Chronology of the Portland Aftermath Game:
The Years of Chaos 1985 - 2004

1985

May 12
Mikhail Gorbachev is toppled from the General Secretaryship of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union for being too radical. He is shot in the basement of the Lubyanka Prison that evening, as detachments of troops loyal to his regime attempt a rescue.
May 13
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov, an elderly, non-entity functionary from the Brezhnev era, is elected acting chairman of the Communist party of the Soviet Union. He is nothing more than the mouthpiece for a cabal of ambitious, younger men.
May 19-25
The surviving Soviet leadership take a serious, and for once, realistic look at the situation facing the State and Party,in a series of conferences at the resort city of Sochi. The so-called Sochi Plan is hammered out. With Ronald Reagan's massive defense buildups rushing forward, growing unrest in the populations of the Warsaw pact allies, and declining balance of power between the Soviet Block and the West, an ambitious, ruthless, and desperate plan is concocted, to destroy or neutralize the West. While senior Soviet military officials declare the plan madness, Acting General Secretary Tikhonov signs off on the plan on May 25, putting the Warsaw pact firmly on the path to war with NATO and its allies. A quiet mobilization and a series of deception plans are immediately put into motion.
June 11
Senior NATO intelligence analysts, alarmed by growing, but fragmentary evidence of an unexplained Soviet build-up, meet in Brussels and agree to monitor the situation much more closely. They also agree to notify the NATO heads-of-state. The consensus reached in the meeting was that it was far too early to take any concrete action.
July 16
Thoroughly alarmed by Soviet troop mobilizations and movements, and the readying of Soviet naval units, the NATO intelligence services convince the NATO heads-of-state that the Soviets are mobilizing for an attack on the West. Quietly, still hoping that the analysts were wrong, NATO leaders order a partial mobilization, quietly at first, but later openly.
July 17
Prime Minister Bettino Craxi of Italy unilaterally declares his nation’s neutrality with the full support of the Italian Socialist Party and his CAF coalition. Despite the political fury directed at the Italians by the rest of NATO, nothing is done to compel them to support the alliance. The Italians all NATO forces to leave Italy within one week or face internment until the current crisis is resolved. Italy will remain neutral during the war.
July 20
Craig Henrionnet's father, the commander of the U.S. army's Cold Region Test Center at Fort Greely, Alaska invites his son to come and visit his parents.
July 28
Shawn Cromett flies to visit his parents in Juneau, Alaska, for a much needed vacation
August 1
The Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies launch a general, conventional attack on NATO and Iran. Italy, in an agreement previously worked out with the Warsaw Pact, announces its withdrawal from NATO and its neutrality.
Many other nations, such as Indonesia declared their neutrality at that time.
A small part of the Soviet plan involves landing Desant (Airborne) Division in Alaska, in an attempt to divert resources from Europe and to threaten the important ports on the West Coast Two regiments of Soviet airborne land in the Anchorage area, while another regiment is dropped on Fairbanks. Alaskan commanders react vigorously. The commander of Elmendorf AFB orders the 43 civilian airliners at the Anchorage International Airport fueled, taxied onto the runways taxi ways, and terminal approaches, and set ablaze to deny the enemy the use of the field.
The situation for both the defending forces and civilians is precarious. About 75,000 inhabitants of Anchorage flee south along the Seward Highway. Many vehicles are dangerously overloaded. An accident involving two Suburbans and a Winnebago at the Twenty Mile River Bridge creates a traffic jam all the way back to the city, about 38 miles long. The Dolphin Clan is lucky, having already passed the accident site and escapes to Kenai. Charles Harbuck is less lucky, and witnesses the strafing of vehicles on the road at Potters Marsh. Some 2,500 cars go up in flames and 7,500 people are killed and wounded. Harbuck flees into the Rabbit Creek area to hide.
Lauren and Cathy Loucks try to escape Anchorage in their Capri. Stuck in traffic near Jewel Lake Road and Dimond Boulevard, Lauren revs his engine too much and throws the timing chain...again. Ever resourceful, Lauren fires seven rounds from his trusty .45 into the engine block of his faithless car. Taking Cathy by the hand, he commandeers a boat moored on Campbell Lake. After circling the lake three times, they realize that a dam forms the lake and there is no exit. Fortunately for the plucky pair, fate smiles on them when former Governor Wally Hickel decides to bravely deny the Commies the ability to cross Campbell Creek and dynamites the dam! The Loucks are swept down the creek and out into Cook Inlet, their outboard torn off by rubble as they pass through the jagged hole in the dam. The intrepid former governor is never seen again.
Gerald M. Tamura, fleeing south along the Parks Highway from Fairbanks, Alaska with a carload of stuffed animals and books, is stopped at a military check point near Clear Air Force Station and put to work building field fortifications, and passes out of human knowledge for many years.
Bill and Paul Stevens head to what they think will be a place of safety: McPherson's Warehouse. Will Bill cowers in the men's room, Paul attempts to break into Josh Dolphin's Mazda 626 concealed among the furnaces. A Tu22M Backfire bomber, attempting to bomb 6th Light Infantry Division positions in Muldoon is hit by a Stinger missile and drops its load on the city. A dud 240 kg bomb smashes Paul to jelly. The Mazda is not even scratched.
Elsewhere in southeastern Alaska, the situation looks grim. A Soviet Victor III class submarine sinks the Alaska Marine Highway System's ferries Columbia and Malaspina, hopelessly snarling traffic movements there. All the Cromett family are trapped in Juneau.
August 3
USAF FB-111s hit Elmendorf Air Force Base's runways for the first time, gravely disrupting Soviet operations in Anchorage.
Drifting with the tide, the Loucks finally beach their boat just south of Ninilchik.
August 4
One runway of Anchorage International is cleared by Soviet engineers, only to be closed again when an FB-111 drops a string of Durendals along it.
Doctor Eugene S. Blomfield is trapped in the basement of his video rental store by a nearby bomb explosion. He does nothing but watch James bond movies and eat Twinkies.
August 5
A Soviet submarine launches an unprovoked cruise missile attack on strategic harbor facilities in South Africa. The government of President P.W. Botha, angry over continuing Western sanctions, reluctantly declares war on the Warsaw Pact, taking co-belligerent status with NATO, giving the alliance only grudging cooperation. Botha takes advantage of the situation by launching attacks on bases of the African National Congress , Angola, and Mozambique.
August 8
The backup generator that has been powering Dr. Blomfield's video store runs out of fuel when the Enstar natural gas system fails, plunging the basement into total darkness and cutting off the man's sixth viewing of Live and Let Die. In a sugar-induced stupor Dr. Blomfield knocks himself unconscious on a low roof support beam. When he awakens, he is convinced that he is in actuality, Dr. Ernst Stavros Blofeld, and that it is his mission to destroy the man responsible for destroying his dream of world domination and his video store: James Bond.
August 9
Soviet Airborne units land on the west bank of the Rhine River, south of Aachen.
Charles Harbuck finds himself Shanghaied into the services of an extremist Christian fundamentalist group, the Loopers, as he tries to make his way over Powerline Pass. By the end of the day, the Soviets have defeated the last organized resistance in the Anchorage Bowl.

