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The '''Coordinated State of Elwynn''', referred to in official sources often as purely '''Elwynn''', is an [[Imperial State]] of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth. It is noted for its violent and complex history, its significant minority populations, and for its long period of independence from direct Imperial control.
 
The '''Coordinated State of Elwynn''', referred to in official sources often as purely '''Elwynn''', is an [[Imperial State]] of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth. It is noted for its violent and complex history, its significant minority populations, and for its long period of independence from direct Imperial control.
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== Time Line ==
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1356: Kaiser Raynor unites Brookshire and Goldshire, invades Elwynn. In the Battle of Shirekeep, he occupies the Elwynn fork. Elw tribes bravely battle on.
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1443: Imperial Republic of Shireroth founded with Erik II as kaiser.
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1454: Duchy of Elwynn established.
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1469: Hyperborea annexed to Elwynn as barony.
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1478: Eros Darkstar appointed Bard of Elwynn. Hyperborea under Kalir Sethan reaffirms its allegiance to Elwynn and Duchess Mari Greenwood.
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1484: First elections held in Elwynn. Austi Scot, baron of Novi Dalmacija, builds a statue in honour of Mari Greenwood in Novi Dalmacija.
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1487: Kaiser announces plan to demote Elwynn from duchy-status to barony-status and give Hyperborea duchy-status. The Duchy government completely rejects the plan. Hyperborea offers compromise. Kaiser rejects compromise and reiterates his plan. Landsraad votes to demote Elwynn. Elwynn established as barony under the Duchy of Hyperborea.
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1488: Mari Greenwood abdicates in favour of Ardashir. First Babkhi epic on Lest published. Great Osmanid Charter proclaimed. Greenwood and entourage emigrate to Delvenus. Order of the Dead Stag established. Capital punishment reinstated, Hyperborea responds by putting Ardashir under house arrest and overturning all baronial laws, then occuping all of Elwynn. The Duke Rulak of Hyperborea (Locke) then dissolves the Order of the Dead. Babkhan Shah makes a diplomatic protest. Kaiser responds by saying it's a ducal matter, pledges neutrality. Considered the year of Elfinshi genocide.
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1489: Cease-fire called by Ardy. Elf molestations, kitten drownings and puppy burnings are all halted. Ardy's rule restored.
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1494: Donation of Elwynn. Temples of Cedrist worship to Ryvenna and B'caw established in Elwynn. Today's Ryventemple and B'cawshrine.
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1495: Halluci dragons are battered by the East Elwynn Sluices, flee into Goldshire.
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1496. Diplomatic crisis with Goldshire over the White Elwynn. Baron blames Goldshire for river piracy, orders cleansing of river.
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1497: Military engagements with Goldshire.
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1506: Genocide reconciliation and commemorations begins in Count Lyon's tour d'Elwynn.
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1508: Umra Mosque opened in Eliria. Yardistan declares war on Elwynn for lack of collective punishment against the Babkhi community for the Elfinshi genocide. Baron Lyon forms militia. Halluci mass immigration to Illumination begun (along with dragons).
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1509: Elwynnese borders closed to all but citizens of Elwynn, Lac Glacei, Brookshire, Amity, Mirioth, the Grand Commonwealth, Stormark, Cranda and Hallucination. County of Port Illumination established. Amir Osmani makes the Triumphant Folk speech, calls for boycott of Brookshire (under which Elwynn is a barony). Lesser Zjandaria established as Babkhi county (Ardashirshahr, Caligae and Vijayanagara Communes). Lady Vesteralen made a citizen of Elwynn (Not Shireroth) by Baron Lyon, provokes imperial gov and married her. Elwynn raised to duchy, celebrations across the country, meanwhile protests in other parts of Shireroth against the foreignness of Elwynn, boycotts of Elwynnese products. Peace treaty between Yardistan and Elwynn.
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1510: Duke holds discussion with nobles whether to join MSX, gets imperial smackdown. The homo-paedo crisis: Lord Bill of Antya made a joke whereby Ardy and Oz would engage in sex. Oz furious, sues and indicts Bill. Chief Justice Davis hears case, then leaves it for lacking merits. Cease and desist order from Kaiseress Semisa on Vasroie's activities (Matthew Basil. Co-Baron of Port Ill. Byz.).
