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by The Republic of San Montagna. . 219 reads.

History of San Montagna (Work In Progress) (Going to be actual text and not just point form soon)

classical San Montagna


1024 B.C: While it is speculated that the land that now forms San Montagna had been there for much longer, the first substantial evidence of human activity in San Montagna in form of a stone mask, indicates that humans have been in san montagna since at least 1024 b.c.

824 B.C-798 B.C: Historians place the formation of the state of kasker, during this time period, but have no way of finding an exact date.

764 B.C: Completion of the Kaskerian Temple, the oldest temple in San Montagna, near the modern day city of Osoppo.

678 B.C: First Recorded battle in San Montagnan history, Kasker squashes a peasant revolt near Modern day Rusky.

438 B.C: The State of Kasker collapses, separating into 3 new states, Kharit, Rusky, and Derya.

234 B.C: The great temple of Derya is completed, it is the largest and most intricate non-European structure in San Montagna.

103 B.C: The Kingdom of Lyeka forms in Southern San Montagna, ending the classical age of San Montagna.

Pre-Colonial Age


104 A.D: Lyeka conquers Rusky, this is considered the beginning of the Lyekan empire.

245 A.D: The Kingdom of Chatha forms near modern day Fiumara.

385: The First Chathese-Hiskhi war begins.

392: The First Chathese-Hiskhi ends in a white peace, the lack of a victor fuels hostilities between the two for years to come.

414: The Second Chathese-Hiskhi war begins.

420: Hiskhi sues for peace, Chatha annexes a quarter of Hiskhi, including its shoreline.

456: The Hiskhi king declares war on Chatha, hoping to regain its lost territory.

457: Lyeka, seeing an opportunity to gain territory, declares war on both Chatha and Hiskhi while the forces of the two nations are engaged in northern Hiskhi. they invade Hiskhi in late August. They soon defeat a small Hiskhi force and occupy the capital. The Force then diverts its route to Chatha, leaving behind a small force to defend the Hiskhi capital.

458: Lyeka defeats an exhausted Chathese, force, having just marched back from Northern Hiskhi. Chatha and Hiskhi, Lyeka gains considerable amounts of land.

464: Chatha and Hiskhi put aside their differences to form a coalition against Lyeka. They Declare war the same year.

467: The War of the Coalition ends in a minor victory for the Coalition, though several border disputes involving the reclaimed land disintegrate the coalition. Lyeka stills holds 1/2 of the land gained during its wars against Hiskhi and Chatha.

475: The 8 Years of Peaceful Border Dispute negotiations are broken as Chatha invades Hiskhi.

479: Chatha prevails in the third Chathese-Hiskhi war, Annexing half of Hiskhi.

484: Lyeka invades Hiskhi, hoping to secure it in its entirety. Chatha intervenes, not wanting Lyeka to increase its size.

492: Lyeka wins the War of the Second Coalition, annexing Hiskhi and a portion of Chatha. The Two sides agree to a non-agression treaty.

509: Lyeka sets its sights on the nations to the west, such as Harit.

509-582: This era is named the Lyekan expansion by many Lyekan historians, during this time frame Lyeka annexed 3 countries and increased its size by 1/3.

612: Lyeka invades Chatha, breaking the 120 year old treaty.

621: The Lyekan-Chathese war ends, Lyeka annexes Chatha. The Borders of the Lyekan empire reach their peak.

923: The First Khas Kirati land in Lyeka, marking the beginning of the Khas Kirati invasion of Lyeka.

943: The Khas Kirat empire completely occupy a large part of northern Lyeka.

962: The Khas Kirati Vassal of Lyeka, not to be confused with the kingdom of Lyeka, reaches its peak.

973: Revolts occur in Khas Kirati Lyeka. They soon gain popularity and become a serious problem for the khas kirati empire.

975: Seizing the opportunity, the kingdom of Lyeka invades Khas Kirati Lyeka.

1023: The Khas Kirati Empire abandon Lyeka. Leaving behind new nations and a renewed Lyekan empire.

1045: Lyeka, hoping to regain its former glory, invades Chatha which had been reformed following the collapse of Khas Kirati rule in Lyeka.

