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2766
-(27 Dec) Amaris Coup.
2767-79
-SLDF reconquers Terran Hegemony.
2779
-(30 Sept) Stephan Aramis is executed.
2780
-(Oct) Aleksandr Kerensky stripped of protectorship.
2781
-(12 Aug) Star League dissolved.
2784
-(14 Feb) Kerensky outlines Exodus plan.
-(5 Nov) SLDF fleet departs the Inner Sphere
2785
-(July) Prinz Eugen Revolt.
-(Aug) Fighting breaks out between the Lyran Commonwealth and the Draconis Combine.
2786
-(24 Aug) The Exodus fleet arrives at the Pentagon worlds.
-(Dec) Minoru Kurita proclaims himself First Lord of the Star League. The clam is rejected; over the next few months, other House Lords make similar claims.
2787
-Official start of the First Succession War. Each Great House launches major attacks on its neighbors; weapons of mass destruction are widely used. ComStar declares its neutrality.
-(Jan) Kerensky's forces capture a Rim Worlds Republic ship and learn of the deteriorating situation in the Inner Sphere.
2788
-In the chaos of the war, Jerome Blake captures Terra with "mercenary" troops in Operation Silver Shield. In reality the soldiers are SLDF troops who choose not to accompany the Exodus.
2796
-Aleksandr Kerensky's wife, Katyusha, dies of a mysterious illness.
-(July) Minoru Kurita is killed by a sniper on Kentares IV. Kentares Massacre ensues.
2797
-(Feb) Kentares Massacre ends with 90 percent of the planet's population dead. Kurita morale collapses, allowing the Federated Suns to stage a counterattack.
2800
-(28 Nov) Riots break out in the Pentagon worlds.
2801
-Combine forces ambush and destroy the Tamar Tigers on Benjamin.
-(5 May) Pentagon riots devolve into civil war.
-(14 May) General Aaron DeChevilier is killed in a rebel ambush. The DeChevilier Massacre ensues.
-(11 June) Aleksandr Kerensky dies in combat. The SLDF refuses to support his heir, Nicholas Kerensky.
-(Autumn) Nicholas leads the second Exodus to Strana Mechty.
2802
-(Jan) The last ships of Nicholas' Exodus leave the Pentagon.
-(Feb) Outbreak of Exodus Wars.
2808
-Lisa Liao offers to recognize Paul Davion as First Lord of the Star League in return for conrol of the Chesterson Worlds. He refuses and attacks Liao territory.
2810
-Nichola Kerensky founds the Clans.
2811
-ComStar's ROM agency formed.
2815
-(9 June) Nicholas Kerensky declares himself ilKahn.
2819
-Nicholas Kerensky begins the Clan eugenics program.
-(15 May) Jerome Blake dies. Conrad Toyama succeeds him.
2821
-With all participants exhausted, the First Succession war grinds to a halt.
-(2 July) The Clans return to the Pentagon worlds and eliminate resistance to Operation Klondike.
2822
-(26 May) The Clans overcome the last rebel forces in the Pentagon.
2823
-(July) Jade Falcon "Culling" takes place.
-(Oct) ComStar interdicts the Lyran capital of Tharkad after a Lyran attempt to treat ComStar as a "business" and tax its income.
-(Oct) Clan Wolverine declares independence from the Clans. The Wolverines are Annihilated after using a nuclear device to destroy a genetic repository. A few are believed to have escaped.
2824
-Steadily slipping into insanity, Jinjiro Kurita instigates "Chain Gang" missions to provoke war with the Lyran Commonwealth.
-Clan Burrock calls for the Annihilation of Clan Blood Spirit.
2825-26
-The "Minnesota Tribe" appears in the Inner Sphere. They liberate prisoners from Richmond and disappear into the Periphery. Subsequent history suspects them of being the remnants of Clan Wolverine.
2828
-The Second Succession War begins.
2834
-The Federated Suns assault on Tikonov stalls when the Draconis Combine forces attack the enemy staging area.
-Nicholas Kerensky killed; Clan Widowmaker Absorbed by Clan Wolf.
2837
-(22 March) Convinced that ComStar has betrayed him, Charles Marik order the ComStar HPG station on Oriente destroyed. ComStar retaliates by placing the entire Free Worlds League under interdiction.
2838
-Clan Ice Hellion recoversa Wolverine cache, triggering a three-way feud that includes the Fire Mandrills and Goliath Scorpions.
-(9 Nov) Marik accedes to ComStar's demands; ComStar lifts the Interdiction.
