This should be a compleate history of the warhammer world using resources from all of the warhammer army books. It also inclueds information from other sources but only when it fits in with Games Workshops current history.
I.C. (Imperial Year)
The Time of the Old Ones
-7500
The Old Ones appear. Perhaps they evolve independently in Lustria, but more likely they arrive in an advanced state from some other world.
-6500
The end of the Ice Age. The Old Ones alter the planet's orbit, causing a general increase in temperatures, rise in sea levels and withdrawl of the ice sheets to the extreme polar regions.
The Creation of the World Pond and separation of the continents.
Spawning of the Saurus, Skinks, and Kroxigor races by the Old Ones.
-6000
The Old Ones place there new prodigy, the High Elves on to the island of Ulthane.
-5500
The emergence of Amazons of Lustria. The Old Ones choose from somewhere a group of humans. By some means the Old Ones temper with their genetic structure, using them to create a race of Amazons in Lustria. Whether the Amazons are created to be workmates of the Old Ones, or whether they are nothing more than a whim of these god-like creatures is uncertain.
-5600
Collapse of the Warp Gate
The gateway floating above the north pole of the world collapsed. The collapse of the gateway bridged the gap between The Warp and the mortal realm. When the gateway fell, its destruction cast a cloud of warpstone dust over the earth. Many creatures were mutated into monstrous and terrible beasts of Chaos by its touch. The Hordes of Chaos issued forth from the gateway, challenging The Old Ones for their supremecy over the world. It is believed that The Old Ones perished in this conflict.
-5000
The time of the Ancestoral Dwarf Gods. There is no written records of this time. Legends suggest that Dwarfs began their slow colonisation of the World Edge Mounatins.
-4920
First Chaos incursion. The world is saved by the efforts of the High Elves who create the vortex of magic to drain the energy of Chaos away from the world.
-4550
The High Elves travel to the Old World. Dwarfs and High Elves meet for the first time and friendly relationships are established.
-4500
The Coming of Chaos
The end of the Dwarf age of Ancestoral Gods. The Dwarf God Grimnir disappers into the Chaos Wastes. The other gods soon disapper as well. It is said that Grimnir battled the Chaos Gods before closing the Chaos Gate and saving the world.
The first Phoenix King defends the Shrine of Asuryan against the Chaos Horde of Morkar.
-4498
The High Elf war against Chaos begins in earnest.
-4480
Forces of Chaos driven back from Ulthuan.
The Phoenix King marries the Everqueen.
-4471
Forces of Chaos attack Avelorn. The Everqueen slain and children lost.
-4461
Caledor Dragontamer starts repairing and expanding ancient network of Standing Stones (which stood on Ulthuan since dawn of time) so as to drain the Winds of Magic from the world.
-4458
Malekith, future Witch King of Naggaroth, is born.
-4419
Battle of the Isle of Dread results in a magical vortex which drains the world of the magic, thereby weakening the Chaos forces.
The first Phoenix King dies.
Malekith of the High Elves and Snorri Whitebeard, High King of Dwarfs combine armies and drive last remnents of Chaos from the old world. Trade between Dwarfs and High Elves florishes and many new Dwarf strongholds are founded.
High Elf explorers penetrate Lustrian jungle.
-4164
Malekith defeats an Orc army and saves the city of Athel Toralien.
The foundation of the first High Elf colonies on the east coast of the New World.
-3500
Abandoned by their ancestor gods, Dwarves of the Dark Lands turn to the worship of the Chaos God Hashut, the Father of Darkness.
-3419
Cult of Pleasure begins its slow spread through Nagarythe and across all Ulthuan.
-2839
Pledge of friendship between Dwarves and Elves.
-2789
Malekith finds the Circlet of Iron in the ancient city of Vorshgar in the northern wastelands of the New World.
-2723
Dark Elves establish themselves in the cold land of Naggaroth, with its capital of Naggarond.
-2774
In Ulthuan the Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh.
-2751
Massacre at the Shrine of Asuryan.
Malekith fails in bid to become Phoenix King.
-2749
Elven civil war commences, rages for 25 years.
-2736
Malekith is sealed within his black armor and is hailed as the Witch King.
-2724
Phoenix King Caledor defeats the Witch King at the Battle of Maledor.
-2723
The Sundering. Witch King interferes with the Vortext which contained Chaos Magic. Much of northern Ulthuan sunk.
The Dark Elves establish themselves in the cold land of Naggaroth, with its capital of Naggarond.
-2700
The mighty ziggurat Mingol Zharr-Naggrund raised from dark iron and black obsidian by Chaos Dwarf sorcerers.
-2630
Dark Elf expedition returns to Ulthuan and hostilities resume.
-2600
Chaos Dwarves begin enslavement of Orc and Goblin tribes throughout the Dark Lands and the Mountains of Mourn.
-2319
For first time, Dark Elves mount Cold Ones in battle.
-2219
Last of the Dark Elves are driven from northern Ulthuan.
-2188
High Elves return to Old World.
-2005
The Great Betrayal
Dwarf traders are ambushed and murdered, Dwarf settlements are plundered. Dwarfs belive the High Elves are to blame but the attackers are infact Dark Elf raiders sent by Malekith to sow dissent between the two races. Many Elves are killed by Dwarf Travellers who belive them selves under attack. The Elves retaliate. Soon both races begin to muster armies.
-2000
Birth of Nagash.
City of Kavzar is established in northan Tilia by Tyleus, who takes slave from the trible people to help him build the city. It rapidly grows to become the largest city in the Old World.
War between Slann city of Zlatlan and the legendary lost Dwarfhold of Karak Zorn.
-1997
Dwarf High King Gotrek Starbreaker send ambassodor to Ulthuan in last ditch attempt to prevent war. Dwarf demands for fair recompense for Elf hostilities are met with arrogance and the ambassador is thrown out. As a final insult the Elves shave off the Dwarf ambassadors beard.
