Abbreviated Timeline of Faerûn

Timeline
Year		Event
-20000		By this time, the elven realms of Eiellûr, Orishaar, Syòrpiir, and Thearnytaar are established in the forests around the Lake of Steam. To the south lies long-established Illythiir and to the north and west are Aryvandaar and Illefarn.
-17800		Elven realm of Keltormir is established in the great forest that stretches from present-day Amn (Bowl of the Gods) down to the shores of the Shining Sea.
-14000		Tribal barbarian clans of humans roam Keltormir.
-12000		Crown Wars of the elves begin.
-11700		Tethir, the first elven dragonslayer, slays Xaxathart the Retributer. Human clans settle in the clearings and meadows created by the dragon fires around Keltormir.
-11200		elven realms of Eiellûr, Orishaar, Syòrpiir, and Thearnytaar fall to the Ilythiir. The Ilythiiri skirmish with the elves of Keltormir.
-11000		Dwarves establish the first holds of Deep Shanatar in the southern Underdark, beneath the Almraiven Mountains and the Lake of Steam.
-10500		Dark Disaster engulfs the elven kingdom of Miyeritar in killing storms.
-10450		Fourth Crown War: Ilythiir's elves make open use of corrupting powers granted by evil gods.
-10270		Stone and Claw Campaigns: The withdrawal of Keltormir's forces to defend its own borders pits the forces of Aryvandaar and Ilythiir against each other.
-10000		Corellon's magic, directed through his priests and High Mages, transforms the corrupt Ilythiir and others into the drow, who retreat into the Underdark. Elven Court forms in the eastern woods, later named Cormanthor.
-9600		Rise of the first drow civilizations in the Underdark beneath southern Faerûn.
-9000		Crown Wars end. High Forest is abandoned so the gods might restore its peace. The Wandering Years of elven colonization begin. Many elves migrate to the Elven Court in its eastern forest. Illefarn and Keltormir are the sole realms to emerge intact from the Crown Wars.
-8600		Evereska founded in secret by surviving clans of Eiellûr, Miyeritar, and Orishaar as an elven haven in the woods east of Aryvandaar.
-8500		Fire-sundered and otherwise ravaged, the forest of Keltormir fragments into three separate forests.
-8100		Eight dwarven realms unite and form the empire of Shanatar, which is ruled from the Wyrmskull Throne/t.
-7800		djinn arrive in the area of present-day Calimport and build the Calim Empire.
-7790		Calimport falls before a flight of dragons. Calim begins a campaign against the dragons of the Marching Mountains and drives them north from the peaks.
-7690		djinni noble Calim reaches an accord with the elves and dwarves and the borders of his empire halt at the southern banks of the River Agis.
-6800		Memnon the efreeti arrives north of the River Agis. He begins building the country of Memnonnar.
-6500		A group of elves, mainly survivors from Syòrpiir, settle the great forest now known as the Chondalwood.
-6500		Era of Skyfire. Memnon and Calim bring their forces to bear one against the other in twenty-two cataclysmic battles over the next four centuries.
-6100		Era of Skyfire ends with elven high magic binding the noble genies Memnon and Calim in eternal struggle. Creation of the Calim Desert.
-6060		Humans oust the last genies of Calim's realm. These lands become the human nation of Coramshan. Calimport and Keltar are rebuilt.
-5960		High Shanatar is founded by the dwarves along the River Agis.
-5800		Jhaamdath is founded north of the great forest now known as the Chondalwood. Jhaamdath eventually meets Coramshan near the Lake of Steam, and the two empires struggle for centuries over control of this area.
-4700		Elves settle Eaerlann.
-4400		Drow and duergar destroy the Elven Court and the dwarven nation of Sarphil.
-4005		A truce between Coramshan (soon renamed Calimshan) and Jhaamdath ends the war and limits their expansion over the Lake of Steam.
-3983		Birth of the elven kingdom of Cormanthyr.
-3900		Establishment of Delzoun, the Shield Kingdom of the dwarves.
