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This is a history of Kassaten and the areas forming the modern-day Republic Kassaten.

Contents 1 Before 200 2 Middle Ages 2.1 First Empire (200-1120) 3 Early Modern Period 3.1 First Empire (continued) 3.2 First Republic (1103-1312) 4 Revolution and Reform 4.1 'People's Democracy' (1312-1323) 4.2 Second Empire (1323-1371) 5 Bourgeois Supremacy 5.1 Second Republic (1371-1428) 5.2 Third Republic (1438-1456) 6 Civil War & the Two States 6.1 Fourth Republic vs. Third Empire (1456-1515) 7 Re-unification 7.1 Fifth Republic (1516-present)

Before 200

• First two centuries - Cruisianism starts spreading. Kassaten, a kingdom in the far south of Valanan, conquers the peninsula bit by bit.

Middle Ages

First Empire (200-1120)

• 176 - The southern Valanan kingdom becomes officially independent from Valania. In the years to come it adds the other southern provinces that gained independence to its domain.
• 222 - Max I, king of Kassaten, which spans the entire peninsula of Southern Valanan by now, converts to Cruisianism, gets baptised and so becomes Emperor. During his reign, he founds many monasteries and proclaims local vassals.
• 227 - At the Battle of Halland the superior Valanian armies get slain as a part of the Kassatic Wars. This encounter will be the last as it marks the fall of Valania as influential Valanan power, which consequently meant that no one could pose a threat to Kassaten anymore.
• Third till ninth century - A feudal society consisting of nobility, clergy and peasants emerges. Monasteries are the centers of civilization.
• 650 - First known written document in Kassatic.
• From 850 - Cities grow more and more dominant in social and cultural life.
• 900-1000 - The ‘Hanze’ league of trade cities. Wealthy citizens start to develop into a class of patricians, called ‘Regenten’.

Early Modern Period

First Empire (continued)

• 1000 - Invention of the printing press
• 1033 - The Reformation starts with Erasmus Desiderius Coterodamus, or ‘Desiderius.’
• 1023-81 - Emperor William VI starts centralising the government.
• 1089 - Max XIV starts repressing the Reformed; the result is a reformed Iconoclasm in several cities.
• 1095 - The Iconoclasm and the resulting repressions lead to a revolution among citizens and Regenten, called ‘the Uprising’.

First Republic (1103-1312)

• 1103 - The Uprising succeeds in removing the emperor and its supporters proclaim a Republic, led by two ‘Stadhouders’, elected from the Regent class. The new government has a highly federal structure. The Kassatic Reformed Church replaces Catholicism as the national church.
• 1110-1202 - Playwright and poet Joost van den Aemstel, best-known of all Kassatic writers.
• 1125-1324 - The United Overseas Trading Company, or the ‘Verenigde Overzeese Compagnie’ (VOC) founds trading posts around the world.
• Twelfth century - Linberg and, to a lesser degree, other trade cities start to flourish, and great artists like Wijbrandt and philosophers like Despinosa and Vankaarten earn wide recognition.
• Thirteenth century - A tradition of tolerance and open mindedness culminates in a ideological movement called ‘enlightenment’ or ‘Opklaring’, many ideas of which will be relied on later by socialist, nationalist and liberal ideologies. Its proponents still form a single movement in this time, the ‘Patriotten’ or ‘Patriots’.
• 1261-1327 - Betje Wolff, prominent female writer with Patriot sympathies.

Revolution and Reform

'People's Democracy' (1312-1323)

• 1312 - First Revolution: Radical Patriots take over power, ending the hegemony of the Regent class. A ‘People's Democracy’ is proclaimed. In time, the new government proves to grow increasingly dictatorial.

Second Empire (1323-1371)

• 1323 - After a succesfull coup d'etat, Rutger Moldrecht declares himself Stadhouder, subsequently crowning himself emperor in the same year.
• 1323 - Moldrecht nationalises the VOC, turning it into the ‘Kassatische Handelsmaatschappij’ which never became nearly as successful as its predecessor.
• 1327 - The 'Code Moldrecht' replaces traditional law.
• From 1325 - A new nobility is created from Moldrecht's favorites.
• 1335-1355 - The capital is moved to Maxburg, until then only a medium-sized city; construction of the Imperial Palace, the first Rijksdag building (Lower House of parliament) and several small ministry buildings starts in the following two decades.
• 1343-1410 - Eduard Douwes, civil servant and satirist, who publishes hist most famous work, a satire of the Kassatic coffee trade, in 1383.
• 1344 - The metric system replaces the traditional system of measurement.
• 1350's - The traditional counties are divided into provinces, with much less autonomy.
• 1371 - A Second Revolution means the end of Moldrecht's reign.

