Warhammer Timeline

History of the Warhammer World by Brendon Gosney
The timeline lists general dates of major events according to the Imperial Calendar. If a date is given in the source material according to a different calendar (such as the Nehekharan Calendar which dates Year 0 as the beginning of King Settra the Imperishable's second reign, or the Gospodarin Calendar which dates Year 0 as the founding of the city of Kislev,) the dates are adjusted to the Imperial Calendar by matching them against the founding of the Empire of Man by Sigmar(Year 0, Imperial Calendar). The names of the various ages of creation are credited to the Lizardmen since they have the longest continual history of any intelligent race of the Warhammer World.

Whenever the date of an event is unknown, but it is understood to have happened after the given year, it will be listed as a subset of the given year.

The Dawn of Creation (-15,000 to -5600 IC)

 * -15,000 IC The Old Ones arrive in what is now the tropical continent of Lustria on the Warhammer World through their newly-constructed polar Warp Gates. These arcane gates spawn pathways through the immaterial realm called the Aethyr, connecting multiple points instantaneously across the physical universe.
 * The first spawning of Slann Mage-Priests is created through the arcane biological engineering of the Old Ones.
 * -10,000 IC The founding of the first city by the Old Ones in Lustria, called Itza. Soon, the cities of Xlanhuapec and Tlax are founded as well.
 * The second generation of Slann are spawned by the Old Ones and are ordered to use the Old One's technology to change the orbit of the planet and move it closer to its sun, making it more hospitable to life, particularly for the warmth-loving reptilian Slann and Lizardmen.
 * The Old Ones begin to exert control over the various animal species of the world, bending them to their will and in some cases reshaping their forms.
 * The third generation of Slann are spawned. They found the temple-cities of Tlaxtlan, Quetza, and Zlatlan in Lustria.
 * The fourth generation of Slann are spawned to attend to the polar Warp Gates, and they found the remaining temple-cities of the growing Lizardmen empire.
 * The Old Ones split the world's existing single supercontinent into the separate continents whose geography is similar to what they look like today. The so-called "World Pond," as the Great Ocean is called by the Old Ones, is created to produce this separation. The pattern of the continents of the Warhammer World may have been duplicated or copied from the many worlds influenced by the Old Ones across the universe.
 * The Saurus subrace of the Lizardmen are created to protect the temple-cities, and enforce the will of the Old Ones. They set out to exterminate many "undesirable" races who are later discovered to inhabit the Warhammer World, including the Greenskins.
 * The Old Ones experiment further, bending the primordial intelligent races of the world to new and different shapes. Elves, Dwarfs, and Humans are created or at least modified by the Old Ones at this time to survive on the world. Whether these peoples are truly native to the Warhammer World or emigrated from elsewhere is unknown.
 * The Old Ones create suitable habitats and climates on the planet for each of the intelligent races and animals they have created.
 * The Elves record this period as their Golden Age, when the world was at peace and their civilization and population size reached its heights. The Elves are a single people at this time and dwell in a large group of independent kingdoms on the island-continent of Ulthuan that the Old Ones shaped just for them.
 * The Greenskins first appeared in the Warhammer World sometime during this period. It is unknown whether they are a race native to the Warhammer World, though the Old Ones' surprise at their sudden appearance indicates that they were probably an unexpected addition to the world's ecosystems. The Old Ones send the Saurus to war against the undesirable race and remove them from the world. The Saurus are never able to fully stamp out the Greenskin menace, only control the population size of the myriad Orc and Goblin tribes. This is presumably due to the unusual reproductive system of the Greenskins, which allows them to survive even the total genocide of their existing populations. The Greenskins will become a near-constant danger to all the civilized peoples of the Warhammer World in the millennia to come.

The Fall (-5600 to -4500 IC)

 * -5,600 to -4,500 IC The Old Ones' polar Warp Gates collapse and explode for some unknown reason. Chaos first enters the world as the raw Winds of Magic sweep across the planet from the ruined gates, which now serve as direct portals into the other-dimensional Aethyr, the Realm of Chaos.
 * The Old Ones disappear from the world at some point after the collapse of the Warp Gates, either in their great starships or back through the damaged Warp Gates; where they go is unknown. The enigmatic race may even have perished trying to defend the world against the entities of Chaos. They leave their Slann and Lizardmen servants behind to inhabit their temple-cities in Lustria and try and protect the Warhammer World from the incursion of Chaos.
 * Before they leave the Warhammer World behind, the Old Ones create a new intelligent species, the Giants, to protect the island of Albion, a small, windswept island off the coast ofNorsca in the Great Ocean. In addition, the Old Ones create the Ogre and Halfling races as their final acts of creation before departing the planet.
 * The Dwarfs, created by the Old Ones to live within subterranean habitats, settle in the World's Edge Mountains.
 * The temple-city of Xahutec falls to the daemon armies of Chaos; all of the Slann and Lizardmen within are slaughtered.
 * The Lizardmen muster the largest armies ever assembled to combat the hordes of Chaos daemons who can now manifest physically in the world in what later becomes known as theFirst Great War Against Chaos. Millions of the intelligent reptilian creatures are killed in these gigantic, world-spanning battles, as are many Elves, as that fey race joins the battle against the forces of Chaos to protect their homeland of Ulthuan. This first phase of the massive, global conflict becomes known as the First Great Chaos Incursion.
 * The Lizardmen temple-cities of Huatl, Tlanxla, Chaqua, and Xhotl are all destroyed by the hordes of Chaos daemons spilling from the polar gates.
 * Contact between the Lizardmen of Lustria and the Lizardmen of the Southlands is broken.
 * One of the oldest members of the first spawning of the Slann, Chiccotta of Zlatlan, manages to remove all of the Chaos daemons and mutants from the Southlands through the use of one potent spell that banishes them back into the Aethyr, though the magic costs his life in the process.
 * The Dwarfs first encounter Elves and become their allies in the fight against Chaos.
 * The Lizardmen temple-city of Chupayotl begins to sink into the ocean.

First Great War Against Chaos (-5000 to -4421 IC)

