Here's many attempt at a timeline of the Peshawarverse. It's incomplete, and the details are probably wrong in some areas, (and some of it is pure speculation by me), but here is the Peshawar Timeline 1.0
October 3, 1878 - The first of a series of high velocity impacts strike the Earth (some 300 megatons), near the southern edge of Moscow, Russia; the strikes originate from a meteor that brakes into smaller fragments before it impacted.
Over the next twelve hours, many more fragments strike the Northern Hemisphere. One of the biggest impacts occurs in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hours after the Atlantic impact, a series of mega-tsunamis strike the coasts of nations all along the North Atlantic Basin. In North America, the waves reach as far as the Appalachians, while the surges in Europe severely damage the Atlantic coasts of Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
1879-1881 - Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, after receiving information from his advisors that the harsh cold is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, orders the evacuation of the British government to India. This marks the start of the Exodus.
It begins with the “Flight of the 10,000”; the upper-class gentry, along with the Monarchy, is evacuated from Britain. Queen Victoria arrives with the court in Calcutta; after one month, the Queen subsequently orders the capital to be moved to Delhi.
A second wave begins soon afterwards, with the transportation of the upper levels of the middle class and soldiers (including a certain Sir Harry Paget Flashman). In all, three million people are evacuated from Britain during the Exodus, with one and a half million going to India, one million to Australia, and half a million to Cape Colony.
However, Disraeli refuses to leave London until it is too late. In August 1881, he’s killed by a starving mob before he can reach the last ship of the Exodus. In light of his failure to come to India, Lord Salisbury’s de-facto government in Delhi remains in power.
During this time period, a smaller exodus occurs from France, orchestrated by Napoléon Victor Bonaparte, who takes advantage of the collapse of the French government to crown himself as Napoléon V, Emperor of the French, in Algiers. Around 100,000 French, Spanish, and Italian refugees manage to reach French Algeria. France-outre-mer is born.
1880-1881 – With the death of the monarchy in St. Petersburg, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich takes command of what little remains of the Russian government. While retreating southwards through the Kazakh marshes from Kazan, Nikolai receives news of a nun who seems to have prophetic powers.
Nikolai, upon discovering how useful the nun’s dreams are to him, orders her kept alive with what clean food they have, and makes her his personal slave. This coincides with the establishment of the Cult of Tchernobog, when Nikolai’s Orthodox priest declares that God has been overthrown by Satan, the true master of the world. Nikolai, despondent over the sheer volume of death and destruction, becomes an adherent to this Cult, along with most of the priests in tow with him. Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev, the Minister of the Interior, assists his master in implementing the new religion amongst the surviving Russian nobility; Ignatiev will later be awarded with a generous estate in the Tien Shan mountains for his loyalty and effectiveness.
By the time Nikolai and the refugees reach Samarkand, the Russian elite has followed their de-facto Czar into Satan-worshipping. In order to conserve what Russian lives are left, the Uzbeks and Tajiks are preyed upon as food. The priests of Tchernobog use the subsequent massacre-sacrifices and cannibal feasts as new rituals to anchor their dark religion, as well as to keep their subjects in line. The priesthood takes over the city of Bokhara for its uses, while the new capital remains in Samarkand.
In Japan, a military government takes power in Edo to deal with the emergency; although Hokkaido and parts of northern Honshu are lost to the climatic disasters that strike, the draconian measures taken by the new regime allows Japan to survive as a nation.
In China, the Qing Empire utterly disintegrates in the face of the brutal cold, famine, and pestilence that comes with the Fall; population levels in northern China collapse as millions of desperate refugees attempt to flee southwards, to little avail (the conditions in the south certainly aren’t much better compared to the north, although more people survive).
1878-1898 - The Second Mutiny; sparked by rumors that the British are shipping what little spare food there is to England, a massive uprising begins against Imperial authority, centered primarily in the north of India, although it spreads south as well.
The nadir of the Mutiny comes in the mid-1880s when a coalition of desperate, starving Afghan tribes invades from the north, desperately seeking better land and food. Many of the British refugees parish from both the fighting and disease during this terrible time.
