Timeline

Forgotten Age (AD 2730 - AD 8100)

AD 2730

• Old earth solar system fully colonized

AD 3691

• Warp technology discovered

AD 3805

• The Conformists, a group within the Unified Catholic Church, settles on Soekheviti, a planet within the Sol system

AD 3841

• The Conformists take control of Soekheviti

AD 3897

• The Conformists lose power and are exiled from Soekheviti

AD 4224

• Warp drives for ships invented

AD 7089

• The second planet in the VH-451 system is bought by people from the Tau Ceti system

AD 7987

• The wormhole leading to the world of EVE is discovered

AD 7989

• The first explorers venture through the wormhole. Mass colonization begins soon after

AD 7989

• The Conformists start migrating to the world of EVE, spurred on by Dano Gheinok, one of their leaders. Gheinok manages to direct them to the planet of Athra

AD 7989-8061

• New Eden and its neighboring systems and constellations are colonized rapidly

AD 7993

• The third planet in the VH-451 system is bought by a megacorporation. Small-scale colonization starts soon after

AD 8000

• Dano Gheinok proclaims himself Prophet and sets the foundations of the Amarr theocracy to come

AD 8017

• The System CMS-17 is discovered, later renamed Pator. The main planet, Matar, is quickly colonized due to its very hospitable conditions

AD 8052

• The last colony ship from Tau Ceti arrives before EVE closes

AD 8061

• EVE gate collapses

AD 8061

• The last group of Conformists arrives on Athra. The Conformists all settle on the continent of Amarr, from which they later take their name

AD 8100

• Smaller settlements of gate settlers have perished, with only a few saved by larger settlements close by

The Dark Ages (AD 8100 - AD 16262)

• Unknown

Age of Expansion (AD 16262 - YC 100)

AD 16262

• First recorded civilizations emerge on Caldari

AD 16470

• The first Amarr Emperor is crowned

AD 17453

• The Raata Empire is formed, laying the foundation for what will later become the Caldari State

AD 17670

• The Cathura Rebellion takes place on Caldari [1]

AD 18622

• Four distinct civilizations develop on Matar. They gradually become aware of each other, but primitive technology keeps them from maintaining steady contact

AD 20022

• The Udorians arrive on the Amarr continent, spurring the static Amarr society into a period of rapid change

AD 20078

• The Reclaiming is launched. The Amarrians start a war to conquer all the lands on Athra

AD 20371

• The Amarrians conquer the last Udorian state

AD 20374

• (Approx) Minmatar tribes amalgamate, forming a planetary culture

AD 20544

• The Amarrians conquer the last state on Athra. They now control the whole planet

AD 20998

• The Raata Empire falls and is divided into myriad small states

AD 21290

• The Amarr build their first star gate, between Amarr and Hedion. This sparks a period of great expansion for the Empire

AD 21346

• (Approx) Emperor Zaragram II takes power in the Amarr Empire [2]

AD 21413

• The first Minmatar space ship is built. During the next centuries, the Minmatar settle on a number of planets and moons in three systems, using ancient star gates

AD 21423

• The Amarrians discover the Ealurians and subsequently conquer them in the spirit of the Reclaiming

AD 21460

• Emperor Zaragram II’s reign ends and the Council of Apostles comes into power in Amarr, purifying the faith and preserving the original scriptures through the Order of St. Tetrimon [3]

AD 21656

• Doule dos Rouvenor comes into power on the continent of Garoun on the Gallente homeworld, spawning a period of great cultural and technological progress

AD 21714

• Doule dos Rouvenor III inherits his father’s crown, starting a new calendar based on his ascension, the Age of Rouvenor (AR)

AD 21837

• The Garoun Empire collapses, but its legacy remains and rapid technological advances are made among the Gallente

AD 21875

• The Moral Reforms start. The status of the Emperor alters and the power of the Apostles is curbed

AD 21950

• The Moral Reforms end [4]

AD 22355

• First contact between the Amarr and the Minmatar. Amarr immediately raid the Minmatar nation for slaves, an activity they will continue for 125 years

AD 22463

• The Gallente spot the Caldari on Caldari Prime but are unable to establish contact

AD 22480

• The Amarr escalate their slave raids into a war of conquest against the Minmatar, invade and conquer Matar, leave other worlds alone for the time being

AD 22517

• First contact between Gallente and Caldari

AD 22588

• The Gallente and the Caldari build their first stargate out of VH-451, sparking a period of expansion which mostly benefits the Gallente

