HISTORY OF THE REALMS

--5642/
--Elves found the city of Evereska.
--Djen settle in Calimshan area.
-4642/
--Efreet invade Djen through a Gate, start of 100 years of war.
c.-4542/
--End of the 100 years Djen-Efreeti war.
-3809/
--Seven fishing villages form the organisation of Netheril.
-3796/
--Trade begins between humans of Netheril and the elves of Illefarn.
c.-3650
--Dwarven realm of Shanatar founded.
c.-2642
--Dwarven Realm of Ammarindar founded.
c.-2639
--Dwarven Realm of Dareth founded.
-2637/
--Mezro, in Chult, is founded by Ubtao.
-2550/
--Ulutiu, an unknown entity, dies. His ice barge sinks and gives birth to the Great Glacier.
-2488/
--Empire of Raurin (Imaskari, Artificers) is destroyed.
-2475/
--Great Glacier continues to expand, covering the lands that will eventually be known as Vaasa & Damara.
-2274/
--Dwarven forebears of the Innugaakalikurit exiled from the Tortured Land.
-2135/
--Mulhorand founded.
-2087/
--Unther founded.
-1967/
--First Mulhorand-Unther war.
-1961/
--Mulhorand and Unther agree on common border; peace between these nations to the present day.
-1846/
--Peak of Netherese civilization.
-1648/
--Sossalian ancestors of the Ulutiuns settle by the Lugalpgotak sea.
-1500/
--Expansion of Unther and Mulhorand.
-1362/
--Discovery of the Writings of Ulutiu, splintering of the tribes into the Nakulutiuns and the Iulutiuns.
c.-1290
--The blue wyrm Maldraedior reigns as the suzerain of the blue dragons of Unther and Mulhorand.
-1250
--Unther battles against the elves of the Yuirwood and the dwarves of the Great Rift.
-1186/
--The nomadic Angulutiuns founded.
-1088
--First record of trading at future site of Waterdeep.
-1087
--The Theurgist Adept Thayd rebels along with most of the wizards in Unther and Mulhorand.
-1081
--Thayd and his conspirators are defeated.
-1075
--Orcgate wars in Thay.
-1071
--Orc god Gruumsh kills Mulhorand deity Re; first known deicide.
-1069
--Orcs in Thay defeated; many flee north and west.
-1076/
--Opening of the Orcgate in southwestern Thay.
-1050/
--Set kills Osiris in power struggle to succeed Re.
-1048/
--Osiris ressurected by Isis, Horus-Re drives Set into the desert and becomes chief of the Mulhorand pantheon. Set worship is abolished, and the Tower of Set in Skuld is destroyed.
-986/
--Lured by abundant caribou, an Iulutian faction moves to Angalpuk and becomes the first of the nomadic Angulutians.
-963/
--Several Iulutian settlements unite to wage war on their Angulutian neighbors. Start of the Keryjek Wars (named for the mountain range in
which most of the fighting occured).
-913/
--The Keryjek Wars end with a treaty between the Iulutian and Angulutians. The first koatulit is held, becoming a yearly event thereafter.
-901/
--Attempt at relatons between Iulutiuns and Innugaakalikurit. Beginning of a long and cordial relationship between the Innugaakalikurit and the Iulutians.
c.-900
--Rise of Narfell and Raumathar.
-760/
--Year of the Great Flood of the Great Glacier. Hundreds of Ulutians drown when their villages are washed away.
-734/
--Enlil decides to leave Toril, Gilgeam, son of Enlil, becomes King of Unther.
--Year 1 in Untheric calendar.
c.-700
--The Vastar of the orcs in the Vast.
-642/
--Founding of Delzoun.
-623
--Narfell attempts invasion of Mulhorand and Unther by sea, and is defeated
-598/
--Innugaakalikurit & Frost Giants argue over great catapult. The dwarven thieves are enslaved by the giants; their descendants remain that way today.
c.-530
--The Blades of Dragon's Tongue are stolen by the Prophet of Tiamat, Ochir Naal.
-475
--The phaerimm discover the nation of Netheril and begin plotting its downfall.
-474/
--The port of Cimbar is founded by Unther.
c.-400
--Auguthra the Mad travels the world.
-290
--The fall of Netheril.
-212/
--Awakening of the beast Ulfoq in the Great Glacier. The beast devours dozens of Nakulutians before returning to its Crevasse. It has not been seen since.
c.-200
--Records indicate that Tethyrian royal family rules in Tethyr.
--Candlekeep founded; calendar of Harptos begun.
--First Dalesmen cross the Dragon Reach to Cormanthor.
c.-150
--Narfell and Raumathar destroyed
-148/
--The God Kings final battle. An alliance of the Summoned is defeated and they are sent back to their home planes.
-137
--The Chultian city of Mezro is sacked.
-135
--Founding of Bezantur. Other cities soon built on the coastal areas of the Wizard's Reach as Mulhorand and Unther once again expand northward.
-75/
--The nation of Rashemen is officially founded.
-52
--First permanent farms in the Waterdeep area.
-45/
--Mulhorand attacks Rashemen through the Gorge of Gauros, and is repulsed.
-37/
--The first recorded settlement of Alaghon.
c.-30
--Ochir Naal, the Prophet of Tiamat, is killed.

1/ The Year of Sunrise
--The Standing Stone erected; Dalereckoning begins.
--Empire of Shoon established in Calimshan.
10/ The Year of Dreams
20/Year of the Fallen Fury
--Iljak grows into a major trade city. Few villages remain outside a 50-mile radius of the expanding city.
--The Shieldmeet becomes an important date in Faerun
25 The Year of Many Runes
--Church of Deneir founded.
26/Year of Opening Doors
--Cormyr founded by Obarskyr family.
--Faerlthann (? to 55), 1st King of Cormyr.
50/
--The Vilhon Reach grows. By this time, Hlondeth establishes itself as both a port city and a major landmark along the Tunway. The cities of Mussum, Samra, and Arrabar spring up along the southeastern shores of the Vilhon. Daroush, Torl, and Asple are established on the northwestern shore.
52/
--The first permanent farms are established in the Waterdeep area by locally settling tribes.
68
--Drow build a prison in the Lost Level of Undermountain
75/Year of Clinging Death
--Plague racks the civilized Realms (Empires of the Sands, Vilhon). More than 50% of the total population of the Vilhon is killed in as little as 10 years.
--Alaundo the Seer arrives in Candlekeep.
112/Year of the Tusk
--Height of the Western Kingdoms (Asram, Anauria and Hlondeth).
125/
--The city of Ormath is established on the Shining Plains.
--Hlondeth's population soars as a trade road--the Pikeman's Folly is built between the two cities.
132/
--Dempster Turmish declares himself Mayor of Alaghon. He sends his mercinaries against his rivals. A brief, bloody civil war erupts in Alaghon, and Dempster emerges as undisputed leader.
135/
--Arrabar's military forces wipe out the city of Mimph.
137/
--On the twelfth day of Flamerule, the army of Iljak engages the forces of Mussum along the Sandshore. The battle rages for a fortnight until early Eleasius, when Samran forces sack the city of Iljak and attack its forces on the unprotected left flank. Iljak surrenders, and the twin forces of Mussum and Samra enslave the survivors.
139/
--By this time, the deforestation of the Chondalwood is in full swing. The city of Shamph is established along the Emerald Corridor, a road stretching from Shamph to Arrabar.
