Sakura Taisen Timeline

NB: this is VERY much a work in progress

05/9 ????	Kujou Subaru is born.
186x?	Cilsius steel is [re]discovered by a group of Union troops who had somehow miraculously survived a Confederate magical barrage by taking cover near some old steam tractors, which failed to be destroyed by the assault.
1863(?))	Confederate Soldiers Patrick Hamilton, Synclair Gardner, Chusahna Cycles and Leonidus Vandorn are killed in action by Steam Machines (at Gettysburg?). Somehow, they come back to life, and are undying.
07/3/1863	At the fringes of the battle of Gettyburg, massive numbers of civilians are wiped out in a small town. Only a young girl named Juanita Cushing survives.
1868	The Star humanoid steamer was developed in America by the Motoroll corporation and imported into Japan by Tadayoshi Kanzaki (DVD insert book)
April 1871	Kanzaki Steam company was founded. (DVD insert book)
1873	The Fuji humanoid armor was developed in Japan (presumably based off the Star steamer) by Tadayoshi Kanzaki. The Kanzaki Steam company becomes Kanzaki Heavy Indusrtries. (DVD insert book)
1874	The vast Geothermal resources of Mt. Fuji are tapped to provide power for the new "steam power grid" of Tokyo built by Kanzaki Heavy Industries, which propels Tokyo to new heights of technological advancement
1883	The Tenshin armor was built for Japanese military use (DVD insert book)
?	The first Spirit Engine is developed (DVD insert book)
10/18/1893	Michael Sunnyside is born
04/26/1900	Tora Anderassen is born
01/3/1903	Ichiro Oogami is born
06/19/1903	Maria Tachibana is born
09/7/1903	Kanna Kirishima is born
11/13/1903	Lobelia Carlini is born
07/28/1905	Shinguugi Sakura is born
03/3/1906	Ri Kohran is born
03/6/1906	Sarah Christensson is born
05/22/1906	Hanabi Kitaoji is born
06/23/1906	Ratchet Altair is born
12/6/1906	Sagitta Weinberg is born
01/8/1907	Sumire Kanzaki is born
04/18/1907	Glycine Bleumer is born
06/7/1907	Orihime Soletta is born
08/20/1908	Shinjiro Taiga is born
01/12/1909	Diana Caprice is born
08/15/1909	Erica Fontaine is born
12/24/1909	Reni Milchstraße is born
06/21/1911	Gemini Sunrise is born
1911	The Anti-Kouma Squad is formed in the Imperial Army, composed of Ikki Yoneda, Ayame Fujieda, Kazuma Shinguuji and Shinnosuke Yamazaki.
07/5/1913	Iris Chateaubriand is born
10/10/1914	Coquelicot is born
04/12/1917	Rikaritta Aries is born
1917 (?)	The Eisenkleid Mk. 1 Prototype armor is developed (Hanagumi Enlistment Guide - adjusted back a year to make some later data make sense)
10/12/1917)	The "Draug Incident" occurs where a small village in Norway is wiped off the map by aquatic demons, known as draugs. The Scandivanian governments become aware of demonic forces for the first time. (Suburban Senshi)
1917?	The European Star Division (fighting in German Eisenklieds) take part in battles during the European War but are disbanded because they cannot co-ordinate properly. (Sakura Taisen Chapter 6)
1918	the Kouma War takes place- A Huge demon appeared at Nihonbashi in Tokyo, and was eventually sealed away by the Imperial Army's Counter-Demon Team, but their success came at a huge cost with the death of Sakura's father.
1918	Having kept track of the news from abroad and concerned about increased Troll and Draug activity, Swedish Royal Navy Admrial Gustav Ericksen makes a speech before the Riksdag, suggesting the creation of a counter-demon force to serve Scandinavia. While publicly mocked, he is privately given approval. (Suburban Senshi)
1919	The first "spirit armor"-- the "Oobu" was completed, and at Kanzaki Sumire's suggestion a prototype called the "tricolor Sumire" was developed.
1919	Concerned over the possibilities of certain technologies being restricted, Kanzaki scientist Daisuke Kimura defects to Sweden, taking with him the plans for the Oobu as well as samples of Cilsus Steel. In order to do so, he fakes an accident and is believed dead in Japan. (Suburban Senshi)
1921	The first Selpher Units are developed. The prototypes are tested in the ice plains of Lapland and deemed successful. (Suburban Senshi)
1921	The final versions of the Selpher Units are completed. Though still with it's flaws, including a tendency to overheat, it is considered a success. (Suburban Senshi)
1/1/1922	The Imperial Assault Force (帝国華撃団 Teikoku Kagekidan)[is formed as the successor to the Imperial Army's Counter-Demon Team, first commanded by Lt. General Ikki Yoneda.