AD 22631

• The Cultural Deliverance Society (CDS) arrives on Caldari

AD 22684

• Isuuaya, the first Caldari corporation, is established

AD 22762

• Death of Amarr Emperor Damius III

AD 22794

• First contact between the Gallente and the Intaki

AD 22809

• First contact between the Gallente and the Mannar

AD 22821

• The Sotiyo-Urbaata drive, the first warp drive, is built

AD 22947

• The Starkmanir tribe is annihilated by Idonis Ardishapur [5]

AD 23041

• Heideran VII becomes Emperor of Amarr; Khanid secedes from the Amarr Empire; the Khanid Kingdom is founded

AD 23044

• The Society of Conscious Thought is founded in the Jove Empire

AD 23058

• Amarr discovers jump drive technology, allowing instant jumps between systems with no stargates and enabling far more rapid expansion

AD 23121

• The Gallente Federation is founded. Caldari are forced by circumstance to join

AD 23146

• (Approx) Quafe first appears

AD 23146

• FTL Communications are discovered [6]

AD 23149

• The Jove make themselves known to the Gallente; engage in limited diplomacy

AD 23154

• The Caldari secede from the Federation.

AD 23155

• The Gallente-Caldari War begins
• The Jovians cut off contact with the Gallente Federation [7]

AD 23156

• The Caldari leave Caldari Prime

AD 23180

• First contact between Gallente and Amarr

AD 23191

• All four major nations of New Eden have by this point come into contact with each other

AD 23193

• The Jove make themselves known to the rest of the four empires

AD 23194

• The Scope news agency is founded [8]

AD 23210

• The Gallente and the Amarr reach the Gallente-Amarr Free Trade Agreement of 23210. [9]

AD 23216

• The Amarr conquer the Eanna planet in the Hror system.
• The Amarr-Jove war takes place, in which the Amarr are crushed.
• The Minmatar Rebellion takes place

AD 23224

• The Jovians give capsule technology to the Caldari

AD 23233

• CONCORD is founded by the five empires

AD 23236 (YC 0)

• Eden Standard Time (EST) is agreed upon by world leaders at the historic Yoiul Conference. A period of accelerated space colonization by independent parties begins

YC 4

• The Angel Cartel is formed

YC 5

• Sansha’s Nation begins to form

YC 7

• President Aidonis Elabon of the Gallente Federation dies

YC 11

• Gallente construction ship containing Ceul Darieux sets out for Ouperia [10]

YC 12

• The Gallente-Caldari War ends

YC 37

• Sansha Kuvakei’s experiments are uncovered, and his nation is attacked and dismantled by the four empires. Sansha himself is killed

YC 55

• Ceul Darieux reaches Ouperia system [11]

YC 57

• Ceul Darieux builds stargate to Ouperia, becomes international celebrity, founds CreoDron [12]

YC 75

• Salvador Sarpati purchases the Serpentis system and starts building his organization there

YC 80

• InterBus is formed [13]

YC 95

• The Girani-Fa incident between the Amarr and the Gallente is defused by the Quafe Company

YC 96

• The Guristas pirate cartel is formed by two defectors from the Caldari Navy, known as Fatal and The Rabbit

YC 100

• Dorn en Diabel dies in a freak accident. His oldest son, Gare en Diabel, inherits his father’s position of power in the Syndicate. [14]

Empyrean Age (YC 105 - Present)

YC 105

• The capsule and the clone are joined. Capsuleers begin plying the spaceways and the Empyrean age begins.
• The Crielere Project begins as a major Caldari-Gallente joint endeavour and perhaps the greatest scientific project ever seen in New Eden.
• Amarr Emperor Heideran VII is awarded the Aidonis for contributions to interstellar peace.
• Heideran VII dies and Succession Trials are held, resulting in Doriam Kor-Azor ascending to the Imperial Throne as Doriam II.

YC 106

• The Crielere Project dissolves in acrimony following the revelation that Ishukone Corporation had been unilaterally appropriating technology from the Caldari-Gallente co-operative project.
• CONCORD reveal the existence of a series of deep space bases together with a network of 'smuggler gates' linking the lawless outer regions.
• UDI terrorists strike at a major celebrity event in the Gallente Federation, killing many guests and narrowly missing a chance to assassinate President Souro Foiritan in what becomes known as the 'Elarel Massacre'.
• President Foiritan succeeds in having the Gallente Federation constitution amended to permit a second-term
• The Jove Empire assigns Misu Baniya as a roving ambassador to the four major empires and other factions. Baniya is later disassembled in a freak teleporter accident but reconstructed after his molecular fragments are recovered.
• Major rogue drone infestations are discovered across empire space.
• CONCORD formally recognises capsuleer alliances and licenses starbase technology for capsuleer use.