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1512-1513: Major famine
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1514: Chief Justice Rob Davis dies.
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1516: Andelarion appointed baron of Elwynn.
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1526: Andelarion inherits the throne of the Kingdom of Babkha as "Rashid Shahanshah".
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1533: Kaiser names Harald duke of Elwynn. Elwynn changes name to Froyalan.
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1535: Andelarion, Carol and Nathan of Natopia inducted to the House of Ettlingar Freyu (Shireroth branch). Logthing of Froyalan established and called to session. Asgard calendar made official. K'Tzuni bombs the West Elwynn Dam, Logthing contemplates war.
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1536: Hesam Jahandar named Count of Hyperborea. Duke names Freyja patron goddess of Elwynn/Froyalan, the people respond by mass-demonstrations. Araxion repatriated.
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1542: Harald abdicates, Kaiser Hasan (Hesam) succeeds. Elwynn is restored as name of the duchy and the "Elwynnbrigaden" defence force plays a key part in the "War of Jeremy's Ear". Hasan is shot by Ardashir in Ardashirshahr, Rashid Andelarion succeeds as Kaiser Ayreon. The episodic Ayreon-Loki Civil War that will define Elwynnese public life for the next sixty years begin over the disputed succession to the Mango Throne. Initially the Ayreonist faction prevails. Byzantopol, a city founded by Jahandar exiles employed by Automat Inc. emerges in Bjorngard as a self-regulating polity (robocracy), a precursor to the Raikothian system of Oracles and the modern Coordinated State. Some consider this to be rather disconcerting.
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1543: Wil Nider made duke.
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1544. Kaiser Ayreon commits suicide.
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1546: Iskander Mirkdale named duke of Elwynn. Logthing becomes Council of Eliria.
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1550: Uprising against the Duke, "White Lily Revolt"
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1551: Year of the Four Dukes (Iskander Mirkdale, Jacobus, Rai Avon-El, Andrew Allot). Ayreon finally buried at Cape Farewell. People's Academy established.
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1552: Alumelith massacre (Ohl'tar)
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1553: Ohl'tar Revolt
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1554: Causality War sees the use of the "Narrativity Bomb" on the Ohl'tar infestations in Agnesia and the final extermination of that species.
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1555: Duke Nathan leaves throne to Leo Fenrir. Amokolia war affects Elwynn.
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1556: Ocia bombs Caligae and Civitas Nova.
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1558: Leo abdicates in favour of Isabelle Allot.
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1559: Isabell Allot abdicates in favour of Cho'gall.
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1560: Eliria is temporary war capital of Shireroth
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1562: Duchy of Elwynn destroyed by Kaiser, house system implemented, House of Kalir founded, Daniel Kalirion (former Duke of Brookshire) named patron.
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1567: Declaration of Independence of Elwynn. Daniel Kalirion named president (raes) of the Elwynnese realm.
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1568: Ardashir blows the Elwynnese Congress up in protest at the slow pace of negotiations with Shireroth and also at Lord Erion's continued retention of his own limbs.
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1569: Independence recognized by Shireroth in peace treaty, Shireroth reclaims East Elwynn.
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1570: Lord Erion elected President.
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1572: Amokolia issues its Midnight Declaration, leaves Victoria and joins Elwynn.
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1573: Elwynn and Hurmu merge to become Realm of Elwynn and Hurmu. Provisional government and elections. Persecution of Butter Cow followers in East Elwynn.
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1574: Daniel Kalirion elected Prince of Elwynn and Hurmu.
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1584: Kolmenitzky embassy crisis. Ardashir rehabiliated by Senate.
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1585: Natopia becomes Elwynnese protectorate.
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1586: Daniel Kalirion is assassinated at Cape Farewell. Nathan is elected Prince.
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1587: "Elwynn, Amokolia and Hurmu (Riqi Adurellion" becomes "Union of Elwynn, Amokolia and Hurmu"