2/2/1922	The Rising Valkyrie Unit is formed under the command of Admiral Gustav Ericksen, who publicly is in retirement from the navy. (Suburban Senshi)
1922	The first production model Koubu Spirit Armor is produced.
1923	Shinguuji Sakura joins the Imperial Assault Force
1924	The Shinbu / Koubu Kai / Eisenkleid Mk. III armors are developed.
1925	Orihime and Reni are transferred to the Teikoku Kagekidan Flower Division from the defunct European Star Divison
1925	The Tenbu and Koubu Kai 2 armors are developed.
1926	The Paris Assault Force (巴里華撃団 Pari Kagekidan), is established as part of the European Municipal Defense Project, led by Countess Isabella "Grand-Mère" Lilac
1926	The Koubu F and Koubu F2 are developed.
12/1926	Ratchet Altair is temporarily stationed with the Teikoku Kagekidan Flower Divison. Brenmt Furlong attacks Tokyo,m attempting to have the Tokyo Branch replaced by autonomous units called "Japhkiel" which are actually inhabited by demons. His henchman, Patrick Hamilton, is supposedly shot dead by Maria Tachibana.
1927 (?)	The Seventh Cavalry Corps was destroyed by "Calamity" Synclair Gardener, with the only survivor being Brad Basileus, who ran away, narrowly escaping with his life.
??/ 1927	Patrick Hamilton is revived by his fellow officers, Synclair Gardner, Chesahna Cycles and Leonidus Vandorn.
06/1927	Gemini Sunrise leaves Texas, following the last wishes of her master Mifune. Heading in the wrong direction, She makes it to San Francisco and gets caught up in a parade, and then ending up rescuing the "Miracle Maiden" Juanita Cushing from an attack by Patrick Hamilton and his officers.Battling a Japhkiel unit, she escapes San Francisco. Heading through Nevada, Gemini and Juanita run into Brad Basilieus, who is traumatized over the loss of the 7th Cavalry Corps to a mysterious woman on Horseback, who he mistakenly thinks is Gemini. He attacks them and they outrun him, heading to Las Vegas, where Gemini and Juanita win 10.000 dollars. Unbeknownst to them, the roulette dealer is "The Black Knight" Leonidus Vandorn, who runs off when Brad Basilieus Appears. They choose to fight him outside of the city. At the same time, near texas, Patrick Hamilton's forces kill over 30 people in a small town.
07/1927	Gemini, Juanita and Brad make it to Gemini's hometown in Texas, having spent almost 10,000 dollars on food for themselves and Rally. "The Red Knight" Synclair Gardner ambushes them in town with an armada of Japhkiel units. They are assisted by Chamber Westwood, head of the Texas Cavalry. Synclair then ambushes Gemini and Juanita at the gravesite of Gemini's master, but Brad helps cover them and they defeat her.
08/1927	Just outside of Texas, Chamber tells Gemini about "Operation: Desperado" - a large scale operation to drive Patrick and his forces out of America. After Gemini's defeat of Synclair, more forces agreed to join the fight. Patrick, aware of the plan, describes it as a "Second Gettysburg" and commits to slaughtering every last person on the battlefield. The battle goes well for the Cavalry Corps at first, but then more enemy reinforcements arrive. Brad is heavily wounded and Juanita escapes, but almost all trhe Cavlary Corps are slaughtered. Only Gemini and a handful of soldiers remain. A week later, separated from the others, Gemini arrives at the Appalachian Mountain Range, following Chamber's directions to regroup in the East at a Northern Cavalry Supply base. There she meets Chesana Cycles, in the uniform of a cavalry member. He tells her he was a part of the operation as well. He tells her he can't find the supply base and asks for her help getting there. She takes him to where the base should be, and they are ambushed by enemy forces. Making a leap of faith to escape the ambush, she and Rally escape, her explosion of power alerting Chamber, Brad and Juanita to her location. Chesana reveals himself to be the "White Knight" of Patrick's forces and he and Gemini battle. She defeats him and the group heads out for Gettysburg to resupply.
