The  timelines arsorted into 3 major categories: ancient, cultural, and recent events.  Ancient events pre-date all current human cultures.  Cultural events describe the ascendance of variuous modern human cultures and are categorized by culture.  Recent events are an enumeration of events shaping the more modern, cosmopolitan world.

    The years are in the Aborian Regent's calender; RR is year of the reign of the Regents. PE is "Pre-exodus" and describes events prior to the arrival of the Aborian people in Trinalia.
 

Ancient Events
Cultural Events
Aborian Events
Turanian Events
Avelan Events
Recent Events

Ancient Events:

c6300 PE - The rise of the Qamatri nation
c5700 PE - Internal strife and decadence in the Qamatri empire
c5400 PE - Fall of the Qamatri empire
c4900 PE - Acendance of the Varishan Republic
c4100 PE - Varishans struggle agaisnt an unamed eldrictch horror
c3200 PE - The birth of the Dragonlords
c2700 PE - In a devastating war, Varishan culture is effectively wiped from the face of Trinalia.
c1500 PE - Elven allies of the ancient Varishans, the Hawklords, banish the remaining dragonlords to a pocket dimention.
c800  PE - The "Star of the South" falls, causing widespread famine amongst the people of Trinalia.

Aborian History:

The Firehawk epics:

c350 PE - The high priestess of the Moon-goddess Selna pens the Tome of Ages.
c185 PE - Idan is exiled
c95   PE - Idan dominates the Suertrea throne
69 PE - Arion is born to Idan and the Suertrea Queen
53 PE - Arion is exiled by his father
49 PE - Arion joins forces with a band of tribal warriors and frees the king of dragons from an alliance of nether lords.
46 PE - Arion, with the aid of the Dragon King, casts out Idan and reclaims the Suertrea throne.
44 PE - Orion is born
37 PE - Ariel is born
35 PE - Conflict between the celestial dynasties of Trifia and Tenknife herald the beginning of the choas wars
27 PE - Tellus of Tenknife seals of Sanctuary by destroying the keys to sanctuary, effectively denying the Trifian dynasty control.
26 PE - Idan returns while Arion is on a quest and reclaims the throne is his abscence.
26-24 PE- Arion's quest, culminating in the destruction of Idans material form and his banishing to the nightmare worlds.
22-8 PE- Epics of Orion and Ariel
20 PE - Conflicts in the northern province of Tryconnel marks the first mortal involvement in the chaos wars on Aphrodomis.
14 PE - Orion unlocks the secrets of the Green Stone
11 PE - Orion uses the power of the Green Stone to re-form the keys to sanctuary, then takes control of the city and ascends to godhood.
10 PE - Orion forms the "Third dynasty", and empire devoted to limiting the influence of the Trifian and Tenknife dynasty.
8 PE - In the first conflict between the Third dynasty and Tenknife, the Sancuary Table of Summoning is destroyed.
7 PE - Orion re-forms the fragments  of the Table of Summoning into a new artifact: the Table of Creation.
6 PE - Ariel forges the sword "Starthunder".
5 PE - Every nation on the continent of Corwin is now involved in the Chaos Wars.
0 PE - Ariel leads her poeple on an exodus to a new land far away from the ravages of the Chaos Wars: Trinalia.
1 RR - Ariel declares that her time in the lands of mortals is past. She hands power to the Regents, and declares that one day, she will return and the Suertrea throne will be restored.

Aborian Events (all years RR):

