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Abridged timeline of events in "The Silver Knight", 1367-1611
So, my timeline has been receiving a bit more attention lately, and I of all people know most that reading through the whole 29 chapters currently out is a bit of a chore, especially when there's so many words and Lithuanian phrases stuck among all those paragraphs, so I bet there are people who have missed parts and important events of the timeline.
So, to help remedy the damage, I decided to make an abridged timeline of the events that happened so far, for reference to both old timers and newcomers alike.
FROM ALGIRDAS TO ALBERTAS: The timeline of events in The Silver Knight from 1367 to 1611
1367 - Point of Divergence: Moscow, under Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, cancels the construction of the stone Kremlin because of an unexpected tribute demand from the Golden Horde.
1368: After a series of diplomatic mishaps, Tver and Moscow go to war, and the former calls it's ally Lithuania into the war. The Lithuanian-Muscovite War begins. Because of the weak defenses of the Moscow Kremlin, the city is captured after a short siege. Dmitry Pavlovich is defeated.
1369: The Treaty of Kirzhach is signed, Moscow is forced to make a number of diplomatic and physical concessions. The Lithuanian-Muscovite War ends in a Lithuanian victory.
1370: Lithuanian raiders in East Prussia are beaten in the Battle of Rudau.
1371: Lithuania annexes Smolensk, Algirdas's son Skirgaila is placed as the Duke of Smolensk. Ryazan falls under Lithuanian influence and dominance.
1374: Treaty of Velikye Luki between Lithuania and Novgorod. The (mostly ceremonial) title of Prince of Novgorod is now tied to the position of Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Novgorod is drawn closer to the Lithuanian state.
1377: Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, dies. He is succeeded by his son, Jogaila.
1377-1434: Reign of Jogaila the Great
1377: Andrei of Polotsk, Jogaila's brother, declares his claim to the position of Grand Duke of Lithuania, supported by Demetrius of Bryansk and numerous Russian princes, including Muscovy and Novgorod. The Lithuanian Civil War (1377-1382) begins.
1378: Poland-Hungary uses the chaos in Lithuania to annex most of Podolia. The Battle of Dorogobuzh is fought between Skirgaila and Bryansk-Muscovite forces - Skirgaila is defeated and Smolensk falls under enemy occupation. Jogaila, meanwhile, captures Polotsk after a surprise attack on the unexpecting city. Mamai of the Blue Horde attacks Tver, Ryazan and Moscow, heavily looting the Rus' lands.
1379: Seeing which way the wind is blowing, Dmitry Pavlovich offers Jogaila his daughter Sophia and an alliance against the Tatars and Andrei of Polotsk, in exchange for his conversion to Orthodoxy. Jogaila accepts and is baptized with the Christian name Nikolai. Bryansk is recaptured that year.
1380: Kęstutis, Jogaila's uncle, raises his banners in revolt against the new Orthodox Grand Duke. Jogaila, through his ally and brother Kaributas, offers negotiations to Kęstutis, and as soon as he meets him and his son Vytautas, he orders their arrest. Jogailai triumphantly returns to Vilnius and tears down the old temple of Perkūnas.
1382: Kęstutis and Vytautas mysteriously die in captivity. Louis I of Poland-Hungary dies without a male heir, throwing the kingdoms to a succession crisis.
1383: Siemowit IV of Mazovia asks for Jogaila's help in the Polish Civil War, in exchange for returning Louis I's annexed Lithuanian lands and an alliance against the Teutons. Jogaila agrees. The Battle of Adamki leads to a Masovian-Lithuanian victory, but only chaos in Hungary makes Elizabeth of Hungary concede. Siemowit IV marries Hedwig d'Anjou and is crowned as King of Poland.
1386: Mamai is defeated by Tokhtamysh at the Kalka River.
1389: The Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War - Poland and Lithuania join forces and defeat the Teutonic Order in the Battle of Ilawa and besiege Marienburg, which surrenders a few months later due to not extensive enough preparations beforehand. The Peace of Thorn is signed.
1391: Tamerlane's generals, Temur Qutlugh and Edigu, defeat Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the Kondurcha River.
1393: Timurid forces defeat Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the Terek River, the Khan flees to Lithuania.