2850
-LCAF agent Snow Fire assassinates Combine Coordinator Yoguchi Kurita.
2854
-Clan Coyote develops the first OmniMech.
2858
-Draconis Combine troops seize Robinson.
2864
-Second Succession War ends.
2866
-Third Succession War begins.
2868
-Clan Wolf uses battle armor to win a challenge by Clan Nova Cat.
-Clan Mongoose is Absorbed by Clan Smoke Jaguar.
2870
-Clinton's Cutthroats disappear from Verlo. They are believed to be Star League scouts.
-Clan Hell's Horses fields genetically modified Elemental warriors.
2872
-The Fire Mandrill Smythe-Jewell Kindraa is destroyed by a joint Hell's Horses/Coyote attack force.
2897
-Steel Viper-Snow Raven Trials for control of Hellgate begin. The Ravens abandon the world two years later.
2905
-Start of 25-year cease-fire between FedSuns and Capellan Confederation.
2906
-The Free Worlds League enacts the Home Defense Act that will later hamstring the League military operations.
2921
-Coordinator Shinjiro Kurita signs the Davarapala Accords, normalizing relations between the Coordinator and the ISF.
-Clan Ghost Bear takes control of Tokasha MechWorks from Clan Hell's Horses. Khan Kilbourne Jorgenson dies in the battle, prompting an ongoing feud between the two Clans.
2931
-(Nov) ComStar threatens the Draconis Combine with Interdiction and the use of force after Coordinator Hugai Kurita orders the abduction of his elder sister Necess, a ComStar adept. The Combine knuckles under.
2933
-Formation of the ComStar Gaurd and Militia, later known as the Com Gaurd.
2935
-IlKhan Corian Tchernovkov dies in a testing "accident."
2947
-Assassination of Primus Hollings York; ascension of Adrienne Simes.
-IlKhan Tobias Katib impeached and executed for his role in the death of ilKhan Tchernovkov.
2959
-(Nov) Primus Sims founds the Explorer Service, later known as the Explorer Corp.
2965
-Clan Cloud Cobra encounters the Tanite civilization.
2977
-Clan Blood Spirit reinstates the position of Snow Raven ilChi and begins negotiations with that Clan. The Cloud Cobras complete their conquests of the Tanites.
2979
-The Tripitz Affair occurs when Com Gaurd forces destroy a derelict SLDF Black Lion battlecruiser near New Vandenburg. This incident leads to the legend of the "Vandenburg White Wings."
-Clans Snow Raven and Blood Spirit conclude a 'Mechs-for-WarShips trade deal.
2980
-Clan Jade Falcon calls for an invasion of the Inner Sphere. They fail, but the call crystalizes the Crusader and Warden factions.
2983
-Clan Snow Raven fails in an attempt to seize Sea Fox oil fields on Priori.
2984
-Khan Howell of the Snow Ravens releases the genetically engineered diamond shark into the oceans of Strana Mechty. It destroys the sea fox, resulting in Clan Sea Fox's petition for the right to change their name.
-Through Intelser, the Clans learn of the Succession Wars.
2985
-(Sept) After numerous Trials of Refusal, Clan Sea Fox becomes Diamond Shark
2992
-The ECV Fortitude and Discovery begin their 1,600 light-year journey to the Orion nebula.
3000
-Twelfth Battle of Hesperus.
-(11 Nov) The Crusaders force a vote on the invasion. The Clans reach the Dragoon Compromise. Ice Hellion Khan Norizuichi is killed by her saKhan, Ernest Wick, in a "Trial of Annihilation" regarding the compromise.
3004
-Wolf's Dragoons depart Clan space. They arrive in the Federated Suns in 3005.
3015
-(8 March) Anton Marik takes Wolf's Dragoons' dependents hostage. When Joshua Wolf refuses to capitulate, he executes them.
-(22 March) Wolf's Dragoons assault Anton Marik's New Delos base. They kill him and crush his forces, ending the Marik Civil War.
3028
-(20 Aug) Hanse Davion marries Melissa Steiner. Fourth Succession War begins, lasting until January 3030.
3029
-Ulric Kerensky forestalls a new call for invasion.
3034
Free Rasalhague Republic formed. The Combine's Ronin Wars follow, lasting until 23 May.
3039
-(April) War of 3039 begins (ending in December).
3046
-A Ghost Bear assault on Niles kills Hell's Horses Khan Lair Seidman. His successor, Malaval Fletcher, is a staunch Crusader who pushes the Clan into the Crusader camp.