143/
--Lumberjacks in the Chondalwood are halted by a large force of elves. Lord Anthony Illistine creates an alliance of the free cities of the region.
144/
--Battle of Elven Tears. The alliance of free cities in Chondath attacks the elves. Ariel- Than, an elven city, is burned to the ground, and more than 2,000 elves die in the war. The survivors reportedly flee deeper into the wood to the city of Rucien-Xan, a mythical elven home.
--Six months after the Battle of Elven Tears, Lord Anthony Illistine is named governer of Chondath, and the city-states are finally united under one leader.
145/
--Dempster Turmish continues his campaign to conquer the Vilhon area. Hlondeth is beseiged. Alaghonian forces are unable to mount an effective seige without closing off access to the Vilhon, and after six months Dempster ends the seige.
146/
--Lord Dempster attempts a second seige of Hlondeth, but is again defeated, this time by the city's high walls and a powerful barrage of magic.
150/
--Lord Dempster rebuilds his army for a third attempt at Hlondeth, but dies in his sleep before it is ready. His wife, Florentine, becomes ruler and immediately calls off the attack.
154/
--Lady Florentine of Turmish is assassinated, setting off endless rounds of political maneuvering by various merchant houses. This 100-year gap in leadership becomes known as the Calmwaters, and the region flourishes.
168/
--Halaster's Hold, the wizard's tower and fortified ramparts, is built to the north and west of the farms in the Waterdeep area.
188/
--King Uthgrael Aumar (? to 216) marries Syndrel Hornweather (? to 216).
192/
--Elthryn Aumar (192 to 224), the father of Elminster, is born to Uthgrael and Syndrel Aumar.
205/
--Mulhorand & Unther chase defeated barbarians back to their base settlement and exterminate them. A dying shaman prophesies that their empires shall soon crumble.
210/
--Elthryn Aumar marries Amrythale Goldsheaf, a forester's daughter.
211/
--Four tribes of barbarians fleeing the legions of Unther and Mulhorand settle in Dambrath and become known as the Arkaiun.
216/Year of the Battle Horns
--King Uthgrael of Athalantar dies; his sons, the "Warring Princes," begin open battle for the throne.
217/
--Cauln Aumar (191 to 217) of Athalantar is slain by a Calishite wizard in the employ of his brother Elthaun.
218/Year of the Dancing Lights
--Belaur Aumar (189 to 240), 1st son of Uthgrael, King of Athalantar. He organizes the Magelords.
224/Year of the Flaming Forests
--Elthryn and Amrythale Aumar killed by the archmage Undarl. The Lion Sword is broken.
227/Year of the Raised Banner
--The dwarves of the Alaoreaum fight an epic battle with the red dragon Stormcrossing. The dwarves win, but the humans are alerted to their presence in the mountains.
228/Year of the Loremasters
--At this time, Elminster is an outlaw in the Horn Hills, on the borders of Athalantar.
229/Year of the Black Flame
--During this year, Elminster, using the name Eladar the Dark, is active as a thief in Hastarl, capital of Athalantar.
233/Year of Much Ale
--As a member of the Brave Blades adventuring band, "Elmara" (Elminster) is busy exploring old ruins, dungeons, and subterranean holds in the lands north and west of Athalantar.
--The Brave Blades plunder the Floating Tower of the archwizard Ondil of the Many Spells.
235/Year of the Drawn Knives
--Elmara (Elminster) is studying and adventuring with the sorceress Myrjala.
236/Year of the Plague Clouds
--Elmara (Elminster) continues to study and adventure with Myrjala, traveling widely in Faerun.
237/Year of the Disappearing Dragons
--Elmara's magic grows to outstrip Myrjala's; they decide to part and Elminster reveals his true gender to his teacher.
238/Year of Many Mushrooms
--Elminster goes mage-hunting across Faerun, trying to defeat evil mages and gain their powers.
--Myrjala and Elminster destroy Ilhundyl the Mad Mage of the Calishar. They reveal their love for each other, and decide to dwell and work together.
--Dalagar "Longwalker," King of Andlath, completes his road linking Athkatla to Ormath.
239/Year of the Wandering Leucrotta
--Elminster and Myrjala work together, building their powers for a planned assault on Athalantar.
257/
--Mt. Ugruth, a volcano near the city of Hlondeth, erupts, blackening the skies for months. Under the cover of the eruption, Chondath invades and conquers Hlondeth.
260/
--Chondath establishes the frontier towns of Timindar and Orbech. The Grand Druid of the Gulthmere issues several warning to Chondath regarding the continued cutting of the Chondalwood, but is ignored.
--A gold and silver rush in the Deepwing Mountains begins. Lachom is founded, and is swiftly controlled by Chondath.
261/Year of Soaring Stars
--Elven and human mages devise spells needed to sail the skies in this year, and new skyships are seen in Faerun--the first such craft outside of Halruua since the fall of Netheril.
267/
--Battle of Fallen Trees. The Chondathian logging towns of Timindar and Orbech are destroyed by elves attacking from within the Chondalwood.
--The Crushed Helm Massacre. Chondath forces are led into a trap inside the Chondalwood. Of 10,000 men, only about 200 survive and escape the elves and wood giants.
270/
--Chondath troops begin massing at the southern border of Turmish. The squabbling merchant houses unite behind the rule of Alesam Mischwin. The two forces reach a stalemate, and Chondath retreats.
277/
--Discovery of a gold deposit in the Aphrunn Mountains creates the city of Aelor almost overnight.
278/
--The population of the Vilhon soars; many mercinaries are hired this year.
282/
--The Aelor gold mines run dry.
284/
--The city of Aelor is reduced to a ghost-town.
285/
--The slave-nation of Nimpeth is founded and becomes the first Vilhon
city-state to withstand the armies of Chondath.
300/
--A bardic college called the Academia Vilhonus is founded, and starts the Turmish custom of painting dots on the foreheads of learned men.
307/
--The Seven, Halaster's apprentices, abandon Halaster's Hold and enter the dark ways of Undermountain. The tower and surface holdings fall into decay and ruin. All settlers avoid this walled "cursed" enclosure.
c.310
--Chondath organizes the practice of each Vilhon realm sending troops every four years to Southsands, to engage in a mock war.
320/
--The cities of Nleeth and Amah are founded as training centers for warriors competing in the Vilhon games.
326/
--The cities of Ormath and Lheshayl meet on the Field of Tears over a land dispute. The two sides battle for more than a week before the Tenpaw wemic tribe drives both sides from the field.
348/
--Northkeep, the first human settlement in the Moonsea North, is founded.
--A group of outlaws, fleeing the justice of Mulhorand, settle in and found Ulgarth.
352/
--The Great Fire of Alaghon.
c.360
--House of Stone built by Turgo Ironfist.
374/
--The House of Silvanus is established on the isle of Ilighon.
379/
--Azoun I (? to 393), King of Cormyr.
c.400
--The city of Escalaunt is founded by Unther.
400/Year of the Blue Shield
--The city of Phlan is leveled by the humanoid hordes attacking Northkeep.
--Chondath aides the cities of Chondathian (Saerloon) and Chauncelgaunt (Selgaunt) against orc and goblin hordes. After the hordes are driven off, Chondath keeps soldiers in the two cities.
427/
--Duar (? to 449), King of Cormyr.
429/
--King Duar of Cormyr defeats an orcish army near the King's Forest.
466/
--Deadly disease brought to Great Glacier by Treasure Hunters from Sossal. Hundreds of Angulutians and caribou succumb to the sickness.