200  - The Regency expands to its current borders.
301 - Koriander, the patron deity of Queen Ariel, becomes the central deity of the Regency.  The regency is renames the Athos regency in honor of Koriander ( after one of her ancient names.)
c410 - Formation of Aborian colonies in the northern frontier areas and in the islands in the Kylopean ocean.
498 - Fronteir colonies in the north are conquered by the Kharzhak empire.
590 - Internal strife and warfare wrack the regency.  Two orders of knighthood vie for control of the regency: The Knights of the New Dawn, who felt that the time of the queen was passed and a new order was needed to usher the Aborian people into a new age, and the Knights of the Golden Blade, who faithfully clung to the prophecies of old.
630 - Many settlers in fronteir regions are forced to withdraw from the onslaught of the Kharzhak empire as they loose military support from the regency due to the internal struggles.
653 - The Knights of the Golden Dawn score several major victories over the Knights of the Golden Blade and force them into exile.  The Regent-Knight and leader of the Knights of the New Dawn comes into power.  He declares himself the "King of the New Dawn" and grasps the Kingsword, a golden two-handed sword that represnents the rulership of the Aborian people.  the magic of the Kingsword destroys him.
662 - The Order of the New Dawn is ushered out of power and the Order of the Golden Blade is ushered in.  The Regency is restored.
717 - Overcrowding in the Aborian cities and refugees from the collapsing Kharzhak empire start a wave of pestilence and famine that takes thousands of lives.
770 - A new era of trade and prosperity follows the collapse of the Kharzhak empire.  Colonies begin to bloom, the frontier is pushed back, and a strong military presence repulses the same gnoll raiders that hastened the demise of the Kharzhak empire.
855 - A new methodology of magic, known as channeling, comes into acceptance.
929 - All members of the Council of Regents name themselves the so-called "Order of the Enlightened".  The the regents, who were once enlightened and wise sages, are now mostly self-serving eunuch elite.
950 - With the Athos regency declining into a state of decadence, the various frontier colonies, including the confederation of free cities and the frotier cities of Drakar, are in a state of dynamic development.
1019 - The eunuch regents are at the center of pervasive internal strife in the regency.  This results in many deaths in the regency, which fortunately, introduces fresh blood to the council of regents, which effectively put the regency on the long road to recovery.
1085 - A new knight regent comes into power, ushering in a new era of peace, prosperity, and strength for the reqency.
1123 - Hordes of horrific creatures issue forth from clefts and caves in the earth to terrorize the people at the behest of their leader, the mad god, Paralite.
1127 - Queen Ariel returns to lead her people as she promised over one thousand years ago, and forms the royal guard to deal with the threat of Paralite.

Turanian History

306 - Rise of early Turanian warrior cults.
390 - Vanir elves teach the Turanians writing and the arts of magic.
453 - Nathal unites the Turanian clans and becomes the first Turanian king.
490 - The strength of the united hordes of the Turanian tribes force most other races from the reaches of eastern Trinalia.
560 - The old spirit religons resurface, with a god of culture and a goddess of peace at the head of the pantheon.
632 - The Turanians explore and colonize the eastern islands, and encounter the Aborians in the west.
755 - The first recorded appearance of a wizard known as Barion the Gray.
763 - Barion establishes the Lycaeum Academy of Magic.
772 - Barion establishes the Knights of the Gray Order, an order of knights in the Aborian fashion, save that they are trained in the magical arts.
780 - Barion claims the position of emporer at the Court of Kings.
780 - 805 - The newborn empire of Barea sweeps down and conquers the resisting clans.  The more primitive frost barbarian hordes are scattered into the norther peninsulae.
812 - Having secured his power base, Barion builds Castle Gray and retreat there with his most trusted students, where they research and experiment in pursuit of magical power.  During the period that follows, Barion has progressively fewer appearances at the court that he established.
821 - The last appearance of Barion at court (or anywhere else recorded in any annals).
835 - Barion's court is griped in disorder, and various clan leaders pretend to the throne.  Barion does not come forth to respond to any of these pretenders.
842 - The Barean empire is gripped in civil war between clan leaders and plagued by raids from hordes from the north.
846 - An unidentified wizard of great power appears on the mainland and begins devastating cities and towns.  The clan armies are once again united and march to meet his threat.  This effort is met by the casting of a spell now known as the "Great Wasting", which kills thousands and leaves all land east of the Karth mountains unable to support life.  A massive famine ensues.
849 - Barbarian hordes sweep down from the nothern peninsulae, administering the killing blow to the already ailing Barean Empire.
907 - Coastal settlements on the eastern isles (the only intact cultural settlement in the Barean empire) are devastated by earthquakes and a major tsunami.  Contact is lost with the only settlements on the northern isle.
927 - The Academy of Magic is re-established.  Members of the Gray order, kept alive in secrecy, return to help administer and serve the Academy.
942 - A village on Dagger Isle, the southernmost of the eastern isles, grows into Moonglow, a developing trade port led by a council of mages from the Academy.
951 - Most townships on Dagger Isle swear alleigance to the ruling council at Moonglow.  The resulting nation becomes known as the Lycaeum Consular.
962 - Hobgoblin raids begin on human settlements on the islands and coastal settlements.
970 - The Gray Order and Syanda (a city that sprung up around the Academy of Magic) join the Lycaeum Consular
972 - The consular military, under the lead of the Gray Knights, repulses the hobgoblin incursions.
1025 - Moonglow becomes a major trade port and has many immigrants from the west.
1075 - A rudementary orginization of mages-for-hire grows into the Quintarium, an organized crime guild sporting magically trained mercenaries and assassins.