The War of the Beard (or War of Vengance) begins between the Dwarfs and High Elves
-1974
Snorri Halfhand, son of Dwarf High King, is Slain by Phoenix King Caledor II after challanging the Elf to single combat.
-1968
Morgrim, cousion of Snorri Halfhand, kills the Elven Lord Imladrik at the Battle of Oeragor.
-1950
A wandering Dwarf clan from the Black Mountains establishes trade with the city of Kavzar and eventually settles there. The city grows even faster with their help and many advances in architecture and engineering are achieved.
-1948
Elven city of Athel Marya is burned to the ground by the Dwarf army led by Morgrim.
-1880
Humans begin construction of their great temple in Kavzar (Known as Tylos in Tilean Legand) with Dwarf help. Work goes on continuously the next 100 years.
-1780
Temple of Kavzar is completed and warpstone starts to rain down on the city from the moon of Morrslieb.
Within a year city of Kavzar is overrun by swarms of giant matched rats and disappears in the Blighted Marshes.
-1666
Chaos army sweeps down from the Chaos Wastes attacking Naggaroth.
The Battle of Despair. Naggaroth is saved after a furious battle. Dark Elf casualties are high, but Chaos army completely wiped out.
-1600
First true Skaven emerge as masters of Skavenblight (formerly Kavzar).
The Skaven first experiments with magic.
Skaven seek Warpstone further afield.
Tunnel system under Skavenblight expanded to accommodate rapidly increasing population.
-1599
Dark Elves invade Shadowlands. Intermittent war begins.
-1589
Phoenix King Caradryel recalls High Elf armies from the Old World. Elf colonies see departure as a betrayal.
-1560
Dwarfs face High Elves at the Battle of Three Towers at the gate of Tor Alessi (now the Bretonnian port of L'Anguille). Dwarves defeat Elves in a cataclysmic battle for mastery of the Old World. Phoenix King Caledor II slain by Dwarf King Gotrek Starbreaker. Phoenix Crown taken by Dwarves as recompense.
-1501
High Elves withdraw from Old World to battle resurgent Dark Elves from Naggaroth. They leave there colonies in Brettoinia and around the Tilean Sea.
Dwarves are left victorious, but decimated with the ending of the War of Vengeance.
-1500
The Time of Woes
Earthquakes triggered by Skaven society devastates population of Skavenblight.
The declining Dwarf Empire is destroyed by eathquakes and volcanoes. Many dwarfs were slain, countless mines and small settlements were destroyed. The Underway is partially ruined and blocked, cutting off the Dwarf strongholds from one another.
The twelve Grey Lords arise forming the first Council of Thirteen and the Order of the Grey Seers.
The Goblin Wars
In the wake of the Time of Woes the Orcs, Goblins, Ogers, Trolls, Skaven and other evil creatures pour over the lands. The first Dwarf hold to fall was Karak Ungor which was infested with Night Goblins and is now known as Red Eye Mountain.
-1499
Karak Varn, already flooded when eartquakes split rock apart allowing water into lower workings. Is finally desroyed and occupied by Skaven and Goblins.
-1498
The mines at Ekrund are seized by Orcs after months of heavy fighting by the vastly outnumbered Dragonback Dwarfs. It is renamed Mount Bloodfang by the Orcs.
The Dwarf watchtowers and forts of Mad Dog Pass are abandoned or sized by Goblins.
-1457
The Dwarf goldmines at Gunbad fall to Night Goblins after many years of fighting. Gunbad was the largest and richest mine in the World Edge Mountains and the unique source of Brynduraz or Brightstone, a brilliant blue crystal rock much valued by Dwarf craftsmen. It is fortified by the Goblins.
-1400
The wandering clans establish the first Skaven strongholds in the areas later known as the South Lands, Araby and the Dark Lands. Lord Malkrit leads Clan Moulder into what is later called Hell Pit in the Troll country of Kislev. Lord Viskrin instructs Clan Eshin to establish their stronghold in far Cathay.
-1399
Skaven Clan Pestilens arrive at Lustria and set forth plagues throughout the land.
-1387
The Silver Road Wars
The Silver Road War begins between the Dwarfs and Goblins. Battle rages around Mount Silverspear, the richest remaining Dwarf mine.
-1367
Mount Silverspear is taken by the Orc Warlord Urk Grimface who fortifies the mines still furter and renames it Mount Grimface.
-1362
The Dwarfs abandon the last mines and smaller settlements in the easten parts of the World Edge Mountains.
-1300
The War of Cripple Peak is fought with the legions of Nagash.
-1250
The Troll Wars
Troll, Orcs and Goblins are driven north by the eruption of Thunder Mounatin. The Trolls (Orcs and Goblins) attack Dwarf miners and prospectors. The Dwarf settlemnts of Valhorn and Budrikhorn south of Karaz a Karak are destroyed by rampaging Trolls. They are later driven out by the Dwarfs.
-1245
King Morgrim Blackbeard leads his forces southwards. After several battles he manages to drive the Orcs and their evil allies from the mountains to the north of Mad Doig Pass.
Another Dwarf Army led by Logazor Brightaxe heads east and recaptures Mount Gunbad, it is then forced to retreat by the apperance of Orc reinforcements.
Dwarfs attack Mount Silverspear and are faced by Orc Chieftain Nurk Ard'ed. The Dwarfs are forced to return westwards to protect Karaz-a-Karak from a horde Ogers and Trolls. The horde is repulsed aad the bodies of hundreds of Trolls are piled up and burned.
The Dwarfs continue to re-establish there hold in the mountains. The Underway is partially rebuilt and minor settlements retaken.The tombs of ancestors which were destroyed in the Time of Woes are refubished.