09/1927	Chamber, Gemini, Brad and Juanita make it to Gettysburg, but find the town overrun by the enemy. The people of the town start praying to Juanita for a miracle. After Gemini and the others defeat the invaders, they are treated to a banquet where the townspeople reveal that Juanita is the sole survivor of the Battle of Gettysburg, and that she has survived 60 years without aging. Brad overhears this and thinks Juanita is a monster like the rest of Patrick's forces. Juanita, who had taken a liking to Brad, is upset, and runs off to the Douglas-Stewart factory outside of town to surrender and save the town. Gemini goes after her and fights her way through the factory to get to her. Patrick unleashes giant steam robots and tells Juanita that if she doesn't come with him he will unleash them all on Gemini and make her suffer. Gemini tells her to stand up for herself but Patrick manages to get the upper hand and knocks her away Patrick threatens to kill all the townspeople, but they stand up along with Chamber, giving Juanita hope. Patrick starts viciously attacking Gemini and Juanita finally agrees to go with him if he'll leave Gemini alone Patrick takes Juanita back to his headquarters, where preparations have been made for the "rebirth". With Juanita's blood, they can open the way to Eden. Back in Town, Brad is still struggling with Juanita;s revelation, but Chamber reprimands him, pointing out his slain commander Arwin would be disappointed in his attitude. In the distance, everyone sees a winged inverted pyramid rise from the ground, moving itself through the air towards Washington DC but yet bound by 4 giant chains to the ground. Eden is rising. Gemini and Chamber head out towards the pyramid, leaving Brad to decide what he wants to do. Patrick declares the time has come for the Confederacy to guide the destiny of America.
10/1927	Above Washington DC Patrick tells Juanita she is "Eve" and her blood will open the way to the future. He instructs his forces to sever the four giant chains that keep Eden suspended above the Earth. By the west chain, the Cavalry corps are defeated. Gemini goes up the South Chain and Chamber the North. Riding up the south Chain Gemini encounters Chesana, who reveals that Patrick wants to be the new Adam with Juanita as his Even to give birth to a new world. Gemini defeats him and finds out that Juanita is in the Sacred Temples. Chambers' North chain falls. Chesana manages to rise again but Brad arrives and saves Gemini and they defeat him for good, heading for the Sacred temple. Reuniting with Chamber they face off against Leonidus, who reveals that once the last chain is cut Eden will rise to heaven and cause the world to restart anew with all humanity dying exceot for Adam and Eve. The last chain is shattered. Chamber heads off to work with the rest of the Cavalry corps to find a way to bring down the pyramid, while Gemini and Brad head for the temple. There, Gemini and Synclair face off once more, with Gemini mortally wounding her. Brad tries to comfort Synclair, upset because in her he sees someone who was once like himself, consumed with the need for revenge, living in the past. He wants her to stop, but she replies that she can only live by the power of Eden anyway and that she must fulfill the purpose that keeps her and the rest of her group alive. Her death will aid in the reincarnation of the world. She kills herself. Patrick appears stating that the time is almost nigh, and Jaunita is undergoing a ceremony to become eve. He sends more minions to stop Gemini and Brad. Gemini holds them off and sends Brad forward to go help Juanita. Brad make it to the temple chamber first, followed by Gemini. Patrick declares that it's too late-- once his blood drops into the sacred flames with Juanita's, the world's rebirth will begin. Gemini battles and defeats Patrick, who declares that he wanted to restart the world because after the Civil War the winners "dominated men with machines and chained their souls with money", which is not what he and his forces fought for. He declares that a cartel led by Douglas-Stewart is dominating America and that a bird allowed to live in a cage does not see what is keeping it imprisoned, and this is why he wants to restart the world with the power of Eden within America. Chamber arrives declaring the temple is in the Cavalry Corps' hands and they will be crashing it to Earth any time now. Patrick declares that he will never give up-- he abandoned his humanity for his goal, Brad leaps into the fray, shedding his own blood into the temple, taking away Patrick's chance to become Adam, becoming Adam himself-- as immortal as Juanita. Patrick makes one last attempt to stop him, but Gemini defeats PAtrick utterly and Juanita-as-Eve rejects the rebirth of the world stating that they can move forward in this one. Patrick dies, leaving the future to the victors. After the battle, Brad and Juanita head off together to find a cure for their immortality. Chamber decides to run for president, and Gemini heads for New York.
1928	The New York Combat Revue is formed with Michael Sunnyside as its commander.
1/1928	Gemini Sunrise comes to New York and joins the Littlelip Theatre as support staff for the Mew York Star Division.
11/1928	Chamber Westwood, who became saddled with the popular nickname "Herbert Hoover", is elected President of the United States.