1395: Jogaila meets with Tokhtamysh and agrees to fight for his claim to the Golden Horde along with Prince Vasily of Moscow. The Battle of the Vorskla River is a close victory by the Orthodox forces - however, Vasily I dies in the battle after leading the troops in a successful cavalry charge, forever immortalized as Vasily Vorskloy.
1397: After a succession crisis in the leaderless Moscow, Jogaila arrives to seize the throne in the name of his own claim on the title. Moscow is incorporated into Lithuania.
1408: Ryazan is fully incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1409: Prince Teodoras is born to Jogaila and Sophia of Moscow.
1411: The seat of the Metropolitan of All Rus' is finally moved to Vilnius after the Byzantine Empire manages to push back a siege by the Ottoman Turks.
1410s: The beginning of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.
1425: The first edition of the Chronicle of Lithuania, the first work published in the Lithuanian language, is released.
1420s: The Ninety Years' War between France and England ends in an English victory and the creation of the Kingdom of England-France.
1432: Wary of the deteriorating situation of the ERE, the Papacy gathers the Council of Florence, set of mending the East-West Schism of Christianity and discussing a possible intervention against the Turks.
1434: Jogaila the Great dies.
1434-1475: Reign of Teodoras I
1434: Žygimantas Kęstutaitis declares his claim to the position of Grand Duke of Lithuania, supported by Švitrigaila. The Lithuanian Civil War of 1434-35 begins.
1435: Teodoras I wins the Battle of Starodub. Žygimantas and Švitrigaila are captured, the claimant's son Mykolas escapes to the West. The Livonian Order, his ally, is defeated at the Lėvuo River.
1437: Sigismund of Luxembourg dies, his kingdom of Bohemia-Hungary is inherited by his underage son Charles. The Council of Florence ends with nothing achieved.
1438: Teodoras's son Prince Algirdas is born.
1440-42: War against Crimea and the Golden Horde.
1445: Siemowit III ascends as King of Poland, and the Krakow Regency of szlachta is established. The Siemowitian Interregnum in Poland begins.
1450: Murad the Conqueror leads the armies of the Ottoman Empire to successfully capture Constantinople and end the millennial Byzantine Empire.
1451: Teodoras I declines the Union of Florence. Greeks fleeing the fall of Constantinople arrive to Lithuania, and settle down in settlements around Vilnius.
1455: Convention Pact signed by Siemowit III in Poland, ending hereditary rule in the kingdom and replacing it with a popular nobility election.
1461: Lithuania intervenes in a burgher uprising in the Teutonic Order, and Bohemia-Hungary uses the opportunity to increase it's influence in Poland. This results in an unresolved diplomatic crisis that leads to both parties preparing for war.
1463: Siemowit III dies. The beginning of the Polish Succession War (1463-68) between Lithuania and Bohemia-Hungary. Charles I occupies Krakow and is crowned as King of Poland. The Battle of Czestochowa between Lithuanian forces and Matthias Corvinus's Black Army is a crushing victory for the latter. Teodoras I retreats, and the war in Poland turns into a bloody raiding stalemate.
1464: Mykolas Žygimantaitis arrives to the court of Charles I for the King to press his claim on Grand Duke of Lithuania. The Leczyca Campaign begins, the two powers begin vying for control in Greater Poland.
1465: Massive famine across Poland, caused by the raiding warfare, later followed by a smallpox epidemic.
1466: Bohemia-Hungary wins the Leczyca Campaign. Teodoras I decides to march to Poland for a second time.
1467: The Battle of Bydgoszcz - albeit a closer fight than Czestochowa, it is still a victory for the Black Army. Lithuania is almost completely pushed out of Poland. Janusz I, the pretender, is defeated the same year. Matthias Corvinus pushes forward, capturing Brest, but retreats because of Ottoman maneuvers in Hungary.
1468: Peace of Plock - the end of the Polish Succession War, victory goes to Bohemia-Hungary-Poland.
1468-71: Mykolas Žygimantaitis organizes revolts against Teodoras in western Lithuania, but his gambit for the throne is ended by his death.
1475: Teodoras I dies, succeeded by his son Algirdas.
1475-1497: Reign of Algirdas II
1470s: Currency reform in Lithuania. First mentions of the Myth of Palemon in the Chronicle of Lithuania.
