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April |
Minister of Security, Ežytė Šaltkalvė MP pays an unofficial visit to Switzerland and flies the flag at the Tulip Festival in Morges See...
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April |
The Playland flag is spotted in Venice, Italy See...
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1st |
Playland appoints The Rt Honorable Violet Divine MP, The Rt Honorable Smiley Villars Dames MP, The Rt Honorable Salieontois-Salra MP and The Rt Honorable Choco Villardame MP as Government Ministers.
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9th |
Jean Greenwood, author of 'Activity Box', says 'I would be thrilled to be offered citizenship
and I, of course, agree to the terms of the constitution.' Jean becomes an honorary Playlander.
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11th |
The Kingdom of Playlands Embassy to France opens in the village of Cessy (Ain)
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8th |
Jean Greenwood, author of 'Activity Box', signs the guestbook and says:
'I am thrilled and honoured to be a contributor (in a way) to the constitution of this noble land and its creative inhabitants. Live long and prosper!'
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8th |
Nils Nyman, grandson of Astrid Lindgren, writes to Andreas Teacher and says
'My relations and I are very honoured... Good luck with this exciting project!'
Translated from Swedish:
Jag och mina släktingar känner oss mycket hedrade! Lycka till med detta spännande projekt!
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7th |
The Andreas Teacher MP returns to the New Territory while the Portuguese Embassy searches for new premises..
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1st-7th |
The Playland flag is seen 'in the cloth' the Ukraine and Moldova See...
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As part of the celebrations for the first anniversary of the Playland Constitution, Playlanders honour:
Mr Mick Davidson
Miss Lee Baumgart
Mr John Williams (Bureau of Internal Affairs,
Principality of Sealand)
HM King Nicholas II of the Copeman Empire
The children, grandchildren and grandchildren’s’ children of Astrid Lindgren
with the freedom of the land of Playland. The honour is the highest award issued by the Kingdom of Playland.
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24th |
The Playland Government Office at the New Territory receives a postcard from HM King Nicholas II, with the newly issued Copeman Empire 24PF stamp.
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18th |
Playland enters friendly relations with the Cybernation of Utòpia
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18th |
A new postal code is introduced in the New Territory:
Stroke Shed (Brazil Town) - 1000
Flag Tree & Smudge's house - 1100
Pirtis & Pond - 1200
Gardens - 1300
Secret Forest - 1400
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12th |
Playland celebrates its first anniversary since the foundation of the Kingdom. Speaking on behalf of King William II, Andreas Teacher MP addressed the Playlanders and their friends:
The King and his governmennt thank you all for your excellent work, without your help it would not have been possible for Playland to be where we it is today - a nation we can all be proud of.
A first years' honours list will be announced shortly.
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12th |
The Playland flag is seen 'in the cloth' on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia See... |
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31st |
Svante Stockselius, Executive supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), asks Andreas Teacher MP to
please find all information about membership of the European Broadcasting Union at its website.
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30th |
Smudge Barham MP pays an official visit to Playlanders in Portugal and joins in the recording of a song for entry in the next European Song Contest. Listen...
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21st |
Andrew G. Scott,
Editor of the International House World Organisation Journal writes to say 'I really liked the article and admired the initial idea, how you have implemented it and how your have developed it. It is clearly extremely motivating for your learners and pioneering in terms of using technology effectively in the communicative language classroom.' More... |
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9th |
The Aerican Empire extends its recognition of Playland to 'Full Diplomatic Recognition'. More... |
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8th |
The IH Journal of Education and Development publishes Andreas Grundtvig's account of the history of Playland, in its spring 2007 edition.
Emperor Eric C. Lis of the Aerican Empire says 'this is an excellent article which gives a very good overview of how one
might start up a nation. I might even offer the link to people to new
up-and-comers when they ask me for tips in the future.'
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17th |
Playland is mentioned on the Ken Bruce Show on BBC Radio 2 Listen... |
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26th |
The Playland flag is seen 'in the cloth' in the Republic of Ireland. See...
