Forgotten Realms chronology, 1200 - 1299

All dates are in Dalereckoning, and year names are given where appropriate.

1200The Year of the Buckler
1201The Year of the Embers
  • Death of Immurk the pirate.
  • Death of Immurk the Pirate aboard his ship, while fighting a Sembian warship.
  • By this time, the pirate fleet of the Inner Sea is judged to have over 100 ships.
  • Dhalmass (1186 to 1227), King of Cormyr.
  • Major invasion of Aglarond by a Thayan alliance of wizards is narrowly defeated.
1204
  • Rise of the pirate Urdogan.
1209The Year of the Blazing Banners
  • The (naval) Battle of the Fallen; destruction of Urdogen's pirates.
1211
  • Dhalmass crowned King of Cormyr.
1216
  • Balagos the great red wyrm slays the venerable silver dragon Eacoathildarandus.
1220The Year of the Toppled Tree
  • The Turmish warlord Sjorn Sendreth starts a 20-year campaign against the dwarves of the Alaoreum by attacking Ironfang.
1221The Year of the Frozen Flower
1222The Year of the Horn
  • The Harpstar Wars end with the destruction of the Harper King.
1223The Year of the Trembling Tree
  • The great green wyrm Athauglas is killed by the Company of the Gauntlet.
1224The Year of the Swollen Stars
  • Storm Silverhand writes To Harp at Twilight.
1225The Year of the Winged Worm
  • Lashilmbrar is king of Impiltur.
1226The Year of the Black Buck
1227The Year of the Wall
  • Palaghard II (1214 to 1261), King of Cormyr.
  • Palus Frohm, one of Vassa's greatest explorers, begins a twenty-year trek through the Great Glacier, culminating in the writing of Blood and Ice: Survival in the Great Glacier.
1228The Year of the Tattered Banners
1229The Year of the Carrion Crow
  • Manshoon of the Zhentarim is born.
1230The Year of the Long Watch
  • Elf-maidens out for a pleasure outing are never seen again. This becomes the basis for the epic poem "The Long Watch".
  • High Mage Orjalun of Silverymoon retires and appoints Sepur as his successor.
1231The Year of the Bright Star
1232The Year of the Weeping Wives
  • Destruction of Sessrendale by Archendale.
  • High Mage Sepur abandons Silverymoon; Spellsfall sees the death of over two dozen wizards vying for power in the city.
  • Jander Sunstar is delivered from his curse.
1233The Year of Many Monsters
1234The Year of the Full Flagon
1235The Year of the Black Horde
  • Waterdeep is besieged for nine months by the largest orc horde in recorded history. The city is spared when Ahghairon and his generals introduce griffons as flying steeds for the army, allowing them past the orcs to gain food and aid outside the walls.
  • Alustriel, Storm Silverhand, and an army of elves and Harpers free Silverymoon from orc siege. Alustriel destroys the self-proclaimed High Mage Shaloss Ethenfrost and his apprentices in spellbattle, while Storm and the Harpers are victorious at the Battle of Tumbleskulls. Alustriel is the first High Mage of Silverymoon to ever be unanimously chosen by the people.
1236The Year of the Struck Gong
1237The Year of the Grotto
  • Thesk and Aglarond enter into alliance.
  • Marriage of Thara of Aglarond to Elthar of Milvarune.
1238The Year of the Lone Candle
1239The Year of the Bloodied Sword
1240The Year of the Bright Sun
1241The Year of the Lost Lady
  • A well respected Tethyrian noblewoman is captured and slain by orcs. In her memory, orcs are wiped out throughout the South in a genocidal slaughter. Orcs call this Year of Pushing Too Far.
  • The dwarves of the Alaoreum collapse a mountain atop their underground city, cutting it off from the surface world.
  • The Pasha of Calimport is assassinated by his rivals.
1242The Year of the Yellow Rose
  • Monastery of the Yellow Rose founded in Damara.
1243The Year of the Blue Dragon
  • Rule of the venerable wyrm Anaglathos in Turmish. Until 1247DR, this is the Time of the Worm in that nation. (Note: 9520 The Vilhon Reach gives this date as 1242).