1478: Algirdas II marries Angela Palaiologina, solidifying his claim to the successorship of the Third Rome. Mykolas Glinskis is appointed as the Grand Hetman (main military commander) of Lithuania.
1480: The Lithuanian Regiment, the first standing army in Lithuanian history, is founded.
1481: Algirdas II is crowned King of Lithuania, the first one after over 200 years of vacancy.
1485: The Brest Concordate - The Lithuanian Orthodox Church signs an official act of partial reconcillation with the Catholic Church, many theological debates are amended, and Catholicism begins to spread in Lithuania.
1486: Algirdas's son Valdislavas is born.
1493: Foundation of the University of Vilnius.
1494: Beginning of the Burgundian Wars between England-France and Austria.
1495: Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers the New World, the continent of Vespucia. The exploration of the New World begins.
1496: The first printing house in Lithuania, in Vilnius, is established. The Cyrillic movable type is created.
1497: Algirdas II dies from an unknown disease.
1497-1504: Regency of Mykolas Glinskis
1497: Tver revolts against the regency in Lithuania. Mykolas Glinskis destroys a nobility plot to get rid of Valdislavas and establish a noble republic.
1498: The Tverian-Lithuanian War begins. The Second Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Dobrovo both result in Lithuanian victories, Tver and the rebellious Russian regions are put down and pillaged.
1501: A Portuguese expedition reaches the port of Madras in India.
1504: Valdislavas I reaches maturity.
1504-1546: Reign of Valdislavas I
1506: The armies of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland deal a crushing blow to the Ottomans at the Battle of the Sava River. The Sultan is dead, and his successor Mehmet III decides to focus on the Middle East.
1508: Henry Bosman, under the Scottish flag, discovers North Vespucia.
1511: Crimean Tatar raid on Lithuanian Khadjibey. The beginning of a period of Tatar raids and incursions into the Lithuanian kingdom. Ferdinand I of Castille and Aragon declares Spanish control over the islands of "Mariana, Occasus, Puerto Norte, the rest of the Western islands, and all Westerners on the continent in front of them", in Central Vespucia. Vasco Disirosti revisits Cabral's route and names the lands Terra Manuela.
1515: The Treaty of Almeria divides Vespucia between Spain and Portugal. The Netherlands Free State is founded as a vassal of England-France.
1518: Valdislavas I orders the creation of the Statute of Lithuania, a codified set of laws to work across the whole kingdom. The Statute is finished and signed the same year.
1518-21: The Teutonic Order's Last Raid - The Order is kicked out and East Prussia annexed after Lithuania intervenes on the side of the rebellious Hanseatic cities.
1525: Philip Melanchthon releases the "118 Theses on the State of Corruption, Simony and Indulgences in the Church of Christ" - the Reformation begins. The "Glinskiada" is written and published.
1526: Spanish opportunist and war veteran, Fernando Altamirano, conquers the Aztec Empire and becomes the first Emperor of Mejico. Valdislavas I founds the elite Karaite Guard.
1528: Jean de Flammant, a French preacher, begins spreading Reformism in France.
1535: The Union of Visegrad is signed and founded, uniting Bohemia, Hungary and Poland under a single crown.
1543: The Volok Reform begins in Lithuania. Serfdom is now finalized.
1544: The Anti-Reformation movement begins.
1546: Andrius Volanas begins Reformation in Orthodoxy - the Volanite Movement. Valdislavas I dies.
1546-1568: Reign of Valdislavas II
1547: Valdislavas II declines the chance to convert to Volanism, but nevertheless extends laws of religious tolerance to it.
1548: King Valdislavas marries Astrid, the Princess of Sweden.
1550: The Portuguese make first contact with the Inca. Foundation of the University of Kiev.
1554: Astrid of Sweden passes away from malaria.
1557: Valdislavas's tragic romance with Viktorija Kęsgailaitė.
1558: The Flammantian Wars in England-France begin. The First Estates-General of Clermont is called.
1561: Portuguese ships reach the coasts of Japan.
1566: The first major battle in the Flammantian Wars, the Battle of Limoges, results in a French Flammantian victory.
1567: Nieuw-Amsterdam is founded in North Vespucia.
