaries instead. Kolèj Jeneral threatened rebellion until he ceased the skirmishes. Sefa refused.
1778
After a supposed compromise, Sefa was invited to announce the agreements in the opening of the Kolèj Jeneral. He never arrived at the appointed time. Confused members of the Kolèj either left or stayed to await the Emperor's arrival. An explosion in the undercroft, directly under the Kolèj's debate chamber, killed hundreds of Kolèj members and hundreds more injured. Sefa had gathered loyalists in front of his palace balcony to proclaim his imperial authority was supreme over the Kolèj Jeneral. He ordered the arrest of the Kolèj and repealed the Caroline Articles.
1783
Sefa was captured by the Kolèj Jeneral standing army. He was executed, and with him, abolished the Gallatic Empire, in a grand ceremony to proclaim the Occidental Republic. The Caroline Articles were enshrined in the new constitution.
1784
On the 1st Anniversary of the Republic's founding, the once united imatushuja found they had little in common within their own ranks. Kolèj Jeneral raised questions on cultural uniformity and the future of religious tolerance. The disappearance of a powerful, central authority ended the balancing act between aristocratic privileges and the state. Now that the aristocracy governed the state on its own right, Noirs, Gallatics, Berezaitis, Turanis, and Qumranis were competing for power against each other.
1786
Gallatic imatushuja, motivated by their Courantist beliefs, condemned the Noir imatushuja for their heretic religion. They criticized Navism, mainly its homosexuality, polygamy, and polytheism. The Berezaiti, Turani, and Qumrani imatushuja united in their opinion that there can be no compromise with the Noirs if they do not convert to either Courantism or Mehrabism. Otherwise, the Courantist and Mehrabist imatushuja should question the legitimacy of the Noir imatushuja as their equals.
1791
APRIL
Noir imatushuja were blocked from entry into the Kolèj Jeneral chambers. The other imatushuja, both Gallatics and Kianese, arrived earlier to vote for the removal of Noir imatushuja from the Kolèj. They voted unanimously in its favor. In the coming weeks, the Navslandian imatushuja started forming confederations to prepare for legal rebellions. After they lost privileges to attend the Kolèj, their rebellions were recognized as treason without parley.
AUGUST
Gallatin, Westria, and the elite paramilitaries joined the side of the Noir imatushuja and rallied 200,000 forces against the Kolèj Jeneral's 150,000-strong standing army. The Occidental Civil War began.
OCTOBER
Imani Zaki, Duke of Westria, reached out to Navsland for support. Grand Prince Akida Adiah Nevin granted financial backing for strategic reasons. The Gallatic region under Noir rule served as an entrepôt between isolated Navsland and the outside world.
1803
MARCH
The Kolèj Jeneral surrendered to the Duke of Westria. Despite calls for reconciliation, the Noir imatushuja decided on a purge. Every lord who supported the Kolèj Jeneral was stripped of their titles and banished. The acting Imtunzi, the Barazakuu Elfuimbili, the Speaker, all leading figures of the Kolèj Jeneral were executed. As a result, the Gallatics and Kianese peerage lost the majority both legislatively and demographically to the Noir imatushuja. The Occidental Civil War ended.
APRIL
Pro-Kolèj Rebellion newspapers were shut down. Censorship was imposed to prevent seditious language in printed works.
DECEMBER
The first standardized Kijasundi dictionary was published by Mune Olewakorie.
1804
Suspicion towards former Kolèj rebel territories, concentrated in Oriens, reached mass hysteria. Mobs attacked businesses and residents. The riots spiraled out of control. It caused the Great Fire of Semmes. The fire razed the city center to the ground and killed hundreds of people. Reports on the number of lives lost ranged between 25,000 and 100,000. In the aftermath of what has become known as the 1804 Rape of Oriens, 300,000 Gallatics left the country. Some fled the violence in the cities for safe haven in the rural, uninhabited lands of Harā Bṛzatī and Qumran.
1806
The exodus of Gallatics from Oriens left an employment crisis, especially in Semmes and other major cities in the region. The Occidental government began to coordinate the recruitment of foreign skilled workers from other Ubgandian countries. These included Astragon and Demescia. 90,000 applicants were accepted.