1244The Year of the Defiant Keep
1245The Year of Pain
  • Loviatar worship gains great popularity - most of the modern temples in the North are founded at this time.
1246The Year of Burning Steel
  • First recorded use of bombards by Lantan.
  • The Simbul is apprentice to Ilione of Aglarond.
  • Kerrigan the wizard, a hidden Lord of Waterdeep, attempts to usurp Ahghairon's position and set himself up as sole ruler of Waterdeep by killing the other Lords and Ahghairon. After the deaths of three Lords, Ahghairon slays Kerrigan in Southern Ward.
1247The Year of the Purple Basilisk
  • Anaglathos overthrown in Turmish by popular rebellion and slain by adventurers.
1248The Year of the Cockatrice
  • Verovan the last King of Westgate dies during a ship race on the Inner Sea.
  • Known as The Year of the Bounty in Waterdeep, a record harvest and mercantile explosion causes a dramatic increase in population. Due to the expanded trade, the merchants form guilds, and a recognized merchant-gentry emerges in the city.
  • Rehorusteb II becomes Pharaoh of Mulhorand.
1249The Year of the Bold Knight
1250The Year of the Riven Skull
  • The Wizard Mhzentul born.
  • Noble villas begin dotting the plateau north of Waterdeep.
  • Ahghairon and other mages of Waterdeep alter the ancient cemetery of the city, eliminating individual graves and creating the tombs of the City of the Dead.
1251The Year of the Wandering Winds
1252The Year of the Empty Goblet
  • Vine-blight destroys grape crop - no wine!
  • After two years of growing skirmishes with undead, the Lords of Waterdeep establish walls around the City of the Dead, and her still-current curfews.
1253The Year of Beckoning Death
  • Plague years in Cormyr, Sembia and the Vast.
1254The Year of Silent Steel
  • Rising power of thieves' guilds results in many assassinations.
  • In Turmish, the hero Corwin Freas is assassinated.
1255The Year of the Raging Flame
  • Growth in trade and population forces the walls of Waterdeep to move northward again (to the current paths of Sulmoor and Julthoon Streets).
  • Founding of the Shadow Thieves of Waterdeep.
1256The Year of the Dusty Throne
  • Death of Ahghairon of Waterdeep; guildmasters seize power in the city.
  • Khelben the Elder disappears from Waterdeep, though his tower remains occupied by his apprentices.
c.1257
  • The aarakocra civilization in the Riders to the Sky Mountains is driven to extinction by Chessentan mercenaries hunting for sport.
1257The Year of the Killing Wave
  • Tidal wave strikes Calimshan.
  • Halacar is king of Aglarond.
1258The Year of the Wilted Flowers
  • Balagos the great red wyrm slays the old red dragon Hulrundrar.
1259The Year of the Vigilant Fist
c.1260
  • Lathander appears to certain of his clergy, commanding them to build a temple in ruined Myth Drannor, and giving them the Dawnstone for their altar. These clergy form a special order, the Seekers of the Dawn, and found the Dawnspire in the ruins.
1260The Year of the Broken Blade
  • Many peace treaties signed this year.
  • Halacar, king of Aglarond, is poisoned; his sister Ilione takes the throne.
1261The Year of Bright Dreams
  • Manshoon founds the Zhentarim.
  • Azoun III (1241 to 1275), King of Cormyr.
1262The Year of the Black Wind
  • Killing storm raised by a Calishite mage. Guild Wars in Waterdeep; misrule of the Two Lords Magister.
  • The Shadow Thieves establish their base of operations (the Citadel of the Bloody Hand) inside Mount Waterdeep.
1263The Year of the Tressym
  • As foretold by Alaundo, these creatures become widespread.
1264The Year of the Shattered Altar
  • Widespread tomb-robbing and sacrilege.
  • The tombs of two Tethyrian monarchs, Strohm IV and Samyte the Martyr, are looted by Bhaal-worshipers.
c.1265
  • The wizard-king of Halruaa moves the capital from Halagard to Halarahh..
1265The Year of Flowers
1266The Year of the Leaping Frog
1267The Year of the Groaning Cart
  • A bountiful harvest year.
