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Timeline
Full timeline
2063
Operation Sea of Reeds occurs
Tzipora arrives in Vekllei
2062
Passenger rail service to Miami resumes in Conch
2061
Tzipora meets Baron at Hotel Cairo
Dallas government issues stand-down order after central command over secessionist militias wanes
European Economic Community pledges material support to US government
2059
Tzipora loses contact with her mother, drops out of school and heads west
Lend-lease of nuclear silos guaranteed under the Treaty of California
June ceasefire between US and Dallas
2058
Terror attack in Cairo prompts OAPEC to restrict crude supply
The Ghawar refinery is set alight in Saudi Arabia by Iranian spies
The Ford Motor Company declares bankruptcy
The Dallas Secession begins
Open conflict with the United States begins
Baron moves to Utah as an AB/NI operative
2057
The US invades Colombia to depose communist government
Tzipora moves to Texas to study at St Mary’s, where she does not do very well
Sabotage of the Panama Canal halts shipping traffic for six weeks
A general economic slump begins in the Western Hemisphere
2056
The Comen Aeroyards are founded as a subsidiary of Government Aircraft Factories
Cifuentes government is overthrown with Soviet help in Colombia
2055
An international tribunal settles the long-running dispute over the lunar south pole in favour of the Commonwealth Lunar Community
The first Hera-class minelayers are commissioned in the Maritime Service
The first Hound-class surface-effect hovercrafts are commissioned in the Littoral Service
2054
The first Mantle-class ballistic missile submarines are commissioned in the Maritime Service
2053
Baron is assigned to Bolivia as a Noshem Section Chief
2052
The first Capricorn-class attack submarines are commissioned in the Maritime Service
2050
With the construction of the Artemis, the Commonwealth Lunar Community is formally established as a civilian settlement
Gregori Hordiyenko dies in a car accident
2048
2045 Sino Crisis ends without incident
Ascension Science Basin and Rocket Factory established in Ascension
US announces cuts to space programme
France establishes lunar colony in West Equator
2047
2046
The UK has almost completely decolonised
National Robotics Plant is opened by National Machines in Barbados
2045
The People’s Republic of China threatens war on Manchuria
2045 Sino Crisis begins
The Commonwealth intervenes in the collapse of Haiti
The Nuclear Marine Propulsion Reactor (NMPR) introduced
Nike-class vessels built (2045-54)
Volcanic-class vessels built (2045-55)
2044
Baron enlists in general infantry, dropping out of school
Adelectrics is founded in Santes
Moshel Street School is built
2043
Commonwealth World Jetport opens in Pharos, Oslola
2042
The first Swordfish-class air escort destroyers are commissioned in the Maritime Service
2041
The first Hydrofoil cutters are commissioned in the Littoral Service
2038
Amelie Zedner, Baron’s sister, succumbs to illness
2035
The Nuclear Thermal Working Group conducts nuclear rocketry experiments in Kala
2034
The first Commonwealth Airways commercial airship is launched
2033
Geothermal district heating system is completed in Lucia
2032
The first Patrol Motor Launch is commissioned in the Littoral Service
The first Prosperity-class aircraft cruisers are commissioned in the Maritime Service
2031
The first Suffrage-class corvettes are commissioned in the Maritime Service
2030
Commonwealth Station Mars is established
2029
Ayn Lai-Lebedev is born in Yana
Boya Chemical opens in Ada, Oslola
The first Baker-class air escort destroyers are commissioned in the Maritime Service
2027
Baron Zedner is born
The Soviet lunar colony is quietly abandoned temporarily, with administration transferred to the Balkan settlement
The first and only Federal-class battleship is commissioned in the Maritime Service
2026
Fusion power plant completed in Kala, the second of its kind in Vekllei
2025
Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation is founded in Oslola
The Commonwealth Lunar Community is established
The first Nike-class missile cruisers are commissioned in the Maritime Service
The first Palm-class submarine chasers are commissioned in the Maritime Service
Firming laws are amended
2024
Vekllei’s second fusion power plant opens in Kairi
Gregori Hordiyenko, the first Gregori baby, is born
2023
Inagua accedes to the Commonwealth as part of the Bahamas Federation
Contradictions between firming laws create a constitutional crisis
2021
Ou Hydroelectric Dam opens
Bethlehem Psychiatric Hospital rebuilt by the Commonwealth government
2020
The Commonwealth secretly tests its first indigenous nuclear weapon in the South Atlantic
2015