1568: Death of Valdislavas II.
1568-1611: Reign of Queen Sofija
1568: Sofija, the only child of Valdislavas II, returns from Brandenburg to claim her throne. After a successful march to Vilnius, Jonas Astikas and his noble republic plans are stopped and the legitimate heir has been returned.
1569: The Union of Visegrad invades Podolia. The Great Russian Rebellion begins, led by Ivan Kratkov.
1571: Volanism is criminalized in Lithuania due to it's ties to the Great Russian Rebellion. The Battle of Radyvyliv between Lithuanian and Visegradian forces begins. Visegrad employs the Winged Hussars for the first time in history. The Peace of Lutsk is signed and Visegrad wins the short war. The Netherlands Free State joins the Flammantian Wars on the French side and defeats the English navy in Saint-Michel Bay. The Salzburg Decree, allowing limited religious freedom, is released by the Holy Roman Emperor.
1572: Ivan Kratkov marches on Novgorod and disestablishes the merchant republic. The Lithuanian Army, led by Kęstutis Mykolas Radvila, begins a march to the Russian heartland.
1573: The All-Russian Council is called on the likeness to the Estates-General. The Ruthenians decline the offer to join the Rebellion. The Battle of the Loire is won by the French, ending the Flammantian Wars in a Flammantian victory. Republican France is established.
1574: The Battle of Sychyovka - Ivan Kratkov is defeated and dies during the resulting Russian Death March. Lithuanian troops later capture Tver, and other towns.
1575: Ryazan surrenders, and the Great Russian Rebellion is finally defeated.
1582: The first dūmai census is held in Lithuania.
1586: The Second Statute of Lithuania is finished. Serfdom is made into a law.
1587: Jean de Foix dies. Republican France endures.
1588: Sofija's son, Prince Albertas Jogaila, is born.
1589-91: The War of the Po River almost turns into a continent wide conflict, but is extinguished.
1603: The beginning of the Lithuanian Navy, with the foundation of the Royal Sea Commission.
1604: Volga Russians push back an offensive by the Khanate of Kazan. Volga-Russia endures.
1610: Lithuania begins a major military reform, establishing an official standing force of the Lithuanian army.
1611: Queen Sofija dies.
1611-: Reign of Albertas Jogaila I
So, to help remedy the damage, I decided to make an abridged timeline of the events that happened so far, for reference to both old timers and newcomers alike.
FROM ALGIRDAS TO ALBERTAS: The timeline of events in The Silver Knight from 1367 to 1611
1367 - Point of Divergence: Moscow, under Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich, cancels the construction of the stone Kremlin because of an unexpected tribute demand from the Golden Horde.
1368: After a series of diplomatic mishaps, Tver and Moscow go to war, and the former calls it's ally Lithuania into the war. The Lithuanian-Muscovite War begins. Because of the weak defenses of the Moscow Kremlin, the city is captured after a short siege. Dmitry Pavlovich is defeated.
1369: The Treaty of Kirzhach is signed, Moscow is forced to make a number of diplomatic and physical concessions. The Lithuanian-Muscovite War ends in a Lithuanian victory.
1370: Lithuanian raiders in East Prussia are beaten in the Battle of Rudau.
1371: Lithuania annexes Smolensk, Algirdas's son Skirgaila is placed as the Duke of Smolensk. Ryazan falls under Lithuanian influence and dominance.
1374: Treaty of Velikye Luki between Lithuania and Novgorod. The (mostly ceremonial) title of Prince of Novgorod is now tied to the position of Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Novgorod is drawn closer to the Lithuanian state.
1377: Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, dies. He is succeeded by his son, Jogaila.
1377-1434: Reign of Jogaila the Great
1377: Andrei of Polotsk, Jogaila's brother, declares his claim to the position of Grand Duke of Lithuania, supported by Demetrius of Bryansk and numerous Russian princes, including Muscovy and Novgorod. The Lithuanian Civil War (1377-1382) begins.
1378: Poland-Hungary uses the chaos in Lithuania to annex most of Podolia. The Battle of Dorogobuzh is fought between Skirgaila and Bryansk-Muscovite forces - Skirgaila is defeated and Smolensk falls under enemy occupation. Jogaila, meanwhile, captures Polotsk after a surprise attack on the unexpecting city. Mamai of the Blue Horde attacks Tver, Ryazan and Moscow, heavily looting the Rus' lands.