472/
--A plague wipes out the city of Mussum. More than 75% of the population is killed, and the plague lurks in the ruins to this day.
482/
--Delthuntle and Laothkund break free of Unther.
504/
--Teth & Nethra declare independence.
--Unther begins long campaign against North Coast cities.
512/
--Turmish is invaded by a huge orc horde from the Orsraun Mountains.
517/
--Mount Andrus erupts in the Orsrauns; little damage is done to Turmish, but the orcs of the mountain are further decimated.
522/
--The druids of the Gulthmere send a delegation to Alaghon to halt logging. The druids are ignored.
527
--Hlondeth is invaded through its sewers and attacked by kobolds. The city falls, except for the walls of House Extaminos. The kobolds are repulsed by Extaminos' serpents.
538/
--Bryntarth I (? to 581), King of Cormyr.
545/
--Reinhar, a great warchief, rises to lead the Arkaiuns.
551/
--Estagund is conquered by Reinhar I, warchief of the Arkaiuns of Dambrath.
558/
--Amn begins external trading.
c.595
--Jander Sunstar bagan travelling the Realms.
614/
--Hlondeth finally becomes independant of Chondath.
640/Year of the Fanged Beast
--The cities of Ormath and Lheshayl come under constant attack from saber-toothed tigers until the beasts are driven off.
c.650
--The noted mage Rathdaen roams the Realms.
679/Year of the Scarlet Sash
--Unther forced to recognize independence of the North Coast Cities. Unther never recovers from this long, costly, and bloody campaign.
--End of second Untheric Empire.
680/Year of the Long March
--Many Chondathian mercinaries return home from the North Coast Campaign. Chondath begins to concentrate its efforts on fledgling Sembia.
714/Year of Doom
--Fall of Myth Drannor.
--Battle of Burnt Ridge. Many of the city's mages fall here.
--Lady Steel dies fighting the city's attackers; her contingencies trigger a massive explosion that slays many evil beings.
--Druth Daern hides during the final battle and later emerges to ransack the ruins.
715/
--The elves of Cormanthor spend this summer and the next hunting down and killing the remnants of the Army of Darkness, until the woods are cleansed. This work takes all the magic they have, and most of their best warrior blood.

717/Year of the Druid's Wrath
--Turmish is routed by the druids of the Emerald Enclave. The druids establish themselves in Ilighon, the Chondalwood, and the Winterwood.
c.718
--Founding of the elven settlements of Lake Sember and Tangled Trees as areas to begin training their young in the arts of war.
724/
--Turmish wizards attack Ilighon and are killed.
c.725
--Reinhar IX "the Foolish" reigns in Dambrath.
731/
--2nd Great flood of the River Alamber devastates Unthalass..
751/Year of Good Tidings
--Cathtyr becomes the first Queen of Dambrath.
756/Year of the Leaning Post
--First fisherfolk settle in Aglarond (mainly colonists from Chessenta).
765/Year of the Cowl (NOTE: Dragon Annual #1 gives this as the Year of Dawn Blades)
--Construction begins on the High Mages' Keep of Silverymoon, completed 16 months later.
766/Year of Yearning (NOTE: Dragon Annual #1 gives this as the Year of the Burnt Spear)
--Construction complete on the High Mages' Keep of Silverymoon.
823/
--Mourktar breaks free of Unther.
c.855
--The elven sage Olaurae of Myth Drannor titles Suzail "the brightest jewel of Cormyr's crown."
870/
--Adventurers begin to clear the monsters out of the Yuirwood.
872/
--Nimoar the Reaver conquers Bloodhand tribe, and he seizes the docks and harbor buildings.
882/Year of the Curse
--Nimoar's Hold rises at Waterdeep's current north end fortified by a log palisade. The city walls expand around the Hold and the city's perimeter.
887/
--Pirate raids in force from the South attack tribes in Sword Coast. All attacks on Nimoar's Hold fail.
889/
--The Bull Elk tribe of the Dessarin sets Nimoar's Hold afire, but Nimoar's forces defeat them and drive them off. The Hold is rebuilt by year's end.
--King Zaor of Evermeet ascends to the Elven throne.
890/Year of the Burning Tree
--A new High Mages' Keep and three new towers are constructed in Silverymoon
892/Year of Howling Winds
--Jander destroys his vampiric master.
c.900/
--King Galaghard of Cormyr battles the forces of the Witch Lords at Wheloon, Juniril, and Manticore's Crossing. The final battle between the two forces occured at the Vast Swamp, with Cormyr winning with help from elven stag calvalry.
900/Year of the Thirsty Sword
--Beginning of the Rotting War in Chondath.
910/
--Rhiigard (? to 932), King of Cormyr.
920/
--Ahghairon is born on Midsummer's Night, and many legends report Mystra's symbol glowing brightly among the stars of the North.
922/Year of the Spouting Fish
--Red Wizards under the command of Ythazz Buvaar sack the regional capital of Del- humide.
--Battle of Thazalhar in Thay. Red Wizards declare Thay independent of Mulhorand.
--End of the Second Mulhorand Empire.
923/
--The demon Eltab is bound under the city of Eltabbar.
934/Year of Fell Wizardry
--The Thayvians first demand tribute from Escalant.
940/Year of the Cold Claws
--The name of Waterdeep comes into common usage.
--Second Troll War in the North. This year sees the start of continual troll raids and strife that last more than a decade. Six War Lords of Waterdeep die in battle against the trolls. Despite the problems, Waterdeep grows in population, as tribes gather within the walls for safety.
952/
--Ahghairon rises and is recognized as the premier mage of the Savage North. He becomes the official advisor for the War Lord of Waterdeep.
--This year marks the end of the Second Trollwar. The trolls remain nearly extinct around Waterdeep for nearly 100 years.
953/
--Bryntarth II (? to 968), King of Cormyr.
955/
--Barbarians attack Waterdeep in the depths of winter.In memory of their bravery, the Waterdhavians bury the barbarian princess at the foot of the peak that later becomes known as Maiden's Tomb Tor.
956/
--Cathtyr is killed by her daughter Filina. Filina becomes Queen of Dambrath.
961/
--Cathakay Queen of Dambrath.
963/
--The construction of Castle Waterdeep begins around the site of Nimoar's Hold on the eastern spur of Mount Waterdeep, just north of the city walls.
974/Year of the Haunting Harpy
--Castle Waterdeep is completed at High Harvestide. The city walls expand (now abutting the wall around Halaster's Hold for defense) and the worn log palisades become new, high stone walls.
--The stronghold of the retired adventurer Sulass Drowsbane grows into the city of Sulasspryn.
975/Year of the Bent Coin
--Telflamm annexes Nyth and Culmaster and establishes itself as a royal city-state.
992/Year of the Watching Helm
--Heralds of Faerûn created. (Note: FOR4 Code o/t Harpers has this date and year as 996 DR).
--The merchant factions in Turmish are subjugated by Lord Saros. Saros immediately begins shaping Turmish into a major naval power. (Note: 9520 The Vilhon Reach gives this date [922 DR] as the Year of Flashing Eyes).
996/(Note: FOR4 Code o/t Harpers gives the name of this year as Year of the Watching Helm)
--Arangor (? to 1021), King of Cormyr.
998/
--Waterdeep's War Lord Laroun establishes a naval guard to protect the city and its trading partners. Construction begins on fortifying the harbor and Deepwatch Isle.
