Timeline:History

General

Current year in Perplex City is 269 AC. Years are the same length as Earth years, with the same months and dates.

Years are designated with "BC" and "AC", originally thought to refer to "Before Cube" and "After Cube". Though with the Receda Cube only being discovered in 7AC (1744) this is unlikely. Cube History

• See Calendar for more on this topic.

Also note, we know of a number of periods of time which have been referred to, though we dont have a good sense of when these happened. These include:

• Pre-Hausam period - seems to be about two to three thousand tears ago
• The War - took place just before the Modern Era.
• Parencycle period of architecture - took place around the early 100s, and includes the Milamont Theatres
• Resurgence period - seems to be about one to two hundred years ago.

• NOTE: Daffy889 has built a very sharp timeline over here:
  • http://daffy.aglami.net/pxctimeline/
  • While this wiki recognizes the strengths of his work, and we are quite willing to recomend all users refer to his timeline, there is also something to be said fFor having everything in one place. Users are encouraged to use his page as an impressive display with topics and references and all, and use this listing as a point of convenience.

Ancient History to Beginning Of Game

PERPLEX CITY	EARTH	EVENT
3500 BC	18th Century BCE	Perplex City history begins
3000 BC	13th Century BCE	Loose settlements become stable
2000 BC	3rd Century BCE	Evidence of great technical advancements
1250 BC	487	Slow but steady progress in the city's development
700 BC	1037	City went through a period of modest expansion
573 BC	1164	Academy Founded
571 BC	1166	Group of scholars take residence in the city
452 BC	1285	Academy's first significant expansion
443 BC	1294	Aetiant Taversen becomes the first Academy 'Master'
325 BC	1412	Academy introduces its own league in several games, setting up the premise of the PCAG
250 BC	1487	Ellen Poor studies at academy
246 BC	1491	Ellen Poor leaves academy to open a tea house
245 BC	1492	Helios Noi returns to the City
243 BC	1494	Helios Noi offered Academy Mastership - Declines
226 BC	1511	Death of Helios Noi
190? BC	1547?	White square dropped from the game of Twin-wheel
179 BC	1558	Unknown quote from Sente's first letter
172 BC	1565	Academy Museum founded
170 BC	1567	Judiciary Pogroms. Faith Giordana: criminal mastermind.
70 BC - 0 BC	1667	The War, in various forms.
47 BC	1690	Academy sinks into temporary academic despond
35 BC	1702	Stories of "Ilja and Anja", the ghost children, begin; see: The War.
23 BC	1714	Death of Master Victor Mardian
22 BC	1715	Vianne Adamek elected Academy Master
17 BC	1720	Vianne Adamek suggests an "overall champion" of PCAG
1 BC	1736	Anthony Granier & Edwina Mountling embark "Northern expedition"
0 BC - 22 AD	1737 - 1759	Hiatus of celebration of the midwinter festivals and games
0 BC	1737	End of The War; Beginning of the "modern" era.
1 AC	1738	Switch from BC to AC
7 AC	1744	Receda Cube Discovered
37 AC	1774	Games Plaza built by William Henderson
"	"	Perplex City Museum Opens
75 AC	1812	Perplex City Zoo opens, after the closure of The Old Town Zoo
81 AC	1818	Tanhill Botanic Gardens built
89 AC	1826	Sentinel founded
107 AC	1844	Sentinel and Vanguard merge
115 AC	1852	Death of Redward Innes
