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Reboot: History of the Solar Ottomans

Eocene-Miocene:
---Mount Ararat forms.

843:
-???
--The Kingdom of Scotland is founded.

927:
-July
--The Kingdom of England is founded.

1299:
-???
--The Ottoman Empire is founded.

1516:
-???
--The Mount Lebanon Emirate is formed.

1707:
-May
--Great Britain is founded after the Acts of Union is signed between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.

1776:
-July
--The United States of America declares independence from the British.

1867
-March
--The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 is signed, leading to the formation of Austria-Hungary.

1871:
-Many German states unify to form the German Empire.

1908
-October
--The Tsardom of Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.

1914:
-July
--WW1 begins.
-August
--The Central Powers form.
--The Allies form in response to the formation of the Central Powers.
-October
--The ancestor nation to the Solar Ottomans, the Ottoman Empire, joined WW1 on the side of the Central Powers, which, at the time, included Austria-Hungary and Germany.

1919:
-???
--During peace talks after WW1, the Ottoman Empire announced that it had adopted a constitution and similar government style to the United States of America, becoming the USO, nicknamed the Solar Ottomans by the people.

1920:
-April
--Palestine is created under British jurisdiction after taking the land away from the Ottomans after WW1.

1922:
-???
--The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was declared after Ireland left the union.

1925:
-???
--Suspicions about the existence of a massive oil reservoir under Mount Ararat begin to rise.

1947:
-March
--The Cold War begins.

1948:
-???
--Bulgaria joins the USO in fears of a communist takeover.
-May
--Palestine is dissolved by the British to make way for the state of Israel.

1949:
-April
--NATO forms.

1957
-???
--Fearing the corruption of the Ottoman youth by cleverly disguised communist propaganda seeping into the country, the Ottoman government issued a new rule stating that non-allied countries could not sell entertainment products within the country and that the USO's entertainment industry was not allowed to sell its products outside as well in fears of it being strung to mean something else in the eyes of the West or East.

1959:
-February
--Cyprus was given independence from the United Kingdom per the London-Zürich Agreements.

1979
-???
--The Republic of Turkish bulgaria is released from the USO as a vassal state.

1991
-December
-- The Cold War ends.

1997:
-???
--FromSanta Team, an Ottoman video game developer and publisher, is founded.
--Shantae Dogan is born.

2001
-???
--The USO, long-standing by then as a beacon of prosperity and acceptance, convinces Israel and Palestine to put aside their differences and fuse into the vassal of Israel-Palestine.
--The USO makes Lebanon and Cyprus vassals.

2006:
-???
--Oyun Zamanı, an Ottoman game awards show that primarily does content for Ottoman-made video games, is founded.
-- The Otto Games are first played.

2015:
-???
--Shantae Dogan becomes Sultan of the Solar Ottomans.

2023 (Current Year):
- January
-- The USO opens an embassy with The Republic of Wilhelmsen. Wilhelmsen also has an embassy in the space republic built in the capital of Istanbul.
--Oyun Zamanı concludes its data collection for the semester and determines, according to votes, Yüzüklerin Tanrısı Sınırları is both the most anticipated release of January 2023 and the highest-selling video game of the year so far, with upwards of 2 million copies sold in the cities of Istanbul and Ay Alfa alone.
--The country sends the last war reparations to those countries that participated as the Allies in WW1.
--The Turkish Hejaz Sultanate is released as a vassal.
--The USO begins exporting oil from their Syrian and Iraqi territories to meet the demands of world trade.
--Drilling for oil under Mount Ararat begins.
-February
--It is discovered that the oil reserve under Mount Ararat will allow the world to continue using oil for another 94 years combined with the 47 years of oil already known to
exist.
--The Otto Games 2023 are postponed due to rising tensions between the West, particularly the United States, and the USO. The USO is left in the dark of this unusual tension.
--American jet planes fly over Turk cyprus unannounced. The US president has yet to state the reason for this event.
-March
--Shantae Dogan heads to a NATO summit to try and mitigate the strained relations between the USO and the United States.

2164:
-???
---The world will run out of oil by this time, according to found oil reserves and their size.

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