By the mid-1890s, however, the worst of violence is put down, and the Afghans have been turned back. The Second Mutiny has the ironic effect of cementing the government’s relationship with its loyalist supporters, including the Ghurkas, Sikhs, Rajputs, and Jats. Much of the newly vacant lands of the north are either handed to these dependable allies, or allocated to the new sahib-log immigrants.
Sir Harry Flashman is granted an estate near the city of Oxford (Srinagar), in the Vale of Kashmir; the traumas of the Fall and the Exodus have sobered him up (somewhat), and he elects to settle down. In 1895 he marries Catherine King, the daughter of an Imperial calvary subaltern. However, old habits are hard to break, and he is caught having in his affair with a servant girl by his wife. She decides to forever humiliate her husband by forcing him to take her maiden name (and she will also revert; the family name will be known as "King" forevermore), telling Harry that, "no one will remember your name."
During this same period, the Ottoman Empire completely collapses; the extreme weather and the collapse of all Turkish authority in the Middle East and North Africa sparks a massive Arab revolt. However, this leads to a time of confused fighting, as different factions vie for leadership of the Arab world. By 1898, one faction, led by the wealthy al Hussein family, wins out, with help from the wahabists, and a new government takes power in Damascus; the Caliphate is born.
1882 - Queen-Empress Victoria I passes away; scholars will almost uniformly agree that the stresses of the Fall contributed heavily to her death. Her son, who is crowned in Delhi as King-Emperor Edward VII, succeeds her.
1886 - The Ghurka refugees begin to recolonize Nepal.
France-outre-mer conquers Tunisia.
1888 – The Japanese begin to recolonize Hokkaido; they also take the opportunity to annex the abandoned Sakhalin Island and the Kuriles. A separate task force occupies the burned-out ruins of Vladivostok.
1890 - The population of Europe, from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains, has fallen to barely three million; other than a few farming hamlets (which exist at a Neolithic level), the only survivors consist of the most successful neobarbarians and cannibal bands.
In North America, the population has fallen to pre-1600 levels, with most survivors concentrated in California, the Gulf Coast, and Utah, along with a few surviving city-states in southern Mexico.
The Empire is formally reorganized as three Viceroyalties—India, the Cape, and Australia.
1895 - In East Asia, the Japanese Empire invades and conquers Korea; the Japanese also take advantage of the collapse of the Qing Empire to occupy the ruined port cities of Tsingdao, Mukden, and Shanghai. This is a prelude to a new effort on the part of the Japanese military government to acquire Japan’s rightful place as a Great Power.
1896-1900 – The Japanese conquer Manchuria, and large portions of northeastern China; it ends in early 1900 with the occupation of the ruins of Peking, where it is declared by the military government that the Mikado has assumed the Mandate of Heaven. The Empire of the Dragon Throne is born.
1898 - The population of India stands at 50 million, compared to its pre-Fall population of 200 million.
c. 1900 onwards - The Angrezi Raj begins a concerted effort to recolonize the British Isles; major bases are established in London, Southampton, Liverpool, Dublin, and Glasgow. Most of the first settlers in Britain are missionaries, who will attempt to recivilize the surviving “Britons.”
During the next generation, many railroad lines are constructed all over India, the Cape, and Australia.
During this time, escapist fiction set in worlds where the Fall never occurred becomes very popular, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle among the more famous authors of this type of fiction; later generations will view this kind of writing as very unhealthy.
1900 – Edward VII dies, and is succeeded by his son, who is crowned George IV; due to the new monarch’s heavy patronage of the Imperial Navy (as well as his legendary buff tongue), George will gain the informal title of the “Sailor Emperor.”
The Kingdom of Madagascar is formally recognized as an Imperial protectorate with the Treaty of Columbo. Although the island retains political independence, it completely integrated with the Empire economically.
Rudyard Kipling writes is famous Lement for a Lost Homeland; it will later serve as an inspiration for Lord Leighton's epic painting The Matyrdom of St. Disraeli.
1900-1910 – Dai-Nipponese forces occupy coastal China, along with the Pirate Isles (the Philippines), Indochina, and northern Siam. In reaction to this latest incursion, the Raj occupies the rest of that Siam, along with the Fragrant Isles (Hawaii), to counter further Dai-Nipponese expansionism.
During this time, the Caliphate of Damascus begins to expand into Turkey and the Balkans. The first clashes with France-outre-mer occur in the deserts of Cyrenaica.
