Historical Timeline. (A note to non-Umbagollian readers - please keep in mind that an Umbagollian year is half the length of a year in the European calendar. Thus, 1888 in Umbagollian years is somwhere around 944 in Western, European years. Additionally, Umbagollians give their years names, not numbers. The unusual numbered timeline you see here is an experimental innovation of the Lady Mbuku. It did not catch on. Other dates throughout the site will have numbers appended to their proper names, to make it easier for non-Umbagollian visitors to relate them to the events on this timeline.) ? - 000 Refugees cross the Two Shows Ranges and arrive in Umbagollah. A rough camp is set up on what is now the main street of Gum Gooloo Gum Jublet. More detail... 000 - 477 The city slowly establishes itself. Farmers spread out into the countryside. More detail. 477 Sebastian Opal Fighammer establishes control over a small area of the Flatlands and announces that he is now a Duke. Gum Gooloo discovers that it does not have the power to stop him. More detail... 477 - 1524 Other self-styled aristocrats set up their own small principalities. Bickering and warfare periodically break out between them. More detail ... 1000 Jail is recognised as a major town roundabout now-ish. More detail... 1115 The Forty Foolish Travellers leave Gum Gooloo Gum Jublet and disappear into the northern forests where they found the city of Ex. More detail... 1523 Ex conquers Gum Gooloo Gum Jublet. Everyone is astonished. More detail... 1524-25 Ex conquers the rest of the country and deposes the aristocrats. The Fighammer bloodline is wiped out. More detail... 1526 - 1570 The Umbagollian Renaissance. Ex's dominance unites the country for the first time in history. The arts and sciences flourish. More detail ... 1600 The penal colony of Cumber Poidy is established. More detail... 1687 The colony is abolished and Cumber Poidy becomes a town in its own right. More detail ... 1888 - The present day. (taken from Lady Mubuku's Guide for the Bewildered) The extracts under "More details" are chapters from Understanding the past, a school textbook by Prof. Mufudazi Flowers