Avelan History

c100 - First known contact with the Aborian people.
c300 - First major conflict of the Avelan people with Giants.
416 - In violent sucessions, the Avelan people are divided into 5 kingdoms.
503 - The people of Cannag inhabt the island of Skabrae.  Their rivals, the kingdom of Ulian, expand to the north.
655 - Rise of a major druidic sect devoted to Tuanna, the avelan mother-goddess.
824 - The unification: Mulian, Linian, and Arwella unite under the newborn Theocracy of Tuanna.  Cannag and Ulian decline to join the union out of rivalry for one another.
890 - Trade opens in full swing with the Aborian nations to the east.
909 - A legandary hero, Cyran the Wanderer, quests in the name of Cannag and establishes an academy on Scabrae.
978 - An uprsing occurs in the Theocracy by a band of idealists who feel stifled by the Theocracy's conservative stance on development.  For most purposes, the rebellion is put down, but the issue is never truly resolved.
1066 - Giant raids plague all Avelan nations
1171 - The Theocracy and Ulian are crushed by the Empire of Drakar

1127 - Nations on the mainland suffer at the hands of a new evil, the followers of the mad god Paralite.  the Aborian hero-queen Ariel returns to lead the fight against this awesome menace.
1128 - The most ancient, powerful dragons are released from their timeless prisons by Paralite.  One of these wyrms, Nasharagh, burns the city of Majenka to the ground in its fearsome rampage.
  - Paralite's followers continue to plague all the enlightened races.
  - Ariel forms the royal guard.
1129 - Bowedring, the faithful companion of the Dragonlady and Royal Guardsman Lauri Platinumhair, is slain in a battle with Nasharagh.
1130 - The Royal Guard makes major strides agaisnt the fell demon horde that has sworn aleigance to Paralite.  Inexplicably, Bowedring returns from his supposed death and defeats the greater dragons with the aid of the Royal Guard.
1131 - The Royal Guard takes their battle to the nether planes and destroys the mad god Paralite.
1133 - Those dark elves that followed Paralite now start seeking new powers to follow.  the entropy that ensues rocks the dark elves' power base to the core and effictively eliminates the dark elves as a power block on the surface world.
1135 - The various colonies east of the free cities are united under the banner of the Young Baronies.
1137 - The last known arch-mage and dracolich of the Cult of the Scaled (a Drow dragon-cult) is slain by the company of the Wolves' bane.
1138 - The artifact known as the demon seed is crushed and the Valzeth'ri brood mother is banished.  All Valzeth'ri withing hundreds of miles drop dead from some mysterious psychic wave.
1139 - Without the benefit of the Valzeth'ri brood, the forces of Drakar fall back over 50 miles on all borders.  The city of Trith is freed.
1140 - The combined armies of the free cities and Trinnoc march on the city of Drakar.  The city is occupied, after multitudes of unexplained deaths of members of the occupied city, Drakar is razed by the garrison and it's member return to their homelands.
    - The Warlord Darion, empororer of Drakar, and his most elite forces, retreat to a fortress known simply as the black citadel.  Though seige was laid to the Black Citadel, not once did the occupants ask for quarter and never were the walls of the citadel breached.
1141 - An elf lord known as Nepal claims the Dragon-rod.  He is possessed by a strange entity whose soul was captured within the rod, and the soul of Nepal takes its place.
1142 - Soon it becomes apparent that the creature whose soul is possessing Nepal is one of the legendary dragon-lords.
1146 -  After a threatening exchange between the High Council of Mages, the current ruling body of Lycaeum Consular, and the Quintarium, a civil war begins in the city of Moonglow.