--A temple and monastary to Lathander breaks ground to the north of Waterdeep (at the present site of the Spires of the Morning).
1002/
--Centuries of long skirmishes between Durpar and Ulgarth come to an uneasy halt as the two nations finally reach a balance of power.
1007/
--The city walls of Waterdeep expand, absorbing the ruins of Halaster's Hold (the walls run along the lines of what are now the northern borders of Dock and Southern Wards). Ahghairon builds his tower out beyond the city walls, and he also places magical barriers around the ruins of Halaster's tower, preventing many dangers from escaping into the city.
1010/
--Laborers finish the extensive harbor fortifications at Midsummer, and the Free City of Waterdeep is officially established.
--Laroun becomes the first Warlord of Waterdeep.
1016/
--Cathakay dies in battle against a gold dragon. Her niece Melanith becomes Queen of Dambrath.
1018/Year of the Dracorage
--Rage of Dragons in Faerûn and the Heartlands. Peleveran, south of Chessenta, is destroyed, the cities of Lheshayl and Ormath are heavily damaged, and four dragons are killed in the Shining Plains (including the great wyrm Andraxis).
1020/Year of Smouldering Spells
--House Extaminos gains control of Hlondeth.
1021/Year of the Howling Axe
--Bhaalian liches walk the Heartlands.
--Elminster and Khelben agree to re-form the Harpers; the Harpers go underground.
--Azoun II (? to 1046), King of Cormyr.
1022/Year of the Wandering Wyvern
--Refounding of the Harpers; Elminster recruits an adventuring group led by Finder Wyvernspur to become the core of the new organization.
1023/
--Durpar and Ulgarth reach an armed peace settlement.
1026/
--Ahghairon creates the magical axe, Azuredge.
1030/Year of Warlords
--Raurlor increases the size of Waterdeep's standing army and navy to a size unseen since the Fallen Kingdom. His rulership turns Waterdeep into a garrison and military encamp- ment, "to protect Waterdeep from her many, jealous enemies."
1032/
--Raurlor announces his plans to establish the Empire of the North. Ahghairon defies him and causes Raurlor's death. The wizard takes the Warlord's seat, declaring himself the first Lord of Waterdeep. He restructures Raurlor's armies and navies into the city guard (army and navy), and the watch (city police), bringing order to Waterdeep.
--Year 1 of Northreckoning.
1035/
--Waterdeep grows under Ahghairon's and the Lord's rule, the walls expanding again (to the current area of Waterdeep Way and River Street) to handle the increased population. The system of Wards comes into being, initially creating Castle Ward, Trades Ward, Temple (later Southern) Ward, and Dock Ward.
1037/
--Otherplanar creatures spill out of Undermountain into Waterdeep, but are turned back by Ahghairon and Kherris, a masked Lord wielding Azuredge. Ahghairon refortifies the magical and physical defenses around the ruins.
1044/Year of Singing Shards
--Mt. Ugruth erupts on the last day of the year, doing little except to blanket Hlondeth in a layer of ash.
--By this time, Chondath has become little more than a collection of loosely-allied city- states.
1053/
--King Selkarin of Estagund mounts a failed naval invasion of Dambrath.
1060/
--Retreat of Great Glacier.
1064/
--The city walls of Waterdeep swell (running along the current locations of Selduth Street and the Coffinmarch) to handle increasing numbers of people. A low wall abutting the city walls surrounds the eastern cemetary of the city.
--Waterdeep's population surpasses 50,000 this year.

1065/Year of the Watching Wood
--Battle of Ingdal's Arm, the Yuir half-elves defeat the humans. The founding of Aglarond.
1072/Year of the Shattered Goblet
--Chapter 1 of "Vampire of the Mists". 1072-1102: Vampire of the Mist, p 5-16, i.e. 475 Barovia (p267) up to 1232 DR at the end of the novel.
1079/
--Andilber (? to 1088), King of Cormyr.
1082/
--Building of the fortress of Emmech, at the mouth of the Umber river.
1090/The Year of Slaughter
--Followers of Malar led by the fanatical priest Belegoss Wolfwynd mount the Great Hunt. The Hunt permanently smashes the power of the southern Dragonreach cities. Elminster sets the Harpers to slaying every member of the Hunt.
1092/
--The last members of the Great Hunt are slain. Belegoss Wolfwynd is killed.
1095/Year of the Dawndance
--Founding of Impiltur. The city-states of Lyrabar, Hlammach, Dilpur, and sarshel unite under the banner of Imphras to face hobgoblin hordes advancing from the Giantspires.
1097/The Year of the Gleaming Crown
--Imphras is elected 1st king of Impiltur and wears the Lost Crown of Narfell.
1098/The Year of the Rose
--Chapter 2 of "Vampire of the Mists"
--Thay attempts 1st invasion of Mulhorand. Thay is defeated at Sultim and withdraws.
c.1100
--Searching for a way to immortalize his songs, Finder Wyvernspur dabbles in magic that brings about the deaths of two of his apprentices. A tribunal of Harper judges decree that Finder's music and name are to be forgotten. He is exiled to a solitary existence on another plane for almost 300 years.
1101/
--The Spires of the Morning, the abbey and temple to Lathander, becomes part of Waterdeep as the walls expand to accomodate more settlers. (The perimeter approximates the current paths of Trader's Way and Andamaar's Street.) The plateau north of the city is all irrigated farmland.
1117/The Year of the Twelverule
--Mordulkin defies the King of Cimbar and Chessenta breaks up into squabbling city-states through 1154 DR.
1127/
--Rhigaerd (? to 1132), King of Cormyr.
1132/
--Creation of Long Portage.
1137/
--Rise of Zhengyi the Witch King in Vassa.
1141/
-- A contingent of evil mages from Vassa construct a castle of ice at the base of Mt. Okk. They develop much unique cold-based magic which they plan to use to conquer their homeland.
1142/
--Redsail the Pirate retires to Aglarond.
c.1145
--The Book of Bats is first mentioned as being among a satrap's treasures in Calimshan.
1147/
--Battle of the Ford of Goliad. Zhengyi's forces rout the Damarans. King Virdin of Damara is killed.
1148/
--A massive earthquake rocks the Great Glacier, swallowing the ice castle of the Vassan wizards. They are presumed dead.
1150/The Year of the Scourge
--Chondath regains control of Hlath.
--Waterdeep is hit hard by the plague throughout the Sword Coast, the situation made worse by attacks by trolls and orc tribes.
--Khelben Arunsun the Elder arrives and settles in Waterdeep, building Arunsun Tower (later known as Blackstaff Tower).
1154/
--Siege of Cimbar by the Lords of Akanax and Soorenar. The king is unable to get assistance from his allies and is forced to sign a pact imposing harsh limits on his power. Akanax refuses to sign, recognizing its lord as the true king.
c.1155
--The Halruuan conjurer Akhlaur is overwhelmed by his experiments, creating the swamp that now bears his name.
1161/The Year of the Quiet Earth
--The Karanak Clan become lords of Luthcheq under suspicious circumstances.
1162/
--Death of bandit lord Rivior.
1163/
--Founding of a pirate base on the Dragonisle.
1164/Year of Long Shadows
--Palaghard I (? to ?), King of Cormyr.
--Immurk begins his pirate career, captures the coronation crown of Palaghard I.
1172/
--Ausitil Queen of Dambrath.
