History of Borogravia (Amazonverse Style)

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Note 1: For the purposes of this history, we will assume that MR begins in late autumn of YD (Year of the Duchy) 1642 and ends in the early autumn of YD 1643. [AM Year of the Three Toed Sloth, Century of the Anchovy]

Note 2: There are some wars -- mentioned by Jackrum during the Trial -- that I haven't brought up. I'll need to (eventually) go poking through that scene again to sort out where they land in the History as related by me. :-)



History of Borogravia
OR: The Life and Times of Maladict von Borogvia


1539: Maladicta (…) von Borogvia, Born.
1546: Ulrich, eldest child of Duke Vledemir, born
1548: Jan, second son of Duke Vledemir, born
1551: Annagovia, youngest child and only daughter of Duke Vledemir,born.
1573: Duke Vledemir of Borogvia, dies (assassinated in Uberwald, see “A Series of Accidents”, by Hyel). Duke Ulrich instated. Seventeen War with Uberwald begins.

1577: Seventeenth War with Uberwald Ends. Solvan Territory divided between Borogvia and Uberwald.

1578: Ulrich found guilty of… something… er… Duke Jan instated.
1579: Mildred Froc, Born, Annagovia of Borogvia married to Prince Albert of Zlobenia (Brother of Prince Marmaduke, Ruler of Zlobenia)

1580: Mary Sue Jaqueline Jackrum, born (in theory)
1581: Duke Jan disappears mysteriously. Duchess Annagovia instated.
1589: [“Isn’t She Strange”]
1596: [“Chosen Man”, “What’s in a Name?”]
1597: Prince Albert, Duke of Borogvia, dies (under circumstances deemed mysterious by Prince Andras of Zlobenia. Zlobenian-Borogravian alliance dissolved. Fourth War with Zlobenia begins.

1598: [“Fourteen Miles”]
1599: Fourth war with Zlobenia ends. Lieutenant Mathiew Froc promoted to Captain. [“Brandy Pillows”]

1602: Prince Heinrich of Zlobeina, born.
1612: Christine Clogston, Born, Duchess Annagovia unofficially dies (at the age of 59) [“I Have Seen his Madness”]

1622: Paul Perks, born.
1623: Polly Perks, born.
1624: Tilda Tewt, Magda Halter, born.
1625: Alice Goom, Betty Manicle, born. [“I was a Teenaged Vampire”, “Such a Gift”]
1626: [“Evidence”, “Consequences”]
1629: [“Drifting”, “Two Parts”]
1631: [“Strange Fire”, “Give me my Sin Again”, “Good Girl”]

1632: Tilda arrives at the Grey House.
1634: Magda arrives at the Grey House. Uberwald gives its Solvan Territory autonomous Nation status.

1635: [“Fathers and Daughters”, “Remembering Molly Piper”, “First Times”, “Octnight”]
1636: [“Thank You, Lord deWincy”]
1637: [“Together, Alone”, “Walking Out”, “A Fire Inside”]
1638: [“I like it like that”, “Something that we do”]
1639: [“What Drives them to do It”, “Stolen”, “Bleed to Love Her”]
1640: [“Cold Bat”, “Temptation”]
1641: [“Under My Skin”, “Leaving”, “Briar Rose”]
1641-42: [“Angel”, “At the Crossroads”]

1642:
September [“The Special Room”, “What I Learned in the Girls’ Working School”, “Freedom”, “Now or Never”, “The Watcher”, “Her Real Name”, “Predator”, “Honesty”, “One Sock, and You Could Make a Strappi”, “An Old Friend of the Family”, “The ‘A’ is Silent”, “Want This, Need This”, “The Way You Haunt My Dreams”, “Coffee Coloured Eyes”, “Instinct to Fight”, “Waking Up”, “Where the Metal Meets the Meat”]
Sektober [“I Need It”, “The Sock Trick”, “Small Comforts”, “Small Feet”, “Do I Matter at All”]

1643: Jack Perks, born (March), Major Blouse and Emmeline, married (Grune). Zlobenia attacks Borogvia (September), but the threat is averted thanks to quick thinking (and blackmail) on the part of one Sergeant P. Perks.
Spring [“Dish”, “Dying for a Fix of Light”]
Summer [“Wrath of God”, “Oh to be a Grune Bride”, “Is this what you Want?”, “My Only Brother”]
Autumn: [“Confessions”, “Ravishing”, “They Aren’t All About Sex”, “When Their Guard is Down”, “Lieutenant Blouse’s Sock Brigade”].
Winter:

YD 1644: First War w/ Solvania begins.
Note: Since being granted Autonomous Nation status by Uberwald in 1634, Free Solvania has been building its army (which is not very big, really) in order to attempt to secure freedom from Borogravian rule in its rimward areas.
Spring: [”Curious”, “On the Slab”]
Summer: [“Just Friends”, “Beautiful”, “The Lady is with Me”, “Excuses”, “Slightly Damp”, “Distracted”]
Autumn: [“Some Mother’s Son”, “More Than You Know”, “Autumn”, “How Long have I Felt This Way?”, “A Subtle Change”]
Winter: [“Winter”, “A Kiss is Still a Kiss”, “What, Then?”, “Out of Reach”]

