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Icebound is alt-history. This timeline shows where our real history forks into this fictional one. Rule of thumb: anything before 1866 is safely canon, anything in the science, medicine, and technological advancements should be limited to what would be relevant for your character to know that would be published before 1890. Please refer to [[Server Rules]] for more information. | |||
The timeline here includes the broad strokes only. A player character in Icebound wouldn't have access to the nuances behind them. That's why your character is here in this story. You're a leftover, someone who wasn't important enough, whether by connections or merit, to get swept up in those larger events. | |||
Keep in mind, mass communication was still new back then. Telegraphs mostly connected major cities and railroad lines, and even so, information moved slow by today's standards. Whether your character kept up with any of it is up to you. | |||
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" | <h1 style="color: #AFACA8;">1866</h1> | ||
<p style="color: #AFACA8;">Prussian Statesman Otto von Bismarck is killed by an assassin.</p> | |||
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=1867= | |||
Lead by John Stuart Mill, British Parliament votes to enact universal women's suffrage. | |||
= | =1868= | ||
Prussia invades the southern German states, unifying Germany under the Prussian banner. | |||
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<h1 style="color: #AFACA8;">1870</h1> | |||
<p style="color: #AFACA8;">Franco-Prussian war, resulting in the annihilation of the French army and Prussia annexing all of eastern France, the low countries, and most of France's colonial holdings. A people's Commune takes over Paris, and becomes the de-facto government of France after marching on Versailles and executing the King. The People's Commune of France is declared. French Royalists retain control of the entire French Fleet, and establish a government-in-exile in French Guiana.</p> | |||
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= | =1881= | ||
"Year without a summer" in the northern hemisphere, resulting in widespread crop failures. Prussia begins construction on an extensive Zeppelin fleet to police their new colonial holdings and transport food to the core of their empire. | |||
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<h1 style="color: #AFACA8;">1883</h1> | |||
<p style="color: #AFACA8;">Egalitarian attitudes and revolutionary ideas from France begin to spread to Britain and other parts of Europe. English universities begin accepting Women and Trade Unions are given legal recognition in order to quell revolutionary fervor.</p> | |||
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= | =1891= | ||
Last year where summer temperatures are measured above 60 degrees Fahrenheit in the northern hemisphere. | |||
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<h1 style="color: #AFACA8;">August of 1892</h1> | |||
<p style="color: #AFACA8;">The British government begins to explore contingencies for extended periods of cold, tasking the Royal Science Society with developing methods to adapt.</p> | |||
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== | ==1893== | ||
The Great War begins. Needing ever more resources to survive, Prussia attempts annexation of Britain's colonies. War rages around the globe as every day grows colder and resources become ever scarcer. | The Great War begins. Needing ever more resources to survive, Prussia attempts annexation of Britain's colonies. War rages around the globe as every day grows colder and resources become ever scarcer. | ||
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<h1 style="color: #AFACA8;">1895</h1> | |||
<p style="color: #AFACA8;">The median temperature globally is below freezing. The war ends as the powers fighting it cease to exist.</p> | |||
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= | =1896= | ||
Present day | Present day | ||
Latest revision as of 13:57, 13 July 2026
Icebound is alt-history. This timeline shows where our real history forks into this fictional one. Rule of thumb: anything before 1866 is safely canon, anything in the science, medicine, and technological advancements should be limited to what would be relevant for your character to know that would be published before 1890. Please refer to Server Rules for more information.
The timeline here includes the broad strokes only. A player character in Icebound wouldn't have access to the nuances behind them. That's why your character is here in this story. You're a leftover, someone who wasn't important enough, whether by connections or merit, to get swept up in those larger events.
Keep in mind, mass communication was still new back then. Telegraphs mostly connected major cities and railroad lines, and even so, information moved slow by today's standards. Whether your character kept up with any of it is up to you.
Timeline
1866
Prussian Statesman Otto von Bismarck is killed by an assassin.
1867
Lead by John Stuart Mill, British Parliament votes to enact universal women's suffrage.
1868
Prussia invades the southern German states, unifying Germany under the Prussian banner.
1870
Franco-Prussian war, resulting in the annihilation of the French army and Prussia annexing all of eastern France, the low countries, and most of France's colonial holdings. A people's Commune takes over Paris, and becomes the de-facto government of France after marching on Versailles and executing the King. The People's Commune of France is declared. French Royalists retain control of the entire French Fleet, and establish a government-in-exile in French Guiana.
1881
"Year without a summer" in the northern hemisphere, resulting in widespread crop failures. Prussia begins construction on an extensive Zeppelin fleet to police their new colonial holdings and transport food to the core of their empire.
1883
Egalitarian attitudes and revolutionary ideas from France begin to spread to Britain and other parts of Europe. English universities begin accepting Women and Trade Unions are given legal recognition in order to quell revolutionary fervor.
1891
Last year where summer temperatures are measured above 60 degrees Fahrenheit in the northern hemisphere.
August of 1892
The British government begins to explore contingencies for extended periods of cold, tasking the Royal Science Society with developing methods to adapt.
1893
The Great War begins. Needing ever more resources to survive, Prussia attempts annexation of Britain's colonies. War rages around the globe as every day grows colder and resources become ever scarcer.
1895
The median temperature globally is below freezing. The war ends as the powers fighting it cease to exist.
1896
Present day