-1200
Nagash the Black excavates the Cursed Pit. Goblins and Orcs flee west to escape the evil that grips the south. In exchange for warpstone mined below Cripple Peak Skaven join forces with the Undead legions of Nagash who help lure several tribes of Orcs and Goblins into the Cursed Pit. Nagash summons a massive army of Undead and the Council of Thiteen have him assassinated.
-1185
An expedition led by Runesmith Kadrin Redmane the Dwarf clears the ruins of Karakl Varn, driving the Skaven down deep into the deepest underhalls. He discovers a rich vein of gromril and petitions the High King to allow him to resettle the old stronghold. Miners flock to Karak Varn and gromril begins to flood into the High King's coffers.
-1152
A Great Undead army invade Araby.
-1136
Kadrin Redmane is ambushed and killed by Orcs beside the shores of Black water while leading a mule train of gromril ore to the High king. Kadrin slays 36 massive Orcs before he falls. His final act was to throw his rune hammer far out into the Black Water to keep it from the Orcs.
Following Kadrin's death the Dwarfs hold on Karak Varn becomes increasingly tenuous under renew pressure from Orcs and Skaven. They are eventully driven out by Skaven.
-1125
Battle of Glade of Woe where Orc army is destroyed in the Loren Forest. Orion and Ariel become King and Queen in the Wood.
-1000
Arrival of the Bretonni tribes from the east, settling all lands north and west of the Loren Forest.
-975
The Battle of a Thousand Woes. Dwarfs led by King Skorri Morgrimson attempt to recapture Red Eye Mountain (Karak Ungor). The Dwarfs clear their enermies from the southen vally and gate, but are ambused and driven back when they attempt to enter the stronghold itself. A few Dwarfs including Furgil Skorri's yougest son, infiltate the lower halls, but do not return. Skorri leds the rest of his army back to Karaz-a-Karak and dies soon afterwards.
-750
Karak Azgal is attacked by Red Cloud Goblins. They are rupulsed after heavy fighting. They then move on to Karak Azul where they manage to gain a foothold in the westen halls and lower regions.The Dwarfs continue to fight and slowly gain the upperhand, in expelling the invaders. Many Dwarfs were slain.
-740
Karak Azul is finally fully purged of Goblins
-720
First reported sighting of the dragon Skaladrak Incardine, later to spawn many powerful dragonkin including Graug the Terrible.
-701
Dwarf Miners working in the depths of Karak Eight Peaks break into a Skaven tunnel. Mnay Skaven are slain before the Dwarfs discover the extent of the Skaven burrows.
-700
Kindred of the Wythel Glades leave Athel Loren and migrate over the Grey Mountains into the vast forests beyond. Some settle in the Laurelorn Forest.
Elf seafarers report Tilean shepherds grazing their flocks amid the tumbled colonnades of former Elf cities.
-692
Last of the Dark Elves in Ulthuan are destroyed.
-650
Baragor, the first Slayer King, dedicates the great Shrine of Grimnir in Karak Kadrin. He takes the name Ulgrim, meaning 'oath bound'. His descendants bear the name today.
-513
The fall of Karak Eight Peaks. Over the last 100 years the number of Goblins and Skaven had increased in and around the Dwarf stronghold until even daily life became a constant battle for survival. The Dwarfs found themselves driven into an ever diminishing realm as one after another of the eight peaks fell. The end came suddenly. Skaven poisoned wells and used noxious gases to choke the Dwarfs. In the final moments King Lunn orders his followers to rune-seal the tombs of the Kings of Old and the hold is abandoned. The King and the remaining Dwarfs vow to return.
The Skaven and the Goblins fight over the Ruins of Karak Eight Peaks.
-469
The Orc Warlord Dork leads a huge army of Orcs and Goblins to take Karak Azgal. They leave it destroyed and abandoned leaving the secrets of its depths unexplored.
-466
The Orc Warlord Dork attacks and captures Karak Drazh it is occupied and renamed Black Crag. All of the lands south of Karaz-a-Karak, with the exception of Karak Azul, are now in Orc and Goblin control.
-380
Orc Warlord Ugrok Beard Burner leads the Orc horde northwards and attacks Karaz-a-Karak. Many smaller Dwarf settlements are destroyed, countless mines are overwelmed and many Dwarfs die. The Dwarf High King, Logan Proudbeard, is captured by the Orcs and suffers great humiliation at the hands of his tormentors. The Dwarfs fight back, led by Gorazin Silverhorn, finally driving the Orcs from the capital.
-350
Skaven Overrun Crookback Mountain in the Dark Lands and enslave several tribes of Night Goblins living there.
-370
Orcs Warlord Ugrok and his Orc horde are beaten back by the Dwarfs at Battle of Black Water.
-250
Dwarfs intensify their trading contacts with the tribes of Men in the lands that are to become the Empire. Men are poor craftmen and learn comparativly slowly.
Dwarves encounter the Wood Elves of the Loren with disasterous results.
-215
Dark Elf raiders begin raids on Slann cities.
-200
The Cult of Chi'an Chi (as Tzeentch, the Changer of the Ways, is known in the East) becomes popular amongst the aristocracy of the city of Beichai, in Cathay.
-150
Through careful breeding programs, Chaos Dwarf sorcerers finally succeeded in developing Black Orcs.
-100
Black Orcs lead revolt which ravages the lower levels of Zharr-Naggrund. Chaos Dwarves saved by the Hobgoblins. Black Orcs flee to the Worlds Edge Mountains and the Mountains of Mourn.
Nagash returns to Cripple Peak and destroys Clan Rikek.
-87
Dark Elf ships start raiding the coasts of Cathay and Nippon.
-15
A trading convoy from Karaz-a-Karak is ambushed on its way to the Grey Mountains. King Kurgan Ironbeard is captured by the Orcs. He is later rescued by Sigmar, prince of the Unberogen tribe. The Dwarf King rewards Sigmar with the rune hammer, Ghal Mharaz.