1179/
--As a precursor to the Harpstar Wars, a group of Malaugrym attack Arunsun Tower. They are defeated and banished from Faerun by Khelben, Elminster, and a number of mages of Waterdeep (including Hamiklar Wands, the father of Maskar).
1182/The Year of the Tomb
--The crown prince of Lyrabar flees the court of his father and finds sanctuary in the Pirate Isles.
1183/
--Paladins of Osiris clear River of Swords of were-crocodiles and Sebek worshipers. The were-crocodiles re-locate to the Adder River Delta.
1186/
--The crown prince of Lyrabar returns to Lyrabar and becomes King.
1187/
--Pryntaler (1164 to 1211), King of Cormyr.
1192/
--Pryntaler founds the Order of Freesailors (the Freesails).
1201/The Year of Embers
--Death of Immurk the Pirate aboard his ship, while fighting a Sembian warship.
--By this time, the pirate fleet of the Inner Sea is judged to have over 100 ships.
--Dhalmass (1186 to 1227), King of Cormyr.
--Major invasion of Aglarond by a Thayan alliance of wizards is narrowly defeated.
1204/
--Rise of the pirate Urdogan.
1211/
--Dhalmass crowned King of Cormyr.
1220/The Year of the Toppled Tree
--The Turmish warlord Sjorn Sendreth starts a 20-year campaign against the dwarves of the Alaoreum by attacking Ironfang.
1223/The Year of the Trembling Tree
--The great green wyrm Athauglas is killed by the Company of the Gauntlet.
1224/The Year of the Swollen Stars
--Storm Silverhand writes To Harp at Twilight.
1227/The Year of the Wall
--Palaghard II (1214 to 1261), King of Cormyr.
--Palus Frohm, one of Vassa's greatest explorers, begins a twenty-year trek through the Great Glacier, culminating in the writing of Blood and Ice: Survival in the Great Glacier.
1232/The Year of the Weeping Wives
--Jander Sunstar is delivered from his curse.
1235/The Year of the Black Horde
--Waterdeep is besieged for nine months by the largest orc horde in recorded history. The cty is spared when Ahghairon and his generals introduce griffons as flying steeds for the army, allowing them past the orcs to gain food and aid outside the walls.
1237/The Year of the Grotto
--Thesk and Aglarond enter into alliance. Marriage of Thara of Aglarond to Elthar of Milvarune.
1241/The Year of the Lost Lady
--The dwarves of the Alaoreum collapse a mountain atop their underground city, cutting it off from the surface world.
--The Pasha of Calimport is assassinated by his rivals.
1243/The Year of the Blue Dragon
--Rule of the venerable wyrm Anaglathos in Turmish. Until 1247 DR, this is the Time Of the Worm in that nation. (Note: 9520 The Vilhon Reach gives this date as 1242).
1246/The Year of Burning Steel
--Kerrigan the wizard, a hidden Lord of Waterdeep, attempts to usurp Ahghairon's position and set himself up as sole ruler of Waterdeep by killing the other Lords and Ahghairon. After the deaths of three Lords, Ahghairon slays Kerrigan in Southern Ward.
1247/The Year of the Purple Basilisk
--The Assembly of Stars is created to govern Turmish.
1248/The Year of the Cockatrice
--Verovan the last King of Westgate dies during a ship race on the
Inner Sea.
--Known as the Year of the Bounty in Waterdeep, a record harvest and mercantile explosion causes a dramatic increase in population. Due to the expanded trade, the merchants form guilds, and a recognized merchant-gentry emerges in the city.
--Rehorusteb II becomes Pharaoh of Mulhorand.
1250/The Year of the Riven Skull
--The Wizard Mhzentul born.
--Noble villas begin dotting the plateau north of Waterdeep.
--Ahghairon and other mages of Waterdeep alter the ancient cematary of the city, eliminating individual graves and creating the tombs of the City of the Dead.
1252/The Year of the Empty Goblet
--After two years of growing skirmishes with undead, the Lords of Waterdeep establish walls around the City of the Dead, and her still- current curfews.
1254/The Year of Silent Steel
--In Turmish, the hero Corwin Freas is assassinated.
1255/The Year of the Raging Flame
--Growth in trade and population forces the walls of Waterdeep to move northward again (to the current paths of Sulmoor and Julthoon Streets).
--Founding of the Shadow Thieves of Waterdeep.
1256/The Year of the Dusty Throne
--Khelben the Elder disappears from Waterdeep, though his tower remains occupied by his apprentices.
c.1257
--The aarakocra civilization in the Riders to the Sky Mountains is driven to extinction by Chessentan mercinaries hunting for sport.
c.1260
--Lathander appears to certain of his clergy, commanding them to build a temple in ruined Myth Drannor, and giving them the Dawnstone for their altar. These clergy form a special order, the Seekers of the Dawn, and found the Dawnspire in the ruins.
1261/The Year of Bright Dreams
--Azoun III (1241 to 1275), King of Cormyr.
1262/The Year of the Black Wind
--The Shadow Thieves establish their base of operations (the Citadel of the Bloody Hand) inside Mount Waterdeep.
1264/The Year of the Shattered Altar
--The tombs of two Tethyrian monarchs, Strohm IV and Samyte the Martyr, are looted by Bhaal-worshipers.
c.1265
--The wizard-king of Halruaa moves the capital from Halagard to Halarahh..
1268/The Year of the Daystars
--The Flying Plague, a horde of perytons, harpies, and manticores attacks the southern Moonsea region and destroys the city of Lis.
1273/The Year of the Wagon
--Baeron and Shilarn revive Ahghairon's system of rule in Waterdeep. Baeron becomes Lord of Waterdeep. The houses of Zoar and Gildeggh are Outcast (exiled from the city). Magisters ("Black Robes") appointed to keep justice in the city and, by the month of Uktar, the Shadow Thieves' ventures are deterred and they, as a group, are outlawed.
--Waterdeep's population rises, reaching 100,000 by years end.
1275/The Year of the Blade
--Rhigaerd II crowned King of Cormyr (at 6 years of age); his uncle Salember ("The Rebel Prince") reigns as Regent in Cormyr until 1286.
1276/The Year of the Crumbling Keep
--The Lords of Waterdeep allow the city's perimeter to expand out to the borders they hold to the current day. North and Sea Wards are added and ward boundaries are adjusted and established as they remain today.
--The Lords increase their numbers beyond Ahghairon's self-imposed limits, and establish sixteen Lords of Waterdeep.
1278/The Year of Many Bones
--First recorded mention of the Draconomicon.
1280/The Year of the Manticore
--Thay's second invasion attempt overwhelms Mulhorand. Sultim is beseiged and nearly falls before reinforcements arrive. Priests of Anhur are made scapegoats.
--Old Skull Inn built in Shadowdale.
1286/The Year of the Rock
--Rhigaerd II (1269 to 1335), King of Cormyr.
--Methlas begins building a new pirate-fleet in the Inner Sea.
1288/The Year of the Roaring Horn
--Mulmaster sends an expeditionary force to Ironfang Keep; beginning of numerous gnoll attacks in the area.
1294/The Year of the Deep Moon
--Methlas, a Cormyrean merchant-turned-pirate, amasses a fleet of ships in the Inner Sea. He is assassinated by his lieutenant, Thevren.
--Thevren sacks the cities of Selgaunt and Saerloon.
1297/The Year of the Singing Skull
--The dwarves of Ironfang in the Alaoreum Mountains of Turmish re-emerge into the surface world.
