[center][All posts here must predate January 18th, 1920. All IC posts will net +1 Influence for when the game becomes][/center] [center][b][u]TIMELINE[/u][/b][/center] [b]1915[/b] [u][b]MARCH[/b][/u] [b]March 15th[/b]: Dissidents from the Osladian Empire in the Boletarian region storm the barracks of the 225th Rifles Division and seize the munitions there. They are put down in a vicious massacre miles outside of Wrenclaw called the [i]Blackcoat Massacre[/i]. [b]March 22nd[/b]: Boletarian revolutionary Teodor Ladzinski orders the [i]Boletarian Free Army[/i] ([i]BFA[/i]) to raise up against Osladian rule, and they proclaim themselves a free people. The Osladian government dispatches the 2nd Army, but even against merely armed peasants, the poorly equipped Osladian Army is outstretched in policing the vast Boletarian plains. [b][u]APRIL[/u][/b] [b]April 5th[/b]: The Grand Survaek Empire begins supplying arms to the Osladian government, hoping to help put down the armed revolts. The Kingdom of Soroya denounces the actions of the Survaekom, citing their decision one that supported oppression. [b][u]MAY[/u][/b] [b]May 3rd[/b]: The [color=gray][b]Kalpian Civil War[/b][/color] begins when anti-government conspirators move to take hold of the democratic government. A split nation becomes further divided when elements of the Kalpian Army join the belligerents. [b][u]AUGUST[/u][/b] [b]AUGUST 22nd[/b]: The Survaekom regularly send shipments of weapons to Oslad, who is quickly seeing the odds turn against them as the territory of Kadnydz also rises up and declares a separate independence. [b][u]OCTOBER[/u][/b] [b]OCTOBER 29th[/b]: The Kingdom of Soroya and Commonwealth of Ostruznica condemn and embargo the Grand Survaek Empire. Other minor nations support the embargo. [b]1916[/b] [u][b]FEBRUARY[/b][/u] [b]February 2nd[/b]: The [b][color=maroon]Grand Survaek Empire[/color][/b] declares war on the [b][color=purple]Kingdom of Soroya[/color][/b]. [b]February 6th[/b]: The [b][color=brown]Commonwealth of Ostruzniva[/color][/b] joins it's longtime ally Soroya and declares war on the [b]Grand Survaek Empire[/b]. [b]1917[/b] [b]1918[/b] [b]1919[/b] [b][u]SEPTEMBER[/u][/b] [b]September 12th[/b]: The [b][color=purple]Zellonian Empire[/color][/b] surrenders and signs the [i]Treaty of Farensha[/i], signaling a separate peace with the Victorious Alliance after it's intrepid 9th Army is beaten on the Centran Continent and with no navy left to defend it's water. [b][u]OCTOBER[/u][/b] [b][u]NOVEMBER[/u][/b] [b][u]DECEMBER[/u][/b] [b]1920[/b] [b][u]JANUARY[/u][/b] [b]January 18th[/b]: The United Kingdom of Athos & Stules hosts the [i]Arlington Peace Conference[/i] to discuss terms of surrender for the defeated nations of the Terrible War. The [b]Treaty of Parma[/b] is signed with the [b]Osladian Empire, Grand Survaek Empire[/b] and the [b]Empire of Vornhem[/b] sign the terms of surrender. The Zellonians and Survaekom fleets were disbanded and the Osladian's vast territorial empire was broken up, granting independence to the Republic of Boletaria and the Republic's of Kadnydz and Tahrandz.