-1
The Battle of Blackfire Pass. This battle is the culmination of the long campaign waged by the Dwarfs and Sigmar. The greenskins are driven from the lands west of the world edge mountains. Many Orcs and Goblins are destroyed or flee into the mountains. At the Battle of Blackfire Pass a massive Orc army is destroyed by the combined forces of Sigmar and Kurgan Ironbeard. This ended the domination of the land by Orcs.
0
Sigmar becomes the first Emperor of a united Empire.
The creation of the Empire opens up a new age for Dwarfs. Many Dwarfs travel to the Empire where they help the humans build there first cities. Dwarf masons, carpenters and smiths are much in demand, and Dwarf worksmanship is everywere admired. As the Empire grows the Dwarfs and Men establish valuable trading contacts and prosperity returns once more to the Dwarf realms. Dwarf and human armies keep Orcs and Goblins at bay. Several expeditions are mounted to reclaim lost stongholds, but none come to anything.
Nippon unites for first time under a single Emperor warlord, Yamyakyuki I.
Appearance of the twin-tailed comet brings forth the prophey of Sotek, the Serpent God.
1
According to legend, Tilean twins Lucan and Luccina found Luccini among the ruins of an ancient Elf city.
17
Sigmar destroys a Skaven horde in the Middle Mountains of the Empire.
50
Sigmar abdicates and disappears in Worlds Edge Mountains taking his warhammer back to the Dwarfs. He disappers and is never seen again.
52
Establishment of electoral system.
73
Establishment and expansion of Cult of Sigmar, open conflict with Cult of Ulric begins.
Johann Helstrum becomes first Grand Theogonist of Sigmar.
100
Serpent plagues brought forth by Sotek force the Skaven out of Lustria.
Clan Pestilens, long believed lost, emerges from the rotting jungles of Lustria and starts the first Skaven civil war.
176
Following numerous incursions by Chaos warbands, Dark Elves begin building a series of watchtowers along Naggaroth's northern border.
211
Attack against the Witch King. The army of the Witch King marches against Chaos before it can penetrate deep into the heartland of Naggaroth. The Chaos army is driven back.
287
Dwarf miners discover the nest of the dragon Mordrak in the mountains south of Karak Azul.
315
Slann army appears in Naggaroth and defeats the Dark Elves. Recovers certain treasure stolen by the Dark Elves hundreds of years before.
451
The shores of the Tilea Sea are ravaged by the combined fleets of Settra and the Dark Elves.
Sartosa is beseiged and captured by the Dark Elves and the entire population perished or was carried off into slavery.
453
Sartosa is recaptured and the Tilians rout the Dark Elf/Undead force. It remains in a ruinouse state for many years.
475
Orcs invade Tilea. Many cities are sacked.
491
Tileans begin to drive Orcs back over Apuccini Mountains.
500
Rich volcanic deposits first mined at Gorgoth by the Chaos Dwarfs.
Assassin-adepts of the Clan Eshin return from Cathay to work for the Council of the Thirteen Lords of Decay. Many clans are quickly brought to heel by the assassination of their Warlords.
577
Orc demand of tribute from the Bretonni peoples rejected.
600
After enslaving or destroying several other clans, devastating the South Lands with magical contagions and killing one of the Lords of Decay in ritual combat, Nurglitch, Plague Lord of Clan Pestilens, is granted a place in the Council of Thirteen.
657
Thori Gundrikson discovers gromril in the caves west of Black Water. The Dwarfs excavate substantial tunnels and extract graet quantities of ore over the following years. The mines are eventually destroyed by Skaven intruders, but not until the gromril is almost exhasted.
662
The discovery of the Lost Heartstone of Aldin Getgold in the Dragonback Mountains by Dorin Heldour and Katalin Kandoom.
684
The restoration of the Axe of Doom by Dorin Heldour and Katalin Kandoom. The axe is discovered deep in the ruins of Karak Varn and is recovered and brought back to King Finn Sourscowl in Karaz-a-Karak.
685
Dorin Heldour brings the skin of of the dragon Fyrskar to Finn Sourscowl. Heganbor the Runesmith fashions the skin into a cloak engraved with potent runes.
698
Representatives of the Phoenix King of the High Elves arrive in Cathay. Trade between east and west begins to flourish.
742
Dorin Heldour and Katalin Kandoom rescue Elmador and Oldor Finnson from the dungeons of Black Crag. Elmador later becomes High King.
753
Dark Elf slave-ships begin to roam the globe and begin to bring entire tribes to Naggaroth in chains.
770
Newly independent Bretonnian warlords initiate 50 years of sporatic attempts to invade the Loren with hopes to carve out more lands. All are repelled by the Wood Elves.
892
In this year Kragg the Grimm forged the Rune of Stone under they eye of his master Morek Furrowbrow. He was to become the greatests and most long-lived Runesmith of his age.
977
Gilles Le Breton leads the human tribes between the Grey Mountains and Great Ocean aginst the Orc and Goblin tribes and founds the kingdom of Bretionnia.
978
Orcs are finally driven from Tilea.
980
Orcs and Goblins retreat to Grey Mountains and northern forests.
1000
The great Chaos citadels of Infernius and Black Rock begin being constructed in the Chaos Wastes.
1005
Le Breton dies later and is succeeded as King by his son, Louis. King Louis the Rash recognizes Athel Loren as an independent realm.
1017
Norse raiders landed on the island of Sartosa and easily overcame the scattered inhabitance and the small garrison of troops from Luccini. From this base the Norse ravage the coast of Tilea. They are finally defeated in a sea battle off Cappo Cinno. The remaining Norse are hired by Luccini as mercenaries and allowed to stay on the island to gaurd it.
