|
DATE
|
EVENTS
|
|
Ca 7500 BP?
|
Cave paintings at Edrannashan
|
|
Ca 1400 BP?
|
The Great Forthsithe and The Great Seafore
(The Great Departure and the Great Voyage)
Because of the social consequences caused by the reluctance to convert to the worship of Cruis the Summer Clan leaves Christiana to settle elsewhere, mainly in Somery, but also in other places in Vexillium
|
|
Ca 1100 BP?
|
The Menging thore Thedes
(The merging of the Peoples)
The Somerish and Estron peoples are gradually
merging. After initial hostilities, ending in the battle at Cerrig yn Stefyll (Kirstwall), the hierophants of
the two sun cults agree on the practice of the
worship of the Sun, and thus a unity between
the peoples is eventually acquired through religion.
|
|
Ca 1000 BP?
|
The first lathes are formed.
|
|
Ca 900-700 BP
|
The Eld thore Stanbeighs
(The age of the stone circles)
This is the age of the transforming
of the Sun cult. The direct worship of
the Sun as a celestial body is gradually changed into
a spiritual worship, with the sun as a symbol
of that spirit, named 'Leoma'.
The first written records. "Stær Sumoriscan Þeode"
(' A history of the Somerish People') is written by Aewil Arweorðlic ('Venerable'),
telling the earlier history of Somery.
|
|
Ca 700 - 400 BP
|
The Forme Eld thes Yondlighting
(The First Age of Enlightenment)
This is the peak of the Sun cult. Lorehouses are
created all over the peninsula. Cultural peak. An amazing amount of
documents have made it through wars and plagues
to the present day. The Great Spiritual Teachers appear, such as Aeric Scimwlite ('Fairface')
and Erryl Freawine ('Lord's friend').
|
|
Ca 235 - 10 BP
|
The Great Unfrith
(The Great 'Unpeace')
A period of instability, plagued by wars.
After 10 BP no more wars has ever been fought on the peninsula.
|
|
Ca 235 - 205 BP?
|
Druig Wurrend
(Druig the Evildoer)
A warmonger, spurring parts of the people of Somery
to take arms against Christiana, to regain their
'birthright'. His by-name is given by later historians.
The willingness of the people is caused by a period of
bad harvests.
|
|
Ca 60 - 10 BP?
|
The Great Sowt
(also The Great Qualm)
(The Great Plague)
Waves of plague, with peaks
59-56BP (First wave)
32-29BP (Second wave)
15-10BP (Third wave)
after 10BP no more cases in Somery.
The first wave hits the hardest, the other
two considerably less. During this era
the country is more or less in anarchy.
|
|
Ca 5 BP - 2 AP?
|
The Great Saught thes Anness
(also known as
The Ewsteth Writ)
(The Great Union Agreement)
22nd of July 5 BP an agreement between the thanes of Avillion, Sutherewland, and Northerewland is signed on Ewsteth Bridge crossing the river Ewe, confirming a political union between the lathes. This signing is followed by the signing by the thanes of the other lathes one by one. In 2 AP, with the signing by the lathe of Suther Troy, the union covers the whole peninsula.
|
|
2 AP
|
The Stathel Law
(The First Constitution)
Once all the lathes are unified a
constitution is drafted.
This constitution still stands with some
minor adjustments, mainly when it
comes to the power of the monarch.
|
|
5 BP - 95 AP?
|
The Eld thes Eftnewing
(The Age of Restoration)
The lathes are transformed into shires. Recovering from the wars and the plague
Somery becomes a monarchy, with an elected High Thane as the ruler.
|
|
0 - 200 AP
|
The Other Eld thes Yondlighting
(The Second Age of Enlightenment)
The New Era of cultural and
scientific resurrection.
The power of the monarch
is gradually diminished as
democratic ideas are
gaining ground.
|
|
195 AP
|
Monarchy is abolished.
|
|
7 Aug 287 AP
|
The Emset
(The Occupation)
The Kingdom of Merité, through King Timothy, backed by Northern Gronk, claims supremacy over
Somery south of the 30th parallel. Before the overwhelming power of the Kingdom the Somerish people cannot resist. The occupation in itself does not affect the Somerish society on any
larger scale, although the people feels humiliated by the presence of the army of a foreign power, and new taxes imposed upon them.
|
|
15 Aug 287 AP |
The rest of Somery is occupied.
|
|
26 Dec 298 AP
|
Collapse of The Kingdom of Merité.
Administration is taken over by the
UNVCOCN. The Somerish request of
immediate independence is neglected
and its administration is gradually
transferred to the Kingdom of Christiana.
|
|
18 Nov 301 AP
|
Acovered Selfwield
(Retrieved Independence)
An agreement between the Somerish
people and the King of Christiana is
finally signed, and Somery is once again a free and independent country.
|