August 12-14
The Battle of Fulda Gap is fought and won by NATO. The U.S. 5th Army, the West German 3rd Army and the British Army of the Rhine roll up the flank of the main Soviet push to the Rhine, cutting off the three Soviet armies comprising the spearhead of the Warsaw pPact's advance.
August 12 - September 25
The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket is fought and won by NATO. Three Soviet tank armies and two airborne divisions are systematically wiped out by NATO forces. The industrial heartland of the Federal Republic of German is destroyed, along with the cream of the Soviet Army.
August 12-14
The Battle of Berlin is fought and won by the Warsaw Pact. The Polish 1st and 2nd Armies stop NATO's attempt to relieve its Berlin garrison, which surrenders early on the morning of the 14th.
August 17-30
Except for operations against the Ruhr Pocket, fighting in Europe dies down as both sides try to reorganize and reequip their exhausted units.
September
Mounting Soviet air transport losses causes a decline in the number of resupply sorties flown in to the Soviets Alaskan Expeditionary force. The Soviet airborne units there find themselves critically short of food, fuel, and ammunition.
September 2
Louis Farrakon is assassinated. The Nation of Islam is taken over by a charismatic unknown named Nur Mohammed. Nur has a totally different, and far more extreme message for the Nation of Islam. He preaches the total superiority of the Black race over all others. Unlike Farrakon, though, Nur preaches overt race war and genocide for the inferior races, not simply separation. He foresees a world of inferior race slaves being bred out of existence. Devout Christian Blacks are appalled, but there is a growing hatred spawned by the war in Europe and fears of a nuclear war, a possibility prayed for by Nur Mohammed, who lays plans for a take-over if such a thing occurs. Secure in his own sense of divinely appointed mission, he knows he and his will survive in the new world created by a divinely created cataclysm.
September 2-22
Spearheaded by numerous fresh Class B divisions arriving from the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact again goes over to the offensive in a desperate attempt to relieve surviving forces in the Ruhr pocket. Most of NATOs front line, from the Fulda Gap to the Alsatian border is destroyed in the first week of the offensive as the best NATO units are deployed against the pocket.. The offensive is halted on the outskirts of Munich by newly arrived divisions of the U.S. National Guard, backed up by the Spanish Army.
September 23-30
NATO launches Operation Backhand. As many of NATO's best units are freed by the collapse of the Ruhr Pocket, they are massed behind the center of NATO's front. On the 23rd, they roll forward in a massive counterattack against the depleted and exhausted Warsaw Pact armies. Near total control of the air gives NATO an unbeatable edge.
September 30
Berlin is liberated.
October 7
The U.S. 1st Armored Division crosses the Polish border.
October 8
Polish Army officers seize Warsaw and execute General Jaruelski. They proclaim Poland's independence from the Warsaw Pact. Within two days, the entire Polish Army has changed sides.
October10-17
The armies of the Warsaw Pact disintegrate under NATO's relentless hammering. Over 1,000,000 Warsaw Pact soldiers surrender.
October 18
The Politburo orders the firing of 120 "tactical" SS-20 missiles at major NATO logistical facilities in Western Europe. The USSR hoped to limit the size of NATO's response by using "In-Theater" nuclear weapons, but NATO responds with a limited strategic strike. Both sides launch small-scale strategic strikes all over the world, but the nuclear war crashes to a halt as both sides realize lose most of their command and control capabilities and saner heads refuse to execute a larger scale attack by either side.
Despite its declaration of neutrality, Indonesia is heavily damaged, especially targeted is the oil industry.. The attacker is never identified.
Berlin is obliterated.
A missile, aimed at Juneau, Alaska, misses and falls on Admiralty Island.
Other major targets in the U.S. missed or not attacked include Chicago, Portland, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Oregon, Savannah, San Francisco, and the Kennedy Space Center.
Both the United States and the Soviet Union effectively cease to exist as organized states.
Italy, having played both sides off against each other, is the only surviving industrialized power and even it suffers major dame from fallout, EMP, and disruptions of the global transportation network.
October 18
Members of the Nation of Islam execute a fortuitously laid plan and take over the Chicago metropolitan area and begin to ethnically cleanse it. A series of lucky breaks, including the capture of the undamaged Joliet Army Depot make the Nation of Islam the most powerful successor state in the Midwest.
October 18
After receiving word that the Warsaw Pact has launches a nuclear attack on NATO forces, President P.W. Botha of South Africa orders limited nuclear strikes against hostile bases in Mozambique and Angola. Shortly after, Soviet nuclear weapons detonate over Cape Town and Praetoria. Botha, who had evacuated the South African capital as a precaution, sets up a new seat of government in Durban.