 * -4500 IC The Elf Aenarion the Defender passes through the Sacred Flame to become the first Phoenix King of Ulthuan.
 * -4470 IC Aenarion draws the Sword of Khaine and the Elven race is cursed.
 * -4461 IC Aenarion finds and marries Morathi
 * -4458 IC The Birth of Malekith.
 * -4421 IC The Phoenix King Aenarion is wounded in the Battle for the Isle of the Dead with the forces of Chaos and flees to the Blighted Isle where he places the Sword of Khaine back on the altar of the Shrine of Asuryan. He is never seen again.
 * -4421 IC The Elves create the Vortex, draining vast amounts of magical energy from the world while being aided covertly by the Slann, who use their own magic to modify the Vortex so that it affects the Chaos energy being emitted by the southern as well as the northern polar Warp Gates.
 * When the Warp Gates at the planet's poles exploded and the power of Chaos spilled into the world, daemons and other creatures from the Aethyr began preying upon the early Elves during the First Great Chaos Incursion. A great Elven hero named Aenarion the Defender arose and forged an alliance between the rival Elven states. United for the first time in their history, the Elves drove back the daemons and creatures of Chaos and Aenarion was crowned the first Phoenix King of all Ulthuan, taking Astarielle as his Everqueen. After a time, the minions of Chaos invaded the homeland of the Elves once again during the Second Great Chaos Incursion, this time with their corrupted human followers. A great host of daemons assaulted the Inner Kingdom of Avelorn and slew the Everqueen and, it was believed, Aenarion's two children. Maddened by his family's loss and the attacks on his people, Aenarion drew the Sword of Khaine and led the Elven host to war against Chaos once more. Aenarion won a titanic battle against the forces of Chaos and managed to plunge the Sword back into the Altar of Khaine before he died. His sacrifice bought enough time for the great Elven High Mage Caledor Dragontamer to enact his plan to drain the Chaos energy away from the world. Caledor Dragontamer intended to use the ancient Menhir Stones (focal points of magical energy created by the Old Ones around Ulthuan, to drain off the Chaos energy of the Aethyr which was spewing into the world from the damaged Warp Gates at the poles. This energy allowed the creatures of the Realm of Chaos such as daemons to manifest bodily in the physical world with ease and assault the Elves. Unfortunately, the magical energy required to carry out the plan was so great (despite the covert aid of the Slann in Lustria) that it caused the entrapment within the magical sink that came to be called the Vortex of all the Elven High Mages invloved, including Caledor. The plan created the Vortex on the Isle of the Dead at the very centre of Ulthuan which continuously drains magical energy away from the world. However, the plan proved only partially successful, for while the enormous amount of magical energy emitted by the polar Chaos Gates is drained away, it continues to spill from the Realm of Chaos in large enough amounts to create and maintain the Chaos Wastes, thus allowing Chaos to retain large footholds on the Warhammer World. Following the creation of the Vortex, Chaos daemons could no longer manifest in the physical world with ease, though the could still haunt the Wastes where the concentration of magic remained abnormally high. Despite their success, Caledor and the rest of the High Mages were trapped inside the Vortex, where they suffered eternal imprisonment as time had ceased to flow naturally within the raging storm of magical energy.
 * The Dwarf Ancestor Gods disappear. During the First Great War Against Chaos, the Dwarfs fought side-by-side with the Elves in a desperate struggle for the survival of the Dwarf hold of Karak Vlag in the northern reaches of the World's Edge Mountains. Karak Vlag was enveloped by the warping power of Chaos, cutting it off from the rest of the world. After the Chaotic hordes had finally been driven back to their own realm following the creation of the Vortex on Ulthuan, the Dwarfs returned to the site of Karak Vlag to find that the stronghold and its entire garrison had disappeared into the Realm of Chaos, as if it had never existed. It was after this first coming of Chaos that the Dwarf Ancestor Gods also lost contact with their worshippers.
 * The Ogham Circles, magical defenses created to keep the power of Chaos at bay, are erected on the isle of Albion after the end of the First Great War Against Chaos. The island of Albion first entered the annals of history when it was chosen as a location for the massive stone circles erected by both the Lizardmen and the High Elves during the First Great War Against Chaos. The circular formations of standing Ogham stones are part of the ancient network of magical defenses that direct the raw Winds of Magic that blow from the Realm of Chaos at the north pole of the world towards the magical Vortex erected by the High Elves on Ulthuan. The damp, stormy weather and the degenerate, barbaric nature of the woad-wearing humans on the island are direct consequences of this magical influx.

The Age of Recovery

 * -4300 The first Dwarfs are sighted in Zorn Uzkul, the Great Skull Land, in the Plain of Zharr.
 * -4119 Malekith called Malekith the Great at this time, and Snorri Whitebeard (High King of the Dwarfs) combine their armies to drive Chaos from the Old World.
 * The first High Elf explorers venture into the jungles of Lustria.
 * -4000 Contact is lost with the Dwarf settlements in the Dark Lands and Zorn Uzkul, they are believed to have been destroyed by the tides of Chaos.
 * -3894 Chupayotl slips into the sea. Rumors persist to this day of an under water race taking up residence within.
 * -3500 Abandoned by their gods, Dwarfs of the Dark Lands turn to worship Hashut, the Father of Darkness.
 * -2839 Phoenix King Bel-Shanaar visits Karaz-a-Karak and strikes a peace accord with Snorri Whitebeard. The two races prosper until civil strife on Ulthuan recalls the Elven ambassadors.
 * -2750 Bel Shanaar is assassinated. Malekith passes through the Sacred Flame in an attempt to become the new Phoenix King, but he is horribly burned and subsequently flees to Nagarythe. Chracian hunters save the life of the future Phoenix King Caledor I, and become known as White Lions. Civil war erupts in Ulthuan.
 * -2723 The Sundering. As the intensity of the Ulthuan civil war increases, cataclysmic energies are unleashed, sinking Tiranoc and smashing Nagarythe to pieces. The Dark Elves, led by Malekith, raise the Black Arks and depart to the cold north to found the kingdom of Naggaroth on the northern continent of the New World, leaving the High Elves to rebuild their shattered land.
 * -2700 Chaos Dwarf sorcerers raise Mingol Zharr-Naggrund, the Great City of Fire and Desolation.
 * -2600 Enslavement of orc and Goblin tribes throughout the Dark Lands and the Mountains of Mourn.
 * -2500 Settra conquers all the lands of Nehekhara, appointing Princes to protect his rule. Thus begins the First Dynasty of Nehekhara.
 * Settra founds the city of Khemri as his seat of power.
 * The Nehekaran Priesthood of Awakening is founded.
 * The Pyramid of Eternity is built.
 * During the reign of Utep of Khemri, the Priests of Awakening take the first steps towards immortality.
 * -2188 The High Elves finally return to the Old World. Dwarf and Elf begin to trade once more.
 * -2005 Malekith sends Dark Elf warriors to harass Dwarf caravans, stealing gold and killing indiscriminately. Tensions rise between the Dwarfs and the High Elves (who are mistakenly framed for the incident).
 * -2000 Ancient texts from Zlatlan speak of strife between the Lizardmen and the lost Dwarf stronghold of Karak Zorn.
 * Kavzar is founded by humans. Eventually, it will become the seat of Skaven power, Skavenblight.
 * Birth of the future First Necromancer Nagash.
 * -1999 High King Gotrek Starbreaker of the Dwarfs send his ambassadors to Ulthuan in attempt to secure peace between the Elves and Dwarfs. When the Dwarf ambassadors ask for fair recompense for the damage the Elves supposedly caused, they are expelled in outrage by the Elves and their beards are shorn. This is the ultimate indiginity that can be suffered by a Dwarf and when the ambassadors return beardless to High King Gotrek, he swears to the Ancestral Gods of the Dwarfs that he will have venegeance against the Elves for this insult. The War of the Beard formally begins.
 * -1974 Snorri Halfhand, son of the High King of dwarfs, is slain by King Caledor II after challenging the elf to single combat.
 * -1968 Morgrim, cousin of Snorri Halfhand, kills the Elf Lord Imladrik at the battle of Oeragor.
 * Nagash studies Dark Magic from a group of Dark Elves stranded in Zandri after a heavy storm. Having learned all he could, Nagash defeats the elves' leaders in a sorcerous duel.
 * -1959 Nagash slays his brother, the Priest King of Khemri, and seizes power with an army of dead warriors. Arkhan the Black, Nagash's right hand, led the coup.
 * -1917 Dwarfs settle in Kavzar, creating an under-city, and helping the humans build their over-city.
 * Nagash creates an elixir from human blood to prolong his fading youth.
 * Start of the construction of the Black Pyramid of Nagash at the heart of Khemri's necropolis.
 * -1948 The Elf city of Athel Maraya is burned to the ground by a Dwarf army led by Morgrim.
 * -1880 Construction begins on the great Temple of Kavzar.
 * -1780 The Temple of Kavzar is completed except for single stone. Warpstone rains down on the city, and it is overrun by giant mutated rats.
 * -1750 Prince Lahmizzar of Lhamia gathers the Priest Kings of Nehekhara and unites their forces against Nagash. Nagash flees inside his Black Pyramid and summons a vast legion of skeletons.
 * The people of Khemri were so horrified by the Undead of Nagash that they unite with the Kings and march against Nagash.
 * -1650 After nearly a century of warfare, Nagash's power is finally broken. Lahmizzar's son avenges the death of his father by the hand of Nagash and strikes down the Great Necromancer. The Undead horde collapses.
 * Arkhan the Black leads the suicidal counter-attack, granting Nagash the opportunity to escape. Arkhan is slain.
 * Nagash flees north.
 * Raiding the Black Pyramid, Neferata, Lahmizzar's daughter and Queen of Lahmia, gets hold of one of the Nine Books of Nagash, containing all of his necromantic lore.
 * -1650 et seq Birth of the Vampires
 * Beginning as a quest to undo the evil Nagash had unleashed, Neferata is slowly corrupted by Nagash's work.
 * In an attempt to copy Nagash elixir of longevity, Neferata, though able to prolong her youth, needs fresh human blood to do so. She became the first Vampire.
 * After many years of secrecy, Nefetara gave her elixir to others, who had started to grow suspicious of her lasting youth. Among them, Ushoran, her brother, and Wsoran, the High priest.
 * They discover the blood kiss or how they can pass the gift of eternity with their own blood - the creation of lesser vampires.
 * One night, Abhorash, one of the Kings former guards, discovers Neferata drinking from a victim. The following day, Abhorash is tricked into drinking her blood. Though unable to resist the thirst for blood, he lives by his own code.
 * -1600 Phoenix King Caledor II is killed by High King Gotrek Starbreaker at the 14th siege of Tor Alessi (The Battle of the Three Towers) to bring the War of the Beard to an end.
 * The Phoenix Crown is taken to Karaz-a-Karak as recompense.
 * The first true Skaven emerge from the newly named Skavenblight. Skaven begin experimenting with magic, and begin to scour the land for more Warpstone.
 * Nagash's wanderings take him to the Crippled Peak by the Sour Sea which contains a massive chunk of Warpstone.
 * -1589 High Elf forces are re-called from the Old World to combat a new attempt by Dark Elves to gain a foothold on Ulthuan.
 * -1501 Athel Loren is founded by High Elves who choose to remain in the Old World, who become the Asrai, or Wood Elves.
 * -1500 The Slann make a minor shift in the world's plates assumed to be in accordance with the Old One's wishes. The World's Edge Mountains are torn apart by the resulting earthquakes.
 * The changes in the World's Edge Mountains are known as the Time of Woes for the Dwarfs. Many records created in strongholds are lost and interrupted. The Great Book of Grudgesin Karaz-a-Karak falls silent.
 * The Skaven enact a plan to use magic to expand the size of Skavenblight. A great machine is built to do this, but backfires and kills most of the city. The Council of Thirteen and Order of the Gray Seers rise to prominence to lead their race.
 * Karak Ankor is shattered as many Dwarf settlements and strongholds are destroyed. The great Underway is blocked or destroyed in places, cutting off several Dwarf strongholds from each other.
 * The first fortress to fall to the oncoming hordes of Orcs, Goblins, Skaven, Trolls and Ogres is Karak Ungor. It is taken by Night Goblins and is from then onwards known as Red Eye Mountain. The period following this is known as the Goblin Wars.
 * Nagash discovers warpstone to be a powerful aid to his sorcery. Undead slaves begin to create Nagashizzar, the Cursed Pit.
 * Primitive human tribesmen around the Sour Sea start to worship Nagash, leading to their devolution into corpse-eating Ghouls.
 * -1499 Karak Varn is flooded and falls to the Skaven and Night Goblins.
 * -1498 The mines of Ekrund are seized by the Orcs after heavy fighting with the Dragonback Dwarfs.
 * The watch towers of Mad Dog Pass are gradually abandoned and seized by the Goblins.
 * -1457 The Night Goblins seize the gold mines of Mount Gunbad, the largest mine in the World's Edge Mountains, as well as a major source for Brightstone.

