1689 - Spanish-German explorer Santa Claus discovers the
North Pole, and establishes a small base camp.

1691 - Because of harsh and
meager living conditions, Claus crew abandons him.

1692 - Claus is rescued by the
Viking ship Hvorfor. He returns to Europe, bringing some items along with him from the North
Pole. He finds he is able to sell them quite easily, making a small profit.

1703 -
Claus saves up enough money to buy a small ship and crew, and returns to the North Pole.
Upon arriving, he finds his base camp, half-buried but still intact.

1704 - Claus
returns to Europe with a shipload of North Pole artifacts, and is successful in selling
them. He makes enough profit to increase his crew, and buys building materials to expand his
polar base.

1705 - Claus returns again to the North Pole, and builds quarters
for him and his crew, and sets up the Polar Exports Company.

1716 - After six
shiploads of exports, the European market is flooded with polar artifacts, as well as the
phony ones making charlatans rich. Seeing this decline, Claus decides to invest his money by
starting a toy company in his native Germany.

1720 - Claus Toys becomes the
largest toy company in Germany, but only because of Claus underhanded business dealings. (It
was also rumored that Claus was dealing with enemy countries as well). Competitors urged
government officials to begin an investigation.

1721 - Enough evidence is found,
and charges are drawn up against the Claus Toys Company. Claus himself refuses to release
his records.

1722 - The German Supreme Court finds Claus guilty of tax evasion and
of treason. When news of this breaks, Claus employees all turn against him and his
company.

1723 - Claus is exiled to Sicily, and shortly before leaving, he absconds
with all of the companys funds.

1724 - A search party is sent to the Mediterranean
to recover the funds, however, Claus hears of this ahead of time, and he and his Sicilian
wife flee for their lives. (Some say he went into Northern Africa, but it is generally
assumed that this was only a ruse to lure the searchers off course. He is believed to have
returned to his North Pole base).

1725 - Claus II is born en route to the North
Pole.

1725-1734 - The Claus lay low at the North Pole. Claus teaches his son the
arts of toymaking and business dealings.

1735 - Rumor has it that Claus has hired
Scandinavian builders to construct a castle for him at the North Pole, making use of almost
half of the company funds.

1739 - The castle is finished, and is one of the
largest in the world. Claus II reaches his fifteenth birthday, and in the same year, Claus
wife dies, accidentally falling from a balcony in one of the castles great
halls.

1740 - Claus, mourning his wife, becomes increasingly ill.

1745 -
Santa Claus II becomes of age, and begins taking care of the castle and of his sick
father.

1747 - Using the remaining company funds, Claus II builds a small city
around the castle to attract workers and craftsmen.

1748 - Word of the North Pole
settlement reaches Europe. The Elves of Eastern Europe, quickly becoming political outcasts
and striving for a better life, begin immigrating in waves to the North Pole.

1753
- All the elves have left Eastern Europe and have become firmly established at the North
Pole. Claus II begins his fathers toy company once again, with an estimated 30,000 elves
employed. Claus I dies, at age 89.

1755 - The North Pole officially becomes a
nation, and Claus II and his wife take the throne. The toy business continues to flourish,
and the elves enjoy prosperity. Claus III is born.

1757 - The great stables are
built, and scientists are secretly hired by Claus II to begin an ambitious project--that of
breeding and training reindeer to fly.

1773 - The flying reindeer are achieved and
become Claus II and IIIs major form of transportation.

1774 - A mutant reindeer,
named Rudolf, is born whose nose emits light. He becomes an outcast of the reindeer society,
and is taken in by the Claus government. Claus II celebrates his 50th birthday, inviting
several other world leaders for a stay at his castle. To impress them, he displays a lavish
show of wealth, all at the elves expense. He gives the other leaders the impression of a
dictatorship under the guise of royalty. The elves sense this, and the seeds of rebellion
are planted.

1777 - As conditions become increasingly strict, the elves begin to
search for a leader to lead their revolt. Rudolf, still in favor of the Claus government,
sees their plight and begins thinking of ways to use it to his advantage.

1784 -
On his 60th birthday, Claus II takes a sleigh ride down main street during the Christmas day
parade, and is assasinated by a radical faction of elves. Claus III, now 29, takes over
immediately and puts martial law into effect for the whole North Pole. Civil war breaks out
as Rudolf leads the Elves in rebellion.

1785-1792 - The Seven-year Strike takes
place. The elves refuse to make toys, and the Claus Toy Company nearly goes bankrupt, as the
North Pole hits an economic low. Claus III, fearing for his life, becomes a prisoner of his
own castle. Rudolf rises to the peak of his power, and sets himself as leader of the elven
community.

1796 - Rudolf and his army unsuccessfully attempt to invade Norway.
Over 10,000 elves are killed.

1800 - Inside the castle, unbeknownst to the elves,
Claus IV is born.

1802 - After a string of political blunders, Rudolf senses that
he is quickly losing favor with the elves. Frosty the Snowman is built, brought to life, and
used as a political scapegoat.