1910 - In the Treaty of Singapore, the Dutch-settled Batavian Republic is formally recognized as a protectorate of the Angrezi Raj. Like the Kingdom of Madagascar, the Republic is economically part of the Empire.
France-outre-mer annexes Morocco (depopulated by the Atlantic mega-tsunami).
c. 1920 - Imperial scholars view the 1920s as the mark of recovery to a pre-1878 level of civilization.
1921 - George IV dies and his succeeded by his daughter, who is crowned as Victoria II. Thanks to her scandalous affairs, she will be better known as “Victoria the Wicked.”
1921 – The Dai-Nipponese begin to establish outposts in Alaska.
1937-1949 – The premiership of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; his time as Prime Minister will be fondly remembered as a time of exploration in North America and elsewhere on the part of the Raj, as well as a time of economic expansionism.
1940s onwards - Colonization of the American East Coast begins, mostly from Britain. Outposts are established on the sites of the former cities of Boston, New York, Charleston, and Philadelphia.
Another major expedition in the second half of the decade establishes a major Angrezi presence along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, founding bases on the sites of St. Johns, Halifax, Quebec City, and Toronto. However, these outposts are mostly used for economic activity along the Mississippi down to the Gulf Coast.
The Dai-Nipponese begin to expand into the wild interior of China; in reaction to this, the Angrezi Raj begins to establish outposts in the wastes of Tibet.
1942 - Victoria II dies childless; she is succeeded her cousin (a professor of Indo-European linguistics), who is crowned as Albert I.
1950 – An Australian-sponsored expedition to North America establishes a colony in the Pacific Northwest, centered on a fort built on the site of what was once Vancouver.
1973 – The Angrezi Raj establishes naval bases on the sites of Copenhagen, Calais, Amsterdam, and Antwerp.
1978 – Eric King is born.
1980 - The First Siamese War erupts between the Angrezi Raj and Dai-Nippon after a series of border clashes between the two empires. Although the actual war is fairly limited in size and scope, it does shaken the Raj that the Dai-Nipponese have reached a level of power that they can openly challenge them militarily. The conflict ends with a series of border adjustments in the Raj’s favor.
Ranjit Singh is born.
Albert Piennar is born in Simonstown, in the Cape Viceroyalty.
The Angrezi Raj formally establishes outposts at Galveston and New Orleans.
1984 - Charles King nearly loses Rexin Manor after a series of bad investments; he is saved from foreclosture by the quick actions of Elias bar-Binyamin, the family investment broker in Delhi who manages to erase the debts. King pledges Binyamin that he, or his kin will repay the debt by any means necessary.
1985 - Vladimir Obramovich Ignatieff is born to at the family castle in the foothills of the Tien Shan mountains.
1989 – Albert I dies, and is succeeded by his daughter, who is crowned as Elizabeth II; she will be known as the “Whig Empress” for her pressuring of the Raj’s major universities to admit women.
1990 - In a brief war, the Empire seizes Zanzibar from the Caliphate’s Omani vassals, Aden, and Bahrain, ostensibly due to the Caliphate’s refusal to limit the slave trade from Abyssinia all along East Africa.
1994 - Eric King and Ranjit Singh fight in the Second Siamese War, along with Manfred Warburton. The conflict is short, and it ends with minor border adjustments between Angrezi and Dai-Nipponese Siam.
For his bravery in this war, Warburton is knighted.
1996-1998 - Eric King and Ranjit Singh take part in an expedition sponsored by the Imperial University of Delhi to investigate and explore the ruins of the pre-Fall cities of the Rhine Valley. After the expedition, the two briefly stop in England, before going on a short hunting expedition to Texas, which is interrupted with a brutal struggle with a band of cannibals (who have been whipped into a frenzy by a Priest of Tchernobog, whom King kills).
2000 - Eric King marries Aedelia Leonowens, the daughter of wealthy landowner from Bombay. Charles Saxe-Coburg Gotha is born.
Henri Napoléon Bonaparte ("Henri de Vascogne") is born.
2001 - Athelstane and Cassandra King are born; with the sudden death of his father, Eric King inherits Rexin Manor.
2002 - Naryan Singh is born.