1379: Seeing which way the wind is blowing, Dmitry Pavlovich offers Jogaila his daughter Sophia and an alliance against the Tatars and Andrei of Polotsk, in exchange for his conversion to Orthodoxy. Jogaila accepts and is baptized with the Christian name Nikolai. Bryansk is recaptured that year.
1380: Kęstutis, Jogaila's uncle, raises his banners in revolt against the new Orthodox Grand Duke. Jogaila, through his ally and brother Kaributas, offers negotiations to Kęstutis, and as soon as he meets him and his son Vytautas, he orders their arrest. Jogailai triumphantly returns to Vilnius and tears down the old temple of Perkūnas.
1382: Kęstutis and Vytautas mysteriously die in captivity. Louis I of Poland-Hungary dies without a male heir, throwing the kingdoms to a succession crisis.
1383: Siemowit IV of Mazovia asks for Jogaila's help in the Polish Civil War, in exchange for returning Louis I's annexed Lithuanian lands and an alliance against the Teutons. Jogaila agrees. The Battle of Adamki leads to a Masovian-Lithuanian victory, but only chaos in Hungary makes Elizabeth of Hungary concede. Siemowit IV marries Hedwig d'Anjou and is crowned as King of Poland.
1386: Mamai is defeated by Tokhtamysh at the Kalka River.
1389: The Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War - Poland and Lithuania join forces and defeat the Teutonic Order in the Battle of Ilawa and besiege Marienburg, which surrenders a few months later due to not extensive enough preparations beforehand. The Peace of Thorn is signed.
1391: Tamerlane's generals, Temur Qutlugh and Edigu, defeat Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the Kondurcha River.
1393: Timurid forces defeat Tokhtamysh at the Battle of the Terek River, the Khan flees to Lithuania.
1395: Jogaila meets with Tokhtamysh and agrees to fight for his claim to the Golden Horde along with Prince Vasily of Moscow. The Battle of the Vorskla River is a close victory by the Orthodox forces - however, Vasily I dies in the battle after leading the troops in a successful cavalry charge, forever immortalized as Vasily Vorskloy.
1397: After a succession crisis in the leaderless Moscow, Jogaila arrives to seize the throne in the name of his own claim on the title. Moscow is incorporated into Lithuania.
1408: Ryazan is fully incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1409: Prince Teodoras is born to Jogaila and Sophia of Moscow.
1411: The seat of the Metropolitan of All Rus' is finally moved to Vilnius after the Byzantine Empire manages to push back a siege by the Ottoman Turks.
1410s: The beginning of the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.
1425: The first edition of the Chronicle of Lithuania, the first work published in the Lithuanian language, is released.
1420s: The Ninety Years' War between France and England ends in an English victory and the creation of the Kingdom of England-France.
1432: Wary of the deteriorating situation of the ERE, the Papacy gathers the Council of Florence, set of mending the East-West Schism of Christianity and discussing a possible intervention against the Turks.
1434: Jogaila the Great dies.
1434-1475: Reign of Teodoras I
1434: Žygimantas Kęstutaitis declares his claim to the position of Grand Duke of Lithuania, supported by Švitrigaila. The Lithuanian Civil War of 1434-35 begins.
1435: Teodoras I wins the Battle of Starodub. Žygimantas and Švitrigaila are captured, the claimant's son Mykolas escapes to the West. The Livonian Order, his ally, is defeated at the Lėvuo River.
1437: Sigismund of Luxembourg dies, his kingdom of Bohemia-Hungary is inherited by his underage son Charles. The Council of Florence ends with nothing achieved.
1438: Teodoras's son Prince Algirdas is born.
1440-42: War against Crimea and the Golden Horde.
1445: Siemowit III ascends as King of Poland, and the Krakow Regency of szlachta is established. The Siemowitian Interregnum in Poland begins.
1450: Murad the Conqueror leads the armies of the Ottoman Empire to successfully capture Constantinople and end the millennial Byzantine Empire.
1451: Teodoras I declines the Union of Florence. Greeks fleeing the fall of Constantinople arrive to Lithuania, and settle down in settlements around Vilnius.
