Timeline
1700 - 1799
1709
Cinco Torres Guarma Run is established.
1720
The city of Saint Denis was founded and serves as the capital of the French New World.
1755
The Gray family emigrated from Scotland to North America and settled in the region of Scarlett Meadows (Cailiga Hall).
1771
An Obelisk appears in Big Valley, West Elizabeth.
1779
The Braithewaite family settles in Scarlett Meadows and builds Braithwaite Manor.
1789
U.S. Marshals Service is established.
1796
The state of New Hanover is established.
1800 - 1849
1806
Douglas Gray and Lucille Braithwaite conspire to steal large sums of gold from their families to fund the abolition of slavery.
The Grays and Braithwaites, each believing that the other family had their missing gold, begin a blood feud that still endures.
1814
Trains were invented by George Stephenson.
The Camera was invented by Joseph Nicephone Niepce.
1832
The Saint Denis Times Tribune newspaper is founded in Saint Denis.
1836
Daniel Buck patents the first Buck revolving pistol.
1838
Elias K. Fitch & Sons is established.
1844
Sisika Penitentiary is established.
1845
The state of New Austin is admitted into the Union.
1846
25 April: The Mexican-American War begins. Fort Mercer is built in New Austin to exert control over disputed territory on behalf of the United States of America.
1848
28 January: Californian Gold Rush
The Mexican-American War concludes, with the United States of America victorious over the Mexican Republic. Fort Mercer is abandoned overtime.
The Lemoyne National Bank is established.
1850 - 1859
1850
Pinkerton National Detective Agency is established.
1852
The West Elizabeth Co-Operative Bank is established.
1853
The Duke 1853 Navy Revolver is manufactured by Duke.
1855
Quaker & Fitz is established.
1856
D.D. Packenbush produces the LeMat revolver.
1857
Carrington fine Brandy is established.
1858
Castille Cotton Company is established.
The Civil War Hardee Hat is made.
1860 - 1869
1861
The American Civil War begins. Lemoyne is one of several states that seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America.
Valentine Savings Bank opens in Valentine.
1862
Saint Denis Railway Station opens in Saint Denis.
1863
30 March: A Confederate charge led by Major Hobary Crawley is routed by Union troops, resulting in the deaths of 3,202 Confederate soldiers. Major Crawley is the only survivor.
The batter is later memorialized with a status in Rhodes.
1864
The Battle of Scarlett Meadows occurs at Bolger Glade in Lemoyne. Despite suffering massive casualties, Confederate troops successfully repel a major Union Army offensive.
1865
The American Civil War concludes, with the Union victorious over the Confederacy.
Lemoyne and other seceded states are subsequently readmitted to the United States of America.
1866
Otis Miller and his gang commit the first train robbery in history.
1867
Kuo Chao & Co. was founded.
Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel.
1869
The town of Annesburg, a coal mining settlement first built by German settlers around the turn of the century, is incorporated.
The first transcontinental railroad was built.
Blackley Hotel is established.
The Rift: The Day the Sky Split - Supernatural creatures entered through the Rift for the first time.
1870 - 1879
1870
A New Reality - The first battles raged for several months, forever changing the landscape.
Supernatural beings started to carve out their own territories and trying to create a foothold within the lands amongst the human population.
Refugees from Darraknoir also started to appear amidst the chaos, siding with humanity in their struggles against the forces of darkness.
The start of the “Picturesque Period”.
The Saint Denis Police Department headquarters is built.
1871
The veil between the two worlds became strained and thin, and during the night smaller rifts started to open and Riftwalkers started to slip through into the surrounding world. Humanity started to create fortifications around the towns and settlements to ward off these near-nightly incursions and vigilance became a way of life.
The Veilguard made their first steps into the lands, coming to the aid of humanity as they always have.
Dubonnet Musical Instruments is established.
1874
The Lemoyne Raiders are founded.
1876
The lands of this Western Frontier became, for a time, known as the “Riftlands”, a place where the mundane and the magical collided, where every night brought new dangers, and where the struggle for survival was unending.
By this point, magic had seemed into the world through the rifts from Darraknoir and changes started to rapidly become noticed within the lands. Time moved differently now and some folk started to be able to harness the magic to form spells and incantations.
The foundation of the International Order of Arcanists.
After a bloody coup, Francisco Ramirez Torres becomes President of Mexico.
1879
The Crimson Era: A Time of Rebuilding and Unity.
The reconstruction of towns and settlements were started.
The foundation of the Badlands Historic Society.
Treaties between various supernatural caste leaders and the ruling human population were signed.
1880 - 1889
1880
The Revolution - Civil unrest reached a tipping point as the population grew increasingly disillusioned with the oppressive government due to its often human-centric policies. Breaking out into a civil war within the lands.
The Fall of the Government - After months of widespread protests, skirmishes, and eventual full-scale conflicts, the citizens rose against the government and the regime was overthrown and its leaders were forced into exile. This led to a period of uncertainty and instability.
Blackwater Hotel and Restaurant is established.
1881
The Peacekeepers were formed.
MacFarlane’s Ranch is established by Drew MacFarlane on unsettled land.
1882
Statehood: The Badlands were formed as a stand-alone state.
1883
Several large snowstorms hit the Grizzlies.
August: Pleasance is founded.
17 September: The Pleasence Massacre occurs, leaving 10 dead.
An eclipse occurred.
1884
The Great Storm of 1884 takes place in Ambarino, resulting in the abandonment of Colter.
1886
3rd Street Hardware opens in Blackwater.
Miracle Horse Reviver is invented.
1889
The Prancing Fox Brand, a company selling socks, is established.
The O’Driscoll Boys are founded.
1890 - 1899
1893
The Panic of 1893 begins, resulting in people selling gold to the US Treasure.
The Cornwall City Railway was established by Leviticus Cornwall.
Charles Kinnear invents the manned glider.
1894
The Turbinia is unveiled in the United Kingdom which is later bought by Leviticus Cornwall. A Modern Steam Marvel.
1895
The end of the “Picturesque Period”.
18 October: The Bank of Rhodes under the order of Judge Meredith Holden seized ownership of Compson’s Stead.
1896
The National Bureau of Criminal Identification is founded by the National Chiefs of Police Union.
The Wapiti Indians sign a treaty with the U.S. Government.
1897
The Blackwater Restaurant is established.
1898
The Spanish-American War occurs.
1899
The Wilder Publishing Company published the Atlas of the United States of America 1899. This edition features maps of the states of New Hanover, Lemoyne, Ambarino, West Elizabeth, and New Austin.
An outbreak of Scarlet Fever occurs in Armadillo.
The M1899 is manufactures by Peeters * Janssens.
April: The Blackwater Massacre occurs.