October 18 The Soviet Union refrains from nuclear strikes on Italian and Irish targets, leaving the two nations the only significant European states not damaged by nuclear weapons.
October 18
With the destruction of the government of Great Britain, negotiations between Ireland and Ulster are delayed and soon begin to stall. As rumors of the destruction from nuclear exchanges in Europe and North America, as well as the nuclear attacks on Belfast and Londonderry, are seen by a shocked public and quickly cause both governments to meet in Dublin to continue negotiations. Even the surviving Protestant leadership sees the advantages of a possible union with the south.
October 21
Presdent Ronald Reagan, who had been evacuated from Washington, D.C. upon warning of the first Soviet nuclear attack begins the process of setting up a temporary seat of government at the largely undamaged Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Communications are almost totally disrupted and progress contacting surviving government agencies and military units is extremely slow.
October 22
India and Pakistan exchange nuclear attacks. Who started the exchange is now impossible to determine. Both states collapse into ethnic enclaves.
October 24
A U.S. Air Force lieutenant, who blames the president for getting the U.S. into a war that killed his entire family, uses his A10 to bomb a cabinet meeting, killing President Ronald Reagan and most of the surviving cabinet members. As the vice president is missing and presumed dead, there is no clear-cut line of succession. Squabbles over who is the legitimate authority in the United States doom any attempt to allow the prewar government survive.
October 24
The personnel ad dependants from Fort Greely evacuate the base and head for the lower 48 states.
October 25
The Greely Party reaches the Canadian border. The customs post is deserted. The party continues to accumulate refugees along the way.
October 28
The Greely Party reaches Whitehorse, Yukon Territories. The people of the partially abandoned town urges the party to continue on its way, fearing that an influx of newcomers would lead to the quick depletion of its meager supplies. The senior Canadian officer in Whitehorse suggests the party use the Cassiar Highway to Prince Rupert, as a major bridge is out along the Alaska Highway. Colonel Henrionnet agrees.
November 1985 - May 1986
Nuclear winter affects cause the longest, severest winter in recorded history. Almost 90% of the population of the northern Hemisphere dies from a combination of the nuclear attacks, starvation, disruption of the infrastructure, civil disorder, and the cold.
November 2
Major General Gerald Plaspohl, commanding the U.S. Army forces in the Fort Ord, California area, claims authority over all U.S. military forces. No one outside of Fort Ord accepts his claim.
November 2-26
Major General Gerald Plaspohl of the Fort Ord U.S.A., leads his scratch force of trainees and service troops against marauders and refugees swarming out of California's devastated cities who are desperately attempting to find food. Hundreds of thousands of people are killed in the fighting. Plaspohl's troops secure California's costal belt from south of Santa Cruz to the Golden Gate. Plaspohl's victory ensures that the area is the least devastated region of California. Sickened by the massacres, Plaspohl decides to halt any attempt to restore the U.S. by force. Fort Ord drifts into becoming a small, but powerful independent state as the dream of a U.S.A. fades.
November 3
Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughtly and acting Ulster Prime Minister Brian Faulkner sign a peace treaty officially unifying the governments of the Republic of Ireland and formerly British Northern Ireland.
November 3
Cromett Heavy Industries begins as a water-powered sawmill in Juneau's Mendenhall Valley.
November 5
President and Prophet Spencer W. Kimball of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints dies.
November 5
Representatives of the Lakota bands meet at Dupree, South Dakota, and putting aside their internal political disputes, form a joint council to be called the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires) to coordinate the survival activities of all seven Lakota bands. As the first act of the Oceti Sakowin, the decision was made by the council to reoccupy the sacred Black Hills region, driving off interlopers, by force if necessary. Frederick One Horn is elected chairman.
November 7-26
A hastily raised Oglala militia from the Pine Ridge Reservation overruns the southern part of the Black Hills. Non-Lakota are expelled, at gunpoint if necessary. There is relatively little violence at this stage of the operation. A fierce blizzard puts an end to the invasion. Any further expansion into the Black Hills must wait for better weather.
November 8
The Greely Party reaches Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Trapped by a storm, the survivors, including Craig Henrionnet, are forced to remain in Prince Rupert, where they are soon absorbed into that community.
November 10
Ezra Taft Benson is elected President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
November 17
Mikhail Okolov, an ex-Soviet colonel general, creates the Mongol Empire using disorganized mob of Eastern Asian Soviet soldiers as the nucleus of his army.