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1588: Daniel's son Elijah becomes kaiser of Shireroth as Kaiser Ayreon II, married Prince Nathan of Elwynn.
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1589: Kaspar Soleiman takes the Senate hostage. Prince Nathan killed.
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1590: Elijah Ayreon elected Prince of Elwynn. "Union of Elwynn, Amokolia and Hurmu" becomes "Elwynnese Union"
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1592: Elijah Ayreon declines re-election, Aaden Allot elected prince. Normark joins the Elwynnese Union. Raspur Pact signed.
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1593: Nau is adopted by Elijah and Nathan.
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1594: Aaden Allot impeached and removed, Luix Rakira ruling Steward. Air Mango incident, bombings in East Elwynn and the Absentias
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1595: Elijah Ayreon elected Prince once more.
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1597: Albion admitted as UT. East Amokolia Act reduces Amokolian UT's territory and gives it to Elwynn proper. Elijah Ayreon declines re-election, Tarjei Einhornsson elected Prince against Jacobus Loki but Constitutional Coup backed by Shireroth sees the Usurper take power instead.
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1598: Omnitree Group nationalized by Govt. Mass protests. Normark declares independence. Elijah Ayreon murdered by Sisera in Wahlstadt. Misguided messianic cults begin to proliferate.
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1599: Hurmu independence from Elwynn.
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1600: Treaty of Unification with Shireroth ratified, Soreaa Isurui made Secretary of the State in the provisional government.Tirlar, Albion and Amokolia made independent.
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1601. New constitution enacted. Deimos Jasonides elected prince. Congressional elections.
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1602: The Cabbage Plague sees the ecology of the lower reaches of the Blue and White Elwynn Rivers devastated. The Red Elwynn becomes utterly devoid of life. Owing to the high levels of accumulated toxicity, the populations of Shirekeep, the Imperial County and the County of Lesser Zjandaria rapidly succumb to an aggressive strain of the Barentsz-Melang Syndrome (Brassicosis) previously only documented in Leng and the Absentias. "Triumph of Rrakanychan" painted by an excitable Batavian artist based on lurid eye-witness accounts; southern regions of the State of Elwynn destabilised and the Quarantine enforced by General Royston Merrick necessitated increasing military interventions into the Imperial County.
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1603: "Restoration of the People's Government", congressional elections follow an unsuccessful putsch staged by Merrick, the first - self-styled - Conducător.
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1604: Constitutional Coup by Stewardess Soreaa Isurui. Deimos voted out , Nathaniel elected prince.
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1605: Nathaniel/Soreaa deposed, Coordinated-Government instituted by second Conducător Daniel Simrani-Kalirion, Nathaniel remains nominal prince. Constitution is placed into venerated-occultation and replaced by the Charter of Coordination. The Counties are replaced by 182 Bailiwicks with authority devolved to Governors and Municipal Guild Corporations supervised by Wardens in Elwynn Proper and the Marches (Northern, Eastern and finally Western). Communism declared and the State refuses to recognise or accept transactions in fiat currency. Private wealth and ownership permitted to continue.
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1606: Remaining Corporations nationalised. All private wealth confiscated and remaining money withdrawn from circulation and effectively outlawed. Black Market proliferates.
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1607: Nathaniel declared dead. Daniel Simrani-Kalirion elected Prince. Purges of the Guild of Aldermen by the Court of the Prince and the Court of Star Chamber target the last remnants of the landowning feudal gentry and the formerly capital owning bourgeoisie. Replaced by elite technocratic leadership cadres chosen by merit. Charles Froughton made subject to Pastoral Care Order and dies of an unexpected heart attack. Disorder in the Bailiwick of Fieldberg.
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1608: Third Congressional Elections sees Nationalist & Humanist Party remain the largest party but lose overall majority. Coalition negotiations begin. Court of Star Chamber begins reviewing suitability of congressmen elected to represent Conservative & Republican Party. The Kingsgate Treaty of Non-Aggression and Cooperation signed between the Coordinated State and the neighbouring Duchy of Goldshire on Eljere, 11 Elroqpinu 1608.
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Revision as of 20:59, 19 January 2014