The Age of Strife

 * -1400 Wandering clans of Skaven build the first settlements in The Southlands, Araby, and The Dark Lands. Lord Markrit founds The Hell Pit, & Lord Viskrin leads Clan Eshin into Cathay.
 * -1399 The Skaven Clan Pestilens occupies the ruined Lizardmen city of Quetza. Plague spreads throughout Lustria.
 * -1387 The Silver Road Wars begin between the Dwarfs and Goblins.
 * -1367 The Dwarf stronghold of Mount Silverspire is taken by the Orc Warlord Urk Grimfang who further fortifies the mine, renaming it Mount Grimfang. This marks the end of The Silver Road Wars.
 * -1362 The Dwarfs withdraw from their eastern empire in the World's Edge Mountains, including their mines and smaller settlements.
 * -1300 - 1250 The Skaven fight with Nagash over warspstone in The War of Cripple Peak.
 * -1250 Thunder Mountain erupts, forcing Orcs, Goblins and Trolls towards the north. The Troll Wars begin for the Dwarfs.
 * The Dwarf strongholds of Valhorn and Budrikhorn fall to rampaging Trolls.
 * Nagash and The Skaven declare a truce in the War of Cripple Peak. The Skaven receive Warpstone in return for Orc and Goblin slaves.
 * -1245 Dwarf King Morgrim Blackbeard leads his forces to the south and pushes the Orcs out of the World's Edge Mountains to the north of Mad Dog Pass.
 * Logazor Brightaxe leads an army east and retakes Mount Gunbad, but has to abandon the mines.
 * Mount Silverspire is unsuccessfully attacked when Trolls and Ogres move against Karaz-a-Karak.
 * For the next 250 years, the Dwarfs set out to consolidate their holdings in the mountain chain, reopening mines previously lost. The Underway is partly cleared.
 * -1222 A great earthquake exposes a rich seam of gromril within the Misty Mountains. Nagash forges his fabled armor from this gromril and lead.
 * -1200 The end of the living line of Nehekharan kings and the 6th dynasty.
 * The rebel Kings who studied Nagash's works send emissaries to Nagash. Rumor of this reaches those who have not fallen to the dark powers.
 * King Alcadizaar unites the Priest Kings and rouse the people of Lahmia against their dark rulers, bringing a great army to assault the vampires' temple in Lahmia.
 * Abhorash leads the defense of the temple and Wsoran rises an army of Undead.
 * after a week of battle, King Alcadizaar's army conquers and set flames to the vampires' temple. Only the strongest and oldest Vampires escape.
 * Abhorash goes northwards with four companions, Neferata, Ushoran and Wsoran go to Nagashizzar and unite with Nagash.
 * -1185 Runesmith Kadrin Redmane clears the ruins of Karak Varn of the Skaven and resettles the Stronghold due to the discovery of a rich vein of gromril.
 * -1163 - -1152 Led by the renegade Vampires and Arkhan the Black, Nagash launches war against Nehekhara.
 * Alcadizaar is victorious over Nagash and releases the Tomb Kings from his servitude, founding the 7th dynasty.
 * The vampires argue over the course to take next and fight each other. The fight ends when the sun rose, none of the vampires able to be victorious.
 * Neferata goes north, eventually settling in the Silver Pinnacle and creates the Lahmia bloodline.
 * Wsoran stays with Nagash.
 * Ushoran goes north.
 * Plagues sweep through the Nehekharan lands. All its citizens are left dead or dying.
 * Nagash and Wsoran launch a second attack and are victorious over King Alcadizaar.
 * King Alcadizaar is brought in chains to Nagashizzar.
 * Wsoran is rewarded and learns more of the Dark art from Nagash
 * Nagash sacks Lhamia.
 * -1151 The Great Ritual of the Waking turning Nehekhara in the "Land of the Dead".
 * Nagash consumes warpstone and starts his Great Ritual, but is thwarted by the Skaven. However, many of the Undead raised by the Great Ritual remain animated.
 * Settra awakes and becomes Settra the Imperishable.
 * Arkhan the Black is reborn.
 * The Priests of Nehekhara are unaffected and become Liche Priests
 * The Council of Thirteen has Nagash assassinated. The Skaven free Alcadizaar, who cuts down Nagash and flees with his Crown of Sorcery. Nagash's body is burned, except for his hand.
 * Wsoran escapes and flees north, taking one book of the Nine Books of Nagash with him. He hides for centuries, studied necromancy.
 * Wsoran turns Nagash's most intelligent priests who had escaped into vampires, originating the Necrarch bloodline. One of them, Melkhior, eventually kills Wsoran.
 * -1150 Settra wages and wins a civil war with the other awakened Tomb Kings for the throne of Nehekhara, and declares it his "Reign of Millions of Years".
 * -1149 Begin of the 1,000 years long Wars of the Death.
 * Arkhan the Black sacks the city Bel-Aliad
 * Arkhan the Black will wage war for 1,000 years, reducing the once mighty civilization in Araby to a few weak city states and a handful desert tribes.
 * -1147 Kadon takes the Crown of Sorcery from Alcadizaar's dead body.
 * -1136 The dwarf Kadrin Redmane is ambushed while leading a mule train of gromril ore to the High King and was killed, slaying thirty-six Orcs in the process. He throws his rune hammer into Black Water.
 * Karak Varn falls into Skaven hands.
 * -1020 Kadon founds Mourkain and the Kingdom of Strigos and is later joined by Ushoran.
 * -1000 The chiefs of the Bretonni people, proud and warlike horsemen, travel over the Grey mountains. Hundreds of years of war against the greenskins follow as they settle in what would later become Bretonnia.
 * -975 The Battle of a Thousand Woes.
 * King Skorri Morgrimson leads a huge Dwarf army north to attempt to recapture Karak Ungor. They are partially successful but ambushed as they attempt to enter the Keep itself.
 * Furgil, Skorri's son, and his companions infiltrate the lower halls, but never return.
 * Skorri leads his forces back to Karaz-a-Karak and dies shortly after. Little information about the Greenskins is re corded for the next few hundred years.
 * -950 Mourkain is overrun by the Orc warlord Dork Redeye. The Vampire descendants of Ushoran (the Strigoi) scatter.
 * -750 The Red Cloud Goblin tribe attacks Karak Azgul and is repelled. They then move on to Karak Azul, partially capturing the hold for 10 years. Eventually they are expelled from the fortress.
 * -740 Karak Azul is finally purged of Goblins.
 * -720 First reported sighting of the dragon Skaladrak Incarnadine, later to spawn many powerful dragonkin including Graug the Terrible.
 * -701 Miners working the depths of Karak Eight peaks break into Skaven tunnels.
 * -700 The Bretonni lands become dominated by around twenty main horsemen tribes, amalgamating smaller tribes into them.
 * -650 The first Slayer King, Baragor, dedicates the Great Shrine of Grimnir in Karak Kadrin. He then takes the name of Ungrim, which all of his descendants bear to this day.
 * Attempts to penetrate the Forest of Loren leave only a handful survivors and the forest enters Bretonnian folklore as being a haunted, magical place.
 * -617 King Alkharad wages war against the Greenskins in what will become known as the War of Bones.
 * -600 Vorag Bloodytooth unites the scattered tribes of Ghouls around Cripple Peak and becomes the first and only Ghoul King. He wages war against the greenskin and founds the Fortress of Vorag to the east of the plain of Bones, but is eventually killed by a well-aimed bolt from a Goblin bolt thrower. The Ghouls scatter.
