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- February 1: The Universal Brotherhood opens its first chapters in San Francisco, Ukiah, and Gilroy, California.[1][2]
- February 19: The Black Forest Troll Kingdom is founded in Germany.[2][3]
- March 19: Flanders and the Netherlands form the United Netherlands.[2]
- April 7: The Grand Duchy of Westrhine-Luxembourg is founded in Germany.[2][3]
- May 1: Tír Tairngire holds its second Rite of Progression.
- May 2: Tír na nÓg State President Liam O'Connor disappears.[2] James O'Brien replaces him and William O'Dunn is named High Stewart.[4]
- May 21:Brane Deigh declares herself Rian, Queen of the Seelie Court.[2]
- Tír Tairngire establishes the Star Chamber, an assembly of representatives of 128 districts.
- June 14: The Kurdish Autonomous Zone is established over parts of eastern Turkey and northern Iraq under the leadership of Ahmed Massoud.[5][2]
- June 22: Earthquakes strike southern France and western Germany.[2]
- June 29: The EBMM Scandal, involving magical cheating in an Urban Brawl match, tarnishes the season in Germany.[2]
- July 8: Rhiannon Glendower becomes Countess of Snowdon.[2]
- July 13: The CAS governmental facilities of Freepark in Atlanta are completed.[2]
- July 22: DocWagon opens its first Seattle office.[2]
- July 31: The first professional gladiator matches take place in the UCAS.[2]
- August 10: The Seattle yakuza purge the Koreans from their ranks. The survivors form the first Seoulpa Rings. [2][6]
- August 22: Tsimshian introduces public executions during the yearly potlatch ceremony.[2]
- August 30: Earthquakes shake the Upper Rhine in the AGS.[2]
- September 14: Professor Marius Kochik of the University of Prague presents the Unified Magical Theory.[2]
- October 5: Switzerland moves the bulk of its administrative apparatus to the Matrix.[2]
- Sakehisa Tajika, chairman of the board of Ares Macrotechnology retires. He is replaced by Damien Knight.
- November 25: Mankind Ascendant, the first book by Ehran the Scribe, is published.[2][7]
- Gwynedd elves make major advances in Welsh regional parliament.
- The Nationale Aktion terrorist group massacres several people at Munich Olympic Village in Germany.
- A terrorist attack by Protestant extremists using incendiary bombs in London, Great Britain, kills 31 and maims 102.
- The inaugural train of the high-speed rail link between Melbourne and Canberra in Australia crashes into a road train. Most passengers, including celebrities, are killed.
References
- ↑ The Universal Brotherhood A Web of Deceit Chapter One
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 Sixth World Almanac p. 61
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Germany Sourcebook pg. 29
- ↑ Tír na nÓg p. 34
- ↑ Shadows of Asia p. 94, 119
- ↑ Mob War! p. 15
- ↑ Tir Tairngire p. 27