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Motto: {{{motto}}}
Feudal Status: Imperial State
Capital: Eliria
Largest Cities: Ardashirshahr, Islus, Allswell, Vijayanagara, Glenfiddich

Local Leadership Title: Conducator
Local Government: Coordinated State
Current leader: Daniel Simrani-Kalirion

Local language: Elw, Babki, Praeta Sxirothes, Inglisi (Common)
Local Religion: Tressian Unorthodoxy, Zurvanism, Constitutionalism

The Coordinated State of Elwynn, referred to in official sources often as purely Elwynn, is an Imperial State of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth. It is noted for its violent and complex history, its significant minority populations, and for its long period of independence from direct Imperial control.


Time Line

1356: Kaiser Raynor unites Brookshire and Goldshire, invades Elwynn. In the Battle of Shirekeep, he occupies the Elwynn fork. Elw tribes bravely battle on.

1443: Imperial Republic of Shireroth founded with Erik II as kaiser.

1454: Duchy of Elwynn established.

1469: Hyperborea annexed to Elwynn as barony.

1478: Eros Darkstar appointed Bard of Elwynn. Hyperborea under Kalir Sethan reaffirms its allegiance to Elwynn and Duchess Mari Greenwood.

1484: First elections held in Elwynn. Austi Scot, baron of Novi Dalmacija, builds a statue in honour of Mari Greenwood in Novi Dalmacija.

1487: Kaiser announces plan to demote Elwynn from duchy-status to barony-status and give Hyperborea duchy-status. The Duchy government completely rejects the plan. Hyperborea offers compromise. Kaiser rejects compromise and reiterates his plan. Landsraad votes to demote Elwynn. Elwynn established as barony under the Duchy of Hyperborea.

1488: Mari Greenwood abdicates in favour of Ardashir. First Babkhi epic on Lest published. Great Osmanid Charter proclaimed. Greenwood and entourage emigrate to Delvenus. Order of the Dead Stag established. Capital punishment reinstated, Hyperborea responds by putting Ardashir under house arrest and overturning all baronial laws, then occuping all of Elwynn. The Duke Rulak of Hyperborea (Locke) then dissolves the Order of the Dead. Babkhan Shah makes a diplomatic protest. Kaiser responds by saying it's a ducal matter, pledges neutrality. Considered the year of Elfinshi genocide.

1489: Cease-fire called by Ardy. Elf molestations, kitten drownings and puppy burnings are all halted. Ardy's rule restored.

1494: Donation of Elwynn. Temples of Cedrist worship to Ryvenna and B'caw established in Elwynn. Today's Ryventemple and B'cawshrine.

1495: Halluci dragons are battered by the East Elwynn Sluices, flee into Goldshire.

1496. Diplomatic crisis with Goldshire over the White Elwynn. Baron blames Goldshire for river piracy, orders cleansing of river.

1497: Military engagements with Goldshire.

1506: Genocide reconciliation and commemorations begins in Count Lyon's tour d'Elwynn.

1508: Umra Mosque opened in Eliria. Yardistan declares war on Elwynn for lack of collective punishment against the Babkhi community for the Elfinshi genocide. Baron Lyon forms militia. Halluci mass immigration to Illumination begun (along with dragons).

1509: Elwynnese borders closed to all but citizens of Elwynn, Lac Glacei, Brookshire, Amity, Mirioth, the Grand Commonwealth, Stormark, Cranda and Hallucination. County of Port Illumination established. Amir Osmani makes the Triumphant Folk speech, calls for boycott of Brookshire (under which Elwynn is a barony). Lesser Zjandaria established as Babkhi county (Ardashirshahr, Caligae and Vijayanagara Communes). Lady Vesteralen made a citizen of Elwynn (Not Shireroth) by Baron Lyon, provokes imperial gov and married her. Elwynn raised to duchy, celebrations across the country, meanwhile protests in other parts of Shireroth against the foreignness of Elwynn, boycotts of Elwynnese products. Peace treaty between Yardistan and Elwynn.

