Talk:Shepby

Timelines.

Discovery Isle:
 * 1897 - Shepby settled by Pudlian expedition, owned by PTC
 * 1898-1904 - Minor settlement, just farming and colonising the isle, resentment of PTC policies
 * 1905 - Foundation of the states, isle's ownership is given to PTC as part of agreement
 * 1905-09 - Rural workers refuse for three years to give Pool produce (over bad pay, bad contracts) threaten to attack Pool but don't
 * 1909 - Andrew Pool negotiates with Shepbeians to give them ownership of all the land they farmed to each farmer
 * 1910 - Andrew Pool forced to let Shepby set up its own mayorship
 * 1911-14 - increase in public works on discovery isle due to negotiations on the state council
 * 1928-29 - Pool works against prohibition act, avoiding detection by police and inspectors (possible alerts to Shepby to help them?)
 * 1930 - Gallo Cartel tries to sabotage Pool brewery, kills two pudlians, Pool hires armed guards to protect itself and warns Shepby of Cartel attacks
 * 1932-33 - attacks on cargo and offices and rare assassination attempts occur but nothing too heavy
 * 1934 - Pool Manor shoot-out causes cartels to change tactics, causing massive economic damage to discovery isles trade
 * 1935 - Pool agrees to not trade in alcohol but economic damage is done
 * 1938-54 - Pool becomes isolationist (probably damages Shepby economy and limits interaction with outside world)
 * 1955 - Pool ends isolation and begins rebuilding harbour and docks and buying new trade ships
 * 1956 - Famines cause rural population to move to Pool in search of food (half probably stay, the others return)
 * 1962 - Harbour and Dock Brewery offers good money to rural farmers for produce to make alcohol, Wright and Wright offers monies for quality tea
 * 1964 - Discovery isle becomes very rich due to business success
 * 1984 - rioters and politicians on Sylvanian mainland promise to break up companies in Pool
 * 1987 - Sawyerite Governor James Garfield passes laws against monopolies, tries to break up PTC and other monopolies in Sylvania

Lovia:
 * 1911 - democratically elected state councils are established, Shepby gets a representative
 * 1927 - prohibition movement at height of power
 * 1928 - prohibition enters law
 * 1929 - Prohibition Cartels are powerful now
 * 1937 - Prohibition repealed
 * 1956 - Famine hits Lovia, all Lovian banks call back loans
 * 1962 - low taxes, high subsidies for secondary and tertiary industries, agriculture and primary industries hit
 * 1969 - high taxes, subsidies gone, subsidised businesses take a hit
 * 1971-72 - depression hits Lovia
 * 1973 - fuel crisis hits Lovia
 * 1978 - Sylvania stabilises economically, low taxes, no subsidies, police strengthened and business start up grants enacted in Sylvania
 * 1984 - riots on Sylvania mainland by unemployed
 * 1985 - riots die down
 * 1986 - new Sawyerite Governor James Garfield increases taxes, welfare and public sector
 * 1987 - James assassinated in a rally by a sniper

I can get moar events but this is the main ones for Shepby up until 1990. Kunarian TALK 17:09, June 8, 2015 (UTC)