1986

January 5 Neo-facist assassins shoot and kill Prime Minister Bettino Craxi of Italy. Gianni de Michelis steps into Craxi’s post.
February 27
Ezra Taft Benson, President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints declares the former state of Utah the holy Mormon State of Deseret. Strong pressure is put on the remaining gentile population of the area to convert or emigrate. Those who choose to emigrate fall prey in large numbers to bandit and biker gangs. Benson sends word to all surviving Mormons worldwide to congregate in Deseret.
March 1
The New Force Party wins an election in Italy, turning out the ruling Italian Socialist Party. New Force party leader Roberto Fiore becomes prime minister, despite a conviction for a terrorist bombing in 1980. Fiore promises to rebuild the grandeur that was Italy under the Caesars. Fiore renames his party the Fascist Party, adopting much of the symbolism of the Fascist era.
March 7
Baptist Minister Gerald F. Foster founds the Order of St. Leibowitz in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The order is dedicated to preserving all pre-1985 knowledge.
April 21-May 19
With the loosening of the worst winter in recorded history, the Lakota resume their invasion of the Black Hills. They find it much easier than the brief offensive the previous fall. Many of the non-Lakota have died from exposure, starvation, and violence. The Lakota, who have suffered a much lower death rate, have an overwhelming advantage in numbers. Taking pity on some of the less obnoxious survivors, the Lakota permit some of them to remain. Orphan children and young people are adopted into Lakota families in many cases. By May 19, the Black Hills have been secured.
April 26
Nur Mohammed declares the creation of the Caliphate of the Midwest. He declares a revelation that he is Allah's choice as caliph of all the faithful. He dissolves the Nation of Islam as an insitution, using it as the core of the Caliphate's administration.
June 5
The Emergency Executive Committee of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, assumes the power of the Canadian national government "for the duration of the present emergency" when it becomes clear that there will be no more further directives flowing from Ottawa, even though taking such local initiative goes against the grain of Canadian tradition.
Summer
The newly unified government of Ireland sees the people of Ireland suffer fewer casualties during the winter of 1985-8 than most other industrialized nations. Ireland soon begins receiving refugees from Europe and North America, bringing in much needed skills and supplies into the country. However the Irish government is soon forced to put strict controls on immigration to prevent an overflow of refugees from using up its resources.
July 15
The Oceti Sakowin of the Lakota nations meets to decide policy. Frederick One Horn pushes for a policy of expansion, with the goal of uniting all the territory between the various Lakota reservation lands. A furious debate in the Oceti Sakowin ends with the adoption of the expansionist policy.
July 21
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachment in Prince Rupert accepts the authority of the Emergency Executive Committee.
August 1
The Battle of Sturgis is fought between a force of about 950 Lakota, mainly Oglala under General Sebastian Big Head, and a combined group of outlaw biker bands, numbering about 1,200 under "Liver-eat'n Ike" Reed and "Ginger" Pascoe.. The bikers, desperate to capture their traditional hangout at Sturgis run into a well planned ambush and lose about 300 men before fleeing in utter disorder.
August 4-6
The Battle of Marengo is fought west of Chicago between small, understrength elements of the Illinois and Wisconsin National Guard and the large, enthusiastic armies of the Caliphate of the Midwest. The National Guard units dissolve after their catastrophic defeat, despite the heavy casualties they inflict on the Caliphate's troops. No effective elements of the former U.S. Government remain in the Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana region.
September 18
In the aftermath of the Battle of Marengo, Nur Mohammed deploys his victorious forces in an arc encircling the Milwaukee, Chicago, Gary metroplex in a deep belt, occupying a swath of some of North America's best farmland. A series of fortifications are begun by the Caliphate's troops, while the land is divided into estates worked by slaves to provide for the soldiers.

1987

1987-1994
The First Zulu War is fought between South Africa and the Kingdom of the Zulus. The Zulus rise against the South African apartheid government. Other Black groups in the area rise as well, though not coordinating their activities with the Zulus. The South African government expends most of its pre-1985 armaments early in the conflict. Even after an arms purchase agreement with the Roman Empire in 1990, the small manpower reserves of the White South Africans leads to an attritional battle that the government forces cannot sustain. Forced by the need to buy arms for cash from the Romans, the South Africans keep their gold mines open by forced labor, which by 1991 evolves into legalized slavery.
February 12
A large army of former Russian soldiers crosses the Rhine and invades northern France, trying to escape the devastation that is Germany.
February 13
Edward J. Frankel founds the Portland Tribune newspaper in Portland.
May 23-26
The Russian invaders of France destroy the army of the Northern French Republic northeast of Arras.
July 28
Former Soviet Colonel General Dimitry Olsufiev proclaims himself Czar Konstantin I of France, establishing his capital city at Caen in Normandy.
September 17
Caliph Nur Mohammed of the Caliphate of the Midwest,in what was known as the "Edict of Victory," codifying the caliphate's racial policies.
November 3
A former Indonesian general proclaims himself the Sultan Mohammed I of Indonesia.
December 23
Caliph Nur Mohammed of the Caliphate of the Midwest orders that all human-made structures to a depth of fifty miles beyond his borders be destroyed. Over the next few years, his orders are carried out with ruthless enthusiasm.