1510: Duke holds discussion with nobles whether to join MSX, gets imperial smackdown. The homo-paedo crisis: Lord Bill of Antya made a joke whereby Ardy and Oz would engage in sex. Oz furious, sues and indicts Bill. Chief Justice Davis hears case, then leaves it for lacking merits. Cease and desist order from Kaiseress Semisa on Vasroie's activities (Matthew Basil. Co-Baron of Port Ill. Byz.).

1512-1513: Major famine

1514: Chief Justice Rob Davis dies.

1516: Andelarion appointed baron of Elwynn.

1526: Andelarion inherits the throne of the Kingdom of Babkha as "Rashid Shahanshah".

1533: Kaiser names Harald duke of Elwynn. Elwynn changes name to Froyalan.

1535: Andelarion, Carol and Nathan of Natopia inducted to the House of Ettlingar Freyu (Shireroth branch). Logthing of Froyalan established and called to session. Asgard calendar made official. K'Tzuni bombs the West Elwynn Dam, Logthing contemplates war.

1536: Hesam Jahandar named Count of Hyperborea. Duke names Freyja patron goddess of Elwynn/Froyalan, the people respond by mass-demonstrations. Araxion repatriated.

1542: Harald abdicates, Kaiser Hasan (Hesam) succeeds. Elwynn is restored as name of the duchy and the "Elwynnbrigaden" defence force plays a key part in the "War of Jeremy's Ear". Hasan is shot by Ardashir in Ardashirshahr, Rashid Andelarion succeeds as Kaiser Ayreon. The episodic Ayreon-Loki Civil War that will define Elwynnese public life for the next sixty years begin over the disputed succession to the Mango Throne. Initially the Ayreonist faction prevails. Byzantopol, a city founded by Jahandar exiles employed by Automat Inc. emerges in Bjorngard as a self-regulating polity (robocracy), a precursor to the Raikothian system of Oracles and the modern Coordinated State. Some consider this to be rather disconcerting.

1543: Wil Nider made duke.

1544. Kaiser Ayreon commits suicide.

1546: Iskander Mirkdale named duke of Elwynn. Logthing becomes Council of Eliria.

1550: Uprising against the Duke, "White Lily Revolt"

1551: Year of the Four Dukes (Iskander Mirkdale, Jacobus, Rai Avon-El, Andrew Allot). Ayreon finally buried at Cape Farewell. People's Academy established.

1552: Alumelith massacre (Ohl'tar)

1553: Ohl'tar Revolt

1554: Causality War sees the use of the "Narrativity Bomb" on the Ohl'tar infestations in Agnesia and the final extermination of that species.

1555: Duke Nathan leaves throne to Leo Fenrir. Amokolia war affects Elwynn.

1556: Ocia bombs Caligae and Civitas Nova.

1558: Leo abdicates in favour of Isabelle Allot.

1559: Isabell Allot abdicates in favour of Cho'gall.

1560: Eliria is temporary war capital of Shireroth

1562: Duchy of Elwynn destroyed by Kaiser, house system implemented, House of Kalir founded, Daniel Kalirion (former Duke of Brookshire) named patron.

1567: Declaration of Independence of Elwynn. Daniel Kalirion named president (raes) of the Elwynnese realm.

1568: Ardashir blows the Elwynnese Congress up in protest at the slow pace of negotiations with Shireroth and also at Lord Erion's continued retention of his own limbs.

1569: Independence recognized by Shireroth in peace treaty, Shireroth reclaims East Elwynn.

1570: Lord Erion elected President.

1572: Amokolia issues its Midnight Declaration, leaves Victoria and joins Elwynn.

1573: Elwynn and Hurmu merge to become Realm of Elwynn and Hurmu. Provisional government and elections. Persecution of Butter Cow followers in East Elwynn.

1574: Daniel Kalirion elected Prince of Elwynn and Hurmu.

1584: Kolmenitzky embassy crisis. Ardashir rehabiliated by Senate.

1585: Natopia becomes Elwynnese protectorate.

1586: Daniel Kalirion is assassinated at Cape Farewell. Nathan is elected Prince.