--Yenandra "The Pirate Queen" begins her reign in Dambrath.
--The nobles of Yulash begin a bitter quarrel for the lordship of the city.
1298/The Year of the Pointed Bone
--Lhestyn, as the "Masked Lady," infiltrates Shadow Thieves Guild of Waterdeep and exposes it. Within the span of a bloody week, the Shadow Thieves are either dead or fled from the city due to the Watch and the Lord's agents (like Lhestyn).
1300/The Year of the Starfall
--Lhestyn weds Zelphar Arunsun, a powerful mage from Neverwinter (and acknowledged youngest son of Khelben the Elder).
1302/The Year of the Broken Helm
--Gharri of Gond born.
--Durnan and Mirt the Merciless return from Undermountain and retire as rich men.
1305/The Year of the Creeping Fang
--Laershala kills Thilana and assumes control of the pirates of the Inner Sea.
1306/The Year of Thunder
--A dragon invasion, known as the Dragon Run, sweeps out of the Moonsea North. Phlan is destroyed.
--Durnan establishes the Yawning Portal over the ruins of Halaster's Hold, controlling the access to the dungeons beneath the city.
1307/The Year of the Mace
--Sulasspryn collapses into a huge sinkhole, destroying the city.
1308/The Year of the Catacombs
--Baeron, Open Lord of Waterdeep, dies of fever, and Shilarn, his wife, immolates herself on his funeral pyre.
1311/The Year of the Fist
--Zelphar Arunsun dies at the hands of evil sorcery, though the source remains undetermined to this day. Lhestyn secretly names Piergeiron, a paladin and officer of the city guard, a Lord and her eventual successor as Open Lord of Waterdeep.
--Rezim becomes vizier of Mulhorand and begins to persecute the church of Anhur. Chessentan mercinaries replace Anhur worshippers as guards of Skuld.
1312/The Year of the Griffon
--Durnan founds the Red Sashes as his own personal agents in Waterdeep, creating a precaution against such blatant disregards for the watch as grow common in Dock Ward (such as the death of Zelphar Arunsun).
1314/The Year of the Shadowtop
--The Pirate Queen Laershala dies in combat with a Cormyrean Freesail; the pirates of the Inner Sea break up into squabbling factions.
c.1315
--The Company of the Howling Wolf kills the archmage Iniarv.
1316/The Year of the Gulagoar
--The arch-mages Orcrommor the Mighty and Asblan the Bold destroy each other in an aerial battle over the city of Ordulin.
1317/The Year of the Wandering Wyrm
--Great Plague of the Inner Sea (also called the Dragon Plague). Chessenta is decimated, Unther suffers, but Mulhorand is largely
unaffected. The Vilhon manages to restrict its spread and is relatively unscathed.
--Death of the sorcerer-king Nesker. The first High Blade takes power in Mulmaster.
1320/The Year of the Watching Cold
--Plague in the Inner Sea.
--The Thayvians withdraw from Escalant in the wake of the Great Plague.
1321/The Year of Chains
--King Zaor of Evermeet is assassinated. Queen Amlaruil becomes sole ruler of the Elves.
1322/The Year of Lurking Death
--Khelben, son of Zelphar and Lhestyn, claims the long-vacant Arunsun Tower as his own, renaming it after his new title of "the Blackstaff.
1324/The Year of the Grimoire
--Luthcheq invades Mordulkin, to take advantage of heavy losses in the plague years. Luth-cheq loses the war and the losses are blamed on wizard-spies in the service of Mordulkin. Luthcheq begins its persecution of wizards.
c.1325
--Harper's Hold is built deep into the slopes of Mt. Waterdeep.
1327/The Year of the Blue Flame
--The mad wizard Yarash moves into the pyramid on Sorcerer's Isle.
1328/The Year of the Adder
--"Homeland" ends
1331/The Year of the Leaping Dolphin (NOTE: "The Wyvern's Spur" gives this year as the Year of Temples)
1332/The Year of the Sword and Stars
--Florin Falconhand is born.
--The Wyrmstrike of Dunbridges (Border Kingdoms).
1333/The Year of the Striking Falcon
--Islif Lurelake is born.
--Tale of the Azure Bonds (Mirtul to Kythorn), The Wyvern's Spur (Flamerule to Ches 1334).
1335/The Year of the Snow Winds (NOTE: The Waterdeep Boxed Set gives the name of this year as the Year of the Shaking Serpent)
-- "The Family Business" (Realms of Valor)
--A spell-duel in Ordulin between Thindol of the Zhentarim and the awakened lich Bhalgustrin ends with the death of Thindol.
--The "Bleak Winter" in the North.
1336/The Year of the Highmantle (Note: Realms of Valor [in "Elminster at the Magefair"]gives the name of this year as Year of the Dark Dragon)
1338/The Year of the Wanderer
--"Exile" begins
--The gnoll invasions of Mulmaster end.
1339/The Year of the Weeping Moon
--Sharra Frohm, the great-great-great granddaughter of Palus Frohm, decides to continue her grandfather's work. Travelling alone, she enters the Great Glacier and is never heard from again.
1340/The Year of the Lion
--"Exile" ends
--"Pool of Radiance": A band of adventurers destroys the Pool of Radiance in Phlan and frees the ruins from the monster curse.
--"Sojourn" begins
1341/The Year of the Gate
--Illistyl Elventree is born.
1342/The Year of the Behir
--Marune, a chief agent of the Shadow Thieves, sells his house and holdings in Luskan and Mirabar, and disappears.
1344/The Year of Moonfall
--Chondathian and Sespechian logging sorties are repelled by a combined force of elves and druids.
1345/The Year of the Saddle
--"Darkwalker on Moonshae"
--Plague in Amn.
--A mysterious explosion levels the temple of Waukeen in Thentia.
--Later known as "the Night of the Templefall," fires consume the Spires of the Morning (Waterdeep's oldest temple) and the House of Heroes in early winter. Both temples are rebuilt within the next year.
1346/The Year of the Bloodbird
--"Black Wizards"
--"Darkwell"
--Cult of Tiamat summons the Dark Lady.
--The Knights of Myth Drannor receive their first charter from King Azoun of Cormyr.

1347/The Year of the Bright Blade
--"Sojourn" ends Drizzt Do'Urden comes to Icewind Dale.
--Tyranthraxus takes up residence in Valjevo Castle, Phlan.
--Mysterious fires destroy the old temple in Everdusk Hall. Not even magic can stop the destruction.
1348/The Year of the Spur
--Fall of the Kingdom of Tethyr.
--The Halruaan necromancer Random spreads the spell Read Southern Magic across Halruaa.
--Selfaril becomes High Blade of Mulmaster, by killing his predecessor.
--The Battle of Six Smoking Shields: The forces of Dunbridges repel an attack by the army of Thuntar (Border Kingdoms).
1350/The Year of the Morningstar
--"Pools of Darkness": Phlan disappears from the shores of the Moonsea, but is returned by the same adventurers who destroyed the Pool of Radiance ten years earlier.
--The treasury and armory of King Osbrun of Chessagol are looted, apparently by magic.
--Elminster retires to Shadowdale.
--The Knights of Myth Drannor destroy a Zhentarim stronghold, the Flaming Tower.
--Manshoon forms an alliance with beholders.
1351/The Year of the Crown
--"The Crystal Shard" begins. Regis steals Pasha Pook's magical ruby, flees Calimport to Ten Towns. Akar Kessel begins working with the Silver Shard on Kelvin's Cairn.