YD 1645: Borogvia Suffers its first drought in two hundred years. Corporal M. von Borogvia is beheaded in battle, but is revived by the blood of a fallen soldier. First War w/ Solvania ends when Solvania surrenders (temporarily, as it turns out) after the capture of the Vaurosh Keep by a squad of the tenth foot — known as the “Monstrous Regiment” due to their unprecedented numbers of trolls, vampires, Kvetch, Igors, and women — by cunning and honesty. Sergeant P. Perks and Corporal M. von Borogvia begin their romantic relationship.
Spring: [“Thoughts”, “Memories”, “Mental Chasms”]
Summer: [“The Battle Unending”, “A First Time for Everything”]
Autumn: [“Black Coffee, Not Black Velvet”, “What Dreams May Come”, “Battle Scars”]
Winter: [“Promotion Beckons”, “The Girl of my Dreams”, “Practice Makes Perfect”, “Not Playing”, “My Beloved is Mine and I am Hers”, and “The Morning After”, “So Deep I Could Drown in Them”, “Visitors”, “Uncle Mal”, “Heart Beat”, “An Avid Learner”, “That was Educational”]

YD 1646: Sergeant Perks is promoted to Lieutenant. Corporal von Borogvia is promoted to Sergeant. Seargeant Major Jack Jackrum, dies (Summer – “One Last Favour”, by Hyel).
Spring: [“Love and Trust”, “Fragile”]
Summer:
Autumn:
Winter: [“The Land of Perfect Peace”, “Hungry Eyes”]


YD 1647: Tilda Perks, born (Sektober).
Spring: [“Make Me Your Own”, “With Real Soap”]
Summer: [“All Things Considered”, “Double Happiness”]
Autumn:
Winter: [“Harder to Forget”]


YD 1648: Zlobenia attacks again. Prince Heinrich of Zlobenia makes another “bid” for the throne of the Duchy.
Spring: [“The Supplicants”]
Summer:
Autumn: [“You Fight Like A Girl”]
Winter: [“Heart Fire”, “Night and Day”]


YD 1649: Lieutenant Perks is cut down in battle, but survives. Zlobenians are routed from Borogravian soil, largely due to the force of Sergeant M. von Borogvia. Magda and Ivan Perks (twins), born (May).
Spring: [“Surprises”, “All the Things she Likes”, “Survival Needs”]
Summer: [“The Devil Shall Be My Sergeant”, “Training”, “Summer Breeze”]
Autumn: [“Underneath her Clothes”, “Little Girls”]
Winter:


YD 1650: On the eve of 1651, the Duchy of Borogravia is formally disolved. A military government is officially installed, headed by General Froc of the Borogravian Army, now Commander General of Borogravia. [Just after “A Joke Turned Upside Down” — Hyel]


YD 1651 (Year of the Republic: Duchess Anagovia is publically and officially declared deceased at the age of ninety-eight (although she had, in fact, been dead for nearly forty years already). The standard three months of mourning are decreed and the last royal ruler of Borogravia is formally laid to rest. Presiding over the mourning ceremonies are Commander General Froc and Former-Private Alice Goom, through-whom the Duchess once spoke. Solvania attacks in force, declaring that treaties signed by the Duchy are null and void under the Republic. [Corrections: Mal turns 122 this year – see ‘Young and Foolish’ for mistake)
Late Winter/Spring: [“The Daughter I never Had”, “Young and Foolish”]
Summer: [“Batman”]
Autumn: [“Apricots”]
Winter:


YD 1653/ YR 3: Borogravian Army is snowed in and held under siege by the Solvanians in the mountains currently known as “the disputed territory”. Lieutenant P. Perks goes down in the melee leading to the siege. Miraculously survives despite a dangerous head-injury. They are snowed in for nearly three months before the Solvanian army pulls back to undisputed Solvanian territory, allowing the army to dig their way out and escape.
Spring:
Summer:
Autumn: [“Sunlight”]
Winter: [“The Vigil”, “Save Me”, “Something for the Longest Night”, “I Miss You”, “She Changes Everything”]


YD 1654 / YR 4: Solvanian army returns to the “Disputed Territory” and the Borogravian army marches again. The Solvanians are routed from the “Disputed Territory”. Lieutenant P. Perks and her squad of the Tenth Foot are once again heros of the nation. Polly and Mal get married (sort of).
Spring: [“Lucky”, “Let Love Reign”]
Summer:
Autumn: [“Working Girls”, “Banditry has its Privileges”, “More than a Kiss”, and “What the Moon Sees”]
Winter: [“Anything for You”, “Soldiers Don’t Wear Rings”]