1032
Skalf Dragonslayer slys the dragon Graug the Terrible and claims the kingship of Karak Azgal. The hold remains infested by Goblins, Skaven and other monsters, and the Dwarfs make no attempt to recapture it. Skalf and his descendants etablish a town in the vally below the old entrance.
1111
The Black Plague
The Black Plague sweeps the Old World. The Dwarfs seal their strongholds. The Skaven rise from the depths and attack the Dwarfs strongholds in vast numbers, but the Dwarfs hold out despite many casualties.
Skaven erupt to take advantage of the plague. Many small Empire settlements abandoned. Almost nine-tenths of the Empire´s population is wiped out in the next four years.
1115
Death of Emperor Boris Goldgatherer the Incompetent. No successor elected during ensuing anarchy.
Skaven start to systematically enslave the surviving Human settlements.
1122
Count Mandred Skavenslayer rallies support from the Elector Counts and leads a crusade against the skaven.
1124
Count Mandred Skavenslayer finally drives out the Skaven and is elected Emperor.
1125
Dark Elves invade Ulthuan
1131
Dark Elves rebuild citadel of Anlec in the Shadowlands.
1133
Begins war with siege of Griffon Gate.
1142
Guillaume, the third Bretonnian King, defeats a large Orc army at the Battle of Armandur and drives the last of the Orcs from northern Bretonnia.
1146
Siege of Griffon Gate lifted.
1150
Ibn Jellaba of Araby treks across the desert to find an overland route into the interior of the Southlands and encounters the hidden city of Zlatlan.
1152
The Council of Thirteen orders the assassination of Emperor Mandred Skaven Slayer. He is murdered by Nartik of Clan Eshin later the same year.
1240
Corsairs of Araby plunder the coasts of Tilea and Estalia. Tileans hire more Norse which provokes Corsairs to invade Sartosa. The Corsairs, led by Nafal Muq, overwealm the decendents of the Norse. The raids on Tilea become much worse and the Tileans found the Arabians harder to catch and unable to be bribed.
1245
King Baudoin of Brettionia slays the dragon Mergaste.
1325
Tournament of la Damoiselle d'Artois. One hundred knights joust for her hand.
1350
Dwarf army is decimated in the Loren in the Battle of Pine Crags.
1366
Tilean mercenaries fight on both sides in the civil wars that ravage the Empire.
1420
The land around Karak Kadrin are tormented by the great dragon Skaladrak Incarnadine.
1425
Tournament of Ravola. Flower of Bretonnian chivalry beaten by Tilean Knights (who are said to have cheated by using long lances). This ends Bretonnian pretensions to domains in Tilea.
1435
Sultan Jaffar, a powerful Arabian sorcerer, wields together a coalition of several desert tribes. He uses his charismatic power and ability to summon desert genies. He then swept from the desert and declared himself Sultan of Araby.
The Skaven in Araby secretly ally with Sultan Jaffar, spying for him and murdering his rivals in exchange for warpstone.
1436
Jaffar expands his city-state to a small empire with the capture of Al-Haikk, Copher, Martek and Lashiek in western Araby. Legend speaks of him summoning daemons and conversing with spirits.
1448
The Skaven manage to convince Jaffar that Estlia intends to attack Araby. The Sultan invades Estalia and captures Magritta.
Tobaro is begegied by both land and sea, but holds out against the Sultan's Army.
Tilean Mercenaries take part in wars to free Estalia from Sultan Jaffar. They relieve Tobaro and recapture Magritta.
This begins the Araby crusades which eventually drive the Sultan´s armies back to Araby and shatter the Sultanate at the battle of Al-Haikk.
1449
Bretonnian knights journey to Estalian to fight the Arabians.
1457
Founding of the Order of the Blazing Suns.
1487
Dark Elf raids on Remas. The fleet of galleys that usually defend the habout were all at sea, and the Dark Elves took advantage of an unseasonal mist to reach the harbour entrance. However their ships wereat the terrible 'Battle of the Bridge' in ehich a large part of the bridge was sacked and burned by the Darkl Elves, who took away many slaves, The mercenary garrison managed to hold the bridge until the Dark Elves desided to give up and leave. This formed a great hatered of the Naggarothi.
1491
Marco Colombo acquired a map from a Norse seafarer. This had the coast of Lustria on it revlaing there was a western continent beyond Ulthuan. Marco eventually persuaded Orlando, exiled Prince of Trantio, to spare him three ships and crew.
1492
Marco Colombo sets out on the long voyage to Lustria, heading for the Norse township of Skeggi. Marco's ships, the Nino, Bimbo and Pintolaga, miraculously avoiding encountering any High Elf ships.
Marco lands safly in lustria south of Skeggi in the vicinity of Tlax. He already knew of the Lizardmen and was made welcome by the local priest-king, who even agreed to hire Marco's mercenaries to gaurd his coast.
Lizardmen of Tlax destroy the same Dark Elf raiders who attacked Remas a few years before. The battle is witnessed by Marco Colombo.
1495
Marco retures from Lustria to find his patron Orlando camped out side Trantio. Marco payed the mercenary army and cured Orlando of his wounds long anough to witness Marco capture the city in his name and become prince.
1500
Infernius and Black Rock the great Chaos citadels are compleated in the Chaos Wastes.
1501
Ravages of Gorthor. Hochland is devastated. The Battle of Hergig.
Luciano Catena, Prince of Luccini leads an army against the Corsairs on Sartosa. Emir, Abd al Wazaq, and his Corsairs are driven back to the city and surrender after a long and bloody seige. Al Wazaq is allowed to escape in return for leaving behind his stash of treasure. Al Wazaq also had to surrender his enormous harem which he had trained to defend him. These and other Corsicars were hired as mercenaries by Luciano.
1547
Grand Duke of Middenheim declares himself the rightful Emperor without election, starting the Age of Three Emperors.
1502
High Elf army routs Dark Elves.