Only migrants from Navsland were not limited to skilled workers. Navslandian migration was subsidized to settle in Harā Bṛzatī and Qumran.
1804
Inquires by craft guilds on artisan workshops and work mills reveal many young apprentices, especially children from the street, worked on unsupervised contracts and excessive hours. The Kolèj Jeneral passed the 14-hour workday limit and abolished night work for apprenticeships.
1813
A disastrous coal mine accident in Oriens killed dozens and injured hundreds. The Barazakuu Elfuimbili issued an executive decree for the creation of a miners' fund. A special allowance funded by employers and workers to cover the healthcare expenses of incapacitated and disabled miners.
1829
The reinforcement of the sea ban in Navsland stopped migration to the Occidental Republic. Since 1806, around 120,000 have successfully migrated.
1830
Occidental Republic standardizes trade with Navsland. Occidental livre became a dominant trade currency in Navslandian coastal cities.
1866
The study of evolution theory became popular in the Occidental scientific community and aristocratic circles. Proponents of Social Evolutionism, a social theory that believes humans are also subject to natural selection, argue welfare, labor standards, and psychiatric hospitals help "inferior humans" prosper at the expense of opportunities available for "superior humans."
Noir interest in scientific racism led to the development of Ubgandian Dominionism. It claimed the Ubgandian people were genetically superior to other humans, particularly in physical strength. Its evidence was based on the history of warrior culture and athleticism in Ubgandian nations. Nationalist groups rallied around this racial ideology.
1867
Construction for the Trans-Oceanic Railway began.
1870
Since 1804, 1 million Gallatics emigrated from the Occidental Republic.
1875
The Trans-Oceanic Railway was finished. With a length of 3,100 km2, the rail network runs from Plaisance on its Kian Sea coast to the port of Bandar Beyla on the Sahora Ocean.
1913
Between 1881 and 1913, Ubgandian arrivals (Navsland excluded) have amounted to 600,000.
1931
There were 31,528,000 people in Jasundia.
1945
The increased deficit spending tripled money supplies at an unsustainable rate. The currency crashed and high inflation set in. The Crisis of 1945 began.
1947
MAY
The Gallatic and Kianese peoples took to the streets in a nationwide demonstration for greater political representation and the restoration of exiled imatushuja from the Occidental Civil War. Violence erupted between protestors and soldiers. There were numerous deaths, notably in the Imperial and Royal University of Saint-Marcellin, where 54 people were killed in the chaos.
OCTOBER
Tahlik Xukun, Marquis de Samatar
Tahlil Xukun, Marquis de Samatar, entered the public eye. He preferred to be addressed by his doctorate in psychology, Dr. Xukun. As the leader of Pati Evolisyonis Nasyonal ("National Evolutionist Party"; Pevon), he blamed the May Riots on the Via and foreign Mehrabist clerics.
1949
JANUARY
Jobs reports between 1945 and 1949 revealed 2.2 million people were laid off. Crisis of 1945 ended but its effects lingered.
MARCH
On top of a worsening economic situation, reports of corruption plagued the government. After a vote of no confidence in the Kolèj Jeneral, Pevon gained an increased membership in its ranks, mainly from government defectors. Soon, they negotiated a coalition to form the new government. Tahlil Xukun joined the Barazakuu Elfuimbili as Minister of Internal Affairs. In his first order of business, Dr. Xukun became the inaugural executive of Administrasyon Eta a pou amoni relijye (State Administration for Religious Harmony, ATAPOR). Pevon's security platform required direct control of the country's religions.
Under ATAPOR, state-approved organizations were assigned to supervise each religion. They approved religious appointments and texts, among other central policies of a denomination. These organizations included Asosyasyon Patriyotik Corantis Jasundyen (Jasundian Courantist Patriotic Association) and Asosyasyon Merabis nan Jasundia (Mehrabist Association of Jasundia).
Dr. Xukun enacted Tasfsirification. It processed the localization of religious ceremonies and scriptures. He argued the use of unique languages in religion was abused to spread foreign influence. On that end, Tasfsirification removed foreign priests and clerics from religious services.