3048
-(27 Sept) Clan Smoke Jaguar captures the Explorer Corps vessel Outbound Light in the Huntress system.
-(21 Nov) Crusaders win the invasion vote.
-(12 Dec) Leo Showers elected ilKhan.
3049
-(Feb) Advance Clan units depart for the Inner Sphere.
-(June) Bulk of Clan units depart for Inner Sphere.
-(Aug) First contact between advance Clan units and Periphery forces.
3050
-(7 March) Clans launch first wave against Inner Sphere targets.
-(7 May) Smoke Jaguars raze the city of Edo on Turtle Bay.
-(mid-year) Hellions' Fury campaign launched.
-(10 Sept) The AFFC retakes Twycross from Clan Jade Falcon, in the first victory against the Clans.
-(2 Oct) DCMS troops hold Wolcott against Clan Smoke Jaguar.
-(31 Oct) Clan invasion halted after the ilKhan is killed by a Free Rasalhague Republic suicide attack.
3051
-Natasha Kerensky rejoins Clan Wolf.
-(Jan) Inner Sphere leaders gather on Outreach.
-(28 Feb) Memorial service for Leo Showers.
-(19 June) Ulric Kerensky of the Wolves is elected ilKhan. He activates the Steel Vipers, Nova Cats, and Diamond Sharks and adds them to the invasion force.
-(29 Oct) The Clans resume their attacks.
3052
-(5 Jan) Battle of Luthien.
-(1-21 May) Battle of Tukayyid begins, as does ComStar's Operation Scorpion. The 21 day engagement ends in victory for ComStar and a fifteen-year truce barring further Clan advances.
3054-55
-Dragoon Civil War.
-Falcon-Raven pact collapses.
3055
-(Feb) Clan forces masquerading as the Red Corsair move to abrogate the truce. Wolf Clan troops and the Kell Hounds stop them.
-(Feb) The Ghost Bears complete work on their Leviathan-class ark ships and begin moving their people to the Inner Sphere.
-(April) Star Captain Trent of Clan Smoke Jaguar defects to ComStar. He journeys along the Exodus Road, arriving in the Inner Sphere in late 3058.
-(19 June) Melissa Steiner is assassinated.
-(11 Sept) Red Corsair defeated on Arc-Royal.
-(25-26 Oct) Red Corsair and her co-conspirators apprehended on the Periphery world of Elissa.
3057
-(10 June) ilKhan Ulric Kerensky indicted for treason.
-(18 Sept) The Lyran sector of the FedCom secedes to form the Lyran Alliance.
-(8 Aug) Ulric is convicted and demands a Trial of Refusal. The Refusal War ensues. The Refusal War rages across Falcon territory. The Falcons gain a nominal victory by killing Ulric. They recast the Trial as one of Absorption and move to claim the remaining Wolf Clan assets.
-(Sept-Dec) The death of Joshua Marik prompts war between the Federated Commonwealth, Capellan Confederation and Free Worlds League.
-(14 Dec) Star Captain Vladimir of House Ward challenges the Falcon decision, killing the Falcon saKhan and earning freedom for the former Wolves. They become known as the Jade Wolves.
3058
-(2 Jan) Vlad Ward of the Jade Wolves kills the new ilKhan, Elias Crichell. Ward then announces the birth of a "new" Wolf Clan.
-(15 March-10 May) To prove her Clan's vitality. Falcon Khan Marthe Pryde leads the Jade Falcons into the Lyran Alliance. They capture several planets and occupy Coventry.
-(1 Oct-21 Nov) Delegates at the Whitting Conference agree to form a new Star League and take the war to the Clans.
-(15 Nov) Sun-Tzu Liao elected First Lord of the Star League.
-(19 Nov) Lincoln Osis of Clan Smoke Jaguar is elected ilKhan. His mandate is the resumption of the invasion.
3059
-(Feb) Absorption of Clan Burrock by Clan Star Adder. Clan Blood Spirit attempts to intervene and gets mauled.
-(March) Blood Spirits withdraw to York. They eject the Jade Falcons from the planet; the Snow Raven forces withdraw.
-(1 May) Task Force Serpent begins its journey to Huntress.
-(20 May-18 Sept) Forces of the new Star League attack the Smoke Jagaur Occupation Zone. Routed, the Jaguars flee toward Huntress. Victor Steiner-Davion and Precentor Martial Focht lead a force in pursuit.