1563
The city of Tobaro in Tilea is overrun by Skaven breaking in through the ancient Elf-carved network of tunnels which riddle the cliffs around it, attacking the city from within. The Prince, Meldo Marcelli, escaped with many soilders and ships. Arriving in Remas and hiring an army of mercenaries.
1565
Tobaro is recaptured by a mercenary army led by Meldo Marcelli, the Prince of Tobaro, reinforced by a contingent of High Elves.
1601
Village of Escantos in the south Tilea is completely devoured by swarm of rats.
1635
Battle of Castellet. Norse raiders attack L'Anguille and are met by an army led by King Philippe the Strong. Bretonnians claim a great victory although they out numbered the Norse by more than twenty to one.
1670
Count Ulrich von Schloss of the Reikland, henchman of the Nuln Emperor, attempts to attack the Duc du Quenelles through the Loren Forest and is defeated by the Wood Elves.
1681
Night of the Restless Dead.
For one night throughout the Known World the dead stir and walk the land, sowing terror and confusion. Entire villages and towns are overrun and destroyed before the night of terror ends.
1698
Until now nothing was know of what lied beyond the Dwaven Realm. Tilean brothers Ricco and Robbio brought a tattered banner, bearing the symbol of a dragon, from the Dwarfs, who claimed to have captured it from the Hobgoblins from the East. It was belived to be an Elven banner. The geography of the world was still unknown at this time and Ricco and Robbio thought they could reach Ulthane overland from the East. They scoured the Dwaven Realm for artifacts from the east. The two brothers then returned to Verezzo in Tilea to raise funds. The Prince of Verezzo and Mercent Princes from all over Tilea invested in the enterprise. A huge army of mercenaries and a large civilan contigent gathered. They leave Tilea with the intention of setting up a trading post in the East. The experdition passed through the border primces and reached Karaz-a-Karak.
1699
Ricco and Robbio's expodition leave Karaz-a-Karak with over a thousand Tileans, Mercenaries, Border Prince Citizens and Dwarves. They travel north along the western foothils of the World Edge Mountains through High Pass to the Road of Skulls and beyond.
1703
Norse raids of Ulthane begin.
Magnus the Mad besieges Lothern with 200 men.
1707
Orc Warlord Gorbad Ironclaw invades Empire from Black Fire Pass. Capital moves to Altdorf as Nuln is sacked, Mootland is devastated, and Sudenland overrun.
1708
Large Imperial army led by Count of Wissenland is destroyed by Gorbad Ironclaw in Battle of Grunberg.
Altdorf is besieged, but holds out.
Emperor Sigismund V is killed by Orc wyverns.
1709
Orc army of Gorbad Ironclaw disperses after Warlord Ironclaw dies.
1714
News reaches Tilea of Ricco and Robbio's eastern erxperdition. A mercent caravan of pack yaks arrives at Verezzo laden down with bundles of silk along with a message from the brothers. They now resided in the westernmost outpost of Imperial Cathay! This was the first Old World evidence of Cathay. Ricco and Robbio set up the 'Silk Road' between Tilea and Shang-Yang in Cathay.
1715
Kastagrar, the Champion of Khorne, attacks the Goblins of Gnashrak's lair. After wiping out every single Goblin in the stronghold he is elevated to the status of Daemon Prince.
Remanents of Orc Warlord Ironclaw's army invades from the Empire and are slain by Bretonnian army.
1750
Kislev seperates from the Empire.
1757
The Prince's rule over Sartosa came to an end when the mercenary flotilla of galleys based on the island mutined. The island rapidly fell apart into anarchy. Sartosa becomes a Pirate Principality.
1786
Clan Eshin release rats infected with the Red Pox, Clan Pestilens´ latest scourge, in the sewers of Bordeleaux in bretonnia. The city loses over a third of its population to the Red Pox in a single week. The Baron Giscard Du´ponte orders the poor quarter to be burned to the ground in a fit of desperation. This appears to work and the Pox is halted almost immediately.
1812
Southern Bretonnia and Northern Tilea is ravaged by another outbreak of Red Pox. Panic, anarchy and rioting spread through several Bretonnian cities. Mobs rampage through the cities burning anything that might carry the pox, including sheep, dogs, cats, frogs and fish.
Great fire of Brionne razes three quarters of city.
Three-quaters of Miragliano is wiped out by the Red Pox. They employ rat catchers who fight running battles with Skaven Gutter Runners.
1813
Two Skaven armies appear in Bretonnia, razing several villages and small towns along the River Brienne.
Brionne and Quenelles are besieged. Skaven army defeated and driven off by Wood Elves and Bretonnian knights from Pavarron.
Eventually a combination of the arrival of winter and rigorous quarantining brings the Red Pox under control.
1814
A Skaven horde form Hell Pit emerges to loot warpstone from the Northern Wastes but is defeated by Decasor, Champion of Nurgle.
1839
Birth of Genevieve Dieudonne in Parravon.
1850
The Skaven Under-Empire erupts into its second civil war. The other Lords of Decay use the failure of the Bretonnian campaign as a pretext to force the removal of Clan Pestilens from the Council of Thirteen. In the vicious in-fighting that follows the Plague Lords of Clan Pestilens attempt to seize control of the temple of the Horned Rat in Skavenblight and complete anarchy ensues.
1851
Count Drachenfels sacks Parravon.
1855
Genevieve is turned in to a vampire by Chandagnac the Ancient.
1877
There are squabbling factions in Tobaro in Tilea. A prophecy circulate's in the city predicting that the next prince will meet a horrible end. This leads to a pig being preside as prince. Nothing happened!
1889
12 years after the election of a pig to the throne of Tobaro he fell off the battlements of Tobaro into the sea! By this time the only living contender assumed office.
1903
Facing increasing Norse raids, Mages of Saphery draw a shroud of mists over eastern sea approaches to Ulthane.