1988

February 26
Caliph Nur Mohammed of the Caliphate of the Midwest orders the creation of the Hunters, a body of soldiers dedicated to the raiding and terrorization of the caliphate's neighbors.
March 1
An ultra-right wing neo-Fascist Party wins control of the Italian Government.
May 4
The Irish 1988 elections see Haughtly remain in power, as does the Fianna Fail, which continues to dominate the national assembly for nearly 30 years. While the Fianna Fail continue to maintain an isolationist policy, the Irish government reluctantly agrees to offer Irish military forces to serve as mercenaries in the Roman Empire in exchange for vital raw materials, while conserving their own supplies, needed to maintain their high technology level as the country continues to become semi-self sufficient by 1990.
July 20
Prime Minister Roberto Fiore, the head of the Fascist Party in Italy, wins a plebiscite that makes him Emperor Augustus II of the Roman Empire.
August 9
Roman Caesar Augustus II marries Princess Caroline of Monaco very much against her will.
October 9
Caliph Nur Mohammed orders the creation of a secret eugenics program. The resulting "supermen" would be designated as the future ruling class of the Caliphate. The program would eventually result in the notorious Terminator Program.
November 5-19
Forces of the Caliphate of the Midwest launch their first truly massive raid, striking from Momence, Illinois southeast towards Columbus, Ohio. Using carefully hoarded gasolene mixed with alcohol, the motorized raider columns are halted short of their objective by the Central Ohio Association's forces near Bellefountaine , Ohio on November 11th, and retreat back to their own territory with moderate losses, returning with much booty and many slaves.
November 29
Emperor Augustus II of the Roman Empire legalizes slavery throughout the empire. Tens of thousands of political prisoners are sold into slavery over the next few weeks.

1989

June 11
Melvin Diane Nerdley is born to a missionary family in northern British Columbia.
July 10
The First Karnataka-Tamil War begins.
October 23
Forces of the Caliphate of the Midwest launch a major raid to the west, with a large, motorized column.
October 28
The Caliphate of the Midwest raiders burn, enslave, and pillage their way into Rockford, Illinois before retiring to friendly territory.
November 27
The Town Councils of Anacortes and Port Townsend agree to unite into the Puget Sound League, a defensive alliance aimed at suppressing piracy and banditry in the Puget Sound area
November 18
Pope John Paul II is assassinated in the Vatican by Fascist goons exasperated with his refusal to support the policies of the Roman Empire.
December 13
Benedetto Barbarini, the Cardinal of Milan, an adherent of the Roman nationalist position, is elected Pope Gregory XVI by a conclave intimidated by Roman legionaries. Shortly after the election, the Irish Catholic Church begins granting asylum to members of the Catholic Church fleeing from fascist policies.
December 24
Pope Gregory XVI issues that becomes known as “Caesar’s Bull” that legitimizes slavery throughout the Catholic world.

1990

February 19
Lt. Colonel Olaf Sonju of the Royal Norwegian Army declares himself Duke of Bergen, creating the first post-1985 government larger than a city-state in Norway. Duke Olaf begins to units communities surrounding Bergen to his new duchy.
April 6 - May 1
After four years of training the first graduating class of cadets from the Saigo military academy of Kagoshima take part in the Japanese occupation of the Kuril Is. with little resistance establishing naval bases there. These cadets, as well as those of future classes, will come to represent the finest officers of the officer corps of Japan.
June 11
The Roman Empire invades the Republic of Province in southern France.
June 25
The Romans capture the Provençal capital of Grenoble. The Provençal Army continues to fight desperately as it retreats into the Alps, opening the way for the Roman mechanized forces to occupy the rest of Provence.
June 29
Roman troops cross the border into the southern French Republic of Aquitaine.
July 11
The Battle of Kankakee is fought between the Caliphate of the Midwest and the Central Ohio Association. The forces of the Association and its local allies are soundly defeated.
July 13
Roman Marshal of the West Spinello Corasaniti accepts the surrender of the last pocket of Provençal troops and is rewarded with the title of the Duke of Nice.
August 10
The Lakota nations defeat an invasion by the North Dakota Militia Association at Huron, North Dakota. General Sebastian Big Head commands the victorious Lakota army. With this battle, the Lakota reign supreme throughout all but far eastern South Dakota.
August 24
Reinforced by the victorious troops which had just defeated the Republic of Provence, the Romans defeat the main Aquitainian Army at Carcassonne.
September 3
The Romans capture Bordeaux, the capital of Aquitaine.
September 11
The last remnants of the Aquitainian Army flee into the Basque Republic.
September 15
Caesar Augustus II orders all government officials, educators, writers, artists, major business owners, and non-Catholic clergy, along with their families in the newly occupied French territories, enslaved and sold at public auction.
September 16, 1990 to May 1,1991
A series of insurrections break out in in the newly occupied territories in southern France as a result of Caesar Augustus’ enslavement decrees. All are ruthlessly crushed by the Imperial Roman Army, leading to further mass enslavements.
September 22
The Lakota Oceti Sakowin elects to halt further expansion of Lakota territory, despite a vocal minority of the council who want to continue the tide of conquest until all territory once roamed by the Lakota peoples are back in Lakota hands.

1991

February 26
Nur Mohammed, the Caliph of the Midwest orders crossings of the Kankakee River fortified against the Central Ohio Association.
February 27
Empress Caroline of the Roman Empire gives birth to a son and heir, Crown Prince Traiano.
May 4 - July 10
The Roman Empire invades, conquers, and annexes northern Spain. Despite tension between the Irish Catholic Church and the actions against the Vatican by the Roman government, Irish mercenary forces take part in the early expansion of Rome in Western Europe serving in operations.
August 9-August 26
The Caliphate of the Midwest launches its largest raid yet, with nearly 5,000 men swarming south, to the vicinity of Evansville, Indiana, leaving a wide swath of devastation behind.
September 28
Rear Admiral Harald Jacobson, Royal Norwegian Navy, declares himself Duke of the Vik, and ruler of Southern Norway.