2003 - Eric King and Ranjit Singh take part in a punitive expedition in the Cape Viceroyalty against the Massai.
2004 – A 9.2 earthquake strikes off of the coast of Sumatra, causing a massive tsunami to strike the Batavian Republic and all along the Indian Ocean Basin, as far away as the Omani colonies in Somaliland. The disaster kills over 300,000 people, mostly in the Republic, Ceylon, and Siam. The Sirkar responds effectively to the disaster when news of the catastrophe reaches Delhi, not least because of the massive stores of food that are maintained in case of another mega-disaster such as the Fall.
2005 - Elizabeth II dies, and is succeeded by her surviving eldest son, who is crowned as John II.
Eric King, at the desperate request of Elias bar-Binyamin, rescues his son, David, from the Houses of the Fallen in Bokhara. The two men exchange a tessera with each other.
Ibrihim Khan is born to a powerful chieftain of the Dongala Khel.
2006 - While on a mission on behest of the Imperial Political Services to track down a particularly troublesome band of Afghan raiders (and to find out whether or not they have been getting their large caches of firearms), Eric King and Ranjit Singh, along with Sir Manfred Warburton and the rest of their party are ambushed in a raid led by Count Ignatieff (disguised as a Kurdish fakir from the Caliphate). King is killed, and Singh is badly wounded before Warburton returns with reinforcements.
2007 - Sita Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is born.
2011 - The Jawaheer-Morley experiment successfully determines the absolute velocity of the Earth.
2019 – France-outre-mer seizes Sicily from the Caliphate in a brief but bloody war.
2020 - The Angrezi Raj and France-outre-mer sign a major trade agreement substantially lowering tariffs between the two nations; talks are quietly held on the possibility of seizing control of Egypt and rebuilding the Suez Canal, but the plans never move beyond the informal discussion phase.
2025 – Count Ignatieff is informed by the Sisterhood of True Dreamers that there is a chance of success of setting in motion the establishment of the Third Coming—the Secret Reign. Selecting Yasmini, the most powerful of the Dreamers to accompany him, Ignatieff sets off to accompany his goal of dealing in the Kings of Rexin...
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October 3, 1878 - The first of a series of high velocity impacts strike the Earth (some 300 megatons), near the southern edge of Moscow, Russia; the strikes originate from a meteor that brakes into smaller fragments before it impacted.
Over the next twelve hours, many more fragments strike the Northern Hemisphere. One of the biggest impacts occurs in the Atlantic Ocean.
Hours after the Atlantic impact, a series of mega-tsunamis strike the coasts of nations all along the North Atlantic Basin. In North America, the waves reach as far as the Appalachians, while the surges in Europe severely damage the Atlantic coasts of Portugal, Spain, France, Ireland, and Scandinavia.
1879-1881 - Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, after receiving information from his advisors that the harsh cold is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, orders the evacuation of the British government to India. This marks the start of the Exodus.
It begins with the “Flight of the 10,000”; the upper-class gentry, along with the Monarchy, is evacuated from Britain. Queen Victoria arrives with the court in Calcutta; after one month, the Queen subsequently orders the capital to be moved to Delhi.
A second wave begins soon afterwards, with the transportation of the upper levels of the middle class and soldiers (including a certain Sir Harry Paget Flashman). In all, three million people are evacuated from Britain during the Exodus, with one and a half million going to India, one million to Australia, and half a million to Cape Colony.
However, Disraeli refuses to leave London until it is too late. In August 1881, he’s killed by a starving mob before he can reach the last ship of the Exodus. In light of his failure to come to India, Lord Salisbury’s de-facto government in Delhi remains in power.
During this time period, a smaller exodus occurs from France, orchestrated by Napoléon Victor Bonaparte, who takes advantage of the collapse of the French government to crown himself as Napoléon V, Emperor of the French, in Algiers. Around 100,000 French, Spanish, and Italian refugees manage to reach French Algeria. France-outre-mer is born.
1880-1881 – With the death of the monarchy in St. Petersburg, Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich takes command of what little remains of the Russian government. While retreating southwards through the Kazakh marshes from Kazan, Nikolai receives news of a nun who seems to have prophetic powers.