 * -513 Over the course of 100 years, Karak Eight Peaks eventually falls as each of the eight mountains are gradually overrun by Goblins and Skaven. Eventually the Skaven poison the wells and use toxic gasses to oust the Dwarfs. King Lunn orders the tombs of the Kings of Old rune-sealed, vowing to return in the future.
 * -500 The Bretonni tribes continue to fight amongst themselves for control of the land. Nevertheless, they commonly ally to fight the greenskin. Many strongholds are build.
 * -469 Karak Azgal is attacked and destroyed by Orcs and Goblins who then move on to take Karak Drazh, renaming it Black Crag. The lands between the Mad Dog Pass and Fire Mountain are taken by the Goblins, save for the stronghold of Karak Azul, which is besieged but holds.
 * -420 The Dwarfs first discover gun powder on the body of a Skaven, realizing the Skaven are beginning to use their own weapons against them.
 * -400 Establishment of the Underempire. The Skaven spread tunnel networks out across the Old World.
 * -380 Orc Warlord Ugrok Beardburner lead a Waaagh! northwards to Karaz-a-Karak. Many small settlements are destroyed, mines overwhelmed, and hundreds of Dwarfs die.
 * The Dwarf High King Logan Proudbeard is captured and humiliated by the Orcs spurring the Dwarfs under Gorazin Silverhorn into a furious assault, driving the Orcs away from the capital. Orc armies continue to rampage until they are defeated at the Battle of Black Water.
 * -350 Skaven overrun Crookback Mountain and enslave several tribes of Night Goblins, establishing a permanent foothold in The Dark Lands.
 * -300 The first members of Clan Pestilens return from Lustria, and begin the first Skaven Civil War.
 * -250 Dwarfs intensify trade with the Human civilizations which are slowly forming into the Empire.
 * -215 The first Dark Elf raiders venture into Lustria to steal priceless artifacts.
 * -150 Black Orcs are created by the experiments on captive Orc and Goblin slaves by Chaos Dwarf Sorcerers.
 * -100 Black Orcs revolt against their creators and escape to the World Edge Mountains.
 * -40 Nagash is reborn.
 * Over the centuries, the dust of Nagash's burned body reassembled. Only the right hand, cut off by Alcadizaar, does not regrow.
 * Diminished in power, Nagash is driven out of Khemri and his Black pyramid by Settra
 * Nagash returns to Cripple Peak and Nagashizzar. He destroys the Skaven Clan Rikek in a single night.
 * Arkhan the Black leaves Araby to join Nagash at Nagashizzar.
 * -39 In his arrogance, Settra turns against the other Tomb Kings but is defeated and retreats to Khemri.
 * Settra and all the armies of the Tomb Kings follow them into the wilderness and defeat the heretics.
 * The Tomb Kings Zandri and Numas revolt against Settra, but are defeated.
 * -30 Sigmar is born to King Bjorn of the Unberogen tribe of men.
 * Nagash forges his iron hand
 * -15 A trading convoy led by King Kurgan Ironbeard is captured by the Skaven, who then sell him to Orcs for warpstone. However, the king is rescued by Sigmar. Ironbeard rewards Sigmar by giving him the Rune Hammer Ghal Maraz, paving the way for a great alliance.
 * Arkhan the Black crushes a huge Skaven horde at the Battle of Death Rock. The Skaven give up attempting to recapture the Cursed pit.
 * -1 The Battle of Black Fire Pass. A massive Orc army is destroyed by a combined army of Dwarfs and Humans under Sigmar.
 * The Orcs and Goblins are slowly driven from the areas west of the World's Edge Mountains.
 * Many Dwarfs move into human lands, helping them build cities and introducing them to new technologies.
 * Orcs and Goblins are kept at bay by Dwarf and Human armies. Several attempts to retake strongholds are launched but fail.
 * 0 Sigmar is crowned the first Emperor by the High Priest of Ulric, marking the foundation of the Empire.
 * The Prophecy of Sotek is brought to fruition with the appearance of the Twin Tailed Comet. The Red-Crested Skinks migrate and the Cult of Sotek rises among the Lizardmen, spreading throughout Lustria.
 * Sigmar pushes the Norsii people from their lands on the sea of claws into what is now Kislev. The Ungols, a major tribe of the region, pushes them even further into what is now known as Norsca.
 * 1 Nagash discovers his Crown of Sorcery is in the hands of Morath, heir to Kadon. He sets off to retrieve it.
 * 15 Sigmar wins the Crown of Sorcery from the Necromancer Morath. Upon hearing this, Nagash leads an army into the Empire to claim the crown.
 * Nagash takes residence in the abandoned High Elf city of Athel Tamara and begins to swell the ranks of his army with the newly dead.
 * Nagash and Sigmar duel outside of Altdorf during the ensuing battle. Sigmar strikes Nagash down, and the invading army of Undead crumbles into dust. As he falls, Nagash curses the vampires of the world to forever be driven back by the name of Sigmar.
 * 16 Krell, the only survivor of Nagash's army, is defeated at the batlle of Glacier Lake and imprisoned in a magical tomb.
 * 17 Sigmar destroys the Skaven horde in the Middle Mountains of the Empire.
 * 50 After half a century of prosperity of the newly proclaimed Empire, Sigmar disappears in the East.
 * 73 Johann Helsturm is the first Great Theogonist of the growing cult to Sigmar, Patron God of the Empire.
 * 100 Clan Pestilens abandons Quetza for the Old World when Sotek sends thousands of snakes into their tunnels. The Slann recognise Sotek as the pre-eminent Lizardmen god.
 * Settra sends warships north of his lands to seek out slaves. They visit the shores of what would later become Bretonnia. Upon their return, the slaves are put to work building wells and restoring Nehekhara's former glory.
 * Clan Eshin returns from Cathay and is immediately put to work by The Council of Thirteen in the civil war.
 * 200 Plague Lord Nurglitch travels to Skavenblight and strikes a peace accord with the council in return for a seat among them (and under duress from a plague he carries with him). This marks the end of the first Skaven Civil War.
 * 287 Dwarfs discover the nest of the dragon Mordrak in the mountains south of Karak Azul.
 * 315 Lord Tepec-Inzi leads an expedition into Naggaroth to recover stolen artefacts.
 * 400 Vorag appears in the forests of Sylvania, determined to restore the flory of the lost kingdom of Strigos.
 * 500 Rich volcanic deposits first mined at Gorgoth.
 * 577 Greenskin raids increase in the lands east of the Grey mountains. Retaliatory raids against the Orcs slay thousands but many Bretonni tribes also fall and there lands are claimed by neighbouring tribes.
 * 657 Thori Gundrikson discovers gromril in the caves west of Black Water. The Skaven eventually overrun the mines, but not before the gromril is exhausted.
 * 662 The discovery of the lost Heartstone of Aldin Getgold in the Dragonback mountains by Dorin Heldour and Katalin Kandoom.
 * 684 Dorin Heldour and Katalin Kandoom restore the Axe of Dail, which they discovered deep in the ruins of Karak Varn. The axe is brought back to King Finn Sourscowl in Karaz-a-Karak.
 * 685 Dorin Heldour brings the skin of the dragon Fyrskar to King Finn Sourscowl. Heganbor the Runesmith forges it into a cloak engraved with mighty runes.