1992

April 2
Duke Olaf of Bergen signs the Treaty of Wexford creating a defensive alliance with the Republic of Ireland.
May 26
The Roman Empire simultaneously invades the Basque Republic and Catalonia. Roman slavers follow immediately behind the advancing Roman armies.
June 8
Barcelona falls to the Romans.
June 11
Pamplona falls to the Romans.
June 24
Catalonia is fully occupied by the Romans.
June 26
Castile, Galicia, and Andalusia ally in a mutual defense pact against the Romans.
June 27
Caesar Augustus announces that any alliance against his empire would be considered hostile, and declares war on them, despite being still embroiled with the Basque Republic.
July 7
Nur Mohammed, the Caliph of the Midwest orders the creation of numerous stud farms to create the horses he feels will be needed when existing motorized equipment runs out. His raiding forces are ordered to pay particular attention to stealing suitable animals.
July 19
La Coruña, the Galician capital falls to the Romans.
July 21
Roman forces launch a surprise attack on Portugal.
July 28
Toledo, the capital of Castile falls to the Romans.
August 9
The Caliphate of the Midwest launches another major raid, this time aiming for the St. Louis, Missouri Region.
August 15
The Battle of Greenup is fought between the Caliphate raiding force and the Western Illinois Republic. A well planned ambush wrecks havoc upon the overconfident Caliphate soldiers, causing the deaths of many of them. As a result of the victory, General Matthew B. S. Ganshorn of Martinsville, Illinois becomes the preeminent leader of the fight against the Caliphate.
August 17
Ronda, the capital of Andalusia, falls to the Romans.
August 19
The Norwegian Duchies of the Vik and Bergen sign a non-aggression pact at Horten under Irish mediation.
September 3
The last organized forces of Portugal, Andalusia, and Castile on the continent of Europe surrender in southern Portugal. Basque guerillas continue to plague the Romans for decades more. Many of the Spanish enlisted soldiers are given the choice of joining the Roman Army or being sold as slaves. All officers are enslaved.
September 11
The Romans seize Gibraltar from the Spanish, using poison gas.
September 23
Pope Gregory XVII dies of natural causes.
October 7
A conclave elects the Cardinal of Naples, Giovanni Di Conti, Pope Pius XIII. Caesar Augustus is believed to have personally chosen Di Conti for the job.
November 5
After pondering the cause of his defeat at Greenup, Nur Mohammed, the Caliph of the Midwest orders the commander of the raiders crucified wrapped in a pigskin in front of the palace at Joliet and left to rot. He then orders a tightening of discipline and increased and more rigorous training for his soldiers. Officers who fail to show the required level of competence are either forced back into the enlisted ranks or executed.

1993

January 28
Louis Abubekr, commander of the Caliphate of the Midwest's 9th Infantry Brigade, tries lead his men in an uprising against the caliph. His men refuse to follow, and Abubekr is executed by his own officers.
April 3
The member states of the Puget Sound League change their alliance to a unified state, with an elected governor and bicameral legislature. The capital city is Anacortes.
May 2- November 9
The Roman Empire invades, conquers, and annexes the lowlands of Morocco, though the empire spends the next ten years trying to defeat the Rif Berbers of the Atlas Mountains, and even then are only partially successful. Irish mercenary units are commended for their excellent service by their Roman commanders in the North African campaigns, however Irish officers begin to lose their autonomous control over their units. Although formerly serving in an unofficial capacity as military advisors to the Irish mercenaries, the Romans begin taking direct control over all Irish units in Imperial Roman service. The Romans’s invasion of Morocco found them unprepared and the invasion was poorly coordinated. While the Romans successfully occupied the country, the Romans, and particularly their Irish mercenaries, suffer extremely high casualties as a result. Following the North African Campaign, the Irish are eventually regain operational control of their own units that remain in North Africa for the next decade fighting the Rif Berbers.
June 10
Nathan Overpeck is elected the first governor of the Puget Sound League for a ten year term.
September 30 - October 13
Soldiers of the Caliphate of the Midwest launch a major raid northward into Wisconsin, reaching and burning down most of Green Bay before returning to their homeland.

1994

February 10
Lakota leader Frederick One Horn is assassinated by Lakota extremists who are exasperated by One Horn's refusal to support Lakota expansion. The Oceti Sakowin elects moderate Kenneth Black Shield as its new Chairman. This assassination begins a period of turbulence and violence in Lakota politics that lasts for eight years.
May 1 - July 23
The Roman Empire invades, conquers, and annexes northern Algeria.
May 30
President and Prophet Ezra Taft Benson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints dies.
June 4
Orrin James McClelland is elected President and Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. McClelland favors a more militant church, based on that of Brigham Young in the early days .
September 9 - September 23
Soldiers of the Caliphate of the Midwest launch a major raid northwest, reaching the Mississippi at Hudson, Minnesota, before returning home.
October 9, 1994
The Treaty of Rome is signed between the Republic of South Africa and the Kingdom of the Zulus, recognizing the Zulus as an independent state and ending the First Zulu War.
November 7
The First Karnataka-Tamil War ends in a decisive defeat of Karnataka. The Tamil Enpire now rules the southwest coast of India.

1995

April 17
Nur Mohammed, the Caliph of the Midwest orders his slave raiders to cease taking male captves, ordering the beheading of 1,000 prisoners, with the order to continue the practice, until further notice.
May 1 - September 20
The Roman Empire invades, conquers, and annexes Tunisia and Libya.
June 13 - June 20
A Fijian pirate fleet begins a raid on the coast of Vancouver Island., sacking and burning villages.
June 25
The Fijian pirate fleet attempts to raid Prince Rupert, but is driven off by a hastily assembled, but well-armed militia of former U.S. and Canadian soldiers and the local RCMP detachment.