Bourgeois Supremacy

Second Republic (1371-1428)

• 1371 - Second Republic proclaimed and federalism restored. Right to vote with some property requirements. Liberals dominate the political scene. Nationalists and conservatives don´t agree with the new government and kept revolting, like radical socialists did for other reasons.
• 1375-1425 - Industrial Revolution and urbanisation cause many cities to grow dramatically. Maxburg is among them, taking advantage from the expanding state apparatus as well. Growth of central-Kassatic cities allows Kotterdam to grow as transit port to the interior of the country. The socialist movement gained momentum as a result of industrialisation.
• 1383-1455 - Frederik van Wageningen, Kassatic author.
• 1386-1446 - Lodewijk Kuyper, novelist and poet, considered one of the best authors in Kassatic modern literature.
• 1400-1425 - Arrival of new industries and expanding civil services cause Maxburg to grow; the city reaches 300.000 inhabitants in 1422. New public landmarks are constructed: the Maxburg Opera House (1398), the Maxburg Cathedral (1398-1412) and the National Museum (1407), and a new Rijksdag constructed between 1407 and 1417.
• 1422 - Social issues split the liberal movement in a left and a right wing. In the parliament ('Staten Generaal') both groups stay dominant, while socialists and 'Neo-Maxists' (nationalist and conservatives) stayed a marginal but growing influence.

Third Republic (1438-1456)

• 1438 - Leftist liberals and socialists introduce universal suffrage. This breakthrough is widely conceived as the start of a Third Republic.
• 1440´s - Roaring Fourties; the sky seems the limit for economic growth, while jazz, cinema and revolutionary art gained great prominence in social life, first and foremost in Linberg, which becomes a worldwide cultural center.
• 1443 - The 'Groot-Linberg Wet' merges all of metropolitan Linberg, its suburbs and surrounding communities, into one single administrative unit, 'Groot-Linberg'.
• 1440´s - Taking a major advantage from the Golden Fourties, Maxburg is subjected to one of Kassaten’s greatest urban renewal projects; during the ‘Maxburg Renovation Project’ much of the city’s housing was replaced by characteristic Art Deco red-brick apartment blocks.
• 1452 - Start of the Depression.
• 1455 - Taking advantage of the Depression, the Neo-Maxist Kassatic Laborer's Party become the biggest political force under its charismatic leader, Dolf Francken.

Civil War & the Two States

Fourth Republic vs. Third Empire (1456-1515)

• 1456 - Dolf Francken becomes Stadhouder and proclaims himself Emperor, resulting in countless uprisings, marking the start of the Third Empire, which is both centralist and totalitarian. In a few weeks the situation escalates into a Civil War. Liberals and socialists unite with local opposition movements and proclaim a rival Fourth Republic. When the Republic takes over the capital, it is heavily bombed by empire forces.
• 1465 - The Empire starts losing more and more terrain while the Republic grows stronger.
• 1468 - Dolf Francken dies, and a presidium of more moderate Neo-Maxists takes his place. The Empire remains a totalitarian dictatorship, but a much less brutal one as before.
• 1470 - As the war front becomes more stabile, a cease fire is signed, the Third Empire keeping only a very small area under its control, while the rest of the country remains in Republican hands.
• From 1470 - In the Republic, a new system of government ermerges, with the national government of the still unitary Fourth Republic granting much autonomy to many small regions.
• 1470's-1480's - The Maxburg city council decided to recreate the unique atmosphere of Maxburg as much as possible by completely restoring the city scape and architecture to the 1456 situation.
• 1490 - Detente, called 'Dooipolitiek' (dew policy). Although the Republic actively tries to relax tensions with the Empire, its government keeps aiming at a re-unification of both states in a unitary democracy.
• 1495 - Signing of the Maxburg Treaty, that created mutual recognition between the Republic and the Empire as two separate states (though explicitly not as two separate nations). Nevertheless, the Republican government keeps aiming at a unification of both states in a democracy again.

Re-unification

Fifth Republic (1516-present)

• 1515 - Ongoing revolts in the Third Empire, together with a massive illegal immigration into the Fourth Republic (which automatically allows all refugees to become Republican citizens) causes it to collapse. The Republican side proclaims 'Kassaten-wide' elections for a constitutional assembly.
• 1516 - The assembly proclaims the Fifth Republic. Universal suffrage, and instead of a federal or a centralist system of government, a new ´Intendance system´ is introduced. While the state is unitary by principle, areas are able to gain much autonomy as an Intendance, based on agreements made case by case. On 11 October of the same year the first region calling for more autonomy becomes an Intendance. The new autonomous region will be called Zilverhaven and is founded around the city of Kotterdam.
• 1517 - In the first elections after the war, socialists and liberals gain a large majority in the Staten-Generaal. The first Stadhouders of the new Republic are Reigwart Pileus (rightist liberal) and Gerard Biesterveldt (social-democrat), who stay in power until present (1530). The territories until recently controlled by the Third Empire by referendum all decide to join the Republic (not as Intendances, but as ordinary counties.
• 1518 - On the 2nd of April De Kassatische Bank, the Central Bank of Kassaten, proudly introduced the new Kassatic currency, the Florijn (ƒ).
• 1520 - After a referendum, the City Province of Groot-Linberg is reformed into an Intendance named Stadstaat Linberg (Linberg City State).
• 1520's - The greatly expanding state and several new ministries of the Fifth Republic cause a spectacular population boom for Maxburg. To make sure this wouldn’t destroy the atmosphere of the city, new inhabitants are divided between eight new small-scale suburbs built around the city in a retro-1440’s style. By 1525 the Maxburg conglomerate reaches the milestone of one million inhabitants.
• 1533 - This year marked some significant changes in the government of Kassaten's neighbour Valania. These happenings finally led to the signing of the Treaty of Jalarel, officially signed on April 6 1534. From that point on the bond between both countries became increased.