-3859		Villages on the shores of the Narrow Sea combine for mutual protection. The new realm is named Netheril.
-3830		Elves of Eaerlann open dialogues with Netheril. Humans begin to learn magic from the Eaerlanni elves during the following decade.
-3605		Orcs pour from the Spine of the World but elves turn them back in a great slaughter with help from fledgling Netheril. This orc incursion lasts nineteen years.
-3533		Nether Scrolls are uncovered in the ruins of Aryvandaar, and the humans soon abandon the magic taught by the elves for greater power.
-3520		Elves of the North begin aiding the escapes of gnome slaves from Netherese captors, helping them move south and east across Faerûn.
-3419		Netherese approach the dwarves of Delzoun at Ascore to conduct trade. After three years of deliberation, they set up a trade route through the safest and most heavily patrolled sections of the Underdark.
-3095		One set of the Nether Scrolls is stolen by elves of Cormanthyr and secreted away by the High Mages.
-3000		Hunting clans and fishing villages on the Sword Coast North unite under a single leader. The humans call their new community Illusk.
-2954		first floating city rises above Netheril.
-2637		In Chult, the deity Ubtao founds Mezro.
-2600		last of the known dwarves of High Shanatar fall in battle against the Tavihr Dynasty of Calimshan. The dwarves seal the last known entrance to Deep Shanatar.
-2550		Ulutiu, a minor sea deity, exiles himself to the Astral Plane. His ice necklace sinks, creating the Great Glacier.
-2488		Empire of the Imaskari in Raurin is destroyed.
-2381		Beholders plague the Alimir Mountains. The bakkal of Calimshan is assassinated and the Tavihr dynasty ends.
-2135		Mulborand founded.
-2103		A horde of orcs, led by giants and their ogre generals, razes the human civilization of Illusk.
-2087		Unther founded.
-1967		First Mulhorand-Unther War.
-1961		Mulhorand and Unther agree on a common border, the River of Swords.
-1900		Caltazar Hills come under regular attack from the beholder nations around and beneath the Lake of Steam.
-1838		great red wyrm, Ylveraasahlisar the Rose Dragon, conquers and rules Calimshan.
-1726		Ylveraasahlisar is slain by the Cajaan noble family.
-1700		Calishite nobles begin hunting elves in the northern forests as a pastime.
-1570		Zazesspur, a simple fishing town, becomes a fortified city and center of the Emir of Tethyr's rule.
-1428		beholders of the Alimirs swarm out of the mountains and conquer every city in Calimshan and Iltkazar.
-1402		Drakhon priest-princes leads the nation of Calimshan to freedom from the beholders.
-1400		attacks on the Caltazar Hills by the beholder nations of the Lake of Steam end.
-1088		First record of trading at the future site of Waterdeep.
-1087		wizard Thayd leads a rebellion of wizards against Unther and Mulborand.
-1081		Thayd and his conspirators are defeated. He is executed, but prophesies that Mulhorand and Unther will decline.
-1075		Orcgate Wars in Thay.
-1071		Orc god Gruumsh kills Mulhorand deity Re in the first known deicide.
-1069		Orcs in Thay defeated; many flee north and west.
-900		Rise of Narfell and Raumathar.
-790		Night Wars begin: Drow attack outlying reaches of the Calimshan Empire.
-680	Year of Creeping Thieves	Calimshan begins to colonize the Lake of Steam.
-553	Year of Plentiful Wine	Shadow Plane discovered by Netherese wizards.
-530	Year of Meager Means	Night Wars between the drow and Calimshan end.
-461	Year of Bold Pioneers	phaerimms begin to cast the spells that create Anauroch.
-425	Year of Ancestral Voices	Netherese settlers refound Illusk is a magocracy.
-387	Year of Shattered Walls	Calishite-controlled Zazesspur is sacked in a surprise attack by Tethyrian barbarians.
-349	Year of Bold Poachers	Netherese wizard Saldrinar destroys Kisonraathiisar, the dragon ruler of Westgate, and becomes the city's first human king.