 * 700 Warlocks of Clan Skyre perfect the Warpstone Thrower. Reports of the weapon are discredited as the ravings of madmen.
 * 742 Dorin Heldour and Katalin Kandoom rescue Elmador (the later High King) and Oldor Finnson from the dungeons of Black Crag.
 * 770 The land of the Bretonni is divided into sixteen areas, each controlled by one of the major tribes. These have since remained relatively stable, except for Glanborielle and Cuileux which have later been destroyed.
 * 876 The vampire Luthor Harkon arrives in Lustria and founds the Vampire Coast.
 * 888 The Norse adventurer Losteriksson founds the settlement of Skeggi. Rumours of the Amazons begin to surface in the Old World.
 * 892 Kragg the Grimm forges the Rune of Stone. He is to become the greatest and most long-lived Runesmith of his age.
 * 930 The land of Cuileux, lying between Brionne and Quenelles, is overrun by a massive Orc invasion led by the warlord Gragabad. The tribe of Cuileux is destroyed. After the battle, the lords of Brionne and Quenelles duel over the land, Quenelles eventually takes it.
 * 932 Balduin, Lord of Brionne, leads his horsemen to victory against the Orcs of Gragabad.
 * 947 The northern lands of what would become Bretonnia are ravaged: Beastmen come out of the Forest of Arden, Greenskin tribes roam the lands and Norse raid its coasts.
 * 950 Rosalind of Bastonne weds Thierulf, Lord of Lyoness. Her brother, Gilles, and her husband become strong friends and the ties between the two realms grow strong.
 * 952 Gilles of Bastonne becomes famed for slaying the giant red wyrm, Smearghus.
 * 974 Glanborielle is utterly destroyed by a Waaagh! and amalgamated into Carcasonne. The lands that would become Bretonnia are threated to be overrun by greenskin.
 * 975 The Orc army attacking Bastonne is repelled, though the Lord of Bastonne is slain. Gilles, the new lord, leads his horsemen against the foe and is joined by Thierulf, his friend from Lyoness, and Lord Landuin of Mousillon. They hope to meet the greenskin for one final battle.
 * 976 Gilles is visited by a vision of the Lady of the Lake, who blesses him and his comrades Thierulf and Landuin. They are the first Grail Knights.
 * 977 - 978 The famous battles of Gilles the uniter. He and his companions ride from victory to victory and they conquer all the lands west of the Grey Mountains and become the subject of many heroic tales.
 * 979 Gilles le Breton officially founds Brettonia. This marks the beginning of the Brettonian Calendar.
 * A greet meeting takes place in the home of Folgar of Artois and the dukedoms are formalized. Each of the fourteen great lords and Grail Companions are named dukes.
 * Fredemund, Duke of Aquitaine, weds Gilles' youngest sister, Annabel.
 * The new Brettonian armies force Orcs and Goblins from their new holdings into the Grey Mountains.
 * 995 Gilles le Breton is killed by a hurled weapon by one of the Orc Warlords in the Grey Mountains. His body is placed on a ship and sailed into the mists of a nearby lake.
 * 996 Louis the Rash, son of Gilles, is elected to seat the throne of Bretonnia and immediately sets off to search for a sign of the Lady of the Lake.
 * 1000 A Chaos Dwarf fleet cruises the River Ruin and the Sea of Dread, enslaving all who cross its path.
 * A great subtarrenean sea canal is constructed linking the Falls of Doom with the Sea of Chaos
 * 1001 Louis the Rash gains the Lady's blessing. He is crowned by the Fay Enchantress, and thus becomes king. He draws up the basis of the Decrees of Chivalry.
 * 1003 Thierulf and Landuin duel over an argument about Thierulf's wife. Landuin is victorious, inflicting a wound accros the other's face.
 * 1106 - 1110 Drakwald Forest succumbs to ever-increasing numbers of Beastmen.
 * 1024 Agilgar of Parravon is slain. His pegasus, Glorfinial, is killed by a pair of Wyverns and the duke falls to his death.
 * 1032 Skalf Dragonslayer slays the dragon Graug the Terrible and claims the kingship of Karak Azgal. Karak Azgal remains in goblin and Skaven hands. Skalf establishes a town in the valley below the old entrance.
 * 1045 Landuin of Mousillon is found dead in his bed.
 * 1110 Lord Vilner, heir to the Drakwald throne is assassinated by Deathmaster Silke, sparking a Civil War in the Empire.
 * 1111 The Black Death sweeps throughout the Old World. Over half of the Empire's population succumbs to the sickness. The plague is created by the Skaven to weaken the Empire prior to a massive planned invasion.
 * The Black Death marks the beginning of the Skaven Wars.
 * The Dwarfs shut off the outside world to protect themselves but the Skaven burrow in, engaging the Dwarfs in drawn out conflicts.
 * The Necromancer Van Hel raises a huge Undead army in Sylvania and turns back the Skaven invaders.
 * 1112 The Skaven march into Sylvania. Necromancer Van Hel raises a huge army of the Undead to break their advance. The two armies and the remnants of the Empire war for the next 12 years.
 * 1115 Emperor Goldgather is assasinated by Deathmaster Silke. When no successor is named, the Skaven declare themselves rulers of the Empire.
 * 1122 - 1124 Count Mandred of Middenland rallies plague-ravaged citizens against hordes of oncoming Skaven, earning the title Mandred The Ratcatcher, or Mandred Skaven-Slayer. Mandred puts an end to the Skaven Wars.
 * Mandred is crowned Emperor, holding court in Middenheim.
 * 1142 Guillame, the third king of Brettonia, forces the last of the Greenskins from Brettonia at the Battle of Amandur.
 * Thierulf of Lyonesse, last of the Grail Companions, falls in battle.
 * 1150 Ibn Jellaba of Araby treks over land searching for a route to the centre of the Southlands. He encounters the lost Lizardmen city of Zlatlan.
 * 1152 The assassination of Emperor Mandred. The assassination was ordered by The Council of Thirteen, and carried out by Nartik of Clan Eshin.
 * The Elector Counts are unable to decide on a successor. Civil war erupts between the leading regions of the succession - Stirland and Talabecland.
 * 1153 - 1200 Unsupported, villages of Drakwald fall into decline, and Chaos Beasts claim them for their own. Thousands are slain by beasts and Goblins.
 * 1175 Settra's fleet, led by Tomb King Amenemhetum, is defeated at Savage Point by the Bretonnian fleet under commmand of Admiral Henri Lamorte. Settra escapes and vows revenge.
 * 1207-1244 Necromancer Dieter Helsnicht is driven out Middenheim. Escaped to the Forest of Shadow, he raises an army of Undead and attacks the Empire. Dieter is defeated at the Battle of Beeckerhoven by a combined Kislevite and Empire force.
 * 1245 The dragon Mergaste is slain by King Baudoin of Bretonnia.
 * 1247 The Tilean explorer Marco Pilare reaches Cathay and writes of seeing Skaven under the city of Wei-Jin.
 * 1265 Count Faulk of Middenland rallies and army to reclaim Drakwald.
 * Beastlord Kartok Great-horn gathers thirty warbands of Beastmen and destroys Faulk's force in the fourth week of their campaign. No survivors return to Middenland.
 * Kartok is slain in a duel with Doombull Urgorgoth.
 * 1275 Lamorte's corpse is stolen from the family grave. Later, he becomes the Wight Lord leading Settra's Undead fleet.
