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The '''Antefortressian''' (AF) era is the historical epoch preceding the founding of the [[Principality of the Pillow Fortress]] and the subsequent [[Pillow Fortress era|Pillow Fortress]] epoch. The word "antefortressian" was coined to mean something like "before the fortress." Years in the Antefortressian era increment in reverse, beginning with [[AF 0]], the fraction of the year [[Gregorian calendar|AD 2018]] before the Principality was established. [[AF 1]] is the first full year of the Antefortressian era, and corresponds to AD 2017. [[AF 2]] corresponds to AD 2016, and so on until the beginning of time at the big bang.

==Notable Events of the Antefortressian Era==

:<li>'''AF 1''' - The final full year before the founding era of the Principality.
:<li>'''AF 2''' - The United Kingdom votes to leave the European Union.
:<li>'''AF 17''' - The September 11 attacks take place in the United States.
:<li>'''AF 29''' - The Berlin Wall falls.
:<li>'''AF 49''' - Apollo 11 lands on the Moon, and humans walk on another celestial body for the first time.
:<li>'''AF 73''' - The Second World War ends; the United Nations is founded; the first atomic weapons are used in warfare.
:<li>'''AF 104''' - The First World War begins.
:<li>'''AF 229''' - The French Revolution begins.
:<li>'''AF 242''' - The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted.
:<li>'''AF 526''' - Christopher Columbus's first voyage reaches the Americas, beginning sustained contact between Europe and the Americas.
:<li>'''AF 568''' - Johannes Gutenberg develops European movable-type printing, helping transform the production and circulation of books.
:<li>'''AF 671''' - The Black Death reaches Europe during the great plague pandemic of the 14th century.
:<li>'''AF 803''' - Magna Carta is sealed in England.
:<li>'''AF 1542''' - Romulus Augustulus is deposed, conventionally marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
:<li>'''AF 2061''' - Julius Caesar is assassinated on the Ides of March.
:<li>'''AF 2238''' - Qin Shi Huang unifies the Chinese states and becomes the first emperor of imperial China.
:<li>'''AF 2340''' - Alexander the Great dies at Babylon following his conquests across the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia.
:<li>'''AF 2526''' - Traditional date for the establishment of the Roman Republic.
:<li>'''AF 2793''' - Traditional date of the first recorded ancient Olympic Games.
:<li>'''AF 3217''' - The Late Bronze Age collapse disrupts or destroys numerous civilizations across the eastern Mediterranean and Near East.
:<li>'''AF 3771''' - The Code of Hammurabi is promulgated in Babylon.
:<li>'''AF 4577''' - The Great Pyramid of Giza is completed during the reign of Khufu.
:<li>'''AF 5217''' - Writing develops in Mesopotamia; recorded history begins in the conventional sense.
:<li>'''AF 5517''' - Wheeled vehicles appear in several parts of Eurasia.
:<li>'''AF 11,617''' - Monumental construction begins at Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia.
:<li>'''AF 12,017''' - Agriculture becomes established in parts of the Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic Revolution.
:<li>'''AF 42,000''' - Neanderthals disappear as a distinct human population.
:<li>'''AF 302,000''' - Homo sapiens emerges in Africa.
:<li>'''AF 1,002,000''' - Early humans are making extensive use of fire.
:<li>'''AF 66,002,000''' - The Chicxulub impact and associated environmental catastrophe occur at the end of the Cretaceous; non-avian dinosaurs become extinct.
:<li>'''AF 252,002,000''' - The Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the largest known mass extinction in Earth's history, occurs.
:<li>'''AF 539,002,000''' - The Cambrian Period begins, associated with the rapid diversification of many major groups of animals.
:<li>'''AF 2,400,002,000''' - The Great Oxidation Event profoundly increases the amount of free oxygen in Earth's atmosphere.
:<li>'''AF 3,500,002,000''' - Unambiguous evidence of very early life exists on Earth.
:<li>'''AF 4,500,002,000''' - A planetary body roughly the size of Mars, commonly called Theia, collides with the young Earth. Material blasted into orbit subsequently coalesces to form the Moon.
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