12/1928	a PR campaign against steam power starts in Tokyo by various industry lobby groups who spread false rumors about coverups purporting to suppress information about fatal design flaws in the steam power grid.
1929	Rachet Altair is transferred to Berlin to oversee the formation of the Berlin Kampfgruppe. New York is attacked by King Tut.
03/15/1929	The Berlin Kampfgruppe forms, made up of Alice Klein (German), Eva Varga (Hungary), Dana Christova (Bulgaria), Petra Kraus (Austria), Arachne Constantinou (Greece) and Kimiko Watanabe (Japan)
05/25/1929	Ratchet Altair returns to New York.
10/25/1929	Alice Klein, who was in actuality an agent for Thule Society, tricked her compatriots into entering ruins near the Rhine, where they were corrupted by dark forces. The Berlin group continued to operate as normal for a time.
10/28/1929	Saboteurs working for Douglas-Stewart and the oil industry destroy the Tokyo Steam Power grid and blame it on the "flaws" in the system. Tokyo switches to more conventional sources of power like oil and Steam goes down in history as a failed experiment despite decades of amazing advances, many of which are lost in the fog of the depression.
??/1931	Due to the Great Depression, a lack of funding and concerted efforts by certain compromised arms of the Illuminati, the Imperial Fighting Troupes across the world are disbanded, starting with the Tokyo Branch after Reni is mysteriously kidnapped. The world slides into depression, chaos and fascism.
08/15/1932	"Loki" triggers his final plan, taking over Anna Nielsen's mind and has her sabotage the Selpher Units, while summoning a large army of Trolls to attack. During the final battle, Gustav Ericksen sacrifices himself to destroy the Troll army, while Anna comes to her senses and kills herself to stop the attack. The Valkyrie Unit is officially disbanded as a result. (Suburban Senshi)
12/27/1933	The Berlin Kampfgruppe (sans Ratchet) apparently disbanded, but emerged suddenly on February 27th, 1933, helping destroy the Reichstag building before vanishing again. Their actions go unseen, and lay the foundation for the rise of the Nazi party.
??/1938	The Berlin Kampfgruppe to re-emerge into the spotlight in 1938, Marching triumphantly alongside Nazi forces into Austria. It is revealed they had kidnapped Reni in 1931 to precipitate the fall of the Tokyo branch.
05/3/1939	In response to the actions of the Kampfgruppe, Michael Sunnyside, Ichiro Oogami and Isabel "Grand Mere" Lilac remobilize what they can of the old Tokyo, New York and Paris fighting troupes to make their own "Berlin Kagekidan" to put down the renegades. Ratchet Altair, Kujou Subaru, Orihime Soletta, Reni Milchstraße, Lobelia Carlini and Erica Fontaine were the members of this group, along with assistance from various members of the remaining support staff of the troupes. (In a historical irony, almost everyone from the doomed European Star Division had reunited, with Ratchet finally able to lead them effectively).
4/3/1939	The Berlin Kagekidan engages the Kampfgruppe in the Battle of the Rhine
4/14/1939	The Berlin Kagekidan engages the Kampfgruppe in the Battle of the Reichstag
4/17/1939	The Berlin Kagekidan engages the Kampfgruppe in the Second Battle at the Rhine
4/25/1939	The Berlin Kagekidan engages the Kampfgruppe in the Battle of Munich
6/1/1939	The Battle at the Brandenburg gate - During what was to be a parade of the Kampfgruppe through the Brandenburg Gate, Ratchet's Kagekidan ambushed the group, an attack which soon turned into an all out battle between the two. In the resulting battle: Eva Varga, Dana Christova, Petra Kraus and Arachne Constantinou were all killed in the battle Kimiko Watanabe committed suicide using her Unit's weapon Alice Klein managed to escape, her sanity in tatters Reni Milchstraße was injured in the leg, resulting in a limp Orihime Soletta suffered minor injuries but came out mostly unscathed Lobelia Carlini disappeared after the battle Ratchet Altair and Michael Sunnyside appear to die in a car bomb trying to leave the battle field Ci Caprice is killed trying to operate one of the units to assist the team. This was later changed due to time travel and she currently lives in the present day. Mell Raison loses an eye and arm trying to save Ci. Due to time travel, this has changed and she currently lives in the present day intact. Erica Fontaine is knocked unconscious and dragged away from the battle Kujou Subaru leaves relatively unscathed, but sickened by the battle and is not seen for some years after.