1147 - Nepal obtains 2 of the dragonorbs, and uses their power to perform a ritual that pulls a lost city of the dragonlords out of the demi-plane where it was banished to over 2 millaenea ago.
    - The Gray knights enter Moonglow and restore order.  They exile the Quintarium and the High Council of Mages from the city.
1148 - General Valkendrus VII, a major general in the Imperial Army of Drakar, emerges from hiding and rallys the meager remainining  forces of Drakar.  His efforts sweep many of the patrol and garrison forces posted in the borders of the former empire of Drakar.
1149 - Queen Ariel declares that she has matters to attend to beyond the land of Trinalia, and hands the reigns of power of the Principality of Trinnoc to her oldest living relative, Robert Grayhawk.
   - The city of Majenka has returned to its former position as the most active trade port in the Kylopean Ocean.
1150 - A huge legion of humans, hobgoblins, and fire giants march forth from the black citadel.  Drakar reclaims most of its former territory, and all of the free cities are once again threatened.
   - Dragon-lord traders contact and begin trading with many cities on the western half of the continent. In some cases, the Dragon-lords have backed up their trade agreements with not-so-thinly-veiled threats.
1151 - A great comet appears in the night sky.  Lord Atira, an exiled planar lord, predict difficult times and says he must go elsewhere.  His grand keep is fortified to prepare for the eventualities of hostilities in his absence.
   - The legions of Drakar lie poised to take all of the free cities, but withdraw at the last moment.
  - The Quintarium engages in guerilla war against the Gray Knights in Moonglow.
1152 - A fire falls from the sky.  The skies are filled with a strange scintilating dust.
   - The very nature of the dust seems to disrupt the weaving of magic.  Many disasters result from the miscast of various magics.
   - The Quintarium, unable to rely on their magicks, is forced out of Moonglow by the Gray Knights totally.
  - Crop turnouts are very poor.
1153 - The dusts of the stars still blows through the sky.  Crop failures continue, resulting in widespread famine.  All armies are nearly disolved.
   - A strange form of storm, dubbed "the wildwinds" or "wildstorms" sweep across the land.  They disrupt any magic within them, and even release stored magics is a burst of magical energy with unpredicable results.  Many adventurers who relied on such devices loose their lives.
1154 - The wildwinds begin to subside, but crop turnouts are still poor.  The wild nature of the wildwinds helps breed a mistrust for mages.
1155 - Except for an occasional wildstorm, the shroud of prismatic dust subsides, and crops begin to grow again.  The famine is finally abated.
  - Dragonlord traders are now seen in every major city on the mainland.
1157 - After one Dragon-lord issues an ultimatum to the Principlity of Trinnoc, Lady Lauri Platinumhair, a loyal retainer to Ariel and a dragonlord in her own right, rides her mighty brass dragon to meet the dragonlords' merchant caravan.  The clan backed off on their ultimatum.
1159 - Lerendia declares alleigance to the Empire of Drakar.
1160 - The legions of Drakar seem to be re-assembled in what seems an impossibly short amount of time after the famine.  Once again, the free cities are threatened.
1161 - The Council of Ruling Nobles of Mintar West, in an attempt to head off violent confrontation with Drakar, declares their support of the Empire.
1162 - Some naval skirmishes occur between Lerendia and Trinnoc.
1163 - Lord Atira returns from his mysterious retreat.  He is none pleased that his closest neighbor has folded in the face of Drakar's might.
1166 - The Church of Xanathar and Members of the Bloodseekers (Robert's personal intelligence corps) become concerned with prophecies foretelling the rise of a new, nefarious evil in the land of Trinalia.  They dispatch agents to deal with the threat, but all are slain in their efforts.
