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The history of the quarrelsome city states of Tilea is recorded in many separate chronicles, compiled over the centuries since the distant past.  Such are the ancient feuds and rivalries between cities that the various chronicles freaquently contradict each other, with both sides often claiming victory in the same battle!   Sometimes, when a tyrannical Prince was overthrown and a republic declared in his place, or when a mercenary warlord seized power and made himself Prince of a city, the chronicles would be 'amended' in favour of the new regime.  For these reasons, Tilean history is a complicated and confusing subject to say the least.  All dates are given in the Sigmarite Calendar of the Empire as is usual amongst Old World historians.

Date Events (c -1780 to c -700)
c -1780 Tilean legends give this date for the destruction of the ancient city Tylos in the Blighted Marshes.
c -1500 The Elves abandon their colonies around the Tilean Sea and return to Ulthuan.
Archaic Age (c -700 to 1)
c -700 Elf Seafarers report Tilean shepherds grazing their flocks amid the tumbled colonnades of former Elf cities.
Classical Age (1 to 475)
1 According to legend, Tilean twins Lucan and Luccini found Luccini among the ruins of an ancient Elf city.  In the following centuries, Remas, Sartosa and Tobaro arise on the ruins of former Elf colonies.
451 The shores of the Tilean Sea are ravaged by the combined fleets of Settra and the Dark Elves.  Sartosa is destroyed.
Tilean Dark Ages (475 to 1240)
475 Orc horde invades Tilea.  Many cities are sacked.
491-978 Tileans gradually drive the Orcs back over the Apuccini Mountains.
1017 Norse raiders establish a stronghold on Sartosa.
Era of Araby Wars (1240 to 1492)
1240 Sartosa invaded by Corsairs of Araby.
1366 Tilean mercenaries fight on both sides in the civil wars that ravage the Empire.
1425 Tournament of Ravola.  Flower of Bretonnian chivalry beaten by Tilean knights, ending Bretonnian pretensions to domains in Tilea.
1448 Tilean mercenaries take part in wars to free Estalia from Sultan Jaffar.   Tobaro holds out against the Sultan's army.
1487 Dark Elf raid on Remas.
Age of Exploration (1492 to 2000)
1492 Marco Colombo 'discovers' Lustria.
1501 Sartosa recaptured from Corsairs of Araby by mercenary army of Luciano Catena.
1563-5 Tobaro is overrun by Skaven breaking in through the catacombs.  Later recaptured by the mercenary army of Meldo Marcelli.
1699 Ricco and Robbio trek east along the silk road and are received at the court of Emperor Wu of Cathay.
1757 Sartosa becomes lair of pirates.
1812 The Red Pox ravages Tilea.
1877 A pig is elected Prince of Tobaro and retains the throne for 12 years.
1948 Year of the Four Tyrannies of Tilea.
Era of Enlightenment (2000 to Present)
2000 A new age of art, culture and prosperity flourishes throughout Tilea.
2012 The inventive genius Leonardo da Miragliano enters the Emperor's service.
2236 Grottio paints two thousand naked nymphs on the celing of the palazzo Verezzo instead of a battle scene and is exiled to the island of Nonucci as punishment.
2321-99 Tilea is gripped by recurrent famines caused by plagues of mice eating the grain.  Revolts result in the proclamation of republics in Remas and Verezzon.
2401 At the siege of Monte Castello 500 mercenaries hold out against 10,000 Orcs.
2485 Borgio makes himself Prince of Miragliano.
2489 Battle of Villa Vennia, Miragliano defeats Remas.
2495 Battle of Via Veddia, Miragliano defeats Verezzo.
2497 Battle of Vittoria Viccia, Miragliano defeats Trantio.
2503 Borgio of Miragliano known as 'The Besieger' murdered in his bath with a toasting fork.
2505 Lorenzo Lupo becomes Prince of Luccini.
2513 Lucretia Belladonna poisons her seventh husband, the Prince of Pavona.

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