 * 1300 Clan Moulder creates the first successful Rat Ogre, raising their prominence in the Underempire.
 * 1325 Tournament of la Damoiselle d'Artois. One hundred knights joust for her hand in marriage.
 * 1336 Duke Melmon of Quenelles disappears on the night of the Spring Equinox. He was probably caught in the Wild Hunt of Orion, Lord of the Wood Elves
 * 1360 Ottilia of Talabecland is selfproclaimed Empress. During two centuries there will be two Emperors: the elected Emperor and the governant Count of Talabecland.
 * 1414 Nordland and Middenland, after centuries of war, split the contested lands of Drakwald. Scores of Beastmen in the region keep either side from exerting control over the forrest.
 * 1420 The dragon Skaladrak Incardnadine torments the lands around Karak Kadrin.
 * 1430 Sultan Jaffar of Araby expands the holdings of his city state into a great desert empire. He secretly employs Skaven as assassins and spies in exchange for Warpstone.
 * 1437 An expedition from Araby strikes deep into Nehekhara. The grave robbers sack Zandri, slaying many Liche Priests. They are eventually stopped during a raid on Khemri.
 * 1448 The Skaven convince Sultan Jaffar that the Estalia plan to attack Araby. The Araybians invade Estalia and captures Magritta.
 * 1449 An army of Bretonnian knights is dispatched to assist Estallia.
 * The Crusades begin. Araby is pushed out of Estalia.
 * 1451 The Sultan jaffar is eventually defeated at the Battle of Al-Haikk.
 * 1452 Baron Tybalt du Bois de Balzac leads a host of knight Errants over the overland route to Araby, but hearing of the Sultan's defeat at Barak Varr, he turns back and establishes a kingdom in the Border Princes.
 * 1454 The Red Duke, a Blood Dragon Vampire, terrorising the lands of Aquitaine is defeated at the Battle of Ceren, pierced by his own lance.
 * 1492 Marco Colombo discovers Lustria and reports that there are Skaven on the continent engaged in warfare with the Lizardmen.
 * 1524 Khan-Queen Shoika founds the nation of Kislev. She declares herself Tzarina to indicate her rule over all lands north of the Urskoy.
 * 1527 Norvad, the greatest settlement of the Ungol is captured by Kislev and is renamed Erengrad. This completes the modern lands of Kislev.
 * 1547 The Count of Middenheim is selfproclaimed Emperor. At that moment there was three Emperors. None of them gains the loyalty of the other provinces and so every one of them controls an indepentend state.
 * 1563 Skaven overrun the city of Tobaro in Tilea and force Prince Marcelli to evacuate.
 * 1565 Marcelli returns to Tobaro with what is reportedly the largest mercenary force ever. With the help of High Elves, he is able to recapture the city.
 * 1578 The tournament of Guyenne in which King Jules of Bretonnia jousts with a Wood Elves and is victorious.
 * 1593 "Smell the Gauntlet" -a game popular with the peasant children in Brionne- goes awry and instigates a revolt amongst the lower classes. It is crushed mercilessly.
 * 1635 The Battle of Castellet. Raiders from beyond the sea attak L'Anguille and are justly slaughtered by King Philippe the Strong and an army of 10,000 knights.
 * 1666 Clan Skyre develops Warpfire cannons.
 * 1681 The Night of the Restless Dead.
 * Nagash returns to life once again. He has dwelled within Nagashizzar ever since.
 * For one night throughout the Known World the dead stir and walk the land. Entire villages and towns are overrun.
 * 1705 - 1712 Gorbad Ironclaw succeeds in uniting Iron Claw and Broken Tooth Greenskin tribes, forming a massive WAAAGH!
 * Gorbad leads his army into the Empire, ransacking Averland and the Moot.
 * Averheim and Nuln are burned by the rampaging Greenskin forces.
 * The Battle of Solland's Crown. The Count of Solland is slain by the Greenskins, and his sword Runefang is taken.
 * The Battle of Grunberg. Gorbad is seriously wounded, but still forces a victory. The Empire army retreats to Altdorf.
 * The WAAAGH! lays siege to Altdorf. The Emperor Sigismund is killed in the battle. Gorbad's wound is aggrivated, causing the Orc to slowly grow weaker and weaker, until the WAAAGH! buckles and breaks up - leaving the eastern half of the Empire in ruins.
 * 1715 Remnants of Gorbad's Waaagh! invade Bretonnia but are defeated.
 * 1786 Clan Eshin releases rats carrying The Red Pox in the Brettonian city of Bordelaux. A third of the city's population dies, and the Baron Du'Pont orders the Poor Qaurter burned to the ground, effectively ending the plague.
 * 1797 Vlad von Carstein becomes the first of the Vampire Counts of Sylvania and marries Countess Isabella von Drak.
 * 1801 The ousted Prince of Sartosa, Luciano Soprania, founds Port Reaver.
 * 1812 The Skaven release The Red Pox again, this time on both Brettonia and northern Tilea.
 * Anarchy breaks out in Brettonia, and the city of Brionne is torched by crazed citizens.
 * The Skaven attack, and the cities of Brionne, Bordelaux, & Maglianno, are all destroyed.
 * The Skaven lay siege to Quenelles.
 * 1813 Brettonia strikes a deal with the Wood Elves. The combined forces break the siege of Quenelles and drive the Skaven back under ground. Over a third of the population of Brettonia have died from the Red Pox and the war.
 * 1814 Duke Merovech of Mousillon holds a great victory banquet. His insanity becomes publicly known as he spils the blood of the king in his halls. Mousillon is disgraced and after a battle in which Merovech is killed, looses much of its land to Lyonesse.
 * 1847 Duke Tudual du L'Anguille funds an expedition, headed by his son, into Lustria. Six months into the expedition, Huatl is robbed of its sacred artefacts. The young Bretonnian noble and his expedition are never heard from again (or missed).
 * 1932 The Vampire "the Red Duke" rises from his grave. The Duke of Aquitaine is slain in the ensuing battle but the vampire is driven back and flees into the Forest of Chalons. There he is purged by generations of Questing Knights, but none know if he resides there still.
 * 1941 Warlord Skinchewer of Clan Skab allies himself with one of the Tomb Kings, gaining a new form of magic for the Underempire.
 * 1979 Magritta of Mairenburg is elected Empress by the Elector Counts who want the crown for themselves. The Great Theogonist of Sigmar doesn't approve the naming and the Imperial system disappears. From that moment until the crowning of Magnus the Pious, there is no Emperor and the Empire becomes more and more divided.
 * 1999 The city of Mordheim is hit by a meteorite of pure warpstone, marking the greatest known concentration of the mineral ever. The Skaven immediately take possession of the town and begin mining the meteorite.
 * 2007 The Battle of Couronne. Repanse de Lyonesse leads her knights to victory against the vilest horde of Chaos ever to invade Bretonnia.
 * 2010 Start of the Wars of the Vampire Counts
 * Vlad von Carstein devestates Ostermark
 * The Dwarfs fight alongside the Humans in the War of the Vampire Counts, including the Night Siege of Castle Tempelhof, the defeat of the Vampire Countess Emmanuelle, and the Battle of Hunger Wood.
 * 2025 Vlad Von Carstein is slain by Grand Master Kruger of the Knights of the White Wolf. However, Von Carstein is seen at the head of an army within a year, while Kruger's body is found at the base of Ulricsburg, drained of blood.