-339	Year of Sundered Webs	Karsus causes the fall of Netheril, and most of its cities fall to earth and are destroyed. Mystryl is destroyed but is reborn as Mystra, who alters the function of magic to prevent such an event in the future. Anauria, Asram, and Hlondath (the survivor states of Netheril) established.
-314	Year of Four Princes	first recorded clash between sharns and phaerimms occurs.
-311	Year of Patient Traps	As the phaerimms' magic drain depletes more of their available power, several of Netheril's archwizards abandon their cities and relocate to parts unknown. Civil unrest rises in some cities.
-288	Year of Eight Lightnings	Calimshan accedes independence to Tethyr and its people.
-286	Year of Foul Awakenings	Westgate falls during the course of a single night to a small army of elite mercenaries led by the vampire Orlak.
-255	Year of Furious Waves	Jhaamdath falls to elven high magic as a great wave is summoned to scour the southern shores of the Inner Sea. The coastline of the present-day Vilhon Reach is formed. The survivors head north and settle the lands of present-day Cormyr, Sembia, the Dalelands, and a portion of the Vast.
-212	Year of High Thrones	Battle of the Purple Marches forces the second Calishite surrender of Tethyr. Darrom Ithal is crowned the King of Tethyr.
-200	Year of Stonerising	Candlekeep founded; Calendar of Harptos begun. The humans who are to become the first of the Dalesfolk cross the Dragon Reach to the southern region of Cormanthor.
-160	Year of Stone Giant	Narfell and Raumathar destroyed.
-153	Year of Starry Shroud	Proeskampalar, later renamed Procampur, is founded by dwarves and quickly becomes an important trading partner of Westgate.
-133	Year of Silent Screams	Great sea storms erupt along the Sword Coast. A tidal wave envelops the city of Velen in Tethyr, decimating its population.
-111	Year of Terrible Anger	Illusk falls again to orc hordes.
-100	Year of Black Unicorn	Delzoun falls to encroaching phaerimms and other dangers; surface citadels survive.
-75	Year of Leather Shields	Witches of Rashemen choose the first Iron Lord of that nation.
-68	Year of Discordant Destinies	Many lightfoot and ghostwise halflings depart Luiren.
-52	Year of Choking Spores	First permanent farms in Waterdeep area.
-33	Year of Harpist's Delight	Asram falls victim to a plague, from which there are no survivors.
1	Year of Sunrise	Standing Stone is raised by the elves of Cormanthyr and the Dalesfolk. Start of the Dalereckoning calendar.
10	Year of Dreams	Netheril region renamed Anauroch.
20	Year of Fallen Fury	human Calendar of Harptos adopts the elven holiday of Cinnaelos'Cor (The Day of Corellon's Peace) and renames it Shieldmeet, celebrating it every four years since.
25	Year of Many Runes	Church of Deneir founded.
26	Year of Opening Doors	Cormyr founded by Obarskyr family.
27	Year of Shadowed Blades	Start of the Age of Shoon in Calimshan.
37	Year of Dark Venom	Five tidal waves strike Calimshan, destroying between a third and two-thirds of each of the five port cities of the nation.
75	Year of Clinging Death	Plague racks the civilized lands (Calimshan, Lake of Steam, Vilhon Reach). Alaundo the Seer arrives in Candlekeep.
111	Year of Fallen Guards	Anauria is destroyed. by an orc horde, though it also destroys the horde. Orc numbers are reduced for centuries in this area.
112	Year of Tusk	Cormyrian cartographers create the first map of Cormyr, Cormanthor, and the Dalelands.
168	Year of Scattered Stars	Halaster's Hold is built near Waterdeep's farms. Halaster Blackcloak begins creation of the great dungeon of Undermountain.
171	Year of Unkind Weapons	elves of Cormanthyr destroy the sole surviving temple of Moander in the northern forest at the site of modern Yülash. From this time forward, Moander remains a lurking evil trapped beneath the ruins of his final temple.
241	Year of Hippogriff's Folly	Elminster Aumar enters the city of Cormanthor to serve Mystra's will.
244	Year of Elfsands	Evereska's existence is discovered by nonelves, though the secret is kept for centuries by the human tribes of the Greycloak Hills.