APRIL
Pevon released a new party manifesto based on Multiracialism, Social Evolutionism, Social Feudalism, and Ubgandian Dominionism. It described National Evolutionism as the "perfect union of science and tradition." It declared hereditary rule was the natural state of mankind. Dr. Xukun explained that the "strong inherit the earth and shepherd the weak." The imatushuja, as the noble class, had the natural responsibility to take care of the lower classes. As such, sovereignty is solely exercised by the imatushuja. Political representation is a privilege, not a right. Democracy is unnatural but tolerated to an extent to deputize certain responsibilities to the people. While meritocracy can be celebrated for its efficiency, the aristocracy is the eternal guardian that prevents dangerous changes in society.
In race relations, Pevon recognized their unique identities as important assets to the country's diversity. To preserve each culture, Pevon proposed sistèm nchi (Homeland system). Self-governing territories or nchi would be granted to the Gallatic and Kianese peoples where they could pass their own laws. A dual legal system would be implemented to accommodate the establishment of separate courts and legislatures for the different cultures. Other policies of sistèm nchi included anti-miscegenation and denaturalization laws (separate nationality). The entire process was going to be voluntary.
1950
JANUARY
Panya Akerele's 4-year plan
A 4-year economic recovery plan was announced. It featured three megaprojects: Kivuko Cha Wavalenki (New capital city), Kian Industrial Zone, and H-25 Highway Project. H-25 runs 710 km2 long, starting in Kivuko Cha Wavalenki and ending in Semmes (Oriens capital). Economic minister Panya Akerele proposed the revitalize the old industrial center in the north to solve unemployment and centralize economic development in that region, away from McMasterdonia in the west and Socialist Stakhr in the east. For the longest time, much of the country's industrial growth shifted southward, concentrated in Turan and surrounding areas.
The Kian Industrial Region covers 84,852 km2 and spans the Kingdom of Gallatin, the Kingdom of Oriens, the Duchy of Des Arc, and 9 other grand duchies, duchies, principalities, and free cities.
JUNE
Sistèm nchi began. The Occidental Republic was renamed the Republic of Jasundia.
JULY
Stakhr, The Imperium, and Valencia imposed sanctions. Valencia offered asylum to persecuted Gallatics and Kianese peoples.
1953
The decline of foreign investment made Navsland, with its uncompetitive economy, one of the top 10 foreign investors in Jasundia. Other major investors included Mondari and Scalvia.
1955
4-Year Plan completed. Capital city moved from Westria to Kivuko Cha Wavalenki. The government released a new, 15-year economic plan to cover a specific branch of the economy.
1970
APRIL
1: Kapiśi Territorial Authority 2: Saint-Marcellin-en-Bereza
1: Nouvelle-Oriens 2: Shahanshahstan 3: Rivière-la-Nouvelle
Between 1950 and 1970, sistèm nchi successfully resettled 1,701,728 Gallatics and 679,880 Kianese to the nchi territories in the Harā Bṛzatī and Qumran regions. Reports of forceful evictions were exaggerated.
Many applicants joined sistèm peyi due to poverty. The state also identified candidates for relocation on national security grounds. A significant number of the relocated peoples were fundamentalists. They openly expressed extremist views and vowed violence against Noirs. As a final solution, fundamentalists were relocated to separate them from the general population.
In the north, the upper and middle-class Gallatics and Kianese were designated "fully assimilated," hailed as "models of the ideal multiracial society."
MAY
Scalvian government imposed an investment ban on Jasundia.
1975
Mintoria ended diplomatic ties with Jasundia.
1983
Tardine imposed sanctions on Jasundia.
1991
Mondari ended diplomatic ties with Jasundia.
2006
JULY
Scalvia ended diplomatic ties with Jasundia. The Scalvian government made an official apology to victims of sistèm nchi.
2018
JUNE
According to a 2018 census, 3.3 million people lived in the nchi territories. 51 million nchi nationals resided in Jasundia proper, the majority belonged to the lower class.
It was recorded that 85% of Gallatics were poor. Only 15% were middle class and the rich comprised a meager 1%. For the Kianese, 53% lived below the poverty line. 37% were part of the middle class. 10% of Kianese were in the upper class.