1167 - Caernyc, a corrupted (and downcast) celestial steward, is inadvertantly freed from his prison.
1168 - Caernyc takes control of the eastern island city of Cymbria.  Using spells secreted in some ancient tomb, he calls forth 4 dragons to serve him.
1169 - Drakar permanently stations a legion in Mintar West.
1170 - Caernyc is slain by a motley band led by a chaos knight, a garath.
1172 - Drakar, apparently having completed conquests in the west, moves a large number of legions into the free cities, taking massive portions of the territory there. They reportedly are using a new sort of weapon, guns.
1173 - Drakarian Troops take Mintar West.  Trith and Loshimar are threatened.
  - A new, mysterious power takes the reigns of power in Cymbria.
  - Trith is taken overland by Drakarian legions.
1174 - The Golden Palace in Trinnoc is overtaken by a marine assault by Drakar.  In the assault, Warlord Dorion takes possesion of the Kingsword, and astonishingly is not slain by its magic.  Thus empowered, Dorion declares himself the Suertrea king.
    - All Aborinan churches and knightly orders sworn to the Code of Ages and several withdraw from the war effort against Drakar.  Regular units are demoralized.
  - The Battle at Dark Fortress results in the death of the Warlord-Emporer Dorion. The Kingsword is recovered and a new king - Isiana Thindara - is placed on the throne of the Principality of Athos.
  - A civil war starts between Drakarian factions following two Dorion's surviving siblings.
  - The united forces of the Principality, theYoung Baronies, and the Free Cities throw off the Drakarian oppression. The civil war in Drakar.
1175 - The Church of Ariel appears in Trinnoc.
  - The same heroes who slew the warlord-emporer of Drakar confront the dark queen Shiron and prevent the creation of 2 out of 3 vampire dragons she was trying to create.
1177 - Civil war breaks out in the Empire of Drakkar as the heir apparent, Fyre, foreswears the worship of the Empire’s patron deity, Idan. Fyre forms the Magocracy of Drakar.
 - Shiron takes control of the Dragonlords. The Dragon-Knight's quest to free their lords begin.
1178 - The ancient Dragonmagi are released from their slumber.
  - Cities throughout the inner coast region are plagued by violent earthquakes. This is eventually uncovered as the work of the Faegold staff, and artifact forged by Fyre Suertrea.
  - The magocracy of Drakar recovers the Star of the North, a meteorite with great magical properties.
1179  - The magocracy of Drakar attempts to open a gate that would unleash the Void Lords, horrifying godlike beings. The Emerald Brotherhood and the Dragonmagi prevent the deed and Fyre, the high mage of the Magocracy, is slain. However the arch-lich Nala is slain in the process, and when the Faegold staff is plunged into the heart of the Star of the North, a violent cataclysm ensues, wracking the land with earthquakes and the surrounding seas with tsunamis.
1180 -As a consequence of the cataclysm, the ancient lattice of Ley Lines that cris-cross the landscape of Trinalia, surge with magical energy.
1182 -The citizens of Trinalia slowly recover from the Cataclysm and rebuild their cities.
  -The prophetess of Selna reveals that two of the Suertrea heirs will die, leaving a clear heir to the throne.
  -Taking this as a sign, priests of the lawful Aborian powers take this as their time to strike at their holy enemies, the infidels of Drakar. The Great Crusade starts as they begin their final desperate war to bring down the Drakarians.
1184 - Through the actions of a party of adventures, faegold staff is thrown into another plane (the elemental plane of water)
  - Shaleen, princess of Drakar, is arrested, but subsequently rescued by her loyal corsairs.
1185 - The Present