Naval Station Sude is formally established in the Sude islands
2004
Wallabies are introduced to Oslola, and soon become an invasive pest
c.1995
Soufrière Hills erupts in Allia, destroying several settlements in the south
c.2000
Money is abolished in most Commonwealth republics
Industrial crowns remain for trade and planning
Personal currency abolished
The Commons is established
1998
Helvasia status is finalised and begins federalisation
1995
National Machines is founded
1990
Commonwealth Starlines is founded
1988
1985
The Commonwealth enters economic transition
More services become free at point of use
Personal currency use declines, and its tender period is shortened from a year to a month
Bureau system expands
Automation increases
Government Aircraft Factories founded
Transition away from personal currency accelerates
1982
Commonwealth Lines shipping consolidated
Remaining Azores territories accede
Aismious accedes to the Commonwealth
1980
National Construction House is established
1979
Mt Vincent erupts violently in Youlouca, resulting in a successful mass evacuation
1978
Final Antilles (westward) non-Dutch republics accede
General Reactor is founded
The Canary Islands join Atlantic Commonwealth
The 1978 World’s Fair is held in Montre, Oslola
1976
Commonwealth Oil is founded in Kairi
1975-1985
Expiring currency system proves cumbersome
Black markets develop
Industrial/personal currency split deepens
1975
1973
Portuguese colonial empire collapses
1972
The Java Conference establishes a pathway for African islands to enter the Commonwealth
1971
Commonwealth Airways is founded
1969
First constitutional referendum on economic policy
1968
The precursor of the bureau system, known as cooperative industries, are established for industrial coordination
1967
West Indies Federation formally dissolves, and republics accede individually
Contemporary regional commonwealths are founded
The Council of Roses is formed
Commonwealth College is founded at the University of Antigua
Mayaguana accedes to the Commonwealth independently following the dissolution of the West Indies Federation
1966
The construction of a new capital begins, called Comet
A series of nationalisations occur, replacing colonial corporations
1965
Founding of the Commonwealth of Oceans
Beginning of Fourth Commonwealth (Floral Period)
Whaling industry in the South Atlantic collapses
UK grants independence to occupied territories
Atlantic Conference (Montre, July-September 1965):
- Representatives from occupied territories, West Indies Federation, British Atlantic Territories agree to a decentralised “federation of federations.”
- Atlantic Commonwealth founded
- Founding interim members include Commonwealth Arctic, Commonwealth West Indies, Commonwealth Lucaya, and individual British Atlantic territories
Establishment of Commonwealth bicameral direct democracy
1962
Britain begins withdrawal discussions from Atlantic territories
1960
British Atlantic Federation proposed in the wake of Nassau Conference
Caribbean territories prepare for independence
1954
Bethlehem Psychiatric Hospital established on Scallop Island in Paria
1952
Mandela College is founded at the University of Antigua
1951
1950
First Atomic War
Oslola uses tactical nuclear weapon against British naval group
UK retaliates with strikes on military installations and the capital
The Oslolan Junta is extinguished
UK-US occupation begins
1949
Naval skirmishes in North Atlantic
Oslola acquires nuclear capability through covert means
UK issues ultimatum
1948
Fishing rights crisis with UK escalates
Oslola claims extended territorial waters
Bloody Monday occurs after the massacre of British fishermen
UK sends naval frigates
The Conch Cays vote to join the West Indies Federation
1945
1944
Sugar processing operations established in Mayaguana by Snow White Sugar Industries
1943
The assassination of Adolf Hitler ends the Second World War and results in the partition of Germany
The United Nations is founded
1940
1939
Odin Faction, now the Nordic Nationalist Party (NNP), does well in elections but refuses to enter a coalition with the nationalist party
1935
Odin Faction, capitalising on Nazi ascent, established in Oslola amidst a brutal crackdown on political unrest
The Great Depression hits Oslola
General political unrest
Beginning of the Late Commonwealth
The Atlantic Independence Movement culminates in Oslola achieving dominion status within the UK, retaining Edward VII as head of state
Caribbean and Atlantic islands remain as British Atlantic Territories
1933
Sugarhouse Mountain Fortress begins construction outside Montre
Oslola leases frigates from the UK
1926
The British Atlantic Territories are awarded Dominion status at the 1926 Imperial Conference, granting it autonomy from British administration