261	Year of Soaring Stars	elven city at the heart of Cormanthor becomes the unified city of Myth Drannor with the raising of a mythal
273	Year of Delighted Dwarves	first migration of dwarves arrives at Myth Drannor in three small clans from Ammarindar and Citadel Felbarr.
284	Year of Fallen Flagons	A halfling migration hundreds strong arrives at Myth Drannor from Tethyr via the first open portals
324	Year of Freedom's Friends	Harpers at Twilight are formed in secret deep in Elven Court woods by Dathlue Mistwinter, the Lady Steel.
329	Year of Closed Scroll	Hlondath's grain fields are consumed by the expansion of Anauroch, and the city-state is abandoned, its folk migrating east to the Moonsea or south into the Dales and beyond.
376	Year of Leaping Hare	Ashar Tornamn of Valashar extends the borders of the Shoon Imperium to the High Moor. The army of Crown Prince Azoun I of Cormyr drives Shoon forces back through Amn, Tethyr, and Valashar before sacking Ithmong and returning home.
379	Year of Seven Stars	Seven mages build the first school of wizardry open to all the races of Myth Drannor.
384	Year of Dreaming Dragons	Silverymoon Ford, a lowly wood and rope bridge, is built across the River Rauvin.
449	Year of Killing Ice	Silvyr Ithal marches to Ithmong and takes the crown as the rightful King of Tethyr, sparking rebellion in Tethyr and Amn. Silvyr is killed in combat by Amahl Shoon VII.
450	Year of Corrie Fist	Prince Strohm of Tethyr avenges his father by slaying Amahl Shoon VII and ending the Age of Shoon.
480	Year of Winter Sphinx	Lyonarth, a white-furred androsphinx, claims the crown of Westgate.
482	Year of Blighted Vine	Northern cities begin to become independent of Unther.
523	Year of Trials Arcane	Rise of Phalorm, the Realm of Three Crowns in the North.
574	Year of Gored Griffon	Silverymoon rises to become a small trading post town.
615	Year of Lamia's Kiss	Winter Sphinx of Westgate falls prey to the charms of the lamia Nessmara, who has assumed the guise of a gynosphinx, and they rule in tandem. Phalorm falls to humanoid hordes.
616	Year of Ensorceled Kings	A visiting wizard shatters the illusions guarding Westgate's lamia queen, and she and the androsphinx battle to the death.
627	Year of Bloodcrystals	Ecamane Truesilver and his nine apprentices arrive in Silverymoon. The mages create a school of magic patterned on elven teachings.
640	Year of Fanged Beast	First mining and trading encampments at Zhentil Keep.
659	Year of Hunting Ghosts	Many wizards migrate to Silverymoon and begin establishing its role as a sister city to Myth Drannor.
668	Year of Telling Tome	Halaster Blackcoak of Undermountain begins magically abducting wizards from Myth Drannor.
679	Year of Scarlet Sash	Hillsfar is nearly destroyed by an army of deepspawn-bred monsters emerging from the Beast Marches to the west. Unther is forced to recognize the independence of the cities on the southern fringes of the Yuirwood.
694	Year of Ominous Oracle	first divinations and portents of the approaching doom of Myth Drannor arrive via the diviner Dareassan. This knowledge is kept from the public to prevent a panic.
708	Year of Bound Evils	Three battalions of elven mages battle a resurgence of evil beasts and cultists of the fallen god Moander near the site of his fallen temple. Three fiends are freed from their extradimensional prison and build an army of orcs, goblins, and other evil creatures.
710	Year of Toppled Throne	Drow attacks in Cormyr claim the lives of three noble families of the realm; while believed dead, most of the nobles survive as slaves in the Underdark. A gate to the Abyss opens above the palace of Westgate, and a large host of tiefling warriors invades. The leader of the tieflings, Iyachtu Xvim the Baneson, seizes the throne of Westgate.
