Post by Varian Wrynn on Mar 3, 2009 16:22:09 GMT -5
Quel’Dorei Royal Calendar
1000 – The Highborne depart the continent and their Night Elven brethren and sail across the Great Sea.
1011 – The High Elves found the colony of Silvermoon and the future capital of Quel’thalas. They rename themselves the Quel’Dorei.
1012 – Strom is founded by the Arathi Highlander Tribes as a haven against the Amani Trolls.
1030 – The High Elves spread southward throughout Eversong, the Blackened Woods and as far south as the Tirisfal Glades. The Kingdom of Quel’thalas is formed.
1037 - The Guardians of Tirisfal are founded.
1237 – The Amani Trolls, feeling threatened by the High Elf expansion, begin to raid Quel’Dorei settlements in southern Quel’thalas.
1242 - The Earthen of Uldaman emerge from their slumber, renaming themselves the Dwarves, and their lands Khaz Modan.
1245 – Centuries of conflict are ended when the Arathi succeed in fully chasing the Trolls from the Highlands. The Great Wall is begun in order to ensure that the trolls never again terrorize the Highlands.
1255 – The Midnight Massacre sparks rage throughout all of Quel’thalas. King Alastere of the High Elves begins to raise an army to destroy the Amani Trolls. The first Troll War begins.
1257 –The first human-elf contact occurs when Arathi explorers happen upon elven settlements in Tirisfal.
1262 – The High Elves succeed in pressing back the Amani Trolls. The first Troll War is ended.
1319 – The Great Wall is finally completed by the Highlanders.
1321 – The Amani Trolls invade southern Quel’thalas. The second Troll War begins.
1345 – The High Elves succeed in defeating the Amani Trolls but incur hideous losses. Most elves move northward toward the Blackened Wood.
1392 – Arathi settlers begin to settle lands formerly belonging to the High Elves. Skirmishing is renewed between the Highlander Tribes and the Amani Empire.
1398 – Amani Trolls invade the Blackened Wood and Eversong. The third Troll War begins.
1401 – The High Elves and Highlanders unite to destroy the Amani Empire. The final Troll War is finished.
Imperial Arathorian Calendar
1000 – Thoradan Trollbane is crowned High King of the Highlander Tribes and the Empire of Arathor is born.
1001 - The Great Expansion Age begins. Human colonist settle lands all across the Eastern Kingdoms including the chain of islands located off the continents western shore.
1202 – The Empire of Arathor reaches its peak. Their territory reaches as far north as the southernmost borders of Quel’thalas and as far south as Elwynn.
1220 – A fracture occurs among the Empire of Arathor that leads to the peaceful dissolution of the Empire. This in turn leads to the creation of six new kingdoms known as Lordaeron, Gilneas, Kul'Tiras, Dalaran, Stormwind, and Alterac. Strom is renamed Stromgarde but remains the capital of the Highlanders.
1250- The Dwarven Schism begins. The Bronzebeard clan gains control of Ironforge, exiling the Wildhammers north, where they found Grim Batol, and the Dark Irons to the south, where they found Thaurissan.
1280- The War of the Three Hammers. The Dark Iron Clan launches a dual siege of their dwarfen cousins. The Wildhammers and the Bronzebeards reconcile, and the Dark Irons are defeated. The Wildhammer Clan migrates northward once more to found the fortress of Aerie Peak.
1402 - The first Orc warparty is seen in the Black Morass and the Great War begins.
1409 - The First War ends with the sacking of Stormwind City and the arrival of the bulk of the Orcish Horde.
1411 – The Grand Alliance is formed under the directive of King Terenas of Lordaeron and Anduin Lothar of Stormwind. It consists of two of the three dwarf clans, the kingdom of Quel’thalas and the six remaining human nations.
1412 –The Horde invades and conquers Loch Modan thus sparking the Second Great War.
1420 - The Alliance claims victory at the conclusion of the Siege of Hellfire Citadel thus ruining the Horde. The surviving clans retreat back to various locations across Azeroth. Alterac having betrayed the Alliance in the heat of the war
1421 – Stormwind is liberated and construction of Nethergarde Keep begins. The remaining orc begin a bloody guerilla war against the Alliance.
1422 - Ner'zhul steals several powerful artifacts from the Alliance. The Alliance responds by sending an expedition past the Dark Portal. Nothing is ever again heard of the expedition and several months later the Dark Portal implodes
1424 - The Dragonmaw Clan is ousted from their fortress of Grim Batol.
1434- Thrall escapes from captivity and unites the Warsong and Frostwolf clans. They work to free the orcs from various internment camps.
1436 – Thrall succeeds in freeing the various surviving clans and steals a fleet to sail across the Great Ocean at the behest of the mysterious Prophet.
1437 - The Third Great War begins and the kingdoms of Lordaeron, Quel’thalas and Dalaran are ravaged by the Undead Scourge and the Burning Legion.
1441 – The Battle of Mount Hyjal concludes the Third Great War and sees the Burning Legion banished from Azeroth once more. A tenuous peace is struck between the worlds surviving major powers. The orcish nation of Durator is formed along with the Alliance city-state of Theramore.
1443 – Illidan calls forth the Naga from beneath the oceans of Azeroth and makes a failed attempt to use the Eye of Sargaras to destroy the Frozen Throne of Ner’zhul.
1444 – Kael’thas of the Blood Elves is convinced by Illidan to follow him past the Dark Portal present in Dalaran. Kul Tiras launches an invasion of the new orc state.
1446 – Illidan saves the dying Dranei kingdom led by Akama and claims lordship of Outland after facing and defeating the Greater Pit Lord Magnetheridon. He is then visited by the hellish image of Kil’Jaeden who demands he destroy the Frozen Throne.
1447 – Illidan leads an invasion of Northrend and Arthas is called back by the Lich King to defend him. His absence leads to a civil war among the surviving factions in the Northern Kingdom.
1448 – The Horde defeats the Kul Tiras invasion fleet thus breaking the backbone of the noble sea nation. Arthas succeeds in his defense of the Frozen Throne. He then unites with the dying Ner’zhul thus at last freeing the Lich King from his prison.
New Age Calendar
1000 - The Twilight Years begin.