[b][center]THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM[/center][/b]

[u]1900[/u]

[b]January 7th[/b]: Prospectors in southeast [b][color=gold]Honnerian Serranthia[/color][/b] discover several sources of oil, much to the acclaim of the Honnerian Prime Minister Jacques de Landre. Citing it as the "doorway to Honnerian greatness in the 20th century," Honneria begins construction of extraction facilities immediately.

[b]January 9th[/b]: Three indentured Faresian workers in Flulin in the [b][color=purple]Soroyan Faresia[/color][/b] kill a Soroyan trader, but are later captured and held trial. They are found guilty and sentenced to hang.

[b]January 10th[/b]: Huge efforts to begin building additional infrastructure in [b][color=darkgreen]Deltora[/color][/b] get underway to increase trade and transportation.

[b]January 16th[/b]: While on exercise, an unnamed Pre-Dreadnought of the [b][color=purple]Soroyan[/color][/b] Royal Navy experiences a breakdown when it's boiler loses pressure. It is subsequently towed back to port at Sikea to be repaired. Technicians suggested that it is simply a weathered and old ship.

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[i]Soroyan Pre-Dreadnought, circa 1900[/i][/center]

[b]January 17th[/b]: Heavy summer storms batter the eastern [b][color=darkblue]Anvegadian[/color][/b] islands. Several hundred homes are damaged in Fallkeep, but farmers expect this will help the year's harvest.

[b]January 20th[/b]: The Grand Fleet of [b][color=darkgreen]Deltora[/color][/b] lays down the keel to a submarine, expecting to be completed sometime in the fall.

[b]January 27th[/b]: Georges Savanik, Foreign Minister of the [b][color=darkblue]Anvegadian Empire[/color] [/b]sends his appreciation for Honnerian attitudes in Serranthia, extending a hand of friendship. [b][color=gold]Honnerian[/color][/b] Foreign Minister Hemsley and Savanik meet in Summerwall to discuss possible collaboration, but Savanik's hands are tied, as the central premiership decides it is unable to forego any funds to help Honnerian drilling on the continent.

[u]February[/u]

[b]February 2nd[/b]: The [b][color=darkblue]Anvegadian Empire[/color][/b] lays down the keel for a destroyer named [i]Pike[/i], expected to be finished in 1901.

[b]February 3rd[/b]: Riots in the [b][color=maroon]Survaek[/color][/b] city of Kafu break out over grain shortages. The local police manage it, but work in the city halted for nearly a full day. Tensions remain high in the great empire, as blossoming cultures have given rise to the idea of states independent of the sickly Survaek hegemony.

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[i]A grain barge leaving the Survaek city of Kafu, circa 1900[/i][/center]

[b]February 5th[/b]: Chairman Volkov of the [b][color=darkblue]Anvegadian Empire[/color][/b] announces a modernization plan to match it's long time rival [b][color=darkgreen]Deltora[/color][/b]. Construction on a complex of factories and tracks of railroad begins in earnest.

[b]February 12th[/b]: A light cruiser and two destroyers set sail from Avenhold in the [b][color=darkblue]Anvegadian Empire[/color][/b] and head south to protect [b][color=gold]Honnerian[/color][/b] holdings as a gesture of good will. The Honnerians, who's navy is antiquated and ramshackle, graciously applaud the effort, though say it is unnecessary, as tensions in Varius and Serranthia are at an all time low.

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[i]Anvegadian Light Cruiser, circa 1900[/i][/center]

[b]NATION BUDGETS REQUIRED[/b]
-- [s]Deltora[/s]
-- [s]Anvegad[/s]
-- [s]Survaek[/s]
-- [s]Soroya[/s]