1937
Dachenfels' poison feast; death of Emperor Carolus.
1948
Year of the Four Tyrannies of Tilea.
1979
Empress Magritta become the last elected Emperor for 400 years.
2000
Clan Scruten is led away from the main Skaven areas by Grey Seer Kritislik. The clan establishes a stronghold hidden in the Cursed Marshes and extending beneath Marienburg.
Era of Enlightenment. A new age of art, culture and prosperity flourishes thoughout Tilea.
2006
A huge Plague Fleet makes landfall in Bretonnia. Led by Chaos Lord Kharan, the minions of Khorne defeat the Bretonnians at the Battle of Lamentations. Couronne is besieged. Roughly half of all the Knights of Bretonnia perish.
2007
Battle of Couronne. Led by Repanse de Lyonesse, the Damoiselle de Guerre, the Bretonnians defeat the forces of Chaos. Chaos Lord Kharan is slain.
2010
Wars of Vampric Counts begin with devastation of Ostermark by Vlad von Carstein, first of the notorious Vampire Counts of Sylvania.
Undead armies rampage between Stirland and northern border.
The Battle of Hunger Wood. The Dwarfs fight many battles alongside the Empire in the Wars of the Vampire Counts. They take part in the Night Siege of Castle Tempelhof and the defeat of teh Vampier Countess Emmanuelle.
2012
The inventive genius Leonardo da Miragliano enters the Emperor's service.
2145
Battle of Hel Fen. Manfred von Carstein, last of the Vampire Counts of Sylvania, is destroyed along with his Undead horde.
2150
The Sea Elves return to the Old World.
2155
Beastmen sack and burn the town of Malthofen.
2177
Daeth of Chandagnac the Ancient - vampire 'father' of Genevieve Dieudonne.
2201
Beginning of the Errantry Wars when Louen Orc Slayer, King of Bretonnia, declares intention to rid Bretonnia of Orcs.
2202
An Orc army fleeing the Bretonnians through the Loren Forest is ambushed and destroyed by Wood Elves.
2205
Battle of Black Falls. A Dwarf and Goblin army meet on the shores of the Black Water. Dwarf High King Alrik and Goblin Warlord Gorkil Eye Gouger are slain while fighting along the rim of the Black Falls. The Goblin Warlord is mortally wounded by the Dwarf, but pulkl his adversary to his doom over the falls. The Goblin army is routed into the icy water and most are swept over the falls and perish with their leader.
2211
The great preacher, Hans Grunsson, travels to the Northern Wastes to convert the Chaos hordes to the true faith of Sigmar. He is eaten by Chaos Troll who is not impressed by his oratory.
2236
Grottio paints two thousand naked nymphs on the ceiling of the palazzo Verezzo instead of a battle scene and is exiled to the island of Nonucci as punishment.
2250
Over the next 50 years incursions and raids by Chaos warbands grow more frequent.
2262
Birth of Yevegeny Yefimovich, future high priest of Tzeentch.
2301
Incursion of Chaos.
Great War Against Chaos begins. The forces of Chaos assault the entire world. From Ulthuan to the Old World, the Chaos Hordes are victorious.
Incursion of Chaos led by Dark Elves invadeds Ulthane.
2302
The Great War Against Chaos.
Chaos Armies pour down from the north, devastating the lands as they come.
Norsca overrun by Chaos marauders.
Karaz-a-Karak is attacked but holds out.
Siege of Praag. Chaos Hordes defeat two Kislevite armies.
Magnus the Pious appears in Nuln to deliver his now legendary call to arms.
The Dwarfs send troops to Praag, where Magnus the Pious lifts the siege.
Magnus is crowned Emperour, and goes on to restor the Empire to it's former glory.
The rising tide of Dark Magic prompts the Grey Seers to step in and call upon the Horned Rat for divine judgement over the waring clans. In a massive ceremony at Skavenblight during Vermintide, he great annyual feast of the Horned God, the Grey Seers succeed in summoning an incarnation of the Horned Rat. The Clan Lords are terrified into a level of obedience and co-operation previously unthinkable as the Horned One dictates the plan they are to follow. The Council of Thirteen Lords of Decay is completely reorganised and all hostilities are ended immediately.
During the war that follows the Skaven fight the Chaos armies and the armies of the Empire and Kislev, but after several hundred years of internecine warfare the Skaven´s numbers are almost exhausted.
The Skaven ambush several contingents of the Empire army as it returns home and soon afterwards minor plagues are unleashed in Nuln, Talabheim and Marienburg.
2303
Minor plagues break out in Nuln and Talabheim.
Dark Elves and Chaos allies are driven out of Ulthuan.
Minor plague hits Marienburg.
2319
Skaven warships are spotted in waters off Tilea.
2320
During the winter of 2320/21 Clan Eshin Gutter Runners make a number of raids on Imperial, Bretonnian, Tilean and Estalian warfleets at anchor in their respective home ports. The Gutter Runners use firepots and naphtha to burn the fleets with varying success. Many ships are badly damaged.
2321
Tilean coast suffers from Skaven raiding throughout summer.
Estalian coast suffers from Skaven raiding throughout summer.
Battle of Bloodwater Sound ends with Dwarf Ironclads from Barak Varr defeating Skaven Fleet in the Black Gulf.
Tilea is gripped by recurrent famines caused by plauge of mice eating the grain. Revolts result in the proclamation of republics in Remas and Verezzo.
2369
Death of Magnus the Pious, the crown passes to Count Leopold of Stirland.
2370
Birth of Gortrek the Dwarf - future Trollslayer.
2387
Prince Karsten of Waldenhof employs Skaven allies to undermine the walls of the invincible Castle Siegfried in Sylvania. When Karsten refuses to pay them in warpstone the Skaven steal all the children of Waldenhof instead. After this notorious event (Karsten is eventually lynched) the Skaven disappear from the surface altogether for the next hundred years, plotting, preparing and building up their numbers.