1587: "Elwynn, Amokolia and Hurmu (Riqi Adurellion" becomes "Union of Elwynn, Amokolia and Hurmu"

1588: Daniel's son Elijah becomes kaiser of Shireroth as Kaiser Ayreon II, married Prince Nathan of Elwynn.

1589: Kaspar Soleiman takes the Senate hostage. Prince Nathan killed.

1590: Elijah Ayreon elected Prince of Elwynn. "Union of Elwynn, Amokolia and Hurmu" becomes "Elwynnese Union"

1592: Elijah Ayreon declines re-election, Aaden Allot elected prince. Normark joins the Elwynnese Union. Raspur Pact signed.

1593: Nau is adopted by Elijah and Nathan.

1594: Aaden Allot impeached and removed, Luix Rakira ruling Steward. Air Mango incident, bombings in East Elwynn and the Absentias

1595: Elijah Ayreon elected Prince once more.

1597: Albion admitted as UT. East Amokolia Act reduces Amokolian UT's territory and gives it to Elwynn proper. Elijah Ayreon declines re-election, Tarjei Einhornsson elected Prince against Jacobus Loki but Constitutional Coup backed by Shireroth sees the Usurper take power instead.

1598: Omnitree Group nationalized by Govt. Mass protests. Normark declares independence. Elijah Ayreon murdered by Sisera in Wahlstadt. Misguided messianic cults begin to proliferate.

1599: Hurmu independence from Elwynn.

1600: Treaty of Unification with Shireroth ratified, Soreaa Isurui made Secretary of the State in the provisional government.Tirlar, Albion and Amokolia made independent.

1601. New constitution enacted. Deimos Jasonides elected prince. Congressional elections.

1602: The Cabbage Plague sees the ecology of the lower reaches of the Blue and White Elwynn Rivers devastated. The Red Elwynn becomes utterly devoid of life. Owing to the high levels of accumulated toxicity, the populations of Shirekeep, the Imperial County and the County of Lesser Zjandaria rapidly succumb to an aggressive strain of the Barentsz-Melang Syndrome (Brassicosis) previously only documented in Leng and the Absentias. "Triumph of Rrakanychan" painted by an excitable Batavian artist based on lurid eye-witness accounts; southern regions of the State of Elwynn destabilised and the Quarantine enforced by General Royston Merrick necessitated increasing military interventions into the Imperial County.

1603: "Restoration of the People's Government", congressional elections follow an unsuccessful putsch staged by Merrick, the first - self-styled - Conducător.

1604: Constitutional Coup by Stewardess Soreaa Isurui. Deimos voted out , Nathaniel elected prince.

1605: Nathaniel/Soreaa deposed, Coordinated-Government instituted by second Conducător Daniel Simrani-Kalirion, Nathaniel remains nominal prince. Constitution is placed into venerated-occultation and replaced by the Charter of Coordination. The Counties are replaced by 182 Bailiwicks with authority devolved to Governors and Municipal Guild Corporations supervised by Wardens in Elwynn Proper and the Marches (Northern, Eastern and finally Western). Communism declared and the State refuses to recognise or accept transactions in fiat currency. Private wealth and ownership permitted to continue.

1606: Remaining Corporations nationalised. All private wealth confiscated and remaining money withdrawn from circulation and effectively outlawed. Black Market proliferates.

1607: Nathaniel declared dead. Daniel Simrani-Kalirion elected Prince. Purges of the Guild of Aldermen by the Court of the Prince and the Court of Star Chamber target the last remnants of the landowning feudal gentry and the formerly capital owning bourgeoisie. Replaced by elite technocratic leadership cadres chosen by merit. Charles Froughton made subject to Pastoral Care Order and dies of an unexpected heart attack. Disorder in the Bailiwick of Fieldberg.

1608: Third Congressional Elections sees Nationalist & Humanist Party remain the largest party but lose overall majority. Coalition negotiations begin. Court of Star Chamber begins reviewing suitability of congressmen elected to represent Conservative & Republican Party. The Kingsgate Treaty of Non-Aggression and Cooperation signed between the Coordinated State and the neighbouring Duchy of Goldshire on Eljere, 11 Elroqpinu 1608.