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16th |
Andreas Teacher MP, HM King Nicholas II of the Copeman Empire and the Sealand Bureau of Internal Affairs meet in an online chat session. |
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12th |
HM King Nicholas II of the Copeman Empire takes part in an offline Q&A session and sends his own questions to the Playlanders. More... |
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2nd |
Kikas Vileišis and Luksis Meat visit Portugal from Lithuania and are naturalised as Playland nationals. See... |
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Gavin Dudeney, writer of The Internet and the Language Classroom
said that he 'became quite immersed in the Kingdom' and that Playland 'is exactly the kind of project that teachers would love to be involved in'.
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10th |
A Teacher MP demonstrates how some simple ESL activities led to the creation of a nation. More...
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29th |
Playland publishes its first promotional video on YouTube. More...
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22nd |
The Playland flag is seen 'in the cloth' in the Sahara Desert. See...
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12th |
| At the request of President Valdas Adamkus of Lithuania, Kazys Maksvytis, General Director of the National Land Service under the Ministry of Agriculture, writes to Andreas Teacher MP. In this letter Mr Maksvytis says that the Kingdom of Playland is free under Lithuanian law to lease the New Territory. See... |
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December |
| Friend of Playland, Beatriz C.A., sees her Playland article published in the 'International House Coimbra/Santa Clara newsletter'. See... |
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27th |
| Playland is pleased to welcome Scubba Girao as its newest national. |
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20th |
| HH Prince Michael of Sealand signs a 'Declaratio Regnus' to acknowledge the Kingdom of Playland as 'an independent and sovereign country established for the educational purposes and for the betterment of the students of International House Coimbra'. See... |
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16th |
| Playland is pleased to welcome Lulithas as its newest national. |
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7th |
| Playland appoints The Rt Honorable Lafaruso Quinta do Rossaio MP as Minister of Foreign Affairs. |
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6th |
| Playland is pleased to welcome Kid Couves, Lafaruso Quinta do Rossaio and Super Couves as its newest nationals. |
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30th |
| Playland Island opens a new multi-screen cinema. More... |
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6th |
| The Playland Embassy to Lithuania holds an Open Day at ILS, Lukiškių g, 5-511, Vilnius. |
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| Andreas Teacher MP. and John Williams of the Sealand Bureau of Internal Affairs link up on Anglobus chat. More... |
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20th |
| The Kingdom of Playland signs a treaty of mutual diplomatic recognition of nations with the Barūle Regnum. More... |
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| The photo album is updated with pictures from this summer. See... |
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| Playland begins negotiations for mutual recognition with the Principality of Sealand. More... |
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Playland is pleased to welcome , Ežytė Šaltkalvė as its newest national.
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August |
The Playland flag is seen in several UN recognised countries 'in the cloth'.
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30th |
| The first Playland passport to be stamped by the Principality of Liechtenstein. |
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29th |
| The first Playland passport to be stamped by the Principality of Lithuania. |
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24th |
| Baca Vandentiekio becomes a Playland national. See... |
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15th |
| The first Playland passport to be stamped by the Republic of Finland. |
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11th |
| Cat Tauras becomes a Playland national. |
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10th |
| The Kingdom of Playland annexes 2 hectares of territory, surrounded by Northern Lithuania, in a leasehold agreement. |
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| Smudge Barham becomes a Playland national. |
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21st |
| Flopsy F. Lukiskiu becomes a Playland national. |
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20th |
| The Kingdom of Playland is mentioned on the Dominic King Show, BBC Radio Kent. Listen... |
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20th |
| The Kingdom of Playland is offered 'special diplomatic recognition of creativity and imagination' by the Republic of Molossia. More... |
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16th |
We are pleased to announce the opening of our new embassy in Lithuania.
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16th |
| Appeal - we need pictures of Playland. Please send us any photographs or drawings and we'll put them in the gallery. |
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15th |
| Hamster Vandentiekio becomes a Playland national. |
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14th |
| The Kingdom of Playland is offered conditional diplomatic recognition by the Aerican Empire. More... |
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12th |
| The Kingdom of Playland constitution is drafted at the Embassy to Portugal. |
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10th |
A group of young learners supervised by their teacher at International House in Coimbra, Portugal decide to found their own nation. They adopt new names for themselves and Carolina Silva suggests that the nation be called 'Playland' the new government agrees with the name.
King William I is elected Head of State and Playland becomes a Kingdom. HM William II is succeeded by William II after
a reign of two minutes.
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