711	Year of Despairing Elves	Late in the autumn, the Army of Darkness (led by the three fiends) overruns the mining encampments on the western Moonsea. The Weeping War begins on the Feast of the Moon as the Army of Darkness engages elven patrols and destroys many villages and clan enclaves in Cormanthor.
712	Year of Lost Lance	Weeping War continues through the year, resulting in the deaths of many heroes and most of the Harpers at Twilight.
713	Year of Firedrake	war at Myth Drannor rages on, though the allies manage to eliminate two of the three fiends leading the Amy of Darkness.
714	Year of Doom	Myth Drannor falls under siege by the Army of Darkness. Only two hundred elves and allies out of three thousand escaped to tell of its passing.
720	Year of Dawn Rose	Gathering of the Gods at the Dancing Place inspires the refounding of the Harpers. In attendance are all fifteen of the Harpers at Twilight who survived the previous decade, including Elminster and Khelben Arunsun.
734	Year of Splendid Stag	reign of Iyachtu Xvim comes to an abrupt end in Westgate as he is forced by a host of mercenaries to flee the city.
756	Year of Leaning Post	Fisherfolk settle in Aglarond.
796	Year of Gray Mists	Merrydale becomes Daggerdale following vampiric infestation.
863	Year of Wondrous Sea	Chultan city of Mezro disappears.
864	Year of Broken Branch	Beneath Calimport, the lich Rysellan the Dark founds the Twisted Rune, a group of undead spellcasters with plans to control the world through subtlety and intrigue.
882	Year of Curse	Demons take control of the elven citadel Ascalbomn, later known as Hellgate Keep. Fall of the realm of Earlann.
900	Year of Thirsty Sword	Civil war erupts in Chondath. The Vault of the Sages is built in Silverymoon.
902	Year of Queen's Tears	Rotting War in Chondath decimates the country. Chondath renounces claims on Sembian city-states. The Cult of the Dragon creates the first dracoliches.
906	Year of Plough	Shadowdale founded.
913	Year of Watching Raven	Sembia founded under the Raven banner.
922	Year of Spouting Fish	Battle of Thazalhar in Thay. Red Wizards declare Thay independent of Mulhorand. End of the Second Mulhorand Empire.
929	Year of Flashing Eyes	Chessenta rebels against Unther.
934	Year of Fell Wizardry	First Thayan invasion of Rashemen.
937	Year of Turning Wheel	Thesk founded along the Golden Way.
974	Year of Haunting Harpy	Castle Waterdeep built.
975	Year of Bent Coin	Telflamm established as a royal city-state.
976	Year of Slaying Spells	Mulhorandi invasion of Thay repelled.
1018	Year of Dracorage	Death of Tehazzar, unifier of Chessenta. Sapphiraktar the Blue comes from the Calim Desert and destroys Calimport and Keltar.
1021	Year of Howling Axe	Thay strikes against the Harpers. Harpers go underground.
1022	Year of Wandering Wyvern	Refounding of the Harpers.
1030	Year of Warlords	Zulkirs established as rulers of Thay.
1032	Year of Nightmaidens	Ahghairon, premier mage of the North, saves Waterdeep and creates the Lords of Waterdeep. The city grows into the largest in the North.
1038	Year of Spreading Spring	Glaciers retreat. Lands of Narfell, Vaasa, and Damara are fully free of ice. Large-scale immigration begins to these lands. Aencar declares himself king of the Dales.
1065	Year of Watching Wood	Humans and elves in Aglarond agree to peace, electing a half-elf, Brindor, as the first king of the new kingdom of Aglarond.
1074	Year of Tightening Fist	Zulkirs quell rebellions and rule in Thay.
1090	Year of Slaughter	Battle of the Bones. Followers of Malar mount the Great Hunt.
1095	Year of Dawndance	Imphras unites Impiltur.
1097	Year of Gleaming Crown	Imphras crowned king of Impiltur.
1099	Year of Restless	New trade routes forged. First modern contact with Kara-Tur and Zakhara.
1117	Year of Twelverule	Chessenta breaks up into city-states through 1154 DR.
1150	Year of Scourge	Plague throughout the Sword Coast. Worship of Talona and Loviatar soars. Khelben Arunsun arrives in Waterdeep.
