6 June 1720: Mlosh arrival

The alien race known as the Mlosh land on earth. They announce to the human populations they interact with that they only wish to join earth and its cultures, and be treated as equals among us. After some initial panic, they are welcomed, (begrudgingly in some quarters), into the company of man.

If the Mlosh were looking to talk to world leaders:

• Louis XV was king of France
• Peter the Great was czar of Russia
• Charles VI was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• George I was king of England
• Philip V was king of Spain
• Kangxi was emperor of China
• Nakamikado was emperor and Tokugawa Yoshimune shogun of Japan

The Great Northern War between Russia, Denmark-Norway and Saxony-Poland (from 1715 also Prussia and Hanover) on one side and Sweden on the other was just about running out of steam. In reality it ended in 1721.