YC 107

• Zainou Biotech biochemist Ullia Hnolku goes missing, with his wife Eckarine Mitumi-Hnolku, taking with him the formula for Insorzapine bisulfate, known as Insorum
• A Serpentis strike force hijacks the Molyneux, one of the six Soltueur-class Titans controlled by the Federation Navy.
• The Blood Raiders initiate a chemical attack on Mabnen I, allegedly using a modified form of Insorum, resulting in a horrific loss of life, this goes down in history as the 'Mabnen Incident'.
• In retaliation for the Mabnen attack, the Amarr Empire goes to war with the Blood Raider Covenant and expels them from the Bleak Lands.
• Emperor Doriam II is assassinated. Court Chamberlain Dochuta Karsoth assumes interim control of the Empire.

YC 108

• An explosion in the atmosphere of Reschard V devastates the planet, killing almost all its inhabitants.
• The Amarr Privy Council lifts the edict of suppression against the Order of St. Tetrimon, clearing the way for the Order to openly return to the Empire. The edict is later reinstated after conflict between the Order and the Theology Council.
• Gallente Federation Presidential Elections are held with Souro Foiritan winning by a narrow margin.
• Republic Fleet Captain Karishal Muritor steals a Republic mothership and his Defiants organization begins a long campaign against the Amarr in the Bleak Lands.
• Violent worker uprisings take place in the Caldari State in Kassigainen_(System) and [[Sirppala]_(System)] systems.
• Stargates to the 'Drone Regions' are activated and capsuleers rush to exploit these new territories.

YC 109

• The Defiants succeed in destroying an Amarrian battlestation in the Bleak Lands.
• Karishal Muritor is killed by Republic Fleet forces after refusing to hand himself in at a truce meeting.
• Royal Heir Aritcio Kor-Azor found guilty of mass transgressions against the people of the Kor-Azor domain by the Speakers of Truth and suffers a traditional penalty stopping just short of death.
• Continuing worker violence in the Caldari State is suppressed after the Brothers of Freedom organization is dismantled by Caldari security forces.
• The Amarrian 7th Fleet arrives in the Bleak Lands and conflict with the Defiants flares up once more.

YC 110

• Ammar Court Chamberlain Dochuta Karsoth claims that several Theology Council Justices were at the heart of a conspiracy to assassinate him.
• Tibus Heth rises to the position of CEO of Caldari Constructions after a worker revolt and buyout. Heth later consolidates his position, forms the Caldari Providence Directorate and assumes control of the Caldari State.
• The Nyx-class mothership FNS Wandering Saint rams into the Ishukone Headquarters station in Malkalen_(System), killing Ishukone CEO Otro Gariushi and over 420,000 people in what becomes known as the 'Malkalen Disaster'.
• The Elder Fleet attacks and disables CONCORD and starts the Elder War, a large-scale invasion of the Amarr Empire and Ammatar Mandate.
• The Caldari State invades the Gallente Federation, occupying Caldari Prime before a ceasefire is agreed leaving the Caldari homeworld under State control.
• Jamyl Sarum, long thought dead, returns to the Amarr Empire and repels the Elder Fleet with a mysterious 'superweapon'.
• CONCORD reasserts its control and activates the 'Emergency Militia War Powers Act', leading to the formation of capsuleer militias by the four empires.
• Maleatu Shakor is elected unopposed as Prime Minister of the Minmatar Republic.
• Jamyl Sarum is crowned Empress Jamyl I.
• The House Kador fleet invades Gallente Federation territory and is repelled by a vastly superior Gallente fleet.
• A retaliatory Gallente expeditionary force recovers the traitorous Grand Admiral Anvent Eturrer from Kador space.
• Royal Khanid Navy operations against the Blood Raider Covenant result in the capture of renegade Court Chamberlain Dochuta Karsoth.
• Anvent Eturrer and Dochuta Karsoth are executed.
• Empress Jamyl I orders the emancipation of all slaves of 9th generation and upwards.

YC 111

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