One option would just be to autogenerate a timeline for each continent on a single wiki page. It wouldn't be perfect and the pages could get quite long but at least it would be better than the total gaps in history we periodically get for each continent. It would also make it a lot easier in terms of giving people a starting point to write histories of the game.
Automatic News postings.
Have a spot for the days battles for the realm, gov changes or new lords, date and a place to manually type the new you want.
Possible but creating somewhat of a complication. It is easy to make a page and populate it. When you want to append to an existing page you create a more complex requirement.