137 AC	1874	Sentinel purchased by the Heathcote Group
138 AC	1875	Emmi Hartlin begins editing the Sentinel
148 AC	1885	S. Marchant quote from City Archives
156 AC	1893	Emmi Hartlin retires
167 AC	1904	"Great Political Scandals"
173 AC	1910	700th anniversary of the Academy's founding
174 AC	1911	Sentinel's investigative work leads to resignation of Perplex City Council and seven deputies
175 AC	1912	Last criminal case to be declared a mistrial
188 AC	1925	Landmark statue at Scott Young Memorial Plaza built
200 AC	1937	The Second Archway Built
223 AC	1960	Sanjean Adamek has a series of wins at the PCAG
"	"	Sente Kiteway joins Academy cryptology department
228 AC	1965	Receda Cube goes on public display in Academy museum
229 AC	1966	Sente works as a Junior Fellow at the Academy
230 AC	1967	Sente published seminal work on cryptological mathematics
234 AC	1971	Ruth Coralhouse & Horatio Flynn win Ikonnikov Prize
235 AC	1972	Adamek publishes book - "Intricate Design"
"	"	Last serious attempt at Cube theft
237 AC	1974	Alyce Turnbull creates the Inventus Puzzle
"	"	Sente takes up a senior position at Centrifuge
"	"	Centric Artificial Rainforest built from inflatable modular sections
239 AC	1976	Ruth Coralhouse & Horatio Flynn win Ikonnikov Prize. Again.
"	"	East Dalia Way becomes pedestrian-only
240 AC	1977	Professor Estelle Sedgewick becomes Senior Fellow of Languages
241 AC	1978	Hunan Mansoor's company MPG becomes part of Key Surety
242 AC	1979	Violet Kiteway Born
"	"	Whipsmart ice cream established
243 AC	1980	Jonathan Smart becomes member of PCBC board
246 AC	1983	Hunan Mansoor wins Academy's Cryptological prize
248 AC	1985	Astrid Lindstrom wins PCAG championship
"	"	Public foreign-language debate over the environmental policies of the Council
"	"	Scarlett Kiteway Born
250 AC	1987	Ruth Coralhouse retires from Academy
252 AC	1989	Professor Adamek becomes Senior Fellow of Arts
"	"	Sente returns to the Academy
253 AC	1990	Astrid Lindstrom wins Allanson Prize
256 AC	1993	Robert Solitano wins PCAG languages section
258 AC	1995	Ahuva Qui becomes a commentator for the Political News
"	"	Jonathan Smart becomes CEO of PCBC
"	"	Margaret Wildwood wins Raschid Prize
260 AC	1997	Inari Ekeba becomes PCAG's resident astronomical puzzle setter
261 AC	1998	Ahuva Qui wins Borek prize
"	"	Professor Inari Ekeba becomes Senior Fellow of Natural Sciences
"	"	Robert Solitano wins Sperka prize
"	"	Sente becomes Chairman of the Carrick Foundation
262 AC	1999	Armand Levi moves from journalism to politics
"	"	Professor Margaret Wildwood becomes Senior Fellow of Social Sciences
263 AC	2000	Carrick Foundation names Sedgewick Travel Bursary in honour of Estelle Sedgewick
"	"	Professor Hunan Mansoor becomes Senior Fellow of Cryptology
"	"	Sente becomes Master of the Academy
"	"	Mobius Strip "Figure of Eight" completed.
264 AC	2001	Rebecca Croft wins the Alexander Prize in music.
"	"	Centre for Reality Research opens.
266 AC	2003	Janna Gold selected as the Rejian Fellow
"	"	Professor Astrid Lindstrom becomes Senior Fellow of Mathematics and Logic
267 AC	2004	Receda Cube Stolen from The Academy
"	"	Ryan Cahill wins PCAG Championship
"	"	Security analysis reports from Academy Museum leaked.
"	"	Surprise virus sweeps the City
268 AC	2005	Nachman Assaf solves the Inventus Puzzle
269 AC	2006	Present Day

