Greenskin Timeline

The following contains a list of events within the timeline of the Greenskins.


 * -c.10,000 -- Near the dawn of creation, the greenskins appeared, although no one knows how. Shamans tell stories of Gork and Mork falling from the sky to populate the world with greenskins. The Old Ones recognise Orcs and Goblins as a threat and send the Saurus to war with them. They are unable to exterminate the undesirables.


 * -c.1,500 -- The Elves abandon the Old World and the Dwarf empire is ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Orcs and Goblins pour over the lands. The Dwarfs term this time, which lasts for 500 years, the Goblin Wars. The first hold to fall is Karak Ungor, known hereafter as Red Eye Mountain.


 * -1499 -- The fall of the second Dwarfhold, Karak Varn. This hold overlooked the Black Water and its lower mines were flooded during the earthquakes. Ensuing attacks by Night Goblins and Skaven drove the Dwarfs out in this year. The lair is henceforth called Crag Mere. From this time onwards foul things grow and mutate in the dark waters and it is dangerous even to approach the Black Water's Shoreline.


 * -1498 -- Orc Warlord Argor Foespike ousts the Dwarfs of the Dragonback Mountains and establishes the Orc lair known as Mount Bloodhorn. Elsewhere the watchtowers of Mad Dog Pass fall to the greenskins.


 * -1457 -- The Dwarf mines of Mount Gunbad fall to the Bloody Spear Night Goblins, who hold them against the treacherous attacks of the Red Face Goblins.


 * -1387 to 1367 -- The Silver Road Wars are fought between Dwarfs and Goblins. At their height, only one in five Dwarfen caravans survives the journey through the greenskin-infested Deadrock Gap. Mount Silverspear is taken by the orc Warlord Urk Grimfang, who naturally renames it Mount Grimfang.


 * -1250 to 1230 -- Thunder Mountain erupts, dislodging many Trolls and prompts what the Dwarfs call the Troll Wars.


 * -1245 -- A Dwarf offensive clears out many greenskins and, after much hard fighting, regains control of the Worlds Edge Mountains between Karak Kadrin and Mad Dog Pass. The Dwarfs begin rebuilding, but are outraged by the many despoiled tombs and strongholds of their ancestors.


 * -c.1200 -- Nagash the Great Necromancer excavates the Cursed Pit. Orcs and Goblins flee west, but many are slain.


 * -1185 -- The Crag Mere Battles. Dwarfs battle Orcs and Night Goblins to re-enter Karak Varn. Many on both sides are slain when the fighting nears the lake edge and mutated monsters burst forth to feed upon the combatants.


 * -c.1175 -- An ancient human civilisation battles greenskins for control of what will later become known as the Badlands. Kadon, an ancient Necromancer who has found the Crown of Nagash, helps the humans send the goblinoids fleeing to the Dark Lands. The humans build many cities, as well as burial grounds and cairns for their dead.


 * -c.1020 to 1000 -- A Waaagh! sweeps through what is now the Badlands, reclaiming it for Orcs and Goblins. The human cities are turned to rubble and Kadon is slain by Savage Orcs. The mysterious crown is carried northwards by Kadon's few surviving disciples.


 * -975 -- A Dwarf attempt to recapture Red Eye Mountain is denied. Dwarfs call it the Battle of a Thousand Woes, but greenskins refer to it as simple 'annuver big stunty bake'.


 * -c.750 -- Red Cloud Goblins discover a long-lost Dwarfen passage linking the Red Cloud and Fire Mountains. They use this secret way to attack and partially occupy Karak Azul. It takes ten years of fighting for the Dwarfs to cast them out.


 * -513 -- The Fall of Karak Eight Peaks. The Dwarfs, led by King Lunn, retreat after nearly two hundred years of fighting beneath the massive Dwarfen city. The battle continues with greenskins fighting the Skaven for domination of the old Dwarfhold.

Source

 * : Warhammer Armies: Orcs and Goblins (8th Edition)
 * : pg. 28