1352/The Year of the Dragon
--Prologue of "Ironhelm"
1353/The Year of the Arch
--"A Virtue by Reflection" (Realms of Valor)
--The main buildings of Helm's Stead are fortified; the monastary is renamed Helm's Hold.
1354/The Year of the Bow
--The Night of Fire: The Four Mages of Felshroun defend the Free Barony against a Red Wizard attack (Border Kingdoms).
--Dunkelzhan of Candlekeep writes The Origin Myths--A Treatise.
1355/The Year of the Harp
--The Knights of Myth Drannor and their allies repulse a Zhentarim attack against Shadowdale.
--Great fires rage across the Shining Plains.
1356/The Year of the Worm
--"The Crystal Shard" ends Drizzt Do'Urden and Wulfgar kill Icingdeath (Eleasias). Battle of Icewind Dale (Eleasias).
--"Streams of Silver"
--"The Halfling's Gem" begins
--"The Lord of Lowhill" (Realms of Valor)
--Siege of Dragonspear Castle.
--Founding of the Iron Throne.
--The Statues That Walk begin animating in Mulhorand.
--Lyran the Pretender attacks Shadowdale.
--The temple of Bane in Voonlar is sacked by Shadowdale forces. 400 prisoners, including drow and Zhentarim, are taken.
--Sembia bans the elven races from Sembian soil.
--Alusair Nacacia, youngest daughter of Azoun IV, vanishes from Suzail.
--An attacking wave of dragons is diverted from Silverymoon, but the city has an official ride in mourning anyway, because the sister of Lady Alustriel, Sylune, died in combat with a dragon in Shadowdale.
--Two known Red Wizards are crushed while standing on the docks in Alaghon. The druids of the Enclave are suspected.
--Dabron Sashenstar charts a passage through the Novularond Peaks to Sossal. He also discovers the tower of the long-dead mage Caddelyn.
--The High Captain Suljack of Luskan addresses the Merchant's League in Baldur's Gate.
1357/The Year of the Prince
--"The Halfling's Gem" ends.
--"Dark Mirror" (Realms of Valor)
--"The Legacy"
--"Starless Night"
--"Azure Bonds": Alias and Dragonbait track down the makers of the Azure Bonds. In the process, they destroy the evil magician Cassandra of Westgate, the lich Xrie Praxis, the Fire Knives guild, and the fiend Phalse, and they ban the god of decay Moander from Faerun.
--Lady Alustriel forges an alliance with Bruenor Battlehammer of Mithril Hall and helps defend the dwarf halls against the Baenre drow clan.
--"Spellfire": Shandril Shessair kills a dracolich of the Dragon Cult and does heavy damage to Zhentil Keep and the Citadel of the Raven with Spellfire.
--"Crown of Fire"
--Manshoon and Fzoul Chembryl are taken ill but are healed.
--Slave riots in Messemprar.
--Gauntylgrym is re-discovered by the Company of the Gryphon.
--Civil War in Melvaunt..
--The Salamander War: The Tharchion of Lapendrar, allied with the Zulkirs of Enchantment and Conjuration, open a Gate to the Elemental Plane of Fire, and begin a campaign against the North Coast Cities.
--Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun shatters the Crown of Horns, freeing Laeral Silverhand from Myrkul's evil influence. He returns to Waterdeep with her to help her heal; within three years, they are inseparable, and Laeral is often referred to as Lady Arunsun.
--A tribe of kobolds takes up residence in the Maiden's Tomb Tor, unnoticed by Waterdeep.
1358/The Year of Shadows /(1333 CR)/(326 NR)/(0 PR)
--The Time of Troubles; gods walk the Realms. - The Avatar Trilogy "Shadowdale", "Tantras" and "Waterdeep"). Destruction of Bane, Bhaal, Myrkul, Waukeen, and perhaps other gods (Leira). Ascendency of Cyric and Midnight.
--Auril stalks the Great Glacier.
--Azuth is present at the Pool of Yeven, on the River Ashaba.
--Bane travels to Zhentil Keep, Castle Kilgrave, Scardale, and Tantras (where he is killed).
--Beshaba fights with Tymora in the North.
--Bhaal is present at the Haunted Halls of Eveningstar, and Boarskyr Bridge (where he is killed).
--Deneir graces Twilight Hall in Berdusk with his presence.
--The Dwarven Gods roam Citadel Adbar, Ironmaster, the Earthfast Mountains, and the Great Rift, slaying many orcs and other fell creatures.
--The Elven Gods rest in Evermeet and Everska.
--Gond Wonderbringer falls to Lantan in the form of a gnome. He gives the Lantanese the secrets of smoke powder and guns.
--Helm spends the Troubles guarding the Nexus of the Planes.
--Ilmater roams the Bloodstone Lands.
--Malar stalks the Gulthmere and is challenged by Nobanion. He is driven north and west towards the Sword Coast.
--Mielikki stays in her stronghold, the Tall Trees, within the High Forest.
--Myrkul dies in Waterdeep.
--Mystra is known to have visited Castle Kilgrave.
--Oghma calls on his patriarch in Procampur.
--Selune is in Waterdeep, foiling Shar's plots.
--Shar spends the Troubles in Waterdeep, pretending to be Selune (hoping to draw her out in order to kill her).
--Silvanus is rumored to have roamed the Winterwood and the Chondalwood, and to have visited Ilighon.
--Ssethh kills Vaerae and absorbs his portfolio; the snake-god also appears in Chult.
--Sune is known to have been in Teziir, in the avatar of a beautiful woman with silky scarlet hair and fiery red-brown eyes.
--Talona meets with the wizard Aballister and leads him to Castle Trinity, in the northern Snowflake Mountains.
--Torm was in Tantras, where he punished an unfaithful cleric and killed Bane.
--Tymora held worship in her church in Arabel.
--Umberlee was active in the Sea of Fallen Stars and around the Pirate Isles, causing havoc and driving away many pirate worshippers.
--Xvim spent the Troubles imprisoned beneath Zhentil Keep.
--Ao's voice is heard by many in Waterdeep, and his temple is established on the ruins in the market.
--The demi-power Malyk appears in the Underdark following Mystra's destruction.
--Following the Godswar, the priesthood of Waukeen loses its' hold over the city of Nesme.
--"Wyvern's Spur"(Ches): Flattery Wyvernspur is hunted and destroyed.
--"Song of the Saurials": Moander returns to the Forgotten Vale and takes control of the settlement of Saurials, but is driven back into the Planes by Alias, Dragonbait, and others along with the "Nameless Bard" Finder Wyvernspur. Finder destroys Moander and becomes a demi-power himself.
--End of the Ruathym/Luskan Wars.
--Gilgeam kills Tiamat. Tiamat's deific essence is split into three pieces, one of which inhabits the red dragon Tchazzar.
--The drow of Menzoberranzan raid Mithril Hall.
1359/The Year of the Serpent
--"Horselords"
--"Dragonwall"
--"The Night Parade"
--"Daughter of the Drow"
--Damara united by Gareth Dragonsbane.
--Tuigan horde united beneath its Khahan. Yamun Khahan invades Kara-Tur.
--Hubadai (son of Yamun) invades Semphar.
--Battle of Shar's Pass: On Uktar 15, the Tuigans under Batu Min Ho battle the Red Wizards to a standstill. The Griffon Legion is almost completely destroyed.
--A new type of dragon, the "cinnamon dragon," is discovered in Turmish.