1164	Year of Long Shadows	pirate Immurk the Invincible raids a merchant-ship of Procampur, capturing the coronation crown of Cormyr's new king. Palaghard I. This marks the rise of piracy in the Inner Sea. The nations of the Inner Sea begin building their own warships, seeking to defend their merchant fleets and hunt the pirates in their own lairs.
1179	Year of Stalking Satyr	Malaugryms attack Arunsun Tower but are turned back by Khelben, Elminster, and an assortment of Waterdeep mages.
1180	Year of Sinking Sails	Sembia loses fleet in Pirate Isles.
1182	Year of Tomb	malaugryms are discovered in Facrûn. Start of the Harpstar Wars.
1194	Year of Bloody Wave	Battle of the Singing Sands. Aglarond defeats Thay.
1197	Year of Sundered Shields	Battle of Brokenheads. Aglarond bests Thay.
1209	Year of Blazing Banners	plundering of the pirates is curtailed after a massive confrontation outside the Dragonisle by the combined forces of Sembia, Impiltur, and Cormyr.
1222	Year of Horn	Harpstar Wars end with the destruction of the Harper King.
1232	Year of Weeping Wives	Destruction of Sessrendale by Archendale.
1235	Year of Black Horde	Largest orc horde in history masses out of the North and engulfs the Sword Coast in war. Waterdeep besieged. Many Calishite nobles slain.
1237	Year of Grotto	Thesk and Aglarond ally.
1241	Year of Lost Lady	A well-respected Tethyrian noblewoman is captured and slain by orcs. In her memory, orcs are wiped out throughout the South.
1242	Year of Yellow Rose	Monastery of the Yellow Rose founded in Damara. The venerable wyrm Anaglathos arrives in Turmish and stages a coup.
1245	Year of Pain	Loviatar worship gains great popularity - most of the modern temples in the North are founded.
1247	Year of Purple Basilisk	Anaglathos overthrown in Turmish by popular rebellion and slain by adventurers.
1260	Year of Broken Blade	Many peace treaties signed this year. Halacar of Aglarond is poisoned and his sister Ilione, tutor to the Simbul, takes the throne.
1261	Year of Bright Dreams	Manshoon claims his seat on the Zhent council. Manshoon founds the secret organization of the Zhentarim.
1280	Year of Manticore	Thay nearly conquers Mulhorand before being repulsed.
1298	Year of Pointed Bone	Lhestyn, the Masked Lady, infiltrates the Shadow Thieves guild and exposes it. Within the span of one bloody week,. the Shadow Thieves of Waterdeep are either dead or fleeing.
1306	Year of Thunder	Moonsea War. Mulmaster vanquished by alliance of other cities. Vangerdahast of Cormyr founds War Wizards. Moradin's Thunder Blessing begins, causing dwarven populations to multiply.
1307	Year of Mace	Azoun IV of Cormyr born.
1312	Year of Griffon	Darkhold seized by the Black Network as Manshoon slays its lich-queen. Teziir founded on the Dragonmere.
1316	Year of Gulagoar	Teshendale becomes part of the Zhent lands.
1317	Year of Wandering Wyrm	Great Plague of the Inner Sea, also called the Dragon Plague.
1320	Year of Watching Cold	Simbul becomes queen of Aglarond.
1321	Year of Chains	Harpers are reorganized. Twilight Hall founded in Berdusk.
1323	Year of Dreamwebs	Thayan wizards attempt to control others through dreams, but the plan is thwarted.
1333	Year of Striking Falcon	Amnian Trade War. Founding of the Council of Six, unification of Amn.
1336	Year of Highmantle	Azoun IV takes the throne of Cormyr. The Zhentarim conquer Daggerdale.
1340	Year of Lion	Battle of the River Rising in Featherdale between the forces of Sembia and the Cult of the Dragon.
1344	Year of Moonfall	Retreat of the elves from Cormanthor begins.
1345	Year of Saddle	Plagues claim many among the Sword Coast port cities south of Baldur's Gate.
1347	Year of Bright Blade	Zhengyi the Witch-King rises in Vaasa. Alemander IV dies in Tethyr. Tethyrian civil war begins.