1047: A Major defeat causes Lyeka to sue for peace.

1065: A coalition of 4 Nations declare war on Lyeka, vowing to end the Lyekan Empire for good.

1076: 11 years of war result in a coalition victory, Lyeka loses half of its territory.

1156: Lyeka invades Jaring, causing a second coalition to declare war on Lyeka.

1173: Lyeka defeats the Coalition and regains 2/3 of its former territory, however, each side is too weak to wage war for the forseable future.

1174-1345: This Era was known as the Quiet times, as no major wars were waged during this period.

1346: Harit Declares war on Chatha, Ending the Quiet times,

1352: the Chathese-Hariti war ends in Hariti victory, Chatha must pay tribute to Harit.

1364: The Lyekan king dies without a heir, causing to factions to erupt into civil war. Harit occupies parts of Lyeka.

1389: The Lyekan civil war ends and peace is restored to the nation.

1401: Lyeka declares war on Harit. Seeing this, Chatha stops paying tribute.

1407: Harit Sues for peace, ceding what it had annexed from Lyeka in 1364.

1415: Chatha declares war on Harit over a border dispute.

1421: Chatha forces Harit to pay tribute and cede land.

1431: With its army equipped with gunpowder for the first time, Chatha declares war on the Lyekan empire, hoping to regain territory lost centuries ago.

1434: Harit declares war on Chatha.

1436: Chatha sues for peace, ending the tribute and allows Harit to regain ts lost territory. The war against Lyeka continues.

1445: Chatha prevails in the war of Chathese aggression, gaining land equivalent to 1/4 of its land before the war.

1450: Lyeka invades Chatha to regain its lost land.

1456: Chatha defeats Lyeka, Lyeka revokes its claim on the disputed land.

1462: Lyekans revolt in Chathese Lyeka[/b]

1467: The revolts are quelled[/b]

1472: Hoping to cease further revolts, Chatha allows Chathese Lyekans to have the same rights as the Chathese population.

1543: Harit enter a personal union with Sathak.

1598: The Union of Harit-Sathak declares war on Lyeka following an accidental incursion by Lyekan soldiers into the country.

1612: Lyeka Destroys the union of Harit-Sathak, annexes Sathak, and force Harit to pay tribute.

Colonial Age



1624: Venetian sailors land in San Montagna. Naming it after the Mountains they see.

1625: The first Venetian colonists land in San Montagna, founding the City of Porto Grazia (Grace harbour)

1627: The discovery of a natural harbour leads to the founding of the modern day the City of Sabazio, named after Vittorio Sabazio, leader of the colonial venture, Sabazio replaces Porto Grazia as the new Capital of San Montagna in 1629.

1630: By this year, there were 6 000 Venetian settlers living in the colony of San Montagna, who's borders were much smaller than those of today.

1633: Governor Vittorio Sabazio, Fearing that the natives outnumbering the Venetians in the colony of San Montagna could become a problem, begins a policy of the removal of natives from the territory of San Montagna.

1633: The Hangate of Chatha is angered by the expulsion of the khas-kirati natives into its territory, and demands that the Venetians allow them to return, Venice refuses, triggering the Chathese-Venetian war.

1633: The Venetians of San Montagna, whos population of 15 000, is nearly 10 times smaller than the Chathese population of 130 000. Makes an alliance with the kingdom of Lyeka against the Hangate of Chatha.

1639: The Major battle of the Chathese-Venetian war occurs, a force of nearly 2 000 venetian colonial militia, 1 000 Venetian regular infantry, and 15 000 Chathese defeat the Lyekan force of 24 000. With most of its army defeated, Lyeka sues for peace, and loses nearly a quarter of its land to the Lyekans and the Venetians.

1641: Venice, enraged that Chatha was allowing Pirates that were harassing Venetian ships, declares war on Chatha.

1642: To Properly mark San Montagnan ships, The first San Montagnan ensign is created.


Flag of San Montagna (1642-1802)

1646: The San Montagnan Crusades begin, with Venetian and San Montagnan Crusaders invading Modern day Torom and Coastal areas of the Modern Day San Montagnan Province of Ravenna.