Nikolai, upon discovering how useful the nun’s dreams are to him, orders her kept alive with what clean food they have, and makes her his personal slave. This coincides with the establishment of the Cult of Tchernobog, when Nikolai’s Orthodox priest declares that God has been overthrown by Satan, the true master of the world. Nikolai, despondent over the sheer volume of death and destruction, becomes an adherent to this Cult, along with most of the priests in tow with him. Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev, the Minister of the Interior, assists his master in implementing the new religion amongst the surviving Russian nobility; Ignatiev will later be awarded with a generous estate in the Tien Shan mountains for his loyalty and effectiveness.
By the time Nikolai and the refugees reach Samarkand, the Russian elite has followed their de-facto Czar into Satan-worshipping. In order to conserve what Russian lives are left, the Uzbeks and Tajiks are preyed upon as food. The priests of Tchernobog use the subsequent massacre-sacrifices and cannibal feasts as new rituals to anchor their dark religion, as well as to keep their subjects in line. The priesthood takes over the city of Bokhara for its uses, while the new capital remains in Samarkand.
In Japan, a military government takes power in Edo to deal with the emergency; although Hokkaido and parts of northern Honshu are lost to the climatic disasters that strike, the draconian measures taken by the new regime allows Japan to survive as a nation.
In China, the Qing Empire utterly disintegrates in the face of the brutal cold, famine, and pestilence that comes with the Fall; population levels in northern China collapse as millions of desperate refugees attempt to flee southwards, to little avail (the conditions in the south certainly aren’t much better compared to the north, although more people survive).
1878-1898 - The Second Mutiny; sparked by rumors that the British are shipping what little spare food there is to England, a massive uprising begins against Imperial authority, centered primarily in the north of India, although it spreads south as well.
The nadir of the Mutiny comes in the mid-1880s when a coalition of desperate, starving Afghan tribes invades from the north, desperately seeking better land and food. Many of the British refugees parish from both the fighting and disease during this terrible time.
By the mid-1890s, however, the worst of violence is put down, and the Afghans have been turned back. The Second Mutiny has the ironic effect of cementing the government’s relationship with its loyalist supporters, including the Ghurkas, Sikhs, Rajputs, and Jats. Much of the newly vacant lands of the north are either handed to these dependable allies, or allocated to the new sahib-log immigrants.
Sir Harry Flashman is granted an estate near the city of Oxford (Srinagar), in the Vale of Kashmir; the traumas of the Fall and the Exodus have sobered him up (somewhat), and he elects to settle down. In 1895 he marries Catherine King, the daughter of an Imperial calvary subaltern. However, old habits are hard to break, and he is caught having in his affair with a servant girl by his wife. She decides to forever humiliate her husband by forcing him to take her maiden name (and she will also revert; the family name will be known as "King" forevermore), telling Harry that, "no one will remember your name."
During this same period, the Ottoman Empire completely collapses; the extreme weather and the collapse of all Turkish authority in the Middle East and North Africa sparks a massive Arab revolt. However, this leads to a time of confused fighting, as different factions vie for leadership of the Arab world. By 1898, one faction, led by the wealthy al Hussein family, wins out, with help from the wahabists, and a new government takes power in Damascus; the Caliphate is born.
1882 - Queen-Empress Victoria I passes away; scholars will almost uniformly agree that the stresses of the Fall contributed heavily to her death. Her son, who is crowned in Delhi as King-Emperor Edward VII, succeeds her.
1886 - The Ghurka refugees begin to recolonize Nepal.
France-outre-mer conquers Tunisia.
1888 – The Japanese begin to recolonize Hokkaido; they also take the opportunity to annex the abandoned Sakhalin Island and the Kuriles. A separate task force occupies the burned-out ruins of Vladivostok.
1890 - The population of Europe, from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains, has fallen to barely three million; other than a few farming hamlets (which exist at a Neolithic level), the only survivors consist of the most successful neobarbarians and cannibal bands.
In North America, the population has fallen to pre-1600 levels, with most survivors concentrated in California, the Gulf Coast, and Utah, along with a few surviving city-states in southern Mexico.
The Empire is formally reorganized as three Viceroyalties—India, the Cape, and Australia.
