Main Timeline

Disclaimer:

This list is not a full timeline of events of the server. For a more comprehensive list please visit the official PirateCraft Timeline.

This list serves as a rough 'main story' rather than actual timeline. As such dates are not included, and some events may have been optimized within the list to produce a more comprehensive story.

Events included must have had an impact on the majority of the server, and a lasting effect.

Dawn of Civilization

An era of small-scale settlement construction by free folk.

• Humans, Elves, and a small population of other races populate the world
• First settlements created, among which is Port Hope
• Individual pirate groups begin to form and pillage new settlements
• First Golden Age of Piracy stars
• Majority of global population are pirates or common folk living in small settlements

Birth of Nations

An era of progress which separated pirates and free folk from emerging nations.

• Many settlements turn into towns and later city states

· Kingdom of Cornola is created after ethnically Elven cities are united under Reptaria · More kingdoms are created, to combat growing numbers of pirates and hostile groups · Polynesian Empire is founded after several large cities unite · A few more empires are created but do not last long · Majority of global population now lives within a kingdom or empire for first time · Kingdom of Cornola expands and becomes the Elven Empire · Several empires now make fighting pirates their main goal, and the war on piracy starts · End of First Golden Age of Piracy

Rise of Empires

An era marked by the emergence of several empires and begin of large scale trading networks.

Renaissance Era

An era of policy changes by large empires, resulting in growth and development, and creation of new emerging empires.

First Verussian War

An era of increasing tensions between many empires, resulting in large scale conflict. Main article: First Verussian War

Inter-war Period

An era of temporary peace and emergence of new superpowers, and pirate crews, resulting in an arms race. Main article: Cold War

Second Verussian War

An era of war resulting from increased tensions between the leading two superpowers. Main article: Second Verussian War

Progressive Era

An era marked by a period of sustained peace between empires, and the resurgence of pirates.

Isolation Era

An era of decreasing cooperation between empires, and increase in wars.

Fall of Empires

An era marked by the transfer of power from crumbling empires to emerging pirate and free-folk crews.

Age of Piracy

An era of large-scale conflicts between pirate crews, and the lesser importance of empires in global affairs.

Forsaken Era

An era of intense conflict between most major pirate crews, and the dissolution and lack of empires.

Second Renaissance Era

An era of reconstruction and reform for empires, marked by a period of large-scale peace, resurgence of empires, and fall in number of pirates.