[center][u][b]The Year 1901[/b][/u]
[b]World Tension[/b]: [i]7%[/i]
[color=red][b]Zellonian Declaration of War on Kalpia[/b][/color] ([i]12%[/i])
[color=red][b]Vatanno-Galvia stations troops on Salardian border[/b][/color] ([i]2%[/i])
[color=red][b]Deltora Allies with Soroya[/b][/color] ([i]8%[/i])
[color=red][b]Survaek Fabricates Claim on Honneria[/b][/color] ([i]4%[/i])
[color=red][b]Survaek Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]3%[/i])
[color=red][b]Honneria Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]3%[/i])
[color=red][b]Vatanno-Galvia Mobilizes Troops[/b][/color] ([i]3%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Tramel Denounces Vatanno-Galvia[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Deltora Guarantees Luckland[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Anvegad signs Trade Agreement with Khernikovia[/b][/color] ([i]-3%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Soroya signs a Defensive Alliance with Kelric[/b][/color] ([i]-5%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Soroya signs Trade Agreement with Deltora[/b][/color] ([i]-3%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Deltora signs Trade Agreement with Luckland[/b][/color] ([i]-3%[/i])
[color=gray][b]Anvegad signs Trade Agreement with Survaek[/b][/color] ([i]-3%[/i])[/center]


[u]APRIL[/u]

[b]April 1st[/b]: [b][color=gold]Honneria[/color][/b] immediately [b]Mobilizes[/b] it's Home Army and it's colonial garrison in response to [b][color=Maroon]Grand Survaek Empire[/color][/b] mobilizing it's own troops to the north.

[b]April 3rd[/b]: In the first great Faresia gusher, oil is discovered at Flulin in [b][color=purple]New Soroya[/color][/b], Faresia.

[b]April 7th[/b]: The government of [b][color=gold]Honneria[/color][/b] accepts a trade agreement with the [b][color=gray]Republic of Kalpia[/color][/b]. It follows this up by requesting a [b]Defensive Alliance[/b] with the nation.

[b]April 10th[/b]: After a great many technical difficulties, a submarine laid down in 1900 is completed by the [b][color=maroon]Grand Survaek Empire[/color][/b]. It is immediately commissioned into service.

[b]April 11th[/b]: The first public telephones are installed at railway stations in [b][color=darkblue]Avenhold, Anvegad[/color][/b].

[b]April 15th[/b]: The [b][color=darkgreen]Republic of Deltora[/color][/b] lays down the keel of [i]TPS Vigilant[/i], a destroyer. Packing six 4-inch guns, it would very well have the most firepower of any destroyer ever built. It is anticipated to be completed at the end of the year.

[b]April 18th[/b]: Kavarri University is the first [b][color=purple]Soroyan[/color][/b] private school in the New Soroya, Faresia.

[b]April 21st[/b]: Prime Minister David Vanelli of Galvia in the [b][color=brown]Vatanno-Galvian Union[/color][/b] is shot while leaving his home by Kadjeek Petrik, a Numerian nationalist. He immediately goes into surgery and pulls through. Kadjeek Petrik is taken into custody.

[b]April 25th[/b]: 10,000 volunteers of the [b][color=purple]Soroyan Army[/color][/b] finish their training, but the underfunded army lacks rifles to issue to them and they are immediately put on reserve status.

[b]April 30th[/b]: [b][color=brown]Vatanno-Galvia[/color][/b] begins constructing new industrial facilities and production on new firearms.

[u]MAY[/u]

[b]May 3rd[/b]: The [b][color=maroon]Survaek Empire[/color][/b] and [b][color=darkblue]Avengad Empire[/color][/b] sign the [b]Haerk-Eberstark Treaty of 1901[/b], an open trade agreement between the two nations. 50 Heavy Artillery pieces are delivered to Foedinei, purchased from the Anvegadian government.

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[i]Map of Varius, 1901[/i][/center]

[b]May 5th[/b]: The [i]Cruska Gun[/i] is hastily finalized in [b][color=purple]Soroya[/color][/b] and will be available for manufacturing in 1902.

[b]May 9th[/b]: [b][color=green]Khernikovia[/color][/b] and the [b][color=maroon]Survaek Empire[/color][/b] finalize a [b]Defensive Alliance[/b].