1895 - In East Asia, the Japanese Empire invades and conquers Korea; the Japanese also take advantage of the collapse of the Qing Empire to occupy the ruined port cities of Tsingdao, Mukden, and Shanghai. This is a prelude to a new effort on the part of the Japanese military government to acquire Japan’s rightful place as a Great Power.
1896-1900 – The Japanese conquer Manchuria, and large portions of northeastern China; it ends in early 1900 with the occupation of the ruins of Peking, where it is declared by the military government that the Mikado has assumed the Mandate of Heaven. The Empire of the Dragon Throne is born.
1898 - The population of India stands at 50 million, compared to its pre-Fall population of 200 million.
c. 1900 onwards - The Angrezi Raj begins a concerted effort to recolonize the British Isles; major bases are established in London, Southampton, Liverpool, Dublin, and Glasgow. Most of the first settlers in Britain are missionaries, who will attempt to recivilize the surviving “Britons.”
During the next generation, many railroad lines are constructed all over India, the Cape, and Australia.
During this time, escapist fiction set in worlds where the Fall never occurred becomes very popular, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle among the more famous authors of this type of fiction; later generations will view this kind of writing as very unhealthy.
1900 – Edward VII dies, and is succeeded by his son, who is crowned George IV; due to the new monarch’s heavy patronage of the Imperial Navy (as well as his legendary buff tongue), George will gain the informal title of the “Sailor Emperor.”
The Kingdom of Madagascar is formally recognized as an Imperial protectorate with the Treaty of Columbo. Although the island retains political independence, it completely integrated with the Empire economically.
Rudyard Kipling writes is famous Lement for a Lost Homeland; it will later serve as an inspiration for Lord Leighton's epic painting The Matyrdom of St. Disraeli.
1900-1910 – Dai-Nipponese forces occupy coastal China, along with the Pirate Isles (the Philippines), Indochina, and northern Siam. In reaction to this latest incursion, the Raj occupies the rest of that Siam, along with the Fragrant Isles (Hawaii), to counter further Dai-Nipponese expansionism.
During this time, the Caliphate of Damascus begins to expand into Turkey and the Balkans. The first clashes with France-outre-mer occur in the deserts of Cyrenaica.
1910 - In the Treaty of Singapore, the Dutch-settled Batavian Republic is formally recognized as a protectorate of the Angrezi Raj. Like the Kingdom of Madagascar, the Republic is economically part of the Empire.
France-outre-mer annexes Morocco (depopulated by the Atlantic mega-tsunami).
c. 1920 - Imperial scholars view the 1920s as the mark of recovery to a pre-1878 level of civilization.
1921 - George IV dies and his succeeded by his daughter, who is crowned as Victoria II. Thanks to her scandalous affairs, she will be better known as “Victoria the Wicked.”
1921 – The Dai-Nipponese begin to establish outposts in Alaska.
1937-1949 – The premiership of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; his time as Prime Minister will be fondly remembered as a time of exploration in North America and elsewhere on the part of the Raj, as well as a time of economic expansionism.
1940s onwards - Colonization of the American East Coast begins, mostly from Britain. Outposts are established on the sites of the former cities of Boston, New York, Charleston, and Philadelphia.
Another major expedition in the second half of the decade establishes a major Angrezi presence along the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, founding bases on the sites of St. Johns, Halifax, Quebec City, and Toronto. However, these outposts are mostly used for economic activity along the Mississippi down to the Gulf Coast.
The Dai-Nipponese begin to expand into the wild interior of China; in reaction to this, the Angrezi Raj begins to establish outposts in the wastes of Tibet.
1942 - Victoria II dies childless; she is succeeded her cousin (a professor of Indo-European linguistics), who is crowned as Albert I.
1950 – An Australian-sponsored expedition to North America establishes a colony in the Pacific Northwest, centered on a fort built on the site of what was once Vancouver.
1973 – The Angrezi Raj establishes naval bases on the sites of Copenhagen, Calais, Amsterdam, and Antwerp.
1978 – Eric King is born.
1980 - The First Siamese War erupts between the Angrezi Raj and Dai-Nippon after a series of border clashes between the two empires. Although the actual war is fairly limited in size and scope, it does shaken the Raj that the Dai-Nipponese have reached a level of power that they can openly challenge them militarily. The conflict ends with a series of border adjustments in the Raj’s favor.