1925
Rail transport in Oslola is nationalised
1924
The Caribbean Quarterly journal is founded in Antigua to catalogue regional studies
1919
Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity tested at Roça Sundy in Principe
1918
The Commonwealth-American railway opens between Conch and Florida
1910
First Caribbean Federation formed
1908
The future capital of Godthul is founded as a whaling station by Norway in Sude
1904
Grytviken is established as the first whaling station in Sude
1903
The Kalina Territory is established in Kabuli
1902
1901
The British Atlantic Territories are granted an elected assembly
1890
Roseau Botanical Gardens established in Kabuli
1887
Ouanalao sold back to France by Sweden
The first inter-collegiate cricket match is played at the University of Antigua
1874
Montre University is founded
1849
Royal University of the West Indies is founded in Antigua, the predecessor to the University of Antigua
1847
Methodist missionary Josiah Whitmore arrives in Paria and names the capital Bethlehem
1842
The Atlantic daily broadsheet is founded
The First Great Recession hits the Oslolan metropole
1841
The Ginnery is founded in Barbary
1838
The new British Atlantic Territories are granted an executive governor, essentially affording self-governing status to the colonies
1836
The British Overseas Territories comprising Oslola, Kala and Demon are reincorporated as the British Atlantic Territories, including Anguilla, Lucaya, Habacoa, Summers, the Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands ( Caimanas), the Falklands, Montserrat ( Allia), Saint Helena ( Helena), Ascension ( Ascension), the Tristan da Cunha Islands ( Santes), the South Georgia and Sandwich Islands ( Sude), and the Turks and Caicos ( Caicos) Islands
1820
The Colonial Hotel School is founded in Barbados
1816
Santes is settled
1814
Britain secures permanent control of Lucia after changing hands 14 times
1790
Slavery is abolished in Helena
1780
Most pearl beds in Paria are worked by free divers
1778
The Bath Hotel opens in Oualie as the first hotel in the Caribbean
1775
Sude is discovered by Captain James Cook
1765
1726
Seqi Olivine Mine begins continuous operation in Kala
1692
Barbary is founded as a slave estate known as Codrington’s Island
1670
British reclaim Providence under the Treaty of Madrid
1662
Whaling wars between Dutch and English settlers occur in Helvasia
1657
Helena is settled by the East India Company
1651
Spanish forces dislodge Protestant colonists from Providence
1643
Helvasia is rediscovered by Europeans and subsequently settled by whalers
1642
Commonwealth Bank is founded in Oslola as the Royal Bank
1630
Providence Island Company establishes a Puritan settlement in Providence
1609
Wreck of the Sea Venture leads to the settlement of Summers
1600
Beginning of Vekllei Late Period
Oslola loses the Six Years War to the British Empire and is capitulated as a colony of the British Empire
1550
Spanish colonisation of Nassau begins
1529
Spanish cartographer Diego Ribero charts the waters of Paria, naming them “Los Roques”
1492
Antigua is discovered by Europeans
1493
Kabuli is discovered by Christopher Columbus
1455
Costa Verde is discovered and settled by Portugal
1440
Kala enters a union with the 3rd Commonwealth
1422
The Royal Mail Service, predecessor to the Commonwealth Post, is founded in Oslola
1400
Beginning of Period of Rest
Founding of the 3rd Commonwealth
Collapse of Oslolan trading power begins
1380
The monarchy of Oslola falls to civil war and the Koverek dynasty is established
1350
Rise of trading towns on East Coast of Oslola
1200
1100
700
Beginning of Oslolan Middle Period
Founding of the 1st Commonwealth
Oslola’s monarchist period
200 AD
Beginning of Oslolan Early Period
500 BC
Beginning of Oslolan Common Period
400 BC
Oslola is using Oslolan logographs
Upen, a variant Inuit animism, is being practiced
600 BC
Oslola is politically and culturally isolated from Europe
1000 BC
Earliest permanent Algic settlements established at Kanek and Alavia in Kala
1100 BC
Scandinavians settle in Smoke Cove, Oslola
1230 BC
Celts or Pictish settlers establish fishing communities on south coast of Oslola
6000 BC
Earliest evidence of human settlement in Oslola
Commons
A Social Economy
The "commons" is the moneyless economy that people interact with day-to-day in Vekllei. It works in complicated and unconventional ways.
Futurism
Some notes on "There is No Modern Future," by Professional Idiot (their name, not an insult).
Women, Vekllei
An amendment to my previous essay, concerning the role of women as depicted in Vekllei.
Utopie Concrète
Notes on utopie concrète, a new movement for utopian fiction.