1455: Convention Pact signed by Siemowit III in Poland, ending hereditary rule in the kingdom and replacing it with a popular nobility election.
1461: Lithuania intervenes in a burgher uprising in the Teutonic Order, and Bohemia-Hungary uses the opportunity to increase it's influence in Poland. This results in an unresolved diplomatic crisis that leads to both parties preparing for war.
1463: Siemowit III dies. The beginning of the Polish Succession War (1463-68) between Lithuania and Bohemia-Hungary. Charles I occupies Krakow and is crowned as King of Poland. The Battle of Czestochowa between Lithuanian forces and Matthias Corvinus's Black Army is a crushing victory for the latter. Teodoras I retreats, and the war in Poland turns into a bloody raiding stalemate.
1464: Mykolas Žygimantaitis arrives to the court of Charles I for the King to press his claim on Grand Duke of Lithuania. The Leczyca Campaign begins, the two powers begin vying for control in Greater Poland.
1465: Massive famine across Poland, caused by the raiding warfare, later followed by a smallpox epidemic.
1466: Bohemia-Hungary wins the Leczyca Campaign. Teodoras I decides to march to Poland for a second time.
1467: The Battle of Bydgoszcz - albeit a closer fight than Czestochowa, it is still a victory for the Black Army. Lithuania is almost completely pushed out of Poland. Janusz I, the pretender, is defeated the same year. Matthias Corvinus pushes forward, capturing Brest, but retreats because of Ottoman maneuvers in Hungary.
1468: Peace of Plock - the end of the Polish Succession War, victory goes to Bohemia-Hungary-Poland.
1468-71: Mykolas Žygimantaitis organizes revolts against Teodoras in western Lithuania, but his gambit for the throne is ended by his death.
1475: Teodoras I dies, succeeded by his son Algirdas.
1475-1497: Reign of Algirdas II
1470s: Currency reform in Lithuania. First mentions of the Myth of Palemon in the Chronicle of Lithuania.
1478: Algirdas II marries Angela Palaiologina, solidifying his claim to the successorship of the Third Rome. Mykolas Glinskis is appointed as the Grand Hetman (main military commander) of Lithuania.
1480: The Lithuanian Regiment, the first standing army in Lithuanian history, is founded.
1481: Algirdas II is crowned King of Lithuania, the first one after over 200 years of vacancy.
1485: The Brest Concordate - The Lithuanian Orthodox Church signs an official act of partial reconcillation with the Catholic Church, many theological debates are amended, and Catholicism begins to spread in Lithuania.
1486: Algirdas's son Valdislavas is born.
1493: Foundation of the University of Vilnius.
1494: Beginning of the Burgundian Wars between England-France and Austria.
1495: Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers the New World, the continent of Vespucia. The exploration of the New World begins.
1496: The first printing house in Lithuania, in Vilnius, is established. The Cyrillic movable type is created.
1497: Algirdas II dies from an unknown disease.
1497-1504: Regency of Mykolas Glinskis
1497: Tver revolts against the regency in Lithuania. Mykolas Glinskis destroys a nobility plot to get rid of Valdislavas and establish a noble republic.
1498: The Tverian-Lithuanian War begins. The Second Battle of Moscow and the Battle of Dobrovo both result in Lithuanian victories, Tver and the rebellious Russian regions are put down and pillaged.
1501: A Portuguese expedition reaches the port of Madras in India.
1504: Valdislavas I reaches maturity.
1504-1546: Reign of Valdislavas I
1506: The armies of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland deal a crushing blow to the Ottomans at the Battle of the Sava River. The Sultan is dead, and his successor Mehmet III decides to focus on the Middle East.
1508: Henry Bosman, under the Scottish flag, discovers North Vespucia.
1511: Crimean Tatar raid on Lithuanian Khadjibey. The beginning of a period of Tatar raids and incursions into the Lithuanian kingdom. Ferdinand I of Castille and Aragon declares Spanish control over the islands of "Mariana, Occasus, Puerto Norte, the rest of the Western islands, and all Westerners on the continent in front of them", in Central Vespucia. Vasco Disirosti revisits Cabral's route and names the lands Terra Manuela.