YD 1655 / YR 5: Alice Perks, born (Grune). Lieutenant P. Perks is promoted to Captain. Sergeant M. von Borogvia is promoted to Lieutenant. Solvania is granted independence by Commander General Froc at the urging of Captain P. Perks, Major R. Blouse, and Colonel C. Clogson, who maintain that the Disputed Territory is mostly difficult mountain ranges that (A) can’t really be cultivated and (B) are populated almost exclusively by Igors without Borders, Trolls, and the Kvetch, none of whom pay much attention to international borders, anyway.
Spring: [“The Razor’s Edge”]
Summer: [“Family”, “Soldier/Girl”, “Soaking Wet”]
Autumn: [“Blood Spattered Dreams”]
Winter:


YR 6: Diplomatic mission to Ankh Morpork
Spring: [“The Necklace”]
Summer: [“Aftershocks”, “Only an Arrangement”, “Broken/Promises”, “What’s Left of Us”, “The Taste of Bile”, “Something Good”, (“Annie”)]
Autumn:
Winter:

YR 7:
Winter: [“A Little Help”]

YR 8: War with Kordova (previously part of the Uberwaldian Empire, separated in YR 5 after 12 years of bloody warfare. Now they’re getting ambitious and are looking to expand their territory) begins.
Spring:
Summer:
Autumn: [“Open”]
Winter:


YR 9:
Spring: [“Simple Needs”]
Summer:
Autumn: [“Laundry Service”, “More Than Trousers at Stake”]
Winter:


YR 10: Mal celebrates 20 years of being in the League. (Corrections: Mal is not turning 139, she’s turning 132. I think – See ‘Red as Blood’ for the mistake).
Spring: [“White as Snow”, “Red as Blood”, “Oops”]
Summer:
Autumn:
Winter: [“Black and White Ball”, “Button by Button”]

YR 11: Captain Perks is promoted to Major, Lieutenant von Borogvia is promoted to Captain.
Spring:
Summer:[“Answers”, “How Sweet”.]
Autumn: [“Bad Business to Attend to”]
Winter:

YR 14: Polly and Mal celebrate 10 years of unofficial marriage.
Spring: [“Because of Her”]
Summer: [“Stroke my Ego”]
Autumn: [“Perfectly Groomed”]
Winter:

Yr 15: Mal and Polly have been romantically involved for 20 years.

YR 16: Captain von Borogvia is promoted to Major, Major Perks is promoted to Colonel. Moldavia attacks Borogvia.
Spring: [“Ink Blots”]
Summer: [“Night Terrors”, “With Interest and Envy”, “Behind Closed Doors”]
Autumn:
Winter:


YR 17: Heavy losses taken in battle against the Moldavian army.
Late Winter/Spring: [“Hostages”, “Freedom, Justice, and…”, “Coming Home”, “Tell Me”]
Summer: [“Something you Should See”]
Autumn:
Winter: [“Anniversary”]

YR 18: Sergeant Fritaag’s squadron of the Tenth Foot leads a flying column of the Ins and Outs and the Ups and Downs into the center of the Moldavian force, while Lieutenant Svitz takes the side-to-sides around the left flank and cuts off Moldavia’s retreat. Lieutenant Skelto takes the white flag of Moldavia’s surrender to General of the Army C. Clogson, at High Command.

YR 20: Polly and Mal have been romantically involved for 25 years.

YR 21: Colonel Perks is promoted to General.

YR 23: Polly turns fifty.
[“Sweet Young Thing”]

YR 25:
[“Scar Tissue”, “Sunrise over Al Kali”]


YR 28: Commander General Froc of Borogravia, dies. General of the Army C. Clogson becomes Commander Genral of Borogravia. General P. Perks becomes General of the Army. Mal turns 150.

YR 35: Major von Borogvia and General Perks receive honourable discharges from the Borogravian Army, as well as “the eternal thanks of Borogravia”, delivered by Commander General Clogson.
[“Love Letters”, “Love and Loss”, “The Best-Laid Plans”]

YR 36: The General’s Salon opens in the Prince’s City with apartments available for out-of-town guests or long-term visitors to the City.
Spring:
Summer: [“Nocturne”]
Autumn: [“Still Here for Me to Touch”]
Winter: [“Blood Relatives”]

YR 43: [“Midnight Visitors”]

YR 54: Polly and Mal have been romantically involved for fifty years. (Polly is 73, Mal is 176)
Winter: [“Sharing”]

YR 68: Polly Perks (General of the Army, retired) dies of natural causes in her home in the Prince’s City. She is survived by her life-partner (of 64 years) and soul mate, Maladict von Borogvia (Major, retired) and by her family (notably including Franz Perks, recipient of the Order of Borogravia for his musicianship, and Sergeant-Major Magda Perks (retired), likewise a military hero of Borogravia).
Autumn: [“After the Burial”]

YR 118:
Winter: [“Just thinking of You”]

YR 123: Eighth (or possibly ninth) War with Zlobenia begins.
Autumn: [“The End of All Things”]
…
Another Time, Another Place: [“Let This Be Real”]