Quote Originally Posted by alh_p View Post
Are those events tied to anything in game terms? I just thought they were random history spam (not that i'm deprecating "history" bulletins -they just get repetitive on numerous playthroughs).
There's a nifty thing about them though : you don't get the same news with all the factions. For example, the Western powers start the game with a blurb about the Gregorian calendar, while the Ottomans get a newsflash about the last lion dying around Tripoli.