2391
Bagrian, master of the monastery of La Maisontaal in Bretonnia, infiltrates Skavenblight and steals the awesome Black Arc. The Grey Seer Gnawdoom leads a force of Skaven against the monastery and recovers the Arc during a vicious battle with the monks after allying with the Undead army of the Lichemaster Heinrich Kemler.
2399
Famins in Tilea finally end. Remas and Verezzo are now Republics after revolts.
2401
Disappearance of Emperor Matthias IV.
The Seige of Monte Castello. 10,000 Orcs, led by Unguth the Vile, beseige Monte Castello lasts for over a year. The garrisson was reduced to 500 men. The old mercenary commander Galeazzo is mortally wounded, his daughter Monna Lissa donned his armour and led the armyaginst three more assults. Monna Lisa took control of the army until reinforcements arrived from Luccini where they found only 25 pikemen still standing.
2420
Bretonnian knights win a huge victory against Orcs at Blood River.
King Charles L'enorm announces intention to carry the Errantry Wars east into the Border Princes and beyond.
Goblin Warlord Grom the Paunch defeats Dwarf army in the Battle of Iron Gate. He them commences 4 year rampage throughout the Empire before setting sail for Ulthuan.
2421
Norse Losterikson discovers a great inland bay on the west coast of the Southlands, south of the equator. He names it the New Coast.
2424
Grom the Paunch sails for Ulthuan.
2425
Goblin horde led by Grom from Old World invades eastern Ulthuan and ravages land until defeated.
2429
The Burgomister of Marienburg declares the Wasteland's inderpendent and secede from the Empire.Emperor Dieter IV is deposed.
2446
Birth of Vukotic the mercenary - future retainer of the von Mecklenbergs of Sudenland.
2456
Birth of the mercenary Wolf - future companion of Konrad.
2459
Birth of Oswald von Mecklenberg - Imperial Elector, Baron of Sudenland and farther of Johann and Wolf.
2460
Birth of 'Filthy Harald Kleindeinst.
2465
Birth of Orfeo, a famouse story teller. At 8 months of age he is adopted as a foundling by the Wood Elfes of Loren Forest.
2470
Harmis Detz - veteran soilder of the Border Gaurd of Khypris in the Border Princes - witnesses the first in a new series of attacks by followers of Chaos. Harmis joins in the hunt for the plague daemon, Ystareth.
2471
Birth of Cetlef Sierck, greatest playwright and impressario of the Warhammer World.
2473
Belegar, descendant of King Lunn, recaptures and resettles parts of Karak Eight Peaks. The Dwarfhold remains in a permanent state of siege.
2475
Birth of Johann von Meklenberg, son of Oswald, the Baron Sudenland.
2477
Prince Oswald von Konigswald recruits a band of adventures - inclueding the vampire Genevieve Dieudonne - and leads them into the Greay Mountains to seek out and destroy the evil enchanter Drachenfels.
2478
Birth of Konrad.
Birth of Wolf von Mecklenberg - Johann's younger brother.
2483
Vukotich impressed into the service of the von Mecklenbergs as Johann's tutor.
2485
Borgio makes himself Prince of Miragliano.
2488
Bretonnian army is defeated by Orc army in the Battle of Death Pass.
King Charles II declares Errantry Wars at an end.
2489
Battle of Villa Vennia, Borgio Prince of Miragliano defeats Remas.
2490
In a village on the edge of the Forest of Shadows, the young Konrad rescues Elyssa from a Beastman, and their friendship begins.
2491
2495
Undead army attack the Loren in an attempt to invade Bretonnia and is annihilated.
Battle of Via Veddia, Borgio Prince of Miragliano defeats Verezzo.
2497
Battle of Vittoria Viccia, Borgio Prince of Miragliano defeats Trantio.
2498
Battle of the Jaws. Orc army is defeated at west end of Mad Dog Pass by Dwarves.
2499
Fritz von Halstadt, Chief Magistrate of Nuln and head of the Countess Emmanuelle´s secret police, is discovered trading warpstone to the Skaven in the sewers beneath Nuln. Grey Seer Thanquol has been feeding real information, half truths and outright lies to the insane von Halstadt, manipulating him with the ultimate aim of starting a civil war in the Empire. The plot is exposed and von Halstadt killed but Thanquol escapes. Later the same year Thanquol returns seeking vengeance with a Skaven horde. The horde uses Nuln´s extensive sewer network to infiltrate the city and almost overrun it in a single night being halted only by fires lit by the defenders which rage through the city. Eventually the Skaven are driven back, leaving half of Nuln in ruins. Grey Seer Thanquol swears he will have vengeance upon Nuln and its inhabitants before returning to Skavenblight to face the inqquisition of the Lords of Decay.
2502
Election of Karl-Franz, of the house of Holswig-Schliestein, as Emperor Karl-Franz I.
Erik Redaxe raids Cothique at head of a great fleet of Norse reavers.
High Elf war fleet defeats Norse.
2503
Orc army occupies Karak Azul for four years before retreating from a Dwarf army.
Borgio of Miragliano is murdered in his bath with a toasting folk.
2505
Lorenzo Lupo becomes Prince of Luccini in Tilea.
2510
Dwarf army defeats rampaging Orc army in the Battle of Broken Leg Gully.
Kurt Mannfeld, Arch-Lector of Sigmar leads an army to the Chaos Wastes to rid the world of Chaos Lord Archaon. His army is utterly crushed at the Battle of the Monoliths.
2512
Huge army of Orcs led by Azhag the Slaughter begin rampage in the northern Empire.
2513
Lucretia Belladonna posions her seventh husband, the Prince of Pavona.
2515
The incursions of Chaos grow more frequent. Lord Archaon gathers his armies.