 * 2051 Vlad von Carstein is slain at the Siege of Altdorf, Isabella von Drak commits suicide. The remaining Vampire Counts fight among themselves.
 * 2084 Clan Skyre perfects the Farsqueeker - allowing instantaneous communication between warrens of any distance.
 * 2094 Konrad von Carstein wins the infight between the Vampire Counts and leads his army against the Empire.
 * 2100 Konrad von Carstein is stopped at the Battle of the Four Armies.
 * 2111 Citizens of Rotebach discover that the Count of Middenland has made a bargain with Chaos. He has the entire city hanged to protect himself.
 * 2121 Konrad von Carstein is finally slain by a combines Empire and Dwarf army at the Battle of Grim Moor.
 * 2132 Vampire Mannfred von Carstein and his undead army almost succeeds in capturing Altdorf, but is driven back to Sylvania by a combined force of Empire troops, Dwarfs and High Elves.
 * 2145 Battle of Hel Fenn. Manfred von Carstein, the last Vampire Count of Sylvania, is destroyed along with his Undead hordes.
 * 2163 Finubar is crowned Phoenix King.
 * 2201 The King of Brettonia, Louen Orc Slayer, begins the Errantry Wars, setting out to rid Brettonia of Greenskins for good. Over the next century, Brettonia is again cleared, as the Orcs again take refuge in the Grey Mountains and surrounding forests.
 * 2205 The Battle of Black Falls. Dwarfs and Goblins meet at the shores of the Black Water. Both the Dwarf High King Alrik and the Goblin Warlord Gorkil Eyegouger are killed. The Goblin mortally wounded by the Dwarf, drags Alrik with him over the falls. The Goblin army is routed and follow their Warlord.
 * 2231 Workers building the Temple of Sigmar in Altdorf uncover ancient human tombs dated to the deity's time.
 * 2250 Skirmishes between the Skaven and Tomb Kings breaks out into full war. The Skaven use this as a chance to expand their tunnel networks in the Southland.
 * 2252 King Qus sets out from Nehekhara to plunder gold from the Dwarfs to the north. The Dwarfs retaliated by sacking Numas.
 * 2297 The Affair of the False Grail in which Duke Maldred of Mousillon and his sorceress consort are dishonoured. Mousillon is formely disgraced and no duke has since been appointed to govern this dukedom.
 * 2300 Mousillon is almost depopulated by the Red Pox. Duke Maldred and his lady shut themselves within the palace, but to no avail.
 * 2302 The Great War Against Chaos, also known as The Second Great Chaos Incursion.
 * The oncoming Chaos army forces large groups of Orcs southwards into the Empire and World's Edge Mountains. Some join the onslaught, while others harry the Army as they pass.
 * The Gray Seers succeed in summoning The Horned Rat during a feast in Skavenblight. The Clan Lords are so terrified by the manifestation that the Council of Thirteen is reorganized according to the Horned Rat's will, and all hostilities among Skaven are halted.
 * Karaz-a-Karak is attacked but holds out.
 * Praag is besieged and destroyed by the attacking Chaos host.
 * Ar-Ulric Kriestov leads and army to relieve Kislev. During his absence, Middenheim is ravaged by beastmen in his absence. The raids stop when Ar-Ulric returns.
 * Chaos lays siege to Kislev, but is eventually repelled by a combined force of Elves, Dwarfs, and Humans led by Magnus the Pious. This marks the end of the war.
 * 2303 The Skaven are exhausted by hundreds of years of war. They battle both the Empire and the forces of Chaos during the great war, but are mostly marginalized.
 * 2304 Magnus the Pious is elected Emperor. Rebuilding of the Empire. Magnus stablishes his court in Nuln.
 * 2305 Teclis founds the Colleges of Magic in Altdorf.
 * 2320 - 2321 The destruction of the Marienberg fleet results in Skaven raids all over the Old World coast. Dwarf Ironclads from Barak Varr seek out and destroy the Skaven in the Black Gulf.
 * 2336 A man, claiming to be Duke Melmon of Quenelles who disappeared in 1336, emerges from the Forest of Loren. Within hours he ages dramatically and dies.
 * 2350 Burlok Damminson and Sven Hasslefriesan's "pressure vessel experiment" ends in an explosion and destroyes the Engineers Guild hall in Karaz-a-karak.
 * 2377 The Monkey King ascends to the throne of Cathay. He installs Warlord Kishkik of Clan Eshin as an adviser and begins to trade with the Underempire.
 * 2387 Skaven sappers undermine the walls of Castle Siegfried in Sylvania. When Prince Karsten of Waldenhorf fails to pay them for this service, they carry off every child in his city.
 * 2399 Clan Skyre perfects "Warprails", warpstone powered locomotives. Originally used to move mine carts, it is quickly adapted to carry troops as well.
 * 2420 Goblin Warlord Grom the Paunch destroys many Dwarf tombs, mines, and small settlements before defeating a Dwarf army at the Battle of Iron Gate.
 * Grom and his army enter the Empire. Nuln is again burned to the ground.
 * Grom eventually drives his army towards the sea, where he builds a great fleet and sets sail. They are never seen in the Old World again.
 * Eventually, it understood that Grom sailed to Ulthuan and ravaged the island until finally defeated by the High Elves under Eltharion in the siege of the city of Tor Yvresse in Yvresse.
 * Brettonian King Charlen anounced his intention to lead the Errantry Wars east into The Border Princes' lands and beyond. Brettonia wins a huge battle at Blood River, and more settlers move into the Border Princes' lands.
 * 2422 While many knights are away on Errantry War in the south, retaliatory attacks from Orcs ravage Carcasonne. The impoverished lands suffer many attacks.
 * 2473 Belegar, descendent of King Lunn, declares himself King of Karak Eight Peaks and sets up camp on the site of the old citadel. The Dwarfs descend into the Keep but are outnumbered and become stuck in a permanent siege with the Orcs.
 * 2488 The Brettonian armies are finally beaten at the Battle of Death Pass by Warboss Morglum Necksnapper. This marks the end of the Errantry Wars.
 * 2491 Heinrich Kemmler, "the Lichemaster", raises Krell, the Chaos Champion, from his burial mound and strikes a pact with the Chaos Gods to restore Kemmler's powers.
 * Kemmler and Krell, allied with Skaven, sweep down at the head of a Undead army from the Grey mountains into Bretonnia.
 * They are beaten back at la Maisontaal Abbey by Tancred, Duke of Quenelles, and retreat into the Grey Mountains.
 * 2492 Tzar Vladimir Bhoka is killed by Goblins east of Kislev. His son, Boris, inherits a nation that has done little to rebuild after the Second Great Chaos Incursion.
 * 2493 Tzar Boris Bhoka defeats a large army of Beastmen outside Praag, earning the name Radii Bhoka (Bhoka The Red).
 * Battle of Anurell's Tomb: a Chaos Dwarf slaving expedition encounters a High Elf army south of the Plain of Bones.
 * 2497 Radii Bhoka travels into the wilds with his war-bear Urskin. He becomes the first High Priest of Ursun in over 400 years, taking the title Boris Ursus.
 * 2498 The Battle of the Jaws. A Dwarf army heads south to reinforce Karak Eight Peaks. The leader, Duregar, defeats the Orcs and moves south, before being ambushed again at the Battle of the East Gate.