1268The Year of the Daystars
  • The Flying Plague, a horde of perytons, harpies, and manticores attacks the southern Moonsea region and destroys the city of Lis.
1269The Year of the Moat
1270The Year of the Tooth
1271The Year of the Shattered Wall
1272The Year of the Shrieker
  • Zhentarim wizards and priests of Bane and Myrkul raise an army of undead, orcs and other creatures to assault Silverymoon but are repelled by Alustriel's Spellguard.
1273The Year of the Wagon
  • Baeron and Shilarn revive Ahghairon's system of rule in Waterdeep. Baeron becomes Lord of Waterdeep. The houses of Zoar and Gildeggh are Outcast (exiled from the city). Magisters ("Black Robes") appointed to keep justice in the city and, by the month of Uktar, the Shadow Thieves' ventures are deterred and they, as a group, are outlawed.
  • Waterdeep's population rises, reaching 100,000 by years end.
  • Magisters founded in Waterdeep.
  • Joadath noted as being Lord of Shadowdale.
1274The Year of the Purple Toad
1275The Year of the Blade
  • Zhentil Keep grants Yulash its independence; Zhentarim control of the city remains however.
  • Rhigaerd II crowned King of Cormyr (at 6 years of age); his uncle Salember ("The Rebel Prince") reigns as Regent in Cormyr until 1286.
1276The Year of the Crumbling Keep
  • The Citadel of the Raven is rebuilt.
  • Lhestyn born to Baeron and Shilarn of Waterdeep.
  • The Lords of Waterdeep allow the city's perimeter to expand out to the borders they hold to the current day. North and Sea Wards are added and ward boundaries are adjusted and established as they remain today.
  • The Lords increase their numbers beyond Ahghairon's self-imposed limits, and establish sixteen Lords of Waterdeep.
1277The Year of the Beholder
1278The Year of Many Bones
  • First recorded mention of the Draconomicon.
1279The Year of the Snarling Dragon
1280The Year of the Manticore
  • Thay's second invasion attempt overwhelms Mulhorand. Sultim is besieged and nearly falls before reinforcements arrive. Priests of Anhur are made scapegoats.
  • Old Skull Inn built in Shadowdale.
1281The Year of the Cold Soul
1282The Year of Many Mists
1283The Year of the Crawling Clouds
1284The Year of the Dying Stars
1285The Year of the Blacksnake
1286The Year of the Rock
  • Rhigaerd II (1269 to 1335), King of Cormyr.
  • Methlas begins building a new pirate-fleet in the Inner Sea.
1287The Year of the Smoky Moon
1288The Year of the Roaring Horn
  • Last ogre Tharkul falls. Human kingdom of Thar established.
  • Mulmaster sends an expeditionary force to Ironfang Keep; beginning of numerous gnoll attacks in the area.
1289The Year of the Sighing Serpent
1290The Year of the Whelm
  • Dragonspear Castle falls.
1291The Year of the Hooded Falcon
1292The Year of the Wandering Waves
1293The Year of the Talking Skull
1294The Year of the Deep Moon
  • Rilimbrar is king of Impiltur.
  • Methlas, a Cormyrean merchant-turned-pirate, amasses a fleet of ships in the Inner Sea. He is assassinated by his lieutenant, Thevren.
  • Thevren sacks the cities of Selgaunt and Saerloon.
1295The Year of the Ormserpent
1296The Year of the Black Hound
1297The Year of the Singing Skull
  • First recorded mention of Drizzt Do'Urden. Massacre on Watcher's Knoll of Tyrists by Joadath.
  • The dwarves of Ironfang in the Alaoreum Mountains of Turmish re-emerge into the surface world.
  • Yenandra "The Pirate Queen" begins her reign in Dambrath.
  • The nobles of Yulash begin a bitter quarrel for the lordship of the city.
1298The Year of the Pointed Bone
  • Lhestyn, as the "Masked Lady," infiltrates Shadow Thieves Guild of Waterdeep and exposes it. Within the span of a bloody week, the Shadow Thieves are either dead or fled from the city due to the Watch and the Lord's agents (like Lhestyn).
1299The Year of the Claw

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Created June 19, 1997 - updated June 20, 1997
George Krashos, Jason A., Olaf Krusche