1804 - Frosty the Snowman is melted at a public
execution, and the elves are calmed of their unrest, for the moment.

1819-1826 -
After a long period of unrest, Rudolf is finally ousted, and Claus III, aged 71, rightfully
regains the throne. Prince Claus IV is introduced to the elves publicly for the first
time.

1827-1841 - The Renormalization years. Claus III brings the near-bankrupt
Claus Toys Company out of dormancy and appoints his son as president. In order to clear
their bad name and make up for their out-of-the-way location, they decide to start the
hugest advertising campaign ever. Each Christmas, Claus IV will ride all over the world,
distributing free toys to children everywhere. The ad campaign becomes a hit, but remains
very costly.

1837 - Claus III dies.

1851 - As the annual ad campaign
continues, deficits pile up, and the elves are asked to work harder, longer hours and still
take a pay cut. They start to complain, but Claus assures them he will do all he can to help
them. As a sign of goodwill, Claus IV marries an Elven wife, strengthening the bonds between
the Claus family and the Elves.

1856 - Claus V is born. In order to celebrate,
Claus IV decides to stay at home, and so he suggests that department stores use costumed
employees to represent him. They do, and it works out so well that he decides to do it every
year.

1857-1867 - Claus V grows up, spending most of his time visiting with his
elf relatives and friends. Claus IV, who spends most of his time building up the company,
doesnt seem to mind, in fact, he feels that its good publicity.

1871 - Working
conditions continue to worsen for the elves, and they try to convince Claus V to overthrow
his father and give the government back to the elves.

1872 - Claus V usurps his
fathers throne, sending him to live the remainder of his life under guard in the castles
west wing.

1875 - After reading the works of Karl Marx, Claus V chooses communism
as the new form of government for the North Pole. Some elves protest this, but they are
successfully quieted. (It is also because of communism that Santa Claus suit later changes
from beige to red.)

1881 - Claus IV dies in captivity, just as the new Government
gets underway. His funeral is not a large one.

1887 - In order to keep up with
growing populations, Claus Toys becomes industrialized. The elves learn the ways of mass
production on the assembly line.

1893 - Another mutant reindeer is born, and is
named Rudolf II in honor of the first one, whom the communist government now honors for
"giving the government back to the elves."

1900 - Sigmund Freuds "The
Interpretation of Dreams" is published.

1902 - After he had been presumed dead
for years, Frosty the Snowman is claimed to have been sighted on several occasions. All
throughout the kingdom, children claim that they all heard him say hed be back again some
day.

1906 - Claus VI is born. The Claus family celebrates, but the elves arent the
least bit excited.

1909-1922 - The toys distributed yearly begin to show signs of
propaganda influence. Frosty the Snowman continues to appear occasionally, and Claus V
begins to grow uneasy, fearing some sort of hidden sabotage.

1925 - Claus V dies,
under mysterious circumstances. He is found buried in the snow in the castle garden, frozen
solid. Many think it is the work of Frosty, but no one can prove it.

1926 - Claus
VI takes over, and immediately tightens up security. He rules with an iron hand, but a fair
one. Electric lights are installed in the streets, and the castle and the town gets
electricity. The factories are expanded, and the toys continue to be used as propaganda for
the world.

1929 - Angered by Claus commercialization of Christmas, the Grinch
attempts to remove the material goods to show the true meaning of Christmas. He fails, and
later Claus commissions a cartoon, which warps the story so that the Grinch is made out to
be the villian.
1949 - Claus VII is born.

1979 - Claus VI dies of natural
causes.

1933-1990 - The North Pole remains stable, with everything running
smoothly. Across the Western world, a pattern starts to emerge and become noticed. Children
receive Claus toys each Christmas, but as they grow older, their parents throw them away.
When they have children of their own, they are surprised to see the toys once again, and
when the children grow up the toys are thrown off again, and so the cycle goes
on.

1991 - First sightings of Anti-Claus.

1993 - Anti-Claus is observed
closely with telescopes, and photographed. His suit is like that of Santa Claus, but with
the reds and whites reversed. He carries a 3-ply Hefty bag full of gifts no one wants or
needs. And instead of using reindeer and a sleigh, he rides in a bathtub pulled by eight
flying cows.

1997 - Anti-Claus is radar tracked and found to live in an
underground hideout run by dwarves at the South Pole.

2002 - Communism fails
utterly at the North Pole due to the nature of the elves. Claus VII, flying clockwise around
the earth making the Christmas rounds, collides with Anti-Claus, who was flying
counterclockwise. A huge explosion and blinding flash of light occurs, leading scientists to
believe that they annihilated each other.

2007 - The North Pole becomes a
democracy, run wholly by the elves. Christmas is no longer commercialized or exploited.
Happiness is finally achieved throughout the kingdom.

2011 - It is discovered that
Claus VII did not die in the explosion, but merely made it appear
so.