1350	Year of Morningstar	Elminster retires to Shadowdale.
1351	Year of Crown	Warlock's Crypt discovered. Plague in Baldur's Gate.
1352	Year of Dragon	Barbarians of the Ride destroy Zhentarim force en route to Glister.
1353	Year of Arch	Night Masks become secret rulers of Westgate.
1355	Year of Harp	Zhentil Keep takes Citadel of the Raven as its own. Retreat of elves from Cormanthor reaches its peak. Yülash falls in civil war. Zhentil Keep and Hillsfar move troops to Yülash.
1356	Year of Worm	Lashan of Scardale attempts to take over the Dalelands and fails. Cormyr seizes Tilverton. Flight of dragons over the Dales and Moonsea. Death of Syluné of Shadowdale. Mithral Hall reclaimed.
1357	Year of Prince	King Virdin of Damara killed in battle with Zhengyi the Witch-King. Horustep III (age 11) takes the throne of Mulborand. Moander, god of corruption, is accidentally woken from a magical slumber and causes much devastation before being banished.
1358	Year of Shadows	Time of Troubles: Gods walk Toril. Destruction of Bane, Bhaal, Gilgeam, Ibrandul, Myrkul, and other deities. Ascendancy of Cyric and Mystra. Dead magic and wild magic areas appear.
1359	Year of Serpent	Zhengyi the Witch-King is destroyed. Damara united by Gareth Dragonsbane, who is soon crowned as its king. Tuigan horde united beneath Yamun Khahan. Tuigan horde battles Thay. Szass Tam negotiates with the horde and allows it to pass through Thay to attack Rashemen, where it is defeated by the Witches.
1360	Year of Turret	Tuigan horde invades Faerûn. Crusade against the Tuigan. King Azoun IV kills Yamun Khahan.
1361	Year of Maidens	First Banedeath begins as a holy war in Zhentil Keep. Orthodox Banite worship driven underground in that city by clerics of Cyric. Explorers from Amn discover Maztica.
1363	Year of Wyvern	Mezro reappears.
1367	Year of Shield	Tethyr's Reclamation Wars begin.
1368	Year of Banner	Cyricists begin the Second Banedeath. Zhentil Keep is destroyed. Hellgate Keep is destroyed.
1369	Year of Gauntlet	Reclamation Wars of Tethyr end with the coronation of Tethyr's Queen-Monarch Zaranda and King Haedrak III. Randal Morn reclaims the throne of Daggerdale. Xvim is freed from his prison under the ruins of Zhentil Keep and becomes a lesser god. Trade with Maztica hampered by attacks from sea creatures. Fzoul becomes leader of the cult of Xvim and converts many holdouts of Bane to worshiping Xvim.
1370	Year of Tankard	Trade between the sea folk of the Sea of Fallen Stars and ports along the Inner Sea increases sharply in the aftermath of a great undersea war. The Shaking Plague decimates Scardale. War in southern Amn as ogre mages and their minions ally with the temple of Cyric. Fzoul Chembryl forges the Scepter of the Tyrant's Eye. Manshoon is slain by Fzoul and the Zhentarim purged of Manshoon's supporters, giving Fzoul control over most of the organization. Several clones of Manshoon awake at once and create havoc as each tries to claim the Zhent wizard's possessions and place.
1371	Year of Unstrung Harp	Harpers divide into factions because of the departure of Khelben the Blackstaff, and these conflicts are only grudgingly held at bay by greater issues. A red dragon leads an army of orcs and goblins and despoils much of Cormyr. The dragon and King Azoun IV slay each other in battle, leaving an infant heir on Cormyr's throne. Evermeet is nearly destroyed by a sneak attack of rebel elves and drow. Mulhorand invades Unther. The Silver Marches is declared a new country.

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