The Age of Recompense

 * 2500 Orc Warlord Gnashrak forms a massive WAAAGH!, uniting all the Greenskin tribes of the World's Edge Mountains, and leading the army a long the Silver Road towards Karaz-A-Karak.
 * Louen Leoncoeur is crowned king of all Bretonnia
 * 2502 Crowning of Karl Franz, the current Emperor.
 * 2503 - 2507 Karak Azul is attacked by Orcs under Gorfang Rotgut, entering by a long forgotten tunnel. The King, Kazador, is captured in his throne room and many are dragged off to the Black Crag dungeons. Kariz, the kings son, is shaved and nailed to his father's throne in insult to the king.
 * 2505 Tilean armies sack the tombs of Zandri in Nehekahara.
 * 2509 Settra The Imperishable builds a great army to expand his realms in what is referred to as "The Great Purge".
 * 2510 The Orc Warlord Gnashrak is finally defeated by King Ungrim of Karak Kadrin at the Battle of Broken Leg Gulley.
 * 2512 Azhag the Slaughterer leads a large army of Greenskins into the northern Empire.
 * At the spring festival of Bordeleaux the peasant playing "the Grail Knight" is accidentally killed by those playing "the dragon". A town-wide riot ensues.
 * 2514 Fritz Von Halstadt, Chief Magistrate of Nuln, is discovered trading Warpstone with Skaven under the purview of Gray Seer Thanaquol. Von Halstadt is put to death, and Thanaquol leads an army to the city, ravaging half of it, before being driven back by fires set by the city's defenders. Half of Nuln is destroyed.
 * 2515 Beastlord Graktar raids and destroys the villages of Gorstburg and Leitenbad, but is defeated at the Battle of Helmgart. He is forced to fight a series of duels to maintain his position.
 * The Battle of Osterwald. Azhag is finally met and defeated by the Imperial armies.
 * The peasant Huebald is knighted after saving the Lady Ariadne from the beast of the forest. He is the third peasant granted knighthood in the whole history of Bretonnia.

The End Times

 * 2515 Be'lakor crowns Archaon the Lord of the End Times, in the names of all 4 of the Chaos Gods.
 * 2516 - 2517 Graktar is defeated in a challenge by Khazrak. Khazrak ventures across Drakwald, sacking the settlements of Jagerhausen, Immelscheld, and Arenburg, as well as razing the castle of Graf Sternhauer outside of Grimminhagen.
 * 2517 - 2522 The power of Chaos slowly grows greater, foreshadowing events to come.
 * 2517 Tzar Boris Ursus dies fighting in Troll Country. Tzarina Katarin is crowned.
 * Rumours speak of an army gathering within Mousillon, led by a mysterious knight.
 * 2518 Boris Todbringer of Middenheim and Middenland sets out to purge Drakwald of beastmen. He personally takes the eye of Khazrak at the Battle of Elsterweld. Khazrak becomes known as "Khazrak The One Eye".
 * 2519 A Khorne army, led by Valkia the Bloody, begin an assault on Naggaroth.
 * 2519 The Battle of a Hundred Cannons. A large Goblin horde attacks Zhufbar and a relief force marches from Karaz-a-Karak.
 * A force of Ogres bypass Karak Kadrin and march on the Moot. It is realized the Ogre army pushed the Goblins to attack Zhufbar.
 * Armies from Karaz-a-Karak, Karak Kadrin and Zhufbar unite under High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer and battle as the Ogres try to cross the River Aver.
 * An army from Nuln arrives and aid the Dwarfs by surrounding and destroying the Ogres using the largest concentration of artillery ever seen in the Old World.
 * Khazrak avenges his losses when he takes the eye of Boris Todbringer during an ambush on the count's army outside Norderingen. The count places a 10,000-crown reward on Khazrak's head.
 * The bearer of the Standard of Bretonnia, Armand, becomes the Duke of Aquitaine at the king's order.
 * 2519 Finubar the Seafearer, Pheonix King of Ulthuan, dissapears and is thought to be dead. Tyrion takes over from him later that year.
 * 2520 The threat to Albion. The Slann create gates to the island, and Scar-Leader Kroq-Gar leads the first war parties to cleanse the island.
 * Lord Mazdamundi begins to alter the climate of the island, and a new jungle is formed. Works begins on a new temple city, Konquata (Place of Resistance).
 * 2521 Mannfred von Carstein is rumoured  in the Empire  to be back.
 * 2521 Daemon hordes invade Ulthuan. Tyrion leads the War Against the Daemons. Imrik Prince of Caledor refuses to join, and shows no alleigence to Tyrion.
 * 2521 Mannfred captures the Everqueen's daughter, Aliathra. Eltharion later leads an army into the Old World to find her.
 * 2521 Norse Longships begin to raid the north coast of Bretonnia, sacking isolated villages within the dukedoms of L'Anguille and Couronne.
 * 2521 IC The sacred mists of Albion are restored. In the Empire, the time known as "the Storm of Chaos" erupts as the great horde of Chaos Undivided led by the Chaos Champion called Archaon the Everchosen assaults the Empire. In an alternate, parallel universe, the Storm of Chaos never erupts and is instead replaced by the sequence of events called the Age of Reckoning, in which an Alliance of Order is forged between the humans of the Empire, the High Elves of Ulthuan and the Dwarfs of Karaz-a-Karak to defeat the Alliance of Destruction created by the Dark Elves of Naggaroth, the Greenskins of Eight Peaks and the Raven Host, a Chaos army dedicated to the Chaos God Tzeentch, Lord of Change.
 * 2522 The growing power of Chaos is evidenced by Marauder tribe striking into Lustria led by Dark Elves.
 * Mazdamundi and Koq-Gar leave Konquata for Hexoatl to defend against these incursions.
 * The king of Bretonnia musters his army, many believe a new Errantry war is about to be announced.
 * 2522 Skaven overrun Tilea and Estalia with very little resistance.
 * 2522 Settra raises all of the Tomb King legions, preparing to defend Nehekhara.