1643: following decisive Venetian naval and ground victories, Chatha sues for peace and agrees to the Venetian terms of barring pirates from its ports.

1646: The San Montagnan Crusades begin, with Venetian and San Montagnan Crusaders invading Modern day Torom and Coastal areas of the Modern Day San Montagnan Province of Ravenna.

1647: Lyeka, seeing that Chatha had been weakened, invaded Chatha in an attempt to expand its empire.

1648: Queen Anita, a Catholic convert, becomes a subject of San Montagna, ending Venetian Crusader agression against the kingdom of Hariti. Catholicism becomes the state religion of Hariti.

1650: A smaller Chathese force achieves a decisive victory over the Lyekans, shifting the course of the war.

1651: Lyeka sues for peace, Chatha regains a large portion of its lands lost to Lyeka.

1654: after allowing the Chathese army to regain its full strength after a series of wars, Chatha invades San Montagna in an attempt to regain lost lands.

1658: The Chathese army, led by Alina Hangma, achieves a decisive victory over the Venetians. With all of San Montagna now left defenseless, Venice sues for peace and cedes all land taken from Chatha during the Chathese-Venetian war back to Chatha.

1660: San Montagna is officially made bilingual, by making Friulan an official language. The Decision was made by Governor Alessandro Della Valle, fearing a divide between the Venetian and Friulan populations. Which both make up nearly a half of the population.

1662: The Lyekan king dies without a heir, starting the war of Lyekan succession between San Montagna and Chatha.

1668: The War of succession ends with Venice the victor, Lyeka is made into a Venetian Vassal.

1676: San Montagna formally annexes Lyeka. Doubling its size.

1678At 72 years old, Queen Anita of Hariti dies, The Kingdom is inherited by San Montagna and is renamed Ravenna. However her son Tori is allowed to keep his title of Prince of Hariti, although he has no powers over the land as his title is only symbolic.

1679: First Lyekan revolt begins

1680: Chathese ruler Miraj Suhang negotiates a non-agression treaty with San Montagna, this is recognised as the beginning of friendly relations between the two countries

1685: The Lyekan Rebels are defeated at the battle of Rusky, end of the first Lyekan Revolt.

1709: The Population of san Montagna surpasses 40 000. Nearly half of them live in Sabazio.

1725: A Disease hits Lyeka and parts of Chatha and San Montagna, killing nearly 30 000 people. 25 000 of them Lyekans.

1757: San Montagna’s population hits 300 000 thousand, with nearly 160 000 Venetians and 140 000 Lyekans.

1797: Venice is annexed by Austria, leading to San Montagna declaring independence on the 23rd of September 1797.

Post-Independence


1823: San Montagna surpasses 1 000 000. Nearly 600 000 are of European descent.

1834: The First Lyekan Revolt occurs, over 20 000 Lyekans living in San Montagna take up arms and attempt to secede from San Montagna.

1837: The last Lyekan strongholds are taken, the revolt ends.

1840: The San Montagnan Government under Paulo Biglia passes the "Deportation act" which gives all non-Europeans 5 years to obtain a citizenship, and a 5 year limit on new immigrants to obtain a citizenship, those that do not obtain citizen status are immediately deported. This is law is aimed at the Lyekan population as over 40% do not have San Montagnan Citizenship. Over the next 5 years, over 150 000 people are deported from San Montagna.

1845: San Montagna makes attempts to persuade more Italians to immigrate to the country, specifically from Veneto, using the fact that the venetian language is already in use In San Montagna to persuade them.

1855: San Montagnan moves to grant citizenship to Lyekans, as well as allow those deported to return. However they are not granted full Rights.

1859: San Montagna enters the First Central Argus war after Athara Magarat lands infantry in Torom.

1890: The Great Fire of Sabazio destroys 1/3 of Sabazio.

1953: Lyekans are given full rights

1981: 30th parallel war begins

1987: The San Montagnan government begins backing armed militias comprised of mainly European San Montagnans in an attempt to prevent armed incursions into San Montagna by insurgents.

1994: The 30th parallel war ends, Chatha and southern Jaring are now under the control of San Montagna

(WIP)

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