Beginning Of Cube Theft Mystery Until Present

That's the date! '	That's what happened!
10th Oct '03	Senior Fellows meeting at the Academy. Fierce debate surrounding Cube research: Inari Ekeba wants to experiment upon it, and when Sente Kiteway refuses she threatens (in anger, probably) to steal it. Astrid Lindstrom and Sanjean Adamek reflect upon it in via email.
22nd Dec '03	V demands to meet one his Academy insiders at once. They can't - they're in an Adjunct Senior Fellows meeting. V insists that they should make their excuses and leave. (via Leaked E-mails.)
8th Jan '04	One of the Cube Conspirators attempts to rendezvous with another member, but incorrectly identifies the target and almost divulges secrets to a perfect stranger. (via Leaked E-mails.)
15th Jan '04	Violet emails her dad to say she's got flu and won't be coming to the ball. (via Leaked E-mails.)
	Tonight, the Academy Ball. Someone goes and steals the Cube. Zounds! Fran Mendling killed in the raid. (via Leaked E-mails.)
3rd Apr '05	Scarlett spills juice on Violet's bag and asks her dad to email Vi on her behalf because she's a scaredy-cat. Gripping stuff! (via Leaked E-mails.)
27th Apr '05	V and his boss exchange emails regarding V's recent murder of Bernardo Holyoke, with the boss expressing his general satisfaction at proceedings. (via Leaked E-mails.)
28th Apr '05	Violet famously speculates on an audio program that her dad was responsible for stealing the Cube, describing him as a "a power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniac." Exactly our kind of thinking, eh? (Link)
May 24th '05	Violet attends PXC Historical Society meeting about local pre-history, mentions the mysterious portal archway things in the Catbite region. (Link)
May 31st '05	Violet, the inquisitive scamp, visits the Reconstructionist compound. She just gets a guided tour, and doesn't get anywhere near Jessica Holyoke.
10th June '05	Sanjean Adamek emails the Kiteway sisters inviting them over for tea. But Violet declines, saying she has a "big project" that she's working on. (via Leaked E-mails.)
	But that day she's actually been back to the Reconstructionists with Kurt, broken into their secret chamber, swapped one of their Keys with one of Kurt's older models and nicked it. Then in the evening she goes out to a poker bar, called Bullets and wins "six months worth of rent." (See here and here.)
13th June '05	Kurt manages to pull a file off the illicitly obtained Recon key, and Violet sends it to us (see here.) We decrypt it, and as is traditional send the decrypt to absolutely everybody we can think of, including Sente. Sneaky, we ain't.
14th June '05	Sente urgently contacts Anna Heath - he's just learnt that Aiko is a Reconstructionist. Despite Anna's protestations, he turns over the evidence to the cops. Anna turns to Robert Solitano to discuss the matter. (via Leaked E-mails.)
15th June '05	We learn that Aiko has been arrested as a suspect in the Cube Theft. (Link) Violet gets all pissy, but calms down a little two days later.
29th June '05	Violet returns from a camping holiday on the plains, but we've no idea how long she was there for (potentially as early as the 17th.)
6th July '05	Violet is moody and, on the walk home, felt like someone was watching her.
22nd July '05	A young, weird guy comes to the library and proceeds to bug Violet about accessing 'ancient documents related to the Brotherhood'. Almost certainly Allain.
29th July '05	Aiko stares down Violet when they bump into each other at the Academy. Ice cold! (Interesting to note that Aiko is not yet back working as a puzzle scribe.)
23rd August	Dinner! Sente, Scarlett & Brede and Violet & Kurt have a nice friendly meal as Scarlett is about to leave on her hiking trip for Tanagra. Then Violet delivers an arch Cube-related smackdown with her dad and a fierce row ensues, as Vi is yet to notice that SHE ISN'T EVEN THE TEENAGE DAUGHTER, DAMMIT.
2nd Sept '05	Violet apologises to her dad, and magically, if somewhat implausibly, makes a big resolution to devoting all her efforts to finding the Cube. She continues to try and track down the Third Power book the Earthlings asked for - it's all water-damaged, but she's having it sent over anyway.
7th Sept '05	Violet, Kurt, Von and a couple of Violet's friends head out to Ascendancy Point for some classic movies and dinner. In the process of arranging it, Kurt is yet again forced to remind people that he isn't going out with Violet. (via Leaked E-mails.)
8th Sept '05	Garnett and Caine obviously go out for drinks. Lots and lots of drinks. We know this because... (via Leaked E-mails.)
9th Sept '05	A very hungover Caine emails a smugly sober Garnet regarding their exploits from the night before. (via Leaked E-mails.) It's Violet's birthday today too, we think. Naturally, she sees Kurt and then does some gambling. Not that she'll take a gamble on Kurt, if you know what I mean.
16th Sept '05	Cassandra from Earth emails Violet, who races round to Sylvia Salk's place and finds her unconscious from an overdose. Fortunately, she calls the emergency services and Sylvia is saved, and quite glad she's not dead to boot. She says thanks, by the way. Violet spends quite a lot of the next week with her (see here).
21st Sept '05	Scarlett checks in from her Tanagra hike, describing it as beautiful and tiring to her dad and sister. (via Leaked E-mails.)
23rd Sept '05	Caine paints the statues in the Founder's Gallery yellow. Von is most amused, and Aiko has to remind him to go home and get the paint off his fingers! Meanwhile Tippy is busy manipulating Kurt to go out and buy her coffee, to Anna's chagrin. She tries to get Kurt to get the boy to stand up for himself. (via Leaked E-mails.)
29th Sept '05	Sente emails his assistant Patrick Azadian, chasing a status report from the Centre for Reality Research, an agenda for a PCAG meeting that day and a budget proposal from Estelle Sedgewick. Azadian replies the first is forthcoming, the second is sorted, and reccommends contacting Robert Solitano regarding the budget. Sente asks to try and schedule a meeting with him that day, and also that he made need Patrick to stay late that day as "CS is looking for a financial report." Patrick cancels his raquetball appointment with Garnett. However, the CS financial report seems to be a ruse, because he then asks Lyssa Ling to attend a special meeting of the puzzle scribes. (via Leaked E-mails.)
3rd Oct '05	Caine steals Tippy's stapler, the utter bastard. (via Leaked E-mails.)
7th Oct '05	Tippy asks Garnett out for dinner and he abruptly turns her down. Then she asks everyone else on the puzzle scribe team out for a wild partying session instead. Von notices she didn't invite Garnett, Von notices, Tippy disparages Garnett, and Aiko unleashes a deserved smackdown. She's loyal to Garnett because he looked after her when she was arrested. (via Leaked E-mails.)
29th Nov '05	Violet is totally grossed by Cymbalisty's slimyness and tells Kurt about it, asking him out for a drink before dinner. (via Leaked E-mails.)

Sources & Resources

• http://daffy.aglami.net/ppctimeline.php - Daffy
• http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9219 - Old Unfiction Timeline topic
• http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10131 - 'BC/AC new information' thread