--The Risen Cult of Bane surfaces in the Moonshaes.
1360/The Year of the Turrent
--"Crusade"
--"The Parched Sea": Thorugh the efforts of a Harper hero named Lander (who is killed) and the witch Ruha, the Harpers manage to put a good dent into Zhentarim caravan operations in the Anauroch desert.
--"Tangled Webs"
--"The Curse of Tegea"(Realms of Valor)
--"King's Tear" (Realms of Valor)
--Tuigan horde invades Faerûn. Citadel Rashemar is destroyed.
--Crusade of The Alliance against the Tuigan. King Azoun IV kills Yamun Khahan in the 2nd Battle of the Golden Way in Thesk.
--Elminster addresses the Lord's Alliance.
--The famed bard Mintipur Moonsilver writes the Ballad of a Tyrant.
1361/The Year of Maidens
--Rumors of the Harper Assassin spread throughout Waterdeep.
--"Elfshadow": The Harper Assassin plagues the North. Danilo Thann and Arilyn Moonblade discover that the assassin is really the gold elf Kymil Nimesin.
--Danilo Thann becomes a Harper.
--The Cleric Quintet ("Canticle", "In Sylvan Shadows", "Night Masks", "Fallen Fortress", "The Chaos Curse") begins
--"Into the Void"
--The Revelation of the True World of Maztica.- The Maztica Trilogy ("Ironhelm", "Viperhand", "Feathered Dragon") begins.
--A group of vampire-hunting adventurers, the Foes of the Fang, forms in Waterdeep
--The Banedeath--holy war in Zhentil Keep. Orthodox Banite worship driven underground in that city.
--The Black Lord's Cloak in Mourktar is swelled with refugee Baneites.
--Zhentarim infiltrate Anauroch.
--Thydrim Yvarrg becomes Huhrong of Rashemen.
--Four archmages of the Dragon Cult, allied with a dracolich and an army of undead, attack Silverymoon. Alustriel and Taern "Thunderspell" Hornblades battle the cultists until Khelben"Blackstaff" and Laeral arrive from Waterdeep to help save the city.
--The forces of Waterdeep attack the kobolds of Maiden's Tomb Tor and drive them deep within the mountain.
1362/The Year of the Helm
--The Cleric Quintet ends
--The Maztica Trilogy ends
--"Red Magic"
1363/The Year of the Wyvern
--"The Ring of Winter": The Harper Artus Cimber finds and wins the long-lost Ring of Winter in the Jungles of Chult and returns to the mainland with it.
--"Patronage" (Realms of Valor)
--"The Bargain" (Realms of Valor)
--The Battle of Daggerford.
1364/The Year of the Wave
--"Grandfather's Toys" (Realms of Valor)
--"Crypt of the Shadowking": The Harpers Caledan Caledorian and Mari Al'Maren destroy the Shadow King in the crypts beneath Irieabor, after the Shadow King kills the Zhentarim ruler Ravendas. The Zhentarim lose control of the City of a Thousand Spires.
--"Elfsong"
--"Silver Shadows"
--Baron Thuragar Foesmasher becomes ruler of newly-independant Sespech.
--Droughts, increased monster activity, and political unrest plague Waterdeep for months leading up to Midsummer. A green dragon and an
apparently mad bard disrupt the Shieldmeet cerimonies at the Field of Triumph, nearly upsetting the Lord's Rule.
--Danilo Thann becomes a Lord of Waterdeep.
1365/The Year of the Sword
--The Druidhome Trilogy ("Prophet of Moonshae", "The Coral Kingdom", "The Druid Queen").
--Alicia Kendrick becomes High Queen of the Moonshaes. Piergeiron of Waterdeep attends the coronation, and rumors that the Paladinson is taken with Alicia, but not she with him spread furiously through Waterdeep..
--Limited trade is established between Waterdeep and the lands of Maztica and Zakhara. The high-risk ventures (as many as 60% of the ships are lost at sea) are jointly managed by the priesthood of Helm and various noble families.
1366/The Year of the Staff
--"The Soldiers of Ice"
--The famed Knights of the Sword Coast retire in Waterdeep.
--Lord Chess becomes ruler of Zhentil Keep.
--A Red Wizard in Turmish dies when his residence is repeatedly struck by lightning bolts during a freak summer storm. The druids of the
Emerald Enclave are suspected in the attack.
1367/The Year of the Shield
--"The Ogre's Pact"
--In Mirabar, an enterprising wizardess named Shoundra manages to set herself up as Sceptrana (ruler) of the city.
--Trolltide turns deadly in Waterdeep as people begin polymorphing into trolls.
--After strange events in the Rat Hills send a cloud of smoke over Waterdeep, many Waterdhavians contract a mild plague.
--Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun reveals himself publicly as a Lord of Waterdeep, then resigns and presents his masked successor (Danilo Thann).
--A major earthquake destroys much of Eltabbar.
--Two nights of emerald green snow in Nightal fall upon Silverymoon and the area within two days' ride of the city. The snow disappears quickly, but leads to fantastic plant growth and fruit production.
--The Time of the Beast. Some wise men prophecy that the beasts who once ruled the land will soon return to claim it.
1368/The Year of the Banner
--"The Prince of Lies"
--Cyric unleashes his Inquisition on Zhentil Keep.
--Cyric kills Leira and takes her portfolio. Kelemvor deposes Cyric as Lord of the Dead.
--Iyachtu Xvim rises as a demi-power and then a lesser power. Fzoul Chembryl founds Xvim's new church and leads it as High Tyrannar from an underground temple beneath Zhentil Keep.
--Something begins driving the trolls out of the Evermoors.
--The Font of Knowledge (temple of Oghma) finishes construction in Waterdeep.
--Zaranda (1331 to ?), Wife of Haedrak III, Queen of Tethyr (peoples choice as monarch).
--The Elemental Gods (Akadi, Grumbar, Istishia, Kossuth, and Shaundakul) draw followers in Faerun.
1369/The Year of the Gauntlet
--Tanta Hagara sends raiding parties out of Hellgate Keep.
--Turlang and his treants herd trees from the High Forest to the ruins of the Keep and to Hellgate Pass, blocking the Pass and keeping Hellgate Keep from being used again.
--People in the Nesme area discover that a black dragon and fog and cloud giants are among the creatures driving the trolls from the
Evermoors.
--The Harpell family completes the magic bridge over the River Surbrin at Nesme.
--The northern nation of Luruar is founded by the dwarves and men of Citadel Adbar, Citadel Felbarr, Deadsnows, Everlund, Jalanthar, Mithril Hall, Quaervarr, Silverymoon, and Sundabar. Lady Alustriel steps down as ruler of Silverymoon after being elected leader of Luruar.
1370/The Year of the Tankard
--Riatavin and Trailstone secede from Amn to Tethyr.
--Almost all humanoids inhabiting the western lowlands of Tethyr are driven out or killed.
--Queen Zaranda and King Haedrak III of Tethyr have triplets; Sybille, Coram, and Cyriana.
--The Font of Knowledge and New Olamn in Waterdeep grow in popularity.
--Treants and other creatures unite in the High Forest.
--Company of the Jaded Heart disappears into the ruins of Hellgate Keep.
--By the Feast of the Moon, the new outer walls and High Palace of Silverymoon are completed.
1371/The Year of the Unstrung Harp
--"Evermeet"
1372/The Year of Wild Magic
--"Pool of Twilight