History of Finnféaran

This is a timeline of Finnféarans history, recording its most important events.

Mesolithic Era

 * first humans
 * hunter and gatherer culture


 * stone tools found

Neolithic Era

 * first evidence of agriculture
 * building of Stone circle on Skarn
 * population drop


 * first houses and villages set up

Bronze Age and early Iron Age

 * Barrows built
 * first bronze mines
 * iron tools found (imported)

Travelers in antiquity

 * Pytheas possibly sees isles

100 A.D

 * Druids move to isles (Demetrius of Tarsus)

200 A.D

 * first settlers from scotland (craonaith)
 * building of breach towers

300 A.D

 * trees cut down for greater agriculture
 * fall of romans in scotland
 * first signs of divide between Scots and Norse
 * first longhouses built
 * warm period (evidence of fig growing)
 * start of Craonaith clans
 * Start of meetings of Things in the Thingstead
 * petty kings
 * building of Heathen Hofs
 * growth of Chieftans power within the isles

400 A.D

 * influx of germanic migration
 * Fabien the Hermit born

=== 500 A.D ===
 * first hill forts built
 * christianity sets up on isles (druids exilsles)
 * invaded by vikings
 * new chieftains
 * men leave to go on viking raids to britain
 * women have greater say in politics etc

800 A.D

 * part of the kingdom of the isles

=== 900 A.D ===
 * unification of Norway

1000 A.D

 * introduction of Christianity outside of monastery (building churches)
 * wool trade improves Scotish connections with craonaith

1100 A.D

 * Chieftans pledge allegiances to Norway and scotland

1200 A.D

 * Split from norway during civil war
 * monastery greatly expanded using Order of Solomon's Temple funds

1266 A.D

 * Invasion from scotland
 * still independent but pledge allegiance to scotland only
 * increase trade in Hanseatic League

1300 A.D

 * More influence from scottish culture

1415 A.D

 * Becomes part of Scotland

1500 A.D

 * Used as a base for smugglers

1650 A.D

 * pirates use islands as base in europe
 * Castles built to deter pirates

1707 A.D

 * Act of Union, Finnfearan becomes part of UK
 * Trade with germanic countries dries up and causes mass unemployment

1790 A.D

 * Vakt Lighthouses start being built

1800 A.D

 * defences built to counter Napoleonic forces
 * prison built
 * herring fishing booms
 * major infrastructure built

1860 A.D

 * herring shoals diminish
 * cold era (1860-80)
 * Sameria Corporation buy Bas Rock

1870 A.D

 * Sameira Asylum built
 * Williams Gear and Steam Company founded

1880 A.D

 * Town Stanley Built

1890 A.D

 * large exodus to USA/Cananda
 * increase in Norwegian migration and Norwegian culture

1910 A.D

 * WW1 defences built

1932 A.D

 * Misster Tom Swift starts first killing

1939 A.D

 * WW2 defences built

1942 A.D

 * invaded and captured by Nazis
 * harbours destroyed to stop being used by Germans
 * light railways built

1944 A.D

 * Liberated

1952 A.D

 * williams gear factory reopened
 * HNLMS Parel van Azië Wrecks

1958 A.D

 * RAF base built on Craonaith to counter soviets (english electric lightnings)
 * zoo temporarily reopened on site of old prison
 * Last Patient moved from Sameira Asylum

1960s

 * tourisms moves abroad
 * zoo closes

1980s

 * Drug smuggling

1990s

 * raf base changed to public airport
 * tourism focuses on conservation and history

2018

 * Nick steward and Jason Warneke become hosts of Community Hour