Ranjit Singh is born.
Albert Piennar is born in Simonstown, in the Cape Viceroyalty.
The Angrezi Raj formally establishes outposts at Galveston and New Orleans.
1984 - Charles King nearly loses Rexin Manor after a series of bad investments; he is saved from foreclosture by the quick actions of Elias bar-Binyamin, the family investment broker in Delhi who manages to erase the debts. King pledges Binyamin that he, or his kin will repay the debt by any means necessary.
1985 - Vladimir Obramovich Ignatieff is born to at the family castle in the foothills of the Tien Shan mountains.
1989 – Albert I dies, and is succeeded by his daughter, who is crowned as Elizabeth II; she will be known as the “Whig Empress” for her pressuring of the Raj’s major universities to admit women.
1990 - In a brief war, the Empire seizes Zanzibar from the Caliphate’s Omani vassals, Aden, and Bahrain, ostensibly due to the Caliphate’s refusal to limit the slave trade from Abyssinia all along East Africa.
1994 - Eric King and Ranjit Singh fight in the Second Siamese War, along with Manfred Warburton. The conflict is short, and it ends with minor border adjustments between Angrezi and Dai-Nipponese Siam.
For his bravery in this war, Warburton is knighted.
1996-1998 - Eric King and Ranjit Singh take part in an expedition sponsored by the Imperial University of Delhi to investigate and explore the ruins of the pre-Fall cities of the Rhine Valley. After the expedition, the two briefly stop in England, before going on a short hunting expedition to Texas, which is interrupted with a brutal struggle with a band of cannibals (who have been whipped into a frenzy by a Priest of Tchernobog, whom King kills).
2000 - Eric King marries Aedelia Leonowens, the daughter of wealthy landowner from Bombay. Charles Saxe-Coburg Gotha is born.
Henri Napoléon Bonaparte ("Henri de Vascogne") is born.
2001 - Athelstane and Cassandra King are born; with the sudden death of his father, Eric King inherits Rexin Manor.
2002 - Naryan Singh is born.
2003 - Eric King and Ranjit Singh take part in a punitive expedition in the Cape Viceroyalty against the Massai.
2004 – A 9.2 earthquake strikes off of the coast of Sumatra, causing a massive tsunami to strike the Batavian Republic and all along the Indian Ocean Basin, as far away as the Omani colonies in Somaliland. The disaster kills over 300,000 people, mostly in the Republic, Ceylon, and Siam. The Sirkar responds effectively to the disaster when news of the catastrophe reaches Delhi, not least because of the massive stores of food that are maintained in case of another mega-disaster such as the Fall.
2005 - Elizabeth II dies, and is succeeded by her surviving eldest son, who is crowned as John II.
Eric King, at the desperate request of Elias bar-Binyamin, rescues his son, David, from the Houses of the Fallen in Bokhara. The two men exchange a tessera with each other.
Ibrihim Khan is born to a powerful chieftain of the Dongala Khel.
2006 - While on a mission on behest of the Imperial Political Services to track down a particularly troublesome band of Afghan raiders (and to find out whether or not they have been getting their large caches of firearms), Eric King and Ranjit Singh, along with Sir Manfred Warburton and the rest of their party are ambushed in a raid led by Count Ignatieff (disguised as a Kurdish fakir from the Caliphate). King is killed, and Singh is badly wounded before Warburton returns with reinforcements.
2007 - Sita Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is born.
2011 - The Jawaheer-Morley experiment successfully determines the absolute velocity of the Earth.
2019 – France-outre-mer seizes Sicily from the Caliphate in a brief but bloody war.
2020 - The Angrezi Raj and France-outre-mer sign a major trade agreement substantially lowering tariffs between the two nations; talks are quietly held on the possibility of seizing control of Egypt and rebuilding the Suez Canal, but the plans never move beyond the informal discussion phase.
2025 – Count Ignatieff is informed by the Sisterhood of True Dreamers that there is a chance of success of setting in motion the establishment of the Third Coming—the Secret Reign. Selecting Yasmini, the most powerful of the Dreamers to accompany him, Ignatieff sets off to accompany his goal of dealing in the Kings of Rexin...
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The book is a homage to the Flashman series, and it is hinted that the Kings are descended from Sir Harry...