-(15 Dec) Task Force Serpent fights a naval engagement with a Ghost Bear relocation flotilla.
3060
-(3 Jan) Morgan Hasek-Davion is assassinated under mysterious circumstances.
-(9 Feb) The last Ghost Bear transport leaves Arcadia, bound for the Inner Sphere.
-(March) Discovering Victor Steiner-Davion's abscence from the Inner Sphere , Sun-Tzu Liao begins operations to seize control of Disputed Territories on the border between the Federated Commonwealth, Capellan Confederation, and the Chaos March.
-(1 March) Task Force Serpent, commanded by Ariana Winson, begins its attack on Huntress.
-(24 March) Smoke Jaguar forces led by Hang Mehta counterattack. A second Jaguar force led by Lincoln Osis arrives.
-(30 March) The Jaguars are broken and a badly wounded ilKhan Osis withdraws to Strana Mechty. Ariana Winson dies in fierce fighting, just before Prince Victor's relief force arrives at Huntress.
-(5 April) The last Jaguar troops on Huntress are eliminated.
-(18 April) Victor Steiner-Davion leads an SLDF task force to Strana Mechty and challenges the Grand Council to a Trial of Refusal.
-(23 April) The Great Refusal is fought between the eight Crusader Clans and the SLDF. The Inner Sphere forces win five, draw one, and lose two of the engagements. The Nova Cats fight on the SLDF side.
-(25 April) Victor Steiner-Davion goes before the Grand Council and announces the end of the invasion. He invites them to return and join the Star League, but threatens harsh reprisals for any military adventurism.
-(27 April) The Grand Council Abjures the Nova Cats, making them fair game for the other Clans. Several Warden Clans, most notably the Diamond Sharks and Snow Ravens, aid the Cats' withdraw from Clan space.
-(May-present) Trials for former Smoke Jaguar, Nova Cat and Ghost Bear enclaves rage among the Home Clans.
-(July-April) Clan Steel Viper covertly moves large amounts of material and several crack units into Inner Sphere space.
-(18 July) The SLDF prepares to return home. Lootera, capital of Huntress, is declared an open city under Star League authority. Sir Paul Masters remains as Military Govenor and SLDF ambassador to the Clans.
-(22 Sept) Forces of the St. Ives Compact attempt to capture or kill Sun-Tzu Liao on Hustaing. They are defeated by House Hiritsu.
-(Oct) The last of the Nova Cats depart Clan space to join their brethern in the Draconis Combine.
-(Nov-Dec) Katherine Steiner-Davion persuades her sister Yvonne to step down as the FedCom regent. She takes control of the Federated Commonwealth, reunifying it with the Lyran Alliance.
-(1 Dec) First Lord Sun-Tzu orders SLDF troops into the St. Ives Compact to form a buffer zone. They attempt to disarm the St. Ives troops on border worlds. Compact troops resist.
3061
-(January) The situation in St. Ives worsens. By the end of the month, the Confederation and the Compact are effectively at war.
-(1 January) Marthe Pryde departs Clan space for the Falcon occupation zone, accompanied by a large body of troops.
-(15 March) The remnants of Task Force Serpent arrive back in the Draconis Combine.
-(1 April) The Steel Vipers launch their first wave of assaults on the Jade Falcon Occupation Zone. They target thirteen worlds, and over the next six weeks take them all.
-(16 May) The Vipers launch a second assault wave, which is halted after only two weeks.
-(1 June) The Falcon forces led by Khan Pryde reach their occupation zone. From Wolf Clan territory, they stage a devastating counterassault against the Vipers. Viper worlds also become targets.
-(6 June) Precentor Martial Trent Arian is assassinated. Cameron St. Jamais becomes new Precentor Martial.
-(4 July) The Falcons defeat the Vipers on Waldorff, including an embarrassing personal defeat for Viper Khan Zalman. The Steel Vipers accept hegira and withdraw from the Inner Sphere.
-(Nov) Elected Prince Haakon Magnusson of the Free Rasalhague Republic steps down. Ragnar Magnusson, a captured Clan Warrior, becomes Elected Prince; General Christian Mansdotter is made Elected Prince Regent until his return.
-(1-5 Nov) The Second Whitting Conference takes place on Tharkad. In a dramatic move, Victor Steiner-Davion is named Precentor Martial of ComStar and Commanding General of the SLDF. Theodore Kurita becomes First Lord.
3062
-(January) The Steel Vipers arrive at the Clan Homeworlds.