1996

February 25
Mohammed Lacy, future rebel and guerilla leader born in South Chicago.
April 1
Japan begins military expansion outside the Sea of Japan with the conquest of Iwo Jima. It is during this time that the Japanese military officer corps gains valuable experience as Japan consolidates its territory. Operations to conquer small outlying islannds will continue through 1996.
May 1 Roman troops invade Corfu and Albania.
May 6
Mormon President and Prophet Orrin James McClelland orders the Army of Deseret to invade southern Idaho. Mormon troops capture the area in a three-week campaign.
May 21
The 1996 Irish elections see the Fianna Fail gain complete control over the Dail however by this time the membership of the Fianna Fail is made up mostly of right wing conservatives, and nationalists now fully control the party, gradually pushing older, left-wing members into the background.
May 25 - September 1
The Roman Empire invades, conquers, and annexes Austria.
June 11
Roman troops secure Corfu from the island’s Albanian occupiers.
July 20 – September 5
Roman marines occupy the Ionian islands.
August 6
The future King Patrick I Dolphin is born in Kenai, Alaska.
August 8
Macedonian troops intervene on the side of the Albanians.
September 23-27
The Battle of Vlore is fought between the Albanian/Macedonian alliance and the Roman army, ending in a catastrophic defeat of the alliance forces.
October 9 - October 13
Battle of Peoria fought between the forces of the Midwestern Caliphate and the Western Illinois Republic, resulting in the defeat of the Republic Army and the sacking and burning of Peoria. General Matthew B. S. Ganshorn of the Republic is killed in the fighting.
December 19
The last Albanian/Macedonian alliance forces are driven across the old Albanian border.

1997

May 6 - July 24
The Roman Empire invades Switzerland and is bloodily repulsed. This defeat leads the emperor to temporarily cease expansion and reorganize his armies from the old Italian pattern into the new Imperial legion pattern. Following the Roman defeat against Switzerland, Ireland is again called upon for assistance in reorganizing the Roman Army.
May 15
The Lakota Oceti Sakowin elects Willard Grass Sitting Crow chairman to replace the ailing Kenneth Black Shield. Grass Sitting Crow continues to try to stem the tide of Lakota militancy, despite a steady level of political violence and growing numbers young Lakota men who participate in unauthorized raids against other Indian nations, bikers, and settled farmer communities alike.
June 14
Japan first encounters the Kingdom of Fiji while attempting to occupy Okinawa. Upon opening diplomatic relations Fiji agrees to sell the island to Japan in exchange for Iwo Jima, recognizing Fiji's exclusive trading rights in southern China, and allowing trading posts in Japanese territory including the Okinawa trading post. Japan would later sign an arms treaty with Fiji which would begin a long and profitable partnership for both counties.
July 6
Marshal Poovendan Kumar leads a coup that overthrows the dictatorship of the Tamil state, and declares himself Emperor Poovendan of the Tamil Empire.
August 9
The Treaty of Basel between Rome and Switzerland is signed, acknowledging Switzerland's independence, and providing for Roman arms sales to the Swiss in return for Swiss mercenaries serving in the Roman Imperial army.
August 30
The Great Northern War begins between Ireland and its allies in Scotland and the Vik (southern Norway), and the Kingdom of Sweden and its allies in Demark, the German Baltic Coast and Iceland for control of the North Sea. Sweden finds its pre-1985 fleet useless from a lack of spare parts and refined fuel and Ireland lacks a proper navy at all, so both sides are forced to improvise. Both sides end up with coal burning ironclad navies.
September 3
The Swedes invade Scotland near Edinburgh and occupy much of the lowlands. The Highlands and Isles resist the Swedes fiercely.
September 17
Argentina declares war on South Africa, attempting to gain control of the trade route around the Cape of Good Hope and the output of the South Africa gold fields. As South Africa’s tiny navy has been totally neglected by necessity since 1985, the Argentines concentrate on commerce raiding and outright banditry along South Africa’s coastline. The war continues for decades, a continual drain on South Africa’s trade and technology. The Romans do nothing to help their South African clients, knowing full well that they will get the output of the South African mines either directly or from Argentina. The piracy keeps arms prices high and constantly reinforces demand and at the same time keeps the South Africans from being able to become independent from the Roman arms industry.

1998

May 11
Theobald G. Humphrey, the leader of a band of pirates known as the Sea Rovers, gets his faced sliced off by a Tlingit warrior wielding an obsidian-edged wooden sword. Amazingly, he survives, but is so horribly disfigured he loses what little reason he had left. He takes to wearing a mail loincloth and a hockey mask and calling himself "The Great Humongous." Taking up a lifestyle of violence and depravity, he becomes the terror of the Alexander Archipelago.
June 2
Battle of Dogger Bank. A Norwegian-Irish naval squadron defeats a Danish raiding squadron in the North Sea.
August 23
The First Slovak-Hungarian War begins.
September 9
Battle of the Skaggerrak. A Swedish-Danish naval squadron defeats an Irish raiding force attempting to enter the Baltic.