1515: The Treaty of Almeria divides Vespucia between Spain and Portugal. The Netherlands Free State is founded as a vassal of England-France.
1518: Valdislavas I orders the creation of the Statute of Lithuania, a codified set of laws to work across the whole kingdom. The Statute is finished and signed the same year.
1518-21: The Teutonic Order's Last Raid - The Order is kicked out and East Prussia annexed after Lithuania intervenes on the side of the rebellious Hanseatic cities.
1525: Philip Melanchthon releases the "118 Theses on the State of Corruption, Simony and Indulgences in the Church of Christ" - the Reformation begins. The "Glinskiada" is written and published.
1526: Spanish opportunist and war veteran, Fernando Altamirano, conquers the Aztec Empire and becomes the first Emperor of Mejico. Valdislavas I founds the elite Karaite Guard.
1528: Jean de Flammant, a French preacher, begins spreading Reformism in France.
1535: The Union of Visegrad is signed and founded, uniting Bohemia, Hungary and Poland under a single crown.
1543: The Volok Reform begins in Lithuania. Serfdom is now finalized.
1544: The Anti-Reformation movement begins.
1546: Andrius Volanas begins Reformation in Orthodoxy - the Volanite Movement. Valdislavas I dies.
1546-1568: Reign of Valdislavas II
1547: Valdislavas II declines the chance to convert to Volanism, but nevertheless extends laws of religious tolerance to it.
1548: King Valdislavas marries Astrid, the Princess of Sweden.
1550: The Portuguese make first contact with the Inca. Foundation of the University of Kiev.
1554: Astrid of Sweden passes away from malaria.
1557: Valdislavas's tragic romance with Viktorija Kęsgailaitė.
1558: The Flammantian Wars in England-France begin. The First Estates-General of Clermont is called.
1561: Portuguese ships reach the coasts of Japan.
1566: The first major battle in the Flammantian Wars, the Battle of Limoges, results in a French Flammantian victory.
1567: Nieuw-Amsterdam is founded in North Vespucia.
1568: Death of Valdislavas II.
1568-1611: Reign of Queen Sofija
1568: Sofija, the only child of Valdislavas II, returns from Brandenburg to claim her throne. After a successful march to Vilnius, Jonas Astikas and his noble republic plans are stopped and the legitimate heir has been returned.
1569: The Union of Visegrad invades Podolia. The Great Russian Rebellion begins, led by Ivan Kratkov.
1571: Volanism is criminalized in Lithuania due to it's ties to the Great Russian Rebellion. The Battle of Radyvyliv between Lithuanian and Visegradian forces begins. Visegrad employs the Winged Hussars for the first time in history. The Peace of Lutsk is signed and Visegrad wins the short war. The Netherlands Free State joins the Flammantian Wars on the French side and defeats the English navy in Saint-Michel Bay. The Salzburg Decree, allowing limited religious freedom, is released by the Holy Roman Emperor.
1572: Ivan Kratkov marches on Novgorod and disestablishes the merchant republic. The Lithuanian Army, led by Kęstutis Mykolas Radvila, begins a march to the Russian heartland.
1573: The All-Russian Council is called on the likeness to the Estates-General. The Ruthenians decline the offer to join the Rebellion. The Battle of the Loire is won by the French, ending the Flammantian Wars in a Flammantian victory. Republican France is established.
1574: The Battle of Sychyovka - Ivan Kratkov is defeated and dies during the resulting Russian Death March. Lithuanian troops later capture Tver, and other towns.
1575: Ryazan surrenders, and the Great Russian Rebellion is finally defeated.
1582: The first dūmai census is held in Lithuania.
1586: The Second Statute of Lithuania is finished. Serfdom is made into a law.
1587: Jean de Foix dies. Republican France endures.
1588: Sofija's son, Prince Albertas Jogaila, is born.
1589-91: The War of the Po River almost turns into a continent wide conflict, but is extinguished.
1603: The beginning of the Lithuanian Navy, with the foundation of the Royal Sea Commission.
1604: Volga Russians push back an offensive by the Khanate of Kazan. Volga-Russia endures.
1610: Lithuania begins a major military reform, establishing an official standing force of the Lithuanian army.
1611: Queen Sofija dies.
1611-: Reign of Albertas Jogaila I
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