Ceneria declared its independence in the year of 1648, when General Samuel Sebranov led the revolutionary band of soldiers christened the "Winter Hawks" in battle against the oppressing forces of the nation of Wariem. The government of Wariem, threatened by a civil war at home, surrendered it's territories in the Northern Ocean to Sebrenov and the Winter Hawks in the spring of 1650, and Ceneria was recognized as a sovereign nation by the rest of the world in late summer of the same year. Despite his heroic actions as a soldier, General Sebranov was not a politician. Instead of using his military force to instate a peaceful and just government, Sebranov handed the duties of president over to his close friend, the politician Janson Denarch. After this action, he collected his salary and retired to the relative safety of his North Glacia home with a personal guard to protect him. With Sebranov out of the way, Denarch instated a congressional government with his fellow cronies as the congressmen and set himself up as dictator. This system of government was not what the revolutionary people of Ceneria had bargained for, and they immediately began to complain. Both factions knew that this could not last.
In the late winter and early spring of 1673, revolts reached their zenith, and then a civil war broke out in southern Glacia. The fighting was violent, but the militant government managed to put down the uprisings over the period of three long years. Already weakened by internal conflict, the leaders of Ceneria were dismayed to find that their holdings on the mainland were being attacked by a coalition of mainland powers. Ceneria was thus banished to the Northern Ocean, a place where others were loathe to go. In late 1678, in order to support an expanding field of interest, the Cenerian government raised taxes and a new series of protests began. Two short years later, from 1680 to 1683, a new civil war ousted the former regime and the government that we know today was instated.
The Cenerian navy, established in 1662, began an immense makeover in 1688, designed to bring it's dilapidated and underfunded vessels up to the modern standard. Ceneria funded an enormous drive that ended in the construction of Ceneria's first aircraft carrier, the C.N.S. (Cenerian Naval Ship) Whitehawk. This led to the eventual construction of two sister ships, the Stormhawk and the Galestrike. These three ships gave Ceneria the diplomatic power it needed in the beginning of a new century, and the three carriers ended up making dozens of "courtesy calls" into foreign and, sometimes, hostile ports. Some would say this this was just a insensitive and rash move, but it was in fact a calculated maneuver to both gain allies and dissuade enemies from considered aggression. The new century brought with it renewed stress at old fault lines, and Wariem began to interdict Cenerian trading in early 1712. Ceneria declared war on it's mother country in the fall of 1713. A bloody war ensued, finally drawing to a uncertain and strained peace in 1715 when Ceneria ran out of resources and could not afford to continue the war against Wariem. Wariem itself was removed from the world stage for the next fifty years as a result of this war, and it's navy would never fully recover from the violence.