1999

February 28
Alexander Ermolov forges the Duchy of Ruthenia out of the West Ukrainian League
March 10
Battle of Oslo Fjord. A Swedish invasion force is turned back after suffering heavy losses from the Duchy of the Vik’s Oskerborg Fortress.
May 29
Battle of the Shetlands. A joint Irish-Scots battle squadron under Irish Vice Admiral Emmet O’Brien destroys a Swedish and Danish invasion fleet in bad weather off the Shetland Islands, proving to be the decisive battle of the Great Northern War.
October 1
Mormon President and Prophet Orrin James McClelland orders the Army of Deseret to invade the lands of the Navajo Nation.
October 19
Treaty of Rome. The Swedish alliance surrenders all claim to the British Isles, recognizing the creation of the Kingdoms of the Isles and of Scotland, both of whom become Irish protectorates.
November 9
The Army of Desert is all but destroyed by the combined warriors of the Navajo and Hopi nations in the Battle of Shiprock.

2000

April 11
Ozzie Huge breaks out of the Sitka jail after having been arrested for destroying a bar in a drunken brawl and joins the privateer/pirate ship Captain Blood outward bound on a voyage to the Orient.
April 22
The Mormons sign a peace treaty with the Hopi-Navajo Alliance.
Summer
An independence movement in Wales is brutally crushed by the British military. Ireland responds by supporting Welsh independence movements and supplying Welsh rebels with arms. England sends much of its army into Wales and establishes martial law and outlawing trade with Ireland.
July 10
Pope Pius XIII dies of natural causes.
July 19
Sweden promises aid to the British government in its war with the Irish but has a difficult time providing any after its losses in the Great Northern War.
August 2
A conclave of the College of Cardinals elects Angelico Della Genga, Cardinal of Bologna, Pope John XXIV.
August 4
The Irish government responds to Irish provocations and atrocities in Wales with a declaration of War, the Beginning of the First Irish War. Ireland begins blockading Wales including much of the southern and western coasts and conducts raids on both Wales and England.

2001

March 9 – April 7
A combined force of Macedonians, Serbs, and mercenary Russians invade Roman Albania and are severely beaten in the first test of the new Roman Legions.
June 1
The Romans invade Macedonia from Albania.
July 11 – 26 The Serbians counter attack the northern flanks of the Roman invasion in the battle of Gostivar and are soundly defeated.
September 13-October 4 The Siege of Skopje ends with the destruction of most of the Macedonian army.
November 2
Royal Irish troops raid Swansea in Wales, and during the fighting there, kill Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and her son Prince Andrew, in what became known as the "Great Swansea Massacre."
November 9
Prince William is crowned King William IV of Great Britain in Gloucester Cathedral.

2002

March 16 – May 13
The Second battle of the Vardar. The Serbs attack across the line of the upper Vardar River, trying to defeat the Romans before they are ready to launch their own offensive. The Serbs attack savagely, and initially take the Romans by surprise, crossing the river in a half dozen places, but the legionaries methodically crush each bridgehead in turn, swamping them under a hail of heavy artillery.
March 30
The Tamil Empire invades Sri Lanka.
June 20 – June 29
The Third battle of the Vardar. The Romans cross the upper Vardar along a broad front. After a week of combat, the Serbs, already decimated by their losses from the Second Battle of the Vardar disintegrate and flee north.
August 9
The Great Humongous' Sea Rovers take Tenakee Hot Springs and burn it to the ground.
September 8
The Romans capture Belgrade
September 9
Andhra intervenes on the side of the Kingdom of Lanka against the Tamil Empire.
September 23
The Romans reach the old Hungarian border.
October 2
The last organized forces of the Serb Republic are destroyed in the Banat north of Belgrade.
November 16
Willard Grass Sitting Crow, Chairman of the Lakota Oceti Sakowin is assassinated by militants of the Warrior Society. Intimidated by the threats of the radicals to do the same to any chairman who fails to support their policy of aggression and raiding, the Oceti Sakowin elects Sebastian Big Head's son Louis Big Head as chairman. In the years following this, Lakota raids increase in size and the damage they inflict on their neighbors.

2003

May 27
The First Hungarian War begins with a Roman invasion to put a pro-Roman duke on the throne of the Duchy of Hungary.
June 2
Thea Ruckman is elected the second governor of the Puget Sound League.
August 2
Fed up with Ozzie Huge's unruliness, the crew of the Captain Blood, while selling some loot from Malaya in Anchorage (Bayshore), sell him as a slave to the Provoites!

2004

February 18
Pope John XXIV promulgates the "Imperial Bull" which declares the Roman Catholic Church subordinate to the Emperor of Rome. This edict infuriates many non-Roman Catholics.
March 8
Japan invades and eventually occupies Korea, starting a long and bloody guerrilla war that will continue until the final collapse of resistence in 2012. This war costs Japan many of its veteran officers and over 50,000 of its finest soldiers before the fighting ends.
April 6
Despite fighting on two fronts, the Hungarians force the Slovaks to sue for peace, ending the First Hungarian-Slovak War.
June 9
With its armies freed from the Slovak front, the Hungarian counterattack against the Romans and annihilate theXLVI Legion in the Carpathians.
June 13
The Romans agree to an armistice with Hungary.
September 7
Treaty of Graz signed between Hungary, Slovakia, and the Roman Empire. The Slovaks cede key Carpathian passes to the Hungarians and agree to the future marriage of the infant heirs of the two realms. The Roman emperor agrees to pay gold and manufactured items as reparations to the Hungarians.
December 25
Melvin Diane Nerdley, fed up with being dressed up like a girl by his father, murders the old man by driving the sharpened end of a crucifix through his throat, nailing him to his bed while asleep. Deciding the village would not be amused, he packs his dresses and leaves to find his fortune.

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