Dark Earth Timeline

Is it a country in the region that has done it.

Well i do not have to go the route of Captain Nemo, the anti British Eco-terrorist.

I know, just trowing something out here and see if it sticks.

Is that a record 300 ships for a Royal Fleet Review.

Please tell me it are Kenyan soldiers riding lions.

November
November 1: Discoveries of large deposits of gold in Southern Rhodesia lead to the largest gold rush in decades.
November 2: The Admiralty Board indicates that it does not support abolition of the rum ration given its negligible effect on any major combat effectiveness in its current diluted form.
November 3: Demographic projections show that the population of Florida is on track to reach 16 million by the end of the 1970s, having already overleaped Massachusetts to become the eighth most populous state.
November 4: President Kennedy announces that final victory in South Vietnam is in sight speech in a special address to a joint session of Congress, stating that the United States would not seek any territorial changes to the prewar status quo in Vietnam, which is seen as the most direct olive branch yet offered to the North.
November 5: Brazilian communist revolutionary Carlos Marighela evades a police ambush in São Paulo with the aid of a KGB warrior-witch.
November 6: Swedish heavyweight boxing champion Wulf Storm defeats Cassius Clay in an extremely contentious bout in Stockholm.
November 7: Four young girls go missing in Baltimore in a single day in an apparent occult incident, sparking an immense police search and a call for special assistance from the father of one of the girls.
November 8: The Armstrong-Whitworth Argonaut strategic intruder enters service with the Royal Air Force, being the first aircraft of its type to be developed since the Second World War and featuring innovative elements of flying wing design.
November 9: Reverend Elvis Presley arrives in Baltimore to assist in the search for the missing schoolgirls, assisted by his loyal posse and allosaur companion.
November 10: Completion of the Sydney Opera House after a fourteen year construction period. The new vast new building has already been hailed as a classic of the Modern Imperial style and arguably the masterwork of architect Sir Edward Lutyens long career.
November 11: Sir Joseph Michel, Prime Minister of the Ashanti Federation, announces that a parliamentary subcommittee will be formed to explore the issue of the new country’s name. Since independence, the Federation has had the fastest growing economy in West Africa, being the world’s largest producer of cocoa beans and having very large gold, diamond and oil deposits; Michel is known to favour economic modernisation and industrial development over political gestures.
November 12: Completion of the British Atomic Energy Plan by the Royal Atomic Energy Commission and the Ministry of Power, a detailed programme for the construction of 23 new 'super' atomic power plants over the next twelve years, increasing the total percentage of national energy provided by atomic power from its current 21% to 85% in concert with the current completed 24 plants and the 32 currently projected or under construction.
November 13: Israeli archaeologists uncover a giant headless skeleton over 9ft high in the Valley of Elah whilst excavating near the castle of Blanchegarde.
November 14: A British Army report to the Committee of Imperial Defence indicates that Katanga has been effectively pacified and that no further military purpose was served by protracted operations north of the Rhodesian border based on current orders.
November 15: USS Gato collides with a suspected Soviet submarine whilst on operations in the Barents Sea.
November 16: Two German leutnants become the first to be awarded the Pour le Mérite since the end of the Second World War after extreme acts of valour in combat in South Vietnam.
November 17: Adjournment of strategic arms talks between the nuclear great powers in Geneva, with further progress being noted.
November 18: British explorers on Venus discover what appears to be the ruins of a large alien ‘city’ buried deep in the jungles of the southern continent of Aos Thamys.
November 19: Interpol agents arrest fourteen suspected Nazi members of ODESSA in raids across Western Europe, narrowly missing their commander, General Martin Hessler.
November 20: First spaceplane launch from the new British Empire spaceport in Ceylon, built to augment existing facilities in Kenya.
November 21: The United States and Japan sign a formal agreement for the return of Okinawa to Japanese sovereignty in April 1970.
November 22: Opening of a new expanded international terminal at Entebbe Airport, Uganda, built with Commonwealth funding by an Israeli construction conglomerate and designed to serve as a dual use civilian/military facility for Imperial forces in East Africa.
November 23: Austrian popular singer Siegfried Zoller becomes the first German speaking artist to reach the top of the US music charts with his charming hit Sommerzeit.
November 24: Release of The Bulge, a Columbia Pictures epic war film on the 1944 Battle of the Bulge starring Henry Grace as General Eisenhower, George C. Scott as General Patton, Hardy Kruger as Field Marshal Rommel, Harry Morgan as General Bradley David Niven as Field Marshal Montgomery, and Laurence Olivier as Adolf Hitler.
November 25: Japanese Professor Tenma, head scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology, unveils his new highly realistic boy android in Tokyo, leading many to marvel at its realism.
November 26: The British Postmaster General announces plans to open up tendering for licences for two further television stations in 1972 and 1974.
November 27: The Soviet General Staff issue requirements for Perspektivnyy Frontovoy Istrebitel ('advanced frontline fighter') and a Perspektivnyy Lyogkiy Frontovoy Istrebitel ('advanced lightweight frontline fighter') designs to counter Western developments.
November 28: French Premier d'Ambreville arrives in Washington for a state visit, with the secondary aim of securing a new trade and arms agreement with the United States.
November 29: New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake is returned to office with an increased majority in the New Zealand general election.
November 30: Publication of The Fox From Up Above and the Fox From Down Below, a masterly semi-autobiographical novel by Peruvian author José María Arguedas that ends with the seeming death of the author in an unravelling of reality.